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SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1930,

London's leading hospitals. Be MANKIND TO CONTROL

fore. the banana stalks are ready for use they have to be given a strong dose of ultra-violet rays, which restores to them all the vitamins they have lost in storage. Mr. Crowther related how he came to make his dis- covery. As he spoke the banana atalks, 'reviving gradually under the influence of powerful lamps, appeared to turn from dark brown to a handsome bronze gold.

War-time Memory

"I wanted to find a certain wosh for some clearing mix- tures I was invent- ing," said Mr. Crowther, "when I suddenly thought I might ob- tain it from banana skins. I re- membered how fond young offi- cers were in war-time of banana skins, because they cleaned their boots and belts BO well. The banana stalks were laid in a great pile in a yard. Some days later a man working for me turned them over. He worked on the pile for two or three days in suc- cession, and at the end of that time came running to me, sur- prised. The eczema on one of his hands had completely disap- peared, and his hands were un- stained. Each week about 98,000 of these stalks are thrown away by fruit merchants as waste pro- ducts. The banana stalks are getting the Haggia. He felt they strapped on the patient like could not possibly leave without plasters, and left there. When thanking me for my generous the strapping is undone nothing little thought in asking them remains of the stalks except some round; and wound up by drinking dry powder. The patient is com- my health with musical honours.pletely cured." The next time As each guest left he pressed my we xisit the Central Market we'll hand warmly and said "Thank pick up all the banana stalks we you, old fellow. It was said that find and set up in business—as a the effect of the Haggis tiffin was quack!

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DEATH

to turn me a bright blue. I turn ed a jolly sight bluer when it dawned on me that the thanks of

that Haggis Committee were inj

News in Brief

The name of Dr. Chao Ping-in,

lieu of subscriptions! If I'd been M.B., B.S. (Hong Kong), of the

a genuine Scotsman such a thing Netheraole Hospital, has been added would never have happened!"

to the local medical reglater,

:

Cruelty to chickens Cruelty to still persists, and,

Poultry

}

no doubt, will for ! ever. Practically

Mr. Woo Hang-kkam (otherwise H. K. Woo) has been re-appointed a member of the Board of Education for a further term of two years.

In the name and on behalf of daily in the Police Courts, ignor-HM the King, HE. the Governor ant-perhaps some are Chin has given his assent to Ordinance No. 2 of 1980 (to amend further ese men and women, young and the Opium Ordinance). old, get fined and pay the penalty, and so this state of affairs goes

TH

DESTINY

"DEATH IS NOT NECESSARY

At the pre-

(By Professor F. A. E. Crew)

HERE are no mysteries of life ultimately will control.

and death-only ignorance. It Is of the utmost importance that we should free ourselves ouco and for all of the notion that death is a necessary attribute or In- evitable consequence of life.

It has been abundantly demon- atrated that life can, and does, continue without ceasing. Given appropriate and necessary condi- tions of environment, eternal youth is in fact a reality for a number of

sent time individuals cease to live when the initial store of energy which they inherited is dissipated.

Lost Energy

forms.

As yet this lost energy cannot be restored. The reason for this is that we know nothing of the naturá of the energy and nothing of the means of reinforcing It.

The water-borne animal may continue to grow indeänitely, but swiftly-moving land animals must maintain a definite relation between body and the cross sectional areas of their bones and muscles,

. Before puberty man shows ad

It is possible to take â fat worm, and, by repeated processes of starvation, keep it alive twenty lived in the ordinary way. times longer than it would havodition in weight in equal intervala of time in geometrical programaion, but after puberty additions in weight occur in arithmetical pro- In fah the annual In- gression. crement remains positive; in man the difference in weight actually becomes negative, and after the | twenty-eighth year or so there is a constant net loss of weight of pro- tein amounting annually to about 8 per cent. of the weight at 28.

Similar treatment in the case of man might bring about similar rejuvenation, but I doubt it. Starvation has a different effect upon the human mechanism and la apt to throw it out of gear. It fa a fact that the proness of indivi: duals in appropriate circumstances to develop respiratory and cir- eulatory diseases is ingrained in the constitution.

This harmony in both systerns accounts for the majority of natural deaths. These are the laggards evolution-the rest are still able to fulfil thoir functions without deterioration.

a

Are we to wait the evolution of type with efficient heart and lungs; are we to set about the tasks of breeding such a type, or are we to seek and gain the knowledge of repairing the deficiencies of the in- herited endowments duais by means of a personal and social engineering?

of

Indivi-

Thyrold extract and ultra-violet rays are but the fororunners of the vast powers which mankind

Because it is embodied in effect, by recent legislature, in the Arms Ordinance, the regulation made by the Governor-in-Council, headed "Ammunition," on page 264 of the 1925," has been rescinded. "Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-

.

The Chins New Year varation at the Supreme Court lasts from January 30 to February 3, both days inclusive, when the offices will be open from 10 am. to 1 p.m. except on public holidays. This does not apply to the Criminal Sessions.

At the annual meeting of the St. Andrew's, Club held last night in. the Church hall, the following were elested officers:-Chairman The Rev. W. Walton Rogers, Hon. Secretary-Mr. Richard H. Wong. Hon. Treasurer (exofficio) Miss

Living For Ever

Va grow up and then we grow down. If we can subtract the in- evitable yearly loss. It would be pos- sible to see when a man would die.

At the moment a man can slightly prolong his life or slightly reduce it. He cannot profoundly affect the time at which he is doomed to die. He has cause to know the causes of age- ing, the cause of the loss of the proteins and gets to know the methods by which that loss may be replaced. Thus he may prolong his life indefinitely.

As knowledge increases, as In- crease it must, so also will man's power over his physical environment and over the mechanism that is hira- self. Science, as well as religion, affirms that in the future mankind may, if it be so desired, not only re- main permanently youthful, but also may live for ever.

The opinion of the scientist is no more extravagant than the creed of the theologist. The scientist will give to mankind the power to control the mechanism that drives him to his destiny. Mankind will be ablo. to choose for himself what that des- tiny shall be. What shall it be. That is the question that we must

Answer.

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China Mail" January 25, 1920.1

ARTHUR-Capt. George Duncanon.. In a British Colony, one succession to Mother Fellele, as Margaret White. Committee:-Mr. the shape of a Rent Restriction Bill,

Macpherson Arthur, at his re- sidence, 88B, Nathan Road, thie morning, of heart failure; aged 55 years. The funeral will take place to-morrow (Sunday), passing the Monu- ment at 4 p.m.

Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 25, 1930.

STILL WATERS

would expect t

The appointment of Mother Mar- guerite de Saint Paul, Nuss, in the law to be Mother, Superior in Hong Kong of stronger-in instances of cruelty the Soeurs de Saint Paul de Char-

and the penalty heavier. Yet, ters, has received official notifica when a hawker is arrested for tion. obstruction, he or she-be it the first offence, or, if they have no licence has the finger prints taken, and on the second offence,

R. Baldwin, Mias E. Bliss, Mr. N. A. E. MacKay, Miss W. Robin- son, Mr. F. V. Wong, Mr. R. H. A. Woolley.

Rents If the Government were really in earnest and not afraid of the "Gang," it could do good work with a stroke of the pen, in

No matter what may have been said to the contrary, there is profiteer- ing in ronts going on, and Chinese owners are not the only offendera.

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

down pounces the paw of penalty The Naval Conference: King Dislikes Submarines: Liberal Whips: Novelists Go South: Bridge Reflections:

and the fine is nearly doubled.

Now, should this course not also

apply to one who is caught

شه یی

without

A Fighter At 90: Humours Of The P.E.N. Club

with the conduct of Bir William

division on the Coal Bill

Edge, the member for Bosworth, in the

A Deputy Chief Whip, it was to be expected that Sir William would oxert himself to get every one of his men into the lobby against the second reading. In fact, despite his leader's

local weekly 24 years ago, where obstruction at their respective sented to open the Naval Confer: devastating attack on the measure,

in

Occur

In the chapter on strange rences, the author tells how he lost eight rabbers' running, won the ninth, and got up a winner.

Another incident concerns two expert players and two mediocre players.. The two experts "cut" together, where upon one of the others remarked, Well, it's Gentlemen y. Players!" The result can be imagined.

The Combative Veteran

Bosworth such a conalderation in- COLONEL Buller's tale of two old

Reference to the carrying a chicken, or a duck, by King and Naval Conference" A Haggis Haggis at the its wings, or legs, or cruelty to THE fact that the King, notwith-

Story Burns Dinner last pigg: a crate

standing his present temporary- matting. Weekly about 40 abstention from the more formal night recalls

Ito 50 Chinese are fined for happy "skit" that appeared in a

State functions," should have as- shops or stalls in the street, and ence, is characteristic of his in it was facetiously recorded: this fire has risen from $2 to Majesty's close and sustained in-

he himself lined up with the Socialists "Several Scotties called on me in $4 or even These Chinese terest in naval matters, even of a

support of it. There is a large mining element in a body, gammoned me up about

but, one In reluctant to believe my powers of organisation gen-are a cunning lot, because they highly technical character.

Throughout the Naval Confer-Buenced Sir William's action. erally, and finally got me to write know very well that if they are

gentlemen coming to blows at the arrested for cruelty to poultry, ton in the autumn of 1921, the

ence which was held at Washing- The latitude which is claimed by to Edinburgh for a subscription what is the result?-only a fine King did not miss a single one of sponsible office of Whip, and Liberals the ordinary Liberal M.P. can hardly

table reminded one of the story of the be exercised by one holding the re

late Lord Fitz - Warrine Chichester, - Haggis. They said this Haggis of $5 or $10. That fine is too the reports telegraphed to the

who died recently, aged 942. are finding it difficult to see how one When Lord Fits Warring was about though never so genuine a one common and more should be Prime Minister and Cabinet, or to who has himself fallen sa signally 99, he was sitting, as was his custom, wouldn't eat thoroughly. Haggis-

the Foreign Office and Board of short of the requirements of party in the Carlton Club, Suddenly a like unless exploded or opened (or made of the alternative of say, Admiralty, by the British de which he is required to impare it on

discipline can continue in a position in member of the King's Household,

wham

he, owing to some family feud... whatever is the term for letting one week in jail. That would legatas and their naval advisers. others.

detested, walked in, having just bean elected, Haggis loose) in my rooms. The perhaps teach them that per-He read them, dally or twice daily, Scottish subscribers voted with stent cruelty to poultry will not with unfalling regularity and

despatch. enthusiasm that as Secretary to be tolerated in a British Colony. that Haggis, Iwas fully em

Dislike of Submarines Bananas, for the powered to order the whisky and,

Banana first time in their Bon professional grounds, as Mr. HG Wells has gone In fact, I was given full financial

a naval officer of wide experience, th... Grasse, and Me:::: Galsworthy. | |-

Shaw history, are to be and on humans grounds, because of the to Majorca Mr. Bernard "There's powers in the matter.

y. It terrible Fat involved by the how insular these people are and

seeks the warmth of mother island to be no stint Bald the General

2tk slinking of Choge battleship or battle Miss Rebecca West will soon be Committee grasping my hand should interest all in Hong Kong crater with iu budurous crew at ing for the worth of France be des Cordially. There wasn't, either who buy bananas and ages, the height of a modern sea-dght, his The Last-named vilasup all night;to | fountain pen and the nibs, the pen and

E

Cure

We let the Haggis loose in there have no middle the day ve never seen

so much refreshment:

Crowther

Majesty, welcomed the decision of that Mr. the Conference to limit the size and therefore, the complements, ut caple

ap What,in perhaps more widely known King Georgewigiliko, whichte he shares with most British' källors, of the submarine vallo, on rumánity and shivalry

A Literary Exodus MOST of the British well-known literary people appear, to have

trone,

·or). to be going abroad

malah articles for the Eress, And ons can only hope that she and her secretary will contrive Ca Charter working wee where they are going.

Whereupon the veteran Lord Fliz Warring rose from his armchair, took of his coat, and said, in much earlier Georgian language:" "Come outalde [and1Ãght!"&" For over afterwards ho dubbed the newly-elected; member, a coward

Dawes and Dawes E WITH Mr. Sherriff, M. Barbusse, and probably Horr Anton: Zweigas, guests, the Old and Young P.E.N. (the

treating dinner on January the pencil &c.) had a very' in- This is the one meal in the year it which Andient and modern-mest

Anaming Incident decurred at the previous, gathering of the FENS

the nephew