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ཙྩཱ པཱཝཏས༑ ། ཨནྡྷཡསཱགཱརམྥ

CHINESE SURNAMES.

Puzzle for Framers of the New Civil Code.

"SEX EQUALITY" PROBLEM.

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TWO MAIN ISSUES.

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A GAMBLING RAID.

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In the preparation of the un-heritance, the present writer had A #mall weekly news-sheet cial and political circles of this finished sections of the civil code. heard it frequently commented by printed in the vernacular, has very province has been aroused by the salaries of Government officials, NEW COLOURS AND DESIGNS

A general reduction in the the Legislative Yuan at Nanking is the older generation that for clearly placed before its readers investigation at the justice of the commencing from the members of understood to be encountering a 11 daughter ta

pro- the main factors of the present peace court of Santa Barbara of the Philippine legislature down number of dificult points, the final perty without inheriting al political situation in India,

Santiago Bautista, the municipal to the humbler functionaries of settlement of which calls for some the

Same time the family

This paper, the "Aftab, says the president, who was caught in the Government, is provided for 5, Wyndham St. aocio-biological consideration. These name is really unfair to her Pioneer, calls upon the country to gambling raid conducted by sections have largely to do with brother or brothers, for in the past consider two questions. Firstly, agents of the Constabulary about a bill which has just been marriage and family relationships. it has been a great unwritten law the result of a grant of complete a month ago."

drafted by Representative One of the first questions that that if there is to be inheritance, it independence, and secondly, of a

The courtroom where the in-minent labour leader, to be sub- Francisco Varona of Manila, pro- have been raised is the raison is to be inheritance of both pro-grant of Dominion Status.

vestigation was held was packed mitted to the legislature when d'etre of patrilineage and the perty and name, both right and The former, it states, will give to overflowing by eager specta- that body convenes on July 16. family name. According to some, obligation, for the assumption of India freedom in both internal and tors. President Bautista has en- The object of the proposed law, with the gradual but sure disappear-the name carries with it the duty external affairs. The latter gives gnged Senator Alejadro de ance of the religious function of the of

the anniversaries, equal freedom regarding internal Guzman, member of the board of by its author, is to effect a gen- according to a statement issued observing family, the two have outlived their tending to the family records, look matters; which however will be regents of the University of eral economy in the Government usefulness. Formerly it was being after the faintly temple, etc. decided, under the auspices of the the Philippines, Representative expenditures so that the money lieved and we may say that it is Now will be modern Chinese wo British Government keeping in Eusebio Sison, and other promin- thus saved may be employed in still believed in many quarters of man who insists upon equal right view the good of all countries en-ent lawyers of the Nacionalista more profitable activities such as the country that it is a great pity to inheritance of property do these joying the status of a Dominion. Party, to handle his defence. the establishment of more schools that an individual should die with things or would she at least. tend to

It continues: "If the present The provincial fiscal as well as and roads in places where they out having some one surviving him, the family recorda which is quite Government, which is the arbitra- Lieutenants Juban and Potolan of are most needed. to perpetuate his name and to offer secular in import and other duties tor in your communal dissensions the Constabulary, however, are

Representative. Varona said he being fast relegated to the realm tions may suggest and institute? foreign attack, leaves it to its own conviction.

have his bill approved, and will of outworn traditions. Others

Another modificution of the fate, would your domestic quarrels Coincident with the investiga- make of his plan one of the out- argue for the outright abolition of patrilineal system naturally sug- diminish or increase?

When in tion of the President of Santa standing issues of the party to the surname on the ground that gests itself when a daughter is per the presence of a strong patron Barbara, another probe is being which he belongs, the Nacionalista

mitted to inherit the family name, you are, ever ready to cut each held in Lingayen to-day in con- party.

who is not other's throats, can the inference nection with the administrative added, for the more prominent The time has come, he At present, a man favoured with a son may find a male be drawn that you are fit for in charges filed against Pascual Government officials to take the heir in the collateral lines of his re-dependence?"

Lozano for alleged collection of lead in the reduction of their But from our point of view, there intives on the paternal side. Often | Finally comes the

pertinent contributions and conduct un-salaries. Should they consent to is much to be said for the idea of he is compelled to do so, particular question to those Moslems who are becoming a public official. Mr. have their salaries reduced then lineage; and even for patrilineage, ly if he has during his life time blindly following Congress. "What Lozano is a member of the provin- they will have proved, their spitit reason in its favour may be ad accumulated a considerable personal safeguards do the Hindus provide cial board. He was suspended for of sacrifice at a time when the vanced. There is no guinsaying fortune. Although this method of for you now that the Nehru Report thirty days by Governor Bernabe finances of the Government are that the religious usefulness of creating heirs has long received has been, cancelled?"

Aquino, pending the final disposi- passing through a crisis. The way to progress, It adds, tion of his case by the provincial proposed reduction in the salaries keeping up one's lineage is fast legal sanction, it has really a limite losing its appeal. Bat the desire ed significance from the socio-es through participation in the board of Pangasinan. Manila of representatives will be from six

Bulletin. for perpetuating one's memory is biological standpoint. While Round Table Conference.

hundred pesos a month to only a paychological reality of no mean good heir thus created may dis

five hundred pesos, an amount significance and has to be reckoned charge tolerably satisfactorily the

which will also apply to the mem- with, particularly as there are formal duties of a son and descen-

bers of the Philippine Senate. philosophical thinkers, since dant, he is biologically more or less

Representative Varona pointed Spinoza, who maintain that.a man's completely cut away from his ad-

out the fact that the local. solons real immortality is to be found in opted parents. Strictly speaking,

were among the highest paid! memories of this kind.

Government officials of their kind their pay was even higher than that of the members of the House of Commons in Great Britain. This should not be, he says, in view of the limited economic re- sources of the Philippine Islands.

Manila Bulletin.

the institution is an obvious violation of the principle of sox equality, as it has been patronymic throughout Chinese history. -

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With thee is no part of their combined THREATENED SLASH IN P.I. CAIRO MEDICAL MAN TO VISIT in the world; that the rate of disavowal of spiritual immortality streams of germplasm, although ho after death, some such form of may be a part of a near-by, tributary psychological immortality is bound on the paternal side. Even social- to find increasing 'favour. Then ly, the arrangement is often very

In the now

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there is the biologist's argumentuatisfactory. The heir may be Should the appropriation of Charged by the Egyptian Gov- for holding to the idea of lineage. a grown-up, and his rdeption may the University of the Philippines ernment to conduct studies and well-established have been decided upon among half be reduced P20,000 posed reserches on leprosy work to help doctrine of the continuity of a dozen aspirants at the very last by the secretary of finance, establish a leper colony near germplasm the biologist finds man's moment. that is, very shortly before number of teaching positions will Cairo, Dr. M. S. Kamel, medical new and only rent immortality; and the old man's death, who had for a have to be abolished and certain officer connected with the Public with the spread of scientific number of years struggled in vain courses suppressed, President Health Department in Cairo, biological knowledge. It is to be for a male offspring of his own. Rafael Palma declared.

Egypt, arrived in Manila recently expected that there will be a greater | Thus between the two generations

a preliminary step, Pre-ion the s.s. President Cleveland, of incentive for man to leave a pro- there can have but little psychosident Palma bas appointed a the Dollar Steamship Lines. geny and a stronger dentre to have logical bond which on the part of committee of three composed of Dr. Kamel will stay in Manila the latter identified unmistakably the younger may lead to a more or Dr. Leondro Fernandez, Dr. Vida! for a few days after which he

Yang Su-ling, formerly connect.

Moderate Price. One ready means of Identi- less lasting memory of the past, Tan and Professor Alejo Labrador will go to Cebu to study the lepered with the Bureau of Public no his.

to make a thorough survey of the camp there and to Culion to study Safety of the Chinese Municipality, FOOK WENG & CO. fication would be of course the family name.

not very im the colony on that island. He will was convicted on June 25 on i An heir portant and the teaching loads of stay in the Islands for four fraud charge and sentenced to THE ONE PRICE STORE

professors. to adopted is really less worthy

months, after which he will go to serve 12 years in prison, sentence than one adopted from childhood In the opinion of Regent Horace Calcutta, India, to obtain a certi- being passed by Judge Sun of the

China Bldg. from among orphans and waifs of Pond, the abolition of teaching ficate from the school of tropical Special District Court. Yang, how- unknown parentage. We do not positions in the university should diseases there.

ever, in spite of the prospect of an propose to discuss the bitter dis-first be affected in the colleges or According to the Egyptian doc-even dozen years behind bara, la putes and even family feuda arising schools where there is already an tor, the Egyptian Government is probably thanking his lucky stara from a plurality of heir pre oversupply of graduates like the establishing a leper colony in that he got off as he did. sumptives who claim to have equal colleges of education and liberal Abozabal, which is about 30 miles: There were 765 counts of fraud claims to the heirship and do not arts. He believes that the col from Cairo. The Government has against him, each punishable with hesitate to back up their claims leges of medicine and agriculture instructed him to study bacterio a sentence of four years. Four to the Intensification of sex with force; these are only too ap affected by the proposed reduc- culars of leprosy work,

should be the last ones to be logy, treatment and other parti- years multiplied by 755 is 3,060 years. Arithmetic. Yang would probably have been greatly dis-i couraged to have entored gaol with

The only justification for the lineage to be patronymic and not metronymic is that the course of social evolution has so shaped it and that it has become such an integral part of our as well as the Western social system that any “radical tempering with it may mean complete upset of the social equilibrium. While patrilineage may have contributed incidentally

1

which as we have already sald is a aine qua non of the idea and in stitution of patrilineage.

Inequality, it is, contrary to the parent.. accusation often brought against

women's inferior

But the evils of creating heirs out

tion.

stitution.

President Palma says in his

Leprosy affects a number of the it, far from being at the root of of agnate relatives is easily done requested the secretary of finance erament has decided to check the

In a letter, President Palma has population of Egypt and the Gor social position. away with when once the right as to exclude the university from any spread of the disease, he said. The vary fact that in America to-well as the duty of inheritance by a reduction in view of the entirely There are comparatively few day patrilineage is still in general daughter is legally recognised. If distinct character and function of lepers in the kingdom, he added. ase while the social status of wo there should be objection to this as the university as an academic in Manila Bulletin. men has made big strides is con- it may entail the necessity of vincing evidence that the two are matrilocal residence for the daugh not necessarily incompatible. But ter's husband, or if the legator may letter: In any case, a practical reformer prefer a male descendant to a would see that it is utterly foolish female, arrangement may yet be highest possible standards, the "If we have to maintain the to barter away the security of a made for the daughter's son to be present appropriation is absolute- whole social order based upon the lawful legatee, that is, for they necessary and to reduce it at patrilineage for the pittance of a grandson to be the inheritor of his this time would make the inter- nominal realization of a social maternal grandfather.

This is in ests of high education as repre- theory which has but little empirical fact not an uncommon practice al-sented by the university, suffer a and scientific backing. Do scienti- ready in many highly respectable decided set-back."-Manila Bul fe thinkers on this subject like families in this part of the country, letin. Havelock Ellia not tell us that the as is obvious from a perusal of concept of equality is not applic- their genealogies. The arrange- able to sex and that what we ment is logical, natural, and pre- actually have is only functional sents 'no break whatsoever in the

him.

to

a sentence of 8,050 years facing

Mr. Yang was sentenced to serve An accomplice of the unhappy

six months' in prison. The charge grew out of a. fraudulent scheme hatched by the two, whereby they induced unsuspecting persons "Invest" their money with them, promising 5 per cent. Interest each and every month. For a time the Interest was paid-but only for a time. However, other persons with money to invest heard of the wonderful Interest paid by Mesars. Yang and Ho Jih-tsin, his partner, and before long the pair had more than $687,000 in their hands.

equivalence? Do they not tell us biological continuum which is or at first is that we have no justifiable Watch The Fruit Your clone staged a so-called "kidnap-

What we need now is only has materially contributed to social

Children Eat.

also that biologically woman is least should be made the physical reasons for discarding the family after all the stronger sex, and that basis of any attempt at deining name. Positively the family name 'more men than women die at practi- lineage. cally all ages and far more women to give the arrangement a legal solidarity and order; and negatively live to extreme old age than men? sanction. While for childless it is by no means in conflict with many are prone to eat it regard Most children love fruit and To whom shall men appeal for such couples provisions must yet be made some of the cherished notions of our less of its condition. Fruit that Inequalities, if they are bent on for the adoption of heirs among day. But as in the past many la unripe, over-ripe, damaged, or regarding them as inequalities?

more remote relatives, the present evils have arisen as a result of too upon which flies bave rested, is But thus speaking we do not arrangement has the further merit inflexible a usage of family names highly dangerous, causing acute mean to preserve the present system of discouraging childlessness among which is in turn a necessary con- stomach trouble, diarrhoea, cho in its entirety, We need some in the well-to-do and of inducing them sequence of a highly developed lera, worms. portant modifications and it is to see that a female offspring is patriarchal system, it is proposed hoped that such modifications as just as valuable as a male one and that in the matter of inheritance, pect your child has eaten fruit of When you have reason to sus are found necessary will be incor- there is really no need for diser-the matrilineal form under certain a doubtful character the best porated into law. We think that mination. As to the old custom of conditions shall receive equal en-

course is It is only logical that in the near appointing on heir for one who died dorsement from law as the patrill-

administer future a daughter will be legally, before marriage or even before neal form. In the second place, It permitted, as in Japan, to per reaching majority, we propose that is pointed out the idea of lineage, petuate her father's name, part! It should be legally discountenanced, of which the surname is a com cularly if she is the only offspring

as it is perfectly meaningless venient social expression has a

or all offspring are of her sex, In The authorities of the legisla strong biological basis, and the pro-

to

Baby's Own Tablets

the last few years Chinese women tive Yuan have evidenced a great blem for law is not to do away with at once, for these tablets qui have agitated for the right to pro desire in their work of codification it for that is impossible as long as but gently cleanse the stom perty inheritance, and they have to give due weight to quite succeeded. But a right must facts and

be reciprocated by some form of 05-

ligation; and no Uhligation le

natural than to Resume and

faith the surnat whom the propert

entific there in sexual repr

ction in and, bowels, correct Ind! de man, but to clear away much of its allay colle, check diar espected and social, moral, and even religious present, expel worm rare andong complication and to present writer purely biological about law-AK geation for ma in this

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at least two things which family names as worth considering.

The Quantin Pan in The China

It more edad teething pains

by magic, relieve thus bringing toring sleep to:

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also

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When the pair ceased paying in-] terest the investors became suspl- clous. Mr. Yang, to allay suspi-

ping act." But the depoaltors wouldn't be fooled. Yang was. demanded. Yang returned and was located in Tientsia, and his return

He was released on ball but arrected again after trying to jump his ball. The company form- ed by the enterprising Yang and his accomplice has certain hold-

action is to be taken on behalf of Ings and now that crimical pro- ceedings have been concluded, civil

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