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SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931;V,

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY THE SOCIAL EVIL

ANNUAL DINNER MUSINGS

Most Active Body of the Kind in Britain.

[Contributed.]

One of the speakers at this', year's annual dinner picked out the Royal Geographical Society na being nimost unique among Societies of this kind in that, as well as meeting regularly to ent and hear its members talk it does something. It is probably among the most activé, as it ought to be, of all such societies. Its awards, "too, are generally for activities in the largest and best sense of the term.

The Columbian Era. There seems to be a growing realisation that we have reached- the end of an era, or; indeed, wal might put it the other way, that we are on the threshold of a new age.

From the time of Prince

Henry the Navigator man'a thought had been wakened and in-[.

We were the first

That ever burst

Into that silent sea. True, there still renuin certain poorly explored tracts. A recent atlas published a map with these unaxplored regions shaded dark. But the darkest of them, strange to say,

Arabia-the very county for the exploration of which Mr. Bertram Thomae was this night receiving the Society's highest award.

Was

The Intensive Ern.

plication of personal names

JAPAN.

Sidetracking League Officials.

THE CHINA MAIL.

IN that section of the law which pro- CHANNEL TUNNEL

hibits interference when a request is made to have, one's name erased from the, offelál" register and the ogre even told the foreign lady!

that she would be thrashed if she dared to deprive him of his stock in trade: The foreign lady did not let matters rest there, but went to the LAWS THAT DO NOT BIND;

police sation where she was assur- ed by tho-guardians of the law that Tokyo, July 2

all the girl had to do was simply the less altracilyo parts of the

The visit of Mr. Bascom John- to walk off. She was, however, earth is already begun. The soh and his party to Japan, in warned that no force must be irrigation of great desert or connection with the Investigations used in rescuing the girl semi-desert tracts by the con instituted by the League of Nations

Returning to the brothel, she in- struction of dams and water into the White Slave traffic, has formed the keeper and the girl of works gives reasonable hope been responsible for eonsiderable the law and after impressing on for the expansion which may fluttering of the dovecotes of the girl not to run or to give the be expected in the future. [officialdom and

brothel-dom. appearance of force being used, she The Sabara, the Great Vie (Owners of the vice dens which walked out quickly with her. torian Desert, and the Wastes operate with the benediction of

"A Howling Mob"

a century ago. of seemingly hopeless tasks like the cutting of the Suez Canal enable us to prophesy, mich greater things In the future,

"haas**

·COMPANY.

Decision to “Sit Tight” & Await Developments.

THE BEST POLICY.

The ordinary general meeting of the Channel Tunnel Company, Limited, was held at 4, Moor- gate, London, E.C.

Mr. Kobin E. d'Erlarger was voted to the chair in the absence of ae chairman of the company, Baron Emile B. d'Erlanger. Heckels) read the notice con

The Secretary (Mr. R. D.

vening the meeting.

F#

to enter

our

́enormous progress

of Arabia call aloud for the of the State and which, contributo "We had not gone yery, far, how-

The Chairman,-Gentlemen, - expenditure, on a great scale, quite handsome returns to the ever," she relates, "when we were You will have seen that we have of human skill and ingenuity. coffers of the Government at first surrounded by a howling mob had to report the very great loss The imagination as yet shrinks took the stand that no one had the which sooms to have sprung ont of of Sir William Bull and Mr. from it owing to the magni right, to interfere with a legal the ground,

Instantly four men, George Howard and the resigna- tude of the undertaking. But "business" and at least one mass two keepers and their henchmen; tion of Admiral Sir Martyn the small beginnings ever half meeting was held where Dr. John-seized the girl, pulling her away Jerram, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. Your son, his party and the League of from me with great violence and, directors, for reasons of economy, Nations came in for considerable with the help of her own mother

do not propose to fill these excoriation as malicious busybodies who had been hastily summoned by vacancies at the present time. who were out to arraign Japan be the keeper, dragged and thrust The only items in the accounts fore the bar of world opinion.. terested in the unknown tracts on (3) Then there is no doubt we are changed-under official inspiration, from which for girls so diseased as $4,750 ou the assets side of the her back into the licensed quarter which need comment are the These tactics, however, soon hospital, a dreary place, the exit figures of £10,487 78. 5d. and the earth's surface; and hin

ngar a big discovery in the ́energies were expended in a cease- utilisation of tidal energy. If according to one section of the to be unable to do any further balance-sheet, representing at less effort to explore, and map all'

we can attain this, or if we vernacular press and the League of "business" is the potter's field ad- cost our holding in War Loan the unknown areas on the surface

Nations commission can utilise the energy from

was deluged joining. The last thing we heard and securities of the Southern of the globe." This on has been the exploding atom much that" everything please; while the could you, mother?"

with importumte requests to was the girl's despairing cry: How Railway Company. The market rightly called the Columbian Era.

is now heyond the realm of Government came

valuation of these securities was, We are now drawing to its close.

out with a Since the discovery and survey of

dreams may be realised, as a semi-official statement that there is desiring to leave the trade was that since which date a further sub- The reason the girl gave for at December 81 last, £3,100 less, tuality-the heat from the the-North and South Poles the last

earth's interior might be con- such thing as compulsion of wo-she was sick, very sick; felt the cold stantial depreciation has taken of the unknown regions has been

ducted where it was required; men to remain in the sordid dens wind that blows from the Valley of place. photographed. There remains prac-

to which they have been either the Shadow; and desired at least and the cold of the polar re-seduced or sold and that a girl was to be able to die in some spot other events of the year 1980, and as The report sets. out the main tically no region on the surface of

gions and their solidified moist. perfect liberty to leave the than where her racket body had these were so fully commented the earth on entering which the

ture transferred to alleviate "trade" whenever she desired to undergone years of torture, upon in the Press at the time intrepid explorer can say like the

and irrigate the torrid wastes. This latter statement is a gross mental and physical, humiliation there is no necessity Ancient Mariner.

All of these ameliorations and merepresentation of facts. discoveries even when viewed in

and agony. Death released her into further details to-day. Your Window. Dressing, mercifully, from their most far-reaching aspects are

her sufferings directors have given deep con- only measures of temporary relief Legally, it is true that the law twenty-four hours later. A medical sideration as to the best policy to when considering the great pro-the "business," but in practice the to being badly infected veneraally, eBts, and have decided to "sit allows girls who so desire, to leave autopsy revealed that, in addition adopt in the shareholders' inter- hem which confronts the geo- In this particular one at any the poor thing was in the last stages tight, conserve graphical aclence of the future.

the company's The Pressure of Population on rate-is, as Mr. Bumble sald, a of consumption. Nothing was sald resources, and await future de

Space and Subsistence.

To got the girls away na to whether her ond was hastened velopments... We shut our eyes to the problem pimps and roughnecks in the om was subjected to after being drag nearly victorious campaign of

from the Gorgin, keepers and the by the brutal treatment that she

The one great lesson of the s0 ag' best we can, hoping that the real fastics may be shelved till we ploy of the brothels, especially ged back to the filth of the brothel 1930 is that we now know where have passed out.

when the police affect a Peckani- quarter.

we, are and that we cannot count The priests of the official rell-Like the law which declared that fan aloofness, is far from easy.

An Inhuman' Brother.

on the full-hearted and construc- gions try to drug We have no mume yet for the faculty by putting the blame on the "eta," or outcast, is not only Bascomb Johnson and his party main asset-in fact, our very

our reasoning all Japanese were equal-and yet pleasant as possible for Mr. which, in past years, was

While things are being made as tive co-operation of the railways, Geographilent age which is to suc-heaven. ceed the Columbian Era. The ap that a great shadow loomas over the than human by the majority of the (at least invitations have been If the

But the fact remains despised but looked upon as less they have been lavishly entertained raison d'etre As a near future of our civilisation- means of sajentile nomenclature the population, problem. Is gco freedom of the victims of the lack, items that should be of inter- during the last few years con- Japanese this law relating to the pouring fa)-the newspapers do not made in road transport service Has gone out. Perhaps some term graphical Science to sit quiet and

ke the Intensive Fira might be leave the field to chaos or Arma-malism in man is honoured, infest to this Commission. A recent tinues, and is, by their ingenuity, adopted. It is to the credit of the geddon? From almost every coun

the breaeli rather than the ob-issue of the Osaka Mainichi con.our engineers discover a fool- Royal Geographical Society that try in the world, from Japan Lotions this law is an elaborate plece is suing the Osaka Prefecture for dangers of carbon-monoxide gas, Like Chinese constitu-tains a story of a young man who proof method of avoiding the they fully recognise that we are South Africa, the same question is of window-dressing. For instance, Yen 2,359 (Gold $1.175) because the which is the deterrent of the use on the flood tide of a new era in arising-What is to become of the the law is adamant that girls doctors in the University Hospital of long tunnels by motor traffic. Geographical Science: Mr. Amery increasing population? in a brilliant and amusing speech Even supposing that the desert under 18 years of age shall not be in Osaka wanted him to have bis then perhaps we will be able to at the Dinner suggested the surand uninhabited parts of the prostitutes. A large number are lieg of. He refused, and "com hope again and to make one fur- vey of the bottom of the oceans earth's surface were made suitable and of a much tenderer age. The menced to pray to God for early rether fight against that most un- by submarine tanks, and the mete- for population for how long would also ordain that, when a girl covery." In about five months he defeatable of all foes-prejudice. orological charting of the ether this be sufficient?

makes a written or orat request that recovered, but cannot yet. use his (Hear, hear), and Inter-stellar space, as pon-

Ignore Prejudices.

her name be erased from the Pro-leg. sible outlets for the restless ae-

However he thinks that the The report was unanimously tivity of geographical man: and coming more insistent and press

Every year the problem is beilutes Register, kept in the police mental agony that the doctors in- adopted.

station of the district in which the flicted on him by insisting that his these regions are already coming ing. Every year it is being shelvmust be stricken off

brothels are located, her name leg should come off is worth, in for their share of investigation. ed. But it is part of the duty of which means that she is free to in order to pay the doctors, he had those for whose sake she has

the register Yen 2,850, or ****more so

as, rather admired and praised, and But Geographical Science realises that the intensive study of views, to everstop the boundaries cannot get to the station. The as a

now Geographical Science to take long leave the trade. the regions of the earth, and the of nationalities, to ignore the pre owners of their bodies see to that;

But a girl simply to sell his twelve-years-old sister abandoned her body to... Heaven a prostitute. NAN, 22 only knows what torments are opening up, by means of applied judices of short-sighted religions, the irls are virtual prisoners. girl can repudiate, at any time. has been maintained that the count science, of those parts now locked and to face the problems of food The law also states that no person Such is the manner in which the less Yoshiwaras that dot Such is the free, contract that a pitied rather than execrated. in 'Aretic death or torrid aridity production, habitation, and popula is among the great works of the tion from a platform as exaltedinterefere with a request for law decreeing that no girl under country have tended to minimize Dear future.

and international Why should

crasuro from the official register. eighteen years of age may be a pro- the dissemination of venereal dis as Olympus it. man. leave the

self.

This is nothing else but sheer stitute is respected. Sahara Desert to the sand flea, and

eases; the truth, however, is, just Several of the speakers at the mockery. There is interference the Japanese papers mats, much the opposite and this has been pro- the wastes of Greenland to the Annual Dinner recognised some of every hour of the day-the interado about the "sudeness" of Mr. ved to the hilt by the Army exami polar bear and the raven? It these issues: The speaking was ference that coines from Erutal Johnson, in refusing to smile for nations for conscripts every year. ought to be possible to make the not remarkable as cratory, but it intimidation. Every now and again press photographers, who spent in places where houses of prostitu desert blossom as the rose, and to was a wholesome indication of the girl is given a sound whipping by some ten minutes, trying to get him tion exist, the youths reporting for make Greenland and Antarctica trend of thought. Residents of one or more of the ogres who to grin Even if Mr. Johnson conscriptional service have been into reasonably habitable regions. Hong Kong will have read with hang around the den Somo did not have any other information found to be infected in much greater Along what channels can the geo-pleasure the remarks of an old trivial reason for thrashing, her and material of some of the proportion than in such regions graphical imagination look for friend of the Colony, Sir Matthew this or did not do that. But the one story: over which litigation is as have been bold wipe out this will be trumped up. She stole beutiful systems of Japan; this their number, alas, is very small In three directions, at all events, speeches of the evening he propos God into the unfortunate; woman cient to freeze whatever smiles he disgrace.

In one of the best real reason is to put the fear of pending, ought to have been suff enlightened anough to wipe out, this discovery and its application mayed the health of, the recipients of the police know this very well: so may have tried to summon WhatThe immoralities of the gentle- be expected: (1) An enlarged mateorological Almost as young and fresh us Home Office Confucianism and their virtues, the various awards of the Society does the plous-platitude-uttering atupith these bacbarian foreigners hearted girls, of Japan belong, to control of climatic conditions. When he guided the destinies of Moteorology has made in our Island he spoke with an easy Where The Authorítica Fail, It is impossible to write with re-even the chastity of the prostitute mense strides in the last few distinctiveness of polar and tro While the Johnson Mission was streint son the manner in which the word chastity is bodly writ- decades, but we may safely pical exploration His interest in Japan, two prostitutes of and the male treats the female in Japan, ten-belong only to themselves.. prophesy that this la nothing geographical survey and his long Osaka brothel, emboldened per especially whent-la admitted on The Japanese male swaggera, and compared to its outlook in the periods of administration. In haps by the presence of the minion fall hands that Japanese women, are oxulta in a disgusting coxcombry. near future, The scientific Africa and the East enhance in their country, approached the amongst the sweetest, most patient. A descendunt of the gods, he and control of the wind" and "rain, materially, the value of all his Japan Rescue Mission, conducted rentiest and most unselfish of their he aloner is responsible for what and the consequent adjust opinions on questions of gee-by foreigner.and a vortable. Door hax to be encountered anywhera. Japan fs „to-day; but foreigners ment of seasonal isotherms graphical science.

of Hope for theso poor soiled doves," If the wiiter insists on dwelling on who have lived long out here, whe and isohyeta on the surface of

Female Talent, to obtain their release. Ths. Rescue this lack o chivalry -- towards have » entered with _full_sympathy No lady spoke at the dinner, Mission offered them shelter, and Japanese women, it is only in the into the lives of the. Japanese,

ward?

Nathan.

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