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Money Talks Now, gree. Travellers are familiar with

"Surely," answered Mr. White, the usual precautionary posted up on boardship relating to

• na hurting a thin-have never written a line. Mon the tare of personal belongings. ese dwelling in one of the side, come into the newspaper business It is recognised that it is anforcere di 2 nauve quarter neue out of hanks and factories. They extremely difficult thing to prevent the Tune Wan Hamithi An hire and fire editors and reporters and, may be the Water Police are engine was sent from the Central, for reasons that would have to be congratulated on keeping it and station, but on arrival was seemed grotesque a quarter of a at the stage at which it is to-day, found that the Bre involved the century ago. But, it does seem that come more mosquito netting over one of the cfestive system of protesting ships beds, and the flames were quickly from, the 'close attentions of light, extinguished by the inmates. and in some cases heavy, "fingered

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Hong Kong. Friday. Aug. 28, 1931.

Fighting Malaria.

Fraser-Harris. M.D.,

gentry" must be devised. T

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much by enhancing fines or terms of Imprisonment as by awarding corporal chastisement." Often ย whipping acts as a grester deter rent than a long term of imprison- ment alone.

AN INDUSTRY.

Lament for Passing of Old Days.

IGNORANT PROPRIETORS.

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"In this generation the news- paper business is industrial, like textiles, steel, oll Dr public. tilities. But in passing from a professon into LIFE industry. the newspaper is losing its influence by reason of its low uppen for circulation and its high appeal for investors.

"The newspaper business has hezame one of the major industries, but as a lingering profession, it" in a little shady. As profits rise, as irculation appeals to lower and Jower human instincts, and as ad- The newspaper soon will cease to vertising becomes mend,

more and, more be an institution, and become one profitable to the buyer and the The ai:nouncement that the of the major industries of the coun- seller, journalism as a profession is Mahatma has, after all, decided to try, according to William Allen hasominy more commercially sound

Gandhi and London.

'Tis never too lute to and all's well that ends well.

of the Emporis but is loving more Gazette,

and author tinction.

are

and more dis-

"In our world of change, we are

in the business of assemblying and peddling the news. The radio and the machinery for producing tele- vision during the lives of young reporters entering the industry to day are liable to turn into junk every pound of steel and copper

Future of Advertising. "Advertising is liable to

as an investment."

Beek

attend the Round Table Confer. White, editor ence, and is due to sail from (Kansas) Bombay for London to-morrow, in At his cottage near Estes Park. company with Pandit Malaviyn and where Mr. and Mrs. White Mrs. Naidu, is welcome news. The spending the Summer, ME While able to see cataclysmic changes Simia conversations between the has time to think of the changes, Viceroy and the Mahatma it seems, not only of the newspaper business, have been to some purpose. Sanity, but the whole world as he knows it "In this day of change, the news it may be said, has prevailed over

interests paper, one of the newest of human obduracy, and national

institutions, cannot remain stitle," over sectarian or party interests.

Although there is no authority the Emporia editor said. "During and brass now invested in presses available at the moment to say so, it the 45 years in which I have been, and tyne-setting machines. may be that Mahatma Gandhi has in the newspaper business. I live taken a course of action similar toseen journalism change from at that which Mr. Rameny MacDonald trade to a profession and from a the air: and entirely, new. strange. elected to pursue, only this week, profession to an industry,

processes of vending the thing Perhaps, it will be said of him! "When I began working as a called news may develoo to take malaria. Certain districts in the (Gandhi) also, us the Daily Herald printer's devil in a country print the place of the young, ahady, out- Barbados, too, were infested by said of Britain's Primo Minister chop, the newspaper business was cast industry which is now wax...

and his colleagues who are follow-more nearly a trade than a profes ing sa profitable and so attractive the anopheles, and it was here ing him, that he (the Mahatma)sion. that a resident made a sensation is walking the path leading to 3 "Typically and classically one "This possibility of revolution, al discovery. Wherever he found political willerness. This opinion came into the business through the of couree,, is not inevitable. Some- the printing office. The printar's devil what upon the way the new owners those swarms of tiny fish now expressed, however, with

utmost reserve: But, it has to be became the printer; the printer of American newspapers play their To the latest issue of the Em-called "millions, there were no-borne in mind, that the extremist became the news gatherer; the cards will depend the run-of-luck- pire Review Professor B. F. mosquito larvae! His assertion section of the Indian National Con-news gatherer became the assistant for the new industry.

gress. which is numerically and editor and finally editor and pro- D.Sc., was tested and found to be true,

influentially strong, has all along preter. F.R.S.E., constitutes a short but with the result that in the war directly opposed very Commission, Degenerating Ethics.

"The trade had its easy, regular, quite interesting article on the "millions" were brought to low- also every Conference, which sat,

and report on the progressive stages of promotion, problem of malaria-a subject Wing watts in Palestine where to examine

future status of India. That op- but it was a craft with craft that may be said to have de- they, wiped out the anopheles-to-position has been based on the prin- standards, which, generally speak

bu. The health of the troops was ciple, that the British Parliament ing, had precious little to do with complete revolution In newspapers veloped into a typical stand-

ns that of the ancient craft which by" for Press commentators or thereby greatly improved, and is performing the dual role of jury ethics.

with the wus

"The ethics of the profession, I entered as a printer's cab." day when the parish pump

ne more clay forward was taken and judge..

utmost difficulty that the Mahatma have developed slowly by first dis i The problem, of

the worldwide campaign prevailed over this section of Con- guising begging and blackmail, runs dry." course, is worth much more seriehust what might be reasonably gross and induced Congress to then rationalising it and finally!

agree to his going to London as a abandoning it for better sources of CALENDAR REFORM ous consideration than that, al called the "winged death."

representative. For participation revenue, notably und particularly Attention is call to the in the Conference, Mahatma Gandhi advertising, which really now though it is conceded that news-

a very slender thread gives the buyer of advertising: paper readers may justifiably success of the anti-malarial mea- is relying on

How slender is value for his money." ecmplain of too much kall het. sures In one rubber estate in of permission.

revealed by his decision of ten days "Was journalism once considered again for their-daily-or-weekly Malaya. The death rate amongst or 83 aga not to sail. That was, a profession, the same as the Pope Objects to Fixed bill of fare. One has only to Europeans, and Orientals in 1911 in effect, not the Mahatma's da practice of law and medicine the

was 232 per thousand,, while in etion, but Congress's "hookum" reporter asked. that year 202 persons actually (order), died of the disease. The hospital was overflowing, for in twelve months 1,084 cases were admit- ted. In 1928 the death-rate per thousand had dropped to three, the hospital was practically empty; only 275 cases were ad- mitted in a year, and the num-

envisage Hong Kong without 'a. single anopheles mosquito and without a solitary ease of malar- ial fever to realise the value of the work of the malariologist, unobtrusive though it naturally must be. Professor, Fraser- Harris points out that malaria 15 one of the most serious impedi-

it

News in Brief.

The

The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 83 degrees. humidity was 80 at 10 a.m. and 77

".

"I have scen in 46 years so many changes, such drastic in- novations, such a complete revolu- tion

in newspaper metheds, in newspaper ethics, in journalistie ideals and performance. that I am

not at all sure but these present a

OPPOSED.

Date for Easter.

Geneva, August 13.

"Yes, and a dignified profession," Mr. White replied. "That was in the transition from the printing A protest against the proposed feraft to the newspaper Industry. Į storm of the Gregorian calendar ago. has been lodged with the Secret- That was only a few years Perhaps the change from the news- ariat of the League of Nations by paper profession to the newspaper the Vatican. Industry began two decades ago and ia reaching its perfection now.

The Good Old Days. "During the two or three de

A letter dealing with this issue which, it is understood, has been signed by the Ponti himself has been addressed to Sir Erle Drum-

€ 4 p.m.

The Ministering Children's League will benefit to the extent of ments to the growth and prober of deaths from the disenso $1,550 as the result of a picnic and cades back of 1910, journalism was mond, protesting against the fixing two bridge drives organised by really a profession. Then editors of an Immovable date for Enster, perity of the Empire, for it is estimated that the death roll was two! This is a state of Mrs. J. B. Newill, and also by the and reporters were trying earnest and. furthermore, against the divi thirteen personal conduct. In that day months. The Pope is underfood to from this cause' alone is between affairs. which Hong Kong with sale of raffle tickets. Prizes were ly to work out ethical standards of sien of there against

its annual returna of mortality ticket Nos. 288, 923, 606, 615, and ideal, which pointed to the supre- no urgent reasons for such sweep-

won in the rafle by the holders of

there was a theory, at least an point on in his letter that there is two and three millions annually. Hong Kong's contribution to this through malaria might well envy. 747.

macy of the news department over tag changes and that some of them To quote the writer in the Em- toll is appalling.

would run counter to Christian Su Tam (81), a street coolie, was the business end of the paper.

"The man who owned the paper,tradition. admitted to the Kwong Wah Hoa-

of course, was supposed to make On the other hand, however, the vital concern for every industrial fering from internal injuries. He

Except, perhaps, for tubercu-

sponsible for so much destructive criticism of the medical authori ties-destructive, often, owing to

pire Review, the conquest of

losis, there is no other disease malaria is a problem of the most pital at 9.45 o'clock last night suf- his budget balance. He was proud Holy Father indicated that he than malaria fever that is re undertaking in India, Ceylon, and appears to have been too eager in if he had a profit at the end of a would gladly take the whole matter the Far East. Just as Sir boarding a ferry which was berth-year. But his ideal was much the under consideration if a modifica

ing at the Mongkok Ferry wharf, me as that of the lawyer, doctor, tion of the present calendar was Malcolm. Watson cleared-malaria slipped into the harbour and was teacher and preacher. To row his universally deemed necessary and if out of Klang and Port Swetten-crushed between the ferry and the weight in the boat, to make his the Assembly of the League of Na- the inability of the ordinary ham and other districts within a whart

private opinion publie sentiment, tlons would pass a resolution to that to be a force in the community, to affect arid appoint a committee of

the practical scheme.

member of a mosquito-ridden few years, so, by imitating his The gambler, Lynch, has return-tand for what he considered to be international experts to work out a

area to peep behind the scenes at

malaria fever. The Professor, în | the Empire Review, states quite

space

initiative and courage, coulded home, unharmed, says a Reuter the decent thing that was the official work of combating malaria be banished from the Em-message from Chicago. He deciar- ideal of an average editor or own- er of a newspaper in the first ed he had remained blindfolded pire within a comparatively short but was comfortably treated, and decade of the century,"

"But did it work and did the of time, with an imme-denied that any ransom was either dinte increase of prosperity to all paid or promised.

He refused to editors make money?" MrWhite

was asked. give the name of his kidnappers. concerned.

It was, in connection with him that orders were issued the day before for the arrest of Al Capone.

Mail Commentary.

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Chion' Mal?" of

August 28, 1921.)

To-day's dollar is worth 2/8%.

Á European, named Sydney

rightly that even now, few people realise that malaria is not a dis-

"Better than you might "think,”: ease of hot climates, but, à

he replied. "It was an ideal which disease in hot climates. Ceylon,

really was achieved by from 50 to for instance, would, with its per

80 per cent. of the newspapers be- fect climate, be an earthly para

For falling to renew their motor tween 1895 and 1916, and achieved dise were it not that the condi-Theft's on Steamers.

car licences, Dr. S. To Wong, eye after taking reasonable profits. Spalding, was arrested when In- specialist, Dr. Li Shu-puf, F.R.C.S., "To-day we find the newspaper spector Spear of Talm-tao-taul tions which favour the breeding Hardly does a week go past with- and Mr. E. R. Childe were fined ideal changing. The new iden Police Station conducted a raid at of mosquitoes warmth and out a report of an attempted or $10 each. by Mr. Schofield in the permits a newspaper proprietor to No. 6. Observatory Villas yester- actlift theft committed on board a Central Police Court this morning. treat his property as purely a day and seized one unlicensed re swamps exist there. Byron steamer in. Hong Kong. Some of All three defendants were caught on business organisation. Thus to-day volver and 48 rounds of ammuni called Greece "a delicious land," the thefts are of an audacions July 31 In Morrison Gap Road, by if a newspaper does not show a tion. yet here again it is in

nature Recently two British Sub-Inspector "Nicoll. Dr. Lwas definite profit, that newspaper is Spalding who appeared to be ill no matter was later removed to the Govern Sainthia and fined a further $5 for driving a car regarded as a failure, places detestable, not because of Takada were victimised... There without an appropriate driver's what it may achieve in public ment Civil Service, where he is the climate, but because of also was the case of the B. licence.

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