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disease is to make reasonable headway.

uppermost. Poverty, as we know it to-day, will be unthinkable;

The author believes that people have still much to learn on the curative value of sunlight, and

From Other Pens.

Beware the Sleepy Wasp.

This is the time of year, when the last wasps of Summer lose their sprightly flight and, seem-| ingly exhausted by the effort in- volved in the priefest of aerial trips, crawl wearily across what ever surface they may chance to alight upon.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1931.

PUREE DE POIS

By BESOMORO.

STATE ASSISTANCE FOR that His Royal Highness the UNEMPLOYED PERSONS. Prince of Wales may find it con- venient to be present to perform Much has been written about the opening ceremony. Messrs. Therein lies a danger, for the the "dole," also much recorded Dorman, Long & Co., of Middles- weary wasp is also a bad-tem-

pered wasp, and should you in-concerning its misuse; and extra-borough, built the bridge, which advertently squeeze him as he vagunce in the matter of the cost £6,000,000.

It is possible that Australia's drags his tired limbs into the dole was a major cause of the first locomotive may be recom- warm shelter of, say, your trou-late Labour Government's fall. missioned to be driven across the ser leg, he will retaliate with a sting that gives the lie to his Relative to this subject, I came bridge. This locomotive

built by Messrs. Stevenson and across the following anecdote, Sons, Newcastle, England, and lazy gait.

It has a very was landed in Sydney on Jan-

was

Such a sting may have seri- the other day. ous consequences.. Let me quote practical, present-day moral; and uary 13, 1855. The engine run my own experience a few days

bit in the Technological Museum, ago. My car was parked outside is said to have been related by up to 1877, and is now an exhi- Sydney. The lines on which she a country hotel during the lun-ja humorous old Scot. cheon hour, and when I emerged Some Cabinet Ministers receive stands are the original Barlow

un-rails laid down on the track be

to drive away it was surrounded ed a deputation of the

n mea-

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by an interested crowd that in- stantly suggested that all was employed, and, after a little dis.tween Sydney and Paramatta. not well.

cussion, promised them A yard away stood what was sure of State assistance. When MUSEUM AND LIBRARY. left of a baby saloon as Lord the deputation had left, the The mention of a museum in Dunsany might have put it, "hideously

rent." The owner, Prime Minister turned to one of the preceding paragraph directs pale and profusely apologetic, the Cabinet Ministers and said, my attention to the so-called hastened to explain. As he was "I hope that was all right." The Hong Kong Museum. I am not passing the spot, our friend the Cabinet Minister had his doubts. being original in hurling bricks, sleepy wasp

had received just Said he, "The Lord gave the at this institution, and its sister neighbouring institution, that squeeze within the trouser children of Israel manna in the institution or shall I say sim- leg which he most resents. Fol-wilderness, and they were there ply lowed a moment of frenzy inside forty years; had He not done so Hong Kong's charact house of the baby saloon, a. convulsive they'd have been across it in tomes? clutch at the wheel, and a crash forty days!"

as it impaled itself on my front dumb-irons.

I gave both the "once - over," the other day.

I came away from the Museum disappointed. Disappointed, be- cause of the many evidences of I wonder what the owner's in-NECESSITOUS INVENTION.

sheer negligence and lack of in- surance company thinks about

Necessity, it is said, is the terest in the many interesting And, it exhibits that the Museum does it?-Daily Telegraph,

mother of invention.

contain. The Curator, if there

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To-day's Thought.

has also been said, that needs is an official glorying in this when this is learned there will A Present for the Prince.

must when the devil drives. The title of office, may be asked to not be dusted from time to time? War Against Ignorance be fewer sunblinds about or fears Colonel Elisha. E. Garrison, of truth of these aphorisms is being explain, why the exhibits should Greenwich, Connecticut, has of fading carpets. Many people red pan by which he is proved by the rubber industry. Why labels, in many cases, are In this Colony the fact is too could quite easily pass their old convinced that Great Britain according to the leader writer of permitted to remain almost in-

"The dicipherable? Pinang Gazette. well known that the greatest age in the South of France or at might put an end

have more details in regard, to hundicap to the health authori- least the South of England, where abuses of the dole system and Malayan Estate Owners' Associu- many cases, exhibits should not

This ingeni- ous gentleman declares that "alltion appears to have discovered them given? ties is ignorance, aided and abet-the hours of sunshine are much regain prosperity.

As for the Library! Enough ted by callousness and indiffer-greater than in London, but they that is necessary is for Parlia a solution to the problem,” says

law by which that Paper.

The problem, of has already been said about this institution. I fled from it, and ence. Every medical man, official prefer to stay in London's grey-ment to pass

'is, through discovering do not hesitate to say, that even or unofficial, can tell of countlessness, because of the social advan-jevery unemployed person, in

order to obtain his weekly allow course, tages.

ence, must show that in the new uses for rubber, to restore in a small town, like Malaces, cases of disense that might have

between demand usually dubbed "Malaya's Sleepy Influenza, pneumonia, bron-week past he has done work to equilibrium been checked in the earlier stages

invites patronage and, what is but for ignorance on the part of chitis, pleurisy bring death to the value of the dole, whether on and supply, and thereby improve Hollow," there is a Library which

material

more, induces you to spend time the Chinese masses — an ignor. tens of thousands of old people private projcet or public works, the price for the raw

at the prevailing rate of pay. It

years there browsing among books. unfortunately assists every Winter in Britain who would make no difference whe- which, for almost two ance that

Kong ie not even a bad second to in no

small measure to spread might weather the Winter in ther he washed dishes in a pri- now, has been steadily declining Wealthy and pretentious Hong The latest solution is to ex-Malaren. Hong Kong is simply safety in a sunnier clime: If, as vute home, sewed a seam, or worked on the public roads, so epidemics, when these occur in

tract turpentine from rubber, an "also ran." our midst. That is the greatest/ the yearɛ mount up. people will long as he had done labour to the und, it is stated, that raw rubber |

treated suitably

will yield barrier that must be broken eat less and continue to take an extent of the dole he was down if the campaign against amount of outdoor exercise and titled to receive. He might pre-eighty per cent. of its weight of | have an interest in life, which, sent the proof in the form of a turpentine at a cost of about five attested affidavit, or in any other if not actual work, is an active form that might be prescribed, cents a gallon, exclusive of raw

So many of us do not learn our occupation (the word hobby and then he would get his material, and that the total cost! In an interesting book recently sounds too desultory), then life money." This plan, the Colonel of the manufacture of the pro- lessons in life until it is too late to

declares, "would smoke out the duct ought not to exceed seven use them. published, Mr. Leonard Hens-in perfect health can be looked drones and at the same time/centa a gallon. That is equival-!|

ent, roughly, to 2d. a gallon. lowe says that in the warfare forward to, well toward the cen- start things up. It would ex-The rubber-turpentine thus pro- against disease we shall truly tury, but, says the author, we change the entire status of the duced can be used for all the have a defence force, but it will must think in terms of a hun-recipient of the dole, create a

morale, and revolutionise exist purposes for which ordinary tur be a Force of Scientific Research.dred years before we can hope ing conditions."

pentine can be employed. The welfare will be that against to attain it. He does not visualise The "Pathfinder" states that ignorance, against disease, a crotchety, decrepit old age, Colonel Garrison has submitted SYDNEY HARBOUR'S GIANT

his plan to the Prince of Wales, against death, against Nature but a hundred years of active, with the curious request that if run wild, against the clements upright, whole-hearted living, he does not think well of it he This bridge, described as the best hotel in the Orient, it is cer that beaet ua, Before long with a graceful, peaceful de- will hand it either to Bernard largest in the world and a tainly not because the enterprising Science will have advanced socline toward the end in full pos. Shaw or to "Punch."-Manchester triumph of British engineering management have not striven hard much that life will be better, session of the faculties that have happier, healthier and longer, served us through life. Think Discase will be banished from what a hundred years of good News in Brief. life except in rure instances, health and activity mean, You

Yesterday's lowest open air tem- whereas to-day it is the expect will verily agree that while things perature was 63 degrees, The have changed very much al- humidity was 66 at 10 am. `and Disease, in every case a misready, twenty-five per cent. add-66 at 4 p.m.

cidentally fell into a hold and re- take, will be understood, and life ed to the length of life will

The master of the B.B. Kuying ceived internal injuries. so lived that perfect functioning change things very much more. reporta a capsized junk, which is removed to the Kowloon Hospital

ed occurrence.

Guardian,

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BRIDGE.

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Chine Mall" of December 1, 1021.3

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

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If the "Hong Kong" is not the

skill, is to be formally declared to make it so. That must have been open on March 19, 1932, The the thought in the minds of the 200 Australian Government is mak-guests who sat down to dinner last ing arrangements for a series of night in the new grill room. It was festivities to mark the occasion,

a happy inspiration which prompted and the hope has been expressed the management to fix St. Andrew's night for the inauguration of what is only the first stage of an ambi- tious scheme of improvements to an hotel that is already famous.

He was

The "Hong Kong" grill deserves

much risk in predicting that it will

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of the human mechanism will It is, of course, easy to be a danger to navigation, as drift in a serious condition, it is reported to become famous and there is not take place. Reformed diet, in the moralist and a theorist. The ing in Lat, 23.03 N.

According to a Police report from form of vegetarian foods, will be author can have no conception of

Au Tau, three armed men broke into largely in evidence, and the kill- the conditions obtaining in a Bri- It is notified that repairs to the a hut in the Shek Kong Village, Anj ing of animals and devouring of tish Colony in which the Chinese submarine cable in Lyemoon Pass Tau, in the carly hours of yester will be commenced on Monday morning. The occupant, Wong their flesh largely discontenanced. preponderate. Still less can he day and will continue for sev Yick-hing, aged 80 years, was soon Poverty, a great and intrigu- have any inkling of the amount eral days. The vessel employed over-powered, and the intruders, ing problem, is with us always of ignorance, 'callousness, and in-in the work will display the usual after ransacking the premises, de For thousands of years poverty difference permeating the Chin-signal, and mariners should ap: camped with. 850 in money.

proach with caution. has meant lack of money, but a ese masses, not to mention super-

Kehar Singh was again before|| Mr. H. J. Pearce, M.C., of the future State will call the worst stition and that worked-to-death type of poverty lack of intellect, phrase, Chinese susceptibili P.W.D. offices, has reported to the Mr. Schofield this morning, on a lack of compassion, lack of ties." That, of course, of itself Police the loss of his Fiat motor remand of having behaved in a dis- car. He states it was taken from orderly manner, and with having health. While to-day we have need not discourage our local the park stand at Chater Road be used threatening and abusive langu the aristocracy of wealth and the humanitarians, medical and lay, tween 9.80 and 11.80 o'clock last age in the Sikh Temple on Sunday evening The Magistrate bound power that wealth brings, the from continuing to put every ma

Kehar Singh over to keep the peace, day is dawning when the aristo- ounce of strength in the cam-Whilst working on board the the complainanta Intimating to cracy of Intellect, of Kindness, of palen ögainst disease in this Miyo Maru, lying at Hunghom Bay. his Worship that they did not wish Physical Perfection, will be Colony,

aman, Chan Chung-fung, (46), 80-the defendant to be fined,

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