1932-03-21 — Page 7

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1932.

A READING OF HISTORY

BY ARTIFEX.

THE CHINA MAIL.

LANCASHIRE ON THE

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Leaves for Singapore To-day.

The troopship Lancashire arriv ed here early this morning from Shanghai, with a large list of!

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ONLY EFFECTIVE VACCINE AGAINST

CONSUMPTION.

Formula Now Made Public.

The outlook at the present time, and it proved the stronger of the tops, homeward bound, among them being the 2nd Royal Scots is ao grave in every country of the two.

Mr. Henry Spahlinger has disclosed the formula for his anti- Ам an example of that other England where they will be sta-

Fusiliers who are returning to tuberculosis vaccine. Though his use of it has attracted world- world that one may be forgiven for spirit I cannot put forward any-tioned at Catterick, after eighteen wide attention in the last few years, its nature has hitherto been trying to get back to fundamentals. thing better than the book "The years' service in the Far East and kept secret. To rethink one's position is not a Foundations of the Nineteenth Cen-India. bad thing at such times as these. Our national belief in muddling through should not be relied on in|fashion the mental sphere, at any rate. So I want to describe to my readers a view of the history of the opening years of this century which I was led to hold at the time, and which still seems to me worthy of con- alderation.

Most of us, I suppose, know the feeling which comes to us at times that there is something going on which one ought to recognise but which somehow cludes us. Things

tury," by Houston Stewart Cham-1 The Lancashire left for Singa berlain; the man whom it was the

pore at 2 p.m. to-day. in 1914 to revile as "the renegade Englishman." The book appeared in its first English translation in 1910, and until the outbreak of war it was Re CX- travagantly praised as its author: was afterwards extravagantly de- nounced. Denunciation and praisej seemed to me equally uncalled for, There

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meeting in London by Mr. Major-Gen. Sir Fredericle |Spahlinger himself. In the opinion Maurice mentioned that during the of an eminent medical authority long years of research the fortune who discussed the discovery with a¦ of the Spahlinger family had to be representative of The Daily Tele-sacrificed. A Bum approaching

£100,000 was thus spent graph

"The treatment is admirably ad- apted to secure success in both The official summary issued by curative and preventive tasks, little sense in the Stock Exchange to-day states: "Other experimenters have ar- calling Chamberlain a renegade To-day being the eve

of Settlerived as far as developing a serum while we were praising not a fewment Day, there was no material in the guineapig and other animals, prominent men of German ex-jehange in rates nt this morning's but these tests are not sufficient, traction who, having lived long in session, but the market displays a because the animal usually gets this country, and married English steady andertone. wives, and made a place for them- selves in our national life, threw in their lot with us in 1914. As for

fore war was declared, and in spite of the high praise it received from Lord Redesdale, Mr. G. B. Shaw, and President Roosevelt, a definitely evil book.

amazingly

That it was amazingly

are recognised as being in some way significant; but exactly what their significance is we do not know, I had been abroad in 1904, and when I got back to England things began to affect me in the way I have dethe book, it seemed to me, long be Acribed. It is difficult to give any account of the things which in fluenced me. They were drawn from many spheres. There was, for instance, the growing interest in religion among young folks, as in-clever, amazingly well written, and stanced by the movement in Ameri-

learned no one could en which took the motto "The world deny. Even had the author been for Christ in my day"; and there

a native of his adopted country his WON the activity in England, encyclopaedic learning would have and of course in other countries as

been wonderful. He had done first; well, of the Student Christian Move-class original work in the natural! ments in theology. During the sciences, especially in botany. He later part of the nineteenth century | wrote perhaps the best book the lading idea in theology had Wagner ever written. He was been the incarnation. Now there recognised authority on Kant. And was a very definite mavement of all his knowledge and all his powers "Back to the Cross," with a con- were displayed in the book I am

on the central speaking of. Bequent insistence

But it was evil. character of the Atonement. Meta- When I finished it remember put. physius of the idealist school begun ting on a sheet of paper what I took" to give plan to psychology and to to be its guiding principles, They an insistence on religious experi- were as follows:- ence. But most of all I noticed what can only be described as up- rushies of Venious experience in individuals, often in the must un- expected persons and circumstances. For our or live years 1 continued 2. A nation can have no duties to feel that something was happen- other than its duty to its own ad- ing, on a wok sale, which I didvancement and prosperity. Dic not understand. Then in 1909 I Well-Geschichte int dns Welt- was in a bookarop, and I chanced to take up Dr. Perey Dearmer's book "Body and Soul," and opening it I lighted on the sentence "We are on the verge of revival;

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and Epiphany is preparing." Im mediately I said to myself: "That is true. 2 is what I have been looking for. There is an effort after rena 1, mi a world scale, go- ing en at tas ume." Of course, as

1. Whether there is a personal God or not, and that is a subject on' which the author refuses to express an opinion, it is certain that He does not in any way operate in the world.

Gericht.

3. The destiny of nations is determined not in the very least by moral factors, but by the nature of their territory, the extent of their frontiers, the number and import- ance of their rivers, and the valno of their natural products.

4. The only nations that really; count in the world are the Germani, the Ango-Saxon, and the Great Rus-

soon as i nad grupped this iden Isians. Small nations have no his- found canarition of it on everytory, merely "criminal anoals.” side. M. Sabatier's remarkable 5. The future is with Germany book (1911) "L'Orientation Relt- alone. gicqse d Fe actuelle" gave evidence trom France. More than one back of Tekn's did the sume for Germany. 1 got evidence, though I did not get it till a good deal later, from Sulovyof for some thing of the same kind in Russia. A phrase of Eucken's sticks in my min-1. "uberywhore," he wrote, "the Spirit is blowing among .dead bones."

A denial of morals or, at least, ofi moral values, and atterly materialis-f tie interpretation of history, denial of and contempt for the doctrine of) human solidarity, and a blatant na- tionalism were the keynotes of this extravagantly praised book. And they were the spiritual factors, which produced the war. Will any- the on. deny it! To-day we are once more faced with the choice be- Mr. readers will object that no tween blatant nationalism, with revival did, as a matter of fact, take materialism as its basic philosophy, place. That is quite true. Had and a world revival involving active] we had such a revival as many peo-acceptance of Christian ethics. ple looked for we should not have am I wrong? Has the time for had the war. Of that I am con- choice passed and are we already too vinced. Unfortunately there was far gone down the inclined path to another spirit at work in the world, be able to stop?

Or

bera of our Troops and so pick up ideas, ambitions, and character that will inspire them to work to better effect so soon 38 work becomes available.

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Our Sports Diary.

TO-DAY.

ATHLETICS-Kowloon Mar- than Race at St. Andrew's Church at 4.30 p.m.

FENCING Hong Kong Fencing Club Meet, 6.15 p.m.

HOCKEY-Hong Kong Hockey Club II. v. H.K.S.R.A. at King' Park; Radio Sports v. University. WEDNESDAY,

HOCKEY-Hong Kong Hockey Club H.K.S.R.A. on Marina ground at 5.16 p.m.

MEETINGS Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association in Jardine's Board Room at 5.30 p.m.

THURSDAY. ATHLETICS-King's College Sports on South China A.A. ground, Caroline Hill, at 1 p.m. FRIDAY. CRICKET- Kowloon

at 11

Hong Kong, C.C. (First Day).

C.C.

T. 11.30.

HOCKEY-Hong Kong Hockey Club "A" v. Radio Sports Club at King's Park at 6.15 p.m.

SATURDAY.

C.C.

CRICKET - Kowloon Hong Kong G.C. at 11 2.121. (Second Day).

RACING Second Extra Race Meeting at Happy Valley..

SUNDAY. HUNTING-Fanling Hunt Hounda Meet at Pine Tree Hill.

wiped out by the germ.

"Spahlinger has dealt with the human bacillua under human condi- tions. Therefore in using it in the human body you do not alter its character, and therein lies its won- derful value."

No Risk at AIL.

When Mr. Spahlinger first began to manufacture his vaccine the cost of a dose was in the neighbourhood! of £; now it could be produced for: 28. Mr. Spahlinger had to seek financial assistance on the security of the formula when carrying out!

Thus arose the ironical circumstance that when the efficacy of the simplified vaccine had been-finally established its formula was no longer under Mr. Spahlinger's control.

the work of simplification.

The generosity of a small group of public-spirited people made It possible to release the formula.

It is the basis of the Spahlinger Their names were; process to inject a vaccine (or, as The Aga Khan, The Duke of The prefers to say, "antigens") | Westminster, Lady Wolverton, Lord

which will stimulate in the human Wolverton, Lady Seaforth, Lord body the micro-organic organisms | Allngton, Lady MacRobert, Sir which act as the defence against James Reynods, M.P., Sir Philip the disease. It is the virtue of Reckitt, Mrs. Lionel C. Whitefoord, the Spahlinger vaccine, according Mrs. Granville Alexander, Mrs. M to Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter, that: de Lisle, Miss Astley Sparke, Mr.

"It is the only effective vaccine Sidney Herbert, Mr. J. Arthur against tuberculosis containing not | Palethorpe, Mr. Jack Reynolds.

at-

a single living micro-organism, and Sir Frederick added that Mr. 'so is absolutely free from risk. Spahlinger's method had two "Its greatness Hes in its simpli- | branchen-a bovine vaccine for the city."

immunisation of cattle and a com- Some idea of the inestimable pletely harmless vaccine for the benefit which would be conferred protection of human beings.

One upon the human race by the dis- point to which he considered covery of an efficacious treatment tention should particularly be drawn for tuberculosis may be gained from was that the principles underlying, the fact that something like 40,000 the preparation of the vaccine were people die each year from this fully applicable to diseases other disease. Tuberculosis is the night-than tuberculosis. mare of the agriculturist: the Spahlinger method is applicable to beast as well as man.

Formula for All The secret was disclosed at a meeting held at Lady Seaforth's house in Berkeley-square, Mr. Spahlinger was revealed as a slim man of middle height, dressed in a

Process Explained.

Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter having paid the tribute to the Spahlinger prosess quoted above, explained the technical processes involved.

Mr. Spahlinger, he said, grew the tubercle bacilli for the purposes of! the vaccine under environmenta of food heat, &c., which were identical with those found in the particular hody wherein the microbes were Mr. Spahlinger announced that creating disease and where the vac- anyone could have the formula, cine was needed for protective pur- which was explained in six pages of poses.

is still untinged with grey. dark lounge suit. His black hair

typewritten matter. That informa- He later placed them under such ¡tion would enable anyone to produce conditions that they died, a natural lit.

death. They thus retained un-| The Marquis of Crewe, who pro-Impaired the chemical and physical| sided, announced that Mr. Spahlin-structure by which they were effec- ger had just communicated his tive vaccinating agents. The method formula to the principal medical, hitherto employed of inoculating journals and authorities. The tubercle micro-organisms into car- eriticism, derision, and obloquyrier animals, and the subsequent which had been bestowed upon Mr. culture of the vaccine material on Spahlinger was now going to be artificial media completely differentį swept away in the recognition and from the original environment, al- admiration which would follow the tered the character of the bacfllua. publication of the results of his This alteration was avoided by researches.

the Spahlinger process.

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The occasion is certainly less top-hat, a text-be it Bible,! kindly now to the play. We have Shakespeare, or Artemus Ward, seen rather more of democracy and a devouring passion to make the than is good for sympathetic assent grand abstractions of politics into to the Lincoln type of oratory, and blood and bones, and you have a our problems of government are large part of the man.

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BACK TO PROSPERITY.

Chief Scout's Suggestions. Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, discusses the work Scouts "Then during the past few can do in h tping the nation to pros- months we have come to realise the perity in the current issue of The rooky condition of our national fin-i Scouter. He mentions two press-;

iance, and the reasons for the cry] ing national needs in which Scouts of 'Buy British. These have shown might lake belpful steps of remedy us that we have got Into the habit In their respective localities.

of buying our supplies from foreign "One is in regard to the detri: of foreign commodities, but also countries, not only in the case mental effects of unemployment on of goods which we could perfectly vist numbers of boys now growing well supply in our own.country if up into wankend," he says. They we only tried. This practice of in such a hurry?" PatTo the kind of Cabinet to deal with them. mind, but there I not much of the have had their schoof training, but buying abroad has been gradually police station to get a warrant for America, too, has forgotten Wilson rugged domination. Apart from now, when they should be learning draining the money out of Britain. my wife's arrest." Mike-"On what and found efficiency as workmen and character: In trade and commerce where we charge? Pat Rocking me to different kinds, from Hoover to picked an his political theory in new rulers of his looks, this, Lincoln might havej and energy in making their own originally led we careers, they have nothing but a

are nowadays sleep." Mike-"You can't have your Capone, and such plays as "On the Oxford. Mr. Ralph Richardson, bled. vague and unmeaning existence

wife arrested for rocking you to Spot have answered the optimism and. Mr. Robert Speaight are effec- with all the ilfe that Satan finds for sat to work more generally to make have seen the rock.”

"It is high time that we Britlah sleep." Pat"Can't 17. You shoul of Abraham with the gunfire of tive as Grant and Hook while Mr. Idle hands to do.

* Cain. But just as Lincoln told the Alistair Sion makes the very most our own.commodities, and that our "Who under auch circumstances next generation should be brought Car Dealer Furthermore, sir, larger than her heart, so we may was a crowded house and great en- bellicose lady how the world was of the old negro Douglas There would not aim to be .cat burglar up in that idea. In the Scout Move-you can buy any car here on the reflect that the centuries-are-larger thusiasm and everybody was sorry I know around myself. But we ment, where we teach through prae- compound -could-in-mast plae-as-we-are-al- tice rather than precept, we ought Client What's that? Car Deal against a larger curtain than im- gun to produce the play until he fell

instalment system" than the years and geo Lincoln that Mr. Drinkwater, who had be ready doing in 'some, rake in a few to be able to effect something in er"Paying each Instalment by mediate memory provides. The ill, was not there to see how his of these lads to be honorary mem- this direction."

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