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WILES OF A VETERAN

The Lords and Commons cricket team were soundly, beaten by the M. C. C. recently.

The hero of the M. C. & team was a man in his 75th. year.

The politicians' bowling was described by a member of the M. C. C. as "the worst I have ever leon at Lord's.”

The septuagenarian hero wan Mr. D. Williams. He took three wickets for 16 runa.

He appeared for Middlesex in 1885 before most of the political players were born. Originally a wicket-keeper, he became a fast bowler.

TUBERCULOSIS AND ITS TOLL

NEW ENVIRONMENT FOR

VICTIMS NEEDED

CAREERS FOR THE CURABLE

The Duke of Gloucester recent-especially disastrous effect. It has ly visited the Papworth Village frightened the curable, so that they' Settlement, near Cambridge, will do all they can to avoid treat- where tuberculous patients are ment until they, in turn, have be- enabled to earn their living in come incurable. It has thus, to a healthy surroundings, ·

regrettable extent, stultified the The author of the following whole national scheme, the success article, Sir Pendrill Varrier of which admittedly depends upon Jones, FRCP., is Co-Founder the discovery and treatment of and Medical Director of the cases while still curabla. Papworth Settlement.

Bettering Advice

What is the remedy? Surely it

NTENSE public indignation has

is this: instead of contenting itself He dropped out of frat-class been aroused by the increasing with the distribution of good advice

Inorg

which must often be nothing less

cricket for some years, but reap toll of the roads. In 1933 peared at the beginning of the than 7,000 of our peoples were kill-than cruel mockery-to these patch- ed-up cases, the scheme must go present contury as a slow bowler. ed in road accidents; and there is His Parliamentary opponents strong feeling that resolute action

further, and enable that advice to could hardly believe his age. He must be taken to end so unnecessary be put into practice.

does not look it.

But they ruefully bore tribute to his skill and his craftiness.

EXPLAINING IT AWAY

jan evil.

During the same period it will be found that between four and five) times as many were killed by tuber- culosis. Yet deaths from tuber-

It is only natural that the poli-culosis are probably no more in- ticians should attempt to explain evitable, and certainly for more away their hollow defeat They costly, than road deaths; so that say that their team was not the there would seem to be at least an strongest they can put in the field. equal case, for public concern and They were handicapped by the effective action. want of two of their best bowlers.

Disease Understood

Do not merely tell these unfor- tunates what they should do. Give them the environment they need. Give them work graduated to their physical capacity, in light, airy workshops equipped with machines designed to do the heavy work they cannot do. Give them wages sufficient for the purchase of good nourishing food.

Enable them to live, with their families, home

in

conditions approximating as closely as pos- sible to those of the sanatorium. Offer them the chance of a new career in exchange for the old, and so kill once and for all, the fear of the sanatorium and ite aftermath:

There are those who will say:

Mr. C. U. Peat, the Conserva-| Tuberculosis is well understood. tive member for Darlington, was absent Lord Dunglass, M. P.,From the medical point of view the had to retife with an injured British national anti-tuberculosis scheme-with its network of dis- would nowadays never think of thumb and was unable to bowl. applying "Almanach de Gotha" |

Another explanation was that pensaries and sanatoria, operated principles to the question. Lord Tennyson, their "star" bate-with great efficiency by the Minis- Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 80, 1934. In the case of the Princess man,

was out to a remarkable try of Health, the local authoritles, and a number of voluntary bodies-- Marina, it may be taken for catch.. It was described as the is so perfect that there ought by "This in the impracticable cry of granted that the formality of ob-sort of thing not seen even in a The Royal Engagement taining approval has already Test match.

been complied with; and it may The news of the Royal en- also be taken for granted that

Your Daily Smile! no discussion. She gagement has, of course, been there was received everywhere with the has the cachet of being able, like

What we cannot understand is. goodwill which has been earned almost all royalties, to include and is enjoyed by the House of Queen Victoria in her genealo-why it's so hard for the law to find Windsor. To a greater degree gical tree; for the so-called Greek ja take stock promoter and so easy than any previous monarch, dynasty was a hundred per cent for the victim to find one? King George has won the friend-German, and King George of

+

Always There

"Beg pardon, but haven't I met

Dow to be no tuberculosis. The an Idealist. No such scheme would following figures-relating to. Eng-work." My answer is, in the first land and Wales alone-euggest, place, that it does work; and, however, that many of the haeillisecondly, that until some such scheme la put into operation upon are still active and at large:

(a) Number of beds in real-an adequate scale the nation will annually, and to inflict needlesa dential institutions on December continue to waste millions of pounds 31, 1932: 26,378;

(b) Number of deaths from suffering upon those who have

enough to bear already. tuberculosis in 1982: 89,658;

That such a scheme will work is (c) Number of persons on dis- ship as well as the loyalty of his Greece married a sister of the Preparation

pensary registers on December proved by the experience of the Papworth Hospitals, Sanatoria, and, subjects. His life in the Navy Kaiser, who was the Queen's "Why are you studying all those for-

$1, 1982: 880,651. and as a country gentleman, as grandson. The vicissitudes of eign languages?"

I am expecting to move to New All this may appear to be of little Village Settlement, near Cambridge. well as his marriage to a Prin-the family during the war and York to live

concern to the robust, healthy man,This institution has grown from cess who was born and brought subsequent years made it essen-

but let us consider how severe is the small beginnings until to-day its 416 medical buildings contain up in English surroundings, gave tial to find at least temporary

financial burden of the disease. him the tastes and recreations homes in other countries; and

Taking into account the annual patients, while a village population which Englishmen share, and the the Princess Marina's father be

cot of residential treatment of some 500 persons is maintained judgment to educate his children came a familiar figure in Lon-you somewhere?”.

"Shouldn't wonder. I've never $2,500,000; the capital charges in by the work of its tuberculous bread- on the same lines. It is not prob-don, where he was noted for a able that at any time did he have more than average skill in ten been anywhere else since the day respect of the 26,873 beds; the winners, who are earning for them-

maintenance of 462 dispensaries selves wages amounting to any temptation to imitate the nis and was a popular dance of my birth."

and 400 tuberculosis officers; and, than £20,000 a year, incurring little Olympian education by schedule partner. Princess Marina ber-

above all, the immense expense of or no revenue loss in the process. which was inflicted on his reluc self passed the formative early

"Do you think the various countries maintaining indigent and unemploy-Children have been born to tuber- tant father. The result is that years of her life in England, and

She are really wedded to this League of able patients, ex-patients, and their culous parents in this village, and his children, so far as their per went to English schools. sonality is known to the public, and her father and mother have Natións?"

"but sometimes they seem to be funds runs well into the millions. free from the disease. are popular and are all the more consequently many friends and Perhaps zo," replied the statesman, familles, the yearly cost to the public have grown from intancy to youth

Then we must remember that Community At Work respected because they make no many associations in England; Joined in holy deadlock." **

tuberculosis is especially a disease In short, given the chance to put demands for the formalities of which will make her life 28 an respect which are out of tune English Princess more a continua- Facts You Did Not Know of the young: so that it represents precept into practice, the members an important factor in the actuarial of this community of tuberculous with these democratic days: tion than a new beginning.

A-French scientist claims to be able calculations of insurance companies, men and women have fashioned-for has formed his outlook on life the tyranny of the Turks was to tell the work in which a man is friendly societies and trade unions, themselves new careers in their new from the training acquired in a one of the enthusiasms of the engaged by microscopiest examination all of whom could off cheaper ser environment, with great advantage, vices and greater benefits. if tuber-physical and financial; to themselves Naval uniform, though he does older Liberals, and there was a of the dust found in his watch.

Prince George, like his father, The liberation of Greece from

Deadlock

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more

not appear to have acquired the halo round the battle of Na- A novel Bahing pole telescopes to culosis were eradicated. In one and to the public; for families thus same enthusiasm for it. Other varino that exceeded the glory of resemble a walking cane, the curved way and another, therefore, tuber voluntarily and agreeably segre wise he is chiefly known as hay a very one-sided engagement handle of which is used to hold line, culosis affects everyone. Those who gated do not spread infection among ing relieved the Prince of Wales, When it was decided to establish hooks and other small equipment. who notoriously finds the laying a kingdom the appointment was

came

of foundation stones rather irk-first offered to the Duke of Con- The Netherlands government is plan- some, on several such occasions naught, who was then a young ping to regulate the importation, sale, marking and advertising of patent His elder brother, the Duke of and keen army officer stationed medicines and similar products." York, could not have done a at Aldershot. He could not be

Two University of Pennsylvania mare popular thing than when he persuaded to give up his life in

chemical married a daughter of one of the Guards, which was very scientists have demonstrated that the old Scottish families of no-much to his taste. As a hale and intense sounds can ble descent; and not merely be hearty octogenarian, he will changes in various liquids and semi-

Liquids. cause his bride was charming probably look back on his decl- and clever. The personal author-alon of so many years ago with ity of Queen Victoria has al-a certain amount of congratula- most established a rule of the tion that he did not yield to the sanctity of the "Almanach de superficial attraction of royal Gotha and the whole Continenstatus,

72-YEAR-OLD BANISHEE

Changes Story After First Found False

escape in the physical sense suffer the general community. in the financial sense.

Long-Drawn Cruelty

Reference to the long-drawn

out cruelty of the disease, which plays with its victim, often for years, as a cat with a mouse, does not, I fear, arouse public Indigna tion quite so surely as will the realisation that much of the money spent upon its treatment is en firely wasted.

(Continued on' Page `11). REMAND HOME ESCAPES

Two Boys Reported Missing

The first case of an escape from the newly commenced Juvenile It has for years been recognised Remand Home was reported yester by the medical profession, that day, h

fortunates,

the sanatorium cannot cure Two boys were discovered miss any but early cases. Nevertheing from the Home between 12.45 tal system of Royal blood, and Princess Marina's mother was

less, two-thirds of the sanatorium p.m. and 6 p.m. yesterday, mediatised families, and mor- for some years one of the lead-

beds are occupied by middle and The names of the boys are Mak ganatic marriages was thought by ing hostesses of London society,

advanced cases for whom curs la Shu Ming, aged 16 and Tam Wal, many to have been introduced where her wit and charm made

out of the question.

aged 12 Info England. Not even the her sought after by the people

Chan Sam, a 12-year-old mar Many of these great Queen had the power go to who do things and know things; ried woman, was sentenced to six patched up by mean alter the custom under which and her three daughters carried months hard labour by Mr. Emonths of sanatorium she held the throne. For the fact on the tradition. In short wynne Jones at the Kowloon Ma- are sent back to the environments is that the English law of Royal Prince George, who is by no gistracy this morning for return in which they contracted the disease descent has nothing to do with means unknown in Hong Kong, ing from banishment without an armed with perfectly auch distinctions and intricacles, is evidently much to be congra authorised permit on August 26 which they cannot possi There is no such thing as a tulated. royal caste known to English law there is no morganatic mar

riage. A marriage between a

who is in the direct line

cession to the throne and

valid marriage pot create the right ren to succeed to the received the ve Council.

might hav

vekraïago, that the PH

The

remanded from What is the result?... The cold womas and work which overst

yesterday

pleaded that he had come down damaged physique:

to see her husband

but the husban

chan

her story,

In good beak

she was sick and had come

to get some medecine,

very in which case found anxiety and mali

The

hnedy

for

tment,

1,000 HEROIN PILLS DISCOVERED

$500 Fine For An Unemployed

found

Rollow.

they

For being

from heroin

Yip,

This post ar-old:

fined

hard fabour, by

Jones at the Kowloon

Officer Humphreys