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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1936

The China Mai

Ninety-Arst Year of Publication.

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EXPLANATION

DR

OF TO-DAY'S

CARTOON

Dr. John Bull

BULL (1562-1628).`ar- ganist of Hereford Cathe-

THE

HIGH COST OF ELECTRICITY IN REARMING

SUGGESTED TEN-YEAR LOAN ISSUE

ENGLAND Rapid Growth In Consumption

"GRID SYSTEM" TO BE EXTENDED

London, To-day-

The consumption of electricity

Music, and Professor of RAPIDITY OF OBSOLESCENCE MUST in Great Britain continues to in-

Notice To Contributers. dral, member of the Royal Chapel, All communications intended for Doctor of Music, and Professor of publication should be addressed to Music at The Editor, and be accompanied by credited with being the composer the Writer's Name and Address of "God Save the King"; which he not necessarily for insertion, but is reputed to have sung for King as a guarantee of good faith.

James I at the entertainment of the Merchants Taylors' Company jon July 16, 1607. The composition

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Pooling The Resources Of Medicine

NEW BANQUE DE FRANCE

First Meeting Of Governors

"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Paris, To-day-

GOVERN FINANCE SCHEME

(By H. V. Hudson)

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every-

The

crease at a very rapid räte.

ast annual report of the Central Electricity Board stated that the expansion in this, country since 1929 up to the end of last year had

the past two years

As a result of the remarkable

сод

THE figure of £280,000,000 to plane to-day than that of other been 70 per cent, compared with is said to exist in manuscript by $300,000,000 has been so great Powers. In face of a re-an expansion in the world output Dr. Bull's own hand the manu-

in the same period of 20 per cent. સ militant as approxi-armed Germany, script being captioned "God Save often mentioned

there has been an increase of 16 the Ringe". For some reason Dr.mately the cost of the British Italy, an expansionist Japan, in the first seven months of 1936 Hong Kong, Wednesday. Aug. 19, 1936 Bull was eventually compelled to rearmament programme that it and rising armaments

fee England and he died as or is hard to believe there is no where, we must raise our whole per cent over the total at the end ganist of the Antwerp (Belgium) inspiration behind it. By the defence system, by a once-and-of last year, and the aggregate in-

time the Government's inten-for-all effort, to a higher level.crease over Cathedral

tions are fully known, public Now, the respective weights amounts to 30 per cent. opinion will have

to attached to these two argu- come accept a figure. of round about ments help to determine the growth in demand the Central is having to this size as a yardstick for any proper method of financing our Electricity Board Sir Farquhar Buzzard's pre-

For if re-hurry on with the scheme for the sidential address to the British:

rearmament proposals put for armament plans. ward. If £100,000,000 bad armament is required becausejextension of the "Grid system" -- Medical Association should be

been bruited abroad as a possi-the exigencies of the slump the national system of transmis provocative of thought far out- iside the ranks of the medical

bility, £300,000,000 would now compelled us to economise un-sion lines linking supply stations seem stupendous:

if duly, then the repairing of the and co-ordinating the load. profession. In substance it

Estimates of the future £500,000,000 had been the gaps should be a first charge! was an appeal for the setting.

whispered figure, one-half of on recovery revenue; just as a sumption of electricity made in up of a national health service

that would seem almost cheap. business that had been forced 1926 at the time of the inception that would enable doctors to

In these immense ranges the during the slump to let its of the Grid system allowed 385 concentrate upon the prevention

per head for the present of disease and its detection in The first meeting took place man in the street is in danger plant deteriorate would regard units fits early stages. Sir Farquhar yesterday of the new Board of of losing a sense of proportion. the cost of restoring it as a year, but in consequence of the would pool all medical resources Directors of the Banque de One way of finding it again is first charge on returning pro- great increase in industrial activi in health centres, with which France, on which no bankers are to compare the suggested total fits, rather than as an opera-ty and the rate at which the de- every practitioner would be in represented, but representatives for rearmament with actual tion demanding a fresh burden-mand is running, it appears likely thuch, believing that the day from the Trade Unions, industry, arms expenditure. The budget ing of the capital structure. that an output of about 430 unite estimates for the Navy, Army But if the whole business were per head will soon be required.— has gone past in which any man

and Air Force in 1935-36 total-on too small a scale for modern British Wireless Service. in general practice "can legiti-commerce and consumers.

The new Governor. M. Labayie.led £124,000,000. Over the requirements, then it would mately pretend to meet all the requirements of his patients" outlining the tasks awaiting the five years to March 31 1936 naturally float a capital issue to Every doctor must become part bank, stressed that its most pri-12 period during which, so we pay for its expansion; and if were to be aare told, our defence prepara- this is the proper analogy then of a team, working with boards mary functions

institute for furthering tions have been dangerously a loan is the proper method of "that will co-ordinate all the credit preservative, preventive and French industrial production. pared-our aggregate expendi-financing rearmament.

ture on the three forces within the Trans-Ocean Service.

Rapidity Of Obsolescence creative services

been about £556,000,000, not The business. man would have district."

the counting

supplementary a further important considera- rotes necessitated for the most tion in mind when deciding on ipart by the Italo-Abyssinian the means of financing his plans science. An enormous advance

war. In other words, if the-the rapidity of obsolescencene of foremost collections of me- has been made in general

rearmament figure of £280,000,- of the new plant. No prudent dieval religious goldsmiths" work, health by better medical treat-

1000 is confirmed, we are being manufacturer would saddle his has been acquired by the Prussian ment, but if progress is to be

told that our defence expendi-business with a long-term debt. State Museum through the Pras continuous the general practi-

ture during the last five years the service of which would still sian Minister of Finance, Dr. Pa. tioner, who is in the best posi-i

should have been over half as have to be met long after the plitz. The Treasure, which form- tion to detect disease, must be

high again if we were to pos-machinery bought with its pro-erly consisted of 82 pieces, many able to call upon the specialist

sess to-day the power that our ceeds had been scrapped, unless of which have however been sold and the research worker to

The changes in the rate of pay world responsibilities demand. at the same time he set aside to America in former years, was assist in its arrest and treat-which came into operation in Great

Struggled To Disarm as a matter of internal finance last in the possession of the Duke ment. Under present condi-

estimated

This argument, scarcely con-lan ample sinking-fund for of Brunswick and Lueneburg, who tions, as Sir Farquhar Buzzard Britain last month are

had also negotiated for its sale. insists, the ordinary doctor is to have resulted in an increase of vincing by itself, is reinforced jobsolescence.

nearly £50,000 in the weekly full by another. The second plea Hence even if rearmament is with America, reputedly asking overworked

Absence of the time wages of over 1.000.000 is that while other nations have to be regarded as strictly a for $6,000,000. recessary leisure often pre-workers and in a decrease of about been rapidly rearming we have capital operation it ought not The motive behind the purchase vents him from keeping in

loan of of the Prussian State Museum is touch with al

fresh 3,800, affecting 44,000.

engineer result that in relation to our longer date than the expected to keep intact the last great col- advances in medicine.

Wireless needs and responsibilities our efficient life of the arms that lection of medieval religious art.-- doctors become of one minding industry-British

Service.

defence is definitely on 2 lower, (Continued on "Page 7) Trans-Ocean Service. with Sir Farquhar Buzzard it should not be beyond the capa- city of the State to bring the COST OF LIVING IN ENGLAND

Such an ideal is in line with

the whole modern tendency in

HIGHER WAGES

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A Modern Cathedral per cent. above the level of July

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1914, and the same as the month earlier. The corresponding per- Dr. Lang laid the foundation-centage a year ago was 43.-Bri- stone last month of the newtish Wireless Service. cathedral for the modern! Diocese of Guildford which was carved

the out of

great mediaeval Diocese of Winches-

White Sheep ter. This will be the sccond]

The pastor of a thriving Negro Anglican cathedral to be built congregation down in the deep Souta since the war, Liverpool being was speaking to one of his flock. the other: Before these there "Brudder," he said, "I hears very had been Truro in the far West bad repo'ts about your youngest son of England, where a cathedral Dat boy don't seem to do you much was built which incorporated Credit?" rejoined the member of the old parish church. In all the flock "Huh! You pats hit mild- other cases where new dioceses ly. Brudder Johnsing, strickly bet- have been formed during the wixt ourselfs, we rezards him as de past century, either, 248 at white sheep ob de fambly" a Ripon, Southwell and Beverley,

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credit"

* * Unsatisfactory

of cathedral proportions on the Woman Customer: "Do you return spot or the parish church of the money when an article isn't sat

isfactory the chosen town has been ex- tended to enable it adequately article."

Merchant: "That depends on the

to perform its new functions Castomer: "This is a book." as a cathedral church. Guild- Merchant: "What is wrong with

ford, when completed, will be?"

Customer: I don't like the way it fully worthy of its ancient ended." sisters. In one respect, indeed.

*

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it will surpass them. Stag The first thing a young city typist Hill, which will be covered with did on hearing that she had been left the rectangular masses of Mr. a five-figure legacy was to have a Maufe's noble design, offers a permanent wave. site equal to that of Lincoln her head.

The money went to

motive power

and surpassed only, as the Archbishop said at the cere- time. The mony, by that of Durham. which will complete the one is Criticism was not wanting just the same as that which when the site was chosen, be built the other-faith, which, cause it was so far from the for all that some may say, has centre of the old Surrey town, by no means wholly expired in But a new Guildford is rising this age of scepticism and below Stag Hill, and, like the materialism. What remains to new by-pass road to Ports-be done is to speed the work month, from which altitudes by generous benefactions in the will behold it in future, the certain knowledge that when edifice will be as characteristic completed Guildford Cathedral |s, product of the present day, as will be one of the architectural the lovely old chapel of St. triumphs of the present age, Martha on a neighbouring hill and in the true succession of was of the older and vanished the noblest English cathedrals.

FAMOUS GUELPH TREASURE

Secured By Prussian "Museum

"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL.

Berlin, To-day.

The famous Guelphic Treasure,

*BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L Ripley

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DR.

JOHN BULL

COMPOSED THE MUSIC ? OF THE ENGLISH NATIONAL ANTHEM “GOD SAVE THE KING"