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LITERARY SOCIETY."

A HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPME

OF JOURNALISM.

Mr. H. A. Cartwright addressed mambers of the Literary Society of Un Church, last night, on The Newser Press."

THE

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, 1923.

CHINESE VAS CARRIERS OF INFECTION.

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MOSQUITO NETS... NECESSARY, ESPE CIALLY IN OUTLYING DISTRICTS. At the meeting of the Sanitary Board, Yesterday, Dr. W. V. M. Koor, asked the questions already published, of which he had given notice, namely:-

year,

Whether the extensive building op rations now in "progress might be held accountable for the increase of malaria, if there be any increase.

CORRESPONDENCE.

MUSICAL WAYS AND MEANS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]

SI,If the cost of a piano is all that is, required to cultivate in us a destre for the heat in music there should not be much difficulty in surmounting. this not insuperable object. But I don't think

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men. In other

remarks haa

***THE NEWSPAPER PRESS.

While the high degree of chiciency PREVALENCE OF MALARIA which the Press has attained cannot, but LECTURE AT THE UNION CHURCcompel the admiration of everyone acquainted with the facts" continued the lecturer, it is probable that, in many minds, there is some misgiving as to whether the tremendous expenditure of energy has been really worth while; whether the tone and character of news papers have not been-sacrificed to speed and popularity. But though The New Journalism is often denounced for its personalities and it is implied that in The Rov. J. K. MACONACHIE presi

former times the newspapers were other 1-Whether, there has been an increase it is. Those who have the light need to and better than they are now, › nothing, The lecturer, touched upon varides Sir E, T. Cook reminds us, could be kong and the New Territory during this words, the sensor for talking-for-railing,

in the prevalence of malaria in Henget it shine-more-before pedients adopted for informing theblic more untrue. More personalities are in pronewspaper days, and said the published today, because there are more newspapers, but the personalities are

-What method has been adopted to and uttering scathing" newspaper, as we understand only much less offensively personal. Perhaps ascertain the incidence of malaria in the gone. Others have donned the mantle of

Colony. came into existence when the jntion, the chief count in the indictment brought

erities and gone the way of those wha of printing made multiplication copies against the Press to-day is that it is sen

speak only and do nothing afterwards. sational and panders to morbid curiosity a commercial possibility-a pell data Truth pointed out recently, So long

If Golf, Cricket and Tennis car bo ing, is England, to about the Adle of as you rely on mere renson and arithmetic

organised, why not Music! the seventeenth century. The Aude of to demonstrate abuses no one will listen,

but make a red-hot sensation authority towards the Press "well expressed by Cardinal Wolswhen he exclaimed Wo must destrophe Press or it will destroy us" Cership was exercised, first, by Pope and shopa and later, by King and Bishop The Star Chamber was also brought operation to stile the popular desirfor freedom of printed thought. Finesid imprison ment, with the pillory, therarding iron and the hangmunze rope we employed to torture writers and torrify readers. In the Civil War the of the Press for discussion of the stions at issue was invoked by both and, thus un- shackled, the Prees fame a growing

and you are sure of a hearing at once. Journals rely far less than they used to do upon news likely to pander to morbid curiosity, for they have a much greater wealth of interesting material to chooes from than in former days Very few Papers now describe executions; there is still room for improvement but the up ward tendency is apparent"

character.

41 so whether any prophyinetic the administration of quinine to the method can be adopted, such as ensuring

workmen ad coolies engaged on such work.

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MUSIC ASS.

Hongkong, 7th November, 1929.

OBITUARY.

I would suggest, as a preliminary to Classical Music, that the programmn an effort to more intelligent interest in

offered to us from time to

time be annotated. A title (in a foreign langu WW Pearse) said he found am listener is, to a considerable extent, car- The MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH (Dr. agc) very often conveys nothing, and a difficulty is giving really pertinent an-fried away by a display of technique and swers to the questions; he recognised volume of sound when the affections that, behind them, lay really important should be sensed elsewhere. considerations on the subject of malaria. There are other aspects of this matter, Another complaint made was that the as a whole. His answers were Press always concerned itself with the follows:-

as but this for the time being will suffice. I may add that I have looked" frantically. unusual, and therefore guve a false pic) ture of life; that it told all about the ease, there is no reliable method of Bevan, who urges consistent attendance. r-Malaria not being a notifiable dis- round at recent recitals for Mr Temple criminal and licentious, but said nothing ascertaining its prevalence. Deaths-from when reputable artists visit us, but, alas! of the thousands of law-abiding people Malaria and admissions to the Govern without result.-Yours, lecturer did not see how this could be recorded. During the first three quarters who led honest and useful lives. The ment Civil Hospital for Malaria aru altered or that it mattered so long as it of this year there were 297 deaths was understood; write for libel would ascribed tu Malaria and, if the same rate certainly be issued against a newspaper should continue during the last quarter. which published the statement that Mr the deaths, from Malaria for the year Power. When Goverdels tried to re-and Mrs. Blank are still living happily will amount to 306 as compared with ze impose the bonds the found that public together. As ta

journilese," hin 1991 and 1920

MR. J. Y. V. VERNON. opinion was strong on the side of thought that officiale" with its pon: The admissions to the Government greater freedom a no nuthority was sentences and wretched clicht was cer- 1920, 1921 and 1924 (first three quarters) regret to read the announcement of the posity of phrase, long and involved Civil Hospital for Malaria for the years

Many old residents of the Colony will able, afterwaris reduce the Press to tainly not superior. Richard Cobbett were 181, 266 and 194 respectively. The death of Mr. J. V. V. Vernon, who passed its former state opondage."

addressed his "Grammar to Ministers last figure, if the same rate of admission peacefully away in a nursing home in. Complete libert/however, was still far drew most of his examples of faulty con- for the whole year.

of the Crown and to ploughboys, and be maintained, will give 259 admissions Varese, Italy, on November" 4th at the away. In Chays II's reign, an Aetstruction, bad diction and worsegle ground for thinking that the incidence

There seems to be age of 71. was passed to bid the publication of from speeches delivered from the Throne of Malaric, has increased during the last the proceeding of Parliament-whose i and from other documents of a similar two years.. members away, complain that they In conclusion, the lecturer said that the from medical practitioners, and that 2-Apart from voluntary information do not get yough publicity: At this early history of the Press conveyed time, also, a Licenser still further reminder that the right of an English- Hospital and the death registers, o chtained from the Government Civil hurried the Fess, and the lecturer gave an laws and their administration was only incidence of Malaria in Hongkong Com man openly and fearlessly to criticise the method has been adopted to ascertain the instance, ongst others, of a barbarous wrested from authority by the heroic pulsory notification is impracticable, and sentence paved on a printer who pub braved the might of Kings, Lords and (1,000,000 per annum, between the Colony self-sacrifice of our forefathers, who the continual interchange of population, lished

atement of the people's rights Commons so unflinchingly and, in the and China) would prevent, in the majority which tray would be considereų 2

end, so sucessfully that Burke, pointing of "cases, any possibility of tracing the trussin. Filmed 11. continued the policy from his place in the House of Commons source of infection. of represion; it was relaxed soutewhat the Fourth Estate

to the Gallery, deerited the Press as 3-Building operations, involving the at the fine of the Revolution, but in the declared that it was greater than the artisans in-places-especially, in outlying of the Realm and housing of large numbers of coolies and rig Ano-which saw the first daily ather tree. In these days the fear was districts and on the fringe of urban sometimes expressed that the Press had areas-where they have not been housed newspiper the insidious plan

was become too powerful, but the power of before, will undoubtedly lead to increase adoped of imposing a heavy duty upon the Press, be it remembered, owed of Malaria id such district amongst the newspapers, which killed many of them. nothing to privilege; it was the power

ncur residents, if any At the time of the American Rebellion, persuasion, caly, nad must, in any This was observed at the West End of intelligent community, ultimately rest Victoria during the building of the repressive enactments, prosecutions and upon justice and reason. In spite of iversity and notably in Kowloon havy sentences were mercilessly imposed. Brent combinations of newspapers, under during the construction of the big railway Between 1808 and 1821, it was coraputed, to gain a hearing remained as greet aa that recently many new buildings have

one head, the opportunities for all sides tunnel. Apart from this there is the fact TAI LEE BRINGS THEM TO 172 years of imprisonment were awarded ever they were. That the masses of Great been erected in outlying districts and to 80 persons for offences in connection had not been misled in great numbers by places where Malaria must be expected, Britain unlike the people of Russia- many people are passing their nights in with newspapers, and only out of 401 Bolshevist agitators was attributable to .g., ut Repulse Bay, Fanling, etc. persons tried were acquitted.

their political sagacity, in the develop "All the authorities, and arguments for ment of which the Press had played the

most prominent part the liberty of the Press were placed in At the conclusing of the lecture a array before the public, in 1892, by hearty vote of thanks was accorded the Erskine in his address to the Jury on speaker, behalf of Thomas Paine, author of the

Rights of Man," The lecturer gave the principal theme of this speech and quoted this passage---

late 31r. Vertion was associated in busi- In his early days in the Colony, the

nese with Sir Paul Chater, and later Arm of Messrs. Vernon & Smyth, share with Mr, Frank Smyth, in the well-known

years ago, after about 30 years' residence and general brokers He left the Colony 12

vives him, settled in the South of France. here, and he and Mrs. Vernon, who sur They made a health trip to Italy a few nursing home recently but his condition months ago. Mr Vernon entered the was not considered serious. The news of his death therefore came as a great stock. Mrs. Vernon was with him when he died.

Besides Mrs. Vernon, the deceased is sur The sympathy of many old friends in Hongkong will go out to the widow." vived by his daughter, the wife of the Hon Mr. H. W Bird, and the deep sympathy of a large circle of friends will be extended to her and her husband in their bereavement, Mr. Vernonia twa sons were killed in the war.

HONGKONG.

JAPANESE CREW RESCUED.

The foundered steamer was bound from Osaka to Dairen. She encountered heavy weather during the last days of October and after a further sovere buffet. ting she foundered,

A Japanese steamer of 200 tons burthen, always be regarded as probable carriers gale on the night of November 2nd-3rd Chinese villagers and servants must named the Hciyo faru foundered in a

mosquito from the hillside or occasional of Malaria and, given a ter anopheline in. lat. 36.45"north, long. 122.47 east, marshes, the disease is sure to spread.

that is to say, close to Weihaiwei. The crew of 24 were resmed by the Chinese 4-It is very doubtful that the taking steuner Tai Lee and were brought into uf small doses of quinine as a prophy. Hongkong on Monday. A SENSATIONAL STORY, lactie is really of any use. On the con trary, recent researches suggest that this BUT NOT A TRUE ONE. labit may even detract from the value No legal argument can shake the

of curative doses when they are needed. Arensational rumour was spread about The best means of protection, apart freedom of the Press, if I am supported the city yesterday morning that a well from the draining of swampa, clearing Fortunately the 2.5. Tai Lee noticed her in my doctrine, concerning the gecat known Portuguese gentleman and his of vegetation and training of water signals of distress and after standing by unalienable right of the people to rewife, together with two friends were held courses consist in screening houses with for some hours was able to rescue the crew fon or to change their Governments.up in A motor car at the Paper Mills, wire ganze and using mosquito nets, when all hopes of saving the vessel bad It is because the liberty of the Press Aberdeen, on the provious night by armed During recent years there has been a been abandoned. resolves itself into this great issue, that robbers whilst returning from Repulse large number of new residents in the

The Heigo Mary was a wooden steamer it has been, in every country, the last Bay Hotel. The rumour had it that after Colony and I would take this opportú and was carrying a general cargo. Sha liberty which subjects have been able to the occupants of the car had been robbed nity of reminding them that, while they was sailing under cherier for the Y.K.K. wrest from power. Other liberties are of their jewellery, that the highwaymen are reasonably safe from Malaria in beld under Governments, but the liberty drained the petrol tank and left the party urban areas here, yet the disease is in- of opinion keeps Governments. them stranded at the side of the road. The digenous to the Colony and that, in out selves in due subjection to their duties story of the chauffeur footing" it back ring districts, there is always danger of This has produced the martyrdom of to the hotel for more petrol whilst the infection. Mosquito nets should there truth in every age, and the world has occupants kept watch on the car was the fore never be neglected. been only purged from ignorance with slimax of what appeared one of the most Dr. KocH: Arising out of those an the innocent blood of those who have national events of recent days.

The MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH: Sir, swerá, may I ask whether it would be I mean that, in the Far East, India, enlightened it."

"Reporters of the various ocal papers possible for the Sanitary Department to Malaya, Burmah South China, and so were soon aware of the rumour sought reliable information regarding the people who are employers of gangs of cus-the native races must always be and take steps to notify contractors and on,-in places where malaria.is indigen- affair. The police were of no desistance, labourers, who are, as the Medical Officer suspected of being infected-in veterinary, They had heard of the rumour, but in of Health says, a very great focus of practice the termelted is used." official parlance "no oficial report had malarin, from whom malaria undoubtedly The majority of Chinese today are in- man whose name had been mentioned in suficiently-to prevent their being attack show it except occasionally when the been received." The Portuguese gentle spreads, and whom we do not care for fected with malaria, though they do not The starp duty the rumour was next interviewed and hed by the malaria mosquito, the mos season is colt/or when they are "under followed a couple of years later, but the Kave a denial to the story but added it quito thus becoming infected and carry the weather Then they exhibit symp paper duty, continued for nearly another was not prepared so say, and we must seem to look after the better clase people a little rest pats a mad all right again. was all a joke What: the joke was being to other persons whom it bites. We toms of malaria and a dose of quinine or 20 years until Mr. Gladstone carried its leave it to the imagination of those who class people who are really the focus of in the Far Fast, where malaria is Labolition.

but we do not worry about these lower Nevertheless, the majority of native races circulated the rumour.

It was not until 1836 that the first of the Taxes on Knowledge" the duties imposed on newspapers in the reign of Queen Anne and subsequently much increased--was abolished: This was the advertisement duty

WORLD THEATRE.

The Hon. Mr. CEOW SEGU-SON: Did

the Chinese are carriers of malaria? What does he mean by that t

I understand the Medical Officer to say

The lecturer touched upon the improve-

the disease. I suppose I am not in order indigenous, are "salted "they'» are: ment of mechanical aids to newspaper

in discussing the subject, but I should really carriere, the parasite is in their like to ask whether means cannot be bone-marrow or in their spleen; it may production, which received an impetus

"adopted in order to bring about such an not be in their blood when taken from with the growing freedom of the Press lightful comedy-drama, Two Weeks

From today until Saturday the de-end... He also told something of the romance with Fay," will be screened at the World (Mr. Sayer) We will regard this as have large numbers of artisans, coolies, the car or elsewhere, but it is in their The HEAD OF THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT tystem all the same. Further, if we associated with the acceleration of news Theatre. The story relates the exper-notice of the question. You said we hotel or domestic servants about us, and paper distribution and the collection of fenres of n young shop girl who takes her take regard to the better class people few anopheles mosquitoes occur, we news by which, nowadays, the Press in Vacation at a fashionable summer resort, and not to the lower class. That I can are bound to get the disease transferred frequently, able to acquaint the public where she is mistaken for a famous deny, at once. We guard the urban from this Chinese reservoir to the un- with what is going on while a Govern screep-star known as the Diving areas, and we are unable to guard the infected men, by the mosquito biting the ment itself is still uninformed. Illustra-Venus. Circumstances make it neces rural districts. It does not matter how salted." man and then hiting the un- tions were given, to show that, whatever sary for her to assume the character of poor a man is, if he lives in Hongkong infected man, cynice might say to the contrary, the the netress, and immediately he is bo is not likely to acquire malaria, be Dr. Rota: May 1 suggested that the Newspaper Prem, as a whole, has always enmeshed in most bewildering compli- cause so far, as I know-anopheles Medical Officer's reply be circulated. bean actuated by a very strong scuse of cations, not the least of them being the mosquitoes do not exist in urban areas. The CHAIRMAN: This is a public meet patriotism and public duty, which has,necessity of doing a high dive for which In rural areas this department has no ing the reply is available to the on many notable occasions, transcended she, is net in the les qualified. Babe any considerations, of pecuniary profit or Daniels, the Realart Star, is the heroine control.:

of this lively comedy-drama

other adva

~(Continued at foot of neat column.)

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