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RISING US. DEATH RATE. THE PRICE OF CIVILISATION. American physicians and psychologists A correspondent of The Times, writ, are investigating the problem of the rising death rate for middle-aged per- ing froni Bataria, says:-
sons despite the great advance in medical in the science and hygiene and the lowering of The time is due for a revival; import trade of the Netherlands East the death-rate in early life, wrote the New York correspondent of the Errning Indies, and it is to be hoped that the long expected boom will eventuate dur- Standard recently. Man is not living as long as he ought to live by from ten to twenty-five years-
ing the next 12 months
1945
WHY WE ARE PAYING AMERICA. VIEWS OF EDITOR OF THE
*** NATION."
PARTLY
FINANCIAL - SWANK,"" Mr. HD. Handerson, editor of the Vation, addressed the members of the International summer school at St. Hilda's Hall,
Debts," Oxford, recently, on
7:
LARGEST AERIAL IN THE WORLD.
TWELVE 800 FEET MASTS AT RUGBY
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Magie is in the finger-tips of the young men experimenting at Hillmorton, near here, where the Government have the Their minds are filled with the joy of largest wireless station in the world. battle with the elements, and their eyes shine expectantly as they dream of the International indebtedness had, and results they may achieve. They are pre- For over a year the export trade o
The human race, in civilised countries, Mr. Henderson, dons a great deal since pared for success,
to poison international eNo other station in the world has an the islands has been prosperous with has found out to a large extent, how to the war
problem which i aerial system supported by twelve 500 It Was at survive the fatal dangers, of infancy, lations
feet masts. That in itself explains the few exceptions-and it is dels that h
parallel in past history. fore long this state of affairs Bust be youth and early adulthood: but when had no reflected in the import trade which has maturity begins, the death rate starts to here was nothing comparable to the ride which these young men, who are been depressed to lung. The year 1924 climb at a more rapid rate than in the conditions which existed to-day and do various nationalities, bave in their ander which various Governments owed station. Pride is really too mild, a word was frankly disappointing both for the centuries of the past when science knew importer in the Indies, and for the for- far less about disease and degeneration other Governmrats enormous sums of apply to the passion which they have
Civilisation, Accord- eigu exporter to those islands. Ther than it does now. have been isolated instaners of improved ing to American investigators, is exacting money, sums so huge that no one knew for their work. They are only too happy business bat, generally speaking, there death toll which does not sustain man's whether the Governments would be able to discourse learnedly to all authorised has been little cause for satisfaction.boast of progress, since it is a toll that, to repay each other. The Dawes Report Persons on grid systems, banks of valves, man pays because he seeks to progress marked the first step towards getting "whatnots beloved of all wireless ex-
the problem, of International indebted perimenters the wide world over.
Now that the aerial masts are all in ness, upon a reasonable and practicable
position and some portions of the aerial footing..
ed
By the end of 1923 the godowns contain- the accumulated stocks little of which until that at had bears the import ponsible for bolding up trade.
APPROACH TO STARITÉY. There were, in consequence, para tively fow forend sales, while, owing to previous experience, orders for fresh stuck were not placed very widdy, The old established grms of wide experience stabilised. their position and there was every prosiect of a rosy Eatured With the sound business tactics of the big very different firms, however, cause methods on the part of the smaller im-
porters. When the old stocks had bren liquidated these concerns were lożced to deal in goods which had been i stock for a long time and had been left un- touched for same years. Thus while the attitude of the bigger firms was to mark time the smaller cancerns were compelled to unload hd and unsold stock, with the result that there has been little improve. meat in the import trade.
Political uncertainty and auorinal rates of exchange in Europe have also made the work of the importer difficult. So far as Great. Britain is heerned the exchange has been subject to no wild Auctuations and the pound ster. ling "has been in the neighbourhood of parity for some time past.
too fast.
Professor Abrahani Myerson, head of the department of neurology at Tufts College Medical School, Bostou, and a eases, has listed four physical and twelve physician of wide practice in nerve dis mental reasons for the inability of the middle-aged to withstand the strenuous life of present-day civilisation, all of them more or less preventable. Bad phy- sical hygiene and excesses of diet, exer- tion or infection are the physical reasons for middle-age's surrender These reasons, however, do not keep the death rate at its present height. They for centuries. have been man's enemy The twelve mental reasons for death which modern civilisation ought to be able to overcome are:---
to death.
The strenuous life carried too far. Sudden business failure. Blocked aims and destruction of hope. Realisation that the span of life is a speck in time.
Too much sensuality
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but
In single-minded people the defent of their one ambition,
The ever-present sight of death itt the end of the road.
The death of another, expecially a young person.
Increased speed of work and play. The demands of family and one's fellows for more and more luxuries.
The cost of living
Ego, injury." hurt conscience, a kind of psychic shell-shock resulting from realisation of failure after life- long faith in the doctrine that anyone who strives can succeed.
Dr. Myerson says that when the plea sure has gone from life living ceases to seem worth while He calls the loss of the pleasure feeling anhedonia," and
he asserts:
For the British manufacturer and merchant price still remains the prin cipal factor to be considered in trading with the Netherlands East Indies. The vast nativo population pgider the best marks, and for it he must cater. The export trade of the Sakelands East Indies has been in a state of
The symbols and causes of anhedonia prosperity for a year or more ad this can only react favourably of the pur and such deaths as come from it are those chasing capacity of the Oriental things which typify an American civil population Thore of the movie, who sation which hurties through every are employed on Europan estates are thing too fast for real enjeyinent, finding mor occupation, thile those too fast for real culture. The idea of who manage and work their own plan success has become pathological; hurry and worry leave no room for real satis- tations are making good profite. This faction or enjoyment. Too much excite there will be greater opportunities for rent finally buips out vigour and ability spending money and improved open-toexperience excitement." ings for trade.
Other neurologists add to Dr. Myer- 's reasons, as for instance, Dr. L. P. of New York's best-known Clark, one neurologists, who gives a predominant place to sentiment in the death list..
resistances,
potentiometers,
and
They
the
Aro
On the cesnomic side heiliged itself are up. they are eagerly looking
and spamming the globe. ordinary illusions were held by any wizards, seemingly not fully grown, but was now generally agreed that extra forward to patting juice in the aurial
none the less startlingly competent for all their youth.
as to the abilities of the different Gov eroments to make enormous payments
The young engineers' ix, their gaze, on It would seem that the reason for such fantastic expectations was that people the topmost heights like philosophers to that which gazing upwards to the stars. It is an likened the problem existed between individuals when one astonishing experience to watch the love
The control-room of Rugby wireless had to make the other a large payment.and care they bestow on their instru That, however, was not an accurate busisments and controls. of comparison, for no nation was rich
Vaststation is place to convince the un- in the way that individuals are. numbers of any nation's people were believer of the stark truth of science; comparatively poor, and one could not that nothing is impossible to the ma
All round this cheerless room are the take large sums from a nation without
Impedimenta of wireless transmission; seriously depressing the standard ct
switches that the initiated would fail to living of even the very rich people.
such generating plant In practice, attempts to act, very recognise Fargo sums of money from any particular whose ceaseless music will some day play country actually injured the countries its accompaniment to the world's news to whom the payments were made. In as it travels from continent.to continent dounding large sums of money from through uncharted space; which were
who tries.
AS
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Germany, supposing she could raise such never seen before.
At one end of the room is a strange
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transferring
the difficulties of such money to the Allies without up-ontrivance on which are ranged serien setting the whole of the exchanges of nf minute electric bulbs, weird knobs the world were very real and great lights that glow green or red, and a This and many other difficulties in the variety of appliances for safeguarding Dawes, Scheme had been overcome by operations. It appears, to all save the workers in this temple of mystery, to be making Germany contribute to a repara a hopelessly confused piece of apparatus, tions secount, from which arrangements but they, with a calm assurance, handle were made for transfers of money by every portion of it so that it does what Committee composed of members of each it is intended to do, and wonderful to of the Allied countries entitled to pay relate, make no mistakes!
The Government station will soon start rat. It was their duty to see that such payments were made without causing to fash its messages across the world Any disturbance to the exchanges or Science, harnessed in the service of man, is to play its part in the linking up of trade relations of the work?.
FCZY
In this way the difficulty of apportion. the nation. The new station, when it is ing the payments had been placed on working. will transmit its messages by the shoulders of the Allies, and not upon telegraphy with the speed of winged Germany Having regard to the diff words, to all parts of the earth, and by culties of the time, the Dawes Scheme telephony to America was an excellent way out of a awkward position, but whether sucers Bive generations in Germany would gö on carrying the burdens of reparations was a matter upon which no opinioa 'could be given. "CONTRARY TO ALL DECENCY."
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Britain, on her side, out of a cod- fusion of ideas, some of them very
of financial swank, had accepted the tuus, no doubt, but also due to that American position, and agreed to pay to thirty millions a sums ranging up year in repayment. That having been Just as he regarded it as an impossible done, it was not practical politics that we should cancel the French debt to us. Export trade, though or much Armer footing, has not be free from
business to exact huge payments for re ifficulties. These have been due very
parations from Germany, so also did te We should rather, in the circumstances, largely to speculation on the part, of
regard an attempt to demand the repay. get as much from France as we could
in repayment of her debt in-s The loss of friends and love is the ment of Inter-Allied debts na contrary
Possibly, the best way out of the exporters, more particularly the Chi- nese. Coffee was a case in point, but most frequent cause of inental and phys all decency. Although we would not difficulty would be for German repara- tions to pass through, the hands of to America. By that efforta are being made by the growers sical breakdown, resulting in death. The think of demanding payment for the to check this evil in the future. As respiritual decay of friendship and love armies we had sent late France, we now France, and go gards the future of the export trade, attributes, their break-up and consequent demanded payment for munitions arrangement Britain world be the on had sent. The attitude which demand much down financially much must depend on the purchasing scattering, both within the individual
much out. while and around him, reader a person inore
red payment for those munitions was, be France not very capacity of the European cantries.
thought, quite illogical The right way
America would be the only country to BRITISH SHARE OF IMPORTS.deptible to disease."
would have been for an all-round can draw something like sixty millions or cellation of dehta, but America insisted seventy millions from Germany. The actual total import figures for 1024 are not yet available. During the
an regarding them as ordinary debts, three reare ended 1023, howet, imports
and bad persuaded herself that she was into the Netherlands East Indies from
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them. percentage of the total imports rose
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13 in 1993. This is an indication that British trade with Insulinde is pro greasing satisfactorily, and there is no rrason to believe that the 1991 figures will show any falling cf. These figures reler only to direct exports from Great Britain. A certain amout of United- Kingdom exports finds is way to the Dutch islands vin Holland, while an even, greater proportion is transhipped at Singapore. It is worth of note that to her Eastern Holland's exports colonies are falling, and in 1923 were only 5.9 per cent. more en those of Great Britain as compared with 18 per cent, in 1921.
In the Governor-Cicheal's speech at the opening of the People's Council there was no announcement of any fur ther taxation likely to impede commer "cial progress in the lads, and much relief is therefore feit. The trader is already hampered by ostrou taxation which makes competition with other more fortunate countries difficult, At ihe same time there was no suggestion of relief from existing taxation, and a step in this direction would do much towards brightening the prospects of bath import and export trade.
There are indications that the future will bring considerable constructional work in many "apheres, and substaṁtial sams have been allocated for railways, irrigation, water power, electrification. etc. During the next if or 15 years) some F1.150,000,000 (£12,500,000) wil be spent on such schemes and it is quite likely that this sum will be increased in subsequent Budgets The develop ment are to be carried out in all parte) of the Archinelaws, and one of the biggest allocations je that of, F1.15,000 non. for railways, in Dutch Rorgen. For Java raia F1.10.000000 has been acti aside with the possibility of a further?
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