EMPIRE PROPAGANDA. FAULTS—AND POSSIBILITIES.-
The extent to which publicity and pro- paganda might help towards the solatión of the twin problems of overseas trade and Empire settlement was suggested in a lecture by Sir Basil Clarke at the ball of the Royal Society of Arts recently Viscount Burnham presided.
Sir Baxil dealt first with the influence of propagands upon Empire trade its ability to secure more efficient predne tion, better salesmanship, and the res toration and increase of purchasing power. He showed how it could be used (1) among employers, to convince thema of the importance of efficient, well-paid workers and modern machinery; (3) among the workers, to prove that waste, either in material, time, or effort, is, in the long run, as much their loss as their employers'; and (3) to give the workers a wider conspectus of the past their work plage in the nation's affairs than
THE HONGKONG-DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APBIL 8ra, 1928
BREACH OF PROMISE. THE CHANGED CONDITIONS FOR
WOMEN.
The obiter dieta of the judges, are often useful, not so much becanso they illustrate a new discovery as because they remind the public of things so obvious that they are easily forgotten
Mr. Justice McCardio's opinion that) “the contract to marry is not an ordi- nary contract, such as a bargain made in a counting-house," is not startlingly novel, but it is indisputably true. Nevertheless, there occurs case after case in which a young woman sues the young man who has jilted her for breach of contract, and asks a jury to make a pecuniary assessment of her wrongs just as if she were a servant who had been dismissed without due notice. More aver, not infrequently juries respond and award the plaintiff compensation for her facerated feelings.
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Now, it is true that under one aspect is possible from the narrow view-point a promise of marriage is, or may be, of the office or the factory. As to better contract on all fours with a bargain salesmanship, remarking that publicity made in a conating-house. It involves was not nearly playing the part it material considerations and an under- should do in the creation of new markets taking to bear certain material respon by the formation of tastes-and habits,
sibilities.
he pointed to the recent resuscitation of
the Christmas card and Valentine habits as an example of what a good pro But co paganda campaign could do. propaganda could create new trade above the purchasing power of the community with whom the trade, was 'desire. wards the increase of purchasing power be claimed that propaganda) could divert purchasing towards the commodi.
To
The woman who has spent money on preparations for her wedding or who has relinquished same profitable employment to make it possible, or even perhaps, the woman who has rejected some other suitor, has suffered damages from her jilting, and common admits her right to seek legal redress,
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DOCTOR WHO WOULD NOT
TELL
REFUSAL TO DISCLOSE NAME OF A DRUG PATIENT.
HOME OFFICE TEST CASE. DECISION.
Dr. George Chadwick Kingsbury of Elu-court, Temple, was summoped at the Mansion House recently by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
CHINESE PROTECTORATE. IN
THE STRAITS. THE PROTECTOR'S REPORT.
The following are the general para- graphs in Mr. Beatty's report on the Chinese Protectorate of the Straits Settlements:-
The improvement in the conditions of the rubber industry favourably affected Chines especially trade among the during the last quarter of the year,"
The cost of living rose in Lympathy "For having, between August 20th, with enhanced rubber prices. There was. a general movement by the labouring 1925, and February 2nd, 1928, failed to
classes and small shop-koopera to take comply with the provisions of the Dan-advantage of the resulting prosperity.
This movement was started by a com- gerous Drugs Act 1989, in that having bination of circumstances, namely the supplied morphine to an unknown per- increased cost of foodstuffs and other son, he failed to enter the name, address goods from Ching owing to the virtual closing of the ports of Canton and and particulars in his register.
Swatow during the second half of the year, the demand for rubber tappers and skilled labour and a sharp rise in the price of firewood and charcoal.
There were no untoward incidents and in most
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After bearing the evidence, the Lord Mayor said he came to the conclusión that there had been a breach of these the increases in wage rates accent. gulations in regard to this matter, los ed by employees were not unreasonable. There was considerable profiteering by as in all probability it was a test case
retailers of foodstuffs and coffee shops.. he should only impose a nominal fine-of
In response to representations from, a 93 guineas and ten guireas costs. Notice of appeal was given.
the Government set up a Committee to consider the questions of registration of Chinese marriages and of divorte among the Chinese; a considerable body of evi Penang during the year. dence was taken in Singapore and This is be. Chinese ladies have served on a Govern- lieved to be the first occasion on which ment Committee.
NO REYLECTION ON HONOUR.
certain section of the Chinese community
The Chinese community suffered a
Mr. H. D. Roome said Dr. Kingsbury was both a registered medical practi- tioner and a barrister-at-law. He was happy to tell the Lord Mayor that he was specially instructed by the Director of Public Prosecutions to say at once, great loss by the death of Mr. Seah Liang Nesh, J.P., who was the head of the and to emphasise, that this charge con- family founded by Mr. Seah Su Chin, veyed not the slightest reflection on the one of the earliest settlers in Singapore generation. He had served as a member Personal honour of Dr. Kingsbury, and the last outstanding figure of his The sole point in this case was that of the Legislative Council on several oc- declined, to disclose either in the register life. his advico on Chinese matters was or in the day book the name and address at the disposal of the Government for of the patient for whom he stated he had many years. been for over twelve months in the habit of procuring from a chemists regular supply of morphine, about 20
ties of the greatest productivity; (2) though in most cases good "taste might Dr. Kingsbury had declined, and still casions and before he retired into private į
courage economy and saving; and (3) could contribute heavily to the creation.
both at home and abroad, of an atmos phere of peace, and so produce that can Boerce which was the basis of productive enterprise.
ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC,
counsel her to forgo it.
But this is not always exclusively the real ground on which compensation is claimed. Nothing has been much changed since Gilbert wrote Trial by Jury" and still the advocate represents his fair week.
lient as heartbroken by the defection of. Dr. Kingsbury, told the chemist that Overseas gattioment, said Sir Basil, was the treacherous defendant. But this line the name of his patient was Mr. Brown. of argument has been rendered out of The defendant's practice had been, every date by modern developments in the time he gave an order, to give it in writ- relations between the sexes. Of course,ing, signed by him in the form of a it is open to a man to claim damages for medical prescription. It was understood breach of promise if he wishes to do so. that Brown was a fictitious name.
But the rare occasions on which this has Dr. Dile Russell, a medical officer un- beer attempted have not resulted in such der the Ministry of Health, called at a nanner as to encourage litigation, and Elm-court, Temple. Dr. Kingsbury's in practice actions for breach of promise chambers, and had an interview with depend on the position of women in the him.
world.
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ADMIRAL LINERS.
LIKELY TO BE ACQUIRED BY
DOLLAR INTERESTS.
Manila papers contain an Associated Press message regarding bids for the dis posal of the Admiral-Oriental ships plying between Seattle and Manila.
a ready instrument for shifting back the weight that was depressing the steelyard of British commerce. How could pro-
To-day our paganda help it?
propa ganda relating to the subject was unco ordinated; it remained in the hands of Government agents, private land com-
and benevolent panies,
institutions, whose advice to the intending emigrant was not on the highest level. These agencies appealed to the pocket, to the desire for comfort and gain, and fre quently overpainted the picture. But he had yet to hear the case for emigration presented on the highest possible basis ns an urgent national need and as a patriotic act. opinion behind the emigrant's choice; public, and Press did not bother where he went, and he was allowed to sneak out of his own country "unwept; unhonour ed, and "unsung." This inglorious aura" was due to faulty propaganda.
Ubserving that 410 new people came into the British labour market every day, Sir Basil pleaded that a new trend,
Later. Dr Roche called on the defend- to rural rather than urban careers,
ant," who told him that his patient was should be given so this ever-ceasing flow
But the case is now very much altered.0 years of age, and was improving. Dr. of new labour. While the present Urban
Women have claimed, and have virtually Roche said it was essential to comply mental outlook dominated the masses
with the regulations and state the name neither Empire settlement would be satis obtained, equal rights with men. factorily effected, nor would even our own riage is no longer the only career openbury replied that he must decline to and address of the patient. Dr. Kings rural population be maintained. Policy to them, does not, indeed, always inter-d and propaganda must co-operate more fere with their pursuit of other carcera closely on all questions of mas concern,. They have their own free place in the Dr. Kingsbury asked that the Lord and, given that co-operation, the proga world, and use it to compete on level ganda must be the business of the expert terms with men. There should not, there who knew the meaning and the importance fore, be this discrimination between the of news value.' In conclusion, he ex-sexes with regard to the contract to enter pressed the hope that propaganda share into the married state. If the moral in- the 21.000.000 that was to be devoted juries inflicted by the set of jilting could to the stimulation of overseas trade ever be assessable in damages, they are would not be spent until inquiry had equally severe for both sexes. For the except where specific material been made as to the various forms of pro. rest,
damage can be shown, the old "case for paganda available, their relative values, and several functions in a co-ordinated the woman has disappeared-Beening scheme, and the highest standard, of Standard, < practice in each branch.
The defendant explained that he did They are, in fact, a curious instance of not now carry on a general practice, but that process which, daring the last fifty that some of his old patients in the North years or so, has given to women all the of England had moved to London, and rights formerly reserved to men without that he saw them in a friendly way. depriving them of the special privileges Two, be said, were morphine addicts, and There was no public which they enjoyed in the absence,, of had asked him to treat them. One of the American flag across
these rights. There was a time when a them, a woman, he had succeeded. in woman, shielded, sheltered, and not even curing, and the other. a man, was im allowed to fend for hersel, might fairly proving as a result of his treatment, and claim that a material and assessable in- instead of taking hyperdermic injections inry had been inflicted on her by a faith was taking it through the mouth, which less lover, Marriage was her only pos. Dr. Kingsbury claimed was a more in sible employment; a young man had nocuous method of taking the drug. contracted to employ her; he had broken his contract."Let him pay, especially since he had probably diminished her chances of obtaining nother offer.
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70-YEAR-OLD PATIENT.
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According to the message, Senator.! Jones, Republican, Washington, chair- man of the Senate Commerce Committee, has written the United States Shipping Board that the practicable effect of the Admiral-Oriental ships plying between arms of the bids for the disposal of the Seattle and Manila, would be to destroy the line. He said if the ships weat to a certain agency all the shipping under the Pacific would be under one control, the San Francisco-Admiral Line."
According to Mr. R. C. Morton, of the Shipping Board's Manila office, Senator does evidently believes that the Dollar interests will be the only one to submit an acceptable bid for the five Admiral- Oriental ships. Mr. Morton is of the opinion that the Senator fears the Dollar interests will buy these ships and com- pany with the five-year stipulation of the Shipping Board, in order to drive out cutside competition. After the five- year term is up, Senator Jones evidently draw these ships from the trans-Pacific believes that the Dollar people will with
"Senator Jones run, said Mr. Morton. was prompted to write "the Shipping Mayor should see the correspondence be Board, believing that should the curtain tween himself and the Home Office. Dr. agency acquire control of the five Kingsbury added that be desired to assist Admiral-Oriental ships, the agency would the authorities in every way he could.
Mr. Roome pointed out that it was
have a monopoly on the trans-Pacific trade also," added Hr. Marton." - the name and address of a morphine the five Admiral-Oriental liners within obvious that the Home Office must have That the Dollar interests will acquired addict, so as to be sure he was not get a short time is indicated by other mes- ting the drug from other sources thanages received in Manila. i his medical man-that he was not getting a double supply. The object of these proceedings was to convince Dr. Kinga- bury that he must comply like everyone else with these regulations.
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Dr. Russell, in evidence, said that at Bir James Allen, High Commissioner no interview with Dr. Kingabury did he for New Zealand, said he was not quite pross for the name of his patient. He sure that the last speaker fully appre agreed that the doctor had said that he ciated the signifiance of a movement would not supply the identity of a which was now taking place, and had patient who was struggling to be free already resulted in placing upon the from a drug. He quite understood that Bromster. land in New Zealand many public school the doctor was getting nothing out of boys, and the children of men who lost his work for this patient, and he knew Temperature
Hamity their lives in the war He hoped it that years ago Dr. Kingsbury had ac Wind Direction... would be possible to persuade intending quired a reputation in the treatment of Force emigrants that the ideal behind their these cases,
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Sir Archibald Weigall, formerly Gov- ernor of South Australia, agreed that all the propaganda in connection with this question should be co-ordinated and brought into one useful channel; the efforts of the thirty-six voluntary socie- ties who were dealing with the problem of Empire, settlement would become far more effective if they flowed through a He hoped that this single conduit. would soon be achieved through the efforts of Mr. Amery and the Royal
Weather Colonial Institute.. :))) dt-
emigration was patriotism and not solf Mr. A. Handerson, H.M. inspector un Bain "THE REAL DIFFICULTY.""
interest but he was afraid it would be der the Dangerous Drugs Act, stated that.) The march of the surplus population necessary to combine the two (Laugh-in an interview Dr. Kingsbury told him of Europe to ita ter.) A man had to consider himself and he had given his word not to disclose the from the centre
open spaces" was a splendid ideal and his dependents, and he would not empatient's name so long as he showed a a magnificent case, but in practice, un-grate unless he was reasonably sure that genuine desire to be cured. Icts the propaganda was equally efficient it was in his own interests as well as Loth at the point of tranmission and the in the faterests of the Empire. As to point of reception, the whole thing might Bir Basil's suggestion concerning the ap fail to the ground. The real difficulty portionment, of the £1,000,000, the-Im- was the far greater knowledge the people perial Economia Committee had recom overseas had of our aims, aspirations,mended that an executive committee bo and ordinary commercial life than we set up with the object of co-ordinating
The following results of a boxing had of theira. Whilo it was true that the work of propaganda. The essence of 07 per cent of the Australiane, were trade propaganda was the quality of the tournament between boxers of the China drawn from our Besli and blood, they article itself and the method employed Squadron and soldiers of the Singapora had no customs, traditions, and conven- for dispositig of it (Cheeray There garrison on March 7th,, appear in. a tions, such as had become, subconsciously, was need for Government propaganda in Singapore contemporary:-
Big Marshall (Hawkins) beat Gr. part of our life at home. The problem the Dominions to ensure that-tho-pro was to secure a propagandist who could ducers gave the home consumer good Butler interpret the outlook of the new country products, supplied practically all the Mne Burghaw Furthermore, one might do a great dis year round, and at prices that would Greenwood (Ambrose) bent Sergt. service by persuading the whole country compare favourably with others.
Licut-Colonel A. Weston Jarvis point. to take great forward step in the matter before our own people bad as ed out that the question was complicated quired more land" sense and more of by the great variation presented by the the rural mind Prior to any real peculiar problems of each Dominion, and "galvanising of the country's attitada in particular observed that in the matter towards Empire settlement it was neces of labour Bouth Africa's position made sary to turn the nation's mind much her stand alone. more to the field and farther away from the factory.
(Continued on next column.):
The Chairman expressed the thanks of the meeting of Bir Basil Clarke for his address.
CHINA SQUADRON BOXING,
CONTESTS AT SINGAPORE,
Days of
Month
Height
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From April 6th to 14th, 1928.
Hon WATER.
LOW WATER.
Bloog
Standard
Abang, Standard
Time:
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Thit 8
En
Satur. 10 m
Sun 11. 8513: 5 m
Mon 12 m 1858 m
13
9
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Cpl McManus, (Harkius) beat Pte. Wed Harris on points,
14
10 15 6 3 m 417 | B 21-1635 6 5 6'1 = 4.844°12)
La Cook Stemp (Harkina) lost to Pte. Gill
Bantam Cpl. McManus (Hawkins) o. Pte. Harris in round I,
· A.B. Quick lost to Pte. Hawthorn. Stoker Thompson beat Pto. Birch. Stoker Pelling lost to Pte, Whitton.
--- A.B. Buckmaster (Hawkins) beat Pic.- Tam. Annersley.
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