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NEW SCIENCE MISSION.
SCIENCE AND 望 INDUSTRY.
WAR ON TWO DEADLY DISEASES.
-Two young scientist, left London last month on a mission which, if successful, may save thousands of lives and be equal in importance to the discovery of a continent.
They were Dr. Clement C. Cher- terman, of the Baptist Missionary Society and a secretary of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, and Dr. W. K. Stratman Thomas, research pharmacologist at the University of Wisconsin.
They left on a six-weeks' journey to the Belgian Congo, carrying with them compounds and vaccines to combat sleeping sickness and yellow fever.
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THE MODERN SPIRIT.
SIR W. BRAGG'S ADDRESS.
devote
It
2nd, 1928.
CLEOPA-
TRA'S BARGE.
MODERN EGYPTIAN MONARCH'S CRAFT.
TO BE LENT TO BRITISH ROYAL PRINCES,
FAMINE IN SHENSI.
BIRDS THAT LOOK HALF- STARVED.
HAILSTONES BIG AS TEÀ CUPS."
SHANGHAI, Sept. 20th. So serious is the famine in Sheni province that even the birds have an uncanny, half-starved look, writes a United Press cor respondent. Crops in the province have failed and the people are faced with a grave situation.
The British Association for the Advancement of Science held its 98th meeting in Glasgow, a city
CAIRO, Sept. 11th, set in an area which has known the
History and tradition have hand- | full burden of the industrial de- ed down marvellous stories of pression of seven lean years. Cleopatra's imperial barge where was therefore appropriate that the in Antony passed enchanted days new President, Sir William Bragg, and magie nighta in dalliance with
Thirty haien in Northern Shensi the great authority on stoms, and the Egyptian Cirve. Cleopatra have been badly bit by drought and thewould, however, be filled with envy hail, an official report to the China molecules, should greater part of the address with could she see the fosting palace of International Famine Relief Com- which he opened the meeting not to the present sovereign of Egypt, mission from its provincial com- Arsenical Compounds, abstruse things but to a considera- the Kasid Kheir," meaning mitter there states. Years of experiment have been tion of what science could do to that which proceeds suspicious-
The following is a translation of necessary to arrive at the com
the report, which. gives pounds which Dr. Chesterman and accelerate the recovery of industry-1y." The vessel was constructed to Dr. Thomas will use in their fight The subject was too great for His Majesty's order by Mesars.illuminating glimpse of the un happy conditions prevailing in against sleeping sickness. Their urvey of all the issues which it
Thorneycroft of Southampton and that part of the country: basia is arsenical and the new chemicals have becň prepared under raised, and the President concen was only delivered last year, being the direction of Dr. A. 8. Loven trated chiefly on the relations be used by His Majesty. In the oc bart, Professor of Pharmacology at tween science and the craftsman-casion of the inauguration of the the University of Wisconsin...
ship which may be described as the new barrage at Nag Hamadi and skill exercised in the production of for the royal tour of Upper Egypt whatever is wanted for human at the end of the year. Although welfare.
Dr. Lovenhart was present when his young emissarica left. He des cribed his formula as the logical development of a series of com- pounds."
↑ there are four decks and accommo-,, dation for over one hundred per- including the crew, the steamer draws no more than one meter when fully loaded.
As an introduction Sir William I say logical, '"' he said, “be-Brags, in his own fascinating way, cause of our continued endeavour to bear in mind the climatic and imagined the craftsmanship of an other conditions absent during the isolated island and the changes experiments we have made in our which would be needed when com research.
munication was established with the outside world, and to satisfy a desire for imports the people might have to accommodate them selves to a more general conception which was only in part their own. From this simple analogy he drew the conclusion that a people lived on what it made or earned, and that its success depended on its craftsmanship.
We have had "gratifying results on animals and also, in part, an hu- man beings; but full experiments on human beings are not possible ou side tropical Africa, as the disease, thank goodness, is regional.
Sleeping sickness-not to be confused with the sleepy sickness occasionally found in England and America-ia the most dreadful disease of tropical Africa. It kills off the natives in thousands, and devastates all domestic animals in the neighbourhood; so that, if the native chances to escape the epi- demic, his cattle, and therefore his livelihood, are lost."
He spoke with warm affection of the beauty of examples of ancient Dr. Chesterman, who has been craft, but in tracing the steps from working at Yakusu Hospital, in the the early workshop of the single- Belgian Congo, a district located at handed craftsman to the fast and the geographical centre of Africa, complex factory of modern indus since 1921, confirined Dr. Loventry he urged that the change could Asked if he thought the natives not have been prevented, and that would place any obstacle in their the clock could not be put back. way for conducting the tests, be
hart's remarke.
yaid: -
On the contrary, we have been able to give relief and prevention from further attack in other illness by inoculation, and the natives have great faith in the needle. They
Modern craftsmanship, with all its noise and ugliness, gave food and clothing, warmth and interest, to millions who otherwise must die.
The most active of modarn indus tries were those founded on recent
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State Apartments, The state apartments. are on the promenade deck and consist of a dining-room, drawing-room, King's bedroom and ante-room, the Queen's bedroom and ante-room, with magnificently appointed bath rooms and toilet-rooms for each.
"During the months of June and July our branch committee has time and again received letters from the various countries in this province setting forth conditions of inmine, and asking for help in relief of same.
recurrence of
Drought And Hall. has suffered from drought. There Throughout the year, Shenai
has also been a calamity from bail. At Hengshan ii reported the hailstones were as big na cups, one of the strangest things heard of. The Wei River is so low it can be forded and so eletr that you can see the river bed. The tributaries are dried up, as also many of the springs and wells. What rice fields there are the The majority are left un wheat and barley harvests were both inadequate. Autumn crops Are un- Bown, and for miles around there The Even The royal apartments" are fur-is nothing but naked earth. nished and decorated with that price of grain is soaring.
the birds look uncanny, everywhere simplicity which marks the acme of you look it is just the same." luxury and good taste combined, the walls being panelled and de- void of superfluous ornament; with exquisitely carved moulding be tween the panels and around the Forward of the royal ceilings. dining-room, the furniture which is magnificently carved in the Jacobean style, is the observa- tion room, a roomy apartment, with Corinthian columns support- ing the ceiling, and giving unin- terrupted views forward and on either side through windows which slide up and down na on oiled run. ners, are Atted not only with shut- ters, but also with special mosquito curtains.
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coine lo us for it for most minor scientific research, the most notable two bedrooms with private bath- there are laws in force which wins pen, anyway; however he treat-
things, and trust in it implicitly."
In The Nativa Villages. Dr. Chesterman's hospital will probably be the centre of Dr. Thomas's work, although the later expects to go out to the native villages in the neighbourhood of Stanleyville." It will be impos- sible to accommodate in a hospital the number of patients I shall treat," he said.
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The extract, published in yester. MANILA, Sep. 25th. Governor-General Stimson
day's Daily Prese from a book. ed an investigation of the rice percasisi controversy of Dickens ounced to-day that be had order which sides with the wife in the situation and that "if there 18 versus Mrs. Dickens has led one of one of the novelist's letters with the ay artificial combination, I will our readers to send us a copy of take a very big hand in it."
remark "The beggar had a humour. The Governor-General, said that On the same deck is a suite of
ed his 'wyph.'"
The letter, which recently appear- being that of electrical engineer- rooms attached, for the use of royal enable him to act with dispatch But though that industry, guests, and another suite of two and thoroughness in case
follows:- with all its branches, might be said other smaller bedrooms for the use found true that a monopoly exists.ed in the British Weekly runs as
My dear Sir,
Since my hall clock was sent to. to have had its source in a single of high officials. The whole of the He mentioned the law againat con- laboratory experiment by Faraday, aftermost end of this deck is de-spiracy and the law against mono-
your establishment. to be cleaned,. it had grown by the continuous voted to the accommodation of the poly.
Indications are that the full force it has gone (as indeed it always adaptation of fresh streams of Ladies of Honour. This section, knowledge. Huge American cor- which is completely self-contained,
maintained research consists of six cabins, furnished of the fasular Government will be has) perfectly well, but has struck pus to bear on the rice question, the hours with great reluctance, perations
of with bedstead, chair, wardrobe, Fidel A. Reyes, Director of Com-and after enduring internal agonien laboratories costing millions pounds annually and found that and folding lavatory, two tiled
merce and Industry, to-day order of a most distressing nature it has ceased striking altogether. Dr. Thomas minimised his own the financial return justified their bathrooms luxuriously fitted, and
at the various selling places to Though a happy release for the part in the undertaking, and asked policy. The very active motor in- a small laundry. On this deek ed inspectors to post themselves now
clock, this is not convenient for that credit should be given to the dustry, the aeroplane industry. there is a space amidships of near verify reports of profiteering.
Representative Francisco Varona the household. If you can send three institutions which made his and the chemical industries were ly 16 meters by six meters for danc
of Manila, well-known Labour down confidential person with work possible-bis own university equally important examples of de-ing
Below the promenade deck is the leader, yesterday submitted a Bill whom the clock can confer, I think at Wisconsin, where he did bispendence on very intricate pro- preliminary work, the Joha Simonblems on which intense research main deck, the forward part of in the Lower House. aimed at fur-it may have something that it Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, was being conducted in labora- which is occupied by the dining ther strengthening the position of would be glad to make a clean
accommodating forty-six the Government in, the case of breast of guests, and a smoking-room, both
exercise decorated in Louis XVI style, with rice. Mr. Varons would authorize
the Governor-General to parquet floors.
direct control over the rice busi ness to prevent sudden price
of the commodity at " excessive and unreasonable prices." Fairyland.
Two groups of Legislators have Thus in a floating fairyland of sprung up in the legislature fol gold and silver and crystal, the lowing the introduction of Mr. travellers in this Varona's. bill The first group is fortunate Fuxurious vessel may sail smoothly for losing no time to put a stop on the turbid waters of the ancient to the alleged boarding. The Nile viewing at their case the second group is made up of repre strange and fascinating scenery of sentatives of rice producing pro the land of the Pharaohs, and ful- vinces who claim that the present filling every reasonable desire by price increase is due to the natural
The business laws-llanila Times. simply pressing Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester will indeed be hard to please, when they stay in this mag This brought him to the point nificent vessel during their visit to that our craftsmen as a whole were Egypt this month, if they are not possessed of qualities, intelligence, impressed with the lavish hos skill, and accuracy, which made pitality of His Majesty King Fuad improvement possible," Should it the First United Press. not be our policy," he asked, "to Dr. Chesterman, who is the take advantage of our country's author of the"
under whose auspices his African tories. mission is being carried out, and Parke Davies & Co., who have, sup- plied him with. the arsenical com- pounds.
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Masa Production. He saw
that mass production was in its way splendid and minis- tered to the necessities and son-
The three scientists told how the veniences of many who must other double-berth and eight single-berth Auctuations and penalize the sale!
new arsenical compounds have wise have gone without, but he proved superior to the drugs contended that when brought to hitherto used. With the light of the pitch when its processes called high ideal, they explained that those for little intelligence in their in present use have been able to working, cheap people of little in- keep subjects immune against sleep- telligence would be found in the ing sickness only for a period as end to be in charge. New applica short as three weeks or a month, tions of scientific knowledge, new ideas, new processes, new machines but the new compounds, they hope, must always be in preparation. will provide immunity for from three to six months. The longer the And if craftsmanship, to fulfil its period of immunity, the easier will task of providing for the people, it be to break the cycle of the must be continually improving its processes, then the nation that was Dr. Loveahart is to continue his to be successful must possess the strivings. He ainis at a compound means and the will to improve. that can be taken by the month and Dot injected. This would afford greater facilities for storing and be continually available,"
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DARTMOOR PONY DOOMED.
STOCKS "DWINDLING.
Ia the Dartmoor pony doomed? There are indications that, the sturdy little animals, the delight of visitors to the windswept moors, will, within a few years, be almost extinct. The number of ponies on the moors has decreased rapidly in the past few years,
The closing down of many" coal- MANILAN MURDERER TO ́mines in Wales has been respon sible for a slackening in the sala of the ponies. Nearly the whole of the Welsh pit ponies were re- cruited" from Dartmoor. Now only a few ponies are bought each year.
Breeder's Statement.
KILLED WOMAN AND HER CHILD.
MANILA, Sept. 27th.
For the slaying of a woman and Dartmoor farmers are not breed-
African Dispensary Practice," and for fresh industries or fresh adap- contact with the problem to be in whose district sleeping sickness tations of the old We should not solved. A new class of worker was has been reduced to the almost eling unduly to older activities growing up, consisting of men en-a child, Que Eng King, has beening the shaggy little animals as in miraculous figure of one quarter of when they have reached the stage gaged in research associations and sentenced to death by Judge S. del the past. One prominent breeder, one per cent. of the population in which many others have learned industrial research laboratories. Rosario of the court of first who used to keep 100 ponies on due to vigilant care and sanitation to do them with equal efficiency high value ought to be placed on instance of Manila. Two separate the moors, has how only a smail -bas a double mission, for in and when we can go on to some their services, especially because complaints for murder were filed stock. He stated that during the addition to working in co-operation thing new and, it may be, more they formed a direct line between against the accused, and in each war there was something of a We can, of course, the employer and their fellow the court gave him the extreme boom, but sales at the present
time were the worst on record. with Dr. Thomas, and placing his difficult..
with hospital at his disposal for sleeping bolster up old industries by politi-workers in the shops. They were penalty,
Benigna Gajero, 29, married to The purchase of a pony for £5. Bickness work, he is to wage war cal methods, and have no wish in personal contact both
to decry such methods as always capital and with labour, and Jose Tie Yao, and her son, Anselmo even as recently as 1924 would have on yellow fever.
overcome the dangerous Tio, 6, were the victims of Que Eng been regarded as a low price, yet
had been Pointing to big luggage, he said: incorrect. But clearly the best pro- might
in King Que Eng King was a close that is the average price pow. "I have with me vaccine for 1,000 section of all is the knowledge and separation that cases of yellow fever, and shall stop the skill which can enable us to existence between, on the one hand, friend of the husband of the muz-Moormen are giving up "running as, Matadi, the port of the Congo, produce what others must ask us the manipulator in the shops and dered woman, and they were all ponies." Ponies are pot paying well. the designer in the drawing office, living in the same quarters at they say, and the farmers drb going for because they cannot so
in for breeding the hardy Pole. to conduct experiments there."
and, on the other, between the fac 1431, Calle Sande, Tondo. "Yellow Lever is a port town make it themselves.!!
The improvement of craftsman- tory directorate and scientific or no other cause than that Angus bullock instead, and selling disease, as it is carried by the
The electrical and mechanical mosquitoes off the ships. The ship, be added, depended in large knowledge. So far there had not Bebigns refused to do what she therr ponies at any price, la dear, vaccine is new, and is the result of Part on the absorption and adapts-been sufficient appreciation of the was told to do by Que Eng King, months of labour by Dr. Hindle, of tion of scientific discovery, but it interests and rewards of a student the latter on June 30th, stabbed age has also done much to speed- the Wellcome Bureau of Beientific was necessary to realize that scien- of research, but with the growth her to death. The child who tried the Dartmoor pony to extinction. Research. I am proud that I am tine knowledge and experience, to of this new class there would be to defend her mother, Also was Fower is being used extensively
Hanila Times.
formerly used. able-to-take-Dr--Hindie's vaccine be of full service, must be in direct more Westtached to the great stabbed to death by the nocused. underground where ponies for the first time to Africa,
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