AMENITIES OF THE GRADUAL CONTROL
STREET.
OF LEPROSY.
WHAT BIRMINGHAM DOES NOTICEABLE DIMINUTION.
ABOUT LITTER.
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"ADVANCING PROGRESS OF
SCIENCE
Honolulu Under the advancing pregress of modern science, leprosy gradually diminishing, but there
A TIDY CITY,
Birmingham must be an aacom- fortable place for
a stranger used to throwing about an unlimited amount of paper. If he went
ain much work to be done wandering through the town in inlightenment and segregation search of somebody else's
The Orint, according to Dr. G. he would have go Gusie Taylor, superintendent of paper
to find one; per- long way
the MacKay Memorial Hospital at haps, even, to Manchester. For Tnihoku, Formosa. in dry weather the Birming ham street is highly polished and elenn-so clean, in fact, that they say you can eat your breakfast off it, though there is no evidence to show that anybody does.
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Dr. Taylor visited Hawaii on n world tour to study the leprosy settlement Molokai. He is being sent around the world by the government of Formosa for a year's study, with a view to establishing a similar colony-there.
He commented upon the apparent entisfaction and happiness of the inmates of the settlement. He said that many such isolation settle ments are conducted in such a way that inmates feel as if they were in prison. Such an attitude inter- feres with the segregation of lepers.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1929.
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Money and Markets
HONG KONG MARKETS.
Notwithstanding the, oficial end- ing of the anti-Japanese Boycott in Canton, the prices of Japanese cot ton yarns are still low and there has been very little buying, and the market in this Colony inactive.
For three weeks, the market for Java sugar has been on the decline and yet there is as yet no sign of
Many of the mer improvement. chants are selling at unusually low prices.
CANTON TRADE NOTES.
Owing to the dry weather, flowers have not been in demand and prices have dropped.
Chinese coal is still being cons sumed in large quantities and Kailan coal is cheaper than Fushan. coal..
Prices of rice and cattle in Yan- ping district have been going up on account of the drought and the cuttle plague.
Raw silk and ravelled silk ex- For several months, the demand for sea slugs, a Chinese delicacy, ported from Canton hetween April has been steady, and prices have 11 and April 20 inclusive was 1,278 not dropped. The sea sluga come! and 1,500 bales respectively. mostly from Australia and Hong Kong being the distrbuting, centre for South China,
HONG KONG FLOUR MARKET.
Blue Bird Banana..... Flot
Banana Tree, Cabbage
Big Cannon Green Gunboat Tai Sai Mut Ma. Kap Globe
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Prices of foodstuffs have risen appreciably of late as a result of the depreciation of the Central Bank of China notes.
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The market for groundnut oil which was on the decline for a long while, revived somewhat a week for peeled The market Bag groundnut "has a close connection 83.15 with the oil and fluctuates with it.
Per ago.
9.87 3.30
Besides supply the Province, the exports large 1.90 Sunwui district 3.20 quantities of palm leaf fans. Dur- 3.15 ing the last ten days of April, 2.95 1.842,628 fans were exported to 1.19 Hong Kong, Shanghai and other 3.20 places.
Some of that cleanliness must, un- doubtedly be put down to a by-law passed six years ago." It is to the" effect that "no person shall throw down or deposit and leave in any street any newspaper or any paper bag, wrapping, or sheet euch as likely to create or tend to create a litter in or to affect or tend to affect injuriously the amenities of the street." The wording of it, so beautifully wide and comprehen- sive, makes one feel at first a little nerveus, for incat people have that healthy fear of the law which gives us a feeling of bravado when we buy cigarettes after eight o'clock. One gets the same thrill by throw. ing away a tram ticket in Birming ham. It would be a fine game, in fact, to see how far one really the greatest accomplishments to HONG KONG COTTON YARN could go before offending the law. For instance, it would be good fun to stand in front of a constable and begin throwing rat a tram ticket, then a small piece of paper, and finally a whole paper bag at his feet, as if one were throwing bou quets at him:
Tram Tickets Safal
As a matter of fact, one is quite safe with a tram ticket, for the police are wise enough not to prove the law an ass. That does away with the obvious objection to the regulation that it might quite eusily add another annoyance to those innumerable little tyrannies which pursue us in these days like A
swarm of voracious gnats. prosecution is only made when an obvious case of carelessness arises,
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A World Problem. Dealing with leprosy patients not only is a medical and scientific problem, but it is a great humani tarian work," Dr. Taylor said. "To keep them in a happy mood is one of the great taska. One of
ward anti-leprosy work of the world is seen in the Philippine Islands, where the United States Government seems to have almost perfect control of the disease.
Tan Lo" Golden Ox
Big Mandarin Orange Golden Melon
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"Ever since the discovery of this disease in the Congo region, 3,000 No. years ago, all human scientific powers available have been bent to- wards its prevention and cute, but it has spread practically all over the five major continents. Some of the countries where the effect is worst include France, England, China, Korea, Japan, India, South American countries, and the islands of the South Pacific.
Leprosy in England. "Through a rigid segregation policy, European countries have at- tained a state wherein leprosy no Take Eng- longer is a problem.
land, for example; there were 600 leprosy hospitals, with thousands of cases, a few decades ago, but we find to-day there is only one hos pital and only. 25 cases.
We must remember, however, it is estimated that, to-day, there are Of this more than 4,000,000 cases of leprosy throughout the world. number, nearly 1,000,000 are found in India, 1,000,000 in China, and others are scattered through Japan; South American countries, and the South Pacific islands.
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9.80" 2.85 The tael has been abolished by 2.81 Inost Chinese merchants in favour 2.68 of the dollar even in the country 2.81 districts and Intely, the guild of paper merchants in Fatahan has passed a resolution to abolish the thel system.
The sugar market in Hong Kong has been exceedingly dull recently as the demand from the country 8313 district merchant is limited. 314 Dealers in Java white sugar have 318 been faced with loss of a dollar for 292 every picul sold.
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Business along the upper reaches of the West River is at a standstill.. on account of the political crisis. 212 Telegrams have been exchanged be- tween merchants in Nanning, Liu- 194 chow, Kweilin, Lungchow and 105 Poseh and some other minor places 189 along the river advising that the
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Manufacturers of both Chinese and foreign writing ink have been doing well. During the anti- Japanese Boycott, when no Japan- ese ink was imported, profits were exceptionally good, and it is ex- pected that though the Boycott is lifted, business will not be greatly Previous Latest affected as native ink has been in
Price. Price brisk demand en
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New York, April 24. Market Firm. Business done, 4,067,200 Shares.
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and the proof of this is that only 104 people have been brought into court in the six years. The hand of the law is withdrawn, and it is only when complaints have been lodged against any particular ares street that the police take any ac
Alleghany Corporation tion. Far more is done in other
Allied Chem, & Dye (Com.) ways to encourage tidiness. There are waste ticket boxes on all the
American Can. American Smelting American Tel. & Tel. (Com.) trams and wire paper baskets have
Ameriena C. W. P. “A” been fixed on to most of the lamp standards. In addition a good
American Tobacco "B" deal is done by means of propa
Anaconda Copper
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Andes Copper
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Amour & Co, took great care that everybody
Large numbers of these are not Associated Gas & Elec. should hear about it. There were
For example, in Baltimore & Ohio Bank of Montreal notices in the press, an appeal was negregated. broadcast, and the Corporation de Formosa, we have some 4,000 cases, Bethlehem Steel (Com.) partments were asked to co-operate. particularly among Chinese, with Calumet & Escle This campaign is revived from out segregation. It is our hope Canadian Pacific Railway
to have these cases Chicago North western
Chrysler time to time, and an occasional shortly
an isolated." police" court case serves
Columbis Graphaphone additional reminder. In fact, the
Coty, Incorporated whole business has been done so thoroughly that even Girl Guides and Boy Scouts have impressed upon them the need for keeping the streets tidy. If this means that Boy Scouts in Birmingham pick up
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piece of paper a day instead of doing a good deed a day, it might account for the cleanliness,
But not quite. For the extra- ordinary thing is that not only is it difficult to find a piece of paper on the pavement, but it is often difficult to find one in the basketa Where then does the paper go to in Birmingham
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According to telegraphic advises from Shanghai, prices of both Chinese and foreign cotton_yarpa have fallen by two taels. But in Canton, the prices have gone up by two to three dollars on account of the high rate of exchange for Hong Kong, money, Quotations on Tuesday were as follows: No. 42 Yang Hok
General Electric General Motors... General Ely. Sigual ' Gold Dust Goodrich Rubber Granby Consolidated Great Testern Sugar Haygart Corporation International Cement (Com.)... International Harvester Co... 111 1081
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A septuagenarian, Mr. William King, who was a shipmate of His Majesty when the latter was a mid- shipman in H.M.S. Bacchante, re- dently wrote to the King recalling old associations, and was invited And what hap- to visit Craigweil House, where, pens, when a man buys an evening carrying his log book and photo-Johns Manville... paper and finds he has lost the graphs of the Bacchante, he was re- Kerinstor 2.201 In Manchester you just flingceived by Their Majesties in the Tennecott Copper it away. But in Birmingham a inan apparently goes clutching it through the streets until he reaches home. And what does he do then? Tear it up into innumerable pieces and scatter them over the carpet, just to show an Eaglishman's home is his castle.
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The King and Queen shook hands with him and chatted for 20 minutes.
Their Majesties presented him with an autographed photograph of the King in Admiral's uniform. Mr. King subsequently said: "The King. was very nice and jolly. We laughed and talked of the days when we were boys' to gether and I used to pull him ashore in the Captain's cutter."
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A new method for extracting The American millionaire, Col. alcohol from the residue left after William E. Easterwood, Junior, the manufacture of olive oil has who is now in London, has offered been invented by an Italian expert a prize of 826,000 open to all in wine-making. The process has nations for the first successful been brought to the notice of the aeroplane flight from Rome to New Ministry of National Economy, which is investigating the invm- York and Dallas, Texas.
The Italian Government assented tor's claim According to the dis- to the project following an inter-coverer of the process, a quintal view of Easterwood with Signor of olive oil residue produces three litres of impure alcohol, which re- -Mussolini.
Competitors may start at any quires rectification in order to time after June 1st Easterwood rider it commercially saleable. has sponsored previous long dis-The rectification process implies a tance Bights including, the fight certain loss and expense, but ac- cording to the inventor, even taking from Dalisa to Hong Kong.
Count Delmatta (Italy) and this into consideration, the method Major Schoy (Germany), have al is industrially practical, especially ready intimated their intention of as the oil residue is usually thrown competing.
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