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Kowloon Supplement QUACKERY AND CURE ALLS

HONG KONG, March 16.

AGRARIAN PROBLEMS

INTERESTING LECTURE BY MR. M. F. KEY

AT UNION CHURCH HALL

Quackery" was the subject of a lecture delivered at the meeting the Young People's Society of Union Church, Kowloon, on Tues- day evening by Mr. M. F. Key, The Minister (the Rev. E. L. Allen) presided.

Our former Governor, Sir Cecil-of Clementi,, was earnest in his en- deavours to encourage agriculture in the Now Territories, and there in no doubt that he had the welfare of the village communities con stantly in mind. Under his en thusiastic and personal support, and with no little material encour. ngement from Sir Robert Ho Tung, the New Territories Agricultural Association has done sterling work by aiding the farmers to overcome their worst difficulties. The need for some sort of organisation such

The lecturer explained that the compounding of drugs had its re- putable and disreputable sides: his purpose was to deal with the us pect covered by the term, quack ery," of which he had obtained somewhat extensive acquaintance through attending a Parliamentary Committee appointed to enquir into the trade in proprietary re medies, in the year 1912. Owing to the intervention of the War, and now of the Peace (which politicians seemned to find even more difficult to manage than the War) nothing!

stances which cancel out one an- other, or advertising utterly ineff cacious medicines as certain cures for most serious diseases. Cancer, for example, for which the medical profession is still earnestly seeking

remedy, one quack medicine ven- dor 'undertook to cure with a mix- turo of sugar and water.

Reference was also made to the in the aggregate by proprietary immense sums which are expended medicine vendors in advertising, the result being that it was often difi eult to obtain publicity for the facts with regard to their prepara- tions. The philanthropist who sold pille "worth a guinea a box," but who was content to accept the odd shilling and waive the pound, ad- mitted before the Parliamentary

as an experimental station is now had been done in the twenty years Committee that in one year he re

realised by the Association, and not long ago Mr. J. Russell stated that the Committee were "thinking of nequiring a permanent piece of the trade and the suppression of count from Mr. H. G. Wells's The lecturer read a delightful ac land for the use of the Association its worst features. That the evil, a Tono-Bungay" in which the hero in promoting scientific agriculture." still continued almost unabated was and his uncle make Tone-Bungay clear from an examination of ad- "hum" "We set out upon this He also pointed out that the Comvertisements in popular newspapers bright enterprise of selling slight- mittee is likewise considering the introduction of modern scientific of the book of Sergeant Buzfuz, The lecturer, taking a leaf out methods as a safeguard against said he regarded a Hong Kong (or epidemics of cattle, pig and poul Kowloon) audience as above the try disease. We believe that the average in intelligence and par- haps, on that account, it was un- Government has always unofficially

necessary to warn people here given its blessing and support to against the extrevagant claims of the N.T.A.A., but, we feel that it quack medicine vendors. However, I still clung to the idea that thei

which had elapsed to put into legis of 50 tons of the pills and spent ceived £360,000 from the sale lative action the recommendations £100,000 on advertising. of the Parliamentary Committee, which proposed close regulation of

three-ballpence and two-and-nine a ly injurious rabbish at one-and-

bottle.... It brought us wealth. influence, respect, the confidence of] endloss people. Tono-Bungay car ried me to freedoms and powers that no life of scientific research, no passionate service of humanity could ever have given." And again,

the opinion was expressed, in evi- would be more to the point if it dence before the Parliamentary world of men was, or should be, were to form a Commission to en- Committee, that the more educated sane and just organisation, and quire into the state of agriculture classes are as easily gulled as the the idea that I should set myself in the Now Territories and ascer-

uneducated; it was also said that gravely, just at the fine springtime tain whether it would not be ad- Nonconformists

the clergy are ready purchasers, of my life to developing a mons. being specially trous bottling and packing ware- visable to establish a research sta-addicted to secret remedies. (laugh- I house, bottling rubbish for the con-

tion where experiments could be carried out by an expert and scien tific study made of the problems confronting the agriculturalists.

A Government Bureau of Agricul- tural Research, to conduct experi- ments into the production of fruits and vegetables in the New Terri- tories and to give the native far mers and small-holders scientific advice regarding the care of their crops, would not only result in a greater prosperity for the village cominunities, but would make th Colony largely self-supporting so for as these commodities are con- cerned. The need for an organisa tion of this description is given a further impetus by the fact that the markets of Kowloon and Hong Kong are always stocked with or- arges, pineapples, sugar cane and other local fruits grown in the New Territories, which clearly shows that the demand is wide and cap able of expansion. There are (Continued on next Column}

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4 sumption of foolish, credulous and Many examples were given to depressed people, had in it a touch show that advertised "cure-alls"

of insanity.' make claims of efficacy far above: In conclusion, the lecturer ex- the medicinal value of their in-pressed the view that the enlighten- latest discoveries of medical science the only immediate programme pos- gredients; they describe as the mant of the public on the facts was the simplest of drugs which have sible. The ultimate remedy was a been in common use for years and new orientation of society under regulated mixtures of these drugs, the maka" at the expense of their -prices for ill-which men would not be always "on charge exorbitant. sometimes putting in chemical sub fellows.

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