1935-09-18 — Page 2

Page

COATE: Coi.

ORIGINAL

Plymouth Gin

Is and always bar been absolutely

DRY

and is eminently

suitable for

COCKTAILS.

Bolg Agents

"CALDḤECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

The leading Wine & Spirit Merchants in the Far East

TELEPHONE2-075. PRINCE'S BUILDING.

THE WONDERFUL HERBAL OINTMENT

IF your skin is sore, injured or diseased, Zam-Buk is the one remedy that can be depended upon to soothe and cure. Smarting pain, soreness and Irritation ars It has quickly ended by this famous Zam-Buk ointment. powerful (yet perfectly safe) antiseptic properties that destroy poison germs in wounds, sores, abscesses, ulcers, etc. It expels all bad matter and grows new skin.

Zam-Buk is so highly-refined that it soaks readily into the tiny pores, purifying and healing in deeper tissues as well as the surface skin. The marvellous soothing and curative powers of Zam-Buk are due to its rare herbal origin, refinement and guaranteed free- dom from, animal fat. Never be

without a box of Zam-Buk,

定為治病,

DA

CONTAINS

NO ANIMAL FAT

PURELY

HERBAL

Zam Buk

FOR

UTS- BRUISES BURNS S-PILES ECZEMA

·SCALDS-1

7.72 SORES BAD LEGS

ITCH-DELHI:

S RINGWORM,

· PRICKLY FPS CHRONIC SORES

*S & STINGS-SPRAINS RHEUMATISM

BOILS ABSCES

雞敬

“Agratar--Meazzi, Gilman Co., Ltd., 4, De Voss Road, Anog Kong.

AINTY,appealingjellies. can be made with little trouble and expense by using Cerebos Jelly Crystals. Everyone will relish their delicious fresh fruit flavours and enjoy their cooling and refreshing qualities,

Cerebos Jelly Crystals

"Agents: John Tr., Hutchison & Co., Post Box 43. Hony Kane

USE

OUR

Cerabos

SPECIAL

AEROMAIL

LETTER PAPER & ENVELOPES

AND

PAY LESS ON POSTAGE

Letter Paper Envelopes

་

1.Z. 1405,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION

A Memorable Meeting

(Special, Air Mail Service)

London, Aug. 28. On September 4 Professor W. W. Watts opens the 1035 session of the British Association, which meets at Norwich for the first time since 1868. Science has revolutionised the world, and expanded and special ised itself almost out of recognition between then and now; but a re- ference to the Proceedings shows that the first Norwich. meeting was a memorable one, and marked the turn of the tide in a controversy that is still not quite extinct.

In

1839

Darwin was left to carry on his experiments in peace.

His correspondence at that time shows him to have been mainly anguged on the problem of sexual haractertios and selection, which formed a substantial part of "The Descent of Man" three years latet. But in spite of ill-health ("my cursed stomach") Darwin was an extraordinarily hard worker: and in addition to studying the in- equality of the

rustaces, he was making a long enquiry into the coloration of butterflies and the correlation of teeth and hair and complexions in individuals.

sexes

in the

The Association already thirty-six years

old, and had slowly won its place among re voguised institutions. John Keble had sucered at the Erst

The sky seemed set fair for evolu. Oxford meeting as this hodge tion after the Norwich movement. podge of philosophers-the hodge. But Huxley's and Hooker's con- odge ineluded Faraday, Dalton,gratulations on the triumph were. and Brewster-but those prenties in fact, premature; if they hart recollected Copernicus they would have known that things do not move so fast as all that,

ins were over.

The chief factor in the change from the polite contempt ot 1839 to the something like notoriety of The early sixties was Darwinism. The new doctrine of evolution had been steadily denounced from Press, platform, and pulpit since The Origin of Species" had an peared in 1850 had aroused pre- judice catre passion among both clergy and nity, and had been vigorously attacked and defer.ded at every meeting of the British Association since the famous oc- casion when Huxley and Wilber. force met face to face at Oxford a few years before.

So far the evolutionists had been almost entirely on the defensive. and despite the doughty blows which Huxley dealt all round, the truggle had certainly not been lecisively settled in his favour ASTRONOMERS v. BIOLOGISTS

Apart from the cuvinced "sys tematista and field naturaliste of the old school, the astronomers were against the biologists on the ground that the earth had non veen

existence long enought for variation of species to have gone so far; and the astronomers had the intense prestige conferred by the mathematical certainty of so many of their calculations-a cer tainty which the biologists, who could only take probability as

could their master, pretend to claim,

not

The astrinomers, too, were sup ported by the formidable company of geologists, who were still uncon vinced by the arguments as to the admitted imperfection of the re. cord.

the

By 1889 the learned might have begun to accept Natural Selection- But the unlearned would have none of it for many a long year, and when the fifth edition of the "Origin of Species" was published KOOD afterwards the Athanaeum remarked pontifically

not unfairly

hut.

Attention is not acceptance Many editions do not neau real success. The book has sold, the guess has been talked over, and the circulation and discussion sum up the significance of the editions

con-

There was rather more to it than but Huxley s great that, troversy with Gladstone and Wace more thau ten years later sufficient proof that a good many rearguard actious would have to br fought before the battle of evolu

tion was won.

was

TIDE HAS EBBED Since then the tide has ebbed and flowed, the laboratory and re- search workers have been busy, and the universities of Germany and America have added enormously to our knowledge. Embryology, bacter lology and parasitology have all de- veloped as specialised sciences out of biology, but biology itself has re- ceded a little into the background. Why 1

Amphibia or !

Primates.

THE SUEZ CANAL

Covenant And Convention

(Special Air Mall Service)

London, Sept. 3. The Geneva Research Centre is study publishing to-morrow a made by Mr. Raymond Leslie Buell, President of the American Foreign Policy Association, upon the ques tion whether the League of Nations may close the Suez Canal to, an aggressor State.

Mr. Buell emphasizes that he is not not discussing whether or sanctions should be applied in the pending dispute between Italy and Abyssinia; he is merely examining whether it is legally possible to close the Canal in connection with the application of such sanctions. Article 16 of the Convenant, he points out, imposes upon League Members an obligation to institute a complete embargo on the com- merce of a State which goes to war in violation of the Covenant. On the other hand, the Convention of Constantinople of 1888 provides that the Suez Canal shell"always be free and open; in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war."

Mr. Buell declares that there may be room for disagreement on three points: 1) Is the Convention of 1888, providing that the Canal shall always be "free and open. etc.," In "force to-day?; (2) Have legal the British Government right to protect the Canal?:« (3) Does the League Covenant au- persede the Convention of 1888 in so far as "the two are incom- patible?

In a survey of the history of the that Buell recalls Canal, Mr. Itallan warships passed through the Canal in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911, although Egypt was then a Turkish possession. At the out- break of the Great War the British Military Command issued an order that no enemy was to enter the Canal. Although Turkey contend. ed that this was a violation of the Convention of 1888, the British on the authorities justified it grounds of defending the Canal.

THE STATUTES

summarizes, study

The

the

Statutes of the Suez Canal to-day. as follows:-

ย

(1) The Canal is operated by a

Egyptian company. Partly, no doubt, because science private has become so specialised to day, minority of the stock being held There are no longer field-marshals, by the British Government, upon only, corps commanders, and the the basis of a concession granted Government. Egyptian on Hymenoptera or by the expert Arachnida does not care to expuse which expires in 1988. his ignorance of the more obscure

(2) The Convention of Constan- to dogmatise on

tinople of 1888 provides that the But in 1808 the position hat

Canal shall always be free and suddenly cangell. At the bad oz the geologists stood Sir Charles That is the truth, but not the open in time of war as in time of Lyell, a cautious Scot of immense whole truth. The fact is that the peace, to every vessel of commerce and, indeed, unchallenged author focus of interest has shifted since

or of war, without distinction of ty in his own field. A personal the days of Darwin and Huxley flag" and that the defence of the friend of all the parties in And neanwhile science had found fray, he had examined and care-fresh worlds to conquer, and is Canal should, in the last instance, be referred to the Concert of Eu- fully weighed the evidence addured steadily conquering them. by, Darwin and Wallace, and, im. We are all vaguely aware that rope.

British (3) The

Government. pressed though he was by the there has been more news, in the

of the fouts, he had strict journalistic sense of the established a unilateral protector- cogency

unconvinced word, hitherto remained

in astronomical discovery ate over Egypt in 1914 and closed the Canal to enemy warships. But the tenth edition of his during the past ten years than in "Principles of Geology," which sport or discovery or almost any This protectorate was terminated was already a classic, has been thing else This news is difficult in 1922, subject to published a few months before the to obtain, and still more difficult to in regard to the defence of the Norwich meeting, and in it Lyell present; but you planets have been Canal. announced his definite conversion identified, new starclusters and nasses of spiral nebulas have been to the evolutionary school.

put on the celestial maps, and the bounds bath of space and time have been enormously expanded.

Every live years, or even less, # revolution of there has been thought or theory--ten years ago it was the accepted doctrine that the universe was finite and that the distribution and density of matter set definite limits to the extent of the Cosmos; now Einstein admits the possibility that it may, after all, be practically infinite,

WDA

"TRIUMPH"

The event, though not decisive, exceedingly important. Hooker, tho. famous botanise, had long been a staunch a supporter of Darwin as Huxley. He happen ed to be President or the British Association in 1868, and since his presidential address naturally dealt mainly with the question of the day, he could not resist a ory of triumph.

conver-

200,000 WORK.

The tone was decorous enough as befitted the gravity of the subject and the orcassion, but the meaning was quite unmistakable. In con- gratulating Lyell on his sion, Hooker remarked:-

(Special Air Mail Service) Well may he be proud of a raised on, the superstructure,

London, Sept. 3. foundations of an insecure doc trine, when he finds that he can It requires 242,000 butchers, underpin it and substitute a new 40,000 milers, and 318.000 bakers foundation; and after all to provide essential foodstuffs for finisher, survey his edifios, not

nation, Chermazi 'only'

secure but

more clothed by 533,000 tailors and shod harmonious in its proportion by 240,000 shoemakers. than it was before.

There are 212,000 hairdressers

beauty specialists in

more

ja

the

which

13

the

a reservation

(4) Egypt is, nevertheless, the Over the territorial

sovereign Canal, but is not a member of the League, nor has it acceded to the Convention of 1828.

(5) Egypt has made. no treaty recognizing the British claim to defend the Canal.

Should the Council proceed to authorize the British Government to close the Canal under Article 20 of the Covenant (which abrogates obligations or understandings in- consistent with the Covenant]......it' might be open, says Mr. Buell, to the Italian Government to chal- lenge such action before the Per- manent Court under the Optional Clause. The Italian Government could contend that the Convention of. 1888 was still in force, and that Egypt, instead of Great Britain alone, had jurisdiction over the Canal. The Court might then be put in a position of passing judg ment on the relations between England and Egypt.

Mr, Buell adds that underlying the immediate problem of whether the Suez Canal may be closed by the League is the fundamental question whether the great canals of the world, both the Suez and Panama, should be internation-

Huxley (who delivered his famous country, 51,000 doctors attend $1.00 per 100 Sheets

$1.75 per 100

ON SALE ATS

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

11 Ico House Street.

Telephone 302511

the health of the populace, and artistic life is catered for by 5,700 actors and 4,500 actresses.

The compliment was justified, and Darwin was delighted when and address on chalk for the first time at the 1838 meeting) wrote that Norwich wes capital-evolution came out in everything, even ip Fergusson's lecture on Buddhist temples. You will have the rare happiness to see your ideas trium phant in your lifetime,'

alized.

Paradox

There are also 8,300 variety artists, 9,500 singers and teachers of music, 6,100 dancers and tea-. chers of dancing, and 64,400 mus clans. Education is impart Know then this truth (enough for ed by 248,000 teachers

Om man to know) BUN Other figures from an ometal Vortue alone is happiness below!” return showing the distribution Be virtuous and not a soul can burt of Natural Selection, Huxley be of professions disclose that there

PEACE AGAIN:

From that year there were, in fact, fewer violent denunciations

Jou

gan to be thought of as a teacher are 119,000, waiters, 91,000 cooks But one man's vice may be an-

Gunther virtus. rather than an inconoclast, and and 221,000 domestic servants.

Famers Decture Series, Na, 4

TO

GET RID OF

STOMACH TROUBLES

SURATED

An

English Doctor writes :-

"And the Bisurated' Magnesia taken after most of my meats is the only thing that keeps me free from pain and discomfort, and I lake it regularly. I often prescriba it for my patients, and have had very good resuits."

———, M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Signed) Dr. H. G. TH

THE Engbah doctor is the most conservative, medical man in the world, and when he not only recommends bat personally, uses a remedy there can be no more con- vincing proof of its efficacy. This doctor is bat one of many who constantly advise the use of Bisurated' Magnesia in all cases of indigestion, Most stomach trouble is caused by acidity, and the reason why Elsurated Magnesia gives quick relief in that it in- stantly neatralises excess acid and soothes, heals and strengthens the inflamed stomach lining. Nothing could be simpler, safer or sarer. If you suffer with indigestion

or stomach disorder of any kind put your faith in European science and make an end of your troubles by taking Bisurated agnesia after eating or whenever pain is felt.

BISURATED

MAGNESIA

QUICKLY STOPS

IN DIGESTION

Always see this oval sign. It is on every genuine carton.

BISMAG

TRUCULENT TAILPIECES

by

NO QUARTER

AN AMUSING BOOKLET CONTAINING EXTRACTS. FROM STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER REPRINTED FROM HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.

A SURE SPECIFIC

FUR

DESPONDENCY & DYSEPSIA

PRICE:-$1.00

NOW ON SALE

AT

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS OFFICE

AND

ALL BOOK STORES. "

Anzora in the morning keeps Hair smart

all day!

Just a little Aurora each morning will keep your hair smart and in place all day long! Anzora is the original British Hair Fixative that millions of men prefer. Befase substitutes--nothing else is sa good as Ancora, Aazom Cream for normal scalps, Anzots Viola for dry scalps. Anzora At all Chemiste, - Brilliantine for glossy hair. Hairdressers and Stores.

ANZORA

MASTERS THE HAIR

Cerebos Salt

Keeps file and dry in any climate

ANZIRA PERFUMBRY

Co., Ltd

London, H.W.6 England:

EREBO

ALT.