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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 1931.

WAR DEBTS & TRADE

DEPRESSION.

advantage of all parties. It is suggested in some quarters that

the initiative in this matter could

they should be adjusted to a basis varying with the price levels of commodities." Ho does well also

DAY BY DAY

15 TRUE RELIGION

LIKE PURE

to point out that although Britain GameODOLZENTKÁZNEN would not be directly benefited, because she has agreed to claim BRASS; THE HARDER IT 19. RUBBED from her debtors only what she THE BRIGHTER IT BHINES-Mra, T. has to pay to America, yet it would, N. Wisdom.

ONE IN 100 A BURDEN

Professor Julian Huzlovr

diaceans the growing army of mental defectives.

TO THE REST.

be for the gront and direct boneft It in notified that the name of of Europe and would indirectly the Canton Navigation Company,HERE are over 800,000 ment-burden. Every defective is an ex- Talis defective people in Great tin body for the deltone fad and benent Britain and the whole Limited. has been struck off the

Register. world, including America, that Europe should be in a stronger financial position and able to carry on trade and commerce according ly. When we come to analyse the

owe the

да

de-

but

littlo produces Britalo-almost ono to overy clotho

or nothing in return. Every This is not counting those who defective needs caro, and immo- His Excellency the Governor has hundred of the whole population. Appointed Mr. L. R. Andrewes to act as Deputy Registrar of the are defective in other ways, such as bilises a certain quantum of energy the insane, the epileptic, the de- and goodwill which could otherwise Supreme Court.

formed; or those suffering from in- be put to constructive ends.

defective is an emotional herited This army war debts, we find that, excluding Bla Excellency the Governor bortsople consists solely of these burden-- sorrow to someone, and a creature doomed, when Russia, Hungary and Austria, fadyen to be an Assistant to the whose minds are grossly ineillcient in himself

-not abnormal or distorted, like unassisted, to live an incomplete From Secretary for Chinesa Affairs. European countrica

the minds of the insane, but just and subhuman exletence.

every point of vlow-that of the nation," their own familles, and United States approximately

Messra, Wong Kiu-yim, Wong Bubnormal, feeble.

The test which is applied in cert themselves it would have been £2,300,000,000. Britain's contri- Chung-yim and Ngan Yuk-wal, of

the Y.M.C.A. Division, have beenfying anyone as mentally defective bution to the total la

some nuthorised to perform vaccina-is whether he would be capable of better if they had never come into

existence. earning a livelihood or looking after

Thero la only one way of re- £920,000,000, on which she is at tions.

himself without assistance.

ducing the numbers of feeble- than present paying more

The name of Mina Kathleen The present quantity of minded people, and that is to re bad enough. duce the numbers of defect- £32,000,000 a year in interest, Naomi Gravesen, of Messra. A. S. defectives

thore la worse: the producing inheritance-units in the whilst her share of German re- Watson and Co., Ltd., has boon But

Наста of them added to the register of chemists

One might proportion

poulation as a whole. parations for the year 1930-31 is and druggista.

finitely to be increasing. There do this by stopping either the If Germany about £18,000,000.

have been two investigations on the

or that of the actual defectives tha It is notified that Mr. E. subject, ono last year, the other 25 mating of normal defect-carriors declared

moratorium, Д

Agassiz has resumed duty Reich's payments to the Allies Official Recolver in Bankruptcy years ago. If we accept their themselves. The first way is im-

possible. centage of defectives in the coun- would be immediately reduced to and Registrar of Trade Marks and sults at their face value, the per- try has just about doubled during £32,000,000 altogether, of which Letters Patent. Britala, although she pays in

the last quartor-century. interest as much to the United States as all the rest of Europe put together, would get only some £3,000,000. These are eloquent figures, which tell their own tale. It in well at this stage to recall that when Britain declared in the Balfour Note some eight years ago that she was prepared, if the policy formed part of a satisfac tory International settlement, to remit all debts due to her by her Allies in respect of loans, or by Germany in respect of repara- tions, the aggregate amount due finta." We have also heard to her was about £3,400,000,000. stated whilst, on

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. E. P. H. Lang to act as Registrar of the Supreme Court, Ofcial Administrator and Registrar of Companies,

At Large,

The Other Way.

In most cases we cannot de- tect who is and who is not carry ing a masked defect-unit; and Of these 300,000 people incapable even if we could, it would not be. of looking after themselves, only about 1 in 10 are looked after in practical politics to forbid the

of marriage

these otherwise em-institutions that were intended for normal people. So all we can do The King's Exequatur powering Herr Franz Winkler them; the remaining 90 per cent.

themselves from passing on their (Shanghai) to net as honorary are at large in the general com-is to try to prevent the defectives Austrian Consul-General in Hong-munity.

defects: at all costs, no defective kong hus received His Majesty's

ought to have a child. signature.

that married

women

for them,

сол-

unless the Young reparations plan ever, has now become a much wider throws the door open for innuendo, fucing particle from both parents) less help to spread vanercal dis-

easo.

As to the causes of mental de ficiency, there is general agree-

To effect this there are only ment. Apart from a small proper two ways possible. The first is The names of Dra. Tsol Taz-shek tion of cases due to injuries segregation-to keep the defec- and Mok Hing-fai have been at birth and similar causes, mental tives under surveillance, in in- added to the list af medleni pra deficiency is due to inborn defectstitutions designed. titlionors. Both are Bachelors of Most mental defectives are predea-separating the sexes. But to rely Medicine and Surgery of the tined to their fate from before on this alone is out of the ques- Much attention is being paid at

Hongkong University.

birth; the equipment with which tion. At the moment we are only the moment in the United States

they are endowed by inheritance is segregating, in the way designed it faulty, and they cannot, even in the for them, about ten per cent. of and in Europe to the question of a

most favourable conditions, ever be the defective population of the possible drastic sealing down of

anything cise than deficient, any country, and yet the cast is al- heavy enough war debts. Financial opinion in

the other hand, she teachers, with husbanda employed more than a brown-eyed man can ready proving a Europe in that a downward re-

owed the United States about £85,- commerce in the Colony, have in make his eyes turn blue, or a Manx burden on the rates.

The other way is sterilisation vision of the arrangements under

000,000. Moreover, by declaring one or two instances been granted cat grow a tall,

Unfortunately, the way in which to perform an operation which, quarters to house their husbands? which such huge sums are sent to

that in no circumstances would she and familles, while the claims of defect is inherited is a tricky one.while not touching the sex-organs America annually offers what is

sists of hundreds of sub-microscopic emotions of sex Intact, prevents, probably the best means of reator-exact payment of any greater summarried men have been rejected. A man's biological inheritance con- and leaving the instincts and ing world trade, to the mutual from her debtors than was neces- We cannot vouch for the accuracy units, always in pairs, one of each reproduction. Again however, to sary to pay what she might owe of our information, but it comes pair bequeathed by his father, the rely on this alone is out of the

from a sufficiently reliable source to other by his mother. The parti-question. her creditors. Britain wrote

justify the fullest publicity, particu- cles in the reproductive cells which For one thing, those who are from the debts due to her no less larly as there can be no doubt of are responsible for making a person seriously defective must be

n in- " Bum than £2,550,000,000. It the existence of dissatisfaction in defcetive instead of normal are stantly looked after, and often hardly Comu from Europe,

therefore follows that Britain can the junior ranks, which dissatisfac- what is technically called recessive have to be cared for in although the growing seriousness

masked by those of a correspond-a duty towards defectives as in

dividuala, and can do a great deal of the situation in Germany may speak freely upon this topic with-tion must have a source. There is, that is to say, their effects are stitution; for another, we have

out risk of misunderstanding, be-we are afraid, a suspicion of fa- ing normal particule.

vouritism. It is said that the res-, In other words, perfectly normal for them by proper training; and, eventually make this necessary.

cause even if America should cancel ponsibility of the allotment of the people can be carrying these defec, thirdly, if they are not thus train- In this connexion, it is noteworthy the whole of the British debt to privilege rests with one senior of live inheritance-units; and if two ed and "stabilised" the presence that Dr. Schacht, the former head of the Reichsbauk, has intimated, her, Britain herself would gain no ficial, a situation that should not auch defect-carriers marry, some of large numbers of Irresponsible to receive a dose of the defect-pro-ed but not unsexed would doubt- during a four in America, that direct benefit. The question, how-be countenanced, If only because it of their children (those that chance defectives who have been sterille-

justified or otherwise. At all will be defective. one than that between Britain and events, the subject is one

which In the same way, a defective can But though neither method is revised, Germany may sooner or

America: the whole world is in might well be raised by Unofficial marry and have none but normal alone is sufficient, a judicious com- later have to ask for a mora- torium. Dr. Curtius, the Germanvolved in the burden of war debts, Members of the Legislative Council. children: but all of these will be bination of the two offers solid hopes. Instead of making in- that if some Enquiries may produce remedics defect-carriers,

So much for the bare facts. What stitutions for the defective Foreign Minister, also recently and it would seem declared that Germany "has given move is not voluntarily made in the even while official admissions may are we going to do? Every defec-1

be lacking.

tive, man, woman, or child, is a (Continued on Page 7.) no guarantee that the Young plan direction of revision, the foren of could be carried out," whilst the circumstances may dictate such ac-

tion. Defence Minister, in his New Year message, spoke of "the intolerable burden” of the repara-

There is another little eat to he tions obligations. It is pertinent

let out of the Civil Service bag to observe that If Germany did that may disturb, we fear, com- declure મા moratorium, Europe placency in certain circles of Gov- would be faced by bankruptcy ernment. Yesterday, the remark- unless the burden of war debts ably high incidence of over-age were reduced at the same time, officials holding senior posts inasmuch as debtors to the United the subject.of a hint, if such were needed, to the Retrenchment Com- States are only able to meet their mitter. To-day, we have another obligations by transferring to

suggestion to make, namely, that America a large part of the suma some sort of enquiry be made into

Allotment they are receiving from Germany, the

of Government In a recent speech on this sub- quartera. To be quite candid, we Ject, the Chairman of Barclay's know very little of the system that Rank had some pointed observais practised, if there is a system. We have reason to believe, however, tions to make. Ilo showed that that we are far from being alone debts can only be paid through in lack of acquaintanco with official! commodities or by securities, methods of selection for the privi pointing out that the fact that, lege which the grant of Govern- commodity prices. have

fallen ment quarters to an individual be- tokens. The workings are most placean heavier burden on the people of the world for the dis mysterious, and it is thin shroud of mystory which should be cleared. charge of debts. War indebted. For instance, it does seem rather ness has not been fixed upon n an anomaly, requiring explanation. allding scale to be adjusted with that numbers of married men in changing price levels, but in the Government service are forced definite amounts, and, as a result, to seek Bultable accommodation in the open market, while unmarried the discharge of debts whion prices women teachers, who, by reason of of commodities are low, is gronter their profession are away from than when they are high. Mr. their homes for ilio greater part of Goodenough thinke the time has the day, are supplied with quarters. now arrived when all Interested. It does seem to offer ground for In commorce should bring pres-grievance that married men, in the junior ranks, of course, should bo sure to bear upon their Govern-forced to "board out" while well- ments to deal with war debts. paid bachelors in the higher "If they are not to be altegather braches of the service, are ac- cancelled," he says, "at all events commedated in excellent "double

Government Quarters Anomalies.

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Community Chest,