1932-09-06 — Page 6

PIPES

"DUNHILL”

"PETERSON"

"ORLIK"

"B.B.B."

Selling at $6.50 Each

AND

WITH EVERY PIPE PURCHASED

WILL BE GIVEN

FREE

A TIN OF

BARNEY'S TOBACCO.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CHEVROLET/

THE PHAETON

A STRAIGHT SIX SIMPLE- POWERFUL FLEXIBLE- ECONOMICAL 18 TO 24 MILES PER CAL. FREE- WHEELING LONGER WHEELBASE BETTER BALANCE SMART BODY STYLE PERFECT COM- FORT.

Price Complete with Bumpers,

Spare Tire & Tube

H.K.$2,960.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1932,

If outside the Settlement limits. It was also agreed that much could he done along the lines of the dis- pensary system.

using selected branch offices as a nucleus of the work.

DAY BY DAY

WOMEN TALK ABOUT MORE THAN CLOTHES

OF ALL THE SIGNS OF A CORRUPT MAY EVEN MENTION THEIR husbands

HEART AND FEEDLE HEAD, A TEN- DENCY TO INCREDULITY 19 THE SUREST.--Lylton,

H.M.S. Curadne which has just nor-been overhauled at Devonport aniled on Sept. 1st for longkong, where she is

expected to arrive on October '11.

M

BY L. C. MOORE

the

OST men seem

to have ato tell her husband about; women get together they can talk chance of getting something new ridiculous idea that when longer the list, the greater her about nothing but clothes and for herself, domestic matters.

There is one topic, a favourite Undoubtedly the belief is a sur- with men, which is barred to wo vival from Victorian days, when to nien. be considered equal to the strain nothing the average man likes to I refer to boasts. There is of "gentlemen's converantlon" was talk about so much as the way he indeed a signal honour for a wo-put old Stick-in-the-mud in

place, and the things he said to

TIN.

Letting off Steam.

his

As from this evening, the Civil Service Cricket Club are resuming their weekly whist drives which will As a matter of fact, the posi-him. be held every Tuesday evening at tions are reversed to-day and the Club house, Happy Valley. at very few men could hold their own 8.30 pm. A charge of 50 centa is in a company which otherwise con- stories, because, of course, they

made for admission.

It will be seen that the probicu in Stanghal is somewhat complient- ed by the multiplicity of authori-

The P. und O... Carthage, from ties, it being felt that the treat-Singapore with the English malls, is ment of tuberculosis is more

due here at 9am. to-inorrow, matter for the State than the Municipality, which should mally limit its efforts to diagnosis and prevention. Here in Hong- kong, of course, there are not these complications. It is true that we have a large influx of sufferera from other localities, but we are a self-contained community, with a Government, possessing authority over the whole Colony. This, of itself, simplifies the matter, al- though, of course, the problem is

It is obvious, however, that there is a very real need for better facili-

which claims fully fifty lives every werk. Admittedly, prevention better than enre, but prevention in this matter involves better housing conditions and

a raising of the AND NIKIZANTA Aamdard of life. These desiderata will come in due course, bat in the meantime we have the sufferers in our midst. Not only in their own interests do we need to

Set that they

Theilities for sanatoria treatment. but so on the interests of the health of the whase

morrow.

sisted entirely of women.

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Happy Valley

DEATH.

SUEN, DE, Buen Wong Shi, wife of Mr. Suen Sut Yun, aged 63, at No. 29. Banham Road, on Monday The 5th September, 1932. Funeral wali take place on Wedne day, the 7th September, West, leaving De

above middress at 2.0 pom. for Blu This Christian Cemetery.

The

Hongkong Eclegraph.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1932.

HOSPITAL NEEDS

Appointed more than two years ago to make a comprehensive in vestigation into the hospital and nursing services of the Shanghai Poroign Settlement, a representa tive Commission has now nude its

ties in the treatment of the disease,

are

given

ін

community. Financial considera-

sities and will, in the not distant

Į future, take some definite steps to bring a ray of hope to the sufferers from this dread disease.

Russian Collerfivist Farms

The collective farmas in which

one

Wives cannot indulge in similar have no bosses in these days. So lington Koo, menibers of the League The Earl of Lytton and Dr. Wel-

Discussing Science.

what they do instead is tell another the things they of Nations Commission of Inquiry in-

Men, when they are

would together.like to say to their maids. They to Manchurinu affairs, will arrive by discuss science more than any-must let off steam in some way. the Lloyd Triestino liner Gange - thing else. I mean the science of because you can't treat a maid like While in longkong they Jack Hobbs, or the Arsenal, ac-n boss; you've got to be careful. Wellington Koo is shortly to assume go in for art. They will talk for to take part in a chat of this kind: But women The wise husband never attempts the oflice of Chinese Minister in Paris. hours about the art of looking ten he knows he'd put his foot in it in last week of dr. William S. Fleming absolutely lost; so far their ideas all, however, are their husbands.

The death recurred in Shanghai years younger than they are.

4five minutes. subject in which men would be What women talk about most of the well-known Americas lawyer, at the age of 66, He was found dead in that direction haven't gone beEach one tries to convince the in his bed, his heart having failed send buying a bottle of hair-rest that she married the most known that his heart was not

Although it was restorer,

wonderful man in the world. And I admit that men will often talk she can talk quite convincingly strong, his death comes as a rent upon grave matters such as the fon that topic. shock to his many friends. He only World Ceisis. There isn't a man returned in Shanghai from business trips to Tientsin recently.

during the night.

SUGAR MARKET

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

to

Londan Terminals. December 1932 674-1 down March 1933, 6/67% down 3⁄41⁄2d May 1983 6/81 down d August 1933 6/10% down d Buyers at above prices, sellors asking d-d more.

New York Terminals, Holiday-Labour Day.

the country who doesn't know

Just a Husband. how to solve it: it is really an in- tellectual treat to hear them dis- den husband, accustomed to hear- The ordinary, common ur gar cassing national income and sing quite a different story, penditure.

Household Economy.

may

find it difficul Lo believe this statement, but assure him it is a fact. Women are queer when Their wives do not fly quite so they come to discuss the men they high as that. When they get or have chosen for their own.

that

in

the

FIRST CATCH YOUR MOSQUITO

to economies they atr moto Last, however, he may be tions may at the magent preclude at the sugar market yesterday has way to make a pound buy twenty-on the strength of it, I had better The following cable at the eluar į parochial, They ponder the best danger of getting a awelled heart the possibility of early action, but heen received by Messrs. Pentreath five shillingsworth of goods, and point out that in precisely we should like to feel that the Gov-and Co.

st balance the household budget. same way each wife will boast onment is fully alive to the neces

Not such a big subject. as I that she picked up the beat rem- have said, but the two problems nant in the bargain basement. are very similar. In fact the only difference. so far as I can see, is that the women are solving theirs. Any man will tell you that the reason traîte is so had nowadays: is because wholesale prices are too high. Or it may be that they're too low. I'm not sure my- sell, but I'd guarantee to talk for. hours on that subject with any-

By R. T. LEWIS. body who enres to be an apprecia- tive audience.

Often, These evenings we be families now are organized some 15,000,000 Russian peasam not surrender to the State accord-| Women haven't time for

come conscious of loud busing present a huge crucible of social other words, the largest families do things wholesale. But what

ring to the number of “eaters." In sort of conversation. They don'toises in the air.

These may he caused either by and economic

Kai Nothing the Soviets have done in less of how much work they per-down a penny without butter go-

experimentation received the most brend, regard they try to sort out when they are an aeroplane returning to

talking is why milk cannot come Tak or a mosquito, Pecent years is perhaps better formed. This system has

Should either alight on your worth studying than this attempt been striefly forbidden, as nowing up twopence. I'd like to meet person, it becomes a matter for von-the man who could take 结门 in-grave concern, and while the crash to change agriculture from an in- ducive to low productivity of telligent part in a discussion on from the mosquito in perhaps dividualist to a collective basis labour, and a piecework method those lines.

preferable, every precaution because it has been undertaken at of payment, based on the amount the problem of how the Itaritarians

And while men may worry over should be taken to avoid it. ting when farming all over the and importance of work perform are going to balance their budget, which

There are two types of mosquito isolation provision in the matter of world is hard hit by the heavy ed, has been, substituted. Now women will try to work out how These are the anopheles maculi should be discouraged. infections diseases. It is also sug-fall in the prices of agricultural another innovation, the so-called on earth the Browns manage to pennis and the theobaldin gested that, in view of the financial products und apparently is obliged brigade system, is being intro put up the show they do on nulata. With such distinct names stringency confronting the Muni- to make readjustments to the new need in the collective farms.

Brown's income. Which, believe recognition should be easy. eipal Council, an amusement tax conditions created by the use of Under this system a group of peas-working out any nation's budget the malaria carrier, and while in me, is just as much of a puzzle as Mr. Anopheles Maculipennis is be brought into operation in order (such large machines as the trac-ants is allotard a given area of plans.

for and the combine. The mainland, with the necessary

his own person he doen very little to augment revenue, in which con-

horses Dress, of course, does play a harm, his wife is, as wives often nexion it is pointed out that

object in collective farming husetid machinery. Whatever is pro-large part in woman's the

conversa are, the cause of much mischief. always been to smash the system duced will be reckoned to thetion, but it is by no means The The males are merits of taxation of this

vexetarians; the nature of small peasant proprietorship credit of the brigade. It remains empty chatter that we imagine. females bloodsuckers of the worst

and to organise the Russian peas- to be seen whether this

You see, no matter how observant type. The ladies of this class are experi- ants in co-operative groups whichment will restore the

a wife may be, she cannot possibly capable of carrying malaria from sense

of note all the new things purchased one person to another and are the would till large units of land with personal responsibility that is by all the women in the neighbour-chief causo of its prevalence the aid of modern machinery

apt to disappear along with the hood. Therefore she gets the in-ahrond. furnished by the State, the whole right of individual land ownership formation from her friends.

The other kind is dangerous be- enterprise being under fairly de- though the latest reports certainly curiosity. What she wants to do they set up after biting.

The object is not just idle enuse of the blood poisoning which | Buite State control. This idea has do not reveal any advance.

been carried into practice ruth-

report. The whole ground has ren most thoroughly covered, and the recommendations made involve many changes, notably increased lumpital facilition, with special re- ference to the need for better

are undoubted, and if it were pos- sible to hypotherate revenue from this source exclusively for hospital purposes, it would be likely to meet with a better reception from the general public.

cases. The Committee which had this matter in hand Tound considerable difficulty in reaching a satisfactory conclusion in regard to accommodation for

when

were too

One of the subjects reported on is of particular interest to Hong-lessly. Peasants who keng, inasmuch as we have the prosperous on their own holdings watne problem with which to deal, to fit into the new scheme were, in namely, the treatment of tuber the expressive Communist phrase, culosis.

"quidated as a class," and the majority of the peasants (62 per cent, at last accounts) have been organised in collective farms. But there have been continual changes and experiments in sufferers from this disease. Thus, organisation of the farms and the the while making certain definite re-compensation of the members for commendations for the provision of their labour. For the independent | isolation hospitals, it considers that farmer, the very fact of owner- the solution of the tuberculosis pro-ship creates a stimulus to work blem can only be renched

which the member of the collec Live farm lacks. some form of co-operation between

The private owner punches no time clock when the three Municipalities, and posit is a question of gelling in the sibly the Chinese Government as hay before a threatened rain. His well, is secure, so that a sufficient- own interest makes him see that ly large sumatorium may be pro- his horse is properly, fed and vided without penalising the Inter-Labled. In these and other des Rational Settlement. The Com- tails of farm life the collective mitter na suggested that, if pos

farms leave much to be desired. sible, a sanatorium with 200 beds tive farms has been the history The history of the Soviet collec- should be provided, admission to be of a search Bmited, 18 for as possible, to would effectively replace the lost genuine residents. At the same sense of ownership, of personal time, the viny is expressed that, possession. The recent tendency whenever possible, attempts should has been to uplit up State and col- be made to encourage sanatoria lective farms which had become catablished under privato auspices, almost unmanageably large into and, whenever they prove to be of

smaller autonomous units, where valuo to the community,

personal direction and responsibi- theno

Hity could be more easily enforced. should ba recognised by the During 1980 many collectiva farme

for stimuli which

is to get as long a list as possible

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In all cases, these gentlemen prefer ponds; the more stagnant the better. When they see run- ning streams they sing, "Oh flow. why do you go,” and fly off. They start life below the surface, taking the plunge when mature and fly-

ing away as fully developed mos- quitoes.

The essential thing to do when combating the mosquito is to catch

him young. In other words pre- vent them leaving their stagnant pools.

Just Wasting Time.

The method of waiting by the silent pools until the mosquito appears, when it can be hit sharply between the ears and sent back "to the vile depths from whence it sprung, unwept, unhonoured and unstung," or rather unating- ing, leads to much waste of time. Neither is it effective to drain the water into a neighbour's allot- ment. The correct method is to pour over the pools a thin layer of puruflin. The larva, when old enough to leave home, rushes to the surface, where It gets so well oiled that it rolls back into the pond and drowns itself.

There is another type of mos- quito known as the culex pipicus. water This insect is not on tilo wagon, but goes Into winter quartors in cupboards and dark

corners.

The treatment in this case le to spray the insects with Innacti- elde while it is having its winter Bloop. This may seem crual to the sensitive humanitarian to kill Innocent mosquitoes in their sleep.. But it saves them from the dan-: nofigombatting MACHEN