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SPARTON RADIO

"Rosted Riedert Voice"

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1932.

DAY BY DAY WHAT IS SCIENCE

DOING FOR US?

LET NO ONE WHO BEGINS AN INNOVATION IN A STATE EXPECT THAT HE SHALL BTOP IT AT 118 FLEASURE, OR REGULATE IT ACCORD- ING TO HIS INTENTIONS-Machia velli.

ing.

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THE

By HAROLD COK··

past

mic-

of

diseases known, would have swept over the whole of Central and Western Europe in the years that followed the war, and killed na and many people na the guns bayonets in the great struggle it- self. The white slave traffic has been one of the foulest blots on modern civilisation. Before the

♬ NHE British Association for the human race? It has to be remem- war almost every nation tried to

Advancement of Science has bored that a good deal of the stamp it out, but lack of co-opera-

tho Oplum poistoning is believed to have tion made each one's efforta vain. been the cause of the removal to the finished its annual conference, and manual work done in

Kowloon Hospital yesterday of a one must confess that the reports generations was itself of a With the coming of the League theelle named Chan Pun-nam, of 24, of its proceedings have left the chanical type requiring very little whole situation changed. Where, Apilu Street.

¡Average man a little dazed, both use of the human brain. There is by the multiplicity of subjects also, in spite of the progress of the & still considerable single nations were powerless, tho

A resident of 24, Tin Hong Street, discussed and by the intricacies machine,

market for special articles, pro- world, working as a whole, could first floor, a married woman, was re- of scientific detail.

moved to the Government Civil Hon- Few of the speakers, however, duced by skilled manual labour. succeed. To-day, thanks to the phat yestrday by her husband suffer failed to explain how their branch So far, indeed, as the machfac League's activitica, the white slave ng from the effects of ofpum polson of science had brought practical antisfies public wants for staple traffic has been reduced to neglig

benefits to mankind. The geolo- commodities at a reduced cost, il ible proportions. Many other in- Included in the list of the latest gists, for example, pointed out leaves the consumer free to apend

of that the selentific study of the more money on

articles of . beneath higher standard designed for the stances could be given of the ways naval promotions is the name

Capt. A. H. Walker, who has beca formation of the strata

rather in which the League and Its affliat promoted to Rear Admiral. Capt. the soll had facilitated the dis- gratification of the mind ed organisation, the International Walker was until recently Commodore covery of valuable minerals, and than for the satisfaction of the

in Hongkong.

had also enabled underground needs of the body. Labour Office, have already render-

streams of water to be detected Everywhere people are devoting el signal services to humanity, ser- Through taking an overdoso, of with more accuracy than was over more and more of their attention vices which before they came into opium, Cheung Wing-yeung, a shop possible by the old divining rod, to the pleasures of life. There is

coolic, of 151 Second Street, was

ever-increasing volume Sparton Model 12. A most attractive console with being would not have been possible taken to the Government Civil es- Indeed, as an exposition of the an

conference by holiday trains and by ships; the man allempted to commit suicide. proceedings of the

д distinct cinemas and "talkies" continue to butt walnut control panel and the care and settlement of the Bilal yesterday. It is suspected that claims of science to nerve man the pleasure-travel by motor vehicles,

Imay be regarded as

multiply; vast crowds gather to pleasing design. Has a remark-millions of refugees rendered home-

The winning numbers in the raffles success. able five tube Superheterodyne less by the war, the prevention of

Incidentally, however, a bigger watch games and race-meetings; recently organised by the Police Branch of the KW.G, and M.C.L. question Was chassis with Pentode and Screen sweated labour in mines, the con-

raised, namely, while increasing thousands of Grid tubes and rectifier filter trol of drug smuggling, and so on. Tuber 31, won by Bliss Joan Dredge: science to man have on balanes to the old English hobby of gar- are follow: "Jill and her Bed" whether the servicen rendered by people devote big slices of the day system. The entire chassis is

these things aru concrete baby's dress, won by ticket number brought to him good or harm. dening, which Bacon described as completely shielded and includes Ali

113, Mrs. O'Connor.

Harmful Developments

"the purest of human pleasures” an antenna compensating con- achievements, not the blather of a

That some modern develop and "the greatest refreshment to denser Beautiful tone quality and talking shop. How have they been

Dr. Walter L. Barnes, medical a marvellous performance. brought about? What the officer with the United States Public mente have been distinctly harm the spirits of man."

Health Service, arrived here by the ful few people would deny. For Work and Play Height 33 inches.

Width 23 League that it has been able to at- President Taft. lfe is being trans- example, the invention of polson By some persons this tendency inches. Depth 10% inches. tempt them? What is the power ferred to the Hongkong office, re-gaa has added to the horrors of to prefer play to work is con- Weight 40 pounds.

that has enabled it to succeed? The leving. Dr. Rubina, who will assume war to an extent which is as yet demned on religious grounds, but

the vacant post in Manila.

only partly realised. So also has it dificult to understand why. answers are that the League is tho

the invention of the aubmarine, Is there anything more morally Demonstrations & Sales.

nations of the world consulting and between Mr. James Dawson Parkinson War fully showed.

The wedding will shortly take place as the experiences of the Great ennobling in forging a horseshoe than in hitting a cricket ball? We working together for a common electrical engineer, of the China purpose, and its power is the vast Light Power Co., and Miss Olive May Even such developments as the do not come into the world simply school teacherr of Keying- motor-car are not purely beneficial. to work and to die, and we must force of world opinion.

ham Hall, York, who is en route for The noise of some motor-cura is a give to science credit for having distinct public nuisance, and the expanded our opportunitica for Hongkong by the .s. Comorin.

death-dealing capacity of care-leisure and for play. many friends of Mr. H. A. lessly driven ears has created a Nor is the increased leisure of The Lammert, who has been a patient of now risk to human life. Nor can mankind occupied solely with play, the Victoria Hospital for three months

we forget that the aeroplane, As the need for persistent hard will be glad to fearn that he is now with the wonderful service that work to earn the nccessaries making excellent progress towards recovery. He has been able get out of it offers to man, is also a power-life declines, so do people, be- doors for a brief period during the ful weapon for the destruction of longing to the educated classes. life and property' in time of war. turn their minds to mattera which past two days.

Beyond these particular ex-have for them no commercial Chan Po-man, aged 20, a student amples of the dangerous results value but a vivid intellectual in- Association of King's College, was taken to the of some modern inventions, there terest. The British Government Civil Hospital yesterday arises the more general question itself provides outstanding evid- suffering from injuries received by of the effect of scientific progressence of this fact. being assaulted, it is alleged, by upon the personality of the human Scientific research is a splendid nther student outside the college in

bring no Broadly speaking, the occupation.. It Bonham Road. The victim's condl-being. than was not considered to be serious. tendency of modern developments pecuniary reward to the individ-

is to aubstitute the work of the ual, but it keeps kls mind The Peninsula Hotel is presenting machine for the work, of man. good deal moro effectively busy.

the workman,, than does a game of bridge. another of their enjoyable symphonic This means that concerts on Sunday next, and as will instand of doing a job with his On balance, then, we are justl- be seen from the programme which own hands, guided by his own fled in welcoming the advances appears in the advertising columns brain, has simply to stand and that science has made; but that to-day, there is a good variety of instrumental numbers which should watch a machine do the work. afford a splendid evening's entertain- ment.

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It has been well said that the Lengue cannot be the enemy of any nation. It is the servant of every nation. It is like a powerful OSMUND-At her residence, No. 1, 'engine waiting to perform any task Liberty Avenue, Ilamuntin, at U that is required of it, and the more p.m. yesterday, Maria Honorinn Damund, beloved wife of Arthur work It`is given the more powerful, Frederick Osmund, aged 19 years, it will become. Hitherto its posi Funeral will pass the monument

Shanghai tive achievements have been com- at 5.30 p.m. to-day, and Macão papers please copy. paratively small, but there ard great human wants which it can satisfy as well as it has satisfied the small. If the opinion of the world, is in favour of disarmament the League can bring it about that the nations disarm. If the world cries out for peace the League can ensure that its cry is answered. But until that opinion la formed, until that cry is uttered, the League is

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1932.

THE LEAGUE AND IT'S CRITICS

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powerless. Public opinion is the very motive power of the League, which it can no more oppose or pre-, cede than a locomotive can oppose the steam in its boller.

Jefferson,

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s no reason why we should sit The world doubtless galus in down placidly to endure the Imany ways by this change. All specific evils that have accom- Binds of commodities whch con-panied these advances. For An absorbing lecture on "Biology tribute to the comfort of life can ample, why should we put up with

was delivered before be obtained at less cost, and can the cure of noise arising out inducation Society of the Hong be quickly released when they motor trafic. It is true that oven kong University last evening by Dr. wear out.

of

the worst of modern motor

It has become almost the fashion nowadays, especially amongst the ill-informed and the cynical, to

G. A. C. Herkluin, the Reader in But how about the individual vehicles probably makes less nolau Biology at the University, In the ¡fling cheap criticisms at the League

course of which he outlined the workman? He has lost the pride than an old horse-wagon with fron of Nations. Chlef amongst the

advantages to be obtained by a study and the joy of turning out a plece tyres paseing over a rough cobble of natural history, and gave much jof skilfully finished manual work. (pavement. ja that the League jibes is

But that is no argument for "Forms of Things Unknown".

Inatead of being master of his own i helpful advice.

motor-cycles to go little other than a "talking shop"

A now quest has been found for

job he has become the slave of permitting

and If you like sheer force and the machine. That this change roaring through our towns, where statesmen who would he the Sherlock Holmes in us all. It buffoonery, you should make a point must tend to produce a artain even along, quiet country lanes, better employed In looking after consists of trying to guess the of seeing The Love Race" tho

mental deterioration without a silencer. Similar con- their affairs at homo spend pleasant circumstances, tastes and life his- British film now showing at the amount of

Queen's Theatre. Stanley Lupino Reems inevitable; and to that ex-siderations apply to other forms weeks beside the beautiful Lake of tory of someone whose contact heads the cast, and ho is a scream tent the progress of science must of modern noise. They are not a Geneva exchanging banalities and with us is only through what he or from start to finish. Jack Hobbs is be accepted as an injury to run-necessary adjunct of modern ma- chinery; they are the result of a entertaining one another to dinner. she has done. An industrious sol- an excellent fail for his witticisms, kind.

while the feminine parts are also very More Pleasure

lack of appreciation of the value Quite one of the funniest This type of criticism usually ver of cross-word puzzles has apably taken.

But does this injury in practice of quiet, plied this method in the columns British films shown in Hongkong, and emanates from those who novor of The Times to the author of a

affect a very large section of the Advancement of Man one not to be missed.

The scientific offorts of to-day have given a moment's thought to set of literary conundrums pro-

should be directed to a removal the real accomplishments of the pounded In that journal. "We are League, and who seemingly have convinced," he says, "that he is a mid- no disposition to do so. One of the clergyman or bred in

the troubles is, as Lord Cecil has point-Victorian

rectory-hence

ed out, that the League possesses anagrams; that he was at Win- which chester, not Eton, read Hamlet for! certain characteristics differentiate it from all other this School Certificate, went to Ox-

ford, where he acquired

a taste political organisms and which

for Tennyson, Clough and Spen- render it particularly liable to cer. Thereafter he lived in Lon- criticism and controversy. Chiefdon, enjoyed private theatricals

of these are its youth and what and clerical or legal dinner par- muy be termed ita fluidity.tlos, and suffered greatly from Different people hold different barrel organs. He has now retir- viewa not only of what it ought to ed to the country, where hunting be, but of what it is. This uncar. and gardening both bore him, his tainty-may be explained in part interests being cricket. He is a Conservative who calls himself a from the fact that it is still in pro Liberal; has a son or a brother in cess of growth and is unencumber-India and a daughter in revolt." Led by the mass of rules and preco- with this as a pattern, it might dents which control and define the be easy to deduce that the cross- functions of the older politieal as word solver himself has brown eyes to explain Celtic Imagina- semblies.

Let us look for a moment at somation; that he is a bachelor with £10,000 invested In British Coa- of the accomplishments which stand gals to account for his engaging to the credit of the League. To ingenuousness. Membership of a quote Lord Cecil again, apart from smart club in Piccadily, varnish- Ita major business of preventing ed shoes and two shaves a day a matter of wars-and it has already prevented seem to follow as

a number-tho League has atrendy course. The game of make-be- a record of achievement to its love may thus go on indefinitely credit which has made an immense like the imagination of Theseus in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer- difference to the happiness of

Night's Dream" which "bodies millions of people throughout the forth the forms of things world. If the League had not ex-known." It is a harmless pursuit, uted it is probable that typhus, though not equal to atick-whittling Mapa pain parpellant and dondisetas a real stand-by.

14-18

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always

myself, ask

which Garbo bo crazy about.”

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of any ill effects arising out of the scientific progress of yesterday.

If this can be done there will ibe full justification for the opin- Richard fons expressed by Sir Gregory In his address urging that scientific teaching should be given to young people. He went so far as to say that scfonce has Whether "an aesthetic value."

little that is true to-day. la a doubtful; but it might certainly be true to-morrow if the con-

of trollers

scientific progress would take care that full. atten- tion is given to the aesthetic as well as to the mechanical sides of human life.

We could then safely claim that the progress of science meant not the decay but the advancement of man.

WANG CHING-WEI'S FUTURE

GIVING UP POLITICS "FOR PRESENT

Shanghai, Oct. 14.

It is learned from reliable Bourcos that Mr. Ching-wal has decided to proceed to France for la change, by the end of the month. It is undorstod that the Loftist leader has boon advised by his doctors to take a complate rost for a porlod of three months, and that afterwards he should proceed somewhere for a change of climate.

Mr. Wang has decided to give up. lin political life for the time being.

Reuter