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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1932.

SYNCHRO MESH

DAY BY DAY

that we shall have to turn to see how the situation is to be straigh- | tened out. It was recently said of the aged President that he alone could claim to have a majority of the electors behind him, but

WE SHOULD MAKE THE SAME USE against that submission we have

OF A BOOK THAT THE REE DOES OF A FLOWER; SHE STRALS SWEETS the fact. demonstrated at the FROM IT, BUT DOES NOT INJURE IT.—

FAULTLESS GEAR CHANGE to attempt to govern a desperate

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WHAT DO YOU OWE TO YOUR PARENTS?

By T. S. DENHAM

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HE brilliant young man who generations, and the youngsters of

und the beautiful young girl whose with tails as perfect as those of typhoid and one case of meningitis good looking are known to all of point on which many famous biolo

During the week-end, two cases of mother and tatner ars xar from the original ancestors. It is 4 were reported to the local health us. Yet the young man owes his gists are working, but the general. authorities.

brilliancs to his parents, just as expoctation is that they will prove the beautiful girl owes her looks nugative. Prof. K. H. Digby will give an ad.to her mother and father. This dress to the Hongkong Univeralty question of inheritance is still class of inheritable qualities, There is another interesting Medical Society to-morrow

at 5.16 something of a mystery, but, from those that you owe to your mother, Some Tendencies in surgery as seen p.m. in the Union Assembly Room on very tangled skeis, scientists are but which she does not know. A during a visit to Canada and Eng-ginning to sort out one or two mother passes these qualities to land,"

threads, and they are giving us a her sons, and in the way they fascinating story in the process, may akip a generation--an awk- Men have always realised that word and misleading thing, since the carliest records show that . They includo colour-blind- there is such a thing se heredity. the qualities are disadvantage-

creature was a separate creation, plaint haemophilia, the men never imagined a newly-born light, and that distressing com- neas, inability to see in a faint

sufferer only accidentally like its parents. from which is likely to bleed to But as soon as mon began trying 'death from a minute cut, because The organisers of the dance held at to explain or to foresee what the Peak Club in aid of the M.C.L. child would inherit they became not ordinarily occur

the blood will not clot. It would funds, wish to express their thanks to involved in a maze

anyone the Committee of the Peak Club, the contradictions.

of apparent that a perfectly normal woman The members of the Cheere Band, and muscian produces a child that is sons. But wo

brilliant could pass these defects to hor all friends who helped to make the deaf to the beauty of sounds: the daughter of an afflicted man can know that, the evening a success.

frail wife has a huge son of im- and does pass them on to her

| Intest election, that the people do | Colton

not approve of the technique of government which he has brought into being by creating the von Papen regime. Hindenburg's idea seems to have been to manage Parliament through selected Ministers who should mould rather than interpret ita will. But

nation amid economic chaos, with- out a party and against an over- As a result of falling down an air- decisive whelming majority, seems like at yesterday, a man named Chan Ming, shaft at 82, Des Voeux Road Central effortless steer- tempting the impossible. More-aged 22 years, sustained injuries smooth instantaneous over, as we have remarked, the Government Civil Hospital for treat his head and was later taken to the more room popular vote has clearly shown mont. super springing.

that it has no Ilking for the von lower body lines. . Sweeter performance

Papen concept of government, fact

There can be no doubt that the everything a light Six can give

yot the saloon (with von Papen Ministry would wish to sliding roof costs only £295.

carry on the nation's affairs on a baste which Is 'in direct conflict with democratic principles. Even quite recently a scheme was out

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A Chinese woman passenger of the mense strength. Inheritance children. overboard on Sunday whilst the things in an erratic world. 8.8. Kinshan is stated to have jumped seems to be one of the most erratic One particular inheritance, lined for the creation of a kind of

wobbing of the toen, has been A child may seem to owe every- found to pass only in the male line, thing to one parent or to the other, from father to son. Here, in my Second Chamber which would

control exaggerated Parliamen.cfects were handed over to the police. it may seem to owe a little to event, we cannot blame the wo-

both, or it may bear no tarianism"-a, phrase which pos-

resem-¡man! Remanded

blance to either. Again, it may from yesterday,

Many people are prejudiced sibly means any Parliamen-Chinese charged with

have some quailty or feature that against the study of heredity be- tarianism which did not fall in possession of an automatic pistol and belonged to its grandparents and cause, they complain, it all deals nine rounds of ammunition at 22, was not-to all appearances-pre- with abnormalities. We try to with the dictator's ideas. A fur- Pokfulam Road, was this morning sent in its parents. On the other and out whether colour-blindness ther plan put forward was the

sentenced to nine months' imprison hand, somo pronounced family is transmittable, and do not worry disenfranchisement of

ment by Mr. Kennedy Skipton at the feature, like the famous Hapsburg about a gift for painting. This is A large Central Police Court. number of young people by rais-

chin, may appear generation after merely because doctors and scien- generation, in spite of continual tists have more chance of study- ing the voters' age-limit from Canosalan Institute (Italian Convent)

The Superioress and Sisters of the out-marriages.

ing abnormal persons, just as they twenty to twenty-five years. This wish to thank Mrs. Wellington for chance. It is certain that there than health. Good qualities are But heredity is not a matter of are more concerned with sickness is part of a scheme which was bazaar; to Dr. Wellington, the Hong Jare laws governing inheritance Just na inheritable as bad ones.

kindly presiding at the opening of the forecasted some little time back, kong Electric Co., Mr. A. Vannini, the even of the most complicated kind,

Whatever you may owe to your and which the von Papen Govern-Acrated Water Factory, Sincero Co. sealed book, Marvellous things certain that you cannot alter the King's Dispensary, the Britannia although these laws are as yet a

parents, and whatever you may ment was anid to intend to realise Morita & Co., Chung ling store for have been discovered in experi-inheritance by "taking thought."

pass on to your children, it by decree, trusting to the retroa- of the English and Chinese papers and ments with the lower animals and Wishing and regretting will have pective approval of a new Reich- the able band of the St. Louis In- plants when many generations no effect whatever. But you have otag.

It was even hinted that un- solections, Grateful thanks also to Observation of human attributes warned in fore-armed. In spite of dustrial School for their beautiful, can be produced in a few years. one

big responsibility. Fore- der this plan every father and all two contributed towards the points to the fact that, although heredity, we are reasoning beinge, mother over forty would enjoy a

vaatly more complicated In many and excepting.mental deficiency, plural vote: Such # fantastie

jcasen, inheritance is still on the tendency is not a compulaten. I franchise, it hardly needs to be down the wall.

same lines and follows the same may have inherited a bad quality I ahall buy with laws. pointed out, would decimate the my gold. And when I have goods, What exactly do we owe our I know the extatence of the ton- and may pass it on to my son. But which emerge from the German munists and Socialists alike. But cannot live unto himself." To-inherited from their parents. The learns to control himself. I can

Amongst the many other facts voting ranks of the Nazis, Com-I will exchange goods for goods, parents? We can inherit what is dency to, shall

servicen for services. For a man inherent in our parents-what temper, and I can take steps from Wo any bad- elections is fresh proof that the it would aurely be a foolish ex-

they were born with, and in turn the earliest days to see that be people have no use for the von periment, helping to confirm youthed by the nations. Many are still cause often we do not, sometimes temper-but I can show him how day this falle is being enact stress is on the word "can," be-not prevent him inheriting the Papen regime. This has been in its idea that. In revolution lies building their tariff walle. Many to our loss, and sometimes to our to avoid the disadvantages that shown in unmistakeable fashion. its hope. The crisis which We thus have a position created now arisen is, indeed, full of dan-faction the high barriers to com- our parents have acquired during the tendency is there, then a visit

has are viewing with declining satis-gain..

But do we inherit qualities which aame with colour-blindness. If often accompany it. It is the in which the Government of the gerous possibilities. It will need mercial Intercourse which they their lifetime, as day cannot by any possible cir- the most careful and most states- already have built. Some have those which they inherited from certain occupations such as artist, distinct from to a specialist, and the banning of cumstance secure a majority in manlike handling. Let us hope begun to realize that such "protec- their parents? Most experts be-engine-driver, and chauffeur, are the Reichstag. Even calling all that the

tion" tends not merely toward lleve that these "acquired quali-indicated. its possible allies together, it senac and balance of the German intellectual isolation and interna-heredity. If a man la maimed in our parents. But we need not be commercial stagnation, but toward tica" cannot be passed on by We cannot ignora what we owe would still be in an altogether people will, by some means not tional bitterness. They are learn- these defects to his children. On parents may

an accident, he does not pass on slaves to our inheritance. helpless minority. But if this is apparent at the moment, come to ing that national well-being obtain the other hand, some believe that pounds-but you can build up a trun of the von Papen administra- the rescue of their distressed and ed behind walls may prove

leave you a few tion, it is so in a lesser degree in troubled country.

to certain acquired qualities can be fortune, in the physical and men be of a most transitory nature. made hereditary, at any rate after tal sense, and your children will the case of all the other parties.

In a world where invention is a few generations. If, ur

inat benefit. After the July election, there was

offering unlimited possibilities of underground, after

ance, a number of people worked a distinct possibility of the Nazla

A Fable of Walls

communication, and in which, as a they would find it easier to seo in, Some years and Centrists forming a coalition.

result, peoples are learning how semi-darkness, and it has boen Once upon a time there was an If they had done so, they could artisau. Many and beautiful were

much they have in common, it is contended that after a few genera- have commanded a small majority his wares.

not too much to predict that even an aptitude for seeing in the semi- tions children would be born with And great was the the most prosperous countries will darkness.

STALEMATE AGAIN.

traditional common-

in the Reichstag; now, owing to desire of all peoples for them, so soon be saying in their hearts the set-back which Hitler has re-that men came from far and near "A nation cannot live unto itself."

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But after a while many of them to buy. At first they paid in gold, had not sufficient gold. Therefore, they said to the artisan: "Take the work of our hands, we pray thee, in exchange for the work of thy hand." The artisan was loath to do this. Yet he saw that he could not refuse sa retisonable à request. So he said: "I shall build a wall. What- wall, those will I accept in payment soever goods can be lifted over the for my wares." Then began the artisan to build. And he said in

ceived, such a combination is an impossibility. Nor can the Com- munists and Socialists unite, for, despite the fact that they polled some thirteen million vates, their combined party strength is totally insufficient to secure a majority. The stalemate which bas sulted presents Germany with problem of much complexity. In- deed, it is not too much to say that the country's democratic. par- liamentary, republican post-war his heart: "I shall build high, no Constitution is in the balance.

high that they who come to buy will How will the puzzle be solved?

be able to send nothing but colns The von Papen regime may seek goods." When the wall was finished over my wall in payment for my to rely once again on pure die the artisan cried: “Come and buy." tatorship, arguing that constant But those who would buy could not appeals to the people produce no ft their goods over the wall. So definito result. But the logical the artiann said: "Send, then, less answer to this argument is that gold than formerly." But they re- von Papen and his colleagues have plied: "We have no gold." Then lese right than almost any other said the artisan in his heart: "I group to control the destinies of have much gold. I have much goods. I will enjoy my riches."

the nation. Hitler, for example, And ho anid to the others: "Come might well ask, if there is to be and let us talk and be merry

the

to-

a dictatorship, why he should not gother." But they said: "We cannot. bo at its head, seeing that his We must seek someone who will buy party is the strongest. Or oven our goods." So

artisan the Socialists and Communists was left to his own riches and his could lay claim to being more re being more than he could consume. own thoughts. And his goods ́presentative of public feeling than rotted. And his thoughts, being the von Papen clique. It is, how only his own, grew tiresome. Thon ever, to President Hindenburg he said in his heart: "I shall pull

had their tails removed for many On the other hand, mice have

"I was just trying to smooth things over with a littlo

baby talk when the brute struck me.".

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Your

SENSE AND NONSENSE

By ROBERT MAGILL.

you are a downtrodden worn like me, who dines out once

reasons.

in twelve months, you usually hate the waiter for several One is that his dress suit fits bet- ter than yours, and another is that a waiter can take one look at you and conelude that you have been saving up for months to get this. treat, and that to-morrow it will be bread and cheese and cocoa, as usunt. Wherefore you might like to know how to make the waiter hate you back.

First, don't let him select your table. True, it is his job to sort out the guests so that the better- looking ones alt in the middle where they can be seen, and to see that no woman sita near an other if their gowns clash. But this is a free country. Domand, In a loud voice, that tablo THERE. proferably if it is a tablo for two, and there are four in your party. This makes all the waiters in the place jump to it and upsets all their arrangements for the even- Ing.

Having ant down, look round superciliously and remark audibly that you hope nobody who knows you will come in and see you in a place like this, than sond for the hond waiter to ask why you'kive. a dirty tablecloth. You won't see much more of him during the oven- ing, so make the most of him now. By a judicious glance in the mirror you can work up a suitable aneer with which to scan the monu and inquire why thora in nothing eatable on it. If the waltor suggasta a dish, order some- (Continued on Page 4)