1935-10-22 — Page 3

GALES

.IN BRITAIN

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1935.

Limitation Of Births Urged For

Picture shows damage done to the promenade al Wallasey during severe gales and high seas experienced along the cost of England last month, and now recurring.

Asiatic Countries

A PLEA TO OLD PEOPLE

Britain's Population Wars As Alternative Decreases With To Redistribution

Of Lands.

Expansion

A PLEA that the older half of the population must "make room" for the younger people was made by Sir Arnold Wilson, M.P., in a public lecture at the British Association meeting at Norwich last month.

His subject was "Science and Population Problems," and in regard to the population of India and China he said observers saw no alternative but conscious voluntary limitation of births.

BID FOR FAVOUR

Italy, Germany and Poland, where the numbers were in- creasing almost as fast as in Russia, he said, were feeling the internal pressure of popu lation on subsistence. Immigration into North or South America was barred to the inhabitants of those coun- tries and they

not were welcomed in any part of the

that they were physically and morally our equals.

INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY British Empire, yet they were

IN THE PHILIPPINES

conscious

Italians were welcomed France after the war, but were now being pushed out, with and eruelly. Their own land could not support them.

THREE-CORNERED DRAMA BEGINS, other aliens, futhlessly

Washington, Oct, 20.

A three-cornered drama of American dollars, Japan- ese merchants, and Chinese workers will commence in the Philippine Islands soon after the inauguration of the new Commonwealth government on November 15.

Introduction into office of President Manuel L. Quezon and Vice President Sergio Oseņa is likely soon to be followed by trade maneuvers on the part of the United States, Japan, and China, to obtain a favourable position in the rich commerce of the Islands.

Sir Arnold

"This," said. Wilson, is the hard case of the world's problem. Are we to dis- tribute the population, or are we to tell each nation to stay put and keep its population down?

"We of the British Empire- the Dominions-alone with the U.S.A. and Russia have under our flag the soil in temperato zones in wich Northern races can settle and live and expand.” He pointed out that in Britain

The 14,000,000 Filipinos, ambitious, progressive, politically adroit, have as their next door neighbours two of the most populous countrics of the world-Japan, whose 64,450,000 people have a density per square mile of 493; and China, whose 444,478,000 in eighteen pro-and was not sufficient even to re- vinces are crowded to 290 per square mile.

The Philippines with popula- tion density of 111, have barely commenced development of the immense mineral resources__in gold, copper, iron ore. chrome, the and other metals; while economic potentialities of rub- ber, coffee, fibres, and vegetable oils are great if permanent markets can be assured, Gold production alone now exceeds U.S.$10,000,000 annually.

As the Philippines Common wealth

for autono- preparca mous existence, preparatory to in- dependence ten years hence, her fundamental problem is to develop an conomy which will adequately support the future republic, while averting any possible aggression from abroad.

Economic Ties

A possible way to accomplish this, insular authorities here be- lieve, is to create economic ties be- the Philippines anîl the tween United States of such great com- mon Interest that this country will have a practical as well as moral in the security of the concern islands. Since there is continual ngitution here against imports of Philippine competitive farm pro- ducts, the problem for the islands. is to diversify production.

. The immense known deposits of gold, chrome, copper, and iron ore in the Philippines are a potential treasure-chest to American capital, while American interests long have contemplated rubber plantations in the islands, thus far uneconomic because of the land laws. The Ameri an investments in the islands now are little more than U.S.$260,- 000,000. A Filipino alliance with the dollar might in a few decades raise the total to U.S.$1,000,000,000, The Japanese merchants' acute Interest in the situation rises from recent strenuous attempts to cap- ture the islands' retail trade. The Japanese steadily gain in 'n field until recently largely occupied by Chinese and Filipinos.

In 1038, 72,000 Chinese mer- chants in the Philippines handled 299,118,000 pesos of retail trade; 56,000 Filipinos did 171,838,000 peson. In 1995, according to un- official estimates, Chinese, Japan- ese, and

Filipinos are running neck and neck.

SOVIET

ENDS

POSTCARD DIVORCE”.

Moscow, Oct. 1. Soviet divorce laws are to be tightened up.

Hitherto a husband or wife could apply to the Marriage and Divorce Bureau, pay a fee, and notify the second party by postcard that the divorce had taken place.

This will now be unlawful. The party to be divorced must first receive formal notification.

the population was nearly statie. for the birth-rate was still falling

place casualties. The expectation of life was not increasing corres- pondingly and could not do so.

What had happened? Was the decline in the birth-rate a reflex of our social and economic philo

Among the immediate sophy?

causea were;

Later date of marriages of

women.

Decreased fertility of women due to conditions of life in the large towns in which most of us in this country live.

-Decreased desire for children,

and

Growth, as a consequent, of | the decreased desire of volun- tary and conscious control of procreation.

Early Marriagos

We had to reckon with all these factors: taken together they meant that our population would shortly

notably proven the case in cotton be static and might decrease un- textiles.

China's Interest

con-

less something occurred to change the national outlook.

Legislation could not do very China has an active und

much to increase births, but it Buing interest in expansion of could, directly and indirectly, I commerce with the Philippines, al encourage healthy men and women ready shown by official studies and to marry, and marry early, and the sending of

quality rather consul-general produce

than with rank of minister to Manila quantity. last year.

In the light of history, i "I am not one of those," he said, however. China's great interest in "who believe that it is necessary to The Philippines would be to find an encourage the middle-class to have outlet for the migration of her more children and the masses to teeming millions. Throughout the have fewer. Spanish regime, Philippines im- migration was subject to numer

ous restrictions.

ACROSS THE

PACIFIC

Hongkang-built ketch “Romance”, has crosand the Pacific Ocean, and le reported all well approach- ing Victoria, B.C. Aboard are Captain E. P. Green, and son.

97 YEAR OLD

BRIDEGROOM Ethiopian Is

World's Oldest Language

"HE'S A RIP-SNORTER" CHARGES HIS WIFE

Southbend, Ind., Oct. 10. 1 76 year-old bride of one mouth in searching for her hus band, 97, with charges "the ot wildcat turned out to be a gada bout."

The aged couple, Mr, and Mrs. James Hatfield, married here in August, planned to spend their honeymoon in Kansas until the proom "kicked over the tracca,"

Mrs. Hatfield told police her husband had been missing several days and failed to support her

since their

authorities kuufing She ate marriage. the groom to travel 'in jaira.

"He's a rip-snorter," she ivarn- ed, "and - đàn't know his strength."--United Press,

Royal Honeymoon

In Surrey

On

THE Duke of Gloucester and

Lady Alice Montagu- Douglas-Scott are to live at Camberley. (Surrey) for the first year of their married life.

Lady Alice told this news in an interview at St. Pancras Station before she left for Scot- land shortly before the death of-her-father-the-Duke-of- Buccleuch. She added:--

"A house in Camberley has not yet been chosen, but it will not be a large establishment." "Have you yet become accustom- ed to the inevitable publicity that surrounds, a public personage?" Lady Alice was asked.

"Not yet," she answered with a rueful smile, "but I suppose I shall have to got used to it very soon.!

Lady Alice, who looked extreme- ly well, left St. Pancras to return to her Scottish home with the same nek of ostentation which marked her arrival.

Arriving at the station in a taxicab, she walked down the platform accompanied only by a porter wheeling her luggage. which included a number of new-looking millinera' and dressmakers' boxes. With the obvious intention avolding any chance of a

public demonstration, Lady Alice reached the station with less than four minutes to spare.

of

people rather, more liberally each "Let us all treat young married in our own factory and shop and home. Search them out, and "Environment is all import- make them feel that we recognise ant; heredity less 10, The that of all forms of production working-class stock in England that of healthy children is the is capable of providing in the most valuable,' The United States military future, as in the past, men and government of the Philippines. women of the highest quality. shortly after the occupation. In "Il-health due to unsuitable and We must face the fact," said 1898, provided that the Chinese ex- insufficient food, the consequence Sir Arnold in conclusion, "that in clusion acts in force In the United of ignorance as well as poverty, presont circumstances the price of Stutes should be made operative in has stunted the lives and cramped a certain amount of international the Philippines. Except former the development of more than it peace is the growth of internal realdents who left the islands be-has killed.

stresses within those countries

Curbing Expansion

ал

tween December 31, 1895, and "Legislation · and the power of whose population is developing in September, 1898, and such exempt Government is, I repeat, unable to numbers, in needs, and in ed classes as officials, students, and do much. Wo ourselves, volun-bitions. The longer we maintain merchants, Chinese were refused tarily of our own free will, can the territorial atatus quo tho permission to find in the Islands, do far more, each man and woman more certain and inevitable be- comes the expansion of pent-up forces.

Ban On Chinese

In his own sphere.

"And let us, who are the, older The United States thereby erect-half of the population, accept and ed a dyke against the large-scale put into practice the view that we Influx of Chinese which subsequent- must make room" for the younger ly was continued by the Philippines | people, Are we spending more on Insular Government. Numerous ourselves than we should, and: evasions have from time to time leaving less for those on been rumoured.

threshold of life?

Introduction of the plantation ayatem in the Philippines, or com- mercial negotiations between the Islands and Chinn, might enally

the

"Are we sufficiently generous in our attitude towards impro- vident young folk who marrying young, like many of

are

"Are we prepared to put tooth into Article 14 of the Covenant and to compel by sanctions, which means force, the acceptance of territorial adjustments whereby growing nations will be able to expand without recourse to' war into habitable land now unoccupied or only sparsely populated? "If not, there is no alternative

us did? Are we too censorious prospect before us but periodical

Japanese Supremacy Once the Japanese are able to establish their retail supremacy, they will be in a remarkable, post lead to a reopening of the Chinesoin our attitude towards those wars, the means whereby some- tion to

queation-United favour the products of immigration

who love too early and too nations grow and in growing push well? Japan Industries, as has already. Press.

others into the background.”

AND IS STILL CALLED THE "LANGUAGE OF

THE. FREE"

Washington, Oct. 10. Ethiopian is the oldest langu- age in that it has departed the least in its form from the original proto-Semitic, according to Dr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist of the Smithsonian Institution.

Even the Hebrew in which the Bible is written has gone u long road of development beyond cven the modern Ethiopian. Hidden away in the African Alps, this old language still sur- vives, uncorrupted by the cen turies.

OX.

are

the An-

Let us for instance take the name of the letter "a". This let- ter in its capital form still pre- serves to-day very much of its original pattern, which was that of a crude figure of the head of the The descending strokes at the bottom, of capital "A" horns of the head of the ox. cient Egyptian has a very similar symbol. The natives of central Celebes-have-similar-carvings-of- the head of the water, buffalo on the beams of their houses. Now the name of this letter and of the ox in the primitive Semitle, spoken

·6,000 B. C. is "all",

An-

So also with "b", the second letter of the alphabet. The name of the letter means house, and the form of the letter is a picture of a house. The ancient proto-Semitic word for house was "bect." cient and modern Ethioplan also has "best," whereas the Hebrew, even the Hebrow of the Bible, has already changed the word, to "beeth," ending with "th" instend of "L"

Ethiopia is the oldest Christian country, having been completely converted to Christianity at a date somewhere after 200 A. D. Tho Ethiopian literature is from the ancient times rich, consisting of Bible translations, prayer books, liturgies, and a wealth of docu- ments of every description. An- cient Ethiopian was spoken down to 1,600 A.D.,, when it broke up into modern dialects,

Ethiopia has been called from the first "lesaawa" tongue or langu- ago "go'eze" (of the free), that is, language of the free. Why this name was applied has never been known.

NO NEED TO

PUZZLE NOW

PRONOUNCING THE NAMES OF ETHIOPIAN TOWNS

London, Oct. f. The Evening Standard has given the English public some tips on how to pronounce Ethiopian

names....

Taking its information from.n standard guide published for the Permanent Committee on Goo- graphical Names for Official Use, this newspaper offers the follow- ing phonetic pronunciations DX. correct for all professing to speak the King's English. (Italicised lettera show' where the stress falls). Some of the more

Im- portant names are pronounced thus: Addis Ababa, Adoowan for Adowa, Makdalna for Magdala (a mount once stormed by the

and for. British), Tanna or

от Твадна Lake Tana. Ankobar for Ankobaг.. Gwojjam for Gojjam, Farar for Ilarar, and Ogaden for Ogaden.-- United Preas.

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