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"WHITE LABEL

THE SPIRIT

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936.

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HOPE this articlo will not bore my readers. Vitul statistics have been a favourite

of a bleeder. I and that the a low birth-rate before the other

hobby of mine all my life.) The Very Rev, disease was rare among women, countrica "began to limit their

W. R. INGE,

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Sir William Osler, who was numbers.

are

present, corrected me and said The exhortations of Con- We all know that people live

that women never had it. I did tinental militarists to produce much longer than they did a

not dare to bandy words with more cannon-fodder have not hundred or oven fifty years ago..

the great man, but in the Re- had any appreciable result. The D. D. In the year of my birth, 1860,

gistrar General's figures over denunciations of Roman Catholle the standardised death-rate in Heart disease now heads the three hundred female deaths are priests have had a slight effect,' England and Wales was about list in both countries, with can-put down to this cause in the but not nearly so much as might 20.5 per thousand; in 1933 it cer, unhappily, second. Dinbotes last ten yeara.

have been expected." was 9.8. This is not, as is has doubled in America, and The French harbour the delu- High birth-rates, are almost often supposed, because people increased very much in England. sion that the English are subject everywhere accompanied by high live to greater ages; it is be- Road accidents, which were not to a malady called the spleen, death-rates, but this is not Phone 24758, 27778, 27779, cause a far, larger proportion thought worth counting in which causes them to commit. enough to equalise the rate of live to be sixty. The greatest America in 1906, are now tenth suicide. The approaches to the increase everywhere; the coun- saving has been in the first year on the list.

Thames, we are gravely assured, trios with high birth-rates gain of life....

carefully watched, but slowly on the others.. I have before me the figures I have three points for the nothing" can prevent the National discouragement has of the 1930 census in the United doctors, many of whom do not melancholy Londoners from been a pathetically potent cause. States, which tell the same tale. seem to study statistics Ho throwing themselves off the of shortage of births. In Ger In forty years the expectation of eagerly

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FRIDAY, JAN. 3, 1936.

WORLD NAVIES ·

GROWING

The extent to which naval re- armament is proceeding at the present time is indicated in the

latest edition of "Jane's Fight- ing Ships," which shows that most foreign nations have laid down numbers of new ships dur- ing the current year and that

as I should

ENEMIES

1910

1920

1910

of LIFE

been

An actual decline in numbers. will probably, be registered in about five years from now. I should not regret this if we were confined to our own island, for a population of 750 to a square. inile is certainly congested. But

access to firearms and we have I can see no reason why we not.

should not colonise the vast The decline in the birth-rate emply spaces in our Dominions, la even more interesting and We had an unexampled piece important. I will not worry my of good luck in being allowed to readers with any more figures, annex North America and the There What are the chief enemies of there has been a parallel decline except to state that whereas the whole of Australasia.

in England. Clearly they now birth-rate in England and Wales are no other empty countries on. life, and how have they changed prefer to specify the immediate touched 36 in the late 'seventies, anything like the same scale.

We are throwing away this since the beginning of the cen- cause of death, the "small turn it is now between 14 and 16.

unique opportunity. We (as a tury? The changes in the last of the scale which sends to sleep

race) did not lose North Ameri- twenty-five years have been very aged bodies," as Euripides says. The decline began almost ca in the reign of George III.; remarkable. In America, ning But have.

they sufficiently everywhere about 1880, and has we have more than half lost it out of the twenty deadliest allowed for the effect of this-gone on very atendily. The chief now. The United States is no diseases have dropped out of the

British except in list, and the alterations in the change of practice in sending up exceptions, countries in which longer

the death-rate from cancer? the rate is stationary, are Japan, language, but a medley of every Of course, it does not account Egypt, and Palestine. Probably nation under heaven. As for for the whole increase, but it we should add Soviet Russia, Australia, its Inhabitants are may make that increase appear but I have some reason to think keeping It empty. For whom? more alarming than it actually that their figures are cooked. It is a thousand pities that we

The fall has been especially great are so short-sighted. It is cer in England and Sweden, and trin that we shall never have only slight in France, which had another chance.

order of the others have been very great..

others are projected. Details NOTES OF THE DAY

movement

among

is.

2. Why, when many people apeak as if insulin hud robbed diabetes of its terrors, do the

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

are disclosed of the immense United States programme now MINISTERIAL SALARIES in hand, which comprises 12| There is cruisers of 10,000 tons, three.big members of Parliament to induce deaths from this cause go on the Government to set up an inquiry mounting rapidly? A doctor aircraft-carriers, 64 Alotilla into the anomalies of Ministerial sent me a monograph in which leaders and destroyers, 12 sub-salaries, it is learned. Some mem- he suggested that the disease in marines and nine heavy sloops. bers have undertaken to make the later life is caused by over. SPEAKING from our refuge in going to the Divorce Court, or heaving matter the subject of a debate eating, for which reason it used issue a very solemn warning.

the bathroom, we want to last year's boots and shoes at each All these ships are now building The movement gains point by the to be considered a rich man's For the nonce we are Public for some years, have had some experi

other.

We, having had a ball and chain or authorised. The Japanese resignation from the Government disease; but now, he thinks, the Warner Number One. No con-enco in this sort of thing Navy is shown as being up to of Sir George Bowyer, Comptroller working classes eat too much.

I doubt whether, even now, nection with the people of the Wo remember the last time we were fuil Treaty strength. Its latest of the King's Ilousehold, In order to devoto more time to his..prisute, ships are six 8,500-ton cruisers, affairs. The salary, of the Comp- they can get much more food same name who make talkies, President of Court of Domestic President, only our wife caught us mounting the abnormal arma- troller cf the Household is £700, than is good for them, and the we having discovered them (the Relations. We would have still been ment of 16 6.lin and eight. Bin The Household appointments are richer classes are now temperate talkies), long before Al Jolson courting the maid servi

usually held by the three senior in cating. We seldom see the was married.

Anyway, people in our homɑ town guns. Photographs of new Government whips, who on appoint- bloated faces which look down

Our warning, Ah, Yes, were so happy that there used to be queueя outside our office every Japanese cruisers and torpedo ment have their salarlos as Lords upon us from the portraits of

Divorce, and domestic rela-morning. craft suggest a dangerous over- of the Treasury of £1,000 reduced our great-grand-fathers. There

to £700, while Junior whips become must be some other reason.

tions and all that sort of thing, One of our first successes was the loading with guns and topham- Lords of the Treasury at £1,000. 3. Some, years ago I was We don't like to think of all the case of Mr. and Mrs. Whalesteeth.

"Well," we said kindly, when they. per, an impression strengthened While the Socialist Government lecturing on eugenics at Oxford unhappy homes that will be broken by the capsizing of the torpedo- was in allice, a partial adjustment and I mentioned that haemo-Year resolutions that have been made, have you fools been up to now!"

this year as a result of the New entered the room,, "what the devil was made by the appointment of beat Tomodzuru last year. In one fewer of the Lorda in Waiting philla (bleeding) is generally so we have decided to constituls our-

"Well, it's this way," said the the French section are illustrat-from the House of Lords, and the transmitted by an apparently self into a Court of Domestic Rela ed for the first time the new saving effected was used three children. The wise man, there- Theroby you can settle all your little

healthy mother to her male tions, something like them that husband.

In the

United States.

"It's a horrid liel" said the wife. ment the salaries of the 7,600-ton cruisers and the huge Household, officers in the Commons, fore, will not marry the sister differences with the Mrs. Instead of

"Now, wait minute, wait x minute!" we said. flotilla leaders of the Fantasque class, one of which is credited | THEIR HOUSES IN ORDER with a speed of 45% knots-over

[

decide

Two political parties are prepar- 62 m.p.h. The French submering to set their houses in order. ine flotilla, by far the largest, in in Britain. Negotiations are pro- the world, now includes 91 boats, seeding between Lord, Stonehaven, the head of the Conservative Italy also is shown to be concen- Central Office, and Sir. Kingsley trating on submarines, of which Wood, head of the National she already has 83 built and Publicity Bureau, for, a' redistribu- building, including 12 begun this tlon. The Samuelité Liberals have tlon of functions or for amalgama- year. Further, she is building set up a commission to cruisers with a speed of 861% whether the, present organisation knots and a number of super- of their party is the best in present circumstances. The Conservative destroyers. Italy's entire mod-Bureau may be absorbed. In the ern navy now burns oll exclu- Central Office, but it is unlikely sively, and several of the older that there will be a combined. Contral Office for Conservative, ships are changing over from Simonite Liberal and National La- coal to oil. Many pages in the bour supporters of the Government. book are devoted to the new The Samuelito inquiry concern's not head- German Navy, and several new quarters in Abingdon Street, but

only the Parliamentary ship whose existence was not the National Liberal Federation, generally known are illustrated, and the local organisations through- Two years ago the total person-out the country. The Samuciltes have had an inquest on their fallure nel was 15,000, but it has since at the General Election. The result risen to 32,956. Vessels under will be an attempt to revive the construction include two 26,000 corpae instead of burying . The. commission of inquiry was at work ton battleships, armed with nine before Christmas. It is expected 11in guns; two 10,000-ton to produce a plan to remodel the cruisers with 8in guns, 16 super-machine in London," destroyers and many submar-|===

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Ines, including eight of ocean-1 expressly for the carriage of going size. So far as Britain is aircraft, although larger ships. concerned, the 'moat interesting have been adapted to that pur- disclosure relates to the new pose. In anti-aircraft defance, aircraft-carrier, Ark Royal, laid the British Navy appears to be down in September this year class fleets, foreign men of war

lagging behind all other first She proves to be a ship of 22,000 carrying from twice to three tons, and is thus the largest times as many anti-aircraft guns vessel in the world to be built as our ships.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"I'm just a rock. This da thọ third party I'vo feon'to this week."

"You leave the poor girl alone," said our wife.

"Who are you calling a poor girl," said Mrs. Walesteeth, indignantly. "But, we. commenced. "Shut up." wild our wife. "This is a ne way of conducting u court," soid Mrs. Whalestenth,

C.O.D. COMPLIMENTS (Dedicated to Doctors W. B. A.

Moore and R. M. Gibeon.): May congratulate you upon

your O.B.E.

An honour that I feel has

long been overdue And while upon the subject, I.

prithee pardoy the I'd feet housured if you would

accept “ay T.O.U..

"strikos me we would have settled thiriga quicker if we hadn't come hore" ve

"You're at liberty to leave whenever "you please," snapped the wife, coldly.. "Although I'm not a woman to talk, I could tell you a few things about yourself which would make even a woman like you blush.”

"Don't you talk to me

me like that." We got down off the bench and went across to Whalesteeth. "Come on we aald,

We got as far as the door when they both yelled at once, "Where are you

"Opt," we replied together.

And that was the end of the Court of Domestic Relations.

And the warning? "Ah, yes! We'd forgotten It. Don't marry whatever you do, and then there'll be nothing to settle ralations, domestica, bills, or anything else.

adjourned sine

The Court lad whatever that means.