1936-01-27 — Page 18

THE HONOKONG Telegraph, Monday, January 27, 1036.

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"PAGE MISS Page Miss Glory-Fax Trot Plain Old Mefox Trot

Jan Carber & His Orchestra. GLORY"

WAR PENSIONS To all the fighting nations in the Great War it soon became Rudy Vallee & His Orchestra. evident that, no matter which side might gain the victory, all "ACCENT ON YOUTH"

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Cheek To Check-Fox Trot 'Isn't It A Lovely Day-Fox Trot.. Eddy Duchin & His Orchestra. Top Hat-Fox Trot Piccolino

her infinite wisdom nature has placed this passion's

potency second only to hun ger; thus ensuring the con- tinuation of the race.

We call it love: we are its instrument. At least, most of us allow ourselves to be.

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There are, of course, other considerations to tempt people Into matrimony.

"

mistake

to marry

make a

It is beginning to occur to most of the few civilised people now resident in Great Britain that marriage is altogether too no easy and divorce cruelly too cking out to be done on a wage difficult. I foresee the day when that never will increase, and only the very best of people possibly might suddenly cease physically and mentally will be altogether.

permitted to marry.

marriage when there was

by WALTER She sees the furnituro and

GREENWOOD

who paid damages of £700 to Miss Alice Myles, the "inspiration" of the play that brought him suc- cess-"Love on the Dolo"-in

settlement of the breach suit sho

brought against him.

Imagine it: Two young people furnishings that

with not the slightest know- once were so ex ledge of themselves, let alone citingly new now of the other party to the mar shamed to insig-

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nificance by the rage and of the wide world in which they are about to embark, latest temptations in brilliantly-lit assuming the responsibilities of

a home and a family. ahop windows. And sho knows it ofton is useless A friend of mine said to me pleading with him, recently that he never can see since all the en- two young people in this pre- thusiasm of early, dicament without fervently hop- married life has ing that their sensibilities, are

mercifully blunt.

gone.

They marry because they are lonely. They marry to escape the intolerable stagnation of their home and the tyranny of relations; some women to escape the stigma of spinster- hood. And in both sexes mar- riages have been known to occur for the most sordid of all motives: that of money.

When I refer to marriage the late Rudolph Valentino. English form is implied, to the frantic demonstrations at his legal obligations of which the funeral by thousands of married I should say that the most ous substitute that successfully slightest consideration is never women were not a flattering satisfactory marriage would be masquerades under love's name. given until the man and the testimonial to the power of their that when both parties enter See a man or woman fren- woman find they would like to husbands' personal appeal. into it with the utmost reluc- ziedly consumed by the disgust- extricate themselves from its

tance, with a deep respect for ing and atavistic impulse of consequences.

each other, with a full recogni- jealousy, and immediately their The fact that familiarity

These bickeringa, quarrels, tlon of the immense obligations, conduct will be condoned on the sometimes breeds contempt is and disenchantments are not, and, most important of all, with grounds of "love." not appreciated until the dis- of course, the fault of marriage, an income adequate to their As though love could ever be enchantment consequent on see- but rather the fault of bad man- needs.

jealous. Ing one's hero snoring with his ners, intolerance, and too high- mouth wide open or one's hero. expectations. inc rising dishevelled from

Love is not for everybody; If you elevate a person on to a riage to survive the test of on the contrary, it is for the sleep paves the way for the pedestal yours should be the poverty. The test of two people very select few, and if in its marital bickerings which seem blame when experience reveals having to live together in the essence it is not comprehensive so amusing to those who haven't that person's proper stature. same to put up with them.

house is often strain its name has been taken in vain. If you expect honeymoon pas- enough.

It is to be found only in the Even Mr. Bernard Shaw, one less, it is free, and altogether. truly noble nature-it is bound- But most of the most courteous and lovely. It rescues us from the

It would stem that where matri- I felt it would be rough luck And which, by the way, con- mony is concerned-or anything on both parties if my friend's tribute to the universal popu- else in human affairs, for that fervent hope was not fulfilled. larity of auch dream men as the matter-common sense is about

The the last thing used.

We have only to look around us to see the pathotically spuri-

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sions and charms to last for ever you are a fool.

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It is not fair to expect mar-

nor the floods drown it.

would suffer a terrible after NOTES OF THE DAY of us do not realise that very kindly of men, has on his own earth--it is a light that shines Accent on Youth Fox. Trot Ridin' Up The River Road-Fox Trot..Jan Garber & His Orchestra. math in the form of disabled

soon we shall all be dead, and confession to segregate himself ja-the face and in the eye. men, widows thrown on their "TOP HAT"

that every birthday sees another from his wife during those CANCER RESEARCH own resources,' and children

year added to our age.

hours he devotes to his profes- Great waters cannot quench One of the most difficult problemis rendered orphans in consequence confronting British medical author-

We fall so easily into the error sion. of the war.

In 1917 the British ities to-day is that of cancer, which of high expectation of our own Government began to prepare is responsible for a relatively high martyrdom and of believing that for the trakic conditions await-percentage of deaths every year, we were born for happiness. but, as this ing many of the war's victims, Students of medical research are Maybe we were,

devoting a considerable amount of world goes, what we expect and and the Ministry of Pensions time and inbour to the cause of what we receive are two differ- was inaugurated. The practi-the disease. Though the problem ent things, cal assistance rendered by the remains unsolved much has been Ministry has been a great boon nual report of the British Cancer number of fools in these islands.

accomplished, and the twelfth an- Carlyle's computation of the to millions of people. In the Campaign, which was recently pre does not require modification.* case of many, war pensions sented in th House of Lords, is have heen the sole means of U encourt ing record. Apart

from the many achievements- animals afflicted with cancer-it is

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On A Sunday Afternoon-Fox Trot

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One can only sigh regretfully James Watt Took Place

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So said James Watt, the in- ventor of the steam engine, who was born a hundred years ago- last Sunday.

Like most great men Watt was a man of rare modesty; he was con-

achievements.

James Vatt Was born In

have served to improve the conditions and to 'brighten the satisfactory to note that interest in tent to Tritter away their days lives of those who directly or rapidly increasing, and many more fortune, for their ship to come

this branch of medical study is waiting for a sudden access of "I see no choir of angels. tinually under the temptation of indirectly suffered from the students are directing their ener-in, when possibly happiness—' I see an instrument, a under-estimating his abilities and wounds of war. The extent of ties into the field of cancer generally invisible stands by thing of angles and sides, the work of the Ministry of search. During the your the Can- their side..

levers, joints, valves, strains, Greenock on January 19, 1736. Pensions may

cer Campaign has made grants for The spinster envies the mar- estimated research amounting to £32,000.ried woman's home; and often and stresses. I build accord- Like many men who subsequently from the fact that forty per These grants have aided in determ-the married woman says, "If ing to the laws of science. nchloved fame he was an indiffer cent. of the men who served inning several new factors concern- ing the identifiention of the agents

only had my time

over You may talk about the ent scholar and was considered by the war have received compen-which have the over to use again I'd never get married." heavenly tones of flutes. his school mates to be a dull, un-

Inspiring fellow. sation from the nation, either cancer, and the ways and means And she looks backward to For my part, I measure with directly or through their of its growth. A serum has been those carefree days before her this foot rule and with this produced which kills cancer cells to uncombe, and, the twenty-seven million caliper and I draw these dependents. The total expendi- outside the body, under laboratory mostly fools.Latter-day Pamphlets.") ture on pensions from the conditions. Having reached this boginning of the War to the end of next March, the close of the financial year 1935-36, will have amounted to £1,192,000,000. In 1920-21, which was the peak year, the total number of

the beneficiaries-men, women and children-was 3,500,000. During that

stage, the next step is to adapt the terum so that it will work success- results have been obtained through fully within living bodies. Good

special methods of using X-rays, though the methods have not yet effected complete extermination. A scheme has been evolved to form a Clinical Cancer Research Com- mittes, which will work in close association with the teaching hos- pitals. Such a plan should prove extremely fruitful, for it will en- able all observations and records to be mobilized for the benefit of research workers,

year, the expenditure WAS £106,000,000 and the staff employed by the Ministry numbered 30.000. Since the year 1921 the Ministry's work. has diminished as its liabilities have gradually decreased, but shared in the maintenance and the Ministry still ranks high education of 1,750,000 children, among the spending Depart-the number at present recóiving ments. During the current. year help being about 26,000. Some the expenditure is estimated at of the education grants have approximately. £42,000,000; the enabled children to pass on to beneficiaries number 1,006,000;

secondary schools, and the staff, including those in

technical the Ministry's hospitals, total

colleges and universitics-which four thousand. Those on the they would otherwise have found pension list. Include more than it impossible to do. Apart 400,000 men who suffered dis-from the granting of pensions abilities, their average ago being and allowances, the Ministry forty-seven years; 120,000 maintains ten hospitals in vari- widows; and 240,000 parents of

men killed in the war, whose ous parts of Great Britain for age is now on an average about men still suffering from

war

70 years. An important part wounds. Besides the resident of the Ministry has been the patients, some 140 ex-Service] guardianship of many children men are admitted weekly for of ex-Servicemen. In this res-treatment to Ministry hospitals, pect the Ministry has worked in clinics and other establishments. close association with voluntary All in all, the Ministry's record local organisations in all parts is one of which the nation and of Great Britain; they have the Empire may well feel proud.

*A Parliament speaking through reporterall

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"Look on the society page and see if you can find out

whero

was last night."

This was probably due to his exception in his list of defects as feeble health; but there was one n scholar-even at an early age he showed a high aptitude for mathematics and he was at all times extremely deft with his fin- gers. This mathematical aptitude and his cleverness with his hands was inherited from his father and grandfather.

After a short spell of business. in London, Watt tried, to open a shop in Glasgow but was prevented by the Incorporation of Hammer- mon on the ground that he had not served a proper apprenticeship. Fortunately some of the pro- fessors at Glasgow University were more far-seeing than the hammermen and they secured Watt's appointment as maker of mathematical Instruments to the University.

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In the course of his duties he had a model of Newcomen's engine to repair and was at once: struck with its possibilities and its de fects. He noted in particular its enormous consumption of 'etoam. He then entered upon a period of intenso scientific Investigation of the properties of steam.

Perhaps the most dramatic mo... ment of his career, was one Sun- day afternoon early in 1765.

Ho was walking on Glasgow Green brooding upon his peronnfal problem of the properties of ateam, when the Idea flashed upor him that if the steam were con- densed in a vessel distinct from the cylinder it would be possible to make the temperaturo of con- densation low and still keep the cylinder. hot.

That moment was probably the birth of the modern era of steam and all that it has meant for the Industrial prosperity of the world..