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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1037.

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CONVERSATION between a and a

"The man who discovers a cure for the common cold will "deserve, any honour we can give him," said the Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, eighteen months ago.

So far the cold wins. Nine people out of every ten catch at least one cold a year.

a Doctor

b c

buses, theatres, stuffy rooms, day you will be, botter. I And, telephones.. You might promise.

Lyen be called pampered by dis- D: Well, one thing I know, at respectful people, ・・・

least 50,000 people ought to

M: To a certain extent you're have done that to-day, instead of right. Do you remember that which they are just spreading explorer fellow, Lincoln Ells you all over the place. And as worth, who came to London a welt as infecting people round few weeks ago? He had spent them, their own work is only three years in the Antarctic and about half as efficient. I'm be came back bursting with health. ginning to feel a

sore throat But not for long. On November myself. 24 he arrived in London, 'on M: Just what I thought. November 24 he caught a cold- Remember now, if you must do

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·ICROBE: Well, I'm Middlesex Hospital found that And the same thing happened the heroic, go slow, just do the out. He admitted a week or to Mr. Andrew Croft, who came things that would worry you if quite willing to two back that inoculation was home

in:at

September after they were not done. talk to you.

I'm only "tinkering with the thirteen months in the Arctic. D (sing): You don't seem Stubbs Rd. not afraid of giving away

problem."

We like our little joke.

to think much of us human D: Yes. I remember now, the D: Yes, but one of these days beings. secrets. To start with, you workers, 350 of them over a laughing. For one thing, some a little respect for, but even he G.P.O. tried inoculating 900 we'll get you, and, then we'll be M: Well, there is one I have can't see me, and you don't three year period: but only recent experiments show that is as much at my mercy as-for know what I look like. All about 10 per cent. of them show- apparently colds can be cured instance-you are. I mean Pro- ed any improvement. I suppose in their early stages by going fessor. Dochez, of New York, you know is that I am the you were in on that.

up to ten thousand feet in an He and his assistants were the.. M: I was. I tell you one thing airplane. germ that gives you a cold. I find, since they gave us the

people who came to the con- M: H'm. There's probably clusion that I am a virus infec- Doctor (sniffing): Yes. All chance to go about it systema- nothing in it, you see. How- tion, one of those tiny little we know about you (and we're tically. Men seem to have ever, I'll give you a tip.

organisms by which a disease is not so very sure about that) is stronger resistance than women, EMPIRE MIGRATION that it would take ut

I don't mind telling you the transmitted. That is your best least a and women stronger than girls best way to keep us at bay. guess so far: though I'm not Increased financial provision and your friends to cover a

hundred million million of you or boys. And another thing; (Because I am sure that no one saying it's right. He found out it doesn't matter what precau- will be sensible enough to take by making tests on a lot of with a view to expanding the shilling.

tions you take. If we want you the advice.) When you find chimpanzees, the only laboratory present volume

Empire M: Let me remind you that to have a cold you're going to yourself with a slight headache, animals (except hedgehogs) migration has just been ap-that last month was the month pleasure

you also know, or should know, have it. Nothing gives us more dry throat, sluggishness, and which catch colds. Over here than infecting the generally feeling not so good you only used human beings to proved by the House of in which we did most of our tough gentlemen who wear open- (here the doctor shivers) don't confirm his discovery. Commons, with an understaml-dirty work.

necked shirts all the year round, get up in the morning.. Stay in D (sniffs). D: and in March. Decem- under the impression that this bed.. Get warm, take some salts, ing that the suggested maximum ber and March are your best hardens them against us.

M (cheerily): Well, as I said They gargle, and douche your nose before, if you want to make of £1,500,000 for this purpose months, we calculate.

at colds and end by every two hours (I'm talking things as difficult as possible for may be increased if it is found.

sneezing at them

like you, doctor!). Have ten us, eat well, keep healthy, and D: All the same, you must grains of aspirin, plenty to keep away from to be inadequate. The matter is

admit that you do best in ultra- drink, and sweat. Keep plenty places.

dangerous one for co-operation between the

civilised conditions. You love of fresh air in the room. Next D: Atishoo! Mother Country and the Dominions, and Mr. Malcolm MacDonald has definitely stated that it is for the later nations now to say the word "Go." There has been considerable prominence given to this ques- lion in the Dominions latterly,

M: And yours, if you get my meaning, doctor. I pride myself that I am your greatest asset. And, of course. your greatest disgrace.

put it like that—(sniffs).

D: Well, I suppose you could

it ?

M: Shall I tell you how I do

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D: I'd like to hear your side, M: Now, you know this much, that if you live in a town you breathe every hour about 14,000 No question is at present the time the air gets to your of the nation:

germs.

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Nations

Before the question can be intel- gently discussed we must clearly distinguish between a nation und a race, for the two terms are by means synonymous. Thus the ma- By Prof. E. W. MACBRIDE jority of the Lowlanders of Scot- portion of the inhabitants of North and cloudy. The soil was poor and fand, the Dutch. considerable pro- Germany, and the majority of the unproductive, and the most abun- Inhabitants of Norway and Sweden

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feated Hunnibal, were sadly decl- nated by that war, and the cultiva- tion of Italy was largely handed over to slave labour. The Roman civili- sation would have followed the Greek to ruin had it not been for great reservoir of the Saxon race which inhabited the German forests to the north of Italy. These people, who

were called Goths, had an in-

day the Ghurkas enlist in the Bri- born love of fighting; they enlisted in the armies of Rome, much as

to- tisir Armies in Intl. They even- the Roman

hope the little beasts will get question of the development of thinned out by mucus and the these territories but also the little hairs which line your nose. finding of work for men who Well, to give you a cold we cannot be absorbed in the Old there is the second line of de- have to get past here Then Country. The Dominions do fence, the little white corpuscles not, however, want unemplov. in your blood. The easiest time belong to the same race. The dant source of food was fish, as in- tually composed the greater part of

manu-

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had

To gain this food our forefathers Emporar became whilst the Roman

The Fighting Races

race should

more and more n

It

as the lowerally it has spread far and wide. Every spring because they have passed into his-

to get past these is when, for habitants of Central France, Southern ables; they seek men who are instance, you sit in a hot room Germany, Northern Italy. fitted for the kind of work which with a draught coming under tant menu third, race be flimsiest of boats and to face and quietly rushed aside by the Gothle

Aus- trin are members of a second and

to venture out to sea in the lular nobody, till he was finally. will lie before them overseas. the door. Hot heads and cold long a the Spanish, Portuguese, the crew of such a boat held toge-way outlasted the Great Empire by ride through sudden squalls. Unless leader. The Roman Empire in this A well-known Vancouver manu-So that the mucus dries up and

feet make for bad circulation. Southern Italians, and the Greeks.

ther and were faithful to one an- about 700 years.. facturer touched

A rnee, then, consists of a group other, their door was certain. The on many we can get in easier.

of mankind distinguished from other dull sky through which only sickly its place was not taken by the sturdy When the Saxon stock died out, Interesting aspects of

the

D) (shivering): Yes, and many and mental characteristics in common, traction and final loss of the brown duced belong to a race now repre- groups by having certain physical sunbeams penetrated led to the re- Etruscans. The slave peoples intro- problem in a recent address. Ho a cold has been caught by going These characteristics have been a pigment of the eye and of the hair, sented by Syrians and

into a cold room after a hot quired by their pointed out that Canada will bath.

exposure to the for this pigment acts as a protection

Arabs, and, same environment for thousands of of the delicate

it may seem, cllon startling retina and

by the increase its, imports as its

years, an environment against which against excessive sunshine. The cold and the south-west of Ireland, M: Oh, no; your mistake, they had to struggle to maintain climate led to delay in attaining full was the spread of this race that led skull small dark people from West Wales manufacturing industries grow

That's just a superstition. We themselves.

sexual development, and this was nearly always get to work by Our Ancestors'

to the hal undoing of the Roman and need more raw materials, choosing one victim (the doctor

the cause of the great stature, for civilisation, and caused the south of nothing inhibits growth as much as Italy-the kingdom remarking that to provide a here mixes himself a hot drink)

of the too early sexual indulgence.

two Sicilies--to become, a by-word for domestic market for

as the base for attacking an-

Ignorance, superstition, and brigan- factured products the Dominion caught from some one else.

other: nine out of ten colds are

dage. . During the historic period men have been great wanderers, and mi needs immigration from the

tures of races have been continually dual strength and courage counted

In prehistoric times when indivi- The Seeds of Decay D: Aha! Isolate the victim. taking place; sometimes the weaker for much, and arms for little, it was United Kingdom as well as the Another thing,

what

about race has been overwhelmed and Inevitable

that this

We have chosen these classical Scandinavian

Finoculation?

exterminated, but countries,

uld examples of the mixture of races, A

M: warning was at the same time Your friend Dr. Moncrieff at the times, during the waning of trans the dim and distorted legends of this lived then persist still to-day. the

survived Inoculation's no good.

grade of the swarms of young men went forth to tory, and their effects can be dis- mixed society. But in prehistoric seek their fortune as they do

of fairy tales, which are indeed only torinn. The very same races which passionately discussed by the his- issued that unless Canada opens

the Glacial epoch, means of her arms to farm-trained men $92,000,000 worth of goods to movements of people practically non- Europe and subjected to their sway three, and the ancestry of most of

sport were rudimentary and muss lime, They over-ran the whole of British population is mad

made up of all women from the Mother-Britain, and her imports there existent, and it was during these the races which they found there- us is mixed. Nevertheless the mix- lund, the latter would find it from reached approximately the

and the discerning reader will easily same total. Other figures show features, necessary to subsidise them and that the United Kingdom bought the great races was situated is by out that the statues

The latest authority on Greck and see evidence of a certain tendency Where the original home of each of Roman civilisation, Gunther points to stratification, and the preponder- protect their products by raising £21,000,000 worth from Russia,no means certain, but the race in ancient

and busts of ance of each one of the three at a tariffs against the Dominion. which purchased in turn only fair-haired "Saxon" race has been lishmen. The tall heroes of Homer Saxon Tice preponerse in pra-

which we take most interest-the countrymen of Mussolin! but Eng-

Romans represent not the certain level in

society. Australia's return to more pros- £3,000,000;

In Sweden and rural Scotland the from Denmark preity thoroughly investigated, and with their yellow locks were mem-out all levels. The

through- perous times, it is claimed, has £32,000,000, compared with we can form a good guess as to the bers of the same race, as were the portions of the Mediterranean race place where it originated and the Spartans who "combed their golden represented by the influx of Welsh been due to twó causes-she put £13,000,000: from Germany circumstance in which it was born. hair, before engaging in unequal and Irish into the industrial centres her house in order early in the

£30,000,000, compared with The physical features of this race and hopeless combat with the Per- is bringing about

an alteration in £18,000,000; and

when it is found purest, as in Sweden sinns in the pass of Thermopylae. depression, and 97. per cent. of

from.

the

the character of the population, an and the North of Scotland, are fair United States £87,000,000; com-hair, tall stature, narrow head, long ruling race in Greece who alone bore observers deplore. For

Now Gunther points out that the alteration which many thoughtful the mem- straight nose, and comparatively Anglo-Saxon. In the case of is a strong feeling in Canada as they may be termed in a word, own internecine Peloponessian war. gate in the slums, in which they pro- notoriously by the Peralan wars and by their rapid breeders, and tend to congee- Canada, it is claimed that she is that the economic links between the chameter of its men and women. As they disappeared and were reduce large familles.. Fifty years ago living up to the Ottawa agree-the

Intrepid courage, enterprise, and placed partly, by aboriginal races, the majority of their children died, Motherland arti the initiative, honesty and loyalty to partly by imported slaves, Greek now, swing to humanitarian senil- ment, buying dollar for dollar Dominions can be greatly comrades.

civilization perished and became ment, they are preserved at the cost with the United Kingdom, whose strengthened, and that a wise southern shores of the Baltic and later, times

Its original home lay around the merely a memory, and Greeks in of the State; and so this section of

became known population is more than three system of Empire migration the North Sea. This region in Post-nimble-witted

as a the population tends to become more and untrustworthy, and more preponderant. If this times that of the Dominion. would help materially in this glacial times was even more for race.

sequence follows it will eventually Last year, Canada, exported direction.

bidding than it is to-day. The The Roman peasant stock, who produce exactly the same effects in climate was cold without much snow, after a colossal struggle finally de-. (Continued on Page 5.)

and

perjods that

mankind received their permanent times.

the leading races of and they did this not once but many ture is to a certain extent unstable,

her population is white, mostly nared with £22,000,000. There small blue eyes. Its spiritual features were gradually exterminated bers of this race are.

are