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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. ́ ́ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937.

M.P.s, All Parties, Say Dictators Are Watching- HALF-EMPTY EMPIRE

BRITAIN'S

Minister Declares

We Cannot Spare

Many Emigrants

BY WILLIAM BARKLEY

IT seems that all these old emigration posters showing the great open-air life of the Empire were wrong. It seems that if Empire emigration is started again there will be no more ranches, no more sheep runs, and no more fields of wheat to be stuck up by the bill-poster.

All the appeals will be to the emigrant to hear the call of the Empire factory hooter.

This, at least, is the idea of the Dominions Secretary, Mr. Mal colm MacDonald, who said in Parliament recently-

"If the Dominions aro one day to have the large, thriving population which ultimately they are capable of supporting. it is not going to ·.· simply, or mainly, by the develop- ment of their agriculture. "Modern agricultural methods are not

capable of

of supporting large addi- tional population. It can only be done by the steady development of their manufacturing Industries, "We must recognise that development

these industries is desirable. Instead of standing in their way we should develop and encourage them."

This theory, reversing most of what is commonly said about emigration, was at least clear; but it became muddled and obscure as Mr. Muc- Donald added:-

"We must keep in mind our own population requirements. From our own factories we can afford fewer of our own industrial and skilled men to go overseas.

"As our agriculture revives there is less need for our agricultural population to go overseas."

So what?

to

It took an effort of memory recall that the speech was made In Introducing an Empire Selle ment Bill promising £1,500,000 a

year

tural workers who do, as well at home.

As for the responsibility of re- starting this phantom emigration, Mr. MacDonald sold it was entirely the duty of the Dominion Govern- ments because in his worda: "these Governments I have to stand older settlers out of work. the racket" if πριν

emigrants put

Would

At present the Canadian Govern ment, the New Zealand Government and four of the six States of Austro- lin have all refused to accept assisted emigrants.

Having demonstrated thai cml- gration on a large scale can't bo done and won't be done, Mr. Mac- Donald finally confused every one by saying that it must be done in the interests of democracy.

"The best guarantee for the con tinuance of democracy," said the Dominions Secretary, "is that as the young Dominions develop a good proportion of those who go should be people of the British race.""

M.P.8' Chorus

This speech was much criticised. It Ignored what, to most M.P.s, was the hot point of the debate Empire population.

on

"Ilow, they asked one after an-

Bame

amon

Modern Girl Needed In

Dominions

MR. CHOOM-JOHNSON, M.P..

said in the Commons Empire debale "You tell your English- men to go to South Africa. Do you ask them with whom they are' to mate? Are there English women there In sufficient numbers for them to mate with?

"Tank the Secretary of State what is to be done on the subject of the emigration of women? · I am told that you can't emigrate women that there must be safe- guard this and safeguard that— shades of the mid-Victorians!

"The modern girl is perfectly able to go anywhere and do any- thing. She in certainly well able

ко

The Scots Eat More

Sausages Than The Welsh

WHY đó twice as many people" ant sausages in St. WHY

Andrews as in Cardiff?

Why is nearly five times as much brown bread eaten in Scotland as in England or Wales?

And why do Cardiff folk insist on butter where the good citizens of Reading will have margarine?

These variations of taste in food are selected from “A Dietary Survey in Terms of the Actual Foodstuffs Con- to look after herself. The English-sumed," issued by the Medical Research Council.

woman can be trusted in any part of the Dominions. That is a part of this problem which certainly needs examination.”

HISTORY EXAMINATION REFORMS

The survey was carried out) by Professor E. P. Cathcart, Regius, Professor of Physiology at Glasgow University, and Mrs. A. M. T. Murray.

Investigations were made into the food consumed by selected families

at St. Andrews, Cardur, Reading and

Glasgow.

The general conclusion of the Investigators was that, though fow of the diets were really poor, many

tett much to be desired, particular-

ly in their allowance of "protec- tive" foodstuffs. like mlik, green food and frull.

A great difficulty in the way of

dietary reform is the attitude sum-

med up as follows:

"If the income is limited and if

It was found that 78 per cent. the natural cravings of the appetite

of St. Andrews familles ale sausages, only 38 per cent. in Cardiff; 94 per can be met by the purchase of cer- cent. in Cardiff consumed butter, tain relatively cheap articles of diet, Closer Link With only 1 per cent. in Reading; 94 per leaves some free cash for the cinema why spend more, when such diet

Recent

cent.

mir

In Reading consumed garine, only 57 per cent. in Cardiff.jor to "put on" a horse or the dogs?" Events in St. Andrews and Glasgow 41

IGNORANCE

PREJUDICE

"The main casual factor of inade-

survey says, "is ignorance of how to buy, what to buy and how to use to the best advantage the materials bought,"

Cambridge University is mak-per cent. and 25 per cent. of the

familles analysed ate brown bread.) ing a new effort to bring its In Cardiff and Reading the percent-quate diet in many households," the School

Certificate history ages were as low as 9 and 6. examination into closer relation- ship with ordinary life.

Here are two sample questions, issued in coronation with a new history syllabus which is to come into force for next year's examina-

tions:

Show the social effect in Eng. land of refrigeration and cold storage,

These apparently inexplicable likes) and dislikes support the contention of the authors that improvement of the nutritional standards of the people is not merely a matter of discovering

the perfect diet.

Without denying that much in- adequacy is due to lack of money, It is suggested that thuchi can be done by education in these matters.

The survey considers in detail the Prejudice, tradition, the desire to question of waste of foodstuffs by the keep up appearances, all' influence average housewife and concludes the housewife when alle is out with that the conventional allowance of her shopping basket.

10 per cent, for waste and refuse is an overstatement.

St. Andrews housewives only wast-

other, could the Empire as a whole Justify ita vast empty spaces LEX face of the demands of Germany and Italy for lands to colonise?

Why has a child born in 1000 Every party took up the

had a better chance of long e than one born in 18307 theme Mr. le Chair (South-west)

The authors say that people are Another sample question asks can-"hidebound by tradition, full of piced 2.0 per cent, of the calory value Norfolk) most vigorously Conservatives, Mr. de Rothschild didates to trace the growth of thejudices and a curious false pride, for fifteen years to assist (Isle of Ely) among the Liberals, Trade Union movement down to the which often prevents them from of their food. But the same standard

F

Trade Disputes Act of 1906.

not expected to be general Bellenger (Bassetlaw,

buying excellent foodstuffs like skim emigrants, who are apparently to and bir.

STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY

milk, either because they imagine it throughout the country. consist of factory workers whom Notts), the Socialist who drove Mr.

Malcolm McDonald to emigration It is also explained that questions to have no food value, or else because we cannot spare and of agrical-

from Bassetlaty to Ross and Cromarty may deal, over the whole period they are afraid their neighbours will

equally strong.

covered (1006-1814, in two sections), despise them for buying a reputed They Dli joined to demand on with "the structure of society, the

Inferior article. energetic emigration policy to main-way of life in its various sections;

The public opinion of the imme- tain the British race and preserve village life, land-tenure and farm-

"DEAD”. MAN 10diate neighbours is one of the most Its democratie Institutions through-log; town life, commerce and indus-powerful for good or evil, especially out the Empire.

try: transport and communications where households are crowded to NAME ON WAR MEMORIAL Not a single woman M.P. attended by land and sen; the part played

gether. the debate, and all the male MPs in everyday ite by the

Incdiaeval

TOO MUCH RENT

A letter received at Christmas time forgot the place of women in main-church, the Church of England and

"The quite laudable desire to keep by the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church. race until Mr.ather religious bodies; predominant

economic theories, and up appearances has a bad side, as it Ashby-de-la-Zouch from India, has social and the individuals, groups, and the State."lon house-rent to the detriment of whose name is inscribed among the dead on the local War Memorial-is was Evidently, school teachers will be food supply."

alive and well.

'LUNG OPERATION TO REMOVE SCREW

APPRENTICE'S RESOLVE

the British

LETTER FROM A

Cord Hopkins, aged 14. 1sion Cronson (Con, Bridgwater)heir infuence on the activities of may lend to an excessive expenditure brought to light the fact that a man

ing a rapid recovery in Brompion Hospital after a lung operation for the removal of a half-inch brass screw which he accidentally owal- lowed a few days before Christmus.

spoke.

Flip of the Cabinet

Mr. de Chalr said that all

"burned up in considering the Alter at Birmingham, was first treat International situation. Day after ed

at a local hospital. Every effort day there were Cabinet meetings at

*The boy, an apprentice telephone

to retrieve the screw by the bron-which some epistle to Herr Hitler choscope method failed. Similar un-

was considered at length.

successful efforts were made at the "Leadership, Please"

Brompton Hospital, and there was no alternative but to operate.

Hopkins's chest was opened be-

expected to enlarge their interests, and those of their pupils, consider

ably.

As regards "periods," in place of

the five alternative papers which

Blind Man As

have previously been set, there will Second At Duel ther any of his relatives in Ashby

in future be four-covering British und European history, 1060-1914;

The letter was signed by Mr. Horace Smith, who gave his address us Tonavala, India, and he asked the ¡Vicur to make inquiries to find whe-

were still alive.

The Vicar (the Rev. J. S. G. That energy should be devoted to British and European history, 1088-

Paris, Feb. 15. A blind man

Llewellyn) found that three of the problem of Imperial develop-1014; History of the British Empire, duelling customs

set a precedent in Smith's step-sisters were living in ment. With firm leadership from 1558-1014; and (at

to-day when he December ucted the

the as second at an encounter

his sister, only) Indian history with swords behind the locked gates married, was living in Leicester. trollan publie would be willing to

to from consider the problem of the resump-lish history disappears from the

India

and the sisters have also the bloodless, surgery method-and tion of emigration from this country. syllabus as a distinct subject."

near Versailles.

written to their "dend" brother. the screw, which had been in the He had come to the conclusion, he These changes are regarded as a He is M. Scapini, a well-known Mr. Smith had written that he lung for about five weeks, was re-sald, that Australia could probably poineer Innovation In School Cer-French deputy, who lost his sight in was employed on a railway and that

absorb about 100,000 people annual-tificate history as this is at present the war. "There is no fear of my ever put-

ly.

treated by any examination body.

he would visit Ashby in 1938.

It was believed locally that he

tween the two lower ribs, and the sur-

town,

while

now

geon felt the lung until he discovered this country the whole of the Aus-exam to the present day. Eng of a country house at Saint-Cyr. Their addresses have been sent to

The

the whereabouts of the screw. lung was then cut by the diathermy

moved.

said

these

if any of his relatives were living,

one of the Leicestershire

ting a screw into my mouth again," Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, answer- Inquiries made by a representative He was supporting M. Charles

Hopkins, wher be was ing the debate. told Mr. Croom-of- the press howed that where- Michelson, director of the Ami du was killed in the War. He joined told that he would be fit for work Johnson that the Society for the us questions of social and economic Peuple, who had been challenged by up in India and apparently served again in a few weeks' time. The Emigration of British Women is interest are ot present set another Paris journalist, M. Serge with

by screw has been sent to the hospital almost the only voluntary society still the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Veber, on the ground that M. Michel-battalions. muscum, and placed alongside a active in Empire settlement. It is Board, it

it is the experience

son had insulted him.

The names of his two brothers, collection of other strange articles arranging the emigration of about 500 examinera

that

questions swallowed by patients, including the wome second reading of the Empire slood that no change is at present duel was called off.-Reuter.

After three bouts M. Michelson re-who lost their lives in the War, are each year

are seldom answered. It is under-ceived a wound in the arm and the also inscribed on the Ashby War stem of a briar pipe.

Memorini. Settlement Bill, which cuts down the contemplated by the latter Board. amount available to promote emigra. The body responsible for the Cam- tion from £3,000,000 a year to half bridge School Certificate Examination that sum, was carried by 193 to is the University of Cambridge eighty-seven votes.

SEIZED SHARK BY TAIL

Boy's Heroic Effort To Save Brother

Sydney, N.S.W., Feb. 15.

At Lake Confola near the town of New South Wales, a boy seized the

tall of an 8ft, grey nurse shark na it tried to attack his brother In shallow water. The shark turned, and buried

Nazis

Local Examinations Syndicate.

Put Veto

On Old Testament

Berlin, Feb. 15.

Its teeth in its cuptor's arm, neces-TEACHERS of religion in the schools of Anhalt, German State, sitating twelve stitches. The shark

were warned by State Minister Alfred Freyberg to-day to omit.

was noticed making its way into Lake the Old Testament from their teaching, to show that Christ was not Conjola and Mr. John Hensworth, with his two sons Raymond (18), a Jew and generally to bring Christianity in line with Nazi doctrines,

and Alan (17), set out in a small, motor-boat to attack. It in shallow water.

After chasing it for over two hours,

and

"I'M NO ANGEL”

Said Freyberg: "The Old Tes- tament must only be consulted

when racial questions and

London Specialist May Attend The Pope

A

LONDON nerve and light-ray specialist may go to Rome shortly to treat the Pope. He is Dr. Andre Harpman, of St. James's-square.

The Pope's medical advisers in Vatican City have sent a notc make arrangements with Dr. Harpman. to the Archbishop of Westminster, Dr. Arthur Hinsley, asking him

to

Archbishop's

The Archbishop's secretary said: “I am able to confirm that a letter has been received from Rome asking us to approach a certain specialist. The matter is confidential and is receiving

Dr. Harpman said: “The matter Is private and profesional. I shall be ready to fly to Rome on receiv- Ing instructions from the Vallcan." DE

Harpman is Dutch. He studied

frequently wounding it with SAYS CLARK GABLE understanding of the New Testa-Love Letters' attention.

harpoons, they finally drove it into

a pool about 3 feet deep. Manoeuvr Ing their boat alongside the shark they were attempting to fasten a rope to it, when two other launches which had been in the hunt bumped Into Hensworth's boat and knocked Alan overboard.

The shark attempted to get at Alan but Raymond gripped it by the tail and hung on desperately while Alan scrambled back into the boat. Suddenly the shark turned, and

IN EFFECT.

Hollywood, Feb. 15. LARK GABLE is annoyed by reports that he collapsed on the set while acting with Myrna Loy In "Pamell." ~

"Can't a man have a cold with- out being reported dying?" he asked.

But Claric is still in bed. Spurning the advice of Myrna Loy,

ment make it necessary. The

Old Testament is typical of the Read To Nazi Teachers

Jewish spirit and the breakdown

of a people unworthy of God."

is to

In accord with hymns can be used if

the Nazi spirit.

Munich, Feb. 15.

་

A more Nazified version of Christ A Nazi omcial to-day read to 2,000 at Leyden and is one of the plonters be taught. Freyberg orders Bavarian schoolteachers the fove of light-ray treatment. He is well that "the bitter struggle of Jesus letters of the Archbishop of Freiburg known on the Continent for his re- against the Jewish spirit must always to a twenty-year-old Jewess with searches into the autonomie nervous be pointed out; also that Jesus, even whom he had illicit

system. racially, did not belong to Jowry."

relations for Years Psalms

The man who "revealed" these the 'Tove letters." Strelcher cut the letters was Julius Streicher, anti- reader short, "Ach! That's too Jowish leader.

disgusting," he exclaimed. "Let's The teachers met in Nuremberg to discuss next Saturday's

Leave

it at that! referendum on the Nazi proposal to Strelcher then explained that ho ban the teaching of the Roman had made these papers public in Catholic religion in elementary order to tear the mask from the faces schools,

of those hypocrites who are for ever. Half-way through the recital of accusing me of lies,"

fastened iis teeth on Raymond's left who for three days urged him to forearm until his father killed it nurse a bad cold, he was taken ili studio with an axe.

while filming on emotional scene The boy was brought ashore, and with Miss Loy, hurrlod to the Milton Hospital where he was admitted, and twelve director John Stahl,, who, with mem- stitches were inserted in the wound. bers of the cast, carried him to the

Swaying, the actor was caught by

ney Hospital. emergency After treatment he was taken to his bachelor, sulle in the faalilonable Wilshire Hotel, He hopes to return to work to morrow.

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