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married people asking why they haven't more childran. ` Here, H. W. Seaman addrosses a few private and personal questions to Sir Kingsley Wood

6 Personal Questions

1

WHY don't

you

run over to the Ministry of Labour every now and then and get the facts about the rising cost of living?

Surely the cost of food, cloth- to ing, and shelter is as close

Cer- your job as the birth-rate. tainly it is to every working man and his family.

Hongkong Hotel talking of asking working-class

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The Minister of Labour is housewives whether they con- sider wireless, gramophone, cinema, cigarettes, football, and beer necessary items in the

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Mr. John Russell and family wish to thank all friends for their floral tributes, messages of con- dolence and attendance at the funeral in their recent bereave- ment.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TROBSDAY, JULY B. 1937.

THE FUTURE OF

PALESTINE

No more difficult or thankless

seck

the

Mr. B. Sccbohm Rowntree in- cludes these items in estimat- ing that a working-class family of five people needs at least 53s. a week.

But the Engineers' Study Group on Economics and the Association of Scientific Workers have decided that a family of four cannot enjoy full comfort on less than £6 a week.

They allow 10s. 2d. per week. per person for food, against the Association's British Medical estimate of 5s. 101⁄2d.

The Ministry of Health's mini- • mum is 48. 10d. a week.

Why are these guesses so wide apart? Is your department right and all the others wrong?

What of Children

UN

to the Minister

"The cost of living is a vital matter to the worker and lig family."

#chool medical officer of Sear- borough, "may be the deciding factor in keeping children's nutrition subnormal-a fact that is difficult to impress on some parents."

of Health

has even been some progress in

the fight against influenza.

Here is an opportunity for further good work. Parents of

W

THAT about over- crowding? In spite

of the new Housing

all classes need to be told that Act, which forbids a boy and nutrition is not a matter of food girl over tep to occupy one room, alone, but also of sunlight, fresh there are still 100,000 overcrowd- nir, and sleep. You can tell cd families in London alone, and them.

more, in proportion in certain. other cities.

Why Seven Out

Of 10 Boys Unfit?

A

What is the use of telling a working nan, by printing it int his rent book, that the law for- bids him to overcrowd his house,

RE the Government unless there is another, bigger so house available for him at a rent one he can afford to pay?

departments water-tight that does not know what the others The new suburbs do not seemi are doing?

to be solving this problem. Cases Seven out of ten boys at the of overcrowding were found in Whiteheaven Junior Instruction one South London suburb soon Centre in Cumberland are under- after the houses were ready for nourished. Many of them, says occupation.

Dr. Kenneth Frazer, school medi- Clearly the housing shortage cal officer for Cumberland, are is not being tackled energetically too unfit even to want to play enough. Instead of urging peo- football.

ple to have more babies, why not provide room for them?

Only seven of the 111 boys who were examined were found to be in "excellent health."

Why Should They

5

you realise that

D thousands of young

And how is this situation be- ing met? The Further Educa- Bring Up Boys? She has made the astonishing tion sub-Committee of the Cum- berland Education Committee discovery that children from

has asked the County Finance good homes are as likely to be Committee for more money, and

people to-day are afraid. ay children

the attention of the Board of to get married, and thousands under-nourished

Education has been called to it. more, being married, are afraid from the poorest districts.

You have helped to save Apparently nobody has yet to have children? mothers and to bring down the called the attention of the Minis- tubercular death-rate, and there ter of Health to it.

Battling With A Gale At Sea

URING severe gales wrecks are of frequent occurrence; big ships are

numbed the fighting souls of these) outcasts; they become Histlesa

overcome by the fury of the elements; By Captain. Frankpunch drunk" as it were.

H. Shaw

(What it is like to be in helpless, sinking ship in the fury of a gale such as that which has recently raged around our coasts? Here is the answer by one who has been through it)

deep in swirling brine; at any moment the furnaces may be extinguished.

They are beaten the ropes, and the murderous blows of the storm in- crease in weight.

Fear of war hangs over them. They ask: "Why should we bring up boys to die on the battlofield and girls to weep for them?" They have other fears, too-of- losing their jobs, or losing the luxuries that a few extra shill- ings a week have given them.

Rightly or wrongly, they believe that life is less secure than it used to be. You must have heard this

| dread expressed, for you go about We are standing by!" says the the country more than any rescue ship. "W1 attempt rescue when sea abates."

Minister of Health has done be-

It may not abate until its evil work fore you. And still you wonder is done. It may decide to overwhelm why the mothers of to-day have the rescuer with the rescued. The frozen watchers danger.

They see an attempt made to lower

To banish this fear ought to a boat, and see the boat crushed as

They grown as be one of the first taaks of every it touches the water. they watch stout men wallowing over-statesman to-day. And since it aidc.

are aware of this only half as many children as

their grandmother did.

task has ever been encountered by any country than that facing Britain in its efforts to bring lasting peace and concord to Palestine. The Royal Commis. Lacking Nutrition? sion appointed to solution of a problem which has

NBORN babies, as hitherto defied statesmanship

you say are "# has now reported, and the

vital matter for the fu- British Government has accept-ture of this country." But what ed its recommendations. These are, in brief, the partitioning of of the children who are starved the country into three States-not only for lack of food but also

from want of sleep? one, Arab, to be united to

"Insufficient hours of sleep," Transjordan; another, Jewish; and the third under British says Dr. Elizabeth Jameson, mandate, providing for safe- guarding of sacred places - and giving the Arabs access to the sea. In view of the racial anti- pathy which has so long per- sisted, the Commission frankly asserts that there can be no question of fusion or assimila- tion between Jewish and Arab cultures. Hence the plan for small ships survive, to reach port in splitting the country into a mangled condition. three parts. It is & com- The lifeboats are out from dark to promise arrangement, admitted-dawn. The toll of life is heavy, and the only bright side of the picture is ly, but it is difficult to see what the staunch gallantry of such heroes other kind of treatment is pos-as dare death in an ugly form to pluck sible. Arabs are given national shivering survivors from crumbling independence and Jews a Na-wrecks before the just poor foot-hold tional Home, with British in-dives to the sea's bottom.

Picture for a moment the emotions fluence near at hand to preserve of those who are sturing bleakly into But there are death's gaunt face while attempts the balance.

the are being made to rescue them. already indications that

There is little beyond hoplessness solution will not be generally

in their hearts and misery in their The ship is leaking hurd. Even if

They know that the attempts at directly affects the health of the remains flontable a boat neceptable. To argue over the

bodies,

up a gallant never live in the churned horror out- rescue will continue until all hope is nation it is a Ministry of Health enmity between Arabs and Jews

abandoned, but their own wide ex-job if ever there was one. Their ship has put

ever-increasing odds. board. is as futile as it would be to ask fight against

"Send out SOS," the master orders. perience tenchies them how feeble oll and vinegar to mix, British The exposed steering-gear has been

The storin increases in violence. policy has aimed at welding mashed; the auxillary steering-gear Lucky for these beuten men if the such attempts must be.

frozen and clumsy

that signal is heard; wintry seas can be Men are washed from their foot-hold. Do You Know them into a community, but all human effort cannot work it; the

They scramble desperately to higher Presently "Sparks" reports an pointe-to the drenched bridge, to lin vain. It has well been said after well-deck ls swamped should very lonely,

About This Ban?· that the fanatical Jew, frighten-high with furious incoming seas, so answer. A ship, having caught the he. riggins ship resorts to subier-

to that the winches cannot be rigged

The grows in hitherto hopeless fuge after subterfuge. A cask, at-

X7HAT have you to ing in his intensity, estranged make an effort to bring the helpless Wall of distress is altering her course.

Hope

a Jine, floated towards

to landlords say from our comprehension even vessel

"Stick wreck; it misses its mark, haul-

who refuse to let flats the bitter rigour of the crashing scar; to couples with children? of passion to be the child of bonts in splinters, weakening the pro- the strident tumult of storm.

teclive batches. Solid deck-houses It is cold; ice forms everywhere, a its effect dies almost as soon as it is, reason. The languid, picturesque are warped and shifted, the bridge blizzard snaris down to add terror to born. Arab, kneeling upon his prayer is weakened on its moorings.

contusion. rug and turning towards Meeen, has been trained to think in The S.O.S. centuries, Romans, Greeks, the

In the troughs of mountainous seas, Crusaders, Cretans, Egyptians, the hapless ship wallows sickly, and and Turks, they say, have all the conviction comes to her master

But the wireless, working now on

The few men remaining on the. come and either been assimilated that she is due for a trip down the storage batteries only continues to re

ceive messages from the vold; "Hearts sheer hulk begin to wish their would- or havo disappeared. What the end will yet be is a problem for are being fired by men urin, boilers up, we're coming." The saily eyes be rescuers would stop and go-it is

straining through the gloom can see nothing but mockery.

horror of A boat is launched at Inst; desperate dreamers and theorists to play

nothing but the milky

men man it. It is allowed to drift storm-inshed water. with. Some have said that the

hours: the sea away from the parent ship, with a Arabs would leave Palestine integrity of the Arabs, so brut- and make Transjordan their ally opposed, cannot be per-wrenching fresh spolls from the stag-rope to control its passage. it strug-

It works great hardship on to influence

British Hered wreek. The holds are filling, gles on.

Perhops it reaches the wreelt's side; Country and that the slimmitted

and there is a sodden heaviness

perhaps some hero will to a rope many young couples. It com- stream of the Jordan, winding policy, whether the Commis- the doomed ship's movements,

about his waist and plunge overboard pels some to remain childless. along from the Sea of Galilee slon's proposals are finally ne-

to make connection with that des- It drives others from pillar to perale boat; bridging the apparently post in search of accommoda- to the Dead Sea, would even-cepted or not. There is evidence, Standing By tually divide Arabs and Jews as in the new scheme, of a strong

smothering fonm, the survivors are the Rhine divides the Germans desire to be fair all round it whatever will be a thousand pities if the and French. happens, Britain will still be laid which gave birth to the charged with the duty of pre-Prince of Peace is still to be serving peace and order. The made the centre of hatred and ideals of Zionism and the racial bloodshed.

aft is so

hearts.

it could

when his problem je near to our Cound contrast ever the ralis, kendilige it, biogas, helps, corines" (inched to. 1 in % of falist, o varta 6

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But

Gigurtle sens break

Locker.

Engine-rooms are flooding,

How can any approaching ship find the wreck? How, finding it, can any thing be done, except to stand-by so that the ill-fated men may not die entirely alone?

Ilours pass, more

WH

Flats are going up all over the The rescuer edges nearer; yet not country. Great blocks of them too near, for there is danger that a now appear in towns that had mightier wave may hurl her down on the wreck and overwhelm them in never seen a flat until now. And common ruin. A life-line is tired. the "No children" bun is so com- The wind rocks it, sending it curving mon that it is almost taken for

granted. futilely away.

This cuts directly across your more-babies campaign, but have you ever said a word about it? Have you realised that it is going on?

The engine-room crowd, have eva- unbridgeable ult. Then, througetion. Do something to remove cunted their stronghold, and atverhauled from death to the glow of life. this anti-social ban and you will shivering, to leeward of

There is nothing to do but wait takes a lot to beat a seaman when carn their lasting gratitude. protection remains.

It

mind is set on rescue. But, as

At the same time you will do feed our hungry stomachs, in winteri Even when the bridge reports a rocket often as not, the fate of the mess who snaking into the sky, the news brings and summer alike, is to die unnoticed. your own campaign a lot of good. small hope. Bitter weather has