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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1987.

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Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, is going to put a few private and personal questions to Here, H. W. Seaman addresses a few married people asking why they haven't more children.

private and personal questions to Sir Kingsley Wood

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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- ing, and, shelter is as close to your job as the birth-rate. Cer- tainly it is to every working man! and his family.

The Minister of Labour is talking of asking working-class

Hongkong Hotel housewives whether they con-

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sider wireless, gramophone, cinema, cigarettes, football, and beer necessary items in the Tel. 27778/9. Stubbs Road family budget.

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Mr. B. Seebohm Rowntree in- CHOWE WZMU 3) WESLEYGARSINI TAKO VER Mcludes these items in estimat- ing that a working-class family of five people needs at least 538. a week.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1937,

THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE

No more difficult or thanklesa 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- sion appointed to seek solution of a problem which has hitherto defied statesmanship: has reported, and the |British Government has accept-

Now

the

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 109. 2d. per week per person for food, against the British Medical Association's estimate of 5s. 10%1⁄2d.

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

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ed its recommendations. These Lacking Nutrition?

TNBORN babies, as are, in brief, the partitioning of

"a the country into three States-

you Bay vital matter for the fu- one, Arab, 'to be united to Transjordan; another, Jewish:ture of this country." But what and the third under British of the children who are starved mandate, providing for safe-not only for lack of food but, also guarding of sacred places and from want of sleep?

"Insufficient hours of sleep," giving the Arabs access to the sea. In view of the racial anti- says Dr. Elizabeth Jameson, pathy.which has Ltd.

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COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHERE

to the Minister

"The cost of living is a vital matter to the worker and his family,"

school medical officer of Scar- 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

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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 ten to occupy one room, alone, but also of sunlight, fresh there are still 100,000 overcrowd.

You nir, and sleep.

can tell ed families in London alone, and more, in proportion in certain them.

other cities.

Why Seven Out

Of 10 Boys Unfit?

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What is the use of telling a working man, by printing it in his rent book, that the law for- bida him to overcrowd his house, unless there is another, bigger so house available for him at a rent one he can afford to pay?

RE the Government

departments water-tight that

The new suburbs do not seem does not know what the others

to be solving this problem. Cases: are doing?

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."

And how is this situation be-

Why Should They

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ing met? The Further Educa. Bring Up Boys?

you realise that She has made the astonishing tion sub-Committee of the Cum- berland Education Committee

thousands of young has asked the County Finance discovery that children from

people to-day are afraid' good homes are as likely to be Committee for more money, and

the attention of the Board of to get married, and thousands. more, being married, are afraid under-nourished

Education has been called to it. from the poorest districts.

You have helped to

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

as children

savo

Battling With A Gale At Sea

URING severe gales wrecks are of

into Dente severente, dig ships are

com-

numbed the Aghting souls of these

overcome by the fury of the clements By Captain Franken outcasts; they become listless

H. Shaw

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

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

Rightly or wrongly," they belleve that life is less secure than it used to be. drunk" as it were. They are beaten to the ropes, and

You must have heard this the murderous blows of the storm in-

dread expressed, for you go about crease in weight.

"We are standing by!" says the the country more than any

Will attempt rescue

Minister of Health has done be- rescue ship. when sea abates."

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 of this frozen watchers are aware danger.

They see an attempt made to lower a boat, and see the boat crushed as

only half as many children as their grandmother did.

To banish this fear ought to

it touches the water. They groan as be one of the first tasks of every they watch stout men wallowing over- atateaman to-day. And since it. aide.

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

the splitting

country It is R three parts. promise arrangement, admitted-small ships survive, to reach port in

a mangled condition. ly, but it is difficult to see what The lifeboats are out from dark to other kind of treatment is pos-dawn. The toll of life is heavy, and the only bright side of the picture is sible. Arabs are given national the. staunch gallantry of such heroes.

Na-as dare death in an ugly form to pluck independence and Jews

shivering survivors from crumbling tional Home, with British in-wrecks before the last poor foot-hold fluence near at hand to preserve dives to the sea's bottom.

Picture for a moment the emotions the balanco. But there are

of those who are staring bleakly into attempts that the death's gaunt face while already indications

deep in swirling brine; at any moment solution will not be generally are being made to rescue them.

There is little beyond hoplessness the furnaces may be extinguished.

The ship is leaking hard. Even if

They know that the attempts at directly affects the health of the acceptable. To argue over the in their hearts and misery in their

n boat remains floatable it could enmity between Arabs and Jews 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

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

t over-increasing odds board, is as futile as it would be to ask

fight against

"Send out SOS," the master orders. Perience teaches them how

The storm. Increases in violence. oil and vinegar to mix, British The exposed steering-gear has been

that signal is heard; wintry seas can be Men are washed from their foot-hold. Do You Know aft is 80 frozen and clumsy policy has aimed at welding smashed; the auxillary steering-gear Lucky for these beaten men if the such attempts must be.

work it; the very lonely.

They scramble desperately to higher human effort cannot them into a community, but ali

It has wall been said after well-deck is swamped shoulder

Presently "Sparks" reports an

the rigging, in vain. that the fanatical Jew, frighten-high with furious incoming acas, answer. A ship, having caught the points-to the drenched bridge, to shout This Ban?

The rescuing ship resorts to subter- ing in his intensity, estranged that the winches cannot be rigged to wail of distress is altering her course.

W in hitherto hopeless fuge after subterfuge. A cask, at- make an effort to bring the helpless Hope grows

tached to a line, is floated towards

say to landlords from our comprehension even vessel under control.

who refuse to let flats: Gigantic seas break over the rails, "Stick boys; help's coming" the wreck; it misses its mark, is haul- when his problem is near to our

them, tearing away the hearts, is too much the victim fattening

bitter rigour of the crashing seas; to couples with children? of passion to be the child of boats in splinters, weakening the pro-rings from the shaking bridge above ed back. Oil is discharged to lessen tective hatches. Solid deck-houses It is cold; ice forms everywhere, its effect dies almost as soon as it is

Flats are going up all over. the- reason. The languid, picturesque are warped and shifted, the bridge blizzard snarts down, to add terror to born.

The rescuer edges nearer; yet not country. Great blocks of them Arab, kneeling upon his prayer is weakened on its moorings.

How can any approaching ship find too near, for there is danger that a now appear in towns that had rug and turning towards Mecca,

the wreck? How, finding It, can any-mighter wave may hurl her down on has been trained to think in The S.O.S.

thing be done, except to stand-by so the wreck and overwhelm them in never seen a flat until now. And“ centuries. Romans, Greeks, the

In the troughs of mountainous scar, that the ill-fated men may not die common ruin. A life-line is tired. the "No children" ban is so com- The wind rocks it, sending it curving mon that it is almost taken for Crusaders, Cretans, Egyptians, the hapless ship wallows sickly, and entirely alone?

But the wireless, working now on fulllely away. and Turks, they say, have all the conviction comes to her master

The few men remaining on the granted. 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 cheer hulk begin to wish their would- or have disappeared. What the

Engine-rooms are flooding, boilers up, we're coming." The salty eyes be rescuers would stop and go—it is

but mockery. end will yet be is a problem for are being fired by men slaving waist-straining through the gloom can set not bont is launched at last; desperate dreamers and theorists to play with. Some have said that the

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hearts.

the strident tumult of storm.

confusion.

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THAT have you to

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

nothing but the milky horror of

men man it. It is allowed to drift storm-lashed water.

Hours pass, more hours; the sea away from the parent ship, with a Arabs would leave Palestine integrity of the Arabs, so brut-

wrenching fresh spoils from the stag rope to control its pasange. It strug-

It works great hardship on and make Transfordan their ally opposed, cannot be per-vered wreck. The holds are filling, gles on.

Perhaps it reaches the wreck's side;! to Influence British and there is a sodden heaviness in

perhaps some hero will tie a rope many young couples. It com- country, and that the slim mitted

about his waist and plunge overboard pels some to remain childless.. stream of the Jordan, winding policy, whether the Commis- the doomed ship's movements.

to make connection with that des- It drives others from pillar, to along from the Sea of Galilee sion's proposals are finally ác-

perate boat; bridging the apparently post in search of accommoda to the Dead Sea, would even-cepted or not. There is evidence, Standing By

unbridgeable gulf. Then, through tually divide Arabs and Jews as in the new scheme, of a strong the Rhine divides the Germans desire to be fair all round. It cuated their stronghold, and cluster, smothering foam, the survivors are tion. Do something to remove

It takes a lot to bent a seaman when But whatever will be a thousand pities if the shivering, to leeward of whatever hauled from death to the glow of life, this anti-social ban and you will and French.

to the protection remains.

At the same time you will do There is nothing to do but wait, his mind is set on rescue. But, as earn. their lasting gratitude. happens, Britain will still be land which gave birth charged with the duty of pre-Prince of Peace is still to be Even when the bridge reports a rocket often as not, the fate of the men who has and summer alike, is to die unnoticed. serving peace and order. The made the centre of hatred and making into the sky, the news brings feed our hungry stomachs, In winter your own campaign alot of good..

weather hope. Bitter ideals of Zionism and the racial bloodshed.

The engine-roam crowd have eva

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