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THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1937.

THE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS

less-

BUY

had been I might have been tempted to make short work of my fortune.

I am sure, however, that if I fortune, in whatever

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combined theatre, opera-house Faced with the necessity of had endowed. We are all-or and art gallery which would at- choosing between work and star. Deedsion extravagances I might in the I keep some of Have we ing, singing and painting in the I choose work. That was the the money for myself. I should

all-world.

end of my dreams. Never sinee rather like to own a few race- have I seriously dreamed of be- horses; that would cost some- ing rich or even of having $25 a thing. It must be quite an horse winning the Gold Cup at year of my own untainted by the Agreeable sensation to see one's.

Ascot by a neck. necessity of working for it.

selves?

I do not mean that we go on

field near St.

I feel the poorer for the loss of those dreams.

Money, Arnold Bennett used to say, can buy anything; but what on earth can it buy when

Mr. Bernard Shaw declares If somebody left me a fortune that the idle rich are miserable. to-morrow I should not know you come to think of it? I ad-

not all-or nearly dreamed of being rich our- If you went with me to Bel- fast, I could show you the site of my theatre. It is now cover dreaming of being rich through-ed with houses, but it was then

a large vacant out our lives. I myself ceased

Thomas's Church. In the illuminating and help-to dream dreams of avarice a ful address which he gave to long time ago. members of the Rotary Club,

But in my teens I was Dr. Giles Hall disputed the con- avaricious in my dreams as any

Perhaps tention that tuberculosis is an body. economie problem, arguing that, avarice were commoner in the if correct principles are follow-inte Victorian Age than they are ed, schemes which are effective to-day. in the control of the disense can be adapted to communities| at any economic level.

Whilst

dreams

of

I did not find this to be so in my what to do with it, though no mit that a moderate amount of `* dreams. In my dreams I was doubt there are plenty of people money can buy a great deal, but I cannot see what a lot of money At least, of the sort not a less miserable boy on the How can one spend an enor- can buy. extremely idle, and there was who could advise me.

one does not of things that I want. face of the earth.

mous fortune if like yachting or care for cham- pagne or smoke cigars? Even my most luxurious tastes are of the simplest-cigarettes, foot-

Perhaps one is happier dream- ing of being rich than being rich. MANY books were pub- Perhaps, on the other hand, one

lished in those days is not.

one kind of

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no fancy for them. Pala-

JEWELS? I have

ball matches, whisky and taxis. tial residences? I would rather It is difficult to spend a fortune have a small house. Rare first editions? I prefer cheap new on these.

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editions. Pictures? Well, per- haps. One could always give.

set? I am

this may be a strictly correct statement of the facts, it cannot about people who had become

EVEN before I had quit he questioned that economic rich. There was

ted my teens, unfor- conditions which compel thou-book that told how some poor aands of people to live in un-boy had become rich through

I were a man like Mr. them away to an art gallery. A hygienic and overcrowded tene- hard work, plain living, and self- tunately, I had lost a good deal

Deeds, no doubt, I better car? I am loyal enough ments must tend to produce the sacrifice. Books of this kind of my early idealism, I began to disease and to result in its found depressing and dishearten- look forward to a life of poverty,

not only as my doom, but as my should find a way out by sharing to my car to believe that the ing. spread.

possibly agreeable doom. I read the money with other people. world does not contain a better. Dr. Hall, whilst con- scious of

Then there was another kind of the dis-

Thoreau's "Walden," and my And that would not be a bad A better wireless some advantages of institutional of book-invariably fiction most ambitious wish was to have solution. If "Mr. Deeds Goes to equally loyal to my wireless set. Clearly, it is no joke to be treatment, would like to see that told how a poor boy had £25 a year of my own, so that Town" is true to life, it must be sanatoria provided where means become rich as a result of being I could go and live in a farm very pleasant to give away one's rich. I can think of no way of spending a lot of money selfishly are available, but he showed left a fortune by a long-lost re- labourer's cottage and cultivate money to other people. that effective forms of isolation lative in Australia or by a com- my own cabbage garden.

Certainly, after seeing the except on racehorses.

What would you do if you of sufferers can be devised and plete stranger who had seen him

I might as well have gone on film-play, I could not help con- applied in the home. Such helping a poor woman across the

If I It takes a lot of thinking. measures, of course, imply or road or doing some other good dreaming of riches, however, for gratulating myself on the fact were a millionaire? Just think. ganised effort in the way of deed. Books of this kind I nobody gave me £25 a year. that I was not a rich man. health propaganda, with a view found inspiring and inspiriting.

to acquainting sufferers of the That was the kind of poor boy possibilities in this direction.I wanted to be.

Those acquainted with the

human rabbit-warrens in this

Colony, in which the masses live

and have their being, may doubt

think, You must not

however that my

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People Who Make You Feel Small

whether any very effective in-dreams were selfish. I did not Do you meet people who make don't mind if I do?" which puts,

Similarly to tell a man that you feel small, who, for no him in an inferior position. If you could not read his signature to keep. I

apparent reason at all, seem to he says nothing and simply at the end of a letter is calculat- to be made on the want the money roads are

put you at a disadvantage when lights up, wait thirty seconds ed to give him a feeling of in- the risk and then quite casually take feriority. Never run tuberculosis scourge by methods wanted it only to spend.

are interviewing them? I did not even want to be ex-you

out your own case and light a of it yourself-always type- which involve systematic volun- tary effort within the home. If cessively rich. I wanted only Psychologists will tell you that it cigarette. This suggests that your name as well as signing.

A business chief I know keeps to build ajis because you have an in- he smokes an inferior brand of funds do not permit of the pro- enough to be able vision of a Government sana-large house in the country with feriority complex, but that does cigarettes, and even if he has his juniors in place by listening torium, there is no apparent my cousins as perpetual guests, not help you to bring these men paid ten shillings a hundred for to them and then Buying, "That's rightly, this phrase gives the reason why something along the a large house in town where and women down to your own them, this trick puts you in the your opinion, is it?" Snid

entertain Mr. Joseph height, and deal with them on superior position. Iines of the Peiping tuberculosis could

If you interview people in an impression that in any case it level ground.

office, always give them a low is of no consequence. Calling a clinic should not be possible in Chamberlain (my boyhood's idol)

Painful experience at many chair. They have to look up to man "My boy" or "Young man" Hongkong. Dr. Hall showed and other eminent defenders of

a magnificent interviews led me to study the you, and the physical position and patting him on the back is that for an expenditure of some the Union, and

technique of men and women influences the psychological posi- calculated to make his mental $64,000, the Peiping Union

who made me feel small, and Ition. On the other hand, if you age about fifteen and puts you. found they all used devices which are offered a low chair, say you on top. Medical College opérates this,

Nothing is calculated better immediately gave them the ad- would prefer to stand. Walking vantage. In many cases, I be- about a room, stopping occasion- to make a man feel inferior than lieve, they had acquired their ally to look at a picture, even to go on reading while he is technique unconsciously, but though you've already looked at talking or to hum a tune softly, writing so that need not prevent plain men it a thousand times, while your Better still, go on like you and me copying them. visitor is talking, immediately that he cannot possibly miss the fact that you consider one half We don't necessarily want to gives you the advantage.

are

Become a specialist in the

the only anti-tuberculosis clinic that whatever the actual means in China. It is attached to the adopted both for the prevention hospital, by whom the salaries and cure of the disease, there are can be no hope of anything ap of the professional staff paid, all other costs being met proaching elimination of tuber from the endowment fund.culosis until the masses There is here in Hongkong a fine better housed. It is one thing feel superior, but the best de- An acquaintance of mine of your brain sufficient to listen opportunity for some public to put sufferers on the road to fence is attack, and if you make never gets a name right. If he to the whole of his. spirited citizen, or body of recovery, but something more the other man feel small, at least is talking to a Mr. Smith, he al-

ways calls him Mr. Brown. I science of making the other man citizens, to step into the breach. than that is needed; they must you meet him on equal terms. But, when all is said, a duty lies be able subsequently to live in Here are a few tricks of this used to think it was just a bad feel inferior, and you will find. on the Government to begin healthful surroundings. Institu- superiority affair that I have memory, but now I realise it is there are many other devices be- a device for making the other sides these. Practise them care- waging a definite war on a dis-tions, not necessarily elaborate, learned.

man feel inferior. The inference fully and you will conceal that

complex entirely.. case which causes thousands of can be of great value up to a

When a man offers you a ci- is that his name is of such small inferiority deaths annually in this Colony.point; they need to be supple-

garette, always refuse. Don't importance that it is not worth You will, incidentally, probably It is little short of tragic that mented by insistent health pro the years should roll on with no paganda. Most important of all, say that you do not smoke, but remembering. Better than call become the most hated mari in.

simply shake your head. He ing him quite a different name Britain, but that is a detail com organised attack, being made the conditions which conduce to must then either go without a is changing his name slightly.pared to the importance of feel. locally on tuberculosis. The the creation and spread of the cigarette, which will probably If his name is Mason call him ing superior.

Julian Davidson - poethought still recurs, however,' disease must be abolished.

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