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

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

and specula-

the among

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. Deedsian extravagances I might nearly all-interested in the tract to itself the greatest act- vation, with a great effort of will indulge, I should keep some of

Hongkong Telegraph. rich and riches. Have we ing, singing and painting in the I choose work. That was the the money for myself. I should

THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1937.

THE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS

all world.

not all-or nearly dreamed of being rich our selves?

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I do not mean that we go on dreaming of being rich through- out our lives. I myself ceased 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 Hali 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-late Victorian Age than they are ed, schemes which are effective to-lay, in the control of the disease can be adapted to communities] at any economic level.

Whilst

dreams

of

If you went with me to Bel- fast, I could show you the site of my theatre. It is now cover ed with houses, but it was then

a large vacant field near St. Thomas's Church.

end of my dreams. Never since rather like to own a few race- horses; that would cost some- have I seriously dreamed of be-

thing. It must be quite an ing rich or even of having £26 a

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.

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. Lo-morrow I should not know you come to think of it? I ad-

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 extremely idle, and there was who could advise me. not a less miserabic boy on the How can one spend an enor- can buy. At least, of the sort face of the earth.

mous fortune if one does not of things that I want. 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, this may be a strictly correct about people who had become statement of the facts, it cannot

one kind of rich. There was be questioned that economic

book that told how some poor EVEN before I had quit- on these. conditions which compel thou-

ted my teens, unfor- boy had become rich, through sands of people to live in un-hard work, plain living, and self- tunately, I had. lost a good deal hygienic and overcrowded tene- sacrifice. Books of this kind of my carly idealism, I began to ments must tend to produce the found depressing and dishearten.

ing.

JEWELS? I have no fancy for them. Pala-

ball matches, whisky and taxis. tial residences? I would rather It is dificult to spend a fortune have a small house. Rare first editions? I prefer cheap new editions. Pictures? Well, per- haps. One could always give

I

set? I am

I were a man like Mr. them away to an art gallery. A I am loyal enough look forward to a life of poverty.

Deeds, no doubt, I better car?

car to believe that the disease and to result in its

not only as my doom, but as my should find a way out by sharing to my spread. Dr. Hall, whilst con-

Then there was another kind possibly agreeable doom. I read the money with other people. world does not contain a better. scious of some of the dis-

Thoreau's "Walden," and my And that would not be a bad A better wireless fiction- advantages of

book-invariably institutional of

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 225 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 picasant 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- inbourer'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 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.

me £25 a year, that I was not a rich man. If I It takes a lot of thinking. Books of this kind 1 nobody gave ganised effort in the way of deed. 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

You must not think, however that my

People Who Make You Feel Small

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

to be made on the want the money to keep. I apparent reason at all, seem to he says nothing and simply at the end of a letter is calculat the risk put you at a disadvantage when lights up, wait thirty seconds ed to give him a feeling of in-

and then quite casually take feriority. Never run tuberculosis scourge by methods wanted it only to spend.

are interviewing them?

out your own case and light al of it yourself-always type: I did not even want to be ex-you 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.

in-he smokes an inferior brand of A business chief I know keeps to build a is because you have an

if he has his juniors in place by listening funds do not permit of the pro- enough to be ablo

sann-large house in the country with feriority complex, but that does cigarettes, and even vision of a Government 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 saying, "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?" Said

entertain Mr. Joseph height, and deal with them on superior position.

If you interview people in an impression that in any case it lines of the Peiping tuberculosis could

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 putting 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 tion. On the other hand, if younge about fifteen and puts you Medical College operates this,

found they all used devices which are offered a low chair, say you on top.

Nothing is calculated better the only anti-tuberculosis clinic that whatever the actual means immediately gave them the ad-would prefer to stand. Walking in China. It is attached to the adopted both for the prevention vantage. In many cases, I be about a room, stopping occasion- to make a man feel inferior than hospital, by whom the salaries and cure of the disease, there 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. of the professional staff are can be no hope of anything ap-

writing 80 paid, all other coats being met proaching elimination of tuber 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 from the endowment fund. culosis until the magses

fact that you consider one half We don't necessarily want to gives you the advantage. 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.

Become a specialist in the or body of recovery, but something more the other man feel small, at least is talking to a Mr. Smith, he al- spirited citizen,

ways calls him Mr. Brown. Isclence of making the other man citizens, to step into the breach. than that is needed; they must you meet him on equal terms.

Here are a few tricks of this used to think it was just a bad feel inferior, and you will find But, when all is said, a duty lies be able subsequently to live in 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 aides 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.. oase 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- say that you do not smoke, but remembering. Better than call- become the most hated man in. Hoing him quite a different name Britain, but that is a detail com- the years should roll on with no paganda. Most important of all, simply shake your head. organised attack being made the conditions which conduce to must then ceither go without as changing his name slightly. pared to the importance of feel-

Julian Davidson....... locally on tuberculosis, The the creation und spread of the cigarette, which will probably If his name is Mason call him ing superior.

ahnke his nerve, or say "You Bason. thought still recurs, however, 'disease must be abolished.

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