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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1037,

Food For Thought

On Wednesday afternoon Un- official Members of the Legis-| lative Council withheld approval of an additional vote of $62,000 to feed prisoners in Hongkong

until gaola the the end of

year, in spite of the fact that the Govern- ment is under contract to pay at the rate of $11.50 per person per month. It was intimated by the the Colonial Secretary that Nutrition Commission is going Into the matter of prisoners" food very deeply, and that for that reason the inquiry into costs is being held up. The fact that the Council left over the $62,000 vole means nothing, for, as Mr. Caine, Financial Secretary and Colonial Treasurer, sald: "The costs have to be met. They are under a contract."

Unoilleials, headed by the Hon.

healthy.

Don't worry about the Dominions. They are able to look after themselves and are doing it so effectively that in some places labour is beller organised, and wages ardhigher, than here at homel

It is the Crown Colonies, the amaller British possessions, which provide such cause for worry that three quite separate Commissions of Inquiry are now investigating labour unrest.

And oven those Commissions of Inquiry were refused until 'discontent, which had been simmering for months past, bolled

when workers demanding Wage increases clashed with the police and forced the hands of the authorl-

tics,

over

Riots, it seems, were neces- sary before the authorities would listen to reason.

A

ND there have been riots in plenty. In the magnificently wooded Isle of Trinidad employers' in-, difference to workpeople's claims set loose the fury of the mob. Street fighting caused eleven deaths.

In Barbados, struggling to main- population of 1,000 to the tain square mile, six more were killed In hand-to-hand battles in the streets which lasted for 36 hours.

of Un the sugar plantations Mauritius, in the sugar factories and on the clocks men have ceased work to adopt violent tactics as restrained appeals for improved conditions have gone unheeded.

In Jamaica boatmen and trans- port workers have been striking for a minimum wage. In coral-girt the Caribbean Sea, Inagua, in nalives have risen, too: and pro- duced the pretty spectacle of a British Commissioner beating a hasty retreat in a small boat.

All these strikers are, according to the dogmatists of the Right, pala apliators all the way from Muscow. provoking the Innocent and ignorant to disorder.

OF

F course, it is true that Jamong the strikers I

There some rodhonds, always are. But a vast majority are ordinary, decent living people, black and white, asking for little more than slightly higher wages J. J. Paterson, were sharply. and slightly lower working hours. critical of the prison food conWhen you know-how they live. tract, and with reason. It was.| Mr. Paterson who pointed out that Government was paying $11.50 a month for each inmate. Anyone with any experience of servants or Chinese employees in Hongkong, is well aware that the

average adult can live quite com- Tortably on $6 per month for food, Coolies working for 20

cents a day, without any of the

you wonder that the strikes and riots have been so long postponed. : in Trinidad 40,000 workers

To-day's Thought-

PEACE cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

ALBERT EINSTEIN.

OUTPOST

Picture postcard view.

earned an average of is. 8d. a day -and that only during seasonal periods working for the oil and sugar klags.

The Governor of Trinidad, Bir Arthur Murchison Fletcher-w10 hopes that he will not be desig- nated a turbulent person "--says frankly that "the standard of living, the state of malnutrition among many of the workers, is the very lowest I have witnessed."

T hardly could be other- wise.

In these islands the workpeople live on preelous little more than, bread fruit and water-a dlet not exactly overloaded with vitamins.

And even the bread fruit has not For been too plentiful of late. while the cost of living has soared throughout the Colonial Empire. wages have remained virtually un- changed, working hours long and arduous.

Unheeded, that spells trouble, Hence the riots in Trinidad, Hence the mob violence in Mauri- tlas-where wages are as low as id. A day, and whore old age pen- slons, health insurance, trade union and parliamentary repre- sentation are unheard of.

Social services? The term is utterly unknown. Democraile franchise? Well, in Mauritius the population totals nearly 400,000; and in the last elections electors numbered fewer than 10.000.

No votes, no socini services, long hours, low pay, none of the legit- mate opportunities of securing re-

amenities that go with prison BATTLES IN BIRDLAND

EACH year I

han an interested spectator of a battle royal be- tween swifts and sparrows. It hop-

life, manage to keep healthy. A

Now this is no easy matter, as the servant's food allowance in a

sparrows get reinforcements to defend private household is generally

their territory. I noticed the spar- rows are no match in combat for the about $6 a month, and sometimes pens thus. less. A family of five can live on Under the caves of my bedroom swills, as the long, powerful wings, short legs, and murderous claws of $20 decently. Just why prisoners window in a quiet border town are the swift make him a formidable an- the hubbub require almost twice the amount are several mesting holes, the usual tagonist. Great was needed to feed the average swifts. Before the swifts arrive from with Bluff and tealhers flying, the worker in Hongkong may be dis overseas the sparrows are in posses- shrieking of the swifts, and the jib closed by the pending investiga-son and busy renting their broods. bering of the sparrows.

No sooner had the swifts arrived than tion.

They started electing the sparrows Complete Rout pell-mell.

Isolation Hospital

summer resort of three

pairs of

But there is another side.

dress for their grievances-you! sce the intense dissatisfaction

which is the real background 10 disorder.

What to do about it?

Well, his grace the Duke of Mon- troso has told the Government one way of coping with the situs- tion.

"Form a defence force for Trin- dad," he said, "and station a man- of-war and part of the Ficet Alr Arm in the Harbour."

That's the way-that's the way If you want more wild riotlog and bloody battles in the streets, it you want to perpetuate a grim under- current of discontent which every so often will flare up into some- thing even men-of-war and parts of the Flect Ale Arm can't stop.

Another way seems simpler, In Whitehall there is the Colo-

-by-

S. E. R. WYNNE

nial Office, from which are ruled 06,000,000 people, mostly coloured,

vatelessthe mostly

disfran chised millions who populate those outposts of Empire you hear so much about.

You would think that the Colo- nlat Oca would be dealing with the situation. You would think It possessed a Labour Department, keeping abreast with the funda mental chianges taking place throughout the

Colonics: the rapid development of exploitation, the new industrialisation, the break-up of the old tribal life.

HERE is no such Depart ment. There is an Inter- departmental Committed, which deals with odd problems as and when they arise-a committer of Civil servants from various Ministries, which has made some useful inquiries.

drafted

useful ordinauices.

some

But It is hardly

adequate. Some- thing much more representative of men. who know the technical and practical problems of the Colonies, of men experienced in labour legislation and trade anton organisation-that

needed.

is

what

And within a Labour Depart- ment they could get to work: in- stituting minimum wage laws and the inspection of labour conditions now so rare, establishing minimum standards for health, producing some sort of order from the chaos in which a new social environment is being crested.

For these things the Empire's forgotten men appeal. To deny them means to continue repres

make fro sivo legislation, to association still more difficult, to increase the growth of sedition ordinances.

And that in turn means. more rlots in Mauritius, more street battles in Trinidad.

A Physician discusses a

KEEP-FIT

VITAMIN

FRESH fruits and vegetables la variety are harder to come by during the winter, but provided that oranges and lemons, which are plen- tiful, are used as substitutes, no harm will result from a lack of those Important articles of diet.

These fruits are important because they contain Vitamin.C. Nowadays one seldom sten cases of scurvy, ex- cept in mifants, yet this disease is occasioned by lack of that vitamin,

It should be remembered, however, that if your diet contains too ille, your health will suffer. Scurvy is not A skin diseast, although the skin and the lining membrane of the mouth and Bums suffer.

In acute cases, pains in the joints, swelling of the limbs,, great weakness and bleeding take place. in infants, lack of Vitamin O causes pallor of the skiu, frelsuints and loss of weight

Mild cance of vitamin deficiency usually how signs of pyorrhea, and the teeth become loose, The skin ir slow in healing niter a wound

Long before this vitamin was even thought of, cazes of "scurvy used to break out amongst suilors engaged on long voyages, för in those days-the fifteenth century-facilities for Ho Ing fruits and vegetables were scant.

No sooner had the wwifis ejected the sparrows than they began pulling It has been the practice in the such an institution is not im-out their nests-straws, feathers, and past when a patient at Kowloon mediate, it is impossible to tell es being strewn upon the ground. The cratwhite checky sparrows, foil- ber hospital required to be isolated when the emergency whi

cd, eat a hasly retreat. Now the that one of the private rooms upon us. The cost of a big in-swifts are in undisputed possession, was used. Such a system, where' fectious diseasca hospital, prob-busy with their broods. private rooms are plentiful and ably between $100,000 and $200 the Market place a huge heron loom- One day, while I was standing In the patient is not suffering from 000, is more than Government is cd in sight. As it neared the Abbey one of the more dangerous, or willing to afford at present. But Tower a platoon of jackdaws who what might be called "violent" a little six-bed isolation ward at make thig their castle, sallied forth diaenscs, is reasonably satisfac-Kowloon, and the 50 beds at and gave battle to the lordly heron. Safeguards at Sea

Some circled round him, others at-

viciously. The attacking. It was 'noiled, however, flat when tory. But the system was parti Konnedy Town are not going to tacked

the crew were given daily doses of cularly unsatisfactory in Kow-be of much use in dealing with parly pursued him up the Jed water-

orange or lemon juice they did not de toon because of the dearth of an opidemic of the future. When nie, where the heron was beaten to private room space-there are It is considered that 320 beds in earth. What the cause of the attack velop the disease. Research has gone ahract glace then, and it has now been was one can only conjecture.

Crossing a meadow recently I was scurvy is lack of Vitamin C.

established that the real cause of only six available. The passing (G.C.H. were occupied when the of the vote for $9,500, with cholera epidemic was at its peak, Intrigued by the calls and aerial evo- a flock of green plover. which to build an isolation block the importance of early legisla-lutions of

The tause was apparent, as a at Kowloon comes under the tion in respect to new infectious

bparrow-hawk hovered overbend, heading of essential legislation. diseases quarters is readily pern was surprising to see these "harm- As a matter of fact $7,500 was ceived. The old G.C.H. has out-lea birds form into mass forination! Then, in order of richness, come to voted for this work previously, lived its days of usefulness, as a drive the hawk from their breed- and yesterday's item was the the medical authorities, will be grounds,

samo one, with $2,000 extra the first to admit. It should be Magpie' v. Crow

Nevertheless, it

added, for it was found that the torn down.

omusement by their antics.

hia, vitamin la present in fresh fruits and vegetables in varying amprints. The greatest are to be found in lemons, oranges, genpa fruit, apoach, watercress, and cabbage.

matces, fresh pineapple, green peas, And #wede tilps.

Grapes-that popular invalid trul ---contain Ille Vitamin . It requiring 14 parts of grape julee to one of ordage Juice to produce equal amounts of this One cunto of omnge juice

represents the minimum necessary, for one day's supply,

The housewife should remember that Vitamin ✪ destroyed by heat. If any of the above foods need to be cooked, brisk bolling for a short period' Is least likely to do harm.

It is the neilon of oxygen which dam. ages the vitamin. If you allow fruit or vegetables to simmer the oxygen is not driven off quickly enough. It remains in contact with the food under ideal conditions of warmsih until it causes destruction.

Tie Bame effect takes place when you add soda to the water in which vegetables are bolled. This chemical preserves the colour, but does harm.

So, too, with milk. the staple diet of the infant, When milk has been pas teurised it fases, a good deal of Vitamin C. And when chemicals like citrata are added to make it more enlly digested, the same thing happens.

Baby's Daily Dose

That is why infants are liable to scurvy, and why it is advisabis to give daily doses of orange juice to make good such deficiency,

Oxygen eeting on fruits and vege- tables alike destroys Vitamin C. Fresh orange juice every morning, which is so recessary for the infant, and so good for adulta, too, should always be made just before it is required,

..

Iz i no good preparing it overnight in order to save time in the morning Exposed, to the air.it will lose much of to value. The fact that apples turn brown when cut is due to the action of oxygen,

To sum up: Everyone should bass. fresh fruit and vegetables daily, different variaties are difficult to get 'during the sunless days of winter, oranges and lemons may be bad at ali limes, and are just as väluable,

robins fight for territorial rightst One day I came upon a pair at denili trips. When I released them they were gasplug and all blood-bespatter- ed, totally knocked out with their

rim fight."

I find that the most inoffensive of our sinniter birds will at times show

first plans were not sufficiently was a blessing that this old There is an old elm tree I know

vitamin. mangpic. Hern extensive. They did not include building stood vacant to receive well. sacred to the in kitchen and linen closet.

the sufferers in Ilongkong's most these incorrigible roguca reor thei But the Isolation block at recent epidemic. This Colony progeny, giving the writer no end of making a weird sound, This violent Aght. Even the delightful little blue Kowloon is only a small and cannot afford to bo unprepared One morning a pair of crown came 4ssault was too much even for the, it will peek and hiss when your hand self-defence is a noble attribute, for temporary affair. It does not for such visitations in the future. nosing around the tree. From their hefty crows, and they fied precipitate invades its nest. Their entelty for Among our analler birds the robin' Nature has decreed that what cantot for a moment remove the neces-Until a new hospital is available, lower the magples enllied with startly from their tormentorn.

ing auddenness and set upon them must with all the fores of body, wings, and is the most pugnacious. He is no defend itself is not worth preving. sity for an Infectious Diseases presumably, the G.C.H.

3. Tumbull Altken member of this pence society. How Hospital, and, while the need for korve.

feet, the cries of the combatants