Governor Luh is still paralyzed, but has great hopes of speedy recovery at the hand of the Taoist priest, who, he believes, brought the rain to us last month, "The exorcist offered to kill himself if the rain did not come in three days, The Enst Gate was to be closed, and no women allowed on the streets, Rain fell next day, and now our ghostly friend has promised to cure the Governor inside of three weeks, He will doubtless find the task impossible, but such men usually leave themselves a loophole of escape, whereby the blame for their failures may be transferred to some other quarter, All Educated People Engaged in Debating It Manila, July 27, The advisability of birth control jhas been agitating the minds of educated Filipinos recently. The discussion was started by a lecture by Professor Henry 8. Townsend, of the sociology department of the University of the Philippines, in which he advocated birth control as a necessary ire to avoid over-population its attendant evils of poverty, lerime and disease.
Father Ferdinand Haberstroh, 's.1., chaplain of one of the Univer: ity dormitories, took issue with Frofessor Townsend, and as a tesult of his efforts, a resolution was passed by a large number of University students condemning birth control and pledging them: selves to have nothing to do with it, A lady instructor at the Univer then took up the cudgels in favour of birth control, and Present the question debated by priests, professors, inwyers and students, in the tive press and in university and_reli societies—Reuter's THE widow of the unfortunate Ji Yen-ching, ence powerful trea surer to the Tsia Kun administra: tion, is reported to have recently suicide. Following the Li was one of the frst of the former regime to be arrested and Jater taken from prison in a cart, dumped out and shot. When his property was confiseuted, Li's widow took refuge with her infant in the Catholic church at Hsi Chih Ku. Lately pressed by her hus. band's creditors and being without means, the young woman—said to be but' 30, ended her life by taking opium.
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