The Value of a Combine 14 deaths, Last year this was Towered to 1,087 cases and nine The decision of the Interns deaths. Endless propaganda goes Steel Cartel to reduce the output of fonvand there are regular lectures Steel by some three million tons this and courses in prevention of malaria year is not so serious as it might for schoolteachers as well as doctors Appear at first flush. It amounts ses, Where ground cannot only to a reduction of very much less mosquito-traps are used, than ten per cent. on. the annual tly improved output of the whole of the members 'a notoriously malarial the combine. Whereas, the it once was—as Osita telegram states that some 57 Belgian Antica, the site of the ancient firms ave foreed to reduce their ro-Roman port at the mouth of the duction by ten per cent., in effect, Tiber. Of the old days, before the this amount of failure to produce connection of mosquitoes and is spread over a large number of malaria was properly understood, a producing firms throughout the Jevrivas incident comes to mind. The Whole of Europe. So that workers, Trappists used to have; no doubt not onl? in Belgium, but in the rest still have, a large monastery a little of the Northern European countries way out of Rome, on the Via Appia fare faced with the possibility of a if we remember. Naturally many very small diminution of demand lof them died of malaria, Somehow upon their time. The general effect they discovered that eucalyptus trees of such a decision is very much along were a protection and they planted purely lines of rubber restriction, these thickly all about the Supposing this latter can be made a8 monastery. Incidentally, the Trap-eneral as the Steel Cartel is made pists used to brew a peculiar liqueur on the Continent, If an immediate from the trees, which they offered reduction can be spread all over to all visitors." The trees certainly the whole body instead of being were a protection, though not quite lumped upon those immediately con-the monks supposed. Mosquitoes corned, the loss of earnings is dif-apparently do not like eucalyptus, fused instead of being centralized they steered clear of the monastery and the general effect is that earn-fan there was no more malaria, ings instead of being reduced by ten per cent, in any localized area, are reduced to some immeasurable Spoon-feeding China percentage over the whole of the There seems to be a growing pro-body politic involved in the test among. the younger Chinese ment. It is possible that if some againat the constant raising of funds such arrangement applied to most of for Chinese charities and public the major trades of the world, a movements in the United States. great deul of distress may be obviate "China To-morrow"," radical ed. Tt may not always publication in Peking, recently economically true, but the experi= ritieized the policy of "spoon feed~ mont which certain industrialists are ing" China by Americans, but what trying both in Europe and America, many Chinese fail to' realize is may establish principles on which a that their own people so to the closer relationship between capital United States and appeal to chant and labour may ultimately be found-ably-inclined individuals, usually women, for huge sums of money, often to be expended in this country, San Francisco Gets Air-Minded on projects which are fantastic in In connection with our San China but might be laudable in a Francisco correspondent's article to-stabilized country. For instance, day on the huge growth of New the American people were led to York's sky-serapers, a Californian believe by a huge campaign, of reader writes:—A few years ago publicity that James Yen's Mass any California Jack-in-the-Beanstalkc Education Movement was identical might have climbed up to the first with the Renaissince Movement and sprout and had an. adequate view that his experiment station in Chibli fof every nook and cranny of San Province would lead to overcoming Francisco, That is, providing th iliteraey in China. No one who thas lived in China for any length of beanstalk grew on top of Russiay time could. possibly have mistaken Hill, Toslay San Franciveo is suc-cumping, it may be improvidently, to the rather feeble thousand-character movement with the mighty Pai Hua the practicality of the sky-scraper.
New York erects, with no great Movement, which has in a very short amount of comment, eighty storeys of period of a little more than a decade fixed. the Mandarin dialect as. the steel and thinks nothing of it. But half that amount of height in San national language of China. Similar-Francisco 8 something to think are told. now that an effort will be made in the United States, about. For San Francisco is constituted that, when a building to raise money for Child. Welfare begins to grow tall and take a look China. Nothing can possibly appeal round, it must wear stilts, The more to tender-hearted people than the need for children of better care charm of San Francisco may, be changed, but it can never be im than they receive in this country. But oth these problems, that is the palyed enrively by modern architecture. For a tall building walking problem of giving the Chinese people tin elementary education and child up a hill, or sitting sedately on the welfare, are essentially government water front, or poking its nose up from one of the million California problems. No private fund can be hollows, ig still chained inevitably: to saficientiy large nor can n private Uedy arouse oF develop sufficient the age-old landscape. There wilt never be a uniform level of ease-authority to deal with either gestion adequately. The national, ments for housewifely gossip in that city. A morning greeting from the vineial and district governments in China raise enough macy in taxa-twelfth oer of one apartment house may have to float down a hundred ion every. year to provide ample fands for elementary education and fect to reach its also twelfth-storey recipient next door. And as for to make some efforts to improve sanitary conditions and the fact that clouds, one may hang them out to the militarists consume almost all from the top of a bungalow on Twin Peaks, or from the roof-garden the resources of the country and
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