SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1932.
Next Step In Evolution
PROF. HALDANE AND MAN'S FUTURE
DEGENERATION OR ADVANCE.
.DID GOD CREATE THE PARASITE?
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2
COMMITTED FOR
TRIAL.
Italian Consulate
Clerk.
FORGERY CHARGE.
At the Central Magistracy before Mr. Schofield yesterday afternoon, Le Che-hung, an office-boy employed at the Italian Consulate General in evil. Kayamally Bullding, was committed
THE CHINA MAIL
A £700,000 Joke
!
INTERESTING ANECDOTE
CECIL RHODES
FORTUNE IN A BUCKET.
·DIAMOND DEALERS
ARE FOOLED
How Cecil Rhodes tipped £600,000 De Beers' office.
OF
whole
Come along, What will be the next step in the the knowledge of good and
This may conceivably be true. But for trial at the June Assizes on or £700,000 worth of diamonds into Brink, put them away."
Brink was the expert who had process of evolution?
this change is not chronicled as charges of uttering a forged cheque a bucket is one of many stories told
An intensely gripping book, classified the stones. Man, the present climax of the Man's ascent to reason,' or 'Man's for $800 at the National City Bank In
Then came Rhodes' blow. He evolutionary process-how will be new nature," but "Man's shameful of New York, and, alternatively, "South African Memories," by the
with demanding the sum by means late Sir J. Percy Fitzpatrick, au- strolled across the room, spoke to develop? Will he have a successor? fall."
thor of the famous "The Transvaal Brink from the head of the trough These are among the points dis. "If evolution, guided by mind of a false document.
Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith (Assis-From Within."
containing the diamonds grouped on cussed by Professor J. B: S. Haldane for a thousand million years, had in his latest book, "The Causes of only got as far as man, the outlook tant Crown Solleitor) appeared for
Sir Percy, a brilliant Irishman, the overlapping sheets of white Evolution," which was published re- for the future would not be bright. the Crown, and disclosed two factors born in South Africa, was a friend paper.
The open end of the trough over- We could expect very alow progress which they claim led to the arrest of Rhodes and knew much aboutTM cently (Longmans: 7s 6d).
the inside of South African history, hung a bucket, and Rhodes, without Prof. Haldane advances two ohjat best. But if now, for the first of the accused.
The first factor was an insuf-Before his death last year he hand- saying a word, just lifted his end of jections to the argument of any time, the possibility has arisen of,
evolu mind taking charge of the process, ficiency of Consular funds at the ed the manuscript of this book to the trough and shot the Divine intervention in the
things are more hopeful.
Bank officials finding themselves un Mr. G. H. Wilson, the South African £600,000 or £700,000 worth of dia- They are:
That was #onary process.
"We certainly, do not know able to allow the draft without re journalist, who prepared it for monds Into the bucket. "Most lines of descent end in
It is just published why the sheets of paper overlapped extinction. This does not suggest enough at present to guide our ference to the Consul General; and publication. own evolution, but we have only the second factor was the unusual (Cassella).
-to give the diamonds a slick run. the work of an intelligent de-
been accumulating the knowledge enlour of the accused's hair, which signer, still less of an almighty
This particular story of Rhodes He then turned and strolled out of necessary for such guidance dur-led to identification, It is alleged,
and the Jews was told to Sir Percy. i one."
"Believe me," said Sir David ing a single generation.
by Bank officials after his arrest.
Fitzpatrick by Sir David Harris, the oldest living director of De Beers, Harris as he told Sir Percy Fitz- and an associate of Rhodes In the patrick the story, "the faces of our people were a treat. The whole Kimberley days when Rhodes was
work of sorting was wiped out in amalgamating the diamond mines.
one second. and for six or eight De Beers' Expert.
months the entire output was kept Rhodes had, in, the course of off the market as surely as if it
a com had been locked in De Beers' safe... amalgamation, bought up pany with a collection of diamonds worth £600,000 or £700,000.
"A number of species hitve evolved into parasites, and now
"There is at least a hope that in inflict pain upon others of their the next few thousand years the If God made such things, speed of evolution may be vastly in- kind, it is questionable whether it fits creased and its methods made less.
we know brutal If human evolution con- in either with what
about the process of evolutions, tinued in the same direction as in or what many of us helleve about the immediate past, the superman of the future would develop more the moral perfection of God." Professor Haldane remarks that slowly than we, and be teachable the rising generation of biologists, for longer.
"Man, the Primitive."
•
DOCTOR WEDS, Ceremony at Registrar's Office.
The
NICHOLSON - LARSEN.
mother's dress was of fuscia flower-i ed chiffon.
chairman of
and
the room.
GLASGOW BOBBY TELLS OFF "CHIEF".
Pointsmen and Politeness.
SAD MISTAKE.
one ad- "He would retain in maturity At the Registrar's Office yester-
It was urgent that these dia- to which he belongs, has vantage at least over its predeces-some characteristic which most of day afternoon the marriage took monds should not be thrown sors that they obtained no thrillus lose in childhood. Certain shades place of Dr. Murdo Nicholson, the the market suddenly, but Rhodes from attacking either theological or of the prison-house would never well-known local practitioner, toj had determined, an biblical orthodoxy. Eminent theolo- close about him. He would prob- Miss Victoria Kathleen Larsen, the the amalgamation, that he would gians had accepted evolution, and ably be more intelligent than we daughter of Mrs. Henry H. Larsen. not act as a diamond dealer, eminent biologists denied natural but distinctly less said and solemn.
ceremony was held at the plan was therefore conceived for Risk of Degeneration. selection.
"The usual course taken by an dressed in
Registrar's Office, the bride being selling the diamonds to the dealers'
in South Africa while ensuring a gown of white or- "We can probably," he proceeds, evolving line has been one of degandie, embroidered d'anglaise, with that their distribution to the world
Glasgow, May 5, to ma alto-
What did the pointsman say to "explain evolution in terms of the generation. It seems
De Beers' cleverest expert spent. capacity for variation of individual gether probable that man will take white picture hat, while the bride's market should be delayed.
weeks In classifying the diamonds the Chief Constable, and what did organiams, and the selection exercis-this course unless he takes conscious
Mr. A reception was subsequently held according to size, colour, shape, the Chief retort to him?
Sillitoc is not known to ed on them by their environment. control of his evolution within the
cleavages, flaws, estimates of how This excludes the action of a mind 'next few thousand years. or minds higher than that of the "It may very well be that mind, at the American Club.
The bride's going away dress was they would turn out when cut, and every constable in the city yet, and
many other factors. Rhodes then neither is the fast Alvis ho drives. 90 at our level, is not adequate for! a white sports outfit. evolving individuals, except in
An amusing story is told of, how far as such a mind is concerned in such a task, probably on account of
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. summoned all the principal dia- the general nature of the universe its emotional rather than intellec-Alfred J. Paimer of the Union Imond dealers, and in the board- he drew up sharply at a certain offices they crossing and earned for himself a tual deficiencies. If that is the and its laws."
are, perhaps, the rather surance Society of Canton, and Miss Regarding the position of the case we
worth of diamonds arranged in pointsman. human race. Professor Haldane re- sorry climax of evolution, and less Isabelle Norton, of Yorkshire, Eng- found the $600,000 or £700,000 few admonitory words from the "But I didn't see your hand up," can be said in favour of existence land, were married at St. Joseph's
neat classified groups on sheets of They later left for Shang-white paper lying in a Church
wooden expostulated the Chief... hai on their honeymoon.
trough a foot wide, with sides, and many feet long.
an than many of us suppose.
marks!
"Man of to-day is probably extremely primitive and imperfect type of rational being. worse
of mechanical troubles.
SCOUT SURVEYORS.
room
of De Beers'
"In my moments of wilder specu- He is a lation I sometimes go further. I animal than the monkey. imagine that associated with an
Naming His Price. His erect posture leads to all sorts evolving line there may be some
The sheets of paper overlapped 'emergent' just as mind is associat- Boy Scouts of the Hitchin Gram- ed with brain.
mer School Troop have been making each other, like the tiles of a roof. Bible and "the Fall."
Rhodes explained that the stones "My suspicion of some unknown a crop and pasture survey of} "The last stage in man's evolu- tion certainly has its dark side. type of being associated with evolu- Hitchin and District for the local had been most carefully classified, so that they could be exactly valued, You will find a highly symbolic ac- tion is my tribute to its beauty, and Regional Survey Association. They and he invited the assembled dealers
queerness have marked on Ordnance Survey count of it in the second chapter of to that inexhaustible the Bible.
which is the main characteristic of sheets the crops and pasturage of to make a joint offer for the dia
monds. They could agree among "Our first parents are represent the universe that has impressed it- the fields, thus helping the Associa themselves how they divided the ed as living in a state of ignor- self on my mind during twenty-five tion and improving their knowledge diamonds: what he wanted was
of map reading at the same time.cash sale of the whole lot. ance, and then suddenly acquiring years of scientific work."
MORE ABOUT INDIAN
SUPERSTITION.
Broken Engagement and Witchcraft.
are
Shooting Affray In City
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He then walked out of the room, leaving the assembled dealers examine the stones at their 'leisure.
Eventually, after he had returned and refused one offer, Rhodes named his price.
"What do you think, I am-the bloomin' Statue of Liberty?" de- manded the constable.
Ordered To "Drive On." After a few more words on the
subject, the Chief Constable reveal- ed his identity, and ordered the policeman to parade before him at his office the following morning.
But the pointsman scoffed at the idea that this was hls Chief, and ordered him to drive on and behave himself.
A Bergeant who had been an eye-| witness of the incident strolled over and inquired genially, "What was the Chief saying to you?"
The pointsman gasped: "Was that the Chief?"
He spent a discomfited day, and next day was "on the carpet."
Warning Wave Ignored.
CENTRAL THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
at 2.30, 5.15, 7.17 & 9.30 PM.
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Sir David Haris told Sir Percy that the dealers realised that even The Chief evidently was inter Members of the staff caught | Japanese Consulate. He must at Rhodes" price they would make ested in this "bloomin' Statue of him as he collapsed and placed have gone directly there after a profit on the re-sale, and each Liberty" allusion, and was inform- Own ed that the pointsman had pre- FLESH IN SEALED PACKET.
him in a chair. In the interval the shooting at Butterfield and one of them thought in his
Swire's. Once in the offices he mind that he himself would be Patna, May 8..
Chan Fuk escaped out on Con-opened fire wounding Mr. M./able "to get in first (as "old Dave viously been a sailor..
The pointsman was admonished to be more polite. in future and Fears of witchcraft in revenge naught Road to be heard from Hirata, one of the Consulate Harris" said) and resell very quick- for the breaking of of an engage-again a few minutes later at the Chancellors, and Mr. K. Minaly and at a good profit what he was
purchasing. mide, a clerk.
Of course we knew ordered to attend the school of ment, and the receipt of a sealed Japanese Consulate.
"to learn how to give proper packet containing a piece of flesh,
He then crawled under a desk the enormous advantage to us of traffic signals for several months
signala."! features of an extraordinary There were no eye-witnesses to in the Chancellor's room and buying well-classified stones."""
The story goes that another drama now being investigated by the actual shooting of Woo Pak shot himself in the head. Mr. There were the dismonds before the Patna City police.
luk but from broken statements Minamide was seriously wounded, their eyes, all set out in groups sc Sonar, a resident of Patna City, by Mr. Woo Hay-tong, it seems the bullet penetrating his abdo cording to value. If they were not policeman pulled up the Chief's car suddenly broke off negotiations for that the son met his death try-men.
Mr. Hirata was shot classified it would take months to and a friend in the back seat tried his daughter's marriage with the ing to protect his father. through the shoulder and his classify them before they could be to give the constable a warning son of another man named Jangli Chan Fuk wis known to be wound is not considered serious, divided up in shares among the wave not to put his foot in It
Later in the afternoon the body dealers and then put on the market. But the constable did not twig, heavily involved by gambling that his daughter should marry losses. He came to his uncle of Pak Luk still lay in a pool of Not a diamond could be sold until, and demanded to know."And what Jealous, and keenly hurt that his office at 2.30 pm, and demanded blood on the office floor just as that, was done do you think you are waving at? family should thus have been slight $25,000, to settle his debts. It is it was after he had fallen. The dealers mainly. Jews-
houra of duty, on crossing ed, Jangli and his supporters are understood that the uncle did not There they brought his wife, his eventually agreed to Rhodes price in fact all Chief Constable mother, his brothers and his Then Rhodes told them Impressive. Sulitos, has been rearranging the alleged to have sent anonymous let refuse him but tried to explain sisters and the usually quietly that, although he could make 20 ters to Sonar threatening to bring that it would take time to raise faces of the shipping firm het contract with them, binding them to and now each man is only four disaster upon them by means of the money. Those outside heard with their lamentations.
of the same locality, and arranged
Faudar's son.
.
voices raised in anger. It ap- witchcraft.
Sonar also received a sealed pics pears that first Chan Fuk drew 'ket, but, alarmad at the threats and his revolver and fired on Hay- fearing that if the packet were tong, missing him. Pak Luk im- opened in bin house, his family mediately intervened and the would become ill and die, he took murderer turned his gun on him the packet to Mr. Nand Lall Singh, shooting him through the chest officer in charge of the Chowk Police Pak Luik died almost instantly Station, who took it to an Honorary according to the doctors, off Magistrate. "The Magistrate opan-It was discovered later that ed the packet, and to the horror of Hay-Tong was wounded in the all. It was found to contain back and he was remo plece of f
The desh, it is reported, has, be
Chemical Expert 1
continuing the investiga
goingat
the
#LOCAL SHOWERS. ES
reported issued Observatory at
More New Pointamen, spon
The Chiaf - beleves'
hold the stones off the market, they hours on duty instead of eight, knew how disastrous it would be spending the rest of his time on a to have the market flooded boat. with such a number of stones, and he trusted them hours it too long not to bring about the very quently result which the
of traine
the mines, was inte
But
Tuch
trol,
ticed this
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RONALD
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