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Fantastic prospect for the human race,
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if the dream of scientist visionaries ever becomes reality:
Longevity Via The Laboratory And TheAssembly Line?
By A. CARNEY
SPARE parts for human beings are becoming
commonplace-so commonplace that before very long a man or woman with an artificial heart, lung, kidney or the like may be as unremarkable as a war veteran with an artificial limb.
at a wondrous era wherein "All men will be handsome, healthy, rtrong and intelligent. .and will five for two hundred years
Indeed, there are some scien- tist who consider that in the course of time the creating of artificial organs may be dove, loped to such a ne art of or more." perfection that they will be much preferred to those with which nature has endowed a even though the latter are in good working order."
According to these prophets who favour artificially, the human body is drastically
re- stricted by its material struc- ture of flesh and blood and bone. They argue that because it is composed merely of flesh. blood and bone it is after oil bound to be exceedingly un- equal to the upon it.
demands
VARIETY
made
built of
Whereas if it could be of D far greater variety materials, each specially suited or adapted to the specific tasks required of it, the body would stand up far better to the wear and tear of life on this earth of ours.
Such Is
the contention of these visionarles in the realm of selence, and the possibility at
Jean Rostand, now in his six- te, is among France's leading He has written selentsis. relentific books which sell as readily as novels. He has delved deeply Into the mysteries of heredity and reproduction, and he ho prophesied a world in which
will have children without men being concerned in the miracle of pro- pagation-a world, too. in which brilliant Intellect as well as good looks will be distributed to fortunate generations
women
of
mankind. Els latest astonishing book on the future that could be in store for the human race was published a thort time a "Can
Man Be Modifed?" published (in Great Britain) by Secker and Warburg.
It is debateable how great proportion of the human race would really welcome the prospect of being able to live to the exceedingly ripe old age of two hundred or more,
rift
Life is all too short, say some. But to live for centuries, even onco suggests itself of the or if artificiality brought the dinory man or woman becoming of prolonged vigour would a robot-like creature consisting that be so desirable to all of us?
of a soul encased in a manufac
fured frame-becoming in fact,
body.
A DIET
expect
very
“ስ extraordinary man or wo- mon with a non-human
Before you answer the ques-, and with replacements at hand tien for yourself, remind your- which would seem to guarantee self that you could not Hie unending.
to retire from work at o Another body of scientific active sixty-five or thereabouts, opinion sees immense scope in and go on living in robust health laboratory for another hundred and thirty- the development of techniques concerned with the five years in a fat pension--or at culture of animal (issue.
the expense of young folk. Re- Fantastic progress in this geld mind yourself, in fact, of all the of research has already been adjustments you would have to made, Laboratory experimenta- make in your outlook and your tion has demonstrated that the way of life, and consider all the organs and limbs of an animal pros and cons relating to lon- can be grown from fragments gevity,
of embryonic tissue-yes, grown under artilelal conditions, and such effect that an eye or
leg has resulted.
In
STARTLING
As it is, come folk get along praty well without the aid of
a selenie when it comes to this
question of longevity,
Take, for example, the CR9c of the เฟิล Sayeds Perslan penrants whose diet consists
THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1959.
The Darts Game
HE DIDN'T WIN-TILL HE CLOSED HIS EYES....
by MERRICK WINN
man
I HAD to leave Sidney
It was clear now this was more vulnerable than any Bradford alone in of us guessed, A pin-prick fer his London hotel and us could be for him a cata when I got back he was humour was
His cheery good a moment from weeping.
He said, angrily, to cover up: "Another half- hour I was off back to Burton."
He said he felt all wrong. He said a boller-scaler for a Kas-works had no place in
But this was not posh hotel. it and I did not know what it was until he sold later: "People kept storing.").
This was-Hif; This was one
of the pathetle penalties of
after seeing
60 years of
know
strophe.
misery.
Promise
Ile cheered up soon enough and was once more the men who, the night before, promised me to give the secing world u trial before deciding finally: "I I go blind again, I stay blind," So he and I, and the two Cambridge selenista, Richard Gregory and Miss Jenn Wallace, set out to look at London and it all fell flat,
interest.
We showed him Big Ben, the Abbey, Whitehall, and all the fol, and he looked at them
hat politely
with no
real He said of Bucking kam Palace merely: "I thought now it would have a long drive up." And added, rightly: "A drab place."
Nothing surprised him ог
disappointed him, or mado him wonder or want to know more. And wo, watching,
puzzled Kid aven
blindness Ho
that people stared.
Blind, he never felt out of place, Darkness is clussless. He had never even known what staring was. Now he know and could feel it and he hated it.
Yes, people stared. They sinred not at a boller-scaler out of place, but in pity at a blind were man. Sidney Bradford looks
Irritated. blind.
So he had gained sight and lost certainty, It showed in For we who could see found other ways.
Bind, he walked it plmost impossible really to ocross the traffic streaming understand how after 50 years streets, not fearing. Now he of blindness sight could mean was afraid.
sa little. We hope for curlesity
and marvelling, and were dis- appointed,
A Blind Man's Reluctant
Rediscovery of the world of sight
NOW TRY IT "BLIND," WE. SAID TO BIDNEY BRADFORD...
She said: "He's not seeing thon pigeons. He's just stand ing there, not using his sight at
He often deceived us, not deliberately but because he uli. wanted not to disappofuit. We met a woinan, a smart young thing in a fat fur coat and hoppity heels and he said after- words: "She was a beauty."
She was, but he could not have known. All faces look alike to him as Chinese faces do to us, and it will be weeks yet before he learns to see the differences.
Hc
never knew my face properly in all the 10 days we were together; but he knew
me
instantly by my voice, elothes, walk, even breathing. Shocked
I think he was afraid in a
of seeing women.
way
He
seemed a bit shocked by what he thought were women's bare legs, not knowing then nylons could be seen through.
Ant km told me;
always felt in my own
ital women were
It was true. Sidney Bradford was still basically a bind man. He could see but did not care. All this time he had been "eco- in largely not to let us down.
Sight for him was an extra, a fussy bit of gadgetry he neither needed, nor wanted, As un necesury as for us to learn Bratlic.
touch for Sidney Bradford was still a foggy world.
It was more than ever clear that he did not trust sight and was oven fighting becoming dependent on it. This was understandable.
against
Now
He was now 53 years grown up, with four sonses far more developed than ours are. we were asking him to scrap them and use a fifth sense he virtually knew nothing about.
Handicap
"Hu
Here it was. We had to make
Said Richard Grcgory: him caru.. So we scrapped the London, sights and took him to must be very torn-and he's the Science Museum, becauso Betting the worst of both Richard Gregory said: lover
"He worlds, He can't use bis sight machines the working properly and his other senses models might get him."
are probably not as acule an They did not first. He they were,
"In fact, sight is a handicap." looked stanily at the engines in
He cases with the wheels going round, at the antique cars and
must have been dis- the Rocket and a model world with the store.
the
appointed too, though he never said 30. He had enough vision to know what seeing is, but not enough to enjoy using it on wo do, even if he could learn to. People had told him sight was wonderful but now it was not. The noxi step Dow WAN
PART TWO
sald, just to pee: blind,"
"Now iry, it
He closed his oyes, felt the board with his finger tips and slepped back to throw, And, playing like this, he bent the loi of us.
The fear
After three days I asked him what was the most ingortant thing to him about sight so far. He said: "Life seeing things alive," meaning that the blind must often fear the world has gone dead around them,
So I asked it this meant ho wanting to see und having more had changed his mind about
operations, and he said: "No. I've not seen anything yet I'd call really beautiful, and I don't think I've missed a lot in 50 years,"
And he added: "I sun think, I was better off as 1 was in my Einpot way,"
scientists and I sat up worrying On that third night the two
about how to make this man change his mind, huppily, and remembering what he had sald about Life. I asked:
"Suppose I took him to 200
some tremendous spentacle, full of sunshine and life and dancing and colour-would that help the breakthrough?"
Richard Gregory said, cauti- ously! It's moro likely to come as a gradual process, but a sudden, overwhelming experi
crec might do it,
"It's not scientiae, but it's worth trying."
Then we came to a huge. black, and ugly thing called Wall's Beam Engine (built way 1707), which must have sinod 20 feet high and moved up and lovely, but down with e pumping motion.
Sidney Bradford watched this: "Let's get him to now I can see them I think wati's Deam. Engine for nearly his sight, not just to ace but longish Journey in the sunshine
they're ugly."
All
Wo
went
to
half an hour,-pipe in mouth, beaming; and we all beamed to do the things he liked. too because this looked like the beginning of the breakthrough. The lights
right. Trafalgar Square to show him Nelson's Column, another fcp. But he enjoyed feeding the pigeons, having them firting
At it was not. We showed around him. And it was here him a lathe and asked him what that Jean Wallace made an important discovery.
it was and he felt it all over
Con-Men's Big Haul
Amerien, the outcome of principally of curdled milk and TRADESPEOPLE all over Great Britain were By-
laborntory experiments in re bread. They in on агед production with the embryo of which has long been noted for Frogs has been interpreted in its proportion of centenarians.
A
some quarters as indicating a Sayed All Koutahi the truly momentous possibility-If younger is rather more than those experiments can be hundred years old. Nothing adapted to human beings. It specially remarkable In that. would seem, according to this you may think-but what about Interpretation, that an in Sayed All Koutahi, senior? dividual man or woman could The latter is no elder brother, be reproduced again and again He is the father. And doctora in precisely the same pattern. who have examined him have
robbed of £30,000 last year-including, a woman undertaker who lost $200 by a team of confidence tricksters who "sold" advertisements in non-existent trade directories.
MICHAEL RYAN
and said: HA lathe." And
added: "Now I can feel it t
can Der."
Feeling siil? came
a long way Örsi. ·
the
use
It was worth trying. · I asked the hospital if it was all right for Sidney Brudford to go a
and they said yus, it was a good
luca.
So what happened when we We took him to a pub to play got there, he and I, wor darts. He was happy and ho nobody's fault-as ! will, tell played not badly and then we you tomorrow.
JUST FANCY THAT
A POLICEMAN said at Leeds that while motor cycling over high ground 500 ft. above sea level he looked down and saw an aeroplane flying below him.
The pilot, 40-year-old aerial photographer Jack Braithwaite, of Parkstone-grove, Leeds, was fined £86 with £18 18s, costs for flying too low over a congested area.
RAPER Pierre Drefus, attacked by four Paris bandlis, couldn't name any of them to the police, but he provided the obesi, waist, arm, and leg measurements of the one he had been messuring for a sult,
That night we looked at the lights In Piccadilly Circus and these he loved. He kept saying "Wonderful... lovely...." and knew the difference between mauve and violet, which was more than I did for certain, Colour clearly was important to him. These frauds started in a big and when the phoney returned company and then returned and Madame Tussaud's on way early in 1950, when next day, he ran when I demanded £200. He proved hir | third day, was a failure, Не hundreds of smooth-talking threatened to call the police." point by presenting that signa- rushed round the kings "sale" begun a door-to- But 1 *learned that the fure, but we claimed that we queens, then made for the door tour of British cities, towns
a would
never sign for mich a Chamber of Horrors, which was The managing director of a They represented themselves firm of electrical wholesalers
that it was for five years, but tired, after Crippen. the man who signed it thought as falesmen for reputable trade told me: "One agent obtained it was only for ONE year, to Tussaud's the order is "Do Not will be kept in a xinas case.
Why? Because in Madame directories, and, with cleverly- a signature from a member of the we refused le parough sordu brus rf-worded-- documentsși-a-pollestad vreauenstiges
advertising fees for books that were never published,
and
ACTRESS Maria Schell, aged 32, and married 11 months, Interviewed in New York, told a reporter who asked for her measurements; "That is of concern to my husband only.". TAUVE rattlesnakes, two alivo, three stuffed, are on their WAY
from America to No. 66 Squadron- Fighter Commandatio colled rattlesnake, advertised for a shake as Its mascot. The live snakes-American airmen at Bentwaters, Suffolk, paid for one--
A Thue famousinJenkostuani,pronounced that she÷t=assther PT Villarcate got was also large, andout, "TetapiginIEW | PROFITA. Bay Tonfere lit got Acklington, Northumberland. The squadron, whose. Insignia is a
French biologist, is one who very least one hundred and paints a startling word-plcture fifty years of age.
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They remained unsuspected until the competition ameag the frauds became so Berco that they began to '"'double". their calls,
SUSPICIOUS
Mony customers beenme spicious and cancelled their orders and the salesmen asked the customers to sing the "cano:llatien fers," which were in fact new agreements to pay.
In some cases the con-metz have avoided prosecution cause thele cunningly-worded tlacuments are technically with- In the law.
The woman undertaker who lost 2200 told me: *** How know how these rogues baya swindled me. Nearly a dozen of them have defrauded mo during the past year.
"Some claimed that they had published adverts and others pot money by asking mo to ad- vertise in future publications, but I have not seen or heard of- any adverts being published,” Another victim wao the Reverend Mother of Lourdes Mount High School, for Girls DE Ealing, London.
A Bister, speaking on behalf of the Reverend Mother, said: To wetve bad many of those gentlemon estling and
collecting money for HOTELS vaguely-pämed, direptórios_!!. 2.The headmaster of a school
Keng mild; "We discovered the frauda by: adeldent, because I naked" the agents so call twa Kaymates in the monatime, the legitimate traveller calleck
dksomethi
Fifty-six of them
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