THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY: 16, 1959...
The Festival Of The Goddess Tin Hau -Guardian of Sea Travellers
ACCORDING to Chinoo
customs, the Festival
of the Goddess of Heaven falls every year on tho 23rd day of the 3rd Moon of the Chinese calendar. This is A great day for celebrations. everyone hav ing subscribed to a mutual fund throughout the year to their various unlona for the purpose of worshipping the Goddess and the annual Tenst which follows.
the morning tat the Festival. the people put on their best inery and hire big junks huister with many coloured than to convey the worshippers to the Temple at Cha Kwo Ling to the accompaniment of musle and thunderous noise of fire- crackers, Highly .coloured paper, varying from red, green, ilver and gold, making up the #ull-coloured rands In the torm of G or 7. altura or "2015," decorated with dolls and paper flowers, are also con- veyed on these junks,
From the many junks moored alongside, the playing Ani The
music
firing
of of
A reader's description of the celebra- tions held at Cha Kwo Ling recently
trackers herald ench procession
of Ilon dunces in advance of the offering to the Goddess. The
the day.
Procession to the temple of the pory office for their duties of decorated shrine guarded by the Goddess is preceded by the lion annues to the accompaniment of synovis
the beating Di and
by the drung, then followed
fferings consisting of roast pigs, raw pigs coloured in red. raker stacked up in the shape of a pyramid, sicemed chickens and assorted confectionery red and white,
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On this occasion there Gver 40 large 606-
were
across
ali
According to customs the members of the party of each "Pau" reported their arrival at the Ceminittee Office and their "Pau" or "Paus" were carried to the shelter shed under the direction and care of the com- mittee
the judging prior to which was made by the mom- bera of the committee as to the
and deserving. most beautiful
of
One of the chief merits of any "Pau" depended on the number and egg ginger rools
from the altar or going junks which advanced suspended
which indicated the harbour From directions to the
prosperity and the birth wine »f ernekern und music, and the many children during the past from Pus from these junks and those year. During this time, from the surrounding
Junk musle from loud- villages each came in procession and were speakers and crackers continued
and each junk, wan placed close to the temple. These bellagged as well es being lined completely "Pauza' contained G opecial
with highly coloured historical cracker or rocket which Was lied with a copper lag marked three-comered banners." with number. The mckets, were Inter fred at a selected site with the effigy of the God- dess in offeridance. Young men of the village stood by and
the
At 7 o'clock on the morning of the Festival all the Kulfong Committee gathered together in the stone house next to the temple which became the tem-
On the left side of the upen
were
ста
the
Judging the "Paus” or altars entered by village communities
This fantastic discovery could be a new peril, a top scientist has warned
SUPER-BABIES
TO ORDER
"BA
London.
PABIES to order," a race of supermen and It has been the vision of superwomen. philosophers - good and evil throughout the ages, right down to Hitler and his nightmare' master race.
And now I tell you that the vision is on the reproduce." way to become reality.
"Babies to order" has passed out of the realm of science-fiction fantasy. It may not happen in our lifetime, but, make no mistake, science today is on the verge of startling discoveries which will eventually give man the power to create a race of supermen or inhuman monsters; perfect children
or mindless slaves. Selentisia are so close to un- locking the door which leads to the innermost secrets of crea tion, that warnings about the possible misuse of the power they will hand on have been given on both sides of the
Atlantic.
By Jack Thomas
the error is repeated us thes
Geneticists in Britalo, Europe and the United States are now way. to beginning to see the manipulate chromosomes, to cut out the harmful genes that pass peet has gone beyond the realm on inherited weaknesses,
Experiments
Intensive
experiments are being made to try to alter and control the chromosome balance artlacially in fruit files and
nice.
But could a child's make-up be planned deliberately by the manipulation of genes the first step to the creation of d super-ruce?-
It could and that this proș,
of science fletion is shown by ai book which Professor Penrose, will soon pubíleh.
In his laboratory I saw Fro fessor Penrose at work on th now book.
And this is one of the palate he has to malor:
"One of those new possibili tiès concerns the process enlied
it is those incredibly tiny par- ticles, transmitted by the ther and mother, which determine Such changes have already transduction... by which one a baby's personality, its build, been made successfully in plants, organism can be given so
genes belonging to another of the colour of its hair and eyes, and recently pictures were
the same species, and all the qualities and de- published of a new break of
"This is done by transferring focls which are determined by duck never before goch од
some of the nuclear chemichk heredity,
earth-altered by chemistes In
substance D.N.A., which carries the genetical programme, from Professor Lionel Penrose, of A normal human cell always a Paris laboratory.
Professor Penrose said re- University College, London, is contains forty-six chromosomes.
one organiem to another, one of the world's top men in No matter how often the healthy cenily: "Having found how to indicates the kind of human genatles, the potence of cell reproduces, that number prodice a certain condition in developments which can bo cx-
then know pected in the technical possibili heredity, and he is already role never varies.
animals, we shall But the cells in
it in man. ing his voice
Ittles of man's control over his to warn agzinst the body of a 'Mongol child how to avoid
or chemically the misuse of such knowledgy, have
own inborn natizo, forty-seven, and in the may be cells of some sexually abnormal perhaps by X-rays. It will be
a case of trial and error," persons and some cancer enses,
Now scientists are looking to the count may be 45, 47, or 48.
the day when a couple planning
The Blueprint
heads
ful. It is the privilege of each successful winner of a prize to take back with him to his Elders and protected from the guild, village or junk the "Pau" sun, followed by other members and the honour to return the of the Kaifong and hundreds following year with a new of spectators. The procession "Fau" to again celebrate the firing stage. At 12:30 pm. the continued to the site for the birthday of the Goddess.
Mr E, B. McBain, perhaps the mckets, specially mado for this only Briton to be elected
Professor Penrose
· Says Professor Penrose: ✡ occasion,
token
of
whose researchers from chairman of a Kaifong, presided cam
"Chromosomes are the orchl- the "Paus" and fired over the celebrations this year.
Aludy is the gene-the blue
teats of the body, They form anc by опе from the In the evening the Kaifong print of life itself.
the plan. If there is something tralt slage erected for
In each of the billion Asembly Room was filled with
of wrong with the plan, the bulld ригробе. Before fring
the tables
for a joint feast in a cells which go to mako UP ing goes wrong. Start off with Senior Kalfong explained 10 festive atmosphere. Through every square inch of our bodies the right chromosomes, and toe the young
who had cut this part
the there is a number of thread- body goes right. of 35schled to compete for the celebration speeches to the
structures called chromo- numbered medals
the rules of prosperity, health and happiness the competition. This stage was of the community were toasted. placed in front of the shrine containing the Goddess. Before the rockets were fired, the lion dancers, attendants and others made homage to the present Goddess. On each firing of the number the lucky descended, rocket as
There was 0 rush amongst at tremendous Jeast 200 young men to explure the numbered ticket. A large roar and shout went up sa each fortunate competitor raised his hand to indicate his success.
somes, Each chromosome p "Where the chromosomes are actually a chain of genes, and disturbed the cells deform, and
HOW MUCH BLOOD HAS
HE question many people have been asking THE
since Sir David Eccles's fulsome words in Germany is: How much Hanoverian blood has the Queen?
done
the
im-
PP
"Rapid advanoos are expect-
" says Professor Penroso, in his book: "There are startling
possibilities,"
to start a family will first be
And then comes the warning: able to take genetic tests.
"In comunen with scientiflo If it were shown that
developments,” mnyw the Pro- husband was capable of passing
fessor, "the progress of dis- on to his offspring some
genetics in- covery in human pairment which was not
volves dangers for human heps parent in himself, cells carrying piness as well DA potential the harmful genes would be benents. Some people would eliminated in the laboratory, rather not know about the un and the wife arufcially im favourable genes they carry.
Le More pregnated with the remainder,
the important la thus ensuring a healthy child.
possibility of misuse of such "knowledge on a large scalo by
unscrupulous politicians."
HANOVERIAN QUEEN?
THE
-NOT AS MUCH AS
SIR DAVID ECCLES THINKS
By PATRICK MONTAGUE-SMITH
British-bom parents, something that the great Marlborough may George V in his turn made a in the British Navy, and
no British monarch had possess ed since Queen Anne,
The beginning
Let us look first at maternal ancestry.
She
Read that agelo-and Imagino what could happen if such power
tho were placed in hands of another Hitler ON Stalln.
ord
American geneticlats being even more outspoken..
Dr James F. Crow, one of the leading genoticists in the United
Staten, sold, recently that there were thousands of marriages fa the UB.A. in which the husband was geneti- cally defective,
Why not, MA aakood, 10- pregnato their wives with the sperm of men genetically sound with the husbands' approval, of coursof
Following the fring, on this struggled for the lucky number, yard of the temple was a large secasion 25 rockets, the Goddess and whoever was fortunate
was returned to the temple Inter collected his prize from scaffolding theatre consisting of
2,000 sente
olher Elders and where the luippy with the
In fact, the Queen has more The Kuitong Elders .of
celebrants proceeded to attend attendants, some acting as British blood than any sovereign villoge.
the Cantonese opera which con-
bearers together with sun shade since the first Queen Elizabeth, tinued for four doys and five holders, followed by a large Her Inst German-born ancestor
British geneticists will not spectators and was her great-great-grand- rights. At 12 noon the Elders concourse of
commit themselves about such father, Queen Victoria's Prince proceeded to the ante-room of competitors,
Consort, who was born 140 yours
a plan, but in the practical the theatre to first of all invite the Goddess of Heaven and to Then came the distribution of ago.
Not only is her mother British, Norfolit.
ancestor of the present Duke of Edward chose none of them: he His mother is a doughter of field of discovery Britain loads convey her effigy in a highly prizes to those that were success-
picked Princess Alexandra, of Prince Louis of Battenberg, who America. but her father also had two
**Wo aro far abead And one authority
of the suggests Denmark instead,
became an Admiral of the Fleet
U.S.A in human VOA
genetica," have been the
of His created Marqucas great-grandson popular British marriage.
Milford Professor Penrose told me.
But scientists in Both of a blacksmith in the Megga bride, Princess May whom, wo Haven,
countries are genuinely worried family with whom they became 'remember as Queen Mary, was
(09 Like the Tecks, the Batten- about the staggering possibilities connected by, marriage-e notion born in Kensington Palace
borgs were founded by a half of the misuse of the power which his descendant, Sir Wins- was Queen Victoria),
an- they
may soon bo abjo ta top, found "very suspicious, und Princess May's mother, Prin- German in the service of
wield her even disquieting."
cess Mary, was one of the Duke other country.
For, as Dr Crow anys: "Tha The Queen
And then, agak through her of Cambridgo's daughters.
Prince Louis's father, Alexan-men who make the discoveries Mother's family, the Bowes- mother's link with the Welles- had married Francis of Teck, a der of Hesse, entered the Rus-and those who apply them are Lyons, is one of the oldest la leys, the Queen inherita the handsome young prince from sian army when his sister mar-seldom the sumo," Scotland, and through them she royal blood of the O'Briens. Vienna. His mother, the Hun ried the Tsarevitch of Russia, has inherited royal blood both They lost their kingdom of garlon Countess Claudine Rhedy of Scotland and England.
Thomond in the west of Ireland had fallen in love with a cavalry Her ancestor Sir John Lyon, to Henry VIII, who gave them officer in the Austrian army,
Nuclear fasion started in the married a doughter of Robert I. Instead the irony of Inchiquin. Prince Alexander of Wurtem
peace of a Cambridge laboratoryi Scotland's first Stewart king.
The name · O'Brien derives burg.
Here hé raet the beautiful in Great Britain. She is descended also from Hen- from the famous old warrior
Because she was a commoner, Countess Julle Hauke, who was It resulted in the blasting of ry VIII's sister Mury-an anees king of Ireland, Brian Bor, the marriage had to be more the daughter of a Polish official whole communitie
And Winston Churchill Prince who was killed in battle half a uanate-not recognised that 1 of Dutch descent, and whose
ita culmination-for century before William the Con- for purpose of succession mother was the daughter of a good or, evili not yet in Rainier of Monaco, and the
Tragedy ended this marriage French docter married to queror come to England. Duke of Bedford.
sight. alow much of the Queen's Five years after the wedding. Hungarian.
It is one thing, any the -pindahkah shig valued lagovnafaa. Thinnin ller at commocers Ancestry on her father's side is she was thrown from her hor with aristocrats in the Queen German? It might have been a mirrorlew and So the Bottenbergs have links which will help to many c Mother's ancestry
trampled to death by n squadron with many nations. nothing much i3
to bent the blind cruelties -- of Prince Philip, like the Queen, natural selection, Edward VII, had of cavalry. unusual among the great British grandfather,
the birth of families, They have always not
la a great-great-grandchild of Mongols and of tragic half- gone against the family What of Prince Philip? He Queen been tree from the class rigidity custom
Victoria. There seems and-half creatures, neither man of choosing German too, has a mingling of European Little doubt which ancestors nor which ruled the Continental wives.
blood, and some of it is German, appeal to them most. Both their scourge of cancer.
women, to defeat to aristocracy.
His father, Prince Albert, gave His father, Prince Andrew of children, Charles and For example, the premier him a liri of six eligible Protes- Greece, was a
member of the have Stuart names. dulcedom of England once passed tant princesses to select from Danish royal house and G to the son of a Dublin vintner, They were.ell Germans. But nephew of "Queen Alexandr.
Firing rockets with lucky numbers attached
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for whom she shares with Slr
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great-
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