THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1961.
The questions that will face our grandsons...
IN January of this year Colin Baxter was born in Montreal. In February of this year Graham Stark was born in Scotland. Admittedly there is nothing remarkable in this double"
London Letter
except that both these babies are my grandchildren. You will By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP be glad to know that, the grandparents, the parents and the male infants are all doing well.
My son has just been appointed political correspondent in Ottawa for the powerful Canadian weekly journal: "The Financial Post." My son-in-law is in the Navy and is apt to be anywhere by the time you read these words. Thus life goes on, world without end, Amen.
It has been said that every Marrinte and motherhood 12 Therefore it is almost certain will child becomes the battleground the two great carcers open to that our two grandsons of its ancestors, There are the women. It was so a thousand grow up in a
world that with and the Instal
paternal
Full years ago and will probably ho nat demand the sacrifice of war backgrounds influencing The the same thousand years from from the young. trend of character derived per now, hups from the immediate and Admittedly the distant past, there is also the influence of the arts,
are there Admittedly
especially in music and
the
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que, adem?"
We
The horrors
tny
Destinies
the
1
"The
hills built by children at play. while addressing his fellow MPs And what earthly use are these at Westminster he said: mighty hills that grow no grain shares of this Government re- or are habitable for the human and throughout the country." rece?
So he was cont to the House of Lords where he could do no What is the answer to all harm. Yet Brabazon had this? I suggest that it is to be played a mighty part in uncharted skies. quering the kingdom of found in the Man, with his infinite cupesily skies, for daring and scientific de velopment will almost certain- ly land on the moon before my grandsons have become grand Inthers or even fathers,
con-
The
that
the
Then are we to assume there are no more fruments to conquer? What are the sturt that shine Uke Jewels in skles? They say that the moon merely draws its light from the sun and that, in turn, the stars respect the glory of the moon.
not
If this stems to strain the immediate present followed by
by drama, wisere wemen rig
vision turn the years of childhood t great heights bun Ji is still truc It may be a strange way for limits of human adolescence and so to manhood that the home is their natural humanity to achieve sanity but back to Christopher Columbus, }{{ womanhood. No matter
the say it is goal that matters His father was a cloth weaver
or
We are not given the power It how
wool-comber who did weit strong the
rather than individual
way
good to look further ahead than for himself and, like a reached. character, it cannot be denied
to few deendes at best but dloes that the element of heredity is
Yet selence will not rest father, apprenticed his son
trade. But al 14 anyone doubl that in The Fame always at work. My two grand-
nerely because it has reached the
course of time a man will land ron cun bonst a long line of
such power over the destinies years of age the boy went
moon? And it the ancestors. In other words they
must sra, where he traded with other upon the science of men. In fact
n bit of moon can be reached why Ru right back tu Adar and to
face the fact that, owing to the countries and did So now let us return to
the myriad stors? Ave.
two grandsons, of woman both, ingenuity of the human mind, fighting on the side. In spite of
convinced that that and try to see what lies ahead life is being prolonged, which women have the vote, and sit them. This much is certain means that the world is going
India by salling Parliament, and in
his tatlon of China alone in westward, achieve there youngsters will not ure to be over-crowded, The
and thus brought success in specialised activities, the
is stili this
man's
grandfather saw them. In 1914 millions of human beings every ridicule on his head. Nothing we, who enlisted, witnessed the year, in the circunstances it is daunted he kept developing his Driven- of genius and his sense of
Despite the disbelief very bankruptcy of the military no wonder that the ruler
and And his wastes of Siberia, would think
the the was
of the that threat wonder
crew ho slaughter in the trenches unill equally it is no
reached Russia looks with going until he Marsifall Foch brought genius Communist
of Bahamas, and then went on and common sense to the task. fear on the growing power
Cuba, Communist Chlua.
the
fnet
world.
CHESS
By LEOBARD BARDEN
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In this position: Denmark's
Eup player Bent Larsen (Black, to move), went 1.. KtXt3; how could he Instead have won brilliantly?
Quedan &peria dentre
for
of
wor
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He was could reach
art. The only thing the generals Chis looks lustfully towards ture. fellow officers
of
But what about the 1930-1945 War? Admittedly our cities were bembed night after night,
month, buL magulemoniac Hitler conce)- trated chiefly
month aller
1/2
" London on sordid vanity. Of ull targets
feed his
the
the
What is the answer to Problem, since wo
сап
the
no longer Icok for plaques to re- duce the mass population of the world?
Can we make the desert hear that were 2x fruit? Can we empty the oceans
Hitler had
pendable London was at the of water? Can we demolish the top of the list.
mountains and replace ikem concentrated
Birmingham, with 1721
fruitful soll? These are Manchester
Liveigasel,
the questions which will con- where the factories were in full production, he might well have front my grandsons, and yours beaten us in our knees,
Miracles
Пе
My hopes
Will my two grandsons, Colin Baxter and Craham Stark, play of some
part in It?. Graham's the
father, As 3 Naval Officer, kept studies the stars when at
the but
do not doubt that to the
thoughts are sometimes of wonder, the mystery and poetry of the celestial sphere.
of
ken
TAKE A CRACK AT
MONSTER DAG
"POOH: KID STUFF!"
AFRO-ASIAN BLOCK
The strange case of the
TURKEY which scientists are study- ing today looks as fit, as aggressive, and as mas-
culine as any other. But
farmyard orphan
Except In lowly organised But in the world of mam- creatures like frogs and fish mals, to which the human it has one outstanding such Dycat should not species belong, the situation peculiarity it had a father.
set
of limitations would be different never happen because
because the by the
of chromosome mechanism
mechanism, which heredity,
determines sex is the reverse of that occurring in birds.
It was hatched from an egg laid by a virgin hen turkey kept in a stout wire cage away from all males throughout its the life. the
What is even more surpris- As for Colin Baxter I hope that ing to scientists is that this bird of siring normal he will grow up to be a great is capable
Σο when mated out clfspring
a
PASSED ON
creature are
If scientists could discover
The characteristics of any some similar way of inducing passed on from fatherless offspring in mammals one generation to the next in the young would all automati- the form of minute objects rally be females. called chromosomes.
an
POSSIBILITY
To develop
normally embryo must inherit a full sel
And of chromosomes from its mother
these
females alone and a set from its father.
could, in theory, produce more generation after gen- These turkeys get over the females
scl derived
newspaper editor and live
female and has done so. MIN years as a contemporary. Historian, playing his part In Thus he discovered the New the life and habits and thoughts of a fatherless bird occurred at lack of a paternal set simply by cration.
This first fully attested case World which in the course
an experimental Government doubling up the become the most of his genemilon. years was to
poultry farm in the U.S., the from the mother.
It is a far cry from turkeya powerful and prosperous nation
Well we shall leave the original home of the wiki
to humans, but, with the un- in the world. His blazing
cradle now and leave the grand-tuloy.
Why this happens the doubled production of a father- confined, our to their parents. Soon I genius could not be Ile dreamed a dream and made shall
scientists do not know. It is creature as highly organis- Dr Marlow W. Olsen, motor to the aerodrome
the
ed as a bird, the scienllats have it reality.
where shall board a winged scientist in charge, happened just does.
posed the devastating possibility monster that will waft us to to notice that some eggs laid
of on all-female human world Because of a peculiarity of But the age of miracles was East Berlin, So we leave the by turkaye of the Smail White
chromosome
In which men could be expend- mechanism an end. The other day nursery and journey not at
to the strain began to develop when the
able. Maniac rulers go to war be
of I ran into an old parliamentary once great German capital that artificially incubated, even which determines the sex
had not flew friend, Viscount Brabazon, who, is now
been the new organism, a turkey- though they cause they believe that they A couple of years ago 1
divided into a free tertilised by a male,
or any other bird-developed can win, but If there is ever in from Vancouver to Quebce- before going to the Lords, was Berlin and a Communist Berlin.
from A fatherless
must ege atomic war the only survivors the best part of 3,000 miles, u lively, argumentative mem-
By careful selection he has always be a male, will be the rats. Thus has From the altitude-ot the skies her of the House of Commons. No doubt I shati write about built up a flock in which many
Of the 57 turkeys raised by malignant science madu vie- the huge mountains looked like He might have become a senior it on my return. Until then, av tory impossible,
nothing mgae than tiny sand Minister If it had not been that, revoir;
male:**
when, they reach the age of discretion and indiscretion.
of the eggs hatch into turkeys Dr Olsen every one has been without benent of fathers.
CHAPMAN
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