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The production of male or fem- ale offspring at will is already pos sible in the case of certain species
My recipe for a sinister half of plants and animals. That it hour contains only two ingredients: may one day be extended to human Limehouse Causeway and a London beings is thought not impossible
by research workers at the Car- teg. negie Institute Station of Experi- mental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbour, Long Island. Miss Ruth Millard, writing in the New York World Bays
A WEEK IN AN ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOL.
A visit of a unique character was recently made to an English public school by a party of German school- boys. The top form of the largest and, in the opiniou of some, the mast progressive secondary school I sampled them both to-day. Having read about the raid which in Germany went over to England Scotland Yard men carried out in with two of their másters, and lived for a week at Gresham's School, "Chinatown "about the detee-Holt, at the invitation of the head Through the study of variatives who, at a given signal, dash-master, Mr. J. R. Eccles. tions in environment, glands, and chromosomes, the microscopie, rod-ed out of the fog into a restaurant like bodies that transmit hereditary and made some arrests-I thought factors, the Institute's research is my city, as a good Londoner, to staff have been able to control, in find out what Limehouse is really Eome instances, sex and other char-
like now-a-days. "acteristics of organisms.
"If these discoveries can be car- ried further and applied to mam- mals, then the scientists admit it might be possible to correct man's deformities and deficiencies. Pas sibly parents could be assured of bringing sons or daughters into the world according to choice.
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The visit was the outcome of a tour in Germany, by bors from Wellington, Cheltenham, Christ's Hospital, and Gresham's School, organized by Toe H, that took place last Easter. This party was enter- tained by the Aufbauschule, of Well, Limehouse on a sunny Neukölln, in Berlin, and the Ger- morning may be as cheerful as the man visit is the direct result of con- bubbles in champagne; but Lime-versations that took place than
The interest of the visit, from an the education point of view, lies in the quite astonishing way, considering their difference of upbringing and house in the fog gave me
fact that the Neukölln School is at creeps.
the moment in the process of build-outlook, they fitted easily into the At the top of West India Docking itself again out of the ruins of normal life of the school. Road the fog was not considerable. the old German educational régime. It clung to the houses like fine In the hands of Dr. Karsen, a well- known German educationist," the gauze. But as one waiked towards school promises to develop into ene the river the atmosphere became of the finest in Germany. At pre- denser and damper,
sent only a few experimental class stranger,
the rooms have been built, and the new clammy texture of London fogs, spirit in German education has to might have imagined that he was struggle along still in the old being hit in the face with a wes barrack-like buildings. The inter. blanket wielded by unseen hands.esting thing, from an English point of view, in Dr. Karsen's plans for his new school, which have been published fully in German papers, is that he aims at producing re- sults not unlike those actually achieved in some of the more pro- gressive English public schools. He wishes to produce quickly what we in England have got from the slow building up of tradition by years of patient work. This may not be possible, but the fact gave to the visit its unique character.
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that a unaccustomed to
The Bowed Figure.
How unostentatiously-how alyly, almost Limehouse-causeway opens off the main road! Had I not searched carefully, I might well have missed it.
Plants and animals are the resultant of two major interacting factors heredity and environ ment,' explained Dr. A. F. Blakes- lee, assistant, director, discussing the significance of the experiments at Cold Spring Harbour. Man, nature's most interesting animal, is poor material to unravel funda mental laws, because of the intre quency of his generations (about three to the century in contrast to twenty a year from the fruit-fly), the small namber of offspring that can be made from a single mating and the limited use, that can be made of man as an experimental animal. The fundamental laws of life processes, therefore, must be discovered, in the main, from plants and lower animals.""
Whether an individual is to be come a male or female is deter
I followed. The winding street mined, under usual environmental
On either was strangely "quiet. conditions, by an internal mech anisin controlled by hereditary fac-side were little shops. Through some of their windows yellow, long tors. It has been found, however, Miss Millard tells us, that in two eyed faces looked out at the fog organisms, doves and water-fleas, sex can be controlled by changes in environment.
Some distance along the street there was a railway bridge; beyond its black outline nothing could be seen except the bowed figure of a Chinese shuffling away into the gloom.
and at me.
Meeting with the King. The boys had every opportunity during their stay of seeing all sides of English school life. On the first evening they saw Wakefield's film Rugger; they attended chapel; they I walked on, past huddled houses. went to classes and laboratories: Now and then I came to an open they played games; they explored door, but saw no reassuring lights the nutcient buildings of Norwich; Other Experiments.
within only a darkness deeper they. bicycled along the Norfolk "Dr. A. M. Banta, working with than the fog and a silence out of const from Sheringham to Mundes- ley; most important of all, they small water-icas (says Miss Mil-which occasionally there grew a
lived with the boys in the school sudden scamper of feet. lard), which he grows in bottles,
Limehouse-causeway gave place houses and shared in their life. finds that he can increase the pro-
to Narrow street, and from Narrow Four of them, while visiting Sand- portion of males which are bora
street still narrower alleyways ringham, had the good fortune to through changing environmental opened-ulleys which writhed and be introduced to the King. His conditions-es by crowding the mo-
twisted unong tall buildings and Majesty showed the greatest in- terest in them and in their visit to thers together in bottles, by the use looked as if they led nowhere. of various drugs and other stimuli.
I began to think of fog-swathed this country. On the last evening From these experiments, Dr. Banta Narrow-street as a river of mystery English and German boys gathered thinks it possible that certain en- fed by dark and tortuous tribu-und a piano and gang sea shan- vironmental conditions have a de-taries; but then I came to real ties ar Volkslieder in turn. finite effect on the chromosome me-river-to the Thames itself. chanism which determines sex.
Dr. Oscar Riddle discovered that by overworking the reproduc- tive activities of dover-that is, by taking away the eggs as soon as laid and causing the birds to lay many more than the usual num- ber-ultimately the reproduction of fernales only was brought about. related By crossing distantly species, as the ring-dove and the common pigeon, be obtained only females.
"Let us consider not the pre- sent accomplishment but the future possibilities,' said Dr. Riddle. "It is open to the experimentalis to kill or to inactivate one kind of sperm at will and thus to remove all chances of the appearance of individuals of one sex. The fact that no one has succeeded in doing this does not mean that it will not be accomplished later. Sex transfor- mation or sex reversal has been ac complished with specially suitable material where treatment could be applied during the early stages of the animal's development. In the frog it has been found that eggs and embryos which would otherwise produce females can be made to develop into male tadpoles and frogs by exposing them to tempera Lures higher than normal during early development. The samne end was accomplished by causing the frog eggs to become over-ripe be- fore allowing the sperms to unite
with them.
All eggs obtained from cross- mating unlike species of pigeons produce males. This is not a very practical way of controlling sex in the human, since mates so dissimi lar would have to be sought by humans among the gorilla and chimpanzees.
Some of us associate all of the changes which have been, proved to accompany changes in a female-to- male direction with a speeding up of the oxidations in the developing embryo. Conversely, methods which change males into females seem as sociated with reductions in this speed of oxidation. If we arti. ficially establish a type of metabolic rate, we can obtain the correspond- ing type of a sex.
"The present methods used to control sex are largely or wholly inapplicable to the human and other mammals. But if the ulti- mate offect of these several methods in reducible to changes in the me tabolic rate, we can hope later to employ in man new agencies which Laure me the “rietabolic rate in Continued at foot of next columa),
A tiny lane ended abruptly in a fight of steps, and at the bottom of the steps the brown stream went slinking by.
Shivera.
The fog, thicker than ever now, seemed to open its arms, to hold. me. I shivered. The grey ghost of a boat went past, a few yards out. on the water; very dimly, I could sec a man's figure swaying us he propelled invisible cars.
From the far bank of the river came a menacing rumble of machinery at work.
Back through Limehouse Cause- way I went again, and across West India Dock-road into Pennyfields.
In Penny fields, as elsewhere in Limehouse, many shop windows were heavily shuttered
It was easy to imagine that some- where behind these shutters were secret passages and rooms filled with the unconscious forms of men from whose limp figures the opium pipe had fallen to the ground.
I thought of the sort of sub-titles which were used in old-fashioned film serials:-
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And there in the velvet dark- ness the dread deity of opium claimed yet another victim. Don't miss next week's gripping instäl ment.
As a matter of fact, it was easy to imagine anything in Limehouse to-day, and the inhabitants have only themselves to blame. I mean, there is nothing more conducive to vivid imaginativo flights than the sight of a lot of shut shutters.
Perhaps
It may be, of course, that the Chinese are rather proud of living in a district which looks so sinister, and do all they can' to intensify the atmosphere in the hope that a Glid producer will come along to buy the place and give them all fat contracts,
Or it may be, on the other hand, that the Chinese ILTO sensitive people and that when there is a fog they prefer to shut out the sight of Limehouse. Perhaps it gives them the creeps, too.
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the egg and embryo. The facts al- ready gained will be of use in cor- recting sexual' deformiting and de- ficiencies in human beings: Only practical difficulties bar the way to control of sex in human beings. But since the difficulties are prác tical and not theoretical it is. within the province of science to overtare tient the future ch
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The visit, which must be almost the first of its kind, cannot but be the beginning of a work of inter- national co-operation is education that must strengthen the hands of those who are working for concilin tion between nations. In Germany they are professedly experimentul in education. They are anxious to learn what they can from the perience of English educationists. They recognise that we possess in our schools a quiet faculty of acting in a corporate way that they have
not got.
Their now schools are
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NETT LOSS LAST YEAR OF 810,000,
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