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ENGLISH IRISES ON SCIENCE IN RUSSIA. MANIA FOR CARS.
SHOW
SEVENTY VARIETIES OF PERENNIALS.
INTERVIEW WITH PROF BUKHARIN.
ITS PART IN THE FIVE YEAR PLANS.
COURT SEQUEL TO SCHOOL
BOYS EXPLOIT.
A 15-year-old day boy at Dulwich College Preparatory School, who was said to have a manin for cars, 'A was charged at Bromley with steal.
ing a car value £140, belonging to Mr. CH. Dunster, tobacconist, Anorloy, with driving away the car without the consent of the owner, and with driving while disqualified,
An interesting description of the scientific work in connection with the Five-year plan was given in an interview with a representative of the Manchester Guardian by Pro- fensor Bulkharin, who is director of he being under 10 He pleaded the scientific research department not guilty,
“WILLIE CLARKSON TO RETIRE.
WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS WIG-MAKER.
TREE'S £40 BEARD.
- Wigs by Charkaona Is familiar phrase to disappear from" our theatre programines !!!
Mr. William Clarkson (known to
Shanghal's Foreign Population, Shanghai's foreign population comprises about 25,000 Russian antive at the fortnightly show of the There was nothing more attrucTM equal number of Japanese, close to, 8,000 British, 4,000 Americans, 2,000 Royal Horticultural Society, which Germans, 1,500 French, and
was held this year in their New proximately 2,000 of other ocel all than Messrs. Barr's display of English irises (Iris xiphoides), dental, nationals. Each of these foreign groups makes its specialdesindes the
The Landen Morning Post thus contribution to the cosmopolitan charactor of the city. The influx This native of the Pyrenean coun of large numbers of destituto./ try (where you can, collect the type of the Supremo Economic Council,Mr. J. S. Stovena, defending the world will lose the services of:
exhibited under the name 1. Em years ago was then regarded as Peror) is an oldfashioned ornament of the delegation from the U.S.S.R., Fears ago, and his mother, a protheatrical costumier
Russian refugees into Shanghai 10
distinct calamity, and authorities
to our gardens that is not nown days seen often enough. The pale were puzzled as to what might be lavenders of Icinde and Tan done with them. To-day, the talus, the rich purples of King of Russian population, although larger Blues and Duchess of York, are than that of any other western admirable; while the reticulated nation, has found its place and falls of Almona are very attrae apparently is no longer a serious tive. problem. Certain sections of Shang. hal are now distinctly Russian in
In colour mn.EŠ. the cffcct is given by the blues and maures of giant pinks of Sweet Peas The latter,
Professor Blukharin is a member said that the lad's father, died some
all and sundry as Willie ") in- tends to retire from business as
soon as bls famous establishment in Wardour street has been sold, and
its most famous twig-maker, and
Americ. The trouble was that the he ever made was that which Lily SAMA YOne of the most expensive wiga boy had no home life. Ho: bad a
was nothing wrong with him. perfect mania for motors, but there
which in attending the Internation- fessional singer, was absont in al Congress on the History of Science and Technology.... Russian scientists were glad to take Professor Bukharin said that the
part in the Congress, because some of the problems that are being dis cussed are also burning problems in Russia. The question of the rela- tionship between theory and prac- plied science-is," he said, "of the greatest theoretical importance in the U.S.S.R., because it is of quite exceptional practical importance in
ments of relation to the growing require
Ecchomy.
planned Socialist
promised a car by his uncle, and boy, said that he had been
when he saw the car outside the cemetery he decided to see if he could drive it. He intended taking ing it back, but, instead, he lost hin way, and eight hours later decided to lose it.
character, and in an industrial Delphiniums and the reds and tica in science-or of pure and ap-it away for half an hour and bring.
"oriental.
of
sense, many of them satisfactorily fill an intermediary position bei tween the occidential and the displayed by Messrs. Button, occupy the east end of the Hall, and among them the orange-reds of
Flame of Fire are very conspicuous, Royal Sovereign, Gold Crest, and while the tender pinks of Jean Ireland, Vonus, and Sunkist are attractive. Notice, too, the clear,
Langtry wore in Cleopatra. It cost. twenty-two guineas, mainly because of the extreme length of the hair.. Warner, as Coupenu, in the deli The most difficult was that for Mr rium tremens scenes in because every hair had to on end."
"Hair That Is Hair."
rint stand
Sir Herbert Tree, when being 6tted for a wig, would always ex¬ A friend of the family said that claim, with a characteristic ges- the boy lived with his 73-year-old ture," I want hair, hair that really graadmother, and he thought that is hair." The beard Sir Herbert she had no control over him. He wore as Jacob in Joseph and His.. Quite recently in Moscow there knew the boy to be a straightfor Brethren was of pure white hair. took place a very important cun ward; honest lad, although he was Like the wigs, it had to be the clean lavender blue of Sliver Sheen.gress on the planning of all seion-full of high spirits and "devil-natural article, and it cost fully
Herbaceous Fiants,
The Japanese population, Shanghai is perhaps even larger than the Russian, living in a section well concentrated and distinctly Japanese in character. Industrially, the Japanese are prominently identified with the cotton spin- ning and caving industry i China, owning and operating alreest Messrs. Blackmore and Langden one-half of China's cotton mills, in repeat their last week's splendid which Japanese capitalists have in-exhibits at the Delphinium Show, vested tens of millions of dollars. What can be better than the True While the mills employ Chinese bite of Christine, Mr. P. Nolke, labour, the executives and heads of And Lady Hort; the mauves, more departments and technicians are
or loss suffused with blue, cf. Lady Japanese.
Eleanor, Lady Barbara, and Lady Elizabeth, and the full purple of Bright Future Anticipated.
Graham Beton, Lady Amy, and Shanghai never has experienced Lady Augusta? Also of high qual- what might be termed an actuality are the larkspurs of Mr. Bones real-estate boom, nor at any time and cf Messrs. Waterers. an excessive building activity, both There are two very fine lots of of which so often eventuato iu herbaceous pronics. Messrs. Kot growing communities. Although way have an equally, impressive land values in late years have in array, but using many different creased substantially, they are to- varieties, as they had a fortnight day rated proportionately lawer ago, while the Dutch firm of L. than those of many cities in the van Leeuwen give us a different set West of equal size. With good pro- cf this, many-named family, Be- mise.now apparent for peaceful con-autiful are the single pink Dimatsu, ditions in China, it is believed that Lucienne, and Madeleine Gauthiere, Slangbai has even a brighter future and the red Soshi, Othello, and in its commercial, and residential King of England. advancement:
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tific research. There were repre-ment," sentatives at this
Congress of tho
most important branches of science, from mathematics, physics and che mistry, to the history of literature tives of all the important research and linguistics, and also represonta-
institutions of the Soviet Union, from the Academy of Sciences to the factory laboratories. The con- gress was attended by representa tives of engineers, technole gists, economic organisers, workers, youth organisations, &c. For the first time in the world the planning of scientific work was discussed in the light of the relationship between the plans for that work and the techni. cal and economic plans of Socialist
reconstruction.
The essence of planning, its direc tion, its method, the organisation of scientific research work-all these questions, after all, are questions of the connection between theory and practice. We discuss them not only theretically but also practically, and on the scale provided by an tomous country from the Baltic to the Pacific, and from the White
The Roy, W. R. Leake, a master Dulwich College, said he was satisfied that the boy had no vice. The bench remanded the boy for
was best to do. a month ou bail to decide what it
arities provide us with the full possibility of not only victorious y completing the Five-year Flon but also of going further at a rapid pace.
£40 to supply. When Sir Harbert played Louis XV in The Perfect Gentleman a blood red wig had to be made for him
Only after many experiments wes the right abade discovered This wig weighed alb., and to form the curls the hair had to be twisted round paper rolls and held there so that they did not relax into straight hair again.
Of Mroe, Sarah Bernhardt, whose wig-maker he was for nearly forty years, Mr. Clarkson related that on the occasion of a visit to her in
Y....
ever
The geological, inspection of our country, the study of ore, Paris she told him, to go on the sical and chemical, property of ores, stage and mix with the stage crowd, fuel, and other minerals, the search which he did. Some of the wigs for and study of new sources of the Divine Sarah, wore were the alectrical power, the problems of most remarkable Mr. Clarkson artificial raw material, new amal had to make. That which she used game, new branches of production, Mary Magdalene in new machinery and instruments; a vast quantity of problems aris ing out of the electrification of the country, the motorisation of agri culture-all these, and similar pro blems, impose upon our scientific world a multitude of tasks from control, analyses, and comparative,
Samaritaine" was sixty-six inches long, and reddy gold in colour. Being natural hair and of a natural tint, it was a wig most difficult to obtain gr
Willam Terriss's Order..
One to the first wige Mr. Cark- son made, if not, indeed, actually ly simple experiments to the mo
most the Arst, was for William Terriss. difficult and complicated tasks of He was very particular, and after- theoretical chemistry, physics, wards would never wear a wig, not biology. And side by side with made entirely by Mr. Clarkson this are economic problems and himself. Since that day the famous Problems of the scelal sciences gen-actors and actresses Mr. Clarkson crally,
bas wigged" have been legion,
Hillier, Parker, May and Rowden (Maddox street) have received int
Among collections of various her bacecie planta do not miss that of Meners Wallace, which includes some excellent Hilliea. There is quite a number of the varieties Sex to the Black raised by Mrs. Backhouse by cross
Scientists. in Moscow, ing L. Hansoni with the purple Only the other day there took. and red Martagons, so that you place in Moscow an extraordinary get a joyous sot of lusty Turn Caps session of the Academy of Scien- of a great variety of tones and ces, convened on the invitation of suffusion of hues. Here, too, you the workers' organisations of "Mas will see those deep rich varieties of cow. This session, the watchword
Tackling Key Problems," [L. umbellatum, Splendens and. In of which was to catch up with and "We have begun to plan science.
coraparalel, and also citron yellow outstrip the capitalist countries, Scientific work in our country, instructions to submit at auction on L. davurieam, the delicate little took place in the presenes of a proceeding new in such a way that Sept. 24 the leasehold premises, 41
and 42, Washingtoneauum, and the now vast attendance. These two ovent its direction consciously facilitates
Wardour street, together deservedly popular and easily in the life of science in the the solution of the fundamentale while the large stock will be includ with the goodwill of the businCES,
grown L regale.
U.S.S.. show sufficiently clearly problems arising in, the technical Noted Alpines.
(1) that the day of the wrekere is and scenomic reconstruction of the ed at a valuation... The Suffolk Seed Stores exhibit Past; (2) that science is rapidly country. 70 sorts of perennials, among them coming closer to practice; (3) that the scientists are coming closer to the specially fine Gaillardias. The the working masses; (1) that there King and E, T. Anderton. Mesars
is taking place a great mobilise Miller.
of Wisbech, have good Houcheras, such as Scarlet Glory needs of Socialist reconstruction.
tion of gcientific forces to serve the
Beatrice and Pink Delight, and
"It would, I think, be extremely that good but seldom seen wood interesting for foreign renders to land plant, Astrantia majci.
become
nequainted with many pro Among the Alpines of Messrs.
blans advanced and solved in our and is helping, to complete the first
ly science in our country must helpIX SPECTATORS KILLED, Hansen, of New Barnet, are the.
Paris-Six people were killed country. Our five years, program Five-year Plan. Our difficulties ara admirablo Sedum ¦¦ spatulifolium purpureum, and, with the well me is en the threshold of its ful-
filment. We have already begun to motion such a mass energy Hirson, in the Aiane Department. great, but there has been brought and several injured, by an aero- plane that was beyond, control at knowų. Campanula pulloides," the somewhat similar but rater CRad drawing up the second Fiveyear overcomes all difficultic Quite în deana, its deep purple bells held. Plan. And we think that one of vain de cur enemies hope that there a l
The accident nccurred in the midst! erect by wiry atoms of mahogany the greatest advantages of our eys scmplicated, machines and instru of an aviation demonstration, colour. That very valuable strain ter is the possibility cf planned and ments, the new technique, will be of idwarf ringle pinks," known as
the Highland trap is well shown purposeful scientific work, organis by Messrs. Heyward and Bone, ofed in such a way as to drive ahead Clacton-on-Sea, and there are also
The premises, which are held on lease for over sixty years unexpired- at £380 per annum ground rent, doors from
are situated
two
I have of set, purpose replied in about the Five-year Plan and Shaftesbury-avenue. insuficient detail to
your question sciencd From what I bave said you will see that this question, ond
For we are already thinking about may say,is already out of date."
the next Five-year Plan. Natural
of the U.S.S.R. MA
EXPLANE RUNS AMOK
The machine, carrying a number
smashed by the unskilled workers
Assames of passengers, took off for a fight; but something went wrong when it had risen only about 2015. At that," is still plenty of ignor point it cams down and mowed its
There
very good single pink among the great construction of Secialism Messrs. Allwood's collection of by all the means at its disposal. Dianthus
We have (1) a growing planned ance, and we do not hide it. But way through a crowd of speciators,” Short stiff stems which will keep Sccialist economy the sphere in our country there is taking place Six were killed outright, and six the flowers erect in any wind or rain is what is chiefly desired in cf material labour); (2) the
seriously injured, while, six recei
this connection, ond this quality is planned work of science (the such an exceptionally rapid growth red minor injurien, til the vie being attained by the chief hybri- best combination of science and in the cultural attainments of the dists and selectors Beveral of the
rarer Pirmulae, such as Littoniana, labour); (3) the development of the masses, their education, their tech, are well" shown by Messrs. Maxwell internal potentialities' of the work e and Texte he is having-clais (as a result of its domin variety of the little Delphinium
time were resident in Hirson,
accial and political train
dez
The machine, which eventually crashed into a telephous pola, wak considerably damaged, but its pilot,
passengere,/enscaped.
unhurt
Chinense called Cineraria, ef most ant position). These three peculing, that we can already speal
(Continued on next Oolumn) a new generation of people?
intense blue