1933-05-18

BASEBALL PLAYER INJURED

Accident Mars Boston- St. Louis Game

Washington, May 17.

An accident marred,the meeting of Boston and St. Louis in the American Baseball Longue to-day, when West, the St. Loula striker,

pital.

NEW VIEW OF UNIVERSE

THE HONGKONG

"MYSTERY STORY OF SCIENCE"

THE MODERN OUTLOOK

TELEGRAPH.

ATTACK ON BOY

STRIPPED IN WOOD

BY MAN

So great a the alarm aroused among parents lying in Pirbright, Surrey, by recent attacks on boys made by a mysterious stranger that children are not now allowed to go about the countryside alone.

Children have been warned that they must play near their homes and on no account wander off to the woods or lonely lanes.

Search has been made by the

THURSDAY, MAY 18,

HERITAGE OF ENGLAND

WHAT WE OWE TO

SHAKESPEARE

BISHOP OF NORWICH

The ordinary man, with little or was hit in the face by a ball from no scientific knowledge, finds it Alexander, pitching for Boston. hard to grasp what we now mean West had to be sent to the hos-when we speak of the "Universe." police and local residents for a And the baffling rapidity with middle-aged man who is alleged to The Yankees improved their re-which new theories have recently have attacked Maurice Edmunds, cord by winning against Detroit, sprung up, coupled with the neces-the eight-years-old son of Mr, and and Foxx accomplished a home brily limited character of even the Mrs. Edmunds, of Goal-road, Fir- St. George's Day. run for Philadelphin, who, how sum total of proven fact, does not bright, in a wood at Stony Castic. ever, lost to Chicago.

make things any caster for him. Renter's neores follow:

NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Cincinnati Boston

out

(Brandt pitched and blanked

STRUCK WITH BOOT.

1933.

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Serenade (Tosell!)

in Serenade (Schubert)

PAYS TRIBUTE

"Shakespeare is for us an in- stitution as well as a master," said the Bishop of Norwich (Dr. Ber- tram Pollock) in preaching the Shakespeare memorial sermon the Parish Church, Stratford-on- Avon-Shakespeare's birthday on "We are rightly proud of our heritage," he declared, "and bound up with our tradition of order and liberty, are many Ballent features af national expression, three of which are found in our literature, our religion, our politica in the old menning of that deteriorating

Edmunds says that he had been picking flowers for his mother and was riding his toy bicycle when man on a bicycle stopped lilin.

Sir Arthur Eddington, who cop-| sented to explain the modern the ory of the universe to a press re presentative, began by stating that it is "barely possible to give any

The man, anya the boys, had sort of adequate answer in a few wild look in his eyes, and dragged words. But I will do my best.

There are many sides

him into the wood, struck him with Cincinnati and Berger homered for question, and modern ideas of the him, and tied his wrists with a to the what appeared to be a boot, stripped. nature of matter and energy and bootince. The boy was thrown to radiation are extremely abstruse: the ground and bitten. but if I may take the question to Two months ago a 7-years-old lay refer to the astronomical universe from Agh, Surrey, wne attacked by the extent and organisation of a man in a wood about four miles the system of stars and nebulae from Stony Castle. ft is perhaps not so difficult. The bitten on the check.

He was badly present results of our Investiga-

Волод)

St. Louis

Brooklyn

Pittburgh

Philadelphia

AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Philadelphia

Chiengo

tions, however, should

(Foxx homered for Philadelphia)

Washington

Cleveland

New York

Detroit

Boston

St. Louin

HITLER'S SPEECH

GIVEN MIXED

RECEPTION

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term.

are represented for us in the work These three, we may say to-day, and power of Shakespeare, in our English Bible, lying open in the and in our English law which binda hands of our Established Church, together our expanding Empire of which many are thinking when, on St. George's Day, they press for wise schemes of emigration. These three representative institutions do пропля A 'mystery story of establishing existing knowledge eloquently, and strikingly point to science, an instalment in a serial and, at least, partly corroborating the developments of different in which the criminal may not yet theories tentatively held. It is aspects of our own national genius. have been run to earth, but is at especially interesting to note that

"But, these traditiona

be looked

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least one of those upon whom the discovery of the expanding na-possessions of ours are not for 1suspicion restal

ture of the universe was expected, selfish enjoyment. Our American "To revert from the metaphor of theoretically, long before observa-friends share our Shakespeare, the detective fiction to that of mathe-tion of the high speed of the whole English-speaking world our maties, the inquirer into the mean- nebulae could be adduced to bear Bible, and the spirit of our Law ing of the universo will find it help- put this speculation. Personally, reaches far, beyond the country ful to memorise what one might call I am of the opinion that the of his birth."

short celestial multipliention universe is Onite; that is to TWO IMPULSES AT WORK. table. Taking a star as the unit. say, the total number of atomis There were, so it seemed, two we may state roughly that 'a hun-in the universe

finite. Iimpulses at work' among us at the dred thousand million stare make think we can even make a pretty present time-this recognition of one galaxy, and that a hundred good estimate of what that number our past, und, also the tendency to thousand million galaxies make one i Our actual observations do not, break with the past-apparently universe."

of course, extend over the whole contradictory at first sight, but, "What is the real significance of universe; but we know that the if we looked deeper, complementary these amazing figures, Professor?" light now reaching us from the fur- and not wholly antagoniatic." Germany's standpoint upon ques-of the immense progress that has started

"At least they are an indication theat known cluster of nebulae "The right course is to build; tions affecting not only Germany recently been made in astronomical across space no less than 150 million valuable, using, so far as may be. IA prodigious journey first to build up something new and hat the whole world.

discoveries," he replied. "Not so years ago!"

the old, material as integral to the All problema causing the prefered that our own galaxy

long ago lending astronomers be- Millions of Years Ahead new. We still need the best in the sent unrest were due to gaps instituted the entire universe; and it fate of the universe?"

"What, then, will be the ultimate old, just as we need he best in the the Peace Treaty which falled to is a significant fact that

new. We want the good wherover settle clearly and sensibly the eights of the average astronomical it? Strange as it may seem, how not tradition that must go; it is seven- "That's hardly a fair question, is we can find it. In every fleld it is most important questions arising book published about 1900 It was therefore natural that the almost exclusively with the solar occurred to modify the orthodox tion and progress are not at vari- dealt ever, no recent dicovery has yet the worship of tradition. Tradi- idea of revising the treaty

Wan system. It is really only within view, first emphasised by constantly recurring. The idea the last ten years that we

Lordance. have Kelvin nearly eighty years of assisting other nations

"Shakespeare shows us the eter ago, by succeeded in accumulating a mass of that the universe is steadily run-nal, unchanging world economically destroying a people evidence which affords reasonable ning down and heading for a state nature.

of huminn 66,000,000 was so absurd that proof that what we call the aniverse of ultimate uniformity which will eternal things which will give a pur

It is this recognition of the faterne to-day espoused it.

is vastly wider than this world had mean, not necessarily dreamed of."

quiescence, pose to life, national, collective and but just unorganised chaos. That individual; we have to say this in

"CAVALCADE" SHOCK the

system might conceivably "wind every age and not least in our own Gormany, he anid, had fulfilled

Itself

up again on reaching this when the futile pessimism of the

FOR MISS WYNYARD har reparations obligations despite "How was this-evidence nequir. point is undeniable-but foll to early chapters of Ecclesiastes seems thoir senselessness and the fact

ace with what object. Meantime, to be settling down upon many. While the Canadian Pacife liner Mina Diana Wynyard is in love. was forcaeen that their Conкe-

let us remember that we are think perhaps especially among the young, Empress of Britain aniled up quencer would be suicidal. This readers would thank me for going millions of years, and the running look and to rob life of its hope and she explained all about it. "I don't think either you or your ing ahead in terms of millions of in their public and personal out- Southamption Water last was shown by the world crisis. into highly complicated technical down of the universe as a whele beauty, Vanity of vanities! All

The aim of the national govern however, it meant fixing the scale coming more highly organised and

details. Speaking very broadly does not prevent local regione beis vanity! ment was to prevent Communism of distances of the remote spiral wound up at the expense of the speare's dramas acted, can we wat wood.

Miss Wynyard, the star of in Europe,

"Can we see the best of Shake- "Cavalcade," is in love with Holly- The Nazi revolution nebulne by laborious processes of rest." contemplated leading millions, exact measurement; it was passible of unemployed back to progressive to identify certain familiar kinds problem as to the habitability of content to say. All is vanity?

eh his supreme grasp of humanity "Are we any nearer solving the in all its undying chases and be labour and the restoration of a of stars in them, and so get ourany other planet, within or without stable authoritative government.hearings, much NA benighted four galaxy?"

Interi

Met Obligations,

of a great people.

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The Stellar System

STAR WHO CRIED

AT HERSELF

mouth

"It is marvellous place," she said, "with a wonderful spirit of comradeship, and how it works!

"When I was working in 'Caval-

7 o'clock or earlier, and we worked' Into in the evening.

He repudiated the charge of war

traveller might check his bearinge guilt which meant the degradation lamp seen in the distance.

by some well-remembered

"My own work," said Profesor LESS BLINDNESS IN ende had to be at the studio at, street Eddington, "does not come in con- "From a study of the stellar sys-have really nothing to say,

tact with that subject at all, and I tem, which showed that

I am our sun rather inclined to agree with Sir was but one very ordinary Herr Hitler emphasised the in-amongst

starJames Jeans's view The millions that con- juries inflicted upon Germany by stitute our galaxy, it was clearly stem such as ours is rather rare

inhabited planets are, I suspect, to

Injured by Allies. ·

government

will

YOUTH

ELDERLY

that a solar INCREASE AMONG THE in four films. Now I am home to

Per-

"I am a temporary sensation-I

"In eight months I have played the Allies and declared these could the next step to turn our attention be compared to the one or two ger-

appear in the play 'Wild Decem- not be compensated by sanctimoni- to the outer galaxies themselves, minating seeds of the many million der the age of 21 who are blind con-

bera, to be presented by Mr. C. B. OUA phrases,

The number of young persons un-Cochran," The Versailles Careful comparisons soon showed senttered by a plant. Treaty is no solution of the that even our own galaxy can world's problems, yet no German scarcely be of any oustanding im cent progress has been, the gaps advisory Committee on the Welfare who are rapidly taking possession. "Rapid and far-reaching as re-

tinues to decline.

Miss Wynyard is representative This fact is commented on by the of the class of intellectual players deliberately portance in point of size: I think remaining to be bridged sometimes of the Blind in their report for of the film world. break the arrangement without that the old view that it was a kind seem to increase, correspondingly, 1931-32. being able to substitute something of 'continent' in space compared both in number and volume. better.

On March 1932, the total register- with the mere islanda' of spiral haps the progress of science is to led blind population of England and I know It is temporary. For weeks nebulae is almost certainly an over-be meganred not by the number of Wales was 62,079, compared with I was not allowed to see the daily He promised the complete dis- catimation. bandment of auxiliary pullee this

questions we can answer, but by the 62,727 in 1929-an year but repudiated the assump out of the novel ideas of Time and It is disappointing sometimes to be

"Much recent work has arisen number of questions we can ask. 9,352 or 18 per cent.

of projections of 'Cavalende,' 'Then.

I saw myself in the scene in tion that the Nazi storm troops Space embodied in Einstein's The-able to say so little in reply to the total number of registered blind ampton for South Africa, and I constituted military reserves.

"The percentage increase of the which the ship leaves South- ory of Relativity," went on Pro-urgent questions that como fessor Eddington, "and it seems our minds as to the nature and high" the report states, "but the

to as shown in the 1932 return is cried my eyen out, highly probable that fresh light mechanism of the stars and nebulae. increase is mainly in the figure of inured to this chastening ex- "I was horrified, but now I am will, as a result, be thrown upon and to realise the elusiveness of our blind persons over 50 years of age.perience and reconciled to seeing the very intriguing Implications of queat for truth; but then we recall that famous Theory in the near that ten years ago we wer

"No fewer than 0,125 of the total work fall short of what one had future. Meantime, we have made sufficiently advanced even to frame 50. The age groups up to 21 show some very definito steps forward in many of these questions."

increase are in the age groups over dreamt It might be." a decrease of 440 compared with 1920.

He solemuly declared in the name of Germany that Germany

had disarmed.

Will Scrap Armaments, Germany is prepared to destroy all her armaments if other nationd are prepared to do likewise, Herr Hitler declared but she must insist upon the equality of Germany.

He was prepared to participate in a settlement of political and economie dimeulties of the world in an unselfish way.

not

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF "EDUCATION 18

The Ben Line 8.8. "Benarty" has AS MUCH OF A PROBLEM IN CRIME AS IGNORANCE-left Singapore vin Manila and is due THE EDUCATED CRIMINAL IS PRO-to, arrive here on 26th May. BABLY MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE IGNORANT. THERE IS NO INHERENT

There remained only one blg VIRTUE IN LEARNING," Lewis E. task, namely to gain the assurance of the peace of the world. French Lawes, wurden of Sing Sing prison, and Polish armaments were not

Shanghal for this Port on the 10th The P. and O. 8.n. "Carthage" left instant at 4 p.m. and is due here on the 19th instant at about 7 am

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