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HARD TIMES AHEAD
NOTES OF THE DAY THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF
WAR DEBTS
סינת
for STO
THE UNIVERSE
By ROBERT BLATCHFORD
When Sir Oliver Lodge writes, Haeckel was mistaken and life is
about science he does not write not a cocktail shaken by the hand
an unknown tongue. But there of casual forces. are others. There are blologists. Let us be cautious. Out of the Biology has been built up by men flery furnace came
The Very Idea!
THE PULSE OF THE WORLD
By Major Ed. Kally, Critic
.
Activity among prophets is natural accompaniment to the re- Aumption of war debt negotiations between Britain and the United States, Several solutions suggested; they Include a lump sum
Of course you all read payment in silver purchased in the
last week's Critic and saw American market, a scaling down of annual instalments in return
the makings where our old friend, the trade concesionu. Both of many nations; Britons, Ger. of Protopinem, and Protoplasm is Major had established an cossible, the first being probably they have made a new language. Is it? Or is it the stuff into which Automatic Intelligence Ser- mane, Russians, Frenchmen, and the stuff of which life is made, the most acceptable to both parties, the words of which are hard to mind put the beginnings of Ife? vice to send him news from provided a figure can be agreed on: read, harder to understand; and That is the crux of the situation, of course. Speculation, as to the still harder to remember. probable outcome of the discussions
When Sir Oliver 'saye: "Live EVOLUTION. can serve little purpose. The main things, it is now admitted, aro thing is that they have opened and actuated by something more than dibi slime a creative mind?" 1
Dr. Hudson asks: "Had primor the Major from announcing that the United States seems better the physical and chemical react- prefer to ask: Did the sea-slime our acceptance of a special disposed to see reason to-day than lons of their material organisms," create the Moneron? If the slime correspondent's job. We even a few months ago. The rehe confronts us with the teasing did that it did not only creste d sult will, of course, be of vital im riddle: "What is Life?" and sug- clot of felly; it created iffe. It suppose he was thinking of portance as the British debt agree geats with native candour and created the Moneron and the his reputation.
courage that life is something Moneron created the Ama ba,
mont will form a model for the forthcoming negotiations with other debtors of the United States)
A CONDITION
!
FIRST STEP IN
more than matter.
which was the first step in Evolu- When we ask ourselves "What is tion. The Amaba, the single-cell life?" we turn hopefully from the of which all animals and plants nature of life to its history, We
ask another question: "How did are built, developed, by its own power, into the shark and the life begin?"
crocodile, the skylark and the gorilis and at length produced HOW CAME
Plato and Herr Hitler and Dr. IT ALIVE?
Crippen and the author of "The
One party claim that man is an automaton, another party claim that man is n spirit.
I shall choose as opposing coun-i
'
centres on the Moneron. The Moneron had life.
Did the Protoplasm acciden- tally or automatically crente life, or did life clothe itself in Protoplasm?
all parts of the world. We
don't know what prevented
We'll be leaving soon, if the shroffs don't hear of it, and then on one bright Saturday,
you may expect to see blazon. ed from yellow, posters some- thing like this:
THE CRITIC
EDWARD KELLY IN CUBA
Feeling the Nation's Pulse.
The story, on l'age 4, will rend something like this:
Havana, Oct 317 We have arrived. Your special correspondent was taken, screaming and licking from the Queen of Bermuda this morning- and is now at the National Hotel, Already he has a keen grasp of the political situation on the island.
The time has gone by to discuss either the ethics or the economics of war-debt payments. Instead of a theory, there is a condition To answer that we must turn Swiss Family Robinson." to Lo face: America's war to biology and biology is hard The evidence for evolution is debtors can hardly be expected to digging. If we are to understandį overwhelming. Haeckel and Hud- pay more to Washington than they the biologists and get their mea son agree that all forms of animal are. receiving by way of repara-sage over to the man in the street life, including man, have evolved tions. They want a "Lausanne we must translate their daunting from the Moneron: and many reduction." Whenever an inter-language into plain English. That claim that the Moneron evolved national debtor develops such an is not easy, for our doctors differ from the Protoplasm. The dispute. attitude, it usually happens that the creditor has to accept what he can get. It is an extraordinary situation that the creditor in this CHRC Reems to prefer continuing. default to amicable settlement. President Roosevelt, however, hassel, Dr. Hudson, author of "The displayed an amazing faculty for Professor Hacckel, author of "The
Divine Pedigree of Man," 'und] bridging awkward situations. And
I find it hard to belleve that he has the advantage over his Evolution of Man."
mindless matter ereated life, that predecessor that during his 'Ad- These writers agree about the life was born of lifeless slime. The Hon. Colonial Secretary ministration ao far farm buying known facts of evolution, but not And we are confronted with the touched lightly upon the issue of power has been improved 30 per about the original cause. And in staggering claim that mindless, Hongkong's falling trade in the cent, 2,000,000 unemployed have my opinion, neither of them be-lifeless matter not only created course of his Budget speech, but been put back to work, and radical gins at the beginning. They be-life, but created a creative life, readjustments have been Initiated Kin with the lowest known form a living power to grow from o his grievance was against the in internal debts. These factors of life, which is the microscopic seed into a tree, from a speck of thought of loss of revenue; his should add to his unique influencs jelly speck called the Moneron. jelly into a populous world, into concern for the trader was not with Congress in helping them But the Moneron is alive, what literature, science, religion into particularly evidenced. Never- and the country to get accustomed is life, and where did it begin? a vast and intricate civilisution," theless, the problem is becom-to the thought that the United An American writer, Professor Sir Oliver Lodge anys: "Life
THE LOWDOWN, ing serious and one deserving States cannot get all she bargained Jordan, says: "The simplest or- and mind never were functions of the earnest attention of govern-
ganism we know is far more com-the material body, they only dis- The low down on the story is. ment. Month by month since
plex than the constitution of the played themselves by means of this. Cuba planned those riots to the year's beginning, the volume
the material organism.". Dr. Hud- of trade has grown a little less
Well, life did not begin, surely, son says the same, and he claims induce the American Navy to come at that stage. Life would begin that the Moneron had a mind and to Havana, The Cabaret) business and though it would not be fair Buck's observations to convince that like the first touch of a finger on a come a human body and a human pubs
It hardly needed Mrs. Pear! by the action of mind on matter, able to grow and spread and be was doing badly there and half the to say that the dwindling movement
goodwill and good sense has not
going broke. The marked lute string, or it would begin by soul. He believes, to put his iden American Navy was able to keep been the withdrawal of her connexion the chance meeting and mixing of Into Biblical words, that God officially noticed, the clination has been to visit Board. And a world of readers Life began. When?
in with the Presbyterian Mission two or more chemical elements, breniked the breath of life into things going for a while before we
lifeless clay. will rejoice that she will have more
Here we come
If life was put into the Monera
it upon the general economic blizzard and to assume that we must simply wait in patience for It to wear Itself out. No lesson
for:
MRS. PEARL BUCK
time to spare for writing. In one
|United States.”
In the childhood of the solar
sense, Mrs. Buck has been loss a system the earth was a spinning other puzzle. missionary herself than the wife of bail of gas so fot that no animal
life to matter it Was not
Shouts of "Via Kellito" and other Spanish expressions rose from the throats of thousands ns we walked between a' guard of honour of ex-presidents from the Hotel National to the Hotel Grand National on
the other side of the street.
were
arrived, but the hotel business is
up against an-now flourishing and the Navy has been told to leave at any time.—A Kelly Special (Gin and Ginger.)
And, with the speed of light;-
́VIENNĄ PUZZLE Who Shot Dollfuss: Why, When And Where?
Vienna, Dec. 4. This morning we arrived in Austria and met the Chancellor, DrDollfuss.TM*
is drawn from the bankruptcy Dr. J. Lossing Buck, who has been upon or in it. If mind gave kind and maybe something still a missionary. It is her husband, or vegetable life was possible with the purpose of evolving man- of a silk store with a forty years doing the work in Ching to which until the earth had cooled and deviations? Evolution by way of Higher, why the delay and why the establishment behind it; from the casual observer would be most. the disappearance of countless kely to attach the label "mission water had appeared. If matter worms and fishes: reptiles and small dealers who have quietly ary." Even in the case of Profes-not until light and best and moid-ooks-like-a-broken-chain-of-ex- became alive by accident it WAB mammals, bears and open, tó man shut-up-without-causing-a-stir.sor-Buck It is true--that his dis An apathetic reference to tinguished services as dean of the ture were suitable to the change.periments, a long, slow series of
When the earth was a spinning false starts. weeding-out process, and no
college of agriculture. In the Uni- more is said, because we suppose yersity of Nanking do not follow and rushing cloud of fire, life as
could not be. But A STORY OF the pattern of what was commonly we know it it is true enough, in a sense, and regarded as missionary, work a within that mass of consuming TRIAL AND ERROR. is likely to go on.
But it points generation ago. Mrs. Buck has flame there must have been the very grimly to the seriousness herself taught regularly in the makings of life. There must have Would an all-knowing, all-ace-"Hullo, Fuzzy, old boy" we of the blight upon Hongkong's university. But it was not as a been the seeds of the hills and ing, all-powerful Creator have put aid clapping him on the shoulder. commercial life. While the teacher in a mission college that the sea, the grass and the onks. into the Moneron a creative mind diminution in the ebb and flow Pearl Buck has become internation- The primrose, the kingfisher, wo- that would blink and probe and
"Don't do that, Kelly" he said. of trade each month has not ally famed. It le as the writor of men and children, philosophy, wander off the track, developing been sensationally large, the novels, now translated into a dozen science, the aeroplane, diplomacy, into conger cel and rattlesnakes "A bullet hit me there yesterday," aggregate drop since January gained the attention of the world.
or more langunges, that she has dog-racing, the Irish sweep and and scorpions and saw toothed tixers? The mind with which the
"Good Heavens," we cried. "Did runs into nine figures. A large
If the makings of all Rfe and Moneron set out either did not
someone try to assassinate you?”. volume of unemployment is
ali life's strivings and achieve- see its goal or did not know its created immediately by stagna-
menta were not present in the way to the goal, but struggled tion on the waterfront and
melting heat mings, then Professor (Continued on Page 5.)
GUN.
LITERARY STYLE:
diminishing purchasing power What has given Mrs. Buck's in one small section of the com-books their Importance? Much of munity
soon begins to affect the answer is to be found in a other every
by
study of her literary method, Mrs. inexorable economic laws. Internal consump-herself immersed in Chinese life. Buck has never ceased to keep tion is even now falling away Chinese have been her intimates; faster than the volume of ex- she has not knows Chinese life: ports. Small bankruptcies oc- she has lived Chinese life. Added temporarily refreshing to that, she has saturated her other firms engaged in similar mind with Chinese literature- lines of business, enabling them not the academic philosophisings to keep up appearances for a of the sages, but the racy, vivid while, thus delaying full realina- romancos that make up an entire tion of the truth of what is hap-the West scarcely knows exists. -school of Chinese literature which pening. In short, Hongkong is Thus it happened that when the witnessing the working out of West found its ear caught by the the processes which
have cadences of the style in which brought many countries almost Mrs. Buck wrote "The Good to their knees, some of them to Earth, it declared that hor mis- revolution, in the past three sionary background had sent her years. And what is being done to the Old Testament for her model, about it? Nothing: if we are Yet what had actually occurred permitted to judge from official was that Mrs. Buck, thinking her tale of Wang, the farmer in the pronouncements. Japanese com- forms of the Chinese novel, had petition we have to bear with; accurately translated into English Hongkong is a free port, Sll-that. traditional Chinese style! ver? Our bankers, whose in The thing that she has been terests would seem to lie in an able to do is to get at the very increase in China's purchasing | hourt of another culture. power, an incronso which would
automatically be reflected in a
Hongkong revival, have revealed | most damaging of all to Hong- themselves as opposed to all kong's commercial interests, artificial measures of stimula-aro presumably outside, the tion. Strong as is the Colony's sphere of local government in- interest, it is too much to ex- terest. Altogether, the outlook pect that official representations is anything but happy. Helpless have been made to the Secretary we are or as wo are asked to of State in favour of measures bellove. We can do nothing for improving the price of sil-but-walt-for better-or for.. ver. Chinn's customs duties, worse.
war
"That's twice teachor has boon tardy this week.”
He winced,
"No, No" he said. "A young fellow wearing a brown shirt and muttering mystle words like "Hall Hitler' took a shot at me. The fellow had mistaken me for some- one else, so we let him go."
Since, interviewing Dr. Dull- fuss we have made a number of inquiries and there is a grave suspicion that another Power had something to do with the attempted assassination. Bo for, we have been unable to ascertain the name of the other Power. A Kelly Super Special.
FALSE ALARM
Sometime in 1994 we expect to go to Shanghat for another unde- clared war and then we may send something like this:
Shanghai, Sept. 19, 8 pm:
From behind Chapel, smoke is rising and grave fears are felt in the city that are had started there.
Later.
The smoke is still rising,
Still Later.
There was no fire after all.' Someone had left the door of, an oplum divan open-Kelly,
But it won't all be like that. We shall be telling the most stirring. stories of the conflict, always re- membering to probe into the deeper significance of each move. We shall be the most Automiatló Intelli- gence Service in the World. You will get your money back if the machine docan't work.
Next Week: Abyssinia,"
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