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NOTES OF THE DAY BLOOD AND RACE The Very Idea!
TUS. AIR MAILS
President Roosevelt's virtual capitulation on the air mail con- tract issue will not be accompanied by any loss of personal prestige. On the contrary, a strong feeling exists, in the United States that the arbitary cancellation overstop ped the mark and that the decision to restore the air mails to privata concerns as soon as possible is necessary to put matters right
shadow There was, after all, not of reflection on the men who woro actually doing the work. And those with financial control who brought about the muddle by intrigue and graft have probably learned a lesson,
Danger of Political Theories Based on Delusion
By PROFESSOR J. B. S. HALDANE, F.R.S.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE OUR OPERATION?
We were only too conscious of
Pin innguage, connects blooded by climate. Thus, in Hungary arms. DOPULAR belief, as embodied Those proportions are unaffect the pitiful" inadequacy of our
with racial origin. We speak of a the gypsies have the blood charac-.
man having negro blood on historistic of Northern India, the Gar-. A rusty, hiltless sword;'a mother's side, and so on. It le mans that characteristic of Ger- cracked and dinted shield; a worth examining such phrases at many, while the Magyars resemble visorissa helmet; and a bronat- the present time, when the rulers no other people of Central or plate lint let large portions of a
find their of Germany are basing their Wastorn Europe, but politics on a particular theory of closest resemblance in South Russia torn shirt flap despondent in the breeze, wore sad accoutrements race. Can race be determined by and Central Asia.
A single Individual gives no in- for he who would battle for the examining the blood?
life of the uncrificial virgin,
gates, g
A microscopical examination formation. One can merely say will not help us. Human blood that such and such a combination corpuscles differ in size from those is twice as likely to be found in
There, but a roòd er two awny,, of most other animals, and ina Lapp as in an Englishman. It he hung in the chains with which GREAT RECORD
shape from some. But the human is only when a sample of several The American air mall pilota races do not differ. A few fami- hundred people has been examined the burghers had fastened her to themselves made one of the finest iles in the United States have ovat that the racial characteristics bo- the exterior of the city's ponderous records in the history of aviation corpuscles like camela and llamas, gin to show up. They have been good, superlative- but this necullarity is found both If we make a world map for the And hore, his half-mile of logs ly good, at a job calling for skill.in white and coloured people. I racial distribution of the sub-n blur. his foul maw vomiting coolness, and devotion. From the cannot forbear from suggesting it stances concerned in blood trans- flame and sulphur fumes, came standpoint of physical service, they made the American, nir mail not as a clue in a detective story. The fusion (and, unfortunately, no the dragon, ravening for Els work one of the finest things of its detective ands a blood-stain. The maps are yet available for the morning meal of damosel.
super-detective uses a microscope, others), certain facts atare us in kind in all the world-if not the and pronounces it that of a camel, the face. The B substance is at his wings in every cymbal clash Death lurked in every quiver of vory finest.
Similarly, the technie.
Tho super-super-detective, having or absent in Australian aborigines Inns, the designers, the men who read this article, discovers that and in the native races of America, of his sting. built the planes and the engines, the blood is human and belonged save for a few groups mostly on the operating officials who arranged to the missing heir, in whose the Chilean coast, who may carry schedules and issued assignments, family such corpuscles were Polynesian blood. Elsewhere the repair men and service men and hereditary. wireless and weather experts-all filled their difficult jobs with dla. tiuction.
WRONG FINANCES,
Even as we stood transfixed my trusty stead bolted for the shel- ter of the city walls,
An almost uncontrollablo im- pulse to follow him #elzod us, But, one glance at the drooping form clad in its ginish white banished the craven intention.
And then she spoke.
proportion diminishes as we go out from a focus in Central Asia. More important hereditary dif- In the Punjab about 60 per cent. ferences were found when blood carry it. The gure is nearly as transfusion became a practicar-high-in Soviet Turkestan, so the proposition. Some people have on maximum very likely lies in the The troubles that led to the their corpuscles a chemical sub-i mountains between. Any anthro- wholesale cancellation of contracts stance which is named leongglu-pologist who is tired of life would
"Sock him one in the smellor!" were, in fact, in no way due to the tinogen A-u hideous example of be woll advised to try bleeding a men who were doing the actual scientific jargon. If such cor few hundred Afghans in order to camo her gentle accents, work of lying the mails. From a puscles are injected into the veins test this hypothesis.
Accompanied by the ring of a purely physical viewpoint, the air of a person who does not carry A,
Over much of Aain and some of sword whipped from its sealbard mail organisation was a thing of they will clump together, and may
the fray. Even which the whole country could because his death. In order to find Africa 35 per cent, or more of the we dashed into proud. Where, then, was the trou-out whether this will happen it is population carry B, and this high as the fend darted upon her the ble? It arose solely from the fact suficient to add the corpuscles of Baren atretches into Europe as good blade burled itself in his that this magnificent edifico of ser tho donar to the serum of the far as the Ukraine as a result, of jowl. With roar that made the Ter burghera blanch he wheeled oft vico rested on the wrong kind of recipient, and inspect the result Tartar invasions. The 20 financial hase. In some casco-not with a hand-lens. Another sub- cent. contour line includes all
The maidon tiffèd her voice.. in ail, by any means-the men at atance called B behaves in the Asia, but runs through Germany
and the Balkans, while in our own "Hooray! Atta baby! Kick in the very top were less concerned | same way, with doing an important job in an
but not all, lands and the Atlantic seaboard greasy boko in!" she crooned. efficient
Not for long did we enjoy a credit must be two dollars grow where one had reacting with horse serum, and per cent. These Agures
manner than with making corpuscles carry a substance called the proportion falls to about 10 grown before. To put it more
breathing spell. The fout beast to an emigration simply, the fact that a few men
after man arrived in America and thunderously, nosedived upon us. were greedy was enough to nullify
from Central Asia, which began banked, and, with wings flapping Australia, but of which only a The crash as all the skill, the courage, and the
few stragglers vached Western trated the more nervous among devotion to duty which the great
Europe.
the cannallle lining the walls. mass of employees put into their jobs.
We plled the sword valiantly. tional Socialist Party demand the Huge hunks of dragon-meat flow expulsion of the Jews as being at every stroke. His blood, black. vorder-Asiatisch." It is, there- and sowerscented, spouted forth fore, interesting to note that, while in cascades. the Jews of Central German; have
NEW TERRITORY PRODUCE
Whilst full given for the painstaking work of the Committee appointed by the Government to enquire into the local marketing of New Ter ritories produce, we imagine that the reaction of the average reader of its Report will be that there has been too great a dis- position on the part of the in- vestigators to accept conditions
the
Similarly some,
arc
clearly point
very
The racial theorists of the Na-
left con-
we engaged proa-
pro-
Her voice spurred us to digies of butchery. We lifted the sword in both hands and amote at his scaly throat.
our
a number of other such agglutino-! gens are being found, at the rate of about two a year, which are present in some people but not in others. It is enough to examine a single drop of blood to find out whether these substances are pre- sent, YOUNG HEADS
In all these cases the laws of in- heritance The appointment of a new head-.
very simple. In master to Harrow at the age of technical language the presence of as they are. It must be conforty-threo is not quite the novelty
an agglutinogen is dominant over rather more of the B substance "Stick him in the gizzard!" ceded that there has in latter suggested although Dr. Vellacott its absence. This implies, among than the British, they hava con- spake the prospective breakfast. years been a big improvement in is one of the youngest men to go of a population in which it is Bldorably less than the inhabitants)
other things, that the proportion the facilities offered for the the Harrow appointment. It may found remains constant, and that Aslatie ancestors have
of East Prussia, in whose blood bringing of produce into Kowloon however, be recalled that last year
a new head was appointed to Up- no one ever posscases an aggsiderable traces. and Hongkong, and in that res-pingham at the age of twenty-tinogen not present in one of his pect the existing organisation seven. The spirit underlying such or her parents.
So far as blood is an index, there There was a frightful jar-the This latter fact has an immed-are no pure races, though some blade snapped off short, leaving may, as the Committee claims, a polley is greatly to be applauded. be said to function in an effec-To-day
generations are ate application in cases of doubt- American Indian tribes are near-us nothing but our bare hands tive manner. It is not on the separated by deeper guifs than ful paternity. By testing for the ly homogeneous. A race is a to fight with.
it characteristic mixture. It is not question of transport arrange-before, and it would not be hard agglutinogens so far known
Undaunted wo grasped one of ments that doubts arise, but the to think of publle schools that would be possible to prove non-unlikely that, in the case of some facts and figures revealed in the have been-terribly lowered in paternity of an innocent man in of-the-great mixed races, such as his jaws in each hand and strove vitality because elderly masters most, but not all, casos. Un the British, Spaniards, and Rus- mightily to tear them asunder. Report do raise a query whether have too long continued to rule fortunately, many of the necessary nians, the same is truc as regards But, without our sword, the actual producer gets a fair boys they had ceased to under- sera are not at present available those more important hereditary struggles were useless. share of the profits accruing stand.
in Britain, as the main work on traits which, along with tradition
He wrapped his octopas-like from his enterprise and labour.
these substances has been done in in its widest sense, determino legs around us. Tighter and Before his products reach the ECONOMISING ON JUSTICE
foreign countries.
character and intellect. There is tighter grew his grasp, while his consumer, quite a number of
When the bloods of different no auch thing as a characteristical-fery branth roasted our flesh middlemen have to be recom- reduction of Judges salaries, any one agglutinogen Invariably there is a characteristically British breastplate snap: and then, one The constitutional aspect of the races are compared we do not find ly British mind any more than from the bones. We felt the pensed, each taking off a con-which the Lord Chancellor ex- present in a race, though it is blood group or hair colour. siderable percentage. The oys-pounded recently is doubtless an quite possible that we shall do so tem involved is typically Chinese important one, but the vital con-
On the contrary, it has been our by one, our ribs. A great black- in future when more of these sub-fortune that great opportunities fumes ate into our brain.
noss descended {in character, and of a somewhat sideration for Britain is that an stances are known. But we do have called to characteristically.
complicated nature, It may, for under-paid Bench will not in the find very marked differences in the different men, a Knox, a Pitt, a "Aw, you big mug! You couldn't this reason, be difficult to break long run continue to be manned proportion of people who carry Disraeli, a Lloyd George; that cur knock a sick hen off an egg!" down. Even the producer him by the best intellects of the law. them. Thus, in England, about poets have been as different as cooed the maiden. self would appear to view sug- would be a sacrifice utterly in- ten per cent. B, whereas in Canton that, perhaps in response to this felt strangely weak and il and
losa of
quality in British justice | fifty por cent, carry A, and only | Donne, Pope, and Swinburne, and
Then the blackness lifted. We gested new methods with some commensurable with the measure of scepticism. Even so, thousand pounds saved by the A and thirty-one per cont. B.
few only twenty-nine per cent, carry Innate diversity, we have, on the smelly. From somewhere near a
(Continued on Page 10.) the thought does suggest itself present retrenchment. that there will not be any really The high responsibilities laid marked expansion of the market upon the Bonch were Illustrated by locally until sufficient Induce the overruling of an Insidious ment is forthcoming for the claim of privilege for certain kindn producer to embark on a bigger that such a document might be of police reports. The doctrine scale. The exhibits at the withheld from a court of law on the annual agricultural shows the Home Scerotary's certificate and at the Empire Fair that its disclosure would be have shown that really excellent against the public interest might products can be grown on the be made to shelter a great deal of mainland, and with the wider arbitrary oficialism and carries adoption of modern methods of danger upon the very face of it. cultivation there is every reason Mr. Justice Macnaghten made a to believe that the standard useful little bit of history in ruling could be even more greatly im- public interest must ile with the that the Interpretation of the proved. But there must be a Court and not with the Depart- sufficient inducement. The pro-mont.
blem is mainly a financial one,
and it would surely be in the GOOD HARD WORK Colony's Interest, making it lesa dependent on outside sources, if requires that all boys and girls who One of the latest Nazi decrees the Government could evolve desire to enter German universities some satisfactory financial plan must serve at least six months in whereby a greater percentage Naz! labour camps, tolling with of profit would go to the producer pick and shovel Juat liko дву pro- than is at present the case. In letarian wage onrnor. This ruling. course of time, under favourable many ways it looks like an excellent
Just
has been in Berlin, and In conditions, there might spring idea. The lad who in por into being across the harbour a attend a university is privileged, in permitted to big community earning ita living He is presumably Atting himself on the land and helping to make for life-long emancipation from the Colony more self-supporting backbreaking physical toll. It is in the matter of the necessities which would require him first to therfore, an unsound schemo of life. The situation seems to and out by actual experience what dall for the planning of a big Government-aided scheme, based manual labour meand, It may on the same principles which are him to understand the viewpoint servo two useful purpoace, help being put into force on behalf of and the problems of those less for- agriculture in. England at the tunato than himself; enable him present time.
bettor to estimate how lucky ha.is,
"It seems to me I was reading a continuod story in one
of these.
as the sulphur
rough, exasperated volco Was Haying:
"If all fellows coming out of chloroform were like this one I wouldn't be a doctor for a thou- inand a week!"
Proghostication
..
We're very much inclined to think, If preesent trends of fashion thrive, That slacks and shorts may bo
"non cst"
By nineteen thirty-fuo, Instead we'll have a body-paint, Sprayed on soith pumps from
bowsers:
And trowsers will be only woor By quite old fashioned wowsers.
His Victory
She waighed fourteen stone. He only, weighed eight,
Bha owned their children. Ho only watched them grow.
Sho spent his wages. He only worked for them.
She bought his clothes. He only wore them, or some of them.
In every way, through twenty, years of married life, sho ruled and...) ho obeyed. Z
Then, ho took the initiative and, quite without prompting, became ill.
She nursed and cursed him.
He said, "I'm going to dlo,”
She said: "You're not."!! Ho dici.
Which proves that the worm will turd.
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