THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY,
MAY 30, 1935.
LOOKING AT LIFE
IN 1960
OLIVE BRANCHES OR POISON GASES?
By AN OLD STAGER
In The Edinburgh Evening Dispatch
King George the Fifth's Silver Jubilee has quite naturally been an occasion for looking backwards. 'Men's memories have recalled, in the silent flickies of the mind's eye, the pageant of outstanding events dur- ing the quarter of a century of His Majesty's eventful and fateful reign. How if, by way of corrective to this retrospective mood, we try to look forward a quarter of a century from now, and to peer into the still inscruitable future?
What will life be like, not only in this country but on this planet, in the year 19607 It is a fascinating con- jecture, though even the wisest and most far-seeing of us can only vaguely guess. No man can foretell the future with real certainty. We can but dimly gaze beyond the veil that shuts us off from the time to come. No doubt this is one of the wise dispensations of pro- vidence. If human life ceased to be the blind gamble it is, there might be many who would lack the courage to carry on with it.
The first thought that strikes one, in speculating as to what history may have recorded with its re- morseless finger on the wall of fate in another 25 years, is that mist of the outstanding world personolities of to-day will almost certainly have played their little part and left the stage of life.
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What sort of successors will the tion, whleb may be settled world behold to the existing way or the other before the bella Stalins, Hitlers, Mussolinis, and ring in 1900, is whether our fer- Roosevelts of our epoch? To-day vent peace aspirations of to-day the world is almost crowded with will be realised modern politlen] Atlases, bearing frustrated and falsified. Will the or completely on their atout shoulders the weight next 20 years bring forth olive of national affairs. Before the branches or poison gases? Will Silver Jubilee babies of this year our children acclaim the assured are 25 years old, others will have pacific sovereignty of Geneva, with to be grappling with the urgent perhaps " Federated United problems of weltpolitik.
States of Europe, or will they have WILI 1960 #ec dietatorship became a generation of drilled enthroned or democracy revivified, troglodytes, scurrying below ferro. At this moment we perceive, concrete gas-proof cellars when in Russia and in America, two the wireless sends far and wide huge conflicting experiments in its warning of the aerial wrath politico-economics under way.that is coming?
WII the wise men prove once
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On the aerodrome at Trabbin, near Berlin, a demonstration of gliders was arranged recently with great at-
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more to have come from the Enst, Both prospects are within the or will the newer Western world bounds of human probability. have vindicated its organising The fate of humanity never look- sapiency?
il to be more hazardously on the Maybe the next quarter of naps of the gods, assisted perhaps century will witness tho sub-by a few mortal dictatora. mergence of our
the time 1960 comes' round, we enterprise as water or gas is now. safe wager that in 1960 there wili cherished de- When we turn to the future of shall look in on as well as talk mocratic theories, and a fight for world transport we are possibly to our friends when we ring them corated with flowers of exotic and who raise scandalised eyebrows Our rooms will, I fear, bo de-be grave and reverend seniors survival and supremacy between on aurer ground.
up on the phone. Even far dis- unnatural colouring and even dent the outrageous deportment of Red Communism and Black-Shirted Already experts who aro Fasciam. Or will some new com-from being crazy visionaries are scientific benefaction. A son in variety and velvet-black roses as people, and bright young people far tant relatives may share this new sign. Pink violeta of treble their contemporary bright young peller of human destiny arise, who talking of conquering the New Zealand will perhaps be able large as sun-shades, may will contrive to combine the best stratosphere. High altitude flight to see his parents in the
have who fondly imagine they elements of both system? He at speeds of at least 600 and per- Country whilst he listens to their enthusiasm
Old been evolved by the mistakenkicking over the Neo-Georgian would be a very daring prophet haps even 1,000 miles
of scientific hour conversation
nur traces in grand style. on seem fairly within our achieve-phone. In this way emigration, Winkle of the 1936 vintage would to dogmatise
wireless series. Probably u Rip van
The world will still, in the If flying develop in the
which seems the sanext solution find the 1960 dinner table replete metaphorical sense, be going to next of our industrial problems, may be with all kinds of vegetables and the dogs. The ques-twenty-five years even half
only difference as robbed of rapidly as during the last,.
half its sentimental fruits we drawbacks.
as strange
him as may be that it will perhapa be shall be crossing the Atlantic in
bananas and tomatoes would have going quicker, at all events in the Shall we not also, in 1960, have been to our Tudor ancestors. five or six hours comfortably, and at Inst our National Theatre, but
belief of the pessimists of that Australia Itself may be no more perhaps not one with seats in it: sen change, too, though I wager
Clothes w have undergone a date. than a two-days journey
If there is anything in the London. But even yet nobody can the words and movements of the in the case
from only mechanism for transmitting at a venture they will still, at least theory that history repeats itself; predict with certainty whether State actors to our home
of the 1960 grand 1960 will look back on 1935 as a the alrship or the aeroplane, or talkie screens. I suspect the 1960 but exceedingly mutable. It is mediocrity in the art of living.
tele dame, be not only very expensive period of stodgy unadventurous maybe neriai trains of gliders population will, except for outdoor within the bounds of possibility, towed by swift, high-powered fly-sport and open-air exercise, be a though, that even
But I am going nap on one pro- lng engines will be the 1900 home-keeping one,
may by phecy. I feel quite certain in my reality.
even though that time have developed the domestic menage
own mind that the 1960 generation We may be tolerably sure, how communised. No need to
is largely colourative sartorial sense. Mauve will still be auffering Intermittent- over, that before 1960
crowd trousers and magenta coats withy from common or garden colds. we and into stuffy cinemas when you can faney shirts perhaps! other nations shall have found switch on from the hearthside. ways and means to remove the ELECTRICALLY HEATED LOGS existing reproach of Western Incidentally, of course, that, civilisation's rond holocaust. Our domestic hearthside may be com-evolution than
regard with pletely metamorphosed by 1960. mankind's history, however, horror and amazement an epoch It is incredible that we shalt stille practically unchanging facin the saddle, will tell them in- when travel was as deadly as be polluting our atmosphere with tor is human nature. So it is a dulgently not to cry for the moon.
Even more wonderful changes shall burn realistically imitated! wasteful coal gases. Perhaps we are likely to enaue from the per- Yule logs, electrically heated, ali fection of wireless and the deve- the year round when lopment of television. It may not needed. Or central heating may by 11 fire is be too risky to predict that, by then have become as municipal au
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Hor banuty and fame HATO failed to save glamorous Brigitte (above), German film
Halm alar, from prison, The German Supreme Court, to which an appeal was taken, has ruled that she must serve a two-month son- lence as the driver of an auto- moblie which struck and injured a woman pedestrian.
Irving Berlin, at the plano, watches. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogeri în a zaw dance step.
Dealgne from the imagination of a futurist? No. Locomotives .streamlined. The bullet nosed front of the new British streamlined lacomotive at Swindon, England. The unique shape of the engine tends to lesson wind resistance and give more speed, the object of the engineers. The locomotive, called the "King Henry VII," has been built in the utmost secrecy, this picture having been taken on its first trial run.
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