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NOTES OF THE DAY
DEFENCE OF LONDON
26, 1935.
CAN MAN CONQUER DEATH?
By STEPHEN BLACK
This article tells the story of the "Chamber of Life,"
perfected at the Rockefeller Institute, U.S.A., in which the organs of a dead man can be indefinitely kept alive.
The Very Idea!
SCRAPS OF PAPER
The whole experiment raince the Kelly Tears Some Leaves much debated question as to what
From His Scrapbook exactly is death. A doctor will sign a death certificato when he has noted the cessation of heart beats. and observed the failure of the
Wo notice that cortain. British Authorities are congratulating themselves that only one out of the eight aircraft squadrons which at- tacked London in the mock war- combat machines and reached their priced units on the market, but objective. London's air defences they give you far better perform-nre not so wenk as was suspected;
Edited by Eddle fact they are probably very ance, far more stamina, much in
antisfactory, these authoritics seem lower operating costs.
to believe. While we do not pro-
pupil of the eye to contract when ACCORDING to a homeside film magazine the Dunning exposed to light. And the handsome, distinctive poso to pone as experts in matters
process has been perfected to warfare. of modern aerial
From a scientific standpoint, such an extent that the film streamlined appearance of the challenge the suggestion that the
1935 Studebaker
defences are sufficiently truck London
however, these features may be shock-proof, to allow the populaca makes it stand out from the to sleep soundly in the event of a day discover the elixir of life, which i looked upon na the overture which / industry is now able to produce
With its sleek, bust-threat of war.
No metropells the would give him immortality. The must be played before the spectro pictures showing a man sitting Perhaps the most satisfactory So there you are. But do we ness-like lines and powerful, size of London can feel itself safe modern scientist, in splio of his of Death can enter from the wings. on his own lap. dependable engine, it is a truck from attack unless its defending you will be proud to own, a truck superior to the attacking squadrons. yet laid bare the formula of this tion in the vital organs of the march on, which inspires a feeling of pres-And even then there is no guar- tige that suggests a price much higher than its actual cost.
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Inseph Gould.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1935.
A RECONSTRUCTION
PROPOSAL
WO
FT was the dream of the medine- val alchemist that he might one
researches in bio-chemistry, ann-scientific definition of death is the air forcea arc overwhelmingly tomy and physiology, has not as presence of bacterial decomposi-stop there? No! Science must
antee that son isolated bomber, elusive elixir. The latest report, some "Independient command!“ or however, from the Rockefeller company of bombers will not alip Institute in New York suggests to through the lines of patrolling the scientific world that at long last (planes, beyond the vision of search the A.B.C. of immortality has been
lights and anti-aircraft gun-crews, mastered. and even outside the range of the remarkably 'ncetrate aircraft detec tion apparatus.
And one load of tas and incendiary bombs, which the buge bombers of to-day can carry, would be sufficient to cause
Incredible
body.
We are now in the throcs of dis- covering the Kelly process, by means of which man will be able to take a running jump at himself.
Furthermore, the time is not far distant when science will grant to man the inentimable boon of being able to bite himelf on the back of the neck at any hour of the day or · night!
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In our laboratorios-the very martyr to same one la which a rising young Hongkong doctor, science, gave himself freckles in order to study the effect-in our laboratories we are now gradually getting into shape the culminating. triumph.
It is here that the new inven- tion of the Rockefeller Institute is As long na the selentifle world. of such particular importance to the organs living in the "Chamber Owing to the inherent news value of Life" are maintained in a sterile attaching to the name of one of state at their normal temperature, In the experi- and under their normal conditions, the collaborators ments carried out at the institute, they are scientifically, though not many of the astounding scientific legally, alive. Not only can the lisaster in the city's implications of the invention have progress of disease be observed crowded centre. In the first place been ignored in the daily Press. under conditions Impossible with More space has been given to the organs in situ, but experiments an attacking strategist will depend lonel Charles Lindbergh than to may be conducted on them which very largely upon surprising the
felds of research would be otherwise Illegal. defenders. He might direct his the enormous
which have been opened up by
As far as the physiologist and formations to attack from any or
which the the invention with all directions, at any altitude from
famous aviator's name is coupled. pathologist are concerned the im- plications of this new Invention 5,000 to 100,000 feet: for who can
unlimited. It is so big that we are almost be sure that the night bamber of
Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rocke- appear to be almost to-morrow will not fly over its tar- feller
Institute of Medical Ite-The apparatus also provides abun-afraid to give it to the world.
After years of experiment, we art at incalculable height, miles search, with Colonel Lindbergh as dant food for the philosophers. To
the layman it seems but a small have almost perfected a
process high in the stratosphere? No his "most valuable biological an- doubt the loyal Air Force is assistant," has perfected a mechani-step from the production of Im whereby a man can go through his
Mcient as any other to-day. No cal heart, which is capable of con- mortality in isolated organs to the doubt
maintenance of life in an entire own pockets while he is asleep! its defence of London ferring synthetic immortality on
This will make man practically being; but to the scientist, who would be heroic and historic. But the organs of dead animals.
realises the practical, mechanical self-contained and will do away is that any guarantee of security? It is axiomatic that weapons of
and morphological, difficulties of with the necessity for marriage attack are capable of more rapid
such an experiment, the step ap-and probably wreck the social pears at first sight to be almost structure of our time. insurmountable.
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An organ of any animat can now improvement and evolution than be removed immediately after death weapons of defence, necessarily and placed in a sterilised glass built to resist them and conse- chamber which produces, through,
The whole problem of uncon- quently subsequently conceived. artificial means, something very i
aciousness and nervous degenera- Can we be sure that our potential akin to the natural environment of
the accompani- enemy has not some dreadful en- the organ. A heart, for example, tion, which are
of destruction ready to dea- can be coupled up with a series of ments of denth, becomes particular Patch against us from the upper glass tubes and small pumps kepty important. Experiments can; of course, be conducted solely on air? Can
we ever feel secure at the normal blond temperature. again as long as there is no real By pressing a button the appara animals, but suppose for a moment A bold five-year plan, involv-and systematic control of aircraft tus is set in motion and the heart that Dr. Carrel and Colonel Lind- ing a loan of no less than one design and construction, an inter- contained in the glass chamber is bergh do manage to take the dead seen at once to begin to boat. body of a man and to make it "live" thousand million pounds, is one national accord which will out-
A fluid containing all the funda- in their "Chamber of Life." of the proposals recently put law finally and for always that
of the type of warfare which is directed mentally necessary constituents that man really live in every sense forward by a member
primarily againat civilinna and of the blood is passed through the of the word? Council of Action for Peace and which depends upon its very ruth- tubes into the heart and supplies Will his sympathetic nervaux Reconstruction in order to wipe
lessness and frightfulness for the tissues of the muscles with the system that which controls his nourishment necessary for their unconscious bodily actions--con- out unemployment and put Brit-
continued activity. The purupa tinue to work exactly as before? ain on a basis of real prosperity. The Council, it will be recalled, ROBOT AIRCRAFT
work at the correct speed of about And still more important, will the 76 pulsations to the minute, and great nerve centres of his brain has been working in harmony
to all intents and purposes the
resume their functions? The with Mr. Lloyd George's
scientific world must wait, perhaps schemes, taking the stand that
heart may be said to live again.
many years, the Government is failing to
these questions.
effect?
The process, it is claimed, can be
grapple seriously with the major officially disclosed, can easily be continued just as long as the ap-|
and several kidneys have all been
Will
for the answers to
paratus is kept working. Besides At present it seems unlikely the hearts of chickens and cats. that once the tremendous dis various glands, an ovary, a sphen organisation of the brain cells, at death, hes
re-established. We do know, how ever, that if this were achieved the general the disruption of
which takes place kept alive over periods varying started, consciousness could ever be
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The possibilitios of the wireless controlled aircraft, possession of which by Britain has now been exaggerated, says the Edinburgh problem facing the nation to-
Evening Despatch. There is a day. In support of the proposal, natural tendency to jump to the con- it is pointed out that Britain is elusion, perhaps unjustifiably, that a one of the richest nations in the robot is necessarily more terrible world, having capital assets as a weapon of destruction than from 20 days to several months.
at from an aeroplane handled by the falli- variously estimated
ble human agency. True, crafti forty to sixty thousands of
As long as the pumps are kept phychology would undoubtedly millions, an annual income of uch as the Queen Bee would in
warfare obviate the sacrifice of in condition and the fluid renewed cause considerable suffering to the four thousand millions, of which the lives of pilota and observers. at Intervals, there seems to be no subject concerned. only a quarter is appropriated But in the matter of bomb-drop-reason why the organs should not by the State in taxation, and ping the position would presuma-be made to live for ever. An We know also that just as soon can borrow practically without bly be much as bofore. The range undeveloped ovary was observed as the nerves began once more to limit at three per cent, or less, of the robot is at present very to grow and to increase considera- transmit their message to the
brain. make bly in weight during treatment,
the subject would suffer the banks being choked with the limited. Ten miles would
of which is an even more conclusive untold agony. Perhaps it is just accumulated resources of the it very useful as a meana people for which they can find attacking the enemy lines in a war proof of the reality of this type as well that the research werkers are dealing, as yet, only with no outlet. It is suggested that like the last in France and Bel- of life than the more fuct of con-
isolated organs. a start in reconstruction shouldium, but would not suffice for the tinged activity.
bombing of distant enemy towns. be made by the raising of It is to be expected, however, that national loan of one. thousand range will be increased. It is also millions on a three per cent. likely that, if other Powers be not basis, and that the Government already in possession of like air- should then instruct all local craft, they will not be long be- authorities to schedule such hind us. Moreover, it is to be that ray may defent necessary public work as is need-presumed
ed in each district, which the ray, and that the robot ueroplane would be particularly susceptible State would include in the five-to attack by those means which are year works development pro- now being subjected to intensive gramme. The programme en-experiment for putting aircraft visaged is one which would in- motorn out of action. clude the erection of new muni-
eipal buildings, bridges, second-
ary roads, the clearance of waste HARD TO ASSESS areas left derelict by nineteenth
Altogether the precise value of century industrialisation, the the latest addition to our air equip- drainage and afforestation of ment is rather difficult to ussess. waste land, the modernisation Each new method of attack tends of farm buildings, the provision speedily to produce a correspond- of water drainage and electricity ing method of defence. There is to villages now lacking these apparently no finality to this rather affrighting crescendo of amenities, the total clearance of
(Continued on Page 4.) derelict houses in the rehous ing of citizens now occupying them, the building of dykes to therefore no hesitancy should be deal with coastal erosion, the feit in spending a ninth of that. electrification of all main rail-sum for the purposes of nation- ways, and the foundation of al reconstruction. The case for farm trading centres for young launching out on a big scheme citizens who intend to take up of works development is one for agriculture at Home or abroad. which much can be said at this The interest on this capital loan, juncture, but whether the plans it is stated, could be provided by outlined rest on a sound finan Ravings effected on the present cial basis is open to question. unemployment grants, and by The Government hitherto has earned by the declined to be rushed into pro- scheme. Advocates of the plan jects which create work for point out that the country found work's sake, and it is mainly on
the
rovenue
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. nine thousand million sterling this ground that it has given for the war, which brought end-such a cold reception to Mr. ........................YSSEEN\\css destruction in its train, and Lloyd George's New Deal.
"Now, officer, can't you just let me off with a good bawling onit?**
But let there be no dismay One must have a wife, because the machine will never be invented that can find your back stud.
Saying which, he atrode thought- fully back to his test-tuber. Letters Of A Colonial
*
Last year we published soveral intimate letters from a Solf Mado Colonial to his Girl Friend at Home.
П
The following are extracts from nowly-arrived lotter from a Self Made Colonial-To-Be to his Girl Friend.
·
Hongkong is marvellous ly choop to live in, darling. First of all you convert your English money into Hongkong dollars. They enormous coins. A man told me that the Government made them so big in order to weigh the people down when there's a typhoon about. Anyway, since I arrived here three weeks ago I've managed to outfit myself and live comfortably on seven dollars Afteon cents. I've lived dashed woll, as a matter of fact. A bottle of cents champagne costs only ten (about 24d.) and, cigarettes, hale cuts, tobacco, liquors and all other luxuries are sold at the same flat rate. The "boys" who take the money are no awfully jolly hero-worshipping crowd, too. Each time I pay my ten cents for a mug of beer, or anything ike that, they invariably ask me for my autograph. One boy in parti- cular has collected my autograph at least a dozen times. I suppose the poor beggars sell them boys" who want to complete their collection. It's amazing, too, how soon they get to know you here, At least a dozen Chinese people greet me
to other
meina
in the street at night. They call mo "Cumshaw Taipan", which "The Big White Man From - Across the Sea Who Wil Make a Vast Fortune - in Hongkong."
"Will write a longer letter next wook, snookums.
Yes-no
Ever yours.-
David Selznick is a brilliant follow; he has an acute sense of humour. But will he appreciate the story of the yes-men? It was during the making of "David Copperfield":"
ex-
David Copperfield,' he claimed by David Selznick. Boys, don't it sound swell? '
"Yeah.' "'Yeah. "'Yeah.'
"Yeah.
"But the Inst man said 'No.' "There was consternation. Who had dared to dlangeco? Magnani- decided to the Chief mously, overlook this. He continued:
We shall have special dialogue →→→pecial scenes. It will be stupert- dous."
" "Yeah!'
**
"Yeah!
"No.
Again there was signalling. frowning, and much breathloss gasping amongst the others. But the Chief resumed;
And
WO
shall have specia?!
musle and a theme song. Boys, it
will be colossal.'
"Yeah,
"Yeah'
"'Yeah."
"'Yeah.?
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i 'No.'
It was more than flesh and. blood could stand, Mr. Selznick
rose to his full height and swung his chair round.
*
Say, and who the hell are you anyway?
Intimid voloc
camo
the
answer: 'Charles Dickens »