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Science Holds Key To Utopia But Door
¿A massed array of 98 warships and over 400 fighting planes recently participated in an 'imposing naval parada and review off San Diego. Photo shows scores of the Navy's fighting planos passing In "review over the U. S. 5. Pennsylvania, flagship of the
United Stater Fleet.
Countless Children Owe Their Lives To Him
DOCTORS HONOUR 90-YEAR-OLD SIR THOMAS BARLOW
FIFTY-TWO years ago a short, burly, dark-bearded physician from Lancashire wrote a paper on infantile scurvy and found himself famous.
Briton's Big Desert Adventure
Remains Shut
ECONOMISTS REFUSE TO AID CIVILISATION
Oxford, Sept. 15. Sill not let them unlock the door.
CIENTISTS hold the key to Utopia--but the economista
That, in effect, is what a world-famous chemist told as he worked in his laboratory here to-day.
Between his experiments Pro- fessor Frederic Soddy, Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the University and a former Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, sat and jexplained why he is convinced that science can save civilisation. "It may sound foolish," he said, "but if science was given a free hand and absolute control every world problem could be solved to "The war monace would dis- appear because, in a world of plenty there would be no reason for war."
morrow.
Crimo Of Sclancó
not alone in that view. destruction of humanity. I am
"Every Belentist looks with dis- gust upon a system which employs the results of his reasearch .to produce poison gas and other horrors."
Professor Soddy has refused an
invitation from the Government to make experiments for the deve- lopment of chemical warfare.
be devoted to building a new and "I believe that science should
Aner civilization, and not to more horrible devising new and means of killing.
No Defence Against Gas
no
"During the war when the Germans introduced poison gas attacks we were forced to retaliate-but there was excuse for continuing such ghastly experiments after 1918. "The result is--and every scient- ist should be ashamed-that from the laboratories of the world have come the means of smashing civili- sation.
"That is what people do not realise," replied Professor Soddy. "An entirely new civilisation has been created in the scientist's) Laboratory. The tremendous strides made in research during recent years have made it possible to produce plenty for all.
"Science has done all It can There is suficient knowledge to- day in the brains of the scientists London, Paris and Berlin has de- anfety of elties like to make the world a perfect place finitely gone. Nothing could save In which to live-but the them from complete destruction on economists refuse to make way the outbreak of hostilities. for progress.
"And we scientists know that "That is the whole trouble.there is no adequato defençe Every step forward by science against polson gas and the other
"The
in offset by the folly of the horrors that have been perfected
economists and our ridiculous "The only remedy is to rid the monetary system.
world of any cause for war-and
1985.
.NO FISH STORY
More fortunate than a majority of their kind which eventually end in the frying pan, this flying fish acts as a'corsaga for Billio Rogers at Santo Catalina Island.
Arizona's "Polygamy Wives". In Revolt
A
MEN IDLE
New York, Sept. 15. REVOLT of the women is "back to nature" colony of threatening to break up a
Arizona. polygamists in the wilds of
that, if selence was used in the THEY WORK WHILE "And so we have the spectacle right way, would be simple. Death after intense suffering of wretched poverty amid plenty. "I should like to see the scient- was thien the fate of many child-Crops are burned, milk is thrown ista of the world coming together jren who contracted the disease. away while people starve.
in international co-operation to "The result is that we scientists demand that the boons they are To-day that disease is so rare are attacked for making life too in a position to give. humanity are that in the largest children's easy. People blame us for the not rendered useless by the action hospital. in England only nine present world problems. They of the economists. cases have been treated during say that we should be checked. the past three years.
Checked! Is it a crime to have until the financial experts ap- Things will never be righted The young physician was Dr. I worked successfully for the well-proach their problems in the same Thomas Barlow, and his paper being of your fellow-men?
way that we do-that is with a "The real crime is that science definite formula by which CORNISHMAN, Mr. made it easy for the diatase to be
identified and cured. Since that should have been perverted to the work.". Norman Pearn, of day the nature of the disease itself Glanville-road, Bromley, has changed to a Kent, leaves London 'a few days hence on an attempt to cross three deserts.
A
I
cross first
the
He plans to Sahara and then the Libyan
desert.
From this he will pass through
milder form
which is almost certain to dis-
appeat in a few years. Queen Mary
This month Sir Thoman
Barlow, burly and white-haired Will Surpass
physician-extraordinary to the
King, and former physician to
King Edward and Queen Vic French Liner
toria, will celebrate his nine- tieth birthday at his beautiful 300-acre estate at Wendover, Buckinghamshire.
Fifty-two yenrs have not
Abyssinia. After crossing the dimmed the merry twinkle in his Red Sea, he will tackle the most wise old eyes, nor changed the dangerous part of his journey broad Lancashire accent of his the dreaded Rub al Khali in youth. High honours have been
bestowed on him.
the Arabian desert,
Only two white men in the But the greatest reward that he world bave successfully will have on his birthday is that challenged the waterless wastes the number of children whose lives
As a result of secret experi ments which have just been completed by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Re- search, the giant new Cunarder, Queen Mary, will be the fastest and most smooth-sailing vessel in the world.
For some months, tests have
The Japanese
to
of the Rub al Khali. They are have been saved directly and in-been carried on at the National two Englishmen Mr. St. John directly by his work is a large Physical Laboratory, Tedding Philby and Mr. Bertram that oven his 300-acre estate would ton, to prevent possible vibration Thomas.
not provide a playground for them.so noticeable in the French
aviator, Women Arabs foar this "Empty His success was so great and Quarter," as the desert is called, his fame so widespread that in-liner Normandie when she was Kikuko Matsumoto, flow from Japan and there are few, besides those fantile scurvy, the disease he con-going "all-out" to win the At-to who accompanied the two ex-quered, is to-day known in Ger-lantic, "blue riband." plorers, who claim to have cross- many as "Barlow's disease." ed it.
His
"It is no disparagement of the
offered by Mr. Pearn proviously crossed contributions the Sahara in 1982. With him successors." the Lancet says, "to was Mr. William Donklu.
say that Barlow's original paper out-shines them all.”
Camols Went Mad
They set out from Tuggurt, on the edge of the desert, drossed as Arabs, With them were slx camels and two native guldes.
They travelled
original route, in the heat of midsummer, i with the temperature at eno de- solate fort reaching 160 degrees in the shade.
an
That is the birthday tribute to Sir Thomas of the members of his own profession.
CHEAP PETROL MADE FROM STONE
They battled for 2,000 miles SCIENTIST'S FOUR-YEAR with sand and dust storms. Water was so scarce that the
EFFORT REWARDED camels had to go six days with- out liquid.
Sydney, Sept. 15.
One guide tried to play them false, and an Arab chieftain, at a time when
the two travollers. wanted food, water, a guide and camels, tried to hold them to. ransom.
Greater Horse-Power The scientists conducting the experiments have now found a cure for this trouble, and at the same time they have hit upon a method of obtaining much greater horse. power from the engines.
There is now no doubt that the Queen Mary will surpass the Normandie in performance and comfort, and will be un- disputed "Queen of the. Seven Seas."
Manchukuo. Rewarded with French Hammond prize for 1935, and nominated member of honour of the Hammond Aeronautic Association.
Reports from Short Creek, where the colony has just been discovered, show that the women do all the work while the men live in idleness, enjoy. ing the comfortable reflection that the more children there are the easier the time the fathers will have as their: old age approaches,
But the women apparently are not so happy about this state of affairs, and it is reported that many of them are leaving the colony.
Meanwhile the polygamists are facing the stern arm of the law. The Kingman County attorney, Mr. Elmo Bollinger, in whose area the colony lles, has sant armed men to round up the suspects and. bring them to court.
100 Suspects
Short Creek is situated in wild, mountainous country which, is dif-
of ficult
access. Mr. Bollinger
says:
"I am checking up 100 suspects, and expect to bring at least 20 of them into court. These are the last of the polygamists, and we are going to drive them out."
Germany Spending £60,000,000 On U-Boats
Secret particulars of Germany's new submarines;
A confession by one of Hitler's Storm Troop leaders Science has also perfected ap that he and two other Nazis set fire to the Reichstag paratus that will enable the vessel to make her own weather no mat- building;
ter what natural conditions may be.
A new process for extract-
Electric valves connected to the ing petrol from Shale, a clayey stone, has been discovered by a heat the air in cold weather, and steam heaters will automatically Now South Wales scientist, Mr. H. E. Gotting, after four the fan system will provide cold air years of research, and will lead when the weather is hot. shortly to the erection of large Some of their camels wont works for producing the spirit. lame, dick and mad, but keeping Exports are greatly impressed stendily to a twenty-five-mile-a-by the process, and remarkably day schedule; the men reached successful results are claimed to Kano, in British Nigeria, four hava been obtained with the now. months later.
petrol In cars and aeroplanea.
To make room for the Queen Mary when abe arrives at New York on her maiden voyage a piece is being cut out of the city.
.
An assertion that the German Army leaders now hold Hitler at their and will ultimately wipe him out.
mercy,
the second volume, of "The Berlin tical miles, Armament, eight tor- These are striking features of Radius of operation, 15,000 nau- Dlurles" of a general in the Ger- pedo-tubes, cach with five tor- man War Ministry, published by pedoes, and two guns. Eighteen Jarrolds, London, U
craft in commission.
This general anys that Germany's now flost "would enable us, in the event of warlike, complications on the Continent, to
There is not sufficient accommod Mr. Pearn bellaves that a hourd Mr. J. M. Browne, who has been ation for a liner of her size along- of ancient gold is hidden in associated with the inventor inside any of the prosent plers, and underground caves in the Imam his researches, says that hundreds the United States War Depart of Yomon's territory.
He said that a British ex-naval with work in the now industry.
of Australians could be providedmont has refused to allow on- gineers to extend them further officer who was in that quarterThe new petrol, it is claimed, Into the river.
Class B Submarine cruiser, 4,500 tons, therefore considerably bigger than all submarines hitherto built. Maximum speed on sur- “Interveno decisively on the face, 24 knots; under water: 15 high seas;
knota. Armament, ton torpedo- "Or to paralyse the interven. Į tubes, each with twelve torpedoes; tion of such third. Powers as four guns, with 600 shella for each. England and the United States Fourteen craft in commission this in the Continental theatre of your.
Clasa C Submarino cruiser for The new submarine progranime seaplanes. About 4,500 tons. Sur- for sixteen years had given him can be produced in a much shorter At enormous cost, a large area It includes:
is estimated to cost 200,000,000. face speed, 18 knots; under water, some information about it
6 knots. time, more simply and very much of buliding-land has had to be His proposed Journey will be more cheaply than any other shale taken over for the construction of ment. Maximum surface speed, not given. His dinty is edited by Class A: 1,800 tons displace- The German, gonoral's name is opirit-Reuters
| 20 knots; under water, 12 knots. Dr. Helmut Klotz,
4,000 miles long
dock.
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