THE HONGKO Telegraph, WednESDAY, OCTOBER 7 1936.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7, 1936.
BRITAIN AND THE COMMUNISTS
Communistic activity in Eu- is naturally attracting attention at Home, where pleas are being made that the British
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realise the danger of lulling them- selves into
of false a sense
is Not that there ground for thinking that Red theories will gain a strong foothold in Britain. None the less, the very fact that the British. people have so long set their faces against Communism is a factor
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. Britain stands as
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"Develop the
SCIENCE of
Sir Josiah Stamp driving a miniature L.M.S. locomotive at last year's Model Enginearing Exhibition.
F an express train over- takes a slow. local travel- ling on the same line, the Impact, to put it mildly, is apt to be distressing.
But, by a system of expert signalmen, of drivers and of be guards, that impact can avolded and, at the junctions, the passengers of the local can pick up the express.
Science is the express train, Social progress is the slow local. On the express, there are plenty of firemen to increase speed, but no drivers, to control it; plenty of guards to wave the green flags, but come to apply the brakes; plenty of passengers, exhilarated by the speed, but none to pull the communication cord; no signalmen or switch 16 give the "all clear" over the points; and tew Junctions. That, taking liberties with his carefully-balanced arguments and using a railway simile, which with admirable reticence the head of the LM.S. avoided, was the effect of Sir Josiah Stamp's 13,000-word review of " The Impact of Science.
"The crucial impact." said Bir Josiah, "is nobody's business.
"The training of the scientist Includes no awareness of the social .consequences of his work, and the training of the statesman and ad- ministrator no preparation for the potentiality of rapid scientific advance and drastic adjustment due to it, no prevision of the tech- ntcal forces which are shaping the society in which he lives.
I have questioned many scien- tifle workers, and find them keenly alive-to the positive, direct-and beneficial effects of their work, but they have rarely any quantitative ideas as to the negative, indirect and disturbing consequences.
All these discoveries, theso scientific infants, duly born and
left on the doorstep of society, got taken in and variously cared for, but on no known principle and with no directions from the pro- genitors.
"Nor do economists Usually acknowledge any duty to study this phase, to Indicate any serles of tests of their value to society, or even of the methods and regu- lation of the optimum rate of Introduction of novelty.
"These things just happen gen- erally under the urge of profit and of consumers' desire, in free com- petition, regardless of the worthi- ness of the new desires against the old or of the shifts of production, and, therefore, of employment, with their social consequences. The economist rightly studies these when they happen.
"It is truly a 'no-man's land,' for it is rarely that the functions of government begin until a vested problem exists.
"Especially in Britain we do not anticipate- Don't worry, we say.. It may never happen. Problems with US
usually arc
called 'academic' until we are going down for the third time."
"It is a maxim of politicnt expediency not to look too far ihend, for it is declared that one will always provide for the wrong contingency. The national fore- sight over wireless was exceptional and it has to be contrasted with the opportunist treatment of the internal combustion engine."
What is to be done about it? "I do not pretend to dogmatise as to how far the scientist should become a social reformer. Onc physicist welcomes the growing........... sense of social responsibility among some scientists, at least.
"Then another great authority, Bir Henry Dale, declares that it is the scientists' job to develop their science without consideration of
MAN"
ŠIR JOSIAH STAMP'S Presidential Address to the British Association at Blackpool
Summarised by
Ritchie Calder
the social uses to which their work
night be put.
"I have long watched the pro- ccases by which the sclentine specialist makes up his mind' in felds of inquiry outside his own. It seems still a matter for investi- gation whether the development of a specialist's thinking impairs or improves his powers of general thinking.
"We do not know the kind or degree of truth that may rest in Anatole France's aphorism: The worst of selence is, it stops you thinking. Perhaps this was more subtly expressed by the darkle mother, If you haven't an educa- tion, you've jest pot to use yoh brains."
Discussing the effect of the im- pact, he said:
"Waste of skill and of capital are alike grave faults by which we should judge and condemn an in- dustrial organisation And, since man does not live by.bread afone. if a ruthless organisation continu- nily tears up the family from its roots. transferring it without choice to new surroundings, de- stroying the ties of kin, home and social life, of educational and re- creational environments, it la far from Ideal.
"Hunian labour can never be in- definitely fuld and transferable in a society which has a soul above the consumption of mere modities.
com-
"Men die, their skill and home associations with them. Plant atit equipment wear out. The length of a working life and the durabt- lity of materials mark the natural phase of periodicity of a smoothly changing society,
"But the Impetus for change or
THIS MORNING'S POSTBAG
AS a Christian of no denomina-cer describe the Bolsheviks of Spain
tion, Iresent the.common use of the words "Church" and "Christianity" as if they were synonymous terms.
in attempts which are undoubted- ly being made to win converts for the cause, since it is realised that one of the greatest bulwarks against politi- cal extremism.
recent In a speech, Sir Thomas Inskip, the Minister for Defence, warned his hearers of a conspiracy afoot to disrupt the Trade Union move- ment and hamper the national
of programme
ré-armament, Information which had reached Sir Thomas left h'n in no doubt that if the conspiracy were suc- cessful, it would be a menace to national liberty and security. Happy, the Trade Union Con- gress, at its recent conference, showed quite clearly that it will have no lot with the Communists. Constant efforts have been made to effect an affiliation between the Communists and Labourites, but these have been consistently spurned by the latter, who are determined to adhere to their own political viewpoint and to turn a deaf car to the pleas for union with the Reds. There is little doubt that the Communists have been attempting to abuse the liberty granted in Britain to all political parties to air their views in a constitutional manner. Ef- forts have even been made to undermine the loyalty of the Services. But, for all the agita- tion indulged, in, the Reds have made no impression on the Bri- tish people, whose whole outlook is at variance with the theorics of Bolshevism. So long as constitutional methods, are em- ployed, there can be no justifica "Reds," how is it that banks and tion for suppressive measures-ollier Onancial strongholds are con- which incidentally, only tend to ducting business ng usual? drive the evil underground since freedom of speech, and
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. thought, within recognised limits,
The Fascists do not care a batton about Christianity; it makes a good cloak to hide their coinshness from neutrals, that is all.
as "Loyalists," and the true Spanish,
people as "Rebels?"
It would seem more appropriate to reverse these titles.
*
MARGAREI.
"Come On" Signal
Anyone in scurch of the Anti-THENE should be definite and gen- Christ in Spain to-day need only erally understood looting signals. visit the numerous churches where between, motorials concerning over- Mansea are being offered up dally in taking. support of the infidel perpetrators of the shambles of Badajoz.
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The driver wishing to pass could. make two quick hoots menning, "May I pass?" and the other driver could
Could anything be more revolting from a Christian point of view? reply with one quick hoot menning. Desecration of churches I deplore, “Come on.”
but I deplore still more the oppres- And at the giving of this signal the slon and tyranny that have on- driver being passed, should slacken gendered in the heart of a nation such speed.
passionate hatred of one particular institution,
If, as your correspondent yesterday would have us belleve, tie Madrid Government
Inwless consists of
(Miss) N. W. N.
is one of the most prized rights By what stretch of imagination con of the British people.
the B.B.C. Empire News announ-
If every motorist, when being over- taken, would stop accelerating for only a second many accidents would be avoided.
Morose Misogynists
MACH.
THOSE misogynistle gentlemen who
stigmatise our modern girls, as, "gold-diggers," etc., only condemn themselves. There is something Incising in a man who cannot And
desirable, feminine society, and he should try to discover and correct it before blaming the girls.
"UNCLE BO".
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IN reply to "Misogynist" Lols of girls have given up friends, plea- sures, for one man, who, as often as not, turns her down in the end for beer or another woman. Why should a girl waste her time on a mun unless he has money?
ONE EXCEPTION.
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quite agree with "Misogynist" Most
girls are gold-diggers, but what; about the girl who has stuck to her boy
who has been sent. Home through unemployment. I am one, and for months am not taken to amusements of any kind, except when I take myself.
HOW
AN EXCEPTION.
**
TOW transporent are those egotis- tical "would be". Don Juansl They take out dozens of girls, spend money which should be saved for their future wife and home, then, i because the girls prove stronger morally, and, perhaps, physically, squeal about Gold-diggers"-a
type create.
which men such
as these
A. M.
the irritant has no such Intervals. It proceeds from various 'courses: Varying
harvests, changes in natural forces, changing human desires and fashions; differences in the rate of growth of popula- tion; the collective psychological errors of optimism and pessimism In business in an individualistle society; variations in gold supplies and the credit polleles based there- on."
A natural increase in population was the best shock absorber, he pointed out, especially when it was accompanied by an extension of territory such as the westward movement in the United States during the nineteenth century or Britala in a period of overseas migration.
"Now the problem before all Western Industrial countries is the fact that their populations are shortly becoming stationary, and thion will begin to decline noticeably.
"In this country, 40,400,000 in 1037 becomes 40,600,000 in 1942, 39,800,000 in 1032, 38,000,000 in 1957, and 37,500,000 in 1962.
"But the children aged 16- which gure I take because of its Influenco on schools, teaching and industrial entry-have been estimated, taking those in 1937 as 100, to be 85 in 1942, 73 in 1952, and 62 in 1902. A fall of this mag- nitude means that industries and institutions dependent upon pre- sent numbers must not be merely static, but actually regressive.
"On the other hand, the old people from 65 to 74 will increase in this razlo—100, 113, 127 and -193,"
At any given moment, the im-... pact of science, sald Sir Josiah, is always causing some unemploy- ment, but at the same time the constructive additional employ- ment from past impacts is being enjoyed,
**In this country thore may well be a inillion unemployed in what we should call good times. It is the price we pay for the high standard of life of those who re- tain employment. For the level of real wages may be high enough to prevent every one from being.om- ployable at that wage,
"of this number probably 200,000 would be practically uriem- ployable on any ordinary basts, the hard core, as it is called.
"Perhaps seven or eight hun- dred thousand, changing inces- santly as to its unit composition and consisting of workers under- going transition from job to job, place to place, industry to industry, with seasonal occupations.
"Out of this number I should hazard that not more than 250,000 would be unemployed through scientific innovation. That is the maximum charge which could be laid at the door of science, except after a war,"
Previous presidents, he said in conclusion, had spoken of the shortcomings of the active world. To him they were but the fallings
· short of selenco.
The impact of science falt in the past century was nothing com- pared with what was still to come.
"We have spent much and long, upon the science of matter, and the greater our success the greater must be our failure, unless wò turn also at long last to an equal ad- vance in the science of man.”
------To-day's Thought ------ THE world which took but siz -days to make is like to take atz thousand to make out, ⠀;
.---·SIR.THOMAS BROWNE.