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LIFE ON A COMMUNIST FARM
HAVE travelled in most countries,
and since farming is my subject,
It is naturally to the farmis that I have looked Orat, if there
Is oho country where farming in theory and forming in practice are two very différent processay, it is Soviet Russia.
In theory the Communista claim almost 100 per cent. effelency In their farming operailons, showing a a farmer In -confidence that many
other countries would dearly like to possess. The authorities have to tiny statistica
the stranger that
Is likely to bẹ bewildered by their cillelency.
"Ask how many penches are grown
"How or
mony 11t Abyssinia?" -sardines are caught izi Japanese waters every year?" o" "What does Mortoro spend on artifli s monures?" and Muscow will, answer your ques tion in a few moments. There is, in fact, an astounding accumulation of facts, most of which would be useless, Oven if they were correct, which In La to be the majority of cases doubted.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, · OCTOBER 19, 1937.
Quads, Quins, Triplets & Twins
I'm Glad I was
Born ALONE
ATEST about the St. Neots Quads is that they have learnt to walk. And from Callander, Ontario, comes the news that al visitors have been forbidden by Dr. Dafoe to see the Dionne Quins.
Mr. Dionne himself has had to climb through a drainpipe into the hospital yard to peer through the windows at his children, so scared is Dr. Dafoe of the Infantile paralysis epldeinle. Yet, "it is believed that the Quins begin to realise that, they are being watched,"
Are you left-handed? Or equally clever with both handa?
If so, you were probably nearly twins or quina
Believing that there is nothing like yourself. It is more than possible that of the working on a farm to find out about It, I managed to get a place. Looking back, Ind that while living on a Communist farm may be a unique experience for a Brijon, it is one that I have no desire to repeat,
Dionne Quins, one will be found to be ambidex- trous or normal, two will be left-handed, and the remaining two right-handed.
Incredible ineficiency
Thousands of words, you see, have been written about quiras and quads and triplets lately. But it is all human Interest **
.and nursery gossip.
Dafoo and English doctors have kept their selentine observations
quiet.
Adler, Only Dr. every
eighteen months ago, went so far as to say that for their own happl- ness the Quins ought to separated.
the
The form on which I went to wan wholly co-operative, and workers lived on the form ilselt. They were ill Russian Jews, which ls unusual, for the modern Jew is net usually an agriculturist, although in Palestine he is rapklly developing into one. With their wives and families the workers numbered about 300.
The main object of this Red Star farm was to supply Kharkov, about 15 miles away, with milk and day. produce. It was one of the effciency, farms, but I found that the road to Kharkov, along which every bit of produce had to be carried, was ille more than a track, and in winter no motor vehicle could get within u mile of the farm without being bogged. The farm carts used to plough their way in daily with the milk, and each cart churned up. the road Into à quagmire.
The inefficiency was incredible, Expensive pedigree cows, pigs, and peultry had been imported from abroad, but were absolutely neglect. ed. Expensive milking equipment had been installed, but was totally out of order. Hand-milking was carried out dirtily and badly, finished. Milk records were made, but were of no value except to those who inade them.
Worthless Records
+
From what I saw no Russian.agri- cultural records
be of any could value, as they were chiefly products of the imagination. In charge of the form was brilliant Communist director, but he had little or no power with the workers, who seemed to spend most of thele time In smacking and endless discussion, round the stoves, often in the office of the director..
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On
augenles, Genetics, biology, heredity, environment and many respects most important of all) psychology: these are the problems in these poor vivisected bables that selence is studying. And here are some things that science is going to learn from them.
BOUT twinship, . quln-' shin and genelles less is known than in almost other branch of science. The more we discover, the leaß we know for certains
Do Latin aces have more multi-
says ALAN JENKINS
at St. Neota have sarvlyedndỹ are still very ting, but will be. absolutely normal by the2th birthday.
To the scientists they are just human guinea-pigs. And it may mean unhappi- ness in later life
(XX). These chromosomes are mainly responsible Yor shinping the characteristics of offeprikt and the minor differences resemblances *between twins, ́quads and quins,
or!
If it is true ins appeart from"
that Emilic photographs)
and Genile Dionne are noticeably more cross-eyed than their sisters, it is not unlikely that something in Quadruplets-are; in 50 perio
(cont.
their heredity is responsible for of recorded cases, identical (porn. 16. If there is any tendency in a from the same egg-cell it, they
family towards near-sightedness, are girls, it is generally found that color-blindness, backward fatelli- the father was one of a large
Kenco and so ea, it will be mainly Inmily and that he had to governed in offspring by the brothers or atsters. The mother's.
chromosomes, in their cells, family usually 'contains no tw..well as ordinary characteristics Therefore the multiplicity appat-like brown hair, fatnest ar slender- ently comes from the father's de, hess, and even fingerprints.
Probably" "Apparently
You see, scientists don't pov •
for certain! That is why modern quads and,quins are destined 10.be human guinea-pigs.
HOULD one of the Br Neats quads ever tiple to crime, Beotinnd Yard
ple births than Nordles? (In pre-selence has only dogs, minano-will have great difficulty in pray-
instance,
Civil-War Spain, for quintuplets and even sextuplets were quite often in the news, and the Dionnes. have French blood.)
Are quads and triplets mentally backward? Why does twin- ning" run in families? Is it a sign' of raciat degeneration, or vice Are there more multiple versa? births than there used to be, or is it Just that they have more news. value than formerly?
Twins occur in one per cent, of births; triplets in 01-percent. births; quads in 0001 per cent.; quins occur, relatively once in a blue moon. Many are still-bord, it is extremely difficult to make, so it International comparisons assess the frequency of multiple births.
.or
Certain it is, however, that "the frequency varies from place to place, from period to period. It ought to be possible soon to pro- phesy, years in advance, when and where the next outbreak of quad- ding and quinning, will take place.
M
ORTALITY
increases
Many useless experimenta wern being carried out which had been accomplished in all other countries years ago, but of which the Russians never seemed to liave heard. They really believed they were making ns- tounding discoveries. But it was a foregone conclusion with every ex- periment that the result would be marked as 100 per cent. 'eMelent. All Ilussion incubators, apparently, gave a 100 per cent. hatch, but I never discovered how they accounted for the wholesale mortality. This was a feature of all the livestock, and a "ploque cart" went round dolly lo ten years only the Miles children. collect the dead.
wng
with the number born.
• We in England have had our quintuplets and over ex- tuplats, but they have always died." of triplets, 50 per cent, girls and 37 per cent. boys survive. fow qunds' ilvo, and it was to be expected that two at least of the recent. The ord Quads would die. Quads, are born in England about once a year; but in tkie) Inst
Vory
nothing
In a special laboratory a gnome-educated on the iden that professor carried out experiments at outside Russia is of any use. much thues ny his elaborato èloctelení It did not strike têm as in the equipment
working. Youngest extraordinary that while they plas, calves, and lambs were brought talked there were tractors and ma-
just In to him, a needle was stuck into chinery
outside, completely them, and their heart-beats were re-
brotten down through misuse. Young corded electricnlly. No one scented men with a superdelal mechanical to have, the least idea of what could knowledge drifted about, rather alm.
· be learned from the
Jessly tinkering, Diten key ended records. The
by shahing nonething new. No one seemed to care, and they thought they had done flieir best. The urge for efficiency did not, ini-Nazors in Demand fortunately, extend to the elimination
apparatus had been specially made In Germany, and inust havo cost at Jonat £1,000.
alles, salamanders, elisokes, &
ing that he, and zone of his
• B brothers, did iti Moreover, if one urchins, armadillos and pants was any group of quads develops any experiment on.
It is known that identical twins must be of like sex, which it so . obvious as it sounds; and that..any" differences Between them will be due to environment, and set- heredity. In fact, 03 per Ant, of all twins are of the same.tag
CAL
twih
always" Blamesha" before they are dor, and often have to be separated at birth. Fraternal twins, however
such discase, as tuberculosis, the
others with probably felt, too~~ even though they may be in touc different continents, simply be cajise proneneas (teang) to cer- tain diseases ia la them already, and if it does show itself, it will appear in all four at the same age
meje reasons of heredity. Ir they go to different schools, on the other hand, they may show Very different rates of progress.— cense intellectual development dhendent chiefly on environ-
-
vived at all shows that their motiers are women of unusual "strength and vitality.
America is crazy about twins, births
quina and multiple generally. have written far more treatises on them than any English scientista. That is why the Dionne Quins are to Important to them.
American lentists
But they are biologists, genetic- IBL
men with microscopes. Eyphologists take a much more Hyman view of them.
(For the happiness of the Diorine family, the childrch must be nor- mallied somehow, Is it too late for them to go home with their parents and lead an ordinary life as far as possible? Or are they already on the.ad to publicity- consciousness.
eness of being abnormal
There is mushe said text
the Dr. Adler's posat to sepa- rate them, get other familles to adopt them while allowing their parents to be with them as often as is convenient. They can still be studied at a respectful distance.
lato
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citizenship.
UT meanwhile, our St. Neots Quads.arewell on the way to normal Unpampered, they need fear no complexes; their ap- pearances in the news will be only spasmodic, more and more intre- quent,
Yes, I was left-handed as a child. But my right hand gradually took" precedence, just as one of the quing and quads will eventually become the leader of the rest.
nay other multiplicity after all
from different cgg-ce, ment Health, too, is hereditary I am glad I was not twins er
born
their resemble
elatives piofo. triplet or quin can be altered from than each other. Any win of
his brother or sister by
-but fraternal twins
him up in 'different ent/remove
the
more so
If you meet a criminal who has“ been separated from his dessa call twin for years, and then rake inquiries about the twin; you may: be sure that the twin will turn out to have a criminal record, too, Because heredity rules almost, everything for identical lying
Triplets are more frequently of unlike sex: one at least is nquicq ably different from the test,
Your body is composed of thiy cells. In each cell are still-more minute hits of material gaired chromosomes: the same number in each cell, arranged in pairs,
Men have a strong one and. a weak one in enol pair;) women havą“ two. (stránh Zones" CONSIGNEES NOTICE,
HARBER-WILHELMSEN
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
M/S TAI YİN":
FROM U. SL.A. 34.
the, fap that the. Dionne Quins and the Bt Neots Quads have sur-
You can help
your child
to
grow up
E people enjoy work. Most of us do if it is work that gives scope for self-expression, It is up to parents to guldo and help their children aut.merely to gain a living but to enjoy doing so. And they should starti guiding cbrly. ..
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The Arst thing that parents have to do is a little character reading- Know your child, try to realise his talents and develop his gifts,
Which him try to unknot a picco Lastly there are books. It is of of alring of mend a broken toxis enormous value in life to be well- Consignees of Cargo a Tereby hemble with his angers? Is heligend. Let your child read as many informed that suine, will arrivé nepifted with much patience?
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Choose them wisely, of course, but dollvery may be obtained from the taichou must supply deficiencies do not limit them to the standard fatter vodnet at "ship's tagkló át also. There are many ways of doing works for the age of the child in the buoy, in consigneon lightera suls, Toys provide the best moaris nt question. It is a dificult matter to of dirt. One could forgive the incit My visit at lennt introduced a new only..
rat, for they are, next to people, the alge just how much, a child under- of privacy, but not tho lies in the social event into their lives. 1 hod
No cinima will be admitted after most important things in dormitory. After lwing in most parts with me a new razor, and the strop-
n child's stands or grasps, but if'n book holds his altention and gives him useful in- of the world, I can only say that the plug arrangement fascinated them. Goods have left the hinte African bushman has the habits of a Night after nila dind to give des
formation, this is for all normol pur- All brokeng chated, and damaged. cpileinan compared with the Ramonstrations, Itroubles were of Gooda will bo, oxamined on Bourchi At four or Ave yours child likes poses lest enough. “slüh form · workers 1 met. The any real value, one could become.u
children's, creche wns the spot, and fter that, the Lenin corner, alan farm werkers. Their own razor and Douglas before Fogode adult ends) and paper, jig-saw puzzles, ciennest millionaire by selling razors to ftus by our surveyors, Messrelipidare to have toys which can be made Into thing. Ciny, bricks, schŝörs (with blades are vlie, and the visitor who | delivered. gives away, a razor binde is looked In the case of duthaplonggoys that help a child to learn
Steel building cuinis are the sort of upan ng a benefactor,.
copalgacho, no-requied to In
Talking for Hours
concentrate.
to
ALL these are indirect ways of guiding a child's faster, but
It is a mistake to talk too early to him bout his actual choice of enreer. The foot was course and unpai
A ghaltiye child can worry and be- ablo, and toole hours to, serve, batuck it for three weeks, and then form the Import Export Omée
con difdent if a sense of responsi llame was of no account in anythhur felt I had learned enough. My train that they have och goods for
blits thrust upon him too soon. Talking for houra in till the chlet from Kharkond The Warned to 24xamination, and to make arron THEN there are hobbles. Car-Ins Anxiety to make up his mind
late, I was pastime. The notounding Russian
...pentry tools, fishing tackle, what he wants to do, ho can careful of bandits on the journey. monts for the goods to he landed thing was the way in which the
While sheets, baths, hot water, and into Bonded Warehouse, 1-2
lamp albums, "collecting" (almost make a false Youths on the farm would Impress on
doclslon, or get one the Vant superiority of their decent food seemal a miracle, and Blils of Lading will be countór-janything cn be collected nowadays the idea that he has nothing very
with mellinda, compared
I could those of
outy reflect that since the signed by
cigarette cards, iram tickets, old much to boast about. It is a crime capitallat countries. The fact is that they must thank Nature for being Ruslans no longer believe in God,
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Hongkong, 15th October 1937, hns
pr'a child as he grows older. your children before the proper time. now generation
grown up,
Charles Cooper,
10 Vegetable:
11 Unfortunate,
13 Gulde elraight of course.
14 One can't very well have less
than this.
tells one of the 10 Interest that
football players his position. 10 Scoleman who is always to be
found in tho- Isle of Man.
20 If you disturb this. bird you
may make it weep.
21 The bit of the charge to upset,
the bird.
26 English motorista dislike this in the engine, but it is good on the Continent with the ear. 27 Surely the League of Nations would not publish, propaganda In this form?
28-Now
20 What part of a fort sounds like
a wager over the drinka? 30 To shed tears ubout her is not
fruiticis.
31 in the way of words this ad- verb is obviously a helper of verbs..
DOWN
1 The girl responsible for the
falsehood about the fool.
2 Famous actor family of old.
3 European capital.
4 He might bo`n little saint oven,
thio.
6 You thight get resin out from
Telephone 28021.
CROSSWORDS
8 Does this official stand. at hotel
doors as a remlader?
12 "Ing-mald" (anog.).
13 O.T. character,
18 A senaldo tres?
17 A definite remedy?
18 "Reedcase" (antig->.
19 This crenture is extinct, but you will find he is around it 'diq, turbed.
23 Apparently the barrage's being
old caused the harm.
23 An African free.
24 Thila Shakespearean character would get a good report when he went off,
25 This
suggests just and nothing elsc.
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