THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1938.
Scientists Seek Control Of Human Emotions Noted Neurologist Believes The Way Is Paved
COLOURED-SO BARRED
MR.
[R. D. F. KARAKA, 26-year-old Indian and first coloured man to become president of the Oxford Union, has found a colour bar against him in England. In hotels and trains, at public dances, he has been spurned because of his colour.
In I Go West" (Michael Joseph, 10s. d.), ho instances an occasion when he called at a tourist agency to collect the tickets he had booked
for himself and a friend for a con- .ducted tour.
"AS A SPANIARD"
A woman official usked for his passport.
Wife Cold In
Jail, Is Sent
£800 Coat
Countess
Berlin. Boreggia Wiela- polska, thirty-year-old titian-
in
"When she saw the mark of His haired Polish beauty now Majesty's Government of India her prison in Berlin, wrote to her face tell. She surveyed me.. husband saying that she felt the and out came words that staggered cold-has now received from me: 'You may pass off as a Spaniard, him her £800 fur coat. but will your friend?"
Her husband has also sent food "They returned my deposit, and and money to her, and her six-year- to even that as a special favour." old daughter, Olga, has written
her. No one is allowed to see her however,
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After attending the Coronation with woman friend, occupying seats given to him by Indin House, Mr. Karaka's day was spoiled by a London taxi-driver who, remons- trated with for discourtesy, called
him "a-half-caste."
"Isn't it strange," Mr. Karaka nsks, "that If there is a coloured
Iman in a bus or a tube the seat next to him Is the Inst to be filled?”
AT DANCES
"Isn't it strange that if n dark young man goes to a palais de danse at a seaside resort or in the suburbs of London all the dance-hostesses appear to be engaged these same women who are yours for sixpence? "If there is no place in the coun- tries of Europe for the dark races o the Orient then there is no place in the countries of Ask and Africa for the white races that have es- tablished themselves there. Some day the issue will come to that."
WE
S. F.
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She will be tried in secret by Berlin court on March 15-on charges of espionage and activity against the German State.
Last September she suddenly left
her daughter at her estate near Dol- punow, and a few days later Gestapo (Nazi secret police) arrested her in Warsaw-Paris express fifteen he minutes after it had left Berlin.
Quins' Third Film
Callander, Ontario, "Everybody's Sweethearts" will be the name of the Dionne quintuplets third feature flim, which Twentieth Century-Fox will begin to "shoot" in June. Jean Hersholt will again fill the role of their doctor.
The quins, who are convalescing from colds, were allowed up for a short, while to-day.
ROUGH ON JAP. BIKES
For A Completely Contented World Of Men
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These Japanese army couriers in China were given hurry- up messages to deliver. They Jumped on their bicycles and started pedaling. But when they came to the Yellow River. they found that crossing it was a trifle disconcerting. Here they pick their way over the ice, In zero temperature.
Fire Rushed To Firemen
Elyria, O.
"Your truck is on fire, shouted pedestrians as Dennis Robinson sped "They'll soon resume their outdoor through downtown streets. "I know activities," commented Dr. Dafoe, 1," he yelled. "I'm on my way to their medleat guardian.
the Bre station."
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EMPIRE NEWS
EPIDEMIC'S TOLL IN
AUSTRALIA
BRAIN IS KEY TO PROBLEM
By Brydon Taves
New York, Feb. 15. Will science ever succeed in controlling human emo- tions?
Dr. Fred Kennedy, eminent neurologist, says it will and pre- diets a completely contented world in which progress and ini- tiative will cease.
dangerous
"That day will be a Cane," he warned. "We would all became contented, but we would lose our interest in living. It is only the conflict between our intellect and our emotions that makes us human beings."
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Kennedy said that the neurologists have "pretty well determined that the hypothalamus, a portion of the mid-brain, controls the moods human beings, If we go much fur- of the first ther in our discovery causes of mental diseases, we
We may be tempted to lay our hands on per- sonality, as some people in Germany have attempted, without adequate knowledge, to lay their hands, eugenically, on the human race,"
The control of the human emo- tions through the hypothalamus, Dr. Kennedy said, would involve the ' templation to make everybody con- tented.
"We would all become mediocre," he asserted. "Progress would end. The Nazis In Germany have under- taken to say that manic-depressive should be sterilized. That is all wrong. The manic-depressives are unhappy individuals, but they are the ones who do the work/in this world. Destroy them, and there will be no work done."
While Dr. Kennedy, who is also head of the neurological service at Bellevue Hospital, made his forecast' in an address before the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disenses In New York, sclerice was being acquitted in Indianapolis on the oft-heard charge that it was a menace to the future of civilization.
Melbourne. The Christmas holidays in State and Catholic schools will be extended by a fortnight to Feb. 15, because of The theory that existing economic the continuane of the epidemic of and social difficulties were the fault Infantile paralysis. The decision of science was vigorously repelled affects 25.000 children and 9,000 by speakers at a meeting of the teachers.
American Association... for It is generally belleved in medical Advancement of Science.
REASONS ANALYSED
the
circles that the disease will not dis- appear before the winter begins in May. There have now been 1,895 "Neither in human nature, nor in enses, of which 1,638 are children and social relations, has progress kept 59 adults. Of the 89 deaths recorded pace with science," Dr. Edwin Grant
were children and 12 adults.
Conklin, retiring president
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Raid.
One of the effects of the epidemic This is not the fault of science, but noticed by medical mon is a decline ent
rather of man and society, The in scarlet fever owing to widespread grent advances in the application of
Isolation of children,
than
sucial wel-,
Flying for Schoolboys-The Gov-science have often been for selfish
rather purposes ernment of Tasmania has provided for fare." 1938 a number of scholarships for schoolboys to be trained as gliding and flying pilots.-Reuter. India
More
LEOPARD MAULS 10 MEN
Bombay.
In an attempt to analyze whether scientific progress will have a good or bad effect on civilization in the future, the scientists listed many of the reasons for which it has recent- ly been condemned:
For developing An Industrial organization of such vast complexity us to defy human control.
For creating дл international structure In a world of
work pro- the qualities of
A leopard at which a European, | Mr. Pluunkett, fred and missed near the Institute of Science, four miles from Bangalore City, altucked and mauled 10 men in rapid succession, economic Three villagers were seriously in political nationalism, jurest, and all 10 are in hospital. Mr.
For building implements of war- Plunkett, who was among them, is fare which threaten the very extine-
tion of peoples. recovering.
For Many persons regard the leopard as
AD to duil Ko mechanizing hs dangerous than the tiger owing cesses
For changing easily,
The Viceroy's Tour.--The Marquess population growth in the upper and
of society. of Linlithgow, the Viceroy, and Lady lower strata
For undermining religion Linlithgow, returned to Delhi this morning from Hyderabad, Deccan, morals, and distorting ethical values. after the completion of their glx
For creating an artificial way of weeks' winter tour of Central India,
of the old simplicity. --Reuter.
For giving us leisure that we do not know how to use,
to its agility and ability to hide more human perception, relative rates of
Tanganyika
GOVERNOR LEAVES
Dar-es-Salaam,
in
and
For producing chronic unemploy- ment and the grave social problems which II. entails
For building up a capacity for Sir Harold MacMichael, Governor production beyond our powers of of Tanganyika since 1934, and newly-consumption.
appointed High Commissioner for In his talk on "Selence and Englond. He had a warm send-off Society," Dr. Harold G. Moulton, from the many persons who had director of the Brookings Institu gathered at the water front.
tlon, of Washington, denied that Troops and officials were drawn up these charges were on the rondway leading to the land-
Selenco
he said. ing-stage. It was the first occasion "The applications of new knowledge on which a Governor hins left here and Inventions to productive by alr.
New Zealand
STANDARD OF LIVING
Wellington.
cesses are delayed by restrictife business practices and governmertal regulations and, especially, by great, economic dislocations which thwart the profits incentive and at the
same time diminish the financial resources, required for continuing research." was expressed Urging the cooperation of science
New Zealand's determination to maintain and Increase the standard
of living.of the p 3. Savage, the and religion to prevent the misuse
to-day by Mr.” M.
trallan criticisms arising out of the life, Dr. Conklin totind little
Prime Minister, In replying to Aus- of
ree great sele
between
the ethics of reported hitch over the trade agree-
eat scientists and religious tonders: ment with Australia.
"Why should not science, count Mr. Shyage said: "It is not our religion an olly and not as an enemy desire to discriminate dellberately. In in developing human ethics to a
A high the matter of tariffs. It is our dogire degree?" he asked. "In the co-opera- to protect Now Zoaand. Industries tion of selenco and religion there is Reuter.
hope for the future.”—United Pres.
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