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ARE CABINETS INEFFICIENT ?
and the Astronomer Royal
replies to questions
about it
Iran which may double the These layers are usually humped
British oil reserves.
or inclined and below the oil
the
Two wells alone in the new there is salt water.
Geological surveys of Iran field are producing oil at the rate of more than 3,000,000 rock formations and composition tons a year-nearly one-third of generally suggest where oil may the present production of the possibly be found. | Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Magnetic measurements show which totals 10,250,000 tons. variations in the earth's mug-
Our dependence on oil is netic field, and a torsion balance emphasised by the expert which measures the force of opinion that the discovery may gravity with an accuracy of one mean 10, 20, or 30 years more part in a million help the pros- supply of oil for the Empire. pector. But in interpreting the But to the average man-to results of such measurements me when I buy five gallons from experience is vital. That is the pump for the car, or order where the expert comes in.
ean of paraffin for the oil Q-Adre these the only stove in the country cottage— methods used?
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
LCHE BUSINESS COLLEGE
Dictation
"Nancy Nibbs was quite successful after she graduated-- first she got a job, then she pot a husband, then she got a job!"
The Astonishing Story of
MIXED
MARRIAGES
·By-
man whose knowledge is personal experience to interpret Ralph Hewins
are
Court High
the black always seemed the more intelligent, and was certainly the better athlete. They came from the West Indies.
THE A.-Experimental bore-holes brought against the Empire vitality of the individuals who enter
In the Pacific, where we are now witnessing the bursting of the Japanese from their crowded is lands;
This is typical of the State of racial science to-day. No generalisations can be made. There is no biological
In Africa and Indis, where hand-reason why children of mixed mar- fuls of Engilslimen administer ringes should be any better or any teemthe millions of coloured worse than those of pure marriages. folk; and
The worst qualities of each race do
oil is a commodity which 19 A.-No, we make artifical taken for granted, with just a earthquakes by firing off CX- passing grumble at the tax plosive charges and measuring which doubles its price.
the way
the shocks travel Questions
through the earth with a seismograph the instrument So I asked Dr. Spencer used for detecting ordinary The government of a country Royal, a lot of questions.
Jones, the Astronomer earthquakes. Here, again, the
He prospector must under the democratic system is is a
have great becoming so
Some biologists even go so for as complicated an not confined to the stars: he is the results correctly.
to advocate cross-breeding in the be- affair, ᎯᏅ exacting of thean expert on the oil wealth of
left that it results in a special energy, patience and intellectual the depths. of the earth. He Steel Tube *
"hybrid vigour," but biologically it capacity of the ministers, that submitted patiently to my plain
action is not proved that this depends on Q-What happens thea?
unything more than the health and man's catechism with this the time is approaching when
result. reform will not only be advisable
made-as is happening in Cotton Growing Corporation by into the mixture. Q. What is mineral oil? several places in Britain-at a Dr. Sydney Harland, the famous No more is it proved that cross- but a vital necessity. Anyone A.-It is formed by the cost of many thousands of plant biologist, who married a breeding produces "disharmonya who has any knowledge what- decomposition of primitive plant pounds. The bit which bores Chinese girl, raises indirectly badly-put-together people. ever of the duties of a Cabinet and animal life buried from the hole may be from 10in.-to the vexed question of mixed Negro-white cross may result in a
One authority argues that member will have wondered how 50,000,000 to 150,000,000 years 20in, in diameter, and is turned marriages.
child with the long legs of the Negro he finds the time to attend to go. The decomposition leading by a steel tube which is built up Considering the for-reaching im-and the short arms of the white. But it is just as probable that the them all with the painstaking to the formation of oil took, section by section as the bit cats portance of racial problems place under a great pressure its way through the rock.
In the United States, where a tenth child would have the opposite com- care obviously required. The and heat, and the oil contains
of the population is Negroid and bination" (le, the short trunk of When the hit needs changing
expanding:
the white and the long arms of the of answer is, apparently, that he high
carbon, the percentages
whole of the tube-
Negro). does not. By that it is not hydrogen, and oxygen,
thousands of feet of it—has to meant, to contend that the ad-
Q-Where is it found?
be withdrawn and lowered again. ministration is necessarily
A--Extensively in the United The inside of the tube is kept faulty; but it is true that States of America, in Russia, filled with mud under high decisions, even those affecting Venezuela, Iran, Irak, Rumania, pressure to prevent gas below high policy, are sometimes Hungary, Galicia, Mexico, from blowing.out.. hurried and infrequently Canada, Burma, and the Dutch" Q-How fast can the boring
It is particularly East Indies. haphazard.
It is found at be done? Chater Road. illuminating to ind Major-varying depths from the surface A.That depends on the rock, General A. C. Temperley, who downwards to about three miles. It may be many feet an hour or the British War Office It is not likely to be found much as slow as one foot an hour, and representative at Geneva for below three miles.
a new bit may be needed at every many years and who took a Q-How is oil located? 25ft, prominent part in the Dis- A. The original sources were
Q-Does oil from different armament Conference in all its places where gas or oil was places vary much? phases, admitting that very escaping naturally from the A.-It varies a lot. Some Even in that racial melting-pot,
earth. Borcholes in these neigh- districts are richer in light oils the United States, most Negroes ob-famous racial biologist at Columbin bourhoods produced steady flows of the petrol type, others pro-Ject to Negresses marrying whites. University, United States, sums up and in some cases gushes of vide more of the heavy paraffin such force and quantity as to be type suitable for Diesel engines Health and Long Life on on mixed marriages thus:
"With reference to race mixture in IN each instance, some sort of general, it may be concluded that insult is imagined. While, there are no proved advantages or yellow, red, brown, and black disadvantages as far as the heredit- progress of the talks. He does What is necessary is a layer Q. I suppose many experi-people all have a varying sense of ary make-up of hybrids is concern- their racial superiority. Each feels ed. The results of race crossing rock to mental hores have been made at that the quality of its own pure race would appear to depend entirely up- not find fault with them for of porous or cracked that reason, but rather com-hold the oil, overlain by im- great cost without any result? will be weakened by intermarriage on the nature of the particular miserates with them. The pervious rock to seal the oil in. A.-Oh, yes, thousands of with another group.
Cabinet Minister going to a
pounds have been spent in this "A mixed marriage brings out the the social acceptability of the hy- session must frequently feel
and other countries on
worst qualities of each race in the brids." bores
children" 13 the usual way of ex- Social acceptability—in other which produced nothing, or a pressing this prejudice. But is there words, the mixed couple's ability to hopelessly uninformed upon the
governments are reaching mass of material which
mere trickle of oil mixed with any justification for it? "None, as get along happily together in their is
dangerous position, when the salt water. scheduled for discussion.
for we know, blologisis answer. daily contacts. That is the second has in front of him on the day docisions no longer have the shown when salt water rises men who have to make grave
"In fact, the evidence is rather the great crux of the problem. The death of an oil well is
other way." of the meeting a pile of papers,
Mme. Fahmy's trial for shooting Witness the health and longevity.her noble-born Egyption husband; probably two inches thick, some time to consider the issues through the pipe, for almost all the large familles and excellent the Buck Ruxton case; and frequent of which only reached him the involved. The Houre-Laval pro-natural oil is floating on salt social organisation of the descendants less sensational murder trials previous afternoon. The agenda posals at the time of the water in the depths of the earth.native Polynesian women of Pitcairn heulties suggest that the races cannet of the Bounty mutineers and the springing from mixed marriage dif- Island. Their physical vigour and mingle happily. exuberance are stated to equal, if
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often the delegates had no instructions in the matter of detailed policy and that the Ministers who ought to have
almost uncontrollable.
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than
He
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Great Cost
"
On the Continent, where facial not necessarily come out in the later
prejudice is at its zenith
generations.
marriage research there has been. It is extraordinary how tle mixed
Social Acceptability Judice still rules this burning issue. Owing to lack of knowledge, pre-
NEITHER is there any founda- for the old-fashioned Don't you yourself condemn a white superstition that mixed marriages girl in company with a black man? tend to be infertile. The 11 chil- equally despises a Chinese girl seen Islanders and the 7.7 average of the And do you realise that a Chinese dren per marriage of the Pitcairn
with a white man?
Boer-Hottentots refute this.
Professor Otto Klineberg, the
IN
215 WO
the modern trend of scientific opin-
Individuals who are concerned and
So does the unhappiness of the not to surpass, that of either parent "mixed" areas of London's Dockland, stock.
South Wales, Liverpool, and Gles- Africa and die Spaniards and Mayns
The Boers and Hottentots in Southgow.
On the other hand, beautiful Miao
embraces important questions Abyssinian crisis are an instance When brine comes out, it is from all parts of the world and of the government machine good-bye to oil. many problems governed by breaking down, and of ill- Q-Even in Britain there party politics. Few Ministers considered policy. There must have been expensive failures?, will have had time to do be other instances of errors in A-Yes, but experts have not
glance at a Cabinet judgment which have given up hope. Well over in South America have also produce Esme Mary Fink, of Melbourne, re- small
of proportion these received less publicity. What £1,000,000 has been spent on ed a prolific stock of alert and mined happily married to the Rajah papers, except where their the difficulties facing French trial bores here. Thousands of vigorous cross-breeds.
of Pudukota until his death, and now, own departments are affected. ministers, must be, who are feet have been bored at a cost of We Inhabitants of the British makes a home for their grown-up' They are supplied with a highly seldom in office more than six £5 foot and then abandoned Jafes are not a bad example of suc-zon in London.
cessful crossbreeding either. After summarised "brief" containing months, can be imagined. For as useless.
more
in
Miss Nancy Miller, the society girl all, there Ja Celtic, ancient Briton, from Scattle, United States, who the essence of the arguments tunately the French, like the Last year the Anglo-Iranian North German (Angle, Saxon, and married the Mahatajah of Indore, too and a suggested policy. Thus British, have a thoroughly sound Company abandoned a 7,000ft. Julish), Vilting, and Norman blood has a son and a happy home. Then equipped they go to decide upon permanent staff. Sir Maurice bore at Portadown, overlooking vol
there is the shining example of the the affairs of an empire. Hankey's, civil service is second Portsmouth,
Individual instances of satisfactory Aga Khan and his French Begum, after spending cross-breeding are legión. The the former Mlle. Andred Carron. General Temperley once ques-to none. But permanent officials, | £60,000.
beautiful Red Indian Princess Poen- tioned a Cabinet member, asking though they may advise, do not
The opposition to mixed marriages One well in Britain is paying hontas married John Rolfe, one of is usually terrific, and it is this. him if he never worried over decide upon policy. They are its way: that of the Duke of
the
Jamestown ploneers, in about hurdle which couples so often fail. the results of his and his not even at the Cabinet sessions. Devonshire
1014, and from them are descended to clear. at Hartstoft, In many of the leading Virginian fami- colleagues' decisions. The reply Cabinet Government, as it exists Derbyshire, which has produced lies of to-day. 1s astonishing. "There is no to-day in Britain, is seriously 3,000 tons since 1919, worth £5 Hme for that," the statesman overloaded, and may not be ablen ton. Bald. "It is a case of hit or to act quickly enough where Q-The oil as it comes front misa. If it succeeds, well and rapid and correct decisions are the earth is not much use, is it? good. If it is a miss, you just casontial. Worse still, it may A.-No; it has to go through shrug your shoulders and go on act quickly but incorrectly an elaborate process of dis to the next. You can't afford to There is real need for reform in tillation many times, and has to look back." The democratic this direction. K
A modern instance of a brilliant
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red and white cross was the Inte
TN the United States the ming- Wiley Post (holder of the round-the- IN world fying record and outstanding
ling of black and white r navigating genius of the air age), savagely opposed. In Australia, at Oxford-one a handsome, fale mitted.
I myself recall two full brothers coloured: Immigrants are not, ød-. Scandinavion in appearance,
other a binck, woolly-haired Negco. lightened Negro polley, but they
the South Africa is attempling an en po{Continued on Page.8.) **: Both were delightful company, but (Continued on Page by: