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LIFE AND DEATH=1
"RHYTHM of the UNIVERSE"
gle with environment. In 'sputting
the similarities in successive slages he is watching the making of a pat- tern £11 social behaviour. The Theory of Evolution is such a law, both biological and social.
The chemist studies how different kinds of matter combine; he seeks the underlying scheme; he seeks the Atructure of complicated substances and shows how they are the result of more elementary patterns. In this way he has succeeded, himself, in making an enormous variety of synthetic substances that have been turnted to a multitude of uses in civilised life.
und in des-
By Dr. H. LEVY, troying civilised life.
Professor of Mathematics, Imperial College of Science THE
HE Universe is unique. There is nothing else to compare it with; thus the answer to the query-What is the Universe? is simple and direct. It is a gestire with the thumb, and the words "This is it?"
To learn more about it than this, we have to examine its make-up, to work at it. In this way we learn to antici- pate some of the changes that take place.
Now if you will think over it for a moment, you will realise that the power to foretell events is the power to see a pattern in them. The rising and setting of the sun, the mailon of the planets, the bull- ing of water always at 100", are Illustrations of the kind of recur- rence we call a pattern in events.
When.. selentific...men.50y... they have discovered a Law in Nature they
mean they have discovered where to recognise, or how muke, a repeat pattern in the Uni- verse. That is what they mean when they say the same experi- ment always gives the same result. It is a scientific experiment when
to
it repeats, and they can then an- ticipate the result. In
this senso science is the modern substitute for prophecy.
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But is not the Universe always chunging, never exactly the same
at two successive stages? History does not really repeat itself. Thus when we say we have found a re-
peal is exact, like the pattern made by a weaving machine on a car- pet..
The Universe is not that kind of simple process. A scientific law describes a pattern, roughly like what happens in Nature; it is of
n- sort of tip about the
fered as future-a probable winner as were, a statement that if you have to face a situation this is proba bly the pattern to look for,
There are people, for example. who watch the numbers and colours that appear on the roulette tables at Monte Carlo, trying to discover the law that the table shows in its behaviour, in order to use it to their advantage. They are trying to detect a pattern in the events so that they can have some probability of success. In a sense this is typical of all laws.
Different branches of selence are concerned with different kinds or repenting patterns in the Universe. In blalogy, for instance, Mendel's Law tells us how, and in what pro- portions, certain features of the parents are passed on to the off- spring. It tells of the patterns in the parents that are repeated in the children.
The sociologist is Interested in the successive stages in civilised fe that men has risen to, in his strug-
If you will open any text-book on chemistry you will find it full of pictures and formulne showing the kinds of patterns and arrangements with which he is concerned, Groups of atoms, and chains of tons, are his food and drink.
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The physicist, at least in modern physics, is posed a different pro- blem. Here it is the inside of the atom, into which the probe of the selentist is being pushed, with ex- .diculty in punching from
heart of the atom.
traordinary results. Again there is disclosed a pattern, one of electric charges spinning in rings and danc- ing from one ring to another. Light, magnetism, wireless waves,
X-rays, all are involved in the pro-
TESS.
To understand them, not only do each of these separately exhibit a consistent pattern of behaviour, but together they Interlock and inter- weave into a more intricate scheme.
Working in a region far below the range of the most powerful ul- trn-microscope, the physicist has to be content with a vast amount of Indirect evidence and Inference: Hence, arises his Quantum Theory, his method of predicting the béha- 'viour of these tiny sub-atomie par-. ticles that he succeeds with great
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Naturally at that level, auch prophecies cannot be as exact as with larger and with more directly observable processes; they are pre- sented with a larger margin of probability.
The astronomer works at the op- posle scale of size. Mopping out the movements of the vast con. course of stars, and analysing their light with all the help that the "physicist enn bring to bear, he sees them ns dwarfs or as giants, as stars at an early stage of develop- ment or as stara already ancient and decrepit. They fit into a plan, and new stars find their interpreta llon in terms of this scheme.
All motion is relative, and these enormous masses appear to be run- ning rapidly and steadily away from each other and from us. The Universe is steadily and surely occupying more space. It is an ex- panding Universe. We can see its changing pattern.
The mathematiclan has spread himself into all fields, for he seeks to represent all scientifle patterns
man
in geometrical form; not for him the colour and music of Nature as values it, but its shape and form, its structure only. It is a changing Universe, he says, and the fact of change in time cannot be separated off from the very fact of existence in three dimensions of
space.
Space-time is the essential unity in terms of which Nature's laws must be expressed and explained.. The Universe is thus Atted by him into a static plcture in n space-time framework, a convenient mathema- ical scaffolding within which to accommodate
BRITISH REGIMENTS
The GORDON The BORDER HIGHLANDER
VERY regiment in the
E British Army has its own
particular niche in military history, but the Gordon High- landers have a distinction that cannot be claimed by any other regiment. That distinc- tion is association with a ghost.
The 1st Battalion of the regi- ment was raised in 1787 by the Duke of Gordon, and was then known as the 75th Foot. It was formed from the Duke's own clans- men and, according to legend, a guinea and a kiss were given to each recruit by the Duchess, worinn
beauty. of remarkable Whether that is true or not, the regiment was mised with amaz- ing rapidity..
After her death, the memory of the Duchess was carefully. pre- served. She, in her turn, is sald to keep eternal watch over the regiment, the ghost of a weeping woman with long, fair hair ap- Rearing over her grave whenever the Gordon Highlanders are threa- tened with danger. The ghost is sold to have been seen before the battle of Muggersfontein, when the regiment suffered tremendous losses.
IT is not many years since the land in which the Duchess lies buried came up for sale, and ofl- cers of the Gardon Highlanders subscribed 'the money to buy, for the regiment, that portion contain- ing the grave,
Seven years after the formation of the 1st Battalion, the 2nd Bat- talion was raised by the Marquess of Huntly, and soon became known as the 22nd Foot. The two bat- talions were amalgamated in 1881.
These references to the regiments history are amplified in Its battle honours, which include Mysore, Seringupalam, Almarez, Vittoria, Waterloo, Delhi, 1857, Lucknow, Kandahar, Afghanistan, 1878-80, Nile 1884-5, and the Defence of Ladysmith.
In the Great War, in which 21 Battalions of the regiment served, the Gordons fought at Mons, Le Cateau, Marne, 1814 and '10, Ypres, 1914, 15 and 17, Loos, Somme, 1916 and 18, Ancre, 1916, Arras, 1017 and 18, Cambrai, 1017 and
18, and Vittoria Veneto.
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ANOTHER famous episode oc- curred in 1813, when the Gordons were being attacked ni th Pyreness by French troops under Ney. The Highlanders had lost 400 men in withstanding four charges by the French, but at the end of ten hours
still unbroken.
their ranks were the Universe whose secrets are being laid bare by the experimenters.
There are others busily hunting for patterns in unexpected places. We tend to forget that we are our- selves part of this Universe, not mere onlookers, but active agents changing,
sometimes ruthlessly changing, the face of the world. There are paychologists watching, and experimenting with our pro cesses of thought, digging out the taelt assumptions we have
ave in- herited from our savage ancestry, and the fears and inhibitions that lurk, unrecognised by us, just be- low the surface. They seek a pnt- tern in our behaviour, and in the workings of our brains.
These are the map makers of the Universe, and the maps that they produce are used by us, consciously or unconsciously, for good or $11, In the_ze-making of, that part of the Universe that in its turn re-makos and re-shapes us.
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REGIMENT
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THERE is now preserved in Kendal Church, England, the only Chinese standard to be captured by British troops in battle, and it was taken by men of the Border Regiment in the Chinese war of 1841-43..
The present regiment is the re- sull of the amalgamullion of two distinct and historic regiments the 34th and the 55th Foot. What is now the first battalion was rois- ed by Lord Lucas in 1702 and eventually, became known as the 34th Foot. The second battalion, raised in 1765, was later known as the 55th Foot, and later still as the Westmorland Regiment. The two were amalgamated in 1081, and have been known ever since by the present title.
The laurel wreath was won at the historie battle of Fontenoy, where the 34th Foot covered the retreat of the British Army. The Dragon of China commemorates the part played by the 55th Foot in the Chinese war when, among other struggles, the regiment stormed Ching Klong Fon in the face of a horde of Tartar braves.
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THE most historic achievement
of the 34th, however, was seen at
Arroyo dos Molinos, in the Penin- sular war. It was in 1811, during Ule campaign, that the regiment captured_the_entire 34th Regiment. of France. Many interesting links with this are süll kept alive to-
day.
During this struggle, the drum- major of the British 34th seized the staff carried by his French equivalent, and marched out of at the head of action carrying it the regiment. To this day the French drums that were taken in the battle are trooped on its an- niversary by drummer boys dress- ed in uniforms of the period.
For some time after, the 34th also sported on their headdress red and white-pom-poms, worn in the French style, the red being on top. The present regimental march of the Border Regiment is also a reminder of Arroyo dos Molinos, because it is a combination of that famous British song "John Peel" and the regimental march of the French regiment.
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THE Border Regiment is the only unit in the British Army to in- clude Arroyo dos Molines in its battle honours and when, in the Great War, the regiment went into action on the anniversary of that battle, the troops charged to the ery "Remember Arroyo."
In all, 16 battalions of the Bor- der Regiment fought in the Great War of 1914-1918.
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LETTERS Goering Is Germany's
erbert iggs Again
ullo mister editer, this is erbert iggs speckin-the eyes cars nose and throle of the world.
taint so cold as it is wos li? corlovaduck this is the sort
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| weyver wot makes me wish 1 wos on the ole peer darn soufend wie a nice pint of the ole dont make us an a plate of nurishin wilks.
sorry i aint bin ritin lately guvnor but as a matter of fack there alat bin a blinkin Ang ter rile abart
No. 1 Mystery
GOERING Germany's No. 2 Nazi, is rapidly becoming Germany's No. 1 Mystery.
Goering the open, the frank, the affable and the arrogant and ruth- hidden, secretivo, spending his days less has suddenly turned retleent,
cekser the blinkin navy orl gettin in retirement at his country estate in Schorheide making no public spliced-an they camt fake It
appearances, making no speeches thats the worst of startin suming taking, apparently, no part in the aint it evrybody ekspecka. yer ter war of which he is Germany's chief keep it up-same as little ole itler organiser. corlumme es gorn ter keep on goin
tit e gets is bloomin self in the con-
| sommy (french fer supe)
Why ?
Sitting on Fence"
All Germany and a good
nsking the
Speculation is rampant. It is sug-
the
anti-
but alf an me aint bin wastin no part of Europe aro time we ave bin gettin ararnd doin question anxiously, for upon the an- reserch w (1 ncely sed work but swer may depend Germany's course I better not menshun the word becos in the next few months. It makes ole aif cum over orl of a 1rembel)
the uvver nite darn ole dutchs Fested that he is in disgrace with
is "sitting on Hitler; that he place we meets a sanitery inspekter fence between the pro-and car stone me sideways the fings that Russian factions in the Army and bloke told us. ov corse e used ter the Nazi Party; that he is sulking. be a rorl mareen an yu know wet that meens enyway e told us orl the Mudame Tabouls, suggests in tho fines yu as ter lern to be a sanitery "OEuvre" that Goering's retirement Inspekter.
is connected with the kidnapping of told us that wun abart the dies i Mr. Best and Mr. Stevens in what wot cooks or the vegilbies in one pot. Ims become known as "te Venlo
know eny ov them there con- incident." yu fushus z yarns?
enyway torkin abart sanitery fings
Among its many battle honours
do **re the names of campaigns that will always live in the world's milliary anals. They include Havunnah, St. Lucia, 1778, Arroyo dos Molinos (Peninsula), Vittoria, Alma, Inkerman, Lucknow, Heller of Ladysmith, South Africa, 1000- 1002, and Afghanistan, 1010.
They were then relieved, and were ordered to retire, but the pipe major stepped out in front of the Gordons, tucked the bagpipes under his arm and began to play that thrilling air, "Haughs" of Comdale." Instead of retiring, the Gordons charged, and drove the French, back more than a mile.
That air, however, is not the regimental tune, The Gordons now march to two regimental airs- "Cock O' the Norüi" and "High-
land Laddle," Their Jaunty step., and their traditional association with the beautiful Duchess of Gor- Con are responsible for the regi-
nickname mental
of "Gay Gordons."
MEN of the regiment are believed to have helped to carry the dying. general, Sir John More, off the field at Corunna, and to this, day the officers of the Gordons wear a black thread in their gold lace to commemorate More's death..
In the Great War the Border Regiment fought at Ypres, 1914, '15, '17 and 18, the Somme, 1918 and '18, Arras, 1917 and 18, Cam- brai, 1017 and 18, Macedonia, 1915-18, and at Gallipoli, 1910-16.
Tho regiment has two nick names, one of which applies to the former 34th Foot and the other to the former 58th Foot. The 34th sro known as "The Cattle Reeves," and the 55th as "The Two Fives" reason for the latter is obvious, The The origin of the former is not so well known, though the word "Reeves",
almost now 1
extinct, formerly referred to atowards or officers with authority over certain trades or districts,
In other quarters it is thought that
this bloke told alt on me abart our Goering, does not approve of the stummicks.sed the stummick is German official ntfitudo of bene- sityuated south of the ribs an is the volence towards the Russian Invasion sect of inderfestchun. the funkshun | of Finland.
or the stummick is Inderjestehun
wiy the aid ov acrobatic Jodces, if yu gels sick in the stummick a docter should be insulted the bloke sed.
Swedish Friends
In this connection it may or may
corlumme an there wos me an ole not be significant that Karl von ter Rosen, brother of Geering's very. dearly loved Arst wife, is Swedish.
alf finkin our stummicks WOS keep our trowels
up
then e told us abart cows. c sed a good milk cow is known by its rudder and wen the food is oririte she as good milk but wen it thunders she goes sour
plas e
e sed is unclean animals wot na no ideer of doin angs proper either in the house or wiv their children
cor chase my ele sunt fanny rand the gasworks the dngs a bloke as ter lern ter git a job in honkong.
Ank me un alf will ave ter be key post
Be rité ngin next salerday
erbert iggs,
Goering himself has many friends among Swedish Industrialists.
Whatever the reason for Goering's temporary obscurity, it is politically important. Ho is still very popular. in Germany, he is still the named heir to Hitler's Leadership, he is still, next to Hitler, the most powerful Nazi. He is too strong to "purge."
What course of action he oven- tually decides upon may quite well also determine Germany's course in the next few months of war.
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