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Man's Evolution
Divinely Guided
Fumed anthropologist Dr. Robert Broom, 80, whose sensational discovery of an ape-man skull filled a vital "missing link" in the story of man's evolution, told the United Press that evolution was guided "by an intelligent cnuse." The end of the process
himself, Dr Was man Broom said.
He thus becomes the first great evolutionist aince the theory was first propounded by Charles Darwin last century to attribute divine guidance to the
DR HUTCHINS
mechanics of the development FINDS COURAGE
of life.
Dr Broem considered that Darwin's thesis of the "struggle for existence" and the "survival of the fittest" was as the primary much over-rated cause of evolution.
The
Evolution, he said, had revealed a purpose as it unfolded through the ages. The purpose was man, development of man, he said, could not have been mare chance or ac- cident.
"It was a progressive and definite move upwards," he said.
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Dr Broom, who has spent over half eentury tracking down new evidence in support of the theory of evolution, said that his greatest find was the now famous Sterkfontein skull, which is still being prepared for study. He found it this Spring. "When the cleaning is finished we shall have a skull showing every detail that a receni skull can show, he said, "and it will be by for the most valuable skull ever discovered in the world's history."
South Africa The Key South Africa, said Dr Broom, "la the key to the problem of the origin of man. He said that American selentists, backed by virtually un- limited funds, had long explored the anthropological treasure pits of Asia Now, he said, they are and Java. turning to South Africa.
IN BRITAIN
of
Robert M. Hutchins, Presi- dent of the University Chicago, has found much in London that can be called “cour- ageous."
"Everywhere in the elty," he said, "I can find an absolute con- fidence in the future of Great Bri- tain.
unsettled It's a somewhat. land, but there is no mistaking the atmosphere of boundless optimism. It looks to me like courage, but, of course, someone else might call it recklessness.
"These people are
not dejected,
or poverty-stricken. There seems to be a lot of money-a lot of sterling- and a very broad
spread of the
limited quantities of commodities and food that are available. In about two weeks I have met one pessimist, and considering the great number of
I have encountered it is! persons certain that there are not many of his kind.
"I left the United States with an might be picking impression that my way through the rubble of en empire that has collapsed. Yet here I have encountered no one who seems to be aware that any empire has crashed, and certainly no one seems to think either the power or pro- "As a result a large expeditionsperity of Great Britain will be in- from the University of California is fluenced by whatever may happen to
the British Empire." expected to arrive in South Africa "Its main work in July, he said.
Dr Hutching was Impressed by will be to carry out extensive and intensive exploration of our many finding-in comparison to the con- coves for more evidence of man in tinent there is virtually no black the making. If the American ex-
market in England, and by what he British determination to pedition stays with us for a year, felt was a
in *conomy and it may mean that South Africa will be regarded as the hub of the uni-political administration almost revo- verse in the science of early man lutionary in scope despite terrinc
material dificulties. and ape-man."
At the request of the South Afr!- can statesman Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, Dr. Broom opened excava- this tions in Sterkfontein caves Spring, he said in an article in the weekly magazine Outspan.
Almost at once a number of im-
two fragments Sterkfontein ape-men skulls were found. Dr. Broom dotermined that they were from creatures remarkably similar to the primitive Bushmen of the vicinity.
Yanaly
of
Revolutionary Plans
"In educational development here, probably the biggest undertaking is the school- the project to
to raise leaving age from 14 to 15 years," Dr Hutchins said. "It is being attempt- H
despite the fact that there is a shortage school buildings and limit will make the manpower short- age more acute.
As an educator I strongly support thair
plans," he declared On leave of absence from Chiengo
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, BATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1947.
DAB & FLOUNDER
Whale ship aground off Essex
Back from Antarctic adven- dures
her during which, maiden
voyage, she handled 2,600 whales, the British 14,000- ton whale factory ship Balaena went aground in mist on a sand- bank
a mile from Sank lightship off the Escx coast last month."
The lightship fired a warning rocket, but it is thought that this was not seen by the Balaena. Coastguards were warned. by
radio. The Balaena said that she did not want help. The tide falling when she went aground. Efforts were made to reflost her at high tide.
Was
South- In
The Balaena reached ampton after five months the Antarctic. She carried
£2,000,000 cargo home.
The above picture was taken from an aircraft,
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Wild Wa Tribesmen On
Headhunting Rampage
Members of the wild Wa tribe in the bleak mountains
of northeast Burma adjacent to Chinn are reported to be using modern automatic weapons to hunt down human sacrifices to their tribal gods.
copo
SCIENCE FEATURE:
by WALTER
Pocket-Sized Radios For Mr John Citizen
BY PAUL F. ELLIS
The day when Mr John Citizen can carry around with him a low-cost, pocket-size radio trans- mitting, and receiving set is not far away.
It might come within the now being discussed. They can be, next year, and a decade from used on hearing aids especially for now these tiny transmitters and after-dinner, speakers. They can be used for a mother to call her chil- recoivers-the whole packet dren to dinner; they can be used by weighing not more than eight golfers in talking to friends on an- to 10 ounces-may be as com- other part of the gol course; they mon as wrist watches.
can be used by police in keeping trafle on the move.
In fact, clentists say. "Use your imagination."
This is the belief of scientists at the US. National Bureau of Stan- dards whore developments have made possible a ndio transmiller
One of the secrets of this pocket- and receiver that will fit in a man's size type radio set is the develop wallet: For .the women, the acts ment by Bureau of Standards scien will be done up in neat plastic lists of the printed circuit technique. packets about the site of the ordin- In this method, lines of priated ary cigarette case,
stiver paint take the place of wires, It is learned that the Federal It is a
revolutionary process that Communications Commission is eliminates the maze of wires, resis- about ready to approve regulations ters and condensers characterising for civilians to operate the diminu- the
the conventional radio and elec- Live sets. Civilians, it is said, will tronics equipment. The sliver paint. be permitted to operate their sets or painted line, carries the low vol- on 463 megacycles.
lage necessary to operate the vest pocket radio ect.
A civilian operator of one of, these sets will not necessarily have call letters ouch as a radio station, but he probably will be issued on oficial licence card.
Scientists at the Bureau of Standards reported that at least 100 manufacturers are planning to make the small
wcts. Right now one would
cos! about US.$IE. These sets will easily send or pick up voice and sounds within one
In
Jests And Jeers
clocks
Japan is ngela exporting and watches to Hongkong. Al genuine Swiss presumably.
The Conference on Human Rights estimates there are still nine million slaves in the world. The figure, of course, does not include office workers, journalists, husbands and the like.
A good education enables a person to worry about things In all parts of the world.
"Lend me your handkerchief." "That's not a hankle-It's my swim-suit."
Some of our night hawks look as though they had been overdrawn at the blood Bank..
The girl who reduces is generally going out of her welgh to picaso
some man.
Overheard in the lift.
"He used to call me dear; now he calls me expensive."
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Ginger's jewels
Ginger Rogers, for per, starring role in the musical Jim "It had To Be You," will have an elaborate wardrobe of 24 costumes. Of these, no less than four will be wedding dresses.
Another new development is a process known as "potting" this technique, all the radio parts are dipped in a specially prepared resin or jelly.. The Anal product with the integral parts inside looks something like a mould of jelly Each of the latter will have n dumped out of its container.
th matching set of jewels, and This process holds the parts in- jewels are genuine pearls, rubles tact, protects them agalast atmos-sapphires and diamonde. Columbia pheric conditions, and enables the Studios trented the gems and lics mille, and even up to 10 miles in manufacturer to make compact sets. insured them for more than $50- some cases. Many applications aro
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SORRY ABOUT HIM) by Georgo Malcolm Thomson
THAT are the gifts which makes Georges Duhamel understanding. Breadth of imagination. Austere fidelity to the truth. And passion, lacking which all the rest are as dust.-
W one of the best of living novelists? Compassionate
NOEL LANGLEY once wrote an
Irreverent variation, on The Rape of Lucrece cafied Cage Me a Peacock.. His new novel, The Musla of the
Heart (Barker, 8s. 6d. is. maturer, wiser, less extravagant,
Langley has pity as well as wit Without losing his gift for phrase, he has acquired what is vastly more Important, a sense for the stylo of life, the Ironic
What shinpe mortals describe in their transit “through” the world:--The "comedy.
is muted; a wry pathos' emerges.
There is a creative eloquence in the man which issues, not in sonorous phrases, but in persons, demonine in The book is about a circus. An- vitality, sweet, humorous, frail or repressed-and of them other book about a circus? This quivering with the mysterious radiation we call life.
one is different. For it begins with the end of the circus, Das Spiegel- Suzanne and Joseph Pasquier, second story? latest of his books
This touch of in- Venusberg-Luna Zirkus is overs to reach the bumanity. This over-mastering de- whelmed in the German assault English language (Dent, 10s. d.), votion to a cause. There is nothing on Poland. Who are the members comprises two portions of a family grand or lovely about panorama of which earlier sections Pasquler's cause, though a sort of to be there?
Joseph of the troupe, and how come they. have already appeared. These two murky grandeur lurks in the vio-. now stories are self-contained works lence of his pursuit of it, which can be enjoyed for their own qualitlés,
fossils were found, he wrote, equipment, and that raising the ageritory was due to erop failures, fcuding people to whom civilisation | lovely actress theatre and fees for subject of mowerful, giutonous, slong. These faculties are hard to
Then a blast cracked open a block
explaining that in accordance with tribal custom, men, women and children must be beheaded and their heads offered to the
Dr
to promote several new interests of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
of limestone and revealed a "perfect Hutchins had had difficulty getting gods to appease them and bring paid the, Naga hill tribes of moun He is a brilliant Creusion, this spinsinuates and Joseph himself au- his nerve as an acrobat. And his
Skull of the Sterkfontein ape-man, with the brain cavity broken right
good luck.
Money. Getting money, depriving others of money, using money to buy to
with
Spiegel, the ring-master, was once houses, pictures, pollical place, wu- nearly J. L. Leyden, Director of the necessary
men, men who
WILL 20,000 savage, bloodthirsty Was in
a rollicking fellow with the girls. "ghost" the frontier area, said the outbreak the wild unadministered territory. The first story, Suzanne and the books Joseph signs, other men who But the years have tamed him and Young Men, has a simple theme. will do his tricky financial work for he has married Liest, the fortune- in headhunting in the Wa ter- The Was are a primitive tribe of Suzanne Pasquier, a brilliant and
Him.
"I am the only man in the teller. As a girl, Llesi had two
romantle quarrels with the world who is
hypocrite on the defects
Imagination and a weight of more than 14 is entirely unknown. Their villages director of her are on top of bleak precipitous refuge to a poor, numerous, harum- This able, mountains, with entrancen cunningly searum and wholly delightful fami- amoral being is a monster. But the reconelle with one another,, but camouflaged and "guarded" by rowly, the Baudoins, who give her, each monster is, by the grace of Duhamel, they may make an excellent equip- upon row of grinning skulls.
after his or her fashion, their love. a man, Atrocious as he is in his ment for a fortune-teller. Other reports received by Leyden affects to be above such weakness, him is compassion.
True, Hubert, the scientist brother, Insane egotism, our basic feeling for
Geza, the clown, who writes on with his work because of keen
Joseph needs it. For, as Duhamet poems and thinks deeply, has lost. Britials Interest in the report of the
tainous northwest Burma also had American Commission for the Free-
embarked on a headhunting orgy, youth, an irrepressible fountain
of Hoy slightly feverish, nonsense, pects, a canker has attacked his wife, Lill, betrayed him with a Leyden said this was the first time and in one week had gathered about
Suzanne's stay with the dom of the Press, of which he was in Wa history heads had been 100 heads. A blood feud between is an idy); but
imposing and brutal organism. He flashy youth. wistful one, with is beginning to chairman.
blarned
make mistakes. HTC Patzl, the midget, is 3ft. eln. removed on such a large scale. The two tribes in the area
a shadow falling across it. We know. Is A Royal Commission la about to usual
too Teaching high. tribal
to for the outbreak.
He is losing high. His mother, when dying, said: procedure was delve into questions of ownership, organise an expedition of fighting.
hd be and the Baudoins know, that for control of his ambitions.
"One day you'll grow up to be a "The skull," he wrote, "is clearly control and practices of the British men to raid a village and kill their headed about 1,000 peoplo in the than love, a purpose more compel affairs, his amour propre a doom is no longer belleves it. He
Leyden said the Nagas
Suzume there is a power stronger Over his family life, his business big man, tall an a tree." But Putzi that of an old woman. How do
victims with
last year, and in the last six months know it was an old woman? Well, press, and some commission members potential
bad
Ing tha
than happiness, the Burma-Indian frontler crossed
hanging And when the disasters Gerda, the bareback rider.. arrows, such a raid seldom resulting though all teeth are lost, we have have conferret with Dr Hutchins
She is dedicated to the theatro, come it is not a case of bad luck Gerda loves Karadin, and killed and beheaded about 700 In more than three or four heads.
Nagas on the India side.
And
to the theatre she will return overtaking the persistent gambler. swallower. Reports now being received In During World War II, the Nagas when Eric Vidame, her tyrannical The
The disintegration is within the These waifs, with their shabby dicate the Was are using modern gave valuable assistance to the director, dolgas to whistle for her, man. automatic weapons stolen from the Allied armies fighting in North Yet, before she goes back to her life "We are all victims," says Joseph's have become a nomad tribe, hugging Chinese Army, and a
raid Burma. They acted as guides and among the shadows, there is a last wife, of something frightful, some their poor little stories, wandering produced nearly 50 heads.
guerilla fighters, and came be Elft, "princely alms," for Hubert. intensely bitter quality which re- "about Europe, with five performing feared for their ingeniously contrly-
sides in you, my poor Joseph." The horses, very advanced in years, and Leyden sald the Burma Govern- ed mon traps inade with spiked
swelling, the overflowing, the catus a dying elephant. Until he night 1. Yellow flowering weed. Re-ment at present was unable to talte bamboos. This tribe of Nagar does What troit does the exquisite trophe of this "bkter quality" when the big bombers throb through golved its name after Great Fire of steps to end the headhunting orgy, not follow the headhunting rituals, Suzanne
share with her brother makes a powerful, just and deeply the Polish sky and all the stories London, when it grew abundantly as a full-sized expedition would be, it was explained.Associated Press. Joseph, dominating figure of the Gunman drama,
scross."
Far Down The Scalo
the sockets of a number preserved and the sockets of the
canincs show that the skull bolonged to a woman. All the sutures on top are coloured, so we can be sure that! she was coming on in years. It would be ungallant to further speculate on her age."
Associated Press.
ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS
Questions on Page 9
in Metropolis. 2. Earl Canning, 1858.
bows and
Kingle
The brain, he wrote, was small. But he said further cleaning might show that it was intermediate be- tween that of a chimpanzee and that of the famous Java man, called 3.
2. Curling. 4. The common jelly- pithecanthropus rectus,
fish. 5. On a knife. It is the in- NANCY Preparedness Important “Apart from size, the structure of dentation where blade Joins haft, the brain is much more human than 6. Eire. 7. Nearly 800 years.. 8. ope-like," Dr. Broom wrote. "Dr | Radio-Keith-Orpheum Chinaë G. W. H. Schepers even goes go for Burma-India
(theatre of war),
of
as to maintain that the convolutions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Member of the frontal lobes indiente the the Order of the British Empire. 9. may have had Mace. 10. One cooked slowly, just
below the balling point. clearly that the
Sterkfrontein
some kind of
The brain ape-man walked and ran on his hind legs, and used his hands for the tre manipulation of weapons and tools." ** But the best evidence that the
creature was for down on the scale of human evolution, sald Dr Broom,
CROSSWORDS SOLUTION' Solution of yesterday's pista
Acrom: 1. Reminiscence)jë, Ominous; 19,
stelpomene; 12, Irk: 13, Zenk; 15, Notorl was the teeth form? The teeth our 19. Trami, 19 Aral, Void; 33, showed, ha sold, that the animal | Watteau: 31. Ani 25,- Mulatio. "was not closely allied to any living Down: 1, Roman;, 2, Mijstant; 3. Nook; or known, fossil anthropoid ape. Cony Xx: 7 Mew: B. Umpires D Seat:li, Promyol; 18; -Organ; 10. · Ravali United Fress.")-
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