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A WARNER PICTURE
ORIENTAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1948.
In order to attract Britain back To Taking, American films instead of food, Hollywood is shooting a farce- *WITCH-HUNT," forcibly featuring Groucho and Chaplin as Stein and Marx, pursued by a 10-cent version of the American-way-of-life- Film Note
COLOSSAL MORONIC EPIC
Copyright in All Curent Mez
ATOM BOMB'S BENEFIT TO AGRICULTURE
T
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS.
HE atom bomb kicked up a lot of dust in the pen patches of Nagasaki. Some good, some badi.
Dr. Raymond E. Zirkle, director of the In- stitute of Radiobiology and Biophysics at the University of Chicago, says radioactive peas in the Japanese city may grow to the size of a grenade— and may be just as dangerous,
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Nagasaki, it may be recalled, was the second Japanese city to feel the sting of the atom bomb. The soil in that aren, the scientists report, showed increased productivity of 50 to 300 percent over the normal yield, making little peas grow into strangely big peas.
"Although atomic research offers agriculture tremendous hope for improvement," Zirkle said, "it is going to take time, money and scientific teamwork before beneficial results can be achieved on a practical scale.
MAD DOGS-BAD MEN
Both should be killed without compunction
says
BERNARD SHAW
CAPITAL punishment is a are wasted and their characters
muddled thinking.
'structive.
Big Investment
"The University of Chicago is investing $12,000,000 in an atomle research programme that may pay heavy dividends, not only in ngri- cultural benefits, but in all which advance civilisation."
felds
The scientist warned that expert- ments with radioactive plant fer- tilisers may create a health hazard unless conducted or supervised by qualifed scientists,
"Radioctive substances emit rays.
"When these substances are absorb-
Humane treatment of them The sole justification för kind-destructive to living cells," he said. will not deprave their cus.oly but ruthless judicial liquida-ed by plants such as peas- con- dians, and may prove very in cian is that the delinquent is rentration of them sometimes occurs
loss and a danger to the com-in the edible portion.
"If these plants are
caten
by But The ungovernables; the munity; and on this principle
more humans, the radioactivity sometimes term which indicates depraved so that us citizens ferocious.
may concentrate further in a part the conscienceless, We shall liquidate many
human nuisances than at pre-of the body, such as bone or liver. they become alınost as undesir- the idiots. the self-centred
sent if we are to weed the gar-A The dilemma of kül or be able as the criminals they for-
what of myops and
den thoroughly. killed, which confronta civilised fure.
thum? society daily and inexorably, is berlevilled by the jumble of
Do not punish them. Kill, kill. panic. superstition, and
kill, kill, kill them. The most gry resentment we call punish-
The thoughtless humanita- amiably soft-hearted monarch. mem, explation, propitiatory
n death wa hout sacrifice, justice, and rian is ready with his reply, confronted with many other imposing names. Reform the criminal; be kind rant, must sign it or abdiente
But the criminals have to be an dealt with somehow,
The dilemma is a hard farl which must be faced and or fanisi. The jumble should be unravelled and its superstitions utterly discarded.
to him.
But the criminal who can be reformed is not the problem.If you can reform him for her) reform him: that, is all. Do not make him a martyr.
morons,
as unfit to reign.
MURDERERS
And social duties
The civilised ruler must have home of that dread of death, nor like Peer Gynt, of any irrevo- cable step.
sufficient amoun! muy enuse radiation by poisoning, and at la why it is necessary to check each plant that has been used
dioactive experiments."
our which makes
ת!
Fil-
from
use of radioactive Through the tracers, we may learn how to ob- tain improved soils and fertilisers, healthier plants an animals, ani food products far superior to those we now know.
Benefits Expected "Despite the hazard of radio- preclude the possibility that uri- Abolitionists, whenever a capi-activity." Zirkle said, "it does not tal sentence is passed. write cultural benefits may result letters to the papers and sign more intensive experiments. petitions begging for reprieve, yet if the sentence is commuted to one of imprisonment for life The Abolitionists will reply at forget all about it and leave the once that in countries where guilty wretch to his fate.
"Tracers are being used to help there is no death penalty there
emotions are Their The red problem is the
unravel the complicated phenomenon is no increase of crime.
those of the of growth. If the mechanism of criminal you
thoughtless cannot reform:
who shrick for his growth were Favages the human mad dog or cóbra.
But there is the atrociously
crowd markable improvement in would execution and Dogs are friends of Man; but
The answer is, kill him kind- cruel alternative of imprison round the gallows to witness it would result. an exceptional dog
Ste "Tracers are making possible a goes mad ithi TDS Amok ly and apologetically. it pos- ment for life; for though our in- as they used to crowd to
luose thieves broken on the wheel and better understanding of the way in which plants actually draw from Through the streets, biting and sible without consciousness
on corrigibles may be Is+%
the the soil. This research is quite infecting everybody it. comes his part.
or harlots whipped through on society after 13 years
for streets at the cart's tail-ikely to result in improved fertiliser are soon lack
(Work copyright).
'LIQUIDATIONS' Sheer necessities Let me illustrate,
averasa,
sometimes
Let him go comfortably to less, they Fond as we may be of dogs, bed experting to wake up in the again acting according to their wo-must-kill-it-un-the-spot. by morning as-usual and not-wake- natures...... gun or bludgeon.
up. His general consciousness
wasting
that this may happen to him Meanwhile they are should be shared by every citi and depraving honest citizens as zen as part of his moral civic warders, ebaplains, and juil responsibility.
governors, who are almost
much prisoners as the criminals they have to torment.
મામ
as
practicing."
well understood, re- crops
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
JHEN you find that some which is why so few of them have
Cobras and adders, perfectly sane and normal, may get loose in a school playground or do- mestic garden. We break their necks without trial by jury. ANOTHER CLASS
poultry A fox caught in a
THEY MAY BREED
"WHE
thing is not what it is boots or hats or shields or cooking yard is liquidated on the spot,
There is a considerable class
Besides, the increase or de-supposed to be, the best course though it is only acting accord-
of persons who become crimi- ing to its nature
fend crease of crime is not the point is to go and ask someone what Nothing to do with me selves da when we eat Lurkey, pals because they cannot We have killed the fox for pur- for themselves, but who under at issue. The percentage of in- it is."
tutelage, superintendence, and corrigibles is not affected by the spokesman in touch with all that is
be applied to the new soapléng sonp, rently rehearsing in a London con-
We aur-
utensils.
seems to me
These timely words of an official HERE is what
utterly incomprehensible Incl suing with the same purpose. provided sustenance, are self- ernelly or kindness of the law. most loathsome in modern life may dent. Two foreign singers were re- SPECIAL FOR TO-DAY ONLY: AT 2.30-5.15-7.20-9.30 P.M.nor expiations, nor sacrifices, fantry soldiers and well-behaved whether we boiled murderers in not be confused with the new Ist "What are the narcotics of this hall
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Nobody
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18 punishments, citizens. They
make good in-
KO
oil or gave them gold medals. Kor anything but what they prisoners, really are: sheer necessities.
But throw them out into the
Capital punishment or Precisely the same necessity streets and they are presently
capital punishment, there they arises in the daily occurring in the dock.
are with their problem of what cases of incorrigibly mis- They also present no is to be done with them. chievous human beings. They problem. Reorganise their lives are vermin in the common for them; and do not prate wealth, ferocious wild beasis on foolishly about their liberty. our highways, robbers and crooks of all sorts.
less Ash.
like?" "You mean acoustles," said the manager.
"How dare you?" shouted the singers, and they both set on the manager, and knocked
of Epitaph
The Amalgamated Society of
Woodworkers, (Copyright in all oak beams.)
Old days in Ahahaland
are great hunters. him down. Their shields and boots and hats TE Alabas and cooking utensils are made rhinoceros hide.
herd of When rhinoceros is in the neighbourhood ore lies a death-match beetle,
Au rample to idiers and shirkers, They are not all murderers. of a village boys are sent out with But not too popular with
baby buffaloes. The buffaloes pick Most of them are quite incap up the scent and start in pursuit. than the, baby buffalo, by the time But it may be asked whether able of committing a murder, As the rhinoceros runs much faster they are to be allowed not only but are equally incapable of dis-the bays have gone back to warn the Having thus to read the newspapers but also charging their social duties and hunters both buffaloes and rhing- New pointless intake
ceroses are far paying their way. to marry and breed.
away from ilured the rhinoceros
them, the hunters make a vast eir-
Tasting the first fossilised netots Yes, decidedly; for human On the other hand, murderers euit of many weeks, until they see imported in tins from Arabia, the "This is They then Food Minister exclaimed, to do with stock needs its fallows as much are hanged although they have the
the raluoceros tracks.
I with
better than the wooden fish from the as wheat or onts; and these
provocation branches, near a water-hole, and Moluccas, or even the apunglass cups. To punish them is absurd: feckless creatures may be only acted under such
a fallows: their children may be that there is no reason to fear when the beasts come down to drink from Brno," AT 2.30, 5.20, two blacks do not make #117 BOVIH COPSPORTABLE”URATS
white; and punishment creates as competent as their aces that they will make a habit of at night the hunters creep up and
killing their neighbours., a class of punishers whose lives tors.
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HELLO--I'M NEW AROUND
HERE
NANCY
A Horse of Another Etc.
BEG PARDON.... WE HAVEN'T 8EEN INTRODUCED
OH, DON'T BE SO FORMAL
I'M ALWAYS FORMAL WITH STRANGERS--
VERY FORMAL
INDEED
CARRIE BUSHANALENG
WELL-GOOD-BYE, NOW--
THIS IS WHERE I LIVE
Beds Treecodon
ரா
dig a great pit, concealing
of body-fuel
From the "Government. News" of usually frighten them away. They hardly ever catch any rhinoceroses, January, 9, 1950.
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