1931-10-27 — Page 11

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1931.

A HUNDRED YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS

"Scientific World Picture of To-day."

BY GENERAL SMUTS.

His Presidential Address to the British Association,

Continued from Thursday.

THE CHINA

MAIL.

ROUND THE WORLD TSANG FOO VILLAS

CRUISE.

Malolo Arrives in the

Colony.

PLANS FOR PASSENGERS.

TRAGEDY.

Police Identification of Accused.

PRELIMINARY TRIAL.

(1) Wong Hong, 26, gardener. (2) Lai Tung-hol, 19, gardener. (3) Tsang Cheung. 22, gardener. 14) Cheung Kam-chi, 20, school-

bov.

DARING THEFT

ROBBING A POLICEMAN.

(Before Mr. W. Schofield.) Pun Tai was sent to jail for six weeks with hard labour in the Central Polloe Court this morning for the theft of a waterproof cover- ing, the property of Police Sergeant

It was stated that defendant was by a District Watch-1

Upper Lancar

Market") attempt-

in

Row

He ar ing to sell the cover. rested him, and defendant told him that he had taken the article from off a motor cycle, which was parked of No. 7 Police in the garage Station building.

HOTEL GUESTS

AT HONG KONG HOTEL.

October 25, 1931.

For the third time in three

The Taung Foo Villas murder Walsh. years the Matson liner, Malolo, trial was resumed before Mr. Fruser docked at Kowloon this morn-ut the Kowloon Magistracy yester-observed ing, on her annual cruise around day afternoon when further evi- man the Pacific. She has 188 cruise deure regarding the movements of "Paddy's- members aboard and a number the Police on the tragic night of

September 26, was taken. of interport passengers.

Captain C.. A. Berndtson is in Originally 12 men were charged command

as on the previoue with the murder of six Japanem at cruises, and Mr. Louis D. Stone, Tsang Foo Villas, but five were dia representing the American Ex-charged in the course of last week's The seven who are But while we recogniac, this in- "but which are specially associated press Company, is again the proceedings.

cruise director in charge of still in the dock are: timate connection between the can, with life and consciousness.

shore excursions. Life is not an entity, physical or ceptions of space-time and organic

Assisting Mr. Stone are Mesars, evolution, we should be careful not other. It is a type of organisation; to identify the time of evolution it is a specific principle of central William A. Shedd and William or self-organisation. If that or. R. McPhall, who, with Mr. Deane with that space-time. There is a very real difference between them.ganisation is interfered with, we H. Dickason, the educational

(6) Wong Ka-hung. 15 student. Biological time has direction, passes are left, not with bits of life, but director, not only have accom-

(7) Lau Fat, 20, unemployed. - from the past to the future, and is with death. The nature of living panied both the previous Malolo

(11) Tam Cheung, 26, gardener. therefore historical. It corrisponda things is determined, not by the nu-cruises, but also frequently visit

Sergeant Wheeler, who was with to the "before" and "after" af our ture of their parts, but by the na-Hong Kong on other cruises.

Messrs. Stone, Shedd and Me-the Police party on the second visit fure or principle of their organisa-

they conazivus experience,

aspect of tion. The quantum and life seem Phail will be returning to Hong to Tsang Foo Villas, said Physical time

a Chinese standing on space-time is neutral as regards to have this in common, that they Kong next March on the new arrived just after 10.10 p.m.

Matson liner, Mariposa, which is saw direction. It is space-like and may, are both wholen.

scheduled to sail from San Fran. parapet behind the dome

It was a bright moonlight I have before now endeavoured be plus or minus, but does not dis-

or future. to explore the concept of life in the cisco in January reversing the roof.

night, and he find no difficulty in re- cruise itinerary of the Malolo. tinguish between past

in either direction, light of the more general concept

Mr. Deane H. Dickason will be cognising this man as the first It may move

A whoic is not a

With the intention of at- returning on the world cruise of accused. backwards or forwards, while bio- of the whole. logical time, like the time of experi- sum of parts or constituted by its the Resolute, which is due here tracting other Police officers whom

Its nature lies In its con-

The expected to ba on the roof, wit- ence, knows only a forward flow. parts.

Films of Hong Kong, ness shosted out, but the Hence easmic evolution, as we see stitution, more than in its parts.

part in the whole ia As on the last Malolo cruise he noticed him and immediately disrs. M. Mackprang. it in astronomy and physics. The

Witness mostly in, un opposite direction to no

will be accompanied by a profes-appeared from the roof, While part

sional camera man for the mak-rushed up and saw bodies lying ap- that of organic evolution.

as an

on March 26,

He the on the

man

Mr. George Arbogart.

Messrs. A. Button J. A. Brown, Miss M. R. Buckley.

Mesara, G. W. Chilman, H. Chong, Lieut. Cadiser, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cooper.

Messrs. Fuller.

Mr. W. N. Gray, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. B. Goode.

D. Fraser, Raymond

Messrs. A. H. Harvey, S. J; Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hudson, Mrs. E. Hooper.

Miss E. B. Johnson. Mr. J. Kempf

Messra. Mancini, C. B. W. Moere,

Messrн. H. Posted, H. Pearman. Mr. J. F. Rhame.

Mesars P. Smith, R. W. Shreve, S. H. E. Soon, Master T. C. Shreve.

E. Seleam.

Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Thomas. Mr. C. C. Winslow.

longer the same as the in isolation. The in- biological time on the whole shows a terasting point is that while this ing of additional moving picture arently dead on the roof, but he forward movement towards ever concept of the whole applies to life,

travelogues. Already his pic-did not the accused. and rising it is according to the recent physics tures of last year are showing After looking over the bodice, higher organisation qualities throughout the geological no less applicable to the ultimate throughout the United States and witness heard a commotion in the Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Shreve, Mrs. B.

Britain as a travelogue series en- lawn below, end on glancing over ages, the proctus of the physical physical units." world is mostly in the apposite: Thus the election within an atom titled "Ports o' Call."

the parapet of the roof, he saw a no longer # distinct elec- direction toward disorganisation, a

He made two reels in Hong crowd of several hundreds of Chin- more complex tron. There may be separate elec Kong and vicinity last October ese advancing toward the house. of disintegration

dissipation of trons, but when they cease to be one, "Haunt of Romance," trent-It appeared that the crowd contem- Biructures, and

separate, they also cease to be. The ing with Hong Kong, and an-plated re-taking the house. He .enorgy.

eight electrons which circulate

other, "Death's Hostelry," aw Sergeant Butcher firing four In an oxygen atom are merged in a treating with Canton. Byn-shots at them, producing immediate The crowd scattered. Wit- tronomy stars and sular systems whole in such a way that they have chronised with Mr Dickason's ffect. and galaxies are probably still being lost their separate identity; and voice, which provides the descrip-ness had by this time drawn his own formul, while in physics syntheses this loss of individuality has to betive information, the series will revolver, but he did not fire.

taken into account in calculations soon be showing in cinemas A few minutes afterwards, wil as to the physical behaviour of the throughout the Far East.

The physicist, in fact, finds tom.

No doubt there are exceptions to. this broad generalisation. In as-

of elements may possibly still be going on. In the same way we find of gnusion, depuneration and in organic evolution minor phasta

parasitism.

Life and Mind.

+

himself unable to look upon the one tity which is one-eighth of eight electrons as the same thing as singled electron.

Bridging The Gulf.

becomes

|

GUESTS. AT REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

Dr. M. E. Asger.

Mr. H. P. Bailey, Mrs. M. Bird,

Mr. and Mrs. Bonnamour and child,

Mr. W. G. Bree, Mr. and Mrs. A.

Drostedt, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Brown, ness found the first accused lying Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Chollut, Mr. The entire series is being in crouching postion neur the and Mrs. J. M. X. Chollot and 2 shown abuard the Malolo during tank on the roof, Witness arrested children, Mrs. H. Corra and 2 chil- the present cruise, supplementary him.

to Mr. Dickason's usual pre-port! Constable Mohamed Hussnin lectures.

J

1

dren, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cruick- shanks, Miss M. Culliane.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Drouth, Mr. S. H.

buff.

Mr. D. D. Edgar, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Edwards; Mr. and Mrs. H. Efxrace.

Mr. F. Finne.

"

Mr. A. H. Gordon, Miss B. Gordon, Mr. R. H. Hall, Mr. W. D. Harris,

Mr. G. M. Hemsworth, Miss S. Hig- gins, Mr. W. G. Hollyer and 2 children.

testified that he saw the second The second law of thermodynamics ↑

Trip to N.T. and Canton, accused striking one of the female At the very foundation. there- thus marks the direction of physical

While in Hong Kong, until 5 bodies with a bamboo pole. Wit time. While the smaller world of fare, of physics, the principle or

p.mn., on Thursday, when the news took him downstairs and life seems or the whole to be on the category of the whole applies no Malolo is scheduled to sail for placed him ander guard. up-grade, Lhe larger

physical tous than in the advanced structure Manila. the cruise party will Witness then went back to the universe is on the dewn-grade. One, of life, although not in the same make the New Territories drive roof where he received the first may say that in the universe we degree. In the ultimate analysis this afternoon, the around-the-secured in custody and placed him witness a majority movement down of the world, both at the physical island drive to-morrow, and the with the second accused under ward, and a minority movement up, and the biological level, the part or Peak trip on Thursday morning, guard. Witness was quite sure he ward. The energy which is being unit element somehow

Forty of the party will go to received the first accused in custody dissipated by the decay of physical shadowy and incoherent, and the Canton aboard the night-boat on the roof, and did not arrest him, Mr. P. N. Jester, Miss D. A. John- structure is being partly taken up very basis of mechanism is under- Taishan, to-day, and return to-as he claimed, on the roadway or and organised into life structures- mined. It would almost seem as morrow evening.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Kempf. anywhere else. if the world in its very essence la From Manila, the Malolo will Constable Sultan Al testified at any rate on this planet.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Langley, Mra. Life and

mind the appear as holistic, and as if the notion of in-proceed to Bangkok, Singapore, that he saw the last witness arrest-Latusle and child. produels of the cosmic decline, and dividual parts is a practical make- Batavia, Macassar, Port Moresby ing the second man. As Boon Mr. L. C. Maemorran, Mr. F. M. arise like the phoenix from the shift without final validity in the (New Guinea), Sydney, Aucks he got on the roof, he saw the McBain. bases of a universe radiating itself nature of things.

land, Suva (Fiji), Pago Pago third man, who was standing in Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Norris and away. In them nature

The general trend of the recent (Samoa), Honolulu, and San the shadow. Witness saw he had child. have discovered a secret which en- advances in physics has thus been Francisco, where she is due on nothing in his hands, and did not Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Parsons, Mrs. ables her to irradiate with im- towards the recognition of the fun- December 16.

Witness ar H. C. Pullen. perishable glory the decay to which damental organic character of the

The liner sailed from San see him do anything.

Mrs. M. S. Rose she seems physically doomed.

material world. Physics and bio-Francisco on September 19, and rested him and placed him under Witness went back to the guard. What is the secret of life, and logy are beginning to look not so has already called at Los An-roof and saw Sergeant Roig arrest-J. Sheridan and 4 children, Mr. G. how does it connect with the prior atterly unlike each other. Hitherto roles, Hilo, Honolulu, Yokohama, ing the fifth mau. He helped to physical order? Here the extra- the great gulf in nature has lein Kobe, Miyajima, Chinwangtao, take this boy, downstairs to the ordinary character of the quantum between the material and the vital, and Shanghai. already referred to provides us with some clues. I do not for a moment

This gulf is now in process of wish to suggest that the quantum is being bridged. The new physics, the physical basis of life, but I do in. dissolving the world of common suggest that in the quantum the sense and discovering the final physical world offers an analogy of structure of physical nature, han`at| life which is at least suggestive.

the same time disclosed certain

scents to

wave which

or

only can

exist as ง

between inorganle matter and life.

DICKENS'S POMERANIAN,

What "Mrs. Bouncer

T

41

Was.

was

guari-room.

Constable Wali Dad then gave evidence of arresting the fourth

man.

Mr. L. G. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. H.

Simon, Mr. P. Smart, Dr. and Mrs. H. Smith, Mies C. B. Snowden, Mr. und Mr. E. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. E Sweet, Mr. and Mrs. P. Sykea.

Mr. C. E. Tatlow and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. S. Thomson, Mr. The hearing was adjourned until and Mrs. J. Tully.

Mr. S. M. West Mr. and Mrs. C. this afternoon,

A. Wild, Mrs. and Miss Willder.

The nine requisites for success a law suit are: 1, money; 2,

The discovery at Higham, The quantum follows the all-or fundamental features which it hasi nothing law and behaves as an in- in common with the organic world. near Gravesend, of the tomb-in

The reason a thick glass cracks divisible whole; so does life. A Stuff-life entities have disappeared tone erected to the memory of patience; 3, a good cause; 4, a part of a quantum is not something and have been replaced by space-Mrs. Bouncer," the dog belong-good lawyer; 5, a good counsel; 6. more easily than a thin one, when less than a quantum; it is nothing time configurations, whose very na-ing to Charles Dickens, has been good witnesses: 7 a good jury; 8, filled with hot water, is that the

[a good judge; 9, good luck.

inside of the glass expands quickor or sheer nonentity; the same holds ture depends on their principle of followed by another discovery.

Ro- Mr. Edwin Harris, the

with the heat than the outside. In true of life. The quantum is per organisation.

Sumatra enjoys the greatest the case of a thin glass, the whole haps most easily symbolised as a And this principle, which I have chester historian, has found

variety of animal and vegetable is heated almost immediately. combination of waves. ventured to call holism, appears to that "Mrs. Bouncer"

bo at bottom identical with that Pomeranian given to Dickens by life of any district on earth. complete periodicity, and whose which pervades the organic struc- his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur

Smith. very concept negatives ita existence tures of the world of life. The

In letters as partial or truncated. In other quantum and space-time

to his daughter i have Dickens made references to the words, it is a apecific configuration brought physics closer to biology, and can only exist as such; the As I have pointed out, the quantum dog, and in one he wrote:

"In my mind's eye I behold anticipates some of the fundamen- Mrs. Bouncer still with The quantum does not fall com- tal characters of life, while space traces of her old anxiety on the

organic evolution. Physics and

same holds true of life.

some

➤letely within the deterministic time forms the physical basis for faithful countenance, balanc-

casual scheme; the anmo xeems true

her

cing herself unequally on of life. Significant also is the fact biology are thus recognised as res bowed forelegs, twitching up that quantum phenomena underlle secondary qualities such as colour pectively simpler and more advancher ears with her head on one and the like, which the older science ed forms of the same fundamental side and slightly distending her

pattern in world-structure.

In its mechanistic scheme ignored,

WOMEN DIES AT 104.

Long Life Attributed To Hard Work.

Gloucester's oldest inhabi-

(To be continued.)

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Kend

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Mrs. Bouncer was named after she retained all her faculties, the character in "Box and Cox."

but was bedridden owing to

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