1937-10-09 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 9, 1937

SCIENCE MAY YET END WARS Developing The Inner Powers Of Man

HOPEFUL ADDRESS

TO BRITISH ASSOCIATION

PEASANT'S ALLEGED 300,000

DOUBLE MURDER

Cheated By Change

Of Brides

People To Leave Madrid

Abaz Imesh, 25-year-old peasant to be evacuated from Madhradi

South Serbia, is alleged to have killed two men because

About 300,000 more people are

Dec. 31, according to the munici pality's plans.

Some 300,000 have already left

veral thousand who left voluntar- ily. But as thousands of others Abaz had heard that Selim Danta have come into the city, Madrid

Sir Edward Poulton, the eminent entomologist, made the suggestion that war may yet be abolish- ed as a result of the development and education of of Petch, mankind's inner powers, in his presidential address three years ago he was cheated by an since the war began, including se at the annual meeting of the British Association at exchange of brides. Nottingham.

"This subject," he said, "is bound up with edu-had a very pretty sister named has still something like its normal cation in its true sense a leading out and if, as Nefa. So he paid $50 to become population of 1,000,000. y Ray Lankester said at York, and we are all coming engaged to her. As a good Moslem to believe, the hidden powers within are inherited wedding. But when his bride un-five classes: while the results of their development are not, then veiled for the first time before him, there is no easing of the burden with the passage of time. .

"BUT EACH GENERATION AFRESH MUST BEAR THE HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY OF CONDUCTING THIS DEVELOP MENT IN THE BEST WAY, SO THAT ITS SUCCESSOR MAY BE ABLE TO MEET THE CHANGING, AND, AT THIS TIME, THE INCREASING NEEDS.

"Thoughts on the development of it come quickly, a time which shall these hidden powers by the educat-prove that the visions of the young ing influence of social environment, and the dreams of the old were suggest the greatest of the pro-prophetic of a glorious reality."

ENEMY AND PREY blems by which we are faced the end of international war.”

The municipality divides the he never saw her until after the 300,000 people now to leave into

he

found that she was neither. young nor pretty.

Later he discovered that she was

not Nefa at all, but that Selim had

sent him his older — and ugly

sister and re-sold the pretty Nefa

to a rich young neighbour named Muhamed Zumer.

Government employees who are still working in the capital;

Families of Government em- ployees already working at Va- lencia;

Government pensioners; Insurgent prisoners. Sympathisers with the insur-

gents.

The Government will assist em- ployees to take their families to Valencia and will allow them 10 Abaz vowed vengeance for the pesetas a day at the present no- trick. He waited three years for minal rate of exchange between 23. his chance. Then he met Selim, and 2s. 6d after their evacua-

Sympathisers with the insurgents

Sir Edward referred to a discus-Muhamed, Nefa and her two young tion. Sir Edward then recalled that sion, at the Manchester meeting of children in a lonely lane. He at the late Sir Michael Foster, presi- the association, on the inheritance tacked them and killed Selim and will not be evacuated as prisoners, -dent in 1899, had expressed the of acquired characteristics, and Muhamed with an axe.

hope that the very greatness of said, "I ventured to bring forward

safety-

although they will be sent to places where they can be under surveil

prisoners es- the power of destruction in arma-certain observations opposed to a Nefa managed to escape. She flance, All extr ments would put an end to war, and belief in Lamarckian evolution by caught a horse, put her two chil-tablished in Madrid since the war had welcomed the "brotherly" means of inherited experience -ären on it in front of her, and will be transferred elsewhere. meeting in those days between the observations which I then describ-galloped to the nearest village for With the population of the capi- tal thus decreased and the new English and French Associations at ed and have not known, to be an-1, Dover and Boulogne as a hopeful swered. In the relationship be

railway line linking Madrid with Valencia, which it is expected will sign that science was working to- tween enemy and prey there is very

commonly no opportunity for the Meanwhile Abaz walked into be completed by January 1, the wards the abolition of war.

The Djakova, and went to the police municipal authorities expect to be latter to learn by experience. Proceeding, he said: "There are, wonderfully elaborate adaptations station where he is stated to have able to feed the city's population I know, very many people who look by which sedentary insects are hid-admitted what happened.

enemies Great War, with later den from upon the

have been wars and rumours of wars, as the evolved, not by experience of enem- close of Michael Foster's dream. ies."

NO NEED FOR DESPAIR

"The words in which Sir Arthur He quoted examples of prophetic Schuster concluded his address at instinct among insects, and added, Manchester in 1915, and Sir Ed-I would ask any believer in Lam- ward Thorpe at Edinburgh in 1921, arckian evolution, or in Hering's indicate, I hope, that the British and Samuel Butler's theory of un- Association does not thus despair. conscious memory residing in the "In this belief I bring before germ-cells, how it would be pos- you a passage from the far earlier sible to explain these prophetic in- address which Sir Richard Owen stinets, adapted not to meet but to delivered to the 28th meeting at avoid future experience, except by Leeds in 1858 a passage which the operation of natural selection." makes a special appeal at a time

when the British, and American 1. Associations are confidently hop-

ing to strengthen still further the "WHOOPEE” TREE

MAKES WINE

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luscious

bonds of sympathy and mutual ap- preciation by which they have been happily united for so many years.

"Referring to the transatlantic

Trees that produce a telegraph, Sir Richard said: Weltype of red wine have been dis- may confidently hope that this and covered in the jungles of Lower other applications of pure science Mexico by Mr. Llevelyn Williams will tend to abolish war over the curator of botany at the Field whole earth; so that men may come Museum in Chicago. to look back upon the trial of bat- tle between misunderstanding na- tions as a sign of a past state of comparative barbarism, just as we look back from our present phase / specimens ever to be obtained from of civilisation in England upon the lower Menin old border warfare.”:

Mr. Williams has just returned from a six months exploration trip with the largest collection of wood

The "Whoopee" tree, as he has

These were -confident words in named it, is a speciest

The Small!

spired by the forging of a new link natives chop it down, between the two great English-trough in the trunk cover it with leaves and let it stand for two days. speaking nations.

"Nearly 80 years have passed When they return, the trough is since they were spoken, but with filled with a red wine, formed from all the terrible disappointments fermentation of the sap. there has been great progress, and Mr. Williams said it tasted "deli- a time will surely come, and may lcious.

through the winter.

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