1953-08-15 — Page 11

IN THE COUNTRY

HOLIDAYS AT HOME

Gad Farms.

COWES

Werla Copyright þy arrumpement such the Manchester Guardian

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1953.

These knowing birds baffle the best brains in science HOW DO THEY FIND THEIR WAY HOME?

By GEORGE TANSEY

IFE'S. a science for since it was first mentioned in gayo the same "feel" plgcons

Book of Job.

L piguens, it's got to be

the reason may be that no off to asomewhere

na

from near one placa wero "sent somewhere near the that they treat pigoons doesn't make been stiached to discovering would all "home" on the second life all pic.

how

a pigeon does it. 'It'f, place. significant that science, has made Latest reports are that gigantic strides through Uva pre still experimenting, rove phase Theory towards looks as if the pigeona, understanding the migration of being awkward. locusts, becauso of the chor- Poribly, DOTIC havo just mous economic importance of flown home, controlling the tourist instincta of those peris,

The trouble for pigeons is that they understand, to some extent, the biggest secret sull completely unsolved by man.'

This makes them the subject of continuis human curiosity, and since they pecopt their keep from human beings they are

expected to earn by de monstrating their extraordinary, and far inexplicable, gift for | long-distance navigation.

Scientists have discussed many theorios about the "Homo Sweet Home Instinct in certals birds, Ashes, insects and animals, but it

can be statoxi that they still haven't got a clue about it.

With birds, the problem is

sull a riddle in the realms of

pure selenee, with more ama teurs than professkmals trying to solve it.

POOR SHOW

PIGEONS, being tame and

SCENT DANGER

they

which

arp

MERE piccon fanciers. "In

Briain, competing with the scientists, have atted charged aerials on their placon Jofts to help their birds home. But they

loo, admit results are in- conclusive or just pinin negative.

These mysteries of how bird docs it

equalled,

of course, by the firmly

of why question it does it. Migration soems a rensible idea for ayolding bad weather and food shortages, but the Interesting ไร Chat

before the dangers arise. In other words, it is likely that

It is believed, for instance, that the "know how' of the homing instinct is, the same as 'that used to achieve migration, but the stock of precise, selen- tine data is extremely small, considering that the problem I been a human talking point

SUCCESS

Fourth extract from the famous book... By LORD BEAVERBROOK

N

O man can travel far along the rond to

success without courage,

I do not refer to courage which sustaine

the physical men on the battlefield, but to that raror quality—moral courage.

This quality has nothing to do with mere stubbornness, which is sometimes a kind of cowardice. Many weaknesses derive from stub-. bornness.

Men cling to a business indefinitely in the fond wish that a loss may yet be turned into a profit. They hope for a better day, which their intelligence tells them will never dawn.

For this attitude of mind stupidity is a better word than stubbornness, and a far better. word than courage. When reason and judgment hid us give up the immediate

somo

battle

and start afresh on new line, Intellectual not

it is cowardico, moral courage,

which bids us por-

severe.

Courage

cannot

be divorced from

judgment.

On the other

hand, cowardice

1

6 Those who only see the

mask put on in the daytime would be astonished to know the number of men who lay awake at night quaking with fear some imagined disaster; the day of which will probably never coms.e

Fear CAN be

conquered

can also consist in too great only by selling it at an over- been damaged by the

a readiness for compromise. valuation could its debts to

To the compromising mind paid. the certainty of half a loaf

is always better than the probability of a whole one,

collapse of yielding

to

marol that Have

threat, Pllability would become a habit rather than a matter of judgment and will, only comes by

The president of this for fortitude over-valued

concern wny practice.. connected with the most

his

cosity observed creatures, ara used a lot for experiments by Cambridge University and selonulle establishments In the Uulled States.

This is unlucky for the, pigsons because, despite pop- lar opinion, they are really not very good at finding thele way home.

ars

the birds, "got him. Jong,

the birds have

never ex- Putting it bluntly, they are perienced the dangers they run 'dopes at the business coni- away from for thousands of pared with the majority of wild years. Why do they remember migrant birds. Their own wild so well?. ancestor, the Rock Dove, isn't migratory and only lus A weak seems likely that the migration that it Nobody is sure, except homing ability.

Recent return flights to the "triggered" by changes In glands, and possibly by

length of

daylight. from birds, other crea

northwest of Eaziand_by pigrans released at Nantes, San Sebas-

the

the

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tion, the North of Scotland end' other starting points indicate tures put up staggering Tents of that 25 percent got lost on the navigation which leave scientists way, and you have also to re-feeling like two-year-olds con member that the starters were tronted with the differential very cream of the pigeon siculus. Great clouds of butter, world-the best

five percent fles have been seen. brating selcoted from many thousands gicadly against the

the wind of birds.

their annual outings to Britain plastic and ingeniour mind Furthermore, to achieve even from the Continent of Europe.

this which will best grapple with

degree ok success,

the Salmon, perhaps after arvoral to be carefully years at sea, are known to re- unusual circumstances. It will pigeons had Invent weapons and expedients trained over gradually increase turn to the very river where with which to face each new ing distances from their home they were deposited as eggs on

**** lofis. phase of the position. "When-

This is a poor show compared ever you meet on abnormal situation. said the sage, "deal with the scientific achievements

of untrained wild birds.

with it in on abnormal man- nor.

But t business panic is, after all, rare. It is the panic in the mind of the individua) which is the perpetual

·ECT..

dan-

a gravelly bed.

Eels, beginning as larvae fà the abysmal

depths of the North Atlantic, steer n 2,000- mile, two-and-a-half-year voy- NEVER 'FOXED'

age to Europe's rivers and lakes, to MARKED swallows sent out where they exist for five

for direct eight years before heading out with pigeons comparison always win by a to sea again. large margin, "and wild, birds packed off on independent tests BREAD LINE

put

up performances

Those who only mask; put on in the

B

the have ECC

daytime which have defled every scienti- PUT most people prefer would be astonished, to know fic attempt to confuse and bame puzzle over birds. Even

Jaymes

the number of men who

sedentory city pigeons, accord- awake at night quaking with

have been sent hun-ing to experts, are not so dumb. fear at some imagined" disas-

dreds and thousands of miles in There is the story of a man in ter, the day

of which

boxes into unknown Manchester. will closet!

who used 10. Leed territory and over probably never como.

large ex- the pigeons at a church called panses of son. They flew home. All Saints and later at an open

have been They

taken to space known as Albert Square.

They

These are the men who can- not keep a good heart who release points round two sides This he did on his way to work lock that particular kind ofjof e triangle, and have flown every morning, halting at both courage which prevents a man home as fast as birds taken those places ezt route. After a becoming the prey of his own dirty have been given anaca cognising individual birds..

time he got to the stage of TO- nervous imagination.

thetles on the way out to

He soon realised that some prevent them from taking nole. of them were

their getting They flew home.

rations. et All Saints church- yard and then migrating ahead of him to Albert Square. ›

THINK OF PAST

They sell out good business enterprises at on absurdly low price because they have not hold on. got the nerve to

secure Those who buy them the profits. One may pity the the sellers, but cannot blame

the buyers. Those who have courage of their judgment are bound to win.

They have been rolated on turn-tablos In ramophone closed boxes throughout a voy- age in order to dizzy their calculations and keep them in the dark. They few home.

They have been enclosed, In anti-magnetic and anti-electric cages, and even been released with magnets attached to their bodies in order to destroy any mysterious scientile link be- and territorini tween them home, magnets and all. magnetic forces. They flew

With the pigeons, it is un- It is reasonable to assume that denlable that training tells, and a carefully gradel programme of training fights develops "bump of location" such occasional human

beings possess. Even visual recogni- tion of the land may play some

part In their small

homing ablity. But not so with the

feathered navigalors. top-class

Some of the smallest song- birds habitually do their longest migration past

by night, journeys one possibly because they find night-

flying safer, possibly

How can the victim exorelsa Every young man who enters from his mind this dreau of the Great affairs above all powerful group of financiers business will at some time or unknown-this partly conscieus

that Canada has ever seen. another meet a similar things require for

crisis and partly subconselous fear- their

Their smile wouki mean which will determine the bias which cats the heart away? successful conduct Ben-

fortune to a young man, and of his career and dictate Hitivity to the drift of

Nothing can throw it ovents, to the characters or lesser position. The loss of

their frown ruin to men of habitual technique in negotia

tion.

except a resolute effort of will and intelligence. changing views of friends including

But he may weil exclaim, an unproductive and opponents, to a careful

You. I would give one simple re- avoidance of that rigidity of would have been little to breath against

concern at an unfair price "How do you help me?

worn me in one and the same

elpe for the bure. When you standpoint which

and feel anxious about the present, rigidity

think of the worst anxiety you the doctrinaire or the mule. me personally-but it would pliability!""

ever had in the past. Instood the now

of one grip as the mind, there will be two distinct grips and the greater grip of the will overpower the lesser In the present. -

stamps

have

saddled

The mind must be receptive amalgamated industry and and plastic.

the investors with a liability instead of an asset.

STONY PATH

L

NEVER BULLY

It is the old question: How It was certainly far easier can firmness be combined with to be pliable than to be firm, adaptability to clrcumstances?

kind of

REGRET NOTHING

One

cir-

"Nothing." a man wil

of

they spend the eny the

"can be as bad as that crisisalalds can do little for the

EVIL DAYS

It

the сап

1.3

can

can

say, certainly because they get on

as well by night as by

as by day. But this,quality in the Every

private There is no answer except that of old, and yet I survived

quailties ITLUST be successfully. If I went, through Manx shearwater which man of affairs, which is pressure was brought to the two

in that and survived, how far less

steer with complete success over akin to the artistic tem- bear on me to accede to the made to run concurrently

the mind.

be arduous and dangerous la must

thousands of miles of ses situation today?" A man

sea. Most perament, may dogenerate purchase of the property.

responsive to the world and yet thus will himasit into the pos- remarkable of all, young birds into mere pliability.

faithful to one's own instincts, cession of a stout heart. ·

of tertain species take off on their first lengthy flights either It is only the special 'Never fight, always ne-

before or after the adults and cumstance of a gravo cris!

got thero with just as much gotiate for a remnant of the

selentifie accuracy When this failed, all the im- which will put young man

their profits, becomes the rule of

parents... life. At each stage in the mense engines for the formu to this crucial test of judg

If a man can still the panic which meat. The case will have to tion of publle opinion

be judged on its merlis, and of his own heart, he will need SIXTH SENSE? career the primroses will.

were at the disposal of the op. yet the final decision will to fear very little all the beckon more attractively, posing forces WOTO directed affect the whole of his career, storms which may rage against All this has the scientists | towards the bonfire, and the against me.

Ahopping him from outside.

vrillh frustration, And that attack ***

Cambridge University has dis- uphill path of contest look, was cleverly conducted. Those But one practical piece of The courage of the heart covered that some plerons are more stony and unattrac who had failed to induce me advice can be given. Nover will let no expedient, be left better navigators than others tive. In this process the to break faith with the invest- bully, and never folk

untried. But both ingenuity *ing public appealed to that, the whip-band-!! jo'n

pigeon fancier (which every and courage will find their real knows only too well), that they intellect may remain un public to condemn mo for not used in big 'business,

source in a health which has don't seem to stear by the sun impaired, but the moral forming a Trust.

not yet exhausted the re- and that, like many other Abro degenerates.

I am prepared now to come MARSHAL FACTS fess that I was (in my youth)

Dute I once had to make a bitterly hurt and injured by

Some Americans have been Every man who leads a life the fad of the valetudinarian, a sixth sense which was sensitive

bolder dimcult

between the injustice of these attacks.

They claimed pigeons had choice sticking to my guns or com- but 1; regret.: nothing --Why? of big business must face in adaptability which,

'Because these Carly violent time the day of panic.

weakness, enterprise which 30 to both magnetle” forca, and promising. It was in the criticisma taught me to treat

rafiness- these are the coriolis force, the latter being days of my youth when I ferocious onsinughts in later Moral courage is never more quilles which will preserve the forco fell, by any moving in-needed than when the public men in those evil days when body duc to the earth'e was forming the Canada fe

or private interest is involved the "blast of terrible one rotation,

Cement Company, One of the concerns offered for salo

to the combine Was valued

> with -- complete difference.

What is more, that

Indate

in pande kr.

about word

judgment which dwelle In the "To taco a business panie one:

recesses of the mind -jella, we must first of all marshals, the at far too high a price. In that my whole capacity for no fucts, and then allow for the fact, it was obvious that tors in affairs would have mirording of others 31 19

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Firminows which is not op- stinney, health, which · Is not

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