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NICHOLAS II -EMPEROR OF RUSSIA

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ne damned telf-wing nonsense about HIM!"

1956.

IT'S A

WOMAN

WHO KNOWS ALL THE ANSWERS AT LORD'S

By ROMANY BAIN

F you want to know anything about the history of cricket," said the museum attendant, "you'll have to ask the Curator. That's her office

over there,"

mall and Imrobable standing beneath the famous oll of Dr Grace.

But when she started to speak Mr Wi den himself would have

her

delivery. Sho admired

description and gave detalled date of cachi pitch-shaking event in the chronicle of bat and bail, confidently disposing of the curved bat, the two stump period, and the Hamble- ten men in a brisk couple of vers,

I tried not to look sur- prised, for "over there" was the H.Q. of the Marylebone Cricket Club, the pavilion at Lord's one of the men's most exclusive sporting "I took 30 years for them to clubs in the world, where accept over-arm bowling," the "The enthusiasts patiently

id, twirling her keys. diehards said it would be death to the game, but by 1804 they had accepted it Like automa-

en," she added.

30 years bers.

to become

Potted history

wait

mem-

13ut

there was Miss Diana Ruit Kerr in that holy of boiles, the Long Room, giving a potted history of the game to Jets

Neatly ruited in milk chocolate moygushel, she looked

מתוךךך

BRAVE NEW WORLD

REVISITED

By Aldous Huxley

In 1932 Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World" was the literary sensation of its day. In this, the first of

examines three articles, Mr Huxley

world population

problems in the light of his earlier prophetic fantasy.

"B

RAVE NEW

WORLD" was a fantasy, but a funlasy about

the future and therefore, by implication, 14 prophecy. How

tr good Was

prophecy? Twenty-five years later, the question begins. to admit of an answer.

I will start with those

aspects of what was

then

the future, about which the book was silent. The most From conspicuous absence "Brave New World" is any reference to A - bombs, H-bombs or nuckar power plants. It is an absence all the more inexcusable since the Bomb was already, in

the early thirties, a subjec!

of drawing-room conversa-

tion. At some distant date

(00

A recent picturo of the author.

the

donabled,

IS

not in fifty-five satisfied. But in under-developed years, but in less than half countries, most people's primary suitsfed. needs are never fully a century.

Consequently nothing left Two-thirds of all men, over. In children women and

the hights intustrealised West Whe

of avail- amount alive are under-nourished. If

able capital is sevenly times as their increasing

numbers

great as in the under-developed

now

are to be maintained even countries. The capital locally at their present level of available in Asia and Africa is semi-starvation, there must of substantially increasing

wholly Inadequate to the task

the

Miss Bait Kerr did not know the difference between long jeg and short lip until her father became MCC in 1934.

the secretary of the (when she thrive an ambulance) During the war (wa various book collections were left to the club,

und

there was no one to look after them. "The rary and both happened by chance The booke were all lying about in the Pavillon, so my father asked me to come On a temporary basis for six months to see what was what,"

There are now hout 5,000 books in the reference library and even the novels must have a flavour of the wicket about

them. They are perused by club

members, students, and research workers, "but it's not usually the players who read the books; followers, and it's the cricket those who have never been very good at.the game," suya the librarian I felt she had prob- ably read them all herself.

Expert knowledge

be an increase of the world's food supply or industrialising on She has been accepted into production of food of 1.5 a large scale. And, as rising po- Whis male stronghold because of And pulation presses more and more her expert knowledge, and her percepi. Der annum.

beavily upon resources, the sex has been overlooked, But If there is to be

any per amount of avaliable expital will į there is no need for the MCC ceptible improvement in the dwindle almost to the vanishing to udopt an anti-feminist lot of the majority there point. must be an annual increase

of not less than 2.5 percent

preferably of 3 percent

or

Forced Labour

Imus, foro.d labour wil de mercus-

attitude, for, some of the best ideas originated from us in the Arst place.

It was Miss Christina Willes who, unable to bowl underarm in her crinoline, first inspired her brother John to copy her and try round-arm bowling on the Aeld. "He was promptly no-balled, and was so furious he jumped on to his horse in the straight

outfield

rode and

3.5 per cent. Except per- INDER Dialern haps in those highly deve- ngly used to make up for de- loped countries which need fcfencies

in the supply of it least. there is no

pros- capital. Slaves take the place will be freely increase savings and ILI pect of such being achieved in the near spent in ether words, worked to death. Two birds will thus future. Nor, if it wore he killed with oste stone: new home," Autu Mbs Rait Kerr achieved, could it possibly be wealth will be created and old delightedly.

pressures tempor- maintained, year in, year population

arily relieved.

The Ashes themselves, gla 6- out, over a long period.

hundred Eighteen

million dumed in solemn splendour in members of the human species the Imperial Cricket Mustumi are underted, and in Asia alune opposite the Pavillon, aro between 100 million and 150 hother tribute to woman's

In Short Supply

INDUSTRIALISATION

INDU

million families are living in ingenuily They started off as Skuma personal teminine joke played clearance requires vasi capital by sonie

Melbourne merry

or rural urban

Is the N

slums.

A of all under-developed expenditures: but, as we have bells in 1882. After the countries, Greater Industrial on

seen, there is no capital and the

famous obituary nollee had ap- greater ett

population of Asia is increasing peared in the Sporting Times we by about 20 million a year. We for the acath of English cricket, they presented the English cap-

production lends to Food production.

Bui

nol for get that the can look forward, during the

raw

must more completely the world in- next half-century at least. 10 dustrialises, the sooner will its deepening misery, and the social

of irreplaceable supplicy

and political consequences materials be exhausted. By the deepening misery. Avventh century After Ford (the If this

is to misery date of the events

Tersened recorded in

at least and some "Brave New

World"

the re- its most dangerous consequences sive avoided, the present efforts

tain on his next visit to Aus- tralla with an incinerated bail in minuted urn. (The

ringleader

thesc damscis afterwards married the captain, Iva Bligh, later Lord Dammley, and when widowed many years later sho

of

be

of

to

and

metals panied by a concerted effort to Charming gallery

be

was

gether irrelevant. It speaks the popularisers of been determined, and Einstein assured us), matter supply of test-tube replace of our condition and of what would be converted into ments was regulated so as is likely to be the condition sults of intensive and extensive

After which energy.

to we

But it industrialisation would certainly increase agricultural and indus-presented the urn to Lord's.) prevent any but the of our descendants.

themselves be making

delt trial production must be accom- might take our choice of slightest departures from failed to deal with certain Petroleum and many

Such an optimal, aspects of contemporary life, would be in short supply.

reduce three possibilities-the end the norm.

the rate of population population is

threaton a which

to force much more labour than is now of everything, or the Mil- stable

increase. Among the Brave New have to

Worlders population

re- condition lennium, or, more prosaical prime

of any themselves more and more necessary would

Top-hatied spent on the task of providing gulated by the central authority, power and raw material,

and the practice of birth control Meanwhile, how easy is it by indivkiuals had been turned

industrialise into to be to

A quasi-instinctive the under-developed areas of haviour pattern.

planet? No retrospective nuswer was given in "Brave and from where we stand at present the pros tween a stabilised popula- IF I remember rightly, the

numbers of the Brave pects seem confusing and dark.

were held

ly, business 4 usual, only Utopia. For, where pupula- painfully on the collective a little more so. For reasons tion is rapidly increasing, attention of mankind. which I now find it long-range planning is im-

impossible to explain, I possible. So far as ice are The Under-Nourished failed to provide my Utopia concerned, with atomic power.

a permanently favourable relationship be-

going

our

New World"

Historical Accident

bc-

Population Policies

But

A

Up the marble stairs is charming

gallery of pictures. fieldsmen with crossed braces pause eternally stem Arst at square-leg, their faces long forgotten, and the stuffed sparrow intercepted in tight above the pitch perches for ever on the ball that slew him.

There is even the actual ball hit by the immorta; Albert Troti In 1809 right over the top of the pavilion Into No. 8, Grove End Road- splendid incentive for cricketing posterity,

tion and carefully conserved New Worlders

NUGENICS and complete con- Uninvited Guests

trol of population can be resources is merely a dream, at a figure somewhere be-

imposed only on a domesticated a pious hope, a far-away tween 2,000 million and 3,000

species by its

domesticators. THE other great absence

goal to be aimed at without million. According to

the E

industrialisation of the

man, es 8ir Charles Dar- is any discussion of a

win likes to point out, is a wild less spectacular but actually before it is too late.

much hope of getting there most recent figures issued by West was the result, among species and will tend

during

Among these trophies hanga things, of the United Nations Statis other

historical the next million years of his

record much more important sub-

of another feminine By assuming that the goal tical Office, world popuin- the nature of things, be repeat have as a wild species, living up between the Ladies of Rochester

accident, which can never, In sojourn on our planet, to be-

feat. "Single wicket I had Joct population.

had already been reached, tion stands today at. 2,785 ed. The exploitation of virgin to the limit of his food, supply I conveniently by-passed million. In the light of lands in the Americas and and having his numbers con- and the Ladies of Maidstone. what. promised to be the what is known to have hap- Australasia provided enormous trolled by the good old rule, Brown's Meadow, 1838," reads most congested and dan pened to world population Europe, which

quantities of cheap Dood for the simple plan devised by the caption, and 11 during

some inkling in 1931 that a

problem of population was

in the making. Twenty-five years later, with 600 more millions of human beings already pressing. upon the and

world's resources

to come.

י.

Planned Utopia

produce.

נער.

thus

African

en Mother Nature.

a

match

females in mualin and poke gerous stretch in human between 1950 and, 1964 pre- abled to take millions of history; I got out of the vious estimates of the rate peasants off the land and

But even Sir Charles is ready bonnels walt patiently for the out to admit that, within the ball. difficulties that confront us of increase have had to be them into factories, where they million-year life of the species, today and will confront our revised upwards from 1.25 things,

among other there may be periods during Better followers. the machines and which man will briefly behave another hundred and odd descendants for many years percent to 1.5 percent per chemicals which permitted

self-domesticated crea-

"Do you think ladies should thousand uninvited guests

enter annum. This means that further increase of food pro- ture. That we may soon

receive the bowling now?" I both at home and upon such a period seems prob- asked her. Hitting down, every single

human numbers are now in. QU

ablo. Within the next ten or morning, to breakfast, it

creasing by a little over 40 Millions

and twenty years, we may expect to compete with men," she said As long as they don't try to has manifestly become the

million a year.

Asimile peasants can be herded see the formulation by the drily problem. Compared with the

into factories but only if their various national governments

"Though they make bet- than men when menace of this explosive in- BY way of excuse, I can If the rate remains con- place on the land le taken by of an agreed population policy, ter followers

they are days claim that I was not stunt, this increase will it machines. But crease of population, all the

really keen. of and the development, by doc and enormous tors.

Even Miss Rait Kerr doce not empty spaces other throats confronting us making a reasoned forecast self increase according to food surpluses are over.

pharmacologists, sociolo- How its

and theologians - of watch all the matches herself shrink into insignificance. of predictablo trends; I was the rules of compound in will the ex-peasants be fed appropriato methods physio- ("Unfortunately my office does

In "Brave New World" I writing, a Fable about a terest,

psychological and not face the pitch,") but for reduce the current time required for building the chemical-for Implementing important fixtures she finds her an "inconspicuous nook," machines which will, eventually,

For a society which had, in the moans whereby it might mortality from contagious wow factories and producing the that policy. COPYRIGHT

MCC aliquette forever Its own way, permanently be maintained as a going and, insect-borno liscasos, take, the place of these ex-

forbids her to watch play from solved the population concern.

tho annual rate of increase pessants on the land? And who

the pavillon, as a cricket 'problem. Am optimal figuro This fable, as I hope to will exceed 15 percent and is going to provide the necessary for world population had show later on, is not albo human numbers will be capitalfi Capital L what a loft Next Saturday: The Coming historian she would hate to miss over after primary, peeds are Revolution of Human Nature, another shot over the top of I..

the

postulated the existence of totally planned Utopia" and taken to if stops aro during the not inconsiderable logical,

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