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RUBBISH!

WITH the greatest respect in the world,

I believe that Prince Philip has been. 'talking through his ducal coronot, strawberry leaves and all.

He tells the boys' at Uppingham that in 50 years' time they might all be in the House of Commons: · that in itself scarcely bears thinking about and then goos on:—

"Unless you know some-

thing about science you won't get into the House of Commone."

In my still'not-too-distant day we were constantly fold that "unless you know something about Latin you won't get anywhere" the House of Commons was not then deemed the aum- mit

of youthful ambi- tion.

Doubts

S1 never knew anything whatever about Latin,

I had, in sheer self-defence,

to

cast doubts upon the

validity of this argument, often at considerable per- Bonal hazard.

Experience hus since taught me that my doubts justified and 1 were well

meet few people in any walk of life who claim

to

know anything whatever about Latin.

Now the Prince raises

new bogey, and believe

it is just as much of

phoney as the old one.

In fact, 60 years from now 1

can well imagine that a know-

ledge of selence will be a bar to

MORE

ADVICE

TO

MY

PAUCH:

TER

H-GWELLS

"THE INVISIBLE MAN

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1957.

UNLESS YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT SCIENCE YOU.

WON'T GET INTO THE.COMMONS

PRINCE PHILIP SPEAKING AT UPPINGHAM

Prince Philip & the M.P.s

AINT GONNA

WAR

P.M. for Electronic translating tunguages in the new international

Cabinet

by Derek Marks

The trouble with science 19 This view of their own semi- menbership of the House. or that it develops

an entirely divine status is shared by all Commons, Just

The scientists to a greater or lesser certified amoral attitude to life. 03

Is today. of think it scientist is not concerned with degree. wise to use the word "certif!!"

and wrong" two there.)

desperately Imprecise words which no se-respecting man of science would F

dream of using.

Whal Prince Philip is really is that everybody should come into contact with this amoral approach.

suggesting old phrase To rehash an selence

t tar too serious mitor to be left to scientists In this day and age and it will certainly be much 100 serious to be left to them 50 years from now.

That, of course, pre-supposes that by then the scientists have not destroyed the whole lot of

149.

This approach Was high- lighted, it would be fair to say, to the point of caricature by Nunn May and Fuchs,

They regarded themselves as above the law, as being superior beings by virtue of their solen- Lifle knowledge.

Desirable

ANY WAR

Sputnik Thorneycroft figing up to see how far Mr. Rising Price has got to

by people who, have what unti now have been regarded civilised values,

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On the same day that Princo Philip was holding forth Uppingham, the Prime Minister was addressing schoolteachers in his constituency at Bromley

No one would accuse Me Harold Macmillan of bring any- other thon 11 shrewd thing politician.

Gyroscopic Galtskell for balancing between Left and Right...

Cooling tower for transmauling wild politician into an elder

a

statesman

Nuclear furnace for generating political passion Into Mr. Wilson

-CUMMINGS

industrial country. With out im ample supply of qualified technicians the nation's equipment cannot be manned.

As for the patronising notion that scientista are dangerous fellows to have at largo it is simply pre- posterous.

It reminds me of the argument that there is nothing to touch British diplomacy, with all the ex- perience behind it. There may not be--but look where It has landed unl

Keep it up!

DOES anybody dare to say

in all seriousness that scientists in the House of Commons could be more inept or more unreliable than the men who are there. already? If this is safety, give me danger.

May Prince Philip keep up the pressure to wake up

NO, BRAVO! by Harry Fieldhouse

dismissed like some kind of this country from its Greek mechanical parlour trick. and Latin day-dreams.

Let him sell science na VERY time Prince Philip says something

The fact is that we live whole-heartedly as some of appreciative of science he helps to in a society where it is the upper eet now sell iron- breach a barrier that is just as formid- smart to say "I don't under mongery. I believe that these mechanical making Britain science able as the Sound Bartier, the Water Barrier, stand about seeking to blend the best or any of the other barriers that scientists of the old in education with the talk about. best of the new, the Prime Minister pleaded with the space-

Having coined a few phrases

lel

QCIENTISTS Dre no doubt are pedagogues: "Do not rier.

necessary, but it would us forget the humanities." surely be desirable that they control should be kept under

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Way of

things."

Pride

and YOU meet people who tell

I call it the Snob Bar-

"Ha, ha, one of those chaps in white coats who fiddle with test-tubes things, eh?"

'Rare'

And

this is the barrier That is a pedantle saying "you will never get that is largely to blame for anywhere without Latin" and, the shortage of scientists of course, Greek as well.

in Britain. A career in Now the Prime Minister was

science, you

is un- see, when il practisitu politico Prince Philip

running Amart. The lab. Lacka was round in rompers on Corfu, so prestige compared with tho

you with pride that they have never lifted the bonnet of the motor car without which the lives they lead would be im- possible. The works are just

scientist chapples.

considerable weight with you office, or chambers, or even HE is immediately passed something for one of these

ful aspirants to the House of Commons.

Encouraging

the shop.

round us a rare species of crank that one does not Commerce used to be

get the chance of seeing in looked down on in the same the flesh every day. way. The best people, and those who tried to copy Notice the next time EST the boys of Uppingham them, would never think of friend shows you a new E nnå elsewhere now going into "trade." Nowa- household gadget. It may desperately confused ps todays they have to in order be the most ingenious de- what course to follow in order to pay their taxes, and the vice imaginable. It may be to secure their politica! futures, result is that business is

are

I would draw their attention full of youngsters with ex- io the most considerabit political figures of post-war pensive educations. Britala-Churchill and Emest Bevin. Neller tampered with But science has still not elegiacs or electrons,

made the social grade. Ever It is an encouraging thought. scen a scientist at a party7 So too is the ocrtain fact The moment the poor fellow that all the boys at Uppingham will not be in the House of lets on about his job the Commons 50 years from now. laughs start.

a superb labour-saver.

a

Now I'm not saying that everyone should turn handy- man and do his own repairs. I'm saying that if people don't respect science they can't expect their children to take it up as a living.

Prince Philip is the one the land who man in all can end this nonsense, He But the chances are that can make science smart. He friend will laugh can make boys and girls your self-consciously as he de- eager to take it up. monstrates it. "Extra- And, naturally, there is ordinary the things these no argument about whether chaps think up!" And with they are needed. This is a that the work of months is scientific age. Britain is an I

minded is the supreme ser- vice he can render to the nation.

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DEAR PRINCE PHILIP-With reference to the bit in your speech where

said

you, were not sure whether farming was a profession" or a pastime..