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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1960.

FOR THE AMERICANS THIS IS A BIG MOMENT OF TRIUMPH. BUT WHY SHOULD BRITAIN_LAG!`

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STRATO-TOURS N~POMPEII-PYRAMIDS-ACROPOLIS-BRITAIN

CENUINE ANTIQUE MUSEUM

Ye Genuine Apple... dropped on Newton's

head!

Genuine Railway

bye Genuine! Olde Primel

Minister

The timid men who

THERE is a new star in the sky tonight

'er

times as bright as the North Star. It is astounding Jules Verne balloon, the size of a ter storey building, which the Americans have put int orbit round the earth.

yent un the cancelled Blue If Bri- Streak missle project.

ahrad with on dues not g

fear space

By ALAN

WATKINS

It runs this a month of 23- credible triumph for the Ameri- can space scientists. For while

spare research, this money will his experiments on gravity, the bal oon was on its the stars, the splash Rom have been completely wasted. one else knew how imporisht kind of co-operation" that the metal container the size of a But the is my all. If Brilain they would be. No

was Kill rippling

way to

beach-bali. round the world. The container had plunged from enter inte Pucitle. All its Inte ባቲ Instruments were intact.

exclte- But mixed with his munt. mixed with the congratu- Jalium to the Americans, there

to be ungashess

110

This is almost precisely the

ONA else Americans are likely to offer us do 12 go nhead, using Blue realised that they would com- in space. One suggestion is that sirçok as a Buncher of space pletely change man's

£50,000,000 the universe. gekets, a further compensation will have to be

is bound

ita

Brital,

For wit hary

we dune

10

the minimum of £15,000,000

compare with this?

Time and time again.

in

for

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

TRUST that the electricity comwnies have road with due attention the news that glow-worms are slowing more and more brilliantly ahd that the mall print of your news- paper can be read by the light of one alngle Insect. It is time to breed klow-wurms for domestic use. And the day may

come whon thest humble

creatures wil flash from light-

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When I read this report in my paper I wondered why so my of my news items are under suspicion. If West Ger man soldiers discard their

braces and take to belts, East Oernwin button-makers will have something to say. Acting on the theory of Clausewitz? that "no army can march with Its trousers in a heap about its fcct," the East Germans Evidently forgot about belts.

His hour of shame

A

It is not always thu sast Athletic people who can lift heaviest taeights.

(A doctor)

It is knack,

To lift the beast and fling

to one side,

it

But dropped i. Sau 4 Tajak

who was there; "so near and yet safari, as it

AN athlete on safari met one ideas of we should bay American A

day saleikte-launching Allus rockets, | A full-grown. elephant that in which would be fired from

blocked his way. pald out to the firms prejudiced science, what even to be the America under the supervision Flexing his iron muscles, thrice by the cancellation.

most rarelled projects give the of American scientists. Another

he tried These facts alone ought to most

results. Time is thist we should rent practical

a small be rough to make un the and time again experiments cubby-hole for our instruments Government's

Yet mind.

one field yield results in quite a

in un American satelite. there are stilt incans

about different one.

If we accepted these humilial- ing conditions, you can be sure The long-playing record, a year needed to fiance example, came from a scientist that steps would be taken in

who was an frot working on Washington Lo

that ensure But in 10 years' time the space television. Work

Britain aircraft

Was always several programane could be paying for wings in the First World War stages behind the Americans, instit. Viewing it from the led to the development of You can be sure too that The depressing answer is that, most peily and mercenary stand-

synthetic Moris,

America would exclude Britain før from having" recovered any point, it could even be making a

from the commercial exploita Who knows what put profit. nut

results instruments, we have

We would be space research might yield? tion of space.

spending large sums of money the case Take. for instance, of

Just for the privilege of having Dr John Kendrew, biophysiolsi wao

a tiny share in some third-rate Is working

Amertean project, on the living cell. Professor Hoyle vites him sa a man who

Earthbound

any instruments to space.

all.

Government

#!

still

rnace pevcTANUDE,

As experiments with the new Americum space-balloon have The

shown, we could set up a ring of Its long-drawn-out communications satellites around ponderin decision on whether to begin the earth. The satellites would

And, by a ret

slations. us ruiny space prostraTESTE,

They strange irony, in the very week would eliminate Lables. They when the Americans performed could even be used for a world- their teats, a blur bit inthien- wide television service, tin vulce has been heard urging

the Goverment not to bugin.

It the voice of Prefessor Fred Hoyle, FR.S.

Membership of the academie establishment seems

has

-

The

budget

ur

пл

Is starved of funds, a man who ought to get any Govern- ment money that is available.

But would space rosearch

that could cancer

Waiting

So all the arguments against Britain's going into space would

second British

hurt Dr Kendrew? Other forms be inadequate, even if we had of life in the universe, or even to start from serulch. But we do Of course, this £15,000,000 more knowledge about cosmic have should not be looked on merely rays, might give him vital ciues not have to dart from scratch. The Blue Streak equipment is which might in his work--work as an Investment made Professor Hoyle more

lying in Wocmera, Australia, mid. Ten years ago, when he able prople to send messages provide the imswer to

and leukaemia.

waiting to be developed. a cheaply to Australia.

The was neither Professor for

which instead it should be contrasted In fact, the whole of science Black Knight rocket; Fellow of the Royal Solely, be

could be the will defence budget

from benent

stage H spart could write about the exciting with our

The programme.

spoce people who launcher of a and spectacular viss" of space £1.500 million a year. For at

time when the military ex- support space

repeath by satellite, has been successfully travel.

that the that the pointing out Now

enthusiasm his

perts are convinced

rest of tested Controls space science will not suffer are un-

Above all, the teams of scien- waned, Professor Hoyle, once country which

controls the world, money spent dorstating the cose. Almost in- Els who were originally assem- regarded as Britain's must

be as evitably, the res! of science bled for the Blue Streak project venturous and unenaventional a spice research will

defence will gain,

Dre not yet disbanded. But astronomer. has joined the ranks much a part of our

unleys the Government makes of the earthbound.

paditure as money spent on V-bombers or Skyboli missiles,

up is mind quickly to go ahead, be- How ludicrous, then. to

they zoon will be. grudge the speading of less the

Some of these selenileta une per cent of our total defence ask, should not this

why, the faint-hearted

fat already have

Amerlean be done of these timorous souls ousani budget on a space programme,

contracts lying on their desks through 'ca-operation with the to? They say that a space pro- » Now turn to the second ob-

10 much; Fretlon-at other forms of Americans? In that case, why gramme would cost

independen that be money wodd be beller selentific research would suffer. bother with any opent

selence at ull in this country? conventional The Limorous brigade say:

This would be the greatest de- scientific research; that, if we "Surely this extra money- Why maintain astronomy

tragedy of all, Success in space available could! are to go in for space research, is

better pariments, under the control of will come more from technical the best solution is co-operation

ni comfortably aaloried men like skill and selentine genius than with the Amerivaas, Let us see

is Professor Hoyle?

Why not from anything else. In there,. how much hese objectler: are

"co-operate" with the Ameri-

Britain excels every other worth.

the by leaving

actuat

country.

Too much!

But what

Why bother?.

But, de the arguments

Take, first of all, cost, ready £85,000,000 has

be

spent, Surely other forms research, where the future more certain, need it more."

Where would reasoning of .cons

Al- this kind have led in the part? astronomy to them, and by been When Newton started makbag merely reading their books?

Mrs. L. makes the village

MDON

MARGARET LANG- 46-year-old school teacher, has turned Winterslow, Wiltshire, into poets

a village of child Now, education experts all over Britain are anxious to learn how she did it.

Letters hive arrived from universities and schools since 36 pupils at the thatched roof vill- age school suddenly discovered the ability to produce talented, descriptive, welting.

children poets

By HELEN MASON which was brought into being half by "boredom and despair."

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wilting to be signed. If these men go to America they wil nover return.

And yet nt this crucial moment the Government 15 hesitating If it decides against space, Britain, for the first time in ber history, will have turned her back on a major scientific development. For the first time in her history she will have contracted out of гаса towords more knowledge.

If this comes about, ft will not only be a betrayal of our rcientists and lechasicians, It will not only be a betrayal of

lives in Britain dozen sentences, and everyone who decked it was fun.

today. It will be a betrayal She suit: "I was so tired of. Mrs Langdon sald'

sof everything that Britain has reading their essays, stuffed set them conventional essays, ever tried to do in the world with padding and dull, stiff sen- and they uro a joy to read. But

--(London Express-Service). fences, I kept praying for one discovered intensive writing' phrase -- one adjective that cannot be faked.. would show me I wasn't wasting my time nga teacher.

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each

ing them to think of spring on

a cold, wet morning, and got the

old self-conscious stilted essays again from them."

Teddy Waters wrote:-

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She said: "It would horrify She started on her them to think they are writing system in April. She spotted is poetic, A 13-year-old named poetry, and I certainly never spider on her classroom wall expected them to, but that is the "Quick," she told the children. only word for the things they "Write down how you feel about Have written,

spiders. One Ino to Mr Langdon made a pam thought some adjectives --- a phiet of their collected writings sentence about the web," with a duplicaler. The children They all did, Even one look on it as a new type of realiai, who began: a school magazine. Educationists I don't see a spiller on the walḥ, look on it ng proof of a revolu- Dut I hate the things anyway, tonay ntethod of loschitus, and “ teith bent skinny laga, - Why asked Mrs Langdon for coples, do they have to be so swollen

Now she has written a boolt and stout?

· from · children : in the bottom Thirty-six children managed section of the class." to explain, het method, to exprats. Shénibelves vividly 10 (London press Service),

"+Lot tho Children

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