1961-03-11 — Page 14

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1961.

The questions that will face our grandsons...

IN January of this year Colin Baxter was born in Montreal. In February of this year Graham Stark was born in Scotland. Admittedly there is nothing remarkable in this double"

London Letter

except that both these babies are my grandchildren. You will By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP be glad to know that, the grandparents, the parents and the male infants are all doing well.

My son has just been appointed political correspondent in Ottawa for the powerful Canadian weekly journal: "The Financial Post." My son-in-law is in the Navy and is apt to be anywhere by the time you read these words. Thus life goes on, world without end, Amen.

It has been said that every Marrinte and motherhood 12 Therefore it is almost certain will child becomes the battleground the two great carcers open to that our two grandsons of its ancestors, There are the women. It was so a thousand grow up in a

world that with and the Instal

paternal

Full years ago and will probably ho nat demand the sacrifice of war backgrounds influencing The the same thousand years from from the young. trend of character derived per now, hups from the immediate and Admittedly the distant past, there is also the influence of the arts,

are there Admittedly

especially in music and

the

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The horrors

tny

Destinies

the

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"The

hills built by children at play. while addressing his fellow MPs And what earthly use are these at Westminster he said: mighty hills that grow no grain shares of this Government re- or are habitable for the human and throughout the country." rece?

So he was cont to the House of Lords where he could do no What is the answer to all harm. Yet Brabazon had this? I suggest that it is to be played a mighty part in uncharted skies. quering the kingdom of found in the Man, with his infinite cupesily skies, for daring and scientific de velopment will almost certain- ly land on the moon before my grandsons have become grand Inthers or even fathers,

con-

The

that

the

Then are we to assume there are no more fruments to conquer? What are the sturt that shine Uke Jewels in skles? They say that the moon merely draws its light from the sun and that, in turn, the stars respect the glory of the moon.

not

If this stems to strain the immediate present followed by

by drama, wisere wemen rig

vision turn the years of childhood t great heights bun Ji is still truc It may be a strange way for limits of human adolescence and so to manhood that the home is their natural humanity to achieve sanity but back to Christopher Columbus, }{{ womanhood. No matter

the say it is goal that matters His father was a cloth weaver

or

We are not given the power It how

wool-comber who did weit strong the

rather than individual

way

good to look further ahead than for himself and, like a reached. character, it cannot be denied

to few deendes at best but dloes that the element of heredity is

Yet selence will not rest father, apprenticed his son

trade. But al 14 anyone doubl that in The Fame always at work. My two grand-

nerely because it has reached the

course of time a man will land ron cun bonst a long line of

such power over the destinies years of age the boy went

moon? And it the ancestors. In other words they

must sra, where he traded with other upon the science of men. In fact

n bit of moon can be reached why Ru right back tu Adar and to

face the fact that, owing to the countries and did So now let us return to

the myriad stors? Ave.

two grandsons, of woman both, ingenuity of the human mind, fighting on the side. In spite of

convinced that that and try to see what lies ahead life is being prolonged, which women have the vote, and sit them. This much is certain means that the world is going

India by salling Parliament, and in

his tatlon of China alone in westward, achieve there youngsters will not ure to be over-crowded, The

and thus brought success in specialised activities, the

is stili this

man's

grandfather saw them. In 1914 millions of human beings every ridicule on his head. Nothing we, who enlisted, witnessed the year, in the circunstances it is daunted he kept developing his Driven- of genius and his sense of

Despite the disbelief very bankruptcy of the military no wonder that the ruler

and And his wastes of Siberia, would think

the the was

of the that threat wonder

crew ho slaughter in the trenches unill equally it is no

reached Russia looks with going until he Marsifall Foch brought genius Communist

of Bahamas, and then went on and common sense to the task. fear on the growing power

Cuba, Communist Chlua.

the

fnet

world.

CHESS

By LEOBARD BARDEN

13931

In this position: Denmark's

Eup player Bent Larsen (Black, to move), went 1.. KtXt3; how could he Instead have won brilliantly?

Quedan &peria dentre

for

of

wor

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He was could reach

art. The only thing the generals Chis looks lustfully towards ture. fellow officers

of

But what about the 1930-1945 War? Admittedly our cities were bembed night after night,

month, buL magulemoniac Hitler conce)- trated chiefly

month aller

1/2

" London on sordid vanity. Of ull targets

feed his

the

the

What is the answer to Problem, since wo

сап

the

no longer Icok for plaques to re- duce the mass population of the world?

Can we make the desert hear that were 2x fruit? Can we empty the oceans

Hitler had

pendable London was at the of water? Can we demolish the top of the list.

mountains and replace ikem concentrated

Birmingham, with 1721

fruitful soll? These are Manchester

Liveigasel,

the questions which will con- where the factories were in full production, he might well have front my grandsons, and yours beaten us in our knees,

Miracles

Пе

My hopes

Will my two grandsons, Colin Baxter and Craham Stark, play of some

part in It?. Graham's the

father, As 3 Naval Officer, kept studies the stars when at

the but

do not doubt that to the

thoughts are sometimes of wonder, the mystery and poetry of the celestial sphere.

of

ken

TAKE A CRACK AT

MONSTER DAG

"POOH: KID STUFF!"

AFRO-ASIAN BLOCK

The strange case of the

TURKEY which scientists are study- ing today looks as fit, as aggressive, and as mas-

culine as any other. But

farmyard orphan

Except In lowly organised But in the world of mam- creatures like frogs and fish mals, to which the human it has one outstanding such Dycat should not species belong, the situation peculiarity it had a father.

set

of limitations would be different never happen because

because the by the

of chromosome mechanism

mechanism, which heredity,

determines sex is the reverse of that occurring in birds.

It was hatched from an egg laid by a virgin hen turkey kept in a stout wire cage away from all males throughout its the life. the

What is even more surpris- As for Colin Baxter I hope that ing to scientists is that this bird of siring normal he will grow up to be a great is capable

Σο when mated out clfspring

a

PASSED ON

creature are

If scientists could discover

The characteristics of any some similar way of inducing passed on from fatherless offspring in mammals one generation to the next in the young would all automati- the form of minute objects rally be females. called chromosomes.

an

POSSIBILITY

To develop

normally embryo must inherit a full sel

And of chromosomes from its mother

these

females alone and a set from its father.

could, in theory, produce more generation after gen- These turkeys get over the females

scl derived

newspaper editor and live

female and has done so. MIN years as a contemporary. Historian, playing his part In Thus he discovered the New the life and habits and thoughts of a fatherless bird occurred at lack of a paternal set simply by cration.

This first fully attested case World which in the course

an experimental Government doubling up the become the most of his genemilon. years was to

poultry farm in the U.S., the from the mother.

It is a far cry from turkeya powerful and prosperous nation

Well we shall leave the original home of the wiki

to humans, but, with the un- in the world. His blazing

cradle now and leave the grand-tuloy.

Why this happens the doubled production of a father- confined, our to their parents. Soon I genius could not be Ile dreamed a dream and made shall

scientists do not know. It is creature as highly organis- Dr Marlow W. Olsen, motor to the aerodrome

the

ed as a bird, the scienllats have it reality.

where shall board a winged scientist in charge, happened just does.

posed the devastating possibility monster that will waft us to to notice that some eggs laid

of on all-female human world Because of a peculiarity of But the age of miracles was East Berlin, So we leave the by turkaye of the Smail White

chromosome

In which men could be expend- mechanism an end. The other day nursery and journey not at

to the strain began to develop when the

able. Maniac rulers go to war be

of I ran into an old parliamentary once great German capital that artificially incubated, even which determines the sex

had not flew friend, Viscount Brabazon, who, is now

been the new organism, a turkey- though they cause they believe that they A couple of years ago 1

divided into a free tertilised by a male,

or any other bird-developed can win, but If there is ever in from Vancouver to Quebce- before going to the Lords, was Berlin and a Communist Berlin.

from A fatherless

must ege atomic war the only survivors the best part of 3,000 miles, u lively, argumentative mem-

By careful selection he has always be a male, will be the rats. Thus has From the altitude-ot the skies her of the House of Commons. No doubt I shati write about built up a flock in which many

Of the 57 turkeys raised by malignant science madu vie- the huge mountains looked like He might have become a senior it on my return. Until then, av tory impossible,

nothing mgae than tiny sand Minister If it had not been that, revoir;

male:**

when, they reach the age of discretion and indiscretion.

of the eggs hatch into turkeys Dr Olsen every one has been without benent of fathers.

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