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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1933.

BEFORE YOU DECIDE

NOTES OF THE DAY THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF He Very Idea!

WAR DEBTS

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THE UNIVERSE

By ROBERT BLATCHFORD

mane, Russians, Frenchmen, and the stuff of which life is made.

THE PULSE OF THE WORLD

By Major Ed. Kelly, Critic Of course you all read last week's Critic and saw

When Bir Oliver Lodge writes, Haeckel was mistaken and life is about, science he does not write not a cocktail shaken by the band in an unknown tongue. But there of casual forces. are others. There are biologistą.. Let us be cautious. Out of the Biology has been built up by men fiery furnace came the makings where our old friend, the of many nations; Eritons, Ger- of Protoplasm, and Protoplasm is Major had established an have made a new language, Is it? Or is it the stuff into which Automatic Intelligence Ser- the words of which are hard to mind put the beginnings of life? vice to send him news from read, harder to understand, and

FIRST STEP IN

all parts of the world. We EVOLUTION.

don't know what prevented the Major from announcing our acceptance of a special correspondent's job. We suppose he was thinking of his reputation.

Activity among prophets is natural accompaniment to the re sumption of war debt negotiations between Britain and the United Stater, Several solutions suggested; they include a lump sum payment in silver purchased in the American market, scaling down of on your NEW CAR al instalments in return for trade concesions. Both STA you should try out thelle, the first being probsidy the most acceptable to both parties, NEW VAUXHALL provided figure can be agreed on That is the crux of the situation,

still harder to remember. LIGHT SIX of course. Speculation as to the probable outcome of the discursions

When Sir Oliver says: "Live" can serve little purpose. The mula things, it is now admitted, are Dr. Hudson asks: "Had primor thing is that they have opened and actuated by something more than dial slime a creative mind?" I that the United States seems better the physical and chemical react-prefer to ask: Did the sea-slime disposed to me reason to day than ons of their material organlams," create the Jiuseron? If the slime even a few months ago. The rehe confronts un with the teasing did that it did not only create a sult will, of course, be of vital im-riddle: "What is Life?" and Bux- clot of jelly; it created life. It portance as the British debt agree cats with native candour and created the Moneron and the ment will form a model for the courage that life is something Moneron created the Amba, forthcoming negotiations with more than matter.

which was the first step in Evolu- When we ask ourselves "What (ton. The Amba, the single-cell other debtors of the United States.

life we turn hopefully from the of which all animals and plants nature of life to its history. We ank another question: "How did life begin?" HOW CAME IT ALIVE?

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HARD TIMES AHEAD

A CONDITION

The time has gone by to discuss either the ethics or the economice of war-debt payments. Instead,

are built, developed, by its own power, into the shark and the crocodile, the skylark and the gorilla and at length produced Plato and Herr Hitler and Dr. Crippen and the author of "The

of a theory, there is a condition To answer that we must turn Swiss Family Robinson." to In faced. America's war to biology and biology is hard The evidence for evolution is debtors can hardly be expected to digging. If we are to understand overwhelming. Hoeckel and Hud. pay more to Washington than they the biologists and get their messon agree that all forms of animal are receiving by way of repara-sage over to the man in the street life, including man, have evolved tion. They want a "Lausanne we must translate their daunting from the Moueron: and many reduction," Whenever an Inter-language fito plain English. That claim that the Moneron evolved national debtor develops such an in-not-enny, for our doctors differ from the Protoplasm. The dispute atlituile, It usually happens that

centres on the Moneron. The the creditor has to accept what he

Moneron had life. can get. It is an extraordinary altuntion that the creditor In this Cuso seems to profer continuing default to amicable settlement.

I shall choose as opposing coun- 'realdent Roosevelt, however, hanel, Dr. Hudson, author of "The and Divine Pedigree of Man," displayed an amazing faculty for Professor Hacekel, author of "The bridging tewkward situations, And

One party claim that man an automaton, another party claim that man Is a spirit,

Did the Protoplasm acciden- tally or automatically create life, or did life clothe itself in Protoplasm?

I find it hard to believe that mindless matter ereated life, that Theas writers agree abant the life was born of lifeless slime.

We'll be leaving soon, if the shroffs don't hear of it, and then on one bright Saturday," you may expect to see blazon- some. ed from yellow posters thing like this:

THE CRITIC EDWARD KELLY IN 'CUBA Feeling the Nation's Pulse.

The story, on Page 4, will read something like this:

Havana, Oct. 31.

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We have arrived. Your special correspondent was taken, screaming and kicking from the Queen of Bermuda this morning and is now at the National Hotel.' Already he has a keen grasp of the political situation on the laland.

Shouts of "Via Kellito" and other Spanish expressions rose from the throats of thousands na we walked between a guard of honour of ex-presidents from the Hotel National to the Hotel Grand National on the other side of the street.

he line the advantage over his Evolution of Man." predecessor that during his Ad- The Hon. Colonial Secretary ministration so far farm buying known facts of evolution, but not And we are confronted with the touched lightly upon the issue of lower has lican Improved 10 per about the original cause. And in staggering claim that mindless, Hongkong's falling trade in the cont, 2,000,000 unemployed have my opinion, neither of them bo-lifeless matter not only created course of his Budget speech, but read at lock towe uninitiated gin with the lowest known form a living power to grow from a been put back work, and radical in at the beginning. They be-life, but created a creative life. lil grlovance was against the internal debts. These factors of life, which is the microscople seed into a tree, from a speck of thought of loss of revenue; his should add to his unique influence jelly speck called the Moneron. jelly into a populous world, into concorn for the trader was not with Congress in helping them But the Moneron alive, what literature, selence, religion: into particularly evidenced.

Nover-and the country to get accustomed in life, and where did it begintu vast and Intricate civilisation.

Sir Oliver Lodge says: "Life thedons, the problem is becom to the thought that the United An American writer, Professor ing on and one deserving States cannot get all she bargained Jordan, says: "The simplest or-and mind never were functions of ganism we know is far more com-the material body, they only dis-

The low down on the story is plox than the constitution of the played themselves by means of this. Cuba planned those riots to United States."

the material organism." Dr. Hud-

the earnest attention of govern- mont. Mouth by month since

for.

the your beginning, the volume | MRS. PEARL BUCK of trade has grown a lttle loss

in

THE LOWDOWN.

Well, He did not bugin, surely, son says the same, and he claims induce the American Navy to come at that stage. Life would begin that the Moneron had a mind and to Havann. The Cabaret business like the first touch of a finger on a come a human body and a human pabe by the action of mind on matter, able to grow and spread and be was doing badly there and half the lute string, or it would begin by soul. He believes, to put his idea

Tere going broke. The things going a while before

arrived, but the hotel business is now flourishing and the Navy has been told to leave at any time-A Kelly, Special (Gin and Ginger.)

And, with the speed of light;~~ VIENNA PUZZLE

Who Shot Dollfuss: Why,

and though it would not be fair Buck's observations to convince that It hardly needed Mrs. Pear! 10 HAY that the dwindling goodwill and good senso

marked movement hak nol officially

been the withdrawal of her connexion the chance meeting and mixing of into Biblical words, that God American Navy was able to keep notfeed, the elination has been to vinil Board. And a world of readers

Hfeless clay. it upon the general economic will rejoice that she will have mpre

Life begun. When?

In the childhood of the solar} blizzard and to assume that we time to spare for writing. In one system the earth was a spinning other puzzle.

Here we come up against an- munt almply wait in patience for senso, Mrs. Huck has been lead ball of gas so hot that no animal 1 fo was put into the Monera it to wear Itnelf out,. No lesson monary herself than the wife of

was possible with the purpose of evolving man- or vegetable fe a missionary. It In her husband, I drawn from the bankruptcy Losing Buck, who has been upon or in ft. It mind gave kind and maybe something still of a silkstore with a forty years doing the work in China to which until the earth had cooled and deviations? Evolution by way of lifo to mutter it WAS not higher, why the delay and why the establishment behind it; from the casual observer would be most water had appeared. If matter worms and fishes: reptiles and the dhaappearance of countless likely to attach the label "misalon-

was mammals, bears and apes, to man small dealers who have quiotlynry." Even in the case of Profen became alive by accident It shut up without causing a attr.or Buck it is true that his dis not until light and-lient and mola looks like a broken chain of ex- An apathelle reference to tinguished services na dean of the turo were sultable to the change periments, a long, slow series of

When the earth was a spinning false starts. weeding out process, and

college of agriculture in the Uni- varsity of Nanking do not follow and rushing cloud of fire, life ns, more is said, breuvao we suppose the pattern of what was commonly we know it could not be. But A STORY OF It is true enough, in a sense, and regarded as mfaslonaty work a within that muse of consuming TRIAL AND ERROR. Is likely to go on. But it points reneration ago. Mrs. Buck has flame there must have been the very, grimly to the seriousness horself taught regularly in the makings of life. There must have of the blight upon Hongkong's university. But it was not ns a been the seeds of the hills and ing, all-powerful Creator have put commercial life. While the teacher in a mission collage that the sea, the grass and the oaks. Into the Moneron a creative mind diminution in the cbb and flow Fearl Buck has become internation- Tho primrose, the kingfisher, wo- that would blink and probe and

"Don't do that, Kelly" he said. of trade each month has not novels, now translated into a dozen science, the aeroplane, diplomacy, into conger eel and rattlesnakes "A bullet hit me there yesterday.” ally famod. It le as the writer of mon and children, philosophy, wander off the track, developing heon Bonantionally large, the or more languages, that she has dog-racing, the Irish sweep and and scorpions and saw toothed "Good Heavens," wo cried. "Did nggregate drop since January gained the attention of the world..

tigera? The mind with which the runs into nine figures. A largo

someone try to assassinate you"" volume of unemployment is

no

created immediately by stagna-LITERARY STYLE

tion on the waterfront and

diminishing purchasing power What has given Mrs. Buck's in one small section of the com- books their Importance? Much of munity soon begins to affect the answer is to be found in a

by every other inexorable study of her literary method. Mrs. economic laws. Internal consump-herself Immersed in Chinese life. Buck has never ceased to keep tion is even now falling away Chinese have been her intimates; faster than the volume of ex-she has not known Chinese life; ports. Small bankruptcies oc-aho has lived Chinese life. Added cur, temporarily refreshing to that, she has saturated her other firms engaged in similar mind' with Chinese literature-- linca of business, enabling them not the academic philosophisinge to keep up appearances for a of the 'sages, but the racy, vivid while, thus delaying full realisa- romances that make up an entire tion of the truth of what is hap- the West scarcely knows exists. school of Chinese literature which pening. In short, Hongkong is Thus it happened that when the witnessing the working out of West found its ear caught by the the processes which have cadences of the style in which brought many countries almost Mra. Buck wrote "The Good to their knees, some of them to Earth," It declared that her mis- revolution; in the past three sionary background had sent her years. And what is being done to the Old Testament for her model. about it? Nothing: if we are Yet what had actually, occurred permitted to judge from official was that Mrs. Buck, thinking her talo of Wong the farmer in the pronouncements. Japanese com-

forms of the Chinese novel, hadi petition we have to bear with; accurately translated into English Hongkong is a free port. Sil that traditional Chinese stylol ver? Our bankers, whose in- The thing that she has been terests would seem to lie in an able to do is to get at the very increase in China's purchasing heart of another culture. power, an increase which would.

automatically be reflected in a.

Hongkong revival, have revealed most damaging of all to Hong- themselves as opposed to all kong's Commercial intercats,. artificial measures of stimula- are presumably outside the tion. Strong as is the Colony's sphere of local government in- interest; it is too much to ex-terest. Altogether, the outlook pect that official representations is anything but happy. Helpless have been made to the Secretary we are or as we are asked to of State in favour of measures bellovo. We can do nothing for improving the price of all-but wait for better or for ver. China's customs duties, worse.

war.

Would an all-knowing, all-see-

If the makings of all life and Moneron set out either did not all life's strivings and achieve-Bes its goal or did not know its ments were not present in the way to the goal, but struggled melting heat mass, then Professor (Continted on Page 5.).

"That's twice teacher has been tardy this week."

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When And Where?

Vienna, Dec. 4. This morning we arrived in Austria and met the Chancellor, Dr. Dollfusa.

"Hullo, Fuzzy, old boy" we said clapping him on the shoulder..

He winced.

"No, No" he said. "A young fellow wearing a brown shirt and muttering mystle words like, 'Hajl Hitler' took a shot at me, The follow had mistaken me for some- one else, so we let him go.”

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Since interviewing Dr. Düll- fuss we have made a number of inquiries and there is a grave suspicion that another. Power had something to do with the attempted assassination. So far, we have been unable to ascertain the name of the other Power-A Kelly Super Special.

·FALSE ALARM

Sometime in 1984 we expect to go to Shanghal for another unde clared war and then we may send. something like this:

Shanghai, Sept. 18, 3 pm.

From behind Chapel, smoke is rising and grayo fears:are felt in the city that fire had started there.

The smoke is still rising.

Later.

Still Later.

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There was no fire after all. Someone had left the door of an oplum divan open-Kelly,

But it won't all be like that. We shall be telling the most stirring - stories of the conflict, always pre- membering to probe into the deeper significance of each move. Wo shall be the most Automatic Intelli- gence Service in the World. You. will get your money back if the machine doesn't work.

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