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NOTES OF THE DAY

SECOND SAAR

WHERE IS SCIENCE LEADING US?.

By STEPHEN BLACK

The Very Idea!

SQUASH THAT BUG!

By Horatio Bogg, Victim.

If, as reports from Berlin, sug- gest, Germany is about to make an effort to regain the lost territory of Mumel, and the thriving seaport of that name, it will be the second attempt since the city was detached from Germany following the sign ing of the Treaty of Versailles. We hesitate to my Whether Ger- in having to play second fiddle to it, is an extremely complex the Bug has come into its

The atom has been split. The jor bio-chemistry, as it fa usullly commonsense view of Matter as called. something real and solid has be como discredited. In this article Stephen Black suggests that Science

Sir William Bragg looks upon the world, and the people living

AFTER more than 3,000 years of known history.

or spinning atoms, composed for the most fire of whirling electrons | own. and protons which are only able

or

many has any more hope of re-Philosophy.” gaining Memel on this occasion

an on that lost, when Augustus Tscience becomes unily, an in- to exist at all through radiatione

describe the changing face of Waldemaras, former premier of the creasingly dificult task, as science or

At no-time has it come into such vibrations coming to them prominence as the official recogni- state", and "city

known German herself tends more and mere to seek through the ether, from the depths tion now being accorded it as the

coup sympathiser attempted d'etat which failed badly and landed for her inspiration among abstract of space.

ideas. It is hard enough to ex-

Insidious: enemy of the British June him in prison. That was on

plain in detail the methods cm-

Tommy. Glant. A week later he was senployed by Rutherford in splitting on which he bases his conceptions, He has, of course, laboratory data

Cabled dispatches from Home tenced to twelve years' hard labour.

the atom, while to set down on but it is at present impossible to tell of a big campaign about to be Now, however, a different situn-

paper for the layman a clear arrive at such a fundamental out- tion arises. It is possible that, in description of the mechanian and look on the universe as this without launched for its complete ejection return for promise which will

theory of even the simplest tele-the aid of philosophy. Matter, from British barracks overseas, make more accure the pence of

vision "system" presents difficulties then, being dependent upon ether Europe and remove the present which can be realised only by the radiations "light"

*Hongkong, presumably, is to be will

(in the dangerous tension Germany

writer himself.

scientific nense) can also be affected included in the sphere of opera- k a small return of some sort. Memel is the return suggested. It Bu when the reports of such by them.

[tions, and the measure locally will Einstein and Pavlov are is by no means likely, however, that men as

The science of radiology becomes, be welcomed as the beginning of a Memel would change hands without published the Press usually censes at once the concern not only of the period of rest and ponce for the A Jocal plebiscite, of the surt even to attempt an explanatory neademic investigator and hia- garglion. arranged in the Saar, and even then feature and accounts of their dis-chemist, but of the local G.P. it is not more than remotely coveries are limited to the state-Last year in Germany the idea that We do not know if the China bux possible that the transfer could be ment of fact, that new theories radiations from the earth known is different from any other variety, accomplished, given a favourable have been Oghted upon by great as "erdstrahlen" (earth raya) but for viciousness and pertinacity. plebiscito, without arousing a deal men.

might endanger: the health beenme it could not be excelled by any other of in-will and apprehension in Science is undoubtedly drifting

so popular that many landlords

of its "blood" brethern. Eastern Europe. Pubile feeling in any sort of surrender to the de-while philosophy itself is gradually "earth-ray dangerous" by the local hunts by night, as, with the "lights Tales have been told of gory mands of the Reich in return for becoming linked to selence.

promise relating to re-armament

out" rule in force, the sodjer puts It is this philosophical trend and security. There is bound to

which is driving research workers had much to contribute to lentless enemy. And It is not all In the "eld of biology Haldane up a desperate fight against a re- be a feeling that if Germany con- in one direction. A uniffention of philosophy, white one of his young tends she is able unilaterally to de-science is undoubtedly taking colleagues at Lonton University

a question of personal comfort or Magnolia. Sasson Road, Pokfun the arms articles of the place, and it is possible to con-will soon put before the scientific health, either. Imagine being held tam, at 3:30 pm on Saturday promise as the return of Menel of an army of investigators, deeply idea.

Treaty of Versailles, no such com- eelve in the distant future a picture world a 9th March, 1986, on the occasion

somewhat revolutionary at rigid attention at an official of the marriage between Ernest, will prevent her proving reversed in the knowledge of a single

parade and not able to succumb to son of Dr. and Mrs. Cuxion To of calcitrant in future. There is an and all-embracing science, faced

an almost irresistible desire 10 Hongkong, aut Hermine an argument against this sort of bar with the solution of one great prdoubtedly right in his conception being nipped by the unseen

Darwin, i acems, poldine, older daughter of Mr.

un-slap whichever part of one that is.

foo and Mrs. Franels X. Long of Linz

a passive evolution of the carried from the barracks. ad Donuz, Austria. No invite

will be Issued but all there is no knowing how exorbitant The object of phyales is to ex-tion of fresh variations to suit an species, but the automatic produse- the price of peace may become.plain the behaviour of matter (the unfavourable environment, which it will have to discipline when the Imagine also the consequences By this means the security of the substance of which things are has been observed in the fruit-fly Sergenat-Major himself, for the composed), and this, has also beet Drosophila, says much for Lamarck, sare renson, is forced at a critical one of the aims of philosophy since who contended rears before Darwin moment-to-depart_from_la_usual.L Uk Line Gr Aristotle. Any in that new species were produced by rigid self.. disputable definition of nimiter bara definite striving of the Individual as yet, eluded both the philosophers after a new form. and the scientista, though Russell has attempted to explain it as."a convenient formula for describing what happens where it isn't."

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ITALO-ABYSSINIAN DISPUTE

many countries will be opposed to ever further towards philosophy, were unable to let their houses which had been condemned us

gaining. In

nation is granted blem. ber demands every time she threa

tens to disrupt the peace of Europe,

world cannot be preserved.

LITHUANIA'S CLAIMS'

and

When I'rofessor

matter.

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authorities.

of

We do not say that such has been The case here; but it is one of the Nietzsche, the philosopher, who things that may be expected, to conceived the "superman," would judge from our own experience as a undoubtedly have had to reorganise theatre-goer when relegated to an his ideas in the light of these in-unfumigated seat. It Wax then Rutherford vestigations, and litler, his great discovered that there were other

The question of Germany's rights to Memel is more complicated than it appears. Memel is a part of Lithuania, and Lithuania was n part of Russia, a Grand Duchy of the same sort as Poland, until the managed to split the atom for the follower, would have lacked many Arki unseen members of the break-up of the Empire of the first time, this scientide arbleves of the arguments now used in de audience than had paid for a sup It is not surprising that Czar after the revolution. Memel, ment shattered not only the accept fence of barbarlarn.

posedly comfortable sent, and, League of Nations circles in and its territory, totalling 943 ed explanations of many scientists,

Pavlov, with a complete institute What is more, these other members Geneva regard Italy's announce. are miles. Bes between Lithua-but also the theories of philosophers at his disposal in Leningrad, now

were having a grand time at our nin and East Prussia and is one dating back to the Greeks, to whom tends to confirm the philosophical expense. ment, that she will not permit of the chief Baltic seaports, with a we are indebted for the first con- the Council to settle the dispute population of 146,000. Until 1923, ception of the so-called unit, of result of his experiments on he would have said if one of these tenet of predestination. As 21 We wonder what Confucius following the War, Memel was con- with Abyssinia, as a bombshell,

haviourism" in animals he tends to trolled by the Council of Ambassa- Italy apparently holds the view dors, but at that time irregular placed in, what was for them, the is nothing more than a whole hatever it was he wore fur pants. Modern philosophers were then believe that the history of our lives creatures had got into his pants, or that the Abyssinians are wholly bands of Lithuanians rushed the happy position of having to devise series of "conditioned-reflexes," in those days when soap was not to blame for the recent frontier city and it was finally handed over fresli systems to supplant those of Our lives, he implies, are not really too plentiful and the inclination to S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. incidents; and thus the matter is to that country on February 16, the Greeks, which had held the field our own, bat belong to the reflex use it even less.

subject to certain conditions, name for over two thousand years. netions of our bodies, one for direct seltlement be-ly: the regulation of the port for

He would have said, we are cer- Popular astronomy has Ied tain. that fortitude and discomfort tween the parties. On the other the benefit of Lithuanin and Poland.

millions of readers with Jerns endured under these conditions band, Abyssinia is equally denia, Memet is autonomous financial-posed, so far as can be understood while the usual complaint against he could but catch it, would have Under the sovereignty of Lithma- Since the animal body is com-through the realms of philosophy, were a 100 per cent, virtue, and, if EBSCESS inite in laying the trouble at ty, legislatively. judicially and ad-at present, entirely of matter in psychology is that it is too philoso-held it up as one of the principal Italy's doors. In the circum-ministratively. Complete ratifica-one form or another, any physical phical. The business man likes to agents by which the patience of a stances, the dispute would ap-secured in 1924. Over much of the not only the outlook of the physicist although the applications of science severely tested for its eventual tion of this arrangement was explanation of matter will affect get something for his money and long-suffering mankind was being pear to be one eminently sult-border land between Lithuania and and the philosopher, but also that to industry are still as numerous good. able for adjustment through Patand a serious dispute has been of the physiologiat.

as ever, it is often difficult to sen the medium of the League, technically these two peoples are

dragging on for years,

Physics and chemistry, which whither we are being led.

THIS MODESTY Indeed, the League was created still in a state of war. To upset when the molecular theory w pseudo-science will be a thing of out East. She is young and pretty were linked in the last century, It looks as if, in the future, A friend of mine recently come for the express purpose of the equilibrium either state by settling international quarrel wresting from it Vilnu, Memel, used to explain both the behaviour the past and the division of In-and on holiday. She took with her

Danzig or any other of those ter- of gases and the chemical combina-vestigations into 1 number without resort to forceful mea-ritories so jealously defended, might tion of the elements, must now be branches a simplification necessary which it is not new possible to be of those flannel" "*alacks" without sures. Abyssinia is obviously precipitate a clash which would brought still closer together and caly for the layman. Above all, young, or pretty, or on holiday. lead to the gravest consequences combined with blology in the the philosopher will come into his She joined the ship at Naples and well within her rights, as 21 member of the League, in sub- It must not be forgotten that science of blo-physical-chemistry, own again."

Bussin has claims along the Baltic mitting the dispute to

the shore.

If Memel were returned to Council, and, in the circum-Germany there is no good reason stances, it is not only surpristo Russia, and the formerly Ger- why Lithuania should not go back ing, but regrettable, that Italy man sections of Poland go back to should raise objections to the the Reich. In fact. unce the appeal. If, as Italy contends, frontiers in any direction, there is Powers commence altering the she has right on her side, it is good cause lo fear that it might en difficult to see what she has to tail the re-drawing of the map of fear from impartial investiga. all of Europe. And who will guess

what that would mean? tion of the dispute. Meanwhile, there are unwelcome signs that both Italy and Abyssinia are be recalled that in one of the girding their loins for a trial of Italo-Abyssinian periodical strength on the field of battle. clashes, in 1896, the Italian In this connection, it is stated forces suffered a crushing de- that Abyssinia can place at least feat. In all, in the battle of two million men in the field, five Adowa, they lost 4,500 white hundred thousand of them with and 2,000 native troops, killed firearms, to defend, the rough|or wounded, the Abyssinian mountainous country that lies losses being also heayy. It was between the Italian Somaliland following this engagement that coast and Addis Ababa, then provisional treaty of peace Abyssinian capital. Thirty per was concluded, followed Inter by cent. of the Abyssinian popula- Italy -recognising the absolute tion, it is stated, can be mobilis independence of Abyssinia. ed either by direct order of the None the less, there have since Emperor or through tribal that time been constantly res chiefs. Already there is talk of curring disputes between the such a general mobilisation hay-two countries, culminating now ing been arrangod.--To meet tho in a situation of the utmost

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need to despatch a tremendous sober, counsels will yet prevail, force to East Africa, for past and that the situation in this experience has shown that the storm-centre will be adjusted Abyssinians, when aroused, are without any resort to the foolish stubborn lighters. Here it may Imethod of a settlement by force.

"Look what wo carned, daddy, by scooping off the neighbours'

- walks.".

found not a single woman in trousers. She put hers on, feeling a little bold.

Within half an hour she was able to count 14 young women in trousers.

For ten days they had nursed their trousers and their grief in tho secrecy of their cabins. Waiting for a lead. Waiting for a leg-ap.

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HEELS OF ACHILLES

Old-timers like C. B. Fry Bny that modern athletes are just too delicate for words. Either that, or, they are more fussy, or are given more publicity for their fussiness. Or sometimes it may be "tactics." In the finals of the Table Tennis Singles Championship Barna and Szabados were level at two games all, with Szabados leading 19-18.in the decider. Two points and he would beat the champion. He pre- pared to serve.

Barna gave a gesticulation of pain, pointed to his right forearm and went to the side. "Cramp," said everyone. The masseur gave two or three touches to the arm. Szabados waited, nervous tenalon in overy line of him:

Back came Barna, completely cured. At any rate, he won the next three rallies and the match and the title.

Any game, it seems, is a possible cause of dislocation and dienster. Recently one of the West Indies fast bowlers was unable to 'carry on because he had strained & leg at billiards!.

Petersen must be on his guard against chess-elbow: