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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935.

Science Holds Key To Utopia But Door

A massed array of 88 warships and over 400 fighting, planus recently participated in an imposing_naval parade and review off San Diego. Photo shows scores of the Navy's fighting planes passing-in review over the U. 5. S. Pennsylvania, flagship of the

United States Fiset.

Countless Children Owe Their Lives To Him

DOCTORS HONOUR 90-YEAR-OLD SIR THOMAS BARLOW

FIFTY-TWO years ago a short, burly, dark-bearded physician from Lancashire wrote a paper on infantile scurvy and found himself famous.

Briton's Big Desert Adventure

Remains Shut

ECONOMISTS REFUSE TO AID CIVILISATION

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Oxford, Sept, 15. ·

SCIENTISTS hold the key to Utopia--but the economists

will not let them unlock the door.

That, in effect, is what a world-famous chemist told as he worked in his laboratory here to-day.

destruction of humanity. I am Between his experiments Pro-not alone in that view. fessor Frederic. Soddy, Lec's "Every scientiat looks with dis- Professor of Chemistry at the gust upon a system which employs University and a former Nobel the results of his reasearch to Laureate in Chemistry, sat and produce poison gas and other explained why he is convinced horrors." that science can save civilisation. invitation from the Government Professor Soddy hás refused an "It may sound foolish," he said, to make experiments for the devc- "but if science was given a free lopment of chemical warfare. hand and absolute control every "I believe that science should world problem could be solved to-be devoted to building a new and morrow.

"The war

menace would disner, civilisation, and not to devising new and more horrible appear because in n work of

means of killing. plenty there would be no reason for war."

Crime Of Science

No Defence Against Gas

"During the war when the Germans introduced poison "That is what people do not

gas attacks we were forced to realise,” replied Professor Soddy.

retaliate--but there was no "An entirely now civiliantion has

excuse for continuing such crented. In the scientist's been laboratory. Tho

ghastly experiments after 1918. tremendous strides made in research during tut should be ashamed-that from "The result Ja-and every scient- recent years have made it possible the laboratories of the world have to produce plenty for all.

"Science has done all it can.come the means of smashing civili There is sufficient knowledge to-

of cities

sation.

"The

safety

Jika

day in the brains of the scientists London, Paris and Berlin has de to make the world a perfect place finitely gone. Nothing could, Bave in which to live-but the them from complete destruction on economists refuse to make way the outbreak of hostilities. for progress.

"And we scientists know that there is no adequate defence

"That in the whole trouble,

NO FISH STORY

More fortunate than a majority of their kind which eventually and in the frying pan, this flying fish acts as a corsage for Dillis Rogers at Santo Catalina Island.

Arizona's "Polygamy Wives"

Every step forward by science against poison gas and the other In Revolt

is offset by the folly of the economists and our ridiculous monetary system.

horrors that have been perfected.

"The only remedy is to rid the world of any cause for war-and that, if science was used in the right way, would be simple.

"And so we have the spectacle Death after intense suffering of wretched poverty amid plenty. "I should like to see the scient- was then the fate of many child- Crops are burned, milk is thrown Ists of the world coming together In international co-operation to ren who contracted the discase. away while people staryc.

"The result is that we scientists demand that the boons they aro To-day that disease is so rare are attacked for making life too in a position to give humanity aro that in the largest children's casy. People blame us for the not rendered useless by the action hospital in England only nine present world problems. They of the economists. cases have been treated during say that we should be checked. Things will never be righted the past three years.

Checked Is it a crime to have until the financial experts op- The young physician wos Dr.worked successfully for the well-proach their problems in the same Thomas Barlow, and his paper being of your fellow-men?

way that we do that, is with a "The real crime is that science definite formula by which to identified and cured. Since that should have been perverted to the work." Norman Pearn, of day the nature of the disease itself Glanville-road, Bromley,

has changed to a milder form Kent, leaves London a few days hence on an attempt to cross three deserts.

A CORNISHMAN, Mr. made it easy for the disease to be

He plans to cross first the Sahara and then the Libyan desert.

when is almost certain to dis-

appear in a few years. Queen Mary

This month Sir Thomas

Barlow, burly and white-haired Will Surpass

physician-extraordinary, to the

King, and former physician to

King Edward and Queen Vic French Liner

not

toria, will celebrate his nine- tieth birthday at his beautiful 300-acre estate at Wendover, Buckinghamshire. From this he will pass through

Fifty-two years have Abyssinia. After crossing the dimmed the merry twinkle in his Red Sea, he will tackle the most wise old eyes, nor changed the dangerous part of his journey broad Lancashire accent of his -the dreaded Rub al Khali in youth. High honours have been the Arabian desert,

Lestowed on him.

Only two white men in the But the greatest risvard that he world have successfully will have on his birthday is that challenged the waterless wastes the number of children whose lives!

As a result of secret experi- ments which have just been completed by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Re- search, the giant new Cunarder, Queen Mary, will be the fastest and most smooth-sailing vessel in the world.

For some months, teats have

of the Rub al Khali. They are have been saved directly and in-been carried on at the National two Englishmen Mr. St. John directly by his work is so large Physical Laboratory, Tedding- Philly and Mr. Bertram that even his 300-acre estate would ton, to prevent possible vibration Thomas.

not provide a playground for them.so noticeable in the French

The Јеранеко Woman αυξητού, Arabs foar this "Empty His success was so great and Quarter" as the desert is called, his fame so widespread that in-liner Normandie when she was Kikuko Matsumoto, few from Japan and there are few, besides those fantile scurvy, the disease he con- going "all-out" to win the At- who accompanied the two ex-quered, is to-day known in Ger-lantic "blue riband." plorers, who claim to have cross- many as "Barlow's disease." ed it.

"It is no disparagement of the

offered Mr. Pearn previously crossed contributions

Greater Horsa-Power

by his The Belentiats conducting the the Sahara in 1982. With him successors," the Lancet says, "to experiments have now found a cure was Mr. William Donkin.

Camels Wont Mad

They set out from Tuggurt, on the edge of the desert, dressed as Arabs. With them were slx camels and two nativo guides.

They travelled an original route, in the heat of midsummer, with the temperature at one de, golate fort reaching 160 degrees in the shade.

say that Barlow's original paper out-ahines them all."

That is the birthday tribute to Sir Thomas of the members of his own profession.

CHEAP PETROL MADE FROM STONE

Thoy battled for 2,000 miles SCIENTIST'S FOUR-YEAR]

EFFORT REWARDED

"with" sand and dust storms. Water was so scarce that the camels had to go six days with- out liquid.

One guide tried to play them. false, and an Arab chieftain, at s timo, when the two travellers wanted food, water, a guide and camels, tried to hold them to ransom.

for this trouble, and at the same time they have hit upon a method of obtaining much greater horse- power from the engines!

There is now no doubt that the Queen Mary will surpass the Normandie in performance and comfort, and will be un- disputed "Queen of the Seven, Seas,"

Science has also perfected ap paratus that will enable the vessel

to make her own weather no mat- ter what natural conditions may. bc.

Sydney, Sept. 15. A new process for extract- ing petrol from Shale, a clayey steam heaters will automatically Electric valves connected to the stone, has been discovered by a heat the air in cold weather, and New South Wales scientist, Mr. H. E. Gotting, after four the fan system will provide cold air years of research, and will lead when the weather is hot. shortly to the erection of large works for producing the spirit. Experts are greatly impressed

Some of their camels wont

To make room for the Queen lame, sick and mad, but keeping

Mary when she arrives at New steadily to a twenty-five-mile-a-by the process, and remarkably

York on her maiden voyage a day schedule, the men

piece is being cut out of the reached successful results are claimed to city. Kano, in British Nigeria, four have been obtained with the new months later.

Thero is not sufficient accommod- petrol in cars and aeroplanes, Mr. Pearn bellaves that a hoard Mr. J. M. Browno, who has been ation for a liner of her size along- of ancient gold. Is hiddon in associated with the inventor Inside any of the present piers, and underground caves in the Imam his researches, says that hundrede the United States War Depart-

of Australians could be provided ment

of Yomen's territory,

en-

is refused to allow gineers to extend them further

Ho said that a British ox-naval with work in the new industry. officer who was in that quarter The new petrol, it is claimed, into the river,

for sixteen years had given him can bo produced in a much shorter: At opormous cost, a large area some information about it.

time, more simply and very much of building-land has had to be 4.000 miles long.

1000 proposed Journey will be more cheaply than any other shale taken over for the construction of

spirit-Reuter.

a dock.

to

Manchukuo.

Rewarded with Franch Hammond prize for 1935, and nominated member of honour of the Hammond Aeronautic Association.

THEY WORK WHILE

MEN IDLE

New York, Sopt. 15. REVOLT of the women is

"back to nature". colony

threatening to break up a of polygamists in the wilds of Arizona.

Reports from Short Creek, where the colony has just been discovered, show that the women do all the work while the men live in idleness, enjoy. ing the comfortable reflection that the more children there are the easier the time the fathers will have - as their old age approaches.

But the women apparently are not so happy about this state of affairs, and it is reported that many of them are leaving the colony.

Meanwhile the polygamists are facing the stern arm of the law. The Kingman County attorney, Mr. Elmo Bollinger, in whose area the colony lies, has sent armed men to round up the suspects and· bring them to court.

100 Suspects

Short Creek is situated in wita, mountainous country which is dif ficult of access. Mr. Bollinger

заун:

"I am checking up 100 suspects, and expect to bring at least 20 of them into court. These are the last of the polygamiste, and we are going to drive them out."

Germany Spending £60,000,000 On U-Boats

Secret particulars of Germany's new submarines;

A confession by one of Hitler's Storm Troop leaders that he and two other Nazis set fire to the Reichstag building;

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An assertion that the German Army leaders now hold Hitler at their mercy, and will ultimately wipe him out.

Those are striking features of Radius of operation, 15,000 nau- the second volume of "The Berlin tical miles. Armament, eight tor- Diaries" of a general in the Ger- pedo-tubes, each with five tor- man War Ministry, published by pedoes, and two guns. Eightcon Jarrolda, London.

craft in commission.

This general says that Germany's Class B Submarine éruiser, new fleet "would enable us, in the 4,500 tons, "therefore considerably event of warlike complications on bigger than all submarines hitherto the Continent, to

built." Maximum speed on sur- "Intervene decisively on the face, 24 knots; under water 15 high seas;

knota. Armament, ton torpedo- "Or to paralyse the interven-tubes, each with twelve torpedoes; tion of such third Powers as four guns, with 600 shells for each, England and the United States Fourteen craft in commission this in the Continental theatre of year.

Class C Submarine cruiser for The new submarine programme seaplanes. About 4,500 tons, Sur. In estimated to cast £00,000,000, face speed, 16 knots; under water, It Includes:

G'knots. Class A: 1,800 tone displace monit. Maximum surfaco spood, 20 knots; under water, 12 knots.

war.

The German general's name is not given: His diary is edited by Dr. Helmut Klotz,

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