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BLIND

CAN SEE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

TUESDAY.

OCTOBER 8, 1935.

Science Fears Frankenstein Monster

It Has Created

MAY LOOSE ON WORLD A REIGN OF TERROR

Scientists Cannot Solemn Statement Hold out Much By Sir Richard

Gregory

Longer

SIR Richard Gregory, F.R.S., one of Britain's great men

of science, fears that science is growing into a Frankenstein monster which soon the scientists themselves will not be able to hold.

Other scientists agree with him. An American doctor, William Fein has been growing for some years.

bloom, claims that the blind and semi.

blind can ace with his new infra-red spectacles.

Aeroplane Smuggling Is New Racket

AND IT WAS AN ENGLISHWOMAN WHO STARTED PLANE-RUNNING is

the

latest smuggling "racket" and Abyssinia offer a ready market for those engaged in it-

The Abyssinians are willing to pay big prices for modern machines, and the risk of get ting planes into the country, particularly from the south, is negligible.

The process is a simple one. Owing to the country's failure to sign the Arms Convention, anmaments cannot be exported from Britain to Abyssinia ex- cept under licence from the Foreign Office, and this has al- ways been refused.

The fear:

An attempt was made to band together leading men of science to put the monster in chains.

Two years ago the British Association formed a "brain trust" to do this. Sir Richard Gregory has had to admit, that the attempt, had falled.

He is afraid, and other men are afraid. They think that, the scientist should not be able to let loose on the world a terror which could wipe out whole populations, and then allow his responsibility to end there.

"You would not give a child a packet of dangerous explo sives," said Sir Richard. "But that is exactly what we have been doing.

IT'S JUST

A GAME

Not un embrace, but a Cum berland wrestling match at the recent Highland games in Scotland,

Jeritza's First Husband Says She Is Still His Wife

Vienna, Sept. 30,

"There are some of us who are beginning to be afraid of OPERA star Marie Jeritza arrived at her lake-

the prospects."

forts of their work on the rest of Norwich, Sept. 25.

be who are beginning to "THERE are many men of society. And there are some of us

science who believe that afraid of the prospects."

a little

the laboratories of to-day are Sir Richard was directly asked: producing a Frankenstein mon-love you, ever known of an instance ster for to-morrow.",

where a scientist, having realised that

Never;

It?"

has nothing to do with good or evil. |

side villa at Unterach, in Upper Austria, |to-day, and left at once on a mountain motor tour with her Hollywood film-producer husband, Mr. Winfield Sheehan,

WAR CHANGED HER NATIONALITY TWICE

A friend of Mme. Jeritza said to-day: "Mme. Jaritza obtained what is called an Arkansas divorce. Ninety days after her application the was divorced from the Baron on June 26, in Little Rock, accord- ing to Arkansas law. On August 12 she married Mr. Sheehan in Little Rock.!"

Her Austrian husband, Baron Leopold Popper, declares Those were Sir Richard Gre-a certain discovery may have harm- she is still his wife; he knows nothing of any divorce. gory's exact words in a special ful applications, has refrained from interview given at the British

answered Sir Richard with: headquarters in great emphasis, "He would publish Association

Ethical considerations of that kind Norwich.

Last Wednesday, in a dramatic are almost totally non-existent among speech given before the Norwichinists. To his new knowledge Rotarians, Sir Richard tried to tell the thing. A fact is a fuct, and the public that the man with a test tube is not a man with a load of mischief. He said that the use for good or evil of a diecovery depend-I This embargo applies to war-ed on the community, planes exported from this coun- try. There is, however, no ban on aircraft intended for com- mercial purposes.

Taking advantage of this fact, a number of machines have been shipped as commer- cial planes to

some neutral country. There trusted agent proceeds to make the necessary alterations, and in 'a few hours the machines have been converted into effective bombers and fighters.

used for

Chlorine, he said, was bleaching long before it was used as a nelson gas; thermit was used for weld- ing tramway lines before somebody thought of putting, it into Incendiary bombs.

Can Be Blamed

New Mustard Gas

"A few weeks ago," he went on,

any a description in a technicnt

да A

Journal of some now mustard gas.

"The scientist who published that¦ paper did not speak of his. dia- covery

mustard gas. lie never even thought of it in that way. He had merely effected a re- grouping of certain compounds, "To him his achievement was mere- But in his interview Sir Richard ad-ly an interesting plece of research in mitled that scientists can be blamed, organic chemistry, and he just stated the work has another 'dan- and that there is justification in the, the facts.

"But increasing uneasiness and suspicion with which the ordinary man is view-gerous gas.

The biggest-job which faces us to-t ing the efforts of the laboratories.

day is to solve this old problem of the responsibility of the scientist with regard to his discoverica and the rest of the community,

"You would not give a child a packet of dangerous explosives to play with." he said. "But that is exactly what we have been doing, "Scientists as a whole still think These warplanes are then that they can get along without any transhipped from the neutral sensa of responsibility about the ef- country to Abyssinia. The terma

of the embargo have been kept, and everyone is gatised.

Ex-R.A.F. Machines

As in the case of motor-cars,

12 PUBLISHERS

"One ilem of research properly applied

might find work for tens of thousands, and another throw -thousands out of work.

"One result of research wisely

Paris, Oct. 1.

A baroness, who has twice had her nationality changed by war, has celebrated her 103rd birthday in Alsace.

She Baroncas fesadu de Reinach (ncé Ansio do Gohr). Sho was born in 1832. Under Louis Philippe and under Napoleon III.

she was a Fronchwoman.

Then, after the

the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. Alsace became Ger man. The Baroness then was a subject of the German Emperore. The Great War gave her back her French nationality and en- abled her once again to fy the tricolour over the Chateau of Hitz- bach, near Allkirch, where she Jives.

The baroness enjòvs excellent health and every day goes for a walk in the park surrounding her home-Reuter.

upplied may save human lives and Film

another destroy them.

"It is manifestly wrong that the

REFUSED FORTUNE scientist's responsibility should end

SCARLET PIMPERNEL"

NOT BEST SELLER!

new types of aircraft are constant ly being brought out. There is always a plentiful supply of second-hand machines of compara- For many yeare "The Scarlet tively recent date.

Pimpernel" has been a great seller in the bookshops; it has made a for- tune for Baronena Orczy, the authorces.

A number of these are former Royal Air Force planes, supersed- ed by later types. These machines can be purchased either as they stand or in component parts.

Among second-hand commercial aircraft now on the market

with the announcement of his dis covery."

What has happened, Sir Richard was asked, to the great plans dis-1 cussed by the British Association two years ago for a "brain trust" to help the country in social and economic planning and to act as a board of censorship on discoveries?

"The

Bachelors-

An Austrian lawyer said: "The position is mystifying. At the time of her marriage to Baron Popper Mmo. Jeritza ад Austrian citizen. They married according to Austrian law.

was

"Therefore the marriage

could be dissolved only ac-

to *cording

Austrian law. Since it was a Roman Catholic marriage a divorce valid in the eyes of the Church is impos- sible..

"In Austra, therefore, Mme. Jeritza is still lawfully the wife of Baron Popper."

Baron Popper said that he had instructed his lawyers in Vienna and in the U.S.A.

WINGS FOR SOUTH

By Mae West, SEA MISSIONARIES

Spinster!

such types 18 Avro Cadet, D.II. ing at a London literary luncheon British Association plans for a "brain Randolph Scott, Nelson Eddy,

Twelve publishers rejected future. A

recently how:

trust," was

| AIRPLANES TO REACH

ISLAND · CANNIBALS-

London, Oct. 1. Flying missionaries will face the porila of the Australian Mandated Territory in North New Guinea, after the end of 1936, if the Church of England Melanesian Mission's plans are realised.

Rev. Stuart Artless, secretary of

"Nothing?" he answered sadly.

MAE WEST, the "spinster," plans seem to have been shelved. "The present meeting of the

submits to the public the For years it was the most popular

British Association has not made

following as her estimate of play in the Fred Terry and Julia

any reference to any further stepa."

the twelve most eligible bache Neilson repertoire; it made a for- Major A, G. Church who, an

lors in Hollywood: un executive of the British Selence Guild tune for them, too."

Association of Scientific Cesare Romero, Lyle Talbot, Baroness Orczy told a gather-and the are

Workers, was concerned with the Ivan Lebedeff,

dangerous and important since the "The task is the most difficult, Jack Oakle, not hopeful for the

James Dunn, Gene Raymond, Solomon Islands mission," said the book; and how in despair have now resigned from netivo Honry Wilcoxon, Whitney de the home organisation of the mis- she accepted £30 for it from work within than assolations," he Rham, Lee Tracy and Baby, tho "But I can tell you this-the the thirteenth-only to have efforts we made to get scientists to Leroy i

"The territory is populated by the offer withdrawn; the firm weld themselves together into a pro-

fession with a corporate sense of "Eligible bachelors are hard to 200,000 tribesmen, some cannibal- thought it was too much!

find," Mae told an interviewer, istic, most of whom have never The plot of the book came to responsibility like lawyers, doctorsfor, if they're eligible, they donning to send three of our most craft, the majority of them can, in her. Baroness Orczy said, while and have failed absolutely."

seen a white man. We are plan- "Some time nga we made an at-stay bachelors. the space of a few hours, be con-she was waiting for a train at tempt to find out how far seiontials "I don't know all these men per realise that they will be taking experienced missionaries, who verted by experts into war

themselves sonally, mind. I judge the Temple station-"then the were prepared to limit machines, particularly for pur.

reconnaissance and most 'dreary, depressing stution against work which might have harm of them purely by their work on;

their lives into their hands."! poses of

Ho referred to the immediato plane, which is the only means of reaching the jungle settlement.

Hornet and D.H. Fox Math. There are also Fairey Foxes with speed of 170 m.p.h, and Gipsy II. Special Moths, Gipsy Major Moths. and even Rolls Bristol Fighters.

The latter, of course, need little or no alteration, and, of the ether

bombing.

This aeroplane running wa started by an enterprising young Englishwoman, who began operations during the Bolivia-Paraguay war in South America.

on the face of God's earth.

рожен.

Arrogant Scientists

number

It is intended to name the 'plane the Southern Cross of the Air, following the tradition established, by the mission's seven ships, all of which have been named Southern Cross. Hugo Territory

ful potentialities to the community.

Professor Sir

the screen, and 1, may be wrong Frederick Soddy, I sent it to twelve different F.R.S., suggested a resolution that for a good director can do a lot need of £2,000 to purchase an acro- publishers, and not one of them members should not accept subsidies for a man. would have anything to do to engage in special research work "Romero, now-ho's typical with it, and there were rejec into polson gusies for military pur- Latin lover. He'll do if you like tion slips all the time.

your men tall; dark and handsome. Lucky Rofusal

Besides, he's from a hot country. Our members would haye, none: of (Mr. "Then a publisher offered £30

Romero. fs of Spanish By means of a

number of and I accepted it. But two weeks it. Eventually a resolution was para descent).

that university "Lebedeff used to be in the aliasen, she bought up all the later a letter came from him to sayed to the effect

the most second-hand aircraft and their that his directors declined to teachers should not accent subsidica Czar's army. He has

for such work as this would be cun graceful manners of any men trary to

to the spirit and traditions. of component parts that were on the gre

have ever met. Ho kisses your then heard that Mr. Fred learning.

The territory is 900 miles by market.

Tony wanted to produce a play. "The trouble is that the average hand-but that, of course, can bet 400, and it, le expected that the

scientist Is far more arrogant improved upon, Her problem was to find secret "We mucked up the book, and

cost will be at least £2,000 a year about his work than the normal "Lyle Talbot has that charm for the maintenance of three mis- storage space for these aircraft, sont it to Mr. Torry who agreed to↑

man, and he declines to admit, anying exterior that covers a real he-sionaries, and ultimately she used the vaults produce it.

measures which he considers a re- of a disused church in the I sent the book away again,

striction on, the parsult of know-man typo. He'd make any woman Southern counties.

this time to Greening and Co

a good husband-if she wanted a are gathered at Wau waiting to ledge. "But this freedom' In research has good husband,"

enter the territory," said Of Honry Wilcoxon, the new | Artless, and it is feared that great dangers to the world to-day.

"We ought to have an othic like | British sinr. May said:

contact - hotween the whites-and- other professions. It is up to the great leaders of science to give

"The publisher said he would There the machines were stored

read the manuscript over, and until they were ready for shipment would then give it to his old to a South American port, either mother to road, and if she liked it

as commercial aircraft or in their he would publish it as she was a component parts,

judge of public opinion..

"

In this way sho was able to: ovade the embargo,

I

"Hundreds of gold prospectors

Mr.

"They tell me he's a grand guy, the primitive natives may lead to lead in this respect. It is time that I like Lee a lot, although they sayalon aime, by Christian teaching, "Loe Tracy, now. Personally,serious consequences. The mis- tho man in the laboratory realised "Sho must have liked it because how his work affects the man-next a man who talks fast works slow." to counter demoralising influ

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