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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1936.

BRITISH SCIENTISTS LET THEMSELVES GO

WORDY DAY AT

BLACKPOOL

Warnings Against The Way We Blunder

Association's.

New President

The next preslifent of the British Association will probably

Great Inventions and Ignoble Uses

he Sir Edward Foulton, of Oxford. WHAT should chemists and scene

Sir Edward is A Doctor of Science and has been a Fellow of Jesus College since 1898. He was Hope Professor, of Zoology at Oxford from 1893-1933,

Al various periods, Including dent of the Royal Entomological, Society of London, being elected an lionorary iffe president.

SCIENTISTS assembled at Blackpool last month opened the centenary year, he was brea

the British Association meetings with a volley of criticism directed against the politicians.

That Governments are showing ignorance and in- humanity in their use of the discoveries of science; that political expedients which have failed to ensure the people of even enough to cat are still being continued; and that| universal education is being used to consolidate tyranny, were among the charges made.

Most striking was the warning of Sir Richard Gregory, Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at Queen's College, London, and world-famous educationist, that:

"The nation connot afford 10 leave administrative control in the hands of those who have no first-class knowledge of science."

Millarials and the laisser faire economists were assailed by Pro- fessor Julian Huxley, who pointed to Nature's "Slow, cruel and bind" methods of selection.

Professor d. C. Philip, president of the Chrisley section, referred to "the present warlit-wide prostitution ot Knowledge and skill to destructive enta."

Here are the Bligh spots of a wordy day!

PLENTY TO EAT.

BUT NO MONEY

IN the Agricultural Section one dis- Unguished speaker after another declared that the present Govern- ment's subsidies Are wrongly

directed.

The attack, led by Sir John Orr. the dietician, was powerfully backed

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Engineers

Could End War

I'rofessor William Cramp told the Engineering Section:

"In its purest form engineering 1N Site greatest instrument civilisation.

of

"Left undisturbed br thr politician, the scaremonger

and the patriot the engineer would demolish the Tower of Babel and render war Impossible,

"For ibe promotion of praer understanding. enghavering and outclasses every religion; and for balite, murder and sudden death. It has no equal,“

Evolution

And The

by the former chief setentific advisy; IT is a common fallacy that natural;

o the Ministry of Agriculture, Sir Daniel Hall. He called our present agricultural polley "misdirected."

Sir John Orr urged the need of a national food policy which would seek to subsidie consumption-not production and to reorganise distribution.

"The cast of un adequate dilet, D. to 10s. per head per week, is beyond the purchasing power of one-third of the community," he said.

"There

selection must always be for the

or of life in Rood of the spectes general, declared Dr. Julian Huxley, delivering the presidential address to the Zoologists,

Research disposed of the notion of militists and laisser-faire econo mists that all inan needed for further

progressive evolution was to adopt the most thorough-going competition, "Natural selection in fact, though like the mills of God in grinding: is no difficulty about pre-slowly and grinding small, has few ducing the food. The difficulty is in other attributes that a civilised re« enabling the food to be purchased."

ligion would call divine.

То provide an adequate diet, the milk consumption of the country would need to be doubled, with similar increases for eggs, fruit and vegetables.

The Government, Instead of having a purely ngricultural policy, should consider having a national food policy reorganisation of distribution, the. inain objective being to bring an adequate diet within the purchasing power of the whole community.

SUGAR BEET ERROR Sir Daniel Hall, agreeing with Sir John Oir, said he considered that the wheat and sugar subsidies were ill- designed, for these commodities were cheap in the world's markets, they were the easiest foods-to-import dur- ing war, and land was being diverted to them that was better adapted to livestock and vegetables.

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tisin do about the destructive uscs made of their discoveries, was the question tackled in an emphatic address by Prof J. C. Philip, prest- dent of the Chemistry Section.

The use for other than beneficial ends of substances discovered by the chemist was due, not to his (the chemist's) special wickedness, he declared, but to the weakness and unckwardness of the human spirit.

"Impelled by patriotic molives, most scientists have put themselves freely nite disposal of the State in time of need, but many are hesitating to admit that patriotism

Gas May Hold Reforms At Bay

Professor Enjoys Dodge'ems

Equipped with umbrella and raincoat, Professor F. W. Ed- ridge-Green (72) led his fellow scientists to a 40-acre amusement park, where a happy time was had by all.

His long while beard blowing In the breeze, the professor, who in the Board of Trade Examiner on colour vision, next took his seal in the Great Wheel, which towers 70 feet in the air and re- volves at frightening apred.

The professor waved his hand The wheel went faster and faster, Girls screamed. The B.A. ccle- brity smiled. It was a shaking afternoon off' duty.

must always override considera- tions of humanity," said Professor Philip.

"Whatever be

NOTHER resounding attack on illusion and to teach people from politicians was launched by Sir; their earliest formative years that

our individual Daniel Hall in an aildress to the men and women, however diverse as attitude in this matter, it is time for

Individuals, eduentional section.

are. collectively and chemists and scientists in general to throw their weight into the scale statistically, very much alike."

Later Sir Daniel said:

against the tendencies which are "The greatest of all dangers les in dragging science and civilisation the temptation that is now offered to down." the power-mongers.

"Party, country, religion-these are the kind of emotional issues which constitute the false money wherewith the

politicians buy power," he said, They are all forms of tie easiest of self-delusions-that of belonging to aļ chosen ruce.

Step by step the habit of Hasion is built up the old school fle, the club, the regiment, the social class, the nation.

In themarives these loyalties

their excellent; dangerous side is that they breed hatreds of the desser breeds with- out the law."

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"The function of education based on selence is to destroy tils

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The new theory' comes frorn Dr. Harold Jelfreys, who is University Reader in Geophysics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St. John's College. Dr. Jeffreys is 45.

Sle James Jean explained that the theory of Dr. Jeffreys supplants his own theory, advanced in 1916..

Sir James's theory was that a pas si star raised tides of great height in the sun, and the whole structure. became unstable.

A long flament of gas was shot out! towards the passing star and thus ultimately condensed into plancts.

These had short and strangely uniform periods of about 19 hours.

"Jeffreys," sald Sir James, "has proposed replacing distant tida! action by an actual collision, of a grazing kind;

"It is efficient in its way-at the price of extreme slowness and ex Ireme cruelty. but it is blind and mechanical: accordingly and

its products are Just as likely to bej aesthetically, morally, or Intellec- "The gas at the sun's surface is tually repulsive to us as they are then twirled round between the up- attractive worthy of imila-her and nether millstones formed by the sun and the second star, and all

to be

tion,"

Dr. Huxley held that if we adopted goes well." some system for using a few highly- enlowed individuals to produce the new generation, all kinds new possibilitles would everge.

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A NEW theory of the origin of the ----universe was announced to the mathematics and physles section by Sir James Jeans, Professor of Astro- nomy in the Royal Institution.

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"Once having obtained control of the machinery, they can wipe out any

further exercise of the popular will Of old every autocracy ended in revolution; what chance has a rising to-day against guns and gas?

The old reformers fought for universal education; 'did they ever consider how it would be used to consolidate tyranny?

of

the inventor's brainwerk

was

A DIFFERENT kind of misuse of attacked by Professor Cramp in the Engineering Section, who declared

that

was

the whole legal system fromed so as to thwart the inventor who would create a new Industry.

meet

the

Large firms would unblushingly "It is reported that the Germans copy an invention, relying on tho

palentee's innbility to are moving tewards uniformity by the sterilisation of the dissidents, incredible legal cost of defending the

palent. The end is the ant community

He advocated machinery in tech- soldiers and obedient workers."

nica!

matters of life and health to Sie Richard Gregory said: "It is "prevent the engineer from being an Ironical

comment upon modern over-ruled by the commercial mun." that the social reaction eivilisation

Professor Cramp declored that coke to the gifts of plenty made possible was often delivered with 20 per cent.

In of wate by selence is not an increase

in it "dirty water at 30s. human welfare, but distress and un- per employment.

The engineer would be quite will- Our distributive and economieing to dry the coke or to declare the system remains on the basis of a moisture-content, but this would not pre-scientifle era, wholly unadjust-sult the salesman, and so they had

ed to the change and unable to bear the burdens placed upon it."

Rocket To Moon In Two Days

Liverpool, Sept. 36. SPACE rocket which Wit travel to the moon In two days is being planned by rocket Hyldg experts in Britain. Ger. many, and America. The British

Inter Planetary. Society, who have their headquarters in Liverpool, are sure this experiment will succeed.

new form of an old rhyme:

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Scientists are working on a liquid fuct

A which, travelling at rocket speed of seven miles a second. will reach the moon ire two days.

"Litle drops of water in a bag at cake,

"Fill the gas-works coffers. Good then; lei 1 soak."

He told of an agreement between engineer-mannging-director and his friend in control of another firm., that in tendering for a particular municipal contract each would in- clude in his tender £1,000 to be paid by the winning firm to the loser. The 11,000 was paid through private accounts.

The proposer of the sceret arrange- ment later became

mayor of the same town.

"LETTERS

WERE FORGERIES"

-Sir O. ATTA NO REPRISALS ON NATIVES PLANNED

Experiments were conducted In America last year with a similar rocket which reached a speed of 700 miles an hour, bul at a height of 7,500 feet the fuel ran out and the rocket returned to earth. A "stepped"

rocket will be

bullt, each of the three chambers being Alled with explosive liquid.

As speed reduced, two chambers would fall off, each at ZIR OFORI ATTA, Paramount

of the

ASIR

given distance from the earth, and Chief of the Akim Abuakwa, explode with a propelling power to and one of the most prominent send the rockel farther on its figures of the Gold Coast, has journey,

SHELLED TOWN THAT FORGAVE

cabled to London stating that

two "official" letters, alleged to have been written by him, are "flagrant forgeries."

Hurtlepool, bombarded by Germani In July Mr. Ormsby-Gore, the warships during the war, when mure Colonial Secretary, was handed than 300 people were killed, recently two letters which purported to. welcomed for the drst time for 22 be written by Sir Ofori- years a German ́naval vessel, the Elbe.

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Two-thirds ut this ex-German colony, now under Australian rule, is inlinblied by cannibals and head- hunters, who carry on to-day their ancient practices.

"Yet," says Mr. Edmund Demaitre in his book "New Guineu Gold" (Geoffrey Bles, 10/0), "at Wau, Salamaua, and Lae (three centres of gold-getting] airplanes arrive or leave every four minutes."

"It is dangerous," he says, "10 walk two miles outside these air- dromes without an armed platoon as escort. Ten minutes after leaving the ground one is flying over explored country.","*"

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There are 18 airfields In the Marobe gold area and four others in neighbouring districts. You can now ly to the gold" "crecks" (mountain ravines) for £5, where a few years ago it cost £100 for the same journey.

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In one of them, addressed to the Secretury for. Native Affairs int Accra, the suggestion was made that the headsman of a small town and four other natives who had taken a lead in refusing to pay taxes to Sir Ofori should be deported after "a Taked meeting between the Government and themselves,"

The letters were handed to Mr. Aborigines Protection Society by Mr. Ornaby-Gore

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Reginald Sorensen, Labour M.I. for West Leyton, and a question was asked in the House of Commons about them on July 30.

Mr. Sorenson stressed the fact that he had no proof that they were genuine. H suld, he merely brought them to the Government's notice so that the matter could be probed.

COLDEN CROWN

Mr. Walter Austin, of Austin and Young, merchants, of London, who Is the London agent for Sir

London Ofori, told

paper: "Sir Ofori has cabled denying author- ahip of these letters. He says they are Bagrant forgeries.

The Colonial Office also told the

that paper

an inquiry wh/cli out showed no it had carried trace of Sir Ofori ever having written such letters to the authorities.

Sir Ofori vialled London in 1928 and 1934, and on both occasions caused a sensation by wearing a golden crown, golden sandals, and thick velvet robes in the streets.

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