1936-10-15 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

What the Scientists Said

Association Meetings

TELEPATHY MAY BE THE

NEXT STEP

-Professor Julian Huxley

WHAT are the Tuture possibilities | or a degeneration, must be guided by

of the human brain? This was a question raised by Pro- fessor Julian Huxley in an address in the Zoology Section on "Natural Selection and Evolutionary Pro- Breas,"

Professor Huxley said that it was a fallacy that natural selection must always be for the good of the species or of life in general.

"Natural selection," he said, "Though like the milis of God in .grinding slowly and grinding small, That a has few other nitributes elvilised religion would call divine.

THE BRAIN

"It is efficient in its way at the price of extreme slowness and ex-

In deliberate purpose.

"Obviously the formulation of an agreed purpose for man as a whole will not be easy. There have been many attempis afready.

"To-day we are experiencing the struggle between two opposed ideals that of the subordination of the in- dividual to the community and that of his intrinsic superiority.

"Another struggle still in progress is

the idea of a purpose between directed to a future life and our directed to this existing world,

"Untli such major confllets are re- solved humanity can have no single mujor purpose ond progress can be but Atful and slow."

tremo cruelty, but it is blind and Men Will Go Back

mechanical: und accordingly its pro- ducts are just us likely to bo neshe- Intellectually tically, morally, OF repulsive to us as they are to uc attractive or worthy of imitation.

itm

To the University

-Sir R. Livingstone IL RICHARD LIVINGSTONE, in his presidential address to the educational section, usked; "Aro we an educated nation?"

"Both specialised and progressive. Improvement are mere by-products of its fiction, and are, the exceptions rather than the rule. For the states- to copy ite man or the eugenist methods is both foolish and wicked.

He quoted the results of a "fam- "Nol

only is natural selection not

ous people" examination set to his the instrument of a God's sublime

the best men by an English Army oflcer in it is not even Te for uchieving evolution- Italy during the war. ary progress

that the Professor Huxley held main part of any large change in the future must be biologically near sought in the improvement of the brain.

The result of the test was as fol- lows (the number In brackets show- ing the number of candidates who identiiled ench person):

Charles l'eace (19), George Stephenson'

(10)

Von Tirpitz (15), with our human type of society Not Could (14), C. B. Fry (11), Sir we must give up any hope of deve-II. Palmer (0), Woodrow Wilson (8), loping such altruistle instincts as the Clemenceats (7), Michael Angelo (0), social insects. This is impossible to Sir R. Borden (0), Milton (4), Have- long as our species continues in te lock Wilson (4), Lord Milner (2),

Sir Henry Havelock (1). present reproductive habits.

PURPOSE

"If we were to adopt some systern for using a few highly endowed in dividuals, directly or from tissue- cultures, to produce all the generation, then all kinds possibilities would emerge,

of

next new

ien night develop castes, and some at least of them might be en- dowed with altruistic and communal impulses,

there are "Meanwhile obvious ways in which the brain

of performance could

level

many

De

on

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936.

at

the British

A prominent part of the celebrations attendant on the rechristening of Thibet Road as Yu -Ÿn- ching Road in Shanghat recently was the parade of the Chinese Company and Interpreters' Com- pany, B.V.C., before Mr. Yu, who was the founder of the Chinese Company some years ago. Que picture shows hir. Yo. in civilian clothes at centre, reviewing the parade with Captain V. Y. Chen and Lieutenants George Ich and N. 8. Li.

FORD BACKS LANDON

HAS HAD ENOUGH OF NEW DEAL

NO PERSONAL ILL WILL

JOBLESS MARCH ON LONDON

SEEKING HELP FOR JARROW AREA

London, Oct. 14.

Two hundred unemployed men marching to London from Jarrow are now at Harrogate. They are re-

เล

to

RADIO BROADCAST

Dance Music from The Hongkong Hotel

CHILDREN'S CONCERT

355 metres (845 kilocycles):

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of

5.0 p.m.

The

on the

presentative of all shades of politica, 5-8 p.m. European Programme. and are marching to London' to cati

A Relay of Dance Music from the attention of the country to the Garden.

Hongkong Hotel Roof. Detroit, Oct. 14.

Jarrow, "I admire and believe in London, condition of

which Nineteen men had heard of Charles

6-0.30 p.m. From the Studio-A Peace to two who and heard of Lord and hope he is elected." decinred Mr. Britain's blackest spot, with 65 per Children's concert.

Sir Richard. Henry Ford, famous motor magnate cent. of the population unemployed. commented

6.30 p.m. The London Symphony Milner,

The marchers will be

be disappointed Though the paper was set in the and practical social reformer to-day.

Passepied; Pavane "Lo Rol summer of 1918, when names like after Mr. Alfred Landon, Governor of at the Issuing of on official Cabinet Orchestra. Wilson and Clemenceau were

"Kansas and Republican candidate for statement which emphasises that as every one's lips, there was a surprise presidency had visited him here, the

representary system permits of s'amuse" (Delibes); Night lo-day.

grievances in the bare mountain-(Moussorgsky); Pe- ing ignorance of statesmen who play-

Landon, said Mr. Ford, was a busi-House of Commons, processions uite Suite de Concert (Coleridge- ed a decisive part in the war. Even ness man who ate out of a dinner-London cannot claim to have a con- Taylor). Vocal Gems. the name of their own army com

bucket for years. "He still thinks stitutional influence on policy. with the men mander, Sir Henry Plumer, was un-

who carry dinner- The Ministers have therefore de- Neapolitan Nights; The Chocolato familiar to his men.

buckets," the great

Industrialist elded that encouragement cannot be Soldier.

given to such marches, and they can- 7.15 p.m. An interview with Miss added.

They had had in America enough to consent to receive any deputa- Shirley McLeod

ilon of the marchers, although they 7.17 p.to. The Angelus Octet. of the New Deal; about all the coun- try could stond, Mr. Ford asserted. M.P.'s on the subject-Reuter Spectul.(Brahms); Nocturne in E. Flat will always be prepared to meet Serenade (Schubert); Cradle Song He had been its special target for

Major (Chopin); Spring Song- three years, but he did not hold that

(Mendelssohn). against it. It was the fuct that from lem, in an effort to destroy competi the beginning the New Deal had been lon in the United States, to which he asalsted by the worst form of enpital-objected, he said.--Reuter

man,"

"The examinees, men of a war- time regiment, were a fair simple of the averoge

Bald Sir Richard. They were neither half

So long as the education of the vist mass of the population ends at 14 or 15 or 16, or even 17 and 18, so long we shall have as at present an uneducated electorate.

There are faculties, the bare ex-willed nor wholly ignorani. istence of which is as yet scarcely established; and these, too, might be developed until they were as com monly distributed as, say, musleal or mathematical gttts are lo-day.

I refer to telepathy and other extrasensory activities of mind, which the work of Rhine, Salter and others is now forcing into scientific recogni-

"The time will come when men will return to the Universities in middle fe, to study systematically the newer developments in their own fields, to review and revise their own

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

attitudes and habits of though!; |--THE-TRIE~15' HIGHU" WHEN "TIEROISM") "Five "furtlier cases” of “lyploid tien.

The future of man, if it is to be That, Ineldentally, will be very good WILL COME AS READILY TO THE HUMAN and one of diphtherin were notified

SOUL AS THE SMILE DOES то THE❘ yesterday. progress and not merely a standstill for the Universities,"

CHILD'S FACE-Montegui.

Mental Ability is not Inherited

AIR. C. FOX, of addressing the

-Mr. C. Fox was

Chan Woon-san, aged 24 years, admitted to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday suffering

to have been

well

p.m.

7.33 p.m. A Variety Concert. Plano Solos-I am playing fare- to you; I I have a heart for lovely women..... Fred Stein; Song-Where am I? "Stars over Broadway".... Leslie Hutchinson; SongThe touch your lips....Hildegarde, with Carroll Gibbons and llis Boy Friends Orchestra-I love you so (Tango Serenade); Vocal-Why don't you practice what you preach....The Boswell Sisters: Band-Six hits of

of

Cambridge, elsaracteristics, all of which are de- from the effects of opium poisoning. Road, Kowloon, and Miss Lily Emma Chinese Concert.

don, denied the theory that mental ability is inherited.

tion," he said,

Delinquency, once consideerd us due to bad heredity, has been shown

at the Kam Tol Hotel.

The "Tipo Belle," the new motor

The forthcoming wedding is an- the day. nounced: of Mr. Frederick Leonard Strokey,. inspector and stocktaker, Announcements.

6 p.m. Time, Weather Report and N.A.A.FI, living at 14 Cameron 8.03 p.m. From the Studio-A

11 p.m. Close Down. 8.05-11 p.m. European Pro- gramme from ZEK. on a tre- quency of 640 k.c's.

Commerce, residing at 200, Nathan fload.

ability will "out," More recent in-moral conditions prevailing in the foon in 2 hours, 15 minutes, according Fionn Hospital yesterday suffering Op.m. Concert Waltzes.

A firm belief has long persisted, to be largely the cumulative effect he said, that there are certain sup- of environmental conditioning. Por erior stocks whose mental nature la verty and land surroundings are 10 Independent of nurture, so that provocative of delinquency than the

the home. vestigations have shown that mental resemblances between sibl-There is abundant evidence," he Ings (blood relations), and even continued, "that the differences be identical twins, are dependent to a tween peoples are entirely due to considerable extent on their simallur history, tradition and culture, and no scientifle evidence whatever for the environment.

"What is true of intelligence up-bellef that they are due to different plies also to temperament and moral heredities."

Speeches in Brief

Mushrooms, Diet and Fatigue

seclou:

*

the

coach on the Kowloon-Canton Rall- Ng Au-kam, 20, cook on the 8.03.p.m. Excerpts from "The way made a trial run to Canton steamer Prosper, lying off Stone-Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert_and yesterday, making the trip from Kow-cutters, was admitted to the Kow-Sullivan) sung by the D'Oly Carte

Company to the Canton Gazette, which adds from, scalds received while

vessel was at Canton, Ng was carry- Dreaming(Joyce); The Druid's that this is a record for Chinn..

ing a pot of boiling water, when he Prayer-(Davson); Maidens of Boden A woman, Tam Chak-mul, aged 25 slipped and fell, upsetting the con-Komzak); Dream Waltz-(MIL- years, jumped into the harbour attents on himself. Salgon Street yesterday in an at-

9 p.m. tempt to commit suicide, but was

9.20 p.m. Four Traditional

locker).

News and Announcements

For the theft of a cotton jacket, from London, rescued by seainan, Lo Chan, from Chan Sing, 24, unemployed, was

the G. P. O. launch, and was taken bound over in $100 to be good be-Songs by Harold Williams and the to the Kowloon Hospital suffering haviour for a year by Mr. K. Keen B.B.C. Mole Chorus, from the effects of immersion.

The

caves and such like must be available, } /*. II. E. COLLIER, in an address a shop master and defendant his Chin-tin, 34, shoemaker, appeared; dezvous-(Heykens); Tunes of Not-

inst of

caverns

ΟΙ

fear

Mr. W. Schofield,

at

and

the Central Magistracy this 1 Wrap me up in my Tarpaulin morning. The jucket belonged to Jacket; 2. The Lincolnshire Poacher; A servant, Chul Wun, aged 17. | Mak Fat, 45, a foki of the Yan Wo John Peel; 4. Ten Green Bottles. was brought before Mr. K. Keen ni boarding house in Connaught Rond 9.33 p.m. Light Orchestral the Central Magistracy this morning, Central, and was stolen when

he Music. hung it up before starting work.

Dancing Clock-(Ewing); dress on fungi lo the botany] bring an adequate diet within the of sucks, the property of Taul Shut purchasing power of the whole com-wals of 170 Wellington Street. Det.

Poupec Valsante (Poldini); Old Chu iling-ting, 34, tallor, Keung Dolemlon Town (Kennedy); Cara A popular Idea is that mushrooms munity."

Sergt. Mackay said complainant was Ping-luten, 31, shoemaker, and Teu Min(Prisker); Columbine's Ren- can be successfully grown only in sheds, tunnels,

einployee. Pleading guilly, defendant before darkness and that

Queen the so-long-ago-1932;

Mary's to the physiological section;

was sentenced to one month's Central Magistracy this morning. Song(Elgar, arr. Haydn Wood). "The hours spent in overcrowded rigorous imprisonment. Properly ventilated caves are satis-

charged with having intimidated 10 p.m. Big Ben. A Variety and and tramcara under trains, omnibuses In the

Cheung Yu-fu, taller, at Wanchal on Dance Programme. let's castle at Elsinore the grow- travelling to and from office, factory |

Throwing a paper packet contain-Tuesday, with intent to cause him to Plano Selo-Breakin' in a pair of most fertile of mushrooms

Bourishing or workshop are the lo a

to and single cause of fatigue in modern a mace of nun-Government pre- do an act which he was not legally shoes; Fox-Trots-Your heart industry. But it is rare

pared oplam Into the Laichikok bound to do, namely, to subscribe to mine. Keep a twinkle in your eye; mushrooms growing naturally in any-industry.

a cerlain association, and at the Vocal-Covered Wagon Lullaby.... The lure of high wages, the Female Prison for the use of one of thing but full daylight.

the inmates, Ho King, 30, was seen same time having beaten and na-The Ill Billes; Fox-Trol-I wanna The rule-of-thumb method for of unemployment, self-regard and and caught by Wardress Farid on saulted the complainant. Detective-

-drivo distinguishing between edible, and hyperconscientiousness may

Tuesday night. He offered

$ Sergeant C. Dowman applied for a woo; Rumba Medley: Song-Tony's Matthews; Fox- in Town.. poisonous species are worse than use- individuals and groups

men bribe to her, but was put under remand for 48 hours, which WildTraiA rendor with a dream; less, for Amanita phalloides, the most through the state of fatigue into that arrest. At the Kowloon Magistracy granted.

Vocal-Little Plecaninny Mine; Fox- poisonous of all fungi, "peels," does of actual illness, yet neither the this morning, he was fined $40, or

Trots feel like a feather in the not turn a silver coln black, nor does workers nor the manager may be nhe weeks hard labour by

Life begins when you're Macfadyen. The bribe was ordered W. Schofield, at the Central Magis-in

Appearing on remand before Mr. breeze, It obey any of the rules which have aware of what is happening."

Organ Solo-Berceuse love:: been in common practice since clas-

Jocelyn (Godard)....Edward H.

tracy this morning, Chan. Sul, 47, de S. L. WINTER- sical times. Accidents are certain PRIGADIER

unemployed, was bound over in

O'Henry

Fox-Trot-l'ɛe a-muggin'; when there is indiscriminate cating BOTHAM, in a paper in the

Chan Chiu, 40, unemployed, ap-bond of $100 with one surety to come Song-Gertrude Lawrence Medley of anything, and fungi are no ex-geography section: on the red the peared before Mr. E. Himsworth at up for Judgment. If called Would You; Waltz-A Waltz was

Gertrude Lawrence; Fox-Trot- ception.

of the Colonial Empire, deplored the the Kowloon Magistracy this morn within

on a charge way in which we have allowed our ing charged with breach of the Dehaving aided and abetted in the un-born in Vienna, CIR JOHN ONE, in an address. to maps to get out of date.

portation Ordinance. He was sent lawful pawning of, 42 pleces of silic The Ordnance Survey, tucked away on August 25, 1034, and was at the Wing On pawnshop, 20 Main away in that one-time naykum in found by constable Lok Sul-ful, in Street, Shauki wan West, without the Southampton, keep on doing its the Colony on October 13 before the authority of the owner, Kam Cho- of best, and its dificulties are, at Inst, expiration of his ten-year term. In sang. Defendant was remanded from

being considered,. None the less all 1920 defendant was sentenced 12

raise $100 for amends, but Detective of this matter. We ought to see that and in 1933 served an Instead

The Manila Observatory reports at **The Government, having a purely agricultural policy, our house is kept in order. and three months for larceny and breach unable to do so. At the last hear-typhoon in about Long. 127. Lat Sub-Inspector Johnson said he was 10.15 a.m. to-day that there is a should consider having a national that the staff of the Ordnance Survey of the Deportation Ordinance. 11iting it was stated defendant had been 20. recurving north-eastwards: and food policy based on subsidised con- la not halved just when the changes Worship now sentenced him to three made the catspaw of a man named anther in about Long., 138, Lat. 10, sumption and reorganisation of dia-of development are doubled."

months hard labour.

Yu Pul, one of complainant's fokla, moving west.

*

**

*

the agriculture section:

The cast of an adequate diet, to 103. per head per week, is beyond purchasing power of one-third

the community.

...

the

*

*k

put into the Poor Box.

Mr.

one year,

of

British geographers have a duly in months in gool for false pretence Tuesday to see whether he could

additional

11 p.m. Close Down..

TYPHOON WARNINGS

"

NEW SHIRTS

There is an old saying that

it is impossible to please everybody! Well, we have attempted to confule the truth of this in the matter of our Autumn range of shirts.

With so many hues and patterns at hand, surely we can meet and satisfy your opinion of what constitutes the right shirt for every suit you posSEKS,

We welcome the opportunity to show you our latest styles and colours.

MACKINTOSH'S LTD.

Men's Wear Specialists,

ARTS & CRAFTS

are at your service to prepare designs and estimates on arty question of

INTERIOR

DECORATIONS or

FURNISHING

RENOVATIONS

ARTS & CRAFTS

734 King's Road. Tel. 24173. Experts in all Branches of Decorative Art

DEPENDABLE USED CARS

Model

Description

Mileage.

Prica

1929

AUSTIN "7" TOURER

41,600

HK$ 500

1931

NASH EIGHT SEDAN

28,300

1,000

1933

STANDARD "16" SALOON

14,000

1,400

1934

WILLYS "77" SEDAN

10,200

1,200

1934

CHEVROLET MASTER SEDAN

24,200

1,600

1934

CHEVROLET MASTER SEDAN

16,700

1,800

1935

WILLYS "77" SEDAN

7,000

1,500

1935

CHEVROLET ROADSTER

6,700

1,400

1936

CHEVROLET MASTER SEDAN

500

2,850

T.T.

FAR EAST MOTORS

CHEVROLET

26 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Telephone 59101.

EXCHANGE

Selling

Demand T.T. Shanghai

T.T. Japon

TI, India

U.S. Crosa rate in London. -

T.T. Liabon

.0$04

Daying

4 m/s. L/C London 4 m/s. D/P 1/2.25/32|4 m/s.L/C, USA. 1/2.25/32 4/m/s; France

.do

1/3.5/33 3011

0.03

.10214

30 d/s. India

T.T. Singapore

.52y

.105

.01%

.30%

T.T., Manila

100%

TT. Batavia

.50)

T.T. Bangkok

150

TT. Saigon

TT. Franco T.T. Germany

6.45

74%

TT, Switzerland

TT. Australia

T.T. U.S.A.

TYPEWRITING AND COPYING

OFFICE

Gestetner