1936-10-15 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936.

What the Scientists Saidat the British

Association Meetings

TELEPATHY MAY BE THE NEXT STEP

-Professor Julian Huxley

WHAT are the future possibilities; or a degeneration, must be guided by

of the human brain?

a deliberate purpose.

This was a question rained by Pro- "Obviously the formulation of an fessor Julian Huxley in an oddress agreed purpose for man as a whole in the Zoology Section on "Natural | will not be ensy. There have been Selection and Evolutionary Pro-many attempts already. gress,

"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,"

kaid, "though the the mills of God In grinding slowly and grinding small, has few other attributes that civilised religion would call divine.

THE BRAIN

"It is offelent in its way-ut the price of extreme slowness and ex-

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

"Another struggle still in progress is between the idea of a purpose directed to a future life and one directed to this existing world.

"Until such major conflicts pre re- solved humanity cais have no single major purpose and progress can be but Alful and stow."

treme crucity, but it is blind and Men Will Go Back

or

mechanical; and' accordingly its pro- ducts are just as likely to be nesdie- inicitectually tically, morony, repulsive wu as they are to be) attractive or worthy at imitation.

to

ius

"Both spersed and progrèsolye improvement are mere by-products of its action, and are the exceptions rather than the rule. For the state

copy man or the eugenist methods in both foolish and wicked. "Not only is natural selection not the instrument of

a God's sublime the best it is not even

To the University

-Sir R. Livingstone | IR RICHARD LIVINGSTONE, In SIR

his presidid address to the educational section, asked: "Are we an educated nation?"

"fam-

He quoted the results of ous people" examination set to his men by an Engush Army officer in

When for achieving evolution- Italy during the wor.

that

ary progress."

the Professor luxley held main part of any large change in the blologically near future must be sought in the improvement of the brain,

A prominent part of the celebrations altendant on the rechristening of Thibet Road as Ỷu Ya- cling Road in Shangliai recenu y was the parade of the Chinese Company and Interpreters' Com- pany. 8.V.C., before Mr. Yu, who was the founder of the Chinese Company some years ago. Our pleture shows Mr. Yu, in civil an clothes at centre, reviewing the parade with Captain V. Y. Chen, and Lieutenants George Hoh and N. S. L.

Escaped Convict Rewarded

For 23 Years of Atonement

The result of the test was as fol- laws (the number in brackets show-Carlton B. Chilion to in the number of candidates who identified each person):

Charles Peace (19), George Stephenson (18), Von Tirpitz (15), With our human type of society Nat Gould (14), C. B. Fry (11), Sir we must stive up any hope of deve-H. Painer (U), Woodrow Wilson (8), toping such altruistic instincts as the Clemenceau (7), Michael Angelo (0), oin usecls. This is impossible Sir R. Borden (4), Milton (4). Have Jons 03 our specles continues in its lock Wilson (4), Lord Milner (2),

Sir Henry Havelock: (1). present reproductive habits.

PURPOSE

of

new

Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 4. A strange case of justice tempered by mercy has closed chapter 23 years long with refusal by Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio to extradite

The Oklahoma. extradition request cited Mr. Chilton escaped trusty from the Granite, Olda, Reformatory in 1913. Confronted on one hand by n valid legal demand of another state, but looking down from his massive chair upon a man who for 23 years had lived respectably, na testified by his friends and civic organizations, Gov- ernor Davey took Christ Jesus as his "A long time ago," he declared to the hushed listeners in his office, "Christ said, 'Go and sin no more. And so the request for extradition is denied."

acen men haú hrcord of Charlca | Side in making a dimcult decision.

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to two who had heard of Lord Str. Richard. commented "If we were to adopt same system Millner for usinit low highly endowed - Though the paper was set in the summer of 1018, when unes like dividuals, directly or from tissue-

the tures, to produce all

next

and Wilson

Clementonu were cultures,

every one's lips, there was a surpris- generation, then all kinds

ing ignorance of statesmen who play- possibilities would energe.

"Men might develop custes, and cd a decisive put in the war. Even some at least of them might be en- the name of their own army com- dowed with altruistic and communal mander, Sir Henry Plumer, was un-

familiar to his men. impulsen.

"The examiners, men of a, war-

"Meanwhile there arc many

the brain time regiment, were a fair sample obvious ways in which

the average man," sald Sir of Jevel

performance

Richard. They were neither half- witted nor wholly ignorant.

So long as the education of the 14 or 15 or 10, or even 17 and 18,

raised.

could he

There are faculties, the bare ex- istence of which is as yet scarcely established; and these, too, might be developed until they were a com-

ROBBED BANK-IN OKLAHOMA

More than two decades ago Mr. Oklahoma bank Chillon robbed an and was sentenced to two years in

the reformatory. His good conduct earned him the position of a trusty, with duties and privileges denied to ordinary criminals.

With one year of his term served, he ran away. Unlike most escaped prison inmates, he went straight." World War, he served 17 months with the American forces overseas,

velt, obtained a position as a statis- tician for the United States Depart- ment of Labour, which he still holds. FRIENDS FLOCK TO SUPPORT

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His six years in Cleveland brought. him many friends and these have been unfalling in their efforts to save him from a return to prison 5-8 P.m, life and to preserve him for his small family, consisting of a wife and a 16-year-old step son.

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Among those who felt that Mr. Chilton's years of rectitude deserved merey at the hands of the law was Perry A. Frey, chief police prosecu- tor of Cleveland, who personally Passepied; Pavane "Le naked Governor Davey to refuse the s'amuse (Delibes): Night on the extradition plea.

barc mountain (Moussorgsky); Pc- While possibility of Instituting tite Salle de Concert--(Coleridge- federal court mandamus proceed- Taylor) ings was discussed, Marshall C. W. Ossman of Brooklyn Village, presl- dent of the Cuyahoga County Police Chief's Association, anounced that the association had voted unani- mously to uphold Governor Davey's action. Cleveland, present home of Mr. Chilton, is the seat of Cuyahoga County.

HAD PAID atonement

Reformatorics exis! to reform,

7 p.m. Vocal Gems. Nenpollian Nights; The Chocolato Soldier.

7.15 p.m. An interview with Miss Shiricy McLeod.

7.17 p.m. The Angelus Octet. Serenade (Schubert); Cradle Song (Brahms); Nocturne in E. Flat Major (Chopin); Spring Song (Mendelssohn).

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vasi mass of the population ends at When the United States entered the rather than to punish, it was pointed well to you: Steln; Song-Where

out.

monly distributed ns, say, musical or so long we shall have as at present and was given an honourable dis-be no question of the Justice of re- Leslie Ilutchinson; Song-The touch

mathematical gifts are to-day.

"I refer to telepathy and other extrasensory scilities of mind, which the work of Rhine. Salter and others

A Variety Concert. Piano Solos-I am playing fare- have a heart for lovely had returned to crime, there would

If Mr. Chilton, after his escape, women.

ar 17-Stars over Broadway"... an uneducated electorate.

The time will come when men charge,

turning him to prison. But witness of your lips....Hildegarde, with will return to the Universities in

Ife ins acted as

bus driver, after witness told of his blameless Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends; middle life, to study systematically motorman, inspector and instructor life for 23 years.

Orchestra- love you so-Tango the newer developments in their own for the street railway company in To return this man to prison now, Serenade); Vocal-Why don't you I now forcing into scientine.recogni-delds, to review and revise their own Portland, Orelle come to Cleve-vernor Davey said, could produce practice what you preach... The

"no attitudes and habits of thought. land in 1930, served as an orderly at

possible

to (pod society.

Boswell Sisters: Band-Six hits of tion.

Mr. Chilton, upon hearing of his the day. The future of man, if it is to be That. Incidentally, will be very good Marine hospital and finally, through

Day. a personal letter to President Roose-freedom from arrest, ap long as he

p.m. progress and not merely a standstill for the Universities."

remains within Ohio, expressed gratitude to Governor Davey, and hope that Governor Marland would grant a pardon.

Mental Ability is not Inherited World's

-Mr. C. For

MR.

FOX, of Cambridge, characteristics, all of which are de- addressing the Paychology Sec-pendent on upbringing and educa-- tion, denied the theory that mental ilon," he said.

Delinquency, once consideerd as ability is inherited.

due to bad heredity, has been shown

Air Mileage Increases

2000-Year-Old

Skeleton Found

B

Time, Weather Report and

Announcements,

8.03 p.m. From the Studio-A Chinese Concert.

11 p.m. Close Down.

8.05-11 p.m. European Pro- gramme from ZEK. on fre. quency of 640 k.c's.

8.05

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p.m. Excerpts from "The Pirates of Penzance" (Gilbert_und Sullivan) sung by the D'Oly Carle Opera Company.

8.45 London, Oct. 1.

Mileage of the world's com- mercial air routes has increased

nearly 70 times during the past at Maiden Castlem

A firm bellet has long persisted, to be largely the cumulative effect he said, that there are certain sup- of environmental conditioning. Po- erlor stocks whose mental nature isverty and bad surroundings are less Independent of nurture, so that provocative of delinquency than the abilly will "out." More recent in- fiorul conditions prevalling in the

that the home. vestigations have shown mental resemblances between stil-

"There is abundant evidence," he 17 years, statistics compiled by ingg (blood relations), and even continued, "that the differences be British nuthorities revealed to- identical twins, are dependent to a tween peoples are entirely due to considerable extent on their similar history, tradition and culture, and no day. environment.

scientifle evidence whatever for the "What is true of Intelligence ap-belief that they are due to different plies also to temperament and moral hereditjes,"

Speeches in Brief

Dorchester, Oct. 1. YELLOWED skeleton, huddled

made at Malden Castle, the famous

8.45 p.m. Concert Waltzes. Dreaming-(Joyce); The Druid's Prayer (Davson); Maidens of Baden (Kamzak): Dream Waltz-(Mil-

9 p.m.

News and Announcements from London.

9.20

Four Traditional P.. Songs by Harold Williams and the B.B.C. Male Chorus,

at the bottom of a deep circular In 1919 the total mileage was.lt, is the latest important discovery

1. Wrap me up in my Tarpaulin only 3,000.

prehistoric fortress at Dorchester. Jacket: 2. The Lincolnshire Poacher; The skeleton, which was unearthed 3. John Peel; 4. Ten Green Bottles. Light Orchestral this morning, is over 2,000 years old. it is that of an adult, and is the first to be found on the site. It is In a wonderful state of preservation, the skull being complete.

To-day the total exceeds 200,- 000 miles on regularly operated lines. This figure is expanding

Mushrooms, Diet and Fatigue rapidly."

Until late in 1919, just 17 years ago, ÆR. J. RÁMSBOTTOM, in an ad-tribution, the main objective being toi paris was the sole European city to Mon funt to the botany bring an adequate diet within the which one sould dy from London, purchasing power of the whole com-Now one may book a seat to any one

of 200 cities on the Continent. A popular idea is that mushrooms munity." can be successfully grown only in

In 1924 Imperial Airways, Britain's darkness and that sheds, tunnels,

section:

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The grave is dug into the outside of the original rampart of the castle and is covered almost immediately by a rampart of the great western ; extension.

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Music.

p.m.

The Dancing Clock-(Ewing);

Valsante (Paldinh); Poupec

Olti Bohemian Town—(Kennedy); Cora Mia-(Prisker); Columbine's Ren- dezvous (Heykens): Tunes of Nol- so-long-ago-1922;

Queen Mary'a Song-(Elgar, arr. Haydn Wood).

10 p.m. Big Ben, A Variety and Dance Programme.

Another interesting and is that of Piano Solo-Breakin' ir a pair of caves and such like must be available. H, ECOLLIER, in an address Jargest commercial aviation combine to the physiological section: Properly ventilated caves are satis- The hours spent in overcrowded perated along lines totalling some third Roman building, adjoining shoes; Fax-Trots--Your heart and

1,700 miles. At present

roules the Roman temple and priest's house mine. Keep a twinkle in your eye; factory. In the caverns under | trains, omnibuses and tramcars exceed 20,000 miles and within the already uncovered. The use to Vocal--Covered Wagon Lullaby.... Hamlet's castle at Elsinore the grow-traveling to and from office, factory next two years on additional 10,000 which this bullding was put is not The Hill Billies; Fox-Trol I wanna

flourishing or workshop are the of mushrooms is n

most fertile ing

miles are to be added.

yet clear. Excavating is proceeding woo; Rumba Medley; Song-Tony's Industry. But it is rare to Ond single cause of fatigue in modera mushrooms growing naturally in any-industry.

in Town....Jessie Matthews; Fox- Seventeen years ago commercial rapidly. thing but full daylight.

"The lure of high wages, the fear London daily numbered two. To what earlier period, the bones of a Trois-I feel like a feather in the airplanes leaving and arriving in Near by, but belonging to a some TrotA rendezvous with a dream; Vocal-Little Piccantniny Mine; Fox- The rule-of-thumb method for of

self-regard and distinguishing between edible and kyner

may drive day more than 60 planes land und small horse have been found close

leave various London airdromes,

Life begins to, and possibly associated with, two breeze, poisonous species are worse than use-Individuals and groups of men

The sudden development of avia- daggers and two spearheads, com- less, for Amanita phalloides, the most through the state of fatigue into that poisonous of all fungi, "peels," doen of actual illness, yet neither the

pietely prehistoric." silver coin black, nor does workers nor the mannger may be not turn a it obey any of the rules which have aware of what is happening." been in common practice since clas- sical times. Accidents are certain when there is Indiscriminate cating of anything, and fungi gre no ex

ception.

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SIR JOHN ORR, in an address to

the agricullore section:

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ion has resulted in pioneer commer- cual planes which carried a pilot and two passengers being improved to transport In comfort and increased

Air speeds between London and

POSSIBLY FROM THIRD CENTURY B.C.

Dr. R. Mortimer Wheeler, keeper PRICADIER H. S. L. WINTER-safety 40 passengers and a crew of

of the London Museum, who is in BOTHAM in a paper in the geopraphy sections on the mapping Continental points subsequently have charge of the excavations, speaking of the skeleton discovery sold of the Colonial Empire, deplored the been increased from 75 miles an hour to-day: "There is no special reason way in which we have allowed our to approximately 200.

to regard it as a ritual burial, ex- mans to get out of date.

New schedules to most important cept that the interment took place

when you're

in love; Organ Solo-Berceuse de Jocelyn (Godard)....Edward O'Henry; Fox-Trot-I'se -7

n-muggin' Gertrude Lawrence Medley Song ....Gertrude Lawrence; Fox-Trot- Would You; Waltz-A' Waltz WBJ born In Vienna.

11 p.m. Close Down. DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

The following wave-lengths and frequencies Sonare #buszved by Daventry,

Blen Frequency Wavelength

6.549 h

40.59. metros 9.210 ·k.c. #t.S、 metres 9.545.t XI.30 metres 11,736

26.82

matree 11,84 k. 23.21 metres

13.43 17,790 km.・・ 11,86 metres 20.470 1. 11.37 metres JKE M. 19.82 metres

10.40 metre B110k.e. 49.10 metres Transmission 1

"The Ordnance Survey, tucked Points In the Empire which go into within a very short time of the con "The cost of an adequate diet, to away in that one-time asylum in operation shortly will drastically struction of the new bank, a fact 10s. per head per week, is beyond the Southampton, keeps on doing its reduce flying times. The prescut which may, or may not, be signi- purchasing power of one-third of best, and its dimculties are, at last services from London of 8 days to ficant. the community.

being considered. None the less all Calcutta, 8 days to Singapore, and British geographers have duty in 124 days to Sydney are to be cut period in the history of the camp, "It dates from a relatively earlier *The Government, instead of this matter. We ought to see that to 4, 6% and 0 days respectively, having a purely agricultural polley, our house is kept in order, and Once new schedules are in opera- perhaps from the third century should consider, having a national that the sinif of the Ordnance Survey tion additional savings will be food policy based on subsidised con- is not halved just when the changes attempted by improvements in ground "It is certainly well over two sumption and reorganisation of dis- of development are doubled,"

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