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ROBERT LYND DISCOVERS THAT

Inventions Do Make Life

Happier

P

ROFESSOR C. E. M. of truth-distorting propaganda! JOAD, I see, wishes Invented as an instrument for liberating the mind, it is now to put a ban on new used again and again as a means inventions or, at least, to set of enslaving the mind. Human up a censorship of new nature undoubtedly has shown inventions. He would like that it cannot be trusted to to have fa board of make a good use of the printing- scientists and philosophers" press,

who would refuse a permit

for any new invention of

which

self

PROFESSOR JOAD him- instances wire- they thought the human race incapable of less as a miraculous instrument which is being shamefully mis- |making a good use.

"The Everyone will agree with Pro- used by the human race.

he declares fessor Joad that man has shown bitterly, "vibrates to the sound not only an incomparable genius of negroid music, and wireless for inventing things, but 20 waves transmit auch announce- incomparable genius for putting ments as 'Ladies and gentle- them to wrong uses.

ultimate ether,'

men, Syd Anbone will now sing It is obviously the misuse of Tripe and Onions.*** inventions in war of which Pro- Certainly, if wireless is to be fessor Jond is chiefly thinking judged by the worst of which -the aeroplane, for example, it is capable, we must conclude which should be an instrument that it is a pity that it was ever for bringing the nations closer invented. In this respect it is together, but which is now being just like literature, music, and used as a means of spreading the art of drawing. Man in his death and destruction.

imperfection has put all three to

I do not think, however, that trivial and base uses. It is only the misuse of inventions began fair, however, to remember that with the aeroplane and the he has also put them all to glori- chemistry of modern warfare. ous uses,

I

An invaluable apparatus for conveying peas to the mouth

(as Heath Ro binson sees it)

tifie inventions to a good use.

Unfortunately, whereas pro-

gress is the normal thing in the

THE truth is, man's

a larger

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1938.

It must have begun very shortly Wireless may give us "Tripe .. after the expulsion from Eden, and Onions," but it also gives for man, being from the first a us Beethoven's symphonies. than was the case in the days of ed, human beings, without some "BLITVERTEIDUNG"

curious mixture of good and With its news and its talks it the Thirty Years' War and the inspiring faith, would make just as bad a mess of the world as There is every reason for be evil, was bound to make a pretty brings the remotest dweller in Spanish Inquisition.

Professor Joad's object in they are making to-day. lieving that the prompt and deplorable use of his gifts with the country into touch with cur-

rent affairs and intelligent stating his case as extremely as Cruelty is not a novelty in- efficient mobilisation of Czecho- the evil part of his nature.

opinion on them. And as a mat- possible was obviously to draw troduced by the acroplane. Man's Slovakia's army of two million

ter of fact, I have no complaint attention to the fact that what inhumanity to man was noted by men, and the plain statement of

inven- to make About IN themselves,

"Tripe and the world needs most at present a poet who lived long before the support from France, Soviet

tions are, for the most Onions." Crooning I detest, but is no more scientific inventions, invention of the high-explosive Russia, Rumania and Yugo-part, neither good nor bad. It a little triviality now and then but such moral improvement as bomb. Slavia, must have a sobering is human nature in its use of is by no means bad for the soul. would enable it to put its scien- effect in Germany. For the first them which is good or bad.

W Take such

an apparently in- time eflicient precautions have

KNOW # man who

great problem remains been taken before German shock nocent invention as the pen, for

'maintains that

no world of science, it is by no to-day much the same as it was tactics so successful in the example. In the hands of a

invention has saint it may bring light into the modern

made means certain in the world of 1,000 or 2,000 years ago. It is Rhine area and in Austria-

world. In the hands of the poet human beings happier. He morals and ideas. A world in chiefly a problem of getting rid could be switched over from and the lover, how immeasur- sincerely regrets the invention, which great scientific advances of egotism. threats to definite action. Inably it has increased human not only of the aeroplane and took place and at the same time An egotist with an aeroplano other words, a beginning of happiness! Put it in the hand wireless, but of the motorcar, morality, philosophy and litera- may be dangeous on lightning defence, or Blitvertel- of a forger, however, and it be the cinema and even the tele- ture decayed is perfectly con- scale than an egotist with n ceivable. Who can say for cer- stone axe. But I doubt whether dung, has been worked out and comes an instrument of crime. phone.

the

I cannot agree with him. It tain whether the moral ideas the world, unless it were moral- put into practice, as an answerIt. lends itself equally to

general in 1938 arely belter, would be either hap- Lo the long line of successes anonymous letter-writer and to seems to me to be incontestably that are

sermons. It true that the inventions of better or worse than those which pier or more humane if it scrap- that Germany had in the past the composer of.

have enormously in- were current în the middle of ped all its aeroplanes ånd took with her Blitzangriff, or light-can be used for writing the most science

illiterate balderdash as well as creased the diffusion of human last century? To decide the to the stone axo again. ning attack.

enjoyment. Bad as the world matter one way or the other is As Professor Joad clearly sees, Europe at least has, as a re- the divinest poetry.

If Professor Jond's theory is is to-day, I cannot help believing an act not of reason but of faith. it is not science that has gone sult of the prompt precautions

a greater proportion of I am afraid that, even if all wrong, it is we who have gone taken by Czecho-Slovakia, a sound that inventions ought to that breathing space of four days be prohibited until human be- human beings are enjoying life modern inventions were abolish wrong in the use we make of it. ninety-six hours before Czecho-ings are sure to make a right use Slovakia need decide, in con- of them, then pens, paper and formity with Herr Hitler's ink ought to have been pro- threat of direct action on Octo-hibited long ago. If this had ber 1, whether she will fight or been done the world would un- make one of the greatest doubledly have been spared a sacrifices any nation has ever great amount of crime, of false H been called upon to make in the interests of peace. In those ninety-six hours much can hap pen. It is twice the time Aus- tria gave Servia in 1914 und.

From the point of view of a although the sands will run pessimist there is much to be quickly, diplomats in London, said for the suppression of the Paris and Washington can be

PALESTINE MEMORIES

TOW they crowd on one, cven It was on suck a night that the

Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Sarena, Sheikh ufter the lapse of twenty years, Lowland Territorial Division per-Munnnis, El Jellb-each in their set- and poisonous teaching, and of the memories of that lovely land! formed the amazing feat of crossing ting of palms, poplars, and orange rubbish. But would it, on the The fierce scrambling; and fighting the awollen Aufa River in hastily groves, and within a stone's throw of whole, have been happier? Imongst the bleak Judean hills, the constructed rafts and attacked the the ultramarine Mediterranean-all

frightful rainstorms which swelled Tukish positions at dawn, sending were held by us until our withdrawal } doubt it.

rivers until they swept off men and them reeling back another twenty to Franco in April 1918. camels and Roated away waggons, miles and covering all the interven- with their mules drowned, into the ing country with abandoned blackness of the stormy night, and stores of all kinds. GRIN AND BEAR IT

relied upon to do everything in printing-press. What power it their power to utilise the inter-gives to a dictator as a means vening hours advantageously in

the cause of peace.

than

As we said yesterday, prog-tain or France; they go further the greatest hopes of nostication regarding the out- come of the crisis is futile, in Herr Henlein and the Sudeten- view of the lightning and be- Germans, even further than the wildering changes that occur wildest hopes held a week ago by hour by hour in Europe. But Germany herself. one fact stands out clear and Insistence by. Herr Hitler on unchallengeable: if war comes to acceptance of his latest de-l Europe, one nation and one mands can leave the world with! man-the man who rules that only one conclusion-that he is nation with an iron rule besides deliberately provoking war, and which the power of its pre-war is determined that the Czechs All Highest fades

in-shall have no loop-hole for significance will be to blame. peace. It will be a terrible thing! "Czecho-Slovakia, acting on for humanity if this belief is the advice of Great Britain and correct for, in the event of war, France, conceded to Germany Germany must surely find that and Herr Hitler terms which no it will be impossible for De- self-respecting, independent na-mocracy to remain indifferent! tion ought to have been asked at such a callous and pre- to concede. Czecho-Slovakia, meditated use of the Mailed conscious of the effect such Fist.

into

terma had on its dignity as an With all their hearts, British independent State, would have people hopo that, whatever ad- been justified in rejecting the justment is made to Herr Hit- Anglo-French suggestions. More ler's demands, Czecho Slovakia so, having agreed to those first will be able to accept them with demands, she is entitled to ro honour and dignity, as bofits the Joct the subsequent demands best governed and conducted which Herr Hitler released like State created and emancipated a bombshell at Godesberg. They by the Great War.

not only go further than any- Czocho-Slovakia cannot accept thing envisaged by Great Bri- peace on any other terms.

arms

The countryside around-all on the edge of the Plain of Sharon-was mmothered in such a wonderfully prolific and beautifully varied wild- flower

growth as almost to defy shall I forget the loveliness Sharon's wild flowers.

By Lichty description. Never while life lasts

This là no time for stage fright, Clancy! You just go out and

say: Everybody, out--the theatre's on fire',

Bedouin Squalor

of

The people, poor and mean and lowly for the most part, living in hovels and on the husks of foodstuffs and seemingly chiefly of Arable descent, wearing the same mongrel

simple

Harments they wore two thousand years ago, ploughing with

a camel and a horse, a bullock and an ass, or even a cow and a man yoked together to pull the old wooden plough ucross the furrows of the stony ground.

The Bedouin famies, living im frightful upologies for tents, but on their own allotted territory, were an. eye-opener to us. Fowls, goats, dogs,, donkeys, and even camels wandered In and out of the tents, where men,. women, and children lived and slept together.

For sanitary reasons we had to compulsorily remove these families to it now ground every fortnight, and at first their despairing walls, exclt- ed jabbering in Arable, and covering their heads with dust, made us most feel we were doing them an in- jury. Very soon, however, their headmen understood, and the fort- nightly removal was performed like children going to a plenie.

It was pathetic to see their humble waiting on, the scraps from every meal. With his love for children and kindliness towards the unfor tunate, the British soldier has been. (Continued on Page 73

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