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IN MEMORIAM

ROBERT LYND DISCOVERS THAT

Inventions Do Make Life

Happier

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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 · Lo to have "a board of make a good use of the printing- scientists and philosophers" press.

who would refuse a permit

for any new invention of

which

PRO

OROFESSOR JOAD him- self instances wire-

they thought the human race incapable of less as a miraculous instrument which is being shamefully mis- [making a good use.*

"The used by the human race. ultimate ether," he declares

Everyone will agree with Pro- fessor Joad that minn has shown not only an incomparable genius for inventing things, but a incomparable genius for pulling them to wrong uses.

bitterly, "vibrates to the sound of negroid music, and wireless waves transmit such announce- ments

as Ladies and gentle- men, Syd Ambone 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 In over loving Memory of Tom, my

dearly heloved husband `who | fur bringing the nations closer invented. In this respect it is passed away on 27th September, 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 buse uses. It is only the misuse of inventions began fair, however, to remember that

1934.-Mory.

The

Hongkong Telegraph. with the acroplane and the he has also put them all to glori-

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930.

chemistry of modern warfare. ous uses......

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fas Heath Ro binzon seen it)

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 curious mixture of good and With its news and its talks it the Thirty Years' War and the inspiring faith, would make just evil, was bound to make a pretty brings the remotest dwelier in Spanish Inquisition.

as bad a mess of the world as Professor Joad's object in they are making to-day. deplorable use of his gifts with the country into touch with cur- the evil part of his nature.

affairs and· intelligent stating his case as extremely as Cruelty is not a novelty in- opinion on them. And as a mat- possible was obviously to draw troduced by the aeroplane. Man's ter of fact, I have no complaint attention to the fact that what inhumanity to man was noted by

rent

"BLITVERTEIDUNG"

There is every reason for he lieving that the prompt and efficient mobilisation of Czecho- Slovakia's army of two million men, and the plain statement of

IN themselves, inven- to make about "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, Rumanin 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. effect in Germany. For the first them which is good or bud. time efficient precautions have

an apparently in- been taken before German shock nocent invention as the pen, for tactics-so successful in the example. In the hands of a

Rhine

Take such

man who

that

would enable it to put ita scien- tific inventions to a good use.

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Unfortunately, wherens pro-

THE truth is, man's I KNOW

gress is the normal thing in the

great problem remains maintains

no world of science, it is by no to-day much the same as it was has made means certain in the world of 1,000 or 2,000 years ago. It is area and in Austria-saint it may bring light into the modern invention

beings world. In the hands of the poet human

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. In ably it has increased human not only of the aeroplane and took place and at the same time An egotist with an acroplane other words, a beginning of happiness! Put it in the hand wireless, but of the motorear, morality, philosophy and litera- may be dangeous on a larger lightning defence, or Blitverici of a forger, however, and it be the cinema and even the tele ture decayed is perfectly con- scale than an egotist with dung, has been worked out and comes an instrument of crime. phone.

ceivable. Who can say for cer- stone axe. But I doubt whether the I cannot agree with him. Ittain whether the moral ideas the world, unless it were moral-- put into practice, as an answert lends itself equally to

the long line of successes anonymous letter-writer and to seems to me to be incontestably that are general in 1938 are ly better, would be either hap- 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 with her Blitzangriff, or light can be used for writing the most science have enormously in- were current in the middle of pcd all its acroplanes and took

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

enjoyment. Bad as the world matter one way or the other is As Professor Joad clearly aces, the divinest poetry.

that a greater proportion of

ito

Europe at least hus, as a re-

PALESTINE MEMORIES

sult of the prompt precautions 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 taken by Czecho-Slovakia, asound that inventions ought to

I am afraid that, even if all wrong, it is we who have gone 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- thrent 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 doubtedly have been spared a

on one, even It was on such a night that the Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Sarona, Shelich sacrifices any nation has ever great amount of crime, of false How they crowd

after the lapse of twenty years, Lowland Territorial Division per-Muannis, El Jellbeach in their set- been called upon to make in the and poisonous teaching, and of the memories of that lovely land! formed the amazing fent of crossing ting of palms, poplars, and orange interests of peace. In those rubbish. But would it, on the The flerce scrambling and fighting the swollen Aula River in hastily groves, and within a stone's throw of ninety-six hours much can hap whole, have been happier? Imongst the bleak Judean hills, the constructed rafts and attacked the the ultramarine Mediterraneon-all frightful rainstorms which swelled Tukish positions at dawn, sending were held by us until our withdrawal pen. It is twice the time Aus- doubt it.

rivers until they swept off men and them reeling back another twenty to France in April 1018. tria gave Servin in 1914 and,

From the point of view of a camels and floated away waggons, miles and covering all the interveni- although the sands will run pessimist there is much to be with their mules drowned, into the ing country with abandoned quickly. diplomats in London, said for the suppression of the chess of the stormy night. and stores of all kinds. Paris and Washington can be printing-press. What power it relied upon to do everything in

AND BEAR 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- one mands can leave the world with Europe, one nation and 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 into in shall havè 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 ovent 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 a callous and pre- tion ought to have been asked at such 10 concede. Czecho-Slovakia, meditated use of the Mailed conscious of the effect such Fist.

terms had on its dignity as an With all their hearts, British independent State, would have people hope 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, aha is entitled to re- honour and dignity, as bofits the Ject the subsequent demands best governed and conducted which Herr Hitler released ko Stato croated and emancipated a bombshell at Godesberg. They by the Great War.

GRIN

arins

The countryside around-all on the edge of the Plain of Sharon-was smothered in such a wonderfully prolife and beautifully varied wild- flower growi as nimost to defy

shall I forget the loveliness Sharon's wild flowers.

By Lichty description. Never while life insis

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"This is no time for stugo" fright, Clancy! You just go out and . say: 'Everybody out-the theatre's on fire”.“

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

Bedouin Squalor

of

The people, poor and mean and lowly for the most part, living in hovels and on ie husks of foodstuffs and seemingly chicly of mongrel Arabic descent, wearing the same simple garments they wore

two

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thousand years ago, ploughing with camel and a horse, a bullock and an oss, or even a cow and a man yoked together to pull the old wooden plough across the furrows of the Blony ground.

an

.The Bedouin tamilles, living in: frightful apologies for tents, but on their own allotted territory, were eye-opener to us. Fowls, goats, dogs, donkeys, and even camels wandered in and out of the tents, where men, and children lived and slept.

For sanitary reasons we had to. compulsorily remove theso families to a new ground every fortnight, and. at first their despairing walls, excit ed Jabbering in Arable, and covering their heads with dust, made us al- most feel we were doing them on 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 watting on the scrops from every meal. With his love for chlidren and kindliness towards the unfor luntate, the British soldier has been (Continued on Page 5.)

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