1949-09-03 — Page 11

OLD SCHOOL. TIE

DAB and FLOUNDER

-by Walter').

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1949.

|REGIMENTATION OF RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS RESEMBLES PERSECUTION OF GALILEO

KREMLIN MINDS REACH

BACK INTO

10 us in the West it is last

T

century,

PAST

MORGAN PHILIPS PRICE, Labour Member of Parliament for the Forest of Doán division, who was a nowspaper correspondent in Russia during the Revolution, discusses the significance of the "Kromlin's attitude toward the arts and sciences.

The Axe Falls

defended

the

in

the

terpretation, as with us in the Wost

Nothing shows better the ex traordinarily mystical and re- Udous turo of the Russlan mund, than this offelal attitude

at St

Prophet Joseph

to

the

11

LIBERTY

1426

"Will you put another worm on for me, dear?"

The Critics Don't

Worry GBS

What has hap- to science, It has ita parallels the in previous Russian history and pened natural to allow there was great

regime realm of science shows that the Soviet activity among

In 1047

carrying on, in. the is merely artists, musiciana and Russian writers,

more exkemo Soviet authori-

form perhaps, scientists to work freely at musicians and

tley decided to the regime of the Tents in the scientists, and their professions.

"clean up when no free (dqan could cir days of their greatest power, selenco, We rely on the choice of their work has

which culate in Russin that were not been among tho

had up to now approved in the court achieve the public to reward the

great

been left

very Petersburg. artists and musicians, and ments of civilisa

llow has the State doining much to self Lively contro on discussion and open de- tion. For the Russians are a

science in versies had been 'going on bate in conference to decide most ited people and they tion over art and

In among, scientista been achieved?

over various were relatively free in those days, Russla the dis- although never as free to write Hterature there. was during aspects of bilology and phy TN August 1948, it was decided the merits of

and work as we were.

the war, and for a time after sica In the columns coveries of the scientists.

Today the Communist rulers it, a certain degree of liberty. "Literary Gazette" a relatively

demonstra- to organise But then Wo aro the

unknown have re-established

with duc of Russia

scientist, Lysenko, ton of orthodoxy Reforma with children

of the

ro-doubled vigour

Prophet Michurinist reverence and

in the Kremlin, ' which let loose the efficiency the dictatorship of

theory that environment deter Joseph tion,

mines almost entirely the na full session "of the Lenin Tsars to that TN 1910, however, floodgates of spiritual free- the mediaeval

a change ture of Hving organisms; that Academy of Sciences was sum Poter the Great and Ivan the sume. At the end of the war dom and enterprise, and

acquired characteristics can moned, but not before a purge quietly broke down the Ruthority the Terrible, whom incidentally the Communists

und that they

com of its membern had been en- be Inherited, grently admire, would moved non-party men .from

Thirty-one petition between grow green with envy..

species vir ginecred. their posts, and replaced them fully does

EORGE of the mediaeval church.

BERNARD SHAW, who was When Shakespeare was pro- by nominees of the party. The Mendellan theory that heredity an accident,

not exist. The members were elected. It was of course, that ducing his masterpieces, when public were told by the power-plays a large role in the de- the

recently 93, looked over a pile of newspapers new membera composing

supported, und fut Communist propaganda termination of species

on the table before him, stroked his famous Lysenko and tit was

those who' TOT so Russia. She never felt when Issac Newton was mak- monopoly that the West was condemned by Lysenko.

did not! Se were dropped

white beard and remarked "I knew it would be n The the in decline, and, that Communi- veral

уст

Russlan geneticists Conference was opened with success, and I'm not at all surprised.” her, the word of the Taar was mediaeval church of the West lam would spread throughout (among whom were such well- the long-winded address by law and it extended to all forms was persecuting Galfieo because the world. Discipline was

by a num- Initiative he

known Profesors as Zhebrak, Lysenko followed of human activity.

finally that the lightened up and

Int

He was referring to his exhaust the invention, drain the in Russia, in fact, has always earth was round.

and a brisk unknown, who took

occasion bappening in "Gleichschaltung" come from the Government, for just

was started posed Lysenko,

fessional skill of even the exchange of views, such as is to pay off old scores, against lions," which has just had frat with the writers.

normal in all Western "bour- rivals. The

Minchurinist de-

greatest playwright of this

and Zoschenko, The latter tists, took place. church. had written a humorous story

Tsar Was Law

Purcell wal

that refreshing stream. With ing his grent discoveries,

Governments have something

dared to

what

Бау

new

by

Edwin Roth

And that is the nutumn of 1946, Hitlerian Invadovalcy, and Orieli) op- ber of the lesser lights, lark latest play, "Buoyant B. wit and interfere with the pro-

s been fusta today.

Art, and selener regarded as having divine about them. There are subjected to, the authority of and

a a church, historical reasons for this.

FROM HERE AND THERE :

Manly

secular

and oficialdom. - He. and

consistent with Marxist-Len- ideal society Chests Put Her

Off Her Food

famous, is now, eating mostly newspapers. For breakfast he cats four papers, plus half # bun, the same for lunch and at

cided

basle of

an inexomble

SANTA MONICA: Complaint focus as well as the star; every. dinner eight newspapers. OnceURING 1047 it was the furn of Marxism-Leninism, and if they jacket him and impose on him

the musicians.

his last.

Ho has

NOTHER critic wrote:, In

oriental chapel, all members of the "No Manners"

Buoyant Family, discuss matrimony and finance with a Cody Of No Monsters," it is has been settled, and the

ALLED by its author "A Com- solemn colicitor until nothing too

are being The ban fell on Akhmatova geois countries among selen legaten who were there, mast-its world premiere at the age

ly made grovelling speeches ad. Malvern Festival. Shaw in- mitting their errors and pro- sista that it is only his Oriental Chapel On the other hand, with us, which is Communism, so that cracking jokes ut bureaucracy Good Theology mising that their scientific latest, or newest.

always Governments are

no book may be written, DO re-

work would be according to no intention of letting it be A parlour decorated like an garded with a certain degree of music composed, no scientifle others were denounced for APPARENTLY the leaders of doctrine in future. healthy suspicion.

discoveries made unless they "decadent Western influences." A the Politburo, the Inner Co- When the Tsarist regime was are approved by the hierarchy for pandering to escapism, for binet of the Communist Party 'n note of deflance could still

In a few speeches, however, weak and in decline, during the in the Kremlin.

writing without a purpose or that rules Russia, decided that be detected, which makten ono a moral objectivo, for follow- this had got to stop.

doubt if the native Russian ing art for art's sake.

They considered that while genius for inquiry and disco- Various writers Were de the views of Lysenko on the very is really..dend. It is one of the shortest pleces he hours are up. This time the prived 01 their jobs, a serious theory of heredity might be

has ever written-a probably only submerged. matter in a country where the bod biology, it was neverthe-

conversa audience can go home to won- Communizm tion plece in which thirteen der just what it has been pay- State holds all the patronage. les good theology: that it was which Russian

out to build an characters discuss the big issues ing to learn." The usual penitence follow- ed, the writers promising to init

on a theory that of the moment, including the dialectical materialism Is supposed 10 work out on

atomic bomb.

Only a few reviewers liked and in keeping with the "Farty the write better in future.

Its settings: the London home the play. One of those described Line" Therefore,

it was de law. is forced in fact (because of a millionaire, the Panama it as having the sparide, if not that -And Music, Too

scientists make their discoveries fit with latent in Man)

must of the free spirit of inquiry Jungle and a Chinese temple in the substance, of early Shaw. It

to straight a London house,

Is invigorating, Infuriating and With his reputation 09 the crazily inconsequential. It has order, In addition did not discover to In two days he ents half a

so the rigours of an orthodox world's greatest living play the zest of youth, the wisdom of pound of brown sugar and on to Shostakovitch (composer of much the worse for the scien faith.

wright firmly established, Shaw age and no hint of second child- Usts, the Sunday paper napkins.

Leningrad

Symphony).

This is just what that great could afford to be undisturbed hood. We seem to have heard of the official Russian A revelation

101 has produced

talks modern Russia - Giving Away Culture

several

writer and thinker, by what he saw in the papers but inlented musicians outlook at this time occurred Dostoevsky,

old idcas and eighty before him. For the new work. NEW YORK: The giveaway like Prokelev,

the Armenian, in a broadenst

from Moscow years ago, although he was

took a severe panning from ones carry the same punch." programmes, which are turning

How did Shaw react to theso which con- writing of the Nihilists of his some of the critics, American radio into giant Khachaturian and the veteran to the provinces,

Prokoilev Misicovsky.

passage: "the work day.

reviews? He did not care. had fained this

At lottery, will try this autumn

scientist cause

least that's what he said as ho done to acquire culture.

an opera out of "War of bourgeois

while Miskovsky us to lose faith (my itulies) in

bent over the papers. મામાં programme is not to give away and Peace,"

had kept in

human reason"; the tradition of the force of mink coals, trips to Paris and

REPL the great Ruzlan clamical and in another passage: the HOLLYWOOD: More curves

washing machines, but only he gre Suddenly

force of composers.

they for Lana Turner are promised

scholarships to universities.

TTE insisted he never took the as decadent, theory arms Soviet scientista from a new lens Hollywood is

West, writ- with the one and only correct tain that neither Russian li- rarely stimulating conversation, pandering to the testing. Invented by a refuse

music acquiring know ferature,

selence had been On sale sooning music for music's sake in- method

written by a very consider it Important. from Czarist Russia, the lens is

will be a bed sheet which the stead of stimulating in the ledge about

material can possibly flourish without young, man, he would be held In any case, he will tell you advan three-dimensional. Its

manufacturers claim will enable masses healthy, emotions" in world which inspired them in the free spirit of inquiry.

today as a promising if Im rather reminiscently, he is used tages for the producer: it saves

the poorest housewife to make stead of composing music the struggle against erroneous They will wilt and fade till mature playwright, and advised to being panned by critics. lle money by cutting down the use

trained along the lines

And obsolete of Marxist-

doctrines (my the political regime enters a beds as perfectly as a

to go away and learn the bust- knows they did not impede his of lights and the need for re-

Ita secret-mi-

In red Leninist ideology."

due italics). In other words, it phase of greater folerance. ness of working for the theatre. fame, and at his age he is far Its bearsals.

advantages

nurse.

which slip over the course,

"But coming as it does from beyond first-night nerves, took

doctrine and place. must be faith

It seems in fact, that Rus- purges the "fan": ho

ROTTERDAM: A 51-year old corners, every- can see

Д "I knew it would be a mo~ normally; even from

from mattress and make the bottom There followed recantations and that, must inspire; the work of sin, as before In her history. George Bernard Shaw, it is Klifman, tramp, Gerrit

to conform to the a scientist and not objective is destined to pag through od example of the way In cess," he repeated. "And it is a seat by the wall, ex- Drente, a former circus stable sheet as taut as stretched rub promios

taste of the Kremlin.

search for facts and their in- another grim period,"

which time can blunt the saifre, success.” wanta to become ber. tras and background will be in boy who

received from a woman by the city council of Santa Monlen, California-Pleaso pass a regulating clothing for

Inw

diners

at beach restaurants the sight of nearly naked, hairy-chested andy, olly men is enough take away my appetito.

thing

front

Moro Curves

to

for

4

one looks more lifelike.

The Cold View

Ealtimo *WINNIPEG: Four

brought boys in their teens, from their home 500 miles north of Churchill, Manitoba, to re- cover from infantile paralysis, were taken on a tour of Win- nipeg. "Too many white men," they kept whispering to esch other.

Big Margin

of

MONTREAL: Hundreds typists earning £5 a week on- awered advertisements offering jobs with UNO in New York. The pay: £22 for n Ave-day, 40-hour week.

News Digest

1

A

The Simplo Life

CALIFORNIA:

new

were denounced

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

HEAVENSO

LOOK AT YOUR TIE

of

foresaw

"Burble"

Grim Dostiny TT'S just a song at twilight- by Shaw," said one headline, WHATEVER be the result of beneath which the critic wrote.

-

Used To It

before,

now

the Marxist-Leninist Wail this, one can say for cer- "If this burble of good, but too, I play seriously, and does not

nor

How To Discourage a Husband

BY KEMP STARRETT

DID YOU EVER HEAR.

"THE ONE ABOUT THE

"TWO MUNTERS WHO WENT

UP TO MAINE..AND.

"NO FRED. IT WAS THREE AND] NOT AAINE,

IT WAS

*9 FROM

AS SOON AS YOU GET HIM OUT SCHE- WHERE REARRANGE. DIS HAIR, HIS THE AND PICK IMAGINARY LINT OFF HIS CLOTHES EVERY LITTLE WHILE HE'LL

LONE ALL TWS ATTENTION) DEAR, DID YOU SEE THIS

DID YOU

TURN

AD

WHERE:

ott

ALWAYS ASK HIM QUESTIONS—ANY QUESTICUK] VIEN NUC RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF TRYING

TO BALANCE YOUR CHECK-BOOK,

SERUANA (DO YOU KHOV,

AYOU LEFT THE CAP. PU OFF THE TOOT",

PASTE TUBE AND WATER ALL OVER THE FLOOR AND YOUR SOUG

"ON THE

REAUD:KUR EVERY· CO OFTEN THAT HIS":

HAIR IC GETTING "THIN,

ANOTHER NICE WAY TO DISCOURAGE THE GUY IS TO GET ALL WORKED UP LIKE A DUSTIAN DIPLOMAT EVERY TIAE RESWANTO TO LISTEN TO A BALL- GAME JA QUIZ SHOW OR EVEN A POLITICAL DEBATE. Ledger Syndicate

RELOOKT

LIKE,+ RAIN

CONCLUSE NOSIGU

OF RANE.

REMIND RIM EVERY SO OFTEN ROW

AUCH MODE MONEY

OTHER ALEN EARN./

SERVE HIM KIS

BREAKFAST

EVERY DAY. WHILE STILL

HALF ASLEEP

·AND WITH YOUR HAR

LOOKING/

ALWAYS INTERRUPT HIM WIENEVER HE STARTS" A STORY AND CORRECT BUM AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE ́ALL THROUGH THE RECITAL

ALVER CAN AFFORD

OR DO ANY- THING THAT

TAKES & FRUI

LIKE A

BUSTED

BIGGY A

CISHION

ASAL GETC

CONTRADICT: HUN, ABOUT ANY

DIVERYTHING.