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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1949.

"If Cripps don't put the hite on Wall-street for dollars, he'll put the British on vegetables

to show this Peron where he gets off."

"An atom bomb made on Marxist principles would probably

Stalin On

London Express Service

not explode

Declares War

Science

by BERTRAND RUSSELL

N admirable little book has just been published* telling, in simple language, what has been hap poning to Russian biologists, and--what is scarcely

such as Professor J. B. S. Haldane, have struggled to find a compromise between their scientific conscience and their political allegiance.

EXCITEMENT FROM DAWN TO DUSKI les interesting-how non-Russian Communist biologists,

There's such drama...

There's such romano..

There's such mabody...

To MGMT's

BIG CITY

CO

MARGARET O'BRIEN ROBERT PRESTON

DANNY THOMAS

POWARD

MURPHY BOOTH ARNOLD - JENKINS

and introducing the screen

LITTI

Lom

GARRETT LEHMANN

1.

Seat Pay by Wuchong Conn, and hane Martinen Chaat - kakannat besterus by Aban kandet. Kved on a Stary by 163308 LIVEŠA

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NORMAN TAUROG JOL PASTERNAK

ERVERSAL INTEJORATIONAL presett

NEXT CHANGE ——————

The LIFE OF

Starring WILLIAM

RILEY BENDIX

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TO-DAY

me and firing & cacher RILEY

MAJESTIC

CONDITIONED

A MAN OF RON

BARRY SHERMAN

THE

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Richard DIX - Jane WYATT

Albert BEKKER

Eugene Pallette Victor Jory Rubert Armstrong Clent Bevans Rod Cameron

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TO-DAY: Cathay 1.30 & 9.30

p.m.

A SHOWBOAT LOAD OF LAUGHS AND LOVELIES!

Bud ABBOTT

Lou COSTELLO,in,

י.

"THE "NAUGHTY NINETIES"

with Alan CURTIS "Ritä JOHNSON

Next Change One Day Only:-"FLYING FORTRESS"

Two issues are involved, of which one can only be decided by scientists and is primarily their concern, while the other Is of profound importance to everybody, and supplies impor- Cont arguments as to the kind of government to be desired.

The scientine issue is as to the laws of heredity. There is one theory which, until recent- ly, was held by almost all the experts except Lysenko,

There

Writing from New- castle, where the British Association was recently in session...

Midget TV tube

THE

CHAPMAN

PINCHER

COLUMN,

gives big picture

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. with those of the crow who had

TREMENDOUS ad- shunned, the "Jinx," got back to.

base,

vanco in television

Party Game research which makes

BEST SCIENTIFIC party- the mass-production of re- game to come out of this meet ceiving sets possible for tho ing so far was denionstra- firat time and should ted by an American anthro- therefore slash their cost-pologist. By looking closely at the kaira on the middle jõints has been achieved by a com- of your fingers you can get a bined team of British and clue to the whereabouts of Dutch scientists.

your old ancestral home, ho claims.

Research

shown that method of getting bright, 20ins. white people can be classified wide pictures with a miniature the distribution of these hairs,

into five groups according to television screen-tube. which,

mid-

They have

perfected

A

In

can be turned out in thousands Group One folk, with by machines operated by semi- Joint hale only on the ring skilled labour.

aro fingers,

concentrated South-East Europe Greece, Yugoslavin, Rumonia, Hungary. Group Two, who have it on ring and middle fingers, nro widespread in the Alpine re- glons--North Italy, Swizerland, Austria.

This screen-tube will cost £z 10s-about one-tenth the price of the big hand-bulit tubes át- ted In standard seta.

A system of lenses and mly rors magnifies the picture for ed by the miniature tube- -- which is no bigger than a hand- torch-and thrown it on to a screen or on to the wall.

Scientists who have seen the device in nction tell me its par- formance is first class.

Leading British brain behind the development is ex-Admirni- ty benin DR CHRISTOPHER BAREFORD, who is at the Bri- tish Association 'sclence meet-

necessary slowly to select grains ing here. that happen to have the sired qualilles.

de-

The one-shaped glass "tube"

Group Three, carrying hair on, all mid-joints except those of the index fingers, are typical of Britain, Northern France, Germany, Scandinavia.

Group Four, with no mid- jolni bol on any fingers, are commonest in Spain, Southern Italy, Ireland.

Group Five, with hair on the mid-joint of all ingers, uro rarest, but equally dispersed throughout Europe.

that your ja The inference

in the heart of any TV receiver. forebears most probably came It is not surprising if this in the standard set its broad from one of the localillos typi- docrino is attractive to Stalin. end forms the viewing screen cal of your group number. There is one animal-namely. on which electric Impulses are From this it seems that Group Man-whom he has "forced to converted into a picture. change more quickly. Through- This means that the

Lion.

Fifty-fifty

on or-

Threes

Being a Group Five type is said to suggest relationship with Old Stone Ago folk, who in habited Europe before the New Stone Age Invasion from Asia. Unlike palmistry this theory has a scientific basis.

Let's Change Rulos

alone can cizii un-

sad blow to blue-eyed blonds out his wide empire no volce is the picture given of size of diluted anclent British blood- raised against him, no resist dinary set depends directly on like me, who find themselves ance is offered to the rapid ex- the width of the tube Afted in Group Four.

in tension of slavery and starva- it. Anyone wanting a 20-inch pleture, so that all the family could see it in comfort, would have had to buy a set contain Whatever he may want "oting a 20in. tube. himan beings, he has but to Such sets will always be ex nod and it is done. What are pensive because big tubes are wheat grains that they should costly to make and need big

Tho LOW-LEVEL FLIGHT at others, since, have mysteriously be less amenable? Perish the cabinets to house them disappeared as a result of dis- thought!

cost of the magnifying syslem faster-than-sound speeds may agreeing with Lysenko.

Politicians, if they Intervene in the new device partly offsets never be possible, air experts There is only 100 much reason be right by chance; we

in scientifle dispute, can only the cheapness of the tube. But here tell me.

may methods of mass-producing this to belleve that they have en- be dured the tragic routine: arrest suppose that

half their deal-system imve been prepared.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

a result,

Lysesta

all

cented from their contemporchetto Russia agree with soon

depends

от

The Jinx

2

The dragging effect of sea- level air on an aircraft flying at more than 700 miles per hour is so great that engines of colosant power would be needed to overcome it;

in aries have

often in

the past

Why does the Soviet Govern- proved to be in the right.

What is not an issue for ex- ment concern itself with such a peris only is the question of technical question? The only scientiae freedom. Throughout answer that I have been able to Theory revived the West (except in Tennessee) think of is one which implica the opinion has gradually pre- that arbitrary power has driven theory, valled, is another

after centuries of the rulers of Russia to some- invented by Lamarck about 150 strukic, that scientif

con- thing like insanity. years ago, bat abandoned for, troversies should be decided by

They wish, for example, to lack of experimental evidence men of science, not by govern- produce a variety of wheat that This theory Lysenko has re- ments.

will ripen more quickly than vived.

He succeeded

What happens to scientists in any existing variety, as so to Не

somehow

in Russin who fall into disfavour? increase the territory on which securing the support of

The question is dimcuit to wheat can be grown. Soviet Government. The other Russian geneticists. who har answer with certainty. until then opposed him, found themselves in a very painful situation.

This issue is one for the ex- peris, and is not one on which u prudent outsider wil venture an independen, opinion. He will by administrative order, trans- sions will be right and half

3 forced-labour wrong. portation to note that almost all the

experts,

If all scientists must agree with

a single exception, are camp in the Arelle, and death

with the politicians in every- * STRANGER - THAN - FIO - against Lamarck, bu. he will from priva.lons.

about surviving thing, the wrong decisions willTION faca

warilmo also remember that men who dis-

It seems, then that the inter- make selentlic progress Waaf, who became known as a Impossible.

"inx" because so many of her national rules governing the Since mill'nry power. now-air-crow friends were killed, world aircraft speed record- Fcience were given me by an ex-R.AF. Currently held by America at days.

670.9 miles per hour-will have Stalin's policy leads straight to psychologist here.

Pooh-poohing warnings from to be altered. Instead of being defeat in war.

fellow-officers, in Australian flown over a measured Should we rejoice? bomber navigator became metre at sea-level,

On his record flights wil have This is no remoto or hypo-friendly with the girl, thetical contingency. There are next operational flight-a mass made in the much thinner air those who maintain that the raid-death clutched him from of high altitudes, where drag Nazis would have won the war the sky in a way which wreck- effect is not so disastrous. If they had had the help ofed the psychologist's efforts to Don't Lose Them

kill the superstition.

* TEN-SECOND QUIZ: What Jewish scientists.

to the A block-buster let loose from Is the average life of a human-

plane higher-flying maiter of

tore hair? Answer: Two to four

without exploding and took the navigator with-it-The bomber,

the

Disappearance

Take a somewhat carlier case, Some recanted abjectly, others that of Vavilov, who was presi- stood firm; nearly all deprived of their posts,

were

dent of the Academy of Agricul- and tural Selences un i he was replaced by Lysenko in 1940, He some mysteriously disappeared. Th Throughout the Soviet Republle, was a corresponding member of no views contrary to those of the Royal Society and Sir Henry Lysenko can now be taught,

Dale, when president of the Royal Society, tried to discover what had become of him.

in

Here is wha: Sir Henry Dale

The principal scientific issue ians to what is called the In- heritance of acquired charac-- ters. Most students of heredity reports: "It had been reported maintain that (except for cer- tala viruses) characterletien ac quired by an animal or plant during its lifetime do not affect Ks descendants.

thelr

Stock example

necks

Britain already in 1942 that N. I. Vavliov bad fallen from favour with those somehow

who came after Lenin, though the cause of his trouble was silli unknown.

inferiority

Their Americans in

tho

If nequired characters are in- atomic warfare, which only through the bomber's fuselage years. herited, this can be achieved much more quickly than if it is

Paris letter

́(Continued ́en-Paro`5)

Champagne

kilo

na

now, to bo

--London_Expresa_Serolog)_

trips by water-bus or motor-coach

Holiday over-and autumn storms threaten gay city

M

From EVELYN INOS: Paris.

RY

Fitted up in 1000 style, with NEVER has this city boer

more lavish in art exhibi-. an ormatu musical box in the

the artists and bar below and a two-piece band tona, playing to the diners on deck, "names" that British tourists the Bateau Mouche began ita know. Pleasso In the Avenue to Gabriel. Gauguin in the Oran- trips last month-upstream the 11 St. Louis, and down past Matisse in the National Museum the factories and barges above gerie in the Tuileries Gardens. New works by octogenarian Longchamp racecourse.

THE

of Modern Art.

In the

KOW (1

TORE cars whirling round the Place de la Concorde ... a stronger. whiff of garlic in the Metro... restaurants. and laundries taking down their shut-

Night life by 'chara' "Not till 1015 did the Royal

same spacious Society

ters.. discover that he had

... Yes, Paris is back from her three weeks' holiday

the Matisse to ace building as THE more usual way Spaniels have had their inits been dismissed from his posi- with pay in the Haute Savoie.

Paris By Night is in a admission to each; 15. 8d. If you docked for many generations, tion, had disappeared with a but that has not affected the number of his co-workers in

There is an uneasiness hang- This t the Baleau Mouche motor-coach, which "docs" the see them both at one time) is 'ails they are born with. is the neties, and had died at some ing over the gay city, like a (fly-boat), only survivor of the Quartier Latin and Montmartre the most remarkable of all- for £2 25. to £2 10s. a head, a show of 72 tapestries, chosen The stock example

On one hand, famous water-buses of half a unknown date between 1941 and thunder cloud.

Inclusive of drinks and enter from the last four years' out- giraffe. Lamarck thought 'hat 1943.

threats of strikes: on the other, century ago.

tainment,

put of the national weaving I took the evening cruise- Parent giraffes hind stretched "Repeated Inquiries asking aeroplane and car factories cut-

Starting at 0.30 n.m., our first centres. to reach high

Londoners fresh only the date and place of his ting their staffs because of there are three day trips

from the call materials wall-starting at 8.30 to see the the Left Bank (conjuring the Vienna

was at the "Guillotine" on branches and that this had death, received no reply of any electricity and

precious classical tapestries in Tengthened the

Seine at sunset, tying up again the pullotine trick and with kind." (I quote from Mr Lang-shortages. necks

the exhibition. nt Alnas which their children were

vere born. don-Davies.)

Tate may and the bright and Bear- champagne. Darwin thought that the child- He was scen

in a state of police,

rendy to pounce on Solferino bridge.

followed by A tour

of the angry colours of some of these iraffes that happened to be collapse in a concentration came demonstrators.

of Beauvais, Most of the 60

products O CO other oubliettes complete with skeleton new

bit French and Instruments of torture). Gobelins and Savonnerko:‘a advantage in the struggle for sent to the far north of Siberia, In the autumn." say Parisians. Maybe the existence and that this advan- where he died of hardships.

tourists had not Then a chansonniers (eighteenth of a shock. Now It looks as if the autumn's enough currency for the cold century French songs, as clean

Her secret age could be transmitted, but

supper (£3-10s, for two, includ- as they come, and a nip af length, of neck acquired by

Sungot on the Solne : a half-bottle of champagne), cornach.

ing: a practice could not

Tow old is Mistingueti? She- Torn the Bat Tabarin

But Paris no- the same views on heredity as THEN suddenly it is a lovely plus the 9s. fare. Jean

Ex-parachutist evening and, hanging over BACK are held by Professor Haldane,

Brust, Montmartes - (half a bottle

cepts the fact that Mism in 74. The conch THE CLOCK. Be Joan who must secre.ly rejoice that the Pont Neuf to look at the whore wife, an interior decor champagne each).

In Paris S'Amuse at the ABC aware of he is not subject to the penal sunset, you are

tor, was

at school in Oxford, returned at 1.30 am, with most theatre in Montmartre, the up- Lanudan-Davies. With a

music ties that Stalin would inflet tinkling

በዘ Π little bought the 60-ton boat in of its mole passengers missing. foreword by Sir Henry upon him if he were a Russian alzamer,

ablaze with Dalo, OM, FRS. Gall-

It must not be supposed that down to water level, dits Vavilov's was an imola.ed case. *he bridge. ancz, 1949.

In the background are the at 10,30-at the quay below the e

of sweet

born with longer necks had an

At Saratov, and was afterwards "We're bound to have trouble passengers were

*RUSSIA

PLITS

NANCY

THE RECEPTION

IS VERY

WEAK

LATELY

TELEVISION

They disappeared

hiere.

His crime was

that he held

Downey Right

MAYBE

YER AERIAL

AIN'T STRONG ENOUGH

DON'T BE SILLY --- OF COURSE, IT'S STRONG

ENOUGH

LOOK AT THE LOAD IT CAN

HOLD

In o?

H won't Enry.

pers In the finale in black

lights partnership with ex-Geristal My neighbours in the conch briefs to reveal the fabled legs.

under Van Hecke, who fought in wrongedengrocer and · his

North Africa.

wife from the Edgware Road.

By Ernie Bushmiller

SOAP THAT. SPELLS

BEAUTY

--{London Express Service)

Princess

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