TASK OF SCIENTIFIC MEN

Evening Star, Issue 24002, 29 September 1941, Page 7

TASK OF SCIENTIFIC MEN

CREATING AN ORDERLY WORLD MIND MR H. G. WELLS CALLS FOR A LEAD (British Official Wireless.) (Rgc. 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 23. Mr H. G. Wells, presiding at the session on “ Science and the World Mind ” at the conference in London of international scientists, said: “ There is no orderly world mind at present, but only a world dementia, and it is the business of scientific men to pull to-

gether this confusion and prepare the working of a conception of an organised will and knowledge upon which mankind can go. It has to he done, and if this great international conference of men of science cannot do it nobody will do it. Only our sort of people can do it. If you will not in the dwindling time that remains to us do your utmost to realise this dreaming, then, instead of going out to make the dream come real, fresh nightmares will overtake you, you and yours and all you care for. “ I do not know how it feels to belong to a species that is failing to adapt. I lived my 75 years in the ascendant phase, but I should imagine that our children and our children’s children and any of all the young life about ns will pay pretty bitterly in ignominy, privations, lives, and general brutalisation as Nature, without haste and without delay, afte; her manner, wipes them out.”

HIGHWAYS TO CHINA DEVELOPMENT OF TRAFFIC INCREASING FLOW OF WAR MATERIALS (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. Reporting an increasing flow of war materials to the East, the ‘ Times ’ correspondent in Simla says the Burmese communications will soon bo carrying lease and lend supplies in a quantity which will test capacity. In addition to the Burma Road, the waterways and railways will share the traffic. The Chinese South-western Transportation Company and American specialists are now in Burma collaborating to expedite the traffic. The Burma Road will be more fully developed, but new highways to China are required, including efficient routes from Assam. GERMAN EXPORTS TO NORWAY WILL SHORTLY BE STOPPED (Rec. 8 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, September 28. German exports to Norway will shortly be stopping, says the Berlin correspondent of the 1 Sveuska Dagbladet.’ Export licenses are only being granted in very exceptional cases. INGENIOUS, BUT GRUEL GERMAN METHODS WITH HORSES (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. German forces in Russia, which are now forced to uv’ more horses, are adopting an ingenious but cruel method of preventing the animals from shying under gunfire and dive-bombing. The Germans are piercing the eardrums and cutting the vocal chords so that the horses neither hear nor make a sound when wounded, which would give away their positions. SUPRRISE VISIT MR CHURCHILL IN LIVERPOOL (.British Official Wireless.) (Rec. S a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 28.. Mr Churchill, accompanied by his wife and brother, Major John Churchill, paid a surprise visit to Liverpool to-day. At the station they were met by high-ranking naval officers, and Mr Churchill was seated in his car before the public was aware of his presence. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool was one of the first to greet Mr Churchill and party, who later left to tour the docks and inspect naval personnel. Hundreds of people crowded the pavements as Mr Churchill drove through the city streets. Ho received a tremendous ovation when the final scene took place. EUROPE’S "V ARMY" ANOTHER BRITTEN BROADCAST (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 9.5 a.m.) RUGBY. Sept. 28. Colonel Britten, addressing the “ V army ” in Europe, emphasised the importance of organised listening to London broadcasts, which are proclaiming the truth of what is happening to populations living in the fog of lies concocted by Goebbels. He suggested to those who had not already done so the formation of little groups to listen to London broadcasts. Colonel Britten also gave practical advice on the making of a frame aerial.