The New York herald., 1922-09-17
BRITISH ASSOCIATION
TACKLES PROBLEMS
THAT VEX SCIENCE
Secret Of Creation, Riddle
of Sex, Geology and Ger
man Reparations.
AMERICA MOVING WEST
Possibility Of Determining
Sex Predicted by Assem-
bled Professors.
AMERICA MOVING WEST

Special Gable to THE New YORK HERALD
Copyright, 1893, ov THE New York HEaALD'
New York Herald Bureau.
London. Sept. 16.
The secret Of creation. the riddle OF
sex, the solution of marital felicity.
geology, ethnology, phrenology ana
other problems ranging down to the
lowly question OF why Germany can
not pay reparations were among the
subjects courageously tackled by the
annual meeting of the British Associa-
ton at Hull this week.
The tides of fancy have been Using
and falling similar to the extremes
prevalent In the Humber River, Wnlie
the learned from many lands nave
been propounding the worlds theories
to the amazement of this modest SNIP
Ding center and to the interest OF the
metropolis whose correspondents nave
been attempting to follow them.
scientists of All Kinds.
The British Association is an Wgani-'
zation of scientists In all prhncnes
who know the borders. nationaiHies or
creeds, Dut dppdieheiS
thing else. 4.
The declaration that America is
apoing west was one statement whlcn
fha learned heard without much sur
prise. probably thinking that mVing
gone dry anything is possible ior
America. The theory was propounoesu !.
hy DR.. J. w. Evans, who credliea !. IL
to a German named Wegener' ana -
has nothing to do with HorAce
IN Young men.
DIR Evans proved in his own way
,bat the continent is slowly dri1tins
fron the poles from east TO west
and that as a matter of fact the world
has broken loose and what Is balfialo
to-day may be Manhattan tomorrow.
Prof wegener Is under the impressiul'
according to DR.. Evans, that America
4. Going west faster than Europe, that
tra Ionr,tude at Cambridge is inoreas-
snc while Greenland is moving IN the
same direction at still more rapiu
rata what is to become OF us uiti-
rnatelv neither DR.. Evans nor Pror.
Wegener attempted to say.
Control of Sex.
Ano+her astonishing theory was out
tined with equal sincerity. DR.. f. a. =.
I.. l-ns raad,nr paper on the inter-
saxual,tv of domestic mammals
,,,ntad that science soon would be able
hoth N determine and control sex he
to,d n changing hens into cockerels ana
entirely reversing the sexual functions.
IJe declared that an animal whlcn actu-
alIv won prizes as a female later as
sr,ned a malelike character. rms az
,,orma,jtv he said, was also developed
a. coats indicating that 1t should also
follow In any grade of animal lie o.her
Jul,an Huxley spoke along the same
lines saying that the line Oh ihaun5
might lead to the possibility OIL ueee
mining all sex. He said this mignt re-
ouire hundreds of years. out II "ouio
finally become fact.
WIN flat fish are flat and why req
heads are red was expounded py y.
Taglen who upheld the Darwinian
theory Of creation In a spirited pattie
uv,tb DIR. willis leader of the mutation
let's The dispute became much too IN
VOWED for humble laymen. but tne
Iearned ones of Hull have been agog
over 1t for days
DR. William Brown. addressing the
nsvchological section. criticized Nj. Coue
and his theory of autosuggestion. saying
that repeating thing over ana over
again might cure headache, pue u
would cause sore throat.
Equal Pay Discussed.
Eoual nay for men and women engaged
u the same work Is unfair to ind'is-
nv Prof r. A. f. Edgworth said In
his presidential address to the economic
section He insisted that II all restric-
tion and competition between male and
female workers was removed the av-
erage weekly earnings OF men would be
considerably higher. He declared that
no . greed with Plato that women were
.noraIlv inferior to men. He said that
men should be at an advantage In the
labor market. for women IN the ions
run do less work.
Among the other problems to be dls-
oussed was that presented by DR.. 9. w.
Kimmin. who told of a freak boy who
never laughed because he did not pos
aesa a sense or humor colleague
added that the boy cannot cry. This
deep subject occupied the experts for
many long hours.
The economic research committee was
divided along tho lines OF the supreme
council as to whether Germany Is able
10 pay the reparations demanded. but
the many learned opinions threw little
light on the worlds financial problems.
Cockburn Miller described paper money
ms devils money" and urged Great
Britain to get back to the metallic stand
ard. but he contributed nothing ma
terially to assist bankers in achieving
this.
with the discussion at its height the
time limit set for the conference expired
and the deleGates rushed off to catch
their trez..s. leaving the misguided
world to go It on It's own for another
vear.