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HOW TO WOO THE GOOSE THAT LAYS GOLDEN EGGS
Post Office Lament
By JAMES BROUGH
New York Correspondent
Dear Mr. Wilson.—It's a long time now since wa had a drink together in Washington-was it the Shoreham or the Wardman Park Hotel? Madame Lotheira works in a But I've read a lot about you from time to time
somewhere post office South coast of China.
on the
In these bureaucratic days she is an admirable example of the Kind of official who orders a part of our lives and knows what is good for us.
New Health Discovery
od Morning
The Reds are on the point of Kashing in.
Speculators who shipped gooda to North China ar bewalling their lovecs. Only 25 per cont pro nt. Why, they could have just- sat here drawing dividends from When a new drug or surgical public utilles, or raking in key
discovered by money, is technique in the newspapers here, and they're giving columns of space to that last speech of yours.
medical science, for the cure, You did a good job, I hear, taking some ofor treatment of a discare it is the sting out of the Misery Budget by talking of a new drive for dollars.
hus cost double, they went to the au-
Bachelor's Wish
•
·
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most Im- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is still reported to have some
"Police are trying to trace Mr. acclaimed by all, with a maxi--who did not return home after mum of limelight and publicity a visit to his doctor yesterday, seldom accorded to discoveries and has not been seen since."
Triest the surgery wafting room? in the other field of preventive medicine, and yet of the two the latter are the portant to humanity.
It is a much more satisfactory crack troops in Fukion. The rest arrangement to safeguard n man have become past tense, Another man I know, a fussy from being shot, than to perfect
bullat wounds. Another thing about building I've learnt
bachelor, tries conscientiously to treatments
Better in fact to concentrate on planes with the scale facing back. where traffic
he goes
rather
than effect, and words is that if the worst comes able, but at times can be mad- | plications). I can speak the lan-shopping for suits, shirts, haber-cause hacterla while stiji in the to the worst you never see what
She is warm-hearted and like steering wheel (no political im-buy British whenever dening. It is then that we always guage well enough to cope with dashery, and personal equipment rather than wait until they you hit until it's all over. like wallets and briefcases. think of her as being like one of Brooklyn
Ostensibly the airmail counter In all modesty, I think I've an 1 Every repair is her preserve but no counter is iden or two to help, because for though In fact immune from her depre- four years I've seen the American thorised dealer.. dations. The English in parti- customer's end of Britain's strug- cular have found to their cost gies in the "most difcult market that in postal matters Madame is in the world." invariably the self-appointed ar- bltress.
ado:
well
to
the water
to
with her
his
seems
Look
of con-
to cross has B
streets left-hand
cobbles whe snori
General's Secret
traders if they
there
Envoy's Idea
the
Bave
for
A Dry Mist
"Grand plano for sale. Owner
condition, except one leg." moving from the district. In good
nout?
t
own can
Some people are in debt be- their they spend what cause friends think they make.
If we gationalise the Bank we will
to Issue our be able
Maybe we duress notes.
with the pro- build some flats ceeds, and sell them at current Colony prices to the Shanghal types to redeem the issue, the living on the resultant proft for the rest of our time.
The speech in the House
foothold in the have gained a of Commons by the Defence
A doctor describes how Sir..... of the up one and dusky Minister, Mr. Alexander, in
the wooden walls of old England. "Where to, bud?"
But at least 50 per cent of the lungs and set
diseases rang him up at all hours com- who drawi
respiratory time American
assistants numerous shop To be true she is different ships Southern butlers which he announced the Bri-
are kurking everywhere plaining of stomach ache. on different occasions: a frigate "Won't you rest your coat, suh?"
steer him off British goods. They that
In the middle of the knight? are coughing tish Government's intention
suitcases tuberculous people tell him about leather windward, I can count my change in dollars
talking to maintain a resolute atti- keeplog
that came apart at the seams, and spitting, and even
Everyone is Ignorant-only on tude in the face of the Com-swooping to attack from an un- and cents.
colours that faded, and raincoats and breathing.
A new method of destroying different subjects. into South expected quarter; or one of Nel-
that leaked. munist advance
germs while still in the air has us aut of China, and the address of the son's ships-of-the-line, blowing
Neither he nor I is sure who-been perfected by a British firm, Governor, Sir Alexander broadside.
And a dozen school children the annual
of anti-British discovered a means of reducing The pattern of on action with have beguiled me with the story ther these are legitimate fallures Messrs. Aerosols Lid, who have Grantham, at meeting of the Engineering Madame runs along whai are of General Bedford Forrest. That or the attempts
yes,
are powerful sterilising fluids into a
ist. of well-grizzled veteran of the Civil War salesmen-oh,
particles spoll
business.mist the
extremely small Society of Hong Kong, were
now recognised as fairly defined
conster explained in these words how he come-to
that are so Ane they do not break channels:-the
Either way, it's disquieting. delivered at the right mo-
when he managed to win all his battles:
up on impact with air or solid nation of the victim ment. Although there are
realises that Madame takes a "Reckon F're no secret of suc- I am sure you will agree that surfaces. These particles are not and few-if any-people "in a
peculiar Jay in her collection of cess, unless to sit there fustest good will la one of Britain's most an ordinary mist or spray, dither" in the Colony today, somewhat obscure
valuable though invisible, exports.are so light that the slightest cur- regulations with the mostest."
It seems to me that this is a rent of air carries them every- is undoubtedly
the innbility of the traditionally there
stelld
Englishman, once undercurrent of uneasiness
That's the first point of this situation where everyone coming where air penetrates. They re- thu
Add the Anest to the here from Britain is inevitably main suspended in the air for emotions are aroused, to refrain letter. all classes of among
And considerable time, unlike the wet her attention
the to fustest and
inostesi from drawing
and something of a salesman. population. There is also a pronounced attitude of cyni- the excellence of the postal ser- you've a fair slogan for British they shouldn't Enock the promists and sprays, of other types
ring one after ducts but need
the doorbells. of apparatus which can coadense vices prevailing in the British
on the surfaces of furniture floors cal indifference among cer-
Isies; the Incoherent babblings of your non-partisant praise for their Carpers, please copy.
and walls of the rooms they are lain sections of the commun-
International procedure; all are "merchant venturing spirit."
A huckster by adoption, an released in with
"Far from Jean Peters' friend- bittertypical re-actions which Madame
This mist is the answer to one ity those
ylews with the indifference of Too many shopkeepers down Englishman who has taken long familiarity.
New York's Fifth Avenue, round blood oath of the salesmanship of the most pressing problems of ship with Howard Hughes cool- of ing off, I hear she is not only your mon Neville modern lite. the infection
students and office driven to the studio daily In It is when the poor wretch is the Loop in Chicago, on Boston's shoguns, is
and decked Bloon, roving envoy for the Board millions of Washington Street,
factory Howard's car, but he has put two workers. cinemagoers, of Wilshire Boulevard
Los of Trade in the U.S. in exhausted by the ebullience
workers, bus and tram travellers, chauffeurs at her disposal." his folly that she becomes Angeles complat that deliveries
One of them a little rusty in and all those who have to spend animated. Her face Lights Up from Britain are still uncertain.
reverse gear? Rome time in company in a con- and her brillant smile
the all breathing fined space, belter than Things are much at once subtly to ignore the re-
Many a time, he has impressed
Myrtle says a girl she knows bacteria released from cold, cent outburst as the whim of an they were- year ago half the
on me that you must use Ameri-
calarth, and influeILZA infected is no dumb that when she was idiot child that needs humouring, smaller stores in America were
can methods to sell to Ameri-URNS! and to imply that the real busi- grumbling about orders filled six
in a bathing costume. cans. Some other British officials throats and nostrils. These all-appointed to a typists' pool she ness can begin without further months and more, too late.
factories, person to another in But even today Manhattan's here criticise his airy ways, but I ments quickly spread from one turned up
An American court has ruled offices and schools, sending ab- senteeism and disability figures that an inter-state bus line may One day when I first came to best-known distributor of foreign never heard an American
car's hasn't a single model of one anything but praise for him.
segregate negro and while pas- China
must famous, fast of Britain's
He often leaves the live in this little South
Hotel rocketting.
sengers "provided there is no race n
his showrooms.
where Drake, on Park Avenue,
discrimination in the seating ar- town, I lightheartedly
Customers have to wait. parcel to the post office intend, automobiles in
he usually lives, for long trips
The bacteria released into the rangements." ing to dispatch it Hong Kong.
sprawling country air by
and It's nice to have that cleared up. coughing, sneezing Afier several minutes
While we're mentioning cars, around this
another story. He always comes back with the spitting, are protected from at- to establish the let me sufficient
filibuster The pass on (usion,
controversy same conviction-you've got lock by normal methods of air of Some good friends of mine, an fact that I was indeed one
and get out and sell if you are going sterilisation by a film of moisture, brought the U.S. Senate face to those mad eccentric Englishmen, American advertising man
face with a crucial issue. Mem- but the special fluids used in Д Madame Lotheira emerged his wife, bought a British two-
I think that means the old phantomyser and turned into a bers had to decide whether or make laws is majestically from a mist of ap- seater sports job, which they linve
everything-stops-for-tea
and not the right to dry mist, are hydroscople, parently superfluous officials and pampered like a child.
phere that surrounds many Bri-mixing in the air with these
more precious, than the right to of her with an imperious snap
They will never buy another. tish business transactions in New micro organisms rob them of this make noise. angers signalled them to with-
Rust is showing through the paint York has to end. This is a time protecting Alm and then destroy draw from the action.
owners, office managements, fac- on the bonnet and the mudguards. for greatness, not for quaintness. them.
"This machine has earned re-tory owners, and all progressive Britain is still, despite the years
co cognillon from the medical pro- medical and welfare officers to YouT of quiet revolution
and en-
fession as a most effective means adopt a cheap, emeient and con- it and take leagues have steered "Yes please?" she said, "What can easily unwrap
to make gineered, a quaint shoes out
country or of not only stopping the spread venient means of slashing the one of the
of Infection during epidemics, sickness can I do for you?"
figures of the Colony.
appalling death but also as a means of treating and the
rates "I wish to send this parcel to two pracels.....I have plenty of quality products and quality peo-
ple in America's eyes.
many respiratory diseases by the from tuberculosis. Hong Kong" I replied for I had paper and string here".
Another use of this machine tired of making the point.
preparations, the com- Is to supply a-most cffective nen cold, bronchial asthma, and means of controlling yet another sinusitus have all responded to
contributory factor to the mon
this treatment.
Colony's incidence of sickness; in- The British Medical Journal. sect pests, flies, moths, allver the "Lancet" reports some clinical fish, ebekroaches, (and also air- Clearly there is an important experiments using this technique borne moulds) can be wiped out place for Rolls-Royces and Wedg-on chronic bronchitis and silicosts by disinfestation with aerosols, Im- Repeated tests have proved that wood china, suits from Savile sufferers showing marked
CRBCB, there is no danger of food being tainted by the dry mist, and just "Silk is forbidden!" she shouted two me, it won't take us Row and cutlery from Sheffold,provement in nearly all
A touch of the marquesa among Inhaled directly from
minute particles
be no as important, here can Most chine, the At, God! I thought, with the salesmen helps too. "No not of silk "I assured her. mental picture of the separated Americans idolise an old school healing drugs reach every part my temper beginning to rise.
shoes pursuing an erratic course tie, particularly, when they can of the respiratory tract. Turning Point?
It is now possible for cinema the mails. through She looked át me have been Preparations
"I think that this parcel is be- buy one just like it for 10s. 6d. market and then evidently
But that top-drawer completed for the first all hesitated,
The shops European Parliament in his thinking belter of an impulse to ginning to exhaust me," I said
she weighted, with a wry attempt at humour." should be expanded.
Could you just send it as it ist in Sheboyan and Elmira, Sioux tory. For several hundred doubt my word,
"But its no trouble at all" City and Passaic can be persuad- British sweaters, years the idea of linking the
"Three dollara" she an-sald Madame, Dazzling me with ed to stock
bleycles, bottled beer, and baby nations of Europe into a co-
that her smile. community husnounced." But I am afraid
"All the same" I said "If you carriages. operative been discussed. At last it is it can't go as it is. All the knots
scaled with sealing dont mind, how much is it to go must be
Hard work for the travelling fact. Although wax".
ns it is?" becoming a
Madame eyed me grimly. men, the "commercials" who will the proposed Council
"But surely scaling parcels is "Seven dollara us it is. And of have to sweat it out across this Europe falls short of the ideal, so long as the Eastern only necessary when they are to course 10 cents for the registra-continent in-sleeping berths and
sent by registered post" Il to registration?" decline to sald.
I gasped, eight-point plan of yours, can be European States
it is work with the West,
wlac 10 perhaps
begin
"Not so," she answered," It's thunderstruck. "Did we mention anything but another beadline.
registration? quite easy though; we have seal-
Here was a complication whose modestly. There is to be a Committee
memories of 1941 who feel that the let-down of that year may be repeated. This feeling was reflected in the poor Initial response to re- the Defence cruiting for Force. Both Mr. Alexander and Sir Alexander Grantham have made pronouncements which should set all fears The rest. and doubts at
an ade- Colony is to have quate Regular Army, Navy and Air Force; the rest is up to the citizens of Hong While recruiting Kong. figures for the Defence Force and Special Constabulary are more impressive than they were a few weeks ago, many more volunteers are ncces- As Sir Alexander sary. Grantham pointed out, these are not panic measures and they are not aggressive mea- The best insurance or external against internal aggression in Hong Kong is adequate preparedness; with- out that preparedness, the firm action promised by the Governor if an emergency overtakes the Colony will not be possible. There is urgent and pressing need for every able-bodied man and woman in the Colony to join up now. The Governor's emphasis on "Hope for the best and pre- pare for the worst" should -nay, must-be-the Colony's motto.
sures.
of
Parcel To HK
she "What is Inside, please?" enquired.
I
"I Sighed".
to sell at all.
almos-
That myth engenders the belief of aerosols made from I sighed. "I was under the im- that everything British is expen- Island Is "A pair of shoes" said pression that the limit for letter sive as well as the conviction that
ninel the population of the post was something like
divided into marquesses and shortly.
pounds" I said,
costermongers. "Not made of silke 1 hope!" "Thats very expensive" she re- Madame hissex, her expression plied pityingly, "Now if we make changing from honey to brim two parcels of it, they can cach
go for 10 cents. In fact," she con stone.
tinued
ferociously,
the parcel.
be
and
smokers, but a necessity if that
War's Aftermath
I gathered myself and looked in the end it is so much chea di elven, gramophone
A
of Ministers ing wax here, but of course you possibilities as a subject for fur
Let's go back to General For- will have to use your own perther discussion seemed to reach which will discuss the com-sonal sealt,
rest and his prescription for pro- away into eternity.
"It is much safer to register" sperity. After this war, as after mon, problems and try to
I struggled to retain my com-
every other, prices jumped over suld Madame firmly. common policies. agree on
moon. Then Well," "Ah There is to be an assembly posure.
sat in another. dump please"
alump As you which can discuss but can- "I regret that I have no seal, lough. I said with a high, the American.
"However...".
sold Madamo threatens today.
fresh not legislate. It is an ex- either here or at home," I said."
Every, week brings
The latest perimental beginning and if in any case, how do people who thoughtfully, "I think that after the Committee and the As- have no personal seal send their all your best course is to send it batch of price-cuts.
added cunningly. by parcel post. You will have to list is in front of me. Coal, bis- parcels?"
washing-machines, asphalt "Ha! Ha!" said Madame, sembly function successfully
get a personal seal of course, but cuits,
anti-freeze for cars, the cars and well, their influence and their authority will grow and her straight in the eye,
"This is one parcel that can- a closer union will grow at the same time. It is the only not be sealed
with overbearing feebly. I said seal, safe way.. for a more rigid Anality system would be liable to snap at the first real strain. Past federations-even. the American and the Swish have been followed. by civil wars. That is a risk which Europe cannot afford to run. Therefore this slow approach Is wise. It does not attempt of the question,
with a personal
I
..We have all the forms here
I hope those weekly reports "The forms" mumbled you get from the Embassy don't underestimate the importance of "Oh Yeri. The customs declara- the swing to a buyer's market customers becoming "Hai Ha! Ha! Hat" Madame's Lions forms. Items sent by par- here, with
frame rockod at thief cel post have to be accompanied finicky and walking out of a shop ample
and a by a declaration of their value, as often as they make purchase.
To earn
extra dollars from sample of English wit,
she asked
these people is going to be some tear began to course down her Didn't you know?” chock.
brightly.
laid seven Silently 1
dollars thing less than a picnic. There's by letter post" she said, wiping and 10 cents on the counter. As one guaranteed way. Add cheap- But I'm sorry the fear away, her tone implying my colours Buttered down from er to the 'finest and the fustest that this solution was really out the masthead, Madame wore ship and the mosten, **"Very well,"
"Of course you could send it
Madarde again
ין
to
that unless
to bear down on a saucy Little "How -anawared,
an unmistakeably Britain can cut prices of her ex- cutter with too much. But it opens up much will that ber
English cut to her jib who had ports she will never meet the uncertainty target you set, not in these reces- vast possibilities. The year
the lured up in some weighed
alon days.
I think she could. I hope, with 1949 may prove one of the parcel,, with some reluctance, near the airmail counter, great turning points of Euro-
"I'm afraid, it's
-"PATRICE STIBLING.” you, that she will Good luck. she said – triumphantly, but pean history.
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