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Colombo, June 26.
The Ceylon Government said today that the United States has a consumer control over the world rubber market.
The industry in Ceylon is facing a crisis from which' it cannot, in the long run, be saved either by Government subsidy or legislation.
The statement sold that it ised industry, with large unite of Inevitable that large acreage of 19,000 ueros or more, permitting uneconomie rubber planations economies through minas produc- should be turned over to other |tion. crops or be re-affurbsted.
the
His Service Suits The Americans
By JOHN HALL
Llice thousands of other
Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury check young men who rose from the joach order and he typos a per- ranks, Gray M., Sallsbury, who sonal letter to be enclosed with He also encloses a had left a £7-a-wrek job to each parcel. Join the Navy, came home with small guarantee label, to be sown
into the finished gorment. inflated ideas of what the busi- nesy world should offer him.
Deflation, dislilusion como rapidly and ruthlessly. They düin't hand out executive posts with the demob, papers.
A few weeks after his retum to
civilian life in May 1940, ex- Lieut. Salisbury, RNVR, took stock,
said words." "In other -The
Government sad the statement,. "there is no future for futuro
of the industry is. vn-inenlelent producers paying mini- predictable, but that exports num wages and other statutory suggest font It will become either allowances." a smallholders' intistry in which It is stated that American far-
He was 20, married, with two owners provide their own labour tories are capable of producing
the young children, had no home, nu le cut cents, or a highly interrat-synthetically 10 or 12 times
Ceylon job.
were His capital assets total production of the industry.
£120 (his Servico gratuity). Because of this and the fact
States
This week 32-year-old carry that the United large stocks of rubber (700,- | Salisbury moved into 000 tons on March 31) Amer shop in London's Mayfair and looked back over a three-year tean consumors are able to re-
story which ist price advances,
promises
a very happy ending.
Belgian Election Results
Efforts Fail
"Every effort made so far by the British Governumeut and the Brussels, June 27.
governments of the rubber pro- Tabulation of about 70 perducing countries to secure an for rubber has cent of the 5,000,000 votes economic price cast in Belgium's Parliament-falled," the atatement said. ory elections made it clear The statement said that some today there would be no re- praats might still be earned if s different system of wages from ferendum on the possible re-
that row in operation could be turn of exiled King Leopold. tevised.
The Social Chrisilan Party, only pro-Leopold group, led in the tabulation with 1,523,321 votes or 44 per cent of the 3,131,000 illots
counted.
4 with
hivio costs what they are there is it limit beyond which wage reduction cannot be
carried out.
"In the long run. It will be a case of the survival of the attest high disappearance of
It was far short of the absolute, and the majority it had sought, The party cost producers-Reuter. has pledged a referendum if it received an absolute majority.
The election returns also in- dleated a smashing defeat for the Communists, who lost ot least one-fourth of their 1940 suppor- ters.
The Liberal Party, which cam- on a plank paigned principally urging a 25 per cent tax cut, was registering gains everywhere,
DONATIONS ACKNOWLEDGED
St. John Ambulance Brigade acknowledge with grateful thanks the following donations:--
Ireviously acknowledged $17,285. Hong Kung and Shanghai Banking Corp. $1,800, Chan Nam Cheong #020, Hong Kong Elec. Socialist Premier Poul Henry trle Company $500, La! Kal $300, Dolins Spark admitted the returns con- Motors Ltd, $200, D. Reason $200, M
and Mrs. G.L. Wilson #100, China Mar stituted " small defeat for my government (a coalition of Sochants .. Company $100, Ohio Motor clallits and Social Domoerota}." -Associated Press,
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GENERAL HOLIDAY
On Friday, July 1, 1949, the Genera! Pont Ofee and Kowloon Central Pon Omer wil open from 8 am, la Noou, The other Branch I'ont Oflees from 8 a.m. to 10 am. There will be en delivery of Registered and Grdinary Corrrapon dence and uns collection only from pillar luxes at 10 a.m.
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.
Outward Mails
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THURSDAY, JUNE 19
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я $28, Mr. L. Knize $28, W., L $20, Lung Chue $20, All Sermin $20.
British
Gray
a smart
Every post brings him wads of the things that Britain neet most-American dollars. In 10 months
he has earned 90,000 dullars for Beltala-and several thousands for himself and says quietly: "This is only the beginning."
ent
Door To Door
Gray M. Salisbury in no differ
from the thousands who were demobbed between 1945 and 1947. A London tallor's son, he left school to become a salesman and started the hardest way- selling, vacuum cleaners door.
door to
"They get the best cloth and they have it made up to their own tastes. Above all, I malte every customer my friend.
"There are millions of Ameri- cans who want top quality cloths and who appreciate a' personal service. It pays them, too. For 30 dollars (£7 10s) they can buy a suit length,
Duty, paid to the postman, is about £2, Making up costs them around £15, and this they get 'a sult for about £24 103. that would cost them £30 any other way."
Gray Salisbury has never been to the U.S. Ita has studied their be anys. now salesmanship and In my imagination I try to think American all the time. I'm only just beginning this; there are 5,- 000,000 Americans who are poten- tial customers of mine."
His wife Dee (for Doris) goes to the showroom every day as soon as the children have gone to school, helps her husband, and mokes coffee, a fresh cup for exch Vizitor,
This young Mr. Salisbury has already gone a long way--a long way past the Board of Trade slammed door. The Treasury have just given him permission to. spend £1,000 worth of dollars every alx months so that he can extend his advertising to U.S. newspapers which do not accept sterling.
All this from a man and wife "It's been called foot-in-the-who don't mind working 20 hours dour selling at times, but it's the
day, and from one GOOD IDEA, best way to learn." Then he got 'n job handling wastepaper, mar- ried at 21 when he was earning 50s, a week. At 24, when he volunteered for the Navy, he had a wife, two babies and 27 a week.
extra.
He's a six-footer, weighed 11st. Olb. In those days, and. keen on boxing, he turned pro to earn a who (Londoners Uite went to the Blackfriars Ring and the Devonshire Club may recall a
Bill promising middle-weight, Salisbury, who fought in the pre- liminary bouts and earned a few tenners.)
Alter nine months on the lower He deck he was commissioned. Anished his war service in. Ger- many, came home to London with his family still living-in rooms in Liverpool, where he had been stationed. He found a small flet behind Oxford-street, collected his family, and started thinking,
hard.
His firmest resolve was that he was going to be his own boss. A him to Navy friend Introduced
"On Your Toes" A Fallacy
Washington, June 27. That old sports cry-"On your toes, men!"-goes up in almost every game. Yet the athletes who literally heed it may be cutting short their own careers.
What is needed, says Dr. Eu
one's gene Sutton, is to keep weight evenly balanced,
He thinks a baseball player's professional life
may be leng- thened by four or ave years by keeping him off his toes,
Dr. Sutton has been fool doctoring the St, Louis Cardinals baseball team.
ycle Company #20, Anulo. Chinese Acener "$20,- King's Corn $20. h. To $20, The World News Company 120, Friesland Tradhis Gumpany $20, Me. and Mr. J., Grimn 129, Tank Kee Hong 210, Dritish General Electrie $18. Anony mous 110, Dr. K.L. Kwan #10, Zimm and Company #10, F.G, Nigel $10, Way #10, Anonymous 110, LF Wah $10, J.. Itama $10. Daily 410, South China Insurañco 810, Provincial Bank of Fuhlen 110, ILK Woo 110, dekorsche Cleaning Service $10, A King Slipway
Getting right down to the foot Cheung 11, The Odoo Ap. 110, Peter
of the problem, Dr. Sulton has planer Company $10, Grand Magasin,
Hebis athletes stand a special Then he got the IDEA. Central 19, Universal Pictures Inc. $5.
This registers tho United Trader 1. $5, F. Zimwengured: "We want dollars. Now electric pad. 5, Tak Typewriter Company $5, LG what have we got that the way the weight is distributed on Kolewail #6, Haseland and Company Americans, want and how can I the feet.
Asia Trading Company 8, T.O. Wong 15, Chemical 8.K. Chib 13, New Ablatio Works $5, Mr. P.C. Woo (5.
Total $21,650.
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his first job, selling cod-liver oil and malt on comission. Later he began dealing in war surplus goods.
sell it to them." He chose cloth, worsteds and Scotch tweeds.
to
He reasoned out the selling plan like this "Me.e than any- thing Americans like personal service. Right, I'll give it them. rget the best cloth and I'll deliver it to them in sult' lengths in thelk, own homes-by past.
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Maybe too much weight is put an one foot. Or maybe on a part of one foot.
Special Tape
A special tape, invented by the flexible doctor, makes a light, bandage which, applled properly, may correct the trouble.
"Ey balancing
"But most of all I will deal "We try to strap the players personally, with every customer,fect so that he gets perfect body write them a personal latter and balance," Dr. Sution explains, make a friend of each one."
a man's body Now the problems getting supposition, his weight is properly plies of top quality cloth, and the placed through the bones of the cash or credit to buy it; getting legs and feet, Strain is removed
muscles, and, in coupons; keting dollars for ad- trom
medy vertising to the, Americans. cuses, a great waste by muscle
strain and fatigue in prevented,"
The Board of Trade listened to his idea, to his appeal for cou- pans and nlahmed the door in his face.
Helping Hands
A clothing fem was sympathe tic. "Nover mind the coupons," they said. "We'll hold the stocks so that you don't need coupons, and if you send us your orders and cash wo will cut the sult up, Insure lengths, parcel them. them and post them to wherever. you say and we'll give you some credit at the start."
The doctor's most spectacular ELICCUSA was with chubby Ted Wilka, Cardinal pitcher,
་
"He had almost all his weight on his right heel," Baid the doctor, Dr. Sutton fixed up his feet-and Ted's waistling
four inches,--Associated down
Press,
FRANCO-U.S.
SWIM MEET
went
The helpful manager of an American publishing company
Paris, Juno 20. Lolved his dollar problem by
Alan Stack, United States the agreeing to let him pay, for his Olympic champion, won add, in sterling.
men's backstroke :100, metres. His Arst advertisement appear- race here today in a Franco- ed in an American paper on Feb-| American swimming meet.
1, 1048. He invited Americans to send for his patterns |- Họa" tline was and minute 8.51 Dame Variety Band Box from the and then choose a suit length 7-1/10th seconds,
which he would despatch by post. His folders of patterns and the
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