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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1952.
AMERICA STRIKES BACK AT......
Geoffrey Bocca
reporting from New York, tells how G- men are trying to
unmask the
new
leaders of the Ku-
Klux Klan revival
B
-
Y arresting more .than 30 members of the Ku-Klux-Klan in a. series of awoops, America's Federal Burcau of Investigation has doused the Burning Cross in North Carolina, and the thunder of hooded night-raiders is temporarily silenced.
But there are fears that the terror of the Klan may flare up again elsewhere- in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Alabama, or even in the
HOODED TERROR
in Illinois, where are on their death-hed-or North Klansmen recently cut a anywhere near it! cross on the head of a negro girl.
Death Knell ( DESPITE legislation to
An intolerant puritanism
Your baby and
I
your figure
your mother, madam, steadily with every child if
wore born talo apocial care appetite.
....
to watch your weight when As 2 special warning Dr you have a baby. The la- Richardson quotes the ease of a bility to put on excessive woman who weighed reven weight through motherhood stones before she married. After definitely Яeems to be in having six children she weighed
17 stones. herited.
This warning to mothers mothers who want to keep allm.
Expectant and' nursing to-be is given by Dr John should weigh themselves daily, Richardson, of St. Thomas's Tituss who and they are sud- Hospital, S.E.1. after a denly putting on extra weight study of 40 young wives should report to their doctors
tor diet treatment. who did not regain their
They should not attempt to igures after hav-
put themselves on ing children.
out medical super- vision. Dr
Curve cons -
clous mothers
should not relax
zaguna den, koja je t'afriet diet' 'with-
CHAPMAN
PENCHERS
COLUMN found that over-
Richardcan
weight
women
have substantially
So
"[ailance over. their weight until at more stillborn babled.
least three months after strict dieting under doctor's recover your figure but give
It was not revived in strength their babies are born, the orders will not only help you to until
30 years ago, when is the driving force, dating back to the rigid passions of "Colonel Willam Joseph Sim- doctor, warna. Many women your baby a better chance, -
monds, an unruccessful preacher, who gain no excessive 17th-century America. disinterred the ritual
of the weight while having their.. SLEEP IT OFF: original Klan...
bables begin to put it on soon afterwards,
Since last August, when the "Klaliffs," "Kludds."
Victims are often made to “Kladds" and "Nighthawks" rounded up thousands of pray before being flogged, the Klansmen sing
their Klansmen for a gigan and
to drown the
suppress it, the Klan tic rally in Columbus Coun- hymns or recite the Lord's remains
powerful ty, North Carolina, more Prayer emotional force, and some than 18 men and women, screams, believe It may be Acatis mostly white, HUVU for the greatest revival in flogged. 30 years.
Even in the South, laws to confine the terror have
Outside Homes
been passed. In some States THE blazing cross-symbol
it is now an offence to wear a mask in public.
of the Klan-bas burned before the homes of people on the black-list.
According to one sick and
Klan leaders boast that cynical old man in Atlanta, Dr Hiram Wesley Evans, millions pay the mem- "Imperial Wizard of the-bership dues yearly. Klam in its aggressive 1920 period, this important move could be the death knell of the Klan.
"It cannot live without the mask," he said. "Un- mask it and it will die."
But so far there are no signs that the Hooded Men
is the Ku- What is its fascination and
What, then, Klux-Klan? power, its its strength?
It is a remarkable mani- festation of a lunatic fringe conception of justice and morality.
Like the original, the new Klan stood for white supremacy, but it ako aclod against foreign-
ers, Jews and Catholics.
Most of the fat forty were slightly overweight before In the frenzied '20s the Klan having their babies. But grew to 4,000,000 members, and
wide political pencil-slimness is no guaran In Klan-ridden districts but eventually it collapsed tee that a woman will not in the Carolinas anyone's through scandals which shocked lose her figure when she has
children. neighbour may be a mem- the country. ber, donning a hood at night and appearing calmly at Catholic Alfred E. Smith, when
work next day,
One Klansman killed in a mob, riot was found wear ing a police uniform under his cloak.
TO COUNTER civilisation's newest aliment, nervous breakdown due to incessant anxiety, doctors are reverting to nature's oldest remedy-sleep.
Over-worked men and women who just cannalespace, the sim for three months' reat are being given a Rip Van Winkle treat- ment with hypnotle drugs,
During a five-day sleep broken
It revived to turn_its_dury on
Some women seem to be only for taking liquid food born with a slight weakness patients lose their irritability and he ran for President in 1928.
Time after time the Klan, of the mechanism which nervousness, doctors claim.
appetite. This Big-sleep treatment was wide- white-robed and riding on black controls horses, would descend on Negro mechanism is thrown badly ly used for treating battle- settlements, forcibly taking away out of balance when they shocked soldiera during the war. men and women and legging have a child.
died then unmercifully. Some. under the lash.
The Klan began in Ten- nessee in 1866 when a group of demobilised Confederate
Double Murder a club to troopers formed recapture wartime excite. A double murder charge follow
ed the discovery of the mutilated bodies of two men in a lake in Louisiana.
ment.
Most of the whites fogged are
The soldiers chose the name from the Greek word "kuklos." clrcle. The club meaning a quickly become aggresive. By accused of being "dirty" "cruel 1800 it had digtnerated into to their children or familiar
with niggers." terrorism, and was disbanded.
G. WARD PRICE finds
South America the
Land of the Future
an
pean
Now and again the Klan appeared under less sinister cir- cumstances. One Sunday they dumbfounded a church congrega- tion by appearing robed and masked in its midst,
They marched solemnly to the altar and handed to the pastor note which read: "The Unknown Eye Hath' Seun, and wo have
come to appreciate the work that you are doing... We present herewith a donation to assist in lightening the burden of in- debtedness now resting on your church."
But Klan,discipline is weɛk. When faint-hearted Klanumen shrink from flogging er tar-and- fcathe: sessions, leaders call in non-Klan hoodlums with stronger stomachs for brutality.
Appealing to the Americans'
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. trade is gradually reviving, these the Argentine peso was worth
fondness for secret MONG the earliest per enterprises, useful as a wartime 8d. The official rate of exchange innate
measure, are proving aneconomic. Is now 6d, though in the "black societies the present revival may ceptions of the Euro- Meanwhile the city-bred pro- market" any quantily car beetles
[attract many" well-meaning, but bought traveller in letariat has been
ght for 4d. But a would-misguided, people who are dis- dangerously expense of be pu
purchaser
of sterling would SOUTH CHINa morning POST LTD., South America is the exis- increased at the
pesos, were, forsetised with the protracted pro- corses of U.S. law. But the tence in the atmosphere of labour supplies in the agricul- and that his
tural and cattle-raising areas in exchange purposes, worth no danger is clent. Delance of the unfamiliar element which the real wealth of South
more than 22d.
law, however well-meant, is the Hong Kong & Kowloon,
something metaphysical, not American nations is to be found. Britons who have spent their first slep to cnarchy. And the material.
As a counter-mesure, no new working lives in the Argentine Klan too often is the instrument As regards plant and settlers, are allowed within 100 and now wish to return home in of fanatics, sadists and thugs. Indies of the Argentine capital. retirement, have thus become planning, the great cities
of the Argentinian Thus, though the situation of Prisoners that line the seaboard of the these Latin-American
currency depreciation, for the nations transfer of their resources ou! South Atlantic follów close- appears at first sight enviable, of that country would involve ly the pattern of Europe evil forces are at work whose the almost complete sacrifice of though exceeding it in effects are growing increasingly their savings.
visible m this far-off and lavishness of equipment favoured continent.
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NO`PARAPRAXIS
In certain cases women get overweight with their IS YOUR BABE an "otal sudist"? He is if he -puts first baby, but get no fatter his rattle in his mouth and bites with subsequent children. it, according to a new dictionary Others put
weight of psychological terms.
on
POCKET CARTOON By OSBERT LANCASTER
'As I told A.1.5 when they insisted on a test, I could see at a glance it was just another of those schoolboy jokes."
Psychologists have perpetrated much tongue-twisting mumbojumbology "that"al pro- fessor" has thought, it necessary to write a "small" (318 pages):
Dictionary of Psycholost your
So that you
can
familiarity with the consulting- room jargon I give ten' more typical terms from the pro- fessor'a list of more than 4,500. His definitions are given al the toof of the column.
Test yourself. What is meant by
(1) Acrophobia,' (2)' Grapho- mania, (3) Jehovah complex, (4) Looking glass self, (5) Monorhmic, (6) Nolism, (7) Parapraxis, (8) Peccatophobla, (9) Strablemometer, ...
(10) Zoopsia
ANSWERS: (1) Dread of high · places, (2) An obsessive urge to write, (3) Identification of one- self with God, (4) The impres sion of oneself obtained from the opinions of other people, (5) Smelling with one nostril only. (6) The will not to do a given act, (7) A slip of the tongue or pen, (8) Morbid fear of sinning, (9) Instrument for measuring the amount of squint, (10) Hallucinations talding: the form of animals.
•A Dictionary of Psychology, by James Drever" (Penguin 'Ja, daj
-London Express Service.
HOBBIES OF THE FAMOUS
By JUDITH SIMONS
and
the London.
public once gave. a
display. Kennerley Rumford; Cost of Living But their contrast with the
Errol Flynn and David Niven are singer, was the man who started HERE is nothing like a countries of an older elvilisation The cost of living in Braill.is propte, or the Argentine, with really absorbing hobby both novelists. Actress Eliza. the new popular craze of col- beth Sellars, when sho is not lecting jugs. His wife, the late cannot be accounted for by five times what it was when the 17 millions, both
for taking us away from the filming, devotes her spare time Dame Clara Butt, collected sil- multi-storeyed hotels, palm-lined last war started. The Argentine having vast mineral,
ver fish. evenues and perpetual s'reams is suffering from
annoyances of to reading for the Bar. agricultural strain and A drought electric
Lea Genn actually is a bar- The late Baron Rothschild of aleck American cars. The which has lasted nearly three resources, of which the first two day-to-day life.
collection rister-be difference is psychological.
be short by are still in the early stages of
Was Assistant Pro- had an extraordinary Looking around at famous secutor at the Belsen trials of fleas, which he presented to arises from the fact that in the one quarter of the 200,000 tons development, the years. She will
people, it reems the minds of the South American of meat which her government
more wo and, before it became his pro, the Briish Museum, where they achieve in public life, the more ression, acting was a spare time bave been useful to students of peoples there is no subconscious had agreed to send to Britain
ardently we pursue our hob- interest. They stil
Sir Roland Oliver, parasite life. war anxiety.
bles the serenity that Europeans lost on April
In consequence
Brazil is twice the size of
Michael Denison, the
nison, the actor, C., makes model battleships. nearly fifty years ago, when the the Argentine will get less ell India, Cd does not
and enjoys wood.carving. cultivate imminence of the Arst Great and coal from Britain as
thinks The fundamental thing than one-fiftieth my more
of her
Lady Brooke, ex-Ranee ot as pay-
Mrs Marjorie Crapnell, a War began to colour the back- ment for these purchases. The arable area. The Argentine is about a hobby is that it should
London artist, has become Bri- ground of our minds with. a Buenos Aires power Ballon twenty times as big as England. Contrast with one's working life. Sarawak, writer,arust
musician. has an unusually keen tain's foremost authority on inn I personally love gardening. It gloomy apprehension
that may
take to burning
engineering maize With velopment, the next
nis physically exerting, but, to interest in the cinema. Domestic signs, through making them her. endures to this day,
fuel, as it has done before,
Domedies are her hobby.
She used to paint ins favourites, but she does not Hire And, besides one meatless day hundred years will be for South one in my profession, mentally alms and
as part of her work, but became America what the twentieth relaxing." Empty Ocean
a week in the Argentine where century has so far been for the
50 interested in their signs that His wife, Dutele Gray, for the gangster pictures, Arty miliens of cattle used to
to United States.
she soon started to point copies Factors that thus enable these thrive
ume reason, devotes hours to on the rich crops of
of the signs alone. Now she South American countries to face fucerne that in normal times Yet, oddly enough, there dellente pelit-point embroidery.
the world She's of
also
authority Collecting autographs is a makes a living touring. Britain the future without, fear are six h
spring up quickly as they to which the averago Briton butterflies, but does not collect hobby most of us take up at lecturing on them. thousand miles of empty ocean, aro consumed the national: Amrotes so little of his attention, them: she aims, strongly, "I some time, aven. It' we Eo' 50
A London woman, some years iramense natural resources, a
Most of
our countrymen, if
If don't think it's necessary to kill further than getting the signa- climate that will grow anything, what harvest is so diminished
that, on reaching the quayside called
to pin-point on
on butterfics La order to admire tures of the rest of the form at collected babies feeding
bátilos.. Sho called at thé Vic-: mighty neighbour in the
achool. It is still the most United States,
such
loria and Albert: Diuseum, i one to provide in elevators at Buenos Aires, calle mor
ultra-modern them." its deftetency in bulk will be the
popular teen-ago growing cities as "hemispheric
hobby, but day made up by mixing it with and rapidly
Bahia,
usually the day comes when we day with a bottle she claimed Belo Perambuco One consequence of the war millet or "canary seed."
had been used by Queen Vicz decide to make our own', autoforia in her baby days; this che Horizonte, Bao Paolo, Rosario was to produce a strong ten-
Winston Churchill Even litle Uruguay, which and Mar del Plata, would find
graphs, worth having, and forgot offered the curators for £50. dency towards urbanistion in
of the richest men in it hard to locate them,
The offer was refused. Unul eat man whose hobbies. con about those of other people, these South American states, ano
If racing is the sport of kinan, In Who's Who the most They were cut off from the Europe some years ago assured eet foot in this continent, which rust completely with his work.
the safest lles on auppiles of manufactured goods me was Onancially
George failed in such life in his tanks of tropical nah King
chared those
stents have ing to the economie uneasiness test myself yet, if what re-en interest shared by play the Interest
to be wright Christopher Fry); he and had a magnificent? stamp muste; allence" Bir Osbert gya across her borders. started factories of their own,
averrun and occupied in of country
The microbe which has the Third Great War, these places and artistic expression in paint- ussia prized his own stamp for others; not answering, in terms 'and' large numbers
the unfamiliar once prosperous wih
names ing in water colours. A collection so much that he took knowing the truth, but not tell- dwellors were enticed into the fected these
Lord Templewood has a silver it with him when he fed the Ing.11. Bacheverell curtly says big cities by higher industrial lands is the widespread might prove to be the last re-
"none" wages. Now that international bacid of inflation. Till italy fuge of Western civilisation.medal for figure skating, and capital.
and
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hardd y
any part
2n
on
'one
that they had always bought country in the world, is react- hours no way to nowhere, I He finds it soothing to watch the philately is the hobby of.kings,, amusing DERES Bobbles,
from Europe.
the Sitwells,
of his father, river, bors ar
To make up this deficiency they that prevalls in the great states malas `of Europe wore to Ards. exercise in bricklaying, collection. The last. Trar of "thinking for "myself; #petkingi.