THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1953.
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OMSKI
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BESIDE THE SEASIDE, NOT FAR FROM NEW YORK, BUT
NO HAMBURGERS,
NO HOT DOGS,
NOT HERE!
DON
IDDON'S DIARY
little shacks cost £40 to £50 a week.
the
The hotels, too, are expen- sive, and a spacious cottage in grounds of the Irving
week. Hedy Lamarr stays here.
Southampton, Long Island, ton. We don't do things parties often has a slightly House comes to about £150 a
Tuesday. like that you must get a synthetic English ring. HIS is the showplace doctor. It would be against,
T
of
the legendary the law for me to do it.” The shops are impressive So this is not like Blackpool, Long Island - the
and expensive and feature mother. Trippers are not wel- summer home of the Several things which a lot of British goods. They come and motor-coaches would American rich. I did not seemi normal enough in are branches of the best be abhorred. need much persuading to inore plebelan places are New York stores, and the
What are the people of talking about spend a couple of days here. against the law in South- manners of the shop assist. Southampton
Just now? First of all, they are It has been 95 and more in ampton. The town is de- ants are impeccable.
talking about their own probe the shade in New York, and termined to be exclusive
Jems, and their big problem is 100,000 Shriners (members and very special and has of the Ancient Arabic Order apparently succeeded in its
the drought.
of Nobles of the Mystic ambitions, although I no- Shrine Convention) and ticed that the motels for
their families and friends the modest motorist have been disturbing the creeping nearer and hot city air and people with chainstores are, ut cowbells, shrill whistles, gates. much larking, and monkey. tricks.
They have been followed by tens of thousands of Jehovah's Witnessca, also
are the the
The days when South- dozen maids' rooms and the ampton hud houses with a
social arbitrators could issue
.
The clubs here--the Beach for tennis, and the Shinne- Club, the Meadow Club
It hasn't rained in Southamp-
FIDA
London Express Service
Persia isn't
going BROKE,
just BACK
By Kenneth Macaulay
THEY said Persia would end of the Caspion Sca anything
shit really woad, can be grown,
Pasture here is lush for cattle. financially broke, and econo- mically washed up three The climate is suitable for any
g from tea to rice. months after the closing
It is no trouble at all to barter down of the Anglo-Iranian local producte with Russin for Oil Company's refinery at cotton goods, Abadan.
None of these dire fore
cock Hills Club for golf ton or in all Long Island for six casts has come about, which is a mystery that is baffling are among the best in the weeks. New World, or the Old
the Western economists. World for that matter, and mere money will not you in them.
It has character
Southampton, a resort which has the tile of "Queen of the get American Watering Places," asking and praying for rain.
tragi-comic transportation sys-
And there is a fine trade in with a string of countries from oplum for medicinal purposes Turkey to Belgium which bringa in foreign exchange.
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This does not meet all Perala's noeds fur foreign money to pay There is really no mystery for such hardware as machinery at all. The answer is that and car spares, but there Persia is back where she enough to keep an 1853 economy started, when oil was firat going in a 1003 world found on her soil at the be ginning of the century.
от The millions that are
In decay
on parade, and New York edicts on who could live in WHAT I like about South- worse than, anything the Bri pouring into Iraq from Bri- interest in the yearly export of
has not been the same.
But too grand
So when a friend suggest-
ed I get away from it all in Southampton, I ac- cepted with alacrity. South- ampton is everything you have read about, plus some. thing the others haven't got. It is an elegant re- sort, perhaps the last re- sort of the social and the
ELEKTROIMPEX ELECTRICAL
HUNGARIAN TRADING COMPANY FOR opulent.
INSTRUMENTS.
GOODS AND PRECISION
Telegram: ELEKTRO DUDAPEST, Budapest, Hungary —'Lettera: Dudapest $1, P.O.D. 4
After the weather the recur- rent talking point here is the Long Island railroad. This is a
tem which is a bad a5,
and around the town are resort for the idle rich but
ampton is that it is not a fish or anyone else has got
over; but Southampton's
I've not heard a great deal of leaders insist "This is the for the industrious rich. It politics discussed during my
is only 90 miles from New two days here, York, a "commuter's" dis- tance, and while the wife and family stay all summer, lolling on the beaches, en- livening the canasta ses- sions, father merely comes for the week-end.
are
last stronghold of true society," and they probably right. They mean, of course, in the U.S.
This constantly mention- ed "society" is based on the British model. It is one of the worries of the old guard that Southampton is losing its British flavour.
British stamp
straw
Adlai's return
of McCarthy,
of
THE name
course. has cropped up at the cocktail parties and the bar- becues, and Southampton seems about evenly divided as regards
Persia in the old days had,na tish oil interests in Kirkuk, 32,000,000 tors of oli Mosul, and Basra only go to Since the Anglo-Iranian Oll show what a wonderful har- Company was kicked out two vest Persia is missing. years ago not more than 50,000 to 70,000 tons of crude oil has The millions of dollars gone abroad-chiefly to Italy. that clink into the tres- and Japan. suries of the Sheikh of This oil has come from the Kuwait and King Ibn Saud stocks of 10,000,000 tons of of Saudi Arabia only go to "farms" left behind by the crude remaining in the tank show how stupid the lachry- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. mose Dr Mossadeg of Teho- ran is in thinking that his
Self-supporting
Why is Southampton one of the earth's
most glamorous the Senator. spots, high on the Martini clr- cuit, a delectable dateline? Biggest political interest here- men could exploit his coun-
-tha_abouts is in the return of Adlai | try's oil resources, Because of les selting on-t
and
general the blue Atlantic, its bland and Stevenson, beautiful beaches,
its lovely forecast is that Stevenson will In fact, it is rather boo
fino stump the country on the sub- lakes and
its ponds, grand for my taste. I got I THINK Southampton still wooden houses, its follage, and Ject of McCarthyism. South- ampton thinks Adiai has been something in my eye and has a distinctly British most important, fis character.
away too long,
Foolish he may be but he is wont into one of the drug- stamp. The men wear old It has stood fast against the
by no means bankrupt. He has Supplied by: CHINA MUTUAL DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD. | stores, or chemists' shops, school ties and striped intrusion of the juko-box, the Actually, no man has been merely put the clocit back 100
words in years. Coney Island merry-go-round, able to get many to have the druggist take bands around their
the hamburger and the hot-dog during the past day or two. out the offending particle.
They have adopted mand, hats.
the "more vulgar neon One hundred and thirty-five The economists forgot that He raised his hands in the long Bermuda shorts glare,
editors arrived at the same time Persia with 18,000,000 inhabi- that I did. Their sojourn 'horror. "Not in Southamp- which used to raise hoots Almost
at tants is completely self-support all the Bummer Southampton shook tho old ing Apart trom sugar and of laughter among Ameri- residents are bankerS and town.
textiles, cans, and the police wear brokers from Wall Street, in-
You can add cement, if you pith helmets like the police dustrialists, lawyers, big busi- If you know anything about in Bermuda or Jamaica. new men from Now York, women editors you will appre-like, but the Persians have only clate that 135 of them are more got to stop building to abolish To live well here you have formidable than 100,000 Shrin- all worries about that. There are many British to have plenty of money, unlesa, ers or 100,000 of Jehovah's
aro a guest. Witnesses. cars parked on the main of course, you street,, and the accent one bedroom rent for the
"Cottages" with six or
Benson Perhaps I should have stayed | hears at the perpetual at about £2,000. Even modest in New York after all.
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MYSTERY
W
X7OMEN have more
strength in their little
Sover
Abadan
Is today in
decay. Every so often, say cables from correspondants, they start up one distilling unit which supplies enough" petrol to keep the coun- try going for a few months.
The miniature refinery ot Kermanshah, whose wells are on the Iraq border, is maintaining. its output of 450,000 tons of petrol a year.
The one lono unit at Abadan makes up the needed total of 1,000,000 tons.
Abatan never producot - a single quart of lubricating oil, and supplice have to come from America.
In all other respects, how- reduced to a trickle. ever, foreign trade has been
firm which is building a water Akxander Gibb, engineering supply for Teheran and for Shiraz in the south, is fulfilling So they have stopped building. Its contracts and is being bald
In the wonderfully rich fertile at the stipulated times strip that borders the southernBut foreign trade is a shadow
sterling
OF WOMAN IS
WOMAN IS FACTOR X
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
fingers than men have in A man who crushed his little results of an official house-to- all their bodies when it finger at the same time took house inquiry disclosed. comes to putting up a fight the injury so badly that he was against illness, doctors were away from work for a year. told.
Dr. W. S. MacDonald, a Leeds family doctor, said al the British Medical Associa- tion meeting at Cardiff that the human body contains some mysterious factor X
itself which shows strength of character and courage in adversity.
in
SMOTHERLOVE
*
likely to conirnet than town dwellers.
rheumatizm
IF YOU SMOKE ̈·
A
or its old sell. The £, officially worth 80. rials, is now threo times that rate and no wonder merchants, are idle and the number af unemployed has inm creased.j
Don't matter
[
So long
DOO core, is unaffected
as the peosunt has A SIMPLE and reliable way of bread, sugar, and tea ho larrea- Rheumaticky twinges amict deciding whether people with sonably happy. The price of these commodities has hardly "The X factor may be mainly nearly three times as many weak hearts can safely smoke rizen by five percent since the or entirely spiritual, but ́it de women as men.
has been devised by Dr.C.3. nationalisation of dil, finitely exists," Dr MacDonald
Henderson, of the General Hor
The bulk of the", Pérsian pital, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He cald,
Nearly 100,000 people were
la patients to smoke by
suicidal econo quizzed in the inquiry, which
while cigarotic
their heart mic JAN now been analysed by reactions are recorded by
Those who feel the plach are Dr Eileen Brooke,
called Instrument sensitive
the "two Hundred, families'.. medical ballisto-cardiograph.
the aristocrats who want Euro- statistician,
Tests show that a few people pean case, refrigerators, Scot are so scritive to nicotine that fish cloth, and
nylons. they should be advised to give But the "families" do'
tobacco. In most healthy matter; and Massaker knows. It
the people smoking quickens
America has been allocating pulse alghty but does not some
$25,000.000
dollard train the heart, Dr Henderson ($8,900,000) annually in ald to reports.
Persia. This s
ith what Persia have been receiving from Anglo-Iranian royalties, but It has been a lifebuoy to a coun--
in
BEVÉTE
arthritis
WOMEN came in for much criticism from the doctors for mollycoddling their children. They were accused by Dr V.
Women suffer much more from Dicks for indulging, too
and much "anotherlove?
chronic rheumatism. Only in Many mothers were so over the case of muscular rheuma-
about their children that they made them feel in-brositis and lumbago
are the men worso off,
Brocious
Thin
Insecurity, Dr Dicks
WHEN TO PARLEZ
migħed
bagudell
And he added: "Women'ney much more richly endowed with this X factor than men, and so secure.
themselves are able to adapt more cardly to the stresses of claimed, can cause the children.
to develop nervous troubles and that the worst time for CHILDREN should not be try short of foreign exchange.*** Boo
such as stomach upset, näihina,' arthritics are early spring and taught anything but forelen These dollars, bought tyres, Dr. MacDonald quoted the and minor mental disorders. summer, "freedom #rqm pain languages until they are ten lubricating oil," and i paid for
tase of a young woman who had to have two fingers of her
right hand amputated., She
copod so cheerfully with the disability that she was back at work.
6:43
THOSE TWINGES
Dr Brooke, was astonished to
belog .common.ont... The mid-years old, says Professor Wilder Irrigation schemes under Ferala's
winter.
Pendeld, the brilliant Canadian seven your development plan, brain
surged
"They human But now in President: ELEP brain-can ̈plik”up Innigungeshower has told Mossadeg? that ing housewife in every four More surprising still is the almost without effort until it is this dollar and is to end, ping suiters from some form of finding that people who live in ten, but then rapidly loses this What Happens next?
• socording to the the country are much moro, mysterious, ports, 17.
nothing.