Page 4:
ICICLES IN THE ORANGE GROVES
By David Laidlaw
41
Th
* = 4 14
Inney
Occasionally he is surprised at the direction their taken. Wiincas
Moscow Racio announcement in Decen be: 1954 that Soviet scientia'? had created a two-headed dug, which, as the announcemen! whic rather laconically put
"W34 eerily an
unusual right topping mit from two mucers reorganise toner." to
BTT gancet No conten with Iry'ng to Perman'se the whole fabric af Ermen s city, the Party lenders have even claimed to be able Na ure.
1.ysko, until recently t
"f Fenster Challanged)
1 ry, enched Bat Aurel
la gable
have changed
and birch
11
Were
Sorrel all na. inter-
wdi inta rye, branch anto [3 (A commis don of hus Illow scitnlists foun that the
...le. chon c was Jue to fungus disease).
feendly, however th C.mi- munista have been dianppoin! 1. Mottic of their attemp
Era ba
Na ze
ols in freed The
current only Culon but als in countries of Eas
·
д
where for the luat theres binne
Jev
Lysenk. hires-f is now less pantat him if yone, but in:
hus theories nial e of
we in tune with the
כי -
s' belef
" 1405 11
to proctice all kitch creps quite unsulted th
4
15
Com-
that they havo wit
e tung will happen as they
Wish
When
buying
a Buttery
Specify:- COYLE
Imported only in mall quantities but at regular intervals and charged at factory thus ensuring 12 months full guarantee.
а
A SPECIALIZED BATTERY SERVICE IS OPERATED BY
ALEX ROSS & CO., LTD. Canal Road Wast (Phone 70864) or 26730
Headaches
Toothaches Colits
BAYER
are quickly overcome. by
CAFASPIN®
by
climate
A Mirage
European
The East neting on orders
2.
and red no Loubi by holliou. visions of their own, have b trying to grow such things
atid 10 A 10 107, oranges
rubber fr Not surprisingly, most of th tropical prislusa have shown
of respec complete lack Communis! theory
#
efther refused to grow a nu have succumbed Lo the
hav
breath of the northern winn The plcture of luscious elus e
miraculously frost-fre. manges and Duty cotion
DROWI
171 the brecze to be a druge. During the last
your
13
has
or so
the truth of this has begun to be openly admitted by some
of the governments concernca.
DI
October
Directar
For instance. 1984, Ful Szabo,
Hungary's
Trans - Danubian Selende Institute, made
following
zab
frank
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1955.
BRITAINS FIRST
· NATIONAL BOAT SHOW
EMPIRE HALI
ULIAIVIA
UPEN THURSDAY DEC. 30"*
9 OLYMPIA
"Don's you ‘hurry-forʼard-landlubber' me, you seu serpent.”
PLANE
RIDE
TO
HAPPY WELKOM
WEI KOM, Crange Free
24.
of
Sac UST an hour's Trip
the
confession.
D'une from Johannes- burg brings you this spot where Soon African energy and enter.
have wrought prise change so fantastic as to re- semble a mirage.
ara
14
an
when
we
sal! several ocem.ons,"
"we have wrongly in Szabo,
possibility preted the wasforming Nature. Thus we were day-dreaming
rowing, while in the meanum come so poor that it is almost
eingent ated
upon
ur wheat production ha
J..paralle
In
eckton-
be-
Just Moven yours there was nothing around e inf hore except a large expanse you bak £5 of khaki-coloured veld and
groups lite some v1 orchards
Our his.ury.
we wanted to grow lemons, and
tur
the meantime
vineyards anyti
nav, ptrishes."
BION
Visionary Lemons
This was not the first piece of "welt-on icism" by agrical rul
On January Hungary leaders. 22, 1954, Bein Szalai, head ul the Hungarian Planing Burca, de ani, ec
that
mor
crops
farmers.
Today
well as
with
And
Th
expan beg watch yo'
of
con le energy
's well-heinhe
W kem Chamed town of
ft Barr farm which was Jere), a lown brough free by the skin gold mines.
Searchlight On
South Africa..By
RENE MacCOLL
servan's—wii!
a month.
With few exc÷ptions, Kity
of mot
AUT
But now let me tell you about the Negroes. As I went carefully 'hr.ugh the quarters for the these Negro workers, saw the splendid facilit te provided for them, and wound up visting the £500 000 for Negroes which is he spital
the most modern far and away and besi-equ.pped 1 have scen nywhere in the world, I realis- that here was a aed gratefully
the horrible partial answer to i palt ons ex lug in Johannes-
nt W
He he uses don't look they had got there only cally. They ck the a geen fri, bậc rowICES ... t. pr bubly because the piter: mining comp: ny
tus rach
hedge, and a
www.
*** Jackie,
newe: mer
tree.
4. re bloom and burg's Shantytown.
art the hust
are as at a the coloured pins on the well map in the offer of the young housing mas ager.
of
Yes, 13 mines in sevCE VS
superst we mud you see their
tibey cat tures gears" run
A
should be paid to the country's The ructional
(even Inmou Tokay win: region has
glected in favour hose visionary lemy and promised that in future co'to would get A good deal less Imelight
C.rally, Hungary's agricul- urat si ua ion is at presets very
zappy. The former "granary
Europe"
comed
to
HELS TX W
Importing
been
whew..
As well as eggs and fats, two Fer expor's in pre-Communist days. And while not all of this be blamed on the "day
et al bere) shywards
in the suns; he al artnine In the distance.
These
gold.
esta e
Is H
will 1
Ան Hy
the way.
"under #r, und
cmployee
averages and £120 monthly. Abuvo 280 ant und men
m ke ah u3 Taxes are scruething like 3s, in th fund wS NA of MacColl, what has this wot to Go with it?) is 203. a bottle.
enset va Jely
to the tune
in 1110
£4,345 .ll on decu e 01 Bu,
e camis". (forcible collec:lvlsa A
אגון
La chiefly responsible for
he chaos) yet orange-blossuin ard tea-leaves have undoubtedly Slayed their part. siny
AL
11 eeems Communista,
strange that the
who profes
are what
ܐ tuo
10
nyer in the interests of the should waste mosses, valuable time and space on such
when
Equate people need. The whole thine is slightly r meineen of Marie Arainette's the Abr: remark **rvir crown who dˆmanded Therm "Let them eat cake."
PHOTOGRAPHS
Staff Photographers
our Staff
Police Parade
St. George's Ball
H.K. Exhibition
Aces Concert Party
Fire at Shumsuipo Chuk Yuek Village
Amateur
Cine Club
BiologY Exhibition Model Plane Competition Launching of
"Man
Yan"
Red Cross Distribution, of Clothing H.K. University Education Society Women's International Club Dance
Indian Chamber of Commerce Party I
Army Referee Association Dinner "Pickwick Papers" Premiere Chinese Civic Service Club
Hammarskjold
Mr. Dag
Annual Race Meeting
"Rob Roy"
Premiere
E.C.A.FE Conference
All Local Sports
Local
Presentations
Local Weddings
atc, etc.
Available at
It's exciting
nex.
1
Port เ
since ND.
#obulous Pee-for-1-pric
con of-ene deal South Africa produced uranium product of gold.
CU
FRANCIS MARTIN walks into the National Gallery ...and finds a thousand paintings the public do not sao.
HE KEEPS A FORTUNE UNDER THE COUNTER
T
London. tion staff, catelon 211 electric a magnifying URNING my back on torch as well as
glass when he makes routine the thronged public Inspections in the store Ther 1- rooms of the National no air conditioning no humity Gallery, I went down a flight control. On the other bay th of steps from the cloak-room are lots of draught. precincts, passed through n lofty doorway with a Admission - except on off between two
autumn warped a clal-business look about it Infancy of Jupiter
no
and trea
ewliches of temperature
Three cold days
wurm ups Inst
y
and found myself staring at so severely that quarter 51 a thousand under-the-coun- inch oplat appearst by the panel
almeri vermagrel ter pictures worth millions the pairing t ta dia mellow of public meney.
Let me explain how the
the underside of
counter
comes about.
The National Gallery own 2,000 paintings and has public display space for only 80 of them.
Most of the others are hung on serried wire-m: 3: screens in three great rooms (known as the store, or reference department) that are ordinarily closed to the puulle. But if there spectile painting you yours
ક
to see, the atiendants will escort you to it on request.
her daters ar To me here smallish job in an elaborate e it Faca tour of inspection).
There is, alas, a smag. pa T:
"'S
OX 150
V tes #1 Tor Negro "murri:ds" who wish to make their stay long-term only about 50 are occupied.
this?
Because the
Why is Nationalist Government docant like the formation of black spots" and so it stepped in with various regulations which make 11 difficult to let the Negroes have their cottages.
Good Life
THE Natknalists do not mind ain on the big numbers thy in the hostels and Negroes dormitories of the single men's quarters because they figure that return sooner or later the men to their tribes and so don't make a permanent "black spot."
But in spile of this sour note
The store has about 20 vl itora a week from the outer world. mostly art students and dealers.
The painting 1 had come lo see was then toricus Virgin, Child and an Angel about wilch the experts are having so cosy a bicker. There It hung in one of the
4 Italian bays,
smooth
frame. The three Agur n 1 vnt as fresh and solid as wax fruit
the
picture by Francesco Fiarcin four and a half centuries of Others say is a fake not a day more than 150 years old. In any Is not. on National case, it Gallery standards, a momendou painting. 1 yawned and porsed on to more stimulating things.
Some painted
яду
the
A Garden of Eden by elder Jan Breughel looked like a
design for a very bright, very 1985 bullet. Nearby Greuze girls gave me
three
swcot
How m
"heapital." where 14 $11.1 being med an attest
Sem Inner Diga tonela zadan ៨ខែ 、 pot paint b of being bodhi erals to let anyw ell wore values she 15
1:.
།
gment is mouthed vil X-4
el rio peritoa uy a spital set of electile in anci Inlx ture of brewwwx and rein
'uc
He starts again
122315
ImV 1
and 2), mynd st
from 10
[1..
You [
JOI AVERte! by giving them fr
uh with a as tut of eat-in word, then a close W X
any ot of w x polish but broni
by
12:
Callery's mies from cret formula.
every Wed-
Howard devi tes
the D- needay to scruni-ing
t), thi, i acis it takes 1m 10 weeks to cok thruugi
the tire
collect a. so, e, rublle rooms include.
sleria all over
21211
ani When
the
the scrutiny 1, completed
ayain, on principle of Fo th Bridge paint-
At present be
150 has กศ. "sick" palňtings la his cord in- ex, musily from store, due for later, treatment Urrert chars tre deno ed by a red danger signal tilpped to the Index card.
tooner
The giants
smiles. Two hulking Turners Alled opposite bays, both paint- ings nine fect long and a high of Gallery
ท mon. One was Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, the other Dido Bullding Carthage,
Light blocked
I loitered before a Reynolds, a Tilman and Here at Welkim the Negro 17
a string of Dutch nower pieces so startlingly real Rug what trek.. to m.k a
His ki chens and foot the general impression on this
that you nearly sniff their per- fair deal.
the sunlit day was one of optimism fume.. There is nearly as good scrupuloudy clean,
and achievement-achievement stuff under the "Nat, Gal." meals propered by the most up
tobour- past and still to come in heaping counter as on it. to da'e machines and saving devices.
2
10
dormitories tuo are clean and bright and uncrowded-in fact, they compare no badly with the of some of the firitish public schoels (whose visting
measure.
Gold and uranium and sun- shine. A pretty good combina tion, and a brand new place to ve, planned for hard work and
the good life.
Save money
by-HS is the cheque of the future, of the
as M seven of the 13 mines have ng end to do Ju t-art two are alany production here.
to im But
not I proporc matterse yu in mineralogy ar belt you with proue'l
1 four The thing Agures. exeling was this town.
You glance out of the winte and there is the Wellan tony. Forly square miles o It. Half a million trees plan'e
Shopp. and coming up fast.
that remind centres suburban America's best
mc
of
Great
Arwer beds here there, and everywhere,
A carefully planne 1 13 in fact centre everything, planned to make it as alce os possible.
Johannesburg
may be rich
but believe me it's pretty ugly too. Welkom may be rich-and| beautiful because that's the way they want it.
Population:
19,000
T
day not far away when the dreary routine work of bank clerks will be taken over by a near-infallible robot brain.
The novelty lies in the little rectang'e in The rob t will he right-hand bottom corner. read those few dots almost as a blind man reads Braille - only 10,000 times faster.
With a single, all-seeing electronic eye it will detect which branch of which bank the cheque is from, how much it is for, and who signed it.
Then at the end of the day mechanical "Angers" w auto- matically type out a statement for every bank, recording all the
transactions of their customers.
A SPEED-UP QUCH a robot culd greatly edure the 'cadily rising costs of banking by eliminating expensive labour and reducing office space.
It could save abru
FRANK ROBERTS
and robot trund
nine-penco of the shilling I have been inspecting
bank charge on avery
anu 40,000 coloun'ds (P'll tell banks at least £8,000,000 you more about the coloureds a year, and quicken the r ¤ moment) and geting commercial bigger.
A guarantee
money.
Bow of
And H
Full marks.
that
RTC
80
The wheeled screens carry the paintings crowded that they block out each other's light. The visitor has to peer. Master craftsman Loula Howard, of the Gallery's restora
by robot
ctronic Robot Banking Company
I
Roberts has now applied this "flying spoi" principio to the
certain things. are remembered for a short while and a reel of special microfilm which "remembers" the rest for ever. Bv "king" the robot shy relevant question it could answer from memory withton few record. Roberts claims. In this way posible mistakes could be chetkede and out-of-date farts could be obliterated
ON FILM
There is a constant movement pictures, not only between the
310 e, the pubile rucms and the restori tion Jon
atro to partment, but
ott er gallerles all over the country and to top-level Government offices (No. 10. Downing Street included) where they are part of the furnishings
Removals at the rate of 3,000 a year are carri.d out by an overalled working party of five to seyn, men of skill as well us muscle. If you le Consible Inndreape drop, the damage may be incalculable.
*
At one end of the store stands vasi, wedge-thared packing case, painted battleship grey, ti was in this case, inbel ed No. 1. that the three biggest paintings of the collection were shipred away to
a safe place in the country al the outb eak of the war. The thre giants are; del Plombo's Raising of Learys. Van Dycks's. Cherie I on Horse- back and Veronese. Adoration of the Magi. Erch of these measures 15ft. by 12ft.
Why keep it?
Dn
The packing case, as big as a pubile monument, takes up why is it not taken
nordinate Dmount ef room. away? "Biczude," I was told, "k has to stay on bond in case another lemorgency" cœCUTE."
under re-
The heaviest pluture in the epllection is not one of the the robot memory biggest, however. bak g machine which WITH
Weight priza would be hop. at the clearing Roberts believes that he goes to Botticinf's Asumption
w... all cheques are could record all the Uerature of the Virgin, sow by Le back branches for stored in the British Museum on storation. With its massive, Ing.
1.000 feet of nim. And any part reinforged frame, and protective of It would be quickly, ac-plate glass, this turns the scale cessible.
at 18cwt. A member of the Because of the phenomenal working party assured, me thus compactness of the memory shifting the three giants and Robarte has put forward a the Botticini on une dry is nu scheme to enable all the National plenic. "I can well believe it. Insurance and Pensions records to be "Bled by róbo's,
Ts is how it will work:- Wen a ceque is fed into the mpoline the fing spot of light will
mova across the 10 lines of ine small rectangle, as a clock migh: run his eye along them eni much faster.
As the 'fying pot encounters each do! It will-record it in the
robot's capacious memory.
FAME AHEAD
The Half of about 2,400 The do's are so postioned that people now coping with the over- growing insurance records at white-cheque. It might save the your future cheque-book they are a code revealing all Newcaste-on-True could be cut
(At first these dots to about 70," he claims, cheque. .by CHAPMAN PINCHER would be put in by a clerk at the branch where the cheque is but Roberts has on idea This ingenious device enables pald The Hea of this robot, which ordinary microscope to be seen do this.)
the field of view through an for another machine which could is so practicable that it is now much more
result of nearly two years highly magnified After cloring all the Informa. THE barking robot is the being considered by leading on a big TV screen.
Bon in Ita unforgetting memory of deep thinking, during which bankers, springs from the brain automatically
the robot would sort the cheques, Roboris has been backed by the counts minuto Into bundles together with' a' Nuffield Trust and of Dr Frank Roberis, a. 30- objects like blood
4 go-ahead corpuscles are very year-old British scientist.
and brain cells an enormous each bank,
printed · statement adkárossed to electrónios firm at THE 2,500 houses
Dition help to medical research, picatant. They are bunga-
This quiol, - Edinburgh-born lowa dono in bright colunurs, three-bedroom jobs, with gar-electronics expert not only has
The TV microscope works on but ages (one in three owns a car). A flair for exciting ideas
a simple idon... which, surfaced the technical ability to modern built-in cupboards,
put santation, They cost the minor them on the drawing-board and rom Roberts's restless mind £41ds. a month with the practical skill with screw. while he was sitting on the top Just free maintenance thrown in. driver and soldering iron to deck of a London bus,
make them work."
THE MIND'
It is only one of almost a score of novel. Ichens simimering in his mind.
LIKE
most
practical scientists, robot Roberts has worked to make a personal fortune, devising the memory for the "Robot" Roberts is not likely ciobely with Professor. J. Z. though he will almoet edetainly
It contains a gadget called Young of London University, bo the mists of making a great
SOUTH CHINA morning POST, LTD. water and Tghting aro 10s. a years ago, invented the TV out flying pin-point spot of the greatest authority on the
Wyndham Street.
His main retard will be in
If you want something a bit
It was Roberts who, three en "electrod gun" which shoots the brain expert who is probably deal of money for" d'hers. grander it costs £5, and your
iteroscope which is now being light like the one which traces human memory, mouth
A servás:
Tak for this almost produced by firms throughout out the picture on the screen The robot's mind"
of a TV alone in the modsen: world-la-lhe veinid,
the time he achieves wrong his commata "follow acionista, kallal highly "OLLERAT "ENCY COEmcrilative thinUM,
POCKET CARTOON
by USBÉRT LANCASTER
METRO
* What 41903 is, if 1-like amaliing | mg, Pernod and garlic chan-it's veactionary `and widemocratie toʻspří