Surely, gentlemen, it is not unreasonable to ask you to remain frozen in a position of permanent inferiority?"
UN
COLD DISARMAMENT
Militant
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY," "MARCH 12, 1955.
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World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
Capitalism
Seeks
America's Little Man
D
ISTY
By Jacqueline Engert
Venelian Communism, for example. Streat's ad-
cum-
you
blinds und black Yes.
could call it vertising alo paint are coming militant capitalism."
Kan spread down from The In Wall Street, they are across 600 offices of America's stock culling it the "age of the newspapers at brokers.
little Onancier." Brokers are the breakfast Under a vigorous
seeking the secretary put tables of 44 ting by H nest-egg, the million rend- paign
popularise the tu
G saving for his post- era. obscure world of stocks und
service education, the shares, offices will huve
farmer and the factory "I never bright, cheerful decoration
hand, and anybody else with realised modern
it furniture.
animated some dollars set naide. be
24 11 There will displays of fucts and Nine million Agures, also, with pictures own
windows.
WAS да cany buy
Americana i o stock. But through stock!"
ex-
U
and coloured lights in the advertising and direct mail, claims
the Stock Exchange and forest ranger Smiling brokers will chat its members hope to reach to a friend in with typists and house. 50 million people. They an advertise- wives and persuade them plan
to
they can dabble in Wall stockbrokers Street with so little as cents a day--or less.
$$$
organise
into
staid ment strip
a carton. Vari
Keith Funston, President of the New York Stock Exchange.
50 speakers' bureau and direct ed "ads" instruct: "How to better next
them into city and suburb ride your dollars to sue- down." and farm town.
THIS is
the "new look" sponsored by the New Exchange-a
The power shaping the new look is dynamic Keith Funston, President of the
cess".
Booklets on the monthly plan known investment simply as MIP on the floor of the Stock Exchange - Stock Exchange.
In this job for three show a smiling young man nation-wide plan to get booming years, he is young with a factory tucked under
(44), tall, handsome and his arm.
York Stock
Amerkans more investment- minded.
has
AN
an
new
Do you drink wine? Or do you scoff at its virtuos? Here are some facts about a precious but most fastidious substance
B
WINE IS A LIVE THING
By PETER NORTHEND
EER and spirit drink and exposes the sale of such ers sometimes scoff at products to open abuse. the allegedly unique Indeed, not only must a true |qualities and virtues of wine, designated wine come from its as extolled by wine-lovers, cuntry of origin-hock from but it is the only human burgundy from France, and so Germany, sherry from Spain, drink that Is " living an but it must also substance.
from grapm grown in parti- cular vineyards in a special area. Thua Chablis, a white burgundy,
ten,
derive
Fruit-julco, heer, coffee and the rest are mere must, by French law, originale In the few 100 acres around the chemical solutions o f
village of that name.
varying kinds, but wine is in addition a live thing. ments of France grow vines such Although 80 of the 89 depari- growing slowly to maturity, circumspection with known reacting all the time to ex- vineyards which produce the ternal conditions and treat. famous Chambertin ́cover only ment, and finally dying-if excres in all, and are owned by no fower thairi 25 growers, so the not drunk before.
largest must be extremely small us vineyarda go.
Temporary Illness or sick- nca, decay and fatal disease these things wine may suffer from, for the process by which fresh grape juice ferments is primarily an organic ene, resulting in Hquid full of life as well as sunshine.
SENSE OF SMELL
All Prench wines made since the and of the last century have stocks imported from the United been grown on disease-free vine
States to replace those wiped out in the great phylloxera plagues. Fortunately American rrot-stocks are immune to the attacks of the
This fact can be proved bug responsible, olherwise the to sceptics by the
French wine industry, almost as un- old as civilisation, might have canny way in which wine collapsed before 1900.
in barreia in a cellar
Those
"off colour" early professional wine-taster his job Коев
who might envy the the summer, when the may be unaware that he very growing vinos are flowering, rarely swallows any of the and early in the autumn drinks he is examining. Relying at vintage time the two mainly on the sense of smell, he takes a moderate sip of the natural crines in the life wine, rolls it round his mouth of the vine itself. Wine and under his tongue before maybe several years old finally spitting it out again. may still react As if in sympathy with, unpressed
grapes.
It
EASILY UPSET
neeris
A
Sun moro visitors will be encouraged when
Wine is a fastidious substance, bulldings are easily upset by unsympathetic complete with treatment. Strong Bunlight or illustrative dis- artificial light for long periods,
films, plays.
noigd, movement, continual reception rooms handling and vibration all send and elevatora. otherwise good wine sick or less "Dear visitors," attractive.. apologise sign- boards on the
"rest" After two flights of journey. and a long enough Atone stairs period in cask or bottle, or both. leading to the to develop its qualities to the
public full. present gallery. W are sorry you have to climb vlaims to see us. We are Korry we have so little
space available. We promise to do
time you
come
Some economists are wary of
the new trend. They recall that little people got fascinated. dabbling in the stock market in crash 1928-the year ma
ruined thousands and
• nightmare in many
which
matre
This is hardly surprising, for a man trying 40 or 50 different samples of wine in a vineyarti cellar, some raw or still green, would need a cast-iron stomach to be able to drink everyone!
For a day or so before an im- portant tasting session, a taster obstains from eating spleed or food, and strongly-flavoured from smoking, so that his polate is not dulled. During the work, many of these highly-skilled men chow morsels of mild choose and stale rye bread to cleanse their palutos between samples.
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as a drink.
People who store away a little "cellar" of wine under the states
In dally use are merely subject- Experts cloim, too, to be able Ing precious bottles to endless to detect in the taste of vibration, while those who
keep
u wine is sull of origin from their wine close to a barrel or
bitter Ironstone of the rather bottle of vinegar are simply Burgundy, through the gravelly asking дл
for immediate decay in terrain of Graves to the flinty the more valuableʻliquid, which ́ tong of 'Chablis, will swiftly end up as vinegar itselfi
minds. Saya przdessor:
"In every
who have
I am asked again and again to talk about the stock idealistic. "He lives and Funston started the market. Students tell me nt "We aim to нее that breathes his job," says * "popularisation" programme brothers and uncles and close- everyone
Ówning oppor colleague,
made quick on January 25, 1954, with a monty
all and uranium tunity to invest," says Mr English-style house in scheme for $40-a-month
stocks. Everyone is wanting to Ruddick Lawrence, Stock fashionable Connecticut, he investment plans.
know how to get-rich-quick. It Exchange Vice President, has an attractive wife and
was just like this before 1929." heading the promotion three children. And he
The Stock Exchange is wary, drive. "Of course, not directs his "brain-child"
T everyone should own stocks campaign from his office in
too, and begs would-be vestors to put their money in the hands of authorised brokers. - und shares, but if every Wall Street's grim canyon
They distribute booklets one knows what goes on, of skyscrapers.
"How we think it will help com-
to spot a phony stock-
bat
"Own your share
of
the current isms American business" is Wall
$$$
SINCE then, 30,000 month-
ly investment plans have been launched. This will
represent $68 million in one
on
broker and "Suckers are made to five years' time when they not born." They unge invertors are completed.
to put their money into com panies "listed”. and approved The new wall-time investors
by the Exchange. "Don't throw have already poured twelve your money down
an illusory million, dollars into share mine,” plore Keith Funston, ownership. They own 340,000 even if it's got a gilded sign shares. And new "plane" are on top proclaiming Chance of being started up at the rate of a Lifetime." 180 a day,
Typists wanting to own high- priced shares buy a draction at a
time in instalments, and receive”.
MIXED GRAPES
It is quite possible to make while wine from black grapes, providing the skins are removed from the pressings before fer- mentation is complete. Indred, champagne, a white wine, is nearly always made from blackt and white grapes mixed. But red wine must always come from black grapes.
Sparkling wines merely retain in solution some of the carbon dioxide gas of natural fertnetta- tion, which is usually allowed to subside completely before still wines are scaled in cuske.
Most beverage winos likə claret and burgundy consist of nothing but groge juice naturally fermented, but to other wines small quantities of mugery syrup
or.**
Herbs In addition, dotably ver and sheety, mre
(champagne), brand
brandy (port and
09
trnctional divatends. One cut of A behind the great boom will
LL this and facts and, figures sherry),
every six new investment plan
may
is opened by a ostat; mi equal bo reviewed by Senator J. William į madal winds,
number are joint accounts held Fulbright's Banking Committee posed in open casks to the sun's by married couples, Brokers say probe into Wall Street's war part of their maturation.
rays dos se lotig as two yearÙ, 25 women
ask moet questions in ing prices. response to the high-powered
Cameo on the shelves of their local supermarket
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advertising qmpolin being But the Senator ilkos to call waged up and down the country. his probe a "study" rather than And worden is to invest in an investigation and insists i These treatments are companies whose names they is friendly! The 49-year-old parts of a wine's development, scholar at and have nothing to do with the or grocery former Rhodes
Oxfat--nicknamrod. "The Pro-dosing with white, of bag of fosec by his fellow Senators similar harmless glutinous sub- in Washington le qut to distance that the wine merchant cover just what has made prices allinning and resorts to rim so * Her will anc it when he wants to purity cask
$$$
T trading posts on the floor of there are “significant similari of wine overlonded with enlour.
the stock market at 11, Well to betwem this and the pro- Street, guy, yellow and black- 1920 Jackontit: clerics, see pacing taster
færbér at ibe and of their #ing telephone wires, taking
(and more "orders..y: The "iltlered with more paper
ng tanning molte or bepurities -initiapension;
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