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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1955,
Interesting News Stories From
All Parts Of The World
Sheep Get
Duck Clothing.
An About
No Operators But
Phantom Voices In The Lifts
New York.
Phantom voices will take the place of lift operators in American office buildings and apartment houses
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two
The nation's leading lift manufacturers have developed voice sys- tems which will be installed
The Traffic Problom Is
From New York: From Paris: Now A Mojor Hardache.
From Chicago: inn for intellectual From London: Two Young Oxford Men
THEY TALK
Imbibors.
Prepare For A Scooter Trip To Tibet.
ABOUT SEX AND RELIGION AT THE.
Tavern For Talented Tipplers
Chicago.
in their electrònically-Slim Brundage, a house-
controlled operatorless liftx.
The voice systems will clis- pese pertinent information to
passengers as it is needed,
R.
For example, as ench arrives at the Brst floor a signal
automati will be transmitted
cally to a ma:ker dirum.
There, an arm will reach out
to the pre-determined spot-in the name Wuy as a juke box the appropriate operates-and message will come through loudspeaker.
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Dangerous or abnormal silun- tions will be handled by other messages.
Too much weight in the ft will start on arm moving to n
the part of
drum where # "Somebody will have to get off" message will be recorded.
It a passenger fails to step to the back of the lift a message will instruct him politely to do
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But if the passenger does everything he is supposed to do, no phantom voices will disturb lily ride.
(Landon Express Service)
Two Globetrotting Undergrads
Off This Month
To Tibet On A Scooter
London. Nineteen-year-old-- Oxford undergraduate Peter White will set out this month for Tibet on a motor scooler. On the back will be a tent, sleeping bag and a portable pressure stove.
His ambition is to visit every country in the world-and he has already toured the United Slates, Canada, Europe and parts of Asia. Last year he hitch-hiked his way across the Sahara Desert,
Because of the weight dim- Peter will buy his food culty from forms on the route he will follow through France, Ger- muny, Haly, Greece, Turkey, and across the Himalayas into Tibel.
Travelling Companion Аль extra fuel tank is being fitted to the scooter to increase its range.
"I will probably be the first scooter-camper in Tibet-i I gel there," said Peter, as he Imapped out the three-month Journey. His home at Coldblow, Bexley
ley (Kent), will be the starting point.
painter by trade, runs one
of the world's most un- usual taverns, known the "College of Com plexes."
For Screwballs' Too "We
cater to artists, writers, intellectuals and assorted screwballs." he said, "and every now and then we get Homebody with the price of drink,"
Brundage still works as painter. "I have to," Baid, "to
support the tavern."
near north side. It's a "Why are people going back'}
to religion?" couple of doors from the
To qualify for membership one Pickle Club, old DI
must be declared lacking in famous
of haunt
sanity by the college Psy chiatrist, who happens to be Chicago's literati during
4 cab driver with an IQ of the roaring 20's.
100. Open forums are held in the back room in the best trudl- tion of the
and soap box
And A Degree
cracker barrel. Speakers The college offers a degree of have included an imposing array of college professors, politicians, clergymen, law- yers and writers.
A "Course" at's a diversified "course"
College speaker
the
A offers.
recent WRS Alois Knapp, operator of Zoro. Nudist Park,
"Bachelor of Complexes maximum-cum-laudanum."
Forthcoming programmes aro printed in a bulletin known as "the offlelai neurosis." Activities include folk sing ing, poetry and an 1 tellectual-type quiz pro- in which only a
stand a chance. woukl
Included Willard Northwestern Univer- sity Law Professor knel
law partner
of Adlal Stevenson; Ald. Robert Merriam,
recent candidate for Mayor; Arch}- bald.Carey, former delegate
who spoke on "is anti-nudism Speakers have
21
hu
a racket?"
A
There was a recent book re-
view on "The physiology sex," and a talk by Dr Philip
Anderson of
Chicago Theologienl Seminary
of
on
The College of Complexes occupies the ground floor of an old building on the
SIDE GLANCES
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Copr. 1939 by HEA Saiviro, Inc.
By Galbraith
"I wish I'd been a girl back in your day, mother-I think
I'd enjoy reading, cooking and sewing, instead of always
watching television!"
LONDON IS BUSY
BUT LONELY
London's civilisation re-small," he says in the parish
minds the Rev. Peter Hand, magazine. vicar
"It is often said that Lon-
Paris
US Senator Plans Big Probe Into 'Baby Traffic'
New York:
An Intensive investigation] ↑ into the "black market" in babies operating in the United States and Canada is planned by Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate sub- committee on juvenile delin- quency,
At hearings scheduled for Chicago, witnesses will be call
od
to give evidence of "homCS" where unmarried mothers bre boarded until their babies ara delivered.
of
Infants are then turned over to foster parents for a price.
adoption Requests for babies in the United States are about nine times as large as the number of infants available through social agencies.
to the UN; Yellow Kid Welll, notorious confidence man; Rep. Sidney Yates, (R. ): Jazzman Duke Ellington, and Guy Bush, former Chi- cago cub pitcher. The college is decorated with odd-looking paintings by one
20,000 Adoptions of Brundage's, customers. Be hind the bar is a shelf lined Inter-slate sale of babies for with
and the ornato mugs of adoption is widespread,
there is also extensive traffic in steady customera.
bables from Canada do the Chalk And Blackboards United States. The walls
Is the relatively new, Brundage provides chalk so his preotive of placing the pros- patrons can scribble. A ran-pective mother in a hospital dom sampling of the humour: under the name of someone who "She was good for nothing but has arranged to take the baby
wasn't bad for nothing, after birth.
About "Chicago has the best politicians
20,000 adoptions are
cach
outside arranged money can buy-Plato."
the
established public, private or "Work is
curse of
Church agencies, but it is not drinking classes.” "Nothing a woman says above known yet how many of these
A whisper is worth listening fall into the "black market."
United to-grandfather."
she
Press.
blackboards ages of the Senate
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the
Traffic Problem
year
Tho sub-committee may seek Federal legislation prohibiting Inter-state trome bables for sale. At present there is no Federal law, and only 14 states ban such activities,
Killed Two Birds
Now A Major Headache with One Shot
Paris.
Like every other growing modern city, Paris is suffering from a major traffic problem.
The chiet Puris traffic
M. Andre
Superintențient.
is trying every way Dubois possible to keep the city's traffic moving.
which they would be the only
drivers on the road.
M. Lafay winds up his year
Madrid.
The white dove of Juan Gulterrez of Guldadels might
a dove
have flown right from a Picasso painting. for if ever knows the blessings of peace it is this one.
Two falcons seized it from its were flying pigeon loft and
in office soon and he revealed away with it when Gulterrez let recently, he will then propose fly with his shot gun. The two were felled with the the building of nine enormous falcons
to case singia blast and the dove flew underground garages
back problem.
Ja its loft quite une the vicious parking tramc
harmed-United Press. Other
proposed measures: A mue-long viackict rising over the streets to ease trame tangles
near
the Gare de L'Ouest and Gare du Nord.
Thyo tunnels running parallel to the banks of the Seine River to spoed East-West traffle.
Some months ago Dubois banned hom-tooting and in the ensuing silence Paris problems continued to multiply. The official opinion was that even more drastic measures must be taken to keep ear tramc flowing smbothly through the tree-lined boulevards.-
narrow
New Streets
Paris streets have not been broadened or radically changed since about 80 years ago when the Intrepid Baron Haussman slashed through the city with great boulevards. The Baron's alm was to knock out the small crooked streets which served as perfect resistance pockols in the event of street riots. Cars dream of than,
M. Dubols has Introduced every possible device to fight the traffic merace-graduated and
scientifically controlled signals, a ban on truck deliveries in jammed city areas, new one- way streets and special police patrols,
were
not even
And all the while tens of thousands of shining new cars clog the Paris streets making daytime driving a major ordeal.
Underground Garages
Travelling with him will be
of St Barnabas, don is one of the cariest places Most draconic proposal of all another undergraduate, 21 Southfields, of the civilisa- in the world to be lonely or un- is a ban on all parking in a
has never been abroad before. will ride lightweight
from
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an
Shorter road tunnels to re- lleve congestion at the Place Clichy, Place des Termes and Porte Maillot.
Onc
less
urgent proposal is to cover over with a roadway the picturesque canal St. Martin whose banks have long been a haunt for strolling lovers.
Where the money for these projects would come from has yet to be made clear, neverthe- less, the Parls newspapers and motorists continue to press them.
United Press.
Wives Want
Secret Ballot
In Commons
in the centre of "blue zone" year-old Peter Westwood, of tion of the anthill or bee-known in.
London. Linkside Avenue, Oxford, who
and hard hive-efficient
"I am amazed at the pathe-Paris. The scheme has so far down. by M.
Members of Parliament Paris thetically small groups of mourners been turned working #
Mayor should have a secret ballot at some of the funerals I take Dubois materialist point of view, in Wandsworth cemetery; there Bernard Lafay
But it is dear to the heart of in the House of Commons, estimate their Tibetan
is sometimes a funeral with no them about but not very "original." will cost
ali harassed tax and bus 80 that no one knows how mourners.' "London is so large that a
drivers who dream of a Parts in they vote, says a proposal Londoner's world becomes 100
-(London Express Service),
put forward by the British Housewives League.
He
motorcycle.
They
holiday
London Exprent Service)
£70 each.
NOW THEY
IN DUCK CLOTHING!
New York.
Not a wolf in sheep's clothing but a sheep in duck that's the new fashion trend on New
clothing Mexico sheep stations.
Putting a 'cotton coat on a sheep has such obvious. ad- vantages is a wonder 'no one thought of it until now.
This year, all well-dressed sheep will be wearing a casual slip-on jacket made of the canvas-liko cotton material commonly known as duck. By noot winter,
During winter and spring, be am estimated 600.000 sheep are going to before shearing time, the wind razing on western mountain-dows sand and dust into, a aldes In real duck jackets.
HAVE SHEEP
New England, that's expensive
dirt.
This spring the New Mexico sheep and wool expert, Mr J, Richard Stauder, visited the
Ndoesn't he?
sheep's natural cont of wool. The" wool is olly and the grit Specialisis at Now. Mexico micke fast. A pair of shearing Agriculture College came up clippers wears out in no time Victor Perez Ranch at Encino, New Mexico, with a trial ward with the idea. The jacket keeps riding through
robe of duck Suckerkatzekoa
For an experiment, he put the
| At shearing time recently Mr Stauder found the sheep with jackets on had four pounds less dirt in their wool than the opes with the plastic coat and those with their bare woot exposed.
75 Cents Each
Mr Stauder said this means o reduction of 25 cents a head in the marketing cost of the wool, The Jockets had been on only two and a half months.
The league's secretary Mrs B. M. Palmer, said "Thou- sands of people aro few up with the rigid party system.
"Wo think it would help the country if MP voted according to their honest principles, and
not on party orders."
Every member of the league. has received the suggestion and is being invited to support, and comment on it.
The league tells them that Intro- secret voting should be
"to end intimidation of dured members by their Party Whipe."
Procedure
The proposal would mean that MPs no longer enter the
The Jackets cost a rancher 75: cents each, and awning manu- facturers who make them al- ready have orders for 50,000ye or "No Tobbles in the Mr. Stauder estimates as mony as 500,000, may be in use by autumn.
Good For 4 Years
A shoop will got about four Jacket, yours: woar, but af depending on wheth
on open "plaina. utudied mounts
Ond other thing,, Mr Stauder
An sheep's wool clean.. Ranchers"And when the station owner
are virihusiastic about the ldan, sends his clip to market be pays | jackoča on one" sIQUE DE TREND, Everybody, gowns to - like that freight on an estimated four to sprayand), norna – others with? (, dos jackets kkcopi sho sheep. They six pourne of ciri per animal, slide soludos time in dig mung just look at each other and say Trout Frades being what they posed to keep wool clean mod
ard houtways; the Rockies, and 1. Fuck moram,
Commons, and that the names of those voting for or against in a division are not published in: Hamard, no at present, the
How would MPa, vote?
Mrs Palmerald: We have lo propoils on that at
aftor all it is merely a matter of procedure. , nhan thay từ dao on the Sochiiloul dimčulties
would, máimply mark ballot der or how: but the
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