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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1956:
The Eisenhower News Prompts The Query
IS GOLF WORTH
THE STRAIN?
By DR ARTHUR CHESBY
honestly if they feel genuinely relaxed and refreshed after # gamo and most would have admit they don't.
to
O President Elsonhower relax. That is the port of game has been ordered to is. A drug, a false religion. But nsic them to tell you give up golf. Excel lent. I would go further and order EVERYONE well, nlmost -to give it up.
My serious advice as a doclor The President has, of to every golfer is to do on⭑ course, beon advised to of two things. abandon the game because of his heart.
But it is my guess that his doctors are not concerned only with the physical strain. They are probably thinking too of the risk Involved in the tension and the striving which offllets al- most every golfer.
I'M TEMPTED
THAT
why 1 would be tempted to close down every golf course and send solfers off tor a long relaxing walk in the country. Beenuse golf, 0.4 11 relaxation, Just doesn't work. It does much, much more harm Ihan good.
B
There is nothing wrong with It could be u the game itself. line exercise,
wonderful mental and physical relaxation (yes, even for some heart sub- jects).
But it hardly ever is, Golf is far more often a matter of fret and tension. Of false hopes and disappointment; of despair, frustration, and even rage,
If you think I exaggerate then ask a golfer. Ask me. I am one of the lunatics who play golf and, belleve me. I know it all.
Even if 1 play well I worry about WHY I played well. What was it I did right this time that I didn't do last time? Can I do
it right next time too?
If I play badly I suffer a feel- ing of shame and failure that is out of all proportion to the
real slate of affairs. And my only consolation is that every other golfer suffers exactly as I-do.
$0
The non-golfer will now ask: Why take the thing seriously?
Why not try taking it easy?
Intelligent questions, but only ask them. a non-golfer could They miss the whole point. The the average golfer is precisely man who can't take it easy.
RELAX.
Give up the stupid came altogether and spend the week- enda really relaxing with long wolks in the country,
Or make up your mind not to give a rap whether you holo out in one or miss the ball dtogether. In short, try to develop that senso of humour which every true golfer locks.
Why don't I practise what I preach? Well, I rather think don't need to. I tried out a new grip last week and I dancy 'I'll and tomorrow that I have dis- covered really how to play the game.
GREEK TRAGEDY?
ATHENS RADIO
ÉMMUIDED.
COLONIAL
OFFICE
Mr Lennox-Boyd, Colonial Secretary, told MPs the Government is prepared to take any necessary mousures, including jamming, to combat propaganda broadcasts to
Cyprus by Athens Radio.
BUDDHISM
THE
T
HE Soviet leaders Krushchev and Bul- ganin were, at the end of last year, guests of a country where Buddhism
At every stage of their sight- seeing tour through the Union of Burma the Soviet leaders were given the opportunity to admire the great monuments of Buddhist art, the shrines and papgodas of the Burmese people.
World of ideas
UNDER
SOVIET HEEL
By WALTER KOLARZ
monasteries
In the
the
ཡང་ཆིའཞི་4f+h
Liquidated
the
the
the
Uranium Strike!
MICK'S LUCKY FIND By Arthur Morley
Sydney:
HERE'S a long, sleek,
dove-grey
Packard
limousine parked outside a tiny cottage at Mount Isn," in Queensland's Far West.
It is one of the "prettiest sights of the outback, these days. The owner is a young
Mick
prospector named Walton, still, in his mid- twenties - one of the Dominion's new uranium-
rich.
Mick drives this incurious monster barefoot, his toes curved comfortably over the accelerator. He wears khaki shorts and singlet only as he sends the car the outback scudding along Fonds, sending 13 clouds of yellow-red
dust
Mick is the man behind the announcement that the British Atomic Energy Commission is opening up a great new source of uranium supply in Queens- land. The metal is to be stock- tho piled and shipped from tropical port of Townsville to feed the
new British atomle energy power stations.
Dream Come True
on
of controlling interest in the richest Suppression
anti-religious of the Mount Isa uranium lodes The the Mary Kathleen mine. It
the
the
of the
The
of
The British mining concern, Rio Tinto Co. Ltd., has also ́an- nounced that it has signed monasteries, for at the end of the agreement with Australian In- 1030s Buddhist monastic life terests to build a €10 million in the Mongol Republic was all uranium trente queensland, plant in the but destroyed.
Mount Isa area Despite all
practical inland from Townsville. measures taken in Mongolia The name Arm has bought a
the There are only three peoples for is the official caught up with them. religion. Their hosts, the 1930s, when the Soviet pollee in the Soviet Union who are Buddhism,
closed and destroyed the followers of the Buddhist campaign is still going on, principal members of the Buddhist
and ligion the Kalmucks,
Mongolian Communist Party war mining development pro-, Burmese Government, in- arrested and executed lamas, Tuvinions and the Burya's Moment Party programme of the is one of Britain's biggest post-
to all three the Soviet (omcially the "Mongol People's jects overseas. cluding of course Premier U there was nobody to take up and
hea meted cut Revolutionary Party) mentions Rio Tinto will supply the Nu, are themselves devout with any success the cause of Government
tregiment.
tasks as one of the nine
of treated ore to the British Atomic the persecuted Buddhists of the
exceptionally harsh Buddhists.
Soviet Union. In fact, the
Kalmucks, who used to part
to Party members "the organisa Energy Commission--and young live in the steppe southwest of tion of broadly-based anti-Mick Walton seems cerlain to Buddhists were so utterly de- fenceless that they suffered the Volga Delia, were deprived religious propoganda" and "the have his second Packard before even more than the other re of their autonomy in 1943 and enlightening of tollers about long.
deported. to Siberia. The the
The the harm of religion."
For Mary Kathleen is the gious groups of the USSR,
"who Tuvinians,
From time to during
time the tucky strike made by, Mick and But now that there independent Buddhist countries independent republic of their issues circulars reminding their during the height of the Mount inter-war period had a quasi- Mongol Communist leadership a group of local companions In Asia with which
Russia pwn, were annexed by Soviet followers to pay greater atten- Isa uranium rush two years ago. wants to have friendly relations, Russia in 1944. They
this now tion to
anti-Buddhist it is every
prospector's dream' the situation is different, and
form Autonomous Province
an
Party pro-come tre-a Folld hill Communists must which belongs to the Russian the Soviet
anti-Buddhist uranium. prepared to While they no doubt absorb- be!
listen
Federation.
policy, conducted in Mongolia Luck played a big part in the ca visually all that is tangible the awkward question: "What
not only has the approval of and. Walton and five compan in the Buddhist religion, one have you dono
with
Soviet Russia but it has been fons from Mount Isa detected con hardly expect the Russian Buddhists under your rule?"
carried out under the direct radioactivity
In some smooth visitors to have acquainted
Only the Buryats of Eastern inspiration of Soviet Comstones in a creek bed. They themselves with Buddhist re in Moscow It was felt that
have stiil an munists.
followed the creek up into the ligious thought.
the question required some sort Autonomous Republic. "How-
hills to find the source of the Buddhism urges man to fight of answer. The head of the ever, it is much smaller now
stones and stumbled upon the within himself by Buddhist community in Soviet
radioactive hill that they named ict than it was originally, for in It Russia, the "Pandita Hombo 1037
Soviet Russia 1 now Mary Kathleen. parts of Buryatia were cleansing his own heart. believes in the development Lama" Ds he is called, was
the moodi in
non- provinces of Irkutsk the inner spiritual faculties of rushed to Moscow to meet the Incorporated into the Russian endeavouring to promote a pro-
and Chita. Suviet
Asian the individual by inward con- Burmese guest and so to serve But much graver then the dis- Communist
countries. centration and meditation, and as
of living proof
memberment of their national Burma, where Buddhism is the territory was the religious op faith
faith professed by the great Mary Kathleen to on Australian abhors selfishness and hatred, religious tolerance existing in
the USSR.
pression to which the Buryals majority of the population, is mining concern Australion. Oll including class hatred.
This is # world of ideas
been exposed under the one of its targets. To achieve Explorations Ltd.
Rio Tinto, which likely to have re- Vague terms Soviet regime.
Its purpose Soviet propaganda British mained hidden to the Soviet
up an idealised bought controlling interest and Before the October Revolu- must draw
painstaking tests politicians
de- on their journey a world
the Fancia Hombo Buddhist
of the Com In and
in particular, through Burma; it is
munist attitude towards the
posit. totally alten to Communism. Lama-Darmayev is his secular Russia's Buryat-speaking areas.
Last week, it was officially on- The world needs is perfec- Monchen
More than that, Soviet Com namo also made a statement Several were important educa- religions of Asia.
has for needs them bad conducted a merciless struggle
rather which, in tionists.
But facts remain facts, and nounced that the tests were It
institutions, tional vigue
completed Mary Kathleen is ly. But the perfectionists don't
terms, referred to the
the the intellectual development of the persecution of Buddhism in of Buddhist
Д Owes Fasala and Mongolia remains one of the biggest deposits of Buryat peoplo con- the They would need golf,
inscribed in the black record uranium, in the Commonwealth tions of Buddhism, both in the healthier and happier
Rio Tinto Is the of the
supply £10 the Communist regime. It Unfor- USSR self and in the Mongol on Soviet territory.
iquidation of 11. They have enough of tension
The from Monday
part of that moral mililon of British capital to Friday. At People's Republic, the Soviet tunately, the Chief Lama failed Buddhist monasteries started in forma week-ends they MUST relax,
separates the build a refinery to treat the are satellite country in Asia. to give any statistical details 1029 and
was completed in cleavage which The wrongs which the Soviet from or sooner or later crack.
which one might have 1937. The Soviet authorities Soviet Communist guests from and reduce it for shipment to have
the their Burmese Buddhist hosts. Britain, Communists
committed gleaned a real picture about the showed
respect for the Buddhist against
com- present situation of Buddhism artistio treasures, which the, munity in Russia have now In the Soviet Union.
monasteries contained, and most of them were destroyed with- out regard to their value,
E is more often than not the
H high executive type, whose
Job demands big decisions and involves constant tension.
He
a perfectionist, incessantly demanding the best of himself and it is the quality which fus got him where he is.
But it is this too which may a bad golfer, or at make him any rate, a frustrated one. For as any golfing professional will tell you as mine has been tell- ing me for years the whole secret of successful golf is the ability to relax.
thes
many years
During Premier U Nu's slay
I
the
Siberia
Red target
Big Investment
They sold part interest Los
concern,
Then
Whilst staying in the Soviet tion there were as many as 37 picture of conditions in Russiave" the extent of the
capital
and
be against the external manifesta temples and lamos great debt.
without
Of course most golfers are so besotted by the game that they
will never believe they DON'T
THE OTHER SIDE OF
THE ANTARCTIC
By J. C. Grahàm
no
trial
monasteries
to
which
AL the time of the great purge many former lamas were but on
Ду Japanese "agents" nd spies.
of treacherous
crous collabora-
This
tion with Japan was made even
against Buryat lamas who lived far removed from any possible
In
contact with the Japanese, for instance those attached to the small Buddhist temple Leningrid. In 1937, all of Auckland, N.Z. Trover Hatherton. In five days the mountains bordering on them were arrested and most
McMurdo Sound is essential. of them executed.
THE great British ad- they covered 06 miles.
Fortunately, weather candi Not only must stores be trans-
venture in making the tions were good (for the ported up on to the polar Greatest blow
first crossing of the Antarc- Antarelle) and the les variable, plateau, but also a route must
Now Zealand explorers The
and
COVEN
$100
the
died in a
Ulan Udo (DUB)
WAS the
"Cornflakes
the
taste so much better with brown sugar on, Mummy"
TAIKOO
It makes all
of
tic continent depends on They visited Hut Point, site of be found for bringing the But tho greatest blow in work from both ends. After Captain Scott's hut, and a num- British party's vehicles down to ficted on Soviet Buddhism was ber of other localities which McMurdo Stacyd to complete the arrest of the head of the the British party passes the have been mentioned as likely thi journey.
Buddhist community of Soviet South Pole, it will depend sites for the base.
Hursio, Agvan Dordzhley, a on fuel and food depots and Their survey har given on found the golog tough on the most learned man who enjoyed route marking by a New excellent idea of the advantages Iron-hard ice surface of
great prestige among his people. and disadvantages of all the glacier, working
of Agvan Dordzhiev Zealand party
were. broken in likely points for Scott Base, as crampons
In from McMurdo Sound, the the New Zealand headquarters negotiating the climb. finishing point of the will be named. The expedition
found the glacier free
the Chier Lama predecessor of planners journey.
will now be able to from, crevasses on its lower
Darmayey, who a few weeks an section, but the upper 20 miles
ago met the Burmese Premier The New Zealanders have make a decision based on been hard at work during the up-to-date and detailed inspre of the huge fea fiver had a in Moscow and made the recent
broken
brut They believe, optimistic
meaningless summer on their part of the
however, that they can mark
ark latement about the survival Put a route to get
suitably Budithlen in the USSR, tracked vehicles up and down,
the Soviet controlled. Their report on the
require.
Mongol People's
preparations,
A New Zealand party went
to McMurdo Sound with the
tion.
aunface.
Republie,
Americom expedition that has After this survey, a longer menta necessary to get vehicles where the Buddhist monasteries been there for the past few and still more texting journey though this difficult section wivided conalforable political
and - weaks. They st
nd time in was undertake otherton, design of equipment used for lamas assumed even greater Barly likely to have an effect on the power, the persecution of the searching for a bare site which consisting of could be reached by sea but Lleut-Commander W. J. Smith the Journey,
In 1938, there was a
which was also well placed for and Mr B. M. Guno, made the Thes adivanco party's work in proportions than in Busate For
In
monk
the Belish explorers arriving frat ascent of the Forrar the Antarctic this year will mám, triod, in Ulan Bator, the after their arduous journey. Glacier ice Captain Scott's enable a rapid start to be made Mongol capital, involving over
Travelling the hard way on
Tast expedition.
in the next southern summer in 100
*Taman foot, and dragging ledges with It was a 10-day journey to
base built and;
the major Further triots in 1937 und three-me party, set cut round British expedition when 15. ap- pb, of Transporting" suppilos of 1988 led to the victimisation the thoros of Madurdo Sound prosches from the other side of depole klong time route to the | of allogether: 34,000, lamas of 19: under the leadership of Dr. file continent. A way through, fourh Pole, pa
KODBETALTON, DE rather, former
400 pounds of equipment, a explore a possible route for the put hand wiLEN)
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