THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1958.
No Lonesome Last Journey For These
By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
MAN
ANKIND has known many strange, dramatic and even horrific
or on
funeral customs-such as that of certain American Indian tribes whose honoured dead were left to rot in trees
tall platforms specially erected on the prairie--or that of the Yaguts of Siberia, who gave their old and failing next-of-kin sumptuous feasts (which they were probably too ill to eat) and then took them out into the forest and buried them alive with their prized possessions.
Funeral practices. In which King Hammurabi of Babylon Ustinction precious objects included crowns and treasured belongings were left ronquered Ur about 1900 .C., which
pure gold, trinkets with
derd person have been but later Babylonian monarchs helmets of
and characteristic of many peoples, restored the lty to something decorated with Inpis lazuli
former from the East or Middle East to of [1s
rinence, cornelians, ornaments fashioned the western hemisphere (as among thera Nebuchadnezzar, tron gold and silver, and many
nclent inhabitants boterious persecutor of the other treasures, among the
who the potentale
But there. too, of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
well 15 the
Exalted
theil In the in what is now Lata Americu).
dead and miraculous Ngured
The But few speelacles can have opstody of the fery furnace wondrous adornments, lay
skeletons of others who had been as startling or as devasta- from which Abednego and the tingly awesome as the scenes latter's rompanion escaped clearly been of humbler station.. Many, maný skeletons in one which confronted archaeologists inharmed after being cast into
the remains $ vnu ulone, when They excavated the the dores for
tu refusing fabulous stone-built tombs of Ur warship
more than sixty females were heathen image of
found: In another a company In southern Mesopotamia, Triq gold.
of soldiers with their helmets fallen from thel skulls and their spears at their aldes.
This was the city in which Abraham, fender of the dewish or Hebrew nation whose story is given in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, was re- putedly burn more than two thousand years before the birth of Christ,
It was at Ur in the present (018 and Colugs, between 1132, ve thousand years after
valuable
femra, that colorant dis- coverie were made by ex- peditions
Evidence showed that hey Pennsylvania from
Own University and the British End perished by their
hands by the poison-cup- Museum.
and followed Into the realm of the hereafter the high-ranking; personages they had served in life on earth.
of
None of those discoveries was It WDS th Sumerian city, more enthralling than that
British archaeologist Sir Stiner or Shumer being The an- the cient 23+121 of
Woolley, who pene- the lower Lunar
Euphries plain afterwards call- trated to several of the lambs of ed 13bylonia. It is now, repre- Ur. sented by the ruins of AL on the old Mughelf, and stood
River
course of the Euphrates
They were evidently tue about a hundred and forty miles
hod south-enst of the magnificent tombs of personages who metropolls of Babylon.
Such was the custom at Ut
mentioned in the Bible as Ur of the Chaldees. When a king died, he embarked on no lonesome last journey, 13 bodyguarde and his attendants, male And female, furook this work to irres- his service continue in
retive of their own youth.
Ur of the Childees was a city of great culture in His time, a cily well advince in civils- tion recording to the prevailing el cara during the perio1_iti dis- which it flourished. But in their altitude towards fo and delfi those repulchral its clizes were less enlighten- along! with
the ed thin many peoples who have Sir savage-as remains of nameless Great Ones bren Babel of the past, by the rich paru- Leonard Woolley learned some
phernalia of pomp and exalted Dirty years ago.
held the highest rank u long slearl Ur. und such of the Ur itself was a city of great
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been was burial-vaults is fral not glory and splendour.
robbers in the by founded about 3100 3.C. and strippud altained the zenith of its pro- course of the centurks present. " series of fantastically sperity after 2450 B.C, when it ed
Kruesome was practically rebuilt on a seale splendid yet
One of plays. of prodigious grandeur.
There in its many remarkable features
the ziggurat or staged chambers. tower, a kindred structure of the renowned Tower
wha
at Babylon.
called
DOCTORS ACCLAIM PLASTIC
-BONE REPAIRS
Sydney.
A YOUNG Sydney surgeon has
discovered a revolutionary way to mend broken bones, Medical authorities in Sydney have described his work as a major advance in orthopaedic surgery.
wits released by the News of the discovery
medical superintendent of the Primes of Wales Division of the Sydney Hospital, Dr R. F. Kaye-Webster, In accordance with BMA prolocal, the young surgeon is no! named.
The new bone-mending technique was success- fully applied to n 77-year-old woman who had broken a bone in her upper ann. Doctors had been trying to set the fracture for three months and were begining to despair Then the new methodi of saving the arm. was tried.
Within five days, the patient had the normal use of her arm, She was discharged from after the surgery, hospital
days seven without a sling on her arm or any paki The method developed by the surgeon-a form- er South African-involves the welding of
Cohen Council
Photographic Advisers
POPULARITY POLL
Skill
Back to School
UNIFORMI SPORTSWEAR AMAMUNITION THUMBSCRI
iats
HATS
"I want a new rig-out for my husband."
Sure, you may think this is trade unionism running amok...
BUT We Don't Have
To
Handle
This Sort Of Customer!
from TERENCE LANCASTER
New York.
not just engaged in business but in illegal business,
In Philadelphia alone, 35 per manent officials have police records. Nineteen of these hood-
concentrated in one
fact that many of his men are invitation to a physical beating, which no Brilish union man The corrupt officials violate the summoned for a parking offence rights of their members and could ever expect. Four exert their will on defenceless Teamsters at Pontiac, Michigan the town where Hoffa's friend employers.
Frank Kierdorf died after being men, turned into a human forth. economic received more than £30,000 in
means catastrophic loss. There prison terms.
lume are
branch
snai business
resistance means
IN his £1,700,000 headquarters in Washington
James Riddle Hoffa, the 45-year-old, chunky The American Industrial scene elimination; to big business salaries while they were serving boss of America's Teamsters' Union, met his chief officers and lawyers,
He is at present engaged in a battle to win control of every- thing in America that moves-by land, sea, and air
But here is no counterpart to Frank Cousins, for Hoffa has another battle on his hands--how to withstand mounting demands that he should clean up his unton.
More than 3,000 miles lle between Mr Hoffa's white marble headquarters and the dingy redbrick home of the Transport and General Workers' Union in London's Smith Square.
Luxury
broken bones with a plastic substance called ethoxyline resin, which is used industrially
It is a good thing for Britain for bonding metals to other substance.
into the that an even greater distance A hollow polythene plug is inserted
The outlook and bone cavity and the fracture is then united separates
fracture is methods of the two unions. The about the plug. Next, covered with the resin which is mixed with hardener and substance which causes it to set in ten to twenty minutes. The fractured bone is the bound with resin- impregnated Abre glass brake and covered gain with a thinner mixture of resin and hardener. After the weld has been partially
inert gas, such cured with a warm altrogen, from a special gun, the wound is closed, Doctors sak that variations of this method had been tried on sheep for a number of years. A few hours after their fractured bones had been set, the animals were able to rejoin their lock. The plastle remaining In their balize caused so ill effects.
Britain's trade union leaders
talking about who are always conditions of work, would be im- pressed if they could see the
never
conditions of Huffu's men,
Transport House was
Teamsters building like the where indirect lighting ploys
carpets softly walnut-panelled cultes
Atled
·
In
It may be just possible to get a glimpse of the Houses of Par- Dr Kaye-Webster sald the new bone-setting lament from Transport House. method would save many amputations in But the Teamsters look past
curioins cases where fractures remained ununted. tasteful
through
11 also meont a tremendous saving tu in-bronze-framed picture windows dustry, "for a man with a fractured femur to gain inspiration from picture- can be back at work in a sedentary occupa pustcard views of thelf neigh- tion within a fortnight, whereas normally bours; the Capitol and the he would be away for many months." U.S. Setule buliding,
QUEL
UNEMPLOYMENT CHART
DECLIUNG
CONSUMPTIO
"WE WANT A PIN-UP PICTURE OF YOU. JUST GO BEHIND AND STICK YOUR NECK OUT!"
London Rugrats, Verste
union меть
The American today were wearing tailored silk sulls, expensive imported shirts, and ventilated Italian
shoes.
will
Big spenders
provides big pickings for mea nie unmistakable sons that like these. It is known that when their interests are at alake strikes can be averted by pay many Teamster officials ment to the right ualon ufficiali stop at nothing."
And in one four-year period non-union inbour can be em-
Certainly, whoever was slop £200,000 was paid from union ployed without fear of trouble ping it wasn't the Teamsters funds for the defence of through handouts to Teamsters' Union. A labour reform Bill, arrested Teamsters. "business agents": and reluce directed at the Teamsters and tani employers and merabers supported by union leaders like does not work on the game alike can be brought into line the United Auto Workers' principies as Mr Cousins. Ho by intimidation.
Walter Reuther, was killed in would scom the idea of leading the House of Assembly after a Teamsters delegation at a passing the Senate,
Labour Party conference. Only blow for Hoffa was a Saya Hoffa: "There are two
'Race win'
In another way too Mr Hoffo
Mr Hofte himself, who has decision by the AFL-CIO— ways to play polllies. You either They looked like prosperous been cleared of all previous America's TU.C to bar formal make speeches or else you spend business men.
In fact, most of charges, is now explaining his or Informal alliances between dough. We spend lots of dough. them were.
source of income to the Senate any of their unions and the We got connections in the right
The Teamsters. union rackets commilice.
expect places. We
to keep Hoffa once said: "I don't
But Hoffa, with all the power them.” members were particularly curl- abject la my men
having us about one ltem of £3,000. of a raan controlling 1,400,000 And the signs today were that businesses outside the union as Hoffa's story: he won on members, was expected to ride despite all the disclosures that long as it doesn't interfere with horse races.
this one.
he is the headh of a corrupt union activities. That way they
Teamsters' official in union Mr Hoffa was still keep- get to understand the employ- ers' problem as well as the employees' problem,"
A The Teamsters bearings of this committee sort of sergi- trouble with the law gets help. Ing a lot of those friends, permanent Lynskey Tribunal drew this comment frçan its Well, that is a point of view, chief counsel, Robert Kennedy: I would like to have heard Ernie Racketeers and hoodlums are of power placed In positions Bevin's comments on it.
But n lo of Mr Hoffa's and authorlly. Individual pro- Present troubles stem from the tests are shouted down, and on
ROUND-UP
"DOWN With MOON MANIACS"
Alas, I see the
man-sized dog
has had his day
"DOWN with the Moon Moniacs" suggests an advertiser in the SPEAKING as an American,
personal column of "The Times." In an 18-ne sanounce- ment entitiet "The Moon and You," and presumably inspired by reports of attempts to fire rockets at the moon, the advertiser une "Act now to divert the braing and energy of selence intb creative channels for the good of humanity. You cannot stop progress, but you can stop taking the black path of destruction,
my favourite
Englishman is dead, struck down by statistics.
You knew him well. Nattily more expensive, Small dogs dressed in plus-foura, a 12- take up less space, ,and of houses and gardens grow smal- hore shotgun in the crook his olbow, he strode purpose- ter each year, Down fully across rotin-soaked folda, with the moon manises. Take action now in any way you can, his faithful black Labrador
towards a future avhere spiritual values come first, where the web- fare of your fellow men matters more than euriority about the moon. Remember Pandora'e Box." The writer digs himself-or hewelt-"M".
DOUBLE DECKER
A
Bess at his heel,
DIETS
Strong but shant, he was → familiar and well-loved figure In one week a St Bernaid in dozens of flims, beares of can get through 211b. of meat, and un DOUBLE-DECK bus with a closed front entrance will be among went a long time ago, the man
novels, Though the plus-fours 21b, of dog biscuits,
almost unlimited quantity of A models of revolutionary design for commercial and parslonger
regard eggs and milk. The groodiest transport at the Commercial Motor Show, opening at Paulo Court managed to march on
Chihuahua connot manage mora on September 20. It has been evolved by Park Royal Vehiclca tio
than 2lb. of meat and half i mot the increasing demand for front entrance vehicles and in one Now they've taken away dozen biscuits. of forly ordered for East Kent Road Services. The bus has an aff-Bess too. And that finished it, operated sliding door and a spirať sladrease to the top dock. I takes 12 persengers and how denting beneath each seat, EX-P.O.W. RECOGNISED
Jesa
An Irish wolf-hound needs a It was too easy. A Arm of clear seven and a kalf. feet us Peko commercial__mavoy analysts did which to tum around; a the deed when they areimmeed: can make a bed of a flower-pot, "Dogs are getting rimatier,"
POODLES
IT was the police constable that got a guile up on the shoulder London store-40-year-old Pollen Cinstablo Michael Lyons, warrant offices no Hendon Court and former Regular in the Welch Regiment. When Constable Lyons was a prisoner-of-war he made friends with n 17-ycat-okl Greek youth who was heith in Who camp. The youth tried to escape and that night there wCro shin the math mun for it. Constable Lyon, presumed him dead until 10 years later he recognised the men who lapped him as the say, medium and large dogs former youth-Mr Michael Oikonomov. now employed at the Greek Emberry is London. How did Mr Olkanomov recognise Constable Lyout "By his walk and his nose." RAF BORROWS SPITFIRE
Five
The Count de Sert has 82 dogs un cats in assorted sizes nnt shapes around his house. He willingly pays £17 109. Od. a week for their food. But then years ago, the analysts the count has a huge house, he's man, and he lives in rich weighing over 21b Spain. where they don't make warmed the hearths of nearly a fetish of statistics yot.. two-thirds, of the nation's dog He is also a bacheloc. houros. Today the situation is That is importani. For there like is no doubt that wives reversed, PITFIRES tave become so scarce that the centre plece a of Notory long ago, any their dogs small,
Personally, I adore the Thomey Island RAF Station's Baithe of Beltairy celebrations self-respecting" Englishman scon
fol- display this year will be a Spitfire nireraft borrowed from a local in public led to the end of a thought of lx-stone Bess
faithfully at mny garage proprietor, Mr Frederick Wilcock. In the past Me: Wilcock poodle's lead might as well lowing
public confession of favourite Englishman's heel, hne hard his own Battle of Britain celebration by "revying up" the make a
But I wouldn't let har pasi Splore's engine, but on September 20 the show ploce that he is depravity. Now even Bir Wins
my door. hath in his groge for the past three years will bo moved. After ton Churchill has a poodle,
It is the old story of the the Thorney Island commemoration the Spitfire is to be given a pormement home in Lord Montagu'm transport museum at Bolicki, survival of the fittest." Big dogs Hempeline.
eat more...and mest la dally'
Harriet
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