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THE CHINA MATE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1959.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMON WEALTH MEWS DESK
Real 'Elixir Of Youth' Found?
Man's Body Holds Secret To Mystery
MAN
London,
may possess within him an "clixir of youth" capable of restraining the ravage of time, according to a letter in the British scientific weekly, Nature,
Vicar 'Buries'
Church's
Ghost No. 2, But
No. 1 Remains
Torquay.
HE Roy Anthony Rouso, Vicar of the "haunted church," revealed that he has "buried" the church's second ghost.
The church-St John's-hus hud to contend with the first ghost stuce 1803. It is the ghost of an organist, who comes back In the middle of the night to piny some of the old hymns.
Unnerving
unnerving
It's particularly when anybody in the church geis
a look at the empty organist's real.
Reverend
Blouse
says the
The
substance, known
"juvenile hormone," was din covered more than 20 years ago in insects. Tests showed that it had an 'extraordinary" effect on their growth, metamorphosis and aging.
Substance
In a letter published in the current issue of Nature three American scientists said that a similar substance had recently been found In human and animal tissue,
The scientists, Professors Carroll M. Williams, Lyon V. Moorhead and Jean F. Pults, of. Harvard University, wrote: "The development of methods of extracting and assaying the of Inseels juvenile hormone
İne encouraged a search for the aste blological activity in animais other than Insects."
The relenticis said that in ex- periments on one-day-old rats, a golden all was obtained which juvenile gave positive tests for hormone."
Postlive
obtained
thymus,
also teals were
extracts of from bone marrow, human
placenta, ovary, corpus De adrenal cortex.
Tho
Hormone
luteum
Uhat
sald selenusts although liver, testis, kidney
sploen
negative Eave and organist is "a friendly ghost."{lests, after purification juvenile But, he said he discovered a hormone activity was found for
all extracts. second ghost-this one mut so irfondly."
I
The scientists concluded: "In summary, the picture that Rouse said that when on the
very takes shape reveals a top floor of the vicarage, "I had
broad distribution in the the feeling of the most frightful
mammalian body of a factor fistration and despondency and
which of
ts slight
indistinguishable experienced
spells
from the juvenile hormono af giddine." He sold he let this
Insects." go on until he discovered the had the same present organist feeling.
thut I
so worried "I was decided something had to done."
001
tho
this
EASY LIVING FOR SUSAN'S PET
Ten-your-old Susan Lloyd foods corn to her pet Esther, at their awa, home in Ystrad Mynach, Hoar Caorphilly, South 'Wales.
Esther, who was adopted by Susan after being rescued from a bog last Easter, now lives a life of case as a family pet. Sho will provide a
new
woollen rug for the front room after shear- ing time but is safe from the danger of becoming mutton. -- Routerphoto.
Schoolboys (ut Only) Can
The Rich
Get A Whipping
BRITAIN is still so the rich can get a In view of the extraordinary blological activity of
As in so many other things, hormone
growth, the poor have to do without." be metamorphosis and aging of in-
Kris, it seems
Sir Thomas Mocre, a Tory Important "to decide whether the Juvenile Member of Parliament, feels so hormone may play
a part in strongly about this discrimina- physiology or mammalian
he demanded that whether its presence in higher tion that
is something forma
of a flogging be administered to all curiosity."--China delinquents, when necessary, on blechemical
a strictly democratie basis.
Rouse said that shortly before Christmas he went to a medium in London.
Gassed Self
"She told me there's a men who carited hieving by his hands playing an instrument, who gassed himself.
He was He
the organist at a church.
did not have a funeral he felt he should have had, considering what he had tried to do for
musle at this church.
Will you
try and get someone....to go to the man's grave, sprinkle it with holy water and say some prayers.'
Rouse said that be checked back and found that In September, 1953-dix months before became Vicar of Hi
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Mall Speciol.
Nervous Tension?
Knitting
Take Up Knitting Psychologist Says
London.
Now
London.
IT'S NIET
FROM OMSK TO
TCHITA
By Own Correspondent
↓
London.
THE new telephone ter- Trice to aft Russia start-
ed last week.
"Ting
anywhere in the U.S.S.R.," announced the G.P.O.
proudly. "We are now able to put you through to anywhere."
My first choice was Omsk, which is 1.200 miles east of Moscow and is famous simply because the Trans-Siberian rail- why runs through it. But....Omsk, 13
the line.
not yet On
No English
Nor were several other towns,
"All these place," explained the operator pollicly, should bo on the service
two. Perhaps."
in a day of
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middle of Russia,
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I got as far as Moscow, "The postmaster dnes
speak English," sald the girl in Moscow, while the Uno gobbled and clicked.
I said I'd try him in Russian, A girl in the London Inter- national exchange would volun- teer to interprof.
More clicks.
"The postmaster," said Mos- doen ΠΟ "is Brying tus wish to spealt with you."
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Who keep the
So I tried again, Astrakhin, † Racket. Boys Happy-and their where the
from, fur comba
mouths Shutt Challabinsk, which sounds as though it might have a casino, and Tchita.
Gone home
"Sorry." said the operator sadly. "In all these places the working day is over." There is no one to talk to."
On to the GIPO for explana tions. "We'll find out at once the
class conscious that only the sons of and ring you back," said good whipping in school these days.
volde.
Thirty minutes later I got my answer.
tho "It seems," said cautiously, that there
volco
is no
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"BRIDGE AT TOKO-Rr" Ug, "from this with
Their working day is over, you know. All gone home.
"And not," he said. other schools where outraged parents are likely to physically au admoalshing hand on their assault a teacher if he dares loy
Hille horror".
moment At the
corporal ¡rent, have come from the pub- punishment is permitted only in lle schools, the more exclusive
public schools such as Eton and Har- row. Many a cabinet minister has squirmed on the government bench in Commons stirred by
of master with a heavy cane. the schoolboy menny
Sir Winston Churchill among them. And Bir Thomas, who was food controller_in_Russia after the First World War, us well.
a
Sir Thomas's main concern is the young criminal. He is ono of the leaders in the campaign to restore the right of judges to infict the rod, the care or the "cat"
en hondkums, gulity of crimes of violence when normal "Did me geod," he said in an punishment fails. He predicted the "sloppy Bent-in 1048 when this method was
SENTIMENTALITY
that
has
boostert
abolished that there would be a
attack on mentally" Britain's juvenile delinquency sharp rise in criminal brutality. rate to the highest on record. He takes no satisfaction in the
has with worse, he fears, to come. fact his propliccy
come Sir Thomas brought up the true. rchool punishment question In a few weeks Home Secre- simply to show that strict distory R. A. Butler will introduce elpline, intelligently applied, the Government's plan for deal- has never blunted the carcers of ing with the rise in crime,
Britain's notables, and
John's Francis Crute Rad BRITISH psychologist Dr F. E. C. Casson as yours, post map of especially amung young people
suggested that businessmen take up knitting
Kased himself, Crute, ho
discovered, was the church's on their way to work to lower nervous tension..
organisi
"I contacted my bishop on "It is a great pity that men New Year's eve, got his approval have no knitting to occupy and on New Year's Day....went them on train journeys or at
to the local cemetery."
Casson, ✡ Horley Street
specialist, found a champion in Carsity, 40-year-old George.
who runs business and acts other idle moments," he said in
as a magistrate and councilor Doctor in a west London suburb. "There," explained Rouse, "the magazino Family
Cassidy, who is currently cartlod out
medium's "They are left with no
cardigan, spends a sourcer but to smoke, study the making a instructors."
racing news or do crosswords," half-hour knitting every even-
Ing.
the
Since then "the oppressive al- niosphere hat completely vanished,” he said.
TC-
12-Year-Old Spent Night Riding The Trains
DETENTION
Butler has apparently de- eidre against the reintroduc→ tion of corporal punishment in favour of tougher detention rentres where young criminals will move and work at ddublo speed.
*
Sir Thomas thinks this, is a Mistake.
We're
"But we're surprised. very surprised. They told us we could ring anywhere at all from itoday."
"Oh, well. Perhaps in a day or
two.
Dachshund Was Stuck
For Week In A Hole
Stockholm.
terrorising have been neighbourhoods with gang fightsTALEVEN-YEAR-OLD dach- fnvolving such weapons ay EXC3,
shund Murre, fine fick knive, bicycle chains and
hunter with 30 foxes to his air guns.
credit, was front-page news in Swedish papers last work.
fox the ou White, putnuing dacious little animal got stuck in a deep hollow at the bottom of the fox's burrow. Owing to his short little legs he was unable to jump the walls of his confinement and he had to stay imprisoned for a week,
Seven men -- his master Por- *London...
Olof Holmberg, of Lovanger, "Let these hoodlums, Laste the
North 12-YEAR-OLD boy, whe
Sweden, and helpful neighbours worked incessant- spant his evenings on pala and suffering they inflict an others," he said. "The cano
by day and night in order to |almless subway rides because | or 'cat' reduces the ego and con-
ΣΩΣΤΟΥ of the got him out his parents did not want him coit or young criminals and ro
cloft in a rock which con- at home will be givan a fost-moves the feeling of achieve-
stituted the tunnel" entrance to er home by London cityment. Very tow criminals in authorities:
the old days ever came back for the fox's layer.
BLASTING a second dose of the cat."-- The boy was found after mid- U.P.I Berlin,
marks (HK$9) = place. (towards | sims and legs must be a night by a policeman. He sald Reds the end of the month. The as well." have pondered long on steal
Government Committee for Pay- East Germany's, government. |, he often spent his evenings on
the subways or watching tole Pink Elephants Culture' and Sport has | rum trade and industry of the problem of the hula-hoop | tested the hoops and Yound warning, too, gl.. and now they have made up them userut. theis mind.
Casson sold that a woman
And it most refreshing and who knits is doing something relaxing," he said. "It unwinds "Now," the Reverend added, entisfying to her." He said it me." Besides, Camidy.said, he "the church still is only haunted stops women feeling "in-stopped smoking 12 months ago by the
who died in adéquato," and the rhythm acts and 1 find with my knitting I
as a tranquilliser. 1803.-U.P.I.
never miss a cigarette."--U.P.I.
ortandst
HULA-HOOPING IS USEFUL' REDS SAY
3
THE East German
The verdict--the hits-hoop is
one Weetmayı invention that may]'
be adapted by a “octélist conn»
try."
Cautioned
[
One De Schmidt, identißod na
The success of the hula-hoop should show them the necessity
A
ion in store window.
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Karin, Rhedoola H parents, contacted by the polles, refused to come to this PILOT Paul Flex said that | of a more "enlightened attitude station to get him.3 They said E definitely had not been
LAWAT, THEW idens," | B.2. Am. he hail bago miasing before but Abordala
they bad/zios reported it.
ah biela in the state #parte- Berlin Jothistory, bad, sime što
Thren of thalenveienbaren mi
mejieni, advisory | board, how- | West, "Hell Fitowchilrain the Already are under Sitadepal The Tam Berlin BZ, Am over, cautioned prospective hula hoope, Fifth Vano Abends reported “Abat':, the fegt buyers the "not only the abe and yo
East German hill-Hoops: wilj doustno dek, ige” alina.”A KIKENY
on sala, at a pelos of sixi marad,” sbai - that
“the neck," UFI
when how 20 pink shulishe 2 on “a fiyligi telp up
Finally, rock-blasting had to Be resorted to in order to wideni the 20ft Jong tunnel, and there was constant danger that the falling debris might hurt Murre apeut of the supply of air,
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