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BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed by Carot Crowther for Lola Laceda, Here are some anodel makeup tricks that are just right for your budget!
MODÉL MAKEUP' TRICKS!
Models, like all other professionals who depend upon that "perfected look," are very meticulous about all the detalls. They know that they! can never do a really good patch-up Job of their makeup. When they
Dress As You Please
feel the need of freshening up their faces, they remove every trace of the old makeup first. Then they start again at the beginning and with a thoroughly clean, smouth_murface.
A small tube of cleansing cream. some tissues, a makeup base and a compact of le pads which have been raturated with witch hazel are necessary aids. These, carried in your purse, will come in very handy for your purpose.
Set it! Some models and actresses "set" their makeun by usinit na ap- Beation of astringent r witch hazel, They put it on gently with a piece of ábérbent cotton or gauze. And theher a wint to an old idea, which
many nd more effective.
Fashionably speaking, 1947 14 year to do expetly what you please. If you want frills, put them OL. If you pretrv severity.
right ahead. Even New York best known fashion authoritig cannot agree on a thing.
Nettle Rosenstein
Atomice I. After applying your powder base, your Hpatkic and roage, ir you use it, just spray in witch [hazel or natrhugent with an atomizer! Be by covey the entire area with an even film. This produces an even
first be disturbed by the patting. attention. " believe the American the atm dry by itself and then
they women will not conceal wint strive so hard to retain the small, apply your mascara.
vows that the female Agure will continue to
is this
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1947.
Free Enterprise In
China Being Stifled
By Many Monopolies
By ANTHONY ULLSTEIN
United Press Staff Correspondent
Faced with bankruptcy, China's small and medium-sized businessmen and ladustrialists to-day feel that expanding Kuomintang monopolies are stifling free enterprise in the country.
Admitting the necessity of be borrowed at prevailing exorbi- import restrictions to conserve problem is far less than that bedevil- tant interest rutes; and the Inbour foreign exchange, and taking ing the private owner, duc to due note of disrupted conditions greater control. arising from civil strife, they malatain that even within their |
At the
Leaders Divided
The
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LOWLAND SCOTS
NEWSLETTER
By F. CROWLEY
Jimmy Macnamara, af Clydebank, captain of the newly-formed Scot- tish Marathon Club, is 61 years of age, but that doesn't stop him galloping along the roads liko n youngster. Recently he celebrated his 40th anniversary in cross-country running by doing a 10 miles gallop which formed part of his training for a road race in which he will com- pete in England,
Jimmy, who says he keeps in the game to encourage youngsters and because "a healthy body unelis ni alert mind, uld, much of his training. in the blackout by the aid of a torch. Ilo was on the beaches at Dunkirk, Link With Sir Walter Boolt
Mr Charles R. Boog Watson, of 24 Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh, each Sunday opens a small box, takes out his finger. At the end of the day A gold ring and slips it carefully on
the ring is carefully restored to the box for another week.
Reason for the ritual: ring is over 100 years old and belonged to Sir Walter Scott who, shortly before his death, gave it to his lawyer, Jokin Gibson, of Edinburgh. In turn he gave it to his friend, the Rev. Charles Walson of Bürntisland, Mr Boog Watson's grandfather.
narrowed sphere of activity A highly placed Amertenn obser- ver interviewed by the United Press they are being squeezed out of emphasised that this apparent still- business by government com- ing of private enterprise does not by petition.'
any means enjoy the soild backing of all Government leaders. This same time, economists division was reflected in a May 30 agree, monopolles and semi-mono-editorial of the Ta Kung Pao, which polles in vitni spheres of industry is regarded as often speaking for and transportation and to a grow the more liberal elements within the paper bitterly ing extent foreign trade-reap proflis Kuomintang. from their privileged position. And charged that "the government has one consistent policy; namely, to of government in- since the bulk
enrich come pays for civil war costs-00 to
the rich and impoverish the 80 percent of the budget In 1010, ac poor."
There is a legend attached to the Various cording to
Furthermore, private Industrialists official state-
ring. Concealed in the engraving on ment observers think that private have proved themselves very vocal enterprise in China is unlikely to complaining against the practicni the other rim is a tiny hole. Tradi
tion says that, if a pin is Inserted, a until Communist-Kun-results of policies whitch on paper are be relaxed
spring mintang guns are silenced.
meant to represent the happy wed-pocket inside the ring will ding of private and state enter-
open, Inside, they say, Sir Walter prise.
-Scott placed n hair from his head.
Mr Hoog Watson hins never put tradition to test. He feels he might be disappointed.
the be
Source of Revenue
Some of those complaints, Prumler T. V. Soong has admitted | American ubserver sald, may that monopolles serve as sources of discounted as being exaggerated. But government revenue, but sald such there are few private Industrialists typical concerns as the China Tex-in China to-day who would not add tile Development Corporation wouldn fervent amen to the summing-up remain government affairs for two of a Shanghal textile factory nano- or three years only. The man whose er, quoted in the "Far Eastern factory to-day wheeze along on Survey" na saying "Even if the curtailed production, however, fears workers took no wages and ate nn- utter ruin long before that unspeet- thing, even if there were no labour ned date.
cost involved, factories in China would have to close down."
As 1046 drew to a close, Soong conferred in Shanghai with private, (This is the first of three articles entrepreneurs on the question of on monopolistic trends in China's liding them over with Government economy. The second article will loans. This Was in line with his appear to-morrow), carlier
that monopolies promise would aid and co-operate with pri- vate-owned companies. The grow- ing list of industrial setbacks and failures
that suggests, however, practice at best has not caught up with enunciated polley.
As against dally Chinese prest re- ports of idle machines, darkening export prospects and tollerin indus- In
chief focus of the fashion designer's mother finish, as the makeup milght tries 80 percent of factories
slim waistline," the predicts,
But dress designer Mary Stevens doesn't believe a word of 11. "Cur- tainly beginning this year we will see the straight-up-and-down boyish dress come back," she said.
Hat queen Lily Duche sees smaller. simpler hats-many of them untrim- med-in her crystal ball. "I belleve that women in 1947 will weur ingre Lailored clothes than for many years," says she,
bo
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But Adrian of Hollywood fame predicts just the opposite. "There will
liberation much fashion," says Adrian, "that women will have to take great care not to got themselves all tungied in yarda of fabrle and fluff."
Vincent Monte-Sand, winner nf the American fashion éritie's award, hazards that excent-for-softer there shoulders and longer skirts will be no abrupt change in milady's silhouette.
But dress designer Harriette Harra would like to place a little bet on Monte-Sano's prediction. "We are entering an era of style exaggera- tion," she says. "All women will dreas to look taller: small women will strive to look dainty and doll- Ilke. Slim women will look boyish and rounded women will want look voluptuous.”
to
And here's a cheerful note for hus- bands.
"The epoch of mad spending for just any kind of clothes is finished," says designer Jame Derby. "Women will want a lot for their money in 1947 and will get it."-United Press.
Minda Vilakaya
GABRIELLE
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Beautify your, profile! It the structure of your nose devintes from the ideal, here's a minimising trick. When you apply your founda- tion, blend on a darker shade than your makeup pat. Smooth it right down the centre of your nose, Dark Rachel blends well with other shades. You will have a "roiter" Profle.
SIDE GLANCES ·
By Galbraith
runderstand, upbädy;ja to name this call of maken.
be vildable vent its a couple of montlis!!!
Szechuen Province, for instance, are reported to have closed down, an well as 1,600 in Shanghai-the single
Ex-Service Weavers
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Miss Catriona MacIver, a native of Stornoway, formed n company in the Island of Lewis to employ ex- servicemen who were chosen for
their
as weavers. She called the company integrity, war service, and skill Homespus, Ltd.. and cach man has a share the concern which aro duces the best of cloth. Now Messrs Malcolm M'Lean, John M'Leod, and Angus Morrison, have woven zome lengths of tweed which has been presented to Princess Elizabeth.
In a lelter from Buckingham Palace intimating acceptance of the
INDIA LEADS gift it is stated: "I am to say that
BRITAIN'S CUSTOMERS
India has become Britain's recent report that Shanghai ball- best customer. In the third rooms are doing booming business quarter of last year, the Indians carried the macabre flavour of feast-bought £21,000,000 goods, made ing in the midst of disaster.
in the United Kingdon, or al- 10 percent of the total
Tax Burden
Taxes, although ineffectively col- lected, place the greatest burden on the lower und middle classes, since there is no comprehensible graduated tax system. The Ta Kung Pao re- ported that businessmen in Foochow are being asked to pay 23 different kinds of taxes, including "winter defence tax."
most exports.
The Union of South Africa had been Britain's principal export mar het before the war. Sale of British goods there has steadily increased, but not to the same extent as the demand in India.
Another
Improved
market
Is
To-day, one and a half years after Denmark, which has jumped from VJ-Day, Chinese businessmen are tenth to third In importance. The beginning to fear that the
whole Danes now take nearly £15,000,000 trend of China's postwar economy of gcoils. almost as much as the Is toward the boosting of monopolies United States and Canada together. at The "expense of private capital," These fears were expressed several months ago by the Chinu Weekly importance, while the Netherlands,
Review, which wrote:
Australia and Eire are next in
Norway and New Zealand have all been buying British in a bigger way. On the other hand, there was a fall of £3,500,000 to France, and £2.000- 000 to the Soviet Union in comparl
"......New government corpora tions are being organised at the rate of one or more a week. As rapidly as they ure organised private in-sun with the previous quarter. The terests are either prohibited by law Russians only bought £600,000 worth from participation or are frozen out of British goods during that period. by politicos who toss the treasury's moneybags around."
Principal Exports
What have these countries been And on Aug. 15, 1940, Henry R. Lieberman cabled the New York buying? First of all, vehicles. During Times: "The Chinese State, neting the period. Britain exported 25,105 through various public agencies and motor cars and chassis; 12,733 com- corporations, has become the coun-mercial vehicles and chassis; 12,957 try's leading economie entrepreneur motor cycles: 28,600 bicycles, and and now dominates mining, power, 71,000 tons of railway rolling stock. heavy industry, silk, cotton and sugar production."
Dominates Economy Government menopoly, of a sort,
Second most Important class of export is machinery, principally agricultural implements, textile machinery, and boller plant. Then come iron and steel goods; colton
HRH was most touched by the kind thought which prompted the offer of this beautiful tweed. I would be grateful if you would convey to thos concerned Her Royal Highness's very sincere thanks".
Largs and Yins
ventide home" in Largs made by A plea for the foundation of FELF
Dr William Boyd, chairman of B Crumpaign recently formed Health Committee, is backed by the fact that one in eight of the population of Largs is an old age pensioner.
Dr Boyd points out that, with a population of 8,000, the Ayrshire seaside resort hind 1,000 penslaners and an "eventide home" was urgent- ly required and was one of the chief aims of the Committee.
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"Over 700 of the pensioners are more than 70 years of age, and many who live alone have dimeulty fending for themselves. An eventide home in Largs would allow these old folk to spend their last years in peace nnd comfort," he said.
Lights Up in Orkneys
The cold waters of the Bay of Firth, Orkneys, are reflecting the lights of the little village of Finstown these nights-first step in the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board's scheme to bring supplies to the Isolated districts of the North of Scotland.
Half the village, 22 consumers, have been connected to the main transmission line from the Board's generating station at Kirkwall. Some houses have of the shops und flourescent lighting.
Only the owner-occupiers have the service so far, the others must carry on with their paraffin lamps until men and materials are available to bring the whole system up to date. Cost is Od. per unit for 30 units and n penny per unit thereafter..
dates back in China to a period be- yarns and manufactures, and chemi U.S. PERSONNEL tween the tenth and sixth century
BC, when the government distribut-
cals, drugs, dyes and colours.
cd handicraft manufacture and cer- Biggest fall of all was in coal ex-
tain utensils for the exclusive use ports. They were only 13 percent of
of the aristocrats. Later, under theihe 1938 figures.
Imperial dynasties, munopoly took on
a more bureaucratic pattern: salt
controllership and superintendency
over sill factories were among
the
most profitable posts in the Empire POPULATION
This bureaucratisation of invest-
ment capital, resting on the
government apparatus and extended OF HAWAII
by state banks, dominates China's
IN CHINA SAID INCREASED
A Shanghai dispatch to the Mos- cow newspaper, Pravda, said that United States "personnel in Peiping had been increased considerably despite the "complete lack of acti vity."
The message and that the United
economy to-day as never before. It The Japaneso population in States now had 300 officers and 1,600
of various cliques within the Kuo-
soldiers use the Executive Staff for
is closely, tled to the purse strings Hawaii has decreased while the men in Pelping and another 200 mintang, and thus fits more into a Caucasian, Hawaiian and Fili-officers and men in Kalgan. pre-capitalistic feudal state of things pino populations of the Islands The dispatch said that "according thon into any modern notion of have in increased since 1940, to reports, the American' afficers-and
atate capitalism."
The basis for the control of Governor, Ingram Stainback refutailing tasks which have nothing in modern production in coastal China ported to the US Secretary of common with the work for which the Staff was formed."----Associated was laid after Japan's defeat by the the Interior seizure of enemy property, the
The Caucasians more than Press, doubled, increasing from 13.02 per- cent of the total to 173.583 or 33.43 percent.
part of which-perhaps 70 Is under government' -management. Chen
Han-schg
formerly Professor of History of the
Those of Japanese ancestry do National University of Peking, wrote clined, from 40.1 percent in 1940 to in the "Foz.Eastern Survey, “
issue of, Oct. 9, that the present largo 322 percent or 100,463 persons.
The Hawaiian and párt Hawaiian scale government monopoly in, Jn- populations are increasing most dustry and trade has been largely rapidly, accomplished through qurrency note Filpinos, bolstered by the admis Isque and the control of * groperties (wion of: 0,000 haugar and pineapple which used to belong to the Japanese workers, compose one-tenth of the and their puppet regimes."" In” fact | population, and are the fourth, Jorgest this is the crux of the entire govern racial group ment finance."
Other Important but smaller Despite bureaucratic Inemclancy, groups are Chinese, Koreans, Puerto control over, these properties' 'ylolds | Ricans and negres. profit, where, privato, concerns, lun Tax.collections indicated that! guish, for thosp reasons: the factories | Hawait's commerce in the first year Least nothink if, the first place; much of peace, exceeded the wartime level "of the material is objalped through by almost $3,000,000. Taxes collect, United States surplus sales and fresed totalled over $42,000,000, Asso¬ UNILLA shipments; capital need not clated Press.
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