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PAUL HOL
Thinking Aloud
R FREDERIC B. KNIGHT,
Travelling tho' tuba ja s-delight- ful experience," he said gravely.""If
an expert in applied psy-'t shuffle the odd deck of cards chology, told an audience to the detriment of certain fellow at Michigan that road accidents passengers who can well afford it, occur not so much from force of then I deserve to be expatriated. circumstance, but because people The fact that the Ita gong will "need and want them."
also be aboard does not dismay me, They satisfy a hidden urge to kill or be killed. "There's a little bit of sulcidé or murder in every person," said Dr Knight.
This is going too far. The majority of humans are satisfied. to be the audience of violence, only unbalanced people want to participate.
W019
The other night an accident happened outside my local and a boy on a motor-cycle killed. From that moment every man coming in from the street spent his first pint in plotting in full detail exactly how the thing happened. Arms waved, handa made curves in the alr,
"I can hardly wait to hit 'Lil Olo Noo York, although you may rest assured that when next. I see the
White Cliffs my little old tlok- teclrcroo will turn right over with patriotic di-dah-di-dah.”
I'm afraid i shall be hearing from him.
John And James MR. J. 3. PRIESTLEY gives bis opinion that the weakness of. Jimmy Agate us a dramatic critic was that... he could never see tho theatre as one institution amon many, as part of our national life, that must be as a social activity
textile trades, Joined somewhere, somehow, to the
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947.
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'Down in the forest
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ID you see in the
påper that R woman had loft £1,500 to a row of lime trees in Norfolk? In case there RTO other people who'd like to include a trec or two in their wilt & fixed-
up with Mr Chapman Pincher this week to go along to a good forest and meet some of the types. He said the trees in Sherwood
deserving lot, so that's where we went
"See how the leaves are arranged to catch the Light," he said "Scientists call the leaf mosaic. The leaf pattern of the oak lets through ก fair amount of light but the beeth catches almost all of ii. That's one of the reasons why dew things can grow under a beech." When it rains the water trickles from leaf to leaf WHILE PINCHER TALKED ABOUT TREES the edge of the mosaic, of a tree. till it reaches and from there it drips fossilised beeches in Britain, 50 #
But now they've found traces of ing ook that shaded Mr Pincher and down as it would from an umbrella. me was probably one of these selons circle where the rain drips reach the If you were to dig down along the was wrong. No of the primoval forest. reporter is perfect.
ground you'd find a mass of tiny How can you tell? Well, under roots no thicker than hairs. Weeping willows
They from natural conditions, he said oaks pre- are the moisture gatherers, and they
sand, ash when it's limestone and where, they find the most water, If you left an annuity to one, how
Now then, how long do trees live? beech when it's chalk.
The thick roots you see when you long would it go on
If you found a beech wood in a pull up a sapling are coated with money? Oaks and yews are
drawing the limestone district or an oak foreal cork and can't absorb moisture. the on chalk you could be fairly sure Their job is to convey the water from longest lived trees.
that someone had planted it there at the rootlets to the tree trunk. some time.
Wicksteed stirred..
fingers drew tracks on the wet. Any that the weakness of Mr Priest- Forest were supposed to be a looks as if Caesar
counter.
Golly. You may at the same time
Toy 09 n dramatist is that he mcrets- ingly uses characters as puppets to prove a social theory and make a
Only one man mentioned the communal polat. boy who died.
Impartiality
The drama was, sometimes is, and again, I hope, will be conçemed with the motives of single human beings. It is these motives that
tragedy inevitable make
and comedy unexpected.
To borrow these motives for a political purpose is inexcusable. Not
that, the result is dull.
TORY friend of mine was Buying the other night: "If these fellows in power keep on expanding their policy for home-only and Empire agriculture then as far as I'm concerned they can' stay in power. I don't care who does it."
And he dug his long spoon savagely at his supper.
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Harry The Mola
Contradictory
HOUSEWIVES league is a con- tradiction in terms.
Singly the housewife is a love- liness, a gentleness. She la cool shade, soft words and the depth of good silence. She is a sure recep taelo for young tears and grown an ger. And, Uke Fuistaff, the cause of wit in others.
Banded into a league the house-
tame spiv Harry the Mule came to say goodbye this morning. He Bald he had made wife becomes a pantanime dame in. enough money hacking French
bad temper, an arid, grizzling *horsts to pay a short visit to spinsterish absurdity.
America.
In pity I look the other way.
SIDE GLANCES
ČOPH, 1947 BY HER SINUTE, ING T. N. REG. V. I, PAT. OPP
In the days of Robin Hood these trees had wide estates, but now they're living in such reduced circumstances that we had some difficulty finding out where Sherwood Forest was.
When we did find a piece of it near Nottingham the day had grown so hot that we introduced lay down in its shade. ourselves to the nearest oak and
Fossil oak
OAKS come from one of the
oldest surviving familles in Britain. said Mr Pincher open ing the proceedings. They were here long before people. know that because remains of them have been found in fossil beda.
We
Other early natives with fos- silised family trees are the
willow and ash.
By Galbraith crab-apple, beech, yew, rowan,
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from Persia. China, and Lombardy poplars dominate when the subsoll is clay or are concentrated there because it's
Somo of those still alive were makes them about a thousand years planted in Saxon times, which old.
Elms and mes live to be 500, on ash generally dies, before it is 200, a chestnut is old at 80, and a silver birch at 60.
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climate. If you cut too many TREES have a powerful effect on of them down you'll reduce the rain Call, as they've discovered to their cost in parts of America and Aus-.
At this moment a caterpillar feli out of the tree and made a three- point landing on my face.
deftly whisking it up. They do a "An oak egger," said Mr Pincher, lot of damage to oaks. So do 600 other kinds of insects and fungi,"
"How many?” I said.
"Six hundred," he repeated, "The oak has more enemies than any other tree in the world."
The oldest inhabitants of the trails. world are the giant redwoods of the American Pacifie coast. Some of Miteorologists believe that when them are 3,500 years old, so they Britain was covered in trees the would be middle-aged trees when rainfall was higher than it is now, Plato and Aristotle were boys. If you could only get a few forests
started in the Sahara the camels Da Vinci's secret
things on earth these trees are also
Besides being the oldest living wouldn't have to go so long without the biggest. With national pride the
a drink.
American have worked out that one of them known as General Sherman weighs 2,150 long-or 430 times as much as an elephant.
The foliage alone weighs 155 tons, which is equal to the weight of 31 elephants,
10,000 CHARLIE CHANS
The deeply sun-tanned" police officer in the well-cut doublé. breasted grey suit walked down. Whitehall, turned into Scotland. Yard, and sidled" his six-foot- plus alongside the driver of a. Fyling Squad car,
A minula later. a message was flashed from the C.LD. Information Noom.
The sleek rondster epid out of the Yard and an ex-Indian cavalry officer wat on his first job with
British de'ectives.
Home from Malaya, where he is an asalstant superintendent of police, Peter Jeffrey lowes is giving up 21 of his 141, days' lunbe to work with the Yard.
*** Direct Link ⠀⠀ Already he has spent a week with the Flying Squad. He will pass on ta "C" Division which deals with the West End. His third week will be spent in the Limehouse district,
Howes is on a Peter
"busman's
bim
holiday" becaus he bellaves the Colonial police forces should be crima directly linked with latest prevention methods in Britain.
a senior colleague, Powell Evans, a prewar member of the police in Malaya, who was in- terned by the Japanese.n
They are probably the most in- teresting sicuths in Britain today because they have the job of passing Chinese deleétives in their force. on Yard technique to an army of
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war Malayan police offler. Shortly
Peter Howes is typical of the post- before the Japanese surrendered he was serving on the Indian North- west Frontier. Then he read that officers were being recruited for ancelat with the Malayan in- vazion
He volunteered,
Shortly after- wards he landed in Malaya and was given a district.
!:
With no brevious, police experi- ener, he had to administer a force of locally recruited constables in, wild territory abandoned 'by, Javanese
the
Urill he came home on leave re- cently he has bren carrying on with other ex-officers recruited to the gap caused by cesualties' in the regular police at the fall of Malaya.
Today Malaya has a police force 10,000 strong. Detectives from all Asiatic races--the Empire's "Charlie Chans" are training in depots, up and dawn the country.
But men like Peter Howes believe
proper level in Malaya they must. Introduce many of. Scouand Yard's. methods.
There
are difficulties. The Asia- tics will have to reach a higher standard of education. More money must be made available to the police: services.
The reason for this is that trees "Cat by giving them infections of that to put crime prevention on a
anything be done about suck up moisture from deep down penicillin or something?" I asked.. in the soll and breathe it out again through their leaves so that it mixes
"As
a matter of fact," said Mr with the atmosphere and forms the Pincher, "you can give trees In- raw material from which rain in jection. Leonardo da Vind had a made.
secret way of injecting upple· trees The limes that the woman left
Without them the moisture would with arsenic and producing fruit that her money to in Norfolk are the Taller than the redwoods but not trickle away and be lost to that par- found a sale among the Bergins. descendants of immigrants from so heavy are the Douging Ars. Mr Hicular district.
"Since then they have cured plum Germany They didn't come grow to 400ft, and in Britain they've Pincher said that in América they
According to Clano, Mussolini trees of silver leaf with injections, over till the seventeenth reached 17511-13 more than Nel- thought of altering the climate of and in one experiment they cured an century. If Robin Hood were son's Column, So much for the Italy by planting trees. The idea apple tree of mildew by giving it to come back now and see them were so high the lumberjacks needed shine. Then the people
who once told me they was to have more rain and less sun doses of photographer's hypo,"
wouldn't in Sherwood Forest he wouldn't oxygen to reach the top.
be able to lie around so much and So there you are.. It can be done know what they were.
he'd get more work out of them. In the orchard, so why not the trees Many British
As we lay in the shade of our oak, forest? If you want to leave desocridants of ancestors which grew hoping that no one in this country legacy to the trees what could be in tho dame areas times. Man has had no hand in their linl, Mr. Pincher told me to lock up arboreal therapy at some good uni- in prehistoric would get the same idea as Musso- belter than founding a chair of planting at any stage. The deserv. at the foliage.
He wouldn't know the chest- nuts either, said Mr Pincher. Their real home is in Persia and Bulgaria, and they were brought over about 400 years ago.
Funny, I always thought they came over with William the Conquerer.
*No one quite knows how elms got here. The Romans may have brought them. There are vertainly no signs of them, in the fossil beds. The Romans possibly brought the walnut, too, for the shells have been found in their villas.
Caesar's mistake
en he landed, and for a long. WHEN Julius Caesar wrote
his report on Britain he said there were no beeches time botanists' took this as evidence that they had been in- troduced in fairly recent times.
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LAST WEEK'S. ROLUTION
American
are
direct
Family
versity.
A NEWS-GAME FOR EVERYONE
Double or Quits
HO ARE THE EXPERTS IN YOUR
HOME ?
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4. A famous movie star divorced her third husband last week, char- sing "mental cruelty," who is she? 5. Which former child star la re- ported to be expecting a baby next January?
Moreover, the Malayan police force need fast, high-powered cars to cover the vast districts. At the
15cwt. Army' moment they have trucks.
War On Bandits Many are fitted with radio, but the system is still good enough to fight banditry in outlandish parts of the peninsula..
Peter Howes hopes that one day he and his brother police officers most of whom surrender a slice of their leave to Scotland Yard-will be able to practise in Malaya many of the tips they are picking up with takes the men whose daily task them on the West End beat.
IMPROVED LIVING
FOR EAST
BY MILES W. VAUGHN (United Press Vice President for Asia) President Manuel Roxas says he shares Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's view that full peace should be restored throughout East Asia as soon as possible. He favours peace terms which would further the programme to give all. Asiatic peoples a de- cent living standard.
5. It was officially intimated is TOWARDS the end of each month,
the Hongkong Telegraph pre- the House of Commons repently sents on this page a news-game, pat- that a certain Dritish colony would tarned on the fameus Double-or- get Dorsinion status In the near Qults roulo featurn.
future. What colony, was the re- 1. Here's how you play: For each ference made to?
tople.hers are five questions based on this month's news 'as reported, In Hongkong newspapers. Choose the tople you think Jou know.'-beat.- k. The former' Japanese-manda- Politics for. Father?" Sport for ted islands in the Pacife have been young Tom? Give thơm thà, cho ce. (8) ceded to the United States; (B)
first placed under United States trustee-pointed. Mit Kenneth C. Royale ne among the peoples of this part de A correct answer for the question in each five reis one point, ship. Which is correct? From then on. It's double-or-guks.
POLITICS
PEOPLE
1. Who is the President of the Indonesian Republic?
2. President Truman has just ap-
** Secretary for. War. Whom did
Without commenting directly, on the situation in Japan, the Pres!- dent, during a conversation with this. correspondent, stressed the need for o live-and-let-live relationship the world and the earliest possible. restoration of normal trade.
The teachings of Christianity con- stitute an ideal bas's for this lationship among all
peasles. president said.
2. A bill was recently rassed in ho succeed?. 'So a correct answer to the second the United States to determine the 3. Russia, according to reports, qurallon can be worth 2 points, to auccessor to President Truman In intends to send, a former onvoy to the third question 4 points, to the the event the President is unable to London as the first Soviet Ambas zourth quesiton 8 points.
complete his term. Who would sador to the new Dominion of India. And the nth question, if the pre- become President in such an event? Who? visus four havi › been answered.
4. Who has been appointed to correolly, La. worth 10 points, The 3. Which Far Eastern, govern- aucceed U Aung San, Deputy Chair real family expert will get a total ment is reported to be in danger of man of the Burma Executive Coun. ] and Chimp, Roxas sold, have" im- of 31 points.
collapse because of its determination ell, recently assassinated?:2
Now who's to be Question Master, Fixed that? DK. Get started,
The correct answers will beTM Tound an Para
PLACES
1. In which Palestine town did the Intest abductión :of-two.. British ; sergeants take place?
2 In which European country were thera recently farge-scale ar- rests due to the four-of-a ́ ́ Com-
munist uprising?
the
to pass a measure giving the State control of the coal mines?
4. Which country in Europe first accepted the Invitation to attend the conference on the Marshall Plan in Paris, and then backed out?
--G.. Who is, the -American. Military Governor in Gorthang7
SPORT
1. Who won the Wimbledon men's
China Relations Good Relations between the Philippines
proved in recent months and are considered to be satisfactory. The treaty recently lined between the tw nations working out muc-- cessfully.
With regard to complaints that Chinese tend to control 'n greater
5. Which countries participated singles, women's singles, men's share of Phillippince commercp than In the recent abortive talks of the doubles, women's doubles and mixed their number might justify, the Pre- Joint. Commission in Korcu?
sident raid Ir's programme is to encourage Filipinos to take greater part in trade of all kinds in the Is landy. Government encouragement to Fillono merchants, distributors and
will be:
ENTERTAINMENT
**
1. An American herm't died re-
doubles?
2. The British Open Golf Cham- pionship was played at Hoylake this month. Who was the winner? --
3. England won the third Test
cently, leaving an estate of $20,000 against South Afrien at Old Trafford A referendum of the law of to a well-known film star. Who is on July 5. By what margin?
4. There was a sensational upset | uccession was undertaken, in a the film star?
Innrecent heavyweight bout, to India with full sympathy for tize certain. European country
during 2. George Bernard Shaw has asited decide who would be the next chai- great difficulties which the peoples month. Which?
for a "public inquiry into the mental lenger for Joe Louis's title. Who of that vost country are experien- Chief of the
Imperial condition of the BBC because it were the fightors and what was the cing Roxas said. It is realised here. Genoral Staff, Field Marshal Mont- broadcast a certain programme, ... resulí? --
jithat differences betweente Moslems, gomery, has accepted an invitation What was the programme? 5 Two blameh in first-class and Hindus are drop-stated, but it? to visit a foreign country in. Sepe
The im "Rebecca," shown cricket this wedle: pasted the 2,000 is hoped that some formula for per *ember? - Which country Invited bere again this monili, was Gireeled marke for runs scored during the manent pouce and co-operation can Film?:
by?
current Bénson. · Who were they? hi be found.
4. Tho