'
JESTS AND JEERS
As the ticket scalpers would may: "The Beal Turnover Of Our Lives."
The last time a Prince of Sung came south, it was to escape from his persecutors.
Veteran U.S. diplomut Bill Bullitt is still gadding, about 'the globe. Proving that lie is not a spent shot.
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With a lot of women, It's no sooner done than snid.
Overheard on the bench:
.
"What happened after he kissed you three times?"
"Well then he started to Het dentimental."
Sonte people's voices are hard to Extinguish over the telephone.
One woman's polse woman's polson.
is another
The godfather began 10 worry just before the christening ceremony. "What if they give me the baby to hold?" he asked.
"Don't
worry,"
whispered
friend. "Same grip as lo slinking cocktails."
Barbed Wire Disease
N eminent
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1947.
"This Strachey-Cripps whisky allocation works out at about one tablespoon per adult
per week."
Salt Lake City has
its 100th
birthday
BORN OUT OF ONE OF THE
GREAT DRAMAS OF HISTORY
OUR thousand feet above the sea. rimmed by moun- tains three times that ten-acre height, laid out in blocks of granite houses
Apsychiatrist has Continental ling in the crisp air, und sparke
by streets 132 feet wide, Salt Lake City a few weeks
ngo
ing at a group of men in Britain who, he says, are suffering, two years after the war, from celebrated the hundredth year
barbed-wire disease." A de- of its existence. tached expert, he has just .made a report which states
that:
It is the largest city between the Rocky Mountains and the Fucifie; the cleanest, the clear- est town in the United States.
its population of 180,000, its university of 2,500 students and its 132 churches. this capital of the State of Utah has become a junction of three railways, four airlines and four and main roads.
THEY are quarrelsome, peity and
Ruspicious. THEY long for fainity life, but the With
sight of mothers with perambu- lators or of lovers strolling in the park fills them with bitterness. resentment, and hatred. THEY wonder how-If ever-they will and their way back into the paths of normal lving.
friendship THEY
respond in
feel immense gratitude to
those
who invite them to their homes. But talk of democracy maltes them
The temple
angry. "We are being fooled," But the monument which
they say.
THEY do not believe the British are
sincere on the subject of
dom.
free
makes it unlike any other city is the temple, which, like the mosques of North Africa, is
THEY react neurotically when it a barred to all but the faithful.
montioned...The. “barbed. wire
It is of grey granite, the walls disease" destroys their faculty of critical thought. The difference are 6ft. thick, the tallest of its between true and false disappours six spires rises 220ft. high,
for them. -for
insomnia THEY suffer from
and
the Angel Moroni. violent irritability due to the re-
emotions, pression of normal
The temple.took just 40 years THEY give way to hosulle outbursts,
better juda- (1853-93) to build, and it is the against their own
mother church of a million men
ment. THEY Alternate between morbild
hatred and dull depression. THEY display the symptoms of ner- vous breakdown to a frightening know of degree. Their doctors only one cure and that l yond the reach of medical science. THEY are the 267,000 German prisoners of war still working in
Britain.
THE DIAGNOSIS
by Swiss neurologist Professor Rudolf Brun, M.D., of Zurich University.
BARBED WIRE DISEASE is
kind of ma neurons. I
caused by:-
be-
The County Buliding. Balt Lake City, built as an un-
employment.relief. project...
All
Family
A NEWS-GAME FOR EVERYONE
Double or Quits
WHO ARE THE EXPERTS IN
ПOWARDS the end of each month, 4. What la the chief aim of the the. Hongkong. Telegraph pre treaty signed at Rio de Janeiro this rents on this page a news-game month by all the American countries patterned on the famous Double-or- except Canndar quila radio feature.
Here's how you play: For 'each tople there are five questions based on this month's news as reported in Hongkong newspapere. Choose the toplo you think you know best. Follifes for Father? Lucky Dip for Mother? Sport for young Tom, Give them their choice.
A correct answer for the first
question in each five gets one point
From then on. H's double-or-quiis.
PLACES
1. Where were the "Exodus 1947", Jews innded?
1.
Which is the capital of the new Meslem Dominion of Pakistan?
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YOUR HOME?
3. This question will test your memory. Compton and Edrich of Middlesex finished Brat and second in the cricket averages. What were their respective total runs scored and their averages?
4. What champlan Jockey, recent- ly rode his 200th winner of the sou- 0007
1.
5. Can you remember Sing Tho's record of matches played, won, lost 8. In which city in Palestine was or drawn during their recont English
kidnapped by members of the Irgun.. a Haganah girt underground worker tour? last Sunday?
PEOPLE
So a correct answer to the second question can be worth points, to), 4. Which areas have just reverted 1. A French admiral is returning the third question 4 points, to the to France after 07 years of Italian to a Carmelite monastery as a monk
Fulcr fourth question' 8 points.
after wartime service. What is his 5. Sunninghill Park, the bridal nome? home of Princess Elizabeth,
2. Wis
What nationality ia Dr gutted by fire recently. In which Hubertus Van Mook, and what is bin county is the estate altuated?
position?
And the fifth question, if the pre- vious four have been answered cor: really, is worth 10 points. The real family expert will get a total of 31 points.
Now who's to be Question Master. ENTERTAINMENT Fixed that? OK. Get started.
The correct answers will be found on Page 10.
POLITICO
1
1.
Which film won the Academy Award for the best picture of 19467 2. Which Oscar Wilde novel was shown here this month as a fim?
3. Who is leading China's delega- tion to the United Nations General
Assembly?
4. Which famous American author
lost un eye recently in a motor accl- dent in which his wife was killed?
5. Lord Nathan was a visitor to Hongkong this month. What posi
does he hold in the British Government?"
4
1. Nikola Petkov was hanged in
3. Carol Reed is one of the lead-on Sofia, Bulgaria, recently for alleged- ing British film directors. Can you ly planning to overthrow the present, name his most recent picture, shown Communist regime. What was his in Hongkong in September? position in the country's politics? 4. Who wrote the play." "The Voice of the Turile," which has been Which Middle East country running in New York for over four has openly declared she is ready to years and recently opened In Lon- fight in support of the Palestino dan? Arabs in the event of the partition 5. Who was the highest paid recommended by the United cinema star in Hollywood last year? Nations Special Commission on Palestine being adopted?
2.
plan
3. Which Empire country is to be given full independence early next
SPORT
1. The Davis Cup this year was won by? The margin being?
LUCKY DIE
1. Professor Plecard, the Swiss scientist, went up 53,000 feet in a stratosphere balloon in 1832. What new experiment is he planning?
2. Has Cardinal Speliman assum- olice as Vatican Secretary of
ed
Date? 3.
Have any Britons, been killed In the recent Indian communal riots? 4. President Truman and family visited a South American country this month. Which?
2. The 1047 United Stater 5. Which food item has been National Tennis Championships pro- taken off controlled allocation by the 4. What peace treaties become duced a new woman champion. Who international Food Council because effective this month? .
of good crops?
Illinois was horrified. The year? tale
and of what had happened,
toles of things that never many happened, set the State on fire.
But in his city of Nauvoo Smith was absolute. He could not be dislodged short of civil war.
Thomas Ford,
of Governor Illinois, tried to mediate. He sum- moned Joseph, his brother Hyrum, and two other leaders to the State at Carthage to answer the capital charges made against them, pledging his honour that they should be un- harmed.
There they waited
in the Junc
of 1844 in Jall till they should be
hcard,
On
was
slain. But
a new prophet arose; a second Moses to lead his people to the promised
He
Was
Twenty thousand
men,
la she?
BRITAIN'S INCREASED
EXPORT PROGRAMME
NOW that all concerned-in-..............
dustrialists, workers,
By
economists, business experts. JOHN KINGSLEY
war
time to
Indus- cuts in homie consumption.
able
1er
In-
#
neces-
crowned by a copper statue of magic lights, Urian and Thummim, and children crossed over the ice- tries by war to peace with little overseas gap of £50,000,000 is to boil they may reach by the
drowned.
something
and women scattered throughout mily) saw the giden plates. The loaded wagons across snow-covered, essential goods, so as to avoid large. will, however, entail further cuts ine's reach the new targets. The
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Taking this group as a whole, the fourth quarter 1948 export volume of 147 percent of 1938 is to be raised to 224 percent by mid-1945 and to exporters and the man in the'
254 percent by the end of 1948. Ex- had the night of the 27th a mob street-have
ports of agricultural machinery are of 200 with blackened faces stormed assimilate the new British ex- achieving full multilateral trade for tribution, with the final target six to make the largest individual con- the prison. Joseph was shot trying port programme, it is timely to some years, which means that Britain times greater than in to climb through a window. Hyrum consider some of its most im must move
the last quar- ncarer to Individual also was killed.
rest of the portant aspects in terms of balance of trade with each of her er of 1946, Tho So the prophet
wida variety of
of machinery, thus an economy, flexible enough to switch wid extra effort and domestic cuts. main supplies and, therefore, have creases are, however, spread over First, however, in order to ap to the production of the goods they providing overseas customers with a comprehensive catalogue of extras preciate the problems involved want. land.
and at the same time spreading the His name was Brigham Young we must look back over the last
British en- As the President of the Board of "load" over the whole a big, broad-shouldered two years.
Trade, Sir Stafford, Cripps, pointed gineering industry. Vermont. His - from Carpenter
When the war ended anally in out when launching the programme, followers called him "The Lion of
August 1945, something like one- it is
got a
sky bigh target Impossible the Lord."
half of British industry was still on of achievement. It is an actual task
Futhermore, of particular interest process of which can and must be reached. In production. The Crossed _Mississippi switching back to normality had of carrying out the overall objective it to European and Latin American
པ་ཝན necessity to be gradual end, to some may be necessary to impose further countries, exports of coal are to be On the started up again. In the face of the women extent, unbalanced. A few They could be read only through
thele very nature were
present hasts, however, the monthly acute home demand these
bo small at first, but it is was their to turn from
needed considerable
by Puss cfort; others linked by a silver bow and forming strewn Mississippi. It
closed as to roughly two-fifths by Red Sea.
did not part for time. There were then four mala reductions in imports for home con- near 1.000.000 tons a month something like a pair of spectacles,
"of But the waves
next year, In certain indsts. end by in- But essentials: first, to speed reconversumption and three-fifths Nobody save Joseph Smith could
where slon to pence production: second, to ereased exports. The latter, in turn, fries, cotton in particular,
production is still far below prewar read reformed Egyption. Only eight them. Many were
the most ploughed on.
tremendous efforts will be They dragged their 1,800 over keep production going, even of less people (and three were in
for the home market; supplies them away
leaving little scale. unemployment: third, to meet domestic capital expenditure is
and Angel Moroni took
to re-equipment
modernisation home be sowing the great accumulations of
reduced by anything up as they went, settlements
demand; fourth, to rebuild exports as £200,000,000 a year, thus releasing plans put in hand some time ago will or rather til some the world, nine-tenths of them again. But not till they were trun- Faln-soaked Iowa,
scribed
corn for those to follow.
considerably. transcribed them were
(the rest
labour and materials to increase help these industries congregated in Utah.
In June 1840 the vanguard passed fast as possible.
the supplies of capital and other goods but, if necessary, supplies to future revelation), as
over the Missouri, the boundary of
home market will have to be reduced the Latter Day await These are
from behind a
for export.
to meet the targets. the United States, and into the un- Indians, Saints, more commonly called Joseph dictated
known lands of the Red
A complete production plan provid-
Some weeks ago the Lord Prest- right proportions of
Herbert From the first reactions it is clear Mormons. They are still winning
Such is the book of Mormon the where the clic and the buffalo roaming just the
Council, Mr dent of the converts (they have 82 churches
prophet
ed over many miles that no white everything could probably have been Morrison, emphasised the fact that that both industrialists and workers make strenuous effortà to Joseph dictated a quarter of t in Britain), and one day they'
achieved by shutting down hugo
the The style is turgid, believe they will convert the million words.
Brigham Young went ahead with sections of industry while they were more than ever Britain must become will the English is odd. Mark Twain 143 men, three
women and two re-tooled and their part in the over the workshop from which the world achieve the new targets. But
and main prerequisites are, of course, could obtain the machinery world."
called it all "chloroform in print." children.
Advance parties followed to build plan worked out. Such a policy ouipment it needed for recovery adequate supplies of coal and
unemployment and
and reconstruction; and the new ex materials. So far as coal is concert- of Others reacted more violently.
production, even But the book was printed. Five forts and man them, to plant crops stoppage of
af machinery arc being
called 24,250,000 tons industry will need in thousand copies were issued of the along the trail, to ring the grazing non-essentials, would have been ab- port targets show that various classes ed, first priority will be given, to the first edition,
Joseph
Smith ground with wagons.
surd and wasteful.
resulted on for some of the largest increases, the alx winter months. Instead, even though it At nights they sang hymns to believed every word of them.
band, Pitt's brass He had a fanatical sincerity that Captain
in certain unbalances, factories were. moved his hearers like a spell. verted en mass warons;
in England.
kept going at the top possible pro- drawnduction. All the time, however, And his hearers
In their many.
they carried maximum diversion to essential Thousands flocked to him and were by mules and oxen,
as he was falthful, unte seeds, implements, a year's supply channels was going on; little of the of food, a precious hoard of gun- effort was wasted. Consequently, re- powder and nutmeg to trade with conversion was carried out with thei
"Man. the Red
minimum dislocation and unemploy They fourneyed over a thousand ment. And in the process, increased miles. often hungry, always tired, supplies of many things reached the strides leaving their martyra as they went, home market while great
Brilish martyrs to weariness and weather
were
made to improve the and the Indians' arrows."
export trade. And got through
they
Here it is worth mentioning that fallen
There are no startling differ- ences between the Mormons and Christian communities a othér
is now.
& community from which there
escape y no moment.
A even for
blanket.
The most sensational Mormon 1. A lasting compulsion to live in tenet, polygamy, remained part of the faith for only 40 years (roughly the years that covered faithful. the building of the temple). It death.
practised by more was never than three Mormons in 100.
2. Cessation of all privacy. 3. Prolonged physical repression. Gradually these exercise their in- ence on the state of mind.
NAMED AFTER
UNRRA
Czechoslovakian
Began in 1827
The astonishing feature of the Mormon faith is not its.doctrine but its history. There is no history, like it in the world.
and
were
State outraged
man had seen.
con-
all
with its mass
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But the people of his State were frat amused, then incredulous, then outraged. New York State became too hot to Hold Him
He moved over to what was They get through because they recovery in exports was so marked then the western borderland of trusted blindly, in their prophet, that the volume, which had Ohio, where he founded the Church Brigham Young, in the gospel in 1944 to only 31 percent of 3038 of Latter Day Saints at Far West graven on the golden, tablets, in the and was barely 40 percent in 1045, (now Kerr), in Jackson County,, in word of the Lord directly made was at 99 percent virtually back to manifest to those who guided them. prewar levels-In 1946. This keep-
In 1827 Britain, triumphantly 1837. past the ordeal of Napoléon's 'wars, Life was not easy. Armed bandi was, in the seventh year of the tried to stop Mormons voting ́ét.... Salted lake
commercial | Iburth King George, settling con- elections. There was bloodshed on
dontly to a new prosperity.
both aides the Government Inter- Collegoin
collego dins changed its name UNRRA Commercial
!n New
July
going production polley, though, some extent Indiscriminate, actually, the therefore, met only some of many honis demands but also helped to apply some of the pent-up world
to
And
tha *24, 1847, But in 1827 the United States, rear. West was occupied by the pioneers, Brigham Young-at-their demand of that country by honoured-Nations Reller and Rea hummed between the Atlantic and State Milita and the lenders of head, came to the place the Lord
the Indian hunting grounds, was a Mormoniam arrested. habilitation Administration.
revealed to him. land where men dreamed dreams
They contrived to escope and There was a river there issuing
Long before the dollar loan began and saw visions..
their congregations were still well- from a Inko, heavily salted like the to run out more swiftly than anti- One such visionary there were ing. But life in Ohio was intoler Dead Sea. many was 22-year-old, tall. abla for them now.
They could not but call it theipated, the Government had been busy sorting out the order of pro- wavy-headed ploughboy
In the middle of the winter of River Jordan,
duction needs with, incidentally, in- York State.
1008, 15,000 Mixmons trekked over That very day they began toerensing emphasis on
the greater His name was Joseph Smith, and to illinois, where they founded the plough the ground and sow their volume which must go to export Josepia Smith the Angel Moroni, city of Nauvoore tolerated, even a crcele for Irrigation.
neod. Next morning they divorted Mark Now the final stage has
markets. Utali
"At first Hoy! "were
been reached with the allotment of welcomed by rival politicans con- Painfully, laboriously but in detailed targets to individual Indus- tending for the Mormon vele, fallibly, the rest came up with their fries. Even, however, at this final But it was at Nauvoo In 1844 700 covered wagons in the autumn stage it is impossible to make the that Smith, ylolding perhaps to the 1,000 more the next year.
programme. 100 percent conclusiva boch retained to meet such variable factors as world prices and almost insuperable" difficultles
In a letter to Maj.-Gen. Loveli W. Rooks, UNILA Director- General, the school's president said he was pleased to honour UNRRA
"the numo which in three short years has become the most popular in the world and has theant the effective help to the pations of the whole world suffering heavily in the
war catastrophe," "UNRRA College
is located in Brno. During war years it served os barracks for, Nazi 6S troops. Toward the end of hostilities it was heavily damaged in the capture of Brod.
to
whose 'alalua urowns the Temple, revealed In 1827 the sacred books of an ancient race, that had, he cald, peopled America when the Tower of Babel was built.
The sacred books were graven in corrupting dischso of absolute And so they founded Salt Lake and rigid. Flexibility has therefore a tongue that Joseph Smith called power, first claimed a divino rave-- City.
Egyptian" "Toformed
pinter
CH golden lation that sanctifled polytsiny- and-"
acted on it.
GEORGE · EDINGER
tho
of
DAVID LANGDON CARTOON.
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wearing a floral croation with a coscado skirt and
a stunning picture hat
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