POCKET CARTOON ·
"fle can expand 113 much as he likes-he's our export sing."
Jests And Jeers
to the nervous
As the hopeful young thing said Awnin early this week, "The man with a future is on the pre- one that concentrates sent."
The best plek-me-up for hikers, it is agreed, is a comfortable car.
Men may predominate as world, leaders, but a great many women carry just as much weight.
Teacher: What is your name? Boy: Jule, misa.
Teacher:
Julius.
name?
Jule.
Say
Don't say And, next, what is your
Second Boy: Bilious, miss,
Try praising your wife, advises a wriler. Even if it frightens her at
Лrst.
The rate the number of motor cars
In Hongkong multiplies from month to month, they'll soon form a crush- ing majority.
"My daughter's department secured her a lucrative position," boasted a proud mother. Carriage paid.
Mollier: Bobby, your tunds dirty. I hope you won't come
meals with those hands.
What are th
{THE_HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1947.
Babies are born with them
noise with them
fish make a、
even cavemen suffered with them
And the poor hippo has 40!
W
ITH the help of Mr. Chapman Pincher we have examined our enra. Now we are going to turn dentists and look at our teeth.
on your
How many teeth have you
That depends kot? age, says. Mr Pincher. Children' with only milk teeth have 20 and grown-ups have 32 -- or should have
Pigs, the greedy things, have 44, a hippopotamus 40, à hedge- hog 36, a shark anything up to 12,000, and narwhal one. Monkeys in the old world have the same number of teeth as people, but American monkeys, for some more.
"No, mother, swoots will not docay your little boy's tooth.”
bundle of nerves plus blood vessels
That's
and other things as well. reason, have four BERNARD WICKSTEED the part that hurts you when you
passed on some tooth wisdom from
have toothacho.
friends you can tell them their CHAPMAN PINCHER teeth
If you want to impress your
teeth are heterodont, diphyo- dont, thesodont, and brachvo- dont.
teeth are always like that. The It sounds terrific, but all It root is absorbed in the gum. really means is that human
Teeth are useful when speak- teeth vary in shape. are r placed only once, fre set in ing, as anyone without them. Rockets in the jaw, and don't finds out, but their main use is go on growing all your life, like for chewing. hair and finger nails.
Used for props Milk teeth
ANIMALS are different. They use their teeth for all sorts BABIES are born with teeth.
Dogs carry news- but they are hidden in the of things.' jaw. and do not begin to push papers and shopping baskets through till the seventh month. with them, wild boars dig up It is not a sign of intelligence if roots, lions kill their prey, cer- they are early any more than tain kinds of fish make a noise by grinding them. and of stupidity if they are late.
tusks their Some babies do not cut any elephants
Are only over-grown teeth until they are a year old. (which But it is nothing to worry teeth) for propping themselves about. It simply means that up when they sleep. instead of coming at intervals the teeth will arrive with a rush.
Children begin losing their front milk teeth when they are six or seven. I got a fright the other day when I pulled out are in tooth for my son. There was to no root to it, and I thought I
had snapped it in half.
Bobby: But, Mummy, I haven't any others.
us0
The
What are teeth made of? bulk of a human tooth is Ivory. You could make Uny knife handles or billiard bails with it if you liked.
Outside the ivory and above the gum is a layer of enamel. That is
sce, and
Is the the part you
In the body-- hardest
bone.
substance
Apart from all this, there really is such a thing as the skin of your It is there when they first appear and wears away when you learn to chew. The skin is only 1/20,000th of an inch thick,
things certainly are precarious when it is all you have to hang on by.
How bite you
Some doctors believe that duorine Het into the body through food cooked in aluminium saucepans.
Another doctor says mottled feelli are most common in Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire and rarest In Hampshire and Northumberland. He thinks it is something to do with the water,
As a matter of fact, a kite
fluorine is quite a good thing for the teeth because It discourages the kerms
that cause decay, and for that reason several cities are thinking of putting it in the water deliberately. The germ that clocs not like fluorine
called Lactobacillus ncidophilus, and every dentist should take of his hat to them and say floreat, because they provide kin
with most of his work.
They live in your mouth and work like avvies, making cavities wherever they can.
At one time It was thought that sweets caused feeth to decay, but tbla was disproved by a doctor for the Medical Research
He borrowed 45 orphans and fed them with boiled sweets and chocolate biscuits every night for months.
Instead of making their teelh worse it arrested decay that had started before the experiment.
And now for a swift history of dentistry.
Cavemen had no dentists and suffered terribly from tooth- this from their ache. We know
The skulis that have been dug up. teeth are decayed and the jawbones. Infected with pyorrhoea.
Dentistry
pHE first dentures were made from the teeth, of sheep or carved out of ivory, and they were tied in the mouth with thread or wire.
Cavities were filled with lead, an operation known in the 17th cen- tury as plombage. Gold Allings be- came fashionable
in the 19th cen- tury,
The emphaals today is on pre- vention of decay, In a big Ameri- can school recently they installed n dental clinic, and found that having looked after made the their teeth children happier, heavier, and more clever. Take a look in the glass and see.
The
year before they had a clinle front The four
teeth
on top are 20 percent of the children falted in wider than the four underneath, so their exams,
The year after only six percent each of them overlaps a little on to
failed. the next.
JOW here's an interesting thing, Now
Although you have the same number of tecllr In the upper jaw as you have la the lower, they do not coincide when you bile.
This goes on all along the line till wisdom teeth, and You reach the there, to even things up, the top one is smaller than the lower.
Incidentally, wisdom teeth have Tlucy nothing to do with wisdom usually appear between the ages of 18 and 23, but some people don't cut them at all. Scientists believe. the day will come when they will disappear altogether.
Mottled effect
COME people have white patches on their teeth, giving them a
that this is caused by been found
Moral: If you are slipping in your work, go to see a denilst.
They're All
Joining The Legion
By DUDLEY HARMON
harder than ivory and harder than mottled effect, and it has recently DISCONTENTED Germans and Central Europeana from of the centre of every tooth is a fluorine, a chemical related to the behind the iron curtain
fas used for sterilising But when I told Mr P., he, hollow filled with what some people chlorine just laughed and said milk call the "nerve." Actually it is a swimming baths.
THE STORY OF THREE MEN ̈ ̈AND-ABOY AND-
D
OWN in the small Glouces- tershire town of Dursley
they (pop. 3,288)
are
thinking about celebrating the 80th anniversary of the firm which has made Dursley famous.
Dursley people estimate that at least one-third of the world's with shears sheep are shoru
they have made.
For
Their ploughshares turn p the earth wherever farming fa carried on. And their oil engines are helping to get the world out of its food crisis by lightening..March the burden on farm workers,
Already this year the firm which Dursley cradled has been the cause of one set of celebra tions.
The spirit that made Britain great
by
BERNARD HARRIS
Dursley, Bill Jiggins, of
an
And the money which the founder
by is represented sees the completion of 50 borrowed years with Listers. Forty years ago, enterprise which the City of London when the arm started to make values at more than £5,000,000. mechanical sheep-shears. Bill went into that deppriment. Now
head of it.
he is
III
1-10,000 ot was "They enn
"We've made about To mark the knighthood con- ferred on its chairman, Sir them in my time," he said.
a good man in Australia shear a sheep with them in one and Percy Lister, Dursley people say organised torchlight proces- sion on the evening of last New a half minutes-250 sheep a day." Year's Day.
Their
knight's car, new headed by the works band, was dragged "round the town.
As he explained the working of the shears Dill commented that onc of the original batch of 500 had just come in for repair-u tribute to the quality Dursley had built into them.
At
Four generations
had one time Listers
tor.
Speed-up came
hils attention to dairy
uro
flocking to join the famous French Foreign Legion, which is turning down several hundred applicants a week.
SIDE
GLANCES
By Galbraith
qallarth's
CON, 19ÁT HY NEA SERVICE, ING. V. RŪŠIA, UZ. B. PAY, BIT.
**It's an awfully nico car, but when I dated him all ho did was talk about the Russians and British austerity!"
BBC Overseas Shortwave
Programme
SUNDAY, DEC. 28
4.00 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 6.15 MAINLY FOR WOMEN A talk
6.30 Charlle Chester in 'STAND EASY! with his Crazy Gang
7,00 THE NEWS
LIS SANDY MACPHERSON
THEATRE ORGAN-
1.30 HOME FLASH
#.00 FILOM TODAY'S PAPERS #15 Tommy Handley in ITMA RES A TALK
9.00 THE NEWS
9.15 MURIC FOR YOU
0.45 raunUCTION PROSPECT
A falk by William ffolt
10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL 10.17 MUSIC HALL
11.20 FORCES' PROM
Sibellur's Symphony No.. in E flat, London Symphony Orchestra, con- dunted by Robert Kajanus: Mussorg- AT THE Y's Fantasia, A Night on the Bar
Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra 18.00 RADIO NEWBRERL
10.15 noc NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Conducted by Gordon Thorne
11.00 SANDY” MACPHERSON THEATRE ORGAN
11.20 Interlade
AT
THE
11.30 FROM THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
Alice in Wonderland (4)
12.00 Midnight THE NEWS
MONDAY, DEC. 29
6,50 WORLD OF WORK 6.15 DANCE MUSIC (gramophone recorda)
030 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK 7.00 THE NEWS
7.15 FORCES FAVOURITES 3.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS 8.15 SPORTING RECORD
1.43 ALDERT SANDLER TRIO 0.00 THE NEWS
5.13 MUSIC IN MINIATURK ·· 0.45 THE ARTB
10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL 10.15 MERRY-GO-ROUND
11.20 Interlude
11.30 WELBI{ · HALF-HOUN
200 Midnight THE NEWS
TUESDAY, DEC. 30
6.00 PLAIN ENGLISH
'How and When. L.A. G. Strong talks about the use of adverbs in describing
vert the sentence
6.15 PAUL WHITEMAN
6.30-MUSIC. WHILE YOU. WORK....... 1.00 THE NEWS
7.15 BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Conductor: Charles Grover
8.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS
An officer of the Legion, re- cently transferred to Paris, stated that some 800 Germans and his Orchestra (gamuphone recordal apply weekly in the French occupation zone. The Legion limits the number of Germans who can join and takes only Specialists. But Germans make up two-thirds of the 30 percent which have been recruited from Central Europe since the war. he said.
"The Germans who try to enlist are mostly displaced Sudetens, re- fugees from the eastern territories, or those who have lost faith in the future of their country," the officer said.
Must Escape First
"who
1927 so that the men could meet the directors round à Table 1120 hammer out their mutual problems, This scheme, the Listers believe, has contributed Kreatly τα the Hungarians, Rumanians, Czechs
nooth running of the business. and other castern European
Certainly at a time when it is don't like the conditions of life in fashionable to talk about hick of
their countries" also are cager to Dritain's workers
0110
join.
he said. However, they first effort by hors nothing like that in Dursley.
must escape from their homelands, Output in the Lister works is not
where the Legion does not have re- as high as the five brothers would crulling centres. like to see. But, they don't blume the men.
If
L
Spinning it out
R15 VARIETY CALLS THE TUNES OF
THE STRAUSS PAMILY DNC Variety Orchestra and Rovir
w Bac Jenkins,
Chorus, conductor.
Janet avia
9.00 THE NEWA AS THE HPA ORCHESTRA Directed by Tom Jenkins
9.30 OBSERVATION PORT
10.80 RADIO NEWSREEL 10.15 VARIETY BANDROX 17. FORCES FAVOURITES 12.00 atticht THE NEWS
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31
4,00 SCIENCE AND EVERYDAY LIFE Dr M. Ingleson speaks about the portance of clean water supply, both in the amounky and to industry
4.15 DANCE MUSIC
ramanhene records)
6.30 MIC WHILE YOU WORK 7.00 THE NEWS
7.35 TIP-TOP TUNES
74 RAROLD WILLIAMS (baritone)
8.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS 5.13 BBC RCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Conducted by Robert Irving
ON THE NEWA D.IS THE
Before the war the Legion re- cruited many anti-fascist Germans,
Russians and Spanish White
Re publicans. Today It receives Russian applicants. The Legion was reduced at the
war end of the through losses
710
BICHARD
TAUBER
GRAMME Guests: Luton Girls' Choir
9.45 THINK ON THESE THINGS 10,00 TAKO NEWSREEL
10.15 REVIEW OF THE YEAR A feature programine.
11.24, PORCES FAVOURITES
Mountain (arr. Slakowsket), Philadelphia' Orchestra,
conducted (gramophone recorde)
by
12.00 hidnight THE NEWS
Stokowaki
SATURDAY, JAN. 3
0.00 TALK ON MUSIC” The Concerto
For Violin and Violoncello, An Blustrated talk by Bernard Shore
6.30' MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
7.00 THE NEWS
7.15 JOHN BIHINEBOURNE (violoncello) 730 MUCH-ITVDING-IN-THE
1.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS $15, ACCORDEON MUSIC
MARSH
Gearge Scott-Wood and I Accordeon Band
6.30 Hugh
Pater
Burden Lord Wimsey in WNOSK BUDY Adapted for broadcasting in six parts by Charles Hatton from the novel by Dorally L. Sayers. Pärt 1: Mr Thippe Makes a Discovery
9.00 THE NEWS
2.15 SKYROCKETS
TRA
DANCE
9.43 SHORT STORY 10.00 RADIÓ NEWSHEEL. 1020 Interlude
10.25 SATURDAY SPORT including
commentarica
Portsmouth, V
ORCHES-
on: Huddersfield
Australia.
Rugger: England v. mentator: Rex Alston 12.00 Midnight THE NEWS
Soccer: Town: Com-
GUNMAN SHOT
IN CHURCH
Ohio State police recently shot down a fugitive gunman while he was holding a pistol at the head of a clergyman in a church.
Leonard Johnson, 29, motor car thief, took refuge from pursuing collée in Trinity Episcopal Church at Findlay, Ohio.
Johnson pinced the barzel of n pistol at the temple of the Revi Joun Knox and shouted to the were surrounding the ice who church: "I'll kill him if you try to capture me!"
Police Chief Leo Harkins entered the church porch and urged John- son to give up.
He argued with Johnson for 45 minutes white Johnson stood threatening the rector in front of PRO- the altar.
Says Mr Robert: "The problem is almost wholly the supply of raw materials. Mean automatically adjust
in action to about 12.00 leht THE NEWS themselves to the flow of work. 5,000 men. Now it receives about
THURSDAY, JAN. 1 know there is they
a great 1,000 candidate a week at its re- 4.00 PLEASURE FROM BOOKS volume pressing on they will go
"The Story:
Tell-Tale Heart. Dennis Arundel reads une of Edgar
of Poe's Allan
*Tales
Mystery and Imagination"
6.35 AMERICAN DANCE MUSIC (gramonhone recordi
630 MURIC WHILE YOU WORK 7.00 THE NEWS 7.25 at FARRY LAUDER .7.45 PIPES AND DAUMIA.", A programme at Pige
In the
firio's
progress the first ten years
did the slow, At no time workers number more than 16.
Harry Smith the blacksmith, will tell you that when he joined the firm nearly 60 years ago there were only 24 men--"and I can still count off their names on my fingers."
A speed-up Come
when Lister flat-out. But if they know the railing headquarters in Atarsellies Short
and accepts about 200 of them, materials are liable to peter out ony
The Legion sti
still nsics no questions turned machinery and brought out the Brst moment they can't help spinning about the pasts of applicants and practical mechanical cream separe out the work."
allows them to enlist under & falsc Inside the Lister factory
ers, collaborators Dursley knows what production name. S.S. members,
mean. In the closing years of last ech records there are many Dursley people
and war criminals are excluded. S.S. four tury he undertook a pioneering trip mechonlsed foundry a team of three men can be identified because of who will have their own per-
the plains of Alberta. In a men-Erale limon. "Taffy" Smith tattooing on their arms, and in- sona! anniversaries to celebrate... generations of the Robbins family across
working .for them. There was three-horse buggy to sell the separa- and Leslie James-produced 1,150 telligence officials subject others to great-grandfather, believed
to be tors
bla people were making back castings for ploughfares in an eight-rigid security check through photo- His 60th Year
About 80, grandfather, father and home in Dursley.
hour day. In a week their total was graphs. Physical examinations are And he sent his four sons abroad 400 castings Take, for example. Harry his young apprentice son.
of the busi-
A challenge was sent to the more alrict than before the war. Smith, of the blacksmith's shop.
But Dursley people believe that to establish branches
Pay la Small United States, land of production
Like every ein 1911 the founder became Sir records to beat this achievement. It For him 1947 will mark the on the human side the firm's big-
or- other French
London: Prefer D. W. Dragan, Hubert year with rest calm to distinction is that, so
One of his sons, hasn't been done yet.
tanisation, the Legion is having Phillips Cult-Master, Lionel Hale start of his 60th
Birmingham: Ble Parry Jackson, Profes far as is known, it is the only large Charles Ashion Lister, had live boys, The thire have been together us
Anancial difficulties. First-year re-
Quiz-Muxler, Olderi Listers.
public company whose board of four of whem served In World a team since 1050 and are still cruits training in North Africa at the | A Blacksmith Harry is 75.
directors is composed of five bro- war 1, and returned from
hard at It. Despite the inroads Mr beginning of a five-year contract are 45 A TALK to join the board after a period Dalton makes into their production paid only six francs Under the firm's pension scheme thers
a day. day.
10.84 TLADIO NEWSREEL. ho could have retired ten years
19JK RCOTTISH HALF-JOUR In growing from three men and of training.
bonus they
Most Legion will go on at a world-
are from 104 FRANCE V. IRELAND ago. But he has chosen to go a boy 80 years ago to the employ- on working.
Walte-hinired but sinewy, he tooky good Zor years yet.
was
пе
Ashton Lister.
Pipo
and muste by the Glasgow Police Pipe Band. Mator John MacDonald
8.00 PROM TODAY'S PAPERS 8.15 nnc WELSH OICHESTRA 9.45 STARLIT
Guest: Anne Zirgier
9,90 THE NEWS
0.15 ROUND BRITAIN QUIZ
standing
Ilodkin.
Latin Antlements Italians Rugby Football: A commentary hy Rex
Meanwhile, Patrolman R. C. Vanderveen stripped off his shoes, crept past his chief, and ducked be- hind pew.
Taking careful aim. Vanderveen shot at Jolinson, who was standing perilously close to the rector.
Vanderveen missed, but Johnson wheeled around.
Vanderveen's second bullet hit Johnson in the back.
Several police entered the church
Johnson, who and captured badly wounded.
WES
TAILOR'S BEQUEST FOR BUGLE CALL
Harry Reginald Aldiss, a merchant fallor, of Cambridge, who died last year, naked that a bugler sound the Reveille and Last Post grave at noon on his birthday each year
over
This was done for the first time recently.
Aldiss left £100 to the Cambridge
Later they were Jolned by their beating pace-if they can get the the Spanish, who make up ever 00 Alton from Parle, on the accond half cemetery trustees to pay the bugler.. ·
and and
and
цр
ment of more than 2,000 workers it youngest brother, and today they raw materials."
entire directorate.
There is oom in the Dursley percent of the organisation. Frenchierte has succeeded better than most in form, the combining family traditions with Eldest ร George, followed by works for another 800 men if they men who enlist must do so as Swiss 11.45 DANCE MUSIC large-scale enterprise,
Robert. Then comes Sir Percy, the were available.
or Belgians "who Have lost their moshe reperdal The He put down his hummer un the
founder. Robert Ashton chairman, who will be 50 in July,
"I would take them on tomor-1 Identity pay to be French.
as only Legion 12.00 Midnight THE NEWS anvil where ho
fashioning Lister, was born in Dursley 102 years Next are Frank and, finally, Cecil. Tow," says Mr Cecil. "The lengin officers are
FRIDAY, JAN, 2 handies for milk palls to tell me in no.
five spent their boyhood neur of our order book hardly bears Americans British make
4.0 CHERENT AFFAIRS his broad Gloucester accent: "When He had no capital. But he bor- the factory. They arew up with the thinking about."
about three percent of
8.15 DANCE MUSIC the member-
(mana records) I started here we come in at six rowed enough money to tako over idea that one day they would work Dursley people need no exhorta- ship. Slav countries contribute five
0.10 MUBIC WHILE YOU WORK n'clock in the morning and left at a amlihy and, with two men and a'
a' in it
tion about the Importance of selling percent, and the other percentage is 7.00 THE NEWS six at night. We worked 10% hours boy to help him, began in 1807 to Recently In Dursley, an important British goods abroad.
of indeterminate nationality." election was in progress. make agricultural Implements.
At the moment rather more than Legion units are currently serving And
then, almost explosively, That smithy is still part of the
The Later workers were choos- half their output is going oversens "Aya, and we should be doing that works of R; A, Lister and Company, Down sentiment which will com- which now extend to a mile away
·mend-itaalf-to-Sir Stafford Cripps ----from-it.
a day
In the war in Indo-China and in
7.15 une SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conduired by Sir Thomas Descham
"RM. POM TODAY'S PAPERS
·6.15' KHAPSODY. World Phillies, and the Skyrockets In cart Orchestra,
9.00 THE "NEWS"
Ing nine of their number to repre- and they are determined that their Madagascar. Its members are dent them for a year on the firm's town shall become even better exempted from having to fight joint: board which 1, was izst:-up in!-known..
Europe, unless they volunteer.
· 1,35 ·AT · ·YOUR · REQUEST
After sounding the calla, the bugler is to say, "Do your best for England.
The bugter in to 'receive. £1. the income of the bequest.
from
Aldiss asked that is shillings of the
Income be spent on keeping the gravo in ordeř.. Any odd shillings cemetery.
are to be given to tho workmen to get a drink.
Aldiss' will also askod that should be recorded on his grave-
it
Con-tone_that he was wounded twice in
the South African war, and was ro jected for service in“ 1014..