Are You Sure?
Ansicers on Page 10
1. Which is the
these orders----
oldest of
Most Ancient Order of the Thistle. Most Honourable Or- der of the Bath,
Most Dis-
tinguished Order of St Michael
and St George?
One of these names re- calls the place where man frst flew an airplano-
tenheim, Dakota, Halifar, Kittyhawk, Bufalo?
3. St Martin is the patron saint of-
Postura, mfgratory birds, reformed drunkards; squirrels, giria named Belty?
*
4. This is
part of the
galpment
of-
A kitchen.
diocr.
fireman soldier?
*
A. If you were to bell the cat you would-
Lead # dangerous enter- prise, steal its mile, call it in al bedtime, recite Cock Robin? were the authors 6. Who
ofter of the Dutch Republic,
Dreline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Descent of Man?
7. Sir Richard Whitington was Lord Mayor of London-
Once, tuler, three, four
times?
A5
8. Animala classed ruminants are so called be- cause they-
Are capable of thought. chew the cut, provide studet meat, gaze into space?
3. Frances D'Arbiny, the diarist, was better known as-
Pepys, Fanny Burney, Evelyn, Swift?
John
10. With what do you con- ret CrocSUB-
Lles, courage, wealth,
gery?
BILT-
Taxicab's Average
Yearly Mileage
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DUMB-BELLS
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO THINK OF A WORD FOR TWO
WEEKS
PATENT OFFICE
WHAT ABOUT FORTNIGHT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1948.
FASCISM AGAIN AN ISSUE
IN ITALIAN POLITICAL LIFE
By J. EDWARD MURRAY
of
Fascism, ROME. —
thres
and Communist-led campaign parts nostalgin for the okl daya
political violence throughout the nation. The Communists said their of Mussolini and Co. and one
campaign' was directed against "the. part hate against Communiam,
revival of Fascism." is back in the news in Italy.
Everyone else, from the govern- Nobody knows whatker
ment to even the moderate leftist And nobody knows, whether they parties, saw the alleged Fascist re- Fracism is really on the in-have a candidate for their now vival as "a scarecrow," a "straw- crense, as charged by the Com- "man on a horse" to lead them. The man," and "a thinly disguised ex- munista. Nobody know a name of an. Giovanni Messo, who cuse" to cover Communist political whether the Fascists have an commanded the Italian Fascist army agitation, ordered by the Kremlin overall organisation
Rusala, is frequently mentioned, via the Cominform, and designed however. which the
to overthrow the pro-United States various known But neither does anyone doubt rightlat government and wreck the branches take orders.
that the Fascists are back for the Marshall plan. first time since Mussolini was ди Important factor in Italian politics.
from
Sikorsky Treatise On Religious Idealism
Igor Sikorsky, one of America's outstanding Bero nautical scientists, advances the view in his new book, "The Invisible Encounter," that advances in science mean nothing to mankind unless religious idealism is revived throughout the world and science is employed by "the spiritually living."
In
Fascists Attacked
The surprising, all-absorbing ques- Most of the hundreds of attacks tion in connection with Italian by the Communist crowds were Fascism not so long ago Public directed against the headquarters of Enemy No. 2 of the World at war- the allegedly neo-Fascist · Uemo Is whether it is now more sinned Qualunque (Common Man) party against than alaning.
and of the now avowedly Fascist Italian Social movoment.
Independent 'newspapers 'in bath Milan and Rome said the sacking
burning and
beating of polico the Communist mobs a new extraordinary decree against Fascism at is worst. Fascist organisations has been push-
Court Test Coming
and
The question will be tested in the courts in the coming weeks, because by
Was
-D1 +
But the Communist attacks ed through the Consiltuent Assem- vealed a surprising number of nests bly. The prime movers behind the of the M.S.1. (Italian Social Move- special law were the Communists,
sts, ment). By the time the Communist thus giving impetus to the chronic campaign was three weeks old, even anti-Com- In this book, a slender volume tion of several hundred thousand argument In Italy as to whether the leftist republicans wo
menns used by the Communists to munista Socialists were frightened country or Reveral 1ght Fasciam are not of philosophy, the Russian-born Jews in one
themselves sufficiently by the Fascist revival to million peasants Sikorsky, who in 1914 designed the whole foundation of materialism
In another unless Fascist, pure and simple.
vole for the tow which made it The law has been and built the world's first four- is rejected and condemned.
severely crit illegal for people who called them- Suchised as undemocratie by magis- telves Fascists or Monarchists to do engined bombers for the Im- extermiantions, he nsserts, have been trates because it seeks to punish the things the Communists were perial Russian Army, has this carried out in n "highly scientiae Fascists for acts which the Com- doing to suppress them.
munista are to say!
committing freely al- "Satanic Forgery" "I can be stated deunitely that
most every day. being
and mankind,
controlled
Passage of the law came in * directed by spiritually unconscious
way."
It is Sikorsky's opinion that
hind the supreme temptation which
Not n few Italian observors have| pointed out that a little persecution the is just what the new Fascists need
or spiritually dead men, would be in most fnial Satanic forgery stands be- midst of the big Communist-inspired to get going in carnest. the position of a rushing airliner a large part of mankinet is now
with an unconscious or dead crew
U.S.-Educated Princess Rules Turtle Islands
The arst deputy governor of the
It is not his opinion that earthly
After her return from the United organised religion is without defects, Turtle Islands I a 40-year-old, States, she was confronted with the and he insists that many, who pro-light-skinned princess who waa problem of making a marital choice
in the control cabin. Such leader. ready to accept," and odds: "The. godiess man cannot develop into a ship cannot create responsilie and superman. He may only develop slable forms for the existence of a into a superbeast, and as such he human society."
will inevitably exterminate him- Sikorsky, son of a professor of self."
scit. psychology at the University of St Vladimir in Kiev, went to the United States more than 25 years ago, and since has become noted in
circles for aviation bit
to forecast futuro develop ments. His dying boats pioneered passenger routes across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and later he be- came America's Arst helicopter builder.
his hla
mandments of the Christian and Illinois. other great religions, ignore them.
Princess Tarhata Kiram, niece of Foreseeing her future role in
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Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
HUNTING WITH A CAMERA
Good focus, "framing," and proper expozure combine in a picture that ародка
to
FRIEND of ours who's a'squeeze a trigger hynter stopped by not long jerking it.
instead of ago with a couple of birds. "You know enough about From his pocket he pulled a birds," I went on, "to know few snapshots. He was dis- that the weather has something appointed in several. "Didn't to do with where you find them. get as good pictures as I thought Weather has a lot to do, too, I would," he remarked ruefully, with the snapshots you take. Now he's a good hunter You compensate for a cloudy fess to belleve in fundamental com-educated at the University of between a Filipino Christian and awith a gun. When he gets to day by using a longer exposure. Filipino Mostem. She chose neither. hunting pictures, that's some. And on a bright sunny day, out But of these commandments them-the former Sultan of Sulu, has just sultanate, she married a distant relating else. So I put it up to in the open, use a shorter ex- selves, he says: "They were ne-
been
him this way. by Gov. Harolas five, Datu Tahil, then a member of appointed
posure." cepted as supreme goodness and
Tulawi of Jolo. The Turtle Islands the Sulu provincial board,
"If you would take as much From there we went on truth and their guiding influence lie between Zamboanga
and
Borneo.
care with your camera, as with focussing. My friend admitted was, therefore, immense,"
Sultan Kiram once was absolute Power Based On Force
ruler of a kingdom. which
your shotgun, you'd get good he uses a choke on his shotgun; braced all the Islands from Sulu to In his book, the aviation expert
the results. You wouldn't think of this controls the pattern, or recalls
that injustice, wars and Today, Sikorsky writes, " num- North Borneo. He eeded the Turtle Date was sentenced to seven year, heading into the uplands after spread,
imprisonment after a fight with Gov.
of the shot and the but ber of Intellectual and violence always have existed,
Political Islands to the British some 70 years that "the
Focussing the of mankind all over the age in return for a monthly pension. Carl D. Moore which resulted in quail without cleaning your effective range. trequency and intensity of lenders
But when you take a pic- camera does the turned several of Tahil's men being killed, gun. Apr disturbances were always
counter world ckher openly declare or take The falands recently were
same trick. The princess did not for herture, do you check your camera Some cameras, in fact,
wait which for granted acted by religious idealism
that the fundamental over to the Philippines by Great husband to finish his sentence.
She
to be sure the lens is clean?" inspired honour and mercy."
ideas of Christ are wrong "and that Britain.
divorced him
equipped with range finders married nud He notes that, in contrast, power the opposite most in
He got the point. are right
I added with which to focus. Inhorits Titlo
distant relative, Datu Yudin. based on "the force or regimented should be followed;"
The round-eyed Tarhata Kiram The princess has
that, like a gun, a camera must actively engaged
All this, he admitted, made He concludes that religion is now inherited from her uncle-last poten- in the social welfare of the Moros of be held steady. and masses and limited by nothing" to-
Brace a gun sense. It makes sense; too, to day is steadily gaining predominance as much alive as it ever was, and tate of the once powerful Sulu sul Sulu. She has helped her people against your shoulder; brace a advance film after each picture everywhere.
that it has not falled mankind, tanate the title "putll," or princess. to get better education. In the last camera against your chest or just as he reloads his gun. rather, "it mankind which is She studied, as a government pen- elections she ran for membership on abandoning religion and which will slonads, at lingis, but returned the provincial board on the Liberal your check. And trip the shut Loaded, either a gun or a camera bear the tragle consequences of this home in 1922 without obtaining a Party ticket, but lost by a narrower with a steady pressure on is ready for instant use.
the relense lever, just as you
John van Guilder.
Little
known facts About the American taxicab ne disclosed by The Taxicab Industry, trade
Pub Heation:
1. The average cab travels 62,000 miles a year and is replaced annu- ally by a new vehicle-or will, be when new cure are available.
2. Brake linings suffer
the cab's yearly wear and tear, fol-
lowed by tires, spark plugs batteries in that order.
3. Some 61 percent of the coun-
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He contends that people must ro-
try's taxicab operators plan to cognise and understand that there is
no ground for criticising or con
equip more than half of their cabs
with two-way radios.
Fault Of Mankind
ones
demming acts such as the exterinina- desertion."-Associated Press,
and
degree.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
*WELL, YOU CAN
USE THE GOOD.
END, CAN'T YOU... WHY ALL THE
FUSS 24
Cm-
Soon
margin..
Divorces Datu
after their marriage,
another
"Discoveries"
BB KEMP STARRETT
are
THE DISCOVERY THAT YOUR BEST. RAZOR HAS BEEN MISTAKEN FOR A PENCIL SHARPENER AND NOW RESEMBLES A CROSS-CUT SAW.
"WHAT IS IT
MOMMY... IS IT PERFUME KUH? IS-IT, MOMMY, IS IT HUH
WHEN YOU DISCOVER WHAT YOU SIGNED TO GET THAT LOAN. WITH OUT ENDORSERS AND NO LABARRASS- ING INQUIRIES:
WHEN YOU WAKE UP AUD DISCOVER WHAT KIND OF A HAIR-DO YOU'VE ACQUIRED.
Ledger Syndicate
WHEN HE DISCOVERS THAT HIS THEORY THAT "ANYBODY THAT CAN READ CAN COOK AS GOOD AS OSCAR OF THE VALDORF "IS À LITTLE SCREWY,
"OVERDRAWN NONSENSE
THERE'S
PLENTY OF CHECKS LEFT.
IN THE BOOK.
THE DISCOVERY OF WHAT GIVES UNCLE BEN THOSE DIZZY SPELLS.
DISCOVERING THAT THE LAST TIME YOU DINED HERE YOU DIDN'T MAKE THE TP LARGE ENOUGH TO PURCHASE A NEW. CAR OR EVEN FIVE NEW WAITE WALL TIRES:
THE DISCOVERY THAT THE WIFE IS A FISCAL FLOP AND KNOWS, LEST ABOUT FINANCE MAN AN APL DOES ABOUT COOKING.
Now