THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1948.
The Potala Palaco (picturo at left) is the fabulous residence of the Dalai Lama, highost spiritual dignitary of Tibet, Nobody knows just how much wealth in gold, precious stones and other treasures lies hiddon therein
"The
Ever Victorious.". Clain distinctions are very clearly in drinking tea The term Dalai Lama is defined, and even
there are fine distinctions. A coni- strictly Mongolian, and
monor use an ordinary cup, but means "The Sea of Wis- taming and nobles must have cup- stands of gold or silver. The, higher dom."
you are in the social ladder, the taller the cupstand. An exalled The gold and precious
lumna will
will have a cupstand over a stones are partly brought foot high. But so that thelf ups do from China and India, and not get out of reach, they bullt higher partly obtained in the form seats. The Dalai Lama's seat is over
ten feet high, so that when of gifts from pilgrims down his head almost touches to the lamaseries. Al- ceiling of the palace.--
DRAGONS PROVIDE AIR DEFENCE IN SHANGRI-LA
I
F something is stolen from
you in mystic Tibet, you
by
sitting
tho
to
will naturally be put out. David Wong to be mined because of an an- the roots of certain trees, and are
as you would be anywhere else.
But your worries do not end with the capture of the thief,
for that is when they really be into tiny pieces and fed to the gin. The thief is duly punish- vultures. But if your death. in ed, but, although being the the result of sickness, they will aggrieved party, you are also dump you into Old Man River your carelessness, and let you go rolling along, for fined-for
#wholesome cadaver Furthermore, whatever stolen from you, if recoverable, might poison the vultures,
Lamas and priests aro is confiscated on the ground
upon death, while that it constitutes an object of cremated temptation,
Was Your
Dalai Lamas, Panchen Lamas and a few high dignitaries are embalmed and their bodies pre- served in magnificent pagodas · of solid gold or silver.
though Tibet has gold and other Because of intrigue at court, the natural resources, the Tibetan, nobles usually carry their own bowls Government will not allow them with them when they go out
dinner. The bowls are made out of cient superstition which saya supposed to give forth a sound if the Hygiene in an unknown word in The streets that if the natural resources are food is poisoned.
the Tibeton Inngunge. are littered with Alth and taken out the energy of the earth will be weakened and, as a result, there will be bad crops and stray dogs are the only scavent- and disease among the people. gers. Tibetans bathe only once However, n small quantity of year, when the "Bright Seven Ster"
the ascendant. in mics and borax are exported In the troubled world of today, from Tibet each year. These are Tibetans think theirs in the safest found on the surface of the country. They believe the country la
protected from horm by ground, and no imining opera- tions are required.
Once A Mug
...
That is one aspect of justice in Tibet, ac cording to
*IBETANS' names convey no sug- Professor Li
gestion of family lineage. A baby Yu-1, Yon- The most costly of stich takes its surname from the house in ching Uni- pagodus is that built for the which it is born. For example, you Porcelain Mug may be born in the versity thirteenth Dalni Lama, who Factory. A Buddhist name is given. savant who died in 1933. Recently com- to you. and by the time you finish has just re- pleted, it cost several million you may be known by something turned from dollars. Built with gold slabs, like "Long Life and Prosperity Por-
celain Mug Factory." three it is studded with jewels and years'
cul- precious stones. Encrusted at tural survey the summit is a diamond weigh- work among ing over 60 carats.
lamas the behalf of the Chinese Government.
Professor Li
on'
Tibet, the
over
For lesser offences you are Rentenced to prison. But you behind are not kept confined walls. With leg-cuffs on, you may wander out to earn your living, and need only return to gnol at night to sleep.
There are no narrow marringe restrictions in this strange land. Polygamy and polyandry go hand in hand. Sometimes, father and share the same wife. This practice birthgate, do not
5 steadily lowering the "The Ever Victorious'
and if these social conditions
Бод
race
In every family, one or more sons
"charmed."
The custom is
be-
The
is
Tibetan devil dancer
the
the
say that the in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. will die out in a hundred years. There she death penalty in THERE are nine such pagodas change, experts
"Shangri-la" of They are located in the grounds must become lamas. James Hilton's imagination. A of the fabulous Potala Palace, so well established that it has murderer suffers nothing more which houses the present Dalni come almost a family's obligation to serious than having his hands Lama and untold riches in the lamaseries. The Tibetans con- Five other sider i un honour to be a lama. Be-
is even a lama guardian spirit, which and feet chopped off! Some- priceless treasures.
privileges, sides acquiring
of t in
for · modern combat are also is
match special position the eyes such pagoda mausoleums times he may have his-
During the war many the being able to feed, the people with aircraft. further found at Shigatze, where
crashed ! In Tibet, and gouged out just as a deterrent.
Panchen Lamas used to hold mud balls. When you meet a lama, planes
he will offer you a foul black pill that served to strengthen this bellef. court.
made of mud, which the Tibetans After the first American plane crash consider a cure-all but which very ed near Lhasa in November 1943, The Potala Palace, which 18 often has no medicinal value what marvellous tales were told of the ex-
"bless- of granite, was soever. Nevertheless, they are ploits of this guardian spirit. Some constructed
lama Tibetans swore that they saw completed in its present form in ed" and
the pill at once, not sooner. It The lamaseries have waxed rich the sixteenth century. It is nearly always insists on your taking plane being attacked by a dragon.
by 600 "Imperial you decline, you will have made
their trade monopoly of guarded Guards" plus a large number of life-long enemy.
orcism. A man who is ill engages half a dozen lames of repute to read lamas. The Dalai Lama oc-
the Class Distinctions the scriptures. For this service,
with If you are a commoner
cupies the topmost storey.
lamas are royally entertained good health, you are given a
The Dalai Lama, incidentally, IN Tibet, nobody calls a chair a food and have their pockets extreme- chair. There are three levels of ly well lined. If the man dies, they "heavenly funeral" when you die. This means that your is known to the Tibetans-as-speech-the ordinary, the honorific-vill
part, and further services body is cut by your survivors Gylwarimpuche, which means and the super-honorific. In ordinary his tend to ever-sinaing on language, a chair is called a "receiver necessary to cleanse his soul. other- of the buttocks." The honorific term wire the dead man will be reincar- animal. That explains is a "high mattress." If you want to nated as an use the
super-honorific description why often the 'cutire property of a A dead man is donated by his family to you call it a "golden throne.' wife of a person is called a "lown Inmasery. born" in common speech, but by the To be called a dog or a skunk is time the super-honorifle level is bad enough, the Tibetans think, but. reached she may be even a
prospect "holy to be reborn as one is a wife" or a "goddess.”
none relishes.
in
Doctors say "new look
is looking for trouble:
OCTORS
the "new
Domali waist und (bat.
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arc
INTERN FLOR
WHIST DRYS
SOT OF CAMBILING
LOVE LIFE OF
The Lissad-DODO
"I've no doubt w'ell find attendance increase considerably with the curtailmcat American films in this country."
Where does Communism end-Fascism begin?
L
ISTEN
in any check- clothed French bistro or vine-trellised Italian trat- toria or whitewashed Greek taverna or fly-blown Arab cafo.
Above the clink of glasses. and the roar of the radio and the click of dominoes you will hear. thrown up like a spray the above the waves of talk, words "Communism... De
mocracy...
communiam.
Fascism."
Fascism
Democracy
2
By ALEXANDER
CLIFFORD
All across puzzled Europe, wherever men sit together and talk, the arguments go on; being Fascist, they are refer- serious, bitter, urgent urgu- ments, for the issues are real and immediate.
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ring to something which has
Germany and Italy were ruled on Greece his theory before the war. had a taste of it under Metaxas, Spain, Portugal, Russin, Poland, Bul- garia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Czecho- slovakia, Hungary, and Albania have. got it in varying degrees now. Tur Iey has had a version of it. Some- thing like it is going on in Argen- tina.
In those countries you read the newspapers and books the Govern- ment wants you to read. If you don't like the method of government there is, nothing legal you can about it.
do
If you alr your complaints you are Hlable to be wakened by a tap at the Goor at three o'clock in the morning and there is the secret police waiting to take you away.
Nothing guarantees you a fair and open trial, and no one will date make one. Laws and and decrees simply come out
a fuss if you don't get
not the remotest resemblance to you have to obey them. No repre- tentative of yours, elected by your the regime of Mussolini.
votes, will have been able to argue the pros and cons beforehand.
The words themselves have
And no so-called Communist been bandied about until they have nearly lost their meanings, country has yet produced a sys- Their own, Latin and Greek tem which Karl Marx would mothers would no longer know have approved.
them,
But the words spin on and on.
LL that can happen in just the same way whether you are living д communist
Both forms of regime have aban- or the purpose of preserving -and- ind/vi- protecting the freedom and duality of its members.
And the ordinary citizen in under a Fascist or
Liovernment. Europe desperately needs to
cracy for Germany, he is mean. WIEN-Molotov urged demo_know_today_just_what they doned the theory that society exists
speaking of something which could never be recognised 18 democracy
Britain in America.
or
He needs to know whether,
Fascism and Communism' have an the new anti-Communist move ments like de Gaulle's should be other thing an apparent advantage over parliamentary democracy, un-* interests of der their system things can be done supported in the When Greek Communists ac- civilisation, or whether they swiftly and thoroughly and ruthless. cuse the Greek Government of will go the same way as Ilitter's
ARE SCIENTISTS SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF LIFE?
WILL life ever be created in the
Iaboratory Will scientists ever discover the secret of synthetic, man-made cells that dis- play the characteristics of lving matter? Will we ultimately solve the mystery of creation?
Even conservative thinkers today
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
anti-Communist crusade.
ly.
ns
world
trains
all the Mussolini, knows, made the Italian Did we perhaps fight on the run on time. Hitler laid his double- track motor ronds exactly where he wrong side of the war? he is wanted them across Germany, Russia. built up an army whose strength the beginning to wonder. Or
are world never guessed, Communism
Fascism and basically the same? Does it real- Here, then, is where we are, whenly matter which you choose? we develop the right protein chemi cal combination, we should have the ingredients that will
And there was no fuss or argu-
ment about it. The order was given and the thing was done. The people were not consulted. Someone at the Europe has had plenty of ex- top decided for them. perience to judge from by now. It is obviously a perfect system if One coll is all we need, for a cell Does, it turn out to be truo-as the person at the top can always be reproduces itself by dividing into 2, Churchill used to say
on this relied on these again divide into 4, and so on.
create living matter.
до сп
and
tained in the nuclei of living cells.
But to decido rightly, Fascism and Communism also share
claim that millions now living will sco as water and table salt to the more like sugars and alcohols,
A parallel stage has been reached in subject that the North and this great danger; that there la no this scientific. triumph, the amazing complex,
people at the top if they hagin to do- But there's nothing new about culmination of research that started and finally to the very complicated, the creation of genes, which are con- South Poles are geographically regular means of getting rid of the
with speculative theories thousands such as quinine and protein.
and in which the use Wasp walsts and wide hips were of years a products is the latest to make the bulk of products in this living mattor are viruses, one-celled cold at bath?
Researchers have long been able On the borderline between dead and miles apart, but it is equally clad wrongly. emphasised hips-is going to fashionable more than 3,000 years of radioactive
tant milestone.
kroup synthetically, and when the creations that live when placed in cause women a lot of trouble
important Minoan priestesses of the Bronze Before condemning this prediction secret of the infinitely complex pro- living Ussue and both genes und
we viruses are composed mainly was recently unlocked, They say that if women start com- Age were flowing, robes coufined at as fantastic, remember that step by teins pressing their
walsts two or three the waist. Their wulsts were na step, for the past 100 years, scientists were at the dividing line beyond protein.
exists: inches with corsets they're asking for row because they wore Ught con- bad health.
stricting belts.
of the lesser mysteries surrounding
For the
Tight corsets put unduo pressure on internal organis--stomach, spicen, liver, intestinal tracts,
Worn over a long period, they can do serious harm, particularly to young women.
One doctor said: "This pernicious style is going to cause distortion to abdominal organs, and complica tions."
Doctors aren't too keen on strup- less, wired brassieres, either.
A specialist said: "Any pressure or pinching is highly undesirable.
of
All totalitarianism is ultimately. rulo by forée. But since physi cal force is expensive and dangerous, both Communismi and Fasciam al- tempt to substituto for it mental men can believe torre-something
have forced nature to give up many which idle cell, which contains we can see that the next successful | #TOMMUNISM and Fnacism are in Since Lien, the "new look" of 1040 this famous British chemist Russian woman scientist, Dr. O. B. across the threshold both to globules bo no argument about that.
has occurred in many ages. It was Cashionable in the time of:
Catherine de Medici (1500), ; Louis XIV (1800's).
In 1827, a debunked the posability.: at ever
of
Imitating nature in the bodily pro- mashinrials from the
CONICS.
year.
both totalitarian. There can
So from the creation of protein the key to life, has been shown by a
grouping of chemicals will take us
to be made UP, of Eving matter and to genes, when
molecules.
It is expecting cells.
that they will unite Neither Hitler, Mussolini, nor ses. The
cell- She used following
and form the German chemist succeeded in creat- not the whole cell nor even
This opens up a tremendous new Stalin could tolerate any opposi-
for humanity. ing urea, which is made in the body nucleus and found that her odds and viata
It will mean tion to his own party. endn of cells were alive, that is ablo by the kidney.
better
to combat disenso. weapona fashionable even at the beginning of American biologist. Prof. Horatio proget
There is no Pretence that About 10 years ago, a celebrated to develop by themselves and set to.
Fundamentally baslé changes will themselves, which Aro
bo made this century.
in medicine. For example, people, at any given moment, know Hackett Newman, said that nothing amongst the primary tests of life.
know that cancer cells are those what is best for themselves. There is Corsets developed In civilised even remotely approaching the
which grow in an uncontrolled Europe in medieval times.
synthesis of living maltar had been attained. "Man has not yet succeeded
Louis XV and Louis XVI. Narrow
corseted walsts
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the march of fashion, because women of wood penetrating her flesh.
were
д
the
**
wo
the
They offer a philosophy, a theory,
some sort of mysticlam capable of arousing enthusiasm and fanaticism. They broed huge swarms of slogans, symbols. emblems, uniforms, parades, und well-aimed propaganda. Ther Iny great stress on the political Indocají: trination of the young.
When we know how to create way rule of the people, theoretically for
THIS pattern of life-this relation- As a result of her experiments- how to change their form, we will the people, but by the leaders of the
ahip In those days, they were virtually in synthesising true proteine-this which have, been confirmed
by know what is. happening in cancer Party, who claim to know what is between the ordinary man
and the State he lives in is in prac "A tight bra can cause pressure instruments of torture.
step must first be successfully taken" scientists in England, Norway and cells and consequently will be able best for the people. sores, or an ulcer.
The corps pique which existed in he wrote.
US-it was concluded that the call to control the disease.
From this it logically follows that tice. remarkably the same under
Communism and under Fascism. "Constriction can stop circulation the time of Henry III of France was
Science has now taken this step. came from an assortment of organic Plasite surgery. Js another branch opponents of the party leaders are and
cause
wasting of flesh, a hard, solid, mould, :.:
Harvard
If that is the banks you choose an Although I don't believe there is any
When Woman, was . compresed Ward chemists Drs. R. E. Wood- chemicals, and that it-grow in a of medicino that will benest. Sur-chemies of the people, and must bo
and C. H. Schramm have mado reputar pattern.
Focus will use artificially created suppressed-by force if necessary.
the amount of restraint and regi- rink of cancer"
with all protein moleculo endure splinters Medical oplulon isn't likely to stop into it she had to
In other words, the search for living tissue to mend wounds caused qualities of hair or fur.
synthetic living cells does not imply by accidents.
And so, In Fascism and Commentation, the lack of freedom, D relative grimness of the secret police, basic product of tite, the manufacture of a complete coll, Use radioactive Frequently the skin was
products munism, you get secret polico, purges, the volume of propaganda-It scarce- of rubbedProtein is messing around with their
now enabling science to stage-managed trials, arbitrary kill y matters which you choose. Agures practically since the time off her waist and her riba rode over an essential part of our bodily pro- as sclento long assumed.
***** une another.
censes. Which means that this man- When we succeed in creating the see ille inner, workings of living or-ings, tortures, pogrems, and concen- clothes, wore invented
made
miracle is just below life.
the gaps in cur tration camps. right chemical
But usually me don't choose like combination, we may ganisms. When What will it
that. Their cholco is nearly always mean to create life not need to do any more the cell knowledge are filled, and the first
that on its own. impur Ranston from the
synthetic living cell is born, some The community as a whole, in fact, ruled by emellons--by promises, It will help us consider the various
of protein research will be within in sight of separate members Indulon male aims. stages now Dust, and those that all usin is the phenomenon which was of the major mysteries of medical is more important than any of its visions, hopes, aspirations, and ulti
baddam'niwaya be sacrificed to the, good of romatra..
of develop solution First we have atomi, whichts grous mont was reachedį.
when a certain nummo amatoriale, Man will really approach the fong- society, Man has no inalienable It is equally cold at the North andzki —DES FOSTER| molecules from the very simple suchselves and completed the work.
into innumerable combinations of took hold of the situation by them-sought mastery of life when he be rights of his own he only has duties South Poles. But the stars.
a different overhoad. comes literally, "lord of creation." as the member of a community.
T
This fashion was relaxed for Fashions have been forcing women while, but Catherine de Mediel ro to adopt "new looks and change
vived It.. their shapes for hundreds of years.
She said all women of good birth The current "new look," which some fashion exparts tip will stay, und breeding should wear corsets with modifications, for another is which should reduce waists to a years, briefly means narrow walsts, wide hips and longer skirtų:
ridiculous 10 inches.
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