THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1950.
FOUR
SAYING
GOODBYE
GENERATIONS PICTURED
WHEN Pat Proelor, a supervisor at the Children's Pets Corner of the London Zoo, Ieft her position, she had a sad parting with Ricky, a three-week-old lamb. (Acme).
Television
May
Affect Homework
Education authorities in Britain becoming concorned about the effect of television on children.
The Association
on Broadcasting
of Education Committees has sent a memorandum of evidence to the Beveridge Committee suggesting a full inquiry on the problem,
Gadget-minded
Germans Have Bright Ideas
By Menno Duerkson
Frankfurt, May 29,-Americans who pride themselves on being the most gadget-minded people in the world might take a lesson or two from the Germans, who, after all, invented the V-2 and the jet plane.
into
the edges Icycle pedals.
of German
Enterprising merchants, for example, with one eye on the overhead budget and It you approach such
of night the other on the slogan, bleycle from behind
sce two Mille rows
"advertising pays," might ou
of lights dancing up and like a gadget German mer-down with the motion of the chants are beginning to use rider's feet. Anyone who has which permits the merchant ever seen them will never for- to turn out the show window them. lights and still attract the After-dark show window shopper.
In the darkened window a small, brightly lighted square, with a sign which says, "If you want to see what is I thak window, place your harich on this spoo" Plucing your hand on the spot energin a photo- electric celi, which in turn does the window with light for one minute.
German auto-mechanles And they can tune up a motor much better with the help of a test- ing device which permits them under lond to run the motor and adjust the carburettor, mition, etc., while the motor in bouring he travelling uphill.
a
WATER PADDLE
The car is simply driven on te stand so that the rear wheels nre cradled between two plant rollers. Staring the ear $12
the rollers, which Kear rotates
a hunger water
turn gyrate palle in a tanks. The load cap
The very novelty of it, say ta merchants, attracts people to look and later to buy. The spot placed tocr high fore children.
FOR THE HOUSEWIVE For the housewife there, is a hot water heater which, say The Germans,
much more cronomical to operate than the ormal tank-type water heater, and is fully automatic.
Yess!
merely and the release
open
the
tap
varied by adjusting the angle of the water paddles. The Performance of the motor under load is registered before the mechanic's eyes on a huge diat at any speed.
The truck driver who has to
10
stop every half hour on hot summer days to go and kick all The tyres of his huge semi- trailer job to test them might
the like
German dashboard of pressure in gadget, which flashes a light The water pipe, caused by open-when any tyre begins to
muddat. ing the tap, causes a gas lame to spring on under a rail, and hot water is coming out in five; watering It as to their econds. The gadget is only o
fourth as big as a tank heater; whole rend costs much less. Closing "We believe the
the tap shuts it off instantly, tel. vision to school-
as well as other a complete Germans,
the have bauropeans,
used device for years. two angles:
A warning that television to may become a handicap to work, children doing homework is Intion of given by Mr R. W. Moore, chillyen requirem Head Master of Harrow, investigation. It should be gone The a article in the B.B... from
efl et uf aelevision on the home; } Quarterly. He says:
the posibilty of al us in "Distraction may well each:chools," tyrannical proportions if tel. vi-
ion to become as provaleat į
Views of school heads were Ixtinens at programmes as sound sets are today. We might ultimately have an effect
on the standard of work. du not compinin that
As only parents TITO
not read, write
we can-
or de heme-
USE IN SCHOOLS
50
able to
METAL FINGER
031
1wo
The gadget works separate principles. One is a rides just metal tiger which
mukes an inside the tyre and
which farhes electric contact the dashboard light when the tyre begins to bulge sidewise from loss of air. The other is a metal anger which rides just. an inch or two above the sur- face of the road and lights, up when a tyre starts to go at and lets the Anger malte
contact with the
For the children there is a top which you spin by whipping it with A whip the Germans version of a yo-yo-and re- quires at least as much skill to the dashlight operate.
Or i scooter, which 1 10-road. Almost all heavy. Ger- year-old child can keep in man trucks are equipped with work in the cin,ma, because if ¦ control children't hune audivit- | molion by rocking back and
this andret. we do these Unligs we do not jus, they must cogamate with forth on a big pedal. The pedal | For re-grooving tyres worn
with go to the cinema.
connected
the rear slick, the German mechanic At one girls' grammar school wheel through a rutchet device simply places a little gadget on near London, where pre much like the coaster brake on wheels in front of the car and Jest of the Lupils can watch hieyele.
the the car
put in low gear and "But what if one's living-room į television, The headmistres Bicycle riders who worry driven
Against the machine. at hom. has been turned into and tel. Vision
had not inter- about getting hit from the rear By pushing it about 10 feel the
work The
can forca with the
by a car at night would like front tyres are re-grooved with cinema?
e little row of reflectors built amazing precision. perhaps go to the public-boree way.
Tai Wil
a
$134 13
of the club away from it. what of the homework? the community centre or the youth club come to provide for that?"
Dr W.P. Alexandir, secretary, Asociation of Education Com- mittees, wald: *We expect that the inevitable effect of television will be that you sters will devole no much time
British Oil
Lead
vil
According to a statement by experts of landing concerns, Britain has made important gains in the race for oil supremacy in the Middle East,
Last year British and affilated concerns produced three-fifths of the total of 56 million tona of crude oil, while American concerns produced two-fifths. Development projects provkia for an increase in production to 130 million tons by 1953, with Britain retalning the above pro- perlion.
Refining Agures alsa favour Britain with 25 million tons of oil products against Am:rica's 13 million tons. By ID53 British refining output is to reach 31 million tona, against 17 million by the Americans.
A
sudden drop in Middle East production, caused by a decline
in United States imports, affect- ed mainly the American terests and mixed British American Kuwalt concerns.
and
in any
SCHOOL
FOR ONE
ROY F. X. Miles, 12, n rheumatic victim in North Mer- rick, New York, takes his schooling in bed. He has a Iwo-way special telephone system that keeps him right in the classroom and enables him to participate in recita- tions and all that goes on. (Acme).
K. O. CANNON
WE WANT TO SER MA, MITCHELLA WE HAVE AN APPOINTMENT.
· PARDON, M'SEV,
THEN WE'LL COME IN
THE SAME TO VOUS
BUT MR. MITCHELL
IS OUT) MB CAN
SEE NO ONES
AND WAIT • IR IT'S ALL
Putting H behind the rear wheels and putting
the car. in reverre does the same trick for Die rear tyers. It can all be don: 111 one minute-United Pres.
IT'S HOT IN THE SUDAN
Brown-outs, black-outs and dim-outs are a regular feature of Khartoum life.
With worn-out generators, the ltare at the peak hours elipo
to 140 cown
instead of the theoretical 229.
Refrigerators overheat and re-
fuse to work, new papers and booles cannot be read, fans start l and the temperature In the "hade approaches 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
The Sun Light and Power Co tell shopkeepers, traders and residents to economise, But the newspapers remind the company that there is nothing on which, to economise.
From time to time, rumour spring up about new generators riving from Britain. These as quickly denied by the company.
Are
to
On top of all this, the price of electricity has been raised eleven pence a unit. This is an as one expensive proposition, refrigerator and at least two fans are essential to every home in the Sudan.-United Press.
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
。
AH,PARDON -(T SEEMS THAT MA. MITCHELL (6 HERË, I DID NOT SEB MINH COME IN..
SAP,SMITCHELL -YOUN GUESTS.
MOTHER, grandmother and great-grandmother accompany the D'Avelu triplets to the Children's Hospital in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, for a physical check-up. Left to right arc: Mrs Fortunato D'Avela, mother, 28, holding Rose; Mrs Harry Lindon, grandmother,
with Renee; and Mrs Ruth Andrews, the great- grandmother, with Ruth.
The babies were found to be in perfect health. (Acme).
CHOICE
JANET
19,
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
ARE EXCESSIVE DRINKERS
Alcoholism is one of the four major health problemis in the United States. Each year 12,000 die of it. Six million Americans are officially considered to be excessive drinkers, and one in every six is a woman.
A Yale doctor says: "An drink. They are on the look- beenuse they have been through
out for people who begin to the agony themselves. excessive drinker, as drink alone, who begin to want About 50 percent of those against a moderate drinker drink in the morning, and taken under the wing become "the hair of] teetetallers. A strong-minded who only occasionally gues who decide that
only way to fraction become civilised social overboard, is one who, as steady nerves after an all-night | rakes, 25 percent
after a lapse or two, and the rest return to the bottle.
at
the dog" is the
becomes
recover
result of drink, harms drinking session.
repeatedly, Self-pity himself
and #elf-delusion
A. As admit they don't even spiritually, physically, are the alcoholic's hallmark. Ho
pusplzious, rerenta try with drinkers who have
believes he could socially, and economically. advice and
reached the chronic atage stop drinking on the spot if he knowns "wet brain.". They Medlent selence Is swinging wented to.
Medical facis n-are among the
750,000 acute, round to the view that clapping dicate that he can't.
hopeless cases. drunks in gaol is not intelligent trentment. Doctors and psychiatrists are feeling out the original causes of the desire to
PRINCE WHO
BECAME STABLE BOY
There are campaigns enlisting
Americans feel that their 17 the aid of drinkers and non-
years of prohibition are in some drinkers
him to help
if he way at the back of if all. The wants to make the road back. break was time enough to
FIRST IN FIELD
First in the field, Alcobolles Anonymous tries to
pry the drunk from the bottle with the medicine of common
scase, knowing religiou, fallḥ, and
The ris: the ongles.
this or- ganisation hus been storiling. Founded by n couple of re- formed alcoholics in 1935, its Prince Maximilian membership Jumped to 2,000 in Melikolt, once a wealthy 1941, 12,000 in 1944, to 85,000 Russian aristocrat, who had today. It hos branches in
Britain, France, and India, worked in Britain as stableboy, traveller for a A. As try to case the tension firm of mushroom growersjon the alcoholics' minds by
talk and
Rolling-1 for
- them together-to as ́ secrétary
about it. A member is usual- London Motoring school.
ly
long way towards has died at Southsen, nged recovery witen he gets in work 54,
on some other drunk who wants to reform.
Ills
wife is Australian-born Princess Pauline Melikuff,
A
1
Its efforts give him a sense | of responsibility-he has to Prince Maximilian was the keep off liquor for his pupil's only living member of anake as well as his own. Drunks! Georgian Royal house. His home respect
A. A.
Icmperance
palace at ordinary was once a stately Tablakhembi, near Tiflis.
With the coming of the Russian Revolution. he flerl-penniless. ten he became a cavalry instructor in the Persian Army, bollet dancer in Rome, a tennis teacher in San Remo, a partner in a chicken farm en- terprise at Nice, professional gambler at Afonte
Carlo,
leopard trapper in Kenya, and an employee of the Food Dis tribution Corporation in New
York.
In 1034 Prince Maximilian was reported to be working at Ascot as a paid employee in the stables of Sir Archibald Weigall. Of the luxury he had once known, he said:
Winters, shown In Miami. Florida's candidate for Miss America this year. She'll be in Atlantic City this summer, competing for the title of "Miss and breeding do not mean very much when it coines to making America of 1951." (Acme), ju fiving nowadays."
"All that is past and gone, I have to face facts, My birth
Beetle Threat In Channel Islands
About £20,000 is boing apent in the Channel Islands
to protect the potato crop from the ravages of the Colorado bestie. The sonson's crop is estimated to be worth £600,000.
Hundreds of Colorado beetles the present cold wind and low were reported to have reached temperatures there is no chance the lands. Extra supplies of of their Bying further." DDT powder Bre being sent Beetles picked up on the from England for spraying the shores of Guernsey appeared dead, but recovered in a warm
beaches.
from Britain.
So far, there is no ukelihood room. The publle were warned of the potatoes being banned to treat all the insects as though they were alive, and to destroy them in paraffin and water. "A Ministry of Agriculture In Jersey, where the situatin oficial said that experts were was earlier described as-sorious, in close touch with Dr T. Small, every possible precaution was Jersey's mycologist.
taken.
Dr Small bas told us that so The finding of about 200 far none of the beetles has beetles was reported from Jer- penetrated intand. All have been sey. 50 from Guernsey, and
dealt with on the beaches. With 100 from Sark
SHE'S
more
than workers
forget the days of rational drinking and only time is going to restore the mental balance to take drink or leave it alone.
Then and now stamp
U.S.POSTADE ·
AMERICA'S newest stamp
(pictured here) will go on sule shortly. It will com- memorate the centenary of Kansas City, Missouri, where Mr. Truman's political career began.
Shown on the stamp are the Kansas City skyline of to-day and a drawing of Westport Landing, first suttlement on the site of the present day city, as It looked in 1850,
-{London Express Services.
DADDY'S GIRL
SGT. K. Collins of the Royal Army Medical aweeps his three-year-old daughter, Ann, uP side reunion in Southampton. Back fru the Sergeant arrived aboard the $1 Orwell, which brought ‹ troops
duty, (Acme),