THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1950.
Frenchmen Start Science Plays Its Part In Search For Criminals
Kindness Crusade
By Sally Swing
have announced a
"1 Prof.
A group of French men and women "kindness crusade,” to make people nicer to each other. "People simply aren't as nice as they were 30 or 40 years ago,” Marcel Ranville expaíned. He is one of the principal organisors of the movement.
Soon there will
be 100 more
"I don't mean men should go in for more hand-kissing, or anything like that. That's a question of etiquette. We want people to be kinder, especially in public places like the metro. bus and in theatre queues."
"kindness crusade" The ("croisade
l'amabilite"> pour
officially by announced was
Prigent, Secretory Di Robert State, who at first had said the lea sounded "silly." Ife finally declited to try to muster all the force of government and in-
The Black Widows dustry behind it.
are killers
On
as those of the people around
them,"
But Ronville warned that the
crusade was in no way political. "We aren't frying to show of one party or that people
in life are nicer station others. Everybody is invited to join," he said.
than
FREE TRIPS OFFERED Although the crusade is now for France with planned only the aim of winning the French people back into the "okt French fendition," organizers are hoping
will be taken up in other Nations.
contests or-
Britons Have
Odd Habits
some
By their own admissions, there are pretty silly people in Britain. Other races seldom would make the confessions in print which Britons have done for the London mass circulation paper, Daily Express.
Radio Luxembourg already has promised to aid the campaign DRIVERS HELPING
and Air-France Is offering a Car drivers will be provided free trip to London for winners
their anised throughout the nation. alick Four of the world's most with more than 10,000 "erusande" of the amiability
Madame George Bidault, wife winduws. lethal spiders--the Black butlernies to
The swearing, horn-honking. of the French Premier, is one of Widow of North America--
memberg Paris trafic will the charter
of the
But, then, Britons are in have arrived at the London, | lane-hogging!
being asked to remember the other crusade committee.
the burdens of the habit of writing to the Zoo
"With and are HOW shown at the insect house man is in a hurry too.
The French Army will display 1940 on us, we have forgotten editor to tell him their dog
Parce' what kindness
'Gay
meant." barks posters
on cloudy nights, hehind two thick layers of 3,000
Ranville said.
their hen laid an egg or plate glass embedded in barracks and stations.
"Perhaps through using Yvon Delbos, minister
Education, sent Notional cement.
modern publicity methods and their cat stayed away from
the home all week-end. we can jolt educational advertising The spiders are eight-legged, Eulletin withi
lay round,
black services for suggestions on how grumbling, grouchy publie lato alumens about the size of ripe la make the "kinduess crusade" a smile."United Press. Avg. In their jawa are fangs more effective as far as youth is whose venom can cause death cencerned. within a few hours.
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Because they are aggressive cannibalistic, the Black in four Wirtows are housel sepatadratas specially-built ass containers.
with surprising speed ferocity.
and
لله
In
of
RADIO JOINS IN French national The
radio will devote 15 minutes to kind- during the every day
Ke
feeding All are
un living crusade. bluebottler, which they catch "As women have gained more authority in affairs and more and daily life, they have often webs, forgotten the fundamentals of affletals omiability," Ranville said. "Men, Bardly remember the word ere too, hardly
Today people are weighed
All are now building and one has surprised laying M large coloured
which ery Fat, thought to contain phant 100
These by spiders.
atch in a few weeks time.
The Black Widows are the first seen in the Gardens since before the war.
tfennu exists,
troubles should down with
STAR ON
Į
and go
ound looking gray and angry We want to prove te them that anile and a helping hand im- prove their own tempers as well
VACATION
MARY MARTIN, the close-cropped star of Broad- way's biggest musical hit, "South Pacific" and her husband, Richard Halliday, relax in the sunshine in Bermuda. Mary had a one-week vacation and she worked on her needlepoint carpet, which is ten feet by six feel and was designed by her husband, (Acme)
K. O. CANNON
| | 1.0.1 IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU
PHONED MEJ IVE BEEN WORRIED.. ARE YOU COMING EMCK TO PICK ME UP HOW -ON ANE YOU HAVING TOO
“MUCH FUN?
The Express will call in psychiatrist taler to examin:
Rubber Industry Founder's Medal
(From Our London Correspondent)
London, May 24.
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Mr Hanry Nicholas Ridley—the man who founded the rubber industry in Malaya-was presented with the Linnean Gold Medal this evening for his outstanding services to botany. Ho is 94 years old,
Billy and odd some of the habits its renders reported. He will answer-if he can-why':
Moyra M. Hitch ties on new luggage labels without taking of the old ones, and ds her bags going back into the same
hotel.
friend
Leonard Styles has a who puts his hat on when he climbs into the bathtub, but re- moves when half-dressed.
Harry Songe's Kon Bays "Ching" after every remark he makes, "I cycled down the road -ching" and "I hit the cricket ball-ching."
Moyra Chatsworth of London fears up her bus tickets before handing the debris to the con- clucier.
M. Bayley thinks he owns
Carry
the
The London Metropolitan Police's scientific laboratory is In the north wing of New Scotland Yard, and under the
Dr direction of Henry
Its Smith Ilolden.
to
out Погрске selentino Investigations for the oin, and provincia! police can also make use of Hx up to-date faciles. It was formerly at Hendon but moved to its present position in 1948,
WILE
puty director of the labora.
Picture above shown a tesi being made on clothing b connection with an unsolved N. criminal case, Right top:
of Australia, MacCallum,
now examines the
out-of- date red petrol Lest Right lower: Dr G. E. Turf, de-
examining casts tory,
of wanted car tyre treads, taken near the scene of a house.
CAST. breaking
(Central Press)
U.S. chapel in
St. Paul's ready in 1951
The attorney from things he doesn't The other Tennessee,
United States, day, for example, he read about tortoirs in the paper. And im- ran a critical eye over the American of the mediately bought cabbages for mortel
tortoise. He doesn't have one. chapel to be included in the Mrs Dellson can't clt through apse of St Paul's which now in the cathedral meal without jumping up two stands
Ibrary.
or hyre mes.
Thomas Smith reads. ICWS- paper stories from the bottom up.
"A nice job," he commented. When told that two million Later he found there was no mil, of the night, dresses and wards the chapel, he asked: Mrs W. E. Nye gets up in the grateful Britons had subscribed more opportunity to study na- tural history at university thanges in bed with her clothes on."Where do we come in?" there had been at school. found the subject n
Making the award, Pro- the British Museum and train fessor F. E. Fritsch, Presi- here to to the tropics to ex
plore and to And plants and dent of the Linnean So-
unimals. ciety, suid Mr Ridley had been a member of the So- ciety for 70 years. He took up the post of Director of the Botanical Gardens at Singapore more than GO years ago, and it was largely due to his work in this con- nection that the plants of that region could now be ranked among the best known of tropical flora.
and expensive walking stick, but no use at all as crutch.
He
Mrs R. Jones mys "How do
He was told that it was an pleasant you do?" As she walks up the
The effort. entirely British stairs.
been sub- George Farthingale counts a money has already
scribed, in gratitude for the girl's teeth as he talks to her.
sacrifices In the Mrs M.P. Davies wipes her American feet on the doormat as she says. goodbye.
HANDSOME TRIBUTE
His only real instruction in natural history came through his connection with the Linnean Society, where he had access to their valuable library and con- In the economie field his seract with real naturalists. vices had been of the utmost
value, His work had led to the When the opportunity to establishment of heven in the tropies, and Mr Ridley's method to Singapore arose he realised of tapping rubler
foundation of that industry.
o
Fay For Royal Tournament
Most famous pony at
boyhood ambition and, from London Zoo, that time, he devoted his life to to take
war,
The
removal of the marble reredos will give a full view of the chapel from the nave and chole,
and thus farm pro- minent background to the high inltar.
Skids May Replace Aeroplane Wheels
By JAMES STUART
Shall we go back to grass airfiolds, doing away with costly concrete runways? Sir Frederick Handley Pago says there is a limit to the big runway policy. Ho scos, as an alternativo, aircraft being mounted on multi-whool bogies and taking off from grass."**
At the take-off point the remarkable bagie would be released. off. and when the acroplane came down it would land on
Their braking effect would
system.
WHEN THE SUN SHINES the The chapel will be the biggest skids.
between Britain and
10-year-old Fay. lok een played
part in the Royal America, in any English church. be superior to the present no small part in the successful
the study of tropicu! plants and Tournament ut Earl's Court animals, writing prolifically on this month. She will paradic, It will, for instance, dwart the the subject. It was during his attired in speed red and gold Harvard memorial chapel in St
at the head of the Saviour's, Southwark. long stay In Singapore that he harness, tscovered a way to tap rubber 65th (L.R.) Group RAF Band.
which led of which she is the mascot. trees-a discovery
the development of valuable industry.
In a lively speech, Mr Ridley traced the early history of his
with botany connection
and zoology and deplored the inck of expert instruction that was available at that time.
NOT POPULAR
one-engined tako
by no The plane itselt is
of. St means secret-pictures have appeared--but details of ils performance Thay not be revealed.
NOT IDENTIFIED Apparently the fact that after one engine had become unser- vlecablo it was able to fly off on the other is regarded by the Ministry of Supply as a matter of performance, so I may not Identify the aircraft.
While Britain hopes to sell
airliners new big jet-engined
to of aeroplane, America, the Percival Aircraft
undercarriage-less
acry
Sir Frederick giving the Louis Bleriot memorial lecture in Paris, said the transatlantic The
of model
the chupet retvice was a promising case for hows how the sun will shine the immediate development of Miss Peggy Mann, who has through the six windows, and the charge of Fay at the Zoo, wil project the coldurs of the United Fract her during the Lou States emblems down into the plane, inent.
choir. AL the moment this browni
pony is finding her riving areupied
A substantial gain in payload would result.
hu
the botanical gardens.
Mr Ridley paid a haudronn tribute to the Linnen Striety without whose help, he said, hej would not have been it to go and while
days Into the tropics to take charge of rides to children in the Zo
fully
A few days ago It is hoped to finish the chapel
type of next year.] military by the time British Festival,
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THIS SURPRISED
When he was
a child found the most interesting thing in the world was the na- tural history of plants. and He described the Linnan animals. At that time the sub- Medal as the greatest hungur he ject was not popular among possessed. adults. They did not like it at
all-they "didn't know what it
was coming to." They went so far as to say that naturalicts were indistinguishable from ma- tural-born idiots.
At school he found that none
MINK-WIFERY
Eighty soft brown mink
of the masters knew or cared a otler-like animals whide
blt about natural history. He provide the film stars' fur-are
help, no
stat no boults.
udvice, naļ holding up
the British demilitarisation programme in Germany beeatise they are They considered the most having mink' babies. Important things a boy could learn was to translate
Greek Last week a minor plant in
the
area of the mink form
plays and the poems of Horace,
"This was
was blown up. The result, na use to me", says the owner of the farm, sald Mr Ridley, amid laughter, wis that seven mink mothers
gave birth prematurely. When he was growing up, he British authorities have and a school friend decided enlled a hall until all the mink that they would In future go to bables are bort.
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
I'M NOT OUT FOR FUN, WHISPER,
I'VE SEEN MADAME ZUCCI.
NOW I'M OFF TO THE
PAVILLON ROUGE,
1 HAVE WOAK TO
DO THEME..
WORKI I CAN GUESS THE „GOAT OF WORX HILL. FIND "TO DO THERE I THAT'S NO PLACE FOR A MAN TO GO-NOT ON HIS OYTH
ANYWAY!
The now
now undergoing its tests, made a Company, Luton, Beds, are step-
MOTORISTS
ring in with their small twin-. engined 8-12 scater Prince feeder-liner.
Sydney Nesbitt, president of New Jersey aircraft sales corporation, has been appointed United States distributor.
Could Double Life Span
Within ten years, the human life span might be raised to 120 years I only £1,000,000 were available now for research.
was made to This statement the American Chemical Society by Dr Thomes S. Gardner. He Beclared:
The human body is breaking down long before its full poțim- tial is realised,
"Careful estimates indicate that "as littlos £1,000,000 under competent supervision over a period of only about ten
positive hope years offers approximately doubling human life span."
[EN]
ALMOST as odd as a flying saucer in the flat plains country around' Amarillo, Texas, is a sailboat. - Motorists were startled to see this landlocked craft skitter- ing down a highway, but Ray Landrum, of Friona, was making more than
satisfactory progress.- (Acme)^29,8)
Expensive Hole
Maori roler Tom Poh holed in one with a brillat tee shot at a 100-yard hole ots { en" uphi}t-slope, and found the eklent Bo expensive he insured hapagainst arrepetition-In-the
next game be did, it again the name kõla,
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