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THE CHINA MAIL, Saturday, JULY 23, 1949.
GERMAN CHURCHES ARE FLOURISHING TODAY
Moonlight Tricycle Ride Made Money
By EDWARD C. GAYLER
On a February night in Bel- started on tyres fist in 1888 a 10-year-old boy motor-cars.
the took out his tricycle in moonlight and went for a trial
to the Company CHINA MAIL spin to test the new tyres made
-for-him-by his father..................
LTD.
BIRTH
As a result of that moonlight ride a little company was started which today has a working capi-| tal of £50,000,000, employs 80,000
the world BURNETT Ex-Kowloon Hospit-workpemple, all over
at on 21st of July, to Jane, and minkes its goods in 1 different Nee Weder) wife of Cap- countries. Last year it profits tain E. J. S. Burnett, M. C. topped £10,000,000, IO Gurkha Rifles, a Son,
OBITUARY
CASTRO O 22nd Jigy 1919,
2 p.m. Anthony Maria Castro, Atual son of Mr. & Mis P. 1. S. Castro. Funeral will pass Lai Chi Kok Ceine*ery No floral at 5 pm today. tributes, please.
UTOPIAN
The little boy on the tricycle was called Johnny. His father was John Boyd Dunlop, inventor of the pneumatic tyre.
John Boyd Dunlop was the son or an Ayrshire farmer, but before he had renched the age of 20 he
was established as a veterinary
#rgeon in Belfast.
On his journeyings round the farms whose animals he looked an old UNRESTtter John Dunlop used
dog-curt, anl was the many jolts he got in this that first brought his lud to the
The London dock strike. which has naturally aroused considerable interest in the great port of Hong Kong, has
the not
Socialist shown structure is too good a light. That trade unionists would have wanted to rebel ut. all against such a regime would have been laughed at if the proposition had been made to them a decade ago. The dockers now are so well off that they get a guaranteed week's y whether there is work for them or not.
"boteshaker"
It
idea of making an inflated tyre.
He male his first experiment with a wooden disc 10in. in dia- meter. With a piece of linen and a few nails he atted to this a hand-made rubber tube. This dise for- backwards and h bowled wards across his yard, noting its ease of movement.
This
was the Grst tyre John Dunlop made.
With the
for the
new
It was the entry of Dunlop into the muter-ear field which brought the biggest expansion to the com pnuy-An-the-popularity.af. the matur car grow so did the name uf Dunlap,
When the occupation of Ger- mahy and, in particular, the arri
many is over, and the last Bri- tish, American and French offi- etal or soldier has been with drawn, it may well be that, of all the work and efforts of the eceupying powers. since 1943, nothing will prove of more Jasting Influence and value than the notable revival of the Ger- nian Churches, which-in West- cra Germany, at least the occupying powers have helped to bring about.
Allied efforts to impart demo- eratie methods to the Germans
Good Mo
vai of more than 11,000,000 fu- gees from German areas East of
Some people in Canton confuse the Iron Curtain, have put on the vanguards of Democracy with enormous strain on war-danaged the guard's van. Church resources.
A
•
A village and pastor with about
Where will the Central Gov- Do you want 300 souls may suddenly find that new refugee camp nearby hus increased the church's responstrument go next?
Tibel? bility by 3,000 or 4,000 people, most of them with desperately urgent welfare needs,
This cral strike down in Aus- tole is really a black show.
led Such conditions have notable improvisations and Pro- testmit-Catholle co-operation,
interesting Опс particularly
By A.L. HUTCHINSON
for mana
When the first tyre was made, the plantation rubber Industry lid not extat and the year before some seeds of Hevea Brasiliensis may not succeed in overcoming scheme is the turning of a former had been scht from Ceylon to the natural instincts of most Ger- aurs factory in the Westphalian
(a)-
authoritarian rule. woods into a centre for rehabili¬ Singapore, but developments
1910 the Allied plans to cut the war patentating refugees and war prisoners lowed rapidly, and by
to til trem, Germany's heavy in returning destitute and starving price of rubber had soaredi 12. Gd. per 1b, so the company dustry may fountter on the skil- from Rusale.
It is planned to re-settle refu- bought its Brst properties in ful evasions and
prevarications
bullt Malaya and started its own pro-
gees in clay houses refugee workmen and to use the duction.
factory buildings for how light industries from which the refu- rees can earn money.
ቦ
that
of Gennan industrialists and poll- Uciar, but if any single factor in
minimise German life can
the fur burshness, the military capacity and the non-democratic instincts of the Germans, it is probably the Genrun Church, in both its main branches-the Catholics and the Evangelical Protestants,
by!
Charity Work textile machinery was
Johnny's first tyres were cover-| with linen, but an progress was made, it was found
the ordinary incapable of making the fabric of the right texture for tyres, so in 1914 Dunlop branched out again and started its own mills, which aupplied tyre fabric have since for the company.
A
Only The Churches
In
war
Have you heard about tho angry husband who thought that a correspondents' club must be a refuge for Casanovas?
Herr Abetz, It appears, usci
collect spley liens
for
French magazines
from
the
Fuehrer's edification...The Gau-
eller side of life!
•
For
The Party!
Though every day it seems the
People's rice
Goes soaring
up in spiralling
flights of price
True Comrades can ignore such
trials as these
And stick it out on caviare and
cheese...
сол- on
"It may be that if we centrate more pedestrians crossings, more pedestrians will these points, but be Injured at
other fewer on
parts of the reals."
havo
That's right, thoy. can't it boll ways. This
Another Church problem is the reduction of charlly work mees sitated by last year's West Ger Inan currency reform, which in- volved the writing down of re- serve funds to one-tenth of their problem is now being overemme previous nominal valuu
The family circle awaited the by better support from Church congregations.
Another handicap is the Occ-customary words of wisdom to come from the head of the house pation Zone boundaries which, in as he sunk into his chair. Survey- several cases, cut serass Church ing organisation boundaries,
monilis,
~
•
his respectful audience, con-
out
with. "Everything is these doys including Ilustrint, foreign and domestic "You're right, dear," Interrupt-
Of the important institutions of Two years later, in 1916, the pre-Ifitler German life, only the viving relatively unchanged the company bust completely outgrown Churches have succeeded in sur- its existing Dunlop, Coventry, and
16 years of Nazism,
and maintaining Bingham factories and bought cipation, and a 400-acre site near Hirmingham
dependence. and begun the Fort Dunlop town.hroughout'n large measure of in- The
the head- town remains
The law, the Government, the and the quarters of tyre production, with a range from baby wheelbarrow trade unions, Masonry
The Archbishop of Paderborn, sisting of Mrs., young Bob, the tyres to giant aeroplane covers. youth movements of pre-Hitler for example, has half his diocese moppet, and Herman the spaniel, days hud all to surrender or adapt British and half in Russian e harrumphed twice in an im- During the two world wars the
their character to Nazi ideals
territory, and has visited the pressive manner, and then launch- Dualup Company's progress was ideals and institutions which, in tatter only once in 12 knowledge thua enormous.
Today production turns, were shattered in the col- owing to the failure of the Rus-strained
sions is renew his entry permit relations... gained he experimented and in covers the entire field af rubber Inpse of Germany.
and ranges from
In a shattered, divided country The Churches
through the German Churches have re- ally fitted the two imck wheels of manufacture his son's tricycle with the new such vastly different products as
and rubber auita for hard times
the Nazis,ceived much assistance and un-ed Mrs.: "did you call in and buy wheels. In the summer of 1888 golf balls
Church buildings and property derstanding from occupation au baby's food?"
And thus ended another discus- Junlop patented his iden, and by frogmen.
were confiscated, mariy
thorities in the Western zones. a local firm the end of the year a
Recently the company passed clergy were persecuted or even The Allies have restored the slon on the nows of the day..
in history, put
concentration was muking and advertising a
camps. Churches to their proper status, were returned large amounts of Nazi- bicycle with the "New Pneumatic another
Group trading profits for 1948 Church youth movements
Overheard in a local store, an were announced an £10,708,370 forcibly incorporated in the Hit- confiscated property, helped Safety, Vibration Impossible."
congregations were
Church
and clerk looped to pick up the pan re-start a jump of more than £1,600,000 er Youth,
seduced by propaganda, fear or periodicals, re-open schools and he had dropped: "Oh, the nice thing about these ball point on 1947.
resume Church youth work.
With Millary
Government pens is that they don't write any drop thent than assistance there have been worse after numerous interchange Vislis be they did before."
en leuders of the Gennan bad foreign Churches.
But the invention did not meet with unanimous approval. There was much uppamition from existing
the
in
nilestone
of
Little Johnny's original tricycle
threats.
under
went
of
the
solid type manufacturers and wheels probably cost his father During the war, thousands of of the early comments celing journals of the day were only a few shillings. Sixty-one churches and large amounts of "eais later those shillings have
-in Berlin, only two out of 140 liecome far from complimentary.
a manufacturing group Protestant churches were still in
working full use by 1945. a with £60,000,000
capital.
-
The handling of the situa- tion has not been creditable, even admitting the difficul- ties, and the climax came with the conflict between the government and its own Na-i tional Dock Labour Board.
There is room for grave misgivings about the failure of the government, and of the unions whose members are concerned, to bring home to the Communist-misguided men facts which were even- ually set forth by the Prime
known, however, itx Minister. Timidity at the popularity mounted rapidly, then exptain of beginning of the dispute, William Hume,
Cycling Belfast Cruisera and failure
to counter the the
Club. had a bad accident after false loyalties that were in-
which he decided to give up eycle voked, led directly to a state | racing. of affairs requiring the ex- treme powers of the State to be exercised.
What is now abundantly plain, and should have been made clear to the London dockers by their own lead- ers, is that there was a mis taken choice of allegiance. In their support of a quar- rel between two Canadian
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which they knew nothing, the men in strike believed they were upholding world class solidarity. The real issue was never adequately explained to them, and the field was left open for Red gitators to exploit for their cardinal own purposes principle of trade unionism.
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As Mr. Attlee exolained too late, the strike of Cana- dían seamen was never re- cognised by the Trades and Labour Congress in Canada, and the unions there have not asked dockers anywhere to regard ships as "black." They were so called by the irresponsible forces that have for the time being cap- tured the imagination of the dock workers.
They called Dunlop's tyre sausage" and a "bolster.”
ol
of
Once the advantages the Modern Weather
tyre were
He was fascinated by the pos wibilities of the new pneumatic
however, and tyre,
pneumatic giving up, bought one of the new
Dunlop safety cycles filled by At the first meeting open to the "safetion" he won all four event against some of the crack Irish riders.
Noting Dunlop's success, a Mr. Harvey du Cros, well-known Irisla sportsman of the day, joined him and arranged finance for develop ment
Forecasting
No Exemption
Priests and pastors were allow ed no exemption from military service by the Nazis and, indeed, - the it forecasting
snici,
deliberately way-has come to strafted to dangerous areas, with modern
the result that hundreds were Town in America.
Weather
were
A slons installed are still believed to be war pri-
fle
papers
Overseas Help
་
to
and
}
Mrs. Stewart of the Braes, used
1 tell how her husband caught shing on the Det
Whe one
Mi. 5. came tad look at hi
y by a gamekeeper. The Irate keeper pointed to a nollee und Very generous help has been grid, "Can ye no read: No fish-
Churches, given by overseas
ing heret And back with a particularly those of Britain anti America, in the form of scholar-
ye're right." ships, invitations and hospitality emply basket, "Ah'm thinkin' designed to help renew German contact with Church life
A Hollywood producer received In Manhattan can be seen a killed, and, even today, about 108 thought abroad,
German Church revival has been said. "Gentlemen, Unis title must sign to the outside world of a story entitled "The Optimist." together and He called his staff group of radar
Slates Weather soners in Russlo, by the United
renewal of German mission-
changed to something simpler. Bureau on some of the highest
the ary work overseas. But, despite Nazism and buildings in the district.
war, the Churches--in Western Since 1943, overseas Churches Wo're intelligent and know what During the war it was found Germany-ore today in a flourish and Allled Control authorities an optimist, but how many of that radar
"spotting" by state.
have co-operated to
send
135 these morons who'll see the pictura There has been a return to the Catholle and 15 Evangelical Ger will know he's an eye-doctor?” aircraft picked up also the echoes
Africa, the of raindrops thus reproducing ap-church-going habit; attendances man misionaries in proaching storms on the radar show a great Improvement an Far East, South America and the that 200 Pro-
Myrtle thinks that high heels screens as if they were sold ob-pre-war figures; thousands have Pacific, More jects.
joined the Church youth orgaul testant missionaries abroad when were invented by a short girl Making use of the war-time sations; Church orphanages and the war began are now continuing who got tired of being kissed on
her forehead. discovery, the weather bureau hasi asylume have been re-opened.
selain a In many areas church building. As a symbol to stim up the now now installed radar dozen eitles in the so-called hur- or rebuilding is going ahead for significance of the Churches in
telt of the Southern At- more rapidly than the rebuilding antic States. With a range of of houses.
jeane
Scanners
of
their work.
ing.
•
:.
I wasn't look-
A pedestrian had fallen into a of Germany, one may per- The national and International manhole and called for help.
"Dear me," said a gentleman Dunlop's first specially made eyele was ridden more than more than 75 miles, it is hoped In post-war German Church upps take the recent meeting of who happened along, "Have you
new spirit
the World Council of Churches in fallen into that manhole?" 3,000 miles. When, in 1880, the the sets wil reveal the position, life there is a
this Church "Not at all," was the reply. "I Pneumatie Tyre Company was direction, and velocity of up- friendliness and co-operation be- ctumburg, for farmed the prospectus detailed the proaching storms at least three tween the Catholics (about 40 gathering,, was the first interna-just happened to be down here per cent of Western Germany's fional organisation since the war and they built the pavement tyre us ludispensable for ladies) nours in advance.
This additional storm infurma- 45,000,000 population) and the to choosa Germany as a meeting. round me when and persons with delicate nerves.
tion, writes Kay Murray, will not Evangelical Protestants (between place. -
in the Weather 50 per cent and 80 per cent of That year
Mr. be included and in 1890 Arthur du Cros scored some spec- Hureau's general forecasts, but the population). Before the war with the will instead be available to air- Catholics and Protestants who tacular race victorien
Jines and shipping companies as in Germany approximate! much new tyre, and the company's name
well as to any power stations more closely to the Presbyterian was made.
which may have generate) itan to the Anglican Church-
when the were often not on speaking terms. additional electricity
Catholics would skica darken and lights go up, in For example,
often walk to the next village to the cities.
buy bread rather thon patronize'
Protestant buker.
In May 1810, the year which saw the abolition of the 4 mp.h. peed limit and the man with the res fing walking in front,
Company Was floated Dunlop with a capital of £5,000,000.
the
Preunшlic tyres had already
ما
"Keep Death
#
Since the war this attitude han changed remarkably. Owing to Off The Roads destroyed churches, Catholic and
Evangelical services now
often
boon made by Dunlop for horse- "Keep Death off the Roads"
take place in the same church. drawn carriages, and at the turn-Britain's most widely distri
and, in discussions on the pro- of tho century tho company buted road safety slogan-is posed West German Constitution, receiving commendation in Evangelicals and Catholics have Ammon's Denmark
made common cause in such mat- If every. dispute abroad repudiated Lord
traile statistics Just ters World
13 Fecuring confessional were thus, to find its echo in statement ordering the men published in Copenhagen show schools.
or risk that while the roads of most the London waterfront, the to return to work
being killed in a rond accident
trade of the port would be smashing the scheme guaran countries are becrming rapidly Healthy Sign continually in chaos. It is teeing them a week's pay more dangeroux, the chance of impossible to concede the oven in idleness. This was
in Britain is still compuratively Another healthy sign has been
a grent post-war increase in cand claim that the men should a fair threat in the circum-mall.
One of the worst countries for didates for the ministry, including decide for themselves which stances, but Mr. Attlee was ships shall be worked and not going to antagonise trade road deaths in Australls. Figures many ex-Servicemen approaching
for Melbourne show that in an middle age. what left alone. That would union voters all over the average year. 37 people in every The average German parzon, make them the pliant tools country by permitting such 100,000 in the City are killed in, like his counterparts in most obvious move. There road accidents. These figures countries, is not, well pald, but in: of reckless; trouble-makers an in any part of the world. was a typically feeble state-ompare with 15 Glasgow, 12 in Germany he is paid by the State
Manchester and
in and is regarded to some extent only 8
as a senior civil servant. The employment of troops ment from Mr. Isaacs that he shelfield,
Even in Copenhagen, where the Financially, the German Chur-| in such a dispute is always "would rather see the men distasteful, but that this go back willingly than try afety statistics are compiled, the ches are fairly strong. They re- type of unofficial strike must to dragoon them back to ed accidents to the cro. In ceive the proceeds of a Church is on, Jacrosse, tax-collected compulsorily (by be beaten in beyond ques- work" ||
Explaining this, the Chief of the the State tax collector) from all flon. Nasution of the Very illuminating Even Danish trame pollen told corres who acknowledge being Church
While that many adherent and distributed ac pondant-James people can be permitted, if a man is completely in acidents were due to the number cordingly to the creed to which from the key position they the wrong and actively en intoxicated motorists on the the taxpayer belongin huld, to strangle the flow of gaged in harming his road and not to any general Additionally, Church collections trade, treo Buod nation's economy at a crlcarelessness.
The Socialist handling of tical time, he must not be the Chief of the Traffic the matter does not give too interfered, with, he holds Police hus no explanation for the fact that as many as 200 accidents much hope for the future, a union: parding:Times: have beikame proved to be the fault
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