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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1960,
SUBSTITUTE WANTED FOR
THE
GOLDEN FLEECE
Maybe before artincial
ng we'll be making wool,
It is difficult
The wool sales have start-, make synthetic fibres in Britain what is makes. ed in Australia... Buyers from Some day, probably not far dis
tant, we shall be making (bres all over the world are scrom-
that can do the jobs that wool bling for a share of the enor-does-and making them cheaply mous crop-a quarter of the and efficiently in our factories.
Turubig grass into wool by world's wool.
putting it through the sheep's
With supplies nowhere near enough to meet demand, prices Are soaring, and the Wool growers are making money fast.
But there's a cloud appear-
ing on the horizon "down un-
a cloud that has drifted in? donn partly from Britain, and it has Australian leaders worried. This cloud is articlal wool: and It
casting quite a shadow.
btcome
the
In the past few years wool has Golden Fleece. Where it sold for £15 a bale be- cre the war it is now fetching And, with rearma- over £100. metit drives in the offing, the position is getting worse.
Dr. J. GORDON COOK tells of plans to beat the soaring price of wool
digestive system is a tedious and
We are find-¡ Expensive process. log easier ways of making wool- he fibres la aur laboratories.
To the textile scientist, wool It is a a difedit problem.
the Trotein fibre, made fom
Land of the midnight sun
same sort of stuff as skin, or To the West stretches the #esh, or muscle. Proteltis arc
Good M
"Eden wants more, troops.". But not, it should be noted, Just for the guarding of Eden.
No, Myrtle, Mr. Truman isn't' Isn't pronounced like that.
the most complex of all chemi- expanse of the North Atlan-going to a wake. Anyway, corpa eels, and the most difficult to deal tic with the jagged peaks of with. There is not much chance the Lofoten Islands poised
of being able to make them from
suels simple things as coal. set.
Not
search for wool-like fibres. They have spun fibres from other types
The caption of a photograph like crazy battlements: To the East are the pearly grey head-printet yesterday ran: "nery, in But our chemists have started waters of the Gulf of Bothnia. Penang. Net an institution of a from a different angle in their Come on now, be grateful!
public character,'"
Two thousand feet below I spot of natural protein which are an are of white teeth stretching thore readily available than wool. along either side of the Swedish For example, the proteins in milk. or chleken rkimined fenthers, soya beans or yes,
local
Oh, I don't know. This sort of Thing is becoining quite a institution.
.
WOE
Egyptian gül says she visited by Gabriel and will in a virgin mother.
Since 1930, when nylon came here they come again-ground- By Ralph Hewins enanths become a
Not identical largel has been By using a bit of modern
on the market, textile selentists ruts..
over pitch have been working at fever to find new synthetic fibres. The To Britons wool is the basis of most attractive old challenge chemical magie they have turned iron ore
something that wool.
FIVE IN ONE Honest and efficient Gov-
a great industry. Their woollen ernments do not have to or
goods are paying for many things ganise an economic revolution they buy from the rest of the They need A steady in order to stabilise currency world,
supply of raw material for the and prices. Controls within Yorkshire mills, and, with wool the framework of the system fabulously expensive and in
things are he- accomplish this with a mini-short supply, mum of disturbance. It is in- coming difficult. teresting to note that the Pe-1
A challenge king Government attributes its revolutionary economic
This situation is a stimulus changes not to Marxism but to
and a challenge to our scientists sheer necessity. No dramatic We have had shortages and roc And, keting prices inferences on the score of de-stways, people turn to the inen viationism or potential apos- of science and say: "Is there tasy need be taken from this. nothing you can do to help?"
The answer is very definitely There is merely a certain
"Yes." During the past 10 years shyness in regard to any de-
science has parture from the line laid down in the Common Pro- gramme, the agreed basis of the People's Government's policy.
before.
us how to shown
Other maidens, however, should be warned that they can't" "all] pull the same story and get away with it.
Furniture from beer barrels. Bitter suite?
Soviet scientists are quoted as saying, "The fight against the warmongers must be stepped up in betion und in effectives,"
What's this--a now Beere
railway which is the these things into fibres. And most Northerly electrifed me in
ve the world, outside Russia. Nylon does not. It is a smooth, being protein fibres they sleek fibre competing with silk, similar in many respects to wool.
I am told that the native and its discovery dealt an ala ost As yet we are very far from morial blow at the silk-producing making an artificial fibre identi- nomad Lapps are busy giving the industry.
cal with wool. Nearest approach surumer coat of white paint to This dogtooth demarcation line, Announcing that British and is probably the Abre made from American research chemlats
Nobody ins which is said to mark the Arctic groundnut proicin.
yel, Circle right round the globe. I are "perilously close" to pericen told very much about fecting an artificial wool. Pro- but it is definitely beyond then, in fact, two thirds of the way "Ardit, a from the Equator to the North fessor T.
G. Hunter, of. Sydney experimental stage.
te callel.
is Pole. warned this groundnut fibre is recently University,
a British discovery. A £2,000,-
Through the port-hole in my weapon? Australian growers that it would a
Bond 118 the D00 plant is being built in Dam- be "every bit as
the fries to manufacture 10,000 tons Scandinavian DCB aberaft
sun is dazzling. I have to shield natural thing."
To
with an economy a year. Australla,
Not much against the 2,000,000 my eyes to read the inap. Tet "1,000 rebels attempt to seize bullt largely on wool, there were
Taungdwingyi,” aminous words indeed. They are tens or so of Wool that we use it is midnight,
But a straw In the
This is known as a Toung I am on the first commercial twister. as important to us in Britain, but every year.
This is an wind to anyone whose job is in'
flight to the land of the Midnight) in a different way. industrial country that lives byl textiles,
Sun, where brown bear, elk, lynx, wolverine, ptarmigan zand gölden, eagle live undisturbed by medérn man or civilisation.
FAR-FETCHED
However long the
FABLES
3
d
of
course,
star will be "The glamorous seen in sex films in the course of the next year," For those Ignorunt er [Scand~| They have, inavian geography 1 should men-1 perennial popularity. tin that, we have flown over a brund waterway--Lake Torne which forms the border between
the free Western world and the
*
"Francois de
#
19
Rouchefoucauld
pan-self, Skáney Webb and their fel-up to date has been produced in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's lectures
tow Fabians. Russian Commun- Dritain. As Mr. Shaw suggests, on the Three Frinciples passed tomime, it should always be sm, as portrayed in their glossy there is an advertisement in this into the realm of mumbo-jum- followed by an harlequinade, magazines with "pictures in co- for somebody.
I have the impression that un- semi-Russe-dominated outpost of Duke of Lioncourt and Scion, of onc of France's oldest bo when they dealt with and that grand old trouper, lour, in follo size, on sumptuous
and private enter-Finland at its nether extremities.
families...." economics, which he didn't George Bernard Shaw, can paper: veritable editions de luxe, der freedom
expense prise this country bullt up
Laite Torne also forms one of Just another scion of what
readers have to and dirt cheap," is merely powerful economy which today. even pretend to understand. still make great play with a produced regardless of
put up with Much of this confusion charac- | string of sawdust sausages. offshoot of
this Fablan Com- in spite of two shattering wars, the
provides benefits, some of them almost due South in Sweden and round these parts. terised the opening article of Mr. Shaw-Joey to very in-
administered collectively, cutting thus enable the Swedes (unlike the chapter Economic timate friends-has just writ-
the Russians, whose great rivers much tribute extending
"Hent fat in saucepan and toss Policy in the Common Pro- ten a letter to "The Times"
the impact of Mr. Shaw on the other countries with vast quan- httle unions in until pale golder
tities of wood pulp, sawn timber brown."
on
-By-
д
amme. This stipulated that claiming that the advances in George Schwartz
he
for n
turther back than the 1890%, and
St. Pancras Borough Council.
The admirable Bashvilles
was fired
Mr.
bezen
watercourses which
rur.
low North) to supply Britain and
•
•
for bulding, pli props for mining, And then they're surprised wallboard for interior decoration when workers of the world unitu and inntanerable by-products.
Fascinating sight
the
*
"Audiences everywhere hav bata - shrieking, shivering and squealing, You will too."
Sounds a wall of a picture.
The American Alm star WE applying for a passport.
""Unmarried?" she was asked, "Occasionally," she answered,
the State "shall co-ordinate national welfare which he and regulate a State-owned has observed over his lifetime) economy, co-operative econo- are all the work of Commun- munism, the copy-right of which my, Individual economy of ism.
has been thrown into the public
Not only a sense of history peasants and handicraftsmen, And when he says Communism domain by its generous devisers. private capitalist economy, means British Communism, All that Mr. Shaw asks is that but a sense of proportion, to say! should advertise the facts nothing of decency, is required] and State Capitalist economy maniam he
and when he says British Com- we
means the doctrine with due acknowledgment to the on these issues. For there is a
From the air it is fascinating to ..so that all components and precepts as set forth by him- authors and to the discomiiture sombre side to this nailer.
describes how watch masses of logs being guided of bogus claimants labelling Shaw blithely of the social economy can
barriers Cut themselves freedom and private, Lenin, after a preliminary disdain, downstream by
of Fabianism, had been brought bends) 'and rapids towards the play their part and effect a
enterprise. division of work and co-methods of raising revenue Now this trick of cashing in to his senses and the New Eco-sawmills and papermills on the
sub-coast. operate under the leadership by printing endless notes had on carlier labours and achieve-nomic Policy, and how
The flight Introduced me and of the State-owned economy created chaos. The wretched ments is one of the videst in the sequently Stalin had implement- It goes back to ed the Fabian Essays. "Trotsky, to promote the development of clerk often lost out
even world.
Methuselah. The night before the anti-rabian hero of the civil my fellow passengers to many
though into political interesting places: the entire social economy," within the hour it took Mr. Shaw's letter appeared I war,
introductions were modë et a Obviously in the heated pre-him to collect his wages and came across a 2,000-year-old re-space, where he perished."
He perished! His head was distance, of course, paratory meetings of the Com-tush to buy his necessities. ference to it, and I must be for-
given
We for giving a display of stayed in with an lee-pick, and
-even-in-the-Seven Dials of the fameus-Swedish-Lapland tourist saw below Abisko, the munists and the splinter They produced n-madhouse.
chance erudition. groups before the first con- economy which caused mer- Semper enim quod postremum 1890s that would have
station, where the great hotel will; Today Con. murder. est, id remu totam bloody
be rebuilt next year on ty ference of the People's Con- chants and speculators franti- adjectum
old
burned-out foundations. sultative Council, each group cally to turn all funds into videtur traxisse (Livy rull, 45). timental Socialists of the
get the
Like the Laplandia, at Riks-|||| always seems to
mate constitutional and prac- contributed its own quota to goods as fast as they could "For the last stroke to a business school, apostles of gradualism as
ticable by Shaw, Webb, and the gransen, on the Swedish-Norwe- this remarkable medley make the conversion.
tor the whole performance."
You know the fellow who fellow Fabians, are being sent in gian border, Abisko is one of the Economic policy was to be a Peking says the most im-
along atter you have succession to the execution cham- few places in Europe where one bit of everything-a mixed portant single factor in the comes.
of The weekly an hou loosening ber. sweated for
can ski in a bathing costume in! economy in every sense of the success of its policy was the the nuts of a wheel with a pune Fabian Socialism regularly sheds May and June. term rather than an ironbound unifying of tax collection. And tured tyre, "Here, let me have an embarrassed tear over them.
Pajala recalls the Boden de- poor Kalandra, Kethly, system. What happened after-of that expedient the most a go at it," and he gives the Bnal "Alas,
Best-known and most fence line stretching from, Fin- ward is interpreted not in successful factor in turn was turns. "It's a knack." he says, etc. etc.
wea beloved of European Socialists. land to Norway in camoudaged: "no need to make heavy terms of a strong-arm coup by the banker. Now bankers, ther of these jobs." You look We knew them well." Grim depth, where the Swedes would make their last stand against a the red-hot Communists, but a like the Scots, delight in tell-longingly at the spanner,
and stuff to keep in standing type. justi Somehow the system of free- Russian land invasion arid which simple exercise in plain and ing tales against themselves. weigh the
dom and
air-passengers are forbidden to privato enterprise unvarnished necessity. Four But dishonesty is never one fable homicide' verdict..
managed to
function without photograph separate and alarming Jumps of the themes. By forcing a
these purges de luxe, produced
Most fascinating of all Inhabited dirt in prices and slumps in cur- much wider use of cheques in
regardless of expense and
places in Lapland is Kiruna where rency occurred soon after the place of cash, and ordering So the clearing up of the Seven cheap. It provided a rapidly more than 10,000,000 tons of 10 new regime began to furiction. payment of taxes into the plaisas all the work of British growing population with a ris- world's highest grade iron ore
standard of Ilving, while For all we have ing These were due, so the Peking banks instead of to the tax Communism?
great rents in twin mountains, the ripe nge of 94. Advertise, statement a few days ago said, officials, corruption was by- and are, we owe to the original allowing its open critics to reach are quarried annually, from two Adverlise, Advertise, counsels Mr. The ore is sent by rail straight to a Budgetary deficit of two- passed and the honesty of the founders who wrote the Constitu
In- down to Narvik Flord for thirds. It was decided to re- bänker ensured success. Much tion in 1889. We shall have to Shaw. Herewith a prompt
sertion.
crushing and shipment to Britain, Europe and the U.S.A.
chances of n
Revolutionist's handout
credit
festivals and com- revise our duce this to 18.7 per cent, but of that same virtue un momoration days. }
At the British Association it was discovered that this doubtedly animated the could not be done without higher officials themselves in meeting which opened last week the president of the engineering centralising the control of the many other measures section took as the main theme finance and economy? a including the decision to stop of his presidential address the
The National Conference in issuing more
banknotes opening 100 years ago of the Bri
tannia Tubular Bridge across the February last accordingly de- which finally won the battle
Menal
professor Straits. The elded on these measures, for stablisation of currency seems to have laid the
wrong which was "a turning-point-in and prices.
emphasis on the matter, for he China's economic histoty."But the economy remained spent some time in paying a to What was described as maghincent ·cónt
organ
Coal miners to get wage boost
!
Changing cli
climate
MODERN HOMES. EXHIBIT
THE HE SUPER
MADYING PLACKME
"I suggest Madatho might study our Bustrated brochura
to find out how it works?"
Condition of Red boss
is serious
Centralisation bogan in March, perilously strained; and, fatephenson's wevement The earned that they are to gel indeed, its changing throughout published in the
were ex-
*
closed.
doctors, anid:
One competitor in grandeur is the twih-penk 6,905-Cot summi:
Paris, October 11 of Sweden, Mount Kebnekálse,
The condition of the Frenc over which we fly. There we see Communist leader, M. Mauric how the North European climate Thorez, la more serious that has London, October 12.
Is changing with sorlous effect British coal miners day on forestry and water power-as, been expected, a medical ballett Communia evening newspaper "Ce Soir" "with startling effects. They stable, still stable at a very structional
another £3,500,000 a year in the Northern Hemisphere.
M.... toany. certainly were. Economic ac- low level indeed. The Bud important point is not the
Thorez suffering tivity was brought to an get, it is claimed, is being struction of the primitive affair wages.
This One Deak is now bare. The ominous for but the is the harsh, exactions from the balanced at long-last-an al position today underpinned by welen after the grant to siftente glacier, des shrunk, Lebs than 10 blood bonaires, fes in from hig The bulletin, signed by thre British Communism. It was
capped. and industry alike, and theta balanced on the basis still sumably this wrong fe tural workers of a £5 weekly years ago both peaks were' snow-
minimum pt an estimated annual
Andther compellor is the result of the physical and intel This condition, which fasth The leaders of engineering and Hare's Leap Waterfall at Porjus menacing inroads of the hew of excessive taxation. Ah which led the professor lo suy cost of £11 million
building workers who are where the world's most powerful omrade has so long been subjeg colunt overwork to which ou bureaucracy almost as far immense army of several mil- that the courage, stelll and au
required toting docity
another 20 shillings hydro-eldikle plant will start com down the line as the petty re-llons in uniform, and a scarce actly the same as were display wokly, today. Selected an phi operation in March, 1952. The will make it necessary for hin taller. The crisis, and the ly smaller army butt of uni- ed in that fury, created by this sudden formn in the now bureaucracy, ago: Deviationise 100-years ployers' offer of 11 billings for falls 120 yards lang and drops to take a complete
`and heresy! - skilled men and eight chillings 120 feet,
will probably list sevðtal Wreaks..
M. Thorez was resting today i There was another centenary for unskilled labour, emergence of the State as a has to be maintained. They celebration last work. An ex
MMA Hundred fol teachers, the most mil
The plant will gonerato 0,000,- his pleasant villa at Choisy L veritable monster of rapacity, must needs be drastically re-
Matramine Telegraph
niho and a half milòs up'í hibition
of the "black coated work- | 900 kilowatts annually that is a Ho
from who hard lodged twage twolfthor", "Sweden' aleetrid and led to a swift modification of ducea if China is to cross the years of policy a few months later, bare poverty line. But above Cables was opened In Both claims, believe that
kilowatts hourly over a distance
and a Wall Is distin But in between an achieve all, foreign policy ought to Kensington by Boetakit Minis given tises within ind host few will bend 100,000
for, and Tam
weeks.
from its neighbours by of 600 elles. This is a world that the garden gates are flutes sent" à The period
of netcro ment was effected which is follow economic polley. What that Britik 10 sport!
on applications for white fieretted
with certainly the most remarkable would happen to the stabilisa-message right round the
newite i dovered peephole! In all, the trip to the land of Reuter's correspondent who in the annals of the Republiction Won with great an ant got it Buck in 08.9.Nocona with fidcit. by duelstons by the Inflation was conquered. It effort if Peking lowed itself With the exception of a small erant rallion, strofe Trade Union the Midnight Sun took six hours asked for a story slit low wi had attained hideous propors to be dragoofed filto: war on dibunt haud is abritanyia and Congetreide month and the from Goor to door. Despite the Mi Thoroz Was told by the Gene Japan; Who' Whole of Auhe Haus Labour Party sille month thos excitement, dinffer, and lack of munlat lender's Begrotary hat Ma Hons under the former regime, the side of international malon miles of rubridrihe rable was may be allowed to rise, sleep, few df any of the 10 pas Thoror was very red and could sengers felt tired next day Inot see anyone, Hauter.G HORE 3 that have been trains the World Ruang Ta whom unconscionable Communism?.
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