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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY,

JANUARY 29, 1952.

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In the background the whirl- cancers and frantic musi- foreground no cians. In the stronger stimulant, apparently, than cup of tea and miseral display-the in- waters. On evatable record-collection of jizz

draws the kind of Robb

where reeter-smukina flourishes, It is not, however, in the dance room itself where the "junkies" go to "be on the kick," but in the corridors and stairways and the cloakroom up- Blairs.

day out months. His first friend gave him a reefer. smoked it.

He

"I'm a musician" he said. Between the wars the East "In my world we need a lift. So people use the stuff. End was the centre of London's many

traffic. But Drug

today the You've got to be hep- else." Lionel Crane 11me Office reports show that oplum smoking, once a problem

in deekend

is row

almost

dead.

The new land

of mists and

is

Italy

up

ΕΤΑΙ

angrily Is mitted by

ad- Signor Giovan

clouded make-believe

West, where the neon signs flash TTALY it

and the juke boxes blare.

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In one of the clubs I watched Battista Migliori, Government more than 100 High Commissioner for Health crowd of

heat was

I me

It is,

enter Europe here and are then "processed' in this country by people who can afford to live in unbelievable luxury in Milan palaces.

The drugs then continue their secret journey to French ports Liverpool and Plymouth, And to America, where they earn the most money.

OF

vast funnelling area through which drugs are being snuggled out of the Soviet Zone and the satellites into other Russian the Western' world.

Hugo Kuranda Holland and

Germany

of

Mothers Have No Time, Eh?

THE

From R. M. MacCALL

WASHINGTON.

HE glitteringly successful career- woman is a typical part of the American scene.

Pretty, vital, 38-year-old Dr Vivienne Koch lives in Wachington with her husband, Law- rence Kegan, high Governinent official,

She has young twins, Every Wednesday up she goes to New York, where she is a professur of philosophy at the New York University, tenching there until the Friday evening return

her Washington home.

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In 1950 she had a non-fiction best-seller published. She is working on another back,

"American Thinkers."

She has just been appointed "Co-ordinator of the Programme of Humanities" at the un- versity's adult education centre.

And she says firmly: "Mothers shouldn't wrap themselves up in their children to the point where they cuffocate the youngsters and stultify themselves. Mothers have no time for outside interests"? Pooh!”

POLICEMAN Archie Dition, of Adel, Iowa, is a crack shot. But nobody expected the bullet which suddenly exploded out of the bowl of the pipe he was quietly smoking, and tore through the ceiling. Explana- tion: " must have mixed up the bullet with my tobacco when I was hunting."

RUL

France the drug habet is

On the decline, and the number of known addicts has fallen by one-third.

IN WHEELING, West Vir ginia, police hastily seized 50 "subversive"

automatie machines.

For, along with chocolate they were delivering tiny hammer - and sickle emblems and cards about Idyllic life in Russia.

NEW ANGLE on all those income tax stories. The Internal Revenue Bureau is trying to trace a million and hald elusive taxpayers. It wants to pay them £15,000,000 in re- funds.

COLLEAGUE Henry Lowrie, settling into a newly bullit Washington flat, was intrigued to find in the living-room a switch marked "Personal com- fort." It turns out to be the temperature regulator.

IN

PHENEX, Arizona, George Ridgeway, super- intendent of the State indus- trial school for boys, says: "I take all the blame," following allegations of cruel treatment. Among the charges: That delin- quent boys were made to march barefoot for 30 miles across the cactus-sprouting desert.

IN a British Embassy corri- dor one morning Mr Churchill encountered Mr Eden's private secretary, his arms full of offl- cial papers. "Anything in those I ought to see?" asked the Prime Minister.

"No, sir, I don't think so.” "Well, then," pursyed M- Churchilt, "is there anything in those I ought not to see?"

THERE IS an uproar in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. Church- man are protesting against film entitled: "Are You Ready

For Service?"

A

The enormous proceeds

It is to be shown in schools Western this trade-in hard

and is supposed to help young- currencies--are being used to

sters "orientate" themselves for finance the work of Communist

Before the war France was call-up. "Just like Red" pros agents in Europe and America.

one of the main distribution paganda say the 'ministers. Belgium are the

centres for illicit drugs. To- two countries from which most

day a steady war of attrition THE New York Dally News of the drugs are then passed on

is being waged against the in-publishes an exclusive story sold locally. Some even

ternational drug ring operating quoting a close personal friend come into Western Europe from

on French soll

of Eisenhower. He says that if Turkey via the Soviet Zone of

the general is elected President (Germany,

he will keep taxes at their. There fre relatively few

present rates, but will slash Gov- teenage

in Ger- drug-takers

ernment spending by anything are older

from 4,000 million to 8,000 mil many. Most addicts

lion dollars a year.

It is therefore still possible for addicts in Paris to obtain TOUR thousand cases of drug

heroin or cocaine from waiters dancing in a cellar which would not merely a country ia taking were investigated by

or other employees in smali Lave been a close At for 20. The which dope is traded.

police ira Germany's three

cafes or hotels in the Mont- fact, European tropical. Proportion in

"general of Western Zones during the past people who use drugs to escape marre or Montparnasse dis- of while to coloured; 60-40. staff headquarters"

risc is year, and the rapid

Or from a dreary everyday world tricts," even drag gangs.

the Champs At another jazz club near by ali international

alarming both the German and only 25, but It is no mere chance that two Allied authorities.

or from the effects of illness.

Elysees. Johnny

There are, Wehrmacht doctors and Furthermore 疝 certain already with one sentence be of America's biggest dope rac in fact, ten times as many drug former medical orderlies who amount of hashish and oplum hind him for reefer smoking, keteers, “Lucky” Luciano and addicts now as during and after

to take drugs during is consumed respectively by the He said he was a drummer and "Black Tony"

(alias Antonto the war.

the war are some of the worst Arab and Chinese communities started using reefers because all Parmigin) are Italians.

What is really worrying the addicts.

in Paris, who have. been ac- the other fellows in the band

The three great Italian ports, authorities, however, is that

customed to it all their lives. diid

Naples, Genoa, and Trieste are West Germany

Antony Terry At first he smoked twice a key points in the world-wide month. It slid into oned a illegal drug business. week, then every day. In prison From the East heroin, did without it for ten morphia, opium, and cocaine

he

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Replied the Premier "The task of the Chancellor is to stay at home and collect all the John Reed I taxes.".

In The Steps Of Truman's Grandmother

NEW YORK.

RESIDENT TRUMAN

By KAY MURRAY

realise that the Army isn't en÷ tirely sold on the idea of women soldiers though the present

Precently electrified the calling upon their members battery of loudspeakers and asked. pace of defence organisation is 48 members of the Defence to do anything as spectacu- her about the 600 WAC's who, it likely to alter that Advisory Committee on Women in the Armed Ser-

For that reason the raw recruit lar as holding Indians at has been announced, are to be

despatched to Korea the first doesn't baulk at such trials as them a detachment to be assigned to that basic training which, though not vices with a little family bay, still offer

chance of doing a big job theatre Ridgway himself asked that meted out to the men, history.

so long, is much the same as for their country.

*In the late 1840s and early 1850s," said the If Mr Truman's redhaired mild, bespectacled ex grandmother had visited haberdasher, my grand Times Square the other day mothers were first settlers when Assistant Secretary do

Defence in western Missouri, and for

"Gen

for them," said Mrs Rosenberg, who was living up to her reputa- tion as the Government's best- dressed woman.

The women have snappy new "What kind of jobs will they uniforms, ranging from "Walking there?" asked. "Every out" to exercise dress," dreamed Anna M. kind," said Madame Secretary, up by top-fight fashion designer waving her hands energetically. Hattie Carnegie, and three pairs new "Every kind of job that will re- of nylons and a smart shoulder.

tease a man."

te bog of polished calf are stand- At the lost count there were ard equipment. High heeled 20,554 enlisted women and 2488 pumps, while not general fasuo officers in the nine women's are regarded leniently – for off- services.

duty periods,

they had trouble with Rosenberg opened a Indians at that time....My women's recruiting centre redhaired grandmother, on there, she might have been one occasion, routed a whole a little at sea in the garish bund of Indians by herself environment. and two great big shepherd dogs, and they didn't come

more."

The current recruiting drive ims at getting 12,000 more in the women's services by next July

To the girl who signe up with Uncle Sam there are about 500 Jobs open, varying from using an adding inchirie to high level

most training camps and on army posts the girl eat in the same mess as the men, and the are no irksome restrictions abort for mento£25 a month, dates. Basic pay the same as

s

back and bother, her any But she could not have failed to recognise a kindred The President proffered fighting spirit in Mr Tru this bit of homespun his man's elegant, energetic start with, slectronica, o In spite of the inducemente (fat tory In aid of the big new Astant Secretary, red- The Woman Army Corps is of is by no means sure that the recruiting driver for the ad If not redhaired, coures, the largest service armed services will sin Women's armed services in yield Madame Segretary. Thate Fire Like, Shemalvas 7000 rezult betoan

the US, which while not before he went berof the auriculty they have to, for they July.