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"Gad, sir, we can't have fellers like that Saving us from Communism! They

have no dinner jackets — ·

BRITISH TRADITION IN OUR FAR-FLUNG

World Copyright, Ny arrangement with Dally Herald,

Concluding "A Housewife In

Moscow"

THE CAPITAL IS A TWO-FACED CITY

M imposing facade to By WINIFRED DRAYSON *llowed.

the newcomer. The main thoroughfares are im- pressively wide and very clean.

the

wife of Mr G. B. Drayson, Conservative MP for

She recently attended Skipton, Yorks. International Economic Conference in Russia-

women.

we

had

ference and the bait being The outright lie is used less

half-truth than the

the and subtle distortion in the Alice- through-the-looking-glass world in which the average Ruselan 1lves.

I must say

COLUMN

Lin

A chimp tries cold-killer in

a 'saucepan

DUBLIN.

OBY, the six-year-old chimpanzee I interviewed in Dublin Zoo, muy go down in medical history as a

catching colds.

Zoo chimps are extremely susceptible to the germs of coughs and colds carried by visitors who watch them at close range.

:

..

In the last two years Joey, who has only 'wire-netting between him and his admirers, has never had more than a minor snuffle. Nor have any of his monkey-house mates. Eminent Irish doctors believe the secret of Joey's freedom from colds is

an electric "saucepan" fixed to the wall out side his cage.

The **saucepan" Alled with a pinkish

powder which slowly

bolla away

IA

odouricas, germ-king vapour to keep the air con-

SU

nuously disinfected.

The doctors, have been

device

impressed with the that extensive have been largo

humani

triala

carried

in out

Dublin offices.

"It definitely seems ta cut down cold's and bronchini troubles," industrial medical officer told me, "We cannot slop employees picking up germs outside the office, but we can now control the spread of infection at work."

Pincher, friend, and saucepan

(arrowed)

studying how weather affects the Other tests of the device as fugti, of leeust warms.

a defence against germ attack They discovered that a locust British automatically beats its wings ave been made by Government scientists at the when a jet of air is blown ever germ warfare station on Salis- its head. So they bullt a light- bury Plain.

weight roundabout, from which Remulls there have been so 32 locusts wore suspended like

"auce hobby-horata,

that 00

encouraging pans" have been installed to protect the men in a ship taking part in Navy germ warfare tests in the Hebrides.

When air was blown over the insects they began to fly, and drove the roundabout,

Tests under different conditions The "saucepan" is also being of warmth, light, and humidity tried out for disinfecting air showed that most locusts will fly liners, to prevent the introdue continuously for up to nine hours tion

of dircase from abroad, in warm weather. The pinkish powder, called H.R. (hexyl-resorcinol), Is used as a germicide in sore throat pastilles and tooth-pastes.

Its vapour produces no harm- ful effects on monkeys or men, BAN BOXING?

Boxera who

have been

But there were always some spies and they quickly learnet to rest their weary legs on thel:-- folded wings, and "free-wheel." GAMMA SMITH

MY Prize for 0 announcement of the birth of

"gag"

"D. and Mrs Smith announce

was "home" for five ing is based on this need." It But leave your sleek black that this

that after seeing

a son to a doctor, deep-sea diver, and three seemed to me the perfect analogy the Russians at home Com-A, BOXING should be pro- or: atomip seleztist goes to L. B. Zis car, step just off Gorky grown-ups: two men

for Communist Russia.

munism as I see it constitutes a hibited because of the dan McGrath, of Plikington Street, for tho Street Moscow's Champs-

Lancs, of cauliflower eyes, a leading Rainford, Elysees and at once you The woman told

following: us that the I visited a school for boys aged challenge to the Western world. are picking your way across "head" of the family was earning seven to 17 and asked to see the In two respects we must keep up London eye surgeen warns,

our present stan- broken cobbles and gazing the average Russian wage 800 textboxks for the junior school, and improve

education. Only repeatedly punched in the eyes the successful synthesis of a new roubles month (about £20). I From the many photographs of dords. First, into dingy courts where the could not see any clothes space Stalin and Lenin in the books it fully developed minds can "see develop cauliflower-shaped body, Gamma Smith, weighing in as it is patches inside the eyeball, caused

7,0251b, Though Simila winter's cinder refuse lies and was assured that the woman was patent that Communist in through" Communism

appearance and properties to piled high, Can this peeling did her cooking in the communal struction begins at an early age, preached to us and as it is in by numerous small hemorrhage that of analogous species..

the Dr James Hamilton Doggari "kitchen"

I pointed to one paragraph in a actual practice. stucco be the back of the

Is, in the opinion passed

reports, Secondly, whatever the effort

He believes that the boxer who of Dr

unique, being fine-fronted store I have through. In the whole building, textbook and asked the Russion just been visiting? Un- we were told that 36 people were

required, we must achieve the the size of a two-storied profab, interpreter to translate.

Ho read:

is "punch-drunk" is suffering radiant only in his presence. The continent of scemingly impossible, maintain

from the cumulative effect of

"Other .obierve:s have noted believably it is.

living with one bathroom to America was, not discovered by and improve on the living stall many minor hemorrhages in the only the emission of sound waver

Christopher Columbus as the dards of our people, and at the

brain.

of variable frequency. D. Smith nad

his collaborator with to capitalist countries claim but by same time remain strong.

The standard of living in The

thank Dr Brown and his staff for the Russian explorer"

thei: technical assistance, and to name he said meant nothing to Russia has not yet renched our

accord thanks to the Government Die. The British party stared in own level, but in 50 years' time, We must never for-

of the experiment," surpass is. get that possibility.

serve them all.

No home life

SPIV LOCUSTS

newsmith,

ET me say that these condi. amazement, but before we could the Russians claim, they "might | ◄ SCIENTISTS who are trying for a grail; to defray the "coS19” L

pursue this point a school bell broke up our visit.

Turn sharp right when leaving your newly built de luxe hotel and in less than a hundred yards you and yourself in Shantytown." Moscow is indeed a city of con- tragts. A dozen skyscrapers tions must be the worst, but climb upwards, a splendid new from the questions I asked university is nearing completion, during my stay it was obvious Government office buildings are that hundreds of thousands of under construction, but still the Muscovites are living In these books were supposed to people of Moscow wait for incredibly overcrowded con- describe conditions in Britain homes.

One Interpreter said ditions. I hope I have made it today. clear that this little sortle was frankly: "No, we know that he wrote of conditions 100 years completely unofficial.

ago."

Housing

famine

has

Family life as we know it can-

cities at

been the

Bolshoi

-

The most popular British books in Russia today are translations Charles Dickens. I asked if

Gigantic deception

to defeat the gluttonous locust have hit on an ingenious way of

-(London 'Express Service)

American Column by. R. M. MacColl

"

SO-BRIGHT YOUNG MEN

·

ARE THE FORTIES

jam

SOME large blocks of flats are not exist in these conditions and being built, and I visited one young spend their leisure outside

Washington. best are pulling in around 200,- which was transporting her and building alte. But ав yet the home. The greatest attrac- scarcely the surface of Moscow's tion in Moscow is the ballet at

questioned a professor and he

MERICAN industry, 000 dollars £71,420) a year caused a 20-minute traffic getid understand A

ench,

while she lay down in the housing problem

Theatre, This that things in Britain are greatly restless, watchful, "trig-

middle of the main street and I know too well that theatre and the ballet produced changed from Diekens's time, but ger happy" when it comes * Prediais one of Detroit's went to sleep. scratched. a great many people in Britain would be a sensation in. any, the simple people here do believe to new ideas, keeps plenty

need of country. I have never seen such that the conditions he described are desperately in

wonderful performances or such still exist in Britain." During our of room at the top. homes, but compared with the

enthusiastic audiences, people of Moscow they are well off.

Leisure activities

One morning I set off with a Rysslan-speaking member of our party for a stroll down Gorky THEN there are the Palaces of Rest and Culture, where all Street. Turning down a muddy

of leisure activities are track we stopped in front of a kinds small log cabin. A man emerged carefully organised.

we got into conversation with him. To our great surprise he invited us into his home.

and

lost election the Russlar news- papers told their readers that, of course, our election was fought on Eatonswill lines.

mort famous spokesmen: "There

has been 'an unusually high A kindly: drugstore owner turnover among the industry's refreshed her with large sup- executives in the past year plies of iced soft drinks, but watch out for many moro in the next five,"

papers

run

Just now there is a revolu- tion America's motor-car capital

going од in Detroit, o rovolution bringing in now My overriding impression of methods, new aggressiveness,

and the Russian For the car companies have Russia people was how earnestly the hit the biggest sales resistance" ordinary people desire peace; so and competition since the war's many of them have seen war es end, woven long years age, They we have not seen it, even in our are doing something about it,

But the most too. bombed cities.

Typical of the

trend is the terrifying thing to me was the gigantic deception that is being fact that one firm, which sella any other in practised on them by the Russian more cars than

the United States, has booster into its vital chief engineer's post a man just 42 years old

His name is E. W. Cole, and he is an outstanding expert on automatic transmission.

Out go the men in their mid- optimism alxtles honourably

Christmas retired the

Moscow has Pioneer Clubs for children which are the counter part of our Boy Scout-Girl Guide Immediately We passed movement, plus a high educa- through the door we found our- tional contentCommunist leaders. selves in a thy room with no education, outside window. The room was

wore

These leaders' deeds make their talk of their wish for peace entirely "hypocritical,

Let me stress that there are no thick outward signs of tension in Mos-

SAID Mr Han man to Mr

daughters leave our shores in But lator the union rather, elegans which

Boozer: “I'm very sorry.” HE Scripps Howard news- James BoozET was picketing A bantering the New York studios of a big editorlat about the SB. United broadcasting company, against States recapturing the Atlantic which a radio, script writers' Blue Riband from us,

union is on strike. It says: "We offer succour to Averell Harriman, a Democr our British cousins in their hour le candidate for you-know- of trial. We have created a what, had to cross the picket Frankenstein monster and the line to take part in a programme SS. United States may possibly called "Hats In the Ring,” Ho the Inquiring Mr loso us the dowager trade. Dow Informed agers still come equipped with Boozer that he had received elgible aging daughters,

special permission, and could do "Each summer dowagers plus so with a good conscience. lit by a dim bulb. A woman I went to one of these clubs. was cooking at a small gas stove; The little girls I saw were about

with that we could see no other furniture, 11 years old and looked quaintly

same spoiled the harmony by a characterisca This we found was a communal Victorian. They

ncuncing that Mr Harriman "had: shopper, But

10.

famliles. or this

white collars, strictly regulated, it is otherwise They were the "bright young at today's breakneck pace,, few

cross the line, "kitchen" blue, little high were three small rooms, and in and plafted fiolr. Around the norimat. With

"undesirable" then" of the early twenties, aging eligible daughters' can T 25 Joseph Bent, from Clay each of theso rooms we were walls were large. portraits of

elements eliminated or in forced and the early twenties suddenly make much headway in that A County, Missouri, in a husky told lived a separate family, Stalin, smiling paternally, sur labour camps had a first-hand seem an awful long time ago.

time.

chap, 6 m, tall, with wavy, rounded by groups of happy, account of these the remaining

You need a lower ship for brown hair and a ruddy; smiling A volce called "Come in here," laughing children.

people are solidly behind the N another famous company that kind of thing. So our guess faco-the type who would bo and a little diffidently we stepped

Government.

hard-driving L. L Colbert, is that the dowagers and their very popular, you might think.. through into one of the rooms. Another day I visited a zoo

born in Texas and with a law daughters will take the good old But ho has just been listed Squeezing part d narrow bed in which has a "school" for per-

degree from Harvard Univer Queen Mary as usual”

No, i on the lut of the 10 most a curtained alcove we saw that forming animals, and its own

sity, is appointed top boss. Ho

wanted

men. three other beds were' standing theatro, mainly for children. · I ·

F43%

QAYS the powerful Wall Street Bent has not attained thas against the walls, all but taking saw 4 fox, a'mongoose, and a

His predecessor, who will be Journal; "Watch for a further nation-wide publicity

which up "the whole avaliable floor raven perform and while the TEY firmly believe all they are 67 this nutumn, started hi slowdown in Britain's rearma- made the Dillingers the Baby врасе.

show was going on an instructoid, and that the West is career as a mechanic back in ment programme. And new. Faço Neizons, and Pretty Buy trees explained the system of preparing for an aggressive war. 1800. But his ripe judgment pressure on the USA, to take Floyds household Words in The woman who had called us training.

While I was there I felt the full will not be lost to the 'Or, over part of John Bull's burden America a decade or so back. in pointed to a small sideboard

force of all their propaganda, I for he staye on as chairmen of defending the Middle East. But the O-mon describe him and explained that at night this She said: "Wo got the animals saw the ¦ traps laid for the † of the bonid, :1.

Se as "extremely dúngerous,"" was pushed into the centre of on the day they are born and unsuspecting and I am re- The rowords - for

thos

TN Lewiston, Maine, a 10-year- speciality: armod: hold-ups of the room to make a place for a mould them to obey our wlihes. ferring, 'here to some, of" the vigorous, brilliant 40-year-old female elephant named, post offices with, rutaways at fifth bed. Tho room

was. We will understand the animals' people who were members of the oldu? Huge, of course Men Phobe, apparently feeling the breakneck spood in holed up": spotlessly clean. We were told desire for food, and all our train- Western delegations to the con- so the Mower," "Cole and Col- heat, backed out of the lorry, cars.

"kitchen" serving a number of serge flounced tunics in dark COW. Though le to us seems and with excellent pensions. three days and ten hours? Even given himself permission

The traps

His