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NTIL quite recently, blue jeans were

something French fishermen wore.

Out- fitters here carried a few pairs, usually for sale to motor mechanics in the summer.

Then a British business man noticed that photographs of American square dancers in- variably showed the men (and sometimes the girls) in jeans. So he advertised his stock as "Genuine American-type jeans."

Orders began to come in, first gen- tly, then the rush started. Jack Roth, a director of one of London's largest surplus kit dealers, tells the story :-. "The demand was fantastic espe cially from young girls. We ordered 1,000 pairs from one manufacturer. He was so snowed

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Alcoholism On The Increase In The Satellite States

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By DENNIS BARDENS

abolish' drunkenness, How- 27, 1051 published articles de- ever correct are the decisions nouncing drinking during work- of the local People's Councils ing hours

In the Pokoj Steel restricting the sale of alcohol Works. on Saturdays and

and pay-days, An even more curious item

It is wrong to extend prohibi- was revealed by Warsaw Radio

over other days..." tion over

on November 12, 1031, when it to complained that Works Counells The newspaper went on

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ECOMING a chronic drunkard is usually a sign that a man is oppressed by prob. lems he finds insoluble and has no other escape. There may, therefore, be some

say that the prohibitions had in Warsaw were not making significance in the enormous been carried too far, so far as sufficient use of the consulting increase in drunkenness in to provide an incentive that centres for alcoholles. The Try- the countries behind the would lead to the illicit distill- buna Robolnicza on December 13,

1031 and Warsaw Radio Iron Curtain - a fact being and illegal sale of alcohol."

November 10, 1051 both ro ferred

to outbreaks of hooli- This admission that the publie 18, 1052, Tadenaz Cwik, Vice- gonism. More recently, on May

yond dispute, since the Strong Craving

Communist authorities have

In some cases issued special would not

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Funny,

extends

The magnetism to many articles of clothing.

Shirts marked "U.S. offi- cers' type," for instance, sell better than the same khaki

the repetitive

ADT

tolerate prohibition legislation to arrest a pro- carried to extremes shows how Chairman of the Central Com

which, if unchecked, prevalent

for stated craving IT IS INCREDIBLE that will threaten their produc alcohol must be in present-day drunkenness as

It is true that most workers' hostels. an advertisement for car tion plans.

like their drink, the પોત

How widespread the problem seat covers that describes

In Czechoslovakia, Rumanda, Frenchman his glass of wing is can be seen in the fact that a them 45 "American-type Hungary and Poland there

beer, but Poland is a polico and come into general usage, to

drunken But Poland the problem pretty strong if the authorities The glasses for the U.S. Forces bel "U.S. truck driver type ter response than an adver-ing is worrying the Commun- State, and the craving must be dose come

are. culprits admit that workers will

ink "rylcks' after nation-wide im-

a young man is marketing his present-day cap" or "Baseball play-cap" tisement that does not so de- has assumed

portance,

since the Ever

war anything to gratify it. scribe them.

of that name tried wares as "U.S." pilot-type

Youths today clamour to

the consumption of alcohol hos

year's measures restricted 1951

Warsaw Regional glasses," which, indeed, they buy the overlong jackets IT IS STUPID that a card been on the increase, and many the sales of vodka by 25 percent Court for mortally wounding such A the on Saturdays and pay-days, another while under the in- with the too-wide shoulders; in a hairdresser's window organisations,

Communist controlled "trade Local councils were instructed fluence of drink. the too-short trousers; slop as I have seen in North Lon-unions" (really

State labour to wage a

a propaganda

The moral decline is not con- campaign

skle said on May 30, 1952 that A refugee recently escaped the militia are arresting many sive, continuous but apparently from Foland Yet the drape the Zing type", hair-waving machine League, have waged an inten

reports

"ryjajcs." that young an assistant in a Tottenham

In January should boost business.

useless campaign against it. drunkenness la

La Increasing all the there were no fewer than 3,000 Court Road store. "We have drape, the Whoosh drape,

No better wave is claimed article the Bebop drape is based than the sort he gives with Price Of Vodka time. The workers have "taken such cases. Some were sent to to the bottle" ever since the labour camps for causing a dis- not marked U.S. style, and on an English style,

the plain British machine.

Their efforts have been lately Communists seized control. The turbance, no one wants it.

Often Drunk There is an odder side to supplemented by articles in the unrelieved boredom of daily life. isn't it?"

The drape

this story. Americans I have press and exhortations by radio, the monotony

ef propaganda, the long working A troadcast from Radio met in London are my allies the latter reporting instances hours, the labour discipline and Prague, on May 5, 1962, revealed

hooligans committing hour gangs of

all scope excesses while "roaring drunk," feeling that

dup for that accidents

to driving JOHN TAYLOR, editor of in this view,

the Tailor and Cutter, ried and a recent authori- drunkenness campaign, and has finds expression in alcoholla words, they had almost doubled. They are seriously wor-Now the Polish Government it- Individual expresalon has gone, under the Influence of alcohol

has launched an "anti- have self

bred cynicism which had increased from 1,324 in 1959 *****to 3,303 in 1031. In other explains:

tative survey in America's sought to discourage the sales of Since the Polish Government is "The drape was the idea business magazine Fortune vodka by raising

sole manufacturer

As in Poland, where drink and extraordinarily distributor of vodka, it is torn

plentiful and issue not so marked. So do of an English tailor around confirms their fears that prohibitive level, the price to a the

On May 11, 1952, It issued an between the need for revenue may even be bought at a fruit- crer's spirits c be bought thin, khaki drill trousers. 1900. He copied the roll of the people of the West know

officers' great-coats

in the only the American in floral order raising the price of vodka' and the fact that the increased almost anywhere in Rumania in

by 40 percent, giving as its rea- drinking threatens production.

shops, grocers' kiosks, and even "Every mail order for Guards. It has taken more

at ironmongers desirable increase in consump-

and drapers such trousers specifles they. than 50 years for the style sers) and jeans,

tion. Now vodka which is 40 Facts revealed in a commen- made by the Slate from sugar- shops. The only spirit is that must be U.S. officer type, to become popular.....

percent-proof

costs 55,60 zlotys-tary-put-out-by-Radio Warsaw beet, from 32 to 34 percent said the head of a leading

per litre, the slightly stronger on May 16,

1952 included proof, and at 400 let per litre mail order firm. "People hold

45 percent proof in 02.50 zlotys the astounding admission that and the throat-burning, electri- 55 percent of accidents

compared with food prices, on very cheap. that if they are US. type

Consequently 98

per- building Bites were due

to workers, after getting their they must be good."

now costs 120.00 alcohol. cent proof,

Data supplied by the month's pay, were often drunk bigger and fuller and deeper THAT is a lop-sided view, tying "spiritus" vodka,

as anyone who has been

zlotys.

Institute of Forensic Medicine for days on end. and altogether more fan-

Now wages to America knows. You The newspaper, Kurier Cod- at Lodz showed that among 209 are paid on the nearest Friday tastic than anything our would have a job to find as zlenny, showed how serious the accidents reported there, the or Saturday to the end of the tailors 'make."

become in its direct or indirect cause of death month, so that a few days as many "American style" problem hod

Issue of July 12, 1951 when it in 122 cases was alcohol. Of 59 posable will be lost to produc- But this

as mentioned restrictions then en- victims of fatal road accidents, tion. sartorial exag- clothes in Washington

-- Refugees · from - Rumania-at-- ly with only a modest geration has an enormous you can see any day in Lon-forced in the Warsaw area. 19 were drunk. Of 34 accidents

Even these don.

measures, it said, at work, 25

due to tribute excessive driniding to sale in some arty-crafty vogue.

drunkenness, Drunkenness was boredom and frustration. nol

#uccessful: proving succe Perhaps, if the trend is

drunkenness. im- losing one Silesian colliery 6,000 In lungry, quarters - now

too, there are What is absurd about all inevitable, we could save

tes the work of the six- tons of cdal pedes the by the dozen in most men's this is the continuing bellef face by inducing the Ameri

month. And

aigns that the dry-rot has start- year plan. Unfortunately, in among building-workers exces ed

The Communist youth wear shops. The reason, say

of among certain

Szabad the cans to popularise Pall Mall some localities in the Warsaw sive vodka drinking was for too

Paper

Injusag the salesmen, is that the

| ́ Province, the People's Councils provalent.

January 10, 1952 generation who type bowlers and Brighton

reported an shirts are

called younger

The accident rate in Industrial inquiry into the demoralisation now

are approaching this problem "Genuine lumber-jack type that anything called Arperi- of course,

have grown up since the war blazers. Made in the States,

unimaginatively. Some forget concerns must be a serious wor- of the youth organisation

They administrative Instruc- ry to the authorities, for drink- (DISZ) at Corna, shirt" or, more bizarrely,

in themselves do not ing at work has become general. lazy and fond of drinking, piny "U.S. styled, made in Bri- can must be the best.

The Tribuna Robotnicza stated cards and burn up table drawers in October 1951 that workers at when they feel

cold." tain."

the "Florion" Metallurgical All these evils have appeared Works were observed to arrive and increased since these coun- at work sober and leave trunk. tries came under totalkartan They were having vodka parties rule. They show that men inay during

working hours. And lose their self-respect when they Glos Pracy on July 16 and lose their freedorn,

Fad-waves

TARTAN shirts

former-

sell daily

Manufacturers, conscious

of the cash value of the trend, watch American films for the next fad-wave.

"Now the American drape has come to mean something that is more exaggerated

shirt (worn outside trou-son the "considerable and un- Astounding

Saving face

-London Express Service)

were

that tions

PICTURESQUE BALINESE CHARM ALL LONDON

London, Aug. 29.

London

By RONALD ROPER

stylised arm Enovements re- in New York. Ira's father, minissent of the art of Gopal- descended from a West African

Samples of this are: (1) Sports shirts in floral de- Bign called by auch sell- 'ing names as Miami, Flori- da; (2) Long peaked caps (which had hardly any sale greatly

uneasy at his salcally ski capa) are now 1850's with

a remarkable gerture language is evidently son's pretensions to the stage

less elaborate than the Indian. sales-booming under the la- Negro actor, Ira Aldridge, Mercover Ball, as one would ex- and still more perturbed by his so it has fallen for Balinese pect, takes life less seriously willingness to be influenced by

POCKET CARTOON By OSBERT LANCASTER

PRAVDA

*Ercuse me. Comrade, but

the leader-writers say, can they please stop thinking usi new things to say about the "Americans, and TANZ

quote'r

taken in the another Eastern favourite on chief, was a dou

on chief, was a down-town mission

performers in the early than its sub-continental neigh- autumn of 1952.

And who wouldn't?

bour.

a travelling foreign, actor.

But Ira came to Britain The English like to poke fun Kean's protege, studied at Glas- All the at the institutions; the Balinese gow University

and was soon farzimating rhythm of an take liberties with their mytho- showing great promise on the Indonesian orchestra and much logy. Barong, the Balinese lion, stage, His fame in the roles of of the traditional happy, care-

Othallo, Lear and Shylock tree atmosphere of Hall's ple. appears on the stage more like and to the Continent, where |

pantomime herse, at which spread turesque isle have been brought masked dancers tilt Quixote-like he eventually received decora to London's Winter Garden with staffs and defend them- tions at the hands of more than Theatre by a company of gifted elves with shields. The lion's one reigning monarch, being young dancers and musicians, fight with Rongda, Queen of the particularly welcomed in Russia. Witches, becomes sheer alap- A sophisticated Westem audience may find some of the dixit, farce and horseplay, en-

too long and ap audience allice:

Joyed by dancing acts parently repetitive; none but a . stone-deaf inoron, could be im- muno to the appeal of that seductive instrument, the Gamelan (a form of xylophone),

performers

and

This adulation, though to his credit it did not go unduly to his hend, inclined him to plan an American tour, but his come- back fell fat in the land of his adoption, not least because of Stratford-on-Avon has its fair colour prejudice still dying hard heard in an orchestra of cymbals, share of Negro visitors, for the there.

drums and flutes, gongs,

appeal of

Shakespeare An

universal, but not many of the Londoners wero 1099 dis- The muzle of coloured people pilgrims know the colourful criminating, and Aldridge is often brutally Insistent by stery behind #N inscription married an Englishwoman who,

mero force of rhythm. The carved on the memorial to the however, did not live long. Indonesians, however, have cap. · fame of a black. Shakespearean Later he became the husband of tured something of India's, actor and paid for by a fund a Swedish baroness, and their mistent anesse with which to raised among American Negroes, two daughters were accomplish- lighten their orchestrations, oro-

ed musicians.

ducing delicate cadences which. Acclaimed in his day, over 100- come a near to reducing the years ago—perhaps with more After the Civil War, Ira ngala susceptible to rhythmical hypno- enthusiasti than accuracy--as hankered for his "homeland." tiem, even without the attendant "the only actor of colour over This time his intention to return spice-laden atmosphere under, a known," Ira Frederick Aldridge was suddenly cut short · by his tropic moon...

was "discovered" as a lad by death in 1867. while appearing in Although the Ballnose giris, in the 18th century British actor, Poland, where he was accorded shimmering, cloth of gold, adopt Edmund Kean, while appearing a civic funeral.

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