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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25,

Keep Your

Hair

Ou

With A Smile

By Chapman Pinchor

DEST way to prevent bald- E ness is to keep smiling. ray come U.S. doctors. So many. bald men have tense faces through taking life too seriously that the doctors belleve rigid face muscles may loso a man hin hair.

Tight muscles contract the scalp causing a kinking of the blood vessels and so starving the hair of food and oxygen.

Ingenious but I do not believe it. I know too many bald-headed men who never seem to stop smiling.

Try your weight ★AN AUTOMATIC MACHINE for weighing tom- tita has been built by bird- watcher Norman C. Moore,

fat

An inviting lump of dangles from precisely pivoted ben. When an unsuspecting tom-tit lights on

Uus "bail"

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its weight is registered on scafe which Moore can read Through his sitting-room win- dowy.

Moore's purpose is to find out how much a lom-tit's weight varies through the year. Ile has trapped tom-tils in his garden, fitted them with easily recognis-

able

Icg-rings, and released

Each Ume they olnigingly hanx from 118 weighing- machine ha records whether they are slimming or putting on

Sat,

Average weight of a tom-til- alightly lets than halt an ounce. No naps

★A HEALTHY COW

never

ceps by day or night, cattle export Alexander Brownlee, of the Agricultural Research Council, otains.

It may partly close its eyes

and rest is head on its fanks for i

few

minutes but it never

nads off. A

Calves sometimes go into a torpor during the first few days fter birth but there is no evidence that healthy cattle ever 1ate.

consciousness again before

they die. "Awa

Other scientists who have kept

cattle ni-hour watches on

10

ind out how long they feed agree

with Brownlee,

Have you ever seen a cow

sleeping?

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Man wanted

CLUE to how close the

Forces are to getting guided

missiles in given by a Govern- ment advertisement.

for

A scientist is wanted writing the instructional book- lets which will tell troops how

lo Fervics the

weapons

and set

different ranges.

complien led

them for

As so much secret Information will be funnelled to him, ex-

ceptional security precautions

to keep

are

being taken Communists,

out

Salary offered for the job: no nore than £18 per week,

The eyes have it

THE belief that shifty cyo is a sure sign of decelt

is no old wives' tale to Professor

F.K. Berriman who has tested Ecéres of students.

"Vicar! On behalf of the Cornflower Water Colour Group I protest that allowing the Friends of Asia Painting Society to use the villago hall the same day as us is carrying poace too far."

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On the great debate that excites the world...a personal analysis by Stalin's most eminent

shudder biographer...

in the dark

places

by

ISAAC DEUTSCHER

author of "Stalin: A Political Biography," described by the critics as "the first full-sized work worthy of subject." Mr Deutscher is widely regarded - as loading scholar in Britain' on Soviet political affairs.

W

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Mausoleum, the strange landmark of Stalin's Moscow, the shrine of the Stalin era, be closed.

Now, Malenkov and his frients

This may, at n stroke, throw give Russia bread as well as

out of gear the whole machinery freedom. of terror.

He bus alco decreed a great

“Even if Malenkov were to have cut in the prices of consumer second thoughts and were to try goods, one of many cuts in re- are, fn effect, saying to the to put once again into motion the cent years, convicti coming out of the old machinery he may find that And Russia's 'new rulera'. may, prisons and concentration its wheels will refuse to turn perhaps, find themselves in

camps:

"You have suffered Innocently, you pregnant women, you mothers with children, you boysa and girls under 10. you the old. and the sick, and all the reat of you!

ngain.

A. THEORY

greater harmony with their people than were any of their predecessors,

A Soviel Government trusting 113' people and trusted by them would deserve a greater.com- idence from the outside world

WHO was it, then, it may be

asked, that had staged the as well. "It was Stalin who needlessly doctors' plot? I would hazard krpt you behind the bars and the guess that the story about the barbed wire. We have no the doctors' plot had been put need for such barbarity. We nut by some of the Soviet Army. are releasing you. Remember to leaders through their friends in whom you owe your freedoml"

the M.V.D.

PURGE TRIALS

What struck me when the story first appeared was that it altributed to the doctors the Intention to assassinate Marshals Vassilevsky, Konies, and other

PERHAPS Malenkov does not military leaders.

even want to ruggest as much us that: But this is how Russia bound to understand his message, No more telling blow could be dealt to the Stalla cult under which Russia lived.

to

It was surprising to see that neither Malenkov nor Molotov nor any other ef. the living civilian party leaders were men

the ameng tioned

prospective victims of the plot.

This looked like an The release of the Kremlia

attempt doctors seems foreshadow

"build to

up" the military stupendous upheaval in the leaders against the civilian ones. Sovict State. It promises to It was as if the authors of the

"plot" bring to an

an end a protracted and story were saying: "The

hit sombre Witches' Stobath, that enemy wants to

us. by our military long series of

trials.

assassinating.. of purge trial The Witches' Sabbath opened leaders. They our marshals In 1030 will the trial of and generals, not the civilian Zinoviev, Kamerev, and others. party leaders-are life important It has gone on since then, with men.'

been

being

with

And in a break during the war. recent years-it spread to Czecho- slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and other countries,

The doctors' plot was an at-

only HAT do the Soviet had

recently people feel two charged with months aftar American spies and Stalin's death? plotting to assassinate some The nows from Moscow of the leading man of the tors when questioned about their tellà it clearly enough. They Kremlin.":

Half the students were told to scat some money from a labora~

tory and then lie to investiga-

the truth.

if

A SIGN

tempt to restart it in Moscow. THE first symptoms of In all those trials the defendants, political spring in Russia are charged with crimes beyond real enough, but spring weather

crime. The others were told to feel that a long, severe, These two events mark the human reason, always confessed can be deceptive. May not a sit in a waiting-room--and tell | cruel political winter is beginning of a new epoch in their gulit, and their confessions gust of a now Siberian wind nip A Siberian winter Russia.. The gates of prisons were the only "evidence" the first shoots of freedom?nd The "qulity" students were over.

are against them. The political It is always dimult told they

keep the money which lasted more than two and concentration campa

police extracted the "evidence" dangerous for a dictatorial

re- they succeeded in fooling the decades. They feel spring in thrust open.

Massas of convicts are on their by torture, threats, and black gime to try to liberalise itself, interrogators who did not know the air.

their first

The people way home, having

may want to get which were the "criminals"!

taste of freedom-a treedom is for the extraction of such much more freedom than the Politically Russia acoma which many of them had not confessions that Malenkov has rulers are prepared to give them.

Malenkov is trying now placed under lock and key to be clearing the snow even hoped to live to see.

the officers of the political police off. worst of Stalinism, but from her doorsteps and to be starting n thorough spring cleaning.

While each student was grill- frim recorded his eye move- ments unknown to him,

ed:

eyes

The innocent student were steady; but 75 percent of those who lied revealed gullt by uncontrollable shifuness.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

Say what you like about

Mr. fluttere uncle-but at.

to admit, thai, cricket's niet

«Entertainment.*\\

wrecks.

SO SWIFT

to shake

who were in charge of the hot is its product. ·

How doctors' plot. This is the first far is his government prepared official and categorical statement to go on the road of reform? to come from Moscow about the Malenkov has given a sign to the Russian people that they nature of such confessions.

mouths may open their

and start talking But if the Russian people begin to talk and air all their many and bitter grievances, Malenkov's government may well catch fright and try to shut the people's mouths again.

HIGH AND LOW

In the West, people have

MONG those released are watched with surprise and A mothers of children, pregnant incredulity the rapid suc women, Invalids, under-18's, and cession of concillatory moves old people, some of them humon which Moscow has just

The gates have not been thrust made in Germany, Korea, open to all. The "dangerous

NEVITABLY, the Soviet pec- and at the United Nations. counter-revolutionaries" are still ples will now ask questions

The present situation reminds behind bars. But

even their about the value of all the con-

In all the previous me of what happened in Russia These tokens of good will terms have been reduced by half. fessions

more than 100 years ago, when may or may not foreshadow And this may not yet be the end trials,

Were the men executed under Czar Nicholas I-the Iron. Czar Kremlin Stalin ду a radical turn in Soviet of the story.

spics, traitors, a ho was called-was succeeded Releasing of tho they doctors is foreign policy, but

terrorists really by Alexander II. still more start wreckers, and have already Introduced a ling. Soviet Government guilty of such crimes? it looks more civilised tone into the has now categorically dismissed as if history were about to their plot as initiate the great revision of ail debate between Russia and the story about

those trials. criminal nonsense.

Officers of Berla's M.V.D. the West.

These guilty of concocting it have been arrested because-and (Ministry of

.The

.tho

hove

.

7.

TO CREDIT

Russia's foreign policy but were Inadmissible and mode of the Kremlin doctors on the credit

strlotiy

forbidden by Savini

Internal Affairs) AFTER a phase of liberalism, The Important, the truly this has been officially stated-who have the extraction of such A Alexander tried to reimpose breath-taking, changes have they obtained the "evidence" for confessions on their conselences the old despotism. In the end, in read with a shudder 1881, he was assassinated by 15 Marique ROQUE MIC 80 far occurred.not in the charges "by methods which mus

the revolutionaries: talde of the in her domestic affairs. Do you realise what is

shudder must have been Stalin era is the tremendous pening in Russia? Seven weeks felt in every dark M.V.D. economic and social progres Take the two main re

and his friends, ofiles throughout Russia. Every which Russia has achieved in the ago, Malenkoy

with much man, high and low, in the Soviet last quarter of a century,

Alexander". 11-25 enlild::, offer announced by the Su-pomp and ceremony. preme Soviet, and the they have bean burying Stalinism, that he ever tries again to Russia a Uthe Dretdogs, but no quietly and discreetly torture prisoner into making.bread; and freedom; without release and rehabilitation of a day after Stain's death, confessions he may pay for it bread is always a threat to any. All ruler,;; Mühenkuv., can îsford -to the Kremlin doctors who galenkov decreed that the Lenin with his head, th

cant events: The amnesty were burying' Stallsince then polical police must now wonder..

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