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Thur Excellencies The Prime Ministers of Antain France and

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1954.

* 1 SEE AMERICA.BRITAIN AND FRANCE BOGGED UP TO THEIR NECKS IN CHINA WITH ALL THEIR RESOURCES COMMITTED. SOMEBODY HAS BEEN AFRAID TO ARM THE GERMANS AND FORGOTTEN TO CREATE A EUROPEAN ARMY, SO THE RUSSIANS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FINE WEATHER TO STROLL ACROSS EUROPE. PEACE IS DECLARED AND EVERYBODY J5 PUT TO WORK PREPARING TO FIGHT AMERICA."-

VOICE OF THE ORACLE

THINGS TO COME

World Cupyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

INDUSTRY

LEBENSRAUM

By Frederick Ellis

But he works

overtime With VRS

Is German vice to work hard." the boss. of englicering plant suid to me.

the extra pay or

the thusband usually reserved Britain for thing 111 pwols.

Eu walk round the shipyard here of the Huwuliswerke Bru on an island in Hamban's Elver

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Je in not be so song. He ted on a thing or two from Be Given bouges,

Shiphalder Schecker and his fellow-tectors are in the yard every das. That 1s rule ferr mitet German bees Some of thems ret in

before Works

dicht No near- mid-morning trallis for them

an

12

football

1

As you walk around the yard Iit Ly a thousand bombs.

you cannot fail to be

by tip pank

German

impresstil onthustra the worker.

The bar Schocker, points proud- ay to a mighty tanker on slocke It is the world's largest - - 13 48 900-10IBOF vel Le bar

of the

Tina

f

Never once did 1 re

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named. It is for export, a alster loading. Nor have I #1 other tons, owned by Greek million-

Onassis (45,000 plants. alre Aristotle Onassis, the crowned artice of Monte Carlo.

Three Shifts

And Britain again is the major target. For it is from

No wonder the German ship- Britain's share of the export

KEY- yards bout the daylights out of market that the big or

us in winning new ship miders, man victories can be gained.

They are won on delivery dates that cannot be matched on the Already Western Ger

Clyde, the Meracy, the Tyne. many's share of the workľu

where super-futted order books Tull the workers into beleving heavy engineering exports

that booms gu un for ever ol is back to prewar at Bri. H Schocker says: "It will

higher and higher prices. De labnehet in a fortnight – tain's expense.

For

our just a year since the men starte postwar guin han been to work on it." retaken by the

eager heavering Germans.

He quickly gives the explana- Ting "We work round the clock In this yard " Everywhere you travel For the German worker ir through this emerald-green only too happy to work three country you see signs of shut and equally important. the super-effort being male the trades unions are only too

happy to let him. --by mea and master.

Schecker's men work a nine- hour

shift the first starts

£8

Full Pressure

THERE

Heir

Setworker's

Imala for keeping his men

working full pressure:

(1) Tell the workers truth- fully all the facts. (2) Treat them as human beings and pay Item as much as you can. (3) Keep them feeling sure of their Jobs.

Thut polley, almost universal in German Industry, pays off in good Jabour relations, And There have been remarkable In postwar Germany, where strikes

5 are almost

shop stewards.

rare

These German yards have nothing else to offer, for their prices are the same, if not more, than in Britain. Lower German

wages are offset by denrer steet. In this

Germany post war But how laughed when Herr there has been one big Incen- Schecker accused

the State the locking in Britain. wned British coul

mines ot Germany was licked in letting the steel industry have war, Factories, homes, jobs... coat cheaply in order to krep the lot were lost For five years British sicel prices down!

they have been getting them

the

I told him we would let him back, often helped in homes by have all the coal he liked at the the Arns they work for-and

same price as British steel works thus they will work hard to

If he was mad enough to buy keep and improve them,

1.

*

On the Rheingold 1 rode 7:30 am-with only 45 minutes to Cologne. There were two off for meal breaks Lunchtime stenographers' fingers poised is only half an hour. For that. to pound the typewriter for the skilled worker gets travelling business men. And the service is available an Sundays. For time must not be wasted-time

is but to work in.

A quick look at the Ger- man export figures will show little time is being lost in his latest blitzkrieg. Up

up

up they

go.

Bombed Out

YET this is a nation whose

industry at the end of

like a dead whale, with acres

week without overtime,

25

HIT

In case the British loss cinas is feeling good about all this,

SONGS

IN FIVE YEARS

By Robert Harris

London. material. & floppy-collared and moccasin "loater" with tasselled leather

HE man who gave the shirt,

world the song hit s

Jaces, which. it seems, are all

anyone

in the

knew

flnunciul

written

A

Goldfish

Bowl

"Work or want" used to be

the cry in Britain. In Germany they work mightily to end want,

ROBERT MERRILL Twenty-five hits in five year.

Shyly. Mr Mervili admits to having possessed a 35ft. motor yeeht until recently.

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Mr Merril's simple lite, he talks, begins to look pID: greasively more complicated. He confesses to being something of a man-about-town.

'It

THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN

WHAT KEEPS

A BEE BUSY?

BELIEVE IT OR NOT ---

DOPE FROM THE QUEEN

TVE secret of how the queen her keeps her subjects so fanatically loval to her has been in covered by a British scien- tist.

the inte

Mahatma

This drug enlled reserpine. was regularly used in a crude form by

and, and is believed to have een orgely responsible for the metan tender's astonishing

shows the

A in deal She supplies them with a turfee -- after rifects of mysterious substance which giving the deug to a group of

murikeys. Aler they crave like dope. Dr Poctus Colin Buller, chief bee science of reserpine the monkeys:

flemily and could be tist at the famed research feit by hand. station ui Rothamstol, Herts, announces.

The drug is being used in the

Treatment of high blood pressure and the rellet of anxiety

This "queen subestange" keeps violence in mental disorders.

from

the workers content while they Herpine is extracted toll for the communhy Without the root of on todian plant 根 regulor supply of it the entled ranwolftu, Indians have worker bees become Fecitable, used a crude extract of the root shiftirss,

and disloyal to thele as a pleasunt serlative for more than 1,000 years, but the pure drug was isolated only recently by Professor Emil Schiller, Swiss research chemist.

quen

Dr Builer believes that is the inability of an aging queen bee to supply the workers with enough "queen substano" which makes them swarm.

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They rear 1 new Queen supply the "dope" Bad then thousands of disloyal worker quit the hive with her,

ON THE BLACK

✦ A MACHINE to help family dingnase their

doctors to Patients' allments has bee Invented by Mr Firmin A. Nash. n London surgeon. It consis of a fee to one side of which

fxmi a hat of 300 ranged fix alphabetical order.

Caeten

exames

The "queen substance" is h The special wax which covera the queen ber's body workers get their supplies hv constantly Reling her or other workers who have done patient. Then be taken from a

So.

Th

Cate

Thuit is why they always bes a strop

Barke of word seem to be No attentive.

with the

of The first mymptom AC has discovered. First sure siga that the

When the strip *lippert of "dope" into workers are starved

the from black Dnes marked on It automatically fall chai-

hive

is a roaring sound in the

made by hundreds of bees fun- ning with their wings.

0 ite

Lith

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by that syreplona. The doctor puts in a separate strip of which has

of wood for each of the patient's symptoms in turn. The place where most black lines | are mazeed together marks the disease most responsible.

Dr Butler has found that the "queen substance, not yet been isolated, can be rubbed off with a piece of cat- ton wool which then becomes as attractive to worker bees us the queen bee herself.

The bees must

the touch queen lu get the dope. Ir queen bee is placed an □ wire- workers mosh cage so that the

can

see her but cannot touch her they soon become dissalls- filed and stort lo rear

new queens.

kely to be

TROUBLE SPOT

*ource of

THE PRECISE painful throb in a spliting beadache has been tracked down by US. doctors, it is not in the nervous tissues of Ute Any egg-laying queen can brain, but in the walls of the Bupply the "dope." which blood vessels which nourish it. explains

why workers will accept a queen from another colóny.

Using a sensitive electronic Instrument, Professor Harold Woll found that when the puls Dr Butler believes that the in the carotid artery increases food which worker bees pass to the headache gets worse. one another in the hive contains This type of headache is often "queen substance" and Is

caused by worry and overwork. ench other that all is well with the queen.

means of telling

"Of all factors which help to keep the members of a colony of bees together, the strong desire for 'queen substance li probably the most important," Dr Butler writes in his magni- Scently illustrated book, "Ric World of the Honeybee" (Collins, 218.)

There is 110 evidence that worker wasps or bumble-bers get "dope" from their queens, but anta and termites do.

NEW

TALL OR SHORT

EW light on why the world's must forceful men are usuaily of short or medium stature comes trom Oxford University doctors. Careful study growth has show

who

of human shown that men aro below average in height reach physical maturity earlier than taller men

and

Early physical maturity is often accompanied by a more mature mental outlook and extra drive. So the boy who stops growing early may be quicker si getung ambition into perspective is better endowed to pursue it

th vigour. Examples of shortish men of tota outstanding drive and acconi- plishment? Julius Cir, Well- Nelson, Napoleon, Lloyd Illtier

with

Large, Mussolini,

were all of moderate height.

Bo often, in business and

"How Much is Tha! the rage among smart American the war was flat on its back Doggie In The Window" nales just now.

"I don't own a tuxedo," says ระ

to London to Come

withou! shame, of plants and factories spend some of the million Mr Merrill

best of all, I like to loat the world

"and, bombed to rubble and dollars which

around little island retreat off (rather extravagantly) hus New Yoric much of what

In a cotton shirt, left wan

given him.

white duck pants, and bare carted away by the allies.

His name is Robert Merrill. feet. Don't think I'm 4 ro- A country in which post-Hardly anyone noticed his ar- cluse, though."

I hadn't. I asked Mr Merrill rival. Hardly war inflation, until currency his name.

Who exactly is Mr to tell me more about the reform in 1948, paralysed Merrill? He might be described simple life as led by successful even the task of getting as a song tycoon. Writer scems American song-writers, going again. So what has an inadequate term to describe happened has taken place his activities in five years. From the stratosphere of Tin Pan In five years he has

"Well, you know," he said, “I ruins Western Germany 18 25 hit

songs, some ot them on was a hobo for a couple of rising again to menace the mininture xylophone which years, though my father was trade of Britain and Empire, he carries around with him, wealthy — a candy manufac

In turer. I've lived on four dollars The Doggle rong, wellten There have been no 20 minutes flat, earned $0,000,- week." miracles, No magic wands, 000 allogether.

Now that he paras 4,000 dollars A couple of days in Western

inilo ke Germany gives you the

living in a goldfish bowl. In answer pat-HARD WORK.

New York I don't live so sim-

Lot not the British worker scowl at that — let

"I like to live pretty simple." him read of the facts, un-ho said to me. A lavender palatable though some may colour star ruby, the size of And them.

Brazli nut, managed to look inconspicuous on his left hand. For the resurrection of GerA pearl no bigger than mony belongs to the worker baked bean was pinned din and his boss. They work with creatly nepr the bot DIT of almost religious fervour in the his black sports tie.

works, Sartorially, Mr Martiil la less

INDIAN drug which and on the buildings that sermi opulent. To work, wifit, per second that sort of of the limelight at Away Wald to banish rear, rosters, almost to rise in front of your manent cyniaines, α inglo- Ho bas Aye other, Booma In from that fore of thing,” he | and bad lemper la nów, belgi startled "øyen.

breasted blue suit of some lig115 nehlition: "And i min terrace,

viven to British" páilents,

I found this one-man industry a weak what is He like? to be a soft-spoken, courteous American bachelor of 32.

Simple Living

Medestly he tells you ured to go around with one of the Gabor sisters, Ava, but sho | CHAPEAU

of those with Was only one whom my name was linked."

I asked him what has hap- penod to his romance with Mi Gabor,

the usual thing. 011,

She want to Hollywood to

make pictures. It happens so often to with careers. But she's people

vory sweet, intelligent girl."'- A Problem The bobby-soxers are a prob he

"I'm pretty well known peyes have got a penthouse in Americh. In one of the It used to betens to a million pawnurent members of one of aire hotel owner. I have a rather the top panel shows, Songs for fabulous bathroom- probably Bale. So I don't have much the largest in the world mado privacy in my Lic."

Spanish brick. It looks lik Mr Merrill did not sound oft. the inside of a castle, And the particularly worried bath, which is big enough for lack of privacy in his life, three, is eneses

In New Tes London Hilmi privacy will. Orleans glass. I have a little not be unduly disturbed... lounge in a corner and gym.. How, donthe Uke bring out

by.

the

It the professions, the men at the top are not much more than shoulder-high to a

a six-footer, Until now the dominance of short men has been explained

tho mainly on

psychological that principia

Ulicy unduly assert themselves to compensate for their luck of stature. This theory would only to thous who are no

to apply below average height that they consciously scl interior.

My own hoight? A regrettable

1lins,

-BANISHING: FEAR

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