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TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1938.

Colony Tenants'

Petition

no

21

Empire Day Message

from

The Viscount Bledisloe,

P.C., G.C.M.G., K.B.E.,

President of the Empire Day Movement.

were all acclaiming with "A year ago on Empire Day wo

affectionate fervour our newly-crowned King and wish- ing him and his charming consort a long, happy and prosper- ous reign over a vast Empire scattered over every quarter of the globe, but inseparably united by ties of loyalty to the throne, traditions of freedom and justice and noble ideals of service and of righteousness. To-day King George the Sixth is firmly established not merely on the throne of his ancestors, but in the hearts of his people, faithful to the pledge which he gave at his Coronation that the welfare of his subjects would be the paramount aim of his life.

"AS S President of the Empire Day Movement I send you all Empire is hearty greetings. I feel confident that our the chief bulwark of peace, freedom and good government in the world and earnestly hope that whatever be our station in life our race or our occupation, we may, by God's help, fallow- ing the example of our King and Queen, make the service of God and of our fellowmen the ideal of our lives. Also that by mutual helpfulness, industry, integrity and the conscious- ness that we all belong to the same great human family of the British Commonwealth, we may maintain unabated its powerful influence in promoting the happiness, the peace and the progress of mankind."

London, 24th May, 1938.

BLEDISLOE.

THESE MEN ARE CREATING

IN

LIFE WITH A CLASS HEART

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Cope, 19th by Dužtek Parkurs Kyučenia, Ina

"All right, we won't argue about his being President---but i won't

let him serve more than fico termis!”

about these

RED-HEADS

ASSUMING that most things which catch on

do so elsewhere, attention should be directed to red-heads in our midst, because American gentle- now enthusiastically preferring them to blondes and brunettes.

nter Are

a large airy laboratory high ing by surgery the organa from above the roar of busy 66th- the animais. He had the blood in the United States ultimately street, Manhattan, New York, serums which would feed them a group of scientists, headed and make them live and grow, by ckterly Dr. Alexis Carrel, But up to then the hordes of are trying to make man im- bacteria which invaded the or- mortal.

gans when removed from their Three years ago, thanks to the natural surroundings had made inventive genius of Colonel impossible any long-term Lindbergh, they began to use examination. a mechanical "heart."

What was wanted was an ap- with it they have succeeded in

would provide paratua which continuing synthetic life and the function of a normal heart growth in the delicate internal and at the same time allow the organs of animals and man subject organ to be fed with the after natural death.

life-giving serum and with few weeks ago, news that oxygen and other gases. Lindbergh had bought an And all this had to be done so island off the const of Brit-

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Says Ferdinand Tuohy

At the root of this new popu- larity is the advent of colour Human Brain No. 1, of Strat- photography and technicolour ford-on-Avon, was encased 'neath ma, red hair and pale skin giv- a dome from which fell dark red ing greater contrast and more waviness. Nell Gwyn affords artistic photographs than other

another pro-red-head argument; types.

no-

Yet it isn't only the art angle. lags of character, from Sides are being taken touching where, and one of maximum sex- the characteristics, capabilities, appeal. Was Lucrezia Borgia a of red-heads, a red-head? They say so. Any- temperaments catholic term comprising all the way, there was Bianca. Capello, shadings: "carroty," just-red, noted siren of Venice, of which she was made a

red-gold.

Daughter.

tany, close to the one where that the organ was not attacked he and Dr. Carrel lived inst by bacteria.

Within a few weeks Lindbergh summer and discussed their problems together, set scien- and begun work as Carrel's me- auburn, tawny, "ginger," copper, Republic

chanical assistant. tists speculating. Soon the pair are expected to announce, after three years' work, the result of wonderful experiments carried out with the "heart," results giving found the principle of his auto- vital knowledge to those fight matic heart and built his first

and crude model. ing against old age disease.

blood-or

TWO years later, after many experiments, he

It seems one is either for red- hendr or against them-one can't be noutral--even as red- heads are themselves all or nothing.

Impulsive, Courageous

As

A Celebrated Beauty

IN later times there was the "Red Prince" (of Prussia), who carried all before him in the opening battles of the

War.

And

With the presentation to His Excellency the Governor of petition signed by 1,344 resi- dents, Hongkong's rent problem has reached a new climax. The issue has become sharper, the

the complaints of

Colony's victimised residents are more in- sistent; and, quito properly, these have found expression through the most direct medium possible. His Excellency has been A asked to become mediator in this. so far, one-sided struggle fbetween Avaricious lundlords and helpless tenants. The law, as it stands, is on the side of Their the house owners.

bean moral arguments have strengthened by the findings of the Rents Commission. This has had some startling effects. Where before the landlords advanced somewhat cautiously recover in their attempts to allegedly lost profits, armed as they now are, they make

it consisted of a long spiral

RED-HEADS, say the Franco-Prussian pretence of their intentions to

on a glass tube filled with the blood

Americans, are either Garibaldi was almost as red as exact the utmost in rentals A FAINT halo of blue

top and bottom microscope slide first told serum. The

from Sicily at the head of a bare from their property, and to

blondes and brunettes. They

thousand followers to build a achieve this end are evicting Dr. Carrel that at last, after ends of the spiral tube were con-much better or much worse than the shirt he wore when he sailed

are very seldom mediocre.

nation. ++†††††††† long-standing tenants with the years of research, he had dis- neeted by a straight glass tube,

which housed the subject organa rule, red-heads have strong

Prominent English red-heads minimum amount of notice re covered the first secret of Life.

The blue halo told him that Then this apparatus was rock- personalities, are impulsive, in- LINE quired by law, or alternatively,

see-saw fashion, and

8telligent, aggressive, imaging of the period were G. F. Watts are pushing their rentals to he had found a way of growing ed,

as to make it and keeping alive tissues taken splashed the liquid from the top tive, and temperamental to a de- and Rossetti's "Blessed Damo- such extremes

zel," the tragic Elizabeth Siddal, gree.

whose intellect may not have They are also proud and sensi- been great, yet who had most of financially impossible for anyone from an animal long since dead, of the spiral. After it had below the "taipan" class, to live by feeding them under certain travelled through the organ in conditions with natural plaams the straight glass tube, the

tive. Sometimes they lack dis- in their houses.

Sir Geoffry Northcote's posi-colourless

with liquid entered the spiral again cretion, but never courage. They a brilliant circle at her feet, not excluding carrot-top Swinburne, through the bottom, aperture.

will rush into any battle regard- burning, orratic soul in full red- tion is difficult and delicate, and liquid blood serums.

By regulating the rate of the less of the odds-or fall in or head tradition. That was 28 years ago, and none will envy him, faced as he

was awarded see-saw, driven by electric motor, out of love with amazing facility. is with the task of making a

A celebrated pre-war beauty Lindbergh found he was able to

How does that compare with decision on such a vital ques-

was the red-haired Mrs. Ather- In a test tube in Dr. Carrel's get the correct "pulse" rate-your local red-heads? tion. That he will give the

ton, who also died tragically Naturally, it is but a step from after illuminating Mayfair. fullest consideration to the peti- laboratory is a fragment of a about 60 beats a minute.

boosting red-heads to excavating tion there is not the slightest chicken's heart which ho has

A glowing case of brains, doubt. The Colony has already kept alive by artificial feeding

substantiating cases from his- been made aware that

His since 1912, which he says should

tory and the pre went, illustrative character, energy, and tempera- ment was the divine (and dark does not Excellency

lack go on living and growing for

presumed virtues and

red) Sarah Bernhardt. I saw many years. sympathy, especially if a com-

theatre her acting at her own plaint has any justifiable

"auburn

six months before she died, and grounds. Sir Geoffry now has

a dash for pump.

a before him suflicient evidence on

which it If house- the entire issue. holders were slow in giving hoped would save the life

DR. CARREL and Lind- Was he red-gold? Napoleon testimony before the Rents Floyd Bennett, the famous flyer,

bergh perfected their even a greater shock. Yet Emil

locks, Napoleonic Commission, they have sine brought Lindbergh to Dr. Carrel "robot heart, three years ago. Ludwig is cited as having seen "chestnut remedied the fault through at the Rockfeller Institute.

More than 900 experiments the medium of the local news- Carrel explained his problem. have been made with it, extend-flecked with red, proving that at the carrot-tops of yesteryear, as least one ancestor was an out with Bernard Shaw, whose red. papers, while eyen

more He had the technique of removing over 100,000 hours. Some and-out red." Other claims in- ness was inescapable in the 'nine- ties and later. Augustus John illuminating have been some of

organs, have been kept alive for

clude Sappho's tawny hair, so is a second who the eviction

no longer ex- CABCs at the among

the European com- 30 days.

fatally charming, and Salome's

hibits the hue of beard and head Supreme Court. This is evidence, munity, the hurdships are be- More imaginative medical men "faming copper tresses,"

that once marked him out. which cannot be ignored when coming intolerable. Apart from are talking of the day when per- in-other considerations, is it doubt-haps a surgeon may be able to [ajudicating on the rents

crease and evictions issue, ful whether Hongkong has yet give a man a new heart or other So far as the petition itself is adjusted itself to the low dollar, vital organ when his own has concerned, its terms appear to be stabilised around 1/8d. Certain sensible and ably conceived. No it is that wages are no higher extreme action in favour of than in 1986, when articles tenants is sought. The peti- made in Europe could be im- WHAT secret has the

requests, above all, mea-ported at eight dollars to the

doctor got up his sures of protection against ob-

sterling, The pound

samo sleevs now? viously wanton profiteering. articles now demand $10.

People are remembering a re- Government owes it as a duty to

Because of these and other mark of his when he suggested its tax-payers to afford that protection, especially in these factors, the Colony has a right the possibility, although not a of our Sovereigns, and not the liveliest, most explosive, hard- days, when rent increases con- to expect fair treatment in the probability, that scientists may cast by a long way, were red- living rebel who ever hammered stitute not the only problem for matter of rent and eviction in-discover a means of putting men heads. The Conqueror, William a' type-writer-to win the Nobel the inhabitants. Less spectacu-justices. One likes to believe it and women's lives in "suspended Rufus, Henry VIII, Elizabeth, Prize... lar, but more insidious, is the a dictum that the majority animation" so that they become rise in cost of living. Incomas must not suffer because of the like the Sleeping Beauty and be are being practically halved; minority. Here is an instance brought back to life in centuries and as a certain standard of when this dictum should be put to come.

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IN 1928

Berum

Was

of

He circulated life-maintaining oxygen and nitrogen through the serum liquid by inlet and outlet tubes in the spiral.

Correct "blood pressure" was maintained by an automatic

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worn out.

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of

vagaries.

Did Cleopatra's tresses" conquer Caesar? May, bc. But can Nelson be claimed?

Red-head Presidents

though 78 and one-legged-re- stricted to a chair throughout-

she still dominated.

whites of to-day may have been

important to reflect that snow-

Isadora Duncan lived up to every trait attributed to the red-

AMERICANS are per- head. Enslaving and untam- haps on safer ground able, she hungered to live to the when they tell us that three of utmost; danced through life, to their greatest Presidents, finish tragically after 14 years Washington, Jefferson, and An- of vain grief-fighting.

Elinor drew Jackson, were red-heads. Literature auggests Not-so-great Coolidge was an- Glyn, all passion in print, calm other.

business woman out of it; and'

Sinclair Which reminds me that Ave "Red"

Lowis, the

and Mary, Queen of Scots. Tho

Then there's the greatest his generation, last was 100 per cent. truc to planist of type: passionate, seductive, im- Paderewski, still with traces of pulsive, chockful of personality his red locka. and drama...

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