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Drive To Smash CULTURED PEARL IS Human Nature

Up Illicit Stills . In Germany

(By Seaghan Maynes)

German police, supervised by British public security officers, fighting the growing, illicit "black market" trade in the British Zone of Germany, are seizing and destroying more than 250 Illicit stills every month..

INDUSTRY TO BE REVIVED

After five years of inactivity, the cultured pearl industry will again thrive in Nando Bay.

The Japanese estimate that there are some 10,000,000 mothers-of-pearl

imbeded in the sandy bay of Nanao, overseas trade for the purchase of neoded foodstuffs for Japan, слув United Press.

which will form the boals of the

Raising pearls by artificial means was first begun by the world-famous Mikimoto Pearl Company about 20 years ago. By the time of the out break of war the cultured peari industry developed into a worldwide business.

A publie safety officer told me that in many cases the German and dla placed person operators of the cit stitis had been found using chemi- cals from fire extinguishers, anti-their own freeze mixture from car radiatora, wool alcohol, four sweepings and waste products from sugar beet fac- torles and potato peel. There had been some cases in which pure alcohol used as fuel for flying bombs had been used for liquor making..

Bottles of the German brandles of "mountain dew" are fetching several hundred marks each on the black market, and in a number of cases the buyers have been British troops, ignorant or careless of the fact that the "binck booze" could cause blind- ness or even death.

German police raids, following a sudden increase in drunkenness in Dortmund during the recent militory tattoo there, uncovered eleven Illicit siis going full blast.

the

Is

Getting Worse?

Mr Tom Braddock, Socialist Mir for Mitcham, Mald recently ibai relizioas. Instruction in schools would best be - cut out if it taught that the hu man race was basically faulty, "I have never sold a prayer In any fife," said Mir Braddock. "I resent the suggestion that we nro all mixer- able sinners, and can only be saved by some supernatural power,"

Hero is Dr W. R. Ingo's reply:

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Christiana are taught to believe about | Ulon. the Deity.

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FLUORESCENT LIGHTING FOR [OFFICE AND TRAIN

Britain's architects are now becoming light conscious for they appreciate that fluorescont tubes of any colour can be built, into the architecture, and form part of the building's func- tional design.

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Fluorescent lighting is of special - importance in offices where window lighting is restricted. Daylight tubes can be installed in the darker corners of the room, resulting in a perítet artificial blending of natural and

illumination lighting with an even

Railways in Britnin also intend to

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ISEEM to remember a re-nothing to do with conduct.

a good government many Jmark of McTaggart, the

people will behave as badly as they Cambridge philosopher, to the dare, which is not too badly. Under effect that the Governor of a bad government some of them will the Universe, as they called him behave as well as they dare, and this, in the eighteenth century, is, to we have seen in the case of the over the entire orga..

Germans, is nothing to boast of. judge by His aétions, on

But the puzzle is this. The mako greater use of fluorescent

decent the whole good rather than average man is Mikimoto proposes to

Increase bad-a testimonlel which would no fellow, if you do not press too hart lighting. Al Piccadilly Circus Under-

London, crourt station, cultured pearl beds by doubt procure an engagement for n ly on what is sometimes called his perimental installation is being triod some 1,000,000 tubo under a pro-housemaid under present conditions, ruling passion, but which is better out on one of the platforms grumine to enlarge the industry.

but which falls short of what regarded as his besefting tempta- travellers can compare the

effect Ten thousand tsubo ar

with lighting on adjoining platforms. equivalent of eight acres.

lighting is also being But when men get together and Fluorescent Are human beings "on the whole form societies-unions, classes, installed in a number of coaches on good rather than bad?" I have never churches, tribes, nations they almost the main line trains, and develoy- Ime: anyone whom I should vote for always behave abominably." They ments are going ahead with the ap- sending to hell, and I have known lose all sense of personal responsibi- plication of this lighting in several who, though they would ty. They deposit their consciences forms of transport, including buses,

motor coaches and aircraft. be shocked to hear it of themselves, in a bank which issues debased' scem to me quite fit for heaven, and in lines of trials they commit

Fluorescent tubular lighting owes think most people would agree with crimes and infomies of which indi- its origin to the work of scientists vidually they would be morally in-lf Britain who, in 1930, discovered fluorescent powders which gave near Tunis, however, has not been the capable.

colours daylight and warm white usual teaching of the churches.

of light. Traditional Catholicism has belleved a small minority will be that only saved; and Continental Protestantism has insisted on the "total depravity" of human nature, which has been described as a mass of perdition.

Russia Copying The Superfort?

Aviation industry

sources, noting reports that Russin is copying the B-29, claimed that new American bombers will make the Superfort obsolete be- fore the Soviets can match it. Over 200 Stills Found

Omcial War Department sources Latest figures show that in the confirmed that Russia is in possession past month 134 Heit atills were of at least two of the giant B-20's found in the North Rhine and West- which crash landed in Siberia some mid-1944, says United phalin regions, 46 In the Hannover, time after 16 in the Schleswig-Holsteln regions Press. and 47 in Hamburg city.

They said they had Information on In one small district in the Hanno- the reported copying of the aircraft, ver area it was officially reported but elsewhere it www sald Russia that nearly all the inhabitants were hardly would be expected to pass up engaged in the production or dis-the opportunity.

Wed-informed industry and mili. tribution of the "black booze." In this district, material for the stills tary observers here had two reactions came from the floor-sweepings into the report that the Soviels are now the local sugar beet factory,

trying to reproduce_D-20's: Omeints estimate that at the very

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THERE is no such thing as a group mind, but there is a herd men- tality, which is for below the ston- dard by which decent people regulate their own lives.

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Prehistorie Finds In California

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Anthropologists of the University of California have finished studying

known so far

says United Press. the soil in which the bones discovered and

were

This is what the New Testament This dreadful doctrine is, we may

it organises itself apart from God.' hope, almost dead, so no more need calls the world-"human society as be said about it.

We may call it a system of co- The Anglican Church,

the Seventeenthi Article on Predestina-operative mullt with limited liabilly.

reatest of all crimes, tlon, hedges in a most characteristic Take the

of the of Christ. None crucifixio

alone; culprits could have done it manner. That is the Englishman all

Carlyle, in a famous passage, con- they were not wicked enough Judas, the bones of nine skeletons unearth- divine announced that they were inhabi- trasts the teaching of Christ, that we Pontius Pilate, Calaphas, the mob, ed at a concord near Berkeley and

soldiers their that Victim prayed, "Father, forgive them, tants who roamed California 4,000 to

8,000 years must begin by cleansing the inside the Roman

the for they know not what they do." of the cup; in other words, social reform must begin with

I need not speak of the more com- cient early Amor the most an→ · individual and work outwards, with what he calls the Gospel of Rousseau; plete irresponsibility of a half-insane By the time the Soviet could copy and might have called the Gospel tyrani, ke Ivan the Terrible, or the Dr Robert Helzer sald studies of comparison of the least more than one thousand stills the B-29, to say nothing of producing of Godwin and Shelley, that if we Emperor Caligula, who said;

In are being illegally operated through-it, it will be an obsolete areoplane as could hang all kings and priests-if do whatever I like to everybody primitive bone characteristics with

Akeletons uncovered other they male and female; and acted upon it, far as the Army Air Forces is con- they had lived a little later It is believed that the wave of cerned; and

Man" probably was the fifth oldest in such people except to put them out Amerien indicated that the "Concord the potato thefts, particularly in The Teport could indicate that would have said al capitalists and There is nothing to be done with North Rhine and Westphalian re-Russia is showing an interest m bourgeois--all would be well.

Trust the people; poor things, they of the way. for which sho

Is human nature getting any bet-what is now the United States,

He said North America has four are innocent. glons, is providing the bootleggers heavy bombers

ter? I do not know; but the body. with considerable material.

displayed no regard during the war.

found in New Sandia certainly

cave man Best estimates available here wereARLYLE Was

right. politic generates anti-toxins as well other finds which may be older-The Social Special measures have been plan-

Mexico,

believed to be 25,000 years ned by the military government to that it would take Russia from.three And yet we must not go so far as toxins, and perhaps

stic

Es to say that governments have diseases are incurable,

old;, the Folsom Man of Colorado and counter these thefts. This plan will to four years from the time

the south-west, believed to be 10,000 be put into action during the next six started to complete a superfort.

to 25,000 years old; the Vero skull weeks when the main potato

found In Florida, believed to be. 15,000 years old; and the Sacramento Man found near Sacramento, Call- fornia, believed to be about 15,000 years old.

out the zonA.

crop

will be lifted, and officers expect

large-scale arrests.

For the arst time, potato thieves TREATMENT OF SUSPECTS wl appear before military govern- ment courts.-Reuter.

WAR-MONGERS ATTACKED

Allegation of Inadequate

Food Denied

Tokyo, Oct. 25 (UP)-Lt-Col N.D. chief of the British Paris, Oct. 24-French cardinals Read-Collins, and archbishops condemned the at- division of SCAP's Legal Section, itude of those who believe another to-day denied allegations that Japan- war is inevitable in a communique ese personnel held by the Allied forces published to-dny, which said: "It in South-east Asin for war crimes is not in the least surprising that were receiving Inadequate food and the restoration of peace presents, accommodations.

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Orkney May Develop

Seaweed Industry

The promise of a new industry for Orkney, based on the seaweed resources of the islands, is held out at the conclusion of the first stages of a Scottish seaweed survey, greater in scope and magnitude than anything previously attempted in the world.

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The Scottish Seaweed Research (merclallaed brown seaweed, Association Ltd. whose latest annual that it is concentrated on one tenth published, of the West Coast line and the islands. report hus just been already discovered in the course of Properly exploited, these areas alone grave obstacles. Many people on Col Rend-Collins said: "I can from an investigation which includes aerial should produce more than eight thou facing these extreme difficulties are personal knowledge categorically re- surveys and thousands of miles of sand tons of dried weed a year for lelting themselves be party to dis-fute these innuendoes and declare coastal travelling, sufficient evidence animal feeding stuff and other pur-

af- to justify hopes of the large-scale poses. couragement and scepticism. For them to be another ridiculous some another war is inevitable and tempt by ex-army and navy officers harvesting of seaweed in Scotland. they seem to awalt it with resigna- to impede the just punishment tion. We cannot share such an atti-wor crimes suspects in South-east! tude."-Reuter.

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BRIDGE AT SHANGHAI

Plans Being Studiod For Spanning Whangpoo

The Trans-Whangpoo Engineerløg Commitice has been studying the

Demand for alginic acid is at pre sent so great that three factories are Alginic acid, the one of the brown weeds so far developed now operating on the West coast, and preliminary draft plan for a Whang- While the Committee is yet to de-. one in South Uist. An effort is also poo Bridge, Shanghai. commercially, can be used in the being made in collaboration with the eide en bridge or tunnel it has been manufacture of such commodities as

tex. Rowelt Research Institute and Read- decided that if a bridge is to be built, Light-weight woollen fottles, ule sixes, transparent paper, plastica, ing University to determine the food it should fulfil the following require value and digestibility of seaweed

ments: lee cream, custard powder and soup for sheep, pigs and

poultry. In view The Bridge should be of the Bas. the fining of beer, surgical soluble of the promising renilta achieved by cule-type, lifting bridge, with clear- ligaments, medical capsules and the Association during its first two, ance 10 meters above highest high dental moulding powders.

years, a grant of £18,000 a year from water level; width, 12 meters, plus been sidewalks of three meters each; on

A survey of littoral weed or wrack, the Development Fund has one of the two main types of compromised by the Treasury.

According To Culbertson

Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

In to-day's deal South made rebid that constituted a bridge crime.

South dealer.

North-South vulnerable.

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percent grade, the bridge's inside height to be 8 moters, clear head room, and with a loading capacity of H-20. 1.e., for continuous loading of 20-ton trucks. The estimated cost is CNC$40,000,000,000.

The alternative plan submitted to tunnel under- a; or reason to rebid. He had told his the Committee in

story on the first round; he had no neath the river. The following re- thing to add, and since he himself quirements have been decided upon: could not properly double five clubs, The tunnel should have a slope of the least he could do was keep out of four to five per cent., inside width North's way, to give him the option of six meters, for two lanes of traffic, of doubling or bidding, as he saw fit. of three maters There can be little doubt that North, height 4.25 meters. despite his excellent support for expense will be CNC$70,500,000,000. spaces, would have doubled instead

of pursisting to the five-level.

Due to the miserable dummy East would have found, five clubs would have gone down at least four tricks, 700 points, even if East guessed the

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Shanghai, Oct. 24 (UP),~The Ex- Yuan's Board of Suppiles, diamond position. As it happened, ecutive South made his Ave-spade contract, which is in charge of surplus supplies but this was only because both of purchased from the United States, in missing hearts were he by beginning the ferrying of US$600, East. Observe that so slight a trans 000,000 worth of surplus properly. position as the licart queen from East from 17 Pacific Islands on November to West would have defeated five 1.

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spades, while it still would have left The surpluses were purchased on North-South were not using an with a 500-point penalty at credi: in bulk FLC (Foreign Liquida If that distribution exist- tion Commission) sale which caused ave could pick up 100. opening three-bid to show a soild or ed, he

by. -points near-solid sult, hence South's initial letting East play five clubs, and if it vigorous, opposition from the Com-. call was all right When, however, didn't exist, he could pick up 500 North went to four spades and East. points. while avoiding the cost and feeling that there might be a cheap embarrassment of going down one Surely, sacrifice in the hand, ventured to five trick at a spade contract. clubs, South had absolutely no right there wasn't much choice here!

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TELEGRAPH

New York, Oct. 23-Mr. Joseph 'Selly. President of the Americani Communications Association, announ ced today that the threatened. Wa tern Union telegraph strike, which would have paralysed communica- tions between New York and the res... of the world at the opening of the United Nations General Arsembly has been postponed for one week unti October 30-Reuter

Paris, Oct. 24 (UP)The French news agency AFP in a dispatch from St Nazaire sald the liberty ship Howard A. Kelly, en route to St. Nazaire with a cargo of coni,hind: -sent a message that a fire had broken- cout in ita No. 1 hold