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Women

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BEAUTY ARTS. By LOIS LEEDS

Posed for Luis Leeds.

Teeners, plan your personal programmes with care!

[and Feminialty is fast chalking up Your boy friends will recordi

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TEEN TOPICS! The number of letters I receive catch; on and they will begin to dress from my Teen Age readers shows up to you and your newfound Prett!- how interested they are in Goodness! And if you are as smart as Grooming and Good Looks,

I think you are you will not "date"

Their attitude on makeup varies: bove who Izok each one seeins to take a different Kroomed. stand. But let's put it on the table. and discuss it.

sloppy and

You can set à high standard and It's the women who get what they The Teener does need a founda-Wat So WANT to look Pretty and tion and it must be suited to her you look Preity! And "Pretty is wuthful skin. I think that for that Pretty does" sure that's an old school girl glow, a recent type of adage but it's still true! makeup is just tops. Just take a second or two to blend and swooth. the cream over the face and throat, then dust on your face powder and you have the start and the finish of that Smooth Look! Hypo-aller- genle safe for your skin types) is fare preparations and thy Idea of cosmeties for the young skins, the foundation face p: wder should

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hosen in face flattering ladies, if you Tenere plan your makeup, your body cleanlitiess, your hair and health programmes as carefully as possible you will be so attractive that you never will feel shy, 'awk- wart and out of things.

The rolled-up jeans and, the "akupy Joe" loofs is Cast fading out of sight while the Keener Teener

Minute Makuya

GABRIELLE

Keep your chứa Hue Up! When sewing, reading, knitting, brace up that sagging chin line. Strap the 'chin with a bandage tied in a perky bow alop your head. This nets as n huscle bracer and aids in firming your chia line. It makes you hold up your head!"

SIDE GLANCES

FASHION NOTE from Marlene Dietrich photographed on board the Queen Elizabeth. She was wearing a peak-cap with nuirla top to match her fur coal - Polat lo watch: the buttons were initialled "M.”

IT LOOKED as if Marlenc were Inunching ♫ new bat fashion until the photograph of another water-traveller fell out of our 1939 file-it is the picture of a Thames barge-woman who had had the same idea, but a cheaper model.

KOPN, 1944 BY KŁA RERVICE, ING, T. M. REG, IL, BL FAT. OFT.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1947.

China Cotton Trade Declared Hit By Government Monopoly

By ANTHONY ULLSTEIN

United Press Staff Correspondent

Competent observers look upon China's unpromising cotton picture, as typifying the state of a basic Chinese in- dustry dominated by a government monopoly.

owners exchange allotments, and mill

complain business

that bona fide applications arc being entangled in bureaucratic red-lape. Further Inroads

Sapped by economic evils Chino, however, is known to be cx- arising from the civil war, and tremely strict in approving foreign impeded by growing burentiera tic control, cotton crops and manufacture are far behind the levels of 1936, when the indus- try was one of the brightest spots in China's economy..

And prospects for healthy revival, observers agree, ure dim.

In 1936 Chin was practically Chinese induarles.

a

Taking stock of the past year, Chinese and foreign observers draw these conclusions-which, they say, apply equally well to other basić

into the

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self-sufficient in cotton production.

By A CORRESPONDENT Raw cotton imports

1. Government monopoly is likely had been cut to make further inroads drawn from 2,000,000 quintals (weakening private cotton enterprise.tivities in Lancashire, as

Christmas and New Year fes- 1031) to 408,904 quintala (a quintal

else- the Implicit ineficiency of a being 230 pounds). And these r Yet

re- muling importa were confined to retard the overali

bureaucratic system is likely to where in big industral areas, "apecialties"

progress of the were for improving the

overshadowed by the native crop by cross-graining and industry, which could be speeded up for meeting the higher-quality only by a return to the general con demand in the coastal rilles.

ditions of a free economy. And such a return would seem to be against present government-palley.

8 Yds. Per Capita

Even in 1939, after

the Sino-

2. As long as the civil war Insis, Japanese hostilities had forced the multiplying the private mills finas closure of many mills, production clsl dificulties and gearing the bulk in the interior was sufficient for of monopoly-production to military

eight yards of cloth per capita per year. In India during the war the figure was only five or six yards.

At this Juncture Kovernment moropoly and

control

began to spread in widening circles from Chungking. This discouraged private textile manufacture and collon production. The results included an artificial cotton famine, n cloth scarcity and the closure of many more mills.

Today, observers

say, the post- war state of China's ention industry by five cardinal

is dominated factors:

hus

1. A giant inonopoly-the Chinn) Texile Development Corporation-- bren created by the govern- from the former Japanese owned and managed mills on the coast, mainly in Shanghai. It has

mant

been officially

Kovernment

revenue.

needs, cotton is likely more and more to take on the guise of a war Industry, bencating the Army and the bureaucracy rather than the Chinese people or the world.

This is the second of a series of China's economy. The third and con- articles on monopolisilo trends in etuding article will appear to-mor

row.

GERMANS

STUDYING IN

ENGLAND

threat of almost complete paralysis of the mills owing to the acute fuel shortage which almost amounts to a famine,

It is a huge headache for Mr Shin- well, Minister of Fuel and Power, as well as for his Cabinet colleagues, and desperate measures have

been and are being taken to rush coal to the areas where it is must needed.

So grave is the problem that some rollway engines have been using Railways are now cutting of most what is normally household coal.

of the extra trafts they had recently put on suburban services to make the service something like pre-war.

In this aren, of course, cotton is the major dißenlty, and the all-out

to drive for exports is likely lu seriously affected, but other concerns such as foundries are also in the same bont

Licences to Hawkern

From time to time in recent months complaints have been made to Mon- chester City Justices against the at- titude of the Manchester Food Con-

Thirty-five Gorman civilians trol Committee in refusing to grant admitted that

that the corporation serves as a source of from the British zone are visit-eences as hawkers particularly to.

Economists ing Britain at the invitation of agree that the bulk of its produc- the Control Office for Germany lion goes to the Nationalist Army.

out with and Austria to attend a six 2. Although It started less operating spindles than private mills, the corporation has prevailed strongly against private production.

Celion' Consumption

weeks course at the Wilton Park Training Centre, where German prisoners of war receive training in citizenship.

Thus, je January. 1946, con- The visitors include politicians, sumption by private milik Inechtcationalists, Journalists, trade Shanghai was 65275 piculs (a pleul unaomists, co-operators and students, being about 110 lbs.), and that This visit has been arranged so that of government-owned milts only Germans living in Germany may see 13,420. By June, private monthly for themselves the conditions of consumption doubled to 130,010 German prisoners of var In the pleuts, but government consumon- United Kingdom and also observe tiem Increased sevenfold to 92,162 British methods of adult education. piculs, Subsequent Agures have not been published.

byL the trend

muggents that by the year's end the government should have caught up with if not outstripped the private factory owners.

Their living conditions at the Centre are exactly those of ordinary prisoner of war students, and they are taking part in the normal cur riculum of study. They will be given the opportunity of visiting re- 3. China is back where she was presentative British Institutions, such in 1031, Importing almost all its raw as the Houses of Parliament, Oxford colton, October imports of thla com- University, Fleck Street, modity alone were $23,800.000,000 Hall, co-operative establisin excluding UNRRA shipments. In elementary schools and technical that month total exports of all com- colleges. The visit is an experiment modities were only 317,000,000,000 and on its success will depend the Civil war

conditions preclude an dectulon regarding further visits of accurate estimate of the native the same kind. yield, but manufacturers agree that

It does not alter the picture to any The Training Centre at Wilton appreciable extent.

Park is part of a general plan for the

the United drawn

ex-servicemen. On behalf of the Control Committee, Alderman Wright Robinson has written to the justices the grant of such licences is auto- pointing out that any Impression that matic is wrong. He says that if an applicant can produce satisfactory hawking before joining the forces he evidence that he was engaged in food is granted a licence immediately, and is regarded as a priority case. The application is refused where this evidence is not forthcoming.

He points out that Heences #re granted in all cases where the. Food Commilice consider there la genuine consumer need, "but", he adds "their experience of this type of street trading leads them to be- Iteve no such need is satisfied by the operation of the hawkers and there- fore a licence is not issued."

Buses To Replace Trams

Mancunians will be interested to learn that the Corporation Transport Dept is now getting delivery of some of the 300 of the 423 buses ordered at the beginning of 1948 with the object of replacing the troms. The frst road to be freed of trams is. Oldlom Road. It is anticipated that Kingsway will be entirely cleared of trams by the end of March.

The Highwayя Dept propose 10 make Kingsway a modern dual car- ringe road wide enough for 5 ft. buses with some form of central bar- rier to prevent dangerous over- taking.

4. Even with the help of big democratic education of German roltan imports

the United prisoners of war in from States and India, mill consumption Kingdom. The students are

for behind the domestically from all PW camps, to which they orientated consumption of 1936. return at the end of their course to The surplus, economists believe, is infuse new ideas into the normal to Southport Infirmary his rendered An anonymous donor of £1,000, being stockpiled by the monopoly adult education groups in

education programme. As in other

It possible for Britain,

that institution to place stress is laid on the importance of

order with an American 5. Nallye crop prospecip arc

arm in Wisconsin for a students taking the fullest possible obscure.

machine part in discussions and "question

known as the Sisk Urological Table, Country-Wide Job

time" and not merely receiving pas-

of which there are very low in Bri- tain. When it is installed it will be Chino Textile has been given the sively the facts and opinions

probably the only one in Lancashire, country-wide job of buying up the sented by the lecturer.

and Southport. will become the centre of a wide area for urological worlt,

for future use.

By Galbraith product for resale to government

"This article says 'women are going to be weak and feminine again--I wish I could remember how I used to be!"

and private mills. The fact that its purchasing price so far has barely

covered production casts has been an Important reason for 2 drastic decrease in colton acreage. Added to this are the deterrent factors of high labour and transportation coets, As 1940 closed, observers con-

raw colton in the first 10 months

pre-

RESTOCKING

LONDON ZOO

Inue, China was in the anomalous The London Zoo in Regent's position of having imported more Fark is getting back to normal of a peacetime year than in the after its wartime upheavals and while her exports dispersals. Collectors through- of yarn and plece goods have been out the world. have been busy negligible.

helping to restock one

whole of 1030.

of

Thus, in 1939 the country Import Britain's chief attractions. for ed 2,177,328 quintals of raw cotton, and exported 118,005 quintals of children and adults alike. yarn and 147,000 quintals of piece

goods. From January through Octo One 'veteran 'collector who spent ber, 1046, it imported 2,681.347 three years in a Japanese prisoner- quintals of raw. collon (plus 831,049 of-war camp brought back from the quintals of free UNRRA cotton) but East a magnificent collection which exported only 1,421' quintals of yarn included three young elephants. or and 2,000, quintals of plece goods.

Army Needs

to the Falkland Islands went another to get penguins atkl other southern, birda. On his way home 'again he called at Montevideo und 'took over

The government, In fact, has a number of South American animal ruled that Internal needs do not from a local member of the Zoologi-

permit piece goods exports, except cal Society. under special licences. In view of

the large volume of raw cotton im The Head Keeper of the London ako made a trip to the ports, and the comparatively small Zoo has amount of finished goods that go back some Capo panguins, cranes and Union of South Africa and brought on public sale, economists infer that needs to be satisfied,internally are patched to the Gold Coast to collect enakes. Another keeper was des- those of the Army.

These circles admit, however, that a number of birds and a varied as-

sortment of animal. It would be extremely difficult to market Chinese plece goods abroad London by air regular consignments One collector has been sending to anyway tower shadinge, than value since the Snake House at the cost more, and of reptiles. These were of especial are available, in Mexican and Brazillas, ofte to the the long period of hostilities.

offerings. There is

other

Zoo had been sadly depleted during cotton situation. Since the publica- And, of course, one of the most tion of the new import restrictions popular arrivals during the In November, no exact figures have year has been Lien Ho, the young past been available on raw colton orders glant Panda presented

the placed abroad. The Central Bank of Government of Szechuan.

The table simples in a remark- able way the study of disease of the kidneys and attendant ailments. The equipment possesses X-ray op- paratus,and it will be possible to treat as out-patients people who had to stay in the Infirmary in the past. thus releasing beds for other pa tients.

Incidentally, it is understood that medical and research equipment Kiven to the Infirmary will remain the institution is taken over by the the property of the Infirmary when

State.

Belgium Lacks

Skilled Labour

employed. and has a serious Belgium has virtually no un- shortage of skilled labour, latest statistics indicate.

Unemployed workers total only 100,000 before the war. 28.030, compared with more than

Belgium has a total of 1,400,000 workers registered under the new system of obligatory unemployment employment is approximately two insurance, indicating that, total un- percent.

Skilled labourers are scarce. Of all. the unemployed, It is estimated that 40 percent, are ordinary labourers, nine percent textile workers, and the 10 percent are transport workers, rest are ofther old or physically untitAssociated Press.

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