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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1947.

'S FUN FINDING OUT

R CHAPMAN PIN-

CHER, who has been

on holiday, came into

the office looking more like

Here's a

A Red Indian than a science ¶¶¶¶¶¶_¶¶¢2}}|||||||33|21|3234, correspondent, and when I

said to him: "By jove, you look fit," he replied:-

"'Suntan isn't necessarily a sign of fitness. It's morely the visible evidence that melanin granules have been formed in the skin to protect the body from an 0xC083 of ultra-violet light."

"Hey!" I said. "Not so

girl with

lots

of

fast. Let's go over that .........................................................ið again." So we put our feet up on the desk and he de- livered a lecture on the

action of the sun on the human body. As. the sunbathing season

is now in full swing,

MELAN

you may like to hear what said.

he

and

what

In small dosen ultra-violet light does you a lot of good, but too much. of it is a bad thing, because it kills In the first place there are the tissues of your body. When two kinds et sunlight, There's that happens your skin peels the sort you can see and the you wish you'd listened to

It's the second your mother said about not going to 'sort you can't.

Aleep In the sun, variety, commonly called ultra- violet light, that burns you. You could lie in the other all

and still be

the summer

white as a sheet:

Ultra-violet light doesn't

trate ordinary glass, which is

❤

This la where melanin comes

black in. It's a

pigment farmed In the skin to pro- as tect you from too much ultra-violet light, and screens you in just the same way as clothes, class windows pene--and dirt.

why

you don't get brown when you look

at the sun through a window,, But

nre not too thicit, which

how it is that on mountains and at the seaside you may become.burn- ed when the sun is not shining at all.

White faces

5

work indoors

you

much little why

it can get through clouds, if they TF you spend most of your life in

cxplaina

A city and don't come into contact with So you need ultra-violet. protection from it. That's elty workers have white faces. mountains? But when you go on holiday you Why the seaside and Well, that's because the air there is are immediately exposed to more generally clean and fairly clear of of these rays than you are used to. dust and dirt. Ultra-violet light is Your skin gets to work manufactur every trapped and absorbed by dirt, just ing a protective layer of melanin,

dirty and when you come back windows. So as it is by

handsome and fit people don't get as tanned as clean body says how

you look. atie

SIDE GLANCES

the

by BERNARD WICKSTEED

light kills the

Easy, sald Mr Pincher. The cod- fish get it from herrings and the herrings from the minute forms of life which exist at the top of the sen where there is plenty of light All right, I said, that accounts for If you overdo the sunbathing in codfish, but what about elephants? Arst few days the melanin They must need masses of vitamin doesn't form fast enough and the D to grow healthy bones andraking

outer Where do they find it? Their ultra-violet

are much too thick to let the ultra- layers of your skin.

violet light pass through into their Some people never get properly blood The greenstuff they eat has brown. They just turn red, like te Din it and there can't be

much cow's milk or cod liver cooked. lobsters. That's

in the jungle. they haven't got the kind of that is good at making melanin they don't receive enough in way, and so do people with sking,

because

skin

and

this

oil

DAB... AND FLOUNDER by Walter

Well, where do we

go from here?

N optimist has been de-

fined as the kind of man- who, having fallen from

by

the sixtieth storey of a Now W. J. BROWN, M. P. York skyscraper, would say, after passing 40 storeys in his downward rush-"Well, we're all right so far!"

I was reminded of this defini- tion while listening to Mr Her- bent Morrison's speech on, what everybody now admits is the national crisis.

to

and a consequential slump in their own economy, the Americans will keep us going the hope of a sort of permanent lend-lenso.

WELL, the hope of temporary aid YY is legitimate. But I do not

But if wo cut raw materials we believe that the Americans will shall not increase exports; we shall tolerate an Indefinite, one-way. reduce them still further. If we lead-lease. Sooner or later the ac- cut food, our workers will lack the counts must be balanced. They can her rou strength produce, be balanced only by great increase Either course, in saving us, would in our production. stay us. We go on as we are from week to week only because the dol- lars-the borrowed dollars-which It was a grave, sombre cover the gap are not quite gone, speech. Dalton, speaking a week By the end of the year they will be before, had troubled the House exhausted.

£

by his analysis of the financial position. Strachey, speaking

Well ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to say that for once Mr Pin- cher was stumped. If he hadn't thin, been so sunburned I think I'd have seen a Blush, as he admitted that, off-hand, he, "didn't know how situation. elephants got vitamin D.

At the other end of the scale you with get Negroes. They are born their melanin ready made and have so much of it that they are not just

brown, but black.

If you put oil on your skin be- fore sunbathing it doesn't make you any more brown. Only melanin

some of the ultra-violet light that can do that. But it does

would otherwise burn you.

By Galbraith skin

TWY MEN BEZVÍCE, INGẤT, NE KEQ, U'S, PAT, OPP.

"One of them will kias you good night and the other has a moan left hook-l wish, there was some other way of tolling them apart!"

absorb

1 forms itself in littlo

Then he added that so far as he knew nobody else did either, and passed on quickly to birds, who get vitamin D by preening themselves. their The light can't pass through feathers so they make it external- by.

as

Dwindling sun

far."

80

Government For two years the have concentrated, in the main, on two things-the extension and con- solidation of our social services, and the programme of nationalisation.

Tho

the. Hamed by extra effort, may so raise

There is everything to be said for the first, and a lat, in particular only a day or two earlier, had WE have, so to speak, passed forty cases, for the second. But neither W storeys on the way down. Like solves the question of production. cheered Government supporters

Arat, Indeed, unless accom- But we are due to hit with his review of the food the optimist, "we are all right

as to increase our difficulty in ground shortly with a bang.

selling in a buyers' markel The The only question is whether second, if it is limited to a mere ummoned, will be able to got the itself, as coal plainly shows, add to the fre brigado, which has been change of ownership, does not of

wo hit the pavement. That is convas sheet spread below us before our production,

to say, whether the Marshall plan will become effective during the six months.

next

Now Morrison, covering both fields and a good deal more be- position as a whole. It was like sides, reviewed our national

the report of a Liquidator in Bankruptcy."

0

THE Government have announced

the names of the

Super- Planning Committee. It is a strong and representative body, and will

Involved In this is a whole series In its analysis of the situation, of problems. They include the

The oll they smear over them- selves ergosterol, the magic chemical

chement BRITAIN lives by her exports. It does, what is achieved is not doubtless do much good work. But

in the blood that is turned by

Unlike either Russia or a solution, but a respite. "We fundamentally this problem of pro- Ught reason the United States, we cannot shall have a few more years to pull duction, on which all hangs, is not a What about freckles? Where do into vitamins. If for any

they be self-contained. We may or ourselves together. If it does not problem of planning, though plan- they fit In? Well, said Mr Pincher, they can't preen themselves they are made of melanin too, but get rickets, just like the alum may not import luxuries from we shall face our gravest difficulties ning may be necessary to it. It is instead of spreading evenly over the children used to do,

abroad, but we must import raw yet. Out of that situation anything a problem of man-power and out-. materials for our factories, and may come. In it, many things will put per man-hour.

to. patches,

the balance of the food we need Freckles are born and not made. QUINCE we are all so dependent beyond. what we produce at Mr Morrison's speech was a brave question of foreign labour, the allo- You don't notice them In bables,

on We can pay these but as soon as the ultra-violat gets D, la there any chance that the sun things only by our exports. two years ago, the present might be tive and unproductive work, tho at them they begin to colour up will ever cease sending it to us? Now the cost of our Imports has different. But at the end of question of restrictive practices by For some reason thero'z a He-up Yes, said Mr Pincher, there is, risen sharply because of the move it, the dominant thought in the both between freckles and red hair,

employers and the unions, the The time is coming when we shall ment of prices abroad. And our mind of every listener must have question of the effect, on produc- tion, of excessive taxation and pay- You can now sece, said Mr Fin- have to do with less, because the sun

as-you-carn, the question of pro- cher, why it is that suntan doesn't is using itself up at the rate of the the have fallen woefully below been-"So what? Where do we so necessarily mean you are in

viding incentives to take the place good four million tons a second, and it allowing for Dalton's cuts in to- To these questions, on which our

was of the old incentives of unrestricted health. It simply means you have can ro on like this for only another tacco, Bims and the like, is now life as a nation depends, there been out in the open air.

thirty thousand million years. So some 2450 millions a year. Unless no answer. There was only capitalism, and the like. if you want to get a tan on your that gap is closed, we must cut our hope.

The hope was that, in order to face like Mr Pincher, you'd better imports of food, or raw materials, take your holiday soon.

avoid a crisis of over-production

Although it can be harmful in large doses, ultra-violet light is one of three things we get from the sun without which life on earth would be impossible, Mr Pincher wenti

on,

be

First we get ordinary sunlight, and without that there would no green plants. Then We

.get heat. If sve didn't the earth would Ice up and we'd all die. Finally wei get ultra-violet light, which is in- dispensable to us because it is 2 necessary. Item in the manufacture of vitamin D,

Vitamin maker

target set. Tho gap, afler from here?"

or both.

the guilds of the city oF LONDON: NO. 3

sunless slums used to get rickets Master

much now because they are It in milk and cod liver oil.

given

THE ANCIENT DRAPERS

COMPANY..

•

By BARRY PEAK

20

SCB-

and

lon

If

problems, if fear, either of the em- wd do not tackle these

ployers or the unions, leads us to evade them, we shall not solve our problem.

THERE is a sicry of a Russian in Moscow who dreamt that ho would die the following night in that elty. Determined to defeat the dream, he rose next morning and went to the railway station. There he bought a tickab for Kharkov. The devil was at the station. And noting, from a distance what the man did, he sold to one of his at- tendant satellites "See! There is Ivan Ivanovich, I have an op- pointment with him lo-night. In Kharkov."

Our situation is

that of Ivan.

HE full title of the in the reign of Richard II. During King Edward's Hospital Fund, and

considerable annual donations, are made to -Wan Drapers Company, third his reign there You must have vitamin D in your

precedence of the City of trouble in the City of London due various institutions including con- bidod, otherwise your bones and

to certain of the victualling trades valescent homes, missions to your teeth don't grow. Children in London Companies, is "The receiving monopolies, The Fish- men, the London Orphan School

and

Company, others, through lack of it. They don't so Brethren and Sisters of the was aceused of fading, the price year alone, pec centres. In one we shall dodge only at the expense

nlane,spect

special grants were of death. the of food to an unfair Guild or Fraternity of

level. This made to the tune of nearly £4,000. Blessed Mary the Virgin of the caused much ill-feeling and result- Through this the Boy Scouts Asso-

ed in riots in the City. In those clationent included hospitals

received £1,000,

00. and others Mystery of Drapers of the City days, fish was a vital necessity, of London." The word "mys being one of the staple foods of the the Lord Mayor's Fund for the Re- China. Smaller tery," appearing so often in the poor, and John of Northampton, a lief of Distress

donations were also made to

made to 30 history of the Guilds, is derived prominent member of the Drapera

these other Institutions, and financial ald from the French "metier." and

blind. although the Company's con- cause against high prices.

deaf and crippled children, the dispatch of Christmas parcels, nection with the cloth trade has

John of Northampton was given assistance in the promotion. of oc- ceased, it continues to assist its support by the Clay Guilds and cupational industries for the phys members in many ways.

received, active help from the Mer- cally handicapped, and 10 Doctor cers, Goldsmiths and Taylors, as Barnardo's Homes.... FAMOUS MULBERRY well as from the Saddlers, Hober-

Now here's a funny thing. You can't make vitamin D without ultra- violet light, and yet you get it ready made from codfish who live at the bottom of the sea where there is no ultra-violet. Where do they

get it?

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Company, took excepilon to monopolies and champloned the was given to assist in the care of

WILL BRING FAMILIES TOGETHER

When the 16 Lincoln bombers

dashers, and Cordwainers, John of ASSISTING THE YOUNG of No. 617 Squadron RAF the

reforming Mayor. Northampton later became the first.

1s

Throughout the world thena a famous wartime "Dams_raid"

and girls who. have many boys

unit-cross the Atlantic, on a made good and received their start in life through the benevolence of good-will mission to Canada this

ancient

Company and the United States, there. renticeship to Whether it was by

The City Companies began to re- ceive Charters from the "Crown in the 14th century,, which gave them Today, Uke many of the City

Company definite consitutions and the rights Guilds, the Drapers" of holding property,

The

Charter primarily interested in work of

nature... under which the Drapers Company benevolent

Considerable acts today was granted, however, by grants are mado for the main- James I In 1008, although the first tenance of schools, almhouses and the Company or dua to the fact will be family reunions for two

Institutions, To give an at Bancroft's School

.a Grat-class they obtained.

education of the mon of the squadron. other

Воув or Schools for Girls.

On August 11. the Lincolns are they equipped to

to face the com- visiting Sacramento. There, on of life. The Dropors' Com Mather Field, Corporal G. Dowell,

College

Charter of the Company was grant- ed by Edward III in 1304. Inci

ry trea

donated by the Company, an which grant of the generous monetary dentally, the mulberry blooms still in the old garden at annual grant of £10,000 is made to were Drapers'. Hall was planted in the the reign of James 1, survived the Great Fire of 1066 and the aerial blitz of World War II. This sturdy mul berry bears fruit each year,

Bod

was

Queen Mary been made paby allocated £30,000 for the

£7,000 per annum

for seven years towards the cost of building of Bancroft's School when a wireless operator will be greeted new buildings. There are also con- it moved from Mile End, to Wood- by his mother, Mr G. Dawes, of.

in Essex. At a later date a Victoria, British Columbia, ford siderable scholarship and exhibi-

further £40,000 was donated for tion, grants.

Corporal Dowell,

Canadian, these dificult times. It is good served in the Royal Canadian Air

SCHOLARSHIPS

to know that so many comes under Force during the war, and Boon

protective wing of the

a the

French at Cambridge Commons

and

and

City and In charitable

The

Drapers' Com- In keeping with others

程

and

those

with slender means to educate

throwing

open the

after being demobilised worked his Damage across, the "Atlantic, aboard a freighter to rejoin the RAF, Ho

transferred to RCAF in 1943.

MTB. Dawes is to make. à 760-mile-

The Company's first Hall situated in St, Swithin's Lane, and the building which ones stood on the site belonged to that Tudor The Company also maintains statesman

prelate, Thomas Chair In Cromwell, who lost his life in the University at 800 a year, relan bf Henry VIII. Many of t

e the

scholarships, are awarded.. City Companies' Halls have been at Howell's School for Girls destroyed by fire,

School for Boys Trat in the Great Bancroft's Fire of London, or In recent years, many others, Records show that their children by thr by hir raids in World War II. The there are 18 institutions in which doors to fine schools by means of

exception. It the Company is interested financial scholarships and by donating large overland Journey to meet her son, Drapers Hall is no

ls needed abe sums of money where Are ly, and in addition, thero. aNO was completely destroyed by

The second man, Corporal George In 1006, rebuilt and again seriously almshouses and four charities which must. The City Companies, true to damaged by fire in 1773. Torlu- come under the Company's Appren-, tradition, carry on their good work Hardy, an Englishman, will be met many by his Canadian wife and their nately, it was spared in the blitz of ticeship Trust, and two Pension just as they have done for

hundreds of years. It is ding. that World War II

the motto of the Worshipful Cem-four-years-old-con when the An interesting page in the historyThe Dropora Company also sub-pany of Drapers, should be Unto squadron reaches Trenton Airflekt

near Toronto, on September: 2. of the Drapers Company occurred scribes generously each year to God Only By Honour and Glory!!

nually doing maiincent job by helping was in the RAF, from 1939 until he

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