THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1947.
Mr. Wicksteed
(CARE OF CHAPMAN PINCHER)
in the belfry
'VE got an idea," said Mr Chapman Pincher. "Let's go to a belfry and look at the bata.”
So we spent a happy morning on the phone asking rectors if they had buts in the belfry, and found one who had, at Debden, In Essex.
Debden church stands in a field away from the village, and there wasn't a soul about as we climbed up a ladder near the font and crept into the
belfry.
Cobwebs and bells hung til over
W
IT'S
FUN
FINDING
OUT
ABOUT BATS
Not long ago a man in Texas had a fallacy, as I could see quite well the idea of building municipal bot when Mr Pincher told me to lack roots, Encouraged in this way, he into the eyes of our little pipistrel. said, the bads would eat all the it recoiled so pathetically from my mosquitoci and turn them into face that we hadn't the heart ได valuable gunno. Several roosts were actually ill, but the reactionary bala wouldn't live in them. They didn't seem
to care about muni- elpal enterprise.
As you know, bats spend most of their lives hanging head downwards. and if you want to make a name for yourself in the scientific world you might try to discover how it is they There must be some arrangement which stops the bod rushing to their what it is.
no one has found out heads, but
the place, but no bath. We weren't Jews are forbidden to cat bats by can do this without getting dizzy;
I mean:
disheartened by this, bocause there Masale inw. was plenty of malerint evidence that. There were bata in the world 60 bats did live there, If you know what million years ago. Naturally, there
were no beltries then, so they lived In caves. The fossilised remains of these bats show that they haven't changed much since,
Dats are mammalu. They have hair and they suckle their young, New-born bats go out with
their
"Just
Mr keep quiet," whispered Pincher, "and they'll come back." So we int on an old oak beam above the bells and waited. In a few minutes there was scuming in the eaves and a series of staccato squeaks in morse-like code. Te akimis mothers at night. They hold on to ings and squeakings grew louder and them by their teeth. When Dicy louder till the whole cellung seemed get too big for this, the mothers hang crawling with bats.
up on a beain or something, es them
Mr Pincher plucked three of them from the rafters as if they were fruit and put them in his pocket. Then we climbed out on to the roof to take a good look at them in the light. As we did so two of the bats flew out of Pincher pocket,
la a bat's
life. If the
When a bat in flying about it has a temperature of about 104 deg. Fahr, said Mr Pincher, but when it hangs adf up in a belfry and goes to sleep the temperature drops.
DAB
AND FLOUNDER
by Walter.
keep it any longer and we let it go. Who Will Be Next U. S. President?
VAMPIRES are a species of bat Oddly enough, all the medieval stories of human vampires came from ungary and the Balkans, but the genuine vamp is a South American. they have teeth specially shaped for alleing out a plece of your skin without going deep enough to touch the nerves.
PARTY RIVALRY FOR
B
1948 GROWS KEEN
By HARRY W. FRANTZ (United Press Staff Correspondent)
They then just lie there and lop your blood as it wells up into the the nose is the favourite place for cut. With human beings the tip of
a drink, in the morning you wake OTH the Republican and sidential nomination, must attempt Party political experts here believe up and if it wasn't for the tiny
Democratic National Com- as rapidly as possible to "capitalise" that the bi-partisan front on basic patch of blood on the end of your nose you'd never know you'd been started large-scale
mittees havo
of the Republican-con- International problems is likely to already the record
trolled Congress and to develop party continue through the second session vamped.
publicity goodwill irrespective of the eventual of the 80th Congress, and that the campaigns, preparatory to candidate.
paltern
of world affairs will be Bats, as you know, ayold, flying the ..elections on Into things in the dark by a device ber 2, 1948, and an unrelaxing one, and before the nominating con- adopt party "platforms" (declarations Novem- The United States system of Pre fairly clear when the Republican and sidential selection is a complicated Democratie nominating conventions IN the winter it often goes down, that is almost identical Γ
to
radar.
as low as 42deg. Fahr-only the last three
This has been discovered only in party struggle will continuo ventions in the midsummer of 1948, of objectives) in midsummer.
10
of the
con
if they were washing.
This is the most dangerous period. Idec, above freezing. In fact, you though the system must have been historic date. President, Vice- conventions and, in
four decades, until the polls are closed on that there will be a long series of state mother is can put a bat in a refrigerator and in use for 50 million years.
Recently the Inability rome states, President, nearly all members Presidential primary elections" It- larger Powers to agree
on some away too long, they set tired and cool it down till its wings ice up.
They 'send out Ittle squeaks on of
fundamental matters In the The mothers don't seen it won't come to larm, providing
veal the trend of voters' favour. fall down.
the House of Representa-
United The first crystallisation of voters' Nations, such as atomic control and a frequency of 50,000 vibrations per tives, one-third of the Senate, sentiment, within the ranks of the the Greek situation, have caused a to know how to pick them up and you don't keep it there too long.
How do you take a bat's tempera- seeend, and then with their I don't think I've ever been on a so they dle,
ture? There's nothing to it, said Mr listen for the echo. The duration of
cars and at least 30 state governors respective parties, wil
will be revealed
certain popular disillusionment church tool before and seen bain ily
Pincher. You go round 11 colony each squeal is about a 200th of a are to be elected.
in state Presidential primaries as cerning the effectiveness of UN, as out of a man's pocket.
when they are all asleep and slip second and it is quite inaudible to The early start of the national
follows: New Hampshire, March 9, tiny thermometers In their mouths.
world political campaigns is due to the fact that the 8: Iork, April Nebro frequent use of the vnto power in
1918; New
agency, and Soviet Russia has much criticised for April recent session of Congress Indicated it 13: 27: Maryland, mumist sentiment in
April When cruising they send out 30 the basic themes of the Inter-party Pennsylvania,
April 27; the Security Council. are of these squeaks per second, but, if conflict, while public opinion polls May 2; Ohlo. May 4: West Virginis, States was obviously a factor in the the United they get an echo they raise the rate indicate
Dat
ONC
There fire
special instruments called "thermo-couples" made for the purpose.
that
\NCE -tity survive this period
they are set for a long life, be cause bats have few enemies. Owls, about the hawks and clergymen are worst. The vicar of Thornham in system, and one of the Norfolk was so plagued by bats lust works so well is that they chew their mosquito year that he and his parishioners food properly.
UH.
13;
April
Anti-Com-
Bats have a very efficient digestive to BD per second. The maximum every closo struggle in 1940. May 11; Oregon, May 21; California, success of the relatively conservative
Ever
I
for USING the remaining
demonstration
purpanch, Mr Pinder began his lecture. This. bat, he mld, Wat a pipistrel, the smallest and most common of the twelve kind found In Britain. There killed several hundred by swatting should be chewed before swallowing. are more bats in the mouth of England them with tennis rackets,,
As well as eating on the wing, than in the north,
different species in the world. The mallest is the bamboo bat, which can fold itself up till it's no larger than an acorn. squeeze through the cracks in bamboo vanes and sleep in the hollow inside.
Trost have been known to catch bats also drink, or refuel in fight. DURIN
URING the war my job wan to would favour Democratic prospects, Altogether there are about 2,000 bats. In the tropics It's sometimes They skim over the water and scoop night tighter, and we found German nort, supported by labour or-
thag
ап
was
republican party last November,
It has a flat skull ond can Yes, because they cat inserts. In Pincher to a distressing chapter in and bugs. The only difference country. Only thirty million voters domestic rather than international conservative opinion in America is
from the stems of palma trees and
that Truman' All experts concede reasons it raner of their "radar" is about 12ft. and his party's prospects have aub- June 1; New Jersey, June 1; and South Dakota, June 1. Primary elec- stantially recovered
since
the severe tions are optional in four states reversal in the Congressional clec-
However, some political experts. tions of 1046.
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and now gocculato that developments in Believing
a large total vote
Georgia,
British policy and economy may have even more influence than those operate a real radar set in a party_managers already have started
DOMESTIC ISSUES
of Russia in the coming year. Bottr the other way round, and the bats it up with their tongues,
parties in America are already bombers in the dark in exactly the Canisations, to bring out a vote of political struggle, both the Repub- cause of the intimate commercial and
At this early stage of the national catch fish.
definitely anti-Communist. Be Are bats of any use to people?
The mention of drink brought Mr same way as the bat finds beelies at least 00,000,000 of the 90,000,- fican and Democratic parties seem financial ties between the United are mosquitoes this saga of the bats. In some parts that we sent out radio pulses to seek
000 legally entitled to vote, in this Inclined to wage the contest on States and places where there
the United Kingdom, done to en- of the troples the natives draw sap echoes and the bat sends out squeaks. went to the polls in fifty million in issues, and such topics everything should be
If our receiving apparatus
as labour very sensitive courage them.
was 1040; twenty-eight million in 1942, law revision, future taxcuts, the de socialisation across the Almintic,
to the progress of The biggest bat of all is the flying
Then their guano is worth a lot of ferment it for alcohol. The local faulty we didn't catch the returning and forty-eight million in 1944. fox of Java, which has a wing spread money, Mr Pincher ld. It is a buta have acquired the taste and stay echoes. If you lock up a bat's cars,
sirable degree of budget retrench- of five feet. Natives say they taste better fertiliser than sea bird guano catching cups that the natives attach echo either. It has also been found out all night drinking from the sap- smys Mr Pincher, it won't catch the
ment, and responsibility for the ris- Some experts think that if the like tender pork. In Borned people and in some countcles, notably Cube, to the palm trees.
ing cost of food and house rents, Labour Government should speed up that bats have "transmitter" trouble)
the uppermost themes.
its socialisation programme in the make bat pie, and it's supposed to tons of it are collected every year
By the moming they're often so mouths full,
However, there are some indica coming be rather like jugged hare. The from caves where the bats live,
if they send out squeaks with their
tions that domestic and foreign pro nationalising the steel Industry, the months to the extent of drunk they can't fly home. Hence the term "as blind as a bat"?
And now, if you've been following having a certain candidate, Presl that important statements on Inter- be to strengthen conservative forces. biems might overlap in 1948 and effect in the United States would carefully, you'll be well on the way dent Harry S. Truman, can concen- As a matter of fact, that
becoming
national questions may become im- Practical result would be to bring 2 explanation which is what people are called who the potential platform of the cam- tion Conventions occur.
cheiropterologist, trate their effort on the issues and perative when the National Nomina- business elements than the generally accepted
closer to the because bats aren't blind. It's just cheirop,
one study bats. So cheiro for now, and paign. The Republicans, with about publicans will incet in Philadephia groups would incline toward the. The Re Republican Party, while labour 10 Indicated candidates for the Pre- on June 21. The date and place of democrats.
the Democratic meeting is to be fixed later.
SIDE GLANCES
By
COPIL 1997 BY KIA SERVICE, INC. Y, M. REG. U. I. PAY, OFT.
Galbraithe a more reasonable would to
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"Yes, I had to buy a whole now wardrobe because longor dresses are back in style—but look at what I'll save when 'shorter skirts are being worn again and I can cut them off!"
Skeleton
CLUES ACROSS
2. Step on it
If you're 13
A-hurry,
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place.
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en without
leaving the anore,
15. Days
youthful in-
experience
of food?
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the fannyard 7 (Three words.)
20. Powder ubtaibable
dental clinic.
23. Mouthpieces of a kind,
trom
26. 10% a wine the other way.
97, 15% irritating to pitch short.
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I leave Ernio, to ret the bird.
20. Out-of-the-ordinary drink.
30. Cockney 14.
31. Actors, for instance y
CLUES DOWNT
1. Pray porter to find you this
nabool
2. Bemi-collapey in church.
U. Priends at tank.
if the bat, man, loede his head
how still bad.
CERTAIN CANDIDATE
The early "speed-up" in partisan rivalry in due to several special con- siderations: Arst, the Democrats,
Thinking Aloud
IR THOMAS BEECHAM
isworking himself up
into a fine fury about the
ladies
and gentlemen in the
by PAUL HOLT
Press who commented on the is a stunt.
are
In the 1945 election and in the The second session of the 80th Congress session of 1946, anti-Com- Congress, to convene on January 3, munist feeling strengthened the Re- will reveal a close relationship be publican position, and the Democrats tween domestic and foreign problems, moved from the Rooseveltian Now The question of tax reduction, for Deal post "a little left of centre" example, presents
to u middle-of-the-road double-hended to a
position. foreign problem. On the one hand, After the struggle over the Taft- avoidance of tax cuts would make Hartley Labour bill, President Tru- more money potentially available for man in his veto messages and op
evidently attempted to foreign redenstruction ald; but on poten the other hand, fallure to reduce the labour. The Republicans, by budg
the goodwill of organised domestic tax burden could cause
resentment
against large etary polley and legislative
gramme, identided themselves as the
Which is unfair price is, and no giveaways) we all wifeons for use abroad.
try.
scem pre-
noises off during the concert he both to lovers of good music feel that their is nothing we would conducted at Harringay arena. and to Messrs. Gentle and not do to or for our dear old coun He says he thinks they all came Hylton, who both from Borstal, though I don't pared to lose their money în a quite see what that has to do gentlemanly silence. with it.
Pedigree
Yrs. affectntly,
Harry the Mole.
As Simple as That
MR CALOUSTE SARKIS GULDEN-
in
broad
strengthen business
and
CLOSE ELECTION
pro-
However, both parties facing a
lings, the Republicans in "party of the right,"
seek to campaigns will
to the party's appeal
to agriculture. popularise
of philosophy individual liberty and "free and
and competitive enterprise," convince the country of its adminis
the
REPUBLICAN - AIM
to
it
close election-may modify their principles somewhat in an attempt to gain the decisive labour vote large industrial cities. Political logie There was a fan reading the news that the King MI KIAN, the famous financler, has trative capacity,
would require that the Republicans. would shortly drop the title of been interviewed while luxuriating
In the next Congress, should attempt Emperor and be known instead as in the Lisbon sunshine. It has been
a programme of broad popular ap- King of Hindustan and King of reported that he is responsible_for
peal, while the Democrats, In an elec- Pakistan an old lady of my acquain holding up vast deal between Bri- Carroli feces, chairman of the tion year, would naturally try to Lance remarked: “Why, I think that's tish, Dutch, French and American In-Republican so much neer. You can be sure of terests to step up the annual pro- already has reasserted
Committee,
bridge the gap between the conserv the basié tive and radical elements in their a King's family, but an Emperor may duction of the Iraq all wells by declaration made by the Republicans own party. have sprung from anywhere."
10,000,000 tons,
prior to the Congressional campaign Farewell-and hail
I was there. The truth is there were noises, faint but discernible. whirring in the roof, and a man selling ice-cream, and a distant roaring from outside.
These would not have mat- tered if the hall had been full and if Sir Thomas had chosen યુ sturdier programme. throw Delius and the Beethoven piano concerto No. 3 into such
was absurd.. petuous.
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an uneasy pool of emptiness Or perhaps im-
Now, to think up angry, words at this stage raises the unfor- tunate suspicion that the whole of this Harringay music festival
Crossword
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Tear about at apead.
7. Do ther make a song about
their work?
1. What the manufacturer pro ducen is the result of multi- pilcation,
13. it's quita'simple' but theres
skil in the arch.
10. Alo in upset in the passage.
17. A portion set amido.
21. When there's more than lifty
over the politician, he's soIC.
zi. The people who say the thiniga
we liver.
23. kg) rather a strain to be on
thin.
24. Bois accompanimant,
20. Becurce without a dog.
TN the Skeleton Crossword - the black squares and clue numbers have to be filed in, by the univer. na well na 'the words, Four black sonarva and tour, clúe numbers hure been inserted to give you #
start.
The pattern of the black squares toyinmetrical, no that the two sides balance each other and the bottom half of the puzzle is 'Te llection of the top fait.. Kod ean hi in twelve more hinck waitres at once to correspond, with those
BITED.
Htudy the clue numbers care Emily. Tite bed to balance 22
· Down on the right-hand side of the puzzle must be 23 ur 24 Down, It cannot be 29 Down because if Ji were you would not be able to get 24 and 25 in the purele in front of 10 must, then, be 24, and 23 Down must be in the middle of the puzzle between 22 and 24.
Reasoning thus, you can kuni plete, the puzzle as you solve the élties.
20.
LAST WEEK'A MOLUTION
He said: I want that there should in 1940. be plenty of oll for the whole world
National
the
executive
Some experienced political obser "Today's major issue is between vers think that stable or even alightly at the cheapest possible price. I radicalism, regimentation, all-power-ring price level in 1948 would tend AM wondering what Jimmy Agate want everybody, to have a fair deal, fut bureaucracy, class exploitation, to help the Democrats, A sharp de-
would think about his obituary I do not belleve notices. The affection of his friends should be crushed by cartels and
that minorities defcit spending, and machine politics, cline in price level and business re- as ngainst our belief in American casalon tends to favour the party would have startled him a little, for the big peoples
under out-of-control who ignore their freedom for the individual Jimmy was an ebullient and pugna- rights."
just laws fairly administered for all, branch of the government. But each clous little man.
Darty will blame the other for the preservation of local home rule,
higher cost of living that followed efficiency and pay-as-you-go
and the the abrogation of the price control in government, economy
administration. protection of the American way of life against elther Fascist or Com- munist trends,” -
The
This Lancashire brusqueness, In him always reminded me of the story of the Hlille bird who travelled by train from Manchester to London. At Euston he was greeted by a Lon- don bird who
cried 'cheerily:- Wotcher,
old cock sparreri" The little Manchester bird drew back.
wants then there will be no more If Mr Gulbenklan gets what he
wars. Which is absurd.
Minuet for Cripps
The Republican Party is the tradi- tional sponsor_
of high protective evident strategy of the tariffe in the United States, and the TRAVELLERS from the United Democratic Party will be lo increase Democratic reciprocal tariff bargain- States are all impressed by the Truman's personal popularity, to re- ing authority (based on low tariff with
a furious dignity rubbing the soot off his chest: "I'm, praise given to British films. There
cried, consistent and sometimes extravagant vitalise the tremendous popular philosophy) must be renewed before a robin, sir
guess that in heaven; by now Hazlitt is bending again the raper
I
and
of his invective and Sarah Bernhardt is polishing up her French,
Political note
THE Tory Party had an exhibition In London. They called it Trust the People. They'd better,
Harry the Mole
woman or
THE following postcard, showing
a surprised young Blackpool sands, bas reached this onleo from my tame sply. Harry the Mole. Dear Friend,
are two reasons for this,
appeal which that party had In
expiration
next
Juno. Est The first is straightforward. The ship of an ars under the leader- politicians see little capital to be Frankiin D. Roosevelt: to fix, gained now by revival of the tariff crities are so bored and bullied and the blame for high living costs upon istup. bludgeoned by the mounting stupid the Republican Party; to preserve the
of organised
fally by attacks on the
EXPORT EXCESS
ty of Hollywood products, also by the good will arrogance of most Hollywood pro- Culty
The United States is likely, to have bill which was passed over ducers, that they turn to praising
a huge excess of exports over ime". British aims in self-defence and to President Truman'd veto; and to get their own back,
Improve the relations between. ports for some time, and the dollar And Hollywood, until recently,
cently, Southern Democrats and the more exchange problem would obviously didn't mind.
the the more im- liberal factions of East
be further aggravated by revival of and Weat
Success or high protective tariffs. at present faluro pression is given that British films
of the Geneva Conference and
dollar ato
shortage
For
Note of warning
Riddle of the compug internal
•
are scooping the pool throughout to whether thera Is America the pleasanter might have dissension between conservative and the engravin bern the future freedom of American 'bernt demoenis to justify Henry A. might compel fundamental attention... Aims in the British, market.
Wallace and those of te mind to to United States economic relations make a third-party attempt. Such abroad before the next elect'ons.
of U.S.- The und
unpredictable course of n split, theoretically, would increase
European economic relations, Republican prospects of electoral Russian
recovery, ORD PAKENHAM is telling Ger- success.
and British cconomic Come-on-get-it, Jo-jo Llorwise,
difficulties will all tend to defer Rudy Semba, The Larker and severelmans they should be proud they other of my friends have asked me are Germans, I can see what he is EUROPEAN AFFAIRS clear-cut partisan spl'ts in America torekin policy, as national In- to inform you how gratified they are up to. He wants them to snap out
Events in
welfare mBY TO- Europe, particularly terest and by the
acknolledgements of their cringing self-pity and In- official acorded to them by Mr Ness Ed- dolenes and go to work with a will. Moscow and London, appear likely quire a high degree of co-operation wards, MP, when he said in the Ife is calling up national pride to to have an important influence on between the parties. One practical H.o.C. that thero wow more than a stiffen their backs and step up their the 1948 Presidential campaigns, but politician suggested that no political million Spivs now in the dear old productivity,
the actual issues cannot be forecnat party would dare to go to the UI. Now that we have been Ro- It is dangerous work. Hitler did until the progress of the Marshall electorato next year with the record cognised and the Word has been it ten years ago, using almost Plan for European economic recovery of having frustrated the Marshall printed in Hansard (ILM. Stat. Of. Identical language.
is further revealed.
Plan.
on
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