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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1948.

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World Copyright. My arrangement with #pening Blándara.

Sitting on the

EWSPAPER

columnists

in America are almost as numerous as stars in

the sky.

Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

C. V. R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN SCENE

Sun in the

Cellar

NEW YORK. WINTERS are harshi in Massachusetts, but near Boston, a woman scientist, Dr. Maria folkes, has moved into a house without conveit- tional heating.

A

She wants to prove that it is possible to live In a house without coal, oil, electricity, or any

other source of heat but the sun.

Dr Telkes has built a cottage to prove hor point. It is modern style, with a sitting-room, kitchen and bath, and two bedrooms,

Features that differ from the conventional modern house shed-like roof and a wall of little but windows facing south. A

The sun's rays are trapped by a device built in just above those windows. They are carried by a circulator to a series of "heat bing" in the cellar. These are filled with a cheap chemical- sodium sulphato dekahydrate (Glauber's salt).

The Incoming heat molts this chemical. And, as it solidifies again, the obliging chemical gives off heat which is distributed by adjustable fans and ducts all over the house

And would they wince?

your Uncle knows might

Dr. Telke moving-in tiny temperatures outdoors 31 degrees, Indoors 71

POSTDAG: In a new,, volume of

F.D.R. letters, covering the period 1905 to 1928, It is disclosed that a Paris clairvoyant told him.43 years ago that he would bo America's President, and that Birs Roosevelt said this of Englishwomen while in in England during; her honeymoon: have aThey look, frumps, even when they

Muny

nervous reaction and hit back...........“

famous people if encountered

are not"

Than

All addressed by an fitimate TRAFFIC: are you and to so many

version of their Christian names.

few garages that motorists have to The Prime Minister would bo leave thele, cars in the street. The Churchill city is now. planning to make money

Clemsy and poor. Mr would be infuriated to hear, himself out of thoir troubles by installing called Winsy Boy.

moters which will sell a space alongside the pavement for three- pence an hour,

Another trick which columnists sometimes use to give the Impression that they are buddy boys with the

Starting at the bottom (in "order of talent) with keyhole columnists Ilko Walter Winchell and Lonelin Parsons, who peep into the private lives of ex-friends and other no-` bodies, they range through a con- stellation of medium big shots like Drew Pearson, who peeps at secret documents over the shoulders of

Even now that he knows Sinate would change the card to "Unele great would be to remark: embarrassed diplomats, right up to is a crooner he could hardly be. Nat's had it” a few high-powered superhet models expected to know the kind of shirts

faultless. At night, In like Walter Lippmann, who favours he wears even if we had any shirts dress, he would wear in his jacket

a little electric sign connected the entire world with a shrewd like that over hero.

pocket battery which

would glance once a day and gives it some **

finsh "Uncle Nat" every rive kindly advice.

seconds.

D

evening

FASHION: New York milliners

announce they have found a way to follow the Paris edicts for "As I was saying to Bernie the bare-shoulder dresses with Edwardian other day.

hats for restaurant wear this winter. Their problem has been to find "Bernie" the goping audience something to take the place of egrets, which are legal in America, in the

have found to ostrich feathers treated with

10

would ask.

"George Bernard. Shaw

hats What

glycerine.

The PLW would wear a similar ordinary folk," says the columnist. glycer B

PUT bo might have "Uncle Na!" sign flashing. "The Trouble and "Quite a buddy boy of mine."

done in worsted .on Some of Strife." hic old-shirts. This would not only

THEREFORE the discovery of a 'cause a lot of comment among the Even his cat Lottie would TECHE thong so many, in conservatiya English (and work up dragged into it so

be

ho

the American newspaper heavens the ability angle too, oh boy, oh little white collar inscribed "Unclo would be of no importance at all boy, oh boy), but would hide & Nat's Cat" in gold letters.

which

to look. ecised holes If it had not been reported by such lot of: astute astronomers as the editors of patriotic year ago. the American news-magazino. Tinie,

Forks the chiot dimeulty would who

noted the following have peculiarities:-

to persuade his life partner. the Plucky Little Woman, to wear His name is Irving Kurcinet 'n blouse stencilled with his column (pronounced CUP-senate).

Plucky and daring as she is ho. feels she would jib at going round nicht clubs with "Cor mufferin archbishops, said the Swee" plastered all over her back.

His column is called (with, com- mendable restraint) Kup's Kolumn, and not Kup's Kolumn.

Your uncle is not the kind of man who is intented with, half-

He finds night clubs 'exciting, and "every night, sportily dressed in a shirt with long Sinatra-style points (and with KUP loudly emblazoned racasuren, When he decides to da on his bandkerchief, lie clasp, cuff something, which isn't often, laks, and gold ring) be patrols such gives it everything he's got spots as Chez Parce and the Shangrila, slapping backs

sipping coffee.

he

and

He feels that if he once decided BLA-advertisement was a desirablo thing ne would make Uncle Irv look

"His red-haired wife tags along. Uke a small-town pedlar selling often wearing a blouse stencilled toothpaste. with his column.”

He has five telephones and calls "wincing newsmen boy." Clark .Gable "Clarkic."

*

They

DRESS: There is only one national

paper in America today ---the Christian Science Monitor. But there may soon be a second one. Labour unions are urging their leaders to start one.

T this early stage of his career A perhaps Uncle Irv hasn't heard

TRAVEL: Dollar tourists are of that one.

warned by columnist Paul But if he feels like it, he has Gallico that; with bottle-partier his Uncle Nat's permission to refer going out, they can expect to find.

1.

FOLLOWING in the Uncle by to Josey Boy when he means Josif nothing left of "merrie old England,

tradition, all newsmen wouki ha Vissarionovich Dzugnsvill' — that but just an England which "seems- slapped on the back and called being Uncle Joe. Stalin's real and to grow only more drab, more

beautiful name.

drcury, more” uņi "Buddy Boy."

MARIJUANA HABIT INCREASES IN U.S.

THE

amount

By DOUGLAS LARSEN

A large part of the supply is grown. right in the U.S.. in back yards, on empty lots. It is easy simple to raise. And it is a very process to dry the leaves and roll

HE holding of actor Robert Mit- chum in Hollywood on a mariju- For instance it he had a car and at hams a chauffeur, which he is not likely asa drug charge brought to light buddy to have unit income tax is reduced. an indication that "reefer smoking called he

them into cigaretter. would have a large, pulchre increasing rapidly in the US. shining thing with "Uncle Nat**

U.S. Latest Agures from the Car" painted on both sides in, gold Treasury Dept show that the

The plant looks liko, an 'ordinary

one to thre Letters

confiscated garden weed, grows of marijuana

has a seven-bladed;

Small buds or Marijuanat It looks - like The chauffeur, wearing a white by Federal agents Jumped 64 per feet high and

cent last year over the previous jagged-edged lent,

the plant contain the

dinary garden weed. and gold livery, with "Uncle Na" year, from 23,588 ounces to 39.894 peds on on the cap and lapels, would ounces. The number of peddlers highest concentration of the drug. announce his arrival in towns and of the drug arrested by Treasury It is of the hemp family, scientifically stances it makes

Increased from 802 to labelled "cannabis sativa." villages by yelling has name: through men also

987. And

doesn't includo a loudspeaker.

Those engaged in its lidt truts thousands of arrests. by local and fe call the drug "Mary

Warner." state narcotics men.

"Mary." "reefers,". "muggles," "hay", or "stuff."

WELL, folks, that's Uncle Irv, and

here's your Uncle Nat, with envy, wishing he had thought up that kind of publicity years ago,

Perhaps it's not too late even

1

now.

A

in-

holiday a

took a Things are still a bit difficult to EN

Wuolity to would precede get, but amybe, with a litte fluence, your Uncle could buy a gold him and mother the town with ring and some gold cuff links with posters, "Uncle Nat la coming.” Nat stamped on them.

When he arrived the posters. He has never wom a gold ring would be changed to "Uncle Not 12 or cuff links before, but one must - here,” - When he left they would live with the times and suffer for shout from every hourding. Ungi one's art

Nat has gone."-

•

|

that

Well-Organised Gangs

amok.

an or

user

run: Generally, it renders incapable of intelligent

a person: action, as: does alcohol. It wears off in froms two to four hours, leaving a slight. hangover and feeling of depres create slon."

Mild uso doesn't

appear to nie. help fect physical health, but in India and Egypt, where: there is wide- spread use of stronger doses it:

Continued 150 docan't helpless addiction, liko oplum.

psychological Addicts need rather than medicine.

Mexico is, one of the big sources. The illegal trattle is straining the resources of the U.S. to stop it. Most reefer, smokers are found makes users feeble-minded or in-

Well-organised gangs and bold among musicians and other art-sand.. tone-wolf operators are responsible isis. The drug has its greatest for bringing it in. One of the biggest appeal to persons of unstable recent cases involved an American-sonality.

per-

25-Years Ago

ago.7.

It is believed a traveller brought mining engineer, Victor C. Sanders..

It gives the user, a false And how he would be suffering

He was caught peddling "reefers'?

sense seeds for the plant to Mexico and wearing a gold ring and gold cutŸ: And on doubt everybody would be in Los Angeles. Later a huge supply of well-being and makes him It was introduced into the U.S.

glad.

which belonged to him was found acutely sensitive to different sounds from there about 28 years Unks stamped: Nat,

hidden The shirt with the long “Sinatra-

In a chicken coop in and pitchon The U.S. Public Traffle, reached its penk· In 1937,. On his tabla in restaurants' there.

California Three big Health Service has proved by tests when a Tederal law, was

·passed,. Compton, style points" might be hard to find..

carefully sealed that it does not improve a musician's "banning. Its sale, use, or possession.. For a long time your Uncle was would be a silver stand bring trunks held 210

cardThis is Uncle -Nat feeding."

TeM All 48 totes have laws against it cans, each containing four ounces ability. sure if

While under the Influence of a The Federal penalty for.a Mickey ROONEY'S NEW SENSATIONAL ROLE! American breakfast food, a dog In tavernis his chauffeur would of the drug. He said he bought the

**KILLER "McCOY"

actor on the films, or a new medical put at Amilar card on the bar, This stuff from a man named "Joe" in reefer the smoker belleves that marijuana violation is not more term for slaus trouble, known is Uncle" Nat drinking". When he Juarez, Mexico. Sanders is in pri- there is nothing he isn't capable than a $2,000 noe, five years in gach

of doing or fing. In some in or both. among ordinary people as face-ache. Lit,” "hours later, the chouleur son.

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