1948-12-31 — Page 4

American Angle:

Shopping Made Painless

By EVELYN WEBBER

Robert.

Morrill, 30-year-old star, sang at 200 American opera weddings-three of them for thờ same bridegroom, But he isn't himself Washington married

Court Jualico, Frank Supreme Murphy, 14 times a best man, is still single. So is James Stewart,

NEW YORK, Dec. 14. WHILE Christmas shoppers W throng Fifth Avenue, ono oxpensive Now York store in troduces a club offering "Pain less Shopping for Tired Busi- ness Executives." A privato. Hollywood. entrance is provided. Women are barred.

CUA-

A beautiful blondo greets *tomers. A barman offers. sherry,

Scotch, or coffee.

Another blonde escorts the cus tomer

alales, through carpeted Mannequins parade in strapless gowns and furs.

Price is no object. "If they lko it they just buy. it," sighed one salesgiti as the added up her com mission. "Gee, I wish it Christmas all the time!"

· HAND-WARMERS

These news:

Kelling-lines are

was

making

Star of Bethlehem flowers from South Africa. They travelled wax- ed and in the bud and fast for six weeks when put in a vate;

"Plasticized" water- proof beaver - dyed Tim coats, £10 to

£42 each;

Initialled um- brellas, with pockets for overshoes,

· 109.;

LI

"Gold folding-chairs for the races; and

Hand - warmers. These are metal cases like cigarette lighters, filled with lighter Buld.

The

warmth Inots up to 30 hours. Price. 178,

sá.

of

thosc wifo

Bachelors here have 42 percent higlier mortality rate than married! man. They have twice as допу fatal accidents and are more than three times as susceptible to mad- ness. Their murder,

God auteldo alcohollam rates are higher.

the same, they maintain high.

Colicctively. American career men want a who will bo: blonde, understanding. quiet, companionable, patient, prac- tical, old-fashioned, full of per- sonality, musical, utterly feminine; and tio unjealous, unobtrusive, quote Mr Hoover) "able to slay of the pedestal on which she would bo put."

EMBARRASSED'

of

Mary Lee Fairbanks, wife Douglas Fairbanks, Junior, has been She wrote to a friend in England. from England: "I dislike the clothes

'EAT WHAT YOU

CAN' FOR 78.6d.

ONE

NE New York restaurant is offering for 7s. Gd.

a dinner of turkey, goose of chicken; six different vege- rolla, tables, saled, hot apple ple, coffee, tea of milk, The manu sayı: "Eat as much as you like ? ask for as many second halpings as you wish."

bought hore; American designers are better, and their clothes more wear- able,"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1948.

RUHR REVIVAL

A FOUNDATION STONB

g

WESTERN UNION

"CIEL! DO YOU HAVE TO LAY IT ON ME ?"

World CopyriJAS.

CONCLUDING A SIX-PART SERIES WHICH STARTED IN THE TELEGRAPH LAST FRIDAY

THE REAL STALIN

TN the fall of 1929 several hundreds of men and women mot in one of the great of an ancient Moscow

Mrs Fairbanks cannot have read re- of cent

remarks

fashion American writers about Ameri- rooms castle. can fashions.

Low!..

High Fashion Its Where once Grand-Dukes and New

water Counts in their brilliant dress expert. The

had caroused and uniforms formula seems to be all the skirt you can danced with their elegant ladies, get, plus a necklace now these men and women in of dazzling proportions to make up their simple attire listened to From Canada comes a revolu- for your inck, of a bodice.

a discussion on the electrifica- elec- tionary Ironing gadget-an

tion of Soviet Russia. trically heated unit seated in alumi- nium sheets. You slip it between the ironing-board and pad and it furnishes bottom heat; the. iron gives top heat. Manufacturers claim every It saves one ironing hour in (bree,

Д

"The higher the fashion the lower cut the gown. What constitutes bodice now is not worth ing."

ed by the lack dresses, wear

of tops to

factories should be established.

*

By EMIL LUDWIG

*

HIS ONE AIM IN LIFE

By MAX BOYD

FOR the last eight years an American doctor,

Claude H. Barlow, has had one aim in life- to kill anails. -...

The reason is that some of them harbour a tiny larva which is more destructive, up to now, than the atomic bomb,

Dr Barlow says the disease caused by this larva is probably the most widespread and destrucivo human ailment known to man. Since earliest history it has affileted hundreds of mil- llons of men and women working in the streams and flooded fields of the Middle and Far East. Half of Egypt's 19,000,000 people suffer. from it today, and the loss of productivo power in all affected countries is beyond calculation,

The disease is known as Bilharziasis, (pro- after Theodore bill-har-zoyo-a-sis) nounced Bilharz, a German who discovered its cause."

Dr Barlow first became interested in It is a medical missionary in China. After 20 years of fighting disease among the Chinese, he gave up clinical medicino, and enrolled in a course of parasitology at Johns Hopkina Uni- versity, In the U.S.

How he would have felt about Stalin's recent moves I do not claim to know.

Once I asked one of the moat well-known Soviet leaders how the Russian communists were likely to feel about Stalin after his death.

"We'll build for him a mausoleum greater than Lenin's," he said.

Going to Egypt in 1920, with the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr Barlow studying spent the next ten years snails.

·

In 1940 the Egyptian Government asked him to set up the first public health department in the world do- voted solely to the destruction of bilharzia snails. It is this section that he now operates.

this

President year ARLY

Truman gave Dr Barlow the

arosu

out,

of

human

Certificate of Merit in recognition of one of the most berole and un- selfish acts in the history of melt- cine. During World War II, a num ber of American soldiers suffering from bilharzlasis were 'invalided to As no historical Agure can be the United States from the Middle judged in dis entirely prior to death, and Far East. The question so Stalin's place in history up to the ns to whether there were snails in present is also inconclusive. Only the United States that would carry Stalin told me explicitly that Stalin, like Lenin, is a worshipper this fact la certain: that unlike some the disease from one human being

Te- of science, and has made nimosta of his predecessors, his greatest dan-to another. In order to and

Eer comes not through defeat but it was necessary to have eggs religion of it. On the platform, one of the it was not be who was mention-

rather through victory. foremost experts of the country ponsible for that plan. But in

In World War II Stalin got along.

If Napoleon in 1810 or Stalin in the bilharzia worm from a

patient. Not so

history 1043 had been murdered,

them the Some of the women, embarrass- stood in front of a gigantic the end he was its heir. Within.

equals of For this purpose Dr Barlow -ex- to well with Churchill. Stalin had not would rate their map, and pointed out where four years the majority of the very well with Roosevelt.

thoroughly himself pendants about the the electricity plants, dams and electrification projects had be forgotten that, at the end of World Caesar. A man who, at the height of posed

which melt their War I, Churchill was one of the his success, is felled by the hand bilharzia larvae, come a reality."

chief instigators of anti-Bolshevik of an assassin, usually becomes away through unbroken human skin

national hero,

and attack the liver and other or- great intervention.

cans. He was flown to the United and

taking States and refrained from Only someone who has met all

treatment until months after his in- see the deeper three of them can elements of their personal relations. TN Stalin, though, there are two fection had reached dangerous and

west

characteristic traits which, before excruciating proportions. Finally be belonged to the Christian world, and our very eyes, are very injurious underwent treatment, which he mys were born Info; wealth-while the to him. First, ho la omnipotent, vice is so prolonged and disgusting that CHIEF WORK cobbler's son from Tis has all his forious over all his internal enemies; most victims will not take the re-

Bfe been aghting both Christianity, second, his advanced age is a replica quired number of injections,

of his youth in so far as he cannot

he had been technical organisation of and wealth.

Two years after rld himself of his youthful revolu-

gured he bad to undergo an 'opera- Russia in the years from 1930 to THE

Churchill, Marlborough's direct tionary tendencies.

a proud member An outcast in his teens, and then tion that was due to damage done 1910 was probably Stalin's chief descendant and

Now, at the age of contribution to his country. It will of England's oldest aristocracy, may an underground revolutionary now by the disease. a red- Manhatten's fashionable East side, engineer-had the duty to give probably still be there when every well have regarded Roosevelt, much at the height of his enormous power, [ 72, be has recovered much of his

thing else, including death sentences as he loved him, merely as the selon how can he forget the technique of was and executions, has fallen into of a Dutch merchant family and conspiracles and turn into a mellow

TOO BUSY TO WED

With

the only 17 more days to

still end of Leap Year, there aro

United 7,000,000 bachelors in the

very

size of a mouth-organ, to make them feel more dressed; or sport leaves and floral Jewelled sprays as big

potted plants.

qa

£100 A LECTURE

States. Some of them are famous and eligible.

Speaker Joe Mariin, of the House of Representatives, is 04 and a Re- would publican, but he anys he

marry a Democrat if she were the Why hasn't, he right woman." married before? "Too busy."

63-year- G-man Edgar Hoover, old director of the FBI, says he is fone of the most vigorous boosters of the family in the country." But he stays single.

Actor Maurice Evans says that Kay has moved into a flat on

Kay Summeraby, General Elcen- hower's British wartime assistant, is making a fortune here out of her book, "Eisenhower Was My Boss."

"I'm booked for lectures at about until next spring. £100 Fifty-two newspapers have bought the book rights," she told me.

a -time

Already in 1920 Lenin had summoned nearly a thousand experts from the four corners of the country, and outlining to them what, he had in mind, made the statement:

"Communism is Russia plus electrification."

During the ten months of their research, every citizen whether peasant, worker or

whatever

of

needed.

Livery

carly in the game beaded lady married a friend of with Talek, the dog General Eisen-

her. Proposals mine. After that the theatre be- hower gave.

come in every day by came the most absorbing mistress of marriage

mail and telephone. all."

Tito exhibits his white nightingale

information

It must

ปี have been Batisfaction for the sombre taciturn man, when travelling across Russia, to see the blazing lights whose diminutive symbols he had watched faro

castle.

oblivion.

up in that Moscow

It should, of course, not overlooked that this work was, as it were, carried by the spirit of the epoch,

When the research work was completed, Stalin, writing one of his typical letter to Lenin, agreed-to-the-project, and, re- ferring to some other industrial scheme of Trotsky's, added organised, Improved their technical maliciously:

**Trotsky_is_a_medioval arti- But the star exhibit is a taltered

He thinks of himself as IN a middle-class suburban

army uniform. Tito was wearing san. villa in Belgrado lives &

it whon it was blown off by the hero in some Ibsen drama man with his bomb.

who feels the urge to save plump, lonely

his The Germans announced they had Russia through a kind of own private museum,

legend." aviary, his horses; and his pet captured Tito, but all they had was turtles.

·

.The

“All muntrics, even

organisation in those years,

the

The

two men

from the

TWO TRAITS

vitality..

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something like an upstart whose ancestry was socially closer to that of Stalin than to his own.

SELE TAUGHT

How much will his life to sage?

Bismarck grow wien during his shortened by having been a human advancing years because he was not guinea pig? burdened with the heritage of a

don't know," he tells you. conspiratorial youth. Though a go- getter as a young man, ho always "Even just living every day will kell remained a member of the ruling you eventually.

Germany and clase. That's why he succeeded in peacefully uniting

Europe, entire Chancellor Chancellor."

w

bestHURCHILL is a man of enormous erudition: Stalin, a self-taught min, accumulated much more know- ledge than Roosevelt did.

that

THE

disease with which Dr Barlow infected himself causes Intense

the "Iron and turned into a "Peace Yet Stalin's was a pioneer work;

When I quoted Proudhomme,

Stalin I do

believe not his hail_beer_a_sleeping country the unused treasures of whose soll had (French socialist author), Stalin actually-wishes-a-third-world war; suffering, prolonged weakness and

but he will be constantly threaten-sometimes death. barely been topped under the czars, corrected my quotation.

When I once asked Roosevelt ing, and we know nothing about the At a time when the industry of

intentions of his successors, for wo the west relled on electricity every whether he had read Marx, he don't really know who they will bo.

replied with a. laugh: "No!" where, ezarist Russia, constituting a sixth of the world, used only two

cent of the electric power of ledge the world.

The amount used today by the one Soviet plant of Magnitogorsk is far greater!

the uniform.

the turtle pool. Then to

sunning themselves, CONGRESS CHAIRMAN per Marshal Joseph Broz turtles were The man la

approached Tito, ruler of Yugoslavia, and this but when the visitors picture of a dictator at home was given to me recently, by Sir Harold Gillies, the plastic surgeon, who met Tito during a recent lecture tour of Yugoslavia.

Tito's

moderate-sixed villa in a establishment standing in wooded grounds.

WOMAN WHO WATCHED When Sir Harold called ho was

they plunged into the pool to hide. BUT Lenin now was lying in his

But they could still be seen, and

glass coffin, and Trotsky Tile was amused because however

in the Sea of Marmora. much the turtles tried to hide they was exiled on a Turkish island were still visible in the water.

four Tito paraded his horses, mogalficent animals. One was hla charger throughout the war. It was wounded twice while carrying him. Finally, Tilo took Sir Harold to

accompanied by General Mesterovic his orangery, of which he is ex-

tremely proud.

There were no ripe oranges, but two lemons, which Tito plucked and

and the Minister of Health, plus an interpreter, Jerica Jancic,

"She was more

ORDER OF LEMON

than an inter gave to his guest. preter, she was a bodyguard," sold Sir Harold. She never let me out af her sight, even when I went Ash- ing."

The visitors were led into a long,

-narrow room.

on

Tito greated them, and sat one side of a large table, with the butler served visllors opposito. A cocktails.

Tito had no members of his suite

It was Stalin who was the chairman of this congress.

When, one after another, little electric bulbs flashed up on the great map as symbols of the future industrial works, until the whole map seemed to be ablaze, the speaker ended

Sir Harold asked him to auto-his report. graph one and Tito did so with

a "This is what we are fighting fountain pen.

"So I received the Order of the for," he said, lowering his

cracks Sir voice. Lemon, Arst class," Harold.

Sir Harold toured devastated villages of Bosnia, where nearly

with him, although, says, Sir Harold, all the women are stu

a

wearing black for

"I had the feeling that there were mourning. and Lew armed guards about, and once uniformed man appeared quietly men are seen. from behind some frees

de-

Conversation was difficult at frat Sir Harold presented Tito with one of his books, containing a dileation to the marshal with thanks for his work in furthering plastic surgery in Yugoslavia,

OPENED UP

Later Tito opened up, and Sir Haroll out Into the

war

There almost wiped out the male population.

Entry to Yugoslavia by train was marked by a change

conductors.

In train

The man who had seen the party across took Europe was replaceri by Yugoslav of ruffanly, пppenranco who got drunk at intervals.

garden, where they were photographed to somewhat

gether. Then he showed his posseв Rions.

cobbler's son,

:

TRANSFORMATION

TALIN'S escapades of brutal force in Eastern Europe show that this

and

which

The doctor's hopes to control it

causes tho Jarval worm which

cannot malady. This larval worm

human being go from one another without living for a in a certain kind of mail,

are planed on a peculiarity of the

to time

"We can't depend upon manat all to stop the disease or to control it," Barlow says, "But we can kill it doesn't make any difference the snails, we can control them, and

In fact, Roosevelt had read know-

In only geography American history. But he rarely talked about anything which he realised he did not understand and Tartar who, as a youth, enviously that greatly impressed Stalin, the looked up to the Russlans, has bc-

come more and more Russian.

But that classic model of modern Out of the twenty-four basic raw

in

At a party at Hyde Park long be- democracy which Masaryk had built wartime, needed materials America is lacking nine, Great fore the war, Roosevelt asked me up in Czechoslovakia

what sort of a man Stalin was. I Stalin has tried to destroy among where you break the life cycle of Britain all of them save three.

Bot up, and mimicked Stalin's heavy others before our very eyes cannot the worm, so long as you break it."

Soma 10,000 men under his direc Radical ideas like overstretched tion try to do this by clearing irri Soviet Russia, except for antimony, malt. I didn't know we were being permanently be destroyed.

weeds, which would absorb and waste chemicals, tin and tungsten, has all basic raw filmed at that moment, and thus I

natural with a heavy gait, which surely was tract. theso

Danton's and Mirabeau's' demands and then putting enough copper materials. Her technology has begun appeared in the newsreel as a man rubber bands must eventually con- gallon ditches of

not mine.

for human rights were the inspira- The last time I saw Roosevelt, on ton for Jefferson's ideas and, siml sulphate into the water to kill the January 8, 1945, I told him that I larly, the staggering megalomaniac

napthalines High-boiling-point ploited by nature; now man exploits was scheduled to speak in New York Russia of today will transform it- nature. It that passion for technical about him and Stalin the following self eventually into a state which are considered an even better poi-

and dictatorn son. They kill weeds as well been

has abolished tsars achievements

has largely destroying man's soul,

week, it in our

alike as, in past, times, France did snails, without damaging rica crops, and they probably will be brought century that in large measure must He interrupted me, and exclaimed: away with her kings.

into use soon--Associated Press. (THE END] "Stalin is all right!" be blamed for it.

to mako Usc

Tesoures.

In former times men were ex-

snails.

ов

They included two

magnificent

statues, one in the form of

an

Officials Angering revolvers woke them up frequently In the night to examine their

Dluminated fountain:

In the aviary Tite displayed his favourlie rarity--a white nightin

gulo.

Whether It really is a nightingale Harold

when Sir arrived In

I do not know," Anya Sir Harold. Belgrade he was given "Cortainly the gardon was full

of his interpreter and in- army thodox nightingalas singing beau- troduced to an difully."

surgeon, Colonel

"They

Next he was shown Tito's private Simple treated me museum, built in 'n beautiful coppico

the very well," said Sir of trees. Hero are tributes to

"but they dieintor from every part of Yugo- Harold, envia-Jewels, filigree work, silks, watched *****knd woven materials.

[imė............ very

closely."-E.B.

etter here from a lady in Cheltenham-saya in View

∙that

e're spending-825,000,000 of her taxes can we let her have a few nuts for her cake.