THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, MAY
1949.
C.V.R. Thompson DOLLARS IN
THE NEWS
DOLLARS,
NEW YORK.
morc thar
anything else, arë mak
ing nowa in America.
in
Ten thousand of them (£2,500) hit the headlines Oklahoma City, because must be spent within a year.
They belong to a 5-year-old widow, name" withheld, whose doctors have told her she has Just 12 months, to Ivo.
She has made her will pul aside the money to cover the legocios, and hold back tho 10,000 dollars to spend. But her problem is that she does know how to spend them.
not
"Every ideo
that comes
to
me," she says, "scents ality and 'useless. I want plan, a pur-
pose. Won't people help
me
with suggestions?
my
"I do not want to mak friends. They do not know I told en going to die. And if
then they would be forever asking if I felt all right, and stop talking when I enine in the room,
-"I have à reckless kind of feeling, but I do nat want to
give in to that. I want
last year of mine to menn some- tblog."
THE SUICIDE of a fat man brought another large sum of dollars, 500,000 this time (£125,000). on to the front
PARC..
43, Leopold Insburger, aged tried to kil himself the first time by taking poison. A das-" thi was called in me to save him.
The second time he jumped 14th room on the upit of his floor of a New York hotel in the inkddle of a conversation with
my friends.
in their routine check-up of the natives for his suleide the
"O.K.
Go ahead and marry Danny Kaye, and see how you like walking home!"
(London Express Service).
Presenting the
DREAM LIFE
☆MISS NANCY PRICE, who holds a high place among British dramatic actresses-and in the affections of theatro-goers—is a realist who believes that dreams have a meaning. Today in the first of à sorios of extracts from her morning-after diary—she tolls of hor intriguing experioncos.
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DREAM not only every deserts of sand, vast seas, and. of as, night but several times perhaps most terrible
mountainous cloud banks. The clarity angle night.
to get through, with which certain inci- push along, upward or down- identa, people, and creatures ward. Always emerge pan-
remain with me from the ing and exhausted.
dream world is startling.
Ra
police made an astonishing dis I remember such things eovery. Although apparently a the exact shading of the petals nobody, the late Mr Harburger of a Bower, the intricate shape good of trees, the colour of a dog's had established such credit rating that he could in- eyes, and its size. cur debts totalling £125,000.
But I know that some day 1 shall not get free....
Why do we dream?
Do the horrors-the terrors-the dimcul tles-the confusion of my dreams Burgest that I am morbid? Certainly not. For In my waking hours I
blessed with keen sense of humour.
I do not take dream books very seriously, for I cannot believe that the same Inter- pretilon applies to
same dream
several
the
Some say dreams are caused by Indigestion, but I do not think this is true; neither docs For oflen All physical sensations opee- worry explain them.
Every at the close of u placid day dreamed UNION CITY, grubby ate in my dream world.
♫ manufacturing town across gradation of colour that the eye come hellish dreams.
people. can be sern vividly. knows the river from New York New Jersey, 500,000 other dal- The sense of smelt is peculiarly more Touch lars ranke news. The other day acute.
and sensitive. a man in ragged clothes, half-starved died in the hos eftaa charity word, and
In
Wo
I
experience though in a
even
too,
sound, way which seems He was Joseph Bowling, aged different from the usual vibra-
giver a pauper's funeral.
73, a retired Income-tax collectious on the eardrum.
tor.".
Police. hunting through
Last year I decided to keep a my entered dream diary. I the miserable room where he Hved, found some tin boxes, dreams immediately on wicking
Professor Stanley Hall ex- plans may horrible sensation of rising and falling in fight as a throw-back. He seems to be levo that our marine ancestry still Influences our natura.
Just as traces of gills persist In us, to the sensation of rising and falling may be the long remembered effect of the ocean swell..
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But I DO believe that many dreams contain à Warning.
Whenever I dream that any part of my body is covered by water I know that it will shortly be suffer-
EN DE
NANCY PRICE
ing. The same applics I do believe that
any friend
or
animal for whom I
They opened the boxes and and have not retouched them in How long do we take to care.
discovered that Bowling. Le-any way.
aldies" collecting taxes on other On loolding over my dreams people's incomes, had made aunt the end of a year 1 find them. Astonishing Income for him- decidedly macabre.
£125,000, and all In cash.
town of
dream a dream?
I invariably many dreams can dream to struggle out give us a warning
fight very hard in my
of the water.
I once made an experiment which answers this question. I have always been struck by I was in a film studio, but The particular creature which Taking gas at the dentist, I had a dream to which Generul whal the film was 1 do not FROM the rubber
Gordon declared he once owed know; the star was a woman of I dread most in this strange a top-watch in my hand, und Akron, Ohio, there comes a world is an enormous teadlike as I fell myself becoming un- his life.
uncertain years and dyed hair. similar story. Miss Frances reptile, without a head, and conscious 1 started it: Tutler, aged 83, died in a house possessing a inige, spreading mediately on regaining Alled with rubbish and dirt.
Later, the courts annoured
body with entwining arms and an appraisal of the fortune shees, a body which wraps itself
arounal mo.
selousness I looked at 1.
40 seconds.
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When In China he dreamed It seemed I had met her that that he was entering a boat very morning with a dog which with some native troops in and paralysis of the spine, and I had been unconscious
order
to cross a river; when she had recognised me and told exactly
During nearing the midcile of the
me her husband was a news- One of my worst nightmares that time I had built a theatre. stream the boat began to sink. And more than 250 would-be keeps recurring. I fly from seen endless people, produced
paper editor. i am pursued many plays, and ticira and heiresses are squab-something I fear. bling for it.
through streets, forests, jungles, through many countries.
all. The total- left among it 002,545 dollars (£225,030 58.).
travelled
look after
How to look
your hair
WHAT
by L. W. G. TEAGUE
An expert. In hair treatment
WHAT is this stuff called on her hair over a year would hair? Well, let us have be in the region of £15, and for each man about £5, with a look at it.
tipping. First of all we find that the Multiply leso figures by hair and
composed millions, and you have some of the same substance, Kerstin." idea of the money spent Keratin is n rather complex bair every year. substance of a hard, tough, and
balls are
horny mature.
011
"PECULIAR STUFF" It is the same substance that
Think of the "lome Perm goen to make up the claws,
manufacturers Bighting horns, and hooves of the animal Kİ?" kingdom. As all structures in hard just now to interest the the animal world are composed women (and men) bf many of masses of cells of different countrion, and of the hairdress shapes and sizes, so is a hair. ing organisations that are fight- ing equally hard to keep them CELLS MULTIPLY pur
you comb
forget
for
morning and leave 1 to dry out under a hat?
Don't you have "permanent" an lep "permanent" and tints and bleaches at the first sign of grey hair?
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He noticed the man standing next to him, and recognised u soldier whom he had been com pelled to punish for disobedi ence. He had this dream upon two successive nights, seeing the same face of the native Goldler.
Soon after, the general was
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She was certainly unsuitable for the part in the film; the others I did not know.
who
Bernard Wicksteed in the Garden of Eden
Adam
wouldn't
Stopping Place 3 for the Man with. Round the World
Air Ticket No. 1.
know the old spot
today!...
THE GARDEN OF EDEN. distinct
here we are well have
from mankind,
Whaving a lunch of Tigris-Euphrates Valley,
sandwiches. and bottled beer under a date palm the alleged Garden of Eden.
that was day.
may the
Date big
the malo trees and dust the females with it before he moves on. Otherwise half the trees mightn't bear any fruit.
paims don't have one tap root. They have thou-
that go sands of little ones but
nearly as for into the ground as the tree itself goen above it. Depending on the soll,
from seven to 12 tree takes years before bearing fruit. It
originated in
well after Adam's
around.
now
When the Grat mon appeared on earth, the Persian Gulf stretched up to what is now Bagdad, and Qurna, alias Eden, useful life is about 10 years, The old place has changed a
and a good tree should give was at the bottom of the soi bit since Adam knew it. There's with fishes swimming
You 50
of pounds
dates a n dusty Areb town sprawling However, it is a pity to spoll a schson. over part of it now
If you take 100 date stones. and the good story and it is very lovely bazaars are full of hair cream outside the town, sitting under all from the same tree, half and English toothpaste.
the date pains tossing orange into females.
will grow into males and half The town is called
Qurna, peel into the Tigris. The watera Busca pass through on the way just
That'a red with Bilt
reasonable enough, now are from Bogra to Bagdad and, brought down by the melting but what's so odd is that not standing at the Junction of the snows of. Persia. It is this one of the female tree will be rivers Tigris and Euphrates, it some silt that made the valley the same, is on
an important stopping point fertile enough to become the for river traffle.
But still,
Oven
slarting-place of cllies and It Adam civilisation the place, it
wouldn't recognise Eve, be-
Dates are not mentioned in the Bible, which is odd when you think that they must hava formed a part of the staple diet in Biblient times as now.. -But no bees
When the Children of Israel came out of Egypt the first A FEW yards out
bank is n curious black water they found was brackish, and white kingfisher hovering so Moses felled a treo and the over the water like linwk, and among the palms are lots
a brickyard
cat,
of
from the
water was sweetened.
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and
That's
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Ahead
might be cause they have put up a high schoul for girls right alongside the Tree of Knowledge.
This gnarled and ancient, relle used to be the main attraction of the town, but it suffered an of bright green birds with long about the nearest the Bible gets. accident during the war. Some beaks." They are called bee- That mirage body carving his initials on it, caters. Why, I can't imagine. leaned too hurd and over the There are no bees for them to DROVE out to Eden from whole thing went.
Basra over 80 or 70 miles It is lying in
"Clone by is an Arab squatting of rond that had recently been now,
and when I sow the on bis haunches and fishing flooded by storms. Before we
people fold wreckagent was sharpening with a balt made of mashed started her claws on the trunk.
But up dates. So that I could say wouldn't get through, but my cheer up.
The people of I'd once been fishing in the friend, who was driving, said Quran are growing a new one.
Garder.
Eden. I gave him he'd chance it. They have planted it beside ad. to let me hold his line.
Much of the way was over the river and put a brick wall I'd hardly taken it when near-desert (surprisingly green round with a plaque saying there was a great tug and I'd after the rain, and made GARDEN OF EDEN in Arabic. hooked 0 blooming fish! It beautiful by tiny purple irises A man waters the tree every
yellow dalsies). about a pound and a weighed day and it's doing fine. At the half and looked something like of us shimmered a constant moment, it is about four feet
na English chub, only thinner. succession of mirages. high and as thick as your
They were lovely to look at→→→→ I will now tell you something thumb.
about dates. Date painis are cool, placid lakes with islands like the birds and the beasts. in them and sometimes boats. Legend grows
There pre two
kinds-male You longed to take your clothes grand- and female. And it is only the off and plunge in. But, like the Bchildren grow up. It should males that bear fruit. end of the rainbow, you could be big enough to pass
So naturally, a man growing never quite catch up with them. original.
dates for ก living prefers As you approached so they re- The new tree is supposed to females just as a dairyman ceded and tantalised you from be a sucker that grew from prefers cows. He keeps a few further away. We had great fun the base of the last one, but a males for stud purposes only. with the car seeing how near botanist I met doubted this. He As there aren't any bees, we could get. said it wasn't even the same
There was one pearl of dates are pollinated in the wild kind of tree, let alone
ono state by the wind That's all palm-studded lake that stretch- that grew apples.
right when there are as many ed right across the road. nu male trees as females, but it put on full speed to get there And sud- real doesn't work when they are before it vanished. Marden
.of Eden
my cultivated. So they have to be denly-wham! We were up to
the axles in water. backyard in Hampstead. Eden poliinated by hand. was watered by four rivers,
time
us the
And anyway. Qurna is
merc the site
of the
than
a
Wo
One of the rules of the desert It wasn't a mirage at all, but been warned and so, at one time, was Qurn is that anyone whis stops the floods we'd That's about all there is to it. at an oasis at this time of year about!
It's true that civilisation, -as must collect pothefi from one of
THE PROBLEM
-(London Express Service),
NEHRU
HAS TO TACKLE
CALCUTTA.
ON-THE-SPOT REPORT
from SYDNEY SMITH
cued by a handful of loyal
workers just as they were about HE first sentence on
to be bound and thrown into a page one of the cream-
vat of molten metal,
Since "Jessop's" paper-covered book in
the anony- mous my hand read: "A spectre
intimidators have been flooding the malls with ward- s haunting Europe the
ings, always addressed to fore- The producer was X, who
spectre of Communism.”
men und technicians. Two seemed very Vogue-even the
British engineers of one big end of the film was not settled Right through to the final
British firm have been warned -and he called Milton Rosmer, sentence-"Working men of
An official, but non-Indian, by mail:"One of you will be it seemed wns In the all countries, unite!"-there
investigation of the salo of killed. We have not made up about to take a journey which picture, and said: "I want a was no mention of the new Moscow's literature in Calcutta our mind which, but whoever included the crossing at a deep close-up with Miss Price, but
has shown that retailers' takings it is, he will be made into a will do, | river; suddenly it flashed across her stand-in
as her spectre of Asin.
and the other one will be his mind that this was the river face will be quite in shadow," For this little book was average £750 a month. in his dream.
written Just 102 усата
The Communists' intentions in made to eat it or die." I said: "Can I have a little
have
been. dis- Since the 7,000 British left in axo by Marx and Engels Calcutta light? I would rather be seen, The Manifesto
of the Com- covered by the police in a 130- Calcutta
are the irreplaceable if this makes no difference to
vital to
the con- But it had page cycle-styled "OPERATION key men, munists Party.
AL ORDER." It was issued to tinuance and expansion of In- Among the men standing to you."
just been sold to me at the
anarchist Revolutionary dian Industry, the balance of alleation ho recognised
He said: "Oh, of course, it ridiculous price of 6d. by on the
of India, economy, and the maintenance Communist you like you can have the liant enthusiastic dark-skinned, col which at the end of last month of a Government which la stilt face of the soldier.
ton-swathed bookshop, clerk.
a Asia's The general immediately or with pleasure, and we'll put
most powerful anti- On his shelves wero brand- raided Dum Dum airport, How do you know that brush- dered that the boat should be Milton in shadow, it doesn't
of Marx, Engels, police station, the local treasury, Communist front, it is obvious new rows ing so vigorously is doing you dragged up on
ammunition factory and that British and an the shore and matter."
men and Lenin, Stalin, Molotov,
women Works, will be the first to suffer in the that much good?
Engineering Jessop's examined. The bottom beneath There seemed endless con- Vyshinsky, and Soviet magazines. What about the
two British sunbathing Its covering boards had been
employees Communists' new terror, fusion, argument, indecision, "Who buys all this and why?" you will be doing in the carefully drilled with minute and I got tired, and more tired. I asked. With a flourish of his were thrown into a furnace. summer-will you protect your holes. Gordon relates that the till I could hardly drag my feet
Object of the whole combined bony hand he chanted hur every day with a little good native soldier flung himself on along.
answer in sing-song: "Who? Ot operation was stated to be: "To
anarchy his knees, confessing his guilt.
course, mostly students, to find produce
THE main reason for banning answers to the burning warfare."
the Communist Party In Dream, messages have
The Jessop attack was not, uz West Bengal Is that last year it questions of the day," affected the course of
might have seemed, a purely wanted to move its headquarters unil British move. Britons travelling along the road lending from Bombay to Calcutta to make closer.contact with the were held up by Communist
Don't you use any lotion Are you guilty of using hair tonic without thought? brushes so strong that they would almost take the skin on the back of your hand?
Qil7
i
All because of that peculiar The hair grows because these rella multiply at a point just stuff which below
root the hair
and morning and often gradually ease themclves into the rest of the day....
cells
twica What can you do to insure the position of those preceding them, pushing these against losing your hair, upwards.
against having a poor,
tho hair shaft which is lowest Surely noti
.
or harm.
thin,
furo
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the
cer-
the
Aim: chaos
hin
Party
and
class
So far, they are staying put..
Song of Marx
He im- Iega to the make-up man and WEST BENGAL has banned by the factory during the attack rest of South-East Asian Com-
In-
Aplite common sense and thought will save many a grey hair, many a head from bald-tainly
history. Constantine the Great Your face is excellent," X ness, and many a tear.
Wash your hair at least once saw in a dream a flaming Crops called out, "but your lens move the legend underneath too slowly. Take Miss · Price's a week; moro often
your with
this. conquer." work is dusty or dirty. Always ure your own comb and always and established Christianity as slantly
a mediately became convert have them nitended lol"
the Communist Party, but guarda with Stena and made to munism. Now, working under-
is silli finding record walt. Then they were allowed to will get the pace for their com Russia
ground, Bengal's. Communists every keep it clean.
they took nway my sales for its londs of cut-priced proceed unmolested. of the Roman Hairwashes
legs, and I still seemed quite at Important, the religion
"anavers" in the bookshops of
Madras, Hyderabad, The attack was the first trini rades in ease and quite well. The wrong type used once or Empire.
Calcutta, where 20 percent. of
and Bombay, n week can do
William Archer, for years an much
One hundred and two years unsuccessful
Suddenly he said, "No more the city's 20,000 university and run of the Communists' plan to playwright
und disorganise industry by intimid- aro Commu- The today, there is a fog in the college students
ago Comrades Marx and Engels dation. plot of
· Soft soap may be old-dreamed the
nists,
were already only too unhappily The so-called "root" is only weak head of hair? Must you fashioned, but used well diluted Green Goddess," his great suc- studio." Then I knew I could not move, but would have to
The long-term object is the up to date for South-East Asin Most of these books are print- takes a lot of cer a name used for that portion of resign yourself to the inevitable? with water it
remain til the morning. I saw ed by the Foreign Language discrediting of
the Congress today when in the last, para (it was Archer's translation everybody going, and I was lett Publishing House in Moscow. Government, whose heritage
produced. noillary encompassed by that Their all-India distribution is from the British Raj has brought graph of their manifesto (Stalin
calls it "The Song of
of Songs of GENTLE MASSAGE miner revolution in the English grey fog, which merged slowly, organised by the Tass Agency, not only independence but also Marxism") they wrote that the
thestro and had a great in- slowly into the grey of dawn and by direct shipment to Con- responsibilities.
Communista
declare Kopenty Al behte massage with the duence on Shaw.)
and consciousTICES.
munist book-sellers.
'Wo will kill
their ends can be attained by the finger tips for five minutes
Robert Louis Stevenson said AND NEXT
DAY
I Jind Their distribution serves two
forcible overthrow of all exist- every day, moving the skin over that most of his plots came to an attack of arthritis which purposes. Profits on sales go to CINCE what they now call in ing social conditions," the bones, may be boring and
Thanks to Moscow's cut-price | Idea of Jekyll and Hyde.
several days, Immediately 1 Profits on Ideas go towards the have been two other unpublish being read daily by tens of think how much worry and outdoor, workers.
Professor Hilprecht, puzzled was on my feet again, the pro-
enumo of disorganising the ed factory incidents. Trades anxiety hair has caused to 30
Good, strong heads of hair believe out so many slides and by the difficulty of two Baby ducer in
my dreas-whom 1. Government, weakening the union
Communists took over thousands of Indians into the many peoplet E
were intended to protect us
British-run engineering context of their own frustra realise that many against the elements when we grips in your child's hair. They in quotations, received the had not seen for many years Congress Party and creating the one Doorpounds are ment et ut orces in harder may, with the help of ribbon, dream from an ancient Baby- Hollywood,
Interpretation correct
tions. offer to go to
conditions in which more wor works and gave the managers thousarkis
kers and graduated, but unem--and foremen, Indians included, throw" is only too easily trans- And in Apla Torcible over- Fortunes times than we have nowadays. keep the hair on hair every day?
mone 11dy, but Ionian priest.
ployed, Babusare being pre 30 minutes to leave on foot or fed into terms of furnacen pared to give their own incondi- be slaughtered, Perhaps
fair average is almost. sacrilege. Don't you. amount opent by each womalk often soak it in water every
benting.
in the skin.
Unfortunately most of you
In normal scalp the
n
con start thinking about it when the tinuous formation of new cells damage has been done. depends on the nutrition re
What can you do while there ceived from the blood stream, is still time?
and this in turn is dependent People in redentary occupa
upon the general health.
tions are more susceptiblo
to
of Ibsen
which
Have you over stopped,to: baltless and poor. hair than malan your arms tired, but him in dreams, Including the provented me from moving for the Communist Party funds. Calcutta "Jessop's" there best-sellers those words are now
does more good than most
In
are made because of it.To hhuse a good hend of hair they stop the air from circulat Lat mo quoto from my own.
mado mo an
London Expreza Servłow) ing near the scalp.
... diary one of my dreams which... FURTHER EXTRACTS.........1) -{London Express Servica).'côntalued' a premonition.
NEXT SATURDAY
ary - answers to the burning - In an all-Indian instal works molten metal and curry, day! questions.
two Indian foreinen were res-
--(London Express, Bervice)
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