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"MASTER

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Starring: CHING YIH

SHENG YANG

WEI YUH PING

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A CHINESE PICTURE IN MANDARIN DIALOGUE.

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"Cherry—this is Friday. The Dairy Show finished on Wednesday.”

London Express Service)

Strange Tales From The

Hills Of Burma

LONDON.

HEAD-hunting and communal love-making are includ- ed in the Oriental mysticism of complex' Burma, official records disclose.

An official "Burma Hand-

book" published by tho it says, "They are all firm Burmese Government says

beliovers in magic and are that the countless indigenous

İconvinced that invul-

tribes of Burma are allied nerability against wounde to the Chinese, Japanese, can be conferred by magical Koreans, Tibetans, Malays

rites,"

to`

In the Shan

and other inhabitants of The reports toll of the #rost eastern Asia.

variety of races * States, Including the "curious The book tells of "love Banvok of whom only six houses" in tribal villages, familles survive because of thele surrounded by bamboo marked distasto for marriage, stakes hardened by fire under oficial compulsion."

which they submit only and sunk into the ground as barricades, and giraffe-neck- ed women who roll cheroots in the curve of their thighs.

"It is impossible to men tion in detail more than the principal races of Burmu,"

FULL EMPLOYMENT: THE WAY IT IS WORKED

LONDON. THEN Britain's plan-

wizardis ning challenged to defend

W

are

the dire consequences of their wizardry, their reply invariably in: "Well, at any rate have given the nation full employment."

We

The inference is that by their genius, unemployment has been abolished. And many people have swallow- ed the story.

Now, It would be a most remarkable hap- pening. Indeed, if any considerable number of people in Britain found difficulty in securing well-paid work at this moment.

Many of our towns have been laid in ruins.

It wasn't the plans of Mr Attlee and kio theoriste that mado Britoin land with urgent work for every. one to do.

Chief credit for that must go to the late Herr Hitler.

be In-

By

JOHN

Under the system of bureau-

by the end of 1948-A rise of 785,000.

But that was the last year in

GORDON

Thore is more

of that

cratle control riveted upon us Britain today than at any pre- they had increased to 2,230,000 vious time

And adds a crurhing bur- drm to the costa of industry. That extra

cost for

us to raise the prices of our goods high above what they should be and mallifes much of the advantage to be gained by the tur of most modern machinery.

which the taxpayer could get a true picture of what is happen

ing.

VANISHED

760,000 hidden

in figures

It is impossible to tell, with any degree of accurney. what the number is now, for a new way of hiding the facts has been Introduced?

Instead of tabulating the figures under the heading of "Public Service," the oMetal

Monthly Digest has now adopt- ed a hending "Public Adminis- iration."

Under that heading the frure given is only 1.470 000. Some 700,000 people have vanished from the public service Into thin air,

had vanished

into

Even after Herr Hitler

If they hud Anished with us, there was 110

product've employment the certainty that there would

chenre would be one for cheers. employment for everyone.

But clearly what has happen deed, there can be no certainty in that they have been hid- of that at any time, short of in-

den away in other categories troducing Stalin's labour where the

fact that they are paid by the taxpayeru Le less obvious

camps.

FOUR WAYS

To keep people occupied

But "full

part of

theory. And the Government, naturally,

the Socialist

a bit.

set to work to organise It. How STILL AT SCHOOL

did they do it?

four devices.

It was done by

On paper, you can create a picture of full employment by putting men and women on the public pay-roll, or insteling on more than one being employed on a job for which one would sumice, but it is an illusion.

PRODUCERS

The strength of

a nation

THE Shan States are also in- habited by the Pandrungs. whose women "stretch their necks to giraffe-like proportions necklets to by wearing brass

rings are added from the day of their birth."

In the north-east of Burme the wild Nagna

pursue head-hunting and believe in human sacrifice,

which extra

Among another tribe called the Wa, hend-hunting" is re- rarded os necessary for their fertility rites at ploughing time and in an average year, 60 to

The first nationalisation ex- 100 heads will be taken in the periment knocked the bottom out area." of that theory.

Most of the tribes "have Ilitio For the miners soon let us Interest in modern party con- know that, in their view, it was fillets and many of them regard work, and what is the total? The owned the pits, once they had starts and have

they and not the nation who present-day politicians as up- stupendous figure of

a lingering been nationalised.

nostalgia for the days of the future the

And they indicated that in king"

pits were to be run By religion the Burmese pro- their beneft,

per are almost exclusively Bud- The most striking illustration dhist, with a creed to store up of what has happened because of merit by good living so that a that distorted state of mind a man will not be reborn in this provided by the contrast between world or in any of nationalised coal and still un-worlds

the spirit nationalised steel,

bul WHI Attain to Nirvana, where self-conscious- Coal has not reached the mini-ness ceases." ment: Steel has exceeded it mag- mum target set by the Gover-

ifcently.

3,312,000 Much more, it should be noted, than the 3,000,000 unemployed in January 1933-the black month so continually quoted by the Socialists as a month that will never be repented.

The country cannot be put on its feet by political tricks. The only way to prosperity Is the hard way of production,

And the plain, blunt truth is, that in spito of some

good patches, we are not getting the production we ought to get,

BOOMERANG False gospel hits back

L

THE

*

ME book goes on: "Although Iron and steel prices are now

the great majority of Budd- £0 percent, above prewer, But 1st Pontyls or monks the price of coal is up 174 per-virtuous members of their or

der, rome

cent.

Yet. as Sir Herbert Houlds- have lately intervened in poll- younger members worth, chairman of the

and certainly proved Midlands Coal Board, has eald, source of trouble"."

East tica

unless the price of coal is reduced Responsibility for that must be chance of our survival as a first. and quickly"there is little Inid squarely on the shoulders of class industrial Power." the Government.

For

yeara the Socialists preached the gospel that a man is a fool if he puts his back into his job and gives an honest day'a work for an honest day's pay.

The strength of a country de- you can get away with. And keep Their cry was "Do as little as pends on the goods it produces on demanding more money."

The

and sells

chickens have now come Every man and woman taken home to roost. from productive work to unpre- To the grave discomfort of the ductive work has to be carried Government, too many workers on the backs of the producers,

have swollowed the poison. And They add to the cost of pro- I doubt very much whether all duction

They

the the radio Increase

twitterings of Mr price of the goods we sell. Attlee will make them spit it out,

And eventually, if too of them have to be carried, the

many again.

"Production is reckoned to be whole house of cards will topple. about one-third higher than The prices of our goods rise before the war. That looks good, above the figures at which wo it is not really as good as it)

but it can sell. Then we face disaster. looks.

There are signs that we aro moving towards that point in many export markets. That is

There are

more people producing - 22,000,000 2.5 against 17,378,000, Maro people at work should pro- duce more.

Apart from that, economists

-FOLLY-~

This theory of life

has failed

theory of life has been tried and The plain truth is this. A new

hon failed lamentably.

The only real chance we have of survival is to cast it away and adopt in its place a practical why of life that will work.

-(London Express Service)

Vamtus and Kukis and

The book describes tribes: named Yehowa, Klang Klangs.

wide variety of languages and (dialects, spaken.

Detalls of weird riles and cus-' toms are Included in the reports on remate tribes which still resist ali Intrusion with

poisoned arrows and bamb spikes.

"Every village bec D love house in which young couples foregather. Pregnancy is always followed by a public admission of marriage. And

there are men's clubs into which an outsider's entrance is a grievous: offence."---United Press.

C.V.R. Thompson

Reports The American Scene

THE

NEW YORK.

Wherever they are hidden why the £ has had to be from the cold glare of publicity, devalued. something the 705,000 men and

It is worth noting that even women have been withdrawn the miracle makers themselves reckon that there should be a from the normal labour markel, do not believe in the full em- natural 3 percent advance in

course. helps employment" was which, of

First performance of Swan theployment miracle they claim to production every year because of "full employment" legend quite have wrought,

[UE GIANTS of US. Industry Lake found the critics looking improvements in methods, For did not the great Mr machinery, and so on.

are to get a publie grilling for superlatives not used for the- between now, and Christmas. other ballets, Ancurin Bevan declare, in 1948, that but for Marshall ald

But here is the significant One by one, General Electric's Said the New York Post: They we thing.

Wilson. While the technological Charles would have 1,500,000 unemploy- advance in our workshops is now Charles Luckman, du Pont's C. ballet.

Unilever's are spoiling us for our own ed In Britoin?

measured as 150 compared with | H. Gramowalt,

New York Sun: Insurance

One more 100 in 1938-39, the productivity millionaires. And Wall-street reason some of us will be sighing advance has been only 135.

bosses will be in the witness a few months hence-Oh, to be box.

In England now that Fonteyn's Asking the questions will be there. veteran trust-buster, New York's New York Times: The best B Congressman Emanuel Celler.

of He wants to know it more big- After the curtain fell 'the ness is dangerous

entire audience in New York's He aims to ask the business vast Opera House rose and bosses:

cheered.

Igovernment, of

Conscription.

Thu

course, did

It

not introduce conscription. was conveniently there. It re- moves a large number of met from the labour market cach year.

There are 765,000 men In the Armed Forces today, compared with 385.000 in 1038. In other words 380,000 men have

по employment face.

problem

to

Without sufficient teachers

Raising the school-leaving age from 14 to 15.

Some 400,000 boys and girls used to leave school every year at the age of 14 to begin, the battle of fo.

8o. one may assume that but for these devices, plus Marshall off, there might well bo something Ap- proaching 3 000.000. un- employed in Britain today. For this is the shape of things In simple form:~~

Removed from the labour market by Conscription

Into Government

offices.

H wo could get today just the same labour effort as we had in 1939, we should get afgure of 150 instead of 135.

That increase of 15 percent., so vital to us, and so easy to 380,000 achieve if men's minds had not been warped by crackpot 765,000 theorica, would have gone a long

way

to keeping us out of the

Children kept at

school .....400,000 morass, That makes an impressive total

1,845,000

By raising the leaving age in spite of the fact that there aro neither

school enough buildings nor wachers to cope with them-the planners havo Vastly Increasing the num labour market

kept thom 400,000 out of the of

Again with ber of

women gratifying results so far as men, women, and children, who employed In what the statistics their full employment claim is might well have had dimeulty in call the "Public Service"-that concerned. is the Civil Service and activities embraced term National

men and

under the

finding jobs.

IN THE PITS Miners had their own ideas

Add to them the 207,000 who Feather bedding forin aro officially unemployed today. For years the cry of Socialism of restrictive practice and you get the immense figure has been that if men and women which is the trade union name of

felt they were working for the for the game of spreading the

1,812,000.

nation instead of for a private work out so that it takes two numbered or three men or women to do of one and a half maillons for an enthusiasm that would build Add again Mr Bevan's estimate employer, they would work with

what one could do..

whom Marshall old has found a new Jerusalem.

and Local

Government Service.

In 1939 these

about 1,485,000.

NANCY

I'M BUYING

NANCY --- I'M. GOING INTO BUSINESS--**

WHAT KIND

Good While It Lasted

A BIG ICE CREAM

STORE

AND YOU CAN·

'QUIT SCHOOL

THE STORE

AS A TASTER

TO WORK IN

By Ernie Bushmiller

"I KNEW IT COULDN'T BE TRUE

?

all.

ter are expected to produco.

Should fines for anti-trust violations be increased or should Congress specify that offenders DOLLAR CRUISES this win-

to gool? What about amending the more than last year. Shipping patent laws to reduce monopoly offices tell me bookings

coming in fast for Christmas

to

risks?

are

Can tax laws be changed to Voyages although sailings have Frevent vast concentrations of not yet been advertised. Industry?

Says Celler:

My committee will listen until it is blue, green, and purple.

-And he expects some interest- ing answers.

ACTS ABOUT the 50,400,000 families in the US just Issued: One family. in two owns at least one car; one in 17 has two or more. Seventy-seven: percent have 'fe policies with boys and CADLER'S WELLS ballet premiums of over 230 a year::

girls have New 45 percent own, a home or a York bubbling over again. farm

bif

INSECT SPRAY

WITH DET

When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist!

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