1950-02-23 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1950.

"BACK ΤΟ AUSTRALIA" YEAR FOR FORMER GIs

POCKET CARTOON -from Amorlea

by OSIERT LANCASTER

Attacks Tonsils Craze

By George McCadden

Sydney, Feb. 22.~A move has been started to make 1952 “Back to Australia" year for American ex-Servicemen and their wives, although the country has an acute hotel and general housing shortage. Observers agree that the shortage may not be overcome for years at the nation's current construction pace. No major hotel has been built in Australia in 10-years.

Even in Melbourne. site; Conservative

critics blame

of the 1956 Olympic Games, two major factors: Communist penetration of building trades, no new hotels are yet under coal mining and several other construction. This is akav unions; and what they saw untimely Introduction of Country where the speed of was

work week the 10-Hour building is much lower h! 1947. comparison with the United States and some others.

advance,

COMMUNISM AN ISSUE

In

Mussolini's Word Is Still Law

The word of a Mussolini is still law in a Paris luxury hotel.

The hotel position now is BO The Menzies-Fadden govern- tight that it is virtually Impos-ment is pledged to seek legis. sible for a ensual overseas visitor lation to outlaw the Communist to come to Australia without a party and kick Reds out of union carefully planned Itinerary and onlees.

The Mussolini Is Edda Cinno, travel about the country with case. Accommodation muat bo

The critics tay more coal daughter of the Inis Duce and Looked weeks, if not months, In must bc produced before widow of former Italian for-

Australia's steel industry ex eign Minister, Count Clano.

production, now .'nt. When she arrived at the ak pre-war Prince of Wales Hotel, she told ed to maintain "flat" or apart. about 75 percent ments to meet their own needs. capacity. Communists dominate the manager she didn't want to

the national executive A leading London surgeon | It is almost impossible, for ex-

of be disturbed by "vulgar no- has attacked "excessive" re-ample, for this correspondent to the mining union, but have lost bodies." moval of children's tonsils, plan a trip from Sydney to Mel-ground recently

Ixurne without arranging a room regional councilo.

which he called "not sur- gery but mutilation."

He is T. B. Layton, former | surgeon

of Guy's In charge Hospital throat and car de- portinent.

He wrote

Journal, In the Medical World, that the opera- tion "has gone beyond the stage of discussion between pallent and doctor.

"By it, surgery has become a rocint problem.

"We must see it doesn't be- come a social scourge.“

Layton sald children under

that of 1,300 five years old,

ton-i

50 percent had their

sits removed.

HASTY DECISIONS

"Is it right that one of every two born into his world should have their tonsils

Some large firing are compell-Inercase

at least a week in advance.

TWO CAUSES

in local and

The hotel has gone to re- markábio lengths to obey her wishes.

Further complicating hotel congestion is the fact that

Visitors who want to use the Australia bas no "mote!" ort aro screened. tourist cabin court industry It has been suggested that common in the United States her insistence on privacy In and Canada, to augment city due to the Italian authorities granting ber a visa only on condition that she remain silent.,

During holiday and special occasions, several weeks' notice in requires. Rooms for the hotels. Mardi Gras like Melbourne ruring rucing reason are out months ahead.

ment of

Ohlu

sold In many areas in Australia. building regulations are

the rule in America.

In Sydney,

most chiren

far

от

The situation was dramattenere exacting than is generally vally illustrated by the prodica- Sam Keener, famed engineering executive councils, forbid frame сол- who dropped in on Sydney durstruction and usually insist on

a globe-gliding business

other In

Or some brick, cement survey In his private aircraft.

fireprent materini for walls.

Keener neglected to bool accummudation and wound up in a guest hours on one of the city's bencher,

Tiles are usually required for

these re roofs. They defend gulations on the ground that) Australia must import much of Since the last hotel was bulit, her soft wood for lumber and

out before the country has experienced that their regulations simplify

Only once has she unbent. This was when she saw her mother's book, "My Life" Wilh Mussolini," on a bookstall.

She asked: "How is this sell- ing?"

The bookseller, no! recog- nising her, said: "Very badly." Edda put down the book and walked away.

WAR FORTUNE

marked population Increase, re-fighting problems. SCANDAL

the age of five?" he rald,

There were too many hasty including decisions that tonsils were grants. "enlarged," he added.

"s word had become part of the daily chatter of the unthinking, heel in the medical profession. It has done much harm and led to many deatha."

Some other doctors agreed that surgeons carried out more touall operations than were al solutely Cisential.

One doctor said the percent- ac children who had had tonsils removed, was probably smaller in other countrics than it was in England,

Fingertip

Radio'

Deaf Aid

A new device to enable deaf people to "hear" with their finger-tip invented by an mathematician.

has been American

250,000 European

who admit Tourist experts, that the hotel shortage handi-:

tourist Governments feared

a dollar-cnrning paliti caps

are hopeful, however. cat rep.rcussions if they en-traffic,

hotel construction at the need for, dullars wi urged

LolutionUnited thousands of familier expedite 3 needed a roof over their heads. Press.

when

Abbey Theatre To Be Televised

By DERRY MORAN

Americans soon will be able to sit in their own homes

HITS BELGIUM

A financial and political scanital of top dimensions has broken out in Belgium. It follows the arrest, hither- to kept secret, of two direc-} tors of two of Belgium's leading banks,

The arrests were made after attempts by a Flemish 'col- laborator, at present on bail, to dispose ol bonda Bequired Illegally during the German Joccupation.

The scandal concerns attempts a Government The to contravene and see Dublin's famous Abbey Theatro in action.

regulation, made in 1944, to the Abbey, described as "the best little theatre in the world," effect that all stocks and shares will be televised into American homes under a programme held dovised by Abboy personnel and a British film company,rozen

by Belgians should be declared, and be temporarily

Most of the big fortunes re-

The Abbey television | Abbey gives pure theatre and The regulation was an attempt)

quality of its to check probably will be rated "must depends on the

on fortunes acquired productions and its casta to sell. (by collaborators Guring the 500"

in many Hollywood homes, where actors and The opening move of the TV war. actresses now in the front programme will be the ming rank of the film world will It has also been used in help-look back on their days in ing deaf-mutes to learn to talk.

The apparatus pleks up rounds the legitimate theatre.

and transforms them into minute electrical impulses at the finger- tips.

These impulses are transmitted along the nerves to the brain in a kind of code which the deaf. after training, can translate into counds.

in London of Lady Gregory'mained undeclared.

The Workhouse Ward," which

Now that It la possible, for has many times Alled the Abbey the first time since the war, to with laughter and is known receive compensation on stocks over Ireland.

acquired during the war and declared in 1944, many Belgians Among Abbey players now

Hollywood Bro WELSHMAN BACK OF IT top-liners in

with

fortunes are undeclared All- Harry Fitzgerald, Sarah

attempting to receive compensa- Using the latest techniques of tion with the aid of false bank rood, Maureen O'Hara, Arthur Shields and many others whose flm and television, the play will declarations.

nt the London names have become world-re-be "canned"

owned since they stood on the studios Abbey's unpretentious boards. Pathe, sponsors of the project to bring the Irish stage into the homes of America.

APPEAL TO IRISH

of Associated British

The inventor, Dr Norbert Wiener, told the American Asso-

Organiser of the scheme is a ciation for the Advancement of

But the Abbey will have its

Howard Thonias, Science today, the device has al-

greatest appeal for Irish-Ameri-Welshman, ready given "hearing

caus, many of whorn will gather founder of the BBC'a perience" to the totally deaf.

The apparatus, with an elec-around their television screens Trust," which has become world trod on each anger, is bulky, to see a bit of the "Ould Coun renowned since

.bul

will eventually be

porated in a glove.

CX-

incor-

try" transported across ocean.

Crime Is Rich Industry

THE US underworld is now a

billion-dollar industry.

-Crime

Commission

"Hrons

Thomas Bral

SEX QUIZ TRICK

A man posing as an assistant to Dr Kinsey, has been asking the thought of letting the man 10 Washington women about their|

street put his problems sexual habits. the nation's intelligentsin and The Abbey's plays have been hear their unrehearsed solutions described as "mere Irish than and arguments.

Dr A. C. Kinsey, author of the best-selling "Sexual Behaviout the Irish themselves," with

of the American Male," is now Thomas and his fellow lonely mountain cabins and de- : solate farmsteads

loaded with workers record this as culy on working on a similar book about age-old superstitions and quainitial invasion of fte American characters.

women,

television market, and It Is con- The faker rang the women on sidered' certain that the experi- the phone and asked most in- The Abbey is one of the mast ment will bo followed by a timate questions. This was slated by Chicago unpretentious theatres in the series of full-enst Abbey plays.

Many women answered the Director, world, but the quality of its

the art of t Tentative arrangements are questions, Virgle Peterson.

productions and

some 10 to 14 Speating to a mayors' con-members have made it one of being made for

plays to be Almed either in One woman told newspapers ference, Feterson said there was the best known.

Dublin or in London.for televi- that she was very worried be

cause "hat man is walking sing in the United States.

Canada is regarded as another around knowing things about dared tell my potential market for such mame I've never

husband." terlal-United Press,

a working alliance between the underworlds of various cities.

Situated on à side street off They exercised their influence the river front, with no blazing in the selection of judges, dis-lights and file in the way of luxury to draw patrony, tho trict leaders and police chiefs.

K. 0. CANNON

WHILE WHISPER IS HERE, YOU SHOULD NOT. HAVE TROUBLE, BUT,JUST IN CASE, HER

TOUGH FRIEND DRIVES

A MONSTROUS CAB.......

The fiddle of ́tie' Red Domino

JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T PACK

MY DINNER JACKET STIRRUPS WE'LL DO IN BY THÊ TRADESMEN'S ENTRANCE

"JUST IN CASES:

NEWS IN PICTURES

MEASURING UP-A judge in the competition to find the prettlest legs in Paris gets closer to his work in order to obtain the best results. Twenty-one girls with gorgeous limbs gathered to compete for the annual prize. Simone Laffont, a 25-year-old Paris telephone operator, was picked-as-the-winner.

TWICE A YEAR—Archbishop Ricardo Pittini, Primate of the West Indies, is about to insert a golden key in the sarcophagus which contains the bones of Christopher .Columbus at Ciudad Trujillo, in the Dominican Republic. The ritual is observed twice a year to verify the presence of the Dominican Republic's greatest historical treasure, and four keys, each held by separate persons, are required.

THE ONLY ONE

Laurie Starlet Piper clenches a diploma in her hand following hor graduation from a movie: studio's high school in Hollywood.

WHOOPS! Only that tree saved the passengers from injury when the bus skidded and crashed through a bridge rail on the highway near Schenectady, New York. The accident was one of several that happened

recently on icy, northern New York roads.

... – WITH HORNS

ON THE BONNET

READY FOR BATTLE Chinese Nationalist troops train near Talpeh, Formosa, for the defence of that last stronghold of the Kuomintang. Raw recruits and veterans of campaigns against Chinese Commandet forces on the mainland make up the “last-ditch army" which will meet-any, Bed

on the inla