1950-03-10 — Page 3

'POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

TERRIFIC

"Sometimes can't help Iconitering just hop long it be before rather similar stories start appearing in the Martian Pren."

Atomic Age For Cabbages

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1950.

Eight Wools Blended Into Army Khaki

By J. W. Taylor

Weaving of the famous Scotch tweed, one-time village cottage home industry dating back to Roman times and now principally carried on in the modern mills of the Tweed towns, is a precious dollar earner for Britain. From all over the world, in fact, come orders for this cloth, which has been woven from woollen threads still retaining the soft underdown of the fleece and which continues to defy the many changes in sartorial fashion.

One reason for its popu- Merino wool of the Spanish larity is that nothing shoddy sheep for the weaving of top- is ever associated with this the important job of classifying. perfect product of Scotland. Not only have varying quality When iweed leaves the fleeces to be torted, but the ex-

eight grades in a

grade tweeds.

This calls for

O'Neill

elaborate power operated perts may have to separate as May Write looms, it goes to the inspect- na

atugle fleece.

ing looms, where every inch HEREDITARY SKILLS of cloth is closely examined. This done, the wool is cleaned Washing and shrinking with warm water and follow, and after several whose temperature and degree of alkalinity are carefully finishing processes, which up

supervised. Indeed, the ex- include cropping of loose quisite lustrous texture of the fibres, steaming and press- twerd is due to hereditary skills ing, a final rigorous inspec- In the choice of wool and dyes

tion is made.

The

n

No More

Eugene O'Neill, America's foremost dramatist, has little prospect of recovering his health sulliciently to work on a new play, according to the New York Herald Tribune drama writer, Bert McCord.

processes that Improvo the wearing qualities of the cloth rather than its appearance, and number of processes the strictest supervision of necessary to the ultimate Anish every stage of manufacture in of the cloth are so mumerous that In a midget glasshouse, the inexpert may be excused the are used,

which only the finest materials O'Neill, who la 61, has for no bigger than an office comment that too much care is

The fastness of Scottish tweed years suffered from a form, of known as Parkinson's desk, cabbages, poppies, and taken. It is the expert sorting depends largely on the skilled lille

discare. followed other flowers and vegetables of reces and

weuvlig a strict

No dye is used tulil it and scra supervision

the most stringent are living and growing on a cheek at every singe of produc-as pasad

tests. Some charles of cloth call diet of radioactive atoms, tion, which have led to the for a judicious mixture of yarn ultimate perfection of the Scotch of various dyes. Army khaki tweet and to its eventual high is a blend of reven or eight fplace in the markets of the wools of different dyes.

world.

After the wnal 11713 been Many of the finest Scotch cleaned it is carded to fluff the tory in America is to produce tweeds bought by Americans material as much ns possible. Tndionetive drugs and other still follow the ancient patterns When the fluff appears, it is plant products which cannot based on the cheeks of the shep rubbed to make it more Ilke

herd's plaid,

It Anally or shawl, dating thread. be manufactured.

becomes from olden Umes. Best seller is thread through the spinning

HU Sterile gravel is the sol, the Glenorquhart check, re- Jennies. More operations follow washed clean with fungicidesminder of the times when every before the wool is finally ready and germicidis. The plants Seadeh_valley_and_glen had its for weaving This has always are fed all the minerals they own distinctive check.

this

The purpose of strange experiment at the Argonne National Labora-

I

need

AN

from ground tank.

a mutricht solution

under- romantic

Alr pump and half a dozen flexible tubes running into the sealed hothouse doctor the air

"been the work of women frøi

ne immemorial, and it is still

For centuries the Border done mainly by them today. tweed wool was supplied by the

And in case you did not know sheep reared near the weaving centres. Even better quality it, the cloth does not derive its was aimed ut, and the makera name from the river, but from a went much farther afield for clerical error made in an lovoice they breathe. Through their ther wool. Australia now which described Scottish tweel

Inhale enough of rends ranch cf the famous as tweed. Isotope Carbon 14, a by-product of the atom bomb, to make them radioactive.

leaves they

Ascorbic acid cannot be made)

In a laboratory; in radioactive, forms deal for research in the treatment of rhcumatic fever, The scientist gardeners picked their ripened cabbages, preen peppers and tomatoes, de hydrated and ground them into Into powder, dissolved them solvents, and the problem was licked.

When it becomes necessary to enter the hothouse, radiation la the atmosphere

MALAYA TRAINS

Periodically it is reported that he has been cured, but McCord says O'Neill in so far from being well that he cannot revise any plays he has on hand, let alone work on any new one. He hus written nothing since "The Iceman Cometh," which Was produced in New York in 1940.

O'Neill writes all his plays He has 201 out in Tonghan. been able to learn to think in terms of plot and dialogue wkle dictating, He has tried many machines unsuccessfully, indi attemple-to-dictate to din ulfa

also failed.

After "The Iceman Cometh" moved to Massachusetts. opened on Broadway, O'Neill He look treatments nt Bostont Hospital, but they were of little help, and later he discontinued! them.

Early Just year a literary quarterly voted O'Neill as the living author most likely to lie deemed n classic in the year 2000,

6,400 TEACHERS MEN KEEP

A total of 6,400 teachers of all kinds

underwent

training in 1949 in the Fedoration of Malaya. There are now 17,000 teachers compared with about 10,000 before the war.

HOUSE

BETTER These facts were revealed by Mr M. R. Holgate,

Federation Director of Education, in a broadcast on the

TC- can be work of his department over Radio Malaya.

dured to safety for humain beings. In the plants them-

selves the amount is too small)

to be a hazard. Leftovers refall of these

Some men are better domestic workers than

Mr Holgate said that not Settlements, whilst 800 were women, according to officials classes for of Britain's National In- teachers were attending training

Chinese vernacular teachers. In

trained staff had been an being trained in Sentor Normal +1 men domestic work- Inevitable concomitant of Classes.

sealed in thicke glass bottles trained, since dilution of addition, more than 000 were stitute of Houseworkers.

NO GLAMOUR such a rapid expansion. But

IN SMOKING

IN OPEN

cra have one...fault - that needs

ja good deal of training 10 a widespread system of Mr Holgate raid that the superadicate," the official added.

Developmenti "They won't tidy up in the teacher training for Mala- led Six-Year

Plan for cducation the kitchen after cooking, and they yas, men and wonen, was Federation would require 35,-won't clean up as they go.". started in 1918 in every one (80,000 Straits Dollars for Increasing numbers, of

men

of the States and Settle capital expenditure, and would are joining the Government- ments making

the sult in an addition of 18,500.- Federation.

training courses for Tamil teachers, with of mort a present enrolment

but three

Three-year teacher in

200. Straits Dollars to the annual recurrent expenditure, which in 1940 already amounted to 34,- 150,000 Straits Dollars.

punsored institute, which trains houseworkers.

They are taught to scrub #cors, cooks, make beds, shợp,

wh and iron clothes. Men who qualify

for

the

Smoking at the North Fulton High School Atlanta, Georgia, የገሃ legalised and it cut smoking|than 600 were being held in all puplis altended schools andiploma at the end of the course

issued with of the States and institutions of all kinds, he said. Will be "drastically."

In September 1949, that gure blue overalls.

Warren Jackson, principat, thought enforcing bans on suwok-

ing by students would just make HOW TO CARE

the situation worse.

Students who smoked in the FOR NÝLONS

rest rooms would find secret plores which would be more of are hazard, Jackson said.

So he told the students that

it would be all right to smoke but only in the concrete athletle stadium. I would mean reul trouble to be found smoking the building or elsewhere the grounds, he warned. Jack- son followed that up with wort

the teachers,

10

Many stains can be removed from nylon cloth by simple washing in roap and water, a mufacturer has discovered.

Some status that have been

a

new

Before the war

only 203,009

turquoise

had risen to 671,000, and more Turquoise blue is the omelal than 80 percent of the pupils colour worn by women diploma were in Government or Govern-hokiers. ment aided schools.

This meant that many more schools

hnd kone on whenever funds

ere needed. Building Motorless Motor permitted, and had it not been Car Foreseen for the Emergency many more!

rchools would have been bulit.

The work of a Massachusetts

| Institute of Technology professor

motor car.

allse can be used 10

erased by this simple method are Mr Holgate said that their may take the motor out of the catsup, mustard, chocolate sauce, present aim was to provide as Flierbets, Inks, and some greases,Į far འ possible ព six-year Dr A. R. Von Hippel says o

primary education for

crystal the size of an Other stains, such as those of children between the ages of six

volts of to the same chewing gum and some oil bases,

and 11, to provide secondary store up to 100,000 effect. He felt that the students are best removed with cleaning education for those of this group electricity which can be used would feel he was more than uid, according to

who

to proft by to power an automobile. were likely fair it the faculty had the same booklet, "Care of Nylon." such education, and lastly "o Use of stored electric power restrictions.

provide means of higher

would eliminate educa-

gear shifting The pamphlet sald nylon tlon, through colleges and and slash the cost of cars with As a result, Jackson sald, should be ironed at 275 degrees unt

universities, for training the involved conventionat engines, fewer students are smoking and Farenheit. In irons lacking a besi brains of the country he claimed. the building is not illtered with nylon selling,

that used for so that thise may take their Crystals made of barlum titan- ashes and butta.

rayons will provide the right part in administration, and |ite, à matorial that looks like temperature. Higher tempera- enter the ranks of professions ordinary porcelain, can store lures, according to the booklet, which demand a high standard | 10,000 times more electricity a lot of its glamour when may daninge the fabrie and of scholarship and long pro- than conventional condensers, was moved out into the open. cause white cloth to yellow. fessional preparation."

Von Hippel said.

He belleves that smoking lost

K. O. CANNON

GOOD DAY, TO YOU? ONE SMALL SHANDY

FOR ONE EMALL GIRL - AND TWO LANGE

GLASSES OF OLD AND MILD - AND

PERHAPS A GAME

OF DOMINOES-BAY- AEG DOMINOES),

The Riddle of the Red Domino

WHY- HOW STUPID

NEWS IN PICTURES

LAYING THE KEEL-A 170-ton crane lays a part of the 55-ton keel at a drydock in Newport News, Virginia, for the biggest passenger liner ever built in the United States. The superliner, tentatively named SS United States, will be America's answer to Britain's Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. The 980-foot-long vessel will be completed in 1952.

GLASS LUNG_FOR_FRUIT-Roy Young, science technician at the University of California, is shown with the now electric oxygen analyser and Brown electronic recorder. They are being used to determine the ideal "breathing rate" for citrus fruit and avocados to insure less future waste.

SPLASHING FASHION-These girls at Miami Beach, Florida, have the hathing beauty's talent of getting close to water without getting too wet, despite the big splash they make. This trio of chorines are, left to right; Tally Richards, Evelyn Malone and Jeanne Malone, and they look just as lovely when off duty as when they're paid to look přelly.

TAXI #GIRL

WELL-

COME OUT AND

CERTAINLY,SIR.

..AND A LITTLE. DROP OF PLAVOUR- | BAY - POISON!

WHO OWNS THE 'CAR? EVER HEARD (OR USING LIGHTS

WHKIVE YOU COME

FROM?

PUT, TREM OW!)

BACK AGAIN Seventeen years ago, the Nazis banned taxi-dancers from cafes In Berlin, but now they have returned-under strict supervision. This young German seems to like the practice of buying a dancing partner for 25 pfennigs

The girls ́selected must be over 18,

"

OLD AND NEW The Idea of the hat and scarf combination, worn by toen-nge film star Joan Evans, combines old Ideas with a new style. They are made in a gray, green, blue and rod

← diagonal check,