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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1950.

"Dad-remember during one of your clever political discussions in the pub challenging a gentleman to a duel? Well, here he is."

London Express Service

NOW-FROM A MAN-THE SCIENTIST'S VIEW

How can we account for man's crushing superiority?

T

THE stature of the masculine mind can be assessed by its astonishing achievements in science, religion, art, music, exploration, and every other fleld of progressive endeavour. -

There is no comparable record for judging the feminine mind. The list

of great women. reduces to about six. names. Madame Curie, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters,

Queen Elizabeth, and

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

Florence Nightingale.

and

they get a better bargain tham the woman next door.

So it seems that women have the mental equipment for logical thought... but something steps. them using it.

Want ts trib something? Women say it is men. I think that recent scientifle experiments offer a more Hkely answer.

MALE ANIMALS SOLVE THE PROBLEMS

CIENTISTS found that after adolescenco mole animais solve laboratory problems more easily than females. This happens not because the mnjen have beller

ete

brains but because emotional influences prevent the Women explain this by alleg front-rank female pocis

from bringing their fuIT ing that their sex has never writers.

reasoning power to bear on the [been given the chance to express In spite of all this I will not problems.

is mental powers.

hold woman's past against her

emotional Influences One in this assessment of her intel- seem to be set up by the natural This is a poor excuse. of the fundamental charac- Iretual powers. I will measure netion of glands whicle bring teristics of the genlus is his de- her mind no it comperes now about the cl:aracteristics of termination in overcoming social with its male counterpart.

femininity. The brain--the mechanlam and financial obstacles to achieve

belleve that this may apply which determines the power of to women becaure his purpose.

as structure, nervous

Michael Faraday was a black- the mind--weighs Bozs. Iess in Boy and girl babies are born smill's son Andrew Carnegie the average woman. But size is with much the same type of began as a barefoot babblu-boy not so important

system. Psychologient in a cotton mill. Louis Pasteur And so far scientists have found tests prove that young girls are be life less logical and not much and more emotional in their approach

to life than boys.

WOR

110 structural differences

Woman's brain

lanner. the

son of Madame Curie was always ham- tween pered by lack of money,

NEVER EVEN ONE GREAT WOMAN COMPOSER....

man's,

THEY LEARN—JUST LIKE PARROTS

have INTIL we get further evidence must therefore assume

But in their teens girls suffer a Feyere Intellectual set-back. The approach of womanhood restricts the activity of their

Leafs, women Wever been denied musical

WELL-TO-DO

Uit we

Yet there that women have the mental or literary education. have been no great women com- equipment-the brain cells and posers or philosophers and few electrical circults-for original

thought.

It's the strangest car

journey I ever made

BERLIN. YOUNG. GERMAN People's Policeman sat

in my car and pushed his Luger pistol into my back.

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with Dorothy Malone A New Warner Sensation!

He said: "Drive on, and don't try to get away or I shall shoot."

PERSONAL VANITY COMES INTO IT....

inental

consider these four points:-

energy in Universities have been churn- cosinstics and clothes.

How then can we account for BOYS get more and more in- terested in discovering why 21:11'3 crushing intellectual things happen. But girls become superiority?

preneruoled. with personal For proof of this superiorily vanity, They waste most of their study of

ing out wonen graduates for When taxed with this, women more than 30 years. But the complain they are forced into it number of them who get any- by inno's peculiar tastes,

Tut where in competition with men

cleatifie Inquby has demolished ¦ is negligible.

this charge The reason-13 I found for In a quiz of 150 girls. 64 per- myself at a co-td collerte-la gent, sald that before adolescence that women leurs like parrots. they wished they had been born They scribble down everything boys, but having reached the the professors say, write out print-and-powder stage only If in fair copy, then learn it by percent. #till regretted being

females. For ten days I drove around what they were until he asked heart. Poland, covering more

Apart from their never-ending than me. Again he smiled,

They leave college loaded with 1,000 miles. Travelling on main

articles of adornment, knowledge but understanding ! tor ronds, I passzá 30 private cars.

most women are contented with Then he starled on my type-uile of it. There were tens of thousands of writing paper-all blunk sheets. The average woman

cannot their lot, hures, and every one 1 passed He went through sheet by sheet argue objectively. A clear- AND IT'S LIKE THAT rented or bolted at the sight of and suddenly he said "Ah!" cut issue is rapidly obscured, in

Carefully he inid one blank sheet her mind by aside. He started through the smokescreet. Then through a window i

There was another The moment I crossed into pile again. Russian officers, Poland I slipped into the two

AND LOGIC ENDS IN "A" Another sheet. general

A SLAMMED DOOR

By

Saw

Selkirk Panton

a car.

emotional

I did not point out that one with the mauve cap rpy mapia which has gripped this would be fetal probably band of the secret police. the country. But it was not until What had he found? With to both of us. Instead, I entering the station. I I reached Warsaw, that city memories of recent spy trints myHEN comered by masculine

which has risen from the ashes heart beat slightly faster, and logic she debates the arg thought: This is what thought: Here we go.

and is now ones more pulsating, wondered what I might be made ment by bringing it down to a comes from trying to drive

that met the man in the green to confess. from Berlin to Poland across

hai. the Soviet Zone, the first Briton to do it for three

years.

But I was wrong. Ten minutes later the police explain, to my surprise, handed me my pars- port with a flourish, clicked his hecks, saluted, and said:

"Aly

apologies, Your Russian visa in order. Please go." I went.

is

Half an hour later the wooden barrier across the road to Stettin

He followed me everywhers. This spying on every Western foreigner, from ambassadora downwards, has the deliberate aim of rotating the foreigners at frightening the Poles,

It's a code!

personal level. The conflict ends in shrill abuse hurled through a slamming door.

EVERYWHERE

mis characteristic of being easily contented is a funda- mental feature of feminine make-up throughout the living world.

Is onset after adolescence is n forward step in the natural maturing process which fits a woman for her prime purpose- looking after home and family.

But it is fatal to creative thought and endeavour, which depend on the restless urge for self-assertion possessed by her-

So

any woman who attempts compete with men. In an intellectual sphere starts off as as I should be if

Women squander their share of the greatest progressive gossip. TYE handled the two sheets to thought-curiosity-in

me and said: "You have They are curious enough only to mat men. Five minutes before, I had

pret code here, I took them find out how Mrs Smith can been driving merrily towards

ant looked at them. The two afford a washing machine not to Stettin, now Szczecin, in

sheets had dviously been used to direover how it works. Poland. Ten miles from stopped me. It was the Russian Polish captain at the frontier soms time before.

left the country. the as secont sheets when typing.

Schwedt, on the Oder River, Zone frontier to Poland. Out of kept his word and I went Poland's new West frontier, a broken-down shack of the ade through in five minutes—into the I saw before me two German of the road stumbled Red Army Soviet Zone. People's Police. They had soldier Rolya, with his fur cap their pistols out.

me.

Their hands were trem- bling. This did not surprise My experience of be- ing held up is that it is nearly always the hand that holds the pistol that trembles,

1

'Could be forged'

nskew.

As I

The search

The punctuation marks could be reen and even individual letters. But I had no idea when I had used the paper or what the sheets might have contained.

Ile

I knew he name was Kolyn because it was tattooed un hils left hand.

I to the captain what they Be spoke only on TOWN the road Kolyn, hla fur non-Rusian sardin Germun. De still askew, grinned

a were, but I knew it was no good. "Kamerad," And he began every welcome and save me a bear- le did not believe me, sentence with it to Russian. Me e clasp.

Then he telephoned grunted: "We shall find truth." oo, started telephoning.

for his office. That was at two o'clock in the afternoon,

An hour later A Russian lieutenant arrived. He could not understand my Russian visa.

'You're the first'

Five minutes inter two young German I'eople's policemen with revolvers and rifles arrived. The captain said "Take him."

The Russian enpinin arrived, looked at my passport and said with some

the regret, "Yes, Ruginn visa Is In order.""" nuded. "Now we will search."

He

SHOWED them my pass-

port, with its valid Rus mistako not cleared sian Zone and Polish visas. Hup was not when I been warned about

Ono said: "Yes, but these left. No examination of luggage. thought I had nothing with me. could be forged. You must Nothing. I was out of the Soviet come to our H.Q."

20110.

I waited until midnight, when n man dashed into the room and handed me my passport,

4 They make nothing of their handicapped ** quota of that other treat my life's ambition were to be the creative urge, the competitive world's best nursemaid.

London Express Service} spirit. They feel it is satisfied if

Joan Evans Hits Out At Teen-agers

11

By PATRICIA CLARY

LOT of teen-agers are when the Piltsburgh fan club of disgrace, one of them con- crooner Ricci Vallo greeted him 19 warmly that he went to a tends.

They tear the clothes off hospital, minis his shirt and

hang crooners, they

around most of his pants.

They ought to have some- They cluttered with their guns movie stars when they ought to inle my car and we drove ten be home in bed, and they waste thing better to do than carry on miles to their headquarters. their time collecting autographs like that," she said. "Do they

instead of doing something con- think that's smart?" were ordered another I was easy in tny mind. I had Then we

The same thing happens to this.

120 miles to the barracks at Pen structive.

"A bunch of those bad apples," Foricy Granger, with whom kun. Time: 5.30 p.m.

Evans Joan Adams sald, "are giving Miss

starred in fall teen-agers und name. "Roseanna McKoy," when they

Plenty of us are perfectly nice, make appearances.

"They normal people."

grub at him, at his Joan made a remarkable film clothes, or anything," she said. debut in "Roseanna Mekoy "First it's three or four, then Even such well-bred teen- they all go wild. It's mass He said, "You are free, Berlin.

Jan has ordered it. The Russian cup-agers as Miss Evans, Elizabeth hysterin.

Powell And tain has made a big mistake, and Taylor and

Hollywoodites eyeing them with he is. In trouble with Berlin."

suspicion and distaste-Impos cible ns that sounds-every lime

"All the kids were calling for a bobby-sox mob goes mad.

"They think all teen-agers autographs and shaking their are alike," Miss Evans said. "I pens at her," she said: "TheX even get nasty letters saying, splashed ink all over us. 'Why don't you kids behave

"I never could see the fascina- yourselves?'"*

tion of getting the signature of It was "disgraceful, simply somebody you don't know, any- disgraceful," Miss Evans sald, wny-United Press.

Kolya and a "Kamersd" stori- d on the car. They took the I was shown into the PU lonely road was a Polish fromiter they could find. Every piece of Two miles down the straight, seats out and everything else lico "common room" and station.

paper was taken into the shack placed under

and the Russian captain Eat

lawn before me. guard.

ан

armed

The captain in charge sald: "It may take some time before While a telephone whirred you can go on. You are the first He came to a pipe cleaner. He through fingered it for five minutes, Then in the next room I looked Englishman to come through the police library here by car, but when you urme he naked, "What's this for?" I

back to Germany It will only showed him. He smiled. take live minuter.**

all German translations of Russian authors' historien of Maxism and Communism, and not a thriller among them.

NANCY

Then he found some spare Two hours later, with a quick lighter flints. He handled them

detonators. I did not tell him

Ten minutes Inter he shook hands with me at the autobahn and sald, Berlin is straight on, Sorry I had to keep the sheets."

So was I. I am still wondering

salute and handshake, I was at as though they were miniature what was on them.

last in Poland.

Face-saving

HEALTH WEEK

AK-

AK- AK-

COVER THAT SNEEZE

CHOO

London Exprata Service)

By Ernie Bushmilier

NOVELTY

SHOP

Another time the 15-year-old clar went to a preview with Luelle Ball.

bif

INSECT SPRAY

WITH DOT

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

SURE KILL

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