The Brussels Post, 1949-7-13, Page 3Britain's Vital
Link With China
The Crowncolony of Hong
Kong consists of a group of islands,
a small strip of the mainland, Called
Kowloon, and a much larger area
behind that which is leased from
China, Hong Kong iseone of the
• islands. Except for a small plain
facing the Chinese border, the
whole territory is mountainous, but
is is so broken up by bays that the
Navy mini -the' a greater.expanse of
wa.er than the 400 square utiles
which the Army and police have to
rover on baud, writes 'Trevor
Powell,
When the troops who have
sailed to Hong Kong enter tit
stain horbor through rice narrow
Lyeemoon Pass, they will see Hong
Kong itself on their left, Straight
ahead they will see the British naval
vessels at anchor, and, to the rigifi,
the flying .boat, at their mooring
buoys, with Kai-tak airfield lntm.e
diately beyond of the Chinese
mainland, In the distance, where
the harbor is less than- two miles
wide, a stream of ferries serves as
a link hem. tam the centre of H ong
Kong ant? Kowlootl,
C)n both the 11oug Kong wattt-
front-and in Is on loon there are fine,
modern buildings, with the resi-
dents' homes scatte'cd richt up in
the hills. The harlmr is full of
junks, sampans and steamers from•
all over the world, and towering
ora' the scene is the majestic peak,
the highe.;t •in the island. nearly as
high as the hills on the mainland,
two miles serosa the waler.
At night, Hong Long is, brilliant.?
with lightj even the smallest shop
has its electric sign, 'There is a
blaze of light everywberp;'' In fact,
01100 you have been to Hong. Kong
you do not need to see the lights of ^
Piccadilly, Even down in the bay,
the acetylene lamps of the fishing
junks add to the brightness, for
Hong Kong never sleeps:
11 is hard to realize that: 100
years ago, be2orc Hong Kong be-
came British, these were barren -
hills on an a'nnosi unpopulated
island. The hills rise so steeply -
fron the natural foreshore that
there was just room for one road.
As a matter of fact, there are only
25 acres of flat ground on the whole
island, Being British, we called that
arca Happy- Valley, turned it into ,
a racecourse and sports ground, and
started to 1i11 in the harbor.
Today most of the big buildings,
hotels, shops and offices, the Hong
Kong Clubs and the naval dock-
yard conveniently close ' by, all
stand on this reclaimed land. The
Army had to carve its parade
ground out of the hillside, and its
„quarters and depots scattered all
over the territory are perc)ted on
mall -made terraces. ,.
To ace one of ,}Long Kong's prob
lents just walk the streets if you
ran. You never saw streets so
crowded—mostly wl,h Chinese peo-
ple, of course. It is a colorful
crowd; an excitable one, too. I
doubt whether anyone can say what
Hong Kong's population is today—
perhaps 2;000,0011, for, because of
times of trouble in China, refugees
pour in—thousands all day and all
night, Some come by the ordinary
routes, by steamers or railways, or
air; misers do not. To waters every
mountain pass in the leased terri-
tory, every cove and hay which.
small boats can en ter, Hong Kong
needs it very Ince polite force, in-
deed. •
What He Needed
in need of gas, the tourist had
slopped at a little crossroads filling
sta,ion tented by a' boy who was
lying in the shade. 7'he boy made
no
effort to get up as the car Stop-
ped. After tooting his horn several
times, the tourist shouted: '`Here,
boy, get a 11101e cu 3,01.11 1 want
gas! Get some push about yowl
Don't you know push is what gets
people somewhere in life?"
"!'hat's right, mister," replied the
boy without moving, "push is going
to get you somewhere, too, cause
we ain't got a drop of gas on the
place."
((WAR HUG—Pat Malone, MI-
ami wrestler and promoter,
squirms• but td a hold in hitt
snatch with 'Clinger," a sop"
pound Canadian blank bear. His
(freedom was only tenpo'm'y,
however. The bruin pinned Trim
in 1,5 minutes.
Hi-Doodle-Doodle—
Eleides be under the ;scrutiny of the public press, atomic •
boss David Lilienthal, appearing before the Joint ongressional -
Atomic- Energy Committee, gets the artistic treatment at the
hands of Sen, Millard Tyding's, top, a committee member,. After,
completing his sketch of Lilienthal, right below, Tyding's aimed
lits pencil at Committee Chairman 13, kilickenlooper, left. below.
f.° nt
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Ma Lost
'The Key
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SHIRLEY asMY
"Dear Ma and ba, Jeff and 1 have
gone to the city to be married. Ma
you just will never see things our
way so this all there is left for us
to do. l'in sorry, (signed) Jennie."
From behind the barn Hiram
could see the ancient auto rattling
towards home. I,+'.lviry's gaunt figure
at the steering wheel was silhoue-
tted agains the white road, and Hir-
am smiled to himself at 111e picture
of his very large wife in the very
small ear. As it pulled into the
driveway he quickly ducked out of
sight: Better to have her discover
the note herself. Reluctantly he
went into the house himself
She. wheeled on hien sharply, her
whole figure trembling with rage
and astonishment.
"1Tiraml Have you seen this?"
she demanded.
"Do you realize what this' tineana?
Jennie—she's gonel Jennie's' gone,
Hiram'', She waved the note wildly
in Itis face. .
She stormed at the little man
furiously. "They have no right to
marryl He'll never be able to sup-
port her; his own father said he'd
never make a farrier. All this talo:
about his; wanting to: study engin-
eering and scup nonsense—I won't
have my daughter be his wifel"
• "Now, listen, Elviry," he said
boldly, "you're just carrying on so
because Jennie's outwitted your
This wduld never would have hap-
pened if you hails"t been so stub-
boru"and would have consented to
their marrying in the first place. If
there's anything you women can't'
stand it's to have another outdo
you — even if she is your own
dauglttvl" f f,
Sher id t; e uotI over pain.
"Jennie says they're leaving for
the city. That must mean the 11:15
train. It's just eleven now; if we
hurry we can catcltlJiher." alintier her
breath • she added to herself: "So
she thinks she can outwit mel" and
drawing her lips into a hard, thin
line, she 'grimly barged out the
dor. Rican followed,
Site opened the squeaky garage
doors Ali an effort, and they went
inside, lie puffed away of his pipe
as site fnnihlcil in her huge hand-
bag.
'Hirani, have you .the car key?':
"No, Klviry,, j aiu•t seen it all
day,"
Site dashed outthe door and he
followed .with a flasllligfd. They
scarred the driveway, They over.
Melted flsgsi rtes and ran their fin.
netsof cr short hlades of 'grass.
Btu 11111 was ;In key. They went
1n10 the 1 t ,use and Rimed every-
thing ups de dnwv,. Rut no key.
"Hiram," she exclaimed sudden-'
ly, "you sat in the rocking chair
when you came in. What did -you do
with my things?"
"Why, 1. set on the table .there."
"Yes you did!" she accused. "You
set everything there there but the
ear key. Don't try to lie to me now,
Hiratnl I know very well you'd like
to' see her get away, bur 1' won"t
have it! Hiram, if you got that
key,
"131viry, I swear to goodness. I
ain't seen it."
• "The train leaves in two rtrin-
utes," she 'wailed as she glanced at
the clock. Her spirit was entirely
broken. Her great frame even scent-
ed tp sag,
• Hiram patted her benevolently.
"Well, you go to bed now, Elviry,
and have a good cry, Crying al-
ways does' -do women folk good.
I'll be along '10 a while:"'
1•le walked onto the porch• The
air was swet with the smell - of
hay. Far in"the distance he heard
the melancholy, ,whistle of a train,
then,all was quiet again. He puffed
contentendly foil a while on his
corni?ob, then took it from his
mouth and knocked the bowl
against :the railing. There was a
bright flash and it stna'll clink of
�etal as the ashes fluttered to the
iniad. Hiram smiled slyly to Nim-
s If, pocketed the battered old pipe
and started in:
Fooled Them
"Your honor," -said the lawyer,
"I submit that my client did not
break into ,the 'muse at all. Ire
found the parlor window op5n, 1n'
serted his right arm and removed a
few trifling "articles; Now, my eli•-
ent's arta •is,Ytot himself, and I faff -
to see hpw yqn can punish hien for -
an offeuee committed by only, one
of his limbs.'
"!lour• ar'g'uiirent," 'answered 'the
judge, "is very well put. Following
it logically, I iseutertce Site pets-
oncr's a'an,f,o one year's imprison-
ment. He can accompany it or not,
just as Ise chooses."
Whereupon the defendant Cahn!'
removed' his ' artificial arm and
walked out.
"Don') Poison Your Livestock"
is the heading of a warning sent
out by a prominent " University
veterinary expert; and although
you've probably heard all this be
fore—.well, the care you took yes-
terday isn't going to save the stock
you May, inadvertently, poison to-
day. So here goes.
This expert --* his Warne is Dr.
R„. I'. Link, by the way—lists
eleven articles, in conunotr nese
around farms, as being ` especially
dangerous,
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Cattle are sometimes poisoned
then they lick lead paint from old
paint buckets, or even from a
freshly painted barn or stable.
r; t. *
Nitrate fertilizer is deadly to
'cattle, so don't leave empty fertil-
izer sacks where the rattle caws get
'at them.
"Treated" grain is a liveftocle
killer. Hogs and' salt, brine make
another deadly combination; so if
you have a salt trough for pigs.
keep it covered against rahi,
* * 4
Medicines such) as carbon disul-
phide, sodium fluoride and nicotine
sulphate can kill, when given in the
wrong amounts. Rat and grodnd-
hog poisons, ,insect splays and
grasshopper bait are other deadly
mixtures,
* * *
Rest place for such livestock
poisons, DI'? Lifrk suggests, is
where livestock can't possibly get
at then. A lot pf farmers keep
such things in the garage which
mightn't be such a bad idea,
* * • is
And it mightn't be a bad idea,
either, to remind you that driving
tractors too close' to ditches takes
the lives of several. farmers each
summer.
* * s:
One man, who 'got stuck in a
ditch, but whose tractor fortun-
ately didn't happen to fall over on
hits, said, "Front -snow on I'm going
to allow two pxtra feet between my
tractor wheels and 'the ditch bank,
for• safety. Tractors under load
just seen to be sucked right into
ditches-" •
• ..
The speech of a Canadian—J. H.
Evans, Deputy, Minister of Agri-
culture in iefanitoba-is described
'as one of the highlights of the
meeting" of the National Polled
Cattle Promotion Club, held re-
eently 10 Waterloo; Iowa.
k * *
Mr, Evans told his audience about
how the Prairie Provinces—Man-
itoba, .4askatchewan and Alberta,
=colleci'a penalty of one dollar
per head on all horned cattle sold
at public markets; and how the
fund, so collected, is used to„pro-•
Wrote the production and marketing'
of hornless cattle.
• * * d:
Speaking of Canada's market for
farm products Evans said, "It's.
just as necessary to• grade the farm
Starts Business On
1 Buck --And A Doe
On:a farm about 70 utiles fawn
New York City, Bonnie Brown
found fame and fortune in spinning
yarn on' an old-fashioned Colonial
' flax -spinning wheel.
'It all stated seven years ago
' when Ronnie's husband: bt'bught
home a couple of Easter bunnies.
Their two little girls soon tired of .
'feeding and caring for the little
white Angoras, so Bonnie took
over,
She read up on rabbits, attended
shows, • and ' learned to '• clip and.
pluck them, Then a friend taught
her to spin, Bonnie bought a spin -
„Mug wheel and started turning the.
Angors wool into yarn,
A dollar and tea. emits, will buy
25 yards of it. 'On Somite will knit
a lady's sweater for $45 to $65, A
baby 'set—swfsater, fiat, bootees and
mitts --sells for $29.50, Buf Bonnie's
. profits•,dot't,stop there, S'he'll teach
you to spin, and sten you a .spit-.
ning wheel from her collection..
With orders corning in from all
over the country, Bonnfe's Buituy-
laud has become a fall -tithe 'ocew
patiou ' for BOnnit and takes up
-.very minute her two d•aug0,ters,
now 14 and 17, eat spare from
their school work,
products ypu have to sell as it is
to have a scale to weigh them on.”
Which sounds to me like a heap
of wisdom crammed into one small
sen tenet,
« * *
Of 'course you'd like to increase
the gripe and value of your land—
here's,a very simple, yet proven,
nnethod oft doing so. PUT SOME -
TI -IMG INTO YOUR COM-
MUNITY, ANT) INTO BETTER
LIVING,
* * *
. Land in "good” communities, as
You probably know, brings a prem -
Mtn as compared with the same
sante type of farm in a "poor" com-
munity, That's because people 'will
pay more; than a farm is actually
worth, just for the privilege of liv-
ing in a Mee place.
* *'
And you can't expect to have
good living and a strong,commun-
• ity, unless. ygou're willing to spend
some of your money,, and more of
your time, on worth-whf{e neigh-
borhood .or community projects,
Suspicious
lthe kood country doctor carte
home all worn out and prepared for
'-a good night's sleep. No sooner• had
he retired than the phone beside
his bed buzzed shrilly.
He nudged his wife: "Listen, Ma,
see who it is; say you expect me
soon, or anything you' think of,
The wife answered the -phone.
"Doctor is not at home," she
said.
"Well, this is Airs. Jones," rat-
tled a 'voice in the receiver, "I got
a pain and f want to see hint as
soon as he comes in."
The old doctor whispered some
instructions to his wife, which she
repeated to the would-be patient,
"Do that, and I'm sure you'll soon
feel all right," the wife concluded,
"Thanks very much," said the
lady on the phone crisply, "but
before I take your advice, tell ire
something. Is that gentleman who
seems to be with you qualified to
advise me?"
Knew The Answer
Tat She southern US. the whites
are strongly against Negroes vot-
ing. However, strong liberal opposi-
tion has caused She anti -blacks to
retreat somewhat, There are still
those who would bar the colored
people from their democratic right
and yet not let the Northerners
think that they were- doing so.
These people have devised what
are loosely galled- educational teats
which the Negro must pass in order
to be eligible to vote.
One time a Negro who had a
Ph.D. in romance, and classical
languages sought to vote in Ala-
bama, The clerk gave him a number
of foreign -language newspapers to
read, "If you can read these, I'll
know you're literate," said the
clerk, "and you'll be permitted to
vote." The Negro read the French,
German and Russian papers with.
out hesitancy. The clerk grew
flustered, Hehanded hint"a Polish
and Italian newspaper and again
the colored man read thein fluently,
"Read thisl" challenged the clerk
finally, tossing a Chinese newspaper
on the table. The Negro looked up
with a sad smile. It says that
Negroes can't vote in Alabama."
Czech Archbishop Heckled —
Shouting, whistling hecklers
drowned out Archbishop Josett
Reran (above), leader of the
Catholic Church in Czechoslo-
vakia, when he tried to criticize
the church policy of the Com"
munist regime in St. Vitizrt
Cathedral, Prague.
Negro Singer's Son Marries — As a crowd of ISOO apectatore
booed, Paul B.obeson, Jr., son of the fasted Negro singer, left
the Houle of a New York Congregational minister after his
marriage to the former Marilyn Greenberg (above), 21 -year -o14
white girl.
DRIVES OIL TRUCK THROUGH
WALL OF FLAME0
WINS
ROY NORTHROP
of Woodbridge, Ont.,
. calmly cowls dise,trour axpleslwr
Workmen were re -surfacing the
road with oil from Northrop's
truck. Suddenly the oil on the
road caught fire .. - flames shot
up into the air. Northrop reap..
zed that the truck trust be moved
Man explosion was to be avoided
— a blast that would wreck th
nearby houses. Calmly, he starte
the engine and drove the o
truck through the wall of flame
to a dry section of the road.
For risking his life to prevent
a possibly tragic explosion, wa
arra proud to present Roy North-
rop with The Dow Award.
1. Roy Northrop's truck was supplying oil to town
workmen' who were re -surfacing a road in North
Weston, near Toronto,
hw
3. Quickly, Northrop drove his truck through the
b�oInen toe dry ■ppose Hie had Vete
life — hut
a
isastrous explosion had bsen alerted,
IDOW BREWERY -
2. The oil on the road suddenly caught fire, Flares
swept the surface --shooting 15 to 20 feet into the
air. The on truck was in the midst of it all!
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