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fraternal societies so furiously get together? -because men are afraid of the wide open spaces. TROPIC FEVER-Ladislao Szekely-Har- per ($3). Plain reminiscences of the author's sweaty experiences as youthful overseer on tobacco and rubber plantations in Sumatra 20 years back...
...preserved, attentive woman who said politely that she had heard he was rich and successful. They exchanged formal comments about their careers, and the self-conscious traveler, feeling a little ridiculous and more concerned than ever about the prestige of the white race, hurried on to visit Java, Bali, Sumatra, Macassar, and other island haunts with the passionate absorption of a middle-aged romantic who had set out in quest of his youth, found it and decided it had not amounted to much...
Geoffrey Gorer expected to find Bali ballyhooed to the point of tedium. Instead it turned out to be so fresh and attractive that he was convinced that he had seen the nearest approach to Utopia on earth. Java for the most part left him cold, as did Sumatra and Siam. He says that "never having been to California," Bangkok is the most hokum place he has ever seen...
Ruki knew nothing outside the life of his village, and could not imagine wanting to know. But he fell an easy prey to the decoy who chattered of the wonderful rewards to be earned by working on a white man's plantation. Long before he got to Sumatra he repented of his greed and wanted to go home, but because he had signed his mark to the contract it was too late. On the teak plantation Ruki, like most of his unfortunate fellows, lived the brutal life of a slave. His woman was taken from him. given...
India, Ceylon and Java-Sumatra export 85% of the world's tea. The U. S. buys 80,000,000 Ib. of tea a year, for which it pays $16,000,000. Only Great Britain consumes more. To make U. S. inhabitants even more ardent tea drinkers has long been the aim of the International Tea Market Expansion Board in general, and Mr. Gervas Huxley in particular. Mr. Huxley, the tweedy common denominator of all Englishmen, is Novelist Aldous Huxley's cousin and the director of the famed BUY BRITISH campaign. Late in 1934 Mr. Huxley, along with...