THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1989
News Snack Bar
"PROBLEM PARENT" THE GRAVEST
MENACE ΤΟ CHILDREN
You have heard of the problem child... Now comes the problem parent.
He (more often "she") is the prey to subcon- scious impulses, to inefficiency and thoughtlessness. The definition was given by Dr. Douglas MacCal- man, of Aberdeen University, to health congress at Scarborough.
"Our grandparents," he said, promoted in their children unques-
NO DRINKS HERE tioning obedience, humble worship.
An order prohibiting alcoholic drinks in the Egyptian Army_has been issued by Hussein Sirry Pas- ha, Minister of National De- fence.
BUT THERE...
Australians in New South Wales are drinking more beer, but less spirits, according to a Government report.
The estimated expenditure on alcoholic liquor was equal to £5 15s. 8d. per head of popula- tion, or 8s. 11d more than the previous year.-Reuter.
and a blind, rather stupid kind of love, but they had clear idea on bringing up parents."
What a change there was in family life to-day, he continued. The pendulum had swung too far. There was less security in the home. How could a child grow confident if his parents doubted how they should behave?'
Dr. F. J. Esher, of Sheffield, men- tioned that Germany was allowing single women to bring up families. He felt sure that would not be sa- tisfactory, because they would be awkward families.
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TALLER BOYS NOWADAYS
ELEGANT?—This is how Mlle. Moussis, the well-known Paris actress, arrived for the annual E'egance competition at the Paris Salon.
In sixty-three years Britain's boybood has put on three inches in RATES JUMP BY MILLIONS
height and considerably over a So Sir Henry Annual returns by the Ministry stone in weight.
Me- of Health show that last year the Bashford told the congress.
dical records of 2,000 fourteen- ratepayer of England and Wales paid about £189,000,000 in rates. In year-old boys compared with those 1914 they paid £71,276,000. Rates of boys of similar age examined in FORMER LEAGUE
1876 showed that the boy of to-day... collected in London last year increas-
was, on the average, three inches ed by about £2,400,000.
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250,000 TO PLAY
TO BE FITTER
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FAMOUS BARRISTER DIES
Mr. Walter Frampton, the well- Thirty fit young men will have as known barrister, died at his Beck- pupils in their summer fitness cam- enham home, aged sixty-eight. He paign 250,000 holidaymakers at had been ill for about five months. twenty-six Scottish towns and plea- sure resorts.
They're going to teach the fitness routine in the best of all ways-by making a pleasant game of it.
Lessons are not for children only or grown-ups only.
They are for all, stepped accord- ing to ages,
Men, women and children of every age will be shown how to play.
Youths between the ages of eigh- teen and twenty will be given easy gymnastics.
Elderly people will have special
lessons on their own,
OFFICIAL DIES
HOLIDAYS WITH
`DOUBLE PAYT
Dr. Alfred Rudolf Zimmerman, "I do not think there is really a well known for his work as League solution to the holiday problem un- of Nations High Commissioner for til we have established not holidays the financial reconstruction of Aus- with pay but holidays with double tria after the war, has died, aged pay," said Mr. Ernest Bevin, gen- eral Workers' Union, at the union's seventy, says Reuter.
Dr. Zimmerman held his League conference at Bridlington. "of Nations post from 1922 to
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During his career Mr. Frampton appeared in many famous cases in- cluding the trial of Mrs. Thompson and Bywaters for the murder of the woman's husband. With Sir Henry THEY MADE A CAR Curtis Bennett he appeared for the A MINUTE defence. In 1936 he was engaged in the Budget leakage tribunal. He had been Recorder of Chichester since 1930.
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ROYAL VISIT TO RUSSIA IDEA
Liberals have amusing ideas A suggestion that a royal visit should be arranged to Russia was approved by the annual conference of University Liberal Societies at Edinburgh.
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HE SNUBBED GERMANY
Lord Mount Temple, former Min- ister of Transport, died at his home at Romsey, Hants, aged seventy-one. Last November he resigned the chairmanship of the Anglo-German Morris Motors, Ltd., announce Fellowship because of the treatment that during the six months ended of the Jews in Germany, June 30 nearly 60,000 models were delivered to distributors and deal- LAUGHTER IN COURT ers. This is a record for the com- pany and is believed to be a record for the British motor industry.
Heard at North London police courts:-
Counsel at Enfield: Do you work
Witness: Well, not exactly;- I'm employed there.
The Morris output represents the manufacture of one car a min- at this firm? ute during working hours.
TO PROBE NAZI SPY?
CHARGE
Enfield Witness: I was crossing the road
id with my family-
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WHY BRING UP HENRY VIII 7
Teaching in school of such things
Louis Weichardt, leader of the
Clerk: How many of you? as the number of wives Henry VII "Grøy Shirts," the South African
Witness: One wife and one dog. The Home Office Under-Secretary, had was deplored by the headmaster anti-Semitic movement, was: sen-
Man at Highgate: The only wit- of Queen's College, Taunton, Somer tenced to six weeks' imprisonment
Mr. Peake, told Mr. Parker (Soca.
Не set, Dr. C. L. Wiseman, as the an-
at Cape Town on a charge of con- Romford) in Parliament that he ness I wish to call is my son.
saw nothing at all. nual school speech day. He said: travéning the
would investigate evidence regard- Riotous Assemblies "There are so many dumb people Act.
ing his allegation that Germans had in the world, and so many who can-
photographed people, particularly Adml. Rheinhard Koch, deputy not express themselves at all, and
refugees, who attended "Confessions chief of the German Naval Staff dur teaching them the number of wives
of a Nazi Spy" at a London cinema ing the Great War, died ht Munich,
aged 78. Henry VIII had is not going to help, ef
"It might have been eight. I hope am right in saying (80-
I am middle headed.
The Canadian Government has provisionally approved an application
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Czech Bata Works for per- Sir Cecil Graves, Deputy DI on to import 200 Czech skilled tor-General of the B.B.C., was alent
with machinery, for the es- ed vice-president of the I ment
shoe factories Br
nose
Canada.