THE CHINA MAIL, ‘AUGUST 2, 1941 MUTT AND JEFFE
SEE, I GOT TEN BUCKS! THAT'S ALL'T GOT! NOW [ I WANT A NICE ROOM WITH A NICE SOFT BED! I NEED A GOOD NIGHTS
SLEEP!
THIS IS NEXT, MORNING THE PLACE
TO GET IT, SIR!
HEY, MUTT! THAT GUY IN 258 IS SO MAD HE'S WRECKING THE PLACE!
I, PAID TEN BUCKS FOR ONE NIGHT. IN THIS ROOM!
WELL, ITS A NICE ROOM AND BED-
AIN'T
SURE, IT'S A NICE ROOM | SURE. IT'S A NICE BED!
WELL, THEN
WHAT CHA SORE AT?
By BUD FISHER
I DREAMT I
SLEPT IN THE
[·PARK ALL NIGHT
ON A BENCH!
8 "PARENTS" TRIED TO
DECEIVE
OF ONE CHILD THE LAW
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S wife, ex-President Herbert Hoover and actress Tallulah Bankhead are among prominent American "foster parents" who have made themselves financially responsible for the duration for the care of children in Britain who have suffered through the war.
"Nazis are curious peo- ple. They are such liars. This man nearly took me in. He did it so well," said Sir Robert Dummett, at Bow Street, when he again remanded Lothar Eifflaender (21), a Ger- man-born naturalis- Must Learn To Ride ed Englishman, described Americans insist that each child as a silk worker, of Ches- so ter Road, Macclesfield, in shall learn to ride a horse. people Britain to open suitable homes in there are four ponies at the school accused of being drunk Britam
Reginald Ramm, 13, who was
The foster parents insist that there shall be no class distinctions.
Both rich and poor Americans receiving are so eager to help that at the education. moment there are more American "mothers" and "fathers" than there are children to go round
A New York organisation
appointed responsib'e
hus
At Ashley House School, Work- sop. Nuits, which comes under the scheme, are poor children. Troon the East End of London who have lost their parents and home; and who now each have eight foster. parents across the Atlante. The children's ages range from four k fourteen years.
' Secondary
school
bombed out of h/8 home in and disorderly and as- Stoke Newington, London, was
saulting a night porter at milking a goat on the school, farm when he said: "Mummy an hotel off the Strand. was killed in an air raid. My Eiflaender, it was stated, re- brother Alec, who is 11, and my sister, Queenie, who is 14, are here with me. We love it. "Each week we write to one I have about six foster parents. new mummies in America. I keep getting
new one each week.
Mr. B. Reid-Smith, principal, said that the Americans cabled him to "spare no expense. "
Children at Ashley House They all write to me. School are living on the same "I get piles of letters and pic- they ali scale as the sons and daughters tures from them, and
want me to live with them after of man earning £800 a year. All the older boys and gir's are the war."
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turned to the hotel in a drunken condition and, saying that he was proud to be a German, made insulting remarks about the Brit- ish people. He was thrown out of the notel, and began fighting and struck the night porter on the Jaw,
Answering the Magistrate, Eifflaender said he left Germany at in 1932. but was back there school in 1936 and 1937. His sympathies were with this coun- try.
"I wanted to fight very much, but they would not let me go." he said.
A detective said it had come to the knowledge of the hotel man- agement that Eifflaender had been making derogatory remarks about the English and expressing opinion about successes оп the battle fronts. He had strong Nazi tendencies, and application would now be made to the Home Secre- tary for his internment.
COLLECTOR
COULDN'T COLLECT
When is a collection not! ja collection? If an illegal collection does not take place, can a man be pro- secuted for making it?
These were some of the pro- blems Magistrates had to consider at Chertsey Sessions.
A man had been summoned for house-to-house col- promoting a lection without permission, and for making an unauthorised col- lection.
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he The man's story was that wanted to make a collection for he the R.A.F., and' didn't think
Anyhow, need get permission, nobody would give him any money.
The chairman asked if there could be a collection without any- Then he thing being collected.
and his colleagues, Solomon-like in their wisdom, dismissed thef charge of promoting a collection and imposed a fine of 40s. making a collection.
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