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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1946.
DON IDDON'S DIARY
The Big Top Camps Among The Skyscrapers
The American spring song, on a note of triumph, now pro- claims the leadership of the United States among the nations,
during the actiona
Counter This Slur!
declining.
Warna Em-
The theory
term.
the
A
necond
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received wages
AWAY WITH
Don't Call Them
THESE EXAMS! Surplus Women"
exam
By C. C. R. MITCHELL, M. A.
in fact.
I am in my early thirties and not married: must accept the fact that marriage is now highly improbable.,
I do not want to face up ̈10 that but there it is. No matter how confidently or usefully I go through life I shall always have 4 senso of deprivation-and in my worst moments a feeling that, life has been both unjust and un- fair.
But let us be quito sane about
S2C-
I said let us be quite sane about
am
of
John Aubroy, who con- ducts the News Chronicle Personal Problems sorvico, writes: Last work invited comments from readers on a letter from an unmarried woman
who found "sub- limation” no answer to the *problem created by an un- satisfied sexual drive and suggested a "modification of jealousy" among married:
Hare is a people as a solution.
selection of opinions from a number of
interesting letters too large to be individually acknow- lodged.
Infintion, however, mounts-a continue to be dominated by writ-idenconestisfying and fulfiling mother's care for her child.
cies.
Yours are
my
Equal Birthright
Throughout secondary education examinations there are written which test the ability of children to express not their own ideas. windows, a mammoth poster in, warmed under the soft, spring but those of their teachers.
Education should be a train- Times-square, yet not even
Now cutting up capers, jittering of the mind to assess and tiny portrait of him in Hunter
driticise contemporary situations bugging, and swing ressions are College.
become Paying tribute to Roosevelt's permitted on the pavements un- and evonta. It has The music shouldn't be dis-greatness, the newspapers are less they constitute a menace to cramming of the mind with facts. Boys and girls leave secondary pleasing to our ears, for It is also carefully analysing Harry, the peace,
With money to burn, the schools able to "write fully on the this. In the end the deprivation in harmony with British idealsTruman's record during his first and interests.
year of office, On the whole public is showing inflammatory, Napoleonic Wars, but quite unable is really spiritual, not physical really hurts, and this loneliness So even if the crescendo is the verdict is favourable. Tru-ter, enrics, insisting that there's to talk intelligently about the late It is the loneliness of spirit that verpitched and the fortissimo man himself thinks his leader. plenty more where that came "The Education Act of 1944 pro- can only to met by the friend-
vides, for three types of second-ship and comradeship of a Hong Kong's various communi- blaring to the point of harsh ship has been fair without be- from.
Statiatles show a major re-ary education and the Ministry connful marriage (a) because
a permanent relationship (or in the nution's has stated that it will be neces ties have seldom revealed them-es, it is better that wo shoulding spectacular.
More and more the President distribution selves to be more expressively un-applaud.
While ten years ago sary to "devise new methods of should be), (b) because of the President Truman's words is turning to study of the wealth. animous than they are to-day in
of over of education best suited to their of each upon the other. their tributes to Vice Admiral Sir and States Secretary Bynes's Bible, and he constantly mases only 7 per cent, of the popula- determining for children the type physical and spiritual dependence
past few over the First Book of Kings, tion
necda." now 86.5 in 700 annually,
per passage
Parents must ensure that old it. It is not only the unmarried: Cecil Harcourt on the eve of his days, despite a hint of arro particularly
of emotional nicthods are not used in new in- who experience this deprivation occasional flights relinquishment of office as head gance, spelled good news for which Solomon sees God in a cent. of the families in Americ:
New methods stitutions, get £700 a year and more. dream and asks for guidance.
in but many married people too. For pleasure. Only taxes cloud the April
is to exist for all the people you know are feeling a
Sublimation are vital if second- various reasons at least half of of the Military Administratem. Britain.
works because it Truman's Bible
gives what a married person ai- The simple truth is enough; it
sky, and they're to be lighten-nry educ And although the headlines
ways has interests in and caro Truman is frequently intro-ed. They're about half ou
similar sense of frustration calls for no elaborate adoramient.
of other Until those new methods are their deepest needs.
persons than himself. It is that Hong Kong's chief re-here read "President
ducing passages from the Scrip- but the cost of Iving equalisos
devised, secondary education will the
I sublimation. About
Such interests must arise spon- the British phase upon Russia and
tures into his speeches and even this.
in the Methodist Laneously and as naturally as a gret in the ACSY
He which the Colony is about to en-pire," almost everyone knows into private conversation.
Church, a a small Fo-belai climber moving in all cir-ten examinations, which are suit- ter, the reversion to civil govern- that the admonition was not ad- sometimes carries
able only for a minorily.
job. But I know how much hap The new methous in examina-pier life would be if, instead of ment, is that it involves the de-stressed to America's sister de-ket Bible, and still bes the poem
"Locksley Hall," on the brother- The fashion free-for-all gets Lions are already in use in some working as alone agent, I was Only one recent developmenthood of man, in his wallet. parture of an administrator whose mocracy.
now satin schools. Unfortunately these and sharing my life and work with The denial of children to un- more furious, and temperament has endeared him to
in Anglo-American relations
He has given up expressing nighties are being sold decorat-the services of psychologists, tend son
someone else who felt the same married women, many of whom all, and whose capabilities and jars, and that is the insistence his unense at occupying the ed with
be gind of the way and had the same purpose in would flowered heart and to be reserved for backward chil-
opuor- delinquents. conscientiousness have contributed in a many quarters, but not Presidency and abandoned his
tunity to bear and rear them at "No bearing
life. the words
dren and for
Their Buccess, however, in this
There is a point at which a fine their own expense if the
atigma so importantly to the rapidity of in the White House or the State self-disparagement. There's no
vacancy."
there powerfully demonstrates Trousers still are the Colony's recovery from the Department, that there are now doubt he will seek a
worn, but
not only how inadequate are and absorbing love of something of bastardy were removed, is a
great outside oneself (sublima- further
of suppression natural Great Powers--the
are losing out its women recull traditional methods of examining ilon) only serves to make matters desire. By the same Bense of chaos and confusion left by the only two
and U.S.S.R.--and that
He is struggling hard to Ogden Nash's words:
and testing a child's ability, but wor
WOYSC. This is true even in the shame, the unmarried woman is Japanese occupation. His Excel-US
"Yes, deck yourself in floppy is how they hinder educational realms of religion. The greater denied both the joys of mating frncy on landing in Hong Kong British Empire is a lagging please the people and improve Radio expert James
pants,
progress.
the heights one scales the more and, more tragie to my mind, the took over an unfamiliar task, de-third weary, impoverished, and hist
Reinsch is coaching him in
Because of an aptitude test the does one need the companionship love, affection and companionship. the
9 of the boy manding the highest attributes in This we shoul reject with
of a child or children-of her own parents microphone delivery, and he re-sweeting.
years old,
of another to share it vigour, initiative and wisdom of spirit and scorn.
and blood throughout her hearses all his speeches several You look divine as you ad- who reported that he was 13 years
Now that word "surplus wo flesh Will you please forget it: life. decision. It is possible to say, of our deterioration in power times for intonation, emphasis, | vance. Have you seen yourself old in spelling, but only 7 in arith-maks. There is no such thing|
"The practical solution
to my without fulsome praise
is too widespread here.
It is a favourite theme of He has a completely new aggeration, that the man matched
success editorials, articles, radio con-wardrobe of slickly cut suite. the need. In part, this
arul after-dinner is health is good and only his has been due to two qualities in- mentaries,
astigmatism troubles him. the "peeches, in administration, valuable
It is the duty and respon- happy knack of knowing when to stand off the task and view it inbility of intr inverument, its
are jewel-bright glitter coats of to judge anity Foreign
and informa
rose green, blue, and yellow, ary life. The ability to brond perspective, and the ability tion services to counter the slur
made of miracle waterproofing duse at second-hand a criticism of "Macbeth" is not so important to delegate authority and impart and prove that we take our
Atom Fan-Mail
which won't crack, stick, peel,
15 Briticise the flus the ability to crit confidrice to his subordinates. uluce in strength and influence
at the local cinema. Sir Cecil has, in fact, worked with alengside the Soviet and the Other items in my undiptor stiffen.
And the other day a man's
This is the age of the camera matic bag include: Food, Ex- a happy and hard-working team, U.
Mayor La Guardia, new relief store advertised mink shirts for per cent mink, and the Colony's regret that it ist
The Lyphoon of feeling boss, is preparing a sensational --mude of
20 per cent muskrat, and the to a large extent, to be broken up, is universal,
To be plainer against Russia has blev icin getting and will binst the rest pure wool The price, 43 to pay me spoken would be to go over old self out, but the latest Soviet is
tha to wear one. ground, and at this time would demand may bring a resurgenceU.S. for failing to live up to its 10s. They'd have
To his cry that "tickertape
Louis Wonders serve no usefni purpose. All that of hostile opinion and a renewal quota.
of tensions, particularly if the we can now do is pay our tribute Kremlin again attempts unila- ain't spaghetti," the people only
The entertainment razzle- tions. reply: No, but it tastes like dazzle throws off sparks as six to Sir Cecil Harcourt, to say teral action or bold bluff. "Thank you and Godapred," and At Hunter College in the it.
ami a half million people crowd is comparative
Iircedway, and the showman'a current rave is "The Cement to assure him that the ceremonies Bronx there
Some U.N.O. de letters, most of them protesting in which he is now being invited tranquility.
med!"
putti, a nuddle of vooty, puddle to participate are a genuine mark legates, however, are resentful agains: the atom-bomb experi-motto is: "The public be jam Mixer" "Cement mixer, patti
A three-year boom is forecast of gooty, puddle of scooty, putti It isat hard nowadays to find of this Colony's esteem and re-at the inability of the U.S. tomeut in the Pacific, have been Depart. find U.N.O. a home and head- received at the War
unwanted children to adopt, and gard.
ment... Several hundred letter-for the movies, and most film putti."Ah, literature! juarters.
stocks have scaled new market
Best news for British films what about us poor overworked writers want to be placed on
peaks.
this week was the critics' eulogy mothers who would welcome with
To reach any solution one has the target, ships.
But the cautions Louis B. of "Henry. V." which was tried open arms an intelligent spinster Raymond Gram Swing Bays: Mayer; who gets a million dollars out in Boston. Laurence Oli-to take over our families been to think out first how Jucator
This is motherhood as
maidishness" is due to unsatisfied President Truman for our continued manufacture heart it's too good to be true, and the film as a masterpiece. who sny
deputy gets the lion's share of
feeling of lnferiority, of being might have illustrated his fer- of atom bombs."
The week's film is "The Green affection. The stockpile now is reported nid everything is costing too Years" with
unwanted in the social scheme, vent endorsement of the United
Charles Coburn, Frankly, I would not change and of having failed to attract a Though the observers charged Nations by furnishing suitable to number over 1,500 bomba. much and expenditure must be Good, but not great.
back into a spinster (were it even husband. with supervising the Greek clcs-
Britain, which helped to per-slashed.
worker not The week's play is "St. Louis possible), but I think I am The unmarried women accommodation. tions have not yet reported, the]
as a pearl of The Russians have been irked fect the weapon, hasn't even one.
He possibly intends to cut him- Woman," with Rex Ingram, alone among my married friends should be valued Nazis. American correspon- self down to 900,000 dollars. a Gave me the blues.
glances of great price in any country with a in casting occasional general view seems to be that on by the shortcomings in hoa-
Book of the week is This envy at our spinster friends who labour shortage. They can put the technical side the voting arpitality, and although previous dents covering the Nuremberg year.
more into their work than rangements were reasonably freely they had been opposed to re-trial admit that Britain's Sir
More and more Eric Johnston House against This House," by are free of the slavery of husband, far David Maxwell Fyfe dominates is capturing newspapers space Vincent Sheean.
house and child.
married women, whose main in- the pence
Fuddled and and fair. The
than Populists the opening Geneva as.
tercala ile elsewhere, or Right Wing, who favour the re-capital, they may change their the proceedings, has saved the and radio time as president of fumbling, retrieved by its ide- The Real Nood
prosecution after America's Ro- the Motion Pictures
young girls on the look-out for husbands. bert Jackson's blunders. Personal: Columnist
The Greek Elections
turn of the King-have wor R
clear majority of seats over the
other two main contesting parties,
Oleo
Peace On Tour
It is humiliating to be for ever packing bags and seeking lodgings like an
unwelcome
and pronunciation.
Of Harry Truman they say
that his taste in bow-lies may be questionable, but he wears
other man's collar.
Atom Bombs. Over 5,000
retreating?
Something called sculptured lingerie has arrived for women, and shore come in 160 shapes and sizes.
metic possess a far more accurate idea
of his ability in these sub-
The
jects than they would from a mass of reports and marks.
traditional type of examina Lion must give way to one which
હતું.
the candidate Raincoats for April showers tests the
criticise contempor-
B9
repro-
cor-
as a "surplus woman" in the eyes mind, then, la the cquality of of God. There may be lonely birthright for all children, whe- and unhappy women (and men); ther born in or out of wedlock, of bastardy there may be frustrated and un-without any atigma fulfilled women, but not "aurplus." either in practice or by birth
inate in mensure long overdue in any case), official Government recognition of the unmarried me maintenance of the spinster's and ther and useful
to the. Krants widow's children, where required
Home Life First I say your correspondent is de finitely wrong. Too many happy homes have been broken up owing
2
to war conditions. The country national charge calculated to and of the radio.. It is impera- can never be really happy and pay high dividends in this age of tive that these should be incor- prosperous until we get the happy falling birthrales. porated into our educational sys-home life again and the Christian tem. Their influence will increase voz asumably jealous of the min
the growth leisure. be will be ignored by the schools, of one loves.
the future at great poril. Yet they will be ignored if the schools are tyrannised over by examina-
Jealousy A Disease Far from regarding jealousy as I think the writer is being sel- a normal accompaniment to love,
regard it as an unpleasant. fish in her way of thinking. What about the children and these sur disease which kills love most sure. plus women? I had a very un-ly and very painfully. I am very fortunate myself never inve happy childhood through an un- married woman breaking up our suffered from it, but if I found it home.
developing I should take all pos sible steps to get rid of it, just as I should if I found myself developing any unpleasant bodily illness.
Why Pity Spinsters?
to
Pearl Of Great Price
tourist, and there are officials "There can be no justification a year and must feel in bis vier has been hailed as a genius. but quite often a sex instincts and how much to
minds.
Gromyko Winced
Gromyko has winced under
ing packs of reporters, the The EAM parties, who urged dashbulbs and cameras thrust abstention, demonstrated that into his face, the newaree! though they command only a crews that shadow his limou- minority of votes in the country, sine,
to U.N,O.
|
has called in his executives and
tion.
Drew
Associalism.
I think polygamy is the answer
Stacked Pact
BY THE WAY
оле
By BEACHCOMBER
who appears to be based on the undeni- I wonder why the analle don't pull
In the Services the best N.C.0. He plans a world tour to sell Items: They say internation- it men could afford to support and officers among the women, the Centre Bloc and the Liberals, the pitiless publicity, the trail- Pearson says if the U.S. enald | American films globally, and al diplomacy gets more and more more than one family under civi- came, in my opinion, from the of 28 to 45. Fhip 2,500,000,000lb, of house also promises a showdown fight like a card game--someone's al-lised conditions. A woman fecis dumarried women meat to Europe it would solve with censors who recoil from ways trying to deal from the more frustrated at having no there was no hint of the "thwarted They were keen, alive, popular: the food crisis and eliminate the risque.
bottom of the pact.
family than at having lacked.
spinster" about them. Owing to Profits now hit a new high the need for rationing here.
Phew to Drow and phoocy! note, and from Hollywood and chill is a great man-
Hal Block says Winston Chur-sexual intercourse.
war they were "wanted" for because What bad temper spinsters may
the first time. The advice of the nationalist,
It's Tulip Timo
gramophone record. royaltics
but caused, in m it is a very substantial minority.
To women who are facing up to In New York, the circus has alone the business drew 5,000, he's always got England on his suffer from is not due to sex re- Latest estimates put the figure of mass-selling Frees
heart, Amerlen on his mind, and pression,
this problem I would say: Don't helped.
opinion, by having no Havana on his lips. "Goodbye, come to town, and the greatest 000 last year. non-voters at well over 45 per haan't
Du earth moves from
Broadcast Battlo
Quentin Reynolds points out cherish so that their lives become pretend you would rather not be
self-centred. Such people cent.; not all of these were de- please." these papers say: "Do show
mag married. Get a job which takes as far 49 ladio, lagging slightly, now that the scientists split the atom nify their carco and worries. That your whole interest liberate EAM abstentions, but the the American people a favour Bronx to Madinon Square Gar
by getting completely out of den.
eyes the British market and and now the atom is splitting us. attitude would not to dispelled by possible. larger proportion obviously was the U.S. Go to North West Elephants patrol the streets plans stations in Iceland. Ire Since the Centre Bloc, the Mexico, where are racing and clowds dance in Times- laud, and the Continent' to in Liberals and EAM are all republi- tracks, gambling joints, hot square. The city children stare vade the British air and battle can parties, the results of the springs, and Hollywood swartio as the caged lions and tigers roll the B.B.C. with commercialised polling do not constitute a man- pies 10 while away the tedium." by, and the loafers eye the tra- programmes.
My story of the man. In town are Sir Cedric Hard- Public interest in the pro-peze artists, voluptuous in, pink date for a return of the mon-.
wicke, Carole Landis, Loretta thought he was, becoming a horse. archy, but rather show that there ceedings has declined drastical-tights.
traveller about a tribe in North- night comes at midnight, midnight mistaken for lions, especially as police outside; in the petroj-poisoned air and with minds of their own.
Western Rhodesia. the Big Top camps in the heart - Hardwicke proclaims:
The mon pull out all their fronts midnight. But Charlie Suet's the Windlesham Leather-Tanners at which anails, fried in liquorico, of view the results are singularly Hunter College.
As a pageant or a drams, the of the steel and concrete city can have
number rockoned by tho unhelpful. Britain at one time meeting has been a sideshow
Hollywood, I hope teeth, because they have end plan goes further. Each hour is Society still has an annual outing, Across town in Rockfeller they don't drive me back. that hories Haya front tooth, and
divided into
told me that you have to be very These minutes aro Sir John Three, thousand Grand Duko shine and oranges. Hollywood
Orimps a me in the, piace concerned, so genuinely interested in their an tulips, their yellow-edged crim- gives you
everything, but it
"I must confess that the anails I were encased in stuw. When he behind son petals dancing in the spring takes away your ability."
way. Breezo,
Whore a loen used to like to watch were those carpet Manhattan's
neked them the reason for this,up in the other the lag ik made, Carole says she's tiring-of all they said that long ago someone Iity's time is ahead of another, the served by Bontist of Complegne, in his little dark restaurant, or nerve centro.
these sweater jokes.
had pointed out that thinocerosesonds are calculated behind the hope has not been realised, and the Remembering F D R
The mood is lively and gay, political dilemima, both for Bri- One your ago this week
Boyer announces: "I'm utter have noses, and they did not want time of the place concerned. With the dear old woman of Masst- thin and Greece, is unresolved. Franklin Roosevelt. dled, and and Fifth Avenue has echoed to ly tired of being the great lover, to be mistaken for rhinoceroses: that paths, Suct look like blau, outside Millau, in the coun
the march of regiments, on It's a bore and a nuisance. Which just shows, doesn't it? a.horse. The elections have roughly reveal his memory today is sharp and parado, to the roll of tanks and When I was a boy of twenty it ed the strength of the apposing tasistent all over America.
1 Io in the unforgotten man, ung, to the swing and strut of was all right, but I was a boy I am informed that the centri- factions; there is unfortunately no
military banda.
fugal organblowors are lopping of twenty 20 years ago.” si; off their care, so as not to be mis- prospect that they will lead to "nd there are a thousand me
morial services, radio proĮ
OK For Jiva
And Loretta Young Baya: taken for drynalters, who also that moderate and reconciling grammes, and publio gatherings. Even the tough and taciturn { "What does New York want have cars. statesmanship which alone can get in de honour,
police, threatened by Mayor with a circus when Orson Welles Suet's Now Timis Greece out of its political and There are huge photographs D'Dwyer that he will clean up is also in town 7
The plan for a cow worldtime economic difficulties.
of the late President in store | crims or cleanup them, havi Song hits get crazier, and the for use by the United Nations,
is a republican majority in the ly, and there's no need for the There is a smell of sawdust Young and Charles Boyer, all has brought me a letter from a able fact that in places where mid- their teeth out, to avoid being country. From a practical point barricades and
"You
of
entertained the hope that after a compared to the. conferences at Centre, under the, tall fingers of "Let it rain or pour, I still they don't want to look like minutes in it-in each case Co, Aro eaten A anall-watcher onco
poll it would be possible safely to the Hague." entrust Greek affairs either to a The latest Bronx bromide to broadbased national coalition or that Russia's next demand will to a majority Government with a be for the secret of the tidal constitutional opposition. That wave.
the skyscrapers, it is tulip time. won't long for Californian sun-f people whose noses where one locality's time 18
on the Undevillo dis- geconds, but always ahead of the atient to watch snails, and also
''
Snalis
tica.
try of the Cauc
Tail-Piece. The problem is not to make the I never know until this mortal people happy, but to prevent them Don't op minuta that there was a Society from being unhappy. of British Anal Watchers, My ureta them, that's the whole Informant, in an article, says necrot of it. Then everyone with that shalls have thousands of know how to make his own happis (Saint-Just.)" teeth. Since lions also have teeth, I were,