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WHAT THE
WORLD TO...
WAS COMING
maid. gave notice"K
"I don't know what the too. Besides, London" was very dered this morning and the world's coming to," said the gay at the time and we are all rich anarchist
equal in the sight of God, are we not?"
"Nor do I." said the other rich anarchist.
"You can't do a single thing you want to do without going cap in hand to some miserable little Government official.” {
"And what a Government, too."
:.
I
"Look at the plans for my little place in the country. I've cut the bedrooms down from 14 It is well known to students of to 12 and still I can't get a current economic trends that Bri-building licence. What am I tain is at present putting forth a
to do?!".
"Go into the black market, productive effort: considerably be low the maximum of which it is
suppose." capable. The frequent appeals by There you are. That's how Ministers for higher output testi- the Government demoralises fy to the anxiety which the Gav-you when you want to be honest. emment themselves feel on this Controls make criminals of us question. Among the causes anfall." important one undoubtedly is the "Decent men driven. psychological reaction from the bribery and corruption." strain of war, but another certain- ily is the lack of incentive due to the penal rates of taxation. At the very moment when there is need of more than ordinary stimulus to effort taxation is acting as a positive deterrent. Sir Arnold the miners," Gridley, the President of the As- [sociation of British Chambers of Commerce, has made this the mais point of a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urg-
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to
"You can't even get a seven- course dinner unless you bribe somebody.":
"My wife hands the grocer 5 a week.".,
"Yet they give more meat to
:
Which is only another bribe: to make them work."
"That's the trouble today. Nobody wants to work"
"Of course, of course.". "And he was a very fellow. Very civil and respectful."
"I've had thrce maids- in six months. They all asked double pre-war wages and wanted to civil be called Miss Smith and Miss most; Brown. I wonder who they
think they are?" That's the trouble with theThere was a time when you world today. No respect for had them lining up with their the cloth
references and they curtsiedį. every time you spoke to them."
Fancy a maid daring to call herrself Cynthia."
"And they had ten shillings "a week, foreign ment for lunch, margarine for tea, and по fo lowers."
"You're quite right, my dear
There was a time when I bishop. That's the root of the called my, malds what I liked. whole trouble. Of course, one if I wanted to call them Jane realises that recent wars have called them Jane, especially if had more effect on people than they had fanciful names like the South African War, when Pamela on Cynthia." there were no hardships for anybody, but the gallant fellows at the front. But hardship is no excuse for cynicism"
rience has
"Certainly not. Past expe- shown that the greater the hardships the more
If you can get one at all. people turn to religion. The
now she, smokes at her work. greater the suffering, the greater the need for spiritual
and has the radio on all day." consolation."
"And if your husband's hem a minute late for dinner "But instead of turning to she gives notice." religion they politics. They vote Socialist | "A maid I had told my hus because they believe it to be band off for being late and practical Christianity."
been.. asked him where he'd "They do not believe the She said, 'Don't give me that Church will help them any stuff about being kept late at more They put their trust in the office.'" politicians.
now
turn to
"If a maid said a thing like:
suspicious.". that to my husband I'd be
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
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"How does she sound now, Doc? I've quite worryin" even about how I'm gonna pay your bill!"
Life
Of An Ex-King
In Exile
Louis C. Lupi)
now is something for nothing." fellow said to me, 'If we don't "All the working classes want "Only the other day a young "And houses built for them."ke, the Government wo [can] was and fired 'her' that' "And to be pampered in their turn it out, but if we don't evening. It was the first time. old age."
like you, we can't do anything I've fired a mold since 1989."
There once proud homes about it,"
"What do they want?
"It must have been a great
range from palaces with "*:50 A pleasure." election for
In the Quinta da Boa Vista, a bedrooms that ecst up to several --- general
"It was, but it meant doing small and not very comfortable hundred thousand dollars down all the washing up for weeks villa, almost hidden in the woods to smaller showplaces of only and weeks. And all the sweep of Coflares, a fertile region of 20 rooms or 80 priced around ing and cleaning."
Portugal-famed for its wines, ex $50,000. "And scrubbing and making King Umberto of Italy now Lives į the beds and cooking."
with his family in forced retire-
approximately suffice to produce I wonder what they'd say if ja balanced Budget, he puts for- I took profits from my company ward a series of suggested tax re- and didn't even ring up my |liefs, costing up to something like secretary every morning?"
£200,000,000,
"I wonder how they'd like it if we went on strike?"
"After all, people like us! GIVE something to the world" "And all we get are controla."
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can't
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the
clergy"
"Marriage vows mean noth ing to them, any more. Chastity
is as rare as rubles." する
"Rarer, in fact. Only last week I bought my dear wife a ruby. brooch smuggled in from Switzerland.".
spent in drinking and dancing." Their leisure boura are
the theatre."
"Or going to the cinema or "Juvenile crime is on the in-
respect for
cretsc."
"There is no parents."
"The churches are less than half full."
"There is no morality any- where."
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Real estate deniers say that they have scores of these pro- There are no sales because no perties listed on their, books.
one is able to afford, the use of them as residences.
"The larger houses would
charm the butcher in shabby
"And shopping and trying to ment
The house has some pleasant clothes without time to cope antiques but there is no heating with your face."
no elevators, no rugs on the old tiled floors. It is a cold place, but "That's the trouble today, hofit, fulfiled the desire expressed time to do anything but house when the Italian exiles arrived,
in Portugal in June-that they need staffs of anything up to work"
100 servánis or more to rin wanted to live "in peace" to get They have made this their home! "Some of them have been used to the conditions of evile, them properly, they gali. where they live happily enough empty so long that they would with a few intimates and a small need extensive major repairs household for
costing thousands.
"No time to dress nicely you had anything to wear." "No time for a hair-do;. time for a facial,"
if
Do
"At an age when we need most."
it
"I wonder our husbands come home at all";
If I'd known"I was going
Their life is almost IncrediblyOthers were badly damaged simple after the pomp and cle during the war by Armed Ser by continuing austerity taxation af 5- "They don't want to worki",
"Really," said the ancient
cumstance of former days.
vice personnel which took them the expense of an expanding na "If I can't make as much as bishop, "I don't know what the tional income, or to expand the like and do what I like with world is coming to "
Boa Vista, placed at their dis over for temporary wartime to be turned Into a middle-posal by the Duchess of Cadaval, headquarters... "Nor do I," said the other aged household drudge I would has beautiful gardens which have
"Most owners, hope," the real early balanced Budget.
So shall 1. And live on my
ancient bishop.
have remained single," proved a delight for the royal estate, men say, that when From the standpoint of the na-capital."
building materials and labour "So would I, in a bachelor children... tional well being, including pro-
At that moment 10,000 air-flat with no housework."" "After all, if you can't build;
The Queen, who loves music. for repair are available, they gress towards covering overseas a little place in the country
craft flew over, "raining & "And sardines on toast for played Debussy's "La Cathédrale te used for schools, hos- deficit, there can be little doubt with only 12 bedrooms and ghastly. dew" of gamma raya supper.”
Engloutie" for me on her small pitals, hotels, headquarters for which withered the two bishops that the second is the better with your own money, what can and the whole world, leaving world's coming to," said the of Portugal's Jending artists and Cerns, or by civic organisations "I don't know what the piano. She has already met same business and industrial con- you do?"
sighing in the last winds of nothing but withered trees, sulky matron.
musicians. She is also reading as community centres,"
Most of these mansions dre "Nor do I" asid the other Portuguese history, grammar and heaven.
folklore... sulky matron.
historic period houses once' on: The King rises early every cupied by Britain's leading At that moment a little old morning and spends hours read families. One, la an 18th-Cen "I don't know what the woman with a foreign accenting and writing. He works in his tury house of 40 roome, set in world's coming to," said the opened a bag of germs fir bedroom, receives callers in the 20 acres of park. land with "Nor do 1," said the other sulky matron. "I really don't." quiet country lane and within only drawing room in the house private, lake, paddocks, and
"Nor do I said the other a week the two sulky mations on the small desk were piles of stables 'Bulky matron; "
handwritten manuscripts but when and every living thing in the "My last pair of nylons lad- world were dead.
I asked if he was writing a book, he replied "notes, only nates nothing but notes,"
J
"And if you can't get a seven-course dinner --without bribery"
"I don't know what the said the World's coming to," rich anarchist,
policy. The only, question is whe ther the stimulus would be effec tive in producing the desired re- sult, and this can be assumed as something sufficiently near a cer- tainty to make the experiment worth while. From every point of view, including the Chancellor's, it is better that he should take a Smaller slice out of a larger na- tional cake than a large, slice out of a small cake. There is also his rocked, the heavens swayed, own contribution to make in the and a white hot tempest shri way of pruning the national ex-velled them to ashes and the penditure. After the recent enor whole world with them. mous increases, especially on the
social services, all fresh commit-
rich "anarchist.
"At that moment the super atomic bomb fell. The earth
Social
Domestic
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
Some of the homes are hid- den deep in the countryside, surrounded by parks, and trees. Others are found two or three miles from highways, down när- row winding lanes...One: huge The King receives hundreds of Georgian country seat, has been callers
empt for 10 year "We have never had a single j "Owners of this type of pro- "The Authority on Authorities"
+case-in-which we refused
an perly. Baya one-agent, "seo audience or regretted it General some hope in Britain's plan for DON'T WASTE AN The diamond. Q. was led from Marques" Carlo Graziani, chief of Batellite towns. If fndustry is the dummy East covered it with the Royal Household, told me, dispersed," It is quite possible
·HONOR
the K and the A won. Then Most of the callers are Portuguese soine of these mansions may be **Nor do I," said the other
There are two kinds of situa- South realized he was a beaten and Italian residents of Fortugal, used as headquarters, of the dreadful." ancient bishop, "It's all rather
tions in which a declarer should man, for he could not possibly Like the King, the Queen is an larger business concerns." "So far as young people are and Instead of a small card for a
drop both the 10 and the 9 with early rher. She likes to talk to lead a queen or jack from one
his play of the Q'Having dis- the tradesmen who come to sell. concerned, moral values simply finesse against the king. One Ist
*{carded a heart from dummy and fruit, fiḥ and meat, and to the do not exist."!
when bis holdings Include anya diamond from his own hand Portuguese coolt.
bishop.
-really
ments should be postponed until "I don't know what the the country is earning and pro- World's coming to," said the ducing the wherewithal to meet ancient them. Spending on a scale which don't blants the will to effort merely ends in defeating its own purpose,
Germany's Secrets
London, Dec. 23.
Nazis To Be
"It was much the same after other important intermediate or on the fourth spade, he saw liat fler breakfast the children Protected
the 1914-18 war, only not quite intermediates such as the 10 or his sole remaining chance was start their lessons They are
so bad."
Frankfurt, Dec. 28.
the 10 and 9. The other is when to shut out the club J. He decided Princess Maria Pia, 12, the nine. Additional arrangements for
it is important to try to preserve the best chance for that was to year old Prince of Naples ! ». the exchange of German technical "Most people seem to think the lead in the hand from which find it in a hand containing three, ed. "Victario" or, "Tola", by his Former political, economic and information required by the that war is an excuse for bad the lead was made. Lacking these instead of finessing against It. family; six-year-old "Ella," Maria military leaders of the world's United States and Britain since behavior, for the relaxation of conditions, the lead of the honor But, as the cards lay, no play Gabriela, and three-year-old greatest militaristie monstrosity VE-Day. were jointly announced moral discipline, for despising may accomplish nothing
would have caught it, so he was Maria Beatriz, or, ““TIÜYORU who were paroled, this week by today by the President of the virtue and for aclf-indulgence make you use up two cards un down one, They are all studying languages, Leeted by the American Army Board of
Sir Stafford
USFET headquarters will be pro- Cripps, and, the United States)
I don't think we behaved very necessarily to take one trick.
Correct technique, with - the and, their English teacher, Miss diamond finesse would have Alice Smith, proudly proclaims,
Min German Lando-Nasification Secretary for Commerce, Mr. W. badly during cot after the
South African War."
Harriman A. He rangements are comple-"No, we did not Except for mentary to those already in fores Mafeking night, which was an whereby reports on German inexcusable: demonstration of joy dustry and technical developments.
prepared by British ádd. Ameria and relief among anxious civi-1 10 84 WE can Investpectively, arellans, we behaved very well in D. 83,5 to industrialists deed, though some of the lower C. B 5.2
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of thousands of morders became rather intoxica
imted. portant German
solentific and I heard that even the dear technical data, booics and docu- Queen took a glass of sherry ments have been uncovered by
British and American investiga. that night.".
but
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mide he contract. That would it and them all arriving, no They are members
are members of the Ger
have been to lead a small one wonder I love them," th
man General Star
the Reich Troopers or
and finesse the J. then lay down A Portuguese instructor is caninet and not to be
the A ́and hope the K was now teaching them swimming.· "and"] ganisations singleton. That would, have work gymnastics and, they hope to re- criminal by the Nuernberg | ed," leaving his diamond Q good, sume, their horseback riding les
There was something to gain, sons shortly,
tribunal
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Hitherto the exchange of docu-
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North
present agreement, repreto claret cup with my mother. It West led the spade 8 to the A, D. K. 9. 3-
an USPET in that local peasants, some of the older controlled almost half of the a few years ago parolees who London's environs have become world are still prisoners of the ones remembering the Queen
Americans, although Mother of Portugal, Queen Maria move about at theirs will. Pie, who was Umberto's grand The **German aunt. Queen Maria Jode, who had law did not take cognizance
de-Nazification
criminal
a Portuguesa Braganza grand- the Nuernberg verdiet, which ac mother, has some relatives among quitted the groups the Portuguese carlitocracy, - | Itari understood - here that both In the midst of densely pope headquarters in Berlin are study
USFET and Military Government Inted England's savere housing
shortage, acute after six yearsing a proposal which will call for CK 84 32 of war and blitz devantation.wmpletely exonerating these e change in the de-Nazifikation at least 100 empty mansions in three groups under German law real estate white elephants,Unito Press.
Monumenta for a social age, but
ments between the two nations "And, although I was only a Last South West has been imperfect, but under the curate at the time, I distinctly Pass ID Pass 2. C 18 9.75 tives of each nation will be
remember having a glass of P 2 NT Pass 3 NT HAJ 04 select from each other's store
and the returned spada enabled ¤; @ 3 7. house of reports, items which it was most enjoyable.or finds valuable. Copies will be I'm sure it was. And very the defense to have the first four. A N 10 obtained on an exchange basis proper, too, on tich um occasion had to "get; the rest of them. Hof HKQ-53-2
tricks, in a hurry, so that South M especially with your mother, won the next lead of a heart in DQ65 Go Bombay, Dec. 28. with a cabman.
I drank a pint of porter myself the dummy and then went after
C. 10 Three were stabbed to death
the diamond fleesse on which (Dealer: West. Both sides vul- and nine injured in communal A pint? With a cabman? the contract depended But he did nerable, disturbances in Bombay today. Really
It to the wrong way, and, right If West Jends, a club at every Two were also burned by acid "I could see no harm in it, there learned lesson he will opportunity, how should South throwing--Renter"
although as a young curats, art soon forget
play to make 4-Hearts A
Beater
that has passed, an aristouracy or that has lost ita bold -ins Mar Warb changing, socialistic world, they minent Hum have gone begging fór masters, bunker, died? but there are no bids. Their in economi owners are living in London in pre-Hith
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