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THE CHINA, "MLA

AY, OCTOBER 25, 1980.

Blowing Britain's trumpet--No 3:

THE CUP-AND-SAUCER TOWNS ARE BUSY AGAIN

In Stoke-on-Trent in the Potteries the smoke from the pot-banks streams across the

By Reginald Pound

rooftops and streets as if in left after the firing. The racket | just behind him. His movements rehearsal for a factual film. sugrents uninhibited nursery in- for that are calculated, precise. The fires below are dollar- pulses being given full reope. earning. They are firing the chiria and earthenware that! stand high in the list of Britain's most wanted ex- ports.

Among the largest customicry Is the American hotel industry. It is using up the Six Towns' plates and cupi and saugers at arato which has long since made the potter's wheel a museum plece.

Lone worker ·

The steady hand

Mrs. Davies has actually been doing this for 30 years. It cannot, be done by a marhine. It des attentiveness and a reliably steady hand.

He says a strange thing hap- rened to him four or five years age. Quite suddenly-like that," with a finger filck-his interest went.

'Bit of a lull'

Good

Expert says the atom boml obsolete,

Well, thank heavens for the

IN

has not had one with him for four yeara. Ho thinks that sonic- thing good as well as something "I am certain that Stolin not so good went out of hidustry in my opinion, is a very wit when the apprenticeship system but clever man, will not try ceased to attract the young,

same thing. twice."

Abrolutely "What is happening to the Churchills, even the younger o

brilliant, young fellows?" he wants you t

Mr. Crowe is on his way tell him. I don't know," he says, his voice sombre with recollection

EL British Em} as well as with doubla

of the Peking as

representative (unrecognised future. "I started to work. carly. I served my time. I've never ra- course.) Some of us would to have given Mao the bird a gratted it." He shifts uncasily

time ago, on his stool at the bench, a man baffled by the trends of an age.

Gay, dashing, heroic Flynn The "Staffordshire Evening Burma was married again Sentinel," which is the leading Monday. local newspaper, corrles colunmu Up to late last night, there of job

advertisements under no news of divorce proceed names that seem to echo the being started,

folliers, spirit of craftsmanship: biscuis over eddmen, fettlers, mottiers, "Girdles and · partic-gin

You discover that, whatever moderns." they may have meant in the day's before the potter's wheel ceased to be the prime symbol of the industry of this weird region of England, today they mean littlet

He does not know why it went just like that. He thinks it may his second wind. have been a case of having to get

"I'd been at it a long time, you SCO. There

a bit of a lull, if Was a

"You get my meaning." you get his meaning. and Tom goes on to intorni the fingers-hla interest returned. like that, wat uite suddenly

with another flick of

"I don't say I'm as good as I was well, 20 years ago. I'm a bl slower.

interested again, But I'm i horas Cooper, 46 years here, of them with this same firm, makes thimbles-little fireclu in terms of Instinctive skill. supports used to separate the ware being fired in the ovens. If But the unceasing smoke-flow

"For the of the highly from the potbanks testifies the November the pastor will n

pose, for the noise is piercing and

"Steady nerves too. You pro Incessant. Mrs. Davies, cheerful, undismayer, says her hearing ur keen as ever, which strikes you us remarkable.

Os you talk to Tom Cohen, who has been rust of the industry breathing the flat white . It has almost entirely abolished | peneirnting "All that time he has the old incredible Putteries know-fur 50 years. how of palms and fingers and been en pleec-work. "I've never thumbs.

wurker any other road," he says and he is still on plece work. Tu The "thrower," that man of makes you feel scrupuleus abnav antique skill who shaped the clay | detalnir" wehout any minchine help except But be it is who detains you. te keep his wheel turning, has moi He likes talking about his job as vet joined the dodo. He represents a turner to someone who is will

to listen. Gained now almost entirety" by| A special orders. Mass production nowadays, but Tom dare not let has driven bím inl a corner, his mind wander even 50. Ho where he works respected bulį must handle the ware in its green Lionc.

state that is, semi-hard.

being the watch the nas bells on crocks have to appren lees to his side of the

carefully put into the rack industry are coming along.

10

im

3G

It

Handlers, gold Scourers. widely worn by Ameri

a skill that is residual and mai-ingachine "takes care" of is specialised skills, it requires a continued pre-eminence

You walk through the third generation Burslem pottery Wood and Sons and find only one "thrower" still employed there where Enoch Wood started in would have astounded his ears 1784, Noises that

testity to the dominance of the machine in an industry which re- sisted it longer than most.

business in

be

together

It

is

Оле not

knack, a know-how of its own.

No young

'uns

Tem is cast down because no

I find my inspiration watching the Irish

By Jack House

resemblance

to

re-

very

Arnold Bennett.

of the

the

Myrtle's grandfather bought for his wife, who wears then widely ns anyone, and when put it on, he says, you sh

have scen her beam.

Don't look now, but...

four Sunday

Potterten in the manufactures for in his pulpit. And for these

the

congregation which the towns comprising them Sundays

assured of rich spiritual have so long been celebrated, and

simply that not

through

Despite secasional novels of the thousands of mem by the farmer, me comm

Among His and women whose working, lives vegetable development people

are keyed into the cacophony of doing all they can to maire the sirens and hoolers of Burslem realise their Hart's desire. - and Itanley and Stoke there are

Both some retaining skills that are

Nibok

Hibok.. both hereditury

Indispens- Stromboli have started to cru; able

Man has to be reminded Skill, if nothing like genus, is and then that he doesn't hav required in the boste balancing of monopoly of destruction. the stuff called "the slip," which

The secret is the creamy dilution of clay and

of the

Wander flint and crushed stone, plus Jew is out at last at least water, from which your china and Hong Kong. He was looking earthenware are made.

a place to park. •

#till

another,

and

Crucial stage

The only divergence from Irish.blishment from one generation to ness was at the close of theatrical performances, when the band played

National the

Anthem, Just about as many people were rushing for the exists as when

Own National Anthem, and then not

Anti-partition

Ski-ing in Norway

Winter-time is ski-ing time,j and, from Oslo, correspondent] Moray Williams reports that at Icast 750 Britons who have never skled before will do so this season is in the Norwegian mountains.

O'Den's

It

They will visit Norway under n scheme launched by the Central Council for Physical Recreation in London. Last year the Council)

to a snow- sent 120 members bound Youth Hostel near Voss.

They will not be alone for Nor. wegians believe that this winter

"The thin, emancipated bo of the men....

NEWSPRINT PAPER MILLS, L

The warm welcome corded to the Governor and Lady Grantham on their re- turn to the Colony was in the highest sense a personal one. But behind the spontaneity of the smiles at the pier lay a deep consciousness that Hong Kong is now in far happier circumstances. Many All the shaping the jollying, who came here a year or so

they call 1-is machine done to- ago must have been struck day. Hands are still busy, 'even at the machines, but they are then by the calm front dis-hends with a technical mastery played by the people in what rather than with a genius of their

it's a I've always found that the Incidentally,

good seemed a menacing situation. own

thing to come national. char-

from Scotland It was soon evident that it

You come upon Mrs. Florrie traditional"

If nothing more than experienes) After all, why be a slave was more real than assumed. Davies and 2

group of (other acter of a people bears little.. when you're in Ireland.

"Ah," now," Tom would say, is needed in the firing processes, hard and fast dictionary usage: women workers sitting in the if any, The spirit of confidence sur-

thetis hardly anything you've got it is experience which is very Thus on your plate. vived the industrial troubles, middle of the floor of a depart- people of the nation.

Some ham, now, much better bought than taught, The authorities would Broo ment stacked to the roof with find the traditionally stolid would just freshen up that steak for there is no margin for faulty no questioning by reporters wh which again looked so alarm- plates and dishes, all sizes. The Englishman talkative, emotion-nicely."

Judgement of this crucial stage. the former White Rajah's neph ing to the world at large. And are making a tormenting din with al and even hysterical. I find On the other hand, it was # There are the art-ware de-arrived.

excitable waiter in the famous Jammet's signers and modellers; the deco- now, after the great tension bright steel chisel-like sorting of the past summer

tois, chipping off the tiny fleeks the traditionally

rators, restaurant in Dublin, who lald a

Myrtle thinks an inventory rather dour and beautiful veal escalope in front of the figure makers. Comparatively all the things

the paintresses, the gülders, Frenchman

a man tells events in Korea, the one great

undemonstrative. And I'm al-me, pointed to the garnishing of exclusive skills theirs; and, about himself. worry is to be sure of enough impressed by superior force. ways finding the traditionally orange, white and green, and many instances they represent all water to take with whatever But the truest converts are dour Scotsman full of "pan said. **The national colours, uninterrupted descent of accom- it is we take when we need to those who are made by good ache, dlan" and "je ne sais sorr." take it! There are, of course, deeds of peace, sincerely and quoi." other problems, too, such as unselfishly done. Much non-

But praise the Lord-there is the high cost of living and the sense is being talked about

Inhabit- and country where the shortage of housing accom- American aggression in an ants not only live up to their tra- modation. But these we share age when no people have ditional national characteristics, the band plays "God Save The with much of the rest of the done so much for a war- but even enjoy doing It.

The late James

mes King" in England, But maybe fer to Ireland, stricken world. world.

Wc. shall Matthew Barring sight than a

said there was it is Irish to fight for your The major relief, as Mr. have cause, in due course, to no more Randolph Churchill has truly praise the benefactor who Scotsman on the make. I find bother about it. said, has come from Korea. will heal the terrible wounds my inspiration in watching the The centre of tension has of war. When that day Irish being Irish,

Being a "Glaswegian, I thought been removed two thousand dawns it will be the day of I knew something about the Anti-partition, of course, miles from the Hong Kong Anal and conclusive triumph. Irish. But the Irish in Ireland the great subject in Dublin. border to the great rivers and. His Excellency returned are another kettle of stew al-

even gets into Jimmy They enjoy being show at the Galely, rugged hills that divide to the Colony on the eve of

After some particularly pointed

turns sentiments, he

to the Korea and Manchuria. Bri- United Nations Day, another being Irish, they glory in it, they tish troops who boarded good omen. Yesterday's an- I'd been told that only stage audience and says, "No politics Irishmen said "Begorrah" and now we may have to give this ships of the Royal Navy here niversary is indeed a historic

"Bejabers."

Well, I'll admit I show in Belfast!" hear anyone say "B¢-

to see, though, has become a great force in

days I that the

I was item in the their country will rival Switzer- ont in Ireland, but I heard the world. It is no longer avent

appeared, most realistically, as as a winter sports centre. merely a great centre of de- "Bejabers" and "Begob" all over show was the one

cutting their Lauder singing "Roaming wegian hotels are Harry bate on the world's many

Dublin, which gives me a big- in the Gloaming". He even enr- prices. Thirty shillings a day for problems, but also a centre of ger lift of the heart than Paris ried the crooked stick which room and full board will be the formidable action. It has ever did, is an internation, Harry carried when he first sang official maximum charge

~ot

of

English,

song. And the whole nu- hotels outside Here is a concrete symbol become an- expression

French and Scots. But that dience joined in the chorus with of the vast change that has only of great aspirations, out makes the inhabitants all the him. come about in the whole in- of the will to strive and fight more determined to be Irish,

Parenthetically, it was interest- be a Dublin equi-ing to hear some There may be

Dublin hikers ternational situation in the for their fulfilment. It has

on a Bray-bound

bus

start up Far East. Indo-China can- been strengthened immea-valent of the Kelvinside accent,

but it's not noticeable to the "Wastering Home" on mouth not be forgotten in present surably as a force for good foreigner.

seems to organs.

And the whole bus load rejoicing, but Korea was the by the events of the past few speak with. n dark richness, and was

either humming testing-ground of basic issues. months. It is to be streng even Lord Longford's company or singing this nostalgic song.

Scandal" doing "The School for

The night we were at There, it the United thened still more by the part at the Gale Theatre

was

cannot al-Galety, Geralding Fitzgerald, the the Nations was tested and tri- it may perhaps be destined together conceal Irish In Alm star, was

in a box.

And if we'd gone to the right picture- umphantly, vindicated, under to play on a far wider field them,

house on the previous night, we might have sat beside Rita Hay- the United States and Gen-development and enrichment

worth and Prince Aly Khan, eral MacArthur. The chal- of the under-developed areas

But this reminds me that some Outside Dublin, the Irish have by of the world and especially things all their own

doubted lenge of aggression

my animadversions way, and have armed force has been ans- of Asia.

the lovely City of Cork is so on the timelessness" of the Irish

Now, I rather like the wered and overthrown. The There are suspicions and traditionally right that you be-scene.

some

attitude Irish

to tim

time. There's physical results are not un- fears to be overcome in the gin to believe there

30 why rush it? But could exaggerate. Blarney Cas

Abbey

performance reflected in occupation of por and changelessness of tle, for example, looks exactly the

You're quite "Friends and Relations," by St. ever-increasing areas of ter- many centuries to a new and like a film

John Ervine, I was handed the But on surprised when you touch the cour

la- would be closed at ritory formerly behind the wider prosperity.

slip thint warned me that the doors

the curtain, or in the vast num- this vision itself at least walls and find they're real, stead of just a plaster cast,

the

and curtain

late- Never shall I forget standing rise of bers of prisoners taken and there is no controversy, "and

the sweet-comers would not be admitted still being taken. But the no division, An hour or two on the bridge over

Arst act, moral effects are infinitely before this was written we running River Lee, and seeing an until the end of the

Irish pipe band, complete with Posters round the theatre and

the more significant · and far happened upon a group of saffron kilts, marching up Pa-

This threat did work. I should reaching.

Chinese students, gazing trick Street. Two brawny boys

ail say that some 90 per cent of the The whole of Asia has been with rapt attention at the carried a banner asking us

the local audience were already assembled steel and concrete to vote Binn Fein at

8 p.r nt. watching this Korean enter-great

p.m., the advertised time of ere starting. However, the

play And the election posters were prise. So too have many Chinese bank building now. more in other Contin- going up alongside the mas certainly Irish. My favourite didn't actually start till 8.07 pan.. And at the Olympia, Dund ents. Even the Kremlin has sive bulk of the Hongkong & was the chap who put after his so honour was satisfed all

very large letters, It was a name in altered its tone, and perhaps Shanghai Bank.

"BETTER KNOWN TO YOU only music e arrivod even its temper, though story without words but ALL AS "TUCKER"", candidate a couple of chaps came into the

at the height of the Korean one. For the United Nations drah" during the 15

crisis just two months ago are now across the Chong- chon River at Sinanju and may soon be watering their trucks on the banks of the Yalu.

the

place.

Everyone

the resolute leadership of than Korea in the economic Like a film set

orc

soon

the

important, whether they are march of Asia out of the tor-ings which not even Hollywood plenty booked scats for

elections.

set,

There was another

same.

the dot at

p.in.

of

пл on

Z

At

About 7.05 about that one is best not to more eloquent because of it.

orchestra pit, looked. Found the be too sure. This moral vic- It epitomised the vision of who advertised in the public tory has yet to be, clinched, the young generation prints, that if elected, he would house and went away again.

ants

enter. At 8.10 the conductor firat by the attainment of throughout Asia. Such diff devote 500 hours to his constitu- 0.05 the orchestra actually did

1951 I always moont

started the overture. And at political unification in Korea erences as there are refer to to find out he got in.

In Coric (which is nearly as 8.16 the first furn

came

on! But on a basis that will convince details rather than to the

good!

for

among place

and whot's cating and the rest of Asia of its fair dream itself. In the full drinking as Dublin) we came

a great place. I ness and then by the speedy ment of this dream, too, the across the traditional Irish wal economic rehabilitation of United Nations and its vari tor. Tom his name was, and he haven't said much about the the country. Even those who ous bodies will play a major was tall, with a long twinkling food, because far too much has

Corker parceptibly would be the first to deny it part, and perhaps much face, and an accent that grow been written about food already when he But did I tell you what we got at ure nevertheless Inevitably sooner than many may think. I found we came from Scotland, the Metropole Grill..

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