THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1981.
A salt
which
BERNARD
WICKSTEED'S
PRIVATE FESTIVAL-~-
is taking readers on a tour
of the things which will not be officially on show in 1951. No. 4 in the series.
gives flavour to Britain
L
our
oyca
spectacles are
of
a
ET'S have a pinch of wearing a pair of spectacles that he bought for sixpence 20 with old snit Festival of Britains go,
Behind those today. You can't imagine th twinkling this island home of ours humorist. When someone asked without its flavouring of if he ever built his ships by climbing into the bottle himself old salts, can you?
the remark gave him an idea on which he went to work all the way to China and back.
They're like Bengulls, lobster pots, and rusty old anchors-an, essential part . of the British senside
serne.
The British old salt or shellback(Sulantiquus Britannicus) is unsily re- cognised by his plumage. He wears a peaked cap. sen-boots, tod a bluc jer sey with the name of the ship on the chest.
Isis usual rest- iny place is
against bollard or in the shelter of t upturned bout, and his vry sounds something like "Shiver TIZO timbers! Avast there!"
On fine summer days the old salts can be heard calling, "Any more for the Skylark?" and in the even- ings they roust in rows of the benches at the focal, where holiday-makers ply them with drink and en- the Courage them to tell most improbable tales of ship-wrecks and storms at
sen.
Many old salts have a curious habit of chewing tobacco in stead of smoking it; they are stid to be exceptionally fond of. parrots,
and on winter nights they can be found in front of the
full-rigged
Are putting
slips into botties.
Extinct
A TYPE that now seems to be
nearly exlinet has only one leg, the other having been taken off by a chork in the Timor Sen.
Naturally, such picturesque inhabitants haven't been over- looked by OUT writers and artists.
Coleridge and Robert Louis Stevenson immortalised them,
in 1070, when and
Sir John Millais painted a picture of an Elizabethan old salt talking to a couple of boys on the beach, caused such a sensation ai the Royal Academy that they
bad to put prevent
to a barrier up
First he rigged up the in- side of the bottle as a miniature carpenter's shop, with Liny tools and shavings on the floor. Then he carved a nodel him- elf sitting at the bench in his sixpenny
specs, building bout in a bottle.
14'9
after
[1
joke that will go ri ving pleasure to people long Stan has signed up to nil the sens of another world with his ron, who
Jost Rawalpindi.
3;1::
the
1ffered to buy it from him
any to price he cared hame, but he turned Ine down and, by doing 50. put me into distinguished company, beenuse te oner said the same thing to the King of England. The King and he met in the Empress of Australia, going to Canada in 1939. First Old Stan went to the King's cabin and showed him some of hlo models.
Visit
and «КСР
A model of the Cutty Sark took the King's fancy and c asked if it was for sale. "I non
Charge.
your
London Express Service
"Perhaps Father doesn't FEEL like playing Festival of Britain switchbacks on Budget morning."
A general looks
do We Can
Better
by Lieut-Gen. Sir GIFFARD MARTEL
Commander of the Royal Armoured Corps, 1940; Hoad. of the British Military Mission to Moscow, 1943.
LONDON.
full at
for
at the call-up
and declarcs:
WITHOUT CONSCRIPTION
seems to
there would be every
of chance of raising this figure to the 250,000 which we need,
Tow
to
men from a National Ser- We must now examine Surely -T is now generally ac; vice army with enlistment our
problem OWN
divi- cepted that the army for two years. The German producing as many in Europe must con- Panzer forces which
won sions 119 possible for The cost of raising six divi- sist of 40 or 50 divi- such great victories in Europe in addition to the sions in this way would be no Then the King paid a returnsions, and all of these 1939-41 were trained
higher than cur present bill; it for provision of our overseas might even be less. The whole and went to the cubby forces will have to be four years.
garrisons.
efficiency of the Army would hole down the iron steps
rise Formations would be im- standing by in post the notice saying:
Germany
The USA
be The first point to realise mediately ready for war; they and maintained Out."
strength.
able to obtain volunteers is that our present large would not contain a large pro-
scale conscription policy portion of half-trained men. at any rate three It is also being' accepted years' service and we
has forced us to produce
Stay In Army are large
establishments of sorry it is nol," said Stan, that the larger proportion
could he added: "But if of the armoured divisions now doing much better in many different types, none
we put such Then
HOW
into effect? We should
change my mind, your must be provided by the the enlistment of regulars. of which would be needed plans Majesty, you shall have drst USA and ourselves.
The French
start by de- and Belgians if we had not adopted con- would have
claring that as A temporary refusa).
have a good conscript sys. scription.
measure, to meet the emergency, Gentlement
It is not
possible to tem which provides sufli.
There are colleges for everyone who was in the Army glasses! The toast is: The Old produce first-class armour- cient training to produce training national
would have to remain where service he was, A limit of retention up Salts of Old England."
ed divisions with all their the essential infantry divi- officers, establishments for to three years might be fixed." technicians and skilled sions.
receiving and dispatching A Very large reduction the men overseas, and, of would then be made to the in- course, very large training take for the Army, with a establishments for the great saving in consequence_ta_
the manpower which is used to national service men.
run the "Conscript Machine."
This would result in a flow of regulars to rejoin their unlis
a conversion GREAT machine is needed, and
of training when at least half the Army units Into fighting formations, drive a. real consists of men who must be. Simultaneously Woman a treat deal the days butt a minute students
E-hear a-great-deal-these-days-about-the ill-effects-In these days, when so many turned over every-two-years-would-be-made-to-oblain-
to pay their due to our conscription policy. regulars.
As an instance, almost a quar-
As this
progressed further thority grants, more depends on ter of the conscripts who are
reductions would be made in examination results than ever sent to our more distant over- before.
scas garrisons are permanently the numbers of national service men. Those who had been re- According to the director of on the sea either going or, retained beyond two years would
-London Express Service)
WHY
DO THESE STUDENTS KILL THEMSELVES?
have
rantic struggles of conscientious young people to achieve way on Government or local au- cademic success are regarded much less seriously,
Yet the Regius Profes
sor of Medicine at Oxford
the masterpiece being said the other day that mauled by the entranced the suicide rate
among British public.
all atudents
was lament-
university
Millais called it "The Boy-over Britnin hood of Raleigh," and ably high. cartoonists
have been copying
it (with apologies) ever since.
Bliss
PERSONALLY, I
con
THE MISFITS
sity,
Suicide rate among Oxford
undergraduatos is
"
times the rate for young men of the same age in the general population. It has just been revealed. The problemiat our unflvaralties is discussed by the
Dactor
of
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but a
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r
the
#
of
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of
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the student health service at turning from their stations.
all be released but the whole Cambridge, sleeplessness is the
The figures work out in this situation would be in hand, In commonest disorder of which
of a cessa- A division requires just the unlikely event undergraduates complain, and way. they complain of it
of the present flow most at
at under 20,000 men. But to pro- tion examination times. This ear duce ten infantry divisions we regulara the process could be tainly indicates that students are need an army of 415,000 men, arrested. not always the carefree indivi- which is more than double the It is greatly to the credit of
duals that they
usually nre
numerical
of strength Oxford that the student health
taken to be,
divisions. Part of this increase organisation there has boldly
The violent rags in which is due to the necessity to pro- IT must be realised that this published the results of an in- number of social misfits those they sometimes indulge might be vide for non-divisional troops, European army may be re- vestigation into the amount of who cannot, however hard they explained as Д rather
quired for a considerable time. great part is due to have my mental-health among under try, live an ordinary life among social method
Ineffelency of inevitable
War..may
be a long way off own favourite old salt, to graduates. The fact that various their fellow men for any emotional tension.
two-year conscript service. and we hope that it will never whom I will now Introduce colleges agreed to co-operate in length of time.
What would be the position take place Conscription would, you. His name is Cyrus Stani- obtaining this information shows
if we could return the use of course, be needed in refuge They often find
in streel, or Old Stan, and though that at Oxford at least there is
mental illness, and the Arst
of a regular army in peace. but we have seen the almost COLUMBIA TOBACCO CO. INC. he is 08 he still goes to sea, be no complacency,
these unfortunates
time and effect these great overwhelming sloving of
advantage of couse that's the only way he
out of the normal population
savings? We would need 70,000 using regulars in this pre- get any pence from his
may take place at the un THOUGH the chances of any men for overseas garrisons and paratory stage which may be grandchildren.
for the one student developing a 180,000
Europe and ver
prolonged. nervous breakdown are, Much more
of Home service, 1.0., a total important and
may be argued that this THE extent of the problem is numerous than the social mis course, very small (just as the 250,000 for the British Army. polley will not raise a farge chances of u motorist being, In- This would give us six divisions reserve, but present conditions obviously very much larger fits are those who are tem- volved
accident than had been realised. More porarily going through a phase small), nevertheless the Oxford Europe
are at full strength for use in demand a strong army which of his 14 grandchildren,
the students absent than half
instead of the present is ready at once, emotional instability. of They are all boys and all under
Investigation shows that this five half-trained divisions.. of illness for more than because
Such phases
We have plenty of reserves ten and, as his idea of bliss
common is a problem which deserves the
to keep this term were suffering from during adolescence, the period serious
army attention of all
LAIS!
up to sitting in a corner quietly puʻ-
What Chance? univer.
strength untit the wartimo ting beats into bottles, the form of mental disorder, of developing sexual maturity, sities. Adolescence is by nature
Tuberculosis, children drive him nearly mad, considered to be the major oc- perienced them.
which is usually and very few of us have not ex-
conscripts become available and time when young people are struggling towards
UITE clearly, we could not the Territorial Army takes the Indepen-possibly shut down our con-
As this policy would Should the mental dis- Old Stan has all the tattoo cupational disease of students,
with some shattering disappoint be reluctant
can bo no question of -bunches of flowers, Union
to turn to their tlon that the regulars would be there.
What Do the realtention Oxford ment Jacks, and women with dow
of conscription forthcoming sing these causing any loss of morale, would there ing blue hair. The five rows of figures to other universities, It of unsuspected intellectual in-parents for guidance,
under feriority occasioned, perhaps,
the university numbers?
though this
has often ribbons
been on his reefer jacket soms that about 500
suffer from a by an examination fallure-then should
that there are The rate of recruiting for suggested by those who wish to tell the story of seafaring graduates will
serious breakdown in mental the stage is set for a violent wise advisers-whether doctor regulars is rising rapidly. The retalh conscription. 'Britain over the
last 50 years.
health each year in Britain.
or don is immaterial to whom monthly average has more than Surely we ought to take ad- montal upheaval. There's the plain white rib-
The reason for this is not If at this particular moment they can take their. troubles hard
prty code. We are now offering creasing given, in 1903, when he to and. There will, of in a student's career there are and from whom they can expected as a result of the now vantage of this method of in-
he course, btways be
other attractive features, among also family troubles at home, sympathy and effective help.
standing army, without delay. went to the rescue of Ecott in students, as among any
other the outlook, even for the most (World Copyright Reserved-London At present we have nearly (World Copyright Reserved. the old Terra Nova, and if they group in the community, a stout-hearted, is bleak indeed, Express Servies.)
200,000 regulars in the Army. London Express Service.) give a medal for the
When he's ashore, as he is at the moment, he lives in a council house with Liverpool
five
д
are
iri
marks of the genuine shellonck much smaller risk.
was, in terms of use content of adolescence coincide dence and, unfortunately, many scripilon policy on the assump- greatly increase our strength,
bon of the Polar Medal that he
Over
Korean War, Stan may get
:that, doo, dor. 11 was in a troop-
By
applying the
ship going to Fusan that I fra NANCY
ran across him last year.
Model ships
was in charge of deck and had a trio
stores,
cubby-hole up in the, bowa, where he lived and worked and dreamed. Part of the day **WAS spent issuing tackle to tho deck-hands on tho rest
making and bolting hi
zodel achi
This
his hide-out bad to slimb through – kogu doors, down from stens and pim
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