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"Pretty soon now, Bobbie... don't worry
99
From R. M. MacColl
lover's help.
Washington. dresses in the grey grim prison wo puzzled and rather containing 1,765 male convicts. frightened little boys, She is the first woman to go eight-year-old Robert into the Death House since and four-year-old Michael Ruth Snyder back in 1928. Ruth was found guilty of Rosenberg, will shortly Snyder travel from New York City murdering har husband with her up to Ossining Prison
After the nervous tension (popularly known as Sing Sing) there to see their the early days, Ethel has never parents, Ethel and Julius shown the slightest hint of con- and She laughs only cern. Rosenberg.
often high-pitched laughter. Her appolito
good, her The two children will not
curiosity about world events know it, but this will be the keen. last time they will s00 their father and mother alive.
the
For Julius and Ethel Rosen- berg have heard that Supreme Couri of the United States has turned down their appeal from the death sentence for spying on behalf of Russia.
The Rosenbergs have been in Sing Sing for eighteen long months now. During that time the two boys-cared for by neighbours back in New York, and tenderly shielded from the hideous truth-have visited them several times.
On these occasions Mrs Rosen- berg, a stole smile on her lips, their hands hus pressed into little gifis of sweets bought in the gaol canteen.
Robert, as elder of the two the spokesman, said: "Mommy, when are you and Pop coming back home?"
of
She knows that she and Hug- band Jullus have the dubious distinction of being the first doomed Americans ever to be
to, die for espionage, outside of
military court.
No Blow-up
O carefree does Mra Rosen- berg appear that one of her wardresses described her at titude to an American reporter as one of "brazen unconcern."
bed a hard palliase. She and her Her cell is 9 ft. by 6 f, its
husband each cest the American taxpayer 38 dollars and 60 cents a day in keep (waichera includ- ed
To date the bill runs into thousands of dollars.
of
In
The prison authorities waited anxiously for some kind emotional blow-up when the Resenbergs' first appeal, February of this year, was Hardened wardresses turned turned down. It did not come. the accepted away to hide the tears in their Mrs Rosenberg eyes as Mrs Rosenberg replied news with almost hallucinatory calm. That wus when the gently: "It will be pretty soon Can
Appeals Court
upheld Federal now. Bobble
dear. Just don't the verdict of the lower court, worry too much."
that the three judges finding it cannot be held that
these two sentences of death are un- constitutional.
I
Sang Hymns
AT.
was sent to the grim Death House in Sing Sing, back
in
Rosenbergs
attorney,
Į SOMETIMES WONDER, IF HIS S REALLY THE BEST BARRIER AGAINST
COMMUNISTS...
MISGIVINGS ABOUT MOSSADEGH
World Coprigt). Ez azzaserment wi✪ Bally Harsta,
Doesn't 'Mr. Figures' understand?.
ALWAYS KEEP
ACCOUNTANTS-
London.
NAME, a man who boasts too much-Mr Percy Barrowcliff. He must not be allowed to get away with this kind of thing: "The whole financial structure of the country rests firmly upon the skill, independence, and In- tegrity of the accountancy pro- fession."
Mr Barrowclift is president of the Incorporated "Accountants' Society. He made his big claim for his pro- fession in a speech praising the "ad- vice accountants give on managerial problems.
Mr Barrowcliff is pleased with the grow- ing influence of account- ants in British indus-
The Türst, when Mrs Rosenberg Emanuel Bloch, promised his clients a fight to the bitter end.
In his appeal he urged try.
I am alarmed by It. 1 March of last year, she sang that the Rosenbergs had been.j
industry hymns day and
night.
subjected to 'cruel and unusual believe tant
Boeufers not from mood punishment. After all, s changed, and in the last months ably contended, they worked little advice from
that nation her phlegmatic and apparently for Russia when resigned attitude has been the was America's wartime ally. marvel of the four wardresses
But suridenly ther
specially hired to watch her every moment of the 24 hours.
She in
plays a very
Final Talk
quiet, cheerful-and
good game of DUT the appeal judges agreed handball. The wardresses, her with the lower court judge exhausted and that the Rosenbergs activities- opponents, are
the end of the or spying, as the prosecution perspiring at
bluntly called it continued for games.
the past calm
Sovlet American Ethel Rosenberg is and collceted as a winning en Iriendship, and extended on in trant in a woman's tournament. to the cold war period.
Chair where she will But the
Now the last line has been
be electrocuted soon-is only a cut, and the Rosenbergs, placid
few yards away from those as ever, can look forward to a and handball games,
and from the anal talk with Robert
Michael. The
packet of cell where she lives and sleeps
for away her last few days on earth. sweets will change hands
w the last time. Then their 436 Ethel Rosenberg
years heads shaved in order to allow old now. She is a dark plump for the correct contact of the worn with D sallow
com electrode the Rosenbergs will plexion. Her husband, Julius, is 33. They were swooped on by trudge those last few yards.
For the nine justices of the the G-men on a hot summer's
mmer's Supreme Court in Washington, black academic garbed gown like those of British An alleged co-conspirator: schoolmasters, sitting cach in Klaus Fuchs, naturalised British his green leather-backed atomic scientist, now serving chair, adjusted to the helght time in a British prison.
that the judge finds most con- Ethel Rosenberg has the dis- venient, have turned down the tinction ok being the only Rosenberg plea for mercy for
day
In 1930: The charge: giving atomic secrets to the Russians.
woman-other
In
than the war- the last únie.
arm-
SHE SCRATCHED
HIS FACE
From Joan Harrison
Paris. never, did our quarrels take
too the
accountants but from too much.
TODAY dustry
British in- be
needs
enterprising. If it in to win out against growing competition from abroad it needs all the vigour,
and drive energy it can muster.
It will look in vain for those
from qualities most accountants. All their training is against risk-taking. Safety-first
is their motto: they sRY
Alrenever possible.--
MORE AND MORE
ARE BORN
From
WILLIAM HAMSHER
tho
Genova. THE population of Thus increased pince 1939 by between 350,000,000 and 400,000,000 people..
This has been madò known by statisticians of the World Health Organisa- tion in Geneva.
In a 740-page volume "Vital Statistics and Causes of Death," they give data -
the world's weddings, the world's babies and the world's growing population.
on
as
In 1949 the population of the world is given 2,377,000,000. In 1939 the population was "about 2,000 million" according WHO.
.to
The death rate in all countries has fallen com- pared with prewar rates, particularly in regard to 18 Infants. The decrease anid to be due to vigorous measures against disease, of progress in the fled hygiene and nutrition and of new discovery the drugs,
INFANT MORTALITY
For
instance Britain's death rate, which was 121 per
boks of the Rugby Cement Company, now busily branching out into the Empire-
Reddish has made an out- standing success because, for the he has "lved past 20 years, cement." Accountancy he now regards merely as part of his carly background training.
Much less happy results are being achieved by the part-time dropped in 1949 to 117. "accountant directors invading The infant mortality rate the boardrooms. The men who in Britain in 1938 seck to formulate policy while per thousand. It is now 33 stiil retaining
private practices are often too text-per thousand. book minded" to be of value.
their
thousand in 1938,
was 56
People are living longer
Playing Safe than they did several years
COMMON falling, as one of ago. But the mortality rate their own number has re-for men Is higher than marked, is that they look back that for women. A com- ward, instead of forward--which
That is 127 men to every 100 women. The rate now is 19.7 for men and 11.2 for women showing that
176 die for every 100
is apt very helpful to manage-parison made in the United ment
States shows that in the And sometimes with their age group 65-59 In 1930. Insistence en playing for safety 22.4 men per thousand died they may be a drag on a com against 17.7 women. pany's progress.
Stockbroker Ted "Lewis took two or three torrific chances to keep the Decca Record Company affairs had afloat when its reached crisis. He Won through, and today, Decca is #
Ane, prosperous com pany doing work of national Importance.
If Lewis had Ulster- ed to the type of accountant now having a big suy in many British firms Decca would have folded,
WELL CHAINED
UP!
too many
with boardrooms are Infected the narrow bookkeeping out- look of the practising account- ants.
Too many accountants tend to dehumanise a business. Their hearts don't beat; they clink like cash registers. cas
thirty years ago Twenty gr
business man got the normal along quite happily most of the year without the aid of an e- when tho Only countant annual audit was coming along some when
Income-tax
or
or
problem arose did he consult the Agure expert.
In the early *thirties, when
industry ran into its biggest
B
men
women,
FOLLOWING. WARS
The report states that "always in the period Immediately fal- lowing wars" more boy babies are born than girls.
In Britain during the period 1940-48, 1,061 boys were
born
to every 1,000 girls. Yet Look what
happens if
you don't!
by
BERNARD HARRIS
slump, it became fully "account Into the headlines ant conscious."
before the war. Since then Industry has In the wholesale reconstrue- called for more
and more
and
tion of the iron and steel in accountants-not because com- dustry wo saw the emergence of panics
in trouble were figures such as Sir Ellis Hunter, needed reorganising, but merely who abandoned accountancy to because business became pull the great Dorman Long complex. group out of its troubles.
THE fiery temperamenta, place on the stage. Until now in W leading tin-mining
So it in finish.” +
of Spain could endure They are staying in separate the artistic clash no longer, hotels. Rosaria, from her hotel
· Rosaria and Antonio, room in the Avenue Montaigne, famous Spanish dancers, are cident, when the curtain had to Explaining away the stage in- to break up their dancing be lowered, said: "You see, one partnership-after 22 years of the guitarists was in love
with me." quarrel between them Antonio, three streets away,, which storled last April came to clicks his fingers together and a head recently in Paris on the says: "In the middle of my num- stage of the Champs Elysee ber this guitarist who is on the Theatre. when Rosaria scratched stage, he stops to play. There I Antonio's face with her ca am on the stage waling. Still
по he does not play. I think it is n
Lancia.
conspiracy say what I have to say to him firstly in Spanish. Rosaria the draw her castanets down my face."
There has been a steady out- pour
our of Government controls, orders, and regulations-all of which need skilled interpreta- tion. There has been à com-
been new
an ac- in" at every
Board Men WHEN one of the Empire's
plicated new Companies Act. ran into difficulties, Scottish ac-
and countant J. Ivan Spens was There have
involved taxes. called In to help put it right.
To cope with these problemis a partner in a Though still Arm of accountants, Epens ist has become routine for most
companies to have today primarily n company.nd- ministrator big not only in tin- countant "sitting
but also in steel and board meeting. trust companies,
Easy Step He sits on 22 boards. But that total is beaten by another ROM that it has been an easy accountant, Mr. Leslie Farrow, step to invite many of them who come into prominence in to become directors, whore they the City 20 years ago when a not only give specialist advico. mail order business needed an but also help to formulate Infusion of new blood.
policy.
mining
Antonio very nearly did not.
Farrow later became one of In 1938 the top-flight recount- dance after that. Then it was
Mr. Arthur Bank's closa ants who compose the council decided they would dance to
has always
of the Institute of Chartered Rimself with BC- Accountants shared 148 board- gether until their contract comes
ded to an end-carly next month. When their contract is finished countants. He still does. Many say room jobs between them. Today that the results of his celluloid' the total is 210, ari average of Thirty-year-old Antonio (his, the two dancers will go back to partnership with Rosaria started Spain, Antonio by air, Rosaria world would have been more almost fvo directorships for in dancing schools) said: "We by train. Both will form their favourable if the emphasis had, every council membersUE I
not been speaking to each own companies. havn
boen less on figure work and other since April. It is very Originally the quarrel started
more on showmanship.
accountants. Helping to run nervous making you understand. because Antonio wanted to forn Another abrowd accountant industry is a part-time job for For months 1.only see her cœur a; company of Spanish dancers, who made a name for: success- them experience there are night on the stage. We do not, Rosurla objected: Now each will fully doctoring sick companies is. In my rebearse together any more, to run their own. .....
Me Sydney Gulett, best known, fow Wo cannot dance
nety
..
Most of them, ore
a success of both jobs. dancers It is really a long story. a success of
The two.dancers were to have perhaps, for his work in roor de men of sufficient callbre to 2. One who "We have been fighting since it was not posible, said business. Suspen
abandoned private practice to Specs, Farrow, devolo, his, whole = time, and type of energy to inchiatry is Me Halford able men, who put accountants Reddish,; vigorous, forthright
wo were so high, Sometimes Antonio. "One could not rise a
wo go for weeks without speak scandal in London. The pubile Gillett, thewe are the ing to each other, but novet, is too conservativo,” aliel
-Sald the managing director of a prosperous plastics business: "I would not have an accountant on my board until he had first spent six months in the works and six months on the selling side.
the
female population of Britain is 2,000,000 more than the male,
More than half the world's "would make him learn the population lives in Asia, China has the highest population with Conclusions job the hard way.
| 403,000,000. The Vatican is the drawn from figures without any lowest with 890.
iy Europe
the most
Knowledge of the business be- hind the figures often are, quito misleading,"
That is sense. Mr Barrow-Ilon people, that is, 78 persons cliff, should advocate practical to the square kilometro. training, as well as book learn- Oceania is the world's least ing, for accountants who seek inhabited area with only 12.4 to control the destinies of millona, or 14 persons to the British industry.
square kilometre.
stili can be, and crowded area, with 392.8 mil-
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