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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1952,
SIDE GLANCES
JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
New The
Recruit
OGER was in the Army
R six years, and when his
time was up, the other day, the Army marked his character "Exemplary."
He was a civilian for 11 days: and then at I civilians' court he was sent to gaol for six weeks.
Six years of one sort of lite for Roger; half a dozen weeks of quite another.
or in the
Roger is brisk, well-bulk young man, 24 years old now. snub-nosed, not at all flashy the way he dresses way he conducts himself. He bears the excellent trade marks of soldier-the chest flung out, the steady eye, the light control upon himself.
How
then, to explain this sudden change in him?
His history helps, perhaps, His parents died soon after he was born and a charitable society took charge of him. Then, what charitable every child in ย Institution must long for, hap- pened to Hoger. He
Suffolked
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"All that's keeping them together is paying for that car-
I got it on good authority at the beauty shop!"
they were farming people a BIG
they were good and kind to him. farmer's Their the
wile, who had mothered Roger, died. who was still a boy was Roger sent back to the Home.
STAND
FOR FIRST
WICKET
He grew
rew into his teens there. and when he was Loo old for school lessons, The Home pro- vided him with work on their
Hyderabad, Nov. 21. land a gardener. When he
Pakistan's opening batsmen, was 18,
he joined the army. Nazar Mohammed and 17-year- signing on as an enlisted man. old Hanif Mohammed. both
He came
the Army scored centuries in out of the
a stand of with £20 standing to his credit, 248, when. the touring team gume mind that he would like some-openst South Zrce-day
and an Ideo st
the back of his
how to make his career on the land; for the happiest days of his life had been spent on the farm.
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Sit to convince himself that A
such things could be, he bought with part of his £26. some chickens. They were live: stock, after, all, they were crea- tures of the farmyard, and they might earn him some money.
this time Roger was staying al with friends who lived in Essex. and there he kept his hens, and from there he made sorties and Kollies in search of a job,
"It was not easy for him to find For all his longing to a job. work on the land, he had very Hitle experience to offer potential employers-beyond his gardener's work at the Children's Home and his ablility to take care of his chickens.
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to
NE day, Roger Came
London, intending to spread a little wider the net with, which he hoped to pull in a job. That was the day on which he stole. He felt he owed more than he could
fo afford
repay, to friends who had taken care of him in the few days since he had left the Army. So he went to a chain store and stole toys for his frlends children. They must have been small toys, for the 31
that he stole were priced altogether at less than £1.
Like an alcoholic, whose first drink is the dangerous one that leads to
Roger, whose
to excesses.
creding had gone undis-
now went to another shop. There, he stole a pair of gloves, two diaries and 15 small packets of foreign atampa, all
for himself. He was caught, and brought next morning to Great Marlborough Street, where he pleaded guilty to all of the thetis.
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THE
THE story was told to Mr Paul Bennett, VC, the magistrate, and Mr Charles Morgan, the probation officer, outlined Roger's history. Roger, when invited to speak, sald, with bowed head: **I am disgusted with myself....
He was sent to prison for six How
to explain the switch from exemplary soldier to ancak thier? Could it be that the Army looks after its own so well that it has not time to teach its own
weeks.
to look after themselves, except in battle?
Could it be that with his every thought conditioned for six years by other people's orders, Roger could no longer think for himself? Could it be that he was the rawest. rearult; to' "civilian Ilfo? Perhaps it could.
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Zone today. South Zone's new ball attack just after ten broke this highest stand for any Pakistan wicker on the tour so far.
At the close, Pakistan were 283 for three wickets.
Medium-pace bowler, Кап- split the opening nayiram,
with partnership a lovely ball, which crashed through Hanlf's defences and bowled him.
Hanit hil eleven boundaries, mostly from caver drives, in his 135.
Throughout his stay of four hours and ten minutes, he batted soundly apart from a chance off Ghulam Ahmeo when
his score was 112.
10-year-old
Nazar batted throughout the day for 131 not out.
Short
Krishna, leg, break and googly bowler, won much of the glory of the day, however. He made up for his lack of inches by fighting the ball skilfully and kept an
amazingly consistent length for a leg spinner on a dull pitch.
d his googly seeming He produced his
Living Language
Why we say Carpenter. While today a carpenter a man whose trade leads him to execute any
is
sort of work with wood, originally he was solely a cartwright or wheel. wright, for the word comes from the Latin carpentum, a waggon. This has particular in- terest when one remem- bers that when the people of: Galilee spoke of Jesus
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the carpenter's son they were really referring to him as the son of the waggonmaker.
Press Bill
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Empire Finance Talks
Australian Views Outlined
London, Nov. 21. Australia will urge the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference, begin- ning here on Thursday, to take steps leading eventual- ly to full convertibility of Sterling into dellars.
As Australia sees it, the baric objectives facing the Sterling Area in stabilising its economy
(1) To provide for expanding International trade;
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countries achieve balances of payments or inability to obtain bard cur- renales for their purchases.
Australia, in all recent Co- has stressed monwealth talks, that the achievement of tree convertibility of Sterling is the most important task facing the Sterling Area.
The Australian view is that to make convertibility feasible, the Sterling Area must build up dollar and gold reserves Gufficiently to meei demands during any future reverses in trade balances.
To bolster these reserves, Com- monwealth countries must ex- pand their sales in
dollar markets.
DOLLAR INVESTMENT Australia advocate:
(1) Restoration Sterling
will
therefore
to countries of the ability to buy in the cheapest world markets and sell in the highest.
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capital investments for develop. posed in
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The bill, presented by a Lab-employment and a deficiency of swinger, Kannayiram, who bow-89-year-old political lecturer, and most materials are in ready our member, Mr J. Bimmons, which labour is more plentiful led Hanis and Kurshid in 32
and journalist, fol- supply: organiser overs with a new ball after tea,
lowed a a suggestion of a Volun- varled his pote effectively but tary Press Council made by the his length and direction were Royal Commission on the Press inconsistent owing perhaps to
In June 1949. his ungainly run-up---Reuler.
ly at will and kept the batsmen always guessing. In his first long spell of 17 overs, neither Hanif nor
Nazar
could hit him to the boundary.
The
medium-paced
aut-
Helicopters Provide
Royal Escort
The Dominion has changed of overfull from
a postition
materials to a situation at basic
18 attracting private the United States. Sinco June Investment from both Britain and
1051 British and American in- Formal prosentation of the dustrialists have announced pro- bm meant that it was auto- jects in which investment in matically given its first read-Australia will total millions of ing
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On
the
The Queen was cheered by 10,000 school-children, r Atter being received by Flag Officer, Air (Home), Vice- the
Admiral Lambe, the Queen re- entered her car and toured the air station, parsing in front of some 100 aircraft representing all typer now in operation in the Home Command.
organistition abroad.—
Rioting At Ball Game
Mexico City, Nov. 21, **
·Delayed reports from Merida said police opened ire on a On parade were some 1,000 rioting crowd at a baseball officer and ratings representa- game yesterday, - killing three tive of all 10 stations in the persons and injuring six. Home Command-Reuter,
World Billiard
Championship
Calcutta, Nov. 21. Wilson
Indian Jones, the champion, beat Ameen Yunoos of Burma by 2,225 points to 022 in the opening match of the world amateur billiards cham pionship today.
Jones had the following cen tury breaks: 149, 253, 241, 124. 100. Yunoos, who match for Jones, had a best brook of 59.
was no
Competitors from five nations are playing in the champion- ships, which will continue for the next fortnight. The event la bo
Americon ing decided on the Jeague bystem, with each player. meeting all his rivals in turn.
The favourite, to retain the tilla' is
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