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AMERICA COLUMN
Truman Tries
To
Save A Fortune
TARRY
By NEWELL ROGERS
New York. Shareholder Lowla 'Gilbert TRUMAN is asked why the chairman halda
Hrying to lie to na stock
Crisply the genértil replied:
deal with the tax collectors "Company by-laws do .not
he once bossed, to save
dollar fortune.
The ex-President is to
£215,000 for his memoirs.
n
require it. My Investments are
in Government bonds. As to
what I do with my funds, in future it is neither your busi-
If he can spread this income ness, Mr Gilbert, ner anyone
over several years he will pay much less tax than if it is
else's."
classed as one year's income. HEAT
have turned of 99 degrees in Kansas
The tax
men
street
in onc Cily. But dawn his first plan, under which hang signs No parking until he would get £30,000 this year show 18 removect" beenuse workmen. re-surfacing the street and the rest in later years.
It is belleved President Elsen- ran out of simple "No Parking" hower will do all he can for his rigns.
friend and predecessor, who is
not a rich man.
Ebenhower saved £140,000
his "Crusade In
taxes
on
Europe" afler The last war- under a law since repealed by
Congress.
HARLEM
the New York Negro district, is all out for Randy Turpin victory over
for Bobo Olson
the world
middieweight championship. The Negroes believe it would bring their idol Sugar Ray Robinson out of retirement, tempted by the possibility of a million dollar "gafe" against Turpin.
The Olson-Turpin fight, prob- bly in October, will be In New York.or San Francisco, Olson's home town.
A
+
have
WEEK of doughters been born in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, to Mr and Mrs.
C. J. Delbridge:-
June, now aged eight,
A KING'S
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1958, **
"There you are, boys! Importing a Test match sure did the trick.”
Cumming
London Express Service
By Beverley Baxter, MP
DEATH BOOSTED TELEVISION
Y
at
woa
People's Vote In China
F
By FRANCIS WATSON
"OM May to October elections which are the first to this year is the per take place up to the All-China for the Chinese Joen! Fooplo's Congress, Only at the tower levels is the voting`direct; elections at "basle level". and here it is done, not steretly the first of four stages to by the bullot-box, but by show wards the emergence of a of hapat publle meetings. nationally elected "All- If that way were as safe, in China People's Congress" in the damocratic sense, as it is pursuance of the electoral simpie. It would doubtless have law promulgated in Peking been adoyled In other countries at the beginning of March. In place of the elaborate pre- cautions to prevent fraud and
tho In our present ideas of world confusion:
sealing and society, Imperfect as it is, every guarding of ballot-boxes, the nation has the right to evolve its use of symbols, devices to pro- own form of government: and vent double voting, impersona- equally, it is open to any other dons, false counts. pation to criticize and compara.
In China. Itself, though
some
Inaccurate remarks have been For whom, for what?
made about electoral system in
capitalist States, the usual official
comparison is with that of
The Chinese authorities justify
among
Soviet Russia, which the Chinese this show-of-hands method, to people are not yet" ready, in which there are obvious objec- adopt In its entirety.
Bons, as a necessary expedient largely uneducated But elsewhere the natural local electorate. But India comparison, and surely the most overcume the obstacle of revealing one. 13. between the illiteracy without excrliicing the
ballot, electoral experiment now begun secret
and India's
in Ching and that which has methods and example are on the already been successfully carried record. through in India. In both
Aslan States large populaat
It is difficult not to conclude
are involved, in both cases pre- that the People's Government dominantly agrarian. In both have other reasons for gathering of them considerable numbers of the peasants and small towns- women aro enfranchised for the folk into meeting-hails to vole dest
time. In both of them by raising their hands in .full there have been technical prob- view
of
their neighbours
lems to be faced: distances, and of the platform. illiteracy, the need to take account of seasonal farm-work, and so on.
Contribution
fairly
If from time to time I com- pointed out the menace of But the luck of the established London, and was automatically looked
ment upon the unpredictability television to the habits of the B.B.C, monopoly was not ended, OU night think that upon as being half mad
Then one day, in desperation, of the English character it is people and especially the young. In the same week there was.
For whom or for what, then, they possess a Since we have only one pair of the most exelting test match
can the the British people
Chinese people vote? Baird went to the Chairman of partly because
between their time spend
history
The law makes the choice look a City company that was about greater flair for pageantry than eyes it would mean a lessening in cricket
the And this of reading. It would mean
Australia
wide. the to hold its annual shareholders' any other people.
and England, and
Lista of cang talking about
there Wimbledon was vagaries of Russian policy, meeting. "How would you like handling of the Royal Funeral decline of the art of convert the tennis full of thrills as a
didales may be put forward them from thirty was an example..
tion, it
It would intensify the pro-
by the various democratic (7) the result of the Canadian to address
asked Balret.
for tirning us into a race of Lyceum can be duller than a
people's organisa parties and were twiddlers-tuming knob for Janey: election, the successorship They could see you and hear cd? How did they follow th our entertainment instead of long drawn out sermon but it
Indian elections, with ions" as well as by the their orderliness and their Communist Party. This or even the you perfectly.". Joeline to Churchill
evidence of political maturity, something like was making our own. It would be a the only game where a climax
the procedure Judith, weather which sometimes
The
well to the living can be
made a striking contribution to officially sanctioned In Soviet India's international prestige. Russia, and is permissible only What are the Chinese elections because in both cases the 'Com- likely to teach us?
munist Party controls all other
born on a Tuesday; Jean
Wednesday: on a Thursday: Joyce
Jennell (2), Saturday:
(3), Sunday; and now on a Monday.
Del-
miles away?"
Chairman looked
train on
cameras
cess of
The Menace as
melodrama
How many
little
its mournful de Journey to Windsor? Who was gives us all four seasons in lighted. No doubt the prospect the organising genius?
all of company chairman addressing h day. Admittedly
result was that through the England. sug- death of a King. British tele- appealed to him. Bald versational menu but they gested that I should go to the vision was are not more than hors meeting and then tell him what plete the story our old friend d'oeuvres to the main dish. happened.
Television.... television television. That is what is severing friendships, breaking splitting politicni de-up familles,
inflaming the
these topics are on the con- stockholders at a safe distance was superb and the theatre, which is so beloved in for three hours.
Attorney Sons? Shyn bridge: "I've given up hope.**
CTRESS Ina Claire is going A to London Just to see a play But this is an important bit of show-going for her and for the Broadway producers of Alan Melville's hit "Dear Charles."
For upon what she sees will depend 50-year-old Ina's cision whether or not to appear In the New York production of 51...
und
parties Church, What are we going to
Abova all aro
Intriguing
was
born. And to com-
and companion, the normal radio set, was doomed.
Into the sky from high altitude gashback, It was the year 1935 Paragraph and no one bothere had to listen to
respected
Dr
ONE of America's most
churchmen, John R. Molt, has remarried at the age of 80. His bride: Miss Agnes Peters, aged 73. He was for
years International many
V.M.C.A.. and recretary-of-the-
in organising the World Council of Churches. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1940 with economist Emily G. Balch.
Ied
I
Blonde Scot
Beccharn's
1
One Employer
It you
American Girl
odour.
belleve
The
defects
halitosis,
unbrokenly sustained
This was a five-day match, and on the fifth day England faced disaster. The Australians gathered for the kill but the English word indomitable. Έναν ball that was bowled was
The
It dissolves
The Deputy Premier, Teng organisations, Halao-ping who publicly in- troduced the electoral law, made pregnant with drama. The
10 boncs about the results their television Baxter family watched it on which it is intended to produce.
screen and the Its
purpose is # to "heighten the
The Chinese law, however, neighbours must have thought working effeleney of the makes an interesting additional
People's Government we had gone mad.
at provision for the nomination of levels", to strengthen the Inks candidates by groups of in between the People's Govern- dividusi electora who are not ment and the people", to "par- affiliated to any of the re- fect the State system of the cognised political and social democratie dictatorship", and so bodies.
are.
**
New Monster
ian could say how much übe
forth.
can
It is an
So far, however, television agreed with overy word that a short speech I said that I had remained under the sole control of the B.B.C, and, as Morrison had uttered and dis- you are aware, we have never agreed with everything the Home both novel enjoyed the doubtful benefits of snowing that it was a rink; I
had said. THE result. do with this new monster? -and intriguing. We studied the commercial,
sponsored pro- In fact the British mentioned the proudest boast of we to allow chairman's face and we heard grammes.
Incomparable achieved an
American Immense FF to Northern Greenland go commercialism to get its hands his voice better than if he had Broadcasting Corporation had U.S.Athe
girl. She was the OFF
been on the platform. One or
Presti
fairest, аза state monopoly
smartest, loveliest of her civilian and navy scientists upon it?
Just for a moment, and only twa newspapers gave it
to Sir Thomas
嚥But
AmericanNLY a statistician or a magic to shoot rockets 55 miles up for a moment I want to an
I sald, much. Baird the dreamer Beecham's orchestra by permis- romanticg to
American catecism there was on that day FILIS. that do not walked balloons. They want to measure when for reasons
the weary road of lon of
"Madame Butterfly sang for temporarily frustration once more. It is
for television advertiser the Ameri. and how much it showed down production. But that is just að- matter
had cosmic rays,
so many British abandoned
journalism range story. He died a poor us it was not suggested that she can girl suffers from
that
only other of the problems that this the vast Gaumont man.
only new monster creates. Yet Britain had this I would, be even more dainty if physical
My only and joined
We had science in its most advanced form point is that television had won vention in her grasp long before the used Pears Soap.
Dante without dandruff, comedy keeps her fit for human society. two more championships at British Film Corporation.
any other country.
without cosmetics, and Tschal- Among her lesser ailments are cricket and tennis.and that
body dandruff, first impact with tetekovsky without cough cures. My
the sales of sets bounded up- vision na an established source
wards in their thousands. of entertainment was 00
I have tried to set this prob- But out of the corner of my lem before you without to America after the
blas OMEWHERE, knqeking about visit
eye I saw Mr Speaker preparing and with knowledge that you in the Corporation, was a big, Hitler war, America had gone
to intervene so I left the rest
becoming blonde Scot narned television mad, and Hollywood
Increasingly handsome
to the Imagination of the House. Baird who had invented a de- was trembling like a leaf in a
New York the other hand it meant that I finished with these words: aware of this new mass medium vice which he called television. gale. I asked
of influence and entertainment. in the realm of radio thero Under American radioad. Ostrer, tho
had a dreamy friend, who
the set, what
What worries
thinkers Tovan General Douglas Mac- Isadore
there is hat upon his was only one employer. It had
spread a
of as board president of Goumont British, effect Arthur presided
actor, the vocalist, the came of fear even to the the creation of a central unify-
philosophers Britain chairman at his rat meeting of had helped to finance him, but family.
amite a lat", he noswered, dian, the composer, the band absurd Point that young mea ing influence which shareholders in Remington Rand we were too busy making hims
may rob Inc.. makers of business to bother much about Baird. At "The children won't go to bed, want them they had no alter are told that their fallure with the nation's life of its infinte the other sex is because they do variety. Britain is a tiny Island an inventor my wife's going blind and my native source of employment on machines.
any rate he was
to sco been dog has
alters every the air. An immense autocracy, not wear a certain brand of blue yet its chameter psychiatrist." It was not the
shirts. I predict that if the few miles, The Romans and bureaucracy was establish Government brings in commer first time that caricature
Britain has
with almost no had a basis of truth.
cial programmes it will lower
effect
upon the In subsequent visits I watch-
+No one will deny that there the whole tone of our national
The aristocratie Nor- ed the growth of this cult and is a case
the conquered
rude against such a mon- life." have,sal for hours studying I strous centralisation of
Saxons but the only
Josting su- I even went on television with thority. On the other hand the it had to be.. If we were to stop-la-the Cockney accent with Its
It was a vulgar speech, but memento of their occupation | changed;. lutionaria who single list." the Editors of News Wock and B.B.C. did much to
raise the Mercury but it was at cleven standards of public taste, and the commercials we had to use dropped H's. That, admittedly thirty at night and we did not the integrity of their news shock tactics. disturb any one's slumber. bulletins won the respect of the As usual the British were in whole world. Because of that no hurry. Wisely they placed integrity the BBC played an the control and, therefore, the immense part in sustaining the development, of this new device confidence ma resolution of the in the hands of the B.B.C. The European people during - the programmes were short but the Hitler war.
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leader if the B.B.C, did
cd.
The
not
hand
demand for sets was increasing 'However, the law of life is uch rigid rules that the ad..
pace,
be
mans
New Era
13
-70
ia a theory of my own but as The campaign against the you know full well the French Government's plan spread do not pronounce their H's. across the country. The Church Therefore it can be argued that gave voice, so did the Univer the only authentic aristocratic atles, 50 td many of the accent in Britain is that of the newspapers. The Government Cockney. answered that there would be verliser would practically ing all the time a steady un-
at a spectacular
Strangely change, and a group of active forbidden to mention
Tory M.P's, enough it was the burial of young
openly but the name of his product and King George VI which boosted advertisers or directors of com the end of his programme.
exposing their interests then only at the beginning and THE Yorkshiremen, the Lan- telovision from a toy, to
castrians, the men of Suffolk fubaru necessity. To see the
panies making television entr
Despite the Government's and of Devon, the Welsh, the I went to Alexander Korda's began a campaign within the
the public opinion. Scots, the Milanders, the Lon-" offices in Piccadilly at Hytic Conservative Party. They were Park Corner, From the balcony what is called a "ginger group polls show that the people were doners they have their in- wo would
commercials. dividual way of Bfe which defies have an excellent and they did their job well.:
against the BAD BREATH IN 7view of the procession
One reason was that the pro- the conturies. It is what makes to Paddington Station Let it be clearly understood commercials witd had started existence in three
their purpose where the coffin would be en- that OUT OF 10 CASES trained for the run to Windsor purely for personal gain.
not their campaign so boldly were thing of infinite variety
As failing utterly to put their case. Conservatives they arc
and, of course, thele case is very ditionally
against monopalies strong.
against And even more, are they State control. With logic on their side they declared that it ridiculous of the Tory. Govern
rond transport, while
THAT ORIGINATE
IN THE MOUTH.
way
00 itx
The Procession
Wo8
Was
*
4-1
Biggest Blow
Д
And now thero is an era where we shall sit down at the same time and watch the same programmes on the #creen. What if even worse we shall all learn simultaneously about the unsurpassed advant- ages of this
maid RK; the biggest blow to the or those cienkicine, that soap
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television entertainment, :
Opposite View
Nothing can stop or even ro- ecmmercial sponsorisis was the
tard the handling of the Coronation by and no one can deny that it growth of television. the B.B.C... I was in the Abbey on that great day and I never will bring companionship to the saw a camera or an operator, although young courting couples lonely and comfort to the sick, the result was so unbellay will more than ever have to go able that it touched perfection.
balcony unt!! the funerni music announced the approach of taining the nationalisation of the sad procession Korda had providled us with a television set. We saw the coffin carried out and Westminster Hail from heard the mournful" "wailing of tho Pipes, We saw the four Dukes -- Windsor, Edinburgh, Gloucester and Kont tako WAS one of half a dozen who Then came the second blowo the cinema for a chilling's their places behind the comn. took an opposite view, but wo The television film was flown worth of darkneus
But the fight against the com- Wew the crowds en route were overborne by the fervour to New York and unfortunatolymercials will continue to be ng the procession modo its way of the younger Torice, and the some of it was stopped to allow fought in the hills and on the beaches, In Parliament, the pul-
yet
to
to Piccadilly, until wo stepped day came when Sir David Max. for, the commercial, sponsor alt and the pubs," Perhaps in
out on the balcony and well Fyfa as, Home Secretary mention themselves watched
it in reality. And was to announce the Govern products. This may have meant time we shall got used to a when it turned into Hyde ment's decision to set up alters nothing to the Americans but to healthy young man with an Park we followed it again native stations for commercials toothpaste shook the British to wives that their linen would be Link to Coronations with evangelie voice asuring houses the
scroom to Paddington sponsored programmes. Kepler their vitals. Blation, and we watched
Imagine that the no much, dairiler if Guits soap panting little train, to Windsor Herbert Morrison, from the whole incident was exaggerated ends were used 2871-but many where the good King: was a Sociuat Front Bench, made a but as adverse propagands it ng af mine to put of the evil [to rest in the historic chapel #powerful attackin
He played ite'" part!
day as Ion ak pomdharan
Interesting con- One might have thought that cession, that is to say, until this. was
aver-confident in forecast of the results of clec- no studies Teng Hslao-ping's
explanatory directive. "Natural tions based on "universal adult
ly in fact he says, "the main suftrage",
But under a system methods of nominating Muniversal suffrage" in which
didates should by means of operate in one direction dida only
Joint nomination by the Chi- there is no scope for a Gallup nese
nese Communist
Party, all Poll. Communists, in short, can democratic parties and people's be elected in India, but anti- organisations. The list of can Communists cannot be elected in didates must be published din..
at all events, it advance so that full democratie China. So,
discussion may appears.
take place' For in the first place the among small groups on the
not universal. suffrage Article 4 of the general pro- qualification of each candidate. visions of the electoral low he and that the list may be sub- sequently amended. The election gins: "Every citizen of the inay then formally take place." People's Republic of China who has reached the age of 18 shall The concession begins
to elect and to bo dissolve in mist, And when we elected.
Article 5 begins:
read that "the mumber of The following shall have no candidates nominated for the right to clect and to be elected", election of delegates should be 'and
and goes on to enumerate (as equivalent to the quels of the one might perhaps have guessed) delegates granted to that area, "plements of the landlord class we see what it is that takes the whose status has not yet been place of democratie choice. It
counter-
is our old friend or enemy -- who have been deprived of political
Another principle invoked in to law, noy rights according "others
who have forfeited China's electoral law is that of › But their political rights, and finally one person, one vote. and rather pathetically, men- the weight of the final repres tally deficient persons".
sentation depends on who you are and where
you live and what you do. The distribullon of seats per head of the_popu=- lation la extremely flexible; and
to dis since the object is leas to
have the
right
to
Show of hands
If it is not exdetty univerant, cover the wishes of the people Is it suffrage? Not as that term than to promote the construc Is commonly underslood by tion of a pro-conceived: fortn those who have struggled for it of society, urban and Industrial favoured on down the centuries of history, representation Is The Chinese law provides for the Communist pattery at the alcctioris at different levels, expense of the vast agricultural the local government majority, In sum it works out at one délégate to the All- China Congress per 100,000 townspeople, and only zonel per 800,000 of the știral võtars”,
from
POCKET CARTOON
· by OSBERT-LANCASTER
Significant
Whuther all this, in theory, is an appropriate political sys- tear for the present state of China is another matter, and Infinitely`arguable, (“What: seems. significant is that such pains should be taken to label the
product"demo cratie
For that latin
a clear admission that' democracy | Li after all what people want.
An electoral system is not everything, but history shows if 15 good deal. India, that "non-involved" and absorbed
Umo
by her own problems, from -10% time disavows any ambition of political fonciersalp In Asia.. But no dlipasionate spectator, contemplating i 150 Indian and Chinoso. “Gleciorat experiments, con doubt where