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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1953,
THE FROM MARYLAND
BARONET
H
(THEY CALL ME A HANDYMAN!)
IS ON HIS WAY
wife
1
and went to
BALTIMORE, although it looks as though we fim, but he nearly killed -me Ow do I feel with the will have to travel tourist class, once: He bucked me off and I *ug
We're in Baltimore now, two was dragged along by my thumb "Barl" after my hundred miles on the way, with which was caught in the rein, Jame? Pretty mixed. American passports in order. I and not a soul near to give me We were happy back home became an American citizen at a-hand. in Upper Fairmount. They the start of the war and my I was there six years. till I call me a handyman-well, is a Maryland girl. She's very joined the Australien army as a
why. I don't know how she's private in 1910 I guess I am handy with going to like being a lady; she's France. tools. I did any job-paint- always been ptor and hard- I met my first wife in France, ing indoora and out, a bit of working, like me.
Belgian girl. We had on, gardening. mending taps, duke
heard about that "British Jean, who is a mechonie In duke who was mistaken for his Baltimore now with two children repairing watches, planos, own gardener, and and I figure of his own. He's the new heir to
I'll be that sort of a baronet the title. when I selle at Mochrum Park, After the war
to we went repair and I'm too doggone old man's estate and saved
They say the house is in bad Canada. I worked on a gentle- money. to do a big ch of house-repairing and in 1925 we bought a farm in Ontario. Then suddenly my wife died. I was shot
to pieces, sold
even.
'The
neighbours
nold th:y didn't know what they would do without me. I was never in debt, but I didn't have more than two or three hundred dollars in the bank, beenuse I never overcharged people fur the work I dich
Well, now, here I am of 60 11- ing out on a new life. I'm not much of a hand at letter-writing but I've written more lettera these past few months than I've written
my days. The
Л
lawyers in Scotland tell me there is a true fund of £27,000 and a testamentary fund of £15,000, the 3000-pre place in Wigton- shire, Mcchruin Park. and house rt Bogor. But
they figure the income won't be much more than £240 a year. You see, there are two lots of deallı duties to pay.
by SIR ADRIAN everything, went to Florida and
DUNBAR
Scotland's newest baronet....until re- cently the odd-job man of Upper Fair- mount, U.S.A.
in an interview with EVELYN IRONS
spent my money, trying to for- My boy was with relatives. I wandered around a bit after that. Then in 1930 I went to Haltimore and met my present wife. She had two girls and a boy from her first husband and I had my boy.
now.
Crops ruined
We had two rons of our own. Rowland and Bobby, 10 and 17 They've just let our old
We brought up
home to join the army, fin: kids
both of them.
but we had bad luck all the way. We moved from farm to farm.
all six as one family.
I
T
This is the challenge!
A roving newsman looks at a Page One Empire news-spot and says: Give our people there the chance to live a better life, and then you will see an end to the menacing shadows of Communism . .
FOR A START-LET'S
PIPE DOWN ON POMP
HE money that they final answer. Nor is it just
had not got. The a question of British Guiana suit of clothes, a little low wages that make alone. life # drearily in-
bought a farm in Pennsylvania, adequate makeshift. These
on it. After two years
When my father's cousin, Sir my working clothes and fix the now, but I'll still want to get into James, died at Bognor Regis in car or xtiar around with any January, his heir was my cousin small things that want doing
Those of you who have Richard, He'd been missing for They tell me the Senich gentry ran into a dry spel and lest were the things that people not been to the Caribbean 20 years, and when at last be like plain and honest was traced they found he died with to frills, and that's what to a little farm where we grew when I was In British Guiana of our Empire down
people moved to Henderson, Maryland, wanted to talk to me about area and seen what much in hospital just two days after they will go: with us. Sir James. He und been a I've been a printer all my Ire, cucumbers and tomatoes.
if there there the son of an gone it
wasn't a wel baronel two daya without know- My father TEX ing it,
time. that
which ruined colonel and he had no speil Aring
those crops.
Dog-last spring.
I lost on all my
sec
A man with a car, a good
money in the bank, and per- haps a TV set almost paid for, is n solid character.
He has no chip on his there shoulder. And suddenly a hate- really looks like, would get quite absurd and cut of date.
gang like the K.K.K. becomes
It Isn't precisely the same problem in British Guiana, but thre f a resemblance. Give our people there the chance to
the same sort of shock that not The pocket,
the I have often had. $15.00 for just one set of death duties, gentleman, but soon after where sun from Debroits cume to
Unless the Government settles trade,, being brought up as Arms. But in 1946 Mr Hender politics, was what really in- terested the men and women
Lift will be an they
expensive two born we left Weymouth,
the travel poster South 25.00 days for me.
American he lived and settled in East me and said that as my cousin of our
facade with its smiling, live the better life and then 25.00 So I
isn't much Ham,
I was the heir to Colony. Nor was guess there
was missing
it very happy faces and you find a see what happens to Cheddi and 35,00 money in being a baronet, and
the baronetcy.
surprising. The sun shines, Six 10.50 right now I'm still trying to raise
years ago we settled in sure enough, just as it does the money for getting mysuit
Upper Fairmount, a little village in a travel poster. But much 10,50
miles from anywhere. We had a
Colonial-style, wood of what it shines on is slum. five-room house. I put a new roof on it and fixed it real nice.
and my wife to Scotland.
I've got a long pedigree with 5.00 | me-they've typed me out 5.00 family tree three foot long that
shows I'm the twelfth barnet 1,00
a direct descendant of Maldred, 10.00 brother of that Duncan, king of Scols, who was murdered by 24,00 Macbeth. 15.00
$18,00
No frills with us
15.00 and it may
But there's no money in that, be that the best assets I have are still my own '5.00 two hands.
I mastered him
When I left Napier
Road School (1st's what we call a public school in America but not in England) 1 15. I took a Job on a farm ngar Skipton in York- shire.
On the move
The two acres of land with were not worth cultivating.
had
to a new
To say that the Guianese are "politically inex - perienced" — the favourite
•phrase of the wise-after-the- event experts just now—is
it
kept a fow
otherwise we
by
RENÉ MacCOLL
Janet.
Let us have more drive and vigour in the men who run these, all too often forgotten parts of our Empire. I personally would like to see a Httle less of the "Government House" mentality...
Do not let us do away entirely of poverty and with the pleasant pageantry of ten on the lawn and all the rest of it. But don't let that be all of Britain that our fellow- citizens in the Colonies think of.
Let us pipe down the pomp and circumstance — and chance to make play up the some money and gel abrad.
ол
of
Sir William Dunbar was the baronet then, and he was Re-
a laughable understatement. raw mess gistrar-General for
England, just grew enough vegetables for For 99 eat of a hundred bitterness, He helped me to
get into an ourselves and
people down there polities do emigration scheme for Australia and at 17 I was living alone in Chickens, and let the village boys not exist.
I detest Communism. But there is no mystery about a tent on 1.000 acres of virgin play baseball on the rest.
Sometimes we drove 15 miles land 'way out north of Perth in to a movie, but
Just why { South why Communism threatened Western Australia. I wns Ave miles
from my nearest neigh were quite happy without town American Indian, Hving his to engulf Guiana.
life,
an old car and a primitive life in the jungle bour. I've got five hundred dollars
hinterland of Guiana, should Bank ad- tie truck and a tractor.
People will take just so The Agricultural from selling up the furniture
Now we're on the move again, be politically experienced is much. But if they see 110 and tools of my home, but I must vanced funds to clear 100 neres
new country.
So far the
Are you as sick of I ami SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. raise that much gain so that of tough serub and get it une change has brought nothing but something no one has so far end to a wretched, poverty- the talk of the potential wealth
There's nothing like my wife can have nice clothes wheat.
But I'm proud of my explained.
atricken existence, why then, of places like British Gulano? I worked worry. that life for a boy. hard, day in, day out but I loved family. I'm proud of the estate,
they are apt to think that Potential wealth is worth while and I guess that I've had enough
The Colony was, of course, I used to go kangaroo hunting forming experience to look after a "pushover" for the far democracy is just so much only as an incentive-a-gond-to-
blah, and let's give the Reds in those days I rode pretty it
from inexperienced Cheddi good. I had my dog, Trixie, and
a whirl. Whether the neighbours will and Janet Jagan. The fact a wild horse, a brumby they call like our American ways and our that theirs
was a mission "It couldn't be any worse Mickie, uroken American accents is another them, pamed at nine years old. I mastered matter.
from Moscow meant nothing than things are now"-that to the simple people to is a frame of mind which whom they plugged their needs a vigorous and con line.
structive challenge.
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EGG LOVERS ARE CACKLING
From Newell Rogers
E happily in New York.
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NEW YORK. high-in this land of skyscraperal GG lovers are cackling "must" for hot Texas.
and all air conditioned, Houston counts on the fair to Because slot machines now attrnet 34.000.000 visitors who sell hard-boiled eggs for ten will spend £350 million. cents (8 d.) each.
And salt
free.
-I love eggs. Oh happy day.
CENATORS · are urging a change in the Federal kid. napping Inw after murder of
IN Donaldsonville, Louisiana, six-year-old Bobby Greenlese.
collected three men
800 It would Jet the G-men lizards to sell to Borists for (Federal Bureau of Investiga Insect killers.
tion) step on to kidnapping Now they are charged with cases instantly instead of wall- "taking and postessing lizards ing a week for local polled to between 0 p.m. and 6 am."-an try. offence
under sn old,
Louisiana law,
DIC
But if the People's Pro- gressive Party, meant more land for the down-and-outs; better housing; bigger pay-
the P.P.P.
Revolutions
packets; then hurrah for IN the last 20 years there has been a series of swift social revolutions In the It was a simple little U.S.A. Perhaps the biggest exercise in human nature
Is the changed position of and I can assure you that the American Negro. in most of Britiah Guiana human nature is just about. all you've got to work with or worry about.
Credits
ambition.
A big job
ANADA is a great country. today because her potential wealth is rapidly ceasing to bo "potential" and is being made actual.
Surely we can do the SRITIC for British Gulano-scek out the oil and the other minerals
which lie waiting for the digging. Get away from the stagnation of Georgetown and open up the
rich forests and Interior of the country.
It is a big job, but we have The Ku Klux Klan is a done big jobs before now. And joke instead threat. above all, let's get men cracking.
of a
on this job who have vision and Lynchings are no more.
drive and the will to get things Uncle Tom has vanished.
done.
In the streets of Detroit and Washington, New York
cars--
Let us make sure that the people, of British Gulano arc given a fair and continuing- chance to make a decent living and to keep raising the stan“ dard of that İlving.
NOW Mr Oliver Lyttelton, and Pittsburg you see well- dressed coloured people the Colonial Secretary, announces that a credits driving expensive scheme is going to be set up their own cars. The Negro secking Nazi for British Guiana. It will is doing well. U-boat 583 in 120 feet of include money for fisheries,
What has wrought this off Newport, Rhode housing schemes, agricul change? Without question be obsolete. Island. It was sunk late NO Dome of Discovery for the the war after torpedoing af ture, and so forth.
it is because the American 1050 World's Falk in tanker. Object of their search
Excellent as far as it Negro is becoming a first to look as silly as the K.K.K. if Houston, Texas. Planners say is 500,000 dollars (£178,571) of all buildings will be one-storey mercury on the sub.
goes, but that is not the rate citizen economically.
It is quite proper 10 possesS Ilzards by day.
INo
JOHNNY HAZARD
PRETTY NEAT GREYSTONE..... WE WERE RESCUED FROM ONE |POUBLE-CROSSER BY ANOTHER
**YOU!
IVERS
water
SELF-PRESERVATION,
MY BOY...THERE IS NOTHING PERSONAL
IN MY KILLING
עטל
I MUST LEAVE THE COUNTRY...AND CANNOT AFFORD TO LEAVE ANY EVIDENCE BEHIND!
LEAVE THE COUNTRY /* HIT MAY BE THE "OUT"L NEED
TO STALL HIS TRIGGER FINGER/
By Frank Robbins
THAT'S JUST THE POINT, BUSTER! BECAUSE... UNLESS I HELP YOU THIS TIME ...YOU WON'T GET OUT OF ENGLAND WITH LAMORTI
The day that happens you will find that Cheddl and Janet won't get a look in. They will
And the E.P.P. could be made
we want to make it so.
.this situation
calls for a
San Miguel