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* DON
IDDON'S
THE CHINA MAIL,' ' THURSDAY;` ́NOVEMBER 12; 1963,
DIARY ★
This Column celebrates its 10th Birthday today with a visit to the 'World's Capital'
BOOM TOWN IS
VERY QUIET
Washington. Tuesday. OME friends asked me down to Washington to celebrate this column's tenth birthday, so I have been spending a few days in the.capital.
Americans used to call nation's Washington "the capital." Now they call it "the world's capital.”
For the capital of the World the city. is extra- ordinarily quiet, even sub- dued, moving at a slow pace compared with New York, and suffering painfully from wholesale firings and a in slump in business und politics.
10
The letters F.B.I. used stand for the Federal Bureau they
end rul: "By the way, I am lonk's "sisterAn-law." I should have known better.
This is a good place to watch Wachington is a your tongue."
of whispering-galleries, town whore even telephones, at least seme of them, are topped.
There is strain between the the President, and Press and Mr Elsenhower is aware of it red l trying to ease relations,
the
McCarran
Immigration
Law. He raid he would revise The Taft-Hartley Labour Law. He has dens neither.
The promited baitazed Bud- get now locks like a pip
dream, and we shall be lucky if we get the repealedly pledged cuts la income taxes. If we do we shall have to pay out the dollars under Brother name.
The President 1, also sensi- One of the main reasons for tly, about the charges that he the recession in Washingith 14 that not many people are con- ave golf too much. Last week there
ancaneneni, int here any more. In Rooze- President would
Truman's time the bo velt's and that the
WWA thronged with playing golf "on his physician's caplint
and business advice." This was not too wis, lobbyisin
contracts. becaure immediately all the old retking Government rumcurs, about Mr Elsenhower's and all of them ca a huge ex- health wers revived.
pense account.
of Investigation. Today I
statid for Fired By Ike.
A pipe-dream
and
AM sorry to say this, but 1 get the impression *>1 well I am not suggesting that this Ja Jarrow-by-the-Poomac, but meaning, utterly sincere
very gifted man uncomfortable it is undoubtedly a
chair and deprewed aren after the boom and bustle the White House
even floundering in
The experts here tell "Ike is trying to be
of New burgh,
York,
or
elties.
Chicago,
of score
portbly
Pitts-
other the job.
me:
like 11
men
Now the business men stay at home, ring up their friends, their other busterss men, or
Government, employees in the
and get the contract by tele phone.
Social life, of course, con- tinues at the Embarsi (our Sir Roger Makins is a' success), and among the military enter- folutng their excel'e numbers, American
but this is no longer the lurty, During the ten months of the Etenhower Adminotion cortical monarch, leaving wide-open, Saturday-night towi 145,000 Government employees the burres of government to with money to bura in a vast
Prime
the conflagration. Minister and have bez dropped from the the
House of Commons or Congress. for economy reasons, pay-roll Anther 1,500
But unfortunately the people
Minister, Rober) A.
have
of
Prime Taft is
Beautiful city
been disandared on the grounds and we haven't THE world's capital is a hlek-
of "security" -suspected
being doubtful risks.
THE
Sales down
HE President's Pros recFO - tary, James Hagerty, rays: "We are plugging up the ca träners and opening the exits."
merchants city's
purse This their lips and say "Maybe," and point out that department slore sales are down five
per de- tent., which could mean a cline of 60 per cent. in net pro- Ble for thors grared to quick turnovers.
Boom Town, U.S., is close
to bring Slump Tawn, U.S.. The handsome railway
mation
has always been u bediam..
with travellers fighting
for
porters and taxis when I have
rrived here in the past. Today
ol
it is as quiet as a Sunday in
Manchester and long lines cabs wait for fares.
But the old custom of shar-
strangers ing axis with
bernuse
moins
(Delaps rconomy) and I rode to
1own
E far as the theatre is concerned. Washington never
This Eisenhower frica has been a dikappoint ment to many, and the crilles ore 40 lenger pulling their punches or suggesting that the had the Inclination, and now,
perhaps, it hasn't the money.
millionaires Cabinet be given nore time to learn their job. Tom months is enough time.
bv
it
But don't KM me wrong about Washington-it may be duller, poorer, slower than was, but it is still one of the earth's most beautiful cities.
Mr Elenhower and his men Aro being accused daily of postponement government and worse than that, of broken pledges and promises.
FOOTNOTE: In writing a The President as a candidate newspaper column the first ten prcinised he
inckle years are the hardest. would
THE NAME THAT
MEANS
of the
MORTY
NOTHING
From SYDNEY SMITH
PARIS. Nearly Iwo hundred million French newspapers mentioned,
without explanation, the Shoreham Hotel with a smarily men and women have
guing word "Gorap." dressed woman who fald three just woken up to one of the Umes on the way: "Things are
best publicity stunts ever to not the same."
It has was hoodwink France.
During the journey I
the
guilty of a blunder. The woman proved that publicity can get neked mo: "What do you think people excited about any of Biank?" mentioning name of prominent per-thing. sonality in Washington.
I
Ε
Smiled sweetly
SAID:
For 10 days, thousands of posters, the radio, the newspaper advertisements. have been talking, without "Not much. He explanation, of Lacks sparkle and person Garap has become a ulity, he's a poor speech-maker, dening riddle, 4 burning and he has made no impiet on the publle." I went on like this question throughout for some time and then, when country. I dropped the woman of, the
turned to me, smiled
Against
skin disease and itching
French always
stri-
COD INVASION
SUDDENLY I KNEW
FRESH CHEAP
GRIMSBY FISHERMEN
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
SHE HAD
GROWN UP
When a girl falls in love for the first time
A father tells the story of his 17-year-old daughter Barbara who falls in love with Stephan Barlow, a married man, and then disappears. Stephen's wife Kay, fears he may be suspected of murder.
T is a dreadful thing how callous most and stupid even the intelligent parents can be about their children.
They will fight for them like tigers when their physical welfare is threatened. They sacrifice them- aelves to feed them when they are hungry. They go without home - comforts to give them B good schooling, a decent start in life.
It has been driving the French mad. Shopkeepers have adver- lised Garap in the hope their customers would know what it But the moment the child- was. Customers have asked for shows signs of growing up It to discover what it meant,of displaying personal France has been howling for
emotions which have nothing "Garop."
to do with mother's apron strings or father's strong, protective arm-just you
notice the glazed look', that comes over the The version eyes of the average of the film 'Personal
Now the lid has come off the "Garap." great secret. Quarter-page throughout the mad- advertisements
French press reveal that “Garap" moans absolutely nothing. It is not for sale. It is just a name invented by the French National Publicity Federation to prove the
the
power of publicity. sweetly,
Miligal
AGINUING BAYER' FRODUCT, BAYER
MANUFACTURED IN LEVERKUSEN, GIRKANT ·
THREE
Do you eat it, drink wear it? Do you buy sell it, avoid it, or just port it to the police?
it,
it,
re-
In Paris utone, 3,500 posters, plastered over the most unlikely places, simply proclaimed the one word "Garap." Nothing else. Not a word of explanation.
The announcement says: "Ten days ago you had never heard the name. Forty million know
it now. If it were a motor car,
parent.
Can
any mother Affair' — presented by
honestly put her hand
оп
her heart and
SHOCK
Even
THAT'S. THE WORST TIME OF ALL
ELTKIS JOHж
a Barbara,
WALTER FITZGERALD As the father..
And we did not remind, her of It. Not then. anyway!
But on this question of being Lime, Un love-Dor the first when you are 17 and when unattain- the man you love is able ..well, there was some thing I had to say about that. "I had to run away," Barbaru "I was so desperately unhappy...and muddled.
sec,"
AUTOMAN' WILL GET US ALL NOWHERE!
By Frederick Ellis
ACTORY workers ba Farned. Your days are numberud, And your Jobs will be done by machines.. So Bad Dr Leslie Giddens Brazier, 38-year-old scientist, la his chairman's meech to members of the Institution of Electrical
ngirlcors.stble" says
Dr
Brazier, "for most human inter ventions in a manufacturing process to be replaced. by an automatic
machine.
AL.
the moment caly, the cost
of these "electric brain' machine" is keeping them out of the factories.
"It is a question of 4ho capital cost of the machine against the wages, of the man," says Dr Brazier,
But, he adds, it is only a question of time before "the outomatie machine will be found preferable
Such machines would have one great advantage over men-- they would never go on strike
In-America, out of every £1 `4s. goes on industry speces. They RIC electronic
int of a completely niready talking automatic factory.
What will happen to the men? Brazier: "They will Says Dr
and more
cmployed
become more
on design, making and main- taining the automatic men."""
That sounds all very well. But Aurely, if Dr Brazier is right, eventually you will only need "automatic men": "to z make "automatic men."
1
BRUSHED ASIDE Such logic is brushed aside by doctor. "Wo the man-eating are
on the brink of a second Industrial Revolution," he de-
clarės,, .
"The
first replaced
men's
labour by mechanical energy. will replace, blo The second
by machine mental operations intelligence."
But this is all old stuff really.
Even Dr Brazier admits that in his speech. Samuel Butler (1835-1902), the painter and author, forecast it all years ago. The doctor reminds us..: It is
Butler's which can also In that book
You the all in she said, with all Carnesiness of her 17 years, "I 1 shall love Stephen Barlow. always love hira." **
I machines "But he loves his wife," told her.
"I know," she said; and I knew that my
suddenly
onut
daughter had grown up. now, if ever, was the time to talk to her as an adult person
NO I
TURMOIL
began to give her my
convinced would
that m become so powerful that one day they would rize and strike down their human
The Erewhoniens escaped this fate
destroying by
all the machines and Imposed the death penalty en anyone making un- other machine.
One can almost see the T.U.C.
S version do cesto.C
lecture But this was not a about the birds, or the bees. We could supply her with books This was to take care of that.
the a facts-of-life lecture on human emotions.
"I don't quite know-how to tackle this," 1-said. "From its very secretness and inwardness, love isn't easy to talk about. But you're my child and I hate to see this distress go on."
f have to get over it," she whispered. "I know I
will." "And quickly, child," I told
of its
congresses it. Dr one Brazier's mechine men march into the factories.
But is Dr. Brazier's opinion to be-thrown-aside as fable?, Read Dr. Brazzer's chilling sentences. We have already reached "Nowhere."
DIFFERENT TIMES
A piloties rocket, says the doctor, carrying an atom bomb, travelling at yast speed, searches out Hts target with an electric brain.
Likewise, another pilotless cold father is the wrong rocket can attack it "With a
In the her. What should I say to you? while he was
police station, waiting for the Maybe a
Inspector to make the formal
ene 10 attempt 1. But I can't
.
at this turmoil of first [no pilot could match. *
and nerveless infallibility which
charge, the garden window of laugh our house opened and Barbara love not after the anxieties ot walked in. She was grubby and the past three days. So how do we treat this episode? As love sheepish. She certainly did not
misplaced, love incomplete?" LEONARD MOSLEY
was
look 17 years old now, but like
very small girl who D been neglecting her homework.
RAN AWAY
the
combat "It is mortal
of
machine against machine, with results of supremo, consequence ble numbers untellable to
of
people went on to tell her that she down below." i has
must rely on her own dignity Adry, solentine summing up. o: mind to see her out of it.
the doctor, saya No wonder And
I almost said, as I patted "Butler's irony would be grim her shoulder:
indeed" if he were now alive. "And better luck' next-time, Dr Brazier sels no time target for his second revolution. He himself with But I didn't. Because Barbara, merely No.
Barbara,"
contents hat times will be vastly
news- sensitive from her first Impact sent than they are now in
with first love; might have thought I was being flippant.
80 years we, **
I've
I wasn't, though. First love
Mor
put my name down is always the worst one, isn't for one of these new-fangled-in machines that will write my n THE END
column overy day,
she didn't feel ever so slightly hostile the first time her
brought in the surprised when I learned that son
my daughter Burbara had fallen girl he wanted to
marry? Will any father maintain that in love with a master at fier there was an absence of irrita- school, but had never mentioned n fountain pen er. 3 beauty
tion on the edge of his tongue a word of it to me.. product, you would be saying
the first time his daughter re-
It was no use thinking: Why SHE had been to London and
stayed with a friend. how splendid it was. But it is
marked: "That's what you say, didn't she talk to me about it?
she had not acen any nothing. Advertise!"
Dad. But Gregory says you are Because I knew why.
papers. She obviously had no All through those long an idea of the frouble she had Federation all wrong." Luckily, the
worrying days and nights when caused,
wrecked career before it name patented the
she had disappeared, I worried and the almost wrecked began its Garap campaign. Now,
marriage of. her
1t7 beloved Thirty
of although it means nothing at all,TUE truth is that parents just mostly about whether Barbara thousand teet
don't want their children to
alive or dead, of course. Stephen Barlow. pubilety film fled the word hundreds of manufacturers, from "Gurap"
throughout France's toothpaste to bicycles, are bidding grow up and become entities of But I also worried about this
"If Barbora own. It is a shock-and too: cinemas. Fifteen thousand Paris tens of thousands of pounds for their
dead they and comes back home-what um buses and underground
Secretly resented-when trains the right to use the Name that were plastered with "Garap." means Nothing.
suddenly cease to be children I going to say it her? How
even parents can sometimes reason understand young love
the approach to them is made gently and with understanding?" So I had my worries tco during those days while Barbara weaker in its passion but was missing. stronger
In its overwhelming sentiment than at any
is qutle
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Largest Afternoon
Largest Sunday
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not
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and start behaving like, grown i explain to her that parente THE GOD OF THE THAMES
upe
Which is the eblef why Arst-love is so difficult fer a young girl.
For her it is the most poign ant experience of a lifetime
hence
time
80
CRISIS
dimcult to got over. Nothing FOR Stephen Barlow
if only
when
TEAMS UP WITH ART
LONDON,
THE Thames must rate
By Les Armour :
"Tenger" will" Hungerford Bridge merely allde by the
an old dream for the South Bank. come true.!
No
T
found, would he be charged with bert was spat upon by Tower Bridge is not to and a helicopter, terminus, 12
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Nothing
and his high among the shabbily. sightseer with a sharp awareness geta such salutary and unsymthat reached its climax
wife Kay it was
an untreated rivers, of the world. of the need for smoke-control Festival Hall and empty Into the
rather than with a sense of pathelle treatment
from her
Literaturo recognises the
history,
2. alums of Lambeth, mengg family.
Barlow was taken to the police
It has, it is true, the Houses The London County Council That is probably why
the station. Now the problem for Thames, not as a place for
the of Parliament and the Tower of hos planned, a. 11-storey hotel, a: girl, trembling on the brink of them had become simplified: If lingering lovers but as womanhood
was place, where Sir A. P. Her London along its banks; and skyscraper, a conference hall, a for the first time, the body of my daughter
be national theatre, on-air station, / tells everyone about her enor- mous and, everlasting experience murder?
small boys who inhabit its nored. except her father and mother.
It was
But the grimy, slightly rákish obviously what the
warehouse is still the denimant She knows only too well that inspector planned to do. The bridges, they won't understand,
evidence against Barlow was eli!! Music records not its motif circumstantial, but it was none colour but its tugboat Commerce is the god of the the less pretty damning,
whistles as heard by Mr river and he gives way to art
only grudgingly, she has fallen for a young Barlow had been the last man
The Festival of Britain must man of her own gs, they to see Barbara-alive, by the river Eric Contes. will not too subtly Indicate that bank on the night of her die- It has its promenades have worried him for while the 25-storey skyzcraper will de ho is an awful litle weed appearance. Her beret had been but they are traffic arteries but he doubtless felt: Infinitely built by Shell Oil and the hotel If he is somewhat older, they found in the water. Everyone full of anorting diesel buses better when the Festival fairland will take a lion's share of the In town tumbled down, leaving the executives who arrive will hint that the ought to be in the town now know that and trucks loaded with gleaming concert hall looking by abroad Hver front, with
en something meat
ples and brussel though someone had left le mairetic background, will "Be
r
from a master plan. They will They have all been designed be buoyant, spacious, easily cleaned, served by a battery of car parks and promenades.">
Commerce will have his place.
WORRIED
by mistake.
air
test it, there'But the
ashamed of herself feeling like there had been that about a man old chough between the two, to be her father;"
And then, suddenly, the erials sprouts. So I felt ashamed of myself for him collapsed like a pricked And a trip downriver from Now, he has been persunited reserved for the man who comes as a father--but I was not really, ballcon.
Westminster is apt to imbue the to join forces with art to make to look.