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THE CHINA-MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
ONE OVER THE SIXTEEN
Nathaniel Gubbins
O many people have Ingliko
Sa
white-whiskered ført. * Lölis of lamb with 'the
asked about the reac colonel resting in the club after kidneys in it, i tions of Lottie tho
Devil Cnt to the end of ment
a heavy lunch.
rationing that it is time the The Butcher's
facts word told to an im- patient publie
On the day any amount of ment could be bought anywhere Lottie's loving Uncle Nat went
Dilemma
to the nearest butcher's shop ACCORDING
A
pound
of
01
to one of my newspapers "housewives, on
world, now top of the
moot He intended to rationing is ended, are demand the impetuous
ing cuts seme butchers have Lottle bit his ankles so hard ca
und bought her ptowing steak. cook
but
What, Frear.""Our kidneyar
Yes, Ivy. Our kidneys that we ad troughout the war. I might as well
Ivy."
sell red.
You
And so you shall, sell up and buy a a fishmonger'ı shop and I'll be a customer at: the butcher's. Then you shall
ave kidneys every day,
Just like old times, Ivy? Just like old times, Fred.
he was trying to light the stove never hearth of before, arguing Cocktail
that he was obilged to chop it up and give it to her raw.
When the plate was put DA blue- Iwo the kitchen floor
the bottles, who had survived English summer, weni power
into
about prices and refusing speci- ally eut joints if they are not the exact weight required."
market.
I can't stand it any more, Ivy. Stand what, Fred?
So here
Into the in n peep homo of a butcher on the vergo of a nervous collapse after the dive with both engines first week of a free ineat nai out and crash-landed the disgusting meal. A: frat Lottle, stunned by her good fortune, took no notice of the bluebottles. Breathing hard through her nose and chewing audibly with deep satisfaction
repast she concluded her Jelsure and was about to retire to an armchair for a wash bri a sleep when one excited blue- bottle flew into her car.
Outraged by the Indignity the refreshed Devil Cnt woul into oculon, alming lefts fusel rights et her enemy. leoplag high the air, racing across the drata- kitchen ing board, niong the shelves and kaneking over pots
and pans unul she finally imp
The things they asked for. Who unk for?
The customers, of course, you fuo).
You
Fred.
Conversation
JARGARET'S father
thinks
Madererybody would live
to be 100 if they drank more Sreich,
The report of the Smith girl's £10,000 coming-out party must have made wonderful reading for old age pensioners.
husband thinks the My Russians have been blasting the ice away from the Arctic with don't ave to be rule, atomic explosions and are send-
ing it down to us.
It's my nerves, Ivy, I'm cut- ng her a lovely Quiet of steak and she says, "I want the eye,” "Eye" I says. "Eye Do you want the blay bullecht's rad thrown in an well?"
You shouldn't swear
ped the bluchottle with one paw tomers, Fred,
on the window pane.
1
1 was only lavin's n bk with
For a while she listened to its her And she says. "I've a
frantie buzzing with her
on one side is a music teacher
fistens to a tuning fork.
brad enough of
Her
Jik
ears and more of B"
#
11 your sauce for
don't
210 want What's the eye.
A
<-
in a filet stiak. Ivy!
closed round It pnw clenched hané. Then she veyed it carefully to her mouth and swallowed it, still buzzing. on a savoury,
1 don't know, Fred, Then they want t-bones and the T-bone:: right through
alphabet. And they with iddy
wind their legs of lamb boned CHTEC become had rolled.
pink Boned at others.
Since then abe has been Hving on beef and bluebottles the result that her now.
her
id and healthy, has and dry sel tongue has become white
A
die. of shared milk, with
I ask you
Margaret's father says the secret of long life is to stop eating altogether.
to
Since Sylvin has refused buy any meat until the prices come down her husband says he
DE when whs better
it Wis rationed.
war
next Before the
with Germany starts shall emigrate to Austraila.
Only to find that the next war with Japan has started.
··1954,-
by ~ILLINGWORTH
tand a trip
Moscow,
The ?
The theme launched by "Babe“ Zaharias; the woman golf
champion who prayed.
PRAY AT
and triumphed over cancer.
10.30, A
PHONE CALL SAID
SAID: "Oh, God, if there is a God, show My husband says if the Rus-
me yourself and let me sians hadn't behaved like pigs
know you." That was would have got world they Communism
fighting my first real prayer, made without
26
years ago. I was 22. Oh, I was a Christian be-
for
Of course. ! never thought
pray
by the BISHOP of CROYDON
I ask you, Ivy. they wanted to fight anybody.fore then-in a way. I bore All they want is to frighten the the label. I went to church. Don't git excited, Fred, Youll capitalist countries into rulning But it was all in my mind I didn't want to live
her devoted Uncle waving blue- male tuvu your
་.
bottles
while she eats, has
is away
partially restored her robust
health A
there is no doubt
that she would have been a new
dis- ent again if she had not covered that cream Ja also unrutionesi.
At the time of writing she has been at the errom jug again nod
sleeping is
the sofa, too surfeited to wash her face, look-
on
endlaches back
themselves menis.
They
I
cut of wind the ki Ret the fit cut off as well as the bones taken out What do they think surgern!
on
A plastle
Never amad, Fred, come right in the end,
Ne, it won't,
Ivy. Do
you some of then asic
know what
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Restaurant
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and not in my heart. I felt Although he has been living none of the power of God, Mar or the power of prayer.... whisky for 40 years garet's father has never been
Until that day I prayed, In his life unless you count hungovers.
really prayed, and had the Margaret's father wouldn't answer that God needed
I feel normal without a hangover. | me. have been praying ever since yes, and getting If the Germans are rearmed they won't be a bit squeamish | answers. about dropping H-bombs on anybody. In fact, they'll look forward to it.
U
the I expect hardly wait to Washington.
Japanese drop
can
one on
Margaret's father's going to drink vodka for a week to ease international tension.
get the
H the Conservatives think four bob a week wil old-ago pensioners vote they'd better think again,
Seeing Margaret's father
square meni
eat
is as rare 08
seeing a dead donkey.
(World Copyright|
WHY IS CHINA SO
SHY?
(By a Special Correspondent)
IT is odd that China should be so coy about showing to, the 'Western World tho material improvements she has introduced since the enti · of the Chiang Kai-shok re- gime. For even the most bitter anti-Communist would not deny that in many re- spects China has materially shown a phenomenal. að- vance since the Communist revolution.
But China continues to be even more shy of visitors than Russia, and no excep- tion has been made even for the British Labour Party delegation,
Various reasons for this coyness are advanced. Some say it is native suspicion and hostility to the West, Others argue that it is an inferior- ity complex which makes them so ultra-secretive,
Two Reasons
aro
Though these may be Im- portant factors, there two other reasons why China may be coy, First, that be
high rank (I must not name himhind the Peking facade of
or give his rank) should pray efficiency China is waging
for the right decision in a battle on which depended the lives of
thousands of men.
war against the relentless natural disaster of flood- ing. It is reported In the
the Rt. Rev. Cuthbert Bardsley*
for her. It
show was about
He went into his room, he told that rainfall you what I mean. My curate and I were going home
and me, seven o'clock in the evening.
gavo orders that he after doing what we could dur- must not be disturbed for ten country is the greatest for My sister
well. And ing a bad rald got
on our much- minutes, He prayed and sudden-100 years, and, in spite of afterwards sho
told me: "One bombed
parish Woolwich 1y the solution to his problem the great dams and water evening during my illness I felt when I suddenly had on urge came to him. And thousands of detention basins which havo
. then
to visit a certain deep air-raid lives WERE saved.
been built, six percent of the shelter, uddenly the feeling passed and
But it was also important for cultivated land is inundated. I knew great peace and happi- I knew I would get well."
to pray for THREE menOno million peasants are ness
"Don't be ridiculous-go home me to bech"
curate, who needed. my prayers. my I asked her when that even- Obediently I went.
fighting to strengthen dykes Bhc ing was.
gald: "A Sun-
I was taking an officers course along the Yangtse day, I remember hearing the I had just got indoors when in moral leadership and these Huai Rivers. church bella." It was the Sun- again came the conviction that three mer-they were really day we had prayed.
I must go to that shelter. I went, tough characters teo-objected to it. They told me they were When I got there I met a youngish wooien running up the Ring to make things as hard
as they could for me. steps. She asked: "Have you heard what's happened to No.
But my prayers were answer- 7-street (her home)?"
MY NAME
My prayers are usually an- COINCIDENCE? Perhaps, if swered in quite an undramatic U it had happened only once. fashion. God does not write in But when It happens many another letters of gold on my bedroom times you must find wall.
name.
But sometimes He does swer me dramatically, and it is of some of these occasions 1 want to tell you, because you may think they offer proof the power of prayer?
of
I remember, not so long ago, when my sister was gravely ill In a big London hospital and I was told: "She is dying."
*
The next day it was Sunday - I
asked my gregation to kneel with me to
con-
THE WAYS OF
GOVERNMENT
By LES ARMOUR
Brifle bewildered
The traffic census ostensibly
the
The name I find is God. One night the wife of a close friend of mine -- a colonel who has since been ordained- telephoned me. Her husband had double pneumonia and his doctor said he would die.
I phoned four friends (who were part of a "prayer call" we have for such emergencies) and asked them to pray for my frland at 10.30 that night.
When the wife phoned again she said: "Thank you - hệ la going to live. He has suddenly begun to get well again." ~
The nurse had gone into the room on that night and found an extraordinary improvement.
The doctors could not explain it. But I could. For the time when the nurse found this sudden change was—11 o'clocit.
RADIANCE
I
RE prayers always answered? although
the doctor said she was dying.
London.
aims at making due and proper Ayer, ALWAYS, DRITONS seem to be n
last note of these. But the citizen, week by the hordes of little not having the complex mind of sometimes we may doubt it, or may fall to see at the time just government, regards it 1. men with note-books and tolerably plain at Piccadilly what the answer is. umbrellas standing at the Circus will be a trouble spot
Once I prayed hard to God sides of dismal stretches of and that certain back lanes in to save a woman's life. She too Small-Puddle-On-Sea will not roadway from one end of bo (save, perhaps, on moonlit
was in a London hospital and
the country to the other and summer evenings when the meticulously recording the motor vehicles concerned wi
be mysteriously stailonury). number of passing motor- vehicles.
The citizen therefore expects that the government will devote The official explanation for itself not to counting motos WONDERFUL BOOK FOR CHİLDREN this extraordinary display af vehicles but to building roads.
official zeal is that the little men are taking part in a "Traffic census."
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But the populace and the
There came the time when I know that my prayers were not going to be answered in the way I had asked,..
sold
"
and
The plight of those al- rendy affected by the floods Is likely to worsen with the melting of the snows in the mountains in the far West.
ed. Three days Inter these men Thia normally results in a
HOW DO
YOU PRAY?
When i
How do you pray?
was a boy my father and I used to sit la his study every Sunday evening. talking together, I would tell him all I had been doing that werk and hear what he had been dolog.
Then, as a life' boy in the ́ presence of an older and wiser counsellor, I would ask for his help and ́adrice.
Nowadays I go into a mat chapel: have had installed „near my front door—to be quiet. and away from the telephone... And there I do just the same,
I talk to my Father and sak for His help for myself and for others.
Do not ask me how long you should pray,. For there ciust
* be no “should” about (E
You talk to God because you want and need to, not just for duty's sake.
F
And you talk for just as long
k you Want to five minutes, ten in some quiet spot where you can feel free to talk.
I need perbape to give more
totally wrecked,
know No. 7 had been So I took her there, and was able to help and comfort her when she had to hear that her father had been killed.
Even 50 the transformation She became a Christian soon In that woman. was extra- afterwards and 1 believe God ordinary. She was so radiant used me that night to bring her that nurses and even three to Ilim, cooks from the kitchens Usech
to go to her bedsido júst to be near her.
GUIDED
1
Now you may say here that
was merely believing what I wanted to believe.
The Bishop' of Croydon. adde his personal note
time to prayer than you, some times two hours a day (not all at once, but in five and ten- minule. spekla).
You see, bayo many people who need 13 prayern. I barn two tits, esch of between 20 and 30 people who have asked me to pray for them because they are in grgens trouble,
1. pray for those on the fest tist every day, because their need in the more argent. The others & pray for, say, once, a'.' werk.
Does this seem a bit ́ like doling out prayer, as a doetar may dole out bottles of tonic to bis surgery quEUST
But why notmilt prayer works? Why not use it na a doctor uses his gifts to help ufck- and suffering people 7.
were shaking my hand and thanking me,
4
So do not wait for à crișis In your life before you begin to pray. Begin with the small things because, after all, they are Life.
One laut polné --- end challenge. Suppose you say you do not believe in prayer or God. All right.. I accept that and respect your honesty,-
But
rapid rise in the water lovel of the Yangtse River,
Added to these troubles is food famine in
many areas.
Main Aim Government lenders have organised ~ relief for tho people, but, with the in- herent callousness of the Communist bureaucratic ma- chine, the main aim is still for the successful ··· comple». tion of the five-year plan. Neither relief plans nor humanitarian measures are allowed to interfere with this. The deaths of tens of thousands of people › gre preferred to any relaxation in the effort to reach the production target.
bo
Second reason may well the fact that in China-n contrast to Bussin there are far more people who might talk against the regime. Whereas the Russians at any rate under the Stalin regime have adopted a policy of extermina- ting their enemies, the Chinese, belleve in "re-education,"
Figurehead
Prisons are filled with hun- dreds of thousands of people undergoing "ro-education" "under conditions very different from those obtaining in the model prison shown
British to the Labour Party delegation.
To parody a grim jest once made by Bir Winston. Churchill about. Mr. Allee -- the Chineso have much to be coy abputy"
to be
press feel that this is not an Wherein, of course, the citizen
I told her and I meant --
at least you have not adequate explanation. What shows his abysmal ignorance of you know, I rather envy you.
been able to prove there is no j It is significant that Mao Tse- does the government expect to the ways of government,
more than 1 can | tụng still remains in the back- You are going through; great
God-any gain from a traffle census?
adventure N
prove, scientifically, that there ground. Today he is little more. The making, analyzing, sub-all adventures."
the greatest of
is. So we are equaï there, Agreed? than a autehead remoto Does it not already know mitting, re-submitting editing
tined Afterwards a nurse told ma.
Then why not try this-try talk- Communist saint that there.
are 4,000,000 motor and studying of reports in the that her last words were a
That might be a fair critician ing to the God you do not be only for propaganda purposes. vehicles in the country and in major activity of government. whispered "the greatest of all win what I believed was al- lieve in as 1 dia 30 years ago. 185,000 miles of public road in
ways pleasant for me, the country? And,
adventures." assuming It is commonly thought that
Just say: "Oh God, IF THERE that the government
can do the purpose of this activity coman's passing on my I things 1.
Did my prayers fall? You But that is not so. Some IS A GOD, show yourself to elementary arithmetic, is it not to promote "action" on whatever
of course, blame that Umes. God guides me aware that this works out to
do not want
to do. one vehicle for every 22 feet of subject the reports are about. effectivencan But then how Sometimes I am disappointed in
But this is a simple fallacy. explain her last supreme happi- my prayers because,
for the newst I bellove God answered moment, I am more concerned my prayers, in His own way. with what I want than what
BE READY
road?
The purpose of reports is to stimulate the holding of mest. ings among government depart- (offering considerabla
to do
me,"
CHALLENGE
God wants."
TEEP it up for a bit, a fow months even, end keep it up It is only exceptionally, ok course, that prayer concerns the particularly when you feel
Oh, co" en "thinking:"If you' supreme grises of life and death. Korlorn and lost and analy,
Even a government must be menis. able to perceive (however boon to the tea trade), to foster dimly) that this is A rather the continued employment of. Wince the internal machines dus the economy, on an evan keel); times you may talk to God first, matter of quietly talking with like that religion is bunk and troublesome situation, especially olvil servante (thereby keeping PRAYER works both ways
do not forget that. Strao Far more often,prayer le n alloo to spread themselves 'out and to further, the science of but.. often' He may speak' first God' about the, everyday thileno that you have bo žil for evenly along the roads. Some
Bishops. me statistion, of those ? 164,000 miles are in should
which be
15 ak❤ | 16-you. And then it lillyou who/And it. le in: thứng things, in halplanky tensely interesting and some demo tell you a "bomb" story to Tripework important Jo
aigns, appena trust" bo ready to miswer) Let human relationships that pekyy arwill-informed Idiots.
is on how we all get on togethe blekel 47, shak's tile penon of the wor
MORNING POST menselytractive as to the
owners of moto vehicles---with
with Taking "action" would put a
the stair 96en lous ramit. that stop tooll this raining thehayadavaloped what the upon our hoade
We take dil Does any rebalo
POCKET CARTO
by OSBERT LANGAS