THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1954.
GILES REPORTS A BORDER INCIDENT ON THE ROAD NORTH
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About your joint of PORE.
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CHLES
"Two miles from the Scottish border and first you tell me you don't drink Scotch and then you tell me you don't like haggis!!”
I SAW
Teddy
Russians
have
too.
boys, They are called "Stilyngs." and I visited their chief haunt in Moscow during a three-week visit to the Soviet Union, from which I recently returned.
In the words of Alexe! Sheljepin, Russia's top Com munist youth leader, Sill- yaga "leaf about the streets of the main cities, wearing Tarzan haircuts and dress- ing like parrots. They don't work anywhero, do they study. They spend their nights in restaurants, und chasing girls."
nor
these What goes on during Moscow nights? I set out to dis- cover and arrived at "Cocktail Hall"
drinking-house Gorki Street, the main shopping centre, at 1.30 am.
A
an
The atmosphere was dismal, rather like a British Railways refreshment room.
Snorters
MOSCOW'S
TEDDY BOYS
*
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By FRED JARVIS
President of the National Union of Students
Komsommol,
the
The list of cocktalis included Second, the Ploneers and the auch snorters as "The Battering Han" and "Light House.* I played safe with Benedictine at 111⁄2 roubles a glass (about half a crown).
Occasionally Û lod stagger out, propped up by his would friends.
thought of running a tourna two huge ment youth organisations to which more than 60 percent of Soviet children and adolescents belong, have been failing in their job, officials I was told this quite frankly by
It
cooms
of
[ables.
hotels between the
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They also have their babby- SOXCTS who hero-worship star opera-singers and ballet-dancers, 1 saw them in Moscow theatre galleries, shouting for encore after encore from their favourite stars, long after the rest of the audience had left.
One night I saw a group of them autograph-hunting, actors from the Comedie Francaise, the Parls company which scored a tremendous success in Moscow recently.
for the street teams, proved a big success--a hundred teams entered. Next year it will he held on an even bigger scale, The Communists gave other reasons for their problems, not unlike those we get from youth Nikolaus, secretary of his dis leaders in Britain, As in Britain, By 2.30 a.m. Cocktail Hull trict Komsommel, told me: "The lack of parental control Was was beginning to empty and I
Like our youngsters, theirs. Pioneer organisailon has been blamed; they said parents gave too, are keen on salehoe fetion
over - organised getting was glad to leave,
and their children too much money During the rest of my stay paternalistic. in Russia I heard a good deal
The children are and did not bother to find out and space travel. A recent feque not doing enough for them what they did at night. But the f one Soviet youth magazine bad behaviour wives; maro about
showing to Russians reversed the argument had a cover picture among the young people,
towards
is not appealing #t their senso of adventure.
ships zooming
about religion, They laki the Tock on. A youth leader töld
me that they were very eager away to hear about space travel and by pro-
The Komsommel is at fault blame an people going 10 Dressing up
in hot attracting and doing
for the teenagers. One Neverthelying things
the youngsters Hooliganism was a big tople has to study their Individual spoke to in the Soviet Union at the congress of the all needs. Some Komsamunol mem- always laughed heartily when important Kamsommol (Young bers have been out of touch, asked if they believed in God. Communist League). Delegates They have been too busy talk "Of course not," they would were told that they had เ ing
about theory and have not reply. rombat drunkenness, theft and studied the problems of young
in
dissipation among Soviet young slers. And this is happening
country which has for yeary lavished vast sums on educat- Ing, organising and indoctrinst- ing its youth, to create good Communists,
At one table sat a couple of boys about 18 years old. Other tables were occupied by youths In their late teens and frowsy females. They sipped pink- What is the explanation? coloured coloure
cocktails through There are two, straws and looked as if they had been at it most of the evening.
First, as one
Komsommol official said to me, in spite of 35 years of power the Com- Sitting on high stools at the munists have not been able to ħar wore a number of Stilyags, make everybody “well-behaved." drooping over their drinks They Most Bovict citizens remain were poorly dressed compared human beings, with traces of with our Teddy boys. Some "bourgeois individualism." Hence favoured zip-Jackets: others the desire to escape drab uni wore drape suits with thin formity by dressing up--even lapels.
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like parrots.
WHY WEATHER MEN
GO WRONG
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
TEAM of top weather most carefully worked-out fore-
A forecasters went to the
cast.
But the weather men insisted British Association meeting that Britain's 1,000 forcepsterp
in Oxford to explain why are more often right than their prophecies are so often wrong. Bo Wrong.:
Willo rain hud bycketed down conselessly since early morning on thousands of people at Ox- ford's annual St. Gile's Fair, the weather, men were remainded that their forecast had promised: "Fino at first, with some rain sprending from the west.”
They blamed their mistakes an Britain's poculiar.geographl- cal position.
· EAT AT 4 P.M.
DOCTOR says that slimming
not
A is
peppard an example of this in People."
11 seems the young- Kharkov. uters were finding the Pioneers
Bobby-soxers
They are keen on dancing
so dull that they preferred to but they don't have dance halls. play football in the streets. A Russians do their dancing in wide-awake Kamsommol official restauranta and the dining-
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had regular lectures fessors of astronomy.
I would be a fuistake to think that the majority of Soviet youngsters are discontented, or apposed to the regime,
But in spite of all the pro- paganda and indoctrination to which they are subjected, Soviet youngsters still retain interests and face problems that shared by young people world over.
ARE YOU A HELP TO YOUR HUSBAND?
FOOLISH WIVES
THERE WAS ONCE a wils whá gosilped round the town and
let the washing-up go tớt two days.
ONE RESULT : fer husband, was furand down for a 10,000' dollar job. That is a true story, reported the other day
And it prompted a series to set every wife looking at hørseli afresh and asking : Am & a help to my husband P
Today, LADY PAKENHAM, wife of a former Cabinet Minister, discusses with Drusilla brýFUS the sort of wife who does not help' her husband. So here are Fine Awful Warnings for every
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«IRST of all, the Brand New Wife. She's got him, and she wants to keep him to herself.
him, everything. What more To give him and take from
does he want In life than her? After all, he has said so ព. thousand times himself. So sho thinka
him utterly
on you placeable and india- Make yourself irre-
elephantine talney, pensable." What an
of "Make matter
dependent
what you cat but when you eat,
Ho makes this rule
Diet yourself every day until
four o'clock in the afternoon. After that you can tuck into anything you like, as much as you like.
WOS #ccessful
The system with him out of 12 fat women on whom it was tested by. Dr Appleyard, a Year- Gilver borough family doctor.
Why shouti
work! Dr Appleymd explain
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'Britain is so small that a In încet people the body tem- ilght mistake in predicting a peretite in low in the morning wind direction may mean that a und rises in the late aftene weglberkaygtern. Which, is: form, and evening.
cami to arrive misses the coUNT The higher the body tempera, try completely, claimad De 3. M, sure, the faster food burn. Black, Deputy Director of the Wo Dr Applegg tubs, food
mora
Any woman who tries to do this is liko
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At first his friends wink and grin, later they get bored, in for she is everything to him and the end they leave him to her,
he is nothing at all.
A
3-Stringer
offer to wash up
aro
the
of the true success stories at the ngo, make him feel you love him as much for what he meant to do, as what he did.
5-One-lifer
NARROW WIFE: She gives
up everything for his sake. How wrong she is. She should take up things, new interests that centry round his work. A wants to share and understand man la touched to find his wife
something of his work. If she shows no interest he is at frat depressed with himself then with his work, lost with his
the narrow wife took more
FRON_STRING WIFE: Sho
would never dream of to interest in what she secretly xo- fusing his when she knows in her heart no arded as an upcolourful crowd friends her doesn't want to. Shord cover and might respond by look- foll blm to
to low with more favour on the day afternoon when he offor
people he's always found rather, stay home and help with the boring-his in-laws. children. She hangs on to
μας
off on a Spiar- .buzz
own friends and refuses to
dring saucer. a barrage balloon trying to stop necopt his.
2-Egoist
THE GREEDY WIFE: What a colonsal conceit...... she's · MOL. We all know the woman who módostly, but; with ́a incidertone, "admita).
everything
"In marringe" it should be a cause of two circies of friends sonyerging and becoming con.
centric,
INT
MAITIQUA
"AND". WHAT ABOUT -'Lađu.
Well Pakenham as a wife? she tries hard to share HIS Intereats.
"Since marriage
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