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IF
I COULD CHOOSE
I WOULD BE A MAN-
THEY HAVE ALL
THE ADVANTAGES
by EILEEN ASCROFT
W
THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1954.
Cummings OPENS HIS OWN INSIDE-THE-MOTOR SHOW
Willian of course, ints Ruilty
be be Inancent
T
The complacent-because-my-car-la-
so-big-and-strongly-built" type.
Women ure expreted
The complacent-because-my-car- 19 - 10 - scratched - and - bumped - that-I-couldn't-care-less” type,
+473(1
HEN Mr
Willis fonted Samon on his one-
man raft after crossing the forg Pacife he was rrecived with ne
handshakes all round.
to
forgive with Beat the wife who makes
1 BROVE
etc. Four end, even by her own sex,
it.d: creel ranses 13t
if Mrs Wills had suddenly as a better than the stoutlet be announced her intention of
The man who i
2
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Highte
drifting alone 6,300 miles piled, oz prs, mildelt a land ko |
shark-infested marry, the dean, what an outery there would have been!
bachelor until he dies. But his!
munitie counterpati, preity. shin,
10 stre
ok tel
begonna น
mately Tunney, feature of fun at forty
1-
A man still
Test May, the misguided chap who dared the Engish Channel without esenat ship bas ats amazons The spirit of ventore is not mad, they s
May Mr Tek Best plus get to to the by waves, what offered tory i wisniel have been Heartless to leave adre chlidren bebinet would have been the verdict
Onew for the
another fast the wolneta
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A MAN.
73 nga today urshesitatingly
TO
11
La at the advantages
If he's tired
A
MAN can give way to his feelings. If he's tired, It's assumed he's had a hard day of
alse Ther If he's bad-tempered, tricky
he's been negotiating cleat
If Ever's had one over ti eight, it was all in the (DUINO ĐỂ
KSOVINTRE
JU
But let a woman confess to being red and wanting to put her feet up, and she's dessounové
wet blankel, is dreary. brake in her husband's success, If she gives way to rain or temper, she's not human, bu
shrew
A man can be a wolf and get
I be anak, with it. Away
bee ine for a pretty face at a party or 1 ewught behang
T
duffer and business Kuccess.
Rut the worn. 11 who goes into professional lite 15
care allogethes
differ
Typists, waitres
anleswomen
clippors
the
1 are prepared to soule upo indulgently Bul if she wante
challenge them In bus
she's got to be twice as qual as And ht male colift tupo at 147 OYED TRUH
A
far
shell is get hotf
The arty life
MAN can be an individualist
11 he wants to limb mount- faits or risk his life breaking
1 sound Les 1343
Land, he's a hero
It a won
Te is th tube unKY
often do it's
Axiallonat food
It's
TES
hooting
d We Janned
hubby wants to go artistie and starve in a garret, als wife In the surce
of envy to her If he torgets to finity The bills or pawns the furniture. to artistk down But stelure that helliance his wife coded pairit, wo novel That she could
pen, would absolve her
popular #n denunciation for neglecting ber home and furntly
A man can let himself go. As long as he has minde a une for himself, or a passable bank bintice, he can grow as im
で
fat as he pleases and tant
adutamion
This
"a devil But
It
Foto de
;
emple of bangles, he gains thes reputation with
Jad The woman neveja un invitation Fron even the mildest or chillest of men, six she becomnes at once
a designing it.
Who Ruls divorce
the sympathy (40's" Why, the Tirana
My kind of story
will
SHOCK
you with
its terror!
CELL
RIOTBLOCK 11
dues nut opply to the d the speed. As su is wite puts on a tr couple the
IT'S
Equal world?
very much of
work
TS $10
masculins
upile of enquad pay in theory
The "I'm going to accelerate - Aud moveant the moment. you try to-pass-me" type.
The I'm having-an-argument with-my-passenger" type
The "I'm going-to-make-a- sharp right angle turn
without-any-warning
type.
The "by
some - miracle-I-passed- the-test" type.
The "personal-affront-tf-anybody. passes-nie." Lypo London Express Service
BUSTLING BRITAIN
NO MORE TIGHT BELTS
Perils Of
Of Being A M Communist Leader
By WALTER KOLARZ
FOR
MR BRITON
By LES ARMOUR and RONALD BOXALL
EET Charlie Har- ria. Charlie Is the statistician's dream. -- M r Average
Briton.
You might find him hoisting pint in any suburbin local, spot him on The underground behind his newspaper or sitting beside have you in any cinema,
Serie like Kostov, THE tral in October
hown Independent line in 1964 of the former cenene negotiations with the IT with his wife n't wa Rumaniat
Vice Soviet
Government. Others.
Cher is in his mid-thirties,
ldren. in a brand-new livi-
ER A
Premier, Vasile Enca, once like the Albanian Vice-Premiere gove.ament-built house again draws attention to a fundamental factor which governs political life in all Communist - ruled countries that purges and purge are not phenomenal part of the normal work ings 1 the Communist Party and State machine.
trinis
¡L
Minister
failures of
Only Scapegoats
These and her always the real
11f least-equal rights 57215 equal opportunities--don't you culprits. Of they arc only belleve it If you don't agree with
| me, have a look round
dinner table when
the the womnea
elle and leave the men smiling over their jku and
smugly cigars.
in
so include
fu'l
into disgrace because they were apported by the wrong faction in the Soviet Politburs
Koi Kuxe, execute! In June
cat a winding tree-lined stret elininated because 1949, were
1 pofed ly manicured they sided with Tite against theming
rk
NGA
Londen subu But there have P Coinform.
Me carts the national average wags, exactly tight pounds atid also been some and these prem
Slansky--who
five strings or $23.10 a week. works 40 hours a week in a fac- not far from his home, and They
checks the football pools every Starday afternoon
Charlie and 15,000,000 other realBritons, whose incomes fall into
range, h roughly the same count for the biggest part of the you can find out bow nation. If they live, you can assess life In There Dire
6,000,000 ritain. tritons whose Incumes fall above or below the range, but they are spread over so wide a held that, at a quick glance, They have to be taken as excep- tional.
In a these cares, one must distingodsh between the reasons which prompted down-
In the trumped-up charge
More Victims
or
MIRACLE
THE merciloss clatter of the pneumatic drill, the rumble of the concrete mixer and the low whine of the hydraulic crane are the characteristic sounds of Britain's cities today.
Amid the foundations of old Roman cities, Tudor trading centres and Victorian__factories, modern buildings erupt on the skyline. The scors of Hitler's blockbusters are being healed by a building bustle hardly over equalled.
Cities are throwing satellites out in the green Further out, wheat grows and sheep. countryside. graze whore there was only wilderness a few years ago. Britain is in the throes of a boom. The recent dock strike seriously threatened to set back the progress achieved. Happily, that has been settled and things are humming again.
Standards of living have risen sharply over their
caton, prewar peak, more food is
moro clothes produced, more cors jam the roads.
New industries are replacing old. Synthetic fibres, plastics and chemicals are taking over the contral place once held by the textile industry; plans are well under way for a chain of atomic power stations; new factories turn out airliners in a never- ending stroom.
All this in a country disrupted and shattered by war, shaken by the changing pattern of world trade and not so long ago nearly written off as a "second- rate power."
The story is more than impressive, It is almost fantastic.
Hore feature writer Les Armour and economic correspondent Ronald Boxall tell the whole story for the first time.
Charlie
The Beard will pay his rent and see that he has enough to feed t
free milk there Orange Julee fer expectant mothers and in- tanis also comes free,
Just befor his children are born, Charle e a an extra D lo cover immediate expenses,
State education rovers every- through thing from kindergarten university
and post-graduate
work, so long an the child shows promise If his children get fo they will not only university, get their fees pald but a living allowance as well.
even
The scheme is ro generous That most universities nowadays,
frown
non-peisdemic work during vacations!
For all this, Charlie-who
NO income wage-coughs shillings and
pays
Inx
on his
up only his ve ninepence weekly National insurance fes,
employer
shillings.
another
11:
Bv.G
phys and the government throws in an exlitional shilling and uppence.
A together, health, welfare, and educational services, cost the country three pounds, two shillings and tuppence a week for every family.
In
then, life the main, Bettre and pleasant for Charlie. He cats As well, Ilves in as good a house, gets as good an education, and is just as healthy his counterpart In North America.
is:2
SECURE
THE trimmings, perhaps,
T
are the missing. He hasn't tol ultra-moder appliances, the extra clothes, the ear, and per- Haps the money to save or blow.
AR
his compensation, moves at a less hectic pace and it's inore secure,
Overall, in Britain, total pro- 30 duction has gone up about percent since the war, while Charlie's standard of living has probably risen 50 percent.
In a democratic country.
kallet. whose policy
included in the offelal
The latter have istully fails either resigns on his men's
vote in to do with the case but are own initiative or a
ditated by the Cornmunist pro- Parliament furves him to do paganda needs of the moment 50. In a Communist country of ches or produces there is no parliamentary first grey hats, she be- | system), and Comes Domeube who has to be poliev, if admitted at all, aski
lung
she's result in the political and because
I 15 charocteristic. for mead to old se-and-me"
that the usual charge physical liquidation of instance.
It is an important story for the outside world—– of being a foreign intelligene there has been a postwa government members.
today's bustling Britain will be an increasingly good agent was not levelled against
Had the triat taken place the others
miracle in Britain, Charlie and Luen
the world's exporters and today's in his
customer for group have year, or even A few months
biggest gains and, efficient Britain can supply the world's importers with earlier, such an assertion would nude the
increasingly better goods at over-lower prices. made numerically, of course, the big- invariably
been have
This is the first of a four-article survey. But at present this might seem gest contribution.
So Charlie is worth knowing. with inconsistent
the Com-
First get munists' stresi on the need for
One thing straight. Charlie's wage,
Canadian se: pognals, preked frem among peaceful
to a between co-existence
dormit drive u .car the
American, an
probably Party Haders d:feated
East and West.
ho probably hasn't got sounds downright plutut.
But and internal sugges for power
his family on-and a little over TV set yet. Refrigerators are, lot more Itun
he doesn't likely, something
for incidental. The Luen trial is unlikely to it will buy a what have laken plaes in all
Both these figures are im- think about,
that But, now The satellae Commun.s: purtier-be the last big Cornmunist trial you'd thinic.
Charite's rent for that now
Last year there were 1,670,000 portant. In Rumania
Pestrictions have vanished from Perhaps if I had been born in the postwar period. Natur:1. satellite Europe.
Ave-roomed house comes to
persons receiving weekly The Increase In production credit buying, his chances of alone, two further purge victims
allowances from the Board and has ly, in all this, Moscow his a
pound a week. His light. only
revolution meant still await their ute. They are
it also made decisive word to Loy and no e
1,380,000 special Britain's industry; called for an ably good.
agricultural miracle, and forced Maille Canmunist can be decolari Georgescu, former Vice-Eas and fuel, cost him another getting these blogs are reason-
Premier and Minister of theve shillings.
Ho can
And there are a lot of hidden payments to cover emergencies. feed his family for
a reorientation nounced a "b.urgeois national-
The procedure is simple and
of the whlie ist," imports 14 gent," Interior, who in the summer of £3-15s. For that they can eat factors,
what is more, He hasn't anything over for is in trouble, Charlie' has only to
friendly. If he British "way of life."
standard Charlie's or "trait:r." entres the Kremlin 1952 was dismissed on a charge steak once
a week, a Sunday
To ral has given the go-thead signal, and-State activities, and And roast, bacon and CARS
for saving, but National Insurance drop in at any of the Board's of living by 50 percent, there
a social revolution. Poker, the former Minister of breakfast, most days all found. Ping you can thinit or at any hundreds of toont offlies (some has been
Modern housing → possibly solld Charlie
Should he lose his job, he will are even open all night!) and certainly cats margarine
the world explain.
among the kiest in to be held in satellite Europ: in Iri Poland,
most of the time, and saudet week. If he dies, his wife will
get 32 shillings and six-pence a Moreover, should Chartle
has replaced the old slums and 1954. The first took place Wladyslaw Gomulka, former
his into his probably obtrude
That is also what any of his family fall ill, the whole new towns have changed March in Budapest whore Gen- Decretary-general of the Party,
finally settled, pretty often. But British mar- get the same
the govern comprehensive National Health the appearance of the English cter Gabor, formir chlot is still
Service will cover everything. countryside.
the "middle- of Hungarian Political Police, Gomuika disappeared from therine is pretty good stuff these he will get from
Moreover, the A sealon with the dentist cests classes"-economically have death in If there is a was sentenced to fe imprison- Polish political scene over five days, and even the sausage is ment when he retires.
looking up!
pay the 18 £1 for the first visit in
up Then in Apell came the years ago, having been accused ment.
wife has family, the state will that, his
11 the series and after that nothing. ference in standards
but disappeared, the dif irial of Patrascanu, the former of "Right-wing deviations", enough left over to send the funeral bills.
For his second child, he gets His children get dental service has narrowed vastly, Rumanian Minister of Justice. There had been some reason to heavier laundry out and pay dry
A prescription -what-
left is Want is While Petrascanu was sentenced believe that no Gomulka trial cleaning bills. Charlie, himself, an eight-shilling a week allow- free.
Woodbines a ance, and he will get another ever It is costs him only a
quite new: you can to death and exeruici in Buchar- would take place, but the last has a half-pint of ale most eight bob for each child there- shiling. est, Dr Husak, fermer head cr Issue of the Foilsh Communistakes 10 (y)
Booming Britain," day,
And Charlie the Communist Government in
reed have no Welfare State," organ, NOWE DROGI,
re-nights and takes the family to after. Slovakia, was sentenced to its called
of moro
Gomulka's the movies once a week.
The unemployment and pen- worries about his children's
The story of its building. Imprisonment in Bratislava.
As this alicged political sing.
The residue will just pay for sion payments, of course, are chancez,
the story we offer in the next reminder virtually coincides his clothes and the weekly pay often not enough to live on. As infants, they got mlik al ́a three articles.
But he has the National As- fraction of the normal cost and, with the Luca trial, it must be ments on his wife's new vacuum considered as rather ominous.
sistance Board to fall back on, when they go to school, they gel
America in
I might fert differently. Only there have women really achieved equality with the men,
But Hying
England
irt
1954. If I could be born again
know what my choice would be.
I'd choose to be a midn.
Xmas Cards
OF
"HONG KONG SCENERY
"ÓRTAINABLE, AT
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
of
The Lich of Luca is the fourth Foreign Affairs, big trial of a Communis, leader
cral Peter
Too Independent
110t
the Case
hos
A
of
most
a
cleaner.
Se
MRS BRYANT BREAKS ALL
London.
Laica, however, is a man of much bigger calibre than Poter. Husak or Przscanu. He en a par with such "clas purte victims as Lazlo Rajk, tho Hungarian Minister of the In- ferler, or the Bulgarian Vice-
We deal wife for a THAT sort of woman is Premier, Tricho Kosov, whe ware both гxecuted in 1940. Inders. Luca was almost equal boss?" Americans are, no In status fo Rudelf Slansky, longer in doubt about her. Sterterry-General of the Czecho-She has been weighed, men Covek Communist Party, who gured and tabulated by a was sentenced to deɗh în cember 1952. Luca #230 was firm of "management ex- sentenced to death, but on appeal perts" in Chicago who re- the sentence was commuted to contly published their golden ife im
Imprisonment.
rules for her.
De
MRS. CAROLINE, BRYANT ̧ “How dass aii HOT. possīp?"
By ANNE SHARPLEY
of
know the general trond things.
"What
is more, I try to get film
work. When my hair dresser bought new equipment made him insure with husband, and none of friends gols engaged my saying where they Insure the ring."
associates.
or
A
in
or
of living
something call it tho
is
(Tomorrow: Farm Miracle)
THE RULES
RULE 3. She must not be jealous of his job, his secretary or his luncheon partners.
"Of, courne, one maintains a happy homé. But 12 seems scarcely happy it the children aro bustled out of sight because father's feeling, edgy.",
́SUMMING - UP Bryant:
by Mrs
"The Americans take such an.
Mrs Bryant: But, of course, one couldn't be jealous of his my job, unims he was Marilyn my Monroo's press agent. As
for without his secretary, I don't know intense attitude over this sort of should whether she is old and ugly or thing. When a wife meets her young and beautiful. It seems husband's managing director too quite irrelevant; And luncheon much is allowed to depend on RULE 2. She should keep partnera? He does so much it. I've been married two years The Communist publle pro- But how ideal: does the
confidences and not gomip, uet business over a 'good lunch in and have yet to meet my hus secutors have usually allempted American paragon" seem to
get along with wives of his the City that it's more like a band's managing director. And to establish a link between the us in Britain?...
working period."
4 when I do I certainly, won't be trials and purges in various
BULE 4. She must not keep mude to feel that I shall wreck Mrs Bryant: "I know about countries and have presented them as though they were one young Lloyd's insurance
RULE 1: An ideal wife should a dozens of his associates wives up a constant campaign to get his career if I spill the soup.
vote goes to Mrs Bryant. My It might give him about her husband's ; docs (one not gossip? Wo moet an inferiority, complex..
and, of course, we gossip., How him a
so-called golden rules These big conspiracy with local ramif- bróker. Chand cations, I really the various She is Mrs Caroline business and be able to as quite often for tea or to push more money coming inbut I'd from to me. They take no an
"I frequently ask when there's always seem more like cast- purgo victims soem to havd Iftuc to do with one another In Bryant, graceful 25-year-old-
red leg padat post like to 600 that produce an count of personality. 11ft comes to a pitched" fight: bes there is something in common wife of Mr. Richard Bryant, Mr Bryant: "But that takes "And, of course, wo have inferiority complex between them. It is only that whose home 1 in "Flood; F) financial genius:X do try, people in frequently in drinks. RULES, She should maintain tween a paragon and a park they have all incurred, the dis- Street, Chelsea. Helene, however, I haven't: yat got Although I try to cut down din a happy home and feeep the conality know which one. pleasure, of Moscow for various her replies:
down to "reading the financial ner parties to one swook as children from underfoot when always, wins am grid-it Len't the columns in the Pram but I do I have no cook an
`he te edoum
anug paragoHS, V
'I' naked" the wife of a
know
Intelligent questions.
prams.