THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1956.
AUSTRIAN CHILDREN'S VILLAGE THESE
BOUT 150 orphans are living in their own village of gay-painted Tyrolean chalola in Imst, Austria-and they owe it all to the idea of one man,
He is Hermann Gmeiner, a 35-year-old Austrian who fought in Russia £19 ELS1 officer in the German Army.
When he came home he was horrified by the plight of the children made parentless by wur. He decided to start a home for them. home with a difference.
Every child should have a mother and brothers and sisters, he decided, They should have a colony of little houses of
their own.
Now, in the children's village above Imst there aru 15 chalets. In each chalet is a foster mother and nine children. The foster mothers are paid 17 a month and recrived 13 a month housekeeping m<ITIV*) for each member of their "family." The children are of all ages, so they have the impression of growing up in a real family.
The foster mothers feed the children their own way. The children regard the chalets as home.
Austria is swept with enthusiasm for It is calculated Herr Gmeiner's scheme. now that one family in three contributes 3d, every month to the upkeep of the children. Already there are three Gmeiner village if Alie and a fourth is being built.
T
NEWSPAPERS
INJURE BRITAIN
London. H
is impossible for those of us who live
in Great Britain to travel abroad without
By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P. aftale he
an increased affection for othera
civilisation. As Bret British Minister for League of Nations captured the Im- ogination of the world in ди cra of the scorched spirit.
State As Secretary of
for to overtake. but visit Americn our homeland. And although disaster took its toll
to confer Foreign Affairs, he laboured to
I am
■ Canadian by birth the lead was lost,
and with President Elsenhower, the point of collapse. His whole
fe, from his service Let me make it perfectly trenches to la my homeland is here
struggle on But now the new British clear that the World peace in the years that follow- of Viscount is recovering lost Telegram made no attempted, has created a memorial In
his lifetimo that not even the ground. I heard its praises to distort the news. It
tabloids can destroy. our everywhere, and its strange, merely dramatisad and
bosun-like whistle visualised
Inevitably he the widespread with cerle
the Prime Minister.
this sceptred Isle England.
Perhaps because affection deepens
truo that
We
Require
New York looked like a
in the for
come under
foreign travel, it is also was sweet music to my ears, campaign launched against Criticism when he formed
Government, and e criticism was renewed when he made a sharpened sensitiveness gleaming jewelled Babylon No one but a fool or n his ministerial reshuffle.
there were too many about our country's position as we circled over her. Nor despot would deny the right course
Elonians in the world.
In his Drst Ministry, of the Press to criticise not and probably there are still too was this feeling dispelled I am writing these words on the taxi drive from the only the Prime Minlater but many. As a minister whs re- a few hours after return nerodrome
Parliament itself. But when belled against his leader, Neville when We Anw ing from a semi-sentimental two mangled motor cars by we scream to the world that given office to some of the Con- Chamberlain, he should have journey to Toronto, Mont- the roadside.
our newly elected Prime servative rebels of today. real and New York, plus a
Minister is a weakling and
But my purpose sunshine siesta in Jamaica
in this ar a ditherer, then when Eden
Licio is neither to praise nOT and Nassau. Already the
went to the United States bury the Primo Minister. at the end of January to simply want to put on record of deep winter in
meet the President, he had that the nature and presenta- snowbound Canada and the sharp glitter of New York
to carry the weight of dis- tion of the newspaper attacks are beginning to fade like a
paragement and ridicule on Sir Anthony Eden have done
deep injury to Britain herself. Alm that has come to
henpert on him by a section of his own press. end.
scenes
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"That sure
was a swell smash," said the taxi-driver. "One guy was killed, and still looking the police are for the other body. Yes sir
It was a swell smash."
Twenty minutes later we swerved into 76th Street and were welcomed most warmly by an old friend who had asked me to stay We cannot expect either with him. Yet we had hard- the Americans
score
ABOVE PARTIES
BRAVE HEART
I travelled many thousands of miles by air, sen and rail on Queen Frederika of Greece has asked
this winter's visit to the New World Herr Gmeiner to help her to start such a
SWEET MUSIC
and I was immensely impressed by the vigour and village in her country. France and
optimism, not only of the Yugoslavia, too, are to have their own But I can still recall the ly sipped the wine of Scot- dians to have
or Cana Americans but the Canadiars. children's villages, and Herr Gmeiner has pride with which I went on and in other words a knowledge of the play and
an intimate No wonder the people of
the been approached to see if he will help form | bourd
are saying that the a turbojet-propelled whisky and soda-when our interplay of British politics, American Age.
is moving into the one in Britain.
four-engined British VIA-
And equally it Says Herr Gmeiner, who had to borrow count to make a night flight host asked: "Is Sir Anthony To them Churchill was 13 no wonder that Canadians £700 from his father to start the scheme: to Now York.
Eden finished?" Unhappily
god above parties, and who change that pronuncement by "Such a scheme is possible in every Britain paid the price of
ever followed him as Prime aftering the wording to "The In one form or another Minister would have had to North American Age," country if people only eared a little. Who the pioneer in the develop had previously been asked could send to a prison of an orphanagement of the jet plane. She the same question a
pay the price of comparison. when they could have a life like this 7** led the world with a start of times in Canada. It had figures who are well known The only British political Picture shows: Herr Gmeiner with that would have been al- taken precedence over the in the States
the sixty-four thousand dollar
are Edon, Butler and Bevan annihilated distance yet in
is true that air travel has question on television. To
to which might be added wanderings in Canada and put it bluntly, the British
somewhat shadowy aware. States over the years I never Premier was having a bad ness of Hugh Galtskell. The felt Britain to be so distant a press in North America. rest of the front bench on United
this time. It Was as if the
Kingdom both sides of the House are shrouded by
was an impenetrable mere figures in a painting fog. of Parliament. And now a After all, what was the news section of the British Press that eine to North America has seen fit to proclaim to and the outside world fromIL the world that Britain's Britain during the last year? Prime Minister is a fumbl- Strikes, moro strikes, and stilİ
strikes. It is
Small wonder that our kinsmen, our friends,
critics
and our that the great
some of the youngsters of Imst,
most impossible for
THE SUPER-MARKET LIES BEHIND DAMAGE DONE
THE POUJADE STORY
Paris
JEAN DAMASIO, By STEPHEN COULTER
Admittedly, that need be of no direct concern to the | Eden Administration, but it is of considerable im portance to the British given her custom to a multi. nation. It is important to ing ditherer. counter self-service store record that there was al- comment
M. Until intely a shops and workshops will cert of all these small town where prices are up to 50 most no editorial comm
On
the least
or
and Canada
Borrow
I
Ar
Our
There is
in enemics felt America but there is joy in
days Russia. The word has gone over. But
my the
of Great Britain were
they should re
will be dealing with a cenlus for appearing at their worst ai inconvenient momenta. weakling, но play your
Perhaps it is the lack of sun- card cleverly."
shine that causes these symptoms to appear usually in the winter.
grocer in the Puy de Dome, over France. Most of them and country shopkeepers is man used the small-trader's American newspapers upon out to our detractors: "You amember that the British have a is in many ways a typical are "family" business, run to keep profits up which usual rallying cry-supplied the British Press
attacks Frenchman. He is an ne by married couples with means keeping prices up. by Poujade that such self-on the Prime Minister. And tive citizen.
when one or two young and possibly their children and
service stores "sell
British poor vigorous, and, in the eyes an odd employee or two to
pretext, quality goods and don't pay newspapers rallied to the butter is 3d. more, cooking the crippling taxes we do"; defence of Eden, the Press of many of his countrymen, lend a hand.
oil 2d. more and so on. The
in America gave it u good he represents 21 common-
Government does fix maxi- sense way of thinking and In the Inst century,
display.
We miss the mighty voice of but, France has become far mum price-scales
in a sound forthrightness.
But to realise the damage short and political gratitude manded the glory of the English Churchill, who not only com- ** nation
the tradera of shop practice,
fix
more
which is absurd.
For, in effect, what Poujade and his small trader legions
are
Fighting Change
was
A MEMORIAL
Political memories
with
Aro
that Yet Eden brings to his task o
of the world
of
01
M. Damasio admits with keepers" than Britain
iR. their own profits. So much "revolting" about is their that has been done, let me is even shorter. No one now language but added lustre to it. out hesitation that he has To run a shop has become so that
you can buy, say, right to go on charging un-point to the display with bothers to remember tax demands of £1,000. He the great fall-back, if not the same packet of a well economic, uncompetitive which the important New Eden had to face a plague banyo heart, a good mind and a
York World-Telegram dealt of strikes as 800 as has, he says quite us readily, the dream, of a huge mass known brand detergent at prices because they either with the news. Not only did assumed the
he deep knowledge as it is today. Premiership. not the slightest intention of people all longing for three different prices in the can't or won't cut them. By it give its own news treat When the rest of us were I would fight to the death in of paying them.
a twenty-minute refusing to pay taxes they ment, but it reproduced in It might personal "independence." radius of
on holiday he and and Sir demanding the right of the be thought that such
can stay in business so photographic form the dis- Walter Monckton laboured Peat to say an Scarcely a tiny hamlet is walk.
what it thinks. would land attitude
M. without its duplication of
they refuse to pay taxes.
play headlines of some of like Hercules.
But equally I would fight for Damasio before the courts, butchers, bakers, cafes, etc.. Naturally, it woukl not
the London newspapers.
the right of the people to at- On the contrary, he has just all struggling to make ends do for cheaper priced
Then there
lack the Press when it injures WAR Cyprus, been elected to the National meet, existing miserably be. foreign goods to spoil the
The Daily Mirror was which was a political inherit
the reputation and standing of Assembly as deputy for a Cause
Eden had to take Great Britain in the eyes given pride of place with its ance that the butcher's staple market. In fact, the French
over,. If he had turned
the outside world. the Paris district, He is one of customers are the baker, the Government takes care that But there are deeper things huge "Eden is a Flop." The machine-gums on the Cypriols the "new force" of 52 de- greengrocer, the cafe keep such high duties and taxes in the Poujaddst frame of mind. Daily Sketch
close he would have been denounced Eden have done. The news
That is what the attacks pulics who are followers of er and the baker's are the are put on all foreign goods I is not only that of small second with the spread as butcher, but because he Pierre Poujade, the anti- butcher,
have spread firm- papery of Britain the
It is eagled headings "Eden Re combined patience that the shopkeepers have shopkeepers and artirans. greengrocer
despondency to our friends and tax Napoleon, all of whom and so on.
no worry on this score. But the frame of mind of countless fuses to Call MP's." "Galt ness he is a ditherer.
encouragement to our enemies. owe their elevation to the
it is a disaster to the small other Frenchmen-vine growers, skell Angry." *The
For one rearon Row
GT another self-employed Grows."
Rusda has adopted a moro civil But Eden and Britain will traders when some of their agriculturalists.
road haulers, wholesalers,
tone towards the West, even it survive. I predlet that "Eden own countrymen, looking middle-men, manufacturers, all posed on the photographic of joint with her words.
Other headlines superim- her actions sometimes out will come back refreshed in round and applying modern of whom, sheltered by the high block varied from "ditherer" im to do-atom bomb Moscow? gets,
But heart and mind, and that his what do Eden's critics want critics will turn to other tar- In the towns, the proli- technique, start to undercut air walls, fight change with Mass Dream
them by things like self- tooth and nail. The relentless to "timidity." The New feration of these small
Only York World-Telegram then
fool would shops is even worse. In one service stores with few over- economie and political pressures
accuse If the wish is father to the Just over two and a half average street you see two heads, multiple department of modern life that have forced reminded its readers that Eden of cowardice, and only a thought, I am not ashamed.
the diaries, three cafes, a sweet shops where prices are low vast social changes all over the Sir Anthony would shortly fool would deny his tre million people voted Poujado ticket. Shrewd shop and a baker's (also sell because buying is in bulk, world, mean nothing to them. quick snack counters, big- Frenchmen want pathetically officials in France bellevo ing sweets), two chemists, a
fresh restaurant with a that, if there were
drinks scale haulage firms, shops (and who is to blame thera?) elections today, those two counter. And the point is with efficient central book to go on living ng before-not and marketing merely the small shopkeepers, and a half million might that all these small traders keeping well snowball into four not only expect to get
a staffs. million or more. So that living. They regard it Poujadism, the brand of their inalienable right to get "common-sense" which M. a living, and a pretty com- Damasio symbolises, de. fortable one at that. serves a closer look.
status of representatives of
the French nation to similar Sleeping Partners
attitudes.
No Room
If Poujadism has not Ten of thousands of shop- arisen before. now it is be
artisans, one-man business, "family" workshops, but many, many others.
the
The willingness to accept the changes that must be made it France is not to sink to the status of another Portugal in world affairs
is probably It is a hard thing to say, keepers go even further. cause such modern techni-
willingness of a minority,
That but it does seem that what They are not running the ques have taken a long time why, if it im't the Poujadists as to catch on in France. But who are raising Cain, or vina is often termed the Pouja- shop as owners, but
are barricading. dist "revolt" is really the managing tenants. They now they are in vogue and growers who Frenchman's thorough-going have assumed the physical the "revolt" of millions of the public highways, it will be somebody else shouting· ·"Me application of the rule he handling of the busincas on small French traders is the fret! Until a realty, big man. uses when he drives a car, agreement with the real result. Poujade storms he comes along and leads the The rule is--Mo first. In owner that he shall be cause he couldn't make a
country.
other words: "Let me do merely a sleeping partner living out of his book-sellers Do Guile thought he was the
what I like and to the de- whom they will pay a cer shop in a poor region. The man-and failed so bitterly that vil with the highway code percentage of the shop's answer is that taxes did not he doesn' now think it worth and the rest of the traffle" income. In other words, kill it. Thore was no room while fulling the citizen's talu fixed monthly sum or these traders must ninke for the shop anyway,
the shop pay not only their.
Buprano dut the duc lo
vote. But the French - haye always, produced their, "grantast
"The "great" recruiting living, but the owner a liv. The other day my wife loaders out of dire, trouble. No centres of the Fouladistsing as well. In these alge was a reproached 4 by our doubt they will againą ate the millions of small cumstances, the main con- former daydan for havin
mendous services for Western
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