I didn't
SECOND BAY
Now I'll tell you this, my daughter. I believe in marriage-and in divorce. So marry if you can. And stay married. If you can't-get up and go
Javo 10 tell my daughter about the facts vi Htc, She learned about them in school, in the biology cla mainly, with gome extra de talis. probably inaccurate, garnered in the playground.
But we have no eduentional system ut the
moment which fake
care of the three M'n -- Marriage. Money, Morals.
So }
will have to do my duly and my
best
I tell you this, I'!!
denr.
daughter.
We'll start with marringe To a woman marriage draportant physically, mentally, emotionally. Even RAY LF1961 IN- factory mauringe--always pro- viding you can get out of it if you wish in something attempt. ed, something gained. (This, I'm afraid, ta world with o false
values. The
of
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divorece has to many A Br Interesting sound than spinster
I believe in marriage. 1 also believe in divorce. So marry 11 you can. And slay married
But of you can't get
you can.
up and go.
you to
Now I'm
Tell To trying to step lightly insta matrimony becase if it doesn't work no hattri is done cose harm is done.
Break-ups Bit tmessy.
un- dignified things at the best 1:1 times. Separations don't always tuke place in the best of times
So be careful
This I can tell you.
That love-and-morrlage build- 141) 45 outlined in song and story, plays and poetry, seldom I uk k occurs in real life.
10 muriem one woma
because she E
-
whelmingly
love with, couldn't hve wirout. blinded by passion for, ele
that
Oh, you'll go through jund of cuper tight enough. And I'm not going 10 deny that women inatry for love Most of
Lust do.
But love. its you've been hcuring from Juster portable rudes these days.
"EST splentoured thing" Here's how
i really works (but don't fell anyone told you).
Men fall in love with women. Women fall
in love with love.
What I should tell
my child about-
MONEY
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH'' 1956.
anve, or squander with a clear conscience,
On the other hand, I imagine that, for A wotnani, money acquired by marriage is mighty sutlafying currency too.
Lastly, morals and here I'm jon stickler ground. You see I Wis brought up in 1 middle-class suburban home with middle-class suburban moral code. I've always Uved
10 that standard-you can't shake off that upbringing very cnally.
But I've moved around some since those days. I've met people from different back- grounds. with different out- looks.
MORALS ing youth my mother
MARRIAGE
Some of them, while enjoy- would deinitely say was misspent, are intelligent and attractive adult beings who have brought
into their mariages
maturer understanding of lving than 1
we able to,
by EVE PERRICK
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a
Th doubt
my own
mind 1 [LJE do rolustantly. the mit
1 promised to be so because frank, and because I want to help you as much as I can and as much as you will let me.
that mis-
atten ends up marrying
test guy who asks her.
Try it to make take. Remember, If he really cares, you can always go back and collect him later on when you've had a chance to make a few comparisons. If they make him seem odinis, I promise I'll never say "I told you w999.”
Now for money.
But I don't want you to get the impression that I am coming tho out strongly on the side of non-angels.
Perhaps what I'm struggling to say is this: Morality in this
be day and age may just inutter of degree and
t
circum-
And I'm all for money It's stance. There is such a thing as hundy slutt la have a great love. There is also such around, and I've never perso) – a thing untidy living. From ally gone for thui oleh thing what i know of you. my atroul it not buying happiness, daughter. think you hate Poverty does! buy happiness sloppiness as much as I do.
an old- It's possible you're trghioned girl at heart.
And if so, young lady, you'll be better off with
old- fashioned set of morals.
efther
1 kapa lol of rich própje (in fact, I'm about the only person I know who in't rich). have always found them - and
so have you-bath charming on
Blissfully content with their lot in life.
There are those, neither
who
need
DA
And if you live by
then
of course old fashions,
12454 like
money that I doubt if you, who; naturally you won't
from the time you were enough to travel were inevit- abiy-sick in buises but nul in take a bit of notice luxus, are the cough-hewn type.
So get yourself some
of what I say.
money if you can. A child heeding
advice is something I've always worked my new in the age-old money, and I can tell you that order of parenthoott. money you earn yourself is the
for
A woman loves the man who best surt of money to have. It's loves her, which means that she yours and yours alone—to 'spend.
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TERROR
By Autherine Lucy
a
SAT in locked ર્દી distorted mask
hatred. classroom nt the university of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and heard
n mob of white students scream for my life.
"Kill her!" they yelled. rattling the doors. "Get her out and kill her!"
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Why? Because my skin is block. I
Negro.
The youngest of a family of five boys and four girls.
As I grew up I saw so many things hoarded from me because of my colour. I felt it was un- Just. felt I should at least have a part of the good things in life.
our
graduated
segregated
high
one ol schools
in shorthand and typing and I Kot a job as a secretary. But I felt that wasn't enough.
So with the little money I had earned I entered Miles College, in Birmingham.
Only, after graduating in 1952 further did I decide to go even with my education. And for
cf
animal
At the door of the classroom
get out and went to climb the step. A young man barred my "Excuse me, please," I said.
way.
I felt a sharp pain in my left elbow and saw an egg shatter- caught ed on my cost. Hands at me. Then I was helped up the steps and Inio the class- room.
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THE NEGRO GIRL} STUDENT WHOSE ORDEAL HAS STIRRED THE WORLD TELLS HER OWN STORY
ing
to be and that of other Negroes who earned the right to enter universities in America's Southern States. I know what I believe and I think God knows, too. I think God is in the plan. Uniess He was I couldn't have gone through with the last few days. I. seems that I get all and courage Inspiration my directly from Him.
I also feel that Jols of people -white and coloured are ex- pecting me to go on. If it were not for some embedded tradi-
RUNAWAY
COUPLESA HAPPILY MARRIED
By W. T. FOSTER
London,
1
of
IR Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister, is being pressed to end the "scandal” of teeninge marriages at Gretna vilingo just north English territory, beyond English jurisdiction and
to subject
Scotish law, which, unlike the law of England, permits the marriage of minors' with- out consent of parents or guardians,
Roférence is being made to a trafle in chloron defying their parculs and the laws of their their Ja country (England)
to
matrimonial Tesponsibilities. There is a sug- gestion that legislation be in- troduced to end a practice "to which
the Scottish chatrohes themselves are opposed."
time
onc
out
I have spent some
in from trekking
toenago home to another to check up on one ali-Important fact--just how do these Scottish marriages of English teenagers work after a year or two.
And though 21 handful of couples
aclected ot random may
# give
complete answer, I can say that I have found nothing but happiness.
HITCH-HIKED
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Take 16-year-old Maureen Hohl, of Tunbridge Wells, in tha south of England. Just over a year ago she was married in the space of three minutes at Gretna in Scotland, with a taxi waiting outside.
The bride wore a pair of her old Army socks to husbands keep warm, and later, after re crossing the border in the taxi, the happy couple hitch-hiked a lift farther south in a food van,
Edward, her husband, Maureen spent their first night as man and wife sitting up with the driver of the van.
and
I knew cheer agonising tions in a few others maybe I Edward and Maureen had run terror for the first time in my wouldn't have to risk my life
away to Gretna because life.
to prove that it's worth going Maureen's mother wanted her to cn for.
wait Iwo inore ycars, and I had my case in court for Maureen's father wanted Edward three years and fought two ap-
have at least £100 in the penis before the University was bank before he married. Today finally instructed to admli me.
they
Ile stepped back grudgingly. I walked in, not looking back
But they didn't get to mc. About three minutes passed. Somebody shut and bolted the Mr Heys. the assistant pro- door and I sat down trembling fessor of geography, came in viden.ly, trying to pull myself looking a little pale, I thought. together.
As he closed the door I heard the firs. horrible yells from the mob outside. The words indistinguishable, but the sense was plain.
I was alone
SUDDENLY realised
ime that viclence was
were
That was when I heard the rat.Eng chant: "Kl her; got bert Kill her, get her!”
on
The class was trying to go Students were as usual doing their best not to look at me. Nobody spoke much nor made much roise. Everybody scemed to be waiting for somo- this thing to happen.
In
the air. I began to feel uneasy.
The
lesson was on the book Not yet really scared: But what needs of little children. I pold
in the world was going on? A very 1tle attention. All I re-
girl seated
that the teacher, member is near me white looked
and I up and smiled
Mrs Lyda, was calm and nice. wanted to ask her, or tolk 10 somebody.
But 1 was alone. For the time. I realised how very
the past three years I have been fest struggling to be allowed inside much alone I was.
this white place of learning that I may become a librarian.
Struggling
50
'Got to go!'
I
I was first
was determined to get sa good an education as I could, to become a librarian and give my service to the State.
folks,
My parents are poor and everywhere I locked when I was a kid I saw people, poor
block people,
and brown- skened people beaten by life.
Finally I started my studies at Tuscaloosa,
Heaven known I didn't want tor cause any violence or quar- rels. But somebody had to go to Tustalocsa frst, and it was me.
knew
to
are living in a two-roomed fat which costs, then 30, shill- ings a week.
Maureen keeps her accounta in an old exercise book in which she once did her sums at school. every single be budgets for item a week in advance, and saves the balance towards plans for the future.
Who will say that a girl like Maureen is irresponsible?
and Are Maurčen
Edward happy? "It's the one question you don't have to ask. It is obviously "Yes,"
TOUGHEST TEST
Then there is 18-year-old John Bartlett, who had known 10- year-old Jill Hughes only three months before he carried her off
Gretna,
to
can
When I was admitted to the University I was grateful,
And FTERWARDS Mrs
anyone thinks it is fun Healey I never expected all that
DT that marrying at Gretna, She led the trouble. I camo for me.
there'd be
the teenagera are tempted by Dean of women Mrs Healey way into a small sideroom and tame prejudice but I've lived
rumantle lure of the place, J came in and walked quickly pulled down the blind. "We'll be with that all my life,
puts the record straight. over to me just as class was safe here," she said, The
I tried not to think about
"Listen," she said, "Gretna is class finishing. "We'd better get you Faculty are trying now to decide those hateful stares in
the toughest test any love out the back way," she sold the best way to get you out of that, fast day. I told myself it have. A couple that can mope kindly. "Tension cut there 1s
here."
was the education which mat- around
up there around that for safety." A Mr
tered, that an understanding village loo great
for three long weeks Bennett was with her.
My senior professor, Mr between the races in the South without falling out must be Roberts, joined us We sat and would come gradually. followed them through
made for each other." а wailed listening to the sounds I felt. slone and unhappy worse than I had ever dreamed door I'd never used
A 21 days residential quall- The outside.. I have no idea how but I know this was the price possible.
under students must have guered long we sat but it was a long of an education and of giving Scottish low before a marriage
acation
necessary our Intentions. They were walt- time.
my people a chance of better-can take place. demonstrationa
Y struggle has taught me to expect nothing casy.
M&
But that Monday (February 6) was
They stoned me and cursed me. They burned mo in effigy. But they did not discourage me. ing for us outside.
slient At the very back of a
As we emerged they class fought terror. I prayed. throwing. Dodging <gg# and
ran towards "Oh, Lord," I prayed, "don't let ones we
Mrs me be lynched What good can Healey's parked car. We jumped that, possibly do? Oh, Lord, ih, slamming the doors. A lump
ever. of dirt and rock hit the wind- help me,"
screen, cracking it,
I
ment.
Tho Brot
Occasionally I'd
Д hear
Jill has never seen her father- started shout,
"Where's that nigger?"
in-law, a Maltese. But I can Aucherine's got to get My didn't unnerve me really. Down give him nows of how this wed-
here TUCE propudico fleth was creeping with grase-
theding has worked out, I can tell nesh and I felt cold as lee all Negro's cross and you take up
and walk. But when who is cutting her teeth. that cross
he has a granddaughter the crowd began shouting out- Around ong o'clock Mrs side the classroom window my Healey thought the worst heart sank
A fow moments before I had been driving cheerfully through the sofi Alabama morning from was suddenly very atrald. over My heart had begun hammer- my home in Birmingham, 50 miles from the university. ing and I was shivering "How
A kind friend, Mr Guinn, had can I carry on like this?" brought me once of a special
committed organised to provide
my
transportation.
The test
wondered. Then I remem- bered. If something violent or To me then terrible happened some other member of my race take my would be ready to.
Since the university's Board of Governoro had accepted my enrolment as a student, but re- meal fused me dormitory and facilities, there, was no other way
I could get to classes. So we arrived at ten to nine to find the campus 'curiously place. quiei. As Mr Guinn drove me
him
And that the son he thought too young to wed gets up at five
ax o'clock.
was over. We slipped out of the Or course there were tele-overy morning to feed the baby shouting and is on his way to work by door Emi towards the spot phone calls and men where the polles had parked a threats after mo in the street. There was also 17-year-old patrol car.
Fiery crosses--the sign of the Ku Klux Klan-werd burned mistake. into the campus lawn.
It
another was "There she is!"
I heard the scream again and saw the distorted faces, hatred and violence mixed in them, approaching me.
No bitterness ·
HAVE read since of vicious
Margaret Blackwell of Bayford Road, in Littlehampton, on the south coast of England,
Margaet had wom 22-year-
Bil Bushby's
sapphire engagement ring for a year, had benn courted for two years. The
old-
date was axed, the wedding facca thrust at the car window dress on its hanger, the guests and of some people in the mob invited Then came, the bomb-
her! Lynch her!"
À rock just missed my head, I threw myself, gasping, across of thousands screaming: "Burn shell Margaret's mother told the rear seat of the car and This wasn't just my struggle. turled my head in my Arms. The car jumped as one of the was thinking: "It's going to be It belonged to my people.
A few years ago I attended patrolmen let in the clutch. Wo all right."
meeting of tho National wero away.
for the Association
Advanco-
over to the school bookstrop I
A
Af.or three or four days of tenseness and s'rain” I had spent most of Sunday at church, and meht of Coloured People in St Louis. What I Heard that at home praying that overy-
convinced me ot my thing would now settle down. might
my race
But my prayers had not been part to play in the progress of
Thore in the car I told my-
"This is the test.
answered.
Mäsk of hatred
·
Suspended
her, she was too young, that it But I saw nothing of that. I was all a mistake. Margaret mut belleve there's goodness pleaded in vain. in people, so I crouched down in the car and didn't look. 1 Just heard the shouts and the windows breaking.
My parents are protly scared, They would rather I gave up. But they are leaving it to my discretion.
RIGHT TO LIVE Sho ruised enough for a one- way ticket to Gretna by selling her wedding dress for 25.
And today? BUI has a better job on a building site. Margaret and Bill are well content. The Bushby's have paid for overy- thing they own.
"We must be the happiest couple In Littlehampion," Margaret.
The University will have to mob can't rule. Otherwise there let me back, to show that the will be no hope at all for the 8,000,000 negroes in the South,
Thats why I can't let them One couple after another
they all dold me the same happy have no bitterness-honestly story. And whether mmeway haven't
I hope that God marriages are morally right or
scare me.
8 we drove from the howl. Aing mob I felt relief food With through me. Very soon I know God help you can stand up to I'd be back home cafe with my
own people, "I didn't know if I could or The day of terror was over, the But I knew, too, that As we drove slowly back to rot. But 1. decided to try,
We drove around the campus night was only just beginning. the main buildings wo found ourrelves bassing between two trying to dodge the shouting Mra Healey Anally lines of sullen-faced students, crowd,
received a telegram from I They were mostly boys, but pulled up outside the library the Board of Trustees. It stated: before I dia will make those wrong, there is one all-important some girls were among them, buildings where my next class "For your safety and for the people understand we are not factor to consider. These young
they coups are fighting to shatents and Intruding into their lives
'se I saw some sort of demonstra was to be. I got out. Nobody safety of the
faculty members of the univer- don't want us.
married. They are dighting for nelly, you are hereby suspended All I want is just two simple the right 15 lve fogether and
from clases until further notice things an education, and be and their own
1kon going on to our right.. seemed near.
At first I had no kien it whal Buddenly from behind connected with myself. Then a group of yalling, running boys boy shouted something and bore down on the car, pointed at me. His face fold me *There she is,” the one in what was in his mind. It was front shouted,
of the Board of Trusiour.”
right to be an ordinary Ameri- and wife, own happiness as man This began the legal struggle, cangirl, serving her countryThey could be doing much. To:aw what my position la „to the best of ber stiklyj