THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1958.
COULD THE PRINCESS
CHANGE THIS PICTURE?
WONDER
many people
Just what
how realiso tremen-
By LADY HUGGINS
,
convinced, to prepared to give
of their knowledge if they wore given a lead
What a service to Africa our Princess could do by their encouraging the formation of these clubs, where the white women could teach the Africans
dous job Princess Margaret, wife of Sir John Hoggins, former Governor of Jamaica' that enchanting, sincere warm-hearted and
am- double, hor bassador of good will, could fatigue from do for the women of Africa?
..
face grey with and nuracy how to feed the load on her children. back. I asked an African whom I way with If he was not ashamed that their women had to work so hard.
His
answer VRS "It is
women to carry
But will she be allowed to? Is her tour too highly organised, as perhaps it was privilege for
for men." in the West Indies, not by the Princess herself, but by her staff?
Will she be able, as she would wish, to see into the real needs and into the hearts of the women who greet her in Mombasa, Mauritius, Zanzibar, in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Nairobi, wherever she may go in Africa?
I have just returned from tour through much of the territory the Princess will visit.
Will her ivisers allow her to see the real primitive Africa? For it is primitive,
GREAT LOADS
Who is the job our Princess to help themselves, encourage can do?
them in education hold classes to teach English, help to banish fear and prejudice. ..
am
She can Joad a. crusade to encourago
the white women to help their African sisters to
In a country where, I forn clubs, where they can be told, ony a year ago an 'African taught child care, hygiene, baby was stolm by 'a witch Not only are
humecraft, the cooking, many of
dress doctor and killed, the flesh sold worden bensla of burden, but making.
o shopkeeper to polish the chattels as well.
counter to bring him luck, the need for action is urgent. And what better field than through the warnen?
BABIES SOLD
up
IRL bobles are welcomed,
for when they grow they can he sold for No meny head of cattle,
I saw an African en a bicycle with a woman on the carrier al the back. He lost his balance going down a steep hill, fell off, the woman was thrown into a dilich. She hurt her leg quite badly, but he only laughed, mounted his bicycle, and rode
off without her,
Will our Princess be allowed in Be Africam babies suffering from the worst possible cases of malnutrition, not through wilful neglect, but sheer Ignorance?
I
sow
ก pathetic
the Kikuyu
kile THERE are
women in Kenya, carry. skeleton in one of the hospitals ing great loads on their in Uganda, a child three years backs, so heavy that they old, who only weighed sine and have to wear lands round their forcheads to help to take off some of the weight.
a half pounds, and had 1000+ chance of life,
In the next col was a curly haired two-year-old, with fat, arm black flesh.
A CRUSADE
Already work on these lines has been started by people of Enlightenment, erpecially areas where there are large numbers of Europeans. Bul n much greater sense of urgency is needed.
I visited quite a few women's clubs, and I hope our Princess will do so,
uf
In Nyasaland, one group 30 African women had formed their own club. They had never had a visit before from a whlie woman.
BANISH FEAR
S they sat around the rather bare room, some nursing their bables, some with babies "slung on their backs,
doing simple needlework, some
laring into space, not a word
was spoken.
They were shy and afraid.
just
After I had told them about work being done in clubs like theirs in other countries, which Was translated 05 spoke as very few could under- stand English, they relaxed, chattered, and laughed,
They are treated as boasts of burden, loaded like donkeys, with great bunches of bananas, heavy logs. buckets of waler, ften carrying babies us well.
Little girls, young, aged, and old women all trudge along the roads, or in the fields, back to life by transfusions of ything at all which will help
E had actually died of mol-
The leader, who was n school- teacher, said to me: "Please send un alt the information on
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Understanding between black and white is one of the greatest. exeds In all the African territories. Here, in women's clubs, a meeting ground, where the European can work wlth, as well as for, the African.
Let our Princess sze and talk and inspire the women of all races, even if this is not on the oMelal agenda.
She can bring new hope and understanding to Africa,
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ERE in New York responsible for the blinding the police have of Labour columnist Victor marked off a square Riesel by having a thug mile on the Lower throw acid in the news- East Side and called it "The paperman's eyes. Murder Mile." Another
kidnapping has angered and
There is another matter
frightened parents; the of four unexplained corpses Black versus White issue in in the case. the forthcoming elections looks like being paramount.
And the Suez crisis is commanding tens of thou sands of words in the news papers and on radio and TV. I drove through "The Murder Mile" yesterday.
Worse than Dillinger
Dio and six alleged ac- complices are on a technical charge at the moment of conspiring to obstruct justice by preventing Victor Riesel from appearing in court and telling what he knew about racketeers in unions,
Murder is the charge that police are seeking to plant squarely Dio's well- barbered head.
on
THERE were cops at every corner and patrol cars on every block. It was only When he was arrested he when I showed my green was nonchalant and smiling. police Press shield that I He showed the photo- was allowed to stay and graphers first his right profile then his left profile. This is the first time
When the teenagers yelled during the two decades 1 have been here that any "Hiya, Johnny," he waved special section of the city graciously like a movie idol. has been designated "The Murder Mile."
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He snarled
Riesel was blinded with acid because he
warned ini *his column that he was going 16 talk. To his credit he is still talking and naming names.
Johnny Dio is taken hand- cuffed to F.B;I.` `head- quarters in New York.
The kiirapping of six-work- old baby Cymhla Ruotolo in Victor's blinding was probably aldered to be the work of a Hamden, Connecticut,.com-
Crime reporters hero shay':
a premeditated signal from the underworld to
officials,
newspapermen, union
all witnesses, garment manufacturers, every one, to keep their mouths shut.
But it won't work."
Riesel
Since the outrage on the police, flayed by now papers, have waged a much
I am not BEHIND him one of his hereer war on the mobs. There saying that a gangster era mob, Charles comparable
been wholesale arrests Tuso, and as gồng fights gang, the to that of blubbered and whined and corpses turn up. Capone in Chicago is here, wrung his hand-cuffed but there is a danger.
hands. Once Dio turned
I introduce to you a man and snarled at Tuso.. So if
in some ways more formid- the police don't get Tuso able than Capone and more first it looks as if Johnny A dangerous than John will..
Dillinger.
Murdered
BRAHAM
Ry
the
who
free-lance.
Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady,
who kidnapped young Bobby Greenteasetam Kansas City,
collected $600,000 ransom-the hights! in history--and, then ahot, the boy,, were working as a pair and not as members of
a gang.
Why do kidnappings occur in the United Stalta?
If Only Sir Francis Could
See This!
By JENNIFER JOHNS
Washington
F only Sir Francis. Drake had been with me the other night- or with any one of -20 million Americans almost any night for that matter.
Sir Francis, we are told (yep, aven American children know the story!) wha particularly partial to a game of bowls at Umes when other people bito their
tho
· nails or start chain- smoking. Whe
Whether or not. ho would have thrashed Spanish Armada if, instead of sending the woods bumbling along
Plymouth Hot, he
had
relaxed beforehand by a round
01
pin- golf or a session at table, we are not to know.
All we do know, however, Is that the great
sallor
know A good hobby when he mnw one, and I am only surprised to dis- cover that so few Engilshmen | today follow his example,
The game of bowls In Britain is, it seems, nowadays mostly reserved for those who can take time off from drawing their old- sge pensions. Here in America we do things differently, and although Sir Francis might spin In his grave on discovering that we have changed his quiet, relaxing, game into a clattering, broathless ding-dong series of manoeuvres called siitties there is no doubt that the gentle game he knew was the proto- type of the hobby which is now second
to fishing only America's greatest sport,
ES
BORN IN WAR
During the 1953-4 bowling season (i is mostly
winter activity) more than 20 militon Americans bowled for sport or recreation-an increase of throa millon bowlers over the pre- vious year
Before a stranger has been in any American town of any size for half an hour the chances are that all his inquiries as to how to get from one place to another in a town will be centred on the bowling alley
the bowling rat left
PAYK
| right aries-the bowlingSeco
Dolving into the statistics ro garding American bowin, I dis- covered that the bowling alley was really born during World War I when manufacturers, looking round for a means to keep their workers
happy their free time without using too much space, dis
discovered the ideal answer hi bowls. Į It can be said, in fact that, bowling, as Americans know it, must be one of the few recreations that have been directly inspired and spon=
by industry and the labour unions,
Bored
IN TOP FORM
By World War II it was dis- covered that bowling not only helped to keep people happy but It was also a fine thing for their health in that there is litle chance of your becoming stald or creaking at the joints if you spend an evening or two during the week in the local bowllag alley. Either you will be fitter than you have ever been in your life or you will drop dead from over-exertion on the spot.
Today the American bowling alley has become the US Na- popular that an Ilonal
Board has
50
Conference that 93.0
of America's 204 major.
perial organisations have
their bowling teams. A further probe has revealed that more than 6,000 other firms havo teams sponsored by
by either, the flems themselves or by, the local unions.
It is not only American in- dust hawever, that has Flic
bowling b
bug.
to
the During the
the last war
TVAS
milltary
discovered that there
The F.B.I. says:
minds, too, "There would be no kidnappings. If the parents did not pay ransom.""
There has even been talk of making it illegal for parent to negotiate with kidnappers or go- betweens, or pay ransom
Telví, branded
hoodlum actually threw the acid has money
murdered and The best law that has been there have been half a passed was to permit the FBI
His name is Johnny Dio. This Dio is no tinhorn mob- already been On the police files he is stor. He's the skilled and ruth- dozen other killings on the to enter a case 24 hours after
less chlet
of a series of gangs Lower East Side during the, a kidnapping instead of walling Bated as John Dioguardi, which have been gouging and past few months, and the gangs know him as
seven days, as they werd.com exploiting the garmont ·and. Johnny Deo.
trücking unions and have Johnny Dio, who spent three pelled to do until recently. But the public call him sought to dominate them. Years in Slug-Sing early, in, his His career, is saying Hitie, Johnny Dlo and... it is i-by.
"I asked a police superinten- lawyers hope to get him out of that name that he will live dent how he rated Dlo.. Ho gaol after he has served a brief and die.
a clipping.
DIO
In gaol
handed me a
de sentence on a minor charge. -
Mayor blamed
TN the current, case of Cynthia Rubiolo, the F.B.I. leons to
(Amething about, bowling')
style anyway) thas kept a man on top of his form, both mentally and physically. Realising this, the US Armed, Forces officially classided and sponsored bowling as a "con- structive
13 REAL TALAGES
It is, however, in 7 évotsday community life that the bowling alloy has really come into its. own. This is not to say that every American household has erected, a bowling alley in its backyard. Instead, commercial bowling houses have arrived to till the hood; and now there are well over 12,000 bowling houses, with; some 65,000 alleýn, int the major clues. Nor are these just minor establishments: They arb almost always gigantio virtual bowling palaces -- the whole family joins in the
To enter one of Placid; techniquo."!
pround the
the city, but
at the
dens without earplugs is moment he is busily seeking a for trouble. Imaging It is unilkely that organised meat in the US Senate moment (40 bowling kangs have had ́anyilling to do:24 After a show, of reluctance he alleys side by side
therocmit outbreak of anciounced his availability: ar 4.
I read: "Dio Was A mobster He is still young (42), hè has in his teens, a big shot in his capital, two Cadillace, an exten- the theory that the snatch was carried. out by 稿 frustrated twenties. He's a sidlied man in sive staff, contacts throughout women, as no ransom Jus trade, a master of the the underworld, excellent been found ransom note has is the new-type gang" threat, technician with the nerves, and limitless ambition."}
Now
York's Mayor Robert
ster, well tailored, 80, acid bottle; a marvel at direct- Utriesel calls him "The master Wagner is being blamed by a funcios BRUNOG without, culture, griE MORETON BU-undoubling of trucks-an hoodlum of the strong arm and fow: for: the primo, Wave in and
spoken, handsome, and not ing the
performer pt
In fact, he is endowed shakedown, and extortion. with such charm that the Dio today, or at least yester silliest of the teenagers are day, must be elthor anying "I go for that or very sure of himself, Johnny. Dío.
gangstera hide.
At the moment Johnny, mwaka Linglest off val,
violenes @ to v, sv, nawapápermar Chicago Tribuna, was murde
ndidafo"..*fóri
babyes was kafthough.ho has
Ca moronic) taxle Now York
mined the job af was
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bowlers swingin
the miley for the the note: 22 up! belle knodiced down at he'
on the