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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1957.
George Magoffin Humphrey
By
if
WASHINGTON politician once said that, if you
A dropped George Humphrey
Sahora he'd organise a corporation and be paying dividends before the rescue party got anywhere near him.
He was probably right, Humphrey can make anything pay-a um mine, a steel mill, à raycu plant, a biak, a sugar Importing outfit. You name it. Humphrey has made them all pay.
LES ARMOUR
meat.
But eventually it must
read to trouble.
values they are Intelligent plans
If businessmen and they can't safely bet cu gable currency unble to make for the future. This, naturally, makes them de- cline to take many kinds of. riska. If businessmen become the economy elows cautious down and employment fails with it.
That is why he mid, in a that sent the stocks
A sandy-haired man, built like #bulldozer, with a brak like an electrcale calculator, be just finds it hard to understand that if people come awful crop- speech By profession he is a lawyer, pes it isn't always their faull, market spinning downwards and Alter he graduated from
He and his empire survived started a politlent fire across the University of Michigne
prospered while others nation: "Keep on spending that school, he went to work for the collapsed cnd went broke and way and you will have a depres- family law Brm In Saginaw. went under in the thirties. He sien that will curl your hair".
the
Just cald
Saginaw, however, suon proved far too dull and he packed his one day and headed for baga Cleveland where he became Junior counsel the M. A.
sprawling Harda Compatiy, a organisation
principal whose katerest was kn iron ore.
Three years later he was a director of the firm. Then came
the 1929 erash on the empeny was losing a cool tvo million à year.
His job was to get it out of the hole.
He went out to the ore mines to have a look. Forturately he hud studied engineering for a time before he gave it up for the law in order to get rich
tough to many his boyhood sweetheart.
down mines
He embarked at a rapid pro- gramme of amputation. Worn were linked, the company's commntiments were cut drastically Daylight begins to peep through.
Then he started to expand. Steel, oil, nuyers, plasties end banks all cattributed to an empire so embracing that only the total collapse of the economy could shake it seriously,
lie was, soca the boss in every sense of the word.
never
reasoned that they, too, could have prospered if they'd really writed to,
and
Fortunately for himself the nation, however, he isn't stupid and his rend could not be closed even by his success. Time and modern cecucenics have ught him and his kind much, He still finds failure hard to understand, But be haa leng since realised that failure can- out just left to itself,
Idle, unhappy men are bad for burless. And Humphrey, is not in favour of anything that's bail for business.
He has therefore, come, 1 reluctantly, round to the view that it is the function of business and of government to take the retic that's the sting out of capitalism.
xessary to take
Ho favours trade unions, workable anti-trust laws, and welfare programmes.
Cash
Inflation
Additionally, he has been a constant critic of the various foreign aid programmes of the
At the
administration.
very
beginning of his term of offles he announced that he belloved in "trade not aid".
He wanted the laws relating to atormational commerce slm- plified red tarifs slashed.
Cogress has proved tough aver that one rad the result is that bid progranimes have be- come more, not less, important Humphrey belleves hat this is bad.
Foreign countries, he be- Heves, do not want handouts unless they are forced to accept them. They would much rather pay their own way in the world and keep their dignity.
So long as the U.S. govern- cet accepts aid as a kind of substitute for trade, there will be resentment abroad cecnomie trouble at home.
and
He is also not much in favour of morsive propaganda cam- When President Eisenhower xigns. Much better, he thinks, Washingten to let foreigners find out about summer him to to take over the Treasury in America for themselves. That 1953, he promptly declared war way they will, at least, believe on bursterey
the facts when they find them. The budget and taxes were This does not mean that he is
the hooks
Some balanced, and against all forms of nk. red tape slashed.
OF countries really need it. Up Tu
against all forms of propaganda. Every country must make its case known ond known strongly at crucial times.
Success to him was and is a religion. So much so that, nice, when a reporter asked him what he thought of Hemmingway's went along with him. novel "The Old Man and the Sea", he replied "Why should somebody be interested in an old man who was a failure and amounted to anything anyway?"
Hard He is vardas nails and failure dhet' interest him In the least. He was a close friend and long time
the late champion of Senator Robert Taft-the apostle of arch conservatism and isola- tianism
a point, the President
But a sp between them has been growing slowly for three years until now it has erupted to what looks like open war. When the President, over his
Ile just thinks the whole thing has gone hog wild,
Elsenhower ds-
President
co-
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The picture
they didn't
want me
to take ➡
SILENCE
"I DARE YOU."
THE HEADMAN OF THE HOVELS GRABBED MY CAMERA... AND I 'SNATCHED IT BACK
UT you can't go to Sukumi. It will take all of your time to see Sochi!" Ulah gasped. Ulah, a tense-mouthed and determined little woman, had met Nina, my compulsory, but pleasant, interpreter, and me at Sochi airport. We were driving through the deep green honeysuckle foothills of the Caucasus and the road twisted round the while statues (heroically still keeping up their average of two a mile) as though it were trying to avoid them.
said.
objections, sent to Congress a agrees. The President, a realist, budget calling for the spending has come to the conclusion that of 13 billion dollars, he rebelled. Congress is not going to
Basically, his proposition is operate very fully on tarifta this Government spending at ever
"It's marked on the map as and that aid and propa- being on a first-class rond." I this level, since it almost in- gandu campaigns are aà im- evitably
For the second time the means the release of portant as ever. He also con- purchasing
into the celves the functions of federal mistake of giving me economy ut
faster rate than government more widely then had been made, goods are produced, is inflation- Humphrey does and, though he If other people got themselves ry. Fer a time, inflation is a doesn't say it in public, ap much," countered Ulatı,
"It's too far. It will cost too into jams, Humphrey wasn't in- stimulus to the eccuomy since it parently has less respect for the terested. They should have encourages greater production often eccentric state gover- known better.
which in turn Increases employ meals,
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SUMMER SEASON
в тор
1 TRAVEL TOURIST TO RUSSIA
by ANNE SHARPLEY
these huts were "new" buildings, too, and that it was only honest to take all aspects of Soviet life. As he threatened to take camera away again recated.
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Why did I want to take these shots? Because from the few hours low-flying we had been compelled to do the day before because of bad weather I knew theso. huts were more typical of Russian housing than the few blocks of flats they were always showing me.
of.
But it was really the memory
Russian propaganda
Cyprus
1h
last year that was urging me on. I had spent one sunny afternoon in Nicosia
looking through coloured magazines about the wonders of life in the Soviet Union.
"One of these day I'll see for myself" I thought.
Sad victory
Now I had seen for myself, There was no vie in Cyprus living in conditions ne poor as these. And goodness only knows what my poor wretched in- accessible Tuba is like or Siberia of those straw-roofed collective farm cabins that Y cstimated to be at least 20 miles over from a road as we flew
What the manager did not them. know was that there was about
Stayed behind
3
I felt compassion and shame should take theso But I wanted to get people's ideas about
sliam
for
a quarter of a mile where the that 1 Eyewash boys hadn't caught pictures. up with the road-makers, And a cw there was plenty to photograph Russia straight, Including my before they started slapping on own. Looking at Nina's goaded the paint and putting up their miserable face and with Ulah concealing fences.
having to stop the car to be sick, it was a rather sad victory. "It only you weren't...00 darned sensitive about theSO be Why can't you things, slid down a bank to I
admit such con- wratched group of huts. Nina honest and
ditions exist?" I said to them. and yiel stayed miserably
But just as Potemkin had behind in the car. In the mud
villages patches round the huis men and erected women were sawing up wood to Catherine the Great to pas, E "That's all right.
x the broken walls.
I was to see sham houses in business allowance" I told her. This business allowance was a Soviet Luxury. This meant that
Odessa. I had already observed crafty advantage available
had (1) chandeliers, (2)
The headman of the hovels innumerable times the old decay ity Journalist over and shiny blue plush curtains, (3)
and grabbed my behind the brave new fronts of above the 25 roubles day ruched white blinds with silk
the camera which I snatched back. Russian cities but I could get allowed to me as tourist, It fringe, (4) cut-glass on
to admit to these the table, (5) duck-cgg blue walls, Calling for the unhappy Ulah no Russian make ali Was
Nina on explanation
Was things. going to difference
columns or Corinthian breaking (6)
made that I was a tourist. The (CL
It is not just Communismis through the Eyewash Barrier as pilasters, (7) delicious
headman replied that I was to that has made them accretive.. mast tourists cannot afford to cream.
and pholograph the Eynwash. I began to realise, wonderful new buildings of is deep in the Russian soul.
pointed out
London Express Service. TOMORROW-AMONG THE BIKINIS AT SOCHI
PROMENADE CONCERT
AT
THE
HONGKONG CONCERT ORCHESTRA
CONDUCTOR: VICTOR ARDY
TICKETS: HONGKONG.
Book Early
LEADER: FRED CARPIO
SUNDAY 16 JUNE 9p.m.
MOUTRIES, TSANG FOOK."
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me
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KOWLOON. RADIO PEOPLE, MOUTRIES. Doors Open 8p.m.
Come Early
when
to it
appeared
ond
go off the well-beaten, well- Everywhere weat-hotel go away whitewashed Intourist track,
air-port or public building-he seven canons were there-part- Sochi, Ulah argued about my decl- sion to go to Sukumi all the cularly the ghastly plush with often a painted celling in way Into Sochl. We pulled up addition. The pluch must have at the large new hotel built in been made by the billion yard. the international seaside style even saw children dressed in of 50 years ago-Sochi's only it; and once I saw it decking hotel. Ulah skipped indoors and out the cab of a lorry, with the reappeared actually smiling.
"It's all right. You can go to addition of a bobbie fringe.
Sukumi, There's an Intourist Sunny woods
offee there."
"In that case I don't want to
An excellent band was play-
Chattanooga
Choo-choo go." I sald, and repeated for the ing
they had fenth time: "I want to get away which Nina told me from Intourist. I want to see had for just a year, Dancing as to the ug usual what Russia is like without all irrelevantly
music
two were
three or the new paint,"
embarrassed couples,
Pleking up the map I pointed to a spot at random on A clearly-marked road.
Next morning the manager seemed suspiciously
cheerful. "Let's go there. How do you pronounce "Of course you can go to Tuba,”
he said.
that
£100
THAT'S A REAL DOWN AND OUT DOLLAR HOLIDAY
THE charge of the £100 brigade will not make much impact on America, but will make plenty of impact on the brigade's pocket books,
In dollars, £100 is 280. As there is rampant inflation in America and the cost of living goes higher and higher each week, the £100 will probably have melted to about £95 before the British visitor gets off the ship or bout.
The Unlied Nations estimate
DON IDDON
tells the British tourists what two and a half times the he can expect in the U.S. for
"Tuba," said Nina, unhappily. it was a lovely drive through that the American cost of living The Intourist manager the sunny wooch and the bird is three times higher than Brl- oppeared, smpli jittery man, songs (ew, but familiar. The tin. I think that is overdoing The argument begun all over road was a fine job by the Eye-it, and I put the American cost
wash boys for the first hour's at journey. A healing bandage of
A routine New York hotel his £100 dollar, allowance. paint had been applied to the
cat anywhere between cobing that were now beginning will
numerously 358, and £2 10. a night with-
The top clubs, like the Stork,
ogain.
A concession
British
"I am going to Tuba," I pro- to appear more nounced firmly, And a silter among the newer houses (few out breakfast, and if you want the Copacabana, the Latin Quat- statement I never made.
of these would fulfi English to slay at the Waldorf, the Ster, and, way in the stratosphere,
Regis, the Flerre, the Gotham, The El Morocco, will have To cut short his argument I baste standards),
the Sherry Netherland, or Plaza, tourist broke before he's started produced a book with ́à picture
There were the standard high none of which really rates with his second drink..
noticed London's Savoy, the cost a day
of Guy Burgess on the cover.
Nobody I spoke to in Russia wooden fences that I had heard of Guy Burgess, throughout my trip in Rusalu, will be around £ and up. The manager's little face went masking the poor bianie: "No, no, I do not know bethek."
conditions
Tips are twice to three times A local telephone call-coasts as high, 8. An evening paper miso The '£100 brigade could not The New York travel for from, where they At one point the road, poste 8%
Ianded. It is £8 dret class to says here that he came to Sochi although clearly marked to con- Times on Sunday is 2 14.
Taxis are about 10 per cent Boston and E6 non-pullasin to last year. And here's a pleture tinue round the coast, gave way
him,"
I opened the bookc. "But it
T
A bus Baston or Washington.
of him and his mother at this to a sea of mud. Tuba as higher than in Lendon,
still 20 miles away! No wonder ride costs 15 cents, or around a You can always take a ferry hotel;"
you drive a trip to Staten Island or a steamer ** The ~ liitto Lach opened up the Intourist manager had been chilling, whether
couple of blocks or all the way round Monbattan, but bang goes again. YCE TOO. Of course I happy. remember. - Wil you let ... mo
The road was impassable but from Manhattan to the Bronx, at least 10
Night clubs are out of the Gifts for friends at homo azu borrow the book? I was it was obviously being given
£100 brigāde, out, Reelgroosi hospitality Is delighted.
the Eyewash treatment judging question for the It was Bochi's big night by the gangs of men and although you might linger over, out too.
trying to a couple of boers down - in"; in fact, the British tourist Saturday, Nina' and I ant in the worsen hurriedly: hotel dining-room which boasted make a sixface out of the | Greenwich Village et shoddy, will be down and out on the what I call the Seven Canons of moraSE, A
100 quote
| liltie musicians-apota,"