NEW
YORK
Friday
Dear
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1957.
Anne Edwards from GILES
Dear Anne.....I am 1 typical American college girl living in New York. your article.
I
read
"How to handle crazy mixed-up parents," and against the advice of Mr Giles, who is over here and, I believe, works for your news- paper, I am writing to you for advice.
Mr Giles says he wouldn't write to you for advice, not
even
THIS IS PA
to ask the time, but judging by the way he gets himself organised whenever he is in the United States I guess he doesn't need any advice.
corning
MY BEAU
the Highlands, his accent is so Food.
But personally when Uncle Hank sings I never stay home that long to nollee, though I'm willing to bet it's the rye they amell not the heather.
My favourite boy friend is a New York policeman and figures that the royal tour in a plot by the Commies to screw up New good York's traffle systern for and ali.
The rest of my family is my who's
a baseball Although he has never been kid brother,
Och fan and promises he'll be out In Ireland Pa can say,
for the Queen and sing "Annie Laurie" there rooting aye", just like he was born in Dublin.
Man is differen!. Mom thinks everyone from England is a lord ur a dook, or a duchess, or cute, to Ket at she just can't wait there cheering for the Queen.
She's sure had a touch time making Pa learn to curtsy in case her Majesty should look in on us unexpectedly.
My Uuncle Hank,
with us, is a member
America-for-the-Scots
who lives
of the
AND MOM
Society, just as long as she promises which he rool for his home team,
born in Brooklyn. He's staging a rival protest march
has timed to march out of 62nd New York Yankees. Street singing "Manhattan De- longs to Glasgow" and the LR.A. are crossing at Fifth Avenue singing Bay,"
Lo
the
But on behalf of Americans just as Pa in general figure some advice the face of royalty would be real by you on how to behave in welcome rather than the stuffy instructions passed out by the. officials,
"Galway
Most full say that when Uncle Hank sings Scottish songs Uke you the "Curning Thru The Rye" 10 coming cun almost smell the heather on
He reckons U.S. for him Is like home because where he lives
in England there are more Americans to the square yard than there are over here.
However, why I write to you
of your is mostly on account Queen's tour and because my parents are just about as mixed- up as parents can get.
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Pa's great-great-great-great- grandma had an Irish aunt from
which makes the Broux
Amerkenn elligible to join the Branch of the IR.A. protest
march on October 10.
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Solo Agente:
HANG TAI & FUNGS CO, LTD. 20, Queen's Road C, Hong Kong
One scribe in a New York
told
at a how paper today Washington reception for Queen well Frederikn.of Greece "** meaning but plump Indy fell kerplunk when she tried to bend her knee.
ta
As this is the kind of situa- tion I wish to avoid could you tell me the correct way curtsy when I ask Prince Philip for
Signcil his autograph? "Anxlous."
F.8. Your Mr Giles asks me to point out that my mixed-up parents are by no means repre- sentative of parents in the U.S. any more than the few misguid ed Irish protesters represent the Irish people all over world and in any case neither his personal Is going to affect
relationships Anglo American which have always been and he hopes always will be right on the ball
THE KID BROTHER
GILES
(NEW YORK)
I
Commission, bonus-but
I hand in
my cards!
HAVE got a new job. If the literature which plops through my letter-box is to be believed, I am now a
club secretary, with the registered number 2,177,683.
Not, mark you, a night club or a bowls club or a social club.
But a club which will put me in competition with middle-aged Maggie Evans, who rung women's wear shop in the next road to me under the name of nelgh- Sylvin. And with her
our Bert Anderson, who electrical goods, and with iron-monger, Joe Rayner.
In fact, I shall be a rival of all the, Jacal tradespeople ex- cept those who sell food, drink, or tobacco.
sells Our
-by---
BERNARD HARRIS
and weighing 24lb. Ils cost to produce? A printing expert said anything from 12s. 6d. to 25, according to the number printed.
a
For this club I am supposed After the catalogue came the to run is a trading club. A club instructions how to
form which will take business away home shopping" club among from the little shops round the
· friends and neighbours. corner and divert it to a multi-simply show all your likely million group of warehouses 200 members the beautifuitllustrated miles away.
catalogue.. Let them choose Collect the goods they want. the first subscription."
Easy money? HE job began when, out of THE
curiosity, I filled in a form offering a "free catalogue” which would "make me pounds,"
It turned out to be a 316-page volume, resplendent in colour,
JOIN
NOW
And for me? "Generous com- missions, bonuses, free vouchers ...ali waiting for you. There's no limit to how much you can make."
to To raise my enthusiasm white heat I was offered "an exciting free gift" ranging from a cuckoo clock to a pair of ladies pyjamas immediately I sent in my first club order.
Having been signed up, without being asked,
Martin
Every man his oton salesman
of shopping," it actually started association with Great Univer- in a small way more than 30 cal Stores, years ago,
Wolfson operates seven mail Today there org at least 100 order companies. Twice a year
order sizable innli
concerns they issue catalogues which aro many of which conduct some equal in weight to a good-sized tuns and frading. form of club
How destroyer - 1,650 much money do they take? which, so Wolfson tells us, con
around lain 600 million pages.
Most estimates
and
£3,000,000 a week, though some
"From the pages of one cata- stores experts believe the true logue," he says, "a customer can tigure may be twice as much. clothe a family. furnish
Wolfson leads equip the entire household." INDOUBTEDLY the biggest Ash In this particular pond is the dynamic Mr Isune Wolf- son, who has just issued lauda Although described by one lory booklet to celebrate his promoter as "the modern way Buth birthday and his 20 years"
club organisër, I set out to discover just, how wide- hai spread this business of my
Half a crown a week
WAS suggested as the minimum sub* scription from each members. After collecting the cash I was to send for the goods each week "In agreed rolation."
THAT SAT
become
Happy as a Red-lying comfily in Bed with his little Satellite investigating overhead
its
fot
Dear friend.... ACCEPT his invitation A details of Great Universal'a club trading and you will re- cuve a printed letter addressed: "Dear Friend.”
You will learn that "literally millions of people make pur-
chases through our clubs." secretary get?
What reward does the club
"Unlimited pleasure," sayo
Ketong
Mr Wolfson "Meny friendships have started in this way."
And, of course, there is the material reward. For every £20 of orders sent off by the club
ex secretary, commission and
from £275. 6d. about penses range it was not to £2 175. 3d.
Ranking second to Mr Wolf- trajectory ST
This son is millionaire John Moores,
the football pools -
a missile travelling at that would be easier to send people speed. By Alexander Ananov
to the Moon, The milltary value of ปาง The Moon, because of Paris,
data leuter gravitational pull, might What about reducing Its al- satellite is in gathering titude? Theoretically any
about the upper atmosphere, be used as a launching plat- Russia's space satellite height
is possible-or would which begins 75 miles up and form to send rockets to Mars
outer space. This is or Venus. will never be of direct be, but for the retarding effect about
necessary to compute the tra- One Interesting thing
the satellite is that military value, but its of the earth's atmosphere.
The average altitude of the jectory of the ICBM. indirect value
We know in Russian
the upper atmo- launched along satellite-502 miles- means it has a minimum al- sphere and outer space very paralleling the equator. gathering data about of around 100 miles and poorly. Experiments have beta would have been the castest who staricd
by with rockets
have business with his brother Cecil the way because I would 119 well 38 the utilised the 1,000-mile-an-hour and funnelled some of the pro- rotation fits into building the Littlewoods specs of the earth's
sate-tores and mail order group. at the equator nnd the Ille's own speed could be re- These experiments have been duced by that much.
but interesting
insufficient.
the However,
Russians Rockets go up but they como nunched their satellite at down almost immediately. To angle of 65 degrees to the gather suficient data the la- Equator. At this time of year satelite boratory that is to say, the that angle keeps, the
for always within the sun's rays. ratellite must remain up a long period of time.
the higher atmosphere a maximum of 900 miles, and open space is
enormous.
A minimum
the
running
the
As to using the satellite "z
inade Aunericans The lowest practicable mean altitude for an earth satellite Russians, would be around
200 miles. This would mean Such facts are crucial to nititude of 130 miles.
calculating the trajec- At any lower height tory of al inter- satellite would start
Into the upper atmosphere. continental ballistic
Even at 130 mlies up,
to' elrele missile.
satellite would have Certainly. the rocket which the earth at a far greater speed launched the Russion earth-sny 9,000 yards a second, or zatellite could be used to about 18.000 miles an hour. | launch an ICBM.
the satellite, By launching the Russians have proved be- yond question, that they capable of ring an ICBM.
However, the satellite itselt can never be of direct military utility no matter how far it is developed.
a manned sutellite Even if were possible-and this Is an extremely complex problem- it would not be worth trouble.
the
in
Photographs taken from such a height would be useless. Not only is the earth Jargely covered with clouds, but photo graphs taken from that high up the would give no details of ground below.
In short, espionage possible with this satellite.
not
bo
There are difficulties enough
launching bombs from
ait planes flying only a mile high. At 130 miles up and at a spted of 18,000 miles an hour, pre-
would be completely cision facking.
a military base or as a colony,
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Mr Moores says that running one of his clubs is not a job. It's a pleasure. You widen your social circle a well 29 increase your income."
On each £30 of goods a club organised Can make from
3 17s. 34 to "These," claims
£4 12s, 3d. Mr Moores, "are the best terms in the club business."
Aller. Wolfson and Moores the earth already has a larger, This may have been dune come many others. All of them.
the Moon. stable 'satollife:
for one or both of two rea- offering "unrivaled value." All sons to investigate utilisation of them seeking to lure you into does not need another.
this Russling The
and the of uniltered solar energy or to
"profitable part-time Americans have been Expert use the sun, as havigators do,
hobby."
What do ordinary traders sending animals, 39 menting on
In n point of reference such as dogs and monkeys, up order to keep the satellite pl-
think about the rapki growth of these shopping cluba?
for
recoverabic
The National
of
Chamber
into homes,
Puntair
Launching a missile at such a spied would be highly im- practical.
There would be no precision in Aring it. There would just as greal a change of fts in rockets to test on them the ways on course.
cffects of enormous accelera- Eventually hiting its home country as of lion and of this lack of gravity, satellite could be developed. titlinge Its Intended target,
Such data, very important one with "reverse gear" rocket Trode describes the extension of
trading for the future, so have molors which would switch on retali been taken for only two or As soon as the satellite started schools, factories-even Govern- and three minutes at a time.
slowing down and heading for ment offices-as
pernicious.' But in the solellife' there will the earth,
A good deal more will be be a continuous lack of gravity The rockets could brake ils
heard about It when the as long as it is in the sky.
approach to the earth and the
Chamber holds its autumn con- Thus the possibilities of ex- Anal stage of the descent could
Terence towards the end of this perimenting on animals
be made by parachute to a
month. much more interesting with predetermined point,
Why "unfair"? My Maggie However, the satellite would Evans deducts PAYE from the satellite than with "rockets.
But I am persuaded the not to practicable as a bamb
commission earned satellite will never be used even this way because it would
assistant. for people. The difficulties art be Mr slower and its accuracy It far less than that of the ICBM.
The real danger is the inter- continental ballistic missile once launched, can not be Inter- cepted. It has a speed of 10,000 miles an hour.
I do not believe it will ever
be possible to detect or deflect nearly
insurmountable,
"How in hack are we gonna make Satellite rhyme with Moon, June, Toon
***
to her only So do other traders. But these club secretaries? Do they pay tax on their com mission? The suspicion is that many of them do not. Mr Peter Thorneycroft, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is being invited to look into this question.. And what about Valuc for money? Is it really so good as It is cracked up to be?
I have consulted the chairman of a departmental store who ha been through all the available mail order catalogues and com- pared prices with those in his own store,
Ils report: "Branded gooda are normally sold at the usual list price, though I have como Beross occasional Instances where is, in the £ has been added.
"10
non-proprietary goods prices in some catalogues are often higher than mine. A ̈ 'no- name" vacuum cleaner which wo sell at just over £12 is priced at £15. A kitchen chair-their price, 45, 6d, ours, 80s. An alectric tre, bok, ngainst Sữa od; n' clathes boller.: 027%.. Od. against 238. öd
"When you consider high run. ning costs, commission, postage and packing, a stiff :mörk-up" on some goods is not surpris- Ing."
My choice
NO for my family at least there will be no "club shop- ping" I prefer the allegod trouble, frustration and Anxiety of going round to the local shops.
I shall support the men and women who pay local rates and are part of the local community, Men and women who tako pride in personal, sarvice. Who know. my wants and can show ras, the goods before I hay.'.
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