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DON IDDON
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1957.
I predict. Eisenhower will
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THE past few days carrying on the business of being half have shaken the President, if only ut New World and also inspired it.
When
President Elsen- hower suffered a stroke. his third serious illness in 20 months America reel- ed.
1
In 20 minutes, share of values, to
total $4,000,000,000, were wiped out, and people thought that the Sputnika, a sick President, and slump had combined to bring disaster to the United States,
Today these volatile, erratic, and mereurial people are much more cheerful.
Mr Eisenhower, in AIR Betonishing outward recOVITY, fortified
medicine if by "the courage," has bec en publie pet five display during the
und Icoks ruddy days. He vigerous
and 'i apparently
throttle.
Minor boom
VIE
has staged
stock market a miner boom, tremendous
are.
resign within
Mr. Dulles would not last a month it Nixon became Presi dent. Nor would Mr Sherman Adains, "the assistent Preal- aent," on whom Mr Elsenhower has relled so much and to whom ,much he han delegated to power,
next For the
fow months America and the world is going
Witness 2 to
duck between Nixon, and Adams, while Eisen- hower, his slender margin of reserve energy diminished, pre- pares to retire from the Job which events have proved to que man bo 100 big for any unless he is a Roosevelt.
12 months
Harry Wallace If he can show that he has Vico-President the stature to lead the country end Mr Truman, when he was lund make
President, Vice-President - each haci A good whille Elsenhower is retired to staff of two at a cost of only is Gettysburg farm, then he is $10,000 a year. a cortainty ns Republican caḥ- didale in 1000, and has a fair chance of beating the Demo- srats,
So Nixon, today, is being given the grooming, the build-
Nixon today is poised for the great step. The man who used to be called "Tricky Dicky" and "Junior" has grown-up,
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Adams
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In the past he was a savage Hampshire," campaigner with his "Instinct had, cormous power, and the for the jugular." He exploited President's complete confidence. up, of the young statesman, the the Communist issue almost as Icoder of the Reithlessly as the late Senator publicans. And I must admit Joe McCarthy, he is beginning to look the part.
rocket developments promised, and the templation is (or Americans to delude them
logical that everything is al Relves
und Ike
for is good right
the ce
the yours another White House,
My forcent is that despite the President's gallant comeback it will not happen that way.
three
tr
There have now beau erave warnings concerning the President's health or lock of it, and if the third is ignored then e Americans bave only them- selves to blame.
I expect, within the next year, to see the President step down, Vice-President Nixon step up into the White House, John Foster Dulles to retire, and a youthful vigorous, even dynamic Administration replace the present one.
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The President is not only head of the State, Commander- in-Chief of the Armed Forces, with foreign Affairs his special respon- chief executive
albility but also head of ab political party, in this instance, the Republicans,
And it is the ruthless Re- publican
command the high
who persuaded sume people Elsenhower to run for a second term uentrist his will and despite his liness-who, in my 'opinion, will exert pressure to make him retire.
Ho is bearing himself today The a future President; but in- sisting all the time that the major decisions
coming from Elsenhower. This is in excellent tasto and also good politics.
Tireless
THE ASTONISHING CASE OF OLD PARR
N
AND HIS LEGEND
TOTHING more British, you might say, than beer. More oven than roast beef it has been a rather mora than mythical foundation of our history. embellishes legend....and many are the legends with the background of the ale house,
Tima
Tako Old Parr, as rumbustious a legend sa ever you could find. Parr, goes the story, lived to be 152 years old. The Irony was that it sawdust, and counter establlah- was his curiosity-value that ments. killed him. So impressed
with the old man's longevity was Charles I that Parr was
Developed
He has been behind the presented at Court. After- THE put has come a long way throne ever since ко en-wards he was wined and rice the day Parr was born tered the White House. "Clear dined so lavishly that in a in 1485. On the way to being ls a phrase matter of days he was dead. stepped up to a 2500 million
It with Sherman,' constantly on Elsenhower's Ups.
Dead-but the
a year Industry, its history has extended through the ages of legend Shakespeare, Dr Johnson who
declared the pub the bost institution in English life-and
But not so much these past Low days. That is the great lived on--and grow. NOW Nixon is balanced, con-
structive, tireless cam difference between the past week who has retained the and the weeks following Eisen-
The death was crowned Nelson, Conservative hower's two previous illness. by burial in Westminster
palgner of the
support wing of the Republican Party, and also contrived to win the No one can accuse Mr Nixon middle-of-the-road group, and of pushing himself forward for even some of the liberal ele- the job, and he has acted with ment mature restraint. His eyes are, of course, on the President's chair. Ho would not be human if they were not.
Own staff
They are in the business of HE has built himself
an
Fla Ambition
without 14 bound, and his career In the past few years has been day- zling.
decarles ago Less than two Nixon was replying to a class fed adverkssment which said: "How to speak well and influ- ence people. Fee, five dollars."
He has learned to spook well Influence people. Today
and
ho
Americans.
Nixon hay never
Nixon is whittling ''down
Right up to the present, it haa Adams, the dour Yankee who Abbey-and the historians been subject to a wide variety has been Eisenhower's chief of took note of his notable ex- of historical and social changes, staff ever since Ike entered poli-periences: Iving through Today, 70,000 puks straddla the city and countryside. They Nixon is winning and Adams the reigns of 10 princes, serve almost anything from his first wife oysters and stout to beer and
marrying
tica.
is giving ground,
What sort of President would when he was eighty, his bread and chesse, Richard Nixon make?
A decisive one, a man who would give relentless attention to every task. A chief execu- live who would be largely his own Secretary of State, and who would figure every angle, ealculate every advantage, and plan shrewdly and well.
Nixon locks Eisenhower's
second when he was 122.
A symbol
discovered blood circu-
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Ploughman and clly stock- braker, labourer and banker can rub shoulders at the counter.
This is more than the meaSLITE of change. It is the measure of
WILLIAM HARVEY, who a massive, organised Industry.
Resilient
is influencing 170,000,000 charm, and he hasn't been enlation, held a post-mortem dowed with the supremo in-on the remarkable body.
that been very tegrity
Elsenhower's And found it in perfect con- President respects Nixon's skill be on the job, and would be close to Eisenhower, though the greatest gift. But Nixon would dition-Parr died from A FEW years back the pro
poli and their job is to get
claborate organisation and his staff now totals 15, ut 11 elected, Republicans
They have to think of next year's east of over $100,000 a year. two Congressional elections and
In addition, Nixon has they have to think of 1000, military aldes, a colonel and a when the Presidential election
the facilities of major, and the Republican National Com- takes place.
Government depart- that mittee, a mite Richard Nixon, only 44. ments and the Secret Service.
irong 63 a mule, vastly ex- In contrast, his predecessors perienced, is their best bet. -Vice-President John Garner, Adams, the ex-Governor of New Inen in the White House.
It slicks out
and diligence,
Much closer one Eisenhower
and his personal appointee,
competent at the job.
From the British point of view there could certainly be worse
ONE MAN DOES THE WORK
OF 200-& THE DRUDGERY
IS GONE
DRITAIN has about the most highly mechanised
in
by W. H. Cashmore c.b.e., b.a.
DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS
form under many conditions,
and the only advantage they
of mechanisation are to inercase the productivity per possessed over horses was their worker and to remove drudgery.
Since 1939 direct competition with industry for labour has been a very important factor in speeding up mechanisation, and that time marke a turning point in British agriculture.
The tractor has replaced the horse in the same way as the horse displaced hand work.
A
ability to work for longer hours when required,
versatility and in extending the benefits of mechanisation to the average farm.
little more than old age.... hastened by his orgiastic fali. feting at the hands of the Court.
Parr is more than a legend though. He.. Is a symbol-a symbol for what 1s today the (cundation of an industry.
Parr was a yeoman farmer. And the Britain of his time abounded with men who, it not of his age, were his type.
The theme
THE
THE yeoman built a tradition for, among many things, hearty good humour, indepen dence, and a capacity to eat and drink well, which makes most other cras in our history rather less colourful.
Pneumatic tyres made it
Ale went with every meal- possible to travel anywhere and that
Included breakfast, without changing or adjusting Parr's astonishing longevity was Gradually the difficulties wheels; they gave less loss attributed, among other things,
But it was power for were overcome.
merely moving the not until 1933 that the tractor
tractor, thereby freeing more Was laken
seriously and a power for hauling equipment. factory was set up in Britain 10 manufacture about 3,000 them a year.
of
Their disadvantages were the lack of versatility, and the prob lem of carting coal and water Then progress was rapid. The for the engines. As the design tractor began to be regarded as of farm tractors improved they a method of applying power to became more and more attrac- the land rather than as a sub tive as alternatives to the steam titute for a team of horses; its engine for supplementing the work of horses and, Anally, the tractor began to displace the
horse
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THE higher speeds obtainable revolutionised the design 61 Implements and greatly proved farm transport.
im-
to the almplicity of his chiet, which was a good deal simpler than that of most men of his time.
It began and ended with beer, bread and cheese, and a handful of vegetables.
man controlling a
But beer was the theme. team of four horses cun
In more recent years there Writing of that parfod, a puzzied raise his capacity by about
versatility was increased by the has bous a distinct trend to- and disapproving FrenchmanK 40 times. With a modern
design of special equipment and wards reducing the number of said: "No kind of business 13
transacted farm tractor he can increase
at first this meant wider Imple models; a modern general pur-
in England without ments to utilise the greater
pose wheel tractor is now con- the Intervention of pole of his capacity to about. 200
power avaliable,
structed in a way which enables | beer." times that of hand work.
However, equipment imposed it to haul equipment and have So the farm tractor has
difficulties in Hiting the attachments mounted in the Ale house and Inn were the become the keystone of Te first tractor using an machines at the headland and rear, in front of the front axle, centre of rural communities. At
THE iniemal combustion engine neither hand fls nor mechani- and under the tractor.
the ate house-socially two pegs farm mechanisation.
There are now well over down from the comfortable Inn Farm horses reached their appeared in the US.A. in 1880; cal lifts operated by the land
by 1918 there were many wheels of the implement were 400,000 tractors on farms infrequented by people of quality peak in Britain by 1810, but different models available in catisfactory.
Britain, compared with 55,000 in farmer and labourer met to even then their services were fritain, many of them designed The solution turned up in the 1830.
drink beer and indulge their supplemented by steam cable in the same country.
form of hydraulic control Practically all of these are sports of cock fighting, boxing. engines, hauling large-scale
Britain And their and bowla. were operated by an oll pump incor- made in These early tractors ploughs and cultivators across
design compares with the best the land; for many years this merely power units taking the porated in the tracter design.
It was the tractor pneumatle from any other country; in fact steam tackle was a feature of place of a team of horses for
tyro Introduced from the U.S.A. British tractors are exported to the British countryside, and hauling horse equipment. much of the heavy fallow land Because of dimculties with in the mid-thirties which had practically every corner of the was cultivated in this way. adhesion they could not per- the greatest effect on increasing world.
The Vital Revolution Es
THE
TRADITIONAL PLEASURES
Beur was brewed by the land- Iard at the back of the premises, and there were no concessions to luxury.
WRITES TO THE EDITOR I BLESS yew bor. We were wholly fascinated when we read the bay Donald Edgar's article "The Vital Revolution" on farming yesterday. Although most of the time he were talking through thể top of his hat we certainly appreciated the bit at the end where he say :-
"The traditional pleasures-the beauty, the peace, the calm, the liner satisfaction, the quiet talk and the warmth and pleasure of the Inn-
• remain."
Skipping the "peace and calm" wo thought the traditional picasures" and the rest were worthy of some little drawings.
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Do yew send Mr. Edgar down to my farnı
and we'll show him 'ow 'Lik really done,
Mad in your eye, bor,
Fours faithfully, sto.
Ale houses
were
phots were saying that British beer consumption would Competition from telo- soft drinks, vision, from now from high-cost durable gooda like refrigerators and washing machines, would grab the Briton's beer money.
It hem'i turned out like that. In the post-war race to win the
consumer's custom the brewers put on their thinking enpa and came up with a five-point plan to hold their customers.
They made pubs brighter, more colourful, and more comm fortable. They streamlined their management, and they brought in mechanisation and the push-button to increase emelency and keep down, costa, The programme has paid off. Our annual consumption of beer runs to 10 gallons a bead-and that figure includes men, women, and children.
And the tradition of the yeoman of England lives' on.
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"Pleata understand right now that next to how many times that dam Sputnik'a been round the world, the thing I'm least tnterested tr la hoto many oupa "of cafeine-free cofee the Preaf dent had for breakfast
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