THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1959.
DO YOU VIEW THE YOUNGER GENERATION WITH ALARM? DO YOU FALL ASLEEP
--WATCHING TV? IF YOU DO, NOW IS THE TIME TO FACE THE TRUTH.
Are YOU afraid of growing old?
L
IFE has some great moments.
But
much of it is a series of dirty tricks. Most of which bypass you-boomy for that and happen only to other people. "And hooray for that too!
For that's as it should be. And giveń luck, looks, and lucre, your life can be plump plums and lush grapes for ever. And ever. And ever. Or can it?
Almost certainly I can't.
For life's dirtiest trick of all happens to everyone,` You grow old.
Wrinkle by wrinkle your plums become prunes, the gorgeous grapes turn
to
D
ralalta. And you wake up one day no longer a promising new talent. no longer successful young whatever, no longer a mature associate in the prime of life, but an old crack.
AN OLD CROCK?
You will kinow it when it hap pens because you will do all the things all old croeks dö.
You will not venture out to a party on a cold February night
You will run eculiarly.
You will fall asleep watching the television,
Through your bifocals, you will view the younger generasion with alarm.
Are you afraid of these things happening to you 7
Does the prospect of being 10 years older than you now are seem bleak and grini?
ADJUSTED?
The truth is that the less you mind, the less it hurts and the less it showa The more Tutiy
you live at each age-stage, the less you have to regret about the
last, and the less there is to fear from the next
Answer these questions and And out if you are adjusted to your age or it you are wasting precious time worrying about wasting precious tune.
I Would you
enjoy meeting youruelt ID years ago mote than you would now?
(a) You
(bi No,
2) If a pretty young girl whom you Tourd rather attractive asked your advies about herwell, and another man, would you find the situation:-
Aronical?
(b+ galling 7
te pleasing?
(di promising P
21 yoU RIG a wotas. read that Last Question
JUST FANCY
WHEN
THAT
Your life can be plump plums... for ever...
again-substituting a handsome man for the preity young giri.
3. Do you prefer people to I- tas remember your
day 7
ths forget ILY
birth
you 4 Do
people :-
LEPAT Fert old
12 as chidres 1 (b) us eguria ?
for us if they were deaf 7
5 When you see your fare in live mirror in the maruing do
TOU wually look at it with :~
ta disbelief?
(b) disgust?
(01) affection?
6 If you are invited to join a group of prople a younger than yourself do you feel :-
tal dastered 2
.
BY. THE
(b) obliged to show of
Hitte 7
(e) unconscious of any age
difference 7.
(d) like Dish out of water?
7 When you saw/see your tirsi
grey hair did/will you -- (a) sufer sharp pang and
IGAVE IL 7
(b) tear it out?
te pot out to every-
bossy
(d) shrug?
A WASTED LIFE?
B By and large, have You wasted your life up till now? (A) Yes
(b) No.
you are enjoying yourself with
A group of friends
.
WAY
by Beachcomber
JHEN a prosecution witness TVERYBODY in Suffolk is introduced them into Westmor-
bul tutking of the reported ap- land,
they apparently said that enrrats alleged
there pre nono migrated, as there today, Charlie Suet is
to have been stolen were value.pearance of the first yellow
necked mouse ever to be seen In that county".
How did he get there? Yellow-
leas, a charge of theft against a
market porter
WAN
dismissed
and 1 have see
embarrassed RY an amusing irony Suet's secretary, Vanilla
пик
at London Bessions recently.necked mice are natives of The deputy chairman, Mr Rumania, Henry Elam, upheld a defence them in thousands in Transyl- Darling, is last year's Tupton voulan villages, some of them ne big as olters, The villagers Tracy
submission that a man cannot
be convicted of stealing some- thing that has no valuo.
18
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buit traps with maize. Rumanian resident in England
A British Crossword Puzzle
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13
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+10
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14 15
16.
18
19
131
121
1 Jobs of work (5).
ACROSS
4 Flores up (0).
Vegetable (8),
10 Machinery (6).
12 Trial (6),
7
23
24
126
28
30
14 Afternoon performance (7).
1 Observe (4).
19 Ghost; (7).
20 Advise (7).
22 Principal men in 'boolt (4).
23 Annoys (7),
27 Sandy (0).
20 Snooped (5).
30 Commission (0),
31 Fell behind (0).
32 Saveru (0).
32.
DOWN
Tribal emblem (5),
2 Support (5),
3 Shoot of plant for gratting
(0).
5 Run casily (4).
Fanolle (0).
* Seat (6).
9 Gift (7).
11 Surgical Instrument (6).
13 Exhaust (7)
15 Medicinal plant (4).
16 Disregard (6),
18 Accurate (4).
20 Place of workship (0),
21 Pressing (0).
24 Wheel bands of iron
rubber (5).
25 Permission (8).
20 Carrying-chair (8). 21 Lazy (4)
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YESTERDAY'S ·OKOBSWORD-Across! 5 Corvette, B-Lair,
↑ Medilate, 11 Dismayed, 19 Most, 15-Neurolie, 10 Relevant, 19
› Plot, : 21 Domestic, 25 Coloured, 26 Talc, 27 Buddenly : Downs
1 Glad, 2 Blas 4 Obey, 0 Vold, 0 Traco, -7- Mlect, D Major, 10 Devil, 12 desi, 14 Ehnul, 10- Tenor, 17 Coded, 19 PICKS, 20 Qued, 21 Dupe, 23 Mpa), 23 Feny, zi Crow,
surname
Beauty Queen The terrifies poor alone Suel. And when she looke at him with her large blue eyes he Ainches as though menaced by a hornet. He dictates his letters from a distant corner the room, in the lee of a protective Aling cabinet. When she hands him, a cup of tea he backs away like a shying horse and the reaches out, as though they Were standing on opposite banks": of a stream. "Mimsie Slop- corner," said a friend, "Is the prly girl in Suct
is only just it."
A daring innovation
THE latest plucky effort to
overcome the enormous: dif-
who show no sign of Gagglog and you know it will be bell for you next morning, du you generally :-
(a) leave firmly ?
(b) forget the time And
relax ?
te) alay on and hate it?
EL FOR SUBpect you need (new) glasses do you go and get something gone about it straight away?
(a) Yen
(b) No.
12 Do you look forward
being a grandparent ? (A) Yes,
(b), No.
THE SAME?
10
13 What do you (will you) Teel when a very young girl scrambles to her teel and offer you bér seat in a crowded bps 7
(a) grateful?
(b) indignant.
(0) resigned
D
Und
ald Jou 14 !!
favourita sult/dress uncom fortably tight are you mort likely to think -
Go “I'm the same person, -it's the same garment," and go on squeezing your. selt fato tt 7
(b) keep it hanging around in your wardrobe just in case?
(a) try to get another just
ke it?
(d) throw it out?
CHEERFUL?
Ric feeling per. 15 It you
Fretly well and someone you haven't seen for a while fatter/ You're getting 1970 thin on top. ele. do YOU—
(R) admit it cheerfull the brood?
ic try to explain it away >
10 "
your
16 17
YOU'TI Stil rot own, have the holes, elt.
In your teeth begun to frighten
you
Ear Yes.
(b) No.
Now,
thems
could get You Would you choose-- (a) the last 10 years over
again?
(b) an extra 10 years at the
end of your site?
your points what they mean
FIRST CHECK YOUR SCORE
1. (α)m); (bƒæð.
2. (a)m2; (d)=3} {c}=0}
14)=1.
a (ajet: ¡07m2.
4. (α)ж3; (b)=0; 1c)=2,,
B. 1a)=3; (b)=2; (0)=0.
d. (a)ml; (b)=2; {c}=0;
(d) J.
1 fam; (b)m2; (0)=3;
Now, what your score means. BELOW 18: Another cliché proved: you are as young pa you feel You feel positively Young. You spring-chicken splash about happily In Four allotment of time, tremendously enjoy activity but you don't shy away from à spot of luxurious Indolence. Old age won't bother Sou-or, at any rate. no more than automo following summer, or salad following the joinf
16-29: While not panicked at the thought of getting older. you are alightly inclined to Bigh willow-willow at not being
1. (α); (b) ul.
and
D. (0)=1; (b)×0; (0)=3.
10. fajmi; (b)=0.
1. a)=1; (b)=2.
12. fami; (b)=2,
13. (a)=0; (d)=3; (0)=2.
16. (a) (b)=2; (c)=3;
(dims.
15. (a)=9; (b)m2; (C)=). la (a)=1; (b)=2
The Ba young as you were. bad moment of course, waking at night and thinking of how much time You have wasted. An even worse moment Is facing the bleak fact that you can never, never get back one moment of it
80 OR OVER Maybe you were born old. Whatever your age you are a creaxy-jointed. dried up old thing You buy broken day-old bread and
biscuits even u you can afford the other. You won't buy eut flowers because they won't do anything but wilt anyhow You don't even know 'alf you Love missed all your tong, safe ble
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niculties of abolishing passports PAST did not think much of justify his bids even though he his two cand raise and when wes bat. vulnerable. Could be
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East returned a club, West ruffed and shifted to his fourth
day trip (lasting not more than North bld live spades East be void of clubs? He could be. seven hours) to Boulogne only decided to double him and hope four photographs, full-face, a for the best. medical certificate, and Ap Identity card should be obliga- West liked the double. He was best digmond. Earl's king forced tory Of course, the intending pretty sure that his king of South's ace and South went into traveller would have to be apades would be a trick and a long huddle, Where was the "screened"
had at the port of South's redouble did not dis- king of spades? East embarkation by amelals, and fut him, East saw no placa to doubled but he would have been would have his fingerprints and dockled to gamble on just as likely to double, without taken
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West was its with it. expert, after verification of
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After all and an M.P. attest that he is a fall of South's king. West-had bona fide traveller. With these bid two on five hearts with a Scull decided to play West for precautions, and with the forms queen high mut. Obviously he the king. He laid down its aces hand to cropped it and made the band. 10 be filled in during the cross had a really freakish
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Britain's Problem
are
THERE an esti PETER BURGOYNE'S.
mated 200,000 colour- ed immigrants living and working in Britain to- day. Just over half of them are West Indians, regarded as cranks, they are of power.
News From Britain
And therein lies the danger: be driven from their positions
mainly Jamaicans and dismissed as harmless. In tho His attack stung a rètort out - circumstances I have described of angry young playwright Barbadians. The others they could readily be the re- John Osborne who took Issue
are
largely West verse. Africans and Pakistanis. Moral Storm
the.
urg
Two hundred thousand rsen, women
in and children country of Bi million. Sinistic- ally speaking, that means you chould see one coloured face for every 250 or so white ones you
But human beings not statistical units. They are g**- gurious souls who prefer the comfort and company of their own kind. People who have 10 work to live and live to work, And so, hardly surprisingly, the coloured people tend to con- gregate in communities in the large industrial and commer- elal centres where they can satisfy their social and economic needs.
Because, like immigrants the world over they are poor, they congregate in the poorer dis- tricts of the big cities, in the very places where social prob- lema are most neule.
Too often one all-important factor — colour · apart -disun- gulahas the coloured man from his white neighbour. For him the near-slum represents the bottom of a social ladder he must climb. For his neighbour it is the bottom of a ladder down which he has fallen has abandoned hope of climb ing.
or
with him on acveral scoZEJ.
But Osborne at the same time confirmed the charge of bomo- sexual domination of the theatre.
I
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VERY eminent British A scientist, Sir Ronald Fisher, In his reply, published by the President of Gontille and Calus Daily Express, he wrote: "Ever College, Cambridge, has - since I
started york in the have commended that parents should theatrical profession be given the right to decide that tried to attack the dominance deformed or mentally deficient of homosexuals in all ile delds" children should be destroyed at
And he added: "It seems 10 birth,
me that most homosexual urt Although Bir Ronald sald this tends to be-or, at least to be- during a tour of Australlo, it come overtraditional,
narrow, has caused a storm in his own servative,
parochial, country. For here is no sterile self-congratulatory, narcissistic, crank trying to shove us into a "This has been particularly Huxleian Brave New World, but true of the English theatre, a distinguished and respected which has been indeed domain- ellizen with eight children of his ated I highly-talented homo- own, who has Gushed Into the scruals.” open the sort of question most people prefer to leave ub- answered in the dark recesses of their minds.
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Leading Light
HAVE we become blase about The controversy sparked by solèntillo' discoveries? Sir Ronald's statement will wax question was prompted recent- and reverberate In the news ly by the lack of prominence paper columns, on the air and given to accounts of what to the televisión screens of the me, anyway—is a startling din. country. But it will be дл covery: a light that never Foos academic controversy. For I out doubt if there is a member of The discovery is the result of the United Kingdom Parliament the combined efforts of an en- who would dere try to introduce prayer and a firm of manufac- the legislation to give effect to turing chemists near London.
illumination Sir Ronald's exhortation. Cer- This perpetual iainly no government in tho is provided by isotope-activated foreseeable future would date krypton gas which is being pro- When the coloured man pass such legislation.
duced by the Alemle Energy begins to pull himself up the For all that,
Ronald's Authority. rungs, his neighbours, who remark might bear good fruit The power unlt weighs merc have abandoned hope of doing it it brings inescapably before 1 ounces and the lamp has the same, shotch at the chance the pubile the Inexeusable lack no wires, batteries or bulbs. It to believe that the coloured man
of facilities in Britain for the throws a beam strong enough is climbing at their expense, in care of such children. At the to read a newspaper by.
order 10
their self- moment, satisfy
the majority of them The possibility of producing cateem.
are left not only as a burden a more powerful version Thus is born a "colour prob- upon their parents, but tragic being investigated. lern."
And with it comes the shadows over all who must antagonism and suspicion which share their lives, can be so readily exploited by those with a mind to do so.
упц I put these facts before because of the growing blatancy of the antl-coloured organisa- tions, particularly In London. They have their pamphlets and news-sheets. They daub waliz with "Keep Britain White" signs. One of them has opened bookshop in Notting Hil,
of last year's raciai mass-circulation Daily Express are being
made the startling chargs that cheerily on the maternal door. the London theaire was domin- step-ugh-and now bus con- ated by homosexuals. He urged ductors are being jured that these "evil men" and their remember that "Life is Brighter "unpleasant freemasonry" should for Courtesy."
a вселе trouble.
At the moment such people aro a minute minority, rightly regarded by the great majority
as cranks.
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FTER years of unsmiling from public ser. Vanta Jernoy of wartime's "ake for leave it" atutudo- courtesy is beginning to creep JUHEN ■ brilliant young man back into Belilah daily lives, WHEN
of the British theatre
The Postmaster-General”, has ned' in London recently for told telephone operatora to, go impertoning men for an immor out of their way to bo cheerful writer in the and pleasant, mlik roundemen ai purpose,
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