Prosperity lures them
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1960.
THIRD DAY
ON
to the altar THE BEACH
I
earlier
MUCH MUCH EARLIER
WAS married at 19. "How odd," people said. "How can he afford to marry so young?" That was just before the war, in the Harsh Thirties. Today, at the beginning of the 'Sixties, how the pattern of marriage has changed!
Now marriage at
19, ur younger, in the fashion indeerd, m
of the most astonish.
ing--and eneDuraging
-aspects ut
1950
the increasing -
by
DONALD GOMERY
mariage.
after
Today, however, one in three keep their jobs after women marrying. And the younger he gude, of course, the more often the stays at work.
Only one in the last 10 years has the increasing rate of young manages stackened. That, sdg- nifestly, was in 1952, a time Britain's “ "recession" - in
prosperity, By the growing following gear de upward trend war again being continu l
which,
Somewhere A Jumpy radar operator saw
And
screen.
unexplained speck on his BANDETIZ
He knew that to
moment Danke & might be fatal. Ile pressed a builon. Other bullons were
The pressed subsequent nuclear holocaust destroyed the world. Only Australia, by some fluke. And deadly radiation musl
escaped. inevitably months. Then we pick up # morte message from Towers submarine Sawfish, taken/hin
reach un In Australia in a few
Callforni.
Dwight
to
commander bt the ULS.
craft investigale And I. scientis Julian Osborn, to along to check the radiation levels
At periscope depth in this frightening film-watching a
man with five days to live calmly go fishing
somebody
there,
The WETE
E were all crowded rooding about it, and suddenly now." Then he added: "Unless WE
there's I realised that what was wrong round the periscope was the lack of people, of move servicing them." by this time, watching ment of signs of life. Swain, the petty officer, as fic-stared through the sights at San Francisco, his home town.
dlewn
We all looked at him. Behind me, one of the crew implients of what, we was saying: "Somehow kept hearing were not lost on any of there, damages. Somewhere. expecting to see more There's has no people. Nothing. near San Diego, there might be someone, still alive. And it i wonder where they arë?”
Commander Towera sold: so. m. "Dogs go somewhere, to die, Cummander Towers turned to t He was one of those They don't want anybody the radio officer. "Sundstreni burly types with the kind as them, Maybe people do you know this coast, don't you?" of face that does not mekness came, they went to
bed All register emotion. that happened was that the face went sort yellow and dull.
ber of people who marry when to continge in her job s under 21
This year the proportion of expected teenage mariages is to be higher than ever before recorded, and the chief
the present without doubt, i. prosperity of Britain.
Consider, a arent, the fitures.
2. your In 1938, the ot
1-4,000 the war, Urfare
wete, marcin. This under 21
ne year the tomber will be Thurs 40.000-nearly there as rota number of Yet the nortlages of people af all ages fias nut changed ever, the years, let year, for instance, only 600
We waited for him Similarly, in 1938, the young terr wishing to marry had magistrates' 14 the
Of those draw away, but he kept on number of teenage girls to apply
Counts for permissioIT.
turned looking. swinging the pil who.
67,500. 100, however, 350 were married waN
this exactly -migishater, perhaps, 10lar of the periscope almost This year
way and that as he ranged twice as
teenage being so abreast of the times as *many'
other people.
vasier hire the city... girls have married.
Undoubtedly
Dwight Purchase has helped to raise thu
softy, almost number of range marriages.
nait item Furniture
as many,
Booming
pattern
It is a sociological change that we too often overlook, change that is indissolubly linked with the improved financial of today:
Britain booms economically The young people share in her Parker wealth, an carlier and they set up home together.
Again the Agures speak themselves.
Inunediately after the war the average wage for a boy under 21 was only £2 78. 4d. By 1910 the hure had gone up to 18, Britains ad sill not got into her post-war stride.
buy
f
(Incidentally, it is a wend
Toderated by
20 more, modeer:
is the
15
the same,
When the radiation
We all stood around, in
various states of shock. Only Swain, the petty offers, whose
home parents
of
Towers spoke
gently
"Sco
that young couples buy on hire your house. Swain?" purchase
town this was, had gone. out of the control room,
"Yes, sic, I was there 'for three months in "58,"
Emergency
by Leonard Mosley
stayed submerged to escape the fatal rays
London Express Bervice.
would never have guessed what was in store for him.
Good morning, Swain," said Towers through the speaker. Swain looked up and grinned.
"Iya, captain. Thought you'd gone."
Towers asked: "Catch any. thing?"
Swain shook his head. "Just started. But I always do out here. Won't be long now."
I could have told him, but I' didn't, that there was no longer anything to catch.
"How arc Towers asked.
you feeling?" Swain put his hand to his
My
atomach middle. Okny. was a little upset last night, but 1 got some salts from u drug store, 1 must have swallowea some salt water, I guess."
"low is it in town?" Towers askell.
'All dead'
There was no expression on Swain's face. "Everybody's dead, I guess. My folks are, 1- didn't look much after I saw a few," He paused. "I got a case of beer here, it you want any."
"No, thanks. Swain, is there anything you want before we go?"
Swain was silent.
We than't be coming back, you know," said Towers. "You'll got pretty sick, you know, Have you got anything to take? sardonie Swain gave a
Brin you could see plainly across the water, as he gestured back to the ghost city of San Francisco, o two hundred froe stores back there, Captain. Just walk in and take what like." He paused and then, gay hello to everybody for me. " The velce of Commander Towers was controlled, but his ince was tight. "Okay. Take li easy. Swal, Watch the sylek ut our props-a-se no duwiy And
and lurk
you aboard. But I mean right. Il be dark in about and now! Swim two more strokee hour. We'll sit on the bottom And that's it! You hear that. for the night. Secure diving Swain? This is the captain!” ** stations. Under way at seven
There was a pause, and they thirty am." came, faint and Swain's voic distorted, through the speaker. Sorry. Captain! Got a date on Market Street. I'm going hones
Out fishing
senn the
1
He turned and gave the order. The diving signal sounded th
jar. Just before 1 pulled down the periscope, I took a last look at Swain, the man with “ week ni anost to live. He drinking from his car of beet us Fe stared at his 6shing line, and he jooked as if he had not a care in us world.
"Do you think you could fina your way around, and not get to It was at that moment, from lost, if I put you ashore down the opernilona room, that the therein a radiation quit.”* sound came again. It could not.
'Sundstrom swallowed, hosi have come at a more dramatic tated, and then, said: "Yes, sle. Towers took his eyes away Next morning early, Towers "We've got to try it-Towers from the beriscope and looked took the Swish up to periscope ferked his hand, at me. How long can be fast depth and began, to sald. He
• waters ground San Francisco. towards San Francisco. After out treed, Julian?" looking at that, I can't, belleve: I glanced at my instruments. As he with looking, we heard the
Khrugged,
squid of a small motor The midlo
pop- and yet we've just got to and track that radio down. It might activity they registered on the popping down to us through the speaker, You did not heed to see well, we all know surface or the water
high I could hardly believe it it to guess that an elitboard what it might mean."
- motor dinghy was somewhere in He swing round on his way possible,
the vicinity. his old. dxcentive officer and
the It's Swaing old „Towers. Front the radio sitarpness of manner came back.
sluttering started again the "All right, lieutenant. Prepare
The guy's actually coming out
stutter of the mysterious radio to Ast" to'dive."
''The
*
We all operating out of San Diego. Engine stopped. He reached his hand up to
could pieture, Swain anchoring 600 miles to the south. wards the alarm signal, when one of the brew burst Into the scmething ashore. After he's his bout at his favourite spol, control room. His: feb white with shock.
You "No, sir." Swalu said. te father (with counter-sien the H.P. form).ouldn't see from here, any- Onex to start marriage on such way, 10's up behind the hills."
diew him away. it bar is was met with many a Towers
As the grave head-shake from porta That's enough, now
officer came away from the sights he swayed slightly, afraid that their children would be overwhelmed, with lebts.
almost as if he were drunk.
How rarely, in fact, does is happen. Only one person in 700 Jas to return his goods because of failure to keep up H.P. pay- Young people, indiced. muts, are a sensitite Branciny Their parents.
05
12 There are plenty, of jobs, the a shortage trus largely
Today the average wage, far
£6 14 this age-group is week, with the older teenage earning between £7 ant CB a week, and any boy marry ing knows that he shouki, in year or two, reach at least the average national wage fur met of just over £13.
in
Laxes: overcome.
Faith
can
So why should we wait?" 11 a question that the 18-year-
and 15-year-olds a-okis
I can think of reasonably ask.
oppose them. no (After all, I was only 19 my set).
As for young girls, the erease in their pay-packets has been just as startling.
reason. 10
petty
'Like' dogs'
Others Look his place at the locked. Some periscope. They drew in their breath.
Some muttered at imprecation or A short invocation to God. Mostly they were sent, stunned.
At last it came to my turn. Like most Englishmen, if there was one city in America I had, always wanted to visit, It was San Francisco,
We
were at
it
IBREGORY PECK) COMMANDER TOWERS
London Express Service:
mean
whs
so
Three or four days" said.. Terwers asked: We'd be safe to take him back up to when
Up to not more than a few hours" I said "Certainly, pot. drunk after he has caten
room.
W13
was done that--well, you might as michoring, throwing out the TOMORROW:
well take a time bomb aboard. line, He'd kill all of us, too."
Towigs had the microphone The commander, frowned and his hand. He stepped aside went, back to the periscope, to let me take the periscope. looked watching Swain wimming for Yes, there was Swain, 'line over- and the shore, Then he glanced board, a can of beer in his
hand, peacefully ashing. execu at his watch
"Sir." He shouted, "It's Swain! moment. We had just been looking In the face of death, Swan's gone out through, the staring ot the end ot ou escape hatch!"
Towers "Out?" world; and now, suddenly, life
moment seemed to speak to us again, stunned for a It was the mystery radio.
then said crisply to his Dwight Towers inoved over, to tive officer. Secure the outer.
Drin tho hatch.
escape the radio operator.
the chamber." He turned to
He looked up at his certi-
didn't come- ander. "It's down San Diego crewman who had brought the way, all right," he said,
message. "Why body stop him?"
"Nobody realised what he was doing until it was too late." the sailor sald.
Doomed
I asked: "What's it say?" The operator shook his head. full periszove depth and quite close inshore. Gibberish, just gibberish. That As I swung the nights in a fully, whoever he is, never even
learned how to setin S O.S." With the whittling away of panoramie turn, I could see
Over the speaker, the stutter National, Service, the number all-the Embarcadern, Alcatraz
enemies, out as the operator worked his In 1947 a girl's average wage of young marriages will our Island, where they put their of sound went on, blaring in and
increase even more gangsters and public
We all watched as the Com AEG £2 week. Today she is tainly
and then, beyond that, the love scanner.
It could only be operated in mander went to the periscope earning £5 a week. (In the big rapidly,
To all there teenagers I can ly hanging shape of the Golden
one way the radio officer said and took up the microphone uf cities, with their highly paid'
luck." 1. Gate bridge. wish. Good
He swung his "From
hydro- his loud-haller, 1
the secretaries and typists, the only
It was hazy, but the rain wes to Towers.
scouring denire the ..figure is much higher.)
After all, by marrying shining. I looked just as I had electric plant. It's probably in sights around, . Is it any wonder, then,
and in filius,
ike coast. They've got trans-, until he focused on the figure of in love, young, they are taking ad-seen it in the picture postcard, one of those ait refineries down walery round the submarine. that teenagers
the Yet this was no picture mitters there, and the julea to Swain swimming away from
the ship towards the shore. with their joint incomes, vantage, not only of
Towers said: "Well, that' Towers, spoke into the micro- face marriage, with grow present prosperity of the postcard rity I was seeing this run them
country bai expressing morning. There was something answers the power question. But phone.
"Swain, this is the ing confidence?
I don't understand 11. You'd captain. Hear this, Don't be
dama version of "On the Beach" is" But note that "joint; incomes"; their faith in Britain's
gener-A
fool, Swain! Come I remember, in 1938, was future..
adapted from the United Artists rim think the turbines and
utors (London-Express Servlca). based on the novel by Nevit Shute.
would have gone out by back right now and I'll take almost unheard of for a woman
..
Tifx
Britain's home-grown fish
can put life into the sea
CIENTISTS have made an important break-through in the battle to safe guard Britain's fish supplies. For the first time, they have succeeded in rearing tiny plaice from eggs cultured in tanks ashore.
HEATE M13$ FINCH
ABO
ILL GRADE
"Copid you show me how to make PQ and T W right off that bat, Mias Finch? I promised my dame Tá osive our initiala on a tree?""
THE WORLD OF SCIENCE
by PETER FAIRLEY
المة
tions. But we have some
Can a varnish be made which, coming up to spawning we will preserve, the great masters, think we have nursed them or even the not-so-great, with-
correctly and we shall soon see it we can produce a better
out turning their canvas yellow or attacking the paint colours?
cur-
anel the
The National Gallery, egg for the first time."
an industrial The "bables" will be released rently trying
of ultra-violet sheltered method The plalcon bigger than in the sea, some in
be fed bays, others in the tough fish infra-red rays; to watch a postage stump will
ing grounds. Test fishing win effect of Varnishes on pletures, back into the North Sca.
geta £270 16 help find out. show how they survive.
Diamond. rock
'If they Survive, then
selentle sea farming may become possible. Over the vents, exhausted fishing grounds could be restocked,
four or five years.
Some 5,000 eggs were gathered Nautilus “hunt”
..
Some idea of the problem of restocking the North Sean international project comes
Cats, as well as humans, get -from, estimates made recently allpped dices, Professor C. W. by scientists. Twenty million Otloway and a team at Bristol **bables" First succes
will have to be put University are observing them at the back, they say, to produce a closely.. First success camo
So be gets £1,000 «ncourage- Ministry of Agriculture, Food five per cent better yield after
ment. and Fisheries laboratory at
And meteorites, the report *Lowestoft.
shows, are virtually worth their weight in gold. £60,000 'har gone to the British Museum to the buy halt the collection^ot_300- a odd meteorites owned by Mr H.. and, H. Nininger, of Arizona Mr Jamos
slipped Shelbourne, cat's
gives the rogun back t principal scientific officer, told meteorites in commont ine:
that alworld lead in ownership. compares very Very Utile-except
Why do we want meteoriton? favourably with survival rates are being hunted, with the eld
1985 uf money given by the Nuffield For analysis. And it
analysis which gave a vitnily up Foundation
for important elus for the recent under A Cambridge zoologist,
of making artideial
from the sea in conical nets
and put in tanks where sea con-
WHAT have
a nautilus,
ditions are simulated. From Widial picture varnish.
these, 130 plalco grow.
at sea.
"One plaice may spawn 80,000 cgp but
on thora
disc
It
natural conditions very fow instance, will go to the Pacific Process aurvive. But this idea will not to track the nautilus that diamonda. prove economical until we are strange, pearly-sheiled living ?? IS IT TRUE. ? ̈ ́? able to produce our own eggs fossil" thất has biting jawa - 18 IT TRUE THAT, BON, BE ----- arma,” “securate eyes, a good many think, is the · conwnonest- Nursing problem brain and swims by jet pro- metal in the world? "In the past, shore-spawned palaton.
NO. Aluminiun is. It make Isf a missing link between up nearly eight per cent of the Cage have been poor. It la
dilleult
the some ancient creature and the world's crus. to nurs
(London Express' servida); spawnors in the right condi- oyster and the soal!?
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