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ROCKET TRACKING STATION
We ought to hear something soon, Charlie,"
ChicThos
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1960.
OF
SCHOOL CHIROPODY
**Pri Mr. Jožice, your new tilstant. pleased to meet you!"
"Hoppit, you little perishers!"
The self-styled
messiah they're welcoming
with gin
THE other day I watched Kwame Nkrumah carried shoulder-high, to the sound of cheers and drum-beats, across the tarmae of London Air- port. Whatever you think of him, he is a
His man worth watching. followers call him "messiah"; his enemies call him á megalomaniac dictator.
He has a quick smile and a high-pitched laugh and the gift But what
of swaying crowds.
sort of person is he really? He
was born 50 years ago (or more or less he doesn't know exact-
ly) in a small Gold Coast village
near the Ivory Coast frontier. His father was a goldsmith, his mother a "market mammy" stoll-keeper.
sion
or
by
ANTHONY LEJEUNE
"Nkrumahism" is. presented But a lot of people took him
He went to a Catholle mis- by his followers as a new re at his own valuation. For the school and then to ligion. destined to replace past three years Accra, has beeh Achimota College near Acera. Christianity. It is based, accord- packed with delegations;
issue by talking
about
the Commonwealth and the Empire as the same thing.
The Riddle of Existence
SUPPOSING there had never been
calendar
Supposing there had never been such time measurements as morïths and years.
never
Supposing that the psalmist had declared that the normal span of life was three score years and ten
All these suppositions have in terested us from time to time but never so bluntly as from the lips of a lively and eminent Russian professor named VK Nikitin of the Kharkov Institute who has just blown. Into London. He was duly interviewed by a reporter and our visitor made some startling pronouncements.
"I have siready prolonged the life of rata. by 60%" said the Professor 28 if that were nothing. "And if a rat can be kept alive beyond its allotted span why not woman
LONDON LETTER
By Sir Beverley Baxter, M.F
"
When
almost Juvenile Cockney Lord kirength, his powers of dur (our Erb) Morrison who is a ance and his gift of sound judg mere fledgling of 72.
ment have Brought a new bilder- with rats which were allowed to
I do not wish to dwell too long ship not only to Britain but to eat anything they liked for 95 upon these bublic, then and the tree world. days and then made
And to hither our argument fast for therefore I shall close my British Rive days. Fifty-five of the rats gallery with (Bertram) go back to World War died after the normal two and a Russell who in Beth year has the deadly sweep of the Climan half years of life but the 33 rats clans to delg the most pro Antly aimest reached the gates on his "off-on" det lived to found thinker In our midst. It is of Paris. But fortunately here three and a half years or even true that he is a bit fottery on was the 76-year-old Cledredesu more.
bis feet and is apt to confuse old whose spirit was that of the lion In fact the Professor went so acquaintances with new but the in hity with the 87-year-old far as to say that the examina- riches of his mind site, no signs Marshal Foch they broke the tion of the liver of these 3 long of exhaustion.
power of the German odšlaught Bved rats showed them to have
It might also be said of him did the issue of the war was characteristics of a young rat that he is a profound believer in established. Yet with all the unl the very end.
marriage. In h-search for a strain that Clemenceau hat en- Finally the Professor made a soul mate he married in 1894 a dared he lived on to the age of prophecy "It we can analyse young
named Alys 88. His was an undying fame.
It was ordained by Göll'thas the substances which create Whithall Pearsall Smith, but the One might suspect the Pro- these young cells then I believe marriage was dissolved 27 years the young should be strong and
it will be commonplace for Inter. Undeterred he
and it woulu - be then ambitious fessor of braggadocio bom of
a highly intelligent phemous if we orders did superiority complex that humans to live to 100 or 120. It married
ordained that in the was also emanates from so many scientists will be done by a combination of young woman named Dora Wini ocups that duckzine. But is but he is not at all bombastic, work, 'exercise, diet and injec- fred Black who had already been development of the yearn-m82- awarded the MBE and had ind. loses its carerness just sa The truth is that he is an ardent tions."
published a book called "The thin is experiebors in the student of science and has a pro-
Right to Be Happy." I sin sorry two world war Elbyd George found belief that new body cells,
to record that she exercised the and Winston Chilezil brought to replace ones that die as we
right be unhappy là thárriage, quaillies u hear the mind and grow old, are produced by cer- Lain hormones and substances
and the union of mind and heart mesure TVORIA, BUEN SAVO created by our nervous systems,
been equalled by younger men, was dissolved. What is his aim? It is to dis- cover the precise nature of these so that they can be sythesised in the laboratory and injected into humans.
#
ON
"Until they are known exactly there will be no elixir of le said the Professor, "but menh while we can all kelp ourselves." Pressed for a clarification he did not hesitate.
Commandments
Vibrant
One might easily dispose of our Russian visitor by saying that much study has destroyed his balance of judgment and that he has become the victim of his hallucinations. on scientific
That may in fact be true yet the basic statistics do show that men and women are living longer now than was the case 50 years ago.
woman
There was a third marriage followed by another dissolution but I think we have proved our paint that rohance is no slave to the tyranny of the years,
·
Risk
Fatigue
To deny youth its opportunity would be a crime. To deny age its lore of experience would be mad. Yet despite these uhchal- lengeable truths there are too The truth is that in human many men in authority who fear But is it out possible that our nature and human achievement the challenge of those younger Russian guest is making the there must be an understanding than themselves. That is hard basic error of assuming that long between the older people with lesson for the older men to learn Ike is due to diet dhd rules of the younger. it is the nature of but it is the only way of pro- health whereas might well be things that the man with the gress. Tomortów is for the young woman weight of years is inclined to and tomorrow is not very far
conserve rather than risk. off.
His first commandment is that certain men and "Work hard. The stress and have a tenacity of existence →→ strain of modern life is in fact both mental and physical Equally it is true that the young Yet in conclusion let us, not be good for us.. It stimulates the which keeps life vibrant beyond are eager to put everything to ungracious towards Mr V.K. nerve system which produces the years of their contempor- the hazard and to lose all or Nikitin of the Kharkov institute new growth. But the mind must aries?
take all. It is a wise employer who has come to London to help be happy. If we are not happy in
who recognises and encourages us live longer and more'beal- According to his precepts the this partnership. our jobs we should quilt at once."
thily. My only fear is that his Winston Churchill is the out- injections will make us forget unscientific person that there are normal limitations is a matter of standing example of a man who that youth is a thing of the
It might strike the ordinary prolongation of life beyond its many tasks that have to be done science as exemplified by his in defied the years just as he defied spirit and not merely of the despite the fact that they are does not discriminate between ed to destroy him. From 55 to 65 in London who are so weary Jections. In this declaration he the fates that seemed determine years. I have met young men arduous. fatiguing, repetitibus and unrewards. The man in the rat and the buman being. Yet years of age he was kept out of and bored that it makes one the mines, the scavenger, the his argument is quite logical office during the period when yawn to look at them. For all factory worker who is himself a Lite is that element which char Hiller was also able to build up the weight be years I would not acterises all things which his powerful war machine. Per- their breathe and move and eventual- haps the greatest achievement of exchange experience for their
tely die. With the enthusiasm of Churchill was in the realm of
To some extent all 'expérience the pioneer he intends to add the spirit when he refused to let is a form of figure even if, later year's far
beyond the span as discouragement and fald down by the psalmist. What crush his vaulting spirit.
dismay on, it makes it easier to find the is there in his case?
way and reach the goal. Ina Yet no man cared less about Well ordered world we need the the famous men in Britain who his diet except that he never doubts of the aged just as we
drank to
excess. He liked his need the faith of the young. I have made the prophecy of the whisky and his cigar but he do not believe that science can psalmist stem as but-dated as
alter Hdmah nature nor the price of the years.
machine how can they rid themselves Of chains and soar to heights? But let the Professor put his case in his own way.
Let us take a look at some of
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nnocence.
His second commandment is - "Take plenty of exercise. Waik where possible. If forced to sit down for long periods find some thing for the hands to do. We can get all the relaxation we the dodo. Who is this sardonic was hit a slave to either. need from proper sleep at night," peer and ex-M.P, who takes his It is easy to understand the In Oscar Wilde's - tragedy of
sant in the Upper House? His philosophy of the young. They Dorian Grey" we saw
what "My third rule," he said, name is Lord Samuel, his age is are free of responsibilities, they happened when the handsome "concerns diet and it is very 89, his voice is sonorous and he are able to gamble on their own young man cold his soul for the important. Eat anything within still believes that he will live to future, and they want swift gift of eternal youth although he moderation but fast one day see a Liberal revival. It our retures for their efforts. All that did not have injections. It was a month. Drink just tea or coffee. visiting scientist can add a few is as natural as the changing had bargain and always will be. and eat only apples on the day years with his injection Lord fides or the rising and setting of There is beauty in twilight and of fasting. This diet clears the Samuel may be the first cens the sun, Yel experience, which hope in the Evening Star World
wealth' nowadays, you know system of all its poisons and tenarian to sit in the British is the motër of judgment. is of without end; Amen..
prepares it for the next month.
"It is just the Contron- We have dropped the British
part."
the
He objects strongly to presence of Sir Roy Welensky, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia the Prime and Nyasaland, at Ministers' conference.
"We are not going to stand for seeing the Commonwealth tarred with the Colonial brush," He says sternly.
Ghosts
The last British Governor- -ing-to them, on two of his missions, and technical experts. General will be leaving Ghatia One of his uncles paid for him sayings: "Seek ye first the Nkrumah has arranged an in a few weeks' time. to go to America, where he political kingdom and all else almost continuous performance worked his way through a shall be added unto you," and of pan-African conferences at His traditóbal residetice, Negro university in Pennsyl The freedom of Ghana has no which he could be the star. Christiansborg Castle, stands meaning without the freedom of He is now forcing through on a high cliff overlooking the all Africa."
vanta. After a spell at London University. he returned to ACCTE
and plunged into ne- tionalist politics.
Jailed
Nkrumah calls himself
to
a new Constitution, understood palm-fringed ses.. It WES 密 by perhaps 16 per cent of the most beautiful place. people, make Ghana а Now it stands empty with "undénominational Christian": republie with himself as the walls damp and the plastër but this does not prevent him life-President. How does this pealing.
from taking part in pagan violent nationalist and anti- When Ghana became Inde- ceremonies, keeping Ju-ju imperialist explain the fact that pendent, Kwaine Nkrumah, the Leadership came to him in charts in his home, and paying he is still, and apparently conqueror, annouliced his inten- the usual way: that is, he de- considerable attention to the wishes to remain, a Common- tion of living there himself. manded independence sooner advice of the fetish priests. wealth Prime Minister?
and in a louder voice than any-
When he was asked if he was ane else. Shrewdly, he confirma Socialist he said "Of course." ed his popularity by deliberately He is by no
means a Com- courting arrest. He came straight out of jail to become Prime munist, but he has toyed with
Marxist doctrines. Minister.
The newspaper which he co- You can't turn round in Ghann today without seeing trois, the Evening News, daily
attacks both Christianity
and
Kwame Nkrumah. His picture western civilisation as a whole. hangs in every office.
This suits Nkrumah well
His head has replaced that of enough, for his real interest is
the Queen on all the coins. the new Africa; an Africa
"We do not subscribe Empire ideas,' he has said.. "British newspapers confuse the
He never has done. They say he 1s afraid of the ghosts,
London Express Service).
THE HOLY OIL OF
MOSES, 1960 VERSION
With a brief show of re- largely pagan and iterate by Thomas Jenkins five hundred thekels, and of
herole statue of himself to be affairs
sweet cinnamon half so much,
luctance, he "suffered" be affairs, and full of digitation SCIENTISTS has it ad shekels, and of moet editihus erected outside Parilament everywhere. agalust the the 3,000-year-old
House.
The Opposition bas betn stamped on, bard; which 18
Billy because Nkrumah la still so
'popular with an almost hypno-
"Imperialists."
The Star
the
two hundred and fty shekels. scent of the holy all whole "And of Coesia five hundred recipe, according to the shekels, after the shekel Bible, God gave to Mokes to sanctuary, and of oil olive an
htn:t" use in the Tabernacle.
“And thou shalt make it an
ment compound after the brt of buns and how. As befits a messiah, bla of George Washington to lead a elgar boxes. The perfume was private life is seen only from a United States of Africare-created by a perfume arm at the scientists converted
'ancient, measures into modern respectful distance. His wife
Noorden Holland, for a British onekke rarely appears in public, Bhe He talks of an edifice
50ap Bryn Selenists had
about half an ounce, e hin to was a mill-order bride, an house us all as one big family." published fettre lo refer to little more than a gallon Egyptian girl called Fathin Anti such talk has bade him given in the Ball bt Exodus, mixed the frecvente get Helen Ritzk. Envoys brought thoroughly bugobular
Chapter 80 verses 23 10 20 and their was the holy oil tvpleturés of her to Nerliniak for Arteta politicians qui meni kize "Take thou also unto thee of Mosel
his approval.
neighbouring: Staten.
Used electorate that he could He sees himself as the first It has a spicy rather heavy of holy ofitment in oint well afford honest, politics. man to free an African State aroma, with a hint of something the
and therefore entified, as, a surt between. hot eroes
́splees, of pure murth-
If you examine the cases of all people who live to well past 70 you will find that they have duly done these three things."
Parliament
profound importance.
You cannot solve the riddle of In this race for the summill of Look on Harold Macmillan existence by having injections, the years we have such agile who is 60 years of age. If he even if it has come to us by one competitors as Lord Attlee who were dh ordinary business man of the most earnest and Just to prove his theory the Is a sprightly 77, Lord Kemsley he might be now living on a re- thusiastic Russians who has hit
'persian Fet his London for a long time.; Professor told of his experiments who is also a vigorous 77, and the tirement
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