JACKYS DIARYS
Last night Mommy
started reading. me an other
Fairy Tail,
This one was
called The
GingER-BREAD
Man
鳳
THE CHINA MAIL,
BY
SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1961.
only before it got finished cooking she
Little Boy to watch whim it got Done,
JACKY Mendelsofin haddo go out Shopping, so she told her
it starts out when this lady decides to
Cook a man in The Oven
made outta Ginger Bread
HEY!
do the Ginger-Bread ansered:
Bo then The Mother came
Pritty soon he
WheRE!
You
EEK
digging a Ditchs If he said.
digger who was
Going?
i can out-RAM You also!
BJUST OUT-RAM a old LADY & a Little Boy,
the Little Boy chased him Home, only as Soon As she all over the Place, but the]
opened the Door, The Gin- Ginger Bread Man Repton) ger Bread Ran out of ex-
Scaked
| slipping outta hiq Grabs, (
Met a Ditch-
O.K.
No soonER had the Mother went, when oliver Sudden the Door opened up 4 out Popped the Ginger- Bread Man Alive as any human
bean
·POP!
The World of Science
WA.HN You
Missed!
[te on YEAR. THAT'S What You. Think's said the. Ditch Digger, and he started into chase
the Ginger- Bread Man.
3-12
1961, King Features Syruficate, fuc, Wurlit rights reserved.
PS:
To be continued Nachs Week.
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A STITCHING GÙN, for
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AUOTE from a leading
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"At the present time many of the medicines commonly administered are placebos, {disenlee)
.,,
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Why can a man lay down a crown-but
TT is our proud boast that this is a free country. Men are not compelled to take up occupations against their will. Their life is not dictated by heredity. They choose it for themselves.
But.
Slavery and serfdom have long since vanished from the land. in one way the old tyrannies flourish as though the feudal system were still with us.
Worse things might
Winston Churchill's was a
f
There is no escape from the House of Lords, if you happen to be the eldest son of a peer. Like happened. the galley-slaves of old, the hereditary peers are chained to the oar.
The Bible says: The sina of
the fathers shall be visited on the children even wito the third and fourth generation.
A harsh deetrine, But the ultimate grasp. doctrine about the Lords is st harsher,
not a peerage? by A. J. P. TAYLOR
On the contrary, it would be strengthened. Those who took
uy hereditary petrages would be willing victims. They would be anxious to make the best of have it.
A
This is not a revolutionary father testion. This not even a
the novel suggestion, There is younger
In Duke of Marlborough, Had its faveur a precedent of a
powerful kind. he been the eldest son. Winston most He could certainly expect Churchill would have
been precedent where an individual to be a Cabinet Minister in a forced into the Lords, never to was allowed, indeed encouraged. future Icbour Government. become our war Prime Minister to renounce an hereditary rank Even the position of Premier and the zavlour of his country. even higher than a peerage. did not seem to be beyond his
It is an absurdity that our The precedent is that of King Now be in doomed, A life fate should depend on so narrow Edward VIIL new Duke of sentence of Exclusion frem a twist of hereditary chance, Windsor. One day he was King In this case, it is the merits the Utase
cf Commons
Emperor of Great Britain,
The next Is a simple way cut, India, and so on. avolda Bl constitu- having abdicated, he was plain tional wrangling about the Mr Edward Windsor and could He has dene nothing to dulles and future of the lave run for the House of Com- deserve this, What is more, House of Lords. Mr Wedg- mons unless he had been made his father, Lord Stargate, wood Benn is now putting it a Duke, went to the Lords reluctantly forward powerfully and as a pubtle duty,
hangs over him, an exclusion There
of the father which are visited upon the children not for three shared unly by lunatles and which
or four generations, bul for felons.
ever.
So absurd
Let a man spend a life in The service of the State. If at
He lun was a brilliant mem- the end he receives a peerage, ber of the House of Commons, then his eldest descendants are He went to the Lords solely to equalified for ever from the strenstilen the Labour benches House of Commercs, and so from there. New the son is punished reaching the heights of political for the fathre's public spirit. ambition.
Why should children
of their fathers?
be penalised
The case
for
Alaus the virtues
of Mr Wedgwood alone.
Bean displays the system
Not alone
Mr Wedgwood Benu is not Leid laflsham was In marked out for the highest. its full absurdity. He is one offices when he was in the House of the few members of the e Commons as Quintin HoRK. House of Commons who has Now the path to the summit is shown outstanding ability. Barred against him.
Just arrived
1960
DRES
ANNUAL
vincingly.
and con
Any member of the House of Lords should be allowed to renounce his peerage. It would pass to the next heir.
Nong would be changed
THE CROWN
HOUSE OF LORDS
at
If a King of England can lay down his titles and shake
this to
off his hereditary obligations. how much more should freedom be extended viscount or a baron.
There is stil more to be said Edward VIII
In the constitutional position in their favour.
of the House of Lords. The abdicated for personal reasons, would to marry the woman he loved
and to retire into private life.
principle
hereditary not be challenged.
JACOBY on BRIDGE
South disrupts East's signal
UNLIKE yesterday's hand,
come
which would be bid to game by any pair in the world. It is possible
that
people night stay out of game with these Nurth-South cards, Sun The game contract is zound and only fails because of East's ability to ruff the third dia- mend tead.
Should the diamonds be divided 4-3. or should West open any other suit, South would simply draw trumps and make his 10 tricks.
NORTH (D)
1
4KJ753
+ Q107
A053
WEST 484
EAST
Q1063
◆ AK065 4107
40 VKJ975 +42
KQ902
SOUTH
★AQ 1092
AB4
JB3
JA
East and West vulnerable North East South Weat Pass Pass 14 Pros Pass
4 A
крел ESGL WIN
Pasa Pasz Opening lead—9 10
However, West does
| the king of diamonds.
signal with the four spot and
Mr Wedgwood Benn and is concerned. It is supported blind obstinacy, those Bice
quish hirry
to by many Torles, particularly by phrases
In the younger relinquish their peerages
and more order to remain in public Ufe, gressive, not to withdraw from it.
Far from running away
from their
duties, they seel to perform them more fully and in a more effective way.
Reinforced
Is our political life go running over with ability that we should reject the rager efters of able men who are anxious to serve?
It is argued that no eble men will 'reman in the House of Lords if they are allowed to escape from It.
This is not so. There are
many among the hereditary peers who have seriething to contribute, уск who would not ding themselves into the |rough amk tumble of the House
of Commons,
it is up to Scuth to discourage West's head and demand some reinforced the House of Lords
a dianiond continuation if he
can.
The present Govemment has
other lend, but South can play creating Lite
Peers Surely
the card that will canoe West these senior figures and their The rules of bridge forbid to pause, reflect, and possibly right place in the Lords, while that he draw a gun, point it at shift mults.
CARD Sensek♦
Q-The bidding has been: North East Bouth West
1
Pass
24
Pass
3▼
14
Pong 44
Paso Pass Pass
10
Poos
You, South, hold:
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TODAY'S'QUESTION
a young man of ambition does not.
KDV reform?
Which diamond should he
What stands in the ploy? A lot of players wry the Jack. it lookn
sensational then of this sensible enough so that they hope West One mhght expect como members will think that it is a singleton, of the House of Commons to be Othorn try the less sensätional jealous of their able eclleagues falze-card of the eight,
and to rejoice at exlling them to the Lords,
A symbol
case.
The right play this time 13 32 4A854 40 South's only hope
the quiet little three spot.
to per What do you do?
suade West that East was not A-Paul. You have run out of
nignalling in diamonds. It he This
too in not the bids.
plays the eight or the jack Thero is abundant evidence that, Went will sco that the three left to a free vote, the House of and deuce are both anlasing and Commmuna ayould carry Mr Wedg will be sure that his partnerwood Benn's proposal by If Bouth play majority. hos algallesi, the tree Weat will only wonder
The Labour Party in solki about the deuco and may de- cide that Bouth holds that one for it. And it fa the best judge card.
Instead of bidding threa spades over your thres hearts your partner has jumped to four spades. What do you do in this Instance?
Answer on Monday
large
Iso for an Mr Wedgwood Bern
Behind th of Tory democracy of pro there appears the Torylsm
privilege. of reaction, resistance to all change.
of
principle.
ihla test
Cummings
It will fall to s If the Whips and their tho Government havo
way.
All sensible men must wish
Ben Wedgwood
Yel Mr Wedgwood Benn seems doomed to fallure and the Lords. You may вду that the that Mr
The Tory Whips have been put question is not very important. thould succeed. Sensible Tories on. The enlightened young affects only Half a dozen should wish it most of all. Torics will be driven to vote men. But it is symbol of against their convictions.
coon
be swept
wider significance.
For if the House of Lords is The Bymbol of whether men count mare maintained as a prison for men The Tory Party oflen tries to than institutions, The Bymbol of ability, the time will present itself 19 democratic, of whether a man's fate should come when it will fully abreast with the needs of be dictated by his ancestors, away altogether. the twentieth century. all pretence?
I
Is this
It
MyWedgwood Benn is the not Mr Wedgwood
true Tory, desplie his Radical Denn whe is on trial in this ism. Or perhaps because of it. It seems so, The old Tory
CANO. It is the Tory Party. spirit is revealed here in all its It is being put to the test of
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