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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1947..
Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
Sitting
MONG the half-dozen
column
readers of this how many can pul his
hand on his heart and say! "I have never sneered at Old Moore Gubbins, the world- famous astrologer?"
Not one, I expect.
Of course, I don't blame you. In this age of wise guys and smartles it is the fashion to sneer at those who rend the future in the stars,
times
when
In ancleat
people knew what they were doing and where they were going they were mure -humble about these things. They were simple enough to believe
what wise men told them.
on the
Fence
by NATHANIEL
GUBBINS
If he had taken the advice of inv
astrologer inillons of lives would have been saved. There would have been no food sharinge, no fuel short- age, no housing shortage.
No whisky shortage, either, that it matters, of course.
Ol. so tha?" where AOTI 1105 been, is he? While wite wan worrying about poar worm stumping! feet in freezing train worm was really in front of blazing fire in low! tavern pouring out money which m'tht have been spent on new cur- talus for freezing plg-sty where wife haa boon snowbound for six weeks.
Of course, wife might have known that selfish worm would look after himselt while others suffered for incompetence of worm's dirty We bellove that the circumstances in which we pursue our prey are to Socialist Government. It was just be admired.
A this time of the year we are terally starving, sometimes for Not days, scensionally for weeks on end, Nobody offers us food. We can't do any work with our pawa, Wo are that on sight.
Well, readers, I am sorry to say WHAT would have happened if
that the whole six of you will now have to swallow all those sncers be- calise one of you has been big enough to write in and remind Oll Moore Gubbins of something he write in March 1944
This is what he wrote:-
"When the lights go up again all over the world they will probably go out again because of the shortege of coat."
You see? Absolutely dead right three years before it happened.
More recently the ancient unan
Shtawell had consulted Moore Gubbins last summer?
Okl
So we are forced to hunt for our I'ving In the worst possible condi tiits, often showing the greatest him travers, unarmed against armed
O.M.(. would have taken straight to the Alles in our office. pointed out the prophecy Innde hi March 1944, told hm about the weniber in 1947, and then aken bim out of the office for a quick one.
If Shiawell could have remembered what it was all about by the time he got back to the Ministry, every- have been bang on. thing would
wizzo and julle dokles.
Coal would have been saved by ratiuning domestic fuel in the sum... · wer, the wheels of industry would have been going flat out, and you Have you prophecies for each month and I would not be the bluz-nosed,
in 1947.
"True he does not read the stars us other astrologers read them. Dur- ing the war he could foretell future events, including the flying bomb. by looking through the bottom of an upturned glass in the black out.
Now he just sits down and thinks up the worst things that could hap. pen to us, and is usually right.
WHAT did he say about the first
three months of 19477 He said they would be cold and terrible and predicted misury for all.
Any comments?
Is there a lesson in all this? Yes, The lessons that the Government should make use of the amazing gifts
of Old Moore: Gubbins.
After all, Hitler was not above consulting astrologers, and he was no fool. The only foolish thing he did, apart from invading Russia in stead of going all out for us, was to shoot the astrologer who told him be, was going to lose the wor.
inen.
Therefore we greatly resent having cur name applied to men who hunt their prey in warm cocktail bar,
risking nothing but a snub.
We also resent the fact that the After all, we only want to eat our matives are identifed with ouri.
viellms.
the proper time and here the proper We also think that now may be place to draw attention to the ex- emplary moral lives led by wolves.
This may be due partly to our harsh circumstances, but we prefer to believe it is because, among wild
there is a strict creatures,
moral code. which civilised man, In the misery of his complicated existence, Letter from a Wolf finds hard to follow unless he im
unhappy ercatures, we are today.
If Attlee wants any aduice in the future he has unly to ring up and ask for Nat,
DEAR SIR
Fin
As a constant render of you! column may I once again trespass
your valuable space to ir n grievance which has caused grea! resentment among thoughtful wolves alf over the wolf-inhabited world?
We have noticed with growing dis- may that the term "wolf" is being applied with greater frequency cachi your to any male of the hunan species who pursues women for a purpose too obvious to be described hore,
poses upon himself the severest self discipline.
We can only say that she wolves
utmost respect and that if any wolf behaved like a man he would be torn to pieces
in all packs are treated with the
Hoping your wile and family enjoy good health as mine do at present, rematu, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
A Wolf,
Diary of a Worm
rives
HEERFUL worm- delayed in sub, urban train held up by frost pr We can only assume that the term
home four hours late. Ex- originates from the fact that we hunt plains to wife he might have been or pursue, our prey with the utmost little earlier except that he stopped determination, overcoming difculat w tavern to have couple tes, ignoring danger, and enduring, beers, with witty worm friend be- barchdip with a relentless single- fore facing walk home in snow. mindedness of purpose which, In Witty worm friend very funny about some circumstances, is to be no debates in Parliament, mired, in others to be deplored. plains, still giggling.
WILLIAM
HICKEY
warm ex-
SAFER TO STAY IN BED
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Its location: Eros, Piccadilly master of our self. circus.
Field
trial,
(Ext. 441.).
OPERATION: "The Government is Revd. D. B. CUMMING,in in the nightmarish position of being Holy Cross Church, W.C.I. CALLANT: New York
about to perform Post
a delicate major WITNESS: Guarded from the operation columnist EARL WILSON made
on Englund, and at the same time having to exhort the Transatlantic call to MARGARET Press and all other inquirers at ex-
Marshal Kesselring' war patient to get up from the operating LOCKWOOD ther number: PRO-
Lieut-Colonel ALEXANDER table and work for its life." spect 3403), and reports: "Phoning a beautiful English glamorpuss like SCOTLAND, chlef British witness MOLLIE PAINTER-DOWNES, writ Margaret Lockwood and trying to was a member of the German ing on nationalisation in the New interview her ranks in dullness with Auny"), knows more about the Ger- Yorker magazine.
mon General Staff than any other BOATLOAD: Meeting on incoming reading the complete works of Ed-
Briton. Wolter Lucas, cabled from gar A. Guest. the Nembutal of literature." Wilson, adds: "I've con- Venice: Shoni, stocky, greyhaired, her from America Reporter L. V.
this 60-year-old member
DODDS noted; Out of 2,138 passen- of the British intelligenc; Service, with a gers, 1,730 came straight to London. face like a marble, sits immobile Two-thirds were Americans, fewér in the witness stand, sharply cor- than one in ten were homing Britons. rects the official Interproter if he does In cross-section of 100 passengers 38 (tele- not give the exact meaning of some were "big business" chiefs translated German word." Scot phones, tyres, wine, aircraft, farm land's view of Kesselling: "He was goods banking, paper and breakfast the best of a bad bunch." Name food); nil but four had their wives among the Ales of Kesselring's staff with them. oficers "Schottlund."
ADVERT.: Comment by actress PROGRESS: Before reviewing 100 PHYLLIS CALVERT, Just back from years of chemistry leading to plas- America with
50me sheets, pillow tics, penicillin,
atomic cases, and a parcel of white flour.... energy, Sir HAROLD HARTLEY. "I thought our bread was white till FI.S. (88), looked over gold-rim-
cluded that the Engilsh glam dolls are not our types. Bea Lille, the great English comedlence,
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med spectacles at his Chemical so I saw theirs." ciety audience of 100 men, half a SUCCESS: C: C. Wakefield and Co., British ait concert, dozen women, said reflectively: "In £9,000,000
this year of grace 1947 we, too have appointed
two new directors:
like the 25 chemists who first met Mr W. F. LIST and Mr L. M.
firm as junior clerks. So did two other of their colleagues оп the board.
to form the society In 1841-will BROADWAY. Both began in the go home by torchlight." AUDITION: Overheard on paving the ELLEN TERNY
centenary service: "Congregations on these oc casions always sing as though C, B. Cochran
In were listening
the vestry,"
CINCH: Opportunist Sudanese leader EL AZHARI is happy about the Sudan, "If it becomes a, king- 'dom," he says, "I will be king; !! a ** Nembutal: effective steeping pill republic, I'll be president; if united Ingredient.
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---FOR BETTER POSTURE, TRY BALANCING A BOOK ON YOUR HEAD
like worm, to vote for dirty Socialist Government and talk about virtues of dirty Scelalist Government uti wife was sick of hearing about them, and then when dirty Socialist Gov- ernment brings country to brink of ruln for worm to escape conse-
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by Beachcomber
THE
THE recent terrible hailstorm in Sydney reminded me of an adventure of my own.
Years ago I was walking in the Tatra Mountains, on the. borders of Czecho-Slovakia and Poland. It was
Wife can understand why worm is dirty Socialist. Worm is dirty Socialist because worm has 110 brains or initiative and expects to be kept in kileness and luxury by a lovely summer day, but the sky. Stute. Moreover, worm is probably | suddenly darkened, and, to my jealous of proper men like gas man-
which omazement, great hailstonen, apper who have gOL on in world really hurt when they hit me, come Inheitered under a through hard work and thrift, who hizing down. monnge to catch trains that are not rock, and it was soon over. They frost bound, and sit down behind were the largest hallstones I ever new curtains for proper dinner at saw. By the time I got down to seven with bottle of wine on table Zakopane, they were as big as golf balls. In Cracow they had grown to and proper fire in grate.
the size of cricket balls. At Czensto- No doubt petty, jealous worm is looking forward to day when enter-chowa I was comparing them with footballs. Now, 'when I look back, rising men like gas manuger are
and remember my youthful powers nationalised and brought down to level
and low, cadging ef exaggeration. I sometimes wonder friends.
whether they were really as big as small marbles What wife can't understand is how..
of worm
worm, who is supposed to believe all Murder of an elephant men are brothers and equals, can throw away money like millionatre it low tavern with witty worm triends who are no doubt dangerous MALPRACTICE went through the
(VIII)
Communists spending Russian gold, M College Kitchens like a
while brothers and equals are trudg-
tour-
jag home in show or shivering Le-nedos, and was in time to surprise fore empty fireplaces eating frugal a strange conversation in the pantry.
upper in overcoats.
seedy-looking man was offering a sum of money for something wrap. pid in newspaper. "Who are you?" sicuth. **Milkits," thundered the aid the man. "What are you doing?” Trying to buy a bit of stuff for Bradull and Ruckley," "A bit of
So far as wife can see worm isn't even proper Socialist. Wife can't remember worm ever making clever speech or being able to stand up for two minutes in political arguiment with gas manager, who has world stuff? What stuff?" "A bit of vie
The firm makes bil- affales at Bnger tips, while worm, phini's tusk, who would be laughing stock of local | Hard bolis” At that moment a cool council, is content with low tavern entered the for kitchen, shouting. politics throwing
away Empire -Oh, boy! Oh, boy! Will this make a over glass of beer.
tasty dish? Malpractice sprang for- · worm had any push and go ward, and snatched on chorniOUIS worm might have been Member of lump of meat from the man's hand, Parlament stead of being at beck One glance told him that it was the and call of every Tom, Dick and thigh of a full-grown elephant. He Harry in City. Worm might even dashed back to the Master's house, have been Cabinet, Minister and got
burst in, and roared in a steely £5,000 a year for throwing Empire sice, "I arrest you for the murder away instand of deing it for nothing of Bingo, the elephant" The kindly If worm had better appearance and I'm too old to murder elephants," old don glanced up from his Hesiod. personality with proper education, he said. "I confine my activities, to stend-of-looking-like-out-of-work-eating the One must supplenient bookmaker's clerk, worin might even the rations."
i have been Prime Minister with | £10,000 a year and wife could have Financial note
lived in Downing-street with proper curtains Instead of scraping along on paltry plitance, unable to hold head up in Worms-avenue because curtains are ten years old.
One day worm will be fired from office boy's job in City or arrested by police for sedition, and wife who has worked fingers to bone trying to make home out of ple-sty will end up in gutter while worm is in prison dreaming of Utopla.
B.
MANY people are asking why dis- count houses, holding maturi- ties, have had to begin selling short bills. The reason is that the calling in of funds has been
only leniporary, so that the credits outstanding are more than counterbalanced by the demands for money. Erratic price movements abroad are always follow- ed by a downward trend in the rate applicable for payments, as to mall transfers and buying rates here.
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This year whisky is 15 senses than one. (5)
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port. (7)
tore
$5
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3. Nowadays after fallows a smash.
(4)
2. Belonging to the entire Christian
Church. (9)
4. Posal, 101
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(8)
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Itacon. (3)
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