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"W
Sitting on the Fence
ELL." said the
Sweep, "ow are you gittim along?”.
"All right." I said.
"Setulń down in your new ome by the sca?"
"Yes, thank you."
"If you was to arske me, I'd ray
It was a nice, ealthy spot to live in."
"It certainty
"Though I don't reckon it's going to be so ealthy if them there i old Russians start remelink."
"It certainly aİnt.”
sald the "Cor sufferin, wars," Sweep, "If they ever get to the count of France I reckon they'll knock your ouse down quicker than them. there little old town planners."
"They certainly will," "And make a quleker Job of it.
boo.
**That's right"
"Sul," said the Sweep, "you don't ave to worry your pretty cad about
that
"faint," said..
"I don't suppose you're doin so badly for a drop of wallop in izem parts?"
"Not so bad."'
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
accustomed to alcohol, has been car- ried to bid on three occasions by the stewards, and would have joined a strip tease party if he had not fal len unconscious before we At his
"Ife certainty' did."
thee the more "The bigger Ikely people are to belleve il That was is motto,"
"It was." "And by people he meant people gaiters off Elle, you
"And you."
"Though It didn't evort over ere durin the General Election, said the Sweep,
I sold,
Nevertheless, what is the plight of a peer innocent, bishop compared with the plight of the brillant and astute Mr Molatov?
is the only way. I shall also per- punda the Amerlenn Governmant that war in the only way to pre- serva the American way of lite.
Well, my dear Mr Gubbins, if this should come about Russia is ceginin. to lose, unless the British remain neutral, which Is. unlikely,
in major conflicts Britain is never on the losing side, and probably never will be, fact which has puzzled me for for centuries, but a fact which both Russia and America should take.
consideration be fore making irretrievable decisions, Therefore, if he lives long enough
Первые to see the conftet, the end of Mr Melatov rcome an inevitable as the end of Herr Ribbendrop. He will be tried as a war, criminal because he refused to co-operate in the Mar-
plan, shall right mind must see it was not easy though anybody in his for him to do 801
For one thing, he knew the Krom- In would not approve of en-opera- As you have probably observed, tion, and for another he must have "Which shows some propte ant ir Molcter and other members of known that no American Republican so silly as you think."
the Russian Government have taken would voto dollars to pay for the "That's right."
the place of litler, Goering and the rennstruction of a Communist econo-, "All the same," said the Sweep, others in my worldwide scheme for my:
another spot of bother. uppy life in the c op country."
"Thank you."
delusion of Nuzlam has Been re "Though you don't want to over- placed by the great delusion of Com do it. No flyin saucers mind."
"Certainly not."
"No county like Kent for a drop "ere's opin voult ave a long, ha creat to my teachings the great
of wallop," and the Sweep. Invaduck. that's where
come from, ni 17"
"It i
to
"Cor
The
ops
the papers,
The skin or yourn."
"The skin or your nose." the Sweep,
said
его
"And, nccordin that's where they seen the first Byin
sauerr over England."
"Go B?"
"Wherever they
see these
flyin saucers,” said the Sweep, "you can bet your life they don't go short of much."
h"
"Too true," I said.
"Why, out in America," said the Sweep
"where all our Scotch us
to, they've sten undreds of
gorn them."
That's right,"
"And If we don't stop exportta
whisky, they'll be seçin flyin bot-
les next."
"They will and all,“
"Still," said the Sweep, "it pro bably gives little old Mololov a laugh."
"It probably do.”
"They used to say ile old Itter couldn't see a joke. But I aint so sure now,"
"Nor me."
Letter from
Mr. Lucifer
ABOARD SS SATANIC þEAR Mr. Gubbins,
Just a line to let you know how
DEA
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byOSBERT LANCASTER
ILM. CUSTOMS.
DOUANE
"So we were in Switzerland for our health, Were Wa2”
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
THE
HE 150,000 pected by
tourists cx- the British
or
Poor Mr Molotov will, be lucky it Tourist Board th's rummer, he is excruted by the British who for whom the Caterers' Asso- are at least experts in these mat-ciation says it will not have munism.
ters.
enough chipped, sarzers You have already pointed out that The bishop had a frightful hang- bent srecns, will replace 150,- these ideologies are the same in proc. over this morning, but after a couple
tho of
people in tice, having the same Intolerance
of the widow's jet propelled cork 000 Eng'ish liberal views, the same ruthlessness talls became involved in a discussion avable hotel-rocms. in dealing with opposition, and the on atavism, and confided to us thai Tourist families who arrive carly sume .contempt for the working his wife in England had the begin- will be encouraged to sublet ·odd classes whose champlon fliey prefead aings of a tail,
corners of their rooms to later ar- to be.
With kind:s regards to yourself | rivals." Towels, glasses, carpets The only observable difference 15 and family. that, so far, Communism has not
Yours ever. practised racial persecution.
the widow and I are enjoying our So you can sca that
have
MEPILY.
wardrobes, doors, beds, 1lnen and blinds will probably be collected from the 150,000 disappointed Eng- Ish people by the Secrat Tourist
Wordsworthiana
Party conversation Police. holiday after wrecking the Parts con- manouvred poor Mr Molotov tu ference. We are sailing towards the the same position as the late Herr MARGARET'S father's diving a South Pacific in lovely weather. The Ribbendrop or any other member of 11 lying saucer party with flying widow is in the best of splints, mix- the German Government whose vio saucers projected on screens, tauring THE complaint of a man who had ng her delicious but deadly cutktalls, lent end we have recently witnessed. all murd the room and, across the reminded me n' Wordsworth's and tempting a bishop we trapped He is committed to
similar ideology, or board in the belief that he was which is ultimately committed to sailing home for a well-carne1, 1est world
by congdient.
any means which in England.
may seem
At the moment I have persuaded
I can't think why the naughty girt
is always scheming for the downfal. the Russian Government to use the of bishops, unless her mother was ancient method of the Trojan horse, "Cor strike a light, he knew ow frightened by one before sho was but if this should fail, I shall per
born. This unhappy man, who is not suade them that war with America
to start
rumour."
We need twice as
many scientists
N the basement of a house in Bedford-square, W.C.1, which is now a laboratory, two young men art working on research projects. They think their work will prevent hun- dreds of air crashes and thousands of lives.
SAVE
NOTHING IN LIFE FOR YOU-3RD. DAY
CHAPMAN PINCHER tolls the story of two young men who sot out to save the Ilves of athers.. and points to the laboratory as a workroom for the restless mind that seeks fulfilment.
point aircraft olla.
They are Max Woosnam, 24-year- Treadwell helps on the Are distribution of all atornic by old ex-flight-lieutenant. RA.F., and
alarm project. but he also does products to hospitals and medical Richard Trondwell, ex-Royal Ma-work of his our-en--high dash research laboraturies. -- sonic Schoolboy, aged 20.
Sir Alexander Fleming made the chancé discovery that a common mould contains miracle which we now call penicillin.
Any day.
At 18, in search of adventure, Woosnom tried to join the Air Force. He was rejected.
Three years later, then a graduate of Cambridge University, he tried again. This time he got in, but he did not find adventure in the air. He falled to quality medically for operational flying.
freat
Mr Poole has convinced the Air Ministry that many of the fires that crus crashes are due to explosions of vapour given off by lubricating
s
་
And Treadwell has had the satis-
retion of seeing the new oll which he helped to develop specified for the new Tudor civil alrüner, and ely to become standard for all British alteraft.
There has never been and there Nor did he find adventure in the
may never be again such scope in Embankment building
.
selence for young people as there is Thomes House, where he
worked today. ht three years compiling air
crash statisties for the Ministry of Aircraft Production,
By
High Adventure
UT he has found it in the base- ment in Bedford-square. And ed has Treadwell, who at 10 with a good matriculation certificate, looked for a job with scientifle davour. He
never dreamed that within four years the success of important research would depend on him.
that
П
These men owe their chances to
Poole. 39-year-old Mr Ralph London engineer who belleves every research project is high ́ad- verture. To him every practising scientist is an explorer just as was Captain Cook.
The young technicians he has gathered about him agree.
It is not the professors who are doing the exciting work. They plan research and supervise it. But It is the young scientists In the laboratories who do most of it.
The Allled team which developed the atomic bomb was remarkable for the youth of its key personnel. The harnessing of atomic power to British Industry is today largely in the hands of young scientists and
technicians.
Atomic power
THE entire contrat of one of the most important branches of the atom project has been given to chemist who is only 32. He is Dr Walter Grove, director of the Na- tional Radio. Chemical Centre ut Amersham, Bucks
t
drug
calling."
"My husband says if all the town planners had their way, the total cost reauid be about ten thousand million pounds."
I'm so sick of reading about dollars, Joans. Russia, and food shortages that my favourite bedside book is the Three Bears."
Brenda's husband's terrified she' 'get hold of whale steak and make
disgusting dinner out of that," "We've got to a pretty low state
a
fe and eat his last chicken-
farious Ines when his sister Dorothy had served up one of the E poet's favourite birds, Lucy, for Sunday lunch.
But she is in her gravy, and oh,
The difference to me.
Marginal note
COME of the comments offered to the public by English news- allow 15 women to join their hus- papers on the Russian refusal
to"
if we can't eat roast beef if we're bands. are rich beyond the dreams
not polile to the wife of a dica-of, avarice. My favourite is this:
Especially as
the dictator (1 charging the highest possible prices because he knows we have to 1
it."
"My husband says we shall have our own back one day on all the people who are taking advantage af our present situation. He says the Germans are moaning now, but they asked for 1."
"Before Brenda's Hushand let Нет БСС the papers, he cuts out all references
These women and their children represent a scaretly discernible de- cimal in Russia's population, of 200 millons." flow true! Another good explanation Is that "During the war seven million Russians were killed 000 was caused by Hitler's, invading and damage. totalling £32,000,000,-
hordes."
The mice protect
to whale steaks." THE
HE cat which came by plane and car to Perls and at once. hid a "My husband bays every Com- munist is a Fifth Columnist, just meal of turbot and steak and milk, has preused the fury of the mouse as every Fascist was a Ellth Co-world. It is true that Very Impor-
lumni in
decision
tant Mice often travel in
planes,
the nineteen, thirties."
but an oficial of the Mouse Union "Staford Cripps's allow more clothes for men marks Bald yesterday: "All we get to ent the first occasion that any Govern is cheese barely tit for human bc- ment has been on the side of menings, while cats cat not only, us but
fish-and-most," ice women "had" a "uole **-*------
"LL women didn't smoke there'd In passing
be no tobacco shoringe."
"If women didn't drink there'dR HENRY WALLACE'S be no drink shortage."
visit
should be remembered, I for nothing else: for one of the most gloriously absurd statements ever
tho
"You might as well say that I women didn't eat there'd be no OLLOWING his lead, scientis's
food
shortage. in medical
*My husband says women have uttered by a politician-and that is research establ'an taken everything commen
but saying a good dral. He is reported to have said that poverty was ments, throughout Britain are caponably." ing extracts of other moulds, t
"AS leaves, of fruits, of insects and even four of sauces & Margaret's father's
everybody will have to drink principal cause of wars. of germs themselves. Young
Tail-piece sur- party and they will all be cre needed for all these proients.
Any day, any one of them may everybody will be raving mad
rounded by flying sucers, A LOVELY. Ezw word has been strikte a drug which is fatal to the midnight
ст
of tuberculosis.
men
For, these men every day spent
in the laboratory la adventure the grand manner.
it
reailse fully the Implications of the
We are too near the events } release of atomie energy, the dis covery of penicillin and the deve ippment of jet and rocket prit. pulsion.
The committee appointed, by the Government to stury scientifle man power in Britain' has reported the wo must double our output of sclents within the next ten years if we are to take our proper place in the Atomie Aga.
It must be increased to give 5,000 newly qualified scientists nvers year.
They will not niako fortunes that Wit earn the respect of bank managers. Selenüße achievement of another kind. And that is something in life worth having.
Yes, a doctorate at 30-even Zam is a prize within reach of all those brings reward young enthusiasts.
be
"My Immediate fob is to per fect an alarm system for alrcraft that will warn a pilot of an im-
Many prominent scientists minent fire in time for him to pre- love that the medical bencilts of venti Woosnam 'told me.
ajómlé power may far outweigh in "It is a tough assignment but an advantage its Industrial absorbingly Interesting and to me, application. DrGrove will be exciting."
repvibute for the prepuration and
NANCY
That's What, 1
It Is
ALL MY SNAPSHOTS WERE IN THIS BUREAU AND NOW I CAN'T FIND THEM
I HAD PHOTOS OF ALL MY FRIENDS IN THERE AND NOW THEY'RE
MISSING
TOMORROW: John Deano Pot- fer tells the story of three young men who Invested in their own brains.
WHAT'S SO FUNNY: IN THERE ?
HA-HA HA
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