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1. "Don't let the squad fire
over my
awkward
"grave"
was the last request of-
Duke of Marlborough, Wil liam Tell, Robert Burns, Buf falo Bill, Lieut.-Colonel Mar. tinet?
2. The first bollin wis- Backroom scientist,
queer
bird, character in Dickens?
resklences Arc
3. these
Lambeth Palace, Fulham Palace, Chequers, 11, Down- ing-street, 1, Cariton-gardens? Do you 4. Four of a kind.
know the types?
5. Apart from cricket, what have these famous players in comman-
W. J. Edrich, Denis Comp- George John Arnold, ton, Dews, Arthur Jepson?
6. In which English coun
tics are--
Penarthing
stone, andicy?
penny
Down,
Shilling- Six-
7. Rock of Ages, the famous
hymu, was composed by-
Charles Dodgson,
Toplady, Richard
Charles Wesley?
Augustus
'Lovelace,
8. Would you be correct in Raying that you saw these at
a hunt-
Red dogs?
coats,
white horses,
What is a hamster-
young male pla,
rodent,
amateur actor,
sinall nicat
sandwich?
10. Who wrote the play "A Doll's HouBC”......
Lewis Carroll, Barrie,
Jane
Austen, Ibsen?
Jap Magazines
For America
Five thousand eight hundred copies At Japanese magazines are being rent in United States renders for the first time since the surrender, aboard the first ship leaving Japan after private foreign trade resumed
15 on August
POLITICAL NOTES:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1947.
HAVE THE EXPERTS LET US DOWN?
by ERNEST THURTLE, M.P.
London, Aug. 26. the high experts let us down. to whom shall we turn?
tho Mr Dalton's broadenst other night indicated that con- vertibility had finally caused our dollar ship to founder.
But why? It was all written in the bond, and the date of its operation set down.
Presumably we acted thus on the very best advice, that of the great pundits of finance.
Have these rent ones, our money specialists, made a grievous mistake? It looks very much lite it.
NOW it is painfully obvious that
carsed
which last Sunday's Cabinet,
much excitement and fanc theorising, was concerned with the financial talks in America.
But that hastily summoned meet ing was an instructive illustration of Minister's democratic the Prime technique.
Here
widely scattered Cabinet, and an urgent decision to be taken.
Was
The P M., either alone, or in consultation with two or three of his chief colleagues, could have taken that decision and justified it to the full Cabinet afterwards.
But no, there must be full con- stiltation, and consequently plete joint responsibility.
com-
the O the Cabinet meets, and
door is thereby shut upon ro-
the criminations should
decision taken prove unfortunate.
"Safety Arst government," the
is the democratle way.
And it incidentally provides the minimum scope for any who may br contemplating break-away
crilles may say. Perhos, but it
rebellion
Are there any such? thought!
Perish the
believe un- PLAUSIBLE, but I
founded. is the report that the Prine in The
Minister will be resigning Copies of 19 periodicals first chloment. Later more coples shortly and that he will be ccccded
with the ultimate by Mr Bevin... will be sent. monthly goal of 100,000 copies to the North American mainland and 130,000 coples to 'Huwali.
Of course, Mr Attlee may resign, but if he centemplated this step it
Is unlikely that he would make to his known his intentions, oven intimates, until he was about to act, for he knows such a momentous move could not be kept secret.
Minister were
It is also true that if the Prima to retire Mr Bevin might succeed him.
Yet it is clear that Mr Morrison. пл Deputy Phinno now acting Minister, to marked out as helt-apparent.
WIT
the
KEITH every
reuson this out- standingly able Londoner, who to his han rendered great service party, has cherished ambitions to be- come Prime Minister,
1 cmnot see him, unless he really were
man, rejecting that ú sick great office if it were open to him.
buy
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And so far as fitness goes, I must
Mr Morrison strikes me getting very much like his old confident said ambitious self of pre-
iness days.
OHIN BELCHER, at the Board of
Trade, Impresses me successful junior Minister.
4
If some form of reconstruction should take his chief, Sir Stafford Cripps, from that department, he #nigght even get the reward of the industrinus apprentice and himself become boss.
John is neither old school tle nor
as a railway clerk (now 42), he is a
economic studies.
What gives Public Schools their pull?
Two 13-year-old Dorset boys who started at elementory schools have bean chosen to go to Eton under a bursary · schomo. In this articlo, WALTER OAKESHOTT, Headmaster of Winchester, describes the advantages of a Public School
【HERE has been, not un
Taturally.com, ot stille
comment, on the plans for ad- boys from Stato mitting schools Into Public boarding Schools. But
first tho
that response has shown there is a demand for Public School education. Why is this?
The great advantages which the Public Schools as a whole enfoy can be set down readily. Chief of them are a generous ratio of staff to boys and o generous salary scale for the staff. Both these things are very expensive.
IT is not always realised how much better off some of the Public Schools are than the State secondary schools in these mat-
They ters.
have, may
for to a master. instance. ten boys instead of twenty-one or twenty- two.
This means that classes can be fixed at something like the ideal size for any given age. It means that a master may teach twenty periods a week instead of thirty- ilve-with great advantage to the effectiveness of his teaching.
It means that though he is cer ininly worse off than he was be- fore the war, he has a reasonable Inck salary; and that there is a of pressure about his life which permits him to give himself fully. to his job.
It is sheer myth to think that by giving children better build- ings (important though it is to clear our educational slums) wo will ever give them the real ad- vantages that public schoolboya have. Those are much more UX- pensive than buildings. And that in the trouble.
The thing may be stated simply: It will cost as much to educato a lad in, any school'in which those advantages are available as it may do for the wage-earner to main- tain himself and his wife and family of five children.
П
"And, by "cost," what is meant is not the bills Bent to parents, but the expenso incurred in mak- ing provision for such an educa- tlon. The two may be the same thing.
But endowmenta may mean that they are not.
I do not
vantages, derestimate the ad-
1
Public
than staffing, which boarding School may to the lovely, ex- give. Visitors hibition celebrating the five hun- dredth anniversary of the found- ing of Eton. cannot have falled to be aware of the importance to a boy of growing up it such surroundings.
TT will be generations, If ever, batore the community is pre- pared to pay for the education of
children
what every one of its
arc many men, no longer rich, struggling to pay for theirs. The "Fleming" experiments will give a chance for a few, at any rate,
to see how for it is worth whlic, who could not conceivably other- wlso afford it. These experiments are a natural outcome of the un-*
precedented levelling up of lower and levelling down .of
incompa higher incomes, which have taken place in the last few years, bring- ing us nearer to
to a classless society than ever before.
Experience has already shown that partly because of the dif- ferent focus of the curriculum, but largely because of the dispro portionato staffing advantages
enjoyed by the good preparatory schools the Stato schoolboy con- not always make such a showing In the ordinary Publle School en- trance examination as would jus- tity his admission.
THE CASO for Public Schools
ensy.
rests on their being good schools, and we have got to
standards that their intellectual are high. We depend for this on the preparatory schools, which feed
Job is. They make our The outstanding boy will, of course, make his mark, One from Yorkshire secondary school won In a scholarship at Winchester
These boys are not the May. The candidates
from difficulty.
schools for ordinary en~
trance may be..
But the hard fact about a Public School education is this: It is 50 expensive that we cannot possibly afford to provide it for every boy,
to
Can it be made available come whose parents could not con- From the ceivably afford it? point of view of the schools' any rate, few problems are bet- ter worth the attempt to solve.
at
MACARTHUR FOR PRESIDENT
Wavc
to
statement last autumn
From Hero And Thore
No. 9 Wife
Was The Ringleader
Chicago-Paul Ellis, a 09-year- contractor, old Chicago painting took wife No. 11 to court while he contested an alimony sult brought against him by wife No. 9. "Let's "that are....No. 9. mused Ellis, would be. Rose, whom I married around 1022. She was always' my
wife. She was ringleader
always getting my ex-wives together and organlaing them to get mad at me nil at once." Etila, who has been brought to the bar 40 times on charges preferred by his long list of wives, began making marriage career in Warsaw as a youth,
a
"SET A THIEF______»
Darwin.An aboriginal ex-CON= vict who escaped from Fanny Bay gaol three times has been engaged by the Darwin police to track down three natives who broke qual
inst
.now -
month. The ex-convict in leading a search parly consisting of two policemen who were once his own captors,
+ REVEALED
Copenhagen.—A woman of the village of Gelsted, while reading a local paper, recognised in a picture of British miners her husband who disappeared in 1945,
GIFTS
Adelaide-A ten-act made of Port Pirin silver is being sent to Princess Elizabeth A a wedding présent from the people of South Australia together with a cabinet of old coder taken from the Legislative Assem- bly building, Three aboriginal artists of the Arunta tribe of Cen- tral Australia have already Gent their gifts to the Princess-three
Tokyo, Sept. 12-A fresh in the Presidential nomination, and to duty. But a spokesman for him
MacArthur-for- wound up the matter with a state- states his of
le denying political ambitions still water colours showing Central Aus- ment on April 30, 1944, that
tralia scenery. the President speculation in
did not covet and would not accept stands.
SOFT MUSIC United States is having in the nomination.
"At "tho ̈ ́same time, many regard Now York-It was so hot in of the purple. Starting work at 17teresting, repercussions here. There is a possibility that he may his silence at a time when politicians America's Middle West-recent top
In the light of the reports, some follow the same procedure this time, and newspapers are discussing him temperature,
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degrees that product of the trade unice move- observers consider It significant
as a tacit admission of renewed in-27,000 Detroit motor workers could ment and of his own pussion for that Gen Douglas MacArthur him- waiting until the last minuta
not work any longer and records he will air or deny Presidential aspira- forest in the White House. self has not denied that
Some facts pertinent to the sub- being played during a wireless pro-
isgramme melled. September 30, 1946, MacArthur Ject are pointed out here. One He has the tall, erect figire of n be a presidential candidato in 1940. Although informed sources at
that as a top ranking general he
SOLDIERS' VIEW Guardsman, and a resonant Voice Headquarters emphasise that Mac- again said he had "no political am-
Cape Town.-The British Empire which would not disgrace a sergeant Arthur is not scelting the Republican bitions, contacts or plans." He said would be a forceful candidate in ense
nomination, many here regard him his aim was to ace the Japanese oc- the United States is threatened with Service League, biggest ex-service- "war. His work as Allied adminis- men's organization, protested against interna- cupation through. with Combined
Now that physical as a logical candidate if
the end of the occupation trator in Japan would quality him as the receptions given by senior South deteriorate
NOV still
the leading. authorities
officera on African military and naval attributes he possesses a quick mind tional relations
brond to personnel of the Sebastian for further before the 1948 Party con- is less remote and MacArthur has one of
to international affairs, with a made it clear that, he intends
the visiting Spanish and a considerable capacity
vention.
State-Mil- knowledge of Far Eastern affairs. training ship, ussimilating facts..
That MacArthur is not actively return to the United
waukee, specifcially when the His physical condition is excellent, Elcano. Ex-soldiers were infuriated seeking the nomination may be true
salute used by the terally. But there is reason to be Japanese peace treaty is signed, some although he will be 48 next January by the Hitler
and will be almost 69 before he Spaniards, and demanded that all TE is seldom at a loss in dealing lleve he may yield to an overwhelm- observers have taken it to mean that and take office if elected: His job entertainments planned for them be
with parliamentary questions, ing public clamour for his candidacy he might turn from a military to and generally speaking his answers in the event of an American-Soviet political career.
is refreshing.
major.
these
have a certain decisive quality which crimen have felt it necessary in have said that was
deny
as
de
in Japan is by no means finished. Heranceited.
stay more or less committed to
PROTECTION? Some persons close to MacArthur
New York.Even in Arizona, presumptuous until a treaty is signed, which by his
may be a year to America's desert country, women thinking. The fact is that Mac- own estimates so short a space of time to
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are rebelling against months.
Die longer Arthur is closo-mouthed on the sub- A married man with a family, presidential ambitions as often
A group of men around Headquar-skirts. Long skirts pick up dust, ject. indicated MacArthur, Jolin mot so long since
There is much in his background ters would like nothing better than they say, and they have formed his confidence in the future by The record shows that MacArthur
nominated-United | club called Western Women's Society the belief that he may to
for Preservation of Short Skirts. publicly giving away an unwanted said several times before the 1944 to nourish
campaign that he was not interested respond to what he considers a call Press. pram to a deserving easel
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
YA MEAN YA DON'T
WANT TO BE A MILLIONAIRE
.SOONER OR ILATER. THE URGE. TO MAKE SOME- TRING OOZES OUT
GENERALLY TAROUGH THE
END OF A BUSTED THUMB.
SCO him
"The Urge To Create
By
KEMP STARRETT
"
A
WHATS THE DIFFERENCE IFITE PERPETUAL MOTION, AN ATOMIC MOTOR OR ROCKETS: IT'LL KEEP HUL HOME O'NIGHTS IF THAT'S WHAT'S WANTED.
I GOT THE URGE TO
BUILD HE A NICE NEW TUNNEL
* HAVE YOU SEEN
THE PRICES OUTSIDE
Ledger Syndicate
CREATING SOMETHING BESIDES
A HEW HAIR-DO...CONSTER- HATION, WE SUSPECT.
THE WAY SHE LOOKS
THERES THE GAL WITH THE URGE
TO CREATE ORIGINAL FLOWER GROUPS:// HER HUSBAND'S IDEA OF TABLE DECORATION IS HAM AND EGGS
OR A THICK STEAK.
YOU NEVER CAN TELL WHER! THE URGE TO "CREATE WILL POP UP.:
PASSION
THE URGE TO CREATE ... EXASPERATION DESPERATION
AND HALLUCINATIONE.
THE REAL CREATORS" ARE THE AMATEUR COOKS... THEY TOSS EVERYTUNG IN THE KITCHEN INTO
•POTS AND PANIC, PUT IT ON THE STOVE AND STAND BY TO CEE WHAT HAPPENS.