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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1947.
V.C's Community Of V.I:P's
Na three hundred country estate half
between London Portsmouth, seventy ex-Service men and their familles look forward to a future `of' hard work and prosperity,
By ROBERT PARRY-ELLIS
...............
nere he a prolliable proposition. Pay and It now has three hundred mem- way ment la munde according to the bers, Although there is nu financial and normal rat:s-where possible these tit-up between the English and Dutch communities, a system of exchange are the equivalent of union wagen. operates. They, for instance, have Additionally each department re- sent three expert market gardeners ceives the majority of its prolt after to Britain to improve the flowers and wages and repayments for equlp- vegetables, and the British comma- ment, etc., have been deducted. The nity have sent expert cabinet makers
to Holland to teach them. remaining profit is used for the pro- vision of general amonities. Thus soch man is rewarded according to his efforts and he has the additional advantage and interzst.in a share of the profit of other men's work.
are
In this community there
ex-Servicemen and their seventy families. Those who are unmarried
The community which they form had its beginnings just of over a year ago when one the most famous heroes of the last war-Group Captain G. L. Cheshire V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C.-
to resolved to devote his life the interests of the ex-Service live in nts in the 28 bedroom house men. At a meeting in London which is the core of the catate. he told them quite frankly Others live in some of the 20 cottages that, if they wanted a home fit belonging to the community. The for heroes to live in, they remaining cottages are let to people would have to build it them- ualde the scheme and this is run as a business by a member of the selves; that the best way in community. which they could build it Was to help each other. The spirit of self-sacrifice and mutual assistance had always this country through hor wars, why should it not be adapted for a world of peace?
carried
But there would be this difference ---Instead of the Individual being a small cog in the wheels f the com- munity, the community should br
the backing and, support of the in- dividual. It should help him along provided he pulled his weight.
FOR
High Hopes
should remain but that, for
In Pacem" or "May You Walk Peace."
Community Life
ENTS vary from five shillings to RE
ten ahillings o week, and food may be purchased at wholesale prices from the community. For those who
do not wish to do their own cooking, full board, is available in the can- teen for £1 a week. This, too, is run as a business by a member of the community.
Group Captain Cheshire's scheme has grown from small and personal beginnings to something quite large in just under a year. It solves the problem of training for a career for quite a considerable number of ex- Servicemen and their families in addition to casing the immediate and practical problems of accommodation and reasonable food.
fis future as it stands today is assured but its extensions will de- pend on publle support and con-
dence.
By R. G. WEETLOCK
HILL
KALY
KAY!
Mr. Seymour says his feet are killing him!"
EDINBURGH IN PERSPECTIVE
in programmes provided too Tittle in the way of, novelties and: contem- an porary works. To this the reply has been that the festival was itachi an standard experiment and that the
principal
TOW
that the curtain has which was so very evident been rung down' on the the weeks just past grent artistic experiment And besides being such of the Edinburgh International artistic success, the festival The Inclination is to think of Festival of Music and Drama, provided a corrective balance of performance was the community life as something pure-the time has come to appraise to the gloom of the world aim of the organisers. ly agricultural. Although it does soita valle and effect, happen that a large number of the men in this particular one are en-
and
standards that
that
the crowded audiences and the
sborlage and crisis. Any one The almost complete absence of *By all
who mingled with the cheerful Scottish items was also disappoint. are and enthusiastic crowds in ing, particularly as the demand for goged in market gordening and worth anything and by which Prince's Street or at the Fes such performances was stressed by OR every Individual ex-Service- farming, it need not have been so such events are judged, this tival Club that was open for tumultous ovallons at the two love- mon was a Very Important Per- There is no reason why exactly the festival has been a spectacular visitors could not but have been is concerts of Gaelic and Lowland son. And that is how Group Captain same principles should not be ap-success, both culturally and convinced that Britain received songs. And it should be added that the audiences wire not predominat- Cheshire's scheme came to be known plicable to any other field of endea-financially, When the festival a great moral stimulus from ed by Scotsmen! as V.I.P. It was the Group Cap- vour. In point of fact one of the was first projected some 18 the occasion. tain's father, an eminent Oxford pro- largest chains of department stores months ago, the organisers
Strangely the only orchestral con- Foreign Visitors cert of Scottish music was given on aflor the festival hnd fasor, who suggested that the initials in Great Britain is run on this same wisely foresaw that their pro-
And foreign visitors to the feat the day ject would succeed or fall pre- val--they were from many the partnership idea.
coun- oficially closed, and large numbers to futuro, they should stand for "Vade. A Group Captain Chechire's com-cisely in the measure of stan- tries, from California to Slam-were of visitors prolonged their stay
Inmunity there are many other forms dards that they decided upon; struck by the way that adversity had attend. It is a long time since Scot
in land has figured predominantly and because the Festival been turned to advantage and of employment-an ex-Wren
British music, but this festival will a spirit could exist while With high hopes a number of ex- three other girls are beng trained in Society aimed high and struck such
Britain was In the claws of an no doubt act as a stimulus to Scot- composers and Servicemen headed by Group Cap- kennelry under a former senior com-out boldly and imaginatively economic crisis. Certainly the rese tlah musicians ind
quality, they tival has helped to restore the this concert of Scottish music show- tain Cheshire opened a community mander A.T.S., a former leading sen- for the finest
ed that there is no lacking of talent on these lines at Gumley Hall, in man is painting in signs under con- have achieved a triumph that balance both at home and abroad,
This Arst Edinburgh festival must or ability. Scotland has a consider- firm of brewers, they have well merited.
an able musical heritage Lete:stershire. It was here that the tract to a large
and has therefore be marked down as and the wrought iron work part of
International
notable contribution to make Importance; back of the problems which
The past few weeks have event of it plans are already afoot European culture. that the signs are made in the forge by proved that Edinburgh can be for next year's season those hardy These lessons have been learned a former flight engineer from Path-come one of the great festival Scottish pleneers, led by the Lord Next year the pilgrims will return, finder Force and a Black Watch cor- cities of Europe; that she has Provost of Edinburgh, Sir John Fal- for we know that the world poral who was taken prisoner at the setting and amenities for coner, and the prime mover of the com: to an artistic festival in Edini-
burgh.
But next year the pro-. festival idea, Rudolf Ring, can see such an event and that such a their main ambition
coming to grammes will be more enterprising. festival in the Scottish capital fruition-the Edinburgh festival as
There will be more contemporary. works, and the idea, has already been is needed. I say needed, be an annual event.
As with all pioneering efforts mis- morted that a special work should cause no festival has yet been
and made. organised on so vast a
the be commissioned for each year's fes- scale takes have been
experience of this first festival has tival; there will be a greater repre- and in such surroundings in provided many ideas which we shall sentation of Scotland's native
"and" "oficist programmis – mar Britain before, and the setting fee incorporated in future seasons. ture
has
exhibi be extended to include art and atmosphere of Edinburgh The most frequent complaint
been that the accent was laid too' tiens as well. Of artistic shortcom- contributed much to the engon strongly on established and familiar ings there will be none, not if
this dering of that festival spirit works, and that the festival year's standard is taken
criterion. Edinburgh has been established as Britain's new festival centre which will draw the attention of the cultural world.
fronted them was broken and
con-
it became clear that this project was practicable.
was
although the ac- St Valery. Unfortunately, commodation at Gumley Hall
*A taxi service is operated in the adequate, i had not the resources
land and workshops to support the local town; two brothers make furni- number of people which it could ture and some of the women make house. So a cadre was formed and toys for children.
- a--second-estate-purchased in-amp-
shire, half way between Portsmouth Anybody Can Join
and London. They moved into this
estate last November, leaving Gum-
ley Hall-fast becoming self-support- ing and profitable to about twenty people. This second estate will be com: profitable within the next month when standing crops are sold.
TECHNICALLY speaking, anybody can join Cheshire's community, provided they have served in the Forces. At present about fifty per- cent of the members are ex-Army and the remainder RAF and Navy.
At the moment there is a long
Autonomous Groups waiting list but it is hoped that this
are
will be absorbed as donations arc
present in
in
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
Mr
FIRST
who
Lowards
of
Q5
Financial Success
to
will
auf-
the
to
thon
to
Financially, the festival has been a success. This does not mean that it has made a proft; that was never ROUP Captain Cheshire's Idea is received for the Fund. Future com- VER since the last Ascot Calling all cars
expected. Nevertheless the Diogenes
£60,000, step that these communities should be munities will be both in Britain and meeting,
the Guarantee Fund of A entirely autonomous.
Group Captain Cheshire Tubb, a life member of the Americanisation Scotland which the citizens and business firms The financial abroad.
1 in structure within the community
to provide traffic-control of Edinburgh subscribed, will not be Canada inves. Baltic Exchange and a rabid Yard is
ault that the same as that which integrates all tigating the possibilities of starting hilliards addict, has been play- cars with an escort of two motor, half absorbed. This is a
Soon
even optimista dared not shall have we
the
converted the communities.
British ing in a thick white lambswool cyclists. Originally, an establishment
sirens screeching, and no parking hope for and which has
the noseband with balls on. Cheshire started his project with his Columbia.
in front of fire hydrants,
pessimists. Also and most of the own money, but its success and the
and de majority of concerts and some of the He says that, somehow or other, dum cops called Clancy, Men and women may bring their many 'hundred requests which
go to bed in their dramatic performanc:s more wearing this contrivance has im tectives own trades into the community or proved his game no end, and that hat
and precincts instead of paid their way and were able belog received to join the com- they may be trained in work which he is liable to run up
a break of divisions. Not to mention Mr Alen make some contribution la losses in- munities have put it outside the already exists as a department. The seven or more any minute. Ap. Ladd shooting it out with the Chief Curred on other items,
The travelling expenses of foreign scope of a personal issue.in con- selection is by interview with three parontly, it makes him keep his Commissioner,
companies, orchestras and soloists junction with Air Chief Marshal Sir members of the directing staff of the head down and his eye firmly on the The things people say
accounted for the larger part of the Philip Joubert, he has launched en community, whose main concern la his head,
cue ball. The moment he lifts up
installation of the the bells start to rip. A knows
A RISING out of goodness only 10%, while the appeal for $50,000 to extend the to satisfy themselves that the op- which not only puts him off
cyclorama and the Glyndebourne Woman at plicant is of sound character
Tottenham
building of a back stage bridge over courl declared: and stroke
the also brings in
the sut for the production of "Mac-" This Fund will lend money
All new
whole day in a deck chair on the beth" meant that the opera season communities to put them on
members are taken on the idea from a French horre
• sands;
but there are times when was not as successful Onancially as three months probation In the first fet and these
will instance:
it might have been. the picture becomes blurred." when established, donate a propor-
scheme.
communities
but
what,
11
to one who is likely to pull his weight. waiter. Mr Tabb pretends he rot picture my husband spending the
their
tion of their profits to the Fund to enable others to start.
As the number of
Sishermen
·
- |
But in Edinburgh this year the rule I suppose the means such as when that culturo fallows trade has been
have he stands
up to ease his back reversed; traða hús flowed to Edin-
Flying lobster communities HEBRIDEAN Increase to the scope of each indivi- refused the offer of a' Hellfax and jet the chair, down another i burgh with the festival visitors, and dual will increase. Arrangements bomber to fly their lobsters' to notch. And traps his "thumb, the opportunity was not missed to Similarly, within each individual will be made for exchanges of mem- London, Too expensive, they say. And cracks himself amartly under exhibit the fluest examples of Scot- community, money and training is bere between communities. At pre- A lobster spokesman said: This the chin. And falls flat on histish craftsmanship to the buyers of toained to the Individual. He or she community abroad-at Gronigen, in they expect us to walk? Anyway," And gets soaked to the skin
sent there is only one other V.I.P. is a poor attitude of
Do Inca with the chair on top of him. the world. The sccount is therefore may choose any occupation which is Holland. This was started by Group he added, "what do they think we an incoming wave, That can considered by the selection board to Captain Cheshire for the Dutchinen ure-penguins?
NANCY Technically, Yes
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AW-- I
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MAM
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NANCY 3
mind.
somewhat blurring.
By Ernie Bushmiller
YES,
MAM
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