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5. Which of these Ministers fill today the
same offices 10 which they were appointed in 1945-
Str Stafford Crippa, Mr. A. V. § Alexander, Mr Ernest Heels, Viscount Addison, Mr G. Tom- Finson?
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Berlin, denu of American song writers, was recently decorated with the eras of Knighthood of the French Legion .of Honour for achievements in music.
The cress was pinned on his lapel by Alexandre De Manzintiy, French Consul in Los Angeles.--Asso- ciated Press.
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"When daddy says 'No' he means 'No'--and calling him
a pocket Molotov won't micke
hit change his mind."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1948.
The Old Folk-by JAMES BARTLETT
Loneliness makes
LONDON.
AT'S the happiest story I've seen in the newspaper for years," said the man beside me in the train. He pointed to a News item headed "Good. Neigh- In those eight tes Mr Ronald money I miss, it's having somebody bours." It reported that:-
Show, himself an 'old-age pensioner to talk to." from Watford, recognised an - Houses
The problem is as simple-and as un new Daventry usual awareness of a problem which difrull-as that.
JL housing estate are to alter seldom finds a way into the hend nate with bungalows so that: ŝines..........the problem of ranking life Old people in the BUNGA- happy for the old folk. LOWS will have young people
life so hard
· He was surprised when I told him
in the 11OUSES to r that that week six governors of the errands.
now National Corporation for the Care of Old People would meet for the first time to plan how they can best spend £500,000 in the next few years.
By C. V. R. THOMPSON
1863 and all that
NEW YORK, Feb. 1. HERE is not a chance of Temat tumerion being paid back,
The form-$3,000,000 AL seven per cent. interest--was mande in 1863. -
The borrowers were the Southern
THOMAS MCCABE, who, as the
new boss of America's banking system, must find an inflation cure,
is
a paper manufacturer
PRESIDENT TRUMAN is collecting that General Ike would for ru against him,
on beta he made last November
States the lowers in America's Civil A PRICE WAR
War,
This loan is news today, - because throughout the South there is a fake Washington As paying
mateur that nut og Civil War noles,
For a joke the Congress post uftice set a Southerner's letter deganding redemption of his Civil Georgia's War five-follar note to Coratresnanan, Prince Preston.
on a sentimental impulse Prestety proketed the worthless mute, and poded a real five dollars.
That was a week ato, Today Con- pressman Predon can pea reely
At
to us oflies for the stacks of letters asking for shullar "redemption."
FRIENDS
of General
Douds MacArthur Inday began a eat- palga to prove that a man of 68 is net tom old to be President, They warned that the general will make a dramatic dush bone from Japan in Mid-March to address Congress on how America can brosper.
RUAD is going up again to 15. n
joaf.
That is a 10 percent, rise since 1040. The case is speculation in wheal.
Their task directly affects one in every seven of our population. We Huve sufficient elderly people in this country to merit one day a week as Old People's Day, devoted to their interests.
ONE IRONY.. ONELINESS, then, might be the main consideration of the new National Corporation. For two- thirds of the old people there is stil family life. An irony of the houslaut shortage is that many old folk still have the company of married sons an daughters who normally would be living somewhere else.
This might cause shorter tempers, but it means longer life. Old people llye langer and more happily in company than when they are alone."
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
BLACK AGAINST THE SKY
Silhouettes such as this land spice to your album, tell a story as akili fully as more customary shots.
ONG before. photography be- spice of albums. An album in LON
came common, William which all the pictures are simi- That is why more than 200 Cowper tossed off his famous lar leaves much to be desired.
with old people's quote: "Variety's the very spice There are 5,500,000 elderly people agencles dealing
care aim at bringing the lonely to of life." -men over 65 and women over 40,
But, to paraphrase are Perhaps they
developments 100 quiet about gether. Several themselves, Even many old people the last year or two merit the notice the old saw, variety is also the when live alone with unly gene of the new Coromionit the ne
retirement pension muske little enm- pinin1.
.
LIVES ALONE
£500,000:~~
In
its
1. Darby anti Joan Clubs as daily meeting places for over-05's--05 at Streatham, S.W.
ME GEORGE WATSON, 69-year. 2. Residential Clubs (not "homes")
retired builder's foreman,
I whom 1 met in Lincoln's Inn-Gelds antong the but-3 feeding the sparrows, is one of them.
ebers of St Helens, Oregon, fo-j A widower, he Hyes alone at St. 3. dny reached its ethnax, Autry that Paneras, visited by lis marine his epetilors baut beers Riving daughter at week-ends. Otherwise away chopped beef, bulcher Jack he does his own shopping. Innks Sappington offered customers three after
himself. This Is how he Just end his 26s, a week. ("I brought free sees of ham (53. a 1.
up a family on that much before week), pin sixpence with "purchase."
101-4.2
every
SWEEPSTAKE for hospitals is wanted by New York. The city Connell voted 13 to four In favour. of a way to provide an adequate hospital)
E 25,080,000 lottery on the only
system. But the State Assembly. withch ntist approve such a lottery, Ther and there not a chance, would be ton much opposition from? Churchinen.
Tient
Pued and light Itationed goods
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Milk (2 pints)
Vegetables
2
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Matches, soap, etc.
£1
1 0
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11d., which and five half-
4.
for middle-class olid people who pay £2 to £2 105, a week to live $11.
Special old prople's bungalows in Hormal housing estates, like that al' Daventry.
CHECKED 2,000 FOR SHOPLIFT
By repeating one 2,000 times daily Mr Rest Homes which provide short- Stubbs has turned himself into
stay accommodation for old people aprmally living with Jatives, as at Highgate.
SIMPLE NEEDS
the most London.
So why not try something new? Why not cash in on the low, slanting sunlight of late afternoon? For there is no better time than this to make slibouettes outdoors.
Quite simply, a silhouette is mere- ly a black shape outlined against the light. In most snapshots we try to have the light falling on the alde of the subject that the camera is nimed at. In making silhouettes we reverse this process. The light is behind the subject and we picture the shadow side,
When the sun is low it is possible sentence sometimes
to place the subject William directly between the camera and the what higher, aim a little away from setting sun. When the sun is some- the sun that it does not shine straight into the camera lens. Shoot from low position and pince your subject un a slight rise.
diplomatic m
in
The sentence was: "Would
showing
your
ACK of BIORCY undoubtedly mind
You
Likes many old people keeps to please?" and hir Stubbs says to the of course, with the lines lite vary.
rates
probably
of
daily necessities
Where the sun is just above the horizon and the sky is partially clouded, exposure of 1/25 at 1/16- should produce good results. If the sun is somewhat higher,
a shorter
themselves, though a Nuffell Foun-2000 women who crowd into Fen- dation survey last year suggests that wick's dress shop in New Bond- "present pension enver all the
street in search of bargados daily. Hfe."
As a precaution against shoplift-exposure is recommended, If you're one of the growing legion of photo fans who dn your own photo-finish-* ing., develop your silhouette pictures fully and print them on contrasty paper.
But what monotony to live only with necessities! Why should one in seven of us, after a lifetime of work, have to hesitate over such pleasures as the occasional high teu, the after- Hoon cinema, the evening smoke, or the letter which demands a precious 27, in stamps.
These are some
of the
THE SWITCH OFF brcoming a
part of America's Hfe. De- This leaves him 5s. cause of reword gold and show, his goes partly in faces dustry and householders are suffer-pints of beer. ing from power shortages, In De trust they land off 200,000 men to-
Ife is now waiting like so meny day because
cheap supplies faffed, pensioners, for the #N
tobacco
simple Other industrial
acexts smoke. ellies affected are concession. He does not
the pensioners hope will be Pittsburg and Bultato.
Never has, but he says "I can't see remembered when the Corporation how I could, even if I wanted ta."-for the Care of Old People wierts.
But the deepest thoughts of the But Mr Watson thought 1 -15 old folk are not for the half a mil- wrung to, talk about money, Like lion pounds. All they wish for in most ahld people, he has an indepen- somebody friendly who will enst in dent mind, even if he has not inde- regularly like a gent neighbour and pendent means. He sud: "It's not say: "Hallo, how are you today?"
FOOTNOTE: Coldest town today was Alamusa, Colorado, but exactly uw cold no one knows, because the thermometer froze and burst at
78 degrers of frost.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
" WHAT DAY IS THIS...
-AUSS......... MISC., ER-
WHAT'S YOUR
NAMES
A
"болет ng Fenwick's organised a cloors in and one out" system. Cus- tomers are welcomed at the four doors, but when they want in leave they are, directed to one door only.
And at that door stands Williamo Stubbs, repeating his question.
"My job is difleult," he said. "A wrong intonation of my valece in making that simple request will an- ger hundreds of women.
But get away with it, and only three women have, profested."
I
The complaining three departed peacefully when it was pointed out that assistnats had told them that bills must be produced.
"Bosses"
One thing to remember in pictures of this sort-composition is very im- portant. The arrangement of your subject must be pictorial since there will be little detail interest. Today's picture, with a homing hunters silhouetted, provides good example. The arrangement of the gures on the crest of the hill, framed by the overhanging branch of the tree, tells it own story and makeS picture in black against the sky.
# pleasing
John van Guilder
By KEMP STARRETA
"THAT'S THE WAY I HOOK 'EM, BOYS:/
THERE'S THE BOSS WIOT SO RICI FROM HAVING ALONEY HE DOESN'T HAVE TO KNOW ANYTHING... NOT EVEN HIS EMPLOYEES.
*HA HA! THAT REMINDS ME?
DID I EVER TELL
YOU THE ONE ABOUT THE MAN ON THE MOTORCYCLE
WAO HAD HIS
COAT ON BACKWARDS
THE ONE WHO BAWLS YOU OUT IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY.....FOR A MISTAKE HE MADE HIMSELF
HURRRUMPH!!
VE KILW CIE BOSC VAO HAD SO MUCH FUN OVER THE WEEK-ENUS HE HAD TO PUT THE BITE ON THE BOOKKEEPER. WHO HADIT HAD A RAICE. IN EIGHT YEARS.
THEN THERE'S THE BOSS WHO TAKES ALL THE CREDIT FOR THE BIG DEAL YOU PUT OVER AFTER WORKING YOUR HEAD OFF FOR A MONTH.
"I FORGET IT'S HER BIRTHDAY, I SAID I WAS SORRY AN* WITH
THAT SHE
#
UPS AN'
LANDS
ON
HE
SOME BOSSES ARE REGULAR. COMEDIANS WHEN IT COMES TO |RIBBING YOU OUT OF THAT RAISE.
AND WHO IS THE OGRE THAT TURUS UP JUST WHEN LIFE IN THE OFFICE BEGINS TO GET
INTERESTING .... „YOU GUESSED IT...OLD BOSSY!
COMETIMES THE BOSS IN THE HOME, IS WORSE THAN THE BOSC IN THE
OFFICE.
Laiger Syndicate