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Sitting on the
THE Sparrow and his wife
T
sat shivering in the rain
.gutter of Grand Hotel- by-the-Sea. The Sparrow, who had been hopping round the cocktail bar, dipping his beak into a few glasses, was in a near-tender mood.
"Happy?" he asked, touching her work-worn claw with his,
1
"Oh, ever so happy," said his wife. The northeast wind ruffled her dingy feathers. "I thiult it's ever such a lovely place, don't you?"
"It has its points," said the Spar row, thinking of the cocktail bar. "Cold?"
"Oh, I don't mind the cold," said his wife, snling hard at the freezing czone.. "I think it's ever so healthy, dont't you?"
"Maybe," said the Sparrow,
Fence
by NATHANIEL
GUBBINS
"Men must work and women clear that if these scientista aro must weep" tald the Sparrow allowed to run amok in the farm diving into the cocktail bar before yards there will soon be no more he flew unsteadily towards Lolidon, chickens and no more. eggs.
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America Ready For Austerity
By FREDERICK COOK
MERICA is on the verge of her most tremendous decision since she broke away, from Britain.. After 172 years of trying to live by herself in majestic solitude, safe behind her oceans, she is now about to make open confession that it cannot be done.
Signature of the North Atlantic defensive alliance, now ' certainly when negotiations in Washington are completed, means just that.
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Isolationism - în „doad. America admits it in her decision to come into the Western alliance.
The change is not of Mr Truman's making, but has been wrought by the American people, alone, and unaided
Mr Truman has caught the Roosevelt trick of stand- ing aside, leaving the people to think out their own problems, and leading them when they have chosen the direction they wish to take.
He now prepares to act by their direct order, as expressed in the mandate they have given him at the polis.
How is America taking it, this humense, reversal of policy? She goes into it with her eyes open. There will be no turning back.
This is the position as the Americans, sie it: The Ave signatories of the Brussels Treaty-Britain, Franco, Beiglum Holland, Luxemburg-have shown their willingness to act as a team by cencerting their economic, military and cultural interests.
"If this Government goes out at the next General Election it will be because of income tax."
"It's not only the middle classes who are sick of ravage taxation. Everybody's sick of it, except splis and other buma who don't pay it,"
"Oh don't throw that
my bedtime smoke."
With full endorsement of the State Department, they have been draft- ing the basis of a mutual defence pact. They have invited America and Canada to come in..
This Invitation has been accepted. And in time, It is hoped here, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Portuga and perhaps Sweden will also join
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ACTED PROMPTLY
PRESIDENT Truman has heled promptly to full, the "orders" handed to him by the electorate, which may be paraphrased thus:
"Get busy on peace. Tie us in with this North Atlantic security United
the cigarette business. Strengthen end away. It's just big enough for Nations. Throw our full weight
tehind the move, without reserva- tions, and do it now while there is "Of course, in 20 years' time there time." won't be any middle clasSCE, At in Russia, there will just be workers, Harry Truman is doing that. His soldiers, Government officials, authorisation of, finel negotiations. show that he is not going to be generals, and balict dancers."
Umid,
He takes
Interference
natura will
Ly scientists has already brought the entire world. near the brink of dis- aster. The discovery of atomic "CANCTUARY" shouted the Spar- energy is nothing but the supreme one puff, and I take 100,"
interference with nature-do dis- row, and he dropped exhausted Integration of matter and the stuff "As the tobacco tax has failed to Sanctuary from Hell-on-Sea."
the Other Sparrow's Nest. of which the earth is made. stop people smoking too
much there's no further reason to keep A few more experiments by the it on." "The return of the happy holiday
so-called poultry scientists will maker?" asked the Other Sparrow, destroy the stuff of which eggs "Ask the neat Communist you
into
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excess
"As we've never been ballet- Low is right; a new. more con- minded here I suppose the ballet fident Truman steps on the world dancers will be kept alive for the stage, generals,"
Pencetime Lend-Lease on a vast scale
becomes now and I smoke, America will
certainty. "My husband cigarette together now.
dig deeply into the national pocket to back her soon- to-be official Allies in building their defences and hers.
Taxes
An will go up.
20-to-1 bet. profits tax is
America will get a self-adminis tered, dose of austerity: not severe,. perhaps, but a taste of what others
in "My Bille wheel of fiduetry" sald are made. It is only another step meet why there are so many have swallowed “large gulps."
One reservation remains In. the Sparrow, taking her manicured for the destruction of cattle, grain, political refugees from Communist
heavens, There are no polullest America's mind. They -aro not claw in his, "I've got to keep you and all the fruits of the earth.
refugees from democratic hells." embarking on' war preparations. turning." "Bealdes,
From our point of view, the ex-
to taking: against "In Margaret's father's Alcoho- defensive steps, not offensive.
aro anyone. They aren't we?"
"Not fond of the sea?" asked the periments are already a disaster, Other Sparrow.
lympics the grand finale,, will; ba And they are taking them, as far You have only to imagine the a decathlon, the last three events as possible, within the framework. "I'd feel coster inside," said the
"Too mysterious," said the Bpar embarrassment of ahen laying being drinking a double on silite, of the United Nations, America still Sparrow, thumping his little cheat.
row. "I don't like mysteries. I like eggs without shells, the humillation floating on your back, and standing has faith in the Charter, and is "And I love the tea," said he to understand and be understood of a cock trying to lay eggs at all, on your head."
giving it a new chance to work. wife, her beady eyes watering as my moods, my whims, my fancies and, the
rustration
of those who are not she stared at the grey, windy miss "A deaf and dumb psychiatrist sure if they are cocks or hens and of nothing.
could understand those," said the are dealed all normal family, life, Other Sparrow, pouring him a drink to realise that this is a poor ros ward for the magnificent egg laying effort on inadequate rations which
the war.
We're cosy together,
"Why?" asked the Sparrow. "Oh, I don't know. I expect, 1
I
profound. misery, and
love it because it's so mysterious Letter from a hen British poultry maintained during
..
what's so mysterious about. Lej” arked the Sparrow.
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Dear Sir,
"Well, I mean, we don't know AS one of your constant readers may I crave the hospitality of your valuable column, to protest experiments now being- against carried scientista?"
According to the paper there
"We know it's cold and salt and wet and full of fish," said the Sparrow.
"You're not a bit romantic, are you?"
*
"Oh, I think it's ever so lovely," said his wife, "and I think it's ever so sweet of you to bring me here."
"Good," said the Sparrow. "I that case you won't mind if ♬ leave you for a few days.”
Hoping your wife and family aro well I remain, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
A. HEN,
'QUIET! BLAMED
FOR DULL PUPILS
By JAMES BARTLETTE,
TEACHERS who, tell their class to children and says that it makes TEACH
"o as you are told and don't them tough and teaches them to chatter about it" are blamed by an stand up for themselves."
THE THOUGHTLESS TEACHER children "nervy and dull.” -
out by so-called "poultry Party conversation Australian expert for making, bright who says to a boy who is not too
wiser than naturo and who are
of
Assuming that they are not inis
idiots chilevous
or persons arrested mental development, one can only assume that the purposes behind, these
experiments i produce more hens, and therefore more eggs, pt will
FATHER should not go out and
push the pram. The more hé secs
good at spelling: "Well, John, bow In her book published recently, many mistakes are you going to clever man, who think they are MARGARET'S father's trying to Miss Zoo Benjamin, who lectures on make today?"
alcoholic Olymple child study at Sydney University,
This discourages young John from: "No," said the Sparrow, "but I'm apparently maintained at the public games to prove to the world that blames the teacher as much as the
expense at the Ministry of Agricul wo're still unbeatable at some parent for bringing up a child badly.. the outset. It is important not to ...... give the child an impression. that glad you're so happy here."
ture, are already boasting that they thing."
Even when everything in the you expect him to fall. can change the sex of any eg before it is batched 'by injecting
"As 100%
Miss Benjamin gives the advice. as there's a shortage home is going well the emotional-
it. problems of children enn grow to either ranke or female hormones of anything everybody wants through the shell.
un elephant size because their school MOTHER should naver, utter the After having smoking tons
badly ·Jun Miss Benjamin threat: "I'll tell your father!" It. womanly for 50 years" my grand- is
makes father's return home a dread . Instead of a pleasure; And the threat mother's asking for cigarettes now." says:---
"Except, in ΤΑΓΟ schools the gives a bad impression which might "The silly thing about clgarettes that there's no flavour in them. children are not allowed to speak last a lifetime.
to one another, to discuss their work,, All you ever got from them is a flthy cough.”
of to help In weaker. classmate play golf when he has a chance to during lessons.
"Is it any wonder that many lympics he's going to have a pen-children find school such a cramping of his baby the better they'll get on tathlon,
experience that together when the baby grows up. Competitors wilt drink and uninteresting a double and run a milc, drink they become 'difficult'?"
le can make skittles of emply tion doubles and jump a hurdle, She shows that when you come bottles, give his children real tools drink threa doubles and ride a across a little beast whose great joy so that they can help in mendlag bicycle, drink four doubles and is to make your life a misery, the things about the place, take them throte a Javelin at the Atheneum, real culprit is, his mother, father, or out with him. drink Ave doubles and try to walk
She teacher.
condemns.
But there are words of comfort for THE MOTHER who expects a home.
with children to look a parents in a foreword written by a "My husband says that one of house the brutal, Inequalities of life is "unllyed-In" as if there were no professor in Sydney University. Ho given THE TEASING FATHER. He'll sufficient space of their own and cigaret cough and hardly ever go bald a
a common menace who teases hit playmate, may be left healthily to
and solve their own problema” ¦ p "You wouldn't know a wheel of fall into two categories.
My husband says they hardly
Emotional Problems of “ Childhood.**. „This might be falher's "'excuse to industry if you saw one” said hly From the point of view of the ever get what ought to be com
by 201 Henjamin; London Valget out for a game of golf after all.. Ing to, them wife, the fear rolling down her beak, consuming pubiler it
"Leave me?" asked his wife, a -What- tear starting in her eye, -- over for?"
**
"Business,” said, the Sparrow.
"Business" repeated his wife, "but I thought you were on holl day."
.
It is therefore interesting to nute the results of the experiments published. In the Press:-
"Cockerels changed into hans before hatching lay eggs without shell.”
"Cocks changed into hens when "Some of us are never on huli. mature cannot lay anything at all
hen changed...
lato a cockerel production of its species of these results
"In Margaret's father's Alcoho~-
(day," "said the Sparrow, very hisApp B Anke any part in there that women hardly ever get a children living there at alle says Many children,"
others play some of us must keep the wheels of industry turning
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