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C. V. R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN SCENE
Sam's
3d. ale
brews trouble
S
NEW YORK And the book's theme was to
AM Atkins, once-obscure have been America's "espionage
New York publican, arcest.
hysteria"--which caused her
finds his brave decision to
cut the price of beer to- 3d She Kought to Justify her
trouble..
ment workers who
a pint is bringing plenty of action by citing other Govern- customers and much private papers from Govern- removed ment Ales for their books-F. D. R., Harry Hopkins, Trea- First, his brewers would not sury boss Morgenthou, sell him nuy, more beer. Their many more.
And eason 4,000 other customers threatened, to stop their orders DUSINESS FIRMS In the unless Sum was disciplined for U.S. are adopting a new what they cullest unfair trade method of reporting their pro practices.
15. First they 1st the total. then the amount they paid the Next, the picketing barten- Goveniment in taxer. dera'
and union, started pleketing finally what the shareholders Sam's bar and grill because he got. Sample: American Wool- hires non-union' barmaids. ken-Profits,
And because of these pickets (£5,770,530); inxes. 14,353,580 23,002,153 dollars draymen employed by brewers dollars" (£3,588,305); willing to sell Sam beer will holders. 8,728,573 dollars (£2,-
102,113).
not deliver it.
But Sam will not give up.
ahare-
suye: They think they LONG HAS COME an liave me over a barrel, but I'll American mechanical genius win yet.
to take away one of the chief His next slep: To get beer reasons for golf exerciso.
Ho
"We'll be differont this year-no standing up in crowds for us-wo'll hire a little yacht and the Boat-race close-up."
London Express Servico
TWO FAMOUS MEN DISCUSS
A SOCIAL PROBLEM:
Why do boys and girls
turn to crime?
were
dumped on the
street and to Patents raise customer volunteers help roll in the barrels.
granted
in
1 Washington to a Mr Robert Jackson, of Texas, for his tee- CHICAGO TAX OFFICE re- and powered by a petrol en- scooter. Built on three wherig ported one man sent, with gine, it is guaranteed to carry his income return one pint of the golfer and his clubs from his blood in a bottle.
Leo to tee.
IN BARATOGA, America's NOTHER
New-market, the
American high- terms of brow, Dr the last will and testament of New York anthropologist, has Oscar Junek, a Herbert Wood, ever-hopeful but ever-losing
mado his contribution to world punter, were peace-lot observed. His ashes were scat- world for the next 1,000 years. women run the tered over the home stretch, Sald he: "A man is pugnacious where he lost so many bets. and wants to fight. Women
ment discussed a proposal many wars."
think we would see as the detection of crime,
to urge Washington to form a What is much more funda- | Forty-ninth
State of
not
THE facts of juvenile v the Archbishop of Yor which have nothing to do with DAY New York's parila. are natural peacemakers. I do
T
delinquency are very simple. In the year 1947, of those found guilty in Britain of larceny, 29 percent were boys and girls under 17, and in addition 12 percent were between 17 and 21.
кест
(DR CYRIL GARBETT)
education In the
parenthood.
Hyde
mental is the necessity of a Park, Roosevelt country estate. OCCUPANTS of a nine-storey office building in the heart. change in the general attitude Suggested name for the new of Broadway's theatre district State: Roosevelt. The plan was went to work on a Monday to shelved when no two could find that all 64 offices. In the put the 49th building had been burgled over total haul
of
it
the
und
un-
Court
+
quite incapable
towards of controlling him if he didn't come down; as truthfulness, for the two are
dishducsty them.
this didn't persuade him, she But there are also the broken then said she would give him standard of honesty and truth-star on America's "Old Glory." the weekend. The
always found together." The Agree where to homes, where either the parents a nice tea if he was a good fulness has ang separated or persistently boy. Tommy came down, was through
been weakened
was £8,000. quarrelling, That is to say,
of MORE BRITISH clothes are In a report pub- shaken violently by his mother, relia
weakening ΟΙ 41 out of lished last year, it was found while
religion, The aphere of in- going on American backs FAILURE of a man to cast every J60 persons convicted that
she promised him the unsre Luence of the best beating he had ever had smaller today than
on this year. Mr G. nearly one-third
of the Churches is were under the age of 21. In
A. Gidley. a one-cent dividend cheque cases of delinquency came from in his life!
it was in merchandising monager for one held up settlement of a bank- all, 31,377 were convicted un-
the past.
the largest stores, broken homes.
The Slate, however, of
told ruptcy suit for seven months. der the age of 21; and of these There are also parents who maternal affection-the mother and it can
This Was an example of can speak to all its citizens, Philadelphin from London. that could not close its books on the
colleagues, on his return to The Federal District 12.950 were under 14.
For breaking in and stealing. their children. They are some hardly of wise
incapable of managing in defence of her young-but for greater honesty:
give three reasons Britain is regaining world
affairs of a dressmaking Arm. out of every 100 persons con- times afraid of offending the
parental con- First,
icadership in sults, overcoats. So can show- how
the U.S. Government has victed, 62 were under the age
by punishing them; need
trol. There are parents who severely the nation is suffering
sports children
clothes, and mackin- now agreed to keep the cont of 14, and 16 between the ages sometimes they are erratic in
toshes. through innumerable petty acts art of of 17 and 21.
51
their treatment of them; some
it loses, not Said he: Last year's things CHOW BUSINESS: But Lan- times they spoil them by giving
housestyj,
bul millions
of didn't look good. Now I con caster, who used to be them anything for which they
pounds year by year. Let the honestly say I jam very opti- circus acrobat, is going back to ask.
State is even harder to suggest re- IT
active propaganda mistic,
the circus for a month's cli- medles than causes. The new When I was Bishop of South-
the nation the
His targest purchases extent of
in Cagement this summer... Holly- a boy of nine or ten Criminal Justice Act should be the material loss it now suffers. Britain were mackintoshes and wood will work.
ativertise
Jaro climbed Lord Chancellor sukt last Nov- which overlooked the road: he direction a tree in my garden a Great
the step in
right
Second, let the State bring a new-style golf jacket.
Wyman's next film with the if it Is
- home to all the moral used
catch phrase "Belinda speaks." ember that in the first six lost his nerve,
and nothing telligently.
spiritual loss suffered through UNUSUAL DEFENCE, deeld. Harpo Marx, who is plan- months of 1948, 22.000 juveniles would persuade him to come
The suspicion, mistrust, and
on by 27-year-old ning to follow his brother In Britain had been convicted; dow
Something could be done to fear One of the children improve
that
Coplon, Government Chico in a visit to Britain, the working or the classes by the dishonesty and sets on a Mary.
in all employee on trial for trying to wisecracked, "The Brtish and tell the mother, who lived juvenile courts, In principle falsehood of an unscrupulous never
they urc admirable, and often minority.
intended to sell secret Gloria Swanson very good in their working. But
has received documents, I took Third, let
material a proposal for her sixth mar- this is not always
make from the files for a book 1 am rage. the case. greater kindliness than wisdom, who Sometimes the magistrates have suffering fee is the personal writing."
inflicted ол
(Luton Express Service) those have had their small Again. more police Are savings. valued keepsakes, required. They have at present
working-tools-stolen-from"
That is to say, 68 out of every 100 were under 21. In all 13,810 under the age of 21 were con- victed, and of these 6,518 were under fourteen.
But this is not the worst. The
down.
if the same figure was true for watching had the sense to run the second half of the year, it would mean 44,000 convictions a street or two away. for Juveniles under 17, against
She arrived in a state of 35,000 in 1847.
These figures show a grave little crowd that anyone who great indignation, and told the state of affairs. Some attempt said her Tommy climbed trees has been made to detract from was a damned liar. their significance by showing
show
لونا
the State
und
Then looking up at Tommy, quite an impossible task. They thote their clothes, and
that-44,000 convictions Is-n-she told her she would
proportion of the total under 17.
umber of children
Most
readily I agree with als
No sensible
person would
Imagine that the vast majority dishonest. This would be a dis- of our boys and girls urd
torted picture.
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Tragedy Of Broken Homes
By BASIL. L. Q. HENRIQUES
President of the East London Children's Court
Judith
The Senor who wants to kick us out
BY BERNARD HARRIS
E all know Havana. It is much he earned that prize from WE TATISTICS are always where the parents are living hap- long as they can be directed into used to come from.
the place where 'our cigars this STATISTICS Are it was why the pur
summary of the Vila In a district de-
good channels, which can be
of
The fun and games in: the a body called Cubon capital are sponsored by Committee on Dependent Ter- the American ritories.
1
plan:
Canade to become a republic,
Bermuda ceded to the Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the Cayman Islands given to Cuba.
Puerto Rico (1.5.) and The Virgin Islands (British) merged into a repubile.
British Honduras handed over
toward Islands and the
The
Windward Irlands to become n repubite,
Cumean, Arube, and Bonaire fall Dutch) ceded to Venezuela, Britiah, French, and Dutch Gulana united in a repulitic.
The Falkland Islande given to the Argentina.
Senor Vila bas overlooked one point. Maybe he did not hink it worthy of mention. What about the feelings of the
due
tendency
in certain quarters may show that more chil- void of slums and with adequate achieved in Youth organisations. But not so many people seem It would seem that there is a to be aware that Havana is to bolnice "the pictures." I am dren and young persons in space for healthy recreation. sure this is undue simplification. Britain are appearing be- child who
It is very often the unhappy rea! deterioration in sell-seeking, another, claim. to, fame. the pictures may fore the Courts, it does not Court. There is
comes before the restraint and self-discipline, anda suggest crimes: 1 think
no greater that children and young persons with
It in giving hospitality to cven greater frequency they necessarily mean an increase cause for unppiness than to do what they want to get re-some gentlemen who are plan- show the criminal eight and in delinquency. They may
be starved of love in the home. jordless of the rights of others ning the liquidation of the Bri-
A large number of children and the rightness of their attish Empire. beauty and virtue triumphant! well mean that more chil have not had instilled into them tions.
When I was much younger, dren are being caught. it was
in the home a clear was customary to put all the
more) The most cffective way standard. blame for juvenile offences on If the chances of being
stemming delinquency, lies in "penny
dreadfuls." Now
Actually the number of detin good home. Although we need the detected cinema has taken
become greater. quent their place
chlidren is extremely new houses, we need still more for those who want a simple there will eventually be a small compared with the homes within the walls of these
dimeult problem. decrease in delinquency, solution for
population, and a very large houses, where the spirit of love Three
Delegates have been sent to causes. I think, bre
number come from homes in and happiness is to be found, its conterence from I do not believe that children which other members most responsible:
dozen of the and that spirit is the spirit of American republics, First, the unsettlement caused are in themselves worse than family have been before the religion.
The fathers and they were. But I do belleve that courts.
They have set themselves the by the war.
Mr Henriques illustrated the not unambitious job of de- elder brothers away, the mother they have been less well d'scip- often at work, and the child lined and that they
weakness of statistics with this ciding how to sever the Brir peoples in the territories se dis- story: 4 less clear understanding
tish. French.
poses of so light-heartedly? left largely to himself in an
and Dutch atmosphere of strain and exelte- right and wrong.
impression, He met the headmaster of an colonies in Amerien from Euro- Even Senor Viti must bo ment.
The causes of delinquency He majority
therefore, - 16 that the East End school. The headmas Pean Influence. Secondly, the shortage pf sometimes in the child who may dren
of delinquent. chil ter proudly told him
of the The commitice is not goods, which tempts children to be extremely stupid and,
Aré from parents good behaviour of the Jewish ready with a report an its de- Puerto Rico by a huge majori steal
food and odds and ends.
tę- who have ΠΟ idea day as a result
how to bays, who attended his school. of their in- rear them and train them and But, Third, Inck of parental con- terrupted education during the are too stupid to be likely to worried about crime among the been given to them.
ho confessed, he was that a pretty
But it so happens y on a polley of maintaining good clue has ti-esent relationships with the Most parents hove a war-educationally retarded ra- learn. The children drag them Christian boys in the school.
18 Dolefully he their children, and make great mal: er very occasionally in a' their nursery, and as adolescente, hovs have been involved la Marina. And it is. a prize declared that no British sub-
It told Henriques: gifty per cent of the sacrifices to see they me well fed really distorted and and clothed, and have a good mind and personality,
amoral have become their playground.
Bored with education.
nothing to
do, crime in one way or another." effort. By far the greatest cause is they commit offences in a spirit Henriques, shocked, asked how The But it is no good denying found in children's environment, of adventure. The competitive many Christian pupils thero there is a minority who help It is very seldom that a child spirit and the adventurous spirit were, their children neither by ex- appears before the Court who are characteristle of the adolcs- "Two," replied the headmas ample nor precept, and who are comes from n united family cent, and are all to the good in ter.
trol.
NANCY
The No Look
HEY--- WHAT'S
TH' IDEA ?
GANGWAY
· I-CAN'T- SEE —
WHERE-I'M
GOING
have
of
A
GENERAL
By Ernie Bushmiler
I ALWAYS FALL' ON MY FACE
liberations.
yet
Was
aware that Munoz Marin recently elected Governor of
U.S..
comes an article In And the 40,000 British West hava
Cuban
Government thought it so brilliant that they gave an award to its author, Heriberto Portell Vila.
You can judge just
BALD SPOTS!
how
ject will have anything to "with
the dictates of the Havann Commission."
Perhaps Senor Vila ought return that prize.
-(London Express Service).
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