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Amy further Approach to Moscow
I FEEL SURE I WON'T HAVE ANY
·BETTER LUCK IN THIS UNIFORM·'
PEACE THE MESSENGER
World Congright
My greannement with Dally Hersin
Sitting
OFTEN
wonder why women grumble at the
duiness of housework the when, according to writers of women's features, thero is so much fun among the dusters and the dish mops.
Read what one of them says about rhyllum in housework:-
Get a certain measure of ume into your head and use the brush, the broom or the pulisher backwards and for- wards to an imaginary tune. "Not so long ago I wan teaching somebody how to make a bed correctly. To the tune of 'Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, we sang First the toe and then the head, that's the way to make a bed.
The stage in set for a spot of rhythmle housework. Old Mrs Miin, the char, has arrived, and the mistress dances into the kitchen, singing,
MISTRESS: Swill the #ink
and empty the slops, Wash the blooming turnip tops. MRS
(croaking): MIFFIN Scrub the tuleta, sweep the
floor,
Smash the china, bang the
door. MISTRESS: Dust the parlour,
clean the hall,
But
ut that, I fear, will not be all, MKS MIFFIN (going a little Da-da-n-da-da-
ya-ga)
da-da.
RE-ARMAMENT
GERMAN
on the
Fence.... by
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
1 an inclined to think that, instead of regarding it as an occasion for rejoicing. ho would have taken his usual, rather combre, view of the affairs of Shropshire Jado
On Wenlock Edge he got her.
And took her for a ride,
Do you think, that poverty has been abolished in Britain? Do children today, in the Welfare State, 1950, stül sleep ill and hungry on the floor on piles
of rags?
THE SHOCKING STORY
By MARGARET LANE
Small girls are lured Into by methylated!
LONDON. The early sexual experiences HILD delinquency and of many of these children are the treatment of the enough to unbalance the alur- diest child for life. Whole young offender are familles sleep in the same bed, topics guaranteel in any covered with coats and runs, company Lo start a lively and prejudiced discussion. bombed ruins The causes of juvenile crime pri drinkers, and the sexual
niciult of children is such are many and obscure, and commonplace that the majority no two people will entirely of casos never reach the court. Now, Not all these homes, by any agree about them.
means, are desperately poor. however, from
Many nre, but not
Sordid searches
social environment, two
defective charac- ant workers in an industrini ter, bad heredity, misery
exhaustion all play their part
of
the
alum district which they do
not name but which is per in producing the family back- grounds from which it is a haps not difficult to identify, miracle that any decent chilid- it seems we must all admit ren emergo at all.
there is a kind of home
In childhood so ugly, so
which breeds the juvenile comfortless, so often bleak in lin indifference and lack of love,
delinquent.
Is it any wonder that the child- ren turn cagerly to the only watm, bright; adventurous
When I began to react Arthur Collisa and Vera Poole's places they know--the chema.
count ("These Our Children,"
Gollancz Bs, Gd.) of the life the cofe, the fun fals and (of which thousands of our child- course) the street?
are lving today-in our
midst, in our own citles, not in
Home remote country-1 felt as
though I had stumbled upon The street, with all its dan- some careful historieal account gers and templations is at least cost of a nineteenth century thieves' free. other amusements kitchen.
money. And it is here that take their first ny children step huo delinquency, pilfering. or breaking in, or making their first attempts at prostitution for the sake of the coppers it takes I go to the pictures.
Do
northwest. The conductor woke me, and slept again with my
children today, in 1950, head pointing southwest, When they threw me off the tram, in the Welfare State, sleep all- I clept on my doorstep with mying and hungry on the floor, on land on the nut and pointingplies
think, north-northeast. 13 this Alas! they do, they do.
Hirming- is un account 30 sober, so un-
The puzzle is not that we Sensational, So obviously true that
I should like to thrust it have so many delinquent child- ren in our towns, in spite of all into the hands of every com-
recori?"-Blotto,
ham,
of raga?
This
"And, what is more, I do not Marriage mottoes placent percon of my acquain-
ride, fish, or 'unt ze 'ound. I ate
open air, and I do not play tennis, 'ockey, Squash ze raquet, foutball, or your 'ateful cricket.""
And then and there he shot Heads to the north
her,
Σπ lovely Shropshire
bride,
It was at Eastertide,
They came from far to feast
her,
And many a mother cried, For lads who wed et Easter
Are banged at Whitsuntide In bloom of manhood's pride.
NUMBER of letters have reached me from people on the great controversy. "Can we heads sleep better with towards the north?"
✡
✡
Our
*
Chinese cookery towards the south and my legs
book
"I used to sleep with my head pointing eart and west. shall Mitcham.
do
What
now-Itestiras,
"One night after returning from a regimental dinner, I slept in a tram with my head pointing
"Will you please tell me which WHEN British people write is the north end of my bed- Wabout cockery, they call a room? Hewldered, Brixton. rice pudding a rice pusling and a rissole a rissote in the blunt British manner which is so much admired abroad.
When the Chinese write about MISTRESS: MRS MIFFIN!! cookery they call pork rissoles
G."1 MRS MIFFIN (cracking her "Little Angela in Lotus Leaves," rice with fruit "ce on the head with a broom): holled
in Eight Precious Da de diddley dun dum Cooke
Shadows," fried cucumber "Cucumber Slices of the Moon," and plain cake, without even of Paradise."
The British way in "Cake of the Angels
SUITIC
"Girls about to be married are even more superstitious than they used to be about unlucky mouths, days and colours, I read.
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ance; of everyone who belleveo that "the poor" are with us no inger; or that everything done for everybody nowadays; or that the slums have vanth- su,
Of course,
that
occurs
know SEEM to remember a rhyme juvenile delinquency does
about the colours of wed-occur only in poor, squalid and
but it broken homco, ding gownst
chlefly there. Marry in red for a crack on
The alums themselves are the the head;
offenders, tho Ereat first Marrs in yellow, tut tut, what streets of rotting and degraded
it fellow:
Marry in white, he is sure to
get light;
will
our social services, but that, even u these appalling conditions the
their
stan- majority of poor working class families maintain dards of morality and bring up their children with decency and affection.
de-
The breeding ground of linquency is the sub-standard family in which the parents
themselves aro nearly alwayn not the products of bad homes, de- moralised in childhood and con- tinuing the trail of dirt, dircase and delinquency from Кепета- ten to generation.
What can we do about them? The slums will take years to not wait for that. abolish, and the problem
can-
together property where endlessly breed.
ng families five
A Minister for Children? It is one or two rooms not from Marry in brown, he will soon
cholet. God knows, but because not impossible, though one can for them already in imagination hear the knock you down
there is nowhere elec bea
without clash with rival Ministries, the often in crey: Marry.
go-houses to all day; blotto
Education, the deadlocks with water beyond a tap in the filthy Internecine wars with Health, or 10 the Treasury or the Honu broken lavatory between
too; evil-smelling stairs, which
children's playground but it is even more expensive when it is too wet, too dark, too to waste our children.
(London Express Service) bitterly cold in the streets,
Mery in blue, he will knock
back a few;
yard,
with t
.one
choked
and
Marry in plak, you will soon families, with dark, dangerous Office,
It would be expensive.
take to drink:
Marry
115 mauve, bounder, by Jove!
what a
and
cre the
(London Express Service)
PAGING THE
New York.
GENERAL ... ·
By C.V.R. THOMPSON
gum containing the heming to sell 5,000,000 sets, as left estate worth £10,000. It chewing
are supposed to HEY are getting ready
inst last year's 3,200,000. did it by careful living and by drugs, which
prudent investment in Wall remove the symptoms of a cold Prices are 25 percent lower.
within a few hours. Possible The over
Street and in property. of the
selling slogan for them-"Any ITERATURE: Ono
DVERTISEMENT: If a Chinese writer once let for President" again.
Anxious gub, chub?" TALKING of bandits, I was
largest publisher's advancTS deeply impressed by the his imagination go on
will be to get rid of his stock of I have caten way in which the niece of the British dishes
Every time this has hap- ever given (£13,300)
to Kathleen pald would
("Forever old cars introverted LOW NECKLINES will not be proprietor of an hotel dealt with I expect his description
pened, the general, now in a
one of New York's TV masked man who rushed at be something like this:
novel, "Star Money." Opening New York papers that he will on her shouting, "Put 'em up!" Boiled Cod and Parsley Sauce: comfortable job as president Amber") Winsor for her second rush, a dealer advertised in all worn by actresses appearing,
"We've Flakes
the SHOW
fot of Heavenly of New York's Columbia sentence of the book: "It was a accept a dozen eggs for down stations from now on.
The studio issued this ban Blotting Paper f Precious University, has said "No, woman's bedroom."
crates," he said, "you bring the
because "we are guests in tho Office Paste.
family living room and must a show behave ourselves as much."
Mies Hubbard merely replied: "Just a minute. I will call my uncle."
Other disarming things which might be sald to intruders are: "Excuse me, but have you met my aunt?" or "You have the advantage of me air, but per- haps you would like to speak to father?" or, "Do you know my people?"
Girls, always be dignified and Dritish when faced by munsked
men
Stewed Steak:
Celestial lumps of the Best Leather cooked for Eight Honourable Days.
Interview with
foreign actress
thanks."
unions.
What
that they mean is General Ike is now "available,"
payment.
the
the
But his friends are promising MANNERS: Unions will co- enter
operate with the manage-
of New York's Central PRIZE EXHIBIT in that at the proper time, possibly ment this summer, the answer will Railway to treat all passengers New York hat put on of
scientist and give them all its distinguished visitors in DEACE plan proposed by Dr be different.
with courtesy
a photo- Robert Millikan. "Our the past 400 years, is outright the best possible service, It will not be an
Nobel Peace of vit thousands "Yes." Possibly it will not even jobs depend upon more people graph of Winston Churchill. It winner of say the was taken on December 8, 1900, Prize-let be "Maybe." But at least it using the railway,"
when Churchill, then: 26, arrived hydrogen balloons instead of bomba towards Russla from the will not be "No, thanks."
for a lecture tour.
British Isle and fill them with PINION: Unexpected support
Caption 10
pleture proof for the Russian people for proposals for earlier
Churchill, author of of America's peaceful aims. as the phrase goes, for the big
closing of pubs and night clubs "Winston HAVE had the privilege of 1952 race to the White House.
The trouble is they still have comes from a New York tavern six books, hero of four wars, Interviewing a lovely foreign
happened in Broadway's netress now in Britain.
to convince him keeper with the name of Toots member of Parliament, forth-HOW BUSINESS: It has never ben unable
history. Sol Hurok, American that he must campaign for the Shor, Said he: "If you ain't coming Prime Minister of Eng-
drunk by midnight, you ain't land.”
manager for the Sadler's Wells nside the printed nomination.
announced interview offered by her -Pres He will accept it, he says, tying."
"anti- six months before their arrival these so-called on agent, asked what was her only if it is offered to him on a
was a porler
"We had on the New cold" pilis, druggists, who are what nights they will be British audiences,
or compromises.
York underground. Never in still seiling them by the million, dancing which ballet.
we've hod 30,000 VIEW!
VIEWING: Production of TV is 18 years on the job did he have developed a new way to to do this," Mr Hurok toki me,
thun £ a week. make money with them. They "because
letters for tickets.” nels is expected to break make more records this year. Makers are And yet it was disclosed that he are almost ready to introduce n
Shropshire tragedy Pushing
7.20 & 9.20TTOW, I wonder, would Mr honest opinion of Britain and plate, without the need for deals MONEY: Mr Trammer Splown #OR ALL the medical attacks Ballet Company,
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A. E. Housman, author of "A Shropshire Lad," have dealt with the news that, generally, there are more marriagez than
LOVE-STORY OUT OF THE NIGHT-SHADOWS OF NEW YORK! ' Usual during Easter?
DANE
"I ate your 'orrible country," she shouted, "And I ate your pig-faced audiences.
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