Wicksteed buys a
On the ROAD
I
car
DON'T seem to be able to leave home with- out something happen- ing. Last year when I got back from flying round the world I found we'd acquired a baby daughter.
This year I return from Darkest Africa to discover that our union is about to be blessed with a brand new car. We can't afford either of them. But you know how it is. These things can happen to anyone.
Years ago, round about the end of 1940, during a passing monient of nancial elotion, we put our name down for a car.
We'd only one child then and rably we thought that we could afford to replace, the old battle scarred chariot which we'd sold In the war to buy curtains and carpets.
As the seasons went by with- out any signs of delivery we tended to forget the whole in
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DANDRUFF? FALLING HAIR?
MASSAGE DAILY WITH
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eldent. Our children increased
and we
from one to three resigned oumeives to a carless marriage.
The arrival of our daughter Inst year was nancially embar
ing but it wasn't
surprise.
Having
n total had 1wo children alrently we'd a fair idea of the facts of life that applied in such cases,
But with cars it's different. - Tho waiting period in the post- war motor trasle la quite unpre dictable. Whenever we tried to
and out what it was the answer we got was: "Oh, it takes years ond year. They're worse than elephants."
So imagine the scene on the
* HONUKONG"{
(THE FUN-EINDING-OUT MAN);
PRESENTING THE CREW:
Of this Wicksteed family group, only three members were alive when the car was ordered. And Philip, he's now 81, was too young to remember. To John, 21 years,
and Kari, who is nine months, the car is "something father did before our time."
By
BERNARD WICKSTEED
day that father tot home from they wanted to know was: What Aftien and found there'd been a was he going to do about THE
that CAR? the letter from
Korage morning snying the car he'd ordered in 1940 was now ready
Couldn't we lend it or lease it to some disappointed couple who have the money, the garage, and the pollshing rags ready?"
But my wife was against this he, 100. We'd ordered the car, he said, and we must look after It and bring It up as best wo could. It was our own steel and
"Well," I said, desperately, "I grease and it wouldn't be right to let it fall into the hands of for delivery and would he please tht deny paternity?"
foster parents who might be arrange to collect it.
unkind to it.
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There were good grounds for this, though the family wouldn't What now? hear of them. In that long-ago
whun carefree moment
we'd accom- placed the order we asked for n TDS bombshell was
that panied by an involee or bill humble model
proportions extinct. of such terrifying
fers that it made the ordinary
How
Then we found that even if we Whed to we couldn't get the car adopted unless we renounced It entirely. There's a
form of con- trol these duf which is now When the manufacturers to us motorists whose cars grew of becouchement look triting
Bang went father's carefully ceased making it our name was to maturity and passed out of rehearsed stories of adventures automatically transferred to the pur hands before the war. It's
called "the covenant" with lions and witch doelors, No waiting list of its successor. one wanted to hear them.
SCAD
All
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
BRIGADE.
HONG KONG DISTRICT. WANTED Books, papers and magazines for
to distribution
service camps in the New Territories. Please communleate with MRS HOLMES-BROWN,
2 Tal Hang Road. MR K. C. WONG,
Room 000, Bank of East Asia. WE WILL ARRANGE TO COLLECT Additional collecting centres:-
Hongkong Cricket Club. South China Morning Post. China Mall Ofce.
We'd asked for 12 h.p. cur. Just as there are laws to stop but this one we were now told baby farming, so there are now belonged to us was at least 18 regulations to prevent people h.p., and becording to the invoice wantonly acquiring new cars and it was fed with radio, and Immediately disposing of them heater, was painted comet blue, at a profit. andi furnished with belite upholstery.
We'd never asked for anything like this. In fact l'il never even heard of comet blue. So how could the car be mine?
Every parent of a
new-born
car has to sign this covenant in duplicate. It is full of hereina and whercests, and it witnesselh Hot for a vent the parent (hereinafter called "the owner") mustn't give, pledge, hire, or The family didn't look at it otherwise tical with the said this way. They said that in vehicle in any manner whereby life you had
to take what you the property therca 13 or may got. If it was a boy or a girl or be transferred to another person. triplets you had to accept the fact. And nowadays it was the
same with cars.
Y sald, "Well, tien isn't there a King's Bounty Gr something for people who are delivered of a car twice as grand and ex- pensive as they expect?"
Away with it!
enro
What happens if you do? In our case we will have to pay £325 to the garage from which we bought the car.
You also have to agree that the car won't be used for any thing else than the privale, pro- fessional. De trade purposes of the owner.
ANT we get it adopted? pointed out the dangers of Surely there must be homes this chance to the family, if we for the
of impoverished used the car for a smash and parents where they can be cared grab raid that would be nu right for In healthy surroundings. because we would be the owners. Lower Peak Tramway Offer. [
WHY
Do you know How your baby should be immunized ?
Make this promite to yourself now: that you will safeguard your child by having him immunizedt
WHEN
Q. How does immunization help? A. It's the only sure way you can keep your baby safe from these diseases; smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough. See what im- munization has done in just one generation: it has halved deaths from these baby killers. But medical authorities also agree that diphtheria and smallpox can't be wiped out until (1) all mothers understand the vital need for immunization, (2) mothers take care to have their children immunized as soon as the doctor recommends.
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Q. For which diseases is Immunization
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A. Whooping cough, smallpox, diphtheria ure the unseen enemies of babies and chil- dren. They strike fast without much warn- ing. And one sick child can soon infect many others in the community, Make sure your child is protected against these dis- cases throughout his school years. Im- munization is such an easy, fast, practically painless way to protect your children and so economical!
This is one of a series of articles on basic health problems. In them you will discover how faithful co-operation with your doctor can not only safeguard, but Improve your dally well-being, your chances for a long and healthy life.
Have your child Immunized while you're counting his age in months instead of years!
Q. How old should your baby be when
immunized?
But if someone stole it from us and used it to rob a bank we'd be breaking the covenant because the man who used it fur his own professional purposes wasn't the owner,
So naturally... NOBODY makes you sign any-
thing so drastic as this when you have a baby. You simply collect its birth certificate, ration books and identity card, get it varchanted, and the child
yours
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I pointed out all these things to my wife but she couldn't be wayed. It was our duty to inke and to cherish this helpless new- born comet-blue cat.
Need I say more? Fallser bought the car, and mother's Hone shopping. She's looking for an outfit that goes with belge upholstery and comet blue.
-(London Express Service)
1950.
"It's marked quite clearly on the botile, Vera-'This wonderful drug from the U.S.A. produces a 50 per cent, increase in the growth of furm stuck. UNFIT FOR BABIES."
London Express Service
for Britain
sisters
A nest-egg
from Hitler's
-N
11 secret British Government bank ne-
count there's a £15,- By HAROLD
1000,000 fund maintained
since 1939 for Hitler's legal money away. Hitler's for-
2012cnormous sums have accumulated to the title of, enemy Inventors A. ALBERT and industrialists. Early in the
had to be over to the Custodian.
motor inventions of
carned
war the Board of Trade issued rules allowing anyone to take Since the first day of war over enemy patents, designs and heirs and other Germans tune as debited in Britain every penny due to Germans had trade marks. Over 400 important to be handed over to the Custo- industrial patents were used in now shortly due to be itself-stood to transform dlan of Enemy Property the war drive in this way, but a shared among 12,000 British them into two of the richest actually a series of officials who percentage of profits usually investors.
women in Europe.
have cared for the money till its five percent-still In Hitler's evil lifetime I ultimate fate could be deelde. paid ove Not
Sir Henry, even
"Lil Mark ne"
The problem, poned the first journalist to for the song had travelled by Daimler and Benz, the aircraft Gregory, the Custodian of Was
discover Paula living in word of mouth. Ultimately a Inventions of Heinkel and Enemy Property, knows the exact date of the share-out. neglected
money in poverty in a torn copy giving the requisite Messerschmitt,
way. German patented drug fourth-floor attic in Vienna, copyright information, turned up the But the necessary act of I know that Angela, former in a cafe In Naples. The German ideas saved British alves but parliament is being passed.
composers, Nordert Schultze and earned German money. Some As soon as it becomes law housekeeper at Berchtes- Hana Lelp, were duly credited of the original research workers
gaden, deeply offended her with 1hrir
proper
oper share of the died in concentration camps. Yet probably in June-every brother by remarrying. Yet performing fees. They never money was still considered due
to their employers! the money will help to com- Ostensibly the Enemy Pro- these two women retained received the hard cash-and now to legal title to Hitler's estate, pensate British composers whose perty fund began in the faith and the vast sums nomin- songs were stolen by juer.
ihiat the German authorities Throughout its 11-year term, would
would undertake ally due to the Franz Eher
an equally the Enemy Property fund has systematic accumulation and The recipients will range Verlag publishing concern in
been handled with absolute safeguarding of British funds. If from widows and old people Munich, as well as to royal- honesty. It was tricky, intricate they had
kept £1:0 books whose incomes from Ger- ties on Mein Kampf.
work. For example, the Cus- straight, George Bernard Shaw earned another man sources stopped on the The sisters also stood to gain todian had to take over contract would have
800 books, fortune. Vickers and ICI prob- outbreak of
a fortune, through Hitler's drug supervision of over war. The
share holdings, in fees that have 20 plays and 118,221 pleces of ably had the largest claims in enemy fund holds British accumulated for hundreds of music. dividends for Alfred Krupp, proprietary rights in patent Gustav Stinnes and Franz medielnes. Every copyright plece von Papen. Yet British where within the British Empire creditors will get the money including "LIN instend.
British investor now owed money by Germany in cluding not a few in Hong- kong-stands to benefit,
Complex Items of German music broadcast any
four years the Performing Rights Society alone handed
the industrial Group. Engilsh scientists, composers, inventors and Investors all stood to beneft. Even British owners of house property in Berlin hoped that comeene was collecting the rent. Marlene have
enriched them
It has now transpired that the Hiller's former interests over £175,000 accruing through Germans never kept stock. Today nan sheet music concerns Out the British Empire for musle it appears that the sums due to heard by radio and gramophone, Britain are actually much more which shared copyright royalties.
the total And it looks as if even the in restaurants and theatres, even then
£15,000,000 of "Lill Marlene" through war factory loud already held. Thorny problema. PROBABLY the world's composers
hen speakers in
in the "Music While Me ahead. Posing a riddle for two most disappoint British soldiers marched home You Work programmes.
won't get their money. women, arising from froin the Western Desert hum-
Amid other complex Hema ex-Serviceman of the British
ed
two
Vast Sums
In
When
Solomon, there is the case of an
this decision, are Hitler's ming the song, publishers were there was even a royalty fee Army whose Jewish father, an sisters, Paula Hit- eager to bring it out with an for a German weather chart of important Leipzig music pub- Custodian's Greenland, used in RAF train- lisher, was dispossessed by the ler and Mrs Angela English lyric, The
offee, however, first insisted on ing. Another carefully tabulated Nazis and died in Dachau. The Hammizsch. Though they determining ownership of the item
concerns
tale of son declares that profits accruing thousands of botilen of wine. to the firm are rightfully his- planned to give much of the musical copyright.
Normally the benefelary might and he legitimately asks equality have been Mrs Ribbentrop; now of treatment
British perhaps some of the money may subjects.
опе
Olivier
UGSTAS
where Ribbentrop left an unpaid Soap & Perfume
sets pace
go to the proprietor of a hotel
By C. V. R. THOMPSON
'NEW YORK.
bill.
for
The dormant cash Includes
On Broadway a big success of royalties on "Mein Kampfs CIR Henry Gregory has already
the well as book royallits to Frliz scason has been
Now
an
records
to
the
engh
Ironic Bids
restored a great dent of pro-
WAS in a little backwoods the
Katharine Hepburn production Thyssen, the Ruhr magnate who perty formerly in his custody. He A town in Arkansas the of "As You Like It.” It has paved illler's road to power. held the money due to Allied na- There's been money, too, from tionals in enemy-occupied terri- other day. There was just bretten all roadway
that play by running 100 the earnings of a circus elephant tory, and thus held the soap cinema. To my sur-
performances to date.
named Lirdy, the property of and perfume proẞis dus to Coty, prise it was
royalties due to not showing Even on the musical comedy an interned enemy alien. Lindy dress design the usual feature about the stage Kiss me, Kate," one of was a lady of uncertain age and Parls houses, gramophone royal- life and death of Jesse the biggest and best successes died midway through the war. tes for Maurice Chevaller-and
theatricnt company The
Custodian's is about a
agents made even cash for Chinese in Jap- James.
rehearsing "The Taming of the futile attempts to sell the meat occupied Chine. Shrew."
to glue and animal fodder Instead it announced that
All these holdings have been Credit the British films factories Eventually Lindy was it had brought back its big "Tenry V." and "Hamlet" for cut up and buried in sections, handed to their rightful owners
Shakespeare
from A string of French racehorses, attraction "by popular de bringing
to the but not before proceeds
Dut into
safe 38 The film was mass audience as never before. the sale of bene and ivory were similarly, were A. For whooping cough: from 3 to 6 months, mand."
shortly before debited enterprising New duly
custody here For smallpox: from 6 months or carlier; Laurence Olivier's "Ham- Yerk publisher,
France was overrun. Throughout Mr Albert account.
the war the Custodian had them Kanter, is let."
translating Shake- repeat on entering school. For diphtheria:
masterpieces into
cared for by a a trainer and then Shakespeare's The great American at 6 to 9 months; repeat at 18 to 24 months;
returned thern, plus a few young beloved non-culture already exciting America's
the coinic book.
colts by way of interest, repeat on entering school; repeat at 12 speare boom
Currently, the Custodian- stil oven to Highly coloured drawings show is spreading years. By following this simple immunize New York and most of the big medium:
cities,
of each play, and WHEN the contents of the Ger-
man Embassy were sold, has £5,000,000 in such tangible tion schedule, you can have the enormous "the sticks"-those regions the action
unexpurgated and tropic bids were made for swas- assets as jewellery, house pro- EL cynical Hollywood ie
Among relief that comes of knowing your child is which
"balloons" you Ussociate with awords. All the cash has been the latter are insurances carried a child of 12.
carefully harvested against set on with German-owned com- Among the sophisticated the O. Cannon,
"Jullua ting-up day. The accumulated pantes in the Argentine. Somo peak is at
The Arst play-comic. Shakespeare cult
Casar" popularity.
has been out for only compound interest will help to were carried on an actuarial In the past three
month. and it is already in pay expenses, but the greater basis, without named being months at least a dozen "pri-
Its 15th edition. vato
of Shakespeare, lives"
the British Ex- disclosed, and may represent the Part Mr Kanter's artists are now chequer by way of taxation. quieter sideline invertments of some American como English,
ut work on "Richard III," On the outbreak of war Ger- digering and Goobbola, have been published,
published next many still had £200.000 worth Sooner or later all these pro- One of them, by Marchette which will be American girl who work
spring. Then they will go to of tin in Malays, which had been perfles will be realised and, the Chute, an
on "Hamlet," which
not proceeds will go into the kitty. bought and paid for but and in London spent years
they expect to be an all-time shipped. The Custodian seized Creditors have waited a long Stratford studying her
sub-
best-aciler, foot, is a best-seller (around
the tin as enemy assets, sold it time for their money, but it's a half a million copies).
and banked the money. Similarly case of better late than never,
words
safe from these diseases. But don't deine credits with the mental age of unsimplified are given in the tika flags and one of Goering's perty and insurance.
Ask your doctor about immunization today!
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