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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1950,*
PHRASEBOOK FOR SPEAKERS
An illustrated, Left-wing dietlonary
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compiled by CUMMINGS
FABIAN SOCIETY
LECTURE TODAY
THE RISE
CK THE WORKING CLASS
JOHN IRELAND - REED HADLEY
ALSO LATEST PARAMOUNT & GAUMONT
A distorted picture by an unprincipled cartoonist
Tory clap-trap
A rampant Tory
A bloated capitalist
BRITISH NEWSREELS.
TO-MORROW
Diabolical. Discoverer
of the Most, Frightening Invention
in the History of Civilized Mar
D.CYCLOP
Never befale such a pictur Never before such tholilst
A Paramount Metern with Albert Dekho
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SIREN OF ATLANTIS
Directed by
BRITAIN'S
GUIDES
By PAUL NUGAT
0
for
Perhaps accurate to
SCOUTS
London Expres tiervice
AND
MAKE PROGRESS
AMERICAN
COLUMN
She just keeps on writing
BY
NEWELL ROGERS
AMERICA'S
NEW YORK.
best-selling woman author is. pre- paring to bring out her 60th book. She wrote it in longhand on yellow paper. And she rewrote it twice.
Mary Roberts Rinehart, aged 73, started writing to get her doctor husband out of debt. Her rst story old for £12. "The Circular Her first book, Staircase" (1008). brought £175 for serial rights. When she rewrole it as a play, called "The Bat," the show grossed over £3,200.000,
Her 59 books, printed in 13
have languages,
Rold
over 60.000,300 coples, counting Is. paper-cover reprints. And they have inade her a dollar mi- lionaire several times over.
A specialist in mysteries, she lived through n real-life thriller. Her
cook tried to murder her first with a pistol,
and unqualified success. It was fun visited Britain, as well as tional links which were broken which would not go oft, to mind bables, track down several hundred Girl Guides. by World War II is an outstand-then with three knives, which lost cats and runaway degs, During the same period 3,907 ing contribution that is being the chauffeur
Scouts and 2,423 Girl made by the Boy Scout and He hanged shop for the aged, and visit a Boy
Guide organisations in raol. police station to clean the but Guides from Britain camped in Girl ions of a uniform. It was also a number of overseas countries. Britain to the future peace and
the interma well-being of the world. a service rendered to the com- This re-forging immunity
many different
vitally considered Fall the youth or finess
boy's training spheres. And the financial result ganisations in Britain, portant to the
Then follows a noisy period of was so healthy that the scheme. for the next whose growth has been stri
games in which the will be continued strenuous
steam-curbed by ten years. handicapped in these post- pent-up
The games the Girl Guides war years by inadequate hours behind a school leak or at a factory bench-is let off, and premises, equipment,
before the lads settle down to play are less robust than those played by the boys, but not stafling, the Boy Scout and more serious work.
less stimulating to the Imagina- would be more it Girl Guide movement has
say that the next tion. There is one great adven- suffered the least.
item on the programme is not ture to be looked forward to 19-19 work at all, but The figures
more serious and worked for during winter-
Except for the it in camping. signalling, knotting, showed that scouting in ploy like
10 camp are encouraged the
United Kingdom has and first vid, in which a sound older and most hardened scouts, knowledge is required in order who
nearly at the year round, cam- from to pass the scout tests. not only recovered
To add spice to the decrease in member-
theso netivi ping begins in earnest at Easter. scoutmaster It is talked about all the year ship due to the calls of lies, an inventive
create a sudden round. war service, but has reached will sometimes
emetitency by asking a friend a record peak membership of the movement to burst intu
meeting and pretend to with 473.216 scouts. The the
VERY scout troop aims at Association of throw a . The way cach watrol Girl Guide
handles the situation will be having ten days to a fortnight Britain is numerically as watched very carefully by the
in camp in summer, apart from IEIC! the Good strong as the Boy Scouts, scoutmaster,
week-end camps. The thrill of and mistakes will be
nnture-craft practising and the figure of almost half efforts
Woodlare never is summarised at the end.
weakens from members million
one generation to the next. The equivalent to 20 percent of
Jure of being free to play vivid the world total of Girl
like Rames
"Smugglers Over Guides and Girl Scouts.
LTERNATIVELY, the cbser- The Border" in real countryside, vation game known as Kim's Instead of having to imagine Game, which is also a favourite nt that a town school playground
parties. will children's
be is a Wild West scene, is at the of the movement's played with variations, so that heart the scout's powers of observa success. tlon are heightened for the out- door purtime of stalking and tracking, as well as for the role
It
There is an explanation for this: it is to be found in the
of policy the fundamental movement of making its mem- berg independent and resource- ful by playing a game-scouting or guiding.
Kim's Game
Three Elements of active citizenship.
N°
TOW scouting takes care of the
three indispensable elements the
more
Summer Camp
1019
and
Boys and girls cannot olil- Krow the movement,
The pro gramme has been described most aptly as the man's or Spinning Yarns around a woman's job eat down to boy's was Introduced by or girl's size, Without knowing camp are
founder. Lord Baden, they are being groomed for of the boy's world-fun, fight Powell, at the Brat camp-meet teadership Inside and outside ing, and feeding! Ife can indulgo over 40 years ago, and net with the movement.
enthusiastic reception During the summer months of easily such an these elements
that it has become traditional especially
feeding ouldoors, which is associated with cook- fur senutmasters to yarn about Scouts ing and camp fires, collecting pioneering or a similar subject, carting water. before the troop meeting con- kindling and
But in Britain's long wintry cludes with more
ba idie. All over the country, about
Ilowever, it must not million Boy Scouts thought that
or Girl Scouts indulge in fixed organised into patrols of six Guides
We might quite #5 boys within a troop of about 35 routines. boys hold a weekly meeting kely have dropped in on boys indoors.
home-made at work in their
ARTHUR RIPLEY. Produced by SEYMOUR NEBENZAL nights, the movement is not prayers.
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Rates and
a workshop, busy making toys or
These meetinsts are still mystery to many adults, so let bells or knife sheaths; repairing
us pay meeting.
a visit to a typical pair of boots; learning how lo As likely as not, you kind books for the troop library,
will stumble across a meeting! In the most unlikely places; for lastance, In the country district
д disused barn or stable may
the AS
troop's head-
surve
quarters in preference
A Headache
0
Na winter evening we might
to the
10 be entertained
21
TC-
painting
village hall; in a town, an old hearsal of a concert or play in
the midst of peenery garage in mews may be
of properties and the clatter
For this in ferred to the local youth centre, which has to be thared with being constructed.
For a nativity that helps to swell various youth movements.
funds 35 well as iving and creating pleasure.
the aim of the scout movement the Joenl
is to give every troop a place And throughout that it can enl Its own.
WI
Noisy Period
the scout movement, there has always been the
maxim that money must be earned for good
chusca.
WHEN the troop assembles of Finance is always a perennial Wan evening, the boys group headache for voluntary organi- themselves around their
In own antions.
patrol leader, and one of the movement
to
1010 the Scout started 1 Echemu
buy undertook rst items is a quick inspection whereby ench
their ensure that the boys are to earn one shilling for maininining that
degree of headquarters funds. The scheme smartness and correctness of recclved sympathetic publicity uniform and personal clean- from the
press, and
wad an
more than 5,000 Boy from overseas countries
Seme of Britain's Bay Scouts in a camp near Cambridge. These lada are from the county of Surrey and are spending the summer holidays pleklug plums for a jam manufacturer, thus carning pocket money and funds for the movement. Here the boys are seen cooking vegetables on an outdoor are built
by themselves.
English Girl Guides spending their summer holiday in a camp. Camping begins in earnest at Easter and reaches its peak in August. Every Girl Guide is encouraged to spend
camp once a year. a fortnight in such a ten days to
tock from him. himself later
Her new book called "The Episode of the Wandering Knife."
VIE ODDS against a diplomat,
THE
fri America's
nf Slate (Foreign
Latry)
Department'
Affairs Min=
facing a potato crisle
would seem to
one,
be a million to
Yet the department's German.
Affairs Bureau has a potato
crisis on its hands,
The problem: Are potatoes a dangerous war
for shipment
Curtain?
The U.S.
material
unft
behind the Iron
Government buys
all unsold potatoes to keep up Today
the farmers'
income.
there is a vast surplus,
So the Government offers its potatoes for 4d, a cwl, to any- one who will keep them out of the domestic market.
the
An exporter agreed to take
for 1,600,000 bushela Russian zone of Germany.
Sald the State Department: "Why
they Ate not u
not?
strategic item." Off to Germany they went,
Then from Amerien's Ione officials sent word thal the Russians may be using potatoes to make alcohol for rocket fuel. instead of Germans' dianers.
Footnote. There is some diplo matle comfort in the thought that potatoes can
also be used for making vodka.
A
QUEUE of 250 people
walted for Carnegie Hall's box-office to open. The ticket seller told me he gets queues only for singer Kirsten Flagstad and planist Vladimir Horowitz. queue for But this was R Sadler's Wells ballet, due in September. The box-office ex- pects to be sold out.
THE MAN who hopes to ba
THE
Truman's dest welfare or health Minister went to Eng- and to study the health and welfare of the British people.
Oscur Ewing, at present U.S. security administrator, sald to con- Aneurin Bevan failed' vince him that the health ston- dards of a nation can be im-
Government only by proved ownership and operation of the hospitais. lie came out strongly. againat socialised medicine, And indicuted. the President, he supports him in this stand.
OUR DAYTIME SKIES
arc
scrawled with advertise-
written, in nenla
smoke by planes. Now a California manu- facturer is hard at work on to hang luminous skywriting advertisements for TV ret from the stars.
QUCCESS: Do you remember B. P. Schulberg, the out- of-work Hollywood producer who advertised for a job? Well, he ag found one. He wil £100,000 lm called produce a
It Happens in Hollywood,"
And be
York.
will make it in New
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