POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Put that down at once i llem often has Afuther got to tell you that we want no veiled criticism of the handling, ef that East Airlean scheme.
Billy Rose
Frank Owen
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1950.
on a day trip to 'Napoleon's Island'...
R
ECENTLY
I went Down on the farm
--a new nobility
to Corsica for the day,
Let Wealth and Commerce, Laws and Learning die, But leave us still our old
Nobility.
is which
-land, 1818-1800. Now
new a
And nobility.
also a landed
Wo
new BARON
Took off in a DC3 from Gatwick at mine in the mor- ning, slept, rend and wrote letters as far as Lyons (where they charge you 218. for a bottle of chim- EAT was the Duke of Rut- pagne you can get the have stuff for 23s, Gl. in Fleet- one street), signed several use. nobility.
forms, less immigration landed at Calvi, had a bathe in the bay, lunches in the sweet-smelling muquis' with the sand underfoot and the pines overhend, shook hands with the mayor, drove the Hoen railway engine, met HOME weeks ago when two fine follows who fought Resistance ("Bah! the newspapers front-in the
..The Italians!"), saw the paged the story of the leopard which strolled tack place where Nelson lost his eye (1791) and Christopher olurals first saw the light of day (1451), toasted in pastiese ta blockbuster if ever there
PASSION OR
POT-ROAST?
SOMI
into its
eage after being AWOL for three days, a lot of people wondered whether it returned because it was hungry or because it was a certain lady lonely for leopard in the next clustare.
rooms
Thero in the SILKIN. with a 6-acre farm Horsham, Sussex. The 15 rooms and farmhouse has
house has 10 ⚫econdary Twire us large is the holding of VISCOUNT (A. V.) ALEX- ANDER. lately of Sheffield and Essex. now of West Merzen, He has bought a form there of the Na- Juned peres, 180 tional Farmers Union.
the better and Pizzer
LESLIE PLUM- Citate of SIR MER, who rome say will be a
that Ate
the other farmer JOHN STRACHEY has Baron,
hume
teaching crine
in mankeys เร climb trees
Plummer form 400- url acres, airo in Earx.
But no: Whitehail which provides the main recruitment countryside.
was miel Le Malaya. France, La Corse, L'Angle- terre, took off at six in the evening, landed
at Lyons,
It so happened that at signed several more useless the
by a strange destiny, ny wel on the his extura a fr rabe! the identical questions on the lower East Side
Un ht
ruble-take of Uncle Charlie al sabel, and days later
--ww if hinch or was it love?
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11
Wardour-street. flow forms.
Wardour - street immigration over Paris and London, known a Film-strett: Now it Gur movie it.
af is Farm-street. Northolt landed
no tomper inder. maesties are midnight.
ested in belles, but in bulls,
Top of the farm qurearchy The film hierarchy
wan
What is all this about?
It was a tea fight for a te as well as
i:
J. ARTHUR BANK,
It all began when my Aunt Frinda got the social bee in her idea. To ny bolidaymakers to 3.000 neret in Hunts. bafarica, nined the Delancey Kapoleon's Own Island,
JOHN
</ Second in size of pwnership
Iris Beutenant,
with 470 acres
be bas But
Street chapter of the Baughters them in the woods by the shore, care
Keep them for ten days, then of Deborah, and went off to Allintle City for its annealy them home.
V 13.
Worry
Knowing Charlie for what he
Kriedu begin to that he'd get plomaine frati a tainted blintz is a eating
staurant, and to one afternoon he bared a bus and made a quick trip to New York to see if everything was all right.
Atlantle
When he entered their fat, Charlie was in the bathtub, "You miss ins. Charlie
YOU- "Why should I miss
What gives in u're here
is giving City "In Atlant speeches," said my aunt, merrow we are deciding about for hydrogen bomb, yes or no,'
In such a case, you better go reht back," said my unete.
On the street, Frieda met
who said. Remipy neighbour
The driver of the remarkaba canteng engine, which I under- stand was shipped to the island at the end of World War I. m
un that 1918, and before doubtedly did diety at the siege named Paris in 1871, is JEAN PHILLIPI, He has been working on the railway for 25 year", apart from the four years when he wak trying to low it up. Said dran, a Re- #Baht The sistance guerilla, Italians!"
Jean is a de Garlist. But he afrins that the lationster is a Stalinist.
DAVIS, Sussex.
Ira lately (manorial) lipped down the list with a new farm of only 200 acres in Essex.
This brings up to secon place MAJOR REG BAKER, of acres in Ealing Studios, 300 Kent,
WAR
LAND
"Bother! Here's me with my nice new embroidered shorts and Wimbledon not even on the front page."
London Express Service
My first
taste
of a
WITH WICKSTEED IN THE PROMISED LAND-2
KIBBUTZ
Ho
GALILEE.
-IT'S a place where
you have to worry about rent, bills, repairs, or baby
viry where they nozzles for hoses.
CANON WARNER
—the man with an answer to the problems of marriage-
adviser on:
1. The case of the cheated' wife
"After a good deal, of unhappiness, due to my associating
with another tooman. have heard that he has left a will slused on his death-bed . with a shaky cross, leaving everything to this woman and her illegitimate child.
"It seems to me terribly unfair that ), his lawful wife, shouto get nothing and that she should get everything."
17OU will have to hurry
Yif you are to succeed in getting what is clearly due to you from your husband's estate.
Any application to con- test his will must be made within six months of the dute on which probate was granted. You say he died it is very last July, and likely probate has not yet been granted. Let us hope
NO.
don't rates, will when he has made no reasonable provision for sitters
her. You certainly stand every chance of winning if the facts are
By an Act of July 1939 a wife can contest a husband's
are making rery, and clothing department. your case
Exerpt for the nursery, these as you have said,
A girl who works the wash, ere alt unpopular iols, and the Ing machine in the communal majority of there ex-lypists and
rather girls would undry was formerly a mennes me quin. Two girls doing bening dairynalds, shepherdesses,
secretaries, and one man work in the Bells
were
1
BRW puting house, used
11 a
10 work Iz
prefab his
mun.
unele's pan shop.
Ti vidat tatistics are anything to go by the life reems
VOITE,
to suit
In e past 12 months there have new ID marrastra
20 birth, und no death..
Kfor Ilonass buys and girls
couts
or with the
My wife, who thinks I always
wmding up.
have a wonder-
ful
brond, have when i
nic
pay Doaid.
1: he hould Teen B
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job to
my
Thes
2. The case of
a worried husband My wife, who once was the smartest girl in this world. has become more or less C slut. Her appearance in the home is disgusting, and this is affecting my family, toko are all becoming stovenly.
I have tried everything to vet her nut of this rul-pipUDINE, kapping, shouting, concina.
"Have you any advice you con otre me to astra marriage and
earn the lasting gratitude aja working man ? **
he bankers, inw-rry at an average age of 26. all want to
put me to work My companions TAVE you ever heard yers, furriers, and tailors. This. Divorce is easier than anywhere
is all right when living in other che except in Moslem
have tries. All you have to do is to It of a kibbutz?
countries, but now they
own they have et a lawyer to prepare 4 "hi were à plump, Jolly girl, feT-
yo merly somebody's secretary, and WITHOUT knowing more isn't something you one of their
Rot to find
Lomebody to grow or divorcement" and then
before the rabbinical court and an oficial from the Treasurer's put on your head or eat.
If once of the hand the n to your wife.
Manchester City in several of these, #e accepts it, you are divorced. Council, during my hitch.
Smokers at this kibbutz cel It does not muller what through
Maybe founds.
you 40 cigarettes a week and pi Promised your
because, don't like her cooking or the
They have fim (The and wine. Hunchback of Notre Dame was
It is a sort or communal the grub,
I thyed settlement where everybody is full ideas and nobody settlements has my money.
Then conuer the major's own chairman, SIR MICHAEL BAL-
If you live in a kibbutz CON, 200 acres in Sussex.
You can't even call your Thea, neck and neck, SID-
shirt your BERNSTEIN [Granda nants NEY Theatres), 200 acres in Kent jown because they belong to and E. T. CAUR (General Film
in the whole community. Distributors), 150 acres
There Bucks.
Rank
Where is SIR ALEXANDER KORDA? Has not this knight a love of the land?
No. Korda keeps to the sea.
or your
are
several
EE
of your home I can't It give a complete answer. is a common problem, how- the ever, especially where wife has few outside in- terests, and has becomo
the way she leaves hairping in the parties there is usually dancing house-bound.
of old, bed. If she accepis the paper,
bed that's good enough. offer
bike ne
and
monks
they
and board
to
nenighted
tra-
But for me
vellera,
CHANGE HERE
Enor- buzzing
you
stand in
Don't budger her about it. It the last one shown), concerts, may have just the opposite plays, and visiting lecturers. effect to what you intend. She Having no money, they pay no may have some reason for re- To da centiment against you. complaint theome tax. chief in- THE Kirl
As all the buying cent the most one nor of the
about
ife on the land tus done for them by an outside what she knows annoys you may There is only die nobleman
Le a subconscious desire which they representative, (yet) in this list, so I have left hundred kibbutzim in Israel tresting was
two kibut- Ses of Gallico on a high bluff 1ael was ine Insects.
19 the more inflamed the more beciles came Jordan wind- mous him to last. Je is LORD (one kibbutz,
are displeased you show you also ARCHIBALD,
zim), and the general idea overlooking the
the gorge 000ft, through the windows, they said, no queues. int through
I will her. and
with trelors erlekete is to build up a below, of them
Their children are as happy three inches long fell on man.
She may well be over-tired. and healthy as any I have seen. This kibbutz is called Kfar from the ceilings.
a doctor lately? As individuals they do not need Has she seen class of intellectual peasants who can grow things and
Honasi,
and is
composed al-
A tonte may well be az.big a complaint I heard to worry about rent, rates, bilis, Another of city workers goats without
most entirey
any repairs or baby-sitters.
help. as a new hat (Itself look after
Australia, was trot there was never Brita n and fr in
for There is If I could get loads like those tonic You see,
one dimculty about There are 172 of them, plus 36 b-con for breska
law against it, and only off my mind, I would wash up women). They have 400 acres no children. right forming
Wis nrw Jewish na-
15 percent. of the very day. crops, a flock of sheep about State is that everybody under tional
They which they milk, a rural Inun- ation of 1ernel wants to live in cities.
ligious or orthodox Jews, raising would be an ideal side. line for the kibbutzim, but far none of them has quite had the nerve to start i
The driver of the bus to the airfield is likewire a de Gaulist.
His name is IGNACE BLAN cONI (he also keeps the best in in Calvy and proudly be hows his papers to say that he after starting the Resistance an the maquis and the mountains, all of his spare time, and is wicked, agreeably the now.
When in away the cat, is phy. i served in a British Commando tie has a yacht which occupies vetting bored.
the mice,?"
TIAN Implicating
The HY
"You ary Charlie is a rat?
"Rat
Germans were
Bal! Ignace, but
china!! Ak the 1tabast widow Greenhouse."
A bit shaken, Friedy posted herself Inside the candy store argo the street, and when 10 carnation, Curlie, wearing
at She followed him-
enough, he high-
came atif Sure
Stepped down the block to the
home of Mes Greenhouse.
Frida walted
a jittery five
tes ran the widow's bell
manute
l barged right in when thr saw Charlle sitting in front of
liver. morant of choppied "This is a unexpected sur-
said Mrs Greenhouse. "Likewise," said Frieda,
chale,"
said the
The
Derupying it
London LIDTENS Service)
Two-Wheel
'Gordon Richards'
VO schoolboys stood at the bottom
of a hilly farm track waiting excitedly.
In the hand of young Tom, aged 14, Pull up a
got a pot rust you was an old-fashioned waistcoat watch with v. Idow. could cut it with
a Anger-nall," a large minute hand.
"To me, it Frroda chlifed.
ell like a boiled beet what boited too long."
raise;
In a few minutes they heard the rattling clank of an old belt-driven, 250 e.c.
that so?" said Mrs Green-motor-cycle as it came, slithering more use. "All week your husband than hurtling, down the narrow mud track. vnjoying
On the worn, frayed "'in not doubling," said my aunt. "From the medicine chest saddle sat a slender!
batate."
missing a full box bicar~ | youth of 13, his grey| eyes bright with en-1 thusiasm.
Seventy seconds," shouted
On the way back to their Bat Frieda got rith down to casei. "What is be ween you and Mrsone Greenhouse?" he asked.
"Strictly a cash arrangement," anid Charlie. "Seven suppers for ten dollars"
"You can't pull the
wool
behind my back," sald my aunt.
Tom. "He's it," and his brother Alec gave A Hittle cheer,
The rider was Geof- frey Duke, and he had broken the record for
the home-made course Garwood Farm, ON East Lancashire
al
"I am also enjoying her com- pany" my uncle admitted, "On the
road. The bike he was
many things we are seeing riding was of 1928 vin-
to tooth."
"If for widows you got such a Uking" mid Frieds, "I could maybe become one myself."
When they reached home, Fleda pulled the pin out of
Tomorrow," shic
her hat.
* roast duck on announced,
Monday it givea the incott
chicken sanerbraten: Tursday, with mandlen soup."
"The widow makes a grade-A Houlash," needed my uncle.
tage. It cost the three boys their total wealth
108.
Heath, Birmingham,
In a whole
2
In
are
re-
Pir-
30
You don't look after your chikiren
a kibbutz. The comununity does that for you, en the mother comes out of ospital (fren pid by the com- munity, of course the baby is aken from he to the children's centre and all she does is to
up Ave
Turn
3
year-1949-and win it with
daly tu times
concession, First rung of the ladder. But. Standard Norton. He made the
to bath young fastest lop at 83.7 miles an hour mothers paradoxically, when
are allowed generation
heir own babies if it does not Geattrey
was rent to the Isle of nun won at the record speed of
interfere with ttir outski no one quite Man for the Manx Grand Prix 824 miles an hour.
But Duke would not join the in September 1947, he was not
work. 1c like him... allowed to ride.
professional trim. He was not North
the only was not ready. "Plase ask
from this, considerent good enough.
Duke's next
he said to Mr time parents see their children srcke of good me next year,
Smith when ho
four and between fuck was when he met 30-year- Gilbert old Artie Bell, the Norton nce asked.
when they are allowed to take hem to their rooms or go for whom three years later he was
says
、 BASIL
CARDE
GEOFFREY DUKE He's " just a genius of speed"
The local garnge he could not have
Geoffrey Duke, winner of last on the Dol.
fastest man sold month's Senior T.T
was done it better, mun ever on the course,
At 10 Duke volunteered registering his Arst success.
Today he is 27. And the ex- the perts are saying he is the despatch
speed famous greatest motor-cycling
www
Duke had a crash In Ireland,
Apart
I walk.
to beat in the most brilliantly and they took the plaster off his week before he was dur won T. in all its history.
Arlle attended the Scott Trial, to ride in last September's ama-i perhaps the roughest test of all Grand Prix. in the hills
offrey Duke was riding and the Ramsey huirpin, to avoidot Tulk Bell was impressed.
of Yorkshire.
at IN THE JUNIOR RACE, another rider hetald his bil.c
con,
He arranged for Duke to meet down," came off, and finished Glibert Smith, the boss, and Joe Craig, the competitions
ger. of Nortons.
mana-
seven,
LANGUAGE BAR INCIDENTALLY,
you
must to young children any other Innguage bul
It is Hebrew.
trying enoug
your own langu IN THE SENIOR RACE in the to have children pester you with wine week he smashed the lanestions in Says Duke: They have been record at 87.1 miles an hour andre, but imagine having to an-
won the race at over-80 miles an racing godfathers. my
hour. everything to them."
I Owo
Nortons allowed him freedom to race with his own machine where he liked.
When Duke go: back to Bir- mingham, Gilbert Smith renew.
four til: them from swer
even in a language that is only Just being revived after a couple of thousand years.
all
ed his offer. The slim, hoy.
The same rule applies to He took a 350 r. Norton, faced rider could join the Nor- omelat kibbutz business, Men- talk to any language bought with his savings, to the fe team along with Artic Bellers may
among themselves Isle of Man in 1948. He had Johnnie Lockett, and Harold they like mechanic or pit attendant and Daniell, names that were magie ut at any of the endless com
miltee meetings it takes to run he stayed in a side-strect board- to Duke,
they must There were no riding orders community. Ing house,
As rome of them know and everything was to be shared Hebrew, equally by the team, Duke had the language no better than on tears of joy when he signed.
Split tank
of
for DUKE walked round most
a Royal Signals, and as
the long course alone, and met some learned rider
the 200 comeru by trial riders--and he heart.
Genius
UNL
I attended one such meeting
know schoolboy -Ystage
The Hebrew French, you hear
sentence: :quivalents of such as "Vous etres parsing le buck
and "Je Yous ASKED the man who is now against cette suggestion abomin When he came in to refuel at beln called the Nuvolari of ab.c. genius thrown up in a genera- learned from them.
When he left the Army in the end of the third lap ho was the saddle: "What makes you tion.
Duke was born on March 20, July 1947, determined not to go told, to his surprise, that he was no two miles an hour faster than her make," said my 1923, the son of Lily and Robert, back to the Post Office, he spent lying second in the next lep the world's champion motor and it took more than an hour
in St his gratuity on a competition he took the lead. And this un cyclists in your first Senior T.T. to decide
cooking on the 374-mile course?" 350 cc B.S.A. bought for £100. his first ride in the island.
"I amply don't would He replied: background He had no
A sput oil tank put him out Ile rodo of
the Clayton Trial in
The young man know. It is not strength. I socks. speed at school. But at 16, the in Derbyshire with success; he of the race. year he started work in the Post won the Cheshire Centre Cham- returned to the mainland £15 haven't very tough hands
ten days on the island. Omice engineering department, plonship Trial and several other poorer in pocket, the cost of his st he had bought his first machine, keen amateur tests.
But he had learned a 10%. cause of his genius for inking a kibbutz. Most of the women Duke wrote to Bert Perrigo, older brother decarbonise and competitions manager of B.S.A. Enough to tackle the Senlur short cula"
London Express Service) at Small Clubmen's T.T. in the following grind valves, and Duke tried it who gave him a job
aunt, "and let her, eat."
And that ended Charlie's life on to loose and Friedn's career as a clubwoman.
As for the question: "Is love
or lunch more limportant to the
malo animal? Well, the leopard is dead and
•ista't talking.
my uncle
who kept a sweet-shop Helens, Lancashire
a 175 cc. Bot. He had seen his
who should do the next week und who mend the community's
As Artie Bell said: "It's be-the
Division of labour is one of in Imoltiest problems
absorbed in zòcial services Ture
such as kitchen, laundry, qür-
Bernard Wicksteed
NEXT WEEK- The story of a telegram.
-London Express Service)
tho
majority
of
in spirit she is sick. Be kind to her. Show her affection and tenderness, all the more because of her inability to take a pride in herself,
Above all, don't compare her with ether worsen cillier to her Iace or to yourself
(London Express Service)
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