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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1946.
Things Look Up For Housewives
Ar-ne housewifes of Britain wait patiently in shopping and bus
conversation QzCuzz' OUT does not, as is seal. concern itself mainly with the weather but with potatoes. For these bave suddenly became as elusive
the sunshine.
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THE HAWKER PROBLEM
The promptitude of the police in purting on trial the constable who was
concerned in the in ident which directly or in- directly, led to the death of : Kondom hawker. should restor perspective. A full public en quiry into all the circumstances i thereby guaranteed, and right thinking citizens' will rest Safi ied that justice will be done They will likewise approve the strictest measures to prevent any further such, disturbances of the reser as occurred on Saturday an on Monday, following th
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ker. In this matter, paren: have considerable responsibility Mot of the stone-throwing o Block dass was the work 12 Liuveniles, young street urchins e
whom it is perhaps to much
Pypert
that they should kno better. Bu if parents will ne or cannot keep them under trol the diy most fall upon th ice. The initiation of emur mceedings shundd. of Course
th
m feeling and remove sources of encouragement to fu
er hooliganism. We feel con dent that the good sense i th Chinese community will prevail.
The incident, meanwhile prints the danger about which w |expressed some anxiety last week inherent in the proposed legisl tion to treat arbitrarily of th hawker problem. The numbe of persons who rely upon hawk ing to obtain, a liveliluod fo
MILITARY RACE MEETING pulver and their fathalies, ho
PROCEEDS TO CHARITIES
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HAPPY VALLEY RACE COURSE ON SUNDAY, 3rd NOVEMBER
First Saddling Bell 2.30 p.m. First Race Starts at 3.00 p.m.
CASH SWEEPS The usual "Through" numbers ($10), may be obtained at the Offer of The Hong Kong Jockey Club, Fachange Building, First floor TOTE DOUBLE on the 2nd and 4th Races.
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A limited number of lunches for Members of The Hong Kong Jockey Club. will be available in the Coffee Room. Tables should be booked in advance with the No. 1 Boy at the Club House, Happy Valley. Tel. 28211. There are a limited number of Boxes available, for which the Cerk of the application should be made BY POST to Course (Lt. Col. J. R. Edgar, MBE. HLQ. REME, Lan Forees) enclosing a remittance for $25. Tickets.cannol iz izsued until payment is received.
A. R. RUSHFORD. Squadron Leader, RAFVR, . Mh. Secretary, H.K.S.R.C.
BY COURTESY OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
BACK AGAIN
TO STOR YOUR
PAIN and FEVER
Aspro
REG. TRADE MARK?
tence
prescenpation of must couples Loca) nuthorities give preferen. ce to Service men and women, and to urgent cases-where, are small for instance, there children. But the problem. re- mains a big ene
A hundred thousand people" There must be a moral in it is estimated, apply at agents' London this somewhere. for during the oflces each week in war we had potatées enough Paone, and it is sad to see some and to spare. Few meals wer) cf the marriages that seem to served with at them--they ser- be in danger largely because the ved as a basis for practice young couple aren't able to sel every dish, frem caltes to fit up house by themselves, but ters. Families began to regari must lodge: somewhat uneasil them with a jaundiced ете with in-laws or friends. Now
London catate But. alas, we took them too five-hundred much. fr granted, like many agents have suggested that all other blessing. Now that, for information on vacant fats an seveial good reasons, they are houses should be pooled. Thei whiel hard to come by, we ask sur idea is a central office
househunters a selves sadly why we ever would save thought them dull and un-weary trek from agent to agent appetising:
Problem Of Queues
Some of us have been lucky in getting a can or two of the neve dehydrated mashed plain just put on the market by a rm in Britain well known for it canned milk.
You take three tablespoonfuls stir into half-a pint of water f the bi-and behold mashed potatoes for two. A child could do it-in fact, it is rather like making a mud pie. But the re- sults are extraordinarily good. friend said. "It tastes more like potato than potatoes do." Inevitably the demand is greater at present than the upply-ne reason being the shortage of cans,
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Besides.
LeBRIS
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Finally, back to the subjec. of queues, with which this lette opened. I make no apology to returning to it for they seer to have become an integral part!
civilisation. of -Dur modern
a society is to be Perhaps judged largely by the behaviour of the people who line-up for goods in short supply.
Certainly it does demand a high standard of self-restraint to smile when the last place on the bus, the last piece of fish at- the fishmonger's, the fast table in the restaurant is snapped up just before it comes
to your turn.
CARNIVAL
that com 2046 BY REESERV
By Dick Turner A FEW
TRANSFER
"Is my wife a back-seat driver! Yesterday she apologized for not helping me around a corner!"
on in Norfolk is making a ideas. No hubt it will be adont buid attempt to abolish only for the sake of mothers and old folk.
The
USEFUL TIPS
By NAT GUBBINS, London "Sunday Express Humorist
The usual flash and smell of sulphur warned me that Mr Lucire had called at the Nest after all these years.
Ile koked much the same, with his horns sticking through the rim of his neat bowler hat at his tail tucked carefully. at the stat cf his pin-striped trousers.
"Well, Mr. Gubbins,” said Mr. Jucifer.
"Well, Mr. Lucifer?"
"And what's worrying poor dr. Gubbins Income tax??
That and other things, Mr. Lucifer."
"Sith as what, Mr. Gubbins?" "Well, Mr. Lucifer, u must admit that the world is in a ather worse condition than it was during the war."
"Oh, come, ccme. Mr.. Gub... bins. You mustnit say that. The wird has been fighting for sa particular way of life, and now the world is in spital. There fore, it is rather nervous, im patient, and irritable. You inust wait for it to recover
it red in other towns, too, if wend gladly wait; Mr
surces: continues.
Lüeiter, if I thought there was And a postscript: what a any chance of real recovery. Chief Constable has nice tuch it was to include But I suspect that when the asked shopkeepers to advertise those two housewives in Lon-world is out of hspital it will their time opening-which | dan's Victory Parade, There be fighting again.. hope yours varies from day to day accord they were, marching with the are not responsible for the pre ing to the arrival of supplies. Services, the nurses, the fire sent conditions, Mr. Lucifer?
"Me, Mr. Gubbins?" The public are asked not to form fighters, carrying ration books
"Where have you been lately queue more than five minutes and shopping baskets. Not a
woman watching but her heart Mr. Lucifer?" before the advertised time.
Simple-like most successful! marched proadly with them!
The Making Of A Test Pilot
and
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forces. A
and
"Let me see, now, Mr. Gub bins. I have been to Palestine
"Anywhere else, Mr. Luci few****
1 have visited a few friends:
the Continent."
"Fr what purpose, Mr Lucifer"
"Why, to see you, of course). my dear Mr. Gubbins."
"And what do you imagine I can do for you, Mr. Lucifer"
"You can advise your readers,
Few Complaints Still, there is no point in However, on the whole fer establishing the queue system people complain-e are very for the sake of it, even though! consticus of what we have, to one may argue that a queue is
an The Victory merely
orderly crowd. be thankful for.
town-King's Parade hammered that lessin Anyway-one rome, among others. nother delectable eatable has! Apples are here. sppeared. We look back in amazement 1 chose pre-war days when nur. schoolboy sons used to eat ap-
Since flying began, there has is no time to give him more] Arm. The British aircraft in ples practically without step-
Surely one can visit friends," something than a bare minimum of n-dustry, Commonwealth and Al- always seemed ang just to ward off the pangs
glance Mr. Gubbins. When my dear work struction on a new type. Hew lied air glamorous about the of between-meals hunger from
wry through the latest curse men-rich and pupil Adolf took which ail growing boys suffer. "text pilot" Fer, years, writers ever, he has to become.
these and film producers have old versatile, and, after landing hership shows representatives is life I was almost friendru To-day, the arrival of cargoes makes news. Australia the idea that the job requires Sitare, must be prepared to from Canada, Australia, Souths"
take off a lancaster withpatį Africa, New Zealand, United
***Are you suggesting that and New Zealand have sent little else but good looks, com-
States, Norway, Holland, you have adopted anther pupils them over, bless them. Soon Lined with recklessness and turning a hair."
It is necessary, of course, for Pokind, Belgium, China and since the death of Adolf Hitler, we'll have oranges from South slap-happy flying.
Mr. Lucifer? bren-variously-estimated; bur-it---Africa, and lemons from Bra-
Like many other preconceived. pifats to get experience on every France.
Goal of everyone who takes "Well, not yet, Mr. Gubbins fair to assume that, families ir il so much to each" ration notions, the truth is very-differ- of machitie, and the tar-
inue at Crane is and with the-course-at-ET.PS, is the Bel I'm always on the lookout. Test flying, it is tras.
Memorial cinded between
Prize, You must realise tari not here. 300,000, and cook, and carefully portioned ent
pis: all sorts of aircraft. The Mckenna 30.000 persons eke out an exist between different parts of quires an experienced
to do the world any god.? equipment includes Group Captain J. F. X. Menen but he must possess. other I school's
"I do realise It, Mr. Lucifer. from the rewards of the country..
News like this make the qualities as well. Some of thes: Meteors, Vampires, Mosquitoes, na, a former, Commandant of hawking. The trade constitures
housewife's eyes gleam; so are: patience, a sound know Bostons, Lancasters, Dakotas. the Schmal, was killed in a By Haye you any friends over Hong Kong's biggest "industry."
Spitfires Tempests. Fireflies.ing nerident in January, 1945. here 2 does a little item in the papers ledge of engineering,
There are the usual training) As a tribute to his life
"Not many, Mr. Gubbins. In The system is admittedly full of which says there is five timus background of advanced majke- the most unsatisfactory features the electrical equipment in thematics. Before the war, anyone type-Moth, Harvard, Oxford work, a silver bow, which bears fact, I've hardly had an English
and, in addition, a Grunau sull- his name is now awarded to the man for a friend since Bicody nd the danger to the Com shops than there was last year selected to be a test pilot was
cutstanding student of each Jeffreys." tunity's health, should a serious That means five times the hope, expected to pick these things up plane to provide experience in
Then may I ask the purpose: outbreak of typhuid or dysentery there was of an electric iron, as he went along. However with gliding. From a fitter's point of course,
view, the place is
big But though there is the rear you visit. Mr. Lucifer fur cholera' develop," is very real.] an electric- fire, un electric the rapid pregress of aeronau-
headache.
minder of ils brief history, the became thetics, this
more Al It is urgently necessary, from a kettle or whatever else
more difficult, and in March.
Test Lying is not, normally, outook at Cranfield is essential- sanitary and medical point heart is sel on:
an exciting business. The occa- ly to the future. The school be- 1942, the first R.A.F. test pilots' view, that some measure of com
Tennis Balls trol be exercised. One of the dif
tennis enthusiast. came school was started at Buscemursional news story which hieves that immediately ahead is aewspaper headlines is apt to a period of great aeronauticht ficulties is to convince those who home the other day with-ah, Dawn. That was the beginning.
"Since then, the Empire Tes overshadow the hours of paras.progress, and it intends that in not t worry about Russia, Mr. patronise unlicensed hawkers .. joy, three brand new
Pilots School now moved is taking experiment which go in this country, at any rate, the Gubbins."
every #ew pace shall not slacken for lack cooked fauds of the potentia balls. And it will now be Cranfield in Bedfordshire-has to the trials of
to buy sible
Jack A young
machine. A test pilet's job of pilots qualified in experi «| menace, and this is not rendere
of boxing become a permanent part of the footbull or palt any the easier by the heavy con
From it requires a great deal of pre- mental work.--"Air Clues. R.A.F. organisation: 2 gloves, and young Jane
a careful estion of population which ha
hockey stick or netball, without emerges a, stream of qualified cision flying, and
note of what his instruments nraduced a situation where
a permit. The Roard of Trude test pilots who go to aircraft
record under every conceiveably PETSOOS afe without cookin has lifted the restriction. We factories and experimental ér
condition. Even then, the tash facilities and canitur afford re
are warned that these things tablishments all over the worl
not done. Performance" taurant or tea-house prices. Dan, won't be plentiful as yet, but Indeed, the school has become
to be analysed and adjusted so er or not, they have to eat and, there may be a chance to get so well recognise that "The xures obtained in the air have
Times", aeronautical correspun-
that the final result shall be of the hold of them before the autumn.
Lased on standard atmospheri
"Of course, Mr. Lucifer." Hawkers, must be regarded as per- when the football and hockey dent recently referred to it is
"the university of flying."--
New Delhi, Oct. 29. eason begins. For the summer
And she is also aiming at forming a public service. In sup young Jack must still
Broadly speaking, the objee conditions, all of which invalvis
100 policemen, some world peace. You look, bored, produce a great deal of intricate calcu About porting the proposed measure making do with his sixth share of ET.P.S. is:
ruandoutside · Mr. Gubbins:" Legislative- Assembly: authorising powers of seizure and of his gang's" cricket bat, for pilots who can fly any alteratation. Few people realise how mounted, were an
much toil lies behind that little India's
"I seem to have heard all and, with the minimum ametu', confiscation of the stuck-in-trade those are still restricted.
ntice on the instrument panel: bolding yesterday afternoon as this before, Mr. Lucifer." CAUTY of unlicensed food hawkers, the
• Yes, goods are coming back of technical assistance,
"Dest climbing speed: 120 a result of the morning disorders, 1story is unt, to repeat
which were exprebind to bring s) Hon. Mr. G. E. Strickland And, of course, husbands, whio o comprehensive handling ad Attorney General, gave certain arrive on leave from the Bri-performance tests. In addition. knots."
From all this, it can be sean debute today on the use of tears. Mr. Gubbins," Bay
"Tals will be its last chance t repeat itself, Mr. Lucifer. assurances of timely warning ush Army of the Rhine in Ger- they must be able to produce
performance figure that to complete the course and careful selection, of the of mally,. or demobilised:
Mostem League memberg sald After another was there will be Their accurate ficers entrusted with administra comecoming must have been and an assessment of an air-ccessfully, a pilot, must 114-
Ress several qualities, Fir that they planned, an adjourn nothing to repeat itself with tion of such powers. A benevolën
responsible for a further decraft's handling qualities,
The course lasts nine montles, is fying has to be of a higent motion le precialtype the de Pleuse don't talk about war. Mr. Gubbins. Let us talk about ' approachi
pletion of soap stucks. For if which seven months-tamlard Second, he requirebate. arbitrary actio
as a strange fact that the first into two terms-are apeut at exhale patience. Third, Moslem League sounds to us.-revertheless, 'rarlie
members inpleasant things. The Widow is thing all wives seem to do, Cranfield. The remaining time beast have an enthusias. Assembly Chamber gave Mohamed still asking after her dear N." hearing of their husbands im is divided between a period ator aere-engineering, bucket P Jinnah an ovation, nounding minent return, is to wash the Royal Aeronautical. Estal by sound technical knowledge their deeks when paint! Though if there is one
. De call round at any time," anty of people have these cake his seat.
Much of the afternoon Bension, eir combination is rare, was taken up with discussions |
***I'll try; My., "Lucifer" alities separate.y, but because industry.
ng recommendatồn that India.
She could tel you some, in During the first term into an ET.P.S. course is an
hould enter the World Bank and Leresting things about the international Maclary Fund world Rituntion that is. If strnction is given in the prin extremely difficult matter, ciples and practice. of perfor-
Candidates
ender the Britton Woods agree you're fool enough to waste nent.
time talking politics to such unce tests. The second term
autiful creature. Goodbye Goodbye, Mr. Lucifer. debate on the bombing of frontier gone in a cloud of sulphur Frother "frh. and he was
tuthar
extent; some
Jo
ie a contradiction in terms. 1+ y event, the real point at issu
is whether or not a stage ba been reached justifying departure from the ordinary rule of law. Whether, indeed, a policy relying on the normal rules of pro edure by slowing up the proces inf eliminating the hawke' puisance would not, under exist 'pg ecoñtomie "circuinstances, be a "Advantage..
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Wife Not His Property
his
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"Don't try to boss your wife. You are not good enough, you are not clever enough, and you have no authorityy "Your wife does not belong to you, although somebody gave her to you once..
"Men have got a notion that women are under their feel that they can trend on them and make them drudges and claves for the doubtful privilege of sleeping with them."
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thing in which I cannot con-lishment at Farnborough, and ceive a husband returning after a tour of firms in the aircraft four or five or six years ser vieu abroad being interestui in. It is the state of the domes lic paintwork. But it apparently just one of those ineradicable feminine instincts.
The Male Wardrobe ·
is
la involved.
is
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Ovation
For Jinnah
Ras.
he entered 10
"I ste, Mr. Lucifer." "Russia, after all, is, seeking a bastion of“ nly to build
friendly States.":
"Yes, Mr. Lucifer" e "She does not want anything fr. m anybody."
"No, Mr. Lucifer.".
"But she has suffered much and is determined that slig shali not suffer again."
Is she Mr Lucifer?"!! With cocktailshakerpoised and the black-market, flag fly-
1-
CELEBRATION “***
is concerned with handling Sfur as the R.A.F. is con-
Although rome objections were teers. This doesn't sound matcerned, vacancies are not failed. Lovernment represent Mr. Cobbinsyal ng when you say it quickly, bus in and applications fellow a The solution is nearer of ontbeth cusca a great deal of
yes recommended, approva, and hia la expected today, when the 1ottine. However, not every ne urgent problem in connection theoretical and practient work an apply, and n pilot ne is with those same husbands, it
certain qualifications before he
tribus álko has nothing to do with the
comes upon the envike is considered. He must have League anotkin for Adjournment. emotional issues with which.
On The Ground
ione at ca. 1,000 hours fly The Vierroy. Viscourt Wavell, the films have been dealing: it's the news that the amount
Studies on the ground are ing as a pikt, and have had has given consent for of sult, material available for supervised by civilian Custer Ceference on not less than ica Journment motion, she bring the men's cluthing is to be Technical Instructor and his types. His are must be as means, by which the Assembly
alerting an opportunity increased an angle with which staff Subjects cover than 30though the average at can ensure the Government by
who which the school aims is2criticism,Associated Press. nó film ever deals, but which | field, - and, to anyone. probably has quite an effect hasn't a scientific bent, the The minimum standard of cou on a family's emotional bareme Eyllabus Icoka" njarming. "Veration is matric-which must ter. Many a rann; coming home begin," the C.T.. told our ro include maths, and science. Au two inches bigger round the presentative, by brushing up a engineering degree helps, but is chest, hus found his pre-war student's maths. We spend an not essential. Usually there are euits useless, even if they sur hour or two on loga, nomograns about a thousand RA.F. april- vived: his wife's forethought and differential calculus, then cants for each course out of that told her she might as well go on to more serious stuff." which ten or tweve are finally forestal the moths and have Apart from theory, there hosen,
the sult made over to ete a good deal of practical test. So much for the RAF The out her own cup ration.flying to be done. It is taken remainder of the course
Getting a home of their own for granted that a student is made up of pilote from my remsins, of course, the muin ready a good pilot, and there other spheres the Fleet Air
GERMANS STRIKE
Stuttgart Oct 28, Half of the Gul workers. en- aactory far Russia, went on strike Caged in dismantling an aircraft
alan removal of workers, Loday in protest dealt the Rus the workers are holding meeting tonight to ocid future action. Heuter,
Mocide
IN ATHENS
Athens, Oct. 28.1 The people of Athens were wakened today by the walling of sirens, reminiscent of the morna ing six years ago when Greek r sistance to Axia agziersion higaftrTMTMTM Today's celebration, began with tended by King George and a Te Deum in the Cathedral, str members
King wreath on the Unknown. Balther monument and one mihi allencs wa
observ
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