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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1047,
The Chances For A Big Win In
A Football Pool Are Millions
To One Against But The
British Working Man Will
Bet On Something
Always
"Whatever legislation is pasN-Į ed, the British working man will take a chance on a bet in aome way or other."
By "OBSERVER"
She was supported, morally at the least, by the Parliament- ary, Secretary of the Ministry of Latour, who nald-apparent-
Echo Inkwera "Where?"--- United Press.
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
Pocket War: A Battle
Of Words
Buenos Aires, Apr. 7.
Those words were used in As to the second grade, hely without a smile-"When, we the House of Commons recent said, they were less efficiently in this House start interfering by a Socialist woman MP in run and a little less honest, and with the inoral conduct of peo- the course of Д discussion on to the third grade the aug-ple in this country-where are! which arose when a Conserva-gestion wrs that they should be we to draw the line?" tive member described the Bri-Investigated under search-light.
Millions A Week tish football pools as "one of the greatest menaces of the In the course of the talk in present time." He had argued the House of Commons it was that if the 50,000 or 60,000 wo- | naid that the pools are using
clerks employed by the very large and increasing quan men pools were engaged in the cloth-tities of papor: they were post- ing industry the present ration- ing to their subscribers no less ing and shortage could very than 7,760,000 letters every soon be ended. He asked: "Do wack. we want clothes or pools?"
Taking an-road general ex- nanation of "What are the pools?" It would seem also that
The pocket-sized civil they are deep waters into which
war in Paraguay, which millions of Britain's population weekly cast their sixpences or
is a month old today, is shillings in the hope that they a calculation: the actuary suit still largely a battle of will return to them, after that the odds against anyone words between news re- few days na may be, heavily en- getting an all-correct result in crusted with unearned Incre a pool of 20 matches would be porters lining the Brazil- ment. These hopes are very-3,480,784,701 to 1.
ian and Argentine fron- According to another calculatiers with the beleaguer- seldom realised but they acem to spring eternal and anew in tlon In a newspaper, theseed country. the breasts of the poolatera. figures would mean that a per- No doubt they are kept alive son entering the pool every also by the paragraphs wo read week (as millions do) "will not from time to time in newa- be mathematically due, for an papers that Mr. X has just won all-correct win for more than £20,000 or so for his invest: sixty-seven million years." ment of a "tanner" or a "bob.".
Eight Big Pools
In the second grade of size there are about 15. In the even or eight hundred others of more eplieromeral type.
third grade there is a swarm of
lieved that the largo: affairs efficiently run" though it would seem that they deducted from the pool about 20 per cent of the receipts for expenses and profits.
were "reasonably, honestly and
100 Years Ago Today
Ú
What are the chances of A win for participants in a pool? Believing, no doubt, that no man should know better how to calculate odds than an actuary of one of the greatest insur ance companies in London for
by
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Repeated announcements of
offensive" three-pronged Asuncion from rebel sources and of the imminent collapse of the insurrection due to lack of food and poor morale from Government sources have proved to have been based on wishful thinking rather
than facts,
The actual positian is that neither alde has, hitherto, built un suflicient strength to take the initiative.
ĐÓIR VSAČ BY MEA BERVICE, INC, Y, M. NIO, U. 1. PAT, ofic
JOE'S
NIFTY Fir:
CLOTHES
12.5
"Whadda ya mean, we don't offer no choice? Didn't
Just say you could take it or logve it?"!
Free
Trade For
The World Over
·
Biggest Effort Ever To Clear National Barriers
Representatives of 18 coun: tries will meet in Geneva ná that Week-end reports
the Thursday to open negotiations whole of southern Paraguay has for the relaxation of, tarifa
risen against the Government and the removal of trade bar appear to have arisen from high-iers in what is termed the blu- ly exaggerated versions of do-
of great attempt in the history of velopments in the tiny port
economic life at multi-lateral Villa Alberdi.--Reuter.
commercial negotiations.
Love Me,
My Jeep
Frozen Fortune! That I near enough, so per-
And his fortune "frozen" some chancellor of the exche- hapa & winner of that year will
quer of the future.
The discussion in the House Love of Commons ran a little off the ralls. The Socialist woman
London, Apr. 7. MP considered that the suppres.
"The Times". "today devoted sion of pools would be an inter- 12 inches of its editorial co- ference with the right of the lumns to a modern treatise on working man to spend his cash the Latin philosophy of "Love | an he liked. She added, argu- me, Love my dog"a saga, on Marlone mentatively. "The pecullar the theft of actress thing is that it is always an at- Dietrich's sentimental jeep. tempt to get at something the working man does."
(Why the "working man" in particular does not appear. Today, in the words of an old The lady's point was that it song, "Everybody's doing it.") the British working man could not bet on pools he would bet On comething else legislation or no legislation.
of
The great-grandfalker English newspapers reduced it to a "Love me, love my jeep"
national Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
The
forthcoming Genevä conference is the second session! of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Confer once on trade and employment. The first session took place in London in October, 1946.
the
Countries invited Include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Ca nadn, Chile, China, Cuba; Czechoslovakia, France, India.*** Lebanon, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New. Zealand, The conference will also die
Norway, Union of South cuss the establishment of
Africa, Soviet Russin, the Unite international trade organisa-ed Kingdom and the United tion which is to form the neces
States. sary complement to the inter-
Starvation
Faces
Germany
גן
basis and sympathized sincerely The description "oped olive in Miss Dietrich's loss.
American experts predict that drab Ford jeep, motor number 20720"-was distributed widely starvation will grip Germany if after the actress reported that the Big Four Foreign Ministers her vehicular "Rose" had been adopt the Soviet proposals for
Germany economy,“ at len In Paris.-United Press.
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities"
11
Soviet Out Soviet Russia has so far not? taken part in the discussions, TU
Colombia, Denmark, Poland,. Peru, Mexico and Byria, who are members of the United Nat tions but not of the Prepara➡**** tory Committee, are expected" again to send observera
A. number of inter-govern- mental organisations will also attend the conference.
Tariff negotiations" are ex- pected to be given priority at the session and the following
goods in whose exports it "In procedure is envisaged: (1) each country to compile a list of do interested and for which a re
duction of tariffs in asked from others; (2) each country to compile a schedule of con cessions which it in ready to grant by way of reduction of tariffs or otherwise.
The American economists not charge that Soviet aim is to atarve Germany-quite contrary but they maintain the Soviet on economie, tasues are
and will lead to star-
Ministers
No doubt many changes will have taken place in our social A win so far beyond the and political world by the time dreams of average avarice does the year 67,055,499 is upon us, undoubtedly occur once in
à but it may be apt to note now thousand or a million instances, that a scientist was quoted re- Speakers from both sides of the dodo smaller wins, but the cently at a meeting of learned overwhelming majority of the and brainy men as saying that Commons during the debate poolsters never see or hear of in seventy million years time; raised a small selection of the their money again-yet hoping the earth will be a ball of ice doubts which the actual terras ufagalust hope, they peralat, week suspended in air.
in, week out, year after year. the Treaties raised in many About those pools in them- minds-whether, for instance, selvea; According to reports of Commons on the subject, there Italy has escaped too lightly the what passed in the House of consequences of her misdeeds un-are about eight pools which are The big- der Mussolini or has been too outstandingly large. harshly treated in view of the eat of these employs about 11
000 people. promises held out if she "work ed her passage," or whether Rumania and Bulgaria (to say nothing of Finland" and Hunge
The Conservative opponent ary) should be treated as willing ur unwilling accomplices of the of pools, referring to the bone flded otherwise of some of Nazis. Leaving aside these wider these concerns, classified them problems, which
arc Largely roughly thus: He said he be ethical (though they will certain ly have their practical outcorde in the future attitudes of the peo- ples concerned), we find more tangible questions raised by the reparations clauses. To take the most striking example, it is hard to overlook the contest between the British waiving of a claim against Italy for £2,800,000,000
went to the and the Russian insistence on en-
A total of 136. bilateral com- heart
of the German problem at forcing an admittedly smaller but
(Extracts from the files of the
the start of the fourth conference 'binations of negotiations are much more dubious claim for "China Mail of April 9, 1847).
week today-in an economic debate anticipated in this procedure.
A tariff steering committee, which may determine whether any £25,000,000. The capacity of It is proposed to present
basic decisions on Germany can composed of representatives of piece of Plate to the Honourable ex-enemy countries to pay the re- the Chief Justice Hulme, bearing
South that the unbid diamonds be made in this conference. Some all the delegations, will be set SHOW A MAJOR
were well protected. This mes cautious optimiam still prevailed up Immediately upon the open- parations assigned against them the inscription of the addresses
Anglo-American dele- SIX-CARDER
ange was truthful enough, but but few.
another rates would wager that any majoring of the session to plan and Kuido negotiation in broad has still to be proven, and Mr. already presented to His Honour
this con- na important as Desirability of a major sult not
decisions are possible at
Uncs. McNeil gave a waming which on the late occasion of his sus- pension, that it triay be handed
On conclusion of the negotia- An agenda item, wrapping all is no great that ordinarily both at that stage. His correct bld! should, not go unheard in Mos-down to his pestetily as an heir- contract, instead of No Trump, message North could have given con row, against the "empty satisfac-loom, and proof of the opinion partners should give their side was 4-Spades, to lat South know; economic problems into one pack- tions 17. schedules of tariff con tions" which may accrue to vic-was held in by those to whom havery possible chance to land his major suit was at least six age, read: "Germany as an econo- ccaalons are to emerge, bach of
ever, distributed even-handed jus-
and review of the level of indus- and lowest rates of duly ap tor countries who insist upon the tice la defiance of all influence in one if a sound one is in the cards in length, since it would mic unit, including reparations them setting out the products try, including Industrial demill-plicable to imports from a par- That call could not have beentarisation!" enforcement of their claims., It and power--as also of the general cards. Consequently, when one have been his third bid of it.
The American view that the ticular country. is idle now to yearn for those opinion of the charges trought holds a major of six cards or
demands against him (the subscription to more, he should usually try to interpreted by South as indien-
Charter Plan sober settlements which would be limited from one to five dol-disclose that length by either tion of weakness by North, who Soviet economie
making three bids of it, or else had already shown the approxi-Germany spell starvation is based
Discussions on, a charter for have been hard enough to achieve lars)..
by bidding the salt twice before mate strength of his hand with on statements made in the Co if the major Allies had been Yosterday the Maltese mer- showing another. That revela- the jump bid of. 8-Spades after ordinating Committee report
tlon will proceed on the baste repart which has been united. Rather, let us count our chants, Joseph Scicluna and Sons, tion will tell the man across the South's 2-Clube, If South had the Ministers, For example, the au international trade organisa very modest blessings from their virtue of a judgment of Her table that two cards of the sult heard the third bid of spades, demand that the German economy of a
Majesty's Commercial Court would constitute adequate sup- he would have known that his be based on a principle of "net drawn up by the Drafting fact that Treaties of a sort have issued out process of distrainment port,
two cards of the suit were balance" without any deficit. They Committee In Lake Success fo that proceeds February, The aim of the new, 5. K J 10 97 62
enough to make it the trump. demand further come into being. The allocation of the household furniture of Hlaj
especially since they contained from German exports be used for organisation would be to en- H, 10 of private Allied properties in Royal Highness the Prince of
Q: South would importing, materials for the pro-courage the development of Capus. Some of our readers may
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duction of reparationis goods. International trade and, to seek enemy countries and of enemy be aware that the house Seleluda
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Irreconcilable. properties in Allied countries has had some transactione in whent
Spades, which could not [havoj·
gether by mutual concessions if domands freecóncllable been beaten by any defense. American economists call those to bring countries closer to NH754 Nothing would have been lost Germany is not to starve.Gorriors.
and the removal of trade bar- now at last. come into view. The with the Steilian Conmuilh, S; A 43
when a short time back his Ma-! H. Q B'3.2), development of trade with the leaty the King of the two Sicilien D. 9. 6. 2 WED.10754 except ene trick to the trump many never has been self-suffiyThe tariff discussions are Danubian countries has been caused a purchase to be made for C. K 8 rendered at least theoretically Sicily. possible. Better relations, beg tween previously hostile States (even between Italy and Yugo alavia) are visible, if not yet firm. Europe has certainly long way to go before she can claim, even the
same kind of un easy tranquillity as was attained two years after the first Great War. Still, it would be niggard ly not to be grateful for the slight but real progress towards nor mality achieved by settling a more permanent relationship with of the countries with Britain hai recently been on only of armatica
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