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ALTERNATIVE TO COMMUNISM A

People in London are making- themselves what alternatives there are to Communism in Asia.

not

their

By "WINDRUSH"

facts

tion of women in 'some Moslem countries.

to the

offer

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talist who owns your factory and Krows enormously rich. He promises you new houses, schools and doctors,

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Correspondent suggests award- Possession, I take. It, would be.

nine points.

Restless Student Word reaches you of the pro- There are three prime

student. Suppose yourself mises made by the Communist. about most of the countries, of

They seem to be backed up by Students are often restless, in Asia. First, the greater part of The appeat, of Communism is what has been done in Russia, revoli against their family bucking houses to residents on points.

love with the new tho people live in poverty. that it promises the common man The former thinks of the indus-ground, in Second, to these people, govern- a relief from his poverty, It is trial town as a paradise where all and the future, adventurous, ex- ment is something remote. It is easy to understand its lure. Sup his pressing wants are met and tremist, not afraid of bloodshed,

Communlats

indus- and full of enthusiasm for roman- Third, goverment.

yourself a farmer in India the pose

They bre the "Most airline officials agree that the middle class is numerically with a yearly income of perhaps triailsation. It doce not matter the conspiracy.

more what the industry needs £40. You pay a part of

farmer at ideal material for Communism. this very much In rent, a large part in exorbitant least at this stage that Commun-

ple in London are People

One way the red is more traffe.

• In addition some of thee coun-

pent,

to increase traffic is to get people tries are saddled with sucial in- have been driven by hunger and camps, abolition of free thought, in Europe las parsed its

and that Moscow, realising this, who have already flown to fly stitutions which are thoroughly desperation to accumulate. Above abolition of the rule of law. out of date, An example of this you sit the landlords, great men, Suppose yourself a town work- may now turn all its attention again, and often: the other is to invelgle those who for one reason offers to to the East, realising how great In India. Caste and untouchabliity offelals and ministers-all inser. The Communist

So is the subjec- consible,

eliminate for you the great enpi-is the appeal of Communism in or another have never flown to

Asla The Communist victory in try it."

thing has given it the base from

That just about covers it. which to operate.

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The Silence That Is More

Eloquent Than Words

By JOHN. RAYMOND

à cinema

and A

Tucked away in the heart of As the ground is prepared Artan Hes a high grey-brick for the Washington dollar-church named St. Saviour's. It lacks an organ, its floor slopes sterling crisis talks, people to the altar like the seating in ail over the world are becom-

large square ing more anxious about the magic-lantern screen hangs over

the pulpit. outcome. The situation is

Powerful light is directed to- very serious, and Britain in

wards the Communion Tobic- particular is facing one of the

but no direct light falls on the gravest trials in her long his-worshippers. For St. Saviour's tory.

a soundless church. Every

The position is drastically Sunday its congregation gather to simple: the United Kingdom Perform an net of silent worship.

more

SI. Saviour's is one of seven deaf London churches for the established by the Royal Asso- cition In Ald of the Deaf and Dumb Built in 1924 to replace Oxford-street. its church in incumbent is 70-year-old Pre- bendary Albert Smith, the Asso-

and the rest of the sterling area must earn very much hard currency. than they are doing at the mo- ment, of receive more dollar ald; otherwise monetary re- serves will be exhausted incution's Chaplain-Superintendent. less than 12 months, and food and raw material imports will cease.

As we have pointed out West has found bufore, the it impossible to sell enough to the dollar countries to earn enough to pay for essential needs. America produces most of her 'requirements within her own borders, and foreign goods represent less than one per cent of her con- sumption. She must export surpluses certain com-

modities lik cotton and 10- bacco, but the world outside has less and less

currency with which to buy them.

The international situation

For 46 years Prebendary Smith has been

breaking down the harriers which enclose thousands of men, women and children in world of hopeless and unbroken silence. A spare, bright-eyed old man, he has the mobile face and

hands of one who has been talk- ing "sign languages" most of his ure.

Their Faith

ills experience disagrees with St. Augustine's dictum that "faith comes by hearing only.' To

watch St. Saviour's congregation as the Prebendary leads it in the Lord's Prayer is to realise what religion and the devotional life

mean to men and women whose

norinal existence is passed in a world of "pictures without cap- ilons."

No service at

Prebendary Albert Bmith, "padre to the deaf and dumb."

THIS MAN IS LEGAL HISTORY

By GUY RAMSEY

What

plan can be made to counter Communist drive?

Ra

It is clear to nearly everybody In London that merely negative attitude

will end in disaster. It that Asia it is no use raying Is enday, is bear than a Con- munis Asin. The status quo in Axia is a bad status quo. Very few of the readventurous and

.

Two English motor cyclists took their brides to the church on pil- lion seats.

Ah, but who will take a back

seat after the marriage?

..

*

Atomic Silver Lining.

"It noted that the bomb la much like older weapons, except for the deadly rays and particles it re-

generous spirits in Asta are go- leases, and for the sudden swift-

ing to fight in a defence.

ness and much greater spread of

The only real reply to Com-duinage area." munism in India, in Pakistan,

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Burma.

In Malaya. in Indo-

nrain. In Stam, in Indo-China, In

Doctor says marriage is an aid

But isn't this a bit drastic?

Hong Kong-is to show that to curing T.D. there is another way, which is alternative to Communism, standards of liv- and by which

ing may be increased much more quickly than by Communism,

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Bloke has written to a Home that police- newspaper saying women's skirts are too long. The Communists have not got Seems to be very interested in

best cards. Especially limbs of the law.

No they have not got capital great economic transformation is

at the

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possible in a society unless there More from our punchy contem.

capital to Invest. Capital poraries.

ly as necessary in a Communist

"Behind that veil, like a con-

state as in a capitalist state: in crete dike, our fears, frustrations, Communist stale it is invested and mental hurts churn up D by the state, but is wrung from quicksand into which the victim

is drawn to a mental blackout." the people by forced savings, either by taxation or by with- holding wages or by the slate making monopoly profits as its enterprises.

The

Great Privations For the Communist world to build up capital, the people as n whole must undergo great priva- tions for a long period. West has the capital ready to Invest. It can promote the elex- trical undertakings, the new ir- rigation systems, the building up of industry and communications, by means of which the standards of life in Asia enn gradually be brought more nearly level with those of Europe.

This does not mean that Asia! should

be thrown open, or left

open, to capitalist "exploitation."

This is the twentieth century, not the nineteenth. The governments in the countries of South Asia will be national ones. It is for them

to control the Inflow of foreign capital so that explolta- tion is avoided while the enpi- talist is assured of a fair return. By co-operation between the gov ernments of Asta and of the West. the ald of such inter-

He made and by The wig of yellow horse hair tury of British crime. fromes the lined, pallent face, his first mark in the Oscar Wilde published with its bird-bright, lashless eyes; case (to the recently

for

Asia and the For

HEART bodies as the Economici

as balanced as one of dimcult. foreword his own judgments). He Was

What is needed is an economie Junior to Sir Edward Clarke.

plan for South Asia. What is Crippen,

needed is dynamic economy, and Bywaters-Thompson,

Rouse, blazing-car

fire-raiser tils can come into being if cap!- in, and is wisely Harris, Bottomley, Cammi Griz- tal flows zard, the swindler, Roger Cuse ennalised. In the great adven- ment, Hayley Morriss, the LR.A. ure of modernising the Asian incendiarists of 1039-in one way lands, the enterprising spirits of or another Humphreys was en- the East will find a more con- goged with them all.

structive employment than Communism, and will retain in De Valero publicly protested; abolition the priceless against his judgments in 1930, tages of political and national when station cloakrooms were liberty, and freedom of thought.I being blown up regularly; and he

in

advan-

is therefore in a grim state In his services the Prebendary

"threefold uses the

method" Marshall of disequilibrium.

sign language, Up-reading and aid has masked the gap for the 20-letter linger nlphabet, a time, but it is now obvious Use of all three simultaneously the slash of scarlet fusion Boycanze history of which he has write East, this task should not be very

can be the aged body an illusion of am- that the most far-reaching means that the service

understood by every type and plitude. efforts to find a long-term degree of deaf person in his con-

Sir Travers Humphreys is the solution must be made now. gregation.

senior, as he is the oldest, Judge an the Bench; but although, when Moscow predicted that this

To use all three methods ot crisis would come to pass, once takes

the Bar is at the bar, many vete- years of practice.

rans are dismissed as "past it" or and it is no consolation to the Prebendary Smith once took 100 ok, the oldest of all the

four dent rest of us to know that the confirmation class of

children, two of them blind-deaf. Law's old men is never mentioned Politburo members are rub-Ife managed It by spelling into in that category of the obsolete. bing their grisly hands in the hand of one blind girl while, Within living memory he has anticipation of swallowing up the other followed his gestures

with her own hand pressed on the never had a summing-up criticis- even more of Europe.

back of his and the remaining ed or a sentence varied. Meanwhile in America there two followed his movements.

Ho represents, himself incarna- has been what might almost

tes, a long legal tradition. An an- had at one stage a military guard. St. Saviour's be called a campaign against lasts more then on hour-after a

cestor was engaged in the Inquest Now 10 years later he is being on the almost legendary Murder given police protection (not at, his Britain by those who are time eye-strain becomes too in-

because those of Maria Marten,slain in the Red own request) tense. Psalms and hymns not our friends, and see no

Mr. said, not sung, but

Smith Barn. His father was a solicitor. whom he sentenced then are re- reason why further assis- believes that the basic rhythm is le himself, born in 1867, educat-leased from jail.

and Trinity tance should be given. The enjoyed by those who have lost ed at Shrewsbury

Hall. Cambridge, was called to their hearing since birth. Labour government, of course,

the Bar in 1889. has come in for the heaviest

Study of devotional communi-

He was Counsel to the Crown Once he found a court so cold— criticisms. But however one cation for the dent goes back as may dislike Socialism, the far as the Venerable Bede. He in the Middlesex Sessions and at Winchester-that he threaten- invented a hand-counting system the North London Sessions of ed to adjourn the' Assizes to an- protested facts are that Britain has and also introduced

form of 1905; Junior Counsel to the Crown other town; once he since 1945 tremendously in- "manual speech," using numerals at the Central Criminal Court that the Union Jack

(Old Bailey) in 1908; Senior flown above his lodgings in the creased production, while a letters of the niphabet.

Counsel In 1916; knighted in 1925; traditional style. making every effort to reduce

Recorder of Chichester and of Cambridge from 1928 to 1020, imports from dollar countries, The people have lived under

and raised to the Bench in 1928, the most stringent austerity,

Oscar Wilde crushingly taxed, and with few compensations. All their efforts and sacrifices, how- ever, have been insufficient.

First teacher to spend his life when he was prosecuting Browne One major solution that among deaf people was the fa- and Kennedy for the murder of

de l'Espec, P.C. Gutteride. comes readily to mind is lar- mous French Abbe

own sign

and Inter ge-scale investment by Ameri- who perfected his

The history of Mr., Sir Travers, Humphreys is, very can holders of capital in the language for his, community." sterling area, thus making a Since then a score of scientine largely, the history of half a cen-

steady supply of dollars avall. able, as President Truman re- commends.

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In the 16th century a Spanish Benedictine taught the deat "speak, read, write, reckon, pray, serve at the altar, know Chris- tian doctrine and confess with a loud voice."

'Visual Speech'

Humphreys never

Cold Court

was not

But he is no mere stickier for

should be allowed to go home at

formality. He believes that a jury

right; and once he saw a prisoner struggling In the dock because

dif not wish to stand. "Let him

took silk. He on the floor if he prefers!" and the news that he was to be commented the judge. one of HM judges came to him

"threefold

the

"Elther the dock is too high or floor is too low-whenever the pecused sits down he dissp- pears entirely!" was a quip at an-; other couft.

He has a dry humour on occa- sion: to a man acquitted of as- saulting his wife, the judge said: "I strongly advise you not to do it again!"

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Humphreys, always "tipped" there is life in the old dog yet." retiring, says of himself:

methods have been developed. Most recent is a US. system of "visual speech" by means of sound vibration patterns thrown think the well-tried

method" quite adequate. Further, the U. S. could in- on a phosphor belt.

At St. Saviour's the chaplain Experts claim that the instru-halds weddings, christenings and crease its purchases of raw

sounds into materials in the sterling area, ment can convert

Sunday Schools: Once he staged exact individual apectograma, and slow down its growing enabling the dent person to dis-

complete performance competition along the ship-1 tinguish visually a dog's bark, a Everyman in algni langúinge on the \ reys is carried on his son, who,! ping lanes. It seems to any high-tuned motor or a sentence altar steps, unblased observer ridiculous In Hottentot. Most deat-workers that American firms should (Continued at foot of Col. 5). be boosting synthetic rubber production to a' point where

of

The legal dynasty of Humph-

with the Christian name of

At the institute next door, Mr. Christmas, was a founder of the Smith's deaf parishioners meet Buddhist Lodge in Britain. Father to play games (draughts, chess, and son have often faced oach whist, darts, billiards) and ex- other: notably in the Harris fro- change "sign" gossip over a cup raising case.

meetings of tea. Such weekly mark an event in the lives Com-men and women starved of nor- given his father's old position as

they soon expect natural rub- West will be seriously affect ber to be unwanted. This ed, and the spread of may be free enterprise, but it munism encouraged.

of But once Christmas-who was

Senior Treasury Counsel at the Old Balley in 1942 appeared in- expectedly in a case before Hum- phreys pere "My learned friend is sul," said "the" barrister: """Ia dare, say," "twinkled" the judge, “you will make quite a competent: "devil'lOPE

mal means of communication. is surprisingly short-sighted These and many other as-

"They seem so happy, not a from a world point of view.pects of the complex problem - sorry for themselves mys Yet sometimes he Some individuals may make will be discussed in Washing the chaplain. fortunes, but if Malaya's vast ton. Let us pray that the meet-wonders if this is really so: "You

soe," he explains, "orie hard currency earnings are to Ings will achieve at least some them in isolation. And that be stopped, the future of the worth-while results,"

in whan deafness, really: hurts."

never

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