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THE CHINA-MAIL : "SATURDAY: «JANUARY 28, 1950,

FIRST SHOTS IN THE ELECTION

The Brat shots in the gen

eral election "campaign have

been fired. The mant telling,

CAMPAIGN

By Windrush

even per cent. But the Tories

•

dannot feel optimistic,. Those who These bloker why sold sand Voto against a Government at a instead of oplum had as their y-election often, support It,nt a slogan: Put that in your pipa Editor In Chibf24354 one,was-by Mr.J. B. Priest-tolition, So it may be, right what may have to be done general election, when it is in real and choke St. Reportors General Ofice. 82312ley, the novelist. He has devalued again. The gold and to overcome

(four Inas)

the crisis. In this danger of falling. #poken for 'Labour Party dollar reserve is and sixths of what sense, the whole general election

The fortes will, he aided by the A solentisi Bubscription Rates

says that it was which Labour took office. campaign may be tainted with a redistribution of seats which was domile-high explosion...on Mars They will use him all theyWe aveld bankruptcy by receive certain dishonesty.

hade by the new electoral law "very likely caused "destruction can. Technically he is not Ing✩Marshill aid. "This stopa in

pasted by die last Parliament, los plant and animal life on the member of the Party. That 1052. What happcha thành Lu- A smail swing of votos may de- But about a probably air planet, if any existed. makes it all the more per have no theans of buying much of has an article summing up

bour has no suggestion. We shall qide the Isque. The "Observer" | from the number of young now

This seems a the Voters who have come on, the, res

falr assumption. suasive when he urges the the raw material for industry. position. "If there were a swing gister. 11: is, thin new "generation

"Trade unionists being woverl Country to vote for Labour. The factories will stand still. dr hour and half. per cent from whist in antlips the authenti

by Tories." He carries all the more This is not a mere possibility. In Labbur to Conservative, the Gov- Volco of Britoin today, Is, out-

This wooed be difett. the coal crisis, the country saw genicht would lose about 70 seats ipok"la well deserlbqd. In an arii, he weight because

mixes what happens when industry has and its majesty Would Yoll to 15. cle by Mr. G. M. Young. criticism of Labour with his not the

which to If the swingeðr võies, tote" to six

Westerling stunt The Younger race is condition praise.

per cent the Government majority ed to obedience, function

used ta baing would varttsh, and if it reached looked after, acoustomed to segis Tory candidates will point out

sayon and a half per.dent the permission, expecting to, here But they these alarming tecke

Conservatives would have--a ma- | gulated, and, not unnaturally, reticent as may be ta

Labour brity of about 40."

finding compensation in O about the way to deal with them. In the by-elections of the last crude lawlesmes9." It would be a bold, perhaps a two years the swing-over bas This new generation may find reeltless, candidate who cald out- teen between six per cent and that socialism quits it very well.

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The en- gouement is announced bo- Aween the Rev. E. I. Morris, Sentor Chaplain, BQ. Land Forers, second non of Mrs M Morris of Pembrey, Car- marthenshire. 5. Wales and the late Mr J. Morris and

Junior Cummander F. E Connors, W R. A. C., younger daughter of Mr and Mrs J.

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THE COST OF LIVING

The repart an enst of living movements in Hong Kong, prepared by the Department of Statistics under Mr. W G. Wormal, has a value all its own. has a special and timely value just now in view of the fact that the workers in most of the major utilities and Industries are asking for an extra three dollars a day allowance.

Priestley has the knack of per- suading the average man because he makes himself appear to be an (which, of course, average man

He advises the aver- he is not.) nge man what to do with his vote, but in doing this he ayolda any hint of being superior or patronis- Ing, and thus he sets up no sales resiafance to his ideas. Also his brond Yorkshire accent wins con. fidence.

suggeals eommon

sense, His case for Labour on the rutilo recently was, quite sim- ply, that the Labour Party was thically superior to its rivals. It stood for fairness and Justice.

I'tiestley said that the recovery

tions, you are apt to forget the four hungry men outside the res- | Jaurant Two of them are prob

ably about to join the Communist Party and work for violent revo- lution

i

means with

ralher

Most go-ahead university in the world

A young man with a shock of red hair, white waiter's coat over his checked lum-

By Richard Greenough

Course

rubber"

upsets

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That's the worst about bridge: if it isn't one thing, It's another.

No, Myrtle, an, cavesdropper Is not a kind of bird

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Reds. seeking Kowloon/"

So were, some friends of mine after a very late party, the other night, but they had to wattṣnges a walia walla., There's probably, a moral tin that, "If i |could only think of it.

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("Bandits attack train in Jehire State."

Thus causing-quite- forore.

"Surprise for sewage cleaners." I would prefer

The rooms cost about £200, an since the war in other West Euro-

neddemle year, And tuition fees, la suggested that stake pean countries such as Belgium

'depending on the

taken, performers in thought tropa- might appear outwardly more

start around £120 a year for non-ference act signal to each other flashy, but it was unstable, be- berjack shirt, and club tie

Michigan State students, $50 by sniffing. Cause it was bused on injustice, deftly removed my empty mission to retralisdlit 'excerpts, they ate from the State. Thes This la known as code in tha "Sitting in an expensive restau- coffee cup, cutlery, water Work at WUOM comes into the fees entitle students to free medinome rant aloud, vating dve men's ra

curriculum for certain courses.

cut core from the university's glass, swept the table, and

Michigan is very proua dar Itsuwn health centre. asked: "Will there be any-odvanced redien and allied Most popular course seems to Don't tell me. thing more, sir? I have to schools. Asholated with them to Literature, Arts, and Sciences, the credit. to-go to odours

1,000-bed hospital striftéd by with 0,897 registered tudents; trained doctors and specialists, least patronised, Public Health,

university graduates, with 185 Spots of the labor three days

Elgineerin students years:

3,90

Obviously paid, on, wrong and Business Administration,, A.#b3.

Teaching is baidd chiefly on information. Anyone who gues Not far away from the hospital | public lectures; there are nota American niminowa that In their neat, bustling July town, tutorials "hs w kapw them in London has an exclusive copyright with Its streets, criss-cpussing Britain, though thero aro orteri en foga. · orderly squares and college cam Informal question ·and -ƐonsWor Aineetings, between. professors and puses, in the Denth) Sekdol.

To the middle class He addressed ilma particu larly to the middle class the middle class whose uncertain al-

Part-time work

the

attend class in 10 minutes."

His "class" was in Physiedl often and Industrial Education," and he Assisted by was one of the 23,827 students walking af both sexes, white and coloured.tringe nurses. of all races, roligions, politics; who make up the State Univer- iegiunee may decide the election.sity of Michigan. He admited that they had a lot to grumble about. It le this part of the speech which has quoted in the Tory presa!) But been he begged them not to base their

o political judgment on personnt grievances. For the masses of the people, Englorid before 1943 was the "bad "old world". 71 would be unethical to try to bring

this back.

was, this

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clarks,

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hospital

New York reported under fog

"MacArthur still brisk, hale on

nagnincent now brick building, kropps or 20 or so studente; 70th Birthday "

poisessas, among other won-usually arranged through the A movement to make it "Hol ders, one hage room, sky tvplus "counsellors":" hip: from incandescent tubes, in

MacArthur" is however frowned These-counselors, members-9f you-at-the-moment.

quotes П the

Two Londopera werp standing on a street corner,, staring tes

About one in four of them do part-time work, such as this boy in a town enfo, to help pay thole expenses through college. Others

attendants, garugo deliver papers, inltk, groceries, which 129-latent-style dental the Faculty teaching staff, apond eveh tedn

time helping streets, and at lenst blairs with attendent equipment a third of their

A contemporary second-year under-London ane is a butcher's usalstaht in his are lined up in rows, partitioned Grst- and

comment on spare time.

off shoulder high. for students graduates,

Michigan is especially proud ofs prone to whally.athtements.

Conservative mujifesto,that it Michigan has been cailed the to pull br push an on-iddle with Again and again he returned to most progressive university in the the tooth or real live patients

international character the moral appeal.

These biting criticisms are, of The centre of United States and it is one or the under proper supervision.

|(though there have been some course, trus in parts, It is rather a paini!! "The Labour Party has an oshiq | infæst pirogresalta, Wil rotand)'in the own 77-bed

his speech

sentence, six largest. It is probably, the The university even has ita grumbles recently from the State Maternity Hospital, Legislature's burse-string hold- and is not governed by cynical whole

There are 600 certainly where last year 915 babies were era).

student. febrid, le expediency: 11-suys what it means rubro mbdern, up-to-dlite, rina | born.

from abroad. and does what it says it will do." better equipped thah any now in Reason for this is that married At the moment there are, 24 dog blowing amɔkerings. This will be one of the best Europe, though it may not have couples, erpecially ex-0.Is, who from Britain and a fase from the Marvellous, isa't, it said, one- lines for Labour to fight on, Illas marly students on some account Chiefty for Michigan's Commonwealth, including

-¿said; the may wit thom the cleation. The It is blessed with virtually all rapid increase in numbers, maka Negroes from the Gold Coast accend.

blooming dog maral appeal may at the lust mot the good things of neuteenie lift up early one-third of all stuNigeria, and Sierra Leone. Three beige able to get clanrettesl. I inent check many voters who to quality, indepentance, infudents, and most of the 1,300 and teach here from Britain, too weeks."

professors have cone to settle haven't had any myself for two teaching staff of day believe that they are going to once, wealth. pro-

Labour propaganda | Its ants, round about £60,- are also married. vote Tory, for 15 years has been astonishing-000,000, include some 700+acres-of- Yet, unlike many other Amor); } ly successful in blackening the campus and aniversity byldings CAN colleges r face morally of the Tories. The valued stone at £28.800,000-where the standard of education debts. Young Geoffrey Leigh, of bad old times are now on accept in Ann Arbor, a mid-West town is not too high or fastidious Brondesbury Park, N., London, te part of public thinking of some 87,000 souls; art observe-where, for instance, you can straight from the Haberdashers Labour has turned the tables on tory at Bloemfontein, Bouth a degree in tap-dancing or come School, is here to study wood the Tories by making many peo- Africs, and two others nearby: Ching equally frivolous Michttechnology, to help in the furni ple think instinctively that the one of America's largest airports in is not a degree or diplomature business later. Torles are a sectional party with Willow Run, 12 miles away; and factory..

I'm certainly enjoying ty selfish class interests, while a bour stands for, the

nation. Twenty years and most people thought instinctively that it was

The unanimity of the figure chosen would be striking in any event, and it is all the more striking in view of the differing rates and conditions! in the various enterprises af- fected transition to pass from such simple exercises in hit or miss, superimposed on the classic Chinese tradition of trading. to the intense striving for exactitude of the scientific statistician,

First,

we have the digious leap in the cost of liv. ing of between 500% and 700% between pre-war and March, 1947, with a rise of 12% since then; or, between December. 1948, and last December, of 20 points. What these figures mean in relation to wages cart be determined only by a care- ful correlation of both by the tribunal which may sooner or later be appointed. Certainly the Statistician's report will be of immense value to it, since facts and figures must come, in these days of en- lightenment, before the "good old rule, the simple plan" of which the poet spoke.

The swiftness with which the well-known HCL. moved between 1939 and 1947 may arouse surprise: the less at able sentiment of suspicion will greet the relative stebltli of the years between 1947 and

now.

Cand

universities +

Happy Londoner

talked with some of the stu

geological and biological stutions Waiting list sex and this course a lot, but. It's

in Michigan and other States. Gó-áhéád policy

more

Sixty-right-year old Alexander a bit of a pinch. You see, I was day I arrived," Grant Ruthven who agreed his devalued the By comparison with Britain's forehearse cob Scotland), ho- said, Labour which was-a-class-party.

Yet the election is not yet won senfor universities Michigan is Michigan's Univerzity President Pr. Alex Eastwood, a qualified

· Liverpool--Univer- by Labour. Mr Priestley's own young, dating back to 1837. But for the past 20 years, explained f dentist--from

alty, has come to learn dititude may be called in ques- early in its history it began binowing to our size, our endow about straightening teeth.. tion for its political honesty.He progressive, - far-sighted.

Michizo is one of America's elde-steps entirely the real issue came in 1870 the first major uni-mchis, que independent charter ar mai foster this country to admit from the State of Michigan, and great borila iliversities. It brought Great Britain nearer to women. They now mako tip to our long waiting list we can boosts the Bizkit, uniporeity afford to tick and choose at tadium : ulnitho country,: able, 10, bankruptcy to how is the quarter of the student body, country to be saved? There are Latest cample or progress is students most carefully 2 ho sold seat 7.92 In addition to =111

radio

"As a result between 80 per ushers and a Frets box for 480. a great-many people who are shio fulls Beale

Michigan has an annual budget for fair shares and the Welate WUOM on the air 10 hours cont and 85 per teht of our people

achieve their dagitishat objec. of £11,785,000 about one-third of State but who will vote against day, dix days a well-run lib

tives of degrees, diplomas, awards, which comes from State grants.

· Undergraduate, and gradun Labour, because they think t

abour's economic policiesngt star of Bochtlicing,

cortificates dents List Yearongpely) £2,500,000 sum

All firét-year students are,

from students does the rest their social policies are but or wines are so good that pected to sive in won one of the made up from endowments and

*script writers, ang the country on the rocks,

Commercial statibas Atherica Residence, Balls, owned and run proceeds from investments the

university has made.

Alarming facts

Here are the facts which alarm them. The pound, has been':He- valued once. Nothing has been done to correliths cause which

Germany to have consuls in the Western capitals

The scarcity and high price of rice is chiefly responsible for the post-war increases in labour wages, which,, says the average-accommodation"bf" a report, "are smothering local family of six, and that rent Industries with high over has been the most stable of all heads, and are directly or in things except charges for

Born; January 28. directly forcing, the whole education. The range moved Western Germany is to have price structure of the urban up three points over the dead, Consuls-Gerieral i London, community Into the spiral of level from March 1947 only to Paris and Washington. inflation." It is also responsi-ward the end of last year. Of This is the most important out- afternoon's 90- ble for raising the Food Index course, there has been much come of this

minute meeting between the Fe by 22 points since Marchi doubling up, but even-so-thedral Chancellor, Dr. Honrad 1947. If mora: rice could be result as given is the most Adenauer, and the liigh –Con- found for rationed supplies startling thing in the report..missioners

On Behalf of his colleafgesti we are told this figure would Incidentally, rent is alsokhe ||philshi Biz fall-substantially. But while only item of, the -15 major metal Big Etan Burma still slides down to items of expenditure whigh vored to Dr. ward the abyss of anarchy hasno detalled appendix. The Vition from and Siam mixes rice prices intense difficulties, whichchh and Frie and diplomacy, there appears caused this omission are duly co little prospect of even so plous explained. It is admitteanhhu kw 'n hope as this being fulfilled the enquiry in 1947 was incon-

clusive, and in certain re

soon.

The innocent might have | specta futilećaildCunrealistid -alonbra..." - supposed that inspite of the But another method was agreed wife controls, rents would have selected which the Commis

| been almost as much a Villain" | sioner of Rating, and Valua. The

of the piece is rice. Rent at ition considered; a judicious tet 0% is up one per cent only sampling. "This consisted on toRKE in the family budget: But survey of 202-households only either figure seems surprising of the white collar class: jelly, 'small in an overcrowded There is a profound distration

city which has doubled its amounting oftamt

#population' nimost overnight, rental matters, whic

and wherein ront profiteering

is so soro a point. ~!

It is cheering, to know that

the scientific student cla abining white "raiment Year wholly overcome top 118 invas

persona earning $900 a month, a tale that in hotdolds Cortaing or murq pay a rent of only a ly we don't fainlerityis 1618 -little-over:=$78-a --month for litritly mu85

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Michigan le certainly a vary "Live" university, Hive, in every wdy. Even-fts Old Boys (dro lika the Old Soldiers. Out of a total br: 165,000 who have graduated since the university, frst started, 1926,000 of them aro atili ilving.

and at xero, hour, ono.

dawn, the brigade. recte, slap c¿žbeno over the bally town!"

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