1950-11-09 — Page 4

C. V. R. THOMPSON'S COLUMN

NEVER-NEVER IS NO MORE

NEW YORK.

UDDENLY a familiar phrano has vanished. No longer do the American radio or TV commercials or the newspaper advertise- ments make the promise- "Nothing down and years to pay."

τε '' to *nover-never** system any more, By edict from Washington, payment ander what America lies to, call the deferred payment plan may not be deferred for more than a maximum of 1 month.

To drive away his new car, the buyer must put down at least a third of the price in cash. TV acts, 90 percent of which bave been bought on credis, wlli not be delivered now until 15 percent of the total cost has been paid over and a promise has been made that the rest will be paid off in 18 months.

A promise to pay 18s, a week will not buy a diamond engage, meat

ring or a houseful of furniture any more.

All this is because President Truman's economic backroom boys want to stop the little man buying so much.

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HAT is happening here is described as an election. It is also a combined carnival, circus, fun-fair, and festa.

PUT only the very little man

Candidates for Congress are has been affected by the hopping from platform to plat

on hire-purchase. form in autogiros in Connec- The new terms are not much ticut, riding elephants in Okla- homa, leading torchlight pro- Ughter than thiss the more cessions in California, crooning prudent

merchants

demanded hill-billy songs in Kentucky. before, there were any Govern-| ment controls. All they have

done Is to shut off the risky. The statesmen, shedding' all dealings of the "dollar-down- Inhibition, need only pairs of

NEW YORK

NOV. 1

There's

United Nations developments is the absurd wrangle now raging over the U.N. Bag.

Fortunately,

tho 'British

I haven't been invited into this

argument.

Our teams playing mum, although we've some formidable orators here at the moment

We've Sir Thomas Beecham, one. Sir Thomas, a ferocious man

of genius, is supreme success here as musician, and as

for

#TRIL

no show

dazzled

NAW

show York, shining

business like an

and-the-rest-when-you-purple fights to become perfect American election

catch-mo" boys.

Until recently ex-Servicemen in most States could buy a £2,000 house for nothing down, and he could spread the monthly payments over 30 years.

Under the new rules, every- one has to pay at least ten per cent upon purchase of a home, and the buyer of a house cost Ing 20,000 has to pay £4,000. And limit for a mortgage in 25

years.

Almost overnight, theas re- gulations have caused

a alumn- plet. Now cars (any model, any colour), fridges, and washing machines

can be had for im mediate delivery.

It's old, -too

HE hire

THE

purchase system with high-clam furniture 123 years ago,

started

Politics hava

show business.

moro brightly than Broadway.

His baton has Dlayed the do- tractors of . Britain.

We also have Sir Milas will see to that. It Mr Tru- Thomas, chairman of British man's party holds or increases Overseas This is the final work of the its grip on Congress, you can drink with him the other night. Airways. I had u campaign. Naxt Tuesday voters will elect a Bow House of Re-expect the same health-giving "No matter what the U.S. does, presentatives equivalent to our in larger doses.

medicine as before, and perhaps we, the British, are 18 month House of Commons and a third

ahead of the rest of the world in Jet aviation,” he said.

Finally, we have Sir Francis

of the Senate, roughly similar

The key contest

to our House of Lords. They Опе man, General Elsen- will also put into office a num-hower, is glad to be out of the Evans, British Consul-General and governors political Jungie. Unscrupulous since 1944, who is due to depart ber of mayors After torrents of talk no one is use of his name has been made, home in December.

but he is first and last a soldier, clear what the issues are.

Sir Francis in the best Consul and his selection as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe is we've ever had here. He's won

Elsenhower hasn't more a "natural"

friends and influenced been happy LIKE President of more

the people in

United Columbia University. He la not States on behalf of Britain than MR TRUMAN, who has still a bookish man, he is not a pro- any of his predecessora. M

two years to go as President fessor, and he has been ex-

fol- plotted as

The British are also winning' whatever happens

a catch-all money (lowers, is acting as if there raiser, cheer-leader, glad-hand friends when it comes to enter aren't any, and is keeping out greeter, and luncheon and ban- tainment. Our Jean Simmon of the arena. He says ble Do- quet toastmaster.

is hailed as the best young_2c- mocrats are bound to win. Cor-

tress of the year; Elizabeth Tay- tainly it looks as if they will

for, British born, as the most keep control of House

beautiful, and Senate, and possibly increase can their majority.

مانا ما

The other outstanding Ameri- general, Douglas Mac- Arthur, is also shunning politics,

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If he does come we shan't have wasted those presentation gifts.

"Remember.Remember Fifth of November'

LONDON, Nov. 1.

ILLIONS of rockets. By EDWIN ROTH M

to the legendary story- Guy Fawkes, the leader of spiracy against the Pro- teatant King James I, was in the vaults of the House to 60 barrels of gunpowder of Lords, laying the fuso which he had stored there for several months.

Roman Catholic con-

maroons, Roman candles, and other fireworks explode through-

# And our Sadler's Wells stars out Britain on the night of although the eccentric are being pressed to pick up November 5, and the sky is fringe of the Republican Party come loose Hollywood change. red with the glow of in- Out in Ohio Mr Republican continues to woo him Robert Taft battles to hold his Arthur at the moment is being superb comeback in "All About brigades atop all leave and Bette Davis, who has made a numerable bonfires. Fire Car firms started to-use the title against -na unorthodox delfed in the United States "Dever-never" system in 1010-opponent, "Jumping Joe" Fer- His stature is godlike.

Eve" It is better than "Sunset have their busiest night of to the disgust of the ever-thrifty guson, who says: "I'm for the

Boulevard" and Davis is better; Mr Henry Ford. But in 1913, millions; Taft is for the million-

than Swanson-want to go to the year. There are giant with the return of the army, aires."

to make "African fireworks shows and small, | Instalment buying boomed,

Queen" with Katharine Hep-private fireworks parties in turn and Humphrey Bogart.

yards and back-gardens. One of New York's biggest where families stand around cinema groups. the Tranluxrackling fires and watch Theatres, has decided on a new

-mudLondon Express Service)

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This is the key content. If Robert Taft loses his sent in the Senate the Republicans will be crippled and their dream of re- gaining the Presidency in 1952

remote.

Although I haven't a vote as I'm a British subject, it is ob- vious both parties are after what I haven't got

All the week comic strips de- picting the Democrats as raints and the Republicans as dinners {and vice versa) have been thrust into my hand.

My ears are assaulted every time I pass a street corner by hoarse voices from sound-truck: insisting that I save the Re- public.

better 19

The eulogy of this Caesar of England the Pacific is endless.

America loves a hero, and the worship of MacArthur has be come almost pagan.

Lost touch

GAINST

this

policy to run toplight British rockats soar into the air.

lms in response to heavy de- mand."

"The

Frederick Lonsdale's competition, Day After Tomorrow" made a pyrotechnical

The reason for all these Russia's Andrei Vyshinsky, doubtful opening on Broadwaytions of delight is that manifesta - who stays on and on and on- and could close next week. maybe he likes the

American way of life is getting an

Press, obscure

The volcanic

Disappointment orator no longer erupts. He sim

mers

and dribbles platitudes, The

Vyshinsky touch hng vanished.

PLOT FOILED

Down the gels, gazorations": of ebelicăres have chanted:

"Nomember, remember, the

Fifth of Houseber,

Gumpounder treason and plot.. I know no reason, Why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot,”

Manufacturera.

of fireworks

have taken good care that ali people remember the Fifth of

November.

London fr plastered withi solemn official

notices, Bened

by Polico Commissionidir. * Bir Harold Scott, reminding evey body that (1) bonflres must not The favourite version of be a on roads, (2) fireworks the story says that he was must not be exploded in public places; (3) fireworks must not discovered by the guards be told to children under, or and arrested just as he apparently under, the age of Was lighting the fuse to hirtoon,

his blow the King and WAS

It is customary for children faithful legislators sky-

to put on fancy dress and take high History records more the'r "Gur effeles around the soberly that the plot was streets on the evenings before betrayed by one of the con- November 5, asking passersby spirators, and that Guy Guy" With this money they to give them a pony for the Br- buy Areworks to give

Uneir "Guy" pyrotechnical cremation. honours.

blown

Britain's Parliament Inot (repeat NOT)

up on November 5, 1605.

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John

night, ANOTHER frst

Steinbeck's "Burning But it had a very narrow Bright," was a disappointment

Perhaps he is perturbed by Plenty of voltage, but a drama- escape. revelations that as champion of the short circuit.

Latest comment on Heming-

I'd have Hitle inclination to the oppressed masses money has vote even if I possessed the pri- flowed into his pockets. From way's "Across ¡vilege. It

to be his books and with his Stalin into the Treca"-once you put the River and neutral in the gigantic muck- prizes, bonuses, and expenses it down you just can't pick ft heaving match taking place in he has an income of £40,000 a

New York.

year.

up.

NEW SESSION

Fawkes was actually rested the provious night.

MODERN VILLAIN

The "Gunpowder Plot" was folled. Orders were given to the King's Yeomen of the Guard to search the

For works now the streets vaults before of Britain have been swarning every Royal opening of with children drossed in their

clothes, and to Parliament. These orders parents" "cast-off"

still stand. They were last just soot on thele faces. They with lipstick, grease-paint or carried out on Tucaday, walk around in Bordea, murround October 81, when King people in the streets rattling

their collection boxed, George VI opened a session of Parliament.

In the House of Lords, the Peers of the Realm and All restraint has vanished. It

Jack Lait says the only im-the Members of the House now

He also enjoys special pri- portant change on the face of of Commons had assembled appears that Thomas Dewey, running for the Go- vileges-3 yacht, n

limousine, Europe is that the moustache is before King James I vernorship, is

aWall Street on apartment, a villa, servants, bigger. front man with Fascist er all free. Not bad, eh, Ivan?

over-

ses- hear him open a new Footnote: Tho tones, and his opponent, Re-

Communists sion of Parliament with a shouldn't worry about presentative Walter Lynch, an-

The only comfort Vyshinsky feriority complex-they are in speech from the throne. At

extracted from recent ferior.

the same time -according

other Wall Street front man, has

| contaminated by Communism.

The two candidates for thapman Senate, Herbert Lehman, the Democrat, and Joe Hanley, the Republican, are revealed 1.5 scoundrels of long-standing.

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blers, and child-beaters.

gam-

Voters bewildered

A

ND the four candidates for mayor, Messrs Impellittert, Pecora, Corst, and Ross, turn out to be double-dyed villains controlled by underworld leader i Frank Costello and 0 now mobster called Three-Finger Brown.

Confronted by such a choice. no wonder the voters are be wildered and it would serve

everyone right if they stayed at

home next Tuesday:

Woll, nimost everyone, should like to ros Vincent. Im- pellitteri, a fiercely. Independent

an in-

Would you like to

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TO LET: Highly desirable furnished residenco in much sought-after position in central London, Vacant possession of two floors.

IN could be advertised in it has

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On the second floor is the Chancellor's Bat, with three bedrooms,

.0 white drawing room, and two bathrooms.

Above that are the servants' quarters, consisting of a dining- room, two bedrooms, and trigerator. kitchen, complete with re-

0. 11 Downing Street uses you into the square ball. oak parquet flooring, white-painted walls, an arti. Furniture dupplied by the fire in a wrought from Ministry of Works, which is the Exchequer, Hugh Galiskeli,

Because the new Chancellor of State, and an antique adeboard. also responsible for maintenance, is tasteful but not lavlah. Α On the ground floor the oak previous tenant voce complained prefers to Hampstod home to panelled dining-room, and what that there was neither a piano Downing Street, a new tenant was once Lady Bion's sitting- nor a sowing machine. As wanted for one of the most room ΣΤΟ ΠΟΥ

occupied by Iamous houses in. Britain. sucretaries and typlats.

FROM 1723

In 1720 Downing Street was man who's doing his level best described as "a pretty place, .......

to clean up the city and break it for persons of Honour and

the corrupt machines, call to Quality," office as mayor.

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Today It is rent and rates Will Britain

silver, and bo affected by free, with linen, the American election results? healing provided.

Definitely.

Effect on Europe

Would you like to look sound? Permion to view beg Ministry of Works, you ring the gunted by the wale agents, the

black door

bell so the sold

Except when entertaining, Sir Stafford and Lady Cripps used only three rooms. Their only staff wha cook-housekeeper, Mrs Mallet, and a cleaner, Mra Devine. Caterers handled any by big reception.

For big reception' the desks dro sometimes replaced tables, nad chaire.

There la ng sarvarsta, entrazio. From the hall you turn left The Cripps groceries, delivered the wide, doely carved by a van from the Army and staires, which is believed to Navy Stores, came through the date from 1723, to the first floor front door like everything ele

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arg, Herbert Morrison's except the dustinen

The long, high, red-

offices,

nervonal office. -It' has two

Frealdem Truman's De- with the figures 11 in highly competed room, once the draw-on

If past practices are anything

·kg-room," "da" now Morrison's to go by the spare room freplaces, a large bookshelfers at No. 11 will probably be long affling table, and Mori tured into offices. son's own desk'in bus comfier.

-{London Exprem_Service),

mocrats suffer a sweeping polished trasa.. reverse, the policies of generous Frank Holt, messenger, who AT 2.30, 5.15, aid to Europe will be whittled has been at No. 11 for four out and · trimmed the Republicada] of his 31 yon, at the Tronditry,

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Nowadays the place of Guy Fawkes is comedimpos, taken by Guy Fawkes was duly a villain of, more roosat times, hanged, drawn and quar. who succeeded in blowing up. tered-it is said that he re- places) between 1940 and 1945.

Parliment

many other pented his crime on the I once came across sich a gallows — and the loyal “Guy" in Piccadilly Circus.

on a pram andī Britons began to celebrate was, enthroned

guarded by four, grubby gresso- the delivery of their King palated children from Lambath, and their legislators.

There was no mistaking the They bave been celebrating toothbrush, moustache and black on every November 5 for the forelock of the dummy. But past 345 years except during just in case anyone failed to the six years of World War II- see the significance, the "Guy with -Breworks and bonfires on had a notice hung yr há which effigies "of Guy Fawkes chhat."Who - says: Hilier, Low-

been burned1"

aro, burnt.

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