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"How's the gladness and joy department this year?"

London Express Service

on the

Sitting

Fence.....

**Life will

be

bleak for many

years to come."-TIE

of the Exchequer,

Chancellor

The public demand for

sleep-

ing pila in greater than ever."-- Esser chemist,

come,

OMETIME in the

years to follow, some-

time in the

days to

English highways will be silent, English cities will be dumb.

Silent but for gentle anor- ing, gentle snoring night and day;

In each cottage and each castle we shall sleep our cares away.

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

"Why aven't we got no keys rub-a-dub-dub for arf a

pig's

to open our sardine this wiv?" car before you know the worst. "What's goin to be the price of turkeys if we ave any turkeys?" Mother Christmas

"Why aven't we got no eggs to go wiv the bacon we aven't got nelther?" They laughed like drains when the Food Minister

OOD morning Father Christ- Have you read in TROS.

modern

said he couldn't elp it if en child fears and dislikes you?

the papers how the

didn't lay in the winter, which only goes to show what them

Yes, I was just going to write poor miserable what-is-names to the papers telling them how We shall sleep and none shall will laugh at in the

Ouse of I fear and dislike the modern Commons these days. wake us, wake us more for

child, but my fingers are too cold. good or ill

For the postman and the milkman will have had their sleeping pili,

Like the butcher and the baker

and the copper on his beat. They shall rest in cosy rap- ture with hot bottles their feet.

at

Sleeping, too, will be the house- wife as she lets the day go by;

No more queueing for the ra- tions, or for goods in short supply,

passions of a child in a

ALS NG ON

OING

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

LONDON. ber two," has borno the

And from everyono W

Mr George Bernard burden Shaw were still alive he come into contact with would, I am sure, have hear the same story: N some sparkling comment to, could have borne it bet multe about a paragraph in the editorial page of this month's issue of The Cyclist.

It is the last place I would look for an all-out attack on a great mon of letters;

He has the stondy, H

ca, the short-clipped, moustache, and Incisive of a first-class soldier.

He speaks his mind But, with that, ho has diplomatic qualities som lacking in soldiers.

But there, in two and three- He took an active pa quarter column inches, the arranging the Auto-T editor, Mr. F J. Camm, tells talks.

the great cycling public that And, at a time when Bernard Shaw was a no-good Americans are iping a writer, a

mountcbank, a hum- tain, Mr Holmes has re bug and a "vain-glorious hu- man peacock," as well as be friend, and a deep admi staunch, underst a dead loss to the Cyclists' the British Empire.

ing

Touring Club, of which he was a life member

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Derby touch THE 32-YEAR-OLD of Derby, who suc on nearly three years to his grandfather's highi

makes many

public ançes.

"There is no evidence," com- plains Mr Camm, "that he ever became a cyclist." In this re- spect he was inferior to H. G. Weils, who gets full marks for This career on two wheels.

And Shaw, though he wrote "many

It is good plays," was not "on the commenting on his easy, same literary level" na cyclist fident, and attractive m Wells, Nor, apparently, on that of Oscar Wilde, but for whose And it is noticeable, to

he is not afraid to p coun-imprisonment, we are told, wo into his spreches.

try where children are almost should never have heard as popular as dogs?

Shaw.

I told Mr Camm that

sadistic excitement in the eyes obtain Shaw

of

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to hear

The other evening sided at a coal trade dinn

Have you ever sten the the best information I could which Minister of Fuci

child at the of a

prospect of seeing another child punished?

You believe in original sin, Father Christmas?

With my could I disbelieve in it?"

experience how

Don't you think it healthier to give this original sin full play instead of repressing 17

It may be healthier for the chill but, as he often becomes a cash boy, it's not so heelthy for other people.

☆

Why do you think the mo- dern child dislikes you?

huq ridden

of his life and that when ho fell from his machine in 1897

ht

Power Philip Noel-Baker bicycle up to the last ten years guest of honour.

Lord Derby's audience ed with picature wh the affair rated some publicity suggested that it must be -in spite of the fact that Oscar Nool-Baker to leave

ticularly worrying for Wilde was still at large.

"Oh, he may have pottered on such occasions. taking his down to the shops," comment meant

cy od Mr Camm, "but wo don't Mr Bhinwell, call that cycling."

And nobody could be whether the Defence Mi was after Mr Noel-Baker the or Gentral MacArthur's.

Please'

F

AS CHAIRMAN of V.S. Chiefs of Staff Com- POSTSCRIPT-Main ta múltee and of the North Atlan- point of the evening tie Treaty Organisation General the tables, was not Omar Bradley has the biggest Lord Hyndley also a military job in the non-Cum- would leave the Coal 1: munist world today.

but when he would have Tall, thin, soft-spoken, the so. He looks a very W 57-year-old general avoids man.

.by Grandmot

the nume

U.S. You dislike the dear little dislike the modern child, we there are

For the same reason that publicity. Even in the

many who know kiddies with their shining, ex- have seen through each other. I little of him.

IN PARIS everyon The price of electricity's goin pectant eyes and their baby

A story shows the kindi of don't believe in them and they

humming and whistl up, so don't use the electrie iron prattle?

don't believe in me.

man he is. While he was in- song of the sea. It is too much for them smalls, girls. So's the price of meat if the They are no longer dear little

terviewing a captured German "Surcouf," Not even the little ones? oneer in Sicily an alde ac- legendary French pirate. At this time of the Argentinos come the old acid, kiddies,

Only this morning I heard acidentally fred his carbine, The song is the latest Russian year their shining eyes are fill- boy of five say to another: "If and the bullet zipped close by best-selling composer Val And thanks to them sweethearts, so's your incomo ed with greed. Their baby you don't tell your mum you Bradley's car.

who lives in a cottage tax, to find the dough-ray-me to prattle is full of shrewd ques- belleve in Santa Claus you won't pay for the stuff that goes bang tions, smart answers, and dirty get the extra present he's sup-man and snapped:

He turned angrily to the Cotes-du-Nord, stormy

"Be more west tip of France. bang bang.

cracks,

posed to bring you.”

Valantire?

is It

A careful with that damned

real nami himself donym. The Are you thinking of rotiring, thing." Then, pulling

madame Jults Ploven, 74- Father Christmas?

up short, he added: "Please."

12 Chop and change

Sleeping, too, will be her chil- your old loaf of bread if you day compare with the child of body with an unshakable belief |

dran, and the dog and eat as well, While her husband snores un- troubled by the silent factory bell,

Those alone awake and busy in a world of velvet dark. Will be toffee-nosed officials and

the tax collector's nark; They will still be asking ques- tions, they will still have forms to fill,

While their victims, unre- pentant, lake another sleeping pill.

Ere is the news

TOW trade unionists want to

NOW

be represented at all levels

in the B.B.C. as the corporation

is

considered "anti-workin

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As for the wevver it's goin to be a proper basket-snow, að, sleet, galls, thunder and lightnin

Yes, I thought of handing

mother of the and lumps of ice droppin on

over to a Mother Christmas, She

Prime Minister. TO MANY How does the child of to- will have to be a sentimental

members of She started writing ain't careful.

London's Diplomatic Corps shanties for the amuseme the past?

in the impossible, or million tionalist Chinese Embassy in

the closing down of the Na her grandchildren. Well, that's the end of the six

jumping down a couple of

But one day Prime ME The only diference is Is bad o'clock news, which

that chimneys in one night. She will blow at the stomach as

let well Pleven inadvertently But you wait tu 9 the child of today has not been believe all children are angels as at the heart.

ent out of the bag when enough. o'clock. It's going to be some- taught to hide its lust for and, although they won't belleve For Ambassador Dr Cheng one asked him about a think shockin. If I was you I'd possession, its blind egotism, and in her, their insufferable vanity Tien-hat used to give dinner he was whistling and take the old trouble and strife other evil passions.

will be flattered and everybody parties at his official residence plied that it had been to the flicks till it's over; or Don't you think it rather will be happy.

in Portland Place which were by his mother. betler still, drop into

-(London Express Service) the delight of all who enjoy Now, on, radio,

One Chinese cooking.

and bandstand, Grand gloom Pleven is the hit of the i

the old dreadful to talk of the evil.

Steelmen show way to profits

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class, let us hope that my Murray's picture in drearas of an uncontrolled, un-burg, America's steel inhibited cockney reading the tre. news will be realsed at last,

From NEWELL

ROGERS

NEW YORK.

capitalist America? The Council Institute. So much pork is com-

Proft-Sharing HEY wanted to take of

Industries, ing to market that it should extra lb. of meat a meeting in Cincinnati, believes mean on Philip it knows the answer. Scottish-born

week for every family. Pitts-

cen- profit-sharing means increased gloves no longer carry the old Companies are finding that EK-CHAMPION Joo Louis*p

profts. Workers are happy and sleeping pilla, Chicago prize- work harder. They spend more, fight fans say sadly although and prosperity grows.

Joe beat the Argentine's Cesar Brion. The fans say Joe could The council says profit-shar- not

gct much steam Into his ing could make America free of blows. Joc, 30 and pounchy, strikes. And that would be a drew only 8,800 to Chicago'd real shot-in-the-arm

free stadium to see the fight. enterprise.

This is the B.B.C. ome ser- He beamed, removed his vico and cre is the news. And

glasses, and said: "I believe tree cor s.ione me up a gum

I look better with them what a lovely packet it is.

off."

In Korea ordes or Chinks are still movin sart on the old frog

ain't for

ori

A head

of

for

MOTHER-LOVE Ja not

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He looked better, too, to 165,- and toad, and doin it mainly 000 employees of the United on their old plates of meat, as States Steel Corporation, whose CONTROLS: America will child's automatic and legal right, they ain't got much transport output equals or betters that of have none of all-out controla, Justice Lummus, of Massa- Firty farsands are in Pyongyang all Britain's mills.

unless there is all-out war. chusetts High Court, ruled when and farsands and farsands

a 14-year-old girl their union, Speechos by Truman's chief lawyers for the DO-and sos Wongpoo, Pingpong, Dingdong. Murray had just accepted the economie expert, Leon Keyser asked him to award her £35,000

ling, and

Defence Secretary damages against a man who on- Hamstrung, Hohum, and How-company's offer hoher George Marshall make this pinin. ticed her mother away. cum, or whatever they call their wages by is. d. an hour.

Both speeches Andicate that the edthen ovela.

MANGANESE, vital in the Up goes their average pay to Government still bases its plans 188. 4d. an hour; up goes the on the assumption that there is production of armour plate, is company's wege hill by more not going to be all-out war. still being shipped to the United than £44,025,000 a year.

Slabes by the Soviet. The Des MEAT-mountains of its Moines Register suggests that bended for United States dinner hare is the answer to the ques- tables, says the American Meat tion "Does Russia mean war?"

In the Ouso this aftern.001 they was askin the same old cock-eyed, questions about grub to

POP

I TELL YOU PHOEBE ~

HES THE; MOST

TWO-FACED. MAN

IN THE WORLD

Why didn't the workers have

fight for this money in

Double fault

*WELL

ANYWAY-

[HÉ'S GOT A CHIN TO

Now a little of the has lifted. The late ambassa- dor's chef has moved to a West End dining club,

'Number two'

gramop

'Ike' paints to

WHEN General D. Eisenhower comes

Europe as Commander-in- NO ONE, I imagine, looks he will bring an item of forward more keenly than sonal equipment which is Mr Julius Holmes to the ar- since we last saw him bo rival in London of the new For the general has U.S. Ambassador, Walter the list of men of action Sherman Gifford,

have turned, lato in life, painting.

For the past 18 months, be- cause of the frequent absences and illness of Mr Lewis Dou- glas, Julius Holmes, as "bum-

It's

He now spends at least hour each day at his cas

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