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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1951.

Nightmare In New York

By Kay Murray

TF you notice that your

IF

moment That's the

when

This despicable character

youngster is yawning, somebody like "Scarface" Ulanga

is conveniently on hand. restless and has watering eyes, the chances are you will hand out a scolding concentrated on the younger re- urulte. When the dope changed about late nights and pack hands he would tell bis him off to bed with a couple year-old victims, "This is candy of aspirina, without giving which will make you big and

strong." the matter more than B passing thought.

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When he judged his young contact was ready for something

New York parents, on stronger-Tell you what," be'd the other hand, have almost Now, you take a sniff at this- say. "Reelers--that's kid's stult. overnight been precipitated no change, we're pals, aren't into a nightmare where we?" these symptoms may mean that their child is one of

his New York's 15,000 teen- So the teen-ager takes

first sniff of heroin -- a drug age drug addicts-some of which even in medical circles them no older than 18.

Seldom have American parents been as shaken as they were by the New York Police Department's recent revelations on this subject.

is handled with kid gloves.

The next time he has to pay for it. He has to pay plenty.....

even shillings a time.

Within a few weeks a teen-

age addiet may become a "main- liner," that is, he takes to a hypodermie, known "the works," because It gives quicker results.

Dope addiction is occurring not only to youngsters who come from broken homes fertile When he reaches this point, breeding ground of juvenile the young addict may and his crime- but to children who growing craving is costing him have nothing to excape from, as much as £5 a day. Any no problems other than the

the time he refuses to pay the price, normal ones of adolescence and he threatened with exposure no deprivations more serious or the cutting off of his sup- than that of doing without a plies. coveted television set.

the

The first step is usually maxi- Juana, a plant of which dried leaves and flowers are made into cigarettes called "reeters."

In 1950 a startled New York Police Department found that the numbers of deaths from narcotics was only one less than 50 percent of the victims being from infantile paralysis, nearly

under 25,

Ot 30,000 known addicts (who are supplied by upwards of 2,000 peddlers) examined in

found to be youngsters stili in school,

Its purveyors haunt the local New York, half of them were high school hang-out-a soda fountain, candy store or per- haps a conveniently dark dine- and-dance spot.

Youngsters tre Battered to find a stranger who always seems to be good for a chocolate ice cream soda.

From a chocolate soda, it's a

short step to offering cigarettes all round, only these aren't or dinary cigarettes.

"Here, try this," says their benefactor, who is often Italian and frequently no older than

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"Reefers" cost about seven shillings for three expensive enough for

Reports have been pouring in from weitere agencies telling of

boys and girls selling the clothes off their backs to pro- vide funds their parents and appearing in for dope, robbing

juvenile courts on charges vary- ing from petty theft to violent assault and battery.

Parents

and

schoolteacher

have been alerted to watch for

addiction- symptoms of drug lethargy, a running nose, aches and pains, with sudden susple- lous interludes when the child "feels much better."

a teen-ager. whe A bili has been usually finds he is budgeting ten shillings a day for his "smokes before he begins to look round for something else to give him a more satisfying "kick."

introduced

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The Government is impossible! Why doṛ they refuse to pay unfair meat prices and bring down the cost of living

You're night! stop shilly-shallying and organise the country for defence and prosperity!

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Equit agree. They

should give in to Peron and put up. The price of meat Who cares what

it costs?

Absolutely, yes! and

do away with control and pushing, people around and let'

The steel industry. look after itself!

quite quite! And they should build up our old coal exports instead of wasting coal on their blasted Italionalised Industries

# GET IT? IF YOURE COCKEYED WITH PREJUDICE ANY GOVERNMENT CAN BE ALWAYS WRONGL

CONFUSION AMONG THE TORY CHILD-MINDS

“How true! Why starve the nation's industry of 113 coal and send it all away to the

blasted export

market?

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Where Mao learned his

disappearing tricks

THE_Chinese People's Army does not use the manuals of the Camberley Staff College or the tactics taught at West Polat

BUT it has its own set of dormas, which are only "mysterious " because fow British officers have bothered to study them, AN ontatanding Chinese military textbook, "The Art of War,"

was written by General Sun Tzu 2,450 years ago. In this. ancient manual, are all the clues to the Mao mystery, MAO TSE-TUNG'S field commanders have been following its rules in the Korean £ghting. Mao's own tactical doctrines have been certainly influenced by it. It explains the "disappearing and reappearing tricks" of the Chinese forces around the 38th Parallel..

YOU too can be a mysterious Chinese general, Listen to the voice of Bun Txú in the oldest military treatise in the world

--

Selected by ROBERT JESSEL,

法兵

子

孫

The title page, from right to left: Sun Tru on the Art of War

.ON BEING MYSTERIOUS

delicacy of honour which is sen- sitive to shame. Over-solicitude for his men which exposes him

LL warfare is based on to worry and trouble,

A deception.

These are the five besetting sins, ruinous to the conduct of war....

Hence, when able to at- tack we must seem unable.

To begin by bluster, but When using our forces, we afterwards to take fright at the

numbers, shows When enemy's must seem inactive.

allow's ал

a

we are near, we must make supreme lack of intelligence..... the enemy believe we are When a general, unable to far away. When far away, estimate the enemy's strength,

interior force we must make him believe

engage larger one, and neglects we are near....

to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be a rout....

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you Inaudible. And hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands....

In making tactical disposi tions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them...

....ON THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

....ON KNOWING YOUR LIMITATIONS

arm/cs

gives you an opening. After- wards, emulate the speed of a running are, and it will be too late for the enemy to oppose you....

Move not unless you ove an advantage, fight not unless the THERE are roads which must position is critical. No general should fight a battle simply out not be followed,

of pique. If it is to your ad- which must not be attacked,

vantage, move. towns which must not be be

If not, stay sieged,

must positions which

where you are. not be contested.

....ON EXPLOITING

....ON ATTACK You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are unde- fended.

LON LYING LOW BY discovering the enemy's dispositions and remataing Invisible ourselves, we can keep our forces concentrated while his must be divided....

At first, then, exhibit the coy.

ness of a maiden, until the other

VICTORY

that Do not interfere with an army is returning home. When you surround an army leave an outlet frde. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. Such is the art of warfare.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme ex- cellence. This consists in break- ing the enemy's resistance with- out fighting.

(London Express Service)

JOB RATION TO OUST TRUMAN?

looks

From R. M. McCOLL

of

NEW YORK. EVER SINCE the Govern- very much as ment started the propaganda

to ration the time served by have sung out as lustily as the

Voldo itself. her future Presidents.

Ithough America intends broads, domestic critics of it

Twenty-seven of America's Some accused it of barely 48 States have already ratified whispering America's story, an amendment to the Constitu- some of shouting too loudly, tion making ten years the limit and other complained about

man can stay in the White high cost.

House.

All it needs is nina

more

Now, in the current game of THE captured soldiers should States to agree to the amend- "Let's have a kick at the State That would give the Department" in Congress, there be well treated and kept, ment. This is called using the con- necessary three-fourths majori- is a move to take it away from the department and let the quered foe to

augment one's ty of 36. own strength.

Presidents are elected every President control it. four year”. So why are they

THERE WAS SOMETHING

ginment, had impersonated

Move only if there is real advantage to be gaiņod.............

ON KNOWING YOUR talking about a ten-year limit? awfully familiar about ăn cản.

ENEMY

Because if a Vice-President

for

Civil Q

Service were to succeed ....ON PRETENDING

to the Pro- didate

The examiners less

than

baldway examination TO BE WEAK

IF your opponent is of cholerie aldeney

did a little checking, and found through a term, through the temper, seek to irritate him

that Thomas Heaney, an en- SIMULATED disorder postu- Pretend to be weak, that he death of the President-just as

in New York's sanitation Mr Truman did he could GUTVO lates perfect discipline. may grow arrogant....

only one more full term after three Simulated fear postulates cour-

different men in the Hoste armies may face each the fragment he "Inherited."

He passed each time, age. Simulated weakness postu-

other for years striving for the If the new law is passed this exams. lates strength.

victory which is decided in a year, ns

think, too. But now he has passed most people Thus one who is skilful at single day. To remain in ignor Truman cannot be a candidate out of the sanitation depart keeping the enemy on the move ance of the enemy's condition in

the next Presidential element. maintains deceitful appearances, simply because one grudges the tions in 1982-08 most people THEY ARE BUSY making ♣ He sacrifices something, that the outlay

little money in think he would like to be enemy may match at it. By honoure and pay is the height of holding out balls bo koeps him inhumanity.... on the march; then, with a body of picked men he lies in wait for him.

ON GENERALSHIP

THERE

are five dangerous faults in a general: Reck-, learness, which leads to destruc-

of a

film called "Run for the Hills" [President Roosevelt served with real New York and subur. It is all three full terms and part of a ban backgrounds. Knowledge of the enemy's dis- fourth from 1933 to his death about a young couple who pre- positions can only be obtained in 1945.)

pare for an atom bomb attack. from other men. Hence the use

It is supposed to be funny. ; ONE of spics....

OF *WHE BRIEFEST. careers in business annals was ORCHIDS: As a sales stunt, a that of Stro Bialarski, of manufacturer offers to fly a free Brooklyn. He opened a bookle's corsage of three paradise orchids shop one p.m. At 2,80 it had 5,000 miles from Hawail to New POVLA addressingt the buy one Su. tin of pineapple

Julco.

.ON PEACE PROPOSALS

ton. Cowardice, which leads to PEACE proposals unaccom-been closed by the police, and York for every housewife w capture. A hasty temper, which Apanied by a sword covenant Stanley

Judge. can be provoked by insults. A indicate a plot.

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