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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1952.

WHAT MAKES BRITAIN

✩ Morale

TICK? q modern and

by William Barkley

W

LONDON.

get keep going? going and What makes a man tick?

HAT pakes a nation

How comes it that this little island, which the Ancients regarded as the last spot of desolation in the known world, grew to be the leader of the modern era, the mother of in. vention, the cradle of power?

Ah. ha 1 have you here

You answer rsk the wais Jons. Chem

' with mon

Everybody tells us we have harder we are lo standards in a na burdened with arms and

bureaucrats.

о

What Is the future-maller tires, emptier plates, shrinking fredom" Or shall we go for

will ant watel with good

all. en.husiasm to reap. For us the fruits of the most wonder-

flowering ful

uf mechanical

genus ever known?

Now I can talk with perfect understanding.

What motion?

is the origin

of slow occurred were re- bomb damage

I'L I think years ago walie men pairing my house

Then

"IN theat

sopistoated imes, we too often think of morals as something to be ter chased in material things. We zɛem to believe that von. Adence and courage are produced solely by a full stomach, warm clothing, and a rool over the head Reasonable and decent stan- dards of this kind of Course. to #fe itself but true morale to caste produced by direct appeal to the heart of man and to his noblest thatīnola."-- GENERAL DWIGHT FISENHOWER.

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necessary

work whenever he has earned £12; because beyond that he is laxed heavily

Now, there is not a preacher in the land inveighs so bitterly against tax as I do. Dear be- loved brethren, come round to the very after the sermon, I on this Subject in will dilate words unẞt for the pulpit.

This Virus

T is no good the people-o13" their representatives - de- endless manding and passing laws which mean vast expendi- work and then dodgin" tu

Get the rather than pay tux.

But ge the coal up x dwu

while.

What, has no one a heart for the working man who seeks to come home to the bonny blink & cheery fires de? Confound

pus of

polities. Shep One lazy man can infect the virus of lethargy into 99 around hitra. But then one good leader can inspire a whole group.

unions We hear of trades moving against members who work too hard. Let's have more joint action against the fellow who has to be carried.

MENS CLOAKS

ALL

"I told you that's what it would be this year.

Hundreds of 'em.

London Express Service

NAGGING AT HOME DISTRACTS TRUMAN

ers."

Washington. NEWSPAPER car- toon hits the nail

the

Mr head. Truman, dressed as

on

the

already.

By R. M. MạcCOLL

The trouble is

in

nearly everyone "right where they live."

He

a

as fast as possible to prevent further loss of public confidence. On December 15 Murphy stipped into the White Houre and had a long, talk, with the Pre- sident. He smilingly called it "highly profitable."

Backtrack

to

very

while The numours flow, Murphy stuck to "no comment;" The most widely accepted reasons for Murphy's backtrack:

1. Judge Leamed Hand, of the United States Court of Appeals, had put it

that judges Murphy the should not accept administrative posts without first resigning from the Bench, and Murphy naturally unwilling to do this

2. Murphy refused because he would have no power to subpoena unwilling witnesses.

this has had bloodhound which is mourning

Everyone thought it would be the a barassed housewife, broom see what effect

death of its master-who

huge a matter of hours before the in hand, is vuiply trying to

that it hits wears bowler hats and a

his official announcement of America Victorian moustache. cope with a mass of debris

Thomas Murphy was made to acceptance came.

The days went by-and then their got

in the home. Through the As soon as they

Mr Churchill is This is not some remote free- order for the job. He was coats off they inquired if they could buil a kettle to make tea

window seen striding to the front for-all that might be taking place Democrat who had never troubled Mr Truman suddenly cancelled

J1 newsreel. 017 ม

This was the tip-off concerns to siap anyone's back and always his last pre-Christmas Press con-

ference. 10

aptang a young lad asked

incone lax, and all the millions went his own way. door, briefcase under arm. borrow a bicycle because, if he

The caption is: "This is no of humble people who will go into national fame when he took that something had gone cycled three miles to h: depot, milk he could get a bottle of

time to see important call trooping to the tax offices next on the job of prosecuting ex-wong Indeed. He

spring the same humble millions State Department big-shat Alger free 10 help with the tea.

win in what was regarded as was to be called up for nation-

It would be far better for who will go trooping to the Hiss fo: perjury-and achieved a

polling booths next autumn.

of courtroom service in a few months and

That it whole

has got Mr Truman masterpiece.. whether be

and Britain gave not a rap

Mr Truman, who had started all too obvious and his money or not.

Let employers, managements. Western World if Mr Tru- himself very worried has been strategy.

referring to the whole did not have to pay them

At his last Press conference out by to the anci Government devole them- man could sit down with Mr

matter of Communism in the xcept as a contributor

curing the

modern Churchill able to give his the familiar smile and jaunty air

AS A "red bm damage scheme. Nobody solves to

which

to the were quite lacking. Instead the State Department undivided attention

was now forced to take cold wind disease of frustration, It the

bickered herring, helbered

red-faced, indius-

weighty matters President.

TC

notice of his nonconformist, · blows through a bruken window arises because so many

with and snapped at the no skill many processes need why trial

Soon Murphy was appolated babe, new-boni

and so many dirty jobs are un-ranging from atomic energy porters.

Commissioner of Police in New to cold war strategy-which bulld rewarding.

York City.

The Police Depart the Prime Minister has in-

ment was then riddled with graft dicated he wishes to discuss. And over Christmas in Inde and corruption, Patiently, Murphy

where he cleared It all up. and But, barring miracles, it pendence, Missouri,

to relax and normally loves

Then

the big prize. 3. He refused because he could men licking into an urgent re- FEAR, hope t reward,

pride in the job are his seems as though the Presi indulge in the simple pleasures of Murphy was rewarded with a not get the right man to serve on job. singing

incentiverent must continue harassed home, he has complained bitterly judgeship. If Mr Truman could the bricks like ping torically the great

commission. ', And of these fear among us is and preoccupied by his nag- to old friends that he has been now get him to take on the job

It is almost certain that a dwindling force.

on the home "thoroughly let down."

mess,

he might still just be able he will not head the commission. Mr in ing disappointment

The steel and coal stoppage to repair the damage done to retrieve himself and his party. First and foremost of

Truman's big effort to

'threats Just add to the gloom But something went wrong, about. the President. Small these is the income tax the situation by appointing

Nobody quite knows wonder that his grin is a little scandal. With the Presi- tough presidential commission to What? dential election coming this investigate the whole tax scandal Clearly, the men on this com- He fears neither thrones nor year this has been seized on mission would have to be most

nor hell fire nor

They would principalities

of impeccable the sack. Great is his dignity. by the Republicans--the Op- carefully chosen. How splendid to stand on his position party--as a damag- have to be men

reputation and of resounding own feet with head upraised, ing campaign club.

prestige. They would, of course. fearing God but no man.

have to be free of any taint of "playing politics."

Britain, Great.

073 worry?

did That spirit

will not

not keep

her

At other times I have seer:

at their

pair lusks, tossing pong balls.

these The silly thing is that busy boys are infinitely happier th: the idlers.

HOW

This Stop

TOW comes it that (accord- ing to the Financial Times) the Germans In a year have built 75 houses per 10,000 of their population against 30 per

10,000 in Britain?

Must we be defeated in war (a condition unknown to us) before our imagination foresees a future of rust and corruption and verdigris-of everything we value in life going to ruin unless we stir our stumps?

A doctor tells me of a York- shire pit where the miner stops

This Danger

It is a wonderful history, the ging worries

British front. independence of the working man. Down the cen- has trembled before turies he

kings, nobles, squires, and capi- talist bosses. Now, in his mind, he has dismissed the lot.

Now he has nothing to fear, except himself.

in

A Congressional committee has been hearing evidence of graft lax collectors-who, Beware there, brethren. After by your many triumphs and over- America, get their jobs throws of tyranty you may political award.

There is consternation have raised up in yourselves the

Mr Truman's followers most dangerous foe of all.

WONDERFUL

1

Bold Throw

came

was

Now there has been the sicken- of really cleaning up the tax though Murphy still says

The President decided

on a

as a bold throw. As the man to head this commission he sought out a among big, sad-looking chap he has as they been described as resembling a

CHILDREN-AND THE

THINGS THEY CAN DO

Obviously it was necessary to set will-d-the-wispish now.

NORWAY WATCHES SOVIET RUSSIA

By Borge Mors

OSLO. town of Pelasmo. On the Norwegian ›USSIAN - NORWEGIAN thinly-populated Ru

side are two small towns, one note exchanges On an iron mining centre. Apart Spitzbergen and the Russian from these two towind only a soldiers graves in Norway (ers and apps are living along few farmers, fishermen, hun- have caused no panic in the frontier rivers of Pärvik,

Elve and Greviejakobe Elva, interest of £4,444 for 4,444 days Norway.

Most Norwegians keep cau- at 4 percent per annum.

However, as has happened

since BO often

the war, italy away from the frontier, at became founder Bidder

asking

Ashermen and hun. some ters have London's telegraphic system, the Norwegians

stepped Beroes into that Chopin constructor

Victoria again: why this Russian what used to be Finland They William Sidis could read and It

President of the "offensive?"

were seized by the Russians LL through the ages

on wept at the sound of music when Docks, and

and released only ater diplo- the child prodigy has write at two, and lectured

the fourth dimension to a gather- a baby. Handel was famous at Institution of Civil Engineers.

matic Intervention" by, the. Nor been a strange and per- ing of professors when he was five, Haydn was composing at

wegian embassy in Albacow. plexing human problem.

A

11.

by those

six.

is recorded

Landon Ronald

of

the

are

but

BORDER CONTROL

more

Russia charged that the graves were desecrated.

Norwegians do not expect an- other war. Nevertheless, they But at 25 he was a £5-3-week When he How do they come to be

was six, Mozart

Perhaps the most astounding agree with their government and died,

A series of such incidents re-s. barely played the violin, piano, and prodigies? What is the office clerk,

"and" prepared- zulfed in 1940 in a Busso-NOT-- he had organ on a European tour. He boy calculating genius of all that the situation requires the

wegian agreement for chance of your child being remembered

died at 35, leaving a treasury of was Truman Safford, who died utmost caurifon

50 years ago. At seven, he was ness. LTD.& prodigy? Is

a prodigy once astounded, at 48.

more than 600 works,

and Of algebra a student

Immediately after the war, rigorous border control. likely to retain exceptional

the The Russians prohibited' the Britain's famous John Stuart

of Norway was grateful, to MIEL, brilliance throughout life?

philosopher economisi, What about the musical pro- geometry, and soon after

digies of our own day? Yehudi higher mathematics and astro-Russians who helped to liberate taking of pictures of Russian the country. Norway was ready terrory and taking to Russian knew Greek at three, while

to acce

accept Rusala as an equal frontier guards.

The Many parents have asked Brooklyn boy named Arthur Menuhin was playing the violin nomy,

When Once when aged ten he was member of the community of Science Greenwood mastered the alpha- at three. Sir

Norway Joined these questions.

Part, It was stressed by answers that the strangest bet when a year old and became could play the piano before he asked to multiply in his head nations.

Six Richard Strauss 305,306,205,305,300,385 | | by 305,~|

Norway, the government that Norway years later wrote a polka at the age of six,

365,865,365,365,365,

together with Turkey, the only would put the weight of its other Atlantie Part country defence Every generation has produced

Fjord thì is recorded that he "Bew arithmetical genluscs, some of

ed his pantaloons over the top figuratively as far away and in Northern Norway write.

have been built, or énlázzed dri whom, never learned to read or round the room like a top pull bordering on the Soviet Union, Norway, around the Touthern of his boots, bit his hand, rolled Russia as any other At It I known that fortilleations

lantic power.

norther Norway, but

but: lo (whet One of the greatest mathe- his eyes in their sockets, some-

extent. In miktory secret knows maticians who ever lived, Carl times smiling and talking, and Gauss, was three years old when then seeming to be in an agony. he corrected a mistake in his until In not more than one "Mental Prodigies father's calculations of wages minute he replied

1y 183,481,350,208,508,025,010,- and due to workmen, .. (Hutchinson's

a Master of Physics at seven.

Another American, Kenneth Wolf, of Cleveland, Ohio, la re- ported to have talked perfectly at four months; red at oras, and

of all facts about prodigies is that they are mostly boyB. Out of every 1,000 child- ren born, 50 are bright, 20 are brilliant, but only one is matriculated at hine. a prodigy.

The rare all-round mental prodigles- million to one chance-mostly burn them-

selves out in a few years.

Christian Helanker, born st

Lubeck, Clermany, in 1771, was

Scientific

In

Technical Publications 129, (d.)

could talk,

Fred Berlow names Macaulay- George Bidder, 1603-1878, the of a Devonshire #lone- 照 the outstanding example of sơn all-round Brits genduw,

able to a after::

obra, men te file of the Mosulay compiled a univerant

050,290,941,588,225!

: MOST DESERTED

Relations with Sweden correctFinland see friendly and Dwight D.

But he lost his gift of calcula- misson, ' learned to count, with tion after six years, marbles.

Many of those boy arithmetical have revealed that wonders of two, hata knowledge of history at seven and a year At four he worked out the their answers came to them

batowy) later wrote, ca frentine on exact number of drops of amply in mental pictures, and geography we shows, and pre Christianity with the eng given als in a pipe of port, thy passat dieted his own dewib, whieti opervacting the nusival of Malawi In two minutes he solved, a

probisen" to::fint: the compound....

are different. The new postwar Bi: Patrick Brad, commander hi the NATO northern frontier between Norway and chief of t the Soviet Union is probably the defence region. All of them in most doserted in the world, specta 3 chis borthernmost outpost

Athough by far the mortart of the Amandla.

With the Soviet Union things. Marabat emat

of Norway's land frontier, is strandefente being only 110

te

an

Gerald Scheff

*Jt has The northernoon mee

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