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in step with General Eisenhower....

[I LIKE TAFT

I LIKE TAFE

I LIKE (AFT

LIKE IKFT

I LIKE IKET

I LIKE TIKE LIKE IKE

A senator from Ohlo adapts

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FRIEND! FOE!

Taftite from Wyoming tries

Squads of Taftites do enemy identification drill............

to smile by numbers....

DON IDDON'S DIARY

There's

NOWT WRONG

that

HARD WORK CAN'T CURE

mind having a crack at working In the Stales."

This relative was one of the few Lancashire people. I met who said he didn't agree that we would get back on top some- how, someday.

An aunt of mine, who is well over 70, was much more cheerful.

"England," she said, "is, a grand old country, love; there's none better, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I never wanted to live anywhere but Lancashire. We have some grand ren and there will be another Brand leader along to put us right, then everything will be champion-have another cup of tea, love."

on

this

I hope you don't mind ine Cherry Tree, Lancashire. might be the reason. The mlil-

and cold: "It's quoting at some length the com- DON'T know about owner snorted the rest of Britain, but not to do with it. It's the ments of my relatives and the

character, lad, that's lacking, people I have met Cherry Tree is un People just won't work hard English journey. It is the only daunted. Cherry Tree is a enough; they want summut for way to report my visit properly. village just outside Black- now."

My own reactions are mixed. burn, in Lancashire. It is n pleasant little place of solid houses, solid people, two or three cotton mills,

some

(kg

the finer United States the

said to me: passe. I see no way out at all. It is surrounded

by bright People must work harder: but green Belds, and nearby is they can't work harder unless 'Hoghton Tower. My parents live they get more meat. And It's Im- In Cherry Tree,

possible to get more meat; so you see things look hopeless.

"The food situation is worse except sheets of paper, in the than last year.”

wach-room-this on a crack train meeting a luxury ship loaded down with Americans.

... And finally the Republican Party elephant goes to clinic for a little check up.

London Express Service

No peace for R. M. MacCOLL

ALL THIS-

AND ALL OVER AGAIN...

O

Down In the bowels of the Hotel Gargantua is the Press H.Q. There a great mass of men and women mills around, 'now coagulating for a quick Prest conference with some notable,

I' heard similar views in It is a happy thing to come back

Chicago. .newspaper chaps are given the now charging off for a bout, with London, but there the attitude home. But I can't honestly say The ha see any great improve-

NLY onc thing dubious privilege of riding up a typewriter. had been more hopeless,

in the service ifts, along with director of onc of London's ment during the nine months I

marred my pleasure the dustbins,

The place is loaded and littered swagger hotels had sipped his have been away,

at having escaped

with TV sets. These come to drab shops, granite pubs, double gin appreciatively and

We have to take what is given resemble an and untidy garages.

from the rigours of life in

old friend who Missing extras "It's a complete im-

Chicago and got back to tion, and the Housing Committee

us as regards hotel accommoda- slightly overstays his welcome. the bon-train which met Washington.

of the Republican Convention Im- Four times out of ilve they can pishly enough assigned me to an be a great help giving you a attle things which bring It was that I must again re- hotel ten miles north of Chicago. Inst detail on some late-breaking

American dollars were turn to what has been all too

story. But they can also be a missing. No glasses of water aptly dubbed The Windy City This meant a taxi ride of much clamorous nerve-racking bore: on the tables, no towels, for round two of the impassioned scenic charm every morning (1

politicians — this time the had of course to imagine It all It is a sobering moment when Democrats.

at night going home) along the you walk along and sec; mirrored shore of Lake Michigan, but it on 15 different sels simultaneous- For, believe me, "covering" a resulted in considerable fiscal ly, the same Inanc blonde ex- convention bears no resemblance inroads. When I finally got back plaining how to prepare your to a rest cure.

to my little hideout after a late shortcake so that hubby won't The sheer noise of the thing session, I had then to face a grim throw it in your face.

struggle with my bed... In hard to take hour after hour. hall really do a job. And when ended, in a wall cupboard, and The amplifiers in the convention For the bed was lurking up- at last, slightly slap-happy, you before I could drive back to the huge hotel night, it was necessary to open retire for the where everything and everyone the cupboard, grope for a none- converges there is no let-up. too-co-operative Interior catch,

and wrestle the bed to earth.

The village has been hit by the depression in cotton. In Lanen- shire we don't use fancy words like "recossion" or "anticipated adjustment."

We say "depres- sion" right out.

I don't think the food allot ments have improved since I was here last September. I Cherry Tree has felt the de- have had some dreadful meals; I pression. It has been hurt. The have even felt sick after eating publican at a local hotel, who some of them. wouldn't want his name men-

tioned there will be no names

in

this Diary-sald to me: "Just

Not all-out.

a few months back the pound DUT ¡ is not the meat shortage notes were like flypaper up here, which depresses me so much and people were spending them, as this universal agreement that But not now. Money is scarce. the country is not really making "There's not much money now an all-out offort; that it is not for a gil or two. Some milis working anything like hard are on part-time, but I'm not enough. gloomy-like-we will get through somehow if people will get down

Hopes for future My father, hadi-met me at the

grim and grimy Blackburn station and he had told me much the same, except that he was more cheerful. My father is not a worrier except about the pros pects of the Lancashire county cricket team and Preston North End.

All his life he has been a great man for going to cinemas and theatres and boxing matches and playing bowls and taking things

casy.

He Fald: "We are doing all

I have heard a lot about emigration during these past few days in England. Half my cor- respondence from readers has been asking for advice about emigration.

A relative of mine who has donc well as 2 commercial traveller, insisted upon talking to me about emigration. We were in Preston.

He said: "I've earned plenty of

The conductor is an old friend of mine, He and his staff are wonderfully polite and efficient. He gave me an envelope addressed to the general manager of the Pullman Company and invited me to write my views in a letter.

My views are that the meal was courtesy exquisite, but please good, the service superb, the don't forget the little extras the American tourist wants.

On the train from Euston to Manchester once again there was towel in the waiter's hands for the same dirty dish-rag of wiping plates and also hands and forehead, which I had seen so often on my..trip around Britain. last year. Gre goodness, we could surely be cleaner.

We could be better groomed, better starched, better brushed and pollshed,

Perhaps I have been too harsh, muney, but what's the future, but I am writing from what my and what about my two chlidren? cars have heard and my eyes There are no

prospects here. have seen. We will never recover People won't work. They nave unless we face the simple truth been spoiled by Socialism; they about ourselves. ore lazy and they are slacking.

FOOTNOTE: Lancashire says "I'm 58, and perhaps that's too Britain needs. five years' hard great improvement in food-but old to emigrate but I wouldn't labour.

right, although there's. по

your mother's a good manager.

It depends mainly on the women how you cat. I'm not worried- England will be on top again." Many Lancashire folk have said

to me that England will be ou top again, but they have made

vital

reservation--if people will work harder.

conviction here that

up

ons

It is the

the

the British, including Lancas-

trians, are not working hard

THE

+

Your contemplative drink- and you have to have stamina to get anywhere near the bar is constantly, interrupted by the arrival of defant parties of men, women, young girls, and youths, device and roaring in unison for bearing banners with a strange the man of their choice.

--Dustbin rideTM

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Fly-blown

Up at seven

DUE to my great distance

from the hub of things I was. called every morning at seven. Then came the safarl in the taxi, with many a merry qulp from the driver, enthralled at having a British passenger, ("Say, I got aunt living in Aldgate, Wonder 11 ya ever met her by

an

HIS con/raption technically any chance? Her name is...."

known as a Murphy bed was very early silent Aim forces. I standby of the gag-men in the

Then the Hotel Gargantua--- with His 4,240 guests, its 4,000 little thought, all those years ago, fusion, its noise, ils man in a phone calls every hour, its con- that I would some day find my cowboy sult playing the electric

playing straight man to u

gultar on the stairs, its modern, Murphy bed. WHEN they finally move on,

face it, Chicago is sadly comfort for which one must fight the colony is tnites up

in many

so hard. things. out in the street by circulating you can get watery drinks and tha

restaurants are rare. Breakfast? A queue longer steam organs of the kind they gobbets of meat all over the musterity

any you ever BRW in have at English fairs (but those place, but

Britain, waiting a meal cooked and man trundling at least are stationary) or by a served according to French-or shoppe.

patiently outside ye coffee along on A even to British-standards is a blonde "hostesses" crooking a Enormously tall ash- whanging an enormous bell. motorised platform, cadiessly mirage.

And Chicago is a city of flies. "Singles only."

disdainful finger and saying: The Hotel Gargantua itself is Outside of the Middle East, I barely able to demands made on it,

cope with the cannot recall so many fly-blown

occosions caused by the stock It can take 25 minutes before yards, the odour of which hangs 11ft will accept you. We heavy over the convention hall.

n

FASCINATING NEW SCIENCE SPACE BY RADIO

IS EXPLORING SPACE

UR knowledge of the

enough. That they are too keen been built up over the cen-

By FRANK J. ACFIELD, F.R.A.S.

in diameter, covered with two Inch megh. It with several hundred tons.'

Ah, well, there are laughs to leaven matters....

I'll pack.

TN Chiengo's most

popular

striptease joint the queen of the strippers wound up her nightly act with campaign but- tons, bearing the names of the two outstanding candidates, strategically disposed side by Bide.

And we enjoyed the wisecrack weigh of an American colleague who, when a candidate who never had

on cups of tea, gills of beer, hours turies by astronomers who these questions we must re- it is reflected back up the tube it can be directed to any part conference,

To understand the answers to and the light which falls upon

off, days off, charabanc trips,

excursions, pleasure cinemas, and plain idling.

to and listened to 100 people since I got off the American

liner

- This will be mounted so that a chance called his fifth Presa

remarked: sport. have studied the heavens member that all matter is com-

"You to a small flat mirror which of the sky. The with and without optical posed of minute particles which reels it out of the side of the axis will be 170 feet above the gene to his head."

horizontal know, I think fallure must have I suppose I must have

have talked assistance.

are in a state of constant move- tube to an eye-piece. The ob- ground.

So it's back again for MacColl. and as a result of these server lookes into the eyepiece The message of starlight ment,

The drive for the clevation But this time I think. I'll pack movements they emit radiation at the side of the tube.

movement about this axis is to a pair of dark glasses, some car United States at Southampton, has been interpreted by in the form of electromagnetic

bo taken and all of them have said that analysing the light which waves.

A radio telescope

through 30-foot muffs, and a fly, swatter. collects diameter racks which have been overybody could work harder. falls on our eyes or photo-

radiations of radio wavelength obtained from think they mean everybody else,

by a parabolic radio reflector.

dismantled battleships, No one has said to me: myself

no? am

pulling my weight." Usually it seems to be the other fellow who is not doing enough work.

Very bitter

pre

very

graphic plates.

Until recently light was the only key to the mys teries of the universe, but as a result of the remark- able advances in

radio

When the radiation is of cer- tain very short wave lengths we receive it in the form of heat and light,

The signals are brought to a The whole will move around focus and amplifled by suitable on a 300-foot diamoter railway radio equipment.

track to give motion around constantly the theavens, The total weight pouring on to the earth from carried on the milway track There are shorter radiations the sun and from the depths of wil be about 1,300 tons; the

Arc

Radio wavC3 are

unmistakable.

technique, a new and ex- which are invisible and we space, and although these foundations will require some; citing contact with the won- speak of there as ultra-violet signals are relatively weak they 500 tons of steel and concrete. dera of the heavens has radiations, white, the extremely

short invisible been established.

radiations aro known as "X" raya.

But our eyes are sensitive to

*

The now radio delescopes con be tuned in to these "ereaks and greans" of the universe. The new Instrument will bo With the radio telescopes good to further our knowledge already in option it has been regarding the Aurora Borealis, possible to discover many re meteors and the mysterious Elons in the sky from .which radiatione from the Milky Way, this "cosmic noise" is coming. The study of radio stars will Scores of stur point sources be on the priority programme. of cormic noise have been dis-, Radio contact with the moon

THE older people, and particu- Larly those with a bit of brass, 1e, money, bitter about tho younger Generation,

Indeed a new branch of One mill-owner told me, in a selence has developed and it is half-hour speech. that included known as-Radio Astronomy. only a very narrow waveband, his life story: "They're bone Britain is in the forefront in and in addition to the waves idie, most of them. Won't work. this new discovery, and it has which are too short to be seco Think about nothing

but recently been announced that the there are waves which are, in

Selentifie pleasure. If you say a word to Department of

and visible because. they them they hand in their cards. Industrial Research and the long to affect our eyes. There's now! wrong with this Nuffield Foundation will jointly These longer radiallons are covered and these are known as has already been established. In country that hard work can't nanco the construction at longer than the Infra-red, or "radio stare," because in most that caso a message was flust curo.

Jodrell Bank, in Cheshire, of a heat radiations, and are what causes

their postione de not transmitiod

*moon "Why, when I was a a lad 1 was stoembles radio, telescopó 250 we call the short wireless coincide with those of

any and bounced back to the torth. up at five in the morning and on feet in diameter,

waves.

known heavenly body,

The giant radio: taloscopu the job."

What is meant by a radio Now an ordinary reflecting ›

Tho new radio telescope expected to coat about £330,000 telescopo? What signals dose it telescope has a large concave which is being built will exm- and to be completed in three or receive?

-mirrow" to gather the starlight, 'aint of a steak bowl; 250

frat four yeaTB+.

I suggested that perhaps the ineagre food, the lack of ment,

are

to

'But you must admit, comrade; this. · American enthusiasm i mo

infectious !"

London Bezrom anthesis