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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1953.

ON FROM EVEREST Now this is

Who will be the first man

..

to fly a rocket into space?

O

NE exciting achlove.

ment demanding per- haps, oven greater

endurance than displayed ther

by

by. CHAPMAN

world from which no rescue is 'possible if anything goes wrong.

If the observation window caves in, for instance, the ex- plorers know that they will not be drowned but shot dead. The first jets of water forced in by the tremendous pressureu

would outside

have the penetrating power of bullets.

But the challenge of depths men may attempt the only tent physically unprobed by human of earthly endurance to com, beings la certain to prove

the climbing of irresistible

Before this great adventure gets under way other daring

.

น adventurous

PINCHER strain às parachutes pare with the conquerors of suddenly open to check the Everest-the descent into the

minds. depths of the sen will Everest

of soon fall fall

his

Professor Auguste Plecard, the The deepest abyss of the scientist, is already planning to

09 year within the grasp of

old Brussels some cockpit, jettl- from soned explorer courageous the rocket.

occans-tho Philippine Trench

enough to attempt it.

-He-will-have--

enduro over-

It will be the flight of the to Arst mansied rocket the almost heat ploneering stage in the explora- tion

of space which may generated by ultimately end in landings on the compres

slun and fric-

the moon a

and planets.

needy proved tion Scientists have already

of the that monkeys can survive the alr

the hazards of rocket fights up to

rocket surface. height of nearly 40 miles Throughous and return to earth safely. the fight his So almost certainly within mind will bo the next five years someone for

hausted by the the adventure and whom

dangers advance of knowledge matter of a fuel-tank more than risk of death will explosion or a allow himself to be launched injunding

failure. a rocket machine.

*

The first flight is unlikely to to be higher than a few miles, but scientist than the man who makes it-be will on go alone will be subjected to for terrific strain.

he

in the Pacific would swamp go down nearly two miles in Everest with 0,000ft, of water now steel diving machine. The

selling

up of National Yot no man has to spare. penetrated further than the Institute for Oceanography by 4,500ft. achieved four years ago the Goverment increases the Hikelihood that British scientists by Dr Otis Barton."

‚will take part in such explora- tions,

After the heights and depths are conquered, what then?

Following the example of Dr William Beebe, his American colleague who went down half a mile, he descended in a small steel ball suspended by -a cable from a ship.

By that time atomic energy for space-ship' propulsion will Deeper descents will not tax have been perfected. Manned the physical endurance of the nights in.

will bo rockets like the under-sen expirrer

reasonably sale, 50 space thin-alred, icy summit of Mount Everest. But the mental strain journeys of many thousands of--

miles without risk of fugl will be infinitely. greater,

shortage will be possible. demanding courage of a dif- ferent kind.

Even heights

among the

of the

Many round-the-moon flights to survey the torrain will be clouded mode before any landing of a Himalayas manned space ship is attempted. climbers feel they have some But the most careful scientists. that such with the are now confident Deep-sea landings will be made before

in inky the end of this century.

This pioneer is more likely - be

airman,

Job

to

the

materini connection world below them.

of

explorers, suspended

silent water, are in a different world.

his will bo As the rocket gathers speed record

will have to withstand reactions "black-out" stresses far greater his body while than those experienced by jet the rocket pilots. On the way down he cours und will be subjected

4.

fur- descends automatically.

The

problems that

crop up

It may well be a Union Jack which is first thrust into the

It is a world in which there soft pumice of the moon's sur

no face. And it could happen. In have been no days and seasons

time began a the reign of Elizabeth II.

since

wherever there are

Lady Pakenham

herself the mother of eight children continues

talking-point series

her

Should mothers

offer bribes

to end quarrels?

SUPPOSE that to us 5. We

both feel guilty may

never learn to be good

REALLY

a racket

-and it's in refugees, says SYDNEY SMITH

who has just returned from Beirut

THE fat, suave, Jordan

T

Result? The United Nations agreed on ☐ 30,000,000 flour miller Jumbered have from his chromiumed dollar (£10,700,000) scheme to bulld 60 miles of new canals In Cadillac into the United Egypt, to siphon water

under Nations Organisation which the Suez Canal, and resettle cares for 874,000 Arab re- 75,000 Arab refugees in the

Slaai Peninsula. fugees from Palestine.

Fingering his bulging pocket book, he asked with bland sincerity: "Please, where is the baksheesh de- partment?".

someone

who

Profit to Naguib: Huge irriga- tion schemes on his side of the Nile and a buffer population at Arabs against possible Jewish invasion. We pay.

JORDON: Out of a popula- tion of 700,000, about 470,000 are Arab refugees. Jordan has made

them all citizens and does not want to let them go.

пре They

valuable strength against jealous heighbours in Syria, Iraq, and larael.

of course, Jordan cannot support

them.

But Britain's annual, interest-free loans

£1,200,000 this -year- Britain's subsidy to Jordan, about half its £14,000,000-a- Eastern year budget, make the Arab

He hoped to pay someone to ensure that cheaper and better Canadian flour was not used for the refugees. He had a nice part of a Jordan four contract ready to pay could arrange it.

He left furious insulted.

no baksteesh de There was portment No one to take his cul on the contract.

His departure was followed In the Arab Middle

Press by 4 spate of hatred refugees an cosy luxury. against the Wester exploiters

of

distress. Arab

That authentic story is the key to the sad, and dangerous, rocket for tale of the biggest which British taxpayers have

and American

ever fallen the support of almost 1,000,000

Arabs in refugee

Ave Arab Staton

Our share

children AFTER

So secret

and

CYRIA: 'Syrian strong man Adib Shishakly refuses to accept open ald because it will imply too much admission of the permanency of Israel.

Die Palestine wor more than three-quarters of emillion Arab ̧ refugees, home- less, frightened, and poverty stricken, were scattered among of Arab refugees. memories

the Arab

and haphazard

of

provided their youthful antagonism are not too vivid and numerous.

If, however, your children's quarrels are realty flare-ups of femper, happening between any of the children and not always the same pair, then my advies is: Don't WOTTY. This applies specially to the parents of our or more children. Quarrelling is the cecupational disease of large

families.

THEY REMEMBER

BUT what

About parents' quarrcis? I may seem to have made light of children's dog-fighis. Parents' open quar- relling, though, is the supreme offence against family life.

on

a disorganised. They lived on charity, which was even then worth millions of dollars.

-1

refugees

Three years ago the United Nations, voted a quarter of million dollars (about £89;285) for an organised plan to habilitate these Britain's voluntary contribution 13 per cont was between (£11,477)

and 20 per cont (£17,857).

On June 1 Britain will have cash £8,900,000 in two on a three-year pro- gramme. Right now, the British. taxpayer is to be faced with al supplementary bill of moro millions, for which the dividends will be more hatred and yet more demands and certainly no more thanks.

pasu

years

This is how it goes, In three years only 12,000 Arabs (about 2,369 familles) have been re- settled. The rest are still living in tents or temporary buildings! as before. But their population new-born refugees.

parents the least at- when our children fight. without it. tractive thing about After all, we have provided Same parents always give neither had the slightest recolhas risen every year by 25,000 children is their quar- them with the heredity and the rols: But we must try not environment for their quilt to let those whines and rels! moans (so much more ir-

roars) get too much on our

G. It is

No recognition

King Abdullah of Jordan was shot dead for little more than that. So, In striet secrecy. Shishakly has just accepted a 30,000,000-dollar contract. for an Irrigation scheme on the Euphrates River, which should rehabilitata. ions of thousanda

But not a word is to be sald openly. The Syrian Press has been banned from mentioning

This

blackmail ERMO for dollars, with miserable refugees as pawns, is delicately known the local United Nations authorities as

professional refugee me

So long as continues it will cost Britain millions wo by never hear - about; and which we shall never profit. (London Express Service).

it.

by

CHARLIE'S CHILLY CHARGE

By LES ARMOUR

78-year-old

A quarrel in front of the child ren makes an indelible and terrifying impression the child's mind. Years afterwards two of our children recalled an incident that to me and my bus- band was so superficial we children small rives"lection of it. But to the children for doing odd jobs about the it stood out as a moment of in- house or garden. I fell into this tense fear and misery. habit after the Scouts' "Bob-a- Apparently my husband and job" week in, our villago I had

zome argument our respon- praiseworthy affalt.

their bedtime which ended in refugees and their host Governments have resisted my saying: "If that's how you all aid which was called

this would be a story about over my two small sons thought feel you can put them to bed habilitation" or "reintegration." ghosts.

974 and I launched the Such ald presumes in their good Yourself," drop such a

Charlie is probably, the idea. So for a time it was pen- telephone directory at his head, minds a recognition of Israel,

Our two horrifled children

the loss of compensation and only man in the world,who everything: 6d. each

devotes all his time to look- · the ear, 2d. for rushed upstairs and hid in a

So they have preferred, and ing after a wraith the for polishing picking off 50 dandelion heads, corner of their bedroom. They all hope of a return home,

able tenis and squalid barracks,

ritating than downright sibility to find ways of stop-

ping it.

nerves.

Children take quarrelling ROUGH JUSTICE in their stride, especially It's all young children.

But when the "week"

it a pity to

'nles for

Was

about

Charlie

Denne had his way,

part of their day's PUNISHMENT is some- times necessary. My own It's a form of exciting ac- parents each had a simple 3d. for finding my lost secateurs. Wero convinced we were on the are still preferring, their miser- ghost of Archbishop „Į of

tivity for them.

amuses

but

when my felch

Finally I struck of

Ave-year-old offered to me the trowel from the toolshed, adding in all good faith: "How muck will that be, mummy? Seven-pence halfpenny?"

some

emet- kind of

But there are certain gencies when bribery seems the best solution.

point of divorcel

DEFENSIVE SHELL

tho

and their 11,000 tons of free Sudbury, beheaded in 1881 opposite method

food a month to a real re- by Kentish peasants.dt. It angers them,

punishing quarrelsome

settlement.

The Archbishop, once children. My father always

HE curious thing is that Result: They tear down any stout and screaming spectre them, stretches their

automatically punished the

parents who hardly ever solid living quarters they are mental — and physical! —

quartes seem to upset their given and demand tents. They who made horrible noises powers to the full. During child who was howling. My

children more on the rare occa- refuse to be rehoused.

They and dashed up and down slona when they do so that refuse rehabilitation.

stairs without his head, has a quarrel they feel intensely mother, on the other hand,

those who have continual rows. alive. Vanished is even the unhesitatingly punished the

At the same time they play apparently subsided into u One of my daughters com- was not! (She

Kamo of economics and And boredom-not quarrel. Assumed it had caused the It is a wet afternoon. You have mented the other day on a girl politics in the selfish, jealous mere ghost of his former faintest whiff of boredom. child who

visitors. The children must play friend's amazing attitude. "She and

·A· big tourist-at- on their own. And they must tells us stories every day about States which Barely tolerate traction, but no longer a not quarrel. The promise of her mother's - and father's them. We children recognised this

|frightener."⠀⠀⠀ No one has These miserable but expen-heard from him in fact, for as a kind of rough justice. It trcat "it you are good the whole quarrels, and how her granny

sive refugees pro wonderful SIX REASONS was all in the luck of the game afternoon" is a sure

pawns in a. destructive game decades. whether father or mother caught preventing quarrels.

LOGGERHEADS the you quarrelling. BUT NOW

Certainly such rough-and- parents' point of view. ready methods

CHILDREN'S quarrels can be

ling-is the real enemy of a happy childhood.

look at

trouble).

are far better

оп

way of

eggs her mother on. She doesn't seem to mind and laughs."

True, the child doesn't seem mind ... She is forced to make light of the altuation. I can think of at least six than the parents joining in the divided into two kinds: She grows a kind of defensive good reasons why I dislike argument, and making desperate

and all-pervasive. It may even quarrelling.

and angry efforts to get to the sudden Anro-ups and permanent shell. But the real hurt is deep boliam of it. This only adds mal-adjustments.

damage her sense of security so to the hubbubs,

If two of your children are badly that she, in turn, Ja

at loggerheads The quarrellers secretly enjoy always

this unable to make a happy mar- the heightened drama, Instead probably means they are tem- ringe. of-subsiding, the heat of battle peramentally incompatible. Tho intensifies.

only thing is to keep them as possible separate 03 Personally, I believe judicious separate tribery, to prevent quarreling, bodrooms, separate schoola

1. It represents the dif- ference between war and pesco-in the family.

2. It interrupts

my

work.

3. It is ugly to hear

and

800.

4. My husband, like all fathers, hates it.

has it uses.

It is often difficult to arrange, but it is well worth the incon

Bribery is, of course, à den- gerous weapon. Children who venience. For these children can become good friends in time,

are always bribed to "be good"

JOHNNY HAZARD

USING THE ROYAL, SCEPTER A9 A BALANCE STAFF, THE FIGURE NOTES DOWN THE CABLE.

MEANWHILE, IN JOHNNY'S ROOM........ HO-HUM...CAN'T SLEEP TONIGHT/ MAYBE A BIT OF FOGGY. LONDON FRESH

* AIR WOULD RELAX THE EYELIDS!

"

The moral is clear. Parents, if you must spar, let-it-NOT-be In front of the children.

Noxt Saturday: THE DAY DREAMER

By Frank Robbins

greedy way of the Arab ghost,

which the hopeful Western This, of course," makes

nations are always the losers Charlie's job tougher. and the payers.

The refugees demands fit in Everything depends now splendidly with the political on the atmosphere of the and claims of the four-room tower in Canter- amend Arab Governments. See how tbury's fourteenth-century city wall. For Charlie says he has very little time to go out; hasn't been out, in fact, since he moved in. 17..

works.

United

Naguib: 'Noʻ GYPT: A few weeks

Naguib Bald to a Nations

organiser:""""won't yeara-ago.-~- take a single Palegine Arab refugee this side of the Nile, there are too many Communists among the211,**

...this situation calls for a

San Miguel

Blood-curdling

Even the town barber rows up the river Stour to the tower's back door to give him a haircut

To-hundreds of tourists who como › every › year. Chaille tells blood-curdling tales about the old-times when the ghost was onstogo - hímweltjekke

In return he gets his tower (ometally elargined as a "count!! house) for ten shillings a week. Why should an archbishop. dead all these

screaming?

ese yea, frun around Some people think

he's just annoyed at having been beheadied. Others incline tho

more subileylew but the annoyanco stems from the fact that his head was hent Back to his native village while his body was burieding in Corilerbury

Cathedral,

And even an archbishop likes to have a hand neur

hum