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THE CHINA. MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1953.

AFTER THE 'HAREM" RAID

The Big Problem This is

Is Happiness

Phoenix, Arizona. dimpled

PLUMP and

Judge Lorna Lockwood studied the latest develop- monta in the strange story of the polygamous com munity rounded up at Short Creek, Arizona, and said: "This is bewildering situation."

u

Sho echoed the feelings of the American nation. For this is a problem which is arousing strong feelings and one which will not enai- ly be solved.

DONALD LUDLOW

goes off to Arizona to meet. the spinster judge, and the people in the strangest langle she

has ever faced.

Creek was a secret centro like one you might find in a Zanel Grey novel.

Says Mrs Barlow: "We've our school with four teachers, and chlidren go up 40 high

two registered

older school.

"We buve nurses, electric lights, and tele»| phones between our homes.

"Short Creek has been a town for 40 years. And in neighbour. Ing towns they

have always known about us."

No wonder Judge Lorna, the smiling, kindly spinster Not only because a crowd's who has the Job of sympathy is usually with

this the sorting

case out, COD. prisoner and against the police, fesses herself bewildered.

Sympathy

For

It goes deeper than that, for the she too has been impressed by It is several days now since awkward part of this case Is the gentle sincerity of - there] the police raided Short Creck that the sympathy seems to many strange' folk, and look off 33 men in one as though it might be deserved. direction, 80 women and 157 It would be easier if the children in another.

children were neglected or under- Now the mothers and chlidren nourished, or if the mothers

THE in Phoenix awaiting were unheildren

went on the air to try to are here

► soolbo But

mounting the next move. And the State of

ure brown,

public sympathy for the Tamilles--- Arizona is finding them an em- rosy-checked, sturdy, decently

sympathy not for their doter- barrassment.

elad, intelligent, and well L- nared. Doctors have reported nation to cling to polygamy,

but

as families uprooted from Their

homes. We must have more

Lime," pleaded Judge Loena, "We dare

Rot ka Burzy."

SUCCESS

young men who complain of defects

would send this messunge: Never believe that success cannot come your way be- cause of the manner of your education.

The nineteenth century made god of education. Its eminent men placed learning as the foremost influence in life.

I am bold enough to dissent,

if by education is meant д

course of study

imposed from with- out. Indeed, such

course may be.

a hindrance rather then a help. No young man on the verge of life ought

to be discouraged

Final extract from the famous

book of advice to ambitious youth,

written 32 years ago

LORD

THE

by the fact that he

is not stamped

with the hall-mark

of Oxford or Cambridge.

By BEAVERBROOK

man

Every young

has his rhance. But will he practise industry, economy, and modern- tion, avoid arrogance and panic, and know how to face depres sion with a stout heart? Even if he is a genius, will he know brow not to soar with duly restrained wings?

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is

Miey are as group of children,

healthy us аду

And their mothers

are what they cull down here in the Weet "plain good folks,"

hot

'Our faith'

LOLE

Jones.

in

It is probably inevitable that, many Americans are now seek- ing to escapo their bewilderment:

on Arizona's Gover- by turning I would be caster, o, Ľ

Howard

Pric and his these Short Creek mothers attorney-general, Ross F. repented their belled in poly- Governor Pyle is now zamy, Let Mrs Gwen Barlow, a Seattle attending a conference, girl in her early twenties, tell and is then going off on what how they feel about being is considered n "diplomatic" married to a man with several holiday. wivos

But Now York and Washing- "It is our faith, and we will tom

newspapers

attacking not abandon it," she says, "We him. And Phoenix's own fine the Arizona Re- put God's laws before those of newspaper, man. And if falih is worth any public, charges him bluntly with thing at all we must be prepared following a Hollywood script in to suffer for it.”

the Short Creek raid and turn- Then she smiled gently red the State police folo “Key- added:

stone Cops." We don't blame my of those, The "slate of insurrection"

pre

on

The secret of power

the who took part in the raid. They that was declared by Governar method by which he fire of are doing what they consider Pyle

the radio, in 1910 Over youth

the their duty and doing it as kind- emotional announcement of the translated into knowledge of experience. I have ly es they know how. But we rald, is now held by many suggested a short cut ta that stil hold to our beliefs and people to have been unconsti knowledge,

tutional. And the framing of charges against mothers

and husbands is also under fire:

SECRET OF POWER

nothing will change that.”

to the

I once had youth, These mothers are indignant and now I have at tho Impression that has experience, and I got abroad, largely due believe that youth furore of the raid, that Shen can do anything it He desire for suc- cess is sumelently

strong to curb ail other desires. I also balleve that a few

words of experience can teach youth how

Ho unnecessary equipment for a The messuge, therefore, is to avold the pittals of finance may have escaped a grave dan- business career.

rer; for if, in the impressionable

it may be another.

of

one of encouragement the which wall for the most audacious

to young men England who spirits, 1 write out of the con- period of youth. attention is Forcinost among these are are determined to succeed in given to one kind of knowledge, mathematics and foreign langu- the affairs of the world, and yet vieties of my own experience.

withdrawn from ages. Knowledge of the higher have not been through the

mathematics is not essential to a

and public school successful career; none the less, ill. The public schools

university turn The truth is that education is the type of mind which takes out a type the individual turns -the-fruit-of-temperament, -not-1eadily to mathematics is the out-himsell-

education, kind which

the

success the fruit of

succeeds in What a man drows into himself realm of industry and finance.

by his own natural volition is what counts, because it becomes

a living part of himself.

Rushing river

My own education was mast rudimentary. It will be difeult

D

the

Message of hope

-My-anal-message-is-one--of hope to youth. Dare all, yet In the bour of action it is keep

sense of proportion. do I regret that

business probably that the individual will Deny yourself all, and yel my career was shaped on

not boast of seif-restraint. Hope con defeat the type. Ilnent

all, without which speaks one single

arrogatice, and you; Style cannot be acquired ex- will achieve all without losing language for commercial pur- cept by reading for oneself. poses from the Arctic Circle to Nothing is of advantage in the Then the Temple of Success will capacity for moderation. the Gulf of Mexico. Foreign art of learning to know a good assuredly be open to you, and languages ore, therefore, a cup of wine but

the actual

www you will pass through to practice of drinking, Nothing

inner shrine `of happiness, can help in busines except going in young, liking the (World Copyright Reserved.London game, and buying one's

Express Service.) experience.

sealed book to me."

1 a man can property ap- for the modern English, mind praise the value of something to grasp the parish of New he does not posters, I would castle, New Brunswick, in the place a knowledge of languages eighties-sparse patches of cul- high in the list of acquirements tivation

surrounded by the making for success. virgin forest and broken by the

But when

In word, man is the creator, and not the sport, of his fate.

bringing and, what is

The

more,

the

He can triumph over hi up- A revised and up-to-date rush of an immense river, For

all is sald and over himself.

of version of Success, by Lord half the year the land is in the done, the rout education is the education in the formal sense is. Beaverbrook, is to be pub- iron grip of snow and frost, and market-place of

lished in book form shortly.

the street no bar to advancement.

the Miramich! is frozen right There the study of character down to Its estuary so that enables the boy of judgment 10 white develop an unholy proficiency In great estimating the value of the cur-

rency of the realm.

"the rain la turned to a dust, and the sea to

green stone."

In such conditions and in

those days,

continuity.

education Jacked

Which school?

no

Men and books have been my Experience teaches that real school. Reading in the man ought to be downcast in source of education and of style. setting out on the adventure of Read what you like, not what life by a lack of formal know- somebody else tells you that you ought to like. That reading

alone is valuable which becomes

and nature.

Little remains of what

outside,

Read anything and read everything-just as a man with

ledge.

The Arst

was unable to horror.

TOP

Jack

STRONGER

SEX

BY CHAPMAN PINCHER

OCTORS are making a

Достов

special study. of women to find out why so

many men Aro having

"heart"allacks”“

The Avirago woman's heart wears much better than a man's, Londan heart specialist Dr Evan Bedfordi told the British Medical Association in Cardiff,

So doctors belleve that

the female body may con- tain some special substance.

which protecte the heart

and ila arteries from the sirain of modern life.

The Art of these sub- stances to be tested is a stand extract called oestro-., gen. Dr Bedford said it is being thoroughly tried on men suffering from coronary thrombosis -

serious heart allment-at British hospitals.

BRASS STUDY ARMY

ROLE IN ATOM WARFARE

London.

By VAUGHAN JONES

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Immediate reaction to the rough" anyhow, obtaining their Lord Birkenhead OR three days the Com- conference is that training of foodstuffs, when possible, part of the reader's own mind many years ago asked me monwealth's top army, have to

the Commonwealth agaics will the countryside. Sleeping on where I was going to educate

be replanned. Troops the snowy ground with the sky one of my sons. When I repliedavy and air force brass will be taught to live a tougher as a roof is a matter of more attention to great consequence to them. is that I had not thought about the hats have been attending a life, pay forced on the student. from matter, and did not care, he very top secret conference. camo

camouflage and digging in. Dis- dipline will bo tightened to repress his About seventy in all, with a

control over

As for discipline, that of the ensure

the dis sprinkling of atom acient permed groups. At the same Red Army is already the most And yet the real reasons for 1sts, they have met in Cam-time there will be no great de ruthless in the world, a good such indifference are deep rooted barley to hear what atomic pots, no massive barracks which the last war, it was noted that

could be destroyed in one ex-

death by shooting was the to the

plosion.

penalty sometimes imposed for military offences which would have been met merely with a punishment in a Western army. be taken prisoner is co- ..siderext disgrace; the soldier should have fought to the death, says the Red Army,

to

distinguish

work and

During

a sound digestion-and appetite cats largely and in in my mind. A boy is master, weapons will mean differently of all that is set 'be and the only master, of his soldier. fore him.

fortune. If he wants to succeed

Now, how are the armies of in literature, or in any other The process of selection and

walk of life, be will read until main silent about the

The military chiefs must re- the Communist bloe reacting rejection-in other words, of he obtains by what he

con- to atomle developments? draws taste-will come naturally to into himself that kind of trained ference, but Field Marshal Sir any man who has the right kind perception which enables him John Harding, Chief of the Im of brains In his head. Some books he will

between good perial General Stall, has made throw AWAY: Wa

One thing is certain; the Red others he will read over again. port with bad just as the ex-one thing clear: The army, to

However, the Red Army me his eyes shut know a major extent,

Army, paradoxically, is already My education owes much to the difference between a good

will bo put one jump ahead of the West as, still have much to learn about Scott and Stevenson.

• end a

back on its feet; 1 bad gins of wine.

an memy of regards - the

alogging, diaperdal, Germans who fought foot-sloggers once agnin. Possessing fur fower vöðlɛles thera state that, again and As a liking for the right kind

troops, Neither may be able to give Soldiers at least in wartime that Western literature grows on a muni

Soviet again, they would employ the ore still ́trained" to "human wave" method of his any reason, for verdict-based must forget the days when soldiers

they could rely on vehicles to move on their own two feet in tack, involving the use of great masses of men in limited arts, Nor did Soviet commandoni For atomic warfare DOCRAS

seem to learn from these that be army must be stream. The are Ignorant of many of

icular mlatitkose, n' Even. in : lissed and dispersed, fri amalt: the cumbersome amenities con- recent limes in Kores, the

Punched in the same aros. groups so that an alkumle éxe, zidered vital why the West Chinese Roda, adopting. ', the

enqnot catch too many especially by American; troop aume

tactics

unnocemiarily And they are forced to "lve mcrificed their men.

of

he unconsciously forms mind and his tarte and bis on unconscious knowledge, but style, and by a natural Impulse. "Here, I have written, weil or each will be right when his says, without forced growth, the

whole world of letters is his.

"Here I have taken bad drink."

There are, of course,' ceriaiți specist branches of education the cpe of 14, or now taking mona Lezões, -kors Matvèroroon, (43 which many youths "consider in Fymcha

save their leges.

foot

a manner reminiscent of pre- * motorised cras.

Their lawyer, shrewd, fast- talking Aaron Kinney, a Baptist, and father of six children, who Last year secured the acquittal of a man accused of polygamy, Is confident he can win again.

The question

THE real problem in all this

THE

goes deeper deeper than most people will yet admit,

I saw it as these women and their children sang their own hamling song "Our Home in the Mountaina.”

They were an enormous damily and a happy one, And in them was the question no one dare ask-or answer: "Since polygamy is wrong, why are these people so happy?”

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