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REFRESHER COURSE

FOR WIVES Jand their husbands]

No. 1 of a new series by PHYLLIS' DIGBY MORTON

HIS is a man's world; it always has been. The reason

for this is that women inck the means or the inclination

to organise themselves nÀ W BOX.

Think of the colossal power

that would be theirs

if they only chose to combine in the sort of solidarity that links men! But they don't; and 0310 CGBSEQUENCE is that, even today. They stlli live marringe on 2013 outmoded plan luid down 500 years ago, when woman was her husband's chattel and lid his bitling.

Even when the wife takes her place in the home with man as co-wagu-earner marriage is still approuched by mas, men in

the 19th century spirit.

THE CHINA, MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1953.

Woman

who is not is of such

PHYLLIS DIGBY MORTON

Nevertheless, I have yet to meet a prepared to put up with this. To be married

partment in-

portance to

w. man that she

IN often pre-

jured to accepi second best. if

Necessity,

the way of a husba

in order to

First. ask yourself these 5 questions

secure the compensations f a home, material and moral security, and, above all, married status.

Most

du men

trus ab ae, and as a rule this party to the potentialities of the cur- marry, would it be equally true is the wife.

The

But that must men

to assert

the marrying kind"? No mis Is the marrying kind." thou a inost men can become so. Thick

Roiseless,

marriage fails. Exasperated

beyond

uite,

the

I

QUESTIONNAIRE' FOR DISSATISFIED HUSBANDS

by tradition 1 (1) am by endurare:

Have stronger versel. unattractive factor in

made enough allowance for more delicata Wife'n my physical

inses wife

Inst #

she tain's

compare

D marriage., many

passionate mea's has exclaimed with

1

wc.e

mind harmless small doses but

really want her so-called

SEE CLEARLY

wife

and nervou»

machinery?

(2)

How long since 1. (a) Pald her u compliment? Praised her cooking?

(b) (0)

Took her out en fete?

There are few indeed who of the alternatives to marriage or that do not want these things. for a man--the sheer creatu ber

a well-run Most girls. discussing the comfort of careers they wish to follow, club, is well-cooked meals, i's in int. y. "It

efficient service,.

of S frame will add, "And, of course, I order

10 enough Then orderly peace! want to be married." Not the dreariness of the average dangerous if persisted in. Dora

Ao che men ell-female establishment,

normal

woman would, of her "freedom"? own choosing, live in an vironment entirely separate from the other sex.

their

colleagues.

young

In Man and Superman Shaw wrote: "1 is a woman's bus- ness to get married as soon as possible, and n man's

to stay unmarried as long as he can."

en

Yet a man can live alone and simply love it. the proof being the number of men who do.

You know how it is after BAYORAL ANJEZA newly-weds first party

the sort of criticisms lable 16 materialle on the way home.

that was "Well,

certainly love match..." or alternatively, "I wouldn't give it more than a couple of years, would you?"

Coronation

Under

Year Ball

The distinguished His Excellency the Governor Sir Alexander

Patronage

of

T

OLD

LEGEND

1

A

BRIEF self-questionnaire might help, her to see more clearly. Any wife who has reached the dangerous stage of Ho longer caring whether her marriage sticks or comes apart should put herself a few straight questions, not shirking the answers.

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR DISCONTENTED WIVES Assuming that "freedom"

means divorce or separation and

not remarriage:

(4)

(3) Am I as generous as I used to be (subject to reasonable conditions)? Last birthday present? Christmas? Do I ever bring home chocolates or flowers? Are our

rows and upsets really more her fault, or is Ble carrying the bag for (a) ftus- my own professional trations? (b) my liver? (5) Would the upheaval of a

Tie separation

worth 147 All this has not taken inla

children, who double all penal- question- les, adding to both natres the vital question of what

Lodge

Jell

Korean ROUND DOUBLE-SIDED CONFERENCE TABLE SRHEE.DESIGNER

"OH WELL, I DONT SUPPOSE THERE WILL BE MUCH SITTING DOWN ANYWAY”

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Querdian,

The Men of 1940 Win Power Again in 1953

HITLER'S

GREY

GENERALS COME

USCHWITZ concentra.

tion camp was created

in 1940 at the request

of 1.G. Farben to provide

By Woodrow Wyatt, MP

SUIT BACK

Hitler's dream of world conquest-Hitler could have the victory parades, they would have the chemical

4

:.

labour for building and greatest turnover, are not more gently, it took a little planta.

At working their great new available.

one point longer.

But how agrecable, and synthetic rubber and petrol during the war Furben em- In 1948 the 24 brilliant sorry, the directors were in plants near by.

ployed more people than scientists and business the dock. Dupont, Standard Oil, and men, who constituted the

Professor Hoerlein was a ICI put together.

Farben cabinet were tried mild and scholarly Nobel Twenty-four

ran -for

war crimes by ATI

the

'Afterwards even S.S. were shocked into re- pcated protests at Farben's brutality towards the slaves from the camp.

War. than

men

they

of

Just before Hitler OC-

politicians and soldiers.

Farben Approved

+

Dr Ambos, whose energy

1. 1. Farben, owners of American military tribunal, prize winner. all the chemical works in It was the world's first nt- Germany, operators of a tempt to pin responsibility was behind Auschwitz, was But LG. Farben were

to so humone that as a witness system with deep for aggressive war on cartel more powerful than the

friendly to him reported, roots In

well as major industrialists as! every S.S. with the government-

"he Way very much were in part they

the country.

distressed that the little Without their. Co- government. The S.S. were

church in Monowitz had to could Hitler operation ordered to keep out of the

be levelled to make way for not have planned and made Farben plants.

But they were more THE jig-anw story of com- the concentration camp." However, the directors,

plex conspiracies and Ingeniously they shifted co-operative: with their strong sense ni

combines carefully as the blame from one com- urged him on because they sembled by Mr Dubois, the mittee and hygiene and

to tidiness, felt

person in the business were for those who were disturb-

American Chief Prosecutor, another. Yes, they ran I. G. ccount the possible existence ated by the shrieks of the conquest, too.

in 80 fascinating in its Farben all right, but, they slaves about to be shot be cause, broken and unable to cupied Austria, Farben "ad- horror that it even over smiled modestly, none of comes the plentiful injec- them had any real nuthority had vised" the main chemical tions of brash sentimentality to net by himself. ... work longer, they become economic liabilities, firms to sell out to Farben. from his journalistic Splendid new gas chambers The owners, some of them _were_erected. An excellent Jewish, refused. After the collaborator. For quantity Farben, ex- Anschluss. Farben went in of murder and unravelling gas, made by

troops and swal- of plot neither Macbeth nor I have, why can't I salvage · TN all but the most strious cases tinguished life in the bodies with the my marriage even now?)

children will tip the balance (3) Shall I mind being odd

industry in return for of carrying on-of in favour

rearmament contemplated war. But they out particularly if I'm at an age when I'm struggling to make the marriage

-unkept promise to protect planning for work. Yet no marriage should be

and military intelligence could not see how to convict the lives of Jewish directors not attractive to all mas allowed

Gas Chambers to deteriorate so for

from their agents abroad act of making war (for which, and employees, only

Existence

of (4) Can I take the loneliness? that Sure:

In the Sudetenland and in long before the war. (5) Would I be genuinely in- chidren holds it together. What TWO million people passed

From has be wrong with its carller different if my

through Auschwitz and Polant, the same pattern of husband (And if stages? Who is chiefly to blame?

100,000 went to the gas industrial conquest moving ben knew and approved the war, and needed it to realise were to remarry?

Too many girls get their mun answer to this one is

their the

"Generals in

Investments. chambers between 1941 and in concert with political and not quite han-

Grey Sutta," bu No, why am I thinking about by

fol- Josh E. Dabole, Jun. In collabora 1943. Exuct

Nevertheless, 13 werd convict- figures for military conquest was divorce?)

tion with Edward Johnson. The efl of inescapable complicity" in the lowed. In France, treated Bodley Head, 159. of the year 1944,

'slave labour and of stealing the property of foreign firms. Their sentences ranged from one to

a marriage break-up would mean (1) Can I face a competitive to the immature personalities of

world on my own steam? the very young.

AND you have heard the e' (2) Have I the sheer force of

legend that the critical time-

in marriage is round about th sevenli year. Any truth

character-needed-to-make-

1313

ir

this? Nonsense! Seven years..

months...seven weeks: seven

there's absolutely no telling: when a marriage may run into danger.

One thing is Grantham, G.C.M.G. and Lady | marriages Granthani,

at the

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on

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Sum

meet with stormy Some ride passages.

It ου recurely, others

(111 stuck. Why? A dozen differen

all with the reasons, underlying factor-that neither of the two partners is genuinely determined 10 make

. that marriage work.

life over again?

woman

caline age groups?

(And

THE HUSBAND

--A-CAREER-

the same

the

est means they sometimes cm- They ploy in getting a job. pretend to be more Interested in Thes the work offered than really are.

Because women are, as a rute, a similar questionnaire, much cleverer at duplicily the husband's life of free- men, and much better

нел.

actors, dom would seem to present few they will marry # 311 with

So long as even one of the

stability S partners cares for its there's hope for the marriage. no Inatter how black things lódk.

drawbacks. Socially, he would whom they pretend complete gain instead of losing what compatibility, concealing quite Indifference apathy' on botir

bostess does not leap at the deliberately opinions and even sides is the one really deadly

acquaintance of an unattached temperamental divergencies blight. True marriage is not a male under eighty? His comfort which do not fit into the rosy Kame to be played single would not suffer if he went

Immediately after the book your tables In handed with one partner carry live in a hotel or club, and since Plonna

honeymoon they stop protending alone. he would probably remarry if and far from doing a front of fift, Gloucester Arcade, Ing

triumphantly

make- Ideally,

wisted to do so, the bogy over job on their own elves-- should Hongkong | pull

equal of loneliness would have lost its begin to try to fit their partner Protection weight.

worst terror. Another type

to their own pattern. Like the conditions exist questionnaire might help only in Utopin. It does often open his eyes, not to the porri song in Guys und Dolis:

. marry the man today- OVHO KOSTA BRZ IHONROVIA NR Amrizerskis | fall to one partner to struggle bilities of a fresh marriage, but and change him after!"

of the In aid Society for the of Children.

THREE

thelr fair

But ideal

both partners

und

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WISE MOTHER

THE wise woman, awers

of

underlying differences, will keep up the pretence until it bc- comics reality. For to the wise woman marriage is just another She knows that the building of a sound, solid married life is:

job.

profne

as hard and as worthwhile a business as building a __v sional career, and that to make

a go of it calin for just as much

application and competence.

I once heard a wise mother

any to her daughter, after

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13 Convicted

HE÷tribunal-were--puzzled: They saw that, without the of I. G. not have

and methanol, made by lowed the Austrian chemical any modern detective novel enthusiastic support

can touch it. Farben supplied Farben, Hitler could

Farben, burned them.

In

the

Atart

individual industrialists for the

initially, a

government must Far- give the order) even though the Industrialists 'hat profited” from

HOLLYWOOD FEELS CHILL

Hwood

OF HARD

HARD TIMES

NEW YORK. TIMES in Holly-

TTARD

great names into TV quic- kens.

Even Joan Crawford, bo-

AMERICA COLUMN

from

NEWELL ROGERS

Fight

as

years' imprisonment. Ten were acquitted, but not without stains on their character permanent as any made by a Farben dye. One was not fit to

AN plead.

They're Waiting

In 1950 Allled High Com- mission Law No. 35 broke up the I. G. Farben combine to Already on the "ilt list," prevent it ever again becoming peace, So the Bay the guessers, are Secretary. menace to of State: John Foster Dulles disgrace and destruction of the and Rome Ambassador

G. Clare great

Farben, with Boothe Luce.

factories and power throughout John O'Donnelly, Washing the world, was completed. But 1on columnist of the New was it.. York Dolly News, adds lieved to be filmdom's must make it in 38, not the Winthrop Aldrich and C, Dou wealthiest active actress, is usual

65 days: in black and glas Dulon, Ambassadors: to

and Paris, to have her TV debut, on white, not colour: in flat Bim, London

not 3-D.

John B. Conant. High September 12.

He must hold non-payroll missioner in Germany, Joan Caulfield makes her costs to half a million dollars. would bow two days earlier, in a A few years

ogo I

6,000,000 comedy. Ray Milland starts have been o

dollars. a series the week following "Mr Chips"--the in a

AN EDITORIAL, "British lovable, absent-minded pro- Labour Thinks Twice." in New back and a bit more—1,000,000 fessor in a girls' school. York Herald-Tribune, says:' dollars in all, to be exact.

Meantime, anug at home "The mildness of the

tical

lordly

and LAW No. 35 divided Farben. into two large firms and threo Com-smaller ones. Professor Hoerlein

from the old Farben is super- visory board member of one of A POOR'young clerk got af the large successor companies. 400 dollar scholarship in 1881 Karl Wurster, also, from the old from Little Union College, at Farber board, is chairman of Schenectady, New York.

the Fifty years later he paid it

nearly. all the 24. convicted or not, arg back in the chemical poilcy Frank Balley, who has now industry or are officially advia-

think.

one of Now York

even Hollywood director: statement of the British T.U.C. died at 88, raid his whole sucing Dr Adenauer's government

testifies

cess as eloquently to the poll watch the hated rival on

on how to run the cheniical of significance

the City's most successful bankers industry. They are.

walling

for their own sets.

economic gains that have been was founded on what he learn the British and Americans Director Hugo Fregonese, of made in Britain under Sir ed in the college,

110. go for the moment to scene in which the daughter Stanley Kramer

Conserva- Productions, Winston Churchill's

Especially from his Greck bring all the Farben family had nagged her husband into a udmits he signed up actresses tive Government,

teacher. Not for tenching him of Charles Addams | terrific TOW

"30

careful;

Lullan Bond and kabel Jeweli "Its report. has the ring of Greek, but for teaching him to children in the Western making those

for scenes with Will is

after reasonableness, next pleture

'It could

under one roof again. Nor will implemented watching them on his own set. going to lose you your Job!"

It take them long to restore the How right-and how shrewd They lost Hollywood for TV in both serve a responsible Op-

CHAIRMAKER (for 95 plants In the Soviet zone to was! And how fortunato

1048..

position and advance, the pro- is for certain, self-pitying

cess of politicat - adjustment years) Pater Dorsey, of Day- their former control.

The West, in the face of the wives that, unlike other jobs,

Hollywood through which successive Bri- ton, Ohio, says women of to- this particular career cannot ba

fighis back at TV with an all tith Governments have main day are more "nobly propor-Russian danger, had to Help

their star' fim--it is to have Louis tained

democratic tioned" than terminated by the other' con-

grand-restore the economy of Western Wit movement."

Germany. Calher, Deborah Kerr,

But did we have to tracting party in a polite letter

Hen Pidgeon,

back he says, "can be allow Itum Holden, Walter

men from an containing a month's salary In

FAVOURITE Shalley Winters, June Allyson,

gamo leu of notiept

in reated in the same chairs that organisation which begarded the Paul Douglas, Fredric March, Washington nowadays is guess- were standard- when I started horrors of Auschwitz, an'an Barbara Stanwyck, and Nina Ing how many of Frealdent work. But in the last ten years Investment and which eagerly Foch.

Eisenhowerʻm 'top- aldes -- will: it has been necessary to make welcomed military conquest'as, Do not be deceived. Thrift (is hold on to their posts through a 20-inch, #1b7" chair for an opportunity for," industrial the director's fron· rule; He the winter,

meetings attended by women." robbery?.

(World Coptright 'Neserved) TOMORROW: What upsets a marriage.

DESPERATE

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