1953-09-10 — Page 42

· THE CHINA MAIL," THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

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★ DON IDDON'S DIARY ⭑

I'VE BEEN RINGING DOORBELLS AND ASKING QUESTIONS

On Tour In Connecticut

THE

TH

The people I have talked to roughed up and tossed out, bul

and Long Island. have been indurance, salesmen, fortunately the talk changed to

politicians have commercial travellers, manufac baseball.

lurers, car_hops, filling-station

+

The delicatessen man was one

been talking so much attendants, bartenders, clerks, a about carrying out couple of doctors, and, of course, of the few Liberals I've met on "the will of the American housewives, people" I decided to get out

this, trip. And it is not because

I have happened to encounter

of course, some were

This survey of publie opinion Right-Wing Republicans all the of New York and talk to has been haplyszard (nothing time. There have been Demo- some of the people and find ülke as selentine na Dr Kinsey's), crots and Independents, with out what their will was. tu journalists should now hardly a one against McCarthy. again ring doorbell and nak Also, it has been

Bendishly questions, otherwire. they got apprehensive about coming out hot in New York, around 93 cramped in their own profes- openly ngainst McCarthy and degrees day after day-enough sionál circle.~~ to addle anyone's brains.

I don't think the rest of the world realises what utter torture midsummer in Man hiation utid the Bronx Brooklyn can bc.

and

There has been a series shootings, mainly due to impossible temperature, in opinion, and the behaviour of *ome snea has been erratic- the result of a touch Di the

sun.

Jet-cooled

The hero of this season in the sun, according to my, poll. i Henry Cabar Lodge, the chief American delegate to the United Nations.

The first inom I talked to, an of advertising executive, sajtk the "At last we've got, a spokesman my who is thinking of America first. Thank goodness Dean Acheson has gone. We've won all along the line at The U.N. because we refused to be pushed around. I'm very

disappointed

took me for one of the Senator's snoopers (the Senator has quite a staff of "Investiga- torg").

Fair start

HAVE Bastened also, to a good deal of talk about President Eisenhower, and the opinion generally is that Mr Eisenhower has made a fair start, but done nothing spectacular.

An insurance salesman lold n: "Ike said he'd reduce taxes, with the British

und

the but he's done no such thing. Canadians for apposing . He said he'd reduce the cast of What's got into them? As for living; it gets higher all the india, why, it didn't even send time. I read in the paper that all-time peak. Boy Scout to Korea, Nehru's It's now at an too pally with the Commies, in Why? Because we keep shovel- ling the menty, millions of it, to Europe. Why can't you support yourselves over there?"

FEW women have been A

going around with dry ice cubes in their handbags, and girls and youths have been my book."

carrying squirt pistols charged with ice water, squirting a cold stream down their backs when- ever the heal became unbear- . able, which was most of the

time.

Lodge popular

said: "The British are." The insurance man said: "I admire Isn't a said that possibly we might the British, but this

British country. I'm half Italian need India in the future, and half German myself: there

victories bren't

Americans many more such American

of at the U.N. might boomerang.

British stock, despite what you inan The advertising That's malarkey. Lodge did British have too much

hear. I for one think the highways are jammed with cars the right thing-everyone say about how we run things, and

Rejecting these remedies,

Jeft Several million people seemed

town to beat the heat.

to have the same idea.

The

60."

and station-wagons and the Long Island and Connecticut beaches are packed tight.

I have been avoiding the ex- penalve hotels and have stayed. overnight at motels or taken, a coltage for a couple of days..

Printing

of

Distinction

for

People of

Distinction

By South

I said: "Walter

said

to

Bay

io kidding. Also there's domn Lippmann Ittle gratitude that

can see for (didn't say so." The advertising what we've done for Europe, man said: "Lippmann's tou stuck and that includes the British on Asia and Europe; he forgets too." America."

A dozen other "people have told me the same thing about Lodge. Comparatively unknown as a national figure when he was a Senator, he now is the all-American champion, and his appearance on the newsreels in the country cinemas I visited set off loud applause.

Booming

YOUR WAS..

WHITE

THIS YOU

·SAW OUT!

WHITE

LOAF

ON

SALE TODAY

High Class Baker

“I make it five per cent prefer the new white, five pèr cent prefer the old grey, and 90 per cent don't give a hoot what colour it is.”

EXTRAVAGANCE -THE FEMININE

W

HETHER or not husband's property, anyway, its place in marringe-ls ilable the register was to engender today, when, be- money is the root the moment

signed.

cause many wives go back to of all evil, it is

their jobs after the honeymoon, certainly at the Extravagance was thus the husband is no longer; sole

provider. bottom of a lot of serious the feminine sin most likely trouble in marriage. It to cause contention, and, though always has been, and with tainly, a bad enough crime to

be: drive occasional husbands further und, preferred listen-out doubt always will ing to a paint inanufacturer who but it has never been more suicide, there's nothing about it had a fascinating style in con-acute a problem than now, to wound masculine pride.

when the whole economic

DIDN'T pursue

versation.

the subject

excessive extravagance Is

cer- If it could somehow be

the

arranged that the wife's salary to was always just so much

would smaller of the two. It

greater probably be for the happiness of both. But value" It is even subtly flattering to in the modern age are notori-

He seems to be successfully The paint manufacturer sald: structure of society is some husbands to feel they ously topsy-turvy. In the world

of the "You want to know if I think there'll be a depression? There

Cout,"the will

a won't be one. This boom is here to stay for years and years,

There has, inevitably been lot of conversation about Sena- tor McCarthy during this tour, see?

and, I have found no evidence "The Government will go on

whatever that McCarthy is a

Is

ping. In fact I believe he gaining in strength and in- fluence.

Soveral people told me: "I had my doubts about McCarthy. but no longer, mot since the Jenner report,"

Jenner report

THE Jenner report is a Senate THE

Sub Committee document released by eight: Senators, four Democrats and four Republicans, charging that Soviot spy-rings have, penetrated the US. China ernment in high places.

Gov-

and

Senator William Jenner Morning Post his colleagues were unenlmois in reporting that Communist

carrying

Limited

Telephone 20002 and ask for

Mr. Labrum

| spy-rings

| criminal

Washington.

activities

are

"..

in oficial

Since the document's release McCarthy's stock. has soared,

One night when a group of us were gathered in a bar and grill in Riverhead there

was

almost a Aght when the owner of a delicatessen said McCarthy was n menace, a smearer of in- nocent people. ------

I

Jowner

thought the delicatessen,

going to

was:

By Appointment Wine Merchants

to "The Late

Light Dry Sherry

King George "VI

Dry Amontillado Sherry

SANDEMAN

Sole Agents:-DODWELL & CO., LTD.

changing.

are regarded 119 sources of income.

inexhaustible of entertainment in particular Rows and the rewards can be out of all No engaged couple with scenes may be distressing at the proportion to the work involved

time, but they leave behind no or the training necessitated. an ounce of realism between bitterness. them can afford to sheer away from the unromantic but vital question of just Topsy-turvy, world himself in how much they are going to have to live on.

THE

because it has to, you "Sure, prices are high, but so ere profits and wages. See, you understand, yoù gel the picture?"

THE wife sheds tears and I said I saw, understood, and

promises to be more thrify. got the picture.

But though the money-factor The husband (casting about him Altogether I suppose-I have in marriage is as old as time, it for means to pay the debts) is talked and listened to about 50 crops up in the days in a more left poorer in bank balance, but people during this tour. Fifty complicated form. In times compensated by the feeling that is a very small number in a past there was no question of he is the moral superior. enuntry with a population of the wife's contributing to the

her 160,000,000 people but I belleve family exchequer · through

All this might sccm plain the views I heard are shared by

with compared own earning powers. A dowry calling great numbers of Americans.

was different, and became the sort of trouble money and

PARIS. NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE

NOW MRS

IS

MRS SIMPSON MENDING THE NETS

A steady, hardworking hus- band may thus suddenly find the position of contributing leas to the upkeep of his home thaw his wife.

SIN

By PHYLLIS DIGBY MORTON

London Express Service

REFRESHER

COURSE

FOR WIVES.

(and husbands)

and

never

In

never in debt, hurmony,

On the other hand, George and Mary share the philosophy that if you're going to pool your lives, you should pool your incorne. This would doubt- work out fine given: a streak of caution or reasonable thrift In both temperamenta,

of

Unfortunately, Mary's Idea sensible spending is to, romp through the entiro' communal bank account at George's ex- pense, with the result that he can't even keep himself 41 cigarettes. They have endless rows and are always in debt.

William and Edna have П prudent and carefully worked that out budget arrangement allows Edna a monthly sum of money which should be sum- clent for all household contin On the face of it, he ought

gencies and at the same time William sufficient in re- to be very pleased he has for is not going to take kindly to leave tultously married a goose that making do with the parsi- serve to meet the infinite vista lays a golden egg. But is he? monious dole that is still many of domestic commitments that Apparently not. This, of course, a husband's idea-of-a-generous every householder faces may well be due to his wife's personal allowance

while in lack of tact and disregard of many cases she will be expect- the fact that good

salvage from the house- his pocket- can book. She may even be guilty keeping.

the remark; " paid for

It should work out well sinco

her

the man's pride is in of a ed to make do with what she Edna is a clover housekeeper

of the crime of crt"

More dangerous

the inequality between the two

Any husband who thinks his wife is unduly voracious about pocket money should ask him- self how he would like to have. to skimp, scheme or go on his knees for the wherewitha] buy a pair of shoes!

A man who values

to

over

and not extravagant clothes and so it would, wera it not for the children,

The lure of toys

DNA simply cannot reslet

the lure of more and more his unnecessary and highly expen-

gives

her

Too often a situation arisos where, after a period of innor brooding, the husband decides marriage will be fair as well as sive toys-things that she would that the whole set-up is a slur practical in his money dealings have liked (or thi as she would on his own carning powers, and with his wife. He should be have liked) in her own child- by deduction, his mental cape as liberal as he can afford hood, and was denied.

Whatever ally. He may turn so sulky, for herself should money he

be as As a result of the dow of sarcastic and biller in face of for

generous G.S he can

make it scooters, model trains, doll's (without embarrassment

to houses

and mochanised dolls incomes that at last, in sheer their savings or the rest of into the nursery, William's two-year-old When the period of disenchant- despair, the wife may offer to YHEN beautiful model ing out tough

their ends enchantment will throw up her job (which he should never demand to know on and his wardrobe remalās

commitments) breed some of ment

and he

reserve is constantly, encroached Spain's finest fighting bulls, come again, and this time it will usually not hear of), 62-year-old ex-Mayor of

how she spends it. It is hers, chronically shabby. For physical dangers this is a will be for good." New York, ex-U.S. Ambas sport comparable to skiing and

it she has carned the right to dangerous, nd more of Worse, Mrs Simpson is a woman

When he points out to Edna Hador to Mexico William. Mrs Simpson was lucky to havo wit. Samples:

he may allow a genuine feeling Just as surely as he earns his

that he, log the breadwinner. should be the shop-window of a few bruises. than

candidato Mr Stevenson: "Why, own career.

the family (and no employer Of her friend Gandarias she he is just a right-wing. Com-

In a seedy There

has confidence No wonder that, to my certain is no romance munist." between -us although I couldn't. On American Liberals: " knowledge, many career-wives

looking man), and is in

more need of a new, winter everEDE* to nicer guy

have there is anything more boring earning good salaries tend to

than their son'ls of a tricycle, than an American Liberal it is soft-pedal their jobs when their

ET us examine one or two she exclaims that he has for husbands are present, striving different types of marriago gotten what it is to be a "You can take this as straight: an Irish American Liberal."

the impression that economies that are likely to child...... to create

are doing is of lead to trouble. what they secondary importance to really worthwhile work of their husbands.

This seems to

O'Dwyer it was more than come through with nothing On the defeated presidential of inferiority to handicap fils dary.

the wedding of the year; it more was declared to be "the

sold: biggest boost ever to the morale of men over 60,"

#

Now three years later 37- year-old Mrs Simpson, as

she to call herself, is in prefers

devastating Paris preparing blow

that only to

recently boosted morale. She is about to leave for Mexico to plead ba fore the Roman Catholic Church authoritica for the annulment of |her marriage,

dresser.

No new romance

think of my name linked to.

I

didn't do any dating when I was living with Bill and haven't done any since.

I

· Moroccan mix-up

for

flashing

tho

the

me. neither

She always lies

Their bickerings are everon Bli a typical husband of the increase. and are the the old school. Ho regards his children any happier? wife as part of his property to

reat

"There is an old Chinese pro- verb about a time and a time for mending nots. I How many wives has am mending nets now.

deposed ex-Sultan of Moro sensible nor honest, and I think be maintained in the same way co, Sidi Mohamed Ben Youssef? that husbands are to blame thashe maintains his car, and the

of his belongings. Foreign The French

Once this respect for an outworn spands just enough money on and the Protectorates Office of and unworthy form of jealousy her to keep her in good condi- Murrocco have been having which ought not to crop up in on: no more, no less, sharp disagreement on the sub-a partnership between equals. "Bill and L separated for com- Joct. The Protectorates Office

Enchantment again

pletely private reasons which on the day the Sultan WEB

are nobody else's business. We deposed depleted him as a con-

.up

....

Ис

One vital rule

F

is only too true that most of

in,

Mrs Simpson is a spectacular personification of American womanhood; self-reliant, carcer-

us have. Je money than minded, with a brash but effec

Ho gives her an allowance the things wo would like to tive wit, and devastatingly

which he considers generous buy, so-though we may hafa frank.. Through it all she looks

A woman's right and she thinks totally in the family Income has got 19 though she spends eight couldn't get along as man and servative type with only one

adequate. She never has a half-to be sensibly planned it rown hours a day with her hair- wife, and that is all there is to legitimate wife.

penny to враге for the frivolities and recriminatione are to be it.

The Foreign Office made Sta ANOTHER form of trouble so dear to the heart of a woman, avoided. "As to why' married

Wo

in own researches, and came A with money at its root is and when the the first place I guess it was a with an extra wife. The diis- mixture of love and hero wor- pute raged for 24 hours and that of the capable and talented say, a new hat, she invariably The most vital rule about the Protectorates Omice woman who has given up a good tells alle about the price (be money in marriage la to make

Job to Mary.

cause no matter how little he joint decisions. Never discum Irish charm is something

that . She has just come from'a should "not be let loose on there were in fact Tw": "tarting lona `she 'will, probably suffer

always grumbles that it is too financial matters late at night", Apart from financial considera- much), "..

when you are tired and easily long stay in Spain where the simple girl like mo. Meanwhile Next day came

depressed. On the other hard. has been brushing upon her Bill gives me money to live on report from Corsica. The Sul-anyway from the enforced, dis- Yet he appears to dmný hlin- don't leave them unsettled in bullfighting fore acquired when. on the Conument and. I guess tan had arrived there with us of her talents; but the mud- self very little at her expense, the hope that they will sort she was "Mes Ambassador" by when the marriage is annulled, three wives. There was confu- den curtallment of an indepen- belongs to the local golf club, Ulemselves Out,

sion in She there will be a settlement.” actually learning to fight.

in the Foreign Office but dont Income is likely to chate throws away his ties long bor They won't. They never has been

AS her plaris: "I am going finally A spokesman COILO

1110|| over, make.

Spanish

friend

ada Pedro

Gan- programmes on TV. In the "Women don't count In Moslem Even with a strong sense of darias, and there every day with meantime, I am just trying to society anyhow, and you know humour to help her, a woman the red flag, called the maleta, forgat, and fighting bulls is the nobody is allowed to investigate who has earned her own living In her hand she had been taste bert way, I know of forgetting the private life of a Sultan.] with "a"fair measure of success klan, som frequently, They are: Digb

ship on, my; part; . That man's hated and agreed as;

that

breeding rain on the bull

of her millionaire, back to the States to do some through with an explanation:

i

Van 'and' would not dream of culling 17

fore they show any sign of wear."

down on his drink bills and a stated

She thinks him mean and talla «- nother