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BARBS BY HAL

By COCHRAN

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1953,

YOUNG married couples dodgers, saya a banker. Unless should start life in. a amell it's tax spenders. house, says

an architect. Nol much room for argument there!

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The boy who took his watch apart to see how It worked is now the man who takes his car apart to see why it doesn't work.

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Wind is produced by differ- ence In atmospheric pressure-- or by asking man about his Kolf game.

NOTHING is a greater menace to good government than lax

A British Crossword Puzzle

10

排

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17

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20

2)

22

25

26

27

29

ACROSS

3 Treucle (8).

7 Solitary (5).

B Lingering (8),

10 Mistakes (6).

13 Reparation (7).

15 Minute passage (4).

17

Made certain of (7).

10 Take

Take prisoner (7).

20 Spindle upon which

revolves (4).

Wearisome (7).

21

20 Teil

(6).

27 Bodlly exertion (8),

28 Impelling force (5)...

20 fangs (8).

28

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DOWN

1 Hesitate (6).

2 Plank (5).

3 Rhythm (5).

Land measure (4).

& Wover (6).

Drooped (0).

§ Aver (0),

11: Ense off (5).

wheel 12 Spent (5).

Insinuates contempt (8). 15 Scholar (5).

10 Refute (6).

18 Antics (B).

10 Placers (8).

22 Exploits (5).

28 Fertile spot (5).

24 Drain (6),

25 Continuous pain (4),

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD: Across:—1 Fracus, 5 Res, 8 Rider, 9 Rotten, 10 Solid, 11 Agrid, 12 Elts, 13 Decks, 18 Arcure, 18 Delete, 20 Spent, 22 Brew, 23 Depot, 25 Odour, 26 Master, 27 Regni, 28 Feted, 20 Needed. Down.- Ferments, 2 Altitude, 9 Area,, 4 Sincere, 5 Residue, 6 E rodes, 7 Trick, 14 Secreted 16 Skewered, 10 Altered, 17 Ottoman, 19 Endure, 12 Padre, 24 Tale.

If you meet à bear, advisca o Canadian wildlife expert, just walk away and the bear will do likewise. But which way?

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If you want a hole drilled in your patience, just stop and talk to a boru.

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A man was recently plnched for blowing his car horn for 20 minutes. on'a toot.

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A BOOK TO TALK ABOUT By MILTON SHULMAN

The Life And Bad Times

G

Of George Orwell

EORGE ORWELL fluenco my actions till far on imagination of

never forgave himself into adult life," for being born into the middle class. He spent much of his life trying live it down.

"If there is one man

to

I never pays to so whom I feel myself inferior, It is the coal minér,' he The only one who gets any-sald, indicating the class he thing for a song these days is a most admired.

| composer.

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The middle-of-the-road policy is okay in some cases, but not with speeding drivers,

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J

ABOUT the only thing thoroughly stingy person gives away is himselt.

Dies were used in the early and the world is

Roman cra, still shaking.

咖

In

"Gulliver's

had been earning less than £3 a

THE PASSING YEAR

HAS A NEW ERA OPENED?

By Weston Dark

1953! A theory Commissioner Bir

cra

to come

Bran

Using his conscience like a battering ram, he tried to broak through the ring of prejudice and hypocrisy that encrusted the thinking of his time.

In "England Your England" a (Seaker and Warburg, 12s. 6d.), collection ever another posthumous

of his essays, we can see again IS driving conscience next this cold. Impatient mind took him to the Spanish analysing such hellmarks of his Civil War, where he fought with class DS notionalism, anti- the Anarchists. Even this em Semitism, snobbisliness, and bittering experience could not prudery.

harden his gentle humanity.

Once, as a sniper, he saw one of the enemy icap up in full long. The man view and run along a parapet, was half-dressed and was holding up his trousers as he ran. Orwell did not shoot.

"I had come here to shoot at *" he explained, "but a Fascists,"

his man who is holding up

he is trousers isn't a 'Fascist,' visibly a fellow-creature, similar to yourself and you don't feel like shooting at him."

Eventually a bullet, passed right through his throat, missing his a fraction of an The wound ended his

Travels,"

In Germany High that When a farmyard of animals He returned to England not

Ivone Kirk- only convinced of his own revolts against the farmer, their worthlessness but with a guilt battle cry Is "All Animals Are

books of the patrick revealed an alleged neo-

Nazi plot: Not long after complex about the brutality of Equal"

the future will receive plenty of the police and the official ad-

this principle

And has attention. Has a new

then-on March revolution been qualified to "But Some to ministration in Burma.

room flat in the Kremlin. Almost as a form of expiation Animals Are More Equal Tian opened or has the chance for Joseph Stalin died in his four- he plunged into the lowest and Others."

peace and prosperity been dirtiest dorm of life he

of He followest this in 1940 with lost? At the height could

relentless and terrifying summer hopes ran high: a find. He did the meanest jobs his in French

restaurants, begged novel, "1984" This horrified

It took the world by surprise. on the streets, lived like a tramp losit at an authoritarian State of new Queen had been crown-

Russia for 28 He had ruled the future has the stifling quality ed, peace had

yeats, His death had untold in London.

Even

Korea, Russia appeared to possibilities. Within a few days extremity, of a nightmare. this

It wouldn't breeding told. When a bug fel

have been so have changed her tune, and Russia was changing ker tune: into the milk on which he had gloomy," he said, "If I hadn't a symbol of the time the arrested Russian

doctors lust centimes, he been so ill."

were exonerated, ning British -Mount Everest had at last civilians interned in North Korea spent hals

FAMOUS poured it sadly away.

been climbed.

and "Communist were released, GENTLENESS

FOR ten years Orwell

China climbed down on the Pow Came the autumn and issue in Korea and peace talks week from his writing "Animal the melancholy of that sen- were resumed. Farm," which Hold 750,000

which has son began to shroud the coples, and "1984,"

Diplomats overywhere in the sold over 350.000 copies, made achievements of the sum- West were dumbfounded; it was him rich and famous,

mer. The glory seemed so left to Sir Winston Churchill to He did not enjoy success very far away, and the future take action and call for in- with a request in his will that again grim. Churchill seem formal talks with Russia at the no blography should be writtened to be fighting a losing highest level

Meanwhile, in other Holds of him. It was a cry for peace battle for informal talks at least in the grave.

with Russia; a permanent events were moving to a climax too. Led by Colonel John settlement for Korea seemed

expedition was Hunt a British impossible. But whatever preparing to make yet another the future 1953 contained attempt on the highest mountain the world, Everest. Despite attacks the mountain remained unconquered: there seemed no special reason why the climbers/should succeed

An ostrich thinks he's out of sight when he puts his head into the sand-like some men when they put on a new hat.

Four Indiana teen-agers were caught plastering schoolroom walis with tomalccu. Now they're in a stew.

With both women and motor cars the paint conceals the years, but the lines give them

away.

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New shoes hurt when they're

EXHILARATING

Iomaulted as Colonel Blimps. INTELLECTUALS are as readily In fact, Orwell loved facing both directions because it gave him more to hit at.

It exhilarating experience watching his sparse, antiseptic dissolving pomposity, prose sham, and false logic. He docs not realise, however, that truth no longer solves problems, it is only another argument.

an

George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair, was born

too small, or when you have to in Bengal in 1003, and early in inchipe by

buy them for the whole family at one time.

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A New York man in the soup business lest $50,000 to relatives who now are in the gravý.

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cracked

his childhood discovered the fighting, and left his rather flat humillation of genteel poverty, voice with a curious

His father, a minor official in quality. the Indian Customs, had retired

HOME GUARD

time he

In on a small pension and could THE next

Was not pay the full fees necessary

uniform. It was for a more an English orthodox cause. He

went into WHEN the average youngster to keep his son at school. preparatory

the Home Guard and was inter- knows all the answers, no This meant that the leed viewed as a potential N.C.O. wonder he's called a problem cakes.other boys received on

Asked about his experience of child.

their birthdays were never given soldiering, he told the inter- to him.

viewing officer he had fought in the Spanish Civil War. What sido? The Republiens side.

The modern girl's motto is every man for herself

A scholarship enabled Orwell to go to Eton, where he claims to have learned little. Instead "I'm sorry," said the officer, According to statistics and of continuing his education at "we feel you'd be happier in the figures the average woman cals; Cambridge, ho went to Burma ranks." less than the average man. as a policeman. He was there

for five years,

Keeping a machine well oiled scuits in its making less noise. That's not true of most humans,

More

wearing inen Bre suspenders, according to a news item. Nice to hear of one thing that's holding up.

According to seme women, the only taste a man has is in his mouth.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"THIS ROAD DON'T.GO.

NOWHERE, SIS-IT

STAYS RIGHT”

HERE

"HEH!

HEH!*

WHEN SOMEONE ASKS A SERIOUS QUESTION AND EXPECTS A CIVIL ANSWER -- DRAG · QUT ALL THE

WORN-OUT JOKES.

"YOU'RE ALL WRONG I KNOW THE IN-

SIDE STORY ON'

THAT

As Orwell

He died early in 1950

DOCTORS COIN A WORD

Bý CHAPMAN PINCHER

more significant events than in previous

any year since the wur.

In

eight

ΠΟΥ,

outside

It began with disasters. The great North Sca Floods put In London passersby stopped 250,000 acres

in Britain under suddenly if the Mall water, caused 307 deaths and Marlborough House: a bulletin OCTORS have coined a new did £45,000,000 worth of damage informed them that Queen Mary husband, son and now grand- cause their In Holland the same gales and hus they sometimes

tides suffering patients unnecessary

there

death roll rose to

loy seriously ill. On through corelessness or callous-

2,000. Six months later Nature watched in silence a memorial March 25 she died and thousands

ness,

to cover the fact Kingdom had seen

more severe; ngand, on the throne of

were even

the

..

The word is latrogenie (pro- struck again this time in Greece nounced cyc-ntrojennick), and where sudden earthqusices des- procession from the stands being it means "caused by a doctor." troyed towns on the Ionian erected for her granddaughter's It comes

Greek islands and killed over 1,000 Coronation. from the "atres," a physician.

people. The medical profession is re-

of But cognising that

between these two many cases "high

blood

are trogodies lay the happiest six But Queen Mary would have pressure" latrogenic.

Symptoms resemb-months of the year. In January wanted nothing to mar the

politically the eager preparations was leaving, the ling those of genuine high blood and February

for that Towards the end officer asked: "By the way, what pressure develop after patients world seemed much the same. great day. school were you at?"

have been scared into believing Churchill had paid a prestige of May when a Big Three con- WEAK, UGLY

," said Orwell.

they have blood

Washington pressure visit

The ference had been called at Bor- KWELL. had

glowing

had dear chap, you're just trouble by misinterpreting what Kremlin

arrested nino muda to discuss among other memories of his youth.

Russian "I the type we need for N.C.O.."

doctors have told them.

now! attitude,... sed things Russia's Just as Burma had disillusioned had no money," he said. "I was

in the Now a medical report has ap- them of murdering Zdhandy. In when almost forgotten him about Imperialism, so did peared on I was un—

"Iatrogenle Heart France a prolonged

desolate Cabinet

Himalayas Colonel weak, I was ugly,

disillusion him about Disease"-pali, palpitation, and

crisis had popular, I had a chronic cough, Spain

Jeft M. Mayer Hunt's flimbers were FLOW I was cowardly, I smelled.... Communism. In 1944 he wrote other disturbing symptoms unsteadily in power. Another

that

atummit, The conviction

Everest

Coronation brilliant satire It is a not possible for me to be a

on enced by nervous patients in shipping Anglo-Iranian oil from visitors from the Commonwealth with the bite 'and I doctors' consulting rooms. success went deep enough to in- dictatorship,

Deadlock with Egypt and provinces had arrived in such force in London that trafila had been brought almost to a standstill.

Они

no

it

to

doctors and

accused

was his masterpiece, "Animal Farm." which arise from fright experi- tanker, the Miriello, had been using their anal

How To Charm People

"IT'S DIFFERENT-

THE OTHERS I SAW

HAD ONLY

TWO BUTTONS //*

Abadan.

BY HARRY WEINERT

'REAL SPLIT SHINGLES,

COPPER GUTTERS AND

*TELL THEM

ABOUT THE

BUILT-IN

DOG HOUSE.

TELL THEM ALL ABOUT THE RE-MUDDLED

HOUSE- HOW YOU BOSSED THE WORK AND TOLD THE MEN HOW TO DO THIS AND THAT-

''THEY'LL 'BE CHARMED.

the

assaults on

4

On Tuesday June 2 Elizabeth II was crowned and news from Nepal stated that New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tensing, a Sherpa porter, had climbed Everest. A week later agreement on PoW repatriation was signed at Panmunjom and a full armistice in Korea seemed.---. Imminent in a few days. On June 16, es

to confirm us though

The

happier relations between East and West, Russia sent a cruiser to the British Coronation Naval Review and her sallors were given a tumultuous wel- Com

But that was the zenith of those happier days this last summer. Admittedly there were achievements to follow: poace did come to Korea in spite of Syngman Rhee's attempts to sabotage it. Malenkov disposed of the sinister Beria, Persin

rid of Dr Mossadegh, the world air speed record was broken three times in as many weeks, and England regained the Ashes from the Australian cricketers for the first time since 1929. And Gordon Richards, who 'at Coronation time

became the first jockey to be knighted, had won the Derby at Insti

DEAL...

ALWAYS ADMIRE A FRIEND'S NEW DRESS-AND

DON'T FAIL TO 'IMPRESS

WHAT AN ORIGINAL MODEL

IT ONCE WAS:

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COP NES BY GINNKAL FEATURES

BARGE RIGHT IN ON EVERYBOY'S

CONVERSATION- SET THEM 'RIGHT' ON THE

SUBJECT AND THEN WALK OUT ON THEM. NUNE

~ MY SON

NEVER HAD A MARK BELOW NINETY-SIX

ETC.

OUR TV-

"WELL, THATS THE

GENERAL IDEA- TINKER AROUND AWHILE AND YOU'LL GET IT

"OUR CAR,

PRACTICALLY

WHOLE-

SALE

ETC.

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LET THEM KNOW EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IS BETTER THAN ANYTHING OF THEIRS

INCLUDING THEIR KIDS.

SHOW YOUR FRIENDS HOW TO REPAIR ANYTHING = UP TO A CERTAIN POINT:

YAK.

YAK-

YAK-ITT

YAK

CALLEM UP AND TALK ABOUT NOTHING-FOR HOURS

"AND AT

THE END

WHEN YOU SPOT SOMEONE READING YOU HAVE READ — BE SURE TO THEM WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

But the mood had changed. Churchill and Eden were both ill and, out of action, the pross pect of talks with Russia faded, Franco was hit by almost a General Strike, trouble

ous in British Culona Korea became ject

of

broke

́and

the sub- . debata.. Russian goodwill seemed to have evaporated; autumn came and Londoners took to little staze masks to ward off the effect of peasouper, togs."

year goes. out ex- Tha historians will have to decide what its really significant happenings were, but some memories will at least be ina welcome TOWNE

And 80 haustock.

The

villages all over the free world for the local hemes who returned from prison campa North Korea, the lost over in the final Text match at the Oval, the Queen of

of Tongs defying the rain on Coronation Day and in sisting on an open carriage, the Quisenberwolf mosling, nowży crowned, at the altar, of Works minster Abbey.

Now- faoon, have, sopoared on thek scene...leenhower) Malen kov, and for the British Cons

has ww men oin hope of a down