1954-03-18 — Page 4

* DON

IDDON'S DIARY

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 18,

1954.

PUERTO RICO COMES

A

TO PARK AVENUE

New York, Tuesday.

T night now the police patrol New York's Puerto Rican section in pairs. Squad never very far from dense slums, which

опе

Moura os Park Avenue, and are now

Lympany, down Central Park Britain's finest plandats, dined "preading

with me the Wast.

other night and told me she planned to return to England In the summer for several months for recordings and possibly concerts. No one could be more welcome.

It is only a question of time before they will move farther cars are down town, and landlords and the tenants of impressive and even has luxurious apartment houses tell you: "The Puerto Ricans Aro

been combed all week. In one day 90 people were ar- rested in widespread raids.

There Aro about Puerto Ricans

400,000

in New York,

only two bus stops away now."

'Botter at home'

The film "The Queen's Royal

Tour" la drawing crowds, but hasn't aroused anything ap- proaching the enthusiasm which "A Queen is Crowned" received.

Recognition

A talents are being recognized

and, unlike the Negro, who is NOT many of the Puerto Ricons I talked to seem to want canned to Harlem, the Puerto

The Park Lo stay here. There said: "It's Rican is spreading.

about belter at home"-home being T lust Jack Hawidins's fine Avenue you don't know

their own tropical island, begins at 6th Street and points

New York's winter ethmate here, and all Hollywood Is after north to Harlem and the Bronx.

One minute you are walking is too cold for them, and they him

are being

Some gouged

of the cloak-and- post

apartment feel they expensive

coloured

rents (they dogger columnists with their

through outrageous.

tro busily houses,

door- are) and uro being discriminated sticking

stilettos into Qonu awnings and uniformed

O'Neill Choplin because she men taking poodles for a stroll, against racially (they are).

became a British subject. Some and the next you are

eid

gentlemen of the Fress Into tenements, clékety, water ants, shacks, crumbling shops, malodorous markets, and

dirt.

plunged Tens of thousands, dis-

The 'dandies'

the

HAVE been touring the Purito

during Rieun section past few days, since the mass shooting in Congress Puerto Ricans in the

that the was here

tusened and bitter, do return to Puerto Rico, but there are

My thanks to John Davia, director of the Arthur Organisation,

his Гог

always thousands more ready managing

Lo

pour in,

โย hoping

Shangri-La in the slums of letter Davis deserves to win This attle to put over British few lins here.

Manhattan.

ars

Although there well-to-do Puerto Ricans-the

settlers--und carlier

no

nae

Mary Martin 16 determined froup to de Barrie's "Peter Pon" in with moderate incomes, most of San Francisco and Los Angeles, New York's Puerto Ricans live but not New York or London.

About Hollywood дуб put the in squalor and poverty,

It

percent are on relief and cbjects to President Elsenhower news. plot was costing

golf, unless he the

taxpayer $13,000,000 playing a little hatched. It is here that much ʊ year.

leaves someone else holding the of New York's crime flourishes.

It looks as if the Puerto bag.

I am not libelling the Puerto Rican problem will be with New can community. one fanatic or extreme

[1

School problem

MAYOR ROBERT

WAGNER

M has had it dung in his lap Just when he is overwhelmed with trouble

some time there has been disquiet over the

York's situation in New

For

when re-

There isn't York for a long time.

station- alist in 10,000, but Being com- so appalling for ditions are many that crime comes easy.

I made my lette of the poor man's Park Avenue with a de- tective. He pointed to the sign- the "Don't Put Refuse In

"Have you Streets," and said: ever seen such a dump2"

D. skinned Wonten at

schools Public here Bldren.

Jess public anok ng Jy, and

dudging the means public, and not what it

means in England cars, playing in the streets

to schools. The men.

short. Terring mostly

There have been many cases moustached,

exotically and dressel la long white jackets, of violence and crime and tm- but hardly bell-bottom trousers, and fancy murality reported,

the iles, hung in groups at corners anyone was prepared for

These were

revelations of the past week. and eyed us.

According dandies, the spurts,

Investigations the sharp

New York carried out by the dressers.

New York Daily News and other publica- "Park

Avenue,

New York tons there is literally "teenage City, Fifth Avenue,

with teachers being City-some Easter parade," Leid feriarisin,"

and knifed but bludgeotird my detective,

alraid to report to the authori- and wholesale ganster.sm,

immorality in

I'

Not enough

The

13 obvious that semetieng more will have to be done to help the Puerto Ricans, clly has tried,

enough.

but

vandalism, and

nure 14 of schools. The Mayor has formed a com- milice

The mordy,

hard

There are today more Puerto Ricans in New York than in Son Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico.

The United Stutes rensis classes them as white, although at least 60,000 of the Puerto Ricons are voloured and

eity's

another 150,000 have SORM coloured blood.

to curb "Juvenile

Is umier

For

SEIZED: MAKER

OF DREAMS

By Donald Ludlow

New York. NAUL GELB, boss of 80- called Dreams Incor- woman rated, and hig

Joan Kauf- friend, Mrs mann, are in the hands of the police after the biggest haul in (licht drugs for 35 yours,

and

"We ne and sys

This mon Gelb, suave Parents hope 147. Dasures.

Thoudway

Js America's the dapper and 37, n.icroscope.

The chief enemy in the attempt to years honky-tonk, the flea etreus, the mash the drug traffic that cor- the rodes to much of the nation's

young ife.

pineapple stand,

llery

and have

bera

moving in, tuning

the Great

He looks like a distinguished

White Way to a sheddy grey, banker and he kept a lavishly-

boxes,

RESPONSIBILITY

ET NAM

WANTED – A STOUT CHEST

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

Mr PRESIDENT,

YOU DISAPPOINT ME by Professor Denis Brogan

T

people are discussing and member of debating McCarthy.

Of course, if the other mem-

hear- bers turned up at all

1

to think HE McCarthy crisla he is President. He is not Pre-

They will continue is coming to a head. sident because he is leader of

so and act on this until it be ings they could both overrule comes plain that the President Not only in America the Republican Party.

McCarthy and

the is boss and means to be boss. protect but the world over

Senator McCarthy is not a

witnesses; but the three De- After the debacle of Mr the Government mocralle members went on Stevens, it is rash to express front bench in the Senate. There strike six months ago against any optimism on this point. is no Government front bench.

McCarthy's methods. They have

But Mr Dulles, back. And

by demoting Before the Republicans "won" only Just

Mr Scott McLeod, who was on

and in 1952 he was not a member of members, Democrats

generally thought to be the re- the "opposition

have other front bench." Republicans alike.

presentative of Mr. McCarthy committee duties to carry out.

the State There isn't any.

Department, through whom all blessings like promotion flowed, has challenged Mr McCarthy at a very sensi- tive point.

What

They are asking: will the President do? Hus Eisenhower lost grip on his job? Is McCarthy get ting too much for him?

Senator Mc- Certainly Carthy is a

smart very politician, much smarter than people realised in this country when they first read of his activities a few years back. But now, after with his "peace" lunch

Robert Stevens, no one can underrate his ability and unscrupulousness any more.

and now the City Planning Com-furnished Manhattan penthouse Secretary of the Army Mr

2011 AVAT No more juke- and o smart summer' home in

shows, auction New York State. freak Tons, penny aredes. Wax They have clashed with the inseuns, and bagatelles." Negroes, who complain:

The old glory is to be restored The Puerto Ricans are beginning to →mayla. take away nur homes,"

The week's opening. "The Apart front

East Harlem, Burning

Gla where

they originally en- lukewarm reviews, although Sir camped, they have made throads Cedric Hardwicke

was praised on Upper Fifth Avenue as well for pullant work.

By Appointment Wine Merchants .

to The Late

King George VI

Dry Amontillado

Light Dry Sherry

Sherry

SANDEMAN

only

Sole Agents:-DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Colds

Even the slightest.cold

is to be feared

Do not let it spread. by taking 1 or 2 'CAFASPINS

Defeat it from the start

CAFASPIN

With Gelb were seized drugs worth $2,000,000 4 retail prices, There was 8lb. of heroin, sib. of raw opłum, and 1.140ozs. of cooked opium, all ready for smoking in a dingy walk-up flat on East Side.

Mr Stevens came away from the lunch like a man who had been playing strip He poker with an expert. DOLLS that really talk and had only his underwear on,

walk are being shown to

12,000 buyers in down for the grent American Toy Fair.

Lions and tigers and bears roer and snarl and grant; cars and trains sound real too.

Only for families with girls is there much prospect of Christ- mas peace and quiet; the fashion is mini-cookery-pols and pans and miniature stoves that will really cook.

DACKAGE atom-power plants

may soon heat and light America's Aretle bases in Alaska and Greenland. Firms are being build experimental asked types,

THE

to

if that.

DIFFERENCES

MAN

MANY people in Britain have been puzzled that McCarthy could rise so swiftly. But here I must explain that the United States is not Britain A great deal of the confusion that McCarthy is causing arises from the neglect of this simple truth.

He is an independent power responsible only to the voters of the State of Wisconsin.

But why doesn't the Senate

slap him down?

All

come

known 10

13 of this Senator McCarthy. His adroit ness was shown when, after the Democrats went on strike, made format concessions their protesta.

in

ho

K

to

more ofclats discover where their interest and so where their duty lles, a be- will ginning

have been made in clipping the senator's wings and claws. Dut it can be made only by the President, and by the open and determined action of the President.

Has Eisenhower forgotten

For some of the Ameri- can people are fooled all of the time by Senator McCarthy; more are fooled part of the time.

These Americans are genuinely convinced that, although he may be a little doing rough, Joc Is

bit

a useful and necessary job.

They think that where

there's smoke there must

Ever Since Genevieve

By Yorke Henderson

London. NTIL "Genevieve"

Usputtered a cross

#

enema

in

screens to become overnight national comedy star, Britons Ilved almost blissful ignorance of what the motoring cognoscenti call veteran cars.

To them, DeDion-Bouton meant as much as the quan- tum theory; Darracq might I have been one of the Three Musketeers; and h c probably thought a Spiker was a knock-out drink.

Blissful

Ignorance-becauso like golf and heroin, the veteran, car cult is not only habit- forming. It remoulds a man's

life, changing him to a jingling- nerved automaton who eschewa friends and loved cries, and lets his career founder, just so long as he can indulge the over- powering craving.

Even when the ordinary man, under "Genevieve's” Influence, realised that this automotive ancestor worship Was being practised

in England's green and pleasant land, he consofed himself with the thought that it win one of those national quirks, like understatement and wearing bowler hals.

Now, 11 seems the veteran ear cult has found a footing in the United Statcs probably in reaction to the soul-shattering onslaughts ni The gadget- mongers.

Wrote Songs

Somehow it is hard to imaging Americans ever having had any- thing as stald as these An de stocla horseless carriages. But they not only had them; they even wrote songs about them. "Tho Girl 41 the Stanley Stoomer" was one. The Stanley Stoomer,

Incidentally, was, as

its name implies, a steam-driven automobile and it could more than hold its own with its more conventivmi contemporaries.

Up till now Britain's veteran enthusiasts have been content to let off steam-In every sense onco a year on their annual rally to Brighton. This year, however, the sport becomes in- ternational, for a team of Ava American veterans will

CT099 the Atlantic in August for the first-ever Anglo-American veteran car rally.

organisers Ambitiously, the have planinod that these venerable vehicles should cover 850 miles in eight days. They will/should/may

start Edinburgh on September 4 and end up at Goodwood car track. Since it is probable you may be on leave and that during these eight days you may encounter dusty or rain-soaked

In gentlemen

dustcoats and goggles, it might be safer to give you a couple of pointers.

First: On no account laugh or otherwise show amusement, or derision at the cars. This is dangerous.

Secondly: Don't refer to "old

This

CentCroug

15 even more

Thirdly: M you have any

be fre. They are not always skle-splitting jokes about men wrong. But it must be made with red flags....keep them to plain that the chief of the yourself.

Are brigade is the President.

to The Difference

that motto I remember on here. Every President who

Harry Truman's desk?

扩

Why, we are continually being asked, doesn't President Elsen- hower slap down McCarthy?

Isn't ho leader of the

umall Well, the Senate is Republican Party?

body of 96 members rather like Didn't he and McCarthy get a club. It has club rules, and elcoted on the same ticket? manufac-

Why doesn't he

every senator protects the. pri- take vileges of every other senator in McCarthy's powers away from order to protect his own. kim?

AETNA MILL, New York,

America's

once one

Troy,

of

leading

turers of woollen underwear, has closed its doors.

"People don't wear long Johns any more," sald, its boss, Mr R. A. Smith. "Central heating and heated cars have killed the trade,"

MENO falling

TÉN OF MICHIGAN

gaoled

behind in allmeny may now do their jobs during the day and spend the night in gaol.

"They'll never get out of debt

| if they're not allowed to work," Governor Merinen Baya

wii-

liams, who has just signed the Bill,

HARVARD is saying a

Bod

farewell to Miss Helen Maud Cam, its first woman pro- fossor. She is retiring

under the university's age limit, 70,

Miss Cam is an English- woman from Abingdon, Berks, She taught history at Holloway College and Cambridge, and went

out to Harvard in 1948. The American students call her The mediaeval teacher with the hearty laugh."

She la amall, and neat and kind and earnest. She always wears tweed suits, and her hair. is severely brushed back.

Bays Harvard's newspaper: "Ar parson Total great in testening. without a touch of the pedant,"

THE AUTHOR.

As the tough guy in the Wild -

Ho

confuse

Mr Truman

used have on his deck a sign reading "The stops

Finally: don't wants to be really President "veteran" with "vintage" cars, must have this principle vintage cars from America will engraved in his heart as be competing well as on a block wood.

of The time is

running out during which Mr Eisenhower can not in this principio.

And to now, frankly, MrA

up

has disappointed gave Eisenhower

knew that a committee with no Democratle members would not have the weight of a mixed committee. Há

•

up one or two prerogatives to me as a louder of the "Ameri- keep the basic one.

can people.

with British counterparts at the same time. But any such

confusion will

the you nothing but thundering wrath of both sets of devotees.

earn

In broad terms, veteran cara are those built before the first World War. Vintage cars dato from around 1910 up to 1930.

The main difference is. In per-

"Although 100 motio

reach mile.

by

GRUBBY STAGEformance. All the ton

I was in America for the Presidential campaign; I have been back there recently,

was

Edwardian

the

is no record-

The senator, it should be re- All these questions show that One of these privileges is that the basic differences between the chairmanship of committees Peated, is a very smart man, the American and British goes by seniorlly, Senator President Elsenhower cannot systems ore ́not understood,

McCarthy has, in sunatorial behave as.a British or Canadian Mr Elsenhower is lender of eyes, a right both to be chair- Prime Minister could, and put the American people will re- averago veteran

BUT I am still confident that Edwa the Republican Party because man of a committee and to use Senator McCarthy in his place spond to a lead.. After all, in breaker. Many good vintago

his power as he thinks it,

by, parliamentary methods,

McCarthy's own State, General models, particularly

sports still do, hold He can do it only by assert Elsenltower got far more votes types, can, and

their own with the latest in West story said to the tender- ing, and by showing that he than he did. And, all over the road-cera foot who pointed out that the means it, that he is President nation, the President ran ahead

In this field we should.. nort of the Republican Party. dealer was cheating: "Well, it's and, as such, he and he alone

out the Americans In a largo his deal, isn't it?" It's Joe's deal. controls the executive

way. During their vintage years. govern. It would be a political revolu- ment of the United States. All

they produced many good machines. tion

tako 10

away Senator employees of the United States

But nothing left the Detroit. factories 10 com- McCarthy's, rights.

owe obedience to him, not to It was the feeling that the

pare with classics like the Administratori the Senate and much less to a Trumas

had

Label Bentley, or that all- What are theso... ... rights? '‚Á

Hed gol grubby that helped to defeat time

the colossus,

30/98 virtually unlimited right to "senator.

the Democrats. The McCarthy Vauxhall, not to mention Jobs summon anybody before his

But this legal theory is compattat has got to the Ike the is, the Invicta

singe. I think the average and the committee and harass film with meaningles and will remain American wants house cleaning any questions that seem re- st way if, in fact it to be done by the President and be bothered pottering levant to the senator. He thought that it in fatal to get is coming to realise that mud can be both, the toughest dis- in Mir McCarthy's black books trict, attorney harassing a wit- and not particularly harmful to slinging is not house cleaning.

If the President appeals to now and the judge saying: play bail or "tooty-footy", with "Objection overruled

the

the great and still imtapped wall; of support for, him-and dislike officials and plenty of Mccarthy he can bring in a Cambridge, Brogan is knmon ta' hias committes FA COUTE » Over-of-army officers" krs" at thɔ rusher. militona a "spirited member:"/ 91. PLECA Round bricini Tule him, but that would be mommée convinced that it in, pause and Transatlantic Qutada pro is a breach of the "courbeer of the worm 10 bivak the senator than I hope he will go Probably, Frammes.

now, no one alse' exù,

PROFESSOR DENIS BROGAN, 56 a leading unaive of the American scene He author of The American Political System and many other books on America,» Pro-P

fessor of Political Science at man hồ đther misrõbers of ARTS FORNE

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old

You wonder why anyone can about with temperamental relics like wol: In

No one can tell

But

one of their sturdy up-and-beg stoering.. wheals, single ancient gylinder pumping out lle tough maybe you're

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