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** THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20,`` 1954.

THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN STARTS WITH A TEASER FOR EVERY PARENT—AND EVERY SCHOOLCHİLD

In Milwaukee It's Three Cheers

GOOD... but teachers For Joe McCarthy-Here's Why

all get different answers

TOW good is "Good" on

H

a youngster's school report low bad is "Bad"? And what do teachers really tet

mean

by like "Very good,

"Fairly

"Kather yeok" mul "Average"?

for the first time a repre- sentative group of school- tembers has been asked 19 explain the exact meaning of their voroments,

i

Pave Deratik show that ther

6mong teacher

in the

shout almost The meaning

the tere they te every

hot 1

וויייז'י

ALTAM

exer

Nearly 100 men and wort Teachers Froun grammar schools

dary markern schools, atl

WELL

EN by Mr David Sheppard, a pay- chologed at Howding University.

Past

ch

w verleit le you teher leg, labelhog the top Extremely gora “

1 tban Extremely bad

"Chere they Welk asked Poate on the line the

Jules

of the seven

"Very towel" "Good,"

atui

1

iciative

ratings. Fairly

VERY GOOD

GOOD

·VĚRY GOOD

||TARLY GOOT

P

GOOD

AVERAGE

FAIRLY ONED

AVERAVE

LAD

BAB

VUTY BAD

VERY BRIT

tenchery fron the ne hand were tested, See how wor's idea of "Good" is higher up the rule thatt the other's.

a stegle "How or costli man here to earn a week for

on to deserte him ag

night replies varying from £10 to £20,000!

AN 'OFF' DAY

Vern

Bond," Average," "Fap is bad." ★ THOSE DAYS when every- "Burt and Very bad.""

Ta

The results

neww ava mal te ut 1 two brokeriva in Hao A child would be Jar les likely to get i Kok Lady, Trade Tombes No. 1 than Yo he wouldt also be los likvety to get a fand one

Further tivity showed 1

1.

thing the wrong are due to human weakness, not to 1-luck or unkind fate, it seems from experiments earried out at London's University College.

Dr Leonard Jones asked 144 people tu solve a puzzle, as- ring them that they should rabic to master it izz two

11 Actually It could not possibly be solved

All the people became so frustrated with their fallure Bhut more agreethend

they began

behave obvert the premise meaning of stupidly." 11tes among teachers whos ape then cottamally than there bamuro people of other

who use

|- them unity

Jestavite casually.

So you and your children can s the fact that Their hol reports may 201

20 20 Bud me they wind, But they may not be so good either

Me Shepparıl also uskert

what istopin to explain

they by such terms 13

Tar," "Very atch," and

Naty lang "*

When ret u really easy puzzle a short time afterwards they either took on uhnormally long time or could not do it at all.

So after one unaoying setback early in the morning, we are less likely to epe intelligently with the rest of the day's alf- culties.

KEEPING WARM

IF YOU cannot keep warm Again there was at night, try sleeping in a

even

with anton kneeling position

your intelligence, butus peim apwords on the Juba, bad social standing. pllow and your face resting un

People of Sanghar

to the question: your hands,

·}; Jamar mere waiting for a bas. that sort of time wonted you describe as being Very Longhy

Tron 15 minutes

ti

to

Thot ndvive

comes

from

Prince Peter of Greece Denmark, 45-year-old cousin of the Duke of Edinburgh.

White leading an expedition to Central Asta, Prince Peter ntleed that Tibetan porters slept that way round the fire on cold nights,

When asked why they adopt- ed such a position they said that It kept then warmer.

Doctors Jinve since told

that Priner Peler

the heart works faster when the body

Wilwaukee.

By: JOHN MCKENNA

hungry.

of them.

N Milwaukee they

cheer Joe McCarthy.

He is as much part Don't get the idea that as though anybody went big, thick file on every one of the local scene as Bintz, they love Joe, either. Schlitz and Pabst the brewers who made Milwau- They don't love the tough

fit:

traffic as harsh-voiced kee famous. He snugly into the local scheme who hund out of things as the fat dairy tickets.

in the Wisconsin

COWB

is

pastures.

in a kneeling position than It does when the body is lying down. Better circulation meuns more warmth.

LIFE-SAVER

THE LIFE of a "Lltze baby" was in buy, whose heart such a weak stale that he could not have withielbord the shock of armal operation, has been saved by a refrigerator.

A wam of London refrigerat

il

ing engineers designed machine so that the boy's blood

could be rooled down to 77egs, from the nurmal temperature while the operation of des was taking place.

Dorfora kaew that this roal- ang should reduce the shock.

At tube connected to the main artery in the boy's right leg let he blood through a glass coll aemersed in retrigerated brine and back to the leg agaiti.

The operation, carried ond of Goy's fipital by Mr Hussell Brock, was a complete success.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

you ask me, things are indile far too cusy für the younger generation -- tuhy, in my Oxford days one had to do a lot more than just get sent down before seeing one's picture in the papers,*

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Joc Is the junior Senator and the senior hero in this state.

cops speeding

necessary and they Joe in the same way.

them

or

u

downs of global politics. They are deeply faolitionist at heart. Their fathers or their grandfathers came here to get away from the European fuss. Very few of Only one thing could

They saw America as that anybody who hired an seriously upset their com- obvious "Red" "Red- safe retreat-au impregn- fortable life with its two sympathiser" for espionage able fortress where they enra-in-every-garage and duties would

down to the be about

get as could who business of growing rich But they know they're fur coat-in-the-wardrobe smart as

.a burglar

This think kind of prosperity. That chalked his phone number and enjoying life.

thing is war.

on the job.

generation resents any in- trusion. And they see little chance will that "them Ruskies" start shooting unless the is weak in. United States side. Reds, they think, are hell-bent on wrecking their country, corrupting their leaving and But they gure he sits on government, by one preferably out in the Reds -- fast and hard. them weak and gasping for they saw the beautifully manicured And, if there's anything the Soviets to march over. bungalow-lined suburbs on they don't like, its' a Red.

cold war. Czechoslovakia, to his friends; rough the fringes of the city.

Very few of them know China, Indo-China, Koren tough with the people his በዚ hospitable.

doing that there are only 54,000 came-shocked them into a friends regard as enemies. they're

These people are generous and pleasant a well. Recession or no re members of the Communist state of panic.

Nobody in Wisconsin These people are not used thinks of him as a sports- bunch of people as you're cession,

is not Party in the United States

and to the day-to-day ups likely to meet anywhere. the sort of place which looks and that the F.B.I.

Sits On Them

But don't get the iden that Milwaukee's citizens are

bunch fanatics.

dlet 紧急 bad end

pre- for

100.

They're not.

Taken one

a hysterical, wild- oyed. SOME of them even

of witch hunting

Milwaukee

hits a

In A Panic

IT isn't the 54,000 Com- manists who got them

Heared.

They got scared because America losing after round in the

round

CONCLUDING "ARE THE RUSSIANS FREEING CULTURE?"

An Easing Off To Stiffen

T

In

Up Their

HE object of the re-

cent concessions

made to the Soviet

a

By

DAVID

of treatment.

"line"

Propaganda

LAIDLAW

favour

the

Parly,

There have been Intru- sions and they feel frustra- ted. They want to blame somebody.

Mc-

Joseph Raymondi Carthy provides them with somebody to blame.

He in afable and

man.

gentle

and

[ But they don't want the rules for snake-fighting laid down by the Baseball Commission.

Kremlin Ally

F McCarthy is

I'

題 rat,

the reason it is be-

cause he's fighting dirty

rats.

and was in

U'

Out on

Here in the Mid-West, they don't see things that way at all.

Here, Eisenhower would find himself faced with a blazo of uproar if he moved against Mc- Carthy.

ut civil war, intervention famine, when the State

And this is why President most danger, the artist was most Eisenhower is having Д free, le more was required artist is to improve the beautiful ang uproot the foundly grateful to the Party of him than that he should be in devil of a time putting Jog

in his place." their and the Government for propaganda. rotten; and always to write the

of the regime, or, Communist

attention and th Ever since the death of truth, and only the truth, about constant care,

least, not against it. But, after

the liberal Eastern our society."

assistance."

the destruction of political

Seaboard the citizens want Joe's Stalin it has been made in-

and beyond All these conditions have,

head. They see him as a greater Zhdanov, It is true, comes in opposition within creasingly clear that the

Communist threat to American liberty than the fulated for criticism, st to be

Indirectly, une but

confident of presentation of Marxist- however,

their strictly within the context He is rarely singled out for per- leaders,

Georgi Malenkov ever dreamed Leninist teaching had be the subject matter prescribed sonal attack, yet even when no security, confiscated this freedom of being, and they know he is too stylised and by the Party, for all the much is, his decrees are somehow pres almost overnight. It was restor- the Kremlin's biggeal ally in the come

publicked concessions amount

from the ed in some measure during the fight to drive a wedge between in isolation senteri academic, and that, as

war years, only to be abolished America and her altes. result, the people's interest to so für is a very modest re- mainstream of Party policy.

laxation of the controls Κου

once more by the Zhdanov de- had dwindled

It is an obvious deception, as crees. to apathy erning the artist's actual choice

distinction 4s the

drawn be- and indifference.

The present casing off of con- tween Party and critics who, trola is dictated by a similar Although the new Soviet truth, are simply Party execu

Cal awareness of danger. It is not embraces all the arts, tives thinly disguised as dis- the sort of danger that threatened most attention is being paid to in

interested custodians of the the State on previous occasions, literature and the drama, these arts. But it clearly reveals the but it is no less grave.

dilemma which buseta the cing the media best sulted to

So Eisenhower must bide his the Indoctrination masses, "Writers," said Stalin, turn, will assail the authorities

Soviet writer and which,

time. "are the engineers of the soul,"

as soon as they begin seriously and their activities have always

The Republican high com- to lousen his fetters.

TADIFFERENCE to the central mand thinks the tide is turning. bren a serious concern of the Party. It seems likely, there

How

Party tenots is not a condi- | In Milwaukec, It hasn't turned subscribe one Lore, that

receive wholly they will

the principles tion which can be tolerated, in yet. But it looks as though it prior consideration.

enunciated by the Parly with whatever degree. The authorities might soon. out criticising It by implien- have shown the right instinct by tion? Nothing could demonstrate looking to the artist to imple more clearly than this the ab ment their counter-messures. It surdity of attributing the de- only remains to be seen to what THE

difficulty is that the solu* finition "liberalisation" to the effect they can hoodwink him in tion of their problems re- new Soviet policy towards the the pursuit of their goal, which presents 15 far MORU risky arts; or, for that matter, the appears to be no less than a undertaking than that of, sny, unrealism of ascribing to its in- revival of the spirit of 'revolu- the painter or the musician, to siigators motives

of "art for tionary

romanticim” which whom fairly substuntinl Jati art's sake."

earlier stages of the pervaded

un attempt to rectify this situation and, if possible, to recover some of the old dynamic, the Party leaders have turned their

attention to the arts.

No more attractive medium exists for the dissemination of propaganda. Its effectiveness as such depends, however, on the measure of esteem and popular. ity it is able to command from the general public.

And Soviet art, as a whole, if one is to judge by the recent

pronouncements of 11 most prominent exponents, has never been at a lower ebb. This is because the artist has been sub- jected to such rigid controls Imposed by the crees of 1048-48

too

ple

that he either been too scared or prescribed to give rein to any genuine creative Impulsc.

Stipulation

of

More Risky

the

the

ideological "ap-

сап to

ק!

of

Indifference

They are decent people,

They will sit and take it if the copa shoot up the crooks; they will take it it the cops beat the

crooks into confession.

But they start to get alarmed when the cops beat up their friends.

Moscow City Committee, its 19 Intensifying

In Trouble

trouble over his, foud with

Zhdanov de- tude could be granted without If the Party is prepared to Party's development,

has cart" too noticeably.

forego some slight measure

Already the has 80 illustrated the tutelage it

far This was clearly by the censorship of a

recent exercised over the artist, it is Communist Party

reason, for one, play by Parfenoy which, in for a hord, practical strict accordance with Malen Not only has propaganda de labours to bring about, in the kuv'a "demand"

that

writers scended into a rut, but the arts, words of a Pravda leading article THAT is why McCarthy is in should "castigate vices short- too. The Russian public has be for January 1034, "a further im

the provement in the ideological-the army. comings and unhealthy pheno come listless, and so has

tended to political education of the creative They have society," had as

workers of the expital.” subject the moral laxity of draw apart.. certain fictional Party or-

"The more attention Party that ganisation. The fact

tho

committees writer's

directed

pay to creative or solely at the notion that

ganisations,"

the saya the promisculty of

of its members should be

THE remedy for this condition now being applied, strictly limited doses albeit in -enough, it is calculated, to re- store the artist's confidence and, hence, his creative activity, but

no_more.

The requirements laid down

mena in our

ity

47

enger was

tome

artist,

New Blood

samo

become. Our

There are lots of Wisconsin lads fh the army. Too many got killed on the Pacifle beach- died in the heads, too many Melanesian jungles. But great and a great

defini errors at least partially play vanced and noble ideas of the rupts their lives; but they still

THEIR inter-dependence must leader, "the belter will be the many came back THEIR permitted be reasserted. Now blood work of these organisations and many people still have sons and for the artis by the Party, as to play havoc with the good must be recruited into the arts the more lively, and fruitful husbands in the forces a return for these concessions name of the Party did not and, as an incentive, fears of their work will follow the general nes first exempt him from disapproval.

They think the American victimisation

ideological Socialist culture is the living army is a pretty sound oufat, Indicated by Malenkov in his

Clearly, Malenkov's report to the XIXth Congress.

embodiment of the most ad They hate it because it inter- There stipulate that the writer tion of society in this context Somehow or other "free

was not intended to is to "show the people of the Party members.

include must be granted to the artist to present day, the ideas of pro think it's the best and Bravest This is bonio rekindle his pride and interest letarian internationalism, of the army in the world. new type in all the splendour

friendship craft

and of their human dignity and so out by the distinction observed in his

between Party and critics For, says

of the peoples." It They are not inclined to be- to promote the inculcation in

the to Bolshevik, "It is time for us helps to rear the workers in the lleve that it's riddled with, or the members of our society of throughout the whole of characteristics, customs

current phase.

Soviet and

of patriotism. Con-run by, Reds. They are not in- Amid, for instance, the "ma- craftsmanship lowers not only -wall thought out hablis free from the ulcers of

and clined, in fact, to believe that a artistto but also the

com-Rod capitalism; to be bold in port for disruptions, errors and con- the

would last long in the hindering its

Rwork Ener raying

mittees to creative organisations army. conflicts; not to forget that

'8) forward movement crillelem la an effective means no mention is made of

education; or

to

On the contrary: castigato obstruction.

It is not entirely without intelligentsia is an important part

of ideological work." vicos, shortcomings

and

um- "At these difficult moments our precedent. There is a readily

And, if Joe koops it up, he's healthy phenomena. in our Communist Party. friend and discernible pattern of freedom So much, in a paragraph, for likely to find that Milwauken Ecclcty, to burn them oil with teacher, has always come to the and oppression in the life of the the vaunted dawn of Soviet cul-will vote for Stevenson's Do the fire of satire; to calebrate help of dramatisiș. We are pro- Soviet artist. In the early days tural freedom!

mocrat.

tal contradictions and.

ito

a recent contributor Dalable derstand that neglect of ical help by Party

lovel of (the ideological essential clue to the and the artist members of the

Here is arty campaign.

Their friends are being hit.

Sole Agents: ED. A. KELLER & CO.,LTD.

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JOHNNY HAZARD

AS JOHNNY RACES PAST. THE PIGSTY, HE HURRINDLY OPENS THE SMALL BABA

KEY, POINTE.....LOOK) HERE? REMEMBER THEI

TRINKETS...

By Frank Robbins

PARDON THE EXPRESSION... BUT I'M CASTING PEARLS BEFORE

SWINE,

this situation

Can Miguel