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THE CHINA. MAIL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1954,

NATHANIE

O

GUBBINS

LD fashioned Eng- Jishmen used to be lieve that If we could teach the world to play cricket wo would soon live in a gentle, manly Utopia in which everybody accepted honourable defeat good grace, and scrupulously gave opponents the benefit of every doubt.

with

According to reports of the Test Match

Kingston, ot Jamalen, the decisions of West Indian umpires have shocked the English side. "Hutton "gok- ed amazed" when he was given out 1.b.w. in his second innings. He complained to the West Indies captain. Не also com- plained to the umpires

that

Sonny Ramadhin was scratch- ing the wickot by running pcross it. The umpires took no notice.

An West Indians like calypsos they can have this one with my compliments.

Always they are friends of

mine

Ramadhin and Valentine But ዝቦ we hape nisch

better friends

Our umpires standing at both

Catia

Whatever Engilah balamen do They give them L.B. Double Whether they have leg be-

vew

fore

Or half a ward away or more Oh Ramadhin it's not a min To scratch the pitch when

England's in Though if they did the same

to us

We'd howl and boo and make

a fues

What's more we do not think

this wicked Because we're very fond of

cricket

But fonder still if we can win With two umpires and

Ramadhin

"Keep your ""bottles,

keep'

your dumpy';- "Wind'la rolling round mu

tummy.” (

I would curse them from my

Crib

ทน

By pin and nappie, drib ́and

bib

all Curie with

might Awake and sleeping, day and

night Curie the doctor, eurie the

Curac the hiccups, curie.

curse, curse.

But I'm toothless, I am small I can only cry and bowl All that I can say ki “Hup" Try to smile and frow it up Cursing, cursing an I frew "Din-ding and the same to

you."

Cupid's Corner

"Andered

AITL

LTHOUGH I

con- attractive (Mah blonde) my boy friend · has fited me. He says he', pre- fers a tankard of bear." Indignant girl writing to a magazine.

mus!

Well, dear, although it be humiliating to have a tankard as a rival don't give up all hope of winning back the affections the of a boy who at least has virtue of being straightforward,

The first thing a jilted

girl should do is to fight a rivel on equal terms. In other words what you should awit yourself has a tankard of beer, got that I haven't got? Then encourage him to note points of similarity and, if possible, some advant- ages you may have

the tankard.

.

ver

One point of similarity in your favour is your ash blonde hair, which is the colour of

With Valentine and Ramad- froth. Ask your hairdresect to

hin

We think West Indies ought

to win

But if West Indian bowling

tirea

We always have Our

umpires.

Cradle Curse

DR

give you something between the new teasy-weasy hair-do and a froth-blown look.

As

light ale is often used as a hair wash get your hairdresser to two use plenty of it. Then some of the aroma will cling to your head and, with

your frothy

C. C. HARVEY, writing in

curls smelling like a brewery, the top part of you at least will remind him of his chosen en- vironment.

You must then ask yourself the West Riding County how can i make the rest of my Medical Officer's Report, says self look like a tankard? that mothers worry too much

about the weight of their babies Well, dear, there are several

has

Little

best judge of when he

and adds: "In infant feeding kinds of tankarda. There are

of dull the baby, toothlessly striving to those made

pewter, chance curse,

of narrow at the top and broad at protesting that he 19

that are the the bare, others should narrow at the base and broad at don't top. But

as you want to look like

either of these I advise you to model yourself on the little silver, hair

be allowed to feed."

the

Small and toothless though I k

be

London Express Bervice,

American Liberals Versus McCarthy

✡

By LES ARMOUR....

gov-

A dark-jowled Senator with the faintest trace of a

You Jook

Bounced from knee to bony pim tankard which has a small smile waves you to a'sent country to make the world we who had a go at imagining

Ince Bounced by people old and

crazy Shouting madly "Upa-e-daisy," Shouting madiy, now

then,

and

OU step into a neat you. as everything from sity, ring true to those of us comfortable room in Fascist-deviationist to a who have been through 'a North American university, however Washington hell-bent tool of the capi- odd they may sound elsewhere. ernment building.

talist class, that you have *****

His analysis of the bleakness spent years working with the brightest brains in the and lack of depth in American

politics is

as tragically exact. a slightly more tolerable ourselves successively Socialists. place.

Communists and Anarchists-- with longer and clearer periodi chair across the table from The Senator is unim- of knowing ourselves to be All you need then is a closely

you.; Two bright-eyed pressed. He tells you that iberals all along may wonder of sliver safin young lawyers sit beside you wrote the Communist at the fact that he stayed four with flared shoulders. With him. There is another attacks, implies that those years your hand on your hip, your Senator at the end of the who agree with you are as movement.

waist and wide shoulders, rather like the fashion models in the glossy magazines.

"Didduma want zimm's din- fitting frock

dins den?"

Oh, if I had teeth to tell I could give those zanies hell, Zanies who will make The

stuf

When

to

Zanies who will make

feed

tried I've "Enough,"

קל

elbow crooked to represent the handle, and your curls forming on

around.

Senator is sprawled in

The

租

ash

blonde table. your head, you will bear such a ren ark-

1

Grim Tale

.in. the

Communist

treacherous

ns you. He Campus Communists are obviously You take a firm grip on the meaning of "liberal."

does not know usually sufficiently unpleasant

and húmourlets to ensure that able resemblance to his favour-yourself and wait for it.

Communism is the shortest stop ite beverage that he will prob- The dark-jowled Senator

on the political voyager's way. me ably pick you up by mistake

But it is as well to remember accuses you of being a Com- and drink you

that Wechsler hit Columbia at |munist, a traitor, an active

the nadir of the depression—at Anyway, if he doesn't pre-worker for the downfall of

of a time when it must have of the beer democracy. fer you to some

to a berit kho niềm You seemed brewed today he is no man at

that one either went Com- I would curse them from my all and not worth bothering

lapsed, by default, munist or pen

about. "Keep your blasted

When I've swallowed all I

need.

dew

din-dins

(World Copyright}

You reply patiently that you are a liberal, that the Communists have denounced

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It's like a page out Alice in Wonderland. think maybe you are going mad."

But you are not. You are seeing McCarthylam in action.

Into Fascism.

18

And the American scene realise that most of McCarthy's cleared considerably when you

targets are men who, like:) Wechsler, stopped • în the That is the, nub of a stalinist movement only long grim tale unfolded this enough, to find out once and for week by James Wechsler, all that it was hell on earth

for a thinking mán, editor of the New York Post.

His book ("The Age of Suspicion" Andre Deutsch,

Liberal Ideals

THE FINANCIER SHINES SHOES

By Evelyn Irons

Boston, Massachusetts. TOHN DE · "NAPOLI

JPELLEGRINO, lown,

grizzled 72-year-old Boston bootblack, claims that he is one of the richest shoe- shine boys in the business, He has more than £86,000 in securities in the vault of n local bank.

Yet he still polishes shoes at a shilling a time.. Some times

Д

customer

gives

him a fourpenny tip, and he makes about 21s. a day.

Why does a man with all that money in the bank still shine shoes?

At the bank where he went to make another de- posit, he explained: "It's quite simple. That's the way I got the inside tips that enable me to play the stock markets.” ·

CALLS ON TYCOONS

at

For. American shoeshine men do not only station themselves

-street corners, They make the rounds of business offices and clean the shoes of busy executives as the customers alt at their desks. And as John shines their shoes, the executives talk business.

John has built up his clientele in the financial dia- trict of Boston. Whatever the weather-and recently It has been 27 degrees below freezing he makes his calls on the city tycoons, scorning hat, overcoat and gloves and wearing his familiar old awester anu reefer jacket.

*Running his hand through his shock of grey hair, John put down his old shoeshine box and said: “If I didn't have this box I wouldn't have the nerve to go in and out of the big, financial offices taking up the time of these busy men. It's when I'm shining their shoes every day that we talk business and I hear, things. Then I sort out all the inside information and decide what stocks to buy.",

DIDN'T CO DOWN

John has been sitting at the of the financters for 50

feet years,

Many of his big business friends went down in the Great Depression. But not John.

With a shrewd smile he said: "Sure, I had my losses in 1929, too. But I went on Bity- ing stocks. I bought when they were cheap in those days, I held on to them. Now can't sell them because if I did I would have to give, so much to the government, Business is not as good as it was, but I'm dow ing all right."

Pellegrino was a poor Italian immigrant when he arrived in Boston from Naples back. in 1900 and started out as a shoo shine boy. As soon as he ac- cumulated his first hundred dollars (something like £20 those days) he began buying stocks,

"If you know what to do with Here, too, the seductiveness. London, 10 shillings) might of Communism

100 dollars, you can make. is, lald bare. money."

grinned Pallegrino, is attractive, bo, ["But you have to know how? have been just another Communisma

cause it makes its appeal. And he touched his head sigul- horror story.

through man's better finstincts) ncantly," or By a miracle it is Fascism appeals to man's worst.

not.

But

He unmasks McCarthy

skill. unrelenting achieves something, much Important,

Flirtations

The point to remember-ka "SEVEN CHILDREN - with Wechsler punches home. agaiti he' and again-is that a frejection more of Communism does not requiire a rejection of the ideals of com operation,

equality. - 'of...op- portunity and collective action for human batterment.

These are still Wechstery children are good and Ideals. And they are the ideala Ka

hard-working

Boston's wealthy', 'bootblack hàn seven chlidren "and", six -grandchildren; He takes a poor view of his family's finen“ cial acumen.

Mainz. leading Continental nation in "Perfectly simple," replied ESTERN GERMANY atomic energy development. this tall, apare man. "I reached the age limit for Durham Uni- One of her top scientists is versity, where I had the chair ing with atomic energy. He sought refuge from Hitler in mit Is 65. Here in Germany

Professor Frederick Paneth, in

chemistry. There the age And within the foreseeable Britain in 1933, along with Dr they seem to think that a man future she will have the Klaus Fuchs, the alom spy con stili do valuable means and knowledge for sentenced in London to 14 after that age.” making the atom bomb years' imprisonment in 1950.

But had you not to accept if allowed. On a visit to Professor Paneth worked on any conditions or obligations ] Germany I have discovered the atom bomb during the war before leaving Britain?

atomic development.

After the war he had Rob in Absolutely none. But you the British atom plant at Har noed not fear that I have any He has managed to make well. He returned to Germany secrets to give away. What clear, fighting statement of the of American liberals and the old ty

of "Americans for I found two important facts. two months ago.

know la common knowledge saith of American liberals, and deale

Democratic Action"" They are

simong/acientists, and I think he offers a documentation of the cul left wing of the Democratie bought a

the power understand the

five-arrebels the Russians could teach me a liberal fight which should die party. Wechsler was founder for one of my soos Hut good cheál atomics"

pol the cars of A world that

PERAN KERITON Chasn't made: '#afortune. In' fam the United States is belting fulfilled by continued re- aces McCarthyism as a sign that But they are ideain to be he only "Just gear by down the slimy path which ends cognition of the sanctity and In the con

concentration scamp, gas dignity of the Individual, by chambers

spalous guarding of freedom, and by a constant, Oght ag totalHarian, Ballyliigandi

The Government of Dr

Adenauer is considering profound 60-year-old Professor I may be told that what posals for building an atomic Paneth, in the - Max.

haya just discovered, “kene kla pile in Bavaria.LY Institute for Chen

only park of Germany's peace

\Mainz." It is heir

2. Under the overseas aid within the

grounds

programme, America is supply University.in the

Ing the most modern sclentlig Instruments to German univar- from alles and the Max-Planck So-Tun elety.si, This bocfely? Includes and

·Institute" prátómia, phylieg "and- rádlo chemistry":

Planck

fith of the book Is devutod,

echalar's humnail, Bank “

Old John says that when he dies he will leave him m his children and grande