1954-09-04 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

1954.

HONOUR at STAKE No.2

N Society, the precías nature of A Roputation differs in the cases of the female and the male. A woman's Reputation depends, first and foremost,' on her sexual morals; a man's, first and foremost, on his morals as a gamester. Hence con- firmed adulterers and established sod omites may be received nowadays at West End clubs that instantly expel one who peeps at an opponent's hand or pleads the Gaming Act.

The haut monde of the 'Nineties, while showing less indulgence to sodomites and adulterers, similarly drew this distinction in degree. If their penalties for ains of the flesh were more severe than ours, they were correspondingly more severe for offending gamblera too.

So when Sir William Gordon-Cumming, Baronet, found himself accused of being a cheat at cards, he could entertain no lingering doubt about the consequences if that accusation were generally believed.

flo would

not merely

forfeit his former high re- pute. He would not merely all from resign have to

his cluba. He would not merely be despatched to n psychiatrist.

What threatened him was and total ruin so absolute that life could no longer be supported ira his native

landi.

*

of

The circumstances almost defled a parallel. Here was this fashionable and respect. ed aristocrat; a man means, with a town house and a Scottish country seat;

colonel with

recordin Hallan Guards; an intimate constant companion of the he Prince of Wales--here

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THE MAN

William systematically cheating by altering his stuke after the dent had begun.

hle

Ho did not challenge bim, however, but spoke about it privately to olliers-his mother,

brother-in-law,

milltary A next night, friend - so that when they sat down to baccarat

Bun again, there were several pletoun people keeping hostile watch. All declared afterwards they saw Sir William cheat.

WED

and

Edgar Lustgarton.

On the Arst night after dinner they sat down to baccarat.

Drawing by KOOLMAN

WHO PLAYED CARDS WITH

THE PRINCE OF WALES

And

of signature. "In consideration of favoured boon companion. especially They came In; the Earl

runs yet, this document, General Owen the promise made"--

He is right at his wits end. Tranby Croft-inen,

Their potential kings, are supposed to Coventry and

expressions "by the gentelmen whose naines to preserve subscribed

speaking as closed are

"Do you really - have settled down. And it could Williams.

Wero grave, and they

with reference to an

my friends do you really thinn not be otherwise than plain to

that

Ins been which playing the door carefully behind them. silence #ssociates hia

accusation

should sign this?" baccarat for £5 or more a hand

made in regard to my conduct No time

at baccarut, 1 would not be looked upon as

solemnly undertake never to play cards again as long as I live."

westeci was

Sul nothing whatever very said to the presumptive culprit. the They could not make up their minds upon their proper course, and having regard

to the presence of the Prince among them who had actually taken part in both the baccarat sessions had obviously observed nothing sign that the Prince was settling preambic amiss. Eventually two of the

down on the contrary such

provide the "A very unpleasant thing has older people staying at Tranby disclosure might

Earl of Coventry spark

turn happened. Some of the people Croft - the

required

into here object to your method of and General Owen Williama-

amouldering were told the

playing baccarat," story and were

Games. asked to deelte what should be done.

was, at a thie horse-party for St. Leger week, stig- matised like some petty crook who worked the rac

ing trains. And to compli ente matters. HIRE himself was in the party; indeed, it was at his request Sir Wil- liam had been

invited

to

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That which follows can only

should understood I

not

that handsome Yorkshire like to think it could ever be in mansion by the

of commended if one bears name

mind the exceptionally delicate Tranby Croft,

state of affairs created by the Prince of of the The storm gathered with Implication

Wales. out Sir William's ledge.

A watch was kept rent. Formal Court circles,

know-

The man who, as Edward V11, was to prove an honoured less king enjoyed considerably

Helr widespread esteem

ON

game card

then quita

puler, naw

po- card-playing. rare Criticism

outside

thai the old landed families, part of the community of every +C- calls itrell level which first the

not least his mother after ht

Spectable," sat the venerable Queen-all agreed dinner they down to biccurât in passing censure on his mode

ame of life his ruce-going.

his mounted

age.

bis

17-

casinos. he advanced in

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resentments

Cheating!

devilled the

situation.

Eart

Sir William does not that he has heard aright. "They object to what?"

THIS factor be

"They say cheating."

entire

That

the

"Cheating!"*

and the

Gere.

William.

acted

me."

selfish motives

think

you have been

xhouta

Sir

"It's an abominable

is not spen K "There are five of them, you

Bul so know."

a shadow of dispute.

with the they obsessed were

He "If there are 30 it's and need for bushing up,

they

pursue The full horror of his position flatfootedly did this purpose, that they ended dawns upon him. "This is un-

You are

two old by bringing upon all concerned believable.

undreamt of-and, triends of mine-tell me what publicity worse by far, they may have I ought to do"

man.... an innocent

crueltled

William

im

sny

Five to one

IR

part

They Could Change The World

PSYCHIATRISTS SHOULD BE WATCHED

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By JOAN MCKENNA

O you need a psychia-

trist?

Di

up?

who

But what about the man who lives part of his time in' a dream Of course the ques- world? He may produce great tion is silly

or is it? Philosophy, welte great novels. or paint great pictures. But Two thousand delegates left should he bo treated by & the Toronto conference of psychiatrist because ho shows for what could easily be symptoms the World Federation Mental Health last week of an impending mental crack- ugreed on ut least one thing: What about the mon It's time the psychiatrists shows no moved out into the com- money or doing "productive munity.

work" or being a social success? ls he "refusing to face reality" early The right time to "cure" and so displaying an amental crack-up is before Aymptom of mental illness? Or Is he just a human being exer- it hapene and the Answer eising his perfect right to is "social psychiatry." By organise his own life? "social psychiatry" the doctors mean. aome attempt CONFUSIONS

mental

not only to catch disturbances in their early phases but also to discover the general causes and to do something about them.

Interest in making

Shift w the second order. Suppose the "general causes" of mental illness turn out to be, in

and lurge mensure, the stresses strains of a modern, high speed, intertwining society with all its confusions of value systems, and mixed

goals

Q

Both of those things are tall orders; perhaps they conflicting are dangerous orders, too. codes of behaviour.

to YOU ought Anyhow,

Suppose we COULD change know something about the all that and make society

slow-moving well Integrated, idea.

standard affair with one fixed Take the firal. All of us on which everyone was brought which no ono are agreed that the man who up and from

dared to deviate, one Wretched and bewildernis suffering from a serious goals to which everyone William signy, and forthwithi

mental illness is in need duty bound to conform. leaves the house.

of treatment. Too often it be worth the price?.

La

"Yes," they my.

obtaining

statements

Bul

Bet

of

Wha

Would

Wouldn't that be something of like Orwell's "1984?"

The use of improper pressure though by no means always

world hahe lives in a from time to time been alleged stark horror, pursued by WILLIAM

against the police, then there ever improper pressure

Or pres them comparable to this?

sure applied and yielded to with such lamentable effect?

Sreads,

gazes at both,

"If I sign this." he япун "It

amounts admission.

"Yes," they way.

an to

of

HYPNOTISM

OVCT

Of course, the psychiatrista nameless terrors, surrounded are aware of all these problems, But the problem is that the by hideous delusions, subject decision-if a decision is to recurrent moods of in- made will not necessarily rest describably deep depression. with them.

And every advanco they make la one more powerful weapon in DANGEROUS the conspiracy For of course

the hands of politicians. work; in silenco didn't

Already, by skillful psycholo- At times, such people are anatter of weeks, the gossip few

The schizophrenic men's

techniques, we can reduce gical through modish London and Sir dangerous.

minds to slush. The the Iron "But I emphatically deny the William had either to accept in a desparate effort to escape

nor near Curtain are nothing more accusation; I've told you that, dishonour by default or bring a his horrors, may lash out with purge trials behind and I've already told His Royal slander action to vindicate his deadly intent at anyone near

And of course at the

by. Other types of sufferers less than that trial he was hamstrung by that can be as much of a menace. Highness."

But what about the man who document; "Why, if you were

sign you

merely shows "early symptoms?"

sicilled in and

Already. We Are Someone once said and prob- thundered counsel, innocem,

uulte

It mass hypnotism. rightly that Willem's explanation fell uponably

Charles Darwin had been taken Suppose we could, by`careful

clinic to a child guidance

he training of children in "child turn out the guidance clinics," The verdict against him has would never have written The strain upon Sir William

everybody to the some standard many "Origin of Species." gone unquestioned; The Prince. the not is enormous.

At any rate, it is probably psychological type. is their constant times since has the issue been once Prince-that Later, they

did Sir William

And suppose, after deciding true that a preponderance of the

the "normal," been that type again in private, with a docu- theme; It invokes his loyalty us debated;

a Gordon-Cumming cheat at cards

cards world's geniuses subject, as

the ment they have drafted for his an officer, as a

politicions justifled it on or What is the true answer abnormal

no?

to some degree of I would not care to afirm. But other -- and abnormal in the ground of mental health."

Is there any more effective I do affirm that the foolish mea-

sense that would quite probably sures taken on the spot unfairly attract the attention of today's form of totalitarianism? and fundamentally pre-judged

could never this issue which henceforth be satisfactorily tried.

"We will think it over," they him getting say, and depart, leaving

speechless. his

him sec

Informality.

Sir

Wis for dinner when tiresived Excuses heart a qulet knock upon was the might be offered for a youngster. bedroom door.

ifty-as Ch approaching the house, who But convinced he saw Sir the Prince was when staying at

the players

Amung young son of Lecame

"Come in."

YOU THINK WE AMERICANS LAZE WITH OUR LEISURE

We're two pay-cheque families -THAT'S OUR SECRET

INCE my arrival in London I have been hit by this British theory that American women lead lives of paralleled and unimaginable case.

by FRANCES KOLTUN

ABROCIATE BATON OF THE AMERICAN MAUKČIN

GHARM

very timelessness destroyed the drama that should be a part of overy new collection. I found myself thinking that my not-eo- new clothes would look perfect- ly at home in a room in which these might be worn. My Im- pulse to buy became more and None of It would be possible

more dulled as the showing, house on n scale undreamed of.

and went on. (For the Arst

their consent time in our without

Tho contemporary history more, Americans own approval.

far different today from what lovely room at the chic clients he was 20 years ago.

horse- seated in an elongated Now why do so many women

shoe, I noticed too that most of to make Men who learned

wore grey In the army and the women

Those not in groy were in navy Well, 200 years ago American their bunks

navy are more apt to help with

blue or black. and dishea the beds and wives fought side by side

"It is five to one," they say. "This is the only way to avoid a frightful scandal-a senncial in which His Royal Highness will be involved."

EDITOR-COLOMNIST

-Pranica Koltun of New York.

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deaf ears.

did

117" Sir

WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED.

NEXT, SATURDAY: Lord Melbourne and the magistrate's wife

psychiatrists.

have

was

Whether we like it or not; the Who, after all, is normal? day is coming when just that We all know that the ad- will be possible. The techniques anced schizophrenic is

psychiatrists ob- and the facts the

day be DIS mal. But that is because he discover will one deviates sa

the significant to the world as the rest of us that he is quite un- cracking of the atom. able to adjust himself to

widely

from

our

world. His spilt mind is obvious to everyone and, what is more, he probably lives in misery.

They could revolutionise tho world one way or the other.

And the time to keep an eye on the situation is now.

SPACE MAN KEEPS IT DARK

From Newell Rogers:

Gerald's school New York. had less than three minutes' sentence in

essay which read:" "Winston CPACE MAN Marion E. fuck for the full run.

"At 55,000ft. the temperature Church). Is an unusual-man- Carl has broken his was minus 70 degrees but at although he la nearly 80 years own 1958 world altitude re- 80,000 it warmed up to minus old he does the work of a man

twice bis ago.” and ambers seemed like shadow-cord of 82,285ft. (nearly 16 68."

Sold an air force expert; ed colours dulled over.

miles) and kept two secrets.

How They are:

for up he "Above 78,000ft, an aircraft is, A I wonder if subtlety and un-

went and what he went up in, in effect, a model spaceship." derstatement are not being Air Secretary Harold Talbott is sults, carried too for, Fashion's job is one of the few men who share DEJECTED: The advice of year to u naw record of $1,709,

to glorify, indeed to dramaties, the secrets with Carl, a tall, Yet in that fine salon every-

washing machines, their own hames than live in American husband and father is Then, as I looked around the

all

work?

Tho deep freezes, and the rented apartments.) electrical gudgets, it seems, have created a life in which she can do strictly nothing.

She is pictured as needing to face this stack of equip

to

keep the Indian from the door. children. Today, with their husbands,

ment knowing only how to they fight to keep the "finonetai American men and women work the plugs and gadgets. wolf away. After that-indolenco.

}

"✔

The war really gave us the taste for going out to work, and we liked it

1

lead shared lives in every area, and ng women have taken on new responsibilities, so the men have too.

Never have I seen

Bo many women at a fashion gathering give such an impression of "neutralness,”

thing

colonel In

Bl

VERAGE. Income for pech man, woman, and chlid in the US. rose four persent last

Commerce Depart

HELIPORT is being built on the roof of the. Lutheran Hospital in St Louis, Missouri.

Hospital authorities point out

ment.

the departments that the U.S. should unhandsome

Britain and Join

other was keyed for

Marines. obtrusiveness, One missed A

Some experts think the height nations in claiming parts of sense of adventure and daring

0,000,000 $quare and a sense of individual chie was 20 miles and that Carl did Antarctica's

it In a Bell-1 rocket-plane. It miles. that

French collections the

was in this needle-nosed little President Elsenhower's reasons that helicopters saved thousands carry.

aircraft, which is carried up the for the turn-down are unknown, of lives in Korea. I longed for a bright red first few miles by a Superfort, instead

of a

quiet wine, an that Captain Charles Yeager set HE MOTHER of 18-year-old. PROADWAY has a chorus

Gorald Lansbaum, of girl who is a millionairess. electric green instead of a dull a speed record of 1,850 miles an I and that many Englishmen

University. Cily, "Missouri, has olive. 1 couldn't help thinking hour. We rolled up our sleeves and

Red-haired, 20-year-old Tina ຄ. Even the colours shown in the how much gayer the women in But Carl's Inst height record received

letter from a Myers goes to work from the of Sir Douglas secrotary

Winston Fifth Avenue fat of her father, It is a completely mistaken brought in the cash. We bought look with disfavour upon work- the washing machine that ing women (and even strongly notion.

"The Prime Industrialist John Myers,› The American helped us keep our home chores object to their wives working), collection, beautiful and special grey suits would have felt and was achieved in a

though they might looked on this chilly autumn Skyrocket a year ago. He said: Churchill saying:

. Her ambition: To risé..., from woman is, on the contrary, under control, the frozen foods and I am beginning to wonder ly created,

had a toned-down day, if their eyes and skin had "I could have gone higher with Minister was amused" a

enough stuff in the tanks.

What amused him was a the chorus to acting. *** quality. The greens, bronzes, been sparked by colour. among the bislest, most that cut meat preparation down if it wouldn't be wise to adopt have boon,

to 30 minutes instead of hours. a revolutionary pititude. creative,

productive We bought a new car, a better and

out of Today nearly one vacation, creatures in the world.

Annules for the every four women in the United future.

Kingdom go out to work. florists' shops, as doctor, dentist, In short, we went to work, or dressmaker. She works in all and we work now for the same industries, on every salary level, reason that men do

Sho works in factories

at every age.

and

1

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I suggest that more poopla

to earn would be much happler. If the

At no time be-The money to live a better life. Agure was one in three.

There

fore have so many American

women been employed.

Each year more and more

One other point

1.

are close to 60,000,000 women women see the sense of this.

in the United States and close

to 20,000,000 go out each day

and earn a salary cheque.,

WENT to see the collections

of one of London's' top: “It was couturiers last wook.

The largest number today everything we American women joining the ranks are in their expect English fashion to be Portion Their children are elegant,

understated subtle.

V...There are mora married women working than single women.

And of those who are married grown, their homes are estabs. There, was a great quioinese: to more than half have children, Ished, their lives have fewer the channing - house, the room

SPORT RATHERMAN demands. They work to 14 and the clothes,

orking wives have their energies izz in purposeful

clothes

whose combinede Ingomona még making pow his the Diffow do the prien fós) about iki Alipayaan quality. But for this!

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

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KING BARTUN OF BARTAVIA BLAKES A

STATE VISIT, TO AMERICAÍDELN DID YOU GET THE YES, YOU'R MESSAGE TO THE HIGHNESS.

COCKAIGNE. EMBASEY

BUT,PRINCESS NARDA, KING BARTUN PERSONALLY REQUESTS YOUR ATTENDANCE AT THE BALL BARTAVIA BORDERS COCKAIGNE. YOU ARE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.

AMBASSADOR. RENOUNCED

MY TITLE.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

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YOUR BROTHER NEVER ACCEPTED THAT, IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD, YOU ARE STILL PRINCESS NARDA.

|BUT I PROMISED TO SEE A MOVIE TONIGHT -WITH MANDRAKE,

·Hmmi- THE MOVIR WILL BE PLAYING ANOTHER NIGHT,

YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS.

TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC