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DON IDDON'S DIARY Money-Root Of The News

com-

New York, Tuesday, ro hng Newsweek nogazine and

ita astringent Anancial WALKED into Thomus Cook's travel mentator Henry Hazlitt.

Then

I went down to Wall Street for my monthly lunch In tho nancial district yesterday and Ineked a broker how he and his colleagues sized up Mr Butler's He said: 'It's too early action. to tell yet, but If you're alarmed about Instalment buying. $0 should wo be."

agency on Fifth Avenue today and bought a British pound for $2.75. walked along the avenue and bought another pound sterk ing at the American Express, office also for $2.75,

Just before I sailed for Then he gave me some facts. instalment England aboard the Queen Today in the US.

my

Mary on Jamary 26 secretary bought me some pounds for tips during the voyage and she paid only $2.73.

To the experts this may th meat very much. It layman

test

American Income.

buying, or hire purchase, equal

percent of the people's intai personal and an even bigger percentage, of course. of their income after

luxes.

One-Fifth

instalment dthla

amount to seven percent of a

113

the

Caryfy $1 IN obvious sign that the Toninel 15 increasing in strength

1401

ND

Since Mr Butler

Dise

The

Bunk Rate by one pescentri four and f sterling-dollar

A

th

The

percent rate for pound has risen in New York from SZ 78 7 16 to $2 783,

r the waterfront.

The indry facting the docks you can today

fum pretand-prites sailors and stewards for around $2.50

14

Jonut age

that

Talf of the

fall vear's Income families in the US. have instal-

and! sichts

are paying them off at the rate of one-tich of their income.

about

" 15 the Pay as you slick singan here and every day The razio chants. "Nothing down and months to pay," and "Now everybody run own a car. Come and get 'em while we got It is not so

em." erew would exclatge a pound have rarely known money for a couple of dollars, and I

dominate the American news g have even known them go in a

mnd recently. The official for $1.75 The RODE

Ciovernment Investigation inte oferat role as $280

The stock market--the first full- dress probe into Wall Street in

has started years

H

For free Pound

York

the

ERE itl New

His Pokertiality *** 1.

Timers Wall Street There bries bentlig ad het for two forms

"switch" Fisen

of restricted sterling-transfer adakes pour is 2011 Rands, which have struck as four crota pratel

KR

20

The Senate Banking Coin- mater

beaded by Senator William Fulbright has rolled and has sald sleves

This will be Teatedly friendly sturdy We are not 13: ing to prove any wrongdoing

One thing the probe is likely To ting out is dat ov.

60 p cent of American money is in

the the hands of American women.

Sumbang, weak and for so long, is on the upgrade.

The campaign,

Hver pletely entled off here,

Women Bee longer than

inen

and the fortunes pass on

• THE CHIŊA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1955.

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London Express Berrios

CAN SUCCESS DEPEND ON YOUR NAME

By JAMES BARTLETT

(full name: JAMES ARTHUR STANHOPE 'BARTLETT) ·

how easy it is to name a block of

how! Did you see yesterday that

a new block in London will be called-juist Winston?

Even if there is anybody who does not like that name over the portico, the bricks and mortar will have no feeling about it.

But when you choose a name for a child-oh, what a different approach that needs!

Most parents these days play safe and give their children first names which have boen famillar for generations. Birth an nouncements last year show that the four most popolar names for boys were John, David, James, and Charles.

For girls the order of popularity is: Mary, Ammo, Jane, and Elizabeth.

Fathers and mothers seem to think that it is unfair to plant an exotic name on their offspring or christen them with a passing fancy.

Too many girls, particularly, have names that are merely a clue to the heyday of faded film stars.

SEEING RED CHINA WITH WILLIAM STEVENSON

BIG BROTHER

MAO

EATS HOT PEPPERS

T

HERE'S a train that Yongles gorges because I sailed

leaves

In per. I know in Manchuria there are now grey blockhouses

upon

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like

Hongkong every morning with standing a full head of steam tombstones in a gravyard to the because i went รัม เรกก 'psit, and every apparent inten- una

their Chinese and saw newspapers are run by women.tion of chugging straight there"

Inhabitants toiling In factory

would

nover

here am

huggard

1 them.

I

could almost make a rose

Pom

fur

American matriarchy.

Two

to

get

the British to free the pound is Wall The being waged again. Street Journal has wanted us

to set the pound free for years,

Bayer's « TONIC

BAYER

WATER

USE IT

of the most important New York

to

Shumchun.

ww

The railway crkans Canton. Mrs Ogden Reid, the attrac-

Little

lady

the tolerate. trucks go there. So do tive, quick-witted who came from Wisconsin and

mail coaches. Sometimes

I do not know about concen- married the boss, has been run-

too. But NOT tration camps. Averet police or York Herald | passengers ning the New

It stops

at a very much about executions. I Tribune for years even before the train.

China Kool a Red She is the

called was inside. river her husband died.

but went there by limousine realdent of the paper and the muddy little

und had tea with the governor, inal authority.

Schif

If you want to go any 1 don't feel qualified to offer Mrs Dorothy

must walk on my personal memoirs as a victim majority holding and runs the further, you

railroad of the regime. New York Post.

foot along the

That doesn't mean such a side across a narrow bridge. At Lo life in China does not exist. this bridge it only means there ABE two are Chinese in uniform and sives and my guides were skilful

Weapons. Some in showing me one of them. carrying Chinese wear red stars

has 1

British Bomb

DECAUSE

cow, and

of

+

the fuss over

BAUSE, the mesin Mos-

the violent.

crime

either end

of

in

their caps and some wave here in New York. Brt the same black truncheons tain's decision to "go atomic"

and her announcement that she used by London policemen HESE guides

Is making an all-British hydro-to

not

ly

cheers

was about all.

was ab

u

RODNICT

A

to

many

Page 4 introduces today the first of three articles by Toronto Star corres- pondent William Stevan- son in which he sets down what he saw and what he heard that made on im- pression bn him in the

course of a two month trip through Communist Chino. Sto- Vonzon coyoced 8,000 milos that took

hi m to

many parts

of a country now become

a mystery to the outsido

world, formed

These

articles

the subject of series of talks

over

the Canadian Broadcast-

carry

Many Parts

keep law and order. THE Darts sometimes

were me?)

of

a

in

or same

another or British as

interpreters, soldiers, officinis Ministry-men

the gulac sometimes

ing Corporation system.

D# sometimes

the

Chinese

and

forth

rty.

laste. }

under

one

was wandering organisations where everyone's among several theatres collected keeping life so pure that there's together

for roof in no room

a little healthy Shanghai. You could wander mischief.

Before I'd been too long in from show lo show, stop on the

was self-consciously way to watch jugglers or buy China, I watermelon seeds, and it was doing my best to get up early cheerful,

that in Ure morning. Bnish the food rowdy place the cockles of your on my plate, and keep my eyes warmed

averted whenever a pretty girl old Globe walked past. Even so, I felt the imagined the

of the more con- Elizabethan England disapproval Theatre in was like this. Orchestra players scientious comrades who thought rested their bare feet on the I wasn't showing a sufficiently cdge of the stage. Writers carnest approach to my work.

heart

in

the wings.

to

scribbled away

They wanted

waste my Actors snatched meals of steam- time with vadless conferences ing rice behind the scenes and interviews at which officials

BOOTYC

A Confession

11

didn't

this.

tco

had to

to make the mass of people now had a

the

But this argument against out-of-the-ordinary names is not always true. I spoke the other day to the man who has tha most unusual Christian names in Parliament....Dr Hyacinth Bernard Wenceslaus Morgan, 69-year-old Socialist M.P.. for Warrington.

He told me: "I was lucky in my names I was born in the West Indies where they did not seem unusual. My Catholic the parents named mo after saints."

Only when he was 20 and won his scholarship to Glasgow University did he come into an environment where a lad called Hyacinth might feel he should keep quiet about it.

Instead, when he got up to debating speak at the union society in his

SAMSON

first year,

speaker

nounced

the

him

-

boldly as

"Hyacinth Ber nard

laus Mices-

Even if he had wanted to, could not

he

hide his латся atter that.

Не

an

says:

"They made Impression straight away and a favour- ablé impression

I was coo. nicknamed 'Hy*

or 'Good Old King Wence.

If a child hås talent to im- press his fellows he can over- ride any ridicule that a stranga name might create.

an

Every child with a strange name should think how a boy with

unusual first name earned himself a statue in Trafalgar Square.

1

Young Horatio Nelson had an, ·· older brother, Bill. But Bül, for all his down-to-earth Chris- tian name, was only a country, parson. It was Horatio, who earned a nation's respect.

I went, uninvited, behind one rocited meaningless percentage of the stages Actors and wives figures wrapped up in high- and children were eating put sounding phrases. Finally I lost

on grense Ling

paint or just patience and said I hadn't come chattering

to China to hear Suddenly all the way away. silence fell as I asked for what I could already read about translation of

writing in their propaganda back home. chalked up on

a blackboard. To do the higher authorities

Justice

they

accepted mnado They merely

facilities available after that to see some of the things I requested. I was free to roam unescorted with my They gen bomb didn't get the Ameri- Some are cousins and some appearing

T'S hard to convey my feelings cameras in the cities. IT'S deserved.

runity

seem to care een attention they

at one time

as I listened to what turned much and their attitude could The news was reported bu'

One of Foreign mournful notes of Russian folk out to be a confession. the and

only from an the New served extensively.

of many parts music I'd already suffered from these jolly little people had ex- have sprung

confidence, Possible York Daily News sald editorial officers.

Now they are divided by the but all dedicated to one leader, in trains and ships and in the pressed some kind of criticism dant

The centres of resistance had been "The more of those big fire-

Next day a medical against the government. streets. nollet boards. river and two

Mao Tse-tung.

destroyed. The process of re- in our churns' hands crackers

student appeared outalde my local cadre in

their group at once the

One board has the initials C T-

education brought the rest in IS PRECIOUS the better. Also.

meeting That struck me as interesting window playing on his trumpet, organised a discussion The other Chinese Territory. Uncle Sam can be relieved of

Has My where everyon the letters B T-British Is Moo who commands respect Where Oh Where one-man police bears his Job

and obedience not the Russians, Highland Laddle Gone."

some accusation peasants though at the moment they are

against Territory. force the louder our taxpayers'

So I tackled this use. She offender. After he'd withdrawn sense of direction and I felt and But that

Cross back

ho ordinnay would echo."

as Elder

Chinese SOMETIMES, though not often, erred to constantly

wouldn't admit it was all a joke his com Elder Brother,

to write out this public confess peasant achieved his present who give their children "safe" how-

Implaint, he'd been obliged um in theory, because, sumprised

day it a white

ever, is not Big Brother. And t

wrote was being

Trion, full of

of the most abfect self- ambillon to become well fed and And how c known by happened to me,

I must admit I was rather read. She did admit she criticism. I felt I was peering- well clothed, he wouldn't worry In my hand was a Americans about these two big

piece of

tickied to see even Big Brother Gren

from into the depths of a man's soul too much about the spiritual British developments,

poper which said I could go

Mas being pushed around by a spoke English learned

missionaries. I asked her what and I walked out of there with fisdom we find essential to life. in 10 the right in-right

pigtailed young girl come" 10 books she read nowadays. She blurred vision.

TOMORROW: mysterious world beyond this take his official photographs.

replied: "Lenin and Marx and I can only placid border.

Mysterious Brown Figures You'd expect to see the same Muy Tse-tung." kind of portraits everywhere I pulled a face and said: "That atmosphere to that of member-

With Orange Juice? that blanket other Communist must

unist must be pretty dull." She stood states, but Malenkov I never saw there, the more than a child, at all and Mao Tse-tung only dressed in " mob

сор, д

and LL frontiers are much more about as often and in similar crumpled white uniform

This thin marks on a map.

circumstances

own trousers which ended short of For Avo years, Queen's

portrait. Mao even had the clumsy books on her feet. more go,

a huge painting of himself re- look of uncertainty crossed her Marx and the mandarins have a

the walls of the face. and then she Joined together to rule the largest moved from

grinned. So you begin Forbidden City after the fifth

That

was as much as I ever nation on earth.

celebrations the bridge anniversary

learned about your walk

of secret feelings across

it hardly and feeling like an

explorer-and which it had been erected.

ordinary people, Indeed you are.

amounted to vigorous opposition.

Those who tico part in the Other tricky questions this by XHERE in London does a million Fifteen

Chinese,

have to acquire more years prospective guides had to Peking's own admission, were

beadle still ery the course

than'a historic knowledge of BY Incorrigible op- hours? What connection London. They are taught how

WISELY

I

have

been

Is

Let the Future Scholar

have a Start Now!

Learnin

16

Count

from

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.

A

That

Five Years

What

are about to see has you are bren witnessed by very few foreigners. What you are about to hear may give a clue to the future course of history.

Brother.

our

New Order

The MAO'S popularity is, I

A spontaneous, though men you are now going to meet may have hopes that are higher hard or suffer from a despair that is ends

beginu, deeper

reads

KROLLE

to know where and

Mao

is a

only

the

that precious gate with artificial · demand ir

keskus

never

for

this

10

on.

Executed

A

Thought Control

ABOUR comps correol the

compare this

ship in one of those fanatlesi

parents

names are not'so wise after

So perhaps today's

21.

Are they not just lulling their children into comfortable mediocrity - making today's John, David, and Jim just like any Tom, Dick, and Hairy of the past?

EXAM FOR LONDON GUIDES

W

By J. W. TAYLOR

Londoners

drawer

on

are Queen Elizabeth I and Nel

burled? (Tha First Elizabeth is · buried im Cheet

in Cardinal their capital pretty thoroughly. Wolsex's tomb in St. Paul's

Cathedral)...

is built on the site of a leper who like to think they know Abboy Nelson,

Mary, I's tomb in Westminster

think, ponent of the now regime. Wat has the Bishopsgate In- to prepare for fours, how to

education

What is

the relationship transport and It's monopolised largely by

this atitute with flannel petti arrange

other detalls,

treat between the Collegiate Church of and how to class.

schools coats? So re-education.

What was unusual

various types of visitors from St Peter in Westminster and propaganda

attempt to reclaim the milder about the burial of Ben Jon the Colonies, the proviners and Westminster Abboy? (They are modern cases. The director of one told

two names for the same place). Tobes I don't suppose a moment les emperor,

even if his

a wall papered immaculate quite frankly: "We regard son? Where in the cocktail overseas. that comes more than once in are

this as a battleground of the bar with

The nbowd questions were Where, and in whose tombs, Itfetime. You want the railroader's uniform, His govern- mind."

with banknotes? How high careful mcht is Chinese

is Nelson's column? Which among those sot at this year's to share your excite

sections of ment. But the little chap olling antagonise large

If on

well-known London building final examination. They would

stump even many his automalle rifs in front of population at one time.

glances up. Ho

poniem- you hardly

He unpopular measure IS the Chinese characters on pinted, the people are first stirred

hospital? up by Rocal officials until an paper piece of

Lose thinkers and, incidental- created for

If you can answer 'these .. his onerof

foot and

and returns to the regulations already decided ly provide cheap workers, I went toasers, and a couple of dozen The Chinese in, effect, into one gool where most of the others of a similar nature, you his min and whatever secret

прос

good chance of being thoughts are passing behind have absolute freedom to do as prisoners were former Kuomin-stand

of London's

A beadle still cries the hours. Bourne), black

disinterested eyes. their government tells them: and tang leaders rather than warte enrolled as one During The following

the two governmont, by Arst agitat, their bodies by shooting them, Corps of Guides, run by the in Ely Place, Holborn,

public months 1 dovered about ahting the masses, can always claim they were harnested to weaving London County Council and the Blahopegate Institute was where is the only

about eight ing thousand miles, and I suppose a new order, is the will of the sheds and sock-making machines. Brith Travel and Holidays, partly built with surplus funds house in London with a bear

For the marsies, thought-Asociation I ought to have all sorts of facts people.

from a bequest of 1482 to provide garden? (Wine Office Court), It's dictatorship of a new. control is achieved by several and opinions to offer as a result.

Ben Johnson was buried in West- Where Is London's Partiyala Wall, I'm afraid I have no clear. Once I was in hospital in hours of one alded political dis Classes are run for candidates petticoats for poor old women,

Enbanke opinions and only a ragbag of Central China. Some of the cussion every week. Confessions at two Polytechnic evening in.

Abbey in an upright gardent (Chelsen. rows or nurses, did not at frat ravest and self-criticisms are all part iitutes, and those who pee the position. The cocktail bar wills mont) confused fact. contain Med Tre-tung e amallee they spoke English. Then one of the programme and few course and the anal kamina Ahan you'd think and eats hot day. I naked for someone to take to

Nelma's Column la In which well-known building minda se al “modatures Guide bed from Plcendiilly pepperswilly pooti, becates Mory for my paper to the fact young adult today have not tors are adven askploma, and a the nancial wallpaperila in

he defau The latter them: 170 feet highs The building om are plate let, into the noods Fit and watched him doing it, cable omcor In the story of the world to one loan perand Ikzow ¿here's à stolen Canidlar

that, even in hospital, il saw many exemples but ons mens tourlady to the site dieper hopital is at markhedence of chalo

PA and 100 Seef? (The Quildhal}}); stalo ubuktning: tip “and down the

still relirati "the" fert me with

those

Nama two coveród-in rivers

of London. (The Floot and the

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