POCKET CARTOON by OSDERT LANCASTER
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1955.
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Winston Watched The Wall Street Crash
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from the_public_gallery of
the New York Stock Exchange
within.
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out
the Ritz: they held a joint account,
Yet the picturesque legend that the sky over Wall Street block was, during those days,
of despairing with the bodies speculators vanishes under Gal- braith's scrutiny.
Statistics
In
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
oooooooooooo 1000000000000000DONDOO When she was in the USA last found a "Jellied child with the year, she said, the boy's school- disease they must have caught timon
gete master told her about the story, It from adults whose malady mixed in the schoolboy mind, The youngster wrote: "On had not yet been spotted, The dates and the actions go in (no evening in 1032,
If the child has a serious in- but what comes out is at times Elizabeth entered the ancient festion after wearing the tuber- much ΠΟΙΟ interesting and town of Coventry and, mounting culin jelly an angry red wea! THE GREAT CRASH, 1929. entertaining than the original, a #now-white stallion, throw oft with Bilsters 1s revealed. In a
By
K. Galbraith. mille case it is just a blister. Consider the incident between her dress and rode through the
Hamish Hamilton, 12s. 6d. · and a clear skin indientes free Queen Elizabeth of England streets of the city. On her way
186 pages. dom from the disease, Lady she net Sir Walter Raleigh, whos and Sir Walter Raleigh,
The jelly tests are designed Huggins, wife uf the Inte seeing her condition, threw his
recently cloak about her crying 'Honi soil to supplement 01243 X-ray Governor of Jamaica,
N the morning of survey which starts in the town American boy's qui mal y pense', recounted art
Thursday, October 24, so that the lay multitude temperament to provide the one salt
schoolboy, in November. version of the story when sho
1929, a sturdy English side should not be privy to the and the knowledge to supply the show that the suicide rate Helion mean! "Thy need is greater that uddressing the
added:
his New York during the crash was hurly-burly
was other, Soft-padding up on Queen READ ALL Men joining HM.Sgure stood, cigar in mouth, bet Celebrity Lecture Guild in "The mine."
better that way. E- Elizabeth graciously responded:
Ark Royal,
theme, he has the dry, sardonic substantially below that prevail- ABOUT IT the Changing Pattern
The historic crushi
Well phroshit!
to' the ing during the previous months, appropriate Dieu et mon droli, which meant
Navy's newest air in the public gallery of the pire.
tragedy. For this tragedy was
when the market was doing My Cl. you're right."
craft carrier, reocive a proient New York Stock Exchange. Street had begun.
beautifully. of a 22-page book when they Before him was being A few prophets had predicted played by comedians VANISHED Two ghosts have arrive on board. As well as
of the most it. They had been denounced for enacted one vantstied - the giving the history af
hereny, sabotage. When previous CHOSTS
scenes in the his Warburg said that if the orgy workman with the ark Reynis
in the
the frenzied the headless en- book gives the four what of tory of that stately institu- of red lamp and
W S. Dreyer, tion, gineer, which at one time were Commünder C "familias" at London Airport, who is responsible for running | Neither have been reported since the ship under the Captain.
So great was the tumult last winter.
The Commander lists his four: The men with the lamp has "hat
leave breakers, that outside the building It than doze LREIN, dirt-makeover, and bretsen inore
mysterious was heard as a tane since the airport was built, without mannera.
roar, attracting An Irish labourer on night watch last winter was the last to see He told his workmates he
the
with the mainETS.
this The book is a guide to safety Lathe near a remote but by the
and of rules, and naval customs, Blain runway in the centre
was quite tells newly-joined mernbers of the airport and he sure he had seen a ghost
the ship's company how to fad them way about the ship
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Another myth must be carded; that which doplots the
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"on to
He recalls the moment when, orgy of speculation as something "unrestrained apeculation
after three days of frenzied gripping the entire nation. Only was not halted there would be
solling, the rich began to feet 600,000 Americans out of a disastrous collapse, e
Was the pinch; the boardrooma be- millon had been buying declared to be "sundbagging cane empty American prosperity."
"those now in margin," and were linbir trouble had facilities for suffer- suffer when the credit squeeze ing in private." Came a day turned into a bear's hung. when
TOO FEW
causes of the
THREE DAYS
Of his fourth "hate" he writes: dull
A mere month or cu before Roger Babson "For many men to live close Janxious crowd. Police Com- he catastrophe,
bad gid "sooner or later 44 gether in a ship requires good
missioner Whalen......to crash is coming"; a momentary faltering an whom
confidence curred, and was
of the
WCWTCT.
The annual out burst of hilarity Ira the Romney
of the Landon Airport's ghosts Mushes is on again, so much so
evenings, o
گروه
calony frogs there.
several
Who
have been reported Perhaps that Little Audrey could never they will come awin in the matchi the darker winter may be there is now too much muscle, light and nulse there for Landon Airport to be a populer haunting place.
The
pheno.
nnon w a s
NEW BOOKS
reported, hur-
ried a detail
of police off-
reviewed by George Malcolm
Thomson
brushed asido. After 11.
had
onc
to expert "indentations in
the ever- ascending curve American
prisperity,"
For more pop-
that
of
crash?
The the TURIOTT swept through the Galbraith offers you a choice
a boy let of a firework in a Chicago street and
elly that gangaLUTA margin accounts had closed were shooting up street.
olione
The rich were too rich, and too been, few. "The rich can't buy large
the
quantities of bread." The banks were too small. When one tall- In the ed, the rest were besieged.
American
there big business were too many adventurers. »
J. D. Rockefeller iet world know that for some days ho had been buying Eddie Cantor, sound stocks; "comedian and victim,"
forted,
You will probably decide that re- behind it all lay a widesprend "Sure, who else has Insistence on being deluded. "All people, says Hagehot, "ure most Two men jumped hand-in-hoppy when they ale mogl hand from a high window in credulous,"
any money left?”
The Colonel Warns
THE DARK EYE IN AFRICA. In this book version of a talk By Laurens Van der Post. Van der Post gave to the Pay- chological Club of Zurich-he Ba. Hogarth,
6. 159 discusses with almost desperate
urgency the problem-Cukur.
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supreme
African
One part of the book is given place He has never answered up to telling sillors the right a con bal glides off into the way to wear their cups. It is
cers to Wall, night with his red lamp swing- an offence in wear a cap "fox-a-
the Street. A tipped back off ing
back" The headless engineer was first forehend and cap ribbons workman ap- seen wh1431
were used have to be no tied that the letter caravans
peared on
utar Was the He was as alegunt offices
re- "R" of "Ark is over the nose the top of a high building, belief breathlessly held by Pro- ported three times in us many weeks, and regularly afterwards
The crowd waited eagerly fessor Charles Amos Dice
the great "bull" market, the for him to commit suicide. Coolidge market, was going for- wandering near twich
The LAUGHING tarmac
FROCS
But it was not the day word **like the phalanxXON for workmen to commit Cyrus parasang upon parasang " suicide.
"Don't part with your illu What was taking place in slons, the Wall Street Journal thousand the financial quarter of New quoted from Mark Twain; "when they are gone you may exist, York on that autumn morn- but you have ceased to live." with aing was not a civil commo- coley started dozen frogs imported from Hution but gary in 1935; now it has spread over 80 or 90 square miles and as laughing its head off all over Having failed to And how far frups speed and where they spend the win- British members of the Herpetological Society are now For 48 iours one recent week
concentrating on why the frogs 500 local_lve-year-old school ugh and where they laugh
It could even be argued economics. It was a turning | children euch wore a piece of the loudest and longest.
that, as the Chancellor who point in American (and there special jelly on their backs given
fore world) history. It ended After one of his visits to the put Britain back on the Gold the age Scott Fitzgerald wrote to them by the health depart-
When it was taken off Marshes, Mr Alfred Leutechce, a Standard, he had some part about. It made a covolution It No other African writer with His book is the outcome of a the doctors were able to tell if sending member of the males in preparing for the extra- grew its own mythology. This such passion or commands such sense of beauty giving wings to uny child was suffering fron discovered that it is
It is a proper subject for iron brilliant colours on his palette o sense of danger, that laugh, almost certainly to ordinary scene he witness commentary as well as economie Few men probe
50 carnestly ataet the females and possibly [ed.
speculation.
below the surface ไม่ political to warn rivals of their prior
As he left the public gallery, Galbraith, professing econ- problems to their rools in psy territorial claims.
at trembling officials shut the doors omics
Harvard. has the chology.
CERM AL Bilstom in the Mid- HUNT lands. Dr D A.Smyth, Mediral Ome Health, and his staff have
undetertex hunting for sufferers of tuberculosis through the children
tuberculosis
bean
De Smyth Baya that 1I+ discose in a child of five or six was non-infectious, so if they
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
HALLOWEEN WILL
SOON BE OVER, BUT UNTIL IT IS, THE
GARBAGE AND RUBBISH CANS SHOULD BE KEPT
INDOORS.
GOSH
DON'T YOU KNOW
ANY CRANKY PEOPLE SO
WE CAN PULL
SOME TRICKS ?
I'M STUFFED
"DO YOU THINK
NIEWIE
WHAT DO
YOU
THINK:
the Marshes.
Den
the
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an economic Determined to live, resolutely
remarkable With a flair for clinging to their illusions, the THE most calamity.
Because the European settler speculating public of the United
writing and thinking - "being
has rejected all things African. hand with his- States prepared for the Twilight about Africa today on
is Colonel especially the humòn beings he Crods-the gods who Van der Post. tory" which Galbraith ap- of the
Son of a family found there, he stands in grow- on margin, borrowing that has been in South Africa ing and terrible danger. proves, Winston Churchill bought
from the banks at nine percent for three was present at one of the to do so.
centuries; devoted Afrikaner; foe of all that the The Dark Eye is a Maloy term present generation of Afrikaners applied
man who runs critical events of our time.
warns Van pursue as their national ident: amok. "Mau Maut," the "compulsive racial mystique der Post, "is the most dramatie which underlines the lovely manifestation light of Africa with long blue- eye is losing its light and dark-
ening everywhere around us."
Hurly-burly
The Great Crash was some- thing more than an event
Beware Of The Goblins!
TRICK OR TREAT.
pencil shadows."
BY HARRY WEINERT
́S-0-0! YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS`
SAID THE GHOST AS HE
UNSCREWED HIS HEAD AND PLACED IT ON THE TABLE.
-"THE BIG-HEARTED PAL
› WHO SAYS-ˆBOYS
WILL BE BOYS UNTIL HE DISCOVERS
IT'S HIS GATE
HANGING ON
ATREE.
"IS THAT OVER-GROWN PIXKY STEPPING OUT TO RING. DOORBELLS
AGAIN THIS
to a
that the African
VENTURE INTO DARK- NESS. By Alico Tisdale Hobart (Longman's. 12.
6d.).
MRS Hobart,
the author of
new
"Oil for the Lamps ol China" has written a Door about a new China 1/2 led to believe, hayo poen extin-
which, we
the lamps guished.
aho
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It appears to be as much "venture into darkness" for her as her hero, on American who returns to Communist China el the height of the Korean war to "Descue D man he has wonkly betrayed, (and) also to explate the gullt he feels for uther things (including) 215 tailure towards tho Chinese people whom he was brought up to love"
The man he plans to rescue - American-is under house arrest in Shanghai. And, of course, starts
the mission of mercy off from Hongkong--u dark inlet near Aberdeen, to bo more precise.
I found Mrs Hobart's book tedious. The netion is too slow; there are for too many flash- backs to a prewar China which Mrs Hobart obviously knows much better than the present- day one.
More Sensitive
David Conway, the central. character, ist a more sensitive and sophisticated, Soldier of Fortune than Ernest God's horo,
Hank Leo, And Mrg Hobart's story is more "realis- Gel--and therefore more crow dible than Goux's somewhat write melodrama.
But In her appraisal of contemporary conditions and the
the
reason
temperament Chinese people she allows pre- Judico (or is it petulance?) to act as a barrier to à trao, un-' derstanding of the Chinese revolution, and the why America, one of its great- est benefactors, came out! wordt in the realignment of China's
・tho West.
relations with
Hor book might make a good Aim (with careful editing) but It makes dull reading. I found myselt skipping pages after 11⁄2 tund rend 50 which contained s number of Inaccuracies about Hongkong. Har typhoon blowi in an extremely Improbable and she
(ora Yangue, But, not Tangite),
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