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POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT Lancaster

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"Honestly.

Professor,

PARADE

THE CHINA · MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ·. 18, 1956.

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT

· PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

ILLITERATE Are Drilone, who, education because they did no! According to the ENGLISH?

claim to have brought light to dark lanxis,

an themselves literate folk? Some of Britain's learned men are worried today about the people's literacy-80 worried that questions are to be asked in parliament about it.

It started when the Chancel- lom of some of Britain's uni- versities agreed that the people's use of English was not all it should be.

Not that

tho Chancellors minded what the plumber said when he hit his finger with a hammer; or the coal heaver. when he fell down the steps.

Worrying them Wha the failure almost despair of

of

under- university graduates W get

full the human nature!"

beneft of university

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Arts

there are moments when

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A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

& Worshipped (8)

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12 Retain (4)

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18 Valleys (5)

19 Legal right (41

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24 NCO (8)

23 Colour (4)

20 Earns (8)

of have a sufficient command

Many spoke it the language. neither efficiently nor elegantly, the Chancellors asserted,

This View

browerk.

THOE MY television in the home is cutting trado. An Englishman's idea of making his eveninışt comfortable is to buy a bottle or two to have at his side as he watches the servest

expressed by publicly for the first time

of South- the Vice-Chancellor ampton University in his annual address, to the Court of gave Governors,

MP

Mr Now Conservative

Ox- Peter Smithers (Harrow, ford, 1st Class Honours, Doctor of Philosophy), is taking up the matter with the government.

He will ask the Minister of Education whether he is catie died with the present rarthod of teaching English in schools: whether ho is aware that the

standard of Witeracy among students entering the sity is not satisfactory.

univer-

WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT

HENRY MILLER?

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jargon, and utterly devold of Miller received a latter

вопре.

revolting" or serious

FRIEND HENRY MILLER, By Alfred Pertas. Novillo

Spearman. 161. 242 pages.

T. S. ELIOT said: A JUDGE said: "Obscene

"As good as any

TOR 20 years

Aleo last year's blazing sun- It mer helped the brewers.

parched Brilons D big

F

thirst.

BOOKS

George Malcolm Thomson on the

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needed two meals a million-a-year with the pornographic book contemporary achievement.".

1

BIG Guinbting is now MONEY £524

business among Bri-

Exra Potmd-"At last an tain's 50 million population- trade and gain a foothold

book that's it to serious writing. The unprintable which means that Britons aver-in age nearly £10 10s per head | struggle is not yet over. spent on horses and dogs, foot- ball poola and fun faire.

a shilling This is more than in the pound, or over ont- twentieth of the nation's Ings, according to the cstimates.

latest

cast fame

from

Goverior

England.

critletam from the

of

the

Bank of

After the war, Miller's for... bidden fruits tempted countless> American servicemen in Europe,

a became millionaire Ex

He

has

como

Unprintable

A lurid reflection on the ing and send to exclle lustful the association ended when the But his rampaging, zesty, bad-

thoughts."

literary reputation of Henry Miller has been

francs. In Japan his sales are those of surpassed liberate itself

only by Sir Herbert Bead-"A work stretches of poverly, countless trying to

and Steinbeck. TICAS.. from an carly association of art in the first thin rank of foraya against the conventions. Hemingway

Miller

near-prosperity, reasoned that, as he With

to day and repeatability could touch a friend for a meal threaten his way of life, Miller once a week, all he had to find watches its approach with a read."

He found that derisive eye. was 14 friends, Judge in the U.S. Court of he had more than 14 friends.

Life,

that moment, was of Miller's Although most

can be sold in Britain Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: implied work

"Obscene, replete with long

Twice he was nastelated with The books that are at to read. and America, two of his books

booky passages that are filthy revolt magazines, On each occasion are still unprintable in Britala. are obstinately banned. earn-

outraged proprietor discovered tempered style, his formless yet of this 64-year-old

of impression. American, now comfortably Miller's champions often insist that he was becoming unwil- vigorous flow Top dog today

Califomin in the that his work, although obscene, tingly responsible for a stream can, without harm, be inspected Horse racing BIG

biggest rettled in Is the

and repug-in, say. "The Books in My Life," aristo- lure. Bets on and off the track happiness of a fourth marriage, is not pornographic, Biographer of coarse language Britain's doggy

smmitments. On

A friendly BARK

Perles provides 19 The

Alfred Perles provides an ex- nant cocker swallowed something like £330 crats

for a wager, Miller introduction the orgiastia Dog racing

Vast novel tract from Trople of Cancer, occasion, spaniel with his wistful eyes and million last year, faithful malure. He reigns al came second. The dog

lightly and reluctantly yelled in wrote a pamphlet on monetary Paris days and nights of this

problems. It was in economists' not-so-quiet American. Cruft's, the unmual show which took £120

In 1934, after months of life the French language. It

promple la a magic name lo dog fanciers pools

RM 20 down-and-out In Paris, the thought that the distinction all the world over.

obscenity and porno- sleeping where he could, often between

be sometimes the open,

may eating when he graphy could (which frequently meant academie. when he had found a touch") Miller completed Q vast novel named "Tropic of Concer Against all the probabilities, it was published

tracks million, Football

£08 million. Funfair

penny in tire - slot and games of chance took rest.

machines

the

In

In

But it might be worse, 1054, £20 million more went on gambling.

Cruft's this year had a record 6,433 entries-many clad in coats and packintoshes, rocks and bootees, to beat the cold spell.

And 360 of them were cocker spaniels, popular as a gun dok PUTT What in the world is a and happy in the house.

PUTT caddiemobile? You can hear peppery gentlemen

Next in popularity are Also- tians (313) and Pekinese (298)

'Precious metal'

Reared in Brooklyn, son of an casy-going, beer-drinking Ger-

man tailor, Miller has pursued with gusto many aims in life. Regular employment, which he

סמס

to

BEER AND SPAM WEEK

PLEASE

Jack Kahane, owner of the Obelisk Press, tout a chance on

Sir Bernard. at St Andrew's in Scotland ask-

the book. Kahane, English, of holds degrading, is not one of After them come miniature ing the question with poodles, golden retrieveIN, and brows.

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The overall trend boxers away from the breeds which re- quire excessive grooming care.

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It

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DOWN

Domestics (5).

2 Code (5).

3 Was worthy of (7).

4 Porina (4).

a Parched (4).

# Wept (6).

7 Slumbers (6).

10 Fruit (B).

Measuring device (5)

15 Sewing accessories (7)

10 Culm (G),

17 Rted sult (0).

20 Initate (3).

31 Concur (5).

23 Fish (4).

Pam-

#2 Tie up a boat (4)

3 Tentacle. 7 igion, YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD:-- Scrub: pered, 10 Abase, 13 Contest, 28 S17 Erected, IB Hestere, 20 Idle, 2

Down: Tarated. 29 Teader, Ti inerrore, 28 Juose. 29 Gestures Clean, a Toger, 4 Type, 5 Carrol, 6 Ehled. 9 Assert. 11 Bored. 12 Stale, 15 Scom 10 Levre. 10 Riding It Slacks. 22 Heels, 23 Idiot, 24 14 Trents,

Dried. 25 Mente

Lure 2

The show will boost Britain's for British dogs export trade,

best are considered among the in the world. (Overaeus fanciers bought 3,000 last year: eight years ago they took only 500).

lowering

The Chancellor

By NANCY SPAIN

ana of it.

point where, even in Paris, the "living roofreader, adding not care for it at all.

must be more

beer,

A

LEASE take the tax oft beer ton, Ollver Goldsmith, Hliaire before you lake the tax off Hello, and Robert Burns all praised it. Indeed, they were probably under its influenca as £235 they wrote, And in 1919 the Irish or Jewish extraction, was them. Quitting the paternal

a million every year from it. Daily Express had a leader: familiar with the no-man's and business carly, he has picked up You, sir, every year drink 300 There between the risque and the a

as dishwasher, bus boy, pints of it. You, madam, do cheaper beer, better beer!”

Or

10 sentiment,

I may say, that I police step in. He had made & gravedigger,

machine operator. charity

Campbell, willy echo with all my heart in 1980. says Andrew living in that shadowy region worker, secretary that

to on ovan- author of THE BOOK OF REER ever since he came from his elist, gymnasium instructor. (Dennis Dobson, 158). Only But there's one thing.

The native Birminghom,

and in a dozen other capacities. one woman in three ever even sort that I like best-hat very

tustes it.

strong stuff, dark stuff, in little

that, bottles known as "nips" - once restored me on an Icy

Cornwall-I can't get any in - London.

which contraption carries live golfers; which serves

coffer US but end them

when they feel in need which

troys possenses swing into pluce over ilicir taps which if they so desire: and will provide them with a shave if they trom an electric razor have not had chance to cun- setting picte their toilet before out on the daily round.

The caddiemobile, produced MORE Britain's

lovers

Germany,

the sells for have halted the [x- BEER

equivalent of ebout £250, it is decline

the In year

Atted with a collapsible which country's ale drinking,

brella besides the electric out- reached a peak in 1945 when roistering

celebrated lets for the coffee-maker purties

They victory ever Hitlerism. have even turned the tide in the ale drinker's favour.

•

beer

Last year Britons Averaged 140 pints cach (including old ladies and infanta), three more then in the previous year.

more

Even so, that is not as much as they drank before the war, when incomes were lower

wide unemployment spread. In 1939 the nation aver- aged about 147 pints each.

Against that, Rovernment duty was only 2d a pint.

Li is 8d.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

SALE SNOW SUITS

TAKE IT EASY — LET THE KIDDIES WRECK THEIR OWN SNOW SUITS.

YEP-ITS TIME

TO GET RID

OF THE

AIR-CONDITIONED SOCKS.

· “QKAY~QKAY—

I GET THE IDEAƒ“

$72

the shaver.

GARDEN FOR A BLIND

Li-

and

perfumed garden for blind people is being opened in: Capetown, Neur

the city centre, it is planted with especially

flowers, tolláge scented herbs.

He put

"Tropic of Camer" into a yellow cellophane wrap- per, stamped it with the enlic- ing notice, "This volume must not be displayed in the window," and walled 10 sec whether the law or unhealthy

would win. curiosity gamble paid off

Opinions vary

Perles devoles most of his attention to Miller's ruistering No wonder, Giris avold beer years in Paris. He writes as because it is fattening, I don't night on a frozen road fi su admirer. For hm Mr's avoid it, because I honestly pares "are a-filtter, precious don't care if I do get fat.

with metal studded

tropical Bloner;

pages The exhale the very breath of the Jungle, aretle pages that retain the hour of frost flowers on trees un stalactites,"

Many a tourist who had not spent his

Jast dollar at the Folies Bergere was templed by the fragrant literary morsel dis- etly placed within his ken. Millor begon regularly.

to eat

more

precious

Yea, Verily

or Boz. lean,

ergy value.

And a Now

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13 tho

Stic

Mr Campbell says pint of that

beer equals 4 cpes, Joz. butter, 114oz. potatoes,

here at Jast beef in three-course lunch (of oxtail English answer to "The Egg es, and 1": SPAM TOMORROW beef, soup,

potatoes, roast

Hart-Davies, 15%.), (Rupert cabbage, gravy, steamet pudding,

by a lady with the unusual coffee, milk and

Sugar) not equal to that saloon-bar name of Verily Anderson.

Verily is quite a girl, lunch (ef 1 point beer, 3 slices wholemeal bread, butter, cheese,

and celery

watercress} that narrowly escaped a white slave trafficker. She escaped from wives ancor at their husbands the FANY (First Aid Nursing for having.

Teomanry) by marrying man called Donald "In the Never mind. Betr has other

And Ministry of Information. We can use in women, uses for

her hilarious, scrambling, in through it as a hair ringe as Misa Google warmhearted acccant of married "It gives body life on almost no money at all

Perles first met the creator of this ecious metal sitting all

in a Montparnass by himself cafe. He was trying to drink enough to gain courage to tell the walter he had no money. Perics pald, bought Miller a hotel toothbrush, found him o and a job.

The job did not last long; the friendship survived

which Perles Withers does. during

his hero's T. S. Eliot, OM.~"Passages of followed

pro- and tone" to the hair. through

love writing as good as any I have greSS

rowdy

And of course it has inspired there are all sorts

Housman, Chester- affairs, rowdier marriages, jags, literature, for a long time."

and

raised The flower-bods are about two feet above path level easily so that the blind con touch the plants.

To this day opinions about the book and its sultry sister. "Trople of Capricorn," vary widely, thus:

years

Now

The written posla.

names of flowers

Are

in Braille on wooden

Keen

It's Time To Buy

"LOOK AT THAT SNOW !

WHAT SOME OF THESE STORES WONY DO FOR PUBLICITY /

JANUARY

WHITE SALE

"I DIDN'T BUY THE ELECTRIC HEATER-

BOUGHT THIS INSTEAD THINGS ARE CHEAPER [OLYT OF SEASON-

I'LL GET THE HEATER NEXT

SUMMER

COFR. 1964 BY GENERAL FEATURES

CORP, TIL.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED. 1–15

BY HARRY

WEINERT

WHEN A MAN'S COLLARS BEGIN CHOKING HIM, HE NEERS SYMPATHY — NOT SOMEONE TO TELL HIM HE DOESNT · LOOK CHOKED ENOUGH

FOR HEAVEN'S

SAKE, GET OFF

THE RIMS/

bits of information.

of exciting

For example, her husband spent a happy evening playing military marches on the grame- phone with Winston Churchill, who marched up and down in his blue siren suit "like a happy. corporal."

tise

And do you remember that lone, fying airplane that sci ok

sirena air-raid

од the morning of September 3, 19397 Well, Mrs Anderson alleges that that was the Duke of Windsor flying in. "He wanted to be there at the start,"

Verily, Betty Macdonald had better look to her laurels, ..

Short and..

TEN there is a brilliant and

THEN

most moving 'short novel by Fitzgerald O'Connor called STORM (Collins, Be, (d),

It tells how four men go fish- ing in a boat, Poor Jim, the weaking of the party, has been In prison, thinks no one loves him, is accident-prone.

He falls overboard, taking with him a piece of rope and tackle, So they save him. But the tackle gels snarled up in the propeller shaft and wrecks

And there is a storm coming up.

it.

"Where is our salt?" says the Captain. But Jim (poor Jim). has left the sail ashore,

So without

without engine, the litle fishing boat rides out the storm. And when she smashes herself to pieces on, the rects it is only poor Jim who goes under. The others save themselves by various freaks of skill, luck, and faith.

The

reminds me

"The Old Man Maa battling with the elements. When I had finished" "Blorm". I felt that I had been drenched from head to foot in icy son water."

and the

AN

Naughty

ND there is a fine 'collection- of essays by that streat wit and naughty novellet, John O'Hara, SWEET AND SOUR (Crest Press, 12v 88,), mostly about books, authors magazine editors, other maiters deAZ to the literary heart i fanget y

Mr O'Hara does not wooth to admire Mrs Clare Luce or Mind the rest

and

Fleur Cowley Thea

of us do. Says hos

1210

"Me Luco...took hold

a real classy magaalne, called Vanity False and ingr no time, it disppea Cowles, went to