THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1956.
SCHOOLCHILDREN BY DAY, GANGSTERS BY NIGHT
By ANTONY TERRY
N many terrified West German homes these days is the shadow of the gangster. The shadow of is cast by thousands school-going delinquents of with sexes, whose agen
When 18-your-old Christian, range between eight and 20,
tried to mirder and whose nightly escapades his own father by running him
raging drunk. freezing well-meating over in his own or he ended welfare officials with horror by chusing the old man until he and raising the awkward Anally collapsed and was question: "Were things not seriously injured
way. Then better when con- callously possibly
service in Nazi and drove pulsory
kept see if he was finished" the early postwar years. youth organisationa
! uf young Germans crime
ure
This is why mix kids
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Bonn sentence-and within A
miners earning anything up to few
£10 a week-were horrified to weeks he was back again at hin old hobby of car stealing. Net discover how their offspring even police bullets whistling were spending their time after round his head have been able school. The last burglary
by the police to deter Harald. So new West only discovered German police have new ordern, because the youngest member if they encounter Harald on the of the gong, a nine-year-old, rin-shoot at sight, to kill it got stuck in a shaft while try- need be,"
ing to gain entry into a bicycle shop so that he could let the rest in
Psychologists and crimino- logists are equally puzzled
present rise the
In Juvenile left critne in West Germany, the rond- country which managed to keep the boy returned its erinte gures within odmir- later ably modest limits even during 1 few sumites
the old nan The archy and starvation
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in West Germany's manejo n Jus Dice Mastay 1: Berna Taking to face up to the ae sal ang gires of juvenile emme m averaled by modern statistics
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her pushed sister Into seven-year-old river and held her hend under winer until she was drowned.
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The truth at hoekt to German parents, however, was the das-
of burglars Posay that a gang between the tutes of 9 and 14 hord heen Really arrested
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the "leather Jackel growth of for a whole stetion of the city
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of sucits of the Hitler Youth of the mg open dozens
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COLOURED
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MAN
THE
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On Tour in the Deep South, gressive and enlightened cham- the rabble
Tuesday.
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SOUTH AFRICANS LIVE ON TICK
By JOHN IVEY
EHIND
Johannesburg the recent de-
Bision by the South
people who were slek than anyatory of a country ensnared in the "never-never" system and whose people are the permanent slaves of next month's pay packet.
No segregation during that pion of the underdog, is now
ordeal and, in fact, one colour- African Government to limit considered £15 hostile to the
ed man did more to help the hire-purchase buying is the coloured cause because he said Bards played, people are
Negroes present, mental health conven- integra.ion should be graduni. were no
one except the stewardess. COLIT) tion in the Dinkler Tutwiler
"Dixie"
while If the Democrats spilt over Eastland Hotel in Birmingham. Ale me
shouted: "We must Segreguilen begem only when segregation issue it could prevent mongrelish ion of the bama, when I left. A pretty mean disaster for them.
the plane finelly landed and we Adla white race. We are not going went our separate ways. blonde Stevenson's party can white Southerner,
win the de let the National Association elections with The 16 Southern for the Advancement of Colour-
Montgomery is me for a and pert, asked
In South Africa today, nud hurder States, plus
tense lawn I have visited, more New ed People use our children at contribution and inquired if
York, California, and Illinois, or pawns in
powder-keg I would Ray almost everything is bought I would be a voluntary with Ohio instead of nols. politics to get the racial vole in than Tuscaloosa, the univerzity on credit-either under a worker.
urban
vo.c
ran deelde a
the and
holds
close Northern
A game of
power
of a
city.
For
B5 days
the mos:
long-term hire purchase Montgomery's agreement or on a "pay-at- buses have been boycotted by the-end-of-the-month" basis
the city's 42,000 Negroes. Tho
spoke to her coloured will not travel in the from small retallers or big
The thing'e fact is that if the the Northern cities." 1 gave her a dollar, ex- Negro
the four Northern No one cused myself as a volunteer, lugether in
Stater it and said: "It's a bit ironi-
election, that this convention Negroes are angry with S.even- cal should be held here when con. just a few miles away nt Tuscaloosa we have had An example of mental Illness."
She did not get my point.
Biggest Problem
in country
The balance of power is in the coloured man's hands and the politicians are beginning to realise It.
I would
but somehow the speech foll
buses and take the "Jin Crow" department stores. scats in the rear.
The bus line, which is
THE crowd yelled: "Yippee"__ fat, and towards the end of the by whites, is going broke for
senator's hour-long oration the crowd begon to thin,
for
not be at reparabo
are
I've been here in Alabama almost a week and my forecast
At the airport in Birmingham is that the colour question will
whero landed, there
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fountains hatfg over the entire compaign, separate drinking It has already begun to do so.
while and one for It is a question that
hat is highly coloured separate washrooms, inflammable.
the benches, and THE white Southerners re- all surprised if there are more
coloured are not allowed to cat sent Yankee newspaper- riots, more violence. more or drink to the cafeteria, which
although lynching tonight, tomorrow. this is exclusively for whites." here, and Englishmen are personalty week, next week, in Alabama er in the other States of the Deep
The planes themselves are not strong South, popular. there is
unlike Mississippi, omelatly Georgia,
segregated, criticism of "foreigners" in Louisiana, and parts of Florida, during ono nigh: I made was trains and buses. Opposite me terfering with the affairs of the proud South.
'Voice of
men
The
few past
days here, driving and flying around, talk- ing to both white and coloured, have convinced me that by far the biggest :ue and problem in the United Sates, dwaring all others, the question of race relations; the case of Bluck versus White
Jack of business.
They're puzzled
Cash payment is dis- runcouraged among regular cüss --
tomers by almost every form of retailer for two main reasons:
and angry
THE whites are puzzled and
One man told me: angry "We've built $10,000,000-worth of, Negro housing in the past Лlve
2 years. There is $2,000,000 Bill pending finance now Negro parks playgrounds,
new
fo
and
1. Because customers tend to spend more If they know they can "pay later";
2. Because retail accounting systems are now geared to the credit plan.
TOILS OF DEBT
The position now is that no to the city baseball team, and unless he was prepared to give. In business nigger retaller would last "We even admitted Mrs Constance Balcer Motley, this in whot we get for our credit on a prolific scale. lawyer from the National Asso- pairs a klóg in the teeth.” ciation for the Advancement the South' of Coloured People, headquar
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ters in New York.
No one spoke to her except the stewardess and myself.
Threats against the colour-
In hire-purchase the slory is
nation the sture that of a
ed are common. Arthur Shores habitually in the tolls of debt. the lawyer for the barred uni- A report just published rem versity audent, Miss Lucy, told veals that of durable goods. me ho always carries a gun (cars, radio sets, furniture; va even when he goes into court.
Miss Lucy herself has hand
threats, but dons
ATTENDED a meeting Montgomery, Alabama, the biggest rally of white South-
clothes, etc.) more than halt: erners held in an auditorium for
On another light 1 mado we
are bought on the hire-purchase The speaker was Sena- had a very bad time in for and years.
system. for James Eastland, of Missis- with almost total lack of visi- many
bilty. There were two coloured seem particularly worriedk
The hire-purchase debt owed passengers
by South Africans now stands What troubles me about this at £35,000,000-glant men among the 40
total aboard tho Constellation, We girls, and
dangerous and desperate situa- for a white population of only were unable to land at one ale tion is that each adults at schools and universi
side, the 2,750,000. and circled ties will probably be the biggest It is sad that a man of East- port after another
should be also around for almost an hour like was as the reds, issue in the Presidential elec- land's views
getting more bluter, state- chaluman of the
violin.. tion, despite the plous
Internal a blind bat. ments of the candidates.
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Two of the elties most in debt under the credit-granting sys- bem are the provincial capitals In the Deep South It is of Johannesburg (Transvaal) the battle between extremists; and and Bloemfontein (Orange Free
ha is the tragedy
of the State).
A child cried, women began
Bob, and I could foel
arm dema sweat dripping down my
pits, and my palms were moist, South.
Dixte East'and, the gogue, is a rabble-rouser, and
SHE MARRIED THE HEIR TO A BRITISH PEERAGE
NOW
THE BRIDE SHUNS DIAMONDS
17HAT happens when a schoolgirl runs away
and marries a peer's heir? A few nights ago I found the answer.
By DOROTHY HARRISON
In Johannesburg, the country's Industrial metropolis, few people own the furniture they use, the cats they drive, the radios they Usten to or even the clothes [they wear.
A large percentage of those who are buying on hire purchase ITC well in arrears with their payments. Bloemfontein
residents are even deeper in debt.. In thla | city of 140,000 peopic, one in "T get angry," she said, overy ve of the white popula❤ for debt last
"You can't run to it with "But do, you know-we three children to bring up." haven't had a quarrel in all our "when I read of Jimmy getting tion was sued
an allowance from his grand-year-and the figure rdje higher Ave years," said Pamela.
father. That is not true. He is the year proceeded. Pamela was the envy of
Then, suddenly serious; she gels a regular private Income overy schoolgirl in Britain added: "But though it's turned from the family estate, which one day five years ago when out one for us, I wouldn't ad- is a different matter." From parties to picnics to Jimmy, in spite of family vise other young people to clope poultry farming in a £000 opposition, slipped a £1,000 unless they're sure they are MEMORIES CLING. cottage; from a carefree engagement ring on her mature enough to face all the clopement to the worries of finger.
bringing up three young
children-that's what the HAPPY YEARS
last five years have meant
dimculties' blend,”
"In our house," said Jimmy, "there isn't a boss-we are both equal, and that's dhe-way-s
to Pamela Hennicker and Now as a poultry farmer's going to be. Always." Jimmy Fitzroy, grandson-wife, Pamela
and heir of Lord Southamp- ring ton.
Memorica of the old days still cling. Not only for Pam and Jimmy, but for others, too.
INFLATION THREAT
In almost every case the debt was incurred 'under a hina- purchase or "easy credit! trans- action
exception
other country (maintains 'such a high steril-
With the America,
"Wherever we go there are and of living us South Africa. nudges and stares as people ro-But with so much of this luxury living bought, with · borrowod cogniso ux.
money, the Finance Minister. Mr
Erie Louw, has warried the "But would we do the same country of the threat of infla
COL:60.
'stion set by a people living be- much worth
yond. Its pay packet.
has locked the away BCHI exchanged There's nothing he likes nylons for. thick woolly better than painting and de- Blockings.
corating. Jimmy, who will one thing sgain? Or day take his wat in the House boen so And they proudly say:
Their
red-bricked cottage is of Lords, is happy doing that while." "We're the happiest couplo at the end of a mud-caked Suf- and breeding chickens, in the world.” -
folk cart track.
Nights out, dancing? "Not for us any more," says Jimmy. "As a matter of fact, I haven't even got a dinner jacket these days.
Quite a few older people in Britain shook their heads Ave yoday ago and mid: "Buch a marriage can't last. The child's too young."
A
Very
As a possible curb to・ ex«; She cuddled four-year-old ceptional credit buying, a move was started roomily by in- Geraldine, an clan replica of nuenital wholesale organisa "So long as I con make my herself. poultry pay, I never want to
fiona do indizice retallers to offer In discount to cash customers, “ "And it Geraldine wants to so dar, however, tiso compaigni be a professional man," he said.
Only one thing donors elope at 18 and got married, we ham eract with little Pamalwrong reports about, wouldn't dream, oc, stopping Bouth Afriosas preder to k their financial positioni
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