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THE CHINA MAIL. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1957.

FAUBUS OF LITTLE ROCK

GOVERNOR ORYAL FAUSUS.

The President underestimated

the ruthless

ambition of this hillbilly who so far has always

won in the end

NEW YORK.

GOVERNOR ORVAL FAUBUS sat in his mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas, sipping warm milk and taking an occasional tranquilliser. He's worried but not yet desperate.

To the mansion all day came hundreds of telegrams according to Faubus most of them supporting him in his defiance of the Federal Government and de- nouncing President Eisenhower for his drastic action in sending Federal troops to the little capital of a Southern State which, hitherto, has been regarded as moderate und progressive,

Faubus. unknown 11 fue months ugo except anon Southerners, has become n national and even world #gure. At 47 the hillbilly who used to scratch a living as a dirt former at Grenny Creek in the Ozark Mountains has come a long way,

die then

by DON IDDON

bend their

but now he's at the edge of a the North and give up their

precipice.

"They wouldn't have to turn out the troops to provant people stopping me from going to school."

ostentatiously shook the hand of a coloured reporter,

a

one

Foubus was first elected by

fluke when no

clse the job. He won his second term by strenuous cam- palgning and a bold play for the Negro vote.

Now he has sent in troops so wanted knees to

that nine coloured children can go to school. I cannot stress 100 strongly the jealousy with which Southerners guard and treasure their States' rights.

sovereige right to the central Orval Eugene Faubits today Government in Washington. represents the die-hard segre- gationists, and his support Today there is a great debate comes from the hooded order of in the United States as to who is Ku Klux Klan, the White right the President or the Citizens Council, and the Governor.

lie wants to slay in his mansion and consolidate his power. He says: "I like It here and I like the job.”

This is a nation of 48 sover eign States and no American ever forgels it. It is an age-old battle, this ceaseless tug-of-war between the various States and a third the Central Government uf Washington.

Does your husband

snore like a drill?

Yet

VERY night hundreds of thousands of people anore. You probably anore.

no one likes to admit being responsible for the noise that all the other members of the family heard.

Grandfather blames father, father blames mother, mother accuses the oldest son, the eldest son maintains it's the younger brother, the young brother blames the dog. The dog shakes its head.

While Supremacy groups. 3rcni- enlly, he's always been regarderi In his nationwide televised until this crisis as a Liberal, and speech: Mr Eisenhower sald he he owes his election as Governor had many precedents for his to some extent to Negro voles.

Mrs Baker found it But the fruth is there

1 saw a fair amount of Faubus during the four days I spent in Little Rock last week. Do not underestimate him. That is what Mr Eisenhower did.

Deliberate

BEHIND the soft

acilon.

are as mony who can make a case for States' rights which would vindiente Faubus.

Even the New York Herald Tribune's

David columnist Lawrence,

owner and who is editor of the authoritative U.S.

News and World Report, today questions the legally of Elsen- Southern bower's troop order and suggests the President has un- drawi, the charming smile, that and the apparently limitless wittingly violated the Constitu-

very ambitious, lion.

patience even

man.

When

He is hoping to be elected for term and that

is one of the reasons which impel him

dety Now the struggle approaches a climax and there could be bloodshed.

former

A hero

COME prominent Southerners, including Senalar Olin Johnston, of South Carolina, 4 Governor, are urging Governor Faubus to proclaim a of insurrection and defy stale The President. WHI Faubus crack under the strain?

to

the

and President mobilise the segregationists be- hind him. His father is inclined to feel that his son has gone loo for, but he anys: "Orval always wins in the end."

10 as men.

laughing matter.

"My husband snores like a pneumatic drill," she com- plained, and I can't get to sleep for hours."

Since he became Governor his ego has swelled, and only last week he was saying: "I'll match

1 took Mrs Baker's myself against the President any problem seriously enough. time." He is a good, glib, talker

know how in and able to command devotion and loyalty in others. His wife, American States snoring has Alta, is so proud of him that been accepted as grounds

tears often come

Devious

Bome

com- It is more mon, though, in elderly age groups, because as we grow older the muscles of the back of the thrunt become

more lax.

"I

know children who snore," Mrs Baker insisted.

Fast. or slow

News From Britain

And so

it goes

Damage to the nose because By Peter Burgoyne

of an injury may be another cause. That's why enoring is an

occupational symptom of boxers,

Of course, the majority of

people who suore have nothing

wrong with them at all.

Snoring occurs, on the whole, when the tongue rolls back, The tongue is more likely to do on his

that if the snorer lies bock.

"So try to get your husband to sleep on his side," I smiled. I don't, on the whole, recom

end the old-fashioned remedy of sewing a collon reel to the

Jacko back of his pyjama though it works sometimes,”

sign of enlarged adenolds. This enlargement occurs normally between the ages of three and eight. But a series of severe colds may lead to a greater and more permanent enlargement, As- Baker aske a result

of some

these children become mouth! breathers.

to her eyes for divorce. Yet I once had In children it may well ruthless,.

He is not a robust man and when she talks about "my hua- Faubus called out his National - M: Eisenhower, going through is inclined to brood alone for band the Governor."

a patient who could be be Guard, ostensibly to prevent a personal crisis-it is just two hours. He is something of a

called Happy Snorer. He disorder but actually to keep years since his heart attack-lus hypo-chondriac, but his burning coloured children out of his weakened

had not got married until his case by con- ambition sustains him and there capital's Central High School, he tradicting himself. Only a few is not the slightest doubt that

well into his forties because embarked upon a déliberate pion' weeka

said: "I ngo he

can't despite the travall he has

he felt ashamed of the fact of actions.

imagine sel of circumstances brought to Arkansas he has be- E dismayed reporters the that he snored like a ton

HR that would ever induce me to come a hero to hundreds of other day when he shouted sillar giraffe. There had been conferences send Federal troops into any thousands and perhaps millions at his wife in front of them be-

When ho weeks before with rockribbed aren to enforce order of a of Southerners.

cause he did not like some food Southemers why would rather Federal court,"

which she had brought him. On confessed Foubus was born in a tiny, the whole ho is a good family this to a girl Tough-plonk cabin

Ave miles man, proud of his son, Farrell, friend, she from the present farm of his who is now at an academy in father, "Uncle Sam" Faubus. which coloured students are co- told him that Uncle Sam says today: "Mali boy mitied.

the only rea- is now the most famous man in

son she had the whole Utilted States," Не

turned down recalls that as a boy his son was

previous pro- an inveterate reader.

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Yet he did not do well school and did not graduate from High School until he was 23. He did odd jobs for u living and was a common labourer before he managed to get a job as a schoolteacher and then got on the fringe of politics, which sulted him foc,

He loves playing pailtles and revels in the "Hayseed" get.

He plays to the gallery with relish. When he returned to Little Rock the other day le

Faubus is devious and capable of the doublecross. He manutec tured evidence at the beginning of the crisis saying there had been a run by Negro youths on

shops selling guns and knives,

The F.B.I. found this was not so.

she

All In s doctor's

day: by CEDRIC CARNE.

had the samo habit. Soon there were wedding bells, Needless to say, they snored Today the man who has con-happily ever after.

the entire nation and vulsed

of the United "Surely women made a spectacle

their mouths"

"What do you suggest?" Mrs.

Taped

GUS

gone,

The variety theatre is dying in Britain. The fam- London Galety has An application has been lodged to convert the famous Colling oqually Music Hall in Islington into a warehouse.

In the provinces, variety theatre managera gloom over dwindling box office reE- turns, Theatres close down and, for all but the top- ranking performers, book- Ings aro hard to come by.

And the variety pro- fession's journal, "The Performer, ceased publica- Its

Some authorities believetion after 51 years. "They snore at night," I ox- plained, "and during the day mouth breathing can be cured valediction explained: "With they tend to bolt down their at night and amoring along the disintegration of the food or, alternatively, eat very with it-by putting some stick- elowly. This is because of the ing plaster across the corners of music hall business through necessity of breathing through the mouth. They maintain that the development of televi

people soon get used to it.

hand, you "On the other "In other words, their breath- ing in obstructed," Mrs Baker could always at night wear nodded, and that's why they cotton-wool in your ears? I

sal, rising to my foot. snore."

In adults, too, the cause may Mrs Boker renchert for her cometimes be the result of more cost. interferenco with breathing,

sion ... support from those whom the paper set out to serve, and has served so declined that it has been found impossible to con- tinue publication."

It's the variety artistes own

up

rarely Not adenoids, for they timinish "Jack won't bo pleased when fault, say the unfeeling. The States in the eyes of the world snore?" Mrs Baker asked, to infinitesimal proportions by I tell him I've been to the music hall could not keep does not seem to comprehend

the time we are 20. But rather doctor about his snoring," sho the enormity of his action, He surprised.

because of chronic catarrh, or sald thoughtfully.

aits in his mansion and mays ap-

parently placidly: "A Governor Nose and throat sinusitis, or allergic congestion

of the nose, or other conditions "You might as well put the has his rights, and a State its specialists maintain that leading to some nacal obstruc- cotton-wool in your ears right rights, and Ah aim to uphold women snore just as much tion. them both."

ABE LINCOLN

now," I said,

Cummings

with the times.

Maybe they are right. But in- substantial shadows with phoney American accents on a le an awfully glass screen Beer

for the Inadequate substitute carthy, ·TAUCOUS big-hearted world of variety that gave names ilica Charlie Chaplin, Harry Lauder and Marle Lloyd,

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GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD

In Britain, there are two kinds of bus stops-the ordinary sort where every bus stops, and the "request" stops where the bus must be signulled to a standstill by would-be passengers.

It seems, however, that there

is an unwritten code detornin-

bo

AD

ing just bow this should done. This emerged when Irate passenger wrote to newspaper to complain that series of buses had salled past him despite unmistakable signs by him that he wanted to board them.

. Investigation proved that ha bad committed the unforgivable to a bus driver-solecism of brandishing tils umbrella.

This, the knowledgeable ex- plained, was surely calculated to infuriate the most docila bus driver.

Why this should be was not made clear. It doesn't seem to wony taxi drivers, ins

The only acceptable sigml must be given will the timen band.

Gloves, however, are optional..

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