1958-05-31 — Page 7

BIERE

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1958.

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And here's one of Mummie and Dad taken the year Mummie decided they'd go to Paris instead of Eastbourne."

ARE OUR YOUNG

BEYOND ANY

was Sunday Evening in St John's Wood and the Baxters were enjoying the crackling of the grate fire and the cackling of comedians on the television set in the No one else was in the house and, there- morning room, fore, it was rather odd to hear sharp knock on the morning room door. We were even more astonished n busky when we found that the intruders were policeman plus a plain clothes officer and a dark haired youth with teddy boy clothes.

"Sorry to disturb you,'

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said the policeman, "but this and understanding. here young fellow got on to took the drunks.

the roof of the house next

door and jumped across to your roof m'am"

It was all very copy and congenial, so much so in faet that I felt we should offer refreshment at least to the uniformed policeman. "No thanks sir." he said. "Not

First he

to

In the box is a hlousy female who has slept off her drunken

English spok

Getting Away From It

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the only made-up road in the

Island..

Beyond the groves jaked brown hills rose. Then the sea a great bay of the Vista- vision type opened in front of un, We had arrived in San Antonio,

chlet the

tourist centro.

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.Five years ago the visitor looking for an hotel or pension in San Antonio had a choice of exactly two, Now the tálsi is 20. My totel-one of the newest and best-was on the edge of the sanda. For room, with private bath, and te appearing in

full meals I WOR A new prostige name

But charged 12s, td, per day. the tourist agencies' booking lists. It is

it is possible to get good, clean IBIZA, the Mediterranean island which history

penston or boarding-house Re- paused by for 800

which years....but

commodation again with all meals-at fast in tourist popularity. is catching up

10. a day at any town in the island. before I went to HAVE just returned by Centuries

Ibiza, the Phoenicians went boat and plane from there too, and after them the they are not quite se whie or distant past. From an Carthanglaians, the Romans, the glistening ps the guide-books island where thousands of Moors. But until the last two or say. Near ons noted beach a the British new luxury hotel is opening this women dress each day in three the spring modes of 1958; holiday-maker did not go at a month. But the beach is so small where unpaved tracks trod While the big hotels were that I imagine it could look like by the Moors still nerve as springing up all over neighbour- Worthing at Bank Holiday when sole Agcate: DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Majorca, Ibiza lingerea the hotel gets going. main roads; where even the ing

But

seasons

dogs are a breed which sur. quietly in the past. vives elsewhere only in the paintings inside the tombs of the Pharaohs.

I have been in the Spanish island of ibiza in the

Mediter

TANCAN.

Let me explain i went to find out.

whal

CRIMINALS HOPE?

has Ibiza J

The sands? At San Antonio

Negligiblo

suddenly all that changed. Suddenly

You can take out a boat at become, the new prestige word

You can swim when holiday tales are swapped negligible cost. Prince

Rainier hove to there with goggles and schnorkel in for his honeymoon. Last year the bath-clear waters. You even the Windsors went there. Every have the chance of fishing up where the agencies are putting a Roman jug from the sands. Ibiza on their books,

It the underworld. may even be that gangster films SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER Probes for THE shot in

OF TODAY'S MOST SHOCKING have demonstrated that it is easy to be a big shot if you are tough CAUSE

enough, or perhaps it the aftermath of the war when PROBLEM JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

The boy looks down and his tremble. Then puiling ps himself together he answers: "I don't want to say anything except that I'm sorry."

So the mills of petty crime grind on. Harlots, cheats and

the ramifications

on duty." A log in the grate ss in the cells. The charge jackels and droin-pipe trousers.

court next day as well, and sure enough up came my innocent- faced intruder who was so sorry: wo had been troubled.

That

partly

sun.

The question

Last year Niarchos took the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to eat tried lobster in Juanito'a We will open-air courtyard.

there complete ci a dinner with wine at works-canteen prices.

What difference has it made? That was the question in ny mind as I leaned over the boat

will walk Tull watching the strange pink-

For bathing we

1 Hitlo and orange cliffs of Ibiza grow along cart-tracks to ing nearer in the worm evening grocer's store on the long white⚫

Having berch called Es Cola, tired of brandy at 3d, a tot we will drink Hierbas the strong local liqueur which has almost a bush of herbs stuffed into wall Then we every bottle, change among the sarks in the storeroom.

Then the cliffa ended and we churned slowly into the harbour of the island's capital. Ibiza iiselt.

A

In the picture postcards the town looks like a fantastic Holly

Aim of the Wood set for Arabian Nights.

From the boat I watched the st white terraces gleaming

Glorious....

The children will love it,

as small boys they saw the horror Moorish houses twisting steeply They will love the baby goals

und excitement of the Blitz.

tors.

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up to the old forifications; to the Moorish-style cathedral.

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Whatever be the cause, and is by no means confined to the United Kingdom,, there is muluise of youth in America and Delieve it or not his record Britain which has found ex- of violence.mid robbery was so pression in the teddy boys and bad that the magistrate felt that the walling epileptic rhythm of hit parade яonga The morning after the night drunks with a fresh supply each his was not the proper court hollow tired

to deal with him, emerging from youthful throats.

The only read before has always been a harsh day. The very fles that are told in which

qucer way, a the Old Bailey with

Insead the boy will be tried at It may be that the cinema and Ita atma television must accept stre reg- experience even without the become in some

thu police interference of the law, but to form of truth. But

Soon I was in an hotel the influence of the home is wake up in "jug" and face a court does not deal merely with sphere of famous murder trials, ponability. It may well be that

of petty and other serious crimes.

he carried on his being weakened by the Impact rattling out through the streets crowded court is enough

Wood was of so many mass medium ine-nnd fields of the Middle Ages. make one banish John Barley blevery and drunkenness. Soon eesh which

we were to be regaled with the visit to St John's corn for life.

We were on our way to San case of two young men of meant for business.

I know that in this London | Antonio, 10 miles away on the of the island, splendid height and peroxided

Letter I have dealt with the opposite const fir hair, complete with Victorian side-boards and semi-sporting

problen of youthful crime acd From the back-scat I craned my the country- ignored the vast normality of neck to watch

ja their big Ild-like And once more we saw the countless homes but the social women The charge read against them

This verra was the serious one of robbery Peroxide blond male voluptuaries gist should turn his mind to the straw hats and fringed chawls. with attempted violence which of the previous day. It seems malaise which for one reason The driver said:

is stirring up the important read: moderno." that a week ago while their cane or another was probably why they look so

Jatent sodden vanity of young

14 They as being heard they made a

didn't look particularly pleased with themselves.

But later 1 were big shots and they joku getaway and were recaptured. men who find the battle of com-

exacting moderno to me. This time I noticed that extra petitive existence 100 breath until the

and too unexclting. for their found, that, apart from a single for it used to belong to the "Then why did you get drunic under thei

milo strelch elsewhere, it was the brothers might give a re- taste, famous ex-Torontonian Mies last night?" asks the magistrate, magistrate brought them up with police stood at the exits in "casu

Broad shouldered and

too, Beatrice Lillie and I cannot "According to the evidence you a jerk.

are to appear in a higher court imagine her taking in ccreamed and tried to hit some slim at waist, they looked like eat performance. They

When a pule of perverted Tristans, which means that they will not the boredom of have to worry about anything burglars like unpaying the constable took you under Not for them

n long time. guests. But if the youth was arrest you are reported to have office or factory work. on the roof of the house next said 'T'll get you for this, you were for easy money even if it proxide will have lost its lustre meant blackmall, violence or a when next they see the open sky door why and how did he ple-faced slab","

long term of prison.

and the healthy sun upon their faces. Yet there must have been a

Is rend, the policenian gives fairly split its side and then evidence and the magistrate asis calmed down.

the womon if she had had too much to drink.

"That house next door,"

"I'm a respectable woman," he said, "is always being burgled. This seemed odd she says.

get into the Baxter abode ?

"Well, you see sir," cold the

so often in that house that the

constable, "they've been burgled

one with an umbrella,

☆

They

for quite

Whe

time when no le boys they But they did smile good-bye

The magistrate turns to the ve joy to their parents, Ta to their git friend in the court, and crudely handsome they a young woman with bright blue

sweat and

on endeavour.

Esir.

A

whole place is full of burglar archeaded constable in the would make any parents proy eye lids, like a lizard with dirty atarms. So this young fellow witness box. "Did she use those it only their insallable vanity tits and black rooted peroxide Hot frightened by the alarms and words in your presence?" The and dislike for honest work and

straightens up and Jumped across from their roof to policeman

had not eaten at their vitals. yours." With an air of omletal declares: "She used worse words Not for

the blood and them

Yel there was one moment dignity he added: "From your than that, your, honour, but I

Of tears

high of real Dickensian humour. rout m'am he made en illegal did not like to put them

Even under arrest woman charged with stealing a entry into your house."

record."

the police court was to them a wireless set was asked where sho theatre in which momentarily got 11, and the following "Yes, yes," says the magistrale, they were the stars. By naturo dialogue ensued. "No doubt we can imagine what I do not dislike vasily but when the necused said." Then turn- crncelt links up with crline and ing to the woman he announces when honest work is regarded the size of the fine and adds:

as a mug'n game then it is dif This

was your first offence cult to feel pily or even to "Perhaps," said the officer of and I have let you off lighty. hope that the sentence will not

bul lake a look at I may not be so lenient le you too harsh. this," whereupon he handed como here again."

"He seems harmless enough," stid my wife.

the Inw,

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Ul rubber covered "cosh," "It

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Woman: It was under a free milord,

Magistrate: Under a tree? Woman: Yes milord Maistrate: You mean, grow-

ing like a mushroom?

Thus Tolstoy renim

ends my story, Like

I ventured into the crime and guaishment and it is good to breathe the free air of the outside world; again.

doesn't look much," he said, "but But the drunks are only the In the hang-over one crack with that and you dreary don't know what day it is." morning'a proceedings before the

By contrast one felt nothing Feeling that he had probably more serlous cases are reached. said enough on the subject the Here is a nice looking young but compassion for a youthful constable took the youth by the fellow who cashed a forged coloured Jamaican who, with a had stolen a arm, and we escorted them Saving Certiacato for £5, There gang of toughs,

Because Britain is the safely to the street.

is, no question of alcohol, nor lorry, is there even the partial excuse mother country Colonial sub- "Apologise to the lady," said of harsh necessity. Any normal lects can land in the United

any money But behind the cosh-carrying the policeman. The wretched parents would be proud to have Kingdom without Loy furned to my wife and then a son of his appcatunce. The beyond a few shillings and go youth who was our uninvited

the with downeast eyes cold: "Sorry magistrate who has to deal alike at once on relief and enjoy the Sunday evening guest, and be

brutalised blond you've been iroubled." Thus with thures and tarts looks at the full bencfle under the Welfare hind

Now that the Caribbean gangsters is the growing ques- was decorum maintained to the young fellow in the box as if Slate. very end. But there was an to break down the barrier be Federation has come into being tion of what makes them turn to the law may be altered but let crime. There is good pay to be mo put on record that the Jamal- earned by some young men of cuns especially have usually muscle and reasonable, Intelli- proved good workers and good gence if they are willing to work. citizens. The problem of black Even with their alunted intelll-

Jack of

moral and white with all its inherent gerice and prejudice still remains but on responsibility they must know EEG whole our coloured kinsmen that once the polles had them in in Britain have settled down their hands they are marked oven though they long for the men with no chance of cluding sun that keeps in hiding beyond the law, "You were in some kind of the English clouds. heard and we settled down to

It may be that crime is a form study the fragi-comedy of a trouble?"

*"Yes sir."

Moyed by a natural curiosity of self-expression to perverted London Pulled Court. Here in

drega War the "Do you want to tell me what as to the adjourned, fate of my youths who long for notoriety ordinary

youthful burglar. I attended the and dream of becoming a big -magistrate, calm, quiet-spoken, it was??

epilogue, "I let you know tween the boy and himself, .when his case comes up." Bold

the constable. And thus dild St

John's Wood return to silence

and respectability.

So in a few daya lime my "You knew you were commit; wife and I went at eleven ting a very serious crime?" o'clock in the morning to sou

Justice administered. But there were many

cases first to be

"Yes sir,"

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