1958-06-19 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1958.

HOW WILD IS THE WILD

Kansas-Oklahoma Border.

E down a narrow,

Wdead-straight highway

at 90 m.p.h., and the driver said: "The legal speed in Kansas is 80 m.p.b, on the turnpike, 70 on the high- way, and so most people go around 90. You don't gel maimed in a road accident in Kansas, you always get kill- ed."

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I said nothing. We were on our way to ranch country and had an early morning rendezvous with rancker Glenn Dennis. The country" was pancake flat, unbroken plain stretching for miles, the large unspoiled natural prairie

the United States.

here.

in

Grass is gold out

The Flying A

Dennis, who has an 715- tenishing resemblance to Lionel Carine, Purser the Queen Elizabeth, was waiting at the crossroads in

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his Ford and we transferred from the big Dodge to the Ford. Dennis, who owns

the Flying A ranch, WOH dressed in blue jeans and shabby stained stetson. He wearing high-heeled cowboy boots.

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There was a rifle in the back of the car and Dennis said: "If we come across I coyote we will let him have

it."

Round-up!

A

THE WILD WEST? PART 2

Those TV gunmen

are dead

Actually, Englishmen are pretty welcome here....

stood

ducks

They wouldn't have

chance in the old days, says

Virgil Earp, nephew of the

famous Marshal

DON IDDON'S DIARY

took sweat and work to grow but I've gone over my allotment and them Government juckusyes have ordered me to do this so I done I!.!

man

to

with unions and relishes Gig mugs of colleo,

and

A

these television fellows could even get their hands on their guna. We didn't use there fancy holsters. Most gunmen

PATIENTS FLOCK TO THIS EASY-SLIM HOSPITAL By Terence Feely

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London.. knows age fattening starches, LONDON hospital has fried foods, sweets, for instance And they attend the clinic once had such remarkable a week or a fortnight to report success with its Slimming progress, Clinic that it now has out- patients coming to it from a distance of a hundred miles and more.

The mingle lies in the time and trouble which the doctor takes with each patient. the pains- taking nsalynis of cach ono's cating habits, tastes and ngora.

"It is still not realised Chat It has reduced a 2-atone some people need far less food woman to 12 stone: An others, Such people con 22-stone woman to stone.

10 stick faithfully to an averago

diet and still get terribly fal because the average diet is far loo much for them."

With the aid of a simple new method it has, over eighteen months, raised the percentage of and successful slimmers among s officers were gamblera. The patients from six to nearly maashala weren't all lily-whites, seventy per cent. They got so much for each arrest

The hospital is St James's at Balham, London. The clinic is run by young woman doctor, Dr Ann Mullins, under the Dr Alexunder Kában,

Sporting Girls Rupervision

We talked

women,

women

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They have proved the tremendous dherapeutle value of alimmig, uid Dr Mulling:

"Ot 500 patients sent to the hospital by their doctors sufficiently I to need speclafist attention, it turned out that one-third of them were suffering largely because

The Improvement in health their patients (after has been reduced) is

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"As for women, even in my Ume there was

more of the men married to squaws or had than white squaws There would sometimes be 500 mnen to one white woman Almost all the white were sporting girls," Other ancients confirmed Virgil Earp's overweight, statement

about he

West in these Pearl Said: "You've seen

you've some and said goodbye to Pear! weight and ranchmen ranch

100 miles to Glenn enormous." seen the cattle, the horses and and drove

Imme where we I expected the old

the cowpokes. It's a good life, Dennis's

"visited" over Bourbon, and I castigate the Secretary of Agri Nothing sensational like that

Glenn fell of his culture. Ezra Benson, but he article I rend: Round-up in listened to

Many of the worst patients travels

And through India it said: "It's not Benson's fault. Bloody Bain or something

been semi-invalids for and an Was Benson's a good man

called.

Don't you bother China and discuss the menace had honest man. Ite's got integrity, with

the Russians. "I wouldn't years. Many; for instance, were rodeos or Indian War of

crippled by arthritis mude Ranchers and fariners don't want dances. Drop in, like you have give 15 cents for the Russians Iniinitely worse by their weight, - hardents anywny. We stand on

the Germans are the people Many were referred to the done, and you get the truth." our own teal."

to watch as the threat."

Clinke by surgeons, unwilling to operate until the patient had Often when they re- reduced. turned-fal sheered off to the surgeon, I was found that the neeri for the opention had dis- appeared along with the fat.

Many of these patients, sald "have previously many Dr Mullins,

hospitals hundreds of pounds." Now they are so much healthier they no longer take up the hospitals' time.

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The farmer and the rancher are very prosperous just now. Boom has come to the prairies the farms. There is re surgence here, not recession,

We drove some more over the Helds, banging the cat mere lessly over ruts and creeks and Pearl said he would boulders.

us to visit his house.

bul was comfortable,

not luxurious. A new Cediline, new Buick and n new Chevrolet In the big garage stood

The last time I had gun in my hand was hunt- and then bumped and bounced sood with one swift throw of

Dke meet one of the rope and the struggle began

runchmen, My friend Glenn Dennis dug his in Mau Mau in Kenyu, and the Beids to

America'a Kreates! 1. declined one this time. Var! Alies, a man of over 70, high heels into the ground and he and Sunny pinloned the young Suddenly the ear swung off stopped from inck inhury- the highway on to a red dust be fell by him a gentle, horse. The vel, gave the colt a road and in the distance kindly on, worth a million or jolting anaesthetic in the neck mure, but hely with his wife and the horse passed out. Twenty minutes later he was on his feel. was the traffic seone which dead and no children.

bul shaky, and The cowhand I had witnessed in a bun- dred Westerns.

There was the corral, the horses tethered, the cows bawling, and a little gem of men with branding irons and other instruments kneeling round the young bullocks, squeezing them into the culf

cradle.

I was introduced to the so buys

the shook hands Tayely with me. This

Welcome Here pulled his tall to bring him to.

Actually,

Gul for

"Kinda collect cars," said Pearl.

A Good Life

We aut round Lailing and Paul Abri (old me: "it's a drinking, and Mr Abel said he amch , more serious business was all for Richard Nixon, and He joked: "The Sherlit old with horses than with bullocks. Mi Bisenhower wants is

Watch

that A horse is very close to a cow- Day golf he wished he wouldn't Englishman

man. They kinda love each ulher tell the world about it, Englishmam are and a horse is a very valuable I have found from this visit pretty welcome here, and there picer of property, We didn't to the West that Kansas, which home State tranches bought years ago buther with all this injection suff with English pounds. We wanted in my time, but then things was Elsenhower's

In Texas but for the exterinary to arrive and change."

brought up in Abilene, Kansas), then picked up a young cowboy

has little time for Ike. Most Kansans I talked to sald that called Sunny Butterfeld.

Eisenhower should never have iit for a second term that sick men in the White House were bad.

We went to Pearl's paddock

Dig Money

(he

was born

Gun In Hand

noliced

Kansas began life with a gun In one hand and a Bible in the tract on other, and I the table: "If any nation con- inues in desecrating the Lord's Day in stambling, drinking, pro family, worldliness, and unbolic she is headed for the grave yard of nations."

I did not say anything, but I nm ecrtain that the West is not destined for the graveyard.

There has been plenty of lurid

rubbish written about the Witd

West but lately we have been getting the facts into print, it not on the television screens,

now Virgil Earp.

71,

who kiled his first mon at 16, and is the nephew of Wyatt Earp,

it- debunking

of the The gun- legends. He says: fighters on television and in the movies wouldn't have bad a chance in the old days.

Expert Stuff

"First, there's the way

their they

Guns

carry

with the vel, and I stayed be We drove for miles and saw the real McCoy, not deng-sloeg hind the gates. A coll, his eys thousands of heads of cattle. cowboys, no dudes, but honest rolling, watched the vel and mustly Herefords, white faces

I was impressed with the run. to earth cowpokes. They were the cowhands with fear. Near- grazing.

Per's knowledge of politics with the butts up high at the shabby cowboy clothes, with by his mother stood whinny”— Pearl said he wanted me to

Sun 7 Nixon's ordeal in South America waist. We carried the big, and two geldings watched see some wheat fields and we

him vastly popular that the butt was at the swing come to a bright green stretch has made

of the hand and the holster tied What was going to happen wi which was being dug up. "Ever here.

we bad down. It stands to reason we the drinks After being ploughed the cott had happened to them such money

and shoot before tender slenks, smothered could grab It huge That's good wheat. !! in

under. the past. The colt was

stetsans low over their eyes to kup out the st.

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Hancher Dennis said we had bat be on ar drove another

way and

50 miles

or

The Manstein Myth

WITH FRANCE IN TURMOIL, FROM ACROSS THE RHINE

COMES THE CRY: 'DON'T BLAME THE GENERALS'

¡ENERALS «lways think

G they can do better wink

out the politicians.

Huig consumed more energy in scheming against

BY PAUL JOHNSON

that

jargon which carries convic- longed, but it could not have Ailles' mas- tion. Unlike some of his co- bean averted. The tearues, he does not Indulge in sive superiority in industry and splenetle bursts of rage against manpower made eventual vic-

confines -Her, and

himself tory certain strictly to the military facts.

Hier.

Nor is there any guarantee German generals would have done better

titler.

After all, they given their heads in the 1914- 18 war, and failed disastrously.

Instead, 3 new excuse

But is theme is hammere! that the Lloyd George than in fight the 1930s. They had a common

100 the produced:

army lost The home on every page. to prove ing the Germans.. The sour object:"

Hitler in- and Hilller alone, lost the war, German army was never de wur simply because theme which runs through feated in 1910, but simply be sisted on directing it himself. Hiller was to blame for the Alanbrooke's memoirs is trayed by the collapse of the Had the generals been allowed fallure to destroy the DEF at

that Churchill should have "Home Front." confined himself to manag- ing the House of Commons and left the war to his CIGS.

For the delay to control strategy, it is argued. Dunkirk,

Scallon sub planning Operation Russia would have been

ot Brita This was entirely false. The dued and Germany would havo the invasion German army-as Ludendorf remained dominant on the Euro- which led to is abandonment. For the confused, strategy at Lirac was pean maininad. admitted at the

the invasion of Russin. For the broken by the great British offensive in August 110. Hod

disastrous defeat at Stalingrad the turning point of the war. the

bryond war continued November, it must inevilaoly English have ended In the total dis- an opportunity integration

military

OPPORTUNITY

however. Today,

renders

have

of studying a far more dances.

example of

gerous

arregance; the war memoirs of

Field Maustein.

It

Marabol Erich

Von

compulsory

of

MASTERPIECE

Von Maraleln's memoirs contribution German are a formidable the

ACCEPTED

Nevertheless,

to the creation of this myth. was undoubtedly

He

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IRRELEVANT

BAD EXAMPLE

secured

than

were

milltary complete

In Japan, gradually control of the war effort, but as their dominance increased Po did the magnitude of mili tary catastrophe,

I tear, however, that a

of Germans Keneration

new will

accept the Manstein Certainly, the Western

Most of all, for the fallire to come to ablast of the German com switch to the "strategie defca- myth.

to democracies have filled to set He manders.

plannel the give in Russia-which led strategy of the 1040

assault the piecemeal destruction of them a good example. In Bri- the apologlas en France the armoured dash the entire German army in the tain, we havo just witnessed the general came to be through the Ardennen

by the German split the Allied armies in two of the new Wehrmacht, ft; accepted title Lost Victories is sign!- people. The icsson of 1918 was ond reduced France to subjec-

the tion in six weeks,' fcant. For it to a deliberate, never

already rending for every young oflizer of

teprned:

but skilfully indirect, allempt fallure to learn it trd directly

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lo rebuild the shattered murale to the

revival of militarism

of the German officer caste.

In the 1930s. {

CONVICTION

a

which East.

.

on

seemingly successful revolt defence policy by the milliacy These charges may be true, against their civilian Minister. the process of But they are

Irrelevant. Once Franco is in

generals' coup Hitler trad taken

the condoning a an world's

two super-powers--as whose main dynamic is the can win well 1.4 Britain, which had conviction that they

capable the war in Algerla provided already proved itself

accept their

We must aut be surprised it the GermaZENST come to bellevo

Now the generals are at it His conquest of the Crimea of confining his ambitions to the politicians As such, it invites comparison

This time, they can in 1942 was a military master- the continental mainland policles with the military memoirs again,

campaign in Germany's destruction WIB published in Germany during not, of course, pretend that the piece, his 1943

Rusela By southern army was not overcome.

classic inevitable. May 1945, as the whole nation example of how to conduct a LOST VICTORIES. By Field witnessed, it had been cut inte fighting retreat.

.by the His von Muniçin, bleeding fragments Marshal Erich

Allied Tank formations,

written

book,

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If here strategy had been once again that the generals aro

always right. moreover,

In m

skilfully handlod, the dry, foclinical agony might have been · pro-

~~~{London Express Asrvice),

of

As many Kansang are German ancestry this seemed a strange statement, but Glenn Dennis has his own views and states them plainly.

When we finally at the road as the purple disk came over the land, we passed a little dip in the prairle, and there were a lot of men from Ranch Rufler working with the cattle in the corral as the sun set,

Next Thursday:

A new deal for the

American-Indian

BROWN & POLSON

MARE

PATENT

cust the

The secret of the St James's

al method is really no secret all. No wonder' drugs are used. dict. Slim- No sensational new mers do not even have to become inmates of the hospital,

They are simply told to sing of the things which

CORNFLOUR

everyone

the same

The Clinic believes results can be achieved by any general practitioner-using tho same method.

lung

Thrombosis, bronchitis, and heart troubles, blood pres- sure, arthritis-these are some of the disease with can be caused or at least made worse by over- weight.

saich "It seems likely,"

Dr Mulline, "that if everyone who WAS obese was treated niong these simple lines, the health of a nation would be improved."

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"You know how it is with those Paris politicians, mon general — nothing but talk,

talk, talk!"

"It's so

refined"

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