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a little bit.......
BY CUMMINGS
STOP 'H' TESTS CONFERENCE,
"Only a drop of strontium 90! Plenty of time to reach agreement !”
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"Only a little dover of strontium
plenty of time
"Just a passing cloudburst
plenty of time
"Don't flap, it's not a flood-plenty of time!”
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No one's drowned yet
plenty of time
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THE CHINA MAIL, - SATURDAY, MAY 28,
TAKE THIS ONE FACT:
41
BRITISH BRIDES
IN EVERY
OUTSIDE
UTSIDE the kids played around the parked cars, and it was seven o'clock in the evening, but inside, where the girl fought, the longing and the tears were timeless.
The girl was small, eager, 17. She pleaded, again; "But we love each other, can't you see? We love each other."
And the mother said: "You're too young, you'll only regret 11. Wolf a while And the father said: "Your mother's right, door, murrlago is a serious step; you're just a child; you should see a bit more."
Then they asked me thought, investigating teenage
what I
mar-
rlages, and I said I knew only what
the experts said.
1,000
18
ARE UNDER
What this means in terms of love and tears has been investigated
by MERRICK WINN
Pare BY THE WAY By Beachcomber
Umpely ja warning hot been, ütler- |ed. The simple-minded åre: told that not every mon with one of those tomfool little bowlers and a tightly-rolled umbrella is what ho seems to be,
WHAT'S called &
The warning might have added that suspiclon should ripen if he calls himasolt | an Austrian baron and says he bas come, to read, the gasmater test the telephone.
Was it the nasipaca?...
A
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AN alert ornithogogue has been thrown into epistolary frenzy byn cuckoo which seemed to be crying "hoo¬kva,”! Elther the bird could not pro- nounce the letter "e" or else it was a hoopoe pretending bo a cuckoo. Of course, no hoopos eries "hoopoo" on purpose, on it may have been a cuckoo playing the fool. There is a third "ex- planation. The South Americon nosipaca, when disturbed, cries "hoo-hoo,"
Prednoss; The cuckoo's call in much more like "hoo-coo" than "cuckoo,"
Myself: Now tell us about the cockney cuckoos who' cry- ((00- coo," and in wet weather ulter the single note "coo."
sex instinct is now known to be All the fun of the fair Impossible. I never occurs."
He
The fight
MB D. B. WYNDHAM WOS not marguing for N LEWIS has well described promiscuity. He was arguing a certain kind of fete as Q that if we want
The to go an fete worso than death. insisting on the old morality we owner of a large country house, have to condone, and encourage, in preparing what is elegantly But they did not trust the marriages in that year and of their
their cariler 'marriage. porenia marriages, it's a pity to stand in
(called 'n super-fele, might" have experts and I did not blame more than a third of the first- which means one bride in six way."
(been warned by what happened them because It is ordinary time brides were under 21. was pregnant when married, The deliberate baby. to force
last year at Nabblowick Hall, people who do the marrying And 41 of every 1,000
were Among brides under 21 the pro- permission to marry,
when the bearded lady was not B and, anyway. the experts are under 18.
portion was nearer one in four,
common, but not UncoRumor; sometimes wrong.
While we go on trying to have found cooking a herring on an
atove In
Ibrary It happens moet often when the It both ways the teenagers will
the Last year and this year the So the battle went on until Agures will almost certainly be forced marriages; many cer-
place. Youths made on ice- the kids stopped playing and progressively higher
the girl fears losing him. ond, i tainly were not. I came BETOLO
ings, sometimes possibly wisely. For they may save themselves cream slide in the Long Gallery, the truing stopped echoing over more parents Were willing, plenty of couples who married
But how explain the rest of
WEL found the arches and it
rather more wus twenty would be higher still,
often than they and an intruder they "had to.' but the 50,000 invisible and usually ruin themselves. getting becALISE
under the bed Edward III alept part one in the morning.
towards the trend in Amerles loved each other all the same. unbidden guests at the weddings
in, with a sack stuffed with old where one 17-year-old girl in
of 1957, with probably even They see it this way: they silver. "What is in that mack, Not all these tables were
earn the money, many of them, my- meŋ?” asked a daughter of the girls can work, they have tho house. "Ferrets, lady," hire-purchase and birth-control. riposted the impenitent rascal, And they are ready for marriage, Theatre news blologically, ond very often emotionally.
This does not mean all were boy Is going to be eailed up and go on rejecting parental warn.where the tug-of-war was taking
The girl, beaten at last, sald eight, and one 16-year-old In recidental, anyway. For Insience more last year and this year?
and went up
"I hate you”
and meant I to bed. She asleep in ten minutes. svachcd.
leur, are married.
Parents
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I called at a pleasant house In Ealing, London, and had lea and a hord home-made cake with Mrs Mory. H--, aged 19, But British parents are not who married in 1937 and has a
be daughter nged two. and so willing, and they may
right, or they may be wrong. they suro
Downstairs the man and the woman were lonelier than ever in thele ilves before, andder; but were were right. Seventeen! could she
know about and marying?
What
but it is hand to blame them. young white weddings too
loving of n have a grey look.
But were they right? The girl will get over it, wait a year or two, then marrying this boy or another one, probably happily. But will she be better off for waiting?
Grey look
The Registrar-General pre-
The doctor
I went to an eminent doctor, at a London teaching hospital, and as we wandered òround the at maternity wards, wondering the number of teenage mothers,
he said:-
Mary said: "Of course you can publish our name, we're proud, not ashamod." But I had better noi. What happened was this- "Look here-this will go on,
husband She met her
at just as long as we frown
on
as a
A MAN who lives in a large; derellet cistern on a So this has to be faced: teen-[suburban, refuse dump,
on marry social proteat, is the hero of Mr agers are going to ing more and more and most Abbot Whelm's new play. Asked parents can only try to stop what message the play con- ihem-and fall.
veyed, Mr Whelm said, "I in symbolle protest against A London marriage guidance counsellor told me: "Perenta muddle and frustration, showing diela thurt it present divorce school when bath were 13 and young marringe ar making it
effort to keep his break up in the next 20 years at 15 and ready to many at 16, the trends continue marriages will they decided they were in love economically difficult, while at fight, then give up, because they how, in an
hate lighting their own integrity, a man may be foreid Бате Ume pailing an children."
by circumstances to compromise burden suld imponible. sexual
with his sense of values. În All right. Some parents Ashtother words, awareness in Ita rightly but some fight wrongly, own raward, in the very nature and needlessly-mand. (emerrow of things. The cistern is the the teenagers themselves will world, and its inmate is Man." tell you why.
(London Expreti Serdica.).
parenty
on
one bride
of in four who Both lots marries aged 10-18; one in 10 emphatically No. who marries 10-22; one in 10 Said Mary:
"So we started young people." who marries aged 23-27.
baby deliberately, then told He patted a teen-age, brow, After three days with no lines at all, and said, Why is the risk so great? our parents, The experts-and here they blue munder they ould we could passing on: "We preach contin- are undoubtedly
even bene- right-give marry and we've been happy ence as harmless,
ficial, and that subilmation needs three main reasons: emotional ever since." immaturity; marrying lo Ket So have the parents. I met only a tonnis racket or running away from bad homes;
forced both lots and they sold, as thoce and will power.
This is dishonest nonsense. marrying because of pregnancy, parents almost always do say,
afterwards, when the first baby Continence is Impossible The last published figures, for In 1937 there were 50,203 comes, that
undestrablo for "If a young couple many people, 1957, show there were 340,003 babies born within eight months really know their own minds, most. Direct sublimation of the
This is a hard question us more and more British parents are finding now, with the big gest increase in teenage marry- ing since statistics began century ago.
The Choice
-to relieve suffering or to prolong life?
F the many dilemmas which the family du
tor faces almost daily the
most difficult to resolve is
by CHAPMAN PINCHER
the question of whether to from Ancient Greece which prolong life and thereby binds him never to administer E prolong pain or to shorten polson.
life and thereby end point- lesa suffering.
П woman
for
ما
The Euthanasia Society. has campaigned for legislation maku moTLY killing lawful. This would be a most danger- eus move, in my opinion,
He is facing this choice more The current system which and more as new methods of leaves the issue to the private achleving medicated survival responsibility of the doctor may,. become the patient's right under be a typical British compromise. But there is nothing Tegul the Welfare State But It avoids the p about this oath, much of which
тудстеву the patient could In the case of the pallent who demand merey killing as a legal is now meaningless, and many A statement by Dr Maurice doctors never go through the is dying slowly but peacefully right. Millard, otellersion that motion of swearing it most. doctors let nature take its he had released
"Ourst"-"
→The average fanfyrdoëteilyin nut long in practice before he The late Lord Horder once realises that over the years his tion, the coclors" professional told me how when called in to most valuable contribution body which gives guidance on see an old man who was taking society is not the spectacular But scores--[
general etides, is likewise mute days to die but was passing saving of life but the relief of hundreds of British
No specifle away quietly and without pain, suffering, on mercy killing. doctors resolving are regularly
has been laid down by he was taken aside by one of the Polley
the Association beyond the the relatives. problem in the same way. In
that it has the case of incurable, agonis alaternent
ita members mitted ing disease compassion takes procedence over the prolonga- Declaration of Geneva. ilon of life for He's sake,
from. further Inevitable agony by Elva to al drug has spotlighted this question.
would
Kay
Any Cooler of good intent who takes this irrevocable step lays himself (open possible prosecution on the ground
of inurder.
;
For in the eyes of the law to deck a minute of a person's catural life-span by a deliberate net la homicide. 2
Conscience
What guides the companion- ale doctor in these distressing circumstances? The answer is
The British Medical Associa-
Kom-
10
This agony cannot or the doctor, the releuve said.
"Whose agony?" said Horder.
This statement which resulted from the Belsen and Auschwitz.
doctors atrocities by German
minds all medical men that their prime duty is the pre- servation of liİG.
The merits
Yet at the same time it is accepted, even by some Roman Catholic doctors, that it is permissible to give treatment io alleviate suffering though this is likely, to shorten life.
a doctor
By how much may
Only the "doelor's' conscience
that he has little more to rely shorten. Hot By A dưới đ on than his own conscience' month, or five yeah? backed by a haired of unneces sary, suffering which, develops though your hot Intim từ của Well lm and he had human contret. :
Judgo ezohi esan on lis merits.
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The General Medical Counell, A doctor may ale legitimate- the Regul professional body ly avoid prolonging life which governable conduel to falling to take cortalzy... action much a degrest that it can ro- providing this does not amount move his messis of livelihood to negligence. Tinu be, can let giver bha no ciparicut quid-¡ an incurable patient"/diskey withholding and drug to which ance.
might keep – him for shaft) mky refer him to tie Nips: Umo in a, siala pocratia Oath-the hangover, mitŸlvni"
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