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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1959.

The bottle baby wins

London.

RITAIN'S babies are getting ovan bonnlara typical boy now walghs 71⁄2lb. at birth, a girl nearly 71⁄4lb. Proviously Zib. had been accepted as the avorage for both sexes.

And the bonniest babies of all aro those brought up on the bottle, accord- ing to a Health Ministry report after ·D' three-year survey of 20,000 children.

Say the doctors who made the survey: "It is clear that bottle-fed infants gained substantially more weight during the first year than breast-fed bables."

The facts

Other things the doctors discovered:--- THE WEIGHT of a new baby is linked with its parents' social class. Average for

children of the professional ·_closses is: Boys 7.59 lb., girls 7.34 lb. For childron of unskilled workors it is: 7,46 lb. and 7.15 lb. And the "professional closa” babios also gain more weight in their first year.

BORN-AT-HOME babies weigh four ounces more than those born in hospital. But the age of the mothar makes no difference.

SPRING and summer hables gain more weight in their first three months than children born in the rest of the your, Thora with birthdays in November, December, and January gain least. The difference: About 12 ox, for boys, 8 ox. for girls.

AVERAGE weight of three-year-old boys in 311⁄2 lb., girls about 1 lb. less.

-London Express Bervice).

TERROR CITY!

And all they do is to appeal to parents.

THE

New York.

HE other day in New York's City Hall two worried men, the mayor and the police commissioner, conferred for four hours over mea- sures to curb and ir possible end the teenage terror which has gripped the city for the past month and a half.

DON IDDON'S DIARY

15 scum.

No

boys "moils," had the needle often treated

of heroin injections in wonder they and their children

pricks

their ang. All were smokers of marijuana cigarettes.

These are the new terrorists, still children, but dangerous children ready to kill.

No attacks

The situation now is grave They considered a curfew, and there is a danger of the which has been Tried out prezent public hysterin becoming with limites! success in smaller freezy. American towns.

terrible is

the terror?

They even How talked about Imposing some Not as bad as it sounds but end form of martial law, at least ensaigh, Jurka the Khrushhey visit.

Cash call

They finally came up with an unmaginative programme ask- ing for more cups, mare money, more parental discipline,

and

I toured the Hell's Kitelion aren on the Lower East Side, the Asphalt Jungle on the Upper West Side one day, and spent several hours in Harlem, the negre quarter, and Spanish Harlem, the Puerto Rican see- tion.

BIL,

have taken to crime,

Harlem itself, which Ly a coloured ghetto, has less crime the Puerto Rican than

arcos though it has twice the popula Lon and conditions thure aro bud in the jammed and teaming tenements. You have to go through Harlem to get to the Yankee Stadion, so I am fairly familiar with it.

in the past I have found the coloured people friendly and have dropped Into bars and near the grills run by negroes

stodium. Now while people, unet particularly newspaper people, are not welcome.

I was told frequently: "If you didn't give these young punks so much publicity they wouldn't break out so."

The reason

One uf

No ont molested But when I came back to my car which I had parked in front of a police prezinet,

In one bar and grill the unr- There have been 22 teenage found the canvia convertible tep murders in New York inre slushed and one tyre in ribbons. tender pointed to the front page July. Then as Mayor I reported this to the police of the New York Daily Mirror and ald: "That's lakt the Wagner appeared on television on the spot and the tired desk

sold: "We

On the page was a ใ

can't trouble," to sergeant appealed

parents assome greater responsibility bother with a minor thing like huge pleture of three youths for the behaviour of their chil- this. We got real trouble on Arloning and smicking as they were booked for a stabbing (this dren, a teenager chased a 23- otte fands." year-old man down Third Why is the ferror wave hape was not n homicide).

First. the teenage the boys was quoted as saying Avunue in downtown New York, pened? pelted him with stares and then iamas, live in squalor and M. knited him to death.

The Purrto Rican

section. ing all the publicity s 1 said to starting at Upper Park Avenue. myself Dig me like so I dug just a few backs marth of the mo some of this." Dracula is another teenage gang leader apartment houses of the rich, is

arrested ten days ago and up a blighted area of rotting tenu- ments, shacks. and cold-water murder charge.

The youths cannot explain Aats.

they kl....I don't why mean thing. It was just an unge. Anyway, the guy had it coming. I did it for kleke. So nothing matters."

Recently, the leva gangs-the Pirates, the Scorpions, the Sharks, the Criaders, and the Purple Circle-celebrated,

In the Tombs gaol the Um- biela Mae and the Cape Man,

teenage 1wo

headers, gatg smirked for photographers, and the Umbreliu Man, who is 16, anid: "So what? So nothing, okay, I don't mind if I fry.

to burn in the electric wand chair. and

molher an my Don't bother me,

watch ne

Iluster.

They live five and six in a room and their children are brought up in violence.

Child molls

"I sove that Dracula guy cel-

"Telling me the Ministry of Health say intellectual babies weigh more don't make this one any lighter."

Robert Morley

reporting on a zig-zag search for pirates on the River Thames

London Express Bervice.

Ahoy! There's a submarine ahead

London.

"I WONDER if you could tell me whether I'm going upstream or down?" The question, I admit, was not very happily phrased, but seldom since I saw the Gish Sisters in a reissue of Orphans of the Storm have I noticed despair such as that portrayed on the face of the lock keeper to whom I had posed my question.

a moment about to He seemed for chuck up his job and hurl his cap over the weir, but mastering his emotions as befits an employee of the Thames Conservancy Bourd, he replied with the utmost civility that to the best of his knowledge I was going downstream.

The psychiatrists explain the outbreaks of violence the re- sult of many factors-poverty, lack of parental discipline, he stangster cult on television pro-

Alms, the grammes and In stresses of the age, the atomic Realising something of what he must era, and the hydrogen bomb. be feeling--for I am not altogether The Church says the parents unaware of the suffering of my fellow end the childron

from God

on occasions I Actually creatures foul-mouthed Puerto Ricans are often fervent volunteered the informa and full of swank. The girls Roman

Catholles. And the tion that 1 had suspected are camp followers out for police say that only more police

As much, and goading the

merely can solve the problem.

These children form their own gangs when they are about. 12 and have their "moll" mistresses by the time they are In the past two weeks 150 14 and are on the "pod" and teenage terrorists have her the "hush" by 15.

The boys are dancies nut un- urrested, All have grimaced, poised, and praeced before the like Britain's Teddy Boys. They away

effeminate, booking sergeant, the reporters, are and the camer£men.

and

have turned

waved and pomaded hulr, with youths to fight, thlove, and k Meanwhile, the teenage terror wanted confirmation of my continues, ind New York's theory, having left the slums are under sirge.

bank in rather a hurry.

Must of the gangsters have excitement long sideboards. Most carried The Puerto Ricans are looked knives and blackjacks when down on s

lower than the arrested and frw carried coloured by the whites and by revolvers,

They Twenty-three, of the the coloured themselves. youths and five of the girls, the are regarded as scum and are

In theory

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more pleasant

This was in fact an under- statement. Pulling away from the landing stage where I had hired the cabin cruiser, I had

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had a certain amount of trouble how to swim, it is unlikely they 1 remember when my mother- but I did eventually manage to boards with the steering wheel and have canned how to sicer. In-law, Gladys Cooper, had a bring the best back to where penalties for even more unlikely Ideemed it wiser to let the boat Indeed, I have never really house mar Henley, sho tco we started.

offences and not nearly enough o where it wanted for the first learned how to steer myself succumbed to the urge to pro- 1 can't even pretend that 1 in the way of maps and in-

casual nogelisted all the locka success formation. five minutes or so, rather than But at least I try to maintain a tect bur property from try to impove my will at too straight course whereas my son squatters." Emerging one after fully. But then the Iocles them- · After all, they don't own the

rother

lock- river... early [1

techalque preters to zig-zag wildly from noon to find her landing stage relves-or Ecquired many years ago in the one bank to the other in search the headquarters of picnic keepers-vary a good deal.

nover quite sure. fouddle.

of pirates or fellow gunboats. party, she announeed), în tones On the whole they are helpful Unless under constant super- that might have brought it not forthcoming. I find the vision he has a trick of turning blush to less hardy checks, that ones who sell ice lollies the mos; the boat round and alling she was proposing to have tea friendly. Come to think of it, smartly in the opposite direc- there in 20 minutes.

the Thames Conservancy Board tion.

could be a little more, friendly Loo..

there are far too many

I SELDOM GO FAR

The lock keeper had now re- covered his composure and regret to say, recognised

Awaldng one afternoon from

a fow moments snatched below m: decks, I was surprised to find a

on one side of the river exnetly

'Demand has gone up to such "You're Robert Morley, aren't church we had recently passed an extent that we have had to you?" increase production by working overtime,

"Yes, indeed," I told him. "If you give me a rope, ho --Arthur Pateınan, chairman of said, I'll Be you up." Imperial Typewriter,

As we left the lock I waved to him encouragingly. Perhaps he wen too buzy to wave back. -trom an editorial in the but I had a feeling that I had Medical Press:—

lost his patronage for ever,

Although I have lived near THOUGH - the Services" have the river for 70 years I seldom

•

1. MADE THE SUGGESTION

The pictile party regarded her duplicated on the opposite bank, thoughtfully as she disappeared into her garden. Thal church, I remarked, wrathfully "must have been built by the One of them, looking up from same architect to the one in the the paper she was reading, lost village.".

romirked to her companions: "Did you hear what that lady Buk? She's going to bring us: some tea."

WE TURNED AROUND

My trip was really, in the nature of a toughening-up cruise "Do wake up, Daddy," repiled preparatory to my-acting as done Home Young men aventure for upon it arid rarely my child. "We've had to turn president of the local regatta. power of good, it has been all in a cabin cruiser,

back. There's an enemy sub- I felt I ought to get my river too easy for the unsocial typen In theory there are few more marine ahead."

legs once more and, as I would; to spend their National Service plousont "ways of spending a

maxbly be called upon to time learning how to dodge holiday to live in a boat, to We turned the boat round make a speech, have a fow responalbilly rather than bow cruise gently along the Thames eventually and chugged slowly helpful mastions" to offer to accept it.

mooring by the bank to fish, along past the meadows in about, life between the locos tą pienie, to sloop on to pay a which the cattle grazed, along- In fact I rogarded it us rather visit to some sleepy little river sido the Jamunerable_potles a feather in any cap getting the aldo village and drink a pint of Inscribed "Strictly by Dr Altre Torric, psychia the focal.

Private." Job as president, fru, I had "Positively. No Mooring." "Fish to make the mazestion mynold, trist, speaking in London Re-

What could be more relaxing? ing Righis· ·Preserved." "No but then, I have never belleved cently

The answer is "ahnost any- Trespassing.”

that those who ask don't get. thing."

If there is Oric thing that Last year Richard Todd, was THE stiltude of people in this

For those loo mynelf, who, infuriates anyone who owns our president, and I felt. it my country is that when you have a worrying nature, life in strip of land along the river it duty to point out to the secre aro old. you are on the shelf boat koopa one constantly on is, the thought that cocono tary on that occasion that In China it is quite different. the rack.

might be tempted to to a Boat focul actors were, to be invited Old... ago... Is «venerated............. Thir To start with there are the oven briefly anywhere near it to serve they might at least bo arbiitary restioval of a person cidldren. For some reason one. It is to the credit as those summoned in order of seniority a1 00 er 05 is very foolish be-role compelled to take them of us who venture along the Richard Todd was in Tunda cause some people at 89 areas along.

good and noliva menially sa Even supposing that, person of 40.

Frains, they have no

Thiên thuê we coldon. Các thờ tre hour. like smallest notice of such fcorned judico.

I can't pretend'I added much

to my knowledge of river fors,

-pind

'or do they?

But on the whole, having ved near its banks for 20 years I wouldn't have the Thames different or the people who

ve on it.

~London Express Service,

Just Fanc That !

London.

THE major barked out an order. The 40-gunners Tandpped to attention at Carlisle's Durranhill Camp And the inspection by Major-General Lord Thurlow, General Officer Commanding the Northumberland area, was on.

But what an inspection. The men stood red-faced trying, not to laugh. The general tried desperately not to look at his feet. And newly promoted Major John Dicksee kept a stiff, upper lip. He had. to his faiso teeth had jumped from: his mouth when he gave the "Attention!" order and landed at the general's feet,

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London.

PLATFORM ticket took a woman 600 miles tho other day. The Royal Scot strain moved oft from Euston with Mrs Wornell, of Addiscombe-avenue, Croy- den, Surrey, as she was saying goodbye to a friend. It was stopped epocially at Carlisle and she was put on the Midday Scot back to London.