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THE · CHINA "MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31; '1969.

THE TRAINING IS LONG, THE WORK IS HARD, THE PAY IS LOW —–BUT EVERY` YEAR MORE MEN OBEY THE CALL TO THE CHURCH

Would YOU like

THAT would you think if

WH

your son came up to you and announced that he wanted to be a parson?

Would you throw up your arms, as most parents do, "and wail: "The boy has always ap- peared quite normal until now. Who do you suppose put the idea into his head in the first place?"

This question of the clergy- man's call puzzles a lot of people. How does a man know he ought to become a minister? Are there bright lights and ethereal ovices?

Once, while at Cambridge, 1 thought I was reęciving such call.

My rooms were high in the

college. Tour of 27700

In the middle of the night I shot UP in bed. I could hear a voice calling my name. Three times come the es).

Ordinary

Feeling rather the child Samuel,

1 said: "Yes?

What

Is it?"

"The Back come the reply:

Q1 neross the rund is fre. Don't you want to see it"

ire

A fellow undergraduate bud crawled across the tiles and was crouching on the teir cutside. The real "all"

depress 37 singly ordinary. Just the con- i should become viction Col

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eletivman even though

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must mean turning my collar

back to front.

ARTIE

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"Swing to the left?. Who are t do you think you

Bevan ??"

London Express Service.

your son to

be a parson?

by the Rev. ROBERT COLEMAN

Few men are improved in

the by appearance collar. Sonie, even lake

Satanie look

on a

first step after being M3

was to ns a parson clerical ordained

This is Brida kind landlady, never difficult because most of them doto on elergymen. A is unlikely to have parson rowdy friends, or himself be- coine the worse for drink.

grew so One Indy, in faci, a

maternally fond of her curate that she could not bear to let him go. Whenever he moved to another job she would sell her possessions and follow hun about the country.

The dog-collar, however, has wille its uses. I remember,

A st collar, being wearing refused admittance to hospital.

When the attendant turned to talk to someone else quietly slipped the clerical my pocket and meal of clipped it into position.

The attendant'a Jaw "Why didn't you tell me

a pursen?" he gasped. 'Of course, YOU can come in."

were

fell. you

You must however, watch this possessive instinct in land- Idics. If not, before you know will be she where

you are

WORLD'S BIGGEST CLOTH PARCELS

By DENNIS DITCHFIELD

LARGE-SCALE invisible mending

-technically

the splicing of fabric to form huge, roller towel-shaped pieces-is performed with incredible speed and skill by a floor-full of happy girls at the Scapa Dryers factory at Witton, Blackburn, Great Britain.

Their craft goes with no sound other than the swish of the waves of cloth. So the occasional "music while they work" is not punctuated by bang and clatter, as in some factories.

sends

The woollen "fits" spliced cat parcels of rioth handled by the girls, and others woven throughout the world. That Is from cotton,

are for paper- Just about where Scapa

They making machines.

run them-to twenty-eight countries, TOUNd the dryers--or steam- heated cylinders of the mach- bes.

They leave the Scapa plant as what must surely be the long-

Zter dress by Chanal, photographed at the Cončiča Français. Her watch By Ruben

Some women stand out, always.........

...not for their beauty, though they may be beautiful: not for their clothes, - though these are perfection, but far a certain indefinable air, their naturaline

born elegance. When next you try to analyse that quiei ilmtinetign-beypind=" price, study its elements one by one. Look, for instance, at the watch. You'll finds Rolex watch is the instinctive choice of the world's most elegant women.

They appreciate the design and quality that have shade Rolex Swin chalted watches famous for over half a century. That's why; whenever a gift ➡for a celebration, or an anniversary, or simply to give piessure--it in your mind, you'll want to give the one watch the would choose herself— Rolex. To find out more about the beautiful yonge of Lisdici" Notes Watches, please write for the illustrated Rolex Ladies' catalogue

to Kolts of Geneva ev visit your mearest Rolex jewelin.

ROLEX

A landmark in the history of Time:mexFITERIENT":"

Limited

And each, even if it is twenty- eight feet wide and five hundred feet long and weighs five thou- sand pounds, is tailor-mude for the machine for which it has been ordered, whether in Britain

or Australia or any- where else overseas.

Felts have a limited life In the non-stop paper-making machines and the glasi Scupa looms, manned by men, work round the clock to keep pace with the orders for replenish- ments,

Scapa has been expanding al- most continuously since it was fermed 32 years ago. The next expansion will take in an ad- Jucent textile mill and add two big new buildings, bringing the Boor space to five hundred thousand square feet.

Within 18 months, 200 more workers, men and women, "will"; be needed, increasing the pay- roll to 1,000.

The first

on

Scapa fells are woven Hindje tcoms, built on the site In the engineering works of Hindle, San and Company.

Mr Thomas Hindle, chairman and managing director of Scapa and chairman at Hindle, Son and Company, and his father the inte Mr John Hindié, found- er of the engineering company, bullt their first wide loom in the early 1920's.

and

They started Scapa with two workamen, in a former skating Tink at Witton in 1927, moved their engineering bus- pass to a new building next to the old rink.

Since then, the associated companies of Scapa and Hindle Have progressed, side by side.

The biggest Hindie 100m weaving à Bompa 'felt. ls, 59. feet four wide compared with the feet of the "average textile Vlogm, One now, being kulit will

be seventy foot wide.

.it rivé Hindia lɔöms are short

ly, to be sent to Béapa's thriving American attahoot!

three years ago ta

establisheil

saying,

she scatters the cutlery for Junch: "That ring on the bell just now thas a girl,..

"A girl!" you say happily. putting down your book,

•

ing upon which part of the country the Andr himself in.

My own ordination was in the south. Here there was a strong feeling, almost a superstition, that the parson should view the corpse of any relativo who had

"I said you were just going to recently passed away. have your meal"

"You shouldn't have said that. I'could have atled her in quite easily."

Adventures

"I'm not having you go with- out your food. She was blonde

with red finger nails. Said some. thing about Sunday school teaching. I was quite firm with. her." •

The landlady is not the only one to try to protect the young

parson in this way. If he wants io get married, says the world, let I be to someone with thick stockings and spectacles.

the

The afternoon nads overage curate occupied with visiting. Here he may expect all kinds of adventures, depend

some

One afternoon I dropped in on a home I hadn't visited, for Ume. When the pre- timinaries werp Over the householder saldi irmly: "You'd like to e her, of

course?"

"Oh, yes," I said cheerfully, I thought he was talking about his wife getting us tea in kitchen or something.

the

"I'll get a candle and lead the wan." he went on.

Too into realised that "her" was no longer alive. What could I do but follow him? I usually say now: "If you would ìlke me to, I will” This throws the onus back on the speaker, who may chance to notice you are stowly changing colour,

.

All in all, being a curate is a varied life.

FOUR D. JONES

BANG

DO YOU REALLY "THINK THE IS THE END OF THE WORLD?

POP-Wyatt Twerp

RYMEL RUMBLI

NO DOUBT

ABOUT 77, WRIEND.

WE ARE ABOUT TO HAVE OUR LITTLE LOT.

RECKON ?m AG FAST A GUN AS

TRAT

HOMBRE

BRICK BRADFORD

RUNBL

One moment you are baptising a struggling baby, the next hurrying with your robes to rejoice at the wedding of a man who says that though he

yet found the time to never attend church, marriage is much too solemn for a register offer, Yel

has

there is one thing that is unvaried. A clergyman's small material rewards.

plus Easter offering, plus wed- ding and funeral fees.

Yet, would I want to change my job for any other in the world? I would not.

Satisfying

Some may feel I have been too flippant in this article, "What are you playing at?" they wil! ask angrily. "Why do you write in such lightheart- ed terms?"

nty

more

In Britain

Average pay for a turate is Let me disclose

a week. If he There is no job roughly CB brenmes a vicar, with anything while than a parson's up to 20,000 people In his parish, he may expect something in the region of £650 and a house,

I HAVE BEEN » NICKED BUT HOT

THAT WICKED

CRAS

WAIT TILL HE MAKES HIS MOVE-

AND PROVE

DD :

DROP butthr

AT J

THE CAPTAIN AND THE LIBUTENANT CHECK IN AT THE METROPOLE HOTEL WHICH

IS LOCATED DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE HALL-

"OF JUSTICE.

FERDINAND

A FEW MINUTES LATER...

UNPACK THE WHY YOU EQUIPMENT, LIEUTENANT!

FOOL!

WHAT'S

heart, worth

There many be, and is, Anan- clot hardship but the sense of

by MADDOCKS

Martin

trying to help others by day or night is wonderfully satisfying. The preaching may be poar but at least the preacher can that it is not his remember opinions, beliefs and ideas that people need but the simple gos- pel of Jesus Christ.

God has always worked through ordinary people. He hos never insisted on great brains, blue blood or golden longues. Be does

aak for humility, love and a readines to serve.

I did just wonder that so of yours? Would he be such man?

(London Express Service),

A ROCKET WHAT THIS SLAZZESÍ

IS GOING ON AROUND HERE?

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CAN'T TEL "TILL WE GET. A

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By Paul Norris

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THIS ROOM 18 ON THE WRONG WRONG? SIDE OF THE HOTEL / YOU CAN'T SEE THE HALL OF JUSTICE FROM HERE. IF WE ARE TO DESTROY BRADFORD WE HAVE TO BE ABLS, TO SUH THE

BUILDING KEG IN!

IN SWITZERLAND THEY PLAY THE ALPENHORK

AND THEY DRINK

Carlsberg

San Miguel

Gives that

extra liit.

By Mik

Tewlyweds prefer

till

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