1960-12-03 — Page 12

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

WHAT is behind the refusal

Werthe Royal Institution to

allow a soal in a rylon sult of clothes to appear at a lecturd in their hall, while the Black- pool Aquarium welcomed an 10-year-old lobster?

It is naid that Blackpool offered the lobster as a stand- la for the seal, but the Royal Institution found that the suit would not fit him. The Thames Conservancy Board commented last night: "Neither proposal has anything to do with tom- bola organised by a well- known firm of cardboard-box makers, in which the first prize i Was an owl in football shorts,"

Rally round the railways!

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1960. <LIN

BY

JACKY'S DIARYS

Last Time i TOLD YOU ABOUT Some SUPER- STiSHUNS WHICH BRINg Bad Luck.

FRI

13TH

B

JACKY Mendelsohn

ase 33%

EXSEPT THIS Time * Tell You about Some Good SUPER STISHUNS WHICH BRING Good Luck.

also inside of Some ChickENS THEY GOT A Witch-'

to

FOOEY!

+

STATIONMASTER is ap A pealing to passengers supply old or unwanted furni- If this ture for waiting-roons. appeal succeeds, passengers will probably be asked to bring their own luggage racka, ashtrays, and seal-cushions with them. in order to save the railways from getting deeper into dobt. And there might be a kind of cover-charge for every seat, and a tarift, proportioned

to

the length of the journey, oil carpeting, with a surplus fare to be paid for a compartment in which the windows work, and voluntary contribution from each traveller for the cleaning of windows and floors, and the mending of doors.

Nothing to do with me

THOSE swine have bombed Sinatra!" That angry comment of girl when, during

the war, Sumatra was bombed was recalled to me by the news that Mr Sinatra song his support of Mr Kennedy in the

jtim.

Fun in the bur

66

inter the bus

BUSTI

Bone, if You Bust it with

Somebody & You get the Biggest PART, THAT means Your Witch Will COME

TRUE,

The question

IT

for INSTANTs if You Find A Rabbits Foot it means MAYBE You'll Be Lucky & find THE REST of Him.

Foor

Wow!

(OH BOY!)

An other Good Luck Thing is if SOME BODY THROWS MONEY in a WITCHING

Well.

11-13

of

The same goes FOR A HORSE'S

An Other Good Thing| To fiND is a 4-LEAP GLOVER Which is hard To do on a count of Most of THEM JOT about 3 LEAFS. WHAT LUCK

WiTCHINS

•Well,

@speshully if You own

The Well!

© 1960 King Features Studicate ing, word rights reserved

Your FRIEnd, Jacky

titles LONDON LETTER

By Sir Beverley Baxter

his

to

a countess, his

and an act of death and that he eldest son a baron

He was too big for could no longer sit in the elected married daughters became Lady 11 of her and she usually answers carktom.

that. It was almost as a re so-and-so, according

the the call.

volutionary that he soared to House,

names of their husbands.

In modern society the wife power in the 1914 war and gave

is only right to warn you that in this London Letter I intend to dis-had succeded to a peerage by wife became

cuss the question of titles. The reason for so doing is that the ele. gant, slim Mr Antony Wedgewood Benn, who sat on the Government front bench when Labour was in power, is no longer allowed to sit on any bench at all in the Commons.

In

the

**

As a

Ambition

folk

think But there is no certainly about you

At the

Ali Dritish Prime Ministers In turn I am president of all are automatically entitled to an

darldom ca retirement I dramatle societies and when and, as I have said, Ramsay Mac-

to attend Donald did the same.

but

Churchill

Treview of the performance. And being a knight of the realm, do they are pleased that their M.P.

has been thus honoured,

It is no secret ikut many of us disappointment

How does this compare with plays a great part in the success the magic of his gay genius do or failure her husband. In the cause of victory. When the Ramsay MacDonald who was

my constituency in North Lon Monarch offered him an exridom the Brst Socialist Prime don my wife is on endless com he should have refused. fact. Mr Benn no aspect which worries the newly Secretary but that is a break It would be understandable

I have Minister in England's history? mittees although we do not American election. I hope it is longer exists as such. His elevated Mr Wedgewood Benn. likely to be repeated. Obvious written so far you might think. Automatically.

tradition which is not that in reading what with

was entitled actually live in the constituency. true that when the result of father, Viscount Stansgate,

ty Prime Minister Macmillan that Britain is an island where to an carldom on retirement het the alection, and of the song,

French Re- is not as tradition Just as in the

bound as ambitious and able men spend refused to accept any title of sorts of amateur operatic and Noville Chamberlain refused it was declared, the new President recently died, and Mr Benn cut an enormous cake, out of has automatically become volution, when many aristocrats some of his predecessors,

most of their lime trying to distinelion whatsoever. cause with the made common

time, in the smoke room, Believe me, which stepped Sammy Davis the second Viscount Stans- SANS COULOTTES.

dodge peerages. gate. Thus he simultaneous-, elegant new Lord Stansente has

that is just not true. So esteem asked Ramsay why he had not, is possible for me ed are titles that many promin taken art cridom-for he was these pleasant events I go on out and out

undoubtedly man of

A ly cenace to be a member of always been an

con- the stage at the end of the show | UNDERSTANDABLY, the new ent men give money to party the House of Commons and Socialist.

Quite rightly this young man

Viscount Stangote is trying funds as well as thousands of siderable personal vanity. This and give the audience a frank

VER hly reply: "When no longer draws the annual looked forward to the day when every device to have his pounds to charities in the hope walk

among the Ashermen as salary of £1,750 a year the Socialists would once more ite abolished so that he en ef being rewarded with a title.

in my

groaned with constituency Ehough it belonged to which we backbenchers re more revert to plain Mister.

I want them to be appointed matter of feet both he and his upsimest certainly

of father tried to amend the law, it. If an aspirant lo a tille is touch their caps and say: 'Good President of

Board

too open in his pursuit he is morning, milord"? Nevez Trade, or Forcim Secretary or but without success,

likely to be put on a black list never ... never." So our young Socialis

As the world grows more true that he did not accept an some such senior appointment,

But now his dreams are end- is consulting with high judicist and his hopes are sunk without

So far I have shown the crowded there is a growing ten- carldom though it was his personalities to find out whether trace.

dency to judge men by their right. In fact he told tris close or not the whole matter can be

defects of the honours system wealth. And let us admit that in friends that he only took the ed.

I have put the case of Viscount but now let us look at it with a acquiring that wealth most men ille because he could wear the debated in both Houses,

Stansgate before you because it enim mind. The argument that usually service to the communl.. state costume on great cere- What then is the procedure is an issue which is rousing the granting of honours is out of ty at large. folicaving the death of such a much comment and not all of dale carries much weight, but is true that the 16th Earl man as Viscount Stansgale? By I favourable, Quite sensible what is the alternative? Without the tile system is genuinely a breaker of regulations should of flome was recently given custom a Writ of Summons is people are saying that the con- the honours system how 15, method of reward for high at have remained plain

Foreign issued to the dead poor's eldest ferring of titles is an out of date public service to be acknow- tainment. Thus Laurence Olivier He should have been too proud

en calling him to the House of reversion to inediaeval times. ledged? Peers. Will the new Viscount Thele argument is that all men refuse to attend? Or will he are born equal and as a society claim the right to remain Mr we should be content with the

'im, and 'e suid to the conceive whether we turn ductor, My niece will pay for not. 'Me and who else?' shouted is

niece. Lor, 'ow we laughed By contrast the newly when ad to fork out. "Thurks elevated Viscount ls pald 3 a million, your ruddy 'Ighness,' gulneas attendance money if he Says the conductor. "You may lättends the House of Lords, keep the change.' 'E blushed to whereas we in the Commons are the roots of 9 wig, 'e did, an' paid our full salory even if we never go near the Old Talking I never die.”

Shop.

'is leeu put 'er tongue out at

บ

London Express Service.

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QUINCE precedent plays an in- portant part these thing,

thus

reward of money or high promo- tion and not bother about titles.

we

Tories

U. S. A.

Arts

But, in the realm of the arts

became Sir

wheat Churchill the Inmortal accepted a Knight of the Garter after he had resigned as the vic- torlous wartime Premier. It is

monial Deensions.

Churchill, the

maker

and

"Mister."

Laurence, John to abandon his status as "Mis- however, his Gielgud became Sir John, and ter." Fortunately,

title carries no succession. His Edith Sitwell became

Dame Edith Lot me repeat that all son Randolph is a plain mister this does not cost the State which is a good thing for all of is a competitive Let us be frank.

Mankind

It is clear to my mind that if sixpence. the honours gyslom is abolished we exchange the aristocracy of titles for the

Aristocracy of animal. wealth. In the gre republic of

an

would never

13.

There is no such thing as equality in hormes or in men. bots his ten it is interesting to recall that in 1395 Lord Walmer,

If it were not so Christopher The punter who Isk then true that the Tories the United States of America M. P. fur

does not have shillings on a race West Edinburgh, succeeded to cling to the old system whereas there is no way of honouring a Columbus

and asle that

all the horses should the Earldom of Selbourne and the Socialists want a society in public servant, except perhaps solled into the unknown

honorary became ineligible

are not only born by

university discovered America, nor would arrive at the finishing post at as an which

have dis- the same moment. Then surely M.P. The new Earl contender equal but remain equal? I sug- degree. But what does his wife Sir Walter Raleigh

it is equally logical that we that a peer was not disqualled gest that we take a look at this get out of it? She le just where covered tobacco.

Yet she was before the honour was

having put

showed preach equality of men. this cosc fer the Commons as ɛuch

through the eyes of a Socialist.

Thus I put the case to you bustowed on her husband, Com- there is still the paradox in

and 1 til he received the Writ of Sum- When Mr.Altice resigned the pare that with the wife of B

England where a man can rise in far off Hongkong mons to the Lords. Even the premiership after the Socialists newly created knight or baron.

so high that he would only en write to me at

would be glad if you would he could remain a conimoner by Government was defeated in She

the House of sutomatically becomes

banco his statuts by accepting a Commons and let me have your merely refusing to take the oath 1951 he accepted un carldom. "milady" and at once is in great in the Lords,

That was his traditional right demand for opening bazaars, or But a solemn and very select as a retiring Prime Minister. acting as chairman of the commltics, ordered to deal with But what was the effect upon Women's Art Circle, or sitting such problems, decreed that he the status of his family? His on commillees. Society expects the 1014 war. accepted an to say.

UIY-

titie.

Many of us groaned with opinions. If you do I promise disapproval when Lloyd George, to give you an unbiased ac- the mighty wartime leader in count of what the letters bayo

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