1961-04-15 — Page 12

JACKYS DIARYS

Last night Mommy

started reading. me an other

Fairy Tail,

This one was

called The

GingER-BREAD

Man

鳳

THE CHINA MAIL,

BY

SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1961.

only before it got finished cooking she

Little Boy to watch whim it got Done,

JACKY Mendelsofin haddo go out Shopping, so she told her

it starts out when this lady decides to

Cook a man in The Oven

made outta Ginger Bread

HEY!

do the Ginger-Bread ansered:

Bo then The Mother came

Pritty soon he

WheRE!

You

EEK

digging a Ditchs If he said.

digger who was

Going?

i can out-RAM You also!

BJUST OUT-RAM a old LADY & a Little Boy,

the Little Boy chased him Home, only as Soon As she all over the Place, but the]

opened the Door, The Gin- Ginger Bread Man Repton) ger Bread Ran out of ex-

Scaked

| slipping outta hiq Grabs, (

Met a Ditch-

O.K.

No soonER had the Mother went, when oliver Sudden the Door opened up 4 out Popped the Ginger- Bread Man Alive as any human

bean

·POP!

The World of Science

WA.HN You

Missed!

[te on YEAR. THAT'S What You. Think's said the. Ditch Digger, and he started into chase

the Ginger- Bread Man.

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1961, King Features Syruficate, fuc, Wurlit rights reserved.

PS:

To be continued Nachs Week.

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A STITCHING GÙN, for

arteries, which sewing n works on the principle of the housewifes sewing machine,

A TINY REFRIGERATOR for kidney:.

*

AUOTE from a leading

articlo In the British Médical Journal, which surely takes the lid off medicine:

"At the present time many of the medicines commonly administered are placebos, {disenlee)

.,,

If the patient' feels the doctor is helping him, be will resporal to the placebo ...It is probable that it makes for good results if the doctor chores the patient's false bellet ilat the treatment is effective,”

Why can a man lay down a crown-but

TT is our proud boast that this is a free country. Men are not compelled to take up occupations against their will. Their life is not dictated by heredity. They choose it for themselves.

But.

Slavery and serfdom have long since vanished from the land. in one way the old tyrannies flourish as though the feudal system were still with us.

Worse things might

Winston Churchill's was a

f

There is no escape from the House of Lords, if you happen to be the eldest son of a peer. Like happened. the galley-slaves of old, the hereditary peers are chained to the oar.

The Bible says: The sina of

the fathers shall be visited on the children even wito the third and fourth generation.

A harsh deetrine, But the ultimate grasp. doctrine about the Lords is st harsher,

not a peerage? by A. J. P. TAYLOR

On the contrary, it would be strengthened. Those who took

uy hereditary petrages would be willing victims. They would be anxious to make the best of have it.

A

This is not a revolutionary father testion. This not even a

the novel suggestion, There is younger

In Duke of Marlborough, Had its faveur a precedent of a

powerful kind. he been the eldest son. Winston most He could certainly expect Churchill would have

been precedent where an individual to be a Cabinet Minister in a forced into the Lords, never to was allowed, indeed encouraged. future Icbour Government. become our war Prime Minister to renounce an hereditary rank Even the position of Premier and the zavlour of his country. even higher than a peerage. did not seem to be beyond his

It is an absurdity that our The precedent is that of King Now be in doomed, A life fate should depend on so narrow Edward VIIL new Duke of sentence of Exclusion frem a twist of hereditary chance, Windsor. One day he was King In this case, it is the merits the Utase

cf Commons

Emperor of Great Britain,

The next Is a simple way cut, India, and so on. avolda Bl constitu- having abdicated, he was plain tional wrangling about the Mr Edward Windsor and could He has dene nothing to dulles and future of the lave run for the House of Com- deserve this, What is more, House of Lords. Mr Wedg- mons unless he had been made his father, Lord Stargate, wood Benn is now putting it a Duke, went to the Lords reluctantly forward powerfully and as a pubtle duty,

hangs over him, an exclusion There

of the father which are visited upon the children not for three shared unly by lunatles and which

or four generations, bul for felons.

ever.

So absurd

Let a man spend a life in The service of the State. If at

He lun was a brilliant mem- the end he receives a peerage, ber of the House of Commons, then his eldest descendants are He went to the Lords solely to equalified for ever from the strenstilen the Labour benches House of Commercs, and so from there. New the son is punished reaching the heights of political for the fathre's public spirit. ambition.

Why should children

of their fathers?

be penalised

The case

for

Alaus the virtues

of Mr Wedgwood alone.

Bean displays the system

Not alone

Mr Wedgwood Benu is not Leid laflsham was In marked out for the highest. its full absurdity. He is one offices when he was in the House of the few members of the e Commons as Quintin HoRK. House of Commons who has Now the path to the summit is shown outstanding ability. Barred against him.

Just arrived

1960

DRES

ANNUAL

vincingly.

and con

Any member of the House of Lords should be allowed to renounce his peerage. It would pass to the next heir.

Nong would be changed

THE CROWN

HOUSE OF LORDS

at

If a King of England can lay down his titles and shake

this to

off his hereditary obligations. how much more should freedom be extended viscount or a baron.

There is stil more to be said Edward VIII

In the constitutional position in their favour.

of the House of Lords. The abdicated for personal reasons, would to marry the woman he loved

and to retire into private life.

principle

hereditary not be challenged.

JACOBY on BRIDGE

South disrupts East's signal

UNLIKE yesterday's hand,

come

which would be bid to game by any pair in the world. It is possible

that

people night stay out of game with these Nurth-South cards, Sun The game contract is zound and only fails because of East's ability to ruff the third dia- mend tead.

Should the diamonds be divided 4-3. or should West open any other suit, South would simply draw trumps and make his 10 tricks.

NORTH (D)

1

4KJ753

+ Q107

A053

WEST 484

EAST

Q1063

◆ AK065 4107

40 VKJ975 +42

KQ902

SOUTH

★AQ 1092

AB4

JB3

JA

East and West vulnerable North East South Weat Pass Pass 14 Pros Pass

4 A

крел ESGL WIN

Pasa Pasz Opening lead—9 10

However, West does

| the king of diamonds.

signal with the four spot and

Mr Wedgwood Benn and is concerned. It is supported blind obstinacy, those Bice

quish hirry

to by many Torles, particularly by phrases

In the younger relinquish their peerages

and more order to remain in public Ufe, gressive, not to withdraw from it.

Far from running away

from their

duties, they seel to perform them more fully and in a more effective way.

Reinforced

Is our political life go running over with ability that we should reject the rager efters of able men who are anxious to serve?

It is argued that no eble men will 'reman in the House of Lords if they are allowed to escape from It.

This is not so. There are

many among the hereditary peers who have seriething to contribute, уск who would not ding themselves into the |rough amk tumble of the House

of Commons,

it is up to Scuth to discourage West's head and demand some reinforced the House of Lords

a dianiond continuation if he

can.

The present Govemment has

other lend, but South can play creating Lite

Peers Surely

the card that will canoe West these senior figures and their The rules of bridge forbid to pause, reflect, and possibly right place in the Lords, while that he draw a gun, point it at shift mults.

CARD Sensek♦

Q-The bidding has been: North East Bouth West

1

Pass

24

Pass

3▼

14

Pong 44

Paso Pass Pass

10

Poos

You, South, hold:

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TODAY'S'QUESTION

a young man of ambition does not.

KDV reform?

Which diamond should he

What stands in the ploy? A lot of players wry the Jack. it lookn

sensational then of this sensible enough so that they hope West One mhght expect como members will think that it is a singleton, of the House of Commons to be Othorn try the less sensätional jealous of their able eclleagues falze-card of the eight,

and to rejoice at exlling them to the Lords,

A symbol

case.

The right play this time 13 32 4A854 40 South's only hope

the quiet little three spot.

to per What do you do?

suade West that East was not A-Paul. You have run out of

nignalling in diamonds. It he This

too in not the bids.

plays the eight or the jack Thero is abundant evidence that, Went will sco that the three left to a free vote, the House of and deuce are both anlasing and Commmuna ayould carry Mr Wedg will be sure that his partnerwood Benn's proposal by If Bouth play majority. hos algallesi, the tree Weat will only wonder

The Labour Party in solki about the deuco and may de- cide that Bouth holds that one for it. And it fa the best judge card.

Instead of bidding threa spades over your thres hearts your partner has jumped to four spades. What do you do in this Instance?

Answer on Monday

large

Iso for an Mr Wedgwood Bern

Behind th of Tory democracy of pro there appears the Torylsm

privilege. of reaction, resistance to all change.

of

principle.

ihla test

Cummings

It will fall to s If the Whips and their tho Government havo

way.

All sensible men must wish

Ben Wedgwood

Yel Mr Wedgwood Benn seems doomed to fallure and the Lords. You may вду that the that Mr

The Tory Whips have been put question is not very important. thould succeed. Sensible Tories on. The enlightened young affects only Half a dozen should wish it most of all. Torics will be driven to vote men. But it is symbol of against their convictions.

coon

be swept

wider significance.

For if the House of Lords is The Bymbol of whether men count mare maintained as a prison for men The Tory Party oflen tries to than institutions, The Bymbol of ability, the time will present itself 19 democratic, of whether a man's fate should come when it will fully abreast with the needs of be dictated by his ancestors, away altogether. the twentieth century. all pretence?

I

Is this

It

MyWedgwood Benn is the not Mr Wedgwood

true Tory, desplie his Radical Denn whe is on trial in this ism. Or perhaps because of it. It seems so, The old Tory

CANO. It is the Tory Party. spirit is revealed here in all its It is being put to the test of

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