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1940, Walt Disney Vendurtinant

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 28, 1940.

By Walt Disney

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WE NEED YOUR LANDING -

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DONALD!

SURE BOYS!

MY... LANDING NET?

MAY WE BORROW ITS

MAGAZINE

FOOD

AND FEEDING

Some Practical Observations on How Things Are

I HAVE recently been mak

ing some personal investi- gations into the incomes and expenses of some of the poorer sections of the community.

The Government's free milk scheme for children of five and under and for expectant and nursing mothers has proved our awareness for providing adequate nutrition. The scheme costs the Government £7,500,000 per annum.

The Government is also subsidising many of the essen- tial foods and endeavouring to control the prices of casential commodities, and trying to prevent profiteering with its concomitant inflation. It lies with those who have educa- tional influence to co-operate in securing that the best use is made of what is available. Here are some facta:-

Family A.

1) Number in family, 7, including

father and mother, and chil dren aged 14, 13. 11, 9 and 5 years of age.

(2) Income, 22 58, unemployment

assistance.

125.. cool 25. 08., light 2s., clothing club “3s., jiuurance”15′′

(3) Expenses: Rent

Says this family: "What we are receiving is not sufficient to clothe and shoe the lot of us and to feed the children and ourselves all the week. Often there is nothing in reserve in the larder. We can't afford to buy milk; butter is too dear. Three of the children get free meals in the school feeding centre, and we are thankful."

Family B..

(1) Number in family 7, including father and mother, and chil- dren aged 20 (a cripple), 13, 12, 10 and years of age.

(2) Income £2 5s, from unem- ployment assistance, und, the

BY

EDDIE

WILLIAMS,

B.Sc.

Chairman Children's Nutri- tion Council (Wales Area)

cripple is on rellef just enough to keep himself.

(3) Expenses: Rent 115., coal 28. Gd., ight 28., clothing 45., Insurance 18. d.

They observe they are unable to use meat coupons because meat and bacon are too dear. Their chil- dren are without boots most of the year because boots are out of their reach. They buy one pint of milk a day and two tins of milk a week. The children in school have free dinners.

Family C.

(1) Number in family 9, including father and mother, and children aged 14, 12, 9, 7, 5, 3 and 1 years of age.

(2) Income £2 58. unemployment allowance and Ss. war pension, ie, a total of £2 138.

(3) Expenses: Rent 10s. 10d., coal 2. Od light 1s. 6d, clothing club 5s, Insurance 28. 4d.

This family reports they nre pleased their children get free meals at school, but think there could be more variety in the menu. Chil- dren get sick of soup so many days a week. They cannot afford to buy and their allowance of meat, bacon

pints of butter. They buy nine milk a week and two tins. Not one of the children attending school gets free milk.

Family D.

(1) Number in fumily 9, including father and mother, and children nged 14, 12, 11, 10, 8, 4 and 2 years.

(2) Income £4 75. maximum on Government factory erections,

but in wet weather no work- possible, although bus fares of 12s. 6d. a week have to be paid.. So sometimes only £2 83; Od. is earned from the contractors,"

(3) Expenses: Rent 11s, conl 3s.. Hight 1s, Insurance là. 1d., busi fnres 12s. 6d, clothing club 75... other clubs is. Gd.

Their observations are that they seldom can afford their rations of butter, and that eggs are beyond them. They only buy tin milk, but now get, two

д day free for pints the two children under Ave. Two of the children get free milkin school, and Four free dinners. The dinners in school are too much, stews. With rising prices, money' doesn't go very far. Boots are, à very difficult proposition owing to their cost, and children break them so quickly,

These statisties upon analysis. show that certain sections of the people must find life very hard, and food scarce and dear for their bud- getting. Cheap carbohydrates are: their staple diet, What a boon must the Government milk scheme be to these people, for milk contains all the vitamins and essential foods.

The

Those engaged in communal feed- ing should pay heed to parents sug- gesting a better, and more variable menu for school feeding. Soup, stew, soup, stew, during this hot and grand summer, must have been sickening for the youngsters, re numbers feeding, despite Govern- ment efforts to encourage communal feeding, have decreased instead of increased. Food control Interfer- ence has forced some curtailment, and the difficulty in obtaining cook- ing utensils, gas cookers, and good kitchens has also prevented the necessary and advisable expansion, nu recomanended in the Board of Education Circular 1520 on School Feeding.

The Ministry of Food is trying to ensure that the essential foods shall be available to all at prices all people can afford. The Govern- ment is on the right lines with its free and cheap milk schemes, and with its urge for communal feed- ing, and with its klichen front cam- puign for simple dishes. The

peo- ple on this side must grow as much fresh food as possible. The poor- est can cultivate gardens and allot- ments, and get cheap seeds and fertilisers through their organisa- tions.

New V.C. Afraid POCKET CARTOON

of Dentist's Chair

By R. L. Marshall

WENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Jack Mantle, hero of the sei

TWENT

and latest winner of the V.C., was very afraid of one thing when ashore--the dentist's chair.

This, and other Intimate details of his life were re- vealed to me by his mother.

At her cottage home at Shirley, Southampton, she told me how "very, very gen- tle" was this acting leading scaman who fought his gun to the death in the 5,500-ton merchant cruiser. Foylebank.

"Jack didn't seem to be of the heroic type," said Mrs. Mantle.

"In fact, he was so gentle that we all used to say he ought to have changed places with his oldest sister, who is the toughest of the family.

"At school he was never outstanding, either in sport for study.

"What he liked most as a youngster were days in the country with the Boy Scouts.

"When he was 16 he went Into the Navy. He took to the sea at once.

"He became a regular swot, and studied to get on.

"We did not hear of his V.C. until we found the house besieged by neighbours and friends acrambling to bring the news.

"Then, at last, wo really be- lieved the stories of his bra- very told to us by his ship matos after his death.

Knowing Jack ns we did it seemed impossible that ho could have borne so much?

the Field-Marshal-wifi.

Best ba hera: ang minute now [ ","%

J. Hemmings, called the boys into the hall yesterday and told them about the Va

Jack was a follow you could always rely on to stick, At Jack's old school, Taunto à Job" Mr. Hemmings said tone, the headmaster Mr. F. to me?

King Pratures Syndicale, Loc.

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FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

"I forgot to tell you, Dear, the decoratom came to-day!"

They're Jealous

of the Gestapo

By Victor Schiff

TORIES of widespread occupied corruption in territory, and rivalry between the Gestapo and the German. Army were told me yesterday.

My informant is a Belgian business man who has just arrived in this country from France.

Racketeers

VICTIMS of a new racket which has spread through Holland, Belgium and France, are people who wish to leave occupied territory on bu- siness, or as refugees-and can afford to pay the price of an easy passage.

The racketers are not con- fined to the Gestapo. A friend who needed a military travel- ling pass to leave Belgium was told by the German Army officer with whom he had to "deal":

"I don't see why the Ges- tapo alone should make all the profit."

Cashing-in

SCOPE for this sort of cor- ruption has been widened by the German order that all ap. plications for exit visas from France must be sent to Vichy. The delay thus incurred is usually five weeks.

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But it is possible to ignore Vichy and yet obtain permits. "Only," says my informant, "it costs a lot of money

For it appears that many Fronch Civil servants in the unoccupied areas have seized the opportunity to "cash-in" on the racket

Overlorda

JN GESTAPO agents and at work. In unoccupied France, with, the formal approval of the Petain Govern

ment.

The only reservation is that they -may-not-act-unless accompanied by-

a French police official,

There are scores of these Gestapo men in Marseilles, watching the ports. They enjoy preferential treatment in their hotels, especially over. food.

They order, and generally get. whatever they like.

In one big hotel they demanded that Jewish guests should be served in a separate dining-room. This was done,

The hotel staff was polite and sympathetic with French and foreign Jewish guests, but extreme- ly obsequlous to the Germans.

On the whole the population in Marscilics behaves extraordinarily well towards the tens of thousands of stranded refugees. The spirit of the population is definitely hostile to Petain and not at all anti-

British.

Armlets For Jews

IN Antwerp, not long ago, the local Rexist lenders, who considered themselves rulers of the town un- der German protection, urged the German military Governor to com- pel Jews to wear yellow armlets.

They told the Governor that this was the urgent wish of the over- whelming majority of the people.

The Governor belloved it, and Issued a decree to that effect."'.

Next day practically every Jew was accompanied by Aryan friends. They were seen walking arm in arm, or chatting together in cutes.

The Governor was furious with tho Rexists who had fooled' him, and repealed the order within the next, 24 hours, again at

Germans Fall. Out

THE German Army in Antwerp the Nazi "black shirts and and brown shirts are not getting on well together.

A few weeks ago a clash occurred between these rival bodies in which two brown shirts were stabbed...

The P

Gestapo, which, has pollee powers even against the Army, ar-

rested 200 German soldiers as a result.

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