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DUMBBELLS Every Wednesday NATHANIEL GUBBINS Hongkong Telegraph:

HAVE YOU ANY SUPERSTITIONS,

NO!

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THEY BRING

BAD

LUCK!

World Civil

Air Pact Prospects

By James J. Strebig

The United States Government la watching operation of its present commercial air agreements with 28 countries for clues to the prospects of on early world-wide pact,

If the experience with agreements now in effect is satisfactory, It is fair to assume that basle principles will be offered for world adoption when the 46 member nations of the

Provisional International Civil Avia-

tlon Organisation meet next May.

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"FOREVER IN MY HEART”

A CHINESE PICTURE

1944.

flight was set at the world ference in Chicago, in

and both the United States auf Britain

bilaterai began making. agreements for air transport flights, Opposing Principles

Eventually, of course, they had to consider making one

with each other. This brought together two

apposing principles: 1. The United States belief in complete freedom to carry international traffe through the air (but not for one nation to handle another nation's internal traffic; 2. The British bellef in strict economic control with a division of air business.

The two concepts were put into a poet that satisfied both. It was reached at Berrauda, which

gave this type of agreement its name.

Sitting

on the Fence

·TOPIA had arrived. Any- body could see that. Health

and happiness radiated from every face. Serenity shone from elcar, untroubled

сус.

International trade had dis-,

"That wouldn't

Olter."

Science had reduced work to about an hour a day. In the appeared, too, because nobodyference," said other First Sport. "If

make no dif exquisite Halls of Enlightenment wanted the population spent its leisure neighbour but fresh knowledge

anything from his you ask me, we're all in a posh nuf hours hearing of new wondors and new beauty in works of art. in the world and how to live for ever.

:

Food was abundant and free. So was accommodation in the Heavenly Homes so skilfully camouflaged that they merged into the scenery of hills and valleys, lakes and rivers.

So there was nothing to trade with or quarrel about,

whatever to do but be happy in In Utopic you had nothing

forward to greater happiness for a small daily task and look

ever and ever,

Nevertheless, there were Age who didn't like it a bit.

1

The Comedians

TO ancient Preachers were sub. bing quietly in a corner of one of the Halls of Enlightenment.

"I tried another sermon on them yesterday," said the Firat Preacher, "and do you know I think they were trying not to laugh."

Second Preacher, wiping his eye.

"Shocking, shocking." sald the

"But they were so nice about it," said the Firat Preacher. "So polite, 30 gentle, so kind. As 1 wore &

recitation,"

TWO old (and rather red-nosed) child who had forgotten Ats party

Comedians were drinking double pineapple and strawberry cocktalls. in me life, old iy at one of the free bars in Utopia.

"Of course, I've never felt better Comedian. "But what people. What sald the Firut

audiences."

"Absolutely no sense of humour at all, old boy," said the Second Comedian. "Yet they're alicans

Money had disappeared be few survivors of the recent Dark laughing. I can't understand it." Слике science had produced commodities

,50 casily cheaply that it ceased to havej value.

and

Therefore, nobody could sell you anything, and even barter was pointless because you could have anything you wanted for the asking.

IN

The Sports

TWO elderly Sports were lying on

the grass munching fruit. Before Utopia arrived

Che only time they stop laughing is when you crack one of your

"Or when you crack one of yours." "They look so pained. So hurt,

sorry."

know

Whatsismaine,

the

"They seem terrible happy with stand 11." out our galdance. I can't under-

"When you talk to them of an ignorance." they say there is no sin. Only

•

"When you talk to them of hell they say there is no hell bui [helf of pride."

the

"When you talk to them of heaven they say they're in it."

"Blasphemy, blasphemy," said the Second Preacher.

anything better. According to their preacher, "it is dificult to offer then "All the same," said the First

their adult lives had been spent on of hot milk and say, 'There, there, "They look at me as if they'd like most of to tuck me up in bed with a glass racecourses, at dog tracks picking up a living us middlemen.

and never mind!" "You

oum statements they appear to have found the secret of eternal life, which "Gives you the fair sick, don't it? playwright?" -

"Yes,

seems to be a question of purging a perfectly healthy world, sad, the First Sport, sitting out a

pip. "No winners, no

"Well, what's his name?" without anxieties there were nothing.“

your mind of worry, 'rancour, ica pritra, no "I don't know."

lousy and ambition and eating the property and therefore without I thought it was an orse,' no doctors. In a world without!

"Well, it doesn't matter.

right He says

things." "When first eard about Utopin it's because they're so happy." "And always living and sleeping passion, there were no lawyers. "I nearly started a book till I found miserable before we can get a laugh No wailing. No gnashing of teeth." crime but occasional crimes of Second Sport.

"What's because they're so happy?"! in fresh air." said the

"They can't see our jokes because "They suffer neither hunger nor "So did I." said the First Sport.

they're so happy."

thirat." "Do obtained by that nobody ad no bees and oney out of them?"

we have

"There is no sorrow at parting.

Divorce was

inore.

to make thent

No Sin

un-

mutual consent or even by one no more. Cripes, what a world with-i party expressing the desire for out no bees and oney in it."

"He says the whole point of being it; and there were

no hard

funny is to make people laugh at feelings if you were likely to live Spart, "they don't race

"And as for orses," said the Second their misery Jf they're not

orges no for ever.

miserable they've nothing to laugh WT is a preacher to say to They don't even ride cin, at-or off, as the case may be."

people who believe they're in Oh dear no. Orses are their brothers "But they laugh at everything but|

heaven? now. Sufferin cats, if I claimed ans, old boy insultin my old lady,"

"One can only try orse as my brother I reckon I'd be

to persunde "Jola de vivre, old boy, foie de them that they're not." vivre. And this playwright--what's

"But they're so happy." his name?"

"Then they must be made

now because there's "I don't know."

temperaments any more, no jealousy, sense of sin."

"Well, he says he can't write plays "They say sahappiness to caused no clash of by a sense of sin. They have no frustration, I unhappinesX, "Then they must be made to have They dead-pan all his smart lines. it.

If people don't think they're and, as for murder, old boy, why doing anything wrong, what's they just walk out on a murder."

the use of us? What about farce?"

Besides, look at their Idleness. "Even the children don't laugh

Isn't that à in?" "They say work is the curse of

The harmony of existence had changed character au much that hatred almost censed to exist. The rare crimes of hatred, such us murder or slander or even malicious gossip, were regarded as acts of lunacy and treated accordingly.

No lawyers were needed to prove or disprove crime because everybody told the truth-even

"They

"You'd think greyhounds was their maiden aunts the way they treat feed em on fruit and vegetables and em," said the First Sport. if they so much as snig at a rabbit some smilin old basket says 'Naughty, naughty. That little bunny's your friend from now on."

"That's what I can't stand about

Always smilin and laughin

them.

Both great nations agreed to sign the accused under the influence What ave they got to laugh at anynt that, old boy." no aviation pact less liberal than the Bermuda document

The United States' 28 agreements mcet the Bermuda terms minimum. A dozen more agree-

24 a

However, there are two important

considerations:

of the truth drug.

Only Happiness

way?

Utopical

And look at this fruit. All Jor

"Well, I suppose it doesn't matter nothink. Think what we could avery much Whatever you do you got for it on a barrer in the old black don't get any money for it." ↑ markit,"

Twist "TILL, one does miss an audience. If I could get one laugh out of them I'd do it for nothing."

"Good uns on top and them full of maggits underneath." the First Sport.

"Not a drink, not a smoke," said

ments are under consideration. The AS it is a fact that the more United Kingdom has at least a enlightened, people are the score of such pacts. It would appear less government they need, the relatively simple, then to open the world Government had become skies around the globe to the extent

"It ain't that they mind you avin of the Bermuda plan.

an international committee of drink," said the Second Sport. scientists and elected each year by those who says another old party to me, the "Or a smoke. It's because they philosophers don't make em now. 'In Utopia,' had proved by their knowledge drugs of discontent ain't wanted no and benevolence that they were more.

The opiates of unoppiness entitled to be enfranchised.

aro no longer required.""

"Is that what he calls beer?" asked the First Sport.

"Yes," said the Second Sport. "And that's what he calls a nice Scotch and sada. And a nice cigar." "I feel like sockin em sometinics," "Don't you start sockin nobody

sald

1. The Bermuda plan cannot be to have had complete trial. Some of the safely valves have not had a chance to show they will work. 2. The Bermuda plan applles to two specific countries. It may be quite a trick to write it so that it will apply with equal antisfaction to a large group of nations.

The United States is attempting_lo.

·Und~both buswors as quickly possible.

ES

The American State, War, Navy, Post Omec asid Commerce depart ments, the Civil Aeronaudes Board and the Budget Bureau are parti- gipating actively and Congress 14 being kept advised of their work. A tentative draft has been distributed privately for study and comment.

Safety valves in the Bermuda agreement relate to allocation of routes, a system for monitoring fares and cargo rates and general formula for preventing theconomic or un- falr competitive practices,

Picao's Role

to

Both countries agreed to turn unsolvable disagreements over The Provisional International

Civil Aviation Organisation for advisory opinion.

This has not occurred yet, but if it should, there will be a quick evaluation of Pieno's stature. In the aviation world. Picao

it tremendously important as a world body for technical phoses of avia-

tton.

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Why does the United States seek world agreement when it has about everything it needs through bilateral pacts?

In general resulting_uniformity of requirements would be ensler for everyone. It would provide a more stable platform of air rights, re- moving uncertainties of enunciation

The days when any fool or undiscovered criminal could vote were over.

Transport, except for pleasure, was a thing of the past, because science had produced everything you needed where you lived.

ere" said the Second Sport "Or they'll put you straight into a posh nut ouse."

According To Culbertson

North, dealer,

(Copyright, 1940, by Ely Culbertson)

Both sides vulnerable.

4

easy

he

could

with

"Trusting your partner" is an ex-was beaten

before cellent principle at bridge-but so is begin to play. self-protection, sanetimes!

It is

to sympathise North for this sorry outcome, in view of the bids he had heard from across the table. Obviously, South had a borderline two-over-one heart rea- nonse, to begin with considering his singleton lit poriner's diamond" sul:) and the fact that South himself was not "loaded" with honour tricks. 15.

however, was well within the bounds, of reason, because the comparative solidity of South's hearts

NORTH

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I was not this netion, but the following leap from four diamonds tu five heurts that Sout could not justify. True, North-South were not using any slam convention, but South knew that he had only one ace in his own hand, and he might have restrained himself a bit affer his initial jump response.

was fairly natural for North, with such excellent heart support, to relox and bid the star in that sult, but with a healthier suspicion about South's soundness, North might well have irled to protect his spade king against the cpening lead.

be

Everything would have turned out North's diamonds turned out to

well for North-South in West han led less than colld, he could always qui!

by a single country which might le a heart, a diamond or a club, but bridge as no game for him! So why athwart an important sky route. West's holding, Associated Press.

and the bidding, not six diamonds instead of called for n spade lead, and Squth hearts?

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"I was trying to think up a gay about Utopia."

"Utopia?"

"Uto-pier. Got it, old boy? was that lady seen you with last "Yes, I've got it, old boy, "Who night on Uto-pler?"

That was no lady you seen me with on Uto-pier, That was wife:"

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"Not very good, old boy." "As good as it always was, old boy, with a topical twist"

"A Utopical twist, old boy." "Ok, dāmu good, old boy.

another pineapple, old bop."

"With me, old boy," "Ne, with me, old boy."

Have

Adam and they have exercised it by scientifle planning."

"But look at their morals, their easy divorce."

Theu

The same man if it comes to that. Jorener Jay that nobody could live with the same woman. Or And they say cday divorce is more moral than. Dan."

"Then what?"

"Never mind."

"Do you think we're in hell?* asked the Second Preacher.

"I wouldn't be surprised," said the First Preacher, looking round the marble hall. "All this luxury. This idleness. This eating your fill with- out honest toll. This immorality."

"But what have we done to de- serve it?" asked the Second Preacher. "We have led good lives."

"I don't know," said the-Firet- Preacher but I was always afraid of this planning. I knew no good would come of it."

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