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THE HONGKONG telegraph, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1947. FATALE

HEN

Sitting on the

doomed and

Whysterical American

to lose all their money in the financial crash of 1929, the calm voice of that great thinker and philosopher Mary Pickford, through some syndicated uplift in the American newspapers, advised them to "it down quietly and count their bless. Ings."

The doomed middle classes did nothing of the kind. They were too busy counting what money they had left,

So instead of telling themselves "If I've lost all my money I've still Kat Monina" (whnt nice Hittle song that woulit have made at the time) they threw good money after bad, shot themselves in heaps and Aunt themselves from the tops of high buildings in Wall-street.

No suggestion is intended here that a nanetal crash in imminent in Britain. Few of us have nny Onance to have a crash with. Nor · am I suggesting that any, or all, of you boys and girls are doomed.

But do think that in these puzzl- ing times it would be as well to take Mary's advice,

So let us count our blessings to- gether, you and I.

Blessing No. 1

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Now affects nearly everybody, trivial causing them to strike for repsons or no reasons at all. Sinall trievances become big ones when # third to half your money is taken away from you ench week and there's nothing much to buy with

what's left,

Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

According to the Russians your But can you, at money has put the King of Greece Christian, let it go on? £1,000 a week free of income tax. buck on the throne, with a salary of

The Russians are not suggesting Greece £1,000 a week (they may that you are paying the King of suggest this inter) but they are su

esting that but for the 50,000 British troops in Greece the King would still be pigging? IL k Claridge's Hotel.

And your money

certainly paid for the upkeep of British troops in Greece.

has

Blessing No. 2

Interfering

come out of your pay packet every Certainly not. Something must week so that British troups can stop Indians doing what they Ilke doing..

Blessing No. 3

On

murdering

And don't grudge the money spent

preveni Indians each other. l you removed British

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troops you would remove grievance. Few of us are happy without a grlevance.. So you are moking Indians happy, loo.

1 can't say if you are making Jewa and Arabs happy, though it doesn't look like it. But you are probably protecting a pipe-line to bring you

trol you mustn't use, even if you could afford to buy a car to they have taken away your money to protect the pipe-line.

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Are there not blessings, brother?

Blessing No. 4

mad

POCKET CARTOON

"Sister,, I think the ander thetic icas too strong!

According To Culbertson

(Copyright 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

On defence. it is vital to decido

EXPECT you are pretty about the quor situation. You thought when the American which suit you must guard, In Bulls you toan had been

we would contradistinelion to the have enough dollars to buy neces would like to keep "covered" Ob- sities and would be able to keep our serve this deal: Scotch whisky for lume consump-

Hon.

THERE is also Palestine. Again I

know little of the argument It except that Jews want to get into Palestine and Arabs want to keep them out,

saltled

usk. You was not much to didn't want boltles and bottles of Scotch. You wanted one to keep in your cupboard so that you' could sit down by your own fireside and

to talk about old times.

You might feel that

To anybody but on Englishunoon this might seem a fairly simple enjoy a nighteap; or ask a friend in quarrel which the boys could settle After mong

themselves. Americans

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howling for self-government for apart from pleasing voters in New earned a little comfort. You never no long as I can remember fand York hanging on to Arab ell con- grumbled at hardship during long before that), the Indians have cessions and offering griticism,

lye are war, aut

You were cowardly. got it at last, and are now engaged doing nothing about it. They don't the nights of terror: or, to be more in murdering each other.

care to be unpopular, 1 suppose: and

either.

If you can believe everything you hear about India there is nothling an Indian ilkes so much as murdering another Indian.

At one time they murdered each

by where the millent either by

forward method of the juggernaut, or early bulldozer.

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Under British rule much of this fun was stopped. The national In- dian pastime was cut down to few thousand murders Your Dissatisfaction

spread, Agitution for self-government

increased. Gandhi went on swallowing dates and goat's milk, waiting for the day. And when It came the boys were nt each other with clubs, knives, runs and bottles.

don't care to spend the money accurate, you were scured suft but

But Englishmen don't seein to care if they are popular or hot. And they certainly don't care how much thermelven hated by everybody con of your money they spend to make

cerned. Therefore. 31 little must come out of your pay packet so that you can go on poking your nose into Palestinc.

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Or you might be quite old, when glass, of Scotch would do you good, give comfort to the years re- maining and make you sleep better. There were so many nights when more

you couldn't sleep at all and went Laler, South explained his six no to the trump bid as an attempt to nound shivering down public shelter.

out the chance for grand slum. He But these smalt comforts are not should have been satisfied with his for you, brother. Or you, slater.

and accepted the six-heart contract. PUT don't worry. Count

got off to D blessings.

good lead, the When the deuce as Except for the old people who pode ten.

played from duminy Exist properly nced this comfort badly, you will be ducked, to relin two stoppers, and filter without it and ready to play South won with the queen, your ancient and thankless role of

The six heart tricks were now ru in the off, and East plainly showed his the outpost of Democracy next spot of bother.

NEVERTHELESS, count all these

as blessings, brother. If you have put the King of Greece back on the throne you have no doubt made him happy. He Is probably the only man in the world who wants to be the King of Greece, even for £1,000, a week.

But consider what the money that Well, I don't know the cause of is taken from

It is nice to make people happy: you is dołag for it all. I only know it has happen- also nice to have a strategic point others.

lo defend in the next war.

cdi.

WILLIAM

HICKEY.

EX-SERVICE SERVICE

PONIC for a dull day is to com

the number of little shops open- jog up all over Brlthin.

Hemmed and harried by restric- tions and forms, defint alike of com- bine and co-op, the small shopiccepers

MR JOHN HENRY POOLE, who is secretary of the National Federation of Shopkeepers, was telling me how the private trader is "making a go of " despite all difficulties, proof enough as he said "that you can't keep good men down."

are getting back to the old stands CONFERENCE on mental health at

and it is very good to str.

They are back from Alamein and Arnhem, Matapan und Mandalny, In direct line of all the little men who

have always been the backbone of

Iritain.

Thetu are not so many grocers and milkmon and butchers as there ought to be because opening up is still con- trolled, but the plumber has got his board out, the radis man has a win- dow full of gadgets, there are pans if not pots in the little shop round the corner.

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things Impossible he started the mental hygiene movement, gave to the study of Insunity a stimulus wifich has brought relief and hap- piness to thousands,

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Blessings mixed

previous jump to three so trump

and

your'

Is not this also a blessing brother?sery about discarding. With every evidence of anguish he parted with three diamonds and

and one club, but when the last heart was relentlessly enshed, he could not steel himself to blank either the diamond king or the club queen. It was almost as

though "I've given up he had moaned, enough cards in diamonds and clubs ---I won't let go another one!” And, since there was only one other suli available, out came the seven of apades!

THROUGHOUT the world you find that you are being blamed for all the bad things that happen, and get no credit for all the good things (if any) that happen.

Yet you know that you have done good things. Unselfish things. Quite foolishly unselfish things.

it.

And you feel quite virtuous about

Don't worry, brother. You must know that virtue is its own reward, that nothing is hated, either per sonally or nationally, so much 11

Beers, now 09, has been honoured by most of the world's countries and In America the sales of his aulobiu- | virtue. which ANEURIN BEVAN phy are

exceeded only by the was talking the other day is outcome Bible. of what is now a worldwide move- ment.

You think H pretty hard that when bread is needed so badly

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IT I used to be the prerogative of the summer of 1940 should turn out Founder was a budy, beetle-browed Lord BALDWIN, when Prime to be the worst summer in recorded American called CLIFFORD WHIT- Minister, to smoke his cherry-wood English history-which must be

vory bad summer Indeed. TINGHAM BEERS, one of the most pipe at a banquet even thoughi ladies | If you feel depressed about it, re- brilliant and convincing talkers I were present.

Imember it is at least one in the eye have ever met.

for those who said that bread rution-

ing wasn't, necessary. A

He was mad. For three years he

At the London House dinner the was a danger:us lunatic, strait-jack- Archbishop of CANTERBURY put on cted, kept in the padded cell. Then his pipe with Mrs. ATTLED sitting EN there was the mea; strike

A few minutes later E he recovered sanity, tried to escape near to him.

at Smithfield. Those who de- the memories of I-treatment in Mr. ATTLEE pulled out his briarpended on Smithield dikit get American asylums, To make such and R up. They smoked through their full meat ration,

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

THINK all these films about great.composers and musi- clans would be much funnier if a slight change of formuln were introduced.

When the muestro sits down

to

tend to play, the ensuing sounds should be those of a trombone. That would advertise the fact that

It is not really the actor who playing. A violinist should produce the music of a fife and drum band, Bud a 'cellist the music of a flute. Shut your eyes and think of this innovation. Surely it would relieve the tedium considerably.

Listen to Mrs. Butter' '.

stuf

mittee consisting of myself. One proviso will be that if their makes me sick I am entitled to close we on the guest at a close notice. As I am now in conference on this matter, will readers please go away quietly.

out the evening.

WONDROUS now coat of arms which so delights the National Farmers' Union is less pleasing to Mrs SHEILA de. QUINCEY, of Halesworth, Suffolk. She suggests, tartly, that a better design would be a "sloth dormant in a field of red tope."

Consider the hidden blessings

here.

It handed a laugh to vegetarians, who don't get many laughs.

It gave a chance to flshmongers Bish, to charge twice as much for thus saving them from bankruptcy.

It meant more glue. According to the E.B.C. news. tons of condemned veal were carted which away to the glue factories, were desperate for something

FLAT brake, an airman went into make glue with.

£ jeweller's shop in High Wycombe and asked to borrow £5. The Battle of Britain was on, lives and even fivers seemed cheap,"

So he got it and went quickly, without even leaving his name.

FOOD left behind near the Bay of

the pianoforte and begins to pre Rustiguzzi and the expert

THAT great impresario Agricola

A note was pushed through the K. Hunchmeyer jun, succeeded in Inducing lustiguzzi to visit jeweller's loiter-box recently enclos- fashionable and expensive pathopsy-ing £5 and the remark "About time chiatrist. The man of science plek- | too." ed up her hand and said sombrely: What is this?" "My hord,” Bald Rustigazzi. "Did you think it was a champion martow?" The man of science

jest. Your ignored the

"arc reflexes," he said, mental

normal." "Yes," sald Hunchmeyer, ABS BUTTER writes: For three but what makes her sing MBS

years I was a martyr in freckles. fruit in the middle of an

opera?"! Then I took Frekicto, and after the The man of science held up his first dose my feet ceased to ache, empty hand, palm upwards. "Do and hair grew out of my cars. After you see this plum?" he asked. "No," the second dose I gained 19 pounds said Rustiguzzi. "Ah!" sald

Much more interesting were the and man of selence. in weight, grew four inches,

"No trace of sub-negatives in the cameras of SALO- discarded my spectacles. I am now traumatic auto-pseudo-suggestion." MON AUGUST ANDREE, the taking the third dose, and can feel

Swedish balloonist, lost In 1897. my shoulders itching.

They were found 34 years later, and the resulting photographs were wide- ly published.

Possibly

SUGGESTION made, by Prod- should, nose that this column from time to time, be conducted by a. guest--Mrs

Greedy

Whales on his last Anfarctic ex- pedition in 1941 has been found in good condition by Rear Admiral DYRI He seems to think this but it is no record for

war, lots bully was dug up in France left over from the war before. I ate some myself; it was as good as ever.

about nation. Last

tho

There is no doubt that ventually sheer necessity will bring about the conquest of other planets.

(From a lecture.)

of

LIPPED by J. C. WALLIS, of St. Heller, Jersey: "Wanted, „manugeress with knowlegde of cook-

Wrotch, Captain good PUT before these essential, con-

Foulenough, Prodnose himself, or

some other well-known person-is pressing necessity of flying to the good appearance. Excellent refer- being hotly considered by a Com- moon must be dealt with.

NANCY And Still the Same I

I HATE TO HAVE ANYONE

|LOOK LIKE ME --ESPECIALLY

SOMEONE LIKE COUSIN “JUDY---I CAN'T

STAND HER

I S'POSE SHE'S PROUD TO LOOK LIKE ME---BUT I DON'T FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT HER

ences Immaterial,"

MAYBE THIS. WILL CHANGE MY LOOKS.

to

of

of course, was all declarer nerdedi He promptly conceded a spade trick, then could cash the spade ace and fuck, one diamond and two clubs.

It is difficult to fathom how East could have thought that the blank king-ten of diamonds or the blank queen-five of clubs could be valu- able. It is even harder to excuse his fallure to realise that the one suit he had to guard was spades!

Rupert and Ninky-51

When Rupert' speaks the conjuret gives a sigh and mops scolding- "My Tigerlily nearly get me into trouble." he says, All that cotton wool was under treatment. I won Elling it with magic, but the work was only half done and now she has tuli mixed it all up. Your Ninky which

of half-magic and all he does is wrong, Never mind, I cure him for you with very precious star-dun." Reaching a slender par from a shelt he tours up a handful of sparkling dust so that t falls on and around the little donkey.

This meant the manufacture more toys for Christmas made the children happy.

But not the children of Britain. Probably the children in foreign countries, so that we could collect more foreign currency.

Bless you, brother. And you, sister.

TO

ALL JOHTA #LILAYED,

CROSSWORD

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