1947-03-22 — Page 4

Continuing a popular_series

70 YEARS MARRIED

TALLERENE FRABUNURINES ELAVAN BATIK JAMANINDA

By BERNARD.

(It's Fun Finding Out) WICKSTEED

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Nelderly couple named Mr and Mrs Frank Gunns, living in a bungalow at Thorton, seven miles out of Nor- wich, wore congratulated in telegram from the King this morning on achieving a distinc- tion of some_merit.

They have survived, endured, und most of the time enjoyed, 70 years of married life.

I've been married only seven years, and already iny wife thinks it heessa etime. Another 83 years with me, she says, would turn her hair grey,

At her suggestion 3 gol up at half

past six in the morning, cooked my own breakfast, and caught the early train to Norwich to ask Mr and Mes Gunas how they did it.

First of all, then here is the back- ground of these two experts LIK

matrimony.

people. And the old man, hearing not the question. Onswer but

Th

led at me with watery but descerning eye and said: "Work's an uble If you know how to do it." Quick to change the subject I ask-

"And what next?"

"A contented heart," said Mrs Gunbs.

That's all very well." had to say. "but how could you have a can- fented heart on thirteen bob a week

In a famine?"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1947.

She had to admit that it was hard going. "We were young" she said, "and ive had our future in front of us. It did seem wrong that there should be so many things in our well way. But we did the best we could upon ant

We all

to know. dn put our trust in God.

And the old man by the fire, who hadn't heard a word, "suid: "I re- member when we used to eut the

and thrash corn with a scythe with a Ball. Wasn't any trouble if you knew how to do it,"

So that is the general strategy for a happy marriage-work hard, put your trust in God, and owe no one #peny,

Now let's get on to the tactics of matrimony. How do they settle their quarrels, for instance?

"We've had our rubs," she said. "Why hasn't" And most of ours have been about money, I'd want

il.

"'You've

THE PARKERS

FEVERISĄ,EH! WELL YOU STAY IN 】

BED AND I'LL BRING YOUR BREAKFAST Alongi

WHERE'S THE BUTTER AND THE SUGAR-THE MILK HASNT ARRIVED WHERES THE TIRRED MILK-CON

DINNA HAVE THE EGG-: WHERE'S THE "AND"

OPENER,STLER, I

A burglar

by HODGES

told me

A SLUMP AROUND

THAT THERE'S A

·

lie knew

The taxis.

Indeed,

stantial use for their money, now Flest day out he had found a bit that the shops are gradually Bling trying. Itis dad had advised him to with goods.

He was telling me that this was a financiul crisis is upon us. HE way things wag.

He said, yes, it was so. A friend of mine who there was a shump on us the called his second day out, and so far as he it might men that they don't do so knows a burglar rather it a minor recession) for the reason could see nobody it all was taking because they are finding a more sub-

that people weren't buying. reports that a slump is consequence was that he was getting us. Burglars are the first over-stocked.

For two reasons.

It wasn't, he assured me, that he take the late turn: more customers Well, he'd done staying home wanted are

to cheat his clients, but and bigger tips. more, thus making their work business is business, and he had to falt for a couple of hours when he infinitely harder. And their keep some kind of a balance be- looked in for a cup of "char" and

when he came out-no taxi, fences begin to pay them less, tween capital stock and turnover. All this has been happening to the professional burglar for six weeks.

People

now

by PAUL HOLT

his burglar My friend says

In some slight slate of perturba- Of course, when a ellent came in friend has another complaint. he told him frankly that he didn't tion he went along to the police

That, of course, would be a theory would be unwise for me to en- corse. I had better play safe and suggest that people are finding their money isn't going so far as it did in

At least I know that's true.

1940.

Snow spectacle

The Army deserters are making want to buy. But often the poor station, "Me taxi's gern. Swiped," SAID

"When

life intolerable for him. They fellow would be really hard up, and he told the sergeant.

wife 10

Kent court: BROWS my husband stays away from work and sits at the

pouch on his territory without out of plain charity he would have "Whu another?" said the ser- window watching all, because It to save it and he'd want to spend by-your-leave. They damage to give him something for his pains. geant, "Why, d'you have many of fuselnates him."

house (property shockingly. He agreed that the deserters were then?" asked the young man with got la think of the tramping muddy feet all over muddying the pond a little. Mr Gunns was 90, and his wife future, I'd say, and he'd answer, "The future? I want to live now. We've got to live sometime"," ring

PL.

13s. a week

IEY have lived in the country

mit their lives, must of It with- out piped water or electricity, and I know of wives who have wanted a divorce for less than that.

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'Have It

the best drawing-room carpet. They leave finger-prints to make

Still I was not satisfied. I got more work for the police. And talking with the manager of a cinema There was such a familiar

I know rather well. He said that about all this that I was ngog they don't know what to take.

business has been pretty terrible hear how it ended.

She went on: "Sometimes he'd say,

My friend says that any pro- since the week before Christmas. and that fessional burglar knows that They always expect it to fall off then your own way.

that. But

you should take up the carpet while mother buys father bis an- wouldn't and then I'd say: 'Very

first, look behind the books or nual tie ("Why mum, dear, how did They were married on 13s, a week, well, I'll keep quiet and that will and if you think that wasn't so bad bent you more than anything","

in the wardrobe for the whisky you know? It's just exactly what I In the Country 70 years ago you And apparently it always did. second, take clothes and furs was wanting"), but this year it fell

(if good) third, and leave the off and stayed there, rest alone.

should read what some of the his- tarians bave written about. times.

those

Two years after the Gums were

remembers it wrote an article once

No shows

hc

never been to a cinema or a dance

the brown face, "Third to-nighi,” said the sergetni. "What shall I do about it?" asked the young man. "Go home and get another cab," said the

ladly policeman.

Just the

job

FE explained that cabs 'ure ideal HE

I have every sympathy with the gentleman. His behaviour in digni-{

es appetite nesthetic. The effect.

of snow un most of us is by no

We put lumps of it down means so. Indies backs, We make slides and throw snowballs (generally missing). And in general we behave like chil dren. It is a spectacle both judicrous and profoundly pathelle.

for breaking and entering. Parked with flag down they arouse little suspicion, and they are neat The getaway. and handy on the young man went home and fold. his dad, who gave him another cab.

""Now don't you go losing it to-

the young man.

I asked the bank manager about

SAIL

It's like this

AID a former to a neighbour of I'm mine:

"Nationalisation? give you it may be all right in

Germans Want New Fuehrer

"Germany needs a new Fuchrer." That is what many German ex- POW from Britain Have returned to Germany in preach, reports United Presa quoting Government survey.

*

Military

In Britain they lived a Noft life in comparison with their hungry, homelcus relatives in Germany. But the plan to send them back as disciples of British democracy appears to have mis- fired. What they have seen in England appears to have con- vinced most of the POW that the British system would not work in Germany.

told

This is what some of them Military Government Interrogators:

A 28-year-old German who work-' ed in a chemist' shop before the war said: "I do not consider English democracy ideal. It is not flexible enough. Germany could only have n combination of democracy and dictatorship.

"The English are far more broad- minded than the German can ever be. With us it would be quite un- thinkable to have the leader of the opposition paid by the government."

Another ex-POW said: "Just as you cannot allow children to play with expensive glassware, so you must not introduce to the Germans a form of government which they will never learn to appreciate. The German people will never get along without a leader. Democracy is im- possible."

Democracy Will Not Work

A former German post office clerk

sald: "Under present conditions, de- mocracy would, probably not be ap- precinted In Germany."

A Inbourer, aged 38 said: "Workers in democratic England are far worse off than in Germany. Agriculture In England would be finished without the German POW."

A

former shopowner declared: "People in England are quite well- meaning, but they are not free to do as they would like."

This is what some of the ex-POW said about the people they met in England:

I

A former salesmim: "You con associate with on Englishman for years and never become real friends with him. He has too little heart

My mannager friend used an married there was the disastrous THE knotty question of entertain-

My friend says that the de- ominous phrase. Every time I hear day, son, was all he said to me. So theury. It may be all right in prae- harvest of 1878, the worst for it ment caused no trouble in theserters will upset everything It I know there is trouble ahead. Ile now I'm taking precautions. I wear tire. But I won's ruddy work," century. Mr R. D. Blumenfeld, who hutsehoid of the Guns. They've and leave with

only a few anld: "The public is shopping for the ignition key en a body belt," said

East wind . saying: "Hunger was unappeased or a theatre. When they were young trinkets, thus spoiling the job pictures nowadays." Generally Sam

FROM the Egyptian Mall (Cairo): from one end of the country to the they hadn't the time and now they by putting the householder on Goldwyn says it first, Darryl Zanuck

and David Selznick deny it holly and the slump. "We-e-ll. I wouldn't FROM other, and there appeared to be haven't the urge,

"Lord Foley, aged 22, over 6ft. no hope of release from the grip of Mr Gunns has never had to help guard for months to come.

He says he wishes Mr A. V. call Sam a saboteur-and then the call it a shimp," he sald. But he tall, hus joined the Labour Party be- and too much cold brain."

didn't call it anything else.

cause he belleves that the old order poverty, whose stranglehold left many other jobs on land that often Alexander would come right out slump is really on.

Of course, all this is only scratch is passing quickly away, Lord Foley Now a cinema slump has little to ing the surface of the affair, Because has written several songs, One of do with breadlines. It starts with people are going to see Misa. Luna them is. How Could I Know Which people saying: "Oh, let's wait until Turner less often does not mean that Way the Wind Blew?" it comes round, shall we?" und goes

the

people listless, helpess and hopeless,'

Food reached impossible prices. and to keep her husband fed Mrs Gunns had to apend the

money she'd saved 45

servant Kiri before she married. When that was gone she took in washing.

They live in their bungalow alone,

with the housework. He's bad 50

she's had to help hiru.

He used to smoke, but gave it up She used to brew beer for him at home, and until his legs gave out he'd often call in at the local for

when shug went to Gd, an ounce.

pint on the way to get his pensiun.

in the kitchen most of the line. Isked if they'd ever told each

other a lie, and she said: "Oh, no,

with an amnesty for deserters, so that they could get back to their rightful business of being honest again.

Checking up

on until even the small family balls starl tempting you with reissues of carly Bing Crosbys and "Bengal

a

to

is not as easy to keep it tidy as it gir. We wouldn't do a thing like NOW you may well imagine that I Lancer," because they don't trust lie used to be because at 0g it takes that. Though I don't say I haven't um not the kind of man to take new ones that are coming along, long to get things done, but it is their home, and it is their own and answered 'No' when I should have the word of a friend of a burglar, so

My manager friend knows they would rather have it that way: his feelings, sir."

said "Yes

but that was only to spare I set off myself to check the facts. I

pawnbroker, a social acquaintance. went to a fence.

He went They paid £250 for the land and

ruund to him His feelings continued to be spared nother £350 for the bungalow, and because he didn't hear what she But with-20,000 divorces in Britain have his watch fixed. While he was the Brst of their reasons for content- said. But either because he thought last year, the

factors tending to waiting and chatting he noticed a meal is that they don't owe

he did or just to keep up the con- break up marringes

seem to get fairly stendy stream of respectable pemy and never have.

versation, he called out from the more attention than those which citizens walking up to the far end of

reside: "Ninety-two

counter and talking in a the

*

The old boy is deaf and his legs are playing tricks on him, and sa he spends most of his time sitting in front of the fire, but when i called he got up from his chair and offered

it to me.

The old Indy is much more active. She wouldn't sit down the whole time I was there.

The old recipe

"AND now," I asked, getting out the first thing you need to make mar- riage, long and happy?"

my notebook, "what's

"Str. you need to work hard,” she answered promptly.

I was afraid she'd say something

Simple

she and hold them together.

for

Stolen taxi

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Rever seen the doctor in her life." When I got home after finding out volce. "Black market?" inquired my He digs and, because he can't bend

They rose all their own potatoes, all this and my wife asked me what friend politely. "Black market no- down she picks the patatoes up.

I had learned. I said: "It's perfectly thing," replied the pawnbroker sadly. simple. I can smoke as long as I They're trying to sell me rings and can afford it. I can go to the local watches. The great British public is D pint, I needn't do any house-temporarily embarrassed. short of work,

and when I dig the potatoes the ready, you might say," BACK in London I tried to ind out you have to pick them up, which is how many such couples as the no trouble if you know how." Gunns there are. At Buckingham

"And what about me?" she said. Palace they told me the King sends "Oh, you're going to have a fine about ten felegrams a year lo people time," I swered. "When we have WELL, I was beginning to be con- who have been married for 70 years, an argument all you have to do is and more than 600 to diamond wed to keep quiet and you'll beat me in taxt down to the bank to see about the end, and for the next 03 years the, overdraft. The young taximan (And in the last three years he you can say 'No' when you ought to had a brown face and didn't know on their hundredth birthday-253 of my feelings." has also sent telegrams to 318 people say 'Yes' if you think it will spare the way. "It's hard, you know," he!

informed me, "so much of London I believe we're going to have fun. seems to have fallen down."

dings.

like that. They all do. These old them women.)

SIDE GLANCES --

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By Galbraith

"For works it was Christmas bills, and now you'ra start- ing on your old income taxf: Don't you ever think of any.

155) thing but money. Gada"!

vineed, in the extent of taking o

Germans Cannot Live Without Black Market

termans say

By DON DOANE

they cannot live people have already spent their life without the black market. 'savings for extra food and fuel. Those I have talked to say they Minimum Health Standard get enough, to eat, wear and to keep In order to buy enough on the warm. But they all say they are black market to make up differences able to do so only by extensive between the legal ration and the dealings in the black market or minimum standard for healthful access to American supplies.

subsistence, it would cost about 500

I asked a young anti-Nazi German to 550 marks weekly per person." doctor about the necessity of the The average German worker black market. He said: "Without earns 30 to 50 marks weekly. A It the German people could not live mark is worth 10 cents (US) at the very long, Our rations ore simply United States Army's artificial ox- not enough. Even with the help of change rate, and about four cents the black market I don't know how in actual buying value. much longer we can keep going. The entire legal food ration can This long cold wave has made things be purchased in, legitimate markets even worse."

for about four marks per week per person it supplies are available.

More Inessas

Slow Starvation

He said it is impossible for the The doctor said that often the average German to maintain health stores cannot supply the full ration. on a rollon of 1,550 calories dally. At present it is virtually impossible He said: "It's just slow starva- to buy meat or potatoes in Frank- tion. Even without working, a furt in legitimate markets. person needs 2,200 calories."

He said the Germans' resistance

In

He agreed that rich persons and is low fed by too little food. The those in the rural areas may get natural result is a great increase in sufficient food, "but in the citles the colds, TB, and other respiratory snail. Wage earners and the old allments and rheumatism. Even the

not forage people who can

for smallest Infection is dangerous themselves get no more than 1,650 their weakened condition. Hospitals -calories- and. ・ often leas. The are overcrowded,

number of people able to buy on the We are -even short of Bome black market fe diminishing rapidly medicinos," he said Associated for the simple reason that most FICHE,

An ex-mechanic: "I admire the national pride which every Briton has. They are convinced that God is an Englishman."

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