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The following messages. on world affairs have been received from the late Sally the Cat's friends-the British Ginger Cat; Afanhattan Mouser, American tough Cat; Monticur O'Lala, French Renhance cat; Herr von Past, German spy cat; Mr Pussysicin, black markel cat; and Peter Pusskin, of Russia.

Ginger Cat

TN reply to your request for

Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

entire world,

нест.

Staten

Well, maybe he is right. Maybe

he is guiding us all to a better life. idealism the world might now h There is no doubt that but for his

ruloved.

a British cat's viewpoint on a lot of other things besides to the believes he is a born leader of cats, and still/regards the forelgn cat as We don't want no planning over amusing but so misguided. current affairs, I would like to say, with, true British mo- here. We got plenty of everything. desty, that the cats of these anyway. Every ash can in the good islands are not only the finest uld United States is full of the chol- cest left-overs the world has ever cats in the world, but are probably the only sane cats left in the world

While cats in other countries either go short of the best food avallable because they're not smart enough to grab it first (as in free enterprise America), or go short of It because they're not smart enough to get into the Government (as in ents of the Communist Russia). Britain can cat whether they're

smurt or nut.

That, I think, is the essence of the British Socialist experiment. means that, whether you're a smart cal. a dumb cat, and old cat or just an unlucky eat, you won't starve.

Of course, all this can't be achieved at once. Post-war conditions have bren too dimcult.

But it is an ideal which all think ing cats all over the world should aim at. Otherwise we shall all be Aghting again and there will be no cats left.

"But how Foreign cats may ask: la this to be done? Who is going to provide for silly cats. and old cais?"

As every man in the United States has a chance to be President, so has But why docs he ave to make United States u imself so uncomfortable? Why all Every eat in the

heads three this rationing, this giving away of chance to eat salmon times a day and all day on Sundays. good when he is short imself, this men fair shares for all when there is the But they gotta be amart and smart cats. They gotta be red- Black Market? blooded men and red-blooded cats.

unlucky man No dumb, old or going to be President of the United States. Anyways, not for long.

And no dumb, old or unlucky cat is going to eat salmon or anything else while there are smart go- Ketter cats to beat them tot round the ash-can. No, sir.

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If our political thinking is 50 years out of date, well, we like it that way.

Over ere, in La Belle Frones, there is rationing, yes, but there ja your rations. Then you go into the Black Markett.

also the Black Markett, You nvo

It is not criminal to be in the Black Markett. It is clever And

you are envied by all who are not 80 elever.

?

It is the same with she cats. In If bad men and bad cats prosper England 1 ear the she eats are while suckers go to the wall, well, short of milk and cream that they we like it that way, too. We've no do not wash themselves or make time for suckers, except to sell them themselves amart. something,

Ask any dame in Manhatian which she prefers-n cnt with conscience and a stale fish bone, or

no conscience and a cat with salmon head,

The same goes for eats and she cats and men and women all over.

Monsieur O'Lala

Answering the question in terms of cods' heads, I would say there are enough cods' heads for all, providing that smart cats do not acquire more

eat. cods' heads than they can

But this does not mean there will the ome of good cooking and

There are the Black Markett, be salmon heads for all. not enough to go round.

REETINGS from La Belle France,

Over ere. If Mademoiselle Cot ave u friend in the Black Murkett, she ave plenty of cream so she is clean and appy and full of

and amort

jole de vivre.

Therefore, while I wish the Bri- tish Ginger Cut good fortune in is social experiment, I also say vive da France, vive e Black Markett, vive l'amour.

Herr von Psst

I DON'T

know anything abort

·social experiments. and don't enre. All I know is that. cum. modities are in short supply, and I endeavour to accommodate those who are willing to co-operate,

To hear people talk, anybody would think I was the only cat in the black market, although it_oyrkt to be obvious that cats of Mina- tionalities are up to their whiskers in it.

I expect they're jealous because I'm smarter than most, though, be-

there pre Heve me,

some highly respectable British cats who take a bit of beating..

Anyway, what's "wrong with n black market?

Before the war, when there was there were plenty for everybody,

ne black markets. If there were natural shortages, they were created artificially to keep up prices.

in wheat but a black market r What, for instance, was a corner

a corner in anything else?

Considering some of the thieving cata I meet in Billingsgate, I often wonder what a white market i there is such a thing.

Business is business, no what about n free advert, in your paper?

POCKET CARTOON

JESAMAK

**Cheer up, old man, most. clouds have a. Cupro Nickel lining."

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

MR. GATHERBY NEMO, the

Super-Registrar appointed integrato ito co-ordinate

und

I have a nice line in colmon heuds, four-way registration, has had

a bit over the odds, and an option on a row with C. Suet, Esq., already a dustbin full of empty sardine tins, over the precise meaning of the

unlicked and full of oli.

Peter Pusskin

T. SHALL probably go to Siberia

•for

thla. Many. Russlan cata have been sent to Siberia for conij municating with foreign cats..

word, "derefragination," which occara 16 times in Schedule 84 of directive 63 issued to all local and regional sub-registrars,

Suct says the, word is used in a All I can say is that the British general sense, to mean the cancelling of retragination in a given case. Me Ginger Cat's social experiment. either namby-pamby Communism or, Nemo says the word means the re-. another trick or plutocratic dogs and versal of the process of raginaling

cannibals.

old,

Who ever heard of feeding dumb or unlucky cats if they are of no use to the Slate?

In Russia wa feed only those who: OTT strofa Englandt. Gott strafe work. Our motto is "Caviere

for

something a second time. "Suct says that is what he said, in differant worda.

'The pea is submerged

Therefore, salmon heads must be Ginger Cat is still the idealist hader Ginger Cat. Hell der sal- commissar cats; let the moujiks cat NE would have thought that this

fought for and won by smart, cats, brainy cats and industrious cats. If they do not have rewards for their

Industry initiative and

they will coase to have initiative or be indus- trious.

All the same, they must eat salmon heads only when old, silly and un- lucky cats have been provided with: coda' heads.

There is one kind of cat I have fat, not mentioned yet. That is the idle, selfish cat of Mayfair.

He is the first to grumble if there are shortages, the first to complain that he is starving it he is not hav- share, the ing more than his fair

Arst to say the country is ruined be-i cause he is unable to behave like

a pig, and would be the tirst to steal milk frem a hungry kitten.

In the world to come he will be lucky if he gols a fish bone.

¡

I see that my friend the British always was, still believes he la the only cat who is always right, still

€

mun head.

mice,

Not guilty doesn't

mean

[NDER our English system

accused people

are not guilty until magistrates

or a jury have found them to be go. I purposely use the

Manhattan Mouser term "not guilty" rather than

"innocent," for, strange as

it

COME time ago you wrote in your may seem to the layman, the column that America was poll-innocence of the accused plays tically backward. You said we were no pant in a criminal trial. 50 years behind the times, way back

innocent

by CLAUD

MULLINS

in the naughty nineties when-bad The procution has to prove in esential point" in the prosecu men prospered and honest men went

to the

Well, sir, I reply to your accusa- tion, "So what?"

a

guilt. If this falls the accused is not guilty, and there the criminal law leaves matters, whither the accused is in fact innocent or noi.

Naturally, I am only seeing things

The question that I am asking in from a cat's point of view, but then

cat's

point of view is not a whole this article in whether the rules that lot different from a man's point of govern defending lawyers (meaning torris'ers and rolleftors) give to Both bats and men want a good, great scope to them well-run nome, plenty to eat and s In that entertaining book "With choice selection of female society out Prejudice," by the first Chief There's no country like America,,Magistrate under whom

vlew.

} served,

tion's case.

Amazing verdict

had "made

קית

THE other defending barristers Impression," Presumably they had stuck to the facts of the case. The judge, in bis summing up, was apparently unable in remove the impression made by Geoghegan, for as the result of the

wore sequitted," Sir Chartres com-

wehicle "under the influence of drink

#

was hardly the time for un able- bodied man to push apes up s mountain with his nose. Yet Gallup poll reveals that 03 percent. think that Evans the Hearse is quite right to do it, "before other countries beat us to it." as one sportsman put it. Meanwhile the state of the ground is making practice dimcult. Yesterday the pen, became water, logged in a large pool on the moun tainside and sank, and Evans re-. turned with a very wet and muddy nosc.

to such an extent as to be incapable The singing mouse · of having proper control," and the other is a sexual assault on a child.

In both these charges an accused can choose between trial by magis- trates or trial by jury. If figures were available it would be found, I belleve, that the proportion of ac- quittals on these charg

is for higher in totals by juries than in Arsals before magistrates. Why?

"Because a "trial by Jurs gives for greater opportunities for "tumphs of advocacy."

Change rules?

THE question needs asking whe

ther. It is in the public interest

have that those who

commodi sericus offencia should be acquitted through "riumphs of advocacy."

latter's methods all the prisoners If this is so, it seems that "the the so-called last bulwark of free the late Sir Chartres Biron, there mented: "It was on amazing ver rules of the game" should be re- vised. In particular, should "divert- enterprise, to provide all that a man is an example of what the author diet."

Ing the issue" be permitted? This or a cat requires.

¡describes as a legitimate triumph

I such a case exceptional? De-

is an interesting problem that needs Having, through your courtesy,

finitely not. In legal circles one attention. read the message sent by my British of advocacy at its beat

A serious charge had been made often hears the achievements of a friend. the Ginger Cat, I would say

defending barrister (in obtaining the guy has gone screwy on this poll- against "a rich stockbroker, a nurse

and a doctor." in the author's from a jury a surprising verdict of tical dope.

as a "good Not guilty) described

Geoghegon was merely n exemptenally brilliant advocate for win."

the defence li criminal trials,

When I was in England during the words: "The case (of the prosecu- war I thought everybody was screwy, tion) was very clear. To the evi except the dames, who were swell., thence there seemed no answer." But I put that down to the war. Ij didn't know you was all screwy oll the time.

Passion

skill

ONE

NE of the accused was defended cacy is bring made.

my

time.

Of him

It must be made abundantly clear that no suggestion of 'unfair advo

Sir Chartres Anyway, what's the big idea of feeding dumb cats, old cats and un-

by a barrister named Geoghegan, Biron says definitely that Geoghegan lucky cata? It sounds like you was who was a famous advocate before "never exceeded the legitimate rules and this statement is Sir Chartres of the game," and all in a nut-house.

Over here, if a cat is dumb, old wrote: He was a master of the true, for otherwise he would have or unlucky, or maybe all three, well, suprazne art in defence of diverting been brought to book by the judga or by the professional body that that's Just eo bad.

His enique was If he don't make the grep,

If masterly.

Without any material be governs the Bar.

The point of this article is fo to create an almos- ho can't

manags to

at the the left-overs, then he's a no-account

whether too many acquituls and not obtained

an

Issuc

he first in the ash-can forere of suspicion rount your case query whether the rules

cat in our alley, or any alley in the (for the pratecuson) which, as it game" nced revision: United

sell

States

jwen dry bareless,

Was

lo

I seu by his reference to another difficult to dispel."

very That are contrary to the public in-

war that the Ginger Cat is trying In this particular case Groghegan terest."

us this haywire stult as the only concentrated on un entirely irrete- guarantee of world peace.

vant point. He addressed the fury Let me tell him right now that on this point "In a volcs quivering America is not a country that is with passion." He drove his legally afraid of another war If it means irrelevant point home "with such selling the American way of life and sell, that he made this fact setti

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