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“JANIE ””

TO A POST-WAR

GRUMBLE-

2nd DAY

It Can Happen Here...

LOT of people these days say that all the ad. venture has gone out of. life. They seem to think that the only way to find it is

to

go somewhere a long way off, or do something that Imperils their own or other people's lives. Certainly, those forms

are

of adventure, but they're not the only kind.

When I was a boy I thought Eng- land the dullest hole on earth. All I wanted was to get away from the place. Those were my apprentice

1 ho:c who aro rast- loss for adventuro usually first look for opportunity across the seas. Is it really so much more exclt- Ing to be a bulldor in West Africa thon

In your own town?

Here is one man's experienco....

days when

hen I still had to learn what adventure was more than a matter adventure was, and I spplied for of geography.

"Ah," you may say, "the life of a

can

every kind of foreign job you, civil reporter is different. I'ts 50 varled

in hla

that

ru-

think of, from the Sarawak Service to tea planting in Ceylon. and reporters meet so many in-";

Well.

I had my adventures all teresting people. But what about right. By the time I was 23 I'd the ordinary person? What chance

adventure been round the world, working my has he to And way as I went through Australia, everyday life?"

Seas

United and the The South

Put your mind at rest on States.

point. When report:rs aren't

they're just the same 05 I'd galloped after wild cattle on porting

bush. I'd anybody else. Their wives half-wild horses in the hosed a native labour gang in Fiji, them or spoll them as the case may and been a night watchman in â be. They pay the same taxes and

calch the same traire. Garage In Arizona.

with

But the people I worked found those same jobs so ordinary they spent their spare time. getting drunk to relieve monotony.

I did it

I

by you ever 40 train

to from Romu Charleville in Queens- land you'll pass over a lot of concrete drains bullt under the track in carry away the flood water. I helped to put 12 of those drains in myself.

I worked as a navvy the Queensland Governmen

Railway

ก

för den months and en-

joyed

every minute

it, for to me it seemed

real adventure. But Brea

supposing I'd done the

anme thing

the

Southern Railway? Or

ILOX

It's in the everyday life of a Lon- don citizen and not as a only that. I and us

reporter

+

Stoern

QUICKSANDS

This is the way

THILE they were giving

away

India I crossed

from the Palace to the much adven-Abbey of Westminster and

stood by Livingstone's tomb.

ture now as I've ever done.

by

BERNARD

WICKSTEED

For Inalance, my wife is going to have a baby. We haven't had

one for

seven

years

Maybe in our lifetime, if we

seize the chance, Africa will take the other's place as

the

and we think it is a brightest jewel in the British terrific 5,d enture. Crown.

terr

especially my small son

who goes up to

strangers and

a baby this

total

The last time I made this Rays:crossing was two years ago on "Are you going to have Victory Day. Then the whole summer? Parliament gave thanks in St Margaret's, in the Abbey shadow, and we all sang how, even as a bird out of the fow ler's snare escapes away,

we are."

In a

was our soul set free.

out of

the dollar dole queue

It took some time to make a emigration to this white man's land note of the inscription on in Africa, twice the. size of Britain

so Livingstone's, grave, dodging with a white population the size of

round calves and peering be- Surbiton's (28,000).

►

queue Last week I got up at 6.30 am, and joined pram queue. By

It should be a thrill to us tween ankles, for it is much It teems with Industrial 8.45, when the pram shop opened,

there every waking moment to think walked on by reverent visitors. walting to be exploited in the in- were 150 people wall that we escaped peril. The But from that tablet on the lerests of our Empire recovery and ing outside, two-thirds war was won at a great price. Abbey floor arises an inspiring 1,500,000 natives.

of raising up the standards of the

were

the L.N.E.R.? Would Innt have of them women who clearly

Victory was no time for declar- message. going to have babies this summer.

Men like Livingstone had no been, adventure?

ing a national dividend or cut- stood in a queue Have you ever

our civilising in- with a hundred expectant mothers? ting up a melon before it was doubt of

their

grown.

In Arizona I got the garage job because the man who'd had it be fore grew so fed un he walked out. You see, he lived in Arizona, and the cowboys and Indians who called supplementary ratión books saying: were just ordinary reple to him. "Queue

Funnily (nough, was one after-

It was

They have printed slips

Priorily, Please." Late went to the head of

Tere relvals

the

noon in Fill when I was lying un-line, clutching the slip, and that was der a mango tree with the coconut

winds the signal for the ether women to palins waving in the trade and the Pacific sur! pounding on the call out: "Back you go We're all coral beach that I first thought of in the same boat here." going back to London and becoming.

fluence.

By WILLIAM BARKLEY

wealth

arid

Sunk In squalor, discasa

African natives superstition, the have never in recorded time made any advance by their own efforts. They have always needed the guldance of the Europeans,TMofr whom the British are the wisest and most humane.

It is a noble enterprise, healing

Anybody astonished at our There are Livingstone's the open sore and doing ourselves threadbare, ill-fed poverty of famous last words: "May much-needed good. today convicts himself of ridi- Heaven's rich blessing come Here we are with Shinwell moan- culous illusions.

down on everyone, American, Ing that we have to import coal The war stripped us of our English or Turk, who will help from the U.S.A

nation to heal this open sore of the inherited wealth. The

is like a Socialist dream come world."

If you found yourself in such a journalist,

Tokyo I was reading a book about Fleet company in Cape Town or street called "Mightier Than the you'd call it an adventure, wouldn't Sword," by Alphonse Courlander. you? Well, then, I think it's none If I'd read it at home I might not the less of ane because it happen- true. have been impressed, but at that ed in the Finchley-rond. distance London seemed a far more adenturous place than Fiji.

Arrest

was

The summer before last onc my schoolboy dreams came end I made a range trip in

wilds' with an

In New York, as I

working Canadian my way back, the pollee came down guide.

to the docks where I was trying to The RAF and the war were They get a ship and arrested me. said I'd murdered a taxi driver, and in my memory, but do you

convince what Interested the Indian it took a whole day to

221

Brighton beach.

Fifty years of Germon

the

menace

Yet there is unlimited coal irr Southern Rhodesin.

Delt

Let us

William- set sternly aside

At Wankic, Mr

Cults this Americans und the Turks in I never quite saw how

this writes me, the coal scam. 30 fl. matter and sce what there is

main seen on the for thick, can be of stuff about wealth corrupting ourselves to do now that our souls motor road. A lorry could casily true us worked in with the theory are free and the German old man felch up lond.

the that a man does his best_work of the aca is off our shoulders.

"Now the quality," he goes on Indian in a state of security. For on

to "Trains from Bulawayo that argument the rich man's this nation has lived through Forty- bring a 1,400-ton load, and

from fresh son, should be a model of sober nine years ago the British South Wankie to Livingstone 750 tona en know and industrious effort.

Airica Company was barn. For very steep gradients. I was a loco that matter, 40 years

ago I was reman stationed at Wankie, Salis- most?

bury and Que Que, What progress we can ace in the coal-face worker age 23 and work- "Why am I interested? 1. was a domains of this, compupy. despite two Germun setbacks, sluce drst my cd in Notts pits. I wen! to

of Living-

We are told that only the born. gift of American -dollars, created by free enterprise, can cave Socialist Britain from semi-starvation.

them they were mistaking me for My description of bathing girls on some other fellow.

"What an adventure!" people said

Then there was the American England. They when I reached

who wanted me to go over there

nodesia on

when spue

miners said that because it happened

Ho

were 10 a

penny in Britain. I New York. Anything that happens with my family after the war.

was in England the other day and

landed a job on the footplate of to you in New York must be an ad- he said: "I know now

1 suggest that in this why you

In fact, although it retains many Rhodesla rallways for four and been London

little of bitter humiliation we

other interests the

As an English miner company, has half years. they'd have sald: "What a terrible wouldn't come. Here's this

Winnd with all that history behind go pioneering again, and if progressed felf out of a job in and a loco fireman I would say the and her, fghting for her life as hard as need he buccaneering.

administering Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesian coal is frst-class.".

venture.

if It had

aquawks rent the air stone's native land.

state must

my she's ever done in any of her wars; Any other fate for a proud the great central foundation of the. Much obliged, Mr Cutts, You

Why, gosh darn, l's.so exciting Chis-I

urdhat

Well, I became a journalist, where do you think I landed first job? Chiswick. Yes; wick, roaring, rip-snorting, adven- turous Chiswick, W.4, where the boot polish comes tron. -

My friends then said: "How can you stand it after the outh Seas and the Wild West?

At the time. I wasn't quits

Bure myself. I knew only that I could.. stand it. Looking back I can that I'd already begun to learn that

500

pioneer Englishman, Cecil Rhodes.

The while colonists took

over

д

certainly_know your potatoes., want to stay and section is better than depen- dence on foreign relief, queue-

"The Government's policy is to rough myself,"

ing up with the French and, the their own affairs from the company keep income tax as low as possible," be Byoties for the dollar dole. 24 years ago. They are, in effect.

in official read.

documents. don't

a self-governing Dominion, if that "Married persons have a primary The shrunken and emaciated word is still permitted.

allowance of £500 (in respect of newspapers are outward signs.

tax) and pay od, in the £ on the of what will happen to every two, hold-ups in Southern Rhodesia's Happy land! What's stopping us

Transport and housing are the next £500,***** man jack if we do not stir our advance. When these are cured all? I I .wrlie" any more I will stumps.

there will be great opportunities for persuade myself, to emigrate.

Should roaliments like that Setifed to foreigners? I think so myself....... 30-MORROW: The third writer in this rarles exports on two young men we have set out to save tian IVCA 5 others.

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