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1.
Answers on Page 10
Ile was born in 1848, a famous Irishman who became→→→→ Father of the House of Com
mons,
Founder of London evening newspaper,
Known by the initials Tay
Pay?
2. Can you name the regi- ments of the British Army which are called--
Whitewashers, Ropol Tigers, Moonrakers?
3. Which of these during Lent used to be eaten as fish-
Whales, porpoises, scals? 4. This is the flag of Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakis-, tan, Emmit?
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5. An airplane world most petrol on a flight from London to
Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Am- sterdam?
C. How
of many
these women way we read of in the Bible
Jezebel, Deborah, Witch of Endor, Queren Mab, Abigail, Queen of Sheba?
7. Can you name the most loland
English clues? of all Among her many trades are
Shins turbines, lighthouses, ships cabins.
8. If you were a philiumenist you would
Design luminated addresses, collect labels, have a filing for arson?
9. To which seel is the cow
sacred
Moslem, Hindu, Sikh, Moham- mrdan?
10. In which Gubert and Sullivan opera does the male E chorus consist of members of the House of Lords—
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1947.
HAROLD STASSEN, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, STATES PROGRAMME
Washington. Nov.
28.-
to
BY JAMES E. AUSTIN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
a an incen- 0. The GOP must
insurance
Stas-
prosecution for Inw-breaking. sen would keep the American people fully informed, and he would meet insuon squarely, Communist-raised and expose their own disruptive pro- urged posals. Americans should be
not to associnta with Communiad, who should in turn be banned from
Harold E. Stassen advocates a flexible system of taxation move with the tide of national employment, and
that urges
Federal through that 3. In pencetime, the
medium $1,000,000,000 a year be spent Government should not take more against medical or hospital expenses on a mass house-building. pro- than 30 percent of the total income exceeding $250 a year. gramme.
big ly, a tax of 14 percent should be And it must take six steps to help imposed on stagnant capital above a small business grow, including
certain amount.
ald, simplification of govemment 4. Small new business should be controls end the collective-bargaining
procedure, dece
decentralisation of the nd- inlnistration of govemment policies, and vigilant opposition to monopolis-
from any Additional party domination by und egainat Federal, stato and beat pastolle.
First avowed candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1948, Stassen is also the first to come forward with a detailed political plat form. He presented his views on taxation, housing, commu- nism, labour, national health and small business in a book just published.
It is entitied appropriately, "Where 1 Stand." In a foreword to the volume, Stassen explained:
"I believe in the principles set forth in this book. I urge them upon my countrymmen regardless of my individunt political fortune or mis- fortune,"
Lists His Proposals
He said he believed that:
Alve to new
given a chance for success by special tax reduction, and all taxes should be cut whenever six percent of the total Inbour force is unemployed. tle practices.
Housing Plan Urged
.
business.
tux
Stassen, devoted considerable space to lie struggle between Communism and Capitalists.
Sees Red Menace!
6. To replace the "pathetic or un- pardonable
incompetence in govemment housing. clrcles, nec a mass-house buliding pro- He expressed belief-after a visit framme" costing $1,000,000,000 at Russia during which he conferred year. As a secondary panic, there with Statin, visited Russian factories, should be "the maximum use of and talked with Russian workers- existing houses and existing shel- that all but "the "blindest Com- munists" there can be convinced that our system la "not only the most con- highly productive one but is also sub- Jeet ton peaceful and evolutionary correction of its own weaknesses and
ter."
bul
within
0. Rent controls should be Unued for two years more, cellings should be removed 60 days from tiny housing unil of mults..........” more than two rooms occupied by only one person.
and
every
So important did Stassen consider the now Taft-Hartley inbour law that he gave it more space than any other single issue. In a lengthy chapter, he claimed sponsorship of several features of it, but assorted that the measure "goes too far in three respects.”
Labour Act Criticised
There are, he wrote, the provision that a labour' organisation may not contribute to an election campaign, that relating to the controversial "non-Communis!" affidavite, and the requirement that existing unfou shop contracts cannot be renewed with labour board approval unifl after affirmative appruval by an employer election.
In discussing his advocacy of a flexible taxation system, Stassen snið there things, should 'be done when employment falls
con-
"A special cut in all taxes should
addition, su into effect. In sumer and instalment-buying credit Cheld firmly in limits in boom years) should be
A major pro of worthwhile government
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
Give a baby a drum to beat and you've given him a prop to keep his Interest at high pitch while you snap his picture.
PROPS FOR PICTURES
1. We must combat the infiltra tion of Communism and Socialism into this country "as we would com-
Stassen warned, nevertheless, that but a plague.“
building up "we must study the American Com 7. A programme of 2. The Taft-Harley law "will medical care and facilities in sections munist, which his movements be the foundation for a fair, Just, and now denied such care should be his methods, restt him with well-balmarened Jabour polley In instituted rather than a system of legal means at our command."
improvements should be put into geatNE of my wife's friends son an unopened box of cookies ond Amerle," and while It requires compulsory health and hospitalsn- To do that, he proposed a 12-point amending. should not be repeal- tion. Every American now protected programme against Communion, and gramme should be done by private up with a hint the other day get at the contents inside the wrap- cd."
by Snell Security could have cluding exposure, identification
NEW YORK HOUSEKEEPING
MOST visitors to New York .........* BY 1994
seem to stay in hotels or
MOST
service flats in the centre. 1 MARGARET COLE
decided to live with a family.
A
It
1ooms,
This family is like a great many families in London:
We have a flat on the ground floor young couple in their twenties- of a now three-storey building:
two good-sized has the man
administra- an tive job, the wife keeps house, of which one has a door and the other Jeads to a space about nine feet and they have a son nine months square, in which we cat, There is mold, who is not intended to be also a small bathroom and small felt
an only child, unless prices go chen, with an enormous refrigerator up too much,
Pirates of Penzance, folunthe, Gondoliers, Patience?
Czechs Looking For New Home
Prices of many foods, particularly meat, butter and eggs, are extremely high by our standards; and though The Slovakt League of America there is a great deal of food about, hopes to move to the Dominicanhe prices jump from day to day so hat the price you see on the ticket Republie some 2.000 Czechoslovakts
their who ded from
native and is often less thin the price you have when the Russians moved in at the pay. This makes a real problem for close of the war, the League's pre- those living on led incomes. sident said recently.
Peter P. Jurchak, of Wilkes-Bare. THIS family doesn't live in the city, but in Great Neck on Long Pennsylvanin, asserted that the re-
in Germany and Island, a resid:tal suburb with tree Tugers were now Austria and faced "certain deati" fined roads and many small parks
chikiren, parti- Czechoslovakia ideat place for 10 returned they
under Russian do-rutarly strice all the roads are speed- while 1
was mination-Assoclu'ed Press.
Umited.
Internally lighted.
It is centrally heated and electri- eally lit, of course no fireplaces or lamps to clean. The floors are wood, and there is constant hot water which Is very hot Indeed.
We use hot water, however, prin- ripally for washing the dishes, our selves and our stockings; for in the basement, in a room where the prams Pre parked, there are 6d-in-the-siot
machines and
drying washing machines which take care of inost of the laundry except the sheets and the baby's nappies.
The napples are dropped into a huge sanitary bin and collected week- ly by a company which brings a fresh
supply. It is nice to have nothing but the ironing to do, but it is not very alone cost about 12s. a week.
cheap: the nappies
at once. This major improvement pro-
contracts and not on a WIPA
basis.
who has a small son came shoot while he frantically sought to
ped box.
or
father
I should involve worthwhile
mother pro- that any Jeets witch us super highways, now might use when taking pictures It's easy to see how a cookie or
and expanded airports and air termi nuis, extensive conservation reclama- of babies. tion and flood control. It must be a large programme prepared during the years of plenty, and promptly instituted,
toy or game may be needed for a prop to keep a child's interest As any parent knows. the aroused while you are taking his real job in getting a picture of picture. But in addition props of Junior is keeping him still. Too one sort or another can also serve For Cut in Spending often, just as you're set to usefully in making other types of shoot, the baby crawls off or used to lure a cat to pose; or a bono pictures. A saucer of milk can be CLE
LEANING 1s casy. The garbage
"On the other hand, whenever em- chute just outside the front door
ployment climbs back up so that less runs, if he's large enough, for a dog. swallows up rubbish as often as you
than four percent (other than sea-Then you must focus all over
With adults props will serve Amerlean women are very house-sonal) are unemployed, taxes should
again: up to the maximum peace-
different purpose-helping to relieve proud, and though they could feed
time level, consumer-installment their families entirely out of cans,
My wife's friend got around the "camera shy" feeling so many they don't, but work hard at their government epending
credit controls should be put on this nicely not long ago by of us have For example, give Dad own housekeeping. fired help is
sharply reduced, and reserves should giving her young son a piece of a book to read and go ahead and Is obtainable, if you
make your picture while he's can afford two pounds a week for it.
scotch tape. He grabbed for it grossed in the story. You'll have a Most people say it's very inefficient. When the baby Is life, the only
like.
back
should be
be built up in the Treasury.”
In sumination, Stassen said:
A
CA-
"I do not ignore other major ques-eagerly, clutched it, pulled it, snapshot that's natural and un- way in which the mother can get a tions of agriculture, education, dis- was puzzled when it stuck to posed. Or picture Mother while Meanwhile, his she's wrapped up in counting the spell away is either for the father to crimtution, human rights, atomic his fingers. take a turn-most American hus-energy cuntrols, strengthening the bands are very good about ills--or United Nations, cur armed power, re-mother properly focussed the stitches in a sweater she's knitting; tations with Russia, associations with camera. Then, when the baby she won't be worried about the for some neighbour to obilge.
Great Britain, dependent peoples,
'camera,' European aid, and world economic looked up appealingly, asking
Any list could ho polley. On these 1 have for help--click! She snappendix. stof such props.
can help written and spoken
the shutter.
you at one time or another. For doubtedly will do so again.
Rather do I seek in these pages to
when people This use of scotch tape was a new netivity they are most often relaxed are engaged in some there spotlight
Immediate Inter-
idea to me although I've used simi- and natural. economic related
pictures questions of pur
of the result. lar tricks myself-one system, the home base from which
favourites being to loss my young we must approach all questions."
We in our block have a fairly well- developed system of minding one an- ther's bables; and if it is for the evening only when the baby may be expected to be asleep, a high school girl will often earn a bit by acting as watcher. But obviously none.of this can be done very often.
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"before"""
and un-
And better
-John van Guilder,
THE HOBBY IS GOLF.... (KEEPING THE EYE ON THE HIGH BALL.)
"AFTER THAT I WANT TO SEE HOW THE PIANO WILL LOOK LOVER BY
THE WINDOW
"THEN YOU
CAN MOVE: THE COUCH ACROSS
THE ROOK
∙AND THE BIG.
"WILL JANE!
LOSE HER
LEFT EAR
WILL
FRED FIND! HIS WOODEN
LESP
"Hobbies"
By KEMP STARRETT
"I MADE A DUD, SHELL
"INTO" "A" "LAMP TOO -
EVERY MAU OUGHT TO HAVE A HOBBY
EVEN IF ITS
ONLY A. MUSTACHE
WITH OTHERS RADIO IS TIE
HOBBY: IT MAKES THE HOUSE-
WORK SO MUCH "LIGHTER.
WITH COME MEN THE HOBBY IS INTERIOR DECORATION:SHE THINKS..
THOSE BEFORE-BREAKFAST SYMPTOMS GET TO BE QUITE USEFUL AS A HOBBY: NOT TO, MENTION INSILATION. TROA HOUSEWORK.
COME FOLKS HOBBY IS MAKING THINGS.... ANYTHING OUT OF ANYTHING...! PROVIDING IT'S NOVEL:
Ledger Syndicate
WE'VE HEARD IT CAID THAT SOME FOLK MAKE A HOBBY OF PERPETUAL MOTION ...OF THE LOVER JAW... ALSO KNOWN AS MAKING OVER THE HUSBAND. SI
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