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25 Winners" Don't Give

Luck The Credit

T

WILLIAM

M. P. for

DARLING, Edinburgh

South, and draper: There used to be--perhaps there still is-a

▼WENTY-FIVE men and SIR

women bring to What Tory Life Has Taught Me (Odham's 10/6), what many will regard, as a quaint ap- proach in a world of atom bombs and spiva.

or

or even luck.

Theke extends

"THE · HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1949.

DAB and FLOUNDER

snobbish contempt for shopmen. FROM. HERE AND THERE: I think it unwarranted. The shop is the showpiece of society. It in the place where the orla of men who serve there serve civilisa- are displayed, and those

W3 tion.

our

'children. Most old malda' shirik

For they tell what they have learned from life-and nake scarcely any mention of money

MARGERY FRV. prison re food

...or houses.

In former:

Erown-up range of achievement population women seriously out- trom big business to number men-between one and from theology to the two million must go without t theatre, froni sport to saldiering,ormal home with husband and from painting to politica.

Living in a materialist work, they still had to the view tint a inna's mind in more important thum his pocket-book.

But among sentiments which can too costly be sneered off ns lavender and old lace" is plenty of lively comment-boru of long experience."

For Example:

your

discussion of the subject. My own

experience is that in open- one's heart to friendshipn of varied kinds, and above ali to those

with

younger people a rent compensation comes for the

Rood things mlased.

LORD CHATFIELD, Admiral] of the Fleet: If you are to take risks successfully you need luck It seldom comes to those who do not deserve it.

By WALTER

Dope Smuggling Along The Med.

NICE.

Gigarette and dope smuggling along: the Mediterranean have increased to such ал extent that both Nice and Marseilles Customs authorities have acquired new high-speed boats armed with cannon to chase suspected craft. Tangier is known as the chief Mediterranean headquarters of the traffic. Recently a police squad raided hotels, cafes and bars in Cannes, searching rooms and questioning waiters, bar- men and other employees.

279-PAGE REPORT SAYS WE COPY THE WRONG PEOPLE

Enemy No. 1 of

a happy

S

..

INCÈ he came down

from Cambridge more than 12 yenra ago, Gordon Rattray Taylor has been studying the problem of How To Be Happy.

This 38-year-old social psychologist, a slight, pre- cise Scot who looks like a senior civil servant, now be lieves that he has worked. out an answer,

life

by JAMES BARTLETT

diagnosed by

Mr. TAYLOR

Mr Toyor 1st these needs. 110

He dismisses all political

or

STAMP NOTES

11

HISTORIO Norfolk Island, belonging to Australia, Issued its first postage stampa on June 10, 1947. The island, in the Pacific about 980 miles northeast af

economie creeds as unantis Sydney, now offers twelvo factory. He thinits the Church new stamps of uniform do gives no adequate solution. sign ranging from pence

His lines of action call for a to 2 shillings. The d, ld, He offers no bromides, nothing says. We huve but a single complete change in all our ideas and 11⁄2d, are also available so simple as the-sentence defini- motive, the Pleasure-principit, about

politics, tion of the old Roman orator We have but a single source of morals,

economics, in sheets of 10. and how to live our Cicero, who said that "applaess pleasure. Love. And only a single daily lives. is tranquillity of mind."

means to thin end. Creativity or the mastery drive.

that the Mr Taylor belleves paradox of our generation is not poverly' amid plenty but our

unhappiness in seeking pleasure.

What we miss

FIRST, why is he so convinced

that we are unhappy? He finda the signs of unhappiness all around him:-

For the mastery drive to keep going, a single condition must be

observed, Consistency, Eut along

with this a human being needs

to experience change, or Variety, There is not much pleasure in keeping on if the road is a long,

clul one.

Thwarted

because these

human

IT is

needs are Biwarted that we

are an unhappy people.

On the list

Australia reports two new Issues, The first is a special issue of three stamps-2d 3d and 54-to commemorate, the 150th year of the founding of Newcastle. The other in a single stamp of 11⁄2d honouring Queen more Elizabeth.

of marriage EVEN our ideas

get n, shakeup. He belleves

men-s in Bri-

that where, there are women than talp-there are obvious argu- ments for polygamy. In his detailed programmie for: hap-Toffice has released informa pittess, he lsts:--

new

Czechoslovakian

post

WIVES should not have chil-

tion regarding several sots of dren until they have passed a

stamps for uso in early test showing

spring. The first, following they are fit for

the "February motherhood.

events" issuo, consists of three stamps celebrat- EVERY Mr. should haveing the 700th anniversary of Mr Taylor has dug deep in degree in social science-just as Czech foundries and the 150th his researches to show how such a surgeon needs a medical de-anniversary of the first miners" a thing as "keeping up with the gree.

law in Bohemmin. Joneses" must create unhappi- ness,

WINDFALL

Mounted heralds with trumpets In the Cinemas: Nine but of co ten prople in the audience must In pleturesque medieval BRISBANE: The inhabitants tumes role through the streets be unhappy because they use DEAN INGE, former Dean of of Cloncurry, Queensland, were and announced with fanfares films as a substitute for personal FRANK 0. SALISBURY.

SL Paul's People call me not surprised one morning when the arrival of His Majesty King emotional experience. famous artist: The importance

anit found daily reactionary: but a reactionary they awake

the of dealing with

Carnival EXV (05th) and read A Football Matches; The with inch-long the royal proclamation com- correspondence immediately af- has enough spirit to be a rebel. streets Bilered

some 'alive. It

10 make crowds must be unhappy because

WE MUST pay less attention ter breakfast before starting It is the progressive who float fish,

happened

admanding, the citizens before.

The

merry and greet their monarch they see fu the players' battle an

to food. It is over-rated. Instead

Other series which follow in work cannot be overrated. Deal with the stream like a dead tog, happ

which they a storm. and licks the hand of his moster arrived during

He points out that people who ef honouring a man by throw-order are: The when he arrived at the head of emotional outlet with every problem at once

unity congress of Ok oke is Brisbane Museum curator ex- his procession of decorated themselves are missing.

are not interested in some widely ing a banquet we should give Czech and Slovak youth; the this is a principle to be carried like a live one.

Recepled custom-Ÿlke native Hoats and carriages with their very walk of life.

a strange experience. I do not plained that the fish, into every

the Cup him, something useful, "such as 75th anniversary of the Interna- He finds it, too, in the admir Final or outsmarting a business a free pass on the rallyways," tional Postal Union; Stalin's 75th PROFESSOR GILBERT MUR- feel things.very deeply. Weeks perch, survived in the ground

grotesquely humorous figures of

re-ing backward glances so many rival-are pupler-mache. Two floats

regarded by othern

birthday When and months glide by almost and bred during rain. RAY, classical scholar;

and annual presented the

Ipeople give to the war years.

charity Atomic Age, A

as not normal.

OUR WORK musi be made issue for children. No dates, million electric light bulba have i

more leisurely, so that worker entours or denominations have He says: "War gives admirable Either they must slow an may capture ngain the spirit of been announced. been strung through the streets and shops while the Carnival for mastery, drives. It interest in something they do not the old-time craftsman. puts powerful machinery in the really feel keen about, Josts. Battles of flowers End

hands of every soldier and sailor confetti will be among the main and thus endows

him with a stay out of the swim. features of the programme.

sense of power which contrasts

HE Saarland postal authori sharply with his former frustro-

Either way they are unhappy, on social science that we now ties in Germany have dheri- tion,'

They thwart their Own per spend on physics, chemistry, buted two new stamps to honour sonality. They keep up with, the electronics, and similar techno- the democratic youth movement.. though the logical selences, (Last year's The I franca plus 5 Illustrates n.

expenditure was £500,000 and hostel in the Ludweller district £120 million respectively.)

close le the Alsace Lorraina frontler,

with youthful cyclisis th the foreground., The 10 franc plus 7 pictures a reconstructed

MARGARET

an engine will not do what it in a dream. ought, there โร no use in scoldin, or heating it; you have to find out what is wrong and set it right,

And that is wonderful piece of education.

In

BONDFIELD,

meak waterlogged

NOW THEY KNOW

first woman Minister of Labour.tain this year were fald by the NEW YORK: Tourists to Bri- Whatever else a woman may do Wall-street Journal that they (and I would not bar her from could expect better hotels and any form of service) her highest better service. But as for food, it contribution to civilisation will will still consist of "microscople be in the quality of her mother-portions of brod and of the influence with cabbage, and starchy desserts". which she surrounds the young life.

TOO HOT FOR BEES

NICE: Millions of

deaths from Riviern hent are involved In an action before the Nice Court. They are bees. 13 million worker bees, 600,400 drones and 8,850 queen bees-who travelled by air and had reached Nice airport at 4 a.m. but were not unloaded until 10 o'clock that

.

TELEVITUS

or they

WE SHOULD air to spend at least one-tenth of the money

NEW YORK: The first tele-

Mussolini's, celebrated remark. Joneses even valon delivery service of tele-

arc hending in the grams (a picture of the telegram about the joy of bomb-dropping Joneses appears in a box on the Im- was as revealing as it was in wrong direction, portant busin warning that

desk) discreet. opened with the Americans are suffering from a new disense-televitus. I con- sists of eye strain from looking too long at programmes., “The first rule is temperance," advises

television 11

manufacturer. "Choose only your

favourite Don't settle down for an all-night look. Old people especially must be careful"

SIR GEORGE DYSON, Direc tor of the Royal College of

There was and ta far more musk, and of than any far greater variety, other single capital of Europe, É, V. KNOX, editor and poet: Spontaneous inspiration has now I have learned that beyond fame greatly diminished in Europe and riches, adventure and lety, because it is impossible to create beyond wit and science and

without freedom freely

wisdom the people..of this thought and Intercourse. Look country value their

sengo of ing eastward in now looking humour. That is the one thing backward. The present is they take seriously. England, the future here and in America.

LORD

HORDER, the King's

were at work. One said: "nght. it was then found that programmes. Physician: An old man is re-

most of the bees had been be testy. Trascible, cutting stone." The next said: burned to death in the plane, ported to

I am earning a intolerant, bul if be

living." The which had stood all day in the himself against these things and third salt: am building blazing sun. The owner is suing

This story may ap- the air transport company for, observes a blind and generous

conclude, what demeanour folk speak of it as

I the fatuous benevolence of old have learned from life: that ape! It is really very dificult, work in a necessity, and may be LORD LYTTON, artist: In done in a mechanical way or to form or national politics... truth is earn payment in one displaced person.

qnother, or with high teals on its spirit. It is possible to com- bine nil three..

warns

Their average age is 71.

SIR RICHARD GREGORY, scientist:

Three

stonecutters

PASTA

the loss.

CARNIVAL TIME

NICE: King Carnival has made merry entry into Nice with his Queen and their Court and has luken possession of the town.

MOOT POINT

A revolution

OOKING out at people from the suburban windows of his home in Richmond, Surrey, this social scientist of 1940 sees the beginnings of a revolution In human affairs.

Mr Taylor In this ruthless search for the reasons why people are unhappy Anda that some true neurotles are among our most successful men and women in business, sport, and public life.

The moral

•

WHAT does Mr Taylor promise youth hostel near Welskirchen,

it these conditions are ful-aiso sitowing cyclists. led? After 279 pages, packed.

with Ego ideal, Paraprimilivism, The surtax on the stamps will. Psychological Nexus, and Self be used to develop nativo Saar- Validation, he retums to words land centres for recreations and.. They are healthy enough which need no dictionary defini-sports. but their values are all wrong. tion. Their code does not encourge them to behave in ways which

WASHINGTON: In the Lob-power of wonder. We scarcely

ile says: Perhaps our most foster happiness. serious defect is to have lost the

But they ARE the Joneses. bies of Washington's Westmin-recognise a revolution when we They set the pace for the rest ster a ferce but whispered de- see it." bate rages. Does the fact that

of us.

the Senators get haircuts free The streamlined machino age Gordon Taylor believes that in the Capitol barber's shop which has grown up around us we can be happy. He has worked entitle Senator Margaret Chase is forcing us further away from out the Conditions of Happi- Smith to free beauty services? lour baste human needs.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THERE Y'ARE. ALL FIXED..

GOOD AS NEW NOW.. WILAT

ELSE CAN IDO FOR YOU S

"DARLING!

YOU'RE WONDER! FUL!

WAIT! I THINK THERE'S

COME MORE!

"Man's final need," he reports, TRANCE honours Faul Lange- "is to love and be loved...

vin and Jean Perrin, two of ....... the more any one man. attains its most famous physicists and true happiness, the more must assist others, in altaining

he Noble Prize winners, with two... theirs."

new stamps. Perrin, for his work in kinetics, is pictured on the 8 frane green. Langevin "Conditions of Happiness"-by adorns tho 5 frane brown for Gordon Rattray Taylor; Bodley his work in the electronic theory Head, 109. Gd,

of magnetism.

"The Perfect Husband'

BY, KEMP STARRETT,

THE PERFECT HUSBAND SHOULD BE AN EX- PERT ELECTRICIAN, CARPENTER PLUMBER, COOK, COMEDIAN AUD NURSE (WHEN NECESSARYS AND | DISPLAY NO MORE TEMPER THAN A CROCIS

NO MATTER WHAT THE PROVOCATION.

• NO.NO.NO

NO!

I'LL TAKE

THAT OUT

FOR YOU!

GEE! THIS IS

Tul.

THE PNEVER LETS HER LIFT

ANYTHING HEAVIER THAN A POCKET AANDKERCHIEF.

"THE P.A.CHOULD LIKE. ALL HER HATS

INCLUDING THE PRICE.

* IT LOOKS WONDER -

FIL ON YOU.

QILAP,

700,FOR

A HAT LIKE

ACCORDING TO COME WIVES - THE PERFECT HUSBAND COMES HOME EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT LOADED... LIKE 'A' PREIGHT CAR WITH SPENDING- LETTUCE AND DUMPS IT IN HER LAP....... AID

NEVER. ASKO WHAT SHE DOES WITH IT."

"LOOK!

ONLY

·HETYSTWO JAE SHOULD I

NETY- PRECT

HIGIT! OVN

PANTS.

HAPPY

DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN-

瞽

'Ledger Syndicate

"OK THAT ALL RIGHT HONEY? IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT...THOSE DOORS ARE TOO CLOSE TOGETHER ANYWAY!

THE BILL SHOULD ALWAYS...WHEN HE FINDS DOG-HAIRS IN THE BEANS OR BUTTER., SNEAK IT OUT OF HIS MOUTH...AND KEEP THAT SHUT... AT LEAST FOR TALKING PURPOSES.

'ANY "TIME SKL BENDS A FENDER.' THE B.II. COMFORTT

HER AND BLAMES THE GARAGE DOORS.

*O4, JOHN! YOU

LOOK SO NICE."

SOME WIVES THINK HE'D BE JUST PERFECT IP HE'D ONLY DIRU UKOWN SOCKS.

THAT!!

1.

SOME GALS WOULD RATE HUA PERFECT IF HE CAME DOWN TO SUNDAY BREAK- FAST SHAVED, DRESSED AND CAILING (ONCE À MONTI)