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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1949.

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After the

the binge with Bevan, CRIPPS PRESENTS THE BILL

MONG

the

· hymns which, as a choirboy. I used to sing long ngo, was one which contain- ed the lines- .'

"O, in what divers paina

they met.

O, with what joy the

went away."

It was with divers pains that we met.

But it was not joy with which we went

the

by W. J. BROWN, MP

C. V. R. THOMPSON'S AMERICAN

LETTER

The Importance Of Kathy

A

New York.

POLICEMEN in New York

their lot to be n more profitable one. They havo

LL over the U.S. today,

people-ordinary people made these as well as professional com- day, 40-hour

demands a five- week, a month's mentators are talking holiday with pay avery year, along the same lines.

and £1,200 a year.

What they are saying OTORING: Christopher.

amounts to this: "Well, M Janus, an American bual- maybe this is not such a bad ness man who bought one of world after all."

Hitler's cars, is afraid. some of i1x late owner's spirit

ing,

han

box

. And what they mean is this: stayed with it. Recently For about 48 hours roughly of matches exploded In his three-quarters of the globe hand while he was lighting, a stopped worrying about the elgarette at the wheel, a-fire atom bomb, politics, the cold extinguislier dropped on hls war, taxes, or the cost of live foot and broku several bones, nd devolect its worrying and he got a black eye bump- to 4 Jittle Birt trappert in a ing into the car's spotlight. California well

There was no mistaking the solld.

\CIENCE: The world's lightest uation's real sorrow when it

a plastle to be used for insulation, has been deve- heard that the three-year-old child, Kathy Fiscus, was found Robert Sterling. And his idea loped by a 29-year-old scientist,

drowned B3, down the well into which she fell while play- meringue which his wife put for it came from the excellent ing.

"Never has $0 much help been offered front SO many pinces so quickly.

on top of her lemon pies.

UOTE: Columnist Irving Hoffman

says: "In this

Physical help locally, and "know-how" help, by telephone country there are ten mentions and cable, came from Chicago, of the Marx Brothers to every London, New York. Sydney, one of Karl Marx." Rome, Detroll, Paris, and many JUST AS UNO has got the

more places.

Sald

radio ຕ

commentator

wns

money from Congress to

who was on the spot: "It felt start building its home, some New York papers are asking. Says the Daily Mirror, for instance: "It ncors tho end of its usefulness. It has

29 become a glorified forum whero so-called statesmen

rinc to. vilify each other like so many fishwives: Arnusing maybe, use-

if every mother and father AS in the work

4 Why. Just involved as Kathy's own mother father here in San

For us, in this feld as inand almost every other, the way out Morino." lies in Increased production. That, sold a New York news

A New Axe?

DRITAIN'S

BUDGET has: caused more talks in the US. than any Budget speech in years, than cut him, off, the company about. Britain taking it easy at

BAmericans

By NIGHTFALL the American tax-payor's ex-

That, and that alone, can enable paper, is "the importance of us to carry the immense and Kathy." And It added! ful nover." Federation of British But other things are not permanent

additions we inve"Humanity which has had so to recommend it in re- Or if they are, they will macie to our national expendl-uitle Industries, the Greyhound equal.

not remain so. A nation which, ture.

cent centuries, looks very good Racing Proprietors, the like the United States, lakes in

when a little girl falls into a Motorcar Manufacturers, the taxation only 25 percent of its

well," Housewives' League, and wealth production, can spend hundred more organisations more in repairing and replacing and persons. The bill had its industrial plant than a na- Hon which takes 40 percent. The bill The industrial machine of the been incurred.

The rest of falter will become less and less must be met. his speech was a lecture on able to compete with that of the

for former. elementary economics There is, I am told, a cer- Socialist beginners. Its tain fine, careless rapture theme was: "What you about the process of be- have you pay for." As coming intoxiented. It is time went on the bill would the getting sober again become. not smaller, but bigger. High taxation had .come to stay.

awny,

which is so awful.

Now we must go through all the agonies of the morn- ing after the night before. After the debauch with Dalton, the binge with Be van, comes the account from Cripps.

Soaking the rich

Mirror

The New York Times begins: a column-long editorial with: think many AmericanS find themselves replying, is no doubt whatever

had INLESS we get it, then sooner

returned pense. or later we shall have a new

auelently to normal to indulge коте comment over the Geddes Committee, a new An

election county

results

in derson Commitice, a new May

Britain. New York's Daily "We Committee (as we had after the first world war) to slash ex-

publisheil LI cartoon wil

tin-hatted Socialists There showing penditure all round, social ser-

a bomb that Britain has merited our vices included, as a condition of panicking towards national survival,

shelter to escape a rain of ald,'" bombs labelled "Votes."

DRINK OF WATER that: OUT, there are worse things

The specchi Cripps made was

Mr Churchill took during. than bankruptcy. It is a law

brave speech. He loid us A RUNAWAY LORRY smash-

Dis Boston get further ed through n house In

speech cost ono of politics that parties of the Left bluntly we could

company only out of in-Thiladelphia and landed in the broadensling

£7,000, come to power only in hard improvements

The pnuse Umes.

that refreshed Mr Because, when

creased production. But he will sing-room. But Mrs- Margaret they

the

Churchill occupant of the

delayed the end of come to power, limes are hard, need to be braver pet before we Roth,

house. hardly gave a

his speech by 50 seconds. Rather start, is they can Implement the pro- nre through. For mises on which they rose

Explained Mrs Roth. G.. than cut him off, the company cancelled the commercial show .which was to have followed hit. It had to reimburse the advertiser, and the cast of his

to

♫

power only by putting taxation dastardly notion is gettin' bride from Helensburgh, on the

about

Clyde: "I was in London during at punitive levels,

That our bladder is bust and the the blitz."

gas oozin' out;

ists.

zome way to stop it,

a steady investment chiners-to-bring:

a

old phrase "a white ele-

"

show.

swore

"Gee," said Mrs Perry who with him we would not have.. also won a night across the had the Second World War." Atlantic to London, and

Mrs Patterson's former name week's holiday in the Shake- Victoria, Princess of Prussia, Her grandfather's name-Kalser spear: country, "I just do not

Wilhelm know what to clo with that elephant."

Now my view of a Bud- getary situation which de mands taxation at the rate of 40 percent of the total national income is that, un-

This means destroying first less something happens, it the rich, and later the middle And unlere we ban manage in THE FULL MEANING of that portends bankruptcy at no classes. But this incidentally Sir Stafford presented his distant date. True, there removes the most solid barrier Why the thing's a gone coon, and phant was mude clear to Mrs JUDGE REEVES, who

in a new American citizen. Budget in a speech which have been cases in history "Left that is always to the left

to social uphenval. For the we might do well drop it,

Freda Perry, a Pennsylvania Ars Kirby Patterson, of Spring- lasted two hours. He could in which nations have been of the Left" can never be satis- Brag works well at first, but it live, 8,0001b.

steelworker's wife. She won a

elephant among "Your grandfather was a great. field, Missouri, had this to say: have presented it in i taxed by as much as 40 ed. Just as the Socialists oul- ain't jest the thing

£6,000 worth of prizes in man. If we speech of two words percent. But as Mr Graham bld the Liberale, so inter on the For

the radio, give-away programine,

had made peace "More austerity. He pre Hutton has pointed out re- Communists-outbid-the-Social sented the Budget on a few cently, none of them sur- sips of orange juice. But vived the experience.

But even o Communist state it required a stiff whisky

must produce and export, So It grapples with the problem of and sods to take it.

There is less reason to

production by imposing on the suppose that we can do so.

speed-up beyond any- workers a For we are less self-con- thing that Bedaux ever con- tained, less insulated from templated, and enforces it with. disciplines and the pressure of external ull the savage

repressions of the Pollee State, AST year the State took conditions than those cases And, like the man who, having 4,000 millions out of a which Mr Hutton quoted. expelled one evil spirit, subse- total national income of 10,- Or, at least, we shall be quently admitted seven others 000 millions. That is 40 per- shortly, when (a) Marshall to his heart, "the last state is cent. This year it will again Aid comes to an end, (b) worse than the first." tuke 4,000 millions. And Germany and Japan re-enter unless something happens it the world's markets, and will still be 40 percent. (c) the buyers' market ba

comes universal,

Give And Take,

on

Danger Ahead

THAT 40 percent level of taxa

One Way Out

An' voting we're prosp'rous

hundred times over Won't change bein' starved into

Huin' on clover....

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-London Express Service}<

The Berliners have a song for it

•

be

Jo

HAMBURG. There is a cyai- carns £19 a month. Equally, times, talk to them-but for alt: cal little song going round those who have money spend if the practical business of living. Berlin just now describing the ut a fantastic rate.

they might as well attitude of the people living in

Wimbledon, The Esplanade, the other parts of Germany.

most Juxurious German hotel, charges Except, they bay, that the food about C3 a night just for a they get here is much worse. NOW from the apparently 12-

When anyore arrives from room. morseless inevitability of this beyond the blockade the Ber-

Arny rations are delivered by process there is only One way Buer asks: "What's Be like The Vierjuhrzeiten, the other the RASC twice a week, and a thers? And always he gets the large hotel in Hamburg, is now family of two enn just make answering refrain: "Why, there an allied officers' club; no Ger- them last ouf'; one gliest means.

stop and man is allowed inside the door, that someone goes short. can go into

out. What is it? To eut the social services, to cut the food

subsidies, to cut education and

You

Gavebuy.

with

Nowhere is this

Whatever Sir Stafford gave with one hand he took away with the other. A penny off the pint was

tioh has two effects which the like? For a Socialist Gov- promptly neutralised by 4d.

must ultimately prove dis crument that would be impos.

Conversation turns on food, There is no question of cholce; à lb. on cheese and ment, astrous. To the extent that it sible. And a Conservative Party

more true ways of obtaining petrol, the you take what you are given, 2d. on butter,. Id. on mar. comes out of earnings, It lowers which made this the basis of its

chunces of getting nylons is the and this is invariably stewing the standard of life of the wage-election programme would have than in Hamburg.

Naafi shop, the impossibility of ment, dried fish, dried eggs; garine, and a halfpenny on carners, and rabs them of the little chance of forming ก new

The Jungfernstelg, dhe main buying anything locally now dried milk, and a few weary boxes of matches. A reduc incentive to greater effort. To Government. What then? shopping street, is like Oxford that the maric is 13 to the . vegetables sent down from. Ilol-

the extent that it comes out of the 40 percent continue,

Street on a Saturday morning.

Jand. For the last four weeks. tion in the duty light pronts, diminishes the pool its Inevitable consequences, with crowds milling up and

Even cigarettes, I heard some it has been white cabbage. wine, designed to help (n)

from which comes the invest- when

we are left to face the down looking at the displays of one say, are so plentiful naw ment which alone will prevent world unaided, of unemploy china, clothes, shoes, food that the Germans will phy the French, and (b) Mr our plants from slowly running meat, wage-cuts, and the rest including a boar's head flanked barely a quarter of what they Strachey (who can't sell the down by comparison with the No. If the 40 percent cannot

anoj by six different kinds of did last year,

or two-thirds of a fish. wine he has bought us

competing countries. be cut it must be transformed.

They are in a strange situá- There is no question of them- That 40 percent must cons Four thousand millions out of Minister of Food at present in the last resort, out of the 10 thousand millions is 40 per- After a time, however, you tion, the English community popping down to the German

But four thousand mil- prices),

immediately selling price Was

of the goods we

window-gazers living here and there are more chops, because they are forbid- cent. sell. If our

"overheads." so to lon

Hons out of 15 thousand millionsotice that the

have more the air of people than 600 civilian families. Con- den, under penalty of being sent neutralised by a stiff in speak, are 40 percent, while the would be only 30 percent. And visiting muscum than at 'trol Commission and othera, back to England, to buy one

four thousand millions out of

apart from the Army wives, cingle item of food from the crease in telephone rentals. overheads of our competitors are

German economy. 15. 20 or 25 percent, then other 20 thousand millions would be someone deciding what to buy, In a few sentences Sir things being equal, we are at only 20 percent. Twenty or 30 Here in Hamburg you

They have the uneasy sensa2

"The Germans pily us," they Stafford brushed aside the disadvantage, as compared with percent could be bearable, where get what you like if you have tion of living behind a pane of They live next door to them. In the markets of the 40 percent would cripple and the money. Few people have; glass.

kill. Mr Maurice Webb,, world.

a secretary in an office here the Germans, meet them some-

TUC.

plants of

NANCY

Love's Labour Lost

alisage.

I

By Ernie Bushmiller

Can

The quantities are queer, too;

three people get 21⁄2 sausages.

say bitterly.

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