1949-04-23 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1949.

I Ask You-Is It Worth It?

By RONALD BOXALL

·ERE is a problem: If Now we are rently to begin to

H Britain refuses to buy distribute rabbits. But trendy

While the scheme was being worked out, distribution of rab- altogether, and bits stopped

Wa ore up agalust a new. meat from Argentina for three times what it is problem. worth and, instead of roast beef, braised rabbit be comes the national dish, how many rabbits will ordinary family get in your, assuming they do not descend to ponching?.

now that we are rendy to put our scheing into practice Wo And that the rabbits (the ones we would have eaten) have multiplied enormously, as rab- bita will.

Answer (provided by nay

Therefore, we liave more rab- official of the National Feilera- tion of Ment

and bits than we thought and it now Traders, quoted by

Increase the morning secins possible to a Loniton newspaper): "Y? distributed rution. (This is timed to coln-

through the butchern, eide with a

Parliamentary by- election, and the announcement rabbits will work out ot

Is made in the Commons by the

fairly

year,"

About

3% for each family of four per Minister of ftabbit Distribution, nmid Government cheers. A scheme, based on the in- new

rabbits creased availability of must now be worked out.

A Bitte simple arithmetic work shows us that this will

rabbits out at about 1.142800 per year-but, of course, there is a lot more in it than that.

Naturally, if a grown mat geta 1.142006 rabbits per year, a child

[

will get less. That's only fair. So let's assume that only people over 10 will get the full ration. Children under two obviously couldn't care less whether they get 60 rabbits year or none at all, so to save a lot of trouble they'll get rane at all. Children between two and 10 will be allocated rabbits on a sliding seale, necording to their age.

THE NEXT POINT

AS LARGE AS DOGS

MEANWHILE,

the butchers,

who have no ment to sell, have all starved to death. While the Minister of Rabbit Distribu. tion la preparing a Bill to na- tionailse the meat retailing busi- ness, the rabbits (now no longer considered vermin and, there- fore, reserved game) are over- running the country. They rob the vergetable plots fear of retribution, as large as dogs.

without

and Krow

By the time the 131 is in the Committee stage, reports arc being received of rabbits

Al-

Now, the next point to consider taking children and old people.

the size of the rabbit a

hand.

The situation is out of revolution brenks out, the Government Ares into exile. mud the men from Mors

seize

which the Eastc ration is cul- cuinted. Any borly will tell you that there are big rabbits and

middle-sized their opportunity and invade little rabbits and rabulls, according to how old Earth.

the they are, how accurate farmers, whose vegetable

Patches whether they robbed, and, they led a decent sort of a

kround hedge-rows or hung whistling at female rabbits.

fe

Quite obviously it is goin to call for a new Ministry. If ou rationing sele, based on fair worked distribution, is to be

out. There will have to be Minister of Rabbit Distribution, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Rabbit Distribu- tion. scores of people to sign type things, hundreds more to

things and stick stamps on cn- velopes, and Lord knows how many to make ten-It's really qulie a bi job!

All this would, of course, put the price of rabbits 11. Pour people wouldn't be able to afford them, there would

strikes and lock-outs.

be the

All this, mind you, because somebody suggested that if rab- hits were distributed fairly ench family of four would get about 34 a year,

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THE WORLD AIR SKYLT Se

Mr. VIITETS

OF THE DART EXPRETT LONDON

Prague, April 1,

how know

DON'T

most people start off when they go round the world, but I set out on a 31 bús. As it stops out- sile my house in Hampstead and goes all the way to the Kensington air terminus, it

SHOULD A MAN LEAVE seemed silly to take a taxi.

HIS RICHES TO

HIS CHILDREN?

By SIDNEY RODIN

his long life Mr Fre- tory pupil at the Royal Academy

making the stage her career.

Aderick Join Nettefold, of Dramatic Art. She is bent on

Government would fall, and the who made a fortune as a anarchists would take over.

director of Courtaulds, has

pen,

the

year. This pence on

şix- would mean the price of

-Nuticy

Their brother Frederick, aged 21. But, rather than let that hnp-been giving money away. is at Plumpton Agricultural

Government will

College, he will leave this year naturally subsidie_rabbit_dis. Recently,_at_the_age of to run his father's farms at tribution-say. £10,000,000 81, he completed what my

be his last large gift-326 Later he takes over three sisal pictures vained at £120,000 and cattle estates in Kenya, and donated to art galleries April said: "We don't expect in Britain and the Empire, any more from father than the allowance he gave us on coming In his house of Nutley, Suzex, of ane. My Nettle fold told me that when

cigarettes, fourpence a plat on beer, luppence on income tax, and a ha'penny on water rates.

NOT READY YET

rabbits begins. But we are not rendy yel

-(Lunden Express Service),

he retired in 1943 he was "a "I have £10 a week to pay for everything. I don't want a lot of TATS before distribution of very rich man.”

He lost money on West End money. I want to work." stage productions in the twen- Of course, new ration books Dies. He lost more helping actors will have to be printed, beal in distress and authors Rabbit Distribution offices will of a tacker. Then be "adopted" have to be opened, butchers Crystal Palace Football Club and £24,000 clearing of

will have to take advanced calculus, and families debt.

in i spent a course

teen

will have to be limited to four,

When he parted from his otherwise the whole system will

1044-he wns break down before It even second wife in

given A desertion decrce-he starts.

settled £100,000 on her.

Rabbits will have to be "My three children will not specially

bred in inodern be left too much," he said to me. laboratories to ensure that they "No hundreds of thousands of are all uniform size when they pounds.

are sold, and a vast propaganda

They will have enough in campaign will have to begin to

but I make remind people who had rabbit live comfortably. three months and 10 days ago them realise they must all do are now dua for another one battle in life, not sit still und might not think this is just take what I have worked (You necessary, but you'd be surprised hard for." how forgetful some people con bel).

CRIME QUIZ

(Solution on Page 13).

Consider your verdier

1 SCENE OF CRIME:

2 THE VICTIM:

JAMES SMITH:Stobbed

to death. MOTIVE-robbán..

3 TAXI DRIVER SAID:PR

Hecycled past me at the loot

of the lone just before midnight. I

acticed nothing unwool. Ten minteg

later found hindradewor his collayır." What do you say

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A Man's Rights

Philosophizing almost to him- self, the tall old man who can now only totter forward in shuffle, went on:-:

+

A man who has had the energy

A

J

TH

WICKSTEED

First

you take a 31 bus

He

Wad a

We

the way to

SO THIS IS SILES!

SON of a Newmarket racing family. Keeps

one

horses himself.. Breeds pigs, Born while parents were staying within mile of Bow Bells, making him officially a cockney. Schooled all over the place, but never at art school.

Graduated through the wilds of Wardour Street Alm studios,

daylight. Reached

which is the best in town and working on mighty epics which Costs £3 a day (with meals). never there isn't a fur coat or a smari dizzy heights of working or pair of women's shoes to be reen. Alexander Korda and then de Some of the people sitting about cided he'd had enough of Alms.

look more like Migrated to work

In the toyer trampa than guests at a good schools and

what else. hotel.

LIKES:

The money in us here is call-drinking;

in

riding goodness knows

Farming; riding: Benjamin Britten's

ed at kron and there are 200 of music; cars; engineering, draw- sterling-jing people who congratulate

them to the pound Czech cigarettes, which are worse him on cartoons which he didn't

cost do; drinking.

than anything in England. 5s. for 20. Scotch whisky is £12

but they make bottle, 105. brand of their own which

don't recommend.

The prefer

Bohemians. some

DISLIKES: Cinema organists who are for ever telling him they are going to play him an

old favourite which never is an themselves old favourite by any means; and

stuff ever so many other things.

HABITS: Calls all policemen editors "Sir." Avoids all

powerful called slivovico which is mado from plums, looks like gin, and and tastes like neither. The barman children under the age of 30.

Somerset House knows in a water soda gives you separate glass for quenching rest. the fire afterwards.

Cold Carp

the

Of the picture above, Giles says: "This picture of me won

a prize In 1916. I have allered very little since then, except that I weigh a bit less." Not POCKET CARTOON

The beauty of this fish, carp. apart from its excellent taste, is that you can keep it alive by

When you get home from the the bath and let it swim about

So there I was at the bus Hayley Bell, my old C.O. in selves anything but lucky. stop at 7 o'clock in the the Air Force. The last That night over Newcastle, OR dinner I had cold carp fol- lowed by goose and cabbage morning with my passport. time we flew together was for instance. We were near with caraway seeds in it. my traveller's cheques, my during a blitz on Newcastle. ly shot down by one of our having any sea fish in this part own fighters in mistake for of Europe they are very keen on certificates of inoculation

a night-fighter wns

a Hun. (for typhoid, paratyphoid,

and pilot then und f typhus, cholera,

It was odd that plague), and a ticket round navigator. Now he's the

skipper of an air liner and should have met up again Packing it in wet moss, the world.

flies people like me on their like this on And there was my wife, peaceful missions.

Prague of all places be was in a Czech I didn't jeopardise the cause it the window waving good- bye, and saying: "Do be lives of the other passer squadron of the R.A.F. that careful; remember to write, gers by trying to navigate we served together. and don't bring back a the Viking to Prague, but I monkey. I won't have it in did spend a couple of hours -talking-to Tinker about the the house if you do.'

pleasures of flying when The bus

along, I there's no one shooting at hopped on and the journey you. round the world had begun.

in her dressing-gown, at

came

fishmonger's you put the carp in happily until you are ready to eat it. On rare occasions a Bohe-

Rome and then over the Ionian

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mlan gels so fond of the carp in his bath that he hasn't the heart to pull out the plug and kill it. The Czech pilots were He prefers to go hungry-and always talking about the parties-they-would-give us Tomorrow I get up at 4 o'clock we came as their guests to Sea to Greevs. I am looking for- when the war was over and in the morning and fly-first-lo Prague. But they're not in ward to that. a position to do it now. In The Old Days

of Some

them have The first leg by air was

to Prague N the old days you coukl from Northolt

a 'B.E.A. never settle down to ad- escaped back to England the and rejoined the R.A.F. (672 miles) in

the clouds or

The checriest of them all is Viking, and who should be mire

because at any pilot but

in "Tinker" scenery

a Czech gaol with the

minute some beastly Mes-

might come sentence of 15 years for serschmitt whizzing at you out of the travelling West on the rail- way when he should have sky.

been going East.

from C. V. R. THOMPSON

THE U.S. SCENE

£1

1

As for the others, they would find a visit from their English friends an embar- rassment now.

Not Followed

But now you can buy a ticket to ly round the world and not get shot at once. You can look at the scenery as scenery and not as NEW YORK. KN

*NOW-HOW: Factory workers target or hiding place for

can now have hot luncheons guns. have got MERICANS

from an electrified lunch-box. Above all you can, with

was snowing when we reach- | warning that they Just

plug it into an electric

ed Prague, Hayley Bell and are turning into a nation of socitet ten minutes before the out fear of predatory planes, I

quick lunch and whistle, and the food is sizzling relax in that wonderful his crew had

The Czech bad sports.

above world

the clouds returned home. Said one sports commentator:

where the sky sparkles like authorities don't encourage them One crew that had to "The sports fan is proving him- OUNG AMERICA wants that blue crystal and the sun

alop the night because of bad well-dressed self a rowdy, unruly, brawling You

"executive turns the cloud tops into a weather say they were followed pain in the neck, an ungracious

sparkling by plain-clothes police wherever landscape winner, and a loser who heckles look" instead of the old-time

they went. honest hero" cutit of lumber- und assaults offelals er players."

Jack's shirt and baggy trousers, snow,

To the real flying man Nobody followed me. I thought Adie Suchsdorf, New York suya expert Eugene Ackerman. sports writer, announces

ver. Fine wool.and good tailoring of there's nothing so beautiful it would be rather exciting results of a survey to discover: wartime uniforms have given

problem.

hot,

of

to

be searched,

I

the cadres of this new American Interest in colours and fabrica, 011 earth as this Shangri-La they did, and kept looking back

anybody there. ils findings: (1) Too many draped, young-looking effect.

created a desire for the easy, of the clouds which is al- in hopes. But there was never ways there waiting for you

They didn't search my luggage "If God fashioned my inther

not know the

If you only fly high enough. in the hotel, either. I left every- and me clover enough to make spectators do

There'll be many lovely thing ready money then we had an obliga-Eume's fine points; (2) American.

gamea have become too complex: MOST PROMISING opening for a U.S. youngster today is tlan to use it in the right way. (3) And most important of all-

an employment exchange survey round the world, but noth do behind the Iron Curtain. "No Government should de- there is too much betting on to be a butelier. Next best, says things to see on this journey thinking this was the thing to -baker, barber. Least promising is likely to be more even fastened a thread of silk in

such prive a man of that obligation,sport.

a way that it couldn't he ing-lawyer, radio announcer,

breaking grand than

seen but would break if the case and ability to make money sure- FASHION: A new women's reporter.

through the clouds into the was opened. But it was intact

out on my return. leave it 10. For what he that the wearer is always walk- CUPERMEN, free of evil and sunshine ten minutes with his wealth he is ac-ing on tiptoe.

disease, will be evolved in from Northolt. countabio to himself and to God.high-heeled shoe, but it has no 10,000 or, perhaps, a million

"Governments which destroy high heel. Support for the back Усата

A Lucky Man states Paisley-born Dr Inheritance by myoge death of the shoe is provided by a duties also destroy the incentive strong metal pinte running from Robert Broom, 82-year-old nn-

thropologist. Man, he says, is the ex

"YOU know," sald Hayley

ly has the right to my whom

to make a success of life.

"I am pleased I have given so

Paper

much of my wealth awny. Otherwise it would merely go Into the Government waste-

shou gives the impression

the sole.

It looks like a

only animal still developing.

of

Prague is where Good King Wenceslas came from. What he did besides loalting out on the Feast of Stephen 1 haven't dis- covered, but he seems to have Ball, indicating the been a good type, because they

Bohemin. IVING: Americans may soon CHOW BUSINESS:*

Mary glittering cloud tops with made him the Patron Saint of

the hand, sweep

Boltemia rc- Martin keeps her hair cuta

Talking about be able to buy yellow

lucky I'm a basket to be given India-margarine for the first time to two inches, so she can wash "I reckon

Congress in at last repealing the it every night on tho stogo in the

fore I started, my wife looked I get paid for minds me of my hat. Just be- criminately to others, whether

You can't go my at it and said: margarino be- new musical, "South Pacifc." this. Flying may be restrictions on they deserve it or not."

Dinati Shore is going to Tokyo April, his eldest child, is 23. cause of consumers' pressure.

Instead of London this year. job, but I love it just the round the world in that hatf So far they haven't sald any- sol a £3-a-week job na a scenic RUSINESS: In a new altempt why Hollywood chose "Hamlet" lucky too. I'm being paid to thing, and this being the capital

A Hollywood writer asks same." "Well," I said, "I'm What will the people my?" painter, and is converting part to cut the competition of the picture of the year when

of Bohemia don't suppose they of her Bat in Ennismore Gardens, Scotch, two U.S. whisky manu "for more than

balf of it wo go round the world."

when will. Their own hats are nothing London, into a studio, where she facturers have

There were times could not understand what the 2s. Bd. a bottle price cut. The.. will paint pictures for sale. ---

we-flow together before to write home about.

Nor are their clothes.. They all Sharing the flat in her sister, new price of their whisky is 155, charactors were saying."

look very drab. Even in my hotel 18-year-old Dorothy, a prepara- 'Od. The price of Scotch is 199. Gd.

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She studied art for two years,

announced A

man.

our-

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the chain

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