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Sitting on the

HAT

nice.

Mr

Robin's flown to Paria for Easter."

said the Sparrow's wife,

busy with her tiny bit of knitting.

'i

Fence....by

“By himself?" asked the NATHANIEL GUBBINS

Sparrow.

"Parls in the spring. The Bois

"Of course not," said his de Boulogne, Montparnasse. The men came over. wife. "Fancy."

"Why "fancy"?" "He wouldn't think of going te a place like Paris without his wife."

"He probably thinks about it. but never goes," said the Spar-

row.

"You Judge others by your- Felf," sald his wife. The Robins are devoted to each other."

"He won't be so devoted when he gets to Paris." /

Tuileries, Omelettes. bread. Vin blanc. Vin Oh, la Ia, Hotcha, hoteha."

ration?"

"Soon after Easter." "Well, can I have my pocket money now so that I can save up for it?"

Where has the money gone?

By BERNARD HARRIS

LONDON. Even baby's napples cost a F there is one thing ob- penny more, And when, the vious in the country suit the extra cost is is. 4d.

Infant qualifies for a sleeping today it is that no ono Services such as shoe repairs, has any money to spend. laundry, dry cleaning, als Where has all the money dressing, and domestic help are all running away with more gong?

money.

For the former well-to-do this, of course, has been a black year because of the capital levy. On the top of income tax and surtax it has laid them out.

Worst of all for many peopla

is the high cost of beer, and

garettes.

The Socialists claim

with

pride that by subsidising food they save the average-house- hold of four about 14s. a week.

But what the citizens have not yet reallred is that they are being taxed about 25. on their smoking and drinking to provide that 14s,

But for the ordinary citi- zens taxation has not risen. And yet they are as short of money as anyone else,'

Statistically, I am told, retail prices have only risen week that Mr Bevan now col- And, of course, the 4s. lid. a over the year by an average lects from us all adds to the of la. in the £. Is that problem of making the money enough to cause the money go rounkl.

shortage? Does it really re-

flect the true risc in the cost-of-living?--

The evidence of very tight purse-strings is not far seck.

to

Boots and shoes and some clothes come off the ration, but there is no rush to buy,

Reservas gono

"Higher"prices are really-hurt-- ing now because more and more femilico

to live are having within their Income.

The reserves on which they used to draw for any special spending are disappearing. spent.

Wartime gratuities have been Nest-ex accumulated badly though most, ward- when there was nothing to. robes need replenishing. spend on have shrunk or gone

Confectioners report that altogether.

Ilon..

"When do sweets come off the some of their customers no National Savings reveal that

longer take up

their full trend. This nancial year now ration of sweets, because savings are down by £168 mil- they cannot afford to do so. To thousands o! familles

Cinema takings are. well nationalisation down. Restaurants, especial hard blow, ly the expensive ones, are coal and coke,

It has cost poorly patronised.

Ifsky

FURTHER peep behind the "Suppose 10,000 bald French-. 1 гол curtain reveals that

What would the boys in French that cost?"

the Kremlin Aro now translating and re-writing rouge. "At Mity guineas per head, the reels of the world, claiming

£525,000."

all the best to be Russians. "And if they were

Therefore, your

uncle Ny as well as bald?"

offers vos "* £630,000."

Rudvardoff Kiplingovitch :- "Perhaps bald and toothiess

If you can keen vour head when Germans will como over, too?"

"Perhaps."

Sparrow.

"With you?" asked the Other

"Who else?"

own

"Do we fly under our eam or stow away in the. plane?"

"We stow away in the plane and arrive in time for lunch. Omelettes. French bread. Vin blanc. Vin rouge."

"Oh, la la. Hotcha, hotcha," said the Other Sparrow.

They're so devoted that he's Awful child wants

miserable even when she visits her mother for a week-end.**

"He'd be more miserable if he Went too."

"That's where you're wrong again. He's devoted to mother."

ber

"Has she gone to Paris with them?" asked the Sparrow.

"She has," said his wife, "In military circles I believe it-would-be known as doubling the guard,"

ta

"I don't know anything about military circles. All I know is Hat Mr Robin can afford lake his wife and her mother to Paris and we can't afford to Eu anywhere."

"I can't afford to take any-

to know

"It right that

foreign visitors can have free den- tures at your expense?"

JA

toothless

"And Italians and Russians?TM "Probably."

"How many, Russians Bro there?"

**About 200.000.000."

all about you

Are losing theirs and

strung up, too.

by

being

purge

you can dodge the when all men doubt you

And see that they are purged

instead of you.

by waiting

"If they were all bald and If you can wale and not be tired toothless and all came over what would that cost?" *

And hear the truth, but twist unlikely that they

it into ller, all bald and toothless. It is also unlikely that they will all come Over here."

are

"But

suppose they did?" "If they all came over and they all had a set of frec here

dentures and two free wigs it

And being hated, don't give way

to hating But

friendship in your eyes,

Demand drops

has deal

them more for doubled their electricity bills and cut the in- come from which they have to meet these higher charges.

Before nationalisation' ·800,000 And there has been a 20 people, mostly small tavestors, percent drop in the demand shared an income of £40 mill- for beer, that last-to-be- lion a year from the railways. pruned spending for so they get only £30 million.

Naw, under State ownership, many people. The drop has even shut a brewery.

Gambling on the dogs has shrunk to a fraction of the £200 million staked in the boom days of 1946.

Investors in the electricity in- dustry have similarly had their incomes cut by a third, pode

too Under Socialism

many industrial dividends move only in one direction downwards. Yo! It is wrong to think that

go only

the

There are hundreds of thou- no doubt that they, too, are depend on them for the little sands of "sal" people who suffering a chilly draught: extra that makes ends meet

Though the proprietors of dividends the football pools keep mum wealthy.

about their figures, there is

minding about the items in business in the occ

Fow housewives need re- Dividend limitation restricts

markets

bump them off with their shopping lists that and brings share prices down.

have gone up over the past If you can talk to crowds with

Indeed, the Stock Exchange ig seeming virtue

year. In food the outstand fast becoming a new "depressed

area," with the threat of unem the ing price increases are in ployment hanging over many

Despising what is called

common touch,

"Any dental surgeon will tell would cost the British taxpayer It neither higher ups nor lower eggs, bacon, fish, rabbits, of its workers.

fou there is nothing to stop any foreign visitor, or any number of foreign visitors, having free dentures for the asking."

cost

"What do the free dentures.

You?" "Ten guineas-a-zet?". "Suppose 10,000 toothless Frenchmen came over for free dentures. What would that cost you?"

thousand

A hundred guineas."

"Have you as much *s that?"

"No."

money

"Well, who would pay?"

body anywhere at any Ume "Mr Bloodsucker, the income when I spend all my money at tax collector, also steals Money

roughly £12,600,000,000,"

oro

"What about the Chinese?" "I'm

not going into the Chinese question,"

"How

Chinese many there?" ---"bout 400,000,000,"

"So If they all come here....

"And they were all bald. and toothless....M

"

over

"It would cost what?" "Roughly £25,000,000,000.**

downs can hurt you

some varieties of tinned Few brokerage houses are Unless you let them know too goods, and the various "ex- bing firm in three, I am told, is making a profit. Only one job- much.

tras" that go to stretch the now earning its expenses. If you can All the unforgiving rations.

minute

In bad way -With every dirty trick-beneath:

the sun, Yours is the earth and every-

thing that's in it,

In clothing-the-average¬ Increase is 2s. 6d. in the E.

Children's shoes have risen starts to betrame

When the Stock Exchange hard up, the by nearly 38. In the £. And which is more-you'll be

effects soon spread through alf Some cotton goods, such as sections a commissar, my son..

of the community, sheets, are up by as much as whether they have money In- -(London Express Service) | 125, in the £ since 1947. vested

or not. Only the banks are prosperous today* and their prosperity rests ton much on overdrafts.

thera is att

C.V.R. Thompson reports the U.S. scene at when the banke

the Trea Tops Club," said the from other people's pay pac- EN NEW YORK, the best res-

kelz."

teeth

open in

Spurrow.

"To buy false "That's what I meant," sak fomieners?" his wife.

Partly," "Does Bloodsucker "I know you did," said the people's pay packets before Sparrow. "So I thought I'd say get them? it first."

"Yca."

"I think it's a shame you can't take mother and me away for Easter because you, spend all your money in that awfut club, ruining your health and everything.'

"If saving money on Scotch

what

The

a

bad

wny. because prosperity

oro prosperous the country is defeated champion, And Truman said: "All right, in tatirinta and

New Richard Watson, a local cab Ernic, break them down. We for the banks means that too for Yorkers like to call benneries driver, filed a protest. He said will pay for them."

(nack bars) have cut prices to the contest was supposed to

many people need to

borrow attract more customers. Steaks last ten minutes,

money at high interest. and he was

[OTORING: After a place to

It is an unpleasant situation Μα they have been reduced from 18%. to when it was all over.

the expersive restaurants all ready for a winning spur! live, a place to park your in which we find ourselves, but -

car is the hardest thing to find it is not without its compensa- 13. And in the beanerles

MERICANS are seeing "Oy Washington

in the U.S. And this is why. tions.

"And takes what he likes?" "Practically."

"Does he spend all Friday night doing it?" "Probably."

"If he's a thief, why they send him to prison?"

"He's a legalised thief."

don't

to

means taking your mother "But he could send you,

nest.

to

Paris

I'll drink myself to prison for not letting him steal death," said the Sparrow, flying your money?” straight to the Other Sparrow's

"Yes" "When you haven't anything?"

"That's right." "Do

you buy wigs for foreigners, too?" "I expect so." "What do wigs cost?"

per.

everything was about 3d chen- ing saucers" in their skies there are 40,022,000 care on the end grey markets, of queueing. announces Lhnt It means an end of the black again. For ATEST FAD sinong U. S. Washington

the first

time road, nearly one for every three and of the days when a buyer. conceded that it Americans. L

had to go almost on bands and. no evidence enabling it university students is oyster has

knees to get what he wanted.: "to deny categorically" that a Present champion gulping."

ITY: A Philadelphia stock Manufacturers are once more Charles Porter, of Michigan foreign Power is sending them University.

broker is keeping evening having to exert themselves not score is 76 over America. But there is no cffice hours two nights a week merely to make what the public, oysters in ten minutes. Comment evidence, either, that a foreign to serve factory workers who wants but

to make it at from university president War Power is doing so.

cannot get

round during the price the public Ta ren Forsythe: "it's disgusting CHOPPING: The great nylons

day."

prepared to pay. and silly. You can get a hog to boom is busting

The old somnolent, easy-going all over stolen eat more than that"

Milton methods which America. It is not that women HOW BUSINESS:

Socialism has: Berle, America's top tale- helped to encourage with int pairs, but COMETHING NEW in union are wearing lewer.

vision star, raised that too many factories and too for charity by telling, jokes serve much longer.

£300,000 cuotas and controls will not: demands turned up in Philadelphia.

efficient machinery art produ- Warthouse cing far too many of them. before the cameras

The without

good, fresh wind of workers demanded that they They are now trying to sell stopping for 10 hours.

competition is coming back. should get their birthdays off, stockings su sheer they are al- Katharine Hepburn, a refugee Before long let us hope it will "About., twenty-five quincar.” Jor, if not, deuble pay. Tho em- most Invisible. hoping that You Like It" and if the Government would get..

from Hollywood, Hos signed up

bring

lower prices with it. is players gave in.

wear and tear, will be greater.'" 1

The process would be hasten "I'm not sure that it's a com- „B'SEINE, FRON

next season.r out of overseas trading, for its THE YAUMATI Sound," said the Other Spar- day?

new vogue", carpenter, Joe Gagnon, was

Westerns has Winchell, concoras Truman all-star

long-term zot row. "And don't give me that So if foreign visitors are en champion after eating

contracts for food "I believe so,"

named world's baby talk."

clam-eating and Devin arriving at Heaven's Robert Taylor, Ray Milland, and raw materials aru: delaying ingates. The gates were locked. Peter Lawford, Van Helin, from: the falling trend of world the day when we can beneft titled to free wids they can have clams (a rubbery American Bevin hammered at them say- Zachary Scott, "How about Peris In the two ench?".

and Hody spring?" asked the Sparrow,

cousin of the oyster) in eight ing: ""Thay: can't keep me out. Lamarr all practising how to prices. "Naturally"

minutes.

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