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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1949.

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tical party.

said Floating Vote, "I've never belonged to no poli- Nor as tho wife. Nor as the daughter. Our motto at the General Election was give somebody else a chanco and see what appens.

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more," said Floating Vote, "we wanted a square deal for the workin man and no anky-panky, The daughter was red ot for

it,

"The wife and mé never ave been snobs. We've always smiled and nodded to a workin man in the street, and treated them to a chat and a cup of ten when they coing round to do a bit of a job at the ouse. If we met a workin man at Christmas time we always wished the compliments of the and maybe shake ands.

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"As for the daughter, she said to me one day, she said, 'What is a Christian, ded?'

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NATHANIEL GUBBINS

chill. But I suppose it all works out in the end."

"As the politicians of the past used to say, 'The Instinct of the used to say it even when they people is always right. They were thrown out, in the hope that the people's instinct would. throw them in next time,"

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"I'm not so sure about the Instinct of the people as I was," sald Floating Vote. "Look ow the workin man's carryin after people like me ave elped to give im is own government. Nothing but strike, strike, strike, And what for? He alnt out of work. He aint starvin. We can't

Fits

the

"And as for overdrafts.

my bank mannger Bald, 'Did you

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summor in on English villago

The tents are out again

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Green

By ROLAND THORNTON

THE tents and the bunting were out on the Greer again. The gay deck chairs and the camp stools were lined up round the boundary pennants, and the chains and white posts taken from the shavón emerald of "the Square.”

High on the flag polo fluttered the blue, white and red banner of the Club.

The 1949 cricket season was in full swing.

All the same, unchanging as over before. - The maroon and white candles of the chestnuts were full and dressed in the most tonder and unsophisticated green you ever saw. And from the inn, looking more venerable and solid than ever, streamed the players.

Round the War Memorial they Small, trivial interests maybe comic. found the stone cross to the outside world, but impor- bearing the names of villaga tant enough to us here. After cricketers who did not come all, they help to make up the back from that other war. Jum- pattern of England. pings the ditch, laughing and falking.

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what she was volin for, I was properly in the dog ouse."

"What do you thing about ever get an overdraft from the nationalising insurance, Floating Post office?" " Vote?"

"Well, there you aro again! Last-minute form the boundary, chutting to this

They may start with industrial Insurance and then nationalise the lot.

"Of course, I'm not going to say the Government isn't honest. But suppose their social services and their losses on nationalis- the money coming train? tion get them in a mess? Where's Tho money you and me ave paid into insurance might come in very andy.

feel sorry for im no more. I "We all know they wouldn't he's in manual inbour he

steal it, but they might borrow credits moro grub than we do. And After all, post-war quite right. But what's he are our money by rights. But sirikin about, stoppin us gitlin a lot of us aven't ad it, all the our bit of grub from the docks? same."

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Banks

ONE notices subtle changes

The

dealing with a bank na moro. all nice and friendly. It'll be like goln to the post office, where nobody ever says good day and

as one looks for them. has been since 1838. home umpire, who to gallantly everybody looks at you as if you Every year the same; the played during the war in order was dirt. Well, that's all right unchanging spectacle, the un to keep the club going, has now when you're buyin stamps or

changing game and the people, a shooting stick to sit on, and sendin a telegram, but suppose the players and the watchers. his reactions to a no-ball are not you want a friendly little talk Every year the same, on business?

with quite so quick. hardly observable difference, yet with the almost imperceptible He is a deron on no-balls, but quiet march of time, and the today a batsman will have slow change of growth and of almost played his stroke before decny.

the rather high-pitched "No-o b-a-11"conies down from the And yet as one moved around wicket.

one, nodding to that, one noticed The young widow at the housu small changes. Small, perhaps, at the cross-ronds, whore 'bug- to the spectator, but of tremen- band died in a torpedoed tanker, dous import to the principals. is at last recovering from her hurt. Her baby is a schoolgirl The club, the game, the life now, and suffering has changed of the village was going on. Age the mother from a frall girl to was making its impression here a wise, calm and understanding and there, but the life, the vil matron. lage, was the same. There is an eternal quality about it. It has a personality, of which we are the human reflections,

OES this mean that you

or the Conservatives at the next General Election, Floating Vote?"

"DOES

will support the Liberals

"Not at all, salt Flealing Vote, *E never make up my mind about that till election time, just as I never back an orco ull just before the

race. I judge last-minute form."

"How do the wife and daugh- ter react to all these problems, Floating Vole?"

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"Well, the wife's naturally bit worried about insurance, that's er little bit if I drop off

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same.

But the scene is the Youth cornes Into the team. Age leaves it. The types persist The styles continue.

the oaks. And she's worried TT seems to have been a good who, making

no

for babies In

There has always been the batsman who treated every ball lo a different stroke, all equally unsuccessful. Always the man slashing cut, winter about then egga goln bad. "Well, my girl,' I said, 'my

the managed to send the ball to "As for the daughter, she's village. One notices that there square leg, or maklug a pro- idea of a Christian is a man

are lots of new ones about now, diglous book, was caught in the what is God fearle, tells no lles,

properly cheesed off about scandal, pays is just

oliday in Switzerland. She said and those born last winter have slips if the Government want her wintered well. debts, is honest in business,

vote next time they'll ave gives a square.deal all round,

to Switzerland and goes to church regular."

send her free.

always said she nd more "'Never mind about goin to church, she said, which shocked CK's goin to pot,' she said, and I would say, if the banks ever brains than her poor old dad.” mother, though we both know you so fond of omelettes. Why, get rationalised it won't be like even now, if they ain't gone tou the daughter's a good girl at far gone, I could make

"It's a square deal all with them for round, that matters. "Love thy hospital.

the kiddies in

cart.

"When the wife read about "Do you think you will wel- them ċgga goln backwards and come a possible untionail forwards from Dubin to Liver-sation of the banks, Floating

Vote?" pool, she nearly cried.

"The very thing I was goin to I ask you," said Floating Vote.

"Well, if you was to ask me,

"Think of the omelettes could ave made with all them

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neighbour as thyself," they're I shan't say Merry Christ C. V. R. Thompson Reports:

always sayin in church, but ow

many care if their neighbours as to a workin man no more,' she said. "They don't deserve

are out of work and ungry? I

you want practical Christianity. and o square deal all round you'll only get that through the ballot box.

"Well, that settled it. The daughter, always ad more braina than er poor old father. She

put the things in a nutshell. So me and the wife and, the dough- ter voted solid for Labour in

1140."

Doubts

at

46 HALL you vote Labour "ting next General Election, Floating Vole?"

Income tax

AS for the daughter, she A flared up properly.

"They

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taxes

The American Scene

There is always the enthusiast Never in this land was there who licks his fingers every over such a village for lovely bubles and has never flelded a ball yet, and wonderful children. Never save when one hit him in the akin so fair, never eyes so bright, teeth. as those in this village. And

nover mothers so proud. Here There are always the women and there one sees, with a case afternoon, and the others who who knit throughout the sultry of sudden shock, a girl who seemed only the other day to be at school, now a young wife and mother.

slumber.

There are the small boys who fight for the honour of retrieving a boundary hit Al- ways the dogs who want to in The blacksmith's young wife spect the wicket during play and

a baby this year, and the children who ride on Judging by its physique roller during-the-interval; destined for the forge.

has

-The three old men who sat NEW YORK. COME YEARS LATER than its and argued together, who chout- owner expected, ed at each other and who

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Out of the fringo where the lane winds up to the farm grazes the ancient black mare and her foul,

This

was an event which

AMERICA'S £50 minton Hitler's yacht, Grifle, called des joddled off to the tea de are don't know when broadcasting industry New York today. And, in de minutes before anyone else are NOTHING ever changes, ex- they're well off, that's what's

the fitters.. Vice- fiance of Ure wishes of the dead, only two this year. One lies in perhaps are different manifes the matter with them, she said. has

Why, they're better off than we presidents, publicity men, salute to the Statue of Liberty. But the other two are there. Ono ations of the ctemat change-

its captain dipped its dag in the shadow of the flint church. are with all these

and comedians, announcers, en- Owned everything.

now by businessman, sees too, new groups of contem- lessness of life. All gors "Does your daughter pay in-gineers, and secretaries are George Aride, the yacht may be poraries' forming. The "sixties" elm

withers and snaps. sold to an ungamed American. are getting together. They will bell tolls the passing of a vil- Another is planted, the church come tax, Floating Vote?" being fired by the dozen.

"She đọng now she's got a rise. One network, a big money-

the elder statesmen In Most of her rise goes in income matter six months ago, has or IN A LONDON despatch, Now

lager: the doctor brings another lax.

into the world. dered a £250,000 cut in costs... York Times man when I talked Another is telling employees io. "Of course,

"I'm not at all sure of that, on rendin a books, but when I

about my income tax she went use the post instead of the tele- Hoffman warned Americans

stay neutral in the phone. caid Floating Vote. "Not at all said thanks to Stafford Cripps

argument Cause of all this is a change of over devaluing the pound ster- sure. A lot of things ave ap- we can't ave an oliday in Swit-attitude by the soap, car, coffee, ling. "If Americans jump oneUE twins of the woman at caused a sensation in the village. Maytimog At 2.30, 5.30.pened since 1945."

zerland this year, she Was cigarette. and laxative firms way;" " he says, "they are likely the corner house are run The mare was sent to be "put to 7.30 & 9.30

"And the wife and the daugh- properly browned off. It come which sponsor US programmes.

to be accused here of trying toning about and talking now. Ale sleep" on account of her ad- tery

ome to her, If you soo what I

much wrecks the Labour Government. rendy her husband has enrolled vanced age, the man refused think Ty is so P.M. "You never know which way mean. And when she started competition to ordinary listening And if they jump the other way both of them as members of the to do it, as bus said she was in

they're goin to fump," replied payin tax herself she went right that radio advertising is Floating Vole. "You see, it's no off the deep end.

no they may be accused of tryingclub.

foal. to support it." good talkin to the wife or the

No one knew about it and fow "Why, dad,' she said, what's longer worth the heavy outhy.

The postmen's daughter is en believed it, bus sure enough, daughter about bulk buyin or the use of gettin on and makin slack season the big networks Sa for this summer-always a

gaged. We did not think this nationalisation or food subsidies, more money? What they take are having to pay for nearly MONEY ISLAND will immor-would huppen. She seemed far Just before the first snowy, the

might as well talk to them away from my pay envelope half their programmes

tallee the romance of Rita too reserved. But there she is, had her foal, and now is them- double Dutch. So far as that every week would pay for two selves. Erz

Hayworth and Aly Khan in arm-in-arm with a young man prieved for life. sort of thing's concerned, they're seats at the pictures and three like the woman in a Gallup packets of cigs.'

works, they are not making good couple in the Tunnel of Love accepted by us.

But as owners of the TV net luminous paint portraits of the from the next village, now in process of being Initiated and poll, or some other poll, who Practical Christianity," I their losses with increased sales

Tired of parishioners thought food subsidies were reminded her. "Love thy neigh of Ty time. something you

One concern has telephoning to and out if the the bour as thyself. You can't be lost 10 of its 21 TV advertisers Trumans are coming to church ·Old · Mr. Jacobs who, though UIET, dull; uninteresting, gravy,"

always smokin an goin to the for the summer.

bent with age, walks rapidly, Yot they get the samu voto pictures if you ave to buy false

before attending themselves, with his keen face preceeding his as you and I, and look what we teath for foreigners.

the Rev. Edward know about such things."

"Yes," bald Floating Vote, her properly. The wife said I slump, the woollen Industry Baptist Church,, now has this year. But he is in his usual for the simple things of life.

"Well, of course, that upset FIRST TO BE HIT by the US, pastor of Washington's First body, is slightly more bent this the kind of person you are

place near the scoring board, "that's the funny part about de was a bully to argue with hor has started a comp-back, A

"No, the Fre grumbling at the bowling and And the village cricket match mocracy, If it

comes to that, about things she didn't under-spurt in demand has sent prices sident will not be here today, the fielding and the decadence seems to say it if you have earn

to hear. they get the same vote as the stand. And when I said if she up. dd. a yard, and cloth is still but God will be here??

of the batting. But lla old dog Prime Minister and Mr Chur- ad the vote she ought to know hard to get.

~~{Landon Express Service) no longer ambles at his boels.

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