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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1949.

PIG CONTROVERSY

MEETING OF HOGS TO PROTEST AGAINST BEING COMPARED BY LOW TO HUMAN SWEET-

GUZZLERS.

Mr Grunt said what was wanted was more Private Enterprise. Personally he had begun by making, a comer ini Crunchy Bars and Liderish Mifunes

World Copyright. By arrangement with Epening Standar

MP Snooty said Tital, as

a mother, rdfurally site had

to scoff all the sweds in sight for the sake of her tifle ones, without considering others. What was wrong,

with that?

Sefton Delmer's NEWSMA

„Bill Bristle sníd

why worry? He got his lot under The counter, 30- what did he core ?.

Col, Curley-Tail said that he only warfed more than his fair share.

Wasn't this a

At this point a little piggy wiz6Y asked Cant wa all show we don't need notioning by holding off a bit

so that everyone can get a fair share?"

(Shouts of "DICTATOR!" "SOCIALIST" 1" as the

meeting dissolved

in

uproar

free

country?

A British Law, Passed. Long Ago

And Never Repealed, Stipulates:

Only The Gentry Can Play Bowls

B

By J.W. Taylor

RITISH legislators are church. The same

fate

to repeal many out awaits those who sell, buy dated lawi-a task or even read a newspaper*· which may jako fifteen on a Sunday,

years.

SPECIAL SUIT

It is fortunate that many FOR SUNDAYS:

of these ancient laws are

never applied, or British

Kaols would not be large ANCIENT local laws, if enough to hold the mul- applied, could make life titude of wrong-doers. ' very difficult. A Somerset edict obliged people to wear a special Sunday suit.

For instance, British men and women, under an Act of 1500, are liable to imprison-

for not going

ment

ports from Somewhere i

ARE THE RIGHT MEN GOING

HESE last ten daya I

have spent not flying around my European parish..but in sunny Britain. Yet I was flying all the

same.

For spent those ten duys with the RAF and agola and again I found myself-once in a Jet plane at 460 miles an hour- jup in the bright blue sky,

I was trying to find out what effect the inclusion of thou- sands and thousands of short- term National Service men having on the general efficiency of the RAF.

I talked with scores of regu

is

INTO THE RAF?

Just before the start of the Air Exercises held in Britain re cently, Marshal of the Royal Alr Force Lord Tedder called 23 CUR- ference to try to solve the conflicting calls on manpower by the RAF and industry. Their conclusionS are secret-but this article gives readers the first close-up of the new problems of maintaining a crack air force.....

For example, did you know that from all the National Service men only 300 a year who join the RAF are taught to fly?

Auxiliary

lar RAF men, from the highest inter with the

Alr they were, doint in civilian life quirements of the Service of the high-ups, ot the Air Force.

for much less pay and Miniatry and

much without enough thought of the in the various

The rest are trained for the less freedom. I found almost future. There is no guarantes commmids I visited, to the most shortest period possible-just all I talked with counting the and, Indeed, there is no likoll- disgruntled NCO and National long enough to fit them to carry days to their release.

hood that in the event of their Service men at work.

out the simplest of the many

recall for an duties required in servicing an

can be assigned to the jobs they emergency they aircraft and making it capable

have learned to do now, of flying.

1 few from airfield to airfield and visited a truly representa- live cross-section of stations and training camps.

Britain

to

Never should the proportion

In Durham one stipulated penalties for wearing

wooden instead of leather shocs.And In Yorkshire it was once an offence to cat roast beef on Sundays with- out Yorkshire Pudding! ·

Many of Britain's law- makers themselves may not be aware of the Act passed in the reign of Henry V, making it necessary for Members of Parliament to reside in their own consti-

of these short-term men em-tuencies, ployed exceed one-third of the total strength of the RAF. To- day two-thirds are National It has not been repealed. Service men. Here, in four Neither has points, is the remedy I would Tom Act, of 1395, still used the Poeping against those who peep into

suggest:

RESTORE to the RAF its other people's houses. pre-war Incentives of good pay, tax-free allowances, attractive: quarters, and educational fact- BANNED BEFORE THEY Jities for the children;

WERE INVENTED:

BAN 18-month National Ser- vice men from the force. They

applied

to

!

should go to the Army. ONE rather strange fact is that many ancient laws SELECT suitable National

things non- Service men volunteers to be given a three-year course which existent when they were would allow them to be trained passed. for real usefulness. They would receive the full benents of A century-old law forbids

the use FLYING men have become

special RAF pay;

of loudspeakers distrustful of the jobs done

INCREASE the recruiting of either in public or in by the newcomers, even in such

women for service na cooks, private, under a penalty of a Many of the men are given fuelling I

apparently simple things as re- The manpower requirements clerks, storekeepers, teleprinter £10 fine. Another law de- jobs for which 1 feel women station to another

New from one will probably be quite different and telephone operators. clares artificial light illegal. could be recruited-telephone vard trainer. We had taxled up ed for new jobs all over again. in this way would auce

in Her and they will have to be train-

A force selected and built up and teleprinter operators, clerks, to the end of the runway and

Mending a puncture by storekeepers, cooks, and VERYWHERE I went I was men.

were waiting to take off when

become the proud and super-the roadside was classed as impressed

efficient Royal Air Force we a crime in u law of 1776, and with

the pilot suddenly slipped off what

Technical jobs, like aircraft his

knew in the past. It would be an even older one made it thoughtfulness and

parachute care the maintenance have been kil

harness

capable of defending the coun- unlawful to anyone to own RAF commanders are attempt fully broken down by RAF climbed out on, the wing. ing to solve the problem of At- planners

series of +

byla carriage or a horse and He feared that the cap on the I am immensely impressed could be rapidly exponded ting these short-term Service specialised manipulations. A man fuel tank had not been

and cart, men into

machine which de- is quickly trained in one

closed by the work the RAF is doing the call-up of reservisin upon the expert skill of these and then expected to do pends

properly by the National Ser- despile

technicians. these handicaps. Taking it all in all, my view is

The law declared it ar its carefully trained operators. this duty for the rest of his

The present system, I fear, is offence to clean a carriage in I

that the 18-month admired the enthusiasm time in the RAF.

National leading Britain away from this with which they welcome them

good for

ja public place. Just before and try to fill them with their

the RAF and the RAF is no good for them.

the war a surprised chauf- own devotion to the service.

feur was fined at the Man- sion House for doing so.

Into

bat

of

vice men doing the filing.

and

Now

NOW don't misunderstand me, try, and,

all

The longest period of training 5 NATIONAL SERVICE men Service, men ́ are no

are. being trained today Service purely for the immediate re

I found any National man undergoing was a rush course for radio and radar maintenance men. It takes 20 weeks. Normally it would take 12 months.

I liked the look of the 18-year-olds, Particularly pleas Ing to me was the freedom and confidence with which they answered questions, the firmness and courtesy with which they would contradict their superiors if they disagreed on a question of personal opinion.

There

was no

trace of the NOW, what are the troubles bullled servility which I have with this system? I can

name five:......

so often noted among conscripts on the Continent.

man-

target.

In

on

more

emergency,

~London Express Service)

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

Sportsmen are probably the greatest law breakers, according to the ancient de- crees. In 1846 it was illegal for anyone but an aristo- crat to play bowls. Ever since the days of Henry VII the law has held that no But I also noticed the pro-

IT IS COSTLY in

NEW YORK. oll included. One British manu- EVER: Americans are cud-worker be allowed to play" gressive deterioration in smart- RAF is forced to employ a third glamour.

power. Already today the

13 not all facturer announced this

denly geiting

"football, tennis, dice or In it, for from plan to boost dollar sales. If election fover-but the further away we went from more staff on maintenance than the theatres and dazzling lights, anyone decider to buy the car tain's election this Umo,

over Bri-ninepins." the marching and arms drill of would have been needed for

there is a block of flats.

he hires, he will get his rental There is constant speculation CRICKET, FOOTBALL force of the same size during the the recruit training centres

Bullt for 207 people, the money back.

over when it will be held and where RAF National Service The greater the number of block is occupied today by HOUSEWIVES were told by who will win it.

ARE CRIMES: men spend their first

men needed for servicing, the 1,200-ex-Servicemen, univer Gilbert Green, a Communist weeks.

Experts are being sent over more clerks and cooks are need-sity students, and

defendant in New York's Com- to Britain to do some soundingRICKET was a crime 200- munist Irial, that they would be out. Experts, and others, return years ago, and football, un-

ness, alertness, and discipline

war.

cight

I found that the more these

men become involved In the

ed to look after them.

PROADWAY

people.

by

liva because of

Borne old

Au-

.

now

an attack of

Scoiland, still forbidden an "unlawful exercise."

promised them that they could A FOSTER campaign against

NEGROES

15

day-to-day routine of the flying THE NCOs, whose job it And even if some of the much better off ir Russia. ing from Britain can always get der Acts passed by Edward III, stations, the more they tend to 2 should be to supervise the "fals are no more than a Bft. Instead of being chained to the their names in the papers by Richard II and James IV of get that look of discontented technical work being done

by Bft. cupboard, these people, American

kitchen stove and sink under predileting the outcome. civilians in uniform.

capitalism, ho the maintenance crews,

and unable to find anywhere using It is a look I have seen be they have to do more and more shortage, call it home.

work in factories.

sociallard medicino for

A boxer "who enters the ring: fore-among the French in the of it themselves. They bava

America has just begun. Maginot Line way back in 1930 little time for checking.

subdue his op They

The intending to will' teach whiles

posters, and 1940.

have no time for leadership, dis City Hall

So they marched in protest to

distributed. by the ponent with violent blows" "is because the

for the Orst time at Harvard, American Medical Association another law-breaker. cipline, and instruction.

thorities had ordered them to be America's Cambridge, and So NCOs are. becoming dis-evicted.

at reproduce that famous old Sir Brown University, this autumn. Luke

The golfer, it would seem, satisfled and leaving the RAF

Fildes Harvard took on Professor WU- bearded, frock-coated GP at a sporting criminal.

picture of is obviously the most dangerous to look for jobs outside it. As The authorities, afraid of a Ham Hinton, a bacteriologlat, child's bedside. Alongside the established low took its course, If the theso experienced men are lost disastrous fie, meant well To and Drown appointed Professor pleture is this slogan: "Keep overy golfer in Scotland would BUT that

is exactly what to the Service, more National enforce their orders they cut J. Saunders to its English de- politics out of this picture." these National Servico men Service men have to be brought off all electricity in the build partment.

do only one kind of putting- are-civilians in uniform. The in to try to replace them.

Ing. tragedy of the post-war RAF is

JOUSING: Buliding This means progressive dilu-

CIVIL. DEFENCE is coming unions are starting a com that they are not trying to tion of the force-particularly But this merely increased the make them anything else. At as the standard of regulara be danger. For the tents bought Guard officers have

paign. sent out present they have not the time ing recruited today is a long up stocks of candies and brought 'an appeal, for volunteers to man doing odd job in their own if they visit the Isle of Man, to make airmen of them,

way below that of pre-war in oil stoves to boll their water, 140 observation posts

which homes. days.

and heat their babies' milk, never spotted anything but an boycott semi- nu le a threat, to for it in sillt lawful for

semi-finished pre- At most, 300 out of the many

e-fabs Manxman to shoot a Scot on thousands in a year's intake of 9 MANY of the National Ser TOLIDAYMAKERS

American plane during World unless the buyers, give an as" "right on the grounds that he is in War II. In the event of sudden surance that they will employ a looten National Service men are tiain-vice men- lose the sense of America can rent a British attack Pennsylvania does not union labour to do the painting, ed to fly. And then, only if pride in their work. Others re-baby car for their fortnight's want to rely

Walshmen, the law says, can entirely they will sign up for

upon plastering, and wiring, Instend service sent doing almost the same job holiday for £17 10s, petrol and radar. . ·

be prosecuted for speaking their of doing it themselves.

native language.

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I TOLD THE KIDS THAT YOUR NEW

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