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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1950,*

PHRASEBOOK FOR SPEAKERS

An illustrated, Left-wing dietlonary

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compiled by CUMMINGS

FABIAN SOCIETY

LECTURE TODAY

THE RISE

CK THE WORKING CLASS

JOHN IRELAND - REED HADLEY

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Tory clap-trap

A rampant Tory

A bloated capitalist

BRITISH NEWSREELS.

TO-MORROW

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of the Most, Frightening Invention

in the History of Civilized Mar

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Never befale such a pictur Never before such tholilst

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SIREN OF ATLANTIS

Directed by

BRITAIN'S

GUIDES

By PAUL NUGAT

0

for

Perhaps accurate to

SCOUTS

London Expres tiervice

AND

MAKE PROGRESS

AMERICAN

COLUMN

She just keeps on writing

BY

NEWELL ROGERS

AMERICA'S

NEW YORK.

best-selling woman author is. pre- paring to bring out her 60th book. She wrote it in longhand on yellow paper. And she rewrote it twice.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, aged 73, started writing to get her doctor husband out of debt. Her rst story old for £12. "The Circular Her first book, Staircase" (1008). brought £175 for serial rights. When she rewrole it as a play, called "The Bat," the show grossed over £3,200.000,

Her 59 books, printed in 13

have languages,

Rold

over 60.000,300 coples, counting Is. paper-cover reprints. And they have inade her a dollar mi- lionaire several times over.

A specialist in mysteries, she lived through n real-life thriller. Her

cook tried to murder her first with a pistol,

and unqualified success. It was fun visited Britain, as well as tional links which were broken which would not go oft, to mind bables, track down several hundred Girl Guides. by World War II is an outstand-then with three knives, which lost cats and runaway degs, During the same period 3,907 ing contribution that is being the chauffeur

Scouts and 2,423 Girl made by the Boy Scout and He hanged shop for the aged, and visit a Boy

Guide organisations in raol. police station to clean the but Guides from Britain camped in Girl ions of a uniform. It was also a number of overseas countries. Britain to the future peace and

the interma well-being of the world. a service rendered to the com- This re-forging immunity

many different

vitally considered Fall the youth or finess

boy's training spheres. And the financial result ganisations in Britain, portant to the

Then follows a noisy period of was so healthy that the scheme. for the next whose growth has been stri

games in which the will be continued strenuous

steam-curbed by ten years. handicapped in these post- pent-up

The games the Girl Guides war years by inadequate hours behind a school leak or at a factory bench-is let off, and premises, equipment,

before the lads settle down to play are less robust than those played by the boys, but not stafling, the Boy Scout and more serious work.

less stimulating to the Imagina- would be more it Girl Guide movement has

say that the next tion. There is one great adven- suffered the least.

item on the programme is not ture to be looked forward to 19-19 work at all, but The figures

more serious and worked for during winter-

Except for the it in camping. signalling, knotting, showed that scouting in ploy like

10 camp are encouraged the

United Kingdom has and first vid, in which a sound older and most hardened scouts, knowledge is required in order who

nearly at the year round, cam- from to pass the scout tests. not only recovered

To add spice to the decrease in member-

theso netivi ping begins in earnest at Easter. scoutmaster It is talked about all the year ship due to the calls of lies, an inventive

create a sudden round. war service, but has reached will sometimes

emetitency by asking a friend a record peak membership of the movement to burst intu

meeting and pretend to with 473.216 scouts. The the

VERY scout troop aims at Association of throw a . The way cach watrol Girl Guide

handles the situation will be having ten days to a fortnight Britain is numerically as watched very carefully by the

in camp in summer, apart from IEIC! the Good strong as the Boy Scouts, scoutmaster,

week-end camps. The thrill of and mistakes will be

nnture-craft practising and the figure of almost half efforts

Woodlare never is summarised at the end.

weakens from members million

one generation to the next. The equivalent to 20 percent of

Jure of being free to play vivid the world total of Girl

like Rames

"Smugglers Over Guides and Girl Scouts.

LTERNATIVELY, the cbser- The Border" in real countryside, vation game known as Kim's Instead of having to imagine Game, which is also a favourite nt that a town school playground

parties. will children's

be is a Wild West scene, is at the of the movement's played with variations, so that heart the scout's powers of observa success. tlon are heightened for the out- door purtime of stalking and tracking, as well as for the role

It

There is an explanation for this: it is to be found in the

of policy the fundamental movement of making its mem- berg independent and resource- ful by playing a game-scouting or guiding.

Kim's Game

Three Elements of active citizenship.

N°

TOW scouting takes care of the

three indispensable elements the

more

Summer Camp

1019

and

Boys and girls cannot olil- Krow the movement,

The pro gramme has been described most aptly as the man's or Spinning Yarns around a woman's job eat down to boy's was Introduced by or girl's size, Without knowing camp are

founder. Lord Baden, they are being groomed for of the boy's world-fun, fight Powell, at the Brat camp-meet teadership Inside and outside ing, and feeding! Ife can indulgo over 40 years ago, and net with the movement.

enthusiastic reception During the summer months of easily such an these elements

that it has become traditional especially

feeding ouldoors, which is associated with cook- fur senutmasters to yarn about Scouts ing and camp fires, collecting pioneering or a similar subject, carting water. before the troop meeting con- kindling and

But in Britain's long wintry cludes with more

ba idie. All over the country, about

Ilowever, it must not million Boy Scouts thought that

or Girl Scouts indulge in fixed organised into patrols of six Guides

We might quite #5 boys within a troop of about 35 routines. boys hold a weekly meeting kely have dropped in on boys indoors.

home-made at work in their

ARTHUR RIPLEY. Produced by SEYMOUR NEBENZAL nights, the movement is not prayers.

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Rates and

a workshop, busy making toys or

These meetinsts are still mystery to many adults, so let bells or knife sheaths; repairing

us pay meeting.

a visit to a typical pair of boots; learning how lo As likely as not, you kind books for the troop library,

will stumble across a meeting! In the most unlikely places; for lastance, In the country district

д disused barn or stable may

the AS

troop's head-

surve

quarters in preference

A Headache

0

Na winter evening we might

to the

10 be entertained

21

TC-

painting

village hall; in a town, an old hearsal of a concert or play in

the midst of peenery garage in mews may be

of properties and the clatter

For this in ferred to the local youth centre, which has to be thared with being constructed.

For a nativity that helps to swell various youth movements.

funds 35 well as iving and creating pleasure.

the aim of the scout movement the Joenl

is to give every troop a place And throughout that it can enl Its own.

WI

Noisy Period

the scout movement, there has always been the

maxim that money must be earned for good

chusca.

WHEN the troop assembles of Finance is always a perennial Wan evening, the boys group headache for voluntary organi- themselves around their

In own antions.

patrol leader, and one of the movement

to

1010 the Scout started 1 Echemu

buy undertook rst items is a quick inspection whereby ench

their ensure that the boys are to earn one shilling for maininining that

degree of headquarters funds. The scheme smartness and correctness of recclved sympathetic publicity uniform and personal clean- from the

press, and

wad an

more than 5,000 Boy from overseas countries

Seme of Britain's Bay Scouts in a camp near Cambridge. These lada are from the county of Surrey and are spending the summer holidays pleklug plums for a jam manufacturer, thus carning pocket money and funds for the movement. Here the boys are seen cooking vegetables on an outdoor are built

by themselves.

English Girl Guides spending their summer holiday in a camp. Camping begins in earnest at Easter and reaches its peak in August. Every Girl Guide is encouraged to spend

camp once a year. a fortnight in such a ten days to

tock from him. himself later

Her new book called "The Episode of the Wandering Knife."

VIE ODDS against a diplomat,

THE

fri America's

nf Slate (Foreign

Latry)

Department'

Affairs Min=

facing a potato crisle

would seem to

one,

be a million to

Yet the department's German.

Affairs Bureau has a potato

crisis on its hands,

The problem: Are potatoes a dangerous war

for shipment

Curtain?

The U.S.

material

unft

behind the Iron

Government buys

all unsold potatoes to keep up Today

the farmers'

income.

there is a vast surplus,

So the Government offers its potatoes for 4d, a cwl, to any- one who will keep them out of the domestic market.

the

An exporter agreed to take

for 1,600,000 bushela Russian zone of Germany.

Sald the State Department: "Why

they Ate not u

not?

strategic item." Off to Germany they went,

Then from Amerien's Ione officials sent word thal the Russians may be using potatoes to make alcohol for rocket fuel. instead of Germans' dianers.

Footnote. There is some diplo matle comfort in the thought that potatoes can

also be used for making vodka.

A

QUEUE of 250 people

walted for Carnegie Hall's box-office to open. The ticket seller told me he gets queues only for singer Kirsten Flagstad and planist Vladimir Horowitz. queue for But this was R Sadler's Wells ballet, due in September. The box-office ex- pects to be sold out.

THE MAN who hopes to ba

THE

Truman's dest welfare or health Minister went to Eng- and to study the health and welfare of the British people.

Oscur Ewing, at present U.S. security administrator, sald to con- Aneurin Bevan failed' vince him that the health ston- dards of a nation can be im-

Government only by proved ownership and operation of the hospitais. lie came out strongly. againat socialised medicine, And indicuted. the President, he supports him in this stand.

OUR DAYTIME SKIES

arc

scrawled with advertise-

written, in nenla

smoke by planes. Now a California manu- facturer is hard at work on to hang luminous skywriting advertisements for TV ret from the stars.

QUCCESS: Do you remember B. P. Schulberg, the out- of-work Hollywood producer who advertised for a job? Well, he ag found one. He wil £100,000 lm called produce a

It Happens in Hollywood,"

And be

York.

will make it in New

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