One reason
by
why every CANON husband WARNER
should welF® wedding ring..
"I wan
an illeglimate taken. As compensation for child. Quite recently I (camned that my father your feeling of "fo
not
was a married man who being worth living," tako ut imposed upon my mother under this cause. Your sufferings the cule of a single man, until may well be acceptable if it was too late. I How feel robbed of all self-respect, it has you know that they are the shattered my personality, to price that you are willing that I no longer take any active to pay to wipe interest in fe. What is the late doing? Take a perion's goods, and you may go to prison; wreck a person's life, and you racape scot free!"
HERE is a growing that thero
Tfeeling
ahould be some severa penalty in the kind of adul terous cases that you men tion. Only by the impost tion of a penalty can public opinion become articulate.
out from society at
blot upon its honour.
very black
When his mother interferes....
the
"I was happily marrica Tour months ago to Jonly son of a widow with
whom
are living.
WC
when we returned from honeymoon
it all acemed change. She began interfering. and often invaded our privacy in the evenings. My husband Cruelty to children at one does not seem to mind, faderd time was L non-italiciablo he is very fond of her, and Public opinion he won't discourage her, I love my offence, came outraged, and legisla know what to do for we have husband deeply and I don't tion, with the imposition of started living more or icis apart imprisonment
certain already, at my wish," cazer, Way passed. The have efect har been to lesson Yurt
in
to
come "down rather uddenly
offences against children, after your honeymoon. especially in industry.
1
knel to
common experience,
A succession What you are asking for rather humbur duties have to of daily and
(and now fully agree be carried out, and it tapks at with you) is an extension est as if I were the death- of these lawn to protect this youat experience you have romance. On top of children. Sixty thousand had (a) to share children each year on tho to live with your mother-in- average are being deprived law.
of secure and happy homo
a hune, (b)
If having dieubles to feckle
life, because of the invasion is the prelude to happy marriage
of some co-respondent.
to it), then you need nut feel hopeless about your futu These children are wholly at at wall meet innocent sufferers, and yet and common-rerive.
all your wit the law does nothing to protect them. The dificulties of such legislation obvious.
ard
As a start, however, the case of the married man who hides his real status in the circumstances you men tion needs attention.
You tell me th your court- int pays were heavenly. Vou
no doubt raw then only his best rich-aw gale littly though to his failin
He probably knows how his manther worrie:: you. He is longing to find a way in which he can tafidly persuade her to eave you both to the privacy of your own married fit. As he knows her loncica, anti is, rightly, fond of her, he need time not lu hurt her.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1950.
"Take no notice of 'em, Vera-their story about the Rusions dropping Colorado beetles
ballers in Rio it absurd,”
on
our foot-
~(London Express Service)
THEN SHE WEPT AGAIN AS I BROUGHT HER GOOD NEWS
WITH WICKSTEED IN THE PROMISED LAND-3
A mother
wept as she waited.......
HAIFA.
This is where I came acros
NE of the ironies of Mrs Leah Shechman
the Children of Israel's return to the Promised
Land is thai their first taste of freedom when they get there is to be shut up in a barbed wire camp.
day the little
Every crammed with immigrants put ships into Haifa from the Bosphorus. Adriatic, and Marseilles; and at Lydda the charier planes steam from Cyprus, Hongkong. Aden, and India.
netting . a
slory of her telegram.
The gate to
rade heavy wire Bettin Through the
111
of
He's a girl's best friend
by BILLY ROSE
mean,
ROM time to time I But, by the way, doesn't It mosey down to the strike you kind of funny 42nd Street Library that you're making this big to check on this or bone up decision with those two on that, and on the terrace stone lions looking at you?" in front of the entranco I "How do you often ace a meatly dressed funny 7"* old geezer passing out "Well, from all the way cracked corn to the pigeons. back the lion has played an According to the libra important part in tho rian who briefed me on him, mythologica of nations. Did he usually shows up around you know, for instance, that noon, spends several hours the Sphinx has the body of in the main reading room; a lion and the head of a and then takes up a position womua?" on a bench facing Fifth "I think I'd better be going,"
Avenue.
on
sald the girl.
it
One evening last April along about 8 o'clock, a
"There's a legend that u lion prettyish girl appeared
won't harm n sleeping pilgrim." the steps of the Library the old geezer went on, "but I'd and began to pace up and hate to be the pilgrim to teat down between the two stono aut Another interesting thing: lions which flank the
Livingstone, the explorer, once trance. Our elderly hero difference between the roar of a said you could hardly tell the was on his bench us usual. lion and the mating call of an and about an hour later ostrich."
en-
when he saw the girl dab- bing at her
eyes with a
understand the emotions of a If I had expected them to handkerchief, he went up mollier who deliberately spits once a sig or whoop for joy at and asked if anything was up her family ilke this after the news, 1 was disappointed. working zo hard to keep them They shyly said they were glad, wrong. torcher..
and that was all I could get out of them.
Dat that is what Mrs Shech- man did and then walled in her
troubled Balkon town with her I wanted to take them to the two remaining children, for her
camp to meet their mother, but turn to get a ship.
the teacher said children were News Trickled through that allowed to leave school Pic Pan York and the Pan owing an infantile paralysis recent had been intercepted sure. So I pulled a sheet from by the Roval Navy and her 18y notebook and persunite:<i children taken to Cyprus. Then Holh to write a message. the heard they had all reached Isruel.
Bella married, Phinens went Into youth centre and the two You rest were placed in a
chool near Haifa.
in children
Found ON THE QUAY
X-
The girl looked at her watch but the old boy kept right on fling off all the loony lore ho would remember about lions. At he was still going 10 o'cole's strong, explaining that "Peoplo on, both as a beast and as a atavistic fear of the symbol. Even in the presence of
have fin "I had a dale," the girl
Confided, "and it looks as he stood me up."
if
these stone statues they're often so ai case that "
sen-
He never Anished the lenec. "Eidig!" the girl sudden. ly exclaimed, and a moment later she was hugging a young mant.
The girl's story was pretty much sulp opera.
"Everything's all right now, It was not my business really. She was from Ohio and had toney," but on the way
the old man heard Ed- back to the camp gol the driver to Inbeen keeping steady com- die say. "I wrote
you that terpret it. It Bald: "Dear pany with a fellow named letter because I'd lost my job Mother, I hope you are well.] Eddie. A week before he didn't want you to know I
Cyprus, but
Iocked out
Love Ruth."
Mrs
We
in were
Shechman
camp.
was her
sho
οι πιν
"Just goes to show you," cald the old
cout. "People who Arrange to meel in front of the lions don't always wait
Mrs Shechman's turn came at We are. Bella got married in had written that he thought I've been
wit broke. The Lst three days and the last, and with the two remain different camps and not-allowed it would be better for them ruom, but this afternoon I got
she called from Constanza. The last thing the logo to the wedding. This is a not to see each other for a job in a
*
gas stallon up in Gid before sitting back in the
school.
get orange while. She had phoned his are when I went back to tell Wo
Bronxville, and half an hour bons to relax was 12 send a jalee every day and are learning rooming house several my nedlady the good news she the camp joyas telegram to her children
chemistry. We cannot go to
times but never found him gave me your telegus beat Halla giving the arrival see you because we would get date.
Infantile paralysis, but you may in. and so she had wired come and see us if you like. him to meet her in front of How are Fanny and Deborah?the library at 8, adding that boles in the
if he didn't show up of crowd
THER passengers had their elled relatives were trying to
WIK still was going back to Ohio. troubles. kiss and touch those who were, know what they were going to ed the
They did
not at the Cate when we reach- still on the wrong side.
"Are you sure he got the Not only is he an adul.
do in Israel or where they were fourth day and her two girls telegram?" asked the old terer, but he is acting
But Mrs Shech- were practically holding her-up, man. going to stay. Show that you understand the The bewildered immigrants
would be on the quay to meet man had none. Her children under false pretences. I can danculty of the "cleft-slick" In live hardly touched the sacred see no reason why the whole which he ands himself. Smother soil before they are whisked off
her. She lind sent them B severity of the law should feeling of resentment even in buses to the old army emp
telegram. The family would If he no longer that the British calfed St not be used to express the feels that he has to defend his Luke's, and the
together again. When the family was not on disgust of all decent people. mother against you, he will, the renamed "Gate of the Home- IN the midst of this turbulent the quay, she knew some small Only Bo
children be mor quickly. can
adjust himself coming."
scene of happy reunions a thing must have delayed them saved from the distress properly, putting you really Here they are registered, woman stood pressed against and they would come to the that
vaccinated, issued with ration the fence staring down the road camp to meet her. yourself have you
And so she Let the pledge of your under- It is a place of impatience, of changed to hope every time
books, and generally sorted out. with a look of weariness that stood by the gate come to feel.
waiting for them from Sunday to Wednes- Lethargy is the bagban. standing affection ho sented by waiting your turn, and standing car or bus came in sight.
resuwning full married life oral Most of us aro too lazy to together.
queues with odd-looking prople speaking demand that action shall bo
outlandish tongues.
Hest.
-Lowton expron Service}
in
Israelis have
Frank Owen
SAYS ROLL OVER, CHARLIE'
She put down
S the sun is sinking 1 Dut when World War II, come way OI.
am standing in the came around Harold volunteered some flowers and went away."
again. Spaniards Inn, Hump
stead.
Dark people from North Africa jostled with men and women in the smart fashions of the West.
THE VIGIL
She was spare and grey, and The two girls she had with though her clothes were old her brought her food, and tried they were neat I tried to to persuade her to rest. But no speak to her, but she begrudged It was a big camp. The children every minute she had to take might have trouble in finding her eyes off the road outside. her. She must be where they And anyway she spoke no could see her when they came. "Can't you do something
language that I knew.
For the next hour I went about it?" I said to a comp round the camp, which was omelal **Not much," he what had come out to do. answered. "We will trace the
When I left she was still childr eventually. But there, her hands stretched up address on the telegram does efutching the wire above her hot crist." head for support and staring down the road.
out to the shown me
Hc said:
AT MIDNIGHT
RETURNED to my hotel in Halfo, had dinner, and went to bed. But I could not sleep. of my mind.
She took the note in a daze, then recognised the writing.
She was not the only one who
crled.
Bernard
London
Wickstood
Express Kervtcs)
long enough, "specially at night. The lions seem to scare them,
And
Firt turned to him, and "If it hadn't been deliver there were wet spols under her ed," said the girl, "Western yes. "I don't know how to Tinion would have notified thank you, Mr er
"Just call me Daniel," grin- me. Guess the only thing to ned the old man. do is go on home and pack." world Copyright Reserved-London
"I suppose you're right. Express Service).
How a load of sand means more petrol
By Bernard Harris
vil.
And it will
DETROL that will give percent petrol from crudo
more power, more Now with the 'Cat' we shall get mileage, better acceleration. nearer 60 percent. ensler starting and cleaner be of higher quality," engines is on the way for
Development work on the motorists.
"Cat" h cost Anglo-Ameri- con's parent company, the hug
days now, ever since she arrived I could not get that woman out/Viggest oli refinery now steadily Standard Oll Company of New
pointed ber "And do most of your visitors ofcial whe had "GIt aht of it, they said. come here to see the grave of round the camp. "Ain't you 'ad enough?"
Charlie Marx?" I inquire of "Yes, the has been there three "Naow!" (There they claim that
said Harold. So cur observant gardener. Dick Turpin stopped, not they put him in the ANP "Oh, no," says Harold, "We'vo ] in ship from Rumanin. Every slept, on his ride on Black Front," says Harold.
than the Western got
a chap up the hill called time anyone speaks to her she And at midnight I got up and [site at Fawley, alongside Egg, and next but one to him
ays something about a Besa to York. They also
is a boy called Bacon And telegram." what's more, just round the urged him to try again, and corner is a man called Hanum. from what she said to the
say the same at every other
pub on the Great
North
was worse
pro-
of a flur
Road-though in fact Dick To get on. Harold used to be The public wouki rather have ometal and from what I learned the barder, where there was pieces will be Atted together by What is it made from?
stonemason.
that than all the old stuff about but fling Charlie Marx."
never did ride to York, and gravestones was no good for his there never was a Black heart. So saw he looks after Bess.)
Says he arrogantly (for I undoubtedly getting
of
Way?"
Meaulng Charles
1
them.
not Dick, but modern world. True, he didn't
foresee Hitler. Or Stalin,
know the answer, worse oversight. I do not
have to admit this re- luctantly. Because this damed
too.
the
ILLEGAL
of
Jowe. They
dru
"I'm
not telling," rold Me Myers. "But there will be 100 fond of it in the plant, and it will circulate through the 'Cat' unit at the rate of 40,000 tons a day. In the process between tree and four tons a day will be used up."
CRIME QUIZ
MURDER IN CHELSEA By Leonard Gribble Sketches by A. E. Morley
Izle. Esq.
Chelsea.
4. King's Will Martions,
J.
The police found a letter delivered by pol that morning and unopened. If contained as appeal by a certain Agus Sear) for Tyle to ntum her Jaiters
It wil come from Europe's
Jersey, some millions of dollars. taking shape on a 1,000-anru
Reported in Press The body of fan Tyla was found in his Chelsta flas. He 'NOT TELLING' ordertd
had been shot the previous evening. a taxi to
take me to Southampton Water.
about 16 hours before the police the Missing Persons Bureau at
The substance
examined the body, a the "Cat"
The pu w Jerusalem.
THE
driver
In the next 16 months 100,000 looks like cand, though It has
masing The discovery we, made by he daily help tested at a night drive so near tons of complicated bits and all the properties in the following 24 hours, danger from Arab inditrators. have pieced together her story.
the 5,000 workmen. Already So I told him Mrs Shech- She had come from Vassaloy man's story.
they are starting to assemble Perhaps it was in Rumania. Ten years ago only imagination. Perhaps
the heart of the plant. "Cat- her husband was killed and she there really was Well, with me is an argumen- And among the gravestones is NOT only at Highgate. They're was left with six children, the about his lake
a moistness cracker" is what the ollmen tative Australian character. And that of Charlie Marx.
Anyway, he down at Fawley call it. doing their best to forget eldest 12 and the youngest two. agreed to Now, Karl (Charlie to you) Marx is
unlike most
of the about Charlie at Westminster.
take me, To support them
and we under discussion,
members of the Socialist Party,
she did all arrived in Jerusalem without
A NICKNAME those things that sound so easy incident as dawn I I have really read Charlie. Not
was coming First, there the better only seen his tomb, but read his
till you try doing them yoursel. over the hills. Herbert
Round the lunch table in the She took in Morrison, deputy leader of the sewing, she went out scrubbing They have a card Index giving val Myers, a director of Anglo- this argument), "Well, tome, "Das Kapital."
washing and
The hureau opened at eight. local fun, 48-year-old Mr Nor- With much of what he rald 1 Socialist Party. Our where is the guy burled, any agree. He foresaw most things busy alternately whacking and and kept the home together.
'Erb is
the whereabouts in the world American Oil Co.. whe Liberal that have happened in our wooing
voters.
2000,000 There k no Leral electoral
building the plant, told me how percentage to be collected from
have effected
the "Cal" will work, boosting the opinions
some of the
won- Inte Charlie.
THREE years ago she heard erful re-
"Cat-cracker," he said, "is Next, thero
there were two ships, the unions be- Morgan Pan York and the Pan Crescent, tween Philipa secretary ot
haus- the loading immigrants for Pales banda not Socialist Party. Morgan used tine
and at Constanza, on to a Chinese Black Sea.
tho wives. He informe me, and of 10 Manchester business man,
and sponging upon Engels, the to be assistant
illusionist, but neither
children and is be Highato Centery
was living upon the credit of his Charlie "We are Methodists,
taking over the Illusions of ships, but Mrs Shechman did view.
They were illegal immigrant parents separated for ten years.
remember from Shechman's troubles Kirs wife, the Rhenish aristocrat, Jennie von Westphalon,
not Marxists," says Morgan.
not know were very minor ones for them. your themistry lessons at school put up with
Finally comes Aneurin Bevan,
is a substânco They found the address of her that a catalyst all his nonsenso
between because
50 seconds which speeds up a chemical re- she,
children's school
In charge of construcion is unaccountablly, the passionate bandit of Be
politics. Nye used to declaim
setion without actually enter- 38-year-old, 17-stone Bob Colo, Charlie's dogma for dealing
Cham and Ruth were having ing into it.
who has pu the with
up several`re- capitalisto: The
a chemistry lesson when we got there, I explained the position. "You've got a good example in feries in the US, but nine vo to the teacher and she called your stomach.
big ne Fawicy. them out of the classroom.
"We are doing. all right," he Did you ever have upon it.] Co-ops. And at Dorking and went in the Pan Crescent with in the middle of class at school7 sunxed'in 'the prDOCKS. I
ups cal for you when you were digestion, but is not itself con- says in his soft Texan drawl "These British workers, are Like almost everyone else la Negro came here the other day. plata indeed that they do not Phineas, aged 14. Chairn, 12. Makes you rather conspicuous
since the made very Britain, Harold has been a serv⚫ a
every bit as good as the Ameri- "In the same way we have, in cans. I've no complainis" ing man. At
he was a wonderful voice. He ant down, production,
with intend to have any of t and Ruth, 11, went in the Fan and I saw Ruth wine at her he Cat-cracker 10
substanco soldier in the East Yorks in and I went away.
York. Mre Shechman and the deskmate she got up, to which speeds
DS When I
up the changes So you can other two had to remain behind. leave.
be pretty suro World War L Ha volunteered .came back, dammit, he had
which go on whin crude oil is that this vast new project wi Just in time for one of our best fallen asleep. I thought he was Lett, has submitted to a hair-all the feeling of security you to see again. They wore shorts
There was no room for them. Children they wero that converted into petrol.
Being an
be ready on time. And, maybe, retreats
Englishman, with any dend too.
mother might bo glad
If Bob Cola is lucky with plent "Dimert bo men, “we won. Then there was a beauüfat
the old oll cracking deliveries, some parts of it may get trom living In die Brüülala and Woman. Sho came, and stood
(pen-necked" shirts
on heat and even start up before the end of Tales, I cannot even begin to were covered with freckles,
wa got 30 next year,
Commonwealth certainly DOES
Loved the brute
controversial character from the
WHEN
Charlie
we go to
know.
No
was
TOW; though it is only Opening loved the brute.
time at the Spaniards, it is So, aleo unaccountably, do
in
very close upon Closing line at culte, a fair number of others nationalisation of all the means the cemetery. That is put "Why, rich people come here
However, we quickly find a in big cars," mys Harold. "It's of production, distribution, and fine chap called Mr Harold the only grave round about of exchange." Cotton Harold in a gardener. where any flowers He arranges us an extension. true: roses grow
ronomercedes
giant of a man
Lore. (It's
....
But Nye forget
about the
Bella, the
11
the differenco
legal migrant and illegal
in-
one, and the put four of her children ou board. eldet, then 19,
fint.
grown-
So Important is this substance to the oil industry that a plant Is now being designed to manu- facture it at Warrington (Lancs); a nickname for fluid catalytic
With Its help
Fawley will cracking plant. It sounde a produce 1,000,000 gallons of this mouthful but it isn't all that higher-grade petrol every day-- complicated.
more than alx times the old "basic" ralion,
"Maybe you
..
It's called an
Snzyme, It speeds up the
distribution,
exchange nationalised.
So Nye, the Samson
or
of the
cut. Roll over, Charlie.
-London Express · Beruter)
aproces, relying pressuro only.
NO COMPLAINTS
When the police cead an Agres Soort at her Streathamn home in south- w London, she admitted the ad been tog. Itlendly, with Tyle brother actes nid oerració her” to bave, and, meng "the" night with a Searl gereed he knew of the trombin He had pocked the last for
Film on ampicion of murder
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