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QUEENS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1950.

KNACKER'S YARD

TUC

DISRUPTERS

NOW YOU KNOW I CAN'T BE JUST PUSHED AROUND"

World Congricht. By arrangement with Daily Herald.

BIGGEST BRITISH

GRAND snoep,''

"downright imper-

tinent" and "Peeping By

Tom" are some of the colour-

ful labels that have already

been

IN

QUIZ HISTORY

PETER LOVEGROVE

attached to a form, London who speak Yiddish

the

fur

the

later

Was

or

Art

Sitting On The Fence

By... Nathaniel Gubbins

"Although farmers are pleasert to accept the benefits of sub- Kidies and guaranteed markets unter Socialian, most of them Vote Conservative." - Political odserver.

-N the manner of

bucolic scene in an old English musical comedy ---

When I were one and twenty

years

My dad was still alive-o My dud was still alive-o He said, "My son, now you can

volt:

You'll vote Conserva-live-o Though tornups rot, af gone to

Trut

And wurzels they won't

Drive-

We're all true blue since

Waterluo

So vote Conserva-live-n

Them plaguey Reds, 1'i bash

their eads

And vote Conserva-tive-o."

But now I'm one and forly

years

The Socialist arrive-o

that Asiatics

develop quicker than mest olliers Like the lower anfmals, dear.

Are you calling my boy an animal?

Of course not. I'm sure he's the sweetest thing, dear. Don't you dare call me

**dear." OK, it Wat's the way you want it.

And I hope my boys in, Korca Latele the hell out of yours,

Why, you Russian slut, I hope mine knock the hell out of

yout

You needn't WOTTU. They

T: F

They certainly will.

You and our capitollal conulbape,

Some rondl haboons,

your

Bolshevik

I'll see you in Washington, I'll see you in Moreau. We're on our way.

Calling all

payers

tax

A BROADCAST

appeal over

by

the Pyongyang radio

They give us this, they give us Kim T1 Sen, commander-in-chief of the North Korean army, and published ju.

that

To keep us all alive-a

Though artup hot, we sell the begins

lol

And somehow we contrive-u To live ke lards at groaning

beards

And vote Conserva-tive-o Dang they Reds, I'll bath there

cada

And role Conservo-live-o.

We work all day from dawn to

duck

A elder pat at five-o With subsidles we're better off Than ny man alive-o Though worm and fly est corn

and rye

Why, somehow we contrive-o At drawing pay for mouldy hay

And vote Conserva-live-o Dang they Reds. I'll bash their

cads

And vote Conserva-tive-o.

Mother's

Day

"If the leaders of the corn- tries were mothers with young hables there would be no war." writes a woman to an editor.

Sovjet

Now!,

"Dear compatriots! Beleval brothers and sisters! Glorious men and commanders of the People's Army! Men and wonien guerillas of the south!

The American Imperialists have begun an armed attack against our country.

...and ends with an appeal for re- doubled effort and the usual cry, "Forward to victory,"

When a dictator, military or otherwise, calls the masses bo despises, dear compatriots" and "beloved brothers," with plenty of exclamation marks, you can be a half share in a bombed rice feld to a couple of braze won (Korean currency) that the masses are for it. troops of any army are called "glorious men," it's an

even chance that they're going to get #t, if they haven't already had It.

When the

hundred years

that a similar return

Suggested for Britain. The first Bill was passed by the House of Com mous, though one M.P. declared looked that his constituents The

is answer

that

the

with upon

proposal modern tasks of a Government two feet by one foot. which only.

lest some great ominus fear would be impossible without will find its way into every The forms containing the

misfortune The public the guidance of a census, be delivered a household in Great Britain questions will

statistical information obtained eplocinical distemper" indleted in less than nine months' week before day of the enables the authorities to plan by the Almighty would follow.

U. 1951-and housing, estimates for

pensions,

thrown out time. No doubt a good many Census — April

responsibility Diling them education and many other needs nwever, it was more similarly ungracious will lie with the householder.

registrars of births and of fie community. Another im- by the House of Lords and the slogans will be coined be. Local

portant long-term aim-the uls- fore, while and after it is olcers, and their areas will be deaths will net by local census

covery of national "fertility trends" was recommended divided into about

ded by 50,000

the Royal Commission on

en l'opu- This form will be the enumeration districts, with an

enumerator for each district, on appointed by Mr Chur- chill's wartime coalition, which basis of the 1951 Census, the

These enumerators are respen-

na reported that there might be fifteenth to be taken in the sible for collecting the

in the UR

1801, two-year-old Ivan, A substantial decline in

UR first Census, country, the first being in and may advise people how to

birth rate during the next showed that the population mother 1801 and the list in 1931. At them up, but they have no

Afteen years and suggested In- was only ten millions. As a large Elmer.

Stalin and Sadle siis at Tra-, drive, that they're for it," check the

creases of

family allowances, proportion of the people were would have There

been powers of entry to

return.

bigger Income tax rellets for Illiterate or only semi-ilterata, man's desk at the White House, another in 1911 but for

parents nod

of the building all details had to be World War Two.

more large houses.

Alled.

The Forces

forma

to

Apart from the usual in-

Contents of the forms aro quiries about age, sex, na- ALTHOUGH Britons resident

communicated

other tionality, birthplace, educa-or travelling abroad are not not

Prince of Wales Government departments, and tion, marital condition, resi. included-the

and the late Duke of Kent were all officials handling the returns Infringements of work, new questions on because they

travelling us confidential.

by fire, or by fertility and housing condi- across Europe at the time-all are punishable tions will be included this naval, military and air forces imprisonment up to two years. person not making a enumerated, no matter what And any time.

part of the world they might return is able to a fine of be in Discussions are at present £10. taking ploce regarding

dence, and place and nature omitted from the 1931 returns are bound by oath to treat them

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the clergy and the overseers of the poor taking a leading part. Only the number of persons

You

shall now

*

overhear a

Financial dictator Cripps has said, "We have not reached the lamit of laxability,"

Although an uninspiring long-distance telephone conver phrase, this is a clear hint to sation between Anna, mother of the dispirited ranks of tho and Sadle, middle-class army, always the five-month-old shock troops in any taxation

of

Anna has succeeded

Yes, Sadie.

and their sexes were then ask-THAT you, Anna? ed, but in 1821 particulars of Dges were also taken. In 1841 forms were first distributed, and of marital condi- the question tion was added ten years later.

You all right, dear? Yes, dear. And you? Oh, I'm fine. Tired, of course. Elmer uking That's Tittie you tired, How old is he now? Five months. And such an

Ivan was the think always the best, dear,

In 1031, many of the enumera- fors were recruited among the appetite.

2,000

I know, dear, unemployed;

defaulted half way through, and much of nie. the work had to be done again. nature's

don't you?

But 1 wat

How necurate will the final My doctor says there's no figures be? There has always other way if baby's to keep been a certain amount of mis-healthy. Say, Anna?

carelessness Yes, dear? understanding and

in the filling of forms, and some margin of error is likely never to be eradicated under the present system.

drar,

Why?

If Cripps had half the cun- ning cloquence, and appeal lo mass stupidity, of Kirn Il Sto he would begin his next bed news broadcast to the der- pised howler-hatted brigade is a similar manner:-

"Dear taxpayers! Darling taxpayers! Beautiful, beloved- brothers of the middle classest Glorious compatriots of tho rolled umbrella and the 8.15. up and the 5.15 home! Noble residents of

Acacia-avenue- and galant

occupiers Df Homeleigh and de-a-Wee

"Once more you are called to the Battle of the Budget. Once again you are asked for further sacrifices. Redouble your efforts and forward to victory,"

Where's Korea?

The middle-classes would he don't know, dear,

trouble there, so amazed at such a broadcast There's some

started on the 38th Parallet, from Cripps that they would whatever that is.

hardly notice their income tax Well, I don't know what it is, had gone up a shilling in the £, 50 Miles Out

Ivan

more would like to say any

than the South hello to little Elmer, but he's Korenns have hardly noticed that the North Koreans fist got nettterush. AFTER all, even the Duke of Oh, the poor tile mite. Give marched over the border.

Wellington In 1851 was 50 him & warm bath and dust him

And And If they asked, "Forward miles out in his answer to the with baby powder, dear. question about his place of birth. keep him off oatmeal and sugar, have as much chance of a reply to whose victory?" they would In the sume Census, Thomas About this Koroa business, Anna, Carlyle put man of letters" as your boys are fighting my boys.

Es Korean grandmother his profession. This apparently

Yangyang.

EUERE is nothing new about Special arrangements are also

surb national stecktakings. In whether they have been made for ships, prisons and fact, Britain was very late in

institutions

the field. In ancient Babylan, After the forms have been 8,000 years ago, it was used for hauded in the district offices, revenue control; in Pharaonic for they are bound in covers and Egypt it was a roll enl marriage. They will also be sent to Somerset House, Lon- forced labour which helped to with by a bulld the Pyramids; the early asked if they have given day, to be dealt birth to any children in the central clerical stuff of some Chineze turned it into a general detalls about 640 under

the Registrar-Gen- inventory, with past year. Details will be ral. Up to 1901 the work of industry, commerce and agricul- required of the number of extracting, classifying and ture. rooms and sanitary facilities totalling was all done by hand:

With the Greeks and Romans in each household. The tuwadays computing machines

employed. Population it was a system of registration Census will also want full heures will be announced a few of status and citizenshipcus particulars of the nature of weeks after the returns have Chris! was born during the work undertaken by all been received, but statistical foking of a Roman census-and! persons in the returns, in surveys on various aspects may there are several instances

take up to several years to ap census taking in the Old Testam cluding for the first

time, peur.

ment, the most notable being that carried out by King David through the unwilling agency of Returns made in Scotland

was never Joab, This will be required to show

pleted; we are told that after and those speaking Gaelic only, E whole cost is expected to working for nine months

be in the region of £1,250,- twenty days Joab "finished nal, or Gaelic and English, and

A few

are because thero fell wrath for it 000. Not

people in Wales, those speaking asking why it is necessary,

to against Israel." Welsh, or Welsh and Eng. spend so much money to extract

Since the middle of the 17th lish. Special arrangements personal information they may

Others are Century, censuses had been held

in

German will also be made in the in- not like to give,

reassured that the information regularly forests of the large body of they give may

be used states, in Sweden and in French young mun, Hot End of against them.

colonies, but it was not till a Jews in the East

unpaid work.

NANCY

The Cost

Cane You Beat It!

GOODNESS --- AN OLD İSTICK OF CANDY. LEFT"

FROM CHRISTMAS

IT'S LIKE A ROCK--- TOO HARD TO

EAT

so:ne

Ald not conform to the rules at of

com-

the lime, as a census officially like that.

I can't help it, dear, Boys cre

annotated

Can't you call your boys back this: "No

occupa hame if I call mine home? tion." Charles Dickens, ten

Is Elmer teeth- years carller. imself to: "Gentleman."

בזf

had restricted Piltry, dear,

ling yet? Not

Limerick

Jr

Said a very old lady of Yarg-

warto,

"For victory I don't care a hasg-

Hang,"

he's

months, Six But the censu story I ko I hope, dear, best comes from a friend of

Ivin started at four monthis.

Woon't that n mine who acted as enumerator

Really, dear? 1031. He

called at

one bit unnatural? house, and said he had come

Usad.ural, dear? about the census.

Well, dear, Western bables "Senses?"

Eastern from sharply cald the are different fragile old lady who answered bables, oren't they, dear? the door. "Let me tell you, What do you mean, different? To wait for the end of the bang-

I'm

I think it's a zelentile fact, eighty-one, and I have all my senses." established here. Amerles,

By Ernie Bushmiller

OH, DEAR---I HATE TO WASTE IT

in

So the hid in a heoul Not far from Seoul,

bang.

-(London Exprou

Servize)

DON'T ITCH IT,

Fitch 1

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