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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1950.

IS IT BIGAMY

-to love work

more than wife?

HUS-

BAND has CANON WARNER

written to challenges a too-busy husband tell me that he

Qught to divorce my husband to give the child a name? If I don't, I feel certain my husband and I can start again. He thinks o, too. But he can't see which way to turn.”

0

O

IF I ever became

The "done

thing" for a wife to release her husband when on legt- timate child was involved, what chaos there would be.

Every unscrupulous. woman would have be

put into her hand

She would a deadly weapon. know that any married man was fair game if she succeeded in having a child by him.

Лая been married nino I think your wife will months, during which time amazed at your change of heart that she will come back to see he has been working very if it enn be true. Let us hope long hours, turning home she will then begin to grow up. tired and depressed.

'He changed" · "One evening," he says. "I lost my temper over 'a trifling matter, and told my wife that she could get out, the wanted

to, I did not mean it, for I am very much in love with her. She took me at my word, and is not living with her parents. Her father refuses to allow me

to pet into touch with her at all, demanding back her share of the wedding presents. It's all so stupid and unreasonable...."

Now, of course, he wants to get his wife back. This is what -Ï-have told him:

Married te began, for you, with bigamy!-you were married to your work and to your bride, and that rart of thing doesn't Tast long. No wonder your wife would not stand for it. One or the other has to go.

I don't mean you have stof to stop work. You've got to stop putting the claims of your job in competition with the rights of your wife. If a man has to be io absorbed with "getting on" at his job that his long office houra present his wife cach evening with a chewed bit of string instead of with a husband, he ought fo postpone wedding.

In such a soclety, children would be born in conditions of Settled home-life "depravity.

would be undermined.

Alternatively. winekmall would black cloud

A WIFE WRITES: never thought things would ge wrong after 25 years of married happiness,

My husband changed towards me over two years ago, I felt some- thing was wrong. One evening I asked him where I had failed him. He looked at me for tent minuter. Finally he said; have got a son. The mother of the child knows me; she is only 28. Our own child died young.

גי

home.

over

the threat of

hang like n home after

As a woman

to help the

You strike me wanting sincerely child. You have lost your own. Could you and your husband not adapt him? Are you big enough

to do this?

-{London Express Service)

BOOKS AND PEOPLE..

By JON HOPE

PROPHET ABROAD

⚫ Jave United States sceitilty officials been told to study Bernard Newman's books?

cx-

In his novel, "Shoot."-- published ten months ngo, Newman describes the plosion in New York of an ntom bomb taken there by a Russian submarine, and set off by a Communist fanatle.

Now

American Customs

men are boarding foreign ships as they enter the three- mile limit and searching them for-atom bombs.

Fighting in Korea nico The features in the story. outcome? The Communist north disinic- regime in the

a United Korca is

Baimed.

Newman on a month's Con- rycling tour of the tincal-is pedalling around Oberammergau.

• Neil Paterson planned a week's stay in London to celebrate the choice of "Be- hold Thy Daughter" as Even- ing Standard book of the

month. But his visit lasted only a few hours. Sudden lness of his wife meant a speedy return to Coupar Angus,

• Here is another Neil who has a Book of the Month-to hia credit Nell Gunn. Unill

1037-when his "Highland River" wan the Evening Standard Juho winner-ho had been, like Burns, an Exciseman. But since then པའ་

he has been able to devote himself entirely to writing. His next publication-by Faber, in September-will be 11 rollection of short stories titled **The White

Hour Gunn lives in Ross-shire noi for from Erle Linklater.

• Stoke-on Trent Council are considering a proposal to convert Arnold Bennett's house into a museum.

Why do they hesitate? It is high time there was a fiting memorial to the man who Immortaliseti the Potteries. They should bestir selves.

them-

More of this and- HEMINGWAY

HAS HAD IT

Star Book of the Day

by

WILLIAM GRACE

Fany writer might have In the Caribbean he chased girl. She is a wealthy 18-year- cabin old contessa, "shining in her

tan

HL

hin 40ft. in been expected to create U boats the great novel of World .rmed with high ex- youth and tall striding benu-

plosives and bazookas. He flew ly.” War II, it is Ernest Heming on RAF ops.

"Kisa mo

once again, and way, whose "Across the In Normandy #14 huge, make the buttons of your the Trees" bearded novelist'a Jeep roared uniform hurt River and into

me, but not too says this dream (Cape, 98. Gd.) is published 60 miles ahead of the Amerl- much,"

Army.

aggressive dummy, simultaneously this week in soldiering with the Maquis in "I wish we could be married Britain and America.

occupied Paris led to a formal and have Avo sons,' the colonel charge of misconduct—and the sald. Bronze Star-

"So do I,' the girl said. And send them to the

five corners of the world."

'Are there Ave corners to the world."

"I don't know,' she said. It there were And now two

The world has awaited t avidly, beleving that it might be worth setting on the shelf beside Tolstoy

and

ar

VIOLENCE

AM and always have been

n soldinr," he onco cald. rounded on though

when I said it,

แ

Peace" and Zoln's "La Debacle." For Hemingway is the most famous living writer, and

the " highest paid. (Hollywood gave It Is true. £23,000 for one short story).

All his books are first-hand are having fun again, aren't He worked five years on this reports on brutal action and we?' book, his frst for ten years.

to violent desih: "A Farewell

Daughter, the He was equipped for the job, Arme" on his World War I colonel said." (He had always

writer. both as man ond

In service in Italy (he still wears wanted a daughter.) World War II, he was far more an aluminium kneecap as a M than a reporter. He saw action full); "For Whom the Bell Con land, sen, and in the air.

Tolls," on

civil war guerilla days In Spain.

To report on this age of car- nage, Hemingway Invented harsh, clipped, aggressive style, Kirictly

supervised by early

COMMUNIST LAND 'REFORM' IN KOREA

AND reform is the banner cry, the battle slogan of the North

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Korean Communist In the Southern half of the Re- vaders. What then are the public." known facts abou; the Com- munist reforms?

Both

during and after the occupation of Northern

38th G

rarian

A husband and a wife should initial stage of an agrarian land tax and charges shall be

revolution,

is

Stein and Ezra Pound.

the

This sleazy couple maudlin back and forth between Har- ry's Bar and the Grit Hotel, she hanging on his opinions of our British cousins, who could tissue-towel," "not Aght their way out of a wet

Montparnasse friends Gertrude Of Montgomery, spat upon as a tardy show-off. Bedell Smith is a

"high-pressure salesman," Leclere another jerk of Use third fourth water," the U.S.

bottom of beer-

his

Only Rommel And the P.B.I.. They suspected a tofi, centi- thousands to needless death by mental centre. "Come out from Ignorant brukes miles behind the behind the hairs on your

lines. chest,

With asterisks to mark Hemmingway! We know you.'

obscenities....

at And

In the

rent

admirod. In

mouth, the

South Koreań occupied areas for the amned forces or "lo Admirers called I too obviously propagandist supply economic needs of the hardest-hitting prose of the cen-

sniffed at for it to be a convincing piece new State") are felt to be

atury, Critics of social reform, The so-call- inach more fearsome form of swaggering amid a welter of Government "the dregs....you In the South, the legitimale ed "Peoples' Committees" taxation burdening the Indivi. | drink. Just, and blood, authorities had been preparing take no account of the human- dual farmer, All the more so characters who talked like sub- Glasses." land reform bared on recog ly and Justice of certain stace the Government's assess normal crarg-outangs. nition of tillers' rights. What aspects of existing relation- ment of the quoins to be de- the Invaders have imposed ships, ar of the real popular something quite different wishes. Many injustices vects wholesale expropriation with sarily occurred which can out

of Any recognition

longer be rectified. inalienable interests of the peasants.

In the North, where the "re- form" mensures have been in operation for some time, there la much evidence

at growing distatifaction and disappoint-

the

The decree states that only those "who can til land by their own labour are qualified to possess land." It further Soviet

dis- more promised that "tha Korea (north of the

Jand will be the Parallel). certain

of the possession measures were undertaken by farmers who have received it." his the

This decree, Communis! authorities.

passed and en- forced in the midst of What was done amounted

battle, also stipulates that "all the

forma

abolisher" But ominously it adds that "Farmers shall pap fax in kind to the State at the same rate as in the Northern half of the Republic,"

nise that, instead of being bel In short:

of ter off, their standard of living of the State. In all parts Korea where, at the moment,

has decreased Communist authorities are in Fears that the control a revolutionary redis- tribution of the land has been carried out.

be Ars and foremost companions for each other. You must have cruelly shattered your wife's hopes about her marriage. Then you added bad temper on top of it all.

You

*

*

did not offer her emotional security, and she hadn't the pluck to stand on her own feet. So she has returned to the security of childhood's memories,

Before you next write to her, replan your professional work Cut out the uncasentials. The intangible volues of love and home far outweigh a hefty bank balance.

When you have done this, tell her. If her father still blocks

closely

following the example of the exproprio- tion of land-owners in the first years following the Soviet Oc-

ober Revolution of 1017.

and

the

were

By decree of the North Korean Peoples'

Government Praesidium of the Peoples' Supreme Assembly, all innards were summarily ex- propriated, Only small

farm xtends and

properties filed by the farmer himself exempt. The system of tenaney was abolished together with all forms of debts, taxes and There is no doubt that this charges arising out of the loan agrarian revolution or purchase of land from Arst welcomed by large num- former lund-owner,

ber of the landless

Im- poverished land proletarint in Northern Korea. Its introduc- tion, under generally chaotic conditions, in the battle-torn areas of the South, is much too recent to gauge the reac tion of the villagers and poor peasants.

*

In the earlier stages of the North Korean invasion of the South, the Praesidium of the (Northern) Peoples' Assembly

the way, get the help of an ex-decreed (July 4) thil the basic perienced counsellor to make (Northern) laws of "and contact.

form" were to be enforced "In

re-

Wis at

10

inent.

The peasants have seen fraudulent nature and recog

ones

Its

may

of land may not be permanent and that their own plot be taken frora them at any time or ever present; their waiting hours have been tengthened and many of their rights have been taken away. It cannot be long before the South Korean peasant also realises the worth of the Com- munist "reforms."

no

burdens

livered 1s invariably (and often quite unreasonably

that the land ought based on to yield and not on lis actual produce.

and writes

ACRID WIT

begun to turn him into and ulter HERE are glimpses of merit

ot

And now what should have Having shot his old Though the

forms of

been the explosion of a literary colenet kisses his girl and goes Lonn and toorigage repayments

He dies soon The burden of this new taxa- howitzer goes off with a dismal off to shoot duck. and rent to the landlord were tien and growing doubts in the phut. His new book is about as after, abolished, they were quickly security of possession are there as it could be.

by new replaced which, in many cases, tumed ing discontent

estore the main basis of the grow- Hemingway takes as hero

the original war-battered out to be heavier than the old enthusiasm has

The former landlord

[ly unreal love story which looks Into fear and apprehension. has, in fact, been replaced by

The like an embarrassing hunk

elegine loveliness of intich more

amd powerful

Venice in winter. A hint of the The greatest fear-not unrea- | wishful thinking, ruthless overlord in the form sanbly-is that the

and din of war, present

only gets into the book hideous sizo phase of land conßscation and at second-hand, when this sour and the plty and anger the redistribution is but an

A touch initial bear works off his rage against author felt.

of acrid phose and possibly one of short the British and the brass-hats wit, duration.

of all nations, while grumbling

"Almost any lar writes more convincingly then the man who in bed with his mistress,

was there,

colonel. Lays the IN VENICE

Hemingway was there with his alert

Under a show of interest In preserving the farmers'

and

rule

how

મ..

that THE scene is Venice, 1940.

If the Communist forces were to establish a righta

permanent and relieving them of heavy over the whole of Korea, imposts, what the new law long would be before does in fact is to take away Communist rulers decided altogether the basic attributes of ownership, and reduces the holder of

land to a stole the of unprotected servitude via-a The redistribution

vis the Communist authorities, land--which is regarded 43 Non-delivery of the quotas #nol by the authorlties--was of grain and other produce is carried out hastily and by ad punishable with confiscation hoc Communist controlled and redistribution of the "People Committees.

"eternally possessed" land. The compulsory deliveries (includ- ing many supplementary levies

of the

The application of the North Korean agrarian decree to the

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

courage.

Dut

seraes and

Instead of

dare-all

recreating

the country was "ripe" for the The colonel fought here in what he saw-the savage im- next step towards d wholly

battle on the brain 1918, returned after the second pact of Socialist agriculture, en war, huving helped to liberate and snow of living character force wholesale compulsory col- Paris and cross the Rhine. He he has lazily settled for a man lectivisation as happened in is just over 50, has had several eking it out with his old dumb- in a desolate girl-hungry mood, Soviet Russia in the late

20's wives, one

"warco," but no and early 30's and as is already daughter.

ox philosophy, and some of the happening in some parts of

Only drugs and drink

worst writing he has keep

суст Communist China?

the colonel going. At life'a fag-signed. Few North Koreans believe end, he wants to die here with

The field is wide open that they would be spared the his three loves: Venice, duck that great war novel.

shooting in the marshes, and bis

-(London Express „Service).

same fate.

BU

Labour Day

KEMP 8TARRETT

for

NEXT ALL THOSE OLD BOOKS

AID MAGAZINES/

-7

·SOMEORE WE KNOW TAKES LABOR DAY TOO LITERALLY... WITH THE ATTIC AS HOT AS THE FIRST BITE, OF A FRIED EGG SANDWICH.

"DID YOU PAY TAESE BILLS

YET, BILL

SOME THINK THAT THE SOFTEST "LABOR CY EARTH, IS "LOAFING" AROUND ALL DAY THINKING UP IDEAS FOR COMICAL PICTURES.

✦ JUST THINK, IT'S LABOR DAY ALREADY!

VE OUGHT TO BE SEEING ABOUT OUR

WINTER, CLOTHES /*

COML, HTG BY GENERAL, FEATURES CORP. TILWORLD SIGHTS RESERVED.

DARLING, THEY WERE YOUR FRIENDS... AND THEY LEFT EVERY DISH AND GLASS AND POT AND PAN IN THE HOISE DIRTY, IT'S ALL YOURS,

·LABOR DAY GETS TO MEAN SOMETHING MORE THAN

Í TRE NAME OF A HOLIDAY ....... AFTER THE WEEK-END-

GUESTS GO HOME –

JUST WIEN A MAN EXPECTS SOME RELIEF FROM THE BEAT AND THE LAWN- MOWER ALONG COMES THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIGHER FUEL PRICES.

*CHI, LADY? I COULDNT

DO NO WORK

TODAY...THIS IS

LABOR DAY...

IT AIN'T

ETHICAL/

"DO YOU

FEEL SICKY

WE OFTEN WONDER WHY SOME GALS ACT

AS IP, ON LABOR DAY, STIMMER WAS TIRED OFF LIKE A SPIGOT

! COME LADS'IDEA OF LABOR. ISTOGIT WAITING. POR, SOME POT OF GOLD SHOW TO PHONE" AND GIVE THEA 50,000 BUCKS.

THE MERE MENTION OF LABOR DAY RUNS EVERYTHING/ POR, THE KIDS...TIE, A MOST RATED HOLIDAY MEANS SCHOOL IMPENDS