The Seaforth News, 1950-12-28, Page 3Flood Brings Apple jam—Bobbing for apples would have been -
a chich io Tuscarora Creek after a flood jammed the stream
with 200,000 bushelsof fruit, apples Avert! swept from a
fruit packing company's outdoor stockpile titcl bobbed merrily
downstream,
Husbands In Revolt
Choose Jail Instead
Britain's great post-war marriage
muddle is creating a new race of
jailbirds. One man in evs.e. eight
who goes to prison in England and
Wales today is there for non -pay
ment of a -maintenance order. A
sullen, embittered army of 3,400 -
husbauds defiantly chose jail last
year rather than contribute to their
wives' support. Many of these de-
erntined men consider themselves
the injured party.
3ttcmnber oi Parliataeut and ma-
gistrates are urgiug the appoint-
ment of a Royal Commissiou to
set things straight. Says Mrs. Bar-
bara. Castle, 'MX,: "I don't believe
• men aro naturally the errant sex. •
There are cases where the wife is
the exploiting party," Says Lieut. -
Col. -M. Lipton, ALP.: '"rhe great
majority oi these imprisoned bus-
halide are being hounded by viudic-
tire wives!"
There are young- husbands driven
to desertion by their wives' wild
behaviour, men who know their
wives are committingadultery but
cannot obtain conclusive legal evi-
dence. 'Theee are men who agreed
to a separation from a guilty wife
"for the children's sake" only to
find themselves dragged into court
s, few months later,
Admittedly, a percentage of the
maintenance men—in jail at the
taxpayers' expense --are callous rot-
ters who have shirked their respon-
sibilities. Yet some husbands feel
so aggrieved at the present system
that they go to prison rather than
pay allowances of $8.00 or so a
week.
"I married a girl who bore two
illegitimate ehildren, who robbed
and nearly ruined me, and finally
arranged a desertion charge. Why
should I support her?" Such is a
typical statement made to a former
chaplain of Wormwood Scrubs.
"No Matter how many. kinds of a
devil a woman may be, she has
only to adopt a pathetic attitude in
court, squeeze out a few tears, and
the day is hers under the present
laws," said another man, who has
become a pioneer member of the
newly -formed Married Men's Asso-
ciation.
In 1950 the problem is compli-
cated by an impending gold -rush
Of some 200,000 wives, Last Janu-
ary a new Married Women (Main-
tenance) Act raised the maximum
allowance from $4 to $10 a week
and from $2.00 to $6.00 for children.
Many wives who did not presa. for
committal orders for a meagre
$8,00 are now having second
thoughts.
' Many more men are therefore
likely to choose prison rather. than
payment, urged by the sheer
unemotional sanity of told econo-
mics, for in most eases
mnaintelI-
aflre arrears are wiped out by the
maximum three months' sentence.
Admitted, this it a sympathetic
presentation of a tnan's point of
view. husbands can gain separa-
tiou orders on only three counts
the wife's adultery, drunkenness, or
peraistent cruelty to the children.
A wife has eight counts against a
husbaud, some of them • highly
teelmical.
Cumincinest gni-011.1a are desertion.
No fewer than 25,000 women were
deserted by their husbauds last
year. (inc marriage in every six-
teen breaks do‘vn in this way. And
what of the v owan'a viewpoint?
deserted wife may be too elderly
or too frail to work. She becomes
a -charge on relatives or on public
assistance . . , unless her run-
away husband can be traced.
Many men clear out of the coun-
try. Legally, maintenance orders
Can be upheld and enforced to the
point of imprisontnent in Belfast,
1 -long Kong or the Falkland Islands.
Under existing; law, however, a
maintenance .order cannot be en
forced in Eire or the Channel Isles,
The Attorney -General of Guernsey
stated recently that over 300 Eng-
lish husbands have taken employ-
ment in the Islands deliberately to
avoid payment of maintenance
orders.
'When a wife is alioagid main-
tenance and the husband fails to
pay, site takes out a summons for
•
default, Eventually a warrant is
issued to enforce payment, •If the
husband still refuses to pay, jail
results. Small wonder, then, if
court Officers usually advise wives,
"Better wait. Maybe hell pay up
next month. What's the use of
killing the goose that lays the
golden eggs?"
Jurists have yet to grapple with
this outsize matrimonial jigsaw
nuzzle. A man who leads a reason-
ably steady life may be marching
along the maintenance highway to
jail. Yet the man who walks out of
his honie, 'changes his name and
disappears, has the laugh of the
law,
In Scotland, maintenance pay-
ments are deducted from wag$
packets on the P.A.Y.E. system.
England and Wales, it is argued,
could set up a similar system. But
perhaps the Xing's Proctor -should
be charged with the task of prob-
ing all maintenance summonses,
exposing- vindictive motives on the
part of either husband or wife and
ensuring utmost impartiality in this
tragic aftermath of smashed mar-
riages.—Vaom "Tit -Bits".
Happy Reunion—The Duke and Duchess of Windsor exchange
wartu greetings in a reunion aboard the SS Queen Elizabeth in
New York after his return from Europe, The royal couple
laughed off rumors that their marriage, for which the Duke
gave up the thone of England, had become shaky,
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Boom - Boom Boom Is Booming
But What IS That Awful Thing?
•
By Richard Kleiner
The music business is going
through a boom in boom -boom -
booms these days. And it'a all be-
cause of a song called "The Thing,"
a bouncy tune that is sending happy
shivers up and down juke boxes
all over the country.
In case you don't recognize it
by its official title, "The Thing" is
that number that uses three rous-
ing boom -boom -booms of the bass
. drum as part of the lyrics. To
refresh your memory (which needs
no refreshing if you lire within
carrying distance of a full -lunged
disc jockey), it goes, in part, like
this:
turned around and got right
out a-runnin' for my life,
And then I took it home with
me to give it to my wife.
But this is what she hollered at
me as I walked in the door:
Oh, get out of here with that
x x x and don't come back
no more.*
.(Copyricht, 1550, Hollis Munic Inc.)
Where those x's are, the lyrics
give a direction to "stamp feet."
Actually, most recordings have
substituted three booming booms
on the drum to bide the identity
of "The Thing." Which has a lot
of people puzzled. just what is
the horrible thing, anyway?
Take it from Charles Grean,
manager of RCA's popular records
department and the song's com-
poser. there ain't no such thing as
a thing.
"I just put 50111e clean lyrics to
• an old song I've known for a long
time. We used to sing some dirty
words to it and it was known as
'The Tailor's Boy,'" says Grean
(pronounced Gre.on.)
"I've been trying Inc a long time
to write nice lyrics for it, but I'd
always put something definite in the
place where we stamped out feet.
That would ruin it. aomehow.
Finally, I decided to have nothing
for the thing in the song. Then I
worked it out in an hour and a
half;"
e
Gau says he changed a few
notes in the music of "The Tailor's
Boy," whiclt he thinks had an
Irish origin. Then he took the song
out to California, where RCA's
west coast recording director, Henri
Rene, thought it would be a natural
for.Phil Harris. And it has been
—his record is selling at a record
pace.
JITTER
That's the cold-blooded history
of "The Thing." But it won't stop
people front guessing at what "The
Thing is. New York disc jockey
Martin Block conducted a contest.
Here are some of the things people
thought "Tltc Thing" was:
A transcribed commercial; Chloe;
unhappine.s; a marriage license; the
tall -end of "Mule Train"; a deck of
canasta cards: a woman's hat; an
8 -by -10 color shot of my mother-in-
law; my landlord; one falsie: my
boss; a K -ration; the little malt
who wasn't there singing a chorus
of "Good -Night, Irene."
The student nurses at St. Luke's
Hospital wrote that "The Thing"
was undoubtedly an interne at St.
Luke's Hosital,
One woman wrote that "'The
Thing' must be my husband. I
have been looking for hint."
"It's just a moral or a lesson to
the public that people should mind
their own business," wrote another
entrant. In the same serious snood,
someone else said that ft "must be
a mirror—nothing else could scare
so many people."
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Grean himself says tliai most
people he's talked to seen-, tc, think
the scary Thing is a skunk. Most
skunks disagree. If Grean had to
sas- what answer he's heard so
far he likes best, he leans to "un-
happiness," because it's a F,erions,
straightforward idea.
"The Thing," incidentalla, itt
published by Tin Pau Alley's phe-
nomenal young success, Howard
Richmond. Richmond has been in
the business less than a year, and
already has published such hits as
"Music, Music, Music," "Good.
Night, Irene," and 'Tze-Na. Tale -
CHILDREN •
SHOW,* BE SEEN
—NOT HURT
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you've been hearing lately, you Call put most of the blame on
Phil Harris (left), who doesn't look very happy about it,
and recording director Henri Rene, who encouraged the
song's author.
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