Viewing page 38 of 80
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
abolished as such, when its functions should be whittled down and passed to a small staff topped by a secretary responsible to a board drawn from businessmen of integrity and experience? Using some or all of the shameful inside facts of waste and incompetence to bolster the case to relieve the Jamaican taxpayer of a burden that is being made increasingly heavier by the ineptitude, stubbornness and bureaucratic bungling of the Government, is more a patriotic duty than a breach of confidence. The ___________________________________________ [[advertisement]] How I got rid of Johnnie's cough [[image - drawing of woman holding a little boy up by her shoulder, both smiling broadly]] [[caption]] He got relief immediately ! ● 'I was terribly worried a little while back. Johnnie had a really dreadful cold and the cough kept him awake the whole of one night. Then I bought some Zubes Cough Mixture and after a few doses Johnnie's cough was quite gone!' ● Mothers everywhere have proved that Zubes Cough Mixture's scientifically blended ingredients are ideal for children's coughs and other bronchial irritations. They go to work at once, loosening phlegm and soothing raw throats and chests. Children love Zubes' comforting taste. ● Always keep a bottle in the home - it's the chest medicine for every medicine chest! Get it off your chest with [[image - bottle of Zubes Cough Mixture]] ZUBES REG.D COUGH MIXTURE Made by the makers of the famous Zubes Cough Lozenges [[/advertisement]] Committee committed no breach of confidence, its members knew the facts before meeting the Governor. Where was the need for the Governor, who we esteem so highly, to have let himself down so badly? Where is the need for continuing to penalize the people by a food policy that is leading us surely into bankruptcy? WELCOMING "MISTER 1949" Contrary to popular conception, Sir, we do not picture you as a gurgling innocent, but as a fully grown man of great wisdom. By next year this time, you will have grown old and feeble, and you will be gone to the land where all Calendar Years go. We welcomed your immediate predecessor last year. We had great hopes that he would bring us many good things. When he left we were glad to see him go. He had not been the kind of man we hoped. He brought us worries, perplexities, befuddlement, confusion and humbug. He left us in such a state of bewilderment, that before his stay was half-way through we began to wish he had never come. Sir, we hope you are different. In fact, we are sure you will be different. We are sure you have come to show our politicians light; to teach them that co-operation is better than disunity; that opportunism, like crime, doesn't pay; that the interest and progress of Jamaica are more important than Party politics; that graft, corruption and self-seeking are sinful and should be put away. We are sure, Sir, that you will shed the light of your political leader, Mr. Bustamante, not in political powerings, so that our officials will cease to regard themselves as masters rather than servants of the people. We beg of you, Sir, to strengthen our great labour and political leader Mr. Bustamante, not in political power (of which he already has enough) but in wisdom, knowledge and understanding of the basic needs of the island, so that he may confound that British M.P., Mr. Tom Driberg and others who, lacking other evidence, have been saying that his one and only programme is Bustamante. Sir, you too will soon be hearing of proposed changes to the Constitution. From what you will shortly see, we are sure you will agree that the most important change needed is to limit the franchise on a basis of literacy so that we shall never again have a government of illiterates, by illiterates and seemingly for illiterates. You will agree, Sir, that it was a gross error on the part of the Colonial Office to give universal adult suffrage of a country such as ours with 60% of the people illiterate. As our Governor, Sir John Huggins, has said in his Christmas Message, Sir, you will agree that "there can be no appreciable or lasting improvement in our economic condition without greater effort on our own part." We hope, Sir, that under the good astrological influence which the stars tell us you have, we will be impelled by a sense of purpose to "dedicate ourselves. . . to work harder (during your stay with us) than we have ever done before, not only for the advancement of Jamaica, but also for the betterment of our conditions." And so, Mister 1949, in again bidding you a hearty welcome, we do sincerely hope you will give us cause to remember you kindly long after you are gone. | 12 SPOTLIGHT, DECEMBER, 1948.
