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...song in the West Indies has a refrain: "Mama don't want no peas, no rice, no coconut oil." Mama wants them now. If food from the mainland is not run past submarine packs in the blue-green Caribbean Sea, panic, riots and revolt are imminent. Last week in Jamaica, worried, corseted Colonial Governor Sir Arthur Richards invoked the wartime use of flogging to curb: 1) sporadic outbreaks of violence by roving bands of hungry, unemployed natives; 2) a "wild or acute form of panic...
...York City parents flapped their newspapers in surprise at big advertisements in which a little girl was shown clinging to her mother's apron and crying : "Mama, I hate to go to school today. It's my turn to stand!" What this doleful picture actually reflected was not anybody's indignation over unseated tots but the concern of 31,000 city schoolteachers for their jobs. The Board of Education, for the first time in the history of the school system, proposed to fire 125 high-school teachers because it didn't have enough money to meet...
...Mama" v. "Papa." In spite of such strict psychiatric examinations, there are still about 300 more or less serious breakdowns in Army camps every week. According to a report by Dr. George Salvadore Stevenson, head of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, there are three times as many mental breakdowns among enlisted men and the National Guard (who did not get psychiatric examinations before they were accepted) as there are among carefully screened draftees. Most of these men are victims of the most prevalent mental disorder in the U.S.-dementia praecox, a disease characterized by withdrawal from reality...
...Mama Boys' who in peacetime (when there is no selective service) choose invariably the Navy and find that, though the sea may be 'Mama,' the Navy is definitely 'Papa, and blow up promptly in the training station with the shock of the discovery...
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