THE CHINA MAIL. FEBRUARY 17, 1937.
THE
HITLER DECREE
ON CHURCH
WORLD Another Committee
GOES BY
OUT
deathless
CONTINUING Ce, or what
pens in a newspaper office before you hand over your ten cents in the street,
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Appointed
Berlin, To-day.
Final settlement of the long and bitter dispute between Church and State in Germany is seen by the publication of a decree by Herr Hit-
general committee for regulating the affairs of the German Evangeli- cal Church.
All the newpapers this morning give prominence to the decree.
Trans-
We were, I think, talking of One newspaper. says that the "copy". submitted by reporters, so Fuehrer, as the supreme head of the we might as well carry on a bit State, has made it known in unmis- longer in this line. Horace bas to takable fashion that Germany is not] be a sort of combination of the E-for a moment contemplating any cyclopaedia Britannica and the Dol-encroachment upon the existingį lar Directory. He has to 'know confessional liberties. everything. His mind has to be Ocean. crammed with relatively unimpor tant facts, none of which seems useful at the time of its acquisi- tion, but sooner or later will come in handy. Every day he must learn a few new ones.
He must have also a superficial
90 PLANES DRONE OVER
acquaintance with geography (com- SINGAPORE
mercial and topographical), medi- cine, law, war, economics, politics, history (from the Flood to the Abdication), religion, finance, etc..
etc.
that
About 90 warplanes, which parti- cipated in the combined manoen- Įvres, zoomed over Singapore short- ly before midday recently flying From this glimpse behind the low in squadron formation with scenes, I think, you will readily see squadrons in line astern,
a certain temperament is It was the largest concentration necessary to a successful news- paperman, though of course you might say that a successful career in newspaper work is in itself a failure. We have our moments, how- 'ever.
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of aircraft ever to be in the air over Singapore at the same time and it was a most impressive sight.
In addition to the squadrons sta- tioned at Singapore there were ma- chines from India and Iraq..
In the formation - flight which And then there is the matter of circled the island there were 10 tools. Horace has, for example, a bomber transports, three squadrons straight-backed and extremely of flyingboats, two squadrons of .comfortable chair. You would torpedo bombers, two squadrons of think that for a job which is an day bombers and a squadron of entirely sitting down one, and one general purpose aircraft. in which a degree of concentration As the warplanes roared over is needed, someone would see to it city offices faces peered upward that there is a modicum of comfort from open windows and Asiatics în for the worker, on the premise that the streets were thrilled bya the more comfortable he is the bet-wonderful spectacle.
ter the quality of work. It seems
to have been figured out the other way, however; less comfort, less distraction.
Bristol, England, February 8-Tom-) my Farr, light-heavyweight boxing champion of the British Empire, to- Then there is his desk. This is in-night knocked out Joe Zeman, of the United States, in the eighth round of a scheduled 12-round bout.
The Society for the Protection of Children acknowledges with grate ful thanks a sum of $977 from Chinese members of the Society.
variably a solid mass of proofs, telegrams, unpaid bills and such- like obstructions. From time to time (say once a year) this mess is cleared up, Le thrown on the floor. In the drawer, or drawers, of this desk are old letters, bicarbonate of soda, aspirin, and an amorphous Mr. Compton Mackenzie has pre- mixture of old pencils, old erasers sented the manuscript of "Mabel In and old copy paper. Horace may Queer Street to the Curtis Museum, find in the same drawer or drawers
a pair of scissors, unless his un- scrupulous colleagues have filched
Altom
them. On the shank of these scis-judicious dabs here and there make sors is engraved a name, which is a neat and permanent job. Horace, seldom Horace's own. This opens a I am glad to say, is of the latter grave line of thought. The scissors persuasion. are used for varying purposes. cleaning pipes, cutting up apples and other articles of food, coffee and other little bits.x wifery.
Pencils. Very important, these. Very few papers make their em ployees bring their own. So pab lications are known far and for the excellence of the pencils ___they___ provide, while others: Another item is paste or glue avoided like the plague for the Little need be said about this ex-ing implements they inflict on cept that there are two schools of staff. Pencils are never shar glue (or paste) thought. One for some reason or other. Only slashes the stuff about like a bill ones are used, which allows the poster and uses several fons to fold ones to accumulate in a get a small clipping stack to a piece ten drawer until there are so of paper, and for the rest the that our Horace has to lo
working hours wonders why
ery other Job to get away thing in front of him is sticking to- More to-morrow, if you can gether. The other is more delicate if and artistic, finding that a few
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