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If a bank clerk gets ambitious -spot the lady
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By JAMES DARTLETT
IE young man who wants to get on usually has a
girl to push hom. So ray the men who run Britain's
50 lessons-by-post schools.
With the New Year these salesmen of
success-183-
Jour-spare-time are facing their rush of ambitious young
men.
The expert the
Jus
Just us surely u. the shna, excet Balsa is, for good er ulution inean get bu sat. Nearly 300- 000 un en l go to th local IL ax dung Janos I the. Bedruze Levure-tone study
Most of them will t winx to
fen five 1:: 15 guineas to Bre peelde who sell anitation by net (Thera ro sunlar New Year unge m the less cum- mernal deld of eviger Master The prak perint eam, vrai ea:ly in September
I end the of the DRES plast hors word dat het the 1 miced at Me Jelli fanla
foll Robin alles bula rut
Quik Solleing the wife sions wre the apkins is expres. 1. j sion
eternum.. itter
4:1
[
New boys
14 wa Ike th (1 terniti he
Alling The 2. Ters, but dil being wine a long lege
The managing
#
gro puma
-
Fecto Coren.
made £150.000 1 orting pet last
BANK
The enagere
are
enthus:as-
tim, but we ge!
tercat
the steady in
from the 23's und 24' They're
[ } t
ones who are spurred on
Artis.
The genera un est of the early postwar years, when indoor inen to: training to put four jobs an outdoor men looked for B
our jobs, has cabud down Dok bank deck. CRSON JUAN Sve a thing
Lo
Me! people, losive stil do not know what they wunt except MORE molts and MORE p
are they ra hand of job.
With his (CEIVIN Lng no.ly half a mill on pole
tru
!
x studert ring the past 20
Leas -1l-show! the
CA = retuses to pola-pech any
comer'. Vetrnings for after t
caree
Hr sa • Neve- 14.
nan ainalder Lactive
me he is gagri to be a B start him of in thi
B
a reminder the had better
wed up figures
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that i
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es Li
'ral with the make! Nowers."
They forget
When the laboure realy, m ameth or two. that he does it
want to be a flo ist after
is easier to persuade hun at spare-time study will help him
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1952.
How d'you like that - Joe and Vishinsky called at No 10 for a peace conference-didn't know I was out.
London Express Service
PETER KIRK examines
THE TROUBLES THAT
MR TRUMAN FACES
T
their girl friend become a good works firema myst necessarily make
or their young
As we went up fo his office
in
for Foven
and years,
yel, Republican Party though the way far worse implicated then than the Democrats are today-- ir no member of Mr Truman's abinet with one possible ex- option hás heen, affected the power at Republicans retained the two subsequent elections
HE intricacy of It was alleged that General ed by Mr Frank McKinney. My
has only been 6. Government Vaughan had let it be known Mckinney
for a few weeks. but that he would help businesses to office jends itself to cor-
btain loans from the Gow already his name is the centre ruption. The size of
Reconstruction of controversy. mini-sponsored
Corporation- departments, Finance
Do !y Bimultaneously with these Government the large scul interven up during the depression to vestigations, a Senate Committee tions which Governments el eiling businesses return under Mr Estes Ketauver had
started l five percent of the profts.
Investigations to or General Vaughan stoutly ganised cr.me in the United
ir Truman may take comfort I wanted to go out and meet into business, and the mul ened the chayes.
and they States. some of the men whose pre-tiplication of restrictions were not pressed. But at the The committee's report showed from this. He hay taken comfort, an odd coincidence time approach AD KISS
that a vast underground network 106, from hos and controls, all of them e tire, there was started an
inevitably make for a syntion
mvestigation into the Fleem-
- of crime was operating under which has not gone unnoticed in
from
the Finance Corporation old-time gangsters tem where the man who is
and the "five percenters." which grand old lays of Prohibition
тупу: ashamed to give and revealed me startling facts.
of hem
had learnt the larding, before it'élection to like to meet them, too," not
business under Al Capone-and the White House, Was the He sald the managing director the man who is not afraid
the pupil wh
that this crime had been por- publican Senator from "Ohio. He it seems that makes
to accept cash for favours Dis
mitted,
was, in fact, the last member of Succes
rate, not Cul received can gHERE was a cerisin M- Meri appost granted and
apposed
notables as Congress to gain the Presidency flourish for a long time un- Young, for instance. Te Governor Warren
The of Florida, straight from Congress. 3rs ago Mr Young Was B Governor Smith of Missouri, leading Republican contestant detected.
ver, the for the Presidency Government and Mr William
at the O'Dwyer,
is also Re- farmer Mavor of New York who moment, Mr Tait, is now Ambassador to Mexico publican senator from Chio.
i was unfortunate for M. s mostly unum that all these three hap
rosened to be Demorrais,
wore snags.
away from the New Year hustle taken then to the top. But the of 400 tutors, y pests, fling clerks and departmental brats, he said: "Women are practical They are willing to sacrifer a few even- ings while their partner does his the sake of a homework for bigg pay-parket luter "
If only he can get half-way through a course which is often
a three-yes task-he is likely to romp home easily to the end
of his spa:c-time stint.
his
But he managing director, in
role of a commercial
Chips, explained
MI
"Our work
here is something like insurance. You can offer cheaper rates be- cause you can be
certain that,
no matter how you encourage people, a certain number of them
will drop out."
The stayers
ambitious If all thoir 300.000 young men today were to keep going till the last lesson was over and the examination passed, many spare-time schools would have to charge twice as much as they do.
Men whose aim is to set up as chartered accountants are among the best stayers. They plod on, and the figures show that nine out of every ten of them win through.
way
through lessons-by-pod usually profe's to forget the old school was a pillar-box
"I want to complain about these ankle-strap shoes I bought from you!"
London Express Service.
ne senger
in
Today he owns a In Britain we have been Department.
£20.000 house in a fu.h onuble exceptionally lucky in this
Washington suburb. respect. The tradition of
His D W wealth has evel public honesty which
201 inlecast: loans, 51 the busness through grown up years has kept public dis- .ch repay my has never bew honesty down to the mini- beged.
mum.
Even breaks such as the would Sant T
A 1343 have been regarded a normal
business practice
- aries.
in most
Has we, and was at the time
or, at any
by
Scarcely hid the exeter over this died down than a pew andol was unentha this fr
America.
And the memory of Harding and the Teapot Dome is still They fresh in people's minds. are not anxious to repeat the ex- periment so, despite the scandals, which are sbaking the Administration to its founda- tons, the Democrats' chances are
la the Income Tax Department It was discovere.i that many in come tax inspectors and bees
far from hopeless. ked to explain how accepting bribes to "x" iner me tax returns, and 50 income tax commissioners resigned in & harry.
01
White House Secretar, zis
investigation, and one unde. he was
into the cine
pr:s: ession 4.4,000 mink rout.
Next the affairs of Mr Willian.
the Dr Committer
u!
And they pale info complete Boyle, Chairman msignia ane when they are mocratic National compted with the sandals that the head of the party organsa- me great being uncovered Lon-were examined.
in the American Government. Mr Boyle admitted that he had
Throughout Lae
year been paid a past
fat retainer by a Washington has been shaken by thrm which was Eving out of u series of scandals involving business unless it get a loan many departments J the from R. F. C. Shortly after Mc Boyle got his retainer, the Arm with allegation, got its loan, that the President's At Mr Truman's request, Mr military alde, General Vaughan Boyle resigned "on grounds of had accepted bribes.
-health," and he was succeed-
Government.
It started charging
"NO NONSENSE” ADMIRAL
a
BRITAIN hard few him
of
Mr Truman dlamizsod th
ja Asistan Altome:-General charge of income tax evasion Mr Theron Lamar Caudle, an his affairs are also being investi- gated.
*
IFOW will all these revelations 11 aftact
Trumed nex! Mr November? The observer abroad might think that Mr Truman hau no chance of being elected. But much can happen between now and next November and, besides, there is an important precedent that must not be overlooked.
Way back in 1921, when the Republicans were in poetical the greatest American
It was characteristic of had a rare grasp ad- specialised in this role since his scandal of all time-the Teapot
Deme-broke
upon an astonish- ULYS E Commander.
the case Instead, he has preferred to ed world. The facts of more than three arduous things and watch the pro-
His new office is his third gain a far wider experience of were simple-or so it seemed at years in command at the gress of any operation in
every aspect of naval tech-Brst. The Sinclair Oil Company on the Board of Admiralty, nique and tactics, and he has wanted to get the lease of the. Admiralty, Admiral of the which his forces had even
for he was Assistant Chief long been recognised as au Teapot Dome site in Wyoming, Fleet Lord Fraser has the smallest part. handed over to Admiral Sir This nearly cost him his of Naval Staff (Weapons) expert in the handling of naval which was owned by the Navy Department and administered by Rhoderick R. McGrigor,
life in
the Secretary of the Interior. the from 1941-43, and Vice- Staff Chief of the Naval
The president of the company Straits KCB, DSO, son of a major-
the general. He has spent near-
Messina. The from 1945-47. From
Mr Harry Sinclair, lent Secretary of the Interior, Mr ly 50 years in the Royal
launch Navy.
which
The new First Sea Lord
has had an extraordinarily varied career since he join-
ed the Navy at twelve and
of
in
he
had put ACD
ob to
Nerve
to
a
McGRIGOR gmall
a half years of age. He was landing behind the German Job," for no
• •
aircraft.
are
aud
the Admiral McGrigor has taken command at the Admiralty at latter post he went to com- a time when the Flect is ex- Albart Fail, £20,000-3 loan mand the Home Fleet, and panding after a period of which was never repaid and was then he became Comman- umely retrenchment, and there
be obviously a bribe. many problems to der-in-Chief, Plymouth-solved. A workable structure post traditionally regarded of command in the Atlantic Allied until now as a "retirement has still to be decided,
previous there are difficulties ahead over news soon became publie
THE production. Both RAF
and and a Schate Investigation Commander-in-Chief, Ply.
of was ordered. Soon further dis- Nivy nerd vest numbers at the Dardanelles and at lines was attacked from the
mouth, has ever gone on modern aircraft, and the men turbing facts became known. For Jutland; between the wars air, and the Admiral was
instance, the President of the to become First Sea Lord. to man them. he held appointments in the blown clean into the son
"Whatever form a new, war United States, Mr Harding, had Home Fleet, the Mediter He received a damaged
might take," said the Admiral, sold his newspaper, the Marion There is no "playing to "no one must ever forget that Star, for a suspiciously large ranean, on the West Indies knee and gashed arms, but station, and in China, I doubt whether he paid the gallery in any of Ad- the reas must be kept open to sum, just before the oil staces- Chief of much attention to these miral. McGrigor's inspec. supply Britain. Our tasks are slon was granted. The buyers, as great as they have ever were nominees, and the men Staff to Admiral Sir Percy injuries. His coolness has tions; he is completely un- been, for cubmarine, mining, air behind them were close friends
always been an inspiration Interested in personal pub attacks on our shipping and, of Mr Sinclair
middle to those around him, and Belty. He gobs to ships Fribly, convoy lacks by sur-In the of the excite
face raiders,
and Hincks have all town men, Harding died 'oti combated. Early in the war ho com his immense powers of on and shore cstablishments to
Cari 20 mysterious that many people Totals transition period, still belleve he did not dle from manded the First Cruiser duranco astounded those on find things out, to inform Squadron, directing the air board his flagship during himself fully on overy type when the strength of the Royal Par
Calvin Coolidge, oporations against the Tir- the Russian convoys, for of problem confronting a Navy is being restored and Calvin Coo
now tactics must be evolved, w pitz; he commanded Re- he would remain on the naval lender today.
it is fortunate That their own honesty, pressed air with wult, of which mown during the chase and bridge for daya on end with talked to him in his zoom Service Tr headed by ander the inquiry on sinking of the Black; scarcely a break for kleepiz at the Admiralty, looking out who hata uintion for bo
ting things done and Brantley and he won the DSO for his Action, or the promise of over the Horse Guards Parad Bravery and Inadership action, was a tonts, to him payalecuwen orpedo
and be wired the vinerol no nenense
where he WAB
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