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MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1932.
THE WORKERS AND THE SLACKERS
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The question as to whether, generally speaking, Civil Servanta work as hard as business men has been the suject of some contro-
ai Home, versy
value from
C
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1932.
DAY BY DAY ETON & HARROW
HALF A DOZEN PRÓMISING LADS CAN DO MORE TO EDUCATE EACH OTHER THAN ALL THE TUTORS AND PROFESSORS CAN DO FOR THEM.- Leslie Stephen.
A thief yesterday morning Captain Bragg's bedroom Chatham Rond, and stole watch.
at
14,
HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN HOW TO HATE
coaches
BY THE MARQUESS OF DONEGALL. JULY FIGHT was Hatter's and all round where before pictures [nual Joy-Day. Who, indeed, que. Now there is space for, at
would have the courage to go to the outside, a dozen conchos.. Lord's for the Eton and IInrrow I have been lucky enough in the match without first arming him- past two or three years to bo self with these two funeral per-invited on to a coach. There is no {quisites?
comparison in the degree of en-
and
compressed into two ór three hours. It would be going too far to suggest that every business man is a loafer protending to be busy, but there is something in the remark that the ordinary business man spends more time in talking about business than in doing it- or more time in seeing that other people are working than he does
The Bes Line A. Benalder, from In himself getting down to real Home poris, is due hero on Thursday. hard work. The
man who in-
The P. and O. liner Malwa, with dulges in-gambling operations, the English maila, is due here from whether in exchange or in com- Singapore at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. modities, is not included in this observation. He has a strenuous life of another order; care usual- ly sits on his brow even during his two-hour lunch and pursues him round the golf course in his moments of leisure. He pays the
not resemble a plucked chicken re- You know the sort of remark some penalty of his desire to look into
mained. I was present and, I am women are liable to make:- the future.
Injured through an attempt to ashamed to say, took part in the "Tell me, why do they both have alight from a moving bus in Nathan last real battle of Lord's. Water-to run when only one has hit the One writer, dealing with this Road, n 14-year-old Chinese boy was too may have been fought ..bali?" "What are those two men general question of periodical re-admitted to the Kowloon Hospital but it Was nothing to what wearing white coats for? Aren't yesterday in a serious condition. Etonians and Harrovians can do they awfully hot?" "Surely it's
when they really try.
very unfair having eleven on one A coolin in Prince Edward Rond
first It was 1919-the
Lord's side and only two on the other!"
when attempted to after a gap of four years, yesterday afternoon
Well, nowadays, no one. dodge n Kowloon Company motor bus, potato-digging was more and was knocked down. He received ant than cricket, and long leave, blush
import to take things seriously enough to injuries, but these appear to be of a
at auch sacrilego. But I slight nature, as he refused to be as the Friday to Monday holiday think the real secret is that most taken to hospital.
is called, was a thing that we had women know as much as we do heard of but hardly thought to jabout the game. experience.
lease from work, contends that there is no worse form of economy than cutting down the holidays of men who do good work. He be- lieves that the man who knows how to work can do more in ten months than he could in twelve. We cannot measure good work mechanically by months, days or hours, he says. As for the matter of long holidays, he argues that the business department which ennnol get along for two months without the services of even the highest member is badly organis- ed, Where do all these thoughts
The Welland Canal.
The House of Commons may be-joyment between sitting aloft and como alack in matters of dress, if having champagne and straw- it so pleases. The City is al-borries produced from somewhere entered ready beyond the pate, but Lord's in the bowels of the conch
remains, with Ascot, an uncrum trekking off to one or another of
the club metai, bling monument to the top hat.
tonta. The former is There was A time, when the Lord's do luxe. hatters and umbrella makers were But there are changes for the Mr. Fletcher, living at the Kings- really in luck-the time when not better. In the old days, I bellovo, clere Hotel, has reported to the police a top hat that was not an ac- the man used to be ashamed of their womenfolk. the theft of a gold watch and n gold, cordion, or an umbrella that did walking with
ring from his room.
*
As a Kai Tack Company bus came to a stop, astride truck ratis at the Prettier Than Ascot. junction of Tam Kung Road on Prince Edward Road, to drop some!
earth-laden truck
No-one
contractor concerned.
Booms
Fewer than forty услга ago there were lob bowlers to be soon' at Eton v. Harrow and balls were
of
So the boys' mettle was up, and "carted" to the leg boundary--- earth later reaching afternoon, their fathers and brothers wel- an expression now Bavouring
suddenly appeared and crushed broadside into the bus.comed the opportunity of reviving "tip-and-run."
was injured, but the
memories of hand-to-hand fight! Certainly the "little gentleman" suffered
ing.
The slaughter was extensive, attitude is growing. Eton is no some damage, which was made good, it is understood, by the But this is an age of repres- longer supposed to loathe Harrow sion, and the saner counsels of the 'for two days. Wih this change headmasters, Lord Ellesmere, Lord of front it has become bad form Westward bound along Queen's Harris, and others prevailed. This to jeer at a dropped catch or a Rond West, a Hongkong Hotel bus year Etonians, at any rate, have bad bowler. The schoolboy has yesterday afternoon narrowly escaped been in enough trouble for ragging become self-conscious. serious mishap when, turning the the train that conveyed them from oblivious of the Game.
iling Street, it the Winchester match. We cani swerved sharply to the left to avoid think compassionately of those!
corner rear Fat
no,
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THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS
►
forbade
Bend us? Nowhere in particular, since the question has so many facets and angles. But there is possibly a considerable grain of approaching hire car. In doing boys who are attending afternoon there may come a time when, far Carrying this a little farther, it collided with a ricksha acar the school in consequence. truth in the remark of one com-side-channel: The right mudguned
from indulging in physical violence mentator when he says that
if of the ricksha was damaged by the The Eton and Harrow match is outside the Pavilion or railing rear left mudguard of the bus. The one of the jolliest features of the derisively nt their opponents' most people worked as hard As ricksla puller was not injured. London season. The ground during failurea, Etoniana and Harrovians they might, or even as hard as lots
the luncheon interval, on a fine will be too genteel to cheer even uf others do, they would find they ports for the week ended July 30 colouring at its best: green such boys have done much more stro!- The health bulletin for Eastern summer day, presents English the fall of a wicket. Of late years had enough time left on their shows the following cases of infee as only England knows showing up ling about, oblivious of the game.
tious diseasen and deaths therefrom hunds that they could take a six
Plague, Bassein 1
the bright flowered dresses and than would formerly have been cuse 1 death,
sisters tolerated by their fellows, and in parasols of mothers and months' holiday every year! Rangoon 1 case I death, Beirut 1 case against the black background of a short time those who alt critical-
Cholera, Bombay 2 cases 1 death, Calcutta 62 cases 18 deaths, Macao 30 the old and young boys. It ly in the seats of the mighty in cuses 20 deaths, Amoy 192 cases 103 far prettier than Ascot, for there front of the Pavilion may be able deaths, Canton 6 cases 1 denth,
the colours are so massed in close to justify their opinion that Eton Nanking 144 cuses 29 deaths, Shang-formation that the eye cannot focus iv. Harrow is "flapper festival." hai 50 cases 41 deaths. Smallpox, the whole into a following
flower-garden Could not we manage to show, in The opening of the new Welland Alexandria 3 cases 1 death, Baghdad picture,
quite a nice way, how much we outspoken comment by an emin-Canal by Lord Bessborough, Gov-3 cases & death, Bombay 14 caseR
deaths, Calcutta
Another feature of the Eton and really loathe that beastly school ent man of commerce who says ernor-General of Canada, marks Karachi I case,
1 cases 7 deaths, Harrow match is its unique value Harrow? And, of Madras il cases.
course, vice the taxpayer is not getting full one of the most important stages Rangoon nil, Pondicherry 2 cases 2 as a meeting place. No Harrovian (versar
cases deaths, or Etonian has ever walked round Whatever one may say about the of the progress of the St. Law deaths, Saigon 2 Government employ-
Macuo nil, Canton 1 cuse.
that hot asphalt path behind the lack of vindictiveness (or interest) renee deep waterway scheme. "Minor questions," he
stands without running into some on the part of the partisans of de-
The opening of the canal allows
one who recalls memories clares, "which would be decided in the largest lake steamers to pass
of each school, there are many people athletic triumphs shared, or literal- who do not share the hyper- a matter of minutes in private down from Lake Erie to Lake On-
ly painful episodes. But in re-technical knowledge of the gentle- business, occupy many weeks in tario-from the level above
trospect the one is as cherished a men in the Pavilion, and would memory as the other.
far rather see two schoolboys make Whitehall," "and he adds that it Mingara Falls to the level below,
This year there were not so every effort to give the crowd its cannot be maintained that the Work at the outlet immediately
many coloured waistcoats as usual. money's worth than watch first- higher staff is worked to maximum east of Lake Ontario, straighten-
The following cable at the close picture, I am all for letting the
I do not think that spoiled the class slow-motion cricket.
In this respect the schoolboy capacity so long as officials are ing and deepening the inter-
ef the sugar market on Saturday women provide the colour-scheme. batsmen appear to have improved. entitled to holiday leave which is national channels through the has been received by Messrs. Pen-
Dr. Alington | Thousand Islands, has opened the | treath and Co.
coloured I came across a curious document equal to one-sixth of the working way for ships to travel from De-
waistcoats, as an economy men-which tells of the victory of Eton sure, on the Fourth of June, but over the M.C.C. in 1809. Sir year. It is easy, of course, to ac troit to the Ontario town of
the ruling about Lord's was that Christopher Willoughby, it states, cuse others of not working as hard Brockville. It is, indeed, possible to
boys were not compelled to wear as we ourselves do; indeed, tots cruise twelve miles further down the
coloured waistcoats. of people appear to find plennure river, over a beautiful expanse of in this line of thought. The Civil inland water, through fine farm- Servant has long been the subjecting country on both sides, to Og- of wit and sarcasm in this con-
densburg in New York State, nexion, whether he be stationed with Prescott on the Canadian side. Below Prescott, however, in Hongkong or anywhere else. the St. Lawrence rapids begin. Let it be added that he is usually Smaller river craft do navigate not averse to joining in the jok- the rapids. It is a thrilling, ing against himself; possibly he though comfortable, trip over the would feel uncomfortable if every-stretches of river where about body thought he did a full day's 2,000,000 horsepower will be de
veloped when the river is harness- work all the year round. The
ed for electric power purposes. fact, of course, is that we cannot Below the rapids at Montreal, the classify humanity into Govern path to the DEENA iş open for ment workers and non-Govern-liners of the Atlantic service. ment workers for the purpose of Whether the ocean liners will find ascertaining who
it profitable to ply further inland are the more conscientious in their labour. in than Montreal may perhaps be In the tested ten years hence. the Inst resort, it all boils down meanwhile, the trip of the .s. to a question of the individual and Lemoyne through the Welland to his outlook on life.
Canal may be taken as a harbin- "The man who does the leastger of new passenger shipping work is the man who seizes every opportunity to appear busy. Ever since I was at school and used, under a master's eye, to pretend and the Union Jack fly as the em-
There is
enterprise to come. everything to be said for it along the glorious expanse of inland water where the Stars and Stripes
to be busy myself, I have distrust-blems of neighbourly accord in
ed anyone who appeared busy: 1 North America.
instinctively auspect him of being
a secret slacker." Thus writes
"
f
Thoke who wish a couple of hours' really good entertainment should
one of the contributors to this dis- pute on who does most work. He make a point of saying "Reserved for
Ladies, goes on to say that he suspects all Theatre. This is a Paramount film, now showing at the King's business men of having too easy with a British cast, and the com- a time of it (ho is himself obsination is all that could be desired, ส bright and entertaining pro- viously professional man), duction, in which the honours pointing out that it has been esti- Benita Hulme, Leslie Howard and
shared between Elizabeth
Allan mated that all the work an ordin- Goorgo Grossmith. There is humour
до
nry business man does in the and romance, nicely blended, while the photography is altogether what course of a day, could easily be once would expect from Paramount.
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The Coaches.
It is a favourite platitude that Lord's never changes. That is not so. The allconquering "gate" has demanded the building of sands
"Well, so long, Walt. I'll tell the boys at the club that
I ran across you."
1
wearied out the skill and even patience of his adversaries by a ¡system of beautiful blocking:
That, surely, would rouse even to- day's "perfect little gentlemen" to some semblance of anger.
In 1818 only three of the Eton side bothered to turn up at Lord's and emergency players wore hauled cut to all the bill. Even so, the best Harrow could do was to win by 13 runs. Byron played f Harrow in 1805 and made 9 runs. Not bad, considering his lareness! The standard did not begin to improve for some time after the matchas started officially in 1818. In 1836 extras comprised one- third of the total runs, and over 100 wides were bowled.
The First Challenge.
from
The original challenge Harrow to Eton was presented to the latter school by Canon Pusey- Cust, the grandson of the Captain of the Oppidans, to whom it was sent in 1805. It runs as follows: The gentleman of Harrow
School request the honour of try- ing their skill at Cricket with the gentlemon of Eton, on Wednesday, July 31, at Lord's Cricket ground. It would seem that befom the days of top-hattel cricket the players were even more sensibly clad than in the white-flannel trousers of to-day. The Etonlans used to wear shorts and ribbod stockings.
Well, the actual value, as cricket, of the match may be negligible, but it is certain that aome Aftoon hundred baya thoroughly enjoy a liberty that comes to them, but once a year. For three days they become grown-up and their fathers go back to school days.
For three days Mr.
Bultitudo of "Vico Vorsa" nearly comes to life: you will find bim and his son in every corner of Lord's, bat especially "under the clock," that spot where no female relation has over yet managed to keep an ap pointment.