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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1932.
ARE YOU WORKED OR
́BORED TO DEATH
By ROBERT LYND
been realised, but the matter obviously cannot be left where It is. If it is, the Lausanne agreement will have been of no avail whatever, with the result that the European situation will revert to one of intense gravity and a first-class crisis be inevit- able. The British attitude hus en thoroughly consistent from.
ANY wise men have divided, it is because so-called work in the very first. It is that all
the human race into two or inflatiely 1089 strenuous and these war debts and reparations more well-marked classes. Charles less exacting than enjoying one should be completely wiped out Lamb divided them into lenders solf, I scarcely know
a policy which finds supporters and berrowers; W. S. Gilbert lazy man who would not rather do in practically all parts of the into Liberals and Conservatives. a couple of hours work than go to world, excepting the United Others have classified them as a cocktail party,
those who love dogs and those who States. Short of that, there love ents. Carlyle naw his coun- from the question of economic With most men, apart altogether must be a radical revision of the trymea in two sections-"mostly necessity, work is by far the debt agreements, but in any case fools" and the rest. Britain still stands by the prin- ciples of the Balfour Note, that
i
n really
The Very Idea!
MUG'S LUCK
By Edward Kelly, Pun tær. With Peta and a borrowed ten bucks we went to the Happy Valley race on Saturday.
The fact that we were able to come home in a tram demonstrates how successful the venture was.
Despite the newspapers, have it on good authority that the professional backers describe the
we.
meeting as one of the worse from the course was opened. their point of vlow sinco
Peto and us, while sympathizing to a certain extent with the pros, wish to point out that it's all in the game, and, anyhow, we have
easiest, as it is by far the least of passing the Mr. Winston Churchill, in his original, way new book, provides yet another time. How the Inzy man's heart we do not intend asking from classification. There are, he de boats joyfully.. as he sets off to spent the $16.60 now, so they our debtors than
to pay our creditors. That policy | shows our bona fides. It does not imply any insistence on our pound of flesh. Generous though it is, it is based on sound statesmanship and reflects the British view that it were better, in the common interest, to for- get, as far as possible, these un- happy legacies of the past,
Slums and Housing Problems.
those who work to death, those himself that he now has nothing who worry to death and those who to do but work till six o'clock are bored to death,
strikes Life for him rung na
that everybody who is born into YOUNG
It is somewhat startling to think smoothly as a tram in its rails. the world must ultimately belong MILLIONAIRE. to one of these categories. None of them is exactly ideal. Work
Compare with him the young was all very well in the old days millionaire with nothing to do, when there was little else to do who has to think out a new pro- no wireless, no gramophones, no Kramme of pleasure every day. cinemas--and
How often la he like a motorgar when everybody, liko the village blacksmith, had with a very cold engine that can to work like demons in order to be started only with the greatest 01 in the time and to be tired effort! And throughout the day day was over. enough to fall asleep when the no rails for him-only the rough and difcult rond, with a fréal decision to be made at every turn- The business man can
Of the three basic necessities of mankind-food, clothing and shelter-the Colony cannot claim Nowadays, however, it is per-Ing. to have mastered the problems fectly easy to tire oneself out always find an excuse for eating presented by any one of them. without doing a stroke of work in the lunch that suits him and go- But in the provision of shelter it the twenty-four hours. The ing away early. The pleasure- has demonstrated marked inade cinemas and the wireless are in lover, on the other hand, is allow- quacy. In evidence of this it full swing almost before one has ed no such excuse for refusing to run his digestive system. Not im-finished rending the newspapers. suffices simply to cite the
for the timid and the indolent Worn Out by Pleasure slum tenement areas,
such n life as his. Frankly. If grossly overcrowded, an out- WORN OUT
anybody would employ me, should refer to be a navvy.
mense
Hongkong Telegraph. standing symbol of profound By PLEASURE.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1932.
BRITAIN'S DEBT ATTITUDE
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Although we had a fairly good day. It's the last time we'll go to the races with Pete. might ns woll take his mother.
A
man
grand-
Before wo took him, Pete had an idea that a race-course was some- thing you got at a cafe when you were in a hurry. And, incident- ally, it's the last time we put any money on for the Editor of the Telegraph-he wants too many proofs.
*
We arrived at Happy Valley in time for the first race, and Pete, with the usual mug's luck, backed Gay Crusader. It won.
We backed Dynasty's King. It A ran ke China and Japan in
the
three-legged race in aid of League of Nations.
After In Pete asked us what we were going to back for the third race.
"Blue Love," we said, "don't any we never told you."
He told us that the horse was Acratched.
"Badly?" we, anked him. "Well, it's out of the race," said Peto.
We had to let it go, of course. It beats us why they allow the riders to wear those sharp spare. It can't do the horse any good to he scratched like that; it might lead to blood poisoning.
les.
economie maladjustment. Slums, according to
A considerable amount of time THE LIFE 'port on
Home Building and can also be spent at the telephone of "WORRY. Home Ownership, are the most The heart of the day may he de- arranging about future pleasures.)
As for the life of worry-I expensive form of housing known. The community pays leaves the restaurant
mean the life of those who worry, voted to lunch and, when DRO
at
unaccessarily three as people say, for them in taxes for ultities, for o'clock, one has alrendy the recte that also is an exhausting form of police, and fire protection, in fire ing that one has put in a fairly existence from which the so-called At a heavy cost, but in honour- insurance, in depreciation of ad- oxbauating morning
workers instinctively shrink.
All the newspapers tipped jable discharge of the obligation, joining property, in social work
Many people begin life under the His sense of duty tells him, how delusion that it is easier to worry Gleneagles for the fourth race, so Britain has paid the December However great the cost of wip-ever, that he must go on enjoying than to work, and lose the capacity we had a bet on it. instalment of the war debt to it is not so great as the cost of at which course after course will mistake. Worry is certainly
ing out slums, asserts the report, himself. There is a dinner-party to work before they and out their,
Wonderful horse, that Glenong- the United States. She has done maintaining them. And in their have to be gone through, and full-time occupation. As a means
We didn't get excited when it so regrettfully, not out of any elimination and the substitution after dinner, hours and hours of of filling in the time, it is scarcely calmly on, and after the race was was winning. We inat looked desire to refrain from paying of suitable homes for wage enjoyment before he is allowed to surpassed by the life of pleasure over we climbed over the fence what is due, but because default carners lies a gigantic task but go home. People who dance have itself. The worst point about it on to the course and retrieved nur
one well worth doing. It is would, as Mr. Chamberlain ex- interesting to observe that the longer than the others. But it must almost as tired as pleasure and collected our $1.50 from the tote. to go on enjoying themselves still in that, though worry makes one hat, and then strolled along and pressed it, affect respect for process of construction among be admitted that all who live the far more tired than work, it is not obligations throughout the America's
The official looked dageers at major
industries fe of pleasure to the full as soporific as they are. The man world. France, not so puneti- of
us, but we just snapped our fin- mass production is now dancers or not, can look back with who worries worries 80 much Hious on this point, has failed to being
gers in his face. Then we met examined by house- good conscience on a crowded about whether he will get to sleep Pete.
day and have done all in their or not that he can't sleep. If he Construction en- meet the demand. The wisdom builders,
"How much did you win on it?” gineers foresee in the near
power to earn a night's repose. works as well as worries, be he said. of her attitude is seriously to be future the mass production of NO NEED TO
warries so much as to how he can We showed him our $1.50. "I won questioned, but that is her affair. houses at low prices. Some look WORK TO KEEP BUSY.
get through his work that he can't the same," he whispered. "We'd From the lengthy review of the askance at this prospect as
work. If he goes out to enjoy better stick close together. There I do not commend the life I have himself, he worries so much about are men on this course who would question which Mr. Chamber. aethetically undesirable. Of far lain gave in the House of Con- greater importance, however, is described. It may be that I have whether he is not wanting time atop at nothing..
not the constitution for it and that enjoying himself that he the fact that the mass produc- to me it is therefore sour grapes. enjoy himself; mons, it becomes clear why Bri- tion of buildings holds a promise Alan, I have not the means. At the tain first felt inclined not to pay of extirpation of slums, of crea same time, I think I have made it worrying us for being a galley
There is as much to be said for except on conditions. The fear tion of wealth and values, and of clear that for any one with auf slave. Rohort Lynd. was that if the sum due were the raising of living standards fcient means, there is no need at paid, and nothing said, the pay for enormous segments of the the present time to work to death oneself fully ment might be left out of cal population. The task of substi-in order to keep culation in any final settlement.. slums offers a tremendous op-
tuting adequate housing for our occupied during the day.
Mr. Churchill would possibly On reconsideration, it has been portunity to private enterprise. reply that people who enjoy them- deemed wise to pay and to ac- And if private business does not selves in this way are the very company the payment with the undertake that task, the govern- people who, in his opinion,
¡avoid it.
are
can't
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
WORK IS THE GRAND CURE OF ALL] THE MALADIES AND MISERIES THAT EVER RESET MANKIND - HONEST
We walked into the bar back- wards to make sure that no one was following behind us.
We-decided to back Bright Star In the fifth, but just as we reached the tote every window went down with a bang.
Pete turned to us with a look of mingled disappointment and pride.
"The word has gono around," he said. "The pikers---they saw us coming. "
It was pretty obvious that, we
suggestion that the sum involved ment, sooner or later, can hardly bored to death. I fancy, however, wonK WHICH YOU INTEND GETTING | Were marked men.
The Turn of the Tide?
21
be taken into account later on. Much misunderstanding would have been avoided had that course been taken from the start, for, as Mr. Stimson has rightly Optimistic prophecy is pointed out, the US. Treasury public men, who have their re- luxury nowadays from which had no authority to accept pay putation to consider, have sternly ment excepting under the condi- turned away. But in the last tions of the funding agreement. weeks, several pundits in politics It has now been made clear, and in finance have actually however, that Britain will not spoken hopefully. Neither Mr. Chamberlain nor Mr. Montagu agree to
a resumption of the Norman--who stand in peculiar- position as it was before the ly vulnerable positions-would coming into force of the Hoover lightly broadcast words of hope; Moratorium. In other words, which they expected to be com- she regards this as the inst pay-pelled to ent. Nor for that mat- ment under the old arrangement.ter would Mr. Runciman or Sir Robert Horne. Therefore we There can be no doubt that, as take comfort from Mr. Chamber- Mr. Chamberlain states, the lain's guarded prophecy that the Hoover Moratorium was, by im-rising tide of unemployment plication, a recognition of the will be checked, and even begin connexion between war debts to show a steady if slow fall, in and reparations. Indeed, support the next few weeks as a result of a gradual revival in trade for this contention is to be found which is evidenced in the re in the fact that the United ceipt of orders from markets States Government told Brilain long closed to Britain, and almost that a European reparations regarded as obsolete. Mr. Nor- settlement would be the method man's sober optimism appealed of approach with a view to re- first to the Gty and the financial vision of the war debts due to houses whom business was the America. It was on that basis Both these prophets seem to be financing of foreign enterprise. [that the Lausanno conference
Nevertheless, was called, and the very natural proving right. expectation
our ups and downs are to-day as that, WAB
with disconcertin
Mr. as rapid. agreement reached
that at gathering, America would show Chamberlait invited us to hope. some disposition to reopen the More recenty the Prince of ¡Wales and Mr. Baldwin hava war debt issue. Unfortunately, this expectation has so far, not congratulated us on not having
despaired.
that, if Mr. Churchill prefers what he calls "work" to pleasure, DONE-Carlyle.
{ -
"It's too young for me.
I don't want to look like a 18-year-old,"
Came the Queensland Autumn Champions. We had $2.50 each on Polar Star---but, of course, you must have read about it in the
papers.
We went and hid in the bar after collecting, just to keep away from the newspaper reporters. We hate publicity,
Pete also won $5 in the last race. He was given the money by "Ringtall" to put on Christmas Belle. It came Recond, Ro, of course, that left Pete with "Ring- tall's" five dollars.
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TO-DAY'S DILEMMA.
You are a strong Conservative ex-Liberal Free Trader, with lean- ings towards scientifle tariff. You are firmly of opinion that the National Government has saved the country from ruín.
You are shipwrecked in mid- Atlantic, and find yourself cling- ing to a piece of wreckage which will just accommodate one more. Floating about within easy reach Are your wife and a National Liberal Minister.
Whom do you decide to save?
IDENTIFIED.
over
The strangest creaturo Boen in New Zealand waters has just been caught by a fishing vCanol off the const of Codfish Island, It is ten feet long, four foot-broad, five feet in depth, and han:
Large, "expressive" eyes; A tail like a whale.
A mouth like a duck's bill.
It is slate grey in colour, and hna no teeth.
to
evade
It sounds to ue like a novelist- critic endeavouring publicity.
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