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The Very Idea!
SWEET ALEKHINE By Eddie Kelly, "Pawn"
Dr. Alekhine, the famous chesa
By C. LESLIE JOHNSTONE Two announcements of new po- tended to pay him. Ho
He is working | democracy it matters supreme-sitions and the wages attached to told £3, 38, a week.
to-day. Examintions ly what kind of man emerges them were published nimultaneous for
From what wo gather, this Doc. from the toil and the pleasures ly the other day. One revealed alone including entrance fees and player, arrives in Ilongkong to
two parents had to keep him until he that Miss Jessie Matthews had just booken cost him a goodly sum. His clean up the local lads to-morrow. elgned a film contract for years at a salary of £7800 a year, got through his "final." And at Alekhine has never been defeated Ile's never yet suffered a-lekhine the year's work being from twon-the end of it all a commencing-yot,
He goes to work on a bus each at cheas, and comes to our fair ty to thirty weeks; the other that salary of £3, 38. per week! Mr Cecil Whitely, KC., had been
We have not yet received our appointed to a judgeship at the day. The conductor earns £3 15 shores Hongkongquered
left school at the age of fourteen, invitation to meet his champion, the multi-bonded Old Bailey in London at a salary the driver £4, 158, a week. They
the and have been earning money, but unless of £2500 a year.
The disparity between
hydrae of jealously is allowed to salarica la significent. £7800 for ever since.
Clerks on the whole are under-rear its ugly head we anticipate
cashlers no difficulty on this scoro. thirty weeks work for the film actrosa; £2500 for a year's work paid. Fully qualified
In our own country we were the for the judge. I have seen Miss with a score of years' experience
carn more leading exponents of chess, In Matthews and have the highest behind them rarely admiration for her talent, and than £6 a week-a sum equal to fact, we had to leave school be- um certain that she will be worth the average earnings of a page cause of it. We used to cough more than double her salary to boy of a London hotel. The com- dreadfully, and it was years before
misaloner of the hotel-with the we were cured of the complaint.
In our time we have got quite a her backers,
The polit. Is-are we as a no- nid of tipa-certainly earns very tion using a standard of wages considerably more than the Uni- lot of problems off our chess. In which la ubaolate? For the great
who can speak three our best form. and languages.
Black 1. P-Q4 Tippable Jobs. judges, but confronts us in every tween those of film
Appearances are very often de- 2 P-QB 4 life. branch of commercial and businesя
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and doing The steward of a liner carns more 4. Why Kn!t?. at great expense arduous and highly important each voyage even in the present 5. M.1k 2 tog.
conditions 6. $1.70 pleaso salary depressed shipping work for a tenth of the
As 7. O. K. of another person whose work re-than many of the officers.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1933.
THE USE OF LEISURE
The question of the wise use
Loss to Literature
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FOR WOULD-BE BOOK REVIEWERS ONLY.
A
1. What are the Greatest Novels
The world of literature has suffered a heavy loss by the death of Mr. John Galsworthy.adnya. The award of the Nobel prize to him recently was, any
(a) This subtle manoeuvre is thing, overdue, The selection
alwaya good providing your op- ponent will stand for it. The would have had a greater air of
Incidentally, it may be noted variation, popular to-day, may get inevitability five or six years
wages of game. ago. Next to Shaw and Wells,
that grossly exaggerated stories you into trouble later on in the
(b) Ple. is considered screen staro. he was probably better known
are circulated of the good publicity to blazon an actor's and appreciated outside England
" or actress's earning capacity as than any other British writer; but at home the pristine splend-
Educating children to be future running into astronomical figures.
I have myself selected, by com- our of his great reputation had citizens, teaching them all manner Those in the top-flight, however, already grown a trifle dim. Its of involved subjects, is important do earn sums ranging from £16,-
The member of Parliament is petitive examination, the cadre of.
now reviewers' corps. Four this over-paid. plays tend to "date," not only work. For the master it is nerve-000 to £30,000 a year,
racking work. Not only is a high- on account of their content 1 ut ly educated young man necessary, by no means
eum show what pains have been taken of leisure is being raised again on account of their presentation; but one with unlimited patience hundred pounds a year-less 10 glance at the questions set will
movement for now that the
Mr. Galsworthy, in spite of (or and strength of character. And per cent is not a
the commencing salary is under £3 considering the importance of tho to secure properly qualified per-
of work, the shoal of correspondenco Rona.
Here are some of these ques- to be dealt with (at the member's shortening the hours of work perhaps because of) his fairncuS
an elementary schoolmaster.
expensel), the constituents with tions: de- is coming within the realm of of mind and his carefully dis- per week! That is the case practical politics. An interest-tributed sympathies, was
The secondary school teacher is grievances to be humoured, the
times become a thing of the past, ing point made in this connexion finitely insular and bourgeois in
tainty of the job,
candidates will ignore this ques is that a new peril has arisen his point of view. He never more fortunate. But not much, demands made upon him in the of modern times? (There being quite escaped from the shades I know a Doctor of Philosophy of name of charity and the uncer-no Greatest Novels, and modern,
The Nation's Rulers
tion). in the openings for profit-of his public school prison-heuse. Cambridge University who
who In the seats of the mighty the making by the mass provision, It is, however, by the Forsto a three-years' course there, follow-
One writer in a Saga and its sequel that his re-ed by two years' research,
secured a position as history ma-lenme glaring disparity in wages of amusement. leading review has expressed putation will finally stand
was twenty-four, when ho com-the Exchequer gets £5000 whilst the view that while the balance fall, and though here again ster at a Yorkshire school. He is also found. The Chancellor of
alduties are by no means artist's presentation did menced work. He is earning at the Lord High Chancellor, whose
portant, receives £10,000. of gain and loss in the industrial
The Prime Minister gets nothing revolution is a subject on which not altogether accord with the the present time £4, 179, Gd.
somewhat stark post-war mood, week.
Although he won scholarships men may argue for a lifetime, the Saga is unequalled in its nobody who can distinguish own field and is likely to remain to Cambridge his parents had to-so he takes on the job of First so. Mr. Galsworthy's growing help him financially. They could Lord of the Treasury with its between one pleasure and
money from him from the time the B.B.C. gets! other can fail to see that if the crop of imitators bore witness afford it. It was a great sacri- £6000 a year salary£1000 a year
4. If you wrote a novel, would, to the strength and range of his fice for them to do without any less than the Director-General ofatimate by what amount Edward
he was sixteen to twenty-four. The official who has the highly Kelly's booze bill was increased.
of valuing organisation of man's leisure is
They thought it would be worth important position
receives you rather have it reviewed by (n) property
an eminent contemporary novelist, it "in the long run." To-day they Government" to follow the same law the con-
eminent contemptuous. are rather disillusioned. sequences will be very serious
novellat, or merely a person who Professional men in the business £1000 a year, whilst the Pay- for civilisation. For this would
world are not paid highly consider master-General has no salary at (b) an
The high dignitaries of the knew something about novels, le.. lead to concentration on those
Croditor, Mrs. Kelly "Dodging them- A case in a London Police Ing the cost of obtaining their
receives amusements that lend
the diplomas. For instance, a young Church are well paid. The Arch-Peto The Clue of the Crying
Diggers", man I know recently passed his
bishop of Canterbury
a year; the Bishop of selves beat to this method of Court recently revealed organisation and the survival fact that anybody can carry a final examination in accountancy. smooth-bored, double-barrelled
He had been articled to a firm of £15,000 shot pistol in England without accountants since he was sixteen, London £10,000; the Bishop of and spread of particular forms
an-
the
influence.
Firearms Law
or
took
All.
im- 05
2. Discuss the relative place t
fiction of (a) onealogy (b) Hongkong's futuro of a Government sorvant at work, contemporary
(e) zoology (with special re- City Hall, (c) gonius, (d) the story ference to snakes) and (f) "The Very Idea".
3. "It is not very often I ac- and times, many claim a master". Who said this
and
how
Note:-Candidates should make
of recreation just because it is a police certificate. This is but and up to his success in the final York £9000, and the lesser Bishops every effort to avoid all these
which some laws tie the hands
are, of easier to make profit out of
As a fully fledged chartered Accourse, heavy,
But still comparisons such as them than out of others. It is
i per week as "cigarette money." a year. Their expenses obvious that the more leisure a of the police in their efforts to
cope with the modern gangsters,countant he therefore went to his man has the more does his use only by vigorous control of ali chiaf and asked him what he in-I have made do make one think. of his leisure affect his charac-firearms can the authoritios ter and his happiness. This is hope to avoid in England a re- scenes which LL modern petition of the specially true of society. Under modern condi- in the United States have be- tions the part played by income all too common. The pos- telligence and imagination in session of any gun, revolver or pistol capable of inflicting in- industry is steadily reduced as jury should be permitted only routine methods become
more after the owner has satisfied the and more common, Thus a man police of the need for such
Incidentally, this is learns less from working than weapon. he learnt when he was a crafts- the law in Hongkong, which man, and the development of his shows that in some matters Hongkong is even ahead of the mind depends more on what he Mother Country. One other re- does when he is not working., spect in which this is true is Roughly speaking, it may be in the matter of motor-driving said that the main difference licences. At Home, anyone can between an educated and an un- get a licence by the mere for educated person is the difference mality of filling in a form and paying the requisite fee. But between a person capable of here in Hongkong would-be taking an intelligent interest in motorists have to pass a police some aspect of life and a man test before they are allowed to capable only of noticing only its become drivers. This is a very wise precaution, and it is Bur- One sensational phenomena.
prising that in England so much man can lose himself in reflectitude should be shown in the excite-matter. tion, the other only in ment. This capacity for exelte- ment has sometimes been en- couraged to divert people from political agitation, but it has its dangers when so used. For ex- citement breeds its own disease,
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
CRUELTY IS COMMONPLACE; AND
the disease described in a HATRED, LIKE THE EAGLE, THAT DOWN TO A MORE CERTAIN DEATH, famous passage by Lucretius, in CARRIES UP ITS PREY TO BASH IT
the man who shifts and turns SEEMS TO ELEVATE THE OBJECT IT IS and dashes from place to place ABOUT TO DESTROY,—Gralten...
"His mother worries about him, but I tell her he must be
all right or he would write us for some monoy."
the Editor's decision is (or will probably be blinding. questions, and to remember that
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BEAVER.
Long years ago we had an Uncle Cornelius who was entirely sur- rounded by whiskers; and in a rash moment we asked him what We he did with it in his bath. were immediately sent supperless to bed.
booked
However, having
couple of rock cakes from the lardor, we erept upstairs and walt- cd.
It was a Saturday night, and Uncle Cornelius always took a bath on Saturday nights... ALWAYS Whether he wanted it or not .. And we peeped through the keyhole.
had
Alas, Uncle Cornelius hung his shirt over it.
Then we had a rush of braing to tho head. On the other side of the door we could hear him splash- Ing about like a sea lion, and blow ing bubbles, and sporting through the thickening Buds; and simply HAD to find out about that beard.
we
So we shouted "Fire" several timies. . And, aure enough, 'nut came Uncle Cornelius. at the double, clad in a small towel and a lot of lather. And, believe us or believe us not, he had his whiskers shoved into a little waterproof bag, like a rubber hotwater-bottle, which was hung over his cars with a couple of wirds.
The discovery nearly cost us our life, but it was worth it. We wore now able to sleep o' nights, no longer kept awake by the thought of that beard getting .and sinking soaked through, beneath the waven, and probably being sucked down the pipe when The pulled the plug out.