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MY 1934
SUCCESS of the YEAR STANDARD SALOON -£210
DE LUXE SALOON --£230
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, AUGUST
1984.
NOTES OF THE DAY THE PERILS
UNEMPLOYMENT
net
the
A
THE PERILS OF The Very Idea!
EFFICIENCY
By ROBERT LYND
OUR HORROR-SCOPE,
By Georgo BADING. Herr Hitler's
Roroscope the other
Britain's industrial advance scoms to have recelvod a check for the moment, an increase in un- employment being recorded during July, Seatonal causes doubtless have had an influence but the THE number of minor casualties | unable to sleep, and I should be a day in which an early traffic situation cannot be viewed lightly THE
among sportsmen and sports-perfect wreck in the morning. accident is predicted for the as the industries chiefly affected-women this summer has made arvy condition of some athletes unfortunate man, reminds
cannot help thinking that the and to a greater extent than the many people wonder whother in is due to their being sent to bed us of our own little destiny
increase in unemployment games the pasalon for perfect phy- too early.
worked out by the National shows--are those producing quick- | nical efficiency has not been carried
Imagine what would happen to Astrologians of Assyria. consumption goods. The banks too far.
writers if they were trained on the meanwhile complain of a decreas-
Under the title of George's It seems odd that, while ordinary would be na much under the die Horror-scope, the star guzera
same principles as athletos. They ing demand for the abundant
human beings, disregarding many tatorial thumb as the children of show that we were born in the credit facilities available. The of the rules of health, have been the Old Woman Who Lived in a fifth degree of the second circle conclusion they reach is that atter than usual during the sunny Shoe. They would have to submit of the Millenium which means Britain is still far from out of weather, a remarkable number of all their dinner invitations to the cheap stalls in the theatres and
wood. There still remain magnificent physical specimens of dictatorial eye, and the dictator
"No." They many appearances in identifiea- problems, political and industrial, humanity have fallen like nine- would usually say for solution that are retarding pins before attacks of sore throat, school boys just when they were
be bundled off to bed like tion parades. recovery, over which the monetary indigestion, nerves and similar beginning to
Had it not been that Jupiter feel happy. They Diellacties Appearance, Buyer Bruchio-Mosh authorities can exercine no control..Į troubles.
would be taught to regard ro was in her fourth astral revolution If pacts collapsed as easily as porters as dangerous, wild beasts at the time we should have found athletes peoplo would begin to and to run for their lives at sight ourselves tied to a life of success think that there was something of one. Altogether they would ful crime but things being as they dogs with wrong with the lives of the poets. live unnaturally segregated lives were we found ourselves imbued
and in time would lose their in-with affection thing that enables the ordinary eat ideal of efflelency.
It seems to me that the only dividuality--victims of a mechani-crossed eyes and friends with un-
crossed cheques, - to go on living without
Vonus rampant in a Beld of fall I cannot believe that in such an disaster is his capacity for relaxa- environment a Rudyard Kipling or ing stara predicts that we shall tion. It is because they need re- M. Barrie would have been always back the fourth horse in laxation that millions of smoke and drink beer and give able to develop his genius. Ha a field of four and that our full would have folt that he was being houses will be opposed to four ef the go to dinner parties and theatre and read novels. If they turned into a Robot, and the feel- a kind,
Love is supposed to knock at our compelled themselves day after ing that one is being turned into day, month after month to think Robot depresses the mind and heart at the same time that oppor
tunity comes in at the door, We of nothing but their success in leans physical resilience. their vocations most of them would
shall probably miss both whilst we break up physically. In their
are window cleaning. search after efficiency they would ultimately achievo inefficiency, not been
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In the Vanshail Light Six. And with this
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The
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THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1934.
can now
find that Britain is at last paying
been accustomed to carn
man
mor
Training, every one will agree, is necessary, but it in a question whether in recent times it has
carried too far. It is like chewing in this respect.
for
AUNT EMMA.
Bear George,
Meanwhile, it is satisfactory to
serious attention to those un- employed whose figures do not ap- pear in the official lists issued by the Labour Ministry. Outside the £250 a year limit covered by the State Insurance Scheme are large numbers now destitute, of hyhose distresses little has been heard clerks in business houses who have few hundred pounds a year, men who have held Important administra. tive positions with salarios nang ing up to £4,000 a year, and skilled
such specialists
28 engineers, aurveyors, architects, analytica! few men of genius might Forty years ago children were nd- chemists or electricians with first-justify their cuneentration on auc-vised to chew their food well, on rate records. It is estimated that cess, but the rest would mise
the than 300,000 persons. more
example of Mr. Gladstone, who OK- success by trying too hard.
owed his long life to the fact that that terrible shower- last night. I.
I do hope you escaped customed to earn more than £600 a year are
without how
any Everybody knows, course, he chowed every bite 32 times.
of employment or claim to insurance that no one is of much use at Then come Horace Fletcher from was out with Fide having a little walk along Kounedy Road and my benent. At least 100,000 of these any work or any game unless he America, who went a step further dear, I was positively drenched. have held highly responsible is keen beyond the common. Keon and told us that we must go on Fido, the poor mite was soaked neas at the right time, however, chewing every bite till it was through and I am afraid has is very different from keenness all liquid in the mouth. Henry James caught, a touch of rheumalism. I the time. Hours of keenness need tried to do this and by doing so, shudder to think what a vampish to be balanced by hours of care- according
Wharton Agure I must have cut with my W. G. Grace and Ran-trophied his digestive system and areas clinging so closely to me withi Незалеза. jitsinhji showed by their example died-a martyr to over-chewing.
Ithe wet and showing me up ilko a that hours of carelessness are no It is enoy to imagine what
young mannequin. bar to masterly exploits on the strain it must put on the nerves cricket field. It is possible to to be conscious of every chew one have taken up the cudgels on be I am glad to see that tho, press lack for an afternoon without gives to every bite ono
eats.
half of the poor dumb goldfish. I being a sincker.
There is nothing that Imperile have always admired their beauti
executive positions.
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BRITISH FILMS
Correspondents who have re- cently written urging the desir- ability of moro British films It may be objected that such being displayed in this Colony persons ought to have made their own provision against a rainy day. have unquestionably stressed a But this overlooks the fact that the very real need. Time was when value of invested savings, during the trade slump, has often been
It seems to me that an athlete, health more than this awful con- ful colour but they are so delicate, the British cinema industry reduced by 50 or 70 or 80
per cent., Jagged far behind the standards or
altogether destroyed. while keeping himself fit according contration on health. It is argu-poor things, and smell Bo terribly Morcover in Britain this class to the rules of common sense, able that there is no surer way to when they die that I really think set by foreign producers, but the middle class-is required to should live as far as possible like destroy the efficiency of the diges they should be left in their wild that day has gone. The best pay heavy taxes out of which free an ordinary human being. He tive system than to be thinking state to roam the seas.
I see that they tried to keep a productions of British studios education, free medical services, should go out to dinner when he perpetually about its efficiency.
and unemployment benefits are likes and go to bed when he likes.
In the same way, it may be bowl of them for show is the Glou hold their own with provided for the poor, but it gets and no trainer should be allowed argued that the too strict trainingcester Arcade but that has stopped. those of any other country. But none of these advantages for its to dictate to him, like a hospital of athletes is Injurious rather than suppose dish fans used to
goldfish the fact remains that Hongkong own members. The middle-class nurse, about his diet and his hours. beneficial to them. It allows too
man must pay large sums for the seldom has the opportunity of education of his children if they
The trainer in modern times has little relaxation according to in-replacements became too heavy, for carry on professional and ad-dictatorships in practice are near- nerves by its concentration-camp Dons, now destitute, whe
whom it is act on the assumption-that-aft accounts for the decline of in- the wherefores; we merely state all the more difficult to help be human beings are alike and that dividuality, of personality, in days time. One of those cases of
good for some modern sport, of which many watch and pray I'm afraid, a fact which cannot be denied.cause in the majority of cases they rules
critics complain.
I am quite in favour of banish- It is possible that the local proud to advertise their grie
have suffered in silence, Too people are good for everybody.
ing the beggara from our streets It is also possible that the de- though it does seem a difficult That is why you hear of teams theatres are the victims of cir-vances, they have removed from of grown-up cricketers being cline of personality is merely an problem when they come back cumstances beyond their direct the comfortable houses where they ordered to bed while it is still illusion of the middle-aged. Ex- after a free holiday at the
agant control, and that they would wel neighbours,
were
well known among their almost daylight. The assumption perts differ on this point. In any
expense from some have taken
like Place or
Canton, their is that it is good for everybody case, I cannot believe that the delightful come an opportunity of rectify- children away from expensive to be in bed by ten or cleven.
ideal of mechanical efficiency
Macao,
the New suitable for human beings. Obvi- Territories which I never get ing the grievance. The argu- schools, and have subsisted no one
can say how.
I cannot believe this. I believe ously it makes some of them very chance of visiting. It is fatal to ment has been advanced in some
that it is good for some people to I. Even athletes. I am sure, start giving them anything; they quarters that the public do not
be in bed by ten and good for would be healthier and happier if always seem to remember you. I patronise British productions. HELPING THEMSELVES
other people to sit up till two. If they acted on the advice of that gave one a bad ten cont plece once I wore compelled to go to bed at great Puritan, John Milton, not to and he always prases some queer This may be true so far as
ten every night I should become refrain "when God sends a cheer- remark when I see him and clears Their case is now recognlaod na
his throat. mediocre or obviously old films
A national problem. The most
so exasperated that I should be ful hour."
case of cumshaw are concerned, but it camot be hopeful aspect is that men of this
and come often I'm afraid.
seriously contended that, given class are usually those most cap- to help the same quality, the cinema. able of devising means
themselves. A number of them going public prefers the foreign have formed an Executive Employ- product. The whole trouble inent Society, which la not only hitherto has been that the aver-searching energetically for vacan- age type of British film shown cics for its members, but starting new busincases. Another device here has been far below. the is to start a co-operative insuranco standard of foreign productions, association through which execu
tive workers may insure them- In other words, the British film selves against unemployment, has not been given a fair chance. Others are endeavouring to pro- This question, so far as
the mote an extension of the system of Colonies are concerned, has again business under which employers provident schemes in houses of and again come to the fore in and employees contribute to a fund recent years, but no steps have to be used for various emergencies, It is more and more being felt been taken by Hongkong for that this is a national issue of the dealing with the issue by such a first order. The plight of the method as the adoption of the manual workers has never for a quota system, which has been moment been forgotten. But it is no less important to prevent the applied in some of the depen-wastage of the skill, energy, and dencies. Why this Colony should high equipment of anmo of the stand aloof in this matter it is best qualified individuals in Great difficult to see. At the Colonial Office Conference held some six
or seven
Britain.
years ago, at which that the trade should establish Hongkong was represented, the an effective distributing agency whole question-was discussed at for the whole Empire. Nothing considerable length, and the hope along these lines, at any rate so was expressed that the various for us it affects Hongkong, has Colonial Governments would do yet been devised. The general all in their power to promote the lasue is one of so much import- increasing display of British ance, from many angles, that the films. At the same time, it was public would, 'we feel sure, wel-' felt that the industry itself had come its being raised by one of Lits obligations in the matter, and our Unofficials at an early meet- the suggestion was thrown out ing of the Legislative Council.
"I know how you must feel, darling. You'd better go out again'
to-morrow and lower, that score
Well I must toddle off now and take advantage of the cheap gramophone sales to get a few of my favourites. "The Voice in the Old Village Choir," is one I want and if I can get it cheap I shall seriously consider buying a grame- phone soon. It's so cheerful to hour a man's voice about the place.
Yours affectionate.
Aunt Dorothy.
LOCAL RHYMES.
A military man is be And it to rule a whole army; Too bad that he will leave....US
soon
To go to the Fifth Infan-trec. A good man Col. N******** He sits anon on dead men's
hones
A terror to those men of loans Who interest charge at cent per
cent
Ho's merciful to those who're ·
1.
ient
On terms unjust Upright
A Scotsman. full of mirth and
vigour;
To rhyme his namo one can't do,
better,
Than indicate his many charms By saying he's a “jolly baggar. An upright man, G. J. M*****
*** The Head of Rugby, Mr. P. II. B. Lyon:"The teaching of Greek has very distinct values, Ita dilleul- tins brace the mind."
Like touching a lion rugby-It braces the musclos, Vi