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FATHER LOOKS AT HIS SON
AND SAYS: "THE BOY DEFEATS ME”
By A FATHER
■Y son is just twenty-one, and, most kinds of politicians they
Mthough we sub cong pretty aren't worth the wall to the poll.
well together, ho puzzles. mo. In a few years--maybo when I'm Hitherto I have not really acknow. forty-we shall produce a states- ledged that fact even to myself, man worth voting for." but the twenty-five years which
He has a kind of knifolike separate us seem a gulf which shrewdness which sometinies bat- widens from day to day. With fles me. I think of electorates steady and reasonably good job which poll only forty per cent, ina well-known stockbroking and wonder. If, after all, he is firm, he seems to ma, at least, to right and I am wrong. I have bo luckier than many other young-
approached him on the subject of stors.
war, and have explained that, as
But oddly, Fred does not seem 1o. think so. So far as I can cortain his interest is his work is conspicuous by Its absence. If ask casually how things are go- ing in the office, he replies: "Oh, quite all right, Dad" Then he flips over the pages of an even ing newspaper to have, a look at the winners. Yet only the other day I met the senior partner in bis firm.
result of a political trend, he might find himself and his friends alde by side in a machine gun sqund.
"Well, it might liven things up
THE HONGKONGESTELEGRAPIL. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY.
a bit," he replied, "but then, of course, what with gas and bombs These genellemen in summer garb bad crawda zaping in Switzerland as they played bridge in the snow for
and aeroplanes and things, it couldn't last long."
Uarless to tell him that that is "How is Frod doing with you?" exactly what most of us thought I asked rather diffidently, half in those far off days of 1914. expecting, to hear an adverso re- Apparently he has learned no lesson from my own hazards of port.
war, possibly because no one who has not seen a front line trench can in any way imagine its hor rors. Rending of death in no way conveye the stark grimaces of the concrete fact.
"A darned good lad!" he replied "He really is shaping well, and early next year I fancy he'll be due for a substantial rise."
Yet Fred has never given me the slightest intimation that he was even happy at his work! He gives me the Impression-"defin- itely," to uso his own phrase: that it is a daily grind which
The Earl of Aylesford above, was recently involved in a tint in the Jaar, together with Captain James Justice of the Suar police 'force. Captain Justice was sent to hospital following injuries re- calvad-from-an-irate¬mob-after the car he and the warl were driving ran into a civilian. The earl was badly bruised in the males which ensued.
HIS ATTITUDE TO GIRLS
My son Fred in good-looking and girls seem attracted to him. So far na I can judge at the mo- ment, Peggy has outdistaneed all runners, but I am never sure of
chairs
AMATEUR FINANCIERS
NEW U.S. CREDIT UNIONS
PROTECTIVE ORGANISATION
Washington, Jan. 7,
an hour or so.
unlous unless they have a "poten-F.A.C.A. to defray the costa of tial" membership of at least 50.
examining their books..
Among the unions now in busi- They then seek as many mem- Пcas are the Morris Sheppard|bers as they can at $5 each, and Credit Union, of Texarkana, Tex,start in the loan business. with city employees for members;]
If there's enough money in the The Arkansas Light and Power) Company Credit Union, Little treasury, they'll have unsecured Rock Ark; The Colt Employeca loans to members of 850 and Federal Credit Union, Hartford, secured loans of $200. The bor powers pay one per cent, interest Conn., made up of fire arzus workers: the Pumpeneo Federal per month. Credit Union, Pawtucket, R.L, The firemen who does the book- composed of employees of the Paw keeping may be paid a salary. tucket Rendering (Soap) Company,} and the New Orleans Firemen's Any profits up to six per cent go to Credit Union, organized among the members. Profits over that fire eaters in Huey Long's home must go into the reserve fund, unless Governor Myers authorises Almost any seven citizens own- ing $6 each can establish a Federal union la simple. Say seven fire The F.C.A. saya
Organisation of a federal credit a mellon cutting. Credit Union, get government men are tired of buying radios and papers and set up shop, accepting refrigerators through the good applications nrc on file, and offices of loan sharks. They sub-several credit unionis composed of Only 28 such unlons have been scribe for one 36 share of stock church members will be established established so far by fireman, each. Then they apply for a shortly. school teachers. Alling station federal charter. workers and department store' workers, Mr. William . Myers,
The xovernment is offering charters to amateur financiers 80 they can go into the banking business with capital of $86.
deposits and making loans.
my ground. In her company he appears more bored than if listen- ing to a sermon, and I have aud- denly entered the drawingroom of an evening to find each of them. engrossed in a book, acated in ten feet apart! "Blaso" in the word which best describes his attitude to the fem- Inine sex. How extraordinarily differont was my own youth. I may be wrong but twenty-five years age wo lived and, too often, paid the price. Fred seems too bored to contemplate "living."
Somehow I cannot visualise my son catching a girl in his arms, sweeping her off her feet with wild and vehement protestations, and carrying her off to a regia-
office.
Yet he seema spend quite a lot of money in various town and country night
The iden is that of Sonator cluba, so much so that he borrows Morris Sheppard, D., Texas, cele- an occasional fiver from his brated as the author of the pro- mother. I know all about it, of hibition amendment. He obtained. course, though that never occurs the passage of n law in the last
him
session of Congress authorising That disturbs me. After all the farm credit administration to surely he can trust me to under-charter credit unions and appro. stand just a little about the priating $50,000 to get them urgent needs and exuberances of started.
trar's
to
youth. London in wartime
town.
MUST LOOK HONEST
hundreds of
The credit unions are poor men's organisations, the F.C.A. adds. It' governor of the Farm Credit If Governor Myers' staff thinks says they are not competing with Administration announced. His they look like honest firemen, with banks. No bank, it continues, associates have hopes of thousands a chance of getting a number of likes to tinker with $50 loans, or being organised as soon as the their brethren to join, they get the to accert deposits of 26 conts and country's would-be financiers learn charter for $26. They also have up, na credit unions do-United to how easy it is.
to pay $8 a year dues to the Freen.
Paris dance halls-Montmartre The law is liberal. It says $35 dives-hectic nights with R.A.F.is enough to begin a deposit and Inds on leave after a front line loan business under federal aus
picca. The F.C.A. Bays actually of "living on the edge" than he is it is not chartering any credit aver likely to know? But no: to him I am just "Dad," a poor old
leaves him mentally and physl-"push": "don't I know much more cally exhausted.
BORED BY POLITICS
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Personally I am keenly interest-has-been who cannot possibly un- have always had a secret desire to ed in all the major political trou- derstand modern Jargon and there-ly my own aeroplane. Ho will bles, of the day, both home and fore cannot help. foreign. To me they appear of vital importance, but Fred never
NO CONFIDENCES
spend hours at an aerodrome tinkering with a friend's "bug" and going up for a "flip" after-
seems to rend political news or Now and then he brings in awards, just as I used to "hot-up" have any opinion on the subject. man friend or two for a quick In fact, the other day he even one" before going on to some went so far as to say: "What vague and unspecified destination, post does Sir John Simon hold in Fred's
friend might
motor bike as a subaltern on leave, and sell it for twice Its value to the arst buyer.
But his unfailing composure, bo his cold courtesy, and bantering ease
the Government, Dad? I liked brothers; they are equally bored the cut of his morning klt. Saw him in a news reel fast night." polite, and non-committal. They have their own cliches of speech,
of manner quite defeat me, "He la seeking for something, but exact-
Now what can I do with a boy just as we used to have, but boy what I do not know. Nor will
"Hang it all!" I remonstrated, cause my hair is grey they assume
that I am a half-wik,
like that?
he tell me, he and his friends, He takes nothing seriously__and
"Are you aware that you are on- When I do try to have a heart has no great enthusiasms. So it titled to cast a vote at the next to heart talk with my boy he looks is that I find my son a complete General Election? Do you take like a startled bare. After bocom- enigma.
no intelligent interest in polltles?"
ing alightly uncomfortable, he
"No" was his rather bored relights his eternal cigarette, nur ply. "From what I've scen of
The famous`` Irish. wconomist, palatar and post, known through- out the world for his writings und der the pseudonym of AE, récent- Jy visited the United States. After looking over Americane and Amu mrican business he decided avery. one was in too much of a hurry. A man can beyer And his sent @xcept in idleness,” he was quot-`' ad as saying, commenting on the rush in American life.
mura something about having a "date," and slides gracefully away. His calm tolerance of my views exasporates me. When he talks about my "laying down the law" I often wish I could pierce his complacency,
What is the cause of this lack of emotion? Is it lack of com- prehension of brains? I don't think so. Only last year he was offered
a chance of leaving his present employment and of going to Toronto with a fifty per cent. Frise in salary, For a week I said nothing and then tackled him
ho told me decisively. "I'm not going. Too far away from town, for one thing. Lo all my friends."
a
LOBO
In the old days I'd have given a lot for such a chance, but Fred turned. It down decisively. At first I thought it was because of girl, but I was wrong. It was only months later that, as I have Bald, I discovered accidentally that he had better prospects with his own firm at home. He did not dream of confiding in mo
SPEED MANIA
His one love la speed-motor cars, motor boats, flying-they all exercise a fascination over him, I can sympathise in that, for
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