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O-DAY I am penniless, and unemployed. Four years
ago I threw up a safe City job for an adventure.
I knew then that this might bo the result. But luck had come my way-coincidence that would never come twice.
It came in the shape of a wealthy young South African and in a slip of paper I found after lunch on the office desk I had worked at for six years.
The South African was going home to Bloemfontein in his
85 m.p.h. sports car. He was
done it?
this young man
gave up a good job to see the world-
was it worth it?
SAVE YOUR LIFE. Infected tsetse By belt.
Penang
A templo among ricefields where 300 cvil-look- ing snakes crawl among the shrines. The priests feed them nightly on eggs.
THESE MEM- ories amount to very little in terms of £ 8. d. A fow articles, one or two radio talks--that is all.
Their collection has taken my moncy and landed me among two million British men and women looking for jobs.
As far as the future is con- cerned, I still have my profes- sional qualifications and. busi- ness ability.
Also on the credit side I have the following acquired assets (of questionable value): I can use chopsticka; ride a surf board; dig a car out of a bog; cook a meal on the prairio by starlight; bribe my way Into Just forbidden Eastern temples; ar- what are they going to do? range a mosquito not over a
going a long way round, via their heads over the step I was or turn our America, Honolulu, Hongkong, taking. China, India, and Africa. He wanted a companion.
open
car.
"I am getting out of the The bush seems quiet of a sud- camp bed in the bush; placate rut," I had told them.
den. We watch as one trots up armed and suspicious American The slip of paper told me my employers would be willing to ditch," they had replied.
"And probably landing in the to our radiator and snarls, speed cops.
Then it lonps into the bush and
THAT IS MY give me over two years' salary
the others follow. We drive on story. Would you have done na immediately if I cared to resign.
I FOUND NO BAG as hurriedly as boulders and I did? Stubbs Road The amalgamation of two great of gold on my travels. All I mud will allow.
By luck I did get a job shortly companies had resulted in a re brought home with me was a
after I returned, in charge of a dundant staff.
well thumbed batch of manu-
Try to ace these in imagino- private detective force attached I was twenty-two when I
tion. script. It lies before me now.
Eagles drifting lazily to a national Industry. The made the choice. It lay be. It is my diary.
in the blazing sunshine over the work was very responsible, in- tween a guaranteed job with
It was written in the far cor- Bad Lands of Dakota; torch had to pack my bags again last glaring limestone peaks of the teresting, and poorly paid. I
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good prospects and a comfort- - дега of the earth. Come able pension at fifty-five and a gay adventure lasting twelve through some of its pages with fishermen spearing in the dark- March, when I asked for a rise neas on Pacific reefs; lightning And, of course, friends look months. The adventure would me.
flashes splitting the darkness at me from their office desks exhaust my small capital and Here I am alone in the Grand above Niagara; moonlight mak- and think "I told you so.. land me in England, to start all Canyon, the great slit in the ing rainbows in the spray of the But would I do it again?
surface of Arizona, a mile deep, Zambesi as it thunders over the
I would. FIXED TRUSTS
Five minutes after I read the twenty miles wide. It is night Victoria
Falls; mountain Probably it in the wrong Mountain peaks shrines in Japan; spouting, answer, Those who have watched the resignation went in that after- rise all around. Tourists never bolling geysers in Yellowstone
offer I made my decision. My moonlight. growth of the Fixed Trust noon.
see the canyon as I am seeing Park. movement in Britain will doubt-
it now. For sixteen hours I
Another page..
over again.
regulation of this form of in NOTES OF THE DAY
ECONOMY
vestment, a departmental com- mittee is being appointed to en- COAL quire in the whole question.
The considerable amount ofi magnitude to
which time
and money that has been Fixed Trust movement devoted to fuel research in Great
The
the
years.
But there it is.
J.E.R.
Army Of Road-Makers
And
THREE WEEKS have been on my feet pushing up I meet a gang foreman in the Italian's 10S8 read With interest the later I was in the Majestic, steep rocky trails, wading Black Hills, a real old-timer. He announcement made yesterday bound for New York.
through ice cold streams, up to still carries by the President of the Board of
a long-barrelled Behind me were the friends my knees in the fierce current. pistol in his belt. It had been Trade that, following the re-and advisers who had shaken
Another page, ・・・
there for forty years. He tells commendation of a Stock Ex-
I have just trodden on an in- tales of cattlemen (NOT cow- change sub-committee that
dignant rattlesnake, Fortu- boys) and old days on the legislation be passed for the
mately it was asleep. The only ranges. Stampedes, round-ups, remedy for its bile is kerosche long rides across the prairies, By Lt. Cmdr. MORTIMER DURAND. and salt rubbed into the slashed men found by waterholes with wound. And the nearest village bullets in their backs.
THE greatest problem facing the is fifteen miles off.
Italians-not Another page....
merely during the campaign, but also in any Another page.
I politely snub a dinner com subsequent development in East Surf riding in Hawaii. The panion in New York because Africa-la communications. has grown at Home may Britnin has been well spent, and board on which I ani balancing im tired of continual question the army, which has, so far, won be gathered from the fact that the annual repart of the Fuel Re- is caught in the crest of a huge ing about the trip. Later I hear the major successes for the search Beard which was recently breaker sweeping in towards he is heir to the greatest for-Italians is the army of workers. over forty-five millions sterling, evidence of the economies resulting the beach of Waikikl. Right tune in the world.
35,000 strong, not counting native principally subscribed by small from Increased efficiency in the use and left along the wave other Another page.
labour, who have made the ronds.. investors, is now believed to be of coal during the past twenty-five surfers, native beach boys, aro
Twenty thousand of In Tanganyika a low-flying directly engaged by the Government, them are involved therein. Thanks to the
In 1910, when the popula yelling, their brown bodies glis- airplane drops an unsigned and the rest by private firms
million, the facilities offered, the small in-out of ont consumed was 180 tening in the sun and the spray. nate. It reads: "Lost. Out of Puricelli, Sleelp, Ferrobeton, and four-
-Another-page.---.. vestor can acquire, at a cost of million tons; by 1934; when the
petrol-Landing-in clear-field or five small local ones which have.
undertaken nearly 800 miles of per I am sitting in a little hut twenty miles north." population had increased by four a few pounds, holdings in up, the consumption of coal three miles high up the side of out with petrol tins and find
We dash manent lorry roads.
This leaves 340 miles of lorry wide range of enterprises, and was 19 million tons less. The re- Kilimanjaro, practically on the two girls, exhausted, but still tracks-not to be deeply ballasted and the great principle of diversifica- port paints out that it is greater Equator. The air is so rare we able to look attractive. It is the Government to tackle, and the bitumen-surfaced like the roads-for tion of risk has been brought efficiency in coal-burning plant, and cannot eat. The slightest move- dusk, so they have to spend the last 100 miles of these tracks only within the reach of all. Fixed not the use of oil fuel, which has meat is exhausting. We are night at the nearest district now being constructed. All roadh Trusts have, without doubt, reduction in the consumption of rifts we can see miles and miles they take off again for the Cape.
been mainly responsible for the above the clouds. Through the officer's hut. Next morning are made under the supervision of done a great work by making coal. It is further stated that of flame. It is a bush fire. We I find that I cannot go on; the 1034, with native workers and a few The work was begun in October, the use of fuel by the electrical, investment safer and simpler gas, and iron and steel industries are watching it from frozen fever has got me.
Italians. The bulk of the Italian for those to whom stock mar- not been more efficient than in slopes.
workers did not arrive ural lant | May. kets and security movements 1919 they would have required Another page, ..
In Africa I am cursing the
* are a baffling mystery, and by 1934, and the total consumption of narrow
81,500,000 more tons of coal in Three lions are blocking the strange insects swarming) The army waging this war, from enormously increasing the num-
track ahead of us, around us in the car when we the biozing of the trail-sometimes coal in Great Britain would have Their eyes are gleaming in our come to this notice by the way- that
Buggested by the track of a tank bers, of small capitalists with a increased by more than twelve head-lights. We cannot get by side:
has fought its way against million tons
rocks and trees in a writhing line of instead of declining
crazy doable-hairpin bends down n formal plan of excavations and build- ing, conalsta of picked men. Thure is much to dono deep ballasting, gravelling, stesin-rolling, surfacing and, finally, draining with wido gut- tors against the coming rainy season.. and tunnelling where a mountainside i casende will run.
stake in their country's, for- by nineteen million tons. To tunes. Some disappointment has take electricity alone, between been caused by the conclusion 1910 and 1934 production increased. of the Stock Exchange sub-of only 163 per cent. in coal con- by 544 per cent, with an increase committee that nothing can be sumption, a saving of 17,000,000 done to bring the movement tons.. Other factors contributing|| under Stock Exchange control. to the decline in the consumption of coal, besides the greater It is pointed out that the Stock claigney in its uses by the indus- Exchange is the one real mar-tries mentioned, Include the use by ket for the buying and selling grates and the improvement and
hzuseholders of more scientific]. of securities; it has the con-refining of the conl used; forty per fidence of the public, and its cent. of the total now sold being: control over its members is twenty per cent, eight years ago. "clean" as compared with only stern and drastic. The sub- committeo acknowledges that
the Fixed Trust movement has will be taken of these recom- met a genuine public demand by mendations if and when legisla which the small investor may tlon is introduced dealing with enter a slightly speculative field the subject. There is no sug- with the benefits of a spread gestion that the more important risk. The danger, however, is of the Fixed Trusts in Britain, that the influence of competition are risky ventures, although may produce trusts which management expenses are in) "sacrifice atability and probity some cases somewhat high. The to the greater benefits which prudent investor. will find his their creators сап derive by biggest safeguard in choosing: the proffer to the public of pro-trusts which have as mises which would not stand trustees reputable concerns, such the test of well-informed ex- as the Big Five among the amination," The sub-committee banks. It is somewhat surpris has gone so far as to draw up a fing, in view of the attractive- lengthy series of regulations ness of this form of investment, which, it declares, "If generally that facilities have not so far enforced would go far to remove been provided in Hongkong
their
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. the evils expected to result whereby the public can enter
from the uncontrolled continu- this particular field.
at a ance of the movement." It is minimum of inconvenience and hoped, therefore, that account trouble.
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"I told mama not to send apples, this year. We'll have_lo... finù... samo place to hide them before the party to-night."
nillitary Engineer officers.
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The Committee of Internal Im- migration, who recruits the men, has. them all medically examined. They must be men of good character, and preference is given to those with
vives and children.
The working day is of elght hours,. with one day off a week.. In the three months' contract, an unskilled In- bourer gets 26 to 27 Te per day (up to on), a skilled worker from 31 to 24 (up to 119). In the six months' contract an unskilled labourer gets 20 to 28, and the skilled 32 to 35 lire per day.
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The men pay a small daily sum for, food which is provided at the yards, where they are housed--la wooden barracks in big yards, and in toute in the smaller ones. Bread is. provided. sometimes by military bakeries, and each yard has its own well. Some yards in the hot lowlands to the East have small oxon corrals for fresh meat on the hoof. Canteena arc established, purveying wine,. cigarettes, sausages and tinned foods when in stock.
Near the front, where it would be unsafe for unprotected men to wage the road war in case the other war of rife fire and sudden night raida Intruded upon them-the workers are organised Into volunteer armed ro gimanta. An all have dono, a year's obligatory military service, no special training is necessary for them,
Three regiments, consisting of nine- groups divided into two companies each and subdivided into 36 "con- turin," in all, each of 100 men, officer- ed by Engineer or Militia oleors... have beon organised, part
These mons, equipped and treated as soldiers, and paid. from 13 to 87 lira day with rations, do all the Cruelling work in the advanced areas,