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MONDAY, Fernuany 22, 1937.
AVOIDING ANOTHER
SLUMP
A BOY OF 15 WROTE THIS
HOMEWORK
is killing me
OMEONE ought to from "The Golden
invent a machine for Treasury." turning important. I'm at school, ofli- people into schoolboys for a cially, from nine un- day or two. It would be a th 1 quarter-past much better work for us if four. 1 very rarely this could happen, and I leave the premises, think there would be a lot of though, until five or changes in a very short half-past. time.
It's all right soy- This homework, which is killing I should go ing me, would soon be abolished. straight home the As there is no machine, just moment school ends put on my school-cap for a mo- and gel on
with ment and ser what my life is
my prep. I can't. like,
There's alway's something on; nets in the prac- summer,
in the
I am Aften and take the London Matric, next June. There are a lot of boys, by the way, much younger than me in my Form who will be taking it, Loo. A master told us recently that at our school, twenty years ago, about two boys a year passed Matric, and they were usually nineteen, with taches, and the whole school had a half-holiday to celebrate.
*
lice winter.
with their work.
I have only the last hour to myself and then mother begins bobbing in and out, looking at the clock, If I'm working she says I mustn't overdo it: If I don't seem to be working, sharp-
sleep, wondering if my work is right, wondering, whether I shall pass and what's going to happen to me if I don't.
Wives Who Live "Out East"
KINUHURUSTAMINE AMOUNT
By Florence Dean
KAISENBARTENDANCER SANKİ KALAS SLAK MARKLEYTANKE US
E have Societies after school WE mous-
too, the Play Reading So- things, fool- ciety and Printing Press. I'm ing and banging keen on these they're the best about asking me to help them NOW (and the standard is, if part of school, I think-and I anything, higher) about 75 don't want to race off home even pass a year, some of them boys if I could. My mother says, of fourteen, most of them be- when I come home at half-pust tween fifteen and sixteen.
six, that I've been fooling about, Mr. J. M. Keynes, the well-
There's no fuss made about talking to chaps at school. known economist, is concerned it: you wouldn't have an earthly
I do occasionally because I ening a pencil or looking for a about the lack of Government chance for a job if you hadn't plans for preventing "that sug- passed. I wonder sometimes it can't always be working, but book, she says I ought to be in ging away of activity which, if they ever take people for the nine, times out of ten I've been bed. When I'm in bed I can't
to a Society or something. it is allowed to cumulate after Foreign Legion, now, without the usual fashion, will once again Matric.
I have a meal when I get in. develop into a slump." He has Everyone is saying to me, "If If I swallow it down I can't be given expression to this concern you want to get on, if you want finished much before seven. You in a series of articles in The any sort of job worth having, know, though, what it is: some- Tinies under the heading "How you've GOT to pass this June." times we have visitors, some- to Avoid a Slump". In his con- My father hasn't any influ- times I get talking to my father cluding article, he advocated the ence, the headmaster doesn't or playing with my brother. appointment of a Board of bother much with boys who fail, Public Investment whose busi- so, wanting a job soon, I've I try to be at work, as a rule, ness would be to prepare detail-naturally decided to put my back by 7.15 because I've always two ed plans of development:-"The into it. I lie awake, though, at hours' work, at least, and they railway companies, the port and night worrying about it, and if like me to be in bed by 9.30 or river authorities, the water, gas ever (and it's not often) I do 10 at the latest. and electricity undertakings, read the newspaper or take out the building contractors, the my stamps my mother says, Local Authorities, above all, "You should be working," or NOT much of a life, is it? I'm perhaps, the London County just gives me a look. I'm sick chasing my tail, or being IT is not as easy as that. I'm heat, the strangeness and glamour of Council and other great Corpora of it.
chased by other people, from the not lucky either. My father's native races and customs. For mort white men and women-and parti- tions with congested popula tions, should be asked to inves-matter of fact I get quite decent bed.
I don't think I'm lazy. As a time I get up to the time I go to no good at maths. Some boys' cularly women-the attraction is in
fathers help them a lot and one the social life. or two in our Form have extra to some, hateful to others, according
It Is tigate what projects could be reports and I like a lot of my,
life in a goldfish bowl (joyous usefully undertaken if capital work. I like English and enjoy after a long school-day is bad work, on and on, the exam. get thing to a country housing
To do two hours' homework lessons. I just plod on at my to temperament).
in the geography and history, conditions. I've got to do very writing essays; I'm interested enough under perfect working ting nearer and nearer.
week-end; no flying to the Continent for few days' sport. It is no use too. The science and languages dimcult work with
It was pretty bad before I was saying one is engaged for dinner in a
I'm sent on messages, chased off Holidays are nearly as bad. the table for meals to be set, sent out for walks I dont't want to go on with my brother and sister.
I don't think my parents real- ly know how much work there is to do. They've an idea that I'm clever. They just say, "You've got to get Matric, this year."
A wife whose husband was granted a decree nisl for divorce in Ceylon spoke of the "so-called glamour of the East," and her subsequent disillusionment.
Here is a pen-picture of life as it is for English men and wo- men in the East to-day by one who has lived there for many ucara.
pнE Lure of the East! How THE
often these words are spoken; but just what is this mysterious "call," apart from the sun and the
Thero
is no re-
I can do, but I don't see how I'm brother and a very silly twin- I haven't read a single book for hand just who la dining and personal a younger in a Matric. form. This term place where everyone knows before- ever going to pass in maths. If gister in the same room.
I don't, I fail the whole exam.
Women have much
pleasure and I haven't looked at leisure. Soft-footed servants lift that this year is so important my stamps for weeks. The fact every domestic burden,
were available at certain rates of interest. The question of the general advisability of the schemes and their order of pre- ference should be examined next. What is required at once are acts of constructive imagination What I can do about it, except We work in the dining-room. by our administrators, engineers go on working and working, I Mother says we're lucky to have and architects, to be followed by don't know. I'm sure I shouldn't a room to ourselves. The table's makes me desperate, yet, at the boiled, or whether the rook is
be breaking my heart just be- not very big: we can hear the cause I can't do Maths. But I wireless going in the next room. am. I feel I'm not doing any.
financial criticism, sifting, and
My Lady fret herself about whether the drinking water
same time, it's the only thing "squeezing"
that keeps me going.
If I've to have another year
My brother and sister are al- like this one I think I'd rather maid, who presses her dresses, pre- thing this year for its own sake, ways borrowing my ruler and die. I'm fighting for a job. That's
more detailed designing, so that some large and useful projects, at least, can be launched at a few months' notice." The iden propounded by Mr. Keynes is closely allied to that of the Lawhy I get so unhappy and de- bour Party plan for setting up a sperate over my homework. National Investment Board, As I sny, I don't think I'm
which would act as an instru:
ment of the Government, en- gaged in operating national planning, but enjoying flexibility
more then the cus- tomary amount of sugar, but these
heaviest duties. ure her.
She has, of course, her personal pares the bath, and lays out the right with- every occasion, ensemble for out
asking
for inconvenient evenings, off. She may swim at the club in the morning, play golf or bridge all to a lea-dance in the
lazy, but I think you'd be fed up More Stories About Sermons, and dine resplendent-
if you had to work as I do, under
the conditions I have, and know,
day:
fulness.
ly at 8.30.
NINE women out of ten whom I
all the time, your whole future JOKING about sermons need not man, "I pray thee, let me live." As have known in the East like the and discretion within that plan
depended upon it. Hero's my imply any misbelief in their use-he warmed to his subject, he called life. It is certainly stimulating. for the efficient performance of
We often laugh at the things out, locking out over his examiners, One dines with Italian Ambassadors, its functions. "Such a Board,”
I go to & North London and the people we.like best.
"By the life of Pharaoh, yo aru French admirals, Swedish explorers, splest"
American sirmen, and British of all says a Party statement, "would secondary school and leave home Louis XVI. after hearing one of
sorts. organise the mobilisation and just after eight. On Corps his chaplains said, "This preacher All preachers are not one fire, us The
wives of planters whosa allocation of that part of the days, Fridays, I'm up at kalf would have left nothing out of his Taylor ever was. The late Sir Henry nearest neighbour is 30 miles away national wealth which is avail past six, polishing silly brass if he had happened to touch Campbell-Bannerman when a fresh- have another tale to tell. But even
upon religion."
man at the University, went to 30 miles is not for in a motor-car able for capital investment, and buttons. When you're rending
church one Sunday and commented over the good roads of Malaya or would license new capital issues.the paper in the Tube I'm swot- sermon on ""The fool hath said in his found the sermon going on, and a and the tea trade prospering plan An old farmer, after listening to a thus: "When I entered the door, Ceylon; and when rubber is booming It would propose annual estim- ting French or learning a poem heart, There is no God," said to the very dendified the pulpit. Withers' clubs and bungalows rellect the ates of the national income,
Fellow and vapourish preacher, I believe there is a God of my college showing what new money was view that to leave these Institu- very clever."
after all, though your sermon was much sign of woe, he was exclaiming. Lure of the East
galety that is more than half the likely to be available for invest- tions in private hands is to leave
Alas, my brethren; alas, and thrice In Poking, Shanghai, Hongkong, ment. It would co-ordinate all them the servants of private in-text, "And Job answered and sald," not sample the sermon any further, there are English men and women An untrained exhorter took for his alas! I was so touched that I did Singapore, Penang, and Colombo schemes of capital expenditure terests which thereby are mas- and divided his subject thus: (1) but came away,"
to-day who have made these places proposed by Government deters of economic and political We shall consider what Job ans- wered; (2) We shall consider what
There is a good tale of a Methodist their permanent homes. After years
tries either socialised directly or ment to the effect that "the of Samaria. Which reminds us of the cycle with his father to
a country operating under public control. country, which is demanding the rambling sermons of her minister, The father thought it best that the facetious old lady who, describing church on the Sunday afternoon,
But those of different tempera- It would be able to recommend with so much insistence a vigor said, "If his text had the smalipex, Ind should not cycle on Sundays.
ment, those who yearn for a snug to the Government a comprehen-ous policy for the revival of the his sermon would never catch it."
domestic hearth, can, and do, become sive scheme of investment." It special arens, will not be con-
"But," urged the hoy, "you are go homesick and lonely. Eagerly they is to be noted, however, that the tent
The noted Saltor Preacher of ing to cycle."
turn their faces towards England as to drift complacently Boston, U.S.A. who, although Board advocated by the Labour through a period of comparative Methodist minister, was known tai
"Yes, but I go on duty, you would soon as their business in the Enst is
done. Party is linked up with the prosperity into another depres-Father Taylor, preached his trial to on pleasure,"
And there is another homing type bank call it pleasure for me to go and very earth of England, and whose banking. Mr. Keynes har not even more disastrous than that had been appointed to hear him. hear you preach."
"Oh, dad," retorted the lad, "do you too-the Englishman who loves the yet reached the Labour Party's out of which we are emerging." His text was characteristic of
solo ambition is to see the SusseX:
partments, Locni Authorities, power. That there is need for Job said, and (3) We shall proceed toelrcuit minister whose.son of ten had in the East they cannot, they Bay,
is themselves
many ways
again
to
the
more
£1
A
the
sterner, and in
restricted, life of the West.
F. J.,8. Downs again.