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TUND. Augur 3, 1937.
CHINA LOOKS TO SOVIET
on-
Mr. Sun Fo, in voicing the view that, if China and the Soviet reached an agreement for military co-operation, Japan would not dare to continue her
programme. Eddy Imelam's Orchestra. aggressive
visages a possibility that must FT. F.T... "Pate" Waller's Orchestra.
have occurred to many obser- Foul Whiteman's Orchestra.j vors. Indeed. Japanese sources. „Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. in Shanghai recently asserted that a Moscow-Nanking accord „„Xavier Cusat's Orchestra. has already been reached, to be should operation put into Bume Bevigia Orchestra. the present hostilities develop into a major conflict. According Kay Thompson's Orchestra,
to these reports. Major General „Guy Lombardo's Orchestra. | A. Lepin, former military attache to the Soviet Embassy in China. „Navier Cussat's Orchestra recently left for the
Russinn „Eddy Duchin'. Orchestra. capital FIT.Fals" Wother's Orchestra.
Waltz... It's No Secret I Love You. FT. 25562-You Can't Run Away From Love To-night. FT.
'Cause My Baby Says It's So. FT. 25561-There's A Lull In My Life. F.T. ....
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I Know Now. F.T.
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Hold Me Tight.
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Without Your Love. F.T.
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Sleep. F.T.
to .confer with the authorities there regarding the despatch of aircraft and pilots Tammy Dor:ega Orchelia. to China. This officer is said to
have been asked by the Chinese)
Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. Military Affairs Commission to
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W
says
Edward Carr -
"HAT are you going to
do with that boy of yours who, in three or. four years, maybe, Is noldy to leave his school and set Gnt, ento the world" (as we en the marrow sphere in which at of us spend our working lives) to earn his own keep?
We'll cast noble for the moment the implant thought that post- by he will be turcibly drafted inte on of the ehting services in an Put to Mop one of the mad Dic- tato, and assume that he will grow talo a world which is pretty well as bad ne as god as the one in which vint, his parent, atlained your matarily.
Are you roug to make itqub les annon reur trimrts as to the posed- bility of shoving him into this or that lee. try to get him lato a marage or a Lartery, work bhu Jato one of the laundred and one finde... that have all ing out the Up" din?
Austin or a Deutsch-one has yet to be convinced that it is desir- able to set up there, anyway Totherwise every milionaire would be a happy man and every worker An unhappy man. which we alt know to be absurdly untrue),
But there are stil chances for an ordinary fellow, with the neces- sary pull and intelligence, and the Ick and opportunity, to land into a good job in a world woefully short of mea worthy to hold hose #vod jubs.
The markets of the world pre flooded with new things, all of whaler have to he manufactured and sold A wood entesman is so hard to fish that le rapidly be- comes sales manager--and then his firm fores its good salesman und gains a possibly quod man- Apr
Television sets, electric shavers, refrigerators, new rond processen, new petrol combinations, patent cigarette Full
ighters. compressed wallboard: these and a thousand other fans are all new an the miket. All are in their Infancy and ta ed elringing and, perteciing,
Or are you going to div han br.. head a te, and show him the thousand and one app. via itle, for new kind of job that have sprung
up within the past few year!
-
LL ports of avenue: ae opportunities Trave tended themselves, and In un
the lever brown Hines there are opportent des imm walior Boy take a buys who are chance and war have the loftatiive and capabiliY.
A month or so ago a friend of mine who is in the oile: furniture
trade had orrasun to adverling for n salesman in that ttle known ne. He had tty replies to the first advertisement, Tie worded out the obviously impo ibles, and finally interviewed the possible ** Not one of five who were left. those remaining five was anflable. and ultimately he was obliged to And a man from private sources. And, of those fifty, only three bad Yet every offer in the laud needs office furnishing experience, furniture. An obylaus channel for investigation. mechanic. A good mechante la worth his weight in gold--although
Take.
again,
dental
he doesn't net paid on that basis! Yet the dennnd for them exceeds the supply. if my own dentist 18 speaking the truth.
The problem of the disposal of rubbish and sewage is a treinen- dous and grovu oke in all bir
Yet whoever thinks cities. bringing up his boy to be a sewage worker? The name is singularly iti romantic qualities, lacking maybe, but for the boy who can bring new ideas and fresh brains to the problem of rubbish disposad there inust be a bright future.
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It is not so bad to-day that one need be to cynical about it. Everyone cannot be a Morris or an
Ten years from now every home wht have a television set. Look at the vou zotit of replacement that it to mean
Look at the work there will be when our railway companies de- eide to bang their trains up to dates Every day I travel to town on an electric tram which is the latest mated as far as its mechani eal aide is concerned, But the windows are dirty. On a hot day The carries are almost unbrar- able, and I am just as comfort- able as I was when I used to be aken to the seaside twenty years aro by train.
Air-conditioning has Fot to come on our mal lines, I travelled to Manchester in a dining car a few days ago, on a bitch-adver- tised crack train. Yet because it was a hot day it was necessary to leave windows open-and every time the train went through a tun- nel the carriage was filled with filthy sonts and smoke and there was a wild desperate rush to get the windows shut before we were al asphyxiated.
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ET out of the rust in the search of a career for your hoy. It need not eo th
money which has be apent to produce a doctor, an archtter!. Dr
recomptant. Carried out after thought and care it will probably be possible to ind a line for the lad which need cost you nothing at all-he can
earn as he learns."
But he should be all the time alert to see the possibilities of im- provement, to seize the chance when it comes, to make use of the cheap facilities offered through schools and technical night classes.
at are pou going to do with that boy of yours?
Got a Little Money to Invest?
Watch Your Step
says Denis Clark
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EAD "mun;" for "ihird," adding from him" to the last word, and you're gl thug warm. My fra ven- ture through an Agony Coluni
though straightforward enough, starcely to my advantage
The advertisement was pointed out by an exasperated p. rent.
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was.
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Perhaps that 1st of homicidal bensts offered hope of deliverance from one of his turbulent son. It attracted me.
In a few weeks I was staring at a virgin patch of Tanganyika, which was sure could never grow tea. Fortunately, no more h been paid out than my share of passage-money.
My partner to be, who stayed England, vouchsafed not one word after I sailed, and I had to cable threats to obtain his share of ex- penses.
Back in England I felt I really must hurry up and establish my- self. Each day 1 spent my pennies to search those interest- In columns.
INTELEKUENT. ATHLETIC YOUNG MAN
untred to both SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITHER the PACIFIC.
Two grave, bronzed men, with many documents and maps before. them. disclosed that they were shortly setting forth on a quest of rather an unusIKO character-after the famous Coffee Iland treasure in fact.
"It's more like a sweepstake iban an ordinary company," I suggested. They agreed. But of course thote on the ground flour would get more than any-
else
Those on the ground floor must do
negotiate for the sale of Soviet ROAD planes and for the loan of pilots. A tentative agreement along these lines is stated to have been reached. The accord is alleged to provide for the despatch to China of a hundred Soviet air- craft and for the lan of numer- ous Leetnicians, including pilots. ! In order not to afford Japanį occasion to protest against this action, as a breach of neutrality, Japanese sources say the pilots to be leaned to Ching would b Soviet-trained Mongolians, Bur-ture is no possibility of deviato By SIR HENRY LYTTON possible. You!
Things That Make Life
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THURSDAY
AT THE
QUEEN'S
a
to
on
ut
who are ploting Worth While
THOSE
along the later stages of Iffe: journey have the leisure to look back and survey the math by which wel have traveller! As we toil along, it seems such a broad, open road that
from it by a single step. But as we It look behind we ree thit, far from being straight, it is full of the most unexpected twists and turns.
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all that, I cannot deny that there are more casily available
WHS musements than when young man, and that nearly every- one goes to them as frequently as question whether
the capacity for genuine enjoyment is so common now as it was 40 years afo.
Mental Drugs
all the spade-work, we hard, un all the risks Cour jaw-thrust out in anti- elpation, and those on the groun door were each putting up £200. 'Would ..
Let me consider, I legged, and spent the rest of that day very busily in newspaper oflices and elsewhere, dis rovering Comething about this treasure rucket.
Sometimes the expeditions go from Canda, sometimes from England: two or three each year. The land has been wholeheatedly gutted and de- mited, but nothing inore valuable than a rusiy old showed lans so far been dis covered.
The next was similar but more nsingtor me. upplied to one of these agents who advertise to provide openings in boun-ide businesses.
A tle. grey-Buired nun welcomed ne into a room with a formidable sound-proud door. He Amted wryly when I told him the incignificant sit
proposed to invest,
Hm, now that's not a very easy amount to place profitably. Couldn't you get your old Dad... no? If you had five hundred I could put you on to something really interesting. Three damn good fellows in here yesterday all ex-naval commanders-getting pn expedition to trade in Borneo."
That sounds promising." "Yes,
thanand.
They're each putting up a Tell you what, they're coming this evening for a pow-wow. You tum up if you like."
T
HEY came from select-
Ing an armoury at a famous Kunsmith's nearby. We're taking a Lewis-gun, too," said Commander - their lender: If we can't make a packet in Borneo we'll convoy Chinese junks up the Pirate Const.
"And if that don't bring us a for- tune mind you, I think will we'll damn well roll neruss and run guns for bollides in the Chaco war."
Fascinated, I was invited to attend. theke mecting on the following day where I learned that I land bought, ! through Admntral M, his old chief. motor toy in the Admiralty, a "cast submarine-chaser lying at Portsmouth harbour.
J. one of the three, was going hown at once to get all shipshape. "And." - unexpectedly Informed me. don't worry about the cash, youn feller. You're the type we want, Cone with us and we'll give you a share of the profits. To-morrow we'll get you an outfit at Jeeves."
The next day's meeting was to be (the third com- between 11, P-
the agent, for the mandier) und
of the expedition's arrangement
1, the non-investor, was told to report at finish. P and the agent sat alone aut rather glum when I arrived. "Can't understand what's happened Ile hasn't turned up. We've to i- wiled him."
The reply, when it came, was dis
E-
left yesterday. couraging. Address not known."
In the stress of the next two hours I discovered that P- was not a com. mander, that, as far as ho knew. J was not, either, and that he had handed over one thousand pounds 10 Hits genuine agitation told me that this was true.
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To enjoy a thing: it is necessary to
25 that unly what we have missed in ille, their old age they retire on a well-know nething about it, to have
3
Intellect
I took an even more rash step: EX-CAVALRYSEAN Colonial Volunteeri rek pust se asistan to Bling school,
trait empill
What a batt! Yet I only received two answern, one from an elderly Indy with a round, red face, who received me, surrounded by dogs and horses, at her country house. "It che's a crook." I decided after an hour's conversation, "she deserves to get away with it." and blithely I deposited" my capital in return for "a share of profits, £3 x week, and keep,"
yats, Chinese and Koreans. is further said that Major General Lepin promised the
Here we went round in a complete
Enjoyment is an active state-not This is a great pity. Life has so that he circle: there we turned aside down a Chinese authorities
a jussive one. Sitting through a film mpromising by-path which much to offer us, so many experiences
joy or that is crammed with crude senti- would secure general military most
uddenly broadened into a handsome which, whether they bring
At ils paint we were sorrow, do at any rate help to conferment, skimming through a thriller aid from Russia in the event of avenue.
for the sake of discovering how the hopelersty lost in a thick wood, while upon us the gift of understanding. real war developing between
Think of the millions to-day who crime was committed these things somewhere the only sheer luck found
our stumbling worship the grent good Security, I have nothing in common with enjoy- Japan and China. It is difficult any path at all for
their school-days they are protected ment. They are just forms of mental say what reliance can be feet.
But the astonishing thing about by their parents; in their youth they drugging. placeed
these reports, this survey is that it shows us not go straight to the sug, safe job; in but from the fact
earned pension. but also how some of our most un
aften Mr. Sun Fo's opinion
mastery of it. Then the On promising experiences have
It may be the ideal life, according studied it sufficiently to obtain to many, but to me it seems like comes into play, and one experiences the desirability of co-opera-korne ts the richest fruit,
I think I may say without conceit living at sceund-hand.
the keenest enjoyment of all-the tion between China and the that my own life has been very full There is no fun in starving in ability to see not only that a thing Soviet is said to represent the and very happy; but as I compare garret. It is not amusing to use is done in a certain way, but also to my adventures with those of my empty pockets, hungry wife and views of the Nanking Govern- friends, as I hear the reflections and baby, and no prospect of obtaining know why it could not logically be į I am not referring to the arts only ment, there would appear to be comments of the youngsters who are either money or employment. But done in any other way.
Just at the beginning of their journey, because I have had those experiences
when I talk of this capacity for en- good ground for thinking that feet that many people must muss I can say, "With these two hands. !
joyment, I am no highbrów, conversations have taken place a tremendous lot in life almost with-bent Fate to my will."
When one has been at the end of But which is the greater pleasure... · with the object of exploring the out realising they are misstag any-
everything and then fought back to to watch how a great bowler is liter-
batsman, action thing at all."
"thinking" out a joint possibilities of
camfort and prosperity, one knows ally
real meaning of security merely to see the wicket knocked should war really break
in back us the ball hits it? The Soviet itself, it must be the side of China in the event That is what many people mias
drift down the years
wonderful maby There are so false security, and if buoyed by
things in life which are deliberately kept in mind, has had frequent of a major conflict, since such life. They
to conform discarded or rejected occasion of late to charge Japan a development would inevitably disaster comes they are unit with
with some passing fashion. with aggression, charges which produce repercussions elsewhere., out trace.
ORC There is only
worth-white the less, Russia's
Once lost, they can seldom be ro- have been answered by like None allegations from Tokyo, Rela-sympathy is undoubtedly with kind of security-the knowledge that
under your own hat you have the covered, so before we part with any is as well to consider whether the tions between the two nations China in the present crisis. Her ability to wrest a livelihood from anormal, human quality or activity it are anything but composed, and action would, it may be pre-i reluctant world.
We often hear the present time ancrifice is worth it.
Enthusiasm, for example. I nee Russin, of course, would realise sumed, be determined by netual described as the age of enjoyment, the potentialities of any large developments, in which connec- The young people of to-day are sup- young people deliberately stomping be enthusiasm out of their hearts be China's tion the extent of Japan's ter-posed and unhappy unless they live cause it is supposed to be
"bad | recommendation, but "die"" canno scale absorption
life hát escape the fact that site the th northern provinces by Japan. ritorial
in a continuoue whirl of excitement. form." Why, my whole
chthusiasma enthusiat who, gela- round my a vital
Like This is not to say that the mainland would be
most generalisations, it revolved
(Continued on Pag greatly oversintes the case, but, for That, in itself, would be no special Soviet will come in definitely on 'factor.
of
out.
ambitions on
the
the
to be pleasure-inad-to
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At present that downright old soul is doing ifteen months in fall, as n nequel. to "doing" some score of un- fortunutes like myself.
My hoarded anvinga galloped away. on her dogs which were greyhounds) or were spent on the maintenance of herself and her confederates. She had an honest face.
--To-day's Thought-
IN all things, success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
CONFUCIUS,
A