THE HONGKONG
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“No Man Is Too Old At 50
MORE JOBS FOR THE ELDERLY SOON
"THE
-Mr. ERNEST BROWN
'too old at 40' iden' is dead. I'll invent a
new slogan now-Why not be young at 50?'”
Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, said this recently after he had conducted an intensive investiga- tion of employment conditions in the Brighton and Worthing areas.
"It has long been obylous to me that the man who was at one time too ok the moment he passed his 40th birthday is now almost a youth in business," he said.
"The reservoir of juvenile labour is drying up, and during the next ten years will be very much smaller than it is to-day. **TRYING TO IMPRESS INDUSTRY"
"The elderly man will soon have his day. awake to the fact now, and I am trying to industry daily.
Employers are
impress it on
"We were taking Il-for granted not so long ago that when a man reached 55 he was only fit to be wiped off as of no account in industry. But now we are approaching what the highbrown might call the reorientation of youth.
WHAT ABOUT ME?
I
Talking about not being too old at 50-what about me? am quite a bit over that and I feel pretty active and fit. [Mr. Brown is 56.]
"There are thousands of men years of work who are for who are pushed out of jobs be- cause they are said to be too o'd of the idea and-ul because
which won't work any more- that so long as there is a youngs- ter at hand the older man by past his work.
"In my lour I am Investigating the labour conditions applying in most of the 'problem' areas," Mr. Browni added. "Ant I am trying to focus discussion on the point 1 buve just put to you.
SKILLED MEN WANTED"
"There is an unsatisfed demand for skilled men, mainly in the en- gineering trades in the south-eastern counties.
"Whra industry begins to real- Iso at the youth springs are not Glowing se freely as they did, then the elderly
One Smoked
Till 99, One (100)
Still Does
of
William Winfield Adams, Eastnor, Ledbury, Herefordshire. dled recently at the age of 101...
Two years ago his younger son. aged sixty-six, was killed in a road accident and his elder son nged seventy üled from the shock the news gave him.
In that year William Adams gave up the pipe he had smoked all hils fe. Smoking TU29 "Loo much
hother," he said.
He was a life-long teclolafer and refused ever to go to bed beforr inidnight.
Willian Klekpatrick, of Cumnock, Ayrshire, bachelor and retired coachbuilder, was a hundred recent-
still
ty. man with a trade at his hands wiil And Cinployment reaching out for him."
Speaking of his plans to confen with the managers of more than 56 employment exchanges in the south- eastern division to-day, Mr. Brown told me: "One of the subjects to be reviewed will be domestle service conditions."
He has smoked all his ille, likes a strong cheroot. has been tectotal all his life.
He prides himself on his "bachelor Independence." still carries the coals tupstairs, chops the firewood and dign in its garden every day.
He has never failed to record his votó for the Conservallve Party,
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MADRID'S DEFENDER LOOKS ON-Second from right is General Jose Miaja, commander of the Loridist troops, at a military ceremony in Madrid, Spanish capital, when he inspected the now colora of the 30th Brigade. Accompanying lilm, at extremo right, is Colonel Ortega, Madrid observers pre- dicted another Winter of fighting for the city's control,
Footballers to be Mothered
WITH EAU DE COLOGNE-BY A
HUSBAND TOLD
'YOU ARE ONLY
FIT FOR GAOL
SPINSTER
M'
Birmingham, Sept. 22. MISS DORIS PUGH, newly-appointed woman adviser to Cradley Heath (Birmingham
Said To Have Suggested League) Football Club, was
Wife
to-night unanimously clect- ed an honorary vice- president.
She Intends to introduce the
feminine touch to Jer team
with:-
Eau de Cologne,
vegetarian diet, and
Suicide To TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Elizabeth Barton, in hospital after an alleged attempt at suicide, told a detective that her husband had said to her: "Why don't you gas yourself and get yourself out of my road?"
She alleged that he orice askeded to take his girl ́out." She for money saying that he "want-also found a letter to him in
"All men are children," she sald which a girl had written:—
to-day "whether you treat them "Why don't you tell your wife singly or in groups. about us?. . I could make a They all need mothering and I sweeter wife than-alc, have chil-Inlend to mother Cradley Heath team till they do all that a mother dren as well.
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Mrs. Barton, appearing recently
before
by mothering them..
"Eau de Cologne is a wonderful Liverpool magistrates, said reviver," she went on. "Many A that she-become-distraught, thought chief in it and passed it round to the time I have drenched my handker-
she would frighten her husband, and boys to brighten them up. I've
with it, loo,"
sat in a chair with a gas tube in her offen bathed their wounds and cuts mouth. Then, realising what she was doing, she rushed to a neighbour's
house.
CADDISH CONDUCT'
"Is there no crime that can, be
Miss Pugh is brown-eyed, and
forty-five, slim, is secretary of Cradley Heath Branch of the National Spinsters Pensions Associn- tloni.
MEAT BANNED. She is a staunch but not an ing suicide to his wife?" asked the treme vegetarian. While we munch- chairman of the Bench (Coloneled a couple of nut cutlets she out- lined to me her plans and her views.
fastened on the husband for suggest-
Hemelryk).
"No," replied Mr. W. Culshaw, who was prosecuting.
The chairman dismissed the charge of attempted suleide under the Pro- bation of Offenders' Act, and said to the husband-
CX-
"I am convinced that a VCRC- tarian diet is the best training for any athlete," she said, "Erra, milk. and cheese, yes, but no meat for two days before any match. I trained my nephew on this system and he put up a running record for his school."
"Your conduci is beneath con- one routine change which, she feels, Miss Pugh has already achieved
tempt. You have behaved in a has improved the morale of the shocking, caddish and disgraceful team.
way,
You ought to be in gael.; "Travelling with the team
often," she said, "I noticed that on That is the only fit place for you" away matches we usually stopped at The Bench granted Mrs. Barton aj some hostelry where the players re-
ceived their wages, 1 free summons against her husband They now get their wage for alleged persistent cruelty,
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Miss Pugh is a non-smoker, non- drinker. She considers dozs. of ment n week sufficient for any person.
"I eat less than that," she con- fessed dolefully, "but I sull Ett gout.
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"My heart has often been
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} Within 5 minuter a fexapoosful of 'Bisur-! sted". Magnesio, in a little water produced) complota velief in cases where number- with the sight of footballers, once less ather memeties had failed entirely.Idols of the crowd, destitute when 'Bigurated Mognosis is a complete their skill has gone." treatment for the relief of stomach
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Miss Pugh considers that referees
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"I have so often seen," she said,
"a referee who is obviously biased.
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