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IF you feel the lure of
the speedway, you should know the truth about it all-by one who knows,
So
you would like to be a speed-king? There is money as well as honour and glory in it, and all these things
interest you, is your opinion." by
What's that? you're a good driver, a fair mechanie and you think you've και what it takes."'
Sorry, but you've got wrong idea. Driving ability and nechanical knowledge are re- Intively unimportant compared with money. Unless you've got plenty of "Jack"-that's what the mechanics at Brooklands call pounds sterling-you'd Just as well confine your motor- racing to an occasional sprint on the local by-pass.
Why, Brooklands and Don- Ington, to-day, are crowded with young men who have con- siderably more money than they Many have driving ability. young men among the specta- tom could show them the way to "wind a wheel."
But they have little chance of ever being tried out; motor- racing, in Britain, is a
man's hobby. The man the deepest pockets has a mendous advantage over other starters.
ON'T
there
De
rich
with tre-
all
Ket me wrong:
arc young men with little hard cash, but lots of the stuff they make tennis racket strings out of who have beenme motor-racing stars.
One of them is
19 young Percy Maclure, a wild
young man-he alot hold through my hat a few days back!-who determined to amash into tho headlines. He has Maclure is regarded as our best driver on the twisting Donington road circuit.
And he hasn't go! much cash-he is a hard-working the experimental mechanic iri workshops of one of the big motor firms. Most of his cars he built himself with bits and pieces from the scrap-heap. His home-bullt
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go 11 darn sight faster ears than
D{ some
those £2,000 Italian supercharged machines with which the wealthy young speed-kings disport themselves.
Young Maclure will be lucky It he makes motor-racing pay. He stands a far greater chance of making a fortune in design- ing and building cars.
Because there is not money motor- made out of to be racing.
O
F the hundreds who have driven at Brook- lands, Donington. in Ireland, the Isle of Man and on Southport sands the list of men who have made motor-racing pay mostly 'guess-work, It's is short. of course, but my list is: J. G. Parry Thomas, Bir Henry Seurave, Freddy Dixon, Captain George Eyston and Sir Malcolm Campbell.
The
11TBL two died breaking records.
Those hundreds of others paid heavily for seeking triumph in the world-of speed. Bome hit the hendlines, but no stream of gold followed. The late "Tim" Birkin was one of our finest drivers; in motor-racing he found honour and Klory. But his own personal for- tune disappeared in the costly business of racing fast cars,
Remember Whitney Straight, the young American who down from Cambridge motor-meed his WAY into the headlines? 11s career as a speed- king. and it was very successful, for he was a brillant driver, insted two sensors. It cost him £20,000 He stopped, not because he was
came and
MONDAY,
NOVEMBER
8, 1937.
KING?
looked ill; his nerves were bad. For nearly a year he lind been working flat-out to build the monster car. "Thunderbolt," that нет п new world land-speed record.
He has gunk his own personal resources in this great six-wheeled, With it he is diving cight-tyred car.
off into the unknown, Success will mean he will get his money back and a little more. De- feat..
"broke," but because unlike most speed-kings he paused to have a good think. As he clambered out of his car one day after a particularly gruel- ling race he said to himself, "It's a mug's game-if I'go on, trying to win every Ume, faster and faster. I shall end up by killing myself. That's what has happened to my friends."
much And there is not so honour and g' in this speed- king business as you might think...
Those few moments of laurel wreaths, silver cups and crowds of Press photographers come Intre- quently; only a few "make" the And motor-racing front page. means hard work all the time.
And luck plays an important part. Many a brilliant driver with good car and a clever mechanie has been an "also man in race after race. Struggle as he does all-night work in the HBEUKC. special parts to be made, constant practice-he never sees the chequered flag that means victory.
H
"
E must keep trying until ho gets h run of drivers luck, and all believe in that, for the speed- kings live (and die) amid a mass of superstillon.
Young Arthur Dobson raced for three years; yet he never won n race. Then, suddenly, he found his run of luck, followed it, and this season he has gone from one race to another and the spoils of victory have been for him.
A few weeks ago I saw my friend George Eyston off to America, He
We all cheered Sir Malcolm Campbell's great fent in regaining the water-speed record for Britain. There was far more to it, though, merely ploting than the new "Blue Bird."
Weeks were spent in getting the water cir- culating system of the craft right; the useless trials at 'Loch Lomond cost Sir Malcolm more than £700; on Lake Maggiore a £5,000 en- Inc ** burst"; the steering of the boat seized and nearly wrote Finis to everything. It was hard work, he tells me.
Campbell is proud of his records and the men who built the ina- chines. But It's small wonder that he sometimes asks himself K all the nerve-racking worry been worth while.
as
I have talked to all the famous speed-kings. And they all say the the honour and glory same-that sire fleeting unsubstantial things. that, after all, you cannot cat head-lines und photographs, that the speed-king of to-day will be a dim memory in a couple of years or so, and that, except for a very, very few there is no money in it.
OME of them point out, too.
that only one or who have made two motor-racing pay have red to Su enjoy the fruits of victory. many famous drivers have died
on the job."
tered o
It's fine to be a speed-king. to hear the cheers of the crowd as you cross the finishing line, to be pes- for autographs, to be the guest of honour at the banqueta of, the great. But that's a mere corner of the picture-the rest is Just hard, nerve-racking work,
Take my tip, lay oft. Unless, of course, you are determined to take the place of Campbell, Eyston, John Cobb and the rest-for some- body will.
-To-day's Thought FOR the earth that breeds the trees breeds elties, too, and symphonies.
JOHN HALL WHEELOCK.
Why Do They Learn These
ARENTS
peculiar people,
"Latin!" sneered a man I met in a train the other morning. "What's the use of Latin to anybody! Or algebra, for that matter. Or hent, light, and sound! Why don't you teach the boys something that will be useful to them in after life?"
Things?
TRAGEDY. OF DEAFNESS
THERE are welcome signs of in-
creased attention being given to the cause of the deaf in public con- ferences and in the daily Press.
Perhaps it is because we are only now beginning to realise how wide- spread is this affliction of dentness, It has recently been stated by an eminent aurist that there are at least three million people, who are hard
hearing" in the British Isles.
of
Another medical authority has de- clared that one person in every three is potentially deat.
Whether we are interested or not at the present moment in the subject of deafness, it is within the bounds of possibility that sooner or later we may be afflicted ourselves when self-interest will compel us to give it our sertaits attention.
There is perhons no affliction 30 disabling in its effects as that of deaf- ness. It is nothing less that ป tragedy to be shut out from the world of sound and to be imprisoned in tomb af silence. To become gradu- ally deaf to the sound of human voices, the song of the birds, the mur- mur of the running brook, the whilat- ling of the wind In the tree tops, is indeed sad and bitter experience. Beethoven's Grief
When Beethoven found he could not hear the sound of a flute, which gave so much pleasure to his cor- panions, he was so filled with despair that it was only love for his furt which saved him from suicide.
How mony men and women have been compelled to give up their pro- fessions through deafness? Many doctors, lawyers, ciertymen, musi- clans have found it impossible to con- tinue because their impaired hearing placed them in so many awkward and embarrassing situations.
Deafness results in a sense of isola- lion from one's fellows, far it means. for those who become stone deaf, the stentat of social intercourse, Sound is the natural link between human minds, and these in which this connection is missing or defective, must find themselves cut off from the rest of the community. They are no longer able to enjoy the pleasure of worship, the lecture, theatre, or con- cert, and thus there is the temptation to withdraw from all society and to live a secluded, isolated life.
A Strange Chintrast
If we only knew the spirit of sad- ness and despoir which fills the hearts of many whose hopes and ambitions have been checked and thwarted by deningas, we should fervently pray that we may have our hearing pre- served to the end of our days.
Let it be remembered by those who Complain of external noises that the 'majority of deaf people suffer frum incessant internal noises which almost drive to despair at times.
Yet we. And thut denfness has been enlled "the step-child amongt handi- caps." It begets more irritation, less understanding, and more ridicule than
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and in humorous papers, the deaf are often muricatured. George R. Sims, the famous author and playwright of a past generation, said that when he wanted his audience to shed tears he brought a blind man on the stage, but when he desired them to laugh, he introduced.a. deuf_man...
It is a pleasure to note that the I.B.C. has now put jokes against the deal on its Ist of barred features. We hope the day is not far distant when the deat will no longer be the but butt of thoughtless comedians, will receive that practical sympathy which their invisible disability de-
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Their cause has been ably chun pioned by Lord Baldwin, who speaks with an understanding sympathy. "The public." he says, "has very little realisation of the tragle fate of the deal. Blindness is a most terrible affliction, but from the dawn of his- tory, its victims have always met with a kind sympathy and considera- tlon which must go far to alleviate their lut. But there is not one person in a hundred who will go voluntarily to speak to a deaf person by means of an instrument. Most people make for the other side of the room, and Looked at from this point of view, when they do try and talk they seem ine value of the so-called meless sub-
to become paralysed, and their con- jects should be blindingly obvious, versation becomes unnatural The dead languages are not dead. stilted." Too long has the public Linguistically they are part of our
shown a wrong attitude to the deaf. heritage; they are an excellent means of training a boy to think clearly, and When we repose are confidence nobody ever studled Latin without in deaf peuple and cease to regard being able to speak and write better them as inferior and stupid, we shall I asked my stock question. "What,
Education for livelihood pure and English afterwards.
find they will respond to our sym- having arrived from the above ports, for example? As usual he did not simple is inpossible, except in the Unless a man uses them in win-foot-pathy and confidence, and we shall Consignees of Cargo are hereby i know..
limited sense. But education for life buil prizes, he is rarely itkely to find find them far more interesting and formed that their Goods are being
But does it ever accur to these the only sort of education worth a practical use for permutations and Intelligent than we suspected. Deaf- landed and placed at their risk in people that there are good reasons anything at all-is another matter combinations, but his thinking on ness is a tragedy in itself to the vic- the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf for the tenching of these subjects, that altogether. And this is precisely every vital issue in his life will be tim, and where there is added the And Godown Company's Godowns at they are far from being useless, and where the
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thoughtless, cleur, ridicule Kowloon, whence delivery may ba that their "use" is something far re- Museless" subjects comes in.
objective thought with which they ostracism by one's fellows, it becomes obtained.
moved from the snobbery value which Goods not cleared by the 13th is the only virtue sometimes necreålt- Education for life has several dif- and other mathematical exercises almost too much for the mind to bear. November, 1937, will be subject to ed to them?
Let us show to the deaf the same ferent objects. It should equip a boy endowed him
If he studies physics and chemistry, Does anybody really suppose that to think for himself, and to think be will not be as likely to fall a vice klad consideration we show the blind
should Damaged packages. must be left in
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much as those who dwell in dark- a whole, and cheap political theories or any other
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ARTHUR HEDLEY approximate idea of himself in rela- arm of quackery as he would if they at 2.30 p.m. within the free storage I do not know it you have ever tion to his country, his age, the world, and never disciplined his mind.
All these "useless" subjects, In period. For the examination of asked yourself what education is for, and the universe.
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1 If the owner of a shop decided lo organise his business thus, we mustn't conclude that
would go all absent-minded. 9 Fencing for fault-Anders.
he
(Such
10 Made fish lose blood.
a statement in likely to be in- correct.)
11 Have food in time always: It's
an excellent rule.
12 A simple stage transformation:
13 Something to smoke. 16 Make it work.
17 It's never.cold in crowds, that's
obvious.
18 Takes shelter in unconscious-
a suggestion: Prospero Tosca a letter.
25 Out of the plcture-long ago. 26 Farewell to Giovanni, plus tcn."
27 Ah, that's the rub.
30 It's up to him.
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Education, if it is to be worth any terest in us many facels of experience thought, will encourage him to ex- CANTON AGENTS 22 Make that a mere pumping in of mere as it can during the necessarily brief plore a dozen avenues of possible de knowledge which will be of direct period when he is under its influence, light into which he might
50 that he voluntarily and cazerly otherwise have ventured, coltinues his "real" education when
You may still, and rightly, consider he leaves school.
that the proportion of Ume given to Wiese subjects is excessive, and that In this modern world other vital mat- ters are inexcusably neglected. This und which can, with benefit, be given. The possibilities of delight in this makes them no less valuable if a due to a large number' ot children, is, world are many: the success or other sense of proportion la observed.
But please do not, mi future, dismiss when you come to analyse it, ex- wise of education is tested by the
worthless time-wasters. tremely small. Rending, writing. variety and quality of the delights them elementary mathematics, a smatter which it encourages a boy to discover They are taught because generations of educationists, men expert in their ing of history and geography-a man for himself in after life.
We have come a long way from jobs, have been convinced of their would, from a practical point of view,
education for livelihood. But jobs great value. You respect experts in get along quite well with these,
Many a man is made a forture are tending to become so stereotyped your own sphere; why not in educa- on a smaller educational equipment, and mechanical that there is a geent lon too? And perhaps they are valu- And all this can be acquired by any deal to be said for the extreme theory able in some measure precisely be. normally Intelligent child by the time that life begins at six o'clock. As cause their value cannot be trans- he is 12. It is after this that educa- Dean Ingo wrote, "The soul is dyed lated into terms of Ed.
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2 A man of rank,
3 Usually invoked twice lo go
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4 What you may get if you
monkey with a magnet.
6 That dark lady,
Not entirely covered with hale,
7 Thumes-side, village.
8 It's become a saying Ada always
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said.
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can And it.
23 Describés a clause including all. 24 A good loser in any game. 28 Catch.
29 What a mixturel
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