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THURSDAY, February 24, 1036.
MAJOR PROBLEM
True story
of a man who
tried
THE dinner was given by the
chamber of commerce speel-
ally in his honour. After mak- ing his speech Mr. Bennison sat down. As ugnal, it had been a
success.
Gracefully he had accepted the cnormous silver dish, sultably in
to retire
scribed, presented to him by the The "Mr. Bennison” of this article exists, but
members of the chamber on his re- flrement.
that is not his name. He retired recently, a
The Inscription harped, upon his great labours since the war in the rich man. This is what he did with his leisure. cause of the community. The e- tablishment of a chain of stores, the foundation of the chamber of com- merce itself, stood to Mr. Bennison's credit.
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declined to have his chauffeur with him.
Two-thirds
of the stock in the shop had made a bonfire in the gar den, and new goods had been im- He was undoubtedly rich; in the At a speed betting an elderly ported. The food had been separat- garage next to his house on the gentleman he drove into the deep ed from the lingerie. The latter was edge of the town was a Rolls-Royce country, making for a village with Mary's special province. She knew A month earlier Mr. Bennison's a trout stream which he had fished that girls in the country like dainty company had been made public and in the past There was no fishing undies just as much as girls in the investors had scrambled for shares in now, and when the carly twilight town, and she ordered stock accor- it at prices which the founder thought was coming, he decided to telephone dingly. were ridiculously high,
Mary to let her know that he was
All this had happened in eighteen safe, that he would be home in a active years; for at the end of the couple of hours. war ex-Priváte Bennison had return- At the post office in the village sity had been
During their first week as shop- keepers the takings were twelve pounds; by the second week curio- Just over nino
ed to his cottage, his wife, and his (call it Springleap) he called up his takings dropped satisfied, and the
two children, and hoped in vain to wife; coming out, of the telephone pounds, get back the job he had left three box, he looked around him. years, earlier.
By the middle of June (they had
May) tha And now he was rich, respected, MR. BENNISON had never been gone to Springleap in and, from this very moment, officially
to Springleap post office before, hikers were in the village regularly retired,
and he disapproved of what he saw each week-end, and the takings roac
:
now.
Mr. Dennison hind the counter,
"Much business?" he asited.
to 17 pounds.
an
four
and pounds
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FOR BRITAIN England's "Keep Fit Cam- OR three months he was happy To one who had drawn up model Mary cheerfully started a Christ- paign" has been launched and doing nothing. He played a good regulations for the proper governing mas club. The post office business sustained with such vigour as cally in the garden and in the green- tressing to see n jargo bom hanging with
out by Mr. Bennison) deal of golf, and poltered optimisti- of seventy-eight shops it was dis- was carried
efficiency never before to be faintly surprising to those house.
next to a ripe display of Gents Sox. known in that or probably in any
other village. in Hongkong who have always By the beginning of the fourth Mr. Bennison was about to hurry- imagined Britain to be an "AI"month he was becoming restless, so out; but habit was too strong for
he and his wife spent four weeks at him. He turned to the woman be- B of the seventeen pounds only nation physically, and who find Bournemouth. Still Music of the Spheres. Waltz. (J. Strauss}'
few chillings were proft. That, in Mr. Played by Viennese Waltz Orchestra.it difficult to believe a national became irritable and visibly older.
Bennison's opinion, was not enough. His wife was a patient woman; she drive is necessary to make the knew something must happen; so me and my man seeing as how we're due to the fact that he had to keep "Not a lot, sir, but it don't worry He decided that the small profit were country worthy of the clitssi-she waited.
going to leave soon. Trouble is, such a large and varied stock and fication. Much of the propa-
One morning Mr. Bennison woke things nowadays even though it is quantities.
to buy that he had to buy in such small people go into Longbourn ganda for this campaign has up and saw that snow was falling twelve miles away and costs one
He groaned, for he had nothing to do and six return
So, on a Saturday morning, he took been clever and subtle, Sir that day, and he would have to stay shall sell the business to whoever his car (a Morris), and went to the
by bus. But Kingsley Wood, as Minister of in the house. As he watched the takes over the post office. I suppose." next village, six miles further out Health, has been propagandist-anow, he had a sudden thought. in-chief, but Minister of Labour "Mary," he said to his wife whọ night,” Ernest Brown's appeal to house-was still lying in bed, "I'm bored, wives to reveal weekly house-with doing nothing."
"What are you going to do about something on his mind, and went to owned the shop. She, incidentally, logically as part of the move-it? she asked. ment. It is unlikely either has "I don't know yet," he replied. told the public all the facts prompting this campaign. Cer-THE snow gave place to rain in the ama tainly the press has not done afternoon, and by the following
morning only puddles remained,
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from Longbourn. There he arranged! "Yes," said Mr. Bennison. "Good to buy the village store.
A bright-looking girl was engaged He went back home, said nothing to serve behind the counter in place to Mary, who saw that there was of the old crone who had previously
bed.
was more than 'thankful to receive a fair price for her Uny business. She
ON the following morning Mr. Ben- promptly put the money into Nation- nison rose early, cursed his al-Savings Certificates, thereby in selatica-it had been far worse since creasing the post office turnover at he had retired-went in to Long-Spring leap still more. bourn and had a long talk with the
been installed in the small house
such things ME
THE QUESTION
1.
ARISES
Who were Gog and Mago#7 2. How did the hat-trick derive its name?
3. What is the significance of America's Thanksgiving Day?
4. Why are some things said to be "not worth a mp"?”......
B. Which is the longest river in the world?
6. When was the celebrated Eton College founded"
7. What is a Carpet Knight?
B. Who Invented the first steamboat?
D. Where is the Gate of Tours? 10. How dkl the expression "Hobson's Choice" originate?
11. Why Is it considered lucky
to pick up horseshoe?
12. What is a glutton?
13. When was Great Britain
so, called for the first time?
14. What is meant when a 'university grants a degrro · in
"honoris causa"?
15. How is the word "navvy" derlved?
10. Why does not a spider be- como entangled in its own web? 17. Who wrote "How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour?
18.
Where was Mormantam founded, and by whom?
19. What is a pot-hunter? 20. Why is a woman who marries a widower with children called a step-mother?
(Answers Below)
THE "VERY IDEA"
Crisis In Hongkong: No More Kelly Chits
By Eddie Kelly, Foreign Mister
NEWS of the political crisis in England is likely to be overshadowed by grave developments in Hongkong.
Captain Anthony Edward Kelly may refuse to sign any further chits unless the Hongkong Hotel recognises his signature.
Mr. Neville Taggart is almost certain to accept Captain Kelly's resignation.
It is feared, however, that Mr. Taggart will find little sup- port from the Hongkong Hotel bar boys.
Withdrawal of Captain-Kelly from active participation in Hong- kong Hotel affairs of State will, it Is feared, mean serious financial loss to these supporters of the Taggart regime.
"Captain Kelly has regularly pald his cumshaw in cash," one of tho boys said this morning.
Premier Taggart is likely to be adamant.
"If we do not refuse to accept Captain Kelly's signature there is almost certain to be war with Signor Grayburn,” he said.
Reception of the news of the crisis is varied.
MH. THOMSON (Secretary,
· Dairy | Farm Co): "Náturally, we ara delighted. Captain Kelly will
· doubtless · turn his energies to our milk.
J. H RUTTONJEE (Director) Hongkong Brewery): This is a calamity. Capt. Kelly is deserting the Entente Cordiale.
P. CHESSEX (Gloucester Hotel): Fremler Taggart has our fullest support.
full 40 per cent. of mentally sub-supply of milk to schoolchildren, ANSWERS TO "THE QUESTION ARISES"
atten- free clinical treatment,
To take out a Rolls-Royce on such postmaster. Then he went to Spring- This shop was not such a big suc-| The campaign is obviously dirty roads was deplorable, but that leap asked to see the books of the cesa as the other for the village was designed to make Britain's youth was what Mr. Dennison did, and he little shop, rejected with scorn the much smaller than Springtcap. But healthier and stronger, for it is
demand of the woman and her man it justified its existence, especially as recognised that the future of the
for £800 for the business, and made the stock included country is in youth's hands. sub-normal children exist among them a cash offer of £550, which in were bought by the more well-to-do TIFFIN CONCERT PROGRAMME Furthermore, they are being the large families, the personnel Mr. Bennison's private opinion was local residents who did not like hav- still twenty-five pounds too high ing to run into Longbourn every time challenged by the youth of the of which ranges anywhere from judging from the state of the stock. they wanted anything more luxurious than slab chocolate or a pair of boot- Continent, notably the well six to thirteen. Investigators | At home again he broke the news laces. physically trained youngsters of have also discovered that more to Mary that he was now the owner Alozart. Italy and Germany. The United often than not the sub-normal designate. She took the news very had almost decided to have still of a village store and sub-postmaster WHEN I last saw Mr. Bennison, he States continues to produce the Fall world's greatest athletes, and child is a later member of the calmly, and together they decided to another shop in one more village. He sell their house, such of the furniture looked about ten years younger than although this is not necessarily family. The history of such as they would not need at Spring- he did at the chamber of commerce Massenet, an
accurate indicator of the child will often reveal malnutri- leap, and the Rolls-Royce.
dinner nearly a year ago, and he was Violin Solo. P. Esdakoff. average standard of physical tion as an infant, or birth at a
Then the two of them went to putting on weight, and mental ability in Amerien, time when the mother no longer Bournemouth again. Mr. Bennison
Mary was quite comfortable at- It is reasonably fair basis on posscssed the physical means of enjoyed it this time because he was tending to the drapery. She had which to assume that standard. nurturing the child. With this busy, not playing golf, but deciding never really liked the bridge and the
what he would do with hla store, The British Government has mental deficiency, often goes
dinner pariles which had been part; form of physical
of the life of the wife of a success- Plano Solo, Geo, Flo-Ulskl. good reasons to feel despondent, some
for among the things which Sir tardation. That the authori- A MONTH later, a bathroom had ful business man Kingsley Wood has not told the ties have long recognized the behind the post office, and the Denni- Both Mr. and Mrs. Bennison were
happy, but they were not retired. public is that the majority of dangers threatened by such avons had moved in. the Council and Government situation is revealed by their elementary schools in the urban increasing efforts to effect and industrial districts carry a counter measures. Free daily
normal pupils on
the dance lists. In many cases the creation of Playing Fields Asso- sub-normality ia such that cintions for the annexation of
an enormous appetite. pupils cannot be placed into areas to be used as playgrounds and Mager in the Bible, but in British 8. A Spaniard named. Garay in 1643
1d. When King James of Brotlenc classes ordinarily established by for the kiddies as well as for legend they represent the sole survivors wheels, which revatred by the agency of so united the two countries (1004).
drove a boat of 200 tons with paddle
became King James 1. of England and the school's curriculum, but have adults, and now the national of a monstrous brood sprang from the belling water. The Charlotte Dundas
14. The recipient dens not have to to be graded in standards of "Keep Fit Campaign". The infamous daughters of the Emperor was the first practical teamboat. It pass the unani examinations. The do
gros is awarded to him "for the sake For Reservations please 'phone 27775
mentality. Neither is it possible campaign is timely. It is vital. Diocletian. They were brought to Lens built on the Clyde, Scotland, in
of honour." with this type of pupil for the But it only scratches at the don in chains, and made to do daty s 1801.
9. The passage into the Red Brn. It
1. A contraction of navigator. Canals teachers to adopt the usual surface, and does nothing to rid porters at the royal palace, on the was nained thus by its Arabe because of
were thought of as lines of Inland waY- the number of shipwrecks that took
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10. From the burless methods of one') which rentually was abortoned to to social distresses which appear the reign of Henry V.
4. A bowler who took three wickets Tobias llobson, = carcide and Innkeeper
"navries": Inborious and heart-breaking] to be among the root causes of with three successive bails tamil to be at Cambridge in the 17th century.
Id. Due to the fact that the spider methods in which progrean is such A porturbing stato of entitled to a new hat at the expense of When a person came to hire a horse
walks on the comb-like claws of 12 from Hobson he was obliged to take
foot, hardly discernible. Cases are affairs. Ordinary commonsensé
which, because they are, vory 3. A custom dating back from the the animal which stood nearsit the
etooth, can be booked into and lifted not uncommon where pupils are scoms to demand that legisla- | Thanksgiving Day Castalds by the doors that particular, horse or nona at
out from the throat with ears....... so mentally deficient that they tion be effected which will enable Mayflower Pilgrims after their firat all. The customers had no choice, an
17. Ioane Watt "Divina Songs hervest In 1012 Colebrated on the the proprietor's, attitude was “inko it re-act strangely to the seasons, the future youth of England to a Thursday in November, 13 le marked -or lanve it."
18. In the New England State of Ver- and by their bohaviour threaten be born and reared under condi« | #specially by family reunions.“
11. This superatliton traces back to mont, by Joseph Bralth, in 1630. le www.cited 39 times. Into court of law, 4. To insticate that a thing la praeli- the times when it was thought that
AND WAS SAKusinated by a gano' of rusta. selves and to their classmates. for normal mental and physical | istipenny, intrinsically worth about half a protection against the witches, fans while in prison. His successor War These conditions are known to development. This is not the farthing, siresinted in Ireland. In 1721, Legend talla do that one day the devil Brigham Young, who led the "flaints,"
anked the farrier-saint Donaten to driven by force from home, to: Utah,... operate to n large extent in the entire problem. But it is approximately 1,700 miles long.
8. The Amakon in South Americni shoe bis "single hoof." Recognising the where they settled. big cities, where sub-normality very large part of it, and its 4. In 1440 by Money VI, DA
avil one, Danaten proceeded with the 49, One who in athletic contents, Ac, Job, but porponely hurt him so badly is as prevalent among the boys removal would constitute a big as among the girlo, big step towards creating that "A1" It is significant, and should be claas of nation which the British a timely pointer to the authorl. I Government so urgently desires. ties, that 90 per cent, of theạo -S.AG.
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20. The profit. "atep”. Indiosten" that
7. One who sains, a. knighthood for that he roared for mercy. The Devil on the battle-floid. An ancient express would notre enter a place where that services randared to the nation, but nei wartelenned con-condlifari that - ha alon, it probably alludes to the penfar- ha pary a horseshoe displayed and the personzepaken of in a relativa only.
living", in * North | once shown by non-martial nights for 12, An animal
Amarlen, A... kind of - wessel, it grows kó a length of shout three fest and has
the "carpeted · drawing-room- over: the
by marriage. It comes from the Anglo- laten warsi stang, whic) la connected "with" "Kaffeped, meaning lisatod,