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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1947.
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
all the delicious non- vense talked and written лhout these debrised Test matches my favourite bit is the one which says that the English team does not take cricket seriously enough. Ye gods! Palsangulennel
And there is some dissension, THL he explains that this tap
called
The Eskimo convention. Chorus:
With my ren-tan-livy-livy-di-do: And ran-tan-tivý-livy-la!
From The No-Way Plan the first moment of the tour it SKED for an opinion on the has been clear that the thing A Strabismus No-Way Trame was being treated as a religion, Plan, a low official of the Minia- instead of as a game. I would try of Transport said: "We are: like to see a little more fun. not quite ciehr what would hap- A bottle falling from a blazer pen when the odd numbers storied
to Ko pocket; a batsman carrying a
In the opposite direction. Also, we doubt whether people girl half-way to the wicket, would agree to have their destina- before realising where he was; tions chosen for them by secret: a dance band in the pavilion; ballot.
essence of democracy, but it would: female umpires in gorgeous he difficult to apply it to private clothes; and the whole game cars which eling to the outworn; carried on to the accompani- shibboleth of individualism and ment of loud laughter and private enterprise. snatches of song, with nobody ilon,"
The secret ballot Is the;
as to destina-
caring a dog's ear who wins or A song of success loses,
Over the bridge
A
WRITER says that a game of bridge is a civilising influence. Behold the simple Eskimo Knee-deep in recking blubber What cares he for the driving
สา เช.
If he can win the rubber? Five aces
leave his mates ap- 339!,
A ruthless face, a stowy rye,
And jaws that jut ke rocks, Are the reward of those who try
To cullente their socks. Success will dog them night and
day.
If they will not forget.
To live their lives the Threpsigold
way
And wear a Garterelte.
(Advt.).
FIGHTING MEN
OF THE
ROYAL FAMILY
1
THE 'HIDDEN' MISFITS WHO ARE NEEDED BUT CANNOT GET JOBS
OVER 40
The Labour Gazette gave the March 5 un- employment figuro for Great Britain as 789,854 insured persons. This total does not include 32,325 men and 3,030 women with special pro- fessional, administrative and managerial qualifi- cations in need of jobs.
T
-and
out of
work
By JOHN DEANE POTTER
I.
Chartered
The employers' case is briefly this-
A man of over 35 is 100 settled in his ways and does not take well to now dens. Whenever an idea is put up to him he is inclined to say: "Oh,. we did not do it like that at Smith Bros, where I worked for ten years. Our method was to
not
Younger men are more plinble and Lay our methods, can be trained Pension schemes are another big ana. Men of 43 ure usually eligible to join them Yet these are the men with family and domestic responsibilities, the men who feel the need of a degree of security.
Housing is another problem. man with a family is neliber happily separated nor easily rehoused..
TOO YOUNG
THE labour experts present the THE
other side of the case. They staln employers say: Time und hinder their own chances of oblain- ing the must suitable material by asking for applicants
manifestly experienced.
tou
young
who are in- and
4
Hero Is n typical request: Chartered accountant wanted: frat clans professional and, commercial experience, #D1 over 35.
Now if they thought for a moment they would realise what an im- is. A young possible request that inan of that age has inevitably come out of the Forces. Employers must reallee, say the experts, that a man of 35 these days has nothing like the continuous experience that a man of the same age bad in 1939. of 42-45 is far more likely to be best suited to the post:
ex- accountant,
A man
The Idea of training' malleable ways, but there are drawbacks. An older man with imagination and great deal of experience can bring fresh ideas, based on bis previous work, to a new job.
THE Ted-haired girl in the The cases I have quoted are blue overall tapped the mot rare. Any employer look- kéys of a teleprinter in a ing for an executive today could Bloomsbury office and 13 of make his chibice from such men
I have Britain's chief cities received as these.
seen their details of jobs from the London names on the files-waiting. Appointments Office.
Twice a day, the national net- squadron-tender, knowledge of two young men is admirable in many work of teleprinters chatters languages. Aged 40, of the King's two nephews of
2. Chartered civil engineer. Spent AGAINST the pale grey whe
of the North Sea lay the service age, sons of his sister, Lord out vacancies. If one city has a
Lascelles, was taken prisoner when job they cannot fill, it is put on 20 years with a firm of consulting the Royal En-. dark grey shape of a British dangerously wounded. At the age the printer: within an hour of rs. Join
A young man will fall easily Into gineers in 1940, come out with the destroyer, down by the, bows, of 18 he enlisted in the Brigade of
time-hallowed ways which may not be- necessarily be the best, simply her upper-works a confusion of
rank of lieut-colonel. Aged 43. twisted metal. She was slowly ran
cause he lacks the experience to do otherwise. moving, like a wounded animal, the famous Eighth Army, protecting The system works well, but followed by two years' post-graduate
A passing a party of Royal Engineers who
on railway game to the end.
But it is the employers who have clearing roads. Ho was at one point it breaks down, research. Three years British warship, fearing she were
work, six years engineer in charge the last word, no matter how telling are the arguments put up by tho of a coke oven plant. Ten years experts. would be a danger to other wounded in the leg and stomach be- This fast-moving, modern or- fore being captured. But "the roads vessels, signalled "Abandon were cleared: the advance continu-ganisation, set up by the Minis- engineer in docks and harbour board, Engineers. ship, and I will sink you."
is chocked by Five years with Royni try of Labour, "While waiting to reach call-up "If you fire on me, I shall ram
a some of Britain's best-trained Aged 50. twinkled age, Lord Lascelles worked in you! the answer
munitions Inctory. So did his brains who cannot get jobs. 4. Insurance effice manager, de back from the destroyer, like a younger brother, the Honourable
and over again their mobilised six months ago with the smari from a dog who meant it. Gerald Lascelles, who, on his 18th Over
birthday,
joined mes are tapped out, only to rank of cut-colonel. Had his own Rifle Brigade
wounded The destroyer was HMS Kelly
her Captain was Lord Mountbat-
and
Louis
ten, one of the
the British Royal
fighting-men
Guard's anal served his time in the the job arriving in the office ranke. On a night of June, 1844.applicants are on offer.
well he was on patrol,
in front
rel
By
DONALD CLIVE ANDERSON
Family. He brought his ship
to German-held
the
ES man.
3. Mechanical
engineer.
a private rifle-return. They are too old at 40. business in the East. Aged 30.
News was an
Men like Mr L. He is a con- later released, after
Two-thirds of his men were killed roadside ditches. For len
the
FRUSTRATED
B.Sc.
WRNS-the equal of a naval captain
ONLY
HOPE
every few minutes the tele-, printers click in Bloomsbury and
a man or a woman finds a job. But the teleprinters seldom bring
good news for a mun over 40.
any
One of them, a planning engineer, aged 42, said to me ruefully as he walked away: "Our only hope is for
over 40 register-just as they have for the disabled. Because we art crippled, you know."
the Ministry of Labour to start
CROSSWORD
his promotion, of sulting engineer, a member of hin leading
anthe Institute of Mechanical En- MOST of these lob-seekers went on to war work at the beginning of attack upon town in Holland.
All his professional the war either in the Services or in gineers. salled Snow lay thick on the ground while life he has been a works mana- industry. Now that they have re- port, had her repaired and
This age group contains some of her to the Mediterranean where in. he and his platoon awalted
our most talented, trained minds.at running fight she finally sank. moment for the assault, lying inger supervising the making of turned to their peacetime life-some
with slightly higher standards of the peak of their ability. Yet Bri- nimiter
ranks tish industry, fighting for its life in and he swam with the rest, leading British artillery pounded the houses tanks, guns, shells, airplanes. Hiving-they have joined the
to have front. Then flame-throwing He was a production officer at of industry's frustrated rejects-be the postwar work, seems them in song and heartening them In
decided to Ignore their experience. with sailors' Jokes, till they
were "crocodiles" moved up to
support the Air Ministry before he was cause of age. rescued.
the Infantry. Shouting the word to go, Lieutenant Lascelles jumped up released from Government ser- The story for women of 40 is even ted his men vice 12 months ago. He has sadder. A former superintendent of Queen out of his ditch ond This great-grandson al
down the road through a hall of Victoria, who became Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Spandau bullets. He stands 11th in applied for over 60 jobs; from East Asin, was the member of the succession to the Throne.
and a chlet commander in the A.TS. cannot get administration jobs Drilish Royal Family who perhaps enme most into the public eye
Another Royal Serviceman
even i £5 ̄ ̄week, although they for
Duke of Connaught, fighting service during World War the second
controlled thousands of women dur broke out, wur 11. But distinction was earned in who, when
the Ing the war. several
officer. After others. His sailor serving as a junior
officers, High-ranking He battle by nephew, 24-year-old Lieutenant the two years nelive service in Marquess of Milford Haven wan Middle East he was taken 111
He has written 140 letters in nn- women, always cause appointment officers to mop their brows. Ad- mentioned in despatches twice and went into hospital in Cairo.
died later in of
Canada. Another then his name was again heard
to
and advertisements
mirals and generals--the men who when HMS Kandahar was lost. For young man of the same branch of Ser
Family
to victory-are devoilon the
Captain called personally on 45 firms, directed Royal "coolness, leadership and
with
the generally regarded as unusable in to duty" on that occasion he received Alexander Ramsay whose battalion He is registered
of the Grenadier Guards formed the OBE. In the perilous when the little Island of stood in the path of the
Ix
WAN
was
most of them he has not even had n-reply.--He-is-63---
Or like Mr R., a mechanical engineer, released. from thu
ago. Navy nine months
and
das part of the seaborne Invasion of Appointments Office and five industry.
QUALIFIED
Malta North Africa and was engaged in private agencies. He is 40, German and Italian conquest of Egypt and manding a company in an
a bloody battle. While com- attack that the Axis planned so might link
up with Japan
his near, Medjez, Captain Ramsay lost anti-tank bravery and
tion a leg when hit by an dauntless
resolution during days and nights of relentless shell. attacks by submarines, aircraft, and surface vessels brought to him the Distinguished Service Cross.
Indeed every male member of the British Royal Family.who was
Two other members of the Royal Family of fighting age were
THESE men were vital in war
time's expanding industry, To be as- Lord derelicts in peace. Frederick Cambridge and the Mar-sociate members of the three quess of Cambridge. Lord Frederick
of went to France with the Cold-great engineering bodies-the service nge sought his post of duty stream Guards at the beginning of Institute of Civil Engineers,
as near to the enemy as he could the war. Ilis regiment fought at Mechancial Engineers or Elec-
get. Death and wounds did not the evacuation from Dunkirk, and
WAB Frederick killed. pass them by. The King's youngest Lord
The trical Engineers takes ten brother, Alr Commodore the Duke Marquess of Cambridge was
pre-
of specialised training. flying vented by bad, eyesight from join-years of Kent, lost his life while with the Royal Air Force on active ing a fighting regiment. As a next-It often includes a university duly. Another brother, the Dulce best-thing he found himself useful of Gloucester until
lia's Governor-General-was
work looking after soldiers' welfare degree and costs over £1,000. vas wound in the field and sought to do this To be a fully qualified engineer
heart
work as near the line of action as
recently, Austra
as a
Major-General wossible.
Thus the men of Britain's
while serving 1940. The was with his
in
the
British
ed wealth, endure
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
Sydney GREENSTREET
Pater LORRE
BACKGROUND to DANGER
NEXT CHANGE
WESLEY RUGGLES TECHNICOLOR PRODUCTION OF
“LONDON TOWN"
nt the
OI
Britain
men
or
Now experts who hold the pulse of the delicate labour market are worried because the age ceuing 13 dropping. Very alten nowadays mart of 35 is fortunate if he lanüs a
permanent position with prospects. Yet these are the men who were only 27 when the war began,
DUMB-BELLS
REGISTERED US. PATENT OFFICE WHAT WILL
IT COST
TO SEND
TELEGRAM
?
Royal
takes just as long and costs as much as it does doctor.
wives,
to become a
in the bombardment of London, Family served their country In war. On ten occasions high-explosive Their womenfolk-mothers.
Unemployed doctors are rare. bombs burst on his house and in sisters,
in its
and daughters-with no less grounds, not counting innumerable poignancy than other women, knew But if you are over 40, an ac fire-bumbs; but his Royal Standard, the unbearable anguish of walling countant, an architect, an office still flew defiantly above the roof for good news from, their loved
top to cheer his subjects, weary ones, of fearing bad news; and of executive, an engineer-or a from nights of horror, for by the receiving, sometimes, the dread tele- woman Royal Standard they know, the gram containing the worst news of King is still in London.
all.
NANCY It Might Hit Any Minute
OH, DEAR ---I BETTER
GET STARTED ON
MY HOMEWORK
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your
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employment
WHERE
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MEHOW THAT HOMEWORK DOESN'T SEEM VERY IMPORTANT
When You Feel Tired
and Restless
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and
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