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Further frauds in Market Har bourough, where Dicketts called himself Captain Lathom, saying he had taken a hunting box for, the season, were related by Mr. Percy Clayton, for the Director of Public Prosecutione.

THE CHINA

MAIL.

THE HABITS OF THE GERMANY

PARIS EDITOR..

1

ON

THE

JOB!

The Office "At Home" "Out-of-Date" British

Day.

Salesmen.

AFFABLE AND ACCESSIBLE.

A LONDON COMPLAINT.

Paris, June 30. What are British manufacturers During

the

deendes, Paris doing, to arrest the decline in our editors have, boen renowned for foreign trade? How far have they their accessibility; seldom are they followed the advice of the Prince of so overwhelmed by work and other Wales. to bring our salesmanship- eares that callers are sent

away up-to-date and raise it equal to the eursing and lamenting, The standard of British workmanship? visitor with an idea for an interest- These questions are prompted by

ing article is attentively latened a letter to the Sunday Dispatch from to by a sympathetic host, who "H.H.S.," a member of the Junior- presses upon him a cigarette from Carlton Club, who draws on actual

little yellow packet-containing experience.

де to give

alarming twenty for five-pence-halfpenny picture of the inefficiency of British Should the caller be-n person of sales methods, and by contrast, the social, eminence, he is escorted to superlative sales organisation of our the front door; if the aspirant for German competitors. literary distinction shows that In the Grand Hotel of the most franes are scarce with him, the interesting editor is none the less courteous. (writes"H.H.S.") an Englishman eppital in Europe Ever polite.

arrived with an enormous amount The redacteur en chef" also of luggage, and took a large sitting} sets apart one afternoon in the room on the Arst floor. He repre- week for receiving those who de-sented one of the sire an interview. From half-past the midlands.

oldest firms in two till four o'clock a file of callers When he invited passes graceful compliments with him, make known their suggestions and blow the usual cloud of smoke. Those who are, so to speak,

me to see his

samples I expressed astonishment that his list of goods, was printed in English and that the prices were marked in £ s. d. He replied that

of the approved outside staff have his arm supplied the lists. He could not wasted their time, nor that of not understand German.

the editor, past services having made a name for them.

Nobody whom I saw came into his Others, room, and two or three days later though unable to derive benefit when I again inspected his extra- from the visit, are not altogether ordinary collection of travelling discontented; they at least have bags, hunting knives, and othe been cordially received. Before the last visitor has left, the waste that he had sold nothing.

things was not surprised to hear paper basket is heavy with wrap- pers in which cigarettes once were: housed. The ashtray is omptied; many times.

patience

In a word, Paris editors are most arble-they have no with "the divinity that doth hedge a King.". No frills.

German Contrast.

This Englishman appears to have spent about £50 in the hotel, but did no business. He eventually left for Constantinople and Egypt, and perhaps the Khyber Pass.

After seeing off this energetic, pushing, highly trained commercial His Sad Fate.

traveller I found Д gentleman "Monsieur" usually is, alas, ill-standing at the door of the hotel. paid, compared with the salaries He handed me his card, and asked obtaining in America and England. me to do him the honour of going He may have successfully edited up to his room, which was on the 1 paper for many years without top floor. earning more than a living wage;

"I must be off in a day or two,"

as to putting by sufficient to pur he said, "I have been following the chase a madest annuity, that is out English traveller for the past month of the question. Nor do his duties all the way from Ostend, and I afford him leisure in which to shall keep on following him. write for other publications, unless

"Look here," he continued. "My

he is charged with the conduct of samples do not exceed 541b, in

never

as orders.

"Everything I have is a sample- my hat, my umbrella, my collar, my studs, cigarette-case pocket-book and pen- my watch, my clothes, cil, even my boots.

3 magazine. The best that unweight and I represent 52 German editor of a flourishing daily paper firms. can hope for is a pension, when, at three months and pays me one mark Each firm appoints me for the age of seventy, or thereabouts, a day and 2 per cent. on all I book] he is past work. The "redacteur en chef" who retires on a compas sionate allowance of £8 a month thinks himself lucky and reases blessing his late employers. One unfortunate, elderly man was lately retired, through illness, on 25 a month, and informed that an exception had been made in his сазе. Happily, the recipient of this bounty has since drawn my early morning coffee. I took up prize in the State lottery, a stroke the coffee cup and said to the man- of luck which has resulted in from? I think we could supply you ager, 'Where do you get these cups greatly improved health. He is the with better at 25 per cent. cheaper.

envy of all shelved editors.

Occasionally

"Now the first day when we (tha English traveller and I) arrived at this hotel I went downstairs to have

Show me the invoice.""

a far - seeing journalist, who numbers amongst I could let him have better coffee "I read it, and then told him that his acquaintances adventurous capitalista, "strikes it lucky." Per cups and tea cups, plates, etc., suading those with mo ey that a

with the monogram of the hotel new venture can be made to pay cont. less than he was paying.

engraved upon. them, for 33 per he secures the necessary capital, and, with the assistance of a push- ing advertisement - canvasses,

4

Room Free...

"I then sald to the manager* *If

I do this, what will you charge me for my room? The reply was,

ing.'

"SCOUNDREL"

WHO father entrusted him with Belgian makes a success of the paper. Or and French françs,, worth £19 3. a wealthy tradesman with political MARRIED GIRL OF 15.5d to change into- English aspirations, having become Nothing; we "make" by your com- money, but he never received "depute," runs weekly news. this.

"Then I did similar business with sheet, in which his views (lcked) into shape by the editor) are made regard to the teaspoons, forks and known to all France. The "redac-knives, and got, beside my room, my teur en chef" "touches" from early breakfast as long as I was in thousand to fifteen hundred francs his hotel. By dinner time I had a month, according to the politt booked orders for glass, blanket's, Walter Arthur Charles Dicketts.

cian's generosity. In either case a

plated things, for tea and coffee, aged 30, described as a company

miserable remuneration.

sheets, etc, and got contracts by! Dicketta admitted all thr The man who is thus employer which I had all my food free and manager of ruc Desrenarde, Parle, charges and saked that other writes almost every word of the two bottles of wine a day. was sentenced to twelve months' offences should be taken into four pages constituting the diminu "The manager told me the direc- hard labour by the Marylebone consideration.

tive journal; his principal's week-tors of the company magistrate on saveral warrants Dicketts was granted a temporary earns the monthly dole,

Detective-Sergeant Smith said | ↳ leader excepted. He certainly pleased, as he had placed orders at three to six months, credit and had charging him with fraud and commission in the R.A.F. during

minde a saving of $15,000." fraudulent conversion of money. the war, and in 1981 was depriv

Dickotts had been brought toed of permission to retain his London from Hamburg, following Army rank on being convicted by

civli power. extradition proceedings, and it was stated that he had been in custody for nine months at Salz-

burg, Austria, where he had been

Rentenced for fraud.

It was stated that he had weed

Greece to Mexico,

:

were very

Limited Knowledge.

Perhaps I should add that by way tion. Few have omitted to pass the the German knew three languages Paris editors are men of educa- of contrast to the British traveller examination for "baccalaureat perfectly in addition to his own (B.A.), while some, who decorate His catalogues were In seven the higher walks of editorial languages-German, French, Ita- circles, sport (in the uppermost lan, Polish, Russian, Greek, and button-hole of each coat in their Slav

bestowed in recognition of educa not? wardrobe) the purple rosette We have not got the men-why

He went into business and lost and had since done film work at all he had in the trade slump,

been a publicity agent in France, politics are concerned, editors have and a cross-country running event Elstree and Cricklewood, and had tional services to France. Where a number of names and in the Greece, and the Near East. ürst caso had obtained money had also acted as secretary to a Frenchmen are born politicians, errors have been pointed out to He ever been well-informed, for-all as "un cross." These and similar from: Douglas. Marks, a profes- rancher in Mexico. slonal entertainer, by posing as a

This general knowledge in other various ignoramusea, who, looking publicity agent for an America the officer said: "We regard. him desired, unless it concerns the land take umbrage at the attempt to dat Proving previous convictions, directions leaves something to be upon the correction as shear folly, film company. He said he could as a clever and plausible wind in which they have been brought them on the right path French help Marks to make money in. America and received £15" from

up. The French even when they men consider themselves Since his arrest in Austria are well-to-de-hate travelling and fallible.

ney to America,

Short Married Life

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him towards the cost of his jour-Dicketts, added the detective, had the experience which is acquired Every now and then an editor written a number of stories and by intercourse with the world at in called upon to fight a duel, his had expressed his intention of large. None care to improve their political opinions being resented trying to earn his living hy an minds in the right direction. Aby the person who has been attack- he posed as the manager of thorship - The detective had pity, deped. The combatants meet in the

At Leigh-on-Sea, it was stated,

New York firm, saying his salary was £1,200 a year, and married a girl who was understood to be under 16 years of age. Within a short time he left her and she re turned to her parents. The girls

found the stories "very readable. Dicketts, after being sentenced, neked to have everything cleare up so he could be free from fear of rearrest and could start a new life.

Although the editor is no Bois de Boulogne, the pistol or foll lingulat, he uses an occasional doing the business for which these English word in his leaders, and deadly weapons are intended. fauorrectly. The Paris Jockey Sometimes the encounter is blood- Club is alluded to as "le"Jockey" less, the pair kitsing and making

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