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WIMMIN

➡that sounds right to me

if you're talking of women

WE have allowed our ration

a guide to pronunciation. Eng- rightly pronounced Ingland and engine injin.

could be rayshon, not selves to be persuaded as now, Invariably resoun that it is not enough to

Spelling is untrustworthy face the facts we must tand face up to them. Nor is it enough to check the fucts--

Novelists who think they are we must check up on them. faithfully recording the speech of the uneducated sometimes We tolerate civil servants who

write wimmin for women, and of bottlenecks, figger for think in terms targets

ceilings From ver for Agure. If they them

selves say Government offices these words

wo-men and fig-yure

ignorant vermin

the have crept like

into

language they try to use. ordinary commerce.

Don't rush in to put priple right. Your grandmother in a young villager may say Taylock and mean what you call Wae. Either is correct, though he is modern.

And

I read in a business lette: "Due to a severe bottleneck, the ceiling has been lowered, and we have accordingly been obliged to sites the target,"

Bottlenecks, targets and cell- ings are useful

things in fart. and,

once in a while, useful in

But

bottleneckers metaphor. should remember that, literally a small bottleneck slows down output more than a large one.

Targeters should bear in mind that. distances being

equal large

or

by

DANIEL

GEORGE

lowering

bit

smali

targe!

Than

one. Ceiling

monger should realise

that Y°ER 2 % QTRY? ceilings is al-

ways a messy job.

It

The letter quoted above begins with that abomination. "Due pu," Watch

Avoid using it instead of because. The take is often due to careless- ness Had

made, due to I should have

mistake is often carelessness,"

written. "The

made a bad mistake.

Anyhow,

never begin sentence with "Due to."

CUSTOM RULES

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PRONUNCIATION is based on

custom or fashion, not on pelling or logic. Take the word pronunciation itself. When you promouner, why can it not be said that you are committing the act of pronounciation? I cannot tell you. All I can say

is that pronunciation is correct.

Pronunciation

of

When you are in doubt your- self. consult the dictionary but don't take it as infallible. Die Junaries get out of da e.

changed has

-(London Express Service)

KONDBERG

EDITORS FARZY HLAVICE, INC.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1952.

“I'm going yo mother-but we'll be back!”

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SHOULD YOUR BOSS CHOOSE YOUR WIFE?

by BERNARD HARRIS

S the time coming when themselves with the A quiz about the

big business firm will problem." actively encourage an executive to divorce his wife if she is the "wrong kind of person" from the firm's point of view?

"wife

Indeed, the suggestion was made in the course of the survey that business schools may eventually find it necessary to include in their curriculum lectures on how to make wives "a con- businesses that employ their structive influence" in the

husbands.

The results of an intrigu- ing survey extending over all types of American busi- neas suggest that the idea is not so preposterous as it may sound to Britons.

For

more and

The more

Survey shows that in American companies would America about half the con-

panies investigated made appear to be concerning

screening 3 regular practice

batore faking executive.

Sawdust-Problem For Science

ERE'S a problem that's got to be solved someday What are we going to do about saw - dust?

Owing to the

frenzied activities of my two sons, and all the others who can't look a piece of wood in the face

without wanting to cut it up. the world is being buried gradually in saw-

dust.

It

has been estimated that one-fifth of the wood for timber ultimately ends as sawdust and, so far, one has found

a good use for more than a fraction of

it.

no

You can put sawdust un public

By BERNARD WICKSTEED

18 one

javourtle horse?

This waste of the earth's But where, today, can you buy resources

of the loat of sawdust bread for your on the escut- great blots

because cheon of science, sawdust is full of the most useful raw materials that the backroom boys know of but do little about.

thal!

You can make sugar of saw- dust. I have read that 100lb of the best quality will make 65lb.

dextrose

sugar Think uf

Every year we throw Rway Lot 120,000 sacks of

Saw ewt, 2 sack dust in Britain alone. At half a that would make nearly 2,000 tons of dextrose. Yet

are still on the

a

He

You can make alcohol out of sawdust. Before the war a Swedish inventor fer- mented brewed sawdust beer.

it with yeast and used oak twigs instead of hops to give it a suitable flavour.

Sugar

house floors, in IT is always the same and is changing. Do you sound butchers' shops, markets. with these scientists. They the tin aften or listen? Both and zoos. Circuses use it the ring, and it is all right for packing bottles, stuffing teddy bears and smoking kippers,

used to be sent t's. Nowadays ΣΤΙ I offen bear often and if I lissen carefully may hear listen.

'TEA' WAS 'TAY'

A GAIN

was once pronounced eggen. £1 18 now being cald with

to rhyme Jong a's, with, say, pain." Not a cen- tury ago the best people could cali tea tay. During World Way

But every day all over the world the sawdust goes on accumulating

or has to be dumped where

it has no further use.

do the thing once to show it can be done and then you never hear of it again."

once No, not

An ingenious German made sawdust bread. for filling sausages but for feed-

ing horses.

His recipe was to ferment it, treat it with chemicals, mix with one-third of rve-flour and bald,

swalls

Sawdust sugar is just the stuff for sweets. This has been

proved. Some chocolates

wife..

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'boss class'

Did you know that in Britain One company director in ten had only an elementary school education ?

Less than hall are entitled to wear a public school Cle?

3 Eton provides three times as many company directors As Harrow?

on

H new

LS T

About one-fifth

other- wise

Acceptable trainee AD- plicants, according to one com- pany, were turned down be- cause the wives did not measure up to the standards required,

Informal visits

son it with caustic soda without taklog hamm The soda would convert the fibres into good neurishing food, and uck of minced wood or sawdun the tarder might keep you going for daya

You can make rayon sawdust, too. So if you don't formai social visits.

from HOW is the screening carried

Apparently by in like the idea of eating it you

Some could use it for clothing your-

the company's directors made a self.

point of calling on the wife in her own home.

Q

You can also make paper with it. A man unce adapted his car

that he could drive it sawdust. You can buy special stuves for burning sawdust, and, as it has been used for making bricks and flooring material, you could build a sawdust house.

Having done that you could

makes

because the excellent

out?

in

for

One to he got his frat boardroom tob before he was 30 7

The 7 average go

Appointment la director is 3 years six months and the average period of directorship in 29+ tears t

8 The peak marrying age 101 directors la 26, against 24 for the male population ? Only one in five went to One in 11. directors Daford or Cambridge

under 40: one in over 70 7

One in nine started foll Lime work before be WAI

10 Tico directors out of five have spent their entire working liver unth one firm These facts, revealed for the first time, result from a survey of the careers of directors of British businesses made for the Institute of Directors.

Is she n helpmate is she a nagger?

Does she résent him travel- survey calls a “finishing school" ling?

Does

she

publicly?

criticise

him

Another firm has gone to the length of selling up what the

for wives,

When the husband reaches the £3,000-a-year salary class The effect on a man's career grooming at the school.

wife becomes eligible for of

this 'probing may be siderable, according to thase who made the survey.

con-

number of companies adeltion to these visits checked

In one company a promising community,

the wife's popularity in the executive's progress was check- rating of the local shops.

and her "eredited because, as his boss explain-

hjs

Help is given on the choice of what should be the "pre- what to wear on all occasions. ferred shops"; where to dine;

and suitable

OT-

And introductions to "congenial ed, his wife was "negative in

people" are her attitude to the

ranged. company. She feel that business is her

life and no

hers."

Others, it was found, try to And out if the wife has money husband's were furnish your sawdust home with

of her owD.

Apparently, thy do not like the financially in dependent wife. A well-off wife, they think, tends to re- duce her husband's "economic drive," and therefore his use- fulness to the company.

led with it once and no one sawdust furniture, who tasted them could tell them material apart from those with more plastica, orthodox filings. And nobody was ill afterwards either.

eat sawdust raw.

Storage

can eatin

What part of think of

Wife-grooming

JVORCE rarely

interferes

D' with an executive's promo

do British companies these developments? Ein increasing them--believe that

Some-indeed, number of

It is a good thing for a firm to know all about an executive's family life.

the human race could make slight adjustments to its digen DOOT crops can be stored In

ve system we would be able to sawdust, hens

But most regard the power able to make all sorts of attrac is served up to them to give to high

We would be without laying wooden eggs. 2 tor promotion

When a man's name comes up

over a man's private affairs tion. Sometimes it can that could lead help him. For, says the survey, as fantastic. "It is

even which American companies teelt tive sawdust dishes, and carpen bulk to their balancer meal.

executive positions,

okin to the company's regret is temper stavery," they say. uy-mad children could eat up

questions asked In the board the mess they made before 80- uses, there is

Yet, with all these possible room of companies which have ed by the thought that the ing to bed.

"wife conscious" In- next wife "may be better for

concerned"--including problem. It is still being thrown clude:

still a

sawdust become

away: Jon't that an indictment

tions. They are called lignivor of science? Isn't that some-

Some insects have such diges-

How does his ous or wood-eating creatures thing that should be attended home?

wife run her opposed to carnivorous ortofrat before we make rockets eating ones.

Does she dress with taste? that will go to the moon?

Does she complement her husband?

We would be able to eat saw- dust if only we could sea-

London Express Service)

all

company.

One

the in-

They agree, in fact with the the "old-fashioned" American rail-

Tos boss who told vestigators: firm admitted that it. sent its executives amet op long This trips when it thought that they executives needed separating from nagging tives pick their wives.

for it's been O.K.”

railroad

picks Its and lets its execu- wives, and so

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