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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4,1958.

Of course, you are an upright oltizen-or are you? Do you, for instance, regard the railway as fair game for a fiddie ?

ONESTY, in most cases, is not a virtue. It is the policy that pays the biggest divi- But sometimes there arises the situation in which it is possible to be a shade less than honest, and get away with it.

dends.

How do you behave in that situation ? Which sort of honesty is yours 7

Is it the kind that merely keeps you respectable, or the kind that is applied uncompromisingly no matter what the

cost?

Today the Sunday Expres Prychological Couuliant poser 20 questions which wl! And out.

and

This ta a qula which will puncture panity deception becituse

the obvious"

highest points

times they do not

If you saddeni

ariti someljars in the

and reme

that

for the last month you have unintentionally been using

season ticket which had venired would roun

fa town 597

Chi Realize you wie na to

a good ting man einers

on sing it 2

fci Buy

*

SUSAKUS

ticket and keegi au et About your mah Free tri ?

* Do you always tell the shop keeper he has given you

too much change 7

(a) Yo

tu No

3 Do you coulder if reasonable

to give a made-up excuse for

retuning an invllatión?

4

( Yea

(b) No.

When do you think our cân

tall wille to a chilữ -

+8) Ta krẹp « surprise,

When they ask awk. ward questions

(c) avoid unpleasant facts like a death Adi Rever

5 What to your attitude in the

Customs

You don't bother

declare anal objects.

cb it in Jup to get away

with

Bittle

wine.

(c) You

T

extra

always decture everything un principle.

(d) You

(DDS! Things in case your

sunrelied luggage is

John

JOHN MASEFIELD'S

are

HOW HONEST

ARE YOU?

TRAINS

6 o su niways give you furt

La anather padenger 1 the conduciär is_bei_acuund aben vou fear the bus

In Yes mo, No

7 Do you disapprove of evautum

of occasional laconte tax of

a sapati, scale?,

ARLYES

the No

Can you recollect an incident

for childhood when you pos away with a small theft or the ?

(A) Yes

(b) No

Do you think there is any barm in not selling the whole truth when answering applies- Clons for a job

[] Yes,

(b) No

10 Have you ever used an Irish

peany in a lot machine or Lelephone box ?

(Ai Yes

(b) No.

If you knew that your son (or daughter) had cheated -ir-gn-important--eism-would-

YOU-

(a) Go and tell the neao

teacher ?

Board,

thau

(a) Yes, 76 No.

Individual?

Mortlic

10

Theat

Bo

13:flave you ever told a good story About yourself lopress an audiencë ?

(a) Yes.

(b) No.

14 if you were discussio

polities with your boss and tis views were different from vodzu, would you

(a) Just say falt y

wisnt

700

ib Agree with him t

(c) Be noncommittal ?

15 Do you always Day Your share in a restaurant or in pub

(Yes.

1 No

16 Have you ever taken a year off your chlid's age to st something half-price

(a) Yer

(No

17 Have you ever helped spread

a rumour about someone you don't "

(Yes

(b' No

18 Would you ever tell fix to

shield a friend?

CB Yea

b. No

19 Can you tell a lie without

blushing:

In Yes

1b No

20 Have you looked at the abawers below while doing shis qu'x?

la Yes *****NOT**

HERE IS YOUR HONESTY RATING

:

1. (R=G: (x=1;

(C)=3.

(1)=0; (b) m2. 15. 7. (A)=1; (b)

13. (A)=3; (b)m). 14. far; {b} = 1;

32; (b)=0.

a

10. (ami; (b) 3.

(c) 3.

(b) 3.

(5) -0. (b)=2.

4 (8m3; tbuml;

(c)=2; (d)-0.

5. smart

(b Congratulate yourself

on having

chlid 7

(c) Have a serious tulk

with him (or hor)?

12 Do you think it is less dis honest to cheat irge organisation, such as the Gas

Masefield-

***By J. H. B. PEEL *******

On June 1 Dr John Marefield Q.M., Poct hiz 80th Laureate of England celebrated birthday. In this article another English poet, who has known Masefield for many years, writes of the Laureate's adventurous life, and offers some personal impressions of his poetry and prose.

prose.

(B)=2; (b)-2:

for-3: (di-1.

8. (a) —; (5)=0. · AB.

(a)=0; (b)-2.

16. (a) =))

18. (3)−1;

11. (3)-2; (b)=1:

12. (a)−1; (b)×3. { 20. (2)−1; (5)−3. day-who is 7. But day to day honest--that's you!

Maximum total la 89 fa any body that honest ?

OVER 40. Congratulations- and you have anawared the quiz honestly too.

20-40, Not an honest as the

·A

UNDER 20. You may lack ADE

A sense of responsibility, were you really bobit to answering this quia 7

Tribute

Mao gets union

pay for job

FREDERICK ELLIS

IN PEKING

CHINA'S SCIENTISTS

ARE TOP RATERS

IN BRITISH-STYLE

WELFARE STATE

FILM stars, actors, opera prima donnas, and top scientists are paid

more than Mao Tse-tung, Red China's leader, and Prime Minister Chou En-lai, I found when I investigated the Chinese trades unions,

Mao is officially pak unton members, with the work- The Welfare State la based on £86 18. Gd. a month. So is ing class defined as those living Britain's, but benefits are higher.. on wages as opposed to peasant Chou En-laf.

incomes.

Old-age pensioners receive 70 Film stars, actors, and

A worker does not have to per cent of their wages, retiring prima donnas get nearly join a union but 00 per cent of al 00. double that with £150 Industrial workers are members.

The union also helps to tood rations. with heavy monthly.

workers drawing a double rice ration compared with Tho housewives.

But the China

Hed top-raters in now are the scientists, who draw up to £300 month

In the book

A union leader read me thene wage rates from a little book

By output

that covered every industry in on the basis of more pay for

China,

China's wage rates aro fixed on the basis of living standards, the_skill_of_the_workers and the -I—was—asiced-by-the....union. Importance of their work to the lender it "There was anything national economy.

We can learn from Britain, Wages are also geared to out- For the current Chinese target Is to overtake Britain in the bigger output,

next 15 years. Steel men and coal miners Usted draw

- £10 109. mouthly; I mentioned the London bus Engineers £15 125 bulidere strike. My auggestion was include 13 wager-corners

103. Unskilled labour received in silence, for strikes medical specialists, getung £30 averages something under £10 equal original sin here, monthly, with general praca month. titioners on only £23 64.

These

basic

ire wages

A strike would be smartly More than 18,000,000 mem- bolstered by cheap rents and handled na a counter-revola- bars of the "working class" are free State welfare.

flomury act against the people.

Even Mao's job is emong-the-union rates.

Top

WH

}

The Great Sparrow Hunt

rooftops, ground exhausted. The roise

JHO killed Cock Sparrow? I, were beaten on the

sald the commissar. I killed keeping บน @ deafening, nearly drove the European Coek Sparrow with my drums thundering rour, increased by communliy mod. and cymbals.

the clanging of cymbals of all Peking is just recovering from sizes.

More than 400,000 sparrown most remarkable

in Peking In the sparrow

were killed drive so successfuž that there The Karrow ins a flight three-day campaign, which is are now no aparrows in Peking, endurance of about two hours going on all over the country.

On every roof in every street, then It must eat and drink.

Sparrow-hate stems from the women and children So, with Oriental logic and corn shortage here and it is once its exelting plot

twice, for men,

hounded the little

off-with-their-hends brown simpllcity, the Chinese kept the

for the of jealousy, violence, drun below it. Nevertheless, Massparrow, known in China as the sparrows airborne by a nalsc sparrows who greedily gobble kenness is also an allegory of field at his best is a fine artist; corn robber: Vast Chinese drums krieg until they fell to the the people's food, man's eternal self-conflict,

and I am persuaded that, in the better against the worse.

future, most readers will confirm what is already a majority ver- dlet.

countryside.

the

best;

or

Horrors Of Life

Pity those tortured taxi-men!

|I'

д

books

read throughout the English- speaking world, and

Among his novels I like best many admirers of them

The Bird Of Dawning. which will know the story of

describes a shipwreck and the survivors ordcale in an open his adventurous life. In

46 minutes to cross boat. Here,

TT is the considered opinion shillings... and you will ap- taking in Wordsworth's is "a man Masefield

when people had tribute, this birthday

of Bert, Ted, Fred and preciate that a busless metropoils bridge, and ....... phrase,

speaking to men" and a sallor

Without shirking the horrors Bisto that a lot of adjective la bonanza for thece patient, made up their minds that taxis

polite, under-privileged and were unobtainable, however, I wish to in-

Wiser of life, or the depravity of men.nonsense in being talked over-perepiring gentlemen who counsels-meaning more riders troduce Masefield to came a story-teller in verse and During the 1914 war Masefield writing of the sea. Without em- violence ploying the excessive served at Gallipoli, and in 1930 and crudity which obsess some of Masefield has retained faith in about London taxi-drivera drive the cabs of London in now prevalling. those who know little

be sugereded Robert Bridges as his contemporary novelists, life and in the simple goodness about either the man or poet Swinburne.

As young man he met the Poet Laureate of England. The Masefield evokes horros, hero of brave hearts striving to live making fortunes out of the these difficult times.

and was office of Poet Laureate is many fan, and tragedy. And--aga decently. More than most men, bus strike-Bert, Ted, Fred his work.

friend of Thomas Hardy, WB.

centuries, old. The holder of ií,

unlike sare of his contem-

and more than some writers, his and Bisto being London taxi- Yeats, Waller de in Mare, W.H. who is appointed by the Sover poraries he remembers that own life has met and mastered drivers.

Traffic. Snarled up WorBo Of the man himself, it will do Hudson, and many other citi eign, has often but not always life. conlains laughter ns evil, has welcomed and received

than ever during peak perlods ent writers. In 1911 he publish-

---been a great pool. to say that he was th his owed a book-length poem, The

well as tears. As an old sail- joy. His repert un experience is

Why, poor old Bert did 40 hot beef sandwiches and ten, thanks to private car drivers words) "boro in the

itle Everlasting Mercy-the story of

or, I commend this book to all expressed so directly and clearly

mooching this have been listening to the tales who do not know the London who love the sea.

that it may be understood with minutes country town of Ledbury, In & criminal" who became converi-

out reference to notes or to an moming and what happens? He of the tortured taxi-imen in the.r Herefordshire" and that, after ed to a wiser

can "lose" a cab three sets of wwy ef life.

cops a butter-boy for a legall As shelter at Pont Street. And if ropes, One "windy wobbler" Of his books of reminiscences, allusive crudition.

for poor old Ted-how would the following evidence is con- I like best So Leam To Learth. For that reason, and because you like to put in three hours' flicting, blame the Cockney's in- rale lights and cause

neccesary strife between driver nute love of an argument: tge which appeared only

and fare. few he sees life steadily and sees it graft for on Oxford?

The Strike-No good to any- years ago. In it ho describes his whole, Masefield has already lald

Life in General-Lousy. country childhood and the early hold of what Joseph Conrad

inooching as going body, especially cab drivers.

-fLondon Expres Service). that has been held by Dryden, years as an unknown writer in called the artist's richest trea-sicwly, a butter-boy as a novice They all knocked their brains

London. I do not know another sure, which is in the hearts of cab-dare, a legal 06 a no out to cam a crust during the GEORGE WHITING Wordsworth, Tennyson, und prose book which so vividly men and women."

tipper, and an Oxford as five first two days, when it was

of

an eventful youth as a sesmen which, with its bold use in suling ships, he returned to everyday idiom, won Immedi- England, and resolved to be le faine,

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Belittled

Some people in every have belittled both the Laureate

and Laureateship, but an office

Bridges will stand four-square

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depicts the first dawn of poetry

to the cast wind of mockery, In the heart of a pre-destined

The Laureate himself receives poet; and, of course, there is an historic Interest in his cameos

His Stature

no salary and performs no of William Morris, Thomas apecie duties, but by reason of Hardy, and W.B. Yeats. his cffice he becomes a distin- cukshed Court oficial, and su rule he will write a poem to mark some great national event, Mascßeld himsel! has composed two, moving, elegies to the mem- ory of King George V and King George VI.

Of children's books The Box

80

of Delights is perennialty enchanting, that the B.B.C. re- Nowadays he lives with his cently adapted it as a play. To wife and daughter in the village bookish readers. I commend of Clifton Hampden, at the foot William Shakespeare, a short of the Chiltern Hills, eight miles critical appreciation so valuable from Oxford. He is a Member thei, although It first appeared of the coveted Order of Merkt; more than forty years ago, i a Doctor of Literature of the has lately been reprinted to meet University of Oxford; and Presi- the demands of students. dent of the Society of Authors, scholars. These, then, are a few He remains the most friendly sign-pasts to guide the newcom- and approachable of men, always er on his exploration of a prolific eager to help young writers. writer.

Sixty Books

and

Wider exploration will reveal that Masefield delights to depict character in action; that his poetry embraces nature lyrics, His own adventurous youth, rollicking ballads, and a number of Bonnets-concerning the my- comong ships and sailors, ensured steries of life and love and death that he never became merely a which are among the great bookworm or an aesthele. He la poems of the English-speaking a lover of country life, a zealous world His prose achlover patriot, and (in his own words) courteous clarity beyond the "a almple Christian men.“ De reach of (ading fashion, and als spite his age he remains active, lifework in poetry has mastered. Billi writing poetry and prose, many metres.

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The Pool Laureate hos pub- What, anally, is Masefield's ilshed more than sixty books— stature as a writer? Time along novels, poomTIS, autobiography, will answer that question; and translation, short stories, travel since the enjoyment of art is ... were 1 appronobing his fundamentally a matter of teen- work for the first time, I wouki perament, not even Time / will siert with The Everlasting spesi selle ona voice. Like all Mercy, which is a novel in praline authors, Maxelleld has VOTBO, mut in the English sometimes" written below, bla

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JAK

GOES

A crust

With mine host, Andy Segovin, dispensing wisdom, economics,

SAILING

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New Fares. Too many "Irguls"....passengers who pay according to the clock, and no rubre,

"RELAX, HORATIO, ALL 15 NOT LOST, RESCUE IS AT HANDS.

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