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JOBS AND THE JOB-SENSE. A PIECE OF PHILOSOPHY.
[BY STACY AU MONIER,}
If one were asked to suggest the most, -tragic phrase in the English language it would be hard to beat the following: "No, we've nothing today. But if you leave your name and address we'll let you
know."
:
A man out of work, or a young man
ON BEING FRANK.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, “ OCTOBER 22ND, 1925
AN OUTSPOKEN ARTICLE.
[BY VIOLA THKK.)
Frankness is one of the characteristics of the age: a dangerous one. I think, an unnatural one. We are not born frank. at least, once we have passed the turnip atagr. Ara wa naturally unreticent! we can judge by animals, who develop quickly. For instance, a aightingala will
HUGE LAND DEAL. HOW IMPORTANT LONDON SITES
CHANGE HANDS.、
The completion of a big London land deal was officially announced to the Daily Chronicle recently by a member of the staff of Lord Howard de Walden's London estate office. He said:-
Lord Howard de Walden has entered into a contract for the sale of a large
of his estate to the Audley Trust, Ltd.. of Moorgate, London EC. the owners of several City properties, for
acted
"PATHETIC COMEDY. THE ART OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN. "Charlie" (he still prefers that) Chaplin calls his new film, in which he returns to the screen after three years' absence, a dramatic comedy." But you cannot easily label something which, while the logical development of the whole line of his previous productions is so greatly removed from them-and so much better.
Emil Jhanings with The Last Laugh,"
starting on a carte, in apt to feel that stop singing if it is aware of being over- whom Messrs. Frank, Knight and Rutles said: "I will make them weep," but he i
there is something degrading in looking for a job. H Wards himself as an
ky comfortably fitimi. Ele is a usurper. A job is nuly to be obtained by wang ting or luck. It is dreadful that whank! have this feeling.
heard; it will stop pouring out its pas sion to its mate. Two puppies, or even The portion of the estate sold com- twu little boys, will stop growling and prises about 40 acres, extending north. wards from Qxford Street to Euston Road
never came to touch emotion quite so subtly as does Chaplin, whose aim with The Gold Rush was just to make.
clown is willing to let people laugh at him that the laughter be so well knows how to pruvuke hoveri increasingly on 'a
nawante outenst. All jobs appear to fighting if the passer-by disturbs them. and eastwards from Oxlard-circus and them laugh." It is because this supremo,
Yet now has come the time when every-Regent Street to Wells Street. one, led, of course, by the usual leaders, those nearly on the top of the social ladder, is undressing mentally and phy- sically in public.
Having ones obtained a job bo become subtly aware that there is among his fellow workers a quality which can only be described as a job. Anyone who has ever beeg an employee of a big firm, or worked in a Governorat department, or in one of the Services must be innate ly conscious of this. These abodes of activity are the home of job-wangling The normal position is that in hulling your job there are a score of, propl- trying to get your job from you, and you yourself are trying to get the job
thoroughfares as Great Portland Street, "It includes such well-known business Great Titchfield Street, Margaret Street, Mortimer Street, East Castle Street and
Great Castle Street.
Nothing is mentioned about the amount involved in the deal, but the Daily chronicle understands it is in the neigh bourhood of £1,000,000.
Colonel Blount, C.B.E, the agent' Is it natural? No. Most of them, or the estate, who negotiated the sale on most of us, do it with an effort, all ex-behalf of Lord Howard de Walden, will continue the management of the whole cept a very few, born, na one might say, of the property as heretofore." with a tomahawk in their hands. See an Englishwoman jazzing: it is a pitiable and indecent sight. Sve an American: it is superb, like the swaying of birch trees, the bounding of a cataract to its last home in the valley. It is natural to them, not, of course, because all. Ameri. cans are descended from Indians, but be cause descended from English, Irish,
A remarkable feature of the deal is the secrecy
with which it was carried through and the secrecy which still surrounds the circumstances of the huge transaction.
A man who has hought and sold land in London on a colossal senle since the war, and is well acquainted with the urin- cipal estate agents, told a Daily Chronicle
teur.
"The Gold Rush, Charlie" in his vid inke-up, with the old "walk," seems to be telling, grotesquely, but from his heart of hearts, of things that must have happened to him, that have certainly hap poned to others; of humiliating things. of pain caused by heedlessness, of the secret wounds to sensitiveness that we all
keep hidden.
He takes a kind revenge on life by making it all into sometimes riotously farcical, sometimes whimsical, even pathe tie fun. He is always the little fellow, the lonely man, but, above all, ridiculous in women's eyes,
man
"of the man in the west highest position to French, or whatever it may be, they have representative that not a whisper of the where Charlie turas utter sentimentally
yourself: It is presumably an elaborate orientation of the law of self-preser vation. An enormous amount of energy and mental activity are "devotal not so
settled in a country of new 'civilisation.
THE UNRETICENT AGE. Reticence is essentially a civilised char acteristic, At English characteristic.
deal had reached hi
The greatest moment in "The Gold Rush is not the wildly comic cabin scenc (which will be the most popular), but one into tragedy. It shows the poor fool as Interviewed at a South Coast resort, the expectant host, in his humble Klon- Colonel Blount said, "I have no further dyke shack, of a New Year's party in information to give. I cannot divulge the honour of three idealised, light-hearted price paid for the land.”
ladies of the miners dance hall. The Portland Estates, of which the 40thought they would come, and has pre acres are a portion, brought their owner pared his humble feast-but, of course. before the war.
much to seeing that your work is well therefore, why should we in this age sud-} an annual income of £250,000 a year they forgot
and truly done for its own sake as to getting the man below you or abort you at disadvantage.
FLODDER AND WANGLER. It is a lovely game, and has in any case the eynical advantage of keeping the individual worker ca
denly turn unreticent? Why should our lays contain contioned references to the plumber, a man whoai hitherto we have aoped to for it! Our divorce court pro- ceedings have no rhyme or reason at all,
except for each to show up his or her miseries, and to be "frank" about love the alert. The affairs. whether proper or improper, only trouble is that the job-sense, like whether dragging in friend or foc. It's most of the other senses, becomes at times all a game of." bee how bad I can be!"
See what things 1 dare say!'' grievously abused. The consequence. is
The
To-day the rents ure 100 per cent, higher than before the war, particularly in Great Portland Street, one of the principal Centres of London motor dealers.
THE BUYER'S.
He
Chaplin in this Bret Harte episode is as pathetic as Horace, Hodges in "Light- pin as that stupid old man in "Sun- day"--but his art and understanding make it more than that. When finally he falls asleep and next bears them singing Auld Lang Syne" at midnight and The Audley Trust has Sir John Eller-gazes through, the door into the snow, his maa, Mr. J. W. Jones and Mr. F. J. Burt thinned, ageing face, more finely sensitive as its directors
now than ever, quivering-here is a fine piece of acting. Emil Jannings, when the watchman wrapped his coat round the old right porter, did not touch such depths of human understanding as this.
During his sleep Chaplin dreams that
Sir John Ellerman, who was born at rough (near Hull) in 1862, has had a highly successful business carcer.
To-day he holds a leading position in the shipping industry, having direct con-
interested in the management of many important industrial enterprises. He is a director of the following companies
that it is not always the people with tiresome part about it is that we can't trol of the Ellerman, Lines, and he is also the girls have come, that he is a success
back on it. Who will ever be the
the greatest aptitude, und ability who get the best jobs. It is the people who as to wear pitticoats again? Who will
have developed their job-seake to a point/ürst furswear cocktails Who will go to Trust, Ltd. (etairisan).
of genius. The plaider gurs steadily on but the wangler draws the large salary. All of which may be deplorable, but is
human nature.
to
The job-son is not confined businesses, trades, and Government officer, bat permeates every workshop, factory, and weial organisation. It is even said to play a not inconspicuous part in the organisation of the Communist Party.
At the same time, the job-sense is not Lo batterly deplored. I remember reading a case sora: titne ago of a woman 12 a ponte com o Her Hubushed
AJAL
a Ball without a beat of her own in fact, will fardels bear
Who,
Brewery and Commercial Investment Debenture Securities Investment Co. Ltd. (chairman and manager),
Ellerman Lines, Ltd. (chairman). City Line, Ltd. (chairman). Ellerman Wilson Line, Ltd. (chairman) Wilson's and North-Eastern Railway Shipping Co., Ltd.
Hoare, Ltd. (chairman),
All this would not be so bad, if we weren't suddenly pulled up short by the kind of people who havn't stirred for 25 years, whose moralties, whose way of keeping home, whose clothes have remain- cil'unchanged. They give us a shock: we Hive them a shock, and the funny partman). w that they don't envy us at all: rather we envy them. As they come out of church," their best hats on their well- done hair, they see a member of the soderns, stopping a dog-fight, no vestige of a hat on her Eton boy hair.
for assagit un being dad wat Jo. was que sud je wad a magienner 2 x an- er man was trying to get his jou, and 44 a result the buglenlower would drinker 400 much beer, and come hour, and Rock
3.15 wile about
NOTHING TO HIDE.
!!
J. W Cameron and Co., Ltd. (chair.
London General Investment Trust, Ltd. | (chairman),
Shaw, Saville and Albiob Co., Ltd. United Discount and Securities Co.," Lul (chairman).
His daughter, Annie Winifred, in 1921 married in romantic circumstances Mr. Robert McAlmon, a poor American poet and athlete.. Miss Ellerman was making a tour of America and the marriage was said to have taken place after a court ship of but three days
in their "eyes, that he has demonstrated
Oceana Roll" (a tour de force of the drollery with a couple of forks and two rolls), and the girl (expressive Gloris Hale) has said t He's wonderfu),”
And so he is this. Cockney lad who handles this new medium of the screen with something like genius. "The Gold Rush needs a little compressing: it has faults; it may not be as uproariously funny as some, but it is the best Chaplin film and one of the hest films of all
GREEN TOMATO DELICACIES.
GREEN TOMATO PICKLE.
To. 5lb. of green tomatoes allow jib. of moist sugar, 1 quart of vinegar, 1 tea spoonful of small dried chiliea, and Joz each of peppercorns, mustard seeds, cloves and ginger; salt.
Wipe the tomatoes, remove the stalks and cut the fruit into slices, put these into a basin in layers, with salt sprinkled beween each layer; cover with muslin
and leave for 12 hours. Drain off the
salt water and put the tomatoes into an enamel pan with the other ingredients. The vinger should be well bruised before adding it. Pour the vinegar over, bring to the boil and simmer slowly until the tomatoes are soft. When cold put into bottles and cork securely.
Her body, which, thinly veiled in crepe de cline pleats, is as God made it, shines thinly in the sun. Throwing a leg over
Sir John's partners in the Audley Trust the side of the car, off the honks, the girl friend, at her side ashake with laugh are also well-known business men.
Mr. J. W. Jones is director and seare to the river.
to hear
totary of the F. W. Cook Investment Co., with a popular variety turn
and a director of the City Lines, Ltd. bed about six. to the telephone
Mr. Burt is a director of Marovony Riec Suficient unto the day about eleven.
Lands, Ltd. she has nothing to hide, nothing
Lord Howard de Walden, the late much to be proud of. Who and what observes the splendid in the world will stop hor? Poverty is owner of the land, is a romantic rather than a business figure. He is one of the creatures 10 light sporting overcoats and perhaps the only thing the modern for richest men in the country, has been a curly-brimmed · toppers enlivening the not bankruptcy or bailiffs, they are too soldier and has written operas and plays.. of cayenne pepper used instend...
frank for that, and every body knows lle is 15 years of age. it beforehand. But the lack of a pound note terrifies them.
At brst glance one would regard the position of a bugle-blower on a charnbane as a distinguished and unassailable one. when
has for
the
No modern fears husband or wife or mother or father; all that is over America, maker of all
cars
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Note-Fewer chillies may be used or they may be omitted and 1⁄2 teaspoonful
GREEN TOMATO CHUTNEY. Many people will remember his thrice- produced opera, "The Children of Don," 3lb. of green tomatoes, 3 oniona, Goz. of which he wrote the libretto, and which of raisins, lb. of brown sugar, i ten- spoonfuls of ground"ginger,.joz, of mus cost him £20,000.
He as also dabbled in cricket, racing, tard seeds, 4 teaspoonful of cayenne pep
and ent each tomato in halves. Peel and Wipe the tomatoes, remove the stalks slice the onions, put both into a basin or on to a large dish and sprinkle the salt
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RE-MAPPING THE HEAVENS.
REVISION OF CONSTELLATION BOUNDARIES.
A scientific correspondent writes in the
Observer as follows:-
drab existence of obscure villages with Lief but inspiring musical calls, one is apt to overlook the fact that it is due to them also to develop the job-sease. it may be that Charlie who plays cornet alos outside The Green Man zoms time bad his eye on this spectacular fashione, much change and set the clock motoring, motor boating, big game hunt-per, 3 dessertspoonfuls of salt, 13 pints job. It would never do to make the back. They must become quiet pessi-ing, aviation, fencing and heraldry; has of vinegar.
or prohibition) travelled extensively, and visited many mista without position of a bugle-blower on a charahaue axinecure. Too much is at stake. There drives and sitting in the porth
"they must return to buggy out of the way parts of the world.
Among the subjects discussed at the Besides his London property, Lord Howard de Walden owns extensive lands
recent meeting of the International · As are perhaps forty people, on
in Ayrshire, charabaoc. They are at the mercy of the in fact they must frankly be civilised.
Leave all night. Drain off the tronomical Union at Cambridge was a Fia residences bave included the his- liquid from the tomatoes, Was the proposal, brought forward: by M. Stroo toric Audley End, near Saffron Walden, mustard seeds in vinegar, dry them in bani, Belgian delegate, to revise the Essex, and his country, address is now cool oven, then crush them. Put all the boundaries separating the constellations given as Chirk Castle, Denbighshire. ingredients into an enamel or aluminium into which the stellar quiverse was divid- Seaford House, his own mansion, ispan, stir until the sugar has melted, then ed centuries ago, and a sub-commitu celebrated for its onyx staircase, support simmer until the tomatoes and onions was appointed to deal with the matter ed by alabaster columns, and the fact are tender and the mixture thick. Stir so far as the northern hemisphere is con- that its owner once said it reminded him almost continuously a the chutney cerned. of a railway station.
thickens. Put it into small bottles or jars and cork or cover like jam.
bugle-blower for the best part of the day. It is not only necessary that they should be heartened, by the exuberance and melody of his musical phrases, but that athers Jess fortunate in their day's arrangements should be envious of those happy passengers and their harmonious accompaniment.
BIG POST-WAR DEALS. The following are details of some big property deals carried out in London since the end of the war:
over.
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GREEN TOMATO SAUCE,
4lb. of tomatoes, salt, water, vinegar. To each pint of vinegar allow joz, each of allspice, cloves and mace, Roz, of, brown sugar, 1 teaspoonful of mustard
seeds, 1. onion.
accurately recorded the positions of some 50,000,000 stars from the first to the fourteenth magnitudes.
CELESTIAL PICTURE-BOOK.
number of stars to separate and accurate The problem now, is to allòt this huge
ly defined constellations, divided by boundaries. agreed to by the world's as
tronomers
From the point of simplicity the ideal : boundaries would be those proposed by Sir John Herschel, each constellation to be enclosed by parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude, or declination and right ascension, as astronomers term these dividing lines in the sky. But this would entail not only a whole- sale rovision of star”, namies and cata There are many star charts and catalogues, but also necessitate a complete logues in existence, but no two agree mutilation of the mythical beings and to the boundaries. Now that astronomers
snimals immortalised in the constella are attacking so many problems of the tions by the primitive astronomers who stellar universe it is important that all mapped the northern heavens more than over the world it should be possible to 2,000 years ago. However desirable, anch refer every star to some definite star symmetrical boundaries are now in group, and that so far ss is possible
possible. the old names should be retained." SA
The new boundaries will follow closely The enormous improvements in the those how in existence they will preserve size and space-penetrating qualities of the Bear and the Lion, Andromeda and modern telescopes have demonstrated in her parents, Cepheus and Cassiopeia, of the stars in space is visible to the from Cetus, the sea-monster, Looking st a marvellous way how small a proportion and the gallant Peraeus, who rescued her
this great classical tableau, which reaches from the Southern horizon to the Pole Star, we'recall our first knowledge of the heavens, and renew our acquaintance with the mythology of our school days.
The main boundaries of the great star groups will not be altered, but certain stars sometimes included in one coustel, Tation and sometimes in another will be definitely allotted to one particular group, and the boundaries altered as httle as possible.
A REAL BENSE. The job-sense is not a perfect schau, and it often makes mistakes, but it is in any case & real sense, and it is a5 moral as human nature will allow it to If the bugle-blower were a perfectly be. We have at the present time the ideal man he would blow his bugle all spectacle of Russia still living in the day to the very best of his ability, for Middle Ages, but being ruled by a hand- the love of his fellowman, and in the ful of men with forms of legislation that interests of social service, This indeed might conceivably be applicable to a race may play a small part in his endeavours. of lunatics five hundred years hene".
„September, 1918-Nearly £250,000 was But the greater factor is the ambition to, When you push your stick into an ants paid for a building site of a little more be recognised, and so perhaps get a nest there follows a period of frenzied than half an aere at 511, Oxford Street. position on a more important charabane, chaos. If you leave the nest alone, how-
October, 19-Freehold property at Wipe the tomatoes and cut them into and, on the other hand, he is haunted ever, for some time, you find that normal 10 and 11, Lombard Street, was offered slices, place them in a dish and sprinkle 1g the dread of Charlie playing his conditions have been resumed. This is Highest bid was £120,000, and vendors each layer with salt and a few drops of
water. cornst outside the Green Man trying to not due to any high moral purpose or
bought in at £350,000.
Leave them for two days, then catch the ear of a director. It is his intelligence on the part of the aat, which Garden estate, in which Sir Joseph Bee toes into boiling water for 4 or 5 minutes April, 105-The remainder of Covent drain off the salt water and put the toma Job-sense.
is individually an extraordinarily stupid cham investerf £2,000,000 when he bought Brain and put them into a pan with just One of the troubles with the Com- creature, but because ants collectively it from the Duke of Bedloed in 1914, enough water to keep them from burn- naked eye. Persons with good byeight munist is that he believes or profesach have devoloped a remarkable job-sense. passed into the hands of M. J. A. Philing, and simmer gently for 1 hour, stir. can ao stars from this as the hates to believe that in our present stage of civilisation' the instinct of social service already beginning to avert itself in about £100,000
It is evident that the job-sense is lips, auctioneer and estate agent, for ring frequently. Add enough vinegar to magnitudes, and in the whole heaven cover the tomatoes. Add the peeled and that means about 7,000 stars visible with is a more powerful factor than the Russia. After a period of suffering, May, Foundling Hospital estate, sliced onion, sugar, and spices, in the out optical help. There are now telescopes job-sonse, which, of course, id a fantastic anguish, and confusion, and an abortive which includes 66 acres of Bloomsbury, shove proportions. The mustard seeds by which the existence of well over ered. He is anxious to make the job attempt of certain prople to make other changed hands for £1,750,000,
should be washed in vinegar, dried in 300,000,000 stars have been made known, of the bugla-blower a sinceure, regardless people work altruistically for other peo September, 1036-Meux Brewery. Tot the oven or before the fire, and crushed, and the photographic survey of the hea of the indescribable cacophony this is ple, the pearl with the job-seose will tenham Court Road and New Oxford Simmer the mixture for hour longor, vens that has been in progress for the committing future generations of chata triumph, and after a time you wil Street, bought for $400,000 by Mr. J. B. then put it into clean dry bottles and Inst. thirty years, during which 20,000 Amino pamongera toimi
hardly know that anyone ever pushed s foel in 1819, sold to the Beecham Trust when cold cork Cover the corks with separate platen have been taken corering walking stick into the ants nest at all. 1 for a prica not revealed.
wax, and store in a dry, cold place. the whole sky in both hemispheres, has
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