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THE WORKERS AND THE SLACKERS

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TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1932.

three

compressed into two hours. It would be going too far to suggest that every business man is a loafer pretending to be busy, but there is something in the remark that the ordinary business man spends more time in talking about business than in delag it- or more tima in seeing that other people are working than he does in himself getting down to real

man who

in-

hard work. The dulges in gambling operations, whether in exchange or u com modities, is not included in this observation. He has a strenuous life of another order; care usual ly sits on his brow even during his two-hour lunch and pursues him round the golf course in his moments of leisure. He pays the penalty of his desire to look into the future.

DAY BY DAY ETON & HARROW

HALF A DOZEN PROMISING LADS CAN DO MORE TO EDUCATE · EACH OTHER THAN ALL THE TUTORS AND PROFESSORS CAN DO FOR THEM.

Leslie Stephen.

The Ben Line ss. Benalder, from Home ports, a due here on Thursday,

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The P. and O. liner Malwa, with the English mails, is due hore from Singapore at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

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HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN, HOW TO HATE

BY THE MARQUESS OF DONEGALL. TULY EIGHT was Hatter's and; all round whore before

coaches Umbrella Manufacturers' An- made the scene the more pletures- manl Joy-Day. Who, Indeed, que. Now there is space for, at would have the courage to go to the outside, a dozen coaches.

I have been lucky enough in the Lord's for the Eton and Harrow

or three years to be match without first arming him- past two self with these two funeral per-invited on to a coach. There is no quisites?

comparison in the degreo of on- The House of Commons may be-joyment between altting aloft and champagno and straw- come Black in matters of dress, if having

so plenaes. The City Is al-berries produced from somewhere and Captain Bragg's bedroom

A thiet yesterday morning entered ready beyond the pale, but Lord's in the bowels of the coach

ut 14. remains, with Ascot, an unerum-trokking off to one or another of the club tents. Tho former is Chatham Road, and stole a metal, bling monument to the top hat.

There was a time when the Lord's de luxc. watch.

hatters and umbrella makers werdi But there are changes for the In the old days, I believd. Mr. Fletcher, living at the Kings- really in luck-the time, when not better.

nol an ac-the men used to be ashamed of clere Hotel, has reported to the police a top hat that was the theft of a gold watch and a gold cordion, or an umbrella that did walking with their womenfolk. ring from his room.

not resemble a plucked chicken re- You know the sort of remark some mained. I was present and, I am women are liable to make:-- Injured through an attempt to ashamed to say, took part in the "Tell me, why do they both have alight from a moving bus in Nathan last real battle of Lord's. Water-to run when only one has hit the One writer, dealing with this Road, a 14-year-old Chinese boy was loo may have been fought

| ball?" "What are those two men was nothing to what wearing white costa for? Aren't general question of periodical re-admitted to the Kowloon Hospital, but it

yesterday in a serious condition. Etonians and Harrovians can do they awfully hot?" "Surely it's lease from work, contends that

when they really try.

very unfair having eleven on one there is no worse form of economy A coolie in Prince Edward Kond It was 919-the first Lord's wide and only two on the other!"

yesterday afternoon attempted to after a gap of four years, when Well, nowadays, no one than cutting down the holidays of dodge a Kowloon Company motor bus, potato-digging was more import to take things ceniously enough to ren who do good work. Jie be- and was knocked down. He received ant than cricket, and long leave, blush at such sucrilege. But I

injuries, but these appear to be of n lieves that the man who knows slight nature, as. he refused to the Friday to Monday holiday think the real secret is that most

taken to hospital.

how to work can do more in ten months than he could in twelve. We cannot measure good work mechanically by months, days or hours, he says.

As for the matter

Beenis

is called, was a thing that we had women know as much as wo do heard of but hardly thought to jabout the game. experience.

As a Kai Tack Company bus came to stop, astride truck rails at the Prettier Than Ascot, junction of Tam Kung Road and Prince Edward Road, to drop some

Fewer than forty years

ngo there were lob bowlers to be seen

at Eton v. Harrow and balls werd

So the boys' mettle was up, and "carted" to the leg boundary of long holidays, he argues that ssengers yesterday afternoon, anfibeir fathers and brothers wel- an expression now savouring of

earth-laden Track suddenly appeared comed the opportunity of reviving "lip-and-run!” No-one, was injured, but the hung. The slaughter was extensive. attitude is growing. Eton is no and crashed broadside into Une bus.memories of hand-to-haud fight Certainly the little gentleman”. suffered some damage, which was made good, it is understood, by the contractor concerned,

But this is an age of repres- longer supposed to loathe Harrow sion, and the saner counsels of the for two days. Wih this change headmastera, Lord Ellesmere, Lord of front it has become bad form Westward hound along Queen's Harris, and others prevailed. This to jeer at a dropped catch or a Rond West, a Hongkong Hotel bus year Etonians, ut any rate, have bad bowler. The schoolboy has yesterday afternoon narrowly escaped been in enough trouble for ragging become self-conscious. serious mishap when, turning the the train that conveyed them from Oblivious of the Game. So many

corner near Fat Hing Street, it the Winchester match. We swerved sharply to the left to avoid think compassionately

the business department which cannot get along for (wamanths without the services of even the highest member is badly organis ed. Where do all these thought.

lead us? Nowhere in particular. since the question has freets and angles. But there is possibly a considerable grain of truth in the remark of one com- mentator when he says that most people worked as hard they might, or even as hard as lots of others do, they would find they had enough time left on their hands that they could take a six months holtay every year!

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un approaching hire car. In doing

can

of those Carrying this a little farther,

so, it collided with a rickahn near the boys who are attending afternoon there may come a time when, far side-channel The right mudguard school in consequence.

from indulging in physical violence of the ricksha was damaged by the The Eton and Harrow match is outside the Pavilion or railing rear left mudguard of the bus, The one of the jolliest features of the derisively ut their opponents' ricksha puller was not injured. London season. The ground during fallures, Etonines and Harrovians the luncheon interval, on a fine will be too genteel to cheer even

The health bulletin for Eastern summer day presents English the fall of a wicket. Of late years ports for the week ended July 30 colouring at its best: green such boys have done much more strol- shows the following cases of infee-as only England knows showing up ling about, oblivious of the game. Lious Plague, Bassein

diseases and deaths therefrom-the bright flowered dresses and than would formerly have

11 enses.

SUGAR MARKET

And

been

1

1 leath, parasols of mothers and sisters tolerated by their fellows, and in Rangoon 1 case 1 death, Beirut 1 case. The question as to whether,

Cholera, Bombay 2 casos

1 death,gainst the black background of a short time those who sit critical- Calcutta 52 cases 18 deaths, Macan 30 the old generally speaking. Civil Servants

young boys. It is ly in the seats of the mighty in cases 29 deaths, Amoy 102 cases 103 Far prettier than Ascot, for there front of the Pavilion may be able work as hard as business men has

deaths, Canton 6 cases

1 death, the colours are so massed in close to justify their opinion that Eton The Welland Canal. Leen the sujeet of sime “contro-

Nanking Heuses 29 deaths, Shang-formation that the eye cannot focus v. Harrow is a "lapper festival," hai 504 cases 4 deaths. Small-pox, the whole into a flower-garden Could not we manage to show, in Versy at Home, following

The opening of the new Welland Alexandria 3 cases 1 death, Baghdad picture.

quite a nice way, how much we cases 1 death, Bombay 14 cases outspoken comment by na emin-Canal by Lord Bessborough, Gov-

denis, Calentin 9 casus 7

Another feature of the Eton and really loathe that beastly school deaths, Harrow match is its unique value (Harrow? And. of courac, vie Madras man of commerce who says ernor-General of Canada. marks Karachi 1 case,

2 cases 2s a meeting place. No Harrovinu (versa? the taxpayer is not getting fall one of the most important stages Rangoon uil, Pondicherry

deaths, or Etonian has ever walked round Whatever one may say about the Cases of the progress of the St. Law-deaths, Saigon 2 value fron Gqaernment employ-

Macno nil, Canton 1 ease.

that hot asphalt path behind the lack of vindictiveness (or interest) rence deep waterway scheme. "Minor questions,"

stands without running into sonic, on the part of the partisans of he de-

The opening of the canal allows

jone who recalls memories of jeach school, there are many people elares. "which would be decided in the fargest lake steamers to pass

Jathletic triumphs shared, or literal who do not share the hyper- a malter

of minutes in private down from Lake Erie, to Lake On-

Hy painful episodes. But in re-technical knowledge of the gentle- trospect the one is as cherished a men in the Pavilion, and would business, occupy many weeks

Feril in tario-from the

memory as the other.

far rather see two schoolboys make Whitehall," and he adds that it Niagara Falls to the level below.

This year there were not so every effort to give the crowd its cannot be maintained that the Work at the outlet immediately.

many coloured waistcoats as usual, money's worth than watch first-

do not think that spoiled the class slow-motion cricket. higher staff is worked, to maximum east of Lake Ontarin, straighten- ing and deepening the inter- capacity so long as officials are;

national channels through the entitled to holiday leave which is Thousand Islands, has opened the equal to one-sixth of the working way for ships to travel from De- year. It is easy, of course, to ae-troit to the Ontario town of ruse others of not working as hard | Broekville. It is, indeed, possible to as we ourselves do; indeed, lots feruise twelve miles farther down the of people appear to And pleasure river, over a beautiful expanse of in this line of thought. The Civil inland water, through fine farm- Servant has long been the subjecting country on both sides, to Og- York State, densburg in New of wit and sarcasm in this con-

with Prescott on the Canadian nexion, whether he be stationed

Below Prescott, however, side.

in Hongkong or anywhere else. the St. Lawrence rapids begin. Let it be added that he is usually Smaller river craft do navigate not averse to joining in the jok- the rapids. It is a thrilling, ing against himself; possibly be though comfortable, trip over the where about would feel uncomfortable if every-stretches of river hudy thought he did a full day's 2.000.000 horsepower will be de- veloped when the river is harness-

ed for electric power purposes. Below the rapids at Montreal, the path to the ocean is open for

work all the year round. The fact, of course, is that we cannot classify bumanity into Govern ment workers and non-Govern- | liners of the Atlantic service. ment workers for the purpose of Whether the ocean liners will find it profitable to ply further inland ascertaining who are the

than Montreal may perhaps be conscientious in their labour. In

In the tested ten years hence. the last resort, it all boils down to a question of the individual and to his outlook on life.

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meanwhile, the trip of the ss. Lemoyne through the Welland Canal may be taken as a harbin- "The man who does the least ger of new passenger shipping There is work is the man who seizes every enterprise to come. opportunity to appear busy. Ever everything to be said for it along the glorious expanse of inland since I was at school and used,

water where the Stars and Stripes under a master's eye, to pretend and the Union Jack fly as the em-

to be busy myself, I have distrust-blems, of neighbourly accord in

ed anyone who appeared busy: INorth America.

instinetively suspect him of being

a secret slacker." Thus writes

Those who wish a couple of hours'

one of the contributors to this dis-really good entertainment should pate on who does most work. He make a point of seeing "Reserved for Ladies," now showing at the King's goes on to say that he auspects all Theatre. This is a Paramount film, business men, of having too easy with a British cast, and the com

bination is

all that could be desired. a time of it (ho is himself ob-It is a bright and entertaining pro-

duction, profcasional viously

man),ductio

which the honours In | Bhared between Elizabati Allan. pointing out that it has been esti- Denita Hulme, Losile Howard and mated that all the work an ordin- George Grosamith. There is humour and romanec, nicely blended, while ary business man does in the the photography is altogether what. course of a day could enelly bo once would export from Paramount.

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The following cable at the close picture, I am all for letting the In this respect the schoolboy has been received by Messrs. Pen-Dr. of the sugar market on Saturday women provide the colour-scheme, batsmen appear to have improved. treath and Co.

Alington forbade coloured came across a curious document waistcoats, as an economy men- jwhich tells of the victory of Eton the M.C.C. in 1809. Sir sure, on the Fourth of June, but jover the ruling about Lord's was that Christopher Willoughby, it states, boys were not compelled to wear coloured waistcoats.

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The Coaches.

wearied out the skill and oven patience of his adversaries by a system of beautiful blocking." That, surely, would rouse even to- day's "perfect little gentlemen" to some semblance of anger.

It is a favourite platitude that Lord's never changes. That is not

In 1818 only three of the Eton 180. The allconquering "gato" hus side bothered to turn up at Lord's demanded the building of sands and emergency players were hauled

"Well, so long, Walt. I tell the boys at the club that

I ran across, „You,"

cut to fill the bill. Even so, the best Harrow could do was to win hy B runs. Byron played fui Harrow in 1805 and made 9 runs. Not bad, considering his lareness! The standard did not begin to improve for some time after the matches started officially in 1818. - In 1836 extras comprised one- third of the total runs, and over 100 wides were howled.

The First Challenge.

from

The original challenge Harrow to Eton was presented to the latter school by Canon Pusey- Cust, the grandson of the Captain of the Oppidans, to whom it was sent in 1805. It runs as follows: The gentlemen of Harrow School request the honour of try- jing their skill at Cricket with the gentlemen of Eton, on Wednesday, July 31, at Lord's Cricket ground. It would seem that before the days of top-hatted cricket the players were oven more sensibly clad than In the white-flannel trousers of to-day. The Etonians used to wear shorts and ribbed stockings.

Well, the actual value, as cricket, of the match may be negligible, but it is cortain. that some fifteen. hundred boys thoroughly enjoy a liberty that contes to them but once a year. For three days they become grown-up and their fathers go back to school days.

For three days. Mr.

Bultitude of "Vice Versa" nearly comes to fo: you will find him and his son. In every cornor of Lord's, but especially under the clock," that spot where no female relation has ever, yet managed to koop an ap- pointinent.