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YOUNG MEN AND THEIR CAREERS

typical utterances serve to show that what ong nation may sĉo as "accurity," its neighbour may re- gard na insecurity to itself. To take the present instance, there is not only French accurite; there is,

By THE EARL OF BIRKENHEAD As one writer has pointed out, THEIR LOVE, A PASSING BREATHI. likewlao Sicherheit; and every The race for the Trevessa Trophy other nation can translate securi-le to be held on October 14th, at 4 p.m. THE conditions governing the Wilful Curate, dealing with

untry of young men into the Hampshiro incumbent who ty Into its own terms. Even so, The annual meeting of the Hong-world to-day are radically diffor- to the bad in the New Forest.

kong Reol Club has been convened for none by its own estimate of neces-Monday at the Helena May Institute ont from those which obtained in fired by this example I produced the idle pre-war days. Then, so a soif-analytic autobiography nt. at 5.15 p.m.

we are told, it was almost cus-the age of 14 which, had it been havo Indo Passengers arriving from Shanghai tomary for the young men to published, would

look like the memoirs of an octo- morning included Mr. G. Potts, Mr, doing nothing, “ Mrs. M. J., V. Blood-Smith. C. L. Sandes, Mr. F. H. Crapnelf, and

Some, fortified by a large pri-genarian. vate allowance, would don the Games Worship.

armaments and

arms

went

by the Empress of Canada this lounge gracefully through life Beverley Nichols's "Twenty-five"

to

sary arms would achieve securi THE NEW STUDEBAKER SIX ty. And so the process can go on, 70 HORSEPOWER SPORTS with no finality in view. To again quote from A recent comment, THAN 20 MILES TO THE Germany may interpret Sicher GALLÓN OF GASOLINE. A SEASONED CAR BUILT TO heit as an equality with French

Rescued from the harbour off Tai uniform of the Brigade of Guards:

The atmosphere of school soon TRADITIONAL

ton- insist that the Hong Street, Salwanho, after she had others, perhaps, would live in SPECTIFICA-

attempted commit sulelde, ទ their country houses peacefully corrected these humanistic Council of the League of Nations Chinese woman named Yuo Tai, aged mismanaging their accounts, doncics. Hore was a new career TIONS FOR STUDEBAKER CHAMPIONSHIP PERFORM-remove the restrictions placed 24, of Tai Chaung Street, was taken to There was a certain stigma at- to be howed out from a new and quarry. One looked the Police Station and subsequently tached to commerce; and the Bar peculiar ANCE BUT

her at ITS upon

Versailles. And handed over to the Secretariat for was by no means the crowded pro- round and considered what was

of AND should Germany build up to the Chinese Affairs.

achieving fession it now is, and offered a the surest way present French strength, France

success at school, of becoming a The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, certain advancement to talent,

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There is nothing more curious The answer was by excelling at effected at the Repulsa Bay Hotel it

There Was Do other her relative position. Thus the will not be possible to hold Dinner than the manner in which the war games. attempt to obtain security by Dances on the 21st, 24th and 28th has altered these conceptions in avenue: scholarship was useless,

September. The Tea Dance for the

What literature distrusted. So we con- on games, and leads to rival attempts 26th inst. is also cancelled. Dinner the minds of young men. which, destroy security."

Dances will be held at the Hongkong was once graceful has now become centrated wildly Hotel on September 21, 24 and 28, contemptible. I know scarcely those of us who were good at them, How con real security be

any young men who do not do some were raised at once to a wholly An entire change of programme la form of work: for those few there spurious eminence. I remember a achieved? Assuredly not by en-announced for next Sunday's sym- is a definite feeling of pity and young band of enthusiasts who tried to broak through the rigid couraging the spirit of competi-phonie concert at the Peninsula Hotel, contempt.

planos Men whose forbears have for tradition of athletic supremacy, tion in armaments. Rather is it which includes duets for two

by Miss Nora Flint and Mr. W. R.

on They had pale, eager faces. B.B.C. to be found by the directly oppo-1

will

"Valse generations decayed happily and "Cortege,"

"both

their country estates work nine voices, and' willowing walks.. by site process. It has been said, Del

Valle de

de Puz:

by Max young men burdened with vast

They collected in cornors and the most secure nations in Europe Brach, to be played by Mr. Stanley unearned incomes catch the infec-

names, some conferred on mysterious Marcchek, with piano

accompani- tion, and cast round for to-day are probably those with thement by Mr. R. Stupel. The num- occupation which will rescue them Baudelaire, Ibsen, Matisse... The cult made little progress, and I smallest armaments. There must bera are interesting, and should pro- from the odium of the drone.

vide an agreeable evening's entertain-

This tendency is well illustrat-remember that it was forcibly be co-operative effort, based on afment.

ed at the universities to-day. In broken up when one of its mom- sincere desire to peace and ruling

the old daye many men went up bars was heard saying to another to Oxford and Cambridge from in the school stores: "Cedrie out, mutual suspicion, if tho de-

Eton and other great public don't you think the sound of run- sired end is to be attained. Hither-

schools without the slightest in- ning water is perfectly heavenly?" to, quite apart from: the German

tention of passing an examination; As I have said, for those who claim, much difficulty has been en- The following cable at the close they were not even troubled with go to it the university gives an- of the sugar market yesterday has an entrance examination, but by other twist to men's conception of countered in seeking to arrange been received by Messrs. Pen-paying a certain sum of money their careers. They go there for an equitable scheme of disarma-treath and Co.

they were able to alip deftly the most part to work; at school their one interest is to avoid it. through the gates. ment, but the end in view is well

They become indepts at all forms worth straining every nerve to at-

of evasion.

out of tain. Let us hope that the demand now put forward by Germany, there may arise a new and even better effort to banish the fears of fresh antagonists and hostility.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1932,

EQUALITY IN ARMS

The German claim to equality in armaments with France raises an issue of vital importance, not

which has long been the subject

of much heart-burning in Berlin, The chief necessity, of course, is to eliminate any latent feelings of distrust between the principal European nations.

who

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and

with some measure of truth, that a violin solo. "Kot. also includes hours a day in city oflices; even pisciplined Habits.

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THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

To be a Suffragette.

London Terminals. December 1932 5/83% down 3d. March 1933 6/- down 2d.

Now they find that at the uni- May 1939 0/1 down 3d.

Once there, "work" occurred to August 1933 6/4% down 21⁄2d. their minds about as often as the veraity they will not be unduly Buyers at above prices, sellers Babylonian Empire: they played goaded and driven; their hours asking d-2. more.

games, hunted, shot, drank, and and their routine will be left to themselves. Their leisure will London (15/9/32)-Market ap-went down: pears to be getting near the bot-

Now such a life is impossible not be intruded on, but if they do even for those who wish to lead! not pass their first examination Refiners have bought 6,000 tons it: there are entrance and pre- they are sent down, and if they Cuban 365, October shipment, at liminary examinations which have do badly in their finals they large- 5/9 C.L.F. United Kingdom-pro-to be passed, or the man is sently discredit themselves in the eyes bably further sellers.

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Herrings and Whitebait.

New York Termina's. The remarkably large entches of September 1932 -

December 1932 1.02 down 2 pts herrings recorded from Yarmouth

March 1933 99 down 1 pt. yesterday would arouse a keener

May 1933 1.04 down 1 pt. British people interest if the

July 1939 1.09 down 1 pt. Cuban 96-Spot N.Y. 1.08 down valued this adaptable fish at its true worth. The customary dis. 2 pts. dain, indeed, almost deserves to be

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men

down. Besides, there are few men of the world.

It is there that so many now who go to the universities with such ideas, and the standard learn for the first time the habit of industry is now higher than at of disciplined work. Before I went to Oxford I was incapable any time before.

be-

to

Thoughts of career and misty of prolonged concentration,

occasion ambitions in that direction stir cause I had never very early in the human mind. At practise it; my time at Oxford seven my own career was mapped certainly taught me that habit. out. I was to be an engine-driver, It is often said that the schools

of motherhood.

Oxford.

If he

a powerful novel called "The portunity, which other men do not

get, of finding one's intellectual level. As to the public schools, why argue about them? Simply take a look at the young man who have been privately educated.

The rush to work haa crowded the professions, and it is no easy choico which facos even our intelligent young man to-day. The Bar is slow and precarious, the City depressed, lotters the domain of the fow. I admire those enter- prising pople who defy unemploy ment by breaking new ground.

only to these two nations, but to numbered among the many eighth rapid advance in the science of and flash northwards on the plate and universities of England are of the Flying Scotsman; a railway of no use to a man in his future Europe generally. Freneli rejec-wonders of the world. It is only preserving food, we

To that I would reply com accident soon banished this ambi- career.

that it depends entirely on the tion of the demand has moved in the best clubs and the best res-paratively little at present about tion from a mind never very Britain to take an interest in the taurants in London and the pro-the science of keeping fish, not robust, and I next decided to be a man. If a man does not want to subject, with the prospect of convinces that one can be sure of only fresh, but as fresh as when doctor, and to devote a well-spont educate himself there is not the sultations between the Powers finding the fish which oughts is left the sen. Important research life to alleviating some distresses slightest object in his going to principally concerned. It is early abundant is the supply and so work is being conducted in con- • Luckily for my potential Crowded Professions.

be the hexion with these problems. The patients this ambition deserted me in the day as yet to judge whether various its virtues-to

Tho hunting is better elsewhere, Britain's mediation will produce staple food of the British people.experiment of dyeing kippers when I was twelve; and was re-

And this widespread neglect of instead of smoking them is one placed by a keen desire to become and the climate is foul. useful results, but it is at least potentially the cheapest food sup result. In the meantime no sen- a suffragette, an ambition which does, he can derive incalculable Ireassuring to feel that some ef-ply available to any country insible man or woman will maintain was in its turn discarded owing to advantages from his time at the the difficulties of changing sex. university. There are excellent | fort is to be made to work on an the world is not more surprising what has become the traditional. Literature claimed me next. facilities for every form of study, agreed basis on this problem, than the apathy which is begin-attitude towards the herring. He Here I was given the lead by my there is rough and formidable ning to show towards another would perhaps be more appreciated sister, who, at the age of 16, wrote competition, and there is the op- English delicacy-whitebalt. This, if he cost more. according to reports, has been the worst whitebait season for more than 50 years. It seems probable that the young whiting which proy on whitebalt near the coasts have The French attitude on arma-been this year rather more deadly ments is, as we know, dominated than usual. But a far more likely by considerations of "security," explanation of a falling supply is Quile recently, on the anniversary | a falling demand. The fact is of the Battle of the Marne, M. that it is ceasing to pay anyone the Herriot declared that n heartfelt to catch whitebait, becauso desire for peace had inspired all restaurants and the fishmongers her actions, but the keynote of buy so little. It is impossible to blame them. Their clients have the occasion for the French people either. lost the taste for whitebalt was said to be one of 'Remember." or never acquired it. Yet the Some time prior to this, President flavour of freshly cooked white- Lebrun, after stressing that balt is one of the most distinctive Franco. wished peace, added "Butand satisfying that any man can let no-one ask her to abandon her experience. In France blanchailles concern for secarity; so long as are deservedly honoured. White- the spirit of peace does not reign elsewhere after a dance were

bait suppers at Greenwich and everywhere." Turning to Ger-

tradition of Victorian England. many, it is pertinent to point out Gourmets still prize whitebait, but that General' yon Schleicher, apparently only gourmets. Like Minister of Defence, after calling othor good things whitebait attention to the fact that the tail trouble. They are cheap to French military budget is four buy, but not cheap to cook, ainee times as large as Germany's, re- they require a good deal of of! contly declared that "either the or butter. And they lose their disarmament provisions of the superb flavour very quickly. Bo

neither the housewife nor the ros Treaty of Versailles must be ap taurateur is inclined to bothor in piled to all the Powers, or the the absence of a firm public do right to rebuild her system of de- mand. They should be served fence and make it equal to the piping hot an hour or two after needs of national security must be being caught not an

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I know ono man who made large sum by the mass delivery of milk; another who borrowed G. K. Chesterton's ingenious idea and, preparing questions and repartees, hired himself out to be scored 'off in company by his clients; another who became the propictor of ar air-taxi, and, lastly, a young man who, sont from home by his tax- hausted parents to find work, was discovered in the hind legs of the clephant. at the Manchestor

pantomime.

I hope that most of us will avoid such peculiar refuges. This much is certain:-that young men to-day contemplate their careers moroseriously than they over have. before, and aro working at theni far harder than they ever did of old. This should be remembered by all those who spand their time crabbing the present generation: there is always the uselesa - mini- ority tralling their slimo across the surface of society, and it is wrong to convey a false im prsum) /