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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1933.

BEFORE

BUYING A CAR DRIVE

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By C. LESLIE JOHNSTONE

Was

The Very Idea!

SWEET ALEKHINE By Eddie Kelly, "Pawn"

Dr. Alekhine, the famous chess.

in incessant restlessness, unable to find peace. Such people do not in the end make easy sub- jects. They certainly do not make good citizens. For in democracy it mattera supreme.

Two announcements of now po- tonded to pay him. Ho sitions and the wages attached to told £3, 35, a week. He is working ly what kind of man emerges them were published simultaneous-for that to-day. Examintions from the toil and the pleasures ly the other day. One revealed alone including entrance fees and playor, arrives in Hongkong to in which his life is spent. If that Miss Jessie Matthews had just looks cost him a goodly sum. His cloan up the local Inds to-morrow. signed a Alm contract for two parents had to keep him until ho From what we gather, this Doc. the questions of war and peace years at a salary of £7800 a year, got through his "na!" And at Alekhine has never been defeated [aro to bo ́decided by the mass the year's work being from twen- the end of it all a commencing-yet.

of the nation, a people capable ty to thirty weeks; the other that salary of £3, 3s.. per week!

Ho'a novar yet suffered a-lekhina Mr Cecil Whitely, KC., had been) only

He goes to work on a bus each at chess, and comes to our fair of responding to the appointed to a judgeship at the day. The conductor earns £3 15s; shores Hongkongquered: stimulus of excitement, incap Old Bailey in London at a salary the driver £4, 158. a week. Thoy We have not yet received our able, therefore, of a connected of 22000 a year.

left school at the age of fourteen, invitation to meet his champion, The disparity between. the and have been onrning grasp of facts or ideas, is a de- salaries is significent. £7800 for ever since.

money but unless the multi-headed bydrae of jealously is allowed to sperate master. The first in- thirty weeks work for the film

Clerks on the whole are under-rear its ugly head we anticipate dustrial rovolution demnon-actress; £2500 for a year's work paid. Fully qualified Cashiers no difficulty on this score.

for the judge. I have seen Mя with a score of years' experience strated that there aro things Matthews and have the highest behind them rarely

In our own country we were the that matter Immensely to civi- admiration for her talent, and I than £5 a week-a aum equal to fact, wo had to leave athool bo- more leading exponents of chess, In lisation over which the energy am certain that she will be worth the average eärnlago of a page | cause of it. We used to cousch

more than doublo her salary to her backers.'

boy of A London hotel. The com- dreadfully, and it was years before missioner of the hotel with the we wore cured of the complaint, The point is-are we as a na-aid of tips-certainly eurne vers In our time we have got quite a which is obsolete? For the

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1933.

THE USE OF LEISURE

The question of the wise

use

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Loss to Literature

Firearms Law

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tween. those of Glm stara and languages. branch of commercial and business judges, but confronts us in every

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advanced education or intelligence 11. 3.1416 (b)

12. 1/3 country must surely be the cinema 14. Mnth, (c).

The worst-paid person in the 13. Ed. (cheque) N. B. F. -

attendant. Cases are known of (a) This subtle manoeuvre is girls carning as little us shillings a week.

eight always good providing your op- ponent will stand for IL that grossly exaggerated stories you into trouble Inter on in the Jacidentally, it may be noted variation, popular to-day, may get

are circulated of the Wager of game.

It screen stars.

is considered (b) Pie.

(c) good publicity to blazon an actor's

week!

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Stalemate.

FOR WOULD-BE BOOK REVIEWERS ONLY,

The

I have myself selected, by com-

and strength of character. And per cent.-is not a large sum show what pains have been taken

an elementary schoolmaster, per week! That is the case of work, the shoal of correspondence | sous.

Disillusioned

I know a Doctor of Philosophy of name of charity and the uncer- Cambridge University who look tainty of the job.

a three-years' course there, follow-

The Nation's Rulers,

The world of literature has suffered a heavy lose by the death of Mr. John Galsworthy.adays. The award of the Nobel prize

Take the caso of schoolmasters. is not required. A friend of mine left his training to him recently was, if any collega a few months ago at the thing, overdue. The selection age of twenty-two. His education would have had a greater air of had cost his parents a consider

able sum; he himself had spent inevitability five or six years hours every night since the age of ago. Next to Shaw and Wells, fourteen in study, and up to a he was probably better known few weeks ago had never earned a penny in his life. After a great and appreciated outside England struggle he has secured 4 job. than any other British writer; His salary is just under £3 i or actress's earning capacity an but at home the pristine splend-

Educating children he future running into astronomical figures. our of his great reputation had citizens, teaching them all manner Those in the top-flight, however, already grown a trifle dim. Ius of involved subjecte, is important do earn sums ranging from £15,- plays tend to "date," not only racking work. Not only is a high-

work. For the master it is nerve-000 to £30,000 a year.

The member of Parliament is petitive examination, the cadre of on account of their content ut ly educated young man necessary, by no means over-pald. Four this new reviewern corps. A of leisure is being raised again on account of their presentation; but one with unlimited patience hundred pounds a year-leas 101 glance at the questions act will now that the movement

for Mr. Galsworthy, in spite of (or the commencing anlary is under 23 considering the importance of the to secure properly qualified per- shortening the hours of work perhaps because of) his fairness is coming within the realm of of mind and his carefully dis-

to be dealt with (at the member's Here are some of these ques- practical politics. An interest- tributed sympathics, was

expensel), the constituents with tlona: ing point made in this connexion finitely insular and bourgeois in

the grievances to be humoured, The secondary school teacher is demands made upon him in the of modern times? (There being 1. What are the Greatest Novels is that a

new peril has arisen his point of view,

He never more fortunate. But not much.

no Greatest Novels, and modern quito escaped from the shades in the openings for profit of his public school prison-house.

times become a thing of the past, making by the mass provision It is, however, by the Forsyte

candidates will ignore this ques tion). of amusement. One writer in a Saga and its sequel that his re-ed by two years' research, who In the seats of the mighty the leading review has expressed putation will finally stand

secured a position as history ma-same glaring disparity in wages

2. Discuss the relative place in.

fiction ster at a Yorkshire school. He is also found. The Chancellor of contemporary

of (a). the view that while the balance fall. "and though here again

was twenty-four when he com- the Exchequer gets £5000 whilst genealogy (b) Hengkong's future of gain and loss in the industrial the artist's presentation did menced work. He is earning at the Lord High Chancellor, whose City Hall, (c) genius, (d) the story of a Government servant at work, not altogether accord with the the present time 44, 178. Gd. revolution is a subject on which somewhat stark post-war mood, week.

a duties are by no Телив RA im-

portant, receives £10,000.

(e) zoology (with special re men may argue for a lifetime, the Saga is unequalled in its Although he won scholarships The Prime Minister gets nothing ference to snakes) and (f) "The

Very Idea". nobody who can distinguish own field and is likely to remain

to Cambridge his parents had to-so he takes on the job of First between one pleasure and

3. "It is not very often I ac- so. Mr. Galsworthy's growing help him financially. They could Lord of the Treasury with its other can fail to see that if the crop of imitators bore witness fice for them to do without any less than the Director-General of

claim a master". Who said this afford it. It was a great sacri- £5000 a year salary-£1000 a year

and how many times, and' organisation of man's leisure is influence.

to the strength and range of his money from him from the time the B.B.C. geta!

estimate by what amount Edward to follow the same law the con-

he was sixteen to twenty-four. They thought it would be worth important position of valuing you rather have it reviewed by (a)

The official who has the highly Kelly's booze bill was increased.

4. If you wrote a novel, would" sequences will be very serious

it "in the long run." To-day they Government

property receives for civilisation. For this would

are rather disillusioned.

an eminent contemporary novelist, Profcasional men in the business master-General has no salary at novellet, or merely a person who.

£1000 a year, whilst the Pay-

(b) an eminent contemptuous lead to concentration on those

world are not paid highly consider- all. amusements that lend them- A case in a London Polica ing the cost of obtaining their

The high dignitaries of the knew something about novels, ie., Court recently revealed the diplomas. For instance, a young Church are well paid. The Arch- Pete The Clue of the Crying fact that anybody can carry a

man I know recently passed his bishop of Canterbury organisation and the

Creditor, Mrs. Kelly-"Dodging final examination In accountancy, and spread of particular forms shot pistol in England without accountants since he was sixteen,

smooth-bored, double-barrelled He had been articled to a firm of London £10,000; the Bishop of

Diggers". £15,000 a year; the Bishop of of recreation just because it is a police certificate. This is but) and up to his success in the Ann York £9000, and the lesser Bishops every effort to avoid all these easier to make profit out of another example of the way in examination had been receiving

sums ranging from £2000 to £4000 them than out of others. It is which some jaws tie the hands £1 per week as "cigarette money." a year. Their expenses are, of obvious that the more leisure a of the police in their efforts to As a fully fledged chartered accourse, henvy,

countant he therefore went to his But still comparisons such as man has the more does his use cope with the modern gangsters, chief and asked him what he in- I have made do make one think. of his leisure affect his charac- firearms can

Only by vigorous control of all the authorities ter and his happiness. This is hope to avoid in England a re specially true of 蟲 modern petition of the Ecenes which society. Under modern condi- in the United States have be- tions the part played by in- come all too common. The pos- telligence and imagination in session of any gun, revolver or pistol capable of inflicting in- industry is steadily reduced as jury should be permitted only routine methods become more after the owner has antisfied the and more common. Thus u man police of the need for such Jearns less from working than weapon. Incidentally, this is he learnt when he was a crafts- the law in Hongkong, which man, and the development of his shows that in some matters mind depends more on what he Mother Country. One other re- Hongkong is even ahead of the does when he is not working, spect in which this is true is Roughly speaking, it may be in the matter of motor-driving said that the main difference licences. At Home, anyone can between an educated and an un- get a licence by the more for- educated person is the difference mality of filling in a form and paying the requisite fee. But between a person capable of here in Hongkong would-be taking an intelligent interest in motorists have to pass a police some aspect of life and a man test before they are allowed to capable only of noticing only its bocome drivers. This is a very sensational phenomena. One wise precaution, and it is our- man can lose himself in reflectitude should be shown in the prising that in England so much

tion, the other only in excite.

matter. ment. This capacity for excito- ment has sometimes been en- couraged to divert people from political agitation, but it has its dangers when so used. For ox- citement breeds its own disense,

* CRUELTY 13 COMMONPLACE; AND the disease described in & HATREU, LIKE THE EAGLE, THAT famous passage by Lucretius, in CARRIES UP IT3 PREY TO DASH IT

selves beat to this method of

survival

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

,

11

DOWN TO A MORE CERTAIN DEATH,

the man who shifts and turnS SEEMS TO KEVÄTE THE OBJECT IT 19 and dashes from place to place ABOUT TO DESTROY. Gratian.

receives

"Ils mother worries about him, but I tell hor he must be

all right or he would wrile va, for some...money."!

Note: Candidates should make. questions, and to remember that the Editor's decision is (or will probably be blinding.

BEAVER.

Long years ago we had an Uncle Cornelius who was entirely sur- rounded by whiskers; and in a rash moment we asked him what he did with it in his bath. We wore immediately sent supperless to bed.

LL

However, having hooked couple of rock cakes from the larder, we crept upstairs and wait- ed.

It was a Saturday night, and Uncle Corneliuh always took a inth on Saturday nights ... ALWAYS Whether he wanted it or not And we pooped through the keyholo.

Ains, Undo Cornelius had kung his shirt over it.

Then we had a rush of brains to the head, On the other side of the door we could hear him splash- ing about like a soa lion, and blow- ing bubbles, and sporting through the thickening suds: and Wo simply HAD to find out about that beard.

So wo 'shouted "Fira!" several times. And, suro dnough, out came Uncle Cornelius at the double, clad in a small towel and a lot of lather. And, bellove tis or bellevo us not, he had, his whiskers shoved Into 'n Hitlo waterproof bag, like a rubber hotwater-bottle, which was hung.over his cars with a couple of wires.

The discovery nearly cost un our life, but it was worth it. We were now able to aloep o' nights, no longer kept awake by the thought of that board gotting

and soaked through,

inking beneath the waves, and probably

being sucked down the pipe when he pulled the plug out.

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