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OVERWORK

By ROBERT LYND

The Very Idea!

IN THE GARDEN NOOD morning! Lovely

Growing weather.

A small portion of divine

The argument that all wars are caused, in some manner, by econ- omle rivalry is recalled by the rumour that the Singapore, naval base might be used as pawn in the Anglo-Japanese textile negotia. tions. The story was, of course,

MANY people must have been Now, it is no easy thing for a afflatus which descended Vabsurd from the beginning and I shocked during the week to boy, of high principles to abstain upon me this morning, ac-

after Sir John Simon's statement Anothing more will be heard of it, read of the Japanese editor who from overwork in this faahton. He companied by several gallons

It seemed a little strange, however, had to be reprimanded by his has to be prepared for baiting and of mean rainfall: Uto find the Foreign Minister speak-employer for having worked 18 biting words from schoolmasters, How sweet on the listening ear ing as though it were sacrilege to hours every day for a while your.. for insulting reports to his parente, is the sound of the pattering rain. Xintroduce political questions into

oven for punishment. There will we don't mind the mud, for it

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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1934,

decisions by government concern- ing trade matters. That, however, is a far cry from abandoning the Singapore Bano In return for a cotton Industry understanding.

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IN THE GRAN CHACO

it is Bolivia that is deinitely war- minded as shown by the under- lying cause for the mutiny among

the La Paz cadets.

careful, we may wake up one day!

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commercial discussions. Doubtless Everybody knows how strong| HForeign Offices dislike the idea, but the temptation to work is. Work, no glittering prizes for him at fattens the bud, and It's good to

the end of the year. At the annual see puddles again. is that of paramount importance? like tobacco, may be distasteful to If the proposition that all wars the beginner. But when once we examinations he may be put down It washes the alloys and streets, are economic is true, then it would have acquired the habit it grows as a failure. All these difficulties, and makes all the lampposts look Lseem to be advantageous to con-

however, only serve to strengthen nower, It gurgles and mutters in sidor the political aspects of all upon us till, if we are not.vels character, and he will set out gulloys and gutters, and frolics:

to find ourselves slaves to it. The on his career at last as a man along through the sower.

The turnips are shouting hur- chain-workers a

whom not even the most powerful} common 4 phenomenon as

The rhubarb the chain-smoker. temptations could induce to become rah; the brussels are sprouting

right gally.

in one of the sad army of the world's redder; the cows In the modder Excessivo work, it may bo work-addicts.

have doubled their output twice argued, like excessive amoking.

dally. injures nobody but its victim. I Fortunately, the danger of over- Bolivia's claim to a smashing cannot agree. For one thing, by working is not so common as it From which, if you read it care- victory over the Paraguayans in exhausting our vitality. It lowers used to be. The law of England fully, you will gather that it has the Conchiton sector in the Gran Deferred Terms-Repurchase Chaco is likely further to delay the our efficiency and therefore makes now regarde overwork as a crime. been raining.

And isn't it just too wonderful Licence & Insurance Arranged resumption of peace efforts by the us less useful to our employers. People who loathe half-holidays Full particulars on application.League of Nations. The investiga- If we all worked 18 hours a day are compelled to take half-holidays, what a spot of moisture will do. Take our umab, for instance; who tion was brought to an end when it we should ultimately be unable to Shopkeepers in the grip of the pass you know, has aspirations and HONGKONG HOTEL CARAGE became obvious that the parties do any good work at all. Hence Islan for overwork, who want to denoids.

were uninterested in pence. They hold that it is grossly unfair to work an hour longer than their All last week she had are less likely to be pacifically one's employer to overwork. Phone 27778-9

neighbours, can do so only at the boon as dull as ditchwater, moon- minded to-day. It was when

risk of a police prosecution. Trade ing about as one afflicted with a Paraguay's fortunes in the war be- I remember, as a schoolchild, gan to turn that that nation lost hearing of a little girl who had the aid of the law in the prevenclouds raced across the sky, the unions, again, have come nobly to green and yellow melancholy. And then the sky began to leak, the its anxiety for an armistice. Now

such a passion for work that she tion of the once widespread evil grass grew until we couldn't see used sometimes to faint over her of overwork.

out of the windows, and the dry books. The case of the little girl

The fact that the law has had and dusty carth sprang into life made a deep and lasting impres

again. sion on me. I reflected' on the to take such drastic steps to pre- anxiety she

Next morning it took her three- must cause hor vont overwork is evidence of the NEW TECHNIQUE

parents, and I resolved to do all extent to which the craving for quarters of an hour to tell the that was humanly possible never overwork had spread among the compradore boy about our mutton Bolivia has now developed a new

to become a cause of similar an-English people. Leave an English cutlet, not too fat, Three-quarters of an hour; and he went away technique and a new type of soldier xiety to my family,

man to himself, and it in ten to one with his Hat on the Side of his whose losing streak has been halted

that you will find him slaving away Head, and whose chances of winning are

As a result, when I was after-18 hours a day like the Japanese sounded like the Chinese version of singing something, that on the aseendant. A desire for wards struggling to master some editor. He has naturally the de- Riding ou peace which depends on the way peculiarly dieult subject like the vouring, diligence of the ant which, ay

£ Rainbow Night and the war is going is neither deep exports of the Gold Coast or thene the result of continuous over- nur sincere. Rath. Paraguay andarens of the Canadian lakes, and work, has never progressed a single If any of you know any cause or Bolivia seem to have shown that was feeling so tired that I could inch along the path of evolution just impediment why these persona their professed pacific intentions have yawned the roof off, I did not, since its creation. The English-but she'll have to give me a were hypocritical. Bolivin has dislike the ordinary work-slave, try man, indeed, needs no law to com- month's notice, so there! coming from the high altitudes, with the work, I put the question laws to compel him to abstain cholos, to ignore my symptoms and get on pel him to work; he needs only courageous and well trained though frankly to myself: "Is this fair to from work in excess. they may be an soldiers, work un- others? Suppose you give your

I dislike compulsions of all sorts, der terrific handicaps in low al-self brain-fever, won't it make titudes and in the tropical jungle your parents rather unhappy?" and I should have preferred it if terrain of the Chaco. So Col. And, pulling myself together, the Englishman had been able to Alfredo Rivas, who has spent his would throw the book from me and abstain from overwork voluntarily whole military career in the Chaco, xo out and make myself fit again and out of a sense of duty. received permission to recruit an in a game of Wild Boar with my

He would then have had the whose lives have been spent in the army of Bolivian men and boys friends in the street.

courage to say to himself: "I owe Not that I was ever an enemy the same duty to my employer that Chaco and who look upon it as of work. I am no bigot. I have the Derby-winner, Hyperion, awed their own. The advantages are always been one of the first to to his owner end trainer. If Hy- obvious. They as their enemies, maintain that work in moderation perion had given in to the craving ness of the British financial posi- at home in this area and they are ments and enjoyments of the galloping at full speed time after tion, but also because they have fighting for their own, which the human race. At the same time I time round the Epsom course on the been made possible by a distinct imported

the high realised from an early age that, for morning of Dorby Day, what turn for the better in the in-plateaus were not,

the sake of others if not of my chance would his four white feet dustrial and-commercial affairsi

self, I must keep the Industrious have ultimately had of carrying of the country. This happy out-

side of my nature under control him to victory? The answer is and not allow it to run away with obvious. He would have run like come, as Mr. Chamberlain has stated, has produced a new spirit take

A pitched battle is expected to me, like a bolting horse that brings a third-rate hack. In my employ-

place shortly near Fort run to its, rider.

ér's interests I must model myself of hope and confidence. It has Avanti, near Fort Ballivian, which been a hard, wearisome, uphill

for hard work that may endanger! was always careful to leave off my efficiency." struggle to straighten out the Verdun. Both armies nation's finances and place them from their supply bases and are work at the first premonitions of

exhaustion. Fascinating as the If I were an employer I should on a firm and better basis, but operating in regions that at best the task has been accomplished. can only be described as inhcs-rose of Demosthenes was, I knew have notices all over the place Indeed, so satisfactory is the Pitable. It is doubtful whether in the first second of the first yawn appealing to the better nature of that ought not to go on reading my employeca not to work too hard. any "decisive" victory will alterim. position that an even greater the ultimate course of the war, persisted, as they persisted

Other boys would have If there were still, however, men measure of relief might have which probably will drag on until reading penny dreadfuls when they hour day of the Japanese editor in who persisted in working the 18- been accorded without in any both sides quit from sheer exhaus ought to be in bed. But I had an there. would be nothing for it but

the tion. Wasteful, inhuman and use- way adversely affecting financial stability of the country. less, this, the most senseless of almost priggish devotion to duty to pass a law condemning every- that enabled me to resist such body found guilty of overwork to Excessive caution appears

to Wars among ao-called civilised

temptations.

seven years' hard labour. have dictated the policy of people, is a blot on the reputations utilising the year's surplus of

of the main participants and a sad thirty-nine millions sterling for itself unless it be that certain dis- commentary on modern civiliantion debt redemption: This might credited vested interests in that well have been carried forward, civilisation are primarily to blame. onabling a far bolder and more | Quien sabe?

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USELESS WAR

from

the Bolivians took upon as their Hence, during my schooldays, 1 Hyperion and crush any desire

remission. Such a course would THE LONGER LIFE

not have impaired the nation's

are

far

finances, since the greater the Dr. G. W. Crile, noted "American measure of relief, the greater surgeon, sald the other day that, would be the spending power of there is no

with proper attention to health, the people, and this, in turn, should not extend his active career reason why a man would have cumulative effects to the age of 80 or beyond. Fre over a wide area, with enhanced quent physical examinations, he returns in the way of revenue. anys, would reveal falling capacities Had this policy been pursued, of vital organs and would make it not only could the pay cuts have possible for remedial steps to be been restored in full, but the just one more instance in which taken. Is this encouraging or smal taxpayer would have our scientific knowledge has outrun secured much-needed relief. It our social sense? What is the use is noteworthy, in this connection, of enabling a man to keep working that the only criticism levelled to the age of 807 Unless we revise against the Budget is that it the notion that a man's usefulness does not go far enough in its ends with middle age, there is concessions. If, as is argued, small use in extending hila active

life span. the relief granted will have a stimulating psychological effect, this would be oven more marked | MISDIRECTED REVENGE were a bolder programmé put in-,

to effect. The Government, how been debating a bill which would The Mississippi legislature has ever, evidently prefers to hasten give the father of a girl who was slowly in these matters, doubt-attacked by three men' the right to less with the hope and intention hang them for their crime. It of bringing forward more apecta- iscoms a shocking Ides. Such a pro- cular proposals in the next posal goes directly opposite to the LTD.before an appeal is made to the nothing to do with the motive of Budget, most likely the Inst whole theory of the capital punish

ment law. In theory, law has

country. For electioneering tac revenge. It is society's means of tics have their place even in such protecting. Itself. If it in to be matters as evolving the nation's endurable, It must be operated financial policy.

without passion orge rancour.

CLOSEUP

OF

نید

"Makes a guy feel he ain't so important, after all, don't it?"

Advancement of Learning

When I look at the skies, I think

of the Greeks and Romans, As superstitious na the Zulis

are now They thought the alars were gođa --human beings-animals- Stuck up there in the heavens

to learn them how.

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The names they gave them! Castor-Pollux-Andromeda

And they had some comic idea ·

about the sun;

They never grasped the meaning

of Education

Or of all the research that wor -waiting to be done.--.

Now, of course, we know that the

stars are made of barium, And their light constata of waves of thingummybobs; And, mind you, we're not stuck

up about it, or anything... It's just that teachers, and so

on, are doing their jobs.

But I often think: wouldn't It

have been a come-down For Aristotle-wouldn't he have looked a bit sick- If you'd taken him, say,

London University And said: Here, Arry, have a

shot at Matric?

to

"GOOFY" EGGS ON THE COST OF LIVING

"These calculations about food," said Godolphin ("Goofy"). Eggs: "they don't sort of get us any where, what?"

"ilow do you mean?" asked I. The only way, with Goofy, Is to let him think things out on his own lines.

"Well, I mean to say," anid Goofy. "All this stuff about the working classes and what they have to have. Meat margarine and what-not; potatoes, sugar..."

"Yos,

the yes," said I. "I've seen

"Well, there you

have

ure," said Goofy. "What I mean is, it's a bit footing, isn't it? Take the Zulus; finest body of men in the world. (Or perhaps I mean the Kaffira, or somebody.) Anyway, they don't Professors to work out calories for them. They just live on rice, or sago, or whatever that Junk is they grow. . Take the British workman of a generation back. Did he have all this meat and two veg. business? Take Nic for that matter. I get through as mach in a day as most poople (I mean to any, two rounds yester- day), and no one works out dietaries for me. I mean to say, what does it all provo? Why, nothing; simply nothing."

"Goofy," I said, "You ought to go home and stand for Parliament. I've never heard auch eloquence,"

"What," said Goofy. "And mix with all those Socialists and toughe? Couldn't do it, old chap: I couldn't really,

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