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THURSDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

LUCKY CIVIL SERVANTS

NOVEMBER 15, 1934,

DARING FLIGHTS TO NEW HORIZONS

A TALK WITH A FLYING MAN

The Very Idea!

OFFICE VISTAS

*

By George

an

If the recommendations of the Earl of Plymouth's Committee are adopted, the senior, oficials of the Colonial Service In Hongkong,

R. Peter Fleming complainedtures of our present civilisation. HAVING just read Ceylon and Malaya will spend M

article on the Busy "on from two to three years two of adventure is dend. He wrote who used to practise low flying Hour in the Newspaper tour" and enjoy leave of months at home for every year as though the modern traveller over the heads of seaside crowds. Office, it shames us to relate they have served, while the junior cauid stroll from end to end of torrifying women and children what Cruikshank does dur officials will serve from three to

in a recent book that the ago Even those Tear nothing nirmen

four years abroad and go home for the earth at almost as little risk and me-always seemed to me to from six to eight months, depend-to his life as he would encounter be nuisancos rather than herabs,ing the small section of the day in which he tries to ing on their period of exile. These in the course of a walk from St. the lying man declares. fortunate officials will always draw Paul's Churchyard to Piccadilly full pay, and will be offered their Circua choice of transportation by Ben or

"One need not be a devotee of justify the monthly cheque. Apeed, however, or an advocate of Take to-day for instance. We air linca, If the recommendations. Machinery, by providing human reckless daring along arterial were just writing up an inter- are adopted. If they select nebeings with swift and safe means roads or above seaside fronts in view with an actress who is due commodation aboard Imperial Air of transport, has undoubtedly made order to appreciate the heroism of to arrive in a few months.

"Misk ways transports they lone a few leas of an adventure to cross long-distance flying. Some people!

We had got us for as: days of their vacation, according to the Atlantic to America to-day

the pelite blonde the new plan; half the difference than it was to travel to the High-question the use of it all, but who Koko Knut, between the time it takes to travel lands of Scotland in the days of could have foretold the usefulness (brunette) darling of a host of film home by steamer and the time it Dr. Johnson. The voyage round of the action of the first man who (stage) fans showed her dazzling primitive boat in (brilliant) teeth in a brilliant takes by air. The ancrifice in not the world, which once involved as set out in a great, particularly when the time many hazards and hardships nearch of unknown islands beyond (dazzling) smile as she tripped

Chopped, pirouetted or posed) be-. taken in travel by steainer does not befeli Ulysses during his slow the sunset? count as leave,"

return to Ithaca, la now turned: "Man the adventurer has kiways fore an army of pressmen on the into a pleasure cruise for holiday-or, at least, often-lived by in- deck of the ginnt Empress (Dollar)

stinct. He has got out across liner to-day." continents and over ass with an

We were going on to describe her "However close the efficiency of little cortainty that he was doing feet and her ambition to become a modern transport has brought the

migrating director when Cruikshank rushed bird. He has four corners of the world together, anything useful as a

set out into the up in a state of excitement to report who agree with those cannot maintain it will bring about the distance because it was dlatant and that the Girl in the Opposite Office

left the rest to Providence.

was smoking a cigarette. end of the age of adventure," says a lying man.

Special Arrangements extended to the motorist AN INJUSTICE?

in Kolo on Home furlough for delivery Londen and um at flomy and enbeegveni ht abors JLK m-delivery in Hongkong janded prices,

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06 kp-

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When it is remembered that the Deferred Terms-Repurchase-Licence & In Hongkong climate in scarcely com- parable to that of Malaya, it would negu that this effort at uniformity 1s hardly funt. Surely the Colonial ofclal who spends a full twelve months in tropical bent, without the relief of

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THURSDAY, Nov. 15, 1934,

CIVIL SERVICE STAFFING

instance) and ordinary mortals may be Torgiven if they feel that the ↑ Cvil Servant is a Jucky individual.

makera.

•

•

This was so unusual a vice in this particular girl whom we have,

her typewriter. on it were, watched growing up from Infancy at

It was true.. She was also cross- ing her legs, and showing us a fine range of hose.

"It is said by many people now "It seems to me that, at least Hongkong winter, in one respect, machinery is re-adays that there is an economie la entitled to most consideration.surrecting the ancient world of explanation for everything-from There are other little advantages adventure, and I cannot help be- the Trojan War to the voyage of that we had to go and confirm the

a slab of stune from aturthing report.. enjoyed by Colonial officials (the lieving that new horizons of nd., St. Ia on recently determined retirement age venture will continue to appear Ireland to St. Ives in Cornwall. of 50 for pensionable officers, for till, with the aid of machinery, I do not believe it. I believe that the daring minority of our race men have reached the moon.

are daring from an inner compul- ision of the spirit. They can no Who can read of the great air-more help being adventurous than can help being race to Australia without feeling, for example, that these twentieth-century air-cautious. If I could dissuade them men are the modern counterparts from being so adventurous, I fancy of Hakluyt's voyagers? The air should do so, but, as I know 1 man on these long-distance lights could never dissuade them, I am faces perils that are the very stuff content to admire them as men preserve and enlarge the of herole literature perila of who storm, of wreckage, of forced tradition of fearlessness.

"But landings in the swamp or amonk

the ground of waynge tribes and wild beasts.

utility, I imagine, these successive

CONFUSING TITLE

While we are on the subject of Colonial officials, it is interesting to note the comment of a reader, who says:

"Why is the head of the C.S.O. almost invariably known as the Colonial Secretary? Should

in foreign possessions in the he not be called the Chief Secretary for the Colony, or something of

Be

Cruikshank was manicuring his hande preparatory to indulging fa the daily series of waves with which he attempted to seduce the Girl in the Opposite Office from ner Bie-bound chastity.

Before returning tour laboura we observed with interest that the Girt in the office Just Above bad made considerable progress with her Eighth sweater.

Twice more during the morning "I have never doubted that the attempts at further conquests of Cruikshank reported various atrate-

even on

at

ia Nomothat redundant.. It is buyish eyes had in their expres- the beginning of the now age in by this time that we had not the

MACHINE GOVERNMENT

ying man.

*

If

had been

East. there is an increasing ten-that sort? It seems to me that airman was of the same blood us the air could be defended. It is ic movements around us. The dency nowadays to introduce a there is a possibility of confusion the old adventurers since I met true that, up to the present, na- Girl with the Glasses had shown a

the Secretary of

C. S. Rolls, who was afterwards tions that have been brought closer profile: the Beautiful Girl, three greater proportion of natives in-arising when

State for the Colonies is also fre-killed while making a risky land- together by now methods of trans-offices up, had answered the tele- Cruikshank's hands were mani- the Government servic

quently, called by this name. ing at a time when even the most port have not always been brought phone with an Angry Frown. India is, of course, an outstand-sides, the term 'Colonial Secretary cautious landing of an aeroplane closer together in understanding.cured to such a state of perfection

atili involved Flak. His excited. We are as yet, however, only ing example, whilst in the

fact that in the majority of

ission a kind of mystical simplicity, which the inhabitants of the world heart to ask him to help us at the Phillippine Islands the process Cotonles, Colonial Secretary

The climax came with when the like these of a man in search of have a chance of conceiving the typewriter.

world as a unit. has been most marked in recent the recognised title, but there are

and it

Girl in the Opposite Office deliber ately looked into our office without instances, in Nigeria. Rhodesia and the delight of adventure, years. To a smaller, but none Nyasaland, for example, where an

was easy to imagine him as an

taking any notice of Cruikshank's the less extensive degree, the official in a similar position

isinhabitant of the world of Colum

"I cannot believe that, unless frantic semaphore. We went out sume can be said of the Straits known as Chief Secretary to the bus or of Raleigh, blondid daring the Devil is given permanent for a drink whilst he was construct- Settlements and

Government. But perhaps that is on the tradition of splendid the Federated

in the age of machines," said the control of the earth, all this vast ing an elastic gun to shoot his rather undignified,"

and growing machinery for the message of love across the street. Malay States. In Hongkong,,

abolition of distance will have no When we returned ho was very the process can hardly be sail to

him in a effect for good on the relations hot under the arms and was thresh- "Even to ait with have begun, although there is a

motor-car while he was driving between peoples. I do not like the ing his typewriter with the thwart- of a man crossed In love. na though he were the spirit of notion of Mr. Weils's World State, ed looke widespread feeling that in the

Everything in Russia is being speed incarnato, or so it seemed but the new machinery has obvi We noticed with dismay that three more subordinate positions there mechanised, as far as possible, at that time was to understand ously provided the nations with an of his beautiful nails is decided room for a recognition | according to the information how Henley came to write a poetic unprecedented means of discover-savagely bitten,

upon their

Across the street the Cross Eyed [of the principle. The plea for whlet comes from the Soviet celebration of speed, sinco speed ing and agreeing

Girl aut at the machine of the Girl "the local man," made on many states. During the past fifteen was to give a new expression to common interests.

years, the country has made steady the heroic and adventurous life",

"Can human beings ever become in the Opposite Office who had re-

fired into the shades. occasions in recent years, testi-progress in this direction, learn-he went on.

intelligent? Nobody knows.

"Damn!" muttered Cruikshank's ing the business fies to the existence of such

of production

they cannot, then the conquest of

"Blow' and again from foreign experts and gradu-

the air will be useless except for typewriter.

Damn!" view. It is interesting, in

aily training a small army of “Not that I am myself a devoted the opportunities it gives for the this connection, to observe eficient mechanical engineers of speed. Forty miles an hour in display of splendid courage. If that there is at the moment of its own. The latest fruit of a motor-car is fast enough for me they can, on the other hand, the an agitation in the

Malay this programme is the enormous Nor does my heart beat rapidly conquest of the air can, like the

speed.

ed other triumphs of modern inven- Stales for the establish Stalin Machine Building Plant at with admiration of those ment of a training school for Kramatorek, named for the Dicta fiends who flash along arterial tion, he used to bring about such

unification of the family Asiatic administrative officers, for who has given his personal roads, taking every possible risk

energy to the mechanisation of with their own lives and with the a along the lines of similar in industry. It employs 15,000 per-lives of other people. Speed and mankind as the old Utopians nover Yours Dear Sire: stitutions maintained in Dutch sons, besides 1,377 technicians, recklessness

of place ure dreamed of.” and French Colonies in the Far This is the nucleus of what will among the most unpleasant fea- Esal. British officials in Malaya be an even larger Industrial cen- are being replaced extensively tre and it will produce by Mulays in certain administra-every sort of farm machinery; tive posts, even as district officers steel of all sorts, will, in and magistrates. This is largely from those used in the manufae- build almost every sort of machine, because of considerations of ture of lace to those which cut economy, and the process wasthe parts for locomotives. Russia markedly accelerated during the in providing for her internal needs Clementi regime. The declared before she comes into the world policy of the F.M.S. Government markets as a serious competitor. is to increase, as far as is con- When she does commence to flood- sistent with safety and reasou- the world with her manufactures able efficiency, the appointments it is possible that to meet the open to Malay members of the competition the entire structure of the rival Industrial systems will Civil Service and the Malayan have to be altered. The world has Administrative Service. Ayet to experience the effect of a strong complaint is, however, trade war waged by a completely being made that.no facilities nationalised Industry. exist for the adequate training:

of such officers. They enter

Bays

almost

fact,

Government service with no locally-engaged men can scarcely Įmore knowledge than they have be said to have begun, but as acquired in an ordinary school, time goes on it will become es- a Singapore journal, and sential to apply the process to they have to pick up what they an increasing extent in certain ean by practical experience and spheres of government. Care private study. It is certainly will, of course, have to be taken surprising to learn that whilst to apply the method gradually every other branch of govern- and within well-defined limits, ment gives its junior Asiatic but it seems inevitable that in officers a course of theoretical the future staffing of the Civil instruction, the most important | Service the tendency will need to branch of all, the administrative, be emphasised much more than does not do so, In this respect in the past. The Increasing cost the F.M.S. is. not only behind of. Government alone points to foreign Colonios in the East, but this necessity. It might be also behind the Straits Settle-well, therefore, for the authori

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So anys the flying man.

"Well, I'll give him just ten minutes moro before I get good and.....mad.”

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