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THURSDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

LUCKY CIVIL SERVANTS

If the recommendations of the Earl of Plymouth's Committee aro adopted, the senior officials of the Colonial Service in Hongkong,

Circus.

NOVEMBER 15, 1934,

DARING FLIGHTS TO

NEW HORIZONS

A TALK WITH A FLYING MAN

The Very Idea!

OFFICE VISTAS..

By George

Hour in the Newspaper article on the Busy Office, it shames us to relate what Cruikshank does dur ing the small section of the day in which he tries to justify the monthly cheque..

Take to-day for instance. We

view with an actress who is due ware just writing up an inter-

to arrive in a few months.

Ceylon and Malaya will spend. Peter Fleming complained tures of our present civilisation.AVING just read. an from two to three years "on in a recent book that the age Even those fear-nothing nirmon H tour and enjoy leave of twe of adventure is dead. He wrote who used to practise low flying months at home for every year as though the modern traveller over the heads of seaside crowds. they have served, while the junior officinis will sorve from three to could stroll from end to end of terrifying women and children 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 nuisances rather than heroes," Ing on their period of exile. These fortunate ofetals will always draw Paul's Churchyard to Plesadilly

In the course of a walk from St. the lying man declares, full pay, and will be offered their

"One need not be a devotee af choice of transportation by sea or air lines, if the recommendations

npeed, however, or an advocate of Machinery, by providing human reckless during along are adopted. If they select ne-beings with swift and safe means roads or above seaside fronts in arterial commentation aboard Imperial Air-of transport, has endoabtedly made order to appreciate the heroism of ways transports they lose a few it less of an adventure to cross days of their vacation, according to the Atlantic to Anerien to-day long-distance Bring. Some people the new plan; half the difference than it was to travel to the High-question the use of it all, but who between the time it takes to travel lands of Scotland in the days of could have foretold the usefulness home by ateamer and the time it Dr. Johnson. The voyage round of the action of the first man who takes by air. The sacrifice not the world, which once involved as set out in a primitive boat in Krent, particularly when the time many hazards and hardships as search of unknown islands beyond taken in travel by steamer does not befell Ulysses during his slow the sunset? count "na leave."

AN INJUSTICE?

makers,

who

Koko Knut, the petite blonde We had got as far as: "Mine (brunette) darling of a host of film (stage) fans showed hor dazzling brilliant) teeth in a brilliant (dazzling) smile as she tripped Chopped, pirouetted or posed) be- fore an army of pressmen on the deck of the giant Empress (Dollar› liner today."

We were going on to describe her

return to ithaca, is now turned "Man the adventurer has always Into a pleasure cruise for holiday--or at least, often-lived by in- stinct. He has set out ACTORK "However close the efficiency of continents and over eens with an modern transport has brought thettle certainty that he was doing feet and her ambition to become When it is remembered that the four corners of the world together, anything useful as migrating director when Cruikshank rushed Defarted Terms Repurchase-Licens In-Hongkong climate in scarcely com

STAY ATTAnged. Pul particulars ot

I cannot

bird. He has set out into agree with those parable to that of Malaya, it would maintain it will bring about the distance because it was distant and that the Girl in the Opposite Office plication.

the up in a state of excitement to report seem that this effort at uniformity end of the age of adventure," says left the rest to Providence.

s hardly just. Surely the Coloninia flying man.

was smoking a cigarette. official who spends a full twelve

This who so unusual a více in month in tropical heat, without "It seems to me that, at least "It is said by many people now- this particular girl whom we have. the relief of a Hongkong winter, in one reapect, machinery is re-adays that there is an economic as it were, watched growing up is entitled to most consideration.surrecting the ancient world of explanation for everything from from Infancy at her typewriter. 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 enjoyed by Colonial ulcinis (theleving that new horizons of ad-, St la on a sint of stone from startling report. revently determined retirement age venture will continue to appear Ireland to St. of 60 for pensionable offeers, for till, with the aid of machinery. I do not believe it. I believe that ing her legs and showing us a fine

lves in Cornwall.

It was true She was niso cross- Instance) and ordinary mortals may

men have reached the moon. be forgiven if they feel that the

are daring from an inner compul- range of hose. Civil Servant is a lucky individual.

sion of the spirit. They can no Who can read of the great air-more help being adventurous than hands preparatory to indulging in Cruikshank was manicuring his race to Australia without feeling, for example, can help being the daily series of that these twentieth-century air-cautious. If I could dissuade them which he attempted to seduce the- men are the modern counterparts from being an adventurous, I funcy Girl in the Opposite Oflee from her. of Hakluyt's voyagers? The air-1 should do so, but, as I know I file-bound chastity. While we are on the subject of Colonial officials, it is interesting faces perils that are the very stuff content to admire them as men we observed with interest that the man on these long-distance fights could never dissuade them, I am

Before returning to our labours to note the comment of reader.of herote Hterature-perils

of who preserve and enlarge the Girl in the Office Just Above had who says:

The

Stubbs Rd.

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, Nov. 16, 1934,

CIVIL SERVICE STAFFING

to the

CONFUSING TITLE

the daring minority of our race

wavea with

"Why is the head of storm, of wreckage, of forced tradition of fearlessness. the C.S.O, almost invariably known landings in the swamp or among

made considerable progress with as the Colonial Secretary? Should savage tribes and wild beasts.

"But even sn in foreign possessions in the he not be called the Chief Secretary

the ground of her Eighth sweater. utility, imagine, these successive

Twice more during the morning East, there is an increasing ten-that sort? I seems to me that airman was of the same bloud as the air could be defended.

for the Colony, or something of "I have never doubted that the attempts at further conquests of Cruikshank reported various strate- 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 Its Ric movements around us. The greater proportion of natives in rising when the Secretary of C. S. Rolls, who was afterwardations that have been brought closer profile; the Beautiful Girl, three

Government service.

State for the Colonies in usa fre- killed while making a risky land- together by new methods of trans- offices up, had answered the tele- India is, of course, an outstand-sides, the term 'Colonial Secretary: cautious landing of an acroplane closer together in understanding.

quently called by this name. Being at a time when even the most port have not always been brought phone with an Angry Frown.

Cruikshank's hands were mani- ing example, whilst in the is somewhat redundant. It is a still involved risk. His excited. We are as yet, however, only at cured to such a state of perfection Philippine Islands the process Colonies. Colonin! Secretary

fact that in the majority of buyish eyes had in their expres-the beginning of the new age in heart to ask him to help us at the by this time that we had not the has been most marked in recent the recognised title, but there are

ission a kind of mystical simplicity, which the inhabitants of the world. To a smaller, but none instances, in Nigeria, Rhodesia and years. the less extensive degree, the official in a similar

Nyasaland, for example, where an same can be said of the Straits known as Chief Secretary to the position P Settlements and the Federated

Government. But perhaps that is Malay States. In Hongkong,

rather undignified." the process can hardly be said to have begun, although there is n widespread feeling that in the more subordinate positions there is decided room for a recognition of the principle. The plea for which

MACHINE COVERNMENT

ally training a small

mechanical

The climax came with when the Girl

like those of a man in search of have a chance of conceiving thepewriter. the delight of adventure, and it world as a unit. was easy to imagine him as on inhabitant of the world of Colum- bus or of Raleigh, born to carry

on the tradition of splendid daring in the age of machines," said the flying man.

"I cannot believe that, unless the Devil in given permanent control of the earth, all this vast and growing machinery for the abolition of distance will have no

upon their

If

in the Opposite Offico dalibor- ately looked Into our office without frantic semaphore. We went out taking any notice of Cruikshank's for a drink whilst he was construct- ing un elastie gun to message of love across the street. shoot his When we returned he was very

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES By Juliet Lowell, Light Me Up,

Yours Dear Sirs: Honolulu, T. H. Hawaiian Electric Co.,

Again

"Even to Hit with him in aleffect for good on the relations hot under the arms and was thresh- motor-car while he was driving between peoples. I do not like the ing his typewriter with the thwart an though he were the spirit of notion of Mr. Wells's World State,ed look of a man crossed in love. mechanised, as far as possible, at that time was to understand ously provided the nations with an of his beautiful nails had been Everything-in-Russia is being speed Incarnate, or ao it seemed but the new machinery has obvi- We noticed with dismay that three according to the information how Henley came to write a poetic unprecedented means of discover Havagely bitten.

comes from the Soviet celebration of speed, since speeding and agreeing "the local man." made on many years, the country has made steady the heroie and advonturoua life", "Can human beings ever become in the Opposite Office who had re-

states. During the past fifteen was to give a new expression to common interests.

Across the street the Cross Eyed occasions in recent years, testi- progress in this direction, learn he went on.

Giri sat at the machine of the Girl fies to the existence of such *

ing the business of production

intelligent? Nobody knows.

tired into the shades. view. It is interesting, in from foreign experts and gradu-

they cannot, then the conquest of "Damn!" muttered Cruikshank's this connection. to observe efficient

army of

"Not that I am myself a devotee the opportunities it gives for the the air will be useless except for

typewriter, "Blow and 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 engineers of speed. Forty miles an hour indisplay of splendid courage. If

Damn An agitation in the Malay this programme is the enormous Nor does my heart beat rapidly conquest of the air can, like the States for the

establish Stalin Machine Building Plant at with admiration of those speed other triumphs of modern inven ment of a training school for Kramatorsk, named for the Dicta-flends who flash along Asiatic administrative officers, or who has given his personal roads, taking every possible risk tion, be used to bring about such

arterial along the lines of similar in-industry. It employs 15,000 per-lives of other people. Speed and mankind as the old Utopinns never

energy to the mechanisation of with their own lives and with the a stitutions maintained in Dutch acns, besides 1377 technicians. recklessness

unification of the family of and French Colonies in the Far This is the nucleus of what will among the most unpleasant fen-

out of place East. British officials in Malaya be an even larger industrial cen-

are dreamed of." Jare being replaced extensivelytre and it will produce almost by Malaya in certain administra- jovery sort of farm machinery; tive posts, even as district officers steel of all sorts, will, in fact, and magistrates. This is largely from those used in the manufac

build almost because of considerations of ture of lace to those which cut every sort of machine, economy, and the process was the parts for locomotives. Rusain markedly accelerated during the is 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 reason 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 Civil Service and the Malayall have to be altered. The world has the rival industrial systems will 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

Government service with no locally-engaged men can scarcely more knowledge than they have be said to have begun, but as acquired in an ordinary school, time goes on it will become es- saya a Singapore journal, and (sential to apply the process to they have to pick up what they an increasing extent in certain can 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 Colonies in the East, but this necessity. It might be also behind the Straits Sattic-well, therefore, for the authori

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So says the flying man.

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

You seems to don't not remember what I complain for an meter one day in that last month. I have got not lights and it seem like I have without eyees as after six o'clock it is dark all the night-> rest of.

Now ladies and men I please to thank you to make fast and remove this no lights in my place, I pay you three dollars.

Thank mo, Shibata Hirato i

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