1935-02-07 — Page 3

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY. $1985.

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FATHER LOOKS AT HIS SON

AND SAYS: "THE BOY DEFEATS ME"

By A FATHER

TX-son-in-just-twenty-one,-und, most kinds of politicians they though we rub along pretty aren't worth the walk to the poli. well together, he puzzles me. In a few years-maybo ̈when "I'm" Hitherto I have not really acknow. forty-we shall produco a statos- ledged that fact even to myself, man worth voting for.", but tho. twenty-fivo years which separate us seem a gulf which widene from day to day. With steady and reasonably good job In a well-known stockbroking Arm, he seems to me, at least, to be luckier than many other young

stera.

But oddly, Fred does not seem to think so. So far as I can as certain his Interest in his work is conspicuous by Its absence. If I nak casually how things are go- ing in the office, he replies- "Oh, quite all right, Dad!" Then he lips over the pages of an even ing now paper to have a look at the winners. Yet only the other day I mot the senior partner in his firm,

"How is Fred doing with you?" I acked rather diffidently, half expecting to hear an port

adverse re-

"A darned good Ind!" he replied "Ho really is shaping well, and early next year I fancy he'll be due for a substantial rise."

Yot Fred has never given me the alightest Intimation that he was even happy at his work! He gives me the impression-defin-" italy," to use his own phrase— that it is a daily grind which

The Earl of Aylesford above, was recently involved in a riot in the Saar, togather with Captain James Justice of the Saar police force. Captain Justics was sent to bospital following injuries re- calved from an irata mob after -the-car-be-and-the-surf_were. driving ran into a civilian. The earl was badly bruised in the mela walch nuned.

I have

He has a kind of knifelika a me. I think of electorates shrewdness which sometimes baf- which poll only forty per cent., |-- and wonder if, after all, he is right and I am wrong. approached him on the subject of war, and have explained that, as a result of a political trend, he might find himself and his friends side by side in a machine gun aquad.

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"Well, it might liven things up

a bit," he replied, "but then, of

course, what with gas and bombs The gentlemen in summer garb had crowds gaping in Switzerland as they played bridge in the snow for

and aeroplanes and things, it couldn't last long."

Useless to tell him that that in exactly what most of us thought in those far off days of 1914. Apparently he has learned no Jesson from my own hazards of war, possibly because no one who has not seen a front line trench can in any way imagine its hor Tors. Reading of death in no way conveys the stark grimness of the concrete fact.

AMATEUR FINANCIERS

NEW U.S. CREDIT UNIONS

PROTECTIVE ORGANISATION

The

Washington, Jan, 7.

charters to

government is offering they can

amateur financiers so busines with capital of $36.

go into the banking

an hour or so.

Junions unless they have à "poten~] F.A.C¡A, to defray the costs of

tlal" membership of at least GO: examining their books,

They then scok as many mem- bera as they can at $5 each, and start in the loan bualness.

Among the unions now in busi- 11058 are the Morris Sheppard Credit Union, of Texarkana, Tox., with city employees for members;

If there's enough money in the The Arkansas Light and Power

treasury, they'll have unsecured Company Credit Union, Little

loans to members of $50 and Rock Ark: The Colt Employees Recured loans. of $200. The bor- Federal Credit Union, Hartford, Conn., made up of fire arms workers; the Pampenco Federal per month. Credit Union, Pawtucket, RI., The firemen who does the book- composed of employees of the Pawkeeping may be paid a salary. tucket Rendering (Sonp) Company,

rowers pay one per cent interest

HIS ATTITUDE TO GIRLS

My son Fred Is good-looking and ginla seem attracted to him. So far as I can judge at the mo- mant, Peggy has outdistanced'all runners, but I am never aure of my ground. In her company he appears mora bored than if listen ing to a sermon, and I have sud- denly entered the drawingroom of jan evening to find each of them engrossed in a book, sented in chnirs

ten feet apart! Blase" in the word which best papers and set up shop, accepting refrigerators through the good applications are.

aomo

Almost any seven citizens own- ing $5 each can establish a Federal Credit Union, Ret government

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and the New Orleans Firemen's Any profits up to six per cent go to Credit Union, organized among the members. Profits ever that fire enters in Huey Long's home must go into the reserve fund, unless Governor Myers authorises a mellon cutting-

town.

Organisation of a federal credit union is simple. Say seven fire. men are tired of buying radios nad offices of loan sharks. They sub- scribe for one $5 share of stock Then they apply for a each. federal charter.

MUST LOOK HONEST

describes his attitude to the fem- deposits and making loans. inino sex. How extraordinarily different was my own youth. may be wrong but twenty-five years ago wo lived and, too often, pald the price. Fred seems too bored to contemplato "ilving."

Somehow I cannot visualise my son catching a girl in ble arms, sweeping her off her feet with wild and vehement protestations, and carrying her off to a regis- trar's office. Yet he seems to apend quite a lot of money in various town and country night clubs, so much so that he borrows Morris Sheppard, D., Texas, celu an Occasional fiver from his brated as the author of the pro- mother. I know all about it, of hibition amendment. He obtained course, though that never occurs the passage of a law in the last to him.

sesalon of Congress authorising į That disturbs me. After all the farm credit administration to surely he can trust me to under-charter credit unions and appro- stand just a little_about_the printing $60,000........to...get them urgent needs and exuberances of | started. youth. London in wartime

Only 28 such unions have been established far by firemen, school teachers, filling station workers and department store workers, Mr. William. I. Myers, governor of the Farm Credit If Governor Myers' staff thinks Administration announced. Hia they look like honest fromhen, with associates have hopes of thousands a chance of getting a number of being organised as soon as the country's would-be financiers learn how easy it is.

The idea is that of Sonator

Paris dance halls Montmartre The Inw is liberal. It says $35 dives-hoctic nights with R.A.F. is enough to begin a deposit and lads on Icavo after a front line loan business under federal aus- leaves him mentally and physi-push": don't I know much more plees. The FC.A. ways actually cally exhausted.

·BORED BY POLITICS.

of living on the edge" than he is it is not chartering any credit ever likely to know? But no: to |--

him I am just "Dad," a poor old

Personally I am keenly interest-has-been who cannot possibly un-have always had a secret desire to ed in all the mnjor political trou- derstand modern fargon and there bles of the day, both home and fore cannot help. foreign. To me they appear of

vital Importance, but Fred never

NO CONFIDENCES

fy my own aeroplane. He will spend hours at an aerodrome tinkering with a friend's "bug": and going up for a "ip" after- seems to read political news or Now and then he brings in a wards, just as I used to "het-up" have any opinion on the subject. man friend or two for a quick motor bike as a subaltern on In fact, the other day he even ene" before going on

leave, and sell it for twice its went so far as to say:-"What post does Sir John Simon hold in vague and unspecified destination, value to the first buyer.

Fred's friend might

to some

be his

But his unfailing composure, the Government, Dad? I liked brothers: they are equally bored, cold courtesy, and bantering case the cut of his morning kit. Saw polite, and non-committal. They of manner quite defeat me. He is him in a news reel last night."

have their own cliches of aprech,secking for something, but exact Now what can I do with a boy just as we used to have, but bely what I do not know. Ner will like that?

he tell me, he and his friends, "Hang it all!" I romonstrated, cause my hair is grey they assume

that I am a

He takes nothing seriously and: half-wit. "Are you aware that you are on- titled to cast a vote at the next

When I do try to have a heart has no great enthusiasms. So it General Election? Do you take to heart talk with my boy he looks is that I find my son a complete

like a startled hare. After becom- enigma. ing slightly uncomfortable, he

no intelligent interest in politics?"

"No" was his rather bored re-lights his eternal cigarette, mur-

ply. "From what I've seen of

«The famous Irisk sounomist, painter and post, known through- out the world for his writings, un- day the pagudonym of AE, recent- ly visited the United Statue. After looking over Americans and Am. arican business he decided uvary. Cong was; in too much of a hurry," „A man van 'naver, find, his soul. except is idleness, "'he was quot. ed as saying, commenting on the roth in American life,

mars something about having n

"date." and alides gracefully

away. His calm tolerance of my rlows exasperates me. When he talks about my "laying down the law" I often wish I could pierce his complacency.

What is the cause of this Jack of emotion? Is it lack of com- prehension of brains? I don't think so. Only last year he was offered a chance of leaving his present employment and of going to Toronto with a fifty per cent. rise in salary. For a week I said nothing and then tackled him

BIND

he told mo declsively. "I'm not going. Too far Away from town, for one thing. Lose all my friends.”

In the old days I'd have given a lot for such a chance, but Frod turned it down decisively. At first I thought it was because of a girl, but I was wrong. It was only months later that, as Thave said, I discovered accidentally that he had better prospects with his own firm at home. He did not dream of confiding in me.

SPEED MANIA

Hia one love is speed-motor cars, motor boats, flylag-they all exorcise a fascination over him, can sympathise in that, for I

The F.C.A. says hundreds of on Ale, and overal credit unions composed of church members will be established shortly,

The credit unions are poor men's organisationa, the F.C.A, adda, It says they are not competing with banka. No bank, it continues, likes to tinker with $50 Joans, or their brethren to join, they get the to accept deposite of 25 cents and charter for $25. They also have up, as credit unions do.-United to pay $8 Д year dues to the Press.

Leaving for Nanking for the purpose of prasasting his credentials to the Chinese Government, His Excellency V. Lõjacono, Italian Ambassador to China, travelled by special railway car placed at his disposal by the Government. Photo shows, the Ambassador (left) bidding adieu at the North Railway Station, Shanghai, to Cay. R. Rapex, Consular Judge for Italy, (right) and the commander of the Italian cruiser Lepanto. Inset shows (left) Marquis G. G. Cittadini Cari, second secretary of the Italian Lagetion and Captain F. Drago, '

Italian air attache, who accompanied the Ambassador.

Daop cravitas have appeared in the Sphinx causing fours that the ancient, monument may hu about to crumble.

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