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"HONOUR AMONG THIEVES"

King George's silver Jubilee, according to a press dispatch from India, was commemorated by uno of the native tribes through

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SPORT. "PRO'S" OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

By F. M. CARRUTHERS

BULLS AND INNERS

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From the Office Butts A render thinks the Government should do something to prevent the wild life of the Colony becoming a thing of the past. That's been closing hours.

twelve months' voluntary abstention WOULD you like your public ing future for the man of average done already by extending the hotel

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Brondensing, during the week, a local lady indicated that, she up tap- would love to take dancing. The very idea makes us

go h. & c. all over.

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schoolboy son to become a education beyond its span of 12 or from cattle stealing, the Christian

the pro- 15 years. So far, as Science Monitor reports. It a professional games player? pears that 100 of the leading men

It is perhaps not generally realfessionals of to-day are concerned I agreed to observe this new kind of Anbbatical year, and it is hopedised that public schoolboys are believe that 76 per cent, of them a fare earning twice as much through that the honour of the tribe will beginning to turn to sport as

the game as they could hope to do remain unsullied. In some parts means of livelihood. of the world where the temptation

asketa enS I confess I am old fashioned, in any other work. to thlevery embraces netive than horses, cows and sheep, and, although the antipathy which. A boy may become a professional this announcement may be received has existed against professionalism on reaching the age of 17, and one with amusement; but granting the uccasion for a tolerant smile at thein all games is rapidly being disin Lancashire recently joined a tribo's naive admission, were not pelled, I was brought up to play for League club at £5 a week. It was not pretended that this was his these subjects of the kindly Em-pleasure and not for gain. peror of India paying him a

I recognise, however, that for present-day value, but keen com markably high tribute? Certainly the head men of the tribe fave no the boy who has been beneficently petition for his services, enabled easy task in trying to achieve such endowed with the talents of the him to demand this amount. unanimous self-denial among their star athlete there are considerable In fact, he can scarcely be worth followers. Here would seem to be possibilities in the career.

so much under the most favourable first-class and then, under the scale of pay of the recalcitrant. Will "cracking club, and probably twice as much fixed by rule, he will be entitled to Hongkong's "toppers" date back down" be the fate of the back if he is wise successful in the the maximum of £8 a week during alider? Will

or other

In summer. In addition he will four symbolic trinkets, be pressed into tournaments. The cricketer, with the playing season and £6 a week service to keep up the native his activities restricted to GARAGE

£1 for a draw.. morale? What sort of propaganda months, unless they are extended receive a bonus of £2 for a win and may be necessary to maintain tribal by tours abroad, is not so well re- SHOW ROOM ---

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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1935.

THE "UNION" CENTENARY

the occasion for some sort of A golfer may earn £1,000'a year conditions for two or three years,

planned economy combined with strict, if negative, regimentation if he is attached to

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As far as we can gather, the trouble about the Volunteers is

that there is an insufficiency of spree do corps!

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One point in favour aquarium for Hongkong is that we should at last be able to discover what sort of a monster "Hongkong salmon" really is.

One player on his 22nd birthday de to express fittingly his appre- year-around job and the pay works ciation of such honourable intent? out at little less than £500 a year.whispered to me that he had £2,000 in the bank. This was the sum he The event must be determined by

had saved in five years. He was time; but meanwhile, would it not

The opportunitica which games be well for the more civilised

jan international, he had received a peoples of the West to ponder a to-day afford and the lure of a benefit of £660, and he had earned bit about the appeal of tribal open-air life are a big attraction money from the many sources out- honour as a stimulus to good

Kto the public-school bay. Henry aide the game which are open to living? There is much

cuRe LA learned from primitive men and Cotton, the British golf champion, the star-player. His

at educated 136M

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exceptional, but it shows the post- School, Dulwich, has proved the bilities of the career, and with more than to arrive at an evening. possibilities of a life spent on the ordinary luck he ought to have show half an hour late only to their special rivals links. Now I hear that a boy atmassed £6,000 when the time and that

haven't yet turned up. Charterhouse, with the approval comes for him to enter on a new

their response to a worthy opportu- nity to express their veneration and respect.

WOMEN-PRACTICAL AND

UNITED

and wholehearted encouragement ORC. of his father, is to become a pro- fessional.

Moat clubs help their players to Each week deductions BRVC.

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There's complaint in the United States to the effect that, under N.R.A., American-made P. F. Judge, the old St. Paul's made from the wages and paid into tooth-brushes are dearer than those A wholesome, realistic attitude characterised the sessions of the boy, is to take the plunge in cricket, the Post Office Savings Bank. The imported from Japan. One solu- conference of the International Last summer he played for Mid-Arsenal have their own bank, into tion might be to give Japan the Alliance of Women for Suffrage dlesex as an amateur, and this sum which the men pay regularly and N.R.A. and Equal Citizenship in Istanbul,

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Visitors to California shouldn't miss seeing its two famous tér- ples-Angelus and Shirley.

To have attained the age of a hundred years, and, despite the depressing times in which we live, to continue to show every indication of healthy vitality, is a record of which the Union Insurance Society of Canton has

Turkey. It had been suggested, mer he is to appear in the county every right to be proud. It is said Mira. Corbett Ashby, the pre-team

as à professional. F. T. are allowed 6 per cent interest.

It's been suggested that what one, also, in which this Colony sident, that the conference be post- Badcock, a Repton boy, is now a

The Footbull Association have this Colony really needs is men can take pride, since for the poned until "happior days." "But," professionni in New Zealand.

she protested, "those happier days.

headmaster never given any encouragement to with the courage to spend money. In another case greater part of its existence the will not rise of themselves in-

to turn professional. Well, if anybody will put up the one of his players Society has had its headquarters evitably as the sun rises; those has recently advised

thousand amatours under their here. Indeed, to Hongkong the happier days can only be the re-pupils to earn his, living through There are more than a hundred money, we'll supply the courage.

ward of ceaseless human end- "Union" is something more than our, of ceaseless effort, Vising football, and the plan has been banner, and I do not think more

than five thousand professionals. A writer says there are too many an important, well-managed in-ary idealiant, unsupported by hard approved by his parents.

It was mainly because they were "lams" nowadays. Yes, including "lam muvver'a Whether this choice is wise deafraid of a charge that they were such Buyings as surance company; it is an in work, was clearly not in this pro-

gramme. Not only the gaine but pends on the ability of the boy, and assisting to make professionals that iddle man 7′′ stitution which, even though its

the losses of the last six years in this more than natural skill they hesitated so long in adopting does not indicate the wore freely admitted. the should be taken into account. Has name

the conching scheme for school | side of gains there were he the essential physique and boys which has been introduced association, has brought re-

the winning of equal soffrage stamina? Has he a Ntout nervo

this season. flected glory to this Colony, by

in Great Britain, Spain and Tar- and what is known as the big-match reason of its inherent soundness.key: wide suffrage in Brazil, South

temperament?

But it has been most enthusias tically acclaimed by masters and which is in turn due to the high Africa, Ceylon, Portugal, Siam.

boys;-and-the-association have standard of insurance practice and Behar, India; and notable Without these qualifications - I

galus in municipal suffrage. In would never advise a youth with opened up a new field of activity It transpires that the author of has always maintained. the United States, Chile and Fin- other attainments to become a pro- which, I bliere, will be of great a book entitled "3,000 Lunatics" is Brought into being in the early land, women have been admitted to fessional in any game. It is a national service. In what we are a doctor, not a traffic policeman. days of British trade with the consular and diplomalle ser-melancholy fact that not one in a pleased to believe is the home of vices, The Arab women's congress dozen who show promise as first-all games we lag far behind other China, as Mr. S. H. Dodwell in Damascus, and the conference class players ever reaches the top countries in physical culture.

A speaker at the meeting on there Auggested stated yesterday in his excellent | of the All-Aslan woman's movement class. There is some flaw in their LTD.

But I am happy to say that, Volunteering were among other outstanding mental make-up which keeps them gains. The losses were laid to two in the ordinary class, and unless even football, there An should be a large mess room in the main causes-to the breakdown in they can rise above it, and by their awakening to what may be accom-new Headquarters, "where all men international trade, which has led to own ability dictate their future, plished in this way. I understand would be equal." He's telling us!

that the starting of a Summer legislation discriminating against the career is not worth while.

schoul for club trainers, and, I women, and to attacks on the

hope, the school coaches. Is contem- Racing ponies suffer from ner-. democratic ideal and form of government. In the face of this The life of the footballer is plated in order that they may be ves, according to a local owner. situation, these women of five con- specially precarious and it is sup-made familiar with the most en So do those who back them, for

methods of physical that matter. tinents were united by a fine posed to lead to a dead end, though lightened solidarity. Delegates from East in these days there is an encourag-culture. and West recorded their desire for close cooperation, pledging support, first to the women of the West "in danger of losing those political and economic rights which they have achieved," and, "second, to the wo- mon of the East, struggling for "the eradication of their special legal, social and economic disabili. ties in their respective national unitu." This solidarity, with the recognition, so general at the con- ference, that women are much the same the world over, has mighty potentialities. But, as the prdai-

LANE, CRAWFORD,

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A BENT FRONT AXLE

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It is rather a strange thing, but doing, we may find fresh inspira- tion from the manner in which if the axle is struck even a moder- ate blow from a definite direction those merchants of other days it is liable to be bent, although fought adverse conditions which, axles are made of special metal to of a different order, were of give them a wonderful degree of even greater magnitude and strength.

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Examination after any untoward surance Society of Canton have for is advisable. If the axle is a worthy place, and it is matter found to be bent on no account for congratulation that wise should an attempt be made to management and the observance straighten it at home. of sound British methods have brought the company through a complete century with its strength and stability in no way impaired:

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A man who said in, Court that married war aoon after he got

broke out should have been told

that this is, often the case.

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"Living is cheap in Chicago," So in life, we

says a traveller.

believe.

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A men and his wife were recently awarded damages against an apiar- ist whose bees stung them. Lunp

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"Hitler doesn't emoke," says a paragraphist. Although

some- times he fumes.

"Divinity Doctor Joins Orches-

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A man in- close touch with Gandhi says he is always cheerful dospite the depressing state affairs around him. Well;

of. he

never had a reputation for getting fed up.

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"A camel-hair coat looks so natural," asserts a fashion writer: Especially if you've got the hump.

A gossip writer complains that American film actors wear our Old School Ties, although they have no right to do so. But surely stars have always been associated with stripes over there?