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Editor

of

the

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the ongi e Aung at the Englishman the Englishman at home the all-important returned from abroad is: "What impresses you about the Old Country?"

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This is not to be regarded as an invitation to express an honest opinion or criticism. whether constructive or caustic.

The motive of the question is to obtain a lyrical eulogy of the country. people, government, mode of living, idiosyn- crasies and so forth. for, as Renier points out in his delicious contribu- Lion to modern literature the Englishman is already convinced that the English are Best.

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After the game

o. V or y Becond per-

son purchas. ed an evening paper contain- ing the com- plete results. and then produc- ed duplicate cou- pons from their

pockets (in most cases crumpled and soiled, but still legible). Bumping into one an- other as they plodde, along the streets, they checked up on their fore-、

casts.

As this was going on in Lon- don, the same thing was happen- ing in Manchester. Livepool, Leeds, Hastings, Torquay: from John O'Groats to Lands End. It is the Englishman's Satur- day Soccer Ritual.

I tried to figure out why this The Man-In-The-Street snat-

game of chance-for it is To me it made one thing palpa- ches at the evening paper, not

bly clear. The nation-wide because of his urgent desire to nothing more-should have such surrendered la Italy, discover whether Ethiopia has a.wide.appeal. Why it should appeal of this gamble depends or to be able to develop to such pro- football. It is impossible to largely on its association with

But being unaware of the ulterior motive behind the ques Lion, and having, in fact, gained cortain impressions, I replied, tisement "Football - pools and pontoons,

a London evening Relisha Beacons. unintellient pedestrians, simple but sublime ball season subjugate news faith in the National Govern of the day to make room. ment, improved transport, bet for Up-To-The-Minute Pon- ter street lighting, atrocious toon Tables, and their posters MONDAY, Nov. 18, 1935. licensing laws, and garden have little space for

world events, no matter how im+ portant. A NEW INDUSTRY

Usually the posters Pontoon More than commercial possi- FOOTBALL pools, the lay read "Full Scores and

Tables," man's ingenious retort to the bilities, great as these will be, legal ban on other types of foot- are involved in

the opening of ball competitions, have the big petrol-from-coal plant invaded something like 70 per erected in England by Imperial cent. of the homes in England. Chemical Industries, Ltd., re-ing as much advertising space

Promoters of the pools are buy cently. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. in the leading daily news follow the Geneva debate on portions as to allow syndicates' imagine thousands of people all in performing the opening paper as the huge multiple

Sanctions, but to secure the and private individuals to revel over the country crashing into ceremony, stressed the part stores and truding con- which might be played by the cerns. London newspaper every complete football results. And in the must remunerative form one another in the streets as dozens can be seen walking of fortune-making outside of they study the result of lust about the streets checking up selling non-existent gold mines. week's cross-word competition! their football pool coupons,

But it also seemed to em- Was it because of an innate phasise another point-that.. Meet any fellow on a Satur was essential to British defence, NOTES OF THE DAY day evening and one of his first gambling spirit? Or partly whereas before the playing and estions is "Any luck with the because it is associated with a watching of football stimulated Pool 7" Women partici- national sport? Or because of an interest in forecasting com- petitions, the gambling in- pating in this weekly sporting its attractive stakes (which per- fluence; encouraged by gamble as avidly as the men. met more than one who weekly mit as small a sum of one penny paper propaganda, is slowly lays out ten shillings, hoping for to be invested, thereby brining becoming the predominant fac

the tor, and is to-day enjoying the a return of anything up to £500. it within reach of even

questionable distinction Or was it even unemployed?

stimulating an àrtificial interest the Englishman's reaction to the in foothill is a sport. with a burst of energy. It was THE industry behind the ur-

Ohe hesitates to ganisation and operation of legal ban on sweepstakes? For to be expected that the Laterd

suggest One there is no doubt about it that whether there will be any rene- Government. free, traders always, these pools is enormous,

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NOW SHOWing at

home manufacture of oil in the defence of Great Britain. He stated that a command of oil

Saturday

during the

foot-

and, in referring to the increased

the employment which

new TRUMPS FOR TRADE plant would give, he pointed out

Mr. Mackenzie King. Canada's that a thousand men would be new Prime Minister, or rather a immediately employed, with Prime Minister back in an office another, thousand on other re- he filled with some d'stinction five quirements, whilst the plant's years ago, has started his term consumption of 60.000 tons of coal a year would mean work for two thousand miners. It is of interest to note that the plant

is the first in the world to make petrol on a commercial scale by

the hydrogenation of bituminous coal. A valuable future for

arc

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news-

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in policy if not in przetice, woalif firm of printers and lithograph-the-football-pool-hus-become-tion-to-all-this, or what-form- take steps to demolish the tariffers in Edinburgh alone turns very nearly as profilable an in- it might take.

The con-

wall which has been erected be-out no less than eleven million vestment as the big race sweep- coupons each week. And this stakes, and is equally as popular.

They

question.

In the meantime it can be noted that the Arsenal lost: 41 home and thereby destroyed my** 3,000 to 1 chance!

The Very Idea!

EXES FOR HIS EX: Kelly Will Be A Reception Committee On His Own

tween Canada and the United colossal figure represents only States in the past few years: but the Scottish type of coupon even the most sanguine tariff re- which in many respects is dis- F the nation-wide appeal in home-produced petrol is envis visionists scarcely expected the tinct from that of the English this pastime there can be nɔj

The very odds which aged by the great combine which reciprocal trade treaty to be af- concerns. Literally millions of has entered upon this venture. fected before the first session of coupons are used throughout the are paid out each week-some- times as much as 3,000 to 1-is At present, Britain is dependent Parlament was summoned. For British Isles each week.

a suflicient barometer: futher- are either lithographed or on supplies from overseas, and is one thing America did not appear printed on machines which issue more it is highly improbable likely to remain so for a very to want it. Nevertheless it has at the rate of 100,000 copies an that London daily newspapers considerable time.

been accomplished. As a matter hour. Hundreds of clerks, would dovote so much space to sumption of petrol in a modern of fact, Mr. Mackenzie King only chiefly girls, are employed in the "assisting" competitors unles completed the work which the administration of these pools, there was a very big public de- previous Government, Jed by. Mr. and the remarkably high stand. mand. increasing. But dependence on R.. B. Bennett, started. But it ard of efficiency and masterly Nevertheless, if through these the oil tanker would inevitably was fitting that Liberals, always organisation behind these coll: pools the Englishman is giving source of grave national the champions of reciprocity in cerns can be better appreciated expression purely to his love of weakness in time of war, and it Canada, should be the party to when it is revealed that spon gambling, that love has been the perfect the machinery to extend Luxembourg and Paris actually the last year or two. Popular such stupendously developed during commercint - rather think that the ringing paid out to winners two hours the Englishman, compared with the dividends to be opinion hitherto has been that and especially fans, who have claimed a large after the football results are other people measure of what credit is due for known.

Orientals. is somewhat dis- interested in gambling, 01'

State is enormous and ever-i

be a

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is therefore desirable that nation should, as far as possible, be able to fend for itself should the oceanic life-lines be at any

intercourse. We

chorus of some American politic-

sored radio stations

announce

time severed. Bealdes this, and giving extra point to this latest the treaty, are somewhat out of enterprise, is the necessity for tune when it is remembered that

the trenty was originally ALTHOUGH throughout the that, at any rate it has never Anding new

British Isles there are dozens been an outstanding character. for coal. Canadian "baby" and was Beral-1 uses Britain's subterranean riches, ly crammed down the throats of of concerns in competition, they istic. which contributed so greatly to section of politics on both sides also work, to a certain extent, the Industrial rise of the nation,

By Ed. Kelly, Receptionist

Mr. Edward Kelly. the local cntertainment expert, "is frankly in- censed at the fnet that he has not hcen usked to become a member of the Reception Committee to the new Governor.

of the boundary line. It was only in co-operation. This is their

This is their IF popular opinion is right, W the Oficial Reception panely

the other day that we read a des-only

safeguard

eldps, or any excitement

Stricken with compassion for Sir Andrew Caldecott, Mr. Kelly han decided to write to the new Gover- nor and ask him to jump overboard from his ship at Lycmoon and swim ashore rather than be met by all those bigwigs on Blake Pier,

Mr. Kelly's ideas about enteriniu- ing the Gogernor are simple but steking. They follow:

have decided relieve there must be some other of the task of entertaining the are now more or less a drag on patch from Washington, quoting debts. In order to circumvent the

causes or influences to account new Governor on his arrival. the market. It was a great con- an American official, who said, in faw (and thereby proving bc for this phenomenal growth of

effect, that the example set to the yond all reasonable doubt the interest in such a pursuit. All we want is a bit of cash to ception to transmute coal into rest of the world by the United truth of the adage that the Law visit to Highbury, where the explain our schedule.

A do the thing in style. Let us oil. The process is vast and ex-States and Canada in achieving at is an Ass), the competitor must: Arsenal were playing Manches- pensive, and the product would least partial reciprocity, might be not send any money with his ter City, seemal to suggest one

First of all, the landing. No newl for salutes from the forts and war- cost more than imported petrol, followed advantageously by other forecasts. But if one fails Lo nations. It scenis that this of

on Blake but a preferential duty bridges ficial has forgotten that his win on that coupon, the stated we. Sixty thousand people were gathered in that ground

Pier..

It is our len to land the Governor the gap and creates a "business Government led the way in build-amount invested has to be sent with the interest of one, and all

Thus is centred completely on the game travel to ilangkong incognite. Pro off Repulse Bay and we can then bath proposition." The probability ing up enormously high tarit the following week. is not only that production will walls and effectually throttling gambling mude legal in Eng until half-time.

Then, 'ns vided the Gov, standa his reasonable stendily increase, until a sub-en after 1929, and between the

trade between Canada, and Ameri- † kund.

scores from other grounds were whack of the shouting, this shouldn't stantial proportion of Britain's United States and the rest of the HERE is, of course, the dan tion ran rife as to the probable than fifty or sixty bucks at the pre- flashed on the board, specula-cost the Hongkong Government more petrol consumption is supplied world, to a large extent. We

ster of from native resources, but also suggest that far from setting an punter refusing to send along the football pools.

ment rate of exchange. disappointed outcome of forecasts made in that the price will be reduced. example, the United States has his stakes, the following week, What has been done so far is learned a costly lesson in con- especially as he is under no legal. One young fellow sitting close only a beginning. This "fairyomes, and that in order to save obligation. To deal with such by, whose carlier conversation tale of science" may stride with its own commercial skin It has seven-league boots through the elected to trump tariff's with an eventuality the various con- clearly indicated that he was ta generations. It is a

new reciprocal trade treaty in order to cerns supply each other with out-and-out Sheffield Wednes-

correct a policy which has been black lists, so that the punter day partisan, forgot his di dustry that leads the world. It poved mistakin. Tire example-who-has-failed-to-meet-obliga-appointment at his favourites has possibilities of indefinite with respect to free trade, if we tions to one firm finds himself being two goals in arrears in expansion. It is for such in-are not mistaken, was set a num-barred by all the others and can the happiness thut his football dustries that, with anxious ber of years ago by a very com- do no more pool gambling until pool was working out the right Insistence, the nation calls.--- --petent - gentleman-of England,- ha has honoured his debts."

way!--

the

That fixes the landing. By now the Governor will have learnt to sign hin name, no

so we'll be able to chit up a Hotel car at Repulse Bay to bring uk Into town. Coming into town pur. -first stop will be at the Gloucester,

where we know the Manager well, and should be able to potty Singapore gin sling or two before proceeding up the road to the Hong kong Hotel. If we arend a couple of time to go up the Peak, whore, we hours here it will leave us plonty. proposo spending the night at the (Continued on Pago 7.)

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