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Would you

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TO-DAY I am penniless and

To

unemployed. Four years ago I threw up a safe City job: for an adventure. .

I know then that this might

be the result. But luck had come my way--coincidence that would never conte twice.

It came in the shape of a wealthy young South African and in a slip of..paper I found after lunch on the office desk I had worked at for six years.

done it?

this young man

gave up a good job to see the world-

was it worth it?

SAVE YOUR LIFE. Infected tsetse fly belt.

Penang

A temple among ricefields where 300, evil-look- ing anakes crawl among the abrines. The priests feed them. nightly on cggs.

THESE MEM- ories amount to very little In terms of £ s. d. A few articles, one or two radio talks-that is all.

Their collection has taken my money and landed, me among two million British men and women looking for jobs.

As far as the future is con- cerned, I still have my profes- sional qualifications and busi- ness ability.

Also on the credit side I have the following acquired assets (of questionable value): I can. use chopsticks; rido a surf board; dig a car out of a bog: cook a meal on the prairio by starlight; bribo my way into Just forbidden Eastern temples; ar- what are they going to do? range a mosquito net over · R "I am getting out of the The bush seems quiet of a sud- camp bed in the bush; placate rut," I had told them.

don. We watch as one trots up armed and suspicious American

our radiator and anarls. speed cops. ditch," they had replied..

"And probably landing in the to

Then it leaps into the bush, and

The South African was going home to Bloemfontein in his 85 m.p.h. sports car. He was going a long way round, via their heads over the step I was or turn our America, Honolulu, Hongkong, China, Indin, and Africa. He wanted a companion.

dundant staff.

taking.

open

car.

THAT IS MY the others follow. We drive on story. Would you have done as I FOUND NO BAG as hurriedly as boulders and I did?

mud will allow.

By luck I did get a job shortly Another page.

after I returned, in charge of a Try to see those in imagina- private detective 1órce attached tion.

Eagles drifting lazily to a national industry. The in the blazing sunshine over the work was very responsible, in-

a

"The slip of paper told me my employers would be willing to give me over two years' salary Immediately if I cared to resign. The amalgamation of two great of gold on my travels. All I companies had resulted in a re- brought home with me was

well thumbed batch of manu- was twenty-two when I script. It lies before me, now. made the choice. It iny be- It is my diary. tween a guaranteed job with good prospects and a comfort. It was written in the far cor- glaring limestone peaks of the teresting, and poorly paid. I Bad Lands of Dakota; torch had to pack my bags again last ners of the earth. Come able pension at fifty-five and a

rise. gay adventure lasting twelve through some of its pages with fishermen spearing in the dark- March, when I asked fo

ness on Pacific reefs; lightning And, of course, friends look months. The adventure would me.

flashes splitting the darkness at me from their office desks exhaust my email capital and Here I am alone in the Grand above Niagara; moonlight mak- and think "I told you so.. land me in England, to start all Canyon, the great sit in the ing rainbows in the spray of the But would I do it again?

surface of Arizona, a mile deep, Zambesi as it thunders over the over again.

I would. FIXED TRUSTS

Five minutes after I read the twenty miles wide. It is night Victoria

Falls; mountain Probably it is the wrong Mountain peaks shrines in offer I made my decision. My moonlight.

Japan; spouting, answer. But there it is. Those who have watched the resignation went in that after- rise all around. Tourists never bolling geysers in Yellowstone

J.E.R. growth of the Fixed Trust, noon.

see the canyon as I am seeing Park. movement in Britain will douoc-

it now. For sixteen hours I THREE WEEKS have been on my feet pushing up Jess Jezu Wash

I meet a gang foreman in the Italian's interest Lne

bound for New York. later I was in the Majestic, steep rocky trails, wading Black Hills, a real old-timer. He through ice cold streams, up to still carries a long-barrelled my knees in the fierce current. pistol in his belt. It had been

Another page.

there for forty years,

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1936.

announcement made yesterday by the President of the Board of Trade tnat, following

there commendation or a Stock change sub-committce

Ex- that

egislation be passed for the

Behind me were the friends and advisers who had shaken

Another page. .

He tells

I have just trodden on an in- tales of cattlemen (NOT cow- dignant rattlesnake. Fortu boys) and old days on the

regulation of this form of in- NOTES OF THE DAY nately it was asleep. The only ranges. Stampedes, round-ups,

vestment, a departmental com-

mittee is being appointed to en-COAL ECONOMY

quire into the whole question.

The. magnitude

the Fixed Trust

has

-PTCAVA at Home

Army Of Road-Makers

remedy for its bite is kerosene long rides across the prairies, By Lt. Cmdr. MORTIMER DURAND... and salt rubbed into the slashed men found by waterholes with wound. And the nearest village bullets in their backs.

Another page....

is fifteen miles off. The

of considerable amount to which

Another page...

I politely snub a dinner com- time and money that has been

Surf riding in Hawall. The panion in New York because movement devoted to fuel research in Great

may Britain has been well spent, and board on which I am balancing em tired of continual question

the annual report of the Fuel Re-is caught in the crest of a huge ing about the trip. Later I hear search Board which was recently breaker sweeping in towards he is heir to the greatest for from increased efficiency in the use and left along the wave other evidence of the economies resulting the beach of Waikiki. Right tune in the world. Another page..

1

tion

an

THE greatest problem facing the Italians--not merely during subsequent development in East the campaign; but also in any Africa-la communications. And the army which has, so far, won major successos for the

the

be gathered from the fact that ever forty-ave, millions sterling

Italians is the army of workers. principally subscribed by small

35,000 strong, not counting native investors, is now believed to be of coal during the past twenty-five surfers, native beach boys, are In Tanganyika a low-flying directly engaged by the Government, labour, who have made the roads. Twenty thousand of them are involved therein. Thanks to the years. In 1910, when the popula- yelling, their brown bodies glis- airplane drops facilities offered, the small in- amount of coal consumed was 180 tening in the sun and the spray. note. It reads: "Lost.

unsigned and the rest by private firms was forty-ne million, the

Out of Puricelli, Sicclp, Ferrobeton, and four vestor can acquire, at a cost of million tons; by 1934, when the

Another page.

petrol. Landing In clear field or five small local ones which have a few pounds, holdings in a population had increased by four I am sitting in a little hut twenty miles north."

undertaken nearly 300 miles of per- We dash manent lorry roads. wide range of enterprises, and was 19 million tons less. The re- Kilimanjaro, practically-on-the-two-girls, exhausted, but still tracks-not to be deeply balisated and million, the consumption of coal three miles high up the side of out with petrol. tins and find This leaves 840 miles of lorry the great principle of diversifica- | port points out that it is greater Equator. The air is so rare we able to look attractive. It is the Government

bitumen-surfaced like the roads-for tion of risk has been brought efficiency in coal-burning plant, and cannot eat. The slightest move dusk, so they have to spend the last 100 miles of these tracks is only tackle, and the within the reach of all. Fixed been

not the use of oil fuel, which has ment is exhausting.. We are night at the nearest district now being constructed. All roads

mainly responsible for the above the clouds. Through the officer's hut. Next Trusts have, without doubt, reduction in the consumption of rifts we can see miles and miles they take off again for the Cape.

are made under the supervision of morning military Engineer officers.

The work was begun in October, the use of fuel by the electrica),

Italians. The bulk of the Italian workers did not arrivo until last May;

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Yet more pages.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

*

rocks and trees in a writhing line of crazy double-hairpin bends down a formal plan of excavations and build- ing, consists of picked men. There is much to be done-deep ballasting.. gravelling, steam rolling, surfacing and, finally, draining with wide. gut- tors against the coming ruiny season,. and tunnelling where a mountainside cascade will run.

The Committee of Internal Im-- migration, who recruits the men, has. them all medically examined. They must be men of good character, and preference is given to those with wives and children.

The working day is of eight hours, with one day off a week. In the three mantha contract, an unskilled la- bourer gets 25 to 27. lire per day (up to $s), skilled worker from 81 * to 34 (up to 11s). In the six months" contract an unskilled labourer gets 20 to 28, and the skilled 82 to 35 lee per day.

done a great work by making coal. It is further stated that had of flame. It is a bush fire. Wo I find that I cannot go on; the 1934, with native workers and a few investment safer and simpler gas, and iron and steel industries are watching it from frozen fever has got me. for those to whom stock mar-not been more efficient than in slopes. kots and security movements 1910 they would have required} Another page..

In Africa I am cursing the are a baffling mystery, and by 1934, and the total consumption of narrow

31,500,000 more tons of coal in Three lions are blocking the strange Insects swarming The army waging this war, from enormously Increasing the num- coal in Great Britain would have Their eyes are gleaming in our come to this notice by the way that has fought its way against track ahead of us. around us in the car when we suggested by the track of a tank the blazing of the trail-sometimes bers of small capitalists with a increased by more than twelve

hend-lights. We cannot get by nido! stake in their country's for- by nineteen million tons. To million tons instead of declining: tunes. Some disappointment has take electricity alone, between been caused by the conclusion 1910 and 1934 production increased of the Stock Exchange, sub-of only 153 per cent. in coal con- by 644 per cent., with an increase committee that nothing can be sumption, a saving of 17,600,000 done to bring the movementtons. Other factors contributing under Stock Exchange control. to the decline in the consumption It is pointed out that the Stock efficiency in its uses by the indus

of coal, besides the greater Exchange is the one real mar-tries mentioned, include the use by! ket for the buying and selling grates and the improvement and householders of more scientific of securities; it has the con-refining of the coal used;-forty per fidence of the public, and its cont. of the total now sold being control over its members is "clean"

as compared with only stern and drastic. The sub-

twenty per cent, eight years ago.: committee acknowledge's that the Fixed Trust movement has will be taken of these recom met a genuino public demand by mendations if and when legisļa- which the, small Investor may tion is introduced dealing with enter a slightly speculative field the subject. There is no sug- with the benefits of a spread gestion that the more important risk... The danger," however, is of the Fixed Trusts in Britain that the influence of competition are risky ventures, although produce "trusts which management expenses are in "sacrifice stability, and probity some cases somewhat high. The to the greater benefits which prudent investor will find his their creators can derive by biggest anfeguard in choosing the proffer to the public of pro- trusts which have as their mises which would not stand trustees reputable concerns, such the test of well-informed ex- the Big Five among the amination." The sub-committee banks. It is somewhat surpris has gone so far as to draw up a ing, in view of the attractive- lengthy acries of regulitioneness of this form of Investment, which, it declares, "if generally that facilities have not so far enforced would go for to remove been provided in Hongkong the evils expected to reau whereby the public can enter from the uncontrolled continu- this particular

field At ance of the movement.” It is minimum of Inconvenience and hoped, therefore, that account trouble.

may

"I told mama not to send apples this year. We'll have to And- aome place to hide thom before the party to-night"

**

The men pay a small dally aum for food which is provided at the yards, where they are housed-in wooden barracks in big yards, and in tents in the smaller ones. Brend is. provided, sometimes by military bakeries, and each yard has its own well Seme yards in the hot lowlands. to the East have small oxen corrala for fresh meat on the hoof. Canteena established, purveying wine, cigarettes, sausages and tinned foods

are

when in stock.

Near the front, where it would be unsafe for unprotected men to wage the road-war-in case the other war of, rifto fire and sudden night raids. Intruded upon them-the workers are orranlaod into volunteer armed ro gimonts. As all have done a year's. obligatory military service no special: training is necessary for them.

Three regiments, consisting of nine groups divided into two companies each and subdivided into 86 "can- turia," in all, each of 100 men, officor- ed by Engineer or Militia officers, have been organised.

These men, equipped and treatol as soldiers, and paid from 32 to 37. Iron day with rallons do pil: tho. gruelling work in the advanced areas.