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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1937.

AVOIDING ANOTHER

SLUMP

A Boy OF 15 WROTE

WROTE THIS

HOMEWORK

is killing me

OMEONE ought to from "The Golden

invent a machine for Treasury."

turning important I'm at school, offi- people into schoolboys for a cially, from nine un- day or two. It would be a til સ quarter-past much better world for us if four. I very rarely this could happen, and I leave the premises. think there would be a lot of though, until five or changes in

a very short half-past. time.

It's all right say- This homework, which is killing I should

go ing me, would soon be abolished, straight home the As there is no machine, just moment school ends put on my school-cap for a mo- and get

with ment and sce what my life is my prep. I can't. like.

There's always something on: nets in the summer, prac- in the tice

taches, and the whole school had a half-holiday to celebrate.

There's no

on

things, fool- ing and banging about asking me to help them with their work.

Wives Who Live "Out East"

By Florence Dean

I" am fifteen and take the London Matric, next June. There are a lot of boys, by the way, much younger than me in my Form who will be taking it, too. A master told us recently winter. that at our school, twenty years ago, about two boys a year passed Matric, and they were usually nineteen, with mous WE have Societies after school too, the Play Reading So- ciety and Printing Press. I'm keen on these they're the best

I have only the last hour to NOW (and the standard is, if part of school, I think and I anything, higher) about 76 don't want to race off home even

myself and then mother begins pass a year, some of them boys if I could. My mother says, bobbing in and out, locking at of fourteen, most of them be- when I come home at half-past the clock. If I'm working she tween fifteen and sixteen. six, that I've been fooling about, says I mustn't overdo it: If I Mr. J. M. Keynes, the well-

fuss made about talking to chaps at school.. don't seem to be working, sharp- known economist, is concerned it: you wouldn't have an earthly

I do occasionally because I oning a pencil or looking for a about the lack of Government chance for a job if you hadn't

be working, but book, she says I ought to be in plans for preventing "that sag-passed. I wonder sometimes if can't always ging away of activity which, if they ever

sleep, wondering if my work is take people for the nine times out of ten I've been bed. When I'm in bed I can't It is allowed to cumulate after Foreign Legion, now, without to a Society or something.

right, wondering whether I shall the usual fashion, will once again Matric.

I have a meal when I get in. pass and what's going to happen develop into a slump." He has Everyone is saying to me, "If If I swallow it down I can't be to me if I don't. given expression to this concern you want to get on, if you want finished much before seven. You in a series. of articles in The any sort of job worth having, know, though, what it is: some- I'm sent on messages, chased off

Holidays are nearly as bad, t Times under the heading "How you've GOT to pass this June." times we have visitors, some- to Avoid a Slump". In his con- My father hasn't, any influ- times I get talking to my father the table for meals to be set, cluding article, he advocated the ence, the headmaster doesn't or playing with my brother. appointment of a Board of bother much with boys who fail, Public Investment whose busi- ness would be to prepare detail- [ed plans of development:-"The railway companies, the port and river authorities, the water, gas and electricity undertakings, the building contractors, the Local Authorities, above all, "You should be working," or NOT much of a life, is it? I'm perhaps, the London County just gives me a look. I'm sick chasing my tail, or being IT is not as easy as that. I'm not lucky either. My father's Council and other great Corpora- of it.

chased by other people, from the tions with congested popula- I don't think I'm lazy. As a time I get up to the time I go to no good at maths. Some boys' tions, should be asked to inves-matter of fact I get quite decent bed.

fathers help them a lot and one tigate what projects could be reports and I like a lot of my

or two in our Form have extra It is life in a goldfish bowl (joyous to some, hateful to others, according usefully undertaken if capital work. I like English and enjoy after a long school-day is bad work, on and on, the exam. get tiring to

To do two hours' homework, lessons. I just plod on at my to temperament). There is no re- were available at certain rates writing essays; I'm interested enough under perfect working ting nearer and nearer.

country house for week-end; no dying to the Continent of interest. The question of the in the geography and history, conditions. I've got to do very

for a few days' sport. It is no use general advisability of the too. The science and languages difficult work with a younger in a Matric. form. This term place where everyone knows before- It was pretty bad before I was saying one is engaged for dinner in u schemes and their order of pre- I can do, but I don't see how I'm brother and a very silly twin- I haven't read a single book for hand just who is dining and where.

ever going to pass in maths. If sister in the same room.

have much personal I don't, I fail the whole exam.

pleasure and I haven't looked at leisure. Soft-footed servants lift What I can do about it, except We work in the dining-room. that this year is so important

my stamps for weeks. The fact every domestic burden.

My Lady may fret herself about don't know. I'm sure I shouldn't a room to ourselves. The table's go on working and working, I Mother says we're lucky to have makes me desperate, yet, at the whether the drinking water is

boiled,

ference should be examined next. What is required at once are acts of constructive imagination

so, wanting a job soon, I've I try to be at work, as a rule, naturally decided to put my back by 7.15 because I've always two into it. I lie awake, though, at hours' work, at least, and they night worrying about it, and if like me to be in bed by 9.30 or ever (and it's not often) I do 10 at the latest. read the newspaper or take out my stamps my mother says;

A wife whose husband was granted a decree nini for divorce Ceylon spoke of the "so-called glamour of the East," and her subsequent disillusionment.

in 'sent out for walks I dont't want to go on with my brother and sister.

I don't think my parents real- ly know how much work there is to do. They've an idea that I'm. clever. They just say, "You've got to get Matric, this year."-

Here is a pen-picture of life as it is for English men and wo- men in the East to-day by one who has lived there for many yeurs.

THE Lure of the East!" How often these words are spoken; but just what is this mysterious "call, apart from the sun and the

heat, the strangeness and glamour of native races and customs. For most white men and women and parti cularly women-the attraction is in. the social life.

Women

or

cook

CUS-

If I've to have another year

tomary amount of sugar, but these are her heaviest duties.

a

by our administrators, engineers and architects, to be followed by financial criticism, sifting, and be breaking my heart just be not very big: we can hear the same time, it's the only thing "squicezing" more than the more detailed designing, so that cause I can't do. Maths. But I wireless going in the next room. that keeps me going. some large and useful projects, am. I feel I'm not doing any- at least, can be launched at a thing this year for its own sake, ways borrowing my ruler and die.

She has, of course, her personot My brother and sister are al- like this one I think I'd rather maid, who presses her dresaca, pre few months' notice." The idea I'm fighting for a job. That's

pares the bath, and lays out the right. propounded by Mr. Keynes is

ensemble for every occasion, with- inconvenient evenings closely allied to that of the La- why I get so unhappy and de

out asking for bour Party plan for setting up a sperate over my homework. National Investment Board,

As I say, I don't think I'm

which would act as an instru- lazy, but I think you'd be fed up

day:

off. She may swim at the club in the morning, play golf or bridge all

More Stories About Sermons afternoon, go to a ten-dance in the

early evening, and dine resplendent- ly at 8.30.

ment of the Government en-

if you had to work as I do, under gaged in operating national the conditions I have, and know,

NINE women out of ten whom I planning, but enjoying flexibility all the time, your whole future JOKING about sermons need not man, "I pray thee, let me live. As have known in the Fatulating. and discretion within that plan depended upon it. Here's my

imply any misbellet in their use-he warmed to his subject, he called life. It is certainly for the efficient performance of

fulness. We often laugh at the things out, looking out over his examiners, One dines with Italian Ambassadors, its functions. "Such a Board,”

I go to a North London and the people we like best.

"By the life of Pharaoh, ye are French admirals, Swedish explorers, spicy!"

American airmen, and British of ali says a Party statement, "would secondary school and leave home Louis XVI, after bearing one of

sorts. organise the mobilisation and just after eight. On Corps his chaplains said, "This preacher All preachers are not one fire, us The wives of planters whose allocation of that part of the days, Fridays, I'm up at Falf would have left nothing out of his Taylor ever was. The late Sir Henry nearest neighbour is 30 miles away, national wealth which is avail. past six, polishing allly brass upon religion."

sermon if he had happened to touch Campbell-Bannerman when a fresh-have another tale to tell. But even man at the University, went to 30 miles is not for in a motor-car able for capital investment, and buttons. When you're reading

church one Sunday and commented over the good roads of Malaya or It would propose annual estim-ting French or learning a poem heart. There is no God," said to the very dandified and vapourish Fellow ters' clubs and bungalows reflect the and the ten trade prospering plan- ates of the national income,

preacher, I believe there is n God my college in the pulpit. With atier all, though your sermon was much sign of woe, he was exclaiming Lure of the East"

than half the Ralety that is more very clever."

Alas, my brethren; alas, and thrice In Peking, Shangha!, Hongkong, An untrained exhorter took for his alos! I was so touched that I did Singapore, Penang, and Colombo text, "And Job answered and said," not sample the sermon any further, there are English men and women and divided his subject thus:-(1) but came away,"

to-day who have made these pinces

would license new capital issues. the paper in the Tube I'm swot-cormon on "The tool hath said in his found the sermon going on, and

An old farmer, ofter listening to a thus "When I entered the door, Ceylon; and when rubber is booming

Job ans-

adjust themselves agala to the ways more

countryterare and in

many

showing what new money was view that to leave these institu- likely to be available for invest-tions in private hands is to leave ment. It would co-ordinate all them the servants of private in- schemes of capital expenditure terests which thereby are mag- proposed by Government deters of economic and political We shall consider what

wered; (2) We shall consider what There is a good tale of a Methodist their permanent homes. After years partments, Local Authorities, power. That there is need for Job said, and (3) We shall proceed to circuit minister whose son of ten had in the East they cannot, they say. other public bodies, and indus action is shown by a Times com- a few broken remarks on the Woman got a new bicycle, and wanted to tries either socialised directly or ment to the effect that "the of Samaria. Which reminds us of the cycle with his father to a operating under public control, country, which is demanding the rambling scrmons of her minister, The father thought it best that the

facetious old lady who, describing church on the Sunday afternoon, restricted, life of the West.

those of different tempera- It would be able to recommend with so much insistence a vigor-said, "If his text had the smallpox, lad should not cycle on Sundays.

ment

those who yearn for a mug to the Government a comprehen- ous policy for the revival of the his sermon would never catch it."

domestic hearth, con, and do, become "Dut," urged the boy, "you are go homesick, and lonely. Engerly they sive scheme of investment." It special areas, will not be con is to be noted, howover, that the tent

Tho noted Sallor Prescher of ing to cycle,"

tumn their faces towards England, as to drift complacently Boston, USA. who, although П Board advocated by the Labour through a period of comparative Methodist minister, was known

"Yes, but I go on duty, you would soon as their business in the East is

done,

And there is another homing type party is linked up with the prosperity into another depron Father Taylor, preached his trial 80 on pleasure

before a sermon for the ministry public control of currency and sion, which might well prove body of ministers and laymen who call it a pleasure for me to go and very earth of England, and whose ""Oh, dad,” retorted the lad, "do you too the Englishman who loves the banking. Mr. Keynes has not even more disastrous than that had been appointed to hear him. hear you preach."

sole ambition is to see the Sussex yet reached the Labour Party's out of which we are emerging. His text was characteristic of, the

F. J. S. Downs again.

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