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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1937. AVOIDING ANOTHER

SLUMP

A BOY OF

OF 15 WROTE THIS

HOMEWORK

1S

killing me

OMEONE ought to from "The Golden

invent a machine for Treasury." *turning important I'm at school, 'ofll- people into schoolboys for a cially, from nine un- day or two. It would be a til a

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 with put on my school-cap for a mo- and get ment and ace what my life is my prep. I can't.

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

like.

on

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 tok us recently winter. that at our school, twenty years ago, about two boys n year passed Matric, and they were WE have Societies after school usually nineteen, with mous. WE

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

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

I have only the last hour to myself and then mother begins says, bobbing in and out, looking at

too, the Play Reading So- ciety and Printing Press. I'm keen on these they're the best NOW (and the standard is, if part of school, I think-and I anything, higher) about 75 don't want to race off home even pass a year, some of them boys if I could. My mother 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

There's no fuss made about talking to chaps at school. it: you wouldn't have an earthly chance for à job if you hadn't

don't seem to be working, sharp- Ioning a pencil or looking for a

bed. When I'm in bed I can't book, she says I ought to be in sleep, wondering if my work is right, wondering whether I shall pass and what's going to happen to me if I don't.

Holidays are nearly as bad. I'm sent on messages, chased off

Wives Who Live "Out East"

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By Florence Dean

NEZJIK

A wife whose husband was In Ceylon spoke of the "so-called glamour of the East," and her subsequent disillusionment.

the table for meals to be set, granted a decree nist for divorce sent out for walks I dont't want to go on with my brother and sister.

Mr. J. M. Keynes, the well- known reonomist, is concerned

I do occasionally because about the lack of Government plans for preventing "that sag-passed. I wonder sometimes if can't always be working, but take people for the nine times out of ten I've been ging away of activity which, if they ever

to a Society or something. it is allowed to cumulate after Foreign Legion, now, without

I have a meal when I get in. the usual fashion, will once again Matric. develop into a slump." He has Everyone is saying to me, "If If I swallow it down I can't be 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 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 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,

I try to be at work, as a rule, Public Investment whose busi- so, wanting a job soon, I've

naturally decided to put my back by 7.16 because I've always two into it. I lie awake, though, at hours work, at least, and they ly know how much work there is like me to be in bed by 9.30 or to do. They've an idea that I'm night worrying about it, and if ever (and it's not often) I do 10 at the latest. read the newspaper or take out my stamps my mother says, "You should be working," or NOT much of a life, is it? I'm just gives me a look. I'm sick.

chasing my tail, or being chased by other people, from the I don't think I'm lazy. As a time I get up to the time I go to matter of fact I get quite decent bed. reports and I like a lot of my

I don't think my parents real-

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 10-day by one who has lived there for many years.

THE Lure of the East!" How

ness would be to prepare detail ed plans of development:"The railway companies, the port and river authorities, the water, gas

often these words are spoken;. and electricity undertakings,

but just what is this mysterious the building.contractors, the

"call," apart from the sun and the Local Authorities, above all,

native races and customs. For most perhaps, the London County

IT is not as easy as that. I'm hent, the strangeness and glamour of not lucky either. My father's white men and women and parti- Council and other great Corpora- of it. tions with congested popula-

no good at maths. Some boys' cularly women the attraction is in fathers help them a lot and one the social life. tions, should be asked to inves-

It is life in a goldfish bowl (joyous or two in our Form have extra

to some, hateful to others, according tigate what projects could be

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

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

few days' sport. It is no use It was pretty bad before I was saying one is engaged for dinner in a general advisability of

the

for a

personal -

too. The science and languages diflcult work with a younger in a Matric, form. This term place where everyone knows before- 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.

Women have much ever going to pass in maths. If sister in the same room. pleasure and I haven't looked at leisure.. Soft-footed servants lift I don't, I fail the whole exam.

my stamps for weeks. The fact every domestic burden. What I can do about it, except We work in the dining-room. that this year is so important go on working and working, 1 Mother says we're lucky to have makes me desperate, yet, at the wor don't know. I'm sure I shouldn't a room to ourselves. The table's same time, it's the only thing "squeezing" be breaking my heart just be not very big: we can hear the that keeps me going,

cause I can't do Maths.

am. I feel I'm not doing any-

But I wireless going in the next room.

My Lady may fret herself about s the boiled, er

cook is more than the CUSTM- tomary amount of sugar, but these If I've to have another year are her heaviest duties,

She has, of course, her personal My brother and sister are al- like this one I think I'd rather maid, who presses her dresses, pre- pares the bath, and Inys out the right ensemble for every occasion, with- out asking for Inconvenient evenings off. She may swim at the club in. the morning, play golf or bridge all go to a tea-dance In the afternoon,

whething

water

ly at 8.30.

thing this year for its own sake, - I'm fighting for a job. That's ways borrowing my ruler and die. why I get so unhappy and de sperate over my homework.

İnvestment Board, zy, but think out think More Stories About Sermons early evening, and dine resplendent-

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ference should be examined next. What is required at once arc acts of constructive imagination by our administrators, engineers and architects, to be followed by financial criticism, sifting, and more detailed designing, so that some large and useful projects at least, can be launched at a few months' notice." The idea propounded by Mr. Keynes is closely allied to that of the L bour Party plan for setting up a National which would act as an instru- if you had to work as I do, under Inzy, I you'd be fed up ment of the Government en- gaged in operating national the conditions I have, and know,

N'

TINE women out of ten whom I have known in the East like the planning, but enjoying flexibility all the time, your whole future TOKING about sermons need not man, "I pray thee, let me live." As and discretion within that plan depended upon it. Here's my imply any misbelief in their use-he warmed to his subject, he called life. It is certainly stimulating.

day: for the efficient performance of

fulness. We often laugh at the things out, looking out over his examiners, One dines with Itallon Ambassadors,. "By the life of Pharaoh, yo are French admirals, Swedish explorers, I go its functions. "Such a Board,"

to a North London and the people we like best.

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

sorts, All preachers are not one fire, us and just after eight. On Corps his chaplains said, "This preacher organise the mobilisation

The wlyes of planters whose allocation of that part of the days, Fridays, I'm up at half would have left nothing out of his Taylor ever was. The late Sir Henry nearest neighbour is 30 miles away sermon if he had happened to touch Campbell-Bannerman when a fresh-have another. tale to tell. But even national wealth which is avall past six, polishing silly brass upon religion."

man at the Univeralty, went to 30 miles is not far in a motor-car church one Sunday and commented over the good roads of Malaya or able for capital investment, and buttons. When you're reading

An old farmer, after listening to a thus: "When I entered the door, Ceylon; and when rubber is booming would license new capital issues, the paper in the Tube I'm swot- sermon on "The fool hath sald in his found the sermon going on, and and the ten trade prospering plan- It would propose annual estim-ting French or learning a poem heart, There is no God," sald to the very dandifled and vapourish Fellow ters' clubs and bungalows reflect the Intes of the national, income,

God of my college in the pulpit. With

"Lure of the East." showing what new money was view that to leave these institu-after all, though your sermon was much sign of woe, he was exclaiming. Baiety that more than half the Alas, my brethren; alas, and thrice In Peking, Shanghal, Hongkong, likely to be available for invest tions in private hands is to leave An untrained exhorter took for his last I was so touched that I did Singapore, Penang, and Colombo ment. It would co-ordinate all them the servants of private in, text, "And Job answered and said," not sample the sermon any further, there are English men and women schemes of capital expenditureterests which thereby are mns and divided his subject thus:-(1) but come away."

to-day who have made these places proposed by Government de-ters of economic and political We shall consider what Job ans-

wered; (2) We shall consider what There is a good tule of a Methodist their permanent homes. After years

adjust tiremselves again to partments, Local Authorities, power. That there is need for Job said, and (3) We shall proceed to circult 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

and in many ways more sterner, a country restricted, life of the West. trica either socialised directly or ment to the effect that "the of Samaria. Which reminds us of the cycle with his father to operating under public control. country, which is demanding the rambling sermons of her minister, The father thought it best that the ment, those who yearn for a snug facetious old lady who, describing church on the Sunday afternoon. But those of different tempera-" It would be able to recommend with so much insistence a vigor-aid, "If his text had the smallpox, lad should not eyele on Sundays. domestic hearth, can, and do, become to the Government a comprehen- ous policy for the revival of the his sermon would never catch it." "But," urged the boy, "you are go homesick and lonely. Engerly they sive scheme of investment." It special areas, will not be con The noted Sailor Preacher of ing to cycle."

turn their faces towards England ar is to be noted, however, that the tent...to

а drift complacently Boston, U.S.A. who, although

"Yes, but i ge on duty, you would 500 as their business in the East is

done. Board advocated by the Labour through a period of comparative Methodist minister, was known go on pleasure,"

And there is another homing type Party is linked up with the prosperity into, another depres- sermon miniatry

Father Taylor, preached his trial

"Oh, dad," retorted the lad, "do you too the Englishman who loves the publle control of currency and ston, which might well prove boon for late in and laymen who call it a pleasure for me to go and very earth of England, and whose bankding. Mr. Keynes has not even more disastrous than that had been appointed to hear him, hear you preach." yet reached the Labour Party's out of which we are emerging." His text was characterisile

preacher, I bellove there is a

very clever."

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F. J. S.

sole ambition is to see the Sussex Downs again.