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THE HONGKONG TELEGRaph, Tuesday, August 3, 1987.

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25323-Speedbnat Bill.

Trees, F.T.

F.T.

25374-I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby,

F.T.

Until The Real Thing Comes Along.

25405-Now Or Never. F.T......

Darling, Not Without Yon. F.T.

25448--Little Okl Lady. F.T.

Now. F.T.

25481-Whispering. F.T.

Tiger Rag. FT.

25503-Las Palmeras. Rumba

Inspiration. Tango.

25514-Moonlight And Shadows. F.T.

F.T.

Ray Noble's Orchestra,

"Fats" Waller's Orchestra.

Ruby Newman's Orchestra.

Ray Noble's Orchestra.

Beany Goodman's Quartet

Xavier Cugat's Orchestra.

Love Is Good For Anything That Alls You. F.T.

25530-I Can't Break The Habit Of You.

You're Laughing At Mc. F.T.

25552-Shall We Dance. FT.

For, You. F.T.

25553-Turn Off The Moon, F.T.

Jammin'. F.T.

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W

says Edward Carr

"HAT are you going to do with that boy of yours who, in three or four years, maybe, is Roing to leave his school and set out into "the world" (as we call the narrow sphere in which most of us spend our working

Ves) to earn his own keep?

We'll cast aside for the moment the unpleasant thought that post- bly he will be forcibly drafted into one of the Bghting services in an effort to stop one of the mad Dic- tators, and assume that be will #row into a world which is pretty well as bad or na good as the one in which you, his parent, attained your maturity.

Are you going to make Inquiries among your friends na to the posal- bility of shoving him into this or Stubbs Road that ofce, try to get him into a garage or a factory, work him into one of the huntred and one trades. that have all hung out the "Full Up" sign?

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1937.

CHINA LOOKS TO

SOVIET

Mr. Sun Fo, in voicing the view that, if China and the Soviet reached an agreement for military

Japan co-operation, would not dare to continue her aggressive ·

programme,

en-

Eddy Duchin's Orchestra. F.T..."Fats" Waller's Orchestra. visages a possibility that must have occurred to many obser- „Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. vers. Indeed, Japanese sources in Shanghai recently asserted Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra.

that

a Moscow-Nanking accord Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. has already been reached, to be put into operation should

25561-A Love Song Of Long Ago. Wallz .....

It's No Secret I Love You, F.T. 25562-You Can't Run Away From Love To-niglit. FT.

Bunne Berigan Orchestra, the present hostilities develop into u major conflict. According

'Cause My Baby Says It's So. FT. 25564-There's A Lull In My Life. F.T.......Kay Thompson's Orchestra.

Carelessly. F.T.

25500-The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed. F.T. ‚“Guy Lombardo's Orchestra.

25567-

I Know Now. FT.

Ium A Waltz, Waltz Hold Me Tight. Waltz,

to these reports. Major General A. Lepin, former military attache to the Soviet Embassy in China, Xavier Cught's Orchestro.

recently left for the Russian Eddy Duchin's Orchestra. capital to

the confer with authorities there regarding the F.T...."Fats" Waller's Orchestra,

despatch of aircraft and pilots „Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. to China. This officer is said to have been asked by the Chinese Military Affairs Commission to

25569-Let's Call The Whole Thing Of. FT.

Without Your Love. F.T. 25571—I've Got A New Lease On Love.

Sweet Heartache. FIT. 25573-Wake Up And Live, F.T. .....

Steep. F.T.

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Or are you going to give him his head a life, and show him the thousand and one opportunities for new kinds of jobs that have spring up within the past few years?

in

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LL sorts of avenues and opportunlites have ex- tended themselves, and many of the teaser known Ines there are opportunities for boys who are willing to take a chance and who have the initiative and capability.

A month or so ago a friend of mine who is in the office furniture trade had veension to adveritse for

a salesman in that little known line, He had y replies to the first advertisement. De werded out the obviously impossibles, and finally interviewed the "ponsible five who were left. Not one of those remaining five was suitable, and ultimately he was obliged to and man from private sources. And, of those Afty, only three had office furnishing experience.

Yet every office in the land needs furniture. An obvious channel for investigation,

Take,

mechanic.

the again,

dental

A good mechanic is worth his weight in gold-although he doesn't get paid on that basis!

Yet the demand for them exceeds the supply. if my own dentist is speaking the truth.

The problem of the disposal of rubbish and sewage is a tremen

cities.

dous and growing on in all b bringing up his boy to be a sewage worker? The name is singularly maybe, but for the boy who can incking in romantic qualities.

Yet whoever thinks of

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A tentative agreement along these lines is stated to have been reached. The record is alleged to provide for the despatch to China of a hundred Soviet air- craft and for the loan of numer- ous technicians, including pilots. In order not to afford Japan occasion to protest against this action, as a breach of neutrality, Japanese sources say the pilots

bring new ideas and fresh brains

there must be bright future.

1

It is not so bad to-day that one need be too cynical about it. Everyone cannot be a Morris or an

Austin' or a Deutsch-one has yet to be convinced that it is desir- . able to get up there, anyway (otherwise every millionaire would be a happy man and every worker an unhappy man, which we all know to be absurdly untrue),

But there are still chances for an ordinary fellow, with the neces- sary push and intelligence, and the luck and

I opportunity, to land into A good job in a world woefully short of men worthy to hold those good Jobs.

The markets of the world are flooded with new things, all of which have to be manufactured and sold. A good salesmun is so hard find that he rapidly comes sales manager—and then his firm loses its good salesman and gains a possibly good man- #geri

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Television sets, electric shavers, refrigerators, new road processça, new petrol combinations, patent

cigarette Hahters, compressed

wallboards these and a thousand other things are all new on the unrket. All are in their infancy and need changing and perfecting.

Ten years from now every home will have a television sel. Look at the vast amount of replacement that is going to mean.

Look at the work there will be When our railway companies de cide to bring their trains up 10 date,

Every day travel to town on an electric tram, which is he latest model as far as its mechani- cal side is concerned. But the windows are dirty. On a hot day the carriages are almost unbear- able, and I am just us uncomfort- able as 1 was when I used to be taken to the seaside twenty years ago by train.

Air-conditioning las got to come on our main lues, I travelled to Manchester in a dining car a few days ago. on a much-adver- tised crack train. Yet because it was a hot day it was necessary to leave windows open-and every time the train went through a tun- nel the carriage was filed with filthy soots and smoke and there was n wild desperate rush to get the windows shut before we were all asphyxiated.

G

ET out of the rut in the search of a career for your boy. It need not rost the money which has to be spent to produce a doctor, an Prchitect, Ar an accountant. Carried out after thought and cate it will probably be possible to And a line for the ad which need cost you nothing at all-he can "earn as he learns.

*

But he should be all the time alert to see the possiblities of im- provement, to seize the chance when it comes, to make use of the cheap facilities offered through night schools and technical classes.

. are you going to do with that boy of yours?

Got a Little Money to Invest?

Watch Your Step

says Denis Clark

OPPORTUNITY I PUBLIC SCHOOL MAN

or EX-OFFICER. Two (ENTLEMEN wish to meet a third with view to tateresting him in 1PORTING and REMUNERATIVE proposition, by which they expect to obtata LARGE PROFITA

R

EAD mug" for "third," adding" from him" to the last word, and you're get- ting warm. My first ven- ture through an "Agony Column was, though straightforward enough, scarcely to my advantage. The advertisement was pointed out by an exasperated parent. LIONS, DUFFALOEN, ELEPHANIA,

Young

matt with knowledge of TCA PLANTING wild fold of jurt raport in a catchwor wanted Partner for East African estate.

Perhaps that 1st of homicidal beasts offered hope of deliverance from one of his turbulent sons. It attracted me.

In a few weeks I was staring at a virgin patch of Tanganyika. which I was sure could never grow tea. Fortunately, no more had been paid out than my share of passage-money.

My partner to be, who stayed in England, vouchsafed not one word after I sailed, and I had to cable threats to obtain his share of ex-. pensca.

Back in England I felt I really must hurry up and establish my- self. Each day I spent my pennies to search those interest- ing columns.

INTELLIGENT. ATHLETIC YOUNG MAN re- quired to join ACIENTIFIC EXPEDITION to the PACIFIC

Two grave, bronzed men, with many documents and maps before them, disclosed that they were shortly sciting forth on quest of rather an unusual character-after the famous Coffee

and treasure in fact,

"It's more like a sweepstake than an ordinary company," I suggested. They Pgreed. But of course those on the round noor would get more than any- Jne else

Those on the ground floor must do

Things That Make Lift

THOSE of us who are plodding Worth While

along the later stages of

Was D

all that, I cannot deny that there are infinitely more easily avallable

1 amusements than when young man, and that nearly very- one goes to them as frequently 119 question whether the capacity for genuine enjoyment Is so common now as it was 40 years ngo.

journey have the leisure to look back and survey the path by which we have travelled. As we toil along, it seems such a broad, open road that there is no possibility of devinti By SIR HENRY LYTTON possible. Yet I from It by a single step. But as we look behind we see that, far from being straight, it is full of the most unexpected twists and turns." Security Worship

feet.

our

were

This is a great pity. Life has so

like

Mental Drugs

i

to be loaner to China would be Soviet-trained Mongolians. Bur- yats, Chinese and Koreans. I is further said that Major General Lepin promised the

Here we went round in a complete Chinese authorities that he circle; there we turned aside down a

Enjoyment is an active state-not would secure general military most unpromising by-path which much to offer us, so many experiences a passive one. Sitting through a film suddenly broadened Into a handsome which, whether they bring joy or that is crammed with crude senti- aid from Russin in the event of avenue. At this point we

tto at any rate help to conferment, sitimming through sorrow,

thriller hopelessly lost in a thick wood, while upon us the gift of understanding. for the sake of discovering how the a real war developing between somewhere else only sheer fuck found Think of the millions to-day who crime was committed these things Japan and China. It is diflicult any path at all for stumbling worship the great good Security. In have nothing in common with enjoy- their school-days they are protected ment. They are just forms of mental to say what reliance can be

But the astonishing thing about by their parents; in their youth they drugging. placced on these reports, this survey is that It shows us not go straight to the snug, safe job; in

To enjoy a thing it is necessary to but from the fact that only what we have missed in life, their old age they retire on a well-

know something about it, to have but also how some of our most un-earned

pension.

studied it sufficiently to obtain Mr. Sun Fo's opinion on promising experiences have often

It may be the ideal life, according mastery of it. Then the intellect borne us the richest fruži. the desirability of co-opera-

to many, but to me it seems

comes into play, and one experiences I think I may say without concelt living it second-hand. tion between China and the that my own life hus been very full

the keenest enjoyment of all-the in There is no fun in starving

ability to see not only that a thing compare garret. It is not amusing to have is done In Soviet is said to represent the and very happy; but as I

certain way, but also to my adventures with those of my empty pockets, a hungry wife and know why it could not logically be views of the Nanking Govern- friends, as I hear the reflections and baby, and no prospect of obtaining

youngsters who are either money or employment. But done in any other way. ment, there would appear to be comments of

just at the beginning of their journey, | because I have had those experiences 1 am not ruferring to the arts only good ground for thinking that feel that many people must miss 1 can say, "With these two hands I when I tall of this capacity for en- conversations have taken placen tremendous lot in life almost with-bent Fale to my will"

joyinent. I am no highbrow. When ane has been at the end of But which is the greater pleasure- with the object of exploring the out realising they are missing any-

thing at all,

everything and then fought back to to watch how a great bowler is liter- possibilities of joint action

comfort and prosperity, one knows ally thinking" out a batsman, should war really break out.

the real meaning of security merely to see the wicket knocked The Soviet itself, it must be the side of China in the event That is what many people miss in back as the ball hits 117

yehrs

wonderful kept in mind, has had frequent of a major conflict, since such fe. They

There are so many buoyed up by false security, and things in life which pre deliberately occasion of Inte to charge Japan a development would inevitably disaster comes they are sunk with discarded or rejected conform with aggression, charges which produce repercussions elsewhere. out trace.

with some passing fashion. worth-while have been answered by like None the

Russin's There is only Icss,

Once lost, they can soldom be re- kind of security--the knowledge that allegations from Tokyo. Rela-sympathy is undoubtedly with under your own hat you have the covered, so before we part with any tions between the two nations China in the present crisis. Her ability to wrest a livelihood from anormal, human quality or activity it la as well to consider whether the are anything but composed, and action would, it may be pre-reluctant world,

We often hear the present time sacrifice is worth it. Russia, of course, would reallso sumed, be determined by actual

as the age of - enjoyment. described

Enthusiasm, for example. I sce the potentialities of any large developments, in which connec-The young people of to-day are sup- young people deliberately stomping scale absorption of China's tion the extent of Japan's ter-posed to bo pleasure-mad-to be enthusiasm out of their hearts be

"bad northern provinces by Japan. ritorial ambitions

the bored and unhappy unless they live cause it is supposed to On

has in a continuous whirl of exeltement, form." Why, my whole life This is not to say that the mainland would be

vital

Like most generallantions, it revolved round my enthusiasms; Soviet will come in definitely on factor.

greatly overstates the case, but, for That, in itself, would be no special

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all the spade-work, live hard, run all' the risks tour jaws thrust out in anti- cipation, and those on the ground floor were each putting up £200. Would I...?

Let me consider. I begged, and spent the rest of that day very buddly newspaper offices and elsewhere, dis- covering something about this treasure rocket,

Sometimes the expeditions go from Canada, sometimes from England: two three each year. The island has been wholeheartedly gutted and dyns. mited, but nothing inore valuable than a rusty old shovel has so far been dis- covered.

The next was similar but more amusing-for inc. I applied to one of those agents who advertise to provide openings in bonn-fde businesses.

A little, grey-haired man welcomed me into a room with a formidable round-proof Juur, te smiled wryly when I told him the Insignificant, sum I proposed to invett.

Him, now that's not a very easy amount to pince profitably. Couldn't you get your old Dad... no? If you had Ove hundred I could put you on to something really interesting. Three damn good fellows in here yesterday -all ex-naval commanders-getting up an expedition to trade in Borneo."

That sounds promising." "Yes. thousand.

They're each putting up

Tell you what. they're coming this evening for a pow-wow. You turn up if you like."

HEY came from select- ing an armoury at a famous gunsmith's nearby. *We're taking a Lewis-gun, too," said Commander H-, their leader. "If we can't make a packet in Borneo wo'll convoy Chinese Junks up the Pirate Conat.

And If that don't bring us a for- tune (mind you, I think it will we'll damu well roll across and run guns for both sides in the Chaco war.'

Fascinated, I was invited to attend their meeting on the following day where I learned that Hhod bought, through Admiral M--, his old chief, now in the Admiralty, & "cast" motor submarine-chaser lying at Portsmouth Barbour.

J one of the three. was going down at once to get all shipshape. "And." H- unexpectedly informed mig. "don't worry about the cash, young feller. You're the type we want. Come with us and we'll give you a share of the profits. To-morrow we'll get you an outat at Jeeves."

The next day's meeting was to be between HP (the third com- mander and the agent, for the

of arrangement

tho expedition's Onancés.

1, the non-investor, was told to report at its finish. P and the agent sat alone and rather glum when I arrived. Can't understand what's happened 10 H- He hasn't turned up. We've wired him.

The reply, when it came, was dis- couraging. "H- left yesterday. Address not known."

In the stress of the next two hours. I discovered that was not a com- mander, that, as far as he knew, J woa not, elther, and that he had handed over one thousand pounds to - His genuine agitation told me that this was true

I took an even more raah step: EX-CAVALRYMAN (Colonial Volunteer) Berka post # wasistent in Riding School. Ho capi

What a bait Yet I only received two answers, one from an elderly indy with a round, red face, who received me, surrounded by dogs and horses, at- her country house. "If she's a crook," I decided after an hour's.conversation, "ahe deserves to get away with it," and bilthely I "deposited" my capital in return for "a thare of profits, £3 a week, and keep."

At present tint downright oid soul is doing fifteen months In fall, as a sequel to "doing" some score of un- fortunates like myself,

My hoarded savings galloped away on her dogs (which were greyhounds) or were spent on the maintenance of herself and her confederates.

She had an honest face.

-To-day's Thought-------

IN all things, success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure,

-CONFUCIUS.

recommendation, but

escape

cannot the fact that it is the enthusiast who gets things done.

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