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Children to whom even the sight of a horse being harnessed is something new and splendid.......

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DOZEN boys, whose ages range from eleven to fourteen years, have just scen a ship for the first time in their lives.

They came upon her round a corner of a shed as they trooped back from gathering shells on the first sea beach they had ever known. They stood a little awe-struck, though she was only a coasting tramp of three hundred odd tons, smeared in a grey dust from topmast to loading. line as she unshipped comment in a gale driven wind.

They could not quite belleve her reality. It was notas George, who walks in irons and has to be careful every time he removes a boot that he does not break his right tibia, cxplained-as if she had been at son.

There would have been something familiar about that. White waves would have been breaking at her bow; smoke trail- ing behind her. And any boy knows that picture; can draw it, even if a little lop- sidedly,

But she was tied to a quay beside the shed and houses near-by leant down towards her so that she seemed a little

odd; a bedraggled toy left out

in the rain with the wooden

bricks of the nursery,

ho

George, when

Daw her, abruptly used a word that he discovered a few days ago. "Gosh," he said, and waited a breath. "It's got a

a funnel."

A remark that had the merit of heavy underlining and carried conviction.

The skipper's wife, on the round trip from Liverpool, heard him and took them all on board. They saw the bridge and peered down the engine-room,

They pattered aft and chattered to her so that she thrilled to them and took them below where a little of their wonder and bewilderment began to leave them,

cramped

The atmosphere of space and all lamp swinging to beam seemed somehow to fit to their imaginings so that they asked onc boy sald questions, and

solemnly: Is this where you fight?" which stumped the skip- per's wife for a bit until he ex- plained that he meant with pirates, and that he did not be- iteve that any ship went to sca without it had to fight.

E had seen the China Seas and Bounty Muliny aims and that was all Which he knew about the sca. is not invention of mine. I heard film nay 80.

That was in Aberdovey on Card!- where the Welsh moun-

gan

Bay,

tains run down to the Atlantic. The boys had come from a house four miles along the coast which the Birmingham Education Com- mittee runs as a summer school for the childron from its special slum arena,

For eight months of the year, groups of twenty-four children from their schools for the crippled, the deaf and the mentally delayed are sent there for a fortnight's holiday, and a ship is not the only

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

28, OCTOBER THURSDAY,

Their

Place in

the FUN

by

Sanford Lock

thing that comes new to them,

of Most

them have never travelled in a train before, seen a cow or known what it is to wonder why a tide can run away and leave a stretch of hard, smooth Band.

I have known them ask what is inside the hills, as they have looked up at the might of Cader Idris; have known them taken into the fields at night to be shown the moon and the stats and stand in. wonderment that such things are.

Stars cannot be seen from the walled depths of a stum when city glare and smoke hang above.

They refuse simple foods because anything new has to be treated with doubt and suspicion. Cocon made with milk instead of water arouses distrust.

Green vegetables are an affront to their intelligence. Only a fool would think such things ought to be eaten.

Fortunately there is always a fool whose curiosity overcomes where one native caution, and lends, others follow.

A boy who had been before came back this year, and that was a ́help, though his first remark-was.- "Matron, may I have a hot bath

Novel England

T

Tod Wiley

By Robert Darnell

Arrowsmith, 78. 6d.

OD is a lorry-driver and odd

job man working Jewish owner of

for the

a fruit stall, He lives with his father, mother and alster west of London's West End. And there are hundreds of genial young giants like him on the roads, in the markets and garages. at the football matches and street corners, up and down the land.

But Tod's cheerful, though juridiy expressed, acceptance of his lot was interrupted when a racing car skiddri into his, decrepit lorry Lizzle the East) and Claire Davenant, stag- Hered sauclly out of the wreckage.

They met again in London, and Ciaire and her equally feckless brother fured Tod into a casual, happy-go- lucky friendship.

Feeling at a loss in their stream of cackling but faintly cultured conver ration, Tod decided to get some educn- tton. Ile attended night-schools and went to concerts and learned to sing and to speak_grammatically while Oinire drified of on a world cruise, un conscious of the pedestal to which she had been lifted-and incapable of caring, anyway.

Disillusionmont was inevitable and tragic...

There are unlikely coincidences in the story, The Davenant housthoki and habits are taken from stock not fraut He, and you know all the time that Tod's shy romance is doomed to heavy disappointment. BUL suchi occasional creakings of nctional. machinery are unimportant compared with the vigour of Tod and his mates,

Mr. Darnell uns caught the authen- Lio nocent of his working men, at work, at home and at play, Elo under- stands their loyalties, their humour. thair rowdylam; their patience, their resource and their obstinacy. He tan describd`@`street tow, a trafo jam ne a Bunday at home so that it is joy to rail

A fresh, lively and most promising flint novel in which the author has done. What "po Tow young." English writer von attempt looked at the world about him and not down what ho is heard, and seen.

..

Without trying to put in everything or toʻkiate and solve any great prob lem, he describes what anyone with eyes and ears knows to be true. And the result is crispases, conviction and a pace seldom found in tales this side of the Atlantic.

Paradise

By Esther Forbes (Chatto and Windus, 8s. Gd.) ROM the settlements of the Pilgrim Fathers to the United Btates to-day is a far cry. Yet,

in this long, attractive story of pioneer colonists, you can catch overtones which have. persisted through the changes and chances of three hundred years.

A watchful.

Paradise was a house. forbidding house," with its back turned contemptuously on the village of Canaan, twenty miles Inland from Bos- ton. Quick-tempered. bearded Jude Parre lived in it with his sons, Fenton and Christopher, his daughter, Jazan. and the rent.

every night?" Memory promoted the question, and out of the talk that followed a thought kept re- curring.

That the children look back with them something with which to educate their parents even if it was only a lesson in hygiene and that toothbrushes have an cxist-

ence.

But mostly they discover and remember that grass is green: which alone is sufficiently surpris- ing to start the thought that there ore things in life worth striving after.

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4 child came once when its parents were unemployed and took back memory. 1 came again Ave years later, and lodged near the school with its parents to show them a little timidly this and that which had not quite been believed. The father had a job then where he had a holiday with pay, and there was only one place to spend it when he remembered what his boy had felt.

NE August week, fre deaf and dumb boys. beyond school age and eaming their first wages, remem--- bered their summer school and arrived one morning to say they had come to camp in a nearby field and did Matron remember them? The Resture was more cloquent than the speech of their hands.

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A child against whom it is re- corded she has never spoken single word in school, though she converses happlly with her mother at home. talked with her teacher

before the two weeks ended. And it was not shock that unloosed her tongue.

She did not exclaim, as I heard another at the sight of a water- fall.

"turn off the tap." She made

a remark, unaware that she had spoken until she had been an- swored and heard herself in

reply.

It does not matter what broke down her obstinacy. Force of circumstance, environment, what you will. It collapsed, and uncon- →sciously.

A seed was sown, and if it bears fruit even only in a spark of the desire to know, perhaps something has been achieved. Or would you argue that something should not be born where the lists are heavily weighted against the chance of its satisfaction?

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SUGGEST you wrong. The summer school, is needed. The crippled. the lame and the men- tally halt from the cramped air of the slums have their own perspec- tive, a perspective which needs no sympathy.

They wish to be normal, to sco themselves as they seo others. They want their share of natural fun to

the remember: to soc salmon leap and, curlew dip and learn to wonder why.

And maybe you have never scen A boy who walks on crutches keep- ing wicket behind stumps pitched where cows graze and a tennis Bail bounces

hin at

at ali

angles.

The one know. sits on his haunches and throws his whole body for the ball, with a courage, that will not admit the need for courage. He faces all life like that; doing things in the spirit.it not in the body,

When he saw a ship for the first time he would have said "Gosh," if he know the word, or "Crumbs" or "Strewth,"

Not in surprise at seeing a ship: but with satisfaction at seeing what ho knows other boys have seen.

MAKING MINING SAFER

1937.

A Degree Cannot Use

I

Was it Worth Three Years

of Sacrifice?

AM 'entitled to, write the letters BA (Cantab.) after my name. Each of those two letters cost me £400. It took me three years work to obtain them, and four extra years school to qualify for them. It is I left Cam- now five years since bridge, and never once have they been of any practical use to the in Was it worth It? carning my living.

ONE hundred and twenty years ago of protecting the knees consisted of the Davy safety lamp was first the wearing of hard feather pads, introduced into the dangers and strapped round each leg, but these

of a coal mine. After a often inconvenienced the wenrer. durkness

At many collieries safety com- colliery disasters due to series of fire-clamp, that eminent chemist; Sir paigns have been launched. Prizes ex- are given to the workmen who send Humphrey Davy, commenced

in devising a lamp in the best practical suggestions for Within a walk of tperimenting lay the Indians and the wilderness. which could be carried about under increasing the safety of the workers. Bonuses are given to the firemen

Christopher followed his father's cholarly bent. Fenton followed the Indian trails, trading with braves who Jazan skipped about respected him. and watched the birds-and followed Fenton with sharp. affectionate eyes.

80 Paradise flourished in a quiet seemly way until the day that Fenton went on board a friend's ship in Bos ton Harbour and met lazy, wrnton, copper-haired Bathsheba. "Helen of Troy," the captain called her And the firat half of the book is largely a record of the havoc she wrought in Canaan's

community,

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Ever since I passed the Matric, at the age of 15 my chief ambition in life was to become a good enough scholar to earn a University scholar- ship. My parents kept ine on nt school at a big sacrifice to them- selves, to satisfy what they thought Building was a very wise ambition.

To-day I know that if I had left school straight away after that examination I should have been earning money for all the seven years which passed in spending it at the University. I should now be in a far better job than I hold after those Instead of long years of training.

I should have spending money parned it, and I could now welig down in my accounts a comfortable profit in the place of a heavy loss proft in the place of a heavy loss.

It cost my parents £200 a year apart from the cost of holidays. It cost them more than that figure to pay my University expenses, la spite of the fact that I was a scholar of my college and earned a share of what I cost. In addition there were the costs of living in vacations, which cover more than half the year.

A Handicap, Not a Help

I went up to Cambridge full of confidence that the money and the I had spent on making my way time there would prove the best invest- ment of my career. The years I spent at Cambridge did nothing to rob me of that youthful optimism. When the Chancellor's hastily mum- dc. bled Latin invested me with my gree, and the Examiner's list with honours in my subjects, I went down convinced that the world lay at my feet, or at least would do as soon as I had had a few years in which to prove myself.

year after I came For a whole down I tried entirely in vain to get

qualifications. some Job on my tried four or five different sources, and four or Ave different types of job. I answered more advertisements than I care to remember all at added cost. And as I looked down the list I of advertisements in my paper realised one in every fifty mentioned my degree as a qualification by it- seit.

I heard the samic Everywhere story, Without either influence or experience of specialised training my B.A. was useless more a positive If I went handicap than a help. back to Cambridge or to some other. school of training for another year or two, then, and only then, 1 could hope to make capital out of my aca- demle distinctions, plus my added training.

Left Behind

But I could not and would not incur the expense of another year. So I went on trying to get some job on which to support myself,

In the end, in desperalion, Inc- cepted a small teaching position in an inferior, school with poor pro- spects. There my B.A. degree has earned me £60 a year and my keep less than 5 per cent, on my in- vesiment; and I have to work for it! But to what I can now see was my a tremendous blow. My parents' youthful over-confidence it has been hopes, though they do not often men- been grievously dis- tion it, have 'appointed.

Nor did it help me to bear the sense of frustration when I encoun- tered men whom 1 knew at school. and found them prosperous and openly scornful of the advantages of a University career, while I my-. self was keeping up appearances with dificulty.

In January 1016 the first success- who work their districts for a certain ful trial of his invention was made period without an accident. Safety by the rector of Jarrow. In order magazines and circulars, which give of probable sources of that the use of his invention might particulars not suffer restriction, Sir Humphrey dangers and how to deal with them, forfeited a fortune by refusing to ire periodically issued to under- patent It. The number of lives ground workers.

The most recent contribution to which have been saved through the introduction of his lamp cannot be safety in the mine was the introduc

tion in Fifeshire of safety instruc- computed.

Since 1810, and particularly in re- tional classes for boys before enter-pects are boundless.

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Helmets constricted of specially

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One man, who was a contemporary of mine at school, passed his final exams. in accountancy the year after I come down from Cambridge. To- day he is corming enough to keep himself and his wife, and his pros-

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it was worth it, is simply--it was, ful optimism. But, in spite of it all, my answer to the question whether

Another of my school friends-a he'er-do-well at school, who did not even trouble to pass the Matricula- 34 these.. is a story in the remaatle vein, them being mainly due to the un-

tlon-invested the tle capital he had in a business of his own, and ending with a whooping account of an

to-day is his own mazier and his Indian maid, which is finally beaten oft ceasing research efforts of the coal with heavy losses on both sides. And companies.

My, own cose is not unique. One then, each after his or her fathien, the

prepared fibre have been the means Stopped in 5 minutes! own paymaster. settlers resume their toil.

Amazing avidance of the remarkable of my college acquaintances came to Paradise is one of those novels that of reducing head necidents by 80 per teach you incidentally more than most cent. among underground workers. speed with which indigestion and stomacts Cambridge from a Scottish Univer- with reinforced toe-raps to pains can be stopped has, been revealedaily with very high honours and the

experimenti "knd, K•tay

He had spent two of the history books. I found its detall Boots

protect Inselnating.

the toes from Injury, and by medical

The degree of M.A. photograph

ingredients of

of actual surated'i years ns on basistant lecturer there, The nasal speech of Fenland emi. made of specially treated leather to prove the grants which may have sot the pre- counteract the effect of acid in the Manisesta to be the quickest-acting and and had saved up enough money to have also been introduced. most effective known in medical science. may his expenses. He gave up this dominant Yankee note, The villagers water,

Within 5 minules a lespoonful of job in order to increase his qualifica- first sight of a hearse (they looked on The miners in several collieries have Dinucated' Magnetia in a little water it as a "pleasure vehicle,” never before been

supplied with strong, leather produced complete rolls in cases where Lans at Cambridge. In his time at ferred to amongst them, not as the having seen anything on wheels dat gloves to protect their hands from numberless other remedies. had fasted Cambridge he obtained the highest "Appointments Committee" but as

entirely.

honours possible, although he took the "Disappointments, Committee." was not devoted to the work of farm cuts and bruises.

Hope Deferred 'Blauraled" Magnesia Is

a three-year course in two. R completa ing). The poetry which sometimes

The next innovation was safety

treatment for the relief of stomach

He went back to Scotland, hopeful

Of the men For

of my year whose tical use and to expect it to be a sort dance implanty behind that dour

trousta. As most of the coal miners, troubles-it neatralises the harmful acids of obtaining a better poillion.

It gives Puritan front. The slovens and the

he could get nothing. subsequent carcern. I have been ablo of Open Sesamo to a good job is to drones who helped to scaven the in capecially those working in pan-runs, that cause the trouble and 11-spreads a

to frace, only 40 per cent, succeeded court disappointment, yet do all their work in a kneeling post-soothing, protective film over the stomach ten months

Then, by a lucky chance, his old job dustrious ones. The crimes that kare

ton, consideration was given to uning.

per cent. Ing In the world can give been committed in Virtue's name. ...

or fell vacant. He was offered it and in obtaining the jobs which I know you something that no other irain- Get Disurated' Magnesia powder

wanted. Only '06 common allment, "beat-knee." The

tablets from your chemists or store thankfully accepted. To-day ho still they

That "something" is almost im- A book which makes the old, crudely

safety trousers are mado of light-to-day, but be sure to look for the ava! holds il-with two years to the dobit succeeded in obtaining any sort of coloured seventeenth century map of

BISMAG' sign if you want the quickest-

job at all without a long delay. And possible to delno. But the best if of his account.

of the not the only argument I can produce New England Ave and tracers some of weight, durable material, with the outlines of the alick charts of large oblong-shaped rubber sponge acting stomach romedy doctors know.

My own personal experience covers that experience is typical asarly half a dozen simliar cases of foto of the thousands of graduates for its existence is the simple fact overy that after all the disappointments, I, today,

who leave the Universities high hopes and complete frustration.

personally, if I could choose again,

Cambridge Graduate

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inserted in a pocket to protect the

knees.

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COUNT THE TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHEREGIS

50 common an experience is it that yeur,

To prevent small pieces of cont and "redd" from getting into the boots. the trousors are also belted round the ankles. The old method | 1000000000000000000 Agency"

one well-known. employment

I have learnt now that though a

University training is, of litle prac-

It sounds à sorry tale, and it is a would make the same choice.

for undergraduates is re- bitter experience for untried youth

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