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IF you feel the lure of

the speedway, you should know the truth about it all-by one who knows.

So

O you would like to be n speed-king? There is money as well as honour and glögin it, and all these things interest you, in your opinion.

What's thal? — you're a good driver, a fair mechanic and you think you've "gol what it takes."

Sorry, but you've got the wrong idea. Driving ability and mechanical knowledge are re- laively unimportant compared with money. Unless you've got plenty of inck"-that's what the mechanics at Brooklands cali pounds sterling-yon'd just as well confine your motor- racing to an occasional sprint on the local by-pass.

Why, Brooklands and Don- ington, to-day, are erowded with young men who have con- siderably more money thun they have driving ability. Many young men among the specta- tors could show them the way to "wind a wheel."

But they have little chance of ever being tried out; motor- racing. in Britain, is a rich The man with man's hobby.

the deepest pockets has a tre- mendous advantage over all other starters,

Di

ON'T get Mie wrong! there are young men with little hard cash, but lots of the stuff they make tennis racket strings out of who have become motor-racing stars.

One of them is young Percy Maclure, a wild young man-he shot a hole through my hat a few daya back!-who determined to amash into the headlines. He has -Maclure is regarded as our best driver on the twisting Donington road ciret

And he hasn't got circuit. much cash-he is a hard-working mechanic in the experimental workshops of one of the big motor firms. Most of his cars he built himself with bits and pieces from the scrap-heap. His home-built

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8.

1937.

Who'd be a

SPEED

T. H. Wisdom

cars

年

to

darn sight faster than sonie or those £2,000 Italian supercharged machines with which the wealthy young speed-kings diaport themselves.

Young Maclure will be lucky If he makes motor-racing pay. He stands a far greater chance of making a fortune in design- Ing and building cars.

Because there is not money to be made out of motor- racing.

F the

hundreds who have driven at Brook- lands, Donington, in Ireland, the Isle of Man and on Southport sands the list of mon who have made molor-racing pay I short. It's mostly guess-work, of course, but my 1st is: J. G; Thomas, FI Henry

Parry Segrave. Freddy Dixon. Captain George Eyston and Sir Malcolm Campbell.

The first two

died breaking records.

Those hundreds of others pald heavily for secking triumph in the world. of speed. Bome hit the headlines, but no stream of gold followed. The late "Tim" Birkin was one of our nest drivers; in motor-racing he found honour and glory. But his own personal far- tune disappeared in the costly business of racing fast cars..

Remember Whitney Straight, the young American who came

from

and down

Cambridge his motor-raced

into the way headlines? His career as a speed- king, and it was very successful, for he was a brilliant driver, lasted 1wo seasons, It cost him £20,000. He stopped, not because he was

Why Do

DARENTS

are peculiar people, "Latin!" sheered a man 1 met In a train the other morning. "What's the use of Lutlo to anybody? Or algebra, for that matter. Or heat, light, and sound! Why don't you teach the boys something that will be useful to them in after life"

I naked my stock question. "What, for example?" As usual he did not know.

ed to them?

KING?

For

looked i; his nerves were bail. nearly a year he had been working flat-out to build the monster car, "Thunderbolt," that Ret n new world land-speed record.

He has sunk his own personal resources In this great six-wheeled, eight-tyred car. With It he is diving

"broke," but because unlike most speed-kings he paused to have a good think, As he clambered out of his car one day after a particularly gruel- ling race he said to himself, "It's a mug's game-If I go on, trying to win every time, faster and faster, I shall end up by killing myself.

That's what

has happened to my friends."

And there is not so much honour and glory in this speed- king business as you might think.

Those few moments of lauret wreaths, sliver cups and crowds of Press photographers come intre- quently; only a few "make ' the front

And motor-racing page. means hard work all the time.

And luck plays an important part. Many a brilliant driver with mechanic a good car and a clever has been an Also

" in race after race. Struggle as he does- all-night work in

garage, special parts to be made, constant practice-he never sces

ran

the

the

chequered flag that means victory.

H

TE must keep trying until

hla ho gets

run of luck, and all drivers bellove in that, for the speed- kings (and dle) amid a mass of superstition.

Young Arthur Dobson raced for three years; yet he never won a race, Then, suddenly, he found his run of luck, followed it, and this season he has gone from one race to another and the spoils of victory have been for him.

A few weeks ago I saw my friend George Eyston off to America. He

off into the unknown, Success will mean he will get his money back and a little more. De- feat...

We all cheered Str Malcolm Campbell's great feat in regaining the water-speed record for Britain. There was far more to it, though, than merely plloting the new Blue Bird."

Weeks were spent in getting the water cir- culating system of the craft right; the useless trials at Loch Lomond cost Sir Malcolm more than £700; on Lake Maggiore a £5,000 en- gluc burst"; the steering of the bont seized and nearly wrote Finis to everything. It was hard work, he tells me.

Campbell is proud of his records and the men who built the ma- chines. But it's small wonder that he sometimes asks himself if all the nerve-racking worry has been worth while.

I have talked to all the famous speed-kings. And they all say the same that the honour and glory are fleeting unsubstantial things, that, after all, you cannot ent head-lines and photographs, Hat the speed-king of to-day will be a dim memory in a couple of years or so, and that, except for a very, very few there is no money in it.

Soo

Lwo

OME of them point out, that only one or made who have motor-racing pay have lived to So enjoy the fruits of victory. many famous drivers have died

on the job."

It's fine to be a speed-king, to hear the cheers of the crowd as you cross the anishing line, to be pes- tered for autographs, to be the guest of honour-at the banquets.of. the great. But that's n corner of the picture-the rest is just hard, nerve-racking work.

merc

Take my tip, lay off. Unless, of course, you are determined to tako the place of Campbell, Eyston, John Cobb and the rest-for some- body will,

-To-day's Thought..................... FOR the earth that breeds the trees breeds ellies, 100, and symphonies.

JOHN HALL WHEELOCK.

They Learn These

Things?

A SCHOOLMASTER REPLIES

All

or

TRAGEDY OF DEAFNESS

THERE are welcome signs of in- creased attention being given to the cause of the deal in public con- ferences and in the daily Press.

Perhaps it is because we are only now beginning to realise how wide- spread is this affliction of deafness, It has recently been stated by an eminent nurist that there are at least three million people who are hard of hearing" In the British Isles.

Another medical authorlly has de- ctured that one person in every three is potentially deaf,

Whether we are interested or not at the present moment in the subject of deafness, it is within the bounda of possibility that sooner or later we may be aftlleted ourselves, when self-interest will compel us to give it our serious attention.

There is perhaps no affliction so disabling in its effects us that of deaf- ness. It is nothing less than a tragedy to be shut out fram the world of sound and to be imprisoned in a tomb of silence. To become gradu- aily dear to the sound of human voices, the song of the birds, the mur- mur of the running brook, the whist- ling of the wind in the tree tops, is indeed a sad and bitter experience.

Beethoven's Grief

When Beethoven found he could not hear the sound of a flute, which gave so much pleasure to his com panions, he was so filled with despair that it was only love for his ri which saved him from suicide,

How many men and women have been compelled to give up their pro- fessions through deafness? Many doctors, Inwyers, clergymen, must- clans have found it Impossible to con- tinue because their impaired hearing placed them in many awkward and embarrassing situations.

Deafness results in a sense of 150ln- tion from one's fellows, for it means, for those who become stone deaf, the

deniul of social intercourse. Sound is the natirol link between human minds, and those in which this connection is missing or defective, must find themselves cut off from the rest of the communily. They are no longer able to enjoy the pleasure of worship, the lecture, theatre, or won- cert, and thus there is the temptation to withdraw from all society and to live a secluded, Isulated life.

A Strange Contrast

If we only knew the spirit of sad- ness and despair which alls the hearts of many whose hopes and ambitions have been checked and thwarted by deafness, we should fervently pray that we may have our hearing pre- served to the end of our days.

Let it be remembered by those who Complain of external noises that the majority of deaf people suffer from incessant internal noises which almost drive to despair at mes.

Yet we find that deafness has been called "the step-child among handi- caps." It begels more irritation, less understanding, and more ridicule than

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und in humorous papers, the deat are often caricatured, George R. Sims. the famous author and playwright of a past generation,' said that when he wanted his audience to shed tears he brought a blind man on the stage, but when he desired them to laugh, he Introduced a deal man.

It lá a pleasure to note that the B.B.C. has now put jokes against the deal on its list of barred features. We hope the day is not far distant when the deaf will no 'longer be the butt of thoughtless comedians, but will receive that practical sympathy which their Invisible disability de- serves.

Their cause has been ably cham- pioned by Lord Baldwin, who speaks with 1171 understanding sympathy. "The public," he says, "has very little realisation of the tragic fate of the dent. Blindness is a most terrible alletion, but from the dawn of his- tory, its victims have always met with a kind sympathy and considera- tion which must go far to alleviate their lot. But there is not one person In a hundred who will go voluntarily lo speak to a deaf person by means. of an instrument. Most people make for the other side of the room, and when they do try and talk they seem to become paralysed, and their con versation becomes unnatural and stilted." Too ung has the public shown a wrong altitude to the deaf. When we repose more confidence in deaf people and ceuse to regard them as inferior and stupid, we shall find they will respond to our sym-

Let us show to the deaf the same kind consideration we show the blind for those living in silence need It s much as those who dwell in dark-

ness.

ARTHUR HEDLEY

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a statement is likely to be in- correct.)

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an excellent. rule.

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obylotts.

Looked at from this point of view, the value of the so-called useless sub- jects should be blindlogly obvious. The dead languages are not dead, Linguistically they are part of our heritage; they are un'excellent means of training a boy, toʻthink clearly, and nobody ever studied Latin without being able to speak and write better Education for livelihood, pure and English afterwards. shuple is impossible, except in the Unless man uses them to win foot-pathy and confidence, and we shall limited sense. But education for life ball prizes, he is rarely likely to find and them far more interesting and But dues I ever secur te these the only sort of education worth a practical use for permutations and intelligent than we suspected. Dent- people that there are good reasons anything at alls another matter combinations, but his thinking on ness is a tragedy in itself to the vic- for the teaching of these subjects, that altogether. And this precisely every vital issue in his life will be tim, and where there is added the they are fur from being useless, and where the value of the so-called influenced by the power of clear, ridicule ot tho thoughtless, and that their "use" is something far re useless" subjects comes in.

objective thought with whleb they ostracism by one's fellows, it becomes moved from the snobbery value which is the only virtue sometimes accredit- Education for life has several dif- and other mathematical exercises almost too much for the mind to bear.

ferent objects. It should equip. A boy endowed lum.

1e studies physics and chemistry, Does anybody really suppose that to think for himself, and to think he will not be as likely to fall a vic- Damaged packages must be left in they are taught for so ignoble 'n objectively and clearly. It should

ito irrational superstitions the Godowns for examination by the renson, or merely because education give him some kind of correct pers- Consignee's and the Co.'s representa authorities cannot think of anything pective of life as a whole, and an cheap political theories or any other tives or any Tuesdays and Fridays better?

approximate idea of himself in rela- form of quackery as he would if they at 2.30 p.m. within the free storage

I do not know if you have ever tion to his country, his nge, the world, had never disciplined his mind.

these useless" subjects, in period, For

examination OL asked yourself what education if for, and the universe.

broadening his mind, in making it damaged dutlable goods, the con- For herein is the crux of the matter. Above all, it should arouse his in less terrified of new attitudes signees must arrange for a Revenue Education, if it is to be worth any ferest in as many facets of experience thought, will enecurage him to ex- CANTON AGENTS 22 Mako

of thing very much, is infinitely more than a mere pumping in of mere as it fan during the necessarily brief plore a dozen avenues of possible de- knowledge which will be of direct period when he is under its influence, light into which he might

30 that he voluntarily and eagerly otherwise have ventured, continues his "real" education when

You may still, and rightly, consider he leaves school.

that the proportion of time given to these subjects is excessive, and that in this modern would other vital mnt- ters are inexcusably neglected. This makes them no less valuable it a due sense of proportion is observed.

But please do not, in fulure, dismiss

worthiks then

time-wasters. elementary mathematics, a smatter which it encourages a hoy to discover They are taught incause generations WM. FARMER & Co.

of educationists, nea expert in their ing of history and geography-a man for himself in after life.

have been

fonvinced of could, from a practical point of view, get along quite well with these.

man has made a fortune are tending to become so stereotyped your own sphere; why not In educa- on a smaller educational equipment. and mechanical that there is a great tion too? And perhaps they are valu- And all this can be acquired by any deal to be sald for the extreme theory able in some meture precisely be- normally intelligent child by the time that He begins at six o'clock. As cause their value cannot be trans- ho is 12. It is after this that educa- Deun Inge wrote, "The soul is dyed lated into terms of£d. tion really begins.

the colour of its leisure thoughts.”.

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