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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
a
you
would like to be
speed-king? There is
money as well as honour and glory in it, and all these things interest you, is your opinion,
What's that? — you're { 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- latively unimportant compared with money. Unless you've got plenty of "Jack"-that's what the mechanies at Brooklands call pounds sterling--you'd just as well. confine your motor- racing to an occasional sprint on the local by-pass.
Why, Brooklands and Don- crowded ington, to-day, are
with young men who have con- siderably more money than they Ману have driving ability. young men among the specta- tors could show them the way to "wind a wheel."
But they have litle chance of ever being tried out; motor- rich racing, in Britain, is a man's hobby. The man with the deepest pockets has a tre- mendous advantage over all other starters,
De
ON'T get ne 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 days back!-who determined to smash into the headlines. He has
Maclure is regarded as our best driver on the twisting Donington road clrcult. And he hasn't got much cash-lo B hard-working experimental in the mechanic workshops of one of the big motor Arms. Most of his cars he built himself with bits and pieces from the scrap-heap, Bis home-built
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TRAGEDY
Who'd be a
SPEED
T. H. Wisdom
KO д
some
cars
darn sight faster than
of those £2,000 Itillan supercharged machines with which the wealthy young speed-kings disport themselves.
Young Maclure will be lucky if he makes motor-racing pay. Ile stands a far greater chance of nuking a fortune in design- ng and building cars.
Because there is not money to be made out of motor- raclog
O
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 motor-racing pRY is short. It's mostly guess-work. of course, but any list 19: J, G. Parry
Sir Thomas,
Henry Segrave, Freddy Dixon, Captain George Eyston and Str Malcolm Campbell. The frst twa dled. breaking records.
Those hundreds of others paid heavily for seeking triumph in the world of speed, Some hit the headlines, but no stream of gold followed. The late "Tim" Birkin was one of our finest drivers; in motor-racing he found honour and lory. But his own personal for- tune disappeared in the costly business of racing fast cars,
Remember
Whitney Straight, the young Amerlean who came down from Cambridge and motor-raced his way into the headlines? Is career as a speed- king, and it was very successful. for he was brilliant driver, lasted two seasons. It cost him £20,000. He stopped, not because he was
Why Do
PARENTS are pecullur people,
sheered a man I met in
a train the other morning. "What's the use of Latin 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 Bler"
I asked my stock question. "What,
KING?
#
new
looked ill; his nerves were bad. For early a year he had been working flat-out to build the monster car, "Thunderbolt," that set world land-speed record,
He has sunk his own personal resources in this great six-wheeled, eight-tyred ear. 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- I go on, trying to win every time, faster and faster, I shall end up by kling myself.
That's what
has happened to my friends."
And there is not so much honour and glory in this speed- king business ns you might think.
Those few moments of laurel wreaths, sliver cups and crowds of Preza photographers come infre- quently; only a few "make" the front page. And motor-racing means hard work all the time.
And luck plays an important part. Many a brilliant driver with a good car and a clever mechanic also ran race has been an
Struggle as he does- after race. all-night work in the garage, special parts to be made, constant practice-he. never secs. the chequered flag that means victory.
H
Di
TE must keep trying unt!!
he gets his run
all drivers luck, and bellove in that, for the speed- kings live (and die) 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; aud 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- fent...
We all cheered Sir Malcolmo Campbell's great feat in regaining the water-speed record for Britain. There was far more to 11, though, than merely piloting the new "Blue Bird."
Weeks were spent in getting the water clr- culating system of the craft right; the useless trials at Loch Lomond cost Sir Malcolm more than £700: on Lake Maggiore ' £5,000 en- gine "burst": the steering of the boat selzed and nearly wrote Finis It was bard to everything. work, he tells me.
Camphell is proud of his records and the men who built the ma- chines. But it's small wonder that he sometimes naks himself it 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 at head-lines and photographs, that 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.
COME of them point out, that only one or too, two who have made motor-racing pay have lived to enjoy the fruits of victory. many famous drivers have died
on the job,"
OF DEAFNESS
THERE are welcome signs of in-. creased attention belog given to the cause of the deof in public con- ferences and in the daily Press.
Perhaps it is because we are only now beginning to realise how wide- sprend is this affliction of dentness, It has recently been stated by an eminent aurist that there are at least three million people who are "hard of hearing" in the British Isles.
Another medical authority has de- clared that one person in every three is notenilully deat.
Whether we are interested or not at the present moment in the subject of deafness, it is within the bounds of possibility that sooner or later we be afflicted ourselves, when may self-interest will compel us to give 1: our serious attention.
There is perhaps no afletion so disabling in its effects as that of deat- ness. I is nothing less than tragedy to be shut out from the world of sound and to be imprisoned in a To become radu- tomb of silence.
sound of human
ally deaf to the voices, the song of the birds, the mur mur of the running brook, the wilst- Bng 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 filed with despair that it was only love for his art which saved him from suicide.
How many men and women have been compelled to give up their pro- fessions through deafness? Many doctors, lawyers, clergymen, musi clans have found It Impossible to con- tinue because their impaired hearing placed them in so many awkward and embarrassing situations.
Juman minds,
Deafness results in a sense of isola- tion from one's fellows, for It means, for those who became alone deal, the denial of social Intercourse. Sound is the natural link between those in which this connection is missing or defective, inust find themselves cut off from the rest of the community. They are no longer able to enjoy the pleasure of -worship, the lecture, theatre, or cam- cert, and thus there is the temptation to withdraw from all society and to live a secluded, Isolated life.
A Strange Contrast
If we only knew the spirit of sad- ness and despair which is the hearts of many whose hopes and ambitions have been cheeked and thwarted by deafness, we should fervently pray that we may have our houting pre- served to the end of our days.
Let it be remembered by those who komplain of external noises that the | majurity of deaf people suffer from incessant internal noises which almost drive to despair at times.
Yet we find that deafness has been called "the step-chili mong bandi- caps." It begets more irritation. Jers understanding, and more ridicule than
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It's fine to be a speed-king. lo hear the cheers of the crowd as you cross the finishing line, to be pes- tered for autographs, to be" "the guest of honour at the banquets of the great. But that's a corner of the picture-the rest 15 Just hard, nerve-tacking work.
mere
Take my tip, lay off. Unless, of course, you are determined to take 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 cities, too, and symphonies,
JOHN HALL WHEELOCK.
They Learn These
Things?
A SCHOOLMASTER REPLIES
of
and in norous papers, the deaf ure often caricatured. George R. Sins, the famous author and playwright of a pust generation, said that when he wanted his audience shed tears he Brought a blind man on the stage, but when he desired them to laugh, he introduced a deaf man.
It is a pleasure to note that the B.B.C. has now put jokes against the dent on s list of barred features. We hope the day is not far distant when the dent will no longer be the buit 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 an understanding sympathy. "The public," he says, "has very little
realisation of the tragic fate of the deat. Blindness is a must terrible afriction, but from the down of his- tory, ils 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 voluntarily to speak to a dent person by means of an instrument. Most people maice for the other side of the room, and when they do try and talk they seem to become paralysed, and their con- versation becomes unantural and stilted." Too long has the public shown a wrong attitude to the deal.
When we repose more confidence In deaf people and cease to regard them as inferior and stupid, we shall And they will respond to our sym-
the
thoughtless,
and
Looked at from this point of view, the value of the so-called useless sub- Jects should be blindingly obvious. The dead languages are not dead. Linguistically they are part of our heritage; they are an excellent means of training a boy to think clearly, and nobody ever studled Latin without being able to speak and write better Education for livelihood pure and English afterwards, having arrived from the above ports, for example?" As usua! he did not simple is impossible, except in the Unless a inan uses them to win footpathy and confidence, und we shall Consignees of Cargo are hereby in-now.
limited sense. But education for life ball prizes, he is rarely likely to find find them far more interesting and formed that their Goods are being But does it ever occur to there the only sort of education worth a practical use for permutalions and intelligent than we suspected. Dent landed and placed at their risk in people that there are good reasons anything at all-is another matter combinations, but his thinking on ness in tragedy in 11self to the vic- the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf for the teaching of these subjects, that together. And this is precisely every vital issue in his life will be tim, and where there is added the
value of the so-called influenced by the power and Godown Company's Godowns et ey are far from being useless, and where the
clear, ridicule of. Kowloon, whence delivery may be that their "use" is something für ree "useless” cubjects comes in.
objective thought with which they ostracism by one's fellows, it becomes obtained,
inoved from the snobbery value which Education for life has severni dif. and other mathematical exercises almost ino much for the mind to bear, Gooda not cleared by the 13th is the only virtue sometimes accredit2
endowed him.
Let us show to the dent the same ferent objects. It should equip a boy November, 1987, will be subject to ed to them?
If he studles physics and chemistry, consideration we show the blind rent.
Does anybody really suppose that to think for himself, and to think he will not be as likely to full a vic
for those living in silence need it as Damaged packages must be left in they are taught for so ignoble a objectively and clearly. It' the Godowns for examination by the reason, or merely because education give him some kind of correct pers- cheap political theories or any other much as those who dwell in dark- Consignee's and the Co's representa Authorities ennnot think of anything pective of life as a whole, and a form of quackery as he would if they
ARTHUR HEDLEY approximate idea of himself in rear had never disciplined his mind. lives on any Tuesdays and Fridays butter? al 2.30 p.m. within the free storage I do not know if you have ever tion to his country, his age, the world,
All these useless" subjects, in period. For the examination of asked yourself what education is for. and the universe,
broadening his mind, in making it damaged dutiable goods, the con- For herein in the crux of the matter; Above all, I should prouse his in- lens terrified of new attitudes of signees must arrange for a Revenue Education, if it is to be worth any terest in as many facels of experience thought, will encourage him to ex Officer to be present.
Using very much, is inflallely more na ii can during the necessarily brief plore a dozen avenues of possible de- All claims must be presented with- than a mere pumping in of mere period when he is under its influence, light into which he might in len-days of the steamer's arrival knowledge which will be of direct so that he voluntarily and eagerly otherwise have ventured. here, after which date they cannot use to a boy in his career.
continues his "real" education when be recognized.
he leaves school. Right Use of Leisure
No claims will be admitted after Education for Life the goods have left the Godowns.
After all, the minimum of learning
ehould
tim to irrational superstitions or
03
never
You may still, and rightly, consider that the proportion of time given lo these subjects is excessive, and that in this modern world other vital mal- No fire Insurance has been effected. which is essential in 'everyday life
ters are inexcusably neglected. This The possibilities of delight in this makes them no less valuable if adue NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. and which can, with benefit, be given
ton large number of children, is, world are many; the success or other sense of proportion is observed. Hongkong, O November, 1937.
But please do not, in future, dismiss when you come to analyse it, ex- wise of educhilon is tested by the
worthless time-wasters. tremely small. Rending, writing, variety and quality of the delights them elementary mathematics, a smatter which it encourages a boy to discover They are taught because generations of educationists, men expert in their ing of history and geography-a man for himself in after life.
We have come a long way from Jobs, have been convinced of their could, from a practical point of view,
education for livelihood. But Jobs grent value. You respect experts in Many a man has made a fortune are fending to become so stereotyped your own sphere; why not in educa THERAPION N03 on & smaller educational equipment, and mechanient that there is a great tion too? And perhaps they are valu And all this can be required by any deal to be said for the extreme theory able in some mensure procisely be normally intelligent child by the time that Ife begins at six o'clock. As cause their value cannot be trans- ho is 12. It is after this that educn- Dean Inge wrote, "The soul is dyed lated into terms of £ sd.
the colour of His leisure- thoughts. tion really begins.
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a statement is likely to be in- correct.}
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11 Have food in time always: it's
an excellent rule..
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13 Something to smoke. 10- Make it work.
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obvious.
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32 Store purposely, but in a ridicul-
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"tram door" (anag).
2 A man of rank.
3 Usually invoked
away.
twice to go
4 What you may get if you
monkey with a magnet.
5 That dark lady.
Not entirely covered with half.
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It's become a saying Ada always starty it.
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not liked.
15 French cabbage?
18 Ham David Copperfield knew,
but neither. West nor York,
20 The Devil! All you met in
France?
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sold.
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