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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, DECEMBER

1937.

BANKS

CANADIAN PACIFIC

THE MINER-

THE CLERK

-THE "CHAR"

YOU Know

These

OU know these people.

You have met them in the street, heard of them from your friends, read of them in the newspapers.

They are the folk whom Life has given If not a raw deal at least no hand of trumps, who live in the mean streets and the modest streets, bravely main- taining a façade of cheerfulness behind which there is precious little cause for cheer.

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You know these people 1 shaft write aboul representative hundreds of thousands up and down Britain. (But don't Imagine you con plck out

tiress the names are of my christening: the case histories are their own.) -

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individuals:

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RS. DIXEY is a widow. And widows with clergymen seem to lose their money more easily than any other class of the community.

Mrs. Dixey is also a simple coul. But not so simple that she can- not see who is to blame that three- parts of her savings are gone.

Everything was all right until the last General Election. Up to then all that her husband had saved in his lifetime, all that she lind managed to save since his only a modest death-together, sum-was invested with the build- ing society through which Mr. Dixey bought their house.

But at the last General Election Mrs. Dixey was deceived by the Tory trick then current, You re- member It. perhaps: YOUR. HOUSE TO GO. YOUR BUILDING

BY TOO! IF SOCIALISM

Mrs. Dixey unfortunately knows nothing about politics, particularly Tory politics. Hurriedly, she with- drow her money from the Build- ing Society. And as hurriedly she placed it in the care of a company which was to be as steady as the rock of Gibraltar, as profitable as Woolworth's.

That company insted precisely eleven months, Mrs. Dixey's say-. ings probably lasted eleven days,

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ET us turn to the Ferri- mans. They are 110L, you may say when you have read their story altogether, falr sample of that section of

People

the people for whom there is still

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a housing problem. The answer that if the problem had been volved there would be no need for any kind of sample.

But perhaps they have had bad luck. When they were married they applied for Council flat.

were put on the walling list (it was hundreds long), told they would hear in due course.

And while they were waiting they lived in the top part of a house, sharing with two other familles (one front room, one bed- room at the back, stove on the landing, water to be dragged up from the basement).

Pink-checked, ex-shop assistant Doria Ferriman, nevertheless managed to make it look like home to her lorry driver husband. They were almost sorry to move when Dick Ferriman was transferred to another depot, had to find other accommodation.

And they were sorrier still when from one they were switched Councli waiting list to another-、 and at the wrong end. Then Dick Ferriman began to ask what the devil was the matter with this housing business. And on Investi- gation he found that with only ten months to go the Government's five year alum-clearance scheme is

um- only half accomplished.

The Ferrimans are stil Hving in the top part-of-a-house and Mrs. Ferriman's checks aren't so pink.

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CAN Imagine that once Mrs.

had Kingswood

Fifty pink cheeks too. years of hard work (beginning at ten, sweeping a factory for 45. a week) have left her wrinkled, but still upright.

Her husband, Henry Kingswood. 50 straight. Bricklaying doesn't present many opportunities for tortune building; but it bends the shoulders.

It does not, indeed, present many opportunities for putting by for that proverblat nest-eg 40 that the manner in which the Kingswoods live now in a miracle not to be explained.

Kingswood, 00, gets 10. a week old age pension. His wife, 00, 15 Same- not entitled to a pension. how she contrives to make both ends meet by office cleaning at night, she has progressed from sweeping out the factory.

Fortunately, they've a council fat, which is cheap. But how the rent is paid and food bought and, rarely, new clothes got together- that's a mystery you nor I nor the Kingswoods can adequately ex- plain.

lienry

Misery is mitigated. Kingswood has a son who, in u modest fashion, keeps a board- ing-house on the coast of Kent,

He tries to keep his prices. reasonable, to meet the competi- tion of the hallday camps, without cutting them so that the staff (and the food) suffers. One day he hopen to see himself, a proud man with good friends, behind the bar of n country Inn.

Out of season, he has the old people down for a week or two.

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ET us look in at a school nots we say-a hun- dred miles from the House of Commons: an ordinary worse than Counel school, no many, a little better than some.

Its proudest possessions_are_the_ shields with which its walls are hung: shields which bear the honoured names of scholars who

energy. with prodigious seemed then!-scrambled through exams, and passed to secondary and high schools, even to the universities.

it

Ted Fletcher is quite naturally proud of the fact that on one of those shields his name appears, boldly lettered in black and gold.

In docsn't grumble, of course: but he's not quite so cheerful when you say casually: "Where did you 10 on 102

For Ted Fictcher didn't go on to anywhere. On the day his son's scholarship succes Was 10- Senior man- nounced Fletcher aged to lose his job. With the family income cut by two-thirds Ted Fletcher went to a clerk's stoo!

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and the woman who lost her all

instead of a college desk. That was Ave years ago; and by now he has worn that stool shiny.

"A pity. In a way," he says. "I had a passion for aerodynamics, might have been doing something really interesting. The only thing I can do now is to stick here-or Join the R.A.F.)"

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Na way the calller is luckier than the clerk.

·Peter Day almost learned his lessons in a mine. He was underground before he was in his teens.

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By the time he was twenty-five || Delhi he had had a spell at Ruskin Col- lege-and went buck to the colliery Just in time for a pit fall, which left him with his skin pocked with blue coal crains.

That pit fall has given him an inferiority complex. Peter says now that with a face like his the pit is the only place for him.

And that's odd, because two years at Ruskin have given him an uncanny knowledge of just how he 15 risking his life for a sweated wage in an industry hopelessly

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OU know these people: ordinary people whose lives have been marred by actions or events that ought never to have been; people who could, with such bitte effort on our part, be enjoying life instead of just putting up with it.

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n scheme bold enough to end the dilemma of the Ferrimans: pensions plan which would give Henry Kingswood and his wife: security such as they have never known before; which would give Albert the chance of a real holl- day-with pay; which would give Ted Fletcher's family a mainten- ance allowance so that Ted could go on to another school and swot up aerodynamics; which would five Peter Day, if he insists on keeping to the plt. at least a living wage to work for and safety while he works.

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ACROSS

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1 Seasonal absentmindedness for

the farmer (13).

18 No, this mythical person did not

have a gigantic head (7). 11 Part of this European island is of comparative unimportance (7).

12 Mock (4).

13 Nothing in 20 across makes this

place (5).

14 Cask oflen In an angler's hands

(1).

17 Depict a red light perhaps (7). 18 Nationality with a head for

brewing? (7).

10 Progress in hospitals? (7). 22 A game of changing appearance

(7).

24 Was this early

limit? (4).

motorist the

25 This pince Is dusty if upset (5).

26 Wasting no words (4).

20 He is proverbial for wearing

(7),

30 Feeling (7).

31 This thing has not happened be

fore (13).

DOWN

2 The time of the year for brew-

ing? (7),

3 Common plant, or fish (4).

4 This comes from any gaol (7).

This combination of noise and musical instrument is quite ordinary (7),

8 Bad status7 (4).

7 Up-bringing (7).

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Might be a theatro or merely the clown's red hot poker (iwo words--5, 8).

Surely strong men were needed for this Barder crime (13).

15 A theatrical Jane (5),

10 A number take great pleasure

in making this spice (5).

20 The abode of baldheaded Scots?

(7).

21 What is this is not meant to be

taken literally (7).

22 Pigment that suggests Socialist

victory (7).

23 A matter of course (7),

27 Perhaps a yard for a sailor (4). 28 This kind of country is high up,

paradoxically enough (4).

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