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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER

8,1937.

Young Folks in a Hurry

EMPLOYERS

tor Vieles on!

who

are constantly confid- that typewriting is just a question of which must precede proficiency in ing in me that they seem to be tupping keys instead of being, as it is, anything. unable to obtain really competent an occupation requiring just as much I know that I could double my pre- office workers, and judging by some skill as any other on which they sent number of students by such dis- of the work which leaves their offers might embark?

honest tactics or encouraging young there can be little doubt that their

people in

In this foolish belief the

that hard Within the last month no fewer work and complaints are fully justified.

study are unnecessary, but than five lads and giria have been I also know that local employers For instance, the other day I re- Interviewed with reference to recelv n

now show

confidence

in my ceived a circular, beautifully printed ing training in shorthand, bookkeep- selections for

their staffs on imitation hand-made paper, a real ing, and typewriting. Each of them would cease to regard me as being triumph of the printer's art, but the fold me they had been offered

effect was spoiled by the typed if they could type or write shorthand, trustworthy it I departed from my present practice of discouraging envelope

fondly Imagined in their

prospective students who think they as if the errand boy had been ignorance or innocence that it was learn a skilled occupation in a few looked given the job of addressing the possible to reecive a complete train- weeks, wrappers, so badly were they typed, ing in a few weeks-one girl sug- punctuation marks in the wrong place, gested six wepkal capitals where there should have been When I pointed out that complete half-trained or hastily trained, for the none and missing where they should have been typed.

In which it was enclosed.

Another sent me a duplicated circular letter so badly spaced and typed I could only suppose that some one unfamiliar with a typewriter and duplicator had 'run them off.

and

mastery of the typewriter keyboard could not be attained under three months at the very least, leaving the question of speed in its operation out of account altogether, she thought I was exaggerating.

Dislike of Spade-Work

The thoroughly competent need never fear the competition of the

difference between them is as wide as the ocean itself. achieved in a hurry,

Nothing worth while was ever and modern youth 'must realise that they will have to concentrate and work even as their fathers and mothers had to do before them. I would be a grave disservice to employers and the young folks it She was typical of quite a large they were encouraged to belleve percentage of modern youth, who differently. This sort of thing is bad for bust desire to start earning good wages Already there. are hundreds of ness, and I atti, somewhat surprised with only a few weeks training, thousands of half-trained people in that any enterprising firm should Neither she nor those who think like Industry, and it is this class which waste paper and postage on such her seem to realise that this im- always provides such a problem for poor efforis in publicity.

pallence can only lead to incom- statesmen and employers when the

Poor Publicity

Is it any matter for wonder then petence, and that the best Jobs are inevitable industrini slump arrives in that so many people, and especially only alled by those who are ready to periodle cycles. young people, have gained the Idea undertake the tedious drill and study

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PILOTS HAVE A GROUSE

(By VICTOR RICKETTS)

Sailings via HONOLULU

....at Noon Dec. 24th ..Feb, Bib

P their employers' coun- J. It is the 250 or so who have

ILOTS' grumbles and tion, the fliers' new trade union. Total Flying Hours DIRECT TO VANCOUVER (from Yokohama

newg.

who have caused all the disturb ance. More than 160 of them There has been talk of come from Imperini Airways

payroll of roughly 200 pilots. strikes in the airlines, sum- mary sackings of pilots, underpay in the air, and many things besides.

do.

ONE of the aims of the

fllers' association is to

get the British working time for pilots down. A pilot's hours of work are limited to 125 a month. After that he must have another Air Ministry supervised medical examination. THERE are men in the before his employers are allowed

air profession

Rates of Pay

€11-

An unnecessarily black pic. ture has been painted. There trusted with passengers' lives to fly him again.

Dick Merrill was horrified will be no pilots' strike unless who work for bus drivers' wages the air firms employing them a week. They get

few about this limit. In America 4 take up a far more brutal atti- pennies an hour flying pay. It's a fat figure of eighty hours tude than they appear likely to Welcome

month organisation a any

and no extras. that seeks to put that sort of "A.L.P.A.," America's equiva In Britain there are 927 thing right. But don't imagine lent of the British association fliers, maybe half a dozen of that all professional pilots are got that figure. them women, who hold current paid on this scale. I know Half-way between the state-| "B" licences entitling them to young men, well on the right ments that it's as pie and fly for hire or reward.

side of thirty, who draw a alternatively that it's shocking It has cost between £200 and monthly cheque for the best hard work to fly lies the truth. £1,200 for each of them to take part of £100.

This column is not siding that coveted licence. A third Besides their salary they get with the pilots or the companies of the number of "B" licence anything up to 159. an people hold pilota'. jobs in air flying pay, firms, entitling them to join the Not a bad job, ch? British Airline Pilots' Associa- right.

hour who pay them to fly. It's just painting a picture of the situa- You're tion in a small but growing

business.

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1 Oddly enough this ship's mea- surement is under water where there is no air (7).

6 To ugree completely (7).

Town of India (5).

10 This sportsman is usually Ellent, except when he loses his head (3).

11 This little river often turns a

wheel (3)..

12 Vessel made of a reed with

nothing in It (5).

13 There is great depth in part of

this part of Africa (9).

10 There may be no knols in this

picce

of wood but they are found by it (3).

17 Cleanse (5).

10

Material made from two animals

20 A Hight-giver (7).

23 Fair though fabulous (5).

25 One of the barrela (3).

27 Useful effigy (9).

31 A galt is obtained from theso

mountains (G).

32 Bird (3).

83 This little household utensil is

always lost without its third

Teller (7).

34 This is made from the end of 19

down (5),

83 rd of prey (7).

20 in a train or below It (7).

DOWN

I Could this little bit of your cor be worn by the house-maid? (7).

3 This person comes from no

realm (7).

8 Serious meals are soldom thus

depraved (0).

4 Sho might become a team agent

(D).

Is a person thus bad-tempered

very trying? (6).

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What veldeles would look well whin upset? (5).

7 Compare (5).

8 Part of a ship, not of

abnormal man (7),

An

14 Coin current in Southern Europo

(3).

15 One thing is wanted about this

for consideration (3).

18 This remote land might be a

feature of bowls (9).

10 This man makes nice gales (0).

Foreign soldier (7).

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21 This car is well known in India

(3).

22 This stands for the addition of

the rest (3).

24 No daring hero, he (7).

25 He is always in a hurry to get

ohead (7).

28 Mountain of Greece (0),

20 Losing one's head in fear is a

mistake (5).

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(5),

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