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HONGKONG,

TELEGRAPH

Business Men

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How do millionaires^make money? Nobody seems to know, I have friends who spent years their life in the University and ex- pensive training colleges, and none of them earns much more than you or I. I know men who have studled Bs juntors, in the offices of most eminent money-makers and yet they seem to have caught nothing of the knack..

Other fellows, with no particular abilly some of them, start off behind the counter or rubbing their overalls against the bench, and in almost no time at all, we find them President of the United States or living in villa on the Riviera,

1 ever One of the richest men knew was my own grandfather. He never read a book more serious than Marie Corelli. He was no writer of hla mathematics belles lettres; weren't so remarkable; he was no- thing of an orator. Just a little man in a grey suit who looked just like But he anyone else'n Erandfather.

could make money.

Not that he particularly wanted to. He was never very interested in money us such. He started as an odd-job muni und Just carried on with his work. And the money roll- ed in.

Easy Not to Succeed!

It's the same with other wealthy men I have met. One, I remember, couldn't even write his name. An- other was a classleal scholar with al-

in business most no interest figures. They jual sat down in their Jones, office, sald:"Please, Miss will you take a few letters?"

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And the money came down like the gentle dew from heaven,

It's Sounds easy. one time or another I have per- sonally tried my hand at money moking, and i have had lots of ad- vantages over Sir Hend Deterding or Henry Ford.. I studied in Paris, my and London. I spent Cologne, youth travelling in distant lands and mixing with people of a score

have and races. I am half Scots

numerous

relations of the

business man.

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You'd think I would

have had the experience, the educa- tion, and a good chance of inheriting the trick,

But no! I ran a wholesale trinket business, but never succeeded in sell- Ing anything to anyone but my wife -and that was on credit. In the end I closed down and went back to my job us a journalist,

Later I accumulated

some

more

capital, and lost it as an estate agent.

Jost a third fortune (it was

fortune)-obtained by way of

grandfather, so the money

have

a my

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been blessed-in a furniture I went in with a partner. put

factory led the brains and

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up the cash. In the end I lost all the cash and he was even able to sue me successfully for three months sulary in place of notice. He certainly had the brains.

What is the Secret.

Another time I left a newspaper to become a farmer, boxer, a second- hand car dealer, a bookseller, and a

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WEEK-END SECTION:

Men Are Born-Not

Made

commission-agent. I ran

1 theatre

his articles of apprenticeship or sever went to college, will open

little office in a back street, and a few years later he'll be employing all your skilled and professional men in the factories he'll own and the

for a while and started an advertis-hospitals and so on he'll have built. ing business.

That Ghostly Something

I have never made a penny oul

No teaching will do it. You con of anything I always lost all the

stuff him with figures, cram ilm with capital I started with and gladly ran rules of thumb, load him with capital back to a quiet job in someone else'she'll forget the one and lose the other as sure na eggs is egg-unless office.

he has that ghostly something that

You will hear folk say it's all a hacking. capital und question of Nonsense! 1 have had as much of Etut both as any man could want. they never brought that virtue inta my fingers. It isn't following sound business principles either. buying cheap and selling dear-but when I had succeeded in buying anything cheap, I always found no one else wanted to buy at all, and I couldn't arli at any price, mind dear.

tried

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men

And

So I am reduced to the philoso- phical position that business are not the products of much capital or a select training in profit loss. The wizards of the banknote are definitely born. They cannot be made. You can take a likely youth and send him to college and him into a pretty fair doctor lawyer or banker. You can take an- other lad and apprentice him to a craftsman

and, at the end of time, he will come out an engineer cannot carpenter. But you make a millionaire out of him.

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You can make a very good crafts- man if he has natural aptitude. You eun make a very skilled professional man. But you cannot make a busk ness mon,

Another ttle lid, who was always bottom of the class, and who broke

CHESS PROBLEMS

Elfark

Nos. 114-115

turns paupers into plutocrats,

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1939.

What D'you Know?

Answers on Page 3

1-The effect Circe was sup- 28.-Would you saya Mussulman

A fisherman. A tea-wagon,

A setice.

posed to have on men. Town

A Fascist, change them into pillars of salt; make their mentalitica child- Mohammedan. A ringleader,

20. Two of these songs are con

with the like; turn them into pigs?

American Civil Marching thru'

Georgia, Striper. Colonel Bogey.

John Brown's

30-If you toss up a coln seven 4.The French award of the time, what are the odds against 11 we pay our debts and our Income-Cordon Bleu is for: Bravery, politleni coming down heads the eighth time? service to the country; culinary 31.-Who was the inventor of the tax (sooner or later).

microphone?

Marconi,. But the millions will- clude usability; the best poem of the year?

5. MDCCCLV. Roman figures re-Graham Bell.

Capt. Eckersley. Most of us. Try as we will we shall

Baird. Carey Street presenting how many? more likely end than with a villa on Coți d'Antibes. And perhaps that's just as well.

Experience has taught me that business men are born not made.

2. If you are pedantle the best nected We may thank our stars that life thing to do is: To call a doctor; take War:

more exercise: get up earlier in the TennesseA,

Stars and still pretty bearable even for

3.-A test for those who know those who are not captains of in-morning; simplify matters?

Zair hot Bluebell, dustry and masterminds of finance their Shakespeare. A We take no risks and we gamble for wench in flame-coloured taffeta" is

Amateur Gardeners' Three Mistakes

THE other day I was discussing Soting Too Soon

gardening with a gardener of

twenty years experience. 1 remark-

The second mistake of amateurs Is

ed on the number of amateur gar-being in too much of a hurry. When deners and their keenness which warm sunny day comes, they will made for success.

Ile admitted sow seeds, even if it is a month too It is tempting, but experience that, but added, "They all make the soon.

proves that it does not pay once in same mistakes," and named three.

fen years. Not only do they often I wonder if other gardeners would fall to germinate, but seeds BOWNL agree with him? All three seemed much later grow so much faster and such very simple errors to avold, it in many crops-for instance carrots, only one stopped to think. Then, as radishes, or turnips-give us much my old friend explained. "They will more succulent results. And what is not think. They read gardening more, they mature at least as soon as books instead."

the earlier

Bowing

no high stakes; we do our job and to be found in: Romeo and Julietimes and it comes down heads ench I fancy that the general lecing is always remember one wise old gar-

wake. With our ittle Macbeth; King Henry IV our draw compelency we struggle along and

Baulton Jefferies,

G. What are deciduous-trees? 7-The following inscription up- pears on the head side of a coin of the realm: Georgius VI D. G. Br. Oni. Rex. F. D. Ind. Imp. What

it mean? does

8.--During the wor the long

Germans were #inke guns of the referred to as "Berthas," How did they get this name?

Aviation Humour D.O.R.A." has often been In

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Two old ladles were so interested

In the aerolime that they de cided to go up for a short trip.

Having paid the fees, they were about to embark when one turned anxiously to the pilot.

frat

the news. What do these letters signify?

<d Manchester 10-When

Parliamentary

representa enjoy tion?

11.--The hair of an Angarn goal is called-?

12-A Minister with a personality --would you say his name is BASIL will bring us back safely, EH? What is it then? "You

the name of the 13.-Whut won't you?" she asked.

chief cashier of the Bank of Eng-

I will, madam," the "O course pilot answered. "I've never left any- undy up there yet, and I've flown thousands of passengers."

young pilot had persuaded passenger to go up with him. In one of the stunts he lost control, and had ahairsbrendth escape. As he righted his machine once more he said to his that companion, "Now, I daresay fifty per cent. of the people watching thought we would be killed."

Problem No. 114

11 Pieces

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up here fly per cent. of those

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14-Naine of the band lender who is also a famous racing motorists?

15.-in pack of cards, whien king has four hands?

16-Time fies how can one they such irregular intervals, pass Doesn't make sense, does it? Try to punctuate it correctly.

17-A flyboat is: A boat that can lake to the air; a Dutch coasting vessel; a fashion in hats?

10. What is the title of a Turkish governor?

19.The Blue-Feler, a blue flag with a white square in the centre, la flown when

A pilot is

required.

A Dying enthusiast was examin- ing a parachute. Presently he asked, "What happenis supposing this parn-in distress. chute fails to open?**

"Oh, we guarantee them," said the salesman. "Just return, and we will immediately send you another free of charge."

About to sali.

Atlantic record

holder. Doctor wanted. In quarantine. 20. you were suffering from Nostalgia you would want to

Take command. Get rich. Return home.

Dict. Use an inhalant. Commit arson.

21-1 you were to make a forced

a Castriloquist landing, and came down in a tree. you could

watching him, he

Speak on one subject for hours. Seeing farmer said apologetically, "Sorry, but I was

Make your voice appear to come

from someone else. trying to make a new air record."

A pilot had

"Well, you certainly did," replied the inrmer. "You're the first per- son to climb down that tree without climbing up it."

A Cockney went for a trip in an aeroplane. When he came down he said to the pilot, "Thanks very much for those two ritles."

"But you've only had one," replied

the pilot.

Listen to me." said the Cockney

earnestly. "I've ad two-the first AND the last!"

The pilot was telling about some of his adventures. "Yes," he said, "I was about two thousand feet up when I suddenly found my engine missing."

"Good grnelous" exclaimed Aunt Eliza, "who could have stolen it?"

Two young ladies were visiting an aerodrome. "Doris fairly threw her self at that young pilot's head," re- marked the blonde.

"Yes, my dear," said the brunette; but she made a perfect landing!"

"Good heavens! are we going to crash?" asked the panic-stricken passenger.

"Oh, we'll crash, of course," said the pilot. "But don't worry-It will be quite all right. That's a rubber plantation just below,"

Margarei Hillman.

SPORTY SHOES which show

that two leathers are twice as

smart as one. especially if they are White Buck & Brown Calf

or White & Blue. or White & Black if you prefer it.

SIMILAR MODELS AS OUR ILLUSTRATION IN STOCK.

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Give expert advice on dietetics.

22. What do you think

I shave you for nothing And give you a drink. Correctly punctuate this and you will find that the barber does carn a living.

Edison. Hughes,

There is another drawback which The first error was in seed-nowing.

ninateurs do not realise; That to The amateur saws too thickly. That many

frosted seedlings "shoot." is true, I have seen a whole packet

to seed of lettuce seed, which would have why we so often find early beetroot, Body.lasted me for "succession" for all the fettuce, or turnip running

season, shot into a three-yard drill. Instead of developing properly. I

potatoes whose allotment-holder that seed-sowing is a mysterious dener who sald be congratulated the business, and you can hardly expect those dead-looking Dings to produce were the Jast through the soil. plunts.

But if you saw them thick Afraid to Cut Back ly, and one per cent. germinates, i you may have a crop.

32. How many strings has a balo- falka?

33.What are the Christian names Kent? the Duke of

composed the national 34.-Who song. "Rule Britannia"?-

Elpar. Henry Carey.

Purcell. Dr. Arne.

Puzzle Corner

Cryptogram

The third fault, according to my "He's afraid But it is a stupid misinke from gardener-friend is that the amateur every point of view. To begin with will not prune hard. economy. A twopenny packet of to cut back and afraid to thin out. any ordinary seed. (apart from pens Then he wonders that his bushes are more like a.hedge than a rose bush!" or beans or cress) should suffice nn ordinary garden for a sensen, making a succession of sowings of cabbage, radish, carrots or turnip. So why waste it all at once?

Then thick-sowing means addi- tional work; thinning and trans- planting at the busiest season in the gardener's year. And it also does not give as good results, because when seeds are sown so thickly thinning By way of variety in crypto-loosens and disturbs those which re- grams, instead of a message,main, and checks their growth. to-day we have a list of coun- tries, cach name being spelled with 7 letters. Can you de- cipher them?

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But again the amateur has a secre! dread of interfering with Nature and a private conviction that Nature must know best and set the correct number of branches. Yet it pays to cut back. Think of those stumpy, apparently dead bushes a few inclics high in March, and then remember the masses of roses in summer.

Apparently the golden rules of Sow thinly, sow gardening are to late, and prune hard.

M. Forrest Mill

GARDENERS' TALES.

to plants and tomatoes in all stages nice," she said linases, which were filled with toma- of ripening. "How

they Eng- politely. "Tell me, are lish?"

He was a newcomer to the suburbs, and, as he sauntered up from the train on his arst evening he stopped about half a dozen houses down from and watched a shabbily uwn his

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have a tortoise in the garden, as it slugs," one myn said to his "B" Sure You're Right! Can you supply the missingneighbour. "Inve you got one?”

"Yes," replied the other drily. words which are defined below? Note that the "F" in each word "There he is" (indicating the jobbing

gardener), "but he prefers beer."

"When you've finished here," be is already inserted:

Another easy-going gardener re- marked to his employer. This gar-addressed him, "come along to Nu. den's

overrun with slugs." "Yes," 17. My hedge wants trimming. agreed the boss. "I've noticed them The gardener stared back with a whizzing past you.

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Letter Juggling

Try forming 5 different 5- letter words from the 5 lettera given below. Use all 5 letters in each word.

RASET

How Many Days?

A certain job can be done by 35 men in 60 days. But, after working together for 12 days, 16 of the men quit work. How many days will it take, at the Tayton you would pass the men to finish it? 24.—Travelling from Lunden same rate, for the remaining

23. We often refer to an umbrella as a "gamp," Huw did this origin-

ute?

following towns:

Banbury. Warwick.

Leamington

Birmingham.

19 the

Spa.

High Wycombe.

West Bromwich.

Place them in the order in which you would pass them.

25.-Where does the bronze used in the manufacture of the Victoria Cross come from?

26-What

meaning of sesquipedallan?

27-If you were a funambulist you would be a

Lion-tumer. Drunkard.

Sword Rope-walker. Gardener,

Sleep-walker.

Fun With Antonyms To-day, we have 10 words and their antonyms to be matched:

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(Answers on Page 3)

TALES FROM THE NAVY

THE young sallor had just saved house.

I

dressed fellow trimming a hedge.

"My back garden needs to be dug of the true gardener is that story of up, too, and I'll pay you one and tup- the lady who remarked, "There's penes an hour,” dreadful news from spain this morn-

"But I'm not a jobbing gardener," ing. Civilians killed wholesale in anthe, worker protested with frigid air raid!"

"Aye, but there's waur than that: dignity, "I live here." There's waur than that said the gardener, with an air of absent- minded strain.

"What could be worse?"

"A rabbit got at the lettuce Inst night."

A young explorer had just bough! a bungalow, and was about to settle down to suburban life. To his thril- led flancer he was relating some of his adventures.

"I had to hack my way through

almost impenetrable jungle, chopping, slashing, heaving away at thick un- dergrowth and bushes..."

"Oh, John," she interrupled rop- turously won't it be lovely having you to weed the gardent"

"In every blade of grass there is n sermon," a preacher assured his con- gregation one Sunday. The next

day, one of the church members came across the minister mowing his lawn. ho anid "I'm rato glad, meeinster, pawicily, "tae see ye engaged in cut-

ing yer sermons short."

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A certain film producer had Incur red very heavy expenses to secure open-air shot, and, at the critical terrine shower of rain moment, a came on with the result that his cf- forts went for nothing.

"This rain is going to cost the com- a packet," he said morosely. pany And at that moment, the tension was broken as the high, squenky voice of one of the exiras was overheard hup- pily addressing a pal. This rain won't hall do my scarlet runners a bit of good."

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A Lonarkshire gardener was show- You look as if u sen iriping an old lady round his green-

his commander from drowning, would do you a world of good." and the great man was expressing gratitude.

"To-morrow," he said impressive- ly, "I shall thank you before all the

men.

"Oh, don't do that sir," the sailor pleaded impulsively. "They'd half murder me!**

It was at the seaside too that a sallor ventured on a donkey ride. As he was seated very well back on the donkey's quarters his mates advised him to shift his seat amidships," "No!" the rider insisted. This is the first craft I've ever commanded, and if I can't ride on the quarter- deck, I won't ruddy well ride at all,"

A sailor, who was absent on leave In the days of the "Piracy Patrol," from the naval barracks, was re- u certain destroyer had been very called by telegram. A little later, busy "refugeeing" When they ar his wife turned up and interviewed rived at Gibraltar, English news- the Chief Quartermaster.

"What's the iden," she asked, "of recalling my old man from leave?"

"Sorry, ma'am," said the officer stiffly, but orders are orders."

"Orders be hanged," she exploded, "He hasn't come home yet!"

One zailor was given leave from his chip which was taking part in the Navy Week programme at Plymouth. When he returned to duty, he was asked how he had enjoyed his holl- day.

papers were delivered on board, and two old sallora were particularly in- terested in the picture of a destroyer the caption, "Sink Submerged with Submarines on Sight' are her or- ders."

"Well," commented one thought- fully, "we've been sailors, soldiers, policemen lady's malds, nurses und foster mothers. So why not ruddy magicians?"

During the Great War a British "Rotten!" he said dismally. "An-

the.Balile other row with the wife! It was like submarine patrolling in

was thased by a German destroyer. this-we were in Bristo', and my The submarine submerged, and the beiter half wanted to go on one of destroyer sent a depth charge after these mystery conch tours. Well, I

her. So great was the force of the ask you, would you have liked to explosion that the submarine heeled come back to this ruddy dockyard to over at a dangerous angle, and the seo Navy Weck when you were on alarm-bell rang. leave?"

~Tora-few-tense-moments-there-wat,

ellence-tho-members of the craw Another marine, after a lengthy hardly daring to breathe And then spell at sen, had gone home to his as realisation came that they were -wife-at-a-seaside resort. The... firat }· kafe and unharmed, the hilarious day of his leave he was strolling on volee of one of the crew sang out, the "prom," when an old salt tackled "Give the gentleman a cocoanut, him. "Come on young fellow! You're Marta. He's rung the bell." fust in time for a trip round the light

W.

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A Lay Sermon

TT is a reasonable inference from!

Imany of his sayings that St.

Paul believed is physical fitness, and this lends welght to his words when he tells his young associate) that spiritual fitness is much more} important.

itis objective was godliness. He exhorted the Ephesians to be "fol- lowers" (le., imitators) of, God.

The mark to- wards which heExercise thyself pressed-was-that rather unto

godliness, perfection which

in 1 Timothy, ill.,1 TIMOTHY, tv. 7 16, he summed.

up as a "great mystery"; some- thing made manifest in body as well ns in soul, God in man, under the eyes of the unseen, radiant, persuasive, Heavenbound.

We cannot follow after unless we are in condition, and the soul, to be in condition, demands just as much care as the body. Vividly sketched by the Apositie as the penalty of neglect is the formal the latter times," religion of which has lost its faith and sears its conscience by preaching what it does not believe. We lose ouri faith because we do not exercise It. We doubt because we do not proctise belief. We drop out of the race because we forget that keeping it is the secret of keep- Ing faithful.

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