'The Printers' Pension Corpora tion is a fortunate body, because for some reason or other it appears to have captured the fancy of the wealthy and the - mighty. Always its anniversary banquets have been amongst the most popular of the London dining season, and they are attended by the greatest in the ud. Major J. J. Astor, o.P.. presided on the last occasion and the guests included Prince Henry, Mr. Winston Churchill and Sir James Barrie, and even without mentioning the qualifications of the others, can be emphasized that at any time it would be worth facing the terrors of a twelve-course London banquet in order to listen to the witticisms of Sir James. 'There was no disappointment at this function. 'The presence of such great men serves the test of all purposes for} these organizations, the result invariably being' a generous subscription list and the chairman must have felt delighted to announce that the Danquet had brought in "£32,727. Now, one does, not grade thes printers penny of the amount, but it does seem a little curious that as much is not done for journalists. Take him all round, the printer is, not 30, badly off. If obsequiousness went with pay, many a jour nalist- would touch his hat and say "Sir" to many a printer who made "pie" of his copy. The. printers have a very powerful union to protect them and it is practically, compulsory for all printers to be long to it. The- Union of Jour-naifs, after an existence of some!
14 years, still in @ comparatively small, though earnest and energetbody, and there are so many [grades in journalism that it is iffcalt to conceive of them all band-of Egypt and the Sudan, another vital point on the santo. highway, }|Here, Great, Britain has said plainly that she will regard-any attempt by.
outside Power to interfere be-.
wersclf and the. Egyptian' seditionists a5°\an unfriendly. act.
ind. nobody. questions "the justice fof her saying 'AS for the: Singjapore base being aimed at any. one Power, surely the-experience of the {late way. proved that. a. nation wi those whole life is bound up in the sea, as is that. of the British people, needs bases all over the world, from Rosyth to the Falklands, from South trica to northern Pacific. Of feourse the dey may come, when. jsireragt has made the sea obsolete and our descendants marvel that, Janyone ever trusted himself to ships, jut it has not come yet and until does Britain must strengthen her defences and can do so with a clear fed together. In addition, journalism probably suffers more. than any other profession from the invasion of "casuals" and such a thing would impossible amongst the printers, one may congratulate the printers on their good fortune, but the same time they are a people to be envied and it is to be hoped that Sir James Barrie some day will make s £30,000 speech on behalf of one of the journalists' fund The Sport of Drinking In the speech of the chairman at the annual meeting of one of the biggest sports clubs in the Far East ("in another place") there was Jone statement which appears to call for more than a passing glance.
presumably, to "sugges-the various sections of, sport with which the club is concerned should each have their own place in the debit and credit and profit and loss section of the annual balance sheet, he stated, inter alia, that "it was an absolute impossi Iility to keep the various sections
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