THE VIGORNIAN THE WORCESTER CATHEDRAL KING'S SCHOOL CHRONICLE TA MEN AIAAKTA MANOANS2, TA A'ETPETA ZHTtt, TA A'ETKTA 1IAPA OEiiX HITH2AMHX.
APRIL, 1939.
Vol. XIII. CONTENTS. Editorial School Officers School Notes House Notes Rugger Notes Rowing Notes Fives Notes... Cross Country Run Boxing O.T.C. Notes Shooting Notes Band Notes ... Scout Notes Camera Club Stamp Society Golf Club Play Reading Society School Concert Lectures Debate " Foreign Affairs " Fifty Years Ago The First King's Scholars Valete Salvete Next Term O.V. News Births, Deaths, etc. Obituary Oxford Letter Contributions Correspondence Contemporaries
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EDITORIAL Nowadays when one can never tell exactly what is going to happen from one day to the next, it is interesting to consider with what feelings different people open their Newspapers every morning. The average working-man opens his " Daily Flash " at the centre page, reads through the news of certain horses and dogs, and remarks on the latest happenings in Europe, or on the possibility of a general election. Beyond that he finds no interest in his paper, but turns to his eggs and bacon. The city-worker turns to the financial news, reads it through with many a knowing wink, and then perhaps glances at the headlines of the centre page. The politician scans the parliamentary reports at great length, reads the leading article and proceeds to criticise it in the light of his own political opinions. The journalist, on the staff of another paper, hurries through whatever part of the paper happens to be in his line, be it the reports of crimes, or the Law Courts columns. Maybe he hopes to obtain a fewideas for his own paper. Then we have the rich sporting gentleman who looks at the weather forecast, taps the barometer, and condemns the meteorological experts as liars. There are the " old maids " who turn straight to the crossword puzzle, and after discovering that they have got yesterday's quite right, proceed to finish to-day's before their breakfast is over. There are the children who pass over everything till they come to the cartoons or the " Pip and Squeak" stories, spreading the paper most laboriously over the carpet in doing so. There are housewives who scan the latest fashion reports, look for bargains in the advertisements and cut out the recipes for to-night's supper. Then, most pathetic