SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 8, 10 January 1946, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

A PLUM AMONG JOBS When they appoint the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations’ Organisation (you'll learn in a day or two who gets the job), his salary will be nine thousand a year, and that, merry readers, is free of tax. That means, we presume, free of tax when it is paid out, but subject, we also preemie, to income tax. How fortunaUßfie chappie will be that the United Nations did not choose God s Own Country in which to establish headquarters. A £9OOO salary in this fair land would look a bit sick after our income tax assessors had had a go at it. So, for that matter, would the same salary in England. Of course the job itself will be no sinecure. Keeping the peace of the world will be a tall order, but income tax assessors are without souls! Nobody in Wanganui has made application for the position, but there will be no lack of candidates. There seems little doubt, says one London correspondent, that if he cared to resign h.s new job as U.S. Chief of Staff, General Eisenhower could have it for the asking. It would be impossible to name anvone belter qualified. “Ike’’ Eisenhower is not only a distinguished sold er and strategist but a great diplomatist. and a tremendous organist? and worker. If he has other anT ’< tions, as may well be tne case, Canada’s Washington Ambassador, Mr, Lester B. Pearson, is a much-fancied runner-up. So also is Mr. Anthony Eden himself. But h e may have other views. GREAT BAKERY’ NEEDS OF OUR TIME. First Wanganui baker: What we need is a forty-hour week! Second Wanganui baker: You’re a liar! What we knead is dough! Third Wanganui baker: Too right we do; thousands of quids of it. Let's take a ticket in an art union. Fourth Wanganui baker (of studious mind): It is emerging as a great economic truth that to start a bakery business a baker needs “dough,’’ and he pays good “dough’’ to men to knead dougli, and they knead clough because the public needs bread and because the public needs bread, and at the same time needs a forty-hour week, what the baker, in the long run, will need is more “dough” to pay for as much dough to be kneaded in live days as was kneaded in live and a-half days before, so that the public can get t he bread it needs for week-ends and holidays. The other three bakers (swoonJ* tngly): What you need is a rest ut “Lake Alice.’’ Fourth baker: And don’t forget that even there they'll knead dough ana they 11 need bread. (Our comment: We are afraid lhe Government did not fully anticipate lhe needs of the people when it embarked on its forty-hour week)-