The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-06

TODAY-David M. Church, London
 correspondent, writes of the dearth
 of women servants in England
 and the apparent inefficieney of
 male servants in their places.
 ToMoRRoW-W. F. Sullivan, cor
 respondent at St. Louis, writes of
 of Missouri's prize "white ele-
 phant"-the municipal free bridge
 which cost s6,o00,ooo and which
 the railroads refuse to use.
 By DAVID M. CHURCH
 LONDON, Dec. 6.-Man is com plete, very complete, failure as a domestic servant.
 Wives who have any doubt of this statement may consult British em- ployment experts who have been try ing to offset unemployment by secur- ing ex-service men positions as "chambermaids," "parlor maids" and "charwomen.'
 Men can't fill the places that have for centuries been filled by women, and this is a domestic tragedy in England, where there are too few servant girls and too many unem- ployed men.
 Generally speaking, our experi- ence with the ex-service man as domestic servant has not been sue cess, said J. R. Griffen, of the Brit ish Legion, an expert on employ ment. Man is all right as waiter or butler, but to fill the role pre- viously filled by woman-well ! those are hardly the functions you would expect a man to perform" l Nevertheless, there are more men | in domestic service now than ever before. Many London homes have man and wife as the servant staff the wife spending most of her time l in the kitchen cooking and the husband doubling in brass" as combined pulled, waiter and parlor | man.
 | Several unemployed ex-service men have even hired out as "nursema1ds, but babies don't seem to take kindly to male mentors.
 No American applications received! Undoubtedly this sign will be hung out before the Brewers Exhibition as soon as the word is passed around l in America that the English brew CTS are holding beer testing con test. Four hundred and ninety-nine beers are up for test, and there are only twenty-two official "testers and tasters." Four hundred and ninety nine glasses of beer among twenty tw gentlemen. That's something to chill the heart of Wayne B. Wheeler and Andrew J. Volstead.
 George Duncan thinks that Amer ican golfers are going to become more and more dangerous competi- tors for international gold honors, and it's all on account of the seri- ous manner in which Americans take their golf.
 Each year will see American com petition a more and more dangerous factor in English championships, 1 Duncan said after returning from an American tour. While we play at the game they work at it." Emir Abdullah of Transjordania has come to London and brought enough settings for full blown the atrical production of Mecca" or De camerno Nights All of the Emir's suits are in their official dress, but Emir is more resplendent than all. The suite which the Emir occupies in one of the most fashionable Lon don hotels is richly hung in golden tapestries and carpeted with price less rugs. The Emir is strict Mos lem and has two wives, but he left them at home in Transjordania. It takes ingenuity to get hear | ing sometimes, but Albert Close, Canadian, proved equal to the task Albert had appeared before the
 Royal Commission on Awards te
 Inventors several times and voiced ! his claims, which were rejected. He
 became so insistent and persistent in his appearance before the board |that he was finally ruled off tht l course, and the doormen were in