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TOWN PLANNING
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY' ib, 1940.
HOW HARD DO
DO YOU WORK? Good Morning
A Story Of The Parcel
Not long ago an English lady went to the post office in this little South China town to send a food parcel to England.
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By GRAHAM STANFORD
Another "Work or Want" Budget by Sir. Stafford Cripps makes this a vital question today. Economists of all countries ore making a close study of this thing called productivity; for the first time it is being seriously tackled on a global basis.
What, so far, are the facts re- vealed? Who makes the most, woś course it
Madame and with what effort? They may Lothelra who denit with the that in Denmark a bricklayer forfnalities. I have already told lays 1,280 bricks In a working you something of Madame and day; in Belgtum 030; and in. Dri-
similarity to her
one of
the tain 000 to 900, wooden
ten walls of Old England. Wo On this occasion Madame Was
a single-ship the victor in tion unparallelled since the Shan now beat the Chesapeake In 12
minutes.
201 wish to send this food- to England," said the lady. "Doh Yes?
Let me see... 14
pounds.
pro-
Thank you, but I would like the parcel to go just as it is" she sold with dignity.
la
was
Industries Packing
Output Output In JA Dritain America
415-423
materinis (gluss containers,, tia cans)******
...10 Durable masa-pro- duced consump- tion goods
sh-
100 100
310-312 280
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.100
224-220
100
100
101-195 173-174
100 100-104 100 155-100
ma-
300 – 117–125 Summing up, America has the mass-produced Kreatest lead in consumption goods where auto- maile machines play a great part in ruling output.
Higher output per man is most i marked in manufacturing, but
more than ours.
to
Paris In The Spring
Myrtle's father says
the nowest foundation garment makes They're putting out the extra Myrtle's mother look something green tables for the pernod-❘ waffle. nippers in front of the Champs- Elysees cafes.
Men with balloons are doing Chan I'know told me about an sell-out business round the lakes African mime where sections of in the Bois de Boulogne. In the the audience rose at intervals Left Bank bistros plates of fried muttering strange incantations.
blossom like tufts of prim- | CXKS
Late arrivals are a nuisanco everywhere. rosca.
ilveid
Spring in Paris. And for on- other spring this, for Coulter In
is the only place in the A schoolboy defines an island world.
as a piece of meat surrounded by D'you demand reasons for my | gravý, In Taiwan, of course. lotus eating expatriate acceptance there's good deal of gravy in the of Paris instead of, say, Sur-meat. biton, or, Tooting Bec?
At this precise moment I can think of 21 pas
Dnswers why France is the one place only in which I want to live.
Because thero muat remain ponicastrove then bracket wations the postman unbuttons his un.
his cap form, refuses to wear As a demonstration of his dio- as a demonet
nity as a human being. And because in Frante. al-
though the typist is paid for only
to
There are three kinds of lles: lies, wicked lies and statistics.
stood on the gallows The felon
step A shameful death to die.... Well, he said with wit, It will be more it
Than I found
tie.
the old school
Identity papers and bad railway precipitated a war, in fact leading
to armed confilet are consoled by vast
What with fighting? stations quantities of Bourgogne, Brie and cheap paperback books.
The American working man
(motor-cars, ac- claims that his, output is at least
twice as great us that of the Eng- dilo sets) ishman, Australia says that her Machinery
by Seed crushing. Industrial output has risett 12.5 per cent alnce before the rayon sap paper,
matches war.
Reports from a struggling new Food thats 11⁄2 pounds | Europe tell of increasing produc- Iron and steel
tion by workers in the basic in-
Clothing underweight," said Madame, as
dustries.
Textiles she weighed it.
now organising Building India, too. "But I don't understand" of late The funeral ceremony
Mr. Char Kyun Chan, Consul tested the indyfeen failing to increase produce
tlon on the land and in the fac possibility be underweight?" for Korea, will take place at
Madame gushed Jn her most torles, the Hongkong Funeral Home,
"Well you can Most detailed study of produc- 216
Road, Hong helpful manner: Wanchial
was weighing livity carried out by the Kong, at 3 p.m. on May 13th send food in parcels
International Labour Omce. It up to 10 pounds" she said "So 1
of comparisons output and think it would be better if you made com
32 took the parcel home and added employment in manufacturing another 11⁄2 pounds of groceries Industries in Britain and America. the top scorer is the American two weeks' holiday a year sho to it."
Analysis showed that the aver-miner, whose estimated output considers herself an ignoble dave The dawning realisation that here
battle with Was another At a time when Hong Kong
Madarte made the Indy look is shadowed by the approach-suddenly tired. ing civil war and a certain amount of irresponsible talk is heightening the tension, it is perhaps typically British
man can still be poo that an expert has arrived
What about In France and indignant at pov- from London to inaugurate a
erly being thrust on him as a real publicity for town planning survey.
intrinsic Virtue, and rich with- Chair. It would be nice to send it reflects, in calm fashion, not
forward as a tentative sugges- ed as a congenital villain. out his being universally regard-off with a label saying (I put this only the Home government's
"And I think, you should take
Because the French have action)"The Seven intention to retain the Colony
it home. So much nleer.
here." but to improve it out of re-
murmured Madam "And be of machinery used) is roughly All the Dominions are conduct-quired a reputation for cabaret noughtiness by recruiting English sides," she nddeci Armly, "the cognition in the years to come.
in Beltaining their own production drives, girls for the Follies expressly for This is necessarily a long cost of postage is the same be- Which could quite easily account Butas in America-it is mainly the purpose of laughing at the Little Jean watched her mother
ween 14 and 14 "In England
pounds." term project, and in this con.
for double the amount of output. the mass-produced commodities box office rush of English tourists spread cold cream on her face, the lad
But, again, that does not nezes that soar.
away from home.
and asked why she did so. nection there has been a most began, but stopped as she re
me beautiful." sarily follow. There are no hard
Beenuse the French
"INs to make care fo Basic Problem unfortunate delay in publish-membered in time
and fast rules for calculation.
money is not so much avarice as replied her mother. Copeland, way of hastening the ultimate out of 27 the Professor Douglas in 13 industries ing the report made by Sir ground had already been covered
Jean watched her mother
and then, in the National American used either the same Vice-Chancellor of
alm of any reasonable human. move the cream Patrick Abercrombie in 1947. rather fruitlessly on
occasion.
that of machinery or even University at Canberra, saya In an exclusive interview with
Er
have to rush well, T
the commodities which personal independence; and be-tones of great sadness, whisper- In 14 trades only did the few of less.
prefer politicians who ed: "It didn't work, did !?" with the "China Mail" yester-on now" she said desperately. American
use more machinery had increased in output by more cause I day, the planning expert, Mr. "I come back this afternoon than the Englishman-and then than 50 per cent. since the out-permit a black market and ad- owe their continued John W. Dark, urged that any when I have more time."
It didn't automatically follow break of war could be regarded mit they
existence to American dollars to "Of course." said Madame that output was higher.
as basic. And it's the basic In- others who claim exclusive vir- further delay in implement-
dustries coal, steel, agriculture ing the recommendations sweetly.
The lady returned some hours
that will lay the Less Machinery would be holding up develop-later, ment in the Colony,
This
There can be no doubt about this. Businessmen are not going to invest capital in schemes which may clash with plans yet unknown, and at present there is consider- able money lying idle because of uncertainty. Public utilities such as the electric light and
companies, too, power
are unwilling to institute new supply schemes until they know what lines development will take, what the demand will be, etc.
"But
But it will be so much nicer for your friends to receive 10 pounds of food than to receive 14 pounds," said Madame,
"If you dont mind, 1 would like it to go as it is," repeated the lady with asperity,
that
this
a previous
COA-
now
if she doesn't save enough age worker in America produced is four times
drop everything and depart for about 2.2 times as much as the But here again it
"It has certainly prevented a la not n a fair
entire month of August, the
number of incidents which, in averaga Englishman, and if
comparison, because their
scams
Because in France the priva-time gone by, night easily have lowances were made for the are more easily
worked, their
tlons of Indiscipline, endless shorter working week the output mines more highly mechanised, per
man-hour
about 2.8
The same applies Canada, times as high.
Australia, and New Zealand, Does that mean that the Ameri- where similar high outputs are can actually works twice as hard wher
obtalhed. Mechanisation is going as the Englishman in the physical ahead now, but America has been sense? Not necessarily, for the leading us for years. amount of machinery used must be taken in account.
It is generally estimated that In America the horse-power poi rku (that means the amount worker
double that used
amount
In Britain for instance, there Is one haulage worker for every five tons; in Holland one worker for every 20-25 one for every 50 tons.
lons;
in America
0
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the world's new nations ore and sole merit for their ow
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How to deal with a tradesman who is uncivil. Don't.
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Artist: "It's the best thing I've ever done."
"Don't let that discourage you. Miracles have happened before."
"planning" genius. life.
More Appealing What's the latest in Britain?
a creaking Elyalum According to the first report of
Committee
me Infinitely more ap Industrial Pro-
pealing than the most exquia- ductivity, just published, many
Arms
report
Itely functioning nationalised
Smoking gives them 'nerves. manufacturing
system of eaclai socurity, output Increase of 20 per cent.
But the committee sounds the Because only in France do they Then they smoke to relieve their
rapture at the nerves. warning note that coal producsoar inte such
They only let up when they tion last year was about 30 per sight of men cycling like mad in
a etrele for six days and nights light up. cent. (18.6 million tons) less than
Impossible And because I and pre-war
annual national to resist the fever of looking up ronds for the cycling Tour de France.
Because innumerable French no further men have
"I have taken your good ad-
much less machinery Using sald she vlec Madame,"
than the Americans, Britain's descendingly. "The parcel
cement workers produced more. weighs 16 pounds."
the Yet in the production of tin cans She laid the parcel on counter. Madame eyed it im or glass containers American out- passively. "What did you add put is much higher, although the to the parcel?" she enquired dis-horse-power used per unit of out-
put is much lower. armingly.
American workers are slickest
back to the rublier must get tor-cars, biscuits, soaps, tyres,
alow level and paper. They
Wherever you look in the world down considerably on fish-curing, cement-making, seed crushing today it's roughly the same the
future lies in the tough, toil-wor and beet sugar-making.
Here is a points score card of hands of the Boys in the Basic
when they're making radios, mo- it was in 1938: urges that Britain without a break.
"Oh, I just made a small hold, in the cardboard and poured rice in until the weight was made up" said the lady, pleased with her ingenuity,
plcked up Madame
the parcel and shook 11.
"I am afraid that this cannot go without being completely re- packed,"
The hope how America leads: she said. died from the lady's face.
"Why ever not?" she asked. "It rattles." answered Madame. "It is forbidden to send parcels that "rattle."-PATRICK STIR- LING.
One basic element of mo- dern town planning is the vir- neighbourhood unit, a tually self-contained group of up to 12,000 people, with re- sidential area, shops and in- dustry, all conveniently ad- jacent but separate. Some The plans have largely had one building a block of flats to remain on paper, due to today might find it in conflict more urgent preoccupation of with A projected factory manpower and materials, but arca, or vice versa.
the first steps have been taken: new housing schemes, shopping factory areas, streets, roadways, parks must! all conform to what the even- tual structure of the city will
Very properly, Mr. Dark is full of enthusiasm about the that scheme, and believes with its "beautiful scenery, an interesting and industri- ous people, nature at its best, some good buildings, and an atmosphere of tremendous vitality," Hong Kong could be made "into the most beauti ful city in the world." After publication of the Aber- crombie reports, he says, es- sential legal powers should be adopted by government on the lines of Britain's, Town and Country Planning Act of
be.
trees.
Industries.
Favourite Pastime
In Canadian Town
Relaxation of Canada's austerity programme has
back.
a hat
caused the resumption of a favourite pastime in this border city across the Detroit River from the United States city of Detroit. It is smug- gling.
4,
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Optimist; "Oh, the times aren't as bad as they seem."
Pessimist; "They couldn't be"
the
ambition clerk, if he wants, can nourish than enough leisure to lie in the himself on steaks a la Dearnalse grass instead of directing chro-instead of on the bleak satisfac- mium plated factories hung with tlon that the President of pep signs: "The Impossible as Senate is our Speciality."
only Because politicians are bearable it like the rest of man-
Because in France the grocery
also eating steamed snock and beans.
Because them to ruin.
VACATION!
Because of the afternoon light on the Seine quayside, the saw- kind, they are constantly making ing of cigales in the pines of Pro- mistakes and are therefore in vence and the fickle horizon or endless trouble, with their cabi~ the Vender. nets continually collapsing
Because in France there's no Because the notion of personal feminine equality movement yet well-being In France is not yet the women have no less the de- synonymous with blameworthy lusion that it's they, who really civic disinterest, and because run the country. Frenchman who its fishing all Because the French get the best day by a stream is regarded as of both worlds by pretending not man
fulfilling his highest func- to admire Napoleon's polities and
ming the English exclus blaming
exclusively tion. need for saving United In the good old pre-war days, gent
Because the French insist that for not too States dollars, a stiff ban was put love, like other important mat-
of Miss Suzy Delair, when regulations were
most luscious stage creature rigidly enforced, people of Wind- on importa. It was impossible to ters, may be talked about at any the sor used to get across an amazing smuggle even a packet of United moment as well as made, and that ever was, and what is na- amount and variety of commodi- States' cigarettes.
because what's still left of the tionally known as her tra la la, The most congested alum tles without payment of duty. Windsorites didn't like that
Code Napoleon gives me legal Because of 1,784 other reasons dis- will gradually areas
bit. Nor could they get money right if my wife deserts me to that thread through the atmo- appear, to be replaced by airy old pair of shoes, or an old shirt. places of amurement in Detroit. Jugal doorstep between two gen-
Men would go across with an cally to go to theatres or other have her led back to the con- sphere like benign bacilli.
And because perhape also it's fiats with gardens and play- occasionally even an old suit. In When the war ended these darmes.
er-by George! You're right! grounds, near to shops, Datrolt they would purchase restrictions were eased. But, due
It's spring. schools and cinemas. Workers new pair of shoes, o neve shirt to Britain's inability to pay for United will not have to travel for or a new suit, discarding the old Canadian's imports in
the new Slates' dollars, we again ran short miles to factory or office, these apparel and wearing
of U.S. funds. In the autumn of, being conveniently close, per-1
Women wero perhaps even 1947 a.rigid austerity programme haps screened from, the re- more diligent and more expert. was instituted. sidential quarter by banks of out and come back with one. dollars a year for pleasure travel would go across without Canadians could get only 150 1947, these to include control
They would go across wearing in the United States, and the of development until the plan It does not need much im only a slip under their coat, pur- bringing back of commodities was is finally approved. Campre agination to see this applied chase a dress, put it on. and wear rigidly prohibited. Again it be- hensive surveys will then be to Hong Kong's festering, in- it back home.
come impossible to smuggle even Smaller articles would be stow- a packet of U.S. cigarettes (which made, and statistics, maps and credibly overcrowded teno- diagrams compiled, for dis- ments and shacks, breeding ed in pockets or handbags, or un-are little more than half the price
der the the seats of automobiles. of Canadian varieties). cussion by all interested ground for tuberculosis and
Occasionally someone would be
the border at Anyone able to be search- parties, including the public plague. And Mr. Dark even caught, but the penalities weren't any Ume was at large..
a word of comfort for too severe and tow paid too much ed. And, there was a "zero hour
every day, and not at the same Preparation of the report landlords, claiming it would attention to the law.
Also, Canadians were allowed time each day, when everyone will itself take three years, pay financially to redevelop to bring back up to 109 dollars was searched, and thoroughly. and in 1952 the Governor the blight areas. on modern worth of commodities every three Women Inspectors would strip any should be ready to hear sug- lines, as well as avoiding pro- months if they had been in the woman suspect down to the skin gestions or complaints from perty depreciation which is United States for more than 48 to make certain nothing was be competent persons. Even- bound up with slum cog hours. This was quite legal, but ing hidden. Windsorites objected the way for a lot of to this interference with their tricked tually, the development plan ditions.
smuggling and to the indignity of will be accepted, with the Certainly it will all take
Women would go across make such searches. safeguard that it will be time, and the difficulties are their purchases and leave them! Now, however, the restrictions brought up every five years in enormous. But if only all at the home of a Detroit. friend are cased again. It it again pos- case amendments are neces sections of the community or checked at in store and then sible to go over to Detroit and.
will come. forward with sug- later they would go across again, oars worth of goods
come home. A couple of days stay 48 hours (actually or the
oretically) and. bring back 100 Even the first signs of the gestions and constructive plek up the articles and come
The only catch is that no Cana- now Hong Kong will, there- criticisms as soon as these are back.
All they had tó do was dian, can get more than 150 doi- fore, take years to materialise. requested, it should be pos to tell the
little white lie, that lors in United In Britain itself, as early as sible to achieve a plan largely they had been in the United year. If one uses this amount up
States funds BUTTERFIELD the second year of war some satisfactory to most parties. States for 43 hours. They on one or two trips, that knost cities started planning for Material results are already had to be prepared however,
ver, puts an end to this sort of smug- 1 Connaught Rd. major remodelling when being seen in Britain, despite in case customs officers got too gling for the rest of the year, Peace came, and the most austerity and war havoc, and name and address of a Detroit this United States money out of
|Hosey,, Then they would give the Permits are necessary to get | badly blitzed centres have as Mr. Dark sald, with Hong friend (in on the trick) where a Canadian bank, vo Uere is a had since. 1046-7 magnificent | Kong's wealth and abounding they were supposed to have vinti- record of bow much any person brochures portraying the re energy, therò, is no reasoned for the 48 hours.
has taken across. Penalties, aro bullt Plymouth, Coventry ete. why it cannot be done here. During the war, with a strin-silff for infractions of the law.
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