THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1937.
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City Clerks Fight For Charter
TOO MANY BEARS IN ENGLAND
THERE are too many bears in England.
The Zoo has over 30 in London and Whipsnade and cannot even give any of them away.
When Mr. Gerald Iles, manager of the 200 at Belle Vue, Manchester, visited Regent's Park the other day he was offered some bears-as a gift.
He declined them.
ft wants,
Belle Vue has all the bears:
The two young Wrangel Island bears recently acquired from Moscow are still in the sanatorium. A home for them in which the public could see them cannot be found in any enclosure which is safe for bears.
FIERCE WHEN ANGRY
Bears can be exceedingly disagreeable with other bears and are ferce fighters when roused,
At first it was hoped to place the intest arrivals with the four little Russian bears at present in the sanatorium, who were shown (but not played with for long!) in Pets' Corner,
This idea has wisely been abandoned as care'
has to be exercised in providing a home for young| bears.
They are strong. mischievous, destructive, and, if Kay Stammers. British tennis player. Is seen examining
DRESSING LIKE FILM STARS
ON 45/- A WEEK
(By Jan MacKay)
Startling disclosures of the wages of City clerks and the conditions under which some of them have to work in “underground dens" were made last month.
The occasion was the opening meeting of a campaign
to establish an office workers' charter.
Mr. George Ridley, M.P., himself,
a rallway clerks' representative, con- trasted the good conditions which the railway unions had won for their members with the shameful condi- tions of many men and women in out- side commercial business.
"There are," he told, "m this country wooden oflees, underground offices, badly ventilated, badly fur- nished and hideous in which hun- dreds of men and women are gasping their lives out to an early grave."
He referred to the brutal and con- temptuous way in which rationalisa- tion was throwing thousands of clerks on to the scrup heap and to the queues of blackcoated workers out- side the employment exchanges.
WOMEN: PAY AND DRESS
Miss Ann Godwin, Women Clerks) Association, said there were thou Bunds of girls in a great elty like London trying to live on 35s, a weelt. "How they do it God only knows,"
much as 45s. a week they are she went on, "but when they get us
20-Year Sentence Girl
On
To Stand
Richmond, Va., Nov. 10. Twenty-three-year-old Edith Maxwell, school-teacher, Jalled twenty years for murdering her father, to-day had her applica- tion for a third trial rejected by the Supreme Court of Appeals. Miss Maxwell stayed out late with boy friend one summer evening, In the Blue Ridge Mountains her Misa Godwin announced that a hill-billy" father tried to beat her ter of Labour (Mr. Brown) in the She struck him on the head with morning to urge him to abolish fee-a high-heeled shoe, and he died some charging private employment agen-hours later. cien.
a
stirred by curiosity, will probably try to break out. Thus, the result of her screen lesia at Hollywood. In spite ofed to dress like Marlene Diamand when she returned to her home
a temporary home is apt to be too temporary to be safe.
The public will therefore have to wait patiently tijlents Miss Stammers has denied that she will leave the trade union deputation met the Minis- for breaking the "Mountain Code,"
the housing problem is solved before the Wrangel bears!
are on view.
tennis court for the motion picture field.
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Though evidence was given that was drunk and They gave him evidence that some Trige Maxwell clerks were charted as much as 10 threatened to kill his wife as well per cent. of their year's salary in as punish his daughter, a jury of hill- return for a Jub.
men found her gulity of first degree sentenced to was Mr. Brown, however, ake declared, murder. She refused to act and stated quite defl-twenty-five years. nitely that in his opinion these ogen- At a second trial, Miss Maxwell vies were quite legitimate form of was found guilty of second degree private enterprise.
murder, sentenced to twenty years. United Press.
PRE-WAR SNOBBERY
Mr. H. H. Elvin, chairman of the Trades Union Congress, and secretary of the National Union of Clerks, snid that before the war the failure of clerical workers to organise was due to snobbery.
doubled clerks' salaries since pre-war days.
"Fear of victimisation kept many clerks out of their unions.
He announced that steps were being taken to bring the National Union of Clerks and the Women Clerks' Asso- contact- int ctation into closer
Apathy to-day was due to lack of knowledge of what organisation could flo for them.
Trade union action had more than' united.
that the two organisations are to be
HOW DO YOU BREATHE?
(Be Careful of Your Answer)
Where do you breathe? According to whether you draw your breath from above or below your waist line you are more or less of a thinker or shrinker.
This claim is made by Mr. M. E. J. Semadeni, a London scientist who has invented a robot recorder, of human reactions through breathing. Says Mr. Semodeni: "The more any one tries to hide, the more he
an involun reveals. Breathing
to trace three graphs, red, blue and green on a long roll of paper.
are
Chest breathing shows emotion; abdominal breathing reason. The the balance diaphragm strikes between the two. Unless
reactions colour tory action and cannot be dis required, the subject of an experi- guised, as tone of voice and facialment is blindfolded so that he may be quite unaware of, and unpre- expression can."
The robol has already been used pared for, what is going to happen.
For the first few minutes nothing to discover the cause, and cure of disagreement between husbands does happen: he breathes normally and wives, engaged coupes, rela- and his "basic type" is established tives, and people working together by the relentless tracing of the
coloured pencils. In business.
Then comes the application of stimuli."
It is a large and complicated plece of machinery with certain slight resemblances to a hairdresser's per- manent wave. Its scientific name is "pneumograph," because it makes a graphic record of the breathing of those it contacts.
GRAPHIS TELL
Paper is rustled close to the breather's ear, hands are suddenly clapped, something is dropped, a cold finger is laid on his neck, it motor horn is sounded violently, an abrupt personal question is put... ond the red, green and blue lines The "victim" lies on his back and on his chart begin to assume strange the rabot touches him with sensl-mountainous shapes.
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threo lightly
Of the hundreds of graphs the different points.
robot has alrendy iracped no two are the same As the subject breathes he auto-exactly alike, altho matically moves tho robot'" | "stimull" are applied in all ensES "fingers," which cause three pencils and in the same order.
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