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JUMPING JACK
JONES
His methods
have brought a new notion of what 'jump to it' means
3-POINT PORTRAIT OF A MAN WHO LOST 5,000 FRIENDS IN A DAY
{ TIPPED HIM-by William Barkley
BLAST from the steel of his ex-steelworker colleagues furnaces of Britain have rebuked him for making blew away some of the aperche's helpful to the Tories. hot air of Westminster last night when Mr Jack Jones (Soc.. Bolton) smoke his mind."
The trouble is that Mr Jack Jones does not yet realise that he is national news, that his So I reported last March. pithy words-directed locally-- telling how this record-making are printed throughout the atcel smelter made his entry as country,
a pep talker M.I'. by radling on the coal miners to “give now in return for what they have be lately received,"
Six days later I wrote that a wise Government would send Mr Jack Jones round to make the appeal in person. Six months Inter the Government took him in, munde him joint Parliament. ary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply.
Thus, when he gently chided some boys for knocking off seven minutes before time, he a factory speaking in WILS where production records had been broken. ile was saying as it were: "Look what record- Breakers like you could do in seven minutes."
But the men with whom he usel to work seem to have got Nobody in
Now ELK a result of going the wrong view. around steel works, speaking as his Bolton constituency
will
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1948..
AMUSEMENTS
100 CIGS
FOR
HIGHEST PIN-TABLE SCORE OF THE WEEK
BILLIARDS
"How d'you like that-come in hora spiv-hunting and walk off with the highest score of the wook?”.
PEPPING UP WHITEHALL
By Tom Shaw
MR JOHN ROUGHTON SIMPSON missed his
ustal 6.38 p.m. train from Victoria that night and caught the next train back home to Carshalton (Surrey) with a free copy of a brand-new Blue-book in his brief case.
Other people had been paying 4s. for it in spite of its "Keep off" title Report on the Organisation and Methods (0, and M.) Division.
-
But, after all, 47-year-old Mr Simpson gets £1,700 a year as head of that grim-sounding Treasury Division. He controls the Govern- ment's team of business efficiency experts. He deserves a free copy if only for the suggestion he made fen years ago about the hat-and- umbrella stand,
He was just a clerk then, but there was pep in his system. He spoke up and said:—
"Anyone who has witnessed an embar- Tassed taxpayer crammed into an interviewing section of the counter about the size of a rat- trap, juggling with his hat and umbrella and a bundle of income-tax papers, can op- preciate need for the provision of a hat-and- umbrella stand."
THE BIG SLEEP
HAT are you looking forward to most? I'll
tell you what I am. A jolly good sleep, untaxed and off the ration,
It is a curious thing about sleep that although we spend a forthright old son of England, ever think that he will nag the about a third of our lives at it. nobody has ever really explained
Jack James has had his first set- working back. Representatives of 5,000 that,
(2) I MET HIM-
mail. He's not like
-by John Deane Potter
what causes it.
by
Bernard Wicksteed
same time.
But they didn't, sometimes. A touch wakes you One of them would stay awake more quickly than anything. while the other was snoring his head off.
That is why you mustn't go
to sleep if you have to spend a
He never became a tax inspector, But in Ave years he jumped to Principal Assistant Secretary, then he toured America on a six months' security mission.
REDUCING DELAY
He has been in his present Job for two and a half years. What does he do? He smoothes things out, he peps things up.
Here are the results 'ns recorded
mates.
There were
delays and long queues for passports. The Foreign to Secretary said something had got be done. Instead of concentrating the whole work at the
passport offees in London, Liverpool and Glasgow, it is now spread over 1,800 local Ministry of Labour offices.
A passport now can be issued in 48 hours. The work can be donu bf 700 passport office workers Instead 1,100. Full marks for Mr Simpson. It is not his fault that now almost British passports are obsolete.
Another example. A small buil- two small blocks of der, erecting houses a year, had to full in 144 forms.
He now has 38 papers to complete, and his form-filing time
night out in the snow. You'll by the Select Committee on Est- keep warmer by staying awake. Round about three in the morning your temperature may drop as much as a couple of degrees Fahrenheit. That may be why life seems at its lowest Some parts of you never go ebb about that time. Many to sleep at all. Your tummy people die early in the morning. Nobody ever goes straight We all know that warmth
goes on digesting, your heart to sleep. You drop off by
Generally speaking your tem- mikes you sleepy. So does a degrees. The part of the brain heats non-stop in an
goes on beating (2,500,000,000 perature is highest between of good meal, a hot bath, or
average 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., but with night dealing with will power is one life), and your lungs go
workers it is the other way But nobody, not of the first to go and last to to his fair- boring story.
round. They have a low tem- Olive: "I even Mr
Chapman
breathing. Pincher return.
That explains why it
perature in the afternoon and I want to understands the exact mechan- is so difficult to get up in the
But they all slow down when a high one at 3 a.m. room in the Ambassadors Holri, have lots of children. To give them
morning. Bloomsbury, before nine o'clock a good education 1 must have a lot ism of it.
Your eyes may be you sleep and get a bit of rest How many hours? has been reduced by a5 percent each morning and takes a 77 of money, I will never have that if
The scientists know tint your open, but your will power is in that way. The only part I smuke and drink." bus to Shell Mex house,
arms and legs get bigger when still asleep. Jack Jones for ten years before When he arrives at his Strand he was elected an M.P. earned £13 you are asleep. They know
Reasoning goes next. A per-
works harder at night than it office he will walk to L-shaped a week un piece work as a lend that your temperature drops, son who is nearly asleep can would be going to the brain goes does in the day. Blood that room Number 136 on the first hand in the steel works. Its election floor, overlooking Cleopatra's caused a family financial crisis be- your heart beats more slowly, hear and even answer questions, to the skin instead, which ac- enough for any man, seven for
He will say good caure his wages went down to 11 and your brain gets less blood but the replies are usually un- counts for a lot of things you agrees with him,
Ithan when you are awake. But intelligible, a fact which any may have noticed about sleep. fool of me. And you, too? Never
BURLY
Henry
53-year-old John not married he said Jones leaves his haired, blue-eyed wife,
want to have children.
Needle. morning in a Lancashire accent 1. a week as an M.P.
at
to four secretaries in the outer office before settling desk.
By sons
rallied round and his helped out" he told me, "When in da distant past you have had to pawn your wife's engagement ring He will probably not leave it to buy food for the kids you under stand what a nancial crisis in
until 10 o'clock at night—unless_the_family," he takes a few hours off to visit the House of Commons.
1949 Jack Jones
Jack Jones, family man, allots At Christmas
was in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
they do not know if these things one who is married will corro- are the causes af sleep
or borate. merely the effects. Knocked on the head
MR Pincher, who gave me a lec- ture on sleep, says that when he was a student the scientists
Memory stays awake much
longer and so does imagination, hence dreams, and-that-mouse- in the cupboard which your wife always thinks is a burglar.
The parts of the brain con- up-or trolling your muscles sleep They said lightly. Sometimes they stay
ment-holder, pep talker, and the centre of the United States steel patriot, has the facility
all buttoned for Industry. He told the workers there had it telling people in simple language how short of sweets were the chil-thought they had, Just what the country wants of dren of Britain. them.
ሰን!
that doesn't is the skin. That sleep? A new-born baby needs ideas on where time and effort were
NOW then, how long should you 20 hours a day. At a year it can manage with 15.
Napoleon said six hours was
woman and eight for a fool. Pincher
A
which makes 0
mind, there are bigger fools than we are. My favourite one died recently at Waterton, Wisconsin. He was a
hibernated Innkeeper who winter. He went to bed on Novem ber 1 and didn't get up til the spring....
Every
Mr. Simpson's method? Going 10
Arst and the bullder
getting his
wasted. Reduction In Ministry of Works staff alone-21 able-bodied workers.
man
the
CENTRALISATION Other examples? An O. and 1.
is helping
Admiralty Another [reorganise stations at home.
the Air Ministry devising a scheme for centralising pay accounts for airmen instead of having on accountancy staff at each unit.
They are looking into recruitment for the "Civil Service Commission There are several different types and helping the Foreign Office with a of sleep. Buman beings, and many problem of great age the classifica- animals that depend mainly on their lion of political papers. sight for their living, take all their The Ministry of Health has asked sleep during one long period at for guidance on problems of the night. That is called the mono-new medlent services. The National phasic type.
Registration Office at Southport is For one thing the extra blood
new Central that fatigue clogged up the awake altogether, and then you In the skin makes it
being examined, the Other animals, particularly those Land Board being formed. warmer If you have heard Jack Jones talk blood with excess chemicals and are liable to get out of bed and than usual and
depending on their sense of smell They propose to mechanise part so you sweat and touch, tako a series of short of the accounting methods at the Sincerity surrounds him like you will understand why that night,
in his hotel, there were 10,000 this sent you to sleep.
go for a sleep-walkin
your more.
It is not the blankets, naps. This is called polyphasic. Pubile Trustee Office and have an aura. I talked to him for chocolate bars and 6,000 bags of
pyjamas. The sense of sight, but just your skin heating up.
Fish are polyphasic,
suggested a Post Office Inter-depart- next day, They even "proved" it by in- an hour and came away like a sweets. He was leaving
niental van service to carry papers disappears entirely, even though jecting the blood of a tired dog you sleep with your eyes open.
Then there is the intermediate type Instend of
оп relyin! Then why do you need blan of sleep taken by dogs, cats, and messengers and motor cyclists. man who has taken a draught needed dollars to buy crates.
walking of cold spring water-because So he went back to his room and into a lively one and making it You can't smell anything in kets at xll? 1 asked Mr most domestic animals-a longish
To speed exports the streamliners Jack Jones passionately believes wrote an article. He told the story
sleepy. Bethlehems........the of the two
theory was your sleep, either, which is why Pincher this and he said: "It sleep at night and naps in the day of Whitcholl are going to look into
as well. in Britaln.
all on the head three or a gas leak in the bedroom is so is true that the blood brings
the forms required. They are Hitle village Palestine that he
collecting complaints from export had visited when he was a soldier four years ago by a pair of dangerous.,
Many animals sleep with their concerns and then going back to the warmth to the skin but the skin in the 1014-18 war, and the Ameri-
eyes open. Horses and elephants departments with the business men's" Siamese twins in Russia.
The senses can steel centre.
of hearing and radiates it away so fast that sleep standing up. Napoleon learn-angle of this form-filling difficulty. $
Guinca touch are lost more slowly. A you lose more body heat than ed to sleep on horseback.
Having lookeri nt all this, the men They had a common
blood
noise will wake you up sooner when you are awake."
pigs never sleep at all. But who who have reported on Mr. Simpson's supply, and therefore both thun a light. The mere stop-
wants to be a guinea pig? Not I. work want to see more of it. should have felt sleepy at the ping of a noise will disturb you
Ite sold it to the editor of the local paper for 180 dollars (45). With the money he rushed out fo buy packing cases.
His mild blue eyes took on the look of a crusader when he leaned across the desk and said: "We are the best people in the world, and we deserve the best. But to get it, we must give of our best. I am sure thut if the workers of this country Suid the American Press: Tie are fold the simple, economic truths finest ambassador that Britain ever of our situation there will be nu
need to worry."
best
sent,"
At home in Irlam, Manchester, he has a 600-square-yard allotment where, he admits himself, he is a bit of a wizard at growing onions
and potatoes,
Jack Jones is one of the people to do it. He was one of family of eleven whose father was a steelworker in Rotherham. He himself left. Doncaster-rond Counell School at the age of 14, starteri "Working on the land gives you wheeling bricks al 51⁄21⁄2d, an hour. time to reflect," he said. "You get "My father always wanted me to back to the simple things. rou be a school teacher, but, I wanted to watch the sun go down and you make steel," he said.
Jones is n teetotaler
Rnd
hear the birds. Life is not com- non- plicated any more........
smoker, and this is why. When they
That is Jack Jones's secret.
1 MARRIED HIM—by his wife
him.
Mrs Olive Jones was atiṛring the back. he asked me to marry
chicken feed for her six lens over That was when we were both 23. the electric cooker in her red-brick
semi-detached house in Liverpool- "We arst of all lived in rooms, road, Irlam, near Manchester.... She said:
"p3
OLITICS? I never worry my head about them. I have too much to do with the children and the chickens.
"Jack? Oh, I knew he would get on, there is so much to him, Jle was a lad of 14 when he first start- ed to court me. I was Olive Archer then. We used to go for walks in Clifton Park, Rotherham,
and then we managed to hear of a four-roomed cottage. The rent was 5. 4. a week. Florence, our eldest, who is now 20 and a telephonist in Manchester, was born in the rooms.
"But my four lads were born in the cottage. Jack is now 25, and a charge-band ut the steelworks, Arnold, who was invalidded out of the Army at 19, is nów 23; Erle in 21 and was a Bier, and 22-year-old Peter, our youngest boy, was in the Navy.
"Margaret, my youngest girl, oged 19. takes efter her dad. She was in
"Io went off to Manchester when the senior girls cold food strike at he was 17. Then came the war and Urmston Grammar School the other
he wrote to me, and when he came week..
knocked
But the
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