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THE HONGKONG ~TELEGRAPH," FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25,. 1949.
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SUMMERSKILL" 7 **TO MOLECONE
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POLICY'S 100
LAKE WIJ SEZA}
"DICTATOR -- MORRISON
HAR
ROXY BROADWAY
AIR-CONDITIONED
COMMENCING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7:30 & 9.30 P.M.
There's nothing like a woman lo come between men!
IDA LUPINO CORNEL WILDE CELESTE HOLM RICHARD WIDMARK
ROAD HOUSE
Directed by
Produced by
JEAN NEGULESCO. EDWARD CHODOROV 20.
Decions coming "Low."" The Tory Party's got to fake up a schra, See what you can do with this Stalin, muslicha
"CONCENTRATION-CAMP
· CRIPPS"?
STARVATION STRACHEY
SUNDAY MORNING SHOW
Roxy at 11.30 a.m. |Broadway: at 12 noon
20th Century Fox
Presents
A Variety Programme
Of Technicolor
Cartoons
At Reduced Pricos
A New Solected Programmo
"Fox Terrytoon Technicolor Cartoons"
Parents: Bring the children!
QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA
TO-DAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M.
YUNG HWA'S MIGHTY DRAMA OF THE SEAS!
"A FISHERMAN'S
CANT BE
DONE WITH THE AMERICANS RESPECTING
HIM SO
MUCH
?
"GESTAPO ATTLEE?
· ÅR SENT: UP——
DON'T BE SILLY!
AN-NA!
UMINUTS, YES, NYE
BUT HE'S BEEN BEVAN
RIGHT TOO OFTEN
World Copyright
"Most"
CAUTIOUS
MAN IN THE CABINET
MODEST, KIND TO ANIMALS,
HEALTH ÄRT A SUCCESS, SINGS
IN HIS BATH -- THE VERY
MAN LET's co-
By arrangement with #vening Standard
...
· POMIAR-
NOT LEFT ENOUGH
Do you want to be murdered in your beds
BEWARE OF
RED BEVAN
THE ECOMANIAC
CHILD WIVES RACKET
Britain gives UNO
TNO's General Assem-
U
BRITISH
warning
GRETAR SRYCHELLES
bly, over-riding strong oilID CAMEROONS ·YÍLANDS British opposition, voted recently at Lake Suc cess to pry into the affaira of three of Britain's Afri- can Colonica.
The colonies are Tanganyika, British Cameroons, and British Togoland population about 6,000,000 people. Britain governa them under UNO trus- toeships.
The Assembly passod series of resolutions giving its Trusteeship Council added powers ot supervision over: trust territories. The resolu- tions seek to make Britain:-
1 Advance tho trustes colonies towards solt govern-
ment or independence;
A, SIND DESI
BECKVAKALARD
RMODESTA
3. Givo natives * greater
2 Mako annual reports to share in the proft and man- UNO on measures taken to give agement of enterprises; them most self-government;
ISN'T THIS A NICE
CUP OF TEA!
LONDON HREE qualities in the British mude them leaders of the world in the first industrial century.
1
As a people They had # genius for discovery and invention. It is not too much 10 claim thot the world in
by
JOHN GORDON
A change that made them uso their braina orain or make way for someone who did, would be one of the most invigorating things that could happen In
which we live today was made Kiritain today
largely by the British
HONOUR"
2
Starring:
LI LI-HWA
They had a craft skill that made British workmanship
the standard by which the world judged the highest quali
ty
3
They not only worked with the pleasure of men in- TAO CHIN tensely proud of what they were producing, but they also worked hard.
WITH DETAILED ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS!
ORIENTAL
AIR CONDITIONED
Take Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus SHOWING TO-DAY
Owing to the Longth of This Film, please note the SHOWING TIMES.—2.30—5.00-7.20 & 9.35 P.M. M-G-M'S BIGGEST SUPER PRODUCTION IN 1949!
FIRST TIME!
M-G-M
presenta
THE COMPLETE: ROMANCE!'
ALEXANDRE
DUMAS
STARRING
MEANIS
LANA
TURNER
and Ľady de Winter
SEXE
KELLY
D'Artagne
JØRE
THE FULL NOVELI
The Three Musketeers
ALLYSON
VAR:
HEFLIN
ANGELA
LANSBURY
VINCENT KENAN
LA COLOR BYS,
Hove we lost those qualities? It would be foils to shut our eyes to the fact that over a the world many large part of people think we have,
I do not accept that view. I do not think we have lost our alive greatness. I think wo are merely falling to use it.
Why are we failing to use it? Partly, I think, because dis- covery, invention, and enter- prise do not flourish under the new system of life we have im- posed upon ourselves,
Vigour Thrives
In Freedom
Controls
and regimentation do not make for progress and development. Rather their ten- dency is to stifle
Industrial enterprise lives and expands by finding and adopting how ideas. An plert and vigorous business must always be searching for them. Always
receptive to them.
If it isn't, then it goes down before a business with a wider TECHNICOLOR vision, which is good and pro-
DON'T TOUCH
HERI LANA'S BEAUTIFUL BUT
WICKED!
JOHN
MORGAN PRICE-WYNN SUTTON-YOUNG
TO-DAY
ONLY
•
Cathay
** BACK AGAIN
per.
Centralised control, on the other hand, whether operated by a bureaucracy or a trading monopoly, is prone to dislike
new ideas.
Is 'British-Made' Still Best?
As for that pride in crafts- manship that once made "British-made" the superlative trade mark of the world, you honestly say that we have 117
can
Alas, 100 many of our cus- tomers say that the quality of many types of British goods is far below what it was,
Now, that falling
Away from our standards is soma. thing over which we should have most serious thoughts.
comes
For if the day ever when "British-made” conses to mean the best in the world, then as a manufacturing nation do- pendent upon the ready sale of our goods for the standard
are in Queer our living. we Street.
of
What has happened to that pride in their work which our Ane craftsmen had?
It has been lost somewhere because of an idea that has prend that the quality of work done does not matter very much.
have
A job to people who that idea is something you do because you must have сег tain amount of money to ve, But It's just a job. You needn't It. You have your heart in needn't worry about how you
do it.
In fact the idea today seems 100 often to be that you
are not paid for the work you do, but for the hours you spend standing beside it.
More Harm Than Hitler
That state of mind is doing In fact, it more than dislikes them. It hates them like poi- us more harm than Hitler ever son. For
ideas are dis- did. And unless we can change turbing.
it, it may well bring us down.
new
They interfere with the re- gular rhythm of life. They up- set_fixed routine.
Control, in common with all forms of monopoly, eliminates competition.
It permits the established business to lop along com- fortably without bothering about competitors.
If it has a quota of supplies. and an allotted quo'a of trade. nothing can bring it down.
It is unfortunate that many heads of industries have come to like that system,
When I was in Scotland the other day a knowledgeable, ex- perienced man said to me; “Tea drinking is now doing this coun
than whisky try more harm drinking ever did."
That may seem a ridiculously trivial point to make in relation to the vast problems of the day but think of this.
It was estimated at the Royal Institute of Belilah Architects' conference at Nottingham that workmen's tes breaks nowadays pat £20 on the cost of building a house.
NANCY
See-Sore
AT 2.30, 5:30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
YOU LOOK- VERY FUNNY
TODAY
You
WONDER WHAT'S WRONG
[A PICTURE WITH: SENSATIONAL ANGLES].
I BECAME A CRIMINAL with Sally GRAY * Travor HOWARD Griffith JONES WARNER BROS. SENSATION!
Opening To-morrow! ACTION! THRILLSI ROMANCE!
George Raft
"
June Havoc in' INTRIGUE “
seeking a cut in the working work to 40 hours because the employers have introduced im- proved productive methads which save labour,
And, of course, there is the Musicians' Union, which tells
02
the
Reflect on what that means sprend одороди the whole bukti and then over the whole of industry generally,
Here one maa's experienen. "A few weeks ago 1 hnd a hous patuted. It cost £40 Seven veera ago the same job cont
£16.
BBC hist how many men It shall have in ita orchestrus.
Even the nationalisers are this experienclag
drog effetency.
Case Of The Coal Cutting Machines
(13)
the
"Part of the blth cost today is Accounted for by the fact that I not only have to pay for lunch- tine, which is reasonable, but I Coal-cutting machines also pay for almost an hour's not run full out. When
nack-hunting time between tonnage achieved Ly old 10 13 and 11 am, and about the methods has been won the men same for an afternoon break." and the machines ease off. And we do not get the coal we could get.
How can a country expect to ret its corta richi and survive while such a degree of slackness is regarded he so many as quite the right thing?
The Wrong Kind Of Ideas
There is no deep mystery about the reason why costs have risen. making all the things we produce and sell so much dearer, Mostly it is due to an attitude of mind on the part of too many workers, and mana-ers as well, which tolerates and even courages slackness in effort and restrictive practices which pre a form of slackness in method.
ch-
On the workers' Alile, apart from the snack- hunters, there are the new Lucull'e-the men who re- of to make full rean labour-saving machinery.
fute
We heard about them recently in the Austin Motor Works. And also at Dagenham Docks, where experiment in importing sugar in bulk to be unloaded by
an
mechanical grabs at a saving of 30s. a ton was wrecked because the dockers insisted on being paid the old rate for hagged
sugar.
policy of allocating materials on the basis war nerformances.
raw
of pre-
That kills the chance of now growth, gives a mono- poly to the old, easy-going firms, and makes life much Loo enky for them.
The keen wind of competition all these is needed to sweep robwebs away.
High Wages At A Low Cost
You cannot cure work-dodt- Ing by legislation. The only way to cure it is by a purge of the mind.
In come way we have to make every citizen understand that if he or she-fall to work honestly, willingly, and well, the day may come when the whole economic structure of Britain will collapse.
And that day may come much sooner than some of our pur blind citizens anticipate.
What we need in Britain are high wages and low labour costs, secured by the wages being well
It is heartening to see that we have been doing
A little better in the coal mines in re And cent weeks.
Nigh It is to ba the
earned. hoped that
Improvement will not only be sustained but Increased.
and
If a man can put £20 a week in his pocket by doing as much as three other men at £B a
be
4 Abolish corporal punish- ment such as whipping:
5 Tench natives to know UNO's ideals and activities;
@ Spend more
native education;
on
7. Fly the blue-and-white flag of UNO with the Union Jack in the trustee colonies.
UNO also that trustco
voted 44 to nine countries such as Britain, should give advanIGO clotails of plans for adminin- trativo unions of trust, territo- rica.
Mr J. Fletcher Cooke, the British delegate, said: "Britain
regretfully declino wil submit advance information of its plans.
to
He spoke against one resolu- tion for "absolute prohibition of such uncivilised practices 当您 child marriage In these ter ritories." It would, he believed, lead to a racket in child brides.
The UN Flag
He added: "Britain is as an- xious as any other nation to peo these practices end as speedily as possible. We do not feel it can be done by legislation In C British Togoland and the Cameroons these practices are
rapidly disappearing.
My Government feels that en-the traces which still exist arc unlikely to be wiped out by legislation. We prefer to rely For by doing so he will not on the spread of education and only have done well for him- the emancipation of women." -.. self, but, more important, he The Assembly paid no hood. will have served the nation voted for the immediate
prohibition of child marriage.
Alongside tho restrictive practices adopted by the men week. then he should encouraged by the unions couraged to do so. are the restrictive practices of employers, banded together in trade associations. Those need reforming too, very swiftly and drastically.
The Government itself
by courages restrictionism
en- its
well.
-(London Express Service)
It
-(London Express Service),
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
The American Scene
NEW YORK. was a queue of 19 THERE
people at the drug store one morning recently.
"Sorry," enid the drug gist, "I sold out in half an hour and I don't know when we will get more."
bountiful harvest of
By the under-the-counter such
of one apples that otherwise they will technique, I got hold packet of tablets. "Take one at rot on the ground, - the first sign of a cold," sald the directions. I did so three hours ago. Excuse me-Tishoo.
EMBARRASSED by a wien
AVERAGE
PRICE OUT ul British goods in the US since the £ was devalued by 30 percent is dve percent
Then there was the episode at
crack credited to her, Sarah Middlesbrough, where Dorman
Churchill got her new husband,
who can Long's expenditure of hundreds Tint is the story at drag Anthony Bauchamp, to deny it. THE HOUSEWIFE,
buy her minced strok of thousands of pounds on new stores all over America tod y The wisecrack: She was upset frozen ard packaged all ready iron ore
What we are all after in the that President Truman come to for the grill, has been offered unloading machinery was largely wasted because the new 28. Pd.-a-dozen "cold cure" see her net, because if Margaret another refinement. unions insisted on the same tablet. Autumn's first cold Truman over went to London number of men being employed. weather has produced autumn's first epidemic of sniffles, and there is a stampede to find out
This dispute caused a six wreks strike which was veifled, after arbitration, on the basis that four men are -to-work.s one-man unloader..
Saran would have to persuade frozen her father to listen to Margaret's
My
proudly introduced minced steak with
aging. Who really said it? A frozen blob of butter on top.
if science has really found a theatrical Press agent cure for man's most annoying Scourge.
HOMEWARD BOUND, Sir
SHOW BUSINESS. Judy
Garland is in trouble again
much weight this
Ca
The drug, which was deve. Hack Drummond, the too much
...too much temperament last Then there have been the celo-loped to fight hay fever and search chemist, told me he has time. Her studio bosses gave brated cases of the plumbers similar things, has been on the been working out plans with her another chence -after 'che who are not allowed to cycle to market in commercial form as a American chemists to get came back "cured" of her nerves, their work; of Jack Cannell, the end cure for I:es than a week. cortisone for Britain. It is the They
her to assigned dockyard worker who was fined by the A.E.U. because he worked
But already the three manu- new wonder drug for treating Blm called "Summer Stock"
All went well until the camera” 20. facturers who introduced, the arthritis, "I hope we will have "excessive overtime" in an effort drug are on their way to a the same co-operation as with men reported Judy was too to get a ship ready in time for
plump. Tako off Bib, was thesis *** † fortune. har engine trials; of the three
penicillin," Sir Jack said.
order. There was still too much": Aberdeen plasterers fined by "There is a wild scramble for
of Judy. The bosses: warned. their union because they did the tablets from one end of the DIOT to New Yorkers from that if she didn't reduco, she...!! Job in three days which was country to the other," a manu- their Governor, Thomas would be fred. again, y Judy Diann scheduled to take six; of the to- facturer told me, "No, don't "Dowry: "Eat as much apple plea-just one · more chancetas. bacco workers who have been
sauce as you can." There was was granted.
HE BUSTED HIS.
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