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Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 15, 1931.

HERE, THERE

and

“EVERYWHERE

The Luminous Woman

The luminous woman of Pirani, whose boas Ades has just been certified by the Italian National Council of Scientific Research, is apparently a unique case, and the cause of her malady is stil unknown.

TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1934.

IN DEFENCE® OF THE

40-HOUR WEEK

INEVITABLE SYSTEM

RECOGNISED ·

IRREFUTABLE FIGURES

(By Norman Hamilton.)

New York. frose from 2.8 per cent. on a 46- PIENERAL Johnson hopes that hour week to 3.86 per cent, on a

the shortening of the working 64-hour week.

Captain Guy Dolman, the expert on animals at South Kensington, states that luminous insects like the glow-worm and certain millipedes

There were similar results for produce their light by the oxidation week to 40 or 36 hours will provide

employment for 1,000,000 more men continuous processes. which in- of urates into guamates.

It is conceivable that if the in America this spring and sum-volved a reorganisation of shifts.

woman is suffering from kidney

mer.

Post-war investigations of iron

tories showed that by putting oa

disease a similar process might In England the idea of even 40 and steel, tinplate and glass fac take place in her blood." Cancers hours scems to have been over-three shifte Instead of two, and and tubercular organs are also whelmed by the scorn of the op thus reducing the shift times from faintly luminous on occasion, but position and the rich promises of

so that they can be seen the Budget, and to be slipping back 12 to 10 hours, hourly output and ļas a rule, daily output were fr throgh the skin of a living person. to the pigeon-holes and the sym

creased. pathetic atmosphere of the Bank

There is, of course, a period of Holiday conferences. But it car adaptation before the changes be ries at least, one scalp with it. A

never

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Pooh Pooh

report these results:

standard of living and gradually produces greater energy and ef- perficiency. But when hours are in- jcreased, output drops precipitale-

The modern child spends an in-firm of paint manufacturers who come noticeable. The reduction creasingly large proportion of his changed over from a 47-hour week of working hours improves the time filling up questionnaires.

East: One recently circulated in Ham throws an interesting light on juvenile tastes in literature. Eleven thousand children, between the agen of 8 and 15, produced this list of their favourite books:

Wages have gone up 25 cent.;

Labour costs have been cut, at-ly though there were по dis. missals; and

Trade has been increased.'

Almost everyone

Allied to the question of the hours per day and week is the ar- Tales of Robin Hood, "Robin-

substantiallyngement of rest pauses, and for those similar results have been ob- son Crusoe," "Treasure Island,"

tained. On climbing expeditions "Alice in Wonderland," Grimm'a Fairy Tales, "Little Women,"

recognises guides insist on frequent pauses "Coral Island," "Oliver Twist," that the system in inevitable: a for rest and refreshment which "Peter Paa" and the "William" few will always refuse to believe have a wonderful effect in post- that it should necessarily be in- poning fatigue. And those firms Booke.

in their time. But the which still eling to the lunch hour of an increasingly as the only break between two cut holidays and spells of work ignore this prin-

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the arbitrary powers are to bet !handed back.

The Chinese situation has fea- Of these only the last two are by evitable COX-At Shanghai on the 15th

And the William" tendency May, 1934, to Lucy, wife of w.tures both of resemblance and living authors. M. Cox, Chartered Bank, Can- difference in a comparison with broke, by Richmal Crompton, were acdulous world

these and other similar cases. no more written for children than increase working hours reached ciple. ton, a son, Stephen.

its climax many years ago. Since] A graph of output will show a The Government has not repu-"Robinson Crusoe" was. diater its obligations, but many

then, backed by trade unions. and point at which output has reached occasionally benevolent Govern-jits maximum, perhaps as soon as payments of interest and instal-

A. A. M: Is Not 0. K.

ments, the rank and file of the 11⁄2 hours after the beginning of ments on contracts are overdue.

The list, with its healthily con-people have become less willing to the day. The graph may then be- The only way to enable the im- poverished Provinces to meet servative tendencies, will come as a strain execessively for the sake of gin to show a slight decrease in the high level of taxation re-shock to admirers of the modern a little extra gain. The nine-to-five working activity. But a rest. Technical Advice And quired for solvency is to in-whimsy-mongers. whose loudly ac- mind has taken firm root; and the pause at that point would arrest

Finance.

jcrease the earning power of the claimed insight into the child mind industries which Jamented ap-fatigue and maintain output.

peasant and the artisan; and the would seem to be a figment of the prosching doom with each reduc- In typical repetitive processes, Jonly way to do that is to carry adult imagination.

tion of hours are still surviving. for instance, increased outputs of The decision of the Canton the recommendations of Dr.

Оп the list, you will observe, Common sense said that shorter 12, 9 and 6 per cent, were obtain- Government to send a represen-Rajchmann for the improvement Christopher Robin did not go down hours meant increased costs and ed. by the introduction of a rest tative to the financial conference of agriculture by water conser-with Alice. Winnie the Pooh stood lower production. But common of ten minutes in the middle of at Nanking is at least a recogni-vancy and education; by opening no chance against Long John Silver, sunse In a very rule of thumb the morning duty. The accuracy tion of some kind of a link, how up the country with roads and The children of East Ham have method, and it is continually being of compositors' work is increased cheaper transport; by enabling no soft spot for that emetic arch-overwhelmed by science. Investi- considerably when they have had of the Finance Minister to go the farmer to obtain credit at a ness which has characterised the gation by such organisations as authorised rest pauses in the personally suggests that his sub-reasonable rate of intereat; by later fancies of Mr. A. A. Milne.

ever elastic: though the refusal

ordinate will be unlikely to have increasing the cotton and silk other than routine business with output; and by making sure in his instructions. One cannot that the money needed for such but regret that present condi-purposes will actually reach the tions make it so impossible to Treasury and be spent on imagine a really powerful Com-purposes for which it is intend- missioner being sent to performed. Without that assurance the

the

Your Daily Smile!

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At 20 a man knows everything. At 30 he thinks he knows every thing.

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the functions of giving what has money will be very difficult to At 40 he knows nothing. been called in Egypt "authorita-get either by loan or by internal LTD.ve advice," with the assurance taxation; and the Maritime Cus-des

that it would be attended to. I toms

The bride is given away and the are already pledged as is at any rate an innocuous deeply as is safe in these days of bridegroom is sold. amusement to imagine what it depressed trade when high duties Twould be.

easily become prohibitive.

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the Health of Munition Workers' morning and afternoon, and men- Committee, the Industrial Fatigue tal workers were found to benefit Committee, and the National In-(by pauses of five minutes after 80 stitute of Industrial Psychology minutes' work in a two-hour spell. showed that, so far Ал non-

continuous work was concerned:

Benefit Of Rest

1. When the working day was It has been found also that, as reduced there followed a decrease an extra shift increases output, so in accidents, in spoiled work, and an extra man on a machine, allow in absence time.

ing each worker a rest of 20 min- 2. The reduction of hours from utes in the hour, increases 12 to 10 led to an increase in hour-output on certain types of ly and daily output.

chines in more than due propor- 3. The reduction from 10 to 8tion to the added cost. Girls em-

the

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output, except-in operations where bleachery were allowed two per-

This is the point at which the A schemer is a man who points hours led to an increase in daily played on a monotonous job in a to deal on several occasions with political element of Japan's out the silver lining the cloud output was dependent on the speed fods of three-quarters of an hour a financial breakdown of some Hands-off Warning" comes in. and then proceeds to borrow your of the machines. administration, owing to

tem-Japan realises that up sane fin-umbrella,

porary causes that were pre-fancier is likely to throw good

venting people from getting the money after, bad without secur-The Widow's Might [full value of their

of

for rest in the day as well as the 4. When hours were reduced be- lunch time of three-quarters low eight, daily output was not

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Accompanying

resources ing adequate guarantees that It is officially recorded that 80 manual work. when political conditions at the the funds required for better- per cent. of the widows of Ear same time were preventing them ment are not intercepted for pay-land marry again. from agreeing on measures of re-ment of arrear pay for the lief that were necessary but un-armies or allowed to evaporate popular. In England herself in transit from hand to hand. A Band of Hope the times seemed to make party And there is no denying that The engagement ring,

un-whoever applies the check will

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warfare inconvenient and necessarily expensive, and a No- de facto be in a position to in-Refined and Unrefined tional Government came into fluence policy. The reply that A girl may be as sweet as sugar: existence to balance accounts and the check would be applied by a but there are two kinds of sugar. prepare a surplus for some party committee of the League of Na- Government with a smaller ma- tions is not effective; for Japan The Difference jority to spend. In Australia the regards the League now as be Bank of England was requesteding hopelessly European, and number of small cells; a honey

A honeycomb consists to send out the versatile Mr. herself as the sole cliampion of moon is often one big sell. Neumeyer to comment on the the Orient against European in- [cost of political Railways and ex-fluence whether coming from the Icessive wage rates and the con-League or any single Power. Proverb

sequent high cost of loans, There is no demand that the provided that they were to be League or the Occident generally

The result shall refrain from lending money,[" eventually repaid.

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All that titters is not 'old.

Arithmetic

was a heroic pruning all round so long as it is lent uncondition. Cupid believes in odd numbers which led to a dramatic recovery.¦ally, An unconditional loan and he is always turning two lato More recently we have seen would, of course, be quite ineffec-one. Newfoundland faced with a dan- tive; and the calculation is that

PANES OF GLASS STOLEN.

$30 Fine Imposed.

heavy

these general conclusions are irrefutable figures. It was found at the beginning of the war that a policșă of overtime involved an

un- enormous and necessary expense and actually de- creased output. When the hours) of a fully loaded worker are A case of glass theft was relat- lengthened there is a rapid, draped by Inspector Dredge at the in efficiency due to fatigue, the

Central Police Court this morning, output for the extra hours is com- paratively costly and email, and in when Chap Yu was brought before may decrease. Exhaustion easily with the larceny of 14 panes of, a short time the daily output also Mr. Q. A. A. MacFadyen, charged

becomes chronic. It increases

afckness and unpunctuality and glass from No. 77 Queen's Road may disorganise a whole factory. West.

Accused was followed by dis In Munition Factories

trict watchman while he was sell- On the other hand, in a munting the glass, and asked his pur

tions factory, to take one instance, chasers if they wish to buy any turning aluminium fuse bodies in ed to house No. 77 Queen's Road · the rate of production for women more. Accused was then follow-

creased in this striking manner: West, when he was seen carrying (a) When hours were reduced the glass panes, which he had tak from 74.5 to 63,5, and actual hours en from the windows of the house, A man who speaks eight langu-fell from 66 to 64.5, hourly output down the stairs.

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ger of actual starvation owing when things, had got worse there That Lets Them Start Level to an empty Treasury being un-would be nothing left to do but

able to meet its obligations or to ask Japan to supply both the ages has married a woman who was increased by 21 per cent. to afford even the most urgent technical advice and the finan-speaks four. relief. In this case the British cial check. And that would be on!

Government, granted the cash her own terma;

needed for immediate necessi-The radical cure seems ludi- Some More Than "Others" tles, and the local Parliament crously utopian, however obvious All blondes are lightheaded.

voluntarily stopped aside in fa- to people accustomed to our

vour of a small Commission, the methods. It would be for the Hebe It Is

He was fined $30, in default (b) When hours were further three weeks' hard labour. reduced to 55.8 and actual hours

fell to 47.5, the output, was in-

creased by 29 per cent.

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The actual hours are those actually' worked, with deductions

Chairman of which, appointed Republican Government itself to When a girl loses her head she made for sickness, accidents, and

'CHINESE LEAVES $2,700

Letters of administration have

by Downing Street, is to have introduce a complete system of often finds it on a man's shoulder, similar causes. In one shop when been granted to Pong Tar-Leung, the powers of a Dictator. The vouchers and receipts and point of interest is that in five authorisations. Our old bug-Short Story) years it is expected that the bear "red-tape" begins to take Manmasi--handshake Island will again be solvent, and on the halo of sanctity!

parson-ring-Mles-Bri

the nomina) hours were reduced for the $2,700, local estate of the from 68 to 54 the actual hours fall late, Pong. Wai-ting, retirad mer- kisses only from 55 to 51, On the other chant, who died at Ting Hing

hand, time lost from sickussa Lane)! Shanghai, on March 6, 1926,