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Mrs. Cheng, who will leave - în August for a year's additional study of the pipe organ in the United States, has the honour of being the first of her race and sex to present an organ concert. When she appeared in a recital

Community Church in Shanghai last May, the occasion was perANOTHER BANKERS" RAMP

Hong Kong. Saturday, June 13, 1936. before a large gathering in the

State-Aided Empire

Air Services

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it could produce.

"Incidentally, we are grateful to the congregation

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You're not a man, my son. (With apologies to the late Mr. Rudyard Kipling)

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SOME NEW TOOLS FOR LIGHTING

SCIENCE'S METHODS FOR TO-MORROW'S JOB

LAMPS AUTOMATICALLY TURNED ON BY ELECTRIC EYE”

Workers so intently engrossed darkness.. It does not pay to wait in their tasks often fail to cotice until the lamp burns out before the approach of darkness. and changing, it. Fixtures should be strain their eyes in the fading designed for easy access and the daylight. Science now obviates right light source for the right this danger of eye-strain, first, location should be selected. Fin- by ascertaining accurately with a fally, we should actually know what light-meter the correct intensity of illumination- we are getting, hav

haps a milestone is the progress) At the Cup. Final a correspon-(the light needed for the particular ing measured it as we would the of music in China.

dent aat just behind an enthusias-kind of work and second, by giv temperature with a thermometer. The Chinese now prefer light tic Sheffield United supporter. ing the "electric eye," or photo- An increase of half a million music to classical works." Mrs. Every time throughout the game electric cell, the duty of automa-

Real Science in the subsidy to civil air tran- Cheng told a Shanghai reporter, that the Arsenal made an attack|tically turning on the lamps સ "Proper building lighting is à- sport and an extension of the "and Chinese music is infinitely this gentleman shouted sarcastic daylight fades, thus maintaining real science and it is a fairly sim- period of subsidy from 1940 to more popular among the public remarks regarding the financial the proper degree of illumination ple and likeable science when we. 1953 will not seriously perturb than compositions from abroad value of their players.

las darkness approaches the worker get to know it. Perhaps technicali--- the taxpayer provided Great However, our appreciation of all From being a £70,000 team the unawares.

Ses of economical and efficient Britain is thereby enabled to music is constantly broadening Arsenal's value gradually rose to The process of safe and com-lighting merely seen confusing be- keep abreast of all rivals in the and spreading to a greater number millions.

fortable seeing involves three cause we have not thought much We air and be surpassed by none. of people."

Finally, when the whistle went, things," explains Samuel G. "Hib-of the simple fundamentals. Empire air services cannot be Cites Musical Landmark be announced in à loud voice: ben, an authority on illumination. have the necessary tools. The best maintained without subsidies. Mrs. Cheng referred to the bre-"Beaten

now becomes а one-love by Barclays "First, we can little about the usage thereof even though in Sir Samuel sentation of an original Chinese Bank!"

human eye, other than provide pocket-book problem... Hoare's phrase subsidies are an symphonic composition, written by

working conditions under which it) "We cannot take its successful unmitigated nuisance - and Mr. Wong Tse-ching of the Na-

will not be imposed upon and un-operation for granted even though £1.500.000 cannot be regarded tional Conservatory of Music, as

der which it will not still further it does possess virtues of rugged- es an excessive contribution one of the landmarks in the cur

depreciate. Second, the task, chief-ness, Like any other tool. the from the Treasury towards the rent history of music in China

By Appointment cost of maintaining an efficient The symphony was played several me to ask your

He: "When would it be best for the objects viewed. is largely be-lamp must be carefully chosen by the experts and maintained by experts. system of air transport Ef-

father an important Fond our control, although years ago by an orchestra under question?"

clever building operator is interest-When it is dull it cannot do its ficiency, of course. is the crux Maestro Paci.

She: "Well, he sees suitors fromed in the avoidance of glass-topped work." and it is more than likely -often of the whole matter, and the "The pipe organ, more than any 630 to 8 every evening, with the ex-desks because of refections: the to injure the beer. One

avoidance of filing cabinets or wonders if the buyer or user of Under-Secretary for Air put up other instrument, gives one a wide eption of Sundays." ja very cogent case for his new

darka lamp bulb knows how the fila- for expression of one's own ¡range

Surprising

typewriters, etc., placed in Air Navigation Bill, in moving taste and imagination," she said.

encouragementment wire mast be drawn through the necessary financial resolu- "and surpasses all in sounds and says-here that the average

Husband (reading newspaper): "It corners; and the

man in- perhaps of such factors as mark-diamond dies to an accuracy of . tion last month. The measure colour.

At my first recital were hales about 500,000 cubic inches ofing stair treads and other poten-closer than one one-thousandth of encountered severe but not al

Lair several Chinese who had

day."

tial hazards with definite paint an inch, or bow all glass and metal ways enlightened criticism in heard an organ before. They were that so much of it is hot when

Wife: "Yes, and isn't it surprising colours or encouraging grey rather parts must be absolutely and pez- and the second reading debate justi

than black machines. The third.fectly free from impurities

tremendous hefore Easter, especially from amazed and delighted at the effects exhales it

and most easily controlled, factor moisture, or what a

inficence on output results from is artificial light.

apparently consequential details of manufacture or of voltage.

Most Efficient Basis "We can sharpen our lighting tempered glass bulb, its protection tool by giving the lamp its prò- against failures, its heat conserva-per voltage. A lamp can be de- tion by rearrangement of flament signed for almost any burning life- coils; its greater uniformity and from one one-hundredth of a se- The wedding will take place at lessening cost Second, we see a cond to 3.000 years. After decades Present policy is based On the reasoned conviction that ingly popular. Strangely enough, 2 pan to-day at the Roman Cat-new illuminant over the horizon, of experience and study, the pre- it is better to select one large, the attractive young organist be-holic Cathedral, Caine Road, the the high-intensity mercury vapourisent design which has a life of?"

It produces easily twice as 750 to 1.000 hours has beer based unified company to receive the san her study of the instrument Rev. Fr. Terruzzi officiating. be-lamp. subsidy for the Empire air only one year ago, and prior to tween Mr. Frederic James Fran-much light for the same power on delivering the most life for the into least combined costs for bulbs and routes rather than to parcel out that time had confined her studies combe Elms, Jr., of the Govern- consumption and is coming

ment Radio Office, the second son usage for indirect lighting.

currents. When she returns to the United of the late Mr. F. J. Elms of "Then in our list of lighting tools This is not unlike the seeting competing companies. Imperial

your au- Airways carries a ton-mileage States it will be to study at the Sevenoaks, Kent, and Miss Ayesha we note the automatic light con-of the carburettor on

University of Michigan, where she Adaline Marlene Bux, the twin trol by photo-electric cells so that tomobile. It best meets all-around much greater than its French,

M. "Iron" Italian and Dutch competitors received her Bachelor of Arts de: daughter of Mr. A.

we neither waste light on bright service conditions. days or lack it at times, of, sudden. (Continued on Page 8) on a far smaller subsidy. As it gree in 1926. She will spend one Bux also possesses an unequalled re- year at the university under the cord for safety and reliability noted American organ teacher, Mr. the original selection has been Palmer Christian, and then may thoroughly justified. Monopoly go on a concert tour of the States. is a word of unpleasant sound, Although anxious to resume ber but the proved wastefulness of studies, she is more than a little leave her two small unlimited competition in other reluctant to forms of transport has greatly children and her husband, former modified old prejudices. If the Adviser to the Ministry of Rail- Shanghai Imperial air services were par- ways and now with a celled out among a number of investment and real estate firm. new undertakings costs would certainly rise 50, and might easily rise 100 per cent, and all! the advantages of a large uni fied organisation would be lost. The fact that practically all the leading countries of Europe

Better Than Walking of the Com- Mr. Humby (after four months of

Newer Tools unemployment): "What d'you think,

"What of the newer tools for lass? I've got a job as a postman."

Ms. Humby: "Now, isn't that to-morrow's jobs? Foremost comes fine? It'll be much better than walk-the improved electric lamp with its (ing about the town all day”

those who object to the mono- ! poly enjoyed by Imperial Air- ways for the development of unity Church for affording us empire air routes, including the North Atlantic. But after all the only place in Shanghai where that is a chose jugee and there an organ recital can be given."

Two Others Studying can be no going back on what

Two other Chinese ladies are was a deliberate decision made

by the Government after long now studying the organ, according investigation.

to Mrs. Cheng, and it is likely that

the instrument will prove increas-

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Shanghai reported one case of "to alter the basic principle and dissipate the financial help small por and Bangkok five cases Nor does the monopoly of In- of cholera during the week ended perial Airways by any means June 6. In the same period Cal- cover the whole field. The jcutta reported 191 cases of cholera Ministry is free to select any and 70 of smallpox undertaking for its help and

Sir Warren Fisher's Commit-essential; however, that any tee has at present under review monopolist organisation should the possibility of a South At-jnot be allowed to relax its striv- lantic service, in respect of ing for steady improvement which five different "groups" The old saying that the good is or interests have been invit-the enemy of the best applies jed to submit proposals: Even-with peculiar pertinence to tually, it would seem, the idea powerful companies firmly en- is to do without subsidies, but trenched in departmental fa- the Greek Kalends may probavour. We have no doubt what- bly arrive first. The new Em-jever the general British system pire scheme provides a gratify-jis right: the companies which ing acceleration of schedules draw the subsidies must go on and a marked increase in fre-proving their title to them Iquencies of the services. It is flight by fight

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