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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1959.

How does YOUR office rate with THIS?

IT LOOKS. GOOD, it is good. especially if you're the boss. It is the ideal design for an office, . with, fittings that function and can't bo called frills. It looks good, it is good... and if you work for him it can be fun. It's all part of good business...planned nowhere better than at Britain's Olympia exhibition of business efficiency which opened till June 4.

HERE'S WHAT ONE BOSS

WHO THOUGHT UP THIS ➡

THINKS...

by Kitty Dixon

EFFICIENCY doesn't scream-it whispers. If

you want to keep this silent partner in your office, keep it crisp, keep it q-u-i-e-t. Above all get rid of the major efficiency beater-inter- ruption. That jangling telephone everybody rises to answer, that raucous loudspeaker which sets everyone wondering if they have just missed their eue-these just have to go.

"There's no need These are the quiet words of amoothly-working wisdom for everybody just lo

man," he said.

all office-bound

workers

on

Monday morning.

Listen to the soft-but eff- elently audible, of courac voice of organisailon ond methods expert Harry Cemach.

ON INTERRUPTIONS; "Cut them and you will save money, Nut enough bosses realise that staff time is the most expen- alve office commodity.

altach

to disturb page one

"Again, Bashing lights solve the problem. Specially designed clocks can be installed in every flash an executive's Toon to number when he is wanted."

BE SURE

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MENO: TO ALL BOSSES- AND

SECRETARIES

WHO THINK

THEY CAN RUN

THE BUSINESS BETTER

"Study your office procedure from their desks during carefully before buying expen- breaks. alve machines. Make certain you buy the right plece of equipment for the job."

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DRAWING BY PAMELA QUILLE

tea and bright surroundings. How

can you expect a secretary to relax at noon if you push her out into the City to fight for har meal?"

They'll come back to work refreshed. And there'll be no tea stains on important docu- menta"

ON TEA BREAKS: "You' get more work for your money if you provide a tea lounge so

ON LUNCH BREAKS: "Pro- employees can gel right away vide a canteen with good food

ON OFFICE EQUIPMENT Frills that function

"De generous with Rems ke

Reissors and staplers. You'll SOUND - DEADENING

sove in the end.

panelling that cuts down distractions....technical name: thermal acoustic.

"Jangling telephone bells are the biggest offenders.

"Instead,

"Every time a worker has to flashing lights to coch phone. Then get up and to searching for only the person concerned is interrupted, instead of the en- Ero office staff.""

Mr Cemach would toss out loudspeaker systems that echo throughout the building.

others.

something he's wasting his own RELAXING PICTURES and colour schemes....for me as well as interrupting pressure-prone people who feel they must spend a minute "Each desk should be fully away from their problems. equipped. And there should be sixed place for every piece of equipment.

PORTABLE PARTITIONS....moved in a minute to shrink or expand anybody's office.

See what you like: Do what you like

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ON SAVING TIME: "Omil excessive checking. Don't allow

defence mechanism. It is time-consuming procedure the part of an employed four- for other people's ing blame mistakes.

"Ho carefully "records every wrap of paper that passes through his hands and insists that others sign for them..

"Such a waste, When some- thing is last, who cares whose The important fault 7

Ten

points to tick off

Bookcas

Out of way. but withlo easy reach,

Venetian

blinds More efficient than curtains.

Conference desk. An overhanging top! allows leg space to others.

4 Entertaining area Com. fortable chairs and a coffee table.)

5

Cocktall' enbl- net - Flat against wall, out! of the way..

6 Glass parti-

tion -- Secre- tary and boss can see each other.

7 Electric type-

writer with overhead light,

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L-Shaped sec- retarial desk Working area height of this steel desk is ideol 30 Inches. Typing, area 28 inches.

9 Lateral Filing

-Flush, slid- ing doors. Takes up less space.

10 Ante-Room

-With chair and separ-j ... ate cxit.

Thea

thing to to And it. And are know how to do a job, but also card book proving that Mr X why they are doing it. doesn't have it is not going to they will work with the boss as help,

a team. And that always ON HUMAN RELATIONS: fosters efficiency," "Employees should not only -London Express Service).

THIS FUNNY WORLD RUSSIA ON £100

Cash or all parts

"It was co hard to replace paris, we just did the best we could!"

posely stayed lalé just to meet you Mr-Emit)

iamtrance."

TEN-DAY air trips to Russia for less than £100

are just around. the corner.

As new deal made in Moscow schedule between- SEA-and- will being holiday tours of the Bus' Atrodot

Soviet Union-on-which-you-cantmoneus

Go where you like, see what

Mr Taylor was

By DYKE PEARCE

representing be in full swing in lime for the you are, and meet whom you all British travel agencies in holiday season.

official

"The exact cost has stil to Moscow. A senior ilke.

Mr.J. J. Taylor, head of the the Workers' Travel Association be worked out, but It is safe to say that it will be in the region Workers' Travel Association has told me: Axed

of £100 for travel and accom modation for ten days,

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four-fight-a-week The Alights to Moscow win

The Mink Coat Missionary

SHE

CHE is called the "mink coat missionary."

nun in her early fifties, she wears, with Vatican permission, the ordinary dress of g modern well-dressed woman' as she runs an unusual religious centre än the outskirts of Rome.

It is an insitute set up is fore she persuaded the Vatican solve the problems of the wipes, that there were

many

rich

of millionaires and rich mon in women like her mother in des- perate need of 'spiritual help. *',,,“ 1:i

generat

Gost

It sooms that no one had ever Four years ago Bliter Omella considered that the wealthy was allowed to open her could be as 'unhappy, spiritually "Help the rich" centro in Now er the poor-unti Sister Ornella York, it hucceeded from the Brocchi came along

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Half Polish, half Italian, Bister

Ornella was born in Yugoslavia

She helped Jaded swives-to-co-

gain their interest. The life

of wealthy parents, Her, child through, art and other cultural hood was spent in luxury and activities, then to clarinet their boredom moving through energies into social welfare Europe from one grand hotel work

to another. 'i

A rehabilitated we

Her mother she remembers us is capable, snymi

a lovely a rich Wornani) sadly" of hoping: other. alone, without any scope in life. fortunato women

At 15 Ornalia, Jarmaltiestarted weerlaccabit) |from the?aumiem: erialastrSKY.

entering, CONVEGEof vetbe adresen. Sacred Heart and Latar! took her we unha

#But it was mažytream ban

curruncy edumalities i have been practically sorted out, and now we expect to receive visitors from Russia on the same terms,

"Although the service will start with four fights a week, "There will be no brakes on we expect this will be rapidly the tourists. They will not be stepped up."

Cook subject to any conditions if they An official of Thomas want, to walk around freely... aald: "These trips will be avall- "I they want to visit, a friend, able through all travel agents. "Me Taylor is гортевска a restaurant or go sightseeing they will be as free as a visitor, tive of all tourist agencies, and to London.

we are delighted with the news."

CATHAY PACIEN AIRWAYS

The incredible Dr Beddoes

CURIOUS CHARACTERS: No.

OXFORD students who attended lectures by

Doctor Beddoes in the late 18th Century were nover sure what to expect. For the doctor was an

| inveterate experimenter,

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One day he excelled himselt. Would a balloon filled with, gas and set on fre look like meteor? He released ono to find, out-and started a panic among Oxonians, who thought the Day jof Judgment had come..

QUOTE

Satisfied on this point, Doctorby Mr Norman Cole, M.P. for Bedloes turned to the cure of South Bedfordshire, speaking at lung complaints, and was

Boon Luton----

convinced that difficulty in breathing could be cured by

to aid road safety

administering ale ready-breath-ONE way

is for the man' or, WOMAN caslly who drives * car 1, to bo

ed and therefore morc absorbable by the patient. Ho bought himself a cow and fothered it to a patient's bed, so that the air cond it could be sultably prépurest,

The learned doctor next turn-

thought of as just a motorist, and for them not to think of the man or woman croming the wirect Just as a pedestrian,

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ed his attention to anaesthetics.by Mr H, S. Kemble, a former

He was the first man to experi- deputy chief constable, In the ment with laughing gas-induc- Police Chronicle:- ing a girl to inhale nitrous oxide from a pretty green bag labelled "Perfume."

The girl first screamed with laughter, then ran from the house, completely out of con- trol, leaping high over the back of an Irish wolfhound before a friend caught her,{

Dr Beddoes theri decided that ho was really a poet and made up his mind to write an epic about Alexander's expedition to Indit. But obviously un sple pown could only be written by someone sitting on the 8,000-foot i zummit of Mount Parnassus. So, he went there intending to write ano, perching day and night on his cold pinnacle.

Falling to find a publisher for his epic, Dr Beddoes decided to try his hand at politics. To Prime Minister

Pitt ho expounded a theory to savo England from famine. You simply fed cows on tablo vegetables so that peopin who ate beef would also, at one remove, be eating greens as well. No experiment daunlod De Beddoes. In 1700, he under- Negro white, took to turn a

of a balk Immersed him in "oxygenated marine sold air” for twelve days. It didn't work.

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DON'T fear a Blate police in

sur, own country, but-X xm apprehensive about the. like- hood of a police force of State. busybodies.

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