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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1933.

Now For Your NEW YEAR CAR!

THINKING

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NOTES OF THE DAY MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG BULLS AND INNERS

THE CRY OF THE

Nov. 25th-Up very betimes as is] 28th.--This day the weather TECHNOCRAT

my custom these days upon a changes and so, after my office bo Dritain's endeavour to tackle the Saturday and to my office where I ordered, I to the bowling alley and itfall to ordering my papers, which roll there with much good company, unemployment question 18 stands to-day appears to be an ex-being done to the King's great and all very folly and youthsome collent and well-conceived effort shippe Kent where I do pay my visit But it grieves me that I find Mr. It is, however, over-optimistic in

of state. Later to the Clubbe There I drink a flaggon or two of Pitt comes not there in these days. ono respect, in laying claim to permanency of solution. The crywhere. I fall talking with Mr. Povy ale and hold some discourse with of the technocrat has not been and Creed of this and that, and Sir W. Fen and others upon a loudly heard in Britain as yet, but more particularly of this wrecking Challenge for the Humphreys Cup. the facts and figures upon which of the passenger aire-shippe that After that I may seek to avoid a the theory of Technocracy have files from Shanghal to Canton, bat bot bath where I lie and read the stiffness in the joints to a mighty founded are being thrust tion of those who have any reason to study the tragedy of unemploy- ment.

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SIX "VAUXHALL" : MODELS i more, and more buforo the ntton-crashes in the for. Creed tells un papers. And there I learn that at

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There are reconstructed blast furnaces in use in England to-day, whose productive capacity bas 4,500 beon increased to 4,000 tons per wook where formerly 1,500 tons 4.500 were produced. At these furnaces a charger car has been Introduced which automatically unloads the HK$2,940 bunker, ore, coke, or limestone in- 2,940 to a large container. This con- tainer is also a weighing machine. The operator in charge knows ex actly the quantity going into the box, and controls the operation by which the lead is deposited up on an elevator which ascends and automatically charges the furnace. Where, formerly, eighty-nine men were employed at front and back of the furnace, there are now on- ly three the operator above men- tioned. charger-driver, and a landing-man.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph. SHIPBUILDING ROBOT

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1935,

NEW CHARTER FOR

WORKLESS

Much-needed roform in the British unemployment insurance

dealing with the subject, which has just been introduced in the House of Commons. On the one

of the

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experienced a wet night on Thurs

Even St. Andrew would have day if they had turned the fountain

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A reader wants to know if we

think jazz is really dying. No; it's always sounded like that.

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local boxing

Just when scientists are work-

ing out schemes to prolong life, faster motor-cars are making their appearance.

our

ᄆ Britain's wood supplies are said politicians will put their heads

Maybe to be decreasing. together and see what can be done.

There was a big blaze in London sausage factory recently. Hot dogs!

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There was nothing insular about the Peninsula on Thursday!

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Friday felt so much like Batur-

day that some people don't even yet

hand, the system has been un- | oxy-acetylene torch in repairing after I do eat my dinner with Mr. tells me that this, my second shot. know whether to-day is! ....

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A chewing-gum Company In. nono are killed which do be a most the town of San Jose in CaliforniaU.S.A. has shown big profits dur marvellous chance, as it wanted but the mob doth break the prison, and ing the past six months. Which, a little that all should perish. And lynch two men who be suspected of seems to show that the depression aa I say to Mr. Povy, it will ba kidnapping but are not yet brought hasn't yet hit America in the law..

to trial for it. And this the many a year before this business Governor of California (or so the of aire, travel be of reasonable nowes-sheete hath it) declares to be safety in these parts, the tales of the best lesson Colifornia hath ever those who be of the profession given the Country. Which if it be notwithstanding. To the Krickett true is a mighty strange utterance course. at King's Park where I see the whose duty it be to administer law In the mouth of the highest officer Sallors play pretty well and the and government. And to my mind,

We noticed Army fall of winning their match. I esteem much higher his former enthusiast looking for his aporran Back to the Clubbe where I don my brother, the Governor of South partner at St. Andrew's Ball. garments of ceremony and so to the Carolina, as a man of wiser sayings, Lower Peaké Tram Station. But 29th. This day I dine upon the Lord! when I do get there I am Peako with an olde friend, but Lord

Snuffed-coloured complexions are the latest idea for women. put in a great fright by a box how the rain comes down. Yet, as Guaranteed to give that pinched which do suddenly light itself from voirs, as for these two days it has

I suppose it shall help the reser-look! within, and therein I perceive a been pretty wet. Home very lato bottle of whiskey but behind. a but find that near by there is' a strong glass front. And then out party and one plays upon the goes the light and anon relights ukelele, which is tuneful enough itself later. Yet though I search though. at best methinks it ia but a most carefully I cannot find the slot that the girl should cease of sing-

bawble. But I do desire mightily | wherein I should put my money, ing.. and so am choused of the draught |

30th.-Up very botimes and after I had meant to take, and this do trimming myself to the office where seem to me the alliest possible I find little business, trade being In the shipbuilding and ship-thing in the world. Dined upon the slack and yesterday a dull and rainy repairing trades we have recently | Peake and after at Cards but so day which doth ever so operate. soon the appearance a totally often did I sit with pretty and most But the day is most fair and so I now craft. A body of craftsmen,

take a wherry and to a King's great to be known as ship-welders, is to Ingenious ladies that my skill was shippe in the Harbour where I displace the rivetters, blacksmiths, somewhat at fault.. Home late and drink a glass or two of Hollands caulkers, holders-up, heaters, and the lift being stopped was forced waters, and so back to the Clubbe. entchormen: one man with

to walk up to bed...

And Indeed I had been minded to blow lamp will replace ten men

call upon my olde acquaintance In engaged in the operation of cut-

26th. (Lord's Day.) This day Cumberland and Suffolk, but they ting out old rivets; one welder I fall to ordering my books and hearing of it I doubt not had be- scheme is promised by the Bill, of rivetters, or fifteen men; three walking upon the Peake, the wea.trust that my loss shall be for the will do the work of three squads genre in my Chamber. And later taken themselves to sch. But I do welders will do the work of thirty ther being very fair.

Navy's gain. Later to my chirurg- to forty angle iron smiths. The

con-who doth inject me against the occurring with the use same displacement of labour is

27th-Very busy all day, and typhoid and to my then pleasure will be enough, and so back to the work on locomotives, by which Franco at the Clubbe and there Clubbe with much cheer and writ- four men can now do want it took fall talking of Ireland and how the Ing in my chamber, pair of locomotive tyres which at an election in Northern Ireland. When I wake early, I am full of eight men three weeks to do. A Spanish tyrant doth week to stand

1st. December. But Lord! took 15 to 20 hours to turn can

Yet I believe not that his impertia-akes and pains so that I can scarce now be turned in one hour twenty chisel can do the work of ten men. minutos. A man with a power

ence will carry him so far. Later rise up, and so to the office where comes Creed who tells us of the I do feel that a sick doggo be a

The New Territories are by no By the aid of automatic machinery piracy of the French ship, but it prince compared with me.. Yet go- 10,320 brass screws, with thread-

means worn out, says ing out later for a morning draft I

local scems a very friendly affair and do find Mr. Povy who tells me he

man. This is rather surprising be produced in eight hours. Steel ing and slotting attachment, can none any the worse save that the did spend last night and much of considering the number of savage nuts, countersunk from both sides passengers and others be robbed this day in the amall hours at St. Failing.

golfers who regularly vialt

Bill now produced, so far as 4,800 in eight hours.

are being turned out at the rate of me in mind that I had rend in the drinks, he knows not how, of his can be judged from the summary

newes-sheetes these few days since own accord so much wine that he was even almost foxed, and his head. to hand, represents a sound and

that pirates of Bias Bay had been aked all night and still did. And equitable method of dealing with THE REMEDY

seen in the Colony, But it seems therent I did recommend a bayro they were not apprehended and are of the dogge that did bite him, and the problem. It is the outcome of protracted consultations with blem is dominated by two factors: villages I doubt not much might be And it is borne in upon me that now gone. But should our friends so we drink the neck of a horse What is the remedy? The pro-n China seek them in their very comfortably and feel better. local government experts, trade the grent increase in wealth, due found. Yet there being so much Mr. Povy was not alone in his union leaders, and welfare

to be improved processes, and the workers. In many respects it effort. From this angle of ap- Kwong Tung shall come, of which St. George's. This day comes the diminishing quantity of human not strange that local disorder la this shall not happen to me upon rumour of war in Fukien it seems plight, and I do make a vowe that falsifies the numerous forecasts proach the Trade Unions have the blame shall be upon the troubl homoward P. & O. and going not dancing suggests that it's better The continued popularity of made from time to time of its framed a policy of a 40-hour week. Reduction of working hours, in

ora of the peace in that place. Mr. to the wharf, lies in the stream at to a jazz-bean than a never- likely provisions. For example, the Trade Union view, is clearly Povy later asks me why they were a buoy, which indeed was the far from the period of benefit one of the means by which the

not apprehended hero; but, as Creed custom of olde, and a mighty in- being reduced, it is to be extend- opportunities of work can be more

says, to know a man as a pirate la convenient one too. And what this ed in certain cases, and, what is equitably distributed. It is an

one thing but to apprehend him may mean I know not, but I trust The only thing some Sassenachs more, the number of unemployed eminently sensible proposal, based

without warrant and with no crime it becomes not the regular practice. did not find a pronounced success receiving relief will be increased. on the hard economic fact that done in the Colony is mighty For if it doth, what shall become on Thursday night, was "Auchter- In this connexion, the plan for machine technology has progres- be so many that seek to make not. Later writing my mail,, and

different, and especially when there of the professional seera-off I know ; muchty." making the benefit dependent on sively rendered human labour re-

so to bed. the contributions, and for ex-dundant in all the highly organised pleasant the lot of the criminal, tending it in the case of those

industries. with good industrial records, re- presents a distinct improvement THE FINAL SOLUTION on the existing position. A further helpful feature is the decision to increase the number of junior instructional centres, which should help greatly in preventing that moral degenera- tion which is a concomitant of .prolonged idleness amongst youths. All these reforms, and others as well, are to be accom-

doubtedly abused; on the other, its relief provisions have, in some centres, especially in con- nexion with the Means Test, been harshly, and unsympathe- tically operated. Add to this the fact that the Insurance Fund had been permitted to get into an almost hopelessly insolvent state, and the need for whole

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only will the Insurance Fund.bo to dispense with labour, but it is organised industries will continue placed on a permanently solvent foollah to expect the men to ba basis, but there will be an actual absorbed, except in small quanti. surplus, which will be devoted ties, by other industries, Alleviation to the relief of the most desery there may be, but the essentiali ing causes. Marked and very problem will ways remain out- necessary changes are to be side the scope of any action by made in the system of distribut any group of employers or any ing benefits and relief. This is a solution, but it is one of the Trade Union. There is, of course, to be done by the creation of future not of to-day. Only as new Unemployment Assistance science continues to advance, ren- Boards, to be supervised by a dering the problem more and more Central Commission, which will pressing, will it be accepted that in turn be controlled by the complete and effective State con- Ministry of Labour. The result, trol both of production and the taken in conjunction with the distribution of labour affords the State's assumption of responsi- only guarantee of an equitable bility for the able-bodied un-

solution.! employed who have not qualified for benefits, should be to remove many of the anomalies and in- Government would appear to justices arising from the handle have ovolved an admirabie ing of cases by the poor law scheme, and one which may well authorities. Greater uniformi- help to stem some of the dis- ity of treatment should ensue, satisfaction with its policies and the worst features in the which has laitorly been so working of the Means Test be evident amongst the working- -eliminated. Takén all in all, the classes, *'*

22've always dreamed-of-seeing him like this,”---

Latest returns show fewer con- victions in England for drunked. ness. In other words, the Agures are not so staggering.

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We suppose restaurant sirtations could be described as table spoons,

come out on top. men are successful is that they Maybe the reason.so many bald

wallzod.

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Who says that Scatamen are not considerato? They did illuminate those thistles!

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As one prominent guest remark- ed, the only good thing about haggis is that it's never warmed. up for breakfast!

As far as we could see, after

2 a.m. yesterday morning, they

were all vo-hlet-u-lar forries!

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"Even golf has its evils," says o sports writer. Yes, and its up- honyala too!

A member of a Jazz band recently hit the conductor on the head with saxaphone. So there is some uso for the thing, after all?

A millionaire has just married bia typist. She will henceforth do all the dictating that's necessary.

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America boasts a League of Stowaways, The Patron Saint, it fa understood, is Jonah.

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Velvat for Golf Salts," runs headline. Plush-fours?

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"A Talk About Lumbago," say an advertisement. "Kind "at bac chati

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