1937-12-18 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1937.

City Clerks Fight For Charter

TOO MANY BEARS IN ENGLAND

THERE are too many bears in England.

The Zoo has over 30 in London and Whipsnade and cannot even give any of them away.

7

When Mr. Gerald Iles, manager of the zoo at Belle Vue, Manchester, visited Regent's Park the other day he was offered some bears-as a gift.

He declined them. Belle Vue has all the bears it wants..

The two young Wrangel Island bears recently nequired from Moscow are still in the sanatoriumi.

A home for them in which the public could see them cannot be found in any enclosure which, is safe for bears.

FIERCE WHEN ANGRY

Bears can be exceedingly disagreeable with other bears and are force fighters when roused,

At first it was hoped to place the latest arrivals with the four Bttle Russian bears at present in the sanatorium, who were shown (but not played with for long!) in Pets' Corner,

This idea has wisely been abandoned as cure has to be exercised in providing a home for young bears.

They are strong, mischievous, destructive, and, if Kay Slammers, British teņula player, is seen examining stirred by curiosity, will probably try to break out. Thus, the result of her screen tests at Hollywood. In spite of a temporary home is, apt to be too temporary to be safe.

DRESSING LIKE FILM STARS

ON 45/- A WEEK

(By Jan MacKay)

དྷྭ『r -

Startling disclosures of the wages of City clerks and the conditions under which some of them have to work in "underground dens" were made last month.

The occasion was the opening meeting of a campaign

to establish an office workers' charter.

Mr. George Ridley, M.P., himself; a railway clerks' representative, con-! trasted the good conditions which the rollway unions had won for their members with the shametul condi- tions of many men and women in out- side cominercial business.

this

"There are," he said, "in country wooden offices, underground offices, badly ventilated, badly fur- nished and hideous in which hun- dreds of men and women are gasping; their lives out to an early grave,"

He referred to the brutal and con- temptuous way in which rationalisa- tlon was throwing thousands of clerks on to the scrup heap and to the queues of blackconted workers out- side the employment exchanges.

WOMEN: PAY AND DRESS

Mlas Ann Godwin, Women Clerks Association, said there were thou- sands of girls in a great city like London trying to live on 359. a week. "How they do it God only knows,"

20-Year

Sentence

On Girl

To Stand

Richmond, Va., Nov. 10. Twenty-three-year-old Edith Maxwell, school-teacher, jailed twenty years for murdering ther father, to-day had her applica- Hon for a third trial rejected by the Supreme Court of Appeals. Miss Maxwell stayed out late with summer evening,

she went on, "but when they get as a boy friend one much as 45s. a week they are expectand when she returned to her home ed to dress like Marlene Dietrich,"

in the Blue Ridge Mountains her Miss Godwin announced that a "hill-billy" father tried to beat her

The public will therefore have to wait patiently tiesia Miss Stammers has denied that she will leave trade union deputation met the Minis- for breaking the "Mountain Code."

The housing problem is solved before the Wranget bears)

are on view.

tennis court for the motion picture (efd,

Join Now

NITH

COLORS DISTANTE». RADIO

GUESSING CONTEST

WIN A RADIO

TRY TO WIN

FOR 1938

A BIRTHDAY OFFER

BY THE SINCERE COMPANY, LTD.

THE "1938" ZENITH ARM CHAIR RADIO (Model 5S237) THIS MODERN RADIO MAY BE YOURS

as

a prize of the Contest.

To-day until 7th January, 1938.

EVERY PURCHASER OF GOODS TO THE VALUE OF $1.00 OR MORE, IS ENTITLED TO PARTICI PATE IN THE CONTEST ---- AT NO EXTRA COST.

A Giant "ZENITH" Tube is displayed at our Radio Department for customers to guess as to how many pieces of "Lung Ngan" fruits are contained in it.

RESULTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON

THE 8TH JANUARY. 1938, THE 38TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

Full Particulars on Application,

DO YOUR XMAS SHOPPING AT SINCERE'S

THE STORE FOR GIFT VALUES PLUS HOPE FOR THE FREE BIRTHDAY GIFT.

BRING YOUR CHILDREN TO

VISIT SANTA CLAUS AT

THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

ter of Labour (Mr. Brown) in the She struck him on the lead with morning to urge him to abolish fee- a high-heeled shoe, and he died some charging private employment agen-hours later. eles,

They gave him evidence that some clerks were charged, as much as 10 per cent of their year's Gulary in return for a job.

Mr. Brown, however, she declared, refused to act and stated quite deil- nitely that in his opinion these agen- eles were a quite legitimate form of private enterprise.

PRE-WAR SNOBBERY

Though evidence was given that TrigH Maxwell was drunk

and threatened to kill his wife as well as punish his daughter, a jury of hill. men found her. gullty of first degree murder. She

sentenced twenty-five years.

was

to

Al a second trial, Miss Maxwell was found guilty of second degree murder, sentenced to twenty years.-- United Press,

doubled clerks' salaries since pre-war. days.

Fear of victimisation kept many clerks out of their unions.

Mr. H. H. Elvin, chairman of the Trades Union Congress, and secretary of the National Union of Clerks, suid that before the war the failure of clerical workers to organise was due He announced that steps were being to snobbery.

taken to bring the National Union of Apathy to-day was due to lack of Clerks and the Wamen Clerks' Asso knowledge of what organisation could | ciation into closer contact-1 hint do for then.

that the two organisations are to be

Trade Union action had more than 'united.

HOW DO YOU BREATHE?

(Be Careful of Your Answer)

Where do you breathe? According to whether you draw your breath from above or below your waist line you are more or less of a thinker or shrinker.

to trace three graphs, red, blue and green on a long roll of paper.

arc

This claim is made by Mr. M. E. J. Semadeni, a London scientist who has invented a robot recorder of Chest breathing shows emotion: human reactions through breathing. abdominal breathing reason. The

the diaphragm strikes

balance Says Mr. Semadent: "The more any one tries to hide, the more he between the two.

Unless

reactions colour reveals,

Breathing is an involun- tury action and cannot be dis- required, the subject of on experi- gulsed, us tone of voice and facial ment is blindfolded so that he may expression con."

be quite unaware of, and unpre The robot has already been used pured for, what is going to happen. to discover the cause and cure of For the first few minutes nothing disagreement between husbands does happen: he breathes normally and wives, engaged coupes, rela-and itis "basic type" is established lives, and people working together by the relentless tracing of the in business

coloured penclis,

Then It is a large and complicated plece i

the application of of machinery with certain slight "silmuli." resemblances to a hairdresser's per- Paper is rustled close to the manent wave. Its scientific name is breather's ear, hands are suddenly "pneumograph," because it makes a clapped, something is dropped, a graphie record of the breathing of cold finger is laid on his neck, those it contacts.

motor horn is sounded violently, an abrupt personal question is pul... and the red, green and blue lines The "victim" lles on his back and on his chart begin to assume strange the robot touches him with sensi- mountainous shapes, Live "Angers": Ightly different points.

GRAPHIS TELL

nt three

comes

of the hundreds of graphs the robot has already traced no two are As the subject breathes ho auto-exactly alike, although the same matically moves

robot's "stimull" are applied in all cases "ngers," which cause three pencils and in the same order.

MORE

THE seroids of photos, anishes prove that amateur got ina e gjej pictures perjail with Kodak Van Chrome Film Ask for "Vorithunen 2 So that RODAR on es the Bang

good

pictures

Koda

Our LADIES' WINTER COATS offer an impressive collection comprising many interesting models of all wool boucle, knop tweed, richly surmounted with collar and epaulettes of squirrel, baby skunk and seal coney; also plain camel hair.

$45.00, $95.00, $150.00 and $280.00

Ladies' Salon

Whiteaway-Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

For evening

dress

$4.90

Black satin court with leather sole.

$6.90

New design of gold or silver dancing court with strap.

$4.90

Black patent leather men's dancing oxford with light sole,

Bata

:. COUNT

THE

"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE