1938-10-11 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1938.

Cyclist Wins In City Traffic Test NEW for you!

Runner Finishes Second, Taxi Going "All Out" Is Slowest

Mother Drugged Her Pain,

Saved Home

Racked with pain, Olive Lydia Elderton, forty-year-old wife of an invalid, mother of three chll-* dren, used to be helped on and of tramcars by kind

kind-hearted conductors as she went to and from her work between Gray's Înn-road and the Cily.

Recently Bhe appeared before Alderman Sir William Coxen ati Gulidhall, summoned by the Ministry, of Labour for arrears of health and unemployment insurance contribu- tions amounting to £4 0s, Bd.

He listened to her story, lined her 48, and added, "It is obvious you cannot pay the arrears, there- fore I shall order you one day's imprisonment. You can HO and sli in the court until I rise, then you may go free of all debt and obligation."

Mrs. Elderton had told him that! when her husband lost his work through illness and she was faced with having to take her eldest boy. from a good school and the responsi- bility of feeding and clothing the

General Carlos Ibanez, can- didate for the presidency of Chile, arrested in Santiago after the recent uprising there. Four hours of fighting between police and the Nazis, principally youths about 20 years old, resulted in 87 reported deaths. The govern- ment blamed General Ibanez for the uprising and ordered him court-martialed.

The Electric

others, she had invested her total Toothbrush Now

of a

capital, £50, in the purchase restaurant In Great St. Helens, E. C.

Her best customers came from bank near by. The Unnk closed. Business fell off.

Later in her - little home In Calthorpe-street, off Gray's Inn-road, she said:

"was suffering from rheumatoid arthritis in the hips and back. But I had to keep things going. Every day before I left home I had to dose myself with aspirin to denden the pain."

DEATH OF 2lb. BABY

Efforts of doctors and nurses in a Grimsby hospital to rene 21

Ib. . baby girl have failed. She died.

The tiny infout, christened Dorothy, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wheatley, of Cleethorpes. For three days she had been kept állve in an oxygen tent.

Clean your teeth by elec- tricity -the electric tooth brush has arrived.

The electric toothbrusli, which it is claimed is 100 per cent, more efficient, does not look unlike an electric razor.

From the handle there ex- tends a short stem supporting a circular row of soft rubber teeth, the vibrator.

In The machinery

the handle oscillates 7.200 times a minute; all you have to do is to steer it about over the teeth and gums.

Complete safety is assured, for if the vibrator is pushed too hard,, it just stops until the pressure is released.

Taking the

necessary

steps

The mam steps in the preparation

of Johnnie Walker are three ....

First, the distilling

the finest

Scotch whiskies distilled are chosen

for Johnnie Walker.... Second, the

maturing

years in oak casks

make these whiskies

mellow.... smooth ....

MORE HASTE MEANT

LESS

SPEED

A race that will make motoring history was organised recently by the Sunday Express. It was not a fast race. In fact, a condition imposed on one of the competitors was that he did not do more than fifteen miles an hour.

And yet it was a race that will decide more than a whole collection of the races in which drivers rush round concrete courses at over two miles a minute.

The race was held to determine a peculiar question which almost every one who has driven or ridden through the streets of a great city must at some time have asked himself and yet which | the thickest trame in the City of no one has ever tried to station and the Sunday Express answer scientifically.

It is this:-

If you are in a car in a crowded street does it pay you to go as fast as possible, to dodge in and out, to overtake and to accelerate wildly? Doen it get you Ihere quicker, though it may fray your nervesT

Or do you get thero Just AS quickly, as well as more safely and more pracefully, If you, just stay quietly in your own pace in the stream of traffic, move ahen it moves, overlake no one, and go placidly with the stream?

Or, in short, is hustle worth while?

"HORRIFIES"

The problem was brought to the notice of the Sunday Express by a famous author.

London, between

Liverpool-street

amce in Fleet-street.

THE TRUTH

ile decided to kill two birds with one stone,

who The number of people wonder whether it is worth hurry- ing in Londen is equalled only by the number of people who wonder whether after all it would not be quicker to go on fool.

Therefore it was decided that, in addition to the two taxicabs, there should be a runner.

be

One of the taxicabs was to allowed to hustle, to perform any road acrobatics he liked provided he kept the law and the thirty m.p.h. limit. Не

daring represented the driver.

The other taxicab was to repre-

BIG PLAN

ΤΟ DEVELOP

THE COLONIES

Plans, backed by every section of the building in-

Mr. II. de Vere Stacpoole, his nere was not to be allowed to go fas-colonies are to be submitted sent the steady and cautious driver. dustry, to develop British ves jagged and jumpy after a visit to London and its traffe, wrote the following letter to the editor:

"I wish you would get up a race between taxicabs acros the City, one going 15 miles an hour and the other going all out.

1 believe, ouing to tropic blocks, they would arrive pretty much at the same time.

"The speed of motor-cars in London horrifies me, and I believe

It is quite unnecessary. It gets

one

ter than Atteen miles an hour.

The runner was to be allowed to to the Prime Minister, the frun as

of Colonial authorities, and the fast as he liked-and, he did not have to observe course,

Governments of Canada and traffic lights.

Australia.

LIKE FABLE Finally, to add variety and in- terest to the race, a cyclist was to

A programme now

being

be allowed to take part and match drawn up by the Building Indus- bis prowess against the "fast" tries National Council visualises and the "low" driver and the these possibilitles:

pedestrian.

railways, docks, The race, which, in the end de- Public works, manner of veloped into a kind of modern ver- sowers, houses and schools in all the

sion of the tortoise and the hare colonles;

Employment of many thousands of The Editor believed that the fum- fable, storied soon after four o'clock ous author's letter raised a problem in the afternoon at Liverpool-street skilled British workmen overseas for that was really worth solving.

Ifmlied periods;

Unskilled work for thousands of

race

Station. He decided to organise a

All four competitors started to- between two laxicabs to find out gether. A mixed audience of por-natives;

City tors, The course chosen as through cheered them off.

travellers and

folk

the truth about it,

Last, the blending . experienced skill combining all the fine whiskies into one whisky, even finer.......... the famous "round" blend in the

famous square bottle

Johnnie Walker. Always ask for Johnnie Walker by name.

JOHNNIE WALKER

5)

Børn 1820–still going strong

Calan; CALDBECK, MACOREGOR & Gb, zyn. Try th

BETANGILAT •: HONGXONO TIENTUIN

Agents fr

Ultimate development of millions of pounds' worth of natural resources The "fast" taxi went off with a still lying untouched within the Em- rush and vanished down some side pire. streets where be Imagined he could make fast speeds and dodge the traffic lights.

The "glow" taxi trandled staidly off on the ordinary route, passing nothing, stopping when ever the man in front stopped. accelerating as gently as an "L"

driver.

The runner set off "Lt amari and businesslike trot.

The cyclist dropped his head to the bars and pedailed off turl. ously.

FEW OUTLETS hundred Onc

and thirty-one thousand men in Britain's building Industry are unemployed, and both employers and employees believe that figure will steadily Incrense. It is argued that with our immense capital resources, which have, in present world conditions, few out- lets, these men could be set to work throughout the Empire, still largely virgin soil

of

One authority quoted these figures expenditure on public works and

The competitors caught sight of

they social services per head of the popu

each other at Intervals

lations:- £19. 3s. 18. in Great dashed or ambled across the City-Britain, 5g. Ed. in Niberin, 12s. 11d. and a few minutes later they arin Northern Rhodesis, 178. 44. on the rived, one after another, in Fleet-Gold Coast.

street.

RESULT

"We are going to ask the Govern- ment to invest pubile money in these In what order? Surprising as it backward colonies," he said. "Pri- seems, the result was as follows:-vate enterprise wil step in when the

First: Cyclist.

Time: 6mins. 35aces. Second: Hunner.

Time: 7mins, 40secs, Third: "Blow" car,

Time: 9mins 34secs. Last: "Fast" car.

Time: 10mins. Beca

Varied Impressions were given of

the race by the participants.

The cyclist-Peter Howard

said:

yards

The pedestrian Was 200 ahead of us all at first. He passed me at the Bank. But I overtook hit on Ludgate-hill."

..

The runner (who was Sergeant T J. Cottrell, Royal Fusiliers, manent staff instructor attached to the Territorial Army, sold:

way has been cleared.

"There will be no difficulty about labour. The British bricklayer has an independent spirit; he is proud of his craft, He will go where it takes him."

WORDSWORTH BIRTHPLACE REPRIEVED

..

Wordsworth's birthplace has been per-saved from demolition to provide a bus station ske. The prospect instead is that the stately Georgian mansion in Cockermouth's main iho- roughfare will be taken over by the National Trust,

"STREAKED PAST "I could have done it in even better time. 1 simply streaked

Cumberland Motor Services, Lid,, and the Wordsworth National Memo- rial Committee signed a contract for the reselling of the houses to the Committee for £1,625. This is the price paid to the original owner when there was on impression that the Committee's scheme to buy the house

past most of the tradic. The "slow" taxicab was driven by driver Alfred Greenbore, and had as its passenger Victor Burnett, who said:

"It was optimistic to order the taxi not

to exceed 15 mph. Wo only touched that speed twice for had failed. moment in the whole Journey."

In the "fast"-and last-taxi, dri- travelled ven by Harry Jessener, [Gerald "Schell, who said:-.

· The treasurer_of the Committee, the Rev. R. W. Crock, Vicar of Ali Saints, Cockermouth, requires a fur- ther 2000 for the house renovation "We tried to make speed in the before the National Trust accepts back turnings, but it didn't pay. Wo responsibility,

wero blocked again and again. ぶ And what is the moral of the race? All the competitors agreed it

and rushing only makes the Journey: fake longer.

The motorist who takes the moral Hurry doesn't pay. It is not only of the Sunday Express rués, to heart safer, but quicker to keep up a will get there quicker—and save a moderate speed. All the hustling lot of lives in the process.

$1 TIFFINS

Also

China Bldg. Hongkong:

Jimmy's

Carte Hankow Rd., Kowloon...

"LONDON TAILORED

MOULDED SUITS

in Tweeds and Flannels

Slim, trim young suits that mould and flatter your figura,

$4950

Short Sleeve

JUMPERS

In wool and Inen thread with

con-

trasting trimmings in

pastel shades.

$4.50 & $6.50

Sports Medel

Brown,

In Ivory. Red and Navy.

$9.95

Morley's Knitted Suits

The Ideal Autumn

from

Costume

$25,00

Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.

Soir de Paris

Amid the festivities it awakens

the soul of the evening and the...

thoughts of all Paris. Its elegance

harmonises itself in their midst

due to the very subtleness of "Soir

de Paris," the perfume of charm

and youth.

BOURJOIS

Paris

Sole, Agents:

CHINA IMPORT TRADING COMPANY York Building. Tel. 27022.

London

CHEE HING CO, COAL MERCHANTS Ofoe:--18, Connaught Road, 2nd Floor, · Tel. 27360, NATAL NAVIGATION COAL SHIPMENT per is. "Orfor"

both good for Bunkers, Galleys, Factories, etc. Apply to MR. PONG WING TONG, Manager.

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONGKONG HOTEL, REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS LIMITED.

th the Grand Hotel des Wagons