1947-02-20 — Page 2

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The

Love

Beyond

JOHN MAUREEN WILLIAM

PAYNE - O'HARA - BENDIX „

Sentimental Journey

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1947.

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All over the world there's a shortago of houses, and lack of accommodation is a universal headache. This is a report on

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TECHNIC

IN BRITAIN LIVE

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Cup-

Aa bathing and sanitary facilities In its room, each family has are those of an ordinary elementary bed or cut and bedding provided school, the men find washing and for every member.

food shaving diffcut in wash-basins suit-

Table and chairs, Carpets, board, inable for children of nine or ten years, rugs, chairs, radio, ornaments and A separate bathroom has been set so on can be added by tenants from aside for the bables, who are washed their own household goods. in zinc baths set on tables,

Each family 'Poor as the accounodation is, keeping its own room

is responsible for almost every one of the people there

clean, and will tell you they are happy

for cleaning, the bathroom or kit thankful to have

and chen

after roof over their stairs are cleared daily by a cleaner and Passages heads. Most of them have been there three or four months, and most are

from the council offices, outside Baltersen. from districts

MR. and Mrs. Michael Mc- MR.

Inerney and their three young sons, bombed out of their Streatham home 1944, are living to-day in a crowded, curtained-off rest cen- tre at Buttersen, S.W.8.

They are one of the families there are 1.350 in Greater London alone for whom no better home can be found than fielai hostels and the miserable makeshifts we accepted as part of the blliz.

Perhaps you thought that rest cen- tres disappeared with the end of blackout and the tearing down of street air raid shelters. They were celtainly meant to. Many districts

did.

In fact, get their centres closed before the drift back to London, and the demobilization of thusands of Servicemen, rocketed

the problem of homeless families higher than it had ever been in the worst days of the war,

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Other districts, slower at finding accommodation for their blitzed po- pulation, were caught up

the aftermath. They have had to cope with evictions made on possession orders and on the grounds of over-

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But while the whole country suffers from the housing shortage, the Ministry of Health say that prac leally no rest centres remain out- side London.

In

What we do know is this: September last year there were 911 familles in Greater London who would have been thrown on the streets or inly Institutions if slop- Kap accommodation had not been rovkled. In December the number had risen to 1,312. And on January 4 this year the total was 1,350 Comi ilen.

of the 1,350 familles, more than 300 are now in rest centres and more than 1,000 in requisitioned properties which some councils call hostels and some half-wny houses,

How are they living in the rest centres? Let us go back to ex- prisoner-of-war Micinel McInerney his wife Ellen, and their boys, Brian, Michael, Alan.

The school in Battersea road which con house anything up to 150 people is run with regimental precision. The superintendent is an ex-Army captain. It is waren, clear and as comfortable ns ingenuity and good will can make it. The food is plentiful and well cooked,

One family is to be rehoused by Streatham, others by Islington Fin bury and Deptford.

By ANNE

COUPAR

Into this refuge, also drift seme- which, pre-war, would have normal- times the human flotsam and jetsam ly gone to the poorhouse.

For this

accommodation

U.S. ECONOMY

AT

THE CROSSROADS

By HARRY W. FRANTZ

United Pres Staff Correspondent

FTER a turbulent year in its Favouring the progressive molution: economic and political life, of the United Stolca' major economic the United States in 1947 fnees problems was an apparent relaxing of The basic problem of establish-tast weeks of 1940. The uneasiness International political tension in the ing the "expanding economy" about a third world war, which pre- which · ន Indisperable to valled at mid-year, had obviously national properity and world een relieved by the effectivo fune- tion of the United Nations Counelt recovery.

und Assembly.

The United Sintes entered the postwar period with profound con-out armament races, and would co- This in turn promised to avert all- fidence in its production copacity oad a general beller that expanding gein, less burdensome taxation, and courage reduced governmental bud- production ot form, mine and the direction of the economy toward factory would raise the standard of peacetime Industrial production In the living int home, and contributo United States and other countries. rapidly to economic normality

Whither?

abroad.

Unforeseen at V-J Day we tho

long series of great industrial TN the United States, there exista an strikes culminating with the

intense pride in, the Industrial conl shutdown in 1948, the violent con- "know how" and mass production troversy over price controls as an capacity that was proved during the anti-inflationary device, the stick World War. Scientists have lavaded market slump, and the starting every branch of economy with new political upset marked by Republi- techniques and efflelency-alding de- car recovery of majorilles in both a system of competitive free enter- vices. The belief widely prevalls that tire Senate and House of Representa- tives. Equally unpredictel was the fact that civilian employment would exceed all records and belle fore carts of nestwar unemployment.

Major Riddles

prise can prove its superiority to. communistle and totalitarian mo thods,

Nineteen-forty-seven may indicate whether the United States is to em- bark successfully on the realisation of traditional economie principles and

THIS year, the common sense of objectives, or take a new and yet un- the general publie and the deep predicted cource of politico-economie

hopes of the world are concerned evolution.

with three major riddies, to which; tentative answers may be afforded by the Eightieth Congress of the United States;

1. Can

11 shattering "second

round" of industrial strikes in 1947 be avoided by revision of the labour laws, especially the Wagner Act, or clarifications of existing laws by the courts, for both?

2. Vill. a Republican-controlled- Congrels modify the party's tradi adults lonial policy of high tariff "profec- pays per week. 35. for children, tion" to national industries, or cin- and this charge Includes heating tinue an international trade policy and light, and laundering of bed and programme based generally on line.

the down-scaling of "protection?" MAIDEN: In a half-way house euch family has ita own bedroom bedrooms, with its own entirely. Two inric downstairs on industry, domestic and interna

tonal commerce be continued and ns dining rooms. condrmed without new "inflationary" ench family having its own dining pressures on the general economy? room furniture. In the large kit- chen, every family has its own cooking stove and its own sink.

rooms are

usol

3. Can the recent trend toward or elimination of war-imposed controls furniture

There is another of LC.CTS.

Tulls is the nearest thing I have

rest centre which is one stage better, own. It is usually a house or group of houses adapted for hostel purposes.

A typical cxample 1s at St. George's-square, Westminster. Here, three tall houses with pillared por- ticos have been made into one large house, where each family bedroom of 19

own. Where family is large, it has two bedrooms. and it makes indefensible in

yet seen to a home of one's Tenants in Malden's half-way houses pay inclusive rents of from 19. upwards, a' week, necording to the accommodation offered. This case includes electric light, and, in some

a certain amount of central; heating.

cases, has a

D

Here again meals are caleti In a

The fogle of election resalts and the wishes of United States indus- Irlat and commercial organisations point to a "conservative" trend of legislation and governmental ad- ministration, marked by a reduced national budget, less interference of government in business, and the freer play of supply and demand in marketing.

Laissez Faire

THE philosophy of the hour seems 1947 principle than to the New Deal pro-

THE That shows what can be done I closer to the old Inlasez faire

President Housevelt's terms of office.

ter provision and a common dining room. There is bel-in-which-courage and cheerfulness and planning that had evolved during the dreary blitz model, rest centresgramme of governmental initiative rota for bathing. All doors are padlocked alone make life possible. gives a greater sense of privacy, when the owner is absent, and this Chares at the rest centres are, extremely reasonable-3s. a day per adult, with graduated charges for children. For this sum residents have full board and lodging, light, heal some have coal radiators--and hot water.

THE remunder

tires

some

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

North-South got themselves into in response to the five no trump, he

a grand-slam contract in to-day's was announcing three kings! It b deal only because North forgot the true that even with this misinforma- proper responses to the Blackwood tion there was considerable question the 1,350 Convention, but his error was slight whether South could go to the grand indeed compared to South's, in the lam, but at least he had a good best ex- These are

play!

of families are in the pedient of the three. called Half-way Houses. It may be. colneldence, but the authorities showing the best results in half- Parkway. houses are those

women

where a hous manager or houstne

manager is in

in charge. To show what can be done in an ordinary working-class district and In a midle-class residential arca, here is what I found in two types at Fulham and Malden In

Surrey. Both have women in charge.

FULHAM: Twe three-floor ter- race-type houses have been made into one unit. Each family is given

bed-sitting

roɔm (and extra bedroom if the family is large).

Each family provides its

own ments, coolting them in the base- where two stoves babies, have to

THE McInerneys have no privacy.

Each family is given a curtained- off cubicle, varying in size with the number of people in the family unit. Only the sketchfest family possessions. can be kept..

Each person has a camp bed and ment kitchared' amicably be-i

ibere...

bedding with cots for the The tenants also get an issue of twein the tenants. The meals are cutlery, kept in a mug in the cubicle: then carried to the family's room If a fork or knife is lost it is, its and caten owner's responsibility to replace it. Menls are eaten communally, and there is a 24-hour service to provide

for shift workers.

NANCY

Washing-up done in the kit chens, and kitchen towels, as well us crockery and cooking utensils, are provided by, the council.

Merely an Adaptation

YOU MUST BE QUITE AN ARTIST--.

CAMELS ARE.

HARD TO

DRAW

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South, denter. Both sides, vulnerable.

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NORTH

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The bidding:

South

Feat

A spide Jane

North

♫spadra.

Slamond

excuse.

South had for less excuse when he proceeded to go down a trick, West led the diamond king, South won and quickly ruffed a diamond, re- turned to the heart ace, ruffed o second diamond,

then

led to the heart king and blithely rufted his last diamond, <ule

the gnoring danger that by this time East might be in a good position to over-rulf dummy, East was and did, and that was the end of the story, Lo for as South was concerned.

There was

no absolutely safe method of playing this hand, but South's nonchalant ruffing of three. Alamonds was far too unsafe! The netter plan was to set up dummy's club suit. Thus, after taking the dismond ace declarer should have drawn two rounds of troops, cashed the club see, ruffed a club, and then cross-ruffed diamonds and

clubs tntil the club king was ruffed out.. This plan would' succeed bgainst any Strangely enough, North tnswered reasonable break of the outstanding the four-no trump bid curry fur clubs, and had greater "percentage": forgot that when he bld six spildes than any other line of play.

By Erale Bushrailler

* me trump f'kan.

25 ne trump Pan

NOW MAY I SEE YOUR SKETCH OF THE CAMEL T

at spades (1)

*

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Ruper the first of the little Rioup to pull himsell together and dashes out into the passage after tha truant. His eyes take a moment or two to get used to the poor light and he taust in time to ace Ninky tumble down the first steps of a spiral staircase. He burries after him, but whenever he gets beat ta him the donkey makes another leap and careers onward. Down and down and round and round they go until poor Rupert la giddy and quite out of breath.

ALL RIGHTS ZEZARYED.

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