1947-06-07 — Page 6

WILLIAM HICKEY

. ST PAUL'S AND THE CHIMNEY

AFTER Sir GILES GILBERT SCOTT had finished explaining his proposed Bankside power-station (over a new 44ft. to 1in. scale model) I was surprised that nobody asked if St Paul's would interfere with the view of it.

IIo kept calling the 300ft, higli chimney a campanile”, comparing it with the tower of Westminster Cathedral or the 14th century Campanile of Florence.

Certainly, the white, light grey model looks fine- trom a pigeon's eye view. It demonstrates that the only thing which makes a city dirty and ugly is the people in it.

While critics milled round the model in the City of London Electric Lighting Company's boardroom, 1 caught the company's legal adviser Sir EDWIN HERBERT (war- time postal censorship ellef) staring at a large built-In photograph over the fireplace.

It is about 50 years old, but Sir Edwin sald: "Do you know, I've been in this boardroom hundreds of times and I've never really noticed this before."

It is a view of St Paul's from Bankside, LUNCH: Friends of DEN RUSSELL, new Cunard White Star director, gathering in complimentary lun- Association with choon at the Savoy, boasted of their Liverpool. Among the bonsters was Sir ALEXANDER MAXWELL, Tourist Board boss and ex-tobacce con- troller.

But Russell admitted afterwards that his northern accent was synthetle; he was born far from the ship- yards-in fact, in the Midlands.

Russell's is a story that will Inspire all office boys. In his Arst week with the Cunard company his name was taken for shinning down the bannisters.

If he QUOTATION: "Attlee hasn't the human towels.

the were here now he'd refer to that correctly ok Shaftesbury Memorial fountain.”—Sociollst M.P. to col- league, near Eros.

"Scaffolding by.....Tactless notice on statue of King Charles 1. Charing Cross.

NOTES: Sin altting in the gloom at the Oid Bailey, Avo-days-a-week Judge McCLURE in No. 5 Court won- dera when they will goi a Beenco from the Ministry of Works knock down war-time blast walls and let in some light. In the Old Bailey they call his court....... The Dungeon,

MARRIAGE: When will husbands really accept wives as equals? LORD READING (58, one san, two daugh- tera), in the House of Lords, puts the problem in dif- ferent words: "Marriage used to be a patriarchy, it fa now a pantnership. But for countless generations men have been accustomed to assert their predominance, and women to exploit their submissiveness. A far greater period of time is necessary to eradicate these biological Meanwhile......Britain now faces 50,000 difficulties."*

divorces a year.

ICONOCLAST: Forty-two years

a member of the Cyclists' Touring Club, GEORGE BERNARD SHAW complains in the

club's

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1947.

Even its standing still" speed: will be more than a mile a minute... this Saunders Roe giant is taking shape at Cowes

Britain's new

Navigators and onginoors

Crow's slooping quartors

Pursor

Baggage

Pilot's bridge

One of

three loungos

By Basil Cardew

FLYING-BOAT or landplane? Which

of the world? Airline operators in Britain, Europe and the United States cannot decide, so Britain takes the lead by building the two biggest planes in the world for the

Atlantic route.

One is the 130-ton Saunders Roe SR-45 Dying-bont which you see above. The other is the 125-ton Brabazon I land-plane

which Bristol's are building at Filton.

next The land-plane should be in service

year; the flying-boat a year or 18 months later,

When they are both carrying 100 passengers in direct fight from London to New York 3,500 miles of stratosphere dying-air traffle experts will be able to assess which of the two is more economical: the flying- boat, with its natural water "runways, or the land-plane with its ability to put down al termini throughout the four scasons without fear of ice-foes on its landing strips.

The experiment will cost £20,000,000. For three Brabazons are being bullt at a cost of £10,000,000; and a similar number of these

Journal THIS MAN IS

the

that the Highway Code is wrong in advising

people to walk on right..........It is far more important that the motorist should see the

pedestrian than that he or she should see the motorist. Says Shaw (90):

"I always walk to the left, just as the cars drive."

• Like a bell-tower.

More Flivver Planes

The US. Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration has a plan to subsidise the aircraft industry to produce 400,- 000 cheaper and better "flyver" air- planes by 1955.

of Commerce

Assistant Secretary Willam Burden outlined the proposal before a meeting of aircraft Industry engineers,

He an

aald the subsidy was necessary

because

the industry otherwise faced

a dismal future in small plano pro- duction.

Unofficial estimates of the cost of

U.S.$5,000,000 spread

years.

over three

flying-boat

Lounge

Cinomo

loungo-

早早

Passengers' slooping quartors

Cocktail

bar

Dining saloon

Kitchen

ying-boats are also on order. They will cost another £10,000,000.

The SR-45 is taking shape under the brillant eye of 57-year-old Arthur Gouge, world's leading flying-boat expert, at Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Passenger cabins will have the comfort and privacy of an ocean liner. The whole of the passenger, crew and luggage will be pressurised and air-conditioned for

flying above the weather.

space

On the outward Transatlantic journey it has been found that for an 85 percent winter frequency of service during the months, flying at the great height of 30,000 feet, it will be necessary to allow for head winds for the whole distance up tu 80 m.p.ii.

So the flying-bost's "standing still" speed, it I can put it that way, will be 80 m.p.h, or nearly 1 miles per minute.

A new flying-bont base for London will be built at Cliffe, 15 miles down the Thames from Tower Bridge, at a cost of more than £1,000,000. Similarly, the Brabazon I is to have a special airfeld at Filton costing another £1,000,000. Whichever wins the airline battle-wing floats versus wheels-will dictate the trend

ON THE RECORD:

Present AMO: Saunders Rac SR 45 Dying - boat. Overall length of bull: 147 feet. Span of wings! 220 feet. Unladen weight: -130 tona. Range: 5,000 alles in still air. Passengers: 100. Crow: 15 to 20. Cruising speed; 360 m.p.b. at altitude of 36,000 feet. Power: 12 Jargo "proplets" of 8,000 h.p. each turning d-blade contra-rotating propellets.

YOUNG LAGS

LD Lug is a familiar description of the hardened

criminal who is unlikely to change his ways.

The criminals whom I want to discuss are the young ones who seem to resist all modern methods of reform.

They commit crimes that are often of a really serious nature, including sometimes murder. They do not respond to the somewhat limited efforts of juvenile courts, or to probation officers, approved schools or Borstal. They show many signs of becoming young lags and seem likely to continue on their criminal path until in time they become old lags.

by CLAUD MULLINS

former Metropolitan magistrato

'It is useless to wail about juvenile

crime while this

generation rushes

on to separation and divorce

The number of these young people is happily not large, bul the number of crimes that they secure, and a feeling of in-

Why do security is one of the principal but we can and should think long commit is serious.

of transocean flying for the next 50 years. they exist? Why are they

ROBERT CHURCHILL

the programme set it at about THE gun that killed innocent Alec de Antiquis in Lon- Burden sald there are 83,000 per-don's Soho in the daylight of sonal planes in operation now, but April 29 may be resting today many persons consider private air in the darkness of a rubbish craft impractical. He said it was up dump, a back-street gully or an to industry to make its "Alvver" planes cheaper and easier to dy.

alley-way gutter.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

One step forward-one sten back used to say: Don't resist the flute.

-gee, baby!

Give it its head, and you will amazed

track-gee, baby!

You've got ie, may be,

That's the Strachey Crawl.

Two steps sideways backward

prance.

then advance-

That's the Strachey Craws?

Every night gets them. crazy,

*

All wise guys and cute palookas,

Shuffle up and back again, and Drink, pretty creature

he knows what he's after

by

PERCY HOSKINS-

what they are?

BAD ANCESTORS

SIR

causes of crime.

the

Another kind of defective vironment is a home where child was not wanted by parents. Yet another is д where father and mother.

with each other; get on

separate whether the parents

Its

I have said that we cannot at present do much about the former,

and hard about the second.

It is useless to wall about juvenile crime,

while this

generation rushes on to separation and divorce..

home Parents who elther of theso cannot cause the biggest tragedies in the

then, lives of their children.

or

IR CYRIL BURT, who was once the psychologist of the LOC Education Department, divorce or remain together. their Many readers will pratent that It made an extensive study of children must suffer by losing that is in the interest of children that

strengthening feeling of being loved their criminal youth some years ago. and protected.

quarrelling parents should separate or divorce; one often hears that argument. But It is not a casu Such conditions are bad enough of either/or. There is a third pos- where heredity is good. But where sibility; this is that parents should it is bad, whot hope is there that seek help and learn how to atop nurture can help to overcome the quarrelling. and how to do their duty to the chlidren they have wenkness of nature?

brought into the world.

If a chlid seriously locks Beli- We control, whether from reasons

of

FIRST NEED

In his book, The Young De- linquent, he said about this type of child: "Our inquiry...、 must go back to influences that were operative long before the child himself was born. must review not only his birth heredity or gressly defective-en--

vironment, or Imam a combination THE Government has gone far in and early life, but his ancestry of both, it is making too much of

making divorce quicker and juvenile courts or schools that they more generally available. I am not also."

should always convert it into u saying that it was wrong to do so. But first things should come first. law-abiding citizen.

Helping married couples is vastly

Important

divorcing than This is why early in my mugis- moro

career I devoted myself them.. So the Government should terial

to problems of at once provide machinery whereby

The matrimonial discord.

Oght quarrelling parents can find the

road should begin with to domestic happiness both for their against erime problems concerning the conception children and themselves. of life. I should continue in the This is what conciliation can often Only in 1927 was the certainty of

and Home do. The better the conciliation the Comparison Microscope Intro- I agres that a bad heredity study of the homes

children live for the first service, the fewer Young Lags there duced-based on the microscopic

will be in future, does not necessarily produce u eight years of their lives. truth that no two match-sticks, no two blades of grass, no two bullets criminal. But it is likely to re- ault in a child deficient in self- Churchill found in the following control. So if, as often happens, year that the ejected cartridge case

the

A police inspector had been killed If it is, then sooner or later Robert Churchill will know. by burglars at Eastbourne. Parts of the weapon were dug up on the beach, but all that Churchill You may depend upon that.

was underworld, able to prove was this: that For London's armed by the high-pressure bullet taken from the body had been fired from a weapon of the same hunt that has followed the Tot make and calibre. Not the weapon Lanham-street killing, is discard- exhibited. ing its guns. And Robert Churchill is collecting them.

are

From Scotland Yard to Churchill's Lelceater-square working-room these

gangster weapons wing. And the "Spilsbury of the picked-up

on, cách

gunst

pronounces

his

gun

This gunsmith and ballistics perl who has said: "This is

that caused the "killing" trials for 36 years, knows what is after now.

ex-

the

at

he

Smith and He knows that the Wesson .38 with the five right-hand grooves in the barrel has no connec with the Antiquis case. tion

Neither has the .30 Colt with the six left-hand grooves. Nor has the

the seven right Webley 38 with hand grooves.

are identical,

This aspect of crime has had very little attention, and, until the public wake up to the im- portance of problems of here. dity, there is little that can be

done.

could tell a convincing story, too. a child with a bad heredity is His evidence on these lines helped to horn into e bad environment, hang Browne and Kennedy for the

Police Constable Gut- its chances of leading a law- killing of teridge, Essex policemen,

abiding life. may be poor.

FATHER'S ROLE

WHILE the bullet takes ita

characteristic marks from the WHAT is a bad environment? rifling only the fred cartridge case

Plenty of illegitimate chil- is imprinted by a, number

dren are born into one. Usually agencies.

the there is no father; and we must

"With revolvers there Arc

of

wespons

ди

Then a double shuple-turn in your be at the sounds it will from you He knows, does Churchill, that the breech face imprints and the striker remember that a father's main

produce. The flute is man's friend, weapon which struck down Antiquis point imprint. Automalle even more than the horse. You can- was a 320 revolver, one particular give, in addition, the extractor claw role is to bring about a respect

mark and the elector block mark for law and reasonable not play a horse, as Schoppwalcher identiñable 320 revolver.

the All these factors "finger-print" the maich to me at the Bad Stensch How does he know? By.

pleco of lead cartridge case with individual mark-thority..

i amall, mis-shapen festival."

which is attached to a piece of card- ings. board on his desk. The cardboard

Sometimes mothers of illegiti- is marked: "Alec de Antiquis. Ex- Though the weapon that killed! drink!**

hibit bullet 1."

Antiquis is Churchill's Number 1,mate children are quite unable That bullet, like all bullets, got its problem abandoned guns of other' By the way, the mention of ferrets spin and was kept straight in fight types do not go unexamined, Every to support or bring them up; Din milk may puzzle the academic by the spiral grooves in the barrel one is tested to check that it was not either because of their own poor

used in some provious crime. Once they hear it, they to jukers, throng. Many a time I have watch- of the gun.

mental qualities, or possibly Ho-de-ho-de-wowgi -boom-woogi- ed a blue-tit pierce the cover of a

So many And the grooves have stamped the woogi-bool

milk bottle with its bank. And any bullet in an individual, not a general, And Churchill is always hoping, because of poverty.

for example, to and the 45 which such children are placed in in- That's the Stracicy Crawl

ferrets in the neighbourhood were| WAY, SN

thinks did the motiveless, unavenged kili- watching, too. As soon as the tit When Churchill says he had taken a swig, they would come ho has found the gun, a shot will be ing of Leonard Warrens, former War stitutions, and life in an institu The flute is not as casu to play out from cover and enlarge the hole. fired from it. And the spent bullet Office official, at Putney last August. tion, even if it is a good one, is

Let it rip!

as it seems.

He has grounds for optimism in at most a second best. will be lold with the murder' bullet

note, his work: Ho, gunmen may Then into the bottle they would par under a Comparison Microscope. splashing about as happily as

them groove by was the man who tied up the Lahore Often such children are farm- (Morning paper.) Claudette Colbert in her bath of He will rotate

Conspiracy in 1928. WELL, weil Let us take expert Reat Wild Asses Milk Brought By groove under this double microscope

He proved that the Browning used ed out with foster-mothers and, opinion, as the man sald when Air From Buluwayo, And à murrain / with the single eye-pieces.

If they are alike in detail, in to fire a shot in the Assembly Cham- ho asked whether he was entitled to

to on you, Mrs Clowthesley,

of detall, micro-photo- ber at Delhi was the same pistol sequence compensation if he found two small

graphs will be taken. And a jury which killed a police officer

Lahore may see them,

that a cartridge Thich he showed "case, fired from a Mauser, pistol in. Labor, was linked with a cartridge

Mi Va

ferrals in a bottle of milk. That Merode.

Porthcawl dautist, Mr Gerald Barry,

Schuppers to Cleo de

in his spirited books, "Root-l-loot Sayings of the week ti-toot!" says in Chapter IX: "The

secret of good playing is not lo

Even pigs need time to breed.

the dute but to let the Bute, as it podle (News Chronicle leader.), ware, play, you. A happy abandon I was asked what my educational will give the best results, hay old aims were. I replied that I should friend Strohmenger of Bobuppen like Britain to become a Third Pro- bach, who played for thirty years gramme nation,

In the Floppingen Opera House, (the late Miss Ellen Wilkinson.)

In

while many foster-mothers are grand people, others regard the the weekly payment from mother as the main attraction. where I have known cases case found in an illegal arms factory illegitimate children have been THIS, in terms of crime's long at Sararawpur. In the care of many successive Talstory, is a new thing. For when He then Unked three acts of tor-foster-mothers, because the the rorism. Twenty years later he holds mothers could not keep up pay- Churchill gave evidence In "Hooded Man" trial of 1912 the out the strongest deterrent against ments. Under such circum Comparison Miscroscope had not the post-war wave of gangster gun-

stances a child must feel in- been invented.

whole-heartedly

where

DAVID LANGDON

Remember his cartoons in "Punch?” He will draw for the Telegraph every Saturday

TAXI

hart