1949-11-21 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1949.

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THE SITUATION GET -

OUT OF HAND."

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A FEW WEEKS ACO IT WAS *AUSTERITY CRIPPS NOW! ITS*SPENDT|{RIFT: CRIPPS"}

VERY CONFUSING.

JOHN ETWAS ANDERS BE THE SONTHEVESTS

SO WONDER THE COOTS WHO'VE BEEN HOWLING FOR MORIE EVERYTHING DON'T KNOW HOW

The heart of

Three Repres

We kept Prandon

GODFATHERS

WATHE-ARMENDARIZ HABRY CARET. JB.

AN MAN BATH - MELE MARCH » BANK BEPPELL

-JEAN FORD

A BESSÉ COLORIN HORTER PIRTING

So WE MUST BOOST THE MORALE OF EMPLOYERS BY CUTTING TAXES AND

RAISING PROFITS,

HEY?

--AND WE MUST BOOST THE

MORALE OF WORKERS BY

CUTTING TIG STANDARD OF LIFE AND RAISING WORKING HOURS?

WELL, IT'S A

POINT OF VIENN

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THE WELFARE STATE?

World Copyright.

By arrangement with Epening Standard,

How Doctor In t'

T

Tackles Bevan's

AMSTERDAM.

working TWO British

parties have junt been scurrying across Holland. Unc. a five-man party sponsored by the Bri- fish Ministry of Works. The other, a one-man party financed by a London news- I am all its nem- paper. bera.

For one thing he is moving out families from

huts army

into

Government offices-and moving his staff into the

By HAROLD

huts.

BRETT

· WHO ARE YOU CALLING NAMES

THT AMERICANS who URSHED CONVEKTABILITY ON US TO DRAIN OUR COLD RESERVES?

Y. I WARN YOU, SIR.

TAKT CARE, YOU ALRY CO.

Veld Job

hours

whitela provide

two

Field,

In This Britain Leads The World...

BY PETER LOVEGROVE

LONDON. total world figures aro

4 alight decline on OVERNMENT exhorta- showing

last year something in the na- tions to British indus- ture of 10 percent. Our best trialists to study the customers in this field aro Ays. needs, likes and dislikes of tralia, India, Argentine, Switzer- foreign customers to assist land, South Africa and Brill, the export-drive-are obvious ly not addressed to manu- facturers in our cycle in dustry. -

This year's Cycle and Motor- Cycle Silver Jubilee Show at Earl's Court, London, and the trade Agures prove how the roughly they understand satisfy the specialist needs individual markets.

and

Special Handlebar

THERE are,

for

of

But to get back-to-the-Show One interesting feature was that the reduction in the weight of bicycles, demonstrated last year, Is continuing. This is due to the greater use of light tubing for frames, the outstanding ex- amplo being a new

Raleigh which weighs only 161b. (In used by comparison, the bicycle

the world protes

mpion,

weighs 211b, the average British road-

sional

ས་

ater weights between 30 and 40 lb, and American machines are All the instance, roughly 201b, heavier.)

except these

specially tail machines to give metal como made-of

Hindus room for their flowing in

the

dhotla, and others with low light alloy. Then again steel has riding position and other fea- been Improved; skilled heat Lures preferred by Canadian treatment now makes it possible riders.

to drill out, or to pare away,

For

South Africa, some Alings ilko ball bearings and models are cushioned for the still leave them stronger than rough ronds over which they are they were before. used by untive police and post-

The

house In one dwelling for Ruits them, newlyweds ni other small British West and

£1

casc to

Motor-Cycles

men. Bleyeles destined for the Persinns are fitted with stands because outside Teheran and IN the motor-cycle

feld, the bigger towns there аге no most notable advance, from Kerbstones.

the lowest price units unwards, is Cypriots get the special that all machines are fitted with handlebar which particularly engines of unit construction,

and machines for only the cylinder and carburet

East Africa tor protruding above the egg- families, the rent 14 only 93. have gearenses to

protect the shaped crank case which houses

the houses

from the chainwheel These week.

Jong

the magneto and generating Dutch convert into two fals jungle-grass, and those for the equipment, primary drive chain

Middle and Far East oilbath and gear box. for Mid

Many of the cost of mt

only £0

prevent sand and dust lightweights are equipped with Inbour and materials,

it costs getting into the chain, and the telescopic front forks, and, at £20 to convert them back into long galinbins and robes from last

A number are available single houses.

being solled.

with plunger-type rear spring- is tho

with the ing rent of 10s, or more a week. 11. went to

Reuts in Holland. 215 In coloura If most peoplo on

The Velocatio water-cooled! But he is not putting families in, similarity of

England, are kept artificially these islands prefer austerity Dr In 1 Veld and his Ministry extend to the men's ideas.

first low by Restriction Dr In Veld, as the

Acts binck and sober tones, abroad twin which made its debut lant I am here to report on have moved into the huts, and

have hankering for year, and the latest 244 cc twin being con- Dutch burgonaster to be suck- According to Dr In Veld. they they what the Dutch

part two-stroke Excelsior are both are doing their old building

Germans, is all for are too low. He is putting brightly-coloured, even

and equipped with rear springing with their post-war hous- verted back into 100 substantial ed by the

from coloured enamel Anishes decentralising Stale power and them by 15 percent flats for people of The Hague.

and full lighting equipment as power of local January 1 Ing. So is the Ministry

standard, supplying features So party.

which have hitherto only been is a group of

available on much heavier and American senators just ar rived at The Hague.

more costly machines.

the Architects builders who have streaming into Holland all this year from all over the world.

are

The reason:

But

Wil be

not

they will increase the

preserving tho

The universities.

Careers does not

No Politics

He sees no reason why people should expect ent alone to be so much cheaper than the other costs of life.

Vital incentive

Pamc

transparent lacquers.

"Carmen Miranda"

A

at

4 HE has just told Dutchmen councils.

that from January 1 they can once again build their own

Ameng So houses. No licence

ND they got them.

some of the gay colours and needed.

In the full-size range, where Holland the housing prob-

Earl's Court were hellotrope, Britain is now prac ically un- been Dr In Veld does not expect

lem 13 viewed 03 the

maroon, bright green (with gold challanged, it was interesting to building B I follow in the tracks of there will be more than a few

duck yellow and eau- linings), du

note that, while there were thousand of these private home practical problem of

as many houses as possible builders in the first year,

the ofer British working du-Nit (which happily is so un-

eight 350 ce basic models, the that they have like the original muddy brown), number of the 500 ce type and enough to deplete his stocks of as quickly as possible. Politics party, I hear

do not enter into it.

been telling the Dutch about and one Harlequin effort called over, was as many as twenty. building materials. The Dutch,

If high costs hold up output, our incentive schemes to get "Carmen

Miranda,"

is which

It is now being more generally then costa must come down. bricklayers lo

lay more than the heart's desire of every number of homes. Compet on Not output.

realised that the addition of 150 One way of cut- 600 bricks a day. The Dutch, Argentino of modest means.

cc or more capaci to the ca- will help to bring down prices

ting costs is by decreasing the

whose bricklayers lay 1,000 (ui Just how successful are the gine, anta

and consequent better bricks, their slightly smaller)

results

of this intelligent re- performance, results have been sympathetic.

search into, and an'icipation, of a frining

A

increase in weight, The Dutch have their own customers' requirements is without substan fally

raising national

build shown in the silv Agures.

une centre of gravity. It is homes quickly, It is the fact There is scarcely a country in significant that two makers of

day that dawns the world

which to

Brit'sh Vertical Twins have augmented there are about 800 more Dutch machines are not sent-wheeled their range with new engines people in the world than there ambassadors for Britain, which of 350 ee copselty, which should' were the day before.

Provide

simple, cheap and

who began late with their housing drive, are now do ing well where other coun- and develop new building ideas. SHOWING

tries are beginning to do badly.

TO-DAY

at

2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

She won take NO1

He won't

say

YES!

The gay adventures of

a bachelor

baby-doctor

who wants to

stay single!

Dova Bebery

Cary Grant

I DON HARTMAN'S moduction

Every Girl Should

Be Married

FRANCHOT TONE-DANA LYNN BETSY DRAKE

with ALAN WONGSITY » Pashout, Mocial und De-action by 1000

MATTING « Bum Tij Dilatalat hy Kaplan, Marchen Anry

Their brilliant architects steered by a remarkable Housing Minister have turned housing into one of the world's biggest tourist attractions.

Like a palace

MET the

stre of

TOOMS

houses

1

headquarters staff of 900 store a cubicle for

you are

hol,

that every

to Incentive

to

T

only

a shower bath. At the start of this century economical transport for count- provide more effortless power

of flats are the

race.

millions of every religion and nationality.

Last year we exported 1,604.- 878 machines which earned us foreign currency to the tune of

was a re-

And a higher cruising speed, with only a minor effect upon petrol consumption.

Outstanding

Some of the cuts are drastic by British Ideas. While livng bedrooms and main Dutch Housing are the same size as ours, the

Apart second bedroom is often an Minister in his hut, from the panelling it is the same by Bft. saw two children's sort of shed as that in which his bods in a room ft. by Bft.

The bathroom has shrunk to the'r 875 bleycles every day.

Once inside the huts, with In some cases

the entrance they had a population of 6,000,-

consider we should white The Minister, Mr Bevan's their corridors.

000. walls, halls

Next month they expect the birth of their 10,000,000th counterpart, is Dr Joris In and false ceilings, it is diucult good deep cupboard.

some Against this

the tenant. t' Veld. Here are some of to Imagine thal

Instead of appointing a Pa

to study show places of their kind in pulation Commission the remarkable things hey, on the fifth floor of any Dutch workers'

municipal palace in England.

Only the marble is missing- Europe. paced out a flat in how to keep them citizens out £13 million. That has done:

Iam where

have ap-cord for the industry, but it is two rooms of the world, tuy but not missed!

that these figurer anticipated to me can be thrown into one giving pointed Dr In Veld Minister will be easily left behind in HE has cut the staff of De In Veld talked

In English, occasionally helped an uninterrupted length of 80 of Housing and Reconstruction 1949. Already, in the first 650 cc Twin Thunderbird", his Housing Ministry

with a troublesome phrase by feet, lit by four of those great panes that from 8,000 to 1,200. At the his Presa officer. But his ideas soven-foot window

the light and sun into let time he has raised came through quite clearly. same

The doctor is a Socialist, and Dutch homes. the rate of Dutch house

houses ns Mr Rents for workers' about the samo age building almost

10s. 143. to up to its

Bevan. Both men started as are low-about

For the new duplex pro-war figure of 40,000 poor lads, and, after roughing Inclusive.

permanent homes a

He aims at a swift, steady increase to a total of 55,000, the highest

now

year. Land

in Dutch history.

He has no trouble in gel- all the timber he

ting

wants from Sweden and [Finland.

Costs reduced

Amsterdam

fils job is

homes with industries and

that seems logicul.

BOTTIC

THE outstanding tight of the

Tshows The first three pro-

duction models of the Triumph's

to provide them 47

nine months, the total had which were ridden a month ago new now and

Alee Scable, Lon Baylles, and by reached over 1,705 003 jobs for when reen

and S.B. Manns from Coventry big orders were 18 they grow up. At close range

as the show to Monilhery nerodrome near placed

Paris-averaging over 92 mph opened.

The Indians

our best for the 500 miles carried out cus'omers, Over 200,000

of final laps at over 100 mph and then ridden back to

-London Express Service)

C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene

very 08

soon

aro

them rode new British bicycles were last year, and this figure may Coventry. well be trebled in 1949, South Africa comes next

1948; over

British

(167,000 in

They are designed primarily

100,000 in the first for sustained high speeds on six months of this year), and the vast, smooth highways of Africa and West Africa, the Ma- America, South

Australia. Their performance. layan Union, Indonesia, the Irish Republic beliind

is better than that of the large were not far American Twin, and they weigh

Lost Markets broadcasts

NEW YORK. But what Interests other unions Amaricom broadcasting stations PROWN-OUTS-no Broadway is another announcementalks to retransmit BBC

from London. skysigns and no shopwindow begin soon for a wage increase. hts may be ordered in New

HE has reduced the

York soon if the coal strike is TITY American business men cost of house building' not settled quickly. Power W get tired, according to a test by 10 percent in a year- companies" supplies of coal by a Philadelphia hospital: They without reducing builders' are getting dangerously low. work too much in the evenings

12

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LATEST FOX MOVIETONE NEWS

SHOWING

TO-DAY

MAJESTIC

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SHOWING TO-DAY

SPECIAL TIMES: AT 2.15, 4.45, 7.15 & 9.40 P.M.

THE DEATHLESS DRAMA

OF THOSE FEARLESS FEW WHO DREW THE MAP

OF AMERICA ACROSS THE WILDERNESS JAIN LINES, OF THEIR OWN BLOOD

CRY

COOPER GODDARD

Cecil B. DeMittes.

UNCONQUERED

Cute beTRAUNICOLOR

ROMANO DA SILVA BORIS KARLOFF - CECH. KELLAWAY WARD BONIN

JAMES CRAIC • LYNN BARI în "THE MAN FROM TEXAS”

wages.

Some workers' homes aro

are

have

J

De fully

to the

only 365 lb., as against the Intter's 600 to 700. Ib.

This was not the most power SOME traditional markets, such fui or most expensive machine.

as Holland for example, on view. At the top of the list,....ion

HRD Black NHOW BUSINESS: America have almost comple'ely been came the Vincent

wants to get the Sadler's lost, owing to the strait-Jacket Lightning racing motor-cycle, Wells company back for at least of bilateral trading agreemen's, which made its bow last year 20 weeks next year.

That is while the all-important hard. Its 1,000 ce twin-cylinder engine

markets have yet to can too much the only

propel it at 150 mph on they talk at home,

way Sel. Hurok, the currency

exploited, Canada took the road, and I's price is £420 New York concert promotor be Indispensable, and down to £800 for the building. IONS are watching what is business over lunch, they think

going to happen next in an they

who arranged this season, will only 19000-odd bicycles inst (plus £113. Bs. purchase tax) and another £150-£200 for the unusu) experiment in co-opera therefore do not take proper be able to stop rows in the pro-year and the US but 15,000; Lowest-priced was the 08 ce

this year's figures up huge plling and concrete rafts tion between workste and boss holidays, they do not

company devaluation of the pound show- two-stroke James which costs needed to support a house on in September a New York union hobbles, and they do not know will be there only a day, if at all, ed only a small rise in Canadian only £48.109. (plus £18 PT). squelchy Dutch soll.

In four wecks the ballet grossed

and a big In US One of these machines has been

drop In £91,400, which

In That is for a smaller house £2,000. on advertisements moderation in work or play.

1and

n 2.000-mile round- urging customers to patronise than the council houses of Bri- the store for which its members THE ECONOMY, CUTS in fits than Broadway's most fabulous ECE

This trend was even more Britain demonstration ride, It work. Their theory was: "The New York office staff mean success, “Sou

"South

An- Pacifle."

pronounced in the case of averaged 100 miles a gallon, and more the boss makes, the better that the BBC over here will be other company,

from France, mo or-cycles,

to running cost amounted to, Exports all Brillah. I am told that the will succeed the great Sadler's Canada and the United States 35/e. This model has also been QHE in using an assortment for u

success. Because of have been dropping ever since most successfut in the most. of wooden huts left behind Now the union says its cam- 14 who have been sacked are Well

now mania for 1947, when the United States severe reliability trial over or by the Germans. The huts are paign has brought in 4,000 new Americans. The remaining 15 Broadway's bigger than those in which Bri- accounts. It said it will spend will prepars material for broad-ballet, they have extended their was the biggest British export ganised in Europe over 1,240

The miles of mountain country. market for our machines. and help season to the Now Year. - tish families now squat at a £6,000 more before Christmas, ensta from America,

tain, but it is better than a place on a waiting list.

NANCY

Party Line

PLEASE FORGIVE

ME FOR

SPILLING THE

FOOD

I APOLOGIZE FOR DROPPING

THE DISH

IM 60 SORRY

JUST WHOM ARE YOU TALKING

TO ?

I BROKE THE VASE

OH.

NOBODY

vinces

because the

is more even

By Erale Bushmiller

I'M JUST PRACTICING FOR WHEN I LEAVE JANIE'S PARTY

TODAY

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