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Penny Points Factory Plan Spurts Output

A "penny points" plan for workers in London fac-) tory is awelling pay packets and sending output soaring.

This is no foonball poot. And the only "euupons" marked are quarterly certificates, led in by the rim, awarding points to employees for their work,

For every five points scored a worker's pay rices byd. an Jour.

This Is how they score:

Under "Work and Abilty." the lowest scale (ave points), in "a mnn you can depend on to complete a job without undue etur and in normal time."

And the u who

plete a large amount of work

of the highest quailly"

the heat beint. 20.

scores

FIVE FOR TALKERS

Under

"ro-operation,"

worker with "ce-operates gru

sing, does

$1

not necessarily

oppere but can do more." rajes

in ve points,

And only five polute nem

to the Under tin.e-wasting"--

11:02 Malways prepared for

Mr N. D. G. Robertzen, menosim director of the fre Nos-terang Die Casting Lady

* Cricklewood, 77. W., raid the mare p for " Profurtivas tal em p 25 percent.

FLOOD

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1950.

SCENE

IN

WINNIPEG

£1,000 Prizes FOUR-YEAR INQUIRY INTO

For Plays MOTIVES OF YOUTH CRIME

A four-year study of the occupants of an approved school has led Mr D. II. Stott, a 40-year-old psychologist, of Redhill, Surrey, to the 'con- clusion that juvenile crime is an escape from an emotional situation which is at least temporarily unbearable.

He exonerates the cinema, 1 of the nation, which means of

substitute ex- the nation's familles." Boys found citement

escapism He found the young offenders and there, he thought, and were with whom he worked and lived

wostly "very likeable kept out of mischief.

Looman people whom it was

imagine engaging

1-1 53 cases, "the laid threw himself into a round of diver- slons and escapades as a means of keeping at bay what was to him

100 polquent an amiely to be faced"

Z-The next spectacular motive

42 cases. was represented by In these the delinquency was directed as an act of spite, re- taliation and resentment against the

Often there was parents. Aterant a suicidal mood.

Te ip theatre and, repertory companies in Britnias) to Pratiner pinys Jay 10 authors, the Art: Counek, on the advice of He Drama 1nel, Pas set alle a sum of £30 fo the year ending March 1951. The money is to be divided into sums of 100 mong the enm- panies which, in the opinion of the Council, present during the Fear the hyp annst interesting productions of new plays,

atay must be Although the

Brst professional receiving its production, it need it be the fst play of its dramatiki. Prefernce will be given, how- ever, to plays whose auRADES

HOUSEBREAKER TYPE have not yet made their Ark in the West End of London.

"The

housebreaker regular Iri making its awards, the

was usually the best type. consider not only Courell will

home be was often a model son the merit of the play, but the

die in every respect doing! boldes and enterpine of the

housework for his mother, say- in Comply

presenting

Air Stott, who is married anding his pocket money and preza- themes and new techniques,

Club of has two children, places em-

accept his savings, The Arts Theatre

ing her to

sponding them on presenta Landon has offered a prize of phasis on the relationships be- £600 for the best new play sub-tween parents and children. for the fantly," milled before November 1950. The problem of delinquency,"

Why did the inds go wrong? The waning piece will be pros he rays, "is in the last resort a

question of the emotional health Mr Stott lists five main motives: duged at the Club.

Dow

He was commisioned to make | hard to

United Kingdom Trust

has survey by the Camry persistent crime.

wha

have published his report "De- linquency and Human Nature" at bearly 5na paes. It analyses!

Cates of 192 approved the rehool boys aged between 15 and 18.

CHIP OFF THE OLD

BLOCK

CHARLIE Chaplin, Jr., eldest son of the world-famous comedian, did this im- personation of his father in New York for a television show. Assisting is Bern Hoffman as a policeman. Hoffman played with the older Chaplin in silent films. (Acme)

K. O. CANNON

VIDOCQ - DO ME A FAVDUR. TAKE ME TO VOUR OFFICE

AND SHOW ME ZUCCI'S nganh DU- Siên =I THIK

CAN HELP Võu.

uncertain of their parents' interest tested their Myalty to the uttermost.

4-In 55 cases there was a rocure removal from wish to home.

5.-Reaction took the form of

COMPLETELY

isolated

by flood waters, the only way this farmer and his family can reach their home near Winnipeg, Canada, is by boat. Melt- ing snow has sent waters spilling over a widespread area, including parts of North Dakota. (Acme).

Swinburne Ban Is Lifted

The British Museum has removed a conditional ban

London Brightens Up

In Spring Sunshine

By Paul Kutsche

London, May 22.-Paris in the spring has nothing on London. A week of brilliant sunshine has brought out the most reluctant bud. The Thames River embankments and the city's many parks sparkle, and their walks filled with grateful shirt-sleeved Londoners.

WOMAN'S

20-MILE

BALLOON TRIP

f

The ascent of free balloon carrying passengers was the most popular event this year, A it was last year, in the fine display given at the Royal Aero- nautical Society's garden party at White Waltham airfield, near Maidenhead,

This year 56

woman passen-

fer, Mrs Winifred Pritchard, wife of Capt. 2. L. Pritchard. secretary of the spelety, was

carried. The 1051 recorded

trips by an English woman in balloon werd those of the Hon. Mrs Assheton Harbord. who crossed the Channel 21 1912.

She was the only English- woman to gain the Royal Aera Club's Acronaut's cerl/featu. No. 10 of April 30, 1912.

The other passengers were | Mr Peter Masefield, chlof British European executive ni Airways Corporation, and Mr Charles Brown, a photographer. A fight of about 40 minutes was made and the balloon land- ed in a feld at Beech Hill, six of Reading. miler south-west having down approximately 20 inites.

There was a gusty wind of b Fears $10 20 miles per hour.

that this might prevent the bal loon's ascent were dispelled by Mr Charles Dolfuss, the sen nout (this is the correct term) of the balloon.

"NICE WIND"

"It is a nice wind for n bal- 011 examination by Mr loon," he said. "I will ascend

Randolph Hughes of a docu- for about 40

southwest A mater

paze of bravado. cause of anxiety in Uhhe boy's was the threat of the mother,

desert the Fame,

ment dealing with "moral irregularities" in the life of

minutes, travel lown. come maybe, near Winchester."

and

Mr Dolfuss, who had brought

PETTY

GIRL

FILM star Joan Caulleld appears in this outfit in her new picture based on the adventures of the famous

giri of

Petty

Esquire magazine.

(Acme).

this

a

London is brighter

for many spring than year. Monumental buildings along the river have been scrubbed white again, and the showler parts of the city are repaired,

Life is moving out of doors. The annual "Kerbside Art Show" by Waterloo Bridge at- tracis labourers, oflee boys, casual passersby, few buyers.

and even a

Every taste is catered for by pavement musicians. A beard- ed accordionist on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields at Trafalgar Square wheezes But version: of

ragiline. "Wide boys" wander along Piccadilly Aran Bag hand organs.

Singh-string

Addles will Iteras attached to amplifiers, "made enirely at home, are popular with indigent veterans of the Arst World War.

THEIR THANKS

In an arcade at Charing Cross two young violinists "thank you for enabling them to continue their studles" by dropping silver into ahat. Their re- citals, but around Boch con- Cli Jud Handel

bring

A

Lonstus,

Londoners back night

And after night.

Calliope provides background for courting couples on the enormous meadow called Hampstead Heath.

London will offer her tradl- tional sights this spring. The Beeteaters land at the Tower, the plumed Horse-Guards at the Admiralty. Public rehearsals are already under way for the briliant Trooping of the Colours

LOSS ON MP's ceremony on the King's birth-

MEALS

Aay in June.

But down

Thames, by Us Big Ben and $1. Paul's Cathedral no longer dominato

or in a few cases the father, toSwinburne. Mr Hughes is

A complete survey of the the skyline. The spring look is writing a study of the poet, the balloon from Paris, made a

balloon ascent at the society's working of the House of construction cranes, massed on on whom he is an authority.arden party last year. He Commons refreshment de- the Festival of Britian site, and started ballsoning in 1910, and partment is to be made, fol- the swinging with heavy grace bas carried 500 Letters sent to Mr Hughes

lowing a trading loss of and the Society of Authors by This was his 295th ascent,

£22,012, the heaviest in the Mr T. D. Kendrick, the new Planes displayed at the party last three years. Dir:ctor and Principal Librarian

Parental qurrelling was an- few ether major source. In a The dominant chush was - health or child-bearing of the mother.

Mr Stel: does not place high 115 0 cause of juvenile crime lowering of moral standards. In

clinquency 10 the effcels

اره

of the Museum, announced the Mr Kendrick end of the ban.

on May 1,

treniment, he The lecisiun

passengers.

Select

a 1012 Blackburn tronoplane, powered by a 50 h.p. Gnome Frank Ga calentine, combined with | paign which has been wasted for

ת

[

here

shore.

and there on

the north

RIGHT AT HOME

k_vas | were mostly veterans, too windy for the 1909 "cross- Tais was announced In Channel!" type -Bleriot to fly..

The British Industries Fair, uly (9 chase does be attribute succredes! Sir John Forsdyke But a short hop was made by special report issued froin

Committee and by Sir "biggest, best and oldest" ns its and | managers call it, was right at Tribe, Comptroller Auditor General,

home In a bustle, with its 3,000 exhibitors and 1,300 Despite various reanpiles in foreign buyers, more than six months by Mr A sensational display was staf and service during the

the by secure permission

Kiven

exhibition

final months of the last Parlia- confidential squadron of the French air memorandum by the late Sir force. They ty small Nordment in an attempt to reduce In an effort to combat the Edmund

Gosse on certain as-Stope Sviu two-seater planes, rising deficit on the year's crowing prevalence of juvenile pects of Swinburne's life.

similar in appearance to the de Havilland Moth..

he war.

Tarnie to

sood discipline.

L.C.C.' APPEAL

Huges to

to examine

delinquency. thr Education Committer of the London County Council has appealed for voluntary

NEW DIRECTOR'S REPLY

workers for its

children's care department.

The

matter was

by Ar

trading. the defcil reached £7,000 25 60. by the end of December, 1949.

The actual trading loss was £22,012. It was only through

by the House

£14,324 that deficit could

Three of the French pilots, ying with wing tips almost touching despite the bumpy raised in weather,

performed perfectly Brant voted and 300 is required, but as the Wyatt, Socialist M. P. for Aston, the tops of loops,

Woodrow umed stal turns and rolls of Communs of

lower 11e1 present membership of 1.700 is B naghum, whe challenged

shown.

minlenumi of between 200 Parliament

atit nearly 4,000 below that of the right of the trustees of the Meanwhile, prewar days, there is no limit Nu rem

to the number who may be the document.

Haken on.

RALLY OF GUNNERS

Master Gunner Lord Alan bronke, will presidt at the on- tual Royal Artillery Association Rally at the Royal Albert Hall on June 3, when a pageant will be stages depicting incidents in

3

their Perrier.

leader,

Sir thrilled

01

a

be

London even vies with Paris hits American touches. Loud ties and drape suits can be seen any day in "ply" quarters. And two-thirds of the West End's most popular shows are American, including "Olduitomn" and "Streetcar Named Desire."

Foreign tourists may disagreo but a

will native Londoner match his Waterloo Bridge and .

Frank Tribe's to refuse access to Commandant

report Hyde Park against Parls' love- spectators by flying past them chows that the trading loss liest monuments any day in the

the

13 thin 20 feet of the ground compared with £10,247 in 1948, springtime--if

and with £13,014 1947. shining-United Press,

Hughes, who was former- and upside down. en the staffs of the Univer- Fitics of London and Paris, said the Museum told him he must get permission from Dr Pailip Gosse, son of Sir Edmund, who held the copyright. On October 1 last the Society of Authois wrote to Sir John Forsdyke saying that his answers

could

ut be accepted as conciusive

Mr D. Kilham Roberts, fecre-

nnw recelved

the history of the Royal Regi-tary-general of the Socirty, has

ment.

a reply from Me Kendrick, the new director. It

The Association was founded states:

in 1921 and is a comradeship of

Jall Gunners, past, and present.

should like to express niv you that your last

At one stage of the last war, the regrets to

strength of the regiment amount-letter, dated October 31, 1949,

ed

to

to nearly 750,000, or onc was not answered. On becom

ing director quarter of the British Army.

I was about The Association's object is write to you to explain further two-fold: to help Gunners and the Museum's position, their familles in distress and to resettle them in civil life.

WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

WHISPER¬THIS IS ZUCCI'S WAS A DIRTY STORY, EN RECORD-AB BLACK AS

CANNOW? NOT VERY THEY COME † SEE WHAT-TIGUA, PRETTY PICTURES (WE'RE MIXED UP IN?/

FOR THE LADY

TO SEE?

VÁH! WHAT'S THIS, VIDOCQ?

THIS IS JUST WHAT 'MY STORY NEEDS | ANOTHER WOMAN I WHO 18'SHE'

[102]

NO LONGER BOUND

"Meanwhile, however, we have unexpectedly received a

letter from Dr Philip Gossb saying that he now does not de- site the British Museum to be further bound by the restriction in the use of the manuscript'in' question which was imposed in his interests by 'the Trustees. This generous decision makes the manuscript available. In the ordinary way to readers in the manuscript students room."

A letter to similar terms was rzceived by Mr Hughes.

scen

Mr Hughes has, niready the Gosse memorandum. can now get on with my work," he said, which is part biográ phical and part an unpublished novel by Swinburne.”:

ALL TO

THEMSELVES

Sun

THESE people really went to New York's Poła Grounds, to see the New York Glants play the Brooklyn Dodgers. – But they found they had the place almost

to themselves when the game was called because of rain. (Ácme)