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This place

left me breathless!

by TREVOR EVANS

and production.

THE narrow strip be development

tween the sea and the Mr Jullan Pode, the managin

forties, director-still in his rounded hills which

though his silvery, wavy hair is - looka after the

lock away the coal at commercial side. ready to show the world n his £60,000,000 dream.

of Mid-Glamorgan is almost

Mr Fred Cartwright, also in

the grent works an his special He Is the general

Britain - a breathtaking manager of the company's steel, steel project which stretches 41⁄2 miles from Port Talbot

It is the biggest job, regards -

to the sand dune fringes of Margam Abbey,

The place has been three years a-growing and will take another 18 months to complete. But before this summer is out, the Arst mammoth unit will be handed over by the craftsmen in building to the craftsmen In slcel.

And then what?

THRILL

NE million teng of steel n

ONE

year in the final target. One million ions Enough stee sheets to end the shortage in the moter-car factories, Enough tinplate to end the shoringes in the canneriem.

Enough but here George Strauss, the Supply Minister, chips in. Excess production from Margam, he said, goes to the men with export orders. But the thrill of it all, achievement of all, is tuin's.

be

the

Dri-

And the rewards cannot behind.

ex-Army

far My guide, Godfrey Walker, Finally Deverely realistic,

has touch of this fovered pride. We were standing near the deep sea- basin where the are fleets come in from North Africa, Sweden.

division. He looks more of a Puct than a steel cliteL

many

Cartwright gives the biggest medal" for the impressive up- pearance of the Abbey works to Mir Stanley Adams One of Unc architects. "Never consulting known

a man lave so brainwaves," he adds. Captain Leighton

Davies staccato despite his brisk and bit, comfortable appearance completes the trio. As head of the inplate division, he is con- cerned with the deepest prob- lem of all,

When these works get going, there will be redundant workers throughout the old tinplate bell "not fewer than 10,000, not more than 18,000," Cartwright estimates.

INCENTIVE

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01

HAT will happen to them? Captain Davies explains the "labour fund" created by the Unplate trade to help those who cannot be found work.

There is a

penny levy every box of tinplates produced now. It

frown to А elf-help fund of more than £250,000. Security for tomor row is the incentive for today. The harder the industry works ore It produces, and now, the more Spain, the bigger the fund pets.

It took courage to start this He was reciting unglamorous works at all. The Socialists had statistics about a 25ft. blast been in two years before work The Government was ddenly he started.

committed to nationalisation of

Yet the project went un steel.

No one mentioned this when I was down there. There was so much else to talk about and with a contagious to show-off,

swamps political pride which differences.

-Lamion Express Service)

furnace,

whch lopped, "Hello," he murmur- ed, mainly to himself, "that wasn't there last week."

He pointed, with an awe the visitor can aliare, to sections of great overhead conveyors which carry ore from the docks, cake from the ovens, and limestone

from the railway bays to the furnaces. The whole thing like a switchback transferred from some giant's fun fair.

ON

MAJESTY

EXX-

tho Abbey site, where the greatest and newest tensions have been made, the full majesty of the project may be glimpsed. Little more than three yours nựo this was acres of marsilind and

sand-

hills.

530

Look at it now, over my

power

names

shoulder. See the indxer and inelting shop, the ingot stripper and' soaking pits, stabbing mill, repair

station, depot, water-towers

which mean nothing to the layman

Then you hear that flink } by miles of internal rail-

100 ways, and the immensity takes on some meaning.

Shed" and "shop" are nameS

for commonplace

such

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1950.

GILES

...

reads between the goal-posts

"The Torier ought to stop these footballers coming back saying there are countries worse off than England.”

London Boreas Bervice

Frank Owen

A name with Spitfire

magic shines through the list of honours So the men in the desert, and

the jungle, on the beaches and in the mountains of Italy

HE Birthday Honours got their tanks. They should- List, in peace, can know now about the man calls seldom make a stirring cives, before he changes hiz story. It is the roll of the Not that it wil bo lost to eminent, the worthy, and history.

Dame.

at

It is there in the Westminster Abbey,

the persistent. I see in the Chapel of Hemembrance, latest list a name which Pilot-Omeer Emost Edward Hives, killed in the Battle of shines as a star at night.

It is that of Ernest Walter Britain. Hives managing

Rolls-Roycd.

director of

He was a con of Emrest Wal-

ter lives, one of the architects

He becomes a baron, but I of the gkry.

doubt if the honour he has won

will ever give him as much joy Up bobs a new

na the throb of one of the en-

kines he made.

trumpeter in

The fleet time I mw Hives The Angels' Choir

was at the Ministry of Aircraft

Production in 1940, He looked JUST as the Socialist Party

like na engineer.

Some surgeons look like our electors, getting free points and was doing so nicely with the geona Most soldiers look like

soldiers.

All actors look like Petrol, letting un build our own

hen coops, telling the forelig There was no mistaking lovila (every True Briton knows what Hives was, either.

actors.

IS WINSTON AFTER THE

H

【AVE you ever been

01 Epsom

Down

at eight in the mom- ing? Then you know how the bright and brittle

be, like canvas by Sir Alfred Mun- ninge.

weather

can

#

And you know how it can rain, when it wants to. But, rain or shine, you may occasionally see cheery old gentleman of 76 standing at the rail. He is watching the horses at trial gallops. Or, rather, he is watching one of them, his own."

REALLY DERBY?

By JOSEPH GARRITY

burg, the check suit. the spotted bow tie, you will readily detect the famous orator, writer, states

mah.

On this occasion, however, he in Mr W. S. Churchill, racehorse owner.

for

The

wins

This man did three very re- markable things-

that these begin at Catalo) just where

and go to, they can piping down on the

nationalisa (i) He developed the Rolls- tion of muigat,

cement, Merlin engine, which erved what-have-you, up bobs a new first the Hurricane and then the trumpeter in the Angels' Cho Spitfire planes.

and

and

(1) During the war he raised and blows a discordant blast.

His peme, Dick Coppock. His the Spitire an extra 5,000ft jeb, cral Sexretary of the into the air, increased its speed Nation Federation of Building Operatives. His power, his own by 60 miles per hour.

ut 40 years' "zteadfast When the Amertan rtcor

10 tho trado union

(ILE)

Nightingall, makes the selection. Then, accompanied by Captain Christopher Soames (his son-in- law and racing manager), Chur-built Mustang pinne fell short service

nf its promise he re-equipped it movement, and 1,300,000 faith- shill gives final approval.

with a Merlin engine, made ful followers. the deadliest fighter of nil

No absent owner, he visits the Epsom stables whenever he can, Colonist's Ave

have sating his vid curiosity shown him to be the most im- matters of feeding and form. proved horse in training.

He is as happy watching one is so food, in fact, that Chur- of his horses pouching a chill has decided enter pulled

Churchillian £20,000 Arc de

pocket as he is answering cheers Triomphe at Longchamp, as well with

an upthrust V-sign. as the Gold Cup.

He has no favourite jockey. Sister one just the

Cybarine has

beet Both Hawcroft and Gosling have Here is no wealthy poli- twice implaced, but there are worn the pink and chocolate. tietan indulging a septuagenartan hopes for Canyon Kid. Ho in

a Chur- WHOEVER RIDES entered for the Two Thousand chill horse can whim.

be certain that Guincas next year,

the old man will be there before and after the race with a smile, ahail-clasp.

A newly acquired altas this, but a formidable Fame

When he registered the pink and chocolate colours of s racing father, Lord Randolph

The disguise will not fɔol yuu Churchill, two years ngɔ, there

smiles.

for long. Behind the grey hom were pelile and condescending

There never

was a

like

AST summer

EL

party

this.

famous actress invited a group of

Lend to an elaborate dinner party at her long Island home. With the exception of her lawyer no one showed up, and at 10 o'clock that night she suffered a

heart attack and died.

The obituary notices made no mention of the cathedral-like buildings These party which no

100

by BILLY ROSE

The Merlin engine goes out to

"

Well, Trumpeter,

what στο

you sounding now? Is it the for any of the calls) your political comrades are seeking? Coppock and his colleagues the Americans... have drawn up a plan to -

tionalise all

all the building in Br How did this last thing come tain-at any rate, all the BIG Hout?

building astonishing

under They want American playboy called Tom Ginvernment control every suc-

There

Win

an

to brug

my Hitchcock. He was rich, craful constructional, civil en-

fro All that gineering and contracting

the versatile, and capable.

They recognise that all he played at he played well.

That he industries concerned

could not polo. At especially was the best in the woria.

possibly be handled, either by Good old Winnie!

When war broke out Tominy the present Ministry of Healib, And when politics make it became a United States Army or even the Ministry of Works ¡VERYTHING THIS extra impossible EVE

So they propose ànew Minis- for Churchilll thefleer. It was he who persuad- touches Statesman to

become Churchilled the Government to let him try of Bullding. Phow! is transmuted, by his remark- the racegoer, The But just when did this man able energy and skill, into sue- keeps him in touch

telephone at a Merlin engine into a Mus- Churchill embark

any enss.

with the tang plane. It rained the speed Tomorrow's bread

miles 100

and an hour, ting he was not prepared to uo

There were those who thought thoroughly7

He was recovering from made that the old man's turfside ven- chill in ture was litle more than an

when telephone newg Colonist's Arst win came

ordinary

course,

by

made it the best fighter plans and butter IS the South of France in the world. Tommy was ki a problem...

of ed flying.

no

That brick wall astute political muve to keep en

alive his wartime popularity, through. He put down

But if Mr Gerald O'Brien. THERE is, for example, that

puve, chuckled, and then said, brick wall he built at Chartress officer for the Tory Party, This has bucked me bp well Maner. It was not only an had hit upon such an idea he end."

could rightly have regarded it excrelse in bricklaying.

but something to grow fruit against as a stroke of genius. It still stands firmly,

Now it looks as if his racing reputation will be as firm.

Racing horses is an expensive It was not until the

affair.

is at

Breeder, too

03

an

tanks.

camo

of

the

What are you

lives sent out the plans of

rounding? In the Merlin engine to America TRUMPETE

FIRST, It is no rummens to Packards.

A licence was given to the rally to Sir Stafford Cripps and firm to produce forthwith. Ako hold. that Crimean redoubt 50,000,000 dollars Brilico known as the Wage-Freeze. monwy. The Merlin engina SECONDLY, it is no signal to For Churchill has only to set

came into full Production in reinforce Mr Herbert Morrison foot on

rucecourse to trans-

the United States. just as the in his cautions approach march form the proceedings into a MARLY SUCCESSES whetted Americans eune into the war. towards the Middle-Class.

is пов the THIRDLY," It delirious V-Day in miniature, This appetite, and the Chur-It was rated by them no "Loya,"

His every win, no matter how chill appeute in all things is

There

another day clarion call to Charge which Aneurin Bevan pecks to Umo it Was for make all along the capitalist publication of his war books model, is greeted as a classle Gargantuan. An Epsom stable when a new cry arose in Bel- Mr changed Churchill's fortunes victory Up in the air go has whisper says he wants to win tein. This

Up in the air goes the Derby.

front. that he was able to gratify an and sticks.

"Good "old Colonist,

unentered Harold Nockholds, Motoring Dick Coppock is 05. He has cld ambition to follow the deep the familiar roar,

three-year-old, will not do that Correspondent of Times, been in his present job for 30 Winnie love of his father and own a

there is another has told what followed, in lie years, in his trade for half a string.

And if there is no win? Then for him, but

card up this sportsman's grey book on Rolls-Royce aptly call century. Dick doesn't still want it is still "Good old Winnie!"

ed "The Magic of a Name." Churchill string The

check sleeve.

to storm Heaven. He doubts the moment small, but it is that this sort of thing has its As an owner Churchill finds

Hives

was sent for and asked how if he could build it here. He is 1 member of the in bed as much

produce a tank engine. us pos-noteworthy. that the stay

disadvantages. Irrespective of Thoroughbred Breeders' Arco- the very good reason

He

my have There

retorted, II. IM sible.

are Colonist

form, his horse is usualty bucked ciation and has started a smal

hands full." Why, when you stand at one lawyer kept mum about it. But

the two- Harriet faced up to the news sister Cybarine, and

the farm end of the continuous strip he told

in down to odds-on favourite by stud on the whole

Pressed by Benverbrook, then

Sitting in blosunny Clapham till, you can hately see the story and

gave nic permission like a trouper and for a couple year-old

character for the ragged aid the heavy betting which thou- Chartwell in Kent.

Minister of Supply, he snapped

ho sald to inc: can IF FARMER Churchill other end. And no wonderf 1 to

I didn't of weeks followed the doctor's

If the use 1. provided

Government office

по

man, singlo Instructions, but the prospect fighter who owns him-Canyon sands of loyal supporters lay.

he has been back that disadvantages

course, But Bree-quarters of mile identify the actress by nanie,

no, breed

even a body of men, of dying in complete isolation Kid. Harriet Recves--to give her a

Churchill enters into the spirit breeding prize thorthorns, then really wanted tank ns well as name several syllables removed finally got her, and so one day

Britain. We Gold Cup, his value would have boy flying his first kite.

Then

may he chuckle trium-

rebuild from her own--was an orphan she sent for her attorney.

to their credit and "no inter approaching the problem from AKG "I want to give a big party shot to 30,000 'gument.

phantly and once again quote, as Churchill bought

ference!* he is fuld to have quoted at an

Angla carlier victory two lines from By telegram came the answer: that

"All we are saying is this: "Hives, year ago for css than £2,000.

Rolls-Royce, Derby.

We want to provide steady jobs "The Ingoldsby Legends":

Government bas The British "Now speed-now speed, my given you an open credit of oni

for one million working mem bers, and we think this is as dapple-grey strea

million pounds. This is a cer-

good a method as any. If any Uncate of charaoler and reputa- tion without precedent or equal, one knows of a better one...? --(London Express Servico). Beaverbrook."

are the largest all-welded struc-

tures in the work.

away.

STAND

one attended for

mc

acquired

a lot of fard

LOOK UP! STAND now

in the melting who had come up the hard way next Saturday night," she said, shup, and look at this band

such as steal- "and I'd appreciate it if you'd tery of eight furnaces. From ways en route,

and scenes each

marches on arrange for the catering one 200 tons of sted will be tapped in a single fother actors. operation. A gentle whirring!

molten

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Le|ful,

Now out into the open again, abl

W

A race

Aus her

to much

convenient,

even

muzic,'

with

nome

ur

horses

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adjoining

to

ircraft

then

סיי

NOE

could

Rolls- If Colonist had won the Ascot of it all with the abandon of a he may be a Derby winner yet. Hoyce wanted 21,000,000 placed make a perfect he sees not

the horse a Astute judge

and This is more than goud

"What's the occasion?" asked the lawyer,

"Nothing in particular," said Harriet,

"It gets kind of lone- and I'd like to some aut here

the old

actress

That night

become decorated

the frat

astute judge of H tune, it is the result of good E IS AN judginent. In 11 months the vic-horseflesh, but 15 wise en- lorious thoroughbred kas won ough not to rely solely on his more than £2,200 in prizes. own judgment.

So Me Churchill mean busi- When he buys an animal, his food at need."

ness.

Epsom

trainer, Mr

Thou ever, my dapple, wert

Walter -(London Express Service)

are

THE WEST CAN LEARN FROM THE EAST

have you. Western doctrince, and main it is little more than a refining fit,

Hwondered what your tains that the Christian, mind curich way of life. In view of wupits have lived

enrichment our already which many

disastrous ctate into which

Men

art

the

Even more than her tantrums, ilke a neighbour's motor car however, the thing that embit- being revved distracts us. Look terca cvelyone around her was

balltic up the whole roof seems to her

of making way DL moving.

promises and her blither way of It is a travelling crane which breaking them. Hur stock ex- see some of my old friends." clutches 300 tons as easily as euse was that she was forget wrote out invitations to dozens baby clutches a Tattle, The

but as a columnist of the

of theatre people with who girders carrying these monsters period pointed

oul, the Never were all made here on the site. forgot to ask for an unreason- she had worked, truring that if v she could get them all together of tho plays percentage along a 32-foot wide boulevard she appeared in.

she'd apologise for her thought-

disease and poverty in tlon of artistry that is needed to of concrete which links the two

lessness in the past and ask alights and

over-

millions of its harmonise such shadows; such their forgiveness, biggest mills. A mile long sights continued

intensities of blackness, as tho to pile up. perfect for

who write the Kama squalor of our cities, tortures of 1rack people

Assumed they were due

true identity is? At sume through not recognising that the

camps, uply symbolic of all this vastness. 10 deliberato faconness-and

a different language our way of life ems to be Sutra (official Hindu doctrines concentration

man's cork on the ARCHITECT

they

Western At eight o'clock on Saturday time or other all of us have although the

of marital love), hypocrisy of the self-righteous first few years for

suffering ot tho Then were.

a curious thing when the musicians arrived, pondered on the fascinating used, the same spiritual reading.

sureness of his spiritual and made Chinese pottery, and bulit and WHO thought of it all? Who

downstairs

were rooms

cannot be diseased", started it? Who deserves appened-her forgetfulness, at the

first

question of who we would Reality is being discussed.

Alan Walls, now 35 years of cultural superiority is amazing." Gothie cathedrals, with theatre posters

Atomio war is not our only What is metaphysical know- accused of contempt of material. fathers credit for being the head back.

are, was born and educated in

ledge? It la the actual ex On the other hand, says danger, according to Mr Watts. room boy? No one here will cronic, and the actress became of her past hits, and Harriet, have been if var

a victim of her own in a sweeping block lace cown, had married someone else. England, and is a chaplain at

realisation of the Watts, the builders of Westside

London, of In every aspect of life be can- tell. The Steel

and East Company of mental untidincas that cho was in the hallway with

Why are we ourselves and Northwestern University in the perlence or Wales the men behind it couldn't

Square Garden and alders Western civilisation is moro Madison remember

for the lawyer waiting

a subject

demoralised by loss of What United States. He writes with principle and meaning of human Chicago someone else? not

Cross Station, than any King's

could, deeply quest to arrive.

casily misunderstood

be accused of any ex- faith. At 10 o'clock

that has she told the would it be like to view the exceptional clarity on a subject life. It is

other, because of unfamiliarity. hardly

circumstanco servant and musicians to help world through someone philosophers to founder.

which makes the Western mind Wettern to the food themselves

and else's eyes?

A

alien

prement drinks and, assisted by the at-

muspect metaphysical knowledgo civilisation, and the fact that a In her middle 50's her heart torney, began Architect of the_merger was

to climb the

Д balanco la that the cultures which valuo E says, with little preamble, writer has had the temerity to Alan W. Watts, in his new undoubtedly Mr Ernest Lover, began to do nip-ups, and under stairs to her bedroom.

"The lucu Hays, who has

come for embark upon an explanation of H Maintains

throughout the book, even it do not show results...ther ex-Prudential chief who moved doctor's orders she retired. She

can hardly blame them book,

white discussing such points as do not use their knowledge to perfect the manufacture of food, the

of had plenty of money and so life for not coming," chairmanship

the Finite, she said. "Faber and Faber, 12s. 6d.), Christians to take the spiritual it is to his crebit.

"In the "Infinite and is fair to both sides. He into the metaphysical traditions of Asia seriously... to comfortable Richard Thomas and Baldwin In was

enough, but used to break plenty of dates delves

that their doctrines of the West and the recognise

presence, comparing cultures it is always "Involution and Evolution," the clothes, automobiles, vitamin

the the myself."

pills, refrigerators and baths. mid-thirues. Now by this time everyone ib

..nothing la so among us in nothing less than

fatally cany to set the best of Supreme Identity" and Lover in chairman of the Steel theatre hated her with a hatred Halfway up, the grabbed for East. He says "....

In the last The modern mind Anda it hard the worst of the Problem of Evil." ole against of Wales.

understand thất (.... there profound an enigma which didn't even bother Company of

to the banister,

the providential."

11e says,

too, "While we have other, ond wo do

not deny are some interesting observa- to His company bought from be cordial and sa

fo was her doctor arrived sbo was internal mystery of man's own

traditional societies in But

lies tons on the presence of evil in, are people who simply cannot ho

a been trying to secure our poll- that iciniily America all the dollars needed

share this exaggerated concerni lonely enough, too.

dead,

poses than this tical, economic and cultural the may be found slums, the world.

for physical well-being. for the

the scheme soon after the A year

A few days later, when her greater problem BRO last April her

discase, cruelly

a painting which ha baffed thinkers rule over the peoples of Asia, nith,

He likens it to and went with lawyer made a routine check of

"When you know that life in was formed. This birthday caOO

been quietly but tyranty.....kt impossible against which

wo are standing

De in no foresight saved more

than a out so much

a friendly

the papers in her desk, ho came through the ages. The theme of

Land most ungracious to deny too close, so that only one sman sternal, you wil million dollars because they dower or phone call, and that across an ironic footnote to her his book is that modern civilis powerfully Invaded by

which real benents state of chaos Orient in the realm of the mind the very were unaffected by devaluation. night,

about It, she lifetime of forgetfulness. It was tion is in a

a time. "In our eternal mato Lions as possible into seventy Further, it kills any notion in had a heart attack. The phy- the stack' of favitations to the because its spiritual leadership... yet while thoughtful West Western science, and especially Patch of colour can bo 800 at. hurry to crowd an many meRED- that we da medicine, have bestowed on the stand with the whole canvas & Fears, and as a result you'will: American minds that this plant rician who examined her. told party

had has lost effective knowldre 'of erners are agreed

something to learn from human race. It is likewise ime view.... evil is shadow har appreciate and addressed--but man's true nature and destiny. have is paid for by Marshall ald." her bluntly that her chances of stamped

they possible to idealise the Orient monising with light. We can keenly," He offers a new the year were none forgotten to post.

approach to the wisdom of the East,

Joan Erskine- overlook the only guess dimly at the perfec- and advised har to

=tLongan saprock #Wovor) the comparison of Oriental and are mostly at the opinion that in toto, and to

was formed only four years ago things she wanted to. by' four famous Welsh Steel

companies.

They pooled resources worth

£10,000,000.

into

the

company

brooding

A group of three men on the living out board every the burden of too good.

and by the time

which Harriet

វា

havo

caused many

greal ca

"The principal of knowledge is cessive reverence for material. This kind

to

is

and

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