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HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
{CHANCE FOR THE L.C.C.
The L.C.C. have an unusually favourable market in which to fin- ance their £30,000,000 slum clear-t ance plana,
One need not look beyond the Stock Exchange quotations for the Council's existing housing bonds to
IS BROADCASTING BLIND ALLEY?
see that a large loan could be raised B
immediately on cheap terms.
YOUNG MAN'S WORLD: AT PRESENT
OPPORTUNITIES FOR CAREERS
(By Hilda Matheson.)
London first requirement. They are mar ROADCASTING, as a profes-ried and have a young family; they
col-
sion, ia at present a young can work best if they are not al- The L.C.C. have just over £6,000,- man's world. The veterans of the ways worrying about the future. 000. of housing bonds outstanding. B.B.C are those who fought as The B.B.C. needs this Civil Ser The latest issue, in 4 per cent, bonds, very young men in the war; the vice type, provided he (or she) has enough imagination to 'understand commands a three-point premium on majority are post-war. the Stock Exchange.
Forty years on will these same his more temperamental It would stand still higher If it announcers, producers, adminis-leagues, and enough enterprise not were not repayable at par within a trators, still be going strong? to act as a drag on new ideas. comparatively short term of years. Will elderly voices announce the
Appeal To Adventurers There is eager buying of the dance music, and bald, stout, gray-
But broadcasting. makes another honda whenever they become avail-haired persons move stiffly from appeal to the adventurous and studio to studio In place of the able for purchase.
A new 3% per cent, issue would briak young men, of undergraduate inventive, to those who are con
tinually stimulated by life and who appearance? "Should broadcast- The assured of success,
have a gift for translating this career?" is perhaps & Conditions so favourable as these ing be a will not persist, even for borrowers more pertinent question than "Is stimulus into programmes. It is absolutely vital to the B.B.C. that it a career?" of high credit..
The pioneer stage of this new such people should continued to be ret money cheaply while building profession has attracted a great attracted to its service, whether material prices are still fairly low.deal of youthful enthusiasm, ideal-in entertainment or education. In:
ism, and creative energy. But this music, drama, or nows. The Cor stage must inevitably be succeed-poration have let too many of them ed by a duller stage of consolida-slip through their fingers, either- a stiffer from a false sense of economy, or
The L.C.C. have a chance now to.
FORCING THEIR HANDS
The refusal of certain clergy to tion, which will prove carry out the new English Marriage test of those in charge of broad-a wrong sense of values.
It would pay them to find room: Act and celebrate weddings between casting,
reasons, For many
broad- at all costs three and six in the afternoon, des-
for a proportion of pite the Archbishop's advice to them casting is likely to share some of people who would be willing to the character of a public utility serve a six months' apprenticeship to do so, la indefensible at law.
solini has Introduced a scheme parish priest to show cause why he But if broadcasting has some to work out, on paper or in prac
ceremony.
It would be possible for someone service. Order in the ether is in- for a modest wage, with the pros. who wished to be married at 6 pm:creasingly seen to involve some pect of a contract for one, two or to apply to the High Court for a kind of centralised control, na-more years at a figure aufficient to Germans to marry faster. Mus-writ of mandamus directing his tional and international.
attract them. It may not be easy
of "mass marriages," under
áhould not perform the
thing of the public service about tice, the relationship of creative- which young Italians are march Plans have already been made to it, it must also be free like private to administrative staff, or the ed up to the hymeneal altar and test by this method the legality of enterprise to experiment in every place of those who must combine sacrificed in platoons. Menn- while France is trying to entice of divorced people.:
the Church's ban on the marriage possible direction. What prin-both functions. It is never easy to ciples should govern recruitment, find a common denominator be- immigrants from Italy and Spain, notwithstanding the fact has long been anachronism.
Incidentally, the three o'clock rule pay and employment for such altween the office man, and the man hybrid, in which personality of ideas. But programme-makers Last century the skeleton at that within the past 20 years
to make programmes It was originally imposed. to en-counts perhaps for more than in will cease
before it got dark, and thus
-- consider
how pro their energies, as well as prospects
The World's Population
civilisation's feast was the Mal-population increase in Italy has
Even German sure that weddings were solemnised any other profession in the world? unless they can ses some scope for
of specialised.
to
First
thusian doctrine that the time been negligible. was statistically in sight when immigrants are asked to come rendes more difficult the forced or grammes are made. They are not of advancement for themselves as the increase of population would and reinforce the French popu- have to stop in order to prevent lation, a welcome being offered clandestine marriages in which the devised. by a Board and delegated well as for those who can so neatly cus rude forefathers downwards to be carried out. They be placed on the various rungs of the human race from being to, Jew refugees from the rod of rader
are created from below and push- jan administrativa ladder. crowded off the earth, To the Hitlerism... All this indicates a
jed upward for approval. They de-
Broadcasting authorities have,: more advanced nations the spec-statistical position that is being
pend, that is to say, upon the im- of course, been able to count upon with tre is now taking a different contemplated
something Your Daily Smile! agination, interest and intelligence the fact that, in these days, many form. At the rate at which hu-akin to alarm. Nor are these
of the junior staff. man increase is slowing down, the only countries affected by A dairyman who was summoned
of those engaged by them would In for diluting his milk pleaded that impressing those, whom they per alternative employment elsewhere,
They must be people capable of
¡find. It' diflcult if they'left to find they think they see reason to fear the declining birth-rate.
that white civilisation is in dan-England the birth-rate has fallen he had never done such a thing suade to broadcast, whether prime since, where there is a monopoliz ger of dying out. With popula-perilously close to the limit ne before. A crime of the first water. donne, professors or politicians,
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tion growing indefinitely at an cessary to race perpetuation, and
with a sense of confidence in their tic service, there is no competition
for broadcasters. A certain pro-. increasing ratio and the accom-in most, if not all, white coun-Prejudices
judgment, and in their knowledge; modation available for it a fixed tries a steady decrease is report- There are fewer horses in the microphone technique.
portion of the stuff have, naturally, quantity, the Malthusian pro-ed.
Army of to-day. A sergeant- They will not rest content until gifts or qualifications which do phets claimed to be able to fore-It needs an unusual share of informs me, however, that there the programmes for which they open doors to them apart from tell by figures that the demand optimism to put much faith in are just as many donkeys.
are responsible are rehearsed to broadcasting. for world space would sooner or any State concessions as a means
the nth degree. This does not}
Chances Of Carcer later overtake the supply. Civil-of checking the birth-rate de True To Form
betoken any. peculiar virtue in It is true, however, that for
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isation was warned that in this cline. Nowhere is poverty res The manufacturer of vacuum them; it is partly due to the fact many, even, of the ablest, years it would see its own chicken com-ponsible for the shrinking from asks who always kept outwardly that failure comes home to roost, spent at the B.B.C. have not pro- ing home to roost. cannibal parenthood by, which white civil- world had nothing of that kind isation Is. menaced. As a rule cool though he was boiling inside. even as success brings its own vided them with very obvious to fear. By increasing the means all over the world the poorer the of subsistence civilisation was parents the larger the families. causing population to Increase Amongst the more primitive
MAXIM
Never run after a girl or en
at a proportionate rate. If there races a high death-rate is all omnibus. Another will come along were no more mechanical aids to that prevents swarming to reple- quickly enough.
the production and distribution tion. The duties, pleasures,
of life's necessities to England and knowledge which higher Artful
credit.
The Administrators
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credentials for work elsewhere. Up to a point, this fact has enabled So much for the creators. What the B.B.C. to retain the services of the administrators, and parti- even of disappointed young men, cularly the directors and sub for whom the fascination of broad. directors of programme depart-
(Continued on Page 3) ments? They must be answerable
FREE-FOR-ALL AT STONE-YARD.
had for criticism from every quarter,
to-day than there were in the civilisation brings, are the main The picinie club which has time of King Arthur, the in- causes of the declining birth-its fixture-card printed in code internal and external, home and Augustus Caesar, who just to fool the wasps and mos-weigh heavily upon them in end-
foreign. habitants of the country would rate.
"Policy considerations" hardly be rauch more numerous found Rome a city of brick and quitoes..
less small decisions. Their loyalty now than they 'were then. Op. left it a city of marble. tried all
to what they believe to be good collide with
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Eight Coolies Plead Not Guilty,
timists, therefore, predicted that that is now being done by Ger- Preparing For The Sun? improvements in the means of man, French, and Italian states- The manufacturer of sunburn broadcasting may
Eight of the coolies, who were sustaining life would always men to prevent the decline of lotion who is putting his back into loyalty to the hierarchy of which
they are a part......... keep pace with the increase of the Roman population, but with-his werk,
engaged in the free-for-all battle If they incline towards red tape, at the stone yard belonging to the world's requirements. So far out success. It was the penalty
or the line of least resistance, they Messra. Logan and Amps, To Kwa that belief has been more than of their higher civilisation, with Phew! justified, for the problem now is the luxurious lives the people "The experienced climber can will rightly be blamed for dull Wan, yesterday, appeared before. to find consumers sufficient to lived; and that penalty had to be acale an almost vertical rock" keep the productive agencies ful- paid. It is the third child and on told. It sounds a bit steep ly occupied. The embarrass-over that the Governments are me.
ment of riches, however, is an bidding high for, because unless
easy muddle to get out of, and it an average of at least two sur-Taking No Risks
to
I programmes. If they lose the Mr. E.. I. Wynne Jones at the
common touch, their staff will Kowloon Magistracy
this morn
lose enthusiasm. If they encouring on charges of disorderly con
lage originality in their juniors, duct.":
}they will be accused of modern de- All pleaded not guilty and sald
irresponsible
con- that they were working when the
is impossible to imagine a sane viving children are left behind by The yachting girl who refused cadence, of world ever permitting itself to every woman the race cannot to go about bare-footed because duct, of taking Russian gold. They fight was on, but were hit by the
In Australia,.accord she was afraid of the tasks.. suffer acutely from being over continue. supplied with good things.
It is no fear of that kind which the average number of children Facts You Did Not Know sario. causes the present outlook to be per family is about three, with a downward tendency. And there
ing to latest available statistics,
must," in short, combine the quali- rocks--which were being, thrown. ties of a senior Civil Servant with Five of the men had big bandages the temperament of an impres-round their heads, one had his
cheek covered with sticking plas
It is a tribute to the attractions ter, and another was limping, the--
HONGKONG BENEVOLENT viewed with misgiving. Where the slight preponderance of men factorily manufactured experimentally
Fiber wall boards have been satis-of broadcasting as a career, as eighth who was the only bakka
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the danger appears to be is in allows a possible husband for in the manufactured extra well as to the sagacity of Sir charged was unscratched. the apparently declining rate of every woman; whereas in the eucalyptus, Jarrah and karri woods. John Reith, that the B.B.C has The eight men wereChowe white race reproduction. France, most advanced
been able to enlist a respectable Vin-yin, 39 years old, Chaug Yu, -- Germany and Italy have com-Europe there are now millions of Used like a pair of pliers, a now supply of both kinds of officers in 30 years old, Chuang Chung, 25 menced a race not for increased marriageable women doomed by ammeter measures the electric current their service, who work with years old, Fong Hing-ting, 36. armaments so much as for more the numerical inequality of the flowing through a wire by being clamp loyalty and enthusiasm. But the years old, Cheng Chih-fa, 87 years
people. The French Government sexes to compulsory celibacy. ed to the wire Instead of cutting it.
is putting higher and higher pre
miums on parentage. Bonuses
Madrid.
Corporation cannot trade upon | old, Teal, Ping-tsai, 28 years old, Nearly every motorcycle in North this spirit. If they wish to Tsui Chi-yul, 34 years old, and LI America is an American machine and attract the pick of the young men Lah-sing, 24 years old. All were about half of those used in Latin and women in search of a profes- stone-breakers. America were built in the United alon, they must offer either pros Sgt. Whilan sald that of the 22 States
men Injured in the fight which pects, or scope.
These represent, in a sense, two was started by two men, 14 were
to Civil servants, beginning at STRIKE FEVER IN SPAIN £6 108. a year for the first child and ranging up to £20 for the fourth and over, with free edu Figures published by a Madrid catlon and other concessions, newspaper show that there were Finland has established telephone
A are amongst the means now tri- more than 6,000 strikes in connections with North American lines of appeal. There are some to still in Hospital. Each man f
coun by way of London and with whom security, a settled if not very opt on bail of $25,- ed to improve France's birth Spain during 1988.
South American countries by way of are Income with a reasonable The case was remanded for rate. Hitler is offering bribes There were more than 5.000, in London and with South American of cheap loan money to induce 1982. Reuter
countries by way of Berlin.
amount of responsibility, the seven days: