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24, 1950,
Blowing Britain's trumpet--No 2:
GOOD TURNS FOR BAD TURNS
On the large, unlovely plain
surrounding this busy, boiler.< making, rose-growing small
By Reginald Pound
into the
town of the Midlands there, départment as machines making new colour to throw aits what from a distance pills by the million. looks like a converted air-
mass that, is being ground into In this most imposing of fac- ladylike softness of texture by craft-carrier of unusual de tories machines have taken over the edge runner mills with their sign and proportions.
most of the pharmaceutical skills 15cwt. green marble True, it has been there nearly Spinks and Sam Smith are still partment, where they make it by
hands. men's
But Harold
Here in this face guerns. de-i 20 years. It is still a sight of the slivering pills by hand for resolute the ton, you can hear a notre so modern world.
old ladlen of the spa towns for devilish that you can imagine it whom an unsilvered pill is of life's indecencies.
of
one
In size and construction there is nothing to equal it in Europe, you are assured, when you have
Less than a yard from where mounted its broad, terraced steps they do it. two of the original and have been received into the vast interior of Altered light and makers, which he bought 40 Jesse Boot's automatic pill- subdued, elusive scents,
With still more satisfaction it years ago, are rolling out pilis at Advertisements And Business will be mentioned to
a rate of hundreds a minute. communications should
you that ad-visiting American
Harold Spinks has been pill. industrial dressed to the Company CHINA architects and others
making for 49 with
years, most of them MAIL LTD.
on coating. technically appraising eye con- liko
Sam Smith and he tinue to have some difculty in longer come in every day. Theirs tho allvering orders, which no withholding their surprise.
is the skill of long practice.
DEATH
be
PARKSON, Emily, beloved wife of Clifford Parkson, passed away at the Nethersole Hos- pital on Monday, October 23, 1950; will pas Monument, Happy Valley,
at & p.m. today. Tuesday, October 24, 1950,
Unusual building
D
They work with two alabaster Jars. They put the pills, perhaps specially prescribed by expensive This immense cantilever build-physicians who have remained ing, all concrete and glass and nloof, from the Health Service, with no pilines or walis except into one of the jars, and with those enclosing its deck-lllee Boors them a drop, a barely perceptible along which you walk us if drop, of something sticky. ocean-bound, was planned
They gyrate the jar at arm's
and
built to house a large part of the
the name of
activities implied by Boots the Chemists.
Four thousand people work in it, the majority of them in white
coats or cream overalls.
This is where they make cough lozenges, throat pastilles, pills and ointments and saline mix-
Pills by million
It is where you
length for some minutes the other
pllis
jar with silver leaf taken gingerly from a little tissue book. Then the rolling treatment again and, if you have the time to wait. Sam or Harold will show you result.
The pills look ennobled, too
being evolved Into weapon of another war.) The sound of the fierce little micromill grinding the basic stuffs of face-powder is savage and embilering.
Men make the face-powder, and one of them has the build of a middle-weight champion. Women make the lipsticks. Two of them, you notice, wear no lipstick. All the others do, one or two 'vividly.
Dwindling asset
like a chorus, speeding a crimson The lipstiele girls sit in a row
stream of psticks out into the
world of fashion and Imitation.
At the next table you will And she is tired of the inoyllabic "Oh, Mavis Rudd, who warns you that
lar radio show. So she ought to Mavist" fag of a currently popu
Hush! Boys
at work
By Cecil Wilson
The choice of "The Mudlark"
Performance brings home the full for the Royal Command Ellin
absurdity of the law controlli g child actors.
Ted
*Twp
wealthy young wom in America absolve h-gospeller Father: Divine fi 1 ¿lcion of misnopropriat c. ntions.
Two heiress human to forg Divine,
"12 great stars, 33 forgets characters, 3 glorious periods. What's this-- mass study amnesiat
It
must have been ET embarrassing for Ray's 11-year-old Bon fellow-travelling sponsors' W Andrew plays the title-role of the the Chinese Red delegation
who rogamuffin
gate-crashes Manchester walked into a may
nest. Windsor Castle,
This means that at the Empire Leicester Square, on October an the King, in whose name the laws of England are made, will see Andrew breaking one of then al the time he is on the screen.
His "crime" is that he is
under 13 may play in a film.
that no chil for the law says
Mullark" It wine
I am not trying to crab "Th
th's honour responsible committe
11:
Angry Brazilians burned do armall railway station..
Somebody should have cal nhalt, or at least kept them the rolls.
"Even the don't know exper Such as proot-renders?
Another of these interest fillers, reprinted in its entirety "Hammond, Ind. (UP)
be. She is the startled-fawn because a resort lim availabe Patrolman Edward Chmiel sat
drawn-back smile suggesting that and good luck to '! But I d she likes her work,
.She
This
ob-
his motorcycle and heard a pol radio broadcast
"N. China
Mao's early end."
a report of,
*
old mothers
Speaking from experi they point out that his po are barren.
In Eritrea the authorities wot Ike to Shifth lot of. these arm bandits to a better land.
L
Redcreation.
the authorities for per And you and that she does. It
with
law that was B the consists of doing a perpetual good | vlously made to be broken and stolen car.”
turn to people liable to bad turns. is, in fact, broken no regularly strings together gauzt in Britain's alm studios that it good to be swallowed, and, oddly covered fragile glass ampoules of ought to be aboll-hed forthwith. machine-done.
heart and enough, as if they have been amyl-nitrate for
patients subject to sudden attacks.”
We are promised some kind of Is a job no machine has yet been reform, as a result of the recen root. In a factory this size it is an
invidious business picking out found. to do. Mavis's tapering Home Often committee report on specially skilled workers for men-Angers are beautifully skilled at the employment of child actors tion. Each department has its It.
but when it will come and in and indispensable core of know-how She has been 14 years in the what fashion no one knows.
every day to the value men and women who contribute factory and is surprised when you
of the suggest that a lot of people have Meanwhile the producers.go on aphorism that what is worth reason to be grateful for what she snapping their fingers at Auth- doing is worth doing well.
does so very well, But her ority and Authority goes on pre- You meet James Talt, looking peculiar finesse of hand is a tending not to notice. like a distinguished surgeon with
dwindling asact to this great
The whole a humorous eye who has decided, place.
The managerial people situntion seems to being more thie without taking off his white coat, frankly say that the march of the to "Alice in Wonderland" than to to chuck practice for pastille pro. machine is replacing these hund the business of film-making.
that in a duction. He is in charge of pas- skills with something tille
As foon as "The Mudlark" tille operations, and they are ex-knock rather than a skill.
We arrive at the
machine went
into production-and the He has come up from a boy supervised by Lottfe Hardy, and publicity trumnets blew har through all the stages, including see a demonstration of what they enough-everyone who had read
or heard about the original nov terms at the company's own col. mem.
knew there must be a boy in it. the law must be broken.
Nevertheless, the authorities exaggerated. turned a blind eye on Shopper- ton studios while Andrew smuggled in and out every day for 10 weeks.
chemists busy with the pestle and mortar that was the symbol of the apothecaries of old, in the same
tensive.
Lottie's machine is
a
cream.
nonsenso of
"Czech, treason trial.. "Three sentenced to death. "Two given life."
"English family of four requi furinshed accommodation."
At the moment are the fo in shed?
It's no
use
and be created by the con- cognition, of the continuity | lege, and he can still pour a pas-and-green aggregate of ingenuity And as he had to be a small boy worried. The report that all, ti
for the
Colour sense
In the
packs, and folds again and does Other some other things to produce end- tess packets of powder for the kingdom's sick or might-be-sick dogs.
It was a leading, side attraction at the last Cruft's Show, with Lottie in charge.
This machine, so compact, so that you would not be utterly emcient, so full of its own vitality surprised to hear it bark, does everything that is wanted of it and Lottie does the rest.
RULES AND REALITIES
Debate
on the issue of tures, face-powders and lipsticks Chinese representation in the antiseptics; yes, and dog powders.
and periumes, dentifrices United Nations is still in the It is where liquorice tactical stage. The British de-arrives in bulging sacks from the legate has taken the line that ports of Spain and from Smyrna, the criteria should be severe- and
where coriander and derris root flowers of sulphur ly practical. Recognition karaya gum and gum acacia and should, he argued, go almost pimento and lobelin and clover automatically to the Govern-heads, also arriving by the sack- ment which exercises effec-hangs in the air like a blessing.
load, blend in a fragrance, that tive control over all, or most, of the territory. The four rules put forward by the Cu- ban delegate make the re quirements
much
stiffer. Two of them stipulate that ja candidate for recognition must respect human rights sent of the people.
of the struggle for change tillo into its mould with the par- which fills, prints, labels, folds, On that basis more than through the reformers and ticular controlled nimbleness that one member of the United then the revolutionaries, and hand for special orders.
is necessary when it is done by Nations has no right to be the claim to represent a wise machines do the pouring. there. All are supposed to clean break with the past-filing scores of moulds at a time. honour and obey the obliga- to be something wholly new. tions of the Charter, Many That would be a hard claim have been accused at various for any people to sustain, and times of violating them, quite impossible
face-powder-malting without incurrng the penalty Chinese, with so long and ing and colouring, and not all section there are skills of blend- of expulsion. The United proud a history. Still, the who work there have them. Some States delegate objects to the fact remains that they made cannot for the life of them get British thesis on the ground a break with diplomatie con-
the shades right to the last degree that one or other of the two tinuity, certainly
That consists of being-alert and subtlety called for by fashion. wilfully Others can, unerringly, claimants for Chinese repre- and, in some cases, even with
keen and responsive to That, no sentation is not willing, or malice aforethought
doubt, is a colour geneles every minute of the work The sense, not so much a skill. But ing day, luned-up state able, to carry out the obliga-responsibility for present sk is needed in judging just which she seems to thrive as if it {tions of the Charter. difficulties is largely theirs. how little, rather than how much, were a tonic in itself.
There is no perfect solu- Perhaps Peking's concen- tion, but the precedents are tration on a sustained effort clear enough, especially, in to enter the United Nations China's own case. Nobody is partial-recognition-of-the asked any questons about original error. how the Nationalist Govern- Academic debate 'fills in ment came into being. time and keeps the problem Neither the Kuomintang nor to the fore, but does not solve the present Peking regime it. It would be a contribution was elected. Both took power to the ultimate solution if by armed force. Both in their Ambassadors were exchanged time could claim a broad with Britain and Special British Industrialists and ex-equipment and engineering pro- measure of popular support, Commissioners were posted porters have been given a blank ducts but Britain's brains to help and that is true of each of to
is very develop her resources and above vital centres, such as nearly the limit for its amount all British plants to be est. them within their respective Shanghai, Tientsin, Canton, by the news that the Canadian ablished in her midst especially domains today. But the Unit- and Antung to handle local dollar, has increased in value. plants of firms concerned ed Nations would face a pret problems on the spot. Mant-
war potential. For this bold, imaginative, ty problem indeed if it were festly neither the United stroke of national stewardship, in So great the need for bran- ever forced by cast-iron rules Nations Commission nor any its natural level in the in- the hub of Canada's commercial allowing the Canadian dollar to ches of British firms In Ontario, to determine when broad other authority in Korea can ternational money markets, may life, that the Ontarlo Govern- support merges into broad effectively deal with border well provide a fillip for trade in ment has set up an advisory ser- dissent, in countries where a or other problems through the Sterling area and lead to vice to help them. free vote has yet to develop. the Nationalist Government wards a freer movement of goods
In former times the world in Formosa, Co-operation in and currencies. took its authorities as it such matters might do good found them. In China, there all round.
WAS
of
1
Chance for Britain to
emer.
on
stop neglecting Canada
By Donald McCormick
choque and the sky
What does this mean to the North of England?
•
It means that if the Canadian dollar rises to parity with the sterling is reduced from 3.08 to United States dollar, the pound 2.30. Canadian dollars.
to
from
goods
tu
.
*
with
'Herself to blame'.
Hundreds of firms in Britain | want to set up branches in Canada, but seem unaware that this is possible or of how it can war 85 have opened branches in be arranged, though since
Ontario and 40 more pected to follow in, the next 12
months.
only herself to blame..
the
ex-
change marks Cellent opportunities.exist for
a supreme catholicity The main problem of in recognition... The Embas- China's full International sies and Legations dealt with recognition cannot be solved the Central Government, or by Britain alone, as Peking rather with the Waichiaopu, pretends to think. The This in turn means tremendous and the Consular officials United States has far more opportunities for facreased CX- with the provincial Tuchuns backing in the
trade
Britnin United port
Mr. James Armstrong, Agent- and the local representatives Nations, and no early solu- Canada, for Britain, while having General er onttro in non of the Foreign
pay more for her imports of Ministry. tion of the deadlock seems in food, timber, metals, etc., from discovered Canada.
told me: "Brlinin has just ro- For years Business was done wherever sight. Peking continues to
will have the Canuds
opportunity her
thore
was almost complete dis- at lower it could be done. Nobody was insist that the Korean pro- of marketing
interest in the latent possibilities in Canada. prices
And Canada in the least concerned about blem is one not of Com- needs, more than anything else, of our country. how an illiterato Shantung munist aggression, but of machinery, mining
equipment,
"If Canada has already drifted towards America, Britain has bandit could become Govern American aggression. Cross- motor cars and chemical pro-
ducts.
Many or of the metropolitan pro-ings of the border are not This financial vince of Chihli. If there were the accidents they obviously the boom era on which Canada
to share in our futuro [rival_Governments in Canton were but deliberate aggres-is entering,
prosperity. Our advisory service, jdves any interested firm and Peking, cach was recog-sion. The eight-Power reso-
thorough intelligence report, We nised on its own merits, and | lution is not a plan to restore
tell them how much money will Sir John Jamieson in Canton peace and prosperity in
be required for the project, ex- was no pale shadow of the Korea, but "a diabolical plot uuio sense of reality in market-
Until now Britain has shown plain what competition there is, and how the scheme fits Into the Minister in Peking. The on the part of the State Deing the type of goods Canada Canadian economy. Powers, in fact, adhered to partment." Peking, in other wants, but in future there will
"If we
think the plan has every what we may call a most-words, clamours to be admit-be a great need for Intelligent chance of success, we buck the 10 the favoured-nation treatment forted to the Club but proclaims study of a market that has been application for dollars
largely neglected. There is not British Treasury. the recognition of Chinese' it. is nothing but a sinister
enough sound market
by This is the best example of authority. The attitude was body controlled by the British flenis in.
Cannon
how Britain can Increase her In |reciprocated.ja
United States. Hard words. This war overed old markets, vestments- la a hard
Currency But times have changed, break no bones; they also been rem dowagsund eit wealth branches and apringboard for
but still this
dislocation has not ren: Already many of your Wille Canada firms are using their Canadian and there's the rub. There break no deadlocks. But basicing in has always been an internal actions in co-operation are la
New wealth
·
[conflict among the present not impossible which can lopta and, with a vast -de- carrying British trude lato the
programme far front U.S. and South America, fa
•needs ma Someone is going to, devolop 'chinery" from "Britain ***
Karmente this great country. This is Bri- Sho needs not only mining inin's "chanico.
Chinese Communist leaders speak louder than Peking peak production, between the sense, and re-luudio.
The penalties
Wis
Had a Common Informer care" to tell them what they must have known, the whole lm wou!"
have been scrapped, 300 people would have lost their jobs, about £250,000 would have gone down the drain, and the producer would have been prosecuted.
Similar risks were taken with Bobby Henrey in "The Fallen Idol" John Howard Davies "Oliver Twirt" and Brown's Schooldays," and Jeremy Spenser in "Prelude to Fame." All are under 13.
"T
I
It nearly broke_the_producers" hearts to see some new geniu flowering before the cameras without being able to spread the
news.
Once the film was off the floor
the
news could be unleashed, be- cause it was then too late for the authorities to act.
Where la tho sense of it all?.
If children can play in pictures without endangering their health or education--and I am told their private tutors send them back to school better primed than most of their classmates--why cannot they do it without all this under- the-counter behaviour?
So much
travel
luxury
at so
· Wav· fuit ; detalin
plasse hippie 'ta'
little
cost!
getting undu
scientists aro the pay of Russia is TORS
West's atomic
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His friends gathered round. congratulate the india-rubb man at the circus. He'd · jú become the father of a bouncin baby boy.
"L'o one hay'a soz of pipes like Donald Peural":
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