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To the lampposts with these people!
by Anthony Lejeune
SIR BASIL SPENCE, former president of the Royal Institute of Bri-
tish Architects, is prepared to "bring out his gun" in defence of the old gas lamp outside his Georgian house. He will fight against sodium lighting to the last......
To the lampposts!" the French revolutionaries used to cry, and it is becoming a fashionable slogan again.
Few subjects produce as much heat if not always a great dent of Dhamination, ca this business of street lighting. The bate A. E. Multhows staged a sit- down strike in defence of his lamppost and the residents of old Chelsen raised ப riot on behalf of theirs.
And in my opinion .rightly.
olt
their hands keep cot
old lampposts. "Let these
seems there be sodium lights!"* to be the favourite item on the agenda.
Car
Lovely? No
Of course they won't, and he knows it. Not everything old is
but some beutiful.
things Not everything actually are. new and modern is better than what revinces.
This is general truth which local #- thorities often And hard in Bo lieve,
Recently I pinned a borough
Alan Herbert once founded a quite counelllor down and bullied him
Things He admitted Society for Leaving the subject.
Tha is the sort of that the new impposts were un Alone. Fish-colour
lovely. We agreed that the clely we need more of. Meun- sidents had not been consulted while. If Sir Busil Spence wnis and for the most part did not nother recruit on his Georgian barricades, I am ready to like them.
shoulder a musket with him.
All crot Britain, ke Things from Outer Space, these horribly now lights are maretding, roured up on concrete staiks, leering down in orange or corpse-blue. turning mere human beings the colour of fish on a slab
Argi-
monsters.
There may be a 'good mem for handing main traffic roads over to the They certainly provide a better light for driving, by.
But the invasion does But stop there. They have infiltrated quiet bock streets and residen- tal squares. vulgarising what" was once beautiful,
Swept away In front of their -advance are the old soft lights with their wrought-iron brackets and curly Victorian standards.
Local authorities shaply
"But, they're cheaper," he an- nounced proudly.
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Which would be a better argument if that sume council were not vishing money flower beds and new municipal bulkings on the ground
untested) that the (equally ratepayers are hapov to turk out for stich amookies.
"Besides," he added, "It's just fhed you're not used to these new lamps,"
now
Is it? Does he really believe
from that in 50 years nostalgle Americans will be buy- ing up concrete bean-stalks as today they buy Victorian lamp- posts?
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"I'll not leave my MUST be very odd, but I have
sons a a penny"
DAVID
NIVEN, who is among the world's top stars and is paid a magnificent sum - say about £200,000 a picture for his talent, has just informed his two sons that he will not leave them a penny when he dies.
best of everything. They won't rough It as I've had 10. I promised myself I'd leave them plenty,
F #m not depriving the think. my kids will have the boys of anything. The fact to leave that I don't propose them a lot of surplus loot in
the best my wil is about thing that could happen to them," he said.
honestly never thought about getting married. I have always had so much to do and so much to think about that it has never seriously come into my head. I have no anti- pathy towards men, and in many ways I suppose I would like to have my cake and cat it.
men
like and even expect that should throw their masculine gallantries In my ilirection-but, well, I've never really had the time to concentrate on one particular man,
I
Of course I won't ever murry now, enjoy life exactly as it is and I am very happy with what I am doing.
Then one day I realised that the saddest people 1 knew were my friends with money. Muuey they'd inherited. They had no I have a woman friend I share drive, no ambition,
home with. She is a social worker, and All they had was money that we have been friends and flat-mates for tion, he went on, deliberately, some rich dadily "ting been-Idiot 22 years now.
chough
In debt Tieless, his face arranged -in-a-lined pattern of concentra.
"Let me exlain. Nobody left me anything. My father was killed
In the First World War when I way Ave.
no reason,
leave behind."
A slow stille lenked from his
Ilving alone must be a pretty eyes and ran down his face. "So grim thing to have to do thank I decided to spend every penny goodness I don't have to fore
Mind you, I'm not "As soon as I was old enough 1 earn. I was pushed into the Regular throwing it around, but to hell the misery of going home to Army. I got. nine sings a with a rainy day. I don't want an emply flat with
in the walk to. day as a second Bestlenent and to be the richest man
the Jolly Did Government graveyard."
caughed
uniform
£250.
4
was
to buy up £50
11 Niven, who usually hides his
more cost nearer which
serious site behind barrage of anecdotes about his lifelong friend Trubshaw,
mis serious again: "But don't understand me, I want the boys to enjoy the money-but with me, in my lifetime,
Under So I was brought up en umbrella of miserable crush- ing debt. I quit the Army and went to Canada and earned 18 French- cents un Journa Canadian bridge building gang."
Niven stood up and walked to the window of his £100-a-week Belgravia flat, with its rich oil
"I should tread on A banana skin tomorrow and break my
no one to
No worries
The idea that a man should one day provide for me has hover occurred to me. There was no money In our family, and 1 just knew that my wel- fare was my very personal rea- ponsibility.
never wortv
the About have future. I
struck FO raany bad patches, but part, experiences I know I can always gul myself out of them their - alone.
have been
en the dolu.
I nock, the insur ance companies win take care of my wife, Jordis, and the
will be ond carpets which boys
given the best education up to university level. Raid, turning After that, they're
"I used to own."
paintings Lickle the ankles. "At first," he from
the window.
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Of course, I won't ever marry now, I enjoy life exactly as it is
WHY I NEVER
MARRIED.
by Elaine Burton
(TALKING TO SALLY VINCENT) MISS ELAINE BURTON, 56, was Labour M.P., for Coventry South from 1959 until last year's General Election. She, was: one' of the most colourful women at Westminster often beadline news over her eam) – paigns for better hire purchase conditions, cheaper air mall for troops, and the right of women to ́obtain ̋mortgages;—
bit
more than once. in the early physical training Instructor. But Year's I Was
of a In those days the course re- nutrance to myself and society quired was expensive and I because I wantedt to do the could not afford it. sort of werk I knew I could do, buil hadn'i the necessary Paper qualifications Ia
Prove
aysell to would-be employers. Hence the dole,
Stubborn
So I spent two years at a Lack of money has always teachers' training college and clementary school
been a problem for me--and
one I believe I have tackled
very well.
ilways try to look 09 though I'm well off eyen il I'm borrowing money to live through the next week.
think I even wore
да
than £3 a week. I stubbornly hung on for the right sort of and went into the work National Fitness Council,
That packed, up and, I soon tasted the hopeless atmosphere of the Labour Exchange.
It shocked me badly and I thought I could do some good by joining the Labour Party. became
fought South Hendon in 1945 teacher,
ard became M.P. for Coventry In 1935 I stopped teaching South in 1950. und went to work for women's I lost my seat last year. It
clubs J and girls'
South Wales.
I stayed for three years and then joined Sir Richard Acland's Commonweath Movement.
Coming back to London, I
to pretty
have
thought, always though, that everything I have ever done and everything that has ever happened to me has been for the best.
Ay young girl I played
Yorkshire hockey for
and i to swim the
ulso
wanted
Channel;
I am on the executive-com- mities for the Central Counell of Physical Recreation because I feel this country does not do 211 it should to give everyone the opportunity to enjoy the benents of sport and leisure.
Our young people, I think, are wonderful, and I will do all I can to impress that impor
Lant fact on the men and women who believe all teenagers
are bad eggs.
We must have more playing fields, swimming baths, running trucks--and let's Bloodlight; them
So
that they can always bo available. I don't care where the money comes from to do i
Our young people have, 10 nuch energy and so many good initentions. It is up to the Gov- eriment to see that their ener gies' get chunnelled in the right direction,
Difficult
These motor-bike youths, fur instance, who roar round the countryside on their high- powered machines, What: ex- "cellent commandos-they-would--
have made,
I have so much I want to do I enjoy my work as games adviser to "a firm nd 'T have plenty of time for all my other interesis,
A career, though, should · not
I am not an intellectual-but I do have a creative mind. like to work things out and i be a subelitute for marrings. If adore anaking speeches,
* girl wants to get married i "I get great satisfaction in finding things to do, Bertrand Russell by the hour career should not stop her. But and I love the theatre. I just this is difficult advice for me to
occupy love finding things to
give.
was a shattering thing to wake me.
up the morning after the clea-
tlon to find thất my job; my
Sports
My hobby-horses
I read
are youth,
decided not go back to hobby, and my income had all sport, leisure and the consumer,
hat to queue up for the dole. teaching because I had grown vanished.
When I first thought about
Д
career
I wanted
to
be
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1 have always been a sports- woman myself,
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THAT is the most Im-
WHA
By PHILIP
portant
in thing British industry today? Idea: Simplification Not men, not money, not "winker" switches. machines. But ideas.
Ideas that will save time and labour, cut costs, and help boost output from the nation's the Lorles,
At last business men are really going all out to get ideas from the men on the factory
floor.
I shall, I have no doubt, con- tinue to use all my personal
resotirees in order to cor
Corry
with the work I love.
And if I ever have to retire-← well, I'll simply go alqug and draw the old age pension:Simp
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boss big idea?
DITTON
car 226 Arms and 15 public services
shows that;
£750 to a tool setter employ
A total of 150,628 sugges sd by a subsidiary of Imperial lions were put forward last year, More than one in four Chemical Industries in Stour- port.
More than 2,000,000
Idea: Use of an air line were accepted for cleaning TV set Insulators,
£509 to a man working for workers employed in the or- surveyed were. Heinz Idea: Improved method Kanisations
eligible to contribute. for ing saled cream bottles,
• Cash awards hit the 537 to a rennery operator
£150,808 mark. employed by Esso, idea, Piping
the change in
"eat design
The koy to this operation is the "suggestion box"first used in Industry before the turn of cracker" at Fawiny. the century-but only now in its
value being discovered.
One in five of the larger fac-.. fories in this country run these schemes. But other firms which n
A survey
• The average award was 24-148
The highest in this coun- try was the £1,100 paid by **Joseph Laicos,
£350 to machine operator
Fordu,
geor.
monthe to
Fords had a three publicity drive from June August last year. Ideas poured in. The maximum award has now been raised from £350 to
£500,
Heinz chief campaigned for more ideas. They got them. Eight times ́ ́us many in-one month, and double the total of the previous year.
-Hoovers report a raise in sug- gestions from 108 in the first five months of 1959 to 0,804, in the same period this, year. The number adopted rose from 112 W 090,
Opportunity
The highest in the U.S. Dagenham. Idea; to the end of 1856' was £11,000
Here are big opportunities for do not are woaling £20,000,000 Modification to Anglia reduction paid by the US. Sleel Corpora--
tion.
British industry, vathét fğurek“ worth of idens 'n yasr.ns
Workers mellme find it show progress,· Bluf", thai vexperta They can be big money spin
£250 to a toolmaker employ hard to belleve they can suggest say we are wall bahind the ners for management and melled by Hoover. Idea: Simplified ideas which have escaped United States, when Blition
Workers themselves corned at
management. Successful schemes schemes have swept they board. least 250,000 from ideas last labelling of electric irons, year, · And... the savings to in- - dustry are incalculable.
free, Here are some of the ideas The Industrin Welfare that have pulled in the money, Society, which has fust com They often sound technical, but pleted a mrvey of suggestion generally they are full schemes, estimates there has straighorward of been a 21 per cent improvement
£1,"banen, "tool" niter: 'Inʼresulle since 1999. employed
The survey, which covered
Awards, generally, are tax depend; on interest at top level,, One, fact is SPIEL
Food, adranistrations and first the scareant of all „class internal publicity. (* 1 Andastey. And there kierujenty
Unides care is toen fordeal / helpless on the frete with suggestiche promptly and maremman TRANS explain the reasons for them. Ume and thei trghinig Kwakker will soon becorne, dis-jalid (os1150238)
couraged,
the