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AMUNDSEN'S · AIMS. THE VALUE OF POLAR EXPLORATION.
THE GARDEN CITY IDEA.
LETCHWORTH'S COMING OF AGE. STORY OF A GREAT EXPERIMENT.
The utility bf Capt. Amundsen's airship From May 17th to 22nd Letchworth, the fight over the Polar regions and the world's first Garden City, celebrates a North Pole has been questioned in many proud 21st birthday with a Civic Week, quarters, and it is quite true that nothing of which the Duke of York has consented can be gained by merely fixing to the Pula to act as Patron and Brig.-Gen. Viscount and back For tivo centuries it was the Hampden, Lord-Lieutenant of the County loadstone that attracted every Arctic of Herts, as President. There are to be explorer, and the bones of any lie in con ferences, exhibitions; official recep- the icy North who perished in the attempt tions, Inuches, and dances, a window to reach the mathematical point that dressing carnival, and May Day festival marks the northern end of the earth's Speakers at the conferences will ipelade axis. "Mr. Ebenezer Howard, the founder; Mr. | Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health; Dr. Seward, Vice-Chancellor of Cam bridge University; Mr. Cecil Harms worth, Mr. E. B. Bernard, J. P., and Mr. J. H. Wheatley, M. P.. ex-Minister of Health. They will discuss Housing,
Peary won through after eight failures, and three years later both Amundsen and Scott stood at the opposite end of the Those achievements. were earth's axis, noteworthy mainly because they were the first conquests of the two Poles, and there is nothing to be gained by their repeti
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Amundsen's adventure is not mere Pole- anding He hopes to prove the feasibility of aerial routes from east to west over the Polar ocean, which would be possible should land exist in the vast unexplored region of over a million square miles
WORLD RACE FOR TRADE. GREAT BRITAIN A HIVE OF INDUSTRY.
FINANCIAL EXPERT'S - VIEWS.
LONDON, April 20th. The first of a series of articles appear fing in the faily Chronicle on the World Race for Trade is one by Sir Leo nozze Money, the well-known Hnance authority, dealing with Great Britain. He points out that seven years after the end of the world war Britain was able export manufactures valued ke 610,000,000 in a single year, which was more than any country in the world.
That face helps us to preserve our sense of proportion," he says, No. in the world presents such A closely- packed hive of industry as Britain. It is said that workmen earn up to 400 weekly in America, but the average in New York Britain ean beat city is 12 dallara America hollow in ship building, cottons,
The system at Morris's motor works woollens, worsteds, and furniture: at Cowley, where the manufactured parts are assembled on a fixed track, compares favourably with the Ford Conveyor system.
Passing along the tracks the chassis grows to completion in 100 minutes. Men are “feil" at each point on the track 'with Enished parts, which they have to fix, th engine being dropped from abore. Ni men fix the engine and back ax in 100 seconds. It is noteworthy that the Mor ris output has grown even more quickly
between Alaska and the Pule. The exist than the Ford, increasing from 1932 cars ence of a few small islands there, or one in 1920 to 30,587 in 1923. The average large island, would enable aircraft aeru-carrings of Morris's employees is sat dromes, and perhaps permanent meteore-weekly. logical stations, to be established for the use of aircraft using the Polar route to the east.
Town Planning, Local · · Government, Education, and Industrial Welfare. Letchworth will be en fete,
What dramatic moments emerge from those twenty-one years and others that prepared the way These, certainly (writes an Observer representative) : A humble man, a Parliamentary shorthand reporter-lor Mr. Howard was simply that neither wealthy nor intuential, dreaming dreams of fairer cities, happier communities, than the Victorian age had known, incorporating them lia 1988 in a book, Garden Cities of Tomorrow," gathering influential men to his banner, seeing the Garden Cities and Town Plan- ning Association founded a year later, seeing demonstration cottages erected in 1903 at Letchworth, and people moving into thea-although, they were merely in-1 tended far show and thus founding the first Garden City. That same man, in 1910, seeing visions in land offered at
Many problems of biology, meteorology, Welwyn, raising some few hundreds has and terrestrial magnetism depend for their tily among friends,, dashing to the sleditions existing in the Arctic. Natural solution on knowledge of the physical con- and securing three-fourths of it with barely enough to pay the 10 per cent deposit. This have England's only two Garden Cities come into being.
THE GROWTH OF AN IDEA.
Mr. Ebenezer Howard," Mr. W. Loftus Hare, editor and librarian of the Garden Cities and the Town Planning Association, fold The Observer. "was i man of philanthropic mind who wanted good for everybody. He thought cities were wrongly constructed, and wanted to bring into closer proximity country and town life. He said there were two magneta: one, work which drew us to town: two, felict and recreation, which drew us to the country. Why not-unita them both to pull in the same direction
So the book was written, tensedčia tion formed, people like they lifted Mr. Fustice Neville-then plain Mr KG- attracted to the movement. Tracts were fasued and what pioneers they were, then Tract No. 1, published in Septem- ber, 1899. showed e Garden City concep tion in the type of a segment of a wheel, and the roads, were named Columbus, Newton, Milton, Shakespeare, Edison, and so forth Pamphlet No. 1 of the Association set out its ideals in these devout terms: The Garden City must be a city of humans, delightful to the mind and wholesome to the body; an advance towards juster conditions, inclining the halance in favour of the weaker and more helpless; must offer scope and a home for the greatest possible variety of workers and rallings: must possess greater productive power and raise Feal
by increasing the purchasing wiges power of the wage earners: must offer better opportunities of social intercourse and amusement; and the lowest rests and rates consistent with high civie standards. THE BEGINNING OF LETCH-
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When aircraft can By, to the Polar regions with the certainty of landing- places and food depots at fixed points the the Pole will be possible, and this will scientific exploration of the area round field data of the utmost importance to science, and ultimately to humanity.
ists want to know how life-forms in the ie, and whether any similarity may he Aretic compare with those in the Antare traced to gub-oceanic connections between the two, or to the existence of much the same conditions at opposite ends of the earth's - axia,
The weather of the temperate zone is largely influenced by the meteorological conditions of the Arctic, and weather forecasting aikapproximate to an exact science when scient data concerning Polar air currents, cyclonic areas, wind. direction and velocity, and variations of temperature and atmospheric pressure am Available
Every addition to our knowledge of natural phenomena has a direct bearing on our everyday life.-The Observer.
MILLIONS FOR HOUSES.
The great prosperity which is now being experienced by the leading building socie ties in Great Britain is illustrated in the remarkable figures given by the chairman at the annual meeting of the Halifax Fermanent Benefit Buikling Society. Assets amount to £23,932,091, an increase of £3,563,500 in the year. The income for the year reached £16,85,104, an in- crease of 22,538,208,
The society is taking a very prominent part in the Enancing of new house pro- perty built for personal ownership. During the year 8,60,443 was lent on new frst mortgages to 15,628, individual' borrowers. The total outstanding on mortgages was for the first time over 28,000,000, namely, 20,107,146, an in- crease in the year of 2,148,521.
Water, electricity, and other under- takings controlled by the company have cost £300.000,- including loans. Investors had to wait fifteen years before they saw any dividend, but for the past three
The support of people like the late Mr. George Cadbury and Mr. W. Hyears the maximum dividend of 5 per Lever, later, Lord Leverbalne," Mr. Loftus Hare continued, "was enlisted ed September, 1995, net profits amounted
cent. has been paid, and for the year end-
at conferences at Bournville in 1001 and
to £19,500. Some' £2,000,000 has been Liverpool in 1909. Then Lord North sunk, altogether in houses and factories. cliffe and Mr. Ceeil Harmsworth gave ful tree-lined avenues, theatre, shops, There are parks, playing fields, beauti- their support. But the important event
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THE WELWYN ENTERPRISE. of the Spentatur, in 1905. They were And so, in due time, came Welwyn, the built with a view to showing what could pioneer company for which was formed be achieved in the way of decent, sightly in 1919 and registered in 1990. Here the habitations for, then, about £160. It was story was taken up by Captain R. L. intended to pull them down afterwards, Reiss, a director of Welwyn and chair- but people came along and saidas Why man of the executive of the Association.
looking for!" and settled into them. a population of nearly 4,000, with in- And that was the beginning of Letch-dustries such as brick-works, joinery- works, and gravel-pita controlled by the The next thing was to attract in-
Garden City Company. In addition, the dustries Mr.J. M. Dent, the publisher, Shredded Whest firin manufactured there and Messts. W. E. Smith and Son were its European output, there was a turbine induced to establish factories. engineering factory, and other industrial Others followed, L., The Heatly Gresham concerns, to say nothing of four dramatic Engineering Works, Ltd., Garden City a golf club with probably the lowest an- societies, a cinerna three nights a week, Press, Garden City Embroidery Coqual subscription in the country-two Ewart and Son, Ltd. There was difficulty guineas-and shops and public under- in getting labour at first; it was not easy takings subsidiary to the main company. for these arms to induce their worker to come down. More cottages had to be which itself employed some 1,000 people. provided for housing them. Now theta Working-class houses, at reasonable ren- are 70 factories and workshops at Letehtala, were going up at the rate of ten a worth, one of the largest being the cek. Some £2,000,000 in all had been Spirella Company's fine building. There sunk in the venture. At Letchworth, are 3,200 houses, and a population of Capt. Heiss "pointed out, there are, only two liceased premises, at Welwyn there is FINANCES.
one, all three being on the modern prin "It is neither a crank colony orciple of the improved refreshment house. As to the future of the Garden City dormitory. When a census was recently movement,"resumed Mr. Loftus Hare, taken it was found that a hare 538. per- there are smaller scherner under con- sona out of the 13,000 yorked outside sideration at Witham and Braintree, Letchworth, and these were more than Essex, and Addlestone, Surrey. But we balanced by others working at Letchworth look to great municipal corporations like and living outside. The capital cost to Manchester, Glasgow, and the L.C.O. to the main company up to the end of 1925 build satellite towns-if needs be, outside was about £750,000, that spent on land their own areas-which will grow up as and development amounting to 2480,000. daughter communities, and in the course (Continued on next Column). of years evolve an independent existence."
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