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BIRMINGHAM'S CENTENARY.
Three great cities of the British Empire, Toronto in Canada, Mol-
NOVEMBER
19, 1934.
LOOKING AHEAD OF BRITAIN'S FARMER
By J. L. HODSON
The Very Idea!
erected into the city of Toronto. million and a quarter will the land choose." He showed, to me treasure? Why don't we
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OFFICE PROSPECTING
By George seen and tried!bourne in Australla, and Birming ham in England, are this year celebrating centenaries. The On-THE future of our English science can give the community
"Say chaps," said Cruik- tarlo city harks back to 1834, when countryside are we heading almost everything it cares to sak shank excitedly, "What the little town of York, with a towards moro
mechanisation for. We can, as it wore, fill a great about this Cocos Island. population of 10,000 souls, was How many more than its present store and leave you to pick and Melbourne dates Its beginning to maintain? Is there a future for ampics of ripe mazie grown not do something about it?" the hut bullt one hundred years the unemployed there? What in far away for the first time this ago on the banks of the Yarra sefence doing?
The typewriters continued to year. "Thirty years ago you would click to the sordid tune of the Yarra River by John Batman.
in it could not grown IF you're a big car motorist-Birmingham celebrated on October
We, being the only union man if you enjoy the feel of a 4 the opening of its Town Hall, when I Wont down to my mind in England. That is true of in daily task and common grind.
prosent, were not particularly powerful engine purring under the beautiful classical edifice that Rosearch Station to talk with Bir soya bean, too,
"Plants have been developed of busy and we found time to flick an the, bonnet-if you like the has been the rallying centre of the John Russell, D.Sc., F.R.S., the one director, who is also president of city's life during the past
shorter period of growth and our apple core at a hardworking proof luxury of a big, roomy saloon hundred years. A century ago the International Association now English climate can now produce reader before enquiring the this is your car. At £325 this Birmingham was but an immense engaged in mapping the soils of them. What took, say, five montim amount of the treasure, new 27 h.p. Vauxhall Big Six is overgrown village to quote the the world.
now needs only four. The same "One hundred million dollara," remarkable value-for-money. It prosent Lord Sinyor, Alderman
of thing is true of sort Sir John, like all scientists, is Zealand flax and other fibros,
New replied Cruikshank. is an all-feature car, with entirely II. E. Goodby-was not yet In-
chassis lubrication, corporated, had no Town Counell Chary of prediction, but he was Sclentists have improved drought shoot a query.
Snurd paused on a back space to automatic
"Hongkong or ignition, until 1833 and was administered ready to speak, of the roasonably resistance and disease resistance. Singapore dollars?" vacuum controlled
probable unless something unfore- Again the four-crops rotation that Synchro-Mesh easy gear change, by a self-elected body of Street
He belleves we shall used to be thought as rigid as the Glittering nuggets of purest gold!" "Gold dollars, mani Red gold! Pedomatic starting, self-return-Commissioners. So strong whe
the public spirit, however, that the see a resurgence of our English laws of the Modes and Persians cackled Cruikshank, Ing direction fridicators and Vauxhall No-Draught Ventila-magnificent Town Hall was built, position for the 200 to 300 acre soll deficiencies, manures, feeding
countryside, with an improved has been changed. Knowledge of "No good," remarked Bourd tion; And it is a product of a sion for the first time of a building of small farms of 50 to 150 acres larger yields more cheaply, and Saurd, we should say, distrusts all and the people came into posse farmer; an increase in the number stuffs has opened the possibility of thrashing his machine vigorously. famous factory that has been fitted to be the centre for civie intensively farmed by the whole less liable to pests." (Later in the but local currency, Hongkong building outstanding motor cars unity and an impressivo witness family, more (but restricted) for the past thirty years.
to civic ideals. It was an epochamechanisation in certain areas that has produced wheat every year knows which can be passed.
day Sir John showed me a feld dollars being the only bad coin he HONGKONG HOTEL
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MONDAY, Nov, 19, 1934.
GERMANY'S TRADE
POSITION
demonstration of a public-spirited-
the Kingdom,
soen arises:
readiness on the part of the countryman to remain in the country.
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It would be too bad getting a hundred million chopped dollars. gold.
"Do
know where you
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the
that brought their clty rapidly to the front. By 1851 the powera
"But all this makes planned Stubbs Road. Previously held by eight separate
bodies were centralized in the To begin with Sir John sets economy more and more urgent. Town Council. In 1889 the town great store by the cultivation by At present we produce 40 per cent. treasure is?" asked Abigail in the was raised to the rank of a city, village schools of their own of our food. It would be quite act
& of demolishing winter. Continual expansion as an indus-gardens, and the growing use by jeany to raise that proportion to fanblon. trial centra brought the population teachers of their surroundings and 50 per cent,, 60 per cent., or even "Of course not. Why do you up from a litle more than 180,000 of "the daily miraclea around more. How for do we want to think people would be sending Bouls In 1841, to well over a million then." "The children," said Sir go?"
round clrculars about it if they In 1934, giving it second place in John, "are learning about cultiva, naked him whether he foresees could go and lay their hands on it? tion and fertilisers and their more intensive mechanisation. It's the fun of searching that gets poultry clubs are teaching them Already there is a farm that people."
At those appalling words seven ideas on co-operation that are go formerly, employed 40 men and s BEST GOVERNED CITY
ing to be of immense value. large company of horses which now typewriters rushed into action and Education is being linked up with employs only four men who drive it was sometime before Cruikshank There are so many conflicting with being the best governed efty the neighbourhood's climate and so most of the 36 in idleness.
Birmingham has been credited practical affairs-geography with tractors-and the community keeps could again be heard on the sub-
ject of fun." reports in circulation regarding
Finally he secured our ear anı the industrial situation in Ger- in the world. This high reputa-on.
Sir John said: "Almost certainly asked how much wo were prepared tion, according to a writer in the many that it is interesting to London Times, is dus to "a prin.
there will be a development of to sink into the venture, turn to facts and figures disciple and tendition of civic service for different from 20 or 30 years be restricted to regions such as to slak anything but were willing
"Young farmers of to-day ure mechanisation, but I believe it will closed in the review of German--the ideal and the rule that the age; I can talk now about phos Lincoln Heath and the wide South to lend capital of $3.60 if it was economic development during the more the city does for the citizen phates and proteins and often Dowas where big machines can not ondangered. first half of the current year, the more the citizen ought to do enough be asked questions I can't wander at will. Coreals and cer- Snurd offered to put 85 into the. recently published by the Reichs for the city," This public-spirited awer. There is a real love of tain types of animal husbandry are venture if Cruikshank would lend
the the Kredit-Gesellschaft. This shows Mess, Inherent as it was in
the money countryside developing-in suitable. One may visualise the him people, was developed by fine part due to their ability
temporarily, that not only has there been leadership. Foremost in this res-motor-buses into towns and learn aeroplane might be used. by the our $3.65, put a dollar to it himsel: take time when on a very large farm an Cruikshank accordingly borrowed marked expansion in internal pect stands Joseph Chamberlain, how unsatisfying the towns can be farmer, who would direct opera. (also on account) and by collect trade, but a decided deereuse in who went to Birmingham unemployment. Measures taken young man of 18, and. retired stitutes, wireless (I think there
amenities village in-tions by wireless telephone. ing all the copper coins in the for the creation of work, intro-twenty years later to devote him will be an extension of suitable ready been applied to some extent
nolghbourhood brought the total "The rotary principio has
up to $5. duced last autumn, have led to a self to civic and political affairs wireless lectures for countrymen) our farm machinery, linking up Cruikshank that day and from That was the last we saw of continuous rise in the level of until his death in 1914. He stands better Ibraries-all these лге
out as Blimingham's great citizen, helping. employment, instead of a season-
and speeding up processes; also delicacy on our part and caution we have fixed rubber tyres to on Saurd's part, no reference was
al shrinkage... The improvement under this heading continued at such an increased rate in. the spring of this year that there was a reabsorption of some four million workers between January
development, coupled with the
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We assured him we didn't intend
"I see farmers' daughters read-jour tractors. The fault of the made to the treasure island com- to his spirit of service that in an ing books you and I would be happy mechanised farm is that it depends pany's progress for a week. Then unparalleled way the name of to be seen with. Often the girls usually on one product-it is too we ventured to put the questions eitizen and city are Inseparably are better educated now than the closely linked with price and de- and were told that lack of capital joined as "Chamberlain of Bir-boys. There's a revival, too, of mond: a crop fails and ruin wys holding the scheme up. mingham." During his mayoralty love of craftsmanship. We have follows.
"You see Sлurd owes you $3.65 and me $1.86, and as the company's sides making many administrative|the fourth generation."
"In Canada, for example, one capital so far is only $5, and wo improvements, carried-out-threo
Sir John took me to see sumecent up or down may make enor can't increase it until Suurd pays fact that wage costs have re- great designs. In taking over the wrought-iron gates a smith hug mous difference. When I mained unchanged, has resulted supplying of gas he established al
was up, I am holding on to the 85 as a relative decrease in the gas department which is the made-beautiful pieces of solid but there recently the family farm sort of security so that I don't burden of overhead costs. A de. largest gas undertaking in the artistic work from which architects was penetrating even into the suffer a dead lose. If you don't tailed examination of the indices world. Birmingham's water-pipo
have been glad to learn. "At one mechanised territory. Russla, too, want to go on with the scheme, of production, however, shows service in 1870 operated only three time," he said, "I had to lecture on has found that many of her farms Saurd can pay us and I will re- fund the $5 less the $1.85 I put in "I think in this country we shall and the $3.65 you paid......
Now Snurd and I are prospect-
in
that the increased activity has times a week, half the population men who were tired that was the
markot days in a public-house toare too large.
surface-wella-often tainted by:
country."
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DUMB.BELLES LETTRES
By Juliet Lowell..
Fall House
been largely due to expansion in depended for its drinking water on only time I could catch them always have the smallholding pro- the capital goods industries, re- sewage and from perambulating Nowadays they all a hall and ducing for life and selling only the on our own for away af sulting from a public investment carts. From the pollucid springs they'll listen and question as long surplus--they can meet these eco-getting even with Cruikshank. policy, which took the form of of the Welsh mountains seventy opinion of the growing generation. to settle the unemployed on the I can stop. I have a highnomic blizzards. If we are going official subsidies and interest miles away pure water was brought And they are settling down in the and it must be done in that sort ailowances granted in connection by aqueduci into a hundred thou- with_building operations; in sand homes. Festering slums in
of way. I remember a French- audition to which there have the heart of the town were abolish-
Canadian form of about 100 acres been large, outlays for publiced. The death rate fell rapidly
visited this summer. works, such as road construction year after year and general disease said: "There
Continued on Page 5.) and other undertakings. Coming was framed so that Birmingham, decreased. The housing scheme to Germany's foreign trade, It is when the lenses expire about! seen that whilst imports show twenty years hence, will be one of an increase, exports have fallen the richest munteipalities in the away, with the result that the Kingdom.
favourable balance of 317 million
marks for the period January-to
[July, 1933, has been replaced by ¦ MANY GREAT NAMES jan adverse balance of 258 million
marks in the same months of this: In meeting industrial needs as year. British banking comment well as requirements of enjoyment, on the situation is that whilst it health and well-being, Birmingham must be admitted that, in so far has been true to its cont of arms, on which are figured industry side As the German trade position hus by side with art and literature. been affected by competition Its canal system connects with from countries with depreciated London, Bristol, Hull and Liver- currencies and by the multiplica- pool, and its Municipal Bank has tion of trade barriers in various 2,000,000 transactions yearly. It parts of the world, the deteriora- also has a Shakespearian collection tion in the foreign exchange of 23,000 volumes. In fifty langu- situation has resulted from ages, art gallery, museum, college forces outside the country's own was built largely to accommodate and cathedral The Town Hall control. On the other hand, the the famous triennial musical festi- Influence of the measures taken vals. Mendelssohn himself pro to improve the internal position,duced his "Elijah" in Birmingham, through large expenditures on and here was brought to birth in public and other works for the 1859 the Hospital Sunday Fund. creation of employment, is a Grent names are associated with factor for which Germany is this great city. There John Bright
lived in later herself responsible. To some externry name le Cardinal Nowman, yuars. Its greatest tent, it would acem, says a bank-wito resided at the Oratory for ing authority, that the Reich has forty years. The centenary has endeavoured to pursue two con- just been colobrated of John Henry tradictory policies. In the pre- Shorthouse, author of "Jean In valling circumstances, the main glosant." Bishop Charles Gore, tenance of the international value first Bishop of Birmingham; Dr. of the reichsmark necessitated a R. W. Dale, Non-conformist reduction in internal prices if her preacher, and James Watt, the engineer, were among its cftizuna, competitive power was not to be So also were Joseph Priestly, who reduced, but actually the steps discovered oxygen: John Drink taken, to expand internal produc water, poot and playwright, and tion have caused a rise in the Priestley Smith, "father of eve price level.
surgery.'"
Turning to the technical side, he is an doubt that
"We'll have to stop’asking the boss over. He stays hálf the night and then bawls me out If I get to work one minutó láto
the next morning."
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We had to wander about the beach.
Postal Card
Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins, Now York City.
Dear Mar
Arrived here in Atlantic City safe and sound last night but we | didn't enjoy ourselves so far. All the picture houses were full, so wo had to wander about the bench.
Love,
Elsic.
(signed)
Job Please.
January 5th, 1910, ;
Mayor John Puray Mitchel
City Hall, New York
My dear Mayor:
Just read of the death of
a city magistrate. Have you any
objections to my being put in his
laco?
T. Cassidy (signed)
City Hall