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FRIDAY, AUG. 14. 1936.
HOUSING POLICY
Housing policy is still the subject of considerable contro- vergy at Home The latest Where am I? (Film-Stars over Broadway"}
group of critics to become vocal James Melton.
that present tendencies argues Carry me back to the Lone Praíric James Melton.
are objectionable because they B-8445 The Spanish Lady (Hughes)
Stuart Robertson. separate or
the segregate Limehouse Reach (Proctor-Grogg) ..Stuart Robertson. different. classes of the com- .Derek Oldham.munity and therefore hinder the 8-8446. A little love, a little kiss (Silczu)
Nocturno ("Song of Love") (Curran). Derek Oldham. prospects of A better under- the people . Molly Picon. standing among Busy, busy (Picon-Ellstein The Song of the Tenement (Picon-Elistein)
generally. The argument, ap- Molly Picon.
parently, is that all classes should Sam Browne.dwell check by, jowl: that there should bu No well-to-do
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Russin this beautiful conception of equality and neighbourliness has been brought down. from the clouds to the level of everyday Nor is it probable that reality. many members of the public wish to see this iden put into practice; if it were otherwise, more would have been heard of! the plan. It' is admittedly depressing to see hundreds and thousands of practically identical buildings grouped together in monotonous rows, but it is
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How OTHERS
A frank article by one
of the thousands of foreign visitors now in Britain.
OR years now I have been backwards and for-
wards between my own country and yours, es pecially your capital London: and, each summertime, I find some of your own people and your writers who detract from the value of Great Britain as a vacation resort.
They say how wonderful, how beautiful, how quaint with its local customs, is abroad: how refreshing in short. But they are blind to much of what is on their doorstep. and which pleases me.
I do not count my business trips to make money. Then my eye is on the main chanco, But I am at last moved to demand from my- self why so often do I return here simply for a vacation,
It is, of course, breause I like it here, and you: but why? Shall I try to answer that question?
NOW, first of all, I think I have a reason which may seem queer to you British whb are accustomed for so many years to being treated at the big foreign resorts as essen- tially British-in a word, as some- thing rich and strange (I read your Shakespeare, too) for whom very special
must Arrangements made.
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I mean that you are used to always hearing English spoken on the Beaten track of the tourist, You demand your, afternoon tea and you get it.
The difference between you and the people of the country you visit is marked and not. forgotten, and you seem to like it. Perhaps you are a le conceited when you go abroad.
Shall I say, then, that my first reason is half-and-half to see you as you are at home when you are not conceited; and to be absorbed in your crowds with no spécial arrangements made at all for me like we would make for you.
I come here on holiday. Apart emetent extremely from your guides there are few, if any, in the hotels who speak my language: nothing like so many who speak your language abroad.. And I can whistle till I am blue in the face for my particular kind of meals."
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YOU do not treat me, as we treat you, as some- *
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You treat me as one of your- selves-one who is a little mad perhaps but still as a very ordin-. ary fellow.
You have so many of your own tricks which you do not change for You do not find them anyone.
There is convenient, perhaps.
doubtful whether an assortment NOTES OF THE DAY.
of dwellings, with tenements,
is
designers have completely esta-
frank
SEE US
LOOKING
OVER LONDON
CA view of Trafalgar Square and 'beyond (from
St. Martin's) that few people have ever seen.
this business of hours for drink- ing, and your public-houses which are unattractive and not aesthetic most of them.
There is the hour of eight after which no tobacco can be sold,
Contrasted Things Uke that. with, abroad, they seem restric- tions, and you escape them-when- you go abroad. But I do not mind, any more than I mind your coffee or your English breakfast.
Indeed, I find your food excel- lent. I do not mean your restaur- ant food-that is excellent,_of_ course-but your home food.
Believe me, there are bad' cooks: in the homes of Europe, and the way they can murder a ateak is beyond belief. Your steaks, too, can be killed; but, when they are good, they are immortal.
I have an English friend whose
wife does steaks to perfection, and cabbage, too; and I beg, whenever I visit him, no matter how hot the -- weather, for his wife to make mo a stenk-and-kidney pudding.
I am not a boozer, so I feel no great embarrassment at being shut off from drink at the hour of -closing. Besides, there is a great charm to me in seeing you all so resigned to Fate and shrugging your shoulders when the walter or the barmaid calls the time. That shows a philosophy which we Iack.
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Perhaps it springs from your consciousness of freedom to speak your minds about politics. Though, again, it seems you know you can speak your heads.off with out much of the result you crave.. But you can say in your parks, Baldwin is barmy," and nothing
If We All Paid Our Debts
customers to have their accounts
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villas and those mansions which Among the four thousand spec- few can nowadays afford to run tators at the Society of British
And even if these MY job in life brings me into paying at all. would present a spectacle more Aircraft Constructors Trade Dis Mintimate personal contact with conscienceless individuals are saved to pay something off their account, pleasing to the eye. Jumbled play at Hatfield recently were the groups of the type envisaged representatives of civil and mill- every class of the community,
During recent years I have been they immediately fy into a temper, to take their custom elsewhere, would probably annoy the up-tary aviation from fifty different appalled by the amount of needless or pose "to be hurt" and threaten countries. They saw striking anxiety and misery chised 10 Creditors know this, and are mortally holders of amenity, just as much flight demonstrations of what are professional and trades people on afraid to ask payment in case they as the present epidemic of simi- believed to be the world's best account of the almost universal lose that money which is owing tu Jarity does. Man, moreover, is aeroplanes. During the past year attitude nowadays of clients and them.
It would surprise many of my a gregarious animal. He prefers British aircraft and aero-engine entered on the book."
Whilst the general economic de-readers to know that professiona to dwell among his own class or blished their technical leadership.pression was one of the major enuses dentists are as much the victims c men such us surgeons, doctors, and sub-class. There is the further Demonstrations were given of this pernicious habit, I find the debt-makers as are the tailors, factor that the divisions now fighters and bombers unrivalled in
great to exonerate the Impossible
and cal the drapers, the grocers. apparent are. rooted in economic performance and In military mass of people who owe debts to
to cause the professional mún has to considerations, for where there power and efficiency. Among the others and yet use their money in "keep up appearances" many people no..equality of wealth there civil aircraft was the world's any direction except that of clearing think he is well-to-do. This is for With the majority from being the truth and if it were must necessarily be variety in fastest transport aeroplane and their abilities.
of these people "running debts" as so it does not offer even the slightest type of dwelling. It may also be many other. machines which com-
become a thrilling adventure. This possible excuse for taking the ser- said that policy whereby bined in a High degree excellent attitude of mind is beyond reasonable vices and making little or no attempt
economy in
excuse; it is both dishonest and
As a matter of groups of houses of different performance and
to pay for them. disgraceful."
fact, these professional classes are type were mingled together operation. might postpone rather than Overseas visitors were
"If people would only pay their as hard hit to-day as any other hasten, such idens of the brother and generons in their praise of the debts," is a plea I have to listen to branch of the community. hood of man as have still survived new British machines. General day after day when professional RUINED SHOPKEEPERS
men and women, business despite the shock which those Milch, the German.Secretary of and shopkeepers, come to me for the Probably the worst type of case is
Air, expressed the accommodation ideas have received in recent State
an overdraft, that of the small shopkeeper, owning years. This grouping of dif- opinion that the finest fighter aero. This habit of "running a bill hits a well-run, well-stocked store, who
besides
carry a whole load of book sides has ferent classes in specifle areas is planes in Europe are being built these people both ways, for a common feature of all centres. by British firms. "You have," he not being able to get their money debts contracted viciously, which in We see it in Hongkong, as every-added, "the best engines and the for which they have given good the end drives him out of business, service in one form or another, they Some of the saddest stories are of where else. And it cannot beaches to bulke them for thy now have to pay an interest on an honest trades-people during the last were assembled for the overdraft. Clients and customers five or six years having to sell up and nvoided, even were this desirable, event. They comprised nineteen who have "let them down" have now leave the district where they had
them Far better would the critics of civil aircraft, ranging from four-iterally forced present conditions concentrate ongiped air-liners to small tour themselves. their energies
on movements ing planos; twelve military, acro- which would assure all sections planes; one "convertible" machine of the community healthful sur designed for civil or military uses; roundings and adequate everyday and four trainers. amenities. In other words, the also a "static" exhibition of every to pay spot cash generally, or at This class of trader, many of them Improvement of housing should component part and accessory de- least they settled up weekly or bo approached from
tall needed in the construction, monthly. But since the War debt-women, bave to rely entirely upon a the navigation and maintenance of fly making on the part of all classes has quick cash turnover to gain their bottom. When everybody gets ing machines. Ninety-three firms become quite a light-hearted habit, small proat which enables them to without live. It is impossible for them-lo, decent dwellings, well within wero represented and their and debts are contracted their means, built along sound exhibits ranged from acro-engines the slightest twinge of conscience, carry on with a load of debts, be- Indeed, it would seem that thousands cause without sufficient ready money. planned lines, the housing pro- capable of developing one thou-of people, unhappily mostly women, they are not in a position to pay the wholesaler to stock their premises. blem will automatically dis- sand horse power down to the contract debis with all sorts
(Continued on Lago 4.) amallest nuts, bolts and rivets. traders without any intention of
"ppear.
for
of
people
into debt been established some years, running
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CONSCIENCELESS
a well-stocked store in an efficient panner. They would never have been reduced to such a pught, had In Victorian times debt-making it not been for them trusting 50 per looked upon *$ immoral cent of their customers by letting There was conduct. All classes of people used them have goods on the book,
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happens to you. You blow CIT Ateam.
Arid, then, at the appointed time, you go and vote quietly. and without fear..
Ah, you do not know our fears on the Continent; you do not know our dietators, our political police. You do not have to whis- per what you think of the Gov- ernment for fear of being over- heard and put in a prison. You are free, and in your freedom you seen easy-going to some of our hot-heads; but I know you are not. You go about things Constitutionally, but you go to your aim, your goal. And your ilberty you will always defend. · Your trains, your undergrounds in London, and your omnibuses. I And inimitable. I tell you the- transport abroad even, the boasted expresses in America and across Europe-In not so good.
And thien, nlthough as I sakl, you
do not worry about me being a foreigner, and so make me feel at home: and then, I say, there is your politeness and consideration In case of need.
IT IS combined, course, with a shynes, an embarrassment, that
is very British; but it is very trus and kind. Just you try to get help. from a French or a German bobby, and then compare him with your OWN. Compare also the omekils generally. The advantage is yours. I do assure you.
You will hear so many stories of the scenery to be seen abroad, and of the wonderful historical bulid- ings, and the quaintness of the people.
ever
Well, take them all; but do you take your Bath? What a lovely city! So all of a piece, and a period! 80 dignified!
Do you know your Wales? Its mountains and valleys? Your Can- terbury? Even your London? Hero, where I write, in London Is the world: magnificent touches of the old, splendour of ceremonial, a vastness of Ideas—your Dominions, your colonies-and a mixture of peoples that Is loveated £10 through by your British shrug of the shoulders.
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I like to come here because you are like no other people on earth.
You, here, have been out of battles in your own land for nearly two hundred years, since Bonnie Prince Charles. You do not know what it is to be invaded. You fight abroad, yes, but at home you shrug the shouldera.
SO, you ace, I come here or vacation because I like to sit back and watch you queer, unusual people disport yourselves.
I am struck in the eye by your untidiness. Once I came to London at Whitsuntide, straight from Bonu, where no one would dream of walking on the lovely grass of its aquare by the main hotel, much less dropping a paper on it. It is verboten, forbidden;
Straight from Bonn I came, ard all London, that Whit-Monday, seemed to me a mess of papers and rubbish on the grass of its parks. But why worry? Someone cleared It up, and you--you preserved your independence.
You are careless about marriage. Your young people are apt to marry where they just love-or think they love-without thinking of prudence and the money that should be avaliable for a happy alilance. Anu in that respect you say "rats!" to your wiser parents. Well, it is your mar-
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I CRITICISE the hosp!- tality of some of your county hotels, the very polito refined ones I mean, that are managed by genteel ladies officers with or former Army dogs.
They do not lay themselves 'out to please the stray guest very " much. Your Independence again, 'I suppose. But surely it is bad business. Anyhow, such- gentoel reception, when I want lunch a bit too late, does not wreck my whole life.
So come now, with all your curiosities and your iglind superiority, I like you VITY much and your sights and your ways.
Yes, you are so funny-or is it so clever that you make me feel clover while I am among you.
-To-day's Thought -- WHY do you laught Change but the name and the tale is told of you.
---HORACE.