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FRIDAY, OCT. 16, 1936,
TOO CUMBERSOME
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Was but
the
Maurice
WEBB
here introduces a new Series of Articles, by men and women prominent in British public life, that will point the way to Civic Progress.
H
E was very young, very pompous, and very anxious to impress. A
candidate for the local council, he was airing his views for the first time to an outdoor audiente.
It seemed that the world was his parish. Ranging from Peru to Peking, he graphically sur- veyed the international situ- ation.
Then came the volco of a heckler who seemed to have interest neither in Peru дот Peking. "Never mind about the blooming Chinese; what about our dust- bins?" he bawled.
** Dustbins?" mid the youthful orator with scom. "Dustbins? You worry about dustbins whilst catastrophe hangs over the world. You've got a parish pump men- tality, my friend."
Then he resumed his catalogue of world problems, with frequent satirical references 10 "dustbin minds."
He did not get on to the Council. The roters preferred a man who sald little about Blam, but who had much to say about sanitation.
Very crestfallen, he came to see me, complatuing bitterly about the lack of vision among voters.
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right.
I showed none of the sympathy he expected.
I told him it served him He would go on losing until he learned that what he scathingly described as a "dust- ula mind" was actually a healthy and desirable mental condition.
There was a sense, a vital and' comprehensive sense, in which the parich pump mentality" was a creative force.
It was good for men to'range the Universe with criticaj far-seeing eyes in search of a new world order. But if they never surveyed the little domestle world around their own doorstep with equally critical gaze, their new world would differ but little from the old.
In the long run the demand for dustbins and other sanitary ser-
SIGNPOSTS
THE
to PROGRESS
vices was probably just as es- sential to progress as the demand for disarmament.
Had there not been devastating epidemics caused by germ-laden dirt, which had carried off more lives than war?
Did not thousands of children dio each year because of inade- quate welfare services? How many mothers died in childbirth because on eficient public expenditure maternity services was miserably low?
How much avoidable death and disease was rampant because of the lack of adequate sanitation?
Who could measure the mental of the and physical suffering marses of people condemned to ilvo in sluma7
These were the questions which I asked my world-saving friend. 1 repeat them here because the time has come, I think, for a stirring of the public consetence, about these matters of civic and domestic welfare,
Idea The stupid
that focal government is of secondary im-
The Never-Ending Race
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and serious, to that of the exquisitely groomed young lady at the wheel of the big sports car that rolls up in the course of the next few seconds.
THEN securely ensconced out, of; manner is alert the track of hurrying wheels, marked contrast one can find, in watching the traffic on a busy main road, that devotees of the lure of speed can scarcely be lumped
into
one all-embracing category.
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This lady handles her car capably enough, but, in her swerve round the woman who thrusts a rerambulator into her, path, there is a trace nt superfluous
watches vehicle aller vehicle go past there comes a sense of wonder at the sheer immensity of
flourish With her the activity that is summed up in the word "motoring." One gets a sense sharply cut features and her air of of Enmething too fretful and tur- refined coolness she might well poce bulent to endure, and one gains a for this year's Petrol Queen, but sneaking sympathy for the poor that the general effect is marred by a suspicion of pose. She is too jester of the fable who waited at the river for the water all to run blatantly nonchalant, too redolent of Miss Modernity showing how past.
easily the can master activities once purely male.
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But the stream never censes. lordly saloon purrs up softly with glittering plating and Rowless coach- work.
indefensible, the stark fact re- mains that China has been bereft of an immense area of territory which was indisputably hers... We saw a further instance of the perils of delay in the Italo- Ethioplan dispute. Italy declared the aggressor, whilst committee after commit- toe was brought into being at
WH Geneva for the purposes of in- vestigation, and painfully labori- sct in machinery Was motion, nothing intervened to revent the annexation of a sovereign Stato enjoying mem- bership of the League of Nations. We are now witness. the ing the same process in case of the Spanish civil war. A most imposing list of nationa has agreed not to intervene in the conflict, but specific charges have been made that the agreement is not being observed. Under the rules of procedure agreed upon, the Non-Intervention Committee will only listen to such charges as are submitted by a Govern- ment which is party to agreement. It is then the duty of the Committee to examine the complaints with a view to as- certaining the facts. In this instance, Russia, a signatory of levelled the agreement, hae specific charges against Portugal and Germany, and these are now under process of investigation. The tragedy of the situation, so far as the Spanish Government is concerned, is that whilst the enquiries are being pursued, the insurgents, allegedly backed from the outside, are daily driv- ing on towards the capital. Whether one's sympathies are with the loyalists of the rebels, the outstanding fact is that a constitutionally established Gov- ernment is in process of being overthrown whilst an inter- national body is engaged in seemingly endless talk to deter- mine whether there has been any outside aid. given to the rehols. On the general issue_raised, there is accumulative evidence of the non-effectiveness of present. methods for dealing with major Prives, but the trouble is that no satisfactory alternative has yet Deen devised.
It seems in incongruous
a worn and battered lorry,
trio
SPEED FOR SPEED'S SAKE The drivers of the heavy torries, company following a length behind their rolled up sleeves exposing bare brown arms, seem strangely out of It is good to contrast, the chauffeur's place in this speeding throng. But of motor-cyclists who superior air, which reflects conscious the proficiency in an art he feels is being crackle past in rousing style belong defamed by the casual levity of the to a different fraternity. driving styles of so many amateurs Their leather helmets, all round him, with the rather hilor- and long bouts proclaim that they ious expression of the driver of the have dressed with one thought-the decayed car behind,
sheer delight of driving for mile after mile on a piece of mechanism it is their delight to linker with und to handie.
A DAY OUT
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TO-MORROW'S SUPPLEMENT.
Many in resting illustrations will appear in to morrow's inaum of the Telegraph Pictorial Sup. piement.
Weddings Illustrated will be those of Mr. R.L, Pearce and Miss G. F. Meagher, Mr. J. Law- on and Miss Helen Lee, Mr. Lor Kwok wal and Milas Lee Kwai- sheung; as well as the at marriage ceremony Chinese Y.M.C.A. last Saturday.
There will be several pictures of site St. Teresa's Troop, of Scouts
the
Boy in camp at Anderson Valley, and a group of the Kow loon Garrison Pack of Wolf Cubs.
Other illustrations will include reproductions of some of Mr. Luis Chan's paintings to be szuibited at the Gloucester Hotel on October 27.
The Supplement will contain the popular feature and enter. tainment pages, resulta of lat work's Children's Competition, and details of a new contest for the kiddies.
portance, and can be citrusle any odd collection of retired eld gentlemen, must go.
Local authorities are responsible for expending about an eighth of the total national income cach year. Last year 2167 millions was patd in rates. The total expendi- ture on rate fund services, taking into account various grants from national funds, was £368 millions. Now this may-seem a large sùm large the highes of money. It certainly enough to merit standards of administrative skili in those responsible for its expen- diture and keen public interest in the direction in which the money in used..
But it must be remembered that It is less than the amount the nation spends each year en alco- nolle drinks and tobacco, and is almost insignificant compared with what we spend in paying for phat
and future wars.
It represents just over two shillings n week per head of popu- iation. Not an excessive amount. surely, when we consider that must cover a whole range of essen- tial public services, including edu- gation, housing, poor relief, ehlid welfare, sanitation, etc.
Yet for my present purpose
not concerned to argue whether
Inadequate or excessive.
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My concern is with the fostering of a new creative civic pride which will be profoundly dissatished with agliness, Inemelency and short- sighted niggardiners in our cor- porate life.
Once that is widespread. public opinion will, I am convinced, face the financial consequences of Its new standards.
*That radical improvements is there, no one can deny,
the necd for
This unfortunate car is gasping
Leak round any town-your own along under a load which consists of
The group represents the hundred): town-and you will discover need a multitude of collarless men and hatiess women with a fringe of hot per cent, enthusiasm of those beings upon need which can only be met and excited children. This group who exult motoring into a hobby, a by resolute imaginative enterprise is evidently out, for the day, to judge passion, who consider it sumelent by the community. by the hampers secured to the lugg-in itself and who would scorn to age grid, and a day they will cer use motoring us a convenience to tainly make of it-If the springs hold any lesser recreation. These are the men who nek nothing more but miles out.
of road ahead and an englae turning over crisply.
Hospitals overcrowded and in- Health Ber-- adequately staffed.
vices, although skilfully adminis- tered by heroic public servants, touching only the fringe of the problem of physical detericration. A couple of buses rumble past,
Slums and near-slums by the thousand standing as hideous their windows giving a brief and
So they go past cencelessly-a monuments to the idea that prop- vivid view of gay dresses and tanned
erty matters more than humai faces. The drivers of these mam-varied, hurrying, plangent stream, a maths of the road look purposeful. vital and rustling current redolent ntë.
Crowded classrooms In out-of- Their minds are set on a tight time of the tireless activity of life, and schedule, and though they are hand-emblematic of mankind's ungurich-ale schools, staffed by tease ling these huge conveyances like men able and almost tragic; pursul of and overburdened tenchiers.
Children playing in dangerous to whom driving is no novelty, their happiness.
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dirty streets because there any no healthy open spaces to which they can go.
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at dreary, depressing streets lying about in ebaotlę ogl- ness, without dignity or plan.
These are but a few of tho social evils which await attention,
That public opinion recognises they are evils equally evident. And by the pressure of pubic opinion, we have already, through Parliament. provided powers which, if fully used by local autho- rities, could substantially remedy. most of the above and other similar problems.
The trouble is that, having gone so far, public interest seems to stop short. Is it because such things as Eanitation and street lighting are regarded as too trivial to merit continuous attention? I think that must be the explanation.
Not having the dramatic back- ground of world events, we are apt. to think that the prosdie incidents of running a town do not water very much.
Well, they have got to be maĆU to matter.
We have got to Icel aK indignant about the ab- sence of proper facili- tles for the welfare of our children as we all, quite properly, feel aboul breaches of the Covenant of the League of Nations,
We have got to understand that progress cannot be sustained if we' neglect the most ordinary, intimate and elementary needs of men and wonen.
Here and there one sésa glimpses of the existence of imaginative civic pride. Look at the spacious and delightful centre of Cardiff, the impressive new Civic Halls at Southampton and Swansea, some of the housing estates in Lanark, the Headrow in Leeds, Manches- ter's new library, the health ser- vices in London and Durham, some of Lancashire's new schools.
Here are things which enhance elvic dignity and add to the well- They being of the community. point the way to progress. They set be standard which should reached in every department of municipal service..
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Although the clash and con- fict on the world stage demands more and more of our attention, surely we British citizens have energy and time enough for a new regenerating Civic Crusade to lift local government out of the rut
Lot us give It new vitality and purpose and start the long-overdue job of building dignißed beautiful towns inhabited by happy and healthy people.
Wags' Corner
EVERY time my wife heard a noise "she at night," sold Mr. A., thought there was a burglar in the house and used to wake, mit.“
"It's n
pretty pour burglar that makes a noisel
"That's just what I told her. And now the wakes me up when she docan't hear anything.”
-To-day's Thought- TAKE care, to get what you like or you wit be forced to like what you get,
-BERNARD SHAW,