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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938.
SPECIALISING
YOUTH
ances.
every
922
A medium-weight tank with of the 7th Bn. Tenk Corps.
men
honourable and desirable
If people leave boxes of matches The Territorials in nurseries,
pro-
cer, 1958 by Called Frature Brafictio, Ine
"Don't use your head this round—sova i oll yer strmegth for the
big finish,"
THE BOMBS WILL
GET THERE FIRST
By+
A. GOWER
Yet the outlook of the average- member of that council was, while. illuminating, at the same time alarming.
The councillors seemed to * think that the purchase of books was more important than air EVERY day now tests raid precautions.
demonstrations of
They allowed the Libraries raid precautions Committee to overspend them-
appears
The defeat of the recommen- dation at issue at the meeting was not what worried me: it was. the attitude and opinions of the speakers.
One rather ancient councillor
In attempting to answer it, first we must get out of our hends the idea that it is an in- There are few things upon surance against war; for that is which all persons will agree. the purpose of foreign policy. The necessity of education is one Instead, the aim of the Army fession. Its recruitment musta ir of them. But latterly the is to extinguish war in the be voluntary, because we have no schemes are being carried selves by £200, when from the realisation that perhaps modern shortest time and at the lowest need for an immense conscript out in England. The Home debate it appeared that the com- mittes had done so in direct con- in lives, property and army, and we only want in it education is not all that it cost should be, that it too frequently treasure when that foreign policy men to whom soldiering appeals. Secretary is to speed up travention of the original desire
these schemes.
of the council. breaks down and there is a war. Further, these men must be attempts to fit square pegs for The problem is, in fact, iden- offered true careers, something I hope he will succeed, but
Yet these same councillors. round holes and makes a botch tical with that of limiting con- worth working for; therefore, I from a study of the methods refused to allow the salary of the of it, hus dawned upon a num-flagrations in our towns and suggest a total service of 30 which it is suggested should be air raid precautions officer to be ber of men and women who cities. In
municipality years in engagements of three employed I doubt it very much, advanced by a mere-taking into make a study of these things. two things are required to pre- years at a time. That is to say, particularly so far as London consideration the Home Office grant-£80 per annum. They, vent fires-namely, a common- a man enlists for three years, and the South are concerned. It will readily be seen that as
sense policy and anti-fire appli- after which he can re-engage for The inhabitants of Northern in fact, after much haggling mankind progresses scientific-
another three years, and so on.
and Midland towns have a far allowed him half the advance ally and aesthetically the need
All the fire brigades in the From 21 years' service on-greater sense of civic duty than recommended by the air raid for specialisation arises if the country will not limit the out- wards he should be eligible for any South-country town, except precautions committee.
be breaks of fire unless the utmost in efficiency is to
be- pension, and it should be a gener-possibly Portsmouth,
able to engender. achieved. In medicine, for in-haviour of the citizens is sane. ous one. stance, the idea of the clinic is a more-or-less new development. cigarettes on to their beds, and drop lighted
Spurs Them On SECONDLY, the Army's The greatest surgeon may be a place bottles of petrol on their
organisation must be To tell the people of the Coventry that poorest. bacteriologist. It is kitchen ranges there will be un- of the simplest possible charac- frequently argued that a general ending conflagrations irrespec- ter. Flexible, mobile, and easy citizens of Leicester are in said that he thought that air a repp to to expand in war time, because advance of them in air raid raid precautions would not be keep abreast of research, would have no opportunity to earn living. Consequently there is trend of specialisation in the profession. And so it is in many other walks of life, until even the lowly fourth estate has caught the idea, and the biggest and most enterprising news- papers, those which can best afford it, have their specialists for almost all departments. The idea behind this era of speciali- sation may be briefly explained like this: So great is the volume of general knowledge on any subject, from literature to engineering, from farming to medicine, that young people who show an inclination for one thing or another are directed into specialised courses as soon as their groundwork makes practicable.
this
extinguish them.
decide on characteristica,
you
True Careers
SUPPOSING that
represented the Gov- ernment, then what would and should you do?
schemes.
London
more
A Socialist councillor went into
our Empire is scattered and our precautions spurs on the former needed.
town to outvle the latter. With an army the situation is obligations are manifold. B
similar. It is foreign policy Our Territorial Army should Yet, one cannot visualise the comparisons between the respec- which limits war-that is, the become a true second line to our Borough of Hampstead vying tive education of an air raid pre- chief ment. Therefore, granted sane behaviour of the Govern- Regular Army, so that we may with the Borough of Southwark cautions officer and a
in the production of
librarian, much, I may say, to a have one force and not two. rational foreign policy, all a Service in the Regular Army efficient air raid precautions the detriment of the former. Government needs to do is to should be exchangeable; that is turn to its military forces and to say, after a certain period of To begin with no Metropolitan Petty Politics
certain guiding service an infantryman shouldborough has been set a particu- AN NOTHER councillor
become a tank-man, or a tank-larly good example by the parent.
said they were "going man a gunner, and so on; so that body-the
County too fast"! An alderman com- no soldier grows stale, and the Council. Yet London and its pared this particular borough older men can be fitted into jobs surrounding suburbs contain one with other London boroughs, and suitable to their age.
quarter of the entire population was also of the opinion that they of the country! As regards the Army's forma-
were "going too fast." tions, the existing ones are too
How many Metropolitan The whole tone of the council. boroughs have air raid appeared to be that Metropolitan First of all, do not bother cumbersome; therefore the now
precautions officers engaged boroughs should travel by the about enda; instead, consider ones must be smaller and more
on whole time work? There slowest borough, rather than means, for the grand end is war flexible, The whole should be
are but seven.
emulate the Northern and Mid- (the city to be protected), and motorised and divided into self-
Have all the Metropolitan land towns in their attempts to not bits of war (the separate contained brigades of all arms,
boroughs the divisions becoming their ad-
prepared even outvie each other. draft schemes? No! At Now, as to the means, and re- ministrative formation, as army
Incidentally, I noticed that membering that our Army is a corps were in the Great War.
least half of them have not during proceedings, the council. done it! British one it must fit British Quality First
advanced the maximum salary of conditions.
Have any
Metropolitan the cemetery superintendent by THIRDLY, tactics. Tac-
boroughs anything like a £100. titul organisation and trained complement of air 'That council meeting filled me in the right direction in the es-
training must be built round
raid wardens? The answer with a feeling of great despond- tablishment of the Junior
what I will call the Army's mas- is just none.
ency. There scomed something Technical School and the Trade technical schools are under ter weapons. Throughout his-
While Leicester can have a so much of petty “parish pump" School for engineering, wireless taking there is one valuable and tory there have always been "black-out," London could not politics in its proceedings. and building industries, whose not entirely "allen" subject such weapons; for example--the have an efficient display for at
pike,
the least nine months. work was reviewed so interest- which should not be sacrified long Macedonian
the study of the English Roman short stabbing sword, ingly Tuesday by Mr. G. White. language. In the first place if the English long bow, the Alarming Outlook
To-day our two master wea-
Hongkong has taken a
it
step
houses it contains).
First, it must appeal to the young men of this country as an
I fear indeed that the Home Secretary will have to adopt a different scheme if London is to be made at all conscious of the ATTENDED the full need for air raid precautions.
I council meeting, a very I watched the aldermen and
It is particularly gratifying that these young men are to earn Swedish field gun. the industries which stand to their living in this Colony, even benefit from the work of these a small knowledge of English institutions should have given will be a tremendous advantage. pons are the aeroplane and the such generous support to them And, if they are ambitious and tank with their counter-agents, short while ago, of a Metro councillors as they left the towa shields, anti-aircraft and politan borough so that I might hall. They all seemed, with the propose to continue independent or
find out the reactions of the exception of the chairman of the in the past. And it is fitting study or to attempt the highly anti-tank weapons. that Government money should technical secrets of their trade,
Then in a long-service army, aldermen and councillor to the air raid precautions committee,
so pleased with themselves. assist in the training of young they will find that the text that is a highly expert and truly ideas of the Home Office.
It was a borough from which I, personally, felt like the post: men who will eventually serve books offering them the clearest professional army, an army of the public of this Colony at the road are not those in their na quality in contradistinction to one would have expected great Gray, gazing at the distant pro
tive tongue. It is just possible quantity (one fire brigade and enthusiasm and determination, spect of Eton College: same time they sorve them that out of the trade schools of not a thousand hand buckets), From the agenda that I obtained, selvca.
this Colony may come future its men will be able to fight in it appeared that the air raid pre- But there is one point upon teachers of thousands of machines and without machines; cautions scheme was, through which the authorities might do Chinese. In the interests of and we shall have not only a the apposite committee and well to exercise the utmost caus everyone concerned the desir highly mechanised army, but a officers, proceeding on good Unes tion. Even in this specialise ability of the English influence superb light Infantry force as and was in advance of most
London boroughs. tion which the boys of the is thus: uppareit
Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play!
No sense have they of its to come,
N.B1as born and remi