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By C. V. R. THOMPSON
BRITISH IS STILL BEST
NEW YORK. RITAIN delivers the goods, but they are
too fow, too lato, and cost too much. These are the complaints of U.S. merchants, "according to n survey of 48 key cities by Time
news magazine.
It shows that there is a big demand for British goods.
Most, wanted--woollen auitings and coatings, zilver- ware and cutlery, men's shots, éhina, pottery and glass, linens and household textiles, wheel goods and sports goods, knitwear, infants, wear, prums and toys, leather, travel and fancy goods.
Almost every store could sell more of these goods. Reasons high quality and workmanship and
good design.
"Imported merchandise" Increases their shop's 'pres- Lige many customers insist upon it. But nearly all complain that deliveries.are still too slow and uncertain. Nearly 25 out of a hundred American executives questioned amid British goods were not properly promot- ed in America,
TOURISTS to Britain and elsewhere are now given, this message from the U.S. State Department with their passports:"Tourists who assuma'an air of arrogance, or who transcend the common bounds of decency In human conduct, can do more in the course of an hour to break down the elments of friendly approach bolween peoples than the Government can do in the course of a year in trying to stimulate friendly relations."
A
NEW DRUG has gone on sale at American drug- Blore counters. Its purpose-"to produce calmness, allay fear, and Induce refreshing sleep without a hang- over on awakening,"
HAS BRITAIN TOO MANY
CIVIL
RE there too many Civil
Servants in Britain? And are they worth their
These and other similar questiona“ about the men and women who
SERVANTS?
BY SYDNEY REDWOOD
"Cellings" were set on staff totals ut-January 1047 which can only be exceeded by special permission. Organisation and Methods
DRESS. The new owners of P.M.,
the Left-wingish New York evening paper, are planning to change its name to the Star and to change its appearance to make it look like a British newspaper. But it will be 20 pages instead of four, and it will still be anti-British as far as Palestine is 'concerned.
sectionsPINION: Politically-minded, ke
thinks
have been set up in all the main
all American newspapers just departments to improve technique now, the Boston Globe describes a
Conservative as "one who and work processes, and increased nechanisation is being introduced Grandpa has the right dope," and a wherever possible to economise on Liberal as "one who thinks one bath
a week le scarcely enough.”
manpower.
CPORT. Now it is push-button All there measures may cut down
fishing. A new rod announced The Prime Minister. has 'slated waste and Increase efficiency. But today hooks and lands, a · finh
time And 49,000 that when the
comes. for it is nevertheless evident that, like automatically by air pressure. But
"work for the Government" have counts for just under a third of the been the stock subjects of argument whole total-253,450. for many a year, and are perhaps have been added to its staff since rationing and other controls due to death and taxes, a large Civil Ser- they still have not found a way to
in prewar days an increase of 23 per- shortages to be scrapped, it should vice will always be with us. For its force a fish to swallow the bait. even more Dercely discussed these days of increasing Nationalisa- cent. But the Departmeroportion of officials. But he has also warned size is determined, primarily by the HOLLYWOOD has decided to put
imposed on it by the pressure tion. But the basic facts are apt today a much higher proportion functions
on the Government to be distorted, and with the object business. Parcels and letter traffic that growth in other directions is
and the next year to abandon Summer Time. tele- inescapable. of affording
out of Reason-it keeps people authentic knowledge, has considerably increased,
cinemas, the Staff Side of the Civil Service phones have gone up from 3 to 4% National Whitley Council have millions, Savings Banks accounts issued a most Instructive booklet
from £114. to £25 millions.
From this one learns that Britain
1948 storied
with 891,651 elvil servants. in Government depart ments-almost as many да when World War Two ended, and over one and a half times the number employed in 1030..
Some people point to the non- power crisis and wonder whether there could not be a transfer from these non-industrial ranks to pro- ductive. Industry. The critics complain that this "swelling army of officials"
gentlest
undermining
from
the
Government, Parliament people.
Now Duties
ara
In the next two years, the staff of the Ministry of National Insurance
MUSICIANS who are not allowed will rise from 15,000 to 32,000,
A by their union boss, James, The introduction of children's al- though this will not be a real in- THE days are long past when the Petrillo, to play for gramophone lowances, war gratuities and per crease in the overall number of State was no more than protector records claim they have definite sons, old age and widows'
most of pensions bureaucrats since.
law river and tax gatherer. Today proof that scab recordings have has thrown much more work on additional staff will be transferred the State has shouldered many new been made in Britain for American counter staffs. And its engineers with their duties
the Ap. duties in our social and economic recording companies. They
affairs, and there were faced in 1845 with six years' proved Societies.
must be civli threatening to retallato by refusing servants to administer them. And arrears of plant maintenance. *cidentally, this Department
transferu more Similarly,
from the whatever its defects, the British than pays its way, and produces will add 10,000 to the Ministry of
County Agricultural
Committees Civil Service has a high tradition
of disinterested, service, and faith millions of poulids of revenue.
Agriculture. The Ministries of fully and honourably carries out Town and Country Planning and the policles of the Government of Civil Aviation are others which are the day, to whatever party they also due to expand.
belong.
New Departments
In-
the economic stability of the nation; NEW departments created since 1030 the most vituperative label them such as the Ministries of Food, "parasites and drones" Civil ser- vants have even ousted mothers in-law as the favourite torget of music-hall comedians,
MIRANDA AWhat Are The Facts
CHARLOTIO
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WHAT
Insurance, Civil supply, National Aviation, Town and Country Flan- ning, the Central Office of Infor mation and the Wor Damage Commission-account for another
105,000.
covers
The Ministry of Supply (which THAT are the facts? Why are they
so many what do they do, and has absorbed the wartime Ministry is anything being dono
Aircraft Production) to keep of numbers down? -
munitions, atomic energy, metals and engineering as well as housing Popular prejudice, stimulated by a materials. Through the Royal systematic campaign of denigration Ordnance Factories, factories operat- and misrepresentation, pictures the ed through managing agents and elvil servant as a humorless and other financially controlled under- unimaginative desk worker spending takings, it is one of the largest the major part of his time thinking employers in the country. up intricate new forms drafted in obscure jargon to harass the tax- payer, and consuming Innumerable cup of tea in office hours.
executive.
There are 98,000, civil servants in the three Defence departments- 54,000 less than in July 1945, but nearly 100 percent more than in In actual fact, the "lea-drinking 1039, when there was no peacetime bureaucrats" - the administrative, conscription and no onerous occu
clerical and typing pallon responsibilities in many parts grades comprise less than half the of the world. total. The others cover a wido range of non-clerical professions and occupations-architects, doctors, en- gincers, scientists, draughtsmen, sorters, telegraphists, and so on. Salary Scalos
Other Increases
have been
The
to
singing
popularise any songs on British cords by playing and them on the American radio.
FOOTNOTE: A British rocora
of
d Guards band playing the "Stars and Stripes" is praised by critics as being better than most American renderings.
'GOT-EVERYTHING"
TABLET
IN A CASTLE NEAR LONDON 100 MEN WILL EAT NOTHING ELSE FOR 5 DAYS
by CHAPMAN PINCHER
VITAMINS
2. MINERALS
3. CARBOHYDRATES AND PROTEINS
THIRST-QUENCHING
CHEMICALS
in
THE tablet you seb here is flims, and playing games-wili bo I believe that the concentrated foods Tactual size. It weighs one. Elx of these brown tablets per day, and nest-quench for chemicals THER big increases
made in the Ministry of Works, third of an ounce. It will be a To study the effects of the tablets man going for five days without loss six of the tablets will keep a normal which has the chief responsibility
examine of strength or energy.
blood
A hundred medical students
for organising and directing the man's full meal-meat and the doctors will regularly Gerined
NOVERNMENT spokesmen have de. building programme of the country; drink combined-in one of the the students, testing weight,
pressure, and muscle power. Daily "Of course, the tablets are purely them as "grossly over the Ministry of Pensions, which most unusual endurance tests intelligence tests will show whether an emergency ration to tide over a worked"; they are still working administers war pensions and cares ever devised.
the diot is causing mental strain. -temporary food shortage. They wartime hours; and pay is generally for war orphans, provides treatment
should be useful in Berlin just now, em for war disabilities and runs hos
Twenty of the lower than for corresponding
students-their for thetence." names will be decided by ballot- ployment with private enterprise. pitals where free specialist treat- Highest salary is the Permanent ment is given, and the Board or and a panel of front-rank doc will try to fast completely for the covers nearly all tors, surgeons, and pathologists five days. Their condition at the Secretary to the Treasury's £3,750, Trade, which High-ranking administrative officers Government Activities connected are to take part. The tests bo- end of the test will serve as a ston- receive salaries in the £1,000 with industry and trade except fuel gin later this month in a castle dard for judging the food value of and power, building, agriculture and near London set in fifty acres of food. The 13,000 who were em-timbered parklandi.
£2,000 range; maximum salary in the executive basic grades la £650; and a clerical officer's salary rises to £450 after 20 years' service.
Its numbers are large because it
ployed in these three departments have now grown to 46,000..
The formation of the United
has to wind up the win operation bodles, occupation duties in
Introduce Nations organisation and subsidiary
Dally tests
In secret
The exact location of the castle is the tablets,
secret until the experiment is over. Dr Hellmuth Heltz, the London Several rooms are being Atted out research chemist who devised the as laboratories to house the machines tablets, has arranged the experi- and equipment for the medical tests. Others will serve as dormitories for 'the students.:
ment.
In a Park Lane office decorated
appetising
the peace, continue
Ger- For five days and nights the with hunting trophies, Dr Heltz ex- · FOOTNOTE.--The doctors will many controls, and initiate Im- many and Austria and the after students will live without normal plained the purpose behind it all: Live In a remote part of the castle. proved schemes of social legislation. math of war have also caused the food and drink. All they will get "There has been plenty of talk about They do not want the
The Post Office Department is by Foreign Office to jump from 1,729 while following an active life-at the possibility of living on tablets, smell of their food to upset tho for the largest employer. It ac- to 8,550.
tending lectures, watching medical but it has never been properly tried, "guinea-pigs,"
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