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BUSINESS LETTERS GET A BRUSH-UP
77HEN a business man Exprom
it as Briefly as
writes a business Pensible in Short Sentences: "Bad letters are always longer letter it is usually than good ones. One cause of
a bad one....Belleving that, bad letter-writing is the mis- Ivan Arthur Rice Stede taken notion that it shows bet- ford, tall, shy head of the ter education to use long words.
and roundabout_phrases" Invest- Tube £37,000,000
Example: Your esteemed menta group, has dropped a favour (your letter).
How To be good enough. 16-page guido on Write a Letter on the desks (please tell us). of his departmental bosson, 3 Use a Faragraph for Each Sub-dlylsion of Your Slat- It warms them that the chief Ler: "Whether paragraphs letter-writing vices are vague should be numbered or not de-
Picaso
tia
to advise
of the
we, long-windedness and in-
on the natu H-gives them Pends
fetter. Numbering @myour- rules
lotter an appearance of or- Know What You Want to derlinest and Incisiveness-but Say: "The man with only if it serves a purpose. If sloppy mind will write a sloppy it does not, it merely suggests latter. The man who is afraid fussiness,”
will
Use Words Everyone Un-. letter 4 deretanda and the shorter
of
committing himeelt
write a
non-committal full of vague terms.
His let-
tere expose his cowardice."
THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S
RAKE'S PROGRESS
B
RITAIN
LONDON. today faces the gravest economic crisis in her history.
the hinh
of the poli
By
JOHN
All ticlans
ean no longer con- ceal that fact.
1013
1921
1938
This year
(estimated)
the
171
GORDON
Word Rather than the Longer: "An almost univereni Malling: -in business letters is a dialiko
for using a short preposition.. This disease has probably been caught from the Government: official, with whom it has be come chronic."
Example:
On the subject of (about). In connection with
our
the subject of wares That if they spent money practice with regard to pay- 1
with a view hard nough they could ment is devised create a boom without end, and to speed (Our method of wage payment is deviced, for speed). Avola Vague Words Whether are Nouns, Adico- "Look
that tives or Adverbs:
That a benign Providenco had endowed them with a Ther above An for the loudly acclaimed wisdom so much Social Services, we got dong given to all other men that they through the batch of letters on in 1013, when we were so much alone were competent better oft funncially,
with down the lines of life for us and your desk and consider of the adjectives many spending £5,341,000 on Health they could never be wrong. ndverba used do nothing to
Services and Health Insurance.
of
to lay
how
And
to your understanding. That Is the neid test. To the words are a timorous, vakuo form of hedging,"
Well, so far of the first of add This year the estimate is the theso delusions iss concerned, £183,000,000 To meet the interest on that
£703 they figure we had to raise atupendous
have in
Tun four years £1,032,000,000 debt in 1913
Today the gure nlion, with, as Cripps has through the astonishing sum of 24,500,000. £841,000.000
further increases £18,000 million and, 49 us, warned £500 million.
"Gobbled salti. Churchill over the nex Eve to ten years.
every capital reserve on which Acquaint they could lay their hands."
£3,032,000,000
In a single generation she has fallen from a prosperity that rarried with it
What does that mean to you highest standard of living individually? It means, sprend Europe to the pitiable over the entire population, that condition of being another every man, woman and child in the country paid £3 118. in 1913, nation's pensioner.
£22 in 1921. £18 in 1930, nnd will pay this year about £72.
Can you
wonder that times
the
Before the
1014 war,
il
the aakt translate The x burden in terms of the in- cividund citizen,
to 1913 the normal rate of seme tax was 15 21. in the £. But, on earned income, the rate
between gr. WIR
2,000 a year.
£160
Brad
No surtax was payabl: unless λ £5.000 earnings exceeded
and then the rate eight year.
While other nations who also bore the strain of war
Rec
joy coming back once we hard? more into their lives, British alone face the pros. percent of the total income of unly 6d. in the £. pect of austerities more the country was taken by the Bevere than any they en- dured in war.
Now, a nation is pretty much like an individual
Its condition dependa on the wisdom with which it manages its attrs,
ENTERPRISE Energy and skill amasses money
If to its work it brings enterprise, energy, and skill, it
ambeses money.
1-like the household of any one of ita citizens--it apenda it earns, its finances Jess than flourish ond there is general happiness.
But if, on the other hand, it "goes on the bust," and over- spends, then bankruptcy and misery are inevitable,
Let us measure our present condition against past days still within living memory.
Here
record of
Why
The number of income tax And only Government in tuxation.
payers was 1,130,000. That Are was lower than in 14.000 of them paid surtax. elther France or Germany.
Today, 40 percent of the total income of the citizens that is 8s. In every £-Is taken by the Government
SOLVENCY
"Vigilant scrutiny over spending"
6
Write English, not
up
neis
"Ensi- English": Examplest
(tell): despatch
And far from having created
Bre
(send): purchase (buy): TC- quest (nsk).
Homework
a boom without end, we running into a slump. A slump E conscientious boss gets
which must inean a falling off In A nalion, like an individual, tax yields,
of a slate in
Mr Asquith keeps itself
by, as solvency
"The most once expressed it. vigilant and effective scrutiny
Since Britain's present Rake's Progress began, that meticulous watch over the nation's spend- ing appears to have ceased to
over is spending,
Now the mesh his been exist.
The Exchequer's moneybags drawn BO tight that 14,500,000
And seem literally to be laid on the people pay income tax.
table at every Cabinet meeting which surtax. pay 147,000
with
an open invitation to mem- on in- starts at 23. in the £ comes over £2,000 and rises to bers to dip their hands in and the & on incomes help themselves to the millions That is the highest rate of 10s. 6d. in taxation in the world. And, on over £20,000, making the total without stint or hindrance, our knees as we are, we are at the upper range 10, 0d. in threatened with more to follow. the £.
Once more, how does the in- dividual fare?
In happy 1913 a married man earning £500 a year paid in sil taxation (including even death duties translated into terms of
DRINKS: SMOKES £1,000 million in tax each year
If the breadwinner of a family did that with his pay packet his family would be in the work- house in a month.
Gorne overtime and home- work in this new crusado
In such a condition a taxable against bad letters,
HE is advised to stay for a hour at the end margin is needed if the national credit is to be maintained. But, quarter of an today, because of years of over-of the day and read with a of tho coples is the taxation, Britain
only critical
letters he has dictated. Then country in the world lacking
note mistakes. such a margin.
The consequences of that are likely to shake and shock every household In the country.
INHUMANITY
An insight into the mind of Cripps
HE is told to read all the suggestions again at the week- end and check on his progress.
HE is expected to self-train- himself until he finds nothing. wrong with his dictation. Then He must test whether he has
months' slipped back in six time.
Mr Stedeford provides an ex- cuse for any typist. He tells his boss: "The final comment.
As for the second of the on punctuation is that the ulti- delusions from which our mos-mate responsibility lles on you, ters are suffering, the delusion not on your typist.
Why all this attention to let Is it any wonder that a nation of godlike wisdom, I think there
Bir Industrialist knows after Ave years of such fally can be no better Blustration of ter writing? This shrewd should today find, Itself in the what it does to the mind of a mingham international workhouse?
man possessed of it than the case that a firm's letters are almost
as important as the salesmen.
He explains that a good busla Beer and tobacco, perhaps It is the logical and inevitable of Sir Stafford Cripps.
by In a report of his National ness letter creates in the mind an annual charge) a total of the two most generally sought- consequence of government
after luxuries, provide a strik- men who, as one of them indis Savings speech I read that he of the person who gets it "a of the burden creetly boasted, regari money as had the colossal temerity to mental picture of the writer's Now he pays more than that ing flustration If he mokes only ten elgarettes of taxation apart from crushing "enly meaningless symbols,"
income tax. a day.
£22 09. 10d.
The £1,000-a-year man, £52 in all in 1813, paid forms of taxation...Now he payi £267 in income tax alone.
The £10,000-a-year man, in 1913.
Now paid £105.
he is the brief Britain's spending as shown by pays £6,407 in Income tax and surtax alone, without taking in- the Budgets of four years:-
to consideration his sharo of £195,000,000 tobacco and
от liquor dutica £1.198,000,000 pocket-emptying purchase tax.
£844,000,000
1913-14
1920-21
1937-38
This year
(estimated)
23,308,000,000
DEBT BURDEN
In his 1913 Budget speech, £503 on every baby
Lloyd George used adjectives Auch as "very gigantic," "colas sal," and "startling" to describe .. the total expenditure
which he was dealing.
with
1 doubt whether, even in his would be vocabulary, there words vivid enough to describe today's expenditure.
TAX BURDEN
£72 a year per head.
at birth
The burden of debt upon us
As n nation has Increased to ngures that are almost beyond comprehension,
+
In
taxation 1913 the total garnered from beer, spirits, and This tobacco was £61,000,000. year Sir Stafford Cripps calcu- lates on taking £1,000 million from smokers and drinkers.
of 1:10 From
pockets smokers alone he plans to extract £625 million-more than three times the entire Budget of 1913.
DELUSIONS
The men with all the wisdom
Attlee, Cripps, and the rest of their crazy gang came to power with no practical experience of the facts of life, but with two delusions fixed in their minds to the exclusion of all cise:
mother who m
an efficient,
worthy concern."
trust
suggest that cashed some of her war savings Mr Stedeford's departmental
that letters. to buy toys for her child after bosses know now the child had had an operation frequently do not need a dos- not. paragraph-certainly was doing the nation a dissering
some meaningless formula like vice and should not have done "Awaiting the favour of your
1 esteemed command."
writo In NEVER will they future: "I
dear air" or remain, even
"I remain." For them "Yours faithfully in enough.
DO.
We have fallen pretty low in inhumanity as well as insol- vency, haven't we?
--(London Express Service}
-London Express Service)
Prince Charles gives name
to new ship
'FISHING FLEET ARE PROUD'
of our
The
cargo
1 the ship have In 1913. the National Debt FIRST birthday "present" to built into
is one capacity of 3,800 gallons. Prince Charles-ho re- £001 million. That WAD
"We are proud" on Monday-la the
vessels, tank landing gers has just been launched In presented £14 a head on every year old cluizen.
naming of o 700-ton British
Sald e representative of the ships, wero converted by Con- Belfast. steam trawler after him. Only By 1921 it had risen to £7,- other ship in Lloyd's Register owners in Hull: "Permission had tinental Lino into commercial 585 million (2100 a head). with the name. Prince Charles is to be obtained to use the name Prince Charles. A. British ship
the name By 1938 it had passed the £8,- a Belgian croes-Channel boat.
Earlier compliment paid by Bhould bear 000 million mark,
the British fishing fleet was to now Prince, and we are proud Today it stands nt
the Prince Charles's, father. A 500- to have it in our fleet."
sbeam trawler is
Marned! colossal figure of £25,168,092, ton
MORN than 40,500 vehicles and Prince Philip.
M means that 000, which
5,800 passengers have been The new Prince Charles has Hero art the comparative amounts collected from the tax baby born in Britain comes in been afted with an experimental carried in the past three years in and storage, five ships specially designed for and Indirect to the world with a debt of deep-freeze plant, payers in direct
Cod-liver oil tanks war. about £603 on its head. taxation:
How do we stand with regard to taxation today compared with these past yours?
every
NANCY
Cold Fact
NO WONDER.
chamber.
:
By Erate Bushmiller.
AT LEAST
ferries,
She is the 14,000-ton Runie, fourth on the post-war In addition to two regular vessol building "programme services between Tilbury and the Shaw Savill Lane, Hamburg, and Preston and Lame, Northern Ireland, the
pean ports.
CHIP with
transports have gone to 22 Euro-
a cinema and no accommodation for
passen-.
The cinema fa for the crew... who also have hot and cold feesh wator, electrical beating and. mechanical ventilation in their quarters..
-(London Express Service)
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