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London from May to July is a lop-sided town in which a fictitious Importance la given to the sayings and doings of a small minority.of its inhabitants living in a tiny fraction of its area. It is necessary only to mention the fuss made over the fact that two or three young per sons attended a dance to which they had not been invited, to under- stand how values may be distorted In a city of many millions...

MODEL OF HUGE AMERICAN EAGLE FOR COOLIDGE DAM-Clay model for two giant American Eagles that will parch "oh bays at the top of the New Coolidge, Dam in Arizona, is shown receiving, finishing touches. A plaster of paris mould of the model will be shipped to the dam in sections and there poured full of can- erole. The giant birds mensore 38 feet, 0 inches from tip to tip of the wings and stand 10 feet 3 inches high.

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COST OF LIVING

ADMIRALTY: REJECTION: DISPUTED ACCURACY

*The Civil Service Correspondent of "The Daily Telegraph" writes:

The accuracy of the cost-of- living index, prepared every month. by the Ministry of Labour has often been questioned, but the prospec tive drop next month in the Civil Service bonus is 1 kely to raise the question in an acute form.

grip on her own children. In the In August, London loses some street you may see suddenly thousands of its inhabitants, but is face vaguely familiar, a voice long it at all certain that those who unheard halls you; it in So-and-So take their place are less inter- back from some outpost of Empire How glad he is to see esting? August is the month of on leave. the real American tourists, those you; how readily you forget the of the Londoner wonderful people who have saved natural reserve enough from their salaries as pro- in recalling old times and memories. feantonal workers to CTGSB There are different faces in the the Atlantic and "do" London: restaurants, that something of August is the month in which weariness which marks the London visitors from all over the Con of the Season has gone; there is tinent come

to London, populate more noise, people talk more loudly,

It is noteworthy that during the Bloomsbury and see the sights with enjoy themselves more, obviously. an ardour and (it must be con- One day you may find yourself hearing by the Industrial Court of fessed) with a knowledge of what down by the river when there are the claim for revision of the. there is to be seen which puts the people going and coming by the Colonial allowances paid to civilian Londoners to shame. In a mor boats which ply to and from the officers anpointed at Royal Naval Establishments abroad, the Admir- ning's walk you may hear all the Kentish Coast; or you may apenalty, in opposing the claim, threw languages of the world and feel once more that this is the World! City, the city without seeing which no one's education can be called complete.

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The City of Adventure Even the native Londoner can find plenty of novelty and interest in August London. A year or two

back there was a blue-blooded uld Dowager whom 'no invitation could lure away from London during August. "I know nothing more enjoyable," she would say, "than to drive in the Park on an August afternoon, meeting no one I know, and watching people, children especially, really enjoying them There is something" selves." fascinating about the dignified quiet of fashionable squares and terraces la August, drowsing through the long, warm afternoon. blinds with bere and there, a peop of holland-shrouded furniture.

And everything is just different enough to be delightfully un- usual; the parks are quieter and yet more noisy; the laughter of all London's children on holiday has taken the place of the decorous chatter of the people who stroll beneath the trees along the Row in the Season; only in August does an afternoon at the Oval and hear one realize Palmerston's aspiration again that authentic "bowled him!" for the parks plenty of grass for with which the Londoner hails an the people and their children and event that mattera

Plo Beware Bosque, President of Balvador.

as little Interferenco with them as London Beems to expand in possible. London in August is August, to assert herself, to deter- the city of adventure. It is to mine that everyone who is in Lon- be found everywhere. Nearly al- don shall have something, of what ways some important thorough she can give. It is in August that fare is "up.” The accustomed London really renews her youth, bus turns a corner. suddenly and though the follage may be growing its delighted passengers are, in a shabby and the grass in the parks. London they have never seen may look burnt and brown. The before.

days are growing shorter. Lonr Laughter And Noise

don's violet, rist clothes the parks The silence of Gray's Inn jafand open spaces in the evening: broken by the, shouts of children now and then towards the end of of the Bonchors; at the railway the month there is a funt not un stations you may see crowds of pleasant, chill in the air; the sun-

་།ན་ Bah-browned, people disgorged from bets grow in splendour and the the trains coming up from the den London walking home through the side, chattering over their experi-growing dusk envies no man In all dices, not quite sorry, in their the world and finds it in home to hearts, to see London again, for pity those who never see London in London never quite realizes her August.

over the index figure Whatever criticisms may have been offered outside, this is the first time that the Ministry of Labour statistics have been fouted by another Gov ernment department.

Replying to the second part of the claim before the Industrial Court, that the Colonial allowance should be reviewed simultaneously with the home cost of living bonus, and on the same baals, the Admiralty official bide gave as their chief ob- jection to the proposal that the Ministry of Labour's 'Index figure is based on an average household budget of 1904, and suggested that the distribution of expenditure may now have changed materially.

It was further stated that "even if the basis of the Ministry of Labour'a figure were brought up to date, it would still leave ungolyad the problem, peculiar to stations abroad. If, as suggested by the Admiralty, the distribution of ex- penditure has altered materially, ts in itself would render useless for practical purposes the value to be attached to the index figure, and leave it at best a mere theoretical figure.

'But, apart from this considera-

tion the Ministry of Labour's figure and the comparison drawn from it are based entirely on a working man's household expenditure. But the question is raised, not alone in the Civil Service, but in outside circles,, as to the accuracy of such a figure when applied to other classes fa estimating the cost of Ving to-day as compared with pre-

war days.

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