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*Maxim Gorki, friend of Lenn

and now propaganda chief in Mos-

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1933.

BUILD 100 LITTLE LONDONS

ARCHITECTS PLAN FOR RELIEVING CONGESTION

cow, has decided, as an example of L.C.C. AREA CAN HOUSE COUNTRY

good citizenship, not to go to Italy this winter. It will be the first for many years that he has spent in his Jown country.

The decision is something more than a propaganda gesture; it in- volves a risk to health.

For Gorld, who is 65, hn's suffer- ed from lung trouble all his life. He had a serious hemorrhage in Berlin last year. He was ill again in the summer.

(By Sir Raymond Unwin.)

When discussing the rebuilding, The present centralisation

of

of London it is well to have in mind London involves daily a unwiedly New York, the only other city com-flow of people to and from the cen- tre, and creates well-aigh insolu- parable in size.

New York was built on regular able traffic problems; but decen- planned lines; it has tall buildinga, tralisation on the line suggested many of them housing a maximum would remove the main cause of Gorki has amazing mental vigour of workers in one building with traffic congestion.

Much of our traffic chaos is caus- in a sick body,

modern efficiency; it has overhead Few men work harder or have a and Anderground railways, and ed by unnecessary traffic flow. The greater output. He is now engaged roadways, it has six avenues. each housing shortage has made it im- on what he calls the supreme task 100ft. wide, to carry trafic alone possible for people to live

their work, Thus it can come about of his life-a series of five plays Manhattan Island.

In other words, it has many dealing with the life of a Russian

of that, say, 10,000 people living in family from 1914 to the present the features that some re-planners one borough have to travel every day.

of London claim would vare our day to work outside that borough.

near

The first two plays have already own traffic and housing problems. while another 10,000, living else- been completed. "Egor Bulitchoff" Yet, curiously enough. condi- where, have to travel in to their was a success in Moscow this win-tions are certainly not better there, work.

ter. Dostigaeff and Others" is where it is often quicker to walk At present the L.C.C, are apend- being presented now.

thau to taxi, which cannot yet being huge sums in an effort to house Both plays may be seen eventual- said about London; and, despite London's workers near their work. ly in either London or New York. its towering buildings, the nine Admirable efforts are being made, Among those interested in the poa-million inhabitants of New York but they are not getting at the afble acquisition of Anglo-American occupy an area as great as the like root of the evil, rights is Mr. Leslie Howard. the number of London. film and stage actor.

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Your Daily Smile

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Nothing Doing

mor

Conges-

mil-

Suppose the EC.C. have to re-

one

sum of £300,000 more than it would if the factory itself could be mov- ed to an outlying district.

Might not a better plan be found

Surely these facts go far to house the families of 100 workers than employed in a London factory. To it takes prove that wholesale rebuilding and rond- do this in a central tenement build- widening, however efficient, to ro- ing costs the L.C.C. £300 more for medy a city's problem. To cure an cach family than to re-house them The One-Man Band

Looking around Europe, the ship illness one must remove the cause. in cottages outside, the city, as, for example, in a satellite town. of State nowadays seems to be anot merely relieve the symptoms.

The cast for providing for the [dictator-ship.

Cause Of Congestion

employees, of that factory, The China Mail such as he has now proclaimed.

The cause of London's Even sincere democrats cannol

at the vast tion and other problems is that therefore, works out find it easy to quarrel with either!

A dramatic actor was inspect there are too many people crowd- the treatment. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1933. the diagnosis or

It is not that the mass of Ausing his "diggings" in a provincialed together in it. London's

With a regal air he aur-lons will only be adequately hous- trian opinion is opposed to the town.

a large. idea of a union with Germanyveyed the bed-room, and at once ed and transported when

the absence of a wash- proportion of them has been mov The desir for the Anschluss has noticed

ed, with its work out of London, been a strong.. in the smaller stand. people us in the greater, and has "Madam," he said, turning to the and both persuaded to stay out.

Undoubtedly some temporary re- There is a peculiar cordiality been fortified by the sense of the landlady, "and where do I per- about the feeling of relief with economic advantages to be reap form my ablutions, might I ask?"lief to the housing problem might facilities for their manufacturing?

be afforded by building higher which, in every civilised com-ed from the connection. But The landlady'a eyes narrowed

blocks of flats and working-class tories and workers now congest- munity, the news of Dr. Dollfuss's Austrians have conceived of it as suspiciously. recent escape from an Assassin's a relationship freely entered into. "If that's a new sort of trick," tenements, and to the traffic pro-ing Central London once reaches a blum by widening the central Agure so vastly in favour of decen- No other preserving to them autonomy and she replied, “you'll de bullet was welcomed.

tralisation as to be overwhelming. roads, at immense expense. But statesman has so attracted the the right to live their own theatre, and not here.

it would be merely a temporary co Those conditions. | chaira busted

2 by world's sympathy of late as has national life.

lief, and it would be bad economien. the Austrian Chancellor. That they know well, are totally re- acrobat last week." might, in ordinary circumstances,pugnant to the Hitlerite political

June

WILM

Austria's Debt To Dr. Dollfuss.

thing

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•

it at I had two blooming

tbu

matter of opinion; but recent laystem. They have seen every DOWN LOVERS' LANE events have established it beyond vestige of State rights trampled Theysitlikethisuponaseat, doubt. His appearance at the under foot, in Germany itself,

And now and then they kian. London Economic Conference in and realise what fate would be And then he says some darn-foud

was the signed for a re-in store for a new and weak markable welcome from the dele-addition to the "Third Reich." And then they sit gates. Even more enthusiastic It is for this consideration of Like

freedom and self- the burst of applause national demonstration without precedent respect that Dr. Dollfuss stands. in the record of Geneva-when' he rose at the opening session of the Assembly of the League of Nations. All the anxiety, in-

A young man who had danced dignation and resentment that have been the general reaction to

The analysis of the work of the on his partner's feet most of the Hitlerite intolerance and aggres-railways in Britain during the first time escorted the fair young thing

found expression

to & Bent. part of this snmmer published by the

THIS.

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Cheap Fares Justify

Themselves.

Had to Make Bo The dance music stopped the couples began to drift off the floor.

in some inducement offered to the factory owners to move to a apot outside London which would, at the same time, provide better

When one takes the total of fac-

Great areas formerly occupied by factories and alum houses

As an illustration, the capital would become vacant for develop- rost to house former alum-dwellers ment as urgently needed business in model tenements, which the and trading areas. L.C.C. are now proposing to đo on Skyscrapers Net Visualised

per

1 should #ke to see a great pro-

a large scale, is £300 more family than to house them in cat portion of the old areas south of way. Lages with gardens outside Lou. the Thames cleared in this

Those of the present residents who don.

removable

It may be objected that it is not were not occupied in passible to move London families, factories but were compelled to re- depending for their. living on emmain in Central London could be and ployment at central works and fac accommodated in tonement blocks tories, to outlying districts. It is somwhat on the L.C.C. plan.

quarters The present business not, unless, indeed, the works or

of Central London are needlessly factories can also be moved.

Business in flowing There should be fewer factories crumped. in London. They cause overcrowd- westward and despoiling Mayfair, ing and slums, not to mention the Westminster and other good resi- those tributes of respect to the Minister of Transport shows that "Jove he exclaimed joyously. nuisance of smoke and dirt. dential quarters. But it is only so defender of a

The place for the factories and doing because it has nowhere else weak nation's the reintroduction of penny-a-mile "Doesn't that make you wish for right to Independence. Those travel was sound policy. This fate another?"

works is in properly-laid-out and to expand.

The City of London should be. who look deeper into the facts of for return journeys became opera- "Yes, indeed it does," she re-equipped, industrial areas outside the Austrian situation are aware tive on May i. In June the num-plied coldly; "but he sent me word London, where the thousands of induced to expand across that the position of Dr. Dollfuss ber of passenger journeys by main-that he would be

get people employed in them and their river into an area of new, well-

familles can live near by.

planned business houses, replac- worn-out ing existing slums and districts.

siveness

in

unable to

Facts You Did Not Know.

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1

Would Solve Traffic Chaos

A ring of self-contained satel- (Continued on Page 11).

lite towns, built within a radius

of from 12 to 25 miles from Char- ing Cross, and populated largely

In-

DUELLISTS MUST HAVE BLOOD.

Fight With Swords.

-IF PISTOLS, FAIL

Budapest.

the

is hot that of a national leader line railways showed an increase on here to-night.” with a united people behind him June, 1982, of more than six mil- in his resistance to the bullying hons, and receipts were up by over tactics of a powerful neighbour half a million. The figures are stil His task, they know, is one of more impressive when we note that greater digiculty. But they re- the increase in journeys was 8.4 ver spect the more the resolution cent but in receipts 13.3 per cent. To facilitate starting automobiles by workers now living in London. with which he has set himself to On the announcement in the spring in cold weather an air control ther-would be the most effective cure assert the will of the majority that the railways were "going back moitat has been invented that auto- for our housing and traffic pro-General And Major To of the Austrian nation. The to a penny a mile" even friendly matically regulates the fuel mixture blems. alternative to his handling of critics thought it a bold experiment, entering the carbureter.

There is ample `rääm for 100 the matter must have been the The records of the LMS. showed -

such towns around London. fovercoming, by one means or that though only 11 per cent. of Dan-Through the invention of a now deed, the idea that there is any another, of that will, the entry sengers were carried at standard type of furnace pitch remaining as shortage of space is a curique de- of German Nazism into Central rates, the company derived 30 per a-residue in distillation of coal tar lusion. The entire population of Europe, and the intensification cent. of its revenue from this source, in Germany is being carbonized to England and Wales could be hous- A General and a Major Care.to. of a danger to peace whose In the original restriction of the reproduced coke of high purity.

ed outside the LC.C, ares and with: fight a duel with pistols . Boon as presence has been so frankly duction to return tickets issued

in a radius of 25 miles of Char-they have recovered from the acknowledged in the League As-during the summer months the risk Making use of the physical ing Cross, giving every family effects of a street brawl in which sembly. All this may happen was limited, but their experience law

water under Vacuum separate house and averaging not they were involved,

Honour,.moreover, will not be yet. There can be no foretelling has already encouraged the com- vaporizes at low temperature, a new more than 10 houses to the acre; the future of a State 30 desperpanies to extend the period to the steam vacuum cooling system for that would still leave the County satisfied without blood. ately situated as is Austria to- and of the year. On consideration buildings uses only water as a re- of London area free for other If neither is wounded in the" Hay. Her economic condition of all the statistics it is evident that frigerant.

buildings.

pistol duel, than they are to fight presents a a heart-breaking pro-fthough the penny-a-mile policy was

New Katellite towns would be another duel with heavy cavalery- blem, to which no 'solution has not immediately effective it has been

carefully planned; industrial, swords.

The two officers are General Al- Keresztenyszigeth" and

so far been found by Dr. Dollfuss one of the main causes of the

that

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or by those foreign Governments bandy increase in the passenger re- are satisfactory, the public will pro- shopping, administrative, amuse- that wish success to his endes-cepts of all the companies. Other vide plenty of passenger work for ment and housing area would be exander vours. Her political altuation is factors, such as the exceptionally the railway It is unprofitable allocated, and Uroperly laid out for Major Tajos Kaisler, who came to little better: Lor though all who the summer and the general im- now to ask whether the bold experi- the purpose. The workers could blows recently in a crowded street The General was walking with are not of the Austrian Nazis provement in trade, are not to be ment would not wisely have been have cottages, each with Its own in Budapest minority movement resent the ignored. But these are equally made before, whether the rates garden, and the experts and ad-

The Major met them and a heat- attempt to force their country stimulating to other forms of travel, which war conditions made peces ministrators well-designed houses, the major's wite, under a German domination, the The significant fact stands out that sary were not kept too high for too Using town-plassing technique, bitter partisan differences among For the first thus for some year long. We recognise that railway it would be possible to build up ed discussion arose. Then the Ma themelis Have proved wholly wallways, are puraining greater management is now energetically these satellite units or towns vary for hit the General with

$170 one hope of share of passager frame. It is not progrésalvi and has made great re-ing in, alze up to 100,000 inhabi whereupon the General drew his strian nationhood, Inwian fake off movement "back forms not only in its fares, but in tants. "They would afford a full, word and struck his opponent

with It or of traits. All the provision made for the com-rich local life to their citizens and military court decided that the eview lay. In the Abtöln, authoritaria

strud fort of the passenger and for the greatly reduce their need to affair must be settled with arms. This

quent Central London: at, given rate which movement of goods, LONG

----Reuter.

stick-