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A COPR. 1945 DY NEA BEROVIČE, 146, 7, M., REG, V., B. PAL. DIE.
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What Shall We Put In
The temporary Government's arrangements separation allowances they ter- minate in August-means pre- sumably that a more permanent policy affecting salary scales is under consideration. Quite ob- viously, the question of revisions on the basis of the prevailing cast of living cannot be avoided
Measures indefinitely.
which must result in an increase in the cost of government are not as d rale assured of our support, but the position today is such that no other justifiable attitude of fers. Government servants cn- joying the higher scales of pay seck no sympathy, and would get But there are a host of men who have returned to the Colony and are being paid at in- 1941 rates giving them an came of between £250 and £400 per annum, out of which they
The drastic changes in the time when have wives and children to sup- port at Home.
Those at the examination system recommend men in the Service are leaving
ed recently have stirred debate it. of this bracket can upper end
on the oldest but still the most With the end of this war-- manage to make ends meet with burning of educational topics.at the end of the last-a num- and the addition of £60 Are examinations true tests of her of brilliant civil servants separation allowance, but those talent and brains? If they are have gone into the City or big
the lower end face serious abolished, what trust-worthy business. A man with a grow financial plight. There is tests of mental quality can be ing family finds the rewards of industry more tempting than strong dissatisfaction in the ranks found?
The tyranny of the current Whitehall's prizes. ment and the prisons
harm to education; has tended ment, to mention only the more to stereotype teaching; obvious spheres. Discontent never cramped the style of teachers: made a good servant, and it is and produced a cramming sy9 widespread. It is too easy to re-tem at an early age. mind ourselves that many of these men had accumulated pay
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Cross Words With A Bishop;
Bishops can always be relied 'on
to state the obvious at obviously the the right time.
So, when our rationa
aro cut again, when, after a year of peace, income tax is still high enough to k Initiative, especially among those most likely to have any initiative, and when most of lia are deeply humiliated by the Washington debate on the Ameri-
By NATHANIEL GUBBINS, London Sunday Express Humorist
the
can loan, it was obviously right time for the Bishop of Rochestor to observe that Britain had "sunk into a complaining lethargy." It has.
If the bishop had left it at that he would not have been mention- ed here. You can't blamo a man for stating tho obvious, however dull it may be. But ho anid it in a carping spirit, adding that "atrikes and absenteeism had blotted the most aplendid page in English history."
Although, nobody in his right mind would applaud atrikes and absenteeism without • just and urgent cause, has the bishop no compassion in ble heart for those who helped to write this most. splendid page even if, in his opinion, they have bloited it? noard, that after an exhausting effort men and nations are b clined to be irritable and critical absenteeism and also inclined to merely becauso they are tired? Ile can't expect everybody to be as high-minded as himself, and to talk of a low tired and irritable men blotting the pages of English history is to put it mildly for the younger readers of these re- marks) sheer poppycock.
As a matter of fact, we are all tired and irritable and inclined to absenteeism-except, perhaps, bir- Some Prizes Needed
bapa, who are not as other men.
and irritable be- There is today another rival
ADL tired for Whitehall's favours. The as such, would not now exist but cause, although the United States, new Boards and other non- for the war exertions of this departmental bodies which are country, we were trented in the being set up are attracting civil | American Senate like a defested
nation. servants of high calibre.
1 am also wearing shabby ault.
By Q. M.
I am tired and irritable be- cause, although this loan will be of far more advantage to the United States than it will be to Sir Arthur Street is a case in us, American senators deliberately £3,500 as kept the British Government in
Specialising Too Soon
But there are dangers in to draw at the end of the war. They had also heavy expenses, sweeping away the examination or leaving restoring wardrobes and purchas-system altogether,
until the age of ing other necessities. They have the tests
eighteen. One of the danger- to build homes all over again.
ous trends of modern education point. He received Furthermore, it follows that
has been for young people to Principal Under-Secretary at doubt about it in order to em- those who had least to draw are specialise too soon.
the Air Ministry, and 3,500 barrass and finally wreck the Bri- also those now most heavily exer- If children are left to follow (approximately) at the Control ish Government, the constitution
bent cised in struggling to meet run- their own
they are in Commission. He now is to get of which, whether you agree with ning expenses out of current danger of growing up without 5,000 at-the Coal Board and an it or not, is none carnings. In general, it may be any general education at all and as yet unascertained amount in business. I also have holes in my said that their attitude includes no philosophy of life to which commutation
to relate their specialised know-rights. a spirit of patience. But it is a
ledge. patience arising from a belief that as something must be done, it will be done.
•
THE FUTURE"
་
of
hia
utility socks.
of America'a
I am tired and irritable because libelled and insulted by a scrib- our greatest soldier has been
of
pension The exodus of civil servants We already have too many is alarming. It is likely that bling American, Ralph Ingersoll, scientists who cannot write pleas
to the Government to with little knowledge of military English; too many, literary arrest it will be made in the matters, to launch his bestseller; people and artists who have no House of Commons.
because, although British and Do- conception of the meaning of The Foreign Offico reforms minions troops fought the hardest
of the developments modern have brought relief to the battles of the war, they yet no At a moment when the
ma-science; and too many specialists diplomatic service which al credit for it; because, although wo
totally to be one of the more notorious are generous in Our terial aspect of the world con- of all kinda who are
industries. There is foreigners, they are rarely goner- tains so much that is discourag-ignorant of the social, historical sweated
ous in thoir praise of us. of need for salary and literary back-ground
1 also revisions or ing, it is invigorating to note the their own country. That is the some other form of incentive to have holes in most of my shirts. confidence and hope in which
way to create robots rather than keep first-class brains in Gov- because, while I was being bom- am also tired and irritable Lord Tedder accepted the free-human beings,
ernment service where they barded by flying bombs, I worked in the history of the B.B.C., and now have to pay nearly nine-tenths of the
Inland money back to the Revenue; because I can sed now that Industry and initiative don't pay; that there is no point at all in doing more than the absolute minimum; that it would be more profitable to be a crook or a black marketeer or become a gipsy.
And as for absenteclem, it is. some tax is not considerably re- bably give work up, too,
which duced by next April I shall pro- can be adequately tested.
You may not be able to tell debateo Mr. Bracken was Dis. would be a break for blahops,
Did I mention also that half my raellan in hla cadences.
handkerchiefs arçin zaga and th He talked of "our inflated rest have been six weeks ut the
mand.
dom of the City of London the Guides To Careers have never been more in de hard to write the greatest flop
Brendan And The Whale
Precisely
with,
then something
Peel,
a century
ago in
read men in Parliament, of re
Peel. For in the Finance Bill
ing of Mr. Hugh Dalton as
other day. The honour paid to
The School Certificate has at him recognised his great services
in the least enoured that up to the age Commander as an Air
of 16 children must include inį field, and as Deputy Supreme their curriculum scane mathe. the Corn Law debates Mr. Dis- raeli was flinging the Greek fire Commander under the man matics, some history and a whom he himself called "the arch modern language. If the gon of his invective at Sir Róbert team builder, the great gentleeral examination at 16 is done I suspect Mr. Brendan man and great leader, General away Eisenhower," Yet it was not, in must be done to see that the Bracken, who is one of the best the main, of the recent past that schools maintain a sufficiently membering Disraeli and think Lord Tedder spoke, nor of his wide curriculum and that the own new task as Chief of the Air standards reached by teaching Staff. It was of the future, and of the contribution of British
at 16 how boys and girls will youth and the British way of life do at the university, but you to the making of a sane and de- ought to be able at least to tell
that some of them and our inflated cent work for those now living. negatively
Mr. Dalton was
"Casino, bishop. Such is mankind's justified hor will not make good at college Chancellor," the joy and pride We are certainly "sunk into a ror of mass bloodshed that we and that their energies should
the Stock Exchange complaining lethargy," and we aro are frequently assured that wars be directed into other channels.
entitled to be sunk in it, without gamblers. The income limits of parents settle nothing and that warfare in the now Ministry of Educo the aged valetudinarians who tery and without
Mr. Bracken's description of blotting the pages of English hla- brings out of
any wagging worst in humantion proposals 雎 a test for
doddered out nature. Both generalisations are maintenance aid should
of City board remarks from you. untrue. All that is true is that qualified by taking into account rooms to fall into the arms of wars create unsettlement and the size of the family. A parent the Chancellor, and who listen. that warfare brings out some of with 1,500 a year and four or th for the Ministerial bell with MASS TRIAL AT
their car trumpots, was saucy
be
the best-in-human-nature-in-the five-promising children nearing
pre-
Budget, our inflated currency laundry?
Chancellor." So there you are, my dear
the
worst possible conditions. Amid university age is as deserving 1846 Father DACHAU this wastage, there is, as Lor of assistance as the parent with than bath-chair Bournemouth 1946. But much may be for- under £600 a year.
wit Tedder emphasised. some
Kiven to
and
Dachau, Juno 13. galety in either Front Bench In these
Fifty-two former Nazi officers cious salvage for peace in the Civil Service Losses
grey days.
and guards of the infamous Floss, spirit of sacrifice, of teamwork
Those who know least about When Dizzy exploded his fire onbere concentration camp plead- and of love of one's country the Civil Service often abuse it crackers, Peel used to turn faced at American military court ed "not guilty today when they Among the young airmen that.
indibcriminntely. Those who white and say something to the The accused were. charged mur-. spirit was preeminent, but it was know it boat realise it is like a effect that he could wish for dering thousands of women. Polish by no means confined to any or cake in which the plums and no better tribute than the hon-citizens and other foreign politieak.. all of the fighting services. In-rálsins are of the finest quality ourable gentleman's gibes. prisonors by aciontifie inocula
Bracken deed, it was manifest among the but the dough tenda to be a Whon
coruscates.ion.” shooting hanging and civilian population of Britain, little heavy,
Dalton pays no hoed, but swims strangulation. Londoners above all Lord Ted- The Government is now about' forward, through the Parlia The mass trial" follows der made a fine appeal that this to bake a far bigger Civil Sormentary seas with majestic large-scale trials which took place vica cake with far fewer plums complacency like the White two weeks nuoskus home ha spicit shall not be lost in peace at its disposal. The new legid Whale Was that supposed to be total of 28 Naxle were ban
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for part in the brutalB conditions, and that youth shallation is putting heavy strain a harpoon? Oh dear, I thought brace itself to face the future on the departments and frosh it was a bin. And Captain
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