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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1951.

BIGGEST COMBINED;

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OPERATION SINCE

WORLD WAR'S END

LONDON, April 3. RITAIN is preparing for its biggest com- bined operation since the war-C-Day, April 8, the day on which the first Census for 20 years will be held.

C-hour is midnight (Sun-

ticular value in relation to the and children enumerated in ench arca as compiled by,arca- Re- country's housing problem.

There will be, a great effort gistrars. These reports will also

Includo

population to round up stragglers 00 C-night. There are penalties provious Censuses, the acreage of under the provisions of the areas and indiente where popula Census Act and Regulations for lions are increasing or decreas-

ing. It is also planned to take those who wilfully refuse to all in their forms. Travellers, in- one hundred percent sample of the noturns, on which a number of the more important tables By

can be based, enabling, many of the facts to be published well in advance of the final results.

day) and all those alive in HAZEL MAY

Britain at that moment are required to be entered in the census forms which 50,- 000 onumerators have been distributing since last week- end. The census authorities

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100 percent return of forms, and every effort will be made to round up people travelling that night, or at work. Fishermen at sea on Sunday night will fill

up their forms on arrival in port.

cluding foreigners, are being urged to call into a hotel or even a private house on the evening af C-Day, if there is no other way of their being registered,

tables,

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The full work of the Census... coding all the cards, sorting and and then producing counting them, compiling county Occupa- volumes on Housing,

ons, Industries, and finally volume of General Tables, sum-

in the volumes will tako and efforts are being made to marising the information give train travellers an opport- county unity during their journey of several years to complete. giving the required particulars.

What docs this ENOTINOUS operation costs? In 1931. it was This Census is ex- £460,000. pected to cost over £1,250,000. The cariler one did not include Scotland, however, and the time tog since the last Census, as well

in

increase or as the all-round

prices, has mainly accounted for the great increase in the coat to the nation.

How does Britain

a mammoth ganise such

every operation affecting one of its inhabitants? The General Register Office has been working on the plans for two years. And it will be years yet before the re- sults are fully tabulated and ready for publication, though preliminary reports will be available in about eight weeks.

When the head of every fill household sits down to in the form, he must re- member to enter the names of everyone in the house this coming Sunday ing, whether normally re- sident there or not.

even-

This census form demands to know full details of the people In the house. It does not only require to know the numbers of married couples, with or with-

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Occupying dwellings

The preliminary reports of the Census to be published about eight weeks after C-Day will give the numbers of men, women

Most important people in

ате Census

the Operation Enumerators. They have been chosen from the ranks of local officers, school- government. and teachers,

other reliable people. They must be educated, possess tact and a pleasant man- her, and be physically at since their duties are likely to be a considerable endurance vest in many of the rural areas. Upon the efficiency of these enumera- tors depends the value of this survey.

AGE BYRAMIDS FOR GREAT BRITAIN, 1891. AND. 1950

1891...

AND OVER B

25.70

70-74

45.69

55.19

50.34

+5.49

40-44

15-19

15.14

23.17

20-24

10.14

ACE

2,000,000 1,300,000 1,000,000 500,000

+

1

2.000000 1500000 100000 500000

1950

AND OYIA

75.29

70-74

65-69

60 64 55.57 30.5481

43 49

40 #4

35-19

20-34

25.29

20-24

15.00

10.14

5.9

0.4

ACI

500.000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000

106.200 100000 1.500.000 2.000.000

The pyramids, which are derived from the 1891 census and the estimated figures for 1950. show the changes which have taken place in Britain's population. Neto, in the 1980 population, the greater proportion of older people and the effect of the lower birth rate of the 1930s,

DON IDDON'S DIARY

T

HE tollers in the Associated Press at 50, building Rockefeller Plaza acquitted themselves well this week. We had, our full dress rehearsal of air-raid drill. It was staged elaborately:

NEW YORK

TUESDAY

a

record. con-

out the "suggestions" perfectly.

I am more than satisfied with

but size. the arrangements made,

native New Yorkers are What miserabe many

in the not. The editorialists say that They should be the large the British are doing a much juring business, making things First there were

specially disappear, an thorough job with decorative announcements

bullt atom-bomb villages and easels in the lobbles: "Practice

grim,

realistic training amid drill in this building air-rald

fire, smoke, and deafening ex→ between 3 and 3.15 p.m."

plosions. Then there were nolices on desks: "Warning signal: Are gong in corridor will

in

£240 a day for doing nothing

From NEWELL · ROGERS

NEW YORK, FROM now until May 15

Follywood How210

Hughes is paying British actor Robert Nowton" and fellow players a total of £240 a day to do nothing.

But Hughes can afford it. He airline is an aircraft. builder, operator, and all multi-million- atre besitles being a flm chick. His income is estimated at over £10,000 a day.

Hollywood calls 18-year-old, Oft. 3in. Hughes a mystery min" because he sees his stars once a year, has his office miles from his studio and often telephones orders on films at 3 am.

But he is a famous starmaker -Jane Russell, Faith Doumergue, and the late Jean Harlow.

Newton and the other actors were hired to aim G. B, Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion." But Hughes wants comedian Alan Young for Androcles and he is not available until May 16. So everyone is gloriously marking time on full pay.

Yet Hughes is saving money.. He has lent loading lady Jean Simmons to another studio until May 15 to make “Queen Bess,” and Hollywood's estimate of her salary is something over £1,000 a week,"

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comedy

SINGER Margaret Truman, stor the Festival of Britain and the whose salary as a radio 2,000th birthday of Parla. nearly equals that of her famous

a year), (£35,700 I think we have a slight edge father

the travel advertisements. making her debut as an actress. A radio "Come to the She will appear in The French say,

at drama with James hinting, perhaps,

Stowart Party

and dancing girls called "Jackpot.”

4 It seems that everything the champagne

We shrinks touch

in and delectable wickedness, Socialists

LONDON-BORN males named are relying more on old castles,

the other the countryside, the Inns, and Henry got free seats

night for the British .the pageantry.

Don't let us forget the fun "Springtime for Henry." and games-Americans love to

STEEL PRODUCTION is over improve their minds and have three times that of Russia and Meanwhile this country gets a quick shot of culture; but her satellites together, says the bigger, stronger, wealthier the they like a lark, too, or hadn't annual report of the United national income has quadrupled you heard?

Steel Corporation, a in the past 15 years.

Here the American news is States Could it be that one reason routine. That is to say, there private company. It is 12 percent for the American success story have been ten more probes into above peak production in World is the free enterprise system crime and graft, a dozen new War II.

revelations of scandals in high

GUNMAN William Cook jun. here?

We seem to be forever send-

out clear promises Mr Harold Wilson, racketeers.

murdering all Ave of the Carl Mosser Americans,

In almost everything else we Trade, is due here to negotiate public is taking more and more Chandler: "Society stands in- are declared to be logging.

for more raw materials.

pills

Earl Wilson calls it the dicted for permitting this child Ever since the controversyY Wish Mr Wilson luck, but I pull Age, and certainly today to grow up in the inhuman con-

will ba over the proposed ap- om afraid his visit

can get pills. for every-ditions you flared

of M. thing. pointment

American overshadowed by that

crimes." admiral

naval and Mme, Auriol, The French Is so happened that I was in an elevatorlift to you-amok- forces there have been painful President and his wife

a cigarette when the mad (to me) comparisons between doing wonderful the development of many Ing

pealing of bells started. Out the size of the Royal Navy and France. went the cigarette, down went the US, Navy,

clevator to the

out children,

our The

Naval occasions of various kinds, but also the ring 50 rapid strokes lasting numbers of households contain- about 30 seconds. All clear: Six THIS is one of the few times I have seen it conceded here that, the British between

couple or relatives or boarders

married couple living with a

alx

seconds

pairs.

to

the

ing more than one marrieri paire of two-gong strokes with that

will not run, lights are doing superior work to the g over Ministers to ask for and low places, and 100 further was sentenced to 300 years in

of the Board of cre

No wonder the harassed family. Said Judge Stephen

Elevators will remain on. It is suggested that personnel go to the cor- Shelter. Beridor. areas marked

or not consisting of a family at all but of unrelated individuals.

Why all these questions? cause sociologists today

the Importance phasise knowledge of human groupings, especially in families, as a guide

CMT- Stay away from elevators (in a of real raid they might blow out),

Do not smoke."

not only to housing policy but

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social services and to the nature

and distribution of consumer needs.

A question over which there has been much confusion is that which relates to a woman's marriage. She is asked to give the date of her present marriage. if married before, the date and

She of her first marriage. niso

of asked the number children born alive to her, in- cluding any of c previous marriage, and whether she has given birth to a live-born child in the last 12 months.

entrance

the

hall.

Not satisfied

BOUT 200 people Were gathered thert, looking calm enough and gazing at what ap- a mole chorus- peared to be line of blushing, self-conscious wardens.

of

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да British

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work for

prison for Imenibers

that permitted

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these

Among the stars ADVERTISEMENT COLUMNS

maisonette offered from Mag

are sprinkled with London flats Hampstead ANTERTAINERS, according to for the Festival. addicts. Well, the competition 8 to September for £80 on Broadway is enough to month.

- DOWAGERS in diadems make any actor or actress rush

the medicine chest. Fabricked like bobby-soxers and

there are 1,000

to

star

Every

for tiny parts.

BREWERS · are

We

marketing a

Britannia no longer rules the A royal visit ? Waves, say the pundits who produce these figures: in 1941 VIVE la France, any the Con- Britain

had 363 combat shipa gresamien. Many would also manned by 300,000 men. The like the opportunity to shout United States had 330 combat

God Save the King! ships

verformance at the Metropolitan and 353,000 men.

It is 12 years since the King talented men and women eager waved scarves after the Starwell By June this year the United and

vilaited Queen

North

Opera House of soprano Kirsten will have 958 combat America, and their triumph As forecast, States

"The King and Flagstad. For 20 minutes they ships and 705,000 sallors, and was complete. Could they be I" is a stunning success and our clapped in rhythm, calling: we will have 175 combat abips

Lawrence could not want Flagstad." ed for another ceremonial Gertrude

be happier. and 180,000 men, Then we were all shepherded

We have a Navy less than

not,

Prinecas could

Michael Wilding is returning to the basement, past the bar half the size of ten years ago Elizabeth and Prince Phillip to England as soon as he com- dry-cleaning powder which re- and the plate-glass windows to and the Americans have almost tako a

Or Princess pletes

Law The

and Lady moves stains of eggs, ice cream, n lofty whitewashed shelter.

trebled theirs. I don't think this Margaret, tha fairy tale Loverly"

with Greer Garson. chocolate - even beer from There we stayed

feeling is good enough, do you?

Wilding will play in Herbert clothing. the bells

The Americans are certainty Wilcox's "The Lady with the SEPARATION arrangements Rumours of searching ques-rather. foolish, until

The ravages of being in the When I got front line during the war and anxious to look at the Old Lamb" with Anna Neagle in between Georgiana Campbell blons on marriage have circulated broke out again.

lack

British the sixth floor and the the

of resources in the World and I expect a gala the tile role, My thanks to Mr Manville, 32-year-old few weeks, and back In the past

'Mail office I was told United Kingdom are two big tourist season.

Wilcox for his charming cable. eighth wife of millionaire Tom- caused much Indignation, only Datly

all the staffs from the reasons for our decline, but At the moment there is

"Odetto" is a four-star success my Manville, provide her with to be alloyod by offelal reas that

bureaux had carried they don't tell the whole tale,

neck-and-neck rivalry between here. The Census docs ask various

R350 a month-lf she does not surance.

Footnote: The Little Four in telephone him. So she was un- personal questions--but for quite

All

Paris apparently cannot agreeable to tell him that the car he Impersonal reasons.

In

GA what the Big Four are to give her for her last birthday formation given is treated

doc's not

disagree about.

has been stolen, strictly confidential, pass beyond the Registrar- General's office, and there are heavy panalties for improper disclosure of information..

For example, the answers in Census forms cannot be used to trace desorters or to enforce private, social or national oblign- tlons, or any other purpose. It has been reallocd that mony people might hesitate to give the personal information required if they had any reason to bellove that it might be "used in evidence against them."

tion.

Princess?

THE ROCKET MAN

scraps

his ash-trays

Reason? They're out of date, said the Guided Missiles chiet, giving news to-day of the developments that are providing Britain with new weapons.

THE man who taught the King to fly stubbed his

TH cigarette-end into the ashtray on his desk. He pointed to

Very full deialls are required of each person's personal occupa the bookcase, where there were half a dozen ashtrays all Thoxe in trades, manu- surrounded by modern typos of aeroplanes. "We have de- factures, professions or services

as being out of dute," he are asked to state che particular posited them in the bookcase kind of work they do, the chuckled.

procise branch or nature of their For, rising vertically from the centre of the one now occupation, We are told that in use was, in beautifully turned bronze, a model of the golden rule is to give as much information as possible, rocket projectile.

and not be afraid of using Ptochnical terma.

It was a symbol of his office. Air, Chief" Marshal Sir Alec Coryton, DFC, is Chief Execu tive, Gulded Weapons, at the Ministry of Supply.

•

by JAMES STUART

with.

alf the supporting activities- electronics, rocket propulsion and aerodynamics. This base is headed by Mr H. C. Pritchard, 40-year-old Oxford Double Blue. What are the prospects for British Industry?

"There are various schemes afoot. One British aircraft firm have already started out there," Sir Alec said,

How are we doing on rockets? careful to give Sir Alec was

the total effort that has been no secrets away. "In relation to put into guided weapons, Pro gress has been satisfactory, said.

Fifty-six years old Coryton, tall and alim, with hair that is going white, usually prefers to wear a lounge suit with a white stiff collar.,

HIS OLD CROCK

· in our history--one simmer days of 1949. Qued after the he became an airman he was

The census people have tremendous list of theso, and In his room seven doors up land, and that is plenty to start take pride in

the river at Mulbank."Out there the rainfall is only classifying oven above noemingly improbable people he told me of some of the work such as clickers and beetlers that is going on

An old Etonian, he joined the 12,000 miles about 6in. or Gin. a year. There Auerei intho sotters, carman's away in the South Australian is good weather for 360 days of Rifle Brigade after leaving Cam- nippers and buffing-pchinists scrub country that will make the year so there is no fear of bridge during the 1914-16 war, There are more questions any new Battle of Britain a the experimental work beinig transferring to the Royal Flying weather." Corps in 1817. Two years after thia Conmus than in any other very different affair from the held up yot taken

word for launching the King's ring instructor at result of the more complex and 1,200 MILES RANGE boomerang has been buit Cranwell more organised existence in the

nn who is in fon has just returned from into a mibstantial village, with What does the man nimse - Carston has just Britam of 1951 "Ainong quan Toon hot lu 10, 1831 Ephoduje a visit to the vast rocket teating prefab

and two airhoidsi

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"rocketry" is do, in his Jating marriage, and shlidren north of Adelaide, where, far Eighteen, miles away from the spare time? He loves engineer educator which will providd away from prying eyes, the work village las radang station, for ing, and has his ownakazivale P/sung » both a defensive and tracking the guided weapons as workshop Angth of his fors Competion, and dogttog'or

Ta an, Fold in crock bar, Adid 1:100 miles in it the other day at

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are the more detailed, puisse TAZATO Z Mt. Woofer, 2007 miles shop geftiges, church, hospital, charge? Hof all "Britain's · -super-

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