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PREMIER'S REVIEW OF
BRITAIN'S PROGRESS
Reply To Critics On Defence
Mr. Baldwin, accompanied by Mrs. Baldwin, had an enthusiastic reception when he addressed a meeting of Scottish Conservatives at St. Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, re- cently states the "Daily Tele- graph."
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9.500.000 in employment, to-day there are over 11,000,000.
I have had a calculation made that enables one to visualise bet- ter. what that means It means that on each working day of those four years, on the average 1,400 He opened his speech with
more men have found new em- review of the trade position. Theployment. For this year, the rate Government's plans to restore con-
is increasing. In the year ending fidence had been successful to a
Oct. 8 nearly 2,000 men have found degree none would have dared to
work each day. forecast five years ago. That con- fidence was unimpaired to-day. He continued:
In scotland you had a longer spell as a whole, than England of the depression. But there is no doubt the corner has been turned, and turned well
Do not think I do not recognise that unemployment. to-day is a" grave problem. Do not think that I am satisfied. There is a lot more yet to be done before I shall be satis- ded.
within the last four years the gross It is estimated that in Scotland value of her agricultural output has increased by 10 per cent. Had no steps been taken that would not have happened and agriculture would have felt the full blast of the depression as it affected the primary producers of all countries. I was very pleased, last July, to receive a representative deputation from the National Farmers' Union
Taking one industry which has, perhaps, been among the most de- pressed, I am delighted to find that in coal saleable output in, Scotland has risen by 3,300.000 tons in the year over what it was two years ago. There is a further improve- mant of another 500,000 tons in the first three quarters of this year.
What is remarkable is that Scot-of Scotland on the subject of oats, land bas increased her foreign We had a very full and useful dis- shiptnents in the last £ve years by cussion. I promised them over 1,000,000 tons,
their representations would receive the Government's consideration and that the Secretary for Scot- land and the Minister of Agri- culture would go into the whole position together.
As far as the Clyde la concerned, I am told that there are still some vacant berths, but contracts are coming in quietly all the time and the yards are better employed than they have been for a long period.
2,000 NEW JOBS EVERY DAY
that
These consultations are now tak- ing place, and I am in touch with them. I hope their combined in-
The figures of men in employ- telligence may find a solution. for
a problem that has hitherto pro-
ment have often been given. I will mention the fact only that years
ago there rather
four under
ved to be one of the most bailing we have had to deal with.
CHILDREN BORN “LIFEBOATS" FOR
IN WINTER
Lowest Chance Of Survival
DANGEROUS FIRST TWO YEARS
chuu
In comparison With the born in summer, the winter-born child
is at a considerable dis- advantage for the first two years cf life, states the "Daily Tele- graph."
Of each 1,000 children born in the four winters, 1930 to 1933, 29 died within two years, while of ench 1,000 born in summer only 75 died For spring the proportion was 77, and for autumn 82.
SUBMARINES German Escape Experiments
While Germany to straining every nerve to build up a sub- marine fleet, she is not neglecting
the
the problem of the escape of the crew of a submarine" which lies disabled on the sea bed, writes the Naval
correspondent of "Morning Post."
A number of experiments have been carried out. Some of these are similar to those. made in re- cent years by the Royal Navy and the United States Navy in that they are concerned with saving lives one at a time.
In some, however, German in-
have scught
to provide
These facts appear from one of the several special studies of mor-ventors tality contained in the Registrar- means whereby several men can General's statistical review for escape together. The most 1934, published recently,
in- genlons is designed nut only to re The returns of the 1931 Census scue the men from the sunken have enabled the maternal death-submarine, but to provide them rate for the three years 1830-32 to with a boat when they reach the be calculated for the wives of surface. men in social groups, the classifi-:
A steel boat is built, bottom up.
cation being based upon the hus- into the deck casing of the sul bands' occupations;
For all married пещер the maternal death-rate was. 4.13 per 1.000 live births. Divided into groups, the figures are:
Professional and allied classes,
4.44:
Skilled and semi-skilled workers, 4.13:
marine. This boat does not flood when the submarine dives and ac- cess can be had to it from the in- side of the pressure hull proper by means of an emergency hatch.
SHOT TO SURFACE it the submarine is resting dis- abled on
the bottom of the sea; this hatch is opened and men Unskilled workers, 3.29. Male births in 1834 exceeded the upturned boat. The boat is climb through it and eling inside female births In the ratio of 1,055 | then released and shoots to the
to 1,000. This ratio was approached surface, the air-lock within it giv
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In 1843 and 1844, when 1,054 was ing it positive buoyancy and pro- GOT LINCOLN TO
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LOW "NATURAL INCREASE”
The natural increase excess of live births over deaths-in
When the boat reaches the sur- face it
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At 88
1934 men have to do is to bail out the Shocked" Girl Dies was 121,000, compared with 84,000 water, which has in 1933 and 130,000 in 1932. The its "capsizing" and the are provid- rate was 3.0 per 1,000 af population. Only three other countries had a lower rate in. 1934 ---Austria, France and Sweden,
the ed with a seaworthy craft.
""The rail fence around picture in the poster is very pretty. Have you any little gris?"
your £5 Device To Prevent
Air Crashes
Four days later she received this answer from the Hepublican Presidential candidate:-"..
une seven,
YOUTH'S INVENTION
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"My dear Grace Bedell,-Your Very agreeable letter of the 15th Work for at least 200 local men received. I regret to say I have may be provided almost immediate- Another device which has been considered by the Germans is a The "shocked" schoolgirl who
no little girl, I have three, sons. ty on the Teams Valley Trading one 17 years old, one nine, and Estate, Gateshead. development of the buoy system of was reputed
on the The diphtheria death-rate letting surface vessels know the Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard' tp hare Induced
production of a salety, device for amóng children aged from 5 to whereabouts of a sunken submar- has died
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genoplanes invented by: a 21-year- 10 years was in 1934 the highest ine. The German system goes one USA, at the age of 88.
at Delphos, Kansas, think people would call it a sillyton, of Low Fell.
Speaking of whiskers, don't you old Tynesider, Mr. George A. Charl- since 1920. Prevalence of eryal- better than a mere mark buoy, and pelas has increased 25 per cent. Is concerned with a "boy" whichings. As a schoolgirl of 11 during
affectation if I began wearing She was Mrs. Crace Bedell Bill-whiskers?"",
Mr. Charlton has returned from between 1921-24 and 1931-34, whilst is a chamber in which a MORNING SOUND LECHORN FARM puerperal fever notifications per can be raised to the surface.
London after successul negotia- After Mr. Lincoln hard won the tions for the election campaign of 1880, she, election he went to Westfield, New
financial support 1.000 live births rose by 33 per While both these systems,
was "shocked" by the amooth-York State, where the little girl
establisning a factory. cent
well as many others which have haven face of Mr. Lincoln Recalling
as lived, and asked her to come for is, to keep the propeller of an The principle of his invention that the death-rate been suggested, would undoubted depicted on the posters. from angina pectoris and degene ly lead to the saving of life from
werd. !,་, She wrote to Mr. Lincoln, advis- "Mr. rative diseases of the heart and a submarine
aeroplane going after the engine Lincoln climbed down accidentally sunk ing him to replace his
smooth through the crowd and sat down time to look round for a suitable has falled, thus giving the pilot. arteries has risen continuously during peace time, it is doubtful jowls with the more manly whisker, with me on the edge of the station landing ground. In the last 15 years, the report whether their adoption could be **I REGRET, TO SAYMAN Bay:
platform.". Mrs. Billings used to considered a practical proposition.
"Dear Mr. Lincoln," she wrote, recall. "Gracle, he said, lookatted to any machine at a cost It can, Mr. Charlton claims, be "The more rapid rise of the male
I think you would look better at my whiskers. rate than the female rate suggests
I have been of about 25. with whiskers. Two of my growing them for you? Then her NETW
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that this may be an after-result physique owing to the elimination brothers are Republicans, two are kissed me.. of the war, caused by the attaining of the fittest during 1914-18, but Democrats. I think I could get my again."
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to ages 50-85 of a population of one which was subjected during Democratic brothers to vote for At the time of her death Mrs. the great man had written to her men not only inferior in average those years to abnormal stress."" you if you wore a beard,
Billings still had the letter which in her childhood days.
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