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The Tragl Government delegate reported that the 48-hour week was almost universal in Iraq at the present time. If the com-

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The yearbook paints out that the amount of howing produced, within the past 17 years repre- sents only about half the number

Mr. Alan Bell's Book On The Thames

of houses indicated as needed be-Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew tween now and 1950. Even if the Wanted to know what the River i mitttee decided to make special shortage is made

knew. exceptions his Government was the report states, it means that up gradusky, prepared to consider them favoursome way must be found to make deal in his brief volume, contain- Mr. Bell has told them a great ably

additional dwellings available at ing. as he puts it, "some samples Mr. Armstrong. New Zealand the rate of about a million a year.of the massive deposit of history Government delegate and chair- man of the committee, then pro-ed as

"Hand-me-down" houses, offer: left by two thousand years of posed a resolution requesting the housing shortage, are impractical B partial solution for a

Thames tides." Drafting Committee to draw up a

It would take a library to hold special article providing for longer emphasizes. "There is a vast dif- book,

for low-income groups, the study all that the River could day; this Working hours in certain countries ference between handing cown a Coronation, is a brilliant epitome.

published to mark the which would later be submitted to house from one family to another the full committee, for adoption.

The title comes from the City Mr. T Ashurst, British

of approximately the same cul- Common Council Acts which refer ployers' delegate objected on the

tural and economic background with deference, and ceremony to ground that a committee meeting dential areas from one economic, going back to Roman days, to a and handing down of entire rest-"the Sald Noble River." Mr. Bell. informally to discuss special ex-racial, or national group to an- time when the Thames was still ceptions was not competent to aubmit such

other with entirely dissimilar in- a proposal to the

a watercourse at play." has this come. Drafting Committee. The chair-housing needs," the report states.

background, habits, and evocative passage: man then ruled that the com-

The leaves of ålders and willows mittee was competent.

Dearth of new construction is

drifted on the surface in autumn; Mr. Butler's Reply

one of the chief reasons given for depths; and the sun, lighting on trout and salmon leapt out of cleas the shortage, which in some cities the forested Kent and Essex hills, Mr. Harold Butler, director of the ILO addressed the confer- slums impossible because there is strayed between Vauxhall, Batter has already made demolition of kindled the placid food which ence this morning after the dis- no place to move the tenants. cussion on his annual report had Change from the polley of double, Lambeth, Southwark, Finsbury. been completed, and commenteding up necessary when familles trams and buses clamour, were Bermondsey--regions where the upon the various speeches. First were on rellef or had little money, raucous with the voice of wild he spoke about the complaints in rise in the marriage rate, and in fowl, and which Mr. Koizumi (Japanese grease in the number of families reed beds the white mists crept the sedge and workers) and Mr. Krekitch (Yugo- are also cited as causes. Slav workers) had expressed the

at evening. The mud in the valley opinion that freedom of associa-

of the Fleet, a considerable arm tion and of free trade unionism

of the greater river, baked, peace- was not being sufficiently observed, gradually worked out through the the sea.

fully as each tide lazed back to Mr. Krekitch had suggested that various forms of commercial treaty next year's report should give which were being adopted to faci-

Where a atretch of hard ground special attention to this subject litate trade. He added that jutted like a ready-made quay for on the north side of the water Mr. Butler pointed out that the resumption of international lend-ships, the Romans built a bridge- power of the office in that respecting was necessary for the respur the Bridge, London Bridge. was strictly limited, even if the ces of the world and the raising TOKYO-

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how this plot of firm soll. by the Then Mr. Bell proceeds to show,

river's brink made a part, and how the port in turn became the pre- eminent city of the world. ⠀⠀

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40-Hour Week Successes On the forty-hour week Mr. Butler found the recent bill intro- WORLD'S GREATEST PORT duced into the United States Con- gress for the enactment of the Self-Sufficiency Or Free"

Mr. Bell describes the great work national forty-hour week" signif-of the Port of London Authority; Trade

cant and drew attention to re-he explains that in the past 28 Another point upon which Mr. marks made by several speakers years "about £20,000,000 has been Butler spoke was the confusion in on this subject. Mr. Harriman shrewdly spent-say, £2,000 a day some of the speakers' minds that (employers, United States) had with the object of making the economic planning and autarky said that because of the use of greatest world port a huge working were one and Speakers uke Mr. Roman

the same thing. technology the representatives of model of what a port should be:"

(Gov., American labour, and American and he speaks of the fresh £12,-. Rumania) and Mr. O'Leary tem- business can unite in supporting 000,000 programme of Improve- ployers, Ireland) contended that a wisely drawn forty-hour

con-ments. self-suficiency was both destrable vention at Genèva" At the Wash- This programme has just begun. and feasible, but Mr, Butler .con-ington conference. Mr. West (em- "More new quays (the Royal Al- fessed that he found it dimcult to ployers) had related in detail the bert Docks will obtain" a stretch follow their arguments, and said: favourable results

achieved in almost a mile long). Mr. Bell If Rumania gives up exporting his mill through the establishment writes, "still deeper docks and wheat and ofl and if Ireland pro- of the shorter work period. Mr. channels, better warehouses, more duces her own coal, fron, ore. Armstrong had stated that the powerful cranes "and cargo- cotton, wool, and petroleum then New Zealand employers had not handlers wherever pressure is felt, perhaps self-sufficiency may be been ruined by the forty-hour or promises to develop, the Port is tenable, but I doubt whether it week as they had expected. Mr. being methodically adjusted to can be done without considerable Lebas, French Minister of Labour, meet it" decline in the national standard had said that a quarter of a mil- Mr. Bell sketches the history of of living.. Until it has been on persons had been put to work London Bridge: that alry, fan- achieved both countries will need in France as .result of the forty-tastic habitation strung across the to buy on a greater or lesser ex- hour week legislation. A prima Pool"; he recaptures the sound and change. I would rather agree with facie case had just been made in Mr. Kitaoka (Government. Japan) favour of the shorter, working and Mr. Bahrami (Government, week Mr. Butler said. he could Iran) in thinking that even when not persuade himself that what country undertakes a programme had proved feasible and advan- if industrialism that is not incom-tageous to France, New Zealand, patible with Free Trade.

and the United States was bound Mr. Butler called attention to to be disastrous to the new technique that was being country.

every other

STUDENTS SHOULD STAY IN

UNIVERSITY

The importance of residential life within a University was stress ed by Professor J.-S. B. Stopford, Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University, when speaking at Lang- dale Hall a hostel for women students in Manchester.

Professor Stopford said he looked looked forward to the day when a great many more of their studenta would be in résidence. A student upon entering the University had some dinculty in realising the value of communal life, yet many old students had said how indebted they were for the period spent in residence, and others who had not shared this experience had later expressed regret.

SELECTED MINORITY "When we enter the University as students" said Professor Stop ford, "we are quite naturally, a Ettle' self-centred and in the teenpess of competition and econo- mic pressure two objectives Joom largely ahead: graduation-people rightly want to get a good degree and the good job that should follow, We rather forget that we are just a selected minority, a very fortunate minority with great op

portunities and great obligations and responsibilities.

"We forget that we are heavily subsidised in order to get that University education. Even if we are not scholarship-holders our fees cover only about one-third of the cost. We are indebted to the University and to our fellows, who by the payment of taxes and rates have made it possible for us to

ye that education.

fury of the battle on the Bridge during Jack Cade's rising; he shows Anne Boleyn passing up the River from Greenwich Tower on a May. morning when the to the

Thames was graced by a procession of "rainbow argosies"; he pictures the glory of the Thames highway in Stuart times; and at length brings us to the piled merchandise- of the modern Port-its curious. and unending assortment," its "sheer mountainous quantity."

"Immense and at first iLi probable-seeming figures are fung at the visitor," he writes. "But by-and-by his mind grows a protective skin; anything below hundreds of thousands glances off lightly; and finally, hearing that there are a quarter of a million gallons of port in the Fort vaults. he takes them, so to speak, in one dock-glass, at a gulp."

Mr. Bell is the best of historians. None with any love for the "sover- eign of English rivers, survivor of all human princes and dynasties," can afford to miss his book thirty photographs match the ex- cellence of the text

Bome

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we realise that indebtedness more fully we should more obvious. ly see our responsibilty, that we are expected to do something far beyond what is beneficial only to ourselves. This selected band ought to form leaders and to direct public opinion and to benefit man- kind 7 am perfectly clear in my mind that many perhaps most, of

It is officially announced that those qualities which are required the Bartet pole flier, Musurk aight- for leadership and for the other hitherto unknown islands dur purposes which I have named come ing a fight east of Graham Bell from the opportunities which we get of taking part in corporate life. The telegram by which Masur we are not come to get the full informs the Soviet authorities of the benent of that corporate life in the discovery, states that he intends to modern University if we do not establish the exact location of the seize the chances we have of relslands by another fight sidence.

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