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THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936.
· PUBLIC OPINION
HEEDED
The value of informed public opinion has been illustrated by the decision of the Government to give heed to the arguments [recently advanced in the columns of the Press for the retention of privately-owned tents and simi- the Repulse lar structures on Bay bathing beach. Happily. the proposed ban is not now to be enforced, and the result will mean much to those who do not happen to own matsherls and who find the Repulse Bay beach, with adequate means of cheap transport thereto, practically the only bathing resort on the island which they are able to patronise. As the Bill dealing with the mat- ter was originally drawn up, it was intended that private-tenis- should be permitted on all mat- shed beaches, within areas allot-
IN BERLIN TO-DAY.
They Call a Spade
A
YOUNG man in a neat uniform, parading up and down before the wrought-iron gates of a castle-a country house would this time be a nearer, if less Hteral translation of schloss- and carrying at the slope of his shoulder-a spade.
Not a dirty spade, not a spade nolled with clay and sweat, but a new spade'with the haft glisten- ing with varnish and the metal In fact, a highly burnished. ceremonial spade. A symbol.
. For this castle, once the rest- dence of a Brandenburg land- owner, situated in a wood about twelve miles cast of Berlin, is now a Gompulsory
Labour Camp.
Youths of sixteen or seventeen, as soon as they leave school, have to serve six months in one of these camps before commencing their epnscript military service.
They dig, they drain marshes. they fell timber, they build roads. The work is heavy-it is said that many faint from exhaustion-and English boys would regard it as all the heavier for the sqand drill which accompanies it, with much blowing of bugles and beating of dirtma.
NO SMILES
M
-by Order
Y hosts were unable to obtain permission for me to sce over the camp. to be Many forins would have filled in and long notice given. That is typical. The Nazis may be crenting a new State, but they are leaving substantial tracts of the old Germany, including long forms to be filled in for almost every- thing.
So all I was able to see of the the solemn Labour Camp was youth keeping guard at the gate.
ceremonial with the spotless spade, and a squad of the young labourers being drilled, to drums and bugles. in the forecourt. The sergeant talked to them vehem- ently, and at length, before dia- missing them, and when I naked the import of his Quent Prussian address, I was told he had noticed some of them grinning, and t wouldn't do, and before he had finished with them the grina would come off.
HE spade, however, does
typify Berlin to-day.
Everywhere there is work going on. The ime trees that gave the Unter den Linden its
ted and definitely marked off, but NOTES OF THE DAY
when the Bill came up for its first reading, the Government,
Since the Great War the Bri-l for reasons which have not been tish Aircraft industry has been disclosed, intimated that no tents the world's chief exporter of all Aeronautical material, but when whatever would be allowed at the announcement was made some Repulse Bay. In response to time ago that there was to be ni of the public opinion,, however, that considerable expansion ban will not now be persisted it, Royal Air Force it was feared in many quarters that this would and the original general rules mean the stoppage of supplies for In spite of the applicable to all mutshed beaches oversens buyers.
emergency demands of the Gov- will also operate at Repulse ernment for more airforce equip-| Bay. There is one further point ment, the aircraft and aero-engine worthy of note. The original re-builders have not overlooked the needs of their customers abroad.) gulations contained no specific in an official report recently issued prohibition against the erection it was stated that the total value of tents in front of matsheds, of aircraft exports for 1936 was
£2,721,441. This but, at the same time as the Re-
on record, and pulse Bay ban was announced, figure for 19334 by £800,339. it was also intimated that the European countries placed orders Government did not intend to last year to the value of £204,403, on the value, of orders placed in allow tents to occupy areas in 1934. British manufacturers are front of sheds. As the original rapidly expanding the British Air schedule is now being reverted Force and at the same time in- creasing their export of machines to, it must be assumed that there to many countries in nearly all will, in future be no objection to parts of the world. tents in front of sheds, provided
is the highest it exceeds the
A SYMBOL
name have vanished-the centre of the great boulevard is all sand and upturned clay, for they
are making an extension of the to tako Underground raliway visitors out 10 the Olymple Games, Perhaps
12 to stranger there seems no need for that, no con- Kestion of trame-but it is work, and though the wages paid to the navvies, some of them former pro- fessional men, are little more than the "dole," while they work they need not think.
And they are working every- where, rebuilding the grounds of the Radio Exhibition which was burned down last year, making great motor roads in all directions out of Berlin, building the stadiums for the Olympic Games and mode vilinge for the thousands of competitors. After the Oames, the village will become a barracks for the most efftekent regiment in the Army.
And as you by across Germany 'you see everywhere long straight. ronds with hardly a vehicle on them. There can be no doubt of They are military their purpose. roads designed to move troops. runs. ammunition and supplies to utmost the frontiers with the speed. They stretch north, south. No wonder there is Cast, west. poverty in Germany.
At Hanover nerodrone in the Customs Station there is en enor
A variation is the Rake, also
carried at the slope.
by
John BROPHY
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big weighing machine, nough to weigh a grand plano or . prize ox.
A woman had brought a bunch of six roses from Holland. The Cus- toms official laid them solemnly on the weighing machine. The Anger moved so alghtly that he had to Hrt his glasses to see what it re- corded.
Then he solemnly calcu- inted, filed in a largo form, and charged the woman the equivalent of three-halfpence,
B
ERLIN is pre-eminently One sees a serious elly. preoccupied and anxious faces everywhere. And everybody wants to know what England thinks of the new Germany, of Hitler, of its Olympic Games.
They are proud of their country. but it is a pride without confidence. Would #L psychologist diagnose this as a symptom of an Inferiority complex?
The serious faces one sees in the streets are not handsome either. The blonde Nordic type, the Nazl Ideal of gold hair and pluk checks, is very rare. The Berliner usually has dark, lustreless hair and a complexion of old, rather worn Ivory,
Some of the men have good. clean-cut features, but it is dim- cult to find a woman with a face or a figure which would pass as even moderately attractive in another country.
Berlin is a man's city, run by men for men-serious men who have re-established the hausfrau (deni.
COSMETICS -
are GERMAN
barred
told me proudly that I could go all over Berlin and yel i would see "practically no women with painted faces." -It-was-an-unkind.thought, and l efrained from attering it, but sti the fact remains that I did think a little paint and powder might have improved these Berlin women. They would have nothing to lose
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
they are confined to areas speci- the proposed rules were too ally marked off. So far as Re- greatly in favour of matshed pulse Bay is concerned, no other owners, and that there was no whatever why tents parts of the beach are available, (reason since the undeveloped portion of should not be allowed in front of the Lido, which has, a consider sheds where no other area was able sea frontage, cannot be available, provided they were utilised, as the Government's kept within specified limits. lease to the Realty Company con-with this method of solving the tains a proviso that no structures problem now agreed to, it is to shall be permitted between the he hoped that the authorities leased area and the sea. The will apply the rules in as liberal position generally seems now to a spirit as possible, keeping al- be quite clear-tents may be ways in mind the needs of people erected on any matshed beach of small means, who, had the within allotted areas, and there proposed restrictions been en-
Mr. Harold Scott, the celebrated not inconsiderable number of personal is nothing to prevent such areas forced, would have been deprived English pianist who has been mak-in the Macao Portuguese and Chinese being marked off in front of of rights which the public gen- ing a tour of the Far East, will give communities who have a
on Scott's visit is being looked forwarTI Theatrical Academy in Macao matsheds. Throughout the con- crally should be permitted to a recital at the Amateur Musical and preciation for good music and Mr.
Saturday, at 9.30 pm. There is to with much interest, {troversy, we took the stand that lenjoy.
I only wanted her to be able to play a few little pieces that people like. I hud no iden she would Jake il so
seriously."
kean: ED.
"A solemn youth keeping guard with a spotless, ceremonial
Spade."
and everything to gain by the ex- periment.
There are so many questions it is not either polite or tactful to ask In Beriln-your. German friend grows uncasy, he looks over his shoulder, and even then he will not give you a direct answer.
But it is not difcult to make deductions from such allenees and Beriin is still a city of cvnsions. sceret fears, even though it is all dressed up for the nrrival of the Olymple Games tourists-prepara- tions are being made to accommo date no less than half-a-million, by the way, which seems optimistic even for a Fascist Statu.
Non-Aryans are forbidden to exhibit the Nazi emblems, and so their houses are clearly marked for and patriolle butchers, grocers
to other shopkeepers who like charge excessive prices and behave rudely to those who dare not com- plain!
The Nazis have forbidden any- one to build a house with a flat rool. Flat roofs are Oriental, and therefore Jewint. The decrco is obeyed, and no one laughs openly.
But it is a little odd to note fat roofs among the Olympic Games buildings, and huge pillars and causeways designed in a distinctly Oriental-in fact, a Babylonian- fuslafon. But perhaps some Nazi ideologist has been able to prove
was that Nebuchadnezzar Aryan after all,
an
EARS, EARS
Everywhere
I
I was odd, too, to go to
the Scala, the big music-
hall in Berlin, and And
five out of the eight turns put on by obviously Jewish artists.
Austrian, American and Polish Jews, no doubt, but It looks as if the doctrine of racial purity had exiled not only all the good German writers but all the good singers, dancers and comedians. There Not quite all, though.' was Grock, as quaint and re- sourceful as ever. English people may be glad to know that he is still trying to push the plano to- wards the stool and hopping in and out of a broken chair.
a
Grock is a Swiss, though the Berliners I talked to allowed onc Stiu, to assume he is Gerinan, he is a portent, a reassurance, a comforting indication that Ber- iin may still have sense of humour behind its serious face.
But it is well hidden on most.
cars occasions, for there are overywhere... The stranger who takes the next table to you in a restaurant may go away to make a report on your idle. conversa- tlon. The man who comes to re- pair your telephone may leave a secret microphone hidden in the that receiver, 50
every word spoken-not only into the tele- phone but at any time in that room-may be taken down by an unknown listener and brought up lu evidence against you.
Perhaps, after all, it is not dif- fenit to guess why they all look so serious In Berlin
To-day's Thought CUSTOMS may not de as wies. as laws, but they are always more popular.
-DISRAELI.“
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