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TODAY'S EXPERIMENT : SOCIALISATION OF RAILWAYS

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FOR THE SERVICES

NEWS

FROM HOME

London Express Service,

Ex-RAF, He'll Be Left Holding

The

Baby

By J.W. Taylor

"Gentleman, ox-public school, will sit

in evenings to look after children; experienced; 2/6 an hour. Phone 65237.”

HIS was the advertisement inserted in a Bristol newspaper by an ex-RAF man, John Peckett. His inherent fondness for children is 'not the real cause of his secking this work, but his expensive hobby of cinematography and destro to build up his own film library. Ho stipulates that the children must be at least five years old.

+

John's way of making extra hobby revenue is not at all now to Britain. Although professional. baby-sitting is in its infancy hero-In América it is a major industry with a turnover of £50 millions a year...it" is steadily growing. Employment agencies aro being asked more and more for pro- fessional sitters.

:

The fee which John asks la quite a ïmodest one. The cost of a sitter from a reputable agency, thoroughly vetted as to character, is after between 2/6 and 4s, an hour. Added fares and payment for travelling time may bring the nightly bill from 258, to 80s, which makes it rather

The Tories Steam Up

... BIRMINGHAM.

OU come to this enter- prising Midland city, 100 miles from the

AFTER

sea, and the first thing you BLACKPOOL

WARTIME SKILL USED: hear about is a ship. If the CHILL required during the Americans go ahead with war in RAF rehabilitation building a kind of Queen centres-where air crew person- Mary at twice British, costa nel were cured physically and how can Britain ever pay of their battle back the dollars she has bor- psychologically

rowed? wounds is now being applied to rent miners injured in pit accidents at Mansfield, Glamor gan. Bedlington

·Aub-'

If the Americans (Northumber Bidiso the trades in which jand), Nuneaton,. Chester-le-

Street

CD. Durham, Cheshire, we can lick them, how Uddington, Lanark and Shef-we profit on exchange? ນາໂ Each centre has a surgen

sidise its opern-

the

can

US

It is said that this USA ́pres- in charge. Here, in pleasant

those of

of a tige liner is going to cost £174 surroundings like

of which learn

to mililon, country club, these

again.

The Treasury will work and play accident rate in collieries is six provide £101

6IX millon and times na high as in factories. Because the coal industry heads will also sub-

potential workers is felt that recruits will feel better disposed tions. towards an arduous job if they are assured of first-class medi

As certain types of, cal care. infury are characteristic of min- ing mainly fractures-it considered

re-settlement that could be expedited at these former Services rehabilitation

centres.

100 TYPES:

wis

that

-

WILLIAM BARKLEY

taking a slice out of Britain for a political test area, today finishes up at BIRMINGHAM

jump into the American market with British cars when Amert- can cars were on, slow delivery. But that day has gone, Much is hoped here of the industrial sation of Latin South Amerien. In

competition with the USA

we should do good business in tooling the Argentine and Brazil for the industrial era which these countries are preparing.

There is hope, too, of Middle East markets where development Inexpected with the British enterprise centring on Owen

will not buy our goods un- Falls in Uganda, But if the US jumped remains the dollar gap.

Whitehall. It a half and half Tory-

a costly night-out wher added to the dinner-thentre cost. Freelances are usually cheaper, but few nok leas than 2s. an hour.

It is n favourite task with engaged couples and a consl- findemble aid to courting, giving . was them the privacy they often find Air difficult to get in their own and homes. Many students in un- pay

comfortable digs or hostels aro chance of a few glad of the hours quiet by someona ; elsa'n fire to read and study.

blitzed, shopkeepers, but told that one boy who burned badly in the Royal Force for all our sakes safclies has been asked to

£300 for the privilege of open ing a shop.

Thip cily was unique in Britain in holding all seats in the Tory interest at the clee- llons of 1031 and 1935, ali 13 constituencies. The Tories took a knock last time losing all but three seats to the Socialists.

scals.

Fighting Fit

DUT from auch Inquiries as I The corporation will demand have been able to make I from the Government the re- gather that, at the next elec- moval of building controls, and tion, the Tories are confident of more tha half the no doubt such a muncipality has winning got influence in was Socialist council until the elec- Consider this. In the alx tians in May, but the Tories, counties neighbouring Birming who call themselves Unionista ham in the middle-west of Eng- here, and generally

land where the Tories had 42,000 Young Unionists, won 15 seats, and the paid up members at the Inst odds are now 80-50 in the Tory seniors and 15,888 young Tories, cleation, they hava today 230,420

favour.

Job For Tories

corporation might look falo

that

They have appointed a tutor. in public speaking who is open- meetings every-

where,

·SITTERS' CLASSES

In many parts of the country, classes for sitters are being They cover all a baby- held. sitter ought to know, from how to amuse a child to changing Tips for the altler are: napples:

Few emergencies are likely to arise, but

should know You

how to deal with convulsions. Send for a doctor, Pince

in

bath Warm

child

cold

sponge to the head, and then wrap in warm blankets.

Don't ask the boy-friend th unless you have got express permission from your hirer.

Don't look in the larder, pull · books fro

from shelves, or, in fact do anything you wouldn't do in a friend's house.

Don't bribe the clufdren It is impos.

with sweets or "quieten" them sible to all the

with medicine-It has been dollar gap on these terms. 12

done with gm! ·

REFERENCES ........ on top of

The hiner is advised to get the American Prestige liner

who Uves near the payment of key-money or I am not predicting that the someone.

won't polley is to subsidise their art-

THE new Tory majority on the ing open air

mind. staying ficial rubber industry insteadi of buying our Malayon natural

offering for tender of the shop- Teries will win the next elec-who or be orking for ping sties in the corporation es- tion. It is madness to predict. later rubber, and it Germany is to be

These are the higher .ques intes.

But in the country where I have travelling time. Since a siller built up as a bulwark against tions of trade impinging on any

been, the Tory opposition in could be in concert with a bur- The original Idea Communism, and if Japanese assessment of the political situn-

glar, his references should be these, sites would go to Ger- certainly fighting fit.

checked. Clear detalls where survey of the activities of competition is to be developed tion here. The times call for a

o f

is to any, Birmingham's manised, that

-London Express Service)

you are going, telephone number, the 430 principle airframe in markets traditionally British fruitation

como genlus for enterprise.

doctor's address and companies and 7 acro-engine-where do our dollars

essentials should be handed to manufacturers in the United from?

Joe's City

the silter. It should not be ex- Kingdom discloses that there are

of the sitter to do house more than 100 types. of aircraft

chores, or. In fact, anything except-minding the children. Parents should not return later than arranged.

.:

A

and at least 40-types.of.engines.

Not Infants

treasurera

Was

to

in production, in process of de-THE-American-bankers-and-I SAT for a quarter of an hour C. V. R. Thompson Reports:

dvanced

the Lord Mayor's parlour may may, "WC where a blacksmith, Mr Hubert velopment or excludes have loaned you dollars and ay Humphreys, occupies the former stage of design. This

back. But surely seat of Joe and Neville Cham- an unspecified number of heavy want them

arms. berlain,

jet bombers and now night they are not infants in that

Surely they will realice

fighters on order for the RAF unless they buy our

products

which to repay

A good idea for once, that a blacksmith should be lord mayor of an en-

and certain areo-engines still on with dollars we cannot acquire

of air- the secret ist. Of types

with dollars jet- eraft in production, nine are propelled and three have turbo- them.. prop engines. Of 25 engines in production five are turbo-jets and four turbo-props.

LEGLESS CRAFTSMAN:

Then again it is Ameriton gineering city. dollar pressure which drives us But he did not,

The American Scene

NEW YORK.

will be featured in the next

other

The majority of Britain's baby-sitters are young people.

In the States 60 percent of the brief-cases, swooped on a group, silling is done by teen-agers or THERE is a boom. In Britain's They found the briefcases were students who are out for

extra old school ties in the US used to take lunch to the office, pocket money or cash for study The irony is the ties are Ameri-

fees. Approximately 2,000,000 can-made, because the real thing is too expensive... PRICE cuts of up to 31 percent. American teen-agers go "Brat- more or less regularly. A few British-made tles which issue of the Scars Roebuck There

There no standard charge with reached the shops early in the catalogue. British goods will be them-most are usually quite long, not more

exports drive were bought by In the catalogue-there are none happy with a dollar and a cold *A good idea' US lic makers who liked the now-if Britain con produce meal if they know the child is than ten years under his father. Mr Hum- colours. They set about copy anything at a competitive price a quiet one. The hardened pro

with theirs.

fessional has his or her fixed отр rates, plus extras. They phreys, although he has been ing them. 57 years a Socialist, grew

very competent.

to making this type of 'Argentine stay a black- trading agreement, which in turn the Americans try to break.

To round off his '18 months' This sort of thing cannol

mo

in

training as a watch repairer on.

hts home workshop ex-

infantryman Frank Scarratt

Let us seek a nice word-o

go

this

smith very

up

dust

a manufacturer of apparatus say for point spraying and clearance in factories.

(23), of Park-road, Featherstone, resolution of the problem, some to be an employer and is now who lost both legs in the war, disintegration of it, or in has become the first ex-Chamberlain city shall I serviceman in the Cannock dis- some appeasement. trict to receive car from the Ministry of Pensions. SELF-HELP:

דגים

don,

That is the sort of background I stumble on walking and talk- ing around the town. For this town is Interested in every ex-thing.

He has been good-humouredly ragged for a recent speech when of his earlier days, tie said that he put in hours at the forge, one hour cleaning himself up, but still had time to perform as an amateur in Shaw plays.

IFTY Birmingham

vicemen are building ther

bungalows nt Shel- Far sceing men here aro under ex-paratrooper troubled with the question G. Lavender, secretary. and where we British are going to He told me that even in his Д clerk of works. After find a row to hoe in the world own street many houses appeat- attending

ed to have a separate house- hold in every room. It will take 100,000 houses to meet the needs of a city infinted by war

ana

building

lectures, and a furrow to drivą.

Call For Genius

ROTARY

So today thousands of Ameri-

International has can business men wear Old

dropped its motio: "He pro- Etonian or Guards ties and are startled when a visiting Briton its most who serves best." The

at board of directors felt asks what year they were

Rotary's 40th annual meeting in Eton or where they served.

New York that "proft" might such One

questioner was be misconstrued. But Rotary's "Service above Noville Blond, Britain's trade ad- other motto,

He was con- self," stays. viser to the US, corned when he found that an American wearer of his old Guards tie had never heard of HOW STALIN kept sæber et

I those

· fabulous ・ wartima the regiment.

parites, according to Edward I

ex-Secretary. Though Mr Blend has been Stettinius,

OF unable to get Britain any dollars Slate-he watered his vodka. from the tie boom, he has dono Skywritten advertisements

· SOON be something for the honour of the for soda pop will

schools and regimenta done automatically by soven

from. operated

tho old American firms have agreed to planes,

They will finish nar ground. make the stripes a little

the job fri two minutes... Sales of gramophone records have dropped 60 percent, part- "recession," and more but mostly because of the In Was rivalry between normal and so- Government workers hington were carrying large called long-playing records,

the men give up spare time and holidays to their task and have become quite proficient bullders. They have long since prepared the alio they leaned for 99 years, BIRMINGHAM has been sell-me labour. It is said there are ing its motor-cars to the 0,000 Poles here and many hud- and they

complete three USA with some doubt whether dreds of Indians, and probably hope to bungalows by the end of the it has really made a profitable somebody from Pakistan too. rower. year. The cost is being secured sale. But in any case there is

America Torles, too, are alive to these by a 220 housing share for euch, auficient loyalty to person and a progressive build-among Americans to make them housing needs. They have just ETECTIVES, suspicious be- ly because of the

conference which is ing society mortgage of 2500 on buy, their own ears when they set up mach structure.

them. It Each occupier can get.

very determined to get housing per-

to mits. foreseeing of Birmingham will repay at 24s a week.

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