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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1949.

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FOR THE SERVICES

Could Birmingham Another

Hiroshima?

Be

The Wardens Go

To School

By J. W. TAYLOR

THE Civil

T

Defence They are given facts about School nt Falfield, atomie wartore as applied, cay, to⚫ Birmingham and the Mid- Gloucester, the first of its kind in Britain, has released from a

lands. Though Gamma rays n bomb exploiting just been opened. Here, in over Birmingham would prove the pleasantly "yooded fatal to exposed persons living within a one-mile radius of the grounds of an eighteenth- withi

explosion, they are told that the century mansion, deep in the city's built-up orga of brick English countryside, trainee buildings would give far more air-rald wardens are intro protection from deadly atomic duced to Britain's anti- raya than the filmsily construct-

ed houses in the For East. atomic warfare measures→→ radio-active how to locato

Further, the human body can Bubstances on a mock atomic be protected from the rays at i

depth of approximately ten feet bomb site, learn of the below the earth's surface, and effects of the deadly gamma persons contaminated

by the rays, and ace radio-active rays can easily be cleansed by "victima" being decontamin. scrubbing with household song ated with secret equipment. test medical supervision.

and water, but under the stric-

NEWS THE POOLS: A CASE FOR PROBING

FROM HOME

THEY SIGNED ON: DURING 1946,

4,380 other completed their ranks original period of colour service

and 1,404 extended their service

vice,

to complete 12 years colour Eer- Mr Michael Sicwart, Under-secretary

by

TH

JOHN GORDON

to

THE

THE atom-bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 78,000 people of a total population of 840,000-o bomb dropped in the

had been offered rewards for centre of Birmingham would kili 20,000 of its 1,070,230 inhabi- tants, it is estimated.

doing so.

It is bad for the prestige of newspapers that such allega- tions should be made, and that being made they should not be answered.

Money paid?

Instruction is also given in the elements of protection against high explosive bombs, fire- Oghting, biological warfare and gas warfare.

Some of them, In fact, are reputed to be among the richest men in the country today.

It is beyond argumen! or THE impertinent attempt of the football pool question that a business of such

The school has been altered

Ex- na a result of wartime promoters to scare the Government off touching dimensions ought to be subject

No honest newspaper 'could

perience and wiikin futuro deal very strict control. their money has falled. That is a wholesome thing.

or would knowingly tolerate with two

types of COLT BO At the very least it should such use being made of it. The general training and It would be good and proper if the Government in operate under

rescue regulations 09

samo Applica to the honest training. For the latter there is rward turn now did a little serious probing into the business of strict as the regulations govern- journalist.

an elaborato busi-

rescue training Ing ordinary commercial the Commons in reply to a ques- these pools.

vast rums of

containing ninety dlf- ness handling tion. In the same year. 568 other

Therefore, now, that the sub-ground ranks

12 years' completed

They have become—so their That Is an unsatisfactory other people's money.

ject has been raised in Parila-ferent rescue "incidents." rolour

service and 2,230 re- owners declared recently-the state of affairs. It is against

The matter of expenses per- ment, think it is time that the There is a specially construcf- biggest industry

ta mitted in the public interest.

the pools under the newspapers concerned shoulded blitzed village to give war engaged to complete 22 year's Reventli

also calls for demand from cach pool a Britain. service, Answering another ques

plain The pools may be completely taxation system Some may consider that n beyond criticism in their work-

the Chancellor's close and ilon about compensation for the

answer to a simple questions realistic experience of war-, time conditions Live "vic- have you ever paid money or tima" poso 30ft high on scaffolds loss of effects in Burma by off- pretty shocking reflection on ings, but where there is secrecy earnest study.

and men

condition. there will be suspicion. I think

for services and others are burled to a depth of the regular the nation's moral

The publicity campaigns, the „given "a present

high commissions rendered to any member of our of 10ft beneath rubble. army Mr Stewart said this has but let us put the moral issue it is time we swept away both extremely not been limited to those serving on one side.

the secrecy and the suspicion paid to agents, and the general staff?

lavishness of all the propaganda

Personnel operating the radio- overseas on September 3,

3, 1939. In

Classed as

And the Government might active test instruments are com- machinery by which the gullible the case of those who proceeded

persuaded

remain take steps to see that the anpletely covered in rubber or con- overseas during the war

credit batting

vas clothing · až a precaution pensation has, however, been

to be on such a scale as would

ngsinst radio-active dust, limited to the clothing, kit and

tween the

not be permitted in any other methods equipment appropriate to active

WHAT difference is there du pools business and the methods form of business.

There of ordinary business? The re

are allegations that "cent report of the Churches sonic of that expense and pro-

Committee on Gambling made paganda money is spent that very clear.

questionable

cers

service.

com-

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for 'suckers' ten million people get a Httle pleasure out of bobig "suckers" I have no wish to de prive them. of it.

folly just as much

to

In the kind of free world like the fool is entitled to his who thinks himself wise it entitled to what he considers ta be his wisdom. difficult to distinguish

Very often I find it a little belwoon

the two.

But even the gullible "sucker":

of

are

to

forever gullible appear at times awers given are accurate ones.

very

the

them.

forms of

on

moment

1

for action

Now that the pools have at-

TOW

tempted to

legal aid and advice to persons ho is prepared to be "taken for audited and published. Properiv has gone around the newspaper Anancial structure, their income, a future conflict.

of limited means, It is estimated that it will make justice casier for 12,000,000 people.

A NEW ROSE:

YMPHONY is the name of

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a new rose produced by the Ruddington nurseries, which won the gold medal award at recent Notional Rose Society's show. It is rose pink and veined with several deeper colourings.

the

neither audited nor made public

Craze for permutation

purposes

exert pressure on the Government in the in-THE college was first opened It. Instanced other businesses activity.

in 1930 as an anti-gas train- which are collectors and users

It was said in Parliament last terests of their promoters,

During the war of money entrusted to them week that journalists had been suggest that this is a timely ing centre.

names of moment for the Government to nearly 15,000 wardens receivot building societies,

banks, and paid to insert the insurance companies.

spools in what they wrote for exert pressure in return on the instructions there. They

must operato under the newspapers which employ pools.

Since then the syllabus has rules imposed in strict

They should be directed to been extended to deal with con- is entitled to some protection. I most important

public Interest. One of the

to bo That echoes a whisper which make full disclosure of their ditions likely

met in rules' is that think it can be argued that, if their accounts must be

their expenses, their profts, Industry, for quite a while.

For demonstration and their links, if any, with Journalists and newspapers who lecturers hido dangerous radio- devote considerable attention: to active substances beneath plles

forecasts.

of rubble in the model “blitzed" pool for

If the pools are to con-town and wardens locate them OME time ago most persua Government should insist on ments

in private ownership, the with portable monitoring instru→ sive and skilful publicityppising to them the same strict when the mys are found.

which crackle loudly was used to start a crazo for

control other permutation - £

by standards that system

Recently a visitor walked into which the gullible are en businesses which handle money

in decontamination room and a couraged to increase the amount collected from the public.

It the time and money spent detector started crackling. of their weekly stake to the on the royal commission set up instructor identified radio.. greater benefit of the pool pro- to Inquire into the Press had activity on the luminous dial of moter,

devpied been

Instead into the vidiora wrist-watch, which It was stated in. Parliament probing the pools. It would was duly treated, den that

Journalists had been

have been much more in the npproached with a view to

systems public interest. plugging permutation and certain pools, and that they

London Express ·Serolca) ·

a ride," he should be given some The accounts of the pools are protection against the ride being too long or too rough.

In the same way. They do not In the case of the football come under the normal regula- pools there is a growing feeling tions imposed on companies that much too little is known about their workings

An Industry which claims to be the seventh biggest in Bri- tain is very big business indeed.

NOW

All receipts

·on record

NOW. It would be a sound principle if this class of

TONIC FOR THE TIMES: TN thele annual pilgrimage to big business did not conduct so the Guild of Cordwainers much of its business behind a (shoemakers), at Brecon, South veil of secrecy.

handling other people's money because they are classed asTM credit betting..

It is true that the accountant, of the pool issues what is called a "certificato" weekly.

That certificate is not based Уроп a porperly audited balance-sheet. As the gambling report puts it

merely as The certifiente sures a gullible public that the

has been operated accord ing to the promoter's aclf-mado 'rules, that the winnings have Wales, leading members of the The details of its finances been paid out according to the trade undertook vows to engage ought always to be open to the promoter's self-made 'rules, in "faithful dealing" and affirm-closest inspection. Every shilling and that he has not forgotten ed their muster Cordwainer's that passes into its coffers and to scuro his clear 5 percent, tenet that they should not prot out of them should be recorded commission according to by another's loss, but should in audited statements avaliable self-made "rules."" gain at the same time their own for public Inspection. living and their neighbours' goodwill

PUBLIC BURDEN:

DR. L. Burn, Solford's MO

has told the Women Public Health Omeera summer school

kis

The scorchlight of scrutiny commission does not include "By these summo 'rules' his should light up ali tho dark

item the pinces. It is not enough to know-

expensco; that that so many prizes, large or elastic item is a separate charge small, have been distributed that for practical purposes "Is

almost unlimited." every week.

of

Those who contribute to these Some tidy

prizes should be able to ascer

how the

fortunes

Unthen

An

A similar training school at Easingwold, Yorkshire, 'Is to bo opened soon.

C.V.R. Thompson Reports

The American Scene

All they had to do was to

ITERATURE: A

book by

Barkan, called

NOT even all the labour- pile the dinner dishes into the Sheldon

to be a Successful'

for the: advice::

New York. saving devices America tabinet and dick a switch. But "How at Cambridge that it could cost tain what proportion the prizes

at the end of one of their best Criminal," is headed has invented have removed parties the poet Tristam Coffin best-seller Ilst. Its more to keep a child in on bear to the total sums pul lato

A quiet manner.. approved school than to send a the pool, what it costs to operats THIS much can certainly be the danger of husband and was their star guest-Mr and "Cultivate boy to Elon. Recently it was the pool.

Have patience. Plan, carefully. said about the pools, and it wife quarrels over who will. Mrs Etrier had a quarrel, expense found that several "problem money was spent, and what is about all that can be sald "do the dishes."

It was so violent that, ac- Think big. Act.big." But families" were costing, the com- profits went into

Mry author -Barkin has practited;; the bank with certainty-they have pro-

last cording to the police, marriage After their munity more than £1,000 a accounts of the pool's owners.

vided a relatively small number of investors with

ildy little spring Stephen Etnier, at 45 ono Etnler ran upstairs, grabbed a what he preached. And paw he

revolver, and tried to shoot is in gaol. fortunes; they have provided of America's best-known land- thousailds more with smaller scape artists, and his 24-year- herself, TOIN Evans, Welsh farmer of that sort is available today? I keep on contributing

of prizes which encourage them to old wife Jane, a former nirling Sho is now in hospital with IN THE SHOPS A "bomb," in the stewardess, decided to avold serious wounds in her temple, costing 10s, which sprays Cilgwyn Mawr, was roused regret to say, very little.

‚'And' starting point of the wax quarmls.

over on entiro hope of doing better one day: these

WAS installed in their home from his sleep by the sounding Indeed, you cannot And tho and they have male a small They arpswell, Blaine, the between husband and wife over a tin which when shaken and

quarrol

Argument (American size) in Ave minutes; of his car hooter in the garage, answer to a single one of these group of promoters-probably The car was on fire and the heat questions from the mangro no more than hillf a

dozen most modern kitchen they could which of them should get up, turned upside down pours out set off the hooter. He saved the information. about themselves very rich men In a fantastically buy. And their prizo calchi was go into the klichen, and Pick a ribbon of fresh whipped garage, but not the car,

that the pools make pubile. short space of years.

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