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Nirrite 4 ra tta li ths at mit ir a 1 rod 07 name and aWaft at Itnghlomoura sad Forthcoming Marriages be afi ltoreightosn words: for leers tonal eta words Is. ed. to lam" notices at similar Births June 20t Wastminater al, London. I. to Pamela nee Wade of Harry Humphrey Lugg.

a daughter. Sumbalna Elizabeth. June 21. at the Luc" Baldwin Nursing Hanle. Stourlrort to Edith and George Cirosveriar Workman, a brother for David said Mans.

Engagements The engageMent la announced between John Edward. only son of Mrs. and the late Mr. N. T.

MALley, of Old Oscott. and Jean Mary only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 8. 8.

gars, of Nandsworth. NICNOLLB--GREEN. The ment la announced between John, only son of Mr. and Mrs. John Nicholls.

of 40. Hampton Avenue. and Menet, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.

Charles Orson. of Lapel Tarm. Quinton. Congratulations from both families. Marriages NG.

Satug da ti CJune 18. 1955. at SoMull hurch. Geoffrey Lewiss. son of Mr.

and Mrs. W. Joberns, BlythesraY. Solihull. to Barbara Anne.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ft. S. Hemming.

Hampton Lane. Solihull. June 21. at Carr; Lane Church. Birmingham.

William Shipman. son of Mrs Shipman and the late Beaumont Shipman. of Crox ton Lodge. Branton. near Grantham.

to Fay Mary. only daughter of Mr and Mrs. P. M. Keen, of Hall Green Deaths Ann.

widow of the late Albert James. passed peacefully away on June 22. at her daughter's home 51. Heathfleld Road. Handsworth, in her 90th year.

Funeral service, 2 o'clock. Friday. June 24, at St. Mary's Church, Handsworth. wiow of th late John Fin ls ch ormer ly of Jervis Crescent, Streetly, suddenly, at St.

David's. Pembrokeshire. on Monday. June 20. HOn June 21.

at St. Maio, Prince. as the result of an accident, John Stevens Hoskins, of Stone House Steyning. husband of Grace and eldest son of John Z. Hoskins of Hoskins and Sewell.

Funeral arrangements later. JACOBS. Rebecca. 31. Pltmaston Court, Moseley.

13. passed away peacefully. June 19. June 22. Donald Anson.

dearly loved husband of Ann, devoted father of Douglas and Barbara. of 81, Woodthorpe Road, King's Heath. Service at Lodge Hill Crematorium. 12.40 p.m.. Friday.

Flowers suitable for hospital: no letters. please. Anson. dearly loved only son of Mabel and the late Bert brother of Phyllis and Joan, of 82, Mossfield Road. King's Heath.

No letters. please. WEATHER (To-day's Forecast) Midlands. Wind light or moderate south-west. freshening: mainly dry.

with sunny intervals later. Further Outlook. Continuing mostly dry: a little cooler and leas humid generally. Edgbaston Resdings Thermometer 9 a.m. 29.670 66deg.

m. 29 630 54deg. Rainfall nil. Sunshine I.3br. 12 noon 6 m.

73 Humidity Station level 541 ft. above sea level. Elan Valley Rainfall: 24 hours to 9 a.m. yesterday. nil.

Run rises to-day 4.44: sets 9.34. Lighting-Up 10.34 p.m. to 3.44 a.m. AT HOLIDAY RESOHTS Twisty-feet been se sairedes. klilaton.

wows Pfritcombe jency Llandudno Margate Newqm 'amnion Pe nnows arhorousb Shank hn Sitetithts Southport Torquay Weston-uper-Mars, 1h mouth Nor Stiftslllll.l Rats Hrs. 1. 0.9 I 01 Nil 01 i 2 Nil Nil 3.5 Nit 99 Nil 4 0 01 12 1 i Nll 13.0 Nil 2 1 .02 Nil 22 Nd 14.1 Nil Nil Nil 3 0 Nil 1. Nil 1.7 3 Nil AA Nil $0 Nil 11 Nil 10 7 Nil 77 Nil 3.1 Nil 2 9Nil 1 9 I Nil 9.1 4 Nl I Nil To-day's Events BIRMINGHAM! Errhasten Rotary lUb reekb luncheon meeliall. Vernon Mallon, Hsll.

Lecture by Min 10184 Bodkin on John Ruskin." Art Gallery. 1.15. Nor Biotic Insole Atomic Arc Weldor and Faster than Sound. of Science and Industry 1.15. ilwrain of Commermal Television Films.

Dome's Hotei 6.30. De RensitaWs Show of Shows." Liars Heath Part Semerser Theatre. 7.30. fol Str Fs rest." Ward End Part Tbestrer Royal. Wedding 5.0 and 80.

Alexandra. The Burton' Glam." 7.15: odr" TV Rich.4d 6 and Aston mmoodrome. French 6.eu and COLDFIELD Play Festival striethoick Repertory Company Ia Noble Sipaniard. SOOMMitt Maugbani. Highbury Little Theatre.

7 IS It. Fich's Shelter venalmeeting. 3.0. Idunkdol Players tied Lode Thom Players he ru nt production of "Anastasio. College Theelee.

Presentatios by Junior (lumber to or men Win yLeaoe Ce orimmt 7 Moy- WOLVERHAMPTON itioiraftwooton Collets of An Fashion to be attnadoi ilte Mayoras (Mrs. I Collat. 7 30. soioillon in Coun 2 30. cil Mountl3 Meeting.

Council clams. Wobourn. OLACILMEATIFI RewleY Rests Socoseary Don Scbool annual Swam. 2. 0.

HILL AND CAkIMORZ Muniapal by -efecttoa. OLD RILL Ores of The new besdauarters for Rowley ors 00 Tremble Corp. No. Street. 7.30 Everyman's Guide to Parliament What they've been doing in Parliament" is (like the weather) one of the Englishman's staple topics of conversation.

It is probably true to say. too, that the average Englishman would like to know rather more than he does of the way Parliament actually works, but he has neither the time nor inclination to acquire the information from the more formidable works on the British Constitution. His needs are met in Your Parliament, a handy little booklet prepared collaboration with the Hansard Society of which a new edition has just been issued (Educational Productions Ltd. It is not only authoritative and unbiased but very readily understandable: its many illustrations ensure that the text makes its full impact. A new Parliament is just beginning its career: for many people who are politically-minded but not specialists Your Parliament would be a useful aid to the understanding of events.

"The Birmingham Post" Fifty Years Ago said the Mayor of that town at a council meeting, is a very awkward name to pronounce. A Mayor once attended a Lord Mayor's banquet in London. and as nobody had ever heard of Pwlthen, he was put down among the forei gn guests. (Laughter.) His Lordship. therefore.

moved that they consider the question of reverting to the old name of Porthely, the name which an appeared in chart granted by the Princ er e. Mr. J. E. Hughes said he would rather have Pwliheli, which had more of a Welsh ring in it than Porthely.

Mr. Albert Jones said he was against a wateringplace having an unpronounceable name. A committee was appointed to repovt on the matter. (June 33. MOS.) The Birmingham Post Founded by John Frederick Feeney.lls7 THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1935 POINTS FOR DISCUSSION AIR.

MOLOTOV'S words at San Francisco yesterday are an indication of the line to be taken by Russia at the Great Power conference next month. President Eisenhower and Mr. Macmillan had previously expressed great hopes of a and it seems that the Russian Foreign Minister has not entirely damped this expectation. The subjects ne has selected in his seven-point plan for peace seem acceptable to the West, though the particular bias in the mention of withdrawal of forces from Germany, for instance, gives warning of further squalls. A glance at the map confirms the inequity of a withdrawal of the Red Army merely to the Oder-Neisse in exchange for a desertion of Federal Germany by Nato forces.

This, clearly, can be merely the beginning of bargaining. It is a rock-bottom bid that shadld be disregarded. The tenth birthday of the United Nations, which is now being celebrated by so many speeches, gives a particular context to Mr. Molotov. His hopes of disarmament sound well among delegates whose avowed purpose is to settle world problems by peaceful arbitration.

However, it was the policy of Russia after 1945 that has divided the world into two well-armed blocs, and for Mr. Molotov to press for an immediate outlawing of nuclear weapons begs any number of details in the process of disarmament. Through no choosing of our own, security to the West has become based on military strength. Mr. Molotov tells us to throw away a pistol while holding the cudgel of Communist man-power somewhere above our heads.

ACCORDING TO PLAN THE layman, certainly, will endorse what Sir Herbert Manzoni had to say about housing development yesterday and particularly his insistence upon catering for individual preferences in the matter of houses or flats. Sir Herbert's warning about a rigid insistence upon providing a 'house with a garden for everyone was timely in view of what was said upon housing in the House of Lords yesterday. No-one would wish their Lordships to be less concerned than they are about the speed and quantity of house -building; but one would' ave liked to have seen some greater recognition than there was of the questions of planning raised by Sir Herbert and of the need for the most economical use of land. What is happening in Birmingham in connection with the prefabricated bungalows is sufficient warning of the dangers of extemporary policies if we will but heed it. At the same time there are dangers implicit in what Sir Herbert had to say.

The pendulum of fashion can swing too far away from the house with garden. It is true that not everyone wants a garden. It is equally true that not everyone with a garden wants to have it planned for him by his local authority. Why should a man have his front garden turfed over in the interests of what is currently regarded as good lay-out? Why should he not have a rose pergola, or of a certain kind? There is too much planning about the wrong things. The most important of Sir Herbert's words were: The fact is that people are not yet all VANDALISM A HOUSE that has been well lived in has a character of its own.

To the understanding it speaks of the generations of men and women and children whose home it has been. There are, however, those who have no feeling for atmosphere and take note only of the inconveniences. They embark upon violent change without respect for the work of their predecessors and, if they feel in the mood, have no compunction about wholesale destruction. Britain is a well lived-in country, which has given hospitality to men of differing races and cultures during these past 4,000 or 5,000 years. Traces of their handiwork are everywhere about us, having lain undisturbed through the centuries.

Today there are probably more people in Britain with a reverence for the past than ever there is, nevertheless, far more destruction of the very things we have come to appreciate. That is because this is the Century of the Common Man. The Report of the Ancient Monuments Board for England shows that barrows, the burial places of ancient peoples, are being damaged or destroyed at an increasing rate. This is occurring at a time when we are better equipped than ever before to reconstruct past civilisation. THE BIRMINGHAM POST, THURSDAY.

JUNE 23. 1955 The Sportsman's Road-Guide IN a recent article in The By EDWARD WILKINSON regarding direction are all in the Birmingham Post I read motoring day of Poultry. the comments of a gentle- Park (usuallyat or near a corner) afterthought. If forced to give Reccigadioa Features: Car two Usually pastel shades and dual man who has just returned and 1: queue as it Pima signal window windandawforeflis withdrawn rdrascratches colour. Convertible.

Driver from Canada and complained of Recognition Features: Vintage inches a few swan smokes and toga to outside air for the way good road behaviour has small saloon An se S2 nger. Rear seats occupied declined over the past few years. seats and plenty of children. Driverr emoves seat and it on at fromthe only domestic animals. If signals The majority of our main roads Driver wears beret and always fl are relics of the old coaching looks to the front.

No signals very op head can seen weu driver and passempr. When days and in most cases the only given or Engine tired tilted back. Holds steering wheel following the ear it is difficult to at very top of Appearance improvement has been in the and blue fumes fromeust. All method of surfacing. modernise- windows hermetically sealed.

One of hard- bo i ed egg with passenger or the dog is in charge tion. such as widening and traffic-star permanently out. pressure rivers suffer from of the car. Car is usually covered straightening, has affected only Springing old and car usually has of concentration and some- with badges. mascots and radio the minority of roads.

The a list to either port or starboard car his to drive itself. masts. Car is parked anywhere. increase. however in the number and Inclined to proceed crabof users of these highways is wise.

Windscreen usuallY. yellow Rams gigantic, and as a result bad and cracked. A 1930 Why IN general Snails and Sheep work well together. It's a disdriving and rude manners have model. fabric body, with 17 people THE Rams are very busy drivers grace for Snail to be overtaken.

increased correspondingly. in it is a reasonable example of a I operating everywhere. Their and a Sheep has no desire to After some experience on the Snail, object is to get from as overtake. In view of this road I have studied these types. Sheep qu i ckly as possible.

and nothing friendly co-operation a school for and for the guidance of new- must on any account get in their their training was opened some comers to the road I will wi ueuesyears ago in Devonshire, a county HEEP endeavour to outline their also operate in the for them do not exist. well suited for their particular characteristics and recognition 0 country, in fact. these form the and they drive to the head and method of operation. The exact features. queue at the head of which is cut in on some unsuspecting location of this School I do not Indifferent road users are a Snail.

Unlike Snails, who lie Sheep. Sheep always give way, know, but having experienced divided into four groups: (a) in wait. Sheep are mobile and whereas Snails offer some reins- hours of delay at week-ends at Snails. (b) Sheep, (c) Rams. (d) looking out for other Sheep.

On tance 4disgrace to be overtaken). Honiton and in the Exeter by- Poultry. finding two or more cars ahead. Rams, however. know no fear.

and pass area I am reasonably conthey take up the position at the usually win to the accompani- hdent that these are their pratrear. They are in no hurry and of horn screeching from Using grounds. do not mind where they go; as infuriated Snails. Rams during the war made long as they are in a queue that Rams are born gamblers. and excellent drivers of tanks and is sufficient.

This is their zenith, will always take a risk overtak- bulldozers. The speed, of course. they have no further ambition: ing on the wrong side or at was lacking. but they could put the idea of overtaking fills them corners. Into practice feats of destruction with a sense of panic and will Recognition Features: Usually and annihilation that were imonly be resorted to under high-powered American type practicable prior to their Service compulsion.

saloon car with long scars on careers. To achieve their ambi- Neither Sheep nor Snails go wings and bodywork (resistance tions and be paid for it as well into towns: they are COUntr fV from Snail). Driver in country must have been most satisfactory. dwellers and week-enders. wears dark glasses and has Poultry come from all walks of Occasionally they get into a town attractive blonde passenger.

In life. and present a very difficult by mistake. They can be idea- town no passenger. Sitting pos- problem. Their unpredictable tilled by the fact that a Snail ture very upright.

Usually brags manner of progress is due mainly pulls up at a traffic light and of high average speeds. Leaves to the fact that they have no goes to sleep. The gear only smell of hot brakes and burning interest in or liking for the engaged when forced to do so by rubber. Accelerates and brakes motor- car. It is only used continuous horn music, and then with great violence.

Nose of car for convenience. Its owner invariably the engine is stalled. bites the dust when the car having no mechanical knowledge Sheep in town ignore all colour top at all a Poultry-driven lights: by their method ofcar might have to go 20 miles in operating they must keep in the Poultry second gear while its driver chats queue, and if, therefore, only to the passenger about fatstock half the queue has crossed, the THESE are probably the most prices ladies' millinery or the cost other half must of necessity 1 enigmatic of all groups. of living. In addition to this the follow.

irrespective of the colour Operating mostly in towns, there handbrake may be on as well. change. Alternative procedure is, however, a country breed, but This article has dwelt only on might involve segregation and this is rare. indifferent drivers. and nothing resultant aberration.

In town the actions are com- has been said concerning the Recognition Features: Similar pletely unpredictable. A left- excellent driving that gets us out I to Snails, only car more modern hand trafficator invariably means of the difficulties to which we type and in better condition. a right turn. A sudden stop for have been subjected by these Rear window decorated with no apparent door sud- groups. plastic parrot or golliwog.

Signals denly opening as traffic is passing When I say we I mean you. occasionally given, usually as an lightning change of mind I'm a Snails THESE usually operate in the country, and prefer congested main roads at week-ends. They lie in wait in lanes leading off main roads and watch for a queue of 'jars (see Sheep) to approach. When the queue is 50 yards away they nip out of the lane just in time to take up the lead. Their object now is to reduce the speed of the queue to a minimum, and prevent if possible anyone overtaking.

A practised Snail can keep a queue of 10-50 cars behind it at 15 m.p.h. for anything from five to 25 miles. according to the nature of the road. It is a disgrace to a Snail to be overtaken, hence the reason for operating on main roads that are narrow and winding. The Snail will immediately accelerate on a bit of straight in order to obviate this.

and often retires when the road widens and there is no chance of a further hold up. He will then A Radio Review Seasonal Changes in the Programmes By Our Correspondent At high midsummer many favourite programmes are going off the air for their usual rests and the familiar radio routines in many households are broken. Understandably this engenders a good deal of irritation but on the whole it is perhaps for the best, for in radio, as in everything else, we are creatures of habit, and it is as well to be forced to explore new fields on occasion. This year, however. the seasonal change is more than usually distinctive, for before the autumn schedules start the field of television entertainment will have been widen.ed by the opening of the first commercial station in the London area Ito be followed before the end of the year by the Midland transmitter).

So it is quite likely that 8.8. C. viewers are now in process of parting company from many familiar faces for ever. It is still a matter for conjecture what proportion of the television audience will remain faithful to the 8.8. C.

and how many will switch over to the new service. A firm of television advertising agents estimates that when the network of three stations London, Birmingham, working, the audience will number between a million and a million and three quarters, the Birmingham proportion being between 200,000 and 350.000. Of the four million television licences already issued about a quarter relate to old receivers which cannot be adapted. Also many of the receivers are sited in areas outside the range of the commercial stations. It is estimated, therefore, that about 1.600.000 sets are capable of conversion and it is expected that about one million will in fact be converted so that they can receive either 8.8.

C. or I.T.A. transmissions. Obviously, therefore, the great majority of viewers win remain tuned to the 8.8. C.

Prospective candidates for commercial viewing will have to spend, between £lO and £l5 to adapt their existing sets and to provide a suitable aerial. New sets will usually be tunable to either system. This year's Radio Show will be the most important that has been held for some time, for it will be interesting to see what technical provisions have been made not only to cope with the new television transmissions but also with the high-fidelity sound transmissions on V.H.F. DUPLICATES OF PRIMITIVE CELL LIFE Scientist Claims Their Production Dr. Stanley Miller.

of the Californian Institute of Technology. says that he has produced what may be duplicates of the first primitive cell life that appeared on earth. He did thts. he otid the American Association for the Advancement of develosUng a mixture like the atmosphere of the earth in its early days and bombarding it with electncity for a week. The experiments have been submitted In a report to the Botanical Society of Amenca.

Dr. Millersaid that when the earth was gaseous ball. slowly cooling and developing into a planet capable of supporting life. it had an atoms-Iphere composed of methane. ammonia.

water and hydrogen. Origin of Life One theory on the origin of life was that this gaseous mixture. incapable of supporttng or starting life, was slowly changed by cosmic ray bombardment and produced. in the process. organic compounds that started in the form of plant life.

To investigate the theory. he said he exposed a mixture of gases similar to the earth's early atmosphere to electrical discharges for a week to determine if change could be brought about by electrical action. He found a startling series of events. At first the electrical dis- charge formed aldehydes and hydrogen but later these compounds reacted with the water to form life-sustalning amino acids. Changes in Plants The experiment shows.l he said.

that not Only would the formation of organic compounds be easy, but that a significant fraction of the carbon on the surface of the earth would be in the form of organic compounds of the ocean." He said that these organic compounds were probably the forerunners of ocean cell life in the form of plants. Later. the plant life underwent other chemical changes and evolved into living mobile organisms. It would also see mthat a great many of these compounds formed would be those that are components of present living organisms." he said. Work of Museums Association Interview Technique In his admirable little musical feature on Sunday evening Gerald Moore asked the question "Am I too heavy?" relating this to the art of piano accompaniment.

It is a question that might also be put to many of the interviewers on television who are set the task of bringing out and displaying thepersonalities of prominent people. In Panorama last week Malcolm MuggeriClge interviewed Thurber. the cartoonist and humorous writer. Thurber has a very quiet manner. and it is much to Mr.

Muggeridge's credit that he did not overwhelm him with talk as he usually does. However, Sunday's programme in anticipation of the tenth anniversary of United Nations was an interview between Alistair Cooke and Mr. Dag HammarskjOld, the Secretary General, which displayed the same fault of choking off the person interviewed with too much brilliance in the interviewer. Mr. Cooke is in the top flight of radio reporters.

but I felt his personality was much too dominant for the job of interviewer. John Ellison. in In Town Tonight. has developed the right touch. He is easy in his manner and admirably unobtrusive.

Christopher Mayhew's serial study of the problems of peaceful coexistence has had to suffer the long interruption caused by the General Election. Consequently Monday's feature hardly managed to pick up the threads. The method of a multiple telephone interview with correspondents in four capitals was much too clumsy to be effective. The same amount of information could have been conveyed more economically and more powerfully in print. Schools Broadcasts Nearly 28.000 schools are now registered as listening to one or more of the Schools Broadcasts, which means that three-quarters of the schools in the country are now equip- In.

addition many adult listeners in the day-time find much of interest in the schools material. MIDLAND DIARY Moving House A FORMER Lord Mayor of Birmingham. Mr. W. T.

Wiggins-Davies. returned home this week from a holiday in the South of England prolonged to six weeks because his wife was taken ill. Mrs. Wiggins-Davies has largely recovered, but to save her the problems of looking after their large Elizabethan -style house at Four Oaks. her husband had decided some time ago to move this summer into a flat in Hagley Road.

Edgbaston, near their daughter. who is married to Ald. John Lewis. secretary of the City Council Conservative Group. Now Mr.

Wiggins-Davies, who will be 68 on Saturday, will have to decide what to keep of his collection of antiques, books. glass and watercolours are particularly fine and he is a recognised authority on glass. His new home will be only a fraction of the size of his present beautiful, spacious, oakpanelled building, designed about 50 years ago by the late Mr. Charles Bateman. who specialised in using materials from old buildings to give new houses a mellowed effect.

To Connecticut TRAVELLING, probably by air, the Mayor of Stratfordupon-Avon kill attend the opening ceremony on July 12 of the Shakespeare Theatre at Strat-, ford. Connecticut. U.S.A. Coun. Dudley Woodman will be the first member of the council to go to America as an official guest.

Both the governor of the state of Connecticut and the National Executive for the new Shakespeare at Stratfordupon-Houseatonic have invited him and yesterday he cabled lback his thanks and acceptance. The play to follow the opening ceremony will be Julius Ccesar, which is not in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre repertoire this year. Half-way rrOILING on his bicycle up a 1 three-mile stretch of hill near South Molton, North Devon. yesterday, was 75-years-old Mr. Malcolm Cross, of Birmingham.

"It keeps me young." he explained. I've tried the motorcycle combination but you can't beat the old bicycle." Mr. Cross. of Rosary Road, Erdington. was about half-way on what he called his summer tour." I don't get off for a slight pull like this." he said.

although I must admitt the hills here have made me push a few times." His West country route. which he had written on a scrap of paper, had taken him from Bridgwater to Taunton. Milverton, and South Molton. and yesterday he was on his way to Ilfracombe for a few days in the sun." Then he will cross the Bristol Channel to Cardiff. I've been in the West country before." he said, but this is about the hardest stretch I have encountered.

It is full of hills. Of course. it's all a matter of training and keeping it up." Ici On Parle CATERING experts in conference in Birmingham yesterday came to one conclusion with which their patrons will not quarrel: that in writing their menus. caterers should save their foreign languages for cosmopolitan or specialist restaurants only." Even some of the experts. it seems, have been baffled by the descriptions applied to their not only in this country.

I worked for a time in a French restaurant," one speaker The Annual Programme. Just issued. sets out all the wide range of features arranged iron) September. 1955, to July, 1958. giving the dates and timings.

In addition many brightly illustrated pamphlets are available from the 8.8. C. which add enormously to the pleasure to be derived from the talks, concerts. etc. Rather wistfully I remember the day when talks for adults were similarly illustrated.

and I often wonder if that is why they are so memorable. P. B. There can be little doubt that there is often deliberate vandalism on the part of farmers who do not wish to be bothered with such inconvenient mounds on their land. It has been difficult, hitherto, to prove that destruction has been wilful.

Every such earthwork should be carefully and permanently marked to make obliteration, whether by accident or otherwise, impossible. A Plea for Peace and Harmony What to Keep? ADIRECT mail advertisement said. and was intrigued one day fund! Donations then received in the form of a greeting to learn that we were to serve will be presented to Lady Dartcard which arrived at Birming- Iris It tcok me some time to mouth at a garden fete to be held ham Council House yesterday find out that what they really at Wombourn. suggested that the Corporation meant was Irish stew." should build a garden of peace Christening in the city. Worn bourn Prepares 111ELAYED by the General Elec- It would consist, according to THE most publicised village -2-7 tion, the Christening of the the card, of the national flower scene of this country is a daughter of Mr.

Gerald Nabarro. of every country in the world, description which has been M.P. for Kidderminster, will take and would be a most genial applied to the photograph repro- place at Broadway parish church creation to contribute spiritually duced here of Wombourn cricket on July 3. to human accord." club's ground with the church of The child, born on March 18, The making of a Garden of St. Benedict Biscop in the back- has been given the names Dinah Peace does not cost ground Jane the contrary, its cost is very little.

It appeared in Festival of Standing as godfathers will be Collaborate for the peace of Britain brochures and was used Mr. Airey Heave. Conservative brotherhood of man in the by firms of brewers and motor M.P. for Abingdon, and world ran the inscription. And where did it come from, this plea for peace and harmony? It was signed by Eng.

Alberto V. lives in Ciudad city) Eva Perlin, Argentina. manufacturers in their advertise- Edward MacLellan. a Harley mer.ts. Street surgeon, and as god- Tales have been told of former mothers, Miss Olive M.

E. Wombourn boys in Africa and Batchelor and Miss Frances-Ann Australia who saw it and used it Watson. to adorn the walls of their houses as a reminder of home. couting Event Wombourn. of which this very EMPHASIS will be on proper English scene is the heart has Scout behaviour this year seen many changes in its long at the annual rally and sports history, but none so rapid as has of the Birmingham County Boy come to it through being trans- Scouts Association at Handsworth formed overnight, as it were, to Park on July 2.

an urban area. accommodating No Scout will be allowed to wear overspill population from Wolver- half uniform and half not; a rule 1 am pton. which will be strictly enforced Its parochial church council, throughout the whole event. alive to the needs of the situation, Scouters have also been advised has launched a vigorous appeal to train their troops, packs, for money to help in the building in the proper way to march. of a new church at Blekeley to Lord Rowallan, the Chief replace the mission church which Scout, will review the march past has done duty there since 1890.

and will address the boys. The It is proposed to build not only programme includes a march a church, but a hall, and to this past of Wolf Cubs, Scouts, Sea end the church council appeals Scouts. Senior Scouts, Raven, for to which the Church and Old Scouts, and there will Commissioners will contribute a be a section of those representfurther £5,000 ing Birmingham in the A site has been given and the Jamboree. Displays. sports and immediate target is the raising of pageants fill the rest of thf bill, £2.000 by July 2, which has been and at the end of the day, fixed as foundation day for the dancing.

MERCIAN AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURE AND EDUCATION NOTE that the title is not depressed class from which we good at games, a specialist in Agricultural Education but shall get cheap labour, because music, history. art, and so on, Agriculture and Education, for they are unlikely to get jobs at there Is no definite qualification I am more and more convinced anything else. Maybe we chose which gives a man a better that at the very root of the prob- a bad expression in rural bias." chance of becoming head of a lem of the drift from the land is What we are really asking is for rural school. I think that there the urbanisation of education. the removal of an urban bias not only should but could be, and Over 20 years ago I wrote that, which has prevailed for centuries that at least a part, of such a by and large, our primary educa- and for the substitution of a "rural qualification' should be tion was planned by townsmen reasonable rural balance.

experience of the actual working and administered by townsmen, Such things as geography can of that section of a school. while its aim was the production be taught with local hills, valleys, based on a town, but detached of townsmen. That generalisation brooks and so on as the back- and spending a term or more in is, maybe, less true to-day, but ground. Cows and sheep. tractors a rural area.

I know from it is still true enough to pinpoint and combines, corn and sugar experience that where such men a serious danger. beet can be our objects in have identified themselves with arithmetic, taking care that the the manner of life of a rural We still fail to make full use of monetary values attached to area they are beyond price. our rural background in country schools, or to emphasise rural them are actual values at the time. As urban children visit values in urban schools. Despite museums and picture galleries, let vv splendid pioneer work here and country classes be taken to see HEN we come to the country there (and notably in Birming- primary school in the years firms and mills well-bred herds hanv.

we still only half use ourbefore the 11-plus children were removed they do rural education opportunities of giving to wn of cattle. well-known breeds of children at least one term of shee and raw the drwin class go a disservice who shut their eyes tuition actually in the country. out Let local bea uty spots. to the fact that in the hundreds of cases where one mistress had The myth persists that bright and if any local place crops up boys and girls find jobs in the in the history lesson, let the to teach all ages from seven city, while only the backward connection be made known to the upwards. the country child was children vividly and accurately.

gravely handicapped, in that in ones stay on our farms. Newest All this is I know, being done, many cases the last two years at and deadliest evil of all. In but not on a nation-wide scale, school were largely wasted. That thousands of areas country chil- and not as a definite part of our dren cease to be so scion after educational policy. situation cried aloud for abolition 11-plus, being whisked away from Next comes the very difficult and is gone never to return.

village and hamlet to be taught question of teachers. Many rural Accepting that, we of the counin a central school in the nearest teachers are country born. Many try can ask two things of our town. more that are townsmen see educational authorities. The clearly that they must absorb first is that they should be very country ideas and become generous in staffing niral primary BEFORE we are likely to get any- acclimatised to their new en- schools.

especially in having one where in providing what has vironment. Both sorts are doing man on the staff. Next iet a been called a rural bias in educa- splendid work on the lines very decent proportion of our secondtion. let us scotch the constantly sketchily described above. Where an' schools be built in the repeated charge that what we are it seems to me that we fall country.

Let us ruralise town really trying to do is to create a behind is that while (rightly) it children, rather than urbanise sort of under-educated, culturally helps a teacher's Career to be country ones! 2. M. D. Ist. EDITIONI Birmingham Conference Arrangements The Museums Association, the President of which is Sir Leigh Ashton, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

London, will hold its annual conference in Birmingham in the week beginning July 4. About 400 delegates are expected, and in addition to the business of the conference a number of social events have been arranged. On the evening of Tuesday, July 5, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Ald. and Mrs. A.

L. Gibson, will give a civic reception at the Council House and Art Gallery, to be followed by a dance. The Museum and Art Gallery Committee has arranged an evening party at Aston Hall on the Thursday. The main conference meetir.as will take place at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts Among those who will give papers are Sir Mortimer Wheeler. President of the Society of Antiquaries and a past president of the association; Mr.

R. L. S. Bruce Mitford, of the British Museum: Professor C. F.

C. Hawkes. of Oxford: Dr. D. B.

Harden. of the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford: Mrs. Lydia Bond Powel, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Professor E.

K. Waterhouse. Barber Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham: Professor W. G. Constable of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Dr.

Sherwood Taylor, of the Science Museum, London: Mr. N. Bertenshaw of the Museum of Science and Industry. Birmingham; Professor H. Graham Cannon.

of Manchester University, and Mr. 1010 Williams, of London. On the Monday evening, the Vice- Chancellor of the University of Birmingham. Dr R. S.

Aitken. will hold a reception in the Great Hall of the University. Society of Women Artists By a Correspondent Women artists and craftsmen from the Midlands are exhibiting work at the centenary show in Piccadilly the Society of Women Artists. Miss Norah Ansell. of Edgbaston.

is exhibiting two impressive pieces of ivory carving. One is a tall, willowy figure of the Virgin holding The Child, the group making a sweeping curve, and the other is a nude girl sleeping with her arms behind her head. Miss Grace Digby, also of Edgbaston, has produced a case of jewellery of solid and very pleasant design, some of the pieces, such as the horse-chestnut spray in silver and cornelian and the pendant called Waterfall of silver, moonstones, opals and jasper, imitating natural forms. Mrs. Frances Luker.

of Moseley, has a different of the miniaturist. She shows three portraits. Mrs P. Devey. of Hall Green, paints in oils with an uneven, broken effect and shows a study of a girl painting and another of the back view of a nude girl seated.

Miss Elizabeth Twentyman. of Muchall Hail near Wolverhampton. exhibits a water-colour portrait of a boy with a mug, and Miss Irene Burton. of Leamington Spa, has two of Christmas roses in a blue-green vase against a blue background. and the other of boats at Newlyn.

Mrs. Dorothy E. Hyde. of Stow-on-the-Wold, has chosen a local subject. Her pastel.

Cotswold Valley." is a view of green and golden fields and high trees. By Our Correspondent 'Ando. Letter CRICKET NYMPHS 88. FLUT STREZT. E.C.

4, Wednesday Night DON'T play first-class cricket. uniforms. They marched up and IL enjoy yourselves." was the down with much twirling of message sent by Neville Cardus drunuticks while on the steps to the literary "gents" flashing stood a varied crowd. which in flannels an dusty green- included the Mayor of Kensisasward in Square. West- ton and several women in minster.

to-day. Guests and The High Commissioner of players took him at his word. So Pakistan. unveiling the plaque. did the president of the National which had been covered by the Book League.

Sir William Haley. national flag hoped that his In the unc eo Interval he country would be inspired by entertained us with early cricket Amish example. In the hot reports front The Times. The sunshine a most un-English scene first, on a July day In 1792. followed when the band raised recorded that 1.000 guineas was their arms and cheered wildly for wagered on a match played at Jinnah and Pakistan.

Perram Down. Wiltshire. Only a ar later, In July. 1793. The Tarn Times reported a game between A 8 a protest against the the married women and the 1 apparent shape of things to maidens of Bury Common.

come In the City. a group of Sussex. In a style still familiar architects i arrang i ng a ifi wal to-day, readers were informed Exchange display to be styled that the match was won by the Turn Again Dissatisfied with Married Women who had 19 2 the new commercial structures. notches more than the mostly on paper but a few in The Horne Secretary Mr. being.

this Modern Architectural Owilym Lloyd George. was Research Ornup known to its inspired by the spectacle of mem ers as mars. alms to show authors at play to speculate on how architectural superiority has what books had most Influenced passed to the United States. Italy the world. He plumped for and Brazil New ideas.

new treat- Erskine May's Parliamentary ments. and new materials being Practice and Wisden. He argued used in these countries will be that. betwetin them. they had depicted in photographs and shaped the lives of millions of models.

in contrast to the "low people. within and outside the City. al a ta cla up In is the an Commonwealth. Which had done the more good was too early to say. But in a final comment.

association of about hundred working architects, and Is which New Statesmen readers affiliated to International Con' will surely seise on for its This grass for Modern Architecture England column. the Home which exchanges ideas with Secretary said: "In teaching the groups about twenty-one world to play cricket we have different. countries. rendered the human race a great To-night at a service." meeting at the preliminary Architectural Strasbourg 'Colours' Association. Mr.

Maxwell Fry said that the clisVay to be THE trip to Strasbourg for the pened by the Lord ayor. Sir Seymour summer meetings of the Howard, on July 12. must act as a Consultative Assembly of the practical demand for bolder and Council of Europe. and of the more modern techniques. The Western European Union Assembly is much coveted by City is not La ondo wa should ke to its jexpress ob he M.P.s.

The honour of bein die best of which this country is selected as members of the capable. There should be nothing United Kingdom delegation is hoddy careless or old fashioned referred to as getting their forthe sake of being safe or com" colours for Strasbourg. Two for able We have the technical popular choices are the women in ski llln abundance. The building the group of Edith Pitt. industry can meet the demands the Member for Edgbaston, and made upon it." Miss Elaine Burton.

the Member for South Coventry. The heads Jenny Lind Souvenirs of the Conservative and Labour I i REST bid for Jenny Lind sections of the group are Mr. Jack Maclay. who seems destined letters and books sold at Sotheby's to-day was £l5O for a to return to office under Sir Hans Andersen Rictorten This Anthony Eden. and Mr.

Herbert presentation copy. Inscribed by Morrison, whose quiff and quips the author to the Swedish have become widely known Nightingale," is dated Leipzig. among European politicians. 1853 A Goethe autographed Among the alternate delegates named is Mr. Roy H.

Jenkins poem. of only four (Stechford). The Prime Minister on a green card with embossed appears this year to have made border. brought £9O. and a series a more careful and refreshing of over a hundred letters from selection of a team--a sign Jenny Lind to her daughter on of the importance he attaches to personal and domestic matters the Strasbourg sounding board.

sold for £B5. Honouring Jinnah In a day's sale of valuable MSS. and correspondence from various PAKISTANIS in London to-day sources. letters from Simon staged an enthusiastic Bolivar to General D. F.

O'Leary. demonstration of patriotism. The once called his most intimate occasion was the erection by the confidant." brought the highest L.C.C. of one of its familiar white price of the day The and blue plaques in honour of wars against the various Mr. Jinnah.

the founder and first separatist rebellions provide the Governor-General of Pakistan. occasion of many of the letters: The link between Jinnah and the in 1828 Bolivar writes optimistirather shabby house facing the cally of his hopes of an early exhibition buildings of Olympia peace in the war against Peru, is indeed somewhat slight. It is and in 1829. when O'Leary was known that from 1892 to 1898 commanding the expedition Jinnah was in London studying against General Cordoba. he law at Lincoln's Inn.

The British writes assuring O'Leary of his Museum's register of readers confidence in his success shows that in February. 1895. he What is claimed as the earliest was living in Russell Road. Ken, portrait of Tennyson. inscribed ington.

and on the strength of Tennyson set 22 circa." went that the plaque has been put up. for £32. It was probably drawn Pakistan rejoiced at this at Cambridge. by his friend. gesture of goodwill from the James Spedding.

and shows the L.C.C. To-day Russell Road was poet sitting in a chair with his brilliant with the Pakistani pipe legs up. reading a book held close band in their red, blue and white to his face. TO THE EDITO Education for Health correspondent in his quote for these orders which provide article on the drug bill, suggests employment for British workmen? that, comparedwith other The necessity for a Arm delivery expenditure. 46 million is not a date is of paramount importance.

large sum. He has not mentioned whatever the industry, but this is not the General Dental Services on which always appreciated by the British only £22 million was spent in 1953. workman. No matter how good the Taking into consideration the high product may be, overseas buyers cost of materials and equipment. he want to know when the goods will he time factor and the skill involved, delivered.

and many potential orders this is not a large sum either. are tort by reason of the fact the Dental neglect is still very common British thin is unable to guarantee in spite of our welfare services. In delivery by a certain date owing the young particularly, the ravages the many imponderables which resof dental carries are appalling. The trict labour in Great Britain these Minister of Health has issued a days. memorandum to local authorities The sooner it is realised that urging increased education in dental growing German and Japanese cornhealth, the accent being on petition in the world's markets .1 prevention because there is a bound to have its effect in this shortage of dental surgeons.

country. the sooner workers realise Many people do not realise that they have it in their power to maice 'there are only 9.400 dentists in the it passible for British firms to quo 4 General Dental Service compared firm prices and firm delivery dates. 'with 30,000 doctors in general the sooner will come the end of conpractice. More dental students are tracts going to foreign firms. and needed in some universities and there will be no need for trades every encouragement should be union councils considering it necesgiven to any schoolboy or schoolgirl nary to pass resolutions which Ind who shows interest in dentistry.

cate Ignorance of world trade condi- In future I suggest that more lions. time be spent on simple physiology. ALEXANDER WOODS. general and oral hygiene in all our 8. Bickenhall Mansions.

schools. We are so intent on making Gloucester Place. London W.I. our young people into scientists and technicians that we forget to teach them how to live. Nowadays there is not enough respect for the most outh African Schools precious of all machines.

the human Rev. N. S. Power displays body. The increasing number of admirable zeal in the indictment of nervous disorders to-day shows that the South African Government.

but. we ought, to slow down the tempo of I fear, forgets certain farts. life somehow. The education supplied by the Your correspondent says, the coat Christian Missions in South Africa of an illness is not measured by the has only been possible in recent years cost of drugs required to cure it. but because 75 per cent to 80 per cent of by the personal suffering and the financial cost has fallen upon the inconvenience it causes, the loss of South African taxpayer.

The bulk productive output. and the outlay in of South Africa's revenue is paid by hospital expenses and sickness 320 000 taxpayers (most of whom are This should be written white people). These few people have large over all our hourdings. We paid out considerably more on the must get the people to co-operate in education. medical and social services preventing ill health.

of South Africa's nearly nine mullion Every year 630.000 tons of sweets Bantu. than have the many millions are eaten. mainly between meals, of taxpayers in the United Kingdom not to mention a heavier tonnage of on the provision of such services biscuits and cakes. One day, among the other 60 million African someone will suggest, rather timidly people who owe allegiance to Her perhaps, that half the medicines Majesty the Queen. and who live in dispensed to relieve disorders of the territories administered by or alimentary tract could be saved if through Her Majesty's Colonial the patients knew more about diet, Service.

and oral hygiene. As I have pointed out in these DENTAL StIRGZON. columns on previous occasions. emotional diatribes will not help the South African Bantu. First, we have to understand South Afnca's Foreign Ships for problem which.

incidentally. is a world problem. Britain R. Deicropr Wnyusits. Regional Officer.

resolution passed by Ile United Nations Association, Irish Trades Union Council criticis- Central Regional Council. ing the placing of orders with a 10. Gt. Charles Street. German firm for the building of Birmingham.

3 Binalstgbam. three ships. as reported in issue of June 18. is typical of muddled thinking by trade unionists Milk Bottles when considering business tions. I hold no brief for foreign Your correspondent Waste shipbuildens.

but when in Rotterdam Not Want Not" was critical. in a last month I was taken round the letter published on May 26. of the docks and harbour and could not use of g.ass milk bottles. Speaking fail to notice the number of Briti.iii from a personal point of view. in ships in the yards or on the slips.

1 these matters I am in agreement commented on thi gu id e. a with the late John Hilton who. many Dutch senior police officer with no years ago. expressed the opinion that interest in trade. and he replied: correspondents wishing to have their Firm prices.

Arm delivery dates, views put before the public should and the men work hard as they hope also be prepared to publish their for further orders from names. British ship-owners face acute That point apart. several of the statements contained in the letter. competition. and buy is.

a market are a lp a bly i ncorr Th ro ugh which provides what is wanted at 5 salvage departments in many parts price in keeping with their require- of the country. milk bottles frements, and tothat Govern' quently are returned to their owners. ment action tie ugi rk en to ensure Again. the cost of a one-pint milk future are retained in Oren. bottle is between 3.5 d.

and Lail. Britain further. that he and not and the average number Government should refuse to sanc- of trips is at least 50 and not one, tion the currency to pay for as your corres on dent ggests. ships, displays lamentable ignorance We regret that your correspondent of simple economics. wrote in this way.

since unsub- British firms secure stantusted remarks are. we feel. an foreign orders because their price is unfair form of attack lower than that quoted by a foreign C. Z. Wznen.

competitor. Does the Irish 'moss Glass Manufacturers' Federation. Union Council suggest that these 19. Portland Place. Arms should not accept.

or even London. W. 1. 6 egme a ill 1111-111 k. o.ll Lsgsez, li-4.

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