Passing Comments
Page 22
Page 23
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
A Great Story of (UT of the goodness of his an Army Greatcoat ‘".F. heart, a lorry driver gave Bargain a lift to a man in uniform.
Talk leading from one thing to another, the soldier said that he had just been demobbed, and that being so he was thinking of selling his Service greatcoat, for which he would have no further use. On inquiry he named a price, and the deal was done; shortly afterwards he asked to be dropped, having gone as far as he wanted. A few miles farther along the road the lorry was stopped by police. They explained that a soldier had applied for their assistance; he had inadvertently left his overcoat behind him when he quitted the vehicle and they would be happy to restore it to its owner. They got it, too, but not the story of the money that had changed hands. The driver thought it wiser to cut that, along with his loss.
A20
An American View A N Editor of the well-known Upon Socialistic Con"American journal, "The
trols Iron Age," says that there is impressive evidence in Europe to-day that the authentic cause of the current crisis in Europe is not entirely the destruction of _war or the threat of Communism but the misguided zeal of Socialist governments, which know what their citizens ought to eat and wear and produce; that a fixed price is better than any open market, and are determined to preserve liberty even at the cost of putting every citizen in gaol. The author also describes price control as being on all fours with a fever treatment that places the patient in an icebox. it reaches for the outer symptoms of the disease, and in doing so weakens the patient and may ultimately prove fatal. The State cannot force a man to work, and a mistaken price decision may stifle production. ONE of the difficulties Reducing Pay Difficulties and Increasing National Savings . . facing employers, particularly those with large numbers of people requiring weekly pay packets, is to find sufficient small change. In the case of Guy Motors, Ltd., the problem has been solved by a member of the works committee. His suggestion was that all employees should be asked to agree to their weekly small change being credited to special accounts in a Trustees Savings Bank. This was unanimously approved by the committee, and the management is setting up the necessary machinery. The change may be anything from id. to 9s. lid., and as there are some 1,500 employees, taking the individual average saving at 5s. a week, this will amount to a contribution of £350 to National Savings. This is as much as the workers save in a month through the existing Savings Certificates Scheme. . Simple Seat ArrangeVUE saw one of the neatest ment Which Gives "" schemes for seating cornGreater Comfort . . fort in a coach at the Geneva Show. This was by Lauber and Fils, the object being to provide more room for each pair of occupants while travelling. Each seat of a pair is secured by its legs to a set of links pivoted at their bases. In the case of the inner seat the links are shorter. Turning a lever at the top of the seat backs and between them, causes the two to lift on the links and then lower away from the side of the coach. The outer seat moves farther because of what is called the differential action of the links and, of course, it protrudes into the gangway, but both can be withdrawn to their normal positions in a matter of moments. Thus each passenger is given considerably more room. In another type, where the two seats form a unit, the action is similar, except; of course, that the unit merely moves outwards.