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26th July 1917, Page 14
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Insurance Speculation. _

Federation of Industries. rt" The Extractor."

Archibald, Certainly Not The happening below was told to us by an old friend, Mr. Reginald Pole, of the well-named "Wheel and Wings Policies at Lloyds." A reply to an advertisement revealed a, document of unmistakable Hun origin ; it was, in fact, from one A. Schmidt at present sojourning in an Internment Camp and asking to be insured against air raids. The answer to the question went back, I understand, in capital letters. Obviously it was, to adopt the Parliamentary custom, "in the _negative."

Insurance Speculation, Like some other rates the insurance variety will probably have to go up with drivers such as one sees nowadays : these girls and boys. • I know one broker who says he would sooner insure aeroplanes, but that is probably only his fun. Policies against damage by aircraft are more in demand than ever. One insurance personage was quite busy the other day amongst a few friends naming a lump sum as a premium against aircraft damage for the period of the war."

Now, and After the War.

The usefulness of the Federation of British Industries has already been amply demonstrated. Its oblects, briefly, are the organization and development of industry now p„ria after the war in co-operation with labour and in conjunction with the Government and Government departments. The Federation has already made representation, in many cases at the direct request oi its members, to Government departments in connection with matters affecting British industry, and special committees have been formed, and are dealing with the following questions :

mobilization, overseas trade, patents law, workmen's compensation, excess profit duties, Colonial income tax, education on industrial lines, and bills before Parliament.

An ambitious programme, truly, and one only possible with the right constitution and the riglit men. The President is F. Dudley Docker, Esq., 0.I3., and the Executive Council is both powerful and comprehensive, the motor trade being well represented. I have glanced through the names ; it looks like a, motelshow dinner list, everyone seems to have enrolled as members. The Minister of Munitions and the First Lord of the Admiralty have taken an especial interest in this Federation, and there is little doubt that the new holders of those offices will cooperate with equal zest. Branches have been formed with local committees and officials in 1'2 of the chief towns. One of the assistant organizers is Mr. A. Aldersey Taylor, formerly associated with Commercial Cars, Ltd. and who can be found at the chief offices of the Federation,' :30, St. James's Street, London, S.W.

Quite Human After All.

The woman labour question crops up eternally. I found myself• willy-nilly in a non-smoking carriage going up north recently, and one lady was taking a leading part in a talk on the subject., and witli good reason—her special mission was to address the girls of various munition and other works, smoothing out strike difficulties, helping employers with her clear comprehension of the woman's viewpoint ; altogether, it seemed to me filling a very useful niche in the national structure. A forceful woman, full of strong common sense, Scottish, very human, and with occasional flashes of humour. The talk veered round naturally to women's suffrage and the vote, which measure had just been piloted through Parliament with a peacefulness that passeth understanding. It was soon plain that our orator was on familiar ground ; we all knew before how splendidly they

helped instead of hindered soon after the was broke out. We learnt now some details of their work at the Front when no other women's force was organized, all told with due modesty, but with suoh an air of authority that an eliminating process went through my mind, not Mrs. Pankhurst, she was away in Russia, not Annie Kenney, nor Christabel ; it must i be—yes, t proved to be—the "General," Mrs, Drummond.

One at a Time Although hobbling along with two sticks since his accident Mr. Cook, of Fastnut fame, is very much H alive. e has invented and registered a Treasury note wallet which has good points about it. I sympathise with the object of making it difficult to get the notes out, even as I always secretly admired old market women laboriously extracting small coins from the bottom of their home-knitted purses ; paper ourrency must be a sore trouble to these dames. Anyhow, in this Fastnut wallet it •is impossible to pull more than'one note out at a time, which limitation should mean some saving.

011a Podrida.

I hear that the C.M.U.A. elected its 400th new member for 1917 a few days age.

One of a good many replies addressed to Mr. Schofield in reponse to my appeal for lorry drivers a fortnight ago is a sincere attempt to contribute his share. He has a fortnight's holiday coming due, and proposes to utilize it this year by driving a. Volunteer

lorry between the London termini.

The cry is "still they come " ; more brochures from the publicity department of the Karrier works. This time a specification of a 50 h.p. 5-termer with excellent photographs. The frontispiece of the Karrier office is quite stereoscopic in the way it stands out.—

Mr. J. Huxley Hopkins,. who,Trior to the war, was general manager for the Continental Tyre and Rubber Co. for South Africa, is on the way to England to join up with the Mechanical Transport. Mr. Hopkins intends, before returning to S.A. after the war, to arrange with one or two good English houses for their representation in South Africa.

0 There is a sustained4motor-trade move into the street of Great Portland, and some handsome premises have been taken by Harvey Frost's. Inquiries regarding the H.F. Schools Of Vulcanizing Instruction,

• and communications -generally, for the branch which was formerly at Charing Cross Road should now go to 148-150, Great Portland Street, W. 1. The head offices remain at Great Eastern Street, B.C., for the present.


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