19 JANUARY 1934, page 2

More Science In Industry On The One Hand We Arc

lamenting the labour-saving mechanization of industry ; on the other hand we are promoting it. But there can be no turning 'back on the road to which we arc committed ; that the......

Speeding Up At The Post Office How The Application Of

labour-saving devices is likely to affect the workers is obvious enough, and an example is ready to hand in the case of the Union of Post Office Workers. They have noted the......

Minor Mercies The League Of Nations Council Meeting At...

this week has been prosaic enough in its early stages, for the one subject of first-class importanee, the Saar, was held over till the ground had been prepared through private......

Still Prisoners • The Last Official Concession To The...

Van der Lubbe was the suturing of his severed head to his shoulders, in which condition his corpse was allowed to be buried by his relatives last Monday. Meanwhile, Ernst......

The Sterilization Report The Report Of The Departmental...

the Sterilization of mental defectives was not, after all, published in time for comment here, but obviously well- informed forecasts make it clear that the decision of the......

Death In Birth The Appointment Of A Committee On Midwifery,

with the Earl of Athlone as chairman; is very opportune in view of the disturbing persistence of high maternal mortality: For every thousand children born in Britain, approxi-......

The Upward Trend Though Unemployment Figures Regularly...

Christmas burst of special employment is over, and the February statistics are therefore likely to look a little disappointing, the facts contained in a:number of isolated......