6 OCTOBER 1939, page 3

Youth In War-time

The growth of juvenile crime was one of the most sinister social features of the last war, and the problem has remained in the years of peace from then to now. It is unfortunate......

The Threat To British Films

It is of great importance that the President of the Board of Trade should not take any hasty steps which would stop the production of British films. Mr. Oliver Stanley announced......

The New Unemployed

The first stage of the war has produced a curious, and in some respects distressing, situation in regard to employ- ment and unemployment, which is only partly revealed in the......

The House And The Budget

The approach to the problems of the Budget by the House of Commons has been governed by the desire to refuse no sacrifice which a country at war ought to accept. For that reason......

The Growth Of The Army

How much better is the present method of calling men to the colours group by group than that feverishly employed in the enrolment of Kitchener's Army in 1914. The Pro- clamation......

The New Machinery Of The State

Sir William Beveridge, through the columns of The Times, has issued an appeal for an effective instrument of co-ordination to deal with the infinite varieties of effort involved......

In Order To Economise Paper, The Quantity Of News- Papers

and other journals supplied to newsagents on the usual sale-or-return basis has now to be seriously restricted. Readers of The Spectator are therefore urged to place a regular......