... Counties Their Own Customs, Characteristics, Traditions and Food By Gordon Beckles WHY don't the Eng lish counties begin to put themselves back on the map? For over a hundred years now they have been becoming progressively more and more departments of the Whitehall machine, and less and less separate entities-- with their own boundaries, their own rulers in the Lord-Lieutenant, their own ...

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... SSS^SS5S5SSSS5S22HHH^25^S Nature's Submarines U nder-Water Travel is the only Sphere in which. Nature Holds the Speed Record By Frank W. Lane IF the Nazis could have made a submarine which would travel under water as successfully as a fish they might well have won the Battle of the Atlantic. The best a submarine can do when travelling beneath the surface is around twenty knots, There are some ...

... BPhOGRAMME A A Which interprets the Government Housing1 Policy in a Brief and Practical Form. FOR the average reader, interest in the Government plan to meet the housing shortage is confined to the wish to extricate a few guiding facts from an avalanche of published information. .Analysis of official publications is a formidable task, but this is a brief summary for those who are more ...

... v-- ' 5 A A/E are well served by our diarists VV James Agate, Charles Graves, S J. W. Drawbell, Reginald Pound who S keep journals and make jottings about anybody or anything reflecting the con- I s temporary scene. I know men who are 5 still manoeuvring to get into Ego 45; S on the other hand, there is at least one (j Savage who hopes to go down to S posterity as the only one left out. i S A ...

... Answer to a Home Problem- The Day Nursery System By Wilma Buckley CONTRARY to the popularly accepted sentimental theory, mothercraft, like any other fine art, has to be acquired. Although it is true that some women are gifted with an innate knowledge of what motherhood entails, endowed with the right temperament and fortunate enough to be placed in suitable economic conditions, they are ...

... Germany's Stronghold Of Paganism In the Brocken Country of the Harz Mountains By Ferdinand Tuohy IT is eleven at night, April 30th, 1937, and the scene is the huge granite-strewn dome of the Brocken, the highest point of Northern Germany. Ever since evening Nazi enthusiasts, for the most part Hitler Youth and Maidens, have been arriving from the valleys three thousand feet below. At health's ...

... C- --'v v^s* r .Jr VI jH/ THE human back is a miracle of balance and strength. It has to be. It supports your head with the atlas and axis cervical vertebrae so that your head can nod and twist and yet be normally erect. It holds the whole body in its upright position. It contains the spinal cord surrounded by a mass of nerves, which conduct impulses to and from the brain, and which are a ...

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... **. Will the Man Back From the Battlefield Want To Pick Up the Job He Left-- Or Break Fresh Ground? War Has Taught Many To Do New Things in New Ways It Has Brought Swift Advancement to the Bold and Enterprising-- But Peace Offers Opportunity and Adventure, Too By C. Patrick Thompson SOON Mars will be letting them go-- five million warriors, maybe ten million war workers; and they'll be coming ...

... THE future of every British man and woman who gets out of uniform after this war depends upon the condition of England. That, at first, seems so obvious that it seems hardly worth saying. But I am speaking of spiritual changes much more than of economic. These spiritual new attitudes which have been silently arrived at by the British during these long weary years of the world's worst war, ...

... Nature Did It First Some Interesting Parallels To the Inventions of Man By Frank W. Lane THERE'S scarcely an invention of peace or war which is not paralleled somewhere or other in the world of Nature. Man has undoubtedly the most inventive mind on earth, yet, as I hope to show in this article, his most brilliant discoveries are little more than improvements for his own use of ideas which ...