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It was the late Edward Carpenter , author of ' Towards Democracy,' who said that until a man could achieve rest in himself in the middle of, let us say, Trafalgar Square , he did not know what rest was. And how few people today do know what rest is! Futile speed and purposeless ‘ busyness' are responsible for no small measure of our modern mental and spiritual unrest: we do not know how to be still. Miss Cartland, in her talk this morning, will tell how important it is in everyone to secure for themselves at least a few minutes' complete relaxation and quiet during the day.

OLIVE STURGESS (Soprano)
ROBERT EASTON (Bass)
THE GERSHOM PARKINGTON QUINTET

Suite of Serbian Miniatures - Miloyevich
OLIVE STURGESS Connais tu le pays ? (' Knowest thou the land ? ') (â?? Mignon â??) - Ambroise Thomas
Song of the Little Folk - Eric Coales
ROBERT EASTON Money, O ! - Michael Head
A Stave of Roving Tim - Martin Shaw
QUINTET Selection of Rubinstein's - Songs
OLIVE STURGESS Nightingales of Lincoln's Inn - Herbert Oliver
Down Vauxhall Way - Herbert Oliver
ROBERT EASTON The Gay Highway - Drummond
The Old Bold Mate - Esmond Bristol
QUINTET Reverie d'Amour (Dream of Love) - York Bowen
Allegretto - Wolstenholme
Minuet - Mozart
Waltz - Chopin

FUTURE generations will remember Ian Hay as one who, with his' The First Hundred Thousand,' helped to save England in 1915 from sinking into the slough of despond. With Bruce Bairns -father he discovered the humorous traits in the British soldier of the earlier days of the War, and set them down in happy print. He has now just returned from a special visit to the German occupied territory to describe ' The Last Thousand '-those remaining British soldiers who are returning home at last-the final ' carry. over ' from the War t

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‘ THE DAILY EXPRESS' OFFICES
THE CREED ROOM
Simultaneous production in provincial towns is ensured by means of apparatus which is capable of sending out 160 words a minute per machine
THE NEWS ROOM
One wall is lined with telephone booths, where messages from outside reporters arc received and subsequently discussed with the News Editor. Sub-editors check the stories and get them into their allotted spaces on the various pages
THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF'S OFFICE
THE LINOTYPE MACHINES
By operating a keyboard like that of a typewriter, molten metal is forced into dies, to form a ' line of type'
THE FOUNDRY
Semi-cylindrical metal plates are cast from papiermache moulds of the type-sot page, cooled, and trimmed to an exact length
STARTING UP THE PRESS
The plates from the foundry are placed on the printing cylinders of the presses, which by a series of push-button controls are slowly started up till they attain full speed, when the night's work begins in earnest
ENVOI
(From the Studio)

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