'A pleasing feature of the recent revival In British industry is the clean and architecturally. attractive natur of the factories which are now being built in various parts of the country. They are a happy contrast to many of the older factories in which the manufacture of goods has been carried fon for so long. The grime and squalor associated with a "manufactluring area" are missing. Many of the new mills, especially in the London area, painted in bright colour might stand as an exhibition group of "aesthetics in industry". For this improvement electricity is to some extent responsible. In the early days the mills were built on or near the coal fields; but this is no" Tonger necessary. Further, the builder to-can take advantage of all the many developments and technical and advanced s far as they have, no longer require the attention of so. forceful a personality as General Johnson has' proved himself -to be. The need for a guiding hand, however, is evidenced in the suggestion that so well known a financial auth-only as Mr. Bernard Baruch is to be his successor. "The latter should rd his task made all the easier by the spadework which his predecessor was called upon to fulfil. There is StI much to be done in the effective application of the codes, and much of amendment thereof still so be effect fed. It Is, therefore, not so much a Question of changing horses in midstream, but of making arrangements {for the furtherance of N.RA. policies along lines perhaps not best fitted to the picturesque character of the retiring dictator.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.