Boots! March 1939

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ADE reports and contributions must ID TO Fe IA be sent to the Editor not later b= than the 15th. of the month prior

Editor: &.H.Ward, “to publication. Articles published

°53, Mirabel Road, do not necessarily represent the’ Fulhan, oe, Weve. view of the Editorial Committee. Volume Iv. Nos: Tit. MARCH. 1939.

For a change the subject of this Editorial is going to be "RB ots!" It is not often that we talk about ourselves, we are generally quite unassuming, content to do the. job and let others talk about it. And unassuming journals, we find, like unassum-— ing people, soon get taken for granted their efforws accepted but unacknowledged.

Now, we wouldn't say that. "Boots!" entirely unacknowledged. We have always had the loyal support of the mass of the members, put what we do-say is that those members haven't yet realised their special responsibility to "Boots!", or the uses they can make of it, to the advantage of their own Section and the Unions.

"Boots!" ig not like the stream that goes on for ever, though it may appear to be, It has no inexhaustible supply of energy or finance behind it, but has flourished for nearly four years because it has been able to constantly renew itself from the mainstream of the Union, It must continue to do so in the future. Only from this source can it pe maintained and developed,

By this we mean that every member must do his share, But how? Well, have you ever realised for instance that many people: outside the Clarion are very interested in the magazine? Hundreds are willing to: buy it if they are only approached. We recently heard of a rambling club whose members each sold on average fourteen copies of their. journal!

At eleverses, at tea, on all sorts of occasions you meet other cyclists who are eager to read it. Why not appoint someone to take a few out every Sunday, and help him sell them? Why not leave a copy at your favourite caterers, it's a good advert. If you dispose of four copies every month in this way, it will cost the Section a penny a week. Let's see the increased orders.

am astonished-at the aifficulty some Sections have in finding someone to collect their supplies, In extreme cases it means a ride of twenty miles little enough. once 4 month, I can't find printable words strong enough to express my disgust of. those who

refuse to make this small contribution to the common effort.

And last, but not least, some seem to think that they can return unsold*copies. They can't, Returns area dead loss and we can't afford it. Under no circumstances whatsoever can we accept them.

ROOTS!" WARCH 1939.

By MRS. BILLIE DOVEY, Rudg

CLARION PUBLICITY.

Tt is not so widely known as it might. be that I am a f the National Clarion, but I am, During most of my

miles Rudge riding last year I wore the miniature Clarion

It gave me great pleasure to meet a number of you at the Thitefield Institute, to wélcome Jack Taylor, Scotland and Clarion's Vic Botterill tHe publicity man,.and others, In the district in which I live the Hendon Clarion operates, and cheifly due no’ doubt to the excéllent work: of Vic.Botterill their Publicity Secretary, they possess, I believe, the largest membership of any i clud within the Borough, It has been suggested, that.the cannot always obtain reasonable publicity for their actfrom what’ I have seen of Vic B's efforts I would say those people should communicate with inden.

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PUT THE CYCLING SIDE:FIRST...

Soon after Cycling's B.A.R. Concert at which I thought Jack Taylor made the neatest and politest little speech of the specdmen on the platform, sure’ enough Editor Ted Ward sent me the copy’ of "Boots". promised. I read it with great interest, porto be quite’ candid it was the first copy I had. yet seen.

I commiserate with you. all in the loss o* our dear Kuklos. Let us continue to struggle as he did in the best intérest of cycling, From the millions of cyclists who ride to and from bus-— iness, the non-club members etc,, there are thousands of potential members for the Olarion. a

Attract them to your ranks but:to do-so you must put.

O-Y-C-L-I-N-¢ first!

Young people are going to be your best customers as cycling mehbers, and what does it matter if their parents areperal, Total Abstainers, or possessed of any other one— gided beliefs, they joined the Clarion for cycling. Ye must feel proud ‘of that fact, for they are a little too young to have mature volicfs, and besides it's cycling they want, and that's what the Clarion must give.them in the main if their membership is to be retained,

MORE WOMEN CYCLISTS NEEDED.

deca This cycling game of ours really does need some more romen enthusiasts to stop the: club "boys" going home to tea on unday club runs, There are I believe numerous women members of e Glarion who are doing good work for their particular Section, but we still need more, Every "mixed" club or section in the country’ could do with a few more girls.

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MARCH 1939. Boots!

At the Southampton NAC Dinner recently Tehad-.a.very interesting conversation with members’ the local Clarion

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Section, The following. Saturday t met them‘at the London neat vf

eption to. Jack Taylor. The week-end following, that :I met them

again at the Portsmouth Olarion Dinner at which'1: was. henour—.

ed to present the prizes. Now doesn't that show Clarion: cycling enthusiasm?

Tell all your particular"girl friends" 1 rode a ledi’e splayed tube Rudge on‘my ride last. year, if tney feel they ousht to have a diamond frame. Get your Section to run Ladies Invitation runs and a special Ladies Rally the combined effort. of several Sections of..the Clarion,

There is a great future. in the cycling game of which we are all so very fond (no matter what political view we’ homdasiss and a good deal depends on how we can get the

BULLETS FOR BICYCLE WEEK, By G.E.Friech.

Clarion Bicycle Week, May. 14th @glst. What are YOU doing about it? It should be the aim of every member of the Clarion to see to that he or bc does his or her bit for the Clarion in 19389;

You may think that. there is‘ nothing that you can do, don't continue to think it. I know that you have a friend who might join .a cycling club, only he or she is not quite. sure ‘that they would like it. It is up to you to see that the

friend is introduced to the Clarion and welcomed by the Clarion

in such a manner that they cannot help but Lcfeiae bys

What is.your Section going to do about the Clarion Bicycle Week? Don't know! Then don't you think it's about time you found out?

Have you selected your venue. for your invitation run on May 14th yet? Have you passed the name and address of that prospective member to the secretary yet? If you do, they

will get an invitation to your invitation ride. That personal

note counts a lot in interesting new members.

Did you make any promise to yourself this year? Have you stopped for a moment to think how much the Clarion needs your help? Will you make a promise now; a promise that will mean no great sacrifice to yourself, but which if you keep it, will mean great strides for the Clarion,

Promise yourself that your contribution to the success of the Clarion Bicycle Week, May 14th-2lst, shall be one new member, more if possible, but at least one.

Now don't go and break your promise to yourself, keep it for your own honour and the honour and prosperity of the Clarion,

ADVERT. 321" H.M. Scott frame and forks, Williams set, Brampton, pillar. Blue finish with chrome ends, Bargain for £2.5,0d. Chrome Endrick front whéel 3/-, Chater stem (2") 3/- Apply to Don Sweetland, 69a, Lavender Hill, Battersea.S.W.11.

PAGH 4, It BOOTS MARCH 1939.

Primarily, we eat foor for two reasons; to supply the body with energy, and to make up for tissue weste and growth, ay expect that most of the Clarionettes are more interested in getting extra supplies of energy than mounting up muscle; but for the maintenance of health, the proteins: which ere mostly represented by the flesh foods, must not be neglected. If, for instance, you ate lerge quentities of breed end butter, which can be said to represent carbohydrate. and fet group, you would soon have a denosition of fet where muscle should be, your digestive svstem would soon make itself decidedly unpleasant in e variety of weys, and would thus defeat your own ends. Many of us are inclined to meke a similer mistake; although I have given the two besic pnurnoses of why we eat, there are many others which revolve round, or are connected with them; it is thet which mekes plenning a diet such a skilful job. Not only are there three groups of food, but these are all sub-divided, é11 having verieble velues for the use to which they arc put; then during the lest 20 yeers the tremendous importence of Vitemins has been discovered. The effect of the lest group is amazing. If a person ete all the neccssary foods end minerals but lacked but one necessary Vitamin, he would surely die. a pleasant thought when ovr diet is restricted by unemployment

Carbohydrates, which are mostly sugars and starches, ere mostly available to-us in vegetables, fruit and cereels, and constitube one of the most important sources of energy. The amount wo need depends mostly on the life we leed. A keen cvelist needs almost twice as much as a “picture fan” end this is evidenced by the former's large apdetite. In Same families, a large epoctite ig rogerded with some disfavour, although whether this. is due to lack of-means to satisfy it; or to Victorian notions, is difficult to say.

Make sure your foods are of a wholesome ieatades By this. don't mean chemicelly pure, such es bleeched flour or suger, but fresh end nutritive. We scem to know instinctively end by teste whether a food is wobpth eating; if we had to choose between those sickly yellow pestries and pies -in a café, and some fresh fruit. and new brown bread, we would neerly e11 plump for the letter. One thing scems qucer.to me, end’ thet is the number of racing men who arc s@ized- with stomache peins, cremp, end vomiting during a iieweL, and who still eat the same old prunes «nd custard, lumps of white sugar, ;énd-drink raw milk a gulp while “pbeshing" all out. Milk is one of the most complcte FOODS known, it is not a refreshing drink, Milk tiixed with a little orenge juice, witha little glucose put in according to taste would work wonders for those whose stomach revolts. Milk contains carbohydrates end fats for energy, and, iimortant in’ the long run, mineral. selts and vitamins; mixed

th orange.juice to-meke it. tiors—: atohle end-d i end

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with glucose pure canbolyiaaee it should re-. energete for a long time, I.-think the practice of eating knobs of white suger might be avoided. White suger stomach irritant; .berley suger, i.e. Spaeny iS han premorabe it is common knowledge now, that fruit has a freshening effect on thc: system, neutralizing the acidity ceused by the digcstion of quantities of starchy foods, and, although I don't pelicve, as some comrades do~ in making’ a ‘drgery, rigid business” out of training, I do eat a larger propor }ion of Fruit two or ‘three weeks prior to a race. One writer gives en intcresting for the necessity for cating fruit during training. He dea first with the fact that the waste products from muscle secant arc acid, and that this acid gives rise to the familiar firedness; he concludes with the contention thet if the body is in the first instence acid as a result of too high en ingestion of moets and sterches, tiredness will become evident sooner than if the system is elkeline through eeting oranges.

An experiment carried out by an eminent biologist should be of first rete importance to the fest men, The experiment concerned the cremp whith seized miners who had been working in hot mines. These chaps would be efflicted with the most ghastly pains when they arrived at the surfece. The investigator found thet inveriebly they drank weter efter work to relieve their thirst. By arrahging thet they drenk salt water instced of fresh, and which by the wav, they considered moré palatable, the cremps were evoided. The trouble, apparently, was thet the salt-weter retio in the body éells wes disturbed by the abnormal .sweeting end water drinking. It has therefore been advised that athletes and those who ere subjected to oxtreordinary perspiration, should either eat porridge after and before exertion, or drink woter in which oatmeal hes been soaked ‘or boiled,

ON ANOTHER PAGE you will see an announcement of considerable importance, The London Union are running a speciel Aid Spain “event, The bill of fare will contain something. to interest everyone of you. Don't let apathy or laziness keep you away. This is a super “do” of e kind never staged befare. There will by wrestling, films, vericty and plenty of other attractions, Don't say you are not interested come and see it fivst. aiid

then you will be able to express an opinion,

"BOOTS a! MARCH 1939.

I was born with the image of a cotton mill in my mind. and with the hum of looms in my ears. We lived on the outskirts of one of Lancashire's industrial villages and at the bottom of our large garden was the mill's dam or lodge and. the door of the engine house actually opened among: our flower beds. Bie Often in the summer, when.X it was very warm, the eng-S ine tenter left this door open and the droning of S the engine mingled with the birds' songs and the

cackle of my father's poultry. The tall chimney rose above even the tallest of our chestnut and beech trees and the smoke drifted over them and faded into the sky.

It was at this mill that my father and my elder brothers worked. It was here, too, that I first started work and continued: to work until leaving the village for the nearby town of Nelson. But what is the mill like, you may ask? Let me tell you how it came to me. It has always been intimate to me. -I was not pushed into it at fourteen years of age to learn its craft and mystery. I knew it intimately even as.a child. I knew the names of all the different processes even before I went to school. The engine tenter had held me in his arms while my infant hands had stopped the mill in the evening. The engineer had allowed me to go with him into his smithy. I spent days with him in that delightful place. Even today the nearest I can get to imagining a village blacksmith's is that "mechanic's shop". There is of course the same forge, the creaking bellows, the same ring of the anvil and flying of sparks when the hot iron is beaten, but the work is different. There were no horse shoes, no farming impliments, but parts of looms and shaftings.

I confess, too, now that it is es long ago, that when the mill was silent and the manager had gone home, I have played on the Slates of the mill. It was easy to climb on to them out of our garden. From the steps of the engine house on to the boiler house slates and drop on the long bays of the weaving shed. These bays are a long slant of slates at one side and a shorter steep drop at the other. They run one beyond the other, like the furrows of a ploughed field, the full width of the weaving

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is FBelsham

Many readers have been kind enough to write* and tell me what they think of my literary efforts in BOOTS!" After looking through the first hundred or so, I have come to the conclusion that if members were to use only those adjectives they are able to spell, there would be much less bad language heard during club runs!

As I was saying, many readers have written to me and at first I was pleased to see so much correspondence, but now all these letters have presented me with a much greater problem than the disposal of old razor blades. I could have put them side by side to form an unbroken line from here to anywhere, but this has already been done with Co-Op. tea packets, I believe. Then came a bright idea,

First, I put all the letters back in their envelopes, after that I placed one of them on a flat surface and coated it with paste. Then I put another on top and pressed it down firmly, this in turn was pasted and another put on, pressed down, and so on until I had built a solid column about 2ft. 6ins. high. This was put on one side while I made three similar columns of the same height; then I put them in a square about a foot apart, stuck a piece of three-ply wood over them and Hey Presto! I've got the cutest little card table you ever saw.

Not bad, eh? The brain-wave came from a chap next door to where alt live. You see, he used to take my discarded cycle tyres from the dustbin and put them on his own cycle. Had you ever seen what my tyres were like before I parted with them, you wuld quite believe me when I tell you that he made such a table with empty rubberpatch packets.

lowever, letters are still coming in. If your section is holding a paper chase in the near future please call at my place about 2 a.m. and knock three times, as loud as you can. You will then observe my bedroom window flung open and collect the contents of my er postbag together with a choice selection of some of the words featured in my fan-mail.

Good night! And shut the gate please,

Comrade F.Belsham, readers will remember, is still in hospital as the result of a street accident. The 8ditorial. Committee trusts you will contime to keep him well supplied with correspondence and by the time he is with us again he is guaranteeing to produce a complete dining room suite from some His address is: F.Belsham, Accident Ward, German Hospital Dalston Lane, H.8.

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MARCH 1939,

Alth fave no desire to prolong the discussion on advertising, I must insist on replying to the erroneous statements of Brother Priech’ ie ig the Publicity Secretary of the Club, end represents its oficial considered policy. Pierer ares chars policy is mistaken; it has detrimental effect on the Club as a whole. This is the cese with the cessation of edvertising in the National Cycling press. Brother Friech says, we cen only judge ENE? Wau? OV O dverts by: the: number of replies. How absurd this is e narrow-minded, perish pump ettitude. “How does he know which members’ join as a result of advertising? But this is not the point. if,

The Clarion is a National: orgenisation, The other two, the C.T.C. and N.C.U. regulerly and continuously edvertise in the eycling press {it pays them it. seems). if-weedo 80; we also). feature as a National cycling organisation. Poitrystoxssavye.a few shillings on these adverts if felse economy, spoiling the ship for ha'porth of tar. Anne Sceoblow

FOUND OUT!

Permit me, through the columns of our journal to apologise to all those Claéarionettes who have been misled into believing that I was Bert Brown, For 28 years I have been using the absurd non-deplume “Bert Brown" in the Clarion movement, but now I have been unmasked by a pool I thought was stagnant. John Smith presents me with a philosophy, I am greatly indebted to him and am pleased to accept it, is true, 1 have never. heard of Mr, Poole, therefore, his opinions are of no account, I do not protest against his incredible conceit, he thinks they are. dimmy Green alias Bert

Browne

x from three Kensington members who would

like to Des -C. boys using the Paddington track. We, thet is, J. Hacon, G. Jacques end myself, get there on Saturday afternoons about 2,30 end meet either in the dressing room or on the The charge is only 6d to ride, which includes dressing room d bath, The track is open all the week from 10 o'clock until

5. poem, Here's hoping to see many more of you there, B.B.Butcher.

authors! nemes were omitted from the articles "For" and published in lest month's issue. In response to many "Port was: written by Ted Ward, and “Against” by A.Frank.

New Section at CROYDON Hon. Gen. Secretary, D.d. Prosser, 5, Sunset Gardens, S.H,25.

cooe Has no hesitation in awarding this month's bath bun to the organisers of "CYCLING's" Best All-rounder Concert, who managed to eulogize Jackie Taylor in the program without mentioning the word Clarion, although every other champions! club was stated.

veces Hears that Tottenham allotment holders are making up a bouquet of their produce for presentation to the London Union

Secretary.

eeeo Testifies to Twickenhams' terrible tension. Tantalizing tomboy torments trembling tuggo.

ceoe Suggests that Union Camping Secretary should take his watch to Uncles and let it STOP there,

-eee Having visited the Inventions Exhibition, suggests following product of feeble brain. Is now able to offer a neat miniature roller-blind patent epplied for to be worn above the Club badge and smartly lowered when the member intends to indulge in the type of activities often reported

on this page.

eeee Wonders why Kensington man won't make up his mind about getting married, Would like to see Frank Beldhamts hairless leg.

ees. Was surprised to hear that a bavhelor? Soéial Sceretary was recently seen wheeling a perambulator,

eceoo Was almost discovered peering through a crack in the door of a well-known cafe in a well-known village, but thinks duebese LO Omi. eld ition of incident he witnessed in casc it leads to his unma NS.

scee ties Dad many Letters asking, reasonc, fom nis

disappearance last month. Well, to tell the truth..... but what's the good, wouldn't believe it envway.

Here is news of a ce thet ougit to be well attended, sevalit Pool ts" nival Dance, to be held at St.Alphage iiontrose Ave,, Burnt Oak, on, it's hardly necessary to

“y, April 1st. Come and keep us compeny. Prices, 1/6 single,

6 double, Tickets from S,Keats, 20, Blundell ‘Road, Burnt Oak.

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A few Sundays ago, after a pleasant run through one of the most beautiful parts of Hampshire, I stopped at a small tea house in the heart of the New Forest. Fifty odd miles since lunch had given me a fair appetite for hot scones and tea, and a chilly wind made the prospect of a warm fire very alluring.

In the small parlour which served as e dining room, (it was a cosy little place as are most tea places in this area) half a dozen fellow cyclists were gathered around the blazing log fire, and with the usual courtesy of our fraternity they invited me to draw up a chair. A few common place remarks served to introduce us, and soon we were conversing like old friends.

Towards the finish of tea, one of my newly found friends mentioned Mrs. "billie" Dovey, and it didn't take them long to inform me that they had attended a certain club's "do" at which she presented the awards. By what they said I gathered they were greatly impressed by her charming personality, her complete lack of side and the comradsly manner with which she returned greetings, One, a rather shy chan, almost burst with pride as he related having danced the foxtrot with her during the evening. One would have thought he had danced with the Duchess of Turkey. They were all much the same though, in their references to her, and the awe in their voices rather amused me, but I suppose there was some justification for it because "Billie" Dovey is, after all a celebrity in the cycling world and chances to mest celebrities don't hanoen every day in the life of the provincial dweller. Of course, I got my say in; told them she was a member of our club, as is J.7. ureaves and Jack Taylor, and as was the late "Kuklos", but as far a8 urs, Dovey was concerned they were aware of it, for she had made it known while presenting prizes.

They were not clear as to the exact nature of the Clarion, and although it may have been very inadequate, I did try to give them some ou%line of the Club's activities and the advantages of membership, Unfortunately I carrisd no club literature except my diary and a copy of “Boots” which I gave to one of them. L suppose every member of the Glarion should carry a few membership forms, and although I think if those young fellows are sufficiently interested they will get in touch with the section secretary whose address I gave them. Vhether they will soln oY not i may never know, but I have the satisfaction of having assisted pernaps, the progress of the Club, and helping in a small way the orts of those responsible for getting the Clarion “regognised"™ as a National or nisation,

EROURD. WS Ba ROAME Ie

Gaels bem. bing these notes on “the day following the second Bernard Newman lecture, I do not attempt to conceal my chagrin at the fact that again only hundred and sixty persons turned up, by no means all‘ Ciarion and the venture was ag a three pound loss to. the Union, The lecture was excellent, the hall was exceedingly comfortable but still the att gadande was small.

ceee Nobody can argue that they had not heard of the funetion because we have been talking about it for six months, I also refuse to bel’ sve that you don’t like this sort of entertainment. So there must be some other reason why you don't attend. Will you assist us by writing the Editor and giving your own reason.

soeo WAS Present at the meeting in Tottenham to urge the Council to construct a track in that borough, It was a riot! Certain allotment holders ‘who wccupy public ground in the borough got wimd that the proposed track may be built on the site of their cabbage patches: and turned up en bloc; They had no great proof of their contention but nevertheless succeeded in turning the meeting into a flop, So now, to some extent, the whole movement wili heve to start at one again.

seoe Lalkings* about tracks, I-hear that the Afsted Road Club over Hammersmith way, have raised. the question of a track in connection with the propos sed construction of running and other sporting facilities on the 'Scrubbs. This is what is wanted in other

areas and I hope that the Padcington, Fulham and Kensington Sections will throw their weight into this demand.

ecoo Lhe older members in the Union will remember the old standing joke about the "CLARION SPECTAL" when Shines ing of the best way

to get to York for the Meet. i year the Union Committee asked Vic. Botteriill to find out the best way to get there.

He has found that we can get coaches to go up on Frid: and

return Monday for 1¢6/~ per he ad for the return by poe! This

is much cheaper than the cheapest rail quotation. BUI WE MUST KNOW THREE WEEKS DVANCE THE NUMBER THAT ARE “WATLING THEMSELVES OF TUBES) AIN TRAVEL, ADDRESS YOUR TO

Vic. BOT? ONTR OSE TUE, DGW. on MIDDX. FIVE SHILLINGS MUST BE SENT OTEERVISE THE Boor WILL BE DISREGARDED

ecoec L Cannot close these notes without some mention of the splendid gesture of the Kensington Section in agreeing.to hand over the entire profits of: its: last dance of the season, April 29th. to the "BOOTS!" Sonmmitsee for the development of the paper. The Kensington Cancés are always a raging success and we want readers to show their a elation of this offer by. making April 29%th.-the best ever. :For-details see pageld.

"BOOTS!" MARCH 1939.

B HOE

Each year someone writes to tell you all that. you must not miss the Easter. Meet. But at the risk of being regarded as a bore, I am going to repeat that injunction. There's something fascinating about meeting club members from all over the country, in joining them in the various functions that are always run at the meets. And York is a fine old city, probably the most popular vyenue of recent Easter Meets.

But the Editor did not ask me to write an eulogy on the beauties of York or of Easter Meets. He wants me to write about the Conference agenda. I must say that in one page this is most CannrueuiiG', But firstly, I must lodge a protest. The National Secretary, in a document marked ‘Private and Confidertialt has sent to members of the National Committee his own views of certain items on the Agenda. This strikes me as being most improper and I refuse to regard it as confidential, The columns of "BOOTS!" and I am sure of our provincial contemporary, are open to Sugden in the seme way as anyone else for contributions of reasonable length and interest. That is the best way to air ones views.

The Annual Report brings up the old question of the financial position of the Club, which certainly appears to be in water. I have my own very decided views on the reason for this state of affairs but I hope to meke that the subject of a full length article in a future issue. The problem before us is to meet the crisis. I am against the raising of the subscription but a suggestion that members would be prepared to pay 6d. for .the diaries might be considered because it would mean that the purchase of the diary would only be putting us in line with the other National Cycling Clubs who charge higher fees and still sell their diaries.

So far as the Agenda itself is concerned, by far the nost contentious item will be that of the Paddington Section in favour of mass affiliation to the N.C.U, It is well known that IT favour this resolution. It is very important to note that it is in no wey correct to suggest that by mass affiliation that you are in any way interfering with the separate national basis of our Club any more than the Veg. or the Poly. clubs do when they affiliate to the N.C.U. On the other hand, we should be able to play our part in influencing the policy of the N.C.U. and in closing the ranks of the cyclists against all attacks. It has been argued that by such affiliation we should be dropping our basic principles. I cannot see one principle that would be violated. We affiliate to the R,T.7T.C., and the district Associations, to the National Committee on Cycling without any question of forsaking principles why should affiliation to the N.C.U. make any difference, The only people likely to object to our affiliation is the N.C.U. and that strikes me as the very best reason why we should be in.

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SECTION SCRAPBOOK.

eese Editor Ted found that not many sections were using the forms that he sent out with each issue of the journal for the purpose of filling in local news to be inserted in the next issue. So

he decided not to send them out any more. The net result has peen that we have received no local news at all. Now this is

not too good and I think it is probably due to the fact that

most sections leave it to the secretary and in the others the already overworked secretary flatters himself that he is the

only one capable of doing it but cannot find the time.

aeoe Lama great believer in several persons. doing a little each rather than one person doing a hell of a lot. We don't want to be too formal about these matters and I am going to suggest that ‘some of you go to your local. secretary or committee and undertake to gend along the local news to us cither each month or when anything happens that would interest other sections or make news. Don't worry about the writing or the literary style we will do all the worrying about that for you.

eeee Ted Bennett, who combines the job of London Union Chairman with secretaryship of the Richmond Section,writes to tell me that the section is doing some practical activity for Spain on Boat Race Night; Saturday, April ist. The section, with the full co-operation of the local Spanish Aid Committee, is holding a Dance at the PHILANTHROPIC HALL, PARKSHOT, RICHMOND. Dancing will be from 8 p.m. umtil midnight, with carnival noveltips and numerous spot prizes. Tickets 2/- each from E.T.Bennett,

10, Duncan Road, Richmond, Surrey or at the door, The next section dance is at the usual place, PRINCES HALL, THE GREEN

on Saturday, March 18th, 8p.m. midnight. Licensed bar Tickets 2/- single, 3/6d. double.

sees Paddington send quite an interesting tit-bit of news. The section, in common with many other London clubs, has decided to discontinue the early morning meeting venue and to meet at the elevenses stop instead. This is for several reasons. Firstly, +o cope with the problem of club riding intraffic, secondly, to get members into the habit of finding their own way about and thirdly, to cater for those groups of members who like to spend part of the day together. This idea has become increasingly

popular during the last couple of years in London clubs.

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LANCASHIHE LAD. By Joe Jackson. (From page 6.) shed and beyond them rose the buildings of the preparatory workers.

The weaving shed is always on’ the ground filoor because of the enormous weight of the machinery. Looms, alone, are ponderous things and if you get from:500 to a few thousand of them in one building you must let them have their feet on solid earth. The warps, too, are heavy, being as much as two men can carry on their shoulders and more than they can lift because of their bulk. And, you know, there is a warp to every loom.

That was the way I first saw a mill with the eyes of a child.

I never wondered at it.. It was as natural to me as the cattle that grazed at the back of our house. I had often to go in to

my father who was a taper. I talked freely to the.women who did the winding of the yarn. The warehousemen teased me as groups

of men often tease children, while my brothers brought home the talk of the weavers and showed me how to kiss a-shuttle long before I knew how to read or write. The mysteries of the mill I knew, but I had yet to. learn the’ skill and speed of the operative.

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