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Thousands of Britons Undergoing Move To Other Lands Bavins More To Offer By DIEL F. GILMORE United 9mt Correspondent O London (U.R) This is the story ofa proud nation leaving home. 0 It is not a Hungary with 100, 000 fleeing at risk of their lives. This is an orderly, methodical evacuation, done coldly and log ically by thinking people who feel that once-great Britain has ything more to offer. An estimated 7 million men and women have packed Tip and left since the end of World War II. An jHhoritative public opin ion poll revgaled last week that two of every five Britons inter viewed would emigate if they could. Projected on a national scale, this would mean that 20.5 million of the British Isles' 51.2 million inhabitants nearly half the population would like to go. Lif Nof Worth It The British are proud, and they have much of which to be proud. But a lqt of them find lifClin these densely -populated islands no longer worth the ex tra sweat and effort. It took Britain many years to recover from World War I. Some experts say she never recov ered. T"he country is in debt. Production per worker is below many other countries. Rajloning carried through for some items until 1952 seven years after VE-day. Coal is still (jitio?d, 12 years after the war. After the Suez crisis and the closing ofHhe Suez canal in No (Ti. ember, the government an nounced the return of gasoline and fuel oil ratiiing. Simulta neously, CJjrices shot up. For hundreds of thousands, this was the "last straw." In the Ifrst week after gaso line rationing, 10,000 persons swarmed to the Canadian immi gration office. The Australian and New Zealand offices were jaStaed. IL000 a Day Applying "We're running up to 3,000 a dj," saia Gordon Cummings, director o,the Canadian Immi gration department. The line forms daily at 2 a.m. Who are the applicants? Not the swashbuckling adven turers of sparklingeyed .ouths vqo wo(t)and populated the old empire. Sfcist of th new mi grants are well-educated citi zens, many of them scientists andOjpecialis, who carefully weighed their beloved country and longid it painfully wanting. Qohn. a 2fi-vear-olH Camhriripp jRjjduate, expiated it this way: say the hell with it. This place is unlucky." John earns $30 a week, but pays S14 of that in rent. He could get a cheaper place with an outside bathroom or no bath room or a shared kitchen. So his wife works too, for S13 a week. "I love my country but I can't see it," John says. "I want to work and work hard and get the benefits of hard work. We're getting out." "Sirs." said a letter to the Times of London from J. P. Gra ham, a father of four sons, one of whom emigrated to Canada. "From talking to him and many of his friends in a similar posi tion, one gets a clear picture of the causes of their unrest. Cripples Drive "They may be summarized as a firm belief that our society, and particularly our present system of taxation, is unfair to the man of brains, drive and am bition, and stupidity favors those who are inefficient and lacking in initiative." He gave comparable incomes and taxes for Britain and Can ada to which an estimated 6 million Britons have emigrated since the war: Income Can. Tax Bril. Tax S2.800 S120.40 S 470.40 S5.600 S576.00 $1,397.20 Graham said his sons saw that in Canada increased production meant increased prosperity while in Britain labor's restric tive practices put a drag on pro duction. Acid-tongued columnist "Cas sandra" of the pro-Labor Daily Mirror put it more bluntly Borrowing from Shakespeare's famous words, he said: "Their main reason for want ing to leave this sceptered isle, this earth of majesty, this other Eden, demi-paradise, this pre cious stone set in silver gea, this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, is that they can't afford to live in the tax- ridden and inflation - cursed place." ' 51st Year -kK A TT Medford Price 10c United Press bull ieased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wirm 2nd Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1957 8 Pages Ho us Bil To Revolushinize Speling uv English Langwidge Plan uv Californian (Editor's Notr: Th unusual snell- Inj- In thr first two paragraphs of the following dispatch is in-tional.) o our lMuse is burned down once. You keep that old stiff up per Jip and build again. But the seciJnd time you're inclined to By GEORGE COFFFEY United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Rep. Harlan Hagen (D-Calif.) sed tuda he wud introdus in thu Hous "vere sun" a bil wich mite revo lushinize thu speling uv thu En glish langwidge. "Ther are stil sum detals tu be wurkt owt," Hagen sed. "But a tentutiv draft has ben finisht and we shud be redy to thro it intu thu hopper In a cupl of weks." If Hagen's bill should be pass ed and universally adopted by the country a whole new genera tion of Americans might grow up using a spelling system that would look something like the first two paragraphs of this story. The Hagen measure grew out of an idea originated by Homer W. Wood, publisher of the Por terville, Calif., recorder, who has been campaigning for some time for a complete revision of the nation's spelling habits. For Government Use At Wood's suggestion, Hagen's bill would "establish a national grammar commission to reform the spelling of English words" which in turn would publish an official United States dictionary to be used by all government agencies. The commission would be composed of five members ap pointed by the President "with the advice and consent of the Senate." Hagen said among the details still to be worked out were the tenure of the commission and what, if any, salary members would get. "I feel, as Mr. Wood does, that there is a definite need for a streamlining of our methods of spelling," Hagen said. "This bill would at least be a step in the right direction." House of Newspapers Attracts Many Visitors Rockport, Mass. (U.R) Some 4,000 persons a year drop in to visit Mrs. Esther Stenman, 80, during trips to historic Cape Ann because her two-room house is constructed of panels compris ing 215 layers of glued, pressed and varnished newspapers. Mrs. Stenman says she isn't worried about fire in the paper house. Though the paper home has survived two New England hurricanes, the wind still is her prime concern.' "A strong blast of wind sweep ing under and lifting the paper house in the air is the only thing that worries me," she ex plained. STARCH ITEM Scarborough, Me. '(U.R) Mrs. Floyd Stevens dug up a potato from her garden that weighed 4Vi pounds and was about the size of a basketball. The congressman said the bill would not make it mandatory that everyone in the country use the new system. "That's something you can't legislature, he said. But if we can get the government to adopt it, at least we would have made an opening wedge." Direct Orders The bill would direct that "any word printed, typewritten, or otherwise reproduced for the United States or by officers or employees of the United States in performance of their official duties after 30 days after the publication of the dictionary shall confirm to the spelling of such word in the dictionary. 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