'JS Journal', Vol. 2 No. 5, Christmas 1949

Table of content

• Contents Page
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  Page1
  ... and a Happy New Year
  Page 2
  Crackers
  Page 7
  Ballet for Beginners
  Page 10
  'Oh,Sir'
  Page 12
  Christmas Counsel
  Page 15
  Staff Association
  Page 20
  Mechanization the end of the story
  Page 26
  The Earnestness of being...

• . . . . . and a Happy New Year
  03

  We have very great pleasure in presenting our Special 1949 Christmas Number which comes to you with our best wishes for both Christmas and the New Year. A great deal of interest has been shown by large numbers of the staff...

• Crackers
  04

  SCROOGE is rubbing his hands with satisfaction. Things are coming his way. Austerity and utility are working wonders with a land and a people of which he almost despaired ninety years ago. It is not merely that the prices of ...

• Ballet for Beginners
  09

  WHAT exactly is Ballet dancing '? How does it differ from other dancing and how did it all start, anyway ? This is but small space for such wide questions, but we can go some little way towards answering them. Diagrams and...

• 'Oh, Sir'
  12

  Friday, 8.30 a.m. "All ready ! " Right ! ! Everyone in their places 2 Change boxes out ? Tills filled ? Butchers ready ? O.K. What is this stampede ? Oh, the butchers' public. " Oh, sir, this lady has forgotten to bring...

• Christmas Counsel
  14

  IT is not very far off to Christmas and many of us have already completed our shopping, while others are still waiting until the last moment to buy that " little something " for dear old Auntie Emma or Cousin Joan's twins or...

• Staff Association - This Show Business
  17

  FOR some weeks prior to the beginning of September of this year a strange ritual had been observed in many gardens and on the allotments of various S.S.A. members. These people could be seen during the evenings and at the ...

• Now look here
  21

  Now look here. Don't forget you are all turkeys I

• Mechanization - the end of the story
  22

  The final article of the series by J. H. Murray A Tabulator with Summary Card Punch in action Branch Customers' Accounts THE first job that was mechanised in Blackfriars was the keeping of the branch customers' accounts...

• The Earnestness of being Important
  28

  ONE of the Managers in an article in the JOURNAL some few months ago sought to tell readers of that Haven of Peace, that Rest Cure more usually known as THE SALES OFFICE. To him and to those others whose lines of thought...

• More Game
  30

  GIMBLE COTTAGE, GRIFFIN MOOR, SOWSTASKER, NONS. The Editor, J.S. JOURNAL. SIR, Having read the most interesting article on ' Game,' which figured in your last edition, I am constrained to draw your attention to one...

• May I see my turkey please ?
  31

  May I see my turkey please ?

• The Common Cold
  32

  By the Firm's Doctor OF all the minor ills the flesh is heir to there are few which cause more loss of time and temper than the Common Cold. Call it what you will catarrh of the naso-pharynx, a cold in the nose, or the...

• Personnel Problems
  33

  Working Hours Branch Staff FROM all sides I have heard expressions of appreciation from members of the branch staff for the new working hours, and particularly for the early finish on Saturday evenings. On the occasional ...

• About People you know
  34

  WF have to record the following retirements since March, 1949 : A. Newton. -I'irst employed as Stable Boy at Blackfriars : later as pony \an boy, a nil afterwards driver of lirsl small deliver)' car in 1914. When he retired...

• South East Area Dance
  35

  xs S S A COME TO THE £>. \\t\j 4^5t (j/jress O^ ss\*%ce at LEWISHAM TOWN HALL CATFORD, S.E.6 on Wednesday, February 8th, 1950 7.30-11.30 p.m. Dancing To THE NEW SENTIMENTALISTS TICKETS 2/6 Available from your S.S.A....