24 JANUARY 1947, Page 5

"The biggest headache of all," I read, " is man-power."

Regarding which it can only be said that man-power is not a headache at all, big, little or medium-sized. If anyone wants to talk about headaches in this connection, let him at least say that they are caused by man- power—though that would be hardly more correct, for they are caused, if at all, not by man-power, but by man-power shortage. This sudden emergence of misused "headache" is one of the silliest

of many silly features of modern jargon. JANUS.