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World Problems.
and
HERE THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
The Duchess of York.
The Duchess of York recently unveiled the two lancet windows in York Minster, designed as a mem ortal to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, the regiment of which she is Colonel-in-Chief.
on.
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TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933.
STATE UNEMPLOYED BURDEN
NATIONAL SUPERVISION FOR PARISHES
NEED FOR EQUALISATION
authentic person with a career no Guardians) £4,750,000,
roads?
by £146,000,000.
Indeed, in the
(By A. A. B.)
London.
Twenty-nine Acts.
The windows stand close to the "Five Sisters," the finest 14th- century stained-glass window in
In the North-the closed coalpit this country. An intensive study Although the theory has been, the silent shipyard and the half- had to be made of these ancient ever since the Act of Elizabeth; time mill. These shiftings of in- - lights before the colours and design that the cost of maintaining the dustry are not new; the forests of of the new windows were decided poor properly belonged to the Sussex were once the scene, of the parish, the practice has long since iron foundries. They are always The process used in cutting, fr been different, as is proved by Sir attended with distress and com- ing, and glazing the new windows E. Hilton Young's figure that the plaint. Never before has it occur was exactly that of six hundred cost to the Exchequer of maintain-red on so large a scale and in the years ago, with one difference, that ing the able-bodied unemployed was middle of a world slump which is electricity, and gas were used in some £80,000,000 a year, while the one of the consequences of the Great firing instead of charcoal.
cost that fell upon the local au- War. K thorities through the rates was
Public opinion has with unusual |£6,500,000, of which £1,750,000 was discrimination, separated Itself Another Bill Adams. William Adams, of Gillingham, to provide for the sick, infirm and from Socialist or Communist views this question. It is now,, re- was not the man who won the battle children. So that the State pro-on
vided £80,000,000 and the local au- cognised by all sensible and humane of Waterloo, but he was a more thorities (hitherto the Boards of persons that the conditions of to- day call for something in the way. less remarkable-a career cclebrated
The reason for the original of equalisation between different in Japan to-day with processions
theory was that the failure of the districts, and it is now generally and religious ceremonies.
He might fairly be called, I sup- able-bodied man of woman to sup admitted that the support of the pose, the "Father of the Japanese port himself or herself was not only able-bodied unemployed should be Navy." Arriving on the Japanese a misfortune, but a fault, to which shouldered to an increased extent by coast in the year 1600 with a ship the reproach of pauperism was the Imperial Exchequer. Indeed, ful of dead and dying men after a rightly attached, with sundry dis-the principle has long been practised one, dis- in the metropolis by the partial {disastrous
the qualifications, of which voyage acrosa
endured until the equalisation of the poor rate. It Pacific, he so impressed the reign-franchisement,
has seemed indefensible that ing Shogun with his knowledge of Reform Act of 1918.
Long before that, however, the Bermondsey and Poplar should have navigation that he was made much of, was given an estate and a relation between the State and theja rate of 208. In the £ while West- been reversed, how minster and Kensington should have Japanese wife and received the dis-parish had tinctive title of "the Pilot." For rapidly and generously may be es-metropolitan borough all contribute but they were often a lubricant many years he was not allowed to timated by the fact that while the rate of 10s. Accordingly, the Exchequer charge for the unemploy. a moderate amount to a common. leave the country.
fund, which is distributed which prevented friction. Nowa- He is buried in Japan, and Anjined had increased enormously, the poor days International disputes are Cho (Pilot Street) in Tokio is charge on the rates had remained amongst the poorer boroughs.
sanie, Between practically the examined by committees whose named after him.
1927-28 and 1932-33 the whole ber
That is practically and essentially den of national taxation had in what the Government proposes to do personnel comprises delegates
Your Daily Smile from Utopia, Ruritania,
[creased by £59,000,000, to £732,000,-}
jby # temporary or stop-gap 000; the whole burden of national)
measure, Barataria. The party against "Too bad about the disappear-
rates for the
same period had
The present Act (the 29th of its Japan continues to penetrate
whom an adverse decision is ance of Smith. He was a profound decreased
£20,000,000 ta
kind), which provides for the as Northern China. The question of given asserts that, owing to their thinker."
sistance of those who have exhaust- "Yes, he was always thinking, the Danzig Corridor is simmer-
pooreat districts ed their lusurance benefit, as well as ignorance of the issues involved,
no matter where he was.' The last.
who have outstayed their ing. Italy's ambitions on the they are
incompetent to pass time, I saw him he was in swim the rate in the £ for poor relief had those
fallen from 228. 3d. to 16s. 9d
transitional benefit (rightly called eastern shore of the Adriatic judgment. In the public con-ming, and he suddenly called out:
Industrial "Revolution.
doles), expires in June. The Gov- disquiet Yugoslavia.
It would be unfair, as well as ernment has promised to introduse Germany troversy passions are apt to be Tm thinking! I'm thinking!'" is eviving the worship of the aroused and prejudices streng-sp.”
"You fool! Smith spoke with a
incorrect, to ascribe this shifting of in the autumn session a comprehen- the burden from the ratepayer to alve new measure dealing with the mailed fist. Are these portents thened. But under the old diplo
the taxpayer entirely to democracy, whole question of the able-bodied the harvest of a war that was macy, many a rupture was avert- The Fordy-First Palm.
though unquestionably the lowering unemployed in their relation to the supposed to have sounded the ed by a few discrect and confiden. The Ford is my cari
of the franchise, particularly the public assistance committees of the I shall not want another. [death knell upon the crude tial words exchanged by Minis- It maketh me lie down in muddy the Act of 1918, has been a con-lag will be filled by a continuance removal of the disqualification by local authorities. Presumably the arbitrament of strife? Are
ters who knew exactly how far
tributory cause. But in truth the of the present law of transitional dreams of goodwill to prove illu- their, Governments were prepar It learneth me to Bay profane main cause has been the industrial benefit sions? An atmosphere of ten-led to go. In the forty-four
words;
revolution since the begining of the It does not appear to be decided It. tireth my soul;
century. Whereas the failure to dis-i
yet whether the new legislation in sion pervades the international years between the Franco- It taketh me into the path of charge the most obvious duty of to be entrusted to the Minister of scene. The convulsion of the German War and the outbreak of} disgrace for its name's sake; citizen was in the old days, harshly Health or the Minister of Labour. war upset many traditions and the Great War, the horizon was Yea, though I ride through the perhaps, but not on, the whole un-
Without any disrespect to Sir EX preconceived ideas,
on the parish or Hilton Young, and while, fully ap and the often threatening, yet there was
Justly, visited Locality where the man was born, it preciating his firmness and vigour world is in the difficult process no clash of arms in Europe west I
was. long ago realised that the as an administrator, I will not re- of adjusting ite If to the chang-of the Balkan Peninsula. It has
fluctuations of trade were not in the frain from expressing the hope that ed order. No ne knows where remained for nations earnestly Thy cranks and thy springs they individual's control.
the mission will be placed in the he stands or what the next day striving for peace and devising Thou anointest my head with oll; will bring forth. Crises, politi- elaborate machinery for that end Thy radiator runneth over. cal or economic, have become so to watch with apprehension de Surely if this thing shall follow me common that we regard them velopments in various "danger almost as a natural law of spots." Germany demands re existence. Yet this turmoil and vision of the treaty by which she, Juncertainty coincide with the ceded territory to the victors and NEATI -
Panic législation is bal, and lawn first serious experiment in world to the succession States, "Grant-} Young Ikey, an assistant in kis been made by the appointment of
was ex- Whitehall commissioners to take the passed in a period of exceptional co-operation. Cynfes might sayed the justice of her claim, father's barber's shop,
trade depression are open to many | similar" objections. It is mere that the attempt to "get to-would not. Austria, Hungary postulating with his parent over a place of local guardians,
It has at last been decided by partisan blindness to shut one's gether" has merely accentuated Bulgaria, and Turkey be equally But, father," he said, "I don't Parliament that national super eyes to the dangers of the new differences. Before the war entitled to appeal against the see why I should receive lower vision and control shall still further policy. We are told that it in only Powers went their own way, con- terms imposed upon them? Once waves in the summer than in with supersede local responsibility. No an expenditure of some extra aix Amillions that will be added to the tracting alliances and concluding more we would be plunged into ter People will come into the shop serious man can regard the prospect.
the vortex of recrimination. The and get their hair cut just the without uneasiness, for it means treaties as their interests dictate League, in an endeavour to pour me
(Continued on Page 7.) the increasing power of politicians e Each was the sole judge of oil on the troubled waters, would "Yeth, my son," was the rips to manipulate a matter of the 'armaments required for its doubtless appoint a committes to but your work will be lighter. You utmost importance to the solvency
report.
will not have to help them on with of the State and to the national The security. of its tariff policy, investigate and
character, and and of all matters relating to teously acknowledged by the dis
recommendations would be cour their overcouts."
Tides Of Trade, statecraft. None would have satisfied suitor and then shelved.
But, indeed, events have left us admitted the right of a mixed International conferences have
little choice. The tides of trade are panel to determine its
become the accepted principle of
as incalculable, and almost «AS UA: course.
international International conferences were meet and disperse at frequent
dealings. They An Italian Inventor's airplane fa controllable as those of the sea. A the expenses of the British Empire rare, and were strictly limited in intervals and with rather is virtually a large wooden tube with tidal wave has swept Great Britain Fair was published a week ago, the wings, the propeller as well as plot from north to south. Owing to the following further contributions have their object, which was usually couraging results Disarma
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There was another reason for the hands of Sir Henry Betterton. Of old law of poor relief, namely, that all modern. Ministers of Labour he control was more easily and effec has been the most successful, and tively exercised by a man's neigh that because of a rare gift of arm- bours than by a distant central pathy, which is expressed in a man- I shall dwell in the bughouse for authority. Recent events have disner that is particularly suited to
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and successful reductions of local corruption and extravagance have
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