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EXPLOITING THE POLICE
Mr. Oliver Stanley told a story at the House of Commons about A motorist who went abroad for a few months. To avoid garage fees, he left his car in a side street..
The police removed it and paid for. storage. The owner, on his return, failed to meet the bill.
There is a better version of that story.
A NEW RENT PLAN FOR LONDON?
TH
DIFFERENTIAL SYSTEM EXPERIMENT ·
LEEDS SETS EXAMPLE
(By Anthony Winn.)
news of
1
HERE is a journalistic platitude fahould benefit those who need it. It that you should never tell an is right also, in theory, that it a inhabitant of London anything new large proportion of tenants in these The motorist, nable to sell his car, of any other city. This postulated corporation houses are well-to-do abandoned it in a side street and Londoner is, apparently, either go artisans and black-coats, they should went to live abroad.
deeply wrapped in his conceit or not benefit.
"Good" tenants came in because The police stored it, traced the so thin-skinned that owner, and suggested that they better High-street in Birmingham, the council had an intelligible' but should sell the car to cover the a nobler swimming-bath in Salford, short-sighted weakness for those, garage charges.
or a finer park in Newcastle, would who by their ability and decency, This was done, and a cheque for be as fatal as the report that would make the property a credit. £20, representing the balance, sent] Birnam Wood had come to Dunsi- Prevention having failed, the Soci- alists have tried a cure that has the to the delighted owner.
Nevertheless, there is a great deal following ineluctable defects. going on at the moment in Leeds of System Summed Up which London ought to know, I. If at any time the amount of
COWARD, BY COWARD
1
nane.
It is understood that Mr. Noel especially when London has itself money in the pool is insufficient to Coward, who has been writing his to thank for a Socialist County grant relief on the proposed scale, autobiography for nearly two years, Council and a number of Socialist the deficiency will be made up out has completed nearly half his task. borough councils.
of the rates. The present surplus He has written about 100,000 The news from Leeds is, in ceron 5,600 tenoncles-is no guaran- words of a book which will probably tain aspects, unequivocally bad. tee of similar solvency when tens run to 200,000,
But it is alive and new and we may of thousands-mostly able to qualify Mr. Coward will not commit him yet see its like in London; for other for relief-are out at Moortown. self to a date for its completion. Socialist councils are sure to bor- Raising the sauve qui peut of He may finish it quickly on a wave row the idea, and the Ministry of "Poplarism" ix. the municipal of enthusiasm; he may take another Health applauds, hoping that some equivalent to crying "wolf" when year or two,'
of the credit, if there is any, will the flock is in no danger. But I The book is not yet sold to a overflow into Whitehall.
think that the danger is, a genuine publisher.
The activity takes two forms-one this time, and whatever experi- It will disappoint, he says, those slum clearance and differential ments from their past Intelligent who expect an autobiography to be rents. The former is of more im-Sociallata wish to repeat, I cannot sugar and spice-mostly spice. portance to. Leeds, the latter to the believe that Popularism is among
The book is a psychological study country at large. The scheme by them.
His position had H singular analogy to that of the Duke of of the processes which have made which the City Council is attacking 2. At present the scheme is Wellington a hundred years ago. Mr. Coward what he is to-day-a the old cancer of back-to-back administered by popularly elected Hong Kong, Saturday, August 4, 1934, when he consistently, to the de- serious-minded young, man who houses is imposing on paper: underrepresentatives. That is to say, the spair of the Parties,, applied his works twice as hard as most of his the 1930 Act 30,000 houses should job is. being done by a small body maxim the King's Government; contemporaries.
be demolished in six years and an of men lacking the experience and must be carried on.'
There 18, however, one chapter equal number built in seven and a the time to deal with several thou- How different from the quiet which begins: "At this time I knew half. There will be a large estate sand applications properly.
the the following people well enough to at Moortown, four miles north of 3. The alternative to the present A strange coincidence indeed farm in East Prussia was
London, scene. The day be call them by their Christian names." the city. Critics calculate that amateur organisation is a local Civil that the aged Field Marshal von fore the King of the Belgians A long list of celebrated names when the men who live on the new Service, which, Mr. Jenkinson told Beneckendorff und Hindenburg. had sent his moving telegram to followa, to give him his full name, King George, appealing to the should have died on the twentieth honour of England to stand by Janniversary of the day when the the tripartite treaty in which violation of the Belgian frontier England, France, and Germany had jointly guaranteed the by the German advance guards į
"When we were first married. neutrality of Belgium. A long used to waken my husband with plunged the world' into the war Cabinet meeting had been held; kiss every morning. with which his name will al-general mobilisation orders had "And now?" ways be connected. Born into been issued; and the Fleet had "After eight days, he bought him-munal sanitation, and north aspects in Mr. Jenkinson's wards: "It is the Junker aristocracy which been kept in commission with self an alarm clock." +
for centuries had been the, out-steam
up after the annual
They are not mentioned again.
Your Daily Smile!
Don't Buy Short
re-fashionable, madam?"
estate go to work in the morning me, can be set up. Just another the four-mile road will be a solid branch of burèsucracy, and, further- block of trams (with no Under more, a redundant one that will ground, as at Morden and Dagen-overlap the work of the Public
Assistance Committee: ham to help them out).
The latter It will be a field day for the gives outdoor relief and the former a tenants when they get into the new will give rent 'réllel.
lestate, where narrow streets, com- The whole system is summed up
are all a bad memory. Further-no merit of mine that I occupy a more, they will be subsidised tenants certain economic position, ner & under the Greenwood Act of 1980:demerit of someone else that he
renta" will serve as visible evidence crimination (a) between municipal
post of Western Europe against manoeuvres. An ultimatum had Pet-shop Dealer: "What makes you and, as a further bonus to the un-occupies a lower economic position." the Slav, he had entered the been telegraphed to Berlin re think that dachshunds are becoming lucky and the feckless, "differential Hence the theory of differential dis- army as a matter of course, ser-quiring an undertaking to ved on the staff and had com- spect the Belgian frontier; the Lady: "Because they are always mand in Posen, and had retired reply to be sent before mid-saying over the radio, 'Get a long liof sympathy for the unemployed. and private tenants, (b) between
tle doggie."
If you think the system right you successful and unlucky municipal on pension to his modest night. The day before only the
are à Socialist; if wrong, a Con-tenants. The profit Incentive to estate. His career ap- Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith,
good workmen is undermined. peared to be ended. Years Sir Edward Grey, and Lord Hal
Codified industry isn't so good servative.
Differential Assessment "Oh," say the Socialists, "just what before he had drawn attention to dane had been convinced that when it becomes a case of a code the tactical advantage of plan- there was no alternative to an defied.
The principle of differential rent we wanted to do." ning the defence of East Prussia immediate declaration of-war;
assessment has been applied in against a Russian invasion so that the Belgian appeal converted Mr. if defeated the Russians would Lloyd George, who had been the only be able to fall back on the leader of the peace party, and ten miles and miles of marshland other Ministers followed him; called 'the *Masurian Lakes' only Lord Morley and Mr., John
All Cried Out
small towns, such as Kendal and Guide: "And this, gentlemen, is the Banbury, but never in a city as big famous Walling Wall.
Travelling where's the sub sisters?"
mine. boil."
Journalist:
"Well,
as Leeds, where, therefore, the pre-
"It
sent experiment is likely to be the test case for one aspect of all Socialiat administration. The
THREE MEN SAVED BY CORPSE
the theory and practice arose from the Snatched From Cuban
fact that out of 5600 Corporation
Gallows,
SEQUEL TO BOAT TRAGEDY
Oslo.
could afford to pay more than was asked of them. Taking a leaf out They drifted together in a corner of West End drawing-room.
of the Kendal and Banbury book, News has been received here "Slow, fan't it?" said one, by way the Rev. Charles Jenkinson and the that three Norwegians, senten- of starting a conversation.
Socialist Council argued that these ced to death in Cuba have been "Yes, very," was the reply,
prosperous, tenants, should not bene-saved at the last minute from "How about leaving?"
fit from the subsidy, but should pay the hangman's rope-by the find- "I can't; I'm the host.
the full economic rent for whatever ing of the corpse.
*
When he pressed his idea with Burns resigned rather than face She was reading her paper. persistency he was dubbed 'Gen- the facts, and thereby ended their says here that singing warms eral Mud, and his scheme was careers. As the evening drew blood" she remarked. pigeonholed. Now the Russian on a strange instinct drove "Hm! Does it?" he replied, "Well, houses in Leeds a high proportion armies had advanced in two main countless thousands, to walk to I've heard some that positively makes were inhabited by tenants who forces exactly into the trap wards Parliament Square or ailence. which made the plan feasible: Downing Street, in and. the old General at the age Several of the Ministers wander of sixty seven was 'dug out, to ed round to No. 10 Downing Itake command. He found that Street, where they found the General Hoffmann had already Prime Minister sitting with his made all the necessary pre-family waiting, and joined the liminary dispositions. When silent circle. At last the first Ludendorf arrived to apply his note of 'Big Ben' tolling out mid-
type of house they lived in. For
One of the seamen had hired then undimmed brilliance to the night proclaimed to London that
a Cuban boatman to row him staff work, the Russian armies England was now at war; after
the less prosperous there is a graded scale of rents, and the poorest pay over to his ship in Havana har- were duly driven into immersion the hours of tension. it was al-
none at all. 4800 of the 5600 bour. On the way their dinghy or surrender in the battles most a relief to turn homewards uncle, you know."
tenants saw their chance, and applied capsized. Their cries were heard known as Tannenberg' and 'the without a word. Nobody could
for a rebate. A committee of five, by the second mate of the Nor- Masurian Lakes. Russla was have foreseen these twenty A recent society bride had six containing Mr. Jenkinson and two wegian ship, who succeeded with thenceforth
on the defensive years of things almost unin bridesmaids in hyacinth blue silk Conservative members, sat on these another, seaman in rescuing the until her final surrender, and the agineable happening; but every and two pages in rich crimson applications.
Norwegian, who managed to whole weight of the war fell on body felt that the great bell had velvet, with gold lace. A pale: This committee has so far pub-cling to the upturned boat. The the Western front. England had sounded the knell of an epoch, bridegroom completed the colour lished no summary of its investi-Cuban had disappeared. to put Army Corps into the and that nothing would ever be scheme. field instead of the two Divisions the same again.
Already Named your baby boy?"
"Have you had any trouble naming "Not at all. There's only one rich
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gations, but there is available the The following morning the discontent of the Conservative mem- three Norwegians were arrested. which were all that had ever That of course is true; but it Facts You Did Not Know bers and the undeniably satisfactory for the murder of the Cuban. been dreamed of before the war; is surely time that some other
financial statement issued a week taken ashore, summarily tried and for at least the next two form of national co-operation An electric clock, cigar lighter and age. Although the scale of relief in and sentenced to death years it seemed as though the should begin to appear.
The
ash tray are Included in the base of generous-for example, unless a The Norwegian Consul pro- German plans based on the ad-greatest loss is that reliance on a new table lamp.
family of three has a minimum tested but the only concession vantage of interior lines, would treaties and contracts has gone.
weekly income of 28a. It pays no the court would make was to be successful in winning the More treaties are made than
The United States Expoiles more rent at all-there is still £5,000 left postpone the execution of the conquest of Europe, which would ever before; but nobody knows than 85 per cent, of all kinds of lea-in the pool. The committee were sentence while a search, was at that time have meant of the whether they are not Just so ther imported by Cuba. civilised world as well. And the many scraps of paper. The
*
entitled to spend the total amount made for the body of the miss. available, but they did not do so. ing man
On the face of things, therefore, For three days the Norwe the Socialists have satisfied their gians were kept in prison with principles of abstract fustice (while the certainty that if the body they have at the same time travelled were not recovered they would
ald General died as President of war to end war has left the 'A reversible
school blackboard, Republic which he had main-peoples who have seen enemy mounted on a spring roller, has been tained against Monarchists and forces march through their coun-invented by a Florida man. Communists for nine years, try with a suspicion that any inv without for a moment concealing thing may happen at any time A revolving bacon light for aviators his loyalty to his former master The first step to recovery is to has been installed on top of a Berlin smoothly towards a future where be hanged. On the fourth day
radio station tower
they will satinfy the principles of the boatman's body was found the Kaiser Wilhelm One can create confidence that an agree
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