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The Proof Of The Pudding
T
AHEAD FOR BRITAIN ·
(By Brampton Fellowes)
Building Enterprise Some $30,000,000 of building projects have been recently approved
as a relic of early days in Amer! It deals, among other things, ica. The building is the original with publishers' prodits and su one used by the congregation of thors' earnings. Mr. Weeks gives the first figures showing the effect of the Derry Church, one of
"IMIDITY is the foe of pros-pensate for the lag in dwelling- Christian settlements in Fear depression on the publishing busi-
house building. perity. 2nd 18
loginess in the United States.. of sylvania,`·
In commerce, caution is the and clapboard construction. In 1929 American publishers Among other antique items, sold 84,000,000 books to the gen-first virtue; but caution is not it contains a communion. service eral reader. From 1929 to 1933 incompatible with courage.
At this time the British presented by the King of England the volume of copies distributed
Aircraft and motor factories in 1783,
and the palpit of the shrank as follows: Fiction 55 per people have a cue to courage to original Derry Church, but incent, children's books 38 per cent, which every business man and are planning big extensions. 1730.
biography 47 per cent, fine arts every private citizen should Hospitals and sanatoria, under Four new conceptions of the books 70 per cent and religions respond wholeheartedly.
The end of 1935 saw the re-needs of public health, are re- books 61 per cent.
and expanding. result of covery, which began late in conditioning Perhaps as a direct depression books on sociology and 1934, mounting steadily to a Raising the school-leaving age means more accommodation for economics showed
an advance of boom.
Foreign complications became scholars. Docks are being en- 40 per cent.
something of a worry to states-larged and converted to defence men. The lamented death of use. King George saddened the All this means more building. more than
CORRESPONDENCE
AN APPEAL FROM YORKSHIRE
To the Editor, "China Mail"]
AUTHORS EARNINGS
The proof of the pudding, as the little boy in the story re- marked, is not so much in the eating as in the way you feel afterwards. By this criterion Great Britain, as she looks back since the lover her record
gloomy days of the autumn of 1931, has good reason to thank
Mr. Weeks's figures of authors spirits of the nations. An un-It means, indeed. Sir. The close business con- her lucky stars for a number of
of earnings will destroy some bud-authorised strike among Lon-more building, it means grow- don meat workers and a nar-ing demands for the products things. The first of them is nections between the City
have ding hopes. that semblance of democracy Hong Kong and Bradford
coalfields further frightened manufacturers, garment makers, which enables her to escape the caused many former Bradfordians A few writers, perhaps one per rowly averted stoppage in the of furnishers, caterers, tobacco But actually the brewers, distillers, leather manu- "godsend" of a dictatorship; to settle in your district, and it cent of their tribe, he says, ear timid souls."
this moment isfacturers, boot and shoe makers, the second is probably the cir-may be of interest to them to know approximately
writing Prospect at
and-the-thousand- ancillary cumstance, for which a heart that the scheme for a new Gram Twelve per cent of the
Uncommonly Good trades that serve. the indus- felt sigh of relief can be offer-mar School is now well in hand profession may earn £3,000. The
The overseas trade figures trialists.
a £15,000
year.
ed, that the country has escaped and that building operations will remaining 87 per cent, range be
tween 5160 and £1,000.
cure-alls.
alisation, nationalisation
from
the
"Ben
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303-
the tinkering experimentation definitely start this year.
In 1934 there were 15 authors for last year sent us well back When the January figures of the faddists,
The School which is an ancientse books sold 50,000 or more to the heights after our years showed a fall in employment deeper than expected, the Dis- quacks and "economic experts" foundation dating back to
Some in the depression.
wring When our invisible exports-mal Jimmies began to who would all apply their own
payments for shipping, insur-their hands. The explanation remedies for the country's ills. reign of Charles II is practically copies in the United States.
Club selections. At various times a most be without endowments and receives these were Book of the Month
Mr. Weeks gives a best-sellers ance, and other services, and was simple. A severe winter, wildering array of panaceas has grant from the Corporation.
The present building is dingy list of books published in America the returns on our foreign in- erratic weather, with rain and for cold predominating. must slow been offered, ranging
outdoor works. The "Social credit" through ration- cramped and altogether unworthy between 1833 and 1933. The first vestments are calculated
of an institution which has sent three in the list are Sheldon's "In 1935 they will be found, all ex-down and!
to occupy prominent His Steps" (8,000,000 copies),perts agree, to be uncommonly spring will change all that.
Money Circulates the A plus B theorem, to just its sans plain grabbing of wealth from positions, especially in the Wool Gene Stratton Forter's "Freckles" good.
And behind these cheering; In addition to the large sums factors is the continuance of a granted for rail and road deve- the "Haves" and re-distributing Industry, in most countries of the (2,000,000) and Wallace's
Har" (1,950,000).
boom in home industry that lopment, the State will shortly it among the "Have Nots." In world.
£140,000 is needed to carry out!
will be sustained.
£3,000,000 be paying out the course of all this theory the
Your Daily Smile !
Pessimists may say that the £4,000,000 a week for whole system of capital-not our plans, and of this amount
boom in private building must ments capitalism, as the faddists call about £100,000 has already been
Confidence
It Those who beroan this as a it has come in for a great deal raised thanks largely to the gen of erosity of Mr. E. P. Price, who
Mother, have I been a good boy soon approach its apex.
the taxpayer may be so, but whatever deadweight on of criticism; the wisdom
£20,000 to the lately?" Britain's abandonment of the recently gave
Yes, Bobby, you have been a very diminution there is in private forget that by the system of.
building will be more than coun-taxation under which we live gold standard has been decried Building Fund.
This letter is written in the good boy."
teracted by the increase in pub-that expenditure is largely re- to the high heavens; tariffs
lic expenditure on building. furnable. • High income tax have been attacked, systems of hope that it may meet the eve of
State-aided road and rail and indirect taxes make the protection derided and the early some Bradfordian whose affection descent of the country into for his native city may prompt the jam?"
schemes and municipal exten-money circulate like water in a sions will far more than com-whirlpool Avernus freely predicted. The him to share in the task of raising
We are not living under the actual result is that the finan-the remaining $40,000 and thus
a Scheme A keen golfer had a charming girli cial position of the country is identify himself with
of on his right at dinner, and gave her "I'm afraid I've been monopolizing simple fiscal systems of Pitt Gladstone. The whole sounder to-day than it has been which will influence the lives graphic descriptions of his achieve the conversation and talking nothing and
Yorkshire meats with the clubs, hardly allow-but go."
effect of Government expendi- for years. There has been no many generations of
than “Oh, never mind," said the ture has changed. to say óré ing her time advance; but spectacular
2 boys in the future.
"But you "Really!" D. HAMILTON. steady recovery has marked the
During the dessert he remarked: golf?" final accounts of Great Britain Chairman, Building Appeal
Committee. in an ever-ascending scale since the National Government took Bradford, February 18, 1936. over in September 1931
The latest returns issued show that the total ordinary spite of the operation of sanc- against Italy, which revenue, excluding self-balanc-tions
ing items, with just over two accounted for prodigious drops more weeks before the end of in both the import and export: the financial year, amounted to figures. Imports of textiles, dropped from 15709.719,876, as compared with for instance,
£681,858,585 at the correspond- £84,777 in January 1935 to nil; ing date of 1935 and with a exports of coal dropped from budget estimate of $134,470,-416,800 tons to 11.227; iron and £23.044 to £4; 000. Compared with an esti-steel from mated expenditure for the various foods from $29,038 to whole year of £755,058,000, the £1,730.
the The whole position seems to ordinary expenditure at same date amounted to £710,-be a reflection of increased 063,292. The figures mean activity in manufactures and that the financial condition of trade, coupled with an increased the country is more than sound; purchasing power among the it is almost phenomenally good population-an increased turn- in in a world where unbalanced over in work and money,
There is more work budgets are the rule rather than short. the exception. -
available in Britain than there A detailed analysis of one was a year ago, and there are month's trade figures may not more people participating in it. be out of place here. In the This is surely something for the statement for January 1936, country at large to be proud of published recently by the Board Nobody in his senses suggests of Trade, the activity in the that everything is right in the manufacturing centres was re-best of all possible worlds in flected in an advance of $2,610,-England, or that our system is 524 to £22.416,693 in imports inviolable and unchanging in its there is raw materials, compared perfection. But with January 1935. The obvious evidence that it is largest individual increase was working reasonably satisfac- the There is not torily. under the heading "Wool, raw, waste and cotton rags, slightest shred of evidence that amounting to £668,394, while the other political and economic the other increases ranged from systems being tried out in other £108,318 for "Non-ferrous ores" parts of the world have any. to £602,240 for "Raw cotton and thing like the stability of ours cotton waste." Among the to offer. One is safe in saying] export items, export of be this, even to ignore the social completely. Actually, verages and cocoa preparations factor rose by £287,850 to £1,047,287, of course, general conditions of while undressed hides and sking life and work in Britain are Utopian, also showed a big increase, the almost fantastically total being £197,421 against compared with those obtaining Russia and Italy, for £91,729. Exports of "Other in textile materials," which in- example. In short, the proof clude artificial silk yarn and of the pudding is not so much piece goods and linen goods, in the eating as in the way you And Britain! rose by $125,566 to £1,886,399. feel afterwards. These figures were returned in has a perfect right to feel good.
of
"And do you trust me, mother?"
why, of course, I rust you, son, Then why do you go on hiding!
THE
BOY
WHO
ISA
MAN
Myederih
*Really!
might tell me: What is
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