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THE CHINA MAIL JANUARY 27; 1938.
THE WORLD GOES BY
AM disquieted by reading of the
movement to improve nurses conditions.
Nursing has always been known as a noble calling. By giving it. that name we have always been able to ensure a supply of cheap labour and help to balance the Bud- get. You can't be noble for money (ask Harley Street).
Thugs' Union.
hospitals in later life, to bail his
rules. Can you imagine a dispute in which the Committee called upon- Now, it is easy to see that such soul out of what's coming to it.
the angels to down wings? The whole thing is ridiculous..
things may still further prejudice a rich man'a chance of eternal bliss. Fortunately, however, there has always been a way out.
For charity covers a multitude of sins.. It is, therefore, safe to as- sume that it even covers business
Time and again in our tough is- land story, rich and great men, captains of industry, empire-build- ers and other members of the species Homo Vampyrus, have been able, after a life devoted to giving other people hell, to side-step their -packet of brimstone by a fat che-
Our glorious annals are full of such profit-and-loss accounts. For instance, the other day a paper an- nounced the 342nd-anniversary-of- the death of Sir John Hawkins, the great Elizabethan navigator.
There is a more serious aspect of the matter. Once you begin to criticise hospital conditions you are jeopardising the Voluntary System. People take the opportunity of de- manding that the charity-supported enterprise. To improve nurses' conditions institutions should be supported As you know, all charitable acts, que to a Sanatorium. and give them T. U. rules would' and controlled by the State.
of a man's life are recorded and introduce an element of sordid self- It is, therefore, my purposee to balanced against the more business-
ones. You would never know show you that organised charity is like -interest.
And throughout the whether the girl was smoothing a necessary adjunct to the economic ages, contributions to charity have
fevered brow for love of system.
· been recognised as a convenient your humanity or for a bob a day, plus
means of enabling a rich man to time-and-a-half Saturdays. And
show a profit on his spiritual bal- I like to be able to trust women.
ance-sheet at the end of his finan-
is Besides, nursing women's
ciál years. work. It is the great privilege of- Further, in the ordinary way of For instance, suppose a great women to be exploited. It puts her business, enterprising men are fre- man, by reason of foreign competi- a. Pedestal. But the T.U.C. quently obliged to do things which, tion, has been compelled, solely in doesn't recognise Pedestals in lieu though necessary to the mainten- the interests, of national prosperity, of wages, and we can't afford both. ance of the Empire's unrivalled to pay his employees something less Finally, nursing makes women prosperity, would, if judged by or- per week than would keep a cock- ministering angels, and you can't dinary moral standards, disqualify roach in sock-suspenders, he is angel under Trade Union a man for membership of the able, by subscribing liberally to
on
be an
As those of you know who have been properly brought up, a rich man starts his future life under a handicap.
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This great man, commonly corded honourable mention
ac-
in
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school history books, amassed huge fortune in the slave-trade. He used to make raids on African vil-
BY “ULYSSES"
lages, burn them down, carry off the negroes he didn't kill, and sell them to Spanish settlers in America:
He was a pious man. The ship in which he carried off his negroes was called "The Jesus."
On one occasion, when the hold of the "Jesus" was crammed with negroes, half of whom died of fever, bad food and suffocation, the ship was becalmed half-way across the Atlantic. But just when things were getting desperate, a breeze sprang up and the voyage was safely concluded. So the great man wrote in his diary, “ and Al- mighty God, Who will not suffer His elect to perish, sent us breeze."
In spite of his piety, however, it is doubtful whether this outstand- ing piece of cheese would have been able to avoid the Hot Spots on grounds of his enterprise alone.
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Yet we have no fear of the ulti- mate destination of his immortal soul. For, in 1592, when his voyages were oevr, he founded the Sir John Hawkins Hospital at Chatham.
But where would such men be, speaking immortally, if, having made their wads, they were sudden- ly prevented from easing their consciences because the care of the sick was efficiently dealt with out of the rates?
they would be caught short. they would stand, poor souls, with millions of pounds and & long list of exploitations, wage- cuts, alum-rents and sackings on the debit side, and not a single act of charity to cover it, all because the State had jumped in ahead of them with the alms.
They could not give their money to the poor, for that would pauper ise the proletariat and upset the calculations of the Unemployment Assistance Board.
There would be no way left for. them to ease their souls' burden, save by such hapazard and trivial methods as dropping a slice of in negotiable form, into the Christmas stockings of persons I could name. Surely it is worth putting up with
a little overcrowding and lack of equipment in one or two voluntary hospitals in order to save these men, on whom the economic stabi- lity of the Empire has so often de- pended, from being landed in what theologians call the Super-heated Soup 2
It would be a poor reward for enterprise.