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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 194†
Basic Socialism Regulates
Britain's Postwar Food Policy
ORGANISED PLANNING
class families as long astu allt
ULE absolute necest-
By Dr. GEORGE GRETTON
distribution,
of the full rations.
potatoes and milk, uchieved by expansion of the combined area of cultivation with increased mechanisation of agriculture.
There are many countries to- which have rationing
Subsidies Out Of
Taxation
!
the the
The Government' is, of course, able to control also imports of The most effective rationing? foodstuffs while prices of
CARNIVAL
Dithean
BUSINESSMAN LUNCH
COPR, 1948 MY MEA BARVICE. Jíc. T. m, nța, uli
By. Dick-Turner
"Oh, come now, Baxtor! Aren't you even going to try for the chock?"
Nature Lays Kindly Hand On London
London, Apr. 10.
the scientifically The decision to revise the
planned addition of vitamins on- cost, of living index in Britain
sured full nutrition for health. overall will mean a clearer
and price control enabled even picture of the real value of i-
the poorest classes to buy all comes. It has long been pointed
111 the first instance this , of
their rations. No people has out that thla index is out
the system was necessary to ensure worked harder than the British date. since it relates to
seven yours,; ave ge expenditure of working supplies without undue use of during the past
shipping space. By strict ration-yet the standard of national 1904. Shortly before the seconding, by expansion of home pre-health is probably higher than
and by skilful
man ever before. This is because not world war work was started duction
merely the well-to-do but, liter on compiling a new index bused pulation of all resources,
of ports of food were reduced enally, all income groups received un the apeading habits familien in Britain at the time, ormously-from two-thirds but the war Interrupted this total consumption to less than project. Now it is being resurn-one-third. At the same time, by ed and the result will be a new planning the national diet and day Index offering comparison beuliolting priorities where they schemes which do not function tween contemporary values and were needed, it was possible to property simply because raise the averago standard of price structure prevents prewar values.
At the same tinie, the new in nourishment of the population-poorer classes from buying their rations. Hungry people gelt dex will not be in a caseptinls as a whole,
their faed coupons and ragged any mare accurate than the old
people Full Rations For All
clothing sell their que: It will simply take a wider
coupons. Although Britalo, range of spending into aerount
As an example, importa of through the drastle switch-over The old index was based
bulky animal grain fodder were from consumer goods produc primarily altles such as food and rest, for reduced by 98 per cent, while tion to war production, has had. ull- to meet heavy and sustained in- goes back to the time when imports of alls, fats and
seeds were increased by about flationary pressure-even today working class families spent on
This saved some there is a
gap of £100,000,- an average less than four shil. 22 per cent. lings a week on goods outside 4,500,000 tons of shipping space 000 between personal incomes! annually and sacrificed only and avallable consumption goods? the range of real essentials. By about half the food value derivcarential
cost of living 1937 the equivalent figure was
been firmly The throughout has these BottICER, ed from hlmost 30 shillings a week and today it is considerably higher. calories thus lost were replaced pegged.
At the same time, the fact by increased home production, that the old cost of living index of grain,
as based se emphatically on necessities has made it a useful guide to the pegging of essential
It is a belief common among cast of living during, past years
Although this winter of our] strangers and people from the of austerity. It is a fact that o Britnin-da perhaps in other system in the world ensured fair major agricultural products at discontent is not yet due to be provinces that London
home are fixed by the Ministry made glorious summer, we who, trecleas and flowerless willer- of Agriculture in consultation surprisingly enough, still ro ness of bricks and alates and whereas the with the Ministry of Food. tain some of our childhood's paving stones,
that the metropolia: They' Bro KO fixed 04 to simple faith in the printed truth is guarantee the former a fair word, know from our newspa- can show more trets and for that more flowers, both in shops and price and to encourage the pro- pers and our almanacks
pardens, square mile for square! duction of crops and products Spring is here..
in- The time of the singing of mile, than can any other town required in the national
the whole country. The terest. Retail ‚ prices are fixed birds seems not to have come very close to prewar levels and and certainly the voice of the wonder" to Londoners (thiono these low prices are madé pos- turtle is not yet heard in our who wonder at all and don'k. weather take everything for granted);
where the flowers come from. sible by Government subsidies land;, moreover our
Even at the present time and which also scale down high and prophets are without honour in variatile world prices for the their own country. They have. During the war-and especial- In Peiping if you want to British consumer. In effect the for Ro many weeks and on no despite the sustained malignity. help to pay any occasions let us down, by of the weather, flowers of to require "extensive repairs" ly in the lung period when Bri- und off
on your political wealthier clanes
promising thaws and giving us overy hue, and some of other the necessities of the should be given opportunity to tan was alone in the frontline views you don't write a lotter for
frosis, that we are not any climes, can be bought almost ecmp themselves on heavy ex- against the Nazi and Fascist to your favourite newspaper needier classes by these
longer easily gulled. Never anywhere in London. That fa End penditure by excluding such pro-aggressors--the food supplies of you plaster up a slogan on the sidies amounting at present to heless faith helps us to be so not only in the swagger flor
almost £100,000,000 1 perties from rent restrictions. the United Kingdom were a tenerest wall.
year lieve what is not proved and its shops of the West The newspapers are all gov-financed out of taxation.
Even the most sceptical of us where prices don't worry the Some premises were so completely | cisive factor. Their failure could
erument-backed or domin... Under the new budget these have to admit, while muttering purchasers, but from stails and wrecked that, ont reconstruction, have meant the end of the war.
space. subsidies may be reconsidered without prejudice to our barrows of street sellera which the result was practically a new That they did not fail was due and are cramped for
But the walls, out of courtesy since there is a limit above overcoat collars, that when win. are heaped high with colour."-- building, certainly qualified to an intricate and highly of the Mings and the Manchus which they must not be allowed ter goes Spring cannot be far
Flowers Blaze | planner rank with new buildings for the gantsed
During the past week or so. purpose of legislation. In such which has also proved immense and still earlier builders of this to rise. But as long as they are behind.
former capital, will get your
a necessity to guarantee cheap.
Less Cold
while vegetables have beetl cases, the tender for repairs frey valuable to the critical periode AUTUMN everyone ford they will certainly con- However, it is certainly less frimine-scarce, to the general mely exceeded the original cost of reconstructiim since the war.
From the foreign diplomat in tinue in some form. It is the cold, und although the sky in public, flowers seem to
have his ricksha to the farmer driv- policy of the British Govern- Reasumably ut the structure.
not bright above and the earth taken their place and filled the ough, the commiticé felt that
ing a donkey into town.
ment to check inflation and to is not red nor rosy, optimistic public eye but not its stomach. gans and resolutions past ensure that no one-man, where structural repairs on such
wo-florists are beginning to urge Even in the course of two or ed and chalked up in and a scale were involved, some in-
to say it with flowers. three days a kerbside stall ducement must be offered to land-
record the issues that in recent tolerable minimum standard of You know the sort of things which usually deals only in the lords to stir them into action. It
"Saying all one feels and humbler fruits of the earth months have stirred this cul- living. While food supplies are is impossible to believe that the
changed its stock from pota- tural center of North China, limited they will certainly con- thinks in clever daffodils and
be regulated by this "Pinks: In puna of tulipa toes to pine apples. When the committee entertained the fantas-
much in the same way as rock inue to
public had conuumed these at tic idea that a coat of distemper
layers of different periods tell food policy which may be defin- and in phrases charming for and a lick of paint should also
ed as one of basle Socialism. Their truth-of dalsiés.”
prices ranging from five shil. atory to the geologist.
lings to 12 shillings and Hix In and confer immunity from rent con-
outside the Yenching University you will
penco a go (price seemed to de- trul. That, however, is the effect-
pend on what the traffic would heur) the stall blazed with flowers of all the colours of the rainbow.
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It is clear on any close study of the new Landlord and Tenant Ordinance that, in vital points of detail, the Legal Department of Government has gone far beyond the intentions of the special-com- [mittee in translating its recom mendations into law. Nothing could be more ridiculous than to pass figures varying from $200 to $2,000 as qualifying landlords to claim to have carried out "exten sive repairs." and, in consequence, freedom from rest control. The committee over which the Hon. Mr. Leo d'Almada presided right ly considered that, to encourage housing rehabilitation, if for no unher
whose! reason, landlords property suffered so severely as
fi
nutrition
country in the world today- lower income groupé vujoy higher standard of than before the war, although the richer classes are relatively less well fed. This is due not in any cost of living index which measures purchasing merely power but to the fond pulley pursued during and since the
war.
Organised Planning
system of
INKBRUSH
WAR IN PEIPING
to
sub-i
100 Years around the main thoroughfaresman or child-shall fall below a
Ago Today
(Excerpts from the files of The China Mail of April 12, 1847),
Foreigners in South China are
famed
of the Bill, in its present form.in u furore over an attack by an inch a veritable ink-brush war
Similarly with the provisions for evision of standard rent to levels in excess of the December, 1941, figure in certain circumstances. "Towards the end of 1941, the Co Tony's worst type of landlord seized upon the occasion of the lifting of rent restrictions to de-' nand increases in rent, in some
allegeil gung of Chinese against six Englishmen in Cantou. Writes one correspondent:
"We have mentioned that four wretches had been.exceuled in the village of Hwang-chu-kee, said to have been the murderers of our countrymen.
"According to the Chinese hotion of justice these four lives and those of the two killed in
being waged by students of op- posile political views.
A
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities"
in
Here, in fact, the slogans
Provided the sun, the moon and the stars crave Boon
to have developed into Httle wall-
fight in their courses against newspapera. Subject of the cur rent controversy is Russia's de
we may expect to see a mand that the China issue be
West led the damond K at both us, A RULE TO BE discussed at the Moscow For-
tables, the A wining. Then both great change in London's out- the BROKEN eign Ministers' conference-a
declarers played to the spade Award appearance within Taking one of the top honours to guard against a singleton q.next few weeks. proposal that touched off anti.
Despite the long-continued la. Russian youth demonstrations on the first round and nessing Back to dummy went one with
Kuomintang.
zases as much as fifty per cent. their attack on the slx English-reportedly organized by the against the queen on the second the heart A, the other with the boura of scores of thousands
Qri
The proposal now, apparently, is men is full compensation for the to take the worst example of land-cold blooded murders, tord opportunism the norm, "... Every man with a British and to invite landlords who did heart will scout the iden of six ut then join in the scramble to guilty criminals being equivalent fall into line. Here again the to six innocent men.
"The measures which the Bri coinnittee's expressed views this issue, if we interpret it cor- tish government will take are of rectly, had a totally different ob- course conjectural. A war, how jective. Between the evacuation of "... If war with China is in women and children from Hong evitable, no power ever hid a Kong in July 1940 and December better cause than England now roat, the owners of much of the has; whatever may be the result, Colony's better-class'
sulciy property the responsibility rests voluntarily reduced their rents with China,"
partly to enable grass-widower husbands to maintain their estab- lishments, but primarily to be as-
ever, appears unavoidable..
sult.
Is a good rule of play, when you club A. Then came the Janesse of building workers, London. Since then, however, another have the A-K-J of
This to the Q, whereupon the diamond Atill exhibits wounds of war. Auch remain. and smailer-group claiming procedure protects you against a was cashed by both Wests. One Hundreds of to tepresent the liberal wing of singleton queer in the hand of the West also promptly led hearts Some of the bombed sites have China's volatile student element opponent who plays last. But that for the two tricks that set the boen Toughly tidied up and came out with an opposite very sound rule of play is also a contract. The other West returned fenced until a day of restora- There aro view. These students and they rule occasionally to be broken. a heart to knock out the A. The tion shall come. would welcome tripartite dis-Following it may necessitate pra declarer at that table then found many other such sites which cussion of China na helping to mature removal of entries from he was blocked from trying for have had perforce to remain solve the country's internal the hand opposite the combing- the 13th club to get a heart dis. untouched just as the blitz left problems.
tion and thereby humpering some card, so he also lost two tricks them. On all these places na- oller vital part of the playing in hearts to get set. plan.
Favourite Wall
S. 5 3
H. A 7 4
D. A 8 8.3
C. A 7 6 2
5. 10 0 2 H K J 10
5.
Their favourite wall today. hears articles belabouring the "Anti-Foreign Intervention” students for their "isolation- Tea-The market has been in fam." One homily, penned In
S. Q 8 7
N H. Q 2 wired that their property remain active from various causes. The
Mandorla, says: D. KQJ92 WE trenchant from Europe are dis- "You Haten to no ed in dependable hands and would reports
ndvico- be properly looked after. It is only couraging and the political state you're Just trying to hold on 105 4 equitable that such inadlard of affairs from this,quarter deters to the legs of your American |
prudent men from extending daddy," hould be allowed to restore their their operations,
Another correspondent winds rentals to their former level, and such as the main purpose of the description is held at $450 and up un frate lecture with: "I special committee's recommenda- no buyers. tions on this point. The adoption Oplum New Patna is offering
Slik-Tallec of
ןןם
inferior
of 11 December, 1941 rent as the freely at 5500 but there are no standard is objectionable there-buyers, we look for low rates on fure on two grounds, it condones the arrival of the 2nd sales; $450 starp practice and it penalises probably. the mare considerate landlord, whose only
remedy lies in
tell you, you Kuomintang secret service men, you are the real Chinese traitora.".
S
D. 10 5. "C. 3 9 0
S. AX J04
H. 8 8 3
D. 7 4
C. X Q 3
Beller
ture in the Spring lays a 'kind. have ly hand. foresight should shown both Souths that the spade Coat Of Many Colours
We remember that after the J ought to be finessed immediate. y after winning the first trick explosions of bomba" dust, used with the diamond A. If it falled, to settle thickly on surround- as it would, there then would being and more distant areas. It enough entries in the North hand may well be that this dust car- to try for a split to take aut ried from near and far the trumps and then seek an even seeds of disturbed vegetation. break in clubs to get a heart dis- It may be that the wind played eard on the club thirteener. That its part and also that the birds sound play would have made the of the air were the carriers. tenuouis contract.
Whatever may ba the explana. |tion, in "every succeeding Spring, nature has woven and fald on land covered with bulld- ings for centuries a coat of many colours.
Tomorrow's Problem
S. 3
11. 10 98.
S. J 10 5 4
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West
North
East
D: K 30.9.0
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Pusa
2 D
Poss
C. 10 9 8 4 3
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Puss
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Passs. Q 0.7.
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#Dealer: South. Both sides vul. A neighbouring wall in quick nerable.) with a rebuttal: "You Yalla South Communists. When are you giving back Dairen?"
faded, and Slightly more
That third bid of spades-nor. AJB therefore earlier in date, aro slogans in English like, "Mos-mally indicating a six-card multC. AQJ7 cow the National Robber!" and was inade, at both Lablás' ef a Leúm gamic, and consequently "Down with U.S.S.R."
Semi-obliterated by the dust-South was a spade game declarer inden wind that swirls in from in each ease. Also beth declarers the high. Gobi desert are anti, proceeded to get bet on their Amoricon slogans plastered makable gaine, by slightly differ
the laboria four-to-five montlis' ly qualify as "extensive repairs," procedure of the Tenancy Tri-and there can be no sound war bunals. This could have been ob- rant for conferring, premiums to (FREIGHT)
by aistroke of the pen, by the rapacious. What is justified $1.80 per kilo.making the standard rate that as and provided for in the Bill
uf July, 1937 Both these points quite enough to disturb the Co enll for re-examination before the lony's economic equilibrium. The round the city during the de-ent methods, but in each case bo- Hill passes all athies in Council. basic, increase authorised will monstrations that fallowed the cause they followed the rule of nerable.) Quite obviously, under present cause damage enough without the rape of a Chinese girl by an facing on the second round of day conditiomno expenditure gratuitous addition of new scope American Marine on the Race trumps, when it should have been if West and North pass South's
1 Spade? Violated. of less than $10,000 can proper for exploitationi
Course in Dec. 1946,
3.00
35.-
400.-
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··4.00 1.80
"
350,-
3.50
D; Q 3 3 C. K 5 (Dealer:, South. Both sides vul What is the best action by East
On many of the sites, oyen In the heart of the city of, Lon- don, and within a stone's throw p1 St Paul's Cathedral, and wherd and flower has, bidcmed for centuries, there are to be found growing, strangely, and peacefully together 40 or 60- varieties of flowers, some wild. some garden and abme by ho means common, which must have bech, brought by what, ever agency-from far away.
So we Londoners may hope. soon to be able to watch and King of the flowers that bloom. in the Spring United Press,