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STANEY.
An expectant inquirer who attempts to form definite opinions concerning the pre Bent progress and future development of Australia finds himself involved in a curiously perplexing situation. He nocts He is conflicting views on every hand. puzzled by seemingly irreconcilable facta. He is balled by the amazing contrasts revealed by even a superficial glance below the pleasant surface of things.
He is told with great vehenience by all classes of people that this is the soundest, most prosperous nation in the whole world. They claim sole proprietary
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THE PIONEER SPIRIT. A CALL TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE
[DY F. A. MITCHELL HEDGES, THE EXPLORER.]
STEAMERS COLLIDE IN MERSEY CHANNEL. .CRIPPLED VESSELS LIMP BACK TO PORT.
Is the flame of our pioneer spirit shin Owing to damage received in collisioning with the strong, clear light that has during log in the Mersey Channel, the made it a world beacon through past Ellermaa liner Petford Hall, 8,201 tone, generations I fear not. Have our men and the Henderson liner Bhams, 3,241 to-day the courage, forcefulness, indomit Jons, outward bound with passengers and able energy, end breadth of vision they general cargo for Indin, returned to had of old! Undoubtedly they have Dot, It is questionable whether we can find Birkenhead last month.
another period in history in which we The collision occurred at 9.30 at night have made so much progress in speech near the Crosby Lightship, when both and so little in action as in the last few vessels, were steaming at very slow pears. But the fact is that now among
industrialists, rate. The Bhame was struck nearly policitians,
Bnanciers, amidships, her plates being bent above and below the water-line, and part of the upper bulwarks was smashed in.
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The damage to the Trufford Hall was
confined to her bows, which were beat, and some plates were twistou. There was
throughout the upper, middle, and work- ing classes, we see a timidity of spirit
utterly foreign to our traditions.
This striking change is growth, dating back to the termination of the Creat War. Every disease has an
VANITY THAT HELPS FOREIGNERS. Another source of irritation to our millions of workers is the advertising of freak fashions and the ostentatious squandering of money by a group of
ultra-smart set.' people self-styled the Their insatiable vanity drives them fronx one extreme to another-nothing this country can produce is good enough for them.
Instead of encouraging British industry in their power their by every means vanity insists that their gowns, shoes, in face, everything in dress, must come from creations" arc and Only foreign
Put a the mede.
But this evil can be checked. tax of so per cent, on all unnecessary luxuries and articles of clothing that are purchased abroad and employ the re-
venue in reducing taxation at home.
The money foreigners spend, here is negligible contrasted with the sum spent by our Dominions and Colonies. In one
78.
Foster the pioneer spirit! Drive home the fact that we and our Golonies and Dominions are one people! By every
ans encourage Empiro trade! The fashion is growing to disparage everything British and praise everything Why not support our own people? Let us hear a little more about foreign, British achievements. Encourage British sport. We know the wondrous deeds of every other country in the world-they- are persistently advertised. Why such reticence in regard to our own prowess ?
rights in the familiar phraac is country." It is acclaimed as the working
s., a Frenchman spends only £10. id.. man's paradise. Nowhere else in this much, excitement among the passengers) 97839, and by analysis we can strike with Car a New Zealander spends £16 18s. troubled universe are wages so high and
and crews, but there was no panic, and certainty at the cause of the loss of our hours of labour se few; nowhere else is
of British goods, a German only 148. 3d. the worker so carefully safeguarded the boats.
it was not considered necessary to launch pride-of-race spirit and its natural conse an Australian buys £10 14. 1d. worth quence-a corresponding growth of Com-worth; a South African expends £4 39. against over-exertion
munism. ar so tenderly
The Bhano carried; 113 of a crew and
A serious blow to progression and sid.. an Italian only ss. Old; a Canadian shielded from the brutal exactions of his
92 pasagers, bound for Rangoot, with initiative and destroyer of thrift is un- spend £3 25. 2., an American only 94. employer.
The standard of living is immeasurably Captain Lusk in command, while the doubtedir cur excessive taxation. This is higher than in that pathetic island known Hall, which was in charge of driving many of our finest young men here as decaying England." Deme Captain Rowlands, had 30 passengers abroad. They recognise that their chance and a crew numbering 90, ind was, bound of success in another country, where taxa- cratic government and democratic ideals;
tion is light, enables them to save more swift advancement (or even the humblest for Bombay. labourer: a rich soil and a beneficent Water invaded both vessels rapidly and money, which can be employed in build- an SOS enl was sent out the Seaforth ing up reserves. But the tragedy is tha climate these and other advantages are recited mechanically by the ardent native (Liverpool) wireless station. The Mersey these men are actively competing against in his eulogy of Australia....
Dock, Board's salvage tag and a tender the land of their birth and their com mercial industry is enriching the foreign rushed to the spot.
country of their adoption.
No nation crushed beneath excessive taxation can survive in the long run against the competition of leas heavily taxed countries. A people who are con- stantly irritated by what they consider
No wonder so many are watchers of unjust extortion are prone to subterfuge in an endeavour to evade the demands of games when no encouragement is ever much-advertised black boxing "champion tax collector. The demoralisir effect of given to our men. I predict that if a the spreads rapidly among rich and poorted London such a pain of adoration alike, and with many marks the first step would arise, such crowds would congre- on the downward path from their former gate to catch a glimpse of this aristo- crat of the ring, that it would require a integrity.
police-force to clear an opening for the And if an American film star traffic,
The ardent native, will not see flaws in this picture of perfect happiness. He resents anyone else seeing Baws. The phrase I have heard him repeat most often during
the short time I have been here is: I hope you will say nice things about us." And his bitterest me- mories are of other people who came here and listened and then went away, to say things that were not altogether **nire."
THE OVERGROWN, CITIES. But there are flaws in the picture. The working man's paradise does exist, but it is fool's paradise. Many of the blessings heaped on him by Socialist Governments will have to be paid for in bitterness. Light-heartedly, Australia plays in the sunshine, secure in the belief thas this best of all possible worlds will endurs as long as time itself; but her more thoughtful citizens already realise that a day of disillusionment is inevit able.
Even the most extreme experiments of Socialist theorists and the costly bribes given by Labour officialdom to its rank and file cannot altogether ruin the coun- try. It is so blessed by Antare in every way that prosperity has persisted in spite of heavy odds. But this prosperity is in spite of, pot because of, the yoke im posed by Socialist dictators in five States out of six.
So serious was the damage to the Blame that divers plugged her holes with oakum, while the pumps were clear. ing out the water. By this means the vessel was kept adont,
CHRISTMAS IN THE KITCHEN.
COOK "LOSES. A FINGER.
D.O.R.A. AND THE DOLE.
A claim for compensation for the loss of a finger through a pin prick while proparing Christmas, dinner WLS Then look at the Defence of the Realm brought before the Stafford County Court Act, in spite of the promises of poli-
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last month. A domestic servant, was ticians that it would be abolished at the Awarded 19s 10d. a week from January termination of the war, many farcical last, and 10 a week subsequently, the restrictions have been continued. respondents being her employers
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BRITONS AT A DISCOUNT.
designed to honour us his reception It is the Government's duty to encour- would be--but there, words fail me. Can age a national uplift. I am certain our we breed & race of men when they are present rulers are completely out of touch The applicant alleged that another treated like children? Our manhood of with the feeling of the people. It is de- s very servant impeded her while about to taka twenty-ive years ago would, certainly lightful to read in the Premier's speech. happy and united team. I dare say a turkey out of the even, and in pushing never have tolerated this direct infringe at the Guildhall that they are her away ber finger was pricked by a ment of its liberty.
If idiotic Acts like D.O.R.A. had been they are; but the country is not in that who blissful state. A feeling is growing up pin on the other girl's apron." Septic poisoning set in, and the finger had to in force in the days when the men.
will ever stand as examples to all that the old party system is played out. be amputated.
Britons gave us our great possessions Westminster needs a transfusion of fresh there would have been no British Em- blood and thought. Why not a Centre Party, combining strong men from Con- pire.
Consider the dole. It would have ap-servative, Liberal, and Labour? peared incredible until a few years ago that over 1,500,000 of our people could Proof have lost their spirit so completely as to become dependent on charity. accumulates that this form of relief is fraught with cisaster.
Counsel for the defence suggested bat the Christmas spirit had reached the kitchen, and that the injury was the result of tarking, ·
with spirits andimmed by a night of feverish activity. It is a city where life is swift and strenuous and exorbitantly expensive. Extravagance rules.
The time for drifting and indecision is past. The nation demands actions, not? to consolidate European countries in a words. The Locarno Pact has done much. bond of peace. Now let us seriously tackle our own problems and promote unity among our own people.
A sequence of idleness is demoralisa-
We want to get back to the time when tion. Go to any racecourse and the
all men and women born under the Union observe will see among the decent on- lookers hooligana and roughs who are a Jack, whether at home or abroad, were Though phy proud of the fact; when British prestige sically strong, their faces are an un disgrace to the country.
was second to none.
A country which does not cherish an erring index to the low mental state into
We need & now which they have fallen. A considerable ideal cannot exact.
There are really two Australias. Fewer The judge held that respondente were than 6,000,000 people thinly inhabit the liable in that the accident arose in the
put Prac- course, and fringes of this vast continent.
of the applicant's tically one-fifth of them can be found in employment. the overgrown community known as the City of Sydney. Of the population of the State of Victoria, 51 per cent live within 20 miles of the City of Melbourne post-office.
So you find this sharp division of the people into top-heavy cities and sparsely settled districts where cattle and sheep, Few people seem deeply interested in fruit and dairy produce, and sugar are the chief products of cultivation. The the industrial and financial issues which number of this vast army living on the spirit among our men, embodying in. great up-country stations or ranches confront Australia. Even the shadow of dole are Communists; and instead, of dividuality, strength, forcefulness, belief
Communism is laughingly ignored.
being proud of the country which gave in themselves and our traditions. furnish one distinct element of the popu-Bruce, the Federal Prime Minister, told them birth, and our flag, which is the
"We need the old Pioneer Spirit. lation. Here are keep practical, men,
symbol of our noblest traditions, express hard workers who by their thrift and in dustry are overcoming the Wilderness.
their detestation of everything British in There are no trade union hours for the
streams of invective.
The pioneers in the "back blocks." wdernces was never overcome by cutting down the working time of its occupanta.
LIVING ON BORROWED MONEY,
Mr.
me a few days ago at the most serious problem he had to contend with in pre- paring for his election campaign against the Red Labour element. was the apathy of his followers.
When the day of "awakening comes, Australia will find herself," but she may have to go first through a period of On the other hand, you have the over-bitter, travail. Her mantle of com- grown cities with a pleasure-loving, work placency will have to be shaken off and sby population, subaorvient to a Labour many, illusions, put resolutely aside.-- machine which is relying for power on Jait the policy of securing for its trade unions more and more pay for less and less work.
The official working week in New South Wales and Queensland has been reduced from 48 to 1 hours. The minimara official wage for all labour has been rais- ed in Queensland to £4 5s. a week. Labour Isewhere will demand-and secure-the same concessions. Socialism is blandy impervious to the ctrinous fact that its; increased prosperity is founded on the shifting sands of borrowed money- money owing to London and New York.
Production has been reduced and ex- penditure steadily increased: the total debt of these six millions of people is now over £1,000,000,000. Private capital. is looking with increasing caution on a situation, described by one Australian authority recently as mà riot”of extra- vagance and a debauchery of idleness."
And yet there is a splendid future for men who will go into the "wilderness and work. No undeveloped country offezu such quick returns for honest toil. All the wildent schemes of Socialist fanatics cannot kill Australia. But to find her j you must go far from the cities which I are at once her, pride and her curse, and" put aside the pernicious doctrine of slackness and hand-to-mouth prosperityi taught there.
PASSION FOR SPOET. "
The cities exercise a fatal fascination on the back blocks." Sydney, with its; fine racecourses, cricket grounds, and bathing beaches, is a magnet that draws the station people" irresistibly. The Australian is obsessed by his love of sport; in Sydney it seems to be the ruling passion of everyday life.
The slopes above the barbour, Sydney's prido, are dotted with the homes of tho rich. There is an atmosphere of luxury and devil-may-care gaiety which obser- vant strangers find somewhat cloying. A tendency to hard drinking and hard playing impressce him more than the love of hard work Hospitality in a pleasant virtue carried. almost to extremeg. Sydney amazes by its ability to keep. Active twenty hours out of twenty-four and then begin a fresh round of the clock i (Continued on next column]
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REGENT SAYINGS.
Many people have the habit of reading not for study, information, or enjoyment; but as an opiate for the trials of the world.-Lord Eustace Perosi
So deep is this dislike among thou- sands that recently hundreds of war medals, the property of ex-Service men.. have been discarded by them and could we bougat by anybody for a penny and
Most of those who know we have been twopence in the East End and Islington. And slowly but surely this spirit is grow. able to distinguish me at a glance from ing. Note the results of the recent munia haggard and emaciated genius, starve cipal elections.
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