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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8th,
THE PROSPERITY OF AMERICA.
REVERSE SIDE OF THE MEDAL.
POVERTY OF THE FARMS.
BY NORMAN ANUELL.]
1927.
CHANGED STATUS OF WOMEN.
MAKING WORK A
PLEASURE.
TO-DAY ONLY
VALUE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN
NEED NOT BE PENNED UP
IN THEIR HOUSES."
BOMBAY MAGISTRATE'S
OPINION.
BOMBAY, May 6th.
INDUSTRY.
A NEW REVOLUTION.
"We are engaged in the complete. explosion of the superstition that Some interesting remarks regard- | all hours of work are a minus quan* ing the changed status of womentity in the happiness of life, und The European who visits the
were made by the Chief Presidency | that all hours of idleness are a plus United States goes normally, of
Magistrate in the course of a judg-peantity," course, to the cities and largement ordering William Baker to Thus the Earl of Balfour, presi 5 monthly towards the Industrial Paychology, when he and dent of the National Justitute of maintenance of Mrs. May Gladys the Lord Mayor (Sir Rowland Baker, his wife.
Blades) met a distinguished coin- panty of business men and scientists at huchee at the Mansion House.
Mrs. Bakes complained that her husband would not entertain ap
The institute is concerned with offer to go back to him after six the human factor in industry and months' separation, which had fasenemerce, and its nebicgements
towus. He finds the luxurious- ness of the hotels, the magnificence pay Rs. of the thirty-storey office buildings, the marble and alabaster railway stations, the poand-a-day wages of auskifled workers with motor-ears and creased trousers-he finds in all this not merely a standard which he does not know at one but a standard of which the history of the past furnishes no counterforerd on her ns be was addicted to part, And he says: "This is Aurrica the Goblen But it less than two thirds: possibly it is than of America-- although it is certainly the most visible half.
stil
nore
If the visitor would leave the towns and go on to the farmis – par- ticularly in the South and Sondh West, in the Dakotas, in the wheat belt he would find a difference of standard so great in degree from that of the cities us to make a
No entirely different kind of life. longer an air of lavishiess and pro- sperity, but
uppressive atums: phere of poverty and insolvency; of decrepit and tumble-down houses, |
Jan
drink.
Befendant maintained that he was willing to take her back, pro- vided she left her. present job in the post office, so that she could attend to lus wants.
The Chief Presidency Magistrate in his judgment said he thought, that it was to the interest of both that she should not leave her ser- vite, as defendant admitted that he was in deist. Her income, there fore, would augment his, and that was to his advantage.
"I could have understood the objection if they had any children. In that ease respondent would be justified in asking her to stay at
food, trane's clothing home. anxiety, debt, and hopelessness. And this is certainly a third, per- haps mure, of the golden America.
Urban Ignorance.
12
The town-bred American, whom the ordinary Europian visitor üfcets, will deny the truth of the picture, and the dental will often bu ameere. For already we have in the American cities generation that has not known the soil, and knows next to nothing of the con ditions which obtain on the farm. The town Ainerivan does not learn the facts, because a journalist or politician or business man, who should tell them, runs the risk of bring proclaimed pessimist, calamity howler," a "knocker -renegade and traitor to the great cause of universal boosting. And when the facts can no longer be hidden, when bank failures in even the best of the agricultural centres rum into hundreds, when farms are simply abandoned, so that anyone who wanted could go and squat on then; when Farmer Blocs form in Congress and Farm Relief Bills press for legislative or executive sanction then the townsman will lead that this condition is excep tional and temporary, due to the inflation of land values just after the war, and so forth.
FORTN
were briefly described during lun chean a test in psychology," it was said-by Sir Alan G. Anders son, president of the international Chamber of Commerce; Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the L.M.S. Railway; and Dr. Charles S. Myers, the director of the institute.
£1,000 Gift.
Sir Alan Anderson, who is F1 Governor of the Bank of England, announced that the Bank wis su satished with the results obtained
from the scientific tests of candi. dates for commercial positions by the institute, that
had decided to subscribe £1,000 towards the fund for providing a laboratory and other accommoda. tion for the furtherance of its work.
* In these days, it is nsual and cominion for women of the social
This institute is beginning the status of the parties in this enze to | second industrial revolution," said work. This may render them less Sir Josiah Stamp, and I hope that servile to men, but the old theory | England will lend this revolution as of women being entire dependants it did its predecessor of 150 years of men has long ago been exploded, ago, They are now the companions, help- nates and partners of their hus- hands.
Lord Balfour claimed that the in- stitute was filling a gap which, je They are bound to look after the evolution of industry, had ant the house, but they need not remain previously been seriously consider penned up in their houses the whole et. The human side, in industry er- quired as much thought us the
day.
The complainant, in my opin-mechanical side. For the world de- iou, is justified in her apprehen-pended on the sngth working of sion that if she does give up service the industrial marbine. - she will be at the entire mercy of respondent.”
.
BRITISH LABOUR
LEADERSHIP.
MR. MACDONALD'S POSITION.
Pernicious Doctrine.
The ludicrous and pernicious do trine that hours of work were minus quantity came from our nut taking the tromble to make work as near a pleasure as it could be.
I am a great lover of idleness myself," said Loral Balfour, and I' and always glad to know that there are some hours of the day when no one will ask me to do anything.
If you were to segregate 100
Despite much speculation upon the retirement of the Rt. Hon. J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P.. from children, or 100 adults, into two the chairmanship and leadership-halves of 50, and say to one half, of the Parliamentary Labour party, You must work eight hours a day it can be stated on good grounds year in and year out,' and to the that the question of his physical other half, You shall never do any fitness is hardly likely to arise thing, the latter would certainlş until the beginning of another commit suicide before the experi session. Leadership is decided namnent had lasted very long." the end of the calendar year, und that will be the time for the review
The Marques of Reading said that of political activities and con- sideration of the question of Mr. in the past we had not always been MacDonald's physical ability to quick in adapting scientific methods sustain the duties of the office. to industry, but we had learned It is possible that ill health will and progressed a great deal in re-
cent years.
The Two Americas, But this exceptional and tem condition has been the usual condition for more than a This present writer generation. passed a period of his adolescence American farina; knew intimate- ly the conditions of many a farm.
g family has maintained for compel Mr. MacDonald's resigna- thirty years friendships with Amo-tion at the end of the session, and ricku farmers, and has known the conjecture already turns upon some ups and downs of their fortunes during that time. What those per sonal contacta point is what all the statistics reveal, namely, that the much heralded American prosperity has never reached the farm at all. Perhaps the most amazing thing in the whole situation is the ignor
of the average town-bred American of the conditions of his Не own country in this respect. realises little of the deep and vast gulf which now separates the two Americas, the America of the town and of the America of the farm. The real class struggle in this coun- try is not as between the town worker and the town capitalists, it is as between the man on the land and the present industrial organi- and many of their raw materials at sation emanating from the cities. lowest world price, while making Social unrest has not its main roots the American farmer pay the high- 带着 proletariat as the cat protected price for manufac among the European understands that word tares. (the American worker is pretty
ance
Increasing Output.
They were asked to give their support to the institute in its efforts to make the best use of the human material in the various in-
dustries of this country, and it was significant and pleasurable to find Lord Balfour still so young as to take up this subject with great en-
half dozen likely successore, includ- ing the Rt. Hon. J. It. Clynes, vice chairman of the party; the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden, bis old I.L.P. colleague and former Chan cellor of the Exchequer; the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, the Rt. Hon.thusiasm. Arthur Henderson, and Mr. James In these days we were all con- Maxton, chairman of the I.L.P. cerned with the seeking of means To this list might be added Mr. to increase output, and were faced Oswald Mosley and Dr. Hugis Dal with the definite problem of aus- ton, but it would be difficult for picion on the part of the workers any one of them to
furnish a of any improvements that were leadership suiting all sections of
suggested. the party.
Meantime manufacturing and the cities were getting their foodstuffs
Now that at last the demand for
some equalisation is irresistible, the successfully induced to acquiesce in a systent which gives to bricklayers and effort is taking the form of a plasterers very much better wages elaborate piece of State Socialism. than to college professors and doc- The Government is to provide huge tora). It has its roots in the tillers loans in order to finance the pur. of the soil, who are often them-chase, holding, or sale at a loss, selves theoretically capitalists" of surpluses in agricultural produce, nominally, that is, owners of their and is to collect equalisation fees" farms. And the situation, incid from the producers to repay the Government loans. The device-if entally, is a pregnant comineatary
it ever becomes law-is almost cor on the economic hollowneas in cer tain circumstances of private protain not to work and the friction perty in itself as the basis of and unrest will continue. economic security
The Farmer's Plight.
a
ID
But this Institute worked for advantage of both employers and employed, and bad the support of both.
It sought for increased efficiency, greater output and better quality of goods.
"GIMLET JIMMY."
BURGLAR WHO SHADOWS HIS
VICTIMS HOME,
In view of the renewed activities of a burglar who has become known BA "Gimlet Jimmy," people who have charge of the keys of lock-up premises in Lancashire towns are taking every possible precaution for the protection of property,
Gimlet fimmy," uses a gimlet This is the biggest and ugliest fly to force the catches of windows. the amber of American pro- He visits the homes of those who sperity; but it is not the only quali- have the keys of lock-up shops, and fication of American prosperity. having stolen the keys uses them For, during two generations now,
American There is the depression in the to enter the shop. the situation of the
Since the textile trade; uneasy ramblings in He is said to be so light-fingered farmer has been this!
surplus of the coal industry; the abuse of in as to be able to abstract a bunch country produced agricultural produce-there being stalment buying; the triumph, in of kays from beneath the pillow that is, no agricultural imports spots, of the organised criminal of their sleeping custodian without virtually everything that the farmer over the forces of organised society: disturbing him. had for sale had to be sold at and other warnings. But for those world (a Free Trade) price. But things it is not difficult to imagine everything that he had to buy, in the solution as soon as the will to cluding things like freights as well solve them is sufficiently developed. was as things like machinery, clothing But what characterises the agricul Chorlton-cum-Hardy, and rest, was bought at a high-tural problem is that even though His methods involve the shadowing ly protected price. No industry in the will to grapple with the thing be of his victim to his home, and often the world could, year in year out, present, the way has so far not be a long journey in the small hours stand such one-sided treatment, and come visible. It is the very biggrat of the morning from a house where
in American pro- American farming has not stood it. of the "bute
ho has stolen keys to shop to (Continued on next Column).
which the keys give accesS.
sperity.
Manchester, Salford, Bolton, and Wigan have all been visited by "Gimlet Jimmy." His latest coup Darried out recently in Manchester.
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