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WHAT IT CAN AND CAN NOT DO,
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AN ASPECT OF THE SOCIAL REVOLU- TION IN GREAT BRITAIN.
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FOOD QUEUES IN RUSSIA, Į
SOVIET ANXIETY.
IRREGULARITY OF SUPPLIES,
Rio, Oct. 10th.
The authorities in Moscow and in other populous centres continue to complain of the irregularity of food supplies. During the past few months conditions ɓave
prevail ed recalling the earlier years of the revolution, when "food rushes occurred as "often as it became known that supplies had arrived. Long queues are a common sight, and hoarding is so extensive as to Aggravate the apparent scarcity.
At a somewhat barren and si- these to encompass him bas very less period of the year Judge Craw little left out of a Axed salary of ford has caused a spirited diver- £1,600 a year, and if, in addition, sion by his remark that even a he has the dignity of some official County Court Judge has no right post to consider, he will be lucky. At à conference of the Presidium to buy a car unless he has private to have anything left at all. of the Moscow Soviet it was stated | means, because his salary alone is For such a man rates and taxes that the situation, had lately be not sufficient. The salary of are a poignant burden, and any come worse; the queues which until County Court Judge is £1,500 arise in the cost of living a cause of recently had waited chiefly for year, and the inference drawn act acute anxiety, Pegged down to his white bread have now become a re- cordingly from his Honour's die £1.500 a year, which might bring|gular thing also outside stores sell- tum is that, in his view, no one him in a clear, £1,200 after the ing rye bread, the people's staple with-only £1,500 a year ought to State and the local authorities had † food, and rye four. The confer buy a car. That perhaps is to intaken their toll, he is pretty wellence deplored the fact that the puts to Judge Crawford as in constrained to live up to the full | Soviet organizations entrusted with genucusness which, if he thought it limit of his income. He is one of the work of supplying the centres worth while, he might like to dis the new poor engaged in a losing had proved unequal to the task, claim. His original remark has struggle to keep up old-fashioned and that the measures taken to re- been somewhat stretched by the ideas of position"; with new-gulate the market had failed to im- commentators who hare flung them fashioned ideas of taxation; More prove the situation. Instructions selves so eagerly upon it, and it is over, it is beginning to dawn on i have been sent to the chief centres upon the broader premises thus him that, bad as his case is, histo "organize special commissions briskly evolved that a merry and son's is likely to be worse. He to secure for the workmen uninter- everwidening discussion has pro- himself has to part with the pro- rupted supplies of bread, ment,,.. seeded. People are not particular: ceeds of between two and three butter, and sugar." The Izvestia ly interested in the question whe months' work every year to keep states that the people do not be ther even County Court the State going, His son, twenty eve that there is plenty and are Judge," without private means, has or thirty years hence, may be fined
frightened." or has not the right to buy a car, four or five months" "hard" for The All-Russian
at But they are very much interested the privilege of being a British sub. women workers in factories and on in the general position of the ject resident Britain.
the land opened in the Moscow £1,500 a year class in the com-
Theatre to-night. Voroshiloff, the munity.
War Commissar, addressed the na sembly on women's military tasks during war and peace. pence, he said, the Red Army ac During
cepted only women as volunteers, by the Soviet law provided for the compulsory military service of women during war.
What £1,500 Means,
Poorer, Yet Better Of. As against the tightening struggle that the man with £1,500 a year In a sense, of course, there is no has to endure, take the comparative such thing as £1,300 a year. security and ease of a man with a mean that an income of that figure third or a balf of that income, I varies so much as between persons, do not know what proportion of occupations and localities as to be the 700,000 holders of licences for a point of controversy in itself. A private cars in Great Britain is London doctor, for instance, if he represented by men earning be- means to be one of the big guns cftween £500 and £750 a year, but his profession, is more or less tied I should judge it to be very con- bourhood, is obliged to keep a car class of income for whom qur down to a single expensive neigh-siderable. It is people with that and to maintain a largish establish- British world is being increasing ment, and has always to be care laid out. They have, a better ful to make a good appearance His ease is very different from that of his brother practitioner in a provincial town where another standard obtains, and the unescap-
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Women, he continged, were play- in a great part in the present campaign to create the military spirit, among workmen and pens. ants," but one dark aspect marred the campaign for militarization. the otherwise splendid results of This was the "panic which had of time of it, a happier and more seized broad sections of the com- varied and amusing time of it, to-munity and had produced long day than they ever had before, and
queues wherever every-day. neces- Arc they working with some sities such as four, is still more different from that of tion. What we are witnessing, it serious, eran a dangerous, pheno able liabilities are not so heavy. It rapidity profound social revolt had to be purchased." This was s
London writer, for instance, who I may uso a vocabulary already ros
"before the ia free to live where and as he almost the strangulatido, of the with the Imperialist States which out of date is the constriction, mobilisation for the death grapple pleases, whose address and style of existence no one worries about, who upper middle class and the effore were about to attack the U.S.S.R. has virtually no business expenses, accace of the lower middle class,
The Government had, demanded. and who carries his means of liveli
from Mikoyan, the Trade Commis hood in his head and his waistcoat
Consider, for example, this sar, why so many interruptions had pocket. A Harley Street specialist matter of housing. Something like occurred in the "delivery of flour, earning, only £1,500 a year would a million new houses have been built and Mikoyan explained that it was be in receipt of an income highly in England and Wales since the senseless panic." fanned by dark resembling a minus quantity. Armistice. The overwhelming majo-timate war campaign for illegitim- elements, who utilized the legi- medical man on the same income rity of them are small houses, in a place like Birmingham or usually with a plot of garden "at-
ate purposes. : Manchester would be fairly well tached, the very thing for a newly off. A London journalist on £1,500 married couple of medeat means year would be better off still. Large numbers of them have garages Now a County Court Judge is invitingly, irresistibly, awaiting very decidedly a man of position, the advent of the two-seater. In the and the nature of his office, with countryside they too often attain na to make a private car, if not an tural ugliness. But in the suburbano risis existed. The watchword its constart peregrinations, is such to a nightmarish degree of architec. hampered by panic, which gave the impression of a serious crisis where absolute necessity, at any rate, of the big towns, and especially in for the women who have met today first-class convenience. But I can the Loudon suburbs, they are fre- when they are homeward bound very well imagine that man of position, and largely because of his ugly of charming design, and must be: "Cease hoarding. Cease with their trim bungalow effect hampering the military prepara- position, with no
more than make a most pleasing and, home-ons. salary of £1,500 a year, would be like appearance.
Cease playing into the hard put to it to spare mough out
hands of the enemy,! of tas income for a car and chauf- who live in then-I am thinking of And almost invariably the people feur. "A chauffeur !" exclaims the £750 to £1,100 type of house the newly licensed owner-driver.
Why can't he drive it himself?' are the people who have bought the part that these elementary and The answer is because of his posi- deposit and they either borrow the the life of the lower middle class, them. They pay what they can on secondary schools are playing in
The Cost Of Position.
remainder or arrange a mortgage, and how admirably they are looking I saw it stated the other day that after the minds and bodies of their. Position is a more expensive the money invested this year in pupils," and training a new gene Juxury in England than in any coun-houses or loaned for their purchase ration of healthy boys and girls and try of my acquaintance, Our whole comes to double the amount that instilling into them the true spirit. scheme of life is so arranged as to was called for last year, which in of sportsmanship, do not know the commit a man who has attained any its turn was twice, the sum needed London of to-day. sort of distinction to a mounting for these purposes in 1995. ✨If we
tion.
when they dispersed to
Voroshiloff appealed to them agitated housewives, because the soothe
.S.S.R. had plenty, and Soviet Government would maintain supplies so long as it was not
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ILLICIT WHISKY IN ENGLAND.
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Simple Amusements. load of liabilities that only a cool cannot become a nation of agricul- For head and good management can tural smallholders we seem well
amusements these young keep from becoming top-heavy. on the way to becoming one of small people do not have to seek far. or under the political oppressiveness some development from
please. They have the wireless and of the Hohenzollern régime, had standpoint; it adds as nothing else the gramophone in their homes: far more social freedom than we can to social stability and the sense there is a cinema within a few have. Because a German had got of citizenship; and those who com- bundred yards, and a lawn tennis and prospered, he saw no plain that the young men of to-day club or some public courts not too reason for encumbering himself are not so venturesome their far away; and a Sunday afternoon with a large house and an ostenfa Tathers hat better inquire first. how on the river in the Hampton Court tious retinue of servants, or departmany of them have pledged their neighbourhood or visit to the ing in his mode of life and his earning-power for years ahead to greyhound races is always a faan- entertainments from the simple, own the houses they live in. cially practicable diversion. But most of all they rely for their fun wholesome scale to which he had
A Motor-But No Mald. been accustomed. Nor was it de-
on the car they have purchased on månded of him that he should; still
The young couple I have in mind the deferred payment system. I less is any such requisition levied rarely attempt to keep a servant or have read ainee Judge Crawford on him to-day. I well remember, to make much of a splash. They sprang his dictum some elaborate too, paying a visit to a powerful dress well because everybody dresses and enthusiastic estimates which French statesmen who had lived in well now-a-days, and the wives are
seem to show that it is really more almost American economical to own a car than not to the same apartment house for over acquiring an 16 years, varying from the second facility for doing almost all the own. I have my doubts as to that, floor when in office to the fifth when house-work and the cooking and yet but the extraordinary cheapness of
Colonel J. D. Dunville, who pre-increasingly diffiealt to trace ite out of it. I should doubt whether appearing extremely presentable. a day's outing in a mass-produced sided at a inceting of Dunville's being a Cabinet Minister made as
But they live inply, and they are British two-seater approaches the big a difference as £250 a year in below the level where taxation be incredible; and the amount of Distillery, at Belfast, declared that his personal exponeca...
comes penal. Next to completing healthy recreation, of fresh air, and the potheen traffic (illicitly distil the purchase instalments on their new sights and experiences and, led whisky) was now spreading to houses, their great ambition is to above all, of family companionship,
TRADE RIFE IN SOME IN
DUSTRIAL TOWNS.
DISTILLER'S VIEW.
fill the garage, even if the nursery that the motor car has put within Britain.
An official of the Customs and Excise, who was asked his opinion by a Daily Express representative Baid
"Our officers are continually at work tracing the sources of illicit supplies of spirits. The involved nature of the illicit trade maken it'
source.
"Agents working for illicit die- tillers are camouflaged under all sorts of disguises, and the consider- able profits made in the trade and the exclusiveness of the circle of dealers make it more than over dif ficult to trace the culprite." sidered by the whisky trade to bo The heavy duty on spirits is con- one of the chief causes for the in crease in illicit, stilling. The pro presents approximately two-thirds
The English Hate Of Living, But in England as a man suc ceeds a vast and subtle conspiracy | has to go empty a while. But when the reach of hundreds of thousands, If half the reports which I of obligations is directed against they have children and they usual who a generation ago only got out bear are true," he said, if the, him. It is expected that each rise ly have one or two and bring them of town once a year, entitles it to potheen trade in our midst was in his fortunes should be out up very seasibly they do not make bo called the most blessed social in- never in a more flourishing condi- wardly marked. He must have a the mistake that their mothers and vention of our times. A ecvere tion de bigger and more imposing house, fathers made of trying to send them economist might no doubt prefer with appointments and a staff in to a private school. They are not a charge of extravagance again of the arts which he crossed the keeping with his larger income. | out for social prestige of that kind, these youthful adventurers But and shout him have to be adjusted wonderful L.C.C. schools that in the and lending a decent sort of life, acquired in parts of England and Everything and everyone around They send them instead to those they strike me as being very happy water, and is becoming gradually of the total cost. to a new scale of expenditure en past quarter of a century, have be and one they would gain nothing Scotland owing to the prohibitive dress, schools, entertaining, and come one of the glories of the by exchanging for the burdens and price of sound whisky the ordinary social round. The man Metropolis. Those who do not know muddled standards, of £1,500 : ́a who has allowed liabilities such as- (Continued on next Column.)|||||year.—Sunday Timer,
It is also said that this is one sent duty on-a bottle of whisky re
The practice is also rife in most industrial centres.”
Landlords of public houses, as well private individuala, are tempt ed into the illicit trade by the great profits which can be made by the evasion of the duty,