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KOBE'S SCAVENGING PROBLEM.
PROSPECTS OF IMPROVE- MENT.
KENTISH INVASION. -
STARVED CHILDREN FROM VIENNA. The following account of an The coast of Kent has received Englishwoman's eight-hour day sundry invaders throughout its If we went on the principle of under the Bolshevists is from the history, but never so pathetic Ballamy's "Looking Backward," company AS Ianded fpan of a British lady recently a
at and made the reward for labour rapatriated from Russia. In Folkestone recently. Some 500 proportionate to the disagreeablo-| reading this story of wasted Viennese children, ranging from ness of the work (ha proposed effort, it must be remembered, three to 15 years of age, were doing so by way of shortening says the writer, that she and her brought from Flushing by the the hours), the scavenger in companions ware not convicts Dutch steamer Oraujo Nassau for Japan, would be the highest paid condemned to hard labour, but shelter and comfort in England functionary in the Empire, says were recognized by the Soviet and far protection against those the Japan Chromide. But official authorities sa citizens useful to insidious enemies of under-red salaries always drag far behind the Government, and that they youth, anemia, rickets, and commercial and industrial re were all placed in Class L or valvular trouble.
wards, in times of abounding Class II. category. The account On reaching Folkestone they prosperity, and this humble was written in Finland Im-sang, or tried to sing, "God save official naturally found his ex- mediately after the Russian the King," soms managing thejertions unappreciated and sought frontier had been crossed. The words quite wall, as they have the more highly paid and pleas writer says:
English mothers. Next they anter occupations which demand- Here we are at last across the slipped into that popular romance, ed unlimited men while Japan frontier, really out of that mad--the Lorelei.
was making her war profita. Even now, wa, are told. the bouse; how thankful we all are!! ARRIVAL AT 9ANDWICH.
. In January I did, not A special train of,15 saloons scavenger is paid no more than work at the station; I had a was waiting to carry the party to two "yen a day, and it is not certificate of ill-health, which pro-Sandwich, which lies next door surprising to learn that there is tected me.
In February to Stonar Camp, part of the an great competition for the job, the regulations were changed, erstwhila "stary port" of Moreover, there are other dif to be exempted I should have bad Richborough, where they were to culties. Ths work is, as if to javite. waste two whole mornings remain for 13 days under observa- graft and incompetence, farmed in a "tail" at the other end of the tion before distribution to out, and the people who under towo. It was as had for me to the various receiving centras, take the cleaning of sections of lose my lessons, and consequently They ware naturally excit-the city complain that the night-
10
the
potato
money, that way as another. ed and their eyes sparkled, but soil market has suffered from the Many told me that the work was there was an uncanny silence slump, like other commodities. not for more than four hours, and among them, and none of the Such is the interdependence of all that if you got to business pro-shrill exuberance which accom-things in these days. We have! perly you could finish much bepanies the ordinary school treat.this chain of causes and con- fore that time.
They bare tasted of the waters sequences, When rice was very I decided neither to seek ex-of affliction.
dear, people were exhorted to est emption, although my feet were A fow WCIO comparatively potatoes. But now, notwithstand- still sore, nor to get one of our wellvisaged, but the majority ing the slump rice has got cheap Eaglish soldiers to go for me. I are pesky and Sue-drawn, fenough to be esten again, want. For six months or more and there is not a decently-and 50
markat I had been in the habit of fasting | nourished body among them is down. Consequently the cal- All my 1 o'clock dinner; braad ta Mourning Pod cortes-tivators in Shikoku and Hiro- was too expensive to buy. This pandent wrotel. Many had nujahima, who have been like the shipbyilters giving particular moming I ate a small bats or caps: in most cases the Japanese quantity of willer (the seed we boots were of the flimsiest, incap-ships for oel) gising potatoas İgive our canaries and chickensḥ, able of a week's rough weur and far nightsoil, refuse to do so any (and set out for the commissariata yet we were assured that these longer except at a price reduced of our district. I got there about were "Good yes, good boots for even more in proportion than the 8.45.
Austria “ They carried all their decline in the price of potatoes. WUEK ON THE BALLWAY. worldly balunging in their handa Such are the firm and inexorable We all registered our names and on their bucks in over-strain-laws of supply and demand. It and then waited; waiting is one kitsacks. Three girls, true is an unpleasant subject, but thase of the great lessons taught by the daughters of music-loving Vienna, are contributory reasons given by the head of the Kobe Health |"Bolas." At 9.15 we were let out bugged their violin cases.
into the fresh air, and there was a A BAREFOOT SVAMPER. Department for the appalling of the city's con- roll-call: 61 of us; then off wel Government lorries were load-condition walked to the station assigned us.fed up with an eager freight, and servancy.
The same official confesses als* Some few of us in front walked as the childrón passed through fairly smartly, hoping to warm the thoroughfares of Sandwich that the malignity and greed of ourselves but when we got to the any misgivings as to the welthe scavenger increas the station we had to wait for the confe they would recsive were atį difficuity. Japanese householders They When the 61 had once dispelled Across the old are wonderfully patient. assembled we were taken along tollbridge and between the gold put up with six weeks' accumul-: the line to shed. where we and green of the Sandwich ation within their houses-even were given our spades; it was marshes, belaved br Sidney during the summer, but there are Fast 1930, and we discovered we Cooper, 10 Stonar 34
hat limits even to their stoical endur- were in for an eight-hour day. Aja briel run, and in a vary fance, and the scavenger waits
time further walk along the lines and little
ill this limit has been reached, the
youngsters we were toll to start work.
were told off to their alot and extorts inoney before he will
When Enfortunately, all the real snowbuts, each holding 25 beds. Their perform his task.
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ineed to describe the ease with fcourse, that kind of work could They have heard great.things which they land themselves to |not warm one, and the spades ahoat our country, and it is a the purposes of these unsanitary jjseemed to take the few last heat simple fact that on boy flung onioners.
Among minor troubles some
I got
wates from one's fingers. In a bimself face down with arma short time my hands were frozen, joutstretched on the lawn, ex-jare constant, some frequent, and
A constanti my feet likewise, my snow-boots claiming with a sob; " Eng-oxe only seasonal having already burst and my land: Englsad!"
trouble, the bead of the Health heels being uncovered.
Department says, is that when builders Eonstruct leave to go into the lookout-man's bread, would be imprisoned, and Japanes sentinel box for fire minutes forced to work for many days.houses they seem to go out of There were already two Chinese The sentry-boxes were already their way to put the cesspool in and several Russians there: we locked; we went to the lee side the moa: inconvenient place pos- įstood like sardines in a box. Five of a shed and atamped, and tried sible. An occasional interruption limibutes up; 00:
is caused by spells of high wind and Wi came. 1 not to freeze. was less cold.'
The foreman told us that our vnquiat sea, which prevent the At 1 o'clock the foreman went day's work had been of little or nightsail argosies putting out to to the to his dinner; at 130 we had no
railway; bear their freight to the ungrate
Of all Gnished what he had given usțit W** a crazy thing to send Ent farmers of Shikoku.
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to do, and started running and 6) people, unused to handling seasonal obstructions the wurat stamping in order, to keep warm. spades, pay esch 38 roables (is the New Year, when all work There was a bitter wind. After pound of potatoes costs from 93 is held up for a long time, and do. Considering that Japan is a an hour the foreman came back to 100 rouble) and a pound of the scavenger bas a superstition land of marvellous bureaucratic and sent to inquire whether we bread, when sis men could base that it is unlucky begin again-efficiency, while the best that cap MORE BETTING AND GAMBLING. National free Church might be given pickaxes, as there done Türk, been given a fear that can only be overcome be said for England is that it sometimes mapazes to muddle
Council, in view of facts which difference was po work for spades. We geveral 100's, and 2b, to 3lb. of by raising his wages.
be waited and waited and waited, treat apiece; the "authorities" There is no optimism on this through, the
bave been placed before it in the perfect func-
reference to the increasing growing colder and colder. At would have been saved much subject in official quarters, where tween
vast sanitary
prevalence of betting and last the messenger ratu:nad.money and bread, and much dis-it is said that we cannot expect tioning of the
exea content, and
ismaking. 18- "No!"
suffering. radical improvements until the service of London and the Kobe Workmen would bare been town planners have worked their process is very striking. It is gambling. The unfortunate foreman, quite pleased enough to bare done the will upon Kobe--a proposition not going too far to say that the Presentations for the sppoint- a nice railway employee, took us job, especially if they had been which we are prepared to contest. Kobe sanitary system would dismant of a Royal Commission on it is arged, should inquire into to another set of lines and told given a bowl of something bos at But the official pessimism does grace an African village and is the subject. This Commission. us to clean them. Again little or midday.
not go the length of doing nothing. something more than a disgrate
the prevailing practices of betting At last 6.30 came: spates were Five storage depots (horrifying to the first port of the Empire and gambling as the cause of de DO MÓW, and we so chilled that
And we were thought!) are to be sat up, at get it costs 50 per cent, more each tried to work as fast as banded back, possible in the hopes of warming marched off towards the station, Fukiai, Bentenbama, and other per, bead than that of London muratisation, pauperisation, cri- The London system has many minal offences, and bankruptcy. op. I again got leave to thaw out and there lined up according to places. There should be a decline in a sentinel-box. Stumbling in the place of our names on the in renta in these localities.critics. It is absolutely wasteful.
Col Archer-Shee asked leave half frozen, my glasses clouding list. I was 26th. At exactly Besides these, there is to be a But this only emphasises the over at once, for a few seconds 7.10 I received my 58 roubles, a fertiliser factory established in disgusting inefficiency of the in the Commons recently to could neither see nor feel. The receipt which was to be handed Hyogo which is to cost Y222,000 Eobe. system, where a heavy introduce a Bill with the object others made wby for me, to the House Committee, but a year for working and to savo financial loss is incurred not of imposing penalties for failure and feeling something not which I have smuggled through Y445,000 by the sale of dry and withstanding the avoidance of on the part of voters to execise fertiliser, which this waste, A reformed system, the Parliamentary franchise. He close
me, with me), likewise chunk of deodorised to very high I promptly sat down on it, but black bread, which I started sounds very attractive to the without the tearing up of the observed that about 30 per luckily was as promptly pushed devouring on the spot. I had ratepayer, though some lingering city and the expense incurred in cent of the electorate did off by two men. I had sat down bad nothing to eat or drink since doubts as to the babitability of laying sewers, would, if managed not record their votes. The Bill upon a small red-hot iron stove I left the house the the neighbourhood of this Hyogo without the graft which at pre-proposed to impose a first fine of £2 for a second and and burnt my cost. After a few morning. My feet wers very stormcentre may be justifiable sent adds a moral stench to the El for not exercising the vote. minutes out again into the cold. sore. I was limping; but off until it is proved that they are physical one, enable the city to and
Extra money has solve itw nightsoil problem, to pay subsequent defaults.. Leurs" to 5.30 -No work left! Again the started at a good pace, and got groundless. foreman sent to the "authorities," back towards 8 o'clock, having been appropriated to the provision the costs of the change out of the introduce the Bill was refused by this time to say that we had done learnt what a paternal Bolsharist of these storage depots, and to first year's profits, and thereafter 158 votes to 74. | more than had been meted out to Government means by an eight the purchase of fresh barges, convert what is at present a our group; tight we return? hour working day. From early etc. po
io
daily nausea and a menace to
· NO COMPULSORT VOTING,
No; don't dare let them give up morning till after dark, in the As bas already been pointed besith into a valuable municipal fully employed by leading their spades before 6.30."
cold and wind, without food or out, Kobe citizens pay about 50 asset. The municipal discussion Bome wished to go home, but drink, and in return to be paid per cent, more per bead for the on this subject has been postpon- were advised not to they would sam which would not buy half a disposal of their sewags and rab-led till August 5th. We can only blam lose their pound (14oz.) of black cup of millor suything. bish than the cities of London hope that the interval will be use