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THE HÒNGKONG TELEGRAPH:
A CONSTITUTION FOR BRITAIN.
MR. AND MRS WEBB'S SCHEME OF REFORM.
TURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
21.
fundamental difficulty is the rival of them. It is disquiating to be status given to the two Parlia-[told by the Press that, at Devon- ments, and, the denial to the port at least, there in great dia- Political Parliament of the right|satisfaction with what has been Mr. and Mrs Webb done, and that the Lower Deck- to tax. multiply ingenious suggestions Conference assert that the con- for avoiding friction and deal-cessions are of a minorebaracter, locks, but they cannot get over practically all the substantial The Indian demands having bean refused. In a Europe where so many the basic danger.
which may have This is a very serious matter, countries have, or recently have "drarchy." had, Socialist Governments, one helped them to arrive at their affecting the future of the Fleet. still looks in vain for any con-idea will not really afford a andit evidently requires examina- structive Socialist statesmanship parallel; because there behindtion. equal to the best in this island.the we rival authorties will
It may be in part due to the stand a strong power sovereign higher erodomie and political over both. developement of our society. But
in part it is due to a personal! farior
new
PRATICAL COUNTER-
PROPOSALS.
A LESSON FROM AMERICA. The provision of ways and means is the real problem, and the want of them was at the root of the evil Practically all thei Ang practical counter-proposals substantial demands turn opon That factor is the dual person to their scheme as a whale must the reduced purchasing power of ality of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Daily Chromaly probably follow "regional lines. money. It is timely to point ou | Webb, mat #
Give England six regional Parlia that the phenomenon of disconi- writer For over 30 years they have been publishing, separateleients, with a seventh for Scot-ent is not confined to the British o together, the most originaland and an eighth for Wales: Savy. The United States Navy works of the Socialist school give these Parliaments most of is seriousis crippled by it. Dur
the duties which the Webbsing the second half of 1919 thel since Marx: yet their very latest book is as tresh and remarkable assign to their Social Parliament; American Fleet lost 4,666 men by as any. Their peculiar blend of Sise the central Political Farlia desertion, including 1,000 petty thement at Westminster the righ: officers, and by one channel or vision and sedulity, of
to tax and a defined suzerainty another it was losing nearly a of the a thousand men every month in faculty which throws out
over the Parliaments ideas and that which accumulates the most intricate mastery overlegions; and you have most of the early part of this present the advantages of the Webbs year. Admiral Washington said political and economic detail, is
scheme without its obvious draw-that Congress must increase the here seen at its highest power.
tacks. You would have also be- pay if the Navy was to be saved Though in detail their new hind your public administration a from disaster. We cannot run Constitution corresponds to the wealth of local spirit and know.the risk of disaster in the British particular social and industrial ledge, from which great results Navy. Money is the thing that system which they expound. it might be hoped in certain direc-matters most if men are to be has a much wider interest for all tions.. intelligent democrats. Whatever)
It may be said: But under his views on Socialism. to one who surveys the actual course of what Parliament, then, would social reform and administration Sou place a single Post Office, during the past 60 years can dis-railway system, of mining indus pute the necessity for multiplying for Great Britain? the tasks of government. That war process lies, and will lie
ng time to coine.
COLRDINATED PARLIAMENTS
But our present fabric of Parliamentary government bear the increasing strain? Is it no
Answer 00:
is that you need
content in these days of growing cost and increasing wages on shore. Insufficient pay raised the breeze at Spithead." There are lessons in its history. Captain Saint Lo, writing in the time of The William III pointed out that da the seaman's wages were then single all23. per lunar month, and so they British system in any of these remained until the routing scared eases; that far more freedom and Parliament into greater, though. initiative wont be possible. illecen then, carefully measured. you had eight separate ones liberalit with, of course, such co-ordinat ing machinery as could easily bei devised. The chief opponents of in May. 1919. did much for the would men, with its new scale of pay, decentralisations spch
of the which it proposed to ante-date tof the Drials he
wha Crtober 11918. Butthe Treasury
uniors: trade
Admiral Jeram's Committee.
jobvious that it has already ceased bear it, and that for two gener- ations, respective of the war.
| biggest there has been a growing mishit have built up their unwielly and intervened, and the date was fixed ora: February 1. 1919. The Admir between what our surial situation
increasingly undemocratic demands and what our govern-ganisations n all-British lines.alty now say that to make up mental machinery can give us Ye: for freedom and initiative is what was lost whilst officers and Mr. and Mrs. Webb would solve really indispensable: no matter men were suffering from high this problem in quite a Dew whether the directorate of ear prices on small par, might for war Thet reier: alike the such service in the future is to be these mouths cost £5,500,000 for plan of regional Parliaments a Ministry or a Board, a Tractor men and £2,000,000 for officers. These are high figures, and should Home Role all round"—and a Guild.
be examined thoroughly. Finally that of a Sorie: or Guild Parlia
the derision would test with the mont elected on an occupational
the Treasury, but if the men could be bak. They propose two equaling Defence and
Parliaments, sphere of a paramount Parliament me: in a spirit of liberality, and co-ordinate
cr:tain Para could receive a boɔus to com- each rhosen by the same electors you affirm &
pensate in some measure for their nn a basis of geographical con- mounter in these subjects, which
in the Webb dany. But are they losses, much of the discontent] stituencies,
differing but
right in denying it? Surely in might disappear. Other requests respect of their functions.
any society the problem of bare relate to pay and pension, and life, and security is always in the estimate made by the Admir-
real sense "prior". and
alty is that the whole additional war. diplomacy, the Empire the problems 0. good.
charge would be £15,093,000 Amy, Sars. Air Force. police, od life. rich
pour immediately, and the eventual
cost per annum £7,953,300.
and
One. the Political Parlia- would deal with peace.
ment.
It is
2:12 that by
Justice
vers
max.
and justice. The other busy or idle life. Recessenly
Parliament." "Social
the
i would oparrise industry.
agriculture.
"posterio:."
ADMIRALTY AND LOWER DECK.
PENALTIES OF PARSIMONY.
DASHED HOPES.
In these matters one considera- tion inevitably dominates all! o:bers. It is that we cannot afford to endanger the Navy by parsimony. A few millions ex- pended on the men-one day's war expenditure, for example- would be well outlaid if thereby
could
Bssured. content
possumus
trade. health, education. art and science; it would control existing public services, such as the Post Office. and start ang new ones that were considered desirable, last, but not least. it would be the taxing authority. The bereditary Mon- archy would remain fits utilities are frankly stated but neither Parliament would require any Second Chamber, unless (as in and man rame closer together, attitude, tempered with argument,
by common dancer brought out all does not satisfy the men. appointed one
that Wa best in both.
Let it not be supposed that the increased that feeling of mutual demands of the men mostly furn respect which we must see to it
upon money. They desire, as far
Norway!
i'self.
2. NATION-WIDE LUC.
"In the dark days when officer | Evidently
It
✡
ba
HOU
Consciously or unconsciously. in the future is never allowed to as possible. to diminish the dis- at the comforts of life on shipboard-- our authors seem to have reason-fade."-- Lord Beatty red something like this: "Our Seamen's banquet at Portsmouth better messes. improved bathing and sanitary arrangements, and Political Parliament cannot carry September, 1919. the social and economic Sardens. Few things can be of greater so forth and the Admiralty do The only vital objectio. to devel-importance to this country than not dispate their premises. Their sing them on a body like the that the officers and men of the Lordships promise to improve, L.C.C. is that the L.C.C. is local Navy should be happy and and, in future ships, further to im and cannot conduct nation-wide content in their service, says Mr. prove. Other requests relate to business. The solution is a John Leyland in the Observer. the natural aspirations of certain tation-wide. L.C.C." Hence. If the British Navy is to continue classes of men. The hopes of the while their Political Parliament to hold its high position and its blacksmith and the plumber to be is to have a Cabinet, much renowned discipline, it is essential given warrant rant are dashed. as at present, their Social Parlia-that close and continuous atten-One is puzzled to know why & ment is to do its business through tion should be paid to the con-chief writer should not have a
hika 27 corcmittees
English
ditions in which the personnel distinguishing badge. One mar- municipal council; the chairmen serve and which vitally affect vels why a naval band should not of the various committees baving them in their service. The be called a Royal Naval Band. A no joint responsibility and no Admiralty evidently realise the certain sense of humour appears Decessary common policy.
gravity of the situation. The where the band, asking for secin- One may doubt whether the great outcome of the inquiry sion for instrumental practice, adoption of this last system is instituled by Admiral Sir Thomas are told that it is not desirable jjustified by
record in Jerram was the institution of a they should be allowed to prac- municipal life. British muni-permanent Welfare Committee tise either in their own or any cipal government remains far at the Admiralty, and in associa-other mess!" The "boy artif- too low. Granting that theretion with it of meetings of lower cer," introduced by Lord Fisher, are special
the deck representatives at the Home disappears, and becomes more engine-room failures in Loadon, let ports, preliminary to inter-port cumbrously the student visit inexcusable Man-meetings and the final meeting artificer apprentice.”
It is impossible to deal with all chester, and survey there the of the Committee in London.
various requests scandal of the "Piccadilly site." Fall use of that organisation has these
"demands. Many of the decisions The plain fact is that if & Council not yet been made: confides its initiatives to com Yet thus was prepared a chan- may be, and some of them must mittees, whose chairmen hava no net through which men of the be, revised. There is a disposi joint responsibility and no neces-tower deck could make known tion in many cases to test and sary common policy, definite re-what are called, their "grav-spprove. More money is required sponsibilities are apt to disappearances to the Admiralty. The for the Navy we cannot live or and the Council tends, even in Board promulgated on Thursday act without it and the Gover big matters, to have no policy at evening their decisions upon a ment must recognise the fact, and all And what is had on thewery large number of such re-cut off expenditure elsewhere. municipal scale might well bequests-307 they say, but in effect These are times more than suy catastrophic on the national there seems to have been over we have recently seen when we That, however, is a detail which 370-giving favourable judgment, cannot palter with the needs of could be changed the more" in whole or in party on many the naval service.
ita
far excuses
1990.
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