THE
BRITISH INTEREST IN MANCHURIA.
FALL OF THE POUND.
SIR ARTHUR SALTER STATES)
THE POSITION.
·
PAYMENTS FOR GOODS BUMPED IN BRITAIN.
HÒNGKONG · TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1931.
HUMAN VIEW OF UNEMPLOYED.
(Continued from Pape 2.1 classes." and "privileged classes" and so on.
you must be privileged ns I have been. Things can happen and do, which, if it were not for the love of God, I can see no hope of re- pair.
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There is one other result of elty life. In the city, the individual is the unit. in primitive communi-Catholic Maris
Previously Arknowledged...$7,063.01 tion the tribe or family the First Church Christ Scientiat pleations which Cain is said to not exist.
These are just a few of the com- unit. The Individuat aimply docs Canlon Friend
as such, in primitive St. Andrew's Church have left us. I really cannot communities. In cities, with their Cause ja conblane the old poople who, thought outing life full
Landon, Nov. 21. London, Nov. 24. Séveral reasons account for the Every phase of the Manchurian been a feature of the money lepreciation of sterling which situation, and the efforts which, the market the last few daya. League Council are making in?
(ne undoubted Paris, are being followed with the timental anxiety over Germany's closest attention in Britain.
financial position, in which Bri- Inter-Dependence Balance.
Referring to the nevere text) which the problem has imposed-un the League, Sir Arthur Salter, the eminent economist, speaking last night, urged that the essential
ain is deeply interested.
It is believed that the seasonal demand for dollars is another in reason for the weakness, The third renson is afforded by |
the British Anti-Dumping
of
Bill;
more blessed to be a nomad.
ol
an individual has fre- quently to act on his own infli. tive. The making of
at "the
150,00
116,00
100.00
03.55
$7,481.60
a
Was
dependence in cilies must be well
Now, the balance of this inter-decisions develops his done The erinemas charge half price in the afternoons. I often went for is The unemployed man self-contained merely a mult: he is an individual was before the talkies caus A
not that reason to go to sleep....that reserved. In community you have limited
They number of people to
human being. feed and
Sometimes, T
winh propte would cease speaking of
were nearly always full of tn- employed men and women. There point wan that hostilition should beavy payments for gomis dumped / clothe, tekch and legislate for, andinasses" or "the unemployed," Hether saw, imagined for them mark Cease, and that the Lengun should in Britain, chiefly from the moment, another community comes developed mentality, sensitive self-
defend. But, supposing for one
man with often a highly
thly you, the kind of life and circum- have an opportunity of forming tinent, prior to the pasange
"We will feed you along, and anys,· and expressing an opinion on while uneasiness has also been and farmers and bakers."
stances that they would like to be for less than your own merchants telligence fully
respect with Instincts and in theirs. There was being constant- question. A settlement. he said.used by reports of reprisal men-
working. I have ly impressed upon their minds Then talked with hundreds of them in view should be reached by pacific
life means, and not imposed at theures being adopted by the coun. You are going to have a whole lot meetings. They hare discussed, mekdramatic and often false
which . of specialists who are helpless with keen insight, all kinds of ques- false because the completion of life point of the sword. It might be tries likely to suffer from the pro-
though their neeila remain the that the matters in dispute would visions of that Bil--Reuter.
tions comics, psychology, his- кате,
is not affected by the kiss of, a religion. I remember one preity giri or have to be deferred for some time,
They have
the embraces of a ceased producing tory. until Manchurin had been evacuat-
but they go on consuming. Sup-man Jeuding a discussion as to who strong silent man. ed, apart from the rallway zone.
'machinery of the world would have por someone thinks of a windmill, Quiller Couch would have delighted where
wrote the Odyssey, Sir Arthur But someone will be naking |been recognised and strengthened,
or a sail, or a water-mill. then he to hear tons. The men were not very undesirable that| Much more was al stake than a is going to use these things to do bored while the discussion lasted there should be any hectoring or local dispute between China and what man originally did. schoolmastering attitude towards Japan.
Machin- not only the ery renders another group of men
and it was
their own choice! either side, but the League should mechaniam of the Lengue that was Į helpless. This in
But this very fact makes mobilize all the moral forces of the at stake, but also the world's pence day. Japan was supply her own of highly sensitive organism, ench happening to probbers worses We are thinking world no that those three essential machinery, including the Covenant coal, America can make her own with his own points were accured, When that and the Kellogg Fact--British steel. Danish butter, bacon and
individuality, No result had been secured, the peace Wircles,
eggs, are cheaper than
two of them are the same. I wish English. Bul for many of these things Engat I were not so prone myself to Jam held something of a mono-are, somehow, in a class by them- think that these men and women poly, So
Fet heaps af
solves, something to be judged in specialists helpless, utterly help bulk 118
It is often less except perhaps that
quantity. they nee might be able to grow their own 2.000.er unemployed means 2,000,- remind ourselves that cauliflower. Buat their ability to butan do this is increasingly reluces, them began life with their hopes lives. Nearly all of and worse still, their incifuntions as we did. They looked forward to do it are atrophied.
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to their home, to their wife and their children. They are men who went to school with us, and some of them were more brilliant than we were, and some could beat us at the 100 yards. Now they walk the streets.
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do they get their money from? Well, of course, there is The dole-the thing that has, per- haps, saved us from bloody re- valution, but not from moral de- gradation.
Borrowed Moncy. No one is more aware than the eployed mun that his dole is borrowed
money which he will never be able to repay. When it was purely an insurance and our American and other crities need to be reminded that it originally was
the unemployed man felt shame in taking it. But now he often feels himself to be a beggar. No Englishman easily succumbs in the mentally of a beggae. If you look sympathetically al his Socialism am not a Sacialist-- you will see that it is a last attempt to keep his self respect. He wants to feel that his dole is his right. Once you have made a man juke money for nothing, a number of A specialist, sald some wag, is a things can easily follow.
His sense
of money value bo+ defective. "Pasy
He does not inve. He is going to have his luxuries like other men. Ile is not going to smoke any less, or drink any lesa, gamble any less. or miss the movies, I used to think, thank God he won't miss his
But even here there is a match." acrious side. He doesn't piny him- el-he watches others. But it has kept the ethics of sportsman. ship in his sout.
soman who gets to know more and man more about less and less. There is
comes
No Work for Curriers, At one Mission where I was we Joaned spades and forks to men because they sold their own to live. In Walsall there are swarms of urriers who will never do a day's work again--as curriers, onless. by sonic strange turn of events, the
motor
becomes lebeian that the wealthy takes to the saddle again to show an element of tragic truth in this.sy." his distinction!
That is, that even if it were pos Now, compare this unwanted sible for a man to transfer from specialist of the City with the one job to another, he could not do ancient villager and see what a so without training, but it is im helpless creature he is. He cannot possible in any case, for all callings fight because no one wants to fight
full. Meanwhile every trade him.
and even that
resolve would
becomes more and more specialised, itself into a question as to who itad A friend of mine went through a amore money. He cannot hunt be boot factory in Northampton. After rause woods, rivers and fields, are seeing all the workers at their closed to him. He says with a respective tasks he asked "Have certain other well-known character, you anyone here who can make a "What shall I do seeing that the
pair of boots 7" "No.
are
was the re-
"I am
am afraid we have not."
or
"
come,
football
stewardship is taken from me? one of the very serious effects who have nothing left to lose. I
have not strength to dly. To beg I am ashamed. I am resolved what
of the march of the machine in to do. will go to the Exchange, that craftsmanship is less and less draw my gol, then to the reading wanted. I shall not easily forget room, and then I'll go and look at, the face of a man with a withered the traffic." What is there to do? hand who came to my door selling I have seen men stay indoors and brushes. I did not Want read the racing Buff upside down! brushes. Then, with eager eyes Their moping listlessness irritates and a smile, he said. "I made them their wives, infects their families, myself." and their once happy home becoming I wish that new handicrafts a place of misery,
And we
Hay
under these conditions the true re-instinct or euch work
Patience Marvel. Once a man has lost his self- respect, he becomes one of those
marvel not that crime statistics are said to be so high, but that they are ao low. Knowing as I do, in a small way, the mental pain in unemployment, I am astonished at the patience of my countrymen,
Money for nothing soon becomes money taken for granted. I know of young men who have scarcely done a day's work since they left school, six or seven years ago Money for nothing is the normal situation for them. The work they did not choose and did not like The "sack"
release. What wonder that they do not want to work.
was
could be found, for I can addice Home Life Broken.
evidence showing that there are must remember that very few men in whom the creative
lations of home life ean utterly cannot be
Meanwhile the break down in a way that may be innate creativeness, the construc- Jermanent.
It may seem impos- tive instinct, which we all share sible, lat man may come literally with our animal cousins, is A friend of mine accured a job to hate the sight of his own wife thwarted only to find expression for one such an of 22. He was
in and children: a very real nense fother ways. One of these is -too intimate to speak of in public, Kumbing, the statistics for which -they cease to be his. And when appear to go up with unemploy- thuse are taken, he has lost his last mont figures. good pleasure. These are things of which it is almost too sacred to sponk. To realise what I mean
False Cinemas Impressions. The temper of the unwanted specialist is always being irritated.
a big, well-made fellow, and had
been in work for no longer than a few weeks. The new job was a
good one-50 miles from home. After a month he gave it up be cause he was lonely. Funny, but Tragic.
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