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THE MEANS TEST
Rioting such as that which oc- curred in London on Wednesday, whilst it serves to direct attention to the grievances of the workleas, cannot but be deplored. It spes fairly clear that the outbreak was organised by the National Unam-
DAY BY DAY
Iloving Òmeer investigates the personal family circumstances of oach claimant and reports to the Public Assistance Committee. Tue Committed then asscases the case
for payment either
THERE 18 NOTHING LIKE TAKING: at the full rate (that is, the standard benefit SCANDAL BY THE BEARD AND TREAT- ING THE OPINION OF THE WORLD rate of 16s. Id. per week for af WITH HEROIC INDIFFERENCE-L man, 138. 6d. fer a single woman, 8s. for a dependent wife, and 28. for a dependent child), or at any lower rate it thinks proper, Or It may reject the claim altogether The money comes out of the Na tional exchequer, but should the Committee think that the full rate
is too little for subsistence, as it often does, it may supplement it from the local rates.
Gross anomalies, hardships and Inequalities have, it is claimed, resulted from the handing over of the Means Test to the local au-
more.
Sage.
1
WHY MEN LIVE IN TURKISH BATHS
By ROBERT BENCHLEY
NE of the three hundred and in his now home (she had never
before),
troubles with English home life one look at the chintz curtains, to-day is the alarming spread of she took him upstairs and asked home-making as an art. For the him if he were aura just who his Passengers who left by the Em-past fifteen or twenty years our wife's people were. She thought presa of Russia thie morning included little women have been reading so he had married a Chinees girl. Hon. Dr. S. W. and Mrs. T'so, and much warning them against lack; To-day those very same chintz Miss Peggy Horneil,
of imagination in the home that curtains would be considered dull. they have lot their imaginations As the tide of originality swept Passengers arriving North by the F. and O. llner Naldera got the upper hand, and turn them on the poppies began getting larger and larger, until the design to-day included Colonel A. 11, K.into a lot of Hans Andersena, Watson, the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, dwarfs to make any modern home here and there a bit of background All that is needed is a band of became one big rod. poppy with and Mr. A. J. P. Henrd.
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played Workers' Movement, #! work and who, under the operation guin. At the Lausanne Confér-imaginative on us.
a Humplestiltkin's castle which, at which hardly know that it was a A case admitted to hospital yeater- the stroke of midnight, turns back background on the same plece of day showed signs of opium polsoning, into a pumpkin again. In many goods. He was Teang Tung, n shop employen ways the old pumpkin would be This obviously would never do, for the next stop would have been living at 240, Queen's Road West. more comfortable to live in. His condition, however, is not con- Before home-making became an 'all poppy, or just a good, old- altered serious.
art mother used to feel that she fashioned red curtain which was had done pretty well If she and exactly the thing they were trying Mr. C. J. Chancellor, Router's Annie could get the furniture all to get away from. You have to thorities. The Public Aselstance General Manager for the Far East, back into place (and by into look out for that in modern de Committees, who have full discre-arrived here by the P. and O. Ilner place" is meant "Into place again") coration. Beyond a certain point Naldera this morning. He la son after the spring cleaning, with you swing right around back into tion as to the amount of payment of Sir John Chancellor, former High perhapa fresh tidies on the backs grandma's house again. granted, exercise their powers in Commissioner in Palestine.
of the chairs overy so often.
Not In My Home. most diverse ways, Cases have
All as You Were.
I have an article before mc. Royal Observatory reporta A most attractive console with been cited in which workers have that the antleyclone now lies over! Things had to go back pretty written by one of these home- butt walnut control panel and had their grants reduced on re- South China to the south of the much where they came from, for making exports, which bagina os pleasing design. Has a remark moval from one area to another Yangtse Valley. A depression in the castors had dug little round follows:- able five tube Superheterodyne
situated to the north of Shantung holes in the carpet, and you would "Colour everywhere in the house chassis with Pentode and Screen not by reason of any change in French monsoon will prevail over the not want to have the place looking is the key-note in present day de-
Northern China Sea. Local forecast: like a dimpled golf ball. Grid tubes and rectifier filter circumstances, but simply becauseN.E. winds, fresh, fair,
corating from the basement to The only imagination that was the attic, from the foyer-hall to the system. The entire chassis is of the different policies of Public completely shielded and includes Assistance Committees. What is
A young woman, named Lai Sam,necessary in the preparation of the back door. Even the kitchen is as in gay as a flower garden, for pots an antenna compensating con-
nged 22, who had been staying at the food was to find enough, for,
in; and pans have been glorified. denser. Beautiful tone quality and
there are many people in Tung Nani Boarding House, was dis. the days before dieting set a marvellous performance. precisely the same circumstances cavered in an unconscious condition in daddy and the boys and girls stop. Gone are the days of all-white
her room yesterday, and was conveyed ped at nothing in the way of load- bath-rooms. . in contiguous arens getting en- Height 33 inches. Width 23
to hospital. She is belleved to haveing up short of foundering with Is that a terrifying prosport
"Gone are the days of inches.
The taken both Adalin and opium in an all on board. Merely getting to- Isn't it? Depth 10%
tirely different treatment. inches.
attempt to commit suicide, and her gether "enough" mashed potatoes all-white bathrooms," are they? Weight 40 pounds.
rules under which the Committees condition is stated to be serious. used to call for more Imagination Well, not in my house. work cover five main sources of
thun is expended to-day in think- The bathroom is a sacred place, income disability pensions, com-
ing up now designs to trim lettuce not merely a room where you if it does no more than make re-into. If you had told your mother rush In to wash your hands before. pensation awards, personal say commendations on the basia of the that she wasn't using enough a meal.
My Vocal Efforts. ings, ladgers' rent, and the earn reports presented to it. It must imagination in the running of her
household she might very well 1 like a good, warm bathroom, ings of relatives. Under each be a conference in which plenipo- have told you in return to get out with plenty of light, in which 1 head, it appears, there are start- tentiaries are prepared to under- of the kitchen that instant, and can sing "Old Man River" (and, ling differences of practice. All take engagements and to submit not mess up the living room as boy, can I take those low notes in "Old Man Kiver" in a good reson- over the country, there have been those engagements to States which you went through...
But gradually the home-making ant bathroom! Paul Robeson is protests against the operation of are prepared to make the changes
of national policy that are neces- experts have got their propaganda a tener compared with me some the Means Test, and at Birken-sar. The delegates will not be photographs of armchaira planted which I can lie in the tub and read across, flooding the country with mornings), and I like a room in head recently the Town Council, able to work in so leisurely a with geraniums and luncheon until well parboiled, sometimes in which the Conservatives are in 'fashion as did the delegates who tables in disguise, telling the getting nice, big blisters on A majority, passed a strongly met at Geneva to
dia young wives who are just begin- pages with wet fingers, or, if very worded resolution against it. The armament. After all, save for ning to worry about that far-away tired, perhaps dropping the whole look in George's eyes that the book into the water, and I don't Minister of Labour, it appears, drains on budgets, it makes little trouble was lack of imagination in want to have the feeling, every cannot give ordera except of a difference, so long as peace pre-fixing up the nest.
time I look up, that I am taking (Continued on Page 7.) negative kind to the local author-rails whether armaments are re-, So the young wives have become
duced this year or next year. imagination-conselous, with ties, and it is claimed that unli with thirty millions of unemploy-result that the comfortable the Means Test is taken out of
1 ed throughout the world, it makes chairs have been stood upside- down and painted purple and the the hands of these nuthorities, is a great deal of difference whether windows have been fixed up with are coloured curtains to such a degree unified and revised both in prin- measures of reconstruction
month or next that one has to don dark glasses viple and method, trouble will con- proposed this tinue. There are,
month. If the presidential elec-in order to look out and see what admittedly.
the weather is, tion had not come this year, people who abuse unemployment relief, and for these no criticism
American policy could have been
Those First Signs.
Yes, Thomas me bhoy, ahure an' On looking back over the past ye did get me the money to buy excogitated without the danger of
the arival of chintz me little house an' bit o' haggart is too severe. But there are many its becoming a football of partisan would seem to have been the first from the landlord, an'
ten years
faith others who are genuinely out of politics. That would have been a indication that things were going won't be denyin, that ye
tuk me promise to repay ye as a gintle- Communist body which gome':
The first designs in chintz cur-men's hond, an' that on that same are being ence it was clear that the United) weeks ago created a disturbance of the Means Test,
were bond ye stud guarantor for me denied the necessities of life. It States could not participate in the tains and sofa coverings at Birkenhead, and with which, it
is these who deserve considera-world conference until after the very mild, perhaps little spatter- wid the bhoys who put up the ings of buttercups on a black field, money for me, an, I won't be is worth noting, the Birkenhead, tion, and it is to be hoped that the election. Cannot there now be or in the more radical households, anyin' alther that ye didn't get me Unemployed Association has de-
reasoned discussion of the pos-medium-sized poppice, but, promised Government statement
com- aisy repayment terms clined to have anything to do on the subject will indicate some toward proposals which the contains which used to hang in the (when was given on
sible attitudes of the United States pared with the old white lace cur- strength o' yar respected word These mischief-makers have, with- definite step towards ameliorating ference may
rubber word), but ye're a saft-hearted oul a doubt, been seeking to the lot of the sufferers.
albay-window back of the consider? Such discussion would be a more valu-plant, and were held back in place gossoon an' it's meself as has seen utilise the sufferings of the idle
they yo let others off their debts to ye,
workers for their own unworthy
able preparation for the confer-by a gold ball and chain,
Tan though those same were war were pretty hot stuff. ence than the technical reports of I remember, back in 1915, a man debta be tho same token, ends, attempting to get the unem-
whose mother came to visit him sthruk me that I moight be afther ployed to take the law into their
gettin out of me payment to ye own hands even to the extent of
too. They do be sayin' ye've got funny notions yerself an' that ye attacking the police and looting
never asks to be let off yer own shops. There can be nothing but
debts (thinkin, sunre loike, that disgust felt by all reasonable
it's more honourable to pay) but I do be thinkin' different mc- minded people at such tactics; the
self, an so I see to meself "Dev pity is that there should be men
me bhoy, why shouldn't yo if ye willing to be made the tools of
can? It ud make yg a rale shmart thrickster among the bhoya oy the such scallywags,
country, an' faith do ya know any other bhoys who have an honester regard for a thrickster than they have? So I thinks and thinka ny how it can bo dun, an'' thin I remembers that ould sayin' oy me grandmother about how a friend a yor great great grand- mother used to take in Washin' an' charged me great great grand- mother tupence for washin great great grandfather's shirts whin be the same token she should av charged only three haponce. Now I was tould that me great great grandfather was a man av some substance an' put on a clone shirt overy Sunday for Mass. That's a haponny a week or two an' tupence year, an' as there's no denyin that the friends o' yer female ancestors since the toimes o' Henry the Second an' Strong- bow Moight av been overchargin" for me ancestors' shirts, or what- aver it was they wore In thim days eight hundred years ago--so it wo make It 800 toimes two tuponco, an', add the compound interest over all that tolme, folth there'a ye debt paid, an' ye owe me twelve an' sixpence on tap ay It. Yo won't deny that will ya? Shura ya wouldn't bonither chatin' an honest mon an drivin' a hard bargain, wud yo?
ET.OS.
World Economic Conference. experta,
economic conference are nearing Arrangements for the world
completion. Mr. Rambay Mac- Donald has been invited to pre- side, the organising committee will meet at Geneva within a month and the delegates will assemble in London early in the New Year. The appointment of the American delegation, whose responsibility But the riotous scenes in Louis greatest, is subject to delay, a don, as well as other demonstra-fact which might be regarded as tions which have occurred clae- unimportant but for its corollary where, are merely an outward in- that public opinion in the United dication of intense dissatisfaction States cannot be prepared to which has been felt over the work-sanction the changes of national policy which will be necessary if ing of what is known as the Means bulwarks against the world de- Teat, the operation of which has
pression are to be built. The diminished the burden of Exche precise nature of the changes to quer payments to the unemployed. be recommended will not be known In principle, this test is quite de- until the conference meets, but it fensible, since it is only right is not too soon to discuss their that the State, before granting a necessity and their general lines. be satisfled The Lausanne Conference was relief, should that he needs it. But the trouble called to liquidate reparations, That task was accomplished, and is that the Poor Law machinery if the United States promptly has been used in the operation of agrees to scale down war debts- the test, a circumstance which na In the end it must surely do has aroused widespread resent the necessity of huge inter-govern- ment. Let us see how the Means 'mental payments will no longer But the Test works. The regulations lay bar economic recovery.
man
it down that the local authority statesmen meeting at Lausanne shall make such Inquiries and wished measures of reconstruction otherwise deal with the cane as if as well as of liquidation. Hence the plans of the World Economis they were estimating the need of
Conforence. They envisage it not an unemployed able-bodied personne a conference of exports, but of who had appllad for public assist statesman empowered to negotiato. anco." This means that the Re- The conference will be a failure
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