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July 24, 1940,
STUDEBAKER
This is what the FUNNY SIDE UP
FOR ECONOMY! War
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run over a course of aver 300 miles. The Studebaker Champlon and President models also won first honours in their class. This is the first time in history that one make of car has won all three first prizes. Studebaker is the most economical full-sized car to operate in Hongkong. Takes all the hills on top gear.
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Workers Behind The Guns
The attitude with which all the working classes in Grent Britain are throwing themselves into the war presents a striking contrast with that of many of them between 1914 and 1918. Then, among large sections of the workers, there were doubts and misgivings, and fears of ex- -ploitation.--To-day--there-19 overwhelming evidence of the
fight, and that everything for which organised labour has stood throughout its history is at stake.
is
costing
THIS, war is a very expen- community except perhaps the sive business, much more very poorest, for even if all in- expensive than the last. Be- comes over £2,000 a year were completely confiscated the na- tween. 1914 and 1918 the tional, revenue would be in- cost of the Army worked out creased by only about £60 at about £340 por man per millions a year. annum, whereas each man If the standard rate of income) in the Army of to-day costs tax were raised from 78. Gd. to 10s. in the pound, excess profits; the nation on the average tax were made to yield its Inst £600 per annum.
pound, "fancy taxes" of one! The Navy, Army, Air Force' kind and another were imposed, and Ministry of Supply are and Indirect taxation stiffened sponding at the daily rate of the estimated revenue might nearly £4 millions. Almost an- reach a
£1,750 figure of other million a day is being millions, ie, a further £500 spent on Air Raid Precautions, millions a year. There would evacuation, shipping and the still be a gap of £1,500 millions, stabilization of food prices. per aunum, and this gap could The whole of the war expendi- be closed only by borrowing of ture is therefore close on £5 one kind or another. millions a day, out of a total At the outbreak of war it was Government expenditure of he estimated that the gross savings tween £6,500,000 and £7,000,000 of the community cannot have a day.
exceeded about, £750 millions a Already then, when we are year at the most, and this figure still only half-way through the Included amounts necessarily irst year of the war, we are set aside for the depreciation | spending at the rate of nearly of existing capital.
£3,000 millions
By Abner Dean
PETS
OF ALL KINDS
"I think the one with the brown eyes is the cutest!"
21
£2,500 millions a year-and this As the nation's war effort when the war in the air bus expands, the growth of employ millions, made up of £1.760has forgone the expenditure of hardly begun. Before the end ment and the increased sums millions from taxation and a pound which he would other- · of the war's first year we may paid in wages must increase the £1,500 millions from borrowing wise have spent, then there is be spending £8 millions a day, nation's savings, and the Na-about what the war is ex- no inflation, no matter whether which is at the rate of nearly tional Savings compaign will no pected to cost during the com- the private Individual devoted a year; if the doubt lead to the saving of lunge ing year. If the war develops the pound he did not spend to war continues, expenditure may sums which would otherwise in the air, then its cost will the payment of taxes, to sub- rise to £9 millions à day or have been frittered away. In be tremendously increased scription to war loan, or merely £3.285 millions a year, or even the first hundred days of the as suggested above, it may up to the increase of his cash re- £10 millions a day, when the National Savings campaign the pronch
£4,000 serves. truly terrific figure of 23.050 public subscribed, through the millions a year-and so there
figure of
But if the Government ex- millions a year would be
medium of War Savings Certi- will develop an ever-widening penditure on the war increases renched.
So much for expenditure; Bonds, to the extent of £100 height this gap might amount to tion in the expenditure of the.
ficates and 2 per cent War gup. When the war is at its without a corresponding reduc- what of the receipts? The millions, and perhaps this rate between £500 millions Chancellor of the Exchequer has of progress may be maintained £1,000 milliona a year.
and public, then there is inflation-- if, for instance, the citizen sub- scribes to war loan, not out of cash sot free by the limitation of his expenditure but out of ad- vances made to him
by his banker for the How will this fresh gap be purpose and possibly on the But it is difficult to believe closed? Judging from the ex- security of the loan to which he
estimated that
in the year 1939-40 he will receive £995 millions, and in the financial year 1940-1941 the may, if he is lucky,.
receive
[8/6
as much as £1,250 millions. Ex- or even increased. penditure, on the other hand, is
IN Income
THE
Tax
likely to reach at least £3,200 that the additional amount perience of the last war, by n is subscribing. millions. Between the two which
cari be secured from borrowing which will be, in This is the method of in- there is a difference of £1,950 genuine savings will be more effect, hardly distinguishable, creasing subscriptions to war millions-say, £2,000 millions. than £750 millions a year-in if at all, from inflation.
loans which was adopted in the How is the gap to be closed? other words, £1.500 millions a If in wartime, as the last war, and it may well be Increased taxation is the first year is the maximum that may "Economist" very clearly puts that circumstances will compel resort which will spring to mind, be received from savings.
it, for every pound that the its adoption in the course of and the increases would have to Thus we now have a total of Government spends some pri- this struggle if it should con- be borne by every class in the Government receipts of £3,250 vate individual (or institution) tinue more than a year or two.
Continuing .
tour the saloons and the out-
onlooker.
turned on
OF MICE AND MEN-
mean.
conviction that this fight is their ON Saturday night the to the burn. Curley rushed up.
"Your pappy! He's dead!" "I think you're goofy." she boys went into town to stairs to administer one of his "He was so lil'," whimpered giggled. "But you're a kinda frequent beatings; but she Lennie. " was just playin' nice fella. And a person can
what him in hysterical with him an' he made like he kinda
you lying roadhouses. George fury.
was goin' to bite me an' I made Sometime when I'm doin' my went along, but only as an "Who bust your han', Cur- like I was goin' to smack him hair I jus' set there an' stroke it because it's so soft. Feel ley she screamed, laughing an' then he was dead." A drink of whiskey cost fif- wildly. "Who bust your han'?".
"Don't you worry none. He there an' see how soft it is, Len- teen cents; and George was ob- "I tole you I caught it in a was just a mutt. You can get nic. Don't you musa it up,
another one easy. The whole now." sessed with the thought of how machine." much good planting seed for the
country's full of mutta."
"It ain't that so much. George LENNIE gently, happily, little truck garden on his and last night. Why didn't you tell ain't gonna let me tend no rab- stroked her hair. "Oh, that's Lennie's place could be bought your old man so he could ean bits, now." for fifteen cents.
More than that, they under- stand that the struggle is not only for their own rights and liberties, but also for that kind
"Yeah. I seen that machine
them fellers? I'll tell ya why
nice."
Lennie suddenly remembered He continued
to go, but she blocked his path,. it. She jerked her head side-
She spoke to ways, shouting "Look out, now
him soothingly. You'll muss it!"
Frightened by her sudden'
of internationalism. which has peculiarly appealed to the British labour movement. Mr. Ernest Bevin, the
powerful So George returned to theenuse if ya talked, they'd that Mae was a "pack o' trou- fingers over her hair, gradually passing his trude unionist who is
ranch early-yet none too soon. talk too. now Minister of Labour, made his
An you were afraid ble", and that he was forbidden stroking it harder and harder, Lennie, as usual, was doing the you'd get the horse laugh-like to talk to her. He made as if then passing his fingers through first appeal as a member of the
wrong thing.
I'm givin' ya now!" Government to his old comrades
Not only did he wander out Curley's angere to the barn and visit the for- turned to cold on grounds larger than national bidden premises of old Crooks, fury. grounda. "I am
"I ain't an inter- the coloured stable buck; worse, nationalist," he said, adding
he betrayed the secret of their even gonna slug that one reason why he as a
dream place to Crooks, abetted
I'm just trade unionist took office was
by Candy.
Junk STEINBECK because the labour movement
While George was ordering our Lennie and Candy back to the You're gettin' was being internationally des-
bunkhouse, Mac, adrift as usual outa here.*** troyed and its members on the Continent were being impri- soned and tortured.
In Britain it is no small thing that a trusted trade-union leader should ask his followers to dis- card the narrower conception of trade unionism. In the last war there were endless disputes about the dilution of labour and the restrictive rules established by collective bargaining; there were strikes and threats of strikes which gravely hampered output. There are no signs of such reluctance to press on with the industrial speed-up to-day. All appear conscious that there are heavy arrears to be made up, that there is not a moment to lose, and that this is a war in which speed on the fighting. front depends on speed in the factories.
ya. gonna
By John
He needn't
on Saturday night while her You and me are through." husband was in town on a
drunk, entered the barn.
...
worry about scream, he tightened his fingers being found
convulsively on her hair and
talking to her, chung to it. She
The
again. horse.
shoo tournament
screamed
"Please don't holler," ime ***********would laat all plorod Lennie, still hanging on. afternoon, and no
"George will be mad." one would leave it until it was over.
Mae scrambled to her feet, THE Sunday afternoon horse-
and Lennie stood up with her. AT Inst Mac had some one "Let go! You let go!" shoo pitching contest
she was to talk to, and to the uncom- screamed.
*
昨
WDs &
They tried to drive her away; but Mae, stubbornly bent on in full swing. But Lennie did prehending, scarcely listening finding out what had really not hear the excited shouts and Lennie she poured out her life's In wild panic, he clamped his happened to Curley's hand, the occasional clang of a horse- story; how her father had been held it a moment. When he re- big hand over her mouth and ignored their insults and close shoc against the spike that a drunken sign painter who was leased her she screamed again, ly questioned one after the sounded from outside the barn. "put away when she other about Curley. Then she For great sorrow had come to child; how she had wanted to holding her tighter and tighter, and again he covered her mouth, noticed the bruises on Lennie's Lennie. His pup was dead.
While he sat in the straw,
go into the movies, face.
shaking her a little. She strug- But Lennie kept returning to gled fiercely, kicking off one "So-it was you," she said looking dumbly at the little life- softly. "Well, maybe you're less form in his hands, Mac his own woe. "Maybe if I took of her slippers. Then her dumb like they say and maybe stealthily crept into the burn, this here pup an' throwed him frightened eyes suddenly be- you're the only guy on the At first she was unaware of away," he muttered, "George came calm. Lennie released ranch with nerve. You're a Lennie's presence; she had come wouldn't never
know. Then her, his fingers still entwined nice folla !".
in, dressed in her best dress maybe I could tend the rab- in her hair, and smiled with re- George would have struck her and carrying her cheap patent
bita."
⚫ Hof. then and there for messin' leather suitcase, to and her "What makes you so goofy. "That's right. Don't sell no around" with Lennis, had not puppy.
about rabbita?” she demanded, more. I don't want to hurt
you."
old man Jackson passed by and "I was clear through, the "I like to pet nice things. She stood facing him for an-
ordered them all out of the barn, ranch gate, but I remembered--Once at a fair I seen some of
When Curley returned home, you foolish little face you're them long hair rabbits. And they other second, her eyes dull, her late Sunday morning, from his comin' with me.”
was nice, you bet. I like to mouth open. Then she slumped all-night drunk, his father told When she heard Lennie begin pet nice, soft things, Like yel to the floor, him about Mae's nocturnal.visit to. sob, she went over to him
vet."
(To be concluded)