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By BERNARD HARRIS
THE SOCIALIST
THE
EXPERIMENT.... Where
not
first complete your in!
The outstanding feature is that our the transition from war to economy is topsy-turvy. We are peace is ending as it started producing ample-come might say with our
Loo many-metal goods, but Socialist lenders im nearly enough soft goods like cotton ploring us all to work harder. and woollen
clothes, binnkets and "Produce or
perish" has be-sheets, coats and quits. the theme song with which we must face the future.
come
arc
When we fool around us and see that food shortages are worse than a year ago, that coal stocks diawn and power cuts more frequent, that only the surface of the housing problem has been scratched, that Sir Stafford Cripps expects clothes rationing to continue for years, then
we may feel that the time has come for a change of tactles.
How about sparing us further good advice, we may ask, and giving us
a genuine incentive Instend?
APPEALS
They no longer make
any impression
|
|
Planning has surely run crazy when it results in our shops being
piled high with electric fires for which there is no power, while we are kept short of the clothes which would warm us without turning on a switch.
If this is a sample of what Mr Mor rlson describes as a "co-ordinated and tidy policy," then I think there is something to be said for untidiness. Some of the chief planner's col- leagues evidently share this view if we are to judge from reports that output of electric fires is now to be curtalled.
W
STOCKINGS
Less than half what we used to buy
duction of our factories.
has it led the British people?
Some of the raw material shortages
Einstein Το Picasso
BY PAUL HOLT
PRO
„ROFESSOR ́ ALBERT EINSTEIN is leaving the cloistered life, of Princeton
go on a pilgrimage.
to
He will take his staff in his hand and stump the little towns and villages of America to warn the people about the Atom. Time is short, he says:
So the wise professor adopts the ancient religious method of pll- grimage to his purpose. So he comes is a prophet to rouse up the people against their rulers, who wish to keep the Atom secret.
A
Fine, but he does not go far enough. The Atom is not simply weapon of war, It has become th totem, symbol, an object of wor- ship. The Atom is the symbol of the Infant God of Science. Regimenta- tion, Formula, Power, Calorie, Vita- nin. Speed and Propaganda are the Seven Pillars of its Wisdom.
They are the seven-branched
candlestick before the altar of this new religion. Where primitive man worshipped fire and the heat of the sun, elvilised man bows down to radio-activity.
It is the duty of all acientists lo teach that their trade is not a mys- tery, but an instrument. For what shall it profit us to save our lides from the atom bomb if we lose our souls to a cyclotron?
produced, but it is difficult to put a which hundicapped the Government M
We have seen a mass of legisiution |
Anger on tiny enactment of the Government and say. "That has made
contribution a positive
to produc- tlon."
WHINING SCHOOLBOY
In
GEORGE F. WILLISON has written a book ("Saints and
Heinemann, 15x.) were world shortages. It could do Strangers,"
which he says that the Pilgrim nothing much about them.
Fathers were not holy men fleeing from religieus persecution but rather merchant ndventurers Ananced by the City of London. The motive for the economic. migration wus not religious, but.
Well, that's another few dreary hours. I wasted at school..
in the main because
the
But our industries have expert- Al too often the story has been | enced other shortages, which have just the reverse. Industry has been arisen weighed down and impeded by vexa-Government still insists on trying to tinus controls, form filling snooping buy materials itself instead of letting the experts get back to their pre-war
and meddlesvine interference.
It has been frustrated by the atten- | job. tions of officials, well-menning, no doubt, who have sought to tell bust- nessmen how to do their jobs.
Here is a comment by one who has hnd much experience of them, Sir George Usher-
"The authorities," he says, "pre Jubijant about the increase In volume of our exports and reticent about the obvious fact that private enterprise produces the exported goods.
E obtain still less encouragement when we survey the quantities of FTER visiting a number of fac-goods available for purchase in our tories in the past few weeks, shops as distinct from the total pro- feel pretty sure that appeals and posters are getting us
The hosiery manufacturera nowhere. Workers have endured such a surfeit turning out 14,000,000 pairs of stock of them that they no longer make any ings a month, but as some of these have to be sold abroad the home impression,
market in left with only 11,800,000 can't. pairs.
Better-filled shops and a lightening of the P.A.Y.E. burden would do more to step up production than any number of pep talks by Ministers and their underlings.
How far have we got along the rond to peace-lime production levels after 18 months of Socialist ryle?
This is less
Lan
are
half what our womenfolk used to buy, for in the old days we made 23,500,000 pairs a month and imported 1 further 3,500,000 pairs.
If you are one of the fortunate few with a new house to furnish you will
"If for ships, why not for shops? Does anybody really want telling?"
And he adds that it is no use the Government urging executives to get a move on if it simultaneously takes strong measures to see that they
To corry, out these "strong measures" and develop new ones the Government in constantly adding to the ranks of the Civil Service and so denuding industry, already under- manned, of more of its workers.
Nur has it yet had any noteworthy success In persuading workers to It is fairly easy to estimate our find from Mr Morrison's statistics transfer from the industries which position, for, if our Government has that the woollen carpets on sale were expanded during the war to failed to deliver all the goods iteach month are less than a half of those, like cotton and wool, which promised, it has at least provided the pre-war number and that ling-were "concentrated" and must now us with a record outpouring of stalls-leum in down to less than one-third. be restored if our needs are to be ties.
met. Also cut to n half or less in the in- | **** terests of export trade are the home |... supplies of table cutlery, spoons and foris, fountain pens and travel goods.
Even so, the figures are not na com- plete as they might be. They tend to be most detailed when the results are pleasing to the authorities and sketchiest when the results are poor. OUTPUT
Position according to Mr Morrison
WITHIN these limitations, this is what Mr Morrison's own figures reveal:-
Output much larger than in 1930–
Decorated chinaware has disappear- led in tavour of plain stuff of - the
coffee-stall type.
the
MOTOR-CARS
Only 162,000 available
for home market
E motor industry, we have just been told, is producing vehicles at rate of 480,000 a year, or 05 Gas, electricity, aluminium, sul- per cent of the pro-war peak. phuric nçld. superphosphates, But only 182,000 will be available agricultural tractors, electric. Ares, electric irons, electric vacuum cleaners, electric keitles, clocks, plaster board, steel windows and doors, tooth brushes, motor-cycles, commercial vehicles.
Output at or around 1938 levels---
for the home market this year, com- pured with 311,000 in the best year before the war.
Now, of course, it would be unfair to blame all these shortcomings on the Government, or, as Mr Morrison' has put it, to speak as if the Government were directly respon- Pig Iron, steel, motor-cars, rayonsible for every shirt that is not pro- yam, household brushes, cement, duced." children's socks.
Output moderately below 1930-
Blankets, fountain-pens, radio sets, proms, bricks, pedal-cycles,
iron ore.
Output substantially below 1030-
3 SHORTAGES Men, raw materials and foreign currency
I had given the traders a chance we should have had a freer flow of raw materials at no greater cost- possibly even Government has been able to do.
cheaper than the
RUBBER
Worst case of official incptitude
WORST example of all of Goveni- ment ineptitude in dealing with raw materials has been over Malayun rubber industry.
SO SIMPLE British
1s Foreign Office THE
puzzled and worried because 'It took Pravda three weeks to decide that Mr Bevin's broadcast "regretted" the existence of the Anglo-iussun alliance of 1942. They find the time- lag sinister, but I don't.
As any visitor to Pravda omces would know, they lost the copy.
MR
BIG BUSINESS BUT-
[R MATTIE FOX, of America, who has gone into the world market with our Mr Rank, adapting Hollywood techniques to religious thej and educational films for 10 and 8 mm. projectors, says: "This is going to be one hell of a big bustness,"
Maybe, but 1 shall miss my, lantern slides of the Holy Land.
Before the war that industry was the largest singla producer of dollars in the Colonial Empire, and it could have been again if it had been properly handled.
PICASSO PROGRESSION A・ TRAVELLER from Antibes on Mr Morrison promises us that
the Riviera has arrived back a White-paper will be issued
with exciting news of the painter which will enable us to take stock Pablo Picasso. "His Guernica period of the national position in the light
over," he reports. "Luminous Mediterranean aktes of a more comprehensive econoinic
replace the survey thon has hitherto been avail-black sun of Spain at war. Centaurs able."
play pipes, and an inspired woman, a sort of Goddess of Jay, dances in the company of little gonts....
And how is your Guernica period getting along, my little man?
Latest coal cuts to be inflicted on industry do not suggest that we shall derive much good cheer from this economic inquest.
But unless we get a move on the Worst-of-all-its-nationalisation | Government may have to "hold,"an policy has not cured the persistent inquest on its plans for social better- ausentem which is at the root of ment. For they can be paid for bly
by increased production,
our coal troubles.
According To Culbertson,
four match.
There
.
correct
(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)
"Dear, Mr Culbertson:
was In a technical sense the qui'e a discussion over the following contract was six spedes, because that hand, which came up in a team-of-contract could be made without a de- fensive error. In a practical sense, the correct contrad, was four spades. because a slam could not be reached by strictly logical bidding, and be- cause the slam, if It was reached, re- quired far better than average play- to wit:
"South, dealer. "Both sides vulnerable
WEST 073
NORTH
K 10 6 ❤AGS 4.4762 +Q3
J 10 0 5 2
• Q 10 +745.
EAST
• 82
Q84
• J083
▲ Á 10,9.6 SOUTH 4AQIE
KT
KO
+KJ42
West presumably opens the heart Jack (not that matters). The king wing and a club is led to the queen. East wing and makes as good a TC- turn as any, a club. Declarer wins,. draws exactly two rounds of trumps, cashes the heart ace and rùffs dem- my's losing heart, then leads his last trump and overtakes in dummy.
The postion now is: Dummy has one trump and four diamonds. East has three diamonds and the two clubs THE Government was faced from
he requires South how his original the outset with three major
"At Table 1, North-South reached three diamonds and the K-4 of clubs.
Wes, is shortages manpower, raw materials six spades, and made it when East
out of running. Dum- and foreign currencies.
discarded a club on the third round must surrender. If he lets go an y' Inst trump is eashed, and East
two
the
Cotton
goods, woollen goods, furniture, household furnishings, men's socks, women's stockings, Whatever Government had come to of trumps. This let declarer footwear, linoleum, wool carpets, power in the summer of 1945 would diamonds from dummy on his own other diamond, dummy's entire sult -pottery and crockery, watches, have started with the same hund-long clubs.
travel goods, table cutlery, spoons | caps. «. and forks, roofing slates, clay tiles...
f la the record. What is the That main leason to be drawn from it?
The debatable point is whether the headaches involved in ecoriomic transition could have been remedled more effectively by other means..
NANCY Sluggo Spoke Too. Soon
IF YOU'LL DELIVER. MY PAPER ROUTE TODAY -- I'LL
GIVE YOU A
DIME
SURE-- WHERE
IS TH'
ROUTE 9
IT'S RIGHT ACROSS THE PARK ON ELM ST
OKAY--DIS IS AN EASY WAY TO MAKE A DIME
"At Table 2, North-South stopped at four spades and made only five against better defence.
"What was the correct contract? Should a team bld a slam that de, pends on a defensive error?"
is good. If East discards a club, de- low diamond clorer (who disentda in any case) leads to the diamond king and cashes both his clubs.
To repeal, however, the slam could scarcely be bid by experts, or fulfilled by average players,
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