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By FREDERICK · COOK
T half-past two in the afternoon things were X going along pretty much as usual in Spear- fish, a pleasant little fruit-growing town lying in a wide green valloy at the western end of South Dakoin.
Some of the men were out in the fields. Their wives, were busy in their neat little white wood farmsteads.
At 2.40 p.m. a woman, glancing out of her window noticed a queer-looking black cloud away in the northwest. It had a tail which seemed to come down almost to the top of the lowest of the Black Hille.
She picked up the telephone and naked the local operator if she had noticed it. The operator went to the window, came back, thanked the caller and rang off.
A moment later men in the orchards glanced up as the fire siron walled across the valley Another forest fire they thought, and scanned the horizon.
Then they noticed the queer cloud. Its black- ness had become tinged with green. They heard the sound of a modn which rose to a howl, then died to a mur- mur, only to reach *La angry croscóndo, as a cyclone' tore across the valley and struck at Spearfish.
THE WAY TO GET ON
OUR
THE breakdown in Britain
T
is called a money crisis. It is a money crisis in the sense that we do not have enough dollars to buy the goods we need.
is
FEET AGAIN
by JOHN GORDON
He attacked the mind of that be
of
All that was done by mert courage and enterprise witho State help or oven State encourage. tient. In the new age that is open-
Opportunities as there
were before.
skilful and
Men started to run for their homes. They were swept off their feet.
RAN FOR CELLARS
Grabbing madly for tufts of grass, or anything to give them a handhold, they saw 40ft, apple treca bond liko bamboo, then become uprooted, and roll over and over across the fields.
Material problems were pressing able, under the system then existing, ing before us there will be as many upon him with the samo insistent to create and develop. argency, How did ho cope with The great Industrial Revolution- But to restore strength to the nation But shortage of currency with them?
the parallel to
Cars driving along the road which will surely we must give our alert, not the prime cause of our
Some come with the discovery of atomic enterprising men the same freedom
to grasp them na their forefathers were blown to a stop. disaster.
power-began in the textile industry It is merely one of wildered army. He set that right with Hargreaves' invention of the
y had. the consequences that arise first. From that all else flowed.
spinning jenny. Arkwrigh com- inevitably from the prime What have
Jost We
from our
plementary development
the cause.
national character in these recent innin years? One of the most vital things Smiles of Victorian days "self-help.”
of
What is that prime cause? In life what the famous Samuel Power, which established the factory
It is an inexplicable moral rot that has swept the country since the end of the war.
It has attacked men's brains just as infantile paralysis is attacking their muscles. And unless we find the cure, the nation will die of mental paralysis just as so many of is children are succumbing to the physical plague.
Our disaster springs from a dia case of the mind. It can only be cured by a purging of the mind.
called
REVELYAN in his English Social History explains the difference be- tween the Nineteenth Century, when Britain rose to greatness, and the Twentieth; Contury, when signs of decay appeared in the fabric, thus:-
"The real strength and felicity
Victorian of the
Age. lap
of the individual Englishman.
Did
Hargreaves
OF
..
toppled into ditches. Telegraph It may be a long Lask because poles snapped like pencils and men mentally ill are usually slow lines tangled across the road. to recover.
The sky went dark. Wo may have to Icarn the our folly the grim way, by tho
hardships and sufferings help that come from lack of work
or But learn it we must.
They alone can solve it.
Women grabbed their children Cows and ran for the cellars. and horses were blown off their fcet.
spinning frame worked by water system, and Crompton's mule, which lesson made fine spun yarn possible.
any Government
Arkwright Crompton? Not in the least.
These inventors, upo.I whom It is a personal problem to Ixo People who were not too ter- founded, had to find their own finun- lividual man and woman in much of our wealth and power was faced and decided by every in- rified to look saw in angry black
cial backing. They had to conquer country.
funnel-reaching down from the all diffeulles themselves as they met them.
It is the one problem of life they cloud. As it passed it whipped cannot drop in the lap of any plants, straw and hay, chickens Government.
and fruit, branches and some- times whole trees into the air.
In seven minutes 12 acres of maize were uprooted. Buildings Roofs In the Twentieth Century textiles which is still today one of avoided, and that life is possible
buttresses
of Britain's without it, that work is the key collapsed by the dozen.
to all things. on the other hand, self-discipline the main
Not merely hard flew off. and self-reliance are somewhat wealth.
From the moment the Industrial work, but honest, willing work. in evidence and a lear in
quasi.
FARMSTEAD PICKED UP Revolution began with the textile reliplous demand for social salva-
We have to get back that pride of the whole tremendous tion through State action has inventions,
the craftsman in his work which Britain to un-
The I. S. Crane bome, a substan- taken the place of the older and sweep that lifted
challenged production power in the once made the quality of British tial farmstead, was picked up, turn- and more personal creeds."
the citizen should world was the work of unfettered products the envy and the admira-ed upside down in the air,
tion of the world. The creed
dropped in a ditch on the other side Tely Longer
The old proud motto "British of the road. Cars were buried in himself but men. A SUN-should-in All --- circumstances be Fairbairn and Nasmyth made ng Best" must again ring... round the ruined He swept the overwhelmingly ur.
sustained, directed and pap-fed by world.
world. gent problem of material
WH
WHAT is the Orst step to take
in such a crisis? Tako two analogies from recent history. When Churchill took over the leadership of the nation in the midst of the Dunkirk disaster, what was the first action he took to sot us on the road to recovery and survival?.
iside and went straight for the mind of the nation.
no
We must
RKWRIGHT, more than any vidual man, built that greatness in that
convince the dimwits
the self-discipline and self-reliance Government or any other indi, who have swallowed the fallacy work is something to be
ze
That
us
Crawshay and Wilkinson
THE responsibility for that rests
and
Mrs.
Mrs Walter Wolf's home fung across the road Wan which it stood.
besido
Mrs Wolf and her children were not on the boss but on the skilled down in the cellar. They heard a man at the bench. He alone can achieve it. He can
achieve it unflnd suddenly saw the sky
the State has spread across the gave us our iron foundries. Nelison nation like a pestilence.
gave us the hot blasi. Until wo stay that
plague and He knew that once the mind was restore health to our minds, there canals to carry our goods far and Brindly ribboned the country with right material problems could be can be no real hope for us.
wide.
noise, felt a powerful solved.
How
can we restore self-reliance Stephenson emerged to put us in We all remember how, with one and
pride in
themselves to our the lead with the locomotive.
only if he sets himself a standard above their heads. immortal speech, he inflamed our men? Surely by preaching and As our world trade developed, a of work from which he will not In all
all the wreckage the only minds and set as marching behind
spreading the truth tirat at all new race of contractors arose to devinte.
death was
that of an Injured horse him into the year of tears and toll, decisive moments in our history we build the docks and raliwnys we When a restores to himself that which had to be shot. till we came at last to victory. have conquered adversity and risen needed, and later to build the docks lost high pride in achievement, After the cyclone the local garigo-
When Montgomery dropped sud- to new driumphs by the efforts of and railways of the world.
and
insists on allying with it op man (who was in London for a denly from the skies into the desert Individual men.
Coal began to flow along the new portunity for the Adventure of year or more) said to me with a to lead the Eighth Army, he found
waterways and railways, to bring a enterprise which alone makes trade wry grin: "I
never made them an army pretty much in the same
new, power to regions that nover expansion possible, then we shall understand what a raid was like? parlous condition as Churchill found
knew it before, and eventually to surely step forward to new glories. But I guess they know now. Only a nation.
become our most valuable export. and put austerity behind us.
this one was ever in seven minutes.
What gave Britain her world pre- dominance in the Victorian Age?
discoveries, The
inventions, and efforts of exceptional men who were
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
on the white and blue ribbon. Why? Go collar turned up; a furtive fellow, a IN what is described
back pages of all newspapers on, ask me why.
pitiable object, a failure, a has-boen, as the "world of sport," nobody On the beach
flop, a washout ever knows what is likely to I NOTE that Clacton or Margate or happen next. Alternatively (or, Southport or Bridlington or some If you like. paradoxically), any to charge visitors (and presumably such resort claim they are entitled thing can happen, or not, at residents, too) for scating up pri any time. It makes no differ- vately owned deckchairs .on
ence.
We have frand roller-speedway, bicycle palo,
upside-down
council's sands.
the
of this. Snouth-on-Sea
boxing, wrestling in mud-but this passed unanimously the following could go on until the 4th of next rovised scale of beach charges:- month.
Making cand pies, Bd. per doz. Making sand castles, 2s. 6d. fat rate.
moonlight "toolball, a laments Committee hastily
What I mean is would you ́care to join my hore-tennis eleven in
time for the Olympics next year? Carrying away sand in plimsolls, For all practical purposes a ball will 4d pair.
be provided; but members wil Carrying away and in betivern naturally be asked to bring their toes, no charge. own-rackels, nots, hurdles, goalposts, Sea; 24. a bucket. Jockey caps, martingales and horses. Oh about the horses. We would prefer Suffolk Punches, with their manes plailed with straw and red,
NANCY
Relief in Sight
Thar she blows
..
OR the past two days I have been *Cinking about with my 'coat
And all because after eating whale steak I found myself incapable of tion here a few woggish comments. alringing together for your edifica- mean, about eating whale steaks. Innend, to my intense disgust and utter loathing, I discovered that I actually liked the stuff. So please forgive me & at the moment I find
myself rather revolting,
Ennui
THIS column can't be really funny. can it? I mean, there isn't a shale mention of mothers-in-law or kippers and not even an oblique re- ference to oralşagi от EOMCOTE slipping on a banana skin.
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