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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1933,

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(Reuter's Special Mall Service.)

• London.

Mr. Nathan Laski vave a lun- cheon at 'the Midland Hotel, Manchester. recently to enable a number of lending business men to meet General Maurice Abra-

THE CHINA MAIL.

Londoners Living Longer

Improvements In Health Ana Education

BETTER TASTE,

(By C. E. M. JOAD).

TOO

PROHIBITION'S

BENEFIT TO. UNEMPLOYMENT

Repeal Will Assist Farmers.

VARIED OPINIONS.

(Reuter's Speelal Mail Service.)

Washington.

Many and varied are the opin- ions voiced in America to-day, ns to just how many men will be put to work if the sale of liquor| is legalized.

Mankind-it is difficult to avoid Hubert Llewellyn Smith, of which ham Cohen, who is at present the reflection is extremely cuss the third and fourth volumes have

Statistics show that in the stavine with his narents in Bury ed. If our lot continuously im-working-class

just appeared. More than 12,000 "peak" year of 1914 the average households were number of employees in brew-

TO-

A comparison between the in spirit and liquor factories. ults of Booth's survey of 40 years

The Association against the go and that of to-day reveals Prohibition Amendment declares age London workman to-day can of 101,000 persons were also some heartening facts. The aver- that before Prohibition, a total; buy one-third more goods with

New Rood. Manchester, while on proves we complain that it does examined, and in the preface to a Eeronean visit in the interest not improve more rapidly; if it the third volume Sir Hubert tellseries and malt plants amounted ¡of trade and pond volations be-Improves a hundredfold and then us that it deals with the condition to alightly more than 64,000 with

tween Eurone and China,

of 2,500,000 persons living in the 8,500 more finding employment, deteriorates by Even a hair's East End in 1929. General Maurice Cohen, who breadth we assail the heavens with ¡bas for some vears exerted con- our lamentations, thinking that siderable military and political the end of the world is come, even influence in China, where he has when we know that it will again fought with and led the Nation-continue to improve to-morrow. al forces-enioving the confidence These reflections are prompted labour, and this although the cost working as bar tenders and an and friendshin of Dr. Sun Yat-by a consideration of the lot of risen between 80 and 90 per cent. ers. How many are similarly of living in the last 40 years has additional 68,000 as saloon keep- son and of his son. Mr. Sun Fo, Londoners at' three separate He consumes half the quantity of the present Nationalist leader, periods in the last two hundred alcohol, drinking six glasses of employed to-day in speak-easies }beld a round-the-table converta. years. During these two hundred 7ght beer against ten glasses of is a matter of guesswork, but it tion with his fellow-guests after years their lives have improved in four times as many books, travels the old total.

heavior beer. He spends, however, is probably not very far from luncheon.

the matter of health, comfort, bap-four times as much, and visits four Much of interest and informa-piness, cleanliness and general times as many places of amuse would necessarily be cut through Any increase in employment tion, and not a little of romance they are also very much longer.

well-being out of all recognition: ment. and adventure, emerged in the

Forty years ago half the parents displacement of workers employ- course of an hour's rapid talk, in is a picture

Consider the facts. Here, frat,xamined had received little or no ed in non-alcoholic manufacture of London in theducation; to-day 95 per cent. have and in the making of illicit bever- which he rented to penetrating eighteenth century taken from the assed through the schools, ages. On the other hand there! questions addressed to him by Threo eut of every four children bered on an average 60; in 1929 in auxiliary lines to the liquor clasate work of Dorothy George. School classes 40 years ago num-Would be an increase of workers merchants keenly concerned in died before the age of five, and the they averaged 36. Infant mortality trade, such as barrels, bottles. economic and political, conditions level of the population was main-10 years ago was 151 per thousand; caps, etcetera. in the Far East.

tained only by rural immigration, to-day it is about 68.

The probable benefit to farm- The desertion of children was

Children's health has improved ers in disposition of their crops, tion emphatically, and more than ling Hospital Was established port for 1931 Sir George Newman,

(Continred at fool of preceding once that to his knowledge the through a revolt at the inhuman chief Medical Officer of the Board

Column). opportunities for trade between custom of exposing newly-born of Education, writes: "A health Manchester and China are most

infants to parish in the street. conscience has grown up. The favourable. Among the reasons

children are cleaner, botter in phy- The conditions in the prisons que, better fed, better clothed The gave for this view were the were so bad that a sentence of and better nurtured than they really good relations now exist-sentence of death; at the Marshal-records of them..

imprisonment was tantamount to a bave ever been since we possessed- ing between Great Britain and Bea Prison in 1710, for example, winning its reward, a healthier Nurture is China, the boycott against Japan-three hundred persons died, main people."

A

The General made the declara-common practice, and the Found-out of all knowledge. In his re- is also estimated. Corn used in

ese manufactures, and the fact less than three months. Neverthe nave benefited. The Londoner's ly from atarvation and typhus, in Nor is it only, the children, who that Britain is on a sterling less, it was computed in 1714 that -verage expectation of life; which basis and other nations on a gold no less than sixty thousand per in 1870 was 35 years, has now gone basis. The fact that Japan was sons were in prison in various up to 57. We have literally over off gold made no difference, be-

parte of England for debt alone. 20 years more to live than our

Public morals were debauched parents had. cause of the effectiveness of the by drunkenness, and by drunken- boycott, which General Cohen ness of the worst kind, savage, Domesday Book, we find that the To return to London's new asserted was neither temporary farmers to utilise the corn left on unskilled work has been twice as brutal and cruel. To assist advanco in "real" rates of pay for nor local, but national and rela-their hands, the Government on-great as that for akilled. The very tively permanent.

couraged distilling, charging only poor, in fact, are neither so many The possibilities of a stabilised a small duty on spirits and permit nor so poor. Our standard of what currency and of stabilised civilting them to be sold without a constitutes extrema poverty has Government were discussed, and licence. As a result eight million risen to the degree that what is upon the more important of gallons of spirits were sold in called the "poverty line" in now these matters General Cohen held London in 1743; in the poorest placed at forty shillings a week that attempts to unify the coun-parts every fourth or fifth house for a moderate-sized family, in- try by force had admittedly fail was a gin shop, while men

and stead of ed and that there were increas-women and children, buying gin which was Booth's figure,

twenty-one shillings, ingly hopeful prospects of peace from hawkers in the streets, from ful unification under the banner barbers, chandlers and grocers. faction, certainly not for com- of the National party and the passed their lives in permanent placency. In Booth's time ont per- leadership of Mr. Sun Fo.

sottishness, providing the models on in seven in the East End of The Japanese invasion had for the brutal and hideous faces London was found to be in cond!- done more to unify China than that leer and scowl at us from the tions of such privation that be anything else in the last 20 years, canvases of Hogarth's pictures. acked all but the barest necessities he declared. M

Mr. Nathan Laski was warmly amusements.

The brutal mob demanded brutal of existence; to-day, the proportion thanked for his hospitality and brutality," says Dorothy George, en

"An education in ras dropped, but it is still one in for acording the opportunity to "was given in the public spectacles There are other facts on the meet General Cohen, on the pro-at Tyburn and at the pillory, by tetit side., Housing in London Is position of Sir William Cundiff, the constant flogging through the still a disgrace, and overcrowding supported by Sir Edward Rhodes. streets, by the methods of press has diminished very little. In the

ganga and crimps," and we read of outskirts of London there was ac-| riots because a man whom the mob tually an increase in overcrowding had paid to saa hanged was unex-between 1911 and 1921. In 1929

TELEPHONE TALK SECRECY.

Preventing Leakages.

(Reuter's Special Mail Service.):

Canberra,

The agures are a cause for satis-

ectedly reprieved. The mob wa traffic mishaps caused 1,862 deaths {housed in a squalid confusión of 'n the London streeta, as compared | courts, tenements and dens which vith the 186 annual victima of the teemed with vagrants, beggars and hansom and growler, -

criminals acknowledging as their Taken by and large, however,

permanent residents only typhus, the facts afford solid ground, for And smallpox.

satisfaction in the present and

So much for the eighteenth cen- hope for the future. We ought to tury, to whose culture it is the move more quickly, but we have fashion among many moderns, Įmoved; we ought to have advanced The existence of a device to-ep-tired of the vulgarity of the farther, but we have advanced. sure secrecy for telephone conversa-twentieth, to look back with wist-Men are richer, enduro less pain, tions over the telephone between | ful longing.

live longer, and are more com

England and Australia is ravealed I will take the second and third fortable than their fathers. And so the result of a question asked in periods together. Just over forty as for our great grandfathers, the Australian House of Represen-years ago (1889) the Right Hon. their Hves must for the most part tatives, regarding reported leak- Charles Booth, shipowner and have been bellish... ages of confidential Government economist, published his celebrat

and commercial conversations. od "Life and Labour of the Peonle the manufacture of beer before The Postmaster-General, Mr. in London. The book in the Prohibition has been estimated at Parkhill, replying, stated that the words of the author, was designed around 12,000,000 bushels, com Anglo-Australian telephone sys to show

tem was provided with a secrecy to regular ear device which was always used for tive comfort Government business, and for care general

for which secrecy was recuisted

Although, he said, it was used

mil calis when conditions

the device frapala

when the circuit

relation, pared compara

production In 1982

,000 bushels. forbarley under liquðr Atkn would consume about 5054 160,000,000 bushels Ennually, it}

which amount

ad Rye in Increased la pointed

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