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Ino question; the recent social- Notice To Contributors. surveys of London and Liverpool stress the large proportion of All communications intended for pensioners now living below the poverty Ime, An improvement publication should be addressed to af children's allowances and the removal of some of the hard-

the Editor, ană be accompanied by ships of widows' pensions would also be welcome. Although the Writer's Name and Address, limited in scope, the suggestion

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transfer to pensions its long- standing unemployed. from the Fage of sixty is one of the most notable things in the programme. The Board's last report was a strong arghment for treating the rendrum of older men un- employed as pensioners and not as a despairing fringe of the in- dustrial field, and the Govern ment would do well to consider it. The main criticisms of the Labour programme will be on

Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 20, 1937. grounds of cost. With the pre- sent pace of national expendi ture the proposals are bound to seem idealistic. But they will at least be useful in forcing discus-

PENSIONS REFORMS

sion.

When the famous Coney Island

The Labour Party programme on pensions reform is a docu- ment of some political interest,| for an

1 explicit pledge to raise Taking It Lying Down pensions affecting the vast ma- jority of voters has undoubted electioneering importance. The report is also interesting in other becomes litter-conscious its an ways for its illustrations of thorities evidently tackle a well- the anomalies in Britain's pre known problem with the utmost sent pensions system and for its thoroughness and determination. revelation of the more realistic A message from New York says temper of Labour. The cost of that the Island's Department of the proposals is heavy, but in Sanitation has just launched a themselves they can hardly be great anti-litter drive by re- a hundred inspectors called wildly extravagant. They leasing

the crowded jgo little beyond those made, for who swept over

instance, by the Political and beach and seized every scrap of Economic Planning group, and waste paper they could find. they fall far short of what large Thousands of people were using sections of Labour opinion have newspapers to sit on, but those been demanding. It is reassur- too were removed, and anyone ing to find the National Council who tried to sit tight was told of Labour trying to fit its pro- that he must either stand and mises to its responsibilities. The deliver the layers that interven- framers of the programme pro-ed between him and the golden fess to have related it to the sands or face a prosecution for other demands for wider social disorderly conduct in littering the services to which Labour is com- beach

mitted, to the need for a balanc And if at Coney Island the ed Budget, and to the obligation visitor may not sit on a paper, to pay for armaments out of still less, one supposes, would. taxation. This involves a con-he be allowed to sleep under one siderable draught on our fund of in order to keep the sun out of optimism, for any Government his eyes. Moreover, it does not Labour or other in the next really sound as though it would five years would find it hard to be very safe to read one; at any act on these principles and do rate, if the reader looked- else- much in the way of social reform where for a moment (even at the But at least the intention is most beauteous of bathing bel good

les) he might find his newspaper

The main proposals are to in seized and condemned by an in- crease old-age pensions at sixty-spector who would argue that it five on condition of retirement had ceased to be reading mat- ter and had become mere litter. from wage-earning employment; to grant similar pension the But such exceedingly strenuous industrially unit at sixty, to re campaigning, when newspapers move somÍE of the grievances are snatched away even from surrounding the present cond those who are sitting on them, tions of

pensions, to suggests that the visitors as well raise pensions for orphan chil-as their papers may be regarded dren, and to allow of the volun- a something of an eyesore. And tary extension of the pensions so they probably are; many- a scheme. Although Labour has beach would obviously look not always been favourable to much better if it were not for the contributory principle in the the human litter that infests it past, it is now admitted that it is Perhaps one of these days the the only means by which better vigilants of Coney Island's De- conditions can be easily secured partment of Sanitation will The report is, however, rather blaze a really new trail by round- indefinite on the way its propoing up all the waste people sals would work out The cost well as the waste paper.