1937-12-03 — Page 8

THE WORLD GOES BY

a Home paper:

FROM Belk, Clerk of the

class of pampered parasites who to the Tempter, and is the

Middlesbrough Magistrates: Why woke ghouls upon our hard-ed trade mark of Original Sin.

have you not sent your child school regularly?

to

Mr. J. T. Howlett: Because he has no boots.

he Hong Kong a Banking Corporation and

wealth and want to send their Yet I take it that not even so to the Middlesbrough Magistrates. the The thing also might be put up to our Hong Kong magistrates. children to school with a boot on pure a spirit as the Clerk to each foot

Middlesbrough Magistrates would

Snobbery is at the bottom of this the demand for boots Shall we stand by and see the suggest that working-class chil

gards, boots as strength and vitality of a nationdren should go to school in

plain primordial state. Innocence is all ex The Clerk But you went to that rose to greatness school without boots when you living and wet feet sapped by the very well in its place, but working of social status, like living on the were young did you not?

debauchery of a profligate pro-class children cannot go to school Peak To him, no doubt, boots The Parent Yes, sir.

letariat, with no soul above bodily in nudist camps. Only the midd! signify

than classes can afford to be as innocent dignity of citizenship. comforts and seldom more

The Clerk: Then why cannot your son do the same? It will not do any harm

And so:-

on

half a sole to its uppers? Never as that. I'd sooner go out with odd spats

on.

and

civic

What right has he is dignity, or indeed, any sort of dignity? Has he added a single yard to the bounds of Empire?

Clearly, some compromise needed between the demands social convention and the limits of It is not that there is a shortag

national prosperity. And it seems of boots. Indeed, if it were not for In thus boldly challenging the

a financial system specifically deto me that a pair of shorts, of a outrageous assumption that the signed to keep the ravening lusts of size and material consistent with lower orders have a right to wear the proletariat in check, our eff the maintenance of the economic boots when young, this courageous cient industrial machinery wouk stability of the Empire, would meet the bill subject, of course, to the and devoted public servant has in- be capable of providing enough troduced a new and striking prin- footwear for a nation of scolopen approval of the Bank of England, ciple - which should revolutionise

droid chilapods (centipedes to the

Government's economic policyou). namely, that we should deter- mine the people's standard of living by that of their parents.

Only a bold and original mind could have thought of it. A great deal of intelligence and ingenuity. have been devoted to the invention of methods of keeping the poor as poor as possible in the interests of national prosperity, but this one will probably get the Nobel Prize. If not offer the lad the choice of cigars or nuts.

The demands of the working class, as the Clerk to the Middles brough Beaks no doubt feels, are growing daily more audacious."

What Of

The Empire

BY "ULYSSES"

A Boot

in The Shop

It may be true, as the poet has observed, that every child comes in- to the world trailing clouds of glory; but that is no reason why it should go to school every mor- ning trailing festoons of boots.

People must not imagine that want they can have what they simply because the things are there. The main object of good

Instead of meeting them with government is national thrift, from courage and firmness, the Govern-which it follows that the chief rea- ment heaps luxuries upon them at son for producing goods is to se

how many of them you can the taxpayers' expense.

The claim to children's boots is without. the thi edge of the wedge. If this is admitted we shall have them demanding socks and pants, and the Empire will go down in ruin

do

Indeed, from a cursory glance a. the workings of a sound capitalist system, it would appear to be ar axiom that a boot in the shop is worth two on the feet. Having accepted

the new

of social principle of fixing the standard of

In this insolent demand for boots we see the menace upheaval

living by what was good enough

But for the unflinching courage for your ancestors, there is scarce- and prompt action of men like thely any limit to the possibilities of Clerk to the Middlesbrough Magis-national economy. >

If the kids can go without bo trates, the foundations of our civil- isation would be undermined by why not without shirts?

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The shirt is, after all, a com- paratively modern affair, and has not been in our midst much longer than boots, if at all. Neither have been fashionable for more than seven or eight thousand years, while for millions of years before that our forefathers went without both. And the important fact to note about that is it did not do them any harm.

Pursuing this excellent economic principle further, we find ourselves faced with the question: Need our economies for working-class child- ren stop at boots and shirts?

Original Sin

If a costume that was good enough for the father was good enough for the son, it follows that grandfather's outfit was good enough for both, and so, by the same token, was his grandfather's. It is therefore reasonable to ask, "How far back in history should we go?"

The adoption of wearing appare in the first instance was, we know, the result of wan's first su

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Let this man learn humility. Let him and others of his kind be con- tent with that station in life to which it hath pleased heaven call him, and in which the Rising Tide of National Prosperity will probably drown him.

Baby's first

little tooth

THE first little tooth has come peep- ing through. Other precious by teeth will follow, and all must be strong and healthy to ensure

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