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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1949.

WHAT IS THE INCENTIVE IN THE WELFARE STATE?

Springtime Of Cricket At Home

By NEVILLE CARDUS

The cricket season is in the green leaf, and there is activity and a certain stiffness of joint at the nets, where Bloggs of Bankshire is exercising these powerful drives and cuts which in matches ne puls aside, resist

until he has Ing temptation. scored his century in four and

a-quarter hours.

There will be no Australians this year to obsess un; we shall be free to enjoy cricket for its own sake. rather for the sake of the graces and irrelevances which in time have come to surround the

By Sir KENNETH LEE, Bt.

The progress of Socialism has brought us to a part- ing of the ways. One way loads to complete control by the State over economic life. The other way is signposted "Social Democracy,”

To me it seems doubtful, however, whether a system combining part State ownership and control with part private enterprise in a genuine politi- cal democracy is a stable objective.

1-

Lost Legion

Of Belsen

By TOM POCOCK

king!

"Bellef is spreading in British circles that Mão Tse Tung is act- ing under orders from Moscow." Ani us thinking he had a di- rect line to Washington,

Too late the Nationallats have remembered what put them into Belsen is not dead. It may power long, long ago. They pald have passed into the history their troops in those days, when books, but, the Nazi charmel-others didn't. house stili mirrors the troubles

of the world. than 3,000 Jews

Today more

.of the

whit

So the Seven are to consider

liberation swimming pools.

Đ

Is it, in fact, a place to arrive, where the surable output at, and remain in, or only a very distant from the work of the temporary halting-place, on a Individual wage-earner, like rali.

of the are still caged by the jagged sky-an ordinance whereby the Urban Acctfans

shall exercise controis ways or corintn path that lends at length to an

forests, Re-Council all-embracing Socialist State? steel Industry; nor where the outline of the Belsen This is a vital question. Does put of the individual in govorned cently they celebrated the fourth among other things over private The ultimate In bureaucratic not the answer to it lie in the by a rate of flow along a messunniversary

Until total peace

returns to bliss would seem to be no bath- problem of economic incentive? production line nor where quality that misfired.

matters rather than quantity, nor

not,

and room complete without a built- Belsen Economic

society, howover in non-productive grades or Rec-Europe alaborate its organisation, whother tions, including clerical workers cannol, rest with its 30.000 dead. In sanitary inspector,

lanciscape has Of course, the it be capitalist or Communist, la genernily.

changed. Dead and rusted bar-

It is suggested that Stalin and composed of human hands and

bed wire claws at the sky. The

world problems squat, three-legged guard towers Truman settle brains. The prime mover of the

stand like Martins "face to face....But who will whole system is that which maken the individual work. The system

above the trees. Where heaps of have the choice of weapons?

Jay tanglod works well if men and women

the heather now blows. work well; if they work badly, the

emaciated corpses #yabern works badly.

1 watched In May 1945 ceremonious burning of the last Item, there was to have been on

hutxhibition by prison typhus-stricken Number 47. Everybody was there -the surviving prisoners, the

no longer

the

A Fair Wage Sound functioning of the pay the fixation both of basic and of ment-by-reaults system depends on bonus rates so that the moderate In a system of private enterprise worker gets a fair wage without To go to Lord's again, to the

coste too high, never making labir competition--which Oval, to Old Trafford, to Hove, and to Trent Bridge, to Maidstone existed in a pure form, but only as while the good worker gets an at to go on a May morning to any a generalisation what made tractive bonus without making the of the cricket fields of England people work well was the hope of margin for skill too costly or un-liberating troops, and the 05 gal- (or Wales, look you), is not only gain and the fear of unemployment fair. to take up once more the seasonal or loss. sequence and ritual that cricketers know and observa; it is to renew life and join the march of mum

According tu message printed yesterday, financial and banking circles in London are perturbed about the future of Western relations with Communist China. Some quarters, said the report, "see little chance of any trade in the foresee-game, and are dispersed by too

much concentration on hostility. able future," basing their opinions on the restrictive regulations applied to foreign banking concerns in Tientsin. exceedingly London is also worried about the very large British interests in Shang- hai, and further, qualms are expressed about the safety of Hong Kong, which "repré- sents such a rich prize that i will be difficult for the Communists to refrain from attempting to seize it."

This reaction is only to be expected. Banking circles happens when war disrupts an area, especially when for eign capital is invested there, and they quickly move to hedge potential losses as far as possible.

nier,

remem-

of

than t An in

sparks.

According to our Reminders

women."

three

European

reporter A disappointed

TC- the however, saying whole thing was entirely res- pectable.

What are the wild waves say- ating? Listen in to one of the 60 odd wavelengths and you'll soon find out!

lant British medical students. turned Edward Ward was being cloquent 1 is much easier to assess such for the BBC.

under The owner-enterpriser staked his rates

private enterprise The flame-throwers belched fire on Hut 47. Smoke money on his business ability, with whore competition provides an au-sold profits as the reward of success, tomatic standard

gushed from the windows. The and bankruptcy as the penalty nationalised Industry. The veteran packs his bag for failure.

Owing to taxation the Incentive roof curtseyed in a shower 'forco

earnings extra money

Belsen, we hoped, was dead. the opening match and bers when he was an nervous and Tho wage-earner sold his labour

to dwindle. PAYE

Repatriation began. Ten thou- For good work he make net hourly overtime pay- sand Were sent to Sweden, anxious as young Blank, who at on like terms.

and the Low for ordinary time. Also, as State 5,000 to France this very same moment is pack could hope for promotion ing his bag for his first serious higher pay, particularly on various services expand, many of the as-Countries. Of the 19 nationalities most promising for world peace, forms of piece-work; for bad work piration, which formerly caused behind the wire nearly all were its annual season against such a

and history and unemployment.

extra walted their turn for emigration background of time

cricket. The onward motion of

to Palestine,

Name Stands

and

may

Asla The people of

know only too well what trial, No other game goes throkhe risked the penalty of diamiss the worker to want more money sent home, except the Jews who says Pearl Buck.

they

motive

are being

without

filled effort on his part.

State education and bonafits for children, and the discouragemant

every moment of these early days skill redundant. is transition to obliged to turn our eyes towards | Jews, were "frozen." A few left

408 maru

Joma arise.

My broad conclusion is that, tlon, but a unit contributing to the

The other and still grimmer

in pieces....

are the

Or for a world

HORRID WARNING

Some stoolpigeon who's

round (And of which types the “under-

ground" is here fall) trol"

pon my soul

From the strangled sounds of Belsen rage emerging from the mouths Lane of of Formosans, one man's haven

can be another man's hell.

"Jeeps" in Nationalist circles at vio-in Shanghai are now known, with

sly smile, as "cheaps"...

•

the summer months is part of the injustices and its economic waste, The competitive system had its pageant; memory and sentiment but it worked because the motive

The Control Commission re- If you should seek in town to flog see the present and the past as power was simple and cans right to house-purchase, diminish the in-named Belsen Hohne, and tried Alump of that forbidden "dlog" though in eternal recurrence. down to the hopes and fear of contive to earn money for savings, to persunds the Jews to leave for -Be keorful! It must be admitted that

It must be admitted that some another

camp,

"We call this For here it ain't considered nico Only yesterday, we looked upon the Individual. In an attempt to the general public at Home and praised Hobbs. Hammond-move the injustices and waste, trade unionists still look on pay-

said the Jews, To give of that forbidden price we turning of the are also concerned about the

Belsen when An earful. "and we only who seemed pillared for ever at re

ment by results with traditional camp Beisen, Buspicion and hostility. They are we leave Germany."

slinking march of events menacing the crease Woolley, Hendren, power at the tap?

most unlikely to favour its exten- Maurico Tate and Sutcliffe, surely

At Belsen they were joined by which is now Hong Kong,

and Share Objective slon in the growing nationalised the C50 Jews from the ill-fated front page news in the Br-beyond the damage of time.

sector of industry. have passed. We honour

emigrant "hellship" Exodus. The tish newspapers. Many have Compton, Hutton, Bedser; and All parties share the objectivo: On the contrary, wages thus camp became the Jewish centre May rush to tell the “dlog con- friends or relatives in the their young worshippers think, as of a high and stable level of em-selves are coming to be regarded, of all Germany. But when 2,000

as one of the Jewish refugees arrived from And THEY'LL soon make you, Colony, and the reports once we who are their alders ployment. This should mean that it seems almost sound alarming. Strangely thought, that heroes at cricket en no good worker ought to fear un-standard benefits of the "Welfare Eastern Europe few saw it as the

dure for ever. enough, or perhaps not so

employment, unless new inventions State," which everyone is entitled first ominous sign of Belsen's Real tearful!

to claim whether he works well or new lease of life. polley strangely, the feeling of Bri

With the

of the British enti So let us filing ourselves into or shifting demand of Stato

renders his particular trade or tish subjects here is far more

In these circumstances, we are Mandate in Palestine the Belsen

It seems Mandrake's pal Lothar Wet or cold, sunny or gloomy;) serene and calm about our

In Buch в савс all count.

applied for may become quite a Lothario; own future than that of our

a wanted trade or skill should be ideas of non-monetary reward for for Australia. Many

above-average_work. I know of American citizenship. But most kinsfolk 10,000 miles away. The championship will not sur-made easy. If, however, it moana A This is, on reflection, a na-

ter distraction from the tour of that no bad worker need fear un- factory employing a large num-again sat back to wait for Israel.

"Headline: "Brunette Murderess There was no work for the tural

The best hangmen, of reaction. Londoners the New Zealanders, who come to employment--because his employer ber of women where good service

no work except for the To Hang." took the brunt of the Battle |

ns guests than as In-dare not or must not dismiss him,as been acknowledged by free Jews;

trips abroad.

binck market. And that was course, prefer blondes. vaders.

The fight for the chara-or because idleness is nearly as

This is one instance in private casy.

Living

on International of Britain with much more pionship should be interesting in-well paid as work---then a big part unt

enterprise where the employer Refugee Organisation rations,

Just a Little Pink composure than their kins- deal, for Glamorgan are under the of the old motive power of industry takes the knock, In nationalis from gift pareris sent them by The Council of Foreign Minis- folk scattered throughout the obligation to show that their last and trade is lust.

minor politics American Jews. They prospered.ters is to meet in the Palals de Empire. whose sympathies lining of honours while cricket- then produce the quality or quan-

year's conquest was not a pur- The competitive system will not industry, where

enter into both the choice of Today eight DPs are known Marbre Rose (Pink Palace). Tho were so much engaged by ars as a whole were contending ity of goods and services that beneficiaries and the nature and "Belsen millionaires."

Moulin Rouge (Red Mill) was While some specialised in live-thought barely suitable. frightening headlines.

against the heavy adds of the Aus- can produce and that we need for cost of benefits, quite other prob

stock, filing the attics of the bar- It is necessary for corres- trallana.

the people's welfare.

I shudder at the thought of a racks with sheep and plis, most On the side of positive incentive.universal system patterned on the bought valuables-anything from pondents here to inform their newspapers in Britain and

Yorkshire Threat I have had experience in the catton elsewhere that Hong Kong is

Industry of various forms of pro-Nazi "Strength through Joy" or wrist-watches to planos.

the Petticoat the Soviet plan of free tickets for became For my own part I think Gla-at-sharing and payment-by-rezulta the ballet or holiday in State Germany. not even approaching a mild

morgan this time will need to as an inducement to better work, hostels. The worker, then becomes case of the jitters. True, battle like demigods to hold back They have functioned with differ- not an end in himself, a human Five Arrested there is discussion about our | Yorkshire, who for some time past ent degrees of success.

As maiva-

fow Jews drink there being working out his own have been regaining stature, and prospects, not always in san-

have been few crimes not underrate the economic strength of would

last guise vein, and disaffected at last are about to attain the old while I

all lence-though the

Ave week long-term value of

a long-term powerful State.

were arrested for armed robbery. individuals who suffered "last semblance and bulk,

connection between productivity

But the British And it impossible time" are perhaps under- Lancashire, too, will need severe and earnings through profit-shar Grimmer Aspect

to explain that shady dealing—

The U.S. "Truculent Turile" standably pessimistic and resistances and though Middlesex Ing and the like, the beat immo-

even to Germans is wrong.

Lew from the States to Lisbon may want consistently strong diate resulta bitter. It must be admitted, bowling the runs should be there, diates are got by an imme-

And now, at last, the Jews are nonstop. China's can only com- too, that some residents have handsome as over. And 1949 is connection.

going to Israel. The camp echoes mute between Formosa and If a man knows that what he pect of economic motive in the

with hammering as the Jews Shanghal left the Colony, remarking likely to be Denis Compton's high produces this week will be paid Soviet State la fear, The subject crate their newly won wealth and that they might as well do noon and vintage.

(Dr in this week's pay-packet, that is as much compelled to work as so while there is still time.

letters "Halfa, Israel."

Caps Everything! Further, subversive elements

But I fear there may be days is the best of all methods of in- If he were a prisoner in. ck as paint on the sides in at Lord's this season when we tion.

ducing him to step up his produc-g

The first batch of 350 left for "CNAC Plane Found Airworthy here have been encouraged shall miss something.

There can be no compartion be Haifa on February 28. A second Before Crash, CAD Reports"-- The ex- There is no theoretical reason tween the fear of State punish party, of 700, on March 21. On Headline in a contemporary yea- by recent events in China. perts will know the deficiency why prompt payment by results ment in a police State and the April 25, 700 more set forth. Soon] terday.

These, however, are only once, and name it. Less well-in should not be applied in a semi-fear of unemployment in a capit- the Star of David will remain straws in the wind-not to formed onlookers, those who feel Socialist syster

We must, how-alist economy, moderated as it has only on the graves of Belsen. and savour it more cricket, be ignored, but not to be than they know it, wil search the ever, realles both its limitations been for many years in the United given unduc importance. held not only with their eyes but and the growing handicaps wider Kingdom by State insurance. But die. There is no sign that the with that instinct which tell us which it is placed in practice as let us not blink the facts.

some familiar object has been vances. genuine residents have any moved in the furniture of bellef other than that this

Broom. For

Jim Sima le nearing the min- time Britain is not to be

of his bowling days. act

And caught unawares. It may who, when Sims does not play, will be true, as some say, that bowl the "old googly?" even with the reinforcements on their way, the Colony could not be defended for long against massed Chinese armies. But there can be ǹo doubt that before such a con-

| abilities—should tingency occurred, a power- ful force would be available their preparations to a much tutored, and our fast bowler, whers: a single employer the State

greater degree, particularly to protect our territory.

While one cannot take too in the case of the Special much for granted, it does Constabulary, The Commis-

deprivation of his livelihood. That seem a truism, as we have stoner yesterday addressed said before, that a Commun- an exceedingly small

Are catches still dropped from altuation will be multiplied

State Sociallan progresses, ist invasion of Hong Kong dience, the first batch of re-torrine aklers on Saturdays be

As for the unions, their tradi. is highly unlikely. Mao and cruits, explaining that guard Has there been successor in the Cause "Thompson. isn't playing?"

tional attitudes must, be Largely the and patrol duties would be company do not want

reversed if, instead of heart of Shropshire

regarding entire might of the British dispensed with, and the men Huggins, gardener most days of

Harry themselves as the counterpart of Commonwealth and America would be trained from the the week and year, who, chosen for the employer with his interest In directed against their ex beginning in the use of fire la batting was called upon to themselves to ask for more and mone and better work; they are. lend a hand at bowling to break better work from their members tremoly weakened atate, arms, necessary equipment a long stand, and when asked how which will take many years and crowd control.

When Mr. Macintosh can ly know; 1 shall leave it to na

he bowled, saki: "Ah dosn't right-in the interest of the whole com- to rebuild. Also, he has got | to trade, and almost the only speak to his eventual force ture

Will man and women work as, avallable source is with the of 1,500 strong, a most valu-

well, or better, for the State than West.

able adjunct to the regular essences ready and we hand in the Personally, I don't believe it. This Be here are all the essentials and they do for private employers? Certainly one can expect police force, the thugs and shower of April and the cool of problem deserves a thorough study sporadic civil unrest. here, the terrorists will have some Mar. We shall never be a young by all political partier. Can the and we repeat that the au- thing to make them think again. Embrace the game, and the present Incentives to work be pre- thorities while obviously twice before attempting their time of the year, se belongs, in served, te can new ones be found?

That is the crucial question, highly cognizant of the prob-havoc. It had better be soon, summer.

their

that

A cricket season is not only an affair and privilege of the county (Continued in next Col)

speed

the so-called “Welfare State" nd-]

It cannot operdie in. Industries

As

folk, not only of the minor coun- tles and the leagues. There is ternoon, from Hampstead to some be found the ordinary club of Saturday af- village in the Cotswolds.

to

the State extends its grip on the national economy It takes over not only the distribution of! benefits, which is easy, but miso providing an incentive which will the much harder responsibility of induce the population

work. Unless positive incentivos can. or replace strengthen or to those which are taken away, the State will havD alternative but cannot believe that chance and to use the negative incentive of alteration in the world have seri compulsion and fear, ously affected the game as it was Look at the position of the min- up played when I was young and un-

--and virtually a single union. An came in after me, at No. 10, would offender risks not merely the tem- that he would take charge, and one employer, but the permanent walk down the pitch and tell me porary loss of employment with that I need not worry.

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