PREMIUM V, WAB BONDS. SIR E KINDERSLEY'S VIEWS Writing to the Daily Telegraph, Sir R. Kindersley says
So much has been written in favour of Premium Bonds that I venture to put
considerations forward some
HONGKONG
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PRIME MINISTER TO THE PAY OF JUNIOR OFFICERS.
NATION.
A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE
MINIMUM OF 108 A DAY ALLOWANCE FOR CHILDREN
MONDAY MARCH 18TH 1918
the same scale and subject to the same condition as authorized for warrant off cers. This will in all cases obviate loss on promotion
in It has been decided further
the cases of both commissioner warrant offi sers and warrant off
officers the State shall of the allotment take over a proportion of not exceeding 6d, a neck, ander the same general conditions to recently ap proved for naval ratings below the rank of officer
another point of view. It is not possibleGeorge's letter is as follows: the 10s. 6d a day decided to grant creases of Pay
The sacrifices
and marines.
which the men and the women, also 1-AENY OFFICERS Army, it has not been considered neces
tion of mankind from the thraldom of tarism, and rejoice in lasting freedom Horm (the first cost wife, children, sufficientere
There are, however, one or two excep tions to this general statement, sul lieutenants, INVE arving
The Prime Minister's New Year mes-It is officially announced that the War zage to the nation took the form of a Cabinet has decided to increase the pay appeal to every man and woman to space of junior officers in the Navy and Army, no effort in the year now opening to The principle adopted is that the from further the country's cause Mr. Lied minimum rate for an Army officer should
án a short letter to deal with all the
married sub
generally, ondevour has been message I should like to send to all at children's allowance to ma arguments. I propose, therefor toAt the beginning of a new year the It has also been confine myself for the present to what home is an appeal to do their utmost in alterns and captaine at par month made to secure that the concessions to the
The annual cost of the connessions to ranke in the
quivalent to the concessions Tony be broadly called the ethical aspect these later trying days for the cause for the two Services is estimisted at between possible &vy shall be 28 nearly as of the question. Few will deny that the which the democracies of the world are and 73 millions for the first year. made to the corresponding ranks in the great majority of the people in this now leagued together. country would not tolerate this war, with
sary to grant to junior officers of the all its miseries and horrors, if they were are making at the front we all know The War Cabinet
Cabinet have considered the Navy and Marines minimum te not convinced that it is a war for those Despite all that they have gone through Report of the Committee on the Pay of pay of 10s. 6d a day. Officers in the ideals which we, ts a nation, have always they are still facing frost and mud gri-Junior Officers, Army and Navy and Naval Service of the rank or relative rank chorished the protection of the weak, the vation and suffering, wounds and death have come to the conclusion that, having of sub-lieutenant, which corresponds to upholding of the principles of truth, with undaunted courage, that mankind in view the requirements of the junior the rank of lieutenant in the Army, are honour, and justice; and the emancipa may be freed from the tyranny of mill officer himself, including upkeep of uni- as a rule quite young and unmarried, and
already their present rates
rates of pay are, therefor military despotism. So long, therefore, and ponce No sacrifice that we who stay provided by a grant) as our statesmen appeal to the best at home are called to make can equal or and other dependent relatives 10 63 a day should be the minimum rate of pay qualities in human nature, so long shall faintly, approach what is daily and hour-a we maintain the solidarity of the nation, ly demanded of them. So long as they for an Army officer of any arm, as from and so long need we have no fears regard.are called upon to endure these things, October 1st last, and for the remainder
The
of subalterns ing the staying power of our people, let us see to it that we do not take our of the war
ecording Y
y and certain con. be incrcased whatever sacrifices they may be called case at the price of their sacrifice. upon to make in order to obtain com-There is nobody too old er too young or captains and majors
alau be given to sequential increases plete victory.
Lotus, therefore, examine the real too feeble to play a part. If we cannot fight advocates of Premium Bonds rely. They goodwill be which we do our work the nature of the appeal upon which the in person, we can fight by the vigour and argue that to buy a Premium Boud is wisdom of our economy, the generosity not gambling, because the purchase can with which we meet the nation's financial hardly convincing when a certain portion saving are specially important. Money condition of financial power is
community at this time. Every man, they can and to lend what they can to the womna, and child ought to make it n some of honour to increase his holding of National War Bonds as the year goes by, bands which have behind them the whole strength and credit and resources of Britain itself,
grant a child allowance to married subaltern and captains at Le per month for each child.
hey have also decided to with a maximum of £8 per month, and hall these amounts to majors. The age
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is this--if you will invest your money
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now
cent only (the rate usually suggested) shop or the kitchen in which you spend the cisting rates and the new rates, toge Lieutenants
produces only £25 interest and no pre- mium, so that an investor will to £30 per £100 worse off at the end of ten years compared with the investor in War Bonda. He will, however, have received a licence to spend this £30 in a State lottery. It is immaterial whether you call this sum interest or capital; the fact remains that if he does not win a priza he loses the whole amount But apart from the specious excuse that no gamble is involved in the issue of Pre- mium Bonds, let us ‘examine the real basis of the appeal. Is it to patriotism? Is it to the wise provision for old age or sickness? Is it to self-denial for the
To every civilian, therefore, I would say: Your fring-line is the works or the office in which you do your bit; the or save; the bank or the post office in which you buy your bonds. To rench that bring line and to become an active combatant yourself there are no com munication trenches to grope along, no barrage to face, no horron, no wounds. The road of duty and patriotism is clear before you; follow it, and it will lead ere long to safety for our people and victory for our cause.
(Signed), D. LLOYD GEORGE,
CAPITAL AND LABOUR
Addressing a public meeting at Hanley,
for children.
allowance
**It will be observed that the new rates of pay are such that no officer suffers se duction of emolument on promotion
INFANTRY OF THE LINE
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Sesond Elvalerant Lieutenant
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Lieutenant the rates for these officers will be 1, ca promotion, and 13s. ed. after fourÝ VOLENDS The new T will
promotion, Is after four years
and 18s after six years Commander and Junior Captains —— Now
rates and 231. 83 respectively Engineer Lieutenants New rater 185.
on promotion and 138, 6d. after four years, as in the case of lieutenants of the executive branchese
erfommanders. Engineer
receive the initial pay of the rank on promotion therete, regardless of their length of service in the ranks of
engineer licu
140 eugierentenant
tenant-commenter Assistant Clerke hose officers at pr
sent receive pay of 24 a day, plus pri“ vate allow of 820 year
(payable by the State future they will receive pay of 48. n day without
private allows
rance anted day which
By way of illustration, the following
recently Dr. Addison said an assured table shows the application of the over- encu Was essentially a problem of recon-riding minimum (to which references
to win the war? Surely it is to none of struction, and upon the solution of that already been made to the Array Service Clerks give them a rate of 65 day
sake of those we have sent to fight for us! Is it to steady continuous effort to help these. All these appeals have been made continuously since the war began, and with a large measure of success
The appeal of the Freniium Bond is frankly to the baser instinct of cupidity to the desire to get rich quickly with out-offort. It is suggested that the
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problem the successful attackings of many others would depend. We must have n Lengue of Nations resting upon » basis of national liberty. We must enormously increase our production capacity at home, Second Luteciabi and one of the aims was a proper under Leseste State should deliberately play uron and The proposals of the Ministry of Recone
standing between capital and bourat cultivate what is well known to be a weakness of buman nature a weakness struction would be pretty big ones; Major, higher mate. In 0 31 10 9 5 1 274
whether they would be accepted by the late 1800 1306 which has probably wrought to mankind
certain cases in which officers more mischief in the ctonomie sphere country remained to he sen. They pro hiready draw rates of pay considerably than almost any other failing The posed to face the housing scheme on the appeal is the very negation of the spirit same scale as they set out to manufac higher than the general level of hay of of steady and persistent individual effort, ture munitions (Cheers.) their ranks in the Army as a whole the allowances for children are reduced to half rubes withheld. and is put forward at a moment when determination and calm persistence on the part of those who stay at home are more vitally necessary than they have been at any other period since the war began. No statesman, I imagine, would embark upon this method of finance
in the che Paymasters. The now rates will be. -1° on promotion and 136, after four years, Staff Paymasters-New rate, 16s, on pro
motion (instead of 15s på at tresent), Fleet Paymaters-New rate: 228, on promotion (instead of 21a; at at pre
rank of lieuenant Guarder
of
Blaff Surgeons and Fleet Surgeons-A rise of is on promotion, making the reta 218 and 288. a day resepotively. Surgeon Probationers. These offers will
receive 75, el a day, instead Chaplains and Naval Instructors-New Mr G H Roberts, who followed,
rater:-16s. a day after eight years agreed with Dr. Addison that the first For Quartermasters, whose present
ice, what they hold the relative service,
and 10s business was to win the war. There was scale in the infantry rans from les. to not a member of the Government but 16 the minimum fetare sende will be
after 15 year
KOT VLCC,
they rank would end the war immediately, provided
with children's allow
with
It has been further commanders. wattained the purposes outlined to a wild full furen s
decided to grant 905 instead of 19s., ances throughout._.
complidated rates of a day Stail Officers on
years Krvice after 21 by the Prime Minister,
pay and allowances up to and induding E..E. AND B.N.V.E
and RN VI. of the rate of £400 yes will receive the Officers of the RN.B
of pay as officer of the RN., except as full children's allowance; up to and in the same raski will receive the same rates cluding £500 a year, ball children't allow ance forexoing decisions will not apply
The foregoing
follows!
Sub-Lieutenants,
tenants, R.N.V.R., TV
serving in the Division recruited from
to officors drawing full pay in addition to te nd will therefore receive the retired payOVE
Arrangements are being made for officers affected to be credited with the new rates of pay at the beginning of February, and the assessment and credit- ing of arrears of pay and children's allow ances, will be proccecled with as rapidly as possible, but will inevitably occupy some time
3-NAVAL OFFICERS.
unless he saw his way to continue it to — the end. Let us examine what is likely to happen in practice. The small voluntary workers throughout the coun- investor has during the war invested in try, but I must say unhesitatingly that State securities a sum of not less than the introduction of Premium Bonds 250 millions, sterling, of which 100 would split these workers into two camps, millions is payable by the State on and destroy that unity of purpose which demand. There is a further sum of alone can carry a great organisation of approximately 250 millions of deposits this type, for no voluntary organisation in the Post Office and trustée savings can succeed as a house divided against hanks. There are some eleven million itself. This organisation has, from the active recounts in the Post Office Savings first, based its appeal on patriotism and Bank alone. If Premium Bonds proved on such incentives as provision for old popular, undoubtedly hundreds of age, for dependents, and for wiser future thousands of these investors and deposi- spending To-day through its agency, etors would transfer some of this money persistent and steady effort in saving as into Premium Bonds, and the State would being made by millions. If this machin- be no richer, but would be put to immense cry of collection were to collapse, as it labour and expense. Having acquired a certainly would, the majority of the mem few bonds, these people, who have learned bers would cease to love, There are Commissioned officers, IN RM
many for the first time during the war 13,000 War Savings Associations ir -the advantage of persistence in saving, schools, where the Association has R.N.R. and R.N.V.R. (except commis would. instead of being encouraged in proved a wonderful means of instruction stoned warrant officers), of and below the this habit, relinquish it in the expectat the children of this country in tank and relative rank of Lieutenant, tion of gaining & prize. The spur to patriotism and the simple economics of BN will, provided their age is not below war; these, too, would come to an end, of 29 per month per child, subject to a for I presume it is not suggested that maximum of £5 a month; and offers of children should be taught that it is by the tank, or relative rank of lieutenant fuck and not by persistent individual commander will receive a children's allow The curse of war may be tempered with subject to a maximum of 24 a month. blessing if it is utilised to promote- and (The age limitation of 22 years will not sustain the spirit of patriotism which the apply to any
As regards the Royal Navy Royal Marines and Naval Reserve Forces, the following decisions have been takin
Children's all
same rate
in the Assistant
as second lieutenants
who, like assistant paymasters, R. at present recoïve 78, 6d. a day, will in future receive 10s a
RB assistant pay- to plready
and H.N.V., who have aut
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Flight Commanders. In order to obviato loss on promotion owing to the with drawal. of children's allowance, it has been decided to grant pay of 19s en promotion, instead of 175, as et pre Keat
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to length of commissioned se
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view of their relatively high, loosens the whole moral fibre of the effort; but the appeal must be all the to grant a children's allowance of £1 per individual, decreases the inclination to time to everything that is best in the child per month, with a maximum of 4 cave, increases the tendency to spend, people, and not to their baser side. a month, to officers of and below the rank and relaxes instead of intensifying the If this policy is followed, surely we of flight lieutenant, but no gach allow spirit and action of the people. Many of have every reason for hoping that out of ante to officers above that rank, In the ts have already had a glimpse of such a the infinite sorrow which this war has exceptional cases of graded offcera, who Second Lieutenante promoted from the
As in the case of the Army, for officers state of affairs in the South African brought about there is going to emerge are borns for ground duties, and co- Tanks 1 6d. a day, and 11s. 6d a "mining booms of the last century, which altimately a world better nobler, happier sequently ineligible for dying par it has
day on promotion to leatenant, as in on consolidated rates of pay and allow the case of the Army
ance it has been decided to give the full thoroughly demoralised society. And by far in the true sense of happiness, than been decided
erate now granted are rate of $400 a year and half allow- Are children's allowance up to and including lieutenant will receive Captains. The
138 Ed. on promotion, 148% nitérone what would happen after the war Even the world we knew of old. You can the rank of Last officers of and below the most ardent supporters of Premium almost feel the perspective of men and a children's allowance on the same feale
ances up to and including £500 a year officers of the Bonda only look upon, them as a war women changing. You know instinctively as lieutenants, R.N., and
Eatered
January 1st. Theen alterations will have, efect an Belore Januar 1012-As regards these officers, who are from October 1st, 1917, that being he that having cultivated this gambling disssse of the past will no longer be commander will receive an allowance on
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138 ed op promotion and of the men, these concessions will be for probable that they would become the prey dual towards hin neighbour is being ance at half of any financial shark who might dangle viewed from a new and higher stand eers similar increment of capital from bility of bis point. I cannot believe that because Linate will be those already existence 36 on promotion and 19 after six log ont these decisions will be issied
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