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THE WAR.

"CRK RONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUKSDAY, NOVEMBER SOTA, 1918.

AFTER

OLD GAME THAT STILL HAS LONG INNINGS.

Captain P. F. Warner writes in a Home paper!--

A BETTER

ENGLAND.

SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION. CULTURE FOR THE WORKER. '.

influences are often anti-social in their effects. The age of mechanical desalop ments, with the growth of larga firme sa units and of oral controlled adminis cascinally degraded the tration has worker until he has become a were cog The degradation of beings to the position of were wachine. human end the treatment of labour as

hands

Some of the important socidad which will have to bo grappled with after the war, and the lines on which a solution should be ught, are considered in a commodity to be bought and sold have A pessimist has suggested that English striking interim sport which has been created a revolt in the minds of a large presented to the Minister of Reconstruct section of the community. The conditions ericket on the point of death. If that tion by the Committee on Adult Educn of industrial life have only too often out-

of raged human

It is not were so I should feel despondent about tion presided over by the Master of

in our View, to The committee, consisting of Balliol. England, for the game is a portion of

representatives of employers, workers, accept the suggestion that the exigencies and educationists earnestly plead for of industrial efficiency are of such par her very heart, and its imperial sway

such a rewastruction of the conditions amount importsace that the development and rightly links Britona together in whatever part of daily life and work as will afford mes of personality must inevitably of the world they have their abiding and women alike greater opportunities be subordinated to them. Industry exists for satisfying that craving for education for man, not man for industry, and. if plary. It has been said that baseball

in its wide sense which is a permanent it be true as it is that modern indus haman

-the desire for knowledge, trial conditions have, often tended to will supplant cricket. Baseball is a fine

for sell-expression, for the satisfaction deprive the worker of the education which game for the great American people: butu intelltun, esthetic, and spiritual he previously derived from the intrinsic interest offered by his work, that fact it is their game and not ours, and any needs, and a fuller life.

makes it doubly important to supplement Fastempt to thrust it down the throats of

their deficiencies by a humane and gen- those who stand-by their own national

erous educational policy. Adult educa- and, indeed, good citizenship, de-

Kame

mea

Evidenes obtained from and women, both students and tutors, in all branches of non-vocational adalt educa the industrial and social conditions of

can only have the effect of tion throughout the country shows pendir no small degree upon a new today are only too often of such a charact of our industrial outlook and

strengthening cricket.

ter as to form insuperable obstacles to I should never dream of abusing base adult eduation. What in the commit ball bat venture to suggest that our tee's opinion, the chief obstacles are is public, have not the enfperament to ap-best indicted by the proposals they put

forward. These are briefly as follows:

A mainam legal working day of preciate a sport in which the onlookers

eight hours, with strict regulation of barrack players to put them off their

overtime and night work. game, however good-natured the chivry- Į ing mag he, *

In the public schools cricket is going stronger than ever, and the young men

no at

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Effective measures to ensure reason able security of livelihood by guarding against and mitigating the effects of anmployment.

Reasonable holidays with pay for wage-camera.

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Bad and insuficiers housing is pro minent among the social conditions which impede the development of intellectual. interests, and in this connection the com- mittee emphasise the

444. Interest of the extension women in reform. of the franchise to some six millions of women, it is to be expected that in future women should take a larger interest in public affairs, and that they will turn to a greater extent than in the past to the acquisition of knowledge to at thea to-day are as good men on the deli

selves for their new responsibilities." as their fathers were. It is a fact that

comprehensive scheme of housing Bat for many women under present. con the Army is very keen on cricket. At the

reform in the carrying out of which ditions it will not be possible to find beginning the authorities were

women should have an effective voice.

time for these new interests. The dif all enthusiastic about the game, but ther

Recontruction in the conditions of culties of their many and exacting duties aggravated by cramped, ill-arrang speedily discovered that there was no

rural life; a public hall for every are

ed houses, built without thought of con better form of sport for keeping men

village sound in spirit and 6t in body. At the

Excese and irregular hours of work venience, and innocens of labour saving

A comprehensive scheme front and in the training camps here in England tens of thousands of our boys are specially pointed to by the committee devices." played cricket for the first time, and they as tending to and the worker for taking housing reform is therefore of vital im revelled in it. When they come back advantage of educational opportunities.portance to women, and upon it will de- We are convinced that long hours,pend in no small measure the extent to again they will want to keep the game and irregular hours of labour, night which they will be able to play their part up. It will be to the interests of large work, and the "shift

system, deprive in

Hence the and social interests. employers of labour to see that playing

dom that all men prize, and the com committee consider is important. fields are allotted to the cricketer soldiers those who suffer from them of the free- tablic affair and to develop intellec- 1 de fet anticipate any great revolumanity of the full service ef its citizens. housing reform should be hurried for- tion in the future in the game as it is The loss, both to the individual and to ward, and that women, who are the per played. but it is possible that two-day society, from conditions which thwart the sons most concerned, should be included matches will take the place of three-day desire for self expression, it is impossible in the housing, town planning public to calculate The view that the com-health, and other committees dealing with matches. Cricket has gained a good deal

munity must suffer economic loss as a this question. of time by the Daylight Saving Act. The Ministry of Health should be a great result of a shortening of working hours is not one to which modera economic institution, and I would like to see an outcome from it in the way of a Ministry science lends any confirmation, and it of Sport, for there can be no real health has inded received an impressive practi- without sport. This has been recognized cal refutation from investigations made by the Cadets Corps of the R.A.F. cach by the Ministry of Munitions during the of which has a sports officer, who has to take his work very seriously indeed.

I am rather on "the shelf now as & cricketer, but, without feeling swollen- beaded about the matter, I should dearly love to be England's first Minister of Sport: I would not confine the labours

present war.

SECURITY OF LIVELIHOOD.

A NEW ERA

"

that

of the Ministry to cricket Rugger and reduced to a minimum, and there bring to upset it by going down and

in

Soccer would have their big share the winter months. and there would be baseball, hockey, athletics, and so on,

A NEW YEOMAN CLASS."

OUR DUTY TO THE DISABLED.

Mr. J. Hodge, M.P., Minister of Pen- sions, in the course of an address at the Town Hall. Manchester, on September 30th, on the King's Fund for Disabled Officers and Men, said the object of the

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Recenstruction in the conditions of village life and work is regarded as no less important. For the rural popula tien, the committee point out, there are very special disabilities-isolation of the individual, class prejudice, long hours. rare holidays, low wages, besides lack of In some cases In the committee's opinion, the maxi opportunities for social life and for in-

tellectual development. mum legal working day should not be

sion. "In the majority of cases where one wit- more than eight hours, and in certain there is even opposition to their provi heavy and exhaustive Einds of work even eight hours appears to them too long. We started rural groups (said Overtime should be more closely regulatedne, speaking.of.a. southern country), the farmer in the neighbourhood should be special consideration for work iers whe hours of labour are irregular pro person."

of villages are without any meeting Further, regular night work, except

ader public control:: where absolutely essential, should be pro-

The village institutes are low and Bro bibited by law.

usually under

private control, not always Charch and "The report goes on to analyse the effects

Sened kind. of an of monotonous work and to suggest that

are by no means always after alive forms of employment should chape for secular purposes. Good be encouraged to counteract its depressing village libraries are few and far between.

The more índustry mental effect.

The committee recommend the provision- becomes a matter of machinery the more of a hall under public control in every necesnty it becomes to humanise the village, adding that the general question

system. working of the industrial. Pointing to the fatigue not only of the of accommodation for educational pur

port. muscles but of the nerves which affects poses will be considered in a further re- They conclude with a striking appeal heavy manual workers, the committee say excessive labour regularly pursued

worker and of the handicaps by which and recommend should be schedal. Few, can fail to feel the force of

that particularly

his development is hindered or prevented. charting, oceapations money would be able to engage in some ed and more closely regulated by law, and inspiration and experience which is belag

The that, wherever possible, mechanical occupation on their own account. greatest percentage of disabled mes sal vices hould be introduced, so that these born of the war, or to recognise the people are looking forward to the future. fered from the dire disease of tuberculosis heavy, degrading forms of labour should strength of the new hope with which the as the result of hardships in the trenches, be altogether superseded.

Unemployment, and not less the fear The nation ardently desires to order its life in accordance with those principles and to send them back to the factory, workshop, and warehouse was to sentence of employment, are serious obstacles to of freedom and justice which led so many them to death. He desired that those men mindculture on the part of the worker of its best song into the field of battle: A new ern has come upon should be trained for outdoor occupations and the committee recommend steps to

We can We cannot stand still. us. poultry farming, intensive culture, guarantee them a reasonable security of reorganisation

the not. return to the old ways, market gardenlig, rabbit and pig breed livelihood either by some

with As stupidities. ing, anything that would keep them in

our international relations, so with the the open air and give them a chance of

relations of classes and individuals in recovery. In bad cases of tuberculosis

side our own nation If they do not the fund would send oat men to South Africa, Australia, or other places where

henceforth get better they must needs get worse, and that means moving towards. the new era one of such progress as to price in life lost in manhood crip- pled, and i

in bomes desolated...... allow this spirit to

unused die away

fund was to help those who came back doubtedly degrades those who follow for closer ccnsideration of the lot of the I

from the war in such a condition that they would be unable to take up regular employment, but if they had

de!

of industry to minimise fluctuations cld abuses, the old the valume of production or by some extension of the principle of insurance.

More generous treatment in the master of haidays is strongly urged. The com- believe that a reasonable holiday mitka

there was a dry climate, so that without stoppage o of *pay would have an abyss. It is in our power to make

might be thoroughly restored to health

might be the duty of the State to do that, but he wanted to do it whilst the

beneficial effect upon the national life and they think it important that the pre sent custom among

State was making up its mind. At prepayment during holiday workers-of us even for the unmeasurable cost,

should be ex

incorporated

Off

sent they had just over 3,000 men who had been thus set up. Another good tended to wage-earners feature of the scheme was that in setting in the Factory Acts. They think it would be a waste compared with which up men in this way we should create a equally important that the weekly half-

a little thing. It would be a national new yeoman class, who ultimately would holiday should be extended by law to the material waste of the war would be agricultural workers, and that Sunday in, anpardonable in the eyes of posterity, be like a solid sheet-anchor for the coun-

We have awakened to the splendid try. It looked as though we wanted some workers should be given a week day

qualities that were latent in our people, in compensation. thing of that kind in the times that were

demon

AND HOME

the rank and file of the common coming. The Russian revolution'

Discussing the reaction upon human who before the war were often, adjudged titated the folly of revolution, and the more we could do by way of getting up pomsuality of the conditions of industrial to be decadent, to have lost their patriot

solid

told revolutionaries. background, the committee remark that response to leadership we were even

Now FRENCH LESSONS class the less had, we to dread life and of what they call the industrial ism, their religious faith, and

has they were physically degenerate. (Cheers.) He told the Prime Minister though the modern industrial

the we see what potentialities lie in this mid he thought he was on the wrong tack material needs of the world's population people, and what a charge lies on us to We owe in asking the Government for money for and largely removed the gross evils of a give these powers full play the purpose, because it would mean the century ago, when vast masses of the it to our dead that they shall not have paging of a flat rate. If the effort were working population lived in abiect misery, died in vain, but that their sacrifice shall voluntary there was less rigidity, about nertheless the subtle mental influences prove to have created a better England it, and that was what was required. of industrial life as well as its physical for the future generations fillet me don

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