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IF THERE HAD BEEN NO WAR WHERE WOULD GREAT BRITAIN

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SKETCHES.

CHANGED DAYS IN LANCASHIRE.

A year ago Lanenthire folk were making What would Great Britain have been rate of 20 a week Rough-spoken men millioné qus of mill sales proceeding at the like, to-day if there had been no way and mail fortunes. The world, dindured for normal developments had proceeded Un Lapshire.cotton goods and price was, DO the line wider Tsónfemjuations in 1914 Fobject, The dramatic” chângu” that "bad" before Germany: launched, hogy bombshell | occurred "may" "be" wen✨ from the-akotek és on the world † says a Homo paper. "balar, says MirhJones Hodson

(Sankt-room of a Manchester café, 110.}

The Budget of 1913-il foreshado#& An expenditure or 106 millions an estimate which was exceeded, by about one and g half millions. Since, those happy weeks. Two coffees, please We're 10,000 Safesitan :*** I've sold 'one piece in throe We have spent 11,260 millions sterling picces in stock You can have 1 or the and the 1990-41 Budget indicated no ex-10.000 24pices below cost of produc penditure of a further £1,418,300, tion We must have some money."

"Our income tax on sarned income was.

Gror-cloth Merchant "Dominoes! round About ninepence in the pound, and the limit of the waper it was detdi Qis Fight Woollen scarves that were 25%, m liabilities for the Aung were old Ned comes out of this without losing.

going for 14 1nd 30s, Tampers for 8a Tidaj twenty-nine millions, and for the NATY Quarter of a million he'll be lucky. But fifty-one, and a half millions The Civil be-down's show that he is worried. He Service expenditure, including twelve and three-quarter millions for old kes pen sions, coft Test Ek gly thing must

you know what he is I started wi' now if mich will now-well and he hanches his shoulders and, walku off. How bout, golf!"**-

COLOSSAL EXPEDITUNES "Where do we stand today More than

Buyer: Any time you like. This two years have elapsed since the armis afternoon! The guy nor has gone fishing, tice, but 195 millions are demanded for for a few days soo the rapco is expect the Army, nearly eighty-four and a half ten to fall till tower. “Is there a bottom" millions for the Navy, twenty-one millions Dominos rattle and; out of the smoke, for the Air Force, and the colossal, sumcome, phrases: "Mail from Shanghai of £401,318,000 for the Civil Services, with ball be" ever,"*. “ Bray-nyant esteling ma supplementary... – estimates of azocher cold,**** twenty millions, and the income anything between 38. and, is. in the pound

Last year the Army cost us 336 millions, the Navy 156 millions, the Air Force fifty-two and a half millions and the Civil Services 569 milliqus. So that we are a little better off than wa were an 1010-99, | but the country is still being drained of its financial life-blood for purposes of administration, and it may be, ten years before we get back to the normal again if, indeed, we over de ate

(A. Bolton collage.. 4 p.m.) Dick (a spinser, coming in from a country, walk and throwing down” – his' cap): "I'm fed up. This is what comes of syndicats, Because they're not making big dividends on wren times the norma capital, ahoy thing down three days a week. Halisime is to be abolished in January, bat we're al: balfamera now!

Jon (his father): «Howd thy DOING !! To cotton trade's always been like this Time enough to talk when thy motor-bike's gofe for mekt.ViYlure's dizmg-£900 theạn: made when i' mill were sold? Thy Aunt Betsy in Burnley's Bold 4' (grandfather" clock-they're that hard up. They've been for short time four months??

Of the revenue which has been received by the State: to meet this expendituro, 8061 millions has been contributed by in come tarp land tax, and inhabited house duty. The total derived from this source Dick: "That makes it no better. Bill in 1912-13 was forty-four and three quar Taten put in an hour or two firm up. ter millions. Last year it had risen to He were told he'd nothin' to draw because more thần 2934 millions, and:för 1920-21 | it were needed for unemployment insur- the yield is estimated at nearly 3881ance contributions, but when by want to draw his insurance he was told he couldn't because he hath been working. It's the thickest thing I've heard of.

Joe: Don't grumble so much.” Gết thy fidle und woll play come dueta:""

Drawing-room of Lancashire, House,

Bhor-on-Sea)

But what if there had been no war tu drain the nation of its resources Normal developments would have con tinned, and the great themes which were under contemplation in the summer of 1914 would have been carried into fruition.

| Large sums would have been "allocated

to the upkeep of ronde and to the consign of improvement. I wish you'd taken struction of now, greskarteries,

PUBLIC: TERTING

Mrs. Shaw (reading a newspaper) :** No

your money cut of the mill after it was adlit

Williams: Now, don't worry, Sarah There's another boom coming. Them Indiata and Chinese haven't rag

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Our railway services, upable even at that date to keep pass with the growth of the population, and to-day hopelessly inadequate, would have been implored to to their backs. Abay it have to buy and spoint commensurate with public medal we're the only folk who've goẻ, the stuff. New lines would have been laid down, a Happen there'il be some money lost, well, rolling stock mereased, and obsolete wa mads plenty. T'- rush 'll come all ai methods and material consigned to the once when it does como-jnat libi lost year. scrap-heap.

Put thy things on; car'a due in five minutty"

The needs of an ever-increasing popu lation would have bën met by means of great housing schemes and garden elties,

FORWARD.

The world's destiny is in the hands of

and the movement which in 1814 was THE CHILDREN MOVE" THE WORLD gathering force to sweep away the miles of slums which disfigure London, Liver- pool, Manchester, and other large cities would have made tremendous headway

In the six years that have elapsed since the warcloud descended it might easily have been possible to wipe out these blots on our twentieth century

civilisation, and in the place of them there might have arisen dwellings which by comparison were palaces,

All these phases of evolution towards

the children; the character of that destiny children; and the character of the chil depends upon the character of the dren depends upon the method of their upbringing.

dren only. Thousands of other children It is not enough to teach our own chil-

of the slums and the highways, the starv scattered over the Motherland-children

2 higher standard of living have beening, the suffering, the destitute are not arrested by the paralysing hand of war and with the heavy burden of debt which lies upon us it must inevitably be many years, if ever, before the great projects which clamour for execution can be car ried into effect f

merely ignorant of their part in the world's welfare but are actually imbibing day by day what tends rather towards ite ruin. For their own sake, for the Nation's sake, they must be rescued and rightly taught.

We have just received a letter from the

late Mr. William Baker, the Honorary

Director of Dr. Barnardo's Homes, his written just before his death, in which he last appeal' on behalf of the children, pleads the children's cause and asks that every child born into the world be given a fair chance that they may in the near future help to move the world forward and upward. His last words are: "I know that you will help the little ones.

we cannot turn a deaf ear to such a plea from the Motherland.be

ARMY'S WATER SUPPLY. HOW IT WAS DONE IN FLANDERS. How the British armies in France and Flanders were supplied with water was the anbject of an address by Major H. Stacpoole, B. at the Institution of Civil Engineers. After the battle of the Somme water situation became serious because the 4th army had 600,000 men in waterless area. Several hundred pump ing stations had to be hurriedly installed and mains laid, but it was soon found necessary to organise a boring section for ench army in the field. The immediate result of the formation of these sections was that it became posible to sink a bore and babies under the care of the Homes There are to-day 7,318 boys and girls hole in any district 300 feet deep in five

They are being brought up and trained days. In one instance, a bore hole was in a proper environment. the babies lives cut 182 feet through chalk in axteen A round of play, kindergarten hours shift. Contrary to rumour, no exercises, proper feeding and sleep, and case of wells having been poisoned was the pictures of the merry children's faces ever reported though there were one or the booklet which accompanied Mr. two instances in which it was discovered Baker's letter, speak eloquently of the that the enemy had placed manure in the joy of their changed lot. Most of the well. In every phase of the operations boys and girls are brought up in Model

Dr. Barnardo's Homes, who are past masters in dealing with boys and girls, having rescued 90,187 children, sver that eredity is nothing, it is "environment which counts.c

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10715 Barnardo lads fought for us on land and tea and in the air in the Great. WA, and hundreds made the supreme Escric

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to the report of the housing committee Bur boys and girls cannot be fed on

of the London County Council is three and a half times as much as before the war. The rates of pay of a mechania and a labourer are 178 per cent. higher than

nit The Food Bil alone for such a large family the largest in the world is enormous. In these days of high prices it is amely three times as big as in 1913, .

in 1914, and materials, which during this Never before have the Homes needed so

year have risen 25 per cent. are now at urgently the support cát those the world from three to four times pre-war prices, over who think of the welfare add happi- 882 houses on the Hochampton estate are | dess of little 'children, ser

ready to be let. The average annual out. Donations may be sent to the Honorary going on each house will amount to Trehauter for the Homer, 18-28 Stepney 2129, of which £40 will be paid by the Causeway, London, England' cheques tenant in rent, the balance being met out, order and drafts should be made payable of public funds..

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