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RIGHT WAY TO CLEAR SLUM AREAS

By ALFRED C. BOSSOM, M.P.

Signs abound that both theed time-table. Such a plan of central and the local authorities of operations would in itself tend England are about to renew the at-greatly to reduce the costs and the

tack upon the alums.

BODO

The Very Idea!

THIS WATER SHORTAGE

By Edward "Waterman” Kelly. TT seems that there is an- other shortage of water in Hongkong.

spaces where of

men

were

can do little or nothing. Simul- taneous action on agreed men- sures can alone provide a fair chance for the experiments pro- posed in what we might term

inconveniences and uncertainties of tho "applied economics." If

We remember the last our present methods. measures are adopted swiftly

But at the centre of the burl-water shortage we were in. They cannot do so with any real and methodically, the world may be rescued in double-quick time and lasting effect unless the nature nesalike and systematic campaign

true It was in the great wide open from the ruins which appear to of the problem before them is right which is essential to any

victory I would place the idea of

method clearance by a now be encroaching daily. A realis-ly understood and unless tic appreciation of the facts is broad and pivotal principle, as ap- "decanting." That, indeed, ie the mean. all that is necessary and Pre-plicable to London as to Birming-pivot on which the whole movement sident Roosevelt will do much to ham, to Glasgow na to Manchestor, must turn

Let me make its mechanism and hasten understanding if he car is invoked to deal with it.

significanco clearer by the humble ries out his plan to visit London Slum clearance is popular overy-analogy of the hotel bath. It is as a guest at the World Econ-where except among slum dwellers. used by many people; it is cleaned omic Conference. In the light They often dislike being moved. and prepared for guest after guest; of the example he has set in the They have become used to their set it remains a single, manageable United States, his presence

to them. convenienco functioning at the

minimum of cost.

grown

should be an inspiration. But quarters and attachod the war debts problem must The neighbourhood has first be removed from the path, familiar to them. Their friends temporarily, at least. A morn-are there, their school, their fa- torium on the June payments in vourite public-house, and the return for the tariff truce the liceman at the corner is a known President is seeking would ap-and trusted personage. Above all, pear to be an adequate quid pro they are near their work.

MOVING REPUGNANT.

quo.

More Magisterial

Justice

:

There had only been a hun- dred inches of rain in six months, and the place was so dry we couldn't wear boots becauso the tongues always hung out.

Wo used to get our water by camel

Oodnadatta. team from Every time the camel team arrived the whole town would get drunk at the pub.

"What'll you have?" we'd ask Pete

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"Oh, I'll drink mino neat," ho'd

It was too strong for us, though. Wo'd have to break ours down with a dash of whiskey.

DECANTING CENTRES. Similarly I am convinced that tho po- key to slum clearance is the orec- tion, in the neighbourhood of tho possessed, of up-to-date tenement tenants who are about to be dis- houses to which they can be moved say. and from which they will return to the new buildings that meanwhile To uproot them from all these will have been put up on their old associations and conveniences and sites.

To get rid of the mourning after Theso up-to-date tenement to dump them down in a strange houses, these decanting centres, the night before feeling next morn locality that resents their intra- would be of the appropriate size to ing, we'd take a couple of aspirine, Several police court decisions sien as much as they themselves meet the requirements of the washed down with gia.

To obtain water for washing the recently invite us to believe that resent the wrench from their old locality. They might accommodate some of our magistrates have a habitations is to cause a social up-no more than 250 people; they fixed idea that local ordinances heaval that reformers may wel-might also accommodate double or ginsses, the scullery maida used to gundruple that number. The point peel onions over the kitchen sink. must be satisfied to the letter, come, but that its supposed benea that, being used over and over Hence the expression, "Well, for irrespective of extenuating cir-ficiaries find most frequently re-again, being cleaned and done up weepin' in the eink!" cumstances. Last week we call-pugnant.

after occupation by each fresh batch

But getting back to Hongkong, They fight against it for all they of tenants from the slums, they

We understand that the govern- ed attention to a case where a

could handle a population out of young boy was harshly punished are worth. They get out Injunc-all poportion to their actual dimen- ment will have plenty of water for a technical offence,

where tions; they invoke legal ald; they slons-just as one hotel bathroom when they complete the Shing Mun justice, without mercy, was in-cilng with passion to the wretched may provide baths for a score of Dam. Conversely the public. will exorably applied. Yesterday tenements that none the less ro-people a day.

came another illuminating ex-present home to them as much as Some plan of this kind has been have plenty of Dams until they got ample of the Shylock demands his suburban yilla represents home tried at Amsterdam and with the water. So everybody ought to be manor most encouraging results. I sug-satiefled. Personally, we intend to of the Law. A banishce, who to the City clark, or the

gest that it is universally applicable stick to soda. declared he was employed on a house to the squire.

Hongkong Telegraph. ship undergoing repairs in dock Then, again, the slum landlords and should be adopted throughout

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1933.

NEW WAYS FOR A NEW ERA "The country needs and, unless

rd.

tenement

was arrested at Shaukivan. He are for the most part content with the whole of the United Kingdom. things as they are. They draw Suppose that the matter on hand had no right to be there. Sen-rents for properties that ought to be is that of pulling down and

containing tence of six months' imprison-wholy unrentable; there is usually building a slum area ment was imposed. Doubtless a case to be put up before any 2,000 people. A model the worthy magistrate brought dwellings are officialy condemned, house is errected near by to serve to bear his incontestable know- and the law is there, always tender as a decanter. It holds, say, 600 ledge of the Ordinance govern- towards existing rights, patient a people, and that number is drafted into it. The moment they leave the ing this offence and its usual re-raards delay.

aluma their ald quarters are de molished and rebuilding begins. In quirements in the form of pun- ishment, but one looks in vain for any human touch in the handling

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SAVING OF TIME.

By repeating this operation four times a population of 2,000 can be rehoused and this with the mini- mum disturbance to the routine of their daily lives, at a great saving of time and, with the least possible

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Beer bung boom boosts basi- nes in Berwind, W. Va. Buy- ing bigger and better bangs brings bright burst of balm to the bank-burdened.

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Coldest spot in the world

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Some of those frozen, assets un- doubtedly froze so easily because they had been well-waterod.

In this climate, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of unrestricted bal- ances, double Lability, and de- ductions for minor depend-

ents.

struggling to climb out of a.very in its practice, then it wouldtion and reconstruction, and the experienced in the realities of life tion of his mind, anys

to and

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We don't mind paying the fiddler after our spree of tho past few years, but are wo go- lag to have to pay the whole blooming orchestra?

...

Somehow, you're pretty apt to feel low after a high old time.

THE QUICKER WAY.

a very few months a block is ready Verhoyvanek, where it gota 95 be-

Is The result is that it takes about for occupation, the "decantor" I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent ex- of the case. The police did not to eat a slum area in London and another detachment of 600 takes nounce it with your teeth chatter- ten years and a huge effort finally emptied, cleaned, and renovated and low zero. Imagine trying to pro- perimentation. It is common contest the statement that the to rehouse its inhabitants. Nor is possession, while the first batch la Ing. sense to take a method and try man's ship was in Hongkong, there any guarantee under our pro-back on its old site but no longer in

pro- aalum. it; if it fails, admit it frankly undergoing repairs. But the sent ungvoldable piecemeal

magistrate decided that he cedure that the families removed and try another. But above all, should be treated in line with will be rehoused in their try something." This

para other offenders, and apparently neighbourood, or that overcrowding graph comes from President disregarding the fact that it in the same locality will not at once Roosevelt's book, "Looking For- would cost the man his job, and begin to breed fresh slums.

I believe there is a botter, ward," and it is an immensely probably turn him from a man quicker, and a more economical way

endeavouring to earn an honest of tackling this problem, encouraging declaration of prin- living into an unemployed coolie In London and in the provincial expense to the ratepayers. And "decanter" ciple, capable of expansion to co-with a dangerous hate of the centres the measure of what ought at the end of it the ver the world at large. It seems law and all it stands for, sent to bo done in the way of alum would still remain and could be used

by permanent tenants. to set forth precisely the attitude him to prison. If Hongkong clearance has been pretty wall

There is another advantage in

A poet's work is but the refloc- which statesmen must adopt justice is to have no elasticity, taken.. That is to say, it is ac-

one of to-day. The world is not only admit of no extenuating circumcurately known what districte and this method which those who are stances, or the human element, how many houses call for demoli.

in the slums will be quick to ap- them. Maybe that accounts for all

the blank verse. numbers of people that these pro-

pecinte-namely, the comparative deep depression. We have come, geem that, the Englishman's best cesses will involve.

case with which in a "decanter" the as far as it is possible to tell, to loved boast will not stand too

This should make it feasible for tenants can be introduced to modern con- the end of an era in history. close an examination.

ench authority to work out a com-household appliances and

In the prehensive scheme embracing its ventences and encouraged Whatever we do in the future, it

entire area and proceeding by a fix-right use of them. must be something new, some- The Test of Democracy thing different. The old ways have proved their inadequacy, "The test of democracy," said and since we lack perfect wis- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in a dom, it seems a reasonable thing recent survey of world affairs, "Is its capacity to listen to argu- ahead by move

a trial

ment." It is a question of un- error method until we derstanding, of "capacity to lis have found a new way ten" to reason, from first to last. that will prove satisfactory. An informed public will not only It is a long time since the be likely to return the best re- world has had a leader who de-presentatives, but will constitute manded "bold, persistent experi- a body of sound opinion to whose criticism legislators and adminis- mentation"; it is a long time trators will defer. A better in- since our own temper has been tercommunication of ideas be- of a kind to support such a tween governors and governed man. Ever since the war, is the crying need of modern de- "Don't rock the boat" has been mocracy-an improved technique of understanding. But if this the slogan. Wo have asked our is so difficult to attain within the leaders to keep their hands limits of a single nation, how off economic problems and much more difficult in inter- let well alone. This work- course between nations. Two- ed, or seemed to, as long nations may speak different as things were indeed well languages, as French and Ger- enough. But when they wont man, or they may both speak from bad to worse, and from English, but the connotation of worse to worst, it was a catas political words will not be exactly trophic policy. That we have at the same in England and Amer last discarded it, and have states-fen. But there are greater diffi. men who have discarded it, is culties than that presented by perhaps the most encouraging language. There are different

one circumstances, different fact on the horizon. No knows just what is going to got needs, and different prejudices the world finally out of the de- in the light of which words and different pression.. No one knows just

arguments

test of do- how, having got out, we shall

meanings, The avold slipping back again. We can do nothing other than make mocracy is "capacity to listen" to reason-the people of one experiments. Some of them, in

country endeavouring to put baileruobability will not work themselves at the viewpoint of

Assume

local

"Now, remember, the gentleman seated next to Mr. Wells is his

My don't spill anything on him." abertzalent ne

O BLOOMING ROSE. There is still one pale rose bloom- faint ing in the garden; one memory of the days that are dead, of the greenfly that have gone the way of all flesh.

And the other day, bolag full of sentiment and suet dumpling (with raisina) and feeling rather sloppy, and we went out

mused most romantically upon that rose. In fact, we don't mind telling you, bo- tween friends, of course (but don't lot it go any further), that wo oven started writing, a poem about

It.

Yes, we did. We moaned about, and scratched our head, and came over all Tennysonian; and after a lot of internal struggling we took. paper and pencil and wrote..

But just then a large and force lumbago came roaring down the garden and bit us in the small of my back; so that we staggered in- doors, and crawled into bed, and were totally unconscious for over eight hours, ... Went off to aloep, you know.

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You can soo the difficulty wo bave in living up to the title set out above. Imagine a man, with blooming rose in the garden and the blooming lumbago under his anter- for trouser-buttons trying to cap

Not turo the right_Spirit.

Babl the bottled stuff, but.

And that is what everybody else is saying, too, Bah