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AMERICAN "PEASANTS"
JANUARY
BETTER DAYS ARE BACK AGAIN.
By G. WARD PRICE.
A back-to-peasantry movement is being fostered by a small but in- fluential group of American agri- cultural leaders for the purpose of "lifting American/farmers to the sarae economie lovel as European peasants." An American pensantry,▼ITH higher hearts than for munism that went on la Germany They
IN THE DAILY MAIL
The Very Idea!
`MAKING A FORTUNE
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TN precisely eight years we shall
bo tolerably rich.
Wo can hear ribald guffaws from
ia the farmer's salvation; War sher years past, wo for years till Hitler came to power. all sides greating the joke, but wo Unpleasant as the word sounds to stop into 1936.
Not for a contury past has London repeat, firmly, that in eight years
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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 1936:
OVERSTEPPING THE BOUNDS
a far
potence and independenco.
:
might bring.
rints as broke out in Paris last happier U.S. farmers.
The problem is not is coming through its troubles; February. Our financial structure to lower rural living standards to getting more prosperous; growing did not collapse like that of the
"Just how do we make that out? that of the European peasant, but enfer.
United States, where widesprend
-Now you are really interested, rather to raise them that high.
This needs no proof by instance bank-fallures plunged the most Hundreds of thousands of American and example. We all feel it in provident from prosperity into and you would not mind knowing, farmers are little better off than our bones, just as one day about poverty: overnight. The deep na-oh? Well, we have always boon slaves-or medieval serfs-working three months from now we shall tional humiliation and artificial unscidish, and will let you in on our their lives away for a crust of realise that spring bas come. economie ruin under which Hun- bread and a leaky roof.
NO SOLUTION
can
in
ns well.
You doubting Toms, this la no Hail, happy Britain, highly joke, we have been serious all
Along. favoured isla And Heaven's peculiar carol
Not to leave you longer on ton-
а
The British nation is like an Kary still suffere have no parallel Boeret and attendant good fortuna
in British memory. explorer who has had to ford a
Austria and Spain in 1934 saw It is nothing less than this, you deep and dangerous river. The Some of the agricultural leaders food still swirls about us, but we civil war: Vienna and Marseilles leave it to the Oyster. are members of the Agricul- have passed the most perilous witnessed political assassinations.
But what has an oyster got to do tural Adjustment Administration. point; we have stood fast in the Such events in our own midst ap-
Again a burst of laugh. Others are members of the Amerl-strongest whirlpools. We feel the pear as inconceivable as earth- with it?
Country Life Association, Kround firm beneath our feet. which was started in 1908 by the shelving slowly upwards. We know gunkes or eruptions. It is no wontor, this time boisterous as if to late President Theodore Roosevelt now that we shall reach the other der that to-day, as two hundred cover up your confusion.
years ngo, the neighbouring nations murmur still; . in an effort to better the lot of alde in safety. the farmer. Dr. Cari C. Taylor, Once more this great old country who represents the Government and of ours has survived a terrible the farmer both, is the spokesman strain. In their traditional way, for the back-to-peasantry move-its people have gloomed and grum- ment. Dr. Taylor was for long bled, but never heart despaired.
To us Providence has tempered | terhooks, it comes to this: You let time dean of the graduate school Three or four years ago other the fierce winds of these stark the Oyster amass your wealth for of the North Carolina College of nations thought, and said, that we times. We may talk as if we lived Agriculture, and Dow is vice-were done for. To-day their com- in a valley of gloom, but could we you. All you have to do is to ing- president of the Country Life Asmo-ments are a mixture, of amazement, be taken back to those pre-warculate a seed pearl or some other
substance ciation, and regional director of envy, and admiration.
years that we think of as affluent gritty
of equal in- the A.A.A's land programme
and unclouded, we should find them fultesimal size inte baby oyster. dull and unhappy by contrast with then put it back into its cradle of the South, where, he says, farmers'
ving conditions were the worst. The worst of our anxieties now present-day conditions.
the deep and wait for results, "Two
groups of agricultural lenders He outside our bordera. These too Standards of comfort and enjoy- are trying to do exactly the op-have lessened lately. Europe is ment have risen for all sections of No more labour, no mors ex- posite thing." ho declares. "One still a hotbed of nationalist fever, the nation. You will find no bare-pense-just give yourself the thinks the unemployed in the elties But though there were critical footed urchins in the streets theao patience of Job, and in eight should bo shoved back on the land. moments last year, they passed cold, "wet, winter, days; they were years, the seed you have planted
have blossomed into The other group of agricultural without disaster. The war danger common enough in the prosperous will economists has been saying for has not yet disappeared, but it may times of 30 years ago.
genuine pearl. 15 years
that the solution of the ultimately pass, provided that this Not only is the whole population farm problem is to get people off country makes itself strong and better fed, clothed, housed, edu-country catate, and live happily for Then you become rich, buy a the land. Both groups are militant shows itself resolute for pence.
eated, and amused than over bo- now, but agriculture cannot dump its problems in industry's lap hope. It will also be a year of ing and sympathy between all
We are entering upon a year of fore, but there is more understand ever afterwards in affluent retire- Neither can industry send its celebration. With it comes the classes of it. The British people It is seldom that such a dis-jobless to the country and thereby Silver Jubilee of King George V. form in 1935 a family that is grow graceful scene is witnessed in hope to end the unemployment By his counsel and example, he ing steadily happier. the House of Commons as that crisis." He said he had been told has done more than any other in- which occurred during the deby an administration leader that dividual in his country to bring
tho New Deal intends to bate on the financial vote for 1,000,000 elty families to farms troubles which have made his mony in our own nation could only Bead us safely through the trials and If this process of increasing hare the newly-created Unemployment within the year. That would be reign the most critical period in be extended to international rela
ruinous, both to the city folk who British history,
tlona, the entire Continent of Assistance Board. There can try to become farmers and to the
Europe might count with confidence be nothing but reprobation felt farmers who even now cannot carn During those 25 years, 10 Euro- on the swift approach. of better
pean Sovereigns have lost their days. amongst
decent-minded a decent living, it would seem. all
thrones, and passed, apparently un- people at the virulent attack
regretted by their peoples. into The peoples of every land want A REMEDY made by a Labour M.P. on the
obscurity. What better testimony peace, but not all of them want Prime Minister during the int- "I do believe that ench man's could there be to the worth of our peace at any price. If a nation own King than the fact that, at feels that its grievances can only ter's absence from the House, Taylor. Each farmer then must be farm should be amallor," says Dr.
the end of the same period, the be repaired by war, the temptation redress them, even at that cant whilst the unseemly demonstra-encouraged to own his own land,
British Monarchy stands higher tion on the part of interrupters to cherish and to live on it, ho con miration of Its subjects?
than ever in the respect and ad- may prove irresistible when once the capacity for making war has who accused he Government of tinued,
na do the farmers of
been recovered. must Europe. Finally they being "baby-starvers" is no less allowed to
Their personal qualities have The task before the Governments develop markets for made King George and Queen
So, from now on until elght short [regrettable. Happily, there is their produce in the surrounding Mary not only the human symbols of Europe is to bring about such
countryside, an do the European of our Empire's unity but the re-international adjustments as will years will have passed, we shall position was in any way asso- pure and simple, but for
back in our armchair, twiddling our some the British character. The na-own countries statesmen deliber-toes, until our two oysters in Japan ciated with these incidents. The reason people don't like the idea in tional celebrations of next May will ately set themselves to remove will have attained maturity and be unemployment problem is one America.
have a significance far greater than justices. They must show the same made to disgorge for our boneft. of great complexity and magni-
that of state ceremonial. They will initiative in the field of foreign
Come to think of it, we should politics. tude. That being the case, it GENEVA'S. STAGE
express both the gratitude of n
To that end the British Govern- not have let you in on this great is hardly to bo expected that
people loyal to the core and the ment can make a powerful con- idea, but then we could not keep a Events at Genevan have often country's unshakable confidence in tribution, for its influence upon the secret the same way our oysters had any method devised for its am- clioration will meet with uni-been dramatie; why should they not its own structure and destiny.
Continent is great-when its pur-for our benefit-which brings us also Rometimes be theatrical? versal
We huve indeed good ground for
be
•
ment.
The prospect was so enchanting that before Mr. Kidoke returned
to Japan from an exhibition of cultured pearls held in Hongkong. we persuaded him to accept from Us a modest contribution of two seeds as the nucleus of our pros- pective fortune.
Again (doubtless with a full intention of getting Mr. Kidoka to make a similar promise on your behalf) you nak, cagerly, of us how and where you can get those seeds. Well, we don't mind letting you in on a second secret--but on the strict understanding that it is to be the last.
We got those seeds by breaking the heads off two pins.
no indication that the official Opfarmers. That would be peasantry. | presentatives of all that is best In destroy-that-temptation, In their lave very little else to do but ait
•
accord. But if the That is what Mr. Herman public rejoicing. Hard as the last pase is clear and well defined. Of back again to the truism that no- National Government has so far Rochbling, director of the Vienna few years have seemed, they were recent years the inconsistency and one can be as close as an oyster on
Indecision of our foreign policy a secret. failed to make any very decid-Burgtheatre, wishes to know. On a Golden Age compared with what have baffled even those nations that ed-impression on the problem, it few things does the preservation of some nations have passed through looked to us for a lead. has certainly initiated much-peace depend so much as on the in recent times.
needed reforms in the handling anderstanding the habits of thought nations" Geneva representatives
In
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The whole world knows that Great Britain has but one interest Europe that of preserving Our impartiality inspires a (Continued on Page 5).
of the unemployment insurance of their colleagues' countries.
This country has known nothing In funds. Not only has it placed Mr. Rocbbling's opinion these are like that guerrilla war between the peace. these on a solvent basis, but it clearly revealed in various national forces of Nationalism and Com- has instituted other reforms dramas, and he conceives that a which all but those who are wil- cycle of these, presented at Geneva, fully blind to the facts must would go a long way toward form- concede
being да
urgently in that friendship based on called for. Prior to the Govern-mutual comprehension which is so
not all
ment plan for creating a new Untial to the world. He has on a smaller scale, put this employment Assistance Board, scheme of a series of international there was an astounding variety plays into operation in his own in the treatment of applicants theatre, in Vienna. The proposal for help, with the result that the has, of course, provoked "various whole country was dissatisfied criticisms. Not all nations are with the working of the system. equally articulate In the sphere of Under the revised scheme, the the drama. Moreover, rates of assistance to uble-kinds of drama are equally com- prehensible to western peoples. bodied unemployed who have ex- Few countries require at the mo hausted their benefits will be ment more tactful understanding uniform throughout the land. than Japan. But it is doubtful if There are, admittedly, anomaa series of typical Japanese dramus lies still persisting, but in a pro- at Geneva would mean very much blem of such complexity this is to the delegates of Euorpean difficult to avoid. The Labour Peoples. Nevertheless, the funds- mental idea at the back of the Party is still dissatisfied with the new arrangement, but the Proposal is worth considering. criticism is largely one of detail,
and does not touch underlying political complexion, would principles. How much of it is overlook the just claims of the due to rigid adherence to the needy; the whole system of un- traditional view that it is the employment assistance, in con- duty of the Opposition to oppose, ception and in practice, is based and how much to genuinely-felt on a regard for the well-being of grievances, it is difficult to say. Ithose who are without work and Some of the criticisms have cer- lof consideration for their de tainly been marked by an pendents. Reasoned criticism exaggeraten of the facts, with of the detailed operation of the the obvious intention to show scheme is to be welcomed; ill- up the Government in an un-informed and mischievous con- pleasant light. Extremists who demnation of the Government's describe the Government as bo-methods, carrying an imputation Ing "baby-atarvers" are merely of sheer heartlessness where tho indulging in irresponsible clap interests of the needy are con- Six Lines. trap, for which there is not the cerned, is not only misleading slightest justification." No Brit to the outside world it is total- lish Government, whatever its ly un-British.
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Dr. Robert Hutchison, physician to the London Hospital and to the. Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond street believes that modern health methods and parent- al over-anxiety are preventing children from being 68 good animals as they should be. In- stead, ho says, a race is being turned out "fully qualified to be hypochondrines on their own ac- count."
"Over anxiety begins almost from the word "go," Dr. Hutchi- son states, and proceeds to criticiso in turn. the ante-natalist, the scientifically trained nurse, the school medical servico, and oven the working of the panel system, which, he anys, "gives the right to eall in a doctor freely for the mont trivial symptoma,”
Ho dislikes equally cut-and- dried attempts to make an Infant's regimen us regular as the planets, and the weekly weighings, measure- ments, and physical criticism which may follow. At the now fashion- able doses of orange juice, glucose, and fish oil he mocks gently,
As an extremo case, Dr. Hut. chison mentions a boy aged 11, who was forwarded to a board- Ing school by his parents with a perfectly serious covering letter
onts26 medical "do's" and
Among other things, he was to have hla temperature taken night and morning, avoid most kinds of food, take warm water before breakfast and “bicarbonate", after lunch, he watched for appendicitis, do flat feet exercises, and spray his nose three times dally-
And, after all that, parents ask the advice of their doctor on how to make their children - adventür- Tous!
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