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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30,

NOTES OF THE DAY

SOVIET'S BOAST

1935.

BETTER DAYS ARE BACK AGAIN

By G. WARD PRICE

IN THE DAILY MAIL

The Very Idea!

MAKING A FORTUNE

"By Horatio: Bogg, Optimalst

¡N precisely eight years we shall

be tolerably, rich.

Every so often the All-Union Congress of Soviet Russia has a Bession in Moscow. It is a sort of glorified Chamber of Commerce and it serves one very useful purpose, If not many, It is a means of

We can haar ribald guffaws from broadcasting fet achievement

to the world the re- WITH higher hearts than for me tend til Hitler came to power.

M. many New Years past, wo for years till Hitler came to power, all sides greeting the joke, but we ports of

Not for a century past has London repeat, firmly, that in eight years. Viacheslav Molotov, Chairman of stop into 1935,

experienced such anti-Government. the Council of People's Commissars, Things aro mending. The world riots as broke out in Paris last shall be in a position of com speaks proudly of his country's is coming through its troubles; February. Our anancial structure potence and independence... progress since the last Congress in getting more prosperous; growing did not collapse like that of the Just how do we make that out? 1981. He points out that the

level

United States, where widespread of production In Russia has risen

This needs no proof by instance bank-failures plunged the most Now you are really · interested, 180 per cent, aince 1929, while the production level of the rest of the and example. We all feel it in provident from prosperity Into and you would not mind knowing. our bones, just as one day about poverty overnight. The deep na ah? Well, we have always been Now, that, on the "face of it, is three months from now we shall tlona! humiliation and artificial insollsh, and will let you in on aur world has declined by 24 per cent.

economie ruin under which Hun- impressive. But the achievement realise that spring has come. may seem less remarkable with The British nation is like anary still suffers have no parallel secret and attendant good fortune

in British memory.

As well. analysis. In the first place, a com-explorer who has had to ford a parison of percentages means little deep and dangerous river. The

It is nothing less than this, you or nothing; for in this period food still swirls about us, but we civil war Vienna and Marselilce leave it to the Oyster. Russia has had time to climb out have passed the most perilous witnessed political assassinations.

safer.

Icet.

now that we shall reach the other side in safety.

Austria and Spain in 1034 saw

of the post-revolutionary morass,polit; we have stood fast in the Such events in our own midst ap But what has an oystor got to do. while the rest of the world had just strongest whirlpools. We feel the pear as inconceivable as earth- with it? Again a burst of laugh- * entered upon the worst time of ground firm beneath our industrial depression in its history, shelving slowly upwards. We know quakes or cruptions. It is no wen-ter, this time bolsterous as if to In 1929, then, Russia had found its

der that today, as two hundred cover up your confusion. feat, more or less, and, under the

years ago, the neighbouring nations murmur still:

You doubting Toms, this is no impetus of a five-year plan and the lash of inspired patriote, was

Hail, happy Britain, highly joke, we have been serious all driving towards a new era of in-

favoured isla

along. dustrial expansion. She was en-

Not to leave you longer on ton- abled to borrow experts and money

Once more this great old country of ours has survived a terrible strain. In their traditional way, its people have gloomed and grum- bled, but never at heart despaired.

And Heaven's peculiar care!

To us Providence has tempered.

from the rest of the world, and her Three or four years ago othor itho fierce winds of these starterhooks, it comes to this: You let nations thought, and said, that we times. We may talk as if we lived the Oyster amass your wealth for were done for. To-day their com-in a valley of gloom, but could we you. All you have to do is to ino- ments are a mixture of amazement, be taken back to these pre-warculate a seed pearl or some other years that we think of as affluent gritty substance of equal In- envy, and admiration.

and unclouded, we should And them finitesimal size into a baby oyster,

dell and unhappy by contrast with present-day conditions.

Standards of comfort and enjoy- ment have risen for all sections of

then put it back into its' cradle of the deep and wait for results.

No more labour, no more ex-

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credit, though shaky, was sufficient to obtain for her now industries the necessary machinery for their expansion. Since 1929, which was the turning point of prosperity for capitalist industry, Russin haa maintained a fairly stendy pace in

The worst of our anxieties now enterprise and her Great Experi- ment has met with a measure oflic outside our borders. These too success. To that extent we Are have lessened lately. Europe is ready to admit that M. Stalin and still a hotbed of nationalist fever. the nation. You will find no bare pense-just give yourself the his colleagues have done a job of. But though there were critical footed urchins in the streets theso patience of Job, and in eight. work. But if they would put their moments last year, they passed cold, wet, winter days; they were years, the seed you have planted

have production Agures into pounds, without disaster. The war danger common enough in the prosperous will

blossomed into shillings and pence it would be seen has not yet disappeared, but it may times of 30 years ago.

genuine pearl, that Russian industry is still con- ultimately pass, provided that this Not only is the whole population siderably below the level which will country makes itself strong and better fed, clothed, housed, edu- Then you become rich, buy a give prosperity and the little shows itself resolute for peace.

cated, and amused than ever be country estate, and live happily for luxuries we, in the outalde world,

We are entering upon a year of fore, but there is more understand-ever afterwards in affluent retiro- have come to expect as our right. hope. It will also be a year of ing and sympathy between all ment, Lel It is seldom that such a dis- tions of Hying, the comforts and Silver Jublice of King George V. form in 1986 a family that is grow

us remember that the condi- celebration. With it comes the classes of it. The British people graceful scene is witnessed in privileges of the Russian working By his counsel and example, being steadily happier. the House of Commons as that different from those which British dividual in his country to bring man and woman are still very has done more than any other in- which occurred during the de-people enjoy. We will not be sous safely through the trials and

If this process of increasing har-we persuaded him to accept from bate on the financial vote for ready, then, to accept M. Molotov's troubles which have made his mony in our own nation could only us a modest contribution of two- the newly-created

juggle with figures on a political British history. Assistance Board. There can platform and be cannot tench

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have a significance far greater than Justices. They must show the anme for the back-to-peasantry

that before Mr. Kidoke returned The prospect was so enchantling

to Japan from an exhibition of cultured pearls held in Hongkong.

tions, the entire Continent of pective fortune.

Again (doubtless with a "full, During those 26 years, 10 Euro. Europo might count with confidence be nothing but reprobation felt ivise people of a capitallatic nation,pean Sovereigns have lost their on the swift approach of..better intention of getting Mr, Kidoka to amongst all decent-minded when he speaks of growing in-

make a similar promise on your dustry, that half multiplied by a thrones, and passed, apparently un people at the virulent attack hair makes more than a quarter.

regretted by their peoples, into The peoples of every land want bahalf) you ask, eagerly, of us how: made by a Labour M.P. on the

obscurity. What batter testimony peace, but not all of them want and where you can got those seeds. Prime Minister during the lat-NO SOLUTION

could there be to the worth of our peace at any price. If a nation Well, we don't mind. letting you own King than the fact that, at feels that its grievances can only ter's absence from the House,

the end of the same period, the be repaired by war, the temptation in on a second secret-but on tho whilst the unseemly demonstra- Some of the agricultural leaders that ever in the respect and nu-may prove irresistible when once be the last.

British Monarchy stands higher to redress them, even at that cost, strict understanding that it ly to tion on the part of interrupters are members of the Agricul miration of its subjects?

the capacity for making war has

We got those seeda by, breaking who accused he Government of tural Adjustment Administration.

|been recovered.

the heads off two pins. Others are members of the Ameri-

Their personal qualities have being "baby-starvera" is no less

The task before the Governments can Country Life

made King George and Queen Association,

So, from now on until eight short regrettable. Happily, there Is which was started in 1908 by the Mary not only the human symbols of Europe is to bring about such no indication that the official Op-lute President Theodore Roosevelt of our Empire's unity but the re- international adjustments ns will years will have passed, we shall an effort to better the lot of presentatives of all that is best in destroy that temptation. In their have very little else to do but sit way a380-the farmer. Dr. Carl C. Taylor, the British character. The nu own countries statesmeni deliber- back in our armchair, twiddling our clated with these incidents. The who represents the Government and tional celebrations of next May will ately set themselves to remove in-toes, until our two oysters In Japan will have attained maturity and be unemployment problem is one the farmer both, is the spokesman of great complexity and magni-ment. Dr. Taylor was for long express both the gratitude of a

move that of state ceremonial. They will initiative in the field of foreign made to disgorge for our benefit.

politics.

Come to think of it, we should To that end the British Govern- not have let you in on, this great tude. That being the case, it time dean of the graduate school people loyal to the core and the is hardly to be expected that of the North Carolina College of country's unshakable confidence in cnt can make a powerful con idea, but then we could not keep a tribution, for its influence upon the secret the same way our oysters had Agriculture, and now is vice- its own structure and destiny. any method devised for its am president of the Country Life Asso-

We have indeed good ground for Continent is great-when its pur for our benefit which brings us elioration will meet with uni-ciation, and regional director of public rejoicing. Hard as the last ose la clear and well defined. Of back again to the trulsm that no- versal accord. But if the the A.A.A.'s land programme in 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. the South, where, he says, farmera'n Golden Age compared with what have baffled even those nations that National Government has so far living conditions were the worst. some nations have passed through looked to us for a lead. failed to make any very decid-Two groups of agricultural lenders in recent times. ed impression on the problem, it are trying to do.exactly the op pusite thing he declares. "One has certainly initiated much-thinks the unemployed in the cities needed reforms in the handling should be shoved back on the land.

The other. of the unemployment insurance economists has been saying for group of agricultural funds. Not only has it placed 15 years that the solution of the these on a solvent basis, but it farm problem is to get people off the land. Both groups are militant has instituted other reforms now, but agriculture cannot dump which all but those who are wil-Its problems in, industry's lap. fully blind to the facts must Neither can industry send its jobless to the country and thereby concede 08 being urgently hope to end the unemployment called for. Prior to the Govern- crisia." Ho Bald lie had been told ment plan for creating a new Un-1by un administration lender that employment Assistanca. Board, 1,000,000 city familles to

the New Deni intends to send farms there was an astounding variety within the year. That would be in the treatment of applicants ruinous, both to the city folk who for help, with the result that the try to become farmers and to the farmers who even now cannot earn whole country was dissatisfied a decent ilving, it would seem. with the working, of the system.

The whole world knows that Great Britain has but one interest This country has known nothing in Europe that of preserving forces of Nationalism and like that guerrilla war between the peace. Our impartially inspires a

Com

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Under the revised scheme, the describe the Government as be rates of assistance to ablo-ing "baby-starvers" are merely bodied unemployed who have ex-indulging in irresponsible clap hausted their benefits will be trap, for which there is not the uniform throughout the land. slightest justification. No Brit- There are, admittedly, anoma-ish Government, whatever its

complexion, lies still persisting, but in a pro- political

would blem of such complexity this is overlook the just claims of the difficult to avoid. The Labour needy; the whole system of un- Party is still dissatisfied with employment assistance, in con- the new arrangement, but the ception. and in practice, is based criticism is largely one of detail, on a regard for the well-being of and does not touch underlying those who are without work and principles. How much of it is [of consideration for their do due to rigid adherence to the [pendents. Reasoned criticism traditional view that it is the of the detailed operation of the duty of the Opposition to oppose, scheme is to be welcomed; D and how much to genuinely-folt informed and mischievous con- grievances, it is dificult to any demnation of the Government's tainly been marked by an of sheer heartlessness where theG exaggeraton of the facts, with interests of the needy, are con Six Lines. the obvious intention to show cerned in not only misleading

up the Government, in an un- to the outside world it is total pleasant light. Extremists wholly un-British,

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Some of the criticisms have cer- methods; carrying an imputation

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Watch Your Child

Dr. Robert Hutchison, physician to the London Hospital and to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond street belleves that modern health methods and parent- al over-anxiety aro preventing children from being as good: animals as they should be. In- stead, he says, a race is being" turned out "fully qualified to be hypochondriacs on their own ac÷- count."

"Over anxiety begins almost: from the word go," Dr. Hutchi- son states, and proceeds to criticise in turn the ante-natalist,' the scientifically trained nurse, the school medical servico, and even the working of the panel system, which, he says, "gives the right to call-in a doctor freely for the most trivial symptoms,”

He dislikes equally cut-and- dried attempts to make an infant's. regimen as regular as the planets, and the weekly weighings, measure ments, and physical criticism which may follow. At the row fashion- ablo doars of orange juice, glucose. and fish' qil he mocks gently.

As an extreme case, Dr. Hüt chison mentions a boy aged 11, who was forwarded to a board. ing school by his parents with a perfectly serious covering letter containing 25 medica! "do's” and

Among other things, he was to have his temperature takon night and morning, avoid most kinds of food, take warm water before brasifast and bicarbonato" after fuach; he watched for appendicitis, do flat, fost exercises, and spray his nose three times daily.

And, after all, that, parents N the advice of their doctor on how to make their children, advanta