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MONDAY, FEB. 11, 1936.

AMERICA'S RELIEF

A

PROBLEM

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

PICK YOUR LEADER

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FEBRUARY 115 1985.

QUEER THINGS ON

GOLF LINKS

FROM A CORRESPONDENT

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The Very Idea!

YOUR MOVE' NOW

By George

AST night we set out to write a moving story

With the near approach of a General Election campaign in Bri- tain, political parties are casting about for a selection of the best "timber" available in case they are

TT is not of shots "far and sure" reptile was safely "quartered." I Cabinet. called upon to form a

that I would write, nor of the was told it was one of the deadifest Undeniably there are three potential "language" occasionally used, but enakes in India, the poison from for this column. A story

minutos. Governments in process of selection

of many other things that Interest-which kills within five at the moment; and though the ed me when I enjoyed my got 1 had was when I saw crossing the bowels with pity or, more the funniest experiences that would wring your One of 01 campaign may change the com the beautiful course of the Royal plexion of things it would appear Calcutta Golf Club, with its no fairway one day an animal which decently, move you to buy a that any one of three groups of vistas between the plantations of six or seven feet long, and I con paper.

I took to be a crocodilo. It was politices had fairly even chances of bamboos and various trees of

fess I felt some little alarma. It socuring a majority, The Govern luxurlant growth.

The fact is that we have was an iguana, and quite harmless, will be Labour, Nationalist or Conservative, and the chances, i? My usual golfing companion was although I was not sorry when it moved our dwelling--an event there is any shade of difference, a man who, in his boyhood, had disappeared into a "tank," one of as momentous in the life of the probably favour these groups in the developed his eye-sight in the those little ponds we have scattered bachelor as it is to police, shroffs and other readers of this column. order as named. That is only a search for animals of all kinds, in jail over the golf course,

There are not many com- the woods, the streams, and the guess.

We will not describe in harrow- binations of the three possible. troos. He was a notorious trapper

A young assistant, just out from ing detall the actual operation of One can say cenie-mecule-minic in his school days, trapping animals home, on seeing one of these ani- moving. Briefly we may say that. mos, and probably pick the winner that his schoolmaster, an adept at minis, stood not upon the order of the contractors arrived a day late as accurately as by reasoning. It the game, had failed to conquer.

ewing to their having "moved out" quite inoffensive neighbour in

Another bird of our acquaintance, When we hired another the first for these offices, with reason to down the fairway. My firal in mure common and less modest than contractor arrived and the two

the the woodpecker and coppersmith, bellave that among many thou- troduction to the fauna on sands their selections would be course was one day when even' my was the kite. This bird resembles zealous tradesmen engaged in a unaccustomed vision was disturbed the common crow, but in two or tug-of-war outside the premises by a general movement all over the perhaps three times the size. It is which was as entertaining to the | local residents as it was damaging surface of the ground: Did he see not the first time I have had my to the appearance of our few house- ball lifted by those thleves of the

hold goods. golf courses.

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is possible, even, that Great it was during my games with his going, but dropped this club Britain may be asked to choose this companion that I discovered where he was, and shinned up the another Emergency Cabinet, and that out East there is a lot more nearest tree! there are those who offer choices to be seen than the "pill away

acceptable.

LLOYD GEORGE FIRST

error.

anything?

Why, these were little frogsl In this respect it is interesting

And

Finally we split the contract to now I shall close with my to note the opinion of Mr. David There were millions of them, and

friend the skeleton.

avold almlar treatment to the we must have killed a dozen with

Part of the course was laid over plano and returned to the office Keir, well-known political corres-

He every footstep. It was a sight, at pondent Westminster. writes: "Imagine that Great Br-wish to ace again. They covered ditch on either side. One day we than to flee the country.

although interesting, that I do not an old burying ground, through with the firm conviction that it was which runs a road, with its deep more difficult to "move out and in" tain is facing a tremendous crisis. the whole of the ground, littlere attracted by an unusual glint Everywhere in the world curren things less than an inch in size of something white in the wall of Returning to the new flat at

cles are crashing, international

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I now and noying to And that a

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The contractors we found up: tairs cementing a new found friendship over a little peg of whisky (not so 'new found Judg. Ing by the look of the bottle).

BRITISH INDUSTRIES' apologetic Cantonese that they did

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(Our Own Correspondent.)

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trade is at a standstill, there is and the appearance can hardly be

by and the rains washed away a drizzle was emphasising the call of ricting in all the world's great ingined of such countless numbers the ditch, and no the weeks went about eight o'clock when a pleasant cities. Only the people of Britain, hopping, hopping all over the place little more of the earth from the home and we were fondly imagining mainly because of a balanced

wall, we discovered this to be the that the last chair would have bat- Budget in the previous year and With such luxuriant growth of skeleton of a full-sized human be-tered its way up three floors to its last resting place. an Instinctive faith in the stability the vegetation it was seldom thating.

Always when passing the spot, we of their country, have remained we saw decay in the trees, but on reasonably calm. But even British one occasion we were remarking went and made our salaams, until sofa, two beds and the Intimate temper is beginning to break. about the slow withering of the one day we found our friend the part of our wardrobe had found n home at come other address owing The green- beautiful tree, when my skeleton had gone. Prices are soaring. Bread queues leaves of are growing us long ne streets. friend said, "Do you see the brute keeper had had an early morning to differences of opinion as to where

we ought to live. Docks are crowded with empty that is doing the damage?" With walk. ships. Unemployment assistance that he took a big, jack-knife from There is one useful thing is creeping beyond the resources his pocket and started hackink and capacity of the Unemployment away at a tremendous weed which which the depression-born relief Assistance Board. Stagnation is had grown so big that the stem was problem is doing for the crawling over the face of industry.over an inch in diameter, and the United States. It is acting Ordinary processes of government height of it was almost as high as are inadequate to deal with this the tree itself. It was slowly but microscope through crisis, unfortunately aggravated surely crushing out life.

The parnsite was soon severed In which the people can get a new at home by the mental bankruptcy

of a Government which for four several places, and on aubsequent look at some of the phases of years has been composed of well rounds we were delighted to see the American life which they never meaning. but unimaginative, old tree gradually recover its beauty

worthies. Thore is a spontaneous, once again. bothered to examine very care-nation-wide call for an emergency

Talking of trees, we had the un- fully before. There is much Cabinet armed with dictatorial usual experience one day of seeing pective exhibitors and in the total our doors and took up the bottle to control the Bank of a woodpecker. This bird seldom area their stands will occupy, the where they had left off. Life too, talk about unemployment, about power the need to get people back to England, the Joint Stock Banks allows itself to be seen, keeping to next British Industries Fair pro-seemed very low, we reflected, re-

great, if not

placing the bottle under the cork and all vested interest, to direct the far side of a tree when any mises to be work, about the "American industry, tackle unemployment and human is about. Hearing the tap, greater success, than the last one. and allting down where a chair had standard of living" which must reconstruct the life of the antion tap, tap," we stopped and remained The London and Birmingham sec-d

to suit the sudden changed condi- very still. We were rewarded by tions of the Fair, which have

For the next few days business be preserved; and all the while,tion of the world. Which of our bark of a tree and hammering with will be held on different dates this kept us from home whilst the boys

aceing the bird hanging on to the hitherto been held simultaneously, tucked away in the relief statis-politicians would you choose? by its bill like a mad thing. This bird year. The sections at Olympia and made the pince habitable. First tics, are figures which give a own anewer to this fascinating

study of our leading politicians in behind him, often digging great February 18 to March 3, and the which every luckless coolie found large percentage of the people years of strain and stress. Un-holes all up the side of the tree. engineering and hardware section with an orange in his possession have to live. Official figures hesitatingly 1 plump for Mr. Lloyd has seen the great power it gets made in deference to the night by sailing about Junk Bay

This is not surprising when one from May 20 to 41. The change

at Casile Bromwich, Birmingham was suspected of complicity.

We avoided home on the first show that in September, 1934, George as Prime Minister, Leader

of the Nation and Director-in-behind those hammer blows,

wishes of business men associated at midnight; the police and agents some 18,800,000 persons were Chief of Foreign Affairs. His in-

With the Birmingham section, who insisted on UB accompanying receiving relief. Slightly less ternational reputation, based on The coppersmith bird we never considered that February was too them to get the atory. We got the and experience, saw but often heard at one season early in the year to attract the kids to look frightened through than two-thirds of these people achievement

stands high; he has an Immense of the year. A most peculiar sound largest number of buyers from the the portholes but the schoolmaster were city folk; the rest

were following in the country; his it made, a clanking sound, from Dominions, Colonies, and South from the

different stories. farms or the small mentality is admirably adapted to which it takes the name wo know American countries, who usually put his foot in it by telling three

begin to arrive about May, towna. An analysis of the grappling with emergencies; like It by.

The official figures of applications However, perhaps he had been a Mr. Roosevelt he understands the I bad a thrilling experience one figures reveals the fact that most New Age, and his mind misses no day when my friend, very excited, to date-show that the numbers of reporter until, like others of the of the people on relief are modern development.

said, "Caddy, my niblick, quick intending exhibitors in London are clan, he turned over a new leaf. and there, quickly wriggling Its already almost as large as last précisely those people who, when

way across our path was a little year, and the same applies to employed, receive incomes so low

snake, 12 or 14 inches in length, Birmingham, but the area of stand that they cannot build up a nest Resilience, valour on the poll-It was a beautiful creature, with accommodation allotted there, is legg for hard times. For in-tical battlefield, power to sway a shiny black skin covered all over much greater, owing to firms taking atance: Unskilled and semi-grent audiences and dominate with bright red spots. When the advantage of the larger outdoorover the 'phone we read it in the skilled urban labourers make up Parliament. willingness to take nfblick had done its work and the area available this year.

risks and listen to the views of only 41 per cent, of the general lesser men-these qualities, fit him urban population; but, they com-more than any other living states- pose 63 per cent. of the urban man for the "storm" leadership of Britain's 40,000,000 inhabitants. relief group. Skilled workers, Then I should choose Mr. Winston composing 17 per cent, of the Churchillas Leader of the House population, make up 19 per cent. of Commons and Minister In of the relief group. On the Charge of the Defence Services, Like LG, Mr. Churchill has a aloo other hand, proprietary, profes-world reputation. He has sional, and clerical workers, com-great gifts of demagogy a neces- posing about 41 per cent. of the faced with the task of reassuring sary equipment for statesmen urban population, contribute only uneasy public opinion.

HIGH PRAISE

Few

18 per cent. of the relief group. statesmen are aa versatile, as bril- It is the same way with rural lant, and as daring. In an emer gency he would help his colleagues workers. The share-croppers, to reach quick decisions and be the tenant farmers, the men who untiring in his efforts to make his have been struggling with mar and their work successful. Mr. Herbert Morrison I'should make ginal or sub-marginal land, never Chancellor of the Exchequer, Na- prosperous even in good times-tional Comptroller of Banks, and Minister for Development. Mr. these are the men who make up Walter Elliott should be Minister the bulk of the relief group in of Industry and Sir Herbert the rural regions. In city and Samuel Minister of Communies- country alike, these people are tions. This would be my Cabinet

for any crisis.". the ones who never, even in boom times, touch the famous "American standard of living", people there are. Year after They live in those homes at year the nation has had to carry

this load of poverty. In hard. which alum clearance plans are times it makes the relief list aimed. They never get ade- almost unendurably expensive; quate medical attention, dict, or In good times it limits markets clothing; they never can build and creates social problema up bank accounts big enough to which are born of poverty. The carry them very long when nation obviously cannot be com- trouble comes. Studying the placent about any "recovery" that does not permanently raise rellef figures makes it possible the status of these people in the to realise how many of these lowest Income brackets, 22 Page

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Was

We caught rather a bad cold as

a result of that night's work and

are still incomprehensible except in the written word. When we did attempt to give a wedding report

next day's paper as ".. the brido's gift to the bridegroom was a beau-, tiful dressing-down."

We must close now as writing makes our throat sore.

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