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SOCIAL CREDIT

The New Statesman, published in London, which treats somewhat extensively on economic matters, has been examining the theuries, put forward by Major Douglas deal- ing with social credit. Seemingly, number in England, the disciples of the of excellent units Dougins School look with pitying contempt on those who fail to ap- attractively priced!preciate the social blessings which

It is alleged will flow from surig credit. The New Statesman is AUSTIN 12 ROADSTER

aware that it is treading on dellente Recently ⚫ overhauled

ground. It admits that any critic and 'repainted

who wels out to anatômize Major Douglas labours under a heavy dis- CHRYSLER 2 DOOR SEDAN

advantage, for he "either is not an In good conditon $400 economist, and so is unused to banding the general concepts of CHEVROLET SEDAN

enst and price, or he is, in which Very good throughout $700 Case Major Douglas has dealt with him in advance." The Major MORRIS MINOR SALOON

has taken the attitude that the entire staff of the Landon School One careful owner, low

of Economics, to say nothing of mileage

other sents of learning, are in the pay of the bankers, the powers of -Deferred, terms to suit clients-

finance. "and suborned to Impress INSPECTION AND TRIAL

on the minds of the young the INVITED

sanctity of the present system." The New Statesman is not devered by the pre-judgment of all erities of the Douglas system. It goes blithely ahead to give its viewpoint

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THE STUFF OF DREAMS

By C. E. M. JOAD

The trouble in that the on-

The Very Idea. I

Two

POT-POURRI

British Socialist

workers

have lately returned from Russia (writes a London gossip) and

playing-cards,

Of recent yearsį modern psychos ( nothing like so many of ours as of they liked everything except the logists have increasingly turned our fathers. their attention in the significance of dreams, with result that they have found them very significant indeed. Particularly the psycho analystal

thusiasm of Freudians, rather than of Freud, has insisted on treating what has turned out to be a valu- able hypothesis in certain cases of For psycha-analysts our mental mental disorder as a comprehensive life is like an lecherg, in the sense picture of the human psychological that the part of it that appears to interior. With crusading zeal they view is only a small part of the insist that Pread bas found the whole. What is more, it is not the key to unlock all the mysteries of part that really matters. We used the interpretation of dreams. Not to think that we could to some ex-of some dreams, mark you, but of tent control our thoughts and de-all of them, and, when it obviously sires, and that we could, therefore, does not apply, they perform mira- be called to account for what we eles of ingenuity in conjecturing thought and did. According to the how it might be made to, and pro- modern theory of the unconscious ceed to supply the place of know-

ledge this is not true.

by converting jectures into dogma.

The unconscious is conceived as

& source which are continuously striving to of impulse and desires

conscious. express themselves in nees. But in the interests of res pectability the threshold aciousness is guarded by an official of con the "Freudian Censor," who refuses

their con-

A more fruitful form of dream interpretation is in my view ad- vanced by Dunne in his celebrated While Freud suggests our dreams book. "An Experiment with Time.

on the basis of actualities. After to allow the entry of any impulse represent what we want to be true.

stating the essence of the Sucial

Credit argument, and placing it in Stubbs Rd. Bumewhat smaller compass than It occupies in the Douglas text- hooks, The New Statesman fails to see how the scheme of social dividends on purchases would help | matters. Its real reaction to its studies of the proporals is one of amazement, and in this ennnection

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1935.

it says:

or desire whose recognition would destroy our good opinion of our selves, and whose indulgence would Benndalise the neighbours.

but isn't. Danne points out that they represent what isn't true but shadow the future. will be.

In other words, they fore-

dreams

Dunne discovered that from time If the censor functions properly to time ha dreams Carno true. very little of our unconscions life

The discovery has been made by "gets through" into consciousness, others, but name rather sensational or rather it "gels through" no

verißeations of Dunne's altered that "its own mother woulled him to devote special attention not know it." Thus an unconscious to the subject, and, in particular. desire to elope with one's next to devire a technique for recording door neighbour's wife might ap his dreams before they had faded pear in consciousness as a sudden from memory. His conclusion was aversion from pickled cabbage.

that they consisted of

elements

FRACTION FOR WAGES

"First, what is this chronic de ficiency of purchasing power? Major Douglas in not merely talk- In sleep the censor goes off duty, derived in various degrees from his BETTER OUTLOOK ing about cyclical fluctuations and nid the unconscious rises to the past and present experience.

IN EUROPE

the monetary disturbances under-surface. Our dreams represent.. The future must, then, Dunne Tying them; his deficiency goes on then, all the things that we uncon- No-one can have given a close and on and up and up continuously seinusly want, but do not in ordin-suggests, in some sense exist, and At each stageary life permit ourselves to know he proceeds to elaborate a theory of time in terms of which this reading to the summaries of of production, he says, only a frae- that ་་ want. They represent, existence of the future should be

fact our repressed Herr Hitler's speech in the tion of the costs incurred are disin

wishes. |Reichstag without feeling thattributed in wages and salaries; the Hence, as they actually occur our

rest goes back to the producers of dreams are exceedingly disreput raw material

or semi-manufac-able. turers, or in rent and interest.. This is true enough, but what does

Was

and cumulatively.

We, however, do not realise this, it matter? Cost to the payer since, when we wake up, the official gets to work again ruui proceeds to censor our dreams as we remember them.

lar.

possible.

The theory is difficult and technical, and it is by no means, pecessary to accept it in order to concede that dream experiences of

he future do in fact occur.

At their first hotel they asked for a pack of cards. They found that the Soviet Government had expunged the pictures of King, Queen, and so symbols, and

on as royalist had substituted other designs more in keeping with Soviet ideals.

"It took all the pleasure away," one of the Socfalista told his friends on returning to England." "Who wants to go nap on three Town Councillors and a sanitary inspector?"

A' WRIGGLER Father (admiring his recently born helr)"That fellow will be a great statesman one of these days."

Mother-"Oh, Charles dear, do you really think he will?"

"Sure of It. Look how easily ho wriggles out of everything."

BALLAD

Is it spring

Warsaw?

(I asked)

in

Is it spring in far Berlin? And is there promise in MusLOW

Of summer y-cumen in?

There's a garden of girls

Geneva Bright in their gala clothes; But what of the lilies of Stress

What of Locarno's rose?

AL

I naked. and the experts

answered;

Spring and summer pass by; The rose of Locarno is withered;

Stresa's lilies must die.

And Hubris, daughter of Ares,

Tossed lightly her hateful

curls: There'll be death, she said, and

• destruction In Geneva's garden of girls..

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in arrears

WAR

NO GOLFER Two Edinburgh golfers played a match over the Braids recently, and about halfway through the round, the man showing his gloom pretty plainly.

As they approached a new tee, a nearby blackbird burst into song, and the player in the lead remark ed, "Well, he's happy enough, any-

"Aye," growled his companion, "but he's no' playing golf."

it contained the most detailed statement of German foreign policy made since the Nazis came into power. Indeed, it can be

income to the recipient, whether it said that the response to the be paid as wages or as rent; when

Moreover, the notion that the future already exists has disturbing appeals for a definite contribu- all the factors of production have

implications. It suggests, for tion towards the adjustment of been paid for, whether Iniur

example, that free-will is a delu- power, land or credit, their owners. the European situation

Freud's conception is very popu- sion, since, if the future already is, have at the appropriate stages more specific than was generally drawn their incomes up to the total Most of us like to think that our apparent power to make it, anticipated. Although Germany represented by the price. Provide are gay dogs at heart, who could within limits, what we please, must still claims the right to ignored, there is not, as during the de'f and would paint the town red if we be illusory. The states known as way."

only let ourselves go. but are elairvoyant also apparently from pression phase of a cycle, an the military clauses of the Ver-accumulation of idle deposits, strength of our wills.

normally prevented by the iron time to time revent what turns out sailles Treaty, arguing that deficiency arises during the pro- for which, so far na I can see, there believe that we can dismiss all the This view, to be the future, and I do not сени. One need only consider the these clauses had already been

is little evidence, is countenanced evidence from clairvoyance as due fact that, according to Major Doug and confirmed by the Freudian to trickery on the one hand and to made null and void by the failure | Ins, no deficieney would arise if a of the other signatories to dis- single producer carried through theory of dreams in two very grati, dupery on the other. arm, she lays down a set of pro-while the mere fnet of the process

cach process from start to finish,fying particulars. posals for the future which being divided into stages must re- the primitive violence of our un-accept the view of the

Nevertheless, I find it difficult to ought, without undue difficulty, sult-even if the final product is conscious passions, and on the other

present to be made the basis of a com- sold at a lower price-in a deit compliments as on, the iron self-existence of the future. Questions ficiency of 50 per cent, or mure. control with which we normally prehensive understanding be- It is melancholy that so fantastic keep them under. Thus it has viously arise, but beyond knowing her guide, a Cockney anilor.

"Lor" love yer, no, mum,” ho comforted many worthy citizens, tant le due queer we kuw replied. "When we submerge two and brought them consolation for very little about it.

sation are told off to hold umbrel-

que.

an argument should seriously re- | quire refating."

NOT PERFECT ·

dislocating results ng 1 direct

On the one hand it assures us of

relating to the nature of time

IN THE NAVY

An old Indy was being shown over a submarine for the first time. After inspecting the interior of the vessel she came out on deck again and noticed the long gun.

"And doesn't that get awfully wet when you submerge?" she asked

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I call my three kittens Musso- lini, Hitler and Stalin. They're just too hootay-tootay. — Mrs. Grudgery.

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tween the nations of Europe. The excellent reception accorded to Hitler's speech, especially in

the dull respectability of their lives, Here, however, for what it is Ins over it." Britain, is a good augury for the

In this respect it is itself like a worth, is an alternative explanation a dream, since it offers us an outlet which is slightly less disturbing in future; it now remains for some

The New Statesman does not definite step to be made to fol-

argue that the prenent pricing ays.to the fantastic world of Freud's its implications than the view that

SAYINGS OF THE WEEK tem is perfect. On the contrary real world of fact.

imagination as an escape from the the future exists. William James

You never know your luck in low up the German gesture and it admits the opposite, but it can-

is responsible for the suggestion this world. Take the case of my attempt a real consolidation of not see how a scheme of social This is no to say that our dreams that what we call the "present" is wife. She took her dog to the dog the pence structure. One of the dividends on purchase would help may not very frequently embody time, but has a definite duration. smailer. Well, would you believe not an instantaneons pinpoint of show-be's a sort of mastiff, but the matter. That scheme it des-jour unacknowledgett wishes, and it ANNOUNCE direct prospects is the likelihood cribes as a roundabout and adminis no doubt the case that many of a saddle-back upon which we it, the dog got nothing, but my

of an Air Pact being devised istratively complicated form of in-four unacknowledged wishes are. sit perched between the past and along the lines suggested in theflation, certain to cause the same sexual--although We may hope

(Continued on next column) recent Anglo-French communi-watering of the eurrency." The Germany's apparent will-New Slatesman admires the sin- ingness to join in such a plan, cerity of Major Douglas; it pities coupled with the possibility of his judgment. His is a character. it says, full of generous indigna- measures being taken to safe- tion and of human sympathy and guard civilian populations from courage. It has done Major Doug- indiscriminate attack, is most as the honour of giving close study reassuring. The parity envis-to his reasonings and it has found aged is one markedly above the them wanting. "It is hardly less present British aerial strength, battle against the twentieth cen- than tragic," it says, "that in his n circumstance which makes ittury. Leviathan this enthusinstig necessary for Britain to under- St. George should carry a lance of take a big programme of expan- such shoddy timber, a sword of sion. From one standpoint, it such base metal, and ʼn banner with is to be regretted that the purity | such a very strange device.” -should-be-set-so-high-since-a- tremendous sum will need to be spent to bring the R.A.F. up to requirements. However, parity at a high figure is to be pre- ferred to no parity at all, with the nations of Europe engaged in a race for aerial superiority For Britain, as Mr. Baldwin has been at pains to point out, this expansion of the Air Force is In a few instances, a grease not merely a question of national ripple is provided in the hub cap. defence, it is a question also of so there is no need to remove the the ability of Britain to dis- wheel. If such a grease nipple is not fitted it. Is not a difficult thing charge her obligations. Thus in building up a bigger and better for the owner-driver to drill a hole equipped air arm, Britain is not in each of the hub caps, tap them only reinforcing national secu- rity, but collective security as this work himself it is not an ex- well. As Mr. Baldwin has de-pensive job to hand over to the finitely declared, Britain's arma- local garage. ments will never be used except the wheels every month or so, since It is a good plan to change over in restraint of an aggressor.this allows for more even tyre Let the European nations unite

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the future, and its normal duration is certainly not less than soveral acconds.

This conception is called the the Now "specious present." length of the "specious present" varies. When our conscious atten- tion is fully engaged, it contracta. Thus, the speclous present" of a man who is pursued by an angry in- bull Anes itself down to atantaneous moment of pulsating experience.

an

But when our conscious atten- tion relaxes, the period of the "apacious present" expands In day-dreams and revelries, for example, the period of which we are vaguely conscious as boing "present" may be considerably expanded.

of

Now, consider the case dreama The conscious attention” is completely disengaged, and as

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