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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7, 1936.
BRITAIN AND THE COMMUNISTS
Communistic activity in Eu- is naturally attracting rope attention at Home, where pleas are being made that the British
Round the bond of the Road; Take me away from the river Government and people should
Hush-a-byo, Lullaby: Got the South in my Sout
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Gloomy Sunday: Honey
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Shenandoah; Jes' mah Song
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S. MOUTRIE
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Elizabeth Arden
SAYS
"Your Make-Up Must Match"
We have
realise the danger of lailing them- false selves into M sense of
Not that there is ground for thinking that Red theories will gain a strong foothold in Britain. None the less, the very fact that the British people have so long set their faces against Communism is a factor
in attempts which are undoubted- ly being made to win converts for the cause, since it is realised that one of the
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greatest bidwarks against politi- cal extremism. In A recent speech, Sir Thomas Inskip, the Minister for Defence, warned his hearers of a conspiracy afoot to disrupt the Trade Union move- ment and hamper the national
of programme
re-armament. Information which had reached Sir Thomas left him in no doubt that if the conspiracy were suc- cessful, it would be a menace to national liberty and security. Happily, the Trade Union Con- gress, at its recent conference, showed quite clearly that it will
"Develop the
SCIENCE of
MAN"
Sir Josiah Stamp driving a miniature L.M.S. locomotive at last year's Model Engineering Exhibition.
F an express train over- takes a slow local travel- ling on the same line, the Impact, to put it mildly, is apt to be distressing.
But, by a system of expert signalmen, of drivers and of guards, that Impact can be avoided and, at the junctions, the passengers of the local can pick up the express.
Selence is the express train. Social progress is the slow local. On the express, there are plenty of frenien to Increase speed, but no drivers to control 1; plenty of guards to wave the green dags, but none to apply the brakes; plenty of passengers, exhilarated by the speed, but none to pull the communication cord; no signalmen to give the "all clear or switch over the points; and few Junctions. That, taking liberties with his carefully-balanced arguments and using a railway simile, which with admirable reticence the head of the L.M.S. avoided, was the effect of Sir Josiah Stamp's 13,000-word review of "The Impact of Selence." "The crucial impact," said Bir Josiah, "Is nobody's business.
The training of the aelentist Includes no awareness of the social consequences of his work, and the training of the statesman and ad- ministrator no preparation for the potentiality of rapid scientific advance and drastic adjustment due to it, no prevision of the tech- nical forces which are shaping the society in which he lives.
"I have questioned many scien- Life workers, and find them keenly alive to the positive, direct and beneficial effects of their work, but "they have rarely any quantitative idens as to the negative, indirect and disturbing consequences.
"All these discoveries, these scientific infants, duly born and
left on the doorstep of society, get taken in and variously cared for. but on no known principle and with no directions from the pro- genitors.
"Nor do economists usually acknowledge any duty to study . This phase, to indicate any series of tests of their value to society. or even of the methods and regu- lation of the optimum rate of introduction of novelty.
These things just happen gen- erally under the urge of proft and of consumers' desire, in free com- petition, regardless of the worthi- ness of the new desires against the old or of the shifts of production, and, therefore, of employment. with their social consequences. The economist rightly studies these when they happen.
"It is truly a no-man's land,' for it is rarely that the functions of government begin until a vested problem exists.
"Especially in Britain we do not anticipate-Don't worry," we say, it may never happen.' Problems with
usually UB are
called *ncademic until we are going down for the third time."
political "It is a. maxim of expediency not to look too far ahead, for it is declared that one will always provide for the wrong contingency. The national, fore- sight over wireless was exceptional and it has to be contrasted with the opportunist treatment of the internal combustion engine."
What is to be done about it?
I do not pretend to dogmatise as to how far the scientist should become a social reformer. Onc physicist welcomes the growing serise of social responsibility among come scientists, at least.
"Then another great authority, Sir Henry Dale, declares that it is the scientists' job to develop their science without consideration of
SIR JOSIAH STAMP'S Presidential Address to. the British Association at Blackpool
Summarised by
Ritchie Calder
the social uses to which their work might be put.
I have long watched the pro- scientific cesses by which the specialist makes up his mind' in fields of inquiry outside his own. It seems still a matter for Investi- gation whether the development of a specialist's thinking impairs or improves his powers of general thinking.
"We do not know the kind or degree of truth that may rest in Anatole France's aphorism: The worst of science is, it stops you thinking. Perhaps this was more subtly expressed by the darkle mother, 'If you haven't an educa- tion, you've jest got to use yoh brains.
Discussing the effect of the Im- pact, he said:
the irritant has no such intervals. It proceeds from various causes: varying harvests, changes natural forces, changing human desires and fashions; differences in the rate of growth of popula- tion; the collective psychological. errors of optimism and pessimism: In business in an individualistic society; variations in gold supplies and the credit policies based there- on."
A natural increase in population was the best shock absorber, he pointed out, especially when it was accompanied by an extension of territory such as the westward movement in the United States during the nineteenth century or Britain in a period of overseas migration.
Waste of skill and of, capital are alike grave faults by which we should judge and condemn an in- "Now the problem baforo all dustrial organisation. And, since
Western Industrial countries is the man does not live by bread alone, fact that their populations are If a ruthless organisation continu- shortly becoming stationary, and
will ally tears up the family from its thon,
begin to decline roots, transferring without noticeably. cholce to new surroundings, de- stroying the tles of kin, home and social life, of educational and re- creational environments, it is far from ideal.
it
:
"Human labour can never be in- definitely fluid and transferable in a society which has a soul above the consumption of mere com- modities.
"In this country, 40,400,000 in 1937 becomes 40,600,000 in 1942, 39,800,000 i 1952, 38,000,000 'in 1957, and 37,500,000 in 1902.
"But the chudren aged 16— which Agure I take because of its Influence on schools, teaching and Industrial entry-have been estimated, taking those in 1937 as 100, to be 86 in 1942, 73 in 1952, and 02 in 1902. A fall of this mag- nitude means that industrics and "Men die, their skill and home Institutions dependent upon pre- associations with them. Plant and sent numbers must not be merely equipment wear out. The length statio, but actually regressive. of a working-fo-and the durabi-On the other hand, the old. lty of materials mark the natural people from 65 to 74 will increase phr so of periodicity of a smoothly. In this ratio-100, 113; 127 and.
133." changing society.
"But the impetus for change or
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people as "Rebels?"
AS a Christian of no denomina-1 cer describe the Bolsheviks of Spain).
tion, I resent the common as "Loyalists," and the true Spanish use of the words "Church" and "Christianity" as if they were synonymous terms.
It would seem more appropriate to reverse these titles.
MARGARES.
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The Fuscists do not care a button about Christianity; it makes a good cloak in hide their eclêshness from "Come On" Signal neutrala, that is all.
Anyone in search of the Anti-THERE should be definite and gen- Christ in Spaini to-day need only crally understood hooling signals visit the numerous churches where between motorists concerning over- Masses are being offered up daily in taking. support of the infidel perpetrators of the shambles of Badajoz,
The driver wishing to pass could make two quick hoots meaning, "May Could anything be more revolting I pass?" and the other driver could from a
Christian point of view? reply with one quick hoot meaning Desecration of churches I deplore, "Come on."
have no lot with the Communists. Constant efforts have been made to effect an affiliation between the Communists and Labourites, but these have been consistently spurned by the latter, who are determined to adhere to their own political viewpoint and to turn a deaf ear to the pleas for union, with the Reds. There is little doubt that the Communists have been attempting to abuse the liberty granted in Britain to all political parties to air their views in a constitutional manner. Ef- forts have even been made to undermine the loyalty of the Services. But, for all the agita- tlon indulged in, the Reds have made no impression on the Bri- tish people, whose whole outlook is at variance with the theories
If, as your correspondent yesterday of Bolshevism. So long as
would have us believe, the Madrid; constitutional methods are cm-
Government consists of lawless ployed, there can be no justifica-Reds," how is it that banks and tion for suppressive measures- which incidentally, only tend to drive the evil underground--- since freedom of speech and thought, within recognised limits,
speed.
but I deplore still more the oppres- And at the giving of this signal the sion and tyranny that have en- driver being passed, should, slacken gendered in the heart of a nation such a passionate hatred of one particular institution.
́other financial strongholds are con-
ducting business as usual?
(Miss) N. W. N.
is one of the most prized rights By what stretch of imagination can
of the British people.
the B.B.C. Empire News announ-
If every motorist, when being over- taken, would stop accelerating for only a second many accidents would be avoided.
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Morose Misogynists
MACM.
HOSE misogynistic gentlemen who
stigmatise our modern girls as "gold-diggers," etc., only condemn themselves. There is something lacking in a man who cannot find
desirable, feminine society, and he should try to discover and correct
It before blaming the girls.
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"UNCLE Bou".
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IN reply to "Misogynist" Lots of girls have given up friends, plea- sures, for one man, who, as often as not, turns her down' in the end for beer or another woman. Why should a girl waste her time on a man unless he has money?
ONE EXCEPTION,
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quite agree with "Misogynist Most girls are gold-diggers, but what about the girl who has stuck to her boy who has been sent Home through unemployment. I am one, and for months a not taken to umusements, of any kind, except when I take myself.
AN EXCEPTION,
HOW transparent are those egotts-
tical "would be" Don Juans! They take out dozens of girls, spend money which should be saved for their future wife and home, then, because the girls prove stronger morally, and, perhaps, physically, squeal about "Gold-diggers"—o type which men such ns these create.
A. M.
At any given moment, the im- pact of science, said Sir Josiah, is always causing some unemploy- ment, but at the same time the constructive additional employ.. ment from past impacts is being enjoyed.
In this country there may well be a million unemployed in what we should call good times. It is the price wo pay for the high standard of life of those who re- lain employment. For the level of real wages may be high enough to prevent every one from being em- ployable at that wage,
this "Of
number probably 200,000 would be practically unem- ployable on any ordinary basis, the hard core, as it is called.
"Perhaps seven or eight hun- dred thousand, changing Locca. santly as to its unit composition and consisting of workers under- going transition from job to job, try to industry, place to place, industry with seasonal occupations.
"Out of this number I should hazard that not more than 250,000 would be unemployed through scientific innovation. That is the maximum charge which could be lald at the door of science, except after a war."
Previous presidents, he said in conclusion, had spoken of the ahortcomings of the active world. To him they were but the fallings short of science.
The impact of science felt in the past century was nothing com- pared with what was still to come. We have spent much and long upon the science of matter, and the greater our success the greater must be our failure, unless we turn also at long last to an equal ad- vance in the sclones of man.'
-To-day's Thought THE world which took but siz days to make is like to take 'six thousand to make out.
BIR THOMAS BROWNE.
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