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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1937.

AVOIDING ANOTHER

in a

SLUMP

Mr. J. M. Keynes, the well- known economist, is concerned about the lack of Government plans for preventing "that sag- ging away of activity which, if it is allowed to cumulate after the usual fashion, will once again develop into a slump." He has given expression to this concern series of articles in The Times under the heading "How to Avoid a Slump". In his con- cluding article, he advocated the appointment of u Board of Public Investment whose busi- ness would be to prepare detall ed plans of development: The railway companies, the port and river authorities, the water, gas and electricity ̈ ̈undertakings, the building contractors, the Local Authorities, above all, perhaps, the London County Council and other great Corpora- tions with congested popula- tions, should be asked to inves tigate what projects could be usefully undertaken if capital were available at certain rates of interest. The question of the general advisability of the schemes and their order of pre-

ference should be examined next. What is required at once are acts of constructive, imagination by our administrators, engineers

and architects, to be followed by financial criticism, sifting, and more detailed designing, so that some large and useful projects, at least, can be launched at a

few months" notice." The idea propounded by Mr. Keynes le closely allied to that of the La- bour Party plan for setting up a National Investment Board, which would act as an instru-

ment of the Government en-

A BOY OF 15 WROTE THIS

HOMEWORK

is killing me

OMEONE ought to from "The Golden

invent a machine for. Treasury."

+

turning important I'm at school, offi- people into schoolboys for a claily, from nine un- day or two. It would be a til a quarter-past much better world for us if four. I very rarely this could happen, and I leave the premises, think there would be a lot of though, until five or changes in a very short half-past. time.

It's all right say- ing I should go straight home the moment school ends and get on with my prep. I

can't. There's always I am fifteen and take the

something on: London Matric, next June.

nots in the There are a lot of boys, by the way, much younger than me in summer, prac- my Form who will be taking it, tice

in the

This homework, which is kill- ing me, would soon be abolished. As there is no machine, just put on my school-cap for a mo- ment and see what my life is like.

too.

A master told us recently winter. that at our school, twenty years ago, about two boys a year passed Matric, and they were usually nineteen, with mous WE have Societies after school too, the Play Reading So taches, and the whole school had a half-holiday to celebrate.

ciety, and Printing Press. I'm keen on these they're the best

I do occasionally because

things, fool- ing and banging about asking me to help them with their work.

begins W

Wives Who Live

I have only the last hour to myself and then mother bobbing in and out, looking at the clock. If I'm working she says I mustn't overdo it: If I don't seem to be working; sharp- ening a pencil or looking for a book, she says I ought to be in sleep, wondering if my work is bed. When I'm in bed I can't right, wondering whether I shall Jenomis pass and what's going to happen to me if I don't.

Holidays are nearly as bad. I'm sent on messages, chased off the table for meals to be set, sent out for walks I dont't want to go on with my brother and

"Out East"

By Florence Dean

ENTRE

A wife whose husband was uranted a decree nisi for divorce in Ceylon spoke of the "so-called glamour of the East," and her subsequent disillusionment,

NOW (and the standard is, if part of school, I think-and I anything, higher) about 76 don't want to race off home even pass a year, some of them boys if I could. My mother says, of fourteen, most of them be- when I come home at half-past tween fifteen and sixteen. six, that I've been fooling about,

There's no fuss made about talking to chaps at school. it: you wouldn't have an earthly chance for a job if you hadn't passed. I wonder sometimes if can't always be working, but they ever take people for the nine times out of ten I've been Foreign Legion, now, without to a Society or something.

I have a meal when I get in, Matric.

Everyone is aaying to me, "If If I swallow it down I can't be you want to get on, if you want finished much before seven. You' any sort of job worth having, know, though, what it is: some you've GOT to pass this June." times we have visitors, some. My father hasn't any influ- times I get talking to my father ence, the headmaster doesn't or playing with my brother. bother much with boys who fail,

I try to be at work, as a rule, sister. 80, wanting a job soon, I've

by 7.15 because I've always two I don't think my parents real- naturally decided to put my back hours' work, at least, and they ly know how much work there is into it. I lie awake, though, at night worrying about it, and if like me to be in bed by 9.30 or to do., They've an idea that I'm clover. They just say, "You've ever (and it's not often) I do 10 at the latest.

got to get Matric, this year." read the newspaper or take out my stamps my mother says, “You should be working," or NOT much of a life, is it? I'm

chasing my tail, or being IT is not as casy as that. I'm just gives me a look. I'm sick

not lucky either. My father's of it.

chased by other people, from the

fathers help them a lot and one or two in our Form have extra It is life in a goldfish bowl.(joyous to some, hateful to others, according To do two hours' homework lessons. I just plod on at my to temperament). There is no re- work. I like English and enjoy after a long school-day is bad werk, on and on, the exam. get tiring to a country house fine writing essays; I'm interested enough under perfect working ting nearer and nearer.

week-end; no flying to the Continent

110 in the geography and history, conditions. I've got to do very

for a few days' sport. It is It was pretty bad before I was saying one is engaged for dinner in a

I don't think I'm lazy. As a time I get up to the time I go to no good at maths. Some boys' matter of fact I got quite decent bed. reports and I like a lot of my

I don't, I fail the whole exam.

What I can do about it, except

Here is a pen-picture of lije as it is for English men and wo men in the East to-day by one who has lived there for many ycars.

THE Lure of the East!" Ho

often these words ure spoken;

but just what is this mysterious- "call," apart from the sun and the

native

heat, the strangeness and glamour of races and customs. For most white men and women and parti- cularly women-the attraction Is In the social life.

Use

personal

too. The science and languages difficult work with a younger in a Matric. form. This term place where everyone knows before- I can do, but I don't see how I'm brother and a very silly twin. I haven't read a single book for hond just who is dining and wonni

Women ever going to pass in maths. If sister in the same room.

have much pleasure and I haven't looked at

icisure. Soft-footed servants lift We work in the dining-room, my, stamps for weeks. The fact every domestic burden.

My Lady may fret herself about is go on working and working, I Mother says we're lucky to have that this year is so important

bolled, ΟΣ whether the cook is don't know. I'm sure I shouldn't a room to du wives.cky to have makes me desperate, yet, at the whether the drinking water

than the CUB- be breaking my heart just be not very hig: we can hear the same time, it's the only thing, "aqueezing" more cause I can't do Maths. But I wireless going in the next room.

that keeps me going.

tomary amount of sugar, but these are her heaviest duties. am. I feel I'm not doing any-

She has, of course, her personal her dresses, pre- thing this year for its own sake,

pares the bath, I'm fighting for a job. That's ways borrowing my ruler and die. why I get so unhappy and de- sperate over my homework.

As I say, I don't think I'm if you had to work as I do, under lazy, but I think you'd be fed up

the conditions I have, and know,

If I've to have another year

My brother and sister are al- like this one I think I'd rather muld, who p, and lays out the right

More Stories

fulness.

ensemble for every occasion, with- out asking for Inconvenient evenings off. She may swim at the club-in the morning, play golf or bridge all

About Sermons afternoon, go to a fea-dance In the

carly evening, and dine resplendent- ly at 8.30.

N

gaged in operating national all the time, your whole future TOKING about sermons need not man, "I pray thee, let me live. Ad

NINE women out of ten whom I planning, but enjoying flexibility

have known in the East like the and discretion within that plan depended upon it. Here's my imply any misbelief in their use- he warmed to his subject, he called Hic. It is certainly stimulating.

day: for the efficient performance of

We often lough at the things out, looking out over his exomiatra, One dines with Italian Ambassadors, I go

"By the life of Pharaoh, ye are French admirals, Swedish explorerk its functions. "Such a Board,"

to a North London and the people we like best.

spics!"

American armen, and British of all saya a Party statement, "would secondary school and leave home Louis XVI. after hearing one of

sorts, All preachers are not one fire, us and just after eight. On Corps his chaplains said, "This preacher organise the mobilisation

The wives of planters whose allocation of that part of the days, Fridays, I'm up at half-would have left nothing out of his Taylor ever was. The late Sir Henry nearest neighbour is 30 miles away sermon if he had happened to touch Campbell-Bannerman when a fresh have another tale to tell. But even national wealth which is avail- past six, polishing silly brags upon religion."""

at the University, went to 30 miles is not far in a motor-ear able for capital investment, and buttons. When you're reading

church one Sunday and commented over the good roads of Malaya or would license new capital issues.. the paper in the Tube I'm swot- sermon on "The fool hath said in his found the sermon going on, and

An old farmer, after listening to a thus: "When I entered the door, 1 Ceylon; and when rubber is booming It would propose annual estim-ting French or learning a poem heart, There is no God," said to the very dandifled and vapourish Fellow ter tubs and bungalows reflect the

tera clubs ates of the national income,

preacher, I believe there is a God of my college in the pulpit. With gaiety, that is more than half the after all, though your sermon showing what now money was view that to leave these institu-

was much sign of woe, he was exclaiming. Lure of the East. усту clover."

Alas, my brethren; alas, and thrice In Peking likely to be available for invest- tions in private hands is to leave

Hongkong, Shanghai, An untrained exhorter took for his ains! I was so touched that I did Singapore, Fenang, and Colombo ment. It would co-ordinate all them the servants of private in-text, "And Job answered and said not sample the sermon any further, there are English men and women schemes of capital expenditure terests which thereby are mas- and divided his subject thus:(1) but came away?"

to-day who have made these places

proposed by Government de-tera of economic and political We shall consider what Job ans

consider what There is a good tale of a Methodist their permanent homes. After years

they cannot, they say,

the

more

partments, Local Authorities, power. That there is need for Job said, and (8) We shall proceed to circuit minister whose son of ten had other public bodies, and indus action is shown by a Times com- a low broken remarks on the ferman got a new bicycle, and wanted to adjust themselves again to tries either socialised directly or ment to the effect that "the of Samaria. Which reminds us of the cycle with his father to a country sterner, and in many ways operating under public control. country, which is demanding the tumbling sermons of her minister, The father thought it best that the

old lady who describing church on the Sunday afternoon. restricted, lite of the West. It would be able to recommend with so much insistence a vigor-said, "I his text had the smallpox, Ind should not cycle on Sundays, to the Government a comprehen- ous policy for the revival of the his sermon would never catch It." "But," urged the boy, "you are gos sive scheme of investment.". It special areas, will not be con-

The noted Sallor Preacher of ing to cycle," is to be noted, however, that the tent to drift complacently Boston, USA. who, although Board advocated by the Labour I through a period of comparative Father Taylor, preached his trial 60 on pleasure."

Methodist minister, was known Party is linked up with the prosperity into another depressermon for the ministry before

who call it a pleasure for me to go and very earth of England, and whom banking. Mr. Keynes has not even more disastrous than that had been appointed to hear him; hear you preach.'

sole ambition is to ace the Sussex Downs again, yet reached the Labour Party's out of which we are emerging." His text was characteristle of the

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. publie control of curroney and sion, which might well prove body of ministers and laymen

But those of different tempera- ment, those who yearn for a snuir domestic hearth, can, and do, become homeslek and lonely: Eagerly they turn their faces towards England as Yes, but I go on duty, you would soon as their business in the East is

donu,

And there fa another homing type 0 "Oh, dad,"relorted the lad, "do you too the Englishman who loves the