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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1937.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1937.

HIGH COST OF BUILDING

Increased building costs, we

PROMINENT statesman has just attacked the Government for failure

to take the land of Britain seriously as a produc- tive factor in time of peace of war.

He was right to do so. The net- lect of Britain's countryside is, as you might expect, the abiding inr- vel of the age to me. We make things just about as uncomfortable as can be for the people who either must or want to live or work there.

We possess the finest lump of farmable land for any country of its size in the world, and, strange as it may seem, have the most suitable climate for almost any kind of farming, with the possible exception of wheat and sugar beet.

Our farmers inay be at fault, but that is a long way from being the true reason for the neglect. Most of us would behave much as they do, were we in their place, us things are.

Good Times and Bad

The villagers may be behind the times, but areas closely dependent on a chronically depressed induz- try such as agriculture has been through good times and bad, bar the war, cannot afford many extravagances.

And street and domestic light- Sewers Ing aro extravagances, and side-walks are others. And so are schools, when a whole county the size of Norfolk, excluding Norwich, does not possess aboyu

observe, are causing considerable A WOMAN OPENS

three factorles employing more than a hundred persons.

These things cannot be afforded by any area where 325. a week sets the standard for purchasing power or rateable values.

Just why this all comes about is a bit of an enigma. But it in true that the average man and woman In this island nourish n contempt for farming as an industry and are blissfully indifferent to the spread of rural civilisation.

Yet none of the resources this country possesses and controls could be more responsive to good management, or made more pro- ductive, than its land.

One Theory-

Nor could the civilising agencies now at our command be utiilsed to a more effective extent than on our countryside. Many people have

HER HEART TO TELL YOU--

Villagers may be behind the times, but the reason for land neglect does not lie

with the furmer."

an idea that if we produced more of our own milk and meat at home, it would mean such a cutting down of our purchases of food abroad that we should bo contributors to the sterile creed of economie nationalism.

-Which is Wrong

Stuff and noncense. when on every hand people are short of shirts and suits, the cotton and wool for which we could never cultivate, when the vast multitude of artisan homes have yet to be properly equipped with electric de- vices which could ease them of their drudgery, an casement al- most solely conditioned by our ablity to acquire copper and rub- ber, every pound of which must be imported.

The time will come, sooner or later, when this country will find that if it wants the man in the street as well as the plutocrat to have his motor car, it will be done by producing more of our own ment so that we can buy more of somebody else's rubber or metals. A rising standard of living in

this country to which nearly every sort of politiclan is committed, and. especially the Labour Party, will Involve our having the ability to buy abroad much larger quantities of industrial raw materials we can neither grow nor mine these islands.

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And the standard of life will rise. excluding a Great War, maybe to an ever greater extent, in other And countries at the same time. how shall we afford the additional imports?

Whether or not this country will be able by the export of sur- Pitts

manufactured goods and surplus investment capital, coupled with commercial services and ship- ping, to afford the additional com- modities higher social and econo- mic standards would require, is in doubt.

Rearmament Zest

For one thing, we are hardly likely to lend as much moky abroad as was done during the inal century, - Possibly. perhaps even likely, the present zest for re- armament has seized the capital- owning classes for no better renton than that neither New Zealand nor Argentina or such old-time investing rounds, want more of their money.

Well, one way to pay for com- modities we cannot grow or minie. such as rice and rubber, copper and tin and practically every other vital mineral, would be to produce from our own soll another £100,000,000 worth of foodstuffs a year and use the money we save by curtailment of food purchases abroad, in the increased buying of cssential industrial raw materials. All that would happen is that the character of our purchasCH would change and the source of supply, not the total volume of our import trade or the scale of our overseas spending.

And we should have reinvigor- ated our own countryside, brought about a sharp rise in its standard of living and utilised a basic re- source that is second to none in any other corner of the world; taken as a whole, and for its area.

No Argument

All this 13 no argument for sub- skdles, but for standard prices. And the only way to deal with additional supplies of home-pro-- duced food that standard prices would bring along would be social- ised methods of food distribution.

The State would be obliged to make itself responsible for dispos ing of the inevitable so-called sur- pluses. The hungry would at inst be fed

In 35 Years I've

comment at Home, the more so since one of the effects is to cause some curtailment of the programmes for re-housing the poorer classes. Municipal ac- tivity and private enterprise are alike being affected, and there would appear to be in existence a partial boycott of contractors, in the hope that this will result in the cheapening of materials. There is a widespread belief that prices have been raised further than the circumstances warrant; they are certainly much above those prevailing some few years ago. Despite the many acres of new flats, bungalows and other residences which have come into being, especially in the suburbs of large towns, saturation-point still seems far ahead. This is one of the factors which is be- lieved to have caused the higher building costs, as contractor,

I want to be happy. But I can't be j noting the continued demand. happy Till I've made you happy, too. are in a mood to maintain pre-

remains that

learned

two

phone, Hes the secret of life.

We all want to be happy, and we until we never achieve happiness make others happy too.

just

things-

THAT

REALLY

MATTER

Being a women, my interests are focused on three points: marriage, motherhood and men..

unpunctuality, forgetfulness and dis- regard of convention. Now I realise that I should have insisted on his fac- ing up to the larger responsibilities of

coaxing him. married Hic, while cleverly out of his lesser failings.

URS is what the world calls

is strong and lasting, but although I'm supposed to be a wonderful wife I haven't been clever enough to læring out the best in my husband. There

hood.

The last word has a scandalous flavour married woman, mother fore I have done him injustice and of a young family, frankly confessing failed in the supreme test of wife- her interest in ment

"My husband's attitude to me is per- Why not be frank? Roughly, the first third of every fectly summed up in his way of gl woman's life is spent in equipping herself to attract a man: the remain ing two-thirds of her life are spent In keeping that mun away from the clutches of other women.

more

a

Was

sent prices, if not, indeed, to in-IN those few words, sung, and play- ed hundreds of thousands of times crease them. Wages, it would on the stage, on the air, on the gramo-,

that ing me presents. Ho thinks seem, are not the principal cause

nothing is too good, or even good in the upward trend; the suggca-

enough for me, and when he wants wrist tion is that too high a profit is

to give me something extra special

a new radio set, a That is one of the two fundamental;

such as being made on materials. What-

watch, a desk and matching chair, or facts of life I have discovered in

fur coat, he calmly borrows the de- ever the explanation, the fact thirty-five years: the other has been

LIKE and admire my own poolt from my housekeeping allow- building put into words by the late Sir James I can stay alone at night in my lone- high

Barrie. "Courage is the thing. All; ly house I have learned to swim,

sex too, and have a deep ance, presents the gift with a magni- prices add to the cost of living, goes if courage goes."

and forced myself to go in an air- I confess with shame that I am a plane. Humbly, and not boastfully and tender sympathy with women, fleent flourish-and leaves me to pay both to those who are able to

I fear, on used to fear, I can say that such physical pain as who, in my opinion, have to bear an off the hire-purchase Instalments!

unfair share of life's burdens.

show MINOR Incident buy their own property and to born coward.

everything and everybody the dark.

Nevertheless I find,men dure cheerfully without a moan.

that I am at last acquiring those who have to rent their fare, air, water, pain, burglars, school-ve had to bear I've been able to cn-

Afty and a sense of proportion about small, homes. This question of build-teachers, other people's opinion, my found from experience that doctors stimulating and amusing than women,

and nurses like uncomplaining pa- especially men between ing prices is one of distinct ervants and my husband.

Some of these physical fears I have tients, and are more eager to serve sixty, who are more appreciative and unimportant things. When I

who to conceal their considerate than young men between making out the laundry list this week interest to Hongkong. Despite been able to overcome by will power, therings. And, of course, it's very twenty and forty. That, of course, is I found I had been using a bath towel pleasant be told you're a heroine because I myself no longer interest returned by the laundry which didn't belong to me. Five years, Viree years the fact that labour is cheap in

men under fifty.

would and the ideal patient. this Colony, with no lack of

poorer classes are to be re-

And the men i like don't worry too nga, my housewifely pride

and have been outraged: I should have construction

housed, it will be essential that

OUT it's lack of moral much about women's looks basic materials, costs are undoubtedly high. The they are able to find quarters

courage which undermines clollies: It's character and disposition exhausted myself in trying to track consequence is that rents are carrying rentals which they are my life. Even now, at my age, half- that count with them. They want down my own towel. To-day I think high, too, as the owner has a able to pay. There is a further way through my three score years sympathy, understanding, tolerance, one towel is as good as another, and

"You are lazy and ineffelent plucked eyebrows, painted lips and towel wherewith to enjoy a bath. right to expect a fair return on point deserving of mention and ter, I cannot say to anybody good natture: these things outweigh I'm only too thankful for time and early years of my Marriage I have found a fascinat- his capital. More than once, it More and more Europeans are and not worth the money I pay. Un- varnished claws.

Imotherhood I almost se has been suggested that there making this Colony their home, less you improve you must go,"

Rather than reprove a servant 1 Ink problem. I was brought up to

believe that men were super-beings focated my children in my anxiety to exists in this Colony a contrac-but the great majority of them tore "ring," which operates for find it quite impossible to build submit to slovenly, grudging service and that the household should re- protect them from danger. I even of masculine for them should be diverted to me so the specific purpose of keeping their own houses. It is one of it becomes-intolerable evolve round the husband. My ear-used to pray that every pain destined

feeling ill and terrified, I dismiss tiellest. Iden of God was mysteries why, offender. I have never been able to costs as high as possible, both Hongkong's

throned on

our kitchen armchair, know that it is my duty not to stand in regard to public works and with cheap labour, it should cost understand women who enjoy giving sure resembling my father, en- that I might suffer for them. Now I private undertakings. The point anywhere from $20,000 to $50,- servants a piece of their mind to me wearing a bowler hat and a deep stift between them and life, but to teach them how to go out into the world disgusting entertainment, collar. is one which is well worthy of 1000 to build a residence which but all the same I know that I clight Owing to this mistake, in my up-and live,

My greatest happiness has been im consideration by the committee could be erected at half that cost to be able to administer just reproof bringing made the fatal error of

showing my husband that I was mothering my children: my biggest charged with investigating the in many parts of England. The without getting in a panie.

And then again with letters. How grateful to him for delgning to marry thrill was in confessing my love for housing problem-that is, if the whole question of building costs

I dread opening a letter from the such an unworthy creature as myself my husband, when I put my arms committee is still in existence, locally needs thorough investiga bank marked Private. Sometimes At the same time I shouldered to round his neck and said, "Oh, my

you 80." Obviously, in any slum clearance tion, for it is indisputable that when I receive such a letter at night many of the burdens which he, as dear. I love you so, I love

I suppose that If I were to die now, plan the cost of alternative aca lowering of the scale would I haven't the pluck to open it: I leave the man of the house, the head of the commodation will be a big fac- conduce to the general well-t. on my desk, hoping that I shall family, should have undertaken alone. halfway to three-score and ten, the have more spirit in, the morning, or As the years passed and I became best and the worst that could be said tor, since rents will be based being and happiness of the com-preferably that my husband will see legs humble I could not conceal my of me is, "She meant well." But

the munity.

contempt for his small faults such as that's not good enough, thereon. If, therefore,

employ:

It seems a

It and break the news gently.