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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

APRIL 1, 1938.

BANKS

CANADIAN PACIFIC

John Morgan

sums up the results of his tour of Britain to find out "What's Wrong with the Countryside."

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URAL Britain's fate will be decided in the next ten years. To those who can read them two sets of figures speak for

themselves.

In 1921, England and Wales culti- vated 11,618,000 acres,

To-day only 9,018,000 acres are being cultivated out of over 30,000,000 RCTCS which would be considered by either Denmark or New Zealand as highly farmable.

In 1921 there were 869,000 men working on the land.

Since then 248,000 of them have packed up their tools and quitted.

Nothing which has hap- pened in rural Britain over tho same period of time has made good these deficiencies.

Figures like these are strik- Ing enough if pondered over, whether from the side of com- fortable hearths or by adminis- trators at their Whitehall desks, but they mean a lot more when one actually sees the broken-down cottages on Plyn-. limmon's side or in Scotland's villages. and the rusty arro- gance of docks and thistles In possession of splendid acres an far apart as Norfolk and Shrop- shire, as I have done recently.

H

ERE and there one came cross patches of hopefulness,

The village colleges in Cam- bridgeshire, the musical trio in Wales, travelling from sclicol to school, a milk factory in Cum- berland and an even better one In an unobtrusive corner of East Anglia, the roads up in Somerset and Essex and trenches boing dug for water mains, reaching out, at last, to thirsty villages.

Less frequently, electriq lamps light up the dark corners where the youths stand night after night for want of some- thing better to do in the long winter evenings.

Britain

rural

UT. broadly, Britain records more losses than gains over

the last decade.

.

Compared with what is pro- vided for the town children these days, the average rural school has become a dreadful place,

And there has been no cquivalent put up in the coun-

If you had wealth in your grasp would you ignore it? Yet that to what Britain is doing with her countryside,

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tryside to the urban housing estates. Some say they mean to make a start soon. Well, if they succeed, good luck to tlicni! For what keeps the majority of rural cottages standing at all is a constant mystery to me!

The creak of the medieval solf-cari-and what is done with its contents won't bear thinking about. It is the kind of rural institution into which those people who prefer to "glamorise" over rural settings never inquire.

N

OW, what should be done? Which is much the same as saying. "What could be done?"

And is it worth doing? Well, let's make a start with the bread-and-butter things.

Never mind what the farming Industry says it can afford to pay. Fix a National Minimum Wage on the basis of human needs for a man, wife and three children living 85 reasonable beings in these days ought to live.

That step alone would force the farming issue to the fore.

Raise unemployment benefits

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to the urban scale, whatever the consequences.

An average man won't work for less than he can be paid for being idle! The application of that simple principle has lost agriculture more men in the last few years than any other single factor.

be

There must be a ruthless and direct attack on rural housing.

Sentiment must not allowed to save leaking roofs, reeking walls, earth-closets and polluted wells.

Are

The people who sentimen- talise about the picturesque-

of ness

the country Invariably the people who have

called on never been to live in these places. That very nearly rules them out of court.

T

HE new houses must be built around exist- Ing villages and ham- lets to ensure that water, light, sewage and educational facili- ties are properly assured. That's not to say that the cottages are to be merely "brick-and-tiled," and all that such would stand for.

Nor that the school curricu- lum should he devised to turn

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out clerks and nimble-minded shop assistants.

When one sees the London County Council trying to intro- duce the rural bias into its schools by taking its children out in costly bus-loads to the distant felds, it seems hardly necessary to counter criticism.

R

the

URAL blas is not the same thing as agri- 'cultural bias. It is re- lated to that hunger and thirst for "green belts," or "green pastures" for which London's progressive administrators so exponsively and not their fault are trying to cater.

But it can't be wrong to teach a child the names of a few wild flowers to apprehend the chemistry of growth, the geology of a parish-to tell a song, bird's name from its or a tree from its distant

shape!

And then, we must make up our minds.soon as to what we mean to do with the land of Britain itself.

The queer thing about land Is that the better you treat it the richer it makes you. It re- mains the only form of wealth does handled sensibly which

not exhaust itself as a coal mine docs or an economy based on mere machinery.

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Hongkong, 10th March, 1938.

This country has not treater its own land anything ke at well as it might have done over the last century or so.

Industrialleation has thought

0: terms

cheapness, GD have

to helped

strip America, Australia, and even South Africa of their soils' fertilities.

we

BI

UT the soll of Britain

is still sound: what we

have done is to neglect

It, use it for the rich men's sports and their rusticating Interludes from poitties and city life.

A hundred years of running over the world, lending money to other countries where labour could be cheaply exploited, un- doubtedly account for many a thousand of our

water- own logged acres,

Rural Britain is still plc- turesque, but poverty-stricken. manifesting all the symptoms of ancemia and penury.

But times are changing. Peace or War—this country will soon have to make up Its mind whether or not It is its will to evacuate "rural Britain."

For virile men and women are not going to tolerate much longer the inconveniences of Isolation, low wages and neg- lected social hygiene,

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No. 10 A/31.

Bringing Cargo from Marseilles vin Saigon, cic., arrived Hongkong on Wednesday, 30th March, 1938.

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ACROSS

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1 "Emmend porch" (anug.) (10).

This port may not be shown on the const necessarily (4).

10 There's no sense in this (5). 11 This vessel in apparently of no

great displacement (9).

12 Serpentine vestige of famous

contest (two words-4, 4), 13 A circle that is not coveted by those with ambitious aims (5), 16 The kind of remark that may

penetrate (7).

17 Her best concoction (?). 10 In this naturally all is liarmony

(7).

21 Adriatic port (7). 22 W. African port (3).

24. He fears the worst and finally

prevents clear vision (8).

27 The mineral discomfort in con- cerned with ideas only (9). 20 Town of U.S.A. (†). 29 A row (4).

30 It has a flaby start but may be

dazzling (10).

DOWN

Concentration at start of cam- paign (4).

2 An Eastern (8),

1

3 By no means cooling advice

(B).

4 In this country people are most-

ly on the level (7).

5 Certainly a brunette (7).

7 Pule as it bird (5),

B This will not help the nations

to get together (10).

The initial pace leads to a noisy result (6).

14 Spooner might have sald his interest WAS in shocks and stares (10). *

16 Something worth having (8). 15 The sailor the young lady on

o cruise likes to find (9)..

20 Many a one in history has tra- velled to France and back just to do his double-crossing (7). 21 Part of church, (7).

23 Colour (5).

25 Native representation of family

alternative (B),' 20 Part of 12 Acrosa" (4).

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