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John Morgan

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

R

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 acres 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 the same period of time has made good these deficiencies.

Figures like these are strik- Ing enough I 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 aces 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 as far apart as Norfolk and Shrop- shire, as I have done recently.

H

ERE and there one camo across patches of hopefulness.

The village colleges in Cam- bridgeshire, the musical trio in Wales, travelling from school 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 Essox and trenches being dug for water mains, reaching out, at last, to thirsty villages.

Less frequently, electric 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,

BB

UT, broadly, rural 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 equivalent put up in the coun-

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If you had wealth in your grasp would you ignore it? Yet that is what Britain

is doing with her countryside.

Neglected

HERITAGE

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

The creak of the medieval soll-cart-and what is done with its contents won't bear thinking about. It is the kind of rural institullon 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 Fix a National Minimum pay. Wage on the basis of human needs for a man, wife and three children living as reasonable beings in these days ought to live.

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

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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.

There must be a ruthless and direct attack on rural housing. Sentiment must not be allowed to save leaking roofs, reeking walls, earth-closets and polluted wells.

The people who sentimen- taitse about the picturesque- ness of the country are Invariably the

who' people have never been called on

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

R

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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 18 that the better you treat it the richer it makes you. It re- mains the only form of wealth handled sensibly which does not exhaust itself as a conl mine does or an economy based on mere machinery.

This country has not treated its own land anything ke s well as it might have done.over

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Industrialisation has thought

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B

UT the soil of Britain

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clty 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 own water- logged acres.

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

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18

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ACROSS I "Emend porch" (anag.) (10). 8 This port may not be shown on

the coast necessarily (4).

iú There's no sense in this (5). 11 This vessel is 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 alms (8). 15 The kind of remark that may

penetrate (7).

17 Her best concoction (7). 19 In this naturally all is harmony.

(7).

21 Adriatic port (7);

22 W. African port (5).

24 He fears the worst and finally

prevents clear vision, (8).

27 The mineral discomfort is con- cerned with ideas only (D), 28 Town of U.S.A. (5). 29 A row (4).

30 It has à fahy start but may be

dazzling (10),

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1 Concentration at stort of cam-

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no means cooling

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7 Palo na a bird (5).

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The initial pace leads to a nolay result (B). 14 Spooner might have mid his interest was in shocks and stares (10).

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