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Constantly the advice is given to let the German people know the truth about the war. But how? The Press, wireless, and every other means of reaching the German populace are shut and strictly guarded. There is no hope of getting through even a modicum of the truth. What does get through is so small that the war may well be over before it begins to have effect.

One plan that is immediate and may have a measure....of. success is proposed by Sir Her- bert Samuelson, He suggests that all German prisoners in England should be submitted to a compulsory parade twice every day, when loudspeakers would proclaim in German the truth on many subjects which is so jeal- ously guarded from them in Germany.

Moreover, Sir Herbert adds, the humane and even friendly treatment which prisoners of war always receive in this coun- try should surely go a long way towards persuading prisoners that it was indeed the truth they were at last hearing.

Sir Herbert goes further in his joyful expectations. He says that when the war is over the prisoners will take home with them now ideas which might spread and produce a change of heart in Germany, and be the first step towards, fitting a "be- fooled and degraded people to re-enter the comity of nations."

It is reasonable to try every seemingly practicable means of spreading the truth in the places where it is most nected. In any case, even the prisoners might find the truth parade a welcome relief from monotony. But we should have to be moderate in our expectations. Young Ger- many has been so thoroughly anturated with the idea that we are a nation of fools and liars that the first reaction of the prisoners would be one of con- tempt and utter Incredulity. And it is to be feared that the number of tho "converted" would be too small to have any noticeable effect upon the scores of millions who had not had the benefit of the twice-a-day parade.

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Another article in the Beaverbrook Series-

Paths

to Victory"

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THEY ALSO

SERVE

THIS is a plea for the man of business. It is also a complaint.

For the man of business is entitled to consideration and he is not getting it.

Yet the business man is carry- He is ing this war on his back. the

He does not taxpayer. always pay direct taxes. But his indirect

the contributions fill Exchequer and sustain the effort of the war.

His part in the economic system makes him just as necessary to victory as the war contractor. on the Whitehall despatch rider. -

This is also a plea spoken for the man who used to be in busi- ness. It is a complaint made on behalf of that class in the commu- nity.

Their appeals are rejected. Their hopes are frustrated. And their busi- nesses are brought to nothing merely for the want of effort to organise and direct the economy of the nation.

The commercial traveller seeks an extra supply of petrol and cannot get any consideration at all. Yet the same commercial traveller is just as essential to the domestic lives of all of us as the distribution systems, the railways, and the buses so bountifully bonused by ' public money.

For without those commercial travellers the distribution of supplies in our country will break down. The selling system will collapse. At the same time as these travellers cannot get the petrol they require for their business, endless numbers of cars roll by on the roads, carrying marks of identification claiming priority in vary ing measures and degrees, with bounti ful stores of fuel,

Even the banks are asked to join in the general embargo on the man who wants to make a living. The man who is barred from the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, who cannot play a part in military enterprises, yet who has the capacity and the will to serve his country in commerce or industry.

For we are told that there is no money available save for those who are engaged in war work. Yet for many of us there is no place in war projects. There is no chancé,

BUT the

man who makes an effort to extend his business, to increase his profits, to raise his stand- ard of wages and pay, does a great deal to contribute to the tax fund that wins the war.

Yet we are turned down. They have no use for us in the services be- cause we are too old. We cannot get a chance in commercial life because we have not been fortunate enough to get some Government contracte.

We preferred in the past private enterprise to publie profit, and we are made to sulfer on that account.

It is the folly of the economists that brought us to this position. They tell strange tales to the Ministers. They concoct immense theories which collapso in practice. They evolve pools and they perfect rationing plans that do damage to all of us.

Not all of us! Chartered account- anta are prosperous. For economists

make plenty of work for the men of figures, the men of theories and sys- tems and forms, who rely on card in- dexes and graphs and such like devices that only damage real business.

The politicians listen to the econ- omists and the chartered accountants. And these politicians are now de- liberately doing to industry in general the same disservice, they are inflicting the same destruction, that they per- petrated on agriculture for ever so long. It is true that they appear to be alter- ing their policy, but we can't be sure.

How then can the man of busi

ness organise his strength and his resources so that he may save the private industry of the private citizen?

How can we go about it?

Hopefully, I say, by raising our voices. By stating our complaints. By organising our efforts. By direct- ing our energies.

Thus we may bring to the notice of all who sit in high places the press- ing need, the stern necessity, of sus- taining the middle-class life of Britain.

The shopkeepers. The little men who manufacture. The garage keeper. The commercial traveller.

These are the men whose economic life is a necessity to the commercial, industrial, and financial existence of this country.

Without their endeavours, without their attention to business, without their skilful management of their affairs, the riches and economic power of Britain would swiftly dissipated.

They are also the section of the community who carry uncomplaining the evacuees in their homes at the price of eight shillings and sixpence a head, -which represents much less than the cost of feeding the hungry children. The system has proved to be unneces- sary, wasteful, and destructive of homé and family life.

The housewives have never had a word of thanks. They are not praised by the parents of the evacuees. They are treated harshly by the officials. And they have not been regarded as workers in the service of the

war

nation.

The measures proposed by the Government in the House of Commons on Thursday do not deal with the hard- ships and disabilities of these house- wives. There is only one method of meeting and disposing of the just com- plaints. Set up at once a system of billeting in hostels, camps, and student centres. Then the children will be looked after under decent rules of life and without interfering with liberty.

Now I am not asking that business men in the community' should be per- mitted to live as though we were not at war. On the contrary, they must suffer and suffer soverely--on account of the penury and hardship of our people, duo to this terrible conflict.

But I complain of the unnecessary hardships to which they are subjected by the officials. I complain of their livings being taken away from them, I complain that they have not been allowed to go about their occupations fairly and reasonably in the face of

war.

I GIVE, for instance, the example of the manufacturer who makes

Our ability to sustain ourselves in war and to purchase the necessities of -our existence from over the scas would--safety razors and razor blades. This-

soon begin to dwindle.

LET us look after the men of business. Let us see that they have fair play.

And let the men of business look after themselves, organising with one another to secure just treatment in wartime conditions, so that they may continue to exist, and so that Britain may continue to thrive.

war.

The man who is a casualty in this The builder of small houses. The decorator. The boarding house keeper and the small hotel proprietor. The shopkeeper in certain centres.

He cannot join the forces. He is too old. Or perhaps, he was physically broken in the last war.

But instead of being given the chance to earn his living, obstacles are put in his way. The rules that destroy him are never relaxed. The regula- tions that cripple him are never modi- lied. He is not even permitted a Court of Appeal. He is told that he is not wanted. That his trade is a nuisance. That there is no time any more for luxuries. And that even necessities must be curtailed to a great extent to make provision for the war.

Yet without the men of business there can be no war.

IT cannot be repeated too often or insisted too strongly: They represent the industrial, the commer- vial, and even the financial structuré on which Army, Navy, and Air Force are earried.

They are the tax-paying classes (direct and indirect) who provide the uniforms, the motor-cars, the extra ration of petrol, for all the boys and like girls engaged in many services A.R.P. or the Auxillary Fire Service or other branches where pay ranges from £2 to £5 n week.

is a case well known to me, The enfety razors and bindes are made for the domestic market and also for export.

The works require a ton of steel a weck. But supplies of steel are not forthcoming. And, in consequence, forty workpeople have been laid off, with no prospect of immediate employ- ment elsewhere.

Why is it impossible to import a ton of steel from America or from Canada to supply the needs of that works, to sustain that enterprise, enabling it to continue to supply the export markets and the home markets too?

Again, there is the case. of the manufacturer of steel cabinets and other office equipment. This is not a

· workshop. It is just a group of little

men.

They are not allowed to pursue their own business. That may be quite reasonable, although I don't agree with it. But when they seck Government business they meet with nothing but bitter disappointment. They see the orders pass over to "blg business," while the small concerns are driven out of the market.

Yet the little manufacturing enter- prise could be turned to good account. The plant can be put on to war work. The staff can be employed. The · directors can be made use of. The skill can be mobilised for the national benefit.

THEN there is the builder and the decorator. Nobody can be persuaded to take any interest in his affairs.

He is just a war casualty.

The big building firms with Gov- ernment contracts have too much work on hand. They cannot fulfil their obligations. Their contracts aro· ·be- hind the time schedule, while the little fellows fritter their daya away in. idleness.