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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1947.

TOO MANY CIVIL

SERVANTS

N recent debates the House of Lords has

more than once dis- cussed the high totals of those employed in the Civil Service, and has called at- tention to the influence of. these figures upon our national life

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by

VISCOUNT SIMON

Foreign Secretary, 1931-1935; Home Sociotary, 1935-37; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1937- 1940; Lord Chancellor, 1940-1945.

go on

"Get the idea? Every time it rains, the garden gets sprinkled."

The question is whether The figure of 2,000,000 Civil Arithmetical calculations this country can

Servants is larger than the American Report are not usually very good adding to the total without

total employed in agriculture, or in transport' and shipping. reading, Yet there

are seriously injuring its pros or in building. It is more than considerations on this sub- nects of recovery.

twice as large as the number ject which are well worth

employed in mining and quarry- public attention.

ing.

non-

By contrast with our total of 2,000,000 non-Industrial Civil Servants, there are fewer than 7,000,000 employed in all the manufacturing industries nut

Using round figures, out First, let me make it of the total manpower in plain that in what follows Great Britain we now have

2,000,000 no reflection is made on the about

persons in the of employed quality and devotion work done by our Civil industrial. Civil Service together. Servants. The question to and in Local Government

THE FLAW be considered is not their Service taken together. quality, but their quantity. PRODUCTION LÁG

The

Is not the comparison of these figures very disturb ing?

At this rate one-tenth of our total working popula- tion is absorbed in the Civil Service, whether centrally or locally.

By Arthur Webb

Lake starts Mrs Lake st

something

a lot of sense.

WASHINGTON..

NEW ENGLANDERS, tike those in the Old Country a recent House of Lords The total employed in IN debate industry, if this 2,000,000 is

the Government from which their forefathers excluded, is something like satisfaction to the fact that the

spokesman pointed with some came, talk little but they talk must 16,000,000. SECONDLY, we

total total of non-industrial Civil not ignore the truism working population,

in- Servants, at the latest recorded One night there was R meeting that the greater the num- cluding those employed in date had risen by only a few that was fairly representailve of the ber employed in the Civil the Civil Service, is about thousands over the correspond- 15,000 people who live in the white. ing figure 12 months before. Umbered red-bricked houses of the Service, the fewer are left 20,000,000.

But Lord Cherwell detected little 217-year-old Massachusetts for employment in produc-

the fallacy. During those 12 coast town of Newburyport. They tive work.

months the fighting forces had were talking over Truman's appeal Departmental adminis-

been greatly reduced, and the to head off a recession tration we must have-the

number of Civil Servanta deal- ing with the fighting services meetings are.

It was all very Informal, as such And byt for Mrs machine of government

were reduced by 53,000. Raymond Lake it might have just could not go on without it. When we talk of matters

ing to the

The Civil Servants minister-been another pleasant "get-together"

without any significance. needs of the civil. being decided "by the

population have thus increased She is an average housewife, and Treasury" or by the

Can we hope for the rapid in 12 months, not by a few during the meeting she timidly in "Ministry of Food," no improvement of our productive thousands, but by over 60,000. terjected, "Everyone talks about body supposes that the und trading results if so large Consider how the numbers high prices without doing anything.

who are gentlemen

the a part of the population is employed

many civilian about them." political heads of such withdrawn from positive pro- Ministries have increased dur- It was a challenge. And it was duction? This one-tenth of ing that 12 months. In. the taken up there and then. Before offices decide all these

our people is to a great extent Ministry of Food we have an they went to bed that night the DB things.

occupied in issuing and dealing increase of 16 percent. The shopkeepers of Newburyport decided A Minister may lay with forms and licences and figures, attributed to the Board down the lines to be follow- applications for permits. These of Trade are nearly doubled. ed, but the detailed work things are largely required for

the purpose of preventing GAIN OR LOSS? (and it has become very people from doing what they great) is left to the army want to do or for restricting IT of Civil Servants, and the conditions in which they mainly to the lower ranks. might do it.

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A Pole in

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The modern world. The first remark THIS is animal week.

He sacred white Cambodian was made by a musical critic. elephant installed in the palace Bald. "Mme. Kristen Flagstad sings as though it were the last at Pnompenh is reported to be thing one would expect today. The enting and sleeping well, the second remarie was reported by a latest statistics of horses with correspondent abroad. influenza are to be followed by Breslau sald, when shown where he the latest figures for ferrets with measles, and an expedition is going to the White Nile to procure a white rhinoceros for the Chicago Zoo.

When I was a very young man i expedition of the was a member which went to the Black Nile

hunt the Giant Black Prawn. How we trekked north, neo how we were attacked by wild in the Zimbabwa country: how we shot algmy bullock; how our tents were eaten by glowwarms during te equinoctial foods one of these things is any of your business. No black prawn WHILE up country, having coine

from down country, wo were told by an old witch-doctor that there was a black prawn in a lake to the far west of Mount Wargu. We approached the lake stealthily. put out in jobamni (the small native borts), and proceeded to use

nets.

our

elegant for anyone but politicians or police officials."

O percent

THE news that rice production was going up produced the usual acid criticism of people who use rice for purposes of art The case of those who engrave pictures of the Taj Mahal on a single grain was in stanced, Buell revealed that not are very few, A r:cent Gallup one of the people questioned had ever done this, that none of them knew about it, and

none of them cared.

Chant du Crepuscule

I knew a tiny man called Brown, Whose hat was "quite the latest

in

thing."

of

had a trop-door in the crown

Pulled open by a piece

string. the zimnie trick enables me

To talk at case," he proudly

All we got was a sheet of rusty tint, a lot of mud, and a native whistle. Yet somewhere in the dark "With men of six feet to

hinterland, laying its eggs in batches of eight in the thick hoaki-gruss, is the creature we sought in vain.

In passing TWO profound

remarka

lately,

caught my eye

understanding

showing an

and

chree, Nor need 1 cper raise my head." Parliamentary note:

THAT little politician who das cach air of Importance is being called the

about the lobbies with much an

have

of the lobbyboxer.

CANCY · Just To Be a Sea Rancher!

NOW DAT I'VE, GOT A COWBOY. SUIT 1 OUGHTA.

LOOKS LIKE I'M OUTTA LUCK. ****

NOTHIN' BUT CARS

|:PAL. AROUND

NOT A HORSE

IN SIGHT

WITH HORSES

seems

In

Jo show America.

ALL JOIN IN

Within 24 hours 67 of them had signed a pledge to return 10 per cent. of the purchase price of any goods bought in the next 10 days, to me that this banners:

They put out red, white and blue "Newburyport lowers situation gives cause for prices. We are co-operating " great anxiety. No doubt an in- crease in the number of Civil Servants may mean an improved administration in some direc-ONLY 25 stood out, and because tions. But the question is the townspeople boycotted them whether on balance the national but one had joined the move- gains or loses by withdrawing meat within 48 hours. frem ̄ ̄its—pool of productive Stocks that had been-hanging-fire- power so large a fraction of the for weeks began to disappear from total population.

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the shelves.

Business boomed. Stores in State. Loss in production cannot be

street and Picasant-street-the limited to the large figures town's two main shopping centres which might otherwise be em-were filled as customers poured in ployed in industry. For how from the neighbouring villages. much extra loss of productive Then the shopkeepers sent power occurs through firms letters to wholesalers and manufac and businesses being as much turers saying that they intended occupied as they are in filling buying more carefully in future mid Ruggesting "your company should up forms and in chasing around examine its price policies." Government departments for permits?

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Few stores in the big cilier follow-

cd mit with on overall sh. They say that no real, reductions will be lower until manufacturers made their prices.

And there is no sign yet thai this Is happening.

STILL TOO HIGH

TUIDRE is, however, plenty of evi-

dence that some manufacturers who have been soaking the pubila ure now getting worried at the con- thing buyers resistance.

It is predicted that during the xt few months pruduction will be cut back in many industries by 20 percent, and this will send up the number of unemployed to four mil

an almost double what it is 10-

day.

Blg

businesses which for years have been operating on a take-it-or- leave-it basis are facing stiff.com. petition, and may be forced to out prices of manufactured goods by one- fth before long. But even that will leave prices 50 percent, above prewar level,

There are two hundred .milliork cases of canned goods that the

at the prices they want,

packers have not been able to sell

Everywhere there is evidence that' the American public is becoming more discriminating in its buying. and is prepared to wait until prices of goods come down and the quality goes up, The housewives are tired of being taken for a ride by the get-rich-quick merchadis.

CROSSWORD

nut

Fro

LAKE had indeed started

Msomething.

Newburyport became front page news all over America. Its plan has How far the demand for ad- been taken up by more than a score ditional Civil Servants will grow of other small towns between the when the Government carries Atlantic and Pacifle. nationalising more great indus- further its designs for

ONLY THE FRINGE

trics no one, I suppose, can at present calculate.

But the tendency of a

One would like to say that she partment, when a scheme of

has really headed off the crisis that nationalisation Is carried all the experts say is just round the through, must plainly be to in-corner. But, unfortunately, it stil crease the departmental staff. remains to torment Mr Trumman and wants to see that Civil Ser- and its lame

Moreover, while everybody those of his advisers who believed the National Union of Manufacturers Congressmen who vants enjoy their proper rights, a year ago were clamouring for the danger is impending that the end of price controls..... they may become a political

"Take off controls and see output force sufficiently strong to go up and watch the prices fell," exercise control over policy. they shouted then. But today - Ja

hard to find consideration

anything that in Every

cheaper than it was a year' RgO. national interest and political Many prices are doubled and, most wisdom seems to me to require are up 50 percent. tat we give our serious ton

the danger in tion to growth of the Civil Service.

of

this

Even the 19 percent, cut inde by

the traders of Newburyport does not touch the fringe of the problem. ...

By Ernie Bushmiller

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