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The country squire

His passing means an English rural revolution

TN the House of Lords during the debate on the Govern- ment's Agriculture Bill 1 the deplored the passing of country squire and said:-

Although this Bill marks the virtual extinction-except as a factor in food production-of the class of country squires to which I and many generations of my forebears have been proud to belong, I wholeheartedly wel- come it..

Now I am nearly 30, and the senior agriculturist in the House of Lords:

Public work has taken me in recent years far beyond the Gloucestershire parishes of Lydney and Ayiburton.my domain as a "country squire," yet at one time I farmed on six farms on my own estate.

As sacred trust SPENT my boyhood and my manhood there, and now the late evening of

days, Lydney Park, my home, has been in the family-for-about- 250 years.

my

Like most country squire of the old Lype, I was taught as a youth to regard the ownership of land as a sacred trust which had to be ad- ministered for the good of the people, not for the benefit of oneself.

The true country squire is not merely the hunting and shooting rentler of fiction, a generous host whose chief pursuit is sport.

He was in the past, above all, the leader of the parish, the "father" of

family a large villagers.

of tenanty

and

·

✪..... VISCOUNT BLEDISLOE

Most of his form workers, in fact, occupied their cottages rent free all their lives, or nt no more than 45. weekly rent.

Usually the squire's retainers tree wood fuel, sometimes cual, allowance of milk and other quisites.

had

an

His pedigree livestock were avail- able to improve the quality of form animais in his district,

think

Germans they will get a soft peace

R

HUBARB tart, rich In us what we want, come and got „lho”

sugar and real milk, and coal yourselves." Ice-cream were being

The dockers In Hamburg

arc

served in the freshly painted carrying out a deliberate "go-slow" policy in loading. German timber cafe in the Koenigsallee in for export to Britain. They Dusseldorf.

ว "The Hellish are stealing it." They

Gay:

Down at the Central Station, a refuse to believe that such expuris for food Imports into few hundred yards away, the kur go to pay

Geimany.

toffelzug (the potato train," which

every

large town in the British zone has every day) was just dis- gorging its food-hunting hordes.

trinkets.

Excuses

Each carried a rucksack or bast of EY go slow, too, in lending ships-

for Russia with and other

dismantled off-the-ration potatoes form produce, wheedled out of the German machinery as reparations, surrounding farmers for cigarettes after the workers have already gano or schnupps, or the last remaining slow In dismantling it in the fac

torics.

Production In the Ruhr-Rhine Thirty miles away, down at Province is now about 30 percent. Cologne on the Rhine, 20,000 Ger- of the prewar production. But the man workers were striking for employment figures for the same in- dustries total 100 percent. of the more food,

perwar figures. That was one of the contrasts I The Germans excure the fact that found in the Ruhr-Rhine Province the same number of workers are during a three-weeks fact-finding now producing only one-third of tour up and down the British zone. their prewar

That contrast, and the other facts I learned on my trip. have convinced me that to-day, two years the after their collapse, Germans now have the

measure

of

Dur polley. They believe they have us Just where they want us

and they are taking us. for a ride.

They know that all

idea of "hard peace"

for

Germany has been

By

SELKIRK

PANTON

output by

claiming lack of food and the num-

ber of men employed on the war factory dlsman- tling programme. The coal mines of the Ruhr, baro- meter of German economy, Jess lost

are producing today coal than they did March.

But--and this is the brightest spot-output Is creeping up again.

In almost every large

railway station, now the binck market bourse, I

abandoned. The policy of the soft came on the track of the vast under peace" has won. The British, always ground "Commercial traveller" or bad haters, are already telling them ganlastion which spreads

over all umelaily that they should "be proud four zones of the Reich, and diverts of being Germans," and presumably about 60 percent of industrial pro-

putting the whole European, ducts to the home black market. apple-cart in the economic ditch,

My mind goes back to some of the Areal squires of former days. think of Coke of Norfolks, afterwards the Earl of Leicester, the outstanding].*

who agrarian of his day, the made fertile vast tracts of relatively useless land.

men

others of

Blackmail

These go to the Germans instead of being exported to pay for food und raw material import-but then the British and Americans pay for these.

Inequality

dls ILE Germons were slightly TILE

turbed by fears that the July I think of "Turnip" Town-shend talks in Parla might have led to some (the second viscount), whose understanding between the Alles on introduction of the turnip und of the German problem and that would And far from raising rents, it was clover into English husbandry made have ruined their policy of trying to HERE is in Germany a rampant black market in food which pro- the invariable practice when bad possible the keeping of livestock for split us.

vides too much for one-third of the seasons came for rents to be either meat through the winter.

But Parls falted, and the "vic people and too little for the other there farlous" Germans now think they two-thirds.. remitted altogether or substantially

Among a hast reduced.

were Sir John Bennet Lawes, the can blackmail us into giving them

It manns, though, fint only about squire of Rothamsted, who invented better conditions, puiting a plop to the first artificial fertiliser; Henry reparations and the dismantling of ove percent of the people live only per- Chaplin, the first President of the war factories, and the provision of on their offlelal rations. Take the Board of Agriculture, always known more food for them than many other miner: every month he gets a bottle in the House as "The Squire"-s ne peoples in Europe, ruined by the of schnapps. He can sell that on the Lincolnshire former, a great sports Germans, are now getting.

black market for C8 59., and with mun, and well-beloved by his estate

that buy ten 21b. loaves of bread at Meanwhile their blackmailing 12s, ud. each. wenpons aro! Go-slow methods, There was Walter Long (after-passive resistance, refusal to work, After my trip through the North Better wives wards Viscount Long), of Wiltshire, strikes and demonstrations, and the German farmlands, I found the men, Sir Richard Paget, of Somerset, and, officially tolerated vast black market women and children In the Rulir all economic elles better than I had expected. of the cottagers more latterly, Christopher Turnor which is smothering Fond many A

The children looked sturdy and daughters found comfortable em- and Neville Grenville, of cider-mak- ployment and domestic training in ing fume-country squires, yet superb

They are allowing themselves these brown ("You would see worse in the British coal-mining areas," the the manor houses; they have become leaders of farming practices in their better housewives and mothers as a community, and great-hearted land- luxuries because they are convinced British health officer said to me).

that no matter what happens, the result.

British-and the Americans both for political and humanitarian rea- sons, will never let them starve.

They know they are sitting on the coal wealth of Europe in the Ruhr, and they say: "If you do not give

the

Both the squire and his lady were regarded as the confidants of working population.

people.

lords.

Dritain owes as much to the squire as to the rich man of modem. times who weds himself to the land with the wealth he has acquired in the

of town.

That, broadly, is the picture the squire which is fast crumbling.

Why do I say that the Agriculture the Magno Bill, which I bless as

vital industry, Carts of our most docs so particularly mark the pass- ing of the squirentchy?

It is because the new legislation rules that the squire must either contribute materially to the economic output of the countryside-or 89 wider.

recovery.

BY THE WAY

Beachcomber

by

fourpenny-halfpenny

But the healthy; active people in give ie whole the strepts do not picture. The British food and heall ofcers worry about the peo- ple who do not, or cannot, go out in the streets the aged, the small children; the sick-and the Invalids.... who cannot go out on the black mar- ket either,

The Germans, good propagandists, are making much out of the food situation-always referring only to the normal consumer's ration, which Is omcially 1,550 calories daily, but is being mot only by about 1,100 calories.

This ration is the lowest of all. Only one person in three gets it. There are additional ra ions for all workers. schoolchildren, invalida,

66ANNIBALISM," says my tailors to keep heas. If all this is in not clear write to Mrs H. P. Finnible, paper, "still exists Papua. That is probably be- 3 Gaa-lone, Orchie, Ayrshire, en

closing Пус cause the pigmy cows are, too stamps, There will be in he future no small to eat or whatever else sentimental regard for his traditional comes into one's head.

And, Idyll

It is a pretty sight to see them und self-imposed benevolence.

anyhow, the natives probably throwing food to the hippopotamus. nursing mothers and so on."

(Morning paper). Coine, pretty hippopotamus,

And eat this piece of cheese; You're clumsy as an omnibus.

And oh, what knobbly knees! But when I see your little eyes, and read their mute appeal. I must confess I realise

How selfish I should feet,

Whether, and to what extent, the land-owning class will in this now He has traditionally been relied on world be able to justify themselves to head the list of subscriptions to to the nation and to their own local local charities, to preside over the magistrates Bench and attend quar-nvironment, time alone well show. ler sessions, to assist in the recruit

and ment of the Territorial force

active specially possibly to play a

If, wuh such dainty food to spare, I grudged, you, title one, your

share.

Just like any of his tenant farmers, get tired of a diet of 301. he is to find his justification solely mussels, flying dogs and gong- in the right use that he takes of He has been the man to whom the island fruns a purely commercial beotles.

production of These are cooked on a slow fire local population have looked for point of view-the

man and beast, or of of yam-roots by tribal maglelans. guidance and encouragement in their nod for

The headman tastes the meal, by day-to-day life, and for Bnancial Uniber

dipping hollow shell into the uselstance in so far os his resources

great wallaby-hide pot which hangs permitted.

suspended over the fire by strong strips of kava steeped in salt. At the Fenst of the Dobbu all the natives walk

on stilts and wear devil-masks and shoot burning arrows at the moen. And so we say

ANY suggest.on," said Hogwasch farewell to Papus, land of romance Ayesterday, that the flip of the and mystery.

Huntingdonshire catmen Make your own trousers dokkymenterary would

deteria GENTLEMAN who followed my mentol from its chances in America. Am

of instruction for One could hurdly expect a citizen of making a pair of trousers says that Xenophon (Neb.) or Pericles (Pa.)

to be interested In when he had followed the directions, what we aim to the

or alderman.

Crushing burden

con- part in county affairs as a councillor i means, however, that a

siderable number of people whose по small So often it has been squire happiness depended to who has been mainly instrumental extent on the manor house and its

the

in repairing the parish church, who philanthropy will have in future to

has built and maintained the village exercise a larger measure of hall, donated almshouses, public dependence. park and sometimes even n Kolf course.

self

.

And the manor he uses themselves?

The fast crushing burden on them To the cottagers he has been

half century during the lust special benefactor, the chief pullar of been that of death duties.

hny

He

Colourful cabmen

such as

Voluntary organisations, the foreign Red Cross societies, pro- vide, another 300 calories a day. and the black market another | estimated 400 to 500 a day.

"Resistance"

BUT the Germans do aut, or will

not, realise this.

Our Intelligence men say that ut 228 15 percent, of the people form a hard core of "resistance" who are firmly convinced that It Is Britain's polley to steal

Germany's prewar markets and deliberately to starve is death all the Germans in the British zone.

Mr. Jack Jones, MP. lieutenant Lord Pakenham in running the cabmen. Biltish zone, found this out in Dus-

had three very short by a long pocket-mint, the wrong "is to present in picturised featurisa-theorecently, He said to me buttons. Inside the ton of factually motivated with anything about how we live. They way up, with

colourful glamour-story, with a lot of would not believe

we had clothes middle turn-up. He also wants to know what the CEE was doing in the classical numbers, and a reconstitu- coupons and food rationing, so I the entire social fabric..

at produced my empty clothes ration has provided pensions for I levied three times within 50 dilagram/ All I care to say is that tion by experts employees on they became too old or years it is reckoned these duties will he must have misunderstood, the Luxor Asked whether Cleopatra book and my food ration both in too infirm to work. With the now wipe out the whole revenue of directions, and that the egg (or rather would appear in the film. Hogwasch convince them. We ought to start a drawing of it) is given away with said: "Only In the Corfu ballet campaign to tell them more, and coituge gone a

rent any normal country estate and com-

pel its sale..

every diagram, to encourage amateur number.".

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