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Show Economical Kindness I What are the responsibilities of American or European ' financiers who get concessions in backward regions like ' 'Africa? , '.'.' A statement from the Economic and Wage Commission of South Africa is interesting. It says: "The policy of excluding the native from industrial oc-, oc-, cupations reduces his ability to pay, and therefore his value ! as a market for the manufacture in which European labor is engaged. Thus the policy that sets out to provide addr-i addr-i tional openings for white employment may So check the ' growth of wealth as a whole that it defeats its own ends," -j It is in the interest of the white concessionaires, adds i ! the statement, to raise the economic level of the native, in'-. ! ', stead of exploiting them. - - ; - ' The golden rule has had precious little lnlluence on those who "develop" semi-civilized eommmunities. Oddly enough, however, plain consideration of dollars-and-rcnts values' may dictate a policy not' unlike 1 hat which the- golden rule would t demand. '. . , |