Show SCOUTS REPORT OF DESPONDENCY IN INI I ENGLAND Reformer Says Laboring Men Are Well Paid and Theatres Prosperous Bringing the message that the thc British empire Is not draped In crepe but ut that the laboring men throughout hout the vast dominions are ore rt receiving more money monty than ever er b before oro In their lives live t and are spending It el freely Herbert Brooks who I appears at the Pantages ls l's theatre this this week delivered pred a t counter stroke stroke I against those pain painting tins tins- word pictures R portraying Brittania's glooms gloom and j despondency Mr Brooks Brook has collected more mor than I I 1 In behalf of ot war sufferers b by byj I performing a special act and he has thoroughly thoroughly- studied the war situation Ho was in Ostend Belgium shortly after the outbreak of oC hostilities lie He returned to London in September 1914 and stayed there ther until last March The conditions for tor the working man manIn manIn manin In England at pr present sent are nrc the best in history Mr Ir Brooks said Id Ho He declared th that t the theat theatres s were practically choked to suffocation and I seats could not bo be had for love o or money There was no use he said of or thinking of ot going coins to a London theatre theatre thea thea- tre unless s one obtained seats several weeks before the phi play started Business Business Busi Busl- ness he claimed was never ne better The women of at England ho said Mid were reaping re golden colden harvests Their husbands husbands hus hus- bands were at the front and the they were working In the tho ammunition factories Besides being paid for tor their work thc they wt were re also receiving a n grant from tram the British government so o that the they were re getting more mone money than In the palmi palmi- est cst days of ot their respective e husbands husband's civilian duties Moneyed people of at Bel Belgium lum France and other countries Mr Brooks said 1 were also spend spending In their money In England Circulation of or cash cosh was breaking all records All England he claimed was out enjoying Itself while Its sons were fighting for Cor the country's country's country's coun coun- try's existence Mr Ir Brooks was at Hull when Zeppelins Zeppelins lins flew over the city dropping bombs One of ot the tho bombs bomb hit a cabinet which Mr Brooks uses In his act Mr Brooks said that tho the people treated the visit of the Zeppelins as a Joke Joko Men women women women wom wom- en and children laughed Britain according to Mr Brooks Drooks did not wake waIte up until the Lusitania was sunk unk when recruiting took a great leap Mr Ir Brooks Drooks came to the United States last a l. l year r and then crossed to Australia where ho he said there seemed to bo be greater r patriotism evinced e for tor the Union Jack than In England As All a slight Blight recognition of or his work In behalf of ot tho the war sut sufferers Mr Brooks Drooks was wu presented with a passport for tor five tl years eU I signed ed b by Sir Edward Gre Grey Britain Britain's minister of ot foreign 11 a affairs Ct I rs |