Show I ENGLAND TRIES TRES I STATES Rum Running Looms LoomAs 2 As Subject for House Of Commons f t U ll A fl G h EIL G MIDIS MIDI'S JH Greatest Liberal Editor f Cop right 1923 by The Standard- Standard C Examiner r LONDON Au Aug The H-The 11 The discus discus- discus Ion alon provoked this week by the I death of Mr Harding indicates Indicate cc- cc accurately ac accurately the thc Intelligent and S sm- sm sm m- m Interest felt hero In m affairs By a gradual Iro iro- pro process cess the social and economic do- do de degeneration generation of ot Europe has turned the ho eyes of ot all Englishmen In the direction ot of the one great govern govern- government government I ment moot in 10 tho the world orld with Ith a sane and stable outlook This constitutes a notable war post-war development There was as a time after the war when English politicians Joined with continentals In pathetic ap- ap appeals ap appeals I peals to America to come come o cr crand and help us The futility and stu- stu stupidity stu stupidity crI I ot of o that ot of mind at atI last Is recognized It Is perfectly realized now that the true road to toI I salvation Is through the application ot of the doctrine of o self seU help and that palsied appeals by Incompetent or greedy na nations have merel merely the I of ot irritating the rulers and 1 peoples ot of o the United States UP ur TO T To T T o A J s TIO I I Nevertheless there Is la a trong feeling among English politicians I ot of every shade of o opinion that fin fin- final finaL fin final al responsibility for tor the resettle resettle- resettlement I moot ment of ot the world worlds s affairs will lie I mainly with America and Great I Britain Consequently attempts attempts to keep in touch with aith Ith the American I point of low lew and to understand American IS I'S are genuine and sincere It Is not too much to say that the funding of ot Great Brit lint lint- lintala's Britain's andI I alas ains debt to America now gives almost a as great satisfaction to the debtor as to the creditor Having I taken that formidable hurdle Brit lint BrItain Britain am ain can talk to America on friendly and equal terms The chief cloud no now shadowing the thu horizon of hi British friendship is our attitude on prohibition Visitors to the United tes tell tho the writer enter of gro growing Ing fear there of Great Britain becoming the main obstacle to a proper admin admin- administration ot of the prohibition law laws IhNe is not the tho slightest doubt thit it unless the British gO takes prompt and practical meas- meas I url's ures to deal with aith Ith the scandalous whisky running from rom British ports orts vigorous protests willbo wIll i be raised In the House louse of Commons When parliament i lUG BIG ClON I Another question that parliament cannot evade evode in the thc autumn sea sea- slon I sloe slon is unemployment unemployment- This wee week I I Englishmen ha o ha e celebrated In Inglorious inglorious inglorious glorious weather the great summer holiday of the sear ear and superficial observer might suppose all wa was ell cell Never in our history has there been Ien such an from the big to towns ns to the seaside and countryside Holiday traffic returns broke all records and money flow flow- flowed flowed ed Id like wt r But Dut the people merely Inere were obe jog InC t natural hu- hu huI human I man roan instinct to forget their o tresses s-tresses tresseS and anxieties and to snatch natch s-I s delights of oC the tho bol- bol holIIday the mom momentary I hol-I lilay Iday mood The bald lad facts are that more than thon one IThe million persons are arc unemployed I ed Id and prospects are full of oC gloom loom for the corning coming winter From Front the industrial north the writer enter has re- re re received calved uniformly bad re-I re ot of contracted trade and the stream ot of order Is trickling to nothing rile rho ot of export trade which Is the tho nation s blood life is checked indefinitely by the disordered state blate I of Europe The rho government acknowledges the gravity of oC the and has bas begun plans to of o 0 iboa Ibos out of work But the scheme I Is unscientific and utterly made made- Inadequate Inadequate quate In Inlow low low of ot the fact that present conditions are likely to I grow worse and ond remain wor e ethere there Is I an urS urgent nt need for tor a wide 11 of ot the whole question of eI I relief I JO YEAR 11 EAR Tt I IThe The attention of earnest think think- thinkers I ers era on this thia subject now Is focus rocus- focused ocus ed j ed on the necessity of ot setting up a competent commission to rei low past and present ent and to explore the ot of o solving the tho unemployment problem on a permanent ast by Jy g na- na national na national resources to stimulate man man- manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing enterprises of ot every lind I believe belicH a bold Imaginative poi pol- polIcy pol policy icy would prove provo our people cap cap- capable capable cap capable able of sustaining without a 0 sr- sr ser ious bus Internal disturbance the bit bit- bitter bit bitter ter IO lOAd d ot of o Industrial adversity un- un until until un until til a period of natural prosperity returns 1 Meanwhile the patience courage and unbroken spirit of or the mass malla ot of who are approaching their I fourth winter of unemployment are oro one of ot the thc wonders onders of civilization civilization tion ion But ut no prudent government dare daro forever to gamble upon a fortitude of ot a people |