il'be Sooial Credher: Sa41urday, January 21st, 1939.

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?•Voluntary Service with . FAIR PAY

or

Compulsion with Pay --Which?"The people of Britain will have to decide"-Lord Sankey.

(B.E.C. debate, Amery v. Snell, Nov, 1938)

. There is no need to define the prospectnow confronting this country more precisely,for present 'purposes, than by saying that itpresents all the features of major crisis.

The stated objective of the PrimeMinister is to secure appeasement abroad

/ while ensuring that, in every respect, 'thecountry' shall be strong to resist and toovercome attack if diplomacy fails to avert it.

It has been- said with complete realismthat last September, Mr. Neville Chamberlainsubstituted "a chance of war for a certaintyof war," an accomplishment which arousedprobably the sincerest and most generalexpression of popular satisfaction with astatesman's actions for a _generation.,

Mr. Chamberlain's own assessment ofhis obligation to the British electorate isdouble: to so act that the cause of war maybe removed: to so act that if war comes itsadverse effects on British nationals and theirinterests will be - reduced to the smallestpossible limits.

What is written' here is designed toassist, in the largest possible measure,towards the accomplishment of the second ofthese objectives particularly along lines whichit is believed will materially advance progressin regard to the permanent avoidance of war

. at the same time ..

It is apparent to the most superficialobserver that this task which lies before the-elected representatives of the people occasionsgra ve concern for its successful accomplish-ment along any line.

Signs are not wanting that if successis to attend the efforts of the Governmentsupported by Parliament more deference willhave to be paid to political and social realitiesthan has been paid in dealing with the majorpolitical problems which have arisen since thewar. Ministers and members of Parliamentare conscious of this themselves. All alike,in their speeches and in their reactions, to agrowing volume of public criticism, show anincreasing as well as a natural and correctsensitiveness to popular opinion.

At the same time the more powerfulnewspapers reflect a certain hesitation inassuming that they correctly reflect popular:opinion or are able to influence. it quicklyand certainly.

Both in the administration and in thepress there are signs, of confusion anduncertainty which are constantly deplored andrebuked. "Those behind cried 'forward', Andthose' before cried 'back'" is becoming aprominent feature of the public reflection ofthe private thought of the country.

The words of concluding comment of

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Lord Sankey to a debate between Mr. Ameryand 'Lord Snell on "Should National Servicebe Compulsory":-

"The People of Great Britain willhave to decide"-

ring truer than is usually the case when openpolitical questions are proposed.

The people will have to decide, and it isof major importance not only that they decidecorrectly but that they decide correctly aboutthe right question.

To take three of the major politicalquestions of the past ten years:

The Slump and the overthrow of theLabour Government.The Agricultural question and thelivelihood of farmers.The Proposals for EvacuatingLondon's civil population lastsummer

-in no case was a sound policy stated as theantithesis of an unsound policy.

In each case, noise, intrigue andquarrelling facilitated the removal from con-sideration of a sound policy.

If Britain is to meet a determined andwell-equipped enemy under conditions inregard to morale and practical efficiencycomparable with those created by the'solution' of one of these problems the outlookis not bright.

The slump of 1931 was a practicalexpression of the theory that the nation couldeconomise itself out of poverty." The resultwas a vicious spiral of contracting trade andgreater tightening of the belt, more bank-ruptcies, greater poverty, higher rates andtaxes.

In the case of Agriculture, marketingboards and "planning" have brought thefarming community to open revolt which

.• proper handling" of their Union can noibnger control.

And in the case of the arrangementsfor mass-billeting, it is no exaggeration to say'that they aroused consternation in every ruralarea within easy reach of London and didmore to open the eyes of citizens to theirpredicament at the hands of a doctrinairebureaucracy than any or all the repressiveenactments of post-war parliaments put

- , together.

In each of these cases there was a false - j

antithesis: expenditure v. economy; boards y_/v. laisser faire; billeting v. evacuation.

It is of primary importance that itshould be fully and widely recognised that alike false antithesis lurks in the present dis-cussion _of the problem of equipping thenation for defence.

What is it that is desired? Surely,'the provision, as Sir John Anderson has saidof willing servants of the people. Willingworkers are good workers. Very well!

Then why threaten the population withthe unwelcome alternatives of unpaidadditions to their daily work on the one handand compulsory work at starvation wages onthe other?

The old time conscript got 1/- a day.Also he got his rations, which, in theory atleast, represented the scientifically ascertainedoptimum of feeding for a hard life. He got

.better clothing than he had ever had before,expensive accoutrements, and allowances forhis wife and children-a pension.

Assume that all in all that was fair pay. 'J'Then why not take it as fair pay in both \\cases: the volunteer and the conscript?

The correct alternative is(1) 'Volunteer service with pay.(2) Compulsory service with pay.

Which?To give point to the argument,

consider Mr. Amery:-"I am sure that you will agree that nations in

the long run depend quite as much upon their civicas upon their military strength, and that the develop-ment in their citizens of ever higher spiritual valuesis even more necessflry to their permanent welfarethan are millions of conscripted men with guns andbayonets in their hands. Now those who advocateconscription appear to assume that nations live byguns alone. They wish to take a young man's bodyand train it for one definite and very limited purpose,while they ignore his other needs as a responsiblehuman personality.

"Let me examine very briefly your statementthat national defence is a common obligation. I donot deny this obligation, but there is also an obliga-tion to the individual on the part of the State whichis rarely remembered. I admit, of course, that all ~)of us as free citizens have some obligation-physical,financial, moral-to the community which hasnurtured us and whose social institutions and liberties

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we have inherited, and historically, of course, thereare precedents for enforced military service. Inthe ancient Greek cities every citizen was compelledto give military service; but the Greek citizen washimself a proprietor who had a direct interest indefending the soil of his fathers, for the land did

actually belong to him. The slaves were nevercalled to arms, and no one who had nothing to defendwas ever asked to share the risks and the burdens

of war. Rome acted in the same way. Her armieswere armies of citizen proprietors.

"Nearer our own time, the French Revolutionwas the first to decree a general levy on the groundthat the Fatherland was in danger, but before doingthat, the Convention enfranchised the serfs and gaveto all 'the right to property.'''

(To be continued).

POWE,R AND RESPONSIBILITYAll our activities are directed

towards restoring power to theindividual and linking it up in himwith responsibility. The fasterwe work the greater will be thecentrifugal, or decentralisingforce.

By "power" we mean theability to control policy, to get theresults we want. , "Everyman"wants peace, "Everyman". willsuffer if there is war. If "Every-man" had power over his govern-ments there would not, could not,be wars. Weare showing himthat in England he still has suchpower, but that it is in very greatdanger, even in actual process, ofbecoming atrophied by lack of use,or being deliberately destroyed.

By "responsibility" we mean,not the ordinarily accepted brandwhich ends with the taking of adecision, but the inescapable takingof the consequences of that decision.Clearly it is in the interest of"Everyman" that if he has to takethe consequences of a decision, bethey good or bad, he should be in aposition to make an effectivedecision. Once he realises this hewill seek our advice and, help;through the Rates Campaign, ,theAnti- Billeting Campaign and inmany other ways the public aregradually absorbing our advice, arelearning to adopt our tactics in-stinctively.

Centralised control is exercisedabove all through money. Taxation-the withdrawal of money incomefrom the individual-is the methodemployed. Reduction of taxationor the actual, issue of' new

. purchasing power are avenues forthe restoration of power to the'individual from the central store,vested in the Government or "theState," which has usurped it.

The positive aspect and growth

of centralised control is moreobvious. It takes the form ofRegistration Bills, "Marketing"Schemes operated by "Boards," theincreasing hold of the CreditCompanies, such as the AgriculturalMortgage Corporation, over their"customers," and various otherforms of actual or incipient bureau-cracy and hidden dictatorship. Bymeans of "Enabling Acts" Parlia-ment has surrendered to thebureaucrats or worse, its duty andits power to act on our behalf. Bydepartmental regulations anddecrees these bureaucrats imposetheir will or that of their masters

. (who are they?) upon a hypnotisedpeople. It is our job to break 'thespell. To take the people by thehand and wake them from thetrance.

A minor example of this pro-cess is found in the Nursery Trade,which, for the past year or two,has been urged by its own GeneralSecretary and Council to demand"Registration." Four successivedrafts of a Bill have been prepared,but have met with increasingopposition from wide awakenurserymen. If it has not beengenerally recognised by nursery-

,men that this is preparing a rod fortheir own backs, it has at leastbecome clear to many that the Bill,far from increasing the security ofindividual members of the trade,would place them more and more atthe mercy of the chain stores whichnow compete with genuine grow-ers.

The Nursery Trades Registra-tion Bill is, therefore, a twofoldinstrument for the concentration ofpower. Firstly, the actual processof registration entails in greater orless degree the cession of controlof the policy and of the conduct ofthe nursery trade by individual

nurserymen to a central body.Secondly, there is the probabilitythat the position of the chain storesin respect of their nursery tradingwould be greatly strengthened.This would be a transference ofeconomic power from the individualnurserymen to the horizontaltrusts.

Examples of this process ofthe ever increasing concentration ofpower which is taking place on allsides to-day could be cited adnauseam. It is a process-or per-haps the process would be morecorrect-which social crediters mustdetect and counter with actioninvolving exactly the reverseprocedure.

Power must revert to theindividual, whence, and whenceonly, power, in the economic andpolitical sense, originates. Powerand responsibility must be "onceagain re-united in the individual."

C. H. J.

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WHITHER YOUTH?Every January I buy the

"Times Educational Supplement"for a week or two. Teachers sitin conference during the Christmasholidays. It ought to be possibleto gather from their speeches ageneral idea of our educationalpolicy.

The outstanding event of thisyear's conferences has been thepublication of the Spens Report onSecondary Education. This Com-mittee has been sitting sinceOctober, 1933, and has produced avolume of over 500 pages. Chapterone states:-

~'It is becoming more andmore evident that a single liberalor general education for all isimpracticable, and that varyingforms both of vocational andquasi-vocational education haveto be evolved in order to meetthe needs of boys and girlsdiffering widely in intellectualand emotional capacity."

This fact has long been plainto all who think about the questionat all-it is, in fact, what parentshave been saying for years. Thecommittee were concerned with theorganisation and interrelation ofschools, with particular referenceto children who do not remain atschool beyond the age of aboutsixteen. That they worked withinthe existing financial frame ofreference goes without saying; soit is not surprising that a consider-able amount of time was spent indiscussing cost of building, andscales of salaries.

Much has already been saidand written about this report, andmuch more will be said.

To how many will it occur thatthe Committee spent five years indiscussing the best methods ofeducating our children, before wehave decided for what purpose theyare to be educated?

It might well be contendedthat the very word "education" ismisapplied; that "instruction"would describe more nearly asystem which still uses the scholar-ship and examination as a spur.

The following statements are

to be found in the Supplement forDecember 31st, 1938, and January7th, 1939:-

"University education in thegeneral sense should aim atforming men and citizens, en-abling them to take their ownviews in politics, and not neglect-ing their higher aspirations .."(Paris conference report.)

"We cannot find enough menof first rate ability and person-ality for the first rate jobs weare asked to fill. We havedifficulty in finding satisfactorvjobs for the weaker men. I be-lieve that if we had more regardto relating the subjects menread to their probable jobs wewould improve the market forthese men."

- Sir W. Spens."There was something

attractive about the idea that,somewhere between the ages of17 and 19, all bovs of every classand kind should; for a term ofmonths, live and work togetherin Labour Camps. The SpensReport would be studied bymembers of the Association (ofHead Masters) in no narrowspirit, in the earnest hope that inthe light of its proposals, abetter order of things wouldemerge."

- F. R. Dale, Headmaster ofthe City of London School.

"Existing arrangements haveceased to correspond with theeconomic facts of the situation."

-Local Authorities Correspon-dent.

"The need for well-trainedand well-informed citizens wasjustification for the sums ex-tracted from the taxpayer forschools."

- Dean of St. Paul's.

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"Youth City (a proposed newstudent centre for London) mighttypify the vastness of theEmpire and the unity of all itspeoples."

- Lord Bessborough.

Twenty-four hours have pastsince I wrote the first part of thisarticle, and when 1 read it throughthis 'morning it nearly went intothe W.P.B. Then, I thought, letit stand, as a witness to the stateof mind of our "leaders" in .theeducational world.

The education of our childrenis one of the most vital subjects wecan discuss.

As long as there are fathersand mothers worfhy of the name,it must be a matter of passionateconcern to them that their childrenhave the best training that can beprovided.

\But the loss of individual ~

power and responsibility so evidentamong people to-day, has led to aweakening of the parental instinct,so that we are content to leave thechoice of educational policy to theexperts, instead of dictating itourselves.

By policy, is to be understoodthe result, as made manifest in oursons and daughters when theyleave school. The means of at-taining this result should be left tothe educational experts,

I do .not wish to hold up theeighteenth century as an examplefor us to follow in all respects.Literary education was then theprivilege of one class alone, andalmost confined to one sex; but theparents of those boys knew verywell what they understood by theterm "educated man," and theytook care that the tutors providedthe right type of training for theirpurpose.

Whether we should agree withtheir ideals is another matter. Thetragic fact is that we do not knowto-day what we want for education, ~/and when we get it we do not knowwhat we have received.

This is the result of handing

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over our power and responsibilityto a system.

We-have not stated our policy;but this does not mean that thereis no educational policy. It isimpossible for any system to berun without some aim or philosophybehind it. You might as wellpicture a railway train proceedingat full steam to no destinationwhatever.

To discover what this policy iswe have two sources of inform-ation-the results as shewn in thechildren themselves; and thespeeches and actions of differenteducational experts who, because ofour own neglect and indifferenceare in control of policy; perhaps itwould be more correct to say thattheir task-masters are in contro1.

No one who observes youngpeople of-to-day can fail to noticethat they are less and less capableof withstanding regimentation, andless and less capable of self-control. Though the standard ofintelligence has risen, generaladaptability, mother wit orcommon-sense is rare. Modernexaminations do not encourage aknowledge of how many beansmake five.

As a result of my browsings ineducational reports during the lastfortnight, (and deadly dull it was)I have come to the followingconclusion.

There is not the slightest hopethat any of these people will, oftheir own free will, admit the factthat the financial system is falseand artificial and that it must beadapted to the needs of a vital andgrowing thing like education. Thisbeing so, there remains only onecourse for them to take, to makethe children and teachers fit intothe financial system. This canbe done by laying emphasis' onvocational training rather than ontraining, for, leisure; on "character"and "citizenship" rather than onindividual. power and, responsibility;on centralisation rather than onlocal government control. In otherwords let the Youth City "typifythe vastness of the Empire and theunity of its peoples." More great-ness!

It has long been plain that thepolitical' colour of nearly allteachers is decidedly pink, if notred.

Those wbo. can remember the

years immediately after 1918 willrecall how intense was League ofNations propaganda in the schoolsof that time. It was blasphemy toraise your voice against it.Prayers were said and sermonswere preached-in many schoolschildren were asked to bringpennies for the League of NationsUnion.

The children of those years arethe teachers of to-day, and providevery useful propagandists for theDictator States.

It is another case of the lowergrades of the Civil Service beingperfectly sincere in carrying out apolicy imposed from above, andwhich, if it were made plain tothem, they would in most casesrepudiate. '

You may ask how it is thatteachers, as a class, are more likelythan any others to be hypnotisedby League of Nations propaganda,which, of course, is favourable tocommunism and the financialinterests.

In my opinion this is easilyexplained. No other people haveso clear a memory of their ownschool-days. When they return tothe familiar atmosphere of theclassroom all other influences; eventhose of the university fall away.They tend to teach even as theywere taught, and pass on to theirpupils the ideals which they them-selves adopted in the impression-able years of adolescence. Hence-forth the teacher is "a man amongboys, and a boy among men."

But his fellow student leavesthe university to enter a world ofmen and women. It is yearsbefore he remembers that he wasonce a little boy at school listeningto a lecture on the "League ofNations."

This, I think, is .one of thechief causes of the widespreadcommunism in the teaching pro-fession. It is a soil very favour-able ,to the propaganda of the"planners. "

For if you can rule a manthrough his ideals, you have gothim, body and soul, and spirit.

Our children are being trainedas citizens for the TotalitarianState.

This is the policy implicit in theeducational system of to-day.

. B. M. PALMER.

"FATTY RASCALS"A tea time delicacy suitable for

a cold spell:-Take one breakfastcupful of

self-raising flour, mix in a pudding ,bowl with milk, to the consistency'of thick cream. Have ready afrying pan of deep fat-lard orTrex, and drop in the mixture, alittle at a time. It should puff upinto cakes. Pry till a light brownand serve hot. Sugar can beadded to the mixture if desired.

Sent by Mrs. Starky, Torrington,Devon.

Arab Organisation..The Arab organisation in

Palestine consists of manysmall units under captains, number-ing rarely more than a dozen men.These remain permanently organ-ised, being reinforced for specialpurposes by the inhabitants of thevillages (who are normally"peaceable" Arabs.) Each mobileunit acts upon its own responsib-ility for the attainment of object-ives which emerge from the'realities of the situation in itsimmediate neighbourhood; but thelong range strategy of all the unitsis centrally directed by the Higher:Arab Committee which means ineffect the Grand Mufti-or, if nothe, at any rate some single individ-ual of the necessary strategicalgenius. The War Office report ofArab organisation is well worthstudy and reflection by socialcrediters at home and overseas.

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C,OMMENTARYBefore January 7, Mr. Win-

ston Churchill was not too muchabsorbed in his home-buildingoperations to discuss 'the problemof Democracy and Efficiency' withMr. Kingsley Martin of the NewStatesman and Nation. And beforeJanuary 14, Mr. Lloyd George wasfluent to the same gentleman onthe subject of democracy, thegovernment and the need for aconstructive home and foreignpolicy.

* * * *The word democracy seems tohave become the 'first fast last'witch-word, a press-button toevoke the storming emotionalpartisanship that once we squand-ered on the cowboy hero at themovies. It has dropped most ofits original meaning in the process. . . and is not nearly so handsomeas the film star.

* * * *Democracy and Efficiency-but

the efficiency discussed isefficiency in war!

* * * *"I am convinced," says Mr.

Churchill, "that with adequateleadership, democracy can be amore efficient form of governmentthan Fascism. In this country atany rate the people can readily beconvinced that it is necessary tomake sacrifices, and they willwillingly undertake them if thesituation is put clearly and fairlybefore them . . . "

"In an autocracy, when thepinch comes, the blame is thrownupon the leader and the systembreaks up, as we saw in Germanyand Russia. In a democraticcountry, the people feel that theyare responsible, and if they believein their cause will hold out muchlonger than the population ofDictator States."

* * * *And if they refused to makeunnecessary sacrifices and resolute-ly fixed the blame where itbelonged . . . It is only necessaryto turn things upside down!

* * * *Mr. Churchill also assumes that

legislation would be in force to"take the profit out of war." He

means, presumably, profit to thesmaller fry or even the middlingfry. But what about-

* * * *the money-lenders? About

8,000 million wasn't it, and mostlycosting just the book-keepingexpenses?

* * * *Mr. Lloyd George talks beauti-fully; well, he always has. Butcou1d you do this:

"In some respects democ-racy is slow. It is morereluctant than autocracy toresort to violence for the ad-vancement of its aims ... [and isslower to fight] . .. The moralinfluence of the dislike to shedhuman blood has its beneficenteffect in creating an antipathyto war and dethroning it from itsglittering but pernicious sover-eignty over the dreamlands ofvalorous as well as of morbidyouth."

* * * *And he points out that at anyrate in the 1ast war it was the 'freepeoples' . that won. They weremore efficient in war.

* * * *Anyway, why this competitionabout killing each other violently?Couldn't we do just as well on thepainless side, and judge by the rateof decrease of the birthrate ? Wemight not win, of course; Franceis worried about her birthrate too.

* * * *YOUR WAR TIME RATIONCARD IS WAITING FOR YOu.More than 20,000,000 have beenprinted and are waiting in localdepots all over the country. An-other 10,000,000 are being prepared.

* * * *In 'a new publication the'Imperial Economic Committee givesstatistics about the consumption ofdairy produce. Butter consump-tion has been fairly stable during,the past two or three years in mostEmpire countries, but has continuedto increase in some foreigncountries, notably Germany,France' and Argentina. The gunsor butter legend must have beenmisread-guns or margarine.

One consignment of Sir JohnAnderson's new booklet to bedistributed en masse was delivered(in Canterbury) too early, but theymanaged to retrieve it in time.Perhaps they are going to add thePAY to the Voluntary Servicehefore January 25?

Bar GoldEach day at the end of the

news bulletins, the price of BarGold is announced by the B.B.C.,announcer. If you are interestedin this it would be a kind act to letthe B.B.C., know that they havestruck your fancy. IF NOT-itwould also be a good plan to remindthem that there are probably notmore than a dozen people who havethe remotest interest in this item.To tell them, of course, in the mostpolite language, that this is so muchTIME LOST to the listeners.How much? If there are amillion listeners and the announce-ment takes a minute, the loss isnearly TWO YEARS of listeners'time-minus the twelve minutes ofthose who are interested (for eachannouncement). This time couldbe better given to dog racing orsome pleasing sport; or the priceof jam tarts would interest many.

Social Credit Secretariat(Chairman: C. H. DOUGI,.As.)

Diploma of Membersbip

An examination of candidates forthe Diploma of Membership of theSocial Credit Secretariat, Lecturesand Studies Section, is about tohe held,

Students who intend to sit andhave not yet entered their namesare asked to return entranceforms, obtainable from the Sec-retariat's offices, with' the exam-ination fee of 10/6, on or beforeWednesday, February 1, 1939.-Assistant Director, Lectures andStudies, 12, Lord St., Liverpool, 2.

Students .of Social Creditwho have not taken theofficial course of instructionmay enter for the examin-ation at their discretion.

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POLIC,YThe massive structure which

houses one of our vast LondonINSTITUTIONS also houses-as ifby an oversight-its STAFF,perhaps a thousand individuals. Ofthese, some still preservethe semblance of sanity anddo their best to keep their eye onthe ball as it twists and zig-zags ona quite incalculable course, Thereare those who resent the enforcedacquiescence to aims which arerepugnant but that submission is anecessary part which they must payfor their homes, their wives andfamilies. There are smooth-mannered ruffians myopically intentupon their own advancement. Butin the majority there are feeblejealousies and petty discontents,invariably subservient to "author-ity" and to pay day.

In the entrance hall of thisinstitution, flanked by majesticarchitectural embellishment, is atablet recording certain names, withan inscription beginning:-

"We Band of Brothers ... "I t needs a powerful pen to deal

with that.

Bank clerks are bands ofaccountants, not brothers. You

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ANDcannot institutionalise real feeling,and the attempt results in a loathlyfalse sentiment; another cloak toconceal implacable encroachmentupon personality.

But brotherhood and realfriendship do exist. They spring,I think, from action towards acommon aim which has some gen-uine correspondence with reality.And "social credit", our policycontains within itself the substanceand source of all such effort. Thereare few in whom cannot be foundsome aim which is convergentwith our own. With the know-ledge we have it is for us to takethe initiative, and to assist individ-uals to formulate their ownobjectives-and to secure them.We are the nucleus of a new formof public service-a Civil Service ofPolic)l.

* * * *

events converge upon a climax.Towards birth, and a new life? Oranother cycle of impotence anddeath ?

* * * *

Newspapers and broadcastingconvey but little of the realthoughts and reactions of thepublic-as little as that inscriptiondescribes the relationships 9£ theservants of that Institution. Allforms of news are twisted and outof focus; and yet it is an insensitivepersons who does not realise that

Some years ago I climbedMount Helicon, and on an uplandslope came upon a queer state ofaffairs. The hillside wasscattered with scrubby firs, andhanging to the branches were filmy

. balls about the size of one's fist.Looking closely at one of these Isaw inside it a mass of caterpillarswrithing in inextricable confusion.As I .watched that stage was com-pleted-the ball dropped some fouror five feet to the ground. It musthave been a shock to the inmates,but the ball was broken, and thecaterpillars were born into a newphase of existence. Recoveringthemselves, they soon took chargeof their own affairs and set out, infile, marching upon an unknowndestination; and presumably theygot there. I was told that it iseasy to guide the first caterpillarto link up with the last- so thatthey march in a circle, round andround, and never get anywhere.

The inference is clear.

SOCIAL

H. E.

A correspondent writes, "I amvery interested in the recent movesmade by the New Zealand Govern-ment towards the introduction ofsocial credit." He appears to bethinking of Exchange Control.

Exchange Control may (or maynot-for who can identify theprime movers in financial intrigue?)remove the control of' a nation'smoney from the international ringto a national one. It may havethat effect, and in so far as it reallybreaks centralisation of control, itis good. Taken by itself, however,not backed by the' sovereign de-mand of individuals in associationfor a defined policy, it will be usedby whoever is deciding policy for anation just as he pleases.

If the dictator of New Zealandis Nash, then Nash, perhaps is asocial crediter. Savage's intentions

CREDITmay be excellent-but who thinksSavage a social crediter?

Exchange Control is in opera-tion in Russia, Italy and Germany,and in a half-dozen or so smatterstates in Europe and SouthAmerica. Are these social creditstates? WeII, none of them haveyet erected a statue to Douglas.

* * * *There is a great deal doing in

the Australian Social Credit Move-ment, clear reports of which havenot yet reached me. In any case,until reaffiliation has had time totake place, it would perhaps beimproper to comment on certainaspects of it. There is news ofdemocratic resistance to theNational Health Insurance Bill.,which is extremely unpopular' allover the continent, many activelower rates and local objectives

campaigns and a demand for debt-free money for defence purposes.

As events speed faster andfaster upon us and the situationgrows more confused in one way,clearer in another, the more mobilethe movement becomes the better.There is no reason why five or sixdifferent campaigns should not goon at the same time, provided thatthe strategy is being centrallydirected. Social crediters shouldlearn to be ready to throw theirforces into the scale wherever theysee individuals struggling againstcentralisation by finance or byinstitutions.

MILES HYATT.

"Threats only serve as weaponsto the threatened."

- Leonardo da Vinci.

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Vol. 1. No. 19. Saturday, January 21st, 1939.

TUNINGAt the beginning of 1938,

Douglas said he thought that yearwould be marked by a rather pain-ful clarification of the issues. Itwas.

The result is that socialcrediters are much closer to therealities of the situation than theywere. There are welcome signsthat other people are also beginningto look at things instead of merelyto spread reports about them ..Andthis general shift in the directionof the real should, due regard beingpaid to the will of social- creditersto make the most of it, bring thepublic and themselves much closertogether.

Whether ,events later in thepresent year will justify the persist-ent advertisements of comingcatastrophe or not, the Britishpublic is still very far fromentertaining the idea whole-heart-edly, and the grim jokes currentabout A.R.P. bathing pools by nomeans indicate that the populationhas settled down to accept, withstoic- fortitude marked by Britishhumour, a life divided between thepleasures of the trenches and thediscomforts' of demolished sitting-rooms.

The tail of the comet is aheadof it-not a very comforting simile,perhaps; but (either because Mr.Chamberlain upset the timing orfor some other reason-possiblybecause the administration, of aworld tyranny really is, after all,too big a task for any set ofvillains in real life) it does seem asthough the theory which dominatesthe average life of the average manwere breaking down and theaverage man becoming aware ofthe. fact. That theory is the theorythat if you don~t mind your own

INbusiness but let the same man mind

.it for you as minds everybodyelse's, it will be well minded andyou will have no more to complainof than anyone else.

Once that theory (good mpart!) is suspect, events are al-ready potentially beyond control,and efforts to control them mustinevitably lead to collisions result-ing in the revelation of freshcauses for suspicion.

One possible outcome of sucha process, is, of course, a break-down: _ a condition of utterdemoralisation. And the preduc-tion of such a condition is at leastone of the policies to which . an~ttempt is being made to giveexpression (in deeds not in words)in these islands. In a sense it isprobably the most important, of thefalse policies which the Britishpeople might be hoodwinked intoembracing. The real policy of thepeople is not chaos but-somethingelse; something not ascertained yet,but something to be ascertained ifpossible and something to besecured if possible.

Those who look back now overthe efforts which have been madeby those in close association withDouglas since he delivered theBuxton address, will realise howsteady and consistent. has been theapproach to this point of applica-tion of our forces: this joining ofbattle" It is admitted thatmistakes have been made. Theywere, however, without exception,mistakes of administration notmistakes of conception.

• All the time, pursuing anintelligible plan, with Douglas'sguidance, we have been tuning into the ,wave-length of a common

British policy. Each small rotation,as it were, of our experimentalinstrument, has evoked a louder,surer, note-and the note we areseeking is the authentic voice of thewill of the people. About what?It doesn't matter! Once find andrelease that, and the rehabilitationof democracy has begun. If thereis any hesitation or wavering orgoing back-why, do it again: itwill be easier. How much furthermust we turn in order that thatauthentic voice will be clear andplain to those who emit it and toall to whom it is irresistablyaddressed?

That is a matter for ascertain-ment-and time. What is certainis the correctness of the approach.The Douglas 'bus goes. Eventhose who revile it have recourse tolast year's model: What else canthey do ? You may be prone toflights of fancy; but you cannot goplaces in a flight of fancy!

Years have passed since Byrnegave political definition to socialcredit in the statement that it wasthe belief inherent in the associa-tion of the 'members' of Societythat in association they could getwhat they wanted. He explicitlyrepudiated the suggestion that, ithad anything to do with the beliefthat by dissociation, dissociatorscould get what they wanted. Therules are natural, not of authority,and are the same for associationslarge and small. The increment ofdissociation is dissociation: a:negative result of negative action.

It would be better if thesenegative actions did not occur. Notin the least! It would be betterif they were replaced by positiveactions of the right kind. Thesame means are available toeveryone of testing the potential.Which note ate YDU listening for?The confused hubub of intellectualassent' and dissent? It is uniformand eternal. The smothered voiceof human purpose, will, policy?-Well, at least turn the knob theright way! So that the intensityof the note increases and youbecome surer of it yourself!

It is a metaphor? Not at all:it is what the Secretariat is 'doing-with the energy and' resources'available to it. Take half itsenergy and resources away and' youdouble the time needed for the task.

TUDOR' 'JONES;

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Without making the mistake of over-simplification, it is, nevertheless, true to say that we are witnessingin the world at the present time a conflict between two strategies,· both of which aim at the centralisationof power, and world domination.

The first of these is finance, and the second is ad ministration.It is perhaps unnecessary to say that both administrative and financial centralisation of power are equally

objectionable from the point of view of social credit.But our immediate objective is the disintegration of centralised finance, From this point of view, the

following individuals in political circles may be regard ed as working for a Financial World Hegemony, andtherefore to be opposed and exposed wherever possible:-

IndividUals. Cognate Institutions.

President RooseveltBaruch, Frankfurter,The Warburgs, etc.

Great Britain ~. The Marquess of LothianLady Astor \St.ella, Marchioness of ReadingDuchess of AthollCaptain Anthony EdenLord BaldwinDr. Hugh DaltonMr. Arthur GreenwoodMr. Winston ChurchillCaptain Duff-CooperThe Archbishop of Canterbury

United States

France lIM. Blum

M. MandelGermany

Dr. SchachtCanada IMr. McKenzie King

Mr. Dunnin&,New Zealand

Mr. NashSouth Africa

General Smuts

I Kuhn, Loeb & Co.c.I.O. (Committee of Industrial Organisation).

League of Nations UnionBank of' International SettlementsBank of EnglandB9rqhy'~" GroupRoyal Institute of International Affairs

(Chatham House).Official Labour PartyLiberal PartyKuhn, Loeb (Cassel) (Franklins)MorgansP.E.P. (Sieff, etc.)

Bank of France (Rothschilds, etc.)Popular Front

Morgans

MorgansRoyal Bank of Canada

Labour Party

Gold Bloc.Dutch Financial InterestsGuggenheim-Oppenheimer.

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Tough Views ColumnARMAMENTSAn Evening Standard note on

the Skoda Works suggests thatKrupps of Germany are to be theultimate owners, "It is thoughtthat through pressure on the Czechauthorities, Germany secured anarrangement whereby certain long-term credits for purchasers ofgoods were given to Czecho-Slovakia, in return for the immed-iate handing over of part of theBritish loan, in order to buy Skodashares from France."

Was this on the agenda of theNorman-Schacht meeting inBerlin? By this scheme every-one benefits except the Englishpeople. France gets £2 million orso, the Czechs get goods fromGermany, the Germans get Skoda-and, of course, the Bank ofEngland gets another foreigninvestment, the interest on whichis payable either by the foreignborrower or, if he is in default, bythe British taxpayer whose"government" guaranteed the loan.

"Compulsion is always in thebackground."

Sir .T ohn Anderson, .T anuary 9,interviewed on A.R.P.

* * * *"Collective punishment is the

only method of impressing thepeaceful but terrorised majoritythat failure to assist law and ordermay, in the long run, be more un-pleasant than intimidation."

War 0ffice Statement onPalestine, January 9.

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LONDON LETTERAccording to The People of

January 1st, we in England haveceased to be gentlemen. At leastthere is to be no more nonsenseabout "gentleman's agreements"over tax-paying s=-

"Instructions have also goneout that there is to be a muchstricter collection of taxes inrespect of the instalment due onJanuary 1st.

"Time to pay" is not to beallowed, and the threats contain-:ed in the various black, blue, andred notices will be strictlyenforced.

"People who offer to pay byinstalments, spreading their pay-ments over the next three monthsin such a way as to complete thefull payment before the financialyear ends on March 31st, willalso find that their offers are notacceptable to the tax authorities.

"Strict orders have beengiven that there is to be norepitition of the £10,000,000 or soof arrears that usually remainsuncollected when the financialyear ends.

"The Chancellor intends toget in every penny to which heis entitled, and the collections forJanuary are expected to start offat the rate of £20,000,000 a week."

If this report is correct-andwe shall know by experience soon

. -it is not hard to guess the reasonfor it. Something pretty out-rageous in the way of budgetary"surprices" is probably beinghatched in New York and. LombardStreet, for the indefatigableSimon's use next session, and it isessential for them to clean up onthe last assessment before theydisclose the next bad news.The Budget will raise an interest-ing point for social crediters-howmany signs shall we see thatknowledge of the credit-fraud ispermeating the tax-paying' public?From the growing carelessness ofnewspaper reports and the tend-ency, whether deliberate or not, tolet most odiferous cats out oferstwhile sealed lips, so to speak,it is possible that the publicity fora point of view not dissimilar to

our own will astonish us. It isbecoming possible to distinguishbetween. the "bought" and the only"half-bought" press-and therebyhangs quite a tail of headlines andnews' pars in the current week.

The first to catch my eye is"Mr. Norman Takes Control ofSteel" in the Daily Herald of J an-uary 10. "One Share MakesNorman Steel Sheet Dictator" saysthe Daily Express of the same date.John Summers & Sons Ltd., con-trolling a big section of the steelindustry, had, along with RichardThomas Ltd., of Ebbw Vale, "acutefinancial troubles" which "fright-ened the investing public" . . .

"So they also went tothe Bank of England, and inreturn for arranging the necessaryfinance . . . for it was only oncondition of Mr. Norman becomingchairman of a similar controlcommittee over Richard Thomasthat that company was able toobtain the extra £6,000,000necessary to finish its Ebbw Valeworks." Montagu Norman' has,therefore, succeeded in centralisingin his own person, the bulk of thesteel resources which are neededfor defence and re-armament.

Another item from the DailyHerald of the 10th and 11th, con-cerns the Cable Makers' Associationand the purchase and closing downof Ismay Cables Ltd., Dagenham.It was secretly bought by theWestminster Bank-which is sup-posed to be acting as nomineeowner for an undisclosed buyer-and, although the factory wasworking day and night to cope withorders, it was suddenly closeddown without warning just beforeChristmas. The factory cost£100,000 and was a 1936 modelconstruction.

Lastly the Daily Mail of Jan-uary 6th, goes out of its way toexpose the absurdity of "NationalDebts," showing the President ofthe United States "apparentlyconjuring millions out of nothing."Th e writer adds:

"How can any country standsuch a prodigal pace? Thirtyyears ago the economists W9u1d

from Miles Hyatt

have foretold certain bankruptcy.But we have all learned that theresources of a great modernnation are as infinitely elastic astheir financial expedients. Post-war history is a fantastic storyof 'impossible' burdens success-fully shouldered, and of hugedebts wiped out overnight bycurrency manipulation.

"There is not the slightestdanger of the United Statescracking. Even now her NationalDebt is only little more thanours. It falls far short of hernational income, whereasBritain's Debt is nearly twice herincome.

"This country, too, is quitesound. Take comfort from thefact that after the NapoleonicWars our National Debt (at£800,000,000) was nearly thriceour income."

Well, well! If that doesn't raisea laugh, what will?

* * * *Newspapers may be bought,

but not as a rule, the journalists.It is the bright spot in the blackrecord of the press that journalistsare, on the whole, not purchasable.Only those who get promoted.

Mr. Cordell Hull was suspectedby the American journalists of"holding out on them" over thePeruvian press-censorship at theLima conference. Mr. Hull, whowanted this aspect of the meetingforgotten, reproved the pressmenfor concentrating on somethingunimportant, and pompouslyhanded them one of the usualgrandiose statements full ofcliches about "a great step for-ward," "solid foundations ofenduring co-operation" and therest.

The journalists became rude.. They flatly refused to accept what

they profanely called "a hand out,"instead of the news they wanted.

It is said that Mr. Hull's shockand indignation at hearing hisepoch-making remarks describedas (fa hand-out" deprived him ofbreath to reply.

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PERSONALITIE,S AND PRINCIPLES"You can trust me," said Mr.

Baldwin, not once, but many timestowards the end of his career.That such an appeal could be madewith succeess-indeed, that itcould be made at all-was astriking commentary on thepolitical thinking of the electoratewhich was thus addressed.

"Trust" may be defined as abelief in the integrity of anindividual by virtue of his knownprinciples. What then were Mr.Baldwin's principles; the particulararticles of faith on which hispolitical career was founded?These can be ascertained onlyfrom his career. .Whatever Mr.Baldwin wrote or said or thought,it is by what he did that he mustbe judged.

The list of positive achieve-ments is short. He settled theAmerican Debt; he restored theGold Standard; .he broke theresulting General Strike; hesponsored the National Govern-ment; and finally, played a leadingpart in the Abdication. The valueof this latter service will best beassessed by posterity. It issufficierit for my purpose to pointout that the preceding strokeswere calculated to tighten on theBritish people the stranglehold ofDebt Finance. His Lordship, then,for all his "English-ness" contrivedto consolidate his personalpopularity whilst he was puttingthrough measures, which, unlesscorrected, will lead to the progress-ive frustration of economic libertyand security for the trustingmasses.

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The technique by which thiswas accomplished was simple buteffective. Each step was describedas necessary to the security andhonour of the State. The electorate,without guiding principles by whichsuch admonitions could be judged,were unable to trace essentialrelationships. The relationship, forinstance, between the restored GoldStandard and the General Strike;or the relationship between theclaims of individuals in SouthWales to personal happiness ineconomic matters, and the claim ofthe Sovereign to personal happiness

m private matters.A consideration of these events

will bring out clearly the fatalerror of trusting in the sincerity ofan individual divorced from anyanalysis of the known politicalprinciples for which that individualstands. Further, political prin-ciples must be founded on facts.They are the touchstone by whichthe worth of any public man maybe judged. Sincerity and eloquence-like patriotism-are not enough.Theories and opinions alike must besubordinated to a consideration ofthe workaday world around us; andthe salient facts of this world canbe summarised by the plain manquite simply and finally:-

(1) We live in a world ofactual abundance.

(2) Money (financial credit)is the only effective claim on thisabundance.

(3) Financial credit iscreated by banks as a monopolyat no cost to themselves.

(4) There is a universalshortage of financial credit" at thedisposal of individuals. This leadsto poverty and the sabotage ofabundance. To trade war, leadingto military war.

(5) The unemployment"problem" is insoluble by reasonof the increasing substitution ofsolar energy for human energy.

On these facts we can build ourprinciples :-

"Systems were made formen, and not men for systems,and the interest of man, which isself-development, is, above allsystems, whether theological,political or economic."

"Economic activity is simplya functional activity of men andwomen in the world. That theend of man, while unknown, issomething towards which themost rapid progress is made bythe free expansion of individual-ity, and, therefore, economicorganisation is most efficientwhen it most easily and rapidly \supplies economic wants withoutencroaching on other functionalactivities."

.These basic statements over-

ride those pleas of sincerity and"public service" which are so oftenput forward by the apologists ofparty government. By them alonecan any measures affecting thepublic weal be assessed. That suchassessment be made, coldly, andwith a sense of personal responsib-ility is the only hope that individualfreedom and security will survive.

Freedom of speech and thoughtare still possible in England. Free-dom to expose a political philosophybased on fact, and to instructrepresentatives in the light of thatphilosophy is the highest privilegea democracy can bestow. Con-versely, it is the basest betrayal ofdemocratic responsibility to waivethat privilege in favour of"personalities" who, trammelled byvested interests or private failings,claim support for policies whichhave no relation to the needs of theindividual. Policies which, there-fore, must lead to the degradationof the State, and to the' perversionof those natural forces which areworking for the liberty, securityand dignity of Man.

M. G. M.

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All of a sudden the fiduciaryissue has been raised to the un-precedented height of £400,000,000.It was interesting to read thevarious explanations of the.phenomenon in the daily papers'leading articles.

Most noteworthy was theentire omission of any comment byour most famous friends The Timesand The Daily Telegraph. Suchbare-faced robbery must surelycause an outcry! But no, BritishDemocracy slumbers on, and doesnot even turn on its 'side! The"authorities" are "making a displayof our financial strength"; they areshowing the world that they aregoing to stand no nonsense; theyhave made the pound sterlingsecure against "speculators."

Who are these speculators?Weare not told. But the banksare requested not to grant themfacilities; so the banks must knowthem. It is all very puzzling, asThe Scotsman says. And we areleft to believe that this Currencybusiness is beyond any man's com-prehension. Even the authoritiesdo not seem to understand it; "Onestep enough for me." Only itworks, they say. But Douglassays "It does not work; it makesus all work to no purpose." Andbelieving that it is not beyond man'scomprehension, Douglas examinedit, and found that the meaning ofmoney is fundamentally simple. Ifthe British public would apply themental acumen they exercise onBridge and the solution of Cross-word puzzles on the money tangle,they could quite easily understandit, it just requires the same sort ofmental gymnastics.

The truth is that banking aspractised, is the most speculative ofall trades. Only the bankers wantto have it both or all ways, Theirfinal gamble is that, when the riskcomes out against them, they hopeto be able to persuade or blackmailthe Government of the day intoletting the "we1chers" go free. Ourwhole banking system is really at

Ithe moment (and has been since1914)I in exactly the same position

L~as everybankwhich "failed"

FIDUCIARYBy G. R. R.

in all the stormy and sordid historyof banking. Only our banks havewelded themselves into onecompact body, so that for allpractical purposes they may beregarded as one institution: "theymust all hang together or hangseparately"! So that now theycome to Government and say "Youmust allow us to print a suffi~ientnumber of paper notes, and meetour liabilities therewith, or elseour whole financial system comescrashing to the ground, withresultant confusion, chaos, businessstoppage, unemployment, hunger,riot, civil war, war, conquest." AndStatesmen, being what they are,say "Peace in our time, 0 Lord;after US the Deluge!" There areother alternatives, of course, butwhen the people are not told thetruth, the people are deprived ofthe opportunity of considering thealternatives : :

Why was it left to Mr.Bennett, Ex-Prime Minister ofCanada, to speak in the CanadianParliament of "the failure of TheBank of England"? (March 29,1938). In the course of the samespeech, Mr. Bennett said "I willtell you that the banks have todeliver just what the deposits callfor, and the banks will liquidatetheir obligations to their depositorsin the terms of the deposits. Letthere be no mistake about that."Here he was interrupted by Mr.Dunning, Minister of Finance, whosaid "We could not have a bankingsvstern for five minutes if that werenot true." Mr. Bennett continued"It must be true." (House ofCommons Debates, March 29,1938, page 1964).

The relevance of this to thepresent prodigious increase in theFiduciary Issue is that our banks'obligations are not to be liquidatedin terms of the deposits; although,to preserve the banking system, thefiction is kept up that they are.The clue to the whole sordidbusiness is the price at which theBank "sells" gold to the ExchangeEqualisation Account, namely, 85/-per fine ounce. The Banks'obligations in terms of the deposits

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were to pay gold at this price "onDemand." But now, these obliga-tions are to be met by a verydifferent thing, namely, noteswhich represent GovernmentSecurities. In short, the wholecommunity is enslaved to meet TheBank's obligations.

The silence of The Times andThe Daily Telegraph is, perhaps,most eloquent of all.

Tax DefaultMaking about 20 committal

orders against income-tax default-ers, the Lord Mayor asked thecollector:

"When a man goes to prisonfor default, does that wash, thething out altogether, or can yousummon him again for the sameamount when he comes out?"

"I believe that legally we cando so, but in practice, when oncea man has served a term of im-prisonment for non-payment ofincome-tax, that finishes it."

"But I suppose that very fewpeople do get as far as Brixton?"

"I should sav about one in 100.The usual trick of the habitualdefaulter is to wait until themoment of arrest, and then pay."

"I have noticed," added thecollector "that if a man goes toBrixton once he usually does notmind returning a second time. Hehas a few days of ease, quiet andcomfort."

Too Much WheatThe International Wheat Ad-

visory Committee, which' is/ considering the situation arising

out of a world surplus of wheat,agreed in principle to the conven-ing of an international wheatconference. The date and placehave yet to be fixed.'

The committee, meeting at theBoard, of Trade in London, repres-ents 22 Governments.

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NO-BILLETING CAMPAIGNThree Councils Speak

;

The following resolution hasbeen signed by all the members ofthe Urban and 'Rural DistrictCouncils of Cirencester, and weare informed that the members ofthe Tetbury Rural District Councilare also about to sign it.

This follows upon widedistribution of the U.R.A.A.,Broadsheet entitled "Your Homeis Threatened" in these districts.

We, the undersigned, Mem-bers of the Cirencester Urbanand Rural District Councils',while we realise the necessity intime of war of evacuating fromdangerous areas (a) Mothers andchildren under school age (b)children of school age, and (c)probably the old and infirm, andare confident that the Ruralpopulation will willingly makeconsiderable sacrifices on behalfof evacuees, view with graveapprehension COMPULSORYbilleting for the followingreasons :-

1. Because home life assuch would cease, and in a dis-turbed and uncomfortable homeno one can carryon their workproperly, and the morale ofrecipients and evacuees mustsuffer.

2. In the majority of cases,two families, whether children oradults, with totally different up-bringings and outlooks, will notlive contentedly in one smallhouse or cottage for a longperiod.

3. In the case of school-children, they will be at the houseof the recipient for, at all events,17 hours out of the 24 and willrequire continual attention.

4. The fact of billeting beingcompulsory is bound to cause .afeeling of resentment and in-justice. It is entirely foreign tothe ideals and customs of theEnglish people, and is contraryto nature.

5. Many houses or cottagesare unsuitable owing to (1)

isolated situation (2) inadequatecooking and sanitary arrange-ments and water supplies.

6. Damage will be done inevery house where children arebilleted, and the cost of com-pensation, in our opinion, mightexceed the cost of building camps.

All the above reasons, wethink, would break the morale ofrecipients and evacuees and tendto weaken resistance quickerthan enemy action, which in thecase of a virile race tends tostrengthen resistance.Alternative suggestions:-

1. Voluntary billeting whicheliminates (a) the sense of in-justice (b) those who physicallyand temperamentally are un-suitable to take evacuees.

2. That the recipient areascould be extended considerablyfurther than contemplated in theReport of the Committee onEvacuation, to off-set the reduc-tion in density.

3. That the population to beevacuated should be carefullygraded into those suitable andunsuitable for billeting, and thatthose unsuitable should beaccommodated in empty housesand other buildings, and in campsto be built in suitable localities,where they can be housed infairly large numbers undersupervision, in the case ofschool-children, of their ownschool-teachers.

4. That considerable num-bers could be accommodated inthe mining valleys of SouthWales from which many thous-ands of population have beentransferred and which are notdangerous areas. There areempty cottages, thousands ofunemployed, who would be gladof the billeting money, andschools with ample accommoda-tion.

Several other Councils aretaking action in this matter. TheElie Borough Council is organising

its own Campaign, and is distribu-ting "Your Home is Threatened"Broadsheets amongst the localelectorate.

J. M.

BALL YMENA COUNCILPASSES IMPORTANTRESOLUTIONA Lead' for all to follow.

The following resolution waspassed. unanimously by BallymenaRural District Council on January7th during a discussion on theUlster Government's new HousingBill, which the council decidedshould be rejected.

"That in view of the fact, asstated by eminent Banking andGovernment Authorities, thatbanks lend by creating credit andthat thev create the means ofpayment -out of nothing, we in-struct our representative inParliament to demand that theGovernment make money avail-able to Local Authorities forsocial services, such as the pro-vision of housing, at a chargesufficient to cover the. book-keeping expenses incurred in theissue of such money and free ofannual interest charges and thatthe charges on existing loans besubstantially reduced."

All Lower Rates CampaignManagers are urged to bring thisto the notice of their LocalCouncil without delay, and insistupon similar action.

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Australians AssertThemselves

Mr. Casey, Australian Treas-urer, already in the news over hereon account of the radio censorshipof any criticism of his speeches, isnow facing the determined refusalof Australian electors to accept hisNational Insurance Bill.

All Federal Members ofParliament in New South Walesare getting thousands of signedforms, as follows:

Instructions to my FederalParliamentary Representative.Mr ."I, the undersigned, being an

elector of -- Federal electorate,hereby inform you, my electedParliamentary representative,that I am opposed to the NationalHealth and Pensions InsuranceAct which has been passed by theFederal Parliament and imposedupon the people without theirconsent.

"I demand, therefore, that youtake immediate action on thefloor of the House to obtain therepeal of the Act.

"In doing this you will beassured of my hearty co-opera-tion and support. If you willnot undertake this I will joinwith others in this electorate towork and vote to defeat you andyour successors until this, mydemand, is granted."

(Signed) .(Address) .

In Victoria the wording of theforms is slightly different, but themethod and. the message is similar.Here is what the Victorian citizendemands of his elected servant:-

"Having at last learned thedetails of the National Healthand Pensions Insurance Act Ihave arrived at the definiteconclusion that this Act willmean a drastic lowering of thealready low standard of living ofthe majority of the people ofAustralia, by the very fact ofreducing their weekly income.

"I am, therefore, taking thisopportunity of telling you, as myrepresentative in Parliament, thatI resent having this imposedupon me without the electors first

WHAT THEY 8,AY (III)Parallel lines never meet. Convergent lines, when produced, domeet. Under the heading 'What The)' Say' it is intended to ~e-produce passages of writing which appear to converge unth.Social Credit, or illuminate some point of emphasis.

For centuries science and so- men. It tells them that in ordercalled practical wisdom have said to be rich they need not take theto man: "It is good to be rich, to bread from the mouths of others;be able to satisfy, at least, your but that the more rational outcomematerial needs; but the only means would be a society in which men,to be rich is to so train your mind with the work of their own handsand capacities as to be able to and intelligence, and by the aid ofcompel other men-slaves, serfs the machinery already inventedor wage-earners-a-to make these and to be invented, should them-riches for you. You have no selves create all imaginable riches.choice. Either vou must stand in Technics and science will not bethe ranks of the' peasants and the lagging behind if production takesartisans who, whatsoever econorn- such a direction. Guided byists and moralists may promise observation, analysis and experi-them in the future, are now period- ment they will answer all possibleically doomed to starve after each demands, They will reduce thebad crop or during their strikes, time which is necessary forand to be shot down by their own producing wealth to any desiredsons the moment they lose patience. amount, so as to leave to everyoneOr you must train your faculties so as much leisure as he or she mayas to be a military commander of ask for. They surely cannotthe masses, or to be accepted as one guarantee happiness, because happi-of the wheels of the governing ness depends as much, or even more,machinery of the State, or to upon the individual himself as uponbecome a manager of men in his surroundings. But theycommerce or industry." .: guarantee, at least,. the happiness

For many centuries there was tha~ can be f.ound m the f';lll andno other choice and men followed vaned exercise of the differentthat' advice, without finding in it' capacities of the human being, inhappiness, either for themselves worl~ that need ~ot be overwork,and their own children or for those and m the consciousness that onewhom they pretended'to preserve is no~ endeavouring to bas~ his ownfrom worse misfortunes. happiness upon the misery of

But modern knowledge has others. . .another issue to offer to thinking - Prince P. Kropotkin.

purchasing-power, whenever caused,inevitably falls sooner or later onthe poorer people.

Mr. Ward (Lab. N.S.W.) yield-ed to the demands of hisconstituents and demanded that areferendum should be held.

The Prime Minister, Mr.Lyons, told Mr. Ward that theGovernment had no intention ofholding a referendum.

Whether Australians want areferendum or the repeal of the bill(and they should unite on onepolicy if 'possible) they may beexpected to show Mr. Lyons thatthey have no intention of puttingup with a presumptuous andimpudent servant.

being consulted by referendum;and I am determined that if you,as my representative, fail to doyour utmost to have this un-democratic measure repealed Iwill do all in my power to causeyou to be replaced at the nextelections by a representative whowill truly represent the wishes ofhis electors."

Faced with this protest from anaroused democracy, the "boughtpress" of Australia is putting aboutall sorts of innuendoes. One papersays the leaflet-forms are subsid-ised by "large employers." This,of course, is an attempt to arouseLabour prejudice, and deliberatelyobscures the fact that loss of

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Such, indeed, is the methodquietly pursued by the man whocontributed to the success of thesocial credit stall in the GlasgowExhibition by his ingenious artistic [M, H. comments: "Mr. Munson"sposters. At his own expense he Manifesto, said that the .Money Quest~ohpays for a full page space in some had !loth1l1g to do with the. j'ewis. . Question. That these two questions are

likely Church or Chapel magazine interlocked in the public mind there canon an agreement that the lower be no dispute; and whether they becomehalf of the page may be used for detached or not depends on wh3;t isany other rational purpose than the found W'he~ the truth about the 1I1te:-

. national rmg of credit-controllers IStop half.. Such as the advertise- known to all. From all points of view,ment of THE SOGAL CRED- - - therefore, their exposure and disarmingis 'ITER as in the enclosed example. the one solution to both questions. A,s

for Mr. Munson's Negro and Sernitico-I am writing on this subject phobes, they make good debating po~nts

with a double object: (a) to hint for the second year 111 ~~e Oxford Union,that groups may think it worth but not outside, please. ]while to collaborate with a businessman (inside or outside the group)in the above manner, and (b) tosuggest that fraternally we shouldnot base our approbation on thebankers' art, but give creditabundantly when and where it isdue.

A Good IdeaDear Sir,

Unversed as I am in computingpercentages, I guess that about 90per cent of advertisers unload theircost on to the consumer, whilst theother ten oear it themselves. Ofthe latter, I wish to draw attentionto their services as propagandiststhrough the media of preparationfor definite purpose, such, forinstance, as taking a full pageadvertisement space in a churchmagazine, using half of it for yourown private business, and the otherhalf for the benefit of your cause-at-heart. In this way the hetero-suggestion of the advertisementbecomes in time the auto-suggestionof the reader and, all things beingequal, he feels impelled to join themovement. We might call this aninfant school training of the mindto eventually accept possible futurerealization of what the eye hasseen.

Downey: "May the light oflove link you to everlasting life!"How's that for alliteration?

Robert Steedman.

47, Rosewood Crescent,Newcastle-on-Tyne, 6.

American FieldDecember, 1938.

To the Editor,In your editorial of 26 Nov-

ember, ostensibly on the AmericanSocial Credit Movement, you askwhat will happen to AmericanSocial Crediters who defy theprevailing sentiment of theAmerican Social Credit Movementagainst attempts to intertwine theMoney Question with a racialquestion (Jewish is the instanceyou cite). The situation takes careof itself very easily. Persons withprejudices that may fairly bedescribed as anti-Semitic or Negro-phobic or the like usually feel veryuncomfortable in the society ofmen and women of liberal andhumane views-and quickly takethemselves off.

I am, etc.,. Gorham Munson,

General Secretary.American Social Credit Movement,66, Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y., U.S.A.

The. National DividendDear Sir,

Why is the National Dividendnever mentioned in THE SOCIALCREDITER?

Yours etc.,A. J. Abbey,

Gateacres,Lovibonds Avenue,Orpington, Kent.

[The conduct of the Electoral Campaignshowed that although people signified andagreed verbally that they wanted the

national dividend they had not behindtheir agreement the conviction necessaryto force the campaign through and toobtain the national dividend.

Experiment showed the conviction andbelief that they could attain their object-ive in the rates campaign, and theirconsequent willingness to work. Theresults of the rates campaign will be alocal dividend; the results of the old agepensions 'campaign will be a dividend forpart of our lives ... if people continueto apply pressure in the correct fashion.As soon as individuals realise their powerto obtain the national dividend we shallhelp them' in their object. But thepolicy niusi come from the people.-Ed.]

Work This Out"For there is something more

fundamental than personal liberty.That something is national inde-pendence."

Walter Lipman in the DailyTelegraph, January 7.

A. R. P.The report of a British

Engineer who has visited andexamined the Air Raid Precautionsat Barcelona, states that in -theearly stages of the Spanish Warthe measures adopted followed therecommendations of the BritishHome Office. These' were foundto be wholly inadequate to preservelife in the heavy raids experienced.The Barcelonians then evolved asystem of tunnels, some 40 feetdeep, under the roads and houses;the entrances being fOO yardsapart, and in the streets, Thisseems to have proved most effect-ive. The engineer 'stated that onone occasion during his visit 445heavy high explosive bombs weredropped on the city, but only twolives were lost.

These ideas could be adoptedto our cities for our safety. Nothingis lacking-except "finance."

READ~RS - WRITER:'Readers with the realist point ofview who have special knowledgeof any subject-science or art,trade, profession or industry, etc.,-and would submit articl'es on thissubject to THE SOCIAL CRED-ITER when called on to do so, areasked to write to Miles Hyatt, 4,Mecklenburgb' St., London, W,C.L

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BANGOR (County Down) D.S.C. Group.Meeting every Monday at 8 p.m., in theHeadquarters, 6Sb, Main Street, Bangor.Private sessions by arrangement. Visitthe reading room-keys from caretaker.All enquiries to Hon. Secretary.

BELFAST D.S.C. Group. Public meetingswill be held in the Social Credit Rooms,72, Ann Street, Belfast, on Thursdays at7-45 p.m. The meetings will be addressedby a different speaker each evening. Allwelcome. Admission Free.

BIRMINGHAM and District. SocialCrediters will find friends over tea andlight refreshments at Prince's Cafe,Temple Street, on Friday evenings, from6 p.m., in the King's Room.

BLACKBURN Social Credit Study Groupmeets each Tuesday at 8 p.m., .in theY.M.CA., Limbrick. All welcome. En-quiries to Hon, Sec., 47, Whalley New,Road, Blackburn.

BRADFORD United Democrats. All en-quiries .welcome; also helpers wanted.Apply R. J. Northin, 7, Centre Street,

l:}3radford.

DERBY & DISTRICT D.S.C. Movementis an active association, collecting signa-tures and distributing leaflets, pamphletsand printed matter in the area allottedfor that purpose. Headquarters for theabove is Brailsford Cafe, Green Lane.Meetings are held fortnightly at 8 p.m.Collections on behalf of S.C ExpansionFund. Organising Secretary: C H.Bosworth, 1, New Street, Derby.

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TYNESIDE Social Credit Society inviteco-operation to establish a local centre forSocial Credit action in all its aspects.Apply W. L. Page, 74-6, High WestStreet, Gateshead.

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UNITED RATEPAYERS' ADVISORYASSOCIATION. District Agent for New-castle-on-Tyne area, W. A. Barratt, 10,Warrington Road, Fawdon, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 3, will be pleased to assist anyoneon new Lower Rates Associations.

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