SOCIAL CREDIT. March 4, 1938

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ForWE live in the Power Age, wlthabllity to produce wealth enough for all.. This paper exists

to champion The People's right to proper distribution of this wealth; to declare the sub-servience of all financial and other instituticns to The People's will; andto demand the NationalDividends our country can' well afford, so thatall may enjoy the Plenty that is now possible.

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VoL 8. NO·4 Weekly TwopenceRegiltered at G.P.O .... a Newop&l*.Postage (home aDd abroacl) id- FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1938

PreventIncrease

RISE OF '4d. 'WAS'INEVIT ABLE_'-

20,000Rates

Answer ToThose, WhoWould Soak

The RichTH E annual report of the Inland, Revenue Department shows thatthere are 85 persons -with an annualincome of more than £100,000, 71with between £75,000 and £100,000,178 with between £50,000 and£75,000, and 526 with between I£30,000 and £5°,000. I

Those who believe in docking the irich as the cure for our economic Itroubles -wouid do well to calculate how II

much more each of the 40,000,000 oddinhabitants of Great Britain would get·per year if all these big incomes werepooled and redistributed equally.

It works out at about 30S.On the other side of the picture, out of

23Yz million sepal:ate incomes, no fewer than'5,900,000 are below the [ISO a year mark.Another 4,000,000 fall between [ISO and1.'250,and 2,700,000between [250 and [500.

This shows the immense gulf betweenpotential real wealth and actual financialwealth.

TICKETS, PLEASEA LIVERPOOL woman who escorted a

, .relative to Lime Street station for oneof the Sunday excursions to London foundon arrival at the station that all the platform-ticket machines were empty.

Eventuallv she discovered a ticket collec-tor who, by' a stroke of luck, had retained aused and crumpled ticket, which she gladlypurchased. "

Buying a Ca r?ERNESTSUTTONCan supply you with new orused cars for cash or credit.

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We do a large used car business andoften have real bargains at very lowprices. Everyone knows the luckymotorist who "picked It up" for £20.

It was probably at Ernest Sutton's

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Demand forms and posters were ready by

TURKEY-BRITAIN j the evening of Friday, February 18., Members of the Ratepayers' AssociationTRADE PACT went into t~le campaign whole-heartedly, and

. ' . , that evemng more than 250 volunteerTURK:EY IS a nch country, rroducmg workers, directed by Mr. W. J. Gibson, the

fruitsand other foo?stuffs which we in I Hon. Treasurer of the Association, assistedBri~in. wOl~ldgrea~ly enJoy, . I

Britain IS a nch country, producingmachinery for all sorts of productive pur-poses (factories, railways an~ so on) thatTurkey wants to undertake for the benefitof her people.

At the present tim: financial arr~ngem.e~Hsare being planned WIth the Turks by Britishbankers so that Britain may send machinerytv Turkey in return for Turkish exports toother countries than Britain.

This, of course, is ~'ery sensible; for is itnot a recognised aim of "sound finance" thatwe should strive to increase exports and keep Iour imparts down? All "sound-finance"countries try to do the same.

Perhaps it is a pity that this leads to strifebetween nations for export markets; butthere it is.

After sn.. we still have the League of I·

Nations, which is designed to police thesestriving nations. and punish a~1y~hat do nor Iobserve the rules of the financiers game.

By forcing, the withdrawal of an announced increase in ratesBelfast ratepayers have again 'shown how irresistible is the

force that comes from people acting together to get somethingthey all want.

In early February, immediately after a general election, the BelfastCorporation Finance Committee announced, that the rates would beincreased by 1Oid.

Members o{ the Belfast and Northern Ireland Rate and Tax Payers'Association organised a campaign to give those who actually paid therates a chance to instruct their representatives.

'Men W'iU LoseW'ork' Threat'

~ILE the Belfast electoratewere mobilising their will to

instruct their representatives onthe Council, a number of Coun-cillors publicly' stated that anyreduction of rates could only beeffected at the expense of the menemployed on various work schemes. ic

A reduction of 4d. would mean theloss of employment to 400 men,-and so on.

This had a dampening effect untilthe Associated ratepayers pointedout the colossal tribute paid awayas DEBT CHARGES! indicating,therefore, other ways of reducingrates without, reducing social services'and without sacking employees.

So the demand grew and grewand victory was with the PEOPLE,to whom the Lord Mayor gave theassurance (after the announcementhad been made that the 4d. increasehad been dropped), that NO ONE *would be thrown out of work, orthe social services interfered with.

*Every true democrat will cheerand give a salute to Mr. W. J.Gibson, as director of operations,to Mr. W. H. Leech, to Miss E. M.Leech, and the 250 volunteers whomobilised the pressure of 20,000electors in four days! Good werk !-and a winning way!

ThreatenedIn Belfast

'TOM MOORE"New Times"* Editor

Passes On

IN mid-February, Tom Moore wastransferred to headquarters.

This always opt-imistic, strapping, IrishAustralian blonde had quite remarkablebusiness experience before he became editorof the (Catholic) Advocate in Melbourne.Probably it was largely what he had learnedin business that enabled him to teach SocialCredit so remarkably. His versatility is amaz-ing. He does not believe that obstacles exist.They are a myth according to him.

Just before he left he said 'to me, "Every-thing is going fine. I am never discouraged.The' world around, things are coming outright."

In a rather wide circle of acquaintance withSocial C~~~!ters_in England. New Zealandand Australia, I have never known anyonewhose vision and judgment are clearer. Norany who better translate vision to worthwhileaction.

Writing Social Credit in the Advocate," '. .' Moore was soon involved in a fight with the

. This information was gIven to the local paper's management, which was beingpr~s.s and also t<_>the Northern Irelar:d pressed by the owners of the money swindle.

, edlt~ons of the J?azly Express and t~e Dazly Moore persisted in writing the truth, andA!c:d, all ~f which gave the campaIgn pub- at last, to be free, he had to leave. It waslicity, ThIS was on February 15· then that he started the New Times on a

Next day the Finance Committee sat, ' shoestring.and after considerable cutting and pruning Quickly he gained remarkable support,of the various departments' estimates 'and from then on wrote what he liked-andannounced that they could reduce the how he wrote, and lectured, and cajoled, andrates increase to 4d., but this was all that did the work of ten, the while he enthusedwas possible. so many others to help!

A full meeting of the Council was' to be He might have stayed here longer if hespecially convened for the following could have rested. But his vision would notWednesday; February 23, in order to let him rest. And how could he go on holi-

, CONFIRM the new rate of lOS. 4d. The day with his paper on a shoestring?calling of this special meeting was very 'When in business he had drawn largeunusual, as in the ordinary way the salaries. He could do so again any time thatFinance Committee's recommendation he would ignore his vision.would have been DEBATED at the follow- The money racketeers tried every way toing monthly meeting, which would have reach him; but he insisted on being- captainbeen March I. of his soul. I said, "Some big business will

get you one of these days." "Never," hesaid. "I have my 'children to think of. Noamount of money that I could get would beany real use to them, for the system wouldbeat them in the end."

Moore sees things clearly. Don't imaginethat he died in battle. He did not. "Hissoul goes marching on." He ',,';as promotedon the field. Tom Moore goes marching on,unhampered by earthly limitations.

(Contributed from Australia)

, The plan they adopted was similar to thatthey used successfully in November whenthey opposed the proposed expenditure of[100,000 on new officesfor the Belfast WaterCommissioners.

All ratepayers who opposed this risc irirates were asked to append their signaturesto a demand, directed to the Councillors,that no increase should be made.

PRESS'GAVEPUBLICITY

HOUSE ..TO..HOUSECANVASS

Continued,on Page 5• The New Times, published in Melbourne 'and

well known as a sturdy, protagonist of Social Credit.

HULL RATEPAYERS REVOLT,GOVERNMENT' CONTROL

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FACED with yet another rate increase, one section of HULL ratepayers, who at. present pay 19s. Sd. in the pound, have decided to approach the Government totake control of the city'S finances.

Five years ago the rate was liS. zd., and it has gone up steadily ever since, andthreatens to go up again.

No wonder ratepayers are in revolt; bu t have they any grounds for supposing thatthe government would pay more attention to their wishes than their local councillors?

.Both Members of Parliament and local councillors are representatives of the peopleand should be instructed as to the results to be obtained, but the local councillorsare more strictly concerned with local affairs, and, as well, they are more accessiblefor the application of pressure from their electors. It is more effective because theyare in close contact with the determination behind it.

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QUICKERNOTICE how the democratic

action for which we stand isspeeding up. It is less than twoyears since Major Douglas firstspoke about "that hole in the road."Early successes were small, but theyrapidly increased in number.

Then carne the Sheffield triumph lastautumn, when 50,000 people participated.Last week came Sir Kingsley Wood's re-valuation postponement, and now, right onits heels, comes the glorious victory atBelfast.

Every success in' turn has been won by indi-viduals working in, association - by

v individual brains, individual energy, anddonations (sometimes infinitesimally small)from the pockets of individuals:' ,

Behind each new drive stands the Secretariatguid~g, inspiring, teaching, quickening.Itself dependent upon individuals, theirpersonal abilities and support.

Our work is bearing fruit. Our pressure isbeing felt, and every success as it comes isbigger, broader" more exciting than theone before. And, think 'of it! -each oneis 'a further step towards the universalfreeing of mankind.

What a glorious process to take part in~ifonly to the extent of sparing a shilling ortwo a month.

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New Union for TransportWorkers

IN a pamphlet dealing with London bus-men and their conditions, the figures are

given that "for every two busmen who remainat work and reach- the retiring age of sixty-five there are five who die on the job and sixwho axe sacked through ill-health."

These busmen have been trying to get 'ashorter working day for two years; they'vearbitrated, and they've had a strike, but theyhaven't got what they want yet. Perhaps,this fact explains the forming of a new unionby some of those who were prominent duringthe strike and who are dissatisfied with theresults.

Membership of the new' union will berestricted to passenger transport workers.'

Just Like Frying Sprats!THE methods by which the Government

fool the public would be laughablewere the results not so tragic. We haveendless Meetings and Conferences, thenwe have sham-fights in the Commons.Well, what can you expect when ourservants are without instructions?

Behind all this tomfoolery and non-stop charade, Mr. Montagu Norman goesabout his secret peregrinations, and ifwe are lucky we get a cryptic note abouthis doings; he knows what he wantsall right!

Old Laotze, ab.out 500 B.C.; said thatthe State should be governed as one wouldfry sprats, Without making much fussabout it. Very true and wise remarks!

Now we, the Nation are the diners,and our job' is just to give orders to themaitre d'h6tel-Parliament-who in turnwill iss.ue instructions to the Kitchen-the experts and the Civil Service.

The whole business of Governmentshould be as simple as ordering yourdinner! Just have a look at the Elector'sMenu on the back page, and then see youget what you order!

Leisure for AmericansIN 1921 1621b.of fuel per mile was required

to move 1,000 tons of freight on the rail-ways of the U.S.A Fifteen years later, in1936,because of the improved efficiency of therailways, the same work was done with only119Ib., a saving of 27 per cent. The railwaysuse nearly a hundred million tons of coalannually, so this means 'a saving of nearly37 million tons of coal a year.

That ought to bring leisure to quite anumber of miners 'and others concerned inthe production and distribution of coaL Andit ought to bring down the cost of transport.Happy America! '

SOCIAL CREDIT" March 4, 1938

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your; newspapers-new significance

Who Is The Criminal?A N ex-officer, driven to crime by economic, compulsion, is reported to have been

cured of .his delinquency by psychologicaltreatment carried out by the Institute' f6,r theScientific Treatment of Delinquency. '

This ex-officer now finds himself strandedand without a job, and has been sorelyte~pted to resume his old' profession ofcnme.

Here are his own words (reported by theDaily Express): "What I want to know is,why trouble to give a crook the-best treat-ment science can offer, turn him out a newman, then leave him to crime or the river?"

There must be hundreds of cases similarto the above, where people are driven tocrime and despair because' an idiotic systemof rewards and punishments withholds ourheritage-National Dividends. Who is thegreater criminal?

The New ReligionTHE cocoa l?urnings i?- yves! Africa have

been carried out, It IS reported with ireligious fervour. ' ' ,

Th.e . usual "hus_h-~ush" procedure. of Hire Purchase Ubique !appomtmg a Commission has been put into ' .effect. WE all of us live on "Tick" nowadays.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore, Colonial Secretary, has ,~W~ a~e compelled to do so. Someappointed a Commission of three to "investi- have lhel~ incomes mortgaged for yearsgate the cocoa .position in West Africa." One ahead: Hue Purchase .has now come to beof the Commissioners is Mr. R. S. Thompson, one of ~~r greatest md_ustries. It is alla past chairman of the Rubber Trade Asso- prOOf posztwe of the chronic shortage of pur-ciation, and still a member of its committee. chasing power!. The business of whitewashing the restric- The Slu~ Clearance scheme is all working

non racket a~ the expense of the public is out accordmg to plan, debts a~e pil.ing uppart of. the ntual of the new religion of more and more, and everything m therestruc_nori-the "opiate" part. Very nice for Bankers' garden is lovely and spring-Iike]the pnests, of course, sea cruises=-first-class ' The latest stunt in the Hire ~urchaseac~om!ll0dati<in; banquets, and get paid for racket is t~at one l~,ca~council is preparing

.domg It. to ~ell,furniture on TIck"; according to theFree Press! Dazly ~xpress: '

THE restrictions and suppressions placed Fur~lture not excee~ing the value.?f [23

upon all the American newspapers by ma~-If the full counc.ll ~gree to the schemethe Money Power explain the large amount ~,-;-:-b,C:l.purchased by displaced slum-dwellersof space devoted to crimes of the underworld by; instalments spread .over one ~<> three

d I· I' . '. years.to scan a s mvo vmg petty cinema actresses I' '.. ' . '.'

?aseball players and minor politicians, t6, ~.mlmu.~ weekly mst~lment WIll be onemar;e fear_ures like comic strips, stamp col- .'sh:lll~g, nsmg to ~, maximum of .'is., to beleering, bndge, and cooking recipes. r . paid m advance with the rent.

Business interests and informed persons no:longer rely on the newspapers, which theynow regard as "dope" for the public. As' a~onseque~ce, there has been a phenomenalmcr~ase m the. number of specialised infer-matron and. pnvate news services, the exis-tence of which the general public is not everiaware.

Germany and EgyptECONOMIC compulsion drove Italy to

conquer Abyssinia at the cost of con-siderable bloodshed, which is certain torankle in the memory of Abyssinians forgenerations to come. '

Germany is under the same economic, necessity to seek export markets and spheresof influence, as long as the present blood-thirsty financial .conventions survive.

So far, Germany has been able to avoid,spilling blood while raising the mailed fist

of Colonial Demands. A nice little deal hasrecently been transacted with Egypt, whichwill at least help to augment the supply ofiron ore for her armaments, ready forArmageddon. .

An area of 300,000 acres of land in theneighbourhood of Assouan, Upper EgY1?t,famous for its huge dam, says the DmlyTelegraph, is about to be exploited by aGerman combine, it is learned in Cairo. Thearea is reported to be rich in iron ore.

The German combine, it is understood,'will pay the I Egyptian Government anamount equal to [6,000,000 in German goodsfor this concession,

Prepayment of Rates

HAS it ever struck you why it is thatrating authorities and water companies

are able to demand payment of their ratesin advance? They have sanction tosummons non-payers in a few days if theyso desire!

Did you get your wage and salary inadvance? And did you instruct yourservants in Parliament to give ratingauthorities sanction to summons you ifyou are unable to pay your rates in advance?

Perhaps you know that the Banker takesprior claim in all business debts, and nowthe rating authorities have practicallyprlor claim on your income! They havelegal sanction under the Rating andValuation Act, 1925 and the WaterworksClauses Act, ,1847. '

It is up to you to see that you do notallow any more of your liberties to befilched away. Just have a look at theElector's form on the back page and signup!

Glass Which Can Be, Sawn, Like Wood

A NEW material called "Plexiglas" is now, being made. It has the appearance of '

glass, but it can be sawn, bored, milled,carved and ground just like wood. At a tem-perature about that of boiling water itbecomes "malleable and can be shaped andblown just like ordinary celluloid.

It is perfectly transparent, but is lighterin weight than ordinary glass.' For thisreason it has been used with success for thewindows of the pilot'S or driver's seat in aero-planes, gliders and racing cars.

The principal ingredients for makingPlexiglas are wood and coal. First there isproduced a substance known as Plexigum,a species of refined resin capable of beingturned out in different degrees of hardness,the hardest one of which is made intoPlexiglas,

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And The Banker Just LaughsAt 'This Eternal .Fight

MIDDLE CLASS ,\7.' WORKING CLASS-____.of' free spectacles, dentures, doles and oldage pensions which he might have enjoyedhad he remained in the station in whichhe was bom?Ah, I have come upon the reason a little

later in the article."Parasites should be extruded." That, of'

course, explains everything.The upper classes scorn to be parasites, and

for this reason they are willing to sacrificeall the advantages of poverty.

Forgive me for indulging in sarcasm. I donot often yield to the temptation, but to-dayI found it irresistible.

But now I must get down to brass tacksand sift the truth from the lies in this article.

For there is a modicum of truth in it. Andhere it is.

*"WE must try to. recreate the

instinct of independence inthe breast of everybody. At present it seemsalmost extinct."

All must admit there is a good deal oftruth in this. Two hundred years ago anEnglishman had a far keener sense of respon-sibility and freedom than he has today.

Let us try, if we can, to find the, cause ofthis change of character. For it is a' change'of character, and a very serious one at, that. ,

In 1750 the population of England has:been estimated as only seven millions, no·more than the population of Greater Londonis today. The majority of these people wereengaged in agricultural work. "

There were many yeoman farmers,. livingon their own land, working very hard, per-haps, but enjoying a freedom which is quiteunknown today.

Not for them the burden of income tax,Milk Marketing Board regulations, orquotas. They would not have toleratedthem for one moment.Of course there were, in the larger towns,

districts of terrible poverty and disease, but

these were far less in extent than they aretoday.

ItIs probable that the really poor num-bered less than' half a million-not as now,when South London has been described as"the largest area of unbroken poverty of anycity in the world,"

first worked through the heat and fever ofthe day.

*THE following day, in' the same

paper was published a' "slash-ing attack on the middle classes," written bya man who understands no more about theproblem than his opponent.

Neither of them realise that mopey is onlytickets, that it has no value in itself, that itsonly use is to allow a proper share of goodsto be distributed to everyone from the greatpool which is owned by all, and that if therearen't enough tickets, the only sensible thingto do is to order the Bankers to see that thereare!

But the Banker stands in the background.He is laughing at the fight that is going onbetween the "haves" and "havenots." Whynot stop for a moment and give yourundivided attention to the man who has setyou against one another?

He is your real enemy - and unless youdiscover this pretty soon, it will be too late.For before long he will have you fightinglike two Kilkenny cats tied up by the tailsover a clothes line.

And the end of that will be death to thepair of you.

THE bitter struggle between the, "haves" and "have-nots," which

the bankers seem to enjoy so much,broke out with renewed violence in thecolumns of an evening paper the weekbefore last. .

This time it was a member of the middleclasses Who opened fire.

"It has been calculated," he' writes, "thaton an average, every working class family inthe land receives [12' annually from thecountry.

"Some of them are wrapped in cotton woolfrom the cradle to the grave. This aidbegins with maternity benefit and travels allthrough free milk and meals, education anddentures and spectacles and doles and oldage pensions and other advantages.

"If we heard of a law to compel a mechanicwith a wage of [4 to give lOS. a week to theunemployed, we should all be indignant.But look at a doctor.

"His fees may reach [1,000 per annum,but much of this sum is swallowed up in un-avoidable demands; he is heavily taxed forour social services.

"Formerly our people had a sturdy senseof their dignity and were ashamed to seekthe help of the State. But now we areswarming with Oliver Twists everlastinglyasking for more."

Dickens, thou should'st be living at thishour;

.For Bumble is not dead!

IN passing we pause toask why, if itis so advantageous to be poor, so

many of the "working classes" try to pushthemselves or their children up into theranks of the' black-coated workers?

Sir Kingsley Wood, for instance. Was nothe educated at an elementary school?

How comes it, then, that he has' beenwilling to relinquish the glorious prospect

*THE relentless process of whittlingdown the people's independence

began about 1750, with the gradual enclosureof the land.

All those yeomen farmers who could notprove their ownership by title deeds werecompelled to pay rent, and later when therents rose to double, many of them ceasedto be master men, and became labourers onthe farms of the large landowners.

This was the first part of the process-totake the land away from the people.

Then after 1800 the growth of manufac-tures attracted large numbers' of thecountry people to the towns. Here theybecame nothing but wage slaves, workinglong hours in miserable conditions forwages that would hardly keep body andsoul together. 'During the nineteenth century wonderful

progress was made in inventions and dis-coveries. As time went on the coming ofthe age of power meant that so much morework could be done by machinery that therewas less and less need for human 'labour,which became a drug in the market.,It must be recognised that this result is

absolutely inevitable., ',- You cannot have 'laho~ur-saving machineryand work for all. , '

TWO MUCH TININ view of the fall in the price of tin, the

directors of East Pool and Agar, Limited,have decided that tile pumps should be with-drawn and the mine dosed.

The International Tin Committee has justreducedthe tin quota for the second quarte!"of 1938 from 70 to 55 per cent. It IS esti-mated that this will restrict production from206,000 tons in 1937 to 142,000 tons iri 1938.

It is not that tin is not wanted-and allthe other things that are being restricted too--;-but that Reople have not the money to buywhat they 'want, and what they want to,and can, produce.

*THE process is now complete. Youhave large numbers of working

class people today who ,_possess nothingexcept a few shillings left .over from lastweek's wages, a few shabby clothes, and a few ...' ---------- _sticks of furniture.

They have been taught to consider them-selves of no value at all; except in so faras they can hold down a job, which isalways in process of being taken away fromthem by further advances in inventionsand discoveries.Pauperised, they are taught from the

cradle to the grave that all they have anyright to expect is State charity, which canonly be paid for by soaking the rich, and forwhich they must be duly grateful.

* *' *Did I say they possessed nothing? 'Rather

are they the heirs to untold riches,' wronglykept. from them by those very bankers whoare gleefully watching the fight between the"haves and havenots."

For those clever toilers of the .past, manyof them poor workmen, added their hard-won knowledge to, the great store. .whichexists today for all, and from which everyone of us should now be drawing a "Nation;;tlDividend." '

But only the bankers and their toadies arefree to draw from the well, and they 'keepeveryone else away by making them believethat the well is nearly empty, and that in anycase we don't deserve a drink unless we have

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Something· AboutSuccess

SUCCESS is the achieving of some-, thing you have set out to achieve.

It depends upon two things. First,a clear idea of what it is you want.Secondly, the right action to turn thatidea into reality.

If you act without knowing what youwant, the result of your action cannotbe called success, even if it leaves youquite satisfied.

Neither could it be called success if,after setting out to become famous as,say, an operatic Singer, you eventuallyarrived as a vaudeville star (howeverfamous).

NOW since we all want to befree, and because our daily

experience teaches us that shortageof money is a universal impediment toindividual freedom, most of us havecome to identify success with the"making of money."

Is it ?To the potential business magnate

the accumulation of money may wellconstitute success, because freedom,to that type of man, means power toexploit markets and influence the trendof commerce.

But most of us (fortunately) want tobe free in a more human way. Wewant to settle down in comfort andprivacy. We want to bring healthy

children into a safe world. We wantleisure to express ourselves in our ownway.

To realise these' very desirable. things, nearly everybody needs,

more money to spend, and those whocontrol the issue of money make ittheir business to see that the act of'getting it thwarts the objective., Check up among the people youknow. Is it not true that the men with"good jobs" are usually bound handand foot by their jobs?

The wor-ry of thei r work encroachesupon their leisure time. They have tobe careful not to express their thoughtstoo freely.

Their dress must "conform." Theymust not be seen in such and suchcompany. They simply must appear atthis and that function. They have tolive up to their station. They areharassed by rates, taxes and bills.

And, no less than the poorest,they are haunted by the threat of war.

NO. The kind of freedom thatwe all want can be attained

only through free money. ' Our objectivemust be a national dividend. All ouracts must be towards getting a nationaldividend.

And nothing short of a nationaldividend must satisfy us. W.W.

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Vol. 8. NO·4· Friday, March 4, 1938

FoundationsIT has been said of an Internationalist

that he loves to mind everybody else'sbusiness but his own. '

According to Scripture "the eyes of afool are on the ends of the earth."·

Such people form useful tools to theclever knaves whose design it is to divertpeople's attention elsewhere in order toperpetuate a crime on the spot unob-served.

To fix the attention of a potentialvictim ve.ry strongly somewhere elsc isone of the essential arts of the successfulpickpocket.

Hence our Government is preoccupiedlargely with "foreign affairs." So is the"Opposition" ! So is the "free" press.

Whatever bogey tales may be whisperedor printed concerning the alleged awfulgoings-on in Germany, Italy, Russia, orSpain, the Means Test is still operatingin England. ,

Our legislating Institution may besmirkingly labelled as the "Mother ofParliaments," but it proves unnaturally'callous to the children in our own country

. who do not get enough food.We have plenty of politicians who feel

strongly that they know what is good orbad for Continental Calmtries, but whochange, the subject at once if you are,naive enough to. mention in their hear-ing the ·"distressed areas" in our own .

, rountry.

THIS attitude of mind and the suddennecessity. .. to start spending

[1,5°0,000,000 on war defence measuresare not unrelated.

The easy process of "shut-eye" neverwas-and never will be-a way of escapefrom, reality.

Even the pacifists, with all their pro-testations as lovers of peace and goodwill,as haters of the savagery and horrors ofviolent war, never suggested, during thedepression of 193', for instance, that[1,5°0,000,000 should be spent in Englandon the ,arts of peace, such, as feedingadequately the hungry; and clothing

,those whose wages suddenly come to anend. '

They lifted their 'eyes from their ownstreet and fixed them on Geneva. Mean-while, "rationalisation," that, is, restric-tion and destruction, was legislated athome for our own affairs. ,

We continued to destroy milk, to throwfish back into the sea in England whileE~glish c?ildren had to do without .. Westill do. it, nor can we' blame Haler,Stalin, or Mussolini for these crimesagainst God' and .comrnon sense.

WE are told if this teal wealth, thiscontinual flow of goods and ser-

vices, is 'to be copiously released for ther ends of, consumption, for the nurture of

human life' and the satisfaction of'common individuals, the money systemwill fall to pieces, the money-creators'and money-changers' figures will get allmixed up. '

And to avert such a disaster, we must~tarve in the ~idst of plenty, lose ourmdependence, live continually under arule of fear, and finally face the ultimatesacrifice of violent death in a war.

That is the issue we have to face if' wetake our eyes from the ends of the earthand take a straight look at the affairs ofour own home.

TO rail at the devil-to point theaccusing finger at some other body

somewhere else-produces the illusion ofself-righteousness, but it is only illusion.. Righteousness and reality begins withpersonal and positive action, and far frombeing a world problem, or even a nationalone, it is by nature intensely local, as isalso its sphere of application.

Here is the beginning of wisdom, andin personal responsibility and local actiononly can the foundations of a better order ,(a better world) be laid.

It PassesCHRISTIAN

THE same Chid Priest, preaching' comes from Scandinavia, where, since thein the City on the subject "Can visit of the Group, thousands of pounds of

We Be Christians in Business?" said the income-tax which had been withheld has'

MANY of us who have had a I answer was, "Yes, if we are prepared to be been voluntarily paid. in to the Treasuries.Christian upbringing have felt happy abo~lt it ~f son~eone else gets the So now we see the meaning of "It"is the

this for some time and especially since I order: .. r~valry m busll1es~ was one of tl~e men you must change, not the system -youI . bi· hibi . f th ways m which the b,~st service to the public must cha.ng~ the men to fit the system.. even

the revo ~ll1g pu .1C ex 1. ition ? e could be assured.' (Evemng Standard, though It IS the maddest, most hideous~ype of.mind associated With.Christian- I February 7.) , . system eyer yet devised by men!ity which occurred at the time of theabdication; but we have not dared tosay so,

Others will merely have been shocked bythese provocative words of Major Douglas,which were printed in last week's numberat the end of an article protesting againstthe recent sentences passed upon the Mayfairrobbers, To these some further justificationmay seem necessary.

There are, we know well, in all branchesof the Church groups of men and womenwho arc not afraid of facing the truth; butthey do not form the bulk of what passes forChristian opinion.

"As f01' the word 'Christian,' it will soonacquire fresh virtue as an emetic."

,by----.C. G. DOBBS I

What do YOll think about that-bearingin mind (I) what happens to those men(and their families) who lose orders inbusiness, and (2) that .an Archbishop is notsubject to competition?

*BEVERLEY NICHOLS, in his bookThe Fool Hath! Said writes, "It is

the 'men we must change, not the system."

MPLE A· hbisho -of York Before quarrelling with that, let us see whatDR. TE ,rc p.. ' he means:on February 18 told University. . ,

d . L ed hat t hoo e a career' He descnbes the effect-of the Oxford Gl"OUpstu ents at est at a c s c ' "h bb li 1'· . h f h( I .).c the purpose of on a say Itt e man wit one 0 t eamong at rer motives ror ents vou ever heard."... strongest Cockney accents you ever hear .secunng an adequate income was wrong. "H' lli bo hi lif . h h. e IS te ng a ut IS I ewit a c arm-

It w~s a selfish mouv~: and to .choose a ing racy humour ...career fr?m a selfi~h monve was a sm. (From :'He met the Group. There are still twoa report III the Dm:ly Telegraph, February 19') rooms in the .same tenement. Still five chil-

This iI?plies that to seek to fulfil. the com- dren. He is still unemployed. There is stillmon desires of men-to eat and dn~k, to .be illness. But now they are the sons of God.c~ot~ed and housed decently, ~o hve WIth 'He ends up by a plea, 'You could' be asdig!llty, to mate an~ to have children, all of . 'appy as we are, if you want.''' 'which ca~ be ob~am~d only through an, Can you stand any more? .Here it is:adequate mcome, IS sinful, "At this meeting a message is read out

If the speaker had been a haggard ascetic, 'from the Prime Minister of Canada to the,under vo~vsof povert.y an~ celibacy, we ~ould effect .t?-at Canada is easier to ~o~ern sincerespect him for holding sincerely a tragically the VISitS of the Oxford' Group.' Amongfalse belief, but coming .from. a plump mar- .other reasons because men undergoing longried prelate with a gross income of [9,000"a sentences of solitary confinement have beenyear-there is about it something emetic, made happy and peaceful!don't you think? "The most remarkable evidence of all"

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SOCIAL CREDIT, March 4, 1938

ForOpinion

*LAST December a group of sixeminent Anglicans submitted a

memorial recommending "voluntary" celi-bacy for newly-ordained clergy, to the Arch-bishops of Canterbury, York, and Wales.

"The Archbishop of Canterbury, acknow-ledging the memorial, writes: 'We fullyrealise the importance of the proposal andare agreed in thinking that such a schememight be of real value.''' (I quote from theDm'ly Telegraph, December '9, 1937-myemphasis.)

"The signatories to the memorial are .alllaymen. They have especially confinedthemselves, in large measure, to the financialside of the question."

"They suggest that the attention Mordinands in theological colleges should' becalled to the great need for unmarried clergy,and that they should be invited to considerwhether they may not have a true vocationto remain unmarried."

*IT remains only to add that the sig-natories are all "comfortably off,"

four of them being peers of the realm.The purpose of this article, however; is

not to invite you to condemn them, for thereis no reason to suppose that many of' uswould do better in' their position, but', topoint out the depths' of nauseating self-deception which' has to be' practised' byanyone who wishes to maintain, a positionof wealth or importance in a .world in whichthere is an undoubted monopoly of the issueof "licences to live." .' .:

--ALBE'R TA "HOME,S' ·,. flimsy shelters constructed of old packing material and containing a cheap stove kept at red

heat in the winter can be seen in many parts of the Province, housing a man, his 7.vife, and small children.even the most primitive sanitary arrangements be'ing lacking. Cases, of such cabins catching fire in amging blizzard are f1'equent, and the hardship which attends such existences is barbaric. The conditionsof labour upon the primitive farms (not to be confused with the well-developed homesteads 7.vhichcan alsobe seen in themore settled portions of the Province) are inhuman ...

-"The Alberta Experiment," by C. H. Douglas

HOWDY, folks. Bein' winter-,time out here in Alberta makes

us all think of fires. You see, although.we have all the stuff necessary to build,fireproof homes, few of our homes arefireproof.

This is not because we don't know howto build 'em so's they won't catch fire, nor'because we haven't got enough men to do;the work. We've got every thin' but the piecesof paper we call money.

Seems to me we can set to an' make, all;the money we;want, can't we? If them fcllers .who make.it know how to mix up the ragsan' little bits of coloured stuff that makesthem queer lines in it, knows how, why don't'we hire 'em to make the stuff for us?

I think they would as soon work for youan' me as fer them there pot-bellied, cigar-smokin' gents.

I thinks, too, thet a good picture of anOld Cow Hand like me, fer instance (I kinpose pretty good if I'm a mind to), wouldlook jest as good on our money as the pictureof one of them President fellers they all haveat the head of the banks .

BUT that didn't bother Jim andMargaret. No, folks. Them two

fell in love with one another. Jim, he putshis arm around Margaret's waist one evenin'about dusk, an' for fear he wus a-goin' totickle her in the ribs, she holds onto hishand, gentle like.

Story by An 'Ole Cow HandHe puts his face as close to hers as he

dare an' says, says he, "Margaret, I lovesyou.", But she didn't say nothin'. I guessshe was thinkin' pretty hard, an' wonderin'what else he was goin' to say.

Then he tells her how he was goin' towork for a farmer (about four miles from,here) an' how he had planned .to use an oldg.ranary for a house, "just for the time bein'till we get a farm of our own."

I don't know how long they whispered toone another, but if they kept it up, as longas I did when, my young heart was a-fluttesin'an' a-thumpin' an" missin' beats, I guess itmust a' bin well on past midnight.

WELL, folks" Jim an' Margaret, got. married an' most of us went to

the weddin' dance that was held in a big baman' had a whale of a time., Old Bruce was there with his fiddle and hc

called the square dances. He's the bestcaller we got in this neighbourhood. I'll haveto tell yO)l about him sometime.

It didn't seem no time at all before Mar-garet had a baby boy. But time soon flies,a year has gone before we know it. That iswhy we shouldn't lose no time about thisSocial Credit business. Your kids will begrowed up an' askin' you "What did you doto help win the war for humanity, Daddy?"An' what will you say? Maybe you will haveto lie to save your face,

Margaret loved this little mite, all her veryown. It was more than any doll she ever had.She still had one of her dolls, too" for she

was only a kid herself, but the doll gOt leftin an old box under the bed.

This wee baby was such a darlin' thing iiii'now it was able to make funny little goo-goosounds an' smile too: But Margaret wasonly a kid an' she had' a lot to learn aboutshacks an' fire an' what not.

SHE had outside work to do as well.for by that' means she could get

a few. pieces of paper with the picture of oneof them President fellers on" it an' othermarks. an' by savin' them up she hoped tobuy a cot for the baby to take the place ofthe apple box it was now in. Well, folks, itain't to my Iikin' to tell you this, but whenMargaret looked back towards that shack,she stood stock still for a moment. '

It was all in flames. Then she ran to it,an', well, they pulled her out of it an' savedher, but they couldn't save that wee mitein the apple box.

I'll tell you" folks, can you blame us if wegit good an' mad at these moneY'monopo-lists fer makin' moncy an' then claimin' thewealth we create for the use of a little of it?

1£ we can't make this money for ourselvesas we need it, we deserve to bum an' sendour boys to killin' other folks' boys 'jestbecause we can't get enough of this 'eremoney from the bankers to buy what we canproduce ourselves, and so have to ship it outto other folks who can't buy what they pro-duce themselves. '

Time we got that outlaw into a corral,seems to me. So long, folks.

SOCIAL CREDIT. March 4, 1938

----------------*Every week this page isdevoted to news of 'local.bjectives' - pressu re bypeople Icting in associationto get what they wanl fromlocal councils and olherbodies who' should serve

them.* SURREYCONFERENCE:

RATESACTION

A BOUT thirty Social Crediters from sur-rounding districts took part in a most

successful and stimulating conference atWimbledon on February 26.

Mr. John Mitchell, who called the conf~r-ence, took the chair, and opened the meeting"which was for the purpose of deciding whataction was to take place with regard to therates in Surrey. Mr. Edward Hewlettopened his talk by saying how pleased hewas to see so many people keen to get onthe job, and then gave a resume of the theoryof Local Objectives, which he said Dr. TudorJones had defined as "People united in asso-ciation for the purpose of getting results."

He offered helpful .~uggestions as to howL.O.s can be and have been successful, andgave definite proof from newspapers that thepeople of. Great Britain and Ireland reallyare demanding and getting, and that theaccount of Sheffield's 50,000 and the like is

.not just a big leg-pull on his part!" He .spoke, too,« of the Secretariat, definingit as a staff to advise and help, and not-there,

'as some people might imagine, to say "Dothis" and "Do that." He concluded his talkby saying, "If we really want our SocialCredit, NOW IS THE TIME. There is nodoubt about it."

Questions and a short account on L.O.sin the East End of London from Mr. Keith

.Catmur concluded the first half.

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Belfast Rate A~tion Continued from Page One

ALDERMEN TALK OFBEING 'STAMPEDED'

bv Miss E. M. Leech. launched a house-to-h~use canvass. .

Meanwhile, letters were written to thepress and to City Councillors, the latterbeing instructed to make a point of attend-ing the special meeting called on February ,23, and there to VOTE AGAINST anyincrease whatever.

AND LEEDSA C. WARDLE, of Liverpool (vice-chairman of Liverpool Ratepayers' Associations)

• is indefatigable in his leadership of Liverpool people against the despotism ofmunicipal taxation. I

It.is a pity, however, that he spends his energy on a petition to Parliament andto the King. Does he refer to free-born, democratic, vote-endowed Englishmen whenhe says "they had only one step left-apetition to Parliament and the King"?

Members of Parliament and of town and county councils are our elected representa-tives, and we can see not the least necessity to plead with th.em. If they do not obtainthe results that the majority of their electors want-they should get the sack.

THE Leeds County Council have a pretty habit of sending, instead of the usual finaldemand note for rates, a summons for the balance of rates due, together with the

cost of the summons! ' ',Th.ere al.so appears to.~)e some discrirnin ation in the. way these. things are.don.e,-.the

hard-up householder receives a summons, but the business man m a chromium-platedoffice has a nice sleek final demand note ... Insult to injury!

School Demands ... RoadDemand .. '. Farmers'

Demand

tures were lodged with the Town Clerk, andthe press continued to give publicity.

On Wednesday, February 23, the CityCouncil sat, and after heated discussionannounced that they had been able to cancelthe proposed i~lcrease. o~ ~d.. in th~ rate,without appreciably diminishing social ser-vices rendered.

. At this Council Meeting some of the Coun-The Lord Mayor of Belfast, sho~mg s?me cillors appeared to get angry at the expression

concern at the outcry that ,,:as bemg: raIsed: of publi~ opinion. Alderman T. ~enderson,then called a further spe.Clal m~etmg f~>I M.P., said that "they were allowmg them-Monday, February 21. ThIS meetmg was 111 selves to be stampeded by a lot of men whocommittee, and the press were excluded. did not count," and Councillor S. B.

The campaign progressed rapidly. House- !h?mpson referred to tl;e Ass?ci~tio~ asto-house canvassing for signatures to the this so-called Ratepayers Association,form was.continued: signatures were collected The Association immediately took themin the main streets of Belfast, letters were to task in the local press, pointing out thatwritten to the press and postcards to the the Association was composed of electorsCouncil members. and ratepayers from whom they solicited

Each morning many thousands of signa-, votes, and further that it was their duty

Association MoveAfter an enjoyable tea, during which

Social Crediter talked to Social Crediter andstories of L.O.s flew thick and fast, the realbusiness of the day was discusse~.

Definite ACTION was decided UPOl! inthe forming of a "Surrey No Rates RiseAssociation," Captain Philipson Moss, ofWoking, agreeing to be the centre and toget into touch with the Ratepayers' Asso-

.,eiations of Susrey,Distribution of leaflets and posters was

discussed (Sheffield becoming even morefamous l), ,and everyone was asked to writeat least one letter to the press every weekon .the rates question, the feeling being thatbombardment is a large part of action.

Votes of thanks were passed to Miss P.Ball for lending her flat and preparing thetea; and to the speakers,

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AT BROSELEY (Shropshire) parents of. children at the Church Schools are

protesting at the proposed removal of allchildren over II to a new school to be builtat Wenlock, where they would be taken bybus every day.

The parents want the school at Broseleyto be enlarged, or new ones to be built.. Ifthe children arc sent to Wenlock they willmiss all the recreation, etc., in the eveningwhich will be arranged for the others,

The rector of the parish and the schoolmanagers are backing the people up intheir demand for a new school.

* jA SIMILAR problem has- reached a

more acute stage of a school strikeat HOL WICK - IN - TEESDALE, andparents, who refuse to allow their childrento attend Mickleton School, five milesaway, have received summonses issued byNorth Riding Yorkshire Education Com-mittee.

At a public meeting held by the villagersthe parents decided to continue the fight,and a fund was opened for their defence.

Up to the present the motor-bus providedto take the children to Mickleton has runempty.

*THE Falloden Way Safety Committee,

the Association of HAlVlPSr.fEADresidents who have obtained a 30 m.p.h.speed limit on a dangerous stretch of Fallo-den Way, are advising the Golders GreenEstate Ratepayers' Association on how toobtain safer traffic conditions alongHendon Way.

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It will be remembered that the FallodenWay Committe used a truly democraticmethod with a very successful result.

*FARMERS'in the EPPING district pro-

tested against a Government scheme, to close the local market.

It was stated that stock would have tobe taken 15 or 20 miles to another market.One speaker said: "Without a marketEpping would ..benothing,' It was-decidedto organise a petition.

Why a petition? The Government con-sists of people elected and paid to represt:;ntelectors. Would it not be a good plan toinstruct them as to the results they arerequired to obtain?

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as representatives: of the ratepayers to carryout the clearly expressed wishes of thelatter.

As over 20,000 Belfast ratepayersDEMANDED no increase in rates thecorrect position must manifestly be clearto these representatives. ,So from Friday night to Wednesday

morning, and excluding Sunday, 20,000Belfast' ratepayers expressed their wisheswith regard to rates.

In a week the Council had found ways ofavoiding the increase previously said to beunavoidable. They had been compelled todo so by pre sure applied by the ratepayers.

The Belfast News Letter remarks that.while the avoidance of a 4d. increase in rateis satisfactory, far more important is it thatthe rate-paying community should realisethat it need not be the plaything of the CityCouncil. .

"Hitherto it has been content to talk aboutcivic extravagance and then, dismissing theCouncil as an incorrigible body, bear itsburden with such philosophy, as it couldmuster.

"Now that public ot:.inion has asserteditself, we hope that it wzll continue to do so."

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BEACON. Monthly. 5 cents.The Official Organ of the Society forthe Advancement of Economic Security -,175 -King St., Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada.

THE LIBERATOR. Monthly. 5 centsa copy. 50 c. 'a year.Social Credit Vague of Sriti$h Columbia,6Jij BUTTqrdSt., Vancouver.

MONEY. Monthly. 2. cents, 25. 6d. perannum, PQ;!t free.170 Fifth Ave., New York, U.S.A.

The NEW ERA. Illustrated. Weekly.3d. 125. per annum, post free.Radio House, 296 Pitt St., Sydney,N.S:W., Australia .

The NEW TIMES. Weekly. 3d. ISS.per annum, post free.The New Times Publishing Co. Lt I.,Box 1.226. G.P.O., Melbourne, Australia.

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Announcements C1 Meeting.A II London Residents and Visitors are welcome a

the Social Credit Rendezvous, . ]63A, StrandW.C.z (entrance in Strand Lane, close to AldwycStation). Open meetings. '

Thursday, March ]0, 8 p.m., Mr. Dudley Shor"Hail, Heterodoxy."

Wednesday, March o. 6.30 p.m., Mr. F. G. Feathe"Man v. Machine" (for beginners). '

Bangor (Co. Down) Social Credit Group, 65b, MaiStreet, Bangor, open from 3 till 10 p.m. ever

day. Public Meetings: Every Wednesday at 7.4p.m. Reading Room: Social Credit literature available. Whist Drives: Every Thursday at 7.45 p.mTickets IS. Meetings in the afternoons. Refreshments. Bring your friends.

Belf,ast D.S.C. Group. Public discussion circle, every Thursday evening, 7.45. Monthly group

meetings first Tuesday of every, month confined tomembers. Come plenty and come often. There ialways work to be, done for the cause, especially ondistribution of "The Voice of Ulster."

Birkenhead Social Credit Association. Enquiries tothe Hon. Secretary, 16, Tilstock Crescent; Pren

ton, Birkenhead. Phone B'head 4405.

Birmingham and District. Social Crediters will findfriends over tea and light refreshments a

Princes Cafe, Temple Street, on Friday eveningsfrom 6 p.m. in the King's Room.

Blacl<bum Social Credit Study Group meets eachTuesday at 8 p.m. in the Y.M.C.A., Limbrick

All welcome, Enquiries to Hon. Sec., 47, WhalleyNew Road, Blackburn. ..

Bradford United. Democrats. All enquiries weIcome; also helpers wanted. Apply, R. J

Northin, 7, Centre Street, Bradford.

Brighton and Hove D.S.C. Group (Peacehaven._ Sub-Group). Meetings at "Skyros," EdithAvenue South, Peacehaven, fortnightly, at 7.45 p.mNext meeting, Tuesday, March 15.

cardiff Social Credit Association. A weekly busi" ness meeting is held on Wednesdays at 8zBridge Street, at 7.30 p.m. Information given toworkers and enquirers. Hon. Sec., R. W. HannagenThe Grove, Groveland Road, Birchgrove, Cardiff.

Farnham Social Credit Group. Public meetings at.8" p.m. every Tuesday in The Institute, South

Street. Lectures and discussion. Inquirers wekome

Hastings D.S.C. Group. Monday, March 7, at 7.30p.m. in the Unitarian Church, Major Thomson

will speak on "The Only Kind of Freedom ThatMatters." All welcome. Questions. Admissionfree.

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THE political situation would be a comedy, did it nor containelements of tragedy, for we have sincere, even passionate,

reformers ignoring, or even attacking the Alberta Government,the one real reform government in Canada, or even in the world.

The Alberta Government is dedicated to.the most fundamentalof all reforms, it needs (and deserves) the support of all reformersfor, its success, and yet many such, includmg former Federaland Provincial members, who once advocated these very reforms,are ro be seen and heard in the ranks of its declared enemies.

I have some knowledge of Ottawa and of Edmonton, andthe way to. the former is via the latter. The, enemy knows this,hence the B.N.A. Act is to be altered to. block the way.

The real fight is in Alberta, and on the result hangs: the fateof reform elsewhere. The fight is not, and never has been, inOttawa, and never will be if we are beaten in Alberta.

WE cannot control the. enemy's headquarters until we, capture his trenches and outposts, Ottawa is in

no danger SD long as the "Provincial Line" holds,Then there are those who insist there is only one narrow road

to reform-via methods, their Qwn-whQ thus mistake the meansfor the end.

Now, a majority of Albertans have chosen a broad, straighthighway, which has been widened until it is capable of bearingall possible traffic upon it. It is the Road to Results. Thereare no "hedges," or Qther restrictions. .

To. travel along this highway we do not need party badges,nor need we' worry about the passPQrts of our fellow travellers.All have the right to. travel on it and all are headed for thesame destination-Results. '

IF we fail to take this broad highway to Results, we findourselves in a maze of methods, travelling in all

directions, leading nowhere but in circles and ending in confusionand defeat.

SOCIAL ,CREDIT, M_arch4, 1938·

Broad, HighwayTo ·Results

The Crimeof

ProductionA CORRESPONDENT writing to The

Times said:"During the Great War every country

engaged in hostilities both encouraged andpressed the cultivation of the POotatQto. thelimit, and it is quite certain, if trouble comesagain, that the same conditions will ariseWhat, however, is our position today? Thepolicy of the Potato Board is definitely torestrict production, and any new grower willfind the greatest difficulty in obtaining alicence to plant more than two. acres, whichis a quite uneconomic unit; furthermore, thepenalties for infringing the regulations areexceedingly heavy. In view of die serious-ness of the position, and the heavy expendi-ture which manY' of yQur correspondentsseem to consider necessary, it seems strangethat the restrictions on potato. growing shouldbe enforced so strictly.

"I would point out that the potato can bestored, given reasonable conditions, for quiteong periods, and at a minimum cost. Theres no.question of costly and vulnerable storageat the ports, or difficulties of distribution to:be taken into account. It would appear,he.refore, that, if the situation is reallyerious, instead of it being the policy of the

Government to restrict the production ofhe potatOo,every effort should,' be made toncrease it."

Parliament without clear instructions fromhe people is an insane body.

To,Ottawa

viaEdmonton

All of us can agree about results=economic security plusindividual freedom. Relatively' few of us can agree aboutmethods, nor ever will, so until we fQrget methods and unitefor results, we cannot hope to gain our objectives,

The Social Credit Party in Alberta is committed to obtainresults. It has an open mind about methods. Why fight aboutmethods? If we obtain the desired results, the methods mustbe right.

If we fail, the methods must be wrong and they can bechanged until the desired results are obtained-provided sufficient,and sustained, pressure is exerted by the people on the govern-ment.

This is dictatorship-s-by the people. The orlly alter~atiie isdictatorship by the vested interests, who fully understand theprinciple of demanding results-and thus obtain them.

There is no. alternative. If we really desire dictatorship bythe people-democracy-we must forget methods and demandresults. If we desire Fascism, dictatorship by "vested interests,"forget results and demand methods.

IN reality Alberta has the only truly democratic Govern-ment in the world, hence the bitter opposition to it. '

It pledges, itself to obtain the results which the people demand,provided they apply sufficient pressure and supply the neededsupport. In other words, the people are being taught to controltheir government. "When we learn this lesson we will have true

2. democracy. When our will prevails in the provinces, we will, be in a position to. impost our will on Ottawa, and not before;

NORMAN JAQUES, M.P."in a letter to the Albertan, January I I, 1938.

ENGLAND,HOME AND-CORRUGATED:IRON

THE Duke of Gloucester, when, addressing the GloucestershireSociety in London, criticised the.Infertor buildings erected in the,past twenty years.

The Duke said that as far asGloucestershire is concerned, muchhad been saved, but Oonthe Qtherhand much had been lost.

Woods had been ruthlessly razedand not re-planted, stone roofsreplaced by corrugated iron; beau-tiful old cottages had been pulleddown, when they might have beenreconditioned and made habitable.

"I fear that the balance may begrowing on the wrong side. Ourown carelessness and apathy havebeen very largely to blame in thepast. "-Daily !elegraph report.

Improvise NationalDividends Now!

Liverpool Social Credit Association. Hon. Secretary. Miss D. M. Roberts, "Greengates," HillsideDrive, Woolton. Four Public Lectures (Free) wilIte held in the University on alternate Fridays:March II, Mr. R. L. Northridge; March z5, Mr. ROakley; April 8,' Dr. Tudor Jones. All at 8 p.mpromptly. Let everybody know.

N'atlonalDivldend Club. Help of all members mos, urgently needed every Thursday, any time:

between 5 and 8, p:m., Social Credit Rend~zvous.

N"wcastle-on-Tyne. ,A public meeting will be held, in the Y.M.C.A., Blacket Street, on Saturday

March 5, at i30 p.m, Speaker: Lt.-Colonel JCreagh-Scott. Subject: "The Profanity of RepressedProgress," Chairman: Dr. G. A. Smart. A posteparade will also be held on this date to which alSocial Crediters are invited to help. Start from Big,Market at 4 p.m. Objective: To advertise the abovmeeting and also the victory of the Public's nincrease of assessments demand.

N'W" London. ' Contacts meet at 14: Richmon, Gardens, Hendon Central. 'Phone for particulars, HEN. 3151.poole and Parkstone Group. Every Friday, 7 p.m

The Studio, Hermitage Road, ParkstonInquirers welcome. SOCIAL CREDITon Sale at Y;. HSmith & Son, The Square, Bournemouth; Walker &Witterat, Post Office, Parade, Parkstone; and C. TSnook & Son, Poole.portsmouth Douglas Social Credit Group, Pleas

note in future our meetings will lie held eacTHURSDAY, 8 p.m.' 16, St.'Ursula Grove, South seaAll welcome; discussion; questions; 'admission free

southampton Group. Public meetings everyTuesday at 7.30 p.m. for lectures and discussion

'Advisory Council Meetings (open to all members7,30 p.m. first Friday of each month.-2, London

'Road; ,

Stockton-on- Tees Social Credit Association. Lt.-ColJ. Creagh-Scott will address .a public meeting

'in Sparks' Cafe, High' Street, Stockton, on Friday,March 4, at 7.30 'p.m. , Subject: "Humanity ofSocial Credit."" Admi~sion IS.Stoke-on-Trent., Will anyone interested in Social

Credit please communicate with Miss F. Dixon"Linden." Brownhills, Tunstall? '

sutton Coldfield S.C. Group.' Next meetingFriday, March 4, in Central High Schools

Victoria Road. DisclJ,s,sion. All'are welcome.

Tyneside Social Credit Society invite co-operationte establish a local centre for Social Credit

action in all its aspects, .Apply, W. L. Page, 74-6,Hizh "Vest Street, Oateshead,

Wal1send Group. Those willing to assist in Lower, Rates Campaign please communicate with G. M.

'Musson, z3, Queen's Crescent, Wallsend-on-Tyne.

wallasey Social Credit Association. Public Meet-ings first Tuesdav in each month: at the

Sandrock Hotel, New Brighton (Rowson Streetentrance) at 8 p.m. Enquiries to Hon. Sec .. ~Empress Road. Wallasey.

walverhampton D.S.C. Group. Fortnightly meet-_ings in the Ante-Room. Central Library. Next

meeting. Tuesday, March 15, at 8 p.m.

Miscellaneous NoticesRate IS. a line. Support OUT advertisers.

READINGW ILL all Social Crediters living near or around

Reading please take note that SOCIALCREDITis sold there between 10 a .m. and I p.m. onSaturdays, opposite Woolworths, Broad Street?Helpers welcomed.

Swindon. March 5, at 6 p.m., under the auspicesof the W.E.A., at Euclid Street Secondary

School, Mr. G. Hickling will speak on "SocialCredit." All welcome.

THE British people were described as anation of Improvisers by General Sir

Edmund Ironside, General Officer Command-ing-in-Chief, Eastern Command, says theDaily Telegraph. .'

When we cease being mugs and demandNational Dividends through our representa-tives in Parliament, the experts will haveno. difficulty in doing a little more improvisa-tion to implement Qur will. ' '

Lines of COllllllunicationTHERE can be no real association without communication, and the lines of C01n-

, munication. are most important in the task of getting what we want in association.One line of communication is our paper, SOCIAL CREDIT, and this should be increas-

ingly used by Social Crediters to inform their friends and acquaintances of what isgoing on. .-

In former times letter writing was a highly developed art. Today mass propa-gan.da ot select-ed and comparatively unimportant events, broadcast in :<;;ewspaYpersandwireless, have taken the, place of the pleasant gossip which used to be conveyed byletters.

To be correctly informed is more important than ever in English-speaking countries,and in what better way can we strengthen the ties of friendship than telling our friendsthe truth by sending copies oi SOCIAL CREDIf tv them periodica.zzy?

Friendships are dropped, people we like are lost sight of, because we have no timeto write. Why not preseroe and strengthen the bonds of sincere rega:rd? It costs butone penny more to post a copy of SOCIAL CREDIT than to pOS'ta letter. ' You will evensave a penny if yo,u post your own copy aiter reading it. .

Now get out your address book and begin straigh; away.

SHADOWIMAGE. OF'ANCIENT

EGYPTHERE in England, the fourth shadow"

image of ancient Egypt is dominant:an intense belief that the masses of thepeople must be prevented at all costs fromattaining freedom of action, and full indi-viduality.

For nearly two centuries English policy,foreign and domestic, has been steadilydirected towards the keeping' of societydivided into two main orders, a smallQligarchy and a vast proletariat, directly,dependent of subsistence on a wage system.rigorously controlled from the centre. .'

Our monarchy and our native feudalaristocracy have long been drained :ofpower; they are ornaments, traps and baitsfor the naive ambitions of the simple richand the innocent devotion Df the simplepoor.,

War has never been an object of worshipin England; Shakespeare's treatment ofHotspur and Falstaff, and his picture of thecommon soldiers in Henry V., are brilliantsatires of "war for war's sake." ,

Britain may indeed be accused of us~a jargon which suggests belief in a divinemission to rule the earth. But Englandwas, and still is, insular and local in feel-ing; her best citizens, while they are fullyaware of their country's potential spiritualpDwer, know instinctively that, for aChristian world, there is only one true formof leadership-the setting of an exampleby advanced individuals, WhD leave, toothers complete freedom of choice in the 'matter of following it. .But unfortunately, England is not governed

by her best men; and those WhDdo ruleare fanatically determined to keep .themasses enslaved in such a way that theirlabour and their industrial genius can beutilised for the benefit of the oligarchy.D. E. Faulkner-Jones ,in "The Fig Tree;'

No: 5.

BRINGING UP FATHERWhen I was a boy of '4, my father

was so ignorant I could hardly sta:nd tohave the old man around. But, when1 got to be 21, I was astonished at howmuch the old man had learned inseven years-c-Mor]: Twain.

SOCIAL CREDIT March 4 '1938• •• • • - , o· • "'_' ,

Page;;,]

SHORT "STORY~/4IIf by ~/~

CHARLES JONES-,', "

The Squire was ,Old Jim's boss, but his'serecnt, too". • • and! though, 'the cronies inthe Red, Lion tap laughed when he to'ld

them" that, Jim had thelast laugh. ,<

••

":l,' orkin'.,

THE Red Lion, with its faded sign,. lies back from the dusty roadwhich girds the Mayford estate. Itsr~~d thatch, fi~red with spars of splithazel, gleams' like gqld among thesupple boughs of untrimmed cupressuswhich overhang it. ,

In the tap, the board floor is still strewndaily with soft, aromatic sawdust from themill at Whimmaghem Copse, and there thetenants and hands frorri the farms aboutforegather in the evenings.

Only a generation ago Mayford Manor wasa full squirearchal community, with a bailiffrunning the homestead farm which sprawledalorig the downs, and much curtseying andgenuine respect for his lordship. ,, Now, the last of a truly noble line haspassed away, and the owner of the Manor isa gentleman who sits in Parliament. :,

He still has seating rights in the endowednorth chapel of the village church, but isseldom seen there himself. His hedges aretrim, and the wooded drives have beengroomed to a smooth perfection; every 'gateand stile on the estate is sound and painteda quaint sage green which somehow makesthe grass beyond look shrill, but much ofthe pasture and copse has been clipped offin lots and sold. The Manor is not what itwas.

ALL these changes have been chun-tered over in the. tap of the Red,

Lion, but have now worn thin, for the headof old Jim Kendy, who kept his lordship'shorses, and later his gardens, has gone whitesince the momentous day when he first brokethe news of his master's death there.

"He'm passed.I" Jim had cried.ias he swungthrough the door and stood tense, hat inhand. Every tankard was instantly stooddown with a rattle like rifle butts, out ofrespect.

But when the General Election was comingoffi.there was quite an unfamiliar rumpus atthe tap. Radio, and newspapers, and CountyCouncil education have made noisier opinionsif not sounder ones, and the village is nowprepared to discuss the size of naval arma-ment, or the administration of India, if needbe,

Nobody is quite certain of the place ofthat land on the map, but the sight of agentle brown Hindu, selling silky carpets onPound G.reen last summer, sent all the womenscuttling to their homes, and gave rise tomuch grave talk of bogeys at the Red Lion.

The Indians are a superstitious lot, was thegt';neral opinion, requiring a firm hand.

;,1\n awakened, sense of the responsibilitiesofEmpire loosened tongues.,;~'You'm votin' f' Squire, av course," saida big-headed carter to old Jim Kendy, witha cock of the brow that looked like a sneer.

"Ay, Jim's votin' f'r's bread an' butter,"chipped in the home farm cowman.

JIM KENDY is bent so that he bowsforward even when he sits, but he

lifted his live, grey eyes to the speaker's, andsaid in a voice that began to crack a scoreof years ago.

"Ay, I sh'll vote f' what I wants. 'Tislittle now. I ax f' nothing but freedom t'live, an' summat t' live on."

"What ye want? 'Tis what thy'll gie ye, yehave t' vote f'r.". "Nay, but 'tis not so," said the old man,

"f'r my boy out to Canada, he's give methe gist o't all. A man i' Parleyrnent is th'servant 0' th' people. 'E wrote it in a letter..They'm got a .bit more Iearnin/ in theyparts."

"Hoo, hoo!" laughed Joe Praddle, thecarter, whose bulging round head was likea turnip fallen from one of his own loads."Ye say Squire's yere servant? You tell unso, Jim Kendy. You go say to un, 'Thenksf' me thirty shillin's weekly, but mind ye,Squire, I wants me shavin' water a bit earlierin th' mornin'.'''

"Mebbe I sh'll tell un what I means,"replied the old man, calmly.

*SIR THOMAS BLANE,candidate for the con-

stituency, had a st~rdy self-confidence

which for some reason or other always"quailed before the old gardener, '.JimKendy.

Jim had lived on the estate from boyhood,arid was a strenuous worker even in his oldage, with the wisdom and reticence of theearth itself, and a most cunning tendernesswith vines and peaches. Sir Thomas washimself, a kindly, man who. knew the proudgardener's worth, and longed in his own prideto be. the new patron of an old retainer.

On election morning he sought Jim out,and found him under the glass, pricking outseedlings.

"An hour off this morning, Kendy, to putyour cross against my name," he said, witha grin and a touch of diffidence.

"I sh'll vote after hours, if it pleases, ye,Sir Thomas, wi' th' wife."

"Ah, yes, the wife! Well, I'll send the carto your -cottage at seven, Kendy-for twocrosses."

"I won't say ay nor nay to thet, SirThomas," murmured Jim.

"What! You wouldn't vote against me?"The old man stayed the dibbling of his

'blunt finger, and looked up, his face a littletroubled, even trembling.

"I'm a demycrat, Sir Thomas. My son ... "

JTh1: fumbled in his pocket and tookout a little folded paper. He pointed

with his thumb" which was not soiled, to adotted line under a typewritten statement.

"I'm pledged t' vote f' th' candidate who,signs"-he put on his glasses.:__"whosigns,here." ,

If I am elected' as a member for the con- .stituency of __ - I undertake to carry outthe will 01 my constituents as and whet'-it is clearly expressed to me. \Sir Thomas read, and stood for some

minutes staring thoughtfully up through theshining greenery of the viile overhead. Jim'watched him anxiously, till their eyes met.

"Socialist?" asked Sir Thomas, with onebrow quizically lifted.

"Demycrat, Sir Thomas."Again Sir Thomas pondered with lifted

chin, fingering the paper he held nervously."What exactly is that? I didn't know you

were interested in politics, Jim.""I, a'nt, Sir Thomas, not as a game, if ye

take. me. But a man fails or flourishes likea plant under the handlin' he gets. My son. " . what I means, Sir Thomas, is thet demy-cratic gov'ment is carryin' out th' will 0' th'people. Parleyment maun be filled wi' menpledged to th' policy 0' th' people."

"What is the will of the people, Jim?""There be summat to learn on both sides,

Sir Thomas. When th' people be no longerwillin' to starve midst plenty, an' farmers nomore willin' to pay fines for growin' goodfood, ther'll be votes aplenty f' th' truedemycrat."

"I:Im," mused Sir Thomas, "This thingputs me under orders, Jim." He flicked thepaper with his nail. "Your orders, it seems."

THE old man's lips worked as hegazed half- wistfully up at the

man in whose service he found such freedom,as he wanted. But the doggedness of genera-tions was bred in him; the doggedness ofmen who only did the things they knewhow to do and understood completely; menwho had tended beasts and served the soil.

"W'm all got our work t' do, Sir Thomas,"he said, "an' all good work is service. We'mall under someone's orders, even if 'tisunbeknownst. You knows, asI knows, thetwhether it be National or Labour, they'mtakin' orders fr'm their masters, an' youknows who their masters be. 'Tis they whohave the makin' 0' money; they thet yea ornay t' nations as t' men.

"In gov'ment ye have to choose, SirThomas. 'Tis the party or the people. Yecan't serve two masters. Cov'ment is for th'people, not over nor agin 'em. We'm allfree likewise t' refuse our orders, Sir Thomas,an' bide the consequinces."

"So your idea is that a working democratobeys the will of the people?" ,

"Ay, -when they lost sheep do clearly saywhat 'tis 'they wants, Sir Thomas." ,, Sir Thomas laughed, but he read the paper

in his hand again, and talked on to the oldman whilst the sun rose higher and higher

,

Demycrattowards noon on this crucial day of his cam-paign.

*'WHEN' Joe Praddle, thecarter, swaggered into

the Red Lion after the dose of thepoll, he roared out for all the companyto hear: '

"Will some 'un call Sir Thomas t' take JimKendy's 'at, an' 'ang 'is stick up in 'all."

Jim Kendy waited for the chatter andlaughter to dissolve away:

"Bin t' poll, Jim?" asked the High Downshepherd, as he leaned against the bar.

"Ay, I voted f' Squire," said Jim.Joe Praddle whipped round, his rotund

'features split in a grin, his foolish greatmouth gaping for speech. '

"Ye 're thinkin' t' make a noise out 0' y'rturn, Joe Praddle," said the old man. "Ivoted f' Squire because 'e is a gen'man who'as pledged 'isself to stand f' what th' electorswant, when so be they knows what 'tis an'can say plain."

"God f' Squire!" bawled Joe Praddle. "I'll'ave a carridge an' pair. 'Twill be a changef' Sundays."

"D'ye really want a carridge an' a pair-say a pair 0' greys like them 'is lordship soldin '80 when 'e went t' New Zealand? D'yereally want they things, Joe Praddle?" askedJim Kendy in his gentle, broken voice.

"Well ... dunno as I do, Jim. Shanks's begood enough f' me 0' Sundays. But I'd liket' flick me whip at Squire, an' say 'Stand yeback in the scree Sir Thomas, whiles I passes.I a'nt on eighteen shillin's a week no more.Jest give way a bit; will ye kindly.' "

Joe Praddle, wagged his great head withmock dignity as he waved an imaginary SirThomas to the dusty verge of the lane.

'JIM KENDY'S grey eye flashed."As f' thet," he said, " 'tis but jeal-

ous spite, the bane 0' the livin' world this

day, when men d'not know their enemies. A:q'y'r foolish head Joe, be nigh as swollen as aswede out 0' Seven Acres middle. Look yehere, Joe Praddle, d'ye want t' eat good foodt' keep y'r manhood?" ,. ,

"Ay, I likes a linin' Jim, more's th' pity.Tinned milk t' me tea-tinned milk in adairy parish, Jim Kendy, Thet's ~hat we'mcome to." ' , ,

"D'ye want strong clothin' agin theweather, qn' sound boots t' y'r feet, JoePraqdle?"

"Ay, I do-on eighteen shillin's weekly,"said Toe.

"D'ye want a house 0' y'r own, t' marry thebit woman y're so shy on down Blackridge,Joe Praddle, an' a charice t' send a little mant' school, and get un a sister when 'e wants?"

"You'm bein" personal, Jim Kendy. YQU

an't goin' t' make fool play wi' me, see?" .Joe Praddle's face began to shine with

sweat, and a scowl contracted his eyes. ",""D'ye want they things, Joe?" asked the

gentle old man, unperturbed.There was a silence. Joe shuffled his feet

on the sawdusted floor. His face reddened,"Ay," he said, shortly, and swallowed a

pint at a draught."Ye want no more than is possible, Joe,"

said old Jim Kendy. "There be food anclothin' a-plenty, an' a place f' cottages andbairns in this rich land, f'r you and fr allmen 0' your years an' ambition.

r "Then stand f'r they simple things ye need'f'r body an' soul, Joe Praddle, an' say soAn' honour be t' Squire, when men are agreedin sayin' in all truth thet poverty an' all itsills be banished, e' an' 'is like will standforth agin the power thet keeps men poor,an', break .the lie, thet ..upholds- 'em." ,

THEREUPON Jim Kendy spreada little paper on the bench beside

him for all to see, and sure' enough it wassigned in a round and heavy hand, "ThomasBlane, Bart."

I OPIATE OF THE'PEOPLE? ILet them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall

fall into a pit. Matt. xu, 14.And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: and He entered, as His

custom was, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. Andthere was delivered unto Him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And He opened thebook, and [ound the place where it was written,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,Because He anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor.He hath sent me to procloim release to the captives,And recovering of sight to the blind,To set at liberty them that ere bruised.To proclaim the acceptable year 01 the Lord. Luke iv. 16-18.

WHEN we seriously set out to read the Gospel accounts of whatChrist had to say to the clergy, politicians and public "servants"

of His time, we cannot but feel wonder that this vitally significantteaching was ever obscured or used to drug men's wills and keep them,submissive to evil tyrants. And yet we know that it was - that,consciously or ignorantly, a great number of radio or press clergy, for

. example, are preaching Mammon.in the name of Christ today in

Tl Englanhd'bl' d id Chri' . . d b H' If' I iah'ley are t e 111 gm es. ' st s own mISSIOn,as announce 'Y imseir, 111 sau swords, was to bring good news to the poor, freedom for those in ,any form ofbondage, clarity of vision to those who were blinded and misled, and recovery infreedom for those warped or harmed by their tyrannical circumstances, and also to 'show men when the Kingdom of God might be said to obtain on earth.

That Kingdom, He said, was within each one of us as individuals. We were person-ally responsible for seeking it and finding it-and finding it would make us free. Butis this ever preached?

I am reminded of a brilliant passage in Eimar O'Duffy's "King- Coshawk and theBirds," when Lord Mammoth, the Press King, is offering an Irish demi-god a postas religious writer on his paper.

"You've only got to write straight ahead exactly as you feel," he says~ "provided, ofcourse, that you keep within certain lines that I'll mark out for you-'Be not solicitouswhat, you shall, eat or what you shall be paid,' 'Never mind the housing shortage,Heaven is our home,' 'Whatever may be said about the slums, the Son of Man hadnowhere to lay His head,' and so on-the sort of thing to cheer and elevate the poorand generally comfort everybody." ,

... "What does he want?" asked Cuanduine of the Philosopher."He wants you to write pious-sounding trash to keep people quiet while he makes

money."Well, this may seem exaggerated, but before we accept such a judgment and dismiss

the matter as unimportant, it might be -well to read for ourselves at least one of thefour Gospels-Matthew or Luke for preference-very carefully, in order to get theexact shade of meaning, so far as we can, and then to listen to a few wireless sermonsIn this way we might discover whether the true meaning of Christ's teaching wasbeing perverted or not. If it was, we might even be able to make a successful protestnow and then, MILES HYATT

Page 8 SOCIAL CREDIT, March 4, 1938

1.'News From, The Albertan Front .'. by R.A.D. IJUSTICE MINISTER SAYS 'CONSTITUTION

SHOULD ..BE OPEN· TO CHANGE'-BUT DEFENDS ACT DISALLOWANCE

JUSTICE MINISTERLAPOINTE, in the Dominion

Parliament on February 4, defendedthe Dominion Government's disallow-ance of the Alberta Acts and theSupreme Court Reference.

Turning to consideration of TheBritish North America Act, Mr.Lapointe is reported to have said : ' ,Aconstitution should be open to change,one generation having no right to bindanother."

This serves to remind the peoplethat under the orthodox financialsystem this generation lives by' mort-gaging (binding to debt enslavement)

. the unborn for a period of indefiniteduration.

The Justice Minister must knowthat the system will eventually defeatitself, so why allow its resultant miseryto continue?

Albertans have shown the way, forTHEY KNOW WHAT THEYWANT, and THEY WANT ITNOW·

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Obstacles In Alberta'sPath

MR. JOHN BLACKMORE, Social Creditleader in the Dominion Parliament, .

in the address debate at Ottawa on February1 is reported to have said: '

"The Alberta Government was elected 'by

Under a quotation taken from Maclean'sMagazine which appeared in SOCIALCREDIT on January 21, we referred to themagazine as "a widely circulating U.S.A.journal."

Maclean's Magazine is, in fact, produced, in Toronto, and the !;tat.eme~tsho~~; there- I Discriminationfore, have read "Canadian Journal. \

We regret the error, and take this oppor- M R. ERIC POOLE, Dominion Membertunity of correcting it. of Parliament for Red Deer, on

IFebruary 3 accused. the Government of dis-

these criminating against Alberta. He urged the, use of national credit to relieve economic

stress. He said it could be done withoutinflation, without price increases, and with-out going into debt. It could be done "inthe same way as bankers create credit today,our credit."

So now they know and cannot plead thatthey have not been told.

the people to accomplish a certain object,but every possible obstacle has been placedin its path. Democracy is being cast asideby misrepresentation and all sorts of dodges."

..

financial system (or should We say systemcreated by insane men?) we declare there ishope, for they are nearer to a sane financialsystem created by sane people than any othercountry on earth.

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CORRECTION

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Dole Army"MAC," in The Albertan of February 2:

"Unemployment insu.rance will leadto a new army of assistants to live from thedispensing of' the dole.

"They cost money, and labour should takethat angle into consideration before embark-ing upon the uncharted sea. It is unreason-able to jnsure against what we ourselves con-trol. There is no-risk when the work is here,All we require is money."

Vie have only to add: "Hear, hear!"

wealth must exist in Alberta to makefigures possible.

'" *

"The Albertan"THIS Calgary newspaper has for two years

declared itself as "A publicly-ownednewspaper supporting Social Credit."

On January 27 the declaration was changedto "An independent newspaper .." Theweekly supplement, previously "AlbertaSocial Credit Chronicle," is now the weeklyMagazine Section.

In a message from Calgary to The TorontoStar, dated January 28, it; is stated:

"It is understood that The Albertan, whichhas shown a steady gain and prestige andcirculation under Mr. Galbraith's manage-ment, will continue to support economicreform and to back the Alberta Governmentgenerally ... "

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New Government WhipMR. ALFRED J. HOOKE has beenelected Government Whip in succes-

sion to Mr. Joseph H. Unwin, who is undersentence for publishing the alleged defama-tory libel.

In response to queries fro1J1:,_correspondents,the address of The Albertan is Calgary,Alberta, Canada.

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IT is noteworthy that the Labour. sectionof the Council "voted solidly" for this

Government scheme, an interesting commen-tary on the value of Labour Party opinioninside the House of Commons, and coinciden- ,.'--------- _tally on the force and importance of HisMajesty's Opposition. _

To an onlooker, not desirous of the limitedand temporary wages concerned in the instal-lation work, this effort to get a noose thrownround the neck of an entire township so that-in emergency-or even otherwise, the wire-less service is completely at the service ofand under the control of the Government ofthe day, has a singular and sinister ringabout it.NAZI Dictatorship is a red rag to the

average Englishman, but a systemwhich would place his choice of music,educational instructive lectures, news, etc.,entirely in the hands of a few men connectedwith the Covernrnent of the day, whateverthat might chance to be, appeals so strongly.to the Labourites that ,they voted for it"solidly" !

One wonders if their solidity was in any~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~nwryin~~~? hitpm~kiliuthe~~r. of a certain amount of work would turn the

scale towards such an immense scheme ofcontrol?

How many other Town and BoroughCouncils have received the same "offer"?How many will refuse it and how manyaccept it and place their whole neighbour-hood in the noose of controlled news?

Unabashed, unconcealed control of allinformation as well as other items is notprecisely what we pay licences for our B.B.C.to obtain for us, and this "offer" comingthrough the General Post Office has pointsthat seem to call for enquiry.THE fact that it was stated to "be part

of an important experiment" is easy tobelieve-the experiment of keeping Demosin his proper place, which has been graduallygetting stronger and stronger since 1926.

SENTINEL

'U.S.A. TOREDUCELABOUR

AN improved method of producing ironand steel which, it is claimed, might

save between [7,000,000 and [14,000,000 ayear in the United States alone, has beendescribed at the meeting in New York ofthe American Institute of Mining and Metal-lurgical Engineering, reports the DailyTelegraph.

The inventor of the process, 1\11r.JulianAvery, explained that it involved the useof higher pressures in pig-iron blast furnaces,thereby eliminating waste.

It would eliminate a good deal more ofemployment, too, which would be excellentif the extra real wealth which this meanswere distributed to the people in the formof National Dividends. A National Divi-dend, of course, 'simply means a periodical ,dividend drawn by everyone on the wealththat has been accumulated by everyone., What a :pity the Americans do not demandNational Dividends. They would be at theend of their. trou.bles if they did. Alreadysteel production 111 the U.S.A. is less thana third of capacity, simply because the peoplehave not got the money to buy more.

Alberta's NeighboursIT is thought that a Provincial Election

is practically certain this year inSaskatchewan. A Provincial contest is alsoexpected in Manitoba.

We trust the PEOPLE of both Provinceswill realise that DEMOCRACY meansTHEY ARE THE MASTERS, -and it onlyrests with them to tell their elected repre·sentatives WHAT IS WAN.TED and thento see that there is no sidetracking of thePEOPLE'S REQUIREMENTS. '

* *Compulsory Voting

MR. NORMAN LAMBERT, of Ottawa,newly-appointed Senator to the Upper

House of the Dominion Parliament;. isreported to have urged changes in Canada' ~electoral law and that "serious consideration"be given the proposal to adopt compulsoryvoting, ,

We submit .that when the people realisethat they are the masters, their mandates.will make such "serious consideration" super-fluous.* * *

Albertan Food Production * *Alberta's Unemployed

ALBERTA had 10,357 men and women'; .seeking . work through the Alberta'Employment Service at the end of January.

To those who bear the brunt of an insane

THE cheese output last year increased byover 27 per cent. to 1,839,418 lbs,

, Creamery butter production last yearincreased by 3.7 'per cent, ,to 26,326,194 lbs.

Our farmer friends will realise what real

What Is .The PurposeOf Radio On Tap?

THE: latest-or' one of the latest-devicesof authority to secure to and for itself

the ear of the people, is the scheme beingoffered to. municipalities of "Radio on Tap"as a cheap and pleasant way of securing thatservice,

It may be cheaper, it might be pleasant,or it might not; that, I suppo-se, is a matterof taste.

My experience of a good deal that is atpresent available from Broadcasting Housemakes me sympathise and approve of theacion of the Southampton Council in turningdown this 'offer by 34 votes to 23, thoughmy reasons would probably be different fromtheirs.

Their opposition was based on the factthat "such a service would interfere withthe rights of i~dividual choice"-an objec-tive for which no doubt it was chiefly con-ceived; and (2) "upset employment withinthe trade," the second objective of the G.P.O.being to provide a temporary, if long-drawn-out, series of jobs for the workless.

ELECTOR'S DEMANDAND UNDERTAKING

We WUl Abolish Poverty

1 I know that there are goods in plenty andtherefore that poverty is quite unneceSsary

2 I want before anything em; povertyabolished

3 I demand too that monetary or other effec-tive claims to such products as we nowdestroy or restrict shall be distributed tome and every Briton so that we can enjoyall we want of them

4 These distributions must not depriveowners of their property nor decrease itsrelative value nor 'increase taxes or, prices

5 In a democracy like Great Britain Parlia-ment exists to,make the will of the peopleprevail

This is the form for Parliamentaryelectors to sign. It should be sent toUnited Democrats, 16,3A, Strand,London, W.C.:l. Signatures will betreated confidentially.

6 So I pledge myself to vote if I can for acandidate who will undertake to supportthis my policy and to vote consistentlyagainst any party trying to put any otherlaw making before this

7 If the present Member of Parliament herewon't undertake this, I will vote to defeathim and his successors until this mypolicy prevails

Stgned

Address

M.P. Alleges Bank"Racket"

ONE of the, syndicates who are buyill,gup blocks of small leasehold property

and then putting pressure on the tenantsis working largely with advances fromBarclays Bank, alleged Mr. W. H. Main-waring, Socialist Member of Parliamentfor East Rhondda;-"Daily Express." Fe'b.r z, 1938.

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