THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19816, 2 January 1930, Page 13

THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND.

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—During the last few years the rtßMHlhi brought back to the Do-j by virion# people who have ' SHwrlfe trip to the Homeland axe i various. I have travelled a in my time, bott in mapy l«trta o# EngJxnd, and in this country; *»o is and in the East. I lotted that alter a few days on board ~*P m> pas®engers went into cliques, ~P* l yWg * good deal on their occupa- *** ** This also applies to dify* and games. For in*•s*l awthfield market is the Mecca i * meat-farmer, Bradford of the | .filinl&ni,, etc., etc. The medical ! lawyers, cricketers, bowlers, j K Wf^ B ! etc., all have their own I Sft®? 1 ? **> and see - WelI » y.wp ju*t what those particular Pyt* know or think they know, and tm news they have gathered as *®B®e actnal state of the country ".PWI where they have been. ** once on a boat where three were travelling. They were •• thieves, and having studied y * W sore all they knew about was harmless. There are ®**».elasses of people who travel j •mIS? pick up fairly accurate inWtofaoß. The journalist is looking i ■w.*TOWitic copy for his paper or | *?***» . and the mining enM gathering useful information •fISL sßn5 Bn / frak ' an< J you will find w these two classes anywhere ™ captain's cabin to the stobe-®Bgine-room. One often gets information from the most ■"OWiy soarces. I would advise people who travel to *»*JW all sorts and conditions of al*> to read up the statistics W «M country they visit, including Ip 0" trade returns, etc.. etc. New is much larger than England *k_ . an< * people will tell you wmer is down and out; but if * w .the statistics of the products goflTeed in England and Wales (in rffi °^ raa l of the Ministry for Agrir/;™®) you will wonder why we do produce far more than we are and why we cannot support a oc "„'* r Ker population. We are conbeing told also about the !**•* efficiency of the people in the .2*™* States of America, and how now beating Britain in the 3™ of exports. But when one takes »»«Miden,tion that the population m fc2? poited States is over two and «****, timeg that of Britain, it knocks ~yjP | . bottom out of the so-called y 1 ®?? of the American people. ** the late 70's and early 80's of jee last century, things were nuite as •M or worse here than they are, t*lOr to the strikes in Australia at pi*»ent time. The iron and steel 2®L trades were in a bad way. they recovered from that, and thev have the same stock, and 3* . ®»kings of the same class of IPPje. dear old England will right «gain.—Yours, cto., -» , GEOBGE LEE. leiapleton, January Ist, 1930.