BUSINESS MEN AND POLITICS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 27 July 1933, Page 15

BUSINESS MEN AND POLITICS.

I, i TO EDITOH Of TUB TBKSS. always read your editorial vjwka with interest ancl pleasure, even •'iLf Some times happens, Ido not jjjj®® with them, but I would here caviat at some of the con- ' Irjj o * lß which may be drawn from i ™ article in to-day's issue entitled *<hf»ve. It needs some timerity to i**-'he cat, but I have screwed ilfc ■tjfourage for the task. 'jitS? objection i take to your article -jjWttny on account of the support It yr '«e perfectly idiotic notion that JW®BS capability and shrewdness are : ||PjVe disqualifications in a poli- • '{2?® Bnd wo had far better leave Politics to those who scorn busi- , 3)1 °roiT)on sense or are incapable flirt t, course > mean • 125 tort your article may be perE " WtM> su PPort that notion by ol' Parliament; who acume and success be a , HWUiflpation for a capable poli--1 CjSF are undoubtedly the most j Heaven-born Solons that ever a country, i the cases of failure in i EJMCs by gr t .at captains of industry, | Leverhulme, but he is in the t tIS n °. ex ceptions that prove the i ifrtiM, * B * ness business whether It i Rlin v , or P ub l' c . and it appears to I i? e veriest nonsense to hold SShe* £brewd common sense and f «B« 4 wWch bave brought success to i laSSr J" Private business are abso- , SEP disastrous if applied to public I should explain Lever- ; 'allure by saying that while ; jEePJucs he attempted to serve two ■Era* With the usual result. He gave JS®"* to his private business. He 'ffißt i na l service to politics, for (SESyj® bal no liking and which he to master. ■Bjwtainly have not an assembly ;«EF°^ business men—and we the result is. Let me give ■Ha* list of the Imperial Cabinet fflWEfr 8 to set against our own »h which proved business mpS!*. ts a minus quantity. Let me HSj** a man who has shown abil|®St~y Profession is entitled to as as the man who has been

in , tT , ade - Here is the list, added*— speclal Qualifications of each Mr Ramsay Mac Donald—professional Baldwin—business. Mr Neville Chamberlain-business. t>ir John Gllmour— business, i Lord Sankey—law. a rd T ai, sham—law and business. ojr John Simon— law. Sir Samuel Hoare—professional politician. Mr J. H. Thomas—professional politician. Sir p. Cunliffe-Lister—law and politics. Lord' Londonderry—landowner. Sir Godfrey P. Collins—business. Hilton Young—business. Mr Walter Runciman—business. Sir B. Eyres-Monsell—Navy. Lord Irwin—Army. Major Walter E. Elliot—Army. Sir Henry Betterton—law and banking. Mr Ormsby-Gore—Army and politics. Seeing that we have quite lost all political initiative and self-reliance and confine ourselves to feeble efforts to copy England in everything, might I suggest that our politicians should follow England in Cabinet-making and give us a trial at least of a government containing as much business brains proportionally as the British Government has?— Yours, etc., S.M. July 26, 1933. I