HOPELESSNESS IN ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 47, 19 November 1925, Page 8

HOPELESSNESS IN ENGLAND

SADDENING AMOUNT OF UNEMPLOYMENT

“IN A VICIOUS CIRCLE” “The amount of unemployment in England is saddening,” remarked Archdeacon Julius, of Timaru, who returned by the lonic yesterday from a visit to Great Britain. “The saddest aspect of the problem is the spiiit of hopelessness which pervades the people. The condition of trade is such that the workers cannot be paid sufficient wages in order to get enough to eat. The real fact of the matter is that many of the workers are inefficient because they are not fed enough. The result has been that a spirit of hopelessness has settled upon the people, who, as it were, have got into a vicious circle through being unable to see any escape from their hnpjess condition. I was, however, much struck with the backbone of the workers in the North of England, and I think they will pull through all right.” . Archdeacon Julius, who spent four months in England and on the Continent, said he had been much struck by the good manners and friendliness of the people of England, especially after having been in France. Questioned as to the attitude of the Church in England regarding the modern craze for amusement, Archdeacon Julius said that there was no crusade of the kind in progress while he was there. Amusements and picture shows were carried on in England on Sundays to a much greater extent than thev are in this country. “The motor traffic is extraordinary in England,” he stated. “I wais travelling to London recently from a village 20 miles from the metropolis, and for the whole way there was one continuous stream of cars, both going and coming. This was at the week-end.’’ Questioned as to how the immigrants who had come out on the lonic viewed their prospects in a new land, Archdeacon Julius said he thought the new ■arrivals were all prepared to make the best of it. “They are of a very fine type,” he said, “particularly the English public school bovs. I told them that a man coming to New Zealand must not expect to get just the class of iob he expected, and they all quite realise this, and are quite ready to tackle anv honest work which offers.”