A FOOLISH SAYING.
"Everyone was at fault in failing -to realise how the economic equation would work out," says The Times, " but if any one person is more to blame than another it is the inventor of .that fatal phrase, 'Business as usual.'" " During many long months a large part of the British public looked upon the war as a more or le6s interesting side-show," says Mr. Horace Cox in the Edinburgh Review. " People who ougnt to have known better preached the doctrine of ' business as usual,' and specifically urged the continuance of normal expenditure by private individuals in order not to throw out of work the people employed by that expenditure. At last it is beginning to dawn upon the whole community that it is a national service to throw out of work many persons now employed in ministering to private requirements, so that they may be free to minister to the requirements of the nation. The great difficulty at the present moment is to find sufficient workers to do the nation's work."
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 11
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174A FOOLISH SAYING. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 11
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