A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10752, 24 November 1928, Page 5

A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.

MR BALDWIN'S OPTIMISTIC VIEW.

NEW SPIRIT OF GIVE AXE TAKE IX EUROPE. BRITAIN WOULD LEAD WORLD f.N INDUSTRY. NO TIME FOR INCOMPETENTS United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Assooiaiion./ (Received Nov. 23. 11.50 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 23. Addressing 60UO Scottish Unionists at a conference at Glasgow and relaying his speech to 3000 in an adjacent hall, AD Baldwin declared there was a spirit of give and take in Europe which was absent before the War, affording a happy augury tor the future. .More had been accomplished in the past eight years, largely by the present Government, than any other country had achieved in connection with slum improvement, British industry justifying itself in the face of the world. Britain would emerge the most efficient industrial nation oil the globe, but the youth and ability of the_nation must help to regain that' supremacy. This was no time for incompetents, whatever their age or numbers. Men battened on to joint stock companies as managers and there were also directors who were parasitical. The country would not tolerate , this while the nationalisation of industry was idling hundreds of thousands, those who arrogated themselves freehold positions were not removing themselves unless bribed