MUDDLING THROUGH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10053, 12 February 1927, Page 3

MUDDLING THROUGH.

AN UNPLEASANT FACT. LOST HABIT gp WORK ■‘The people of the British Empire have lost the habit of work — an unpleasant fact, nevertheless true.” This assertion was made recently by Major Macgregor Knox, of tire British Rubber-Growers’ Association who has toured Hie world several times, having visited practically every country:.,... . .. , . “So many British people 'Seem to. have the idea,” said Major Kno,\, “that because (be .•English have always muddled through'in times of crisis, they can go on muddling-, through. They seem to forget that Hie British Empire to-day,,is faced with a set of circumstances different from any she has ever had'to grapple with before; Great Britain, with her staggering war debt, , her industrial iinreht arid-'unemployment, has to fight competition of a kind undreamed of in the past., America is pushing ahead all, the time, using every scientific device to become the premier among nations. “Muddling through won’t do,” he added. “Everywhere' throughout ; the Empire we will have to give up this business of talking' much and' doing little. We have our lip service all too .highly developed. If we worked- as hard in the overcoming of our problems as wc do in discussing them, ; we would be fa” better off.” ' •