The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
FOR SAVING THE DAYLIGHT. New Bill for House of.
 Commons. GOVERNMENT UNDER FIRE Charged With ,Soeialistic Pro-
 clivities. Aaniver.sry sf The Fsundias of The rirss Great London Charity is ts De Duly observed
 by Jewish orsaaI.a-
 tioa.
BY W. HAprIroN RHoDEs.

The Btl VIII DC dratteo Vh 1ao
 of the recommendation of the Select
 Comrnittee. and will propose an aitera-
 tion of an hour on Sunday in Aprii
 and September, instead of an alteration
 of twenty minutes on four Sundays
 in each month, as was originally sng-
 gesfed by MT. Wiliett, the originator
 Of the scheme. Mr. Churchill has
 promised to meet MT. Wdllett this
 month to discuss the matter MT.
 a Bill which will provide for an aitera-
 tion of only twenty minutes in the
 first year. His object is to meet the
 objection to the proposal raised by
 the Stock Exchange and the Liver
 pool Cotton Exchange. These bodies
 pelnt out that if English time is alter ed by an hour it will destroy the ad-
 vantages of having the markets or
 this country and New York open sim ultaneousiy> for an hour day. MT.
 Wiiiett hopes that the difficuity will be surrounded by the United States
 adopting Daylight Saving Bill or US In connection with the ninth annual conference of the Labor Party, now being held at Portsmouth, a special
 conference will assemble flor the pur- pose of enabling organized laDo5 70 Tefterate in the first place It's demand
 tflat the community must courageously face the problem of unemployment, and in the second place to renew the adhesion Of the Labor Party to the general principles of the Right to Work Bill" There Is scarcely an item in tue agenda which will not vex the economists who are denouncing the present and prospective evils of the old age pensions scheme. The chief resolutions deal with the incidence or taxation, and proposals are made that, | if carried out. would not only ensure ample provision for the pensions. but would greatly modify the unemploy-
 ment difiicuty. But the attempt to.
 create scare as to the future Of the pensions has already failed. Much has been made of the deficit on the Bud-4
 get Estimates for the nine months, amounting to about S25,000,0OO. and the fact is ignored that Mir. Asquith allowed, for a large decrease in the reyenue1by the reduction of the sugar duty. which durinE~-the nine months amounted to over $10,00O.O0O, bring ing the net deficit so far to consider ably less than s15,00O.00e.- But that there will be. TO surplus at 44e end of the fnanclaf year fthn which to draw, as expected, s7,500,000 for old age pensions is now fairly certain. It is pointed out that there is no way out of the financial difficulty except by awy of increased taxation or appro- priation Of part of the Sinking Fund. The Chancellor fthe Exchange, In his speech at Liverpool. hinted aA
 some of his plans, and specuiations A@ 1 tributes to him an intention to W2k additional taxation upon exesable
 uors or upon licenses or both. In wfs same spirit of speculation he should be accredited with. a land tax( fol- lowing on q new valuation of landed property throughout the United King dom. penny in the pound so levied
 would realize about sll2,5OO, ,eeO year and settle the future of the old age pension scheme and some other amel- | iorative proposals.
 "sOcialists In Affairs.
 The "Socialistic proclivities of the Government" to use a phrase that has l become familiar since provision was made for old age, may not take this form, nor any of the forms proposed lin the resolutions to be submitted to | the Conference. The Conference, how ever, will be asked to declare that the
 principles and machinery of the Labor Party's Unemployed Bill must be ad- | opted 2 ne measures are described in the Memorandum which has been | issued in connection with the resolu- l lions. and 1t is claimed for them that l they will broaden the basis of industry | and utilize national resources now running to waste, gThe Labor Party urge that a program of ahorestation. l reclamation of 1andy national road making, co-opetative small holdings, village settlements, with farm colonies l supplying the required training to en- able the town population to take ad- | vantage of these schemes. should be | put into operation at once. To carry | out this program 1t is suggested that | the national authorities should CO., operate with the local authorities. but
 'the economic cause of unemployment, | though modified, will not be removed by this"
 First Metropolitan Charity.
 On Feb 17 the Jewish community of 1 London will celebrate the hfteeth an- niversary of the foundation of it's 1 premier metropolitan charity by means of the me-honored custom which 1 characterizeA such events-the holding |. of a festival banquet This function is to be neither the only nor the most l striking. feature of the Celebration for in connection herewith an attempt 1 will be made to- raise the large sum ! of s2OO, ,0OO in aid of the funds. By the friends of the Jewish Board of Guard ians 1t is urged that this Is the small est sum which will suffice to meet the pressing needs of the charity. By | not a few. however, 1t has been held that the figure has been fixed so high mainly with the intention of im- pressing the charitable with the magni- tude of the boards work and with l the standard which should regulate their donations. Another method of 1 celebrating the event has been adopted l-the publication of a small book 1 by Mr. Laurie Magnus. joint honorary
 secretary to the board,A which traces
 the history and development of the institution from its foundation in 1859 1 to the present day. Tn dealing with past workers of the institution, many naflee are mentioned. notable among them being the Baroness de Rothschkld, 1 who was the doner of the sewing mach ines in 1861 the Rev A. L. Green, l Ephrain. Alex, Lionel Louis Cohen, F. | ID. Mocatta and Sir Benjamin l.. Cohen l Lord Rothschild. the Right Hon. Ar- | thur Cohen. K C.. Lord Swaythling, l N s. Joseph. and the late Lionel L. Alexander are spoken of in generous l terms. = Following on the lines of Lady 1 Aberdeen's campaign tin Ireland, a
 movenment on national lines Is now
 being organized in this country to | check the scourage of consumption 1t | is to be inaugurated at an important Conference, on Tuberculosis to be held at Caxton Hal, Westminster. on Feb
 ruary. f6, 1T, IS, and 1s. at. which many l experts, both lay and medical, will speak on various aspects on this Ques-