South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-06

prestige and their former power
Ard if industrial democracy has nail
eu up the English country house
agricultural democracy has stuck up
trespass notice against the old
social system and England is emery
ing into the goth century full pano-
piled as modern democracy.
Why London Is Crowded.
In the cities il is still a long way
TO an approach TO economic justice
The cities are the last refugees Of the
defeated masters always. That is one
reason why London is crowded
Thousa nds and thousands of people
who used TO live in country places
now cannot afford 70 live in the
country. The country houses are not
built for the women OF the house to
do the work The houses are built
10 accommodate servant labor. And
as a matter of fact many London flats
are similarly built In New York
most fats are built on the assump-
ticn that the mistress of the house
may. if she likes, do her own work
But all country houses in England
ana most city houses are built for
servants and il is almost impossible
fer the wife and mother to do her
own work. Kitchens are in the base
ment. Bathrooms above stairs, many
of them, are not piped for hot water
The servant is supposed TO bring II
W.. A dumb waiter brings the food
from the kitchen, and the cook has
&c be below stairs and the serving
maid upstairs, and this in most
meager British homes.
The line Of caste cuts deep into
English life. So we find in these new
days, hundreds OF thousands Of wom
en-wives and sweethearts-avoid-
homes; living in hotels; because of
tie deep cleavage OF the old caste
lines clear TO the bricks Of the homes
themselves. OF course this must adj
just itself. The homing instinct is
the strongest instinct in the British
heart. The Britisher. Of all men in
Europe. will have his home-even
his country home; certainly his city
home and that right soon. But he
will have it upon democratic terms
But these passing days of early sum-
meT are the days of transition. the
days of the great JOY strike. England
sees the dawn of a new day Eng
land has had bad night-four years
Of nightmare. And England is war
weary to an unimaginable degree.
They Write TO the Times.
So we find fussy old Victorian gen.
tlemen writing pieces 10 the Times.
complaining that the buses are filed
with idlers. that the theaters are
filled with persons who have no So
cial right 10 be there, and that the
laboring classes have lost their rea-
son
Complaint also is made because OF
certain lapses from the virtuous
form OF England. Set over against
these complaints is a weltering wave
OF proletarian wrath because the gov
eminent still is restricting the out
put or beer. The government is much
more likely TO fall because it Is try
ing 10 break the English public from
taking too much beer than because
OF any economic change il may con-
template.
The British working man must
have his beer. and as he is sadly re-
sirictec just now and as he is get
ting promises OF more beer from the
government rather than the beer it
self. the British laborer is mad. In
Manchester. the great Industrial CEN
ter, beer riots are feared. The whols
victorian universe is topping. But in
the meantime let no one be deceived.
The British are not mad. they are
not decadeht They are merely tire
and out for a spree. The great joy
strike soon will be over. When II is
over certain things will be forever