El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-11-01
Il TIE WONDER
ENGLAND SEES
D0WNFA ALL
Writers See Real Cause for
Alarm in Industrial
World.
BUSINESS FEARS
U. S. INVASION

4 7 ONDCN. Eng. Nov. why should
l. England and the English appear
to be much alarmed over the pros
pect OF an American invaslon7
The British workingman has long
been advertised as the most careful
and accurate in the world England
has had and still has great colonies
feeding her with raw materials. She
has lost many ships. but she stil has
"a tremendous number left and more
building America Is 5000 miles away.
and she has never shown any special
.cleverness at foreign trade.
Such writer's as Marcossin. who
have had entire to scores OF govern
ment departments. have pictured the
smOOthness and completeness OF the
British Industrial machine, as organ
lied for war purposes. The genius
for Organization. for manufactures
Of things needed By millions OF men
IN wartime surely has not crumbled
overnight. or has it,
Situation u Jumbled.
The situation In England which
causes many persons 10 cast an en-
vious and fearful eye toward America
is jumbled at best and as yet rather
kaZV- But certain things are visible
TO the naked eye OF an ordinary
mortal
England-compossd OF such people
as you and the other fellow. the ones
who work with their hands or at
desks-is tired
That other England-the one com
posed OF the men who have things IN
plenty money. shops factories and
the ike-is a little bit afraid
Now consider the first class.
Part o. them are the men who have
been over there" They have been
over the top. There we're several mil
pire who were worrying alo1Ei
barely keening the wolf from the
door To them war meant. they be-
lieVed bleak ruin for their families.
Rut they Joined up and got their
shilling a dar- somehow their fami-
Worked Around Fairly Well
They went over the too because 70
had to be done. i might get them
or u might out They miElt come
home or they mlEhr not They had
heen over the TOD before and they
had come through, marhe they'd come
f1rouEh this time. They left their
families destitute and somehow
things worked around fairly wen IN
the end
The old urge" get up and 20 70
work TODAY. obey An rules written
and unwritten. and above all. cling
TO that Job else your family nay
starve. has gone III 7 have had no
for four years except
what my immediate commander
willed. and II 7 have idled through
long lulls during which the lines were
merely held and II now am a bit
tired OF everything. why should
worry about another job2 And ~
thinTs are not right az the shOn and
I need more money why should
work until they are right and until
get what's coming TO me2" That IS
something Of the spirit which rules
among the men who work with their
hands.
Machine Not smooth.
As TO the other side Of the picture.
England was a gigantic industrial 4
machine. attuned 20 war needs. but [
+he American magazine reporters who Z
saw II from the inside OF @ govern ]
ment department. where the theoret- I
ical Organization was perfect on
paper. The industrial examination I
which turned toward peace was not T
ss smooth a thing as We have been /
In the first Mace. England IS q
country OF n1ulfitudes OF small cor &
Dorations and few bic ones. These 8
little fellows we're unified hV gov q
arnment control and. more important I
still. the weak sisters were bolst cred
10 by artificial lubricants. such as
loans and special favors This gov .
srnment aid was withdrawn as peace
eaTe. There iz one reason whv the .
men who own things are a bit afraid. 7
The men who own thinEs in Eng
land are moreover among tire u-ost 3
conservative in the world So thFv F.
are inherently af-aid OF taking big T.
chances at a1v time.
Little wonFer. therefore. that eve I
1rows are beinE raised at American &
'nvasions Of Prifains own Dartfcular Z
beck garden. that one writer suea fze I
NJ new flrElturH from the west. and I
that a great news1aner IKE the nsrv I
Tvnress fs following American bust I
expansion morning after morn /
inc and urging the government 20 /
wake M.