South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-10
Jo5IeSs Are Paid
Dole of IS Per
Week in England
Gurley Reveals Situation in
Industrial City as Answer
to Conditions.
BY BOYD GURLEY
Editor The News-Times

n r. ] - n 4 y y IT,
Away from the hustle OF London,
away from its glare. its poverty. IT'S
splendor. one finds i'm this indus
trial city something Of an answer TO
present conditions.
This city Of 2O0.0 900 people Is in
dustrial. II is the center OF coal
mines. Great shipyards extend
along tho bank Of the river which
runs through II.
If you want TO find what is hap
pening IN such a city. read the
answer In the fact that each week.
there is paid out TO unemployed
heads OF families about $4,000 a
week, paid not as "a charity hut I'M
der a law which compels the city
to pay it's dole" TO the jobless
Since the war, there has been lit
/ tie ship building and the wage Of
miners is down 20 a figure that is
pitiably low. An average weekly
wage would not run above SIS i'm
the mines The law gives the job
! less 50 week When YOU consider
the disparity between these figures
YOU can find some reason to believe
that there are those who would
rather starve ON the small sum
while idle than to work for three
times the amount In the mines
The effect on other wages is ap-
parent. The waitress I'm the hotel
gets 81 a week and her board Men
who clerk i'm the little primitive
shops are lucky if they get SIS a
week
The cost of living for the inhab-
itants. is almost i'm proportion ex-
cept that the standards Of life are
so far below that Of American de-
cency as TO excite pity.
Meat Not Part of Diet
The rent of a four room house. all
| by the week. is i'm the working
mems district about 81. Meat is
/ not a regular part of the family diet
in most families.
The thing that beat me was
hunger" said a leading follower of
I LLOYD George. after he was defeated
( I'm the recent election. and he de-
tailed a condition of affairs I'm some
districts that. in America. would
cause the starting of a fund for re-
lief or q congressional inquiry.
OF course, there are also prosper
Gus people, well dressed men and
women. those who live in suburbs
that are as beautiful as they are
quaint
But this industrial city has suf-
fered. and its one hope is that the
burden Of carrying several thous-
and of iobless families on its tax
rolls lies i'm n reopening of the ship
building and changed condition
in the coal industry which would
put more money into circulation
If YOU are not interested i'm the con-
dition of the people, YOU may be
interested in the fact that this city
has the evidences Of the first stage
of civilization. when men lived and
1 prospered and were happy by the
simple means Of appropiating the
/ property of others.
Built Great stone Wall
The early Romans who invaded
7 these shores built here the great
stone wall that was designed to hold
/ back the savage men who were the
original inhabitants of England and
these leaders were the ancestors of
dukes and earls who stil remain.
This great wall. built of solid
stone ny the subdued inhabitants
stretched for mills It is gone now.
all but the few remaining parts
which are found near this city
standing as a monument TO the
early day when Romans tried to
conquer this wild mace
There is Il castle here. from
which the city takes its name. 1t
was built i'm 1I72, and from It's
cloomv dungeons I'm the vast UNDER
ground to its turrets which were
watch towers FOR the guards. tells
it's own story Of another civilization
from which the present one has de-
veloped.
Il is used as a museum and most
interesting in the collection is the
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