The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-15
WHY BRITAIN'S JOBLESS DON'T
LEAVE HOME
Saws our San Francisco correspondent:

Says our San Francisco correspondent:
'"The Right Reverend Arthur FoleyWinnington
Ingram bishop of London, who has been touring the
United States and talking pan-Anglican am1ty, is
now on his way to Australia.
Ellis mission is primarily not religious, but one
pressngly economic He is going to arrange for the
migration of upward of million unemployed British
subjects from the motherland to the great open
spaces of her sparsely settled dominions bordering
the Pacific
Britain has reputation of being of the
greatest colonizers in the world And she has been
But her comparatively recent efforts in that line are
hardly of nature to enhance that reputation
Canada, approximately the size of the United
States and flowing with milk and honey, today has
only 100000 inhabitants Australia, this year mark
ing the 13Sth anniversary of her first settlement like
wise is celebrating the acquisition of only her sixth
million of population.
And yet the mother country-the United King
dohn-has a population of 45,OOOOOO of whom 36,OOO-
900 are in England or 701 inhabitants per square
mile as against Canadas 23 and Australia LIZ.
Which would be all right if everybody was we'll
fixed and happy in the mother country But they
are not Over 100000 people there out of work
today most of them herded together in England.
Then why not emgrate, you ask. If Jones is
out of a job and overcrowded England can't give
him one what's the matter with his crossing over to
CANADA, Wnoro Lney are crying IOr lIulHSIdu
ticularly immigrants from the old country. Or why
doesn't he go to Australia or to New Zealand or to
one of the other British dominions overseas?
Recently Sir James Mitchell of Australia went all
the way to England to plead for steady stream
Of Britishers to fill up the 624000,O00 acres Of his
country where now there only 100000.
The mother country is paying unemployment
doles of $3.50 week each to couple of million job
less while her dominions literally begging the
people to come to them-even offering to help finance
them if they will.
But the problem is not so simple it looks. The
most Of Britan's unemployed city jewellers. Gen.
orally they industrial workers. clerks, etc. whose
only farm experience has been gained cultivating
scraggly geranum in a condensed milk can.
And while dominion labor, the one hand. right
ly refuses to allow army of industrial workers to
descend upon their shores the would-be emigrant in
the British isles is afraid to tackle farming, which
he knows nothing about, and that in faraway
country Many who do manage to screw up the
necessary courage to emgrant to farms in Canada,
Australia or one of the other dominions get home
sick for the life the teemng cities they left behind
them and abandon 'the great open Spaces" which,
truth TO tell are cushy in fiction than in fact.
s the bishop of London outward bound
for Au.e'alia with 1000 in his pocket can
didates for Australian citizenship, has quite job
on his hands Difficult, yes, but which Britain
must solve before she is many years older, face
increasing troubles at home.