Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21

Lloyd Georges scheme to cure un-
employment by spending millions on
roads and other public improvements
figures prominently In all comment on
this side of the water on the British
prediction campaign.
1T does not very clearly appear"
says the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, that
the country needs the proposed COM
munications or that once they were
constructed the persons employed would
find further work to do. There arises
some doubt whether the persons with
out work happen to be the ones quail
fed for work Of this sort The scheme
has serious defects, but for campaign
Of offering q new medicine to chronic
sufferer. Economically the scheme Is
dubious: politically 1t Is formidable"
Admitting that "all political parties
in Great Britain are devising reform
programs and that mr.. Lloyd George
has his own panacea for labor troubles
and may be given credit for having
made the most sensational bid for votes
yet announced" the Montreal Gazette
comments: Apparently Lloyd George
believes that England can internally abb
sorb its unemployed in works Of public
improvement and that once the workers
have been settled upon the available
farm lands the whole labor problem
will be solved. As he figures 1t, the
defrayment Of the costs would come out
Of increased motor car taxation and out
Of the increased revenue derived from
enhanced land values. Upon the para
mount question as to how England, sup
posing her house to be thus set In order
is to recover her trade in the worlds
markets. not q single hint or sugges-
ton is advanced, and upon this COM
mercial revival everything else de-
ponds"
"The very fact that the former prime
minister Is devoting 30 much attention
to the unemployment ISSUE" in the
opinion of the Providence Journal, us
evidence that he regards the Labor
party as the most formidable opponent
in the election. But he faces dim
cult task In trying to persuade the
voters that the Liberals can succeed in
solving the unemployment problem.
where the Conservatives and Laborites
alike have heretofore failed. He must
realize that the unemployed have been
fed up on political promises. And he
must know that out Of their experience
of the last few years they have become
QlSITUSJIul LII ptOpOL IiOil W tAiC C~eAo'0
gance Of such promises"
Quoting, however, the promise of
Lloyd George that he will reduce the
terrible figures OF the voorhees, In q
single year to normal proportions" the
Saginaw Daily News holds that III he
can only convince the people over there
Of his ability to make good on that one
promise alone, then q Liberal victory
NAV be looked for"
The point at which the Liberals have
separated from the Labor party is dis
cussed by the Seattle Daily Times, with
the statement: 1.-THE Labor government
having so soon collapsed after failure to
meet the expectations that brought
about the coalition with the Liberals,
the latter are impelled to seek more
secure moorings for their influential
minority. Yet the Labor government
was not wholly to blame for its speedy
downfall 1t was with Liberal sponsor
ship that it undertook to cure all the
ills of which British labor complained
Its rise was attended by the fallacy that
anything and everything can be
ernmental Intervention"
"Labors program for meeting the un-
employment situation" the New York
Evening Post explains, lis not to rely
upon a financial miracle to pay those
who are set to work on road building
and other public improvements, but to
transfer for this purpose large amount
of money now expended on the army
navy and air forces. 1t would link do
mestic and international questions by
calling an international disarmament
conference, which would allow England
to divert into productive industries q
part of the money now going to defense
This plan is by no means complete
solution of the problem, but 1t is OF far
greater significance than Lloyd Georges
promises, and, furthermore, 1t is one
from which the rest Of the world would
profit AZ well as England"
"Characteristically bold In conception
is the Lexington Leaders view Of thu
concrete, specific" plan Of "the Littl.