Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-28
VOTERS APATHY
:. WORRIES BR|TONS
Plea to Go to Polls in Gen.
eraI Election Thursday Is
e. Heard on All Sides.
8y the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 28.-Apathy which
has marked the campaign for Great
Britain's general election Thursday has
begun to worry party leaders and those
organs which usually whip voters into
line.
IF YOU don't vote you will let the
other fellows In" is the cry that has
been heard at every hand, both from
the politicians themselves and from the
newspapers. The cry has perhaps been
loudest in Conservative quarters, where
bye-election encroachments on govern
ment strength and other campaign fac
tors have given rise to some fears OF
greatly diminished membership in the
House of Commons.
Lloyds underwriters have done a
considerable business in election fu-
lures during the past few days, which,
If expressed in ordinary betting symbols,
would show the odds of 1915 against the
Conservatives winning majority, 81
against the Socialists and so TO
against the Liberals.
Thunder Continues.
With just today and tomorrow left
for speeches, there has been no dim1n-
ishing of campaign thunder. Govern
ment ministers and Labor and Liberal
leaders have been engaged over all
England, Wales and Scotland in con-
tests for the 615 parliamentary seats,
about hardly one of which there Is
not some doubt.
A new note has been injected into
the speeches in reply to David Lloyd
Georges scheme to remedy unemplOy-
ment by extensive public works. He
has chosen to call his idea promise
or pledge.
Ramsay Macdonald, Labor leader, has
recalled promises" by Mr.. Lloyd
George he would seek punishment OF
the former German Kaiser on charge
of alleged war guilt.
The former coalition and Liberal
premier has countered with the state
ment the former Kaiser fed to Holland.
where he was inaccessible without an
other war, and he did not promise to
take England into war to fulfill an
other promise.
Sir John Defends Lloyd George.
In an address broadcast by radio, Sir
John Simon, one of the outstanding
Liberal leaders, warmly defended Lloyd
Georges scheme for solving unemploy-
ment against the aspersions Of Pre-
mier Baldwin. He challenged the prime
minister's view that the scheme would
inevitably damage British railways"
Sir John argued that no industry would
benefit more than the railways from the
general prosperity which would result
from the completion of the roads under
the Liberal scheme.
Ramsay Macdonald, Labor leader at
Middlesbrough. replied to heckler: IF
any of you think you are going 10 re-
duce unemployment to a normal level
in IL months you are living IN fools
paradise"
French Expenditures Raped.
Both Right Hon. Philip Snowden and
J. H. Thomas, former Labor cabinet
ministers, last night returned to the
war debts question and attacked the
settlements as unfair to Britain.
1.-The French budget just published
discloses a surplus" said Mr.. Snowden
at Bradford. France is relieving taxa
ton to the extent of ten million pounds.
She is spending money she ought to
have paid us In lending to Poland and
other Servile states for purposes OF mill
tary equipment. She Is spending 1t IN
creating the greatest air fleet in the
world, which, as Lord Balfour SAID.
could only be menace to Britain.
Sfle Is also SpeIlolllB IL Ill AiohAiS
herself q more formidable competitor
of this country in the worlds trade
markets. These debt settlements are
costing the country for the next 60
years q sum which would give pensions
of 80 shillings a week to million old
persons"
Baldwin In Worcester.
At Derby, Mr.. Thomas declared: IT
would be far better to end all these
settlements and start afresh. But II
they are not going to be wiped out.
we are not going to stand by and see
our country bled white for the benefit
of other nations"
Premier Stanley Baldwin returned
yesterday to the rural scenes In his
own constituency of Bendley in Wor-
cester. He had a hearty welcome and
talked to some of the old farmers he
has known since his boyhood.
It am about sick of London" he
said. LAS I came along the road this
afternoon I was very much tempted to
20 to Astely Hall (his residence) and
send a telegram saying I would never
20 back to London"