The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-02-26
Conditions In England


Those people in the United States inclined to scott
at the American way doing things particularly the economic
rs S n e 1DS~ h Of SIR
of the British Parliament in radio address IN TINS country
and Canada regarding conditions in England 49, oa lawn
There's old saying that few people in the world learn
anything from experience , eo. tho
sociaistic way Of doing rather than private enterprise
system would weigh carefully the English officials
they might not be sure that socialism Is the answer 70 "
Sir William it may be sad Conservative member OF
Parliament from Edinburgh Scotland Scottish business
man banking merchandising publishing and manu-
featuring :,
that before he his country with it's shilngs worth
Of sst he wane s S e the
that he road Great Britain travelling the road
which has lead degradation and lowering of human
standards in which you and we believe -, c.. 1um;,
at was by for their convenience and am sorry
politicians sometimes and am politician exploit IL I.
out the world is not good :.
In describing present conditions in Eng brought about
nv the socastc program the power ana
of these conditions were made possible or @
gives clear picture what also ne end the
American businessman and big business.
From Sir Williams speech quote:
There is widespread belief those who are
Socialists deep-rooted conviction that somehow govern
do things better than the people can 90 ,t
selves So Socialist government in Britain is aemns
it. can tell you the result very simply by quoting the re-
marks by of electors She is woman and ths
is what she said to me:
thing The more you own seems you have We own
now the Bank England in Britain but am no better OIL
We the coal mines, and have less coal we own te
roads but can't get train for my holiday ms Is soca
ism. The apparently, the less we get.
All that nv woman constituent said is true ana
more discover that approaching rear dca'or-
ship because British citizens have choice but TO ac
cent offered them; and them they nave less
of the sasactions which they formerly enjoyed Under
naturalization have less coal than even during the war
costly railway service We have RESTRICTIONS
power such extent that in my own business am
invited work night shift permanently in order to tighten
The loadu factories
All these things in opinion, have arisen out OF the
anncaton this theory ownership by the state by
the community carries with it some unique advantages ~
individual One of the complications arises from the Do
ciasts failure realize in country, that brltan Is d
handcraft country not fooled for the economies OF mass
production and therefore it cannot produce on compete
basis machine using communities produce WorKh
Socialists introduction OF the 5day week
has BEEN frankly disastrous turn out better
it is disastrous today Production mas Iae
substantially in almost every industry TO which mas o
applied.
Our housing is another example of governmental NAL
adroness have been built except under the dre
ton of government There hundreds and popao
hundreds of houses in the United hlnguoi
which stand because the planning went wrong ana
would like to if it falacy for have submitted TO
hundreds thousands of without being challenged
All that / have told you makes sad picture is
no pleasure describe it. These evils due to the
fact half century now, in the United lng
dom elsewhere, of affairs businessmen with ex
pence knOwhOw have been decried until they have
clan realize that when they deal in promises
if these promises be fulfilled they must be fulfilled
not politicians bat by the citizens themselves The poll
telling the people that businessmen cannot De
trusted to handle affairs of the matte" That policy has
become a god which bureaucrats ignoranty worship.
They speak of social security. Where does il come
from? Not from the government 1t from taxing the
people So does the public housing which the politicians like