SOCIAL CREDIT, July :2, 1937

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Vol. 6. No. 21 Registered at G.P.O. as a Newspaper.Postage (home a.nd abroad) ¥L Weekly TwopenceFRIDAY, JULY 2, 1937

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VANeE IAgainst Scare§ THE. HOME:

. § organ of the~ Board-note irony~ issue lists 31 "per__

_ ~ registered producer .. v.. 1oUllA. .l.llll~r~'ato § one indictments against our scarcity.' § planners.

'-.:l' § List reads:

A Pos'er ~ For selling milk toholesale without a~ § contract:

~ £210 on a Yon

THE Potato Marketing Board faces a dilemma.Ex-Premier Lloyd George, down on his

Surrey estate (at Churt) has reclaimed 20 acres ofrough soil-and has sown it with potatoes, the onlyway to make the soil usable for other crops.

But Mr. Lloyd George did not seek permission of the PotatoMarketing Board to sow this 20 acres.

The Board would never have given him this permission forthe "quota" for the area is exhausted.

_ £112 on a Worcestershire producer.So the Board can fine him [100-[5 for § £80 on a Lancashire producer.

every acre above quota sown. [100 for pro- ~ £66 on a Cheshi~e producer.ducing more food. § £40 on a YorkshIr~ producer.

. . . :: £18 on a Devonshire producer.And If Mr. Lloyd Ge~rge gIves h.IS 100- § £9 on a Yorkshire producer.

acre crop of potatoes to hIS h~lfd-up VIllagers ~ £~ on-a M?nmouthshire producer.he fac~s tl;te charge of lowermg the market ~ ,F or rendenng false returns:value in hIS area. § £120 on a Pembrokeshire producer.

So he would be fined for making his sur- ~ £30 on a Pembrokeshire producer.,plus crops available to those who need them. § £20 on each of three Pembrokeshire pro- _

A d hId h if h . d ~ ducers. iiin t e same wou appen I e tne § £20 on each of two Devonshire producers, ~to market them. :: £15 on a Pembrokeshire producer. §

Two alternative.uses ~~ = ",' -",,:~,·George's "surplus" potatoe~to feed his pIgs ~ . . " . §or throw them awav.· . :: For fazltng to [urnish. tnformatwn ::

Will the Potato Board act? Daily Herald § and returns:. §political correspondent says "No." If not, § £20 on a Pembroke shire producer, on a §h th B d t allow every other § r Wiltshire producer and on a Somerset §_

Q . k W k t en e ~ar mus :: producer. -UIC or farmer-as It should-to grow to full § £10 on each of three Carmarthenshire pro-

The Chamber is prepared for all-night capacity. And that would end the Board. ~ ducers, on each of two Glamorgansh!redebate. M. Bonnet must wrangle with it § producers, on each of two Lancash~re

. . :: producers, on each of two Cheshirefor powers as dictatonal as th?se asked b~ I A I. T , § producers, on a Devonshire producer,M. Blum. But they are typical bankers n ustra la 00 § on a Dorset producer, on a Somersetmeasures which he will introduce. ,. § producer, on an Isle of Wight pro-

... . '. § ducer and on a Yorkshire producer.An? by midnight 10. London It I~know!" In the Bnsbane Summo?s Court yesterday, § £5 on each of two Glamorganshire pro-that. It has been offi~ally sta~ed 10 Pans reported the Courier Mml on Ap~ll 30, Mr. ~ ducers, on each of two <:;ornwall pro-that the Government s financial proposals J. Stewart Berge, P.M., heard eight com- § ducers, on a Worcestershire producer,hi th full al f B itai d th . . hId E B d = and on a Somerset producer.ave e . approv 0 n n an e plaI.nts laid by t e Queens an gg o~r § £2 on a Lancashire producer, on a Devon-U.S.A. agamst storekeepers and growers of havmg § shire producer and on a Carmarthen-It is an international financiers' ramp, as purchased and sold eggs, respectively, other § shire producer. .

Plain as a pikestaff. than through the board contrary to the :: £1 on each of t\~o Yorkshire producers,. .., ' .. . d = on a Shropshire producer and on aHow IS the French Government; with only Pnmary Producers Organisation an § Cornwall producer. _[18:2,000 "in the till," to last another week? Marketing Acts. ~ 10/- on a Lancashire producer. ~The banks will lend it the money now it has The total of fines and costs w~s [3:2· . milIII II II III IIIIU II II II III III III II III II III II III 11111111111111II II 1111111111111111II II II 1IlF.toed the line. That is how. Ijr- ~----------~~~----------------------------~~

And the bewildered people of France willtighten their belts, and groan under penal,taxation, and suffer from rising prices, inthe midst of all their plenty.

HOW THEY' GAINEDCONTROL IN LESSTHAN TWO DAYS

Ll. Geor~Board J.

THE people of France on Tuesday night were told, that their country was practically bankrupt. Theirnew, Finance Minister, M. Bonnet, broke the news, andannounced that the Treasury on T uesday morning hadbut £182,000 in the till.

Whatever that may mean.He further informed them that they had had to borrow the

small sum of [3,636,363-frpm where? From the equivalent ofour P.O. Savings Bank.

What'Of patriotic French bankers? Did ,--------_:_I ---------,they come to their country's aid in the ma?e to appear a Napoleon of finance, washour of need? They did not. What dirty telhng the Government the tale of bankruptcy.game is this? He demands full powers to meet the situa-Readers of SOCIALCREDIThave the oppor- tion-just as Blum did. From 4 till 7 p.m.

tunity of seeing through the miasma of he and.lV!. Chautemps harangue the Financejargon and sensationalism to the truth Com~IssIo~ and th.en go to ~~ Ch~mber ofbehind this latest bankers' ramp. Deputies WIth a bill, authorising It, up to

August 31,"To take all measures bv decrees to assure

the suppression of attempts on the State'scredit; fight speculation; rebuild 'the econo-mic situation; control' prices; balance theBudget restore Treasury finances anddefend, without exchange control, thedeposits in the Bank of France."

An Echo from 1931They should bear in mind the threat to

Lloyd George uttered by the Financial Timeson September 26, 1921. It said:

"Half a dozen men at the top of the BigFive Banks could upset the whole fabricof government finance by refraining fromrenewing Treasury bills."This is the threat which is handed out

whenever the puppet politicians squeak theirdefiance of their financial rulers.

And then the financiers have some dread-ful economy drive, a Geddes Axe, or a MayReport, which plunges the whole nation inmisery and bankruptcy in the midst ofplenty.

The wonderful productive resources ofFrance. are as capable of producing abun-dance for the people today as they were lastweek. The French working man has not losthis cunning overnight.

There has been neither flood, storm, norearthquake. France and her mighty indus-tries stand where they stood last week.

But the bankers have won another round-so watch for the wave of suicides in France.

STOP PRESSThe above was written at midnight on .

Tuesday. The papers on Wednesday revealthat M. Bonnet received the approval of Mr.Morganthau and Mr. Mont:igu Norman.

The Times anticipates that the recommen-dations made by the Government EconomicAdvisers, MM. Rist and Baudouin, in theirletter of resignation to M. Vincent-Auriolover a week ago will be what the Governmentwill adopt.

It seems likely then that M. Bonnet's wel-come was planned in advance, including thefall of M. Blum's Government.

APut ..Up JobIt is worthy of note that M. Bonnet arrived

in France from the U.S. early on Mondaymorning, travelled up to Paris and actuallyhad his plans ready by five o'clock.

The Times on Monday morning was ableto announce that "the general outlines ofM. Bonnet's proposals for the reconstructionof the finances of France wert': unanimouslyapproved at a Cabinet meeting which beganat 5 p.m. and continued until 9.:20p.m."

How did he do it in the time? Whatfinancial genius! What swift unhesitatinggrasp of a complicated problem which hadbaffled the full array of M. Blum's defeatedCabinet!

What unutterable rot!Next day this marvellous man, who is

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the Minister of Health has turned down."We should accomplish it without difficulty," she says. "We have made up our

minds that we will have the last word. We are bound to have-first because weare women, and secondly, because our cause is a just one.

"The petition will be a rush job, for we want to present it before the .House ofCommons breaks up for the summer recess.

"Thousands of petition forms are being sent to the 72 branches of the Association,and members will try to get signatures at churches, factories, mills and workshops.Anybody over the age of 21, man or woman, married or single, is invited to si~"

Good luck to them! When these determined women find that, in association,they can get what they want, they will not use the word "petition."

city PlannersI!'ARMER (official. Milk Marketingof title) in its Mayialties imposed on

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*SOCIAL CREDIT, July 2, 1937

*AlbertaA SPATE of newspapers and cuttings,

. containing report& of the arrival of Mr.G. L. MacLachlan and Mr. G. F. Powell inCanada is now coming in to the Secretariat.These leave no doubt that this visit is arous-ing tremendous interest not' in Alberta only,but throughout the Dominion. "

Immediately they landed, the travellerswere surrounded by reporters clamorous' forthe "low down" on the Albertan situation,andanxious or details of the "plan" which itwas assumed had been brought over fromEngland. Similar scenes occurred at othercentres through which the train passed. Butthe newshawks, one suspects, were disap-pointed, for although their reception wasfriendly, the news they obtained was scant.

The Legislature met before MacLachlanand Powell arrived in Edmonton, but ad-journed for a week to permit of discussionswith them before any legislation was passed.On reassembling, the Budget, which was theostensible cause of the original rift in theSocial Credit ranks, was passed, and .veryshortly afterwards the Legislature was pro-rogued, members being warned that an earlyautumn session was· probable.

The report in last week's issue clearlyshows that Powell has succeeded in reunitingthe ranks of the Social Credit members.Reports from the opposition press give evi-dence of the disappointment this has causedin quarters opposed to Social Credit. Thegovernment paper, The Albertan, on the-other hand, describes the pledge whichnearly all members have signed, as "amaster stroke of diplomacy." It is a proof ofthe willingness of the Members to sink per-sonal differences in the service of thepeople's policy. The next, and much greatertest, will come when Members are calledupon to act in support of that policy. Howsoon that will be must depend on the reportsof Powell and Byrne after they have com-pleted their investigations.

Social Credit OptimismOPTIMISM and determination to go for-

ward in action were the predominantnotes at the crowded conference of SocialCrediters in London last week-end.

The way to win local objectives was dis-cussed in the light of many small succes·sesalready achieved. 'Examples of how peoplecan, in small associations, achieve their pur-pose, were cited, and the result in raisingpublic morale to a determination to get whatthey want on a national scale was stressed.

Major Douglas's speech was one of thoseprofound utterances whose effects are feltlong after their delivery. There is little doubtthat this remarkable conference, which con-cluded by sending a message of encourage-ment to Messrs. Powell and Byrne inAlberta, will leave its mark on history.

THEFIGTREE'~

A quarterly review edited byMajor C. H. DOUGLAS

THE JUNE ISSUE(specially enlarged)

contains contributions byThe Editor The Weapon of TaxationMiles Hyatt Europe on the VergeNorman Webb Social Credit and the

Christian EthicHelen Corke The Work Complex in

PoliticsJ. Crate Larkin Some Experience with

Real CreditW. L. Bardsley Mr. Hawtrey's GiraffeRonald Ogden The Choice Before

Western CivilisationD. E. Faulkner-Jones The Great Doom's

ImageMajor Douglas on

Security-Institutional and PersonalA. W. Coleman,· Charles Jones. R. L.Northridge. Gordon Baxter. Ruth Pltter,Herbert Bluen, K. McCarty. Geoffrey

Dobbs.

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The Geddes AxeTHE death of Sir Eric Geddes removes

from our midst a man who caused morehuman suffering than many a Chinese warlord. Few can forget the terror of the"Geddes Axe," which, in order to cut downGovernment expenditure, deprivedthousands of their incomes and reducedthose of millions more.

It was in 19:21, when trade was boomingand production expanding, when the peopleof this country were full of hope after thegreat "war to end war," that Sir Eric Geddeswas charged by the Government to reducenational expenditure by the huge sum of[100,000,000 a year.

The Government, in turn, had beenordered to make this cut by the bankers, wholend it the money for national expenditure.

Fooled AgainThe people themselves are responsible for

allowing the bankers to exercise this ter-rible power over them, because they do notgive orders to the Parliament which theyelect to serve them. If in 19:21 they had givensuch orders to their Members of Parliamentas we are inviting them to give now (see footof back page) they would not have allowedSir Eric Geddes to plunge them into un-necessary poverty, with all the misery thatresulted.

The people did not learn the lesson then,for the same trick was played again ten yearslater under the May Economy Committee.That second time the people got a shockthat wakened some of them up.

Twice we have allowed the bankers thusto thrust us back into deeper poverty whenwe seemed to be getting just a sniff of theplenty that could be. Let there not be athird time!

Wedgwood versus. _Niemeyer

SIR Otto' Niemeyer, the banker, has. suffered a stiff rebuke from Sir Ralph

Wedgwood, the railway manager. Sir Ottovisited India recently to survey the financialposition there, and, amongst other primitiverecommendations, advised that revenuefrom Indian railways should be used to assistin financing the new provincial reforms.

The Indian railways' revenue is very small,and can barely meet expenditure, so thismeant either that the service of the railwaysto the public would have to suffer, or thatthe provincial reforms would have to befinanced by increased taxation.

Bankers are idealists with no sense ofreality at all or they would not recommendmeasures that restrict even more than nowthe production of the immense wealth thatis still undeveloped in a country like India;for that is what Sir Otto Niemeyer's recom-mendations would do.

Well, those responsible for the practicalgovernment of India did not see how itcould be done, so they appointed Sir RalphWedgwood, of the L.N.E.R., who is evi-dently a realist, to go to India and tell themhow.

Sir Ralph Wedgwood's report was pub-lished in India early this week and its mostimportant conclusion is to turn down as im-practicable Sir Otto Niemeyer's recommen-dation.

The Individual and theDevil

IN a circular notice to London busmen, theLondon Passenger Transport Board says

that the traffic on the central buses is unsatis-factory and must be restored to "a satisfac-tory level, in the interests of the staff as wellas of the Board."

The public must be led to appreciate oncemore the services rendered by central buses."

The emphasis should be noted. The pub-

PRIVILEGED"} P. MORGAN ('the great American

• financier and particular friend ofthe Archbishop of Canterbury) was theonly private citizen in the world to beinvited into the Royal box at the Corona-tion!" - Francis P. Garvan, Americanmillionaire, speaking at a conference ofchemists held in Detroit recently, asquoted in "Social Justice."

lie is regarded as a means to the prosperity ofthe Transport Board and its employees.

The truth, of course, is that the TransportBoard should be a means to the end of pro-viding a convenience for the public. .

This changing of means into ends shouldbe opposed by Social Crediters at everyopportunity. It sacrifices the individual tothe institution, and-as every reasonable per-son must admit-the only purpose of an in-stitution is to serve the individual.

When in doubt over any matter, the ques-tion should be asked: "Will it benefit theindividual?" That is the only end worthaiming at:

The exaltation of means into ends is, In

truth, the very devil.

Why Is It?"THOUSANDS are starving in Russia,

and no one turns a hair!"The number of unemployed is increasing

in other countries, and misery at the same.time. "I've nothing to eat, I've nothing toeat" is the cry of thousands and thousands,while elsewhere values worth millions andmillions are being wantonly destroyed just tokeep the prices high.

"It was recently stated in Geneva that theSecretariat had received a proposal that thedestruction of foodstuffs and raw materialsshould be made a criminal offence in thefuture.

"At the very time that there was a greatdemand for wheat, wool and meat, morethan 2,000,000 tons of maize were used in theUnited States last year for firing loco-motives.

"In Denmark, 25,000 cows were destroyedfor the purpose of manure, while 600,000

cows were slaughtered in the United Statesto make glue and pig feed. For months at atime 50 gallons of milk were poured awaydaily just to keep the price of butter on theup-grade.

"To prevent coffee being exported at acheaper price 8,000,000 bags were destroyedpartly by machines specially constructed forthe purpose, and partly by the simple expe-

dient of throwing them into the sea.Thousands of tons of wheat have been burnt,while sheep's wool is being employed in Aus-tralia for Highway Engineering.

"Many othere examples could be quoted,if the foregoing are insufficient to showthat something is radically wrong. In themeantime, the politicians are powerless tocope with the ruthless interests of their coun-tries for the benefit of the community as awhole."

• • •This is an interesting statement to find in

a German paper (Ubersee-Post UniversalEconomic Review, Leipzig. English Edi-tion). Maybe it did not appear in the Ger-man edition, or perhaps it is meant to dis-credit politicians.

Whatever the explanation of its publica-tion, the answer to the question "Why is it?"should be familiar to every reader of thispaper.

Such things happen because the peoplelack the money to buy all that can be pro-duced; and people lack the money, becauseso far they have failed to unite in demand-ing it. 'They have failed to tell their repre-sentatives in Parliament what they want,and left it to the financial interests who en-slave the world through money shortage, todictate policy.

A New Mrs. Grundy"THE women's proper place is in the

home, rearing children and darningsocks."

No, this is not the Archbishop of Canter-bury speaking, nor is it Hitler! It is no lessa person than Defence Commissar M.Voroshuloff, who, according to the corres-pondent of the Morning Post, made thisstatement last April, when announcing thedisbandment of the women's regiments inthe Soviet Army.

There was a time when Russia was lookedupon as "so advanced." The outlook dis-closed by this statement seems old-fashionedeven here.

This Is Everybody'sBook

TOWARDS ECONOMIC FREEDOM. An Outline of -World Economic History, byHelen Corke (Methuen, 3s. 6d.)

IF you sit down to write a book on I_'ooc:I,having _in your mind thespecial idea that the purpose of eatmg IS to exercise the teeth, shall

we say, your conclusions are apt to be curious..----------------------~~~-Logically, y~u ~o.uld .decide that the richest Moreover, with the pu_rpose of ':ma~ng

foods were ShIpS-bISCUItS,or tough salt-beef, leisure" instead of "making work" In VIew,and that p'eople who had false teeth ought the diminishing number ?f t?ilsome. manualto st~p eatIng altogether. jobs can be made to .vamsh In no nme.

This may seem an absurd example, but Readers will find this book one of the mostunfortu~at~l~ in t~e study of. history and valuable ever published on t~e sl!bject. Iteconomics It IS a mistake only too commonly is especially suitable for teaching In schoolsmade. and should become a universal text-book for

We must be profoundly thankful there- the reader who is not interested in technicalfore, that here and there writers like Helen matters but wants to know the facts attrac-Corke exist, who start with no special case tively and plainly presented.to make out 'but proceed entirely on whatthey find.

This well-known author traces briefly theeconomic life of man from the Stone Ageto the present day. Her style is singularlyclear and simple. What she and the readertogether, whom she takes into her confidenceon every page, discover· from the facts isfirmly summarised in each chapter. Andwhat do they discover?

No less a truth than the very obvious onethat man in all ages and climates has fallenover himself in his eagerness to avoidunnecessary work.

Everywhere groups and individuals havetried every possible way of getting some-one or something else to do the work, inorder that they themselves should be freefor the activities they desire.

So they have invented slavery, debt-bondage, wage-employment, and pursuedthe never-ending efforts to harness naturalforces to. machines.

The last, which alone, if properly used, canharm no other individual, has been the greatmiracle of the roth century, and it has suc-ceeded beyond the wildest dreams.

But it has not yet been realised by themajority of human beings that it is the keyto what they have been striving for.

They still think that many must labour forlow wages in order that few can follow theirown desires, whereas the plain truth is thatfew now, need do any toilsome work andalmost everybody can be free all their daysto do what they like.

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Announcements & MeetingsIMPORTANT NOTICE

Brief announcements of meetings and otheractivities of groups affiliated to the SocialCredit Secretariat Ltd. will be inserted herefree of charge.

Bradford United Democrats. All enquiries wel-come; also helpers wanted. Apply R. J.

Northin, 7, Centre Street, Bradford.

Cardiff United Democrats. How to master"Obedient Servants." A series of six lectures

at 34, Charles Street, each Wednesday at 8 p.m.

DerbY. From July 3 to July 17 I shall be stayingnear Derby, and if I can help any Social

Crediters in that area, I shall be very pleased tohear from them. My address will be "HazelCottage," King Street, Duffield. I am willing toaddress meetings indoors, or out of doors. Perhapsthere is someone anxious to know more about thecampaign for local objectives.-T. H .. STORY, Ron.Sec., National Dividend Club.

Liverpool Social Credit ASSOCiation. Enquiries toHon. Secretary, Miss D. M. Roberts, Fern Lee,

Halewood Road, Gateacre, will be welcomed.

N W. London. Every Wednesday, 7 to 10 p.m.• "At Home" for N.W. contacts at 14, Richmond

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pOOle and Parkstone Group. Every Tuesday, 7I?m., The Studio, Hermitage Road, Parkstone.

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portsmouth and Southsea. Group meetings everyThursday at 8 p.m., conducted by Mr. D. Jack-

son at Elms Club, 77, Elm Grove, Southsea. Holidayvisitors and area residents are urged to make con-tact.

weymouth. Lt.-Col. J. Creagh Scott, D.S.O., willaddress the Weymouth Rotary Club at the

Gloucester Hotel (luncheon I p.m.) on July 19. Sub-ject-"The Social Credit of Democracy."

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LOCAL OBJECTIVESTHE editor will be glad to receive reports from

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II 'does not matter whether they ire Initiated bySocial Credlters, are spontaneous, or have beenjudiciOUSly fanned.

II does not matter If they Ire badly mlnaged IrlII·dlrected. It Is sovereignty thlt mltters.

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My dear Kathleen,I was very glad to have your letter

and to know that you have sparedtime to read the SOCIAL CREDITS Ihave occasionally sent you.

You ask why there is so much aboutpoverty in the paper-say that it is full ofhorrors and that such reading is verydepressing. .Forgive me when I say that any woman

who deserves the name must go through thedeepest sorrow when she apprehends thepoverty and suffering in the world.

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IVENTURE to tell your readers thatthere will never be a strike of

mothers. Since mothers and mothers-to-be make up half the human race,

:: we have here a sure foundation of the ==§ ''kin'' feeling, the sociocracy (as Auguste §§ Comte called it). . §~ As social life rests on motherhood §§ (and not on men as Prime Ministers §~ or· bus drivers), I appeal to women to ~§ consider the social difficulties connected ~§ with money, taxes, prices, wages, labour §§ conditions and strikes. §§ Perhaps some Joan of Arc waits for §~ the voices speaking through your ~§ columns. §§ I will specially pray Joan not to §~ expect strikes can be ended by preach- ~~ ing to employers and employees, "Be ~~ patient, be brotherly, and all will end ~~ well." This 'maxim grinding is a ~§ hindrance. §§ Every woman, man and child is §§ entitled to the basic decencies of §§ food, clothing, shelter and education. I §~ put the woman first, for reasons stated ~§ above. §~ We get so accustomed to a stage ~~ crowded with men that we are apt to ~~ forget the women and children as vital ~~ factors. ~~ * ~~ Our world of 1937 (far different from ~~ Wat- Tyler'S of 1337) is very rich in its ~§ social heritage from our fathers'

labour, invention and service. Ourmo~ey ought to equate with our wealthand be based on our ever-increasingproduction PQwer.

Parliament should see that eachwoman receives, without working forit, a National Dividend, and each manand child also.

Joan and I ignore the warning thaton receipt of such dividends motherswill neglect their children, and fatherswill all get drunk. -

*An East London woman said to asocial worker; "I would like to see a

- bill of country from my door insteadof all these filthy chimneys, backyards,

= dustbins and hen pens; and some~ decent clothes for ~y two little girls~ and the boy." And she added, ''No, I~ never go out; for myself I ask:: nothing."

Is it likely that such mothers, onreceipt of a National Dividend, wouldturn into devils of neglect and. swinish-ness?

Such dividends would not meantaxation, would not mean governmentby Whitehall bureaucrats, would notmean raised prices (for Parliamentwould control prices).

Joan can see they would mean ajoyous womanhood.

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Join Uspain will lessen as soon as she finds reliefin action. ...

neglect this, perhaps my onlyof persuading you to join with

I cannotopportunityus.

You say that economic experts are unani-mous that it would be impossible to pay aNational Dividend and that you cannotbelieve they are wilfully blind and selfish.

The spirit that condemned Galileo andPasteur is still abroad.

For twenty years Pasteur's discoverieswere scorned, and during that timethousands of mothers had to die from puer-peral fever.

Galileo was imprisoned and forced torecant. Today' his theory is learned byevery schoolboy.

Do not have too much respect foreconomic experts. They are not expertsin the same sense as doctors and chemists.There is, in fact, no science of economics. It

is merely an apology for the present stateof affairs.

Its so-called laws are here today and gonetomorrow.

Canute could not rule the tides, but Mus-solini can fix the price of foodstuffs, thusinvalidatingthe "law of supply and demand."

It would be easy to bore you with otherexamples of interested people "breaking"economic laws when it suited them.

The whole thing is one. gigantic scheme-of wire-pulling for the benefit of the few.

But the people are led to believe thattheir jm..isf!ortunesare the result of theworking of inexorable forces.This game of bluff is put over in the popu-

.lar press by .clever youn~ men. ..who knowhow to -dish it up convincmgly.

It is on the whole a· good thing that womengenerally are not interested in such articles.

For they teach nothing except how to calla spade a pitchfork. ....

do not understand how to manage the bank-ing system, but we know the food is thereand that the children need it. We insistthat they shall be fed."

At this point the expert will say (if youare still listening to him) "But that will upsetthe money system."

So systems are more important than life?He would have you believe that it is so

delicately balanced that if we interfere withthe works terrible things may happen. Soit is better to leave it as it is.

Do not be deceived by this appeal tothe woman's love of permanence andstability. For life is becoming increasinglyinsecure.A few of the amazing discoveries of science

are available to the individual-he can travelmore easily, his home is more comfortable(if he can afford it), his doctor more skilfuland his food more varied.

Apart from this it is difficult to think otione way in which conditions have notworsened-your own short life has includedthree terrible wars-two of them in Europe,people no longer feel safe, either from airraid or revolution, their liberty is curtailedby higher and still higher taxation, theirlivelihood is progressively insecure.And this is the system we are prayed not

to change, for fear worse may befall us.At the close of one of his most impressive

speeches, Major Douglas said "The game iswith you."

I can think of no better words to end myletter than these. Yours must be the decisionand"".th~&pdlllaibiK"'.i'-<~·'~ •.'-'.,..:-,. ,.,' ~". ,",

But I do hope you will. write again nextweek, and ask for another copy of SOCIALCREDIT.

Yours as ever,

Pa_g:e 3

BESS

Suppose that a hundred thousand sick,children were dying for want of a special i-----a...------------medicine which could be brought to them F NEWby railway. And suppose we were told that orthe medicine could not be brought becausethere were not enough labels to stick on the , READE R Scrates? IF -

Last week it was announced in Parlia-ment that there were nearly two hundredthousand children in this country sufferingfrom subnormal nutrition.In 1934 there were destroyed one million

railway trucks of grain, two thousand fivehundred tons of meat, and thousands oftons of other foodstuffs. This was themedicine that would have cured these chil-dren.

Why cannot the food reach the children?Simply because of the ticket system, formoney is only tickets.

Restriction has now taken the place ofdestruction-farmers' are forbidden togrow more potatoes or produce more pigsor milk in order that "prices may be regu-lated.""Restriction" does not sound as baa as

"destruction," but there -is very little differ-ence in its results. ...,

Who do you think will insist on puttingthings right? Those who run the system?If we do not insist on an alteration, there

will be very little hope for the world.It is our responsibility. We must say "We

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This was the remark made by Police-Inspector Hodson at St. Ives (Hunts.) PoliceCourt when Herbert Mayes, of AbbotsRipton, a farm worker, was summoned forfailing to send two of his children to school.

Mayes did not appear, as he is sufferingfrom gastric trouble. It was said that thetwo children had no shoes.

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Vol. 6. No. 21. Friday, July :2, 1937

Economist'sSwan Song

S I.R WILLIAM BEVERIDGE last weekgave a farewell address to the

London School of Economics, from thedirection of which he is to retire shortly.

He complained of the treatment ofeconomists. They are not given thedeference he considers due to a body ofpeople whose number is growing rapidlyevery year, either by men of affairs or byscientists in other fields. Economistsalways disagree with each other, and areso nearly always wrong that the publicis at last coming to regard them as use-less and incompetent. They are nolonger even much of an investment forthe banks and insurance companies, whoendow institutions like the LondonSchool, and the University chairs ofEconomics.

Yet finance still seems prepared tomaintain tame salesmen of conflictingtheories to confuse the public mindwhile the real work is being done behindthe scenes.

SIR WILLIAM correctly suggests thatone principal reason for the general

contempt into which economists havefallen is their failure to be scientific inmethod. They neglect facts as the basisand control of theories.

This is sound criticism from anunexpected quarter. So long as the' so-called economic "scientist" ignores thefact' of abundance and the equallyobvious fact that lack of money, and onlylack of money, prevents that abundancefrom being used, he will remain a hope-less quack.

Sir William advanced another reasonfor which, in his opinion, social scientistswere not .responsible - the commonfailure both of the general public and ofother scientists to understand the natureof economic problems.

The engineer, or any other technician,he said, considered alternative means ofmeeting a given need. The economistdescribed and explained the behaviourof . mankind in the use of scarceresources. Their spheres were different,and engineering skill was no guide inthe solution of economic problems.

THIS display of confused reasoningby an eminent economist can

hardly be expected to raise the status ofeconomists in the public mind.

The first absurdity is the picture,admitted by Sir William to be a correctpicture, of economists explaining thebehaviour of mankind in the use of"scarce resources."

Every member of the public knowsthat resources are so abundant that onlyorganised destruction and restriction ona colossal scale, undertaken on the adviceof economists, has enabled their scarcityconditions to. be partially maintained,with millions of producers unemployed,and more millions deprived of themonetary claims which would inducestill more plenty to be produced.

Economists are a body of men whoexplain to us, in the midst of abundance,how we behave in the use of scarceresources! A sillier, more mischievous,and contemptible occupation couldscarcely be conceived.

APPARENTLY, also, Sir Williamthinks that economists are better

equipped than engineers to solve econo-mIC problems, and that they can do sowithout considering alternative means ofmeeting a given need.

It becomes easy to understand theimpatience of many engineers, scientistsand business men. They believe thatthe purpose of an economic system is toprovide people with the goods and ser-vices they want.

They naturally wish ~o" adapt ~eabundant means at our disposal to thisend, while economists theorise about ourbehaviour in scarcity!

SOCIAL CREDIT" July 2:. 1937

StandsAccused?Who

-ON PLANNEDSCARCITY CHARGEONE of the most peculiar facts

which appear when you readthe war biographies published theselast 15 years is that the muddles com-mitted during the war and at the PeaceTreaty were nobody's fault.

Everybody knows now that. webungled things so badly, over and overagain, that we deserved to lose the war,and very nearly did. But all the lead-ing statesmen of those days and all thesoldiers and sailors in high commandhave proved with dignity and irre-futable logic that no blunder was theirfault.

The Master BlunderWas Nobody' s Fault!

The blunders were therefore obviouslyacts of God or naughty freaks of nature, likeearthquakes or sunspots. All the humanagents in. the tragedy of Armageddon-allthose on the British Front at all events-actedwith unerring judgment and far-sightedacumen. If any of them seemed in the lightof subsequent history to have blundered, itwas an illusion.

In another twenty-five years a new q'opof autobiographies will be on the bookstall,"and once again we shall find that we arewrong in blaming anybody for past history.The Master Blunder of misemployirig theentire machinery of politics to keep thegood things of life from the people wasnobody's fault.

Just think ofall the books which are goingto be written! When the world comes out ofits catalepsy and realises what has beenhappening, what an outbreak of literarydropsy there will be! Every public figurewill have to prove that whoever else was toblame, he was not. The publishers will havethe time of their lives.

•BUT let me anticipate a little and holda Court of Enquiry now. Who are the

culprits?Suppose we bring a charge against' our

local Member of Parliament. He will reply,lowering his voice as he does so, that he isa humble Back Bencher, and that much ashe would like to do something to make thisworld a better place he is as powerless as aprivate on battalion parade. Party Politics(in a whisper) is a wangle. He is a cog ina machine, and those who control the leversand switches are the Cabinet Ministers.

Suppose we accept his excuses and accusethe Cabinet. How will they reply?

The Civil ServantsAre Real Rulers

Let Mr. Hamilton Fyfe answer for themin a recent article published in ReynoldsNews.

He says the idea that the Cabinetgoverns the country is entirely mistaken.In theory, Cabinet government is theBritish system. The text-books say so.But in practice, very few Cabinet Ministershave anything to do with the decisions thatreally matter.

The Civil Service is responsible for manyof these decisions. How many Chancellorsof the Exchequer have proposed anythingthat was not put up to them by Treasuryofficials? Has not our Foreign Office policybeen determined for at least seven years bySir Robert Vansittart?

Other' matters are decided by the PrimeMinister of the moment, or a small innerCabinet ring, such as that of Asquith, Grey

and Haldane, which kept their fellowMinisters in complete ignorance of theirdoings at the outbreak of war in 1914.

They Do WithoutCabinet In Crisis

Then he gives examples, reminding us thatthe present Prime Minister thrust forwardhis recent much discussed tax without givingthe other Cabinet Ministers the opportunityof discussing it first.

He tells how Mr. Baldwin, the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and "the Bucking-ham Palace gang" fixed up the abdication,for which the Cabinet incurred neither thecredit nor discredit for the methods em-ployed.

Whenever any crisis occurs, whenever rapidand important action has to be taken, theRuling Class does without a Cabinet. Thusthe war was managed by a few dictators.

Cabinet Ministers are therefore not a vitalpart of the governing machine.

•DO you see how it is? Not even the Cabinet

is responsible for whatever the State maydecide to do, and still less our other electedrepresentatives in the House of Commons. So .when they come to write their books to provethey were in no way to blame for the scandalsof poverty in plenty, they will have anabsurdly easy job.

Many of them will say that they were notunaware of the true situation, in fact theywere fully cognisant of the grave state ofpublic affairs; at the same time, they have nohesitation in venturing to state that it wassomebody else upon whom devolved thesolemn duty, and so on, and on, and on.

Really what it comes to is that we are"represented" in Parliament by men whodon't do any real governing. The genuineGovernors, the Treasury, the Bankers, the'permanent Civil Servants, are outside our

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Just think of all the bookswhich are going to bewritten! When the worldcomes out of its catalepsyand realises what has beenhappening, what an out..break' of literary dropsythere will be ! Every publicfigure will have to provethat whoever else was toblame, he was not. The::'publishers will have thetime of their lives. _

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field of vision, and hardly subject to the pres-sure of public opinion at all, because thepublic doesn't even know who they are.

Shadowy FiguresI

Behind The ScenesThese shadowy figures behind the scenes

are men of outstanding ability; they areexperts, in fact, and because they are' expertsthe mere amateurs of Westminster often feellike newly gazetted Second-Lieutenants inthe presence of the Sergeant-Major.

Mr. Fyfe ends his article by suggestingthat Cabinet Ministers. and Members of Par-liament! should be mere figureheads, readingto the House the answers supplied them bythese permanent officials.

But after all, what do we send them toWestminster for except to keep in touch withus and see that our policy is carried out?

To pose as experts or to act as humanmicrophones for the Civil Servants is worsethan useless. They are there to acceptresponsibility that our policy is carried outand to see that the' experts do carry it outinstead of dictating a policy of their own.

The ModernNewspaper-By A Correspondent

I AM a newspaper man on a greatBritish newspaper. The Editor

directs it skilfully in the policy of thosehe serves.

Our pages are consistently provoca-tive to Hitler and Mussolini. We darethem to come and pull .our nose, anoffer they are almost certain to accept.The truth is, we rather welcome a war,although we know quite well that itwill be heralded by an aerial attack onour crowded cities. But we serve ahigher purpose.

That purpose is the destruction ofreal democracy, and this can best beattained under the constant threat ofwar. The dangerous thing about us isthat we have no reputation for "yellow"journalism.

On the contrary we are esteemed assoundly democratic, and we are fore-most in the clamour for Peace, whichwe say could be obtained if onlyforeigners were not so wicked.

You will notice, however, that wehave little to say about really demo-cratic movements, and that little isinvariably misleading. Major Douglas,the rank-and-file movements in theTrades Unions, and any other effortsto secure that the will of the majority

.shall be served, receive short shrift withus.

But we are always ready to devotesplash headlines and columns of printto Union "leaders," Labour Partychiefs, sham strike-movements likethose of Lewis in the States, where thebrutal police apparently are pleased tohave their activities filmed by Holly-wood, and the atrocities in Spain,China, Germany, Abyssinia-anywhereexcept in Britain.

We maintain throughout;. a highmoral note, and delight in getting holdof eminent divines to write articles forus on the decline or the growth ofreligious feeling among the young.Nothing, indeed, amuses our realmasters more than this aspect of ourwork, in which we enlist the services ofsincere, unworldly Peters to aid, us infrustrating the lives of countless Pauls.

The only effective weapon whichcould be used against us is the unitedrefusal of the majority of our readersto continue taking the paper, unlesswe really lived up to our protestations.

But, poor dupes, they are not likelyto read between the lines of ourextremely clever falsification of everyissue, in which the black is made toappear white without any question.

RENOUNCED COMMUNISMFOR SOCIAL I

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P.ATIENTOX

COMMUNISM originally attractedme because like everyone else I

suffered from over-developed respectfor marvellousness, stupendousnessand mystery. It was irresistiblydramatic to play a part in the pro-gramme for ' 'seizing the means ofproduction. ' , I wanted to see moralmeans used for economic betterment.

I came to see that I was hypnotised. Itwas the realisation that capitalists as suchhave no say in financial policy that generatedthe seeds of belated wisdom.

In spite of my poor state of personal wealthI observed that I had as much say as thewealthiest man in the land on. such. ques-tions as deflation or inflation, or indeed anymatters related to financial policy, which wereleft to the' self-appointed finance capitaliststhat rule the banking oligarchy.

SLUMP LESSONEven my Socialist and Communist papers

endorsed the assertion that the hand thatwrites the bank draft rules the world. I'was struck by the fact that the picturepresented to me by Communists, of richand parasitical employer and exploitedworker, was false. .I began to realise that both the employer

and the- employee were caught in the samenoose of financial strangulation. The employercould not afford to pay the employee a livingwage and remain in business. The employeecould not afford to 'allow the employer aliving profit and survive. Some master reasonwas at work.

The slump of 1917 to 1924 with the recordrate of 5,500 bankruptcies per annum provedconclusively that even the hated employerwas not immune from disaster. Was it pos-sible that these capitalists were deliberatelydirecting a system that brought about theirown extermination?

Obviously no. The cause was to be foundelsewhere, . The more I studied the moreconvinced I became that it resided in finan-cial policy,

WRONG BILLETThe Communist expends his energies on

the capitalists, who are merely the effects ofbad finance, while the causation is allowedto proceed unmolested. He directs his bulletat . the wrong billet. Thus he unwittinglybecomes an accessory to the real enemy,finance capitalism.

Communism elevates the State, whichis an' abstraction, and subordinates theindividual. It preaches toil, whilst SocialCredit preaches leisure and abundance.Thus does Communism take the characterof its avowed enemy Fascism.The recent records of Communism with its

revolting purges of its own highest officialsare a sort of carbon copy of its twin relative,Fascism. There must be somethinginherently rotten in a system that producessuch hellish results. .

While retaining profound respect for thegreat Russian experiment in its inception, Iam reluctantly compelled to admit here isabundant proof that it has developed nowinto an unworkable system. It is trying tosuperimpose the ideas of the ant on man.

G.B.].

I REALISTS ITWOIN my view machinery must always be

subordinate to purpose, and not purposeto machinery ...I do not understand the technical details

of the scheme. Never cumber up the mindwith too much detail because if you do thatyou will not see the wood for the trees.Although I do not understand the details Iam very good on the fundamental basis ofan idea, and in this case the idea is a goodone. The technicians will work out the thingfor us.

Extracts from speech by General SecretaryW .. ]. Brown, at Annual Conference ofC.S.C.A.

I firmly.believe that the remedy rests withthe consumers. If there are enough of themto demand that which is best and to pay theprice, there will not be any difficulty in ob-taining as good supplies as in days gone by.-Andre L. Simon, President, Wine & FoodSociety, in the "Daily Telegraph," June 4·

A Thought for the Week·All free peoples should be oppressed now

and then to make them value their libertyproperly. From "Horse and Hound," June 4

He thinks he's going somewhere

Pag~ S

The WorldGold

RacketTHE Bank of England is buying

new gold at the rate of £7 anounce. Russia at the moment is oneof the greatest of the world's gold-producing countries.

The reality of the gold farce works likethis: somebody in Russia digs out some goldat a cost (real cost) of his labour and whathe consumes in the process, thereby consum-ing, but not adding to, the real wealth ofthe world.

The gold may then be transported at thecost (real cost) of labour and what is con-surned by the labourers in transport. Arrivedin England, the Bank creates credits to theamount of [7 for every ounce of the newgold bought. The ~old is promptly buriedin a' vault, and British taxpayers have tostart paying the rent charged for storage.

£7 ClaimThe Russian producer of the gold now has

a claim on British industry to the extent of[7 for every ounce Of gold he has handedover to the Bank of England.

The gold is of no value or use to Britishindustry or to British people (both func-tioned quite well without any gold duringthe war), thus the Russians, by performingthe task of digging one ton of utterly use-less gold and handing over to the Bankof England (who re-bury it), acquire claimsagainst British producers of over a, quarterof a million pounds worth of goods.Isn't "sound finance" wonderful?And are not British industrialists also

wonderful? Yes, they are, beyond belief.No wonder the Bank propagates work-

worship-the British industrialists actuallycompete with each other for the privile{te ofWORKING for the Russians, and gettingnothing from the Russians of any value inreturn. So another British industrialist isset to work by the Bank to pay (in goods)the British industrialist who is working forthe Russians 1

(See footnote at bottom of column) G.H.

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you for the unsatisfactory condi-tions.

3. ,Demand from him the results youwant.

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A FEW days ago I noticed a rather ful-some article in a leading daily paper

eulogising the Control Boards of the Govern-ment, singling the Agricultural for specialmention.

Its chief point for praise was that it hadsucceeded in cutting down the supply ofproduce to meet the demand, pointing outamong other benefits that farmers werefined £5 per acre for any acres grown morethan they were licensed to plant!What an imbecile boast to make. Taking

a pride in destroying real wealth in order toassist financial credit (paper credit). Cannothing be done to remove this blindness·that is obscuring the vision of the press?

J. C. ROLLIN

even to the journalists who· prepare thematerial for publication. ;

The problem, therefore, is not how to curetheir blindness but rather how to convincenewspaper proprietors that honesty is thebest policy.

While circulation. figures go on mounting,isolated letters of protest are not likely tohave much influence, although, when care-fully worded, such letters sometimes. get intoprint. It is often a better plan to write acongratulatory letter to an editor, when abit of good sense slips out (as it occasionallydoes).

It is well to bear in mind also that SOCIAL

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"Yau take into stock half-a-dozen copies ofSOCIALCREDITthis week and give them anopen display. If you have an)' left at theend of the week I will buy them from you,so that your profit on the complete half-dozen is guaranteed."

BouquetCONGRATULATIONS on your excellent

new correspondence feature. Such useful,helpful commentaries on readers' queriesshould be of all-round benefit.

The current issue of SOCIALCREDITas awhole is a credit to the Social Credit move-ment. I hope all members of the movementwill use this credit to the full.

London L E. H. SMITH

[The increase of the Equalisation Fund [debated by Parlia--ment last Monday) by the amount of £20<>.()()().()()(), measuresthe value of real wealth at present prices that the Bank intendsto void out of this country, for no return whatever beyond eheuseless yellow, metal. and the privilege of working for theRussian, so that the Russian can work for the Bank.

Incidentally. the refusal of the French Chamber of Deputiesto fan for this trick is the real, though hidden/ reason for theirpresent crisis. Says the banker, in effect, I Oh well, if youobstruct MY plans. let the franc find its own level."-G. H.J

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y00 And The Money SystemBEFORE you were born it cost

your parents money to preparefor your coming. Afterwards theyspent money on you, and on them-selves to buy food, clothing, shelter,education, travel, amusement - onlicences.and taxes and rates-and nowyou spend money on these things.

There is nothing at all you can do with-out money. Money does not buy happiness,but it buys the things without which it isimpossible to keep alive at all.AH the money has to be arranged for by

experts, just as all the electricity has to bearranged for by experts, and all the otherthings which are organised in the modemworld.

Decisions have to be taken.It is terribly important to you that these

public services should be run properly foryou. Wrong decisions cause a rot of incon-venience, worry, delay and disappointmentto you and everyone else. Decisions can beso wrong that life just becomes intolerable,as the huge suicide roll of over 5,000 a yearbears witness.

FOR example, the CunliffeCommittee, which consis-

ted mainly of bankers, and a Treasuryofficial, had to take decisions about moneyafter the war. They decided that there wastoo much money about, and that it would

have to be reduced. This was called Defla-tion.

Here is what Mr. McKenna, formerlyChancellor of the Exchequer and now chair-man of the Midland Bank, said about it:

"A policy of defiation could only end instrangulation of business and widespreadunemployment. It meant, however, enhan-cing the value of war and post-war holdingsand restoring the value of pre-war hO'ldinfts,thus raising the total claims of the rennerclass (that is, the class which lives oninterest), not only beyond what they areentitled to, but to' an intolerable proportionof the total income of the community." ,

At the present time huge quantities ofgoods that money could buy are beingdestroyed, and the production of still largerquantities of goods IS being restricted.

Moreover, 13,500,000 people in thiscountry have less than 6s. a week each tospend on food. You may be one of them.

You probably know these things, andhate them; are indeed ashamed that theyshould happen in your country.

money, or you may think you do. In eithercase you will have found how difficult it isto get much attention for your ideas-whether from those who suffer from the "HE' . bli bresults of the decisions taken by experts, or ISa pu IC enefactor who canfrom the experts themselves. provide employment for two

Meanwhile, the experts go on taking men where only one was employeddecisions. They must, and they have to be before."guided by some consideration or other. Th' . .

What considerations are to guide the . <;tt,m.all se.nous~ess, IS what theexperts? Their own interests? Someone maJonty in this blind world stillelse's interests? Whose interests? believes. Alone in the world 18 yearsUpon the a~sw~r. ~o t;hat questlon hangs ago, Major C. H. Douglas showed u

the fate ?f. ~hIS.civilisation and of all sub- this the supreme fallac f th f psequent civilisations. ' . . . y ~ e age, or

~h<;tt.It Is-a plausible tnck to subjectindividuals to a treadmill of work forwork's sake.

WORKMANIACS

MOST people know very littleabout money and the rules

and regulations that are in force in regardto it, and all the big and little changes thatare made in them. Perhaps you may feelthat you have not enough time to masterits intricacies, or even that you would neverunderstand them, however hard you tried.

Or you may be one of a smaller numberof people who do know a great deal about

A N examination of the actualdecision to deflate, recorded

above, discloses, in the words of Mr. . .McKenna, that its results benefited all e~il~ons now se~ throu~h t~is cruel t~ick,lenders at interest and created intolerable y .stIll they are m a mmorrty, and still aoonditions for borrouiers and for everybody servile press mouths the mass-hypnotising lie.else. Look at the suicide roll again. Formerly, he was a public benefactor who

The Cunliffe Committee was composed of could make two blades of &rass grow wherebankers; bankers are lenders at interest. one grew before. Now he IS an offender, a

Men and women of Britain, the game is maker of un saleable gluts.with you. Whether you like it or not, Two men watched a steam, shovel clear-whether you understand all about it or not ing the foundations for a great building.-you are responsible, and you will have to Said one, "If only they had used spadesbear the consequences of whatever is done. they could have provided jobs for a hun-

You have to find a way to bring pressure dred men." "Aye," said the other, and heto bear on the experts so that their deci- was the village idiot, "and there could besions shall be in your interests. a thousand of them if they used saltWe offer you the means in the Electoral spoons."

Campaign. Take it or leave it: YOU ARE The imbecility at the top of this columnRESPONSIBLE. was not that of the village idiot. It came

from The Times of October :27,1936.

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W .C.2, is the centre of the SocialCredit movement, and exists to imple-ment the policy of Social Credit, whichis to establish individual freedom insecurity. Its chairman, elected bysupporters of the Secretariat in thiscountry, is Major C. H. Douglas, theoriginator of the Social Credit Pro-posals, who is assisted by a board ofdirectors, each in charge of a specificdepartment.

The chairman and directors are unpaid.The paid servants are the Secretary andEditor, and the clerical, editorial andpublishing staff. The Secretariat is financedentirely by voluntary contributions.

The Secretariat is a non-profit-makingcompany, limited by guarantee in order toprotect its servants. It was founded in 1933and serves as the headquarters of affiliatedgroups all over the country, and a largenumber of individual registered supporters.

THE activities of the SocialCredit Secretariat are com-

hensive, embracing services to supporters inthe political field, in financial technique, andin overseas relations.

It affords opportunities for active work tothe varying abilities and inclinations of allsupporters of Social Credit, who have alreadyprovided brilliant examples both of individualinitiative and of concerted action. Some ofthe Secretariat's many activities are sum-marised below.

(1)THE Electoral Campaign to' purifydemocracy and crystallise the will of

the people in a clear united demand toParliament for the results they want,instead of a disunited wrangle over pro-grammes, methods and technicalities asat present. Full particulars on request.

tutions; this is the frimary step towardsthe establishment 0 true democracy. Inevery locality, for example, institutionsexist to provide ratepayers with satisfac-tory water supplies, gas, roads, transportand so forth. It is notorious that in onedirection or another these institutionsare not giving people what they want.This is a perversion of democracy whichcan be ended only by ratepayers in alocality uniting to demand that theirinstitutions give them the results theywant, instead of what some bureaucracythinks they should have.

(3)PUBLICATIONS, which include:SOCIAL CRf:DIT, zd, weekly, for news

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THE CONFIDENTIAL SUPPLE-MENT, free monthly to registered sup-porters. See back page of SOCIALCREDIT every week for particulars.Articles on financial technique appear inthe Supplement; also full reports ofspeeches by Major Douglas.

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There is also a large range of books,pamphlets, and leaflets on Social Credit,the Electoral Campaign, the economicanalysis and proposals, and the philo-sophy.

(4)THE Information Department suppliesgeneral information on Social Credit to

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(8)EXTERNAL relations are beingdeveloped vigorously. This department

is engaged in assisting various bodies ofpeople united by a common Interest tovoice their POLICY-i.e., the results theywant in the order of importance to them-in regard to' national affairs. Excellentprogress has been made in agriculturalcircles. Attention has also been givento Peace organisations, and, as circum-stances permit, this service will beextended to other bodies.

(9)OVERSEAS relations are maintainedwith over 30 countries in all parts of the

world, and the influence of Social Creditis progressing rapidly.

The Governments of New Zealand andAlberta have both been elected by theSocial Credit vote, and though the resultshave so far not been delivered, there aresigns that the electorates will not besatisfied until they get them.

(10) CONTACT. At the Social Centre,163A, Strand, and by frequent visits

from directors and liaison officers all overthe country, contact is being made withour friends in the movement throughoutthe year.

THE cant about work makes strange bed-fellows, Mr. Roosevelt's declared policy

is to "put the people of the United States towork."

The Labour Party. in Britain is namedafter one kind of work and certainly sub-scribes to the same work fetish that isenshrined in the new U.S.S.R. constitution.

The attitude of all these work maniacs wasput into ~ few words a month or two agoby a Conservative, Mr. W. S. Morrison,Minister of Agriculture, when he said:

"The only device which man has yet dis-covered, by which the wealth of society canbe distributed, is by work in the field, thefactory, or the office. Unless there is distri-bution it is of no use producing. That iswhy politicians guide themselves mainly bythose policies which produce the greatestamount of employment."

• • •WORK is the expenditure of energy, and

energy can be expended by humanbeings, by beasts, and by all the unlimitedforces of nature through the machine.

Nowadays most of the "work" in civilisedcountries is done by machines, and the ser-vices of men and 'beasts are less and less.required.

Right, left and centre, they all want to keepman's nose to the grindstone...• • •LABOUR is the work men do because

nature makes them. In the sweat of hisbrow has man laboured, and been rightlyproud of his achievement. For in the waysof a thousand years he has shifted most ofthe burden on to the backs of machines.

Toil is the work men do because othermen compel them. Stalin gives it the rightname. It is slavery, oppression, blasphemy.

Leisure, the work men do because theywant to, is the crown of glory. Nearly allthe greatest achievements of art, of adven-ture, of invention, of the mind, and of thespirit, are the work of what we call leisure.

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PRESS DIGESTFORCLIPPINGS

Steel

CHILDREN, an electric iron and gloves,were classed together as luxuries by Mr.

Ronald Powell, London South-Westernpolice court magistrate, yesterday.

To a woman shoplifter, who stated that shekept a family of 12 on less than £4 a week,and who pleaded guilty to stealing an electriciron and a number of pairs of gloves, he said:

''1 cannot see what use these things areto you people. They are all luxuries, and Icannot see any justification for takingthem."To a husband summoned for arrears under

an affiliation order, who declared he had diffi-culty in keeping his wif~ and four children,the magistrate said:

"If you must have these luxuries youmust pay for them." .

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were coming through, and firms werenot even getting an allocation.-({Birmingham Gazette," June 24.

Concern is spreading at the way in whichthe famine in steel is stopping production andlosing employment in a wide range ofindustries.

Mr. J. Smedley Crooke, a BirminghamTory Member of Parliament, pointed out ina Parliamentary question yesterday what agrave position had arisen.

"Owing to the high tariff of roughly :25 percent., the cost of imported steel, the rawmaterial in these industries, is prohibitivelyexpensive," he added. .

Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Boardof Trade, replied that the Import DutiesAdvisory Committee was considering how toincrease imports without adversely affectingthe flow under the agreement with the Con-tinental Steel Cartel. - "Daily Herald,"June :23 •.

CAR INSURANCE RACKET

WHILE the new French Cabinet met forthe first time on Thursday, the Paris

Bourse was booming.The boom was not due to anticipations of

measures that the new Finance Ministermay choose to make, but rather of those thatmay be forced upon him by circumstances.

It was perfectly clear that financiers expectgreater liberty for the franc on the exchangemarket.--:-"Daily Herald." June 25-

MOTOR insurance companies are out to mulct motorists of another million pounds-more if they can get it.

Motorists already pay more than £30,000,000 in motor insurance premiums every year.Now the insurance companies are explaining that the "fully comprehensive" insurance

policy, which mo~t motorist~ regard as covering them fully against any claim, is not"exactly" fully comprehensive,

It does not protect them, for instance, against the legal costs of a manslaughter

charge. .' hi h th . th be b h .To cover the motonst against t s c arge,. e most senous at can roug t againsta driver, the insurance companies are charging from lOS. to £1 "according to the experi-ence of the driver."

I asked an official of one of the bigges~ insurance companies, yesterday, why thiscomparatively slight risk was not included In the general policy.

"Oh," was the reply, "we could not condone a criminal offence."., But they are prepared to, apparently, on payment of asum in the region of £1.

Scandal of the whole affair is that last yearonly 105 charges of manslaughter broughtagainst motorists were tried before juries, and77 of the cases were dismissed. '

There are, to-day, 4,000,000licensed driversin Britain. The cost of the defence of 105would amount to about £20,000.

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amount when you are unemployed as whenyou were working?" Mr. Registrar Friendasked a defendant at Clerkenwell CountyCourt yesterday.

Defendant-It makes no real difference tome. I get 30S. a week for working, and :29S.from the Labour Exchange when I don't._" Morning Post," June :2.

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GOVERNMENTSTHE Brazilian Government there-

fore finds itself faced with a mostdifficult problem. It is known that ascheme has been formulated wherebyfarmers should destroy' a" certain pro-

__ portion of tlleir trees in return for a- payment in cash. '

TIlls policy. however, would probablyprove only a temporary palliative sinceit is feared that new trees' would beplanted, and directly these came to thebearing stage the situation would be as·bad as ever. - "Evening Standard]"

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*HARVEST worries Germany. TheGerman food problem is solved __:_

for the moment. There are now suffi-cient reserves of grain to' carryoveruntil the haroest begins. This has beenachieved by drawing on the last of thecountry's foreign currency reserves. -"Daily Mirror." June :2:2.

*THE Prime Minister, moving in the

House of Commons last nightthat salaries of Members of Parlia-ment be raised from £400 to £600 ayear-earried by 325 to 17-told howprivate budgets> of Members ot Par-liament, given in confidence to himand Earl Baldwin, showed some to begoing hungry.

Others were exhausting theirsavings; or cutting the cost of their

_ children's education; or were unable to~ live in London seven days in the week.§ -"Daily Express," June :23. _

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CHILDREN in the Ranskill Road area of, Sheffield go to Coleridge Road Council

School by bus.-But the pus service was restricted early in

May to children up to eight years old only.Parents of older children' promptly went

on strike and won, while their children hada holiday.

At a protest meeting parents declared thatwalking to school through the traffic wasdangerous and they demanded the restora-tion of the bus service-and got it.

Things TheyWant

Wickford ratepayers want better streetlighting.-"Evening News," June :21.

*Wilmington, Kent, wants a better 'bus ser-vice.-"Evening News," June :22.

*Well-meaning councillors of Upper Denby,near Huddersfield, have decided to changethe district's water supply-because thepresent supply is sometimes contaminated bysurface water. And Upper Denby residentsare not a bit pleased. They say the waterthey at present receive-from Rusby Woodreservoir-looks pure and clean "and makesa lovely cup of tea."-"Daily Mirror]' June:2:2.

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Disillusioned IrishWooed By Mr. de

ELECTIONPROSPECTS

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From Our Irish Correspondent

THE Free State General Election. is drawing to its close, and it

would be premature to prophesy -especially of a country where theunexpected always happens.

However, it seems unlikely that any partywill be returned with an absolute majority,and a short-lived coalition Government maybe expected.

Never in;, th.e history of Ireland has anelection aroused so much apathy!It is possible that fifty per cent. of the

electorate will go to the polls, and the resultcannot be anything but minority govern-ment, the consequences of which are deservedby any apathetic electorate.

Shattered IllusionsMr. de Valera came into office with a

majority of five in a House of 150, supportedmainly by a Republican vote.

During his termof office many of his elec-tion promises do not appear to have beenfulfilled; not only has he repressed extremeRepublicanism, but he has also encouragedthe Conservative element, as evidenced byhis many actions benefiting Great Britain,e.g., Coal-Cattle Pact, Allocation of Air Baseon Shannon, and 80 on, not to mention suchthings as his opening of the new' WarMemorial in Trimty College on JulY:2.

Thus the illusions. of many of his previoussupporters have been shattered, and it is evendoubtful if his proposed New Constitution,which is the main plank in his platform, willregain their confidence.

The New Constitution is certainly demo-cratic in theory. It Iplaces the ultimatecontrol of policy in the hands of the people,providing them with a popularly-electedLower House for legislation and an UpperHouse whose sole function is advisory.

Nevertheless, there is a clause which en-sures that "organs of public opinion, such asthe radio, the press, the cinema . . . shallnot be used to undermine public order ormorality or the authority of the State."

Thus the State as an institution, controll-ing all publicity, could become all-powerfulby, misleading the people, and its Presidentpractically a dictator. .

There is also provision for a plebiscite, pre-sumably to decide such questions as relation-

VotersVa'lera

The Archbishop and -------.The Dean . ic

THE News Chronicle, commenting 'on the rebuke to the Dean of Canterbury,. by the Archbishop, says: , '

. We are unable to ~ol~owthe reasonin~ which l~ the Archbishop of Canter-bury yesterday to administer a very public and pointed rebuke to the Dean ofCanterbury .:

The Archbishop does not dispute the Dean's right· to have and to expresswhat political views he chooses. Apparently he did no wrong in going to Spainto find out what was happening there to his fellow-Christians. ' •

His error was that he "brought into the arena of acute political controversythe name of the cathedral church of Canterbury." It may be a true doctrine(though it is certainly a new one) that anyone who bears the title of Canterburyshould refrain from getti,ng himself involved in acute political controversy. Butif so, it should apply all round, to Archbishops as well as to Deans.-"NewsChronicle" Editorial, June :24.

*THE Archbishop's rebuke came in his speech on june aj to the Church Assembly.The Archbishop said:, ."There is one matter affecting the relations of the Church of England with

foreign Churches or countries to which I am reluctantly obliged to refer. In viewof widespread misunderstandings and misconceptions, both at home and. abroad,I find it necessary to say that I have,' of course, no responsibility for some recentactions and opinions of the Dean of Canterbury, and, even if I wished to do so,I have in law no power whatever to remove the Dean from his office by reason ofsuch actions and opinions. . ,

"I ought, perhaps, to add that, while I fully respect the Dean's conscientiousconvictions and auns, I have expressed to him my, regret that he should havebrought into the arena of acute political controversy the name of the CathedralChurch of Canterbury, and the special ana world-wide associations which surroundthat name."

ship with the British Commonwealth, upon coming to disbelieve that in association withwhich Mr. de Valera might wish to avoid a others they can get what they want.general election and possible loss of office., -Conditions are sapping th~ party alle-

Perhaps the most vociferous opposition to giances of t~e people, and a gr~atly increasedwhat has been called the "New Constitution" number of independents are likely to be ancomes from the women on account of its dis-: . important factor in 0e .new assembly. Manycrimination between the sexes. ,electors have lost faith III the whole political

. .. . -: systeµl and gay it is useless. trying to do. Political capital has been made out 'of. the anything. Their political morale is flaggingproposal "that mothers shall not be obligedby economic necessity to engage in labour tothe neglect of their duties in their home."

It is suggested that it means economic dis-crimination against women, but if the in-tention is really that mothers shall not dounnecessary work, it would appear that Mr.de Valera realises that in this age of plentysuch a fruitful country as' Ireland could sup-port all its mothers.

Parties UnpopularDisillusion and apathy have overtaken the

supporters of all parties, they are almost

Effective ActionIi, is",.Vpto Social Crediters in Ireland not

only "to, help to rectify this system and tumit into a sound political mechanism, but alsoto fortify.the morale and integrate the spiritof the people so that they shall use the political machine to get what they want.

They must make the people realise, byexamples and by every means in their power,that in association the people can attain theirobjective, and that individuals in realisingthis are personally responsible for votingwith others so as to get what they want.

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SOCIAL CREDIT, July 2,'1937

IN YOUR NAME

One-Third ofNewfoundland Is Starving

I( 7\ TURSE, what did he die of?"1 V asked the clergyman. I( He

'was starved," was the reply.The man who asked this question was

the Rev. J. T. Richards, the Church ofEngland clergyman of Flowerscove. Thevictim was a child.Flowerscove is in Newfoundland, once

"Britain's oldest Dominion," whose peopleserved gallantly during the war. Today justone large concentration camp, in: which men,women and children are being slowly starvedto death.

Newfoundland lost its Dominion statusbecause it was unable to continue to payinterest to the loan sharks. .It is nowgoverned by a Commission of five bankers'

.bailiffs appointed by the British Government,which should represent our wishes.

Do you want children starved to. death?Do you intend to let such things as thisbe done in your name?This child victim of a financial policy for

which we as -voters are responsible (for ourParliamentary representatives approved it)was a member of a family on the dole. Therewere 80,016 receiving the dole last March-about one-third of the population.

In April this family received five cents(2~d.!) a day for each member, not incash but in supplies "consisting, chiefly ofbran mixed with flour imported (romEngland especially for dole rations; a pieceof fat back pork and a tin of molasses orsugar, and a few other small items, andbutterine occasionally." ,Does your Member of Parliament know

what you think on this matter?

MISPRINTAT the Imperial Conference, says the

Daily Herald for June 9, strongpressure has been exerted, by the SouthAfrican and Canadian premiers, sup-ported by 'Mr. Montagu Norman, fora return to the gold standard by GreatBritain.

The interest of South Africa is clearlytraceable to the fact that the Union isthe chief gold producing country. Theinterest of the Canadian premier, Mr.Mackenzie King, is not so obvious, until

. one remembers that he is a friend ofWall Street and Washington.

The United States holds the world'slargest stock of gold, and the mere sug-gestion that Great Britain would neverreturn to the gold standard wouldrender it valueless except for stoppingteeth and making jewellery.Mr. Montagu Norman was, and as a

central banker presumably still is, a highpriest of gold. On this point the DOtlyHerald comments:

"With Britain back on GOD Mr.Norman again becomes a King." (Theirmisprint-our capitals!)The connection between this statement

as printed, and the Archbishop of Canter-bury's recall to religion is perhaps notobvious, but is there nevertheless.

Both banker and bishop wish man toremain subservient to the institutionswhich should serve them. Each urgesa return to his god-the god of gold andthe god of organised religion respectively .

They both forget that "the Sabbathwas made for man."

J. Desborough

A full report of the most successfulConference of active supporters ofthe policy of Major Douglas, heldin London on June 26 and 27, willbe made in the next issue-July 10,

together 'with other usual articlesand features.

~ .end _ tile SOCIALCREDIT SuppiemeDtl. U DOt al-ready' qualified for theIe I wish IDIxc.- 10. I UDdemand that I _to treat them .. Itrictly c:oafideDtial.

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POST TO SOCIAL CREDIT. 1'3&.STIlAND. LONDON. W.C.2

WE WILL ABOLISH POVERTYBelow is the fOf'," Parlu,menltJry electors are being as1eed 10 sign. Please read il clltl'efuUy.

sip (if you have not done so alread>,) IIfId send it 10 United Democrats, 1630', Strand, LOfUiiHI,W.C.,. Will you 1J0lunleer 10 help 1ft lhe C_paip?

ELECTOR'S DEMAND AND UNDERTAKINGI. I know that there are goods in plenty and therefore that poverty is quite unnecessary.2. I want, before anything else, poverty abolished.3· I demand, too, that monetary-or other effective claims to such products as we now *stroy ot

restrict dull be distributed to me and .every Briton 10 that we can enjoy all we wantof them.

4· These distributions must not deprive owneR of their property nor decrease its. relativevalue, nor increase taxes or prices.

S· In a democracy like Creat Britain Parliament exists to make the will of the..people prevail.6, So I pledge myself to vote if I can for a candidate who will undertake to support this my policy.

and to vote consistently against any party trying to put any other law making beforethis.

7· If the present Member of Parliament here won't undertake this, 1 will vote to defeat himand his successor. until this, my policy, prevails.

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