:IAL CREDIT, August 13, 1937

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Alberta Challenges MoneyMonopoly ..·· With Bill

'License BankersFOUND POISONED,THEY DIED OF DEBT

,'AND YTAXATIOMFOLLOWING the visit 'of a warrant

officer concerning the non-pay-ment of £5 4S' rates, .a woman of 75,Mrs. Margaret Hillsdon, of Canon-bury, N., and her daughter, werefound dead from poisoning.

"We have been 50, years in thishouse free of debt, and now we are atthe end of our resources," ran a notesigned by both' women. .

At the inquest on Fri~ay SirBernard Spilsbury said he thought thatthe couple met their deaths on aboutJuly 17. Apparently they had had nofood for some time.

A verdict of Suicide while of UnsoundMind was returned' in each case.

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SALES TAX· REPEALED

Councils' Air Raid Demand

THE first direct challenge to the Money Monopoly. by a m<;>dernGovern-, ment was made on August 5 and 6 by the Social Credit Government

of Alberta, which came into power on August 25, 1935, with a majoritywhich startled the world. .

They have passed an Act "to Provide for the 'Regulation of the Monetization of theCredit of the Province."

.A fortnight after the passage of tihe ,Act no banker may carry on the business ofbanking in Alberta except under license. ,

The purpose of the Bill is explained in the to $100 a year, and other employees will payfollowing paragraph:. not more. th~n $5. . .' .

"It is expedient that the business o~ bank- , Applic~tIolll! ~or.licences ~e required toing in Alberta should be controlled WIth the be submitted ~thin a fortrught and threeobject of attaining for the people of Albe.rt~ w~ respectiyely~ and mus~ be accom-t?e full. el~.joyment o~ pr~,perty and civil panied by a SIgned un~ertaking to carry the validity of provincial legislation may benghts WIthin the Province, out ,the ?rders of the directors who are to started in the Courts without the express'

LICENCES FOR BANKERS . be appointed .for each br~,<h. ~ permission of the Cabinet. The text of this. .. .. . .... These local directorates:will consist of fi.ve measure reads as fol1(\w........._-c.''''?1:.~,'';.,::,., ..'C -r- •. ··

Under the BIll In Its presc:;nt form every me,mb.<:r~,.thr~ t!> ,~,~~9ll.H~~9,J~y>:,.tbea~..;. "~.<'->'M;";:J"<"'''';~~;'~c:'::::",'ij'_'' .. ,.... , .branch. bank,.. banker, .'.' allot! aU bank Credit ffparc{ and two tooe nommated 'by No acnon or proceeding of any natureemployees must be licensed.· . . .. the banker when making application for a .whatsoever concerning the .constitutional

The fees payable ..by bankers are limited licence. .. validity of any enactment of the Legisla-. :..-,- _;_ '-- ---:_______ Such local directors will be given power . tive Assembly of the Province shall be

"to supervise,. direct, and control the policy commenced,' maintained, continued,' orof the banker for the purpose of preventing defended unless and until permission toany act by such banker or his employee con- bring, maintain, continue, or defend suchs.tituting a restriction of or an interference, action has been first given by the Lieu-either direct or indirect, with the full enjoy- tenant-Governor in Council .ment of property and civil rights by anyperson within the Province."

This description of the Bill is taken fromThe Times report on August 6:

SOCIAL CREDIT will publish nextweek the full text of the Bill as drafted forsubmission to the· Legislature.

TIOR eight months local Councils all over the country have told the Home Office.[' that they will not bear the cost (estimated at £20,000,000) of local air raid pre-cautions.

Nearly all plans were held up pending a decision from the Government. TheGovernment increased their original 25 per cent. offer to 70 per cent. The Councilsrefused the offer. The Treasury increased it further -,The Councils remain adamant:all funds-or no work done. Their view is that the Treasury should bear the wholecost.

They are right. All the labour, equipment and skill necessary, for air-raid defenceis available; their demand that the money. be made available. is a reasonable one. THE BANK OF CANADA

Amendments to the existing Social Creditand Treasury Acts, the report continues,paved the way to the Bill. One amendmentgives the Social Credit Board power to "adoptand enforce proposals for making availablethe credit of Alberta, for the people of theprovince."

Another .amendment would permit theGovernment to deposit money in other placesthan a chartered bank.

This amending Bill gives an official defini-tion of Social Credit as follows: "Social,Credit is the power resulting from a beliefi'·------------------inherent within society that its individualmembers can gain the objective they desire."

After the passage of the Act the ProvincialTreasurer, Mr. Solon Low, announced thatthe Bank .of Canada and the DominionSavings Bank were exempt from itsoperation.

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SALES TAX ABOLISHEDThe Treasurer announced in the House

the repeal of the Sales Tax from SeptemberI, in a short speech.

In its simpler aspect (he. said) tax remissionrepresents· the first step which is necessary tothe issue of a dividend. It is in fact the issueof a dividend. That is why it would hefoolish to begin issuing money as dividendsonly to pull, it in by a graduated universaltax. An amicable arrangement with thebanks will, it is hoped, provide for thereplacement of any revenue which will belost by this remission.

DELAYING TACTICSFOREST ALLED

Amendments to the Judicature Act havebeen passed under which no action to test

ToMfJOR DOUGLAS CABLES

CONGRATULATIONS.. On receipt of the news, MajorDouglas cabled to Mr. G. MacLachlan,M·L.A, Chairman of the Social CreditBoard, as follows:

Great work. Rush appointmentbank directors. Pass Press .A:ct.Douglas.

Mr. MacLachlan replied:Audience of two thousand' acclaimed

your cable. Legislature proroguedprevious to receipt. MacLachlan.See page three for Editorial comments

and special by our Edmonton corres-pondent,. .

MR. HUGILL RESIGNSMr. J. W. Hugill, Attorney-General since

Mr. Aberhart took office, has resigned at therequest of the Premier.

After Mr. Hugill's statement in the Legis-lature that the control of banks' currencywas beyond the powers of the Province, hisremoval was inevitable. Mr. Lucien May-nard, now. Minister of Municipal Affairs; islikely to become Attorney-General.. Mr. Hugill it was who, with the help ofMr. Graham Towers, of the Bank of Canada,and Mr. R. B. Bennett, then DominionPremier, recommended the appointment asfinancial adviser to the Government of Mr.Robert J. Magor, the gentleman who playedso large a part in the humiliation ofNewfoundland.

SH.AVINGMONEY

The mere fact that Kleen Bladescost only a penny each does notmean that a shave with a KleenBlade is only a third Orso as goodas one with a blade costing three-pence or fourpence, On the con-trary, a shave with a Kleen Bladehas the same smooth siIkinesswithalso a commendable saving in cost.The onlypennyrllJlSor blades inEngland which are mal:ie in a4O-hour week factory.

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P age In' Min i.a t u r e by MRS~ PALMER

'Brilliant "'omen, They Married,. Reared ChildrenNow They Are Unhappy ...••

CAN COME:OF ' LEISUR·E

FULLER~ LIFE ·FOR WOMENONLY IN' AN' AGE

TH ~ girl of today, p:o-vided she has brains

and money. to pay for heruniversity fees" .can enterany profession,

There are women in medicine,engineering, the transport ser-vices and scientific research. Itis difficult to over-estimate theiinI?ortance of this change insocial life.

The modern girl seldomrealises how different herstatus would have been had shelived, 70 years ago.

There is no doubt that onthe whole this change is for thebetter. .

, But a wider life has brou~htwith it new problems, of which'perhaps the most insistent is thechoice between a career .andmarriage.

Now there are women who will.tell you that some girls do notwish to. marry. Even if this istrue, it can apply only to a small.number, but, I have never met amarried woman who believed it.

In any case it does not answerthe question for those girls whowish for a husbarid and children.

Some men; ',and women, too,; say that a gifl should be con-. tent to give :\up her career onmarriage, an.d settle down tobe a wife and mother.'They -add th'i!-t. the home. amI.

children will suffer unless themother gives them her undividedattention. But in some cases this'is asking too much.

Though it is true that thereare many women who are per-fectly satisfied with a purelydomestic life,' there are others to

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whom it is a real sacrifice togive up an interesting career,and others who have an intensedislike for cooking and house-keeping.We must look elsewhere for a

solution of the problem. It is ofthe greatest importance. For itis bound up closely with the per-sonal happiness' of women, andtherefore with the future of therace.

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not compensate these women forwhat they have lost.

• • •SOME of them, of course, Illay

determine to break free and tohave some sort of life outside ofthe four walls of home. .

They usually find that everypenny they earn will be neededto pay for extra domestic helI?'while their own spare time IStaken up with the supervision ofpetty details.

I know of only one mother ofseveral children who made agreat success of her career. Shehad, of course, no leisure what-ever while the children were

young, and was only able tocarry on because of her ownsuperb health and intelligence.There is not the least doubt

that this is far too heavy a pricefor any woman to pay in order tofulfil herself.

It is obvious that the possessionof a small independent incomewhich she could spend exactly asshe liked, a National Dividend infact, would go a long way towardsliberating married women, butsomething more is needed-a newset of values.

Women must realise thatfundamentally there is nothingin common between being

compelled to earn a living andwanting to have a career.Many well-educated people

speak as though there were noessential difference.

There is all the difference in theworld between a slave and a freewoman deciding for herselfexactly how she will use hertalents, no matter whether theyare lucrative or not.

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I SPENT ATHEY

THIS fuller life can come onlyin the age of leisure, when

life moves with a calmer, largerrhythm, and there is time-timeto think, to know and to becomethe best of which we are ~apable.

D,. Y IN FARMLANDCOULDN'T GIVE ME-

• • .' .Fresh Milk, Fresh Cream

BOARD HAS CRIPPLED DAIRY PRODUCERS HEREIN the remote part of Essex

where I spent August BankHoliday the villagers have hadvery little milk ever since theMarketing Board began opera-tions. On their low wages theycannot afford to pay' 3d. a pint.

Until lately they have beenable to buy skimmed milk at zd.a quart. But now. they willinoteven be able to buy that .. Ovringto the rising price of foodstuffsand beef, the farmers find it doesnot pay them to keep a heifertwo and a half years until she isin milking condition.

Neither does it pay them tocomply with all the complicated

conditions laid down .by theBO<lFd,unless they are in a bigway of business. At the farmwhere I stayed the cowsheds arespotlessly clean, with hard brickfloors. .But because they are notconcreted and there is no runningwater the farmer may not register.

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I would .rather go without.The only fresh full-cream milk

some of the village .children everget is at school, supplied to them

. at Yzd. for one-third of a pint.The minimum requirement' forhealth is at le~st one pint daily.

* *, Th~re is n!?~,a definite shortage And. how does the pre-schoolof milk. ..' "c_ .. "",,"age.child fare? .'_ , "

In the villages it is difficult to As far as (can disc~ei.J:ii&cdi~tbuy, even if you have the money, is deficient in most constituentswhile' cream is almost unobtain- necessary f-or.health, .This .can,:ble.. ~ ou have to depend on on!y resul! in a ~eneration oftinned milk and synthetic cream, children WIth defective teeth andmade. from butter by means of a ~under-developed bodies.patent mixer. B.M.P.

*Morgan-No"Morgenblatter"

TfIE Liverpool Daily .Post, July 30,. .' reports that Mr. J. PIerpont Morgan ."is a dose friend of the Archbishop ofCanterbury, and has made himselfresponsible for the cost of maintaining

. the grounds and gardens of LambethPalace."

Is this yet another instance of "a reedshaken by the wind"?

• • •The Post adds: "(Mr. Morgan) is over

70 and hates publicity-because, it issaid, of the fierce glare that was shedover his father's method of makingmoney."

• • •And we may add that both Mr. Morgan

and the Archbishop are reported to bepaying a visit together to Balmoral.

The significance of this in respect ofthe Abdication of King Edward VIII--can be gauged by anyone who will re-read our "Abdication Retrospect" in~OCIAL CREDIT for January 8.

Impatience of a ParsonTHE Rev. A. w. G. Duffield, vicar of St.

. John's Church, Chester, states in hischurch magazine that Englishmen are "theworld's mugs," and that it is time we didsomething about it.

He writes: "It seems to have been forgottenthat there are English boys and girls who areunder-nourished and ill-clad. Isn't there asaying,' 'Charity. begins at home'? We

. English folk seem to be the public assistanceofficers of the, world.

"Strange that any foreigner in distressshould at once appeal to the charitable

OF the university wonrenknown to me, several have

married and borne children, andalmost without exception thewomen have, as' the children grewup,. experienced a sense of lossand frustration.

The ordinary routine of house-:k~eping became boring andtrivial, They knew that valuabletime was being wasted, as it iswasted in almost every home inthe land, because of badly-planned kitchens and old-fashioned equipment.

They longed for a wider,fuller life, opportunity forstudy, and the intellectualstimulus they had enjoyedwhile they were in professionallife.This is the sort of thing they

say, now: ."I had. all . the material tOI(

writing a thesis on that subject.;but it is so long ago, ant:~I havefO'rgotten the tcchn'i'lue. ;I couldnetier pick up the threads," Or-

"I played that concerto oncewith full orchestra, but I couldn'ttouch it now. I never have timeto practise-in any case I nevermeet any musical people. I amentirely out of things."

Even a happy family life does

instincts of the British people, while the direneeds of thousands of British people shouldpass unnoticed. We open our gates to per-secuted Basques and Jews and Cermans; weman our ships with Danes, Norwegians andlascars; men .of any nationality can 'set upin business with impunity; we have Egyptiandoctors, Indian dentists, and Irishmen inevery conceivable walk of life; Frenchmenmanage our hotels and Americans our bigstores." '

Never mind about the foreigners, Mr.Duffield-they have a right to live. Whatyou want is the abolition of poverty in thisrich country, and the distfibution of aNational Dividend. Come and join us.

Cross-roadsTRADE unionists have ultimately got to

face the question: "Do Institutionsexist for men, or men for the Institutions?"if they are ever to escape from the cul-de-sacin which they find themselves.

The "rules" of the union have latterlytaken on an importance greater than thepurpose for which the organisation exists.

It is as if men in a ship trying to reachport; see the ship sailing in a circle, but whenone or two of the crew, observing the rudderjammed, attempt to' free the steering gear,are thrown overboard for interfering withthe ship. '

That is what comes of bowing to the super-stition that the means are more importantthan ends-that methods .are superior to"results"-that "rules" matter more thanpolicy. ..

Love Finds a WayBES;AUSE there are at least nine Love-lanes

. in London, the L.C.C. wanted to re-nameone in Woolwich. Local outcry followed, SoLove-lane, Woolwich, is to remain Love-lane.

Credit Abroad, Debtat Home

I AM satisfied that New Zealand'scredit in London stands as high as

that of any of the dominions," declaredMr. Savage, the New Zealand' PrimeMinister.

This may be the measure of how highNew Zealand's debt stands in Wellington!

The Golden CalfMR. FRIEL!NGHAUS, President of. the

. Port Elizabeth Chamber of Com-merce, at the Chamber's annual meetingsaid:

"From the point of view of the countryas l1J whole, and with a budget surplu» of over£5,000,000, we can be thankful that we aredomiciled in South Africa, a country blessedwith gold mines, yielding returns and pro-ducing revenue, which are the envy of thewhole world. I feel it very essential to stressthe point that i·t is the gold mines of thenorth that are mainly responsible for ourpresent prosperity and Mr. Havengcis' sur-plus." . . .• • •

That is an amazing sentence to go downto history. We have heard of a land flowingwith milk and honey=but this is a countryblessed with gold mines.

Perhaps the best comment in this is Mr.Lansbury, who revived in the House of Com-mons the other day this old suggestion.

Instead of going to all the trouble of ship-ping gold from one Central Bank to another,with all the risks that marine insurance hasto cover, why not purchase an island. andb~ild a lot of vaults, each the property of adifferent Central Bank, and wheel loads, ofgold. from one to, another.

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Vol. 6. NO'.27. Friday, August 13, 1937

G,reat'Work

ALBERTA has certainly delivered abombshell to the Money Monopoly

this time, and the financial powers areboth shocked and taken by surprise.

The amount and quality of space givenby The Times to' the drastic legislationenacted last week are enough to. registerthe shock. The surprise can be gaugedby the heavy threats it blurted out onFriday and had hastily to withdraw onSaturday.

"Hitherto," said Fridays leadingarticle, "the Dominion Government,watching the proceedings in Albertawith unconcealed disapproval, hasdeliberately abstained from interference,in the expecration that the' more ropethey gave Mr. Aberhart the sooner hisfollowers would be disillusioned. It willbe difficult' for .them to maintain thisattitude if the Provincial Legislature

· reilly proceeds to usurp the authority ofthe Federal Parliament."

On Saturday it said, however:"Ministers here [Ottawa] ... will be

subjected to._strong pressure from thechartered banks to exercise the Federalpower of disallowance of provincia. legis-lation. .

"This power, however, has rarely beenused, and if it were now exercised the

,Government would be liable to becharged with unfair discrimination ...

"Accordingly Ministers in 'Ottawa are.likely to. refrain from immediate action· and .J;O wait until, as is inevitable, theAlbertan banking legislatiO'n is tested inthe Courts." , .

CLEARLY The Times knows exactly. " the meaning of the new move.

"There is little doubt," it said, "aboutthe Government's object in usurpingcontrol of the banking system.""Usurping" is a fine word to use in ibisconnection. The creation of mo.ney is asovereign Po.wer and has been usurpedby the banks in every country in, theworld.

When the Government of one countrysets about reclaiming the power whichhas been filched from it, it is accusedof usurping I . .

The situation is exactly that describedin the Gospel according to St. Matthew,in 'which the wicked husbandmenusurped control of the vineyard andresisted the lord of the vineyard whenhe wished to regain possession.THE most piquant Canadian comment

was made by Sir Henry Drayton,a former Minister of Finance, who isreported to have said "They will not getaway with it.

"The Bill would cut off Alberta fromany aid the rest of the Dominion couldgive her. The legislatio.n appears to havebeen devised by a politician not knowingthe forces with which he is dealing."

As a former Finance Minister, he nodoubts speaks feelingly .. ' He might beinclined to. echo. what another, greater,Finance Minister, Mr. Gladstone, oncesaid:

-"From the time I took office as Chan-cellor I began to learn that the Stateheld, in the face of the Bank and theCity, an essentially false position as tofinance ... The hinge of the whole situa-tion was this, The Government itself wasnot to be a substantive Po.wer in mattersof finance, but was to leave the MoneyPower supreme and unquestioned. Inthe conditions of that situation I wasreluctant to acquiesce, and' I began to:fight against it . . ., I was tenaciouslyopposed by the Governor and Deputy-

. Governor of the Bank ... " (Morley'S"Lite of Gladstone.',) .We can assure Sir Henry Drayton, fromlon~ acquaintance with his views, thatMajor Douglas knows full well the forceswith which he is dealing, and that theymust be challenged and subdued.

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Little surprise was occasioned by theannouncement of the special session, as thePremier had plainly stated its likelihood lastJune. But the orthodox mind,_ particularlyas interpreted by the local press, is pro·foundly shocked by the Government'saudacity in actually calling on the banks toperform their proper economic function ofadequately monetizing the wealth of the' Pro-vince. . ,

Frequently one he'ars some puzzled tradi-tionalist wondering what the Governmentcan possibly mean by this strange request.The banks have intimated that they 'do notknow what the Government has in mirid.Mr. D. M. Duggan, Conservative leader, hasstated, allegedly, that the letter to the banksis so vague it may no.t be understood. Mr.Bowlen, former Liberal leader, offers thepithy, but not too elegant, comment that"it is all boloney,"

Naturally, it is highly gratifying to' learnthat we may "count upon a continuance" ofthe "sound banking" policies, which have

NORMAN'S PROMISETHE banks' reply' to Mr.

Aberhart recalls the remarkmade by Mr. Montagu Nor-man, Governor of the Bank ofEngland, at last year's LordMayor's banquet.

"I assure the Ministers thatif they will make knownthrough the appropriate chan-nels what they wish us to doin the furtf'ierance of theirpolicies they will at all timesfind us as willing with goodwill and loyalty to do' whatthey direct as though we wereunder any legal compulsion."

Edmonton, J~ly; 27several interesting and

brought us to our present plight, with pro-duction seriously curtailed, with business ata standstill, unemployment sapping theresources of our taxpayers and underminingthe morale of relief recipients, with mount-ing debts and usurious interest rates hanginglike a millstone about the people's necks.

The .bankers". statement, concludes:"Any concrete proposals the AlbertaGovernment may have to suggest will begiven sympathetic consideration by thebanks, and a prompt decision will be forth-coming,' These are fair and courteouswords. Courtesy is a valuable businessasset, and costs nothing."But," say the Doubting Thomases among

us, "what if the banks are not willing to,create the necessary credits?" Well, what ifthey aren't?

What if certain individuals were notwilling to pay taxes, or secure motor-carlicenses, .or comply with highway andhealth regulations? The law has ways .ofdealing with those who are not willing toobey. Are we then tP suppose that thebanks are above the law?Mr. Aberhart has well said that he sees no

" good reason why the banks should refuse hisreasonable request. Indeed, there is none.

There might be a bad one; but we neednot assume that the banks will be motivatedby it. Should future events indicate other-WIse, it were well to cross that bridge whenwe come to it, in the meantime bearing inmind the fact we intend crossing, and thatwe are perfectly able to do it. .

When Premier Aberhart.: back from hisvacation at the coast somewhat sooner thanexpected, indicated in a Sunday broadcastat Calgary that pro.mpt action along SocialCredit lines is now definitely contemplated,he declared that the present financial systemhas failed us so completely that we mustpress on toward Social Credit regardless ofobstacles or opposition, /.

"I am about to stake all on the peopleof Alberta," he said, "and I feel that thepeople are now ready to go forward."The crop situation, particularly with

How the Banks RepliedTo Aberhart IALBERTA AND YOU I

TH E past, week in Alberta has brought.important developments.

FIRST .-The announcement of another special session of the legis-lature for August 3 to give effect to certain recommendations of theSocial' Credit Board and their teehnical 'cidvisei:;S,' 'M·eS'5i"5. .: POwell 'and -,..

Byrne. .SEC 0 ND.-The Government's letter to the banks calling on them

to provide the necessary credits for the province to implement the man-date of the people for increased purchasing power via dividends and alower cost to live..

T-HIRD,-The published reply of the banks that "They have always been readyand willing to make their facilities available to the Government and public of theprovince in so far as the' services they are asked to ,perform are within the provisionsof the Canadian Bank Act, and in keeping with the recognised principles and practices.of sound banking, The Government. . . may count upon a continuance of thispolicy ... "

THE great fight is on.Our·: own correspon-

dent in Edm6nton .reportsweekly on its progreSs.....:...~,.~he- .....bu<t·ae"y'rages in'''''~'Alberta there' will be acampaign of ·lies. Theymust be fought, with thetruth. ".

THIS IS YOUR RES-PONSIBILITY •

One w,ay in which youcan help 'is to sell SOCIAL,CREDIT in the streets.Others are doing so. Lon..doners, please write toG.R.T.SOCIALCREDIT,163A, Strand, W.C.2, andsay what days and timesyou can' help- or comealong between 5 and 6.30on Fridays. ,

respect to roughage and coarse grains, isgreatly improved, due to' the geIier~y heav.yrains over a large part of the Province thispast week. The wheat crop will still be light,and there will be a shortage of feed in certainareas; but the general situation is greatlyimproved, and the danger of a really seriousscarcity is now definitely past, which augurswell for whatever Social Credit measures maybe undertaken this fall.

From my point of view it would be a veryfine thing if I were able to tell you preciselywhat our experts are recommending as thefirst steps toward our go.al of "twenty-fivedollars per month and a lower cost to live";but of course, they are not at liberty to tellme, and therefo.re I cannot tell you.

However, the conclusion would seem tobe justified that these preliminary stepswill follow along the lines indicated in myprevious leti!ers-that is to say, tax reduc-tion, debt adjustment, and strategy aimedto secure the power to monetize our realand potential wealth.It may be that the purpose and bearing of

the first strategic moves will not be apparentto the uninitiate-good, tactics oftendemands just that-but they will have apurpose which will be an integral part of acarefully planned campaign. '

In conversation with Mr. Byrne this even-ing, it was clear, that he is more than pleasedwith the spirit of the people, and quiteoptimistic as to the support that may beobtained for any progressive measures it maybe deemed wise to institute.

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Here is another page for new readers, explaining the Sodal Credit approach to WOR~, and to theMONEYSYSTEM; also a word' picture of the Sodal Credit Secretariat Ltd., organising centre of the

Sodal Credit Movement

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You And The Money System WORKMANIACS

HEADQUARTERS - SOCIALCREDITERS AT WORK

(2)BY propaganda,· encouragement and .advice to arouse in individuals a sense I (5)LECTURES and Studies. A full

of their sovereign power over their insti- diploma course of Social Credit is avail-

BEFORE you were born it cost.your parents money to prepare

for 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.All 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 modernworld.

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

public services should be run properly foryou. Wrong decisions cause a lot of incon-venience, worry, delay and disappointmentto you and every-one 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 (hat there wastoo much money about, and that it would

THE Social Credit SecretariatLimited, 163A Strand, London,

W.C.2, is the centre of the SocialCredit movement, and exists to imp le-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.

(I)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.

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 deflation could only end instrangulation of business and undespreadunemployment. It meant, hsnaeuer, enhan-cing the value of war and post-war holdingsand restoring the value of pre-war holdinl$s,thus raising the total claims of the rennerclass (that is, the crass which lives oninterest), not only beyond what thCy 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.

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 o~ a smaller numberof people who do know a great deal about

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 one

'direction 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 their'institutions give them the results theywant, instead of what some bureaucracythinks they should have.

(3)PUBLICATIONS, which include:SOCIAL CREDIT, 2d. weekly, for news

and views from the wider standpoint ofSocial Credit.

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.

THE FIG TREE, 3s. 6d. quarterly(annual subscription, lOS. 6d.), edited byMajor Douglas. Every aspect of SocialCredit is treated here.

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

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

all enquirers, maintains a Press CuttingsBureau, and is ready to assist registeredsupporters in their propaganda and con-troversy. It will supply speakers o,n allaspects of Social Credit by arrangement,on terms mainly dependent on distance.In addition it provides services under (s)and (6).

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 theresults of the decisions taken by experts, orfrom the experts themselves.

Meanwhile, the experts go on takingdecisions. They must, and they have to beguided by some 'consideration or other.

What considerations are to guide theexperts? Their own interests? Someoneelse's interests? Whose interests?Upon the answer to that questlon hangs

the fate of this civilisation and of all sub-sequent civilisations.

A N examination of the actualdecision to deflate, recorded

above discloses,. in the words' of Mr.McKenna, that its results benefited alllenders at interest, and created intolerableconditions far borrowers and for everybodyelss. Look at the suicide roll again.

The Cunliffe Committee was composed ofbankers; bankers are lenders at interest.

Men and women of Britain, the game iswith you. Whether you like it or not,whether you understand all about it or not-you are responsible, and you will have tobear the consequences of whatever is done.

You have to find a way to bring pressureto bear on the experts so that their deci-sions shall be in your interests.We offer you the means in the Electoral'

Campaign. Take it of leave it: YOU ARERESPONSIDLE.

" HE is a public benefactor who canprovide employment for two

men where only one was employedbefore."

That, in all seriousness, is what themajority in this blind world stillbelieves. Alone in the world 18 yearsago, Major C. H. Douglas showed upthis, the supreme fallacy of the age, forwhat it is-a plausible trick to subjectindividuals to a treadmill of work forwork's sake.

Millions now see through this cruel trick,yet still they are in a minority, and still aservile press mouths the mass-hypnotising lie.

Formerly, he was a public benefactor whocould make two blades of grass grow whereone grew before. Now he is an offender, amaker of unsaleable gluts.

Two men watched a steam shovel clear-ing the foundations for a great building.Said one, "If only they had used spadesthey could have provided jobs for a hun-dred men." "Aye," said the other, and hewas the village idiot, "and there could bea thousand of them if they used saltspoons."The imbecility at the top of this column

was not that of the village idiot. It camefrom The Times of October 27, 1936.

• • •THE cant about work makes strange bed-

fellows. Mr. Roosevelt's declared policyis 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:

"Toil, in the U.S.S.R. is an obligationand a matter of honour of each citizenwho is fit for toil, according to the prin-ciple: 'He who does not work does noteat.'

"In the U.S.S.R. there is being realisedthe principle of Socialism: 'From each.according to his ability, to each accordingto his toil.''' (Article 12.) .The attitude of all these work maniacs was

put into a 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 by .those policies which produce the greatest.amount of employment."

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able to enable students to qualify asauthoritative exponents of the subject.Particulars on request.

(6)THE. exposure of our taxation ~yst~mas being unnecessary and as consntunng

a means of imposing tyrannical ruleunder a pretence of democratic govern-

.ment, Read: DEBT AND TAXATION,2~d. post paid, from the Secretariat.

(7)THE Technical Department is intendedprimarily for internal use. Its services,

in the elucidation of technical financialproblems, and the examination andcriticism of books and pamphlets, andarticles submitted, are also available toregistered supporters. Enquirers shouldstate the use which will be made of anytechnical information given.

(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.

WORK. is the expenditure of energy, andenergy can be expended by human

beings, 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 lessrequired.

Right, Left and Centre, they all want tokeep man's nose to the grindstone, but thedemand which appears on our back pagewas not drawn up by a work maniac.(9)OVERSEAS relations are maintained

with over 30 countries in all parts of theworld, 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.

• •LABOUR is the work men do because

nature makes them. In the sweat of hisbrow has man laboured. and been rightlvproud of his achievement. For in the way'sof 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 aUthe greatest achievements of .art, of adven-ture, of invention, of the mind, and of thespirit, are the work of what we call leisure.

SOCIAL CREDIT. August 13, 1937 '

REPORTSON.MORE

READERS' i- I"...-<\ 1!:Jl_;fj' ~, ~ \_ '~~7 ~WORK

PLANSTHE work-making schemes which

are sent to me seem to get moreingenious and complicated as timegoes on.

"T.H.S.," for instance, has shownthat work can be made out of suchunpromising material as a plague ofrats at Romford, a glut of fish atLowestoft, and the great Curse ofCivilisation, Unemployment, at bothplaces. Briefly, the schenie is that theunemployed .should be stood shoulderto shoulder all the way from Romfordto Lowestoft, and should pass the ratsfrom' hand' to hand from the formertown to the latter, where they can beset to work consuming the surplus fish.

Thus a use can be found for bothrats and unemployed and the glut offish disposed of into the bargain.

The author of this brilliant schemeis also to be congratulated on wiselyadding a warning note that enoughrats should be left at Romford to keepthe rat-catchers and sellers of rat-poison in work, and to guard againstany danger of gluts of vegetable pro-duce.

I • •"D.W." has invented an improved

steam excavator, which takes away thereproach .. so justly brought against =

_ those already in existence that they'~ throw dozens of men out of work. It~ is of the latest pattern, weighs 50 tons,~ > and develops 800 h.p., being fitted with~ -electrically - ,controlled synchro - :mesh,~gearing and double-acting bunion~ ratchets, and' requiring IS men to~ operate it and keep it clean, oiled and~ in working condition.

/ ~ The whole machine, however, is deli-~ cately adjusted so as to dig out not~ more than one teaspoonful of earth at~ a time, most of which it drops back into~ the hole. It thus employs 15 men to do§ about 1/I,OOOthof the work of one.· § This is the sort of machine that 'we· § shall need if we are to get the unem-· § ployed back to work and keep them~ there. ••• .

§ It is a pity that ideas such as these~ are not more often put into operation§ by . the authorities. N evertheless, ~

readers should not lose heart. A largenumber of schemes quite worthy ofthis column are "already in' operationin. trade and industry. In many casesI cannot publish them without givingaway trade secrets, .but others areknown to almost everybody.. Consider ,the house-to-house can-

vasser system as a method of supplyingthe needs of the housewife. Almostperfect-is it not-as a workmakingscheme? The method of collectingincome tax, also, would be difficult toimprove on.

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IS SOUND· FINANCEWORTH DYING FOR?

A LTHOUGH mutual distrust exists between Germany' and France to the pointthat they regard each other as hereditary enemies, a French-German trade

agreement has been signed in Paris under which France is to supply Nazi Germanywith material for her war industry.

. Only recently Hitler said, "We want Franco to win in Spain because we wantSpanish iron ore.". 4 German newspaper reports that the main clause in the new French-German

agreement provides for the trading of French iron ore for German coal products, .This will prove a great help to Hitler, whose armament plans have been retarded

by a shortage of iron ore.In view of the political situation in Europe as a whole and between two countries

in particular, this treaty throws a spotlight on the "necessities" of so-called "soundfinance."

Just as in our own country "sound finance" cannot distribute gluts of milk andfish to some millions of our workers-unless they are engaged in making bombsand machine guns, so in France the people's representatives are forced by "soundfinance" to starve their people today unless they supply their potential enemies witharmament material

All European Governments are accepting the grisly death-head illusion of "soundfinance," and in doing so they accept the, lie that men can live today only on condi-tion that they prepare to kill their fellowmen tomorrow,

In France they have gone a step further, they have accepted the lie that in.crderto live today they must supply their potential enemies with the means whereby theythemselves will be slaughtered tomorrow.

M.P. Tells House,Your· Experts

SPEAKING in a debate in the SouthAfrican House of Assembly on'

the recent stock exchange slumpswhich have ruined thousands of smallinvestors, Mr. C. R. Smart urged thatthe Government should take steps toprotect the small man.

Mr. Pirow (Acting Minister of Finance):"What do you suggest? ",

Mr. Smart: You have financial expertsat your disposal. It is for the .Governmentto evolve a pian ... " . ' ,Exactly, the Government has ,financial

experts at its disposal and they should be

Usemade to evolve the plans necessary to pro-duce the results people want.

At present the financial experts evolveplans for what they want, and the people areasked to vote on them as the programme ofthis or that party.

Artificial stock exchange slumps, wherebysmall investors are swindled out of their hold-ings, are but a very small part of the penaltypaid by the people for voting for programmesinstead of demanding results.

It is a healthy sign that one Member ofParliament in South Africa realises that it isthe Government's job to make the expertsresponsible for. producing results.

ROAD ACCIDENTS

TWO EXPERTSSPEAK

THE view that excessive speed did notaccount for more than one out of

eVery: 148 accidents was expressed by,Mr. G. T. Bennett, Oxfordshire CountySurveyor, in a report to the CountyCouncil. '...Three out of every four lives lost on

Oxfordshire roads could be saved by doub-,ling the present rate of expenditure on roadrebuilding and improvements for the next15 years, he states. In 87 cases of fatal acci-dents road defects were found to be a con-tributory cause.

"If, as .seems possible," he says, ','trafficincreases during the next 20 years to fivetimes the present volume, then in the absenceof great improvements accidents will mountto several times the present figures."

This is in marked contrast with. the reportof Mr. W. P. Robinson, Surrey CountyEngineer. After commenting on the highpercentage of pedestrians killed who wereover 40 years of age, he says:

. "It can only be assumed that this is"dueto the fact that they have .experiencedsome difficulty in adapting themselves tothe abnormal increase in the volume andspeed of the present-day vehicular traffic.

"Reluctance on the part of pedestrianswhen they are crossing the road to giveway to traffic may have some bearing onthe matter."The higher. percentage of accidents which

occurred during daylight," concludes Mr.Robinson's report, "may be due to the inade-quate provision of separate cycle tracks anddual carriageways, or to the carelessness ofthe drivers of the vehicles concerned."

Dealing with the statistics as a whole, theSurrey report states that they lead to theconclusion that a large number of the acci-dents would have been avoided had thepedestrians and drivers concerned exercisedmore care and attention,

*One public seruant blames the roads for1Wt being adequate to the . needs of thepublic; the other blames the public fot beingcareless or nnodeptcble:

Which is the better public seruant?•No Job,' Driven' CrazyDRIVEN ckzy by his failure to find' a job and the fact that his wife was forced

to work to support their four children, Samuel Penn, aged 35, tried to kill histwo-year-old daughter with a hammer.

He was found "Guilty but insane" on the attempted murder charge at Stafford-shire Assizes.-"Daily Herald," July 8.

AS Eagland has approximately 50 millionsterling yearly coming to her from past

investment in the Argentine (in the form ofbeef, etc., to pay the interest on these invest-ments) what attitude do the 'economists(orthodox) take to issuing sterling to enablethis beef, etc., to be purchased?

I have put a similar query to the BritishUnion, but have as yet had no reply.

How would this affect the bond-holders?JOlIN MORICE

SOCIAL~'~tREI)IT'S OWNOPPOSITION''H.M.

SIR: It has be~n said th~t. a governme~J.t_isas good as Its "opposition" forces It to

be. Certainly a strong opposition is essen-tial to the effectiveness of ,any government.

It is no reflection on the individuals ofH.M. "Opposition" ill Edmonton to say thatpaucity of numbers deprives the governmentof that driving force which only a strongopposition can give. .Therefore it becamenecessary for the S.C. party to develop itsown opposition if it was to maintain thepower to gain its objective.

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(not methods), otherwise, and, ill the end, itmust fail. That is the political philosophyof s.c. based on the experiences of the past~repeated failures of governments to securesatisfactory results for the people, which hasresulted not only in the defeat of parties,but in the defeat of parliamentary andrepresentative government itself, and in itsreplacement by dictatorships.

Parties have decided not only what thepeople want, but how to obtain it. S.C.believes that policy is the privilege of thepeople, and that governments must obtainthe desired results, not by [ormulatingmethods, but by instructing the necessaryand r-e= experts to do so, under pain ofdismissal.

'Insurgents.' Are FriendsThis is precisely what all the S.C. M.L.A.'s,

from the premier down, have recentlypledged themselves to do-thanks to the so-called "insurgents." I say this not in defenceof the insurgents. It is not necessary.

But, in order to remove any doubt as totheir motives, which might prevent 100 percent. co-operation by the S.C. public, whichhas been pledged by the M.L.A.'s, I amquite sure that the premier will, if he hasnot already, come to realise that the "insur-gents" are not enemies, but good and truefriends who may be relied upon to back himto the limit to obtain the results demandedby the vast majority of the people ofAlberta.- Yours, .

NORMAN JAQUES

(From 'a Canadian newspaper).

*.. Our comment on the above letter takes theform of italicising certain, passages the im-portance of which it would be difficult to

·over·rate at the present time.

*THE idea of issuing money for the con-

sumption of goods is anathema. to theorthodox economist.

Both the British [armers' and! the Britishconsumers interests are sacrificed in the"interest" of debts contracted by financialinstitutions abroad.

Although such institutions label them-selves as "British" or "Argentine," they are infact international in the practice of exploit a-tion.

International ActionTHE publication of the King of the

Belgians' letter to his Prime Minister,has caused me to address to the King andto Mr. van Zeeland a letter, announcing thedespatch to them of the translated Report ofthe Crisis-Committee of the SouthamptonChamber of Commerce and the recentissue of our Dutch Social Credit paper,Volkswelvaart.

I should like to suggest to you" that aninternational action of Social Credit Groupsat this moment might make a certainimpression, and that, apart from such action,individual members might commence toaddress letters to the King and to Mr. vanZeeland .

Holland E. LOEB

*INTERNATIONAL action on these lines

is not practicable at the present, but wefeel sure there are many readers who willwish to support the energetic secretary of theNew Economics Group of Holland in themanner he suggest~. .. _. .

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,Prosperity'In Four

ForecastIsFamilies

UnderfedOPTIMISTIC economists are forecasting a new prosperity era in the

United States. Professor George F. Warren, for example, for-merly adviser on gold to President Roosevelt, has predicted that thenation will soon witness a boom of "enormous proportions."

The Alexander Hamilton Institute calcu-"",-----------lates that the number of employed personsrose in May to a new recovery peak of42,no,ooo-only 3,384,000less than before thedepression which began in 1929.

F~r those who measure "prosperity" by'the number of noses against the grindstone,that sounds fine, until they read the reportof one of President Roosevelt's committees.

Output of manufactured goods in theUnited States today, it says, needs to be 20per cent. higher than that of the boomyear of 1929 to have as little unemploy-ment as then existed.

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brings the "Old Plantation" right up to dateand throws a fine lot of niggers out of work.

The "electric eye" is already being usedto sort dull from sharp razor blades, to decidewhether eggs are good or bad, to match falseteeth, to pack cigarettes right way up in theirboxes, to enable the blind to read fromordinary print, and to regulate traffic.

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Failing this increase in production, con-tinues the report, "there will be moreunemployment, and, if labour efficiency isincreased by new inventions or otherwise,then the production of physical goods andservices must be more than 120 per cent. ofwhat it was in 1929." \

The committee estimates-as an exampleof what Science is achieving in one field only-that there are 250,000 workers whose jobscould be done better and more cheaply bythe photo-electric cell or "electric eye."

The latest invention is a cotton-pickingmachine which picks only the ri'pe bolls ofcotton and passes over the unnpe. This

President Roosevelt's comment on thisreport is regrettably typical. He says thatwhile much of the unemployment causedby the march of technical advance isabsorbed by new occupations born of newindustries, it is equally true that labour

, must pay a very heavy price through readjustments and adaptations necessary! onthe part of workers whose jobs are affectedby change.For those who measure prosperity more

realistically by the amount of food, warmthshelter, comforts, amenities, and luxuries thepeople are enjoying, there is a more disquieting report by the u.S. Bureau of HomeEconomics in Washington.

Approximately one out of every fourfamilies in the United States exists on a dietinadequate to maintain average good health

The Bureau's findings, were based on asurvey of 5,000 families typical of classes in26 cities throughout the country. An average of about 20· per cent. of the industriafamilies in the middle group spent less than7S• 8d. per head per week for food, andapproximately 20 :per cent. spent under lOS.which is the minimum set by the Bureaufor maintaining an adequate diet.

Most of these below-normal diets resultedfrom insufficient quantities of dairy productsvegetables and. fruits, for when income issmall, families tend to spend largely forbread, meat, cereals and potatoes.

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..._ -.......•.....................•...................•WE WILL ABOLISH POVERTY

Below is the form plJf'liamentary electors are being .dud ,to sip. Please read it CMeful'y,sign (if you have not done so alread~) muI se1ld it to United Democrats, 163A, Strand, London,W.C.:!.. Will you volunteer to hell' m the Ctlfllpmgn?

ELECTOR'S DEMAND ANI) UNDERTAKINGI. I know that there are goods in plenty and therefore that poverty is quite unnecessary.:\, I want, before anything else, poverty abolished.3. I demand, too, that monetary or other effective claims to such products as we now destroy or

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

4. These distributions must not deprive ownen of their property nor decrease its relativevalue. nor increase taxes or prices.s. In a democracy like Great 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. H the present Member of Parliament here won't undertake this, I will vote.to defeat himand his successors until this, my policy, prevails.

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WOMEN in this, village, Manea (Cambs.)sit up all night in the hope that the

tap will run. Sometimes it does. Often itdoes not-and then some of the childrenhave lemonade for breakfast, and father hasbeer.

Seventeen weeks ago there were floods.Fields and gardens were under water. Cot-tagers found the river, now half a mile away,running outside their doors.

Now, with the hot weather to contendwith, they are short of water.

When I called, the taps had been full onall the afternoon gurgling nothing but air;the village pump was no more than goodexercise.-"Daily Express," July 19.

THEY SITUP ALLNIGHT

FOR WATER

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163ASTRAND' LONDON, W.C.2

OPEN from 11 a.m. to 6.39p. m: daily and until 1

p.m on Saturdays.Morning' Coffee, Afternoon

Tea,. an..dLight Refreshments.Enquiries should be ad-

dressed ~o Mrs. B. M. Palmerat the above address.

NOTICESFor the next few weeks, by

request, the Reception Room willremain open until 6 p.m. on Satur-days, as an experiment.

Beginning on August 19, a weeklyopen meeting will be held at8 p.m. every Thursday. All welcome,especially visitors to London andenquirers. Bring your friends.

Refreshments will be served afterthe meeting.

LiverpoOl Social· Credit Association, Enquiries toHon. Secretary, Miss D. M. Roberts, Green

Gates, Hillside Drive, Woolton, Liverpool.

London United Democrats. Now forming. Appli-cations and enquiries- to Secretary c/o 163A,

Strand, W.C.2.

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

Gardens, Hendon Central. 'Phone HEN 3151.

Newcastle United Democrats, 14A, Pilgrim Street(opposite Paramount Theatre). Fortnightly

meetings, 7.30 p.m., August 26 onwards. Enquirieswelcomed.

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

Inquirers welcome. Social Credit and other litera-ture on sale at Branksome Chine Cafe.

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

son at 16, St. Ursula Grove, Southsea. Holidayvisitors and area residents are urged to makecontact.

Miscellaneous NoticesRat« IS. a line. $u,,,or' our IUlvertiHr•.

Lectures and Studies. Examination by post during

September. See announcement next week.Forms from Recorder, Social Credit SecretariatLimited, 163A, Strand, W.C.2.

Okehampton. Public meeting in Market Hall,8 p.m., Augusr ur. Lt.·Coi. J. Creagh Scott,

D.S.O., O.B.E., will speak on "The Exact Nature ofDemocratic Action in National as well as LocalAffairs." Chairman: Mr. Stanley Burton, of Exeter.

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Open dally II a.m. to 6.30 p.m. '(1 p.m. Sat.).Light refreshments. Meeting open to all 8 p.m.August 19. Bring your friends.

HOLIDAYS-WHERE ",0 GO

Clact~n.lilt~S8ai' in a .braclng, .dry and.sunns c.,

climate, East Coast, facing South, stand-ing in secluded grounds, really near sea, town,station. Solway Court Private Hotel. LargeLounge. Recreation Room, Tennis Court,Garage. Original and varied Menu. SeparateTables. 2 y, to 3y, gns.

Furnished Cottage to Let, accommodate fourto six~ Bathroom, h. & c. Water. Full

particulars and photo by post. .Ten per cent.bookings to Secretariat Funds. McCallum,West Parley, nr. Bournemouth,

A "Beauty Spot" Holiday in Sandy Balls, Wood on edge of New Forest. Furnished

chalets, romantically situated. Secluded campsites. Good access caravans. Sun and riverbathing. Provision store. Garage. Ideal forchildren. Social Crediters especially welcome.Apply illustrated leaflet, Harrod, Godshill,Fordingbridge.

Shanklin, I.O.W. 3 mins. sea and cliffs.Comfortable Board Residence, 2Yz gos.

Broadlands, Queen's Road.

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LAST ISSUE 1

President Roosevelt, however, intent uponproviding gainful employment, instead' oflife and liberty for the pursuit of happinesshas no answer to this. I J;;;;:=======~~ro~~~~~I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~fives from agricultural areas to assist II

farmers whose bumper crops nave caused ' Ia fall in prices, Mr. Roosevelt made it perfectly clear that he will not initiate a farmloan programme and will veto any Billseeking to do so unless at the same timea system of crop control is introduced."Poverty in plenty, is it? Right, then we

must destroy the plenty."

PERMEATION,Ideas First ... Now Action.

By Hewlett Edwards.

mE LONDON CONFERENCEImpressions by Elizabeth Edwards,Josephine Hyatt and Geoffrey Dobbs.

Report of speeches and discussion.

OBJECT LESSONS IN CIVICDEMOCRACY.

The Farmer's Policy by C. Howard Jon«;s.

Democratic Organisation by A. O. Cooper.FINANCE OF THE MONTH.Gold Again by A. H. McIntyre.

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