THE STAR OF BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1919, Page 16

THE STAR OF BRITAIN

The star of Great Britain was the common sense of its common people, said Mr Roberts, tho Food Controller, at Norwich, and he believed that common sense would prevail in the present trouble. Nobody could accuse him of lacking sympathy for his own class, but he was not going to stand by and see them misled. It was to the co-operation of all classes we must look for the emergence of wise and sound measures. Unemployment would bo intensified rather than reduced if they arranged conditions in any industry without regard to its capacity in relation to foreign competition. If competition was regulated and industry was organised ha believed we could in our own lifetime reduce tho unemployment problem to quite manageable dimensions. But those who had accumulated large fortunes would havo to recognise, that wealth must be more equitably distributed, and those who wanted better living must prove themselves worthy of it.

"You find yourself compelled to weigh your words just now?" "Yes," replied Senaior Sorghum. "Tho time was when the size and number of words eeemed to be what made the impression. Now tho value of talk goco by weight instead of measure,"-