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IRE PASSING WEEK.
IRE PASSING WEEK. "Lei there be thistles, there are grape*. If old things, there are new; Ten thousand broken lighte and shades Yet glimpeea of the true."—TBNNYSON. We are not going to have a devolution in this country. If this country had been inclined for nevo. lution, just let us imagine what would have happened the other week. The railways stopped suddenly. A general strike of railway workers was ordered hy the leaders and took place on the most complete scale ever seen in this or any other country. Had the country been inclined for Revolu- tion, what would have happened? The trans- port workers when asked to drive motor lorries to convey milk from the country to the popnlous centres would have said "Xo fear; ke are not going to to blackleg our railway pals." And the motor-lorries woud have be& as motionless as the locomotives! **• AVe should have been faced with a complete stoppage of transport In 24 hours, the coun- try would have been in an uproar. On Mon- day, the mothers in all the large towns would have been gathered in frenzied crowds de- manding milk for their children. On Tuesday half the bakers' shops would have been with- out bread. On Wednesday no bread would he procurable anywhere, On Thurday there would have been no food of any kind in the populous centres. On Friday mobs would have turned out to loot shops and .banks and to set fire to the houses of the wealthier people. rIhe soldiers would have been called out to fire on the crowd; some regiments would have re- fused and would have joined the "people. The rioters are alway called the people. Quiet law-abiding people are not "people" at all'. We should then have been plunged into civil war. Eventually as regiment after regi- ment went over to the people, tlie Govern- troops would have been defeated. The Hevoc. lutionists would have captured all the mem- bers of the Government and would have locked them up. The reins of Government would have been seized by some of the more ruffianly members of the Trades Unions. Par- liament, of course, would have been sup- pressed. The Revolutionist is always opposed to Democracy. He does not believe in popu- lar suffrage. Your true Revolutionist be- lieves in dicatting to the masses and in mow- ing them down with machine guns, if they raise any objection. # This is what would have happened if the country had been inclined for Revolution. But it did not happen, because the country does not want Revolution. But what really happened? The strikers were amazed to find themselves unpopular. The. masses did not take the railway strike as a lead. They resented it. Men were not only ready but anxious to lend a hand to, fight the attempt to starve out the country, bo far from being the hero he expected to find himself, the railwayman was astounded to find himself regarded as the "villain of the plor. And all this will quickly react on the leaders They hoped that in a day or two they would be idolised by the men for the victory they had won! Instead of that what do they find? The men have a distinct grievance against the leaders fdr placing them in a false position. *#« The most immediate effect of the strike will be to break the power of the leaders. \Vhen the strike had lasted four or five days, the men were getting out of hand. It is no secret that had the settlement not come when it did half the men would have gone back to work in defiance of their leaders. Had they done so, the others would have followed in 24 hours, and the whole organisation would have been shattered. The leaders by the end of the week were in a hurry to "settle" lest t.1e whole machinery should go to pieces. The most immediate lesson of the strike is that we must get rid of Prussia nism in this country. The men came out blindly when ordered without having any very clear concep- tion why they were coming out. And nine days afterwards they went back to work when ordered without having the least idea what the terms of the settlement were.. Twelve hours after they went back, they read the details of the settlement in the morning papers! There are people who raise objections to Trades Unionism. In the present case Wo a i n not dealing with Trades Unionism. If the members of a Union take a ballot and the majority is found to favour a strike, it is a perfectly intelligible policy that ali the mem- bers shall come out-even those who votwi. against the strike policy. Unionism or con- certed action of any kind would be impossible unless the minority were ruled by the majo- rity. The present tendency, however is quite the other way. Ballots are going out of fashion. The railwaymen were neve.r balloted on the question of a strike. They were never asked whether they were prepared to come out en strike. Mr J. H. Thomas and a couple pt leaders of the same kind ordered the men lo strike and they struck. **# This is sheer Prussian ism. On the 31st July, 1914, the German sodiers got their orders to "mobilise." The men stopped their da,ily toil and rushed to their district he id- quarters to join up. They did not ask "What are we wanted for? What is the war abou:?" Not. at all. Such an idea never entered the minds of the German soldiers. If somebody had asked a German soldier why he went to the depot immediately, he would have said "It is the orders ef the Superior Authority." J'What is the use of ilie waN" "I know not; it is the orders oi ,Superior Authority." "Are you anxious to fight Frenchmen or Russians or Britons?" • "No; I would much rather in my happy home t remain; but one must the orders of Supen jr Authority obey." This is exactly the attitude of mind which Mr J. H. Thomas and Co. aire trying to culti- vate on the part of the British workman. The majority of the railwaymen and the majority of the colliers may be against a strike; b"t they must obey the orders of General Vor. Smiliie and General Von Thomas. It was said during the strike that Mr Lloyd George was trying to smash Trades Unionism, He was not trying to do anything of the sort. He jvas trying to uphold Trades Unionism. The people who were trying to destroy Trades Unionism were the leaders who claim he right to order a, strike without consulting the I members of the Union. «* There are signs that the British working man is beginning to see through tlve prese it state of affairs. In 1914, the Kaiser said "I can call out ten millions of men who recog- nise me as their War-Lord." The Kaisers f Labour are getting into much the same frame of mind. Thev want to be able to threaten a Prime Minister and to say "We are the syndics of twenty million workers. Unless you make laws to suit us, we'll starve you out in a week." The Prussian War-Lord called out his: en Is ell millions of men and he led them to disaster. The result is that the Kaiser was deposed, and there 110 longer is a Prussian War Lord The Germans are quite determined that nc- hod in the future hall lead them over a pr('i- pice. It is just possible that the Prussians of British Trades Unionism will have a timi- lar fate unless they are very careful. The British working man has not much patience with leaders who lead him astray. There has been a good deal of talk lately about the "Nationalisation" of the coal mines. Nationalisation would be a very good move. What the promoters of the present movement aim at is not the "Nationalisation" of the oolleries, but the "Smillieisation" of them. The only argument which is advanced in favour of Nationalisation is that the Sankey Commission recommended it. It is quite a novel doctrine that Parliament is bound to pass an Act embodying a most drastic change in our industrial affairs merely because the change happens to have been recommended by a Royal Commission. In the veer 1893, a Royal Commission sat I (1,nd took evidence on the condition of agricul- ture in Wales and Monmouthshire. The Com- mission made some very drastic recommenda- tions. They recommended (amongst other things) that the rent of agricultural holdings should be fixed by a Land Court, and that the tenant should have a fixity of tenure. If the recommendations of the Welsh Land Commis- sion made in the year 1893 had been adopted by Parliament, the Welsh farmer would have been to-day quite secure in his holding so long as he paid the rent punctually and did not waste the land. Here is an instance within the memory of all grown-up people of an urgent reform being recommended by a Royal Commission. Evi- dence was given before the Commission in 1893 that farmers bought their holdings at exorbitant prices with borrowed money be- cause they were afraid of being turned out. It was pointed out to the Commission that the interest on the purchase money really meant double the former rent, but that far- mers undertook this burden so great was their fear of eviction. It was pointed out that farmers spent their whole lives improving land and had afterwards to buy their own im- provements when the holding was put up for sale! • All this was true in the year 1893. It is true to-day. The enormous prices which far- mers are giving for their holdings to-day are not entirely due ^o an increase in the value of land. Nobody believes tht the present boom in agriculture is going to last for fifty years— which is the only theory which would justify the price paid for land. The main cause is the l>reaiking up of estates due to the fear of taxation and confiscation. The landlords are atffeid that a Government which is hard up for money will grab their property. Th tenants are afraid that they will be turned out if a stranger buys the land—and hence they pay panic prices to guard themselves against eviction. The Government however quietly shelved the report of the Royal Commission of 1893. Many .other reports of Royal Commissions have been shelved—reports which have been directly pertinent to the terms of reference. Mr Smiliie and his set however are in a tre- mendous hurry to get Parliament to adopt the recommendation of the Sankey Commis- sion in regard to a side-issue—although the rcommenda tiun was only made this year. What does Nationalisation mean It means "becoming the property of the nation." This is a really beautiful idea. It would seem to be such a great thing for the coal-mines to belong to the nation. But that is not Avliat the Smillie set really mean. Who are the Nation We are all part of the Nation. The Nation means farnier-s and shoemakers and navvies and lawyers and grocers and jewellers and tailors and journal- ists and postmen and ministers and school- teachers and drapers and foundry-AVorkers, and scavengers and blacksmiths and painters and medical men, and brewers and basket- makers and cabinet-makers! If tiie mines were to become really Nation- alised, they would become the property of all these people. Is tins what Mr Smilile means ? Not by a long chalk! If the mines are "nationalised" in theory it will simply mean that they are to be handed over to the colliers who will allow no "interfering" by drapers and farmers and others. And the colliers themselves will in practice have little to say in the management. Mr Smillie and a few of his sort will "boss" the mines. We have lveard a good deal about the Duke of Hamilton and the Marquis of Bute and Lord Tredegar nd Lord Dynevor as colliery- owners. Does anybody seriously believe that the Nation at large would take the mines from the present owners and hand them over to Mr Smiliie and a few others like him ? And if such a change were made, does anybody be- lieve it would be better as for as the public afce concerned ?
Supplementary Education Rate…
Supplementary Education Rate for Carmarthenshire MORE INCREASES TO FOLLOW. At the meeting of the Carmarthenshire Education Committee held at Carmarthen on the 9th inst., Alderman H. Jones-Thomas, Llanfynydd, presiding, the Count Treasurer (Mr P. Pearce) submitted supplementary esti- mates in respect of elementary education. Alderman David Evans (chairman of the County Finance Committee) said they were in a, serious position. In the estimates placed before the committee last March, £ 75,000 was provided for for teachers's salaries alone, an increase of £15,000 on the previous year.- Lhe committee had already paid out R54,000, and at the end of the year teachers' salaries would have cost them £ 100,000. To meet this defi- ciency of £ 30,000 they had this year L20,000 arrears of grants, etc., which would not be available next year, and they wouldhave to resort to a supplementary rate to make up the amount. He moved a supplementary rate of 4td in the L. This was the first time that the committee had to go in for a sup- plementary rate. "I am sorry to say," he said "that when you conie to the County Council there will be more news of this nature." In reply to Colonel Delme Davies-Evans, Alderman Evans said the teachers' increases had been granted since the estimates were prepared. They had met every claim honour- ably and satisfactorily. The motion was carried, and it was stated that the elementary education rate would now amount to 2s 21,d in the £ 1. SUPPLEMENTARY TEACHERS SALARIES Alderman W. J. Williams (Brynamman), proposing that the application from uncerti- ficated and supplementary teachers for an in- crease of salaries be again considered by the Salaries Committee, said the Committee had decided their scale and had more or less fol- loAvod Glamorgan. Olamorgan, however, had recently given an increase to the uncertifi- cated and supplemetary teachers. "We koow for certain," he added, "that we have uncer- tificated teachers in the county who re-finable to eke out a living out of the salaries they receive." Alderman John Lewiws (Meiros Hall) said the Salaries Ooimmitte were unanimous that the scale was a very a fair one. vVe cannot follow' Glamorgan, a rich county like that; it is impossible." i
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CARMARTHEN UNDER THE SEARCHLIGHT.
CARMARTHEN UNDER THE SEARCHLIGHT. Come, come, and sit you down; you. shall not budge, You shall not go, till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you— SHAXXSFXAM. Trees are felt at the present time to be rather a, doubtful advantage in a street. The fall of the leaf often causes other falls. If any candidate really wishes to achieve popularity at the election on the 1st Novem- ber let him promise furniture. as well as houses out of the rates. Furniture has become so expensive of late that it is felt that some assistance is required by those who intend to set up house-keeping. I notice tha,t Mr David Williams still evades business details in regard to the housing scheme. He waives all such sordid considerations aside in an airy manner and tells me that I have not thoroughly digested the Act and the official circulars. He refers me to a twopenny pamphlet which he calls a "little gem' and tells me that on pages 7-8 I can read the "authoritative categorical assurance of the Ministry of Health that neither now nor after the first seven years will local authorities have to pay more than i penny rate for approved housing schemes." »** Evidently Mr Williams believes or wishes the public to believe that if a scheme is only "approved," it cannot cost in the future more than a penny rate. Now I turn to page 7 of the "little gem and read: "However great the loss which may be in- curred by a Local Authority in providing the necessry housing required for the working classes, it will not be necessary to call upon the local rates for more than is produced by a penny rate, provided of course that the ex- penditure is reasonable and THAT PROPER RENTS ARE BEING CHARGED." The views of the "little gem" are not quite so optimistic as those of Mr Williams. But the Act of Parliament is less optimistic even that the "little gem"! The only Act of Parliament which is rele- vant to the present issue is the Act 9 and 10 Geo. V.,ch. 35, entitled "An Act to amend the enactments relating to the housing of the working classes, town planning, and the ac- quisition of small dwellings." It received the Royal Assent on the 31st July last, and is therefore quite fresh. ■ I quote Sec. 7, amitting verbiage which doe- not apply to the present case: (1) If It appears to the Local Government Board that the carrying out by a local autho- rity of any scheme approved under section one of this Act has resulted or is likely to result in a loss, the Board shall if the scheme is carried out within such period after the passing of this Act as may be speci- fied by the Board with the consent of the Treasury pay or undertake to pay to the local authority or County Council out of the moneys provided by Parliament such part of the loss as may be determined to be so payable under regulations made by the Board with the' ap- proval of the Treasury, subject to such con- ditions as may be prescribed by those regula- tions. (2)Such regulations shall provide that the amount of any annual payment to be made under this section shall (a) In the case of a scheme carried out by a local authority be determined on the basis of the estimated annual loss resulting from the carrying out of any scheme or schemes to which this section applies subject to the de- duction therefrom of a sum not exceeding the estimated annual produce of a rate of one penny in the P provided that the regulations shall include provisions (1) for the reduction of the amount of the annual parment in the event of fa.ilure on part of the local authority or County Council to secure due economy in the carrying out and administration of a scheme TO CHARGE SUFFICIENT RENTS or otherwise to comply with the conditions prscriibed by the regu- lations. Evidently Mr Williams and the school to which he belongs have misunderstood the Act. Their attitude has been "Don't worry about expense. It can't cost more than a penny rate." Now this view is a. complete hallucination. It is time the truth were known. There is j no such Act of Parlliamnt as that upon which Mr Williams has taken his stand—and still less is there any Act of Parliament to uphold the balderdash which is being tallied at street corners on the subject. The theory that the Carmarthen TOAVAATI Council can build nouses at any price and let them at any rent and call upon the Government to pay all the defi- ciency over and above a penny rate is pure moonshine. The whole thing reminds me of a Russian Pole who had started a big business in the East End of London and who waS approached by an agent to insure his premises and stock. He had never heard of fire insurance before. "You mean to say," he asked, "if I pay you £ 4 10s now and my place goes on fire next Aveek, you give me £ 3,000." "Of course," said the agent "we should except you set it on fire yourself." "I guessed there was a catch about it" replied the Russian Pole. There is a very big catch about this offer of Government assistance. Under sec. 7 sub- sec. 2 (1) thcGovernment may wash its hands clean of the whole scheme if at any time after approval it finds that the Council is, not charging sufficient rents for the houses. Evidently Mr Williams has read the Act very hastily. He appears, to be a hasty reader. He says last week referring to me "I thank him for the admission that I have scored what he calls a point or two in dialectics." **» I never made any such admission. The only two sentences of mine which can at all have given rise to the idea on Mr Williams's part are my notes of October 3rd "Mr Willianis seems more anxious, to score in a game of dialectics than to get at the truth "Now if Mr Williams is anxious to enlighten
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Carmarthen Borough Police…
Carmarthen Borough Police Court. The Carmarthen Borough Police CCourt was held on Monday before the Mayor (Mr Wm. Evans), GVLr W. Spurrell, Mr James Davies, Mr Henry Howell, Mr J. B. Arthur. OVERCHARGING FOR RUM. Jmes Barton, of the Railway Inn, was charged with selling rum at a, price exceeding the legal maximum. Mrs Barton was charged with aiding and abettug. Inspector Scott said lie was charged 7d for a fifth of olgill of Gilbey's rum; the legal price was 5d. 'Mrs Barton said she thought she was en- titled to charge that price for a proyrietary spirit 30 u.p. Mr Walllis-Jones, who appeared for the prosecution, said that a smaller measure still was used; it was the "Lloyd George," which was one-sixth of {1, gill. The Bench fined the defendant 5s in each case. ¡ UNREGISTERED OAR. Alfred James Lye, a chauffeur, was charged with driving a car which was not registered' and William Davies, of Cardigan, the owner, was charged with aiding and abetting. P.C. Spurry proved the case. It appeared that the car had been recently sold and the -change of ownership had not been notified to the County Council. The case against Lye was dismissed. The Bench fined the defendant Davies tl. C'then Rural Food Control Committee. D. Stephens, J.P., Llanarthney, pro- sidd at the meeting of the Carmarthen Run I
Carmarthenshire General Purposes…
Carmarthenshire General Purposes Committee Dr Williams presided at the meeting of the Carmarthenshire General Purposes and Public Health Committee held at the County Offices, Carmarthen, on Tuesday. NURSING DEFICIENCIES. Dr Hughes, County Officer,-in his annual report suggested that a County Nurs- ing Scheme be formulated and that in the meantime a number of whole time nurses should be engaged. The South Wales" Nurs- ing Association should only be regarded as an employment agency at present they paid the Association £ 50 a year in respect of each of the 19 nurses who only gave part-time to the duties. The report also dealt with assist- ance to poor mothers. Many of the schools in the County had no nurse to act as health visitor. Some districts sue hs Cross Hands and Penygroes had no resident nUlrse at all. The Nursing Association Avas a cliaritabe or- ganisatios and there Avas an objection to that, the tendency nowadays being to put all these things on the public purse. Miss Davies (Froodvale) said that they were all desirous of seeing nurses placed all over the county. But they would not be able to do so unless the County Council allowed them a sufficient sum to train and maintain nurses. As the report of Dr Hughes was of a very ela.borate and comprehensive character, it was decided to have it printed in the minutes and circulated amongst the members for further consideration.. DIED ALTER DIPPING. The Chief Inspector (Deputy Chief Con- stable Evans) for the Llandilo Division re- ported that 49 sheep had been found dead after the, second dipping. There was nothing to show the cause of death. DEBILITY DUE TO POOR KEEP. Mr J. F. Rees, one of the veterinary inspec- tors, said that a case of supposed infectious disease in a heifer had been reported to him. He had found that it was a case of debility due to poor keep. NO ANIMAL DISEASE. The reports of the various inspectors showed that there was no infectious disease of animals in the county.
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Carmarthen Rural Food Control…
Carmarthen Rural Food Control Committee. A THREAT TO STRIKE. A letter was read from the/Divisional Com- missioner in which he declined to accept th 3 views of the Committee in regard to allowance for milk distribution. He also sanl that farmers who sold milk had always been in the hibit of buying butter, and this was no new practice. Mr W. Weeiks moved that they inform he Commissioner that unless a change were made the Committee would resign en bloc. Mr Salmon: Perhaps he would be very glad if we did. The proposal was carried unanimously. The Clerk referred to the arrangements which had been madeduring the. strike. They had had a very strenuous time for a; few days. In conjunction with Mr H. Brunei White, the Executive Offioer for the Borough, he had commandeered all the perishable food-stuffs at the Station and the Junction, and had had It removed to a, dump at Messrs Spiller and Daker's store. All the flour had been comman- deered from the local merchants who had ren- dered every possible assistance. Some Trades- men were without flour on Tuesday after the start of the strike. Some people had got extras and had tried to get more than their share; but they were restricted to 41bs pr head per week. Flour had been despatched b motor transport as far as Brechfa and Pem- broke. If the strike had only lasted a few days longer, arrangements could have been made with the Transport Officer to collect butter, eggs and ra.bbits from the rural dis- tricts. Had the strike only lasted a little longer the arrangements were getting into such good order that it would not have mattered if it had gone on indefinitely. The experience gained had been most valuable. The motion was carried.
----oo ----A SOCIAL.
-oo A SOCIAL. In connection with the English Congrega- tional Church a social was held on the 2nd just. qt the Public Hall with a. view to inau- gurating the winter session of the tMemorial Hall Guild. The cha.ir Avas occupied by the Rev D. P. Roberts, M.A., B.D., whose witty opening speech, and Avitty asides, during the evening kept those assembled in a merry mood. The programme of entertainment was as follows:—Pianoforte solo. Miss Ruth Thomas; recitation, "Especially Jim," Mis G. Evans, Devonshire House song, MiSs Lewis (Smith and Son); competition, potato peeling, for which the first prize was awarded amidst applause to Mr J. Young Davies, Commerce House; pianoforte solo, Mr J. G. Williams, City and Midland Bank; humorous reading, Rev D. P. Roberts; song. -iss Ross, M.A. recitation, "Wolsey's advice to Cromwell," Mr G. W. Jenkins; competition, reading of an unipunctuated passage, first prize, Miss Picton, Truscott. During an interval tea was served out and the good things supplied with it greatly appreciated.
Llandilo Police Court.
Llandilo Police Court. Saturday, before Messrs J. Picton, W. Hop kin, and Hy. W. Jones.
EJECTMENT OHiDEft.
EJECTMENT OHiDEft Mr Jones, formerly of Rhdymcn. applied for an ejectment order against Daniel Thomas, Bankyfelin. It was rented at £ ii a, year. Applicant had left Rhydymon owing to his ill- health. The garden had not been set for years. The cottage had been used to rear chickens.—By Mr Hurley Applicant had only owned the cottage for three years. When he saw the defendant keeping chickens in the house, he gave him outbuildings for the pur- pose. The garden was a wilderness. The fence was in a bad state. His furniture was stored in a ruined cottage at Penybank, and he was in lodging.—Mr Hurley asked plaintiff if he had been paid compensation.—The Bench were aginst defendant making any reply to the question, holding that it would not Aveigh with them.—He did not remember giving notice to quit in March, 1917, to quit exarch, 1919, but he had given him two notices to quit. The signature on the one produced was not his. He wrote a letter on September 29, 1917. about giving notice, owing to his wife's ill-health. Later on he wrote that he wanted the house because he Avanted to rent Rhydv- mon and the land together. He had not let the house to one Edwin W illiams. He knew that like himself Mrs Thomas suffered from rheumatics, but he did not know that she was unable to move about. One of the family of eight were deaf and dumb.—Mr Porter said his contention Avas that the house was reason- ably required.—Mr Hurley held that the lett- ing was not proved. He had not proved the OAvnwership of the tenancy. Defendant wag unable to get a house. He had a son who had been at the war from the start and wounded three times. He asked the Bench to say the plaintiff was not entitled to have possession. -Cc,ridwe,n Myfanwy Thomas said she was the defendant's daughter. Her father worked from home. Her father knew nothing of the transaction. Witness was constantly at home. In 1916 an arrangement was made for them to leave. She knew it of her personal know- ledge. They looked about for a house and got one. They had a letter from Mr Howell Davies. solicitor, saying the plaintiff did not want them to go out of the house, '.they re- mained on at Bankyrodin.—Mr Picton inti. mated that what they wanted to know was whether the tenant had failed to get a house. —Witn ess Her brothers came Irome occasion- ally. Her mother Avas an invalid. She was not able to leave the house.—By Mr Picton: They had done their best to find a house.—Mr Picton: Tlie application has failed.—Mr Por- ter pointed out that lie had not cross-examined the witness.—Mr Picton said that he could do so, and if he could,, to convince bench that they were Avrong.—ilr Porter went on to argue that from a legal point of view the application was good. He agreed to ctoss- I examine, but thought it was a Avaste of time. By Mr Porter: Mr Jones had shown two houses to her, but they would not do.—The Bench intimated that they would suspend the orde,r for three months to give defendant time to get a house.—.Mr Hurley and Mr Porter said that it could only be suspended for 30 da vs.—The case was adjourned for two months 13en Morgan. Lhvyncelyn, was charged with driving a gambo the horses that were attached to it not being under proper control.—P.O. Wilfrid Powell SAVore to seeing defendant riding 011 a gambo drinving tAvo horses. He had only reins on the shaft horse.—By Mr Hurley, who defended There were reins to the front horse also, but they were tied to the tracings. There was not a great deal of traffic on the road.—Mr Hurley said there were two other cases of the kind against W. Richard Jones and W. Phillips. No doubt there had .been technical ogences and he ad- visedthe three to plead guilty.—The Deputy Chief Constable said he had only brought the cases on as a warning. -Defendant% were let off on payment of costs under the First Offen- ders Act.
An Open Letter
An Open Letter TO THE ME.VLBIVUS OF THE LLANDILO URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Gentlemen,—As I have not the honour of being a member of your Council, I have not the privilege of addressing you verbally, hence my reason of availing mysel:f-wit,h the kind permission of the Editor—of the use of the "Carmarthen Weekly Reporter" as a channel of communicating with you on a matter which has occupied my mind for some time. The Avar is at an end, for which we can all devoutly say "Thank God/' I understand: that it is the intention of our town to com- memorate in some form or -oher the end of the terrible conflict, I respectfully offer to you a suggestion. Not being a corporate town we are deprived of many of the privileges en- joyed by our neighbouring towns—Llandovery Carmarthen, Kidwelly, Llanelly. These towns can boast of their Mayors, Mayoral processiong etc., whilst Llandilo is content to jog along under its old-time drabbiness and lack of colour conditions. Now, Gentlemen, I re- spectfully suggest that you get out of the old rut, and come out "ino the fitoe of the sun, and the eye of light." We are anxiously awaiting the Prime Minister's visit to receive an address on behalf of the town. Are you prepared to meet him and carry out the cere- mony under ordinary conditions? I trust not; the occasion will be unprecedented and historic. You should then prepare to meet our Welsh Prime Minister with the dignity worthy of the town and neighbourhood, famous through its association with Sir Rhys ap Thomas, and the Princes of Wales, and their historic doings. I beg to suggest that the Chairman and officials of your Council be clad in "Robes" worthy of their positions, and that the change he made retrospective so as to include those Councillors who have occu- pied the chair during the war period. I offer no suggestion as to the design, colour or material; these can be safely left to your own tnste-as you have some competent members amongst you, whose choice will I've n0 doubt meet with general approval. Hoping that you will unanimously adopt the suggestion, which I take the liberty of making. I am, Gentlemen, Yours truly, "MORE CONTROL."
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the public and to let them know the truth rather than display his dialectic skill. All I said was that Mr Williams is anxious to score in a game of dialectics. He takes that as an admission that he has actually scored! If I were to say that I was anxious to get into Parliament, would 'Mr Williams take that as a definite statement that I am actually an M.P. ? This is a little thing in itself; but it is evi- dently typical of Mr Williams's method of because it was too expensive. is of little account. But when he mis-reads Acts of Parliament and gives forth his per- versions as expositions of the law, it is a much more serious matter. On the last occasion on which I referred to the matter I stated that( Darry had kicked out a housing scheme because i was too expensive. Swindon has kicked out its housing scheme at the direct instigation of the Labour party as the houses would be too expeensive. Nottingham Town Council had thrown out the housing scheme as too expensive. ««* Since then I have noted the following casss. Canterbury Town Council has decided to ask the permission of the L.G.B. to erect wooden houses as the proposed scheme is too expen- sive. Willeeden Housing Committee have rejec- ted the scheme because the cheapest five- roonied house would have to be rented fit 23s 5d a week. Peterborough Town Council has received only three tenders for building cottages in connection with the housing scheme. The lowest is t823 and the highest tl,04,3 per cottage. As 500 are wanted and a loss of about k250,000 would result, the Corporation wants something more practical than the pre- sent scheme before it goes on. **« Neither Barry, Swindon, Nottingham, Canterbury, Willesden, nor IVtereborough had Mr Wiliajns to tell them that the ex- pense was immaterial to them as the Govern- ment would stand all the loss except a penny rate. These towns all saw the "catch"—the charging of the proper rent. And that might probably mean that the houses would be un- let. The villas at 7s Gd a have vanished like Aladdin's palace. What is likely to be the upshot of these schemes is a lot of mean five-roomed houses at 1:1 a ii-e,k! The Ministry of Health have this week issued a circular entitled "General Housim Memorandum Xo. 8" Order No. 65,227 to Local Authorities..1 would call special atten- tion to paragraph 18. "Thus if housing is to be re-established on an economic footing there must be a heavy in- crease in the rents of houses, and there would appear to be no reason why the rents of houses should permanently be placed in a different category from the prices of other commodities such as food and clothing which are necessary to iite and health. In framing their financial proposals, the Government have been influ- enoed by the urgent necessity of building a sufficient number of houses to to relieve the present scarcity and overcrowding. IT WAS NEVER INTENDED THAT RifclNTK SIIOULT) BE PERMANENTLY SUSIDI«K!>. Such a subsidy would be equivalent to a sub- sidy in aid of Avages and would be a measure of injustice to those workers who Avere not fortunate enough to be tenants of State-aided houses." I facy that puts the tin-hat on all the wild ideas which have gone abroad on the subject of hoosing. Something of the sort was badly wanted. Butter has disappeared from the public eye. There is a little illicit traffic going on in that line; but the hatf-crow n butter has disappeared as completely as the rabbits did Avhem the .price was fixed at Is 9d. •#* The case of butter shows the absolute failure of the "fixed price" or the "maximum price." Suppose I want a pound of butter and I inter- view a farmer on the subject. He says he his none. I aisk him of he can malke any. He says "Not likely; I can sell the milk that would make a pound of butter for 6s. Or if I can't sell milk I can make two pounds of cheese which will sell at 4s. I am not going to make it into, butter at 2s 6d a. Ih." Suppose that I am a person of a felonious; depraved and unscrupulous disposition, I say- to that farmer "Look here. I must have butter. I'll pay you 4s for it." "Now you are talking sense," he says "how much do you Avant?" How is the law to be enforced in such a case. The farmer won't inform on me for he has had the money and is liaible to be charged with selling at an illegal price. I won't in- form on him because in the first place I am guilt of "aiding and a,betting," and in the second place if Ixmade any fuss I would get no butter. There are wild stories of the quantity of milk required to make a pound of butter. The first time I ever heard the subject discussed —this was many years ago-I was told that eight quart of milk would make a pound of butter that in the case of specially good milk seven quarts might be' enough, and that in the case of poor milk nine quarts would be required. A few years afterwards I* heard that ten quarts were necessary a.nd now it is stated quite openly that it takes twelve quarts of milk to make a pound of butter. The explanation of this discrepancy is very simple. The quality of milk is steadily de- teriorating. Cows have been known to give milk which contains 4 per cent. of butter fat —or even a fraction more. On the other hand, there are cows which have the audacity to give milk that only contains 21 per cent. of butter fat. It requires no expert in mathe- matics to calculate tht the volume of the former milk which would yield 91bs of butter wuld in the case of the latter milk only yield five pounds! I have been careful to use the word "volume"—not "quantity." The proper way to measure milk is not by gallons but by weight. Two cows may give exactly the same quantity of milk by measure; but one may be found to give two or three pounds more in weight if the two samples were put on the scale. In many countries milk is estimated by weight. A cow is usually said in America to give so many pounds of milk daily—not so many quarts. They don't want volume. The Australian system is the same. People who estimate milk by weight would tell a farmer to shoot a cow if it gave 21 p.c. butter. Of which only yielded one pound of butter. Of course in those countries they make their money by butter and cheese. Here farmers sell the milk and it is to their interest to get the cows to' give immense quntities of milk irrespective of quality. Thus there is a steady tendency to raise the quantity of milk which-is required to make a pound of butter. It is hot that farmers are drawing the long- bow. Tlic quality of milk is steadily deter- iorating because measure is noAv everything atil Aveight nothing. ALBTHBIA.