Although there has been considerable improvement in trade and com~ over the resistance successfully made to adversity. Gloom may have been pertinacious but greater pertinacity has been shown by the human will to survive—perhaps the cussedness of man's refusal to lie down even though, by all the canons of the collected lore of ages, he ought to be dead. Newspapers may believe that the inteligence which they publish with their neat and expressive head-Ines (let pott-ars be preserved in writing even of newspapers today) is vital, important and world-shattering. They may be right in that belief, yet the philosopher }who, in the long run, wins a'tention, will declare that the really significant tidings which the newspapers bear will be found in those "hatches, matches and dispatches". On this last day of the year it is Rot necessary to trouble about the dispatches. The Old Year is doing that on his own account. It is pleasant rather to know that, in 1934, regardless of catastrophes, young men and young women have been busy getting born and getting martied. So long as they keep to that employment, the world must wag—waywardly, and let it be hoped also, wholesomely. So long, as the world wags, it is of small moment whether sliver goes no or down. Silver, in the carefree hands of the world's children, is used for lining clouds; to what better use could it be put? And today surely the world is solely Inhabited by children. They have had that 365th breakfast; they have washed behind their ears, put on their best pinafores and brushed their hair. They can now go out and play at being happy ever after, til:
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve Lovers, to bed; tis almost fairy time. {fear we shall outsleep the coming morn, As much as we this night have This palpable gross play hath well The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends to bed.
Theseus was revelling on a Midsummer Night. Never mind, the thought is pleasant to revive as Old Nineteen Thirty-Four is decorously buried with all his grouses, [grumbles, grudges grimaces and] of He has not depressed the world, for it lives despite him. merce of late in Grest Britain, and consequently less unemployment, the problem of the out-of-work is far from being. solved. This is particularly the case as regards the juveniles. Every year the schools turn out between half and three-Jquarters of a million boys and girls, many of whom would, in the ordinary course of events, be absorbed by industry. Now industry cannot absorb them all. In some cases they grow up without laving had either the training or discipline that regular' work gives, and they run the risk of demoralization from a social point of view. Fortunately the Juvenile Training Centres are now dealing with 2 considerable [proportion of the unemployed youth of the country. Here the boys and girls are given training in a variety of occupations. They are also given exercises in physical culture and taught to keep themselves fit in body and. mind. Another valuable result of the training of young people these centres is that their outlook is widened. In many of the areas where unemployment 1s most rife, the older people have the strongest objection to leaving their own dis tricts for distant places where conditions are more favourable, or even to change their occupations. They suffer, or enjoy, family trade traditions, and they cannot bear to think of completely changing their jobs fand their mode of life, and settling down in distant places. The boys fand girls who are now getting more varied training and experience in the juvenile centres are getting a wider outlook on life, so that, when their training is completed, they will form a. more mobile section of labour than do their parents.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.