Welwyn Garden City suggests, for those who do not know it, no more than its name implies. If is interesting to learn that it actually contains factories; still more so that, in conjunction with Jarrow, one of the distressed areas of Tyneside, it is about to import six unemployed families and find them workin its factories. Each family must" have employable parents, at least two employable children between fifteen and Seventeen, and other children who will grow up to be employable, "All expenses will be paid by the Welwyn Rotary Club and, if the experiment succeeds, other families will be imported.
Side by side official accounts are published of what is known as the Cohn Hill Improvement Scheme. The experiment is to see what can be done {tovimprove the fertility of rough hill grazing lands, of which there are 15,000,000 acres in Great Britain, Sir Julian Cohn is financing the scheme which is being worked by Professor Stapledon of Aberystwyth. About 000 acres of land have been chosen, purposely in high exposed spots, the: frass is being improved, grazing ex-fended, mechanical tractors used to fear up and cultivate the ground, Work for' the unemployed "is, course, the prime abject. The results fare already' so promising that one waits with interest to hear the free: {traders denounce "subsidized agriculture" and Labour rhetoricians inveigh ed in partnership and harmony throughout the nation the interests of class or section of the community being preferred over another. Both old as a central doctrine of their creed that power implies responsibil lity, @ doctrine Disraeli pointed out, derived directly from feudalism which required performance of specific Guties for the exercise even of in-hented rights. American industry has grown from a background in which the feudal tradition was unknown, Some faint traces of it may] have been found in the South but they were wiped out in the Civil War. Economic power has frequent~ ly been exercised without responsibil ity and it is this which the President Is Seeking to check. He is not seeking, to destroy business, but make it conscious of its public responsibilities. Where responsibility is not recogniz~ ed, or as now would be said where a code of fair competition is violated, then and only then does the Pres! dent "believe that the government! should step in and exercise its powers of coercion and control, There are, It is true, groups around the White House who wish to abolish the profit system entirely, but their influence with the President is exaggerated.
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