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up his tools and become a country mechanic 

 means that the opportunity to find fresli jobs 

 wlien liis last one is finished has been taken 

 away from him. Instead of going into the 

 next street, it probably means going into the 

 next county. Besides, there is invariably the 

 village carpenter already on the spot, as well 

 as the village blacksmith, and possibly also a 

 mason and a bricklayer. 



It is evident that to gain sustenance for 

 himself and family he must either be individu- 

 ally a well-known cabinet-maker, wood-carver, 

 stone-mason, or metal worker, or he must 

 form one of a community of fellow- workers in 

 allied trades, sufficiently strong in numbers to 

 undertake work together as a Guild of Crafts- 

 men, a corporate body to which advertising 

 would be a small item to its individual 

 members. 



The necessity for establishing workshops in 

 the country comes home to us when we realise 

 how phthisis seems to single out for attack 

 our younger town craftsmen endowed with a 

 fine creative energy. And not for this reason 

 only, nor for the sending out into the country 

 ana?mic young men and women whose vitality 

 has been sapped in the stuffy atmosphere of 



