?6 
LAND 6? WATER 
December 19, 1918 
OUR SAILORS' 
CHRISTMAS 
Fonnded 18S6. 
"VV/E want to show our g^ratitudc to 
the Sailormen and Boys, for four 
and a-half years of unfailing devotion to 
duty, and silent heroism, by giving them 
the happiest Christmas of their lives. 
Please help us to give them a Right 
Royal welcome at our Seamen's Institutes 
and Churches in 130 Ports at HOME 
and ABROAD. 
Admiral Sir Robert Lowry, K.C.B., after visit- 
ing the great Commercial Ports in England and 
Ireland, said : 
" The work which The Missions to Seamen Is 
doing exceeds the work of all the other 
Societies put together. " 
Please send a Gift as a 
THANKOFFERING. 
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged by STUART 
C. KNOX, M.A.. The Missions to Seamen, 11, Buckingham 
Street, Strand. London. W.C. 2. 
iJJii 
lllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^^ 
i Adjustable Rest-Chairs 
"THE BURLINGTON" iPalenttd). 
^ Simply press a button and the back declines, or automati- ^ 
^ cally rises, to any position desired by the occupant. Release = 
= the button and the back is locked. = 
= The arms open outwards, affording easy access and exit. ^ 
^ The Leg Rest is adjustable to various inclinations, and can be ^ 
= used as a footstool. When not in use it slides under the seat. ^ 
s The Reading Desk and Side Tray are adjustable and remov- '§ 
= able. The only chair combining these conveniences, or that = 
g is so easily adjusted. The Upholstery ii exceptionally deep, s 
= with spring elastic edges. = 
= Would not one of these chairs add considerably to the s 
^ enjoyment of your relaxation and restP ^ 
M CATALOGUE C 6 OF ADJUSTABLE CHAIRS, FREE. g 
I 171 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W. | 
[Continued from page 34) 
A great deal of nonsense is talked about the cleverness 
and success in industry' of the Germans. In fact, after all 
their hard work and profit-cutting, their output per head 
before the war was not much more than' half that of this 
stuffy old country, spoilt by a century of prosperity. But 
they had that sense of working for a big thing, and every 
German clerk was conscious that he was a wheel in a great 
machine, and that it was his business, by doing his level 
best, to help the great machine to run. This is the spirit 
that we want to see here, without the bad results that it 
produced in Germany. If we can get some of the spirit of 
working for a big end, instead of merely for oneself, without 
that blind subservience to public authority which made the 
Germans stupid worshippers of a clay idol, we shall have 
gone a long way towards that financial victory which is the 
next item in our achievement, now that the military victory 
is won. We have before us a very difficult time of transition, 
and too many of us seem to think that just because the war 
is won, a cheap and easy heaven on earth is going to be 
given away at somebody else's expense. Whereas if we do 
not all work hard and take care of the financial end of things 
we shall find that the programme provided by the economic 
providence is really quite different. 
War and Production 
War is a first-rate stimulus to productive activity. That 
is one of the benefits that have to be credited to it. When 
you take away the flower of the world's manhood and 
devote their whole energy to destruction, those who are left 
behind have to find out new and better methods of produc- 
tion, or perish. All the countries of the world have learnt 
how to make better use of material and how to organise 
production and distribution better. If only these means 
can be applied in peace time with something like the same 
success that war's stimulus provides, the common output 
can be increased enormously when all the men from the 
front have once been fitted into the productive machine. 
On the one hand, there is this possibility of a much greater 
output. On the other, there is a general demand for all 
kinds of goods to fill the gap that war's self-denial (voluntary 
or compulsory) has left in our consumption. The danger is 
that owing to lack of buying-power this demand may not 
be effective, as the economists say, that we may see 
the old absurdity of glutted markets and ill-fed, ill- 
clothed, ill-supplied humanity looking on in despair and 
discontent. 
It ought to be obvious to capitalists, employers, and the 
well-to-do in general that such a result would be disastrous 
from their own point of view, and more likely than anything 
to lead to the appearance of that ugly spectre which they 
dread under the name of Bolshevism ; also that the way to 
avoid it is to welcome that improvement in the general 
diffusion of buying-power which can only be produced by 
higher wages. High wages, accompanied by high output, 
will go a long way towards dispelling the fear of glut. On 
the other hand, high wages, if unaccompanied by high output, 
will only bring us back into the old vicious circle that brought 
us so near to disaster during the war, and will simply mean 
high prices which make high wages a mockery. How are 
we to get round this dilemma ? Only education will do it, 
and perception, perhaps after bitter experience, that one 
cannot get something out of nothing. If we had any leaders 
who could put a few simple economic facts before the people, 
and explain that two and two make four, the effort might be 
remarkable. Instead of which they encourage a pathetic 
belief in the bottomlessness of the public purse by conceding 
everything that ignorant workers demand. That workers 
should protest against being suddenly turned adrift because 
the war is over is most natural and reasonable. That the 
Government should, in fear of their protest, consent to 
go on using material that is wanted for other things by 
keeping munition works going in order to appease mobs, 
instead of explaining the facts of the position, is criminal 
weakness. 
In all this welter of hopeful and doubtful tendencies the 
ordinary individual can do something. He can see that by 
his own action he helps on the right side, that by hard work 
— if he is a worker, by hand or brain — he increases the pro- 
duction of things that are wanted, not only by buyers with 
money, but by the public interest, and that by spending on 
the right things, if he has control of wealth, he stimulates 
only the production of things that the public interest requires 
to be^multipUed. Those who spend money decide ultimately 
what'goods shall be produced. On the wisdom or folly with 
which they spend, the future of our productive activity 
depends. 
