Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1931 — Page 5

SEPT. 14,1931

BRITISH WORLD POWER IS SEEN FADING RAPIDLY ‘Sun Is Setting on Empire of Old/ in Opinion of . Writer. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scripna-Howard Foreign Editor. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Can the British Empire ever really “come back?” Staggering though Brittain's new taxes and pay-cuts are to both high and low, by no possible stretch of the imagination can they lift the country itself out of its basic difficulties. These revolve around industry and trade. A given set of world conditions, plus coal, steel, ships, textiles and great leaders made the British empire. They brought her wealth and planted her flag in the four quarters of the earth. Today those conditions have altogether changed. Miners a Liability Take coal. Coal is the basic factor in English life—or was until the end of the World war. Ten per cent of the population depended upon roal for their living. Britain was roal purveyor to the world and steam was what made the wheels go ’round. Today oil and hydro-electric power are taking the place of steam. Moreover, since the war, a lot of other countries are either producing coal for themselves in greater or lesser quantities, or are actually competing in the foreign market with Britain. Among those doing so are Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, South Africa and the United States, not forgetting India and China. So 36 per cent of Britain’s miners are on the dole, many of them doomed to perpetual idleness. There Is little likelihood that British coal will ever be to the world what it was up to 1920, so these outcast miners have become a great national liability. Shipping Competition Grows A similar catastrophe has happened to Britain’s steel industries, to her textiles and to her shipping. No longer does an agricultural world turn to Britain for its manufactured products and probably never will again. The United States, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Chechoslovakia and even China have become more or less industrialized and are “rolling their own.” Some are even competing against Britain in the foreign field. Some of the more progressive Britons assert that only a complete change of pace on the part of British industry can save the situation. These recognize that their country faces anew set of world conditions which the old system is inadequate to meet. Dominions ‘Grow Up’ It* is this group who quite willingly and cheerfully admit that the sun of the old empire has forever set and all that now remains is just a beautiful afterglow reddening the horizon. The dominions have grown up and today arc Britain’s equals in every respect. Some of them, like Canada, is vigorously competing in the export trade with the mother country, and successfully. Other great powers, rich and progressive, have appeared on the world scene and which ever way Britain turns, whether on land or sea, she fights the keer~-t competition in all the things which formerly were almost her monopoly.

DRAW UP FREIGHT PLAN Surcharge Proposed as Substitute for Rates Boost. Jhi United Prets WASHINGTON, Se>i. 14.—A plan for substitution of an emergency franchise for the 15 per cent freight rate increase proposed by the nation's railroads has been filed with the interstate commerce commission by West Virginia livestock growers and shippers. The plan was framed by T. D. Georghegan, Washington freight expert. It proposed that a surcharge, corresponding roughly to the Pullman sleeping car surcharges authorized by the commission in 1920. be made effective without disturbing the present rate structure. The West Virginia plqn proposes that the revenue from such a surcharge be pooled for the common good o f the railroads.

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