Baldwin Points the Way

Hale and hearty, ruddy and robust Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, accompanied by Mrs. Baldwin, walked down the gangplank from the S. S. Empress of Scotland on to the terra firma of England, back from his 18-day tour of the Dominion of Canada (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq,).

At Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland, he told 20,000 people that Canada was "a land of good wages and unlimited possibilities .... It has been built up primarily by British brains, capital and skill. The secret of its success is its British character."

Referring to recent British industrial troubles, the Prime Minister pointed out that they were caused largely by the threat of turmoil. Continued he:

"It is a striking contrast, coming back from Canada to my own country. Are the leaders here not satisfied to seek the millennium unless they can get it by methods of Communism? It is a long way from Canada to Communism, but it is a very short way from Communism to disaster.

"I believe that the majority of our people have had enough forest fires of industrial upheaval raging in the land. Any fool can fire a forest or a city who can never plant a tree or build a house. I look to the leaders of the trade unions to give a lead toward national prosperity.

"Have we learned nothing in the last two centuries? Cannot we cooperate with one another instead of fighting the State, which is our child? What are we going to do now? I leave the questions to you to answer and upon your answer will depend the prosperity of the country and the happiness of your children."