NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Government are gradually adding to their pro- gramme for the relief of unemployment. Although we are not satisfied that the task of overhauling the nation's industrial apparatus is being taken in hand with as much thoroughness as it might be—for one thing financial policy as well as industrial policy should come to the rescue—we are extremely glad to recognize that the Government are working on right principles. They have accepted the very sound idea that a time of unexampled adversity may be turned to glorious gain if it be used to put the nation's machinery in order. When the great recovery which we all hope for comes there will not be time to do this. We hope that the Govern- ment have by no means yet laid before the country the whole of the list of things to be done. On Monday, Sir William Joynson-Hicsks, the Minister of Health, spoke on this subject. On Tuesday, Sir Montague Barlow, the Minister of Labour, gave a longer programme, and on Wednesday it was the turn of the Postmaster- General.
