BIG BUSINESS AND PUBLIC WORKS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Sra,—I welcome the letter in your columns from Mr. E. C. Gordon England as a sign that big business is now alive to the need for a forward policy in what are called public works.
Mr. Gordon England is a director of the Vacuum Oil Company, and his work, no doubt, brings him into close touch with the transport needs of the country. There are many other directions in which there is equal scope for a more enlightened policy, for, for the past two and a half years, public works, both national and local, have to all intents and purposes been suspended.
I hope that the powers that be, now that the crisis which stopped them is over, will pay heed to the words of Mr. Gordon England and remember the many schemes of national development which are still held up.
One word more. "Public works" in many people's minds seem to suggest the digging of holes in the ground in order to fill them up again. They are much more : they are national reconstruction in the best sense. Perhaps if we referred to them as reconstruction work instead of "public works" we should get a greater measure of popular support for some of the many undertakings which must sooner or later be started, and which, as Mr. Gordon. England so rightly says, should be started now when rn'oney is cheap and men
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