6 JUNE 1925, Page 28

FINANCE-PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

UNSETTLEMENT AND UNREST

BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY.

THE present oirtlook, both financially and industrially-, but more especially industrially, is not unlike the con- ditions which so often prevail in our London streets. What with congested traffic and thoroughfares narrowed by repairs in every direction it sometimes appears to the passenger in car or 'bus "held up " by a block as though-the entanglement of traffic could never sufficiently clear for -going once more " full speed ahead."• And then, when the traffic is most congested and when the " way out r seems most hopelessly blocked, there comes . first the slow movement . and. shuffling after a clearer course, with traffic. diverted in_ this and that direction, Until speed gathers and presently there is an open course and adequate progress.