WORK OR WANT
SIR,—As the active head of a large manufacturing business for over half a century, I have had to study human nature. But I confess myself puzzled by the general attitude of the British people to the national question of the hour, " What is to be our national position when we cannot get more food and other things on credit? " For at least a year past, on hoardings all over the country, our Government has honestly placed the real issue before us—" Work or want." Economists warn us ; politicians of all parties are agreed that if we do not produce more we shall have to consume much less. The Government certainly has no interest in magnifying the danger, and yet the British people as a whole do not rise to the occasion. A few are willing, and are producing more goods wherewith to pay for the food and things we need. But the great majority of our people seem Unwilling to save themselves when they might
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