The miners cling pathetically to the mining villages, and it
is hard to accuse them of a lack of imagination because they cannot believe that the pits that begot and have maintained their village will fail them now. We should be glad if it is only lack of imagination on our part that makes it difficult to believe that. the Industrial Transference Board will be able to induce willing migration on anything like the scale required, but it has our best wishes for all the success that it is capable of achieving. It is much the same with the Ministry of Labour's training centres. The Minister .of Health and the President of the Board of Education spoke for the Government. They were fully sympathetic but quite firm upon the danger of selecting areas for special financial help not given to all. They showed that substantial help has been given none the less. Lord Eustace Percy appealed for private charity, as the Spectator has, particularly for children's boots to be distributed through school teachers.
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