sow the wind of victory they are reap- safety councils have enlisted in coo} ing the whirlwind of defeat. eration with the national body. On third of all fatal accidents occur homes; but it will come as a surpris BRITISH POST-WAR PROBLEMS to many persons to learn that mo A recent report of the London and fatal work accidents occur in agricu Cambridge Economic Service published ture than in any other industry. Speci by the Royal Economic Society makes emphasis, therefore, has been put it possible to form some idea of one of home safety and farm safety throug Great Britain's serious post-war eco- two advisory committees working wit nomic problems. national private organizations as WE The capital losses of the nation have as Government bureaus. been considerable. One of the main As might be expected, traffic ac methods of war financing was the liqui- dents have declined for the nation a dation of the nation's foreign assets. a whole, but the report points ou Some £2,185,000,000 was obtained by nevertheless, that 14,000 workers we selling gold and foreign investments, killed on the streets and roads a the owners/ of the latter putting the 500,000 injured in the first six mont proceeds at the disposal of the authori- of this year. The council has enlist ties. The Chancellor, in his Budget many civic enforcement bodies, n speech, estimated that another £600,- tional and local, in an effort to brin down this attrition of our manpowe 000,000 would be realized in the present year. Private "disinvestment" at home But in the field of traffic, as well as through lack of renewals and replace- industrial and off-the-job categorie ments is estimated at £400,000,000 for success can be obtained only by a f the first three years of the war. A fur- measure of individual determination avoid the accident menace as an in ther depletion is expected in this year of £170,000,000. These two items thus portant personal contribution towal amount to about £3,355,000,000. winning the war. In addition, there is the destruction caused by enemy action. On this point THE SIBILANT CICADA there are figures available only for compensation already paid out. This The first of the season's cicadas hav totals £500,000,000. The minimum fig- come out to salute the sun-if ure for capital losses is placed at about cicada's noise can be termed a salut £4,000,000,000. The quantity of con- Anyway, here they are, on telephon sumption goods available for the popu- poles and in treetops, and they mak lation of the United Kingdom has been one realize that summer is at its pea curtailed for the four years of the war Give us enough of them and we sha at the rate of about £600,000,000 annu- be hearing about the 17-year locust ally. Thus the total financial war bur- If there are only the usual number den for the first four years of the war however, we shall call them harve amounts to about £6,500,000,000. flies and let it go at that. The harve It is difficult to foresee to what ex- fly, if you are entomologically i tent these losses will be offset by tech- clined, is the black-and-green one. T nological advances. But it is clear that 17-year fellows are the longest-lived in some directions the Brítish are going insects, and some amateurs say yc to face more difficult problems than can tell their age by counting t before the war. Before the war Great growth-rings in a cross-section. S entists demur. Britain was not forced, like so many other countries, to pay for its excess of Any noisy cicada, however, is sure be a male of his species. Xenarchu imports by desperate attempts to un- dersell on the world market. By sell- the Greek poet, once said: "Happy the cicadas' lives, for all have voicele ing the products of their toil on the sheltered domestic market British wives." But he didn't point out th workers bought these badly needed cicadas sometimes burrow as far It foodstuffs and raw materials, as it twenty feet beneath the surface of t. L were, from those fellow-citizens who ground to hibernate. Obviously, the 1 takes all that time owned foreign investments. It was as yea if a part of these overseas fields, plan- get tations and mines were situated within their own country, within the ev boundaries of their national customs te ( system. The foreign investments acted h ase as a brake in mitigating the serious ] ada consequences of other nations' protec- whi tionist efforts to bar access to foreign ho manufactures. n't. Great Britain after the war, in short, W ha will not only face a shortage of capital n sleet which will increase the difficulties of ssion restoring and improving its peacetime comin technical equipment, but with its for eign assets gone it will have to searc July