Britain Needs Industrial Leaders Government Not to Blame for Existing Conditions in Old Land— New Methods Must Supplant Old Customs. December 15 1925 “ECONOMICUS” Britain Needs Industrial Leaders “ECONOMICUS” INDUSTRIAL conditions in Britain are very much exaggerated by many writers, according to “Economicus,” writing for The Review of Reviews. He claims that more people are employed today than before the war; many of them are nfinitely better off, though the average standard of living must be lower._ Employment is lowest, he tells us, in the I unsheltered industries. He, however, admits that “it. is true that bankers are unable to recall in their experience such a I desperate condition as now besets the great export industries of the country.”