And whoever
says otherwise is either ignorant or wicked.
This is the gist of these scornful answers which disclose the psychology
of commercial undertakings. It is the same psychology which fifty or so
years ago, before Samuel Plimsoll uplifted his voice, sent overloaded
ships to sea. "Why shouldn't we cram in as much cargo as our ships will
hold? Look how few, how very few of them get lost, after all."
Men don't change. Not very much. And the only answer to be given to
this manager who came out, impatient and indignant, from behind the plate-
glass windows of his shop to be discovered by this inquiry, and to tell
us that he, they, the whole three million (or thirty million, for all I
know) capital Organisation for selling passages has considered the
problem of boats--the only answer to give him is: that this is not a
problem of boats at all. It is the problem of decent behaviour. If you
can't carry or handle so many boats, then don't cram quite so many people
on board. It is as simple as that--this problem of right feeling and
right conduct, the real nature of which seems beyond the comprehension of
ticket-providers.
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