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- ' - THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1929 PAGE 1 E British Censors Criticized 'Over Actions In Banning of Number of Books Literary Men Are Much Warmed Up Over the Situation, and Dorie Decisions of Board of Censors--Gilbert :K. Chesterton Says He Would Prefer Spanish Inquisi- tion to Methods of Home Secretary + London.--Literary censorship fis becoming one of the most debated subjects in England as a result of the banning of a number of books recently. The latest novel to come under disapproval is "The Sleeve- less Errand" by Norah C. Jones. . Im a recent article on the subject in one of the London illustrated weeklies Gilbert K. Chesterton dis- cusses the subject at some length and finds that most persons who talk about censorship are in a hope- less muddle. He says if his books have to be censored he would much rather have them dealt with by the Spanish Inquisition than by the Home Secretary, Sir William Joys- son-Hicks. While professing no admiration for the Inquisition Chesterton says they at least acted on certain defin- ite principles which everyone knew" and understood. At' the present time not. even themselves, knew on what principles the authorities acted in declaring books objection- able. : Chesterton says there are which a book Mr. three grounds on dealing with sex might ostensibly | be declared objectionable but- that these grounds were hopelessly con- fused together in the public mind. One was that objectionable doc- trines were preached in the book, another that the book contained passages calculated to excite appw- tites or desires regarded as anti- social that it contained vulgar words agd expressions. Each ground was quite separte and distinct in itself, said Chesterton but yet very few of the people gvho either opposed or up- held the banning of a particular - book could say on which ground it ought to be or might be denied cirenlation. With regard to the first the wri ter says the authors of so-called im- moral books in many cases are merely giving expression to the doctrines which if not preached are practiced in many classes of society. He claims a writer can not be blamed for advocating a doctrine which is practiced in pri- vate life by a large section of the population. As to the second it is very difficult to say when a pass age is objectionable as the statu of the mind of the reader is always a dominant factor in the effect pro- duced. In discussing the third he points out that words in themselves are nothing apart from.the mean- ing attached to them and ifthe idea conveyed is one commonly en- tertained it does not make it ob- jectionable in an author to express it in words which may happen to be frowned upon, by convention. THe chief fault Chestefton has tp find with present attempts at censorship is that they are based on no definite moral principles but merely on the shifting sands of convention and manners. Taking Shakespeare as an instance, he {l- lustrates the difference between convention and morals. He says many expressions in Shakespeare's plays would eertain- ly be frowned upon hy present-day convention. They may or may not have been unconventional fn Shakespeare's time. They may be wrong now though right when they were used and though they may be- come right in the future. But if Shakespeare neglected his wife that would be wrong then, it would be wrong now and it would be wrong for all time. FREE HOUSES FOR i OLD COUPLES Edinburgh.--A novel scheme of free houses for old couples is sug- gested by Mr. H. Lyon, the genera: secretary, in the annual report of the Scottish House and Motormen's Association. He points out that with the introduction of pensions at 65 years many of the members are being dismissed at that age. Even if a member and his wife get the pension of $5 per week, under present conditions it is qvite im- possible to pay the present house rates. He suggests that the As- sociation might do a little to help those in such a position by build- ing. to begin with, 12 houses at Cardoss Park, where they have or immoral and the third | HAY SOON VANISH plenty of ground with no burdens. of the Board Usismployed Miner Heads Conservative Organizations London, -- Gwilym Rowlands, recently elected Chairman of the National Union o Conservative and Unionist Associations began life as a pitboy in a South Wales coal mine and despite the fact that he is now leader of the Conservative party he classes himself as an unemployed miner. He is the first working man to hold the leadership of the many large Conservative associations and sticceeds Col. John Gretton, M.P., the millionaire brewer, Although Mr. Rowlands has been unemployed for some time he says he has never drawn the dole. He has been engaged as a political speaker and from that has made enough to live on, { i \ ll - Kod A AiNG TIM George Cummings, veteran walke er, recently walked from Lone don to Leads, 20014 miles, 39 hours, 8115 minutes, covering the course in nearly half an hour under the 40 hours al- lowed. : PETTICOAT LANE May Disappear in Changes Being Made in London's Congested Ar-as London--'Petticoa. Lane," Lon- don's most famous open-air Sun- day market, may disappear in the changes that are. taking place in the congested area between Houndsditch and Middlesex street, which is the real name of the "lane". Here the city corporation have put up new blocks of flats to which the overcrowded inhabitants are flocking. An area about three acres In ex- tent, which comprised Ellison street, Providence Place, Hutchison street and Hutchison - avenue, as well as the old New street, is now cleared and awgiting plans for re- building. - ; It is probable that part of this site will be occupied by a new cold storage building for the port of London authority and the rest may become an open space for the hene- fit of the inhabitants of the new flats in Bearsted house and Dutton' house, which now flank the mew street. The new flats have set all Pettl- coat lane agog. They are clean and bright, with four rooms, a kitchen, scullery, cupboards, elec. tric light, gas fires, and all for 27s 6d a week. : The shops below have given an entirely new tone to the "lane" and old-established stall holders wander what will become of the Sunday market at which many of them take hundreds of pounds. WILLIAM COSGRAVE President of the Irish Free State, has isued a grave warning re- garding outbreaks of terrorism in Ireland. WRONG BODY WAS PLAGED IN COFFIN Daughter Shocked on Tak- ing "Last Look" at Remains Liverpool.--An unpleasant expe- rience befel a Liverpool woman, Myps. Chow Sing, of Pitt Street. It had been arranged that the body of her mother should be taken to the house from the hospital. Wish- ing to see her mother for the last time, Mrs. Sing had the coffin dpen- ed. She immediately fell back in great distress, for instead of see- ing the body of her mother it was that of a middle-azed man with monstache and whiskers. The n who. accomnanied the coflin = 'ed in poeifying her by assuring lier that the body of her mother had not been, as she sup- posed, buried in 'an unknown grave! They hurried back to the hospital and quickly rectified their mistae. The confrsion anpears to have been due to a similarity of the surnames on to cofilns. PROFOSE HOSPITAL FLOATING IN AIR Leningrad. -- Aerial hospita's lifted miles above the earth on great balloons so that sick people can have the advantage of the pure air and undiluted sunlight high above the clouds, are suggest- ed by Dr. W. Oppel, head of the Metchnikoff Hospital in Le: d Russia, Admitting that hi lan seems at the moment too fantastic for d-tual trial. Dr, Oppel urges its undoubted benefit to the pa- tients' health as a sufficient reason why engineers and aviators should plan and experiment in this direc- tion until perhaps such flying health centres may become possi- bilities. : Physicians pr. know, Oppel .| points out, that the climate of high mountains is beneficial in many diseases, notably tuberculosis. In his own city of Leningrad one of the difficulties in treating such diseases is that no nearby mountains are available. Even in countries like Switzerland, where mountaing do exist, the tops are seldom high en- ough. Dr. Oppel believes, to obtain the benefits desired, it must be by lifting sick people entirely above the cloud layer and into sunlight unaltered by dust or smoke. Why not urge aircraft engineers, he asks, to devise great metal struc. tures open on four sides to the air, roofed with ray-transparent glass and lifted by great gas bags at the four corners, to provide aerial homes for scores or even hundreds of the sick. Supplies or patients could be carried up or down by small captive balloons. GUN DOGS ON SHOW Edinburgh.--Nearly 300 dogs from all parts of Scotland, Eng- land, Ireland, and Wales, were on exhibition in the Waverley Market, Edinburgh, at the fourth annual championship show of the Scottish Gun Dog Association. The show was conducted under Kennel Club ritles. There were many notable exhib- itors, two of particular interesg be- ing Major-General Hig Highness the Maharajah Dhilaj of Patiala, whose springer spaniels attracted a great deal of attention, and the Duke of Montrose, with his noted pointers. A SMART QUARTET . Four popula~ Samoyed: displayed by Miss Lurzo:k for Miss Keyts-Perry at the Regent's Park and Dis- tict Doz Society's open show which nas held at the Kentish Town Baths. OF SAMOYEDS ON DISPLAY AT ) THE LONDON SHOW LARGE BEQUEST 10 SCOTTISH CHURCH Woman Leaves $150,000 to Church of Scotland in Her Will Glasgow.--Intimation has been made to the offices of the Church of "Scotland of a munificent be- quest to the Christian life and Work Committee, and through that Committee to the Church of Scot land. Mrs. Macgregor of Batter- flats, Stirling, by her will has left her mansion-house, with itg poli- cles, extending to about six acres, and such of the furnishings and plenishings of the house ag may be found suitable, to be utilized as » rest-h for deacc parish sisters, and women. missionaries home on furlough. 'Mrs. Macgreg- or has further bequeathed a sum of $150,000 free of legacy duty and legal charges, for the endowment of the rest-house. Mrs. Macgregor was a devoted memiygpr of St. Ninfan's Parish Church and a generous contribu- tor to the work of the Church of Scotland in the parish and neigh- bourhood. Her princely gift has been received with great apprecia- tion and gratitude by the Commu- tee which is to administer the be- quest. The rest-house will be a val- uable contribution to the wider needs and opportunities of the re united Church of Scotland. PLAN EXCURSIONS BAGK TO SCOTLAND -------- Large Parties From United States to Make Trip in 1930' Edinburgh.--There 4s to be mo excursion to Scotland this year of the Order of the Scottish Clans of America. The next invasion takes place in July 1930, and it is learned that a program even more elaborate than that of the jubilee excursion last year is al- ready being planned for this ex- pedition. As on previous visits the clansmen will make the trip by Anchor Line ships, the Caledonia and Transylvania having provision- ally been reserved. In the interim other Scots-Americans societies have planned excursions to the Homeland. The first arrivals are the mem- bers of the Peeblesshire Society of America on 16th June by the Cam- eronia, to be followed by the Great- er New York Masonic Burns Soci- ety and the Caledonian Clubs due at Glasgow by the Transylvania on July 26. This is the third excur- sion to Scotland of the Caledonian Clubs. Although the numbers are not expected to equal the Scottish Clans contingent of last year, they will at any rate rum into several hundreds. London.--Attention has been called in naval circles here to the relatively slow sneed of some of the new ships which, it is alleged. will be far outdistanced by compar- able foreign ships. It is under- stood that the new flotilla leader Codrington and eight new destroy- ors of the ""A' class are desigend 'or 33 knots. The Codrington will e a ship of 1,620 tons, standard displacement, carrying five 4.7- inch guns. 8he will thus he prac- tically identical with the Scott class of ten years ago, except for the fact that the designed speed will be 1.5 knots less. The destroyers will be two knots slower than simi'ar boats construc- ted some years ago. Slowness of Britain's Latest Warships Causes Consternation Naval experts are alarmed at this retrogressive program, point ing out that the new French flo- tilla leader Guepard has made 38.45 knots in full power trials. It- aly's new scouts of the Condottieri 'lass will steam at 37 knots. The new British ships will go to the 'Tediterrane>n when they are com- mi-~loned, and will face Italian ~rvicers which could outdistance them and blow them from the wa- ter, The naval correspondent of the Western Independent, a Plymouth paper, says that attitude of the Tritish naval designers in regard to the speed factor is causing some- thing like consternation. MAY SAVE FAMOUS VASE FOR BRITAIN Fear Expressed That It Will Be Sold to United States London. -- Will an effort be made to save the Portland Vase for the British Nation? The ques- tion is being asked because the Vase is to be offered at auction early this summer and it seems to be taken for granted that it is hardly likely to fall to an. English purchaser. The bidding may easily go to half a mil- lion doMars. : * The Portland Vase is the famous Roman cinerary urn which the Port- land family have lent to the Brit- ish Museum since 1810. In 1770 Sir William Hamilton, England's repre- sentative in Rome, obtained it for 1,000 guineas, the Vase haying long beenn the Barberini Palace, Bring- ing the Vase to England, Sir William sold it to the then Duchess of Por?- larid, and it Was lent to the British Museum. The Vase was smashed by a mad- man in 1845, but was restored by experts and has been specially pro- tected since. Experts have: expressed the opinion that it belonged to the first century of the Roman empire, and specimens found at Pompeii have supported their contention. The Duke of Portland offers no explanation why he wishes now to see the Vase, declaring it is a pri- vate matter. No doubt an agitation will be aroused towards saving the Vase for Great Britain, but there seems some doubt if such a project will be actively supported by any of the big funds instituted for this purpose. There are so many more important and more national treas- ures, in jeopardy of the - auction mart. rr -------------- WIFE'S STORY OF CAMPBELL'S INJURY London.--Among the unexpect- ed visitors to Brooklands, Surrey, race track recently, was Mrs. Mal- colm Campbell, wife of the famous racing motorist, who is waiting in South Africa to make an attempt on the world's speed record. Mrs. Campbell arrived from Capetown only in the morning. She 1 to a reporter: I brought the children home and I 1 going back again on Friday t 'teh my husband make the at- +, which will probably be in weeks time. hag had fearful luclsy His 'ane accident, although he : 'light of it, was far more seri- nd than has been reported. He was lucky to escape with his life. Part of his nose was cut off, and he had to have it sewn on without an anaesthetic. His top teeth were knocked out, he had a bad cut on his mouth and a blow on the head which has made him shaky. After this accident he had an- other with his own aeroplane. He was taking it to a hangar when a Rube of wind blew it over and it | fell on top of him, bruising him all iover. SCIENTIST SEEKS LINK IN ETHER Sir Oliver Lodge's Quest for Vehicle of Mind and Spirit London. -- A confession of faiht is 'made by Sir Oliver Lodge in a recent issue of the Review of the Churches. He is supposed, he states, to be "tarred with the brush of unorthodox researches," but the only brush with which he admits being tarred is a brush that has been dipped into the facts of experience. "My own doctrine, both in physics and psychics, is one that emphasises the importance of the universal con- necting medium, the ether of space. "I believe that this substance or substantial entity will ultifately be found to be of the first importance, both in science and in philosophy; I believe that it' will act as an instru- ment of unification between mech, ism, on the one hand, and spiritual guidance, on the other. "If the ether is a substance of uni- versal prevalence--as in physics it appears to be--then it may be the real vehicle of mind and spirit. Individual Units "If so, then it must be by or through the process of what we call incarnation -- a connection between ether and matter which has still to be understood--that the undifferentiated mind develops, by utilizing the essen- tial discontinuity of matter to parti- tion itself off into free and indepen- dent units, so that, in association with matter, they may acquire an indi- viduality of their own, and thus by free and personal development en- hance the value and complexity of the whole. "If mind always requires a physical vehicle (as our experience seems to show that it does), then the Absolute Mind, whether differentiated or not, must exist in the continuous ether. Mind transcends the ether, yes, but utilizes it as its instrument and ve- hicle. "Matter is known to consist of de- tached particles linked together into a cosmos by unexplained and non- sensuous forces, either in what may be called space, or, in a physical but non-material perfect substance, the seat of all potential energy. "And now matter itself is turning out to be a form of energy likewise, so that the whole physical universe is being resolved into ether and en- ergy, which last may be a special variety of motion. "In what way this omnipresent en- tity is able to fulfil the behests of life and mind has not yet even been ima- gined; but if the ether exists it is un- ikely that mind has not made use of it; and it is in some such way that I would seek to fathom the meaning and mystery of existence as we know it. London Education committee, state that the expenditure of other committees charged against the education account for 1929-30 is estimated at £1,712,875, an in- crease of £1,438 over that of the previous vear. SIR WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS Who, as head of the department controlling the British Board of Censors, is coming in for much criticism from authors. ELECTION COMEDY IN BATTERSEA" RIDING Labor, Socialist and Com- munist To Run As Candidates London--A piquant situation has arisen in the North Battersea Divi- sion of London, where Mr. Saklat- vala is the sitting Communist Mem- ber of Parliament. The Socialist Party of Great Britain, it ig stated, has decided to run Mr. Arthur Baker; of the Furnishing Trades Union, as an opposition candidate in the forthcoming election. There is also a likelihood that an official Labour candidate will contest the constituency. Since there is already a Conser- vative candidate in the which means a Labour, Socialist, Conservative, and Communist con- test--the electicm prospects. for North Battersea are indeed lively. In a straight ficht with the Con- servatives at the last eloction. Mr. Saklatvala was returned with a majority of 543 votes. PRINCE OF WALES AS BARRISTER-MASON London--The Lord Chamberlain announces that the Queen will hold courts at Duckingham Palace on May 9 and May 10. This follows the official state- ment that the Prince of Wales will deputize for the King at this year's courts and investitures. The Queen only will receive the courtsies of debutantes, the Prince of Wales and other members of the royal family occupying ex- actly the same positions in the roy- al circle as they would were the King himself present. The one difference in the usual procedure will be that there will be only one throne on the dais, instead of the two which are. usu- ally occupied by the King and Queen side by side. The King and Queen usually en- ter the throne room hand in hand. This season the Prince of Wales will escort his mother to the throne room, and the Queen will then take her place alone in front of the single throne; with mem- bers of the royal circle, including the prince, grouped behind her. The announcement' that the Prince of Wales will deputize for the King at this year's courts cause ed an immediate. increase in the number of applications from those wishing to make presentations, which hitherto had been under the average. It is believed that there will now be a record number. In almost every case it is debu- tantes who wish to make their bow to the prince. Another feature of the applica- tions is the great number from the dominions and colonies and the United States. VICE ADMIRALS RETIRE London.--London Gazette an- nounced that Vice Admiral A. G. Hotham, who was a member of the Admiralty War Staff during the last year of the war and later be- came director of naval intelligence, has been placed on the retired list. Vice Admiral A. P. Addison and Rear Admiral the Hon. A. C. Strutt, who were promoted from the ranks of Rear Admiral and Captain respectively in consequence of Vice Admiral Hotham's retire- ment, have both been placed on the retired list at their own request. field-- | age of Interesting News and Pictures of the British Isles President W. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State Issues Grave Warning About Lawlessness Terrorism Growing in the Irish Free State, and President Claims That a Deliberate end Organized Attack Has Been Launched Against the Foundations of Ordered Society o LACK OF CANDIDATES WORRYING CLERGY London. -- Lack of candidates for ordination affecting the numbers of Anglican clergy and causing serious alarm in church cir- cles, Figures recently issued by the Anglican Evangelical Group Move- ment show that there are now only 16,300 clergy compared with 21,000 in 1914, In the meantime the popula- tion of the country has increased by 2,000,000. Last year there were only 265 can- didates for ordination while the num- ber required to keep the 'supply of clergy up to an adequate standard is is 1650. The average life of a clergyman is estimated at 57 years and it is claimed they are dying off now more quickly than others can be ordained. £102,000 I'OR DEVICE F. Handley Page, of the aircraft firm bearing his name, is report- ed to have given the British Air Ministry use of his slotted wing safety device for consideration of £100,C00. BRITISH JUDGE IN COURT AS WITNESS Rare Spectacle Was Seen in High Court in London London--~The rare spectacle of a Judge of the High Court giving evidence in Court was present- ed here, when Mr. Justice Luxmoore appeared as a witness. The case was concerned with a legal bill of costs. Members of the Bar are privileged to give evidence from the Bar and without being sworn. But Mr. Jus- tice Luxmore, being no longer a mem- ber of the Bar, had to give evidence from the witness box, and to be sworn in the ordinary way. At one point Mr. Justice Luxmoore spoke rather quickly and his atten- tion was called to the fact that he was: making it difficult for the pre- siding Judge to take a note. A mom- ent later Mr. Justice Avory found it necessary to interrupt his "learned brother" in order to keep his notes level with the evidence. Incidentally it has long been a com- plaint that in the King's Bench so much time is. taken up by mere writ- ing by the Judge of his notes of the evidence. No official short-hand writ- er is in attendance. No mourning was worn at the funeral at West Stow, Bury St. Ka- munds, of the rector, the Rev. E. R. Swift, who desired that the cere- mony should not be gloomy. Sir. Basil Peto, M.P., has been appointed chairman, and Barclay Harvey, M.P. secretary of the tour- ist trafic sub-committee of the Channel Tunnel Parliamentary committee. Dublin,--The gunman is abroad in the Irish Free State again, and President Cosgrave has promised that the whole resources of the law will be employed to deal with the new menace. Thirty-nine young men living in Dublin and the suburbs were ar- rested early in the morning by de- tectives and imprisoned in the Bridewell. This follows with dramatic swift- ness the pronouncement by Mr. Cosgrave. A number of them were released during the afternoon, but more than twenty remain -in custody, No charges have been preferred. "A deliberate and organized at- tack has been launched against the foundations of ordered society in this city," said President Cos- grave? speaking at a North Dublin by-election meeting. "In January a murderous attack was made on a respectable citizen, and that it had not fatal results was a dispensation of Providence. The attempt to murder this citi- zen was made for one reason, and one only--because he had served upon a jury which convicted a criminal, against whom there was the most complete and convincing evidence of guilt. Part of A Conspiracy "Less than a fortnight ago, m young man was brutally done to death in this city because he gave evidence for the prosecution in a recent case. "Mark for a moment what the situation is," said the president. "Are you to have ordered govern ment, are you to have government at all? If you are to have govern- ment, then you must have law, and if you must have law, you must have the instruments of law and the means of finding whether or not a person charged with any of- fence is guilty. "You must have free ingress and egress from the courts of persons who are to give evidence. Thess two incidents that I have described are not isolated incidetns--they are part of a deliberate conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice. "Some time ago a series of pams- phlets, threatening jurors it they did their duty to the state and to the public, was issued and circus lated. . They failed in their object ~the decent citizens of Dublin were not terrorized. Embracery was unsuccessful, and the instigate ors then resorted to murder. "So far the perpetrators of 'these crimes have succeeded in evading capture, and the position therefore is that there eXists in this city a body of criminals who are endeav- oring to secure immunity from con- viction by murdering unarmed wit nesses and jurors, who are mereiy doing their duty as citizens. \ "If this conspiracy is not crushe ed, and crushed quickly, we shan be faced with a very serious prob- lem. 'Those who value human life so lightly cannot be expected to re- spect property or the rules of or- dered society. The whole social fabric is threatened by their ex istence. Arms Supplied Boys "The present conspiracy," tua president went on, "must be put down in the Interests of society, in the interests of civilization, anu in the interests of the safeguarding of human life and the protection of property. It is not a remote is- sue fos the electors of North Dublin --these things have happened in their midst. . "Wild women and hysterical men are preaching murder to the youth of this city. Criminals, men' and women, are supplying arms to boys who have been sent out to kill at an age when they should be still at school. We know these things are going on, and an end must be put to them, and that quickly. "This type of criminal receives encouragement from every form of disrespect for authority, whether that disrespect masauerades under a constitutional cloak or whether it is expressed in open defiance of state institutions. One is almos¢ as bad as the other." "The government intends to take whatever steps are necessary to deal with this conspiracy." WHEN THE FIELD TOOK THE JUMP AT ALDERSHOT The field taking the jump in the open cup race at the Aldershot military meet in which Captain Wevarine Dawn (Nd. 21) was the winner. Lumsden's