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& J ~ the Lord Chancellor * hey Bartered For Soft Jobs "Do you think His Lordship whi \ee me soon? The scene is the anteroom of at the Royal Courts . at Westminster Hall, and the year is 1715. "What was it about?" inquires 'the Lord Chancellor's clerk. The waiting man rises, cups his mouth and whispers, "Chaft- wax!" "Ah, I don't know: about that. But come with me, We can't dis- 'cuss it 'here. Who recommends you?" Another deal is on. A deal in one of those strange jobs that were "in the gift of, or for sale by, the - Lord Chancellor . . , When George I was newly on his. throne, the age of sinecures, or, cushy jobs with good saalries and little work, was at its peak. Chaffwax was one of these jobs, The Lord Chancellor could do one of three things about it. He could leave the post vacant and pocket the salary himself. He could: sell the appointment to the highest bidder. Or he could appoint somebody "on the level". Some chancellors chose one way, some another. Chaffwax was a joke, All he had to do wag to stick sealing wax or documents. The job car- ried a good salary and was worth paying for, So, too, was the Clerkship of the Hanaper, another Chancery racket. The hanaper was a wicker basket. : Into it all writs had to go to be sealed--for a fee, Then there was the Registrar of Affidavits, the Protonotary (chief clerkship) of the court, -and several other soft, cushy jobs, making their holders gentle- men of independent means. Under the Lord Chancellor were the Masters in Chancery. Very often they had the handling of the money of suitors for cushy jobs. At that time all England was crazy over the South Sea Bubble, the phony business vénture that 'was going to make everybody vich. - Lord Chaneellor Macclesfield did some brisk business. He sold the Chancery jobs at high prices and invested the proceeds and much more in South Sea Bubble stock. He knew very well that the _ Masters in Chancery were also bitten by the gambling bug; that they, too, were investing large Together 'the two move off. ; EN sums. Where were they getting : the cash from? The Lord Chancellor looked the other way. > Acer UTAH Grew DON'T BE ONE -- Only a goof is a "guberif'--firebug, that Is --according to folks in Utah, This forest fire revention theme Is carried on the face of postcards being distributed by - the Keep Utah Green Commit- tee as a reminder that nine out' of ten forest fires are man- made. swindle was unmasked, "Among many other people fu . high places, the Lord Chancell charged with corruption and im- peached for trafficking in sine- ures, and convicted, His successor in office was Lord Hardwicke, who had started life as an errand boy. He, too, was accused of corruptino. A Member of Parliament ac- cused Hardwicke of complete cynical indifference to the wide« spread graft- in the Chancery . Court. minster Hall," he thundered, ""and out upon you, with 'all the old spider." It would he wrong, However: to think the judges of the past were generally dishonorable men. They were considered to be gen- erally honest. But they follow= ed the customs of their times. And gifts, patronage, and social and political wire-pulling were recognized wyas of getting on in the world. Every New Year the King him=- self accepted valuable presents of all kinds from those who hoped to secure the royal- favor and a good job, One of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived was Lord Chan- cellor Lord St. Albans, later Vis- count Verulam, known to fame as Sir Francis Bacon. Bacon was convicted of graft. He admitted it when hauled be- fore his peers in the House of Lords to answer the charge of 'corruption, y He was accused of accepting bribes from suitors for jobs. Who could believe it of this man who was not only a great lawyer but scientist and philosopher too? 'Bacon removed all doubt him- self, Taking his quill, he wrote: "I confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defence and put myself upon the grace and mercy of your lord- ships." He was deprived of office, fined £40,000 and thrown into the Tower, and he. was permitted to sit in the House of Lords. But he was a broken man. later qualified that confession by a curious modification. He said that it was true that he took money bribes from suitors ap- never influencéd his judgment! This may well seem a bit rough on the litigant who parted with his cash to square his judge! Today, all British judges from those of the country courts to those who preside over the high- est tribunal in the land, are held to be above suspicion. But some years ago a crooked solicitor, in league with a crook- ed barrister, bamboozled an Italian charged with a serious "crime. They told him that if he _.- paid ower a 'large sum of money "théy would square the Old 'Bailey judge. The accused man paid up. Imagine his indignation when the jury convicted him and the judge ence, bed" and the two More were very properly dealt with as the rogues they were. KICK A man recently arranged to have his aged mother cared for in a nursing home. Each time he visits her he brings delicacies from the farm, including a ther- mos bottle of fresh milk in which he slips a little brandy -- on advice of the family doctor. The old lady is always delighted with the lunches, and the other day, as she sipped the milk, she 'said sell that cow!" =a CROSSWORD PUZZLE - ACROSS 4. Aspect Humor © - 6. Tear Bow of a boat ¢ farem rooms 11. First decimal 40. Out of - -prae- number tice 19. Throw mis. 44. Por nged the alles services of . 1. Outstanding 6. Makes a 3. Cooking. ne- mistake cessity 41. Distribute 5. Baseball team cards fo . 6. Jog 49, Takes food 7. Ves 'a néedle 50. Melody 33 ob 51. grant the use 2 2 2 2 2 2 ) 9. Not busy Carbon ve 7. Where the sun 5. Kind of ean 62. 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Worse, he was now - * "Touch but a cobweb in West-_ vermin at his heels comes the Later, the fine was remitted Though Bacon confessed, he pearing in his court, but said it - ~gave him the appropriate sent- In that case the victim "blab- gravely, "Oh, Larry, don't ever ~ - BB | "them, [] The War Whoop Sounds Again The Indian war war whoop still brings ferror to a little band of settlers in Robeson County, North Carolina, not far from the South Carolina frontier, who "have organized to keep the white race pure and supreme. These characters somewhat re- semble the little band of youths ~whom the police gathered u Queens last week, except Phat they do not call themselves the! United Nordic Confederation -- they prefer that quaint old des- ignation, Ku Klux Klan, .The Indians in question have some real Indian blood. How- "ever, romantic persons believe they are partly descended from Sir Walter Raleigh's "Lost Col- ~ ony," set up nearly four cen- - turies ago on Roanoke Island. More prosaic theories are that thelr ancestors may include Spanish or Portuguese freeboot- ers, refugees dw the old col- ony of Georgia and a few High- and Scots, Whatever their origin, they are-a stubborn breed. They re- fused to attend segregated schools for Negroes after the Civil- War, and in time got schools of their own, They kept on voting when their Negro neighbors were disfranchised at the end of Reconstruction days. . In recent years they have been fairly - prosperous -- 30,000 of them in a county which has 40,000 whites and 25,000. Ne- groes. When the Klan began to burn crosses and hold meetings near their homes they took the matter personally. On Saturday night they turned out in some force at Maxtown and sent the Ku Kluxers loping into. the bramble bushes, This was certainly illegal. It should have been unnecessary, since a sheriff, fourteen depu- tles and some State Highway Po- lice were present, Finally, it was inconsiderate to startle the pa- thetic covey of Kluxers, who ... . are easily scared. One notices, - however, that though countless shots were fired only four persons. were injured, and those slightly; and that when the sheriff finally got around to act he" proceeded against the Klan, not against the Indians.--New York Times. "DISCOVERED"--After being in show business for most of his 48 years, Cal Tinney has been "discovered" by Hollywood. Since making his film debut In "The Missouri Traveler", the cracker-barrel philosopher has been hailed as "another Will" Rogers". 3 Might Be An Idea % For Canada Too For too many wasted ' years the better student has been a misfit in the American high school system. The schools have provided . varied (and often easy) curricula for the average pupils. They have done some- 'thing for the retarded and han- dicapped children, The able stu- dent has been left to stew in his |" own boredom, ~Responsible educators have been aware of this basic fault and were working to correct the situation before the Russian moons appeared over the hori- 'zon. The most promising pro- gram, and one that already has proved itself, is the advanced placement plan of the College Entrance Examination board. Briefly, the program works this way: The advanced place-- ment group provides descrip- tions of college level courses to be given -in high schools, It is then up to the jindividual 'school to -provide the teachers capable of conducting Each spring the board gives the pupils examinations in the various . subjects, © The results then are congidered by the col- lege in which the student in- tends to enroll, If he has done well, he may be given college credit - or ih least advanced placement and! the. opportunity. to begin at the sophomore level in that particular field, The able student can learn 6 a pace to match his ability. ,¢ Advanced placenrent is. for the students who are able and willing to study hard in high school.--Kansas City Star. courses and - HARVEST TIME -- It's. rice harvest time on Formosa, and this pretty lass doing her share at Taichung, wears gauntlets ta pro- tect her arms from the sun. Belleve it.-or not a suntan is not fashionable in Formosa. Man behind her works over a screened tub used to shake the rice grains loose. Free China is harvesting the greatest rice crop In her history, 1,900,000 metric tons -- , breaking the 1956 record of 1,789,000 tons Famine, a periodle scourge in Communist China, is unkown on Formosa. In fact, 'Free China will export 200,000 metric tons from the 1957 rice crop to Japan. The difficult thing about rain making is that you never know just how the weather will turn out."Not long ago, federal gov- ernment rain makers arrived at a certain town in rural Aus- tralia, after farmers in those parts had urged the need for a little federal rain making but when the rain makers landed in "their special rain making air- craft to begin operations, they had to unfurl their umbrellas to cope with the steady drizzle that was falling. «The farmers thereabouts, now that they had rain, felt the rain makers should not attempt any- thing at all in the way of weather experimentation, as the drizzle promised enough rain . for early sowing and too much would be ruinous. Frankly, they - didn't want them to stay in the district. Maybe it was because they knew that one thing rain makers like to do is to "trigger" off a bigger fall from a modest one. If this works out right, it serves to prove the rain makers know what they are talking about, though some farm {folks still are apt to regard all this talk of federal rain making as just another excuse for high taxes. Anyway, a lot of them seem to have sunk a good deal "of moriey in dams on their prop- erties. " . > ~The press treats the rain makers for the most part very kindly. "We made it rain," they allowed one to say in headlines. He went on to claim that his unit had made it rain six times between two towns out west. Rain was still falling at four o'clock from clouds that .had been "seeded" at three o'clock, he said. Nobody between the two towns concerned seems to have argued very much against this federal claim but that does not mean everybody was con- vinced. Elsewhere, the press said there was "no bluffing" about this sort of thing, which suggested the press were really sold on the whole proposition. One paper explained that the idea was 'to bring -the rain down when and where it was wanted." And that's about right, according to the best rain-making authorities. Any rain maker, in fact, who does not base -his whole theory and practice on that proposition isn't doing any more than just, fool around with the weather. The government 'has now an- nounced that fedéral rain mak- ers are 'not yet ready to apply the results of the rain-making techniques on any appreciable scale." Frankly, that kind of official statement is surprisir,;, # not to say, odd. For one thing, it does federal rain tnakers very "little credit when people remem- ber that federal experiments "began over 10 years ayo. Any- way, what about all that rain that fell at four o'clock way out west on six different occasions? . L] J On the other hand, the gov- -THEFARM FRONT "ernment announced that federal rain makers were "pressing on." At least, that sounded more en- couraging,. The government pointed out that the rain mak- ers "now know a great deal about this (raln-making) pro- cess." The rain makers had "seeded" at least 150 single clouds and had watched the subsequent de- velopment of rain. "There {s no doubt of this," sald the official statement. "The theory and practice are well understood." While no university in Aus- tralia has yet Invited candi- dates to proceed to a rain-mak- ing degree (R.M.), the theore- tical groundwork is being stead- ily lald, as the government . statement Indicated. For exam- "ple, in what is termed Practleal Rain Making there are all kinds of rain which the student must be able to identify--cold rain, warm rain, non-freezing rain, supercooled rain, showers, patchy rain, ordinary drizzle and Scotch mist which, for prac- tical purposes, Is fine weather, at least in the Highlands, writes |i Sul Zz HOE <<] -- |< wi <=) oul] DW << VO|-|Z --|A] a] wi <x [uw atu l-|xfwia wiv) ows {Wf - Il < [Ow i Lod <j Jie S H VYEY|3 INIA 3[d OlO] CIE] ER Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 3 LL bo L olan , M) 2 = ee Norte Toe Ohittan Then Shere ae ooh or condensation nuc ordinary drops of rain, small drops of rain, smallish raindrops, aver- age droplets, droplets which are subaverage and which can be classified for accuracy and * the purpose of this discussion as minims or the 60th part of a * fluld drachm, On the cloudy side of things are orographic clouds, elongated clouds, clouds visible and invis- ible, clouds dark and light, clouds small and great and wet- looking clouds. - The latter are most' favored by rain makers, it seems, It is astonishing how rapidly rain making has established its folk story. The tale is recounted of a gentleman who was voted the sum of $9,000 by Congress for rain-making experiments over Washington, D.C, in the nineties. Nobody seems to know whether this allocation of pub- lic funds marked the origin of federal rain making in the United States, but the gentle- man's experiments failed to convince Congress and he mov- ed, it was sald, to Texas. Very probably, the clouds were much bigger down there. LJ LJ * But there is no doubt that the art of rain making is control. This aspect has been developed to its utmost in Australla and even the rain makers are con- trolled. It is really all very sim- ple. A certain govyrnment de- partment (there shall be no - names) 'evidently reads the pa- pers to see what farmers across the country are saying about the weather. And since farmers are always saying something about it, there Is no lack of data: on which to base officlal action. Having noted, for example, that a farmer in one part of the country reportedly sald, "It is about time we had a shower or two," . the department would weigh thls observation against those of other farmers on the weather. When these were sorted in their order of significance, there would appear an order of prior- ity and federal rain makers would be routed around the country accordingly. After they had soaking rains in the wheat belt last year, the controllers of the raln makers decided. that _ the government would conduct no rain-making operations In that area. No doubt that was wise. Af- ter all, when a farmer has just the kind of rain he needs, he doesn't want the federal govern- ment tomfooling around with it. What they do with taxes is bad enough, By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A. The Preaching Ministry of the Church Romans 10:14-17; Ephesians { 8:1-19 Memory Selection: Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17, Last week we considered the teaching min ~of the church. In a teaching try the stress Is upon helping others to per- ceive the truth, whereas in a preaching ministry the stress Po Jpn causing others to act upon e truth. The difference is something like the difference between & Bible conference and an evangelistic campaign. The minister must be ready and able to teach (2 Timgthy 2:24) and also do the work of an evange- list (4:8). The preacher needs to have the consciousness of being sent by God. Otherwise he will not fully appreciate the value of the message of the unsearchable riches of Christ. Jesus Christ was poor in this world's goods but he was rich in wisdom. "O the -depth "of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out!" '(Romans 9:33.) It is a llving faith in Him who {8 so wise "that gives us calm In this Sputnik age. Christ 1s rich. in goodness. Paul asks, "Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and for- bearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repent- _ ance?" (2:4.) There would be no hope for the sinner but for the riches of His goodness. He is rich in power. He can forgive our sins and purify our hearts and dwell in us by faith. This Is even greater than His power in creating and uphold- ing the unlverse. "'Tis great to speak a world from nought 'Tis greater to redeem." What a message we have for man! Phillips says in his trans- Iatlon of 1 Corinthians 1:18¢ "The preaching of the cross ia I know, nonsense to those whe are Involved in this dy world, but to us who are bel saved from that death it nothing less than the power God." Let us tell it everywhere. JUST US CHICKENS -- A twisted and battered section of a chicken cage, complete with chickens, rests in a tree in Santa Rosa. It's part of a 3,500-bird house which was destroyed by a freak tornado. The poultry farmer estimated that 1,000 of the birds perished or were injured in the demolished building. THIS ONE'S ON THE HOUSE--Farinington Township firemih are" true firemen. rE They set this blaze, and form a standing-room-only audience for the ensuing inferno. To&nship officials decided that the cheapest way to get rid of 11 condemned buildings was te tuta them to the , ground. Tp a ry