The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

t0 ambles l are cool. The meinion Parliament For Sale By .did‘not (iron the Bill dealing with the right of married women to establish domicile. He brought it up again I took the ground that truth will endure. and the sunlight of publicity will kill error. Mrs. Robb had a small luncheon in their private apartment at the Chateau for Mrs. Ross. the wife of the Aus- tralian Trade Commissioner. on Thurs- day. I enjoyed it. I particularly liked Mrs. Robb. The House did not sit Thursday. A little dancing party top- _ m3--. lllu‘I-WGJ ‘s bbvbcv um- ped off the holiday and on Friday public works estimates passed rapidly through a dull House with an hour of divorce bills from eight to nine. So that is another week. -â€"--â€"~ -â€"-_“-'A” --- â€"vâ€" vâ€"â€"" v of Police. An excellent contribution to the debate was made by Mr. Mal- colm Lang (Liberal). “I think nothing tends more towards a good safe and successful operation of a mine, or any other big industry, than a good organ- ization among the employees, and one that, in its operation, merits the con- fidence of the management and the executive, so that, the Executive of the Labor Organization. will be called in to meet the management, and to dis- cuss around the table the conditions which they have to face in order to make a success of the enterprize in which they are all engaged. For some years past the organization of the men employed in the mines of Northern Ontario has not been kept intact. I hope the time will come when they haVe a good organization. They need it . . . . A good miner’s union . . . would in itself do a great deal towards preventing any spread of communism among peoples who come to our land. from parts of Europe. where conditions are different. They are left to fight their own battles. to look after them- selves. without any organization to help them. and probably without the care. sympathy and assistance they should have from their employer. It is not any wonder that some of them driftv 111%.,thé. héhds of these advocat- ers who are endeavoring to spread communism throughput _th_e land.” __-:“ i haven't written to you is: some time but you had :2 place in my mind. When I come across something 11;. my reading which is particularly good my thoughts go out to you and there is the wish that sometimes we might have a chat on the various things of mutual interest. This time I am reviewing a couple of volumes of a story that I found most- interesting. It is the “Story of the Negro” by Booker T. Washington This story of the rise of the Negro race from slavery has been written with the object of showing what the Negro himself has accomplished in a constructive direction, and is a simple straight story of what the Negro him- daire to know something of the coun- heard the white people talk with pride about their anowtors. He heard them discus wlth pride the discovery of Am- erica. In time he learned that his Strangeiy enough Colonel Reginald Geary knew nothing of the controversy in Toronto over the ruling of the Chief Dear Prudence: Mr. Bennett: “The Minister of Jus- tice and Idifler inthatregard. I would rather be a party to this legis- lation to give legality to the situation, than become a party to the scandals thatweknow existinregardtoit.. I am in favor of giving her that right thereto, and all the uncertainties as to the legitimacy of the offspring. That is a very serious matter.” Mr. Lapointe: “I would rather have the United States assume the respon- sibmty than ourselves.” seventy-five years? Mr. Bennett’ 3 speech was so clear, and, for once, so concise that quoting it gives a complete idea of the bill: ‘_‘I am perfectly certain, unless we do this (pass the bill), the very injury, which the Minister of Justice desires to avoid will continue, namely, wel shall have people leaving Canada, go- ing to the United States, setting up fic- titious domicile, and securing a divorce Come in Chat Awhile â€"Ruth Raebnrn. At Home “AGNES MACPHAIL. 13. 1929. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE the sorrows and aspirations of the Negro people, all that they suffered, loved and hoped for, in short their whole spiritual life found its first ade- quate and satisfying expression. One evidence of the interest that one black man has in another black man is an organization in the Negro Ameri- can churches which supports those who have had superior opportunities and are willing to go to Africa and give their "lives in ‘an eflort to uplift their fellows. On the other hand, it is true that the one hundred and thirty mil- lions of black people outside of Amer- ica are looking to the ten millions of Negroes in the United States for guid- ance and inspiration. They are watch- ing closely the progress of these Amer- ican Negroes. ‘3 The Negro, during his contact with Ithe white man in slavery, learned not to be afraid of civilization. The Indian when in slavery, refused to adapt him- self to civilization. ' The question has been asked, who was responsible for slavery in America? As near as the author can find out three parties are directly responsible for the slavery of the Negro in the United States. First of all, it was the Negro himself. The African Negro car- ried on the slave raids by means of which his fellow African was captured and brought down to the coast for sale. The second party was the slave trader, usually an Englishman or a Northern white man. And finally there was the Southern white man who owned and worked the bulk of the slaves. The author thinks it is as much a mistake to assume that the Southern States was ever solidly in favor of slavery as it is to assume that the North was always solidly against it. ' The author tells us that the world is beginning to respect the Negro for the virtues of patience, kindliness and lack of resentment toward those who do him wrong and injustice. The old plantation songs and hymns are among the most original contribu- tions made to American music. The plantation music is the form in which ' Most of the things that made slavery tolerable both to the white man and to the black were due to the native them in the past,1t should led-n to respect them in the future both for what they are and for what they should be able to do. statements he heard in regard to his race had theeflfectof drivinghim closer to his own people, and gave him a determination to spend his life help- ing and strengtheniné the people of his race in ordei' to prove to the world (mat wpatever had beenA its feelings for but from a. more distant and more mys- terious land. Nothing but the vaguest notions remained even among the older people in regard to the mother country or his race. Red Sea! Continental Motor Bendix Four-Wbeel Brake: Morse Silent Timing Chain Full Force Feed Lubrication Passenger Cars Fours and Sixes RUGBY TRUCKS IN ‘ y, TON To 1!/. TON CAPACITIES OTB D T‘O Q UALITY‘ DURHAM, The celebrated Antioch chariot race, in which Ben-Hur and Messala contest for the palm, occupied three months in the making. Twelve quadrigas are driven seven laps over a course facing a Circus Maximus that holds nearly a hundred thousand spectators. The ex- quisite love story of Ben-Hur and Esther is intertwined with the thrilling action. masses of the Negro people advance. The are many more instructive sub- Jects discussed in this book on which I have hot touched. Next week we will take a glimpse at the second vol- General Lew Wallace’s “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ,” that was a stage spectacle twenty-two years, and as a book enjoyed a circulation as large as the Bible, will be seen for the first time as a picture on Thursday, Fri- day and Saturday at the Veteran Star Theatre. It boasts a cast of 150,000. ' Fred Niblo directed the production which begins with the Wise Men and the Star of Bethlehem, pictures Jer- usalem under the Roman tyranny and the condemnation of the Prince of Hur to the galleys. The battle ’twixt the Roman fleet and the Greek pirates was filmed with a great Ben-Hur navy of antique modeled craft off the coasts of Italy. BEN-HUB HAS NO EQUAL IN HISTORY OF PHOTOPLAY The final scenes deal with Ben-Hur’s assembling of legions in the plan to establish a kingdom of Judea, the dis- covery of his long-lost mother and sister in the Vale of Hinnom, the pro- cession of Palm Sunday, and the heal- ing of the sick ones by the Saviour. whereby Ben-Hur and his beloved Esther and kinsfolk are reunited. are qualities the institution of slavery would not develop thus they were na- tive qualities. Nothing has\_ more prevented and held back the progress of the colored people since slavery than the fact that theyhavetolearnhowtounitetheir efforts in order to improve their con- dition. The Negro church was the first institution to develop out of the life oitheNegro masses.anditstillre- tains the strongest hold upon them. m DURAN? "0" SPECIAL FOUR DOOR SEDAN Between Romans and Pirates. Staged on Huge Scales-Fleet of 100 MOMI ES the “Neel-q éhurch grow}. stronger HE DURANT ”40” boasts of nothing more than the quality features that accounted for its phenomenal sales records of 1928. While containing additional refinements, it adheres, absolutely, to the fundamental principles of value that commend all Durant produCts to careful buyers. , Complete, detailed information and an opportunity to drive and judge the Durant for yourself await you at your dealer’s. A. MCCABE THE RUTH RAEBURN. In a grandiose epic that has taken three years for its completion and in- cluded as many real-life adventurings asanhistoricodymeyoftheOldand New Worlds. Ramon Navarro plays the title role. Betty Bronson, May Mc- Avoy, Francis X. Bushman. Carmel Myers, Claire McDowell. Kathleen Key, Nigel de Broiler. Mitchell Lewis and Read The Chronicle ads on page 7. KNOW RADIO PERFORMANCE H. J. SNELL $29315- (with Elba) DURHAM ONTARIO PAGE 8.