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MR. ARTHUR ROBERTS'S STIGM CONTRACT.
KING ALFONSO FINED.
When the Mayor learned of this he hastened to the place to apologise and explain that the watchman who had imposed the fire has been too zealous, not suspecting whom he was calling to order.
King Alfonso, who is now at Mr. Arthur Roberts the comedian. Seville, has just been fined for not has received from Mr. Charles B. "keeping off the grass," or rather, off Cochran an offer of £1,000 year some beds of fowers that have not "Democracy has given to all of us for Life-without any stipulation, as to yet sprouted in the gardens of the
greater responsibilities. A the number of performances.
Mr. Hispano-American Exhibition which chise in itself means nothing. WeRoberts has decided to accept.
he was visiting. no longer think that the voice of
Waile theatrical managers are the people is the voice of God. It depends on the people.
The old searching high and low for new come Judges had a fiction that there re-dians, Mr. Cochran has thus urned to sided somewhere in the sense of the "old school, or Mr. Roberts. the nation a fount of profound who made his first appearance on the
The King smilingly replied that he wisdom, on which they claimed to variery stage 49 years ago, is 68.
"Mr. Robert's engagement will. was delighted to find someone BO COD- draw. when new principles arose for decision. They called it the begin s soon as he signs the con- scientious and promised that the Common Lav. That native wisdom tract, but his first appearance under watchman should receive a present. never existed; and the lack of it my management will probably be in manered very little, because all the the new revue, London, Paris, and raling and ordering end law-making New York, at the London Pavilion-- his old home in September," stid were done by a select few.
Mr. Cochran "Now we have a finger in the pic. We cannot blame a recalcitrant king for the Isilures. As rulers, we have a new responsibility and need a new equipment. What we think about things has a direct reaction on the things themselves, municipal, national, imperial, uni versal. "Can we rise to the height of our destiny? We must prepare for it, we must educate for
otherwise we shall fail.
In the old days the Common Law did not abide in the people; in the new days it must.'"
He will be seen chiefly in char- acter sketches, but will of course. not bear the barten of the whole show-One parti,have in my mind for him is the $ a Brighton bath- chairman.”
Probably Mr. Robert's greatest suc, sess was as the ap-to-date cabman in Gentleman Joe," in which he ap- seared with Miss Kiny Loftus, His low comedy" is inimitable and spon- taneous in its originality.
ATHLETICS.
· BRILLIANT VARITY MEN.
"Attention is always called in a most marked way when an English team "or individual is beaten in a championship match that it is only fair (says the Times) that special attention should be called to the fact that not only has an Oxford and Cambridge Athletic team beaten the best of the college runners in the United States of America in a two mile relay race, but that in doing so they broke all previous records for the distance. The time taken was 7 minutes 50 seconds, two seconds better than the previous record. This time means that each runner averaged under I minute 58 seconds for his half mile, a very wonderful
becomes the need for a law-abiding "To-day almost every institution spirit in the citizen of a State. Abuse which has served man during the past legality, and it becomes a dead weight few centuries is on trial," says the on a people. The law of the Medes Times Educational Supplement. The and Persians which altereth not must spirit of criticism and dissatisfaction have made a hell on earth... The semi- permeates the social fabric and in- legaliste which built up the Brahmini- performance. The Oxford and Cam vades the domain of morals and con- cal codes stultified the evolution of bridge team won easily by 40 yards, duct. Hall Europe is at the mercy of Indian society. But legalism itself is and were given a wonderful reception visionaries, and the other half is look-rot's case; it is an essential. When by a crowd of 30,000 spectators, who were present on the stands around ing on in last bewilderment.
ever the legal spirit fails, anarchy and the track at Philadelphia. excess follow. It becomes more and more necessary. Only a purified heart and the precepts of the New Testament can take its place and ¦. clearly the time is not yet Law is the sanction of society. We may cavil at the details here and there, but de- mils are alterable and incidental to the system. We may destroy the social fabric for a dream, and sit naked amid the ashes of our hopes; but, if we agree to live in an organised State we concur in the existence, of law. Therefore we want the legal spirit: TRIED SUNDAY AFTER TADITT the spirit of orderliness, of mutual Forbearance, of the acknowledgment of reciprocal rights and duties.
The values of the last generation seem as remote as the Stone Age; and, the political problems of States which have retained some stability centre round the question whether it be possible to build up a satisfactory rational life on the besis of the old, or whether the only solution is to start afresh. Russia has tried the new start; and, so far as the ordinary man can judge the results through the mists of prejudice, the new age cl Lenin seems a nearer approximation to primeval slime than to a heaven on
earth.
THE SOCIAL MACHINE. "We is this country are tending towards a patchwork effort, having a natural dislike of theory and a dis trus of paniceas. There is no de cline in human energy: on the con- Nations wary, it is superabundant.
do not die of bodily wound, but only of a decay of the spirit. There is no need to despair of the issue, but there is every need to weigh the adjustments in the social machine with which the bankruptcy of the old system has lek us face to face.
"Society rests ukimately on the individual. It exists for him. That is a point on which Englishmen have no doubt. In the old days the Common Law did not abide in the people; in the new days, it must. This is not a new panacea, it is only a strip of the high-road which leads to good citizenship. It is not main- tained that a study of the procedure of the High Court or the rules of evidence will help a man much; but ther some knowledge of the machinery
CHURCH SERVICES.
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JUNT SOTE 1950
Holy Communión at 7.50 a.me Children's Service 10 am.. Matihe st, 11 aE. Responses. Ferial; Fenite; Turle;
12th Yenite); Fasms, 18 (Crotch, Hervey); Te Deam, akeley Tarie Tallis (fnd day); Jubilat, Bartisbill (3rd evening); Anthem, "Bing.O Heavens." Salivaa ; Hymu, 160. Holy Commanin (18 Noon) Evensong at 6 pm.
Magnifies Evereal (7th oven); Besponses, Ferial; Psalms, 10, 11, Nune Dimittis Woodward. (14th _eren)
Hymns, 291, 167, 17.
Sunday, Jure 20.
"We are a patient race. We have borne for a century the spiritual sat focation of commercialism, and bowed down-before the empty gods of the machine. Hobbes described the life of early man as nasty, brutish, and short. There are many to-day who hold to the definition. At any rate, we are past the age of Utopias. But we know one thing and that is that YOU SHOULD KNOW THE LAW the human spirit can march with great **Law has long ceased to be nothing strides before reaching the impassable more than a sanction for the broad! hills which mark the limits of endea-outlines of morality, and an upright VOLT. To the eye of faith there are life is no guarantee against a visit to Wherever the law en- fertile fields ahead and pleasant vál- the Courts. leys where life, still imperfect in tex-joins active duties on the citizen, there ture, will yet wear other colours ther detailed instruction is necessary: the the drab tones of to-day. Surely this is a prospect large enough. The only alternative is passivity and despair.
of government, an appreciation of the Union Church, Kennedy Road meaning and importance of legal i stitutions, their justification and their i place in national file, will help greatly towards a realisation of civic duties!
Services conducted by Hev. G.J.Williams. and the correct relation between the I am. Subject of Sermon: The Need individual and the State and other; individuals.
right of self-help and its limits, the dury of aiding the civil power in dis- turbances, the registration of births and deaths, bankruptcy, franchises-- these are a few instances where the
of a New Kind of Civilisation. Hymns, 17, 213, 137, 433 Metrical Pasim No. 4.
6 p.m. Subject of Sermon: How men may be Divinely Goided. 1. By the Flaming word 2 By the Gap in the Wall a. By Consalting the Sundial.
(Sandey Evening June 27th Bame Sabjart continued. 4. By Wireless Messages. 5. By Tapping the Baro meter. 8. By the Scent of the ***Masters, Bandis.)
Hymn, 7, 158, 133, 296, 385.
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GREAT REVIVAL OF LEARNING. "Many minds are turning more and knowledge of some detail is neots (6,18 s.m-Holy Communion. more to education as the great hope.sary. The outlines of criminal law, 6,30 p.m.-Evening Service. We are witnessing, perhaps, the beought to be known. Cases occasion- ginnings of a great revival of learning.. ally occur in the Courts where the First Church of Christ' Scientist, There was a time, not very long ago. accused pleads ignorance. The plea when education used to be the Cin is useless in law, but it is a reflec- derella of the services of the State, tion on education." when its only importance seemed to "It is possible to cultivate the be as a battle-ground between reli-right habit of mind. The tendency gjous factions. We can all count the to materialise life, to over-value the cost of that attitude among the relics ponderable clements-wealth, the of a shattered world. We are now utilisation of power, -mechanical making new departures, and it is of efficiency-must end in obscuring the paramount importance to have an vital fact that these are, at the most. Sunday Evening, Gospel Meeting, 8 p.m. intelligible and satisfactory philosophy accessories. We are yet in mass very as a basis.
near to these values. The problem There are two sides which need is hour to escape. Education is the consideration; the quality of the in great hope. The subjects of" one structors and the curricula, taught. generation cannot entirely be those of Higher wages to attract the better its predecessor. Unless the schools minds will help us a good way to are right, everything will be wrong. wards the former, as also will the
"Airships may sail with a sure
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man may harness the awful, forces of radio-atomic energy, while the human spirit still looks beyond in disconteni
LAW THE SANCTION OF SOCIETY.
"The more compler the machinery
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