THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1929.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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B-Abbot
The things now
mentioned
10-Leap
12-Lubricate 11-Endured 16-Escort
18-Fluor (p1.J
Covering
18-Unit of weight 20-Heutility 2-Plant yielding
oll-bearing seeds 24-Midday. (pl.)
28-Titis of 2 baronst 27-Moro artfully
cunaing
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front of a building 33-Mark caused by m
wound
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41-Night-prowling
lemmur
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44-Obsolete farm of
sprice
45-Organized living
body
47-Helping
46–Affirmative
49-Setting free
15-Dispatched
17-Preparatory
elections
19-Famous Reman
fiddler
21-Intervening period 23-Sloped
62-Prefix Apart (pl.) 2-Relish
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minute pieces
57-Signification
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quoite (pl.), 60-Personal Interest or
advantage
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Acte in contrary
manner
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29-Support
30-Nlokname for small
girl 33-Destroy with
violence
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9-Quivering motion
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| 88-Commercial term
"cost, insurRYLON and freight" (abbr.)
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-sord puzzle.)
TWO YEARS' OLD
NOT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE IN ASSIZE CASE
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A Chinese, who was charged at the Singapore Assizes with a mur- der alleged to have been committed. two years ago, was discharged. The unanimous finding of the jury was that there was not sufficient evidence to say whether he was guilty or not.
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PENSIONS FOR WORKERS
FRENCH SCHEME EXPLAINED
Working Of Last Year's Law
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The Paris correspondent of the judice in the medical profession, erment Broadcasting Station "Observer," 'writing recently which recalls the beginnings of Z.B.W. on 350 metres: says:
Health Insurance in England. 5.30-6.30pm-Programme There is the vague prejudice of Dance Music. those who say that the law will "Why!", Fox Trot raise the cost of living. There is
Billy Hayes and His Orchestra. prejudice among certain employers "There's Sormething Spanish in Your some of it just blindly selfish and Eyes". Ted Wallace and His some of it inspired by a disinclina-Susianua," Fox Trot. Orchestra.
On April 5 of last year was passed the law of what are called the "As surances Sociales." This law is to provide the French working classes with a whole group of pen sions, which in other countries have been granted separately by succes.
sive Acts of legislation. These înclude old age pensions, perman- ent incapacity pensions, and, life insurance, on the one hand, and, on other, medical attendance, hospital | fees and druga during sickness, as well as maternity allowances. They even include a certain measure of unemployment allowance. This lat- ter is, however, limited to twenty daya, after which it ceases for a month. It is also surrounded by considerable restrictions, and in any case is of little importance under the present economic conditions in France, where unemployment can hardly be said to exist.
The reason why these insurances of different kinds have been group- ed in a single measure is no doubt tha France is the last important civilised country to adopt the prin ciple that the State should be re- sponsible for organising the pro- vision against these risks in her (working population. Although politi- cal capital is naturally made out of the fact by the Socialists, it is also believed that the late entry of France into the field has enabled her to profit by the experience and the mistakes of other nations. This advantage does not appear, how- fever, to have enabled her to pro- duce a scheme which is unanimously. regarded as likely to be workable; and the criticisms of it which are now being made go so far in some cases as to suggest that the law will have to be repealed and the whole plan recast in a new measure.
The
Medical Prejudice.
reason for the discussion
tion to lose the control of the voluntary schemes which they have created, in the absence of State in- surance and of any protection to the worker except the recently institut- ed Employers' Liability for ac-
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also argued that the small peasant proprietor, who forms the majority of agricultural France, will certain- ly refuse to insure himsef volun-! arily, and pay the whole premium, especially if he also has to pay half the premium of the man whom he It has even employs.
been pro- which the question has now aroused ridents.
Many of these voluntary posed to exempt agriculture from is that the law provided that a year shemes are very efficient, and some the Act; but it is anticipated that should be devoted to the preparation of them, such as the "allocations this would only draw more labour of an administrative decree giving familialas" now in existence in so than ever to the towns, where the applying the many factories, even touch a pro- workman would be drawing bene- scheme, and that it should not blem of social organisation which fits. actually come into force until ten the new law does not cover, and This very there is no reason why they should months later still. voluminous document has recently disappear. appeared, and the critics of it are! already proclaiming. It unworkable, and are prophesying that the law cannot come into force next Febra
Some of these critics are no doubt inspired by a certain amount
instructions for
been sug-
Alternatively, it has gested that the law shall come into
Rural Objections
operation by sections only, begin- How- The most serious objections come ping with old-age pensions. from the agricultural interests, se ever, M. Loucheur. the Minister of important an element in France. It Labour, declares that the law will is argued that the payment of the certainly be enforced in full on premiums in cash, when so large a February 5 next, though he intends, of interested prejudice, as the part of the real agricultural wage in the meanwhile, to introduce a Radicals and Socialists do not is in kind, will be a burden which measure to amend it and to deal hesitate to suggest. There is pre- the industry cannot bear. It is especially with the agricultural pro-
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The compulsory part of the new law applies to all workers of an annual salary equivalent to £120 or under, rising to £175 in the case of a father of a family. The Socialists already denounce these maxima as too low. Premiums amounting to 10 per cent of the salaries of these! workers will be paid, the employer and the worker each being re- sponsible for half. The old-age pension, which begins at sixty, and the total incapacity pension, for those above the age of thirty, will DENTIST. be two-fifths of the salary. The life benefit will be the capitalised value of one-fifth. To provide aga. bat fraud in regard to the sick- ness benefits, the insured person will have to pay one-fifth of the cost of them, and the cases of the doctors who have recently been prosecuted in connection with fraudulent Em- ployers Liability claims show that this precaution is, perhaps, not un-
necessary.
I have said that there is pre- judice against the law, especially in the chuss from which most of the employers are drawn; but one of the best auguries for its ultimate success is the fact that the Catholic Church, which largely represents this class, is busy forming local mutual insurance associations, which must be in existence before
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the middle of July, but which will DEAD AFTER CHASE downstairs. He thought that there then be qualified to become, when the law is in force, the channels through which the benefits will flow
MURDER CHARGE
SEQUEL
more than nne man ter Upon his discharge, he was re-
rifying the women "opposite. arrested on a banishment warrant,
I saw him from the window.rush- The case for the prosecution was
Out of the depths of depression, freed from the dark hand of sickiss-to become Approved Societies, in
ing up the road after a man, but it that, having quarrelled with a intended, witness spent the night of innumerable sufferers from anaemia and its kindred illa who have sought h
and restored to the sunshine of radiant health, such has been the joyous le faut. This activity of the Church
was very dark and raining hard so friend, the accused went away and elsewhere. When he arrived at his for help in the beneficent tonic virtues of Dr. Williama Pink F'illa, « Öna
inspired a corresponding Johnstone, Renfrewshire. Ber- that he was soon out of sight. No returned a short time later with house, at 5 am, his mother teid of the lates among these happy people is Miss Mary Venditt, who activity among the Radicals and nard Docherty, aged 35, of no fixed body saw my husband alive after nine others, some of them armed him that the police had been sides with her family in the little town of Catamount, New Brunswick. Socialists, who are also busy form-abote, was arrested here and that with pistols, and one of those arm- there, making inquiries, and Canada,
ing associations, in order that the charged with the murder of Juhu Mrs. McMillian said that she and ed men shot deceased.
The accused, giving evidence, shooting he had witnessed A convent 1 studied hard to said he left his house at about 6 she advised him to go away to relating the facts of her case re- graduate," said Miss Venditti, when pm. on the day in question and at Mentakab, in Pahang, where they cently. The result was I became about 10 p.m. was about to enter e had relatives. He took her advice, very nervous and got so thin and
bus to return home when he bump- and went
when he told her about the Three years ago while attending
pale my teachers thought they
knocked and demanded admittance.
and I had hardly finished it when Church shall not reap the moral Gallagher aged 43, who was found her mother screamed when a man I could feet an improvement in my benefit of a law of which its politi- dead with a wound in his chest in коліно, со
I continued tho was of
Sir Albert Levy, who was recently the pills for some time longer, and cal representatives strenuously tried a back garden near his home in I can hardly tall all the good they to prevent the passage. The fact Floorbuin-crescent, Johnstone, Do- lid me gained in strength and that the unit for the actuarial ad- cherty will appear at Govan police knighted, has donated £250,000 to weight, and the colour returned to ministration of the law will be the
court
hospitals and charities. The whole and at the end of th Facemfcend D Willams Piak try gives all the more vigour to Floorburn-crescent were wakened distributed in 25 yearly instalments. Pills to my friends and acquaint- these local rivalries,
by the screams of two women neigh. Therefore, the cash to be distributed ances a tenia is needed?"
boura, Mrs. MacCav:, a widow, and by the trustees will amount to about her daughter, Mrs. McMillan. What £400,000 followed was described by Mrs.
ed against the deceased. The lat In reply to a questionsby the wouk have to send my home. Cred. I never fail to Department and not the whole coun- Early in the morning people in of the capital plus interest will be
took different funds of medicine
ter stopped him and abused him, Deputy Public Prosecutor as to which my parents sent me, but my and witness, after explaining it was whether he went to Siam from condition remained unchanged, At an accident, had just started to Pahang, witness said from Pahang last one of my teachers gave me walk home when he heard the he went to Alor Star, thence to a botla of Dr. Willar
Wilfans' Fine Fils, when a fonds is madu The actress, Miss Lily Elsie, was sound of firing. When he looked Siam. Subsequently he returned to For all sufferers from anaemic conditions and nervous weakness, Dr. grated a decree nist in the divorce round he saw deceased being fired the village in Pahang
Willams Pink Pills for Fale People ure specific.
Birmingham tramways last year at, and witness ran. Just as did gone from Singapore where he had in the unique merit of their blood purify the world's outstanding sweeffe court on the ground of adultery Gallagher
My husband put on a few yar- earned £2,000,000, and £40,000 of ing formula Les the secret of their long history of success Your chemist her husband, Major John Ian
can supply them at $1.50 per bottle, 38 for six bottles..
Balloch. The sult was undefended.ments, grabbed a poker, and ran the profit will go to rates relief
others in the vicinity
was arrested