MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1930.
THE CHINA MAIL.
LORD ASTOR ON THE INTERVIEWED IN HIS hotel!. Mr. Longworth asked him to THE WORLD'S OLDEST added, men were much richer 100
DRINK TRADE.
Efforts Made to Bribe Candidates.
"The most recent development, of drinking has been the use of cock
tails. It is a new habit, and is
apparently growing," said Viscount "Astor, giving evidence recently be fore the Royal Commission on Licensing.
"It is a habit that has been created by private enterprise; be- cause there is money in cocktails."
NIGHTSHIRT.
enter. "He had been asleep," sald Bir. Schroeder, "but received me in his nightshirt-one of the old- fashioned kind that Scrooge wore
MAN.
How America's Big Men when he was taking his gruel. Turk Aged 156 on Visit thusiastic about wireless, gramo
Receive the Press.
When the interview was over be went back to bed, thanking me for coming to see him."
Mr. Schroeder is travelling with The harry and excitement of news his wife, who is also connected with collecting on a big American daily the Press, and is collecting various was explained to a Straits Times delights on life in the East. He representative by Mr. Ray. Clewer on what he thought of it.
proceeded to Interview the inter- Schroeder, of the Globe Democrat,
Singapore on a world tour. St. Louis, who is passing through
to America.
Constantinople, July 2 The 'celebrated Turkish sesqui- centenarian,, Zare Agha, has left for the United States, where he is to be exhibited.
Turkey has many centenarians, but Zaro-Agha is the oldest of them all.. He is perhaps, the
have been born in 1774 and has papera to prove his assertion, writes a London Timea correapon
"The main object of American PROBLEM OF CRIME. oldest man alive, as he claims to
newspaper work to-day is speed," ho said. "Thirty minutes after
"The drink trace is rather more threatened than it used to be by the temperance wave that is going all murder is commuted, an edition over the world,* Lord, Astor con- tinued. They are afraid of the must we on the street giving the women's vote, and think it may briei uctalis, Mall an nour later threaten their privileges.
pictures, OF THE principais in the "Since women have had the vote murder win De prideu in another they have shown that they are in-ean and be on ing street, clined to temperance and pgainst the licensing trade."
"Newspaper
men to But suner Trom any andicaps in the States ike those in srituin. Every pabue
The Innocent Duchesses. On the question of
drink pro-
mun 18 reuuny accessio1C to the Astor paganda, Lord
said that, for the knows obviously it was to the interest of favourabl publicity. To give you. the licensed trade that their pro- an example, u special portion of the paganda should be conducted by white noise, ine President's home apparently independent bodies.scserved for them.
Defenders of the smaller "Frequent announcements are camouflaged societies occasionally given out to them In typewritten claimed that they had a small total Jerm, Art income, and so had not received speeches, including those by the
vast sums from the trade.
From the trade point of view, it was better to divide.. subscriptions among different societies than to plump them all into one. One asso- ciation would catch the unwary clergy, another teague would en trap the unsuspecting admirals, a third would mislead the innocent duchesses, yet a fourth would take in the "mun in the street," and so
on.
Lord Aator mentioned two cases of Parliamentary candidates being approached with offers of money from the trade.
the important
President, are released to the paperà several days ahead of tints. These are immediately set up in type, and are on the street as soon as the man. making the speech starts talking.”
VALUE OF PREVENTIVE DETENTION.
The report of the Commissioners of Prisons and the Directors of: Convict Prisons for the year 1928 discusses the system of preventive detention, which has now been in operation for 20 years.
dent,
to see me.
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years ago, than they are to-day. Gold was abundant, and every thing was cheap. Nevertheless, he prefers 1930, and waxed quite on-
phones, aeroplanes, bicycles, and the like.
There is supposed to be a very old Hoja (priest) living in the Faith quarter of Stambul, and I asked Zaro whether he was certain that this worthy was not older than he. The Agha rose from his chair and declared indignantly. that there was no one in the world, let alone in Turkey, within 20 years of his age.
He confessed, however, that his own years were numbered, but cherished the hope that he would live to be 175. He receives a amall pension from the Constan- The other day Zaro Agha came tinople Municipality and acts as He was accompanied, a caretaker In an old house in by his secretary-companion, Galata. young man of 76, who arranges his interviews, helps him along the atroet, and generally looks after him. The old man was in great form when he came to see me and walked quité briskly.
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in a taxi-cab and being whisked up He relished the idea of driving
been
A golfing husband
ርዓ enter- taining a friend. They were left alone talking for some time after dinner. Then the wife entered the dining-room to hear her husband
one." pass some remark about "a hole in
"Are,
the preliminary courtesies had you still talking about golf?"
After "My goodness," she said.
things the Agha hoped that I with a smile, "We're talking about exchanged-among other! "No dear," said her husband, would live to be his age-wo gat socks." down to listen to the story of his life.
The primary object of the system was to secure increased protection several storeys in a lift. the value vi
for society by enabling the Courts, when dealing with an offender.per. sistently guilty of serious crimes, to pass; in addition to a sentence of penal servitude, a supplementary sentence of not less than five and not more than 10 years' preventive detention. The Act provides that sentence of preventive detention may be passed on such offenders as are found to be "habitual criminals," and that a person shall not be found to be an "habitual criminal" unless There is no law in America to he has at least three previous con. restrict detailed reporting of divorcevictions of "crime." At the time cases, and Mr. Schroeder pointed
of the passing of the Act it was out that the Press obtains volumin- contemplated that the new provi ous interviews with both parties. sions would have an appreciable At times a sentimental girl reporter, effect on recidivism, and that a sub- called the "sob sister," interviews 'stantial proportion of the offender? the woman in the case, and this is who had three or more convictions. printed in great detail beside the of erime would be sentenced to pre pictures,
ventive detention.
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No expense is spured in following Between the date when the Act "In 1919. continued Lord Astor,u story, for Mr. Schroeder mention came into operation in August, "my wife succeeded me in the ed a case of one star reporter, a 1909, and December 31, 1928, 901 House of Commons. She made her "leg" man, who when he is follow-sentences of preventive detention maiden speech in favour of keeping ing up a story, receives anything up have been passed, of which 735 were the shorter hours of sale. Later, to £200 for expenses, and then for the minimum period of five years she piloted, a Bill to keep the young starts his quest. Many spheres, of and 34 for the maximum period of out of the drinking-bars.
transport are free to pressmen_and_10 years. some of the air lines give annual passes to members of the staff. which entities them to travel at any time.
"She has not stood for prohibi- tion. The trade, nevertheless, have tried continuously to get her out of pubile life."
TIPPING IN FRANCE,
*.
Interviewing the Highest. Mr. Schroeder could not believe that it was possible for a pressman to experience any difficuty in inter- viewing the highest. He was non- plussed to learn that there might be difficulty in getting into Bucking RAILWAY PORTERS AND THEIR ham Palace, or that high officials at
GRIEVANCES.
the-War-Office-or-Admiralty might not grant an interview.. From his experience in America, a pressman Paris, July 19. can go anywhere and interview any- The Paris railway porters are not one. satisfied about their tips. You pro- "Rivalry between papers is im bably knew that, but this time the menue," he went on. "You must trouble does not concern what you print the news first. A sensational give them, but what they get, for trial took place at a small town 100 they do not get all that you give miles from St. Louis, One reporte: them. As in every other applica-obtained this line and held it for tion of the illogical pourboire ays. 24 hours on end pending the expect- tem, what the customer imagines toed verdict. When the verdict came, be a free gift to the employee goes another reporter from a rival paper, In part to increase the profits of the seeing himself 'scooped, cut the tele- employer,
phone line. He had to pay a fifty dollar fine, but he prevented the other paper from getting a 'scoop.'"
Pubile men and notorieties are
The Paris railway porters are paid a wage, but it is a small wage, and they are not paid for carrying your bag, but for handling heavy interviewed in all sorts of phases of luggage In the vans and for doing unconventional and domestic life. certain cleaning work. Moreover, Mr. Schroeder instanced one case they are not paid by the railway where he was interviewing Mr. companies, but by certain sub- Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the sidiary companies who hold the con- House of Representatives.. It was cession. To the representatives of late in the evening when ho knock these comparites the porters handed at the door of the St. Louis all the tips which they are given, and the total is divided out among them, after a deduction of 6 per
cent. This deduction the porters have hitherto admitted; but they were furious when they were told the other day, at the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l'Est, that it would be doubled, and next day they did their own sharing out, after having conscientiously handed over the original 6 per cent. to the company, The next move has been made by the employers. They have told the porters that in future they can keep the whole of their pourboires, but must work two days a week on the job for which they draw their salaries, and will be paid a shilling for each day, the rest of the sum paid by the railway companies to the concessionaire being retained by him as profit...
The porters; It fa understood, are! about to retort that the existence of the concessionnaire is itself quite unnecessary, and that they will form themselves into a co-operative so clety and take over the concession from the railway companies them selves, so
Even then, I doubt whether they will be or will appear to be any more satisfied with what you give them; for they have discovered that they have only to look disappointed for the average Englishman to give
more.
And yet it should be quite easy for the traveller to know what to give. Tip as you would tip In England Where you would give sixpence, give three franes, and Where ́ahilling, aix
Humidity And Rheumatism.
in Bitlls of poor parents. He came He is a Kurd, having been born
Many sufferers from rheumatism to Constantinople as a young man, always view the approach of the and after doing his military ser hot season and its accompanying vice became a Hamal (porter). He humidity, with anxiety. From ex- used to pride himself on being perience they know that rheumat- able to carry a piano on his back. ism in warm countries is affect- still walk about with the aid of a the air rather than by exchanges Those days are gone, but he can ed directly by the dampness of stick. he can
His memory is good, and in temperature,
recall historical events! Yet, if you are a victim of this which occurred over 100 years ago. painful disease, why go on suffer. than 12 Sultans ruled over Turkey,
During his lifetime no fewer ing?
Mr. B. D. Mendis, Building Con. and he was 50 when the Janis tractor, of "Anton Ville," Katuku- saries, who formed the Sultan's randa, Moratuwa, Ceylon, has bodyguard, were very forcibly dis-been quite cured of his rheumat banded by Sultan Mahmud II. ism by Dr. Willlama' Pink "Pills Ghazi Mustapha Kemal Pasha, by ter of thanks. He says:
Zaro Agha is a great admirer of and writes us an enthusiastic let- whom he has twice been received.
He thinks the "Republican Sul-pains in all my joints. First in suffered from rheumatic tan," as he calls Mustapha Kemal, my arms, then in shoulders and has done a great deal of good, but legs, then later in the spine. has been wrong to give so many There was always a dull ache all privileges to women.
over my body and I was never Zaro is one of the old school, and free from pain. believes that women should be There is no doubt that Mr. kept indoors and forbidden to Mendis was a case in which the show themselves in public with rheumatic poisons were firmly en- short skirts and shingled hair. trenched in the tissues all over his body. Yet his letter proceeds:
The
first bottle of Dr. WIL-
Survived 10 Wives.
The Agha has survived his 10
How insignificant Bro these figures mpared with the number of recidivist criminals, the report comments, can be seen by taking | any sample batch, of convicts and noting how numerous are those who have three or more previous convic- tions of crime. For example, In convict prisons 434 men, of whom 1928.there were discharged from the wives, and all but one, a daughter Liams' Pink Pills brought some re- 303 were recidivists-that is, men crimes." Of these 308 there were who had previous convictions of 54 with one or two previous con- victions of "crimes," 254 had three or more previous convictions "crimes," 159 had six or more such
of
for
previous convictions, and 134 had served previous sentences of penal servitude. Most of these man had also numerous convictions miner offences. Seven men had served previous sentences of preven- tive detention, but the sentences which these men completed in 1923 were sentences of penal servitude to which a sentence of preventive detention had not been added..
The number of sentences of penal servitude bas decreased from 1,182 in 1908 to 483 in 1928. In face of this very big reduction in the ag gregate periods of detention of con. victs (of whom nearly 70 per cent are recidivists), the increased "pro- tection of the public". effected by sentencing some 31 recidivists a year to preventive detention is almost negligible.
of 64, of his 28 children. As a young man he travelled extensive- abroad. When he was in Rome he ly-in-Turkey, and he has also been
was deserted by his companions, and found himself penniless, But, he related, the then Pope, hearing
lief so I continued. I was sur- prised and delighted how soon the shall never tire of praising Dr. cheumatism-was driven out... Williams' Pink Pills.
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If they can cure a bad case like this it should be worth your while
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his return to Constantinople. of his plight, sent him money for to give them a trial. It costs sa little to test them. Why go on vegetarian, and now he subsists
He has always been 1 KUW35. suffering.
yaghurt (sour milk). He is quite aolely on vegetables, fruit and bald, and the last. of his teeth bare- ly survived the fall of the Em- peror Napoleon III.
It was inevitable that I should question Zaro about life in 1860 compared with 1930. His answers said, men are like birds imbued were illuminating. Nowadays, he with evil spirits. They rush about everywhere at breakneck speed,
and never seem contented to be still for very long.
In 1830, he said, men moved about slowly, taking several weeks to get from one village to another. They reflected before they did any thing, or went anywhere. But, ha
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