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FRAMED! By the innocent act of the man she loves Who can save her from the fate the law decrees ?
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China
The
Mail.
ESTABLISHED 1845.
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.
THE PERSON NOBODY THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
HAS MET.
FORTY YEARS AGO.
The Man in the Street.
"Though all of us talk glibly of the Man in the Stroot, none of us can conjure up a reliable picture of him," writes. "TK." in the Birm ingham Post.
"We can make a fair attempt at visttalising the Man behind the Scenes, the man of the Moment, the Man on the Spot, the Man who Matters, the Man at the Wheel, or even the Man who Missed the Tide, but the indefinite variety of the Yet Man in the Street baffles us. his title implies that any of us can meet him any day, anywhere,
"Some years ago I listened to a rather bumptious youth-just pro- moted in the Government office conee- where he worked, and in
own quence pretty high in his esteem-hold forth in this strain: One thing I'd dearly like to do is Man in the to buttonhole the Street, and have a real, good chat with him.
Gat to know how the way of the world appeared to him, what his ideas and his ideals, if any, are; what he thought of the whole caboodle called life!'
tho "The fact that
would-be superior one was ridiculed into tem- porary silence by a young girl who queried, 'So you haven't started talking to yourself yet, Mr. Smith? convinced him merely that it is not always possible to have the last effective word. His type certainly visualises the Man in the Street as groping blindly in the dark, holding views that are never expressed be cause nobody has the courage to stop him and find out what are his views.
"The only thing of which we are all confident is that he is a person Jon whom
we may look down on those occasions when we remember his existence at all. He doesn't count, except by the dozen or the hundred. He suffers the slinge and arrows of grandmotherly legislation because he is in the herd which has no leader. He is that lonely soul one in crowd where there are no no weight be- mixers. He corries cause his fellows won't mount the ecalo in his company, and alone he fe ignored.
"When 'some more than ordinarily stupid or restrictive plece of legis- lation is being discussed it is usual to say: "The Man in the Street will But even the never stand it.'
speaker merely means that the Man in the Street wouldn't stand it if he 'were worth his salt.
"We know very well that he will stand it, just as he has stood it down the centuries. Considering his dumb acceptance of whatever comes his way, he has no option but to stand it. We know that he is a poor reed on which to rely: he suffers in silence because he does not know how to become vocal. If he did he wouldn't be in the street! "The real truth is that none of us cares a jot as to what he thinks or feels or tolerates. Indeed, I have more than a suspicion that the Man in the Street has no existence outside the imagination, that he' is a mere bogey dressed up to suit the occasion."
The First Execution.
The United States has been "celebrating" the fortieth anniver- sary of the first execution by the electric chair.
Great Indignation was expressed by the London papers of the ninetics at the news that William Kemmler,
condemned for killing a woman with an axe, had been executed by this now method. "The guillotine and the hangman's rope do not compare in cold-blooded barbarism with the chair." declared the Daily Chronicle, while the "Standard" predicted that the "execution will send a thrill of indignation throughout the civilised world," and added that the "scene may be described as a disgrace to our common humanity.”
was
M. BRIAND'S "DOUBLE."
A Minister Who Was 'Nearly Hanged.
How he was once nearly hanged because of his resemblance to M. Briand, the French Foreign Minis- er, was described by the Rev. 1). MacFadyen, a Letchworth Congre
the conference of the World ational minister, in an addreas at Alliance for International Friend- ship through the churches, at Cambridge.
So striking is the resemblance, that some of the French delegation apparently thought that M. Briand had suddenly decided to come to Cambridge to address the confer
ence.
"I am not M. Briand," Mr. Mac- Fadyen explained, "but I have often In the United States, too, there been mistaken for him when visting bitter opposition. The legal the Continent. On one occasion battle fought over the condemnation at Nuremberg my resemblance of Kemmler reached the United nearly cost me my life."
Describing the incident in an States Supreme Court, where the sentence
Papers Interview afterwards, Mr. Mac- sustained: WAS ware vehement in their denuncia-Fadyen said he was sitting in a tions of the method of execution beer garden with some English since adopted by many states as the friends when he noticed that some most humane means of capital of the people around seemed to be
Electrical companies eyeing him with disfavour. punishment. opposed it, for they feared that the advertisement of the deadly power of "chained lightning"-as elec tricity, then in its infancy, was called-would seriously handicap its development. Newspaper reporters were not allowed to be present at the first execution.
"Suddenly the keeper of the beer garden approached one of my friends, and pointing to me said: My friend 'Is that M. Briand?" reassured him, and the innkeeper replied: 'It is just as well. Every- was M. one here thought he Briand and wanted to hang him."" "That la not the only time I have In been mistaken for M. Briand. Vienna I noticed people in the streets nudging their friends and DEAN INGE DEFINES THE HAPPY saying, 'Look, there is M. Briand.'
The electric chair then used was burred during Auburn Prison's first riot on July 28, 1929.
MAN.
Once in Italy a girl sketched me and then came up and said. 'Please autograph this sketch, M. Brland.' 1 The eighteenth conference of the autographed the sketch in my own She must have been dis- Modern Churchmen's Union was name. opened at Oxford recently by the appointed. Dean of St. Paul's, whose presiden- "On the whole my distinguished tial address was on the subject of double causes me a lot of trouble, but the resemblance has one ad "Humanism, Pagan and Christian."
Dean Inge referred to an experi-vantage-in French hotels waiters ment which Livingstone made in give me the attention due to the order to compare Greek with modern Foreign Minister, and I don't nee
why I should always at once dis values.
illusion them."
"A lecture class," he said, "was asked to write down four wishes in order of preference. The famous Greek Skolion chooses:
of
"1. Health.
"2. Good looks.
"3. Wealth honestly come by, "4. To be young with one's
friends.....
Mr. David L. Evana, Penylan Road, Cardiff, retired draper, left estate of the gross value of £27,518, with net personalty £22,981. He directed that his remains should be or parish in buried in the town which he was residing immediately previous to his decease, in a vault, and that a tombstone should be erected over the same in accordance with a sketch plan and specification annexed to his will and signed by "3. Friendship or domestic him, unless he shall have completed
such in his lifetime. happiness.
"The modern class chose in order
plurality of votes:
"1. Health.
* 2. Spiritual or moral
cellence.
"4. Intellectual excellence.
5. Contentment,
"6. Artistic pleasures.
7. Physical excellence. "g. Success.
9. Hard work.
"'10, Travel.
"11. Wealth.
ex-
ours to live on thin earth, full of curiosity, and most happily endow
ed with a beautiful body, a keen Intollect. How much better, wo think, than the self-tormenting "The low position of wealth ascetic, the inhuman persecuting sounds juvenile or insincere, but in bigot, the victim of puerile superst)- narrow-minded, money- the comparative indifference to gandtions, the looks we have a genuine difference grubbing man of business-all from the Greeks. But would a types of Christian history and
modern conditions. class of girls have voted so?
"We have here a rather pleasing "But in reality we cannot be cannot be pagans. Greeks and wo
M. Mitkevitch, member of the picture of a happy, healthy human Russian Academy of Sciences, is being, with both feet planted firm. A middle-aged man may wish he taking part in the centenary cele-ly on the earth, with few illusions, was a boy again but he cannot go brations of Faraday's discovery of and a clear, sane intellect content back to his past. Neither can the
to make the best of the life that is human race." electro-magnetic induction.
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