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TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF SLAVERY VARIOUS FORMS TAKEN
BY SERFDOM -
TRAFFIC IN HUMAN BEINGS THROUGHOUT THE AGES
Notice To Contributors. t. All communications intended for The Glasgow Sheriff recently publication should be addressed to adjudicated in a case in which an In his 1935 Budget. Mr. Cham- the Editor, and be accompanied by accusation of malingering was berlain made a tax concession the Writer's Nous and Address brought by the Ministry of Lab-jentertainmentà in which “live_per not necessarily for insertion, but our against a girl incapacitated formers" take part. In the eyes [si a guarantee of good faith. for work after the point of an of the Chancellor cricketer's
At first, when one nation or son of his old master, who had indelible pencil broke in her arm not live performers" view
with angiven him his freedom. nine years ago. ƒ
which too much watching of some tribe went to war Sheriff Haldane said that in-county batsmen tends to confrm. other, the captives carried off to
In Roman Times be slaves were often the most In Roman times the number of delible pencils contained a large
On a shilling seat at a cricket valuable part of the spoils. Con- slaves became enormous in portion of methyl violet dye, which
match 2d goes in tax The taxisquerors nearly always made slaves neighbourhood of Rome. A freed was intensely. poisonous.
Some man mentioned by Gibbons left Hong Kong, Monday, October 3, 1996 of it was allowed to remain under only 1d at a theatre, ballet, per of the conquered people.
the skin it was rapidly dissolvedformance of music (whether vocal times they would keep them
to behind him in the days of Augus÷ and was highly destructive of livor instrumental), lecture, recita work, and sometimes they would tas 4,116 slaves-
fon, music-hall "or variety show, sell them in other countries.
One Year
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Germany's Four -Year Plan
ting tissue
If any
the
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It became a matter of display Koving baros of robbers wouldste hare many slaves and also Miss Eleanor Ramsay Gray, and cifera of other travelling
seize people and carry them off cause of pride that some of them shorthand-typist, sfumed, compenfshow.
Another grievance of the cricket to be sold in this way. It must should be clever. So they were By an unintended coincidence sation from 1933, when the Minis sin point of time: MI try ceased compensation payments-elubs is that their members sub- have been a terrible thing for educated în special subjects, and Self-Infficted sciptions are regarded as season anyone to be snatched away from slaves of "almost every profes Hofmey
Conroe and friends and forced waren, either uberal or mechanical, have the
The Sheriff sad the -- Ministry fcrets and daty charged answer last month to Herr
jobey a strange-master-
might be found in the Hitler's claim for colonies for now pleaded that Miss Gray's them.
Still masters were
ofter kind hold of a rich Senator. Germany. There cannot
be Jury was self-inflicted Even
Mr. Chamberlain has been deaf to their slaves, especially to those Many of the Roman physicians said the South African Minister accidental at first, it was contend-
the who served them in their own were slaves Naturally, jed, Miss Gray deliberately inter-to all previous pleas, jof Interior, any question of
years
оп
House*
transfer without the fullestared with the wound and kept it ground that he cannot discrimia homes, for most people would ability made itself felt, and consideration of the wishes of open by inserting copying inkate between one sport and another-rather be kind than cruel; and large numbers of slaves won their Any concession would have to be besides that, servants who were freedom and a selection of Shem all sections of the communities Pencil and metalic iron
He had felt considerable difficulty extended to football, boxing. rac treated kindly would work better attained distinction. concerned. The intensive Ger-
respon-ing, and the geedway, which than if they hated their owners. Gradually, among civilised and So it came to pass that there Christian nations, slavery chang- man campaign which has been in understanding how a
sible Government department could would mean a substantial loss of waged for the last two
were sometimes slaves who founded its character, and instead of that revenue.
favour with their masters _and would brush all such considerage into court with a case
depended on evidence so loade
men being regarded as belonging tions-aside. For it the recovery).
rose from slavery to freedom and personally to their masters, and of colonies has become a mat-quate as that put forward -
prosperity. All that the evidence adduced
liable to be brought and sold, ther ter of "bread and honour."
Oldest Story
became, if they were not free, men -⠀⠀ Germany, in the language ofas capable of achieving was the
The oldest story of a slave who might not leave, and they had cer attached to the land, which they its propagandists, "demands for creation of an umpleasant atmos- her own that which rightly be-phere of suspicion against the
Your Daily Smile!
Cruelty called a feminine voice.
"Hullo,"
longs to her before God and claimant without definitely proving over the telephone, “is that the Hu-rose to be the ruler of a nation is in "duties attached to them; such ̈
anything
There was no evidence, direct or
man." but which by some in- explicable happening has been passed into the control of indirect. of malingering or inter- others. It matters nothing to ference with the wounds.
Doctors Baffied this plea that in the years bee Sherif said the doctors who Tfore the war-Germany drew less
treated Miss Gray in the earlier than 3 per cent. of her imports
Two-girls-
of raw materials from her months of her illness were haffed tist's office when one of them re-bom a slave in Egypt, though he working time was divided between
indelible
*
*
rush cradle.
OWN
in the fine Hebrew nazrative of mane Society?'
"Yes," replied the official in charge. Joseph, sold by his brethren ins the cultivating of the land-
owner's soil "Well, there's a book canvasser sit-to captivity, but arising by his ting op in a tree in my garden teas-worth to be Pharaoh's Prime Min-
Land Allotted ing my dog."
ister, as we should say to-day. They had lard allotted to them. Moses, too, the great leader and which they cultivated for them- Sense of Fitness
"Were sitting in a delasgiver of the Jewish face wat selves, but did not own Their
marked, "Why does the dentist call was brought up as if he had been work for the landowners and work
la prince, owing to the favour be for themselves, and their colonial possessions, or that the by her case.
It was an injury of very rare his office a "dental parlour*7**
"I suppose he thinks it would be won from the king's daughter, profits were their own. total number of German set-1 tlers in these was fewer than occurrence, and the technical litera-better than drawing room"
while he was a baby in his bul This system of half-slavery "and- of the swered the other girl. 20.000. Attempts have been tare on the subject was
half freedom was known as serf- scantiest. All the surgeons who made to explain away the
↑ The aging, Adsop, the makeg doma, and it remained in force na- The Debate - " strong
"Mein gave evidence confessed their ignor- passage in
of animal fables in Greece, is said til comparatively recent times. Sambo had joined a debating so- Kampf in which Herr Hitlerance of the subject of scorns the former colonial po- pencil poisoning before the present ciety, and the day after his first to have been born a slave, but Russia only abolished it in 1861.
In the Mohammedan world licy of Germany as resembling case directed their attention to it. meeting he was being questioned by won his freedom by his wit, and
|wisdom," and became adviser of slavery took much deeper--and- At least one eminent surgeon friends. a pyramid turned upside down
"What was de subject of de de-kings.
more permanent root, but the Thate Samba 7” with its apex in Europe. Last frankly confessed that if the
It is said that when he had besa worst form of slavery that ever- "De subject were "What is de month he lent his personal case had been called at the begive
ning of 1927 he would have known most bereft to mankind, de sun or killed by the people who were in-appeared on the earth was not force to these endeavours.
furiated by the mockery and that of the ancient world. It was no more on the subject than the de moon?" replied Sambo.
"And which side did you take?” taunts of his nimble tongue, and the new form of slavery that Yet the Fuehrer's talk of medical men who then treated Miss
"De moon's" said Sampe "I or the town where be man fans of, sprang up after the discovery of colonies, if an endorsement of Gray the claim, was little more than Miss Gray was awarded £1 58. gued dat de sun shines by day when a high rock had to pay compen-America, hideous in all its fea- we doan" need de light, but de moon a passing reference in a speech (82. a week compensation from shines by night, when dat light mossation for the loss of his life, the tures compared with the milder that concentrated upon a new 1933 until her incapacity was certainly am needed. An' dey couldn't nearest to him in the world to control of slaves in Eastern and
answer dat, sah!”
receive the compensation was the tropical lands. four-year plan for German in-fended or amended. dustry. By the genius of the
independent of other countries for any raw materials that can [ possibly be produced-st home. That is not a contradiction of the wish for other sources of supply controlled by Ger- many, for the chemist has his limitations. None the less the On two charges of obtaining concentration of the whole credit by frand. Phillip Hart, aged effort of the nation upon mak-47, a bulb merchant, of Priory- ing Germany self-sufficing will mews, Clapham, S.W., was be watched with every good-tenced at Tower Bridge Police will abroad. It will be pursued. (Court-last-month to 12 months' as Herr Hitler warned the Nazi imprisonment. Party Congress, with the sole. It was alleged that he got, credit Charles Lond af increasing. productionlot #764 123. Si [without regard to wages, with a Mesman and Co.-and £351 68. Ed. Mark. determination to prevent all from Konynenburg and strikes, and without the inter-Three other charges were not pro- ference "of crazy institutions ceeded with.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.chemist, Germany is to be made
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where nothing is done but Mr. Morgan Barr, for the Direc- talk. For the neighbours of tor of Public Prosecutions, said Germany there is relief in the Hart told Dutch firus that he was thought that such a programme supplying several well-known West that requires for its success external End stores with bulbs, - and as well as internal peace. In one of them owed him £2,000, that aspect its presentation Once he ordered, as should have a calming effect 500,000 bulbs. upon the nerves" of those who About the end of May last year have watched with misgiving he drew all his money out of the the intense activity in rearma-bank and disappeared. In June ment.
he was made bankrupt for about! Herr Hitler affirmed once £8,000. more the German desire for When police went to his bunga- peace. In his eyes the mill-low at Billericay, Essex, to arrest tary measures to which the rehim he escaped by jumping not sources of the nation have been through a window. He was given for four years past have heard of again until a fortnight been taken as a safeguard before the hearing, when he was against aggression. Though arrested at Exeter.
the outside world will remain,
convinced that Germany never
had reason for her fears, it will pean statesmanship. A wish be ready to accept the assur- for conciliation can be trans- ance that the German people muted into concrete guarantees. "have no other desire than to Germany will be free to work live in peace and friendship out, in an atmosphere of calm, with all who leave us alone and her vast experiment of develop- themselves desire peace, If in ing an economically self- those words Herr Hitler frank-sufficient nation. Her people ly interprets the German mind may dismiss the fear of any there should be no difficulty, in hindrance to access on equal the conferences to be held later terms to such raw materials sa in the year, in removing the they may still require to draw major apprehensions of Euro- from abroad.
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley
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