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Christianity And Communism
The ship roared off
It is understood that for this at top speed, took off cross wind Dunkirk instead of Calais. and was in the air after foot run.
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NOBODY'S CHILDREN IN NEW LANDS
EMPIRE WORK OF DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES
CHILD MIGRATION TO BRITISH DOMINIONS
(By R. T. Kirkpatrick):
It climbed to 500 feet the Port of Calais, the Nord Rail- made a perfect bank to the right,way and the Government are re- flew over a three mile radius and sponsible They could not agree returned to the field at the Taisa to share the expense of building a 17 ferry-dock at Calais like the new Commercial Airport. April one at Dover. Dunkirk already Apire city has le last, it will be seen that we have sent 1936.
The Name Of Johnson
possessed one.
to Central Europe.
WALYS of
Ta meeting of the Royal Em-¡1922 being over £116,000.
Thus
the Hon. B. S. B. Stevens, Premier to the Dominions British settlers, The result is that the new route of New South Wales, stressed the with British capital amounting to and ready-made is one of the longest
■R. WILLIAM T. Johnson who travelling between the two capitala necessity of a far-sighted plan for over $1,377,000, M received 44,049 votes as Leaving London at 10 pm, before future development of the vast British babies!
train continent of Australia. Viscount
Migration To-day the neces-] candidate for the office of Clerk the theatres are over, the of the Supreme Court of Mia-reaches Paris at 3.55 am, too late! Bledisloe emphasized
Migration to-day has undoubt- There is ample food for nesota, although he had no political to catch the morning expresses for sity of the investment of British
land, and Sir Hal Colebatch. the people in the homeland, and when thought in the striking article past, made no campaign and spent Germany, Italy, Switzerland and capital in Australia and New Zea-edly lost some of its attraction for which the Ber. A. J. Bennitt no money, ascribes this result
For this reason an otherwise at-Agent General for Westem Aus- we speak of schemes for overseas has contributed to the current the magic of the Johnson name. number of St. John's Review The present incumbent of the office tractive method of avoiding the tralia, said that what was wanted settlement we visualize
queues was not only Britiab capital, but sciensly only those which affect Customs under the heading "The Rela-was reelected with 74,129 votes passport and
Politics." after 24 aggressive campaign and the usual struggles for (and British settlers with capital. Yet the working classes
may another speaker seemed to advise tremely rare to-day to find tion of Religion to
the importation to Australia of lies of the middle and upper For the benefit of those who But this in no way diminishes the with) porters at the ports
storks May I suggest that the classes settling in Canada, Aus- may not have read it, the fol-prestige which the name Johnson lose many passengers
I work of child migration to the Do-tralia or New Zealand. The only lowing precis may be useful seems to enjoy. There wis
minious, which has been one of exceptions appear to be retired The article opens by recounting other defeated candidate who poll-UNLIMITED LAMAGES
than Mr.
of On
Lord the chief planics of the policy of civil, naval and military servants how the Jews living under the led 11,000 votes less
of Dr. Barnardo's Homer from its seeking a home where ther hated yoke of Rome at the time Johnson, although be, too,
England, the jury of 12 MPs who earliest years, meets the sugges-spend their otium cum dignitate. Hewart, Lord Chief Justice paid a visit to Rheims to investition of all these gentlemen? · The question of child migration
an-
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of the birth of Jesus looked for-political figure and made a vigorous ward to a day when they should election campaign. once again be a great and free says "Roman rule," nation.
the article, as of the nature of an enlightened despotism: it did not usually bear particular- ly heavily on her colonies, and many advantages were to be gained from living under it." But the Jews hated to think
ANNUAL DRILL DISPLAY
Demonstration By Fire Brigade
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Since these Homes were started is not one which can in any way brought in a verdict for the cham- pagne growers. with unlimited in 1866 we have sent to Canada no be linked up with or prejudiced fewer than 20,655 boys and 8,365 by unemployment, either in Bri- damages for themselves.
The Lord Chief Justice offered giris potential Empire baile tain or in the Dominions. The to exempt the jury from furtherers, over 90 per cent, of whom children sent out by the Fair- service for a period of 10 years have made good and have ex-bridge Farm Schools and Barnar This offer was indignantly-in-pended in that Dominion & sum of do's vary in age from 8 to
Our organised They will not be on the employ- of ment market for an appreciable The Annual Drill Display of the deed, truculently refused.
+8 Australia migration The party, which was organised over £1,109,482 they were subject to anyone: Hong Kong Fire Brigade will take
much more recent origia, our first number of years, and their main- Venn. numbered 22 they therefore lived under the place in the compound of the New by Sir Charles Petrie and Mr.
Station. Lockhart Lawrence
established a farm being a financial expectation of One who should No. 2 Police come, whom they called the Road, Wanchai, commencing at 3 legislators in all. It was mainly party having sailed only in 1922 tenance in the Dominion, besides
concerned with visiting the vine In 1929 we Messiah, and who would be the jpm. next Wednesday.
two some 40 miles from Sydney, and new surroundings, and become at The display will be attended by yards and sampling the 1928 vin- school for 100 boys at Pieton, that they will be enared to their
Curiosities included successor to Judas Maccabeus.
who desire to remain up-country. the man who, 150 years before. His Excellency the Governor and stage.
near Sydney; and we have had led the Jews to a great vic- Lady Caldecott who have intimat-1911's of a brilliance which belied we have a girls' home at Ashfeld, heart thoroughly good citizens At a special dinner M. de Mar-since 1922 to New South Wales Surely, then, societies suck a tory which had gained themed their intention of witnessing their age.
ex-no less than 1,287 boys and girls, ours deserve every consideration
and encouragement rather ¡their freedom from the tyranni-the drill The public, as in pre-
This figure excludes the 408 the cold official reluctance with cal rule. of
Antiochus vious years, are again invited to chandeau, the mayor and an
Minister of the Interior. welcomed the guests. Lord Hewart replied. children who have been settled in which our efforts are now met. Epiphanes The article goes attend.
Impressive Figures jon to relate that Christ refused to play the political role of a national deliverer, in spite of His acceptance of the title of the Messiah. Nevertheless, it!
is worth noticing that although
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Western-Australia and have form-
ed some 40 per cent, of the total number of boys and girls sent by
than
In 70 years nearly 120,000 boys
"I know where my husband lives, the Kingsley Fairbridge Farm and girls have passed through Dr. The Barnardo's Homes. The family al-
the broom in the baby's face this but I can't get to him because he School Society to Pinjarma
He Himself refused to take part Hubby: 1 just wanted to get him is under his mother's
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in the politics of His time. He used to kissing his grandfather.” has again and again been the inspiration, of all sorts of poli- tical reformers ever since.
Isn't It So?
He was an ordinary sort of chap.! and it embarrassed him to think that The early history of the all these people would rise to atten Church, however, disclosed an on the moment he approached He was sensitive, and he really disliked entirely different situation, and this fuss on his account--especial- the writer traces briefly the fly as he knew that the move was not emergence of the Church as a really popular; and that only a sense political factor, with the of duty impelled his fellow-citizens xradually increasing influence to stand when his arrival was signal- wielded by its Princes.
He wished it was possible to avoid cinema it the corruption and abuses of whenever he entered a the Church then extant, and seemed that the only seats available gradually the typical Protestant were right in the middle of the row. point of view of the almost in-
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violable separateness of reli-embracing Christianity m one gion and politics gained the or another of its forms-is that upper hand. "One result," says it has utterly failed to apply its the writer, "has been that the moral teachings in everyday
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to-day are arranged without be the tragedy of the strife and aný direct regard for religion discord which we see all around. at all" and he goes
20 us, whether between individuals examine the claim that the one or nations. They have not only great rival to Christianity in divorced Christianity
and
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the world to-day is Communism. Christian precepts from their and that "because Communism politics but from all their social is not only a political and relationships, all their con- economical system but also a re-tacts, all those everyday kin ligion." The writer finally asks ships which make up life. whether the choice necessarily finest code of moral ethics ever lies between Capitalism and devised has given way to a set Communism (as at present of relationships which has no exemplified in world politics) basis of moral or social worth, or is it not possible that there in which selfishness, intoler- is a third way, in which Chris-ance, greed and hate are the de- tianity can play a considerably cisive factors. Unfortunately, "But what is labelled "Communism" more prominent part?
mean
the working out in detail of this to-day has yet to show that it third way depends on
has any regard for morality as on whether we are content to
Christianity. exemplified by keep our religion as our own By Communism we do not affair.
or whether it is
the communism evident really something which can yet save civilisation from disaster in our present social structure to such good purpose-the-com- The moral code of ethics munistic uses of harbours, which Christianity enshrines is bridges, roads, electricity, social unquestionably the greatest services and so on, on which thing of its kind, whether we the whole of civil society is approsch" it from the religious based but those excesses, that or the strictly moral aspect anti-Christ, which Communism that is to say, disregarding its as a political creed seems to religious aspects and reducing embody. In onthis-sense it it simply to its moral and social appears to us that the claim Implications In either case it that Communiem, and Chris standa – unique nd supreme. tísni are implacably opposed
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to each other-Est some foună – hat part of #tition
thumb," cost of our Australian work was ways numbers about 8,000. They said a wife at Willesden police £13,030 in 1934, and £10,598 in are received in a state of desti
(Continued on Page 6.) 1935, the total expenditure since! court last month.
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
JOSEPH
ELLENBECKER of MARYSVILLE, Kansas FOUND A DOUBLE HEADED WHEAT
VELOPED
VARETY
PLANTINGS OF HIS DOUBLE HEAD
AERONCA AIRPLANE
– MADE FLIGHT WITHOUT A PILOT
THE PLANE ACCIDENTALLY TOOK OFF ALONE. CLIMBED 500 FEET-MADE A PERFECT"
BANK-FLEW OVER A 3-MILE RADIUS AND RETURNED TO THE FIELD.
WILLIAM
JOHNSON
TULSA, ADMI, 1936
BEING DESIROUS OF CHECKING ON THE "VALUE OF THE NAME "JOHNSON” IN
PUINNESOTA, FILED AS ACANDIDATE FOR CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURE
HE DID NOT DISCLOSE HIS IDENTITY AND MADE NO CAMPAIGN WHATEVER YET HE RECEIVED 44,049 VOTES OUT OF 151686 CAST:
I FLY.