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SDAT U DECEMBER 23, 1936
CRUEL TO THEIR TWINS
But Kind To Other Children
PARENTS FINED IN COURT
Here There and re Everywhere.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cartis, a ENTENTE CORDIALE 1906" young couple of Dawlish-road.
The Entente Cordiale was in its. Reading, were cruel to their three-first bloom in 1996 when M. Mar year-old twin boys, who were cel Boulestin first visited London. found in a bedroom which bad
He records some of its theatrical no fire and was terribly cold. manifestations in his autobiogra-
The room had only a mattress phy, "Myself," My Two
tries," which has just appeared.
in it.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis were kind to their two other children, one four years old and the other 14 months.
They were found in a comfort- able sitting-room, playing in front of a fire, and were well cared for "Deliberate"
At Reading Police Court last! month an inspector of the
Einstein on Competition NSPCC said the neglect of the
twins appeared to be deliberate.
Supt. Osborne said the parents When Darwin's theories of were bound over two years natural selection and the surfor neglecting the twins. . vival of the fittest were at last
The defendants were each fine firmly established it became the 2 for neglecting the twins, who fashion to apply them to human affairs. Men may not are to be placed in an institution. kill one another on sight out of sheer hatred or fear, but they
Coun
FACTS OF SHIPPING STRIKE
CATECHISM ON COAST MARITIME TIEUP
SITUATION SUMMED UP IN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
THE basic facts of the Pacific] aboard ship.
Coast_maritime -- strike fol- Q-When did negotiations seek- -low in question, and answer form:ing to reach agreements on these In the Alhambra ballet the · Q—What, caused the Pacific | demands break down. Fremiere dansense wore red. Coast maritime strike?
A----The negotiations broke down white and blue dress.
A—The fafinre of Pazific Coast) a few hours before midnight Sep- At Drury Lane Fragson sang patriotically in French and in Eng shipowners and waterfront em-tember 30, when the old contracts lish-with an accent in both lan-ployers and their sca and dock expired.. They were renewed, how, ` SURKES...
employees to agree on terms of new ever, at the insistence of the Fed- Simone le Barzy played in En-working contracts.
eral Maritime Commission and the glish nert to George Alexander at Q—Did they try to reach agree-Federal Department of Labour, and
the St. James's Theatre.
At the Coronet Theatre Sarah Bernhardt played Pelleas to Mrs Patrick Campbell's Melisande
Q-Who is considered the real- strike leader? -
ments?
longshoreman, as president of the A-Yes, in a series of conferen- | Maritime Federation: ces that began in August, appro ximately 40 days before the old On his return to Paris M. Bou-contracts, negotiated in 1934, ex- QDid either side make a move lestin was present at the concert pired.
|toward peace before the final col- given under official auspices by the Q-What was the principal ob-lapse London Symphony Orchestra and stacle to new agreements? the Leeds Choir.
A-Yes, the shipowners offered A-Chiefy differences on who to submit all questions to Federal- At the end he met a famous shall control the hiring of the arbitration; the workers reduced dressmaker, who, in reply to his men who work on the docks or on their demands to "fundamentals" remark on the fine quality of the American flag ships with head-that centered on preferential em- voices, shook his head sadly.
quarters in Pacific ports.
ployment, union hiring hall con- Q-What do the shipowners want troi, cash overtime for sailors. regarding hiring?
shorter hours for cooks and ste-
compete in other ways, runs MARRIAGE HELD ras," he said. "very in-
the argument. The Bernhardi school of military philosophers.. still followed in Germany, look-
led upon war as nature's method
of weeding out nations unfit to German inhabit the planet. economists still see in the
INVALID
First Husband Was Alive!
teresting; fine music - Entente Cordiale ..but, mon Dieu, these choristers, their fracies!**
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Q-What happened?
A-They ask that kiring con-warda. trol be placed in neutral hands or' in joint control of both operators
A-The shipowners rejected. the and unions.
fundamental demands; the anions QWhat do the workers want? refused to consider arbitration of A Retention of the present what they considered their rights. his-system, set up in 1934, of dispatch-
ed?
A
Q-When was the strike called?
at
Q-Who gave the committee the authority to issue the strike order?
struggle for national and world A marriage in 1927 at Kensing-i markets a counterpart of the ton Register Office between Squatorie castle, to, butler)Tve made aing dock gangs and ship crews struggle that wiped out the dron-Leader Leonard
Young. stupid mistake. I tipped his lordship from union operated hiring halls
A-The strike was called dinosaur and other creatures RAF stationed at Market Dray-instead of you."" known to us only by their fossi ton, Salop, and Mrs. Jessie May
Q-Are wage questions involymidnight, October 29. Butler.That's awkward. I'I never
Q-Who called the strike? bones. Nietzsche developed Madeline Young, of Green Lane, get it now.”
A-The Joint Negotiating Com- A-Yes, longshoremen soughtmittee of seven maritime and dock Darwinism to the full and Letchworth, Herts, was held to be
Justised
increases from 95 cents to $1 an unions. preached a doctrine of cruelty invalid by Mr. Justice Langton in
the doctrine that the world the Divorce Court last month. Lift Attendant: "Here you are, hour, seamen asked the wage scale
sonny. This is your floor."
be increased from $62.50 to $80 belongs to the strong.
The Judge decided that Mrs.:
Superior Youth: "How dare, you
a month: In attacking this type of Young's husband by a previous call me “sumy!" You are not my reasoning at the convocation of marriage-a man named; Morgan | father." the University of the State ofwas alive at the time of the Lift Attendant: "Well, I brought New York Dr. Einstein may second ceremony. [have presented the spectacle of The case for Squadron-Leader |
kicking a dead horse. Certain Young was that he suspected that Twe farmers met in town a few ly the analogy between the his wife had not told the truth days after a cyclone hit the country- jungle and communal life has and made enquiries concerning side. been beaten down often enough. Morgan. He found that Morgan Yes, it did a lot of queer tricks But at this juncture of the was alive in 1925 and went to out our way," declared one refleeing a system of penalising work-order was issued.
you up, didn'1⁄2 17′′
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Are working conditions in-
A-The members of the seven
volved?
A-Yes, sailors are demanding unions, who voted nearly 9 to 1 to authorise the strike if their de better Living accommodations aboard the ships, which virtually mands were not met by midnight are their homes.
October 28.
Q-When did the strike begin? Q-Are other questions involved?
A-Immediately after the strike A-Yes, the operators are ask-
Q-How many workers did it" world's affairs, when Fascist Canada
tively. "By the way, Hank, was thaters for petty strikes, refusals to nations are proclaiming their
pass picket lines, violations of affect? Friends of Morgan had since new barn of yours injured any?"
can't
working rules; while the unions A-Estimates differ, but the superiority over the rest Of had communications from him.
rightly say," he answered. "I ain't seek cash overtime for sea work- generally accepted number of mankind. their readiness to A decree of zulility was grant-found it yet”
and dock workers is ers instead of the present system maritime prove it by force of arms, their ed joy in the struggle for supremacy, it is well to hear one of the great thinkers of our
time picture man as something NEW YORK ACCLAIMS finer than Nietzsche's Superman who knew no mercy.
Thomas Huxley could find no explanation in nature, evolution
NOEL COWARD
or anything else for the moral Stalls At 21⁄2 Guineas sense in man — the sympathy For "To-night At 8.30”
with suffering that sets him
apart and that is utterly 10-
Despite a charge of £2 12s. 6d Darwinian, the yearning for for stalls, thousands of Noel something more than brute Coward "fans" turned out last strength. It is not that evolu-month to see him and Gertrude Sion breaks down in man, but
Lawrence present the first three that in man we find the begin plays of the series, "To-night at ning of a spirituality that will 8.30.
National of the
butterflies, beartracked victims of psychological life triangle, and
itself evolve. At the last
The audience at the meeting of the British Associa-Theatre, including most tion for the Advancement of leaders of Manhattan's society, and Science Professor Julian Hux-
many stage and film stars, mar- ley, grandson of the great velled at Mr. Coward's and Miss Thomas and a distinguished Lawrence's versatility as Mayfair biologist in his own right, ask ed whether the aim of evolu- tion should not be "to let the mammal die within us, so as the more effectively to permit Innumerable curtain calls pro- the man to live." What glori-duced a speech of thanks from Mr. fiers of competition regard as a Coward in which be deprecated wholesome extension into their advance publicity "ballyhoo." own lives of Darwin's struggle
Extra police had to keep order) for existence is somethingmong the crowds thronging the anachronistic, something that exits seeking the autographs of
a pair of incredibly agile tap dan-
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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Tomb Of The Sacred Horse
preen himself on being as rute Chora-Kapir (Tomb of the sound a biological philosopher House in Baroda, India is
he is 器 mathematical z sanctuary and famous place of physicist.
pilgrimage, to which large nam- bera flock animally, to pray. The structure is surmounted by 10 large domes and was erected over the final resting place of the horse belonging to Saint Sayed. It com- Ipares in Dretentiousness with the
THIS HI! LIFE
Motorist at Tottenham:
fused to pass the police ear, not Temple of the Dog In Burma and because I was afraid of the of with the Masque of the Camel in ficer summoning me, but afraid Tripolis, to which my own pigrim- that he might shout" "II" and ages in search of the wingual havel startle my wife.
taken-me in the past.
The other shifted his hat.
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A Rumour Scotched "You know, it's all nonsense, this idea about the Irish being, great Sghters."
"How do you make that out?” "Well, you know Sean Keeley who lives in our street? Last night my brother and I and a couple of other |fellowx just knocked him silly."
The
of time off; shorter hours for the 35,000. A union speaker refer cooks, and stewards aboard ships; red to the "United force of 40,000- enforcement of marine safety laws men" in a speech. affecting employment of radio, tele- Q-Was the strike fully effec-
raphers; provisions that radio tive immediately?
A-Practically yes. Dock work- operators be required only to oper-
in Seattle, Portland, San ate their radio sets instead of beers ing called upon for other work (Continued on Page 6.)
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
TOMB OF THE HORSE
BARODA, India
MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE WAS ERECTED OVER THE GRAVE OF A HORSE THAT BELONGED TO
•Sayed- A HINDU SAINT
It is known as
· CHORA-KA-PIR (TOMB OF THE HORSE)
God's Angel
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