THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 14, 1938.
News Snack Bar
WHAT DOCTORS
R FROM
SUFFER
Hotel-keepers, doctors, tobacconists, brewers and petrol station proprietors—a mixed bag indeed -are Britain's greatest martyrs to indigestion.
That is one of many surprises shown in the Regis- trar-General's Decennial Supplement for Eng- land and Wales.
"CAUTION THE CURSE OF THE CHURCH"
* Observing that the Church of England religion to-day was too mild and had no sting, the Bishop of Southampton (Dr. A. B. L Karney) told the Church Congress at Bristol that they were not even unpopular.
There was need for more punch in the sermons, he said.” The greatest sins of church-people laziness and cowardice, meriting the stinging criticisms of young people, of Communists and pacifists.
were
:
Dr. Karney asserted that the Church was failing terribly with the working classes.
"Anyone who goes, for instance, to the races or the dogs or the League football match must real- ise how few of those vast crowds are ever reached by our ministræ- tions."
He declared that caution was "the curse of the Church of Eng- land.
WELSH RADIO EISTEDDFOD
Wales is to
have a radio Eis-
teddfod at Christmas. Contest will
comprise: Composition of tunes, writing of a radio 'drama, short
stories suitable for broadcasting.
B.B.C. officials and prominent Welshmen will judge.
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GERMANY'S DRIVE IN
NEAR EAST:
German penetration into Iraq 4. and Syria is the subject of a special despatch to the "Daily Mail" from its Jerusalem correspondent..
The "Daily Telegraph" says that negotiations for an oil concession is proceeding between Iraq. German interests..
YOU SAID IT
*
.and
Mr. Churchill to Herr Hitler: "Am I a war-monger because I de- mand that Britain be properly de- fended?"
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STAR-SHAPED WATCH OF 1613
It is not a cheerful document. Among those for whom it has bad news are chemists-for they are in the occupation most addicted to suicide. To off-set them are rail- way guards, with the lowest suicide rate in Britain!
Health does not usually go with wealth, according to Mr. Registrar- General. The applexy, diabetes, gall stones and nephritis, rates rises with affluence for men. But their wives suffer no increased health dangers from being "better- off."
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