New Use For
Dead Men's Wealth
INTOUCHABLE
tunes
for- cstimated at
} thousands of many
pounds may shortly win
new usefulness. The House
A
-by-
MARK
of Lords is urging that PRIESTLEY
Royal Commission should investigate the hundreds of British charity trusts which have become obsolete or re- duced to absurdity with the passing of time.
the
"fortunate parishes" swiftly doubled.
only £1 to still contributed wards the maintenance of university student precisely as originally stipulated.
entalls listening to an annual scrmon,
With 800-year-old funds tu foot the bill, the serman has been
preached almost every yeat since 1401 and vics with the Guy Fawkes sermon preached every year by the rector of West Wickham. In a will dated 1017 a local lord of the manor directed that the rector should receive CAVE 20 shillings for a sermon "in memory of the execrable gun- powder piot while 40 shillings should be paid to 40 poor people who should be
Present Not long ago, the rector admitted that the full congregation of 403 had never turned up.
WAD
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much
Have you ever heard of
Few people are aware of the the eccentric George Jar-
high cost of British tradition. vis? When he died he left rise. Minister of Education has Absurd? No less than £150,- £1,000,000 to the poor of the power to order an inquiry 000,000 is believed to be locked three parishes. The result into the usage of funds of over away in the bulk total of old- educational time charity funds. How much
of ills Old-time was that the population of 30,000 specifically
traditions,
astronamicul sum is charities. alto maintained wasted?
how wisely spent-and however, лге
further 50,000 national by
watched Nominally charities. Or have you heard of over by the Charity Commission, Thomas Sharples? Thirty years the monies at their disposal are resent an aggregate ago he left £70,000 to endow kn
known to represent pensions
Another £110,000,000. for anyone named of
£20,000,000 of frustrated money Sharples or Hesmondhaigh who £ cared to claim them. Relatives hangs fire in dormant bark contested the will in vain-and balances or in the funds of the scores of strangera havo benefit Court of Chancery, paid in by trusts and other agencies unable ed.
to full the original wishes of the donors.
These are just two twists in El Dorado of an astonishing
right 5. wealth
John Bull's Nearly sixty years doorstep. have passed since the last public inquiry into the uses of old-time A vast trust and charity funds. accumulation of hard cash tle up by the hands of men long tead, could be put to more use ful purposes today,
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Even amid the housing short- age, no tenant could pecently be fund for a rent-free house near Langport, Somerset, though gift includes half-a-ton the yearly, two shillings
a
Man
aged
At Calne, Wiltshire, trustees are still drinking the health of At St Ives, Huntingdon, you can a man who died 300 years ago. sill see the outlandish yearly spectacle of staid citizens dicing for Bibles with the rents of town
land.
Coupled with respect for the wishes of the dead, vast dormant funds should be released and aplied usefully perhaps
families, to assist large
help with professional studies and train- ing, further university schemes! and found summer colonies for
children.
What would the old a week philanthropists Gay? Isn't this pocket-money and free groceries. the way they would want it? To qualify, the tenant must be and needy" Langport less than Rfty. In not these days
of lucrative fall om- ployment such a being seems to be non-existent. AL Ufton four- near Reading, loaves are given free an ancient bequest relii during the year might Hungry recipients once traveled thus be brought forgivingly to miles to join the village bread gether. When
Charity line. Today they sometimes Commissioners investigated the and they cannot give it away. affair, they discovered that the
Back in 1491 a rich landowner loft five shillings a year to churchgoing folk for an annual love-feast," expressing the
that those who had
the
• 231 endowment had In-
enormously, and bad be- come an annual banquet on the river for eight cigar-smoking stockbrokers.
are
Many of these charities, now centuries old, are fettered by
they rules perverse as archale. Life could be pleasant for the len old ladies of Castle
but
for free in return Rising. housing they still have to wear the Jacobean costume of red cloak, thick petticoats and high-
Jed
In the same parish in 1585 a philanthropic merchant left fund to pay about £1 yearly for "the maintenance of some virtuous and well-deposed pealced hat designed by the Earl scholar at Oxford. After 350
Cummings
"Confound this shadow! It spoils the view of the fire in the Far East."
No Russian
-N some
respects Ivan Protopopoff, who lives
in a one-room apart- ment with his father
of Northampton in 1614. Old and mother in Moscow, is a
years the fund had snowballed folk of Bury St Edmunds might likable boy. He is well- by 3,000 percent to a revenue of enjoy being
£30. Yet
given
a chilling,
London Express Service
Playtime For
Schoolboys
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By DENNIS BARDENS
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Indeed, wasn't Ivan privileged sored. The radio maintains an
Notice the casual implication that any pupil is a potential soldier.
And to make the position even clearer we have this:--
investigators dis- fruit cake and ale in memory built for his fifteen years, the other day to go with a party unceasing blare of hate pro-
"In all educational work it is directed against the covered that of
likes to be doing things. monument to Pavlik Morosov, Western Powers. He has had necessary to remember that to
The vanquish the enemy is impos But his habitual expression which stands in the children's no religious instruction. is one of tense preoccupa- park in the Krasnaya district of scientific and historical books sible without the nost burning access hatred of him. Passionate love The monument com- to which he has had tion, enlivened only oc- Moscow?
"Plancer" (the were all rowritten to fit in with of the Fatherland breeds casionally by a boyish smile, memorates
pioneers pre the junior or Communist degna.
inevitably strong hatred of the ganisation of Komsomol) who is
enemy." held up as a glorious example for all Soviet children.
How to change your luck...
AST Thursday night on the way home from his up a few blocks from his home on Allen Street and wallet containing $13 was taken from him.
a
my
as it turned out, Well, This misadventure, strangely enough, has made my
Aunt uncle won $10, which, added to Frieda very happy, and I'd the three he started out with, like to tell why....
To begin with, to hear my uncle tell it. Frieda is crazy like a fox about most things, but when it comes to fortune telling and allied superstitions she's crazy like a crazy.
"drives him to destruction.”
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Ivan, like most Russian chil- the dren, started school at age of seven. Until then he had only the schooling, since privileged classes can afford to send their children to a kinder- garten, and there is no privato tultion in Russia.
Lucky few
WHAT are Ivan's chances of higher education? He might
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His teacher at school is privately worried about it. Ivan is paler than he ought to be, and so are too many of the other pupils. For Ivan, like over 33,000,000
be one of the lucky few to win campaign in the early thir-
* gold the State
silver medal cvicted ties, when
at 17, Hankow Road, Kowloon gets little time to himself.
got a Not only must he do his farmers and their families and
His years of schooling so for secondary school, and
• FINAL TO-DAY • school duties,
including sent them
Morosov achieved fame by
establishment military training, and his bouncing his parents, who in school and a "secondary" school, him to a course at a higher
educațional of equivalent mem- order to save their family from roughly
the Articles must master
of homework, but as a
had hidden grain elementary teaching in other Lenin "in all their profundity." ber of the Komsomol youth starvation
from the Communist Party's re- countries. At fourteen he was He must understand "Russia's organisation he must do quisitioning officials. Morosov's admitted
fee-paying leading role in the struggle for advanced peace and democracy." In phy-
through included sica he must go
catechism about all the Russian scientists who, Communist dogma insists, were the inven- tors of such things as penicillin, jet propulsion and electric light.
innumerable jobs besides. parents were shot. There are lectures, meetings
the
classes and curriculum,
to the
a more which
and rallies to attend; there The story, which is very com- are tours of museums and mon in Communist Hterature, milliary training.
outraged public places; there are jobs omits to add that
neighbours killed the faithless Shows gave him a take-home total of of course, in Charlie's own words, 13. Reluctant to face gloating to do "for the State" such son the next day, and that as a
Frieda, he took a roundabout as clearing heavy snow, reprisal Communist agents mur
weeding vegetable gardens derod, every Inhabitant of that way home.
village street. and helping to build the
"""I CAN'T understand, I once
heard him tell her, "how a distinct twenty-century type like you could potsky around with such superstitions,"
The matter came to a crisis last Thursday when Charlie arrived home from the shop and Frieda asked him 10 dollars.
"Only last week I am giving you 10 dollars,” he exploded.
What you making, a down pay- .ment on a Cadillac?"
"A catalogue I am not need. ing," Frieda sassed back. "To- from a day I am purchasing certain gipsy brasa fish with the sign from Zoroaster which absolute guaranteed to make a panty healthy, wealthy and wise, and also rich."
HARLIE examined the brass object. "To me it looks like
a tin herring," he said. "Where
is living this gipsy?
"In the back of a story on Suffolk Street, and, her I am trusting complete," said Frieda.
The upshot of the argument a decision to put the rongical fish to a practical test,
WIS
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A few doors from the drug-school yard. store en Rivington Stroot a hoodlum stepped out of an alley and stuck him up.
"Scram," sald the hold-up man, "or I'll bust in your head.
"A pleasure," said my uncle politely. "Cherry-ho."
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 &
He
a
why
NOT for a single day has he
Nellowed to forget politics, won't had it easy golas
If he gets a scholarship, Ivan
much
His
So Ivan's father, who finds Every lesson, from folk-lore to allowance wouldn't be his son's school. fees a heavy history, from science to geo- more than 140 roubles a month, burden on his meagre salary, graphy, is permeated with Com- and it costs at least 400 roubles won't say anything which could amunist ideology. And a glimpse to live. be construed as a criticism of at "Pedagogy," the Communist regime.
Not to blaine
Is his strength being
R manual of "Could you return, please the overtaxed? Perhaps.
instruction by Yesipov and 'pocket-book?" sald Charlle." "Is
But there are generous But if his teacher has mis....
Goncharov, published in Mos- genuine alligator leather."
givings, he will keep them to.
ccw for the use of teachers, spends for those accepted into military and scientifle-milltary shows why--- himself. The teachers at school are supervised by a headmaster
"Phonical education promotes establishments, and Ivan has these. He thinks! hand-picked by the Communist Party, and since the Komso. THE Communists believe, as the development of those quali- his eye on
did Frederick the Great, is essential to the future war- this might be a short cut to the
glorious Red Army." riors of the Red Army," teach that "an mol's main duty is to
educated people is obedience to the State, it would most casily governed." As in be dangerous to criticise it. A Nazi Germany, the whole pur- few teachers who did complain pose of the Soviet educational
tioning obedience to tho
WHEN
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"intrust roligion so that there shall peem
Charlio got home, that these duties were an exces-chinery is to teach unques W Frieda
considerably WES shaken by the story of the stick-slye strain on growing children munist dictatorship, to abolish
13 to admit were purged up, and was forced that the brass geegaw was a worthy." flop. But the next morning she gave my uncle the borse laugh when the mailman dropped off .n small parcel with the wallet
in it, its contents intact.
There
Patriotic duty
to be no higher morality than the State's, and to instil into each child a hatred Communist countries.
of non-
It Ivan, then, is ignorant of
was also an unsigned note. WHAT would be called the the outside world and its man- "Dear MisterWhen I ace exploitation of child labour her of life, he, is scarcely to "you got the Fish of Zoroaster; in any other country becomes be blamed.
I drettle to send everything "a glorious patriotic duty" when
ordered by the Communists.
back because I have dealings
with such staher before and
Ho la convinced that as D Russian he is inherently
im
are
don't want no part of them, of course they do,
Do Ivan's parents notice it superior to any other race on But they earth, He thinks that Russia Besides, when I count up the know that any criticism of the leads in syynist State can He believes money find thirteen dollars Komsomol, or of anything, the that tho exactly. I know when I'm Communist State does, would do no wrong, that most Hcked,"
shock their son, conditioned no portant inventions
were dis- he is to thinking that the State covered by Russians, that all "Soo?" cald my aunt.
"On
non Communiat countries and when Charlie went out that account of the brass fish, every-can do no wrong.
longing to bo'liberated" by night for his weekly pinochle thing in turning
He might even be tempted victorious Russlen ́armics, session the good-luck charm was botay,"
to denounco his parents as a
Living in an abnormal world. patriotic duty. Just as the Nazis if he lost it was agreed Friods to me it still smells from song, co. The Communists, layo normality, or seeing any morit "Maybe," said my uncle, but made a hero of the Horst Wessel, he has no moons of recognising would stop patronising Day houring."
"canonized" a Russian boy who In Ho reads no foreign: -establishments; If ho- mado a
and the killing however, he was to hayo World Comurishi, Rerved-Londen betrayed his father and mother journals or papera,
Russian Proes is carefully, con-i mona faith in her theories"
and caused illeir death,
in his wallot.
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