THEY CHEATED HIM
By J. W. TAYLOR
AT
T Firwood, near Bolico, In the Lancashire cotton-spinning belt, they are remembering Samuel Crompton,
farmer's the
нon, born there 200 years ago, who invented the cotton spinning "mule" which contributed more than any single machine to the progress and prosperity of the cotton índustry, although the inventor him- self benefited little by his ingenuity. He was betray- ed by his friends, who preyed on his lack of or dinary common sense and business acumen.
Crompton became fatherless at five when the family moved to Hall--th-Wood, to a small holding whose pecuniary returns they implemented by the manu- facture
Items of kill clothing
pf
on the simple band JODIN. As he tolied day night Crompton
machine that could
yarn
visualised ཐ
turn out tisan less brittle
that
which was always breaking away from the spinning jenny
machine
greaves.
invented
by
Experiments
Ilar-
From his twenty-second year to his twenty-seventh, Cromp- experimented on
ส
machine. His tools were scanty. a few left by his comprising father and a clasp knife. Others he bought with what he could afford out of his meaure carn-, ings.
violin
ture
the
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THE sentence of 12 years' imprisonment passed on the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kielce in the familiar Poland
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ON
Is Main
Still The Weapon
By DENNIS BARDENS
were traced even deeds which
have the
Crompton and his wife, whom be married in 1780, devoted themselves to spinning fine yarn, and could obtain their own which they alone could furnish.
dubious But the secret of where yarn was produced could not be back even to his youth. It respite of three years of found must have taken much pre. "preparation." He is whisk- long. They for
the ed off to the labour camp, themselves the centre of pur-paration but then, chasers, pryers and envious Bishop had been three years the prison, or the execu- tion yard whenever the spinners who resorted to every under arrest. kind of spying.
State desires it.
d
power.
Personal Affair
THE STORY.
OF A FILM
EVERYWHERE PRAISED FOR ITS UNDERSTANDING
OF A GIRL IN LOVE
11
The story is told here by the father of the girl whose love for a married man, a strictly Personal Affair. brings crisis to two families,
OMEONE. once asked me what was the, most pathetic sight in the world, and it didn't take me more than a minute to think it over and reply:--- "It's the sad spectacle of a middle-aged and respectable man trying to resist the advances of a 17-year-old girl who obviously thinks he is wonderful."
I don't know how old you are, but let's imagine for a moment that you are nudging your balding head and reluctant way, out
of the late thirties: SUDDENLY
into the autumnal forties.
You are a man with reason to be- lieve that you have fought the major
THE GIRL. ploved by Giants
THE MAN played by Leo Genn
THE WIFE KNEW-
AND CRISIS GREW By LEONARD MOSLEY
battles of your Presented
emotional life. You
are established professional-
more agreeable,
DANGEROUS
But
and
"Are you tri love with him?" "No,, I never said that!" Barbara rose in a panic.. "Please let me go home.""
IN TEARS
in tears now,
and
He smells it as he strides the There was an awkward pause, the most inhibiting_of_all|ly. You have been married classroom of the grammar school and then Kay Barlow made the small Midland town, fatal move: Like too many wives human emotions. Emdund for more than ten years to in our
reading flerce 18th an attractive wife, and you'
before her, she let her feelings poetry to girls. Burke, that
It is a lesson in Latin, and take control of her bead. century champion of free- love her.
the poom he is reading, in She looked at Barbara Partly to replenish his tool box
dom, declared: "No passion
translation, is romantic. And caid:
"You and partly because of his love
think, you're in So for 13 Your personal 40 is no time music, Crompton played the charges of anti-State pro- tribute to his endurance for
to be reading love with my husband, don't The motive behind all the so effectively robs the mind affairs are concerned, in fact, resonant words
about love and · you?", And, as my daughter In the orchestra of the
concessions is the consolida- of all its powers of acting things couldn't be smoother or passion when you are surrounded' looked shattered at the sudden Bolton Theatre for the modest paganda and "espionage" is
and integrity. a reminder that the Com- "fer"
by pretty young women, one of words, she went on: "No, don' ot, eightpence a night,
lion of Communist strength, and reasoning as fear.” Meanwhile, be
leopard has not cach munist
But have you This trial, of course, had Fear is still Communism's worked
Because of the over-riding And yet, as you contemplate whom is drinking in every word say anything. late night on his
its apots. Three a special purpose;
how embarrassing it scere cotton changed spinning machine. In 1770, his other priests were sentenced meant to intimidate the who wield it are the Secret in the Soviet Union and its ahead, you feel an unhappy puin
it was main weapon, and the people powers of the Secret Police your fortieth birthday, and the us if it were written especially thought
placid middle age that lies for her.
might be for him?" and
800d
heavens, you may "As if I would, ever embarrass wheel was Completed
at the same time to periods, Polish Roman Catholic Police. proved extremely satisfactory in
The demotion of satellite countries, the im- and a sense of sadness that fin't say, what's wrong with a situo him," Barbara flashed back. spinning yarn for the manufac- imprisonment ranging hierarchy into becoming the Berla, the Soviet Secret pact of fear extends to the just the first rheumatic twinge ton like hull sometimes, and
of a line and from eight to 10 years. of muslins
Instrument of Communism. Police Chief, is quite in- amallest
get a bit maudlin sometimes, and detail
at the approach of winter. of living.
dream about one more fling. And delicate texture. He called his
It attracted attention be- cidental. in no instance. How is carefree conversa- new invention the "mule."
the schoolgirl who gets a crush The trial ran true to pat cause it was widely pub has the grip of the Secret tion possible when you can-
on her classics master is one of tern, the Bishop confessing licised.
The ordinary citi- Police on the populations of not trust
the oldest stories in the world. your neighbour, in a long statement, which zen, arrested secretly and Russia and her satellites when ari
IT
You are right. indiscreet word is the dangerous age when a
But what if took several hours to read. often tried without appear been relaxed; nothing has may mean exile in Siberia? more romantic encounter before strange new
man sighs for one, just one, the girl with the crush feels the
emotion of first HE was price for the superior material to a series of alleged mis- ing in a court at all, does not been done to limit
their How can the human desire he finally, settles down. And if love with such terribly lender Kay Barlow was beginning to happen when to help others flourish in at that moment, a dewy-eyed force that she follows her hand realise what can countries where the
girl in her teens walks into your some master home, and takes your tongue is bigger than your merette and says she
"I seem to have stirred adores you, extra lessons from Him in the brain: association with anyone who then
something up. I'm so sorry...." take a grip on yourself, evening just to be near him?
But Barbara was falls foul of authority may brother, for there is trouble
in fears and in What if she deceives herself. mean punishment the the air.
into believing that he must be panic by that time. "I'm going
home.
I must. Please forgive punishment of everyone the
If you
will glance for a awfully unhappy with his wife?
What if she is a beautiful me." And she dashed out. accused person knew?
moment at the pictures above,
Barlow who Icoks already a By the time Stephen you will see the two principal
come back she had gone. And characters in the Personal Affair lovely young woman?
Barlow
the then as if to justify herself, his of which I was
For Stephen the unhappy Fon of his age
and wife did the second stupid thing temptations onlooker.
Having made condition would probably have of the evening. The girl is my
daughter been held in check and nothing Barbara aware of the emotion What pride can a crafts Barbara. A good girl, just going would have happened to this she felt for Stephon,-she-now- informers, euphemistically man feel in his work, when on 17 years of age, with no fault personal affair-had it not been proceeded to
make her husband in the world except that she has for rush jealousy on the part of aware of it too, described as "rural execu- he is forced to accept any
a large, young and Inexperienced his wife.
"Didn't you know
that
giri Besides this thero working tives."
conditions and heart heart which is about
madly in love with you?" she Why did you bring her to fall in love for the first time.
man The
here?" Stephen Barlow, Service of being arrested by the
Sald Stephen: "Do you suppore Secret Police if he tries to and it is on him that her greedy affection la pouring itroll.
- days puzzling defend his human rights?
have mooned
about whether one of my pupils la in Nothing wrong with him either. My daughter Barbara would I spend my
e is happily married to a lovely Stephen Barlow until the time love with me? Be your age." To a handful of people woman. forced
rome to leave school and she
It's you who should be your affected by the recent con- community as a talented teacher found out that handsome school- ac," Kay replied. "There's cessions, life may be just a and a sincere man.
masters are not the only men in been something about you lately. little less unpleasant. But
the world. Borlow would You sit behind a book, but you're You sit in a not reading it. probably have sighed sometimes; oals and go off into a trance. 80 long as Communism
and felt sadly flattered, at hor bases its
power
Evident odoration, but gently Are you going back capacity of the working Is it possible to live any Secret Police the peoples of THE only trouble with Stephen kept her at mm's length. nostalgie journey to your own
Barlow, in fact, as you look populations, have been re thing approaching a normal Russia and Eastern Europe
Only-Kay Barlow, could not youth? You're 40. It's you who. That it took three years laxed a little in Eastern life in an atmosphere poi- must continue to be ruled at him in that picture is that he keep her mouth shut. For she should be your age."
will be 40 next birthday, and he was feeling unhappy too. fo extract Bishop Kacz- Germany, Hungary, and Roned by fear? For fear is by fear.
con smell autumn in the air. marek's "confession" is a elsewhere. Having hamper-
Disappointed
Unfortunately, Crompton falt-
There are numerous un- happy precedents which show that the Secret Police
in extracting confessions It is worth remembering
from their prisoners. Ques- this, for numerous conce
which have been death tioning often continues for sions daya at a time, with the made since Stalin's
make Uz victim denied sleep or food. could Accusations are repeated, optimistic.
over-
The Soviet MVD atome is estimated to number be twean 100,000 and 200,000 people, apart from the. 'armed forces it maintains for special purposes. By a decree of 1935 every large village has its system of
*
LOVED HIM What do these is an agent in every office, rates of pay under pain
A flat, factory,
or
ed to procure a patent for hla are remarkably successful spinning mule machine, but sold the ides to about 60 firms, who agreed to pay him a subscrip- tion. Many, however, defaulted, und all he received was about £50.
Bitterly disappointed and resentful, Crompton
set about the task of claiming a national
not once but hundreds of concessions amount to? reward from, the government, times, until the prisoner is Russian wife is allowed, be- unit. and toured the cotton marti-
exhausted facturing districts
deny latédly, to rejoin her hus too where his
Behind them all is the the band in England; a few vast apparatus of machine
them. was being used to
But not until to substantiate prisoner signs the required extra visas are granted to labour camps, concentration oblain evidence his claim.
wishing statement is he brought be journalists
camps, Becret or "fixed" Eventually in February 1812.
fore a court for, since trials travel to Russia: norms", trials, extorted confessions, it
agreed to give him
a propaganda of production, which had
and the rest. £20,000, but
again he often have once
is overtaxed the strength and motive, the confession received a bitter blow, for with the premature death of Spencer important. Percival, the
Chancellor
was
then
of the Exchequer, he lost his friend and champion, and in the this grant was whittled down to a mere £5,000.
ст
to
Parisian Grill
regrets that owing to
illness there will be
to
ed food production by deny- ing farmers freedom of in- dividual production, there is now some easing of collec-: tivisation and some can- cellation of fines imposed for the non-fulfilment of Impossible targets.
The inefficiencies of Com-i
munist economy have made it imperative to soft-pedal;
programme
MUST
on
the
He
He is admired in our
ROMANTIC!
HUMANITY HAVE
A NEW RELIGION?
She loved her husband deeply and she did not see enough of him. "Your pupils spend much
on
FRIGHTENED!
senised her husband's admit.
more time with you than I do," WHICH is a silly thing to say a husband, you must she was always saying.
Sho
"What ald you tell that girl?" restlessness.
"That she love with me? Have you
rapturous
The phase of their marriage was he asked, angrily over and after ten years to Was in.
So
At which he left the "house"
gether, he had begun to take forgotten how serious one is at
that age-how vulnerable?" her
for granted.
He went out of the room and It was just a moment, she
his cont London. BY LES ARMOUR
And how would Lord Samuel thought, when he might be put on
"Where are
are you going?" sho ing forward?"
humanity really "mov-
make possible this "working in tempted by someone younger
realising what and more undemandingly asked, suddenly concert?"
"You're He agreed that men are
like anys, he theodor Barbara
my a fool, she had been. Someone It should, he
not going to see her, Stephen. as it was put in Hungary:
longer, business of philosophy. But Lord Samuel thinks not. better housed, live
enjoy better health, the
are more philosophy had degemorated. Il of And, perhaps of all men, free
one night it happened. are you? I beg you not to go, and equal and their tho augmented Five-Year Lord Samuel may have the technology ·G for superlor 10 has pursued two "equally futile Barbara turned up for an extra "I've got to," he said. I
routes."
lesson with Stephen Barlow must explain to her." Plan is beyond our strength, best answer.
anything a hundred years ago. On the one hand, it has become just on the evening when his and went to a telephone and is hampering the material For he was the man chosen by But the last hundred year bogged with over-subtie futtle wife had hoped to have him to
the have als brought minn for
of herself. coumorita about problems of
It needed only one called to Barbara and told her PAT KAY and BETTY ANKERS foundations of the country's Cambridge lecture marking its closer to the possibility of ex- 15 mercado. On the other, glance for Mr Barlow to guess to meet him down by the river.
welfare, and has recently centenary. In
and they have seen
And 1853, Robert tinction,
at home has refused to face the real that Barbara's presence was not a Jamaica merchant frustration resulted in
tension, deteriorating Ilbbert,
her fear, problems and wasted its eber- exactly educational. the Trust "to spread endowed standards of living."
unhappiness
rries on "bloodless linguistics." She listened outside the door husband and the girl were Christiantly in its most simple unknown In Hibbert's day.
Philosophy, must be "awaken and hoard with growing irrita- ing and doing, frightened that and intelligible form", and to
ed" and led bacle to the real fon gentle sympathetic he would not come back. "promote the right of private
problems, But, even then, Lord tones of her husband talk in right, Inter that night. But my Stephen Barlow came back all Judgment In matters
Also, population pressure on Samuel does not think it can the girl. Then she walked religion"
and, while, Stephen Barlow went daughter Barbara provide the firmi anewer.
put to make coffee, began a cons that night or the offer after that versation, of her own the one
caused all the trouble,
shows
how tragedy that
"Tell me," she said, with chult suddenly fill the Innocent air chom
whose iden was it that when a man. Is. 40 and feeling,
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In practico, the Trust has the peace,"
Philosophy is concerniad only Interprated its took as the None of the ideological pan with reason and main is also a fostering of Investigation which ceas have worked.
creature of emotion. wlii hosp... men, to make their “Doctrines of progress,
In the and only religion, you should have extra coaching?" roatiesa, a young girl turns the Barlow's repiled first love of her life in his own decisions about the world, doctrines of economie delexmin» could enlist. All the powers of
Barbara.,
susceptible direction and there The Hibbert lecturare, have fem have failed. madamer 1: 'human. raturu,"
What
do the others say? is a wife in the background who Included all the great philosoNot myths of that sort but But not, he thinkce, relision phers of the century and many only menle - wills and hearts as it appears at the moment It Doen't this individual attention does not know when, to keep her
mouth, shut, of themmacleanerpot, religious working" In concert with the typist be avan shape Less sukrest favouritism??INGI thinkers, *-*-.
physial forces of the universe 'strange and unfamiliar to the
Barbara locked uncomfortable,
PAM TOMORROW! It is likely, then, thas Lord sy over really make the world, dorm antud than it now "Oh no," she said uncasily. "He Samuel was talking “sende.
would do the same for anyone."
Four strikes Kay
J