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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1959.`·
Lord Chief
THIS ‘GLITTERING PRIZE’
ITS MEANING....AND THE MAN WHO HOLDS IT....
THE office of Lord Chief Justice of England is to use the first Lord Birkenhead's favourite language-the greatest of all the "glittering prizes" of the law. But often to the tall, thin, austere man who succeeds to it, it will also seem one of the loneliest eminences in the land.
At the Law Courts the Lord Chief sits in a splendour which is utterly forbidding. The architecture is Gothic. The oak dark. The whole court suffused in gloom.
But the public searchlight plays on it ceaselessly, fnised his voler, he never wasted The eyes of the people are fixed always on the Lord Chief words, in his chair. To the ordinary citizen he is the living embodiment of The Law. It is a position of almost nu- bearable majesty.
Consider the duties which pre to fall to Lord Chief Justice
Parker,
Fie will supervise the whole Re of the Common Law.
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will sit us presiding judge over the Court of Criminal Appeal. if example-whether tough or merciful will Influence the seule of punishments in courts all over the country.
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He will be Chiel Coroner of England-with the right to hold an inquest in any part of the kingdom.
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He will organise all-the bird- Hwy.j
Queen's Bench Division.
He will sit, too, in the House of Lords suffused there, as #sewhere,
almost with C3% my cal authority when he speaks on legal matters,
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WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME...
and why I will never
go back to the sunshine
I COME from Kingston, in Jamaica, and want to tell you what you don't know about me. In-Kingston I lived in Victoria Street, Denham Town.. My mother was the boss of the house because she owned it. But she let my husband run it as he thought fit because she wanted him to be proud.
In Kingston my husband and I had to live with my mother because didn't have much money and wanted to save for the future.
In his black jacket, wo we
invariably with wing cullar, Parker looked And spoke liken Harley Street specialist of
the prewar era,
Splendidly pallent and even- teinpered Parker stanetimes was rather iiku П coroner showing
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DOUGLAS concerned.
CLARK
In the same period no fewer than 16 men have been Prime Minister,
So calm
Lord Justlee Parker, 56, cạn expert many, many years in elice. And for all his tremend ous dufies what salary will he be getting? A there £10,600 L year, ...
Chuckle
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He made no judicial jokes.
- or
The sum always shines in Kingston. Folk have no worries except finding a Get a job there and you're a king. That is why they call it Kingston King's Town. All working men there are kings in their own right.
job.
My husband, Cyril, had a good job. He used to go about selling cloth to people who Wanted now units.
Some weeks he wouldn't sell much cloth and we would have to a neighbours to help us bay food. Other times he would find lots of customers and we would be able to pay our debts and also take out our friends for a jolly night at the Liberty Hall, where there was dancing to eolypso music.
Our home was tiny-just a Iving room, kitchen, and bed- гости But in Jamaica that is like a palace.
CONTENT
by Mrs ELIZABETH
WOOD in a talk
out with BRIAN STRINGER
In Jamaica I didn' to work. My husband used to say that I had enough to looking after him.
Yet now and then, when hei was in lighter mood, his words, in that secute and serious abno phere, caused a general chuckle,
do As when, asking Lon! Kindersles
tightly around me, about his difficulties as a director
was content in so odd-what with My husband of the Bank England, he said, Kingston. He didn't want to
white ladies and drily: "And whether you can travel; just to keep his job. dark-coloured clothes, do right depends on how good But I used to look out over the you are at poker!" reference to Kindersley's evidence about concealing bls knowledge as
What sort of man is he, the director, w Lord Chief?
Watch him presiding over the
And see appointed, he will Hank Rate Tribunal last winer, He was calm, infinite- ly steadying.
hold the Job in effect until he is reatly to go, Nobody enn reinave
a Lord Chief Justice except for gruss personal misconduet-aml on Actress to the even then Crown by both Houses of Parliament in neecled,
Since the post was established in 1873, there have been only aine Lord Chief Justices before Land Justice Parker.
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but I felt about then he was told that nវ៉{ those coloured people weren't wanted thick, because employers were fright-
ened that white men working for them might be angry and give up their work.
thero were
Mrs. Wood, at her home in Brixton,
with Lorna (14 months) and Patricia (3),
if only she would give me a that we have, to pay £5 s. rent
job?
for the room in Brixton which the while man lets us have.
And do you know something,
Ju England/ we gut betier she gave me a job. A good job cy than we would PVET cleaning in the kitchen.
That dream of in/Janalen. But wo Judy was good, and one day have to spend it so quickdy.
maybe I will be able to thank
her,
like
Sometimes I think I would to go home to Kingston,
1,3 chil-
1 go to work i 7 o'clock Oily one thing slope me. every morning. Mostly work England I know that my with white women and mostly dren will get a good education they are very kind. But some whatever their colour, of them don't like me,
They say that I'm a nigger. Since I came to live in Eng- leed I have had two children. Eventually he got a job carn- Lome is 14 months old and Pat
the
riela is ncurly three. You know, ing £7 a week digging in road, but it didn't last long be- they were both born in horp
had to pay of the white men tal. and I've not in the cause one
said he wouldn't work with a anything.
sen from King Street and watch For three weeks we ilvede in the ships and think how nice in single room at a white man's would be to sail in one.
house in Balham. He charged Once I saw a really big ship my husband and I 50, a week. Parker with two funnels and I said to Allogether
any husband. "Cyril, we must married couples ilving travel abroad. From that day room. Cyril and I had to sice forward we saved, Instead of on the floor because
ying fresh fowl in Kingston wasn't enough rooms for all the murket we'd make do with beds. oranges and bananas,
Such was against the relatively small backcloth of the
Bank Tribunal,
How will he now tackle his worked up. the City buzzing with rumours, lugely widened responsibilities? the public disturbed.
How will he measure up to the
of and panoply the purple quietly, supleme judicial office?
Then Lord Justice Parker got to work, steadily, persistently. The man in the arbet relaxed. He felt that the important issues were being
taken care of.
From the Best hour of the Arst day everyone knew that is was going to be a solid job.
His hate
He follows
rent Lord Chief, Lord Goddard's Judgmenta were not universally Ripular. But the times ealled for a mas the whe passionately
He brought a trained, precise mind to task.
with all his heart.
loved justice
there nigger.
Friends told Cyril do report to In two years we had saved the Labour Exchange. He used take us to to go three Wanos a week, £200 enough to London, England.
and on Fridays they paid him £3 a week.
We sailed on the 0.5. Columbia. It was the first Eme I had ever left Kingston. I was Somellmes he was told about seasick the first few days, but jobs. But when he went to ask after that I joined lit all the games on No, 1 decit - tenuis shuttlecock, and the rest, It was the beat time of my life.
HOUSING
and hated thuggery and violence Altogether we were 17 duys at sea. Believe me, I was glad to see Southampton. We come He had been a Treasury They call for such manoff the boat laughing and jok- counsel for five years. Some- MUN. The razors are sharp in ing. Everyone We saw we times he would say: "3 am not the streets around Notting Hillwaved to,
sure that I follow the winess. The racial riots reveal again the We never thought about our
ho 236 right,
means beast beneath the skin.
Bistening
H 1 that....
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But can tell you this about intently in the hat were not the next Lord Chief Justler, I mister by Parker's semi. Osice sat on a jury under him,
style when apologetic
he The charge: murder. "inspected" some
Put
piece
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into
keen mind,
evidence. questions Tangunge lesting, testing, testing.
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different colour. Of course, the people we saw at Southampton Bul in Kagston were while, there are lots of white people and we treat them as cur own, It doesn't matter whether you
white, black, pink, yellow in Kingston,
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Behind ile mild And I say that when re
simple they read the news So when we came down the
of his promotion nogplank we He Was supremely mobsters, thugs, or Ted- it was so cold.
dy boys will have cause rain was coming down. I tried good-mannered.
to rejoice.
When witness had given evidence Parker would look first to one of his colleagues, then to the other. After they had raised any point, would come
fila own questions. lle never s
nuver thought about colour. Only the coid.
The sky was grey and Ngh!
to wrap my
flowered dress
Get that nigger ·
We have ved In England for three years, For the past 12 months my husband has not been able to get a job, but we are lucky,
EDUCATION
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la Jamaica would cost more than I could ever hope to earn to teach my children how to read and write.
Sametimes my husband comes home with his face biccding, He... says he has been hit by white folk,
In England even the weather seems to be against us. When the sun shines we get luo hot because there la no cool breeze like we have la Jamaica, And when it's cold my skin cracks That is what I like about and I feel like crying,
England. Some people your
But 1 will never go home to may hate coloured folk, but Jamaica because I went my your Government is very kind. children to have a good chance
them At the hospital where I work in life I want
to bo I am paid £5 36, a week. The educated. the lace there that I would Lubour Exchange gives my hus- In England I know they will be a good and faithful worker band another £3 6s. Out of have that chance.
Do you know that I went to a hospital in Brixton and told
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GENERAL AND BIBLE
SERIES of articlus entitled "Great Batiles of the Bible" and appearing in the London "Evening Standard" is the work of General Sir Richard Gale former Commander-in-Chief of the Ithine Army and successor to Field Marshal Lord Montgomery as Deputy Supreme Commander, Europe. General Gale's. Interest in the Bible has, for long been known to his friends and associates, and he is reported to have said that during the last war he always hat two books with him-the Bible and a life of Admiral Lord Nelson. He is known to keep a bible always by his bed and on his desk--and it enn be safely nasumed that more than one volume of the Bible will be taken from the cases in which his books are being transported to his official residence in Versailles, where he is due to take up his new appointment in the nexi few days.
REUNION AFLOAT
ABOUT 00 men from many parts of Britain who narrowly A escapect death in the last war will be meeting in H.M.3. President, which is moored near Blackfriars Bridge London,, on
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WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
It Was Illegal To Take Baths
September 20. Some will be seeing each other for first flme for 66ALEANLINESS is next actually made taking a
CLEANTUNIS, is nexy unlawful, except bath in overy Turkish city a public immerse themselves in a natural
17 years. They were officers and ratings of the ill-fated II.M.S. Barham, sunk by enemy action in the Mediterranean. More than
a national
on medical bath is connected to a mosque. alream. Even water from the The Turks Invourite aleem Ganges poured into a tub 800 of their ship-mates were lost when Barham was hit by four suy, but the innovation of advies. torpedoes, blew up and sank within five minutes. The survivors, the domestic bath-tub was in 1944 the English autori- Yet, about the same time ----
bath was gradually introduced would not cło, As a result, into other countries, but it kept many an orthodox Hindu has picked up by H.M.S. Hotspur and H.M.A.S. Nizam, were dispersed frowned upon in some counties were establishing pubile the name "Turkish".
been driven to emptying big to serve on other ships. There seemed no hope of any reunion, tries. As late as the 1840's, baths and wash-houses. The except by chance. Then the chance `occarred. It happened last
Another form of steam bath kotties of boiling water into a stream to take the et it off his year when one of the survivors,, Mr S. R. Cross, of Carlton, bath-tubs were regarded in first ones were built in Liver is
pool and near the London docks, Finland. It is called a sauna, a
institution +10 bath-wate:: Nottingham, appeared in a television programme. As a result, the U.S.A. 08 "extrava- and their use was encouraged hut in which water is thrown faw survivors wrote to him. An organising committee was gant" and "undemocratic". by an Act of Parliament passed on to heated stones
Down coce the pilgrim, com- formed, and every effort was made to contact other old ship-mates. They were attacked by the In 1846. Deep swimming baths steam. The bathers beat than holding
to create pletely below the surface but many of Barham survivors have not been traced.
fils nose with finger Press, and doctors de- came much later, in 1078.
selves with binch twigs to en- and thumb. This immersion Is It's strange nounced them as dangerous baths took so long to find ac- top
think
that courage perspiration. Then, to intended" to bring him Into
off the souna, the Finns communion with to health. Eventually, the ceptance in one part of Europe, alve into the Icy-cold water of which animates the water,
the spirit U.S. Government WELD when the Romans had had a lake or roll in the snow. No
them two thousand years be- particular shock a
Such a buth is necessary to a water for Hindu before he can touch food The athletic Greeks, too, so they say), just a pleasant or enter a sacred place, after were all in favour of hot and tingling on the surface of the "pollution" by the handshake cold ducking and, later, went adn.
of a European or person of low in for a form of Turkisi bath.
carte. The mere approach at
AIR GIRLS
AIR-MINDED girls from many parts of writing on the called upon to restrict or
Berrymon, National | Officer of Women's Junior Air Corps asking her to form a unit in their town, suppress the novelty by As a result, new units are being organised in Bedfordshire, Sussex, special taxes and licences. Lancashire and Nottinghamshire. In Bedfordshire a unit will soon be opened at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, where In 1843, Virginia actually girls are being recruited from the families of the teaching staff, put a tax of 30 dollars a year Other units are being formed at Luton, Bedfordshire, and Lowes, | on bath-tube. Two years later, Susecx.
fore..
to
from the
anow o
received
For religious reasons, Mohom- Hindus, like the Turks, are such people' is enough to send medans are obliged to make required to bathe regularly by some Hindus post-haste to the
■ Boston Municipal Ordinance repeated ablutions daily and their religion. But, they must cleansing waters.