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THROUGH REUTERS AGENCY.] FRENCH LABOUR.
DOCKERS' STRIKE AT MARSEILLES.
A NATIVE SON REPLIES TO CRITIC OF CALIFORNIA'S
CLIMATE,
AN OUTBURST OF LOCAL PATRIOTISM.
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As is well known to the rest of these United States, nothing peeves. Cali. fornian so much ne derogatory remarks about his beloved State. He is parti- MARSEILLES, August with.
cularly incensed by intimations that there A strike of cloekers hay Ergun. The are any defects in California's climate, Government has left 900 Algerians and He knows it surpasses by several points Annanuites to nodal perishable goods, that of the garden where the original parents of mankind blissfully asked especially frozen meat.
until the celebrated ̧ ujiple episode, and it makes bim mad when a man from Oshkosh or Oskaloosa suggests differently. It is said that a man who inadvertently refers to the earthquake in conversa tion With San-Francisem does se his peril. They had fire, but who said anything about an earthquake! Tremors of the earth in California are recorded us seistic manifestations, an expression beyond the average tourist, and hence put down as a pleasing adjunct to the already
THE FIUME IMPASSE. ITALY INCLINED TO ACCEPT COMPROMISE.
Faris, August 26th: Beater understands that the compro
aise on the Dalmatian question, which Tanly is ineland to accept, has been subs mitted to President Wilson.
It provides that Piurne becomes Italiam it Italy muse lense to the League af
1919.
FIRST STEP IN CHURCH REFORM.
WHAT THE ENABLING BILL
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V.. SMITH.]
BY CHANCELLOR P. Ever since the eldestries lost their control over the church, affairs of "the parish by the abolition of the church
INTIMATIONS
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rates in 1968, and still more since the establishment of parish councils for civit matters in 1904, it has been felt that the [ ے foramtion of parochial church councils was a matter of urgent necessity for the welfare of the Church of England.
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More than one Bill on the subject, has since been introduced into Parliament. but two independent reasons have «jare-, vented their becoming law. The first ha been the pressire of other business upon the time of Parliament, which has served |A FIRST-CLASS ·-
MIRTH.
ENTERTAINMENT.
SEE PRESS CRITICISM.
AT ANDERSON'S.
128 a convenicht excuse for not dealing with the subject, and the second has been the aversion of Church people to have a „new feature of church organisation in posed upon them by the civil Legislature. | BOOKING
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Nations, for ninety-nine years, the freebut in it. Fox there may be also, bustions have been set up in a few parishes,
port of Fium
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the Armenians bat to maintain order, threatening, otherwise. to withdraw Article 12 of his 14 points.
M. Clemenceņu takes the view that the mesage might have been conveyed through the Peace Conference.
but they have been always liable to be distegarded and even dissolved at the mere caprice of the parson, and their unofficial position and the consequent limited scope of their operations have generally presented their attracting the and exercising a real influence in the active interest and support of the laity affairs of the parish.
A rainy season Cali has, of course, but the rain is not wet, and it's a positive pleasure to be look what effects it produces when taken in conjunction with the scenery
And so on world without end. A good illustra tion of the truth of the foregoing observa
Lax tions is given in a recent issue of the Angeles Times Somebody from leve land, Ohio, visiting Los Angeles a time ago had the bardihood to send a letter to a paper in his home town giving his impressions of the California town. And The
Times comes back at him thusly:-- opies are at hand of a Cleveland news. paper, yclept The Plain Beater, in which appears a letter from Los Angeles re- cotinting an interview anent our justly colebrased climate,
The person to whom the interview is credited is named Qual, and you can take it from us he i
bird. 21 The correspondent of the Cheveland paper calls Quale doctor" but whether he is a regular doctor or just a dentist does not appear. But that is neither here
The here to be among a half-million other nor there. point is that Quale canie
(2) tourists, and, instead of going down on knees to thank the good Lord that he
was able to escape from his home town and bask in our sunshine, he develops a grouch the size of a mountain and calls our climate every mean name he can lay his tongue tu.
on
Listen! This here Doc. Quale gets up his hind legs and abouts back bome to his folk in Cleveland that the climate of Southern California is rotten.
Yassir, that's the very word he uses
NEW POWERS.
If the Enabling Bill now before Parlia- ment becomes law, this state of things stitution of the National Church Assent will at once be remedied, for the con- bly provides that if that Bill passes, the at once deal with the ques- Ambly tio: of
conferring definite powers panj parochial church councils.
What, then, may we expect from the formation of such a council in every parish As long ago as 1898 Dr. Gore suggested four functions which a paro- chil church council might properly
in "It
exercise(1) It should have a restraint uponunft
Appointments to the living. It should have the right to make a representation to the bishop in the case of the immorality or incompetence of the determine the destination of a large part parson. (5) It should have the power to
should have some of the money collected in church. (4) It definite Dower to restrain alterations in the accustomed ritual and mode of worship in the parish church.
But the council would, doubtless. many cases undertake other duties would devise plans for protecting the the And that ain't 'all, nuther."
religious, and social welfare of parish: it would rouse the parish to take Quale proceeds further to say that in favour the flowers no fragrance, the men
and Southern California
an increased interest in raridecanal the fruits have na diocesan projects in the central organisa- no collars, and the women no style."
Moreover, he says that Los Angeles is missionary works, and would stimulate merely a propineral town, and from the
the raising of funds for these various | objects.—Express. looks of most of the people on the streets they have come out here from town and the les" the City of the Unburied Dead Middle West to
to die. He calls Los Ange
rotten.
Doc.
The American Peace Commission de city of beautiful roads that take you nowhere, and of beautiful honses with Bobody at home."
eribes the warning ng unofficial
BELGIUM AND HOLLAND).
A SETTLEMENT OF THE DISPUTE
PARIS, August 27th. A Bavas message says:- M. Clemenceau conferred, to-day, with the Belgian Premier, who came expecially From Brussels for the purpose of discus sing the dispute between Belgium end Holland, in regard to the Treaties of Both the French and British, who are equally interested in Belgium having a strong German frontier. advise Belgium not to press her case.
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They reinwaiting United States action. If the United States decides to keep out of European affairs, the most favourable settlement with Holland can be arranged.
RECONSTRUCTION. EUROPE MUST WORK OUT
• OWN SALVATION."*"
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tion of the Church at home and in foreign
He is taken to the summits of the San And then, as a last expiring growl, be Bernardinos, on the rig of the world, and concludes by saying that Los Angeles the glory of God is shown to him lying at his feet in the tower-damed valleys below, endless miles of blossoms, the silver ribbons of shining streams, gardens of, wonder and the sunset roofs of the happiest homes in all the world, and he.
"Rotten!"" Ji
The Doc. says other things, also, but the quotations hero given will probably be
suficient to hold our readers for at least leaps to the surny ridges of the
an hour or two.
Thus the Tea
writer pictures the Malibus and sees the white sweep of the utter depravity
of & party who can write se, the crescent beauty of the Bay of aught but what is good and beautiful Santa Monica, the gray, gulls flying, the about California But, as might be ex-white, sails of stately ships, end in his pected of a person who lives and moves ears is the deathless music of the great and has his being amid the loveliness and ocean following him with its
launting nign intiuences with which the Golden voices, and be says, s Point the Mexican border, the disposition of the of the East away from Gate State is crammed from Oregon to He comes here out of the dreary cold its bitter winds Times man apparently is sweet and he and sunlese gloom, his feet are set on doesn't burl curses at the luckless Ohian fowered pathways, the mockingbird and and condemn him to a well deserved linnet sing to him their sweetest songs, perdition. He speaks more in sorrow his days are filled with the drowsy hum than in anger, and his one hope seems to of bees, the nights weave their diadems be that the wayward individual may be of stars and set the splendour of low- led to see the error of his way and reform hanging moons above him, he says, For he goes on:-
Beastly. What
Quale needs is prayers. Let this that he says about the women of Los Angeles, having no style pass. The sin will carry its own punishment. When he gets back to Cleveland and wor- ders what's the matter with the women The era of brotherly love is trying hard there after he has filled his eyes with to spread over the whole world . An our women he will suffer enough, never effort is being made to reclaim all whose fear- minds and hearts are diverted from truth And, also, when he get back to that The slogan is to go out and get the loss death there in winter and burning up a and distorted with venomous thoughts, dreary, smoky, tawdry town, freezing to
beep.
summer, he will see, as in a vision. the Angeles busy and humming with trade shining, crowded, roaring streets of Los and traffic, glamourous with beauty and For he is assuredly the kind of man laughing faces. And then all the wild who will kick at heaven it he ever gets horses that ever roamed the lonely and there. He will assay the gold in the side desolate prairies of Ohio would not be walks of the New Jerusalem and holler able to hold Quale from coming back. all over the place so that everybody can
Now, folk, don't fly of in à passion. and call this poor devil names. Instead, let us enfold him in our Christian charity. If the all-embracing sin of Cali. HERfornia could not warm him, why, then,
we must warm him in our pity.
Losnos, August 26th. Bir Auckland Geddes, speaking at Basingstoke ca reconstruction problems and the need for increasing production. refuted the idea that American goods would floce our markets, pointing out that America is in the unhappy position and let him perish it Eis own recalci
So why make an exception of Tor. Quale af possessing so much that there was little
traney 7- she wanted. Consequently, the money ex- change between New York and London had moved in her favour. Every such mavenient was hampering her power of export.
We wanted Amerien's raw material, hear him. The green fields of Eden will tion will lay a dollar against a Salva-
bence it was difficult for America to export inanufactures. She was selling great quantities of woods in all the European countries. These must be paid for-in money, with the result that ex change must move more and more in her This meant that food manufactures from America would be so dear as altres to be unbuyable in Europe. Therefore, Europe must work out her own salvation through hard work and increased pro- duction.
favour.
THE NEW JERUSALEM.
SCOTTISH PROFESSOR TO ASSIST IN TOWN PLANNING,
LONDON, August 7th, Professor Patrick Geddes, the Director of the Town Planning Exhibition, has been engaged by the International Zionist Commission to co-operate with. Weizmann in planning the new Jerusalem,
He will also prepare a report on the Zionist colonies in Palestine and organise a Department of Sociology on behalf of Bombay University.
look yellow to him.
Army doughnut that Quale will be The harps will be found here, back again bag and baggage. out of tune, and he will declare that the having changed his mind and his disposi
word of the great archangel Michael is tion. reade of tin and that Gabriel's trumpet But it really hurts us in our hearts to is nothing but a commer fish-horn. have to talk like this about these, poor be sent down to Eades he would admit trip and turn green with envy at every It will only be that if Quale were to ginto come out to California on a he had Cleveland. to a place it last that heats thing they see. Lots of others of us were
We ask you, brethren, is there any
Get it God gave all the rest of us the thing to do for a man like this except to grace to reform and confess our sins, ank all the churches to pray for him
While aurely there is hope for Quale.
like that.
A Californian would say that such a the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest man must be deaf, dumb and blind in the Let him go home again, thinking be
sinner may return." bargain; his soul corroded with
rust; his liver turned into a hickory-aut; his brain will hear the bluebird sing when there is afflicted with corns; his stomach is will be no bluebird there for weeks to sour; and his heart pushed over to his come; let him sneeze his blamed head off
and cough himself
school of medicine has anything his red-fannel andert let him change underclothes and catch his that can do Quale, the least good. Even death of cold;
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compresses.
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