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FALLING IN LOVE. THE KING AND THE
YOUTH'S SUPREME
EXPERIENCE
NOTED BIOLOGIST'S
DICTUM
SOLDIER.
MESSAGE FROM DYING LAD TO MOTHER,
The King's deep human sympathy
G.B.S. PRAISES BOLSHEVIKS.
BIRTHDAY SPEECH IN MOSCOW.
Moscow, July 19--In a speech de
has never been more adequately vored at a meeting in celebration Parents should take their boys described than in a message which of his 75th birthday her to-night and girls into their confidence ro garding the facts of life, said Prof. Marshal Foch, not long before his Mr. Bernard Shaw expressed.com. Winifred Cullis, in a lecture on the death, sent to the men of the Bed-plete approval of the Bolshevist physiology of adolescence, at the fordshire Regiment and ex-Service Revolution and urged the RussiaDu Summer School of the British Social men of the County. In that mes Ilygione Council at: Oxford edge the Marshal gate an account to achieve a triumphant conclu Prof, Sir J, Arthur Thomson, the al a touching scene between the sion, niter which the workers of eminent biologist, who presided, King and a young Bedfordshire the world will hurry to imitate." mada a striking comment at the soldier who was boing carried from Ho waar loudly cheered by 3,000
end. He said: koky
"As a conservative biologist, have an uneasy conscience about the entire emission from Prof. Culis lecture of the importance of falling in love at the adolescent period
the battlefeld mortally wounded.
I was in the company of his leaders of Bolshevism Majesty when the Bedfords were.
Mr. Shaw expressed his plonsure retiring after roliot (Marabal Foch wrote), and we cums on ain having met Litvinov, Lumar; convoy of wounded. We stopped to charsky, and others, and added: The Supreme Thing's the number was a mere lad from a
speak to some of the road from "By hook or by crook, before I go "My own experience-it is long village in Bedfordshire, of which I away, I intend that Stalin, woo, reminiscence now has been that the forget the hamon
shall become a reality for me, not paychological factor is so onormous-It was obvious the lad could ly potent, and that though it comes not survive, and the King spoke merely a name.". along with the activation of the words of comfort to him. This no endocrine glands, it is something use, your Majesty said the lad different, something on a different sadly. I know I am booked plane.
through, and I am proud to die for you and the Empire, but it will break my poor mother's heart. I am her only one. I ran away from school when I was only 18 to join up. I persuaded them that. I was 19. It only you could write her my last message it might help her.'
Last Message.
The two, I know, cannot be separated, but while the endocrine glands are fundamental, falling in love is supremo.”
To this Professor Cullia replied, My omission does not mean that I do not think falling in love is important, but I am not the person to talk about it.!!
Professor Cullis, in her lecture, The King asked the boy what spoke of the extraordinary adjustmessage he had to send, and this ments and marvellous, balance that reply I shall never forget: Just have to be maintained nt adoles- this. Good-bye, best of mothers. I cance, and of the importance of the have done my duty. It will be hard care of young girls,"
for you at first, but God in time will help you to understand that you are happier with me in. & soldier's grave than you could ever have been with me, in a shirker's soft job, when man's work was to be done here,"
Parent and Ohild. Observing that at adolescence boys and girls were very shy of their parents, she pleaded for the closest friendship and confidence between parents and child.
"Parents," she anid, should be urged to inform themselves of the facts, and pass them on to their children, as questions are asked or as information can be given, throughout the whole period of the child's life.
The King's eyes filled with tears as he took down the messige, and my own were not dry. I know that, though the King was worn out with a strenuous day, he kept in touch with the dressing station until he learned of the death of the lad. Then with his own hand he "If this is done, there will be wrote and posted the lad's last mes- comradeship and friendship besage, with a note of personal sym- tween the parent and the child,pathy to the mother. which will make it possible for the child to come and ask for help in those vital, but to some people em barrassing matters, at times of
necd.""
A boy should eat much more than his father and a girl more than her mother.
Replying to questions, Professor Cullis said that she was surprised at the attitude .of many ducationists who were horrified at the idea of sex instruction being given in schools, "It is such a mistake, not only because it means In grant deal of anxiety and un- scious suffering afterwards, but be cause the knowledge is a sort of birth-right."
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A recommendation to the effect that parachutes should be zonde compulsory in civil, aviation was made by the jury at the resumed inquent at Workingbam on Mrs. Violet Baring, a well-known Society woman, and Mr. Philip. Noble, a bank director, who were killed when Mrs. Baring's aeroplane crashed in a field last Saturday
Returning a verdict of "Ac cidental death," the jury expressed the opinion that two valuable lives night have been saved by the use. of parachutes.
Mr. John Parkes;~ sales--manager at Heston Aerodrome, from which the fatal flight started," said that. private owners rarely carried para- chutes, partly because they were" so expensive. A parachute was of little use below 2,000 or 1,300 feet.
Captain Valentine Baker, chief inspector at the aerodrome, put for ward the theory, that Mrs. Baring, who was piloting the machins), fainted or suddenly became ill
Why B.A.F. Lives are Baved.
A reporter was told by an official of the Hanworth Flying Club that while scores of lives had been saved? by parachutes in the Royal Air Force, few accidents had happened in civil aviation where parachutes would have been of any use,
The reason is that Bervico flying 12 done at a great height, where there is a reasonable chance of a parachute descent. In civil Aying 35 per cont, of the accidents are due to gialling a few hundrel feet off the ground when parachutes are useless. Mrs. Baring and Mr. Noble were fring at a low altitude.
"Somewhere in your country to day" (Marshal Foch added) "there must be a mother who possesses this proof of your King's interest in the men of the Army and his deep human sympathy." “....
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His appearance on the plat form of the Hall of Columans was greated with a tremendous burst of frencied cheering, which only died down when he addressed the audience as "Tovarishchi," Russian for "Comrades.""
Near him sat Viscountess Astor, M.F.; and Lord Lothian. Mr. Shaw decribed them as "enor. mously rich people, capitalists, and landowners on an anormous scale. They cannot alter this but the British proletariat will altor it."
Backing the Soviets. Mr. Shaw declared that he had always tried to tell the truth about the Soviets.
"From the very beginning," he said, "I believed you would win through and I knew it was my business to back you to the limit. English people ought to be asham- ed of themselves for not being the frat, but they and other Western nations must eventually fellow."
Lunarcharsky, former Commissar for Education, introduced Mr. Shaw with the words:
"Capitaliam is crumbling, and Shaw has rightly come to see the We have new system emerging, passed several days with him, and we know he is very young, despite his 75 years. He is traversing the the bridge which last yards un leads from an old decayed world to a new world of understanding. ed by Major-General Sir Frederick That is why it is so splendid that Maurice, and published by Messrs.he is spending his 75th birthday
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