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MR. A. HENDERSON'S VIEWS.
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the views of Labour with regard to the pro-; posed Franco-British Alliance. Mr. Arthur Henderson, in an in- terview, points out that the proposal for a separte alliance between Britain and Francetais- ed a much larger question-the reality of the League of Nations.
KITCHENER MEMORIAL.. Scholarships to the number of 86 have been granted by the Lord Kitchener National Fund to the sons of officers. N. C. O's, and men of H. M. Forces. Mechanical engineering. mining, and industrial chemistry attract the largest number of the students, and there is only one for rubber planting. This has attracted E. W. Comins, Blun dell's School, who obtains £120 per annum and fees for one year at Aberdeen Planters' Course.
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"There is a tendency to argue he said, "that because the Ameri- can Senate hesitates over the League, it has lost its practical value. On the contrary, the dire The Countess Rocksavage re- need of all Europe for a powerful cently laid the foundation stone and benevolent international of some model houses to be organization is only emphasized. erected in the Folkestone fishing If Europe must stand alone it area. The scheme has been in-can only be by mutual aid. The itiated by Sir Philip Sassoon, M.P..inclination of those who are still! for the borough who has provided at heart militarists to hark back) the necessary capital to qualify to discredited expedients of al- for the Government grants. Six-liances, and the balance af teen self-contained cottages and power, is nothing less than a eight flats are to be erected at a threat to civilization and a cost, including roads and menace to all our hopes. drainage. of £13,805. Each The mischief of a special; house will cost on an average £625, exclusive of fees.
Treaty is that it seems to cast. doubt on this general obligation. GREETING TO GERMANY.
The League must protect all its The whole of the German members impartially. A new Prese gratefully acknowledged world-war might arise from an the message of Christmas greet-
attack on Poland. If we make ing of the English and Americanan especially sacred promise to Fellowship of Reconciliation to
one member we weaken the value the German people and other
of the mmon premise given to opponents in the war. A meet-
all. ing in London convened by the "Very ample protection has Fellowship called for the found been arranged for France in ation of a Christian Internation- other ways," added Mr. Hender- ale. This is regarded in Gerson. The occupation of the many as one of the most urgent for 15 years, and thereafter they Rhine provinces will continue Christian duties for the restor- ation of full and friendly relations may remain neutralized. Ger- between peoples, for the cleans y must not fortify ing of the economic life of garrison them. Again, Germany is disarmed, and her army will Europe, and the reception of all nations into the League of by next March be reduced to
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THE OLYMPIC GAMES.
Modifications which have been
100,000 men.
MISTAKE OF PARTIAL PACTS.
or
"If the old spirit of alliances
made in the programme of the creeps into the League it is
Olymic Games, Antwerp, 1920. morally wrecked. It would include the reduction of the be a grave mistake to delay duration of the Games Germany's entrance into the in the Stadium
to three League. The monarchist move- weeks, as
suggested by the ment grows, and so does the re- British Olympic Council, and volutionary tendency. Every act the number of entries has been which scems to perpetuate the educed to correspond with that enmities of the war is grist to the laid down by the Olympic Con. mills of reaction and revolution gress of Paris, 1914. These figures in Germany. The present demand are in most cases higherthan those for the surrender of her dock suggested by the British Olympic equipment is a case in point. It Council, but are less than those in is a blow at her ability to work. the draft programme. In the indiv idual athletics section the Mara- thon race, a steeplechase of 3,000 betres (as suggested by the British Olympic Council), and a Cross-country race of 10 kilo metres (the B.O.C. has asked for 10 miles) are included. Bomb throwing is replaced by putting a stone of 850 grammes. In the swimming section a 300 metre and fancy diving for ladies are included, as suggested by the B.O.C. The boxing weights are those proposed by the British Olympic Council bus brought to round numbers in kilogrammes. The cycling road race is 175 kilometres, and the track events, are 1,000 metres, 2,000 metres (tandems), 4,000 metres (pursuit), and 50,000 metres, as auggested by the B.O.C.
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France, on the other hand. retains conscription, and with it holds an immense preponderance of armed strength in Europe. Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Italy- all the Allies, in short-retain their conscript' armies, and all, by the Covenant of the League, are pledged to aid any member- for example, France-which may be attacked.
"Labour, in my opinion, must dissociate itself sharply from the conclusion of any partial alliancee within the League of Nations. We are ready, however, to sup- port every measurable claim for economic help to France, and if the need should come, we should be the first to insist that she should receive the protection to which she and all members of the Legue bave a right."
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HUSBAND'S CRAZE FOR SPORTS,
CAN IT CONSTITUTE LEGAL CRUELTY?
When a husband becomes in-. ordinately devoted to sports in which his wife cannot join. and leaves her to pine at home, is he acting in a way which can make him liable to a charge of legal| cruelty?
A Danly Chronicle represent-: ative recently discussed the ques- tion, arising out of a law case just decided, with several well- known people. Here are the con- clusions of two of them
Mr. George Bernard Shaw, who discussed the ethics of mar- ried life very freely in his play, "Getting Married" "It dependa or the sort of man. Some mer would be guilty of cruelty if they stayed at home all day."
Mr. Charles Garrice, a special. ist, in his novels, in marriages which end happily:-
"If a man gives all his spare time to a sport from which his wife is of necessity excluded. If should say 'emphatically that he is being guilty of subtle cruelty. Until quite lately I lived near a golfing centre, and I noticed that what I call golf-widows' were very common.
"Of course, heaps of men play golf, with every justification, once a week or so for recreation. That is а very different thing from aeglecting their. wives for the game. In the great mang cases this habit of putting sport in what ought to be the wife's place results in the wife, es-1 pecially if she is young and pretty, turning to someone else for comfort.
But the trouble is not entirely! on one side. Many women, for instance, are absolutely indiffer- ent to their husband's business affairs. They are absorbed in, the small things of their daily! life and become perhaps more mothers than wives.
The bushand discovers there is no sympathy for him in the home, no interest in the business which makes the money for the maintenance of the home and which purchases the wife's plea- sures. Consequently he becomes self-centred, and, if his interests cannot be fully engaged by his profession, he files to golf or some other form of sport.
"I would suggest tworemedies. 1. That the woman should re- member that she married the man before there were any child- ren to absorb her love and attention...
2. That the man should remem- ber that he courted the woman! before he married her and that, if he wants to retain her affection, he must continue to court her."
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AMERICAN SPIRIT WHICH HELPS PROHIBITION.
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"Prohibition in America," a leading merchant said "was large- ly due to the nature of American whisky. It is a harder liquor to 'carry than our British whisky, and if anything,could be devised encourage the prohibition movement here would be the circulation of the same spirit which brought 'drink' into disrepute in the United States. I should be inclined, in fact, to call the stuff 'Pussyfoot whisky. Respectable, dealers deplore the procrastination of the authorities in not meking with- out delay a clear rule with re- gard to the blending of American spirit with Scotch or Irish. If people are to be served with it they should at least know what they are being sold."
It was.understood some time ago that the Ministry of Food had the conditions of sale of American whisky under consideration, but no decision seems to have been reached. Meanwhile the confirm- ation of the legality of war-time prohibition in the United States will have the effect of releasing many additional millions of gall- ons of the whisky for export to Great Britain, and, as supplies
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