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THE MAN IN HIS SHIRT SLEEVES.
AN APOSTLE OF UNREST.
Harold Spender writes in the Daily Chronicle
Was
The sun was shining from the spotless bhie of one of these glorious March days, and the happy, thoughtloss crowd strolling to and fro along that wondertul plateau of Hampstead Heath, whence you can see on one side the great grey world el Central and East London, and on the other the far-stretching valley of Hendon and the heights of Harrow beyond. Never had the world seemed more at peate than u that lovely Sunday morning:
But as we passed the Whites tones Pond we saw in front of us a considerable crowd gathered at the meeting of the roads opposite Jack Straw's Castle. In centre, above the heads of the crowd, stred out a gestirulating
gure in shirt slaves.
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"We drifted nearer, an I choosing a position in the right way of the wind, began to listen to his talk, He was preaching sheer, frank revolution. There was to attempt to nicdify it or scamballage It was plain to this point of rule ness. We were to have a revolutio on the model of the Bolshevika, They were innocent. kindly. well-meaning people. gravely calumniated by evil mer. The thing was to follow their example and then all would be well.
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LIQUOR FOR SACRAMENTAL USE. Fifteen, gallons of alcoholic Liquors may be purchased by each Christian or Jewish family for sscramental purposes provided a purchase order is obtained from the minister, priest or rabbl in charge of the church or syna- gogue, it was announced recently! at the office of the Prohibition: Director in the Custom House, New York.
The Federal regulations 10+ quire that the officiating clergy- man or rabhi shall obtain from the State Director of Prohibition: an order for the total amount of wines and liquors re- quired by his pastorate. In- dividual orders are then to be issued to the individual families of the congregation: who can thereupan purchase any desired quantity up to piteon gallons from the nearest wholesale depar
Among Jewish rabbis of New York and the surrounding ter- ritory opinion is varied and divided in regard to the wisdom of this regulation. The strictly orthodox rabbis approve it, while those of the semi-orthodox and reformed synagogues regard it as an "in- direct violation of the law."-
Rabbi Bernard Drachman Ordinary former president of the Union of! share divi-Orthodox Congregations and pre- dend pr. sent head of Congregation Ohab Zedek, Fifth Avenue and 116th Street, recently said:
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lor the Passover, the Sabbath.
It should be noted that the and other holy days. Our Te balance of profit is struck after|ligious codes specify that wine! providing tisk, repairs, renewals must be drunk during rituals, and alterations, depreciation and although it is not sat that they insurance.
must be alcoholic. In cases of C-partnership dividends have emergency when wine cannot be¦¦ increased very substantially eath procured, grape juice mag replaceļi year.
For 1918 the amount solit, but there is no emergency ail! distributed was £205,100, while the present time.” for last year it was 2271,500. Diber rabbis asson that ther Out of the 1919 pronts no less | will substitute unfermented than £300j0n is placed to special liquors for the traditional wines, resurse.
nothing so spicidal. By such quarrels many great States have faller. The other day one of the Russian exiles was describing to me the smash in Russia.
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Ah" I said. "But things are su different here.
He lookedmeditative." Curious y enough." he remarked. "that was precisely what we ourselves All thisantiered with a great said sitting in an hotel ini flinging about of arms, and yet Petrograd four years ago 1916 with a certain rough god hum. "Revolution we said, “is im-! our and Sundliness whicirsenseihfaqezibie intenezzeeb to mask the brutality of the with such excellein police an man's shreats.
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although Babbi Leon M. Franklin stated that the Association of Reformed Rabbis of Sew York City has not yet taken any action in this matter.
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now national must be the creation of become were tening. they will
entitled. under the Royal War-a General Congress, from which divisive influences radiate to alxaya listen on Hampstead
Where, indeed? When I hear rant, to pensions, is one for none of the working-class organ-destroy the solidarity of national Heath. Their fares express
movements, setting group against all the pleasant talk of doings of which the War Office alone isisations in agreement with our neither anger nur fear. Nor, en
the Bolsheviks that prevails in responsible. Though the decision general conceptions-Socialist, group and leader against leader. the other hand, was there any
so many ingenuous quarters, has occasioned surprise in some Trade Union, or Co-operative- show of sympathy. They seech-
turn to some plain records of quarters, it is entirely in keeping would be excluded unless they e jus: passive, as if ready for
fauts bok, for instance, at with the policy followed by the chose to exclude themselves. But anything.
Permanent On the outskirts of the end | Page 17 of that most remark Military Authorities all through the efforts of the
Commission are being seriously were a couple of poi semen.ble book by Colonel John Ward the wa
With the Die-bards in The official attitude, as explain-impeded by various sections of the "A noise in the road outside of did time twice duang the war." Siberia, who, in spite of his led to a Dilly Negs representative, organised movement in differen: the clatter of the children at their remarked one of them to me with actors, is the trust is that the War Offer did not send countries, which profess to aim play was enough to cause & shrug of the shoulders. But worthy with that has yet re- these men into the Army; that at the same objective out on an real, agony," said the real outstanding point tamed Fram Russia. There was done by the tribunals. As a entirely opposite principle. woman. Think what that means! that he was speaking freely and Colonel Ward describes what he matter of fact. the military The new centres of reorganisa- When Man of 3 is a boldly the whole of his thought-
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hundres of men were sent into standing the mandale given to sudden sound causes misery. It Now, perhaps it was natural A small shed was erected on the Army who ought never to Permanent Commission, do not is mit always the headaches. # the ice It was called a wash-have been sent. and it was actu-base their efforts on the principle neuralia. sciatic pain in the
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little surprise to me. For I had bouse, and during the day wash-ally suggested at one time that a of fundamental working-class | back and legs, and other physical} just been reading a large numbering was done there. The poor special Act of Parliament should solidarity: but on a prior dentity sufferings, that are the hardest to of newspapers, which had proved women who used the shed during be passed conferring on the of though; and action which they bear. Misery of mind-when a conclusively to their own at the day for its legitimate purpose authorities power to discharge assume to exist among the co-door is banging, or a shrill jefaction that the Prime Mind from limite time grim stories men whom they considered ought operating groups. It is a principle whistle makes a violent assault ister was completely wrong in
of blood and evidence of death not to have been sent.
of exclusiveness rather than of on the nerves-receives imagining that there
Was a struggles on the frozen floor as But the Government decided (comprehension. It presumes sympathy; bu: those who endure Hotsherim in this courey began the morning's work against such action, and the men (disagreement boib in regard it ones the people with steady Their favourite word was "bozes."
Several thousand people were remained in the Army. The to doctrine and tactice, em- nerves who are able to ignore FEEDING THE FLAME. missing by the time the Koltchak Army could not recognise con-phasises and advertises these what to them is a cause of real Their idea seemed to be that forces captured the town. The scientious objectors as such. Ia differences, and carries separatism torture. Mr. Lloyd George bad invented ice in the shelter of the bank the military view they were to the length of calling con- There is only one way to correct the whole thing in order to annoy began to thaw before the more soldiers, and aw soldiers they had ferences from which sections of this miserable condition. Nerves Mr. Asquith. The other implica-exposed part of the river, which to be treated. It is so still. They the working class movement in that suffer thus are perves starved tion appeared to be that fr.enabled the people whose friends have been to the Army and bave several countries are 68tatiously for want of rich, healthy blood. Asquith bad only to assume the and neighbours were missing to Inecessarily been desit with as excluded.
They need a blood-maker and Premiership and every street puta rude and ineffective screen soldiers. They are therefore en- Were this principle carried to nerve tonic. Dr. Williams pink preacher would be silent. Such below the shed in the hope of titled to the benefits as well as ita logical conclusion there would pills build up and make good were the limits of political vision recovering the bodies of some of to the punishments of soldiers. be as many Labour Internationals your impoverished blood. By displayed by thesc sanguine | their friends..
That is how the case was stated | as there are separate and this process they tone up every newspapers.
I was informed by Regimental to the Daily News representative divergent tendancies and conflic-nerve in the body that is crying But the fact now painfully Sergeant-Major Gordon that he by an officer of high standing. ting policies within each national) oat for nourishment. Also, these clear to me was that man in bis had seen, several hundred bolies There are two exceptions to the movement.
pills strengthen the stomach and shirt sleeves did not care a rap taken from the river. The follow-rule that all conscientious objec- The British Labour party holds digestive powers. what either Mr. Asquith or Mr.ing morning the official in charge tors are entitled to pensions for itself-still ready to co-operate
If you
are suffering from Lloyd George was saying, think told me quite simply that they their disabilities. Men who con- with the Labour and Socialist nerves do not go to great expense ing or doing. He set no store by had not had a very good morning, tracted their disabilities through parties of other countries in until you have tried building up their quarrels, except in so far for three bours work had only misconduct, such as hungerstrik-reconstructing the International the blood. The chances are that that they might feed the flame of produced some 40 bodies. I looking in prison, and men who have on the basis of freedom of tactics, Dr. Williams' piok pills are all revolution.
ed at thess relics of the new been in prison for certain specifi- mutual toleration, and liberty of you require, for they have given: "Cimoulage was the name he order. They were of both sexes ed military offences. are not thought In the British party many nervous sufferers complete) applied to it all.
These patty and belonged to every condition entitled to pensions. This also there is no belief in dictatorship relief. Now is the time to begin quarrels were only the man- of life, from the graff boray-lapplies to the ordinary soldier. as a principle of action, nor have Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale beuvres of an oppressive capit-handed worker to the delicately-Į But in general, where an ordin- we any desire to incorporate it in people. "Ost a supply from any alist class preparing to devour nurtured young girl.
ary soldier is entitled to a pension our vocabulary as a synonym of dealer. or direct and post free. the workers. Nor was there When those auriable crowds for a disability, the conscientious democracy.
one bottle for $1.50, six for $8. absent just a touch of mockery listen to these shirt-sleeved objector is also entitled to one. We do not admit that any one from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., and scorn in his attitude towards speakers in our public places, The War Office is now engaged school of opinion in the Inter-96 Szechuan Road, Shanghai. our party quarrels. Perhaps there perhaps it might be as well for in deciding the cases of conscien-national has a right to dictate the be had some cause.
them to bear in mind those grim tious objectors entitled to pension, conditions of membership, neither address asking for a free copy of For surely there is nothing in deliveries from the river at Omsk and the Medical Boards are ass-can we consent to any group, or the useful booklet The Nerves MOTORS, GENERATORS AND OTHER " the world so blind as faction-In the spring of 1918.
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