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WEEK..
HOME POLITICS REVIEWED.
The Trade Unions Bill made good progress during the week of May 22, and the first two clauses passed through Committee. But the strictures on the time-table for the Bill, which were made here in
untielpation, have been unhappily justified, for much time has been wasted on amendments that matter-, ed little, and amendments that were more important have been left un-
discussed, writes "A Student of Politics" in a Home paper of mail
week.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
M.P. WINS FLITCH.
FATHER OF SEVEN GIVEN
"WEDDED BLISS" PRIZE.
Three men one young, ane mid- die-aged and one old-with their wives competed for the Dunmow Flitch at Gordon Field, Ilford, | last month.
Their nyus were thirty-four, forty-two and sixty-four, and all claimed the flitch as a reward for their wodded bliss.
of
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SATURDAY, JULY 16. 1927.
OXFORD SEX WAR.
LIMITATION OF WOMEN' STUDENTS.
HORSES PERISH.
TRAPPED IN BLAZE AT GLASGOW..
Thirty-two horses were trapped Following a debate lasting over two hours, Congregation decided na burning building at James in favour of the limitation of wo-Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, re- men students" at the University in cently and despite the brave re- the proportion of one to four (says scue efforts of a watchmen all but
Ave perished, the Daily News Oxford correspon- dent.) "The voting was-229 mem bers in favour of the new statute and 164 against.
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About twenty minutes past three dames were seen coming from ther back portion of the building e- So large was the attendance that cupled by James Simpson, a motor, Two flitches were awarded. One the House met in the Sheldonian hirer and undertaker. A few M.P. Ter Rutherglen, Scotland, and Divinity School as usual. Among tachment of the Fire Brigade ar- was won by Mr. William Wright, Theatre instead of in the smaller minutes later, when the first de his wife. His home is at Balham, those who came to record a vote in ived, the whole of the top part of vations on the closure in his excel-his wife's occupation was "com: Birkenhead,
Mr. Lloyd George's oba Mr. Wright, who is sixty-four, said favour of the statute was Lord the building was a raging furnace. The horses were stabled in loose lent If somewhat cynical speech were very apt. You cannot get un mander-in-chief of her husband.";
One of the features of the de-boxes on the gallery which formed Important Bill these days through The young man, Mr., Thomas Ed-bale was a brilliant speech in de- the first floor, and when the flames Committee without
the closure:ward Horkin,
fence of the women's cause by enched them they stampeded and while every part in Opposition Yorks, who was also awarded a Miss "Margery Fry, the principally round the gallery plunging howls at its application as though litel, was married at Amsterdam, of Somerville, who was addressing and neighing loudly. it were an atrocity, presently, when New York, nearly eleven years ago Congregation for the first time. It was heartrending for the It comes into power, it always out and has seven children.
Like all the women of my gener-pectators, powerless to help, to Herods Herod.
II is middle-aged rival Mration I am heartily weary of the see the maddened beasts at the Henry William Launder, of Til subject of sex
windows, some of them with their i Inequalities, she
1 To keep bary, a hairdresser, has been mar said. We know that we do out Mr. John Armour, the night watch 13 Reluctant. manes and falls blazing. When 7 Beseeches. ried twice. His second marriage best work not as women but as man a duty, discovered the fire, 14 Of late origin. took place four years ago, and he human beings. called as witnesses his cook and
She said that if the statute were horses under his charge,
his first thoughts were for the
16 Margin of a watercourse. his daughter."
passed it would mean the contingence rushed to the stables and 19 Small fresh water fish.
He at 18 Gaelic.
16 Wing part of a seed. Mr. Billy Merson added to the ance at Oxford of a Woman's ques-caught hold of them, but, mad-20 Temporary paralysis of muscles history of humour on the Bench tion and a Woman's party in the dened by the fire and smoke they while presiding over the Dunmow University. Loyalty to Oxford as plunged and reared wildly, and he 22 Court. He was assisted by a jury a whole was the predominant pas.
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But if the closure is inevitable, it is a great pity that its techniqué not been better studied. Enough time has been allocated to this Bill to debate a Home Rule Bill, let alone one of only eight clauses.. We ought to carry the Far time-table principle further. too little time has been given to Clause One, which for practical purposes is the whole Bill, and too of six bachelors and six spinsters.sion with the women students, and was forced to let them go. much to minor clauses, But even
members of even such incidents as this could were two within the time allotted we might Parliament among the counsel, not lessen the debt they owed to have had better debate if we had Mr. F. A. Broad, member for Ed-her. allotted time not merely between monton, being leading counsel for But, continued Miss. Fry, there clause and clause but between
paintiffs, while Mr. Jack must be some reason for the fear the Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd. is now Hages, the "poliseman M.P." was which we seem to inspire in other cult came crashing down, con- 33
single clause. Labour been brought to close quarians with one of the counsel for the Aitch.wise virile minds.
The contest of claimants to wed-! the Bit, but in fact ritost of its speeches have really been seconded bliss was accompanied by a have never baby competition. reading speeches.
soch such a enflection of beautiful infants in my life." said Dr. Dar The champion baby was a boy on, medical officer for Word.
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Clarifying the Issues, The House of Commons has yet
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means of Parliamentary persuasion could only be reached If at all by It is a slow and painful degrees. very useful week's work that has brought out this issue, which can not be too clearly, and bluntly
make themselves
was fulling, and he had just time 28 By this time burning debris 27
At six n'clock it was discovered were still alive,
The thought, the reason might rather be found in a very general that five horses impression that since the women and although they could not be re- came to Oxford the Social life of moved immediately owing to the the University had changed in a gangway being blocked, they were way that was detrimental to study, taken to a safe part of the stables. but the changed relations between and fed by the firemen. Much men and women in Oxford was damage was done to a number of only the reflection of a greater motor cars which were garaged on change that had taken place all the ground floor. over the country.
At eleven o'clock this morning
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the horses. She sensed, she said, tone of
44 Bird similar to un ostrich. Tenants near by were warned Heavenly body. regret, as if the women hatt some of the danger and asked to leave 40 Instrumental composition. how disappointed the trust placed their houses. in them. What had they done to shivering crowds watching the 50. To decree.
They stood in 46 To sever by cutting.
The answer could hardly be that seen from the centre of the city.
so unpopular?fire, the glare of witich could te51 Wailed loudly. to learn the art of debating a Billaged nine months with be a given her by one of the younger The efforts of the brigade, every it Committee with the minimum off Smith, a laughing with women, who said--"Women are division of which was represented, words and the maximum of relev-plendid physique and pretty fee such beastly swottors that they were successful in confining the ance and businesslike efficiencyures.
raise the standard of examina-fire to the building in which it ori- As each stage in Committen is
tions." Inished, ope is left with an
ginated. sunse of excess mitted, of debate that would have bech usefully left unsaid, and with the feeling that, owing to our remissness, an immense amount of work has been let over for the lawyers at very lucrative lecs. The lawyers, in fact, fatten on the busi- stated." ness ineficiency of Parliament. The chief credit for this cluri- But there has been much clarify-cation must be given to Mr. Ing of the issues, thanks in great Thomas's interrogatories and to the mesure Lo Mr. Thomas and to nis Attorney-General's straight replies Whether we like it or not she the fire was still smouldering. Interrogatories. What a good to straight questions. The hus added. the relations between Great quantities of grain an
awyer Mr. Thomas would have been no speaking of note on the young men and young women hadhay were destroyed, while exten- made, to be sure!) We now know | Bill. If you legalize the sympas changed enormously during the sive damage was done to a fleet of Mrs. J. CRAWFORD. That while this is not a Bill to me-thetic strike on the big scale salast 20 years.
taxis, motor hearses, and motor vent a sympathetic strike, it will, means of settling those big indus- | A great many people believe lorries which were stored in the in fact, make illegal all the rympa-tri disputes which because they that all the parties in Oxford are building. thetic strkies that anyone need are national encroach on politics, it due to women undergraduates, but Worry about. In plain langrunge, is desirable that you should elabor believe that if all the women g30,000. what Clause One now boils down toate alternative and pacific means of were turned out of the University is that the Triple Alliance in cetion aettlement, and there is a strong there would be very little change is a encrcion of the Government section of Conservation opinion, in the amount of social life going inasmuch as it cannot act in an in- represented by Mr. O'Connor, Mr.on in Oxford. dustrial dispute except by inflicting Micmillan, Major Glyn, Sir Leslie I do not believe that an under-the number of women students had hardship on the public. If this country were governed by a Napole, on, all that matters in this Bill would be accomplished by a simple
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Scott, and others, which would like to do that in this Bill. They have not had a chance so far, but they may get it in the later stages of
the Bill,
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graduate before taking a young woman into a tenshop als her, are you or are you not a matricu- lated member of this university,"
A Cleavage.
The dange is estimated · at
The Principal of Hertford and more than doubled in seven years, and that this increase was clearly not accidental, but permanent. that a ratiu of one in four was a He urged the House to declare
sufficient contribution to the cause of women's education from a Uni- versity which for 700 years had belonged to men.
The New Statute. The Statute limits the under- women's colleges to 160 in the case of Lady
fature women's societies to 160. says the Morning Post.
Labour Tactics..
Mr. Cyril Bailey, of Balliol, who Triple Alliance Kilied... Labour continues to be noisy and also championed the women's Legislation cannot express itself obstrepertus in debate, but one gets cause, said that to degrade the women's colleges, in the simple forms of a despotic the impression that it is by no status of the decree, but it is a great gain to means so confident as it was about for that in, effect was what it was have arrived at a definition of the the popularity of its position.
I proposed to do, was a very bold illegal strike as a sympathetic indeed, there were nothing, in the thing for the University to undergraduates at the four strike of more than one essential Bill but Clause One, one would he lake. industry. One industry can strike quite prepared on Parliamentry | It would be to use a homely Margaret Hall and St. Hugh's Col- for anything; coal miners them-vidence along, after listening to phrase, one of those things which lege, and to 150 in the case of Somerville and St. Hilda's College, scives, for example, could strike the arguments on either side, to was not done. for mitionalization without commit-pradict that this Bill will be highly
The statute would make a cleav-and limits the membership of ing illegality. Two unessential in-popular in the constituencies. age in the University, and would dustries again may legally strike Labour advocacy in consistently erek the friendly working to in sympathy because they do not clumsy, and it was never seen dogether of the sexes.
The second part of the Statute necessarily inflict hardship on the worse advantage than on the day
Even in this effeminate modern provides that no application for community. But a sympathetic when the real meaning of the Oxford I feel that I am still a man, the foundation of a new society strike of two essential industries is Labour speeches was that workmen he remarked, and I am galled by for women shall illegal That, in a sentence, is owed a higher allegiance to their the suggestion that I must gather until the average number of wo- what the debates on Clause One all union excentive than to the laws together three more of my own kind men undergraduates in residence Con Lothat neither more nor of the land. If they really meant before i um equal to one wonian. in the University during the pre- vious three academic years shall what they mid this Bill is necessary (Laughter.) if only to vindicate the »higher They were only putting up an-have been less than one-fourth of j loyalty that is due to the State. other hurdle for a spirited horse the average number of men under Otherwise we might just as well be to jump over.
graduates in residence during the governed by the public schools of Mr. A. E. W. Hazel, Principal of same period by not less than 160. the country or by the Army messes. Jesus, said that what they pre- The limitation at Oxford Uni-1 or by any sectional institution capposed to do was to lock the spirit-versity of one woman student to able of inspiring the same loyalty ed horse safely in the stable, so four men has aroused considerable | amongst its members as the trade that the question of the hurdle indignation among university wo- union
would not arise..
men in London.
less,
This Bill, in fact, is meant to TORTOISE SHELL BOXES kill the Triple Alliance as a fighting force capable of raising its hund AND CASES A SPECIALITY | against the Government of the day, whether directly or by inflicting suffering on the community, and to crush the conception of the great strike us a short ent to a millen nium which by the constitutional
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