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OFFICER'S COMPARISON,
A notable personality in the Mr Mead, the Marlborough public life of Wales, whose hia- Street, London, Magistrate, in toric and romantic office has mall week visualised the alght of carried his fame far beyond the a myriad of sun-bathers of both confines of the Principality, will sexes sprawling about in the pub- pass out of office when the Arch-lle parks. druld, the Rev. Howell Elvet Lewis, M.A., will at the National Eisteddfod at Holyhead, yield up his office to a auccessor not, yet chosen, writes a Welsh correspon- dent in mail week.
The new regulations of the Gorsedd, the hardic organisation, provide that the Archdruid may now hold office for a maximum period of four years and no longer. Four years constitute brief period in which to impress a nation, but it can be said that "Elfed" (to give Mr. Lewis his bardic title) has succeeded to degree unmatched in the modern history of Wales, in accomplish ing this feat.
That was what might happer, he declared, if in the case at pre- sent before him, he said "Go away and do it again."
Before him was Hubert Vincen (44), charged on remand with committing an offence under the Parks Regulations Act. The offence related in accused Bun- bathing in Hyde Park.
Mr. J. C. Lockwood for the defence, held that the exposure of the upper part of the body for purpose of beneficial health from the ultra-violet rays was not a volation of public decency. He mentioned the contestants 'in' a boxing ring as an argument for the defence, adding that prisoners' He is beyond ques-motive was quite pure. tion one of the most potent in- Mr. Mead-That is not neces- fluences In the public life of sary. If a man shocks people's Wales, and has been mentor and susceptibilities it ia an offence, exemplar to scores of thousands of good Welshmen who have be come modern influences beyond their own country.
To Discontinue the Practice.
Counsel added that he had in- duced his client to give an under- taking not to continue doing this sort of thing.
coit-
was
The quite surprising fact about Mr. Lewis's unassailable position. in the public, and especially the, The Magistrate sald the arg1- cultural life of Wales is that notment about the prize ring was not for three decades has he livedanalagous, and mentioned mixed in Wales. For a great many bathing in support of his years he has had charge of the tention. He believed there famous Welsh Tabernacle, at no seaside resort where mixed King's Cross, whence there as- bathing was allowed unless each sembles Sunday by Sunday a great sex wore a garment covering the Welsh congregation drawn from greater part of their bodies, almost every part of the world to that what he might call English not bu services conducted entirely in the susceptibilities should Welsh language. But he has re-offended. tained always close and intimats touch with the Principality. He has delved deeply into Welsh blography and history, and has produced in "Nonconformity in Wales," a little classic.
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He believed decent people, not prudish, would be shocked to see the grass man sprawling on ostentatiously, in the way the prisoner sprawled.
41
The Magistrate was informed that prisoner, was a distinguished In a few minute's conversa-soldier and a B.A. and had several tion before leaving for the medals. Eisteddfod, the Archdruid said Prisoner had been remanded for that he believed Wales is making a doctor's report, which was stated intellectual headway, and that the to be negative.
Mr. Mend bound the accused Gorgedd has really become the medium between academic over on condition that he observed scholarship of popular culture in the undertaking he had given. the Principality. "I do not think we can yet use the word 'academy' in the French sense," he added, but I have good hope that in the development of the Gorsedd there nay emerge some such idea and that there gradually be framed a kind of literary standard which, without going so far as to justify the use of the word 'academy," will give us a judgment to which an appeal for something like finali That the ills of the ancients ty can be made, the approach to were the same as those of modern which would be recognised in the people was made clear the other Principality. I am not at all dday by Sir Ilumphry Davy Rolle spondent about the intellectual son in an address to the British life of Wales. Wales is not de-at Edinburgh.
cadent. There have been changes
NEW NAMES FOR OLD ILLS.
MUMPS VERY PREVALENT
IN CLASSIC GREECE,
The difference was that they
much to the good in the nastdiagnosed them less accurately, twenty, nay, the past ten, years. and gave them different names.
Tuberculosis Had been identifie.t Our national spirit is as vital as ever."
Two notable bards are spoken
of as possible auccessors to, Mr.
in the Egyptian mummies, and was very prevalent in ancient Grecce.
of
Mumps appeared to be one Lewis-the Rev. Pedrog Williams, the few acute infectious diseases
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of Liverpool, and Principal Mau-accurately isolated in ancient rice Jones, of St. David's College, Greece. Lampeter.
MR. MACDONALD AS A "REBEL.”
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Bubonic plague was undoubted-
ly a disease of established. anti- quity. The postilence which at- tacked the Philistines after their capture of the Ark was thought to have been plaguc.
Those who did not die were advised to make offerings of golden representations of their tumours and of five golden mice.
The earance of plague. had been recognised in the third gen- "I am here as a rebel against tury B.C. In Egypt, Libya and. my doctor. I was told not to Syria malaria was proved to have come, but the temptation was too been very prevalent, in Greece strong" said Mr. Ramsay Ma from the fourth century B.C., and Donald in addressing the Trans-in Italy from about 200 B.C.
to port and General Worker's Union Conference at Swansea recently.
One investigator had come the conclusion that six of the 24 Sultans from 1299 to 1695 were The trades union movement victims of arthritis. wanted cohesion and not rivalry. Much able argument had been ho said. It was not enough to brought to prove that the sweat- say British industry was harding sickness was really influenza. dealt with by foreign competi- Appendicitis existed long before tion; to meet that we must have it was "baptised" in 1886, and the the courage to scrap our ma lecturer referred to descriptiona chinery and have new ideas and of cases as far back as 1684 for ita become efficient.
widespread and frequent inci-
"I have to objective," he con-dence. tinued, "to great accumulations of capital. Providin- they are being used in the public interest the Socialist is not against such capitalism.
"Marx was never against capi- tal. We are told by some of our business men that politics have nothing whatever to do with busi- nesa, but you cannot dissociate State activity from successful business."
He had been attacked for sav ing that Labour would oppose the Trade Unions Bill before the text was known.
'Well, if a man heard his. hon cluck, he was not confused as 'to whether it would lay a hen's egg or a swan's egg, or a duck's egg. When the Tory Government alucked, all men knew what sort of an egg it would lay.
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