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TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1928.
PENAL LEGISLATION.
REFORM MEASURES IN GERMANY.
COMMONS "COUNT"
COMEDY.
MR. MOSLEY'S MOTION SHUT
OUT.
A POLICE PROTEST.
QUESTIONS THEY DID NOT
who
BAN ON WOMEN STUDENTS.
1
ATTITUDE OF THE LONDON HOSPITALS.
"Men athletes who wish to be-
· LIKE TO ÄNSWER.
An astonishing intelligence The progress made by Germany in her development from a hetero- For the fourth day in succession test was given recently to ambi geneous collection of semi-inde- the House of Commons rose early. tious constables in the police force come doctors will not go to a pendent pelty states to a compact on March 6th: says the Morning of Los Angeles, and those
that admits women modern national unit, which has Post Parliamentary representative, guard the film world of Hollywood.hospital now been going on for about ait is, however, unlikely that there Correct answers were to count students, and that is the real rea-" century or more, received
a will shortly be a general movement towards promotion to the detec son why certain of the hospitals aro powerful Impetus when the Re- on the part of members to resign tive forte, but the policemen were going back to the pre-war practice publie was
established. Since their salaries. then the great questions of poli-
The adjournment at six o'clock a dissatisfied with the nature of admitting only men students." the questions, which, they com- tienl reorganisation have been to-night was a preconcerted plan plained, were unfair, senseless, This statement was made to a more or less solved, and the time between all three parties. The hra therefore coma to go into effort to get the House "up" was and ridiculous, that they applied Morning Post representative by a determined. Four separate "counts" to the courts and secured an in- London University official, whose details.
One of the minor questions were demanded of the Speaker, and junction against the examiners. relatively speaking-that have to the request, had the fourth not suc- be dealt with is that of reforming deeded, would undoubtedly have the country's penal code. This been repeated at tho legitmate in- does not mean that no such re-terval of one hour. forms have been necomplished in What was the explanation of this home? the past. The usual practice, remarkable desire to go however, was to let the various The fact that Mr. Oswald Mosley, federal states use their own dia-once a Conservative, now the gild- cretion as to the reforms to be ed Socialist member for Smethwick, instituted, and the task now be was moving a motion at half-past fore the central authority of the seven o'clock ** country is to simplify existing systems of penal legislation and to bring them into harmony with one another."
As early as 1923 the Reicharat, which is practically a kind of upper house in Germany, adopted the fundamental principle that penal service was to be regarded
Some of the questions (snys the career has been spent in eademic Daily Express) were as follows: life. "The fact is," he added, Ja Scotland Yard a famous "that the average man student has a great deal more of modesty or police department in Scotland?
Is Shylock a character in "Para- diffidence than the average womun student-he objects to studying dige Lost ?
medicine in the company of women..
Does the saybig"Fame" is not found on feather beda axpress an optimistic view?
"It is my sincere belief,” he con- tinued, "that the policy of certain hospitals in returning to their pre- war practice of rejecting co-educa tion is based essentially on the keenness of hospitals to excel in athletics."
The suggestion that women do not suceerd as doctors, and that this way the reason for the diminished entry into the profes-
On Wednesday the altting is re-
Does the enying "Two beads are served for private members' hust- better than one" mean the same as Bertram Fallen, to discuss the in-
was Sir "Too many cooks spoil the broth?" neaa. The afternoon
Do lagoons migrate periodi the evening Mr. Mosley's, to call validing of men from the Navy? | cally? attention to the state of the coun-monious?
Aro divergent, aims usually har
try's finance.
Do retrograde movements lead to progress?.
Js a student of geography calf-sion, was categorically denied-as it has been on previous occasions- ed a geologist?
Do sovereigns owe allegiance to School of Medicine for Women.
by a representative of the London their subjects?
"As far as our experience is con- Has paychical research anything cerned," she stated, "any qualified to do with telepathy?
Was Alexander the Great a
woman can make good in private practice. famous magician?
No Quorum.
as a form of education of the con- No one was anxious to enter into victs, but not as a method of re-the second debate, because no one taliation. The treatment of pri- wished
to hear Mr. Mosley dis- soners, although continuing to be coursing, with his air of adequate to the crime, was at the superiority, on a
subject about same time to be just and humane, which he fancies he possesses ex- The terms of sentence were to be port knowledge. It was notable, graded in conformity with the that the first three "counts" were criminals behaviour, and the called for by members of his own treatment meted out to party, and when the final attempt them at first was to be replaced to summon a quorum was in pro- by a greater degree of leniency as gress, bis Socialist colleagues alood the end of their terms approach-outside the main entrance to the
Chamber in droves, maliciously im movable.
severe
cd.
་་
Fines Instead of Prison.
}
Does Great Britain control the rubber market?
Does the colour blue photograph black?
Is Rockefeller the richest man in the world?
Mussolini an Artist? Is Mussolini an outstanding figure in the field of arts?
"The opportunities for women doctors were never so good as they are to-day. Not only are there plenty of able women in private that used to exist against them has practice, but by now the prejudice
vanished, and women have now no difficulty in entering new fields of activity.
Effect of Change:
Is an angle an opening between two lines that have a different
"The decision of the Westminster direction?
Hospital to refuse women students, Was Bunker Il a famous and Lize probability that Charing General?
Was the First Crusade an Am-mean a further demand on the Lon- Cross, may take a similar view will erican battle?
Ta botany the science of animal life?
don School of Medicine for Women. "It in our settled policy," the Is Aladdin a well-known charge oficial continued, "that we shall never accept more students than we Does the saying, "He laugha at can sce through their clinical scars who never felt
A wound." course.
"We shall obviously look after teach us that, the power to sym pathise can only come by personal our own students first, both from suffering?
the point of leaching and of house Does a pound of lead weigh appointments, but we are anxious,
to preserve room for students from more than a pound of feathers?
Does the saying, "He who Oxford and Cambridge, who, like laughs last laughs best," express their men colleagues, have to come to London or go to some similar pessimism?
centre for clinical experience."
It must have been galling to the.. At present a further reform member for Smethwick, after seek which is interesting in a number ing with great self-advertisement of ways is under consideration to climb down the social scale to and has to sume extent already the average level of his political been effected. Thus, for instance, "friends," to find himself stili un the new legislation, provides that assimilated and unreceived He In the case of petty thefts fines has this in comman with Mr. may be substituted in lleu ofim Lloyd George: his companionship prisonment whenever the court embarrasses all parties. thinks to do so. Judges have
Minority Candidates. been instructed to take into con- sideration, the social position of The Lords raised a debate on our the culprit at the time of his electoral system which resolved it-ter in tlie Koran?
upan self mainly into a discussion of pro-, ollence before they decide
representation-"P, R." The sentence to be given or the portional fine to be imposed, and they have as it is always familiarly called in also been directed to differentiate these precincts.
Earl Grey (not to be confused between crimes committed in con- sequence of social distress and with the Foreign Secretary of Lord these prompted by wanton or im- Oxford's Cabinet) suggested that, with a new Franchise Bill coming moral motives.
On the other hand, it is intend-along, this was the moment to find ed to afford the public additional something better than our present
Does the saying, "All that protection inasmuch as habitual method of voting, which often, to
tho publie discontent, sends glitters is not gold," mean the criminals are to be dealt with
""minority candidates" into Parlin-same'ns "A fine day should not be severely than hitherto,
praised in the morning?" There is every reason why special
Both the Marquess of Salisbury attention should be paid to this and Lord Desborough, speaking on dug from a hole two feet long. Can eight cubic feet of dirt be matter, because cases have not been infrequent in late years in which convicted murderers were released after a term of years and committed new capital crimea al most as MOOT As they were a liberty again. In future such pests will not only receive sen tences that are thoroughly adequate to the severity of their crimes, but may also be sentenced by the courts to additional detention, so that they aro permanently put out of harm's way,
more
ment,
At Charing Cross Hospital it was stated that there had been a notable decline in the num- It was also stated that while they ber of women seeking admission..
had been admitted there had been
the Government's behalf, expressed two feet wide, and two feet deep doubt whether an improved If George goes to bed twenty no differentiation between, them
electoral system could be devised,
and, both declined to send, as Lord minutes earlier than James and and male students as regards house Grey had half proposed, a roving Sets up in the morning thirty appointments or otherwise. commission over Europe to study minutes earlier than James, is So far no decision had been the way in which other nations George in bed longer than James? reached as to whether the policy of Does the proverb, Idle brains accepting them should or should choose their rulers.
are the devil's workshop mean not be continued, the decision, it that the devil works with his was explained, resting entirely with brains?
Viscount Younger, with his great experience as a former head of the Conservative Party organisation, assured the Peers that, although a trifle rough and ready, our old ballot-box methods were still the Medical Advice.
most useful: They were at least Another innovation recently in-safe from the abuses which, as, he troduced consis in the greater showed, might creep into the alter- authority given to the medical natives. officers attached to prisons. A penal sentence has to be suspend- ed if the medical officer considers the criminal physically unfit to bear the strain of further in carceration or if the danger of mental derangement appears Im- minent. Death sentences have to be committed. In the event of signs of mental disease showing themselves in the condemned per
sons.
Are Seminoles poisonous? Did Möses drive the anionla two by two into the ark?
the Governors.
At University College Hospital the position as to accepting women
Is the word "mother" related students remains unchanged, and to the word "sister" in the same they are being admitted under the way as the word "father" is re- same conditions as previously..
lated to the word "son?"
Does the proverb, "Out of sight, out of mind," mean the same as "Absence makes the heart grow
Electoral Anomalies. The debate was remarkable in re- vealing how many former Bup-fonder?" porters of "P.R." there are in all parties who have now, after seeing the system at work in Ireland and views. altered their elsewhere, Among them is I ord Banbury, who confessed that the only mistake of his life had been to vote in favour of "P.R." in an ancient Commons division.
Those clauses of the law deal-
Lord Banbury's speech also con- Ing with cruelty have been contained this aside, which deserves siderably extended in their scope. Anyone who, by continued ill. quoting: "The best Government is a weak Liberal or Socialist Govern- treatment drives another personment, with a strong Conservative into committing suicide, will in Opposition; for then the Conser-
fifteen future be sentenced to
vatives oppose Socialist legislation years of hard labour, the crime of a kind which, when they have a being considered to be almost big majority, they vote for equal to out-right murder. The
There Is one extremely simple legal reasoning that has prompt cure for our electoral anomalies ed this provision appears to be which some of the Peers did not thoroughly sound and highly comfail to notice. It is that the mendable. Five years of hardLiberals should expedite their dis- labour awaft those who display solution, and no again leave the serious cruelty to children, er to country with a straight choice be- young people in general, and to tween two well-understood rival persons who, on account of bodily parties.
unable to defend infirmity, are themselves.
DRANK TUMBLER OF
NEAT WHISKY.
GIRL CRAWLS OVER STUDENTS" TRAGIC TOAST AT
NIAGRA.
LIFE RISKED TO ENTER..
UNITED STATES.
CAMBRIDGE.
The death of a Cambridge under- graduate after drinking a tumbler of neat whisky was investigated by the coroner at Cambridge..
The deadman was Wilson Snaith Sporborg, of Emmanuel. College, who was described by his tutor as "a brilliant scholar and
A 17-year-old Lithuanian girl has told American officers, who arrested her for trying to enter the United States without the needed papers, that she had risked her life to do so. sportsman"
She said she had crossed the roaring Niagara gorge by crawling along the semi-circular webwork of girders supporting the lower steel work of the bridge.
Sho had been a dressmaker in Montreal.
Late at night, dressed in boyish clothes, she met a man who had ar- ranged for the crossing.
Mr. G. A. Brooks said Sporborg and he attended the annual dinner of the Twelve Club a literary. society. They had the usual drinks, but no champagne.
After the dinner they went to the rooms of Mr. Aarvold, where Sporborg had more refreshment.
As they were leaving, Sporborg He fastened a rope around her was given a tumbler almost full of waist and lowered her scores of neat whisky. He drank it with feet over the side of the gorge to the toast "To the Twelve Club." the lower abutments of the bridge. When they got outside Sporborg "Duels will in future be punished dom of too great leniency may Here she was joined by her fell and had to be carried to his helper. The two crawled along the rooms. Although he might have by two years of imprisonment, justly be doubted.
By mutual agreement between girders which, rising in an are been unconscious, they put him to This will probably mean the death blow to a practice that has been the German and Austrian govern from both sides of the river, cul-bed and did not advise the tutor indulged in for generations by ments the present reform of penal minste at a point 250 feet above until next day.
legislation had been carried out the waters.
The coroner asked Mr. C. A. certain classes of the community.
along similar lines in both coun- The night was dark. A slip at Shcarson, another undergraduate, Capital Punishment,
tries. Ideas were freely exchang- any point along the 560-foot span if he considered it a foolish thing The question whether capital ed between Brylin and Vienna, would have meant a plunge to into drink a tumbler of neat whisky. punishment should be retained or
stant death.
"I should think ao, now," he replied." abolished has aroused a great deal and the parliaments of both coun tries took part in forming the
She says, however, that she had. of controversy all over the coun- now codes. This co-operation will little fear.
A porter who saw Sporborg at try. It has now been decided that perhaps be regarded some day as She was arrested with four other midnight sald he was not then the The engagement of the Arch-elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archbishop of Melbourne since it shall be retained, although the the first step towards a general young women, who were found with worse for drink. bishop of Melbourne, the Most Herbert Linnell, of Beckenham. 1921. His first wife was the cases in which it can be inflicted European code of law, and may her in a cellars
According to the doctor, Spor vicar of Chrlet daughter of the Rev. J. M. Crane- have been considerably restricted. tend to greatly advance the cause The others say they were taken borg fractured his skull in falling. Rev. Harrington Clare Lees, is Dr. Lees was
bride-to-be Church, Beckenham, or twelve wick, D.D., Ph.D., of Stayloy, In view of the large number of of an all-round understanding across the river at another point A verdict of accidential death was announced.' His
murders still committed, the wie-
among Continental nations.
in a row-boat-Central Nowe
returned. Miss Joanna Mary, Linnell; the years. from 1907, and has been Cheshire.
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