CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
MOTHER CHURCH
MEETS
$4,000,000, FOR NEW BUILDING
in
the
"Perhaps never before history of the Christian Science
day.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1933.
HOW WOMAN MADE
A FORTUNE
Famous Hotel Sold
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the
CHARGES
LETTING OF PLOTS
IN MARKET.
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END CLUB. CLOSING DOWN
Another Innious West End social club has fallen by the way- alde, thus following in the track und the Cocoa Tree Club. of the Cavendish Club
At
•
the
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FIGHT TO FINISH
CO-OPS AND THE NEW TAX
SOCIETIES UNITE
DEATH IN
INDIA
WILD ANIMALS TAKE 'TERRIBLE. TOLL
Nagpur. How hunian beings are destroy- ed by India's wild crentures, 18 vividly brought home by official figures just fasued for tha Contral Provinces.
During the past year:
43 people were killed by tigers. 17 people were killed by
Icopards.
36 people were killed by wolves
and bears, and
1,199 people died from anake bites.
Mr. A..V. Alexander said he was opposed from the Grat to the secret discussion of what was obviously a matter of general public
Denths due to snake bites are Interest, and every delegato ad- mitted that the private sitting was Baid to have increased.-Reuter. a mistake, as nothing was said that had not already been proclaimed from the house-tops by Co-opera-financiers since the movement had
tive leaders.
extended to millions,
essential
the
movemont has there been a time when the comfort and encourage- ment of our Annuni Mesting could pour so rich a balm into our
for £250,000 hearts, nor when its inspiration and blessing carried beyond these walls could mean so much to the] The romantic story of a penni- NEW - ALLEGATION
The latest addition to the vic- BY A WOMAN world of human thought and end-less young Italian girl who came
tims of depression in Clubland is. The Co-operative Congress de- Word that no further contribu- cavour For, to-dny, that world is to England to seek her fortune 40
with the New Oxford and Cambridge voted the whole of a morning's | Bribery in connection
session to a private debate on the was Club, tions to the fund for the building facing the claim of evil conditions years ago, and is now one of the
extraordinary general Chancellor's new taxation pro- of the new $4,000,000 home now in human affairs unprecedented wealthleat women in London, was the letting of civic houses
told to a reporter by Madame alleged by a Glasgow, woman and extent-con- being erected for The Christian In influence Science Publishing Society need ditions which know no barriers of Coletta, who has just sold the free councillor at the first sitting of meeting held by the members, it posals.
hold of the Queen's Hotel, Lelccator-
Commission appointed by was decided to dissolve the club on
that be made after July 1, was an race, nation or tongue..
square, for over a quarter of a
Parliament to investigate charges June 30. "In human experience, the FC- nounced at the Annual Meeting of
The premises came up for sale million.
affecting the municipal adminis
by auction on Juno 21 at the offices The Mother Church, The First generating influence of Truth be-
of Messrs. John D. Wood. Church of Christ, Scientist, heldgins with the individual, spreads Bora in Rome, Madame Coletta tration of the city. list month in Boston.
from one Individual to others, came to London when she was only
Lord Anderson, who presided,
BISHOPS AS MEMBERS. Members from many lands-from group to group until even-16. Her first job was with a tailor-
the recent High Court
Many well-known people belong to more than 5,000 in all-heard the tually it must leaven the whole ing firm where she made button-referred in his opening address to morente from the Directors, rend mass of human thought. Then holes for five or six shillings which two magistrates were char, the club, including the Bishop of
pleading Liverpool, Lord Hugh Cecil, ged with bribery, Eventually she turned her atten-guilty and being sentenced, and the Bishop of Worcester, Lord Doner-
Speaker after speaker endorsed Every speaker in the debate tion to buying and selling meat charge against the other being afle, Sir Park Goff, and Sir Ellis
Hume-Williams..
the Executive's declaration of war showed the same resolute fighting and poultry, going down to the dropped. :
The club moved to Stratton to a finish against what the de- spirit, and the resolutions were market carly in the morning. La-
He understood that there was street, Piccadilly, some years ago, legates unanimously denounced as passed with enthusiastic unanimity, ter in the day she would sell the
Would Bol to pending in the Criminal Court after having dwelt in Pall Mall, an attack on the principle and prac ment and poultry
A rosolution reiterating Co- other charge of bribery against a overlooking the gardens of Marl- tice of mutuality. London hotels and restaurants.
operative opposition to the Govern- corporation employee.
borough House, för 30 years before
They reiterated the basic article ment's Protectionist policy, to the "I had not had any hotel experi-
the war. MARKET RENTALS. ence," she said, "before taking over
It is an irony that the club is of the Co-operative faith that there high duties imposed on the Queen's. I lost £6,000 in the "With regard to the recent pro-
Anderson, dying in its fiftieth year. Various can be no fiscal analogy between commodities as a result of first year, but I soon altered that." ceedings," added Lord
"we have been led to understand reasons are given by the members private Income derived from pri-Ottawa agreements and to the for its demise. The most likely vate trade and the saving to in-creation of artificial shortages by Mr. Samuel Wallrock, of Sey- that there has been considerabic
neces- Leonard, Co-operative's only M.P., mour-street, W.1, is the purchaser dissatisfaction in the community at of them is the sudden growth of dividual consumers by collective Import quotas was moved by Mr. Who vigorously denounced the high. of the Queen's Hotel from Madame the non-disclosure of the circum-the armall mixed clubs which have purchase of their common
which wayman's methods Coletta.
stances in which the offence was "prung up all over May-fair, such
A resolution was passed calling extracted 50 millions through "At the moment
non-disclosure as the Garter Club, Nash's, Punch's, I cannot say committed. This
on ali Co-operative Societies to sup Budget from the people's pockets what will happen
to the hotel. was unavoidable in the High Court, The Albany and The Regency.
It would be still more ironical if part the special Income Tax Com at a time when every economist Multiple shop firms are now apply- but we have thought it proper that ing to rent the building. I may there circumstances should now be the premises were bought on June mittec in opposing the Government prescribed increased consumption 21 by the promoter of a club of the resell the property."
disclosed."
One assured' feature,
Mr. 48 remedy for the present trade new type which has killed the New
stated, crisis. Deputy Town Clerk, Mackenzie Oxford and Cambridge. Ita beauti- Alexander has previously
A delegate, from Lancashire op- contended that there was no pos-ful panelling, high ceilings and will be to extend co-operative pro-
general, mouldinga make it ideal for a club. duction in every possible way in or-posed the resolution on the ground sibility of corruption in
As the chairman said at the meet der to reduce trading with private that the cotton trade
must be but acknowledged that there was a chance in the allocation of stances ing: "If as many members of the
protected against the competition club had used it while it was alive in the markets.
of Asiatic cheap labour, but Con- as are present at its funeral it
gress eloquently reasserted its Frea would never have dled."
An important point in the debate Trade principles by the impatience was the statement that inquirles at with which the speech was receiv- Somerset House by Mr. Alexander ed. and Mr. Palmer lind definitely es tablished the fact that the now Mr. Barnes finally summarised tax, if enforced, must necessarily the spirit of the assembly as to apply to every form of mutual the. Chancellor's tax proposals-tho association industry, even private constantly recurring King Char- |clubs.
les's head of the conference-by announcing that 11 societies which Tokyo, July 4.
Sir William Dudley, chairman formerly opposed political action weaks The Soviet Embassy has issued of the Wholesale Society, provoked had within the last few a detailed memorandum regarding lond cheers by declaring that the added 16,000 members to the Co-
Eastern Railway principle of mutuality had been
operative Party. negotiations, wherein it is stated tacitly approved so long as
Mr. Chamberlain, he said, had that Russia is willing to sell her adherents were numbered in hun-
exposed itself to the censure of the they had ever had on their staff. right for 210,000,000 gold roubles.dred and thousands and had only proved the best party organiser -Reuler.
An interior view of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Massachusetts.
cense
And the true by Mr. Charles E. Heltman, chair-wil wars man, which halled the "sacrifice brotherhood of man be made ap and unselfed efforta" of those parent, be seen to be established "who have made possible the com-and maintained by God's law; then pletion of the new Publishing will the bounty of God's house be House without delay and without realized and men dwell together in
security and peace." debt.".
.GROWTH OF CHURCH.
ร
ance to flood sufferers in England, and in West Virgina; for aid to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico; and for help in a section of California following the recent earthquake.
"Some relief work has been done
tion -of
Mana Councillor Jenn
con tended that 45 people had paid, or had been asked to pay, bribes before they could get civic houses.
that
in other sections of the United States, and in Germany, Holland, Estonia, Austria, Poland, Finland, and Canada. The charitable work carried on by the local congrega=|| Lord Anderson suggested
The Mother Church they might make an effort to get Announcement was made of the election of the following officers: "The growth of The Mother through its local Charity Fund these people to give evidence.
Ballfe the Rev. Robert Daly, a President-Miss Mary G. Ewing Church goes on unfettered," said was augmented this last winter by of Brookline, Mans.
Mr. Ezra W. Palmer. "During the a Special Unemployment Relief member of the Markets Committee, was established in said: "One can hardly get a now Clerk-Ezro
of past year devoted men and women Fund which Brookline, Mass.
from all walks of life have been co-operaton with the city Cam-hat without somebody suggesting paign for the Rellef of Unemploy- that you got it in an unjust way! Treasurer-Edward 1. Ripley received into membership.
A Comforts Supply Com- Lord Provost Swan, giving evid- of Brookline, Mass.
"The Relief Fund of The Mother ment. UNPRECEDENTED CONDITIONS. Church, which is available for mittee has aided by distributing ence, said rumours of bribes had In hor address, the new temporary assistance following clothing and other necessities in been current ever since he joined
the Corporation. President, Mies Ewing, said in major disasters, has been drawn this field."
Jupon during the year for assist Part:
W. Palmer
RAILWAY SALE.
SOVIET SETS PRICE ON CHINESE EASTERN LINE
the Chinese
saries.
firms.
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CLUBS AFFECTED, TOO..
its
hnd the
REG. U. S. PAT, OFF.
AND IF I EAT
IR
FANNY
GLADYS PARKER,"
HEAVENS/NOW WHAT, BABY?
ONIONS, WILL THIS |MOUTH WASH.. REMOVE THE
ODOR?
JUST ANOTHER SMART IDEA OF MINE, MUMSY!
CERTAINLY!
ALL RIGHT) SEND ME A
CRATE
A CRATE?
ONIONS
0.1933 BY NEA SERVIC
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