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ATTACKS ON MORALS OF NATION
FREE CHURCH of SCOTLAND ACTS
DEFENSIVE CRITICISM
The drink traffic, betting, gamb ling. modern films, and the ques-" tion of mixed marriages are dis- cussed in the committee. reports i which were submitted at the General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland, which opened on Tuesday, June 1, in St. Andrew's Halls, Ginagow,
The Committee on Temperance and Pubite Morals reports on the question of brewers' advertise- ments in the Press, and criticises the attitude of newspapers words such advertisements.
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The Committee asserts "the Press must be brought to realise be compelled, if 1]"t*(18- sary--that it has no right to abet the drink trafle by eireulating 'palpably unscientific falsehoods" in the five of piles of real evid- ence against the beverage use of alcohol, in despite to Royal Com- mission findings, and in defiance of recurring statistics, all of which consistently. testify to drink's rutinous' effects on national wellbeing."
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1935. &&L
FASHION NOTES
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TRAGEDY ON SAHARA
MAN AND WOMAN DIE OF THIRST
HORRIBLE END
Paris, Juno 2.
An Englishwoman and an Eng lishman, Mrs. Knight and Mr. Peyton, have been found dead from thirst and exposure about five miles out of Ingessam in the south- ern Sahara.
Their two French companiona. Huebert and Chavain, French traders established at Kano, in Nigeria, with whom they set put on May 22 from Agadez, In the French Soudan, to motor to Taman Rasset, 500 miles to the north in the Hog- Kar, were found lying delirious and wasted under their car about 35 miles from Ingessa.
The four travellers had uppar ently presumed, from the frequency with which ears now cross the Sahara, that the expedition enuld be undertaken without a guide and. it would seem, with insufficient pro- visions.
On leaving Ingessam, which is 300 miles from their goal, they followed an old ten no longer in une. Discovering their error they tried to cut across the desert to pick up the regular route.
They found, however, that their petrol hnd evaporated. Their pro- visions seem to have been sufleirut only for one or two days at the most.
PUSHED ON
The Frenchmen proposed to wait under the car until a search party was sent from Taman Russet or
With regard to the spirit fluty, ) the Committee expresses its dis-CREAMED PEAS AND FISH approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's admission "that he Melt 14% oz. latter in a pan, stir thought the duty too high, and in 1 tablespoonfuls flour, and, that the Onaneld ronsideration when smooth, add gradually, a Ingessam, bul Mrs. Knight. I was the only thing that weighed breakfastcupful milk, stirring con vigorous woman of 25, and Mr. with him." They take it to mean stantly til thick and creamy. Poyton proposed to make their way that when he considers it
Simmer for five minutes, still stir-hek lay night to Ingessam on foot. ring occasionally, season rather highly with salt and pepper, put in a breakfastcupful cooked pens, and half breakfastcupful cooked fish, flaked.. Heat thoroughly, and serve in patty shells, after sprink ing with chopped parsley.
con-
venient he will not seruje to | Jettison the palpable benefits that have incontrovertibly result ed to the nation from a high duty on potable alcohol,
"DRINKING MOTORIST"
After the travellers had been missing for two days the chief mechanic of Taman Rasset, M. Coquet, and M. Jean Estienne set
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1 Deubiless Jack Sprat did show it, but not as a liking of nice fat. Nut choice language, though used in the Revel of David's fight with Goliath,
8 The sailor, and elevated to,
shows a enrefree spirit.
10 Bailey's Dictionary (1733) de
fines simply as "A noise known
Jay"
object--to the piece turned back?
11 The nut sent."
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12
As a traveller he is not fast, but
į
he sticks to his route,
1
Unfair, in a name,
out to look for the car. them three days to find it.
The two Frenchmen: were lying. maciated in a pit that they had The Committee contends that
dug under the car for better shel- official action with regard to "The | Jainuary to the Prime Minister,ter. They told the rescuers that drinking motorist" han been the Secretary of State for Scotland, the two English people had started lamentably slow. While the Con- and the Home Secretary to urge to walk back to their starting point. initle welcomes measures like immediate inquiry Into film censor- The rescuers then set out down the limiting speed in certain areas, use] ship, and to plead for decent films track to look for Mrs. Knight and of signal lights, and driving tests, in the interests of public morality." | her companion. these in themselves, it slates, A paragraph in the report of would fail to produce the sub- the Committee on Christian Citi- stantial results required unless zenship, headed' "Romanism and
Mrs. Knight had evidently auffer- more drastic steps were taken to Ritualism," states that "the pasted terribly. Her hair and clothes save the public being vietinised year has witnessed a further de- were torn, and the sand round her by the drinking motorist,
velopment among Presbyterians in body was very disturbed. She The law relating to registered | Scotland of what are called 'Holy
seems to have opened the veina of clubs is described as notoriously Week' and 'Lenten Sermons. The her arms and legs in the hope of inadequate, and it is stated that tendency is in the direction of dying more quickly. She had too many clubs
nee virtually what may be called the Anglican pencilled letter to à friend in her "unlicensed
be found in many gardens and unsupervised, movement in the Established handlag.
Church of Scotland, and it seems
ang fresh rubble. public-houses."
Mr. Peyton, who is said to have 20 Comriends. Discussing batting and gambl-desirable to utter a word of cau- been a half-caste resident in Swit-2A stumble: hence the tear. Ing, the Committee's report states tion to our people as to the dan zerland, was found lying at some 23 Give him fifty-in coin. that it is hardly realised to what er of sacramentarianism and distance quite peacefully. They24 Cut short the shout and enter an extent the "etting discase, the priesteraft by any departure from had apparently walked for a day dog disease, has become an the simplicity and naturalness; and a night. The rescuers buried epidemic. National gambling is and real spirituality of New Testu- the two bodies, but the authorities have ordered their exhumation and believed to account for a turnover ment religion." of not less than between £250,000,- Referring to the provisions of a very striet Inquiry,
a year in the Education (Sc&tland) Act, 1918 A rigorous regulation lays it Britain. of which some which gives special privileges down that no travellers may
000 and
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with the bookmaker and those on-gious teaching in the State schools, | desert with less than eight days The Committee recalls that these provision of water and food, in gaged in the trade.
In the proposed deliverance the privileges were claimed as pro- case of accident. General Assembly is asked strong-mising a peaceful settlement of
these things in question, ly to condemn the exemption of difficult educational problem. private lotteries and small lot. had, however, proved no settle- call
it had arisen nient. Out of
A But humble people, who may teries from the restrictive and pro-
prominence to the cleavage be truly religious, are deeply dis. hibitive clauses of the Betting
tween Roman Catholicismi and tressed and often cruelly treated und Lotteries Act, and to call for
Protest. tism, resulting in sec- by attempts to enforce against passing of a morc comprehen-
them the Decree No Temere." tarinn strife. sive and thoroughgoing measure to cope with "this glenntic and far flung national vice."
"Multifarious al nefarious attacks, masked and open. are being made on the common morals of the nation."
FILM CENSORSHIP
rac,
"In New Zealand and New South MIXED MARRIAGES
Wales, where this evil was pre- Mixed marriages are discussed valent, in 1920 and 1925 respective- with particular reference to the ly, Aels were passed making it, an Se Temere decree of the Roman offence to declare any marriage | Catholic Church. Note is taken lawfully made to be not
the of the Papal pronouncement that sufficient, and valid, or that the marriage of Catholic with non-} children are illegitimate. Catholic, except according to "There is a movement · tó have
not similar legislation applicable These words preince the Com Roman Catholic sanction, is mittee's comments regarding films. valid. It is stated that in Sel-Scotland, and we recommend al "Reactional filmdem," the report land marriage is a purely civil mur people to support any Partia-
moral contract, and its validity and thementary B for become
f children are We desire also to warn our own fithdom. The position may be legitimacy gauged by the necessity for over Paranteed by statute, law. eleven educational and religious! "Na priest of other person," bodies forming a deputation Inst repart states, "has any right
continues, "as
SALESMAN SAM
to
that purpose.
people as to the grave troubles
the
to
that may be involved by entering futo such a mixed marriage."
In Too Much of a Hurry!
16 Part carbon and part alkaline and part sicel and part wood,
17 Binds that neither rointer nor
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It may
the ring.
28
Dazed.
29
Smirches.
"Pries" out how & Frenchman was struck by a girl tanag.). 31 An allusion that may Kive
character.
Down
1 With a sailor, acar the stern,
2 The gossip who gives real fun.
3 Thoroughly unpleasant fellows. 4 Just one thing, with no addition
it isn't,
5 Fastening likely to be in front This shows one's manner t home.
7 Sage in rum (anag),
This wil do for the Ume being.
14 Any nativity the front of
heaven was full of shapek." "
"King Henry IV").
15 Character in Génesis (rev.).
16 The guardian who studies the
catering.
18
A
lady who do what she would be, dilfering from
10 what the boarder might become
it well fed.
20 What Peeping Tom did..
21 All blown up with a right good
German will.
25 Ornament which sticks.
26 Noted for their polson, liko, something added to a letter.
27. Fur-even more than far.
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