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NOTES OF THE DAY
MYSTERIOUS MACHINATIONS
It is so easy to criticise diplo mats and statesmen. On the face of things Great Britain's recent commitments in the international sphere, particularly her reception of the German demand for a 1-3 ratio in naval tonnage, appear open to attack. She intimation that Mr. Edon, Britain's Minister for League of Nations Affairs, is bar-
"MOBILUBRICATION" gaining with Italy for support of the Anglo-German naval accord is another surprising development. It is suggested that in return for Italian sympathy, Great Britain is willing to lot Italy have her way with Abyssinia. Other nations may well raise a cynical eyebrow. But the facts may be other than they seem. It would be unjust to suggest that Britain's faith in the League of Nations is wavering or that her support of that body may not survive the general criticism levelled at Geneva. It is to be hoped that British statesmen, tak Ing the long view, only jeopardise their reputations with a view to winning an ultimate victory for the cause of peace and for the soke, af unity at Geneva. The Anglo-German naval avcord, signed at the risk of murtally offending France. has brought Germany much nearer to a re-union with the powers still represented at Geneva. British intervention in the Italo- Abyssinian dispute would have made of Italy a bitter enemy, not only of Britain hut of the League forces which Britain could have in- fluenced to support her in any act- prevent the fulfilment of ion to Rome's programme in North-East Africa. Instead of adopting A policy which would have brought
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THURSDAY, JUNE 27. 1935,
USEFUL, BUT NOT
ENOUGH
HOW LAW DEALS WITH MARRIAGE WOES
By LOUISE MORGAN
CINCE the beginning of the year | learn how and to know, where to I have seen over a thousand acquire the necessary Information. matrimonial cases disposed of in the Police, Country and Magis- trates' Courts of London, Middle- sex, Kent and Essex.
The Very Idea!
LET'S BE FRANK!
There's been a lot of talkoe- tnikeo about the report that a song- und-daitee
Frank man, named Wallace married Mae West in Mil- waukee in 1911, was divorced by her in 1910 or 1917, and but still It is easy enough to tabulate the loves her. We've been at some superficial enuses of unhappiness pains to get at the bottom of this What impressed me most was to in marriage: temperamental differ-matter, and now present the posi discover that some 20 oid out of ences, jealousy, sex ignorance or
tion as reported from various the 29 magistrates seemed quite incompatibility, children, the other ventres: unaware of the fact that new court woman, the other man, the mother-
·HORSECOLLAR, IOWA-Frank machinery la being evolved as auro-in-law, nagging, money, cruelty, ly as the sun rises for the special drink, bad housekeeping and cook Wallace, sempi-pro hog caller and treatment of matrimonial cases, ing, unemployment. Feeding all whittling champion of Gooch Coun- These diehard magistrates, most these growths are the roots of eco-ty, admitted to-day that he married f whom are J.P.s by social post- nomies and ignorance.
Mae West In Milwaukes in 1911. tion rather than fitness for the job, I should like to see an economist | "I wish she'd e-mup and see me cling to the traditional legal inter- added to the panel of experts which some time," he said wistfully. pretation in dealing with husbands would eo-operate with the matri- and wives. They fail to under-monial Bench in saving marriages
SEPTICEMIA, CAL-A junior stand that when the purely legal | from the rocks.
in Snap College to-day usaertod fact of desertion or persistent
that he is the original Frank cruelty has been proved they have
Wallace who married Mino West in no more than scratched the sur-
Milwaukee In 1911, face of the problem.
Ignorance of the physical, social, legal and other bases of marriage is, I have been told over and over again, appallingly prevalent. When A scene typical of the majority two average young people marry of police court haunts me. A wo-nowadays they expect life thence- man with an infant in her arms forward to be an unbroken Holly- and two children clinging to her wood dream. skirts has been sitting all day in The present investigation by the the bleak entrance hall, crowded | Home Office was begun on October with a dozen others on a narrow 23, 1934, with the first meeting of wooden bench. Police constables the Departmental Committen ap- come and go. She shrinks cach pointed by the Home Secretary "io time one passes her, and then her inquire whether the courts frightened eyes turn once more to assist, by methods of conciliation, the courtroom door.
the settlement of matrimonial dis-
him,
At five o'clock, after an inter-
W
con
FLUFFING 'MANOR, LESSER TWICKLESFORD, HANTS, ENG- LANDThe Hon. Franels Wallace, F.R.G.S.. said, to-day, "I married Mae West in Milwaukee In 1911 while traveling Incognito in the States as Frank Walince. I can still recall how we took the ferry to Milwaukee from New York across the Harlem River.
"The cowboys and Indians kud quite a celebration for us, after-, ward."
BILGEWATER TEY.-"I am the Frank Wallace who did not
mery Mae West," Frank Wallace, tumbleweed grower of near here. Baid to-day.
YUHU, CHINA-Liang Ch'ion, birda nest hunter, announced to- day that he is starting by ox cart, for Callfornia to claim Mac West as his wife,
Mr. Liang, through an interpre- ter, said that he married Miss West In Milwaukee in 1911.·
Her husband has deserted her. | putes." He is a drunken brute, but he earns The Committee has been faith- rood wages, and the relief authori- fully going about the work. They Wallace (retired), dean of the ALSO RUN, VT-Private Frank Mr. 1. Teut tenders heartfelt thanks
Lies have advised her to summons have sat with magistrates on the G.A.R. Veterans' Home here, ad- to a frienia
their kind
Branch through long and tedious expressions of sym athy in her
hearings; they have listened behind mitter to-day that while touring with Mae West in a "Little Women" vad brevement. Ing floral treabout an open breach between 1taly minable list of motor, rales, as closed doors to evidence from scores
and Britain, and which, therefore. | sault anıl theft cases have been of social workers, solicitors, doc- company in 1911, he married her. was anthinkable, Mr. Edon may heard, a constable tells her that tors, psychologists and others who "We were too young to know our have made a promise of non-inter-her case is adjourned for a fort-have experience of court work; minds," he said, "and we drifted vention with various strings at night. Her face goes ashen. "But they have studied specially prepare apart. I hear she's made quite n inches1. One of those strings ap- I haven't a ha'penny left," she says.ed tables dealing from all angles mame for herself in the movin' pears to be that italy shall not The two neighbours who have with records of cases already act-pitchers since then.” oppose the Anglo-German naval
put off their washing to give evi-led. accord, since it is probable that it dence for her are sympathetic, but The concrete proposals before As proof of his claim, Mr. Wal- will prove a step towards arma- they tell her they can't possibly the Committee are: (1) the type of lace exhibited a photograph of Miss ment and general agreement in put off their washing again. She agencies which, in co-operation West, signed, "Sincerely. Mae Europe. There may be other breaks down and cries helplessly. with the Bench, should be engaged West." strings. It is our hope that in the
to help reconcile husband and wife,
(21 long run this diplomatic jockeying
and
the establishment of will prove of benefit and that The only consistent humanity in special matrimonial courts. Abyssinin, as may now appear, is procedure I found was in the dark, The need for investigation was It is something to the good not to be made a sacrifice for the draughty, and wretchedly equipped urgent in view of the fact that that Germany has pledged her sake of the continuing peace of uffices of those magnificently devot- every year an average of more than self never again to resort to un-Europe.
ed workers, perhaps the poorest 20,000 married people are separat-
"I was never in Milwaukee, I restricted submarine warfare of
paid in the country-the courted by court order, and that close | don't like women, and who is this the type which caused such ANTI-WAR CAMPAIGN.
missionaries and probation officers. on 4,000 husbands are sent to pri- | Mae West, anyway?" terror and resulted in the loss of
These workers, appointed Brst son because they fail to pay what
oflicers Cambridge, England, has issued some 10 or 50 years ago by the is known to warrant So many non-combatant lives
matrimonin! an appeal to Cambridge, Massa- Home Office to attack the problem "those
pensions." during the Great War. The chusetts. It is an appeal which, of conciliation, have by the obscure The consequences to children, econ. undertaking to adhere to the though specifically directed to Har-practical experiments of years pre-omic and psychological, are incal-res restrictions on submarine activi-vard, is intended for every univer-pared the way for present reforms, culable. Separated parents, any ties laid down in the London sity in the civilized world. For Miss C. M. Astle, missionary and probation officer will tell you, are a Naval Treaty is without condi- it is a demand that all the seats of probation officer for the Edmonton direct cause of juvenile crime. tion of any kind, whether other learning on which culture and Division during the past eleven Powers follow suit or not. The education ultimately depend should years, tells me that for every two
London magistrate hus "But the records say, she mar- pity is that it has not been found join in working unceasingly for cases that come up before the mag- One
Five anti-war societies in istrates for final decision in the broken ground by actually putting | ried Frank Wallace," the reporter possible as yet for the major peace. nations of the world to come to Cambridge University have publish police courts at Enfield, Tottenham into practice some of the proposed protested.
ed a pumplitot showing the effect and Wood Green five are settled by reforms. fle is Mr. Claud Mullins, an agreement for the total aboli- that war has on universities, and conciliation in her room,
of the South-Western Police Court tion of the submarine as an the fluence "which universities I have not found a single one at Lavender fill, south of the instrument of war. Both Britain have on the conduct of war. AB of these officers who was not in River. and Germany are in favour of un instance of the former, it is favour of reform. All are agreed He hears all matrimonial cases such abolition, but, in the ab. noted that the academic population that the ideal is special matrimonial | together, on one special afternoon, sence of agreement by other of Cambridge fell from 3,181 in courts, with no hint of litigation or so there is very little waiting and 1914 to 108 in 1918, while, in illus-criminality about them, and magis-cases are never held over, le sits tration of the latter, is quoted the 10 jeopardise their
trates skilled in the work. They in his private consultation room, security by acting alone in the intry in 1934 received what is re-
fact that the department of chem- are keen that the rooms, including where none of the public seems to the courtroom itself, should be penetrate to "pry and peer." Hus- cheerful and home-like, and the at- band and wife sit at ease in two ed agreement between the two of its career, possibly "because of mosphere friendly and conducive chairs instead of standing in wit- countries. Germany demanded the period before the war certain to the utmost frankness. Andness-box and dock. equality in submarines with discoveries had been made in the finally they would welcome the co- Mr. Mullitis believes that before Britain, although for the Lime chemical laboratories at Cambridge operation of medical men and wo- coming up for hearing each case being consenting to a forty-five which became a vital factor in the men, clergymen, psychologists and should be thoroughly investigated
others. per cent. ratio. The German supply of explosives during the
by medical, social, religious and
wur.' the argument in regard to possession of submarines, as in- deed with respect to rc- armament generally, is that she needs means, not of offence, but of defence in case of danger. This is the contention of most nations nowadays; it rests on the view that it is "the other fellow" who is the real danger.
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The pamphlet leaves no room to doubt that the conduct of war is immensely assisted by the research that goes on in univer- sitios. But if universities enn help war so much, what could they not do if they united against it?
TO-DAY'S MOTORING TIP
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TYRE LIFE
When cornering at speed there is a strong side thrust on the tyres long before the car bugins to skid, if it eventually does skid. Thin causes deflection of the walls of
the covers. Covers are designed to withstand a considerable amount
of side thrust, but they are not equal to such a severe strain. The
The quality of the modern, tyre country, not always in deter- is very high; so high, in fact, that mining where justice lies, but in the maker can easily guarantee settling disputes by a show of 10,000 miles of service. It is force. Seldom does it happen generally realised that sudden that right is wholly on one side. braking and skidding cause con- It may be said that people every-siderable wear to the trend of the where are keenly desirous of covers, but there are many who do not understand that too rapid cor- peace, The danger lies in the nering dumages the tyres as much, assumption by cach country of if not more, but in another way. the right to be the judge of its own cause. Once nations sur- | render that right, as individuals have, the future would be much brighter. In the past, there was the Balance of power and the Concert of Europe, but both these were unsatisfactory. The Balance of Power involved rival
heavy load imposed on them re- alliances which led to war, and sults in the disintegration or crack- the Concert of Europe.lacked di- ing of the canvas and rubber ply. rection. In these days, when distance has been annihilated Too rapid cornering, therefore, and frontiers become ridiculous, reduces the life of the tyres, be- cause frequent deflection damages we should look, not for competi- the walls. tion in armaments, but for 'a pooling of resources against any country that breaks the peace a world understanding on the without previous reference to an cheap. We shall have to make impartial authority. This in- some sacrifice of sovereignty all volves no opposing camps, which round, and look with Tennyson's. mean to fight it out sooner. or eyes for a federation of the later. We must aim at the pre-world, but in one branch only of vention of war rather than its administration, viz, that of de- preparation. But we cannot get fence.
A universal belief among them is psychological experts attached to that any two reasonably normal the court and specially trained for people have it in their power to the job. Magistrates working to- make a happy married life together. gether with this panel of experts A couple need only to be willing to (Continued on next column)
"Now be a little gentleman and let Mary Ann have the nice birthday presont you brought her.”
"Liang Ch'ien in English means Frank Wallace," Mr. Llang ex plained, imperturbably.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.—Municipal authorities are reported to be in- vestigating the presence here lust week of a visitor from Hollywood.
This person, rumoured to be a press agent, พ Been fooling around the marriage license bureau, according to several reliable wit nesses, just before Mae West'a 1911 marriage license was dis- covered.
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REAL STRATEGY Ollicer: "Now tell me, what is your iden of strategy?”.
Private: "It's when you're out of ammunition, but keep right on firing."
THE STYLE
Two ladies were attending a con- vert at the town hall. They looked
hout them.
"Nice building," said one Indy. "What style of architecture is it?" "I'm not quite sure," said the other lady, "but I think it's Re- miniscence."
WELL-TIMED
"Jimpson's address was well- timed, wasn't it?"
"Yes, two thirds of the audience had their watches out before be finished."
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A young man walked rather pon- sively Into the village post office. "Any letters for me to-day?" he asked the postmistress.
"No, Henry," she replied rather sharply.
"That's rather strange," he mur- mured half to himself,
"Nothing strange about that, young man," replied the postmis trose. "You haven't answered her last letter yet!"
could get to the root of the trouble, and bring husband and wife to... gether with new understanding and hope for the future.
Before the end of the year the Home Office Committee will have its report ready, What action may be taken rests with public opinion.
Meantime, at the South-Western the "Marriage Mender" struggles. single-handed against heavy odds to bring to bear every possible agency that modern science offers to save the homes of the rising generation,