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SATURDAY,
MARCH
27,
1937.
CHILD BRIDES OF THE
Scandal that Rocks the
United
States
Now York, March 20.
From the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Americans are discussing to-day whether the now continent has made a step back Into the Dark Ages, and all because of child marriages-an Eastern custom condemned by an American authoress in her book "Mother India."
Leaders of social reform movements bave launched a vigorous campaign to alter laws that permit unions which they describe in varying terms as "outrageous, shocking, and horrible," and with the repercussion having been forcibly felt at Washington there is little doubt that such inarriages will not take place in future.
It was the marriage of golden-
haired nine-year-old
Eunice Winstead, to six-foot
Charlie Johns, 22, a typical farmer
of the backwoods,
that has called attention to the fact that girl brides are common in the Southern States of America.
Little Eunice, who now lives with the her husband in a cabla, up in Clinch mountains of Tennessee, is as sweet and graceful a child as anyone might care to see.
mluister's comment is that he fell he was acting for the best. "They looked a little young," the parson observed, "but they wouldn't tell me their ages."
HONEYMOON CABIN
Curiously enough, the little moun- lain cabin where the Johns couple are spending their honeymoon is in the same country as that in which the
MOUNTAIN COVES THE RIGHT
famous Swopes Monkey trial took Statue of Liberty which is placed af place, when William Jennings Bryan, one of the entrances to the exhibition former
candidate for the United ground in Paris, has been turned in States Presidencey, gave evidence de- order to show the face to the crowds, Tefending the literal interpretation of The picture was taken during the the Bible account of the origin of operation, which was very difficult
owing to the size of the statue..
She and her husband were unlied In matrimony by an itinerant vivallet minister. The ceremony took place on the roadside, and now the
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mar.
And Investigations are revealing that in the remote mountain coves of Tennessee, and sundry other States, inarriage laws are so lax, and local
"Caesar Was a
customs so primitive, that virtually Great
anybody at any age can be married provided parents and neighbours do not object.
In the case of Mr. and Mrs. Charlle
Queen...
Johns, parents on both sides were THE WOES OF SMITH complacent, and white neighbours
were
nol demonstrative in their en- thusiasm, they made it plain that
MINOR
PASTEURISATION OF ALL MILK URGED FOR CALIFORNIANS
Although the California State Legislature has not yet met again, Dr. J. C. Geiger, director of the Public Health, City and County of San Francisco, believing it highly desirable to have state legislation requiring pasteurisation in communities of 5,000 or more population, recently sent a letter giving his view on the subject, to each senator and assemblyman.
No action, of course, can be taken until the legislature meets, but it is hoped by Dr. Geiger that sufficient interest will be created to bring about passage of such a bill.
Raw milk, dealers, meanwhile, are preparing themselves to oppose any such proposed legislation introduced at Sacramento in 1987. Roscoe Clowes, president of the Natural Milk Producers' Association, in advising his members that no city or county can pass a compulsory pasteurisation ordinance as long as raw milk is authorised by the state, snys:
Russia's Huge New Warplanes Scheme
Moscow; Mar. 10.
"Frankly, we expect a big fight will be made in Sacramento in 1037 to amend the state lawn to allow cilles to pass their own. milk laws, and we must ho prepared to combat any such move which could be used to unfairly attack our legitimate Interests."!
Dr. Geiger, In his letter to legislators, made the following appeal for pasteurisation laws:
an
re
con-
"Pasteurisation of milk, 09 added safety factor, has been quired of all milk in San Francisco, except certified milk wilch
the stitutes less than one per cent, of total, since the current milk ordin- passed by the board of supervisors May 15, 1033, and signed by Mayor Rossi May 25, 1933, has been in effect.
"local custorns do not concern, out "Signing the Pledge At IMMEDIATE reconstruction of unce,
siders," And that foreigners" had beller remain at home.
Mrs. Winstead, mother of Eunice, was married at sixteen, and her eldest
was thirteen.
·
Runnymede"
Russia's military aviation The industry is announced. chief aims are to produce war- planes---
With a speed of 500 miles an hour;
To y at a height of over 10
Our history-books must be girl, Mary, was married before she rewritten.. A manual published in London shows us that we have WHAT MA THINKS
been wrong about the past. According to Ma Winstead, Hittle Consider Julius Caesar. These
miles; foreign unico "Won't become a wife in fact are some of the newest disclo- as well as in name before she is asures of Mr. Cecil Hunt: few years older."
Cresar was a great Queen, and one day she thought she was going to be captured, Bo sho prisoned Herself.
The BBC now thoroughly alive. to the insidious effect on Empire radio listeners of the propaganda broadcast unceasingly by transmitters, has resolved to spare neither money nor effort in making Daventry supreme among the world's short-wave stations,
Omclully, the. Corporation, siales that the three-nowhfch-powered ordered for transmitters recently Daventry are capable of an output of 50 kilowatts each, Thelr, moxi mum power will be 100 kilowalls.
It is further understood that the
Meanwhile, her lanky mountaineer husband, armed with a gun to keep away unwelcome visitors, undertakes train his wife to the duties of hur
office.
Mrs. Jubns, the child-wife, in posing for a photograph, sat on Alle knee of her husband holding a doll he gave her as a wedding present. "Ah'm right happy," said Eunice,
B.B.C. is now considering ordering after Charles had declared, "I believe
a fourth new transmitter of the same in raising up a wife like you want
Cesar was Roman Admiral. Why landed in Britain about 54 B... but he had a lough struggle. and it was not until 45 A.D. that he really made pence.
type. There will. thus be six trans-conessee mountain follt are the illuminating. Smith Minor was al-
mitters at the B.B.C.'s disposal by
shotguns, from father to generations.
son for
next year. Although the contract same strange people who run iileit for the latest one will not be given sills and maintain family feuds with until the three ordered in 1935 are in full operation, there is ample room for it in the reconstructed Daventry :station.
Able to cover 6,000 miles with- oui refuelling.
"For more than 20 years prior to that time, however, pasteurisation of milk has been required in San Francisco, of most of the milk sold In the city.
STARTLING RESULTS
The results of the application of The task of reconstruction will be this procedure to milk sold in San startling.. carried out by a newly-created Coin-Francisco have been so
particularly in the reduction of infant missariat of War Industry,
mortality and in the reduction of This new Commissariaiļa budget, milk-borne diseases, that the San though not yet minde public, is known Francisco Department of
Public to be the hugest in the history of this Health is recommending to you as country.
one of California's legislators, that Each aviation plant is to maintain appropriate legislation be passed to provide for compulsory pasteurization- a technologist on its staff, whose sole on a state-wide basis, in all commun- function will be to keep the Gevern-les of more than 5,000 population. ment informed on the latest develop-
BLUE NILE DAM IN
for the industry and consumer, and
the simplest, cheapest, least object- lonable and most trustworthy "method" of rendering infected safe,
Julius Cdesar visited England regularly from 130 B.C. to 554 n.c.
A TUDOR JUMP The historical section is the most
ments in the aviation industry abroad. "Pasteurisation prevents sickness nt
You have history
The world's record air speed, 446 and saves lives. It is advocated be- convey the miles an hour, was set up by the cause milk is apt 10 Ways good
and "the Tudors followed the Stuarts, heard about Caesar. Know, further,
Halian Warrant Officer Francesco viruses of a number of disensos horm- but learned nothing through Agello over Lake Garda in 1994. ful to man. Pasteurisation effective- Cardinal
the Heights. climbed They are usually iterate and Abraham because he was ambi-
Wolsey
ly prevents this hazard. It implies since the Washington Government, as tious; Disrnell was the first great
precaution, protection und preven- ilon. It is the best assurance, both Particular concern is being felt they allege, has done very little for us regarding he present activities of them, they look after their own local British statesman to become a un the Black Death was a plague which half-killed one-third-of-the- the German short-wave station at affaire-in-their-own-way.
At present Tennessee has no law population: Hereward the Wake was which transmits "highly Zoczen,
minimum age for famous Cornish figure who appear coloured news bulletins In English establishing
as the to the African Continent dally.
ed in novels; the Royal Mint is used absence of jaws, the Governor or the State admits the time by the King at meals; Joan of Arc ulso called Boadicea, and King Was John
signed the Pledge at Runny- The present strength of Daventry's is ripe for action.
and elvic leaders innede. fanede. 1wo transmitters is only 15 kilowatts,
supported by public Mr. Hunt's contributors have ideas organised about geography also, Denmark, on the part of Zersen of 50 kilowatts. opinion generally, have The deficiency in power has long protests intended to force action by they tell us, is washed by the Scaity was a horn meant that the ordinary British the State Legislature "to wipe out Cat; the Matterhorn
his disgrace from the records of the blown by the ancients when anything pick up спп in Africa listener Zeesen's signal' on his receiver more State."
was the matter; Normandy is right underneath South MUST ACT PROMPTLY
and Wales; casily than that of Daventry. Recep
Oberammergau 15 famous for its Lion of the German station is also
Mrs. Sarah Neas, president of the electric power station. less subject to
parent council of the State, declares:
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marriage.
In
Church
as compared with a maximum output Tennessee,
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"fading." It was to offset this competition
There is pleasant ingenuity, too, in "Unless we act promptly Tennessee the statement: "The inhabitants of that the B.B.C., 18 months ago,
will be shamed before the world. Crete are called Creatures." And placed the order for three new short-
At
One the same
can Imagine such a 1bing everyone will be happy to learn that wave transmitters.
happening in India, but not In most of the land in Holland is water. time a further 60 acres of land were
Christian nation."
WHERE THE LORDS PLAY which to creet eight) purchased,
Literature next, Twelfth Night" new aerial masts, of an average height of
250 fect. The
were instructed that engineers the new transmitters must be ready by May this year, in order that the Coronation broadcasts should reach the widest possible audience through-wife should be." Johns suid. out the Empire.
No official opening of the enlarged Daventry station is planned. The transmitters will be brought into use, one by one, as soon as they have been completed and have passed their testa, At first they will work on low power, reaching their full strength only after a few months' service.
"I married Eunlee Young because want to bring tice up as a mountain
The honeymoon cabin of Johns, and his bewildered little bride, has been was a play written for Christmas converted into a fort, with the giant Time "to end up the celebrations and take down thinga"; Macabre is a bride groom standing guard.
Dickens character; Millon went into.
come when he wrote about his friend.
One sporting discovery. "The Oval is where the Lords play cricket,"
Yes, Mr. Hunt has filled many of the gops in our education. We "Maybe the child did marry tos should like particularly to thank him young, but it's too late now to talk for this: "With what do you con- neet Fleet Street? Races are held about it. -
"Eunice's husband has 40 neres of there quite often. That is how it land, bought with his own money, and gets its name."
"Outlanders better keep away." Mrs. Winstead, mother of the bride, told callers: "People ought to mind their own business,
can take care of his wife. Be the Obviously. Why has no one men- boy, and that's enough."
tlaned this before?
THINKS MICKEY
MICKEY MOUSE
FILMS. 'INDECENT":
NIGHT AND DAY WATCH The B.B.C. is fully aware of every propaganda broadcast given by a foreign 'slation. At the receiving station at Tatafield, Surrey, engineers are engaged day and night in picking up and recording foreign program-
Mickey Mouse, idol of millions of and the most provocative outstanding of which are sent to children, nearly toppled off Broadcasting House to be studied by pedestal recently. high officials of the Corporation and, if necessary, passed on to the Foreign Omce,
mes,
It was largely as the result of pressure on the part of the Colonial and Dominion Offices that the B.B.C. determined to embark on the present costly scheme, which will give Britain the most efficient short-wave service in existence.
his
So did all those joyous birds, and mals and insects that people Walt Dimey's Silly Symphonies,
For this is what one man said about them:
"The Silly Symphony, 'Who Kill ed Cock Robin was not at all the kind of film children should see, and, anyway, I am one who thinks that even some of the carlier Me key Mouse films, with scantily-clad
STILL ABLE TO WEAR BLACK SHIRTS DESPITE BAN ON UNIFORMS
London, Mar. 19.
Sir Oswald Mosley and his Fascist followers to-day, con- tinued to wear their black shirts following a court ruling that the recent law banning political uniforms did not include the calour of an Individual's shirt,
Sir Oswald wore his, black ahint under an ordinary lounge suit last night at a Fraciet meeting at Hornsey Hall, which was marked by disorders until slx protesting anti-Fascists were ejected.Clemente Bruning, prospectivy.. Fascists parliamentary.
candidate was introduced to the meeting?
dancers doing exotic numbers, were indecent."
1
The critic was the Rev. D. O. Soper, and he was speaking at London conference called by the Public Morality Council. The con- ference asked for an inquiry into the Cinema Christian Council and the Public Morality Council. The con- ference asked for an inquiry into the showing of "A" films to children.
There was no vote. taken about Mickey Mouse. But it was decided that tolerant, intelligent people who like the films and do not imagine that untold orgies take place behind the glittering facades of pleture palaces, should try to decide what sort of Alms children should see,
Chasing teacher, pretending to be a hungry tiger, is the newest thrill for schoolchildren.
Sixteen hundred London school mistressos sat back in a cinema and laughed heartily when they saw it on the screen.
Miss Grant Clark, L.C.C. organiser of physical training for girls and women, explained that the children were cinsing the teacher as a means 61 keeping fit, Ma
LIBEL ACTION FALSE STATEMENT -
REPRINTED IN BOOK single TWO HOSPITALS SHARE
"Next .Lo water parification. pasteurization is the most Important the preventive measure in Beld of sanitation.
PURE. PURIFIED £500 DAMAGES
"Pasteurisation does not claim to and common replace sanitation The Cancer Hospital (Free), Ful- decency. It cannot atone for filth ham-road, S.W., and the Royal North- and should not be used as a redemp-. ern Infirmary, Inverness, will share tion process. Stale, weak and dirty £500 damages agreed to be paid milk is still stale, weak and dirty milic settlement of a libel artion heard in the King's Bench Division before Mr. Justice Mackinnon, but which in no way concerned them.
after it has been pasteurised.: A pure milk is better than a purified milk. However, no one should drink raw milk that cannot be guaranteed by Sir Murdoch Macdonald, M.P.. the the health officer as safe and free engineer, complained of statements in from danger. contributions to periodicals by Mr.
"Even certified milk or milk of Edward Morgan Forster, of West equally high character is only rea- Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Surrey, and republished by Messrs. Edward sonably safe without pasteurisation. Arnold and Co. of Maddox-street, Less than one per cent. of all the milk. Westminster, in a book called "Abinger found on the market is certified. Harvest," The author and
"In this brief note I have tried to |publishing company were 'defendants. point out the reasons supporting
Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., sald Sir
pasteurisation as a sound rational and
fundamental Murdoch was formerly adviser to the
public he
health Ministry of Public Works in Egypt have the bencâts of good pulle sure. Smaller communities should
ihe
Фл Irrigation
A pamphlet, "Nile Projects," by Sir health measures with the facilities William Willcocks, was sent to Mr.at
equal to that existing in the larger re-equ Forster by the Athenaeum for
how- view. It denouneed
communities. Pasteurisation, scheme in the Sudan in which Sir ever, is one of the many that have Murdoch was concerned.
not been applied in the smaller.com- munities in the past and indeed in the present time."
SIR WILLIAM WILLCOCKS Shortly before the projection of the Aswan Dam in 1898 Sir William WIB-} 6i
cocks had resigned from the Egyptian "Gaol Breaker King"
Sentenced To Death
Irreigation Service, In 1913 Sir. Murdoch Macdonald was instructed by Lord Kitchener to design a dam-the Sennar Dam-for irrigating cotton-
Paris, Mar. 20. land in the Sudan from the Blue Nile Armand : Jean Spilers, known, as waters, He did so, and work began the king of geol-breakers," was in 1014.
sentenced to death at the Pau Aseizen In 1918 Sir William Willcocks, as for the murder of a policeman at St.
Jean-de-Luz ---- an independent crite, in communicat- ing certain vlows to the High Com- He escaped twice from the penal missioner, asserted that the official settlement at Devil's Island, and from records for the discharge of the river the. Sante prison in Paris and many had been grossly exaggerated.
other prisons in France and Belgium. The Institute of Civil Engineers Reuter. found that the measurements by Sir Murdoch Macdonald and his staff were
the most accurate ever made of the statements Jn the republished work discharge' of a large river,
were mode, without mailce or know».
Thereupon Sir William Willcocks | Iedge of the true facts," They had published his "Nile Projects" pamphlet | withdrawn all copies of the book and He said the committee was biassed and removed the offending passage. They the scheme would bring famine and apologized without reserve, Sir Mur- disaster in Egypt.
doch sought no pecuniary gain, and the Bgreed damages would be divided as When Mr.. Forster reviewed the reprinted pamphlet he did not know slated. The defendants would also. of the findings, of this committee, and Pay Sur Murdoch
SIF costs.""" repeated the statement in the pamphlet
Mr. SL. John Hutchinson,” K.C., for
S William was prosecuted for libel defendants, expressed their regres. A
in the Nile Projects" pamphlet before Sudan happening. had slipped Mr.
an English-Judge and jury in Egypt
In 1021, and pleaded fustincation.
| The jury found here was no justifica-
tlon, and he was convicted.. As
Totaler's milenton,
he
Messrs. Arnold and Company, added,,had been publishing for 50
- Sir Murdoch fully accepted the a yeard and had not had a libel action.
surance of the defendants that the
before. fay
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