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VICTORIA REGINA Centenary of the Queen who changed the face of England
By
G. M. YOUNG that morality, the perfect ex-
fashioned methods of waxing the The Centenary of the Accession of
carriage.
Have you been using the mne auto simply through wax for year
Don't use a horse and carlage auto wax.
force of habit?
Queen Victoria is celebrated to-day.
N the year 1709 Swift published a pamphlet un- der the title: "A Project
bourne, child of a more genial and less censorious time. It would be nearer the truth to say
emplification in Victoria and her Consort of those standards by which English life had come to be regulated, saved everything.
Before the Queen could earn the love of her people at targo, she had to win their approval. She did not begin well: her
to for the Advancement of Re- demonstrative attachment to the
It is no longer necessary to werk nil day, to wear yourself oot KUB nod RUB, in order to attain a waterproof. weather resisting Wax finish for your car.
ligion and the Reformation Whig Government was not well of Manners." Something regarded by a public which was Try WHIZ LONDON COACH WAX led me the other day to read longing to see the Tories back. automobile and less work for you. it again, and as I read, this Chief had to deal sharply with Your waxing troubics, like the horse fancy occurred to me. and buggy, wit be
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ALONDAY Jose 20, 1938
TRADING IN DEATH
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Once at least the Commander-in-
disloyal talk in an officers' mess; and only her marriage, coming just before the end of the Whig Swift died in 1745; if he had ascendency, and the prudence of returned to curth a hundred Prince Albert, saved her from years later, and gone about in what might have been 4171 the circles with which he was awkward encounter with the most familiar. mixing with exultant victors.
Cabinet Ministers and Church Under his sage guidance, she dignitaries: merchants, clergy acquired the art and science of
men, and writers of distinction;
and visiting the Universities and constitutional government, for country houses of England; he which she had, indeed, would have found our religion devoted to her duty:
prime qualifications. advanced and our manners
| formed beyond his almost
| pectations.
22-
implication. In fact, they make but that, by a singular provi. had once confided; and she had
sessions
it to
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THIRD
DEGREE
By
Hugh Brady
concerned as the mugistrates that the
i prisoner shall have fair play.
The Cheltenham torso mystery, the Brighton trunk murders, the Scho women murders—to ime only a few
the collection cases entailed
11 every- hundreds of statements.
Ta recent Leeds mur- justice.
Was
11
her
up-
evidence
"It is difficult to elicit forts. either for or against à person. without questioning him, and it is next to impossible to ascertain what a person rently knows or means to say without a degree of persistence and repetition In questioning which can hardly avold being compared to a cross- examination and runs the risk 04 'third of being denounced degree.'
of
two She was she was fearlessly truthful. But she was obstinate, narrow, prejudiced: and there is something to be said for those who thought at now. that So striking and so profound is the time, and think the change that Swift, who was when the Prince Consort's in- WIN replaced by not easily deceived, finding that #uence profligacy, irreligion, and public Disraeli's, she unlearnt the rules corruption no longer furnished more really than she had learnt themes for censure, would pro- them. bably have taken up
his pen The appalling growth of the again to castigate our hypocrisy.
re I am just old enough to If he had asked us how it and
one interviewed stood on his rights murentie evil in America in the all come about, we should have member the echoes, as it were,
-which are that he need say nothing past several years has been had to acknowledge that the
of the republican talk of the
until he has engaged a solicitor- WALM 'Seventies. IL
пол simultaneous with the
very "reexample and influence of Queen
many a guilty person would escape But it was habilitation" of China's lost Anne, on which he relied to dangerous perhaps.
The Crown was under Ader triad an acquitted
In many countries the law provides provinces in the north-east, effect the reformation, had had earnest.
suspected or under suspicion must answer a magistrate's according to authorities on this remarkably little to do with it; a cloud. The Queen had ceased prisoner alleged that the police that a person
to be the Constitutional had practised third-degree questions under pain of punishment. problem of dope control, who that it had come over us like a
un methods to extort a confession. In this country it in for the poller change of weather to which Sovereign in whose serene,
ruse prove their country
ngainst the make no apology for the obvious causes innumerable contribute: iusseal, integrity the
What is the third degree?
aerused. and before they have Test
there igo years
4 evidence to arrest à mon they have yet become the abored
Hersonal parlamentary debale every right to question him and ask of accusations
very ugly dence, we now had on the Throne Hot
Mies to account for his movements. variety. Recently thea young Queen who was really Mother and Empress, the oldest following allegations by
at
Str two Scotland Yard In his book on Scotland Yard, of all living monarchs and the Savidge that his OWN of
trand subjected the League
of such as he believed
to John Moylan, who has been for many head and symbol of the greatest detectives Sovereign to be:
third-degree methods in connection
years Receiver for the Metropolitan Nations" Opium Advisory Com-
of Empires.
which "I do not talk,"
size he
with the cune wrote,
was Palice District and Courls, anys: a charge of indecency But round the figure of the acquitted on mittee the Japanese representa- "of her talent for government, tive was indignant when the her love of the people, or any Sovereign,whose dealings, after in Hyde Park.
Ambassa- Th cofficers were exonerated by Chinese representative alleged other qualities that are pure. all, with Ministers,
Generala and ly regal; but of her picty, dors,
foreign the Commission subsequently that the Japanese Army WILS
polated to make inquiries, but as a charity. temperance, conjugal Princes were known only to result the Rules for the Guidance actually carrying into China's
love, and whatever other vir- few, and their lips sealed, there of the Poltee in secking interior vast quantities of
Lues du best adorn a private had grown
the were tightened up. up long ago
The report laid down very definite dangerous drugs with which to
life: wherein, without question legend of the Queen in her home, or flattery, she hath no as the exponent, and almost the recommendations concerning quest- overcome the natural animosity
author, of English morality.
ioning, to this effect: of the people or, literally, to put superior."
moral in- "This damned morality will The legend of her Mr. Frank C. sleep.
ruln everything." said Mel fluence persists, inverting the Waldrop, writing in the British
truth, which is that the English middle classes, freeholders and edition of the Cosmopolitan, agrees with Mr. Stuart Fuller, heroin is produced daily. This householders who raised up and evidence is fairly conclusive that pulled down Ministries at their American observer on the although the Japanese authori-pleasure, demanded a virtuous League Opium Advisory Con- ties may not actuaily encourage Sovereign with a decorous Court mittee, who asserts bluntly: "A# the traffic in this dangerous, and a well-ordered family life. to the production of raw opium, Indeed
commodity, Swift, however, would have the information which we have they are not taking any very found the legend useful.
it serviceable received in my country indicates drastic measures to eradicate it. would have held that in the provinces of China is well-known that the profits to religion and manners where there is no Japanese in-from this death-dealing industry good behaviour could
are immense, for there are many commended, and illustrated, by reading. fluence, a sincere effort has been thousands of unfortunate people reference to the practice of the made to reduce the production who become addicted to this Sovereign, that children should Sprayed with Tear-Gas of raw opium and that this effort particular form of vice which grow up believing that the Queen THIRD-DEGREE methods there later, and then
include beallog prisoners criones. has met with surprising success. kills as surely any other wished all her people to be good,
Browne and Kennedy, it will be the face; confining them in very cold remembered, were both hanged for When we come, however, to the poison, and with untold agonies and nurseries regulated by the with a rubber hose; striking them in provinces under Japanese control for the victim. The remarkable dictum: The Queen is always or hot cells; suspending them bend the murder of an Essex police con-
punctual.
downwards while spraying them stable, and it is generally admitted or influence, we find a very thing is that so many apparently and balanced people sensible
Whether Victoria, less happily with tear-gas; and almost blinding that clever questioning by the police
them with the glare of are-lights led to their downfall. different state of affairs. In the turn to narcotics for stimulation married to a
less far-sighted, shone fuil in their faces throughout no suggestion, however, of third- Browne did not three north-eastern provinces, or for some reason
or another serious man, could have filled so hours of remorseless cross-examin-degree methods.
talk. but
did, his friends that is to say, Manchuria, we which, very frequently, is trivial perfectly the part assigned
her by the moral requirements A legislative commission which has Kennedy was so keen to place the find that the area designated by and is never rational. But that
The harm which of her people is a speculation not been inquiring into the methods of blame on his confederate that he the new regime now functioning is the case.
The murder in January 1930 of proposed the abolition of third de-
Red Max, who was killed in a Soho in that region for the lawful the narcotic trafle has done and perhaps worth pursuing. The the New York State police recently helped in the undoings of both.
fact remains that she, or they aree. opium-poppy cultivation in 1937 is doing in an increasing degree together, did fill it, and even im-l
Since
the Savidge Commission house and his body dumped by the roadside at St. Albons, had an un- was 156,061 acres, un compared in America is the responsibility\ prove upon it; he, by his keen gave its indings, allegations of third-
of unscrupulous racketeers and
made usual sequel. to 133,333 acres in 1936, an in- the ineffective control of such she, by her natural gaiety and country, But in only one case, BO Sharpe found much more than they
taste and intellectual breadth, degree methods have
A skilled band of questioners under ngainst the police forces
grim-visaged ex-Chiet Inspector crease of 17 per cent.; and that authorities as those in Manchu frank good humour, mitigating far an I can discover, was it suggested
were looking for during that taquiry, unlawful cultivution has reached | kuò, it is affirmed. Is it any somewhat the censorious and that violence had been used.
and the results proved conclusively such a point that the regime | wonder
are vigilant austerity in which so That one considers that in London the value of close interrogation. referred to found it necessary commencing
Scores of people--mostly liens- on February 3, 1937, to issue a suspicion upon Japanese whoreat a part of English society detectives daily seeking for interina were questioned, and every day into
luy bound.
flon, it is satisfactory to realise that the police net fell men and women charges of bullying and browbeating who were wanted for all kinds of made only occasionally. Day offences. Many whom the pollee after day the cases heard in the had been seeking for years were sent courts disclose that the police are as to prison or deported.
To Hide Other Crimes
murderous
that Americans
to look with
be
A rigid instruction should be Issued to the police that no questioning of prisoner or a person FAY custody about any crime or offence with which be Is, or may be, charged, should be permitted.
If a prisoner expresses a wish
to
to make a voluntary statement he should be cautioned, offered writing materials, und left write without being overlooked, He questioned, or prompted.
Compared with this, the procedure that
said to be frequently adopted by the American police to extract statements re- from
suspects makes sensationni
to
tion.
public warning to unlicensed Insist that they are doing every- cultivators... Last year I said thing in their power to destroy to the committee, 'Where Japan- this narcotic flow at its source? The qualities with which the ese influence advances in the Fur Is it any wonder that some are legend loved to adorn her were East--what goes with it? Drug commencing to ask themselves not those which inspire awo in n truffle. This continutes to be the whether there is not some deep nursery. case."
and sinister motive in what they "There is our Queen again," It is no longer a secret that consider the Japanese potence Newman wrote, when more than when the military forces func-of sincerity? For, just as surely half her reign was still before tioning in Manchukuo occupied as though they were to bombard her, northeru Charlar there im-American cities with guns and mediately followed “ forced bombs, the narcotic traffickers increase in the aren sown toare killing American people. opium-poppy production; and And Amerlean opluion is harden- morphine factories were starteding into conviction that the once in Charhar by the Japanese Government, is not at Japanese."
In one such factory, actually responsible for this according to statements made crime against civilisation, at public at Geneva, fifteen times least it is not doing what it the world's legitimate, need of might to put a stop to it.
"who is so truly and justly popular; she roves about in the midst of tradition and romance; she scattera myths and legends from her na she goes along: she is a being of poetry, and you might be fairly sceptical whether she had any personal existence. She is always at some beauti-
been
this In
afone there are more thun 1,000
are
It is right and proper that the police should be kept in their place as the servants of the people, but few right-minded persons will con- have tend that the police should their hands tied behind them in the battle with crime.
Boy's Confession
ONE of the most amazing cases
can recall of a person xub- milting tamely to long questioning without protest was when 15-years- old Harold Jones was suspected of the murder in 1821 of an eight-years- He was old girl at Abertillery. pinced on trial and acquitted. The Scutland Yard men were certain of the boy's gulli, and their bellef was tragically vindlented when Jones murdered a second child a few weeks confessed to both
There was
and
ful, noble, bounteous work or
KNOW of one murder case other. If you trust the papers.
where the pollee were Aix different She is doing alms-deeds in the almost certain, on Highlands: she meets beggary occasions, that the man they were Kulity party. questioning was the in her rides at Windsor: she All six mea, in turn, had brought writes verses in albums, or themselves into the zone of suspicion is mis by their statements; but eventually draws sketches, or taken for the housekeeper by the thorough work of the police established that the men were only some blind old woman, or she seeking to cover up other crimes. runs up a bill as if she were a mainly burglary-and
not were child. Who finds fault with concerned in the murder at all. these things? He would be a cynie, he would be white. ilvered, and would have blood
(Continued on Pece 10.)
Despite the occasional allegations, then, that third-degree methods have been employed, most people will, I consider, agree that our poltee forcer serve us well.