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Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, this "bestowed more pains on work than on any of my other productions."
Berkeley referred to a book entitled Virtues of Tar-water," in which lie extolled the benefits of a concoction for curing various ailments,
Accused of exaggerating, Berkeley retorted: "To speak oul, I suspect tar-water is a panacea,”.
Whereupon the newspapers of the day waxed sarcastle at the bishop's
Here expense.
Io an epigram published in one periodical:..
MONDAY, MARCH 13,
St. Gregory the Great.
Born: Bishop George Berkeley,
philosopher, 1684.- Died: Caesar Borgia, killed,
1508; Ludovick Muggleton, founder of the Muggleton- ians, 1697.,
His first preferment in the Church was the deanery of Derry. 1e wor no sooner settled in this post than he
He pro- North American Indians. posed the building of a college in and Bermuda as a missionary school He offered to resign his deanery, worth £1100 a year, and go out there us first president at a, salary of
"Who dare deride what pious conceived an idea for converting the
Cloyne has done! The Church shall rise
vindicate her son; She tells us all her bishops shep-
herds are,
the
And shepherds heal their rotten £100 a year.
sheep with far”
*
Sir
Parliament considered the plan and gave its approval, and Berkeley modo of preparations to take a number A certain John Wishaw, a solicitor, kindred spirits. wrling to a friend on May 25, 1744. For seven years, however, gives a brief account of Berkeley Robert Walpole made various excuses and his tar-water:
for withholding the charter and grant "The Bishop of Cloyne, in Ireland, of £20,000 promised by the Govern- bas published a book, of two shillings ment.
Meanwhile Berkeley had set sail price upon the excellence of tor- water, which is to keep ye bloud in for Rhode Island, accompanied by his THE biggest handicap in Bri- due order, and a great remedy in wife--the daughter of the Speaker of
tish diplomacy at the pre-is to put, I think, a gallon of water
many cases. His way of making it the Irish House of Commons.
The whole scheme was doomed to sent time is of the British Gov-to a quart of tar, and after stirring fallure, owing mainly to the breach ernment's own creation. It is it together, to let it stand 48 hours, of faith of Sir Robert Walpole, who And then pour off the clear and eventually applied the money to other their deliberate cold-shouldering drink a glass of about half a pint in purposes. of Russia.
Russia?
hc and
funda ye mern, and as much at five in ye. After spending nil the afternoon, So it's become common could raise from his deanery This refusal of Mr. Chamber-to call for a glass of tar-water in a from other sources, Berkcicy was lain and his colleagues to col coffee-house, as a dish of Lea
or forced to abandon his project for coffee," laborate with Russia contribut-
converting the Indians. The Bishop practised what he
Through Dean Swift Berkeley had ed more than anything else to preached, stuck to his tor-water, made
of the the sequaintance the democratic rout at Munich.and wrote a sequel to his previous celebrated Vanessa, Mrs. 1lester Van Russia had publicly avowed in work, called 'Further Thoughts on Homrelgh, who, upon discovering that Tar-water," being his last production Swift was married, left Berkeley half *** | unambiguous terma her inten-for the Press.
her property. It appears that she tion of fulfilling her treaty obli- Berkeley suffered from what he had met him only orice at dinner, gations. But the British Gov- described as nervous colle and could
oblain relief only ernment apparently preferred to specific. believe the tittle-tattle of cosmo- politan busy-bodies who assert- ed that Russia was either un- willing or unable to fulfil her obligations.
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In the same year his "Annlyst," placed him in the centre of a hot controversy.
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BRITAIN PREPARES-II
NATIONAL
SERVICE
by
H. L. Percy
United Press Staff Correspondent,
аго
LINKED UP with Britain's
anti-aircraft
army. several voluntary organisations, which, while coming under the heading of Air Raid Precautions, are not actually military in the strict sense of the word.
For instance, there is the ob- server
Members of this, corps. mostly on the coast, man observation posts, and give first warning of ap- proaching enemy aircraft. A com- plicated code of telephone signals has
niready been arranged for flash-
Bristol, Manchester, Shefeld, Derby, Hull,
EDITOR'S NOTE: In the next war Britain, for the first time In 900 years, will be in grave danger of armed Invasion. In the past the navy kept her shores intact. The danger now is from the air.
To meet this modern peril, Britain is organising her civil population. Every able-bodied man and woman will have a job to do." This series of articles tells-the story of Britain's army of "passive defence", and of, the hundred-and-one other ways in which Britain is preparing for war at home.
cases,
After his return from Rhode Island. where he had spent three years walt- ing for the Government grant, he
ing the warning to local headquarters, pulsory almost at a moment's notice- published the most useful of his
Recruits must be above the age of in an emergency. Apart from this obsession of works, The Minute Philosopher,"
30 and have good hearing and eye- Decision to let everybody have, a sight.
hand in defending his and her Berkeley's, he was a remarkable written in the form of dialogue. man. He was great philosopher It was a critical-survey-of-the Then there is-the-balloon-barrage-country was taken after the Czecho-- and mathematician, though often various forms of free-thinking of the Hundreds of blimps dangling cur- Slovakian crisis. Before that, that is
time. It was warmly appreciated by
tains of steel wire will encircle the from January, 1938, the Air Raid This determination to force unorthodox.
principal cities. Their purpose is to Precautions. Act.
Act covered what. certain sections of the Church, and
little. Russia into isolation-to treat At Trinity College, Dublin, where was shown to the Queen, with whom force enemy planes to heights at preparation for defence there was. which accurate bombing will be im This was a more or less luke-warm possible.
recruitment her as the pariah of Europe he was educated, opinion was divided Berkeley became a great favourite.
as air-raid wardens, Dg to whether he was n fool or a Through her influence he was. continues. Mr. Chamberlain, itprodigy. His subsequent career appointed to the deanery of Down, In addtion to London, the fellow weekly Instruction in dealing with
Ing cities are to have barrages: gas and bombs, and so forth. seems, would prefer to lose the proves that he was no fool, for before und in 1735 promoted to the see of
he was 23 he won a fellowship.
Cloyno.
PUBLIC DEMAND Within three years he published British Empire without Russian
his "Theory of Vision," in which he
Newcastle, Plymouth, Southampton, After the crisis, however, the pubile support than keep it with Rus-discussed the prevailing ideas of again on the subject of free-thinking,
Glasgow, and Cardiff. It has been began to demand bigger and better. sight and touch,
oficially stated that barrages for defence. They demanded a com- sian help.
most of these cities will be in opera- pulsory national register, and, in. He argued that a man born blind,
tlon next summer, and all of them some At this period Berkeley went into
compulsory national It is not only that the British could he be made to see, would be
Hervice. by the end of the year. unable to recognise any object by retirement, devoting himself to the ******** | Government are throwing away sight which he had previously known discharge of his duties as Bishop, and
100 PER CENT OPERATIVE
The government's answer was that a compulsory register was not! de-, valuable friend in time of by touch. Such person, too, would in works of charity.
sce of In 1745 he refused the
In London, it was added, the sirable, although with the machinery peace and a powerful ally if need aave no sense of the relative distance
of objects.
Clogher, which would have doubled
barrage was 90 per cent, operative st of the next census in 1941, such a hils income.
the end of 1938, and will be 100 per register is being prepared which should arise. The inevitable
This argument was proved In
cent. by this month.
could be made compulsory in about. :: way, 18 years afterwards, He kept up a correspondence with affect of trying to isolate Russia strange
Service in the balloon barrage, three weeks, instead of many months when a young man, blind from birth, the prominent men of the day and of pamphlets on
squadrons is also voluntary, and is In its place they offered voluntary must be to throw her into the was suddenly restored to sight. He wrote a number
It was now that declared that he could not distinguish various subjects.
open to men aged between 25 and 50, national service, and appointed. Sir arms of Germany, This pos-a dog from a cat by sight, and was he wrote his treatises on the virtues
as drivers, winch-handlers, riggers John Anderson to the sinecure post confused between his newly- of tar-water..
and fabric workers. sibility has often haunted the
of Lord Privy Seal with the duties, Another auxillary service is the but not the title, of Minister of Civil. Foreign Offices of France and
training of employees in factories and Defence. plants in anti-aircraft defence. Alr- Britain, and now Mr. Chamber-
automobile plants, plane factories, aut ghadow". Ine politician, quickly got to work. On lain seems in a fair way to bringing it about.
tories now turning out machinery, November 3, 1038, in his first speech. war-time can be turned in the House of Commons, he out- over to munitions, will be defended Lined his programme as follows: by their own stuffs.
1. An evacuation policy. These men, classed as: indispen- anble, aze being equipped with machineguns and light two-pound guns for defence against low-flying attacks. Their uniform will be their coveralls, and they will be re- quired to be able to get into action within 20 minutes of downing tools.
but they've
thanks to KIWI
BLACK POLISH
TAN POLIS
acquired faculty and his touch that
Despite the regular droughts of tar-! he wanted to know which of the two water, Berkeley's health began to senses were lying.
'fail,
Next year Berkeley published his
He was unable to carry on his work "Principles of Human Knowledge." in Ireland, and he went to Oxford In which he tried to prove that the and requested permission of the King common notion of the existence of to resign his see with the view to In view of Herr. Hitler's de-matter was wrong, and that common obtaining a canonry in that city,
articles of everyday use existed only nunciations of "Bolshevism," as ideas in the mind,
The King, however, refused to "Berkeley accept his resignation. such an outcomo may seem int- possible. But stranger things have happened, and the present trade talks between Russia and Germany should give abundant food for thought in Downing Street,
KORDA: NO ROMANCE
MR. ALEXANDER KORDA, the nim producer, who arrived at Ply mouth recently from New York, denied that ho, was married or that there was hiromance between him and Merle Oberon, 412 Mar
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He further developed this theory shall die bishop, in spite of him- In "Threo Dialogues Between 11ylas self," said George 11, and he gavO and Philonous," which, if it did not him permission to live wherever he convince eighteenth century scientists, pleased. gave him a reputation as a writer and the friendship of Dean Swift.
One of Berkeley's Inst acts was to mako lover: £200 worth of renta from the sea lands at Cloyna to poor housekeepers in his dioceso,
Meanwhile,. from 1707, he had been engaged on college tutor.* An-1712' he paid a short visit to England, and Bishop Berkeley, who was born on In April 3713 Swift presented him at March 13, 1084, at Pelarin, in the Court,
County of Kilkenny, Ireland, died at He soon made tumself popular in Oxford on Sunday, January 14, 1753. London and becamo chaplain to Lord. It was while he was sented with his Peterborough, whom he accompanied family listening to the reading of a to the Continent, returning in August sermon that he fell back and died so quietly that he was believed to be 1714
From 1718 to 1720 he travelled asleep. When his daughter Inter again as tutor to the son of Dr. brought him & cup of tea he was stiff George Ashe, an Irish Bishop, and cold,
He was buried in Christ Church, Oxford:
In 1741&the country was disturbed w by the South Bed Bubbla scandal'ahi
Berkeley published, an "Esny towards" Braventing the Ruin of
In one same, gent he bec
the Duke off ch
Berkeley, is described as "a hand- ome, man, with a countenance full of arkabis aining and benign
atcel mills, and
but which
Anderson, diplomat rather than
2. Public shelters. Dann 3. Regional organisation to take
over in war-time. Mak
4. Relationship Pag between : Use overnment and local ane thorities regarding MR.P.. B. London's, defence iproblems. 6. National voluntary service, 7. Changes in the A.R.P. organis
sation, a
In the three...maniha since
then-
LAST LINE OF DEFENCE Britain's second and fast line of defence in the next war will be her Anderson has announced plans for civil population.
most of these seven points. One of An estimated total of 30,000,000 will his arst steps was the appointment of *** be available for this vast army of a "brain : trust”? soft aix --leading?) the rear," engaged only in, passive business-men to advise on defence. defence. It will include some young problems, and receive representa=! men,
unfit for fighting or Indis ons regarding delays, defects and pensables practically all men past
dimculties the fighting age up to about 70;
"and. all able-bodied ,women,
Under "National
Before Parliament rose for the the general heading of Christmas vacation, bo announced
What in @Jantlary- national - service; Bervice, over-a score of
are open to these would be introduced. He kald Ult civoland; all of their designed to would be entirely voluntary, and for contend with the effects and results a trial period of three months, ority"); of air attack. They range from air- At the end of this month, - | Parilt→ rald wardens to evacuation officers. ment is to review Its progress arid de
All servico le completely voluntary cide whether it is necessarykła makos at prezent, but as Sir John Anderson it compul
Thomicial Minister for Civil Defence,