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THE

"But we live in a haralı world, old boy...”

"After all, the Conservatives have inherited the mantle of Liberalism..."

STRANGEST

IR Alan Herbert, that

great protagonist of divorce reform, hus

called the King's Proc-

IN

tor "one of the pecu either in sinful deadlock liar nuisances of Eng- within the marriage bond land.... an extraordinary or in happier immorality

excrescence

On

41

Begone-foul fiends!”

London Express Servic

OFFICIAL BRITAIN

our legal outside it. In these 1,197 By MARK

official

ex- enses, it must surely be

the direction of the Attorney- Central, must then "inquire, justruct counsel and so

forth."

At the rame Ume, the vast bulk of information is laid by private persons and common informers-

communications, the anonymous

of the poison said, the intervention of PRIESTLEY and often in that mennest of all

system....an ploiter pen....

1

con- the King's Proctor

condemned

letter,

The case

to-

complain!

New Deal For The Indians

BY JAMES COOPER

TORONTO. For peace-time bride Mar-

Bang, bang, bang.....

Faret Dolman, from Lower and acven more redskins Court-road, Epsom, Surrey. bit the dust,"

D

who recently married Swampy. Cree Indian, Sinclair

THAT famous line in Cheechoo, at the old Hudson's post of Moosefactory, James Bay, there should bo

T

tales of the Wild. Bay West was quoted by

on the Indian children who

my English master ns the wico as much money to spend most exciting introduction to any story.

And that "Last of the Mohienna" attitude in what Jasper Hill (Chief Big

trudge to the mission school where she teaches by the light of paran lamps.

Indians will also seck belter

White Owl) and the 130,000 homes than tents with no floor other than a layer of spruce or 80 Indians in Canada

boughs, often just n wooden box

are fighting todny as an furniture. Canada prepares to debate

a Bill making Indinne full citizens.

Hunger strike.

of

the

Eighty years after the

MENTION

• ONLY Inst skirmishes between

warpath I have heard has red man and white, the been by "rebel" Jules Sioul, 43- Mohawks, the

Swampy year-old Huron who, for from Crees, the Blackfeet, and scalping, has resorted to * all the other tribes hope hunger striko in his chop ot they will cease to be treat- Loretteville, Quebec, until ed as children and wards of Canada is given back to the the Government.

They hope they will be given a vote

and

have

the ban on their drink-

ing liquor. eased; they hope to got better education and have a right to spend their own tribal

moneys.

For war bride Mrs Betty News from Cole- man-street, Brighton,

Indians."

Wedding day plcture of Margaret Dolmaan, from Epsom, and her Indian bridegroom Sinclair Cheechoo.

No one scents

to take very

Indian Technically, the King's Proctor

married an be who may In a recent case, he in. tributed nothing to the sum internes in a divorce

is living in the seriously this little man. Instead, total of happiness and the inspired by the most vengeful and

llsten 10 full-blooded, rtles have concented material and vindictive motives. It may Sahanaticn

Reserve. they to righteousnIESS.

Mohawk Milton Martin, who divorce of ik Hongkong

fack from the court or where be true Or false. Usually, Ontario, it means she may His department issues no ho

the too. the businessman, a

delecta strange

collusion,

information

liked Army, and has been known to one position when

re- statistics and presumably possibility that divorce evidence tald against the innocent or be able to have the occasional was a brigadier in the Canadian

she to a divorce gin-and-lime

remind Canadians: "You are all members that Church and has made no inquiries--to ay have been arranged. If an successful party

Innocent petitioner suffers sult Once word is received, State agree on divorce as an show how many innocent lapse in the six weeks before a however, the Jungernaut of the when, as Betty Schooley, she immigrants here but me." alternative to unhappy children were subsequently divorce becomes abolute, the Department lumbers pitilessly was one of the best dancers at the Regent Ballroom, marringe.

to illegitimacy King's Proctor is duty-bound to into action.

Intervene and keep the two

Policemen are briefed to make Brighton. Inquiries. Neighbours and even Who is the King's Proctor When denial of divorce im- unhappy parties joind

charwomen may be interviewed, in reality and how does he. Plied that one or other of gether.

their parents was not free

local tradesmen questioned. operate? Puckish 60-year-

Some of the menner aspects of to re-marry. Nor are there old Sir Thomas Barnes com-

the work are delegated to private firms of solicitors who thus bines his proctor's office any statistics to reveal how.. with the important and many wives, as a result of useful duties of Solicitor to subsequently lived in lonella give the Court the facts and tv most unsavoury class of regarded

being refused their decree, SIMILARLY a petitioner who five the Crown from the obvious

has also committed adultery responsibility of hiring private to Indians, she has been

for bedroom prying.

as an Indian and misgivings. In prosperous the Treasury, He does

plead for discretion

30,000 squaw living along with the Ontario, De work," a solictior told me. But what the law requires him ness without benefit of ali-

50 other red-skinned, raven- Indians mingle unnoticed in the to do and is in no sense to mony or allowances.... or excercised in Invour".

cities, half of them still live on haired Mohawk women оп

tishing and hunting. blame if the law is here at how many refusals have should it be

ended in bigamy loggerheads with the modern

worse.... outlook.

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"MR. SOFT TOUCH"

a former

Never Again

He pleads at Indians are starving not so much for food os for a spirit of understanding. and are not "the cruel, Berce anvages" of the history books. Risks of gaol

"Whatever may have been our can't compare practices, they UNTIL NOW, like all with the practices of civilized... British girls married nations," he says.

or

to

shown that the confession has been con the King's Proctor must seek to Love the divorce rescinded-nn

be

immorality in itself, one would T may be fittingly argued that

where

omitted. Wagging Tongues the reserve.

But

But here are still contrasts

where

doctor.

the

In British Columbia Frank

first full In- There are risks of being Calder le the

any Cara- a couple Cal perjured or guilty parties to gaoled for a long sentence din member of

dimm

provincial legislature, Immoral Office probably never ogain make a a collusive divorce cannot com if caught drinking beer; she and the Indian chief's daughter,

plain at these activities. home together. people have, unler certain conditions, entered into a

In one case this year a hus- what of the Ecores of cases in is liable to be questioned Gloria Cranmer, is studying to a girl to sign a which the sniming watchdogs of even if an empty bottle is become the first Indian woman King's band induced to end conspiracy

an un- I was

fail to find found nearby, happy marriage, it is hig Proctor who bluntly de- statement alleging two acts of the King's Proctor

adultery. Subsequently the girl cause for Intervention, 48 of

But there is still the problem obnoxious duty to step in clared, "Mine is the most was found to be a virgin and which were actually brought to There is neither water of the rum-runners who take

the firewater to the coastal tribes. electricity in defeat their ends, immoral office under the the King's Proctor Intervened to open court? The innocent and nor

Some Indian tribes have an Sometimes, thanks to his Crown. By my interven- rescind the wife's decree mist. the guilty alike have to run the wooden house she has made

Yet what manner of married gauntlet of this inquisition."

Infantile mortality rate of 600 strange task, three or four tion in cases where decrees fe could possibly awalt the "My footsteps are dogged as her home.

per 1,000. people at a time-and up to have been granted, I force common run of husbands and 100 persons a year-are im- people to live in adultery wives after such a drama? plicated in lusting tragedy. who would otherwise be

and

Misery

BETWEEN

able to marry." But there was a recent instance when the department was con- cerned with

Wrong Advice

a criminal," "a though I were professional man wrote to the For her husband Geoffroy Divorce Low Reform League. “I the new law may mean he um besmirched with scandal is able to go down the trail

face starvation rather than take

the braves still In the north hunt while the squaws do the

Braves hunt

ance the Proctor's agents began

CONSUMPTION HAS R making inquiries. To set off to the Bala Tavern for . this ducking-stool of wagging glass of beer.

times higher Tate forty For their golden-haired for Indians than whites. In the a 20-year-old I another instance a provin tongues needed only a single

chal lawyer's clerk wrongly spiteful detter, secretly lodged papoose, Rosemary, rising Rockies are nomadic tribes who 1 girl who January

was refused a advised a tragically unhappy with the King's Proctor.

an act of the 1914 and May 6, 1947, the divorce for

Ostensibly the King's Proctor three, it should mean better anything from the white man. alleged couple to arrange

as the amiseusduct

Eurest safeguards

collusive schooling. against King's Proctor intervened cruelty of her husband,

a divorce. divorce. As early as 1910, how- means of procuring

For the whole family. it ΠΟΥ Of murderer in 1,245 divorce cases.

in Broad- The facts leak out, the King's

ever,

4 King's Lord Dysart, Criminal these interventions, 1,197 moor

Lunatic Proctor Intervened and the Proctor of many years' standing, may mean that they won't work.

themselves still estimated the number of actual be regarded 29 minors couple found were considered successful Anylum.

chained together. And as if divorces by consent nt 75 under the law, unable to ONI welcomes emancipation -Buccessful, that is, in

He was found guilty, but to add State insult to injury, percent. Today, barristera

sign documents, and will be with safeguards "We want to maintaining misery.

insane, of the murder of their harband was ordered to pay solicitors agree that Just ·ស

many undefended petiitons are able to go to the banks and see that emancipation won't lead child. Previously he had tried the costs of intervention! In 1,197 cases, in fuct, to strangle his wife....and she Scandals reach the ears of the collusive to some extent. The the desperately unhappy left him but later returned to King's Proctor by devious and King's Proctor in short cannot do all that statutory but misguided couples were him for the sake of the child. often despicable means. Officially even

Anally left o Thus, though she

divorce Judge may direct law requires him to do. His denied the relief of divorce him, it was held that she had papers in a case to be sent to costly office has long been an and condemned to live condoned his act of cruelty.

the King's Proctor who, under anachronism.

NANCY

OH, NANCY---DID

I LEAVE MY COAT HERE YESTERDAY?

Tho

and

That's Going Too Fur

By Ernie Bushmiller

YES---YOU LEFT YOUR COAT HERE--

--AND 50 DID YOUR DOG

That is why the Big White

raise a mortgago for houses. to our losing our land through..

being dispossessed for not pay- But it might also mean

ing taxes," he says. He wants losing the privileges of In- Indian M.P.s, with six chiefs in dians on reserves of not the pow-wows of the white men, paying rates and taxes.

-(London Express Service)

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