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When is a country over popolatedi was the question discuser at the re- sumed Interrations! Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference at Kingsway Hall, in' mail wock.
Dr. O.V. Drysdale said that density
JUDGE ON DEATH PACT.
WIFE WHO FAILED IN BER DUTY.
ALCOHOLIDAYS-IN BRITAIN.
MARCUS ON POLITICIANS AND THE PINT
By Charles Prooter.] "It's a treat ter see 'ow serious
A sequel to the death pact between Maud Hibbert, 25, and her husband's brother, George William Hibbert, in Brighton boatling-house in May was heard at Busiex Aisen at Lewes the Goverment is taking the subject when Maud Hibbert appeared on of the "govemment," remarked of population was no index to overcharges of murdering the moon and Herous. "I notice the 'Ouse of Com-
population; which must be relative to tha resourous cf the State and the
attempting to commit suicide.
The man and woman were found lying side by side in bed in a gas filled room. The woman was unconscious and the man died from gas poisoning. aid that he was willing to accept Mr. Grantham, for the prosecution Maud Hibbert's ples of Guilty to the charge of attempted suicide.
mone sat up till two o'clock in the mornin' discussin' the price of beer,
"I've sat up late myself some nights, specially before the War, discussin' beer, and I ain't a bit surprised that they found it s interestin subject in
Parliament.
development of the nation. When ever the average duration of life was low they might have reason suspect over-population, and the birth and death rates provided remarkable way of finding the
"The unlucky part about it, as far duration of life. The only way to in
as you an' me is concerned, is that crease longevity was to decrease the
Mr. Justice Horridge: I bave a the cost of livin' ain't goin' ter be birth rate. He believed the Biblical great feeling myself against murder reduced a ponny a pint this year, so three soors years and ten" was the trials when ane knows that the We'll 'ave ter go on #oonomisin' aa right thing, and that we should be sentence from the art will not be usual. All the same, it's nice ter see able to attain it before many years. carried out. Such trials should be beer treated with proper respect by According to his test, the average rearsed for real chess in which it is the Govemment,
If yer asks me, Gavemments now fifty-seven years.
Inspondent to the London Daily London Daily Telegraph are up in duration el life in this country, was known that there in at any rate started with beer, I reckon the man
I
comes ter think of it, that we dunno the name of the inventor of an im- portant thing like bear? If we did, here very likely would be statues rected to 'is meinory in every town,
riularly by the brewers.
THE BARBERS OF BURNLEY.
The barbers of Bumley says the From time to time writes a cot-
possibility of the sentence being Telegraph there are schors in the arms. It appears that the Corpora
Professor J. M. Keynes, who preside carried out. Under the circumstances wot first invented it was the first British papers of a gradual togre ase of tion of that town, striving desperated, said he was a little afraid of tong think the right coarse, is not to pat millionaire. Funny, ain't it when yor Chinese studente in this country. like the rest of us to make ends meet, Thess convey little to most readers, have made a decree that all project-ority, and did not think it was the tha woman on the forms ot
tent of a population's well-bring. Re yet we seem to be on the eve of vasting signs eball pay a tax to tue considered a country over papulated murder charge of Not Quilty.
The jury returned a verdict on the developments, and Dr. Alfred 80, the municipal revenues. Among the signs
Mr R. Blaker, who appeared for Minister to Washington, who enter which project in Burnley are the bar-65 Boon as the addition of one person taine broad views on the subject, bets poles. The case of the barbers to the population made a diminution and Hibbert, addressed the court in |
in ita well-being crédite? with the belief that Chins is that their polen are not as other
Mr. Kert, an American delegate, mitigation of sentence. "This per Will at no remote date send abrasd men's signs, they Bro-not intended to aid that the people of the United girl," he said. "was obviously led 100,000 students to devote themselves be an advertisement, but to com. States and Canada were better off and spence of the man for wh m she cop-startin' with beer is that the inventor
way and was entirely under the in- study so that they can return home! A municipal metaphysician might better fed than the people of an ceived a great, andouihly an im- must 'ave made a fortunaand become folly equipped to take in hand the reply that the distinction is imperfect, other country. "I could not help for is these days history and tradition policing the poorly-led appearance of and what a lot of lean-looking people there are with thin legs. In America people tend to get too fat.
to every branch of work and scientific memorate an ancient tradition.
remodelling of their tative land.
moral, rogard."
HOW IT STAR "ED.
+ Wot I mean abont Govemmenta
At present there are in this country have been found very useful in the population in London," he is vir," and Mr. Justice Horridge interparty begun, and they was the
only some 150 students, a number advertising. But we wish the barbers much less than a few years ago, Many good fortune. Their poles are pic- have come hern and left disappointed tareeque, they have a pleasant emask for Germany, while the lure of the of the past, and we would not ser United States draw many thither. them go where the old monus go. I At present there are over 2,500 our own time the symbolism of trades Chinese students in the United States, has diminished sadly. Many an oilman
Baron Ishimoto (Tokyo) sent a paper dealing with the population problem in Japan. Japan, he do lared, was one of the most densely populated countries on earth, and
He again referred to her as "the need; "Not poor girl; she is married woman."
Hibbert buried her face in her hands and burat into tears.
Mr. Justion Horridge said he could ant overlook the fact that Hibbert was a married woman and a mother d that she failed in her duty as
a sort of Govemment hisa lf. Then when e got top strong & anti-beer)
originals of the the teetotallers, but always got defeated, becauso the Beerites was always the strongest and the popular Party.
...
"If yer was ter ask me why there's so much upset and unrest in the world now. I'd answer yer that it's because Americans ain't got no bear wot theg
and more at Columbia University than Dow dispenses with the dummy ja there were two solutions of theuch-and went off to gratify her lust as got is bad, and ther in't no
Many a chemist bas abjured the many
at any time since the bigh water mark
which used to crown his
Conference. The peaceful method
was reached in 1914, when there wera coloured monstrous bottles which hope. the war idea was impossible in ringly agreed with the man," he con-urprisin' that the Govenment set about 250. Plans are on foot vastly Once glowed in his window. To view of the international naval holi | sluded, "that you and he both com.up late 'decuesin' beer knowing its to extend the number. Congress has many a tavern bas acted upon the day decided upon by the Washington mitted suicide. Fortunately for you importance. now before it a bill to remit the second principle that "goed wine teeds no could be divided into emigration consider the effect upon other different ideas from me on beer and
| bush." So we might prolong a cat importation of food-stuffs, and birth order that the money so released marjalogue of melancholy illustrations control. The lat named was the that kind; I am sorry to say that would like to zee beor abolished, bati
Let the barber keep his pole. It is Chines students to America. Bath Baven hundred years old at the least most effectivo. and, apart from experienta tella one that you are not I ain't got no sympathy with them.
half of the Boxer Indemnity in
be used to promote the Bow of
failed. I have also 100
to "Of course, different people's got
wicked people of a
act of Government
There's some that
whether it was right or wrong, Japan the only woman who in similar "I ain't forgot that Bolshevism
would have to adopt the policy of birth control.
a
It recalls the good old times when Houses individually have faxed it, barbers were the only surgeons, and and it has now but to pass them
the gradual differentation of the pro collectively an easy task. Canada
Professor Wilcox said that it was has realised the value of these barbers were to love their pole "blue of America that the stock of educated fessions through the statute that the
mattor for regret in the United States students, and it is now representing and white striped, with no other ap- persons was not maintaining itself. to Great Bri sin that it also should
Boxer pendage" but the surgeons to display of a thousand Harvard students, go remit the balance of its
beside the blue and white pole "sing back for nearly thirty years, only Indemnity for much the same por pose. When the war started the annual galloy pot and a red tag." The pole about seventy had toza living. Ec payment of the Boxer Indemnity to repeat the staff which a patient believed statistics from Oxford and Britain was remitted for five years, found and opened his vein, and the same result
was given to grasp while the barber Cambridge would give pretty much which expire this year, and the British Government insista on payment. The the white band stands for the was the failure of the old Americs-
bandage applied after the bleed ing was completed. But already
Loudon the barbers' poles
More serious etili
and slthough the Prime Minister is
A resolution was passed "pointing sympathetic he contends that there is
eat to all workers and employers the no sign of any public support of the she stares, hardly more common that great economic advantage which will the Highlandere bo once took Scot arise from the adoption of birth con proposal, of which Sir John Jordan is a warm advocate, to devote tish snuff outside the tobacconiststrol by the wage-carnora,"
the money to educational purposes. Some manufacturers realise the im- portance of the problem to them, aince the Manchester Chamber of Com- merce has passed a resolution in
favour of this policy, and those who know best assert that in five years' time we shall begin cur trade to feel the effect on
doors.
Some of our old commercial hous have agais displayed the signa under which their prosperity was founded. There are in many trades firms which still make use of an ancient sign as their emblem. But our streets no longer display the old variety of de oration, and the very significate of the ancient names of taverns, which alone are known by their signs rather than any other denomination, is generally forgotten. Many, an doubt, were wholly fantastio.
The morel and religious aspects of birth control were considered in the alteroon.
The Rev Gordon Lang, who presid ed, said the Church was not interested in over-population. The power of the pulpit was at its lowest ebb. The war had not improved the position of the churches, and they knew it. Unlese they were prepared to face the facts of life, they would soon cease to exist as an effective organisation,
A resolution was carried declaring: That the practice of birth control is not contrary to the dictates or spirit Christianity, but has been advocat ed frobs motives of the deepest com- asion for the poor ent suffering and
circumstances has decided to take per life. I cannot pass a sentence upon you of less than nine months' hard fabour."
SPIRIT PICTURE. CONJURERS CHALLENGE TO
MEDIUMS.
A scoicty of profestinal conjurera reoutly investigated the prodnation of spirit photographe at the sugges- tion of Sir Arthur Conan Lovle. A report of the inquiry was given to the British Medical Journal by a dia- tinguished medical man who has been admitted to the Magic Circle as an
■ma'cur member.
started when they abolished liquor in Rausis and that Prohibition 'as made Europe the popular' oliday rescrt for Americans, The queer part of it is that it's only the Americans who can afford a drink at 'ome who can afford to come over 'era for a alcoholiday,
"I'm beginnin' ter think that it ain't possible ter govern right if they ain't to beer but very likely I'm a bit prejudiced. I've bin wonderin' lately wat the price of beer is in between the destruction of pube and Ireland, and if there's any connection
new war over bera, ***
BAUKWARD IN ÓGMING FORWARD. "Different people, as I said before, 'as different idears about Govemment. just the same as they 'as different idears about drink, but I ain't found
anyone yet us know wat
An
isbau's idear of wot a Glovemment should be ia. The popular idear seems ter be ter s out the other bloke wot don't appeal ter me.
The inquiry concerned two people man and a woman, who claimed to produce spirit photographs in unopen ed packets of photographic plates, "When a fraud proof pocket was sent
"When yer. comes tor think about, to he male operator he obtained no it, there was more fightin' ab ut the results," says the witness. As Irish question than anythin' else i of these arroies of studenta all return
acpo, however, as a packet that could the old days, and yer could get a ing home with American sympathies, American experience, American ideals.
be tampered with was submitted a thick er free, gratis and for nothin' and attachment to American trade
paychic extra, 'as it is called, was at any lection by just expressin' yar and manufacturers. In the United
obtained on one of the plates.
eentiments. We've advanced since States every conceivable incility is
**Unfortunately for the performer then and now yer can get a cheap | the conjurors had tampered with the funeral by savio' wot yer thinks if offered these students. Not only do
packet frst they often have a university placed
varnish. invisible in the red fight of
A straight line of red there's a gunman handy.
gatherings, but batches of twelve or recalls that the Cat and Welcom as the only practicable meaus of the dark roo10, and been painted more will be employed in one district tell why the Elephant has a Castle? and sexual purity,
securing the highest ideal of married across the top left side of the stack of learning how to make toads, whereof
Who knows that the Goat and
plates. The resrlution called upon the China will stand in great need, while
"On the return of the plates by the on the main lizes, such as the Illinois Compasses is a perversion of God Church and all those who had human medium three of the red marks were Central, plenty of learners may be encompasseth us? How many people welfare and public morality at heart found at the bottom, showing that found. In 'actories they are weltve. beard that the Buil and Gate does to join in the provision of instruction these plates bad been reversed." comed. Yet in Great Britain exactly the opposite policy prevails.
at their service for their annual
"Why on a ign. no painter draw The full moon ever, but the half" is still a mystery, as it was to the author of "Hadibra." But whe now
memorates Catharinel can
It is not costly to maintola a after whom Mrs. Weller's inn was
Chinese student. The annual slow anre, paid either by the Chinese Go ernment or by private Chio-se, will probably soon be only £100, since this can always be supplemented in the United States by the well-established custom permitting students to devote bemselves to various forms of la basur during the holidays, Here it is not more costly to live than in the States,
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SIR HARRY LAUDER ON THRIFTY SCOTSMEN.
When they were laughing,"he added, "I was knocking the sixpenses - some of them, and I have given some out of their poochon. I have saved
of them away, and I think I have lost things are going all right. Buotamen some of them but we are all right, and
were twitted about their thrift, and it
today if it had studied thrift. They would have been botter for the world aero told it was a habit in Scotland.
It was not; it was a gift.
"Scotland had to be thrifty because
"I reckon someone ought ter start "Bright Ireland' movement, but it looks as if there won't be enough people lift ter take part in it; they won't know wot they want, and they
"If Englishmen have laughed at me, won't 'ave nothin' tar be bright about.
Ly gosh I bave made them pay for It looks terms as if some people is How a surgical operation was perit!" said Sir Harry Lauder when ao. advancin' backward in a manner of formed in mid-air with a pocket corded a civic reception by Panuok Boulogne These things are as much with such moral sexual instruction honour to Henry VIII's capture of on lines indiested, and to supplement
speakin'. The ident of governin' in knife was told to Cardiff Rotarians forgotten as that Marquis of Granby se would help to guard it againstabose.
the olden days was ter shop orf the recently by Mr. A. E. Harrison, bon Town Council. 'ead of a youe wat disgreed with yer, Poretary of the Glamorgan Division called. The age of signs and chivalry a dinner was held at the Holborn Re-to aystematic attempts to suppress and do yer beat ter pinch wet yer
In connection with the conference that still obswsed France had led or employ asawins ter do it for fer, of the Red Cross Booisty. is gone, and the age of numbers hos staurant, over which Dr. C. V. Drys birth contr) knowledge and birth wanted. The Germans tried ter de nian at Cardiff tramway depos was Mr. Harrison said a work eucceeded.
dalo, the president, presided. Propos control practices. In America the somethink like that, and now we've accidentally hauled up in the air by a ing the toast of the guest, the Cuai-fight was still a doubtful one for got the same thing goin' on in Rus-trolly, his arm being as untangled in man referred to the great progress decent recognition. In the end, be sia an' Ireland.
the machinery that it was impos made by the movement, which, he believed, the reasonable forces in men "I dunno wot ter make of it, and sible to extricate it. felt sure, would make for the hap would triumph over the mob which if it wasn't tragic. I'd think it was indeed was Miss Hobbe, Hor ideas Bauger, in responding, said she recog Americe, but he did not know how brow blokes I d talk about civilisation the unfortunate man could not live A very modern young woman piness of the world. Mra Margaret was still so powerful a factor in funny. If I was one of them 'igh-Red Cross commandant, realising that were about half a century ahead of isod that England and the friends long or bow difficult the fight would bein' a failure, but I remember, we've long in that position, improvised her time. So were her queer clothes she had made here had been her in-ba. In its fight against birth control still got beer-and Lloyd George. platform high enough to reach the on the Contineat for students, and Bat a good hard attack of old fashion-spiration in America and in the other the mob was not without a sort of in. My idear of Gevemment ie Lloyd workman, and with only his Red Sootland badaye been a hand mither in more places scholarships are ed love cured ber of her radical countries she had visited: England structive wisdom, bat birth control George's ideas-peace and cheaper Cross outfit amputated the man's to sll, and especially to the Highland fairly plentiful. An annual ball notions.. See "Miss Hobbe," Wanda should be proud of having laid the would for ever put an end to mobe; it beer. We can grouse, but thers can't arm.
would abolish mobs and crowds from be mach wrong with our Govemment
folks, with the barren lands and barren million, drived from the Boxer Hawley's first picture as a Realart foundations of their movement. 'indemnity, would not only keep a Star, at the World Theatre beginning to the Birth Control Movement."ners, cruelty, and disaster that mobs talkin' about beer, can there could not have performed the opera abroad none could say uld Scotland Mr. H. G. Wells proposed 'Success the world, and all the waste, weari when it sits up till two in the mornin' that when a doctor arrived he said he mither to those at home and exiles The work was done so successfully rocke, but if Scotland had been a hard large number of students, but would Friday the 18th inst. It is a comedy. He was there he said, as one of the and crowds entailed.. help us to send our own professsire to puro and simple, without a single
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tion better himself in ordinary was ever unkind, Botland made Cios for mutual benefic. One day heartache, tragedy or death from the "pplauding public. The restraints Among the many other speakers,
circumstances, and that it un nen and women, because with kirk these returned students will be the first reel till the Inat.
We can't upon birth control
in England practically all of whom touched on the
doubtedly saved the workman's life and schule and the kail yard,' those great advocates of everything-pe promise that there will be no tears, were now so slight that all they had advantages of the movement, were dially trade-in the country which however, for you will laugh till you liberties steadily and steadfastly, In Profesor Roberto Michels (Basle), to do was to guard and preserve their Professor, Knut Wicksell (Sweden).
Describing the operation to a Daily, three stresme were over brought before trained them. When wo reach the cry, very likely.
Mail reporter. Preston said the first them, and they partook of them. many dentres; however, there was stili Mrs. Rubles (Now York), Profesor closed by day will be subject tor ut to the workman's arm and he then Scotsmen what they were to-day. Carge from the ss. Haralland" nothing he did was to apply tourniquet That was what made Bootland and a cessation of progress and even a McBride, Harr. Johann Ferch (Austria), Agents, Anhold Bros. positive retrogression in these matter. Mr. Harold Cox, Mies Mary Winsor Cargo from the Denverlich* not in many countries the battle of birth (Philadelphia). Professor WFolasred by Aug 23 will be subject to control had to be begun all over again, Willcox (Cornell), Dr. Norman Haire, rent. Damaged goods will be examined The nortów gnation of natibantiem and Dr. Bernard Hollander
but there is little chance of adding to one's income. Living is very cheap
day of the 10.000 we shall be mor
pelessly on distanced than we are
now. It has not escaped attention
that all the thres Chinese negotiators delegation only comprised but a very
a Washington wore American trained, few English-trained men. There are and that the sxyests attached to this aờ few in'cxisty Koď.
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