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Last month in Paris the firm ol Gaumont gave a press representation of the latest development of the combination of phonograph and kinematograph produced by M. Leon Gaumont. From the very intro- duction of the kinematograph the possiblities of this had been preceived and many investore had attempted the task. One of the carliest attempts was to obtain succesive records of the two machines: after a singer had performed before the camera he repeated bi song to the recording FIRST IMPRESSIONS.

phonograph, watching the repro duction of bis singing image to guide HOW NEUROTICS ARE MADE him for the time. But it was feit to be only an imperfect approximation The purely scientific work of the and that success could only be at ninetieth annual meetings of the Britained by the simultaneous records of tish Medical Association at Glasgow sound and image.

SELF-DETERMINATION

FOR THE CONVICT

A NEW WAY TO REFORM.

MARRIED IN HASTE

WOMAN'S UNHAPPY VENTURE WITH SOLDIER.

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Mrs. May White, now living in A meeting was held in the Town

Alberta, Canads, had a married life Hall, Manchester last month to hear which lasted less than twenty-four addresses by Miss S. Margery Fry, bours. The engagement was only of honotay secretary of the Howard a day or two's duration. It was, in League for Penal Reform, and Mr. T. fact, a rash into matrimony.

Mr. White told her story, by Mett Oshome, who in recent years' has carried out some remarkabla ex-affidavit, to Lord Buckmaster on the periments in the Auburn, and Sing hearing of her petition. The husband Sing prisons in the United States of was described all through merely as America. The Lady Mayoress, who H. L. White. She met him a few presided, snid that two recent books days previous to the saremony

Ia bad represented one by Mr. and Mrs. Sidacy Webb June, 1918. and the other by Stephen Hobhouse himself as a member of the Canadian and Fenner Brockway-showed that Expeditionary Forces, and etat d that although our prisone bad greatly im.he had a ranch at Calgary, Alberta, proved since the later part of the 18th and was able to provide her with a century, they were still far from bekoms,

Immediately alter the marriage he ing model institutions, and were not very successful either as deterrent or asked her to return a wedding ring ho bad given her, and when she asked reformative agencies.

Miss Fry said it was becoming more why he wanted it he said he had just and more evident that a large sum been fooling her, and that he had no was begun in earatat yesterday, the Devices for obtaining this corber of criminals was a luxury which means and no farm in Canada or elre- where, and now that they wro Daily Telegraph stated in mail respondence on the recording instra cost an almost bankrupt nation too married she had to support him. She week. One of the most interest-ments were relatively easy to devise, much. Better than maintaining large refused to give him the ring, and as A remarkable story of imprisoning of the ninoteen sections and in 1910 Leon Gaumont presented numbers of criminals in prison was ment by the Turks, followed by was that dealing with neuro to the French Academy of Science & some plan for preventing people from soon as she, with him, returned to his release by British soldiers, in told logy and psychological medicins, in reproduction of a lecture by Protecoming criminale. It was vertuin her mother's house at Liverpool, he by George Sidney Agar, of Ipswich, which, in a paper on "The Making of feaux Arsonval, which was, so far as that many a career of prison lit bar took the ring, and also her watch, Dr. J. A. Hadfield it went, a brilliant success. But for been started by some rash sentence and pawned them both to raise (London) discounted the general as its perfection there still remained at the outset. Yet there were hund.money. Owing to his conduct she He says that he left England se sumption under which diaccase was much to be done in the working out reds of benches of magistrates with. I would not live with bim, and the mate of the steam yacht "Bimoum," accounted for by hereditary or con- of the details. Nor is this to be out probation officers, and many with marriage was not consummated.

The day following the mariago hel

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SEVEN WEEKS IN A PRISON CELL:

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'BAILOR'S STORY.

who is now at the Seamen's Mission nt Sunderland.

a Neurotic,"

which served during the war as a genital causes, and pointed out that wondered at. T.ose of us who reprobation officers of very poor quality. Government patrol boat. The crew in many cases the causes could easily member the introduction of the Agaia, our prisons were full of ment. Fent off and eho had not seen him! were practically all Greeks, who be environmental. It was it the kinema in the eighties recall with a ally deficient persons for whom the since and had never in any way sup mutinied; and it was with great diffi-third year of life and we became eclf-smile how entisfied they were with the ordinary prison regime was the worst ported her or endeavoured to make a culty that the officers brought the conscions. That frat impression pictares-full of jerks and accom- thing in the world. A much more home for her. She afterwarde went to yacht to her destination, Smyrna,

Lord Buckmaster raised the point one evening at got of ourselves would live with us for panied by brilliant sciutillations of careful mental and physical discrim. Calgary to ear her living there.

needed before in- Going ashore

as to the domicile of the man, and Mr. the rest of life, whether we believed wo were the most important person in the light that were quite foreign to the ination

to have reformative Grazebrook said that it was English. world or the most beautiful, and it scene represented. It took at least stitutional treatment corr'd be ex-

influence. These and many other It was dieputed that he was a member would determine our character. The two decades before these spots on the pected

of the Canadian Expeditionary Fores.

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Smyrna be saw a free fight in the street and, walking up to see what was going on, he was suddenly arrest ed and thrown into prison by the conceptions we formed of ourselves sun were banished from the screen.

In order to record thetwomanifesta-matters would never be touched until Turko, His cell was a amall, filtbyta childhood tended to gut repressedtions satisfactorily it was absolutely there was a sufficiently strong pulis He seemed to have returned to Cana-| pince with the only window looking through the facts of life, and they necessary to keep the two instruments demand. More sciens: was ccede do after the marriage, and evidence on out on a public urinal. All his papers emerged in the form of lautasies. Rein step," and as the phonograph in the treatment of criminals, and ofidavit showed that he had bean) were taken from hire, and he was tating some curious experiences among must always keep the same pace, science and the truly Christina way vilely treated by the guard and patients, he said an artist who at the since any change of speed altor the treating people had an odd knack

age of three had a fantasy that there pitch of the sound a rheostat placed coinciding.

threatened with execution.

He worked for some daye with a rusty nail picking out the cement holding the bars of the cell window. Waiting till two o'clock one morning he forced the bar out, but it felt on to an old tin on the window-ledge and this falling to the ground the noise aroused the guard, who rushed in and prevented bis escape. At the point of the bayonet he was forced to or cupy another compartment at the top of the building.

Altogether he was in the prison for seven weeks, and then one morning, happening to look out of the window, be saw a British soldier slowly driving past in a motor car. Are you British?" he shouted, "Yes" replied the soldier in the car, "who Are you?"

Agar told him, and then the soldier shouted, "You are the man we are looking for. We'll zoon have you out." Within an hour a detachment of British troops arrived and to them the Turka gave up their prisoner, who was taken to the British Consul and, then sent home.

SCHOOLBOYS' COURT.

YOUNG DISPENSERS OF JUSTICE.

fazed boye, whose ages range between Grated round a table, pine grave.

ballot of

of

of

child, and had

guilty of raps upon a been deported to England by the

Canadian authorities as he was an Englishman, was nobody so perfect on earth as he in the circuit common to the two Mr. Osborne said he was a business

Lord Buckmaster pointed out that was developed that belief until he motors secures the quality of their man who had grown up with a horror if it turned out that the man's could not bear criticism of any kind speeds. In case there be any lag or of waste. The difference between domicile was in Canada a decree Dr. Hadfield went on to cite the end of the recording apparatus a de profit and I as in business was often granted in England would have no traordinary case of a patient of his, vice is introduced recalling the just what could be saved from the effect, and the woman would be rua- a doctor who would be in the con-

booster" of an slectric power scrap heap. Paison seemed to him to ning a hazard it she remarried. Ilo sulting-room with patients waiting to station, a small motor acting by dif- bo society's scrap heap, and it was had a statement that his domicile was see him, and would steal away and go ferential gear on the axie of the kine evident that the prison system of England, and there was evidence that to London just to get away from his ma motor, a double-action switch America was a failure because of the be bad acted as alleged with some practice. Three times to the speaker's speeds it up or retarda it fill aya number who kept returning to the unhappy child. I am quite sa isfied knowledge this doctor bolted and got chromism is re-established.

Borap heap, His own investigations that hu doserted her," added the himself certified at an asylum for

Moreover, similar regulation is of the problem had begun as chair-judge, and I am perfectly satisfied homicidal tendencies. He was suffer needed for reproduction in the mat of a Government commission that this is a marriage that ought to ing from a princely fantasy of bring of heatre. The operator has before set up to wake inquires, and he had ha annulled, and I grant the decree." great importance, but at the same him, clore by the phonograph, a box had experience as governor of prisons time crushed by his father. In the called "the conductor of the or- and as a voluntary prisonar. living one phase he was a god, and in the chestra." It contains: (1) A push under the prison regime. The com other a worm. He always bolted

button to start electrically the cine mittes over which he presided reached when anybody blamed him, or when matograph at a given sund (say, in the conclusion that under no buman

Being infested with rata, Shoreditch he thought he would be blamed for the title of the subject) in case the possibility could the existing system has a Rat Officer, Mir. E. T. 1), anything.

projection does not start automati- train a man for bonest citizenship. It Jordan, and the work he has accom. cally; but in the new apparatus it merely trained him for prison lilo, and pisbed is set out in the annual report do; (2) a voltmeter serves to in-not for the life of a citizen. Now bis for 1921 of the Ma'ical Officer of dicate the speed, and to show if any sympathy was not with the criminal. Health of Shoreditch, Dr. Lewis T.

equality takes place; (3) the switch The place of the criminal was prison. Fraser Beyett. acting on the rheostat to regulate the and he wanted to send the criminal

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A strong plea for the safeguard of the public with regard to arsenic wa made by Sir William Wilicos (medical adviser to the Home Ofte), in

Mr. Jordan, appointed under the paper on the dangers to health arising speed; (4) the reverting switch to there. Do everything to prevent Rats and Mics Destruction Act, 1919, from industrial preparations of ar Agar has so far been able to obtain sepie. At the close of the discussion speed or elacken the kinematograph. crime, but when crim, was committed made 5,721 visits to premis s.

A couple of gramophones are wore send the offender to prison. When number of rats caught in traps or no satisfaction for his wrongs. The which followed a resolution was ed alternately, to secure the continuity he was in prison we should, for ourilled by dogs was 1,080, and there British Government say they use passed by the lodustrial Disease of delivery; when the record of the own sakee and not fur bis, give him were found dead by poison 135. looking into the question of Section, expressing the opinion that one is exhausted the other comes into a chance. The criminal should be Premises cleared of rodents totalled Compensation. Meantime, be is the sale of arsenical pr. parations in-

206. Twenty-Gve drains were recon- practically penniless and without cluded in Section II. of the Poisons play. By this means the round records train x to be a good citizen.

"A GOOD CONDUCT LEAGUE," are made to join up, just as by the

structed, and floors of Litchens, bis Board of Trade certificate or bis and Paarmscy Act. 1908, should be cementing of films, end to end, the

How was that to be done? The sug-acollerics, passages, and coal cellars papers, without which he is unable to limited to properly qualified and com-light records are projected continuous- obtain another post.

petent persons, name registeredly. Thus it is justly claimed, whote gestina apon which he and bia com were coacrated to the number of forty pharmacists and that pur hasers play can be performed without any York gun man-a man who was ex

mittee acted came from a rough New to make them rat proof. The nom. ter of baita provided was 99,853.

In the House of Lords, sára a home should be required to have a licence delay between scan and so na of troutely foud of reading the essays of Verrats were employed in the work, in

paper in mail we.k, the Earl of On- for the possession of such dangerous act and act, whereas on the stage Emerson. This rough gun-man read-conjuntion with the doze.

glow moved the second reading of the some time must be given for change

Smoke Abatement Bill, which, he said, Dr. Bryett says, with reference to Bir William said the Act of 1908 of scene or of costume, and also for tag the works of Emerson was in some

"I saw the great Napoleon with was the outcome of the recommenda removed many of the restrictions re- necessary intervals of rest for the ac.respects one of the most humorous the use of poisons that 'it esam3 to

"There te advantageous to vary them from my own eyes during the tetreat from tione of the Smoke Abatement Com ought to be a good cond set league,"

time to time. Rats appear to differ Moscow (in 1812). He was wearing a mittee, preeided over by Lord New. vantages might accrue to the public tinuity may be exaggerated, for the said this prisoner. "It could assist considerably in their tastes, and a green cavalry cloak," was the st. to It was then thought that certain ad: tors. Po-sibly the value of such con- things he had ever met.

inventor would appear to take no as

Lord Newton said the Bill was 11 and 13, passed judgment upon from the greater freedom for purchase. count of fatigue among the audience the management of the prison, and change in the pscued bait used has meat ma le to a special correspondent

way not ą. if we are allowed to show what we been obeorved to be followed by b ne- of the Intransigeant by M. Merilaa their fellow pupile of the Davideon-It was not at that time realised that

One of the minor difficulti e is found

Krasin ky, a land d proprietor of long overdue, but it roal elementary school, Croydon. those advantagea might be actor in the necessity for placing the two can do we will show you." Now I ficial results.

came to the onclusion," said Mr. "In some instauces it has been Volhynia in Poland who states that genuine fulfilment of the promise. made on behalf of the Gov·rament. Appointed from the three top ed by very grave dazgere. The fact recording instruments side by side, in Osborns," that this man had restored found difficult to free premises from he is now 132 years of age.

All it d.d Was slightly to their was that a large number of fatal cases consequence of which the photograph the missing link to the chain.

Reporting to the Police of Warenw Give there intelligent rod nts, bu' care and choulmatre, the juvenile dispensere | of accidental and suicidal poisoning is too far from the speakers for easy the men responsibility and hold aftention, wi h perseverance, have in that he had been robbed of 50,000 amend the Act of 1875 which bad. of justice mee

marks in a tramway car, Kratioaky Dr ved thorongly unsatisfactory in every Monday had resulted from the lemoval of reproduc ion of their voices. It sends them to it.

And so at Auburn the end usually Leen successful," morning and award punishment for the previous restrictions relating to to be provided with devices for prison what was called the Matus!

entered the date of his birth in the its working. The most imp. rant re ommendations of the committee had. various delinquencies that have come the tale of arsenical preparations used magnifying the sounds that it receives. Welfare League was formed. The

police books as 1790. under their notice during the io agricultura and horticulture, and This however has to be made

He states he first enlisted in 1803 been practically ignored. The mais there was season to believe that in not active, for what M. Gaumont terms

prisoners formed it themszly..." The pr.ceding week...

The ceremonial of a court of justice a few instances those preparations had a parasitic sounds, which have to be "peaker went on to describe how the plo's to cecape being abandonat, of in the Third Squadron of the Imperial commendation was that the duty is observed. The prisoner is marched been used for criminal purpares. The excluded, would wthont provision, league adopted its own simple by blood feuds among prisogers being Fre el Guard. "I fought in Russia ufuforcing the law should be trans- laws, elected its executive committos, ended rather than that the privileges ho said "I well remember the disaster red from the call local authorities in and the bileged offence is clearly dangers to the public from the sale of socompany and mask, if not over its own seageant-at-a'me te 'maistain of the member of the league should of the crossing to the Beresins to the county councils and county

boroughs. stated He is asked for an explanat industrial preparations of arsenic dur.

pwar, the voices, Just fancy what ins and may call witn-eyes. Then he is ing the fourteen years which had would be the effect of the whirr of the dial with cases it, which mos were whole basis of citizenship? he self on that fatal day burned a pile of discipline and its own board of judges sacrificed. Was not that the (November 27 and 28,1812). I my marched to an adjoining room while passed since then had been proved to recording kinems-camera during a

charged with bad conduct or infras-asked-the subordination of our own new tricolour flags with their eagles. the time had come lor sal guarding projector is too frequently bad en their decision,

Sentencra u-ually consist of the the public in the way suggested in the

there weTG 170, eide of the Poles in their effort to free that owing to the smoke cuisance na Sing prison a year Ister, and at Portsmouth number of lines to be written out by resolution, A tin or packet of weed.ough! The firm have introduced was begun at Auburn in 1914, Sing he went to the naval prison at Polish army, and fought again on the cheater elaborate calculations showed means to obviate this, but, naturally the Portsmouth naval prisos in prisoners with 180 marine guards. the country from Russia. For this less than 100,000 a year was spent in the extra washing of collars and the the pat day. For more serious killer or abeep dip was at least as enough they vel these means in seo

atire damage done in that city Bet free Krasinky state he offered orimer "priconera" are remitted to dangerous as the possession of recy. The Ge eral Secretary went so 1917. Eight different governors bad Tawards the end of his term there I wass nt to Siberia for 18 years." the beadmaster with a recommendst. frearm. It was not necesary to give far as to say that they wore threclold supervised it with success, and some the number of the prisoners--was

The reason why ouis wa the dir ion that they should receive a any hair raising figures, but a gallon of and other devis41, but he could tell who at first disbelieved in it became about 2,000, and there were no guard his esrvices to his late gaolers and tank amounted to £1,000,000 a year.

converts to it. Of course, it did except those of the league. Moreover, part in the Chinese campaign of 1959 tie at country in Europe was because specified number of strokes.

weedkiller, would possibly kill 10000 DO MOTE.

We are promised that future dive. not work perfeotly. How could that a large Lumber of the prisoners were and a, ais in the Russo Japanese war of the indiso.iminate use of raw cost- Mr. G. Pleno, the headmaster, people. Referring to the sof said to s

Daily Mail reporter arcaical wood preservative in the rase topments will include three colour re- that the great atility of this scheme of a Lut in which 2100 girls word productions, which will give, say the is that it teaches the boys to acquire employed, he said that a month after arm, & truthful illusion of life.

Tense of responsibilty and its application & white orastation cultivate, their judgment. “The the boarfront was loood on the scuten pad the falnes of their o d and a portion of the deposit on

clause by the

Mr. Osborne told of instances of

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The fall of ot in London was at

the rate of 23 tons por month, while

the committee solemnly debate be so great that it appeared to him scene of love or passion. That of the tions of the prison rulai. That system de ires to the general welfare. When I 1830 I joined the insurrectionary. Biriogham it was 54. in Man

be expected with such material? Did "roomed" outside the barracks with in 1904 and 1905 it have a good effect on the character nothing between them and liberty but

He proudly shows eight military for all purposer, domestic or ing

dustrial.

The Bill was read a second time,

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of the princners How could it fall light wire fencing. "I told the man," medals that he has win during his to do bet Every man was pon-raid Mr. Otheras, that I should be long career and explains that he had sible for the god conduct of the shamed of say one of thens who many others but they were stolen from league the lucky members were could not escape, and ashamed of any him by the Bolshevika. "He dealeres judgments are surprising. ↑ Os beive comped-of-fund to concood Auggestion elected to office and had casponsibility one who did. In the whole of my he was wounded at Moscow in 1812, have always bien temperate ið alf Fears ago. I attribute my long le to castor afly when an especially knotty tata 61 per cent, of arsenious oxide Try Chamber and Tatlets when bill us thrust upon them, becoming judges, experience whethesta 1818 and again in 1890 things only been to smoke 10. "I baya never been ill," he told his this. My father did when i'e was, point arises they call me in to help or white arseniu. The air and dust of tailpster. You are cortal bepolice officers, or members of this prisons I bave usmed bal thousands during the Polish revolution.

much lead w th them. They tre naty

interviewer, "and that is because I 117 and mother when I was 97," tham, bet av a then they do not in the building also contained an to late and plesnih urte. For cale executive committs which deridel of prisoners and accounted for all but

eight. upon the policy to be pursued, by.all home and Sorekeepers giwaya mboopt my adflow

appfaciable amount of ereumle,