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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1926.

FRANCE'S CABINET.

BRIAND'S VIRTUAL SUCCESS;

FRANC IMPROVES,

(Reuter's Servios.)

London, Nov. 27. The franch London to-day

With 127%.

opened at 123.15/16, compared It is not certain whether the improvement is due to official sup port and Continental buying or to à behef that the difficulty of form-

COM

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"GHOST HUNTS.”

RONALD TRUE.

TRAINED TO CATCH BOGUS FRESH LIGHT ON A FAMOUS

MEDIUMS,

CASE.

BRAZEN: FRAUDS.

INSANITY AND CRIME

TH

MAIL.

ZEHE CHILIN MIND.

AS "A TELEOSOPHICAL VAN VLECTURE,

ter should be the primary sideration of the schoolly For stance if we really and earnestly desire to bring about universal pence we must held up the heroes: of peace, the great benefactors of Miss Flora Menzel, President of humanity, not only of one nation the Milwaukee Lodge, The Theoso but of all nations, as ideals to our I have just been reading (says phical Society, and a teacher in children. Thus will we breed The New York police have A Harley Street Doctor, in the the alamentary public school of tolerance, understanding and sym started a special school: to teach Glasgow Evening News) the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, delivered pathy without which no enduring detectives how to "catch ghosts." full account of the trial of a lecture on "New Ideals in Educa-peace is possible. She deplored The city is overrun with bogus Ronald True, which has been pub tion" at the Hongkong Lodge the fact that the intellectual mediums and when the classes fished in the Notable Trials Series The Theosophical Society on Wed training is stressed at the expense have been completed a big round-carvedited by Mr. Donaldnesday last. She told of the ex of the physical, emotional and The trial it will be recalled,tensive research work being car-spiritual. The training of the up of these charlatans is to take

created tremendous pubile interried on in the United States which emotions is a field of education place.

Houdini, the popular, illusionistest three years ago, when it took is bringing about radical changes that is almost wholly unexplored place, and this interest became in educational ideals, methods of and that holds marvellous possibi- educational procedure. attitudes titles for character development. positively feverish when True was certified, after conviction, to be towards the child, the school and The use of intelligence tests. insane and sent to Broadmoor the curriculum. This is one of which received its first impetus asylum instead of to the gallows the most hopeful signs of the curing the r, as a

He had committed a i most times," she said, "this vital inter-determining a child's inherent brutal murder. Armed with a rollest in the education of the rising mental capacity, was recommend ing-pin he struck down, and bat generation, for the children of toed if use with discrimination day will be the citizens of and judgment. This work is still tured to death a young girl whom to-morrow Who will shape the in its infancy, and if not allowed in order to make surety doubly Sure, he then

and destinies of the autions." gagged He took all her

ing a French Cabinet will be over known as well in England as in Paris, Nov. 27, America, is the chief of the new After all day long pourparlers, "ghost-catching school and he M. Briand has virtually succeeded' has over 100 keen pupils, in forming a Cabinet in which It' is forecast that in addition to the The trouble and reason for Premiership, he will be Foreign the school is that without special Minister, M. Loucher will be knowledge the police are not only Minister or Finance. M. Painleve often misled, but cannot obtain Minister of War. M. Georges Eygues Minister of the Navy, and the necessary evidence to secure M Leon Ferrier Minister of the conviction- Colonies.

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THE NEW ERA.

GERMANY AND PANO TREATIES.

TRICHSPW ́S ABURPPANER.

Reuters Service,

raided.

Carswell.

strangled. when seances, are money, about 28, and a her

Don't believe anything you see or hear at a seance." Houdini tells This pupila.

jewels. These latter he pawned.

Then he went to a tailors and ordered a new suit in order to get rid of the Blood stains on the old one.

"No matter how extraordinary and free from fake the results abtained by mediums appear to be, don't believe in them. They tion.

NO “SUPERHUMAN POWERS.

means. of

to crystallize too soon into formul and stereotyped procedure, holds great promise of providing a means for determining the rate at which a child can be expected to progress in intellectual taske,

Misa Menzel made a special plea for the little child-the child of pre-school and elementary school age, the period when the soul or individuality of the child is trying to find itself and determine the line of activity and expression that it will follow throughout kis fe time. It is in childhood that the foundations must be laid upon which the future is to build, the foundation is weak or faulty

eurai.

If

The Theosophical iden that the soul of the child has lived be- fore in other bodies and comes into this lite equipped with facul ties that he bas developed in pre- vious lives, is paralleled by the theory that because of different Here, declared his accusers, is hereditary influences children the clearest evidence of delibera-come into the world with widely varying capacities! These indi- are all just tricks. fakes, and arts The jury certainly thought so.vidual differences should be taken and wiles known fully to the and the public agreed with the into account in education and all public magician entertainer,' heury. There seemed to be no children should not be put declures.

doubt that True would hang. In through the same routine and pro- deed, that expectation beisame cer-cedure, but the type of education So he is daily performing" fortainty when another very young should be fitted to the needs and the benefit of the detectives and murderer, the boy Jacoby, was re-capacities of each individual. The Flowing them just how the anused mercy a few days before the cene of emphasis has shifted in sled medium geld his or her date fixed for True's exceusion, the last ten years from the sub-

though Jacoby Best matter to the child. Nevertheke, [for most of the inak mediums Fate glare worn-effects."

was hanged. Frue exclped. The school period of the child should #he Roqueinsdag passed the And

he looked upon as life here and doctors had saved him.

London, November 21-Judge. now--not as a mere preparation Sy Skiner Turner has been ap Me Bill defying the

As soon as this became known. for me. The child should b dugumo treties by to 174

a tremendous outcry arose. "Are taught to be a good citizen of his pointed British representative on "There are no people with we," people, asked, "to be tried by own little community now-not NOTABLE "SCENE.

doctors nstead of by judges and Berlin, Nov. 27

be a good superhuman powers" is his text.

citizen at some remote future and he tells of the "many tricks juries Trial by Harley Streenerely prepared to

as it was called. was denounced time. of the trade" that he has discover from one end of the country to the ed in his own personal investiga-other. tions trito seances.

Portal, Nov. 27, 1 The Huahstag by 278 16 180 voles pagproved digeming's dry into the Fysignalist Natras.

votes.

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The Reichstag by 1 to 174 votes passed to third reading of the Lewarns Bill unbreng the earity, pach, thus aqustration javäes nak clemany's entry into the Tongue in practically full me

Hrudini mukes "victims" of his pupils and finds that "having hair legs pulled" makes them. sharper than ever.

ROCTORS VERSUS JURIES.

Mr Carswell, however, though The reason the police have de-li

he is a barrister-at-law. agrees cided on a bogus medium round-

with the medical men. He has the up is that an ever-increasing num- devoted himself to the study of ber of complaints are being re-the mind in health and disease (ceive and the difficulty of obtain he is the son of a distinguished ing positive evidence of fraud has

alte zu feries were assigned diplomatic corps. The polstar cowl ed in be present,

The

10 lasting structure Can be

The Commission of Extralerri- į (10)

riality which will assemble -nk Peking on December 12.-Render,

ings on

Dr. Ander and Her Streseman made the charlatans more, and pecialist in insanity), and he has school curricallum. The teacher, example the position of the Soviet||

go to Lomkorian Saving for sign the treaty after which the dovernment will resign make room alt Sections of the Baalition in favour of The treaty.

LOST IN GALET

SEARCH FOR MISSING SCHOONER.

TRAGEDY AT NIGHT.

Utenker's Service,

terrible hour.

and lead the child into ever

Schoolroom activities should be

November 17, M. based by the natural spontaneous Herthelot states that his conversa interests of the child. His innervion with Chicherin was merely a urge, not the formal text book mutter of getting into touch with prepared by some one who has no other. No negotiations 'were sympathetic contact with child opened and they merely wook bear- life, should form the basis of the

various questions, for

no doubt that Ronald True was a instead of being the task master. more brazen. They are giving seans" all over the city, and madman when he committed mur-should act as aid, inspirer, and Government in relation to Britain charging large sums for admis der und, indeed, long before that encourager when difficulties arise and France on the question of debts und the Wrangel feet; on Russia's sion. Most of them are raking.

Iar this opinion he has the sup-greater and wider interests and try into the League of Nations in huge fortunes by, their frauds.

But the swindling part of the Port of practically every doctor activities. The by-products off the possibility of commercial

who examined the man.

learning

"Le Petit Parisien the attitudes that are agreements. business is not the worst feature. True's madness, however, lay unconsciously developed, while the understands at Chicheria,, who has Mental specialists are declaring not in his intellect but in his educational process is going on gene to the south of Fratt expects that if a stop is not put to the feelings. activities of these frauds who play rather thun mentally unhinged,

He was emotionally are often more important than the shortly, to make a longer stay in en the emotions of simple-minded

immediate learning itself, Out of Paris when official pourparlers will This is a much more common attitudes and ideais character is be opened in regard to the debt people the asylums in a few years state of affairs than is generally built and the building of charac-1 problem.-Renter. will be full of mental cases direct-realised. The ordinary concep ly attributable to the work of tion of madness is loss of reason. fraudulent self-styled "spiritual-The madman is supposed to pas- Hists,"

sess a disordered brain and so to

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CLEVER SPY SERVICE.

be unaware of what he does or Amsterdam: Nov. 27. The mediams, it has been dis. the meaning of his actions.

True was not a madman of this Two torpedoers and the cruiser covered in many cases, have br- "Heemskerk" are searching in "ganised an intelligence service, in kind. Ha heart rather than his was disordered... Hing, the neighbourhood of the island, which servants, hotel lift boys, brain

of Terschelling for the naval pilot chambermaids, and people in emotions were mad and this schooner which left there cars on almost every walk of life that madness of the emotions always Tuesday with a crew, of thirteen offers opportunities of spying are affects the intellect also. intloding a captain, chief officer employed to obtain the necessary THE ENDS OF JUSTICE

Like the monsters of history and four pilots, and is feared to information that make the "spirit

have been lost. A lifebuoy and messages appears wonderful who drank the blood or devoured the flesh of their victims, he was the schooner's dinghy have been and genuine. washed ashore. It is surmized "It is impossible for the medium driven to his abominable deed, by that the vessel was sunk in a gale to have known that" is a common impulses which are unknown to' at night by a British schooner. cry-but the victim of the fraud normal health.

COTTON INDUSTRY.

WARTIME PLAN NOT REJECTED.

(Reuter's Service.)

London, Nov, 27.

A meeting of the Master Cotton |

"

There are thousands of these frauds about, it is declared.

little knows that probably his or There was plenty of evidence of her own servant in the pay of the existence of this abnormality the "demonstrator."

in his early life. He was utterly time; callous, yet, at the same highly emotional. In circum- stances in which other men would have been overwhelmed by ema- tion he felt none; in circumstances MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS, in which other men would have

remained unmoved he was swept, away on torrents of violent feel- ting.

The prospect of a shameful

Spinners Association at Manches, The P.S., B.M.S. Empres ter decided by a large majority of Asin arrived at Nagasaki on death on the gallows filled him against the proposal for control Nov. 26 at 6 pm, left Nagunki with amusement. On the other of the Lancashire cotton spinning" verday a 6 m. und was due at hand, he wrote letters from the industry on the principle of the Shanghai to-day at 9.30 am. condemned cell of such a kind as wartime cotton control board in-

Ah leaves Shanghai to-morrow to suggest that he believed him- cluding operatives and representa- tives,

self to be a heroic character bear- morning at 8.30.

ing with noble fortitude troubles The 1. & A. sa. Tandu! left that were none of his making) Muji for this port on Nov, 26 at] One may call this egoism or ex«, TIMES" ON CHINA, a is the here on Dec. 1 at treme selfishness. It was,, how- ever, more than that. There is a point at which self-love cesses to and insane

be merely hateful and becomes

(Bruter's Srintee

Trondon, November 27. "British policy in China does not imply and should not imply tho.

Baya

30.

San

Tho T.K.K. 8.8. "Shinyo Maru arrived Yokohama yesterday sails. today for Honolulu and

nuncisco. The T.K.K. Taiyo Marn

"The Dec. 7:

armed intervention which so many arrived at Yokohama yesterday and Horely tried Brilons in China, would suits today, being due at Hongkong greatly welcome" Times in a rudur, "It is futile. to dren of diverting or controlling the complicated process of change in the life of the biggest people in Asia by means of a few gunboate and regiments.

prine of the

in of the opinion that

to which Britiali

are subjected could be cor

alleviated if stepe

strengthen the depleted En

Mexico City, November 27.The Clumber has passed the final road ing of the Petroleum Bill enacting

True's self-ove was madness. It arose from a total unhinging of his feelings. It made of him a wild beast, cunning and crafty, Was such a man worth saving but also pitifully weak.

from the rope? Of course he was not, But the law exists to afford justice to all men, even the vilest. And that Justice shall be done. is a matter of such supreme im portance that nothing else matters

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