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I think it is, that contact with de-i tails leaves a scar on the soul.

THE MAD MAJOR.

ECHO OF GREAT WAR FIGURE.

-GROWING RELIEF.

Was there a "mad major" dur- ing the war? If so, who was he?

Most serving soldiers and many

"I suppose that the best defini. Although the story told at the tion of Literature is to be found in Great Literature itself; all writers Old Bailey by the police regarding are in their various ways striving four members of the Josephine

to attain to that ideal which, Is O'Dare group of forgers who were more or less embodied in what we ex-soldiers know the story. He sentenced for forging and uttering call the world's classics, works was supposed to have had a roving eheques was a remarkable one, that have stood the test of the commission to do what he liked only the barest facts regarding ages, of different civilisations, dif- and to have used every arm of war their intended coup were revealed. ferent ideals, nay, different lan-in turn.

When documents seized with

He belonged to no particular

their baggage after their arrest at guages, and generations of count- Euston Station were examined the less readers and critics. So I ima authorities found that plans had gine the easiest way-but it is not unit, and yet, at different times, been made for what would have coay-to test any particular work he made use of scores of units. been one of the biggest frauds of or tendency is to set it over And everything he did bore the the kind ever attempted on the fin-Against the best Literature; you stamp of the generalship of a can thus get the right perspective, Napoleon, the resource of a Sher- ancial houses of the country.

"If then we take the glants or lock Holmes, the courage of a Had the gang remained at liberty merely the great ones of Litera Nelson.. they would have recurod many thousands of pounds at one stroke ture; if we examine their master-

To-day every soldier knows the pieces, whether in drama or epic, but this money was to have been lyric or fiction, do we find this ob story, and an amazing percent- used as the foundation of what had trusion of the flesh; do the cage believes in it. And the belief been designed as a colossal coup acters spend much of their time is still growing.

With cleverly forged cheques dwelling on the thought of un- I met at Southampton recently several accounts had been opened. hallowed love? Then the members of the gang be- gan to draw heavily on the ac counts, Each time money was withdrawn the accounts were "fed" with forged cheques for still larger

amounts.

If the scheme had not been stop- ned by the arrests many London banks before the close of business on a certain Saturday would have

tol

the last Army transport to arrive Some there are. Aristophanes from India. The Scots Greys on and Rabelais and Shakespeare, for board believed "the mad major" have been originally instance, who are at times very to to-day; some distinctly coarse, as we would say cavalryman. Artillerymen

of their language said he had belonged would "sound 1 in the modern

the R.H.A. To infantrymen drawing-room, I agree. But if I may be pardoned the paradex, i to-day, as when the war ended. he is clean coarseness, even to us of had been a "footslogger." Tank, to-day, whose ideas of what is mechanics and Air Force men all scemly are not those of a few cen. claim him. They, like the men I met from India, tell remarkable) turies ago.

stories of his exploits.

sustained immense losses.

For the success of its operations the gang depended on the skill of

"The point however I wish to the 22-years-old forger, Luke Donegal, whem the police had pre- owes anything of his fame, his en- emphasise is that not one of them viously known as Claude Davies. His cheque forgeries were placed during fame to

the eloments of

Most people believe that he got! special permission to be a free;

in the Black Museum at Scotland the indecent, the immoral, the lance of war to enable him to Yard and classified as the best dwelling on the satisfaction of the avenge the deaths of his sons- senses. I therefore suggest that the number of them differs. Most specimens of the kind ever obtain-it is an aesthetic truth, explain it believe that aeroplanes they saw ed by the police.

flying a few feet over the German lines were piloted by him.

as you will, that this pandering of to-day to the pornographic instinct

Plans For Flight, When the property of another of the race is not necessary to One man saw him bring down! member of the convicted gang. groat or real literature, is not Richtofen. Again, on the Noyon] John O'Connor, was soarched, the found in it, is a bar to success, front, he trundled a 18-pounder police found that he had been res- and that the writer of such things into No Man's Land during a ponsible for much of the white is giving us poor stuff so far as morning mist and blew up six slave traffic between Britain and this element is concerned. France. He has been the agent In England for a Madame Jeanne, of

Rouen.

Often he has "So once more I turn back to German tanks. Plato and quote you his words: taken out a British tank and 'Shall

With we carelessly allow our wrought frightful havoc. The police also found that in young men and our young women rifle and bayonet he has gone out co-operation with a Captain Ben-to hear any tales which may be and collected handfuls of prison- jamin Harper, whose correct name devised by casual persons, and re era unaided.

is Benjsmin Ritaon, O'Connor had colve into their minds ideas for One of the officers just return- made arrangements for all the the most part the very opposite of ad from India told me that the gang to flee to the Continent with those which we would wish them stories had become very general bogus passports jmmdlately the to have? We cannot. Then the

hanks coup had been carried out. first thing will be to establish a out there. People who saw indi- Harper, an ex-officer of the Lin-censorship of the writers of fic-vidual acts of great bravery are colnshire Regiment, has been ation: and let the censore accept more and more crediting them to racing tipster and has also been any tale of fiction which is good, him. Men who did not serve in! engaged in the white slave traffic and reject the bad.. (Republic, the war believe he did such ex- in London...

377).

traordinary things as driving a car along the Arras Road into the German lines.

"We in Canada have made, a move in this direction; from time to time the authorities bar from

CANCER SCOURGE. the malls certain salacious maga

CIGARETTE SMOKING IS.

་

SAFEST,

PERIL OF THE PIPE.

"Go to the doctor when you are well."

That was the advice of Lord Lawson Penn, who apoke at the Institute of Public Health at a lecture on the cancer perl.

This officer thought."the mad zines published in the States. We major" was a composite of Col have a Board of censors in various onel Freyberg, Colonel Lawrence, provinces for the films, and and Air Commodore Samson. It think that the time should come, 's worth considering.

and come soon, when there will be Friction does not invest any a censorship for all works of fic-man with so many thrilling escap- tion whether published within orades. To all he and his exploits outside the Dominion,

are different. No one seems to have seen him. Has he any basis in actuality?

"But whether that censorship I established or not, I say to you members of the English Club, that you have before you a priceless heritage of great Literature which

Or is he an even more remark- able figment of the imagination

He urged those present to avoid is pure, and which does interpret than the "Russian legions" of magic cures and short cuts in deal-life as in truth it is; that you have August 19147-Maurice Fagence ing with this dreadful disease. no need to descend from that level, in the "Daily Mail."

'I view with some apprehension even though you read for the re-

the study of disease by the mainder of your lives; and finally, public," he said. "It is almost an if you would keep your souls pure, Impossible task.

avoid all such fiction as you would

"The layman cannot be impar- the plague, for be very sure that tial with regard to himself. If he if you read It. 'very few of you seeks the symptoms of disease too will escape unscathed and unscar- much he is prone to get a distort-red."

ed view and a fear of the disease,

which is very much worse.

"Cancer Weeks' and such pro-

ceedings are the cause of very SENATOR'S

much more harm than good.

"The way to look at this problem should be along the avenue of health. We want to teach people what the functions of the body are In a healthy person, and what are the consequences of digression from health.

BRIDE'S DEATH.

A DOCTOR ON ELECTRICAL TREATMENT.

Evidence was given at Marl- DENIAL.borough Street Police Court on

INQUIRY INTO MEXICAN FUNDS ALLEGATIONS.

the case in which Charles Jack- son Palmer, fifty-nine, medical electrician, of Upper Brook Street, W., is charged with murdering Mra. Elsie-Alice Goldsmith, twenty-one, who had gone to his New York, Four United establishment for treatment. States senators Mr. Borah. Mrs. Goldsmith was married'early "If that were done, people would

Heflin, Mr. Lafollette, in September, and her death oc- seek the advice of their medical Mr.

Norris were named by curred on November 21. en when they were well. And Mr. when they went to their medical Mr. William Randolph Hearst,

Dr. Henry L. Wilson, of Gordon men to be thus treated, it would be the newspaper proprietor, Square, W.C., said he first came the duty of the doctor to examine as the men who, it was alleged, into contact with Mrs. Goldsmith them with thoroughness."

received, more than £200,000 from through her husband's mother. Mexico by order of President He attended her medically on In his lecture, Professor Blair Calles. At the time the allegation October . "She had just return- was made in the Hearst news ed from her honeymoon and was "If we fail soon to conquer this papers' expose of documents re-auffering from a chill which she disease of cancer, a few years garding the alleged improper had apparently contracted abroad. hence nations will not be fighting action by President Calles, the It was not serious, and I soon one another, but will have united names of the senators were delet-cured her." to stamp out a horror that ́may| ed. threaten the very existence of mankind.

Smokers Warned.

Bell said:

On the evening of November

The charge was sufficient. to 21, when he returned home, he The first step in the prevention cause the Senate to demand an in- found an entry in the telephone of cancer is to enlist the lay public vestigation.. Mr. Hearst, called book and rang up Palmer's phone in a vast co-operative scheme. as the first witness, told, of the number. A man's voice answerad "It does not seem possible that purchase of... the alleged and told him that the patient was cancer of the lips, mouth, tonsils, documents from the Mexi- dead, and that Dr. Macintosh hadi] etc., which

so much more fre- can secret archives. He said he seen her. quent in men than in women, can had been satisfied that they were A few minutes later Dr. Macin-! be due to anything but bad habits and other avoidable factors such genuine. Revealing the senators' tosh (who had been called in by

names, he declared that he did Palmer) arrived. as alcoholism.

Mr. Clarke, (prosecuting): "Did "Smoking plays a large part in not believe that they had received the production of a pro-cancerous the money,

you at any time prescribe electri- state.

After Mr. Hearat's testimony cal treatment for Mrs. Goldsmith? "A stream of hot gases may be Senator Borah, chairman of theGood gracious no.“ directed always on the same part Senate's Foreign Relations Com- Were you conscious of anything] of the tongue, the roof of the mouth or the throat, whenever nittee; Senator Heflin, one of the at any time that required such Well, electrical smoking is in progress, Democratic firebrands; and Sand-treatment?

"The cigarette smoked in excess tor Lafollette, who has aspired to treatment is given for so many has other disadvantages, but if a the Radical leadership long held things now--it is almost given for holder be not used, it is the safest by his father, categorically denied nothing you knew of no form of smoking for those who the charges. Senator Norris la Mr. Mead: cannot afford or do not like confined to bed and he issued his thing urgent that needed it in cigarettenials from there. Mr. Dudley this case? No.

*** Professor Bell advocated the in- Field Malone, who is named in Inspector W. Ourzons said that stitution all over the country of the documents as having received Palmer told him that the treat clinics, private and public, to which, at any rate, all at or past the money and taken it to the ment was given by placing a pad the age of forty must go for bl-senators, was equally emphatic in upon the spine and passing alter- annual examinations.

· denying the allegations,

uste currents through the body.

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