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MR. J. MAXTON, M.P. THE MAN WHO LOOKS REVOLUTION.

A STORMY PETROL.

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In Parliament such as the pre-

sant, consisting of an overwhelm- ing Conservative majority, it would not be surprising if Mr. Maxton was one of the best hated figures. But the very reyors is the case, Mr. Maxton has won the respect and friendship of men in all parties. He is a strange paradox, a zenlot with''a' sense of humour. He has charm, a pleasant voice, and a clear style of dietion which

SPEECH DAYS.

MASTERS WHO ARE

UNDERPAID.

LOED RIDDELL'S' VIEW.

Founders' Day at Epsom College this year was notable as marking the half-way point between the jubiles and the centenary of the school's foundation.

"

[By Walter P. Foley.] -When the Coalition broke up in 1922 and the late Mr. Bonar Law. went to the country with the word

Tranquillity" inscribed upon his in moments of passion rises to The main item which remains to standard the Labour Party recely eloquence. The saturnins face da complete the Council's present ed a considerable accession of

he speaks fa 1lt up with a glow schome of progress is the build- strength, both in the number and almost of inspiration; he wields Ing of the new school sanatorium the quality of the men returned. with a delicate touch the potent at a cost of £30,000. By this The most interesting group of re-

weapon of pathos..

menna Epsom College will have cruits came from the Clyde. They

YOUTH AND CONVICTION. the finest school sanatorium, 'ànd were men who had preached a fiery doctrine of

The House of Commons has had at the same time will be able to Socialiam in the

a mellowing Influence on Mr.utilise the present one as an ad- crowded poverty-stricken arens

Maxton. It has softened the ditional house to bring the num- that lle around Glasgow. Some of them had been in prison for ex- harshness of his judgments with ber up to eight, so that Epsom, pressing their convictions.

out undermining the bases of his like Winchester, will have 400

were rebels to a man,

principles. His experiences during boarders in eight houses, of fifty There was the redoubtable Mr, the war, when he served a year's boys each.

The headmaster, Mr. A. Q. David Kirkwood, who spoke in imprisonment for a speech on tones of thunder, but with so Glasgow Green, might well have Powell, in presenting the report broad a Doric that many of his permanently embittered his out for the year, said that of eighty- look In the loss of his wife a seven boys who, this year had en- threats were unintelligible to the

few years ago he had his share" bered for it, seventy-six had gain- men from the south. There was Mr. Campbell Stephen, a burly personal sorrow, which is often ed the school certificate, eight with the other side to the brilliant honours; forty-two had secured the Christian with the chin of a prize shield which the public man pre-matriculation certificate, and sixty- fighter. Theré was Mr. John Wheatley, suave and subtle, but ente to the outside world. But three had obtained individual dis- The school was grateful speaking now with polished dic- nothing has been able to Impair tinctions.

his warm humanity. His funda- to St. Thomas Hospital for the re- tion. There was Mr. "Geordie" Buchanan, forty years old, but mental geniality "comes breaking suscitation of their Epsom scholar- ship of the value of £200, and to strangely boyish in appearance, Socialism is for him still a v-Charing Cross Hospital for a new passing swiftly from moode of dis-ing reality and not, as in George Epsom scholarship of £100, arming gentleness to shrewish an- Meredith's phrase, a "slow-step- Lord Riddell, in presenting the

And last of all this group,

ping Liberalism." Little more prizes, said he had long held the and in appearance the most pic-than forty years of age, he is still opinion that schoolmasters had turesque of all, was Mr. James politically a young man; the same been very badly paid, although, sa Maxton, the member for Bridge-

age as

Joseph Chamberlain was a matter of insurance, they should ton.

when he launched the unauthoris-be properly paid because upon LOOKED "THE GOODS." ed programme in the 'eightlên. It them depended the future of the may be asked whether he has stay-, race, Upon them depended whe- Even to the most superficial ob ing power and constructive gifts.ther they were going to have a server "Jimmie Maxton" was "the The impression-ho conveys is one happy and contented people or a goods. Other men might talk of of physical fragility, while the disgruntled people. He believed revolution, but "Jimmle" looked it best that may be said of his new the young scholars of the present It seemed as though Westminster ally, Mr. Cook, is that he has a day to be superior to those of any was faced with the incarnation of genius for defent

previous generation. They were the French Revolution. A lean, fragile figure that bends forward A SCHOOLMASTER'S DILEMMA. stronger, healthier, and more acuto But at the same time Mr. in Intellect. Lord Riddell dis when he speaks so that the head Maxton represents the more milit- agreed with those who said that ant section of his party who are the rising generation were inferior growing increasingly impatient of to their forefathers. vague nebulosities such se the "in- evitability of gradualness." The son of a schoolmaster and once a

ger.

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protrudes with a strange effect of intensity, lank black hair that falls in a heavy wlap over the right ear, sunken cheeks, n swarthy comple xion, and brilliant. eyes; such is Mr. Maxton,

It was doctrine of Socialism that he enun- ciated. He became quickly the central figure in stormy scenes. He and his friends from the Clyde

in."

up

TO AVOID DYSENTERY

Serce uncompromising schoolmaster himself, Mr. Maxton

has an unwearied passion for and diarrhoea during the hot sea- teaching. But the successful son the system must be kept clean schoolmaster must bring his text and the functions active, for which books to date. And there purpose there is nothing so good| If he does as Pinkettes, the dainty little liver formed. A little disciplined band comes the dilemma.

this he must follow his leader and intestinal regulators. Pin- who struck a discordant note oniong an undramatic road; if he kettes dispel constipation, bilious the Labour Benches and imparted falls he will get the limelight and attacks, sick headaches, aid a touch of colour to a drab scene. the drama, but the illumination petite and digestion, clear the skin, While the Labour Government was will be a-baleful gleam and the purify the breath. From chemists

drama may well lead to the dis- everywhere. ruption of his party. To the stu- dent of politics the future of Mr. Maxton is a fascinating tople.

in office, Mr. Maxton and his friends played the part of the "men of the mountain" ip the French Revolution, constantly watching and girding at the "Gironding" on the Front Bench. And in the end it was the "Moun-

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