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A famona physician onec stated that the four stages of drunkenness could be considered under the headings:
(1) Jocose;
(2) Bellicose;
(3) Lachrymose; (4) Comatose.
An American medico-legal ex- pert's definitions were even more vivid:
(1) Dry and decent;
(2) Delighted and devilish; (3) Delinquent and disgusting: (4) Dizzy and delirious:
(6) Dazed and defected;
(6) Dead drunk.
Each of these stages depends on the amount of alcohol in the blood. Needs for New Testa
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1933.
DOUKHOBORS: THEIR LIFE AND BELIEFS
EMPIRE'S COMMUNIST
COMMUNITY
NUDISM NOT A CULT
(By William Aitken.)
Canada is still trying to assimi-i Members of one of the stricter late the strange morsel she swal-communities, which is known as the lowed some 35 years ago, when, hun-"Svobodníki" or "Sons of Freedom," gry for new settlers, she admitted even object to the burial of dead 7,000 Doukhobor refugees from bodies. Their custom is to take the corpse to some plece of vacant land Tsarist Russia.
These strange, lovable, stubborn and leave it there, naked, to decom- people, whose life of toil and wor-pose. ship in the Canadian West has! The police have not yet succeeded brought them wealth which they do in stamping out this practice.
The Doukhobora do not, contrary not want and responsibilities of citizenship which they do not un-to general belief, make a cult of But, like many primitive A British medico-legal expert derstand, are one of the Dominion's nudity.
500 nothing points out that a concentration of biggest sociological problems. They communities, they
wrong in it. more than 6 per cent. of alcohol in will continue so for many year.
Their faith, kindled in Tsarist Since the first group marched the blood represents the lovel at
and Russia, hardened by persecution and naked into Yorkton one sunny spring which life is endangered,
to day many years ago and perceived would be produced by the taking of handed down from generation 1% pints of proof spirit or two generation, is primitive Christianity the effect upon the sensibilities of their new neighbours they have gallons of beer, supposing that the in essence and practice. beer were drunk within a short They live according to their own come to look upon nude parades ns literal interpretation of Holy Writ. Jone of their must offective weapons
time.
A state of moderate Intoxica-To interpret the diets of the Gos-of passive resistance. tion, induced by .153 per cent. in pels otherwise than as printed is,
When some 3,000 nude men,
It women and children started one of
a man's blood has resulted from to them, the worst blaspheny. taking in one dose or in repeated is chiefly their refusal to accept or their famous protest marches into doses in a couple of hours, four even compromise on this matter that Winnipeg many years ago the only pints of beer on an empty stomach, has kept them in trouble with their thing that would induce them to re- If the same amount were taken neighbours almost from the day of turn to their settlement was a threat of deportation to Russia. For them with a meal the concentration of their arrival.
this meant the knout and the risk of violent death.
the blood would be retarded, and A Wealthy Community
own
the proportion in the blood would
The 17,000 people who now dwell not rise above 1 per cent.
Death Before Surrender These facts shows how difficult in the various Doukhobor communi-j
During one of their frequent harried is being
and it is to rely upon ordinary tests for ties in Saskatchewan, Alberta and group
co-opera-clashes with the British Columbia and that British Columbia
non-payment harried and hounded by the fol- degrees of drunkenness. STEPHENSON.-On November 1.jlowers of an embittered fanatic, it is important that the law should tively thousands of acres of wheat Government over the
1933, in London, J. W. Stephen- himself by birth an alien. Mean-now consider the question of de- and timber lands, orcharde, grain of taxes, Peter Veregin, the Douk- son, non-resident secretary of while, of course, the economic green of drunkenness in their re-elevators, sawmills, fruit cannerles, hobors' patriarchal leader, who has the Chinese Maritime Customs.war
goes on, at a cost which lationship to motoring. Southern Ireland cannot for ever! stationed in London.
The China Mail
same.
sustain. Mr. de Valera, who made at the outset the unforget-
Lable boast that he had "fired
reason.
Your Daily Smile
QUITE!
many
fat
to
even
息
police
rather machinery sheds, barns and ware-sinec died, announced that houses. They have the most up-to-than submit he would have all the date machinery for large-scale farm-old people and young children of the ing that money can buy.
colony flung into the Kootenay Their total assets have been ea River. He later explained to the timated at well over £2,000,000, large force of Royal Canadian wife hne "The modern
Their villages and homes are run! Mounted Police who immediately the first shot" in that war, re-
They have appeared on the scene that he was cently declared that he would angelic traits," says a novelist on Communist lines. be glad to end it if only Bri-No. 1: Continually going up in the always managed their own affairs speaking only figuratively,
enthusiasm for nudity Hong Kong, Friday, November 19, 1913 tain, would show some sign of air and harping on something or without police, priests, doctora, inw Their
books,
ware Each never really
off. notwith- yers, economists or Nothing more uncon-other.
ringe has its bath-house, which standing threats of deportation,” im- Economic Chaos In Irish 'sciously mustrig has been said
on the subject. It is strange Sweet and Thirty.-A lady move-levery man, woman and child is comprisonment, cold wafer, and
floggings from outraged neighbours Free State.
how rich in humour the humour-list thinks that thirty is a nice age polled to use.
ago The Daukhobore would rather until about four years less can sometimes be. At other for a woman. It is, especially it'
trout bright young inspector of starve than catch the Though the Hitler regime came times, he affects a lofty indiffer- she huppens to be forty.
which lase in the Kootenay River dispersed the biggest nude parade British ever held in British Columbia with later to Germany than the rule ence towards export trade (it
How to Uncork Your Husband.-past their farmlands In
They have, in fact, a tear bombs and ftch powder. of Fianna Fail to the Irish Free being abundantly proved that no
Doukhobors dislike paying taxes. State, the spirit which animates foreign market to take the place How can I get my husband to dia- Columbia.
school, This fact is vividly illustrated by sending their children them both is essentially the of the British can be found) and cuss his business affairs with me?" low opinion of flesh-eaters in general.
It is the spirit of atter insists that Ireland can be self-inquiries a correspondent
"Ask him when he intends to buy a letter addressed by a member of census taking, military service, and' and the Doukhobor community to the registration of birtha intolerance, nor is it confined to sumclent. An opponent recently
there wass new car.”-
Government official in British Colum-deaths. They fear everything and'. the two countries mentioned. In reminded him that
gross inconsistency in pretending |
bia.
anything which they think may every quarter of the globe, in-
to ignore the British markel and Fair Exchange
The Doukhobora (he wrote) have bring. them into closer contact with even the dividual rights in
at the same time providing boun-
heard a lot of talk that they do dot the world, the flesh and the devil. pettlest particulars are being ties to enable his producers to
comply with English laws. This is It has long since been realised, restricted. In England, meetings reach it. But we have not heard
absolutely true and 0.K. For Eng-of course, that it would be a hope. can what his answer WILLS. The of the most diverse kinds
ollish people eat meat (paugh!), less task to persuade the adults to
amoke serious answer which his supporters at
(phew!), chew tobacco change their ways, but it was hoped. Itake
without place
(julcy), drlak alcohol, spirits and that the growing generation, as has interruption. In the curiously Tralee give to those who dare to frilly." named "Free" State, freedom is differ is simply mob violence.
That well-known Irish journalist, Poisoned Smiles-"Why do you beer (boozed), and go to war (what happened in the case of other for The English law is based eign communities, would be educat- by no means so secure. No rear. Denis Gwynn, writing in the always call your wife Honey. Mr. for
on these points, but we are for-led into Canadian citizenship. "Brown?" sonably minded neutral
The Doukhobor. current "Nineteenth Century,
We do not comply with Ottawa spoke. to discover any great and im belleves that Mr. de Valera has
"Well, honey has always dis-tunate.
these laws. All people who cat children must attend the schools of passable gulf between General played his last card, cannot re- agreed with me."
meat have beastly instincts, the their country. At first, the leaders The schools, O'Duffy's United Ireland party voke the Public Safety Act with- and the supporters of the Gov-out incurring ridicule, and will Time's Footprints Barred."My same as cats, dogn, wolves and pretended to agree.
were built, and teachers engaged. tigers.
No, chil ernment, nor can he see, even if probably force an early general wife is always pleased with the
I have more than once seen one The opening day came.
up. Negotiations such a gulf existed, why the election against an Opposition latest wrinkle."
Further proraises "So is mine-provided it isn't cu of these people allow a swarm of dren showed former party should be dented which is still far from united.
mosquitoes and blackflies take their were resumed. El of blood from his cheeks rather were made, and elementary rights. Yet, merely He might win on a wave of such her own face."
than risk killing a living creature actually appeared, but attendance. because that party, dnrea to claim passionate unreason as has just been felt at Tralce. But, while
and progress was meagre, for" sa by an impatient gesture.
is able
#
To his spouse .shouted poor Willie. "The laundry's infernally silly: They have lost my best shirt This werk, that's a cert, And sent me back something
•
WAS IT NOT?
A
a separate identity and to criti-that is a possibility; there is one A golfing correspondent wants rise adversely the Government's point about the prevailing law-to know who made the first bunker, disastrous policy, its meetings lessness which is certain, and it have always understood that ittlesnakes which menace their chil-for are either broken up in disorder is this The people of the Six was a Scotsman who lost his ball dren playing in the felds. or held under the protection of Counties are not blind; they down a rabbit hole. and machine have their eyes on these degrad-. armoured cara
Nudism Not Practiced
A few children
They refuse to kill even the rat soon as a child showed any interent
familiarity with reading or'.. writing he was withdrawn from the school
A few children destined for lea- Though they are intensely reli-dership in the community were als guns. Belated protection. Gen-led scuffings. Can either Mr, de Digging In-Pam-“Hasn't Har-
gious. Doukhobors have no prayers lowed to remain, but they received ceremonies, no priests or daily, admonitions in their homes to erál O'Duity calls it, with his Valera or General O'Duffy be solvey ever married 1"
Beryl-"No, and I don't think he or head bandaged as the result of foolish as to think that this
regular places of worship, blows which, he says, the police "private war" which their bat intends to, because he's studying churches, zituals or altars, or even counter any possible "contamina did nothing to prevent. Take tallons are conducting is calcul for a bachelor's degree."
ated to win the heart and opin
Facts You Did Not Know.
what view of it one may, the ion of Ulster? But then, the Unpopular Panctuation"Glye political conditions thus revealed Flanns Fall's favourite cares an example of period furniture," as existing among the Free little or nothing about hearts, "Well, I should, say: an electric State's community cannot be He has said another of his chair, becques it ends a sentence", called happy or healthy. How memorable pearls of speech many of the world's changes that Uster is a rock to be blast- bring half the promised! blessed out of his path, At present, Ings? Consider the continual however, hef finding his sssertion and assumption that if own fiints troublesome enough. only, the English induence were and when he has finished with Coffee has been cultivated in removed Ireland would speedly them, the rock of Ulster will still Venezusia since 1784, when the be there. Behind that rock first aseds were brought from Mar know unbroken peace and pros stand mon who can see in the Unique." perity. To-day, England's inter-
southward aspect nothing to at-27.
cat has to all intents and pur-tract them. They have no desire Vegetable matter is destroyed poses gone, yet one looks in vain to learn a foreign language, and and wool reclaimed from rase: for to find the Eden of fraternal but little in common with those further use by a new carbonisation, contentment. The Kilkenny cats who try to speak ft. The process,
have the clothes-line to them- methods of General O'Duffy and that
selves it is: Irishmen who are ur Cotgrave might conceivably Equipped with sh
at grips with Irishmen, and tho gain them over in time, But the Italian boat driven sole discernible difference is that method of Mr. de Valera never motor has made a
mod of 45 miles km Bour the slightly more reasonable will-e
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