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It seems to be a general assump-

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SOUL OF DICKENS IS IN "PICKWICK”

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Simplifying Income-

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CREATOR

(By-Lord Hewart Of Bury)

JL inside, as the gentle-jed Oxford men upon the topic: A man observed when he Who is the greatest-living writer

There were at the time some

very clear. "Of

It is a claim for £48,000 and the Unemployment Insurance. arises out of the death of Major (Agriculture) Bill on which the Charles William St. John Rowland-Government were defeated in the son. aged 56, a retired officer, of Lords last month. Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, who Experience would suggest that] shot himself in a taxi-cab in 1934. the Lords are likely to prove ob- Major Rowlandson's sister, Mrs.stinate. Once having come to a Agnes 'Emily de la Foer Beresford, decision, the Upper House is not, of Crawford-street, S.W., is the readily disposed to go back on it. had locked the door." So said of English? Hong Kong. Monday, May 4, 1936. plaintiff. The defendants are the Twice the National Government Praxinoe to Gorgo, when at length]

Royal Insurance Company Ltd., of has had to admit defeat 3+ the they had made their way to the skilled craftsmen at work, including Lombard-street, E.C..

hands of the Feers. In 1932 Mr.Festival of Adonis, in the im-Ruskin, Swinburne and Tennyson. Mrs. Beresford is suing as the Oliver Stanley and the Commons mortal äfteenth Idyll of Theo-The jury disagreed. But upon one administratrix of her brother's fought hard when the Peers critus. The sweet singer of Syra-point, at any rate, the Master of will. She claims the balance of amended the Children's Act to in-cuse probably was not aware that Balliol was £50,000, moneys alleged to be due clude birching as a punishment he was anticipating, nearly three course," he said, "if Charles Dic- It would be difficult to think under life insurance policies which The Peers were adamant and got centuries before that Christian kena had been still alive there of any branch of the State's her brother held.

era, the mode of speech to which would have been no doubt at all” activities which causes as much

Sanity Issue

Again, in 1934 they beat Mr. Sam Weller was destined in 1836|

Good Remedy worry and irritation to law-

Hore-Belisha by refusing to allow to give a world-wide currency. Jowett, indeed, had a way of abiding citizens 23 do the

$ Major Rowlandson died in

Nay, who can say how familiar saying that every sensible person income-tax regulations. For taxi-cab just before three o'clock the speed limit to be suspended at

such gnomic atterances were even is in the habit of reading "Pick- more than seven years a small in the afternoon. He had been night.

On both occasions the Govern fin 230 B.C.? What is originality wiek" at least twice a year. And Committee appointed by the given until three to meet a £1,500;

£50,000 insurance meat were faced at the end of the (somebody asks) if it be not an-in October, 1888 (for example), he Treasury and reinforced at in-premium 01 tervals by legal and accountancy policy. At the inquest Mr. Ingle Session with the choice of giving detected plagiarism? And perhaps wrote to a friend: "If you are dull, experts has been endeavouring by Oddie, the corner, returned a way to the Peers or losing the bill the question was plagiarism, too. try as a remedy a good reading of

altogether.

A hundred years ago at the end Dickens, especially Pickwick.” fo codify the income-tax lawverdict of felo-de-se.

of last month, over the youthful What was good enough for "with the special aim of making The question of Major Rowland-

hand of Charles Dickens, the first Jowett, and good enough for An- the law as intelligible to the son's sanity at the time of his NO CITY SINECURE

24 pages

of "The Fosthumous drew Lang, and good enough for

their way.

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taxpayer as the nature of the death will be an important issue Sir William Soulsby, who was Papers of the Pickwick Club Calverley has proved, and is legislation admits." To unify in in the case.

84 last month, served 56 Lord Sir William Jowitt, KC., and Mayors of London as private se simple terms enactments whose looseness of drafting and incon-Mr. A. T. Denning will appear for cretary. sistency has often baffled the Mrs. Beresford and Mr. Roland Courts, and at the same time to Oliver, KC.. Mr. Harold Murphy, leave the taxpayer's liability K.C., and Mr. Ryder Richardson substantially unaffected, has not for the insurance company. been easy. But the draft Bill

recently produced as a result of EXPLANATION OF garements, and to run

the Committee's labours, ተ- gether with a comprehensive report and commentary, should. for the first time enable the in- telligent man in the street to discover the extent of his liabilities for tax unaided or (if his sources of income be com-

plicated) with the minimum of B

expert advice. How difficult it!

TO-DAY'S CARTOON

Rattlebone Artist

Mayor's Funds.

"Highbrows" Dissent

from the press. and proving, to be good enough for every day during the century that many millions. The shop-win- has passed the effects of the maa-dows and the railway bookstalls The Lord Mayor's private ster-piece have "rivalled the un-show how new editions pour cut cretary is the City equivalent of counted laughter of the sunlit sea to supply the demand. the Comptroller of the Household.

It would be an agreeable thing He has to arrange all the ban-

True, the chorus of approvall(would it not?) to see a few hus. quets and the Lord Mayor's en-

or Dickensians quite unbroken.dred Dickensites to Lord has never been

There has commonly been, even (the former name for choice) at He has to "break. in" fresh from the beginning, a dissenting work upon Calverley's famous ex- "highbrows." Walterjamination paper with nothing to young Lord Mayors, usually com-group of pose most of their speeches last Bagchot, for example, was good help them but a plain text and, Fear Sir Stephen Killik made rear-enough to say of the prose off Lang, were alive to write it, it an agreeable thing ly 800-and at the end of the year Dickens that "it is not the writing would be

of a(would it not?) to read an imagi- start the process all over again. of an evenly developed or ONES" Jensen, who claims Since Sir William Soulsby's ear-highly cultured mind." Perhaps he nary conversation (no copyright is claimed for the idea) between the honour of being the ly days the diary" of engage meant "highly cultivated."

But the mass of witnesses on Samuel Weller and Charles Cha- is to find a clear path through undefeated champion of the world ments has quadrupled itself.

lom rattiebones, plays the bones Sir William maintains his ia-the right side has never failed to plin. the present undergrowth

Or what more pleasant pastime legal and quasi-legal ordinances with boxing gloves on just to prove terest in City affairs, and makes be overwhelming. It is not merely

the Mansion that the world forms its judg-is there for an idle evening than how good he is. Jensen squeezes periodical calls at

The esto hear somebody with a good may be guessed from the fact the rattlebores together pinched House. He attended the Lord ments without remorse. that existing legislation employs the word "assessment" in eight into the leather of regulations Marshal Memorial Service in the sential greatness of Charles Dic-voice reading aloud the 33rd chap- kens-and "Pickwick" is Charleslter, containing the Valentine and different senses, three of which boxing gloves, and manipulates City recently.

Dickens at his best-has com-the Report of the Comimittee of it has the Brick Lane 'Branch of the won the affection of the most aus-United Grand Junction Ebenezer

Temperance Association? Thousands of Jews all over the tere and fastidious minds.

last month celebrated the It is pleasant to recalba little) Only 24 Years Old 3.225th festival of the Passover, or conversation which took place What is not always recognised Feast of Freedom, as it is called, over 40 years ago between Ben- even by the true worshipper is the which have remained unac-nowadays think of nothing but furai-in memory of the deliverance of jamin Jowett (then Master of Bal-remarkable earliness of the age at

the Jews from the Egyptians. liol) and some other distinguish-i (Continued On Page 103 countably indefinite in meaning ture," declares a writer. among enactments which are based upon them. The normal She: To think that I'm the first jemployer or employee, profes-girl you ever loved."

of

them with full effect as though

refer to distinct sums of money. the bones were held between his 3,228th FESTIVAL OF PASSOVER pelled the admiration as

The draft Bill. cutting its.

fingers. way through these formal am- biguities, offers definitions of|

terms like "residence," "total Your Daily Smile!

income." and "carrying on busi- ness in the United Kingdom,"

Suite-hearts?

“Engaged girls

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įsional man or property owner; He: "Yes, darling”

would find his taxable incomel She: "And to think that you be- simply classified under new and lieve that I believe that!" logical heads, instead of under!

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Charlie and his three sisters had

see you?"

the historical "Schedule A, E, THE MORE THE SADDER C. D. and E." with their often been to sit a relative in the coun- incongruous sub-heads. The Though the invitation had been fraudulent offender would no for a week, their stay was gradually longer find himself paradoxical lengthened to a month. "But eventual- ly liable to lighter penalties they departed.

"Well," asked the father Upoz than the man who has merely their return, was your uncle glad to been neglectful. The reformis which have been incorporated Charlie's face lit up with delight. in the draft Bill are not yet all! "Glad!" He echoed. "Uncle glad!] approved by the Government. Why dad, he wanted to know why we nor do they cover all the mat-didn't bring you, mother, the maid. |ters un which the Committee the cat, the canary and the gold5sh.”

would like fresh legislation. į But they form the basis of a simplified and improved code of income-tax law such as the puzzled citizen will desire the

"FLYING FLEA" CRASH

Mr. Harold Byrnes, of Congle-

Government to introduce with ton, Cheshire, escaped with leg out delay.

jinjuries when his "Flying Flea" ¡was. wrecked. near Cheadle

Degrees Of Murder (Staffs). last month. It was his

A woman on trial at the Old Bailey last month pleaded guil-

first day's flying in the machine, which he built himself.

ty to murdering her 8-year-old Licity given to her case will en- jchild. Her counsel made it sure her comfort and care for clear that she understood the what remains of her life. But Tel. 29071 meaning of her plea, and the the question inevitably arises Tel. 58906 judge had no option but to sen-whether the terrible sentence tence her to death. Justice fought ever to have been passed was done according to due pro-jat all, whether a woman broken cess of law; but behind justice by fate should have heard that lies tragedy. The father's rea-the law proposed to hang her. son had given way and he had though, to be sure, she is pro- committed suicide. The mother bably indifferent to what may was in a state of advanced happen. To attempt to draw tuberculosis and thought, may-legal distinctions between de- be, that sentence of death had grees of murder would mean already been passed upon her that a bard burden was placed before the judge put on the on the average jury. But the black cap.

She feared that the judge is a man who, in all child would develop one or other crimes except murder, enjoys a inherited taint.

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JOHN

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