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"EARLIES

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1939. CATHOLICE DEMAND

SILENCE THIS MAGISTRATE'

"He suggested openly that "the

assistance authorities

or"

A demand for action by the Home Secretary following statements on public birth control made by. Mr. Claud others' ought to teach birth control" Mullins, London South-Western to those people.' And he asserted Police Court magistrate, is put for that 'society and religious opinion ward, in the, Catholic newspaper are mainly to blame for these hor-

rors.". "The Universe."

"We . appeal most strongly to The statements were made in a Catholic M.P.s to bring the whole case of a father and another sentencase to the attention of Parliament ced to a month's imprisonment for and of the highest legal authority. neglecting their seven children.

"This is not the first time that Mr. the Mullins has preached birth control under "The Universe" says,

But he heading "Mr. Claude Mullins. Must from the judicial bench.

exceeds "all tolerable limits when he Cease:"

asks a poor mother in court whe-

to have all' "In delivering judgment Mr. Multher she had desired lins not only described sympathy these children.

of such poor towards the distress families as 'blasphemous.'

ONE MAN BOMBERS

"ENEMIES" OF SOCIETY "On her replying that the Almighty had allotted them to her. Mr. Mul- lins told her abruptly to leave the Almighty out.

"It is surely a new departure in'. our legal system that a poor couple should be informed from the bench that the number of their children is an offence.

.by

A proposal that the Royal Air Force "It would be very queer if, at this should introduce a new type of one-particular point in our nation's his- man bombing 'aeroplane is made by tory, the Government should, Mr. H. P. Folland in "Aeronautics," a silence, give the impression new monthly aviation magazine, the God-fearing parents of large fami- first issue of which has just appeared. | lies are enemies of society."

Mr. Folland, who was responsible for the design of some of the most. successful Schneider Trophy and other racing aircraft, and for many of the. fast single-seater fighters used in the Service, suggests that ultra-high speed should be used instead of armament

tack.

LIBRARY GIFTS SAFEGUARDED

London.

that

for defending the bomber, against at- Concern for the safety of manuscript in the custody of public libraries, In his article he works out the de-aroused by the 'Penzance Library and tails of such a machine, giving it a Literary Club's recent sale of a 700- maximum of 470 miles an hour at year-old Latin Latin manuscript tract 15,000 ft., and: by using a retractable presented to it some 70 years ago, has cockpit for the pilot, so that there is now been somewhat allayed. even less drag than in a fighter, he speed claims that it would have a margin over the best fighters produced at the same time.

is

The Penzance Club was quite within its 'rights in selling the manuscript, but the press wrongly reported it to be a public library. In Britain many RAPID PRODUCTION

public libraries received manuscript The advantages then would be ex-material for safekeeping in their re- tremely rapid production and a ma-cord preservation sections. If these ching which could perform, dive libraries are free to sell to casual bid- bombing missions so swiftly that the ders, then all the work being carried time allowed for interceptor fighters on to preserve ancient records to.find it and engage it in combat fruitless. would be extremely small.

At present, there seems to be no Other special articles in “Aeronau- definite legal decision as to whether a tics" include one by Mr. F. Handley public library can sell a manuscript Page on aircraft production, one by which has been entrusted to it. To Mr. Whitney Straight on the airport- would-be -depositors of such Mr. H. airline relationship, and one by Mr.Idrls Bell, Keeper of Manuscripts at H. J. A. Wilson on the German air war the British Museum, and Chairman technique. This last gives fresh de- of the record's preservative section of tails of the work of the German air the British Records Association, sug- squadrons in Spain, and sheds new gests they include a condition forbid- light on their bombing and fighting ding sale to a casual buyer. In case methods.

of a bequest, they should make it over The new paper is published by Ar- to the institution in a trust to display thur Pearson, and is priced at a shil-if to the public, ling.

A PREHISTORIC GROTTO

WHERE DICTATORS ARE WEAK

Lord Samuel, speaking at the Li- Another prehistoric grotto has just beral Summer School at Cambridge, been discovered at the foot of Monte said that dictators were always weak Circeo, near Littoria, on the fringe of on the economic side. The dictator the Pontine Marshes. The grotto lles himself seldom knew the first letters close to the underground, prehistoric of the alphabet of public, finance, or retreat discovered last February, the economies of production." where fossil remains of early man Almost always dictatorships --in were found.

the end are brought down by financial economic collapse and ruin,” Lord Samuel went on.

The newly discovered grotto lies at a distance of only fifteen yards from the sea in a small plantation of olive trees. The roof la covered with sta- lactites.

A

The

"Let the dictator's judgment fall, let him sicken or die, and the whole machine is it out of gear. As was the case with the grotto at self-confidence that was his moking the foot of Mount Circea, where anay prove his unmaking. Neanderthal skull was found, the en- "And, most important of all, dicta- anall and difficult. Work-tors must needs be cynics. They can engaged in widening }, the little store on morality.

démocracy will not go into

na of

have been

Heves

that it has

-not do

run it