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THE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE HUNTING FIELD).

CILANGELLOR AND PROPOSED TAX ON

BETTING.

The Labour Party, as I have remarked in the course of previous articles, have been careful not to declare themselves for Socialism as a Party. There are members in the ranks and among the leaders who are Socialists and glory in it; but others refuse to commit themselves. Then there are in addition, the Communists and Syndicalista. As the Labour Party will have to form a Government one of theso days it is im portant to know how deeply they are com initted to Socialism, or whether in fact it | is not montly talker-talker,

E MOVEABLE FEAST,

the Earl of Was leading in the mee for so variable that it may fall of no date

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Lownon, March 29th.

THE PRINCE IN THE HUNTING VILLI,

The continueci mishaps to the Prince of Wales in the bunting Geld are the subject of

It took many years before the country gol den! of comment in the Clubs and This season he has had a num→ elsewhere,

was converted to daylight saving by the ber of nasty spills, and has sustained injurie simple process of altering the clock on given more or less serious. His love of the chasedisin. There has been no greater boon to awaniats. to veritable passion; and he is also the workers in town and country as it who

whole- keen on winning point-to-point races,

In nisch, the same way it means time an This week while riding a horse belong patience to convert the people to agree to ing to his brother Prince Henry at the make Easter fixed, festival. It is abaurel Aray Point-to-Point, races at Arboracid, and exceedingly inconfonient to have Easter Berkshire, he

Cup when his horse ranging from March th to April 22l faike at a still water jump

There is not ever an nstronomical, much less The Prince was burled into the

otanglow tice, a religious, busis for the present arrange- while his mount plan

into the river.

nient, for the “fall moon on which the an instant the Prince leaped into the water date of Easter depends is not a real full after the horse which he red bred animoon at all but an ecclesiastical convention. held up till both were rescued.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is openly

favour His Royal Highness was

of making Eastor a Sxezl land- કો ed as a result of his fall. The folie lion objection. There is a decided movement to mark in the enlendar; the Pope raises no LTD., he was again in the saddle at the

Hont Steeplechases and role in awo events settle the matter in aevoniance with reason -in one of the

on Kinglark, the famous and coinmon sense, and the reform has been Australian horse presented to him by long overdue, Australians.

It is being sed by Society that the mishaps men and in

in which the There bus seldom been a more impressive Prince is so frequently involved, especially illustration of the power of public opinion at point-to-point races, ought to be con than the prompt change of front of the sidered by the advisers of the Royal sports Government over a proposal to charge for The Prince is absolutely fearless, and admission to the British Museum. The pro his countrymen have unbounded admirationposal was contained in an obscure clause of for his personal courage. But the fact the Fees Increases Hill, the idea being that mains that a special responsibility attaches to his position, and it is said that Autuma it would be well it the Prince, the can be persuaded to confine. himself to hanting and leave the jumps to other people, Whether he will consent to anything of the kind is, howey, another matter. He always aims to be in the first flight of horse men across cpuntry..

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public institutions ought to be made self- supporting as far as possible. But this is economy run innd, and in the case of the British Museum the amount involved was only £6,000 & year. As soon as the fact became known there was an out-cry in the Press. Arrangements were thade for a debate in

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Нацие of Commons when the Bill came on, bat the Government did not wait for the storm to burst. Instead, the, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer quietly announced that a decision had been arrivel as to abandon the obnoxious proposal.

relinquish the project. The notion of mak-

The Government were certainly wise to

The death of Madame Bernhardt, "the world's greatest tragedienne," has called forth remarkable tributes in the whole of the British Press. Many Royalties have passed away without evoking half as many appreciative references. It is due in no small measure to the fact the greating charges of admission to our superk actress loved English audiences. They on national treasure-houses was intensely dis- their adored her. When she first came tasteful to that section of the public which

part over to London in the late seventies takes an interest in such matters. In recent London set the scal upon her reputation use of oficialdon to oust the public from the there has been a gradual effort on the her genins Y

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and

when in her own count Edward was free and unfettered enjoyment of great! still disputed. The among her most sincero admirers. In her phones and other objects of rare beauty younger days she was a little difficult and value. Thus the National Picture socially, because she had the bit of lety is only free on two days in the week,

if the Bill above referred to had slipped forgetting the day and hour of an engage-te ment, and used to write after the event through Parliament unchallenged free numis

sion would have been stopped altogether. was over apologing for not turning up

It is a curious fact that sinne the Baterally Upset arrangements. Bot she corrected this faulty, And Ebr. ajang broke out in 1914 and all sorte

the public as "to" olisèrvy, the pwede s the public have had to fight to

This

her

measures

TAX ON SETTING

years was most

particul social laws

in such mattu rodret löst privileges and to nizintain those The Divine Sarab

many "qurious whims and

know that privileges which tentin The whole ten- fancies: Everyone knows sild always SURA

dency of bureaucrags is to interfere, with in her luggage rose- wood collin, and in this she will sleep, her the liberty of the subject in every possible last sleep. It has accompanied her on her way, which is hateful and druidedly un journeyings for nearly forty year She English. laka Lizarre love for animals as pets, and One of them caused alarm among I learn that the Chancellor of the Ex- friends, The gut who distoreret der cheetah under the sofa was apt to display a quite natural bit diverting excitement In her younger days Madaine was so slight and physically frail that many jokes were current about it. One well-known, theatrical critíč, "ín a burst of correspondence. hyperbole, declared one day that an empty carriage drove up to the Theatre Francais ngd Sarah Bernhardt emerged from it TRAENIC CONGESTION.

The difficulties brought about by the in crease of trailie in the London streets have become glaring, and are the subject of discussion in the newspapers. Bat while it is comparatively easy to complain of inconvenience it is another matter to mig gest a practicable remedy. Only Londures who have to get about town in the course of business have any adequate conception of what the concomitant distortion nigans. As soon as a main thoroughfares teniporarily closed for repair Just now a considerable stretch of Holborn is up,” and vehicles are diverted to other rates. As n consequence omnibuses from the City have to lengthen their journeys, and the addition of this stream to the regular traffe of other arterial roads produces congestion that demys-and often asperate

business camunty

the • where the road is under renewal faridua

Are

at the loss of business that inevitably results. It

chequer has roule up his mind to alandan thich there had been is good deal of discus- the idea to impose à fax on "betting, about sion here, Reference was made to the subject recently in the course of this

information is that

Baldwin considers that to introduce taxation on the lines suggested would arouse great opposition, and that in the end it is extremely doubtful whether the country rond stand it. The main argument against it is that it would give legal sanction to-betting Bookmakers would have a definite legal status recognised by the Government and would be entitled to recover betting ciebts in the Courts.

However much the betting fraternity may desire to subunit to direct taxation and If the better class bookmakers are strongly.in favour of being teed, as proposti-it i conscientious taxpayers entertain tolerably certain that scores of thousands of genuilie scruples.on the point. They lata t been kenndalised at the mere mention of the sab- Jet The Sluncello therefore, has chase for it. It is not practical politics, though to the view that public opinion is not rmity the tax would produce over twenty millions

a year.-H.B.

A SOCIALIST'S CONFESSION.

will be many weeks before the buses run MK FORDS BETTER WAY.” again in Holi orn. This means that the public go to other shopping districts, and in some instances, at least

it is

Fair asauno that they will never return to their old haunts in search of bargains. To this extent. the diversion of telemeans the permanent diversion of basis. It an illustration, of the extraordinarily complex relationship of commercial life.

LABOVE PARTY-AND JOCIALISM.

I hear i

on the

of

for

Commenting in the Sunday Chronicle on' Mr. Heary Ford's recently published book, ford, the well-known Socialist writer, By Lite and Work," Mr. Robert Blatch-

By:--

"I am an old Socialist and spent many it sail that it was particularly clever art of Mr. Bonar Law to agree to

years in trying to find a way out of our whole day after Easter to the Labour

industrial moral Mr. Ford has found- Party

adelate on Socialism. It was, of

better way. His way in in closer touch course, quite impossible to cover the

to cover the ground

with human nature, is more harmonious last week when Mr. Philip Snowden opened with the facts. He has found in time A general attack on

on Capitalismi an effete what I found too late, that the masses of and useless system; the fringe of the the people, spoken of as the wage-earners, arguments for and against the present con-

or the wage slaves, or the workers, are. stitution of Society was scarcely touched. a figment of the enthusiastic reformer's Mr. Snowden was clever, as might be ex brain. Democracy is described as the rule Dected from him as one of the intellectuals" of the majority. But the fact is, the!

the Party, and he showed in mar- majority do not want to ruts. They will Khalling

arguments. But at the best his not take the trouble; they are incapable speech was thin and begged the question, and of the offort; they do not want to be Alfred Mond very effectively knocked bothered. What they do want is n the bottom out of the fine theories of Socialism.

fairly comfortable and not toc laborious One mi

living, with plenty of simple pleasure and might have expected the Fabian leaders of the Labour Party would have They prefer to be directed and led. And amusement. The masses are not ambitious. been present in force when Mr. Snowden took the floor. They are the people who are

Mr. Ford shows the majority of workers credited with formulating the political brain work and more responsibility. They do not hunger for a better job with more of the Party and keeping

with points and arguments Prefer a regular and tranquil Life" sandry who differ from them. It is significant; Lowever, that the Fabinas were away on a visit to France at the time of the debate. But they can scarcely invent an excuse for abserico when the subject of Socialism is again before the House, They will have to declare themselves. The Government have therefore cleverly waaru

red them into showing their hands.

to:

the

With regard to Mr. Ford's industrial achievement Mr. Blatchford saya: “No State-controlled or communal business could produce such, results,” and be adda: "We cannot succeed in war or business by a control of committees, not even com mitter of Forda and Foohr The trad way is to put the one Ford or the 'one Foch in command."!

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