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Little as I love or" trust democrazy, it, smother Mr. Lloyd George under the would be unjust to blame the new con-pillow of his street corner rhetoric. Mr. stituencies for the bog of debt and extra- Churchill could do it, were it not for vagance into which the nation had been his record. But he is too well known to

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"TIRE" OR ** TYRE."

CONTENDING VIEWS.

Tire or Tyre" Which way is this, ona of the commonest words in the vocabulary of motorista, to be spalt? In the pages of this number (Timer Motor Supplement) a discrepancy of practice will probably he noticed at once, for while a printing house must, out of res- Pect for its own style, follow its own rule. it has been thought reasonable to to columns. not allow contributors: strictly editorial the liberty of writing

syre" if they prefer it.

If the adherents of tyre Are at a loss to know why others persist in writing it tire." they should go to the fountain" head for all such information, the Oxford New English Dictionary," partly because of its acknowledged authority on philological matters and partly because its article on "tire and tyre are the latest of any. That there are two articles, and not one, shows

cognizes the claim of "tyre" to be a word apart in itself, "conumon as the origin of tire and tyre is.

Tyre," says the NED" IR- A variant spelling of tire,being used indifferently in the 18th and 18th

became the settled spelling, and har se continued in 1.8., but in Great Britain tyre has been revived for the pneumatic tires of bicycles, carriages, and motor-cars, and is also sometimes

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evidence that the electors desire or ap- prove the most recent plunges of our I fail to follow Mr. Churchill in his rulers. On the contrary, I believe that if assurance that out of the 800 millions only the opinion of the voters had been taken the 165 millions spent on national ad- by referendum on the question of in-agrees that the interest on the debt is creasing unemployment benefit, there ministration are reducible. would have been a stern and decisive irreducible: the amount of war pensions mandate for the reduction of the dole, reducsa itself. But why are the 200 as well as of outdoor relief, as the millions spent on State Socialism ob- surest means of reducing the numbers of ¡igatory and irreducible These vast unemployed.

sums are certainly statutory; that is, If the payment of unemployment, bene- decisions of Parliament embodied in it were made conditional in the re-laws. But then su is all public expen-immediately that the Dictionary, re- cipient's going upon the land and learnditure, for we have not yet arrived af the ing to plough and sow, it would soon be stage of spending taxes without the possible to reduce the contributions from authority of Parliament. all parties.

Bat is the nation bound for all time With regard to the sum of nearly six to go on with its present scale of pen- millions a year which, merely as a besions, grants-in-aid, and subsidies! If ginning, the taxpayers will have to and so, it is a bad lock-out.for our commer-centuries. In the 17th century tires for widows' persions. I am as certain cint and Baancial supremacy, for these as I can be of anything political, that two hundred millions are leaden weights had the Bill been put to the electoratehung round the shoulders of the clever by plebiscite it would have been rejected. and enterprising twentieth who pay in

moat emphatically, by the newcome tax and death duties and a large female voters. I have not yet met share of the duties of customs and excise.used for iron or steel tires. woman who sees any reason why widows should be pensioned. It is leave- over from the days when the husband was the sole breadwinner and when that sentimental Socialist, the Prime Minis ter, was an undergraduate..

and

SELF-CANCELLING.

Social services our politicians calt these $200,000,000. I call them wholesale corruption of the electorate. Farentage has been relieved of all its responsibilities by the Government. the father of his duties. the mother of her cares, population below the income-tax line are guaranteed by the State against the wor ries and insecurities of life at the ex- Pense of the accumulative twentieth. A self-cancelling business this.

AR the

FAULT LIES WITH OUR RULERS.

Much much sounder was the edict of the Roman Emperor who awarded every widow a dowry on re-marriage. Although I have dot observed that widows in general, or war widows in particular, require any legislative inducement to re.

But courage! We really can and do mount the nuptial couch, how much wiser was Diocletian than Air. Baldwin! The ruce our expenditure on the Navy and Englund, who financed result of the Widows' Pension Act will the Air Force either be irregular relations or & con- the great war and patrolled the seas for tinuance of a falling birth rate. And all the world, hastens on the demand of the widows will vote Socialist at the America, Japan, France and Italy, to next election, far, once having tasted lay down her naval supremacy and to public money, they will believe Mr reduce her Navy to the one-Power stand- Snowden and Mr. Lloyd George, who ard. England does this without waiting for similar reductions by her rivals, will promise, them more.

without seeing that France reduces her army

In 1918 it was perfectly ascertained that the nation had lost ten thousand millions in money, and, far worse, the brains and brawe of the greater part of the young generation. Then began that orgy of expenditure,,which has culminat ed in the £800,000,000 Budget, which might have been justifiable as a

tem.

porary expedient to meet an abnormal crisis, but which the Chancellor of the Exchequer tells us is a permanent soke upon our neck at least for the next five years, which no doubt means fifly, for all modern financial estimates have been wildly wrong.

Old-age peasions, which began with an estimate of £2,000,000, have now reached 290,740,000,000, to be increased by over £3,000,000 in the coming year. For it it the automatic, increase of the exper- diture on social services that is really alarming,

so-called and which the Economy Bill is designed to countervail by cutting small turns of the National the Administration Services, such as Andy Navy and Air Force..

or her air fleet. What does national defence matter, after all, so long as the trade union officiais, and the miners, and the railwaymen, and the policemen, and the school teachers, and the municipal scavengers are sheltered i

The next war, we are taid, will be in

the air. Mr. Churchill preudly reminds us that the Air Force Estimates have been reduced by £500,000, so that out of 800 millions we shall be asked to spend 18 instead of 18 millions on our Air Force, including that portion of it em ployed in Mesopotamin, which we have bren often told is such an admirable training ground for our airmen as to be worth defending for that reason alone.

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The Dictionary proceeds to passages in which "tyre" occurs from any authors, the earliest being of the year 1706 down" to the present day; bac the peint is rather that the spelling is admittedly a revival, and "tire," it may he claimed, is of longer descent than

"tyre."

Presumably. however, the justification. of tyre lies in the now ubiquitous occurrence of the word, which, until cycles and motor-cars

were invented.

ever enjoyed a large efrculation. Now that the word is on every one's lips and on almost every printed page in the sense of "tyres of the pneumatic sort and nattires of the older meaning, the innovators desire to differentiate it from its namesake,

They argue that it is a question of convenience, Convenience once merged tyre and tire into "tire," as it "wire' .into merced" wyre" and

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"tire." the thing, and tire the verb:

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FORBIDDEN MARRIAGES.

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A new Bill has just been introduced by Sir Arthur Shirley Benn to legalise the marriage of a man with his deceased wife's niece or with his aunt by mar.

When a marriage of this sort was be fore the courts a few years ago it was argued that the permission obtained in 1907 for marriage with the deceased wife's sister included the wife's niece. "A.deceased wife's sister is removed

the prohibited

Tyre," say the Tyrians, comes freshly and unambiguously to the eye LONDON'S AİR DEFENCE.

in rapid reading; and most eyes have to rend very rapidly in these days. Leaving Irak aside, does any one know the state of the anti-aircraft defence of There are compounds, too, to be thought London, I believe it to be totally in-of: "tyreless" and "unlyred," it is convey the iden of adequate. Men, guns, and searchlights urged, cannot are wanting, according to what I have weariness or its opposite. The eye in the heard.. The guns are not of the latest gainer by the use of tyre." "Using pattern, and there are not nearly enough his tyred but tireless stend" was once A SPENDING RACE,

searchlights. This may not be true; but written, according to the "N.E.D..".

n man on a bicycle." These arguments, it The State payments in respect of the as London is no mean city, might it not

must be admitted, are not lightly to be pensions of the police and the school be as well to ascertain the facts from the

rejected by the other side; but as practice teachers have increased 1040 per cent. Minister before reducing the estimate.

One economy can be effected to which cannot yet be said to be uniform, or to since 1914, while the grants to local

By cutting be even crystallizing towards uniformity, authorities for the police have risen in surely, no one can object.

the Spring Er- it seems eminently a case where tradi-riage. in the same period from £100,000 to out what is know £3,000,000. The grants and votes for sister two or three hundred thousand tion, and the taste and Inner of the sneller." should be respected-The Times education, health, agriculture, housing, pounds can be saved on the cost of pre-

will Brit. Motor-Supplement. coal trade, jump year by year, and the paring the electoral roll. It Chancellor of the Exchequer admits his shorten the residential qualification for helplessness Indeed, it is now a race the vote (once two years) from six months between the political parties not who to three, and will probably admit two shall save but washing retort from one of that i Way have any qualification for SAVING FOR TRIP TO EUROPE.

who shall spend the most. or three million new electors. But what Chadceller to another, "You only spent what was once a privilege but is now at

right? We have walked so far into the 30,000 EX SOLDIERS OF THE U.S. 46 millions, but I spent 52 millions.'

A more indecent exhibition of the river of unlimited, democracy that cross. demagogue's graft than the speeches on ing over were probably less trouble than the Economy Bill has never been witness turning back,

Mr. Snowden: from One unpleasant thought haunts me, ed at St. Stephen's

Will not the whom I expected better things. accused especially since Geneva. Mr. Churchill, in his pitiful attempt to rest of the world regard us as midmen gave a paltry 31 million, of robbing when we cut down our expenditure op the poor and the sick, the disabled, and national defence and continue to crush who has been Prime Minister and Chanture to be spent on social services? We the children; while Mr. Lloyd George, taxation out of commerce and agricul. cellor, declared that "the feathers were are compassed about by competitors; or being plucked from the pillow of the shall we be frank and say, by enemies? poor invalid "to take a half-penny off Senator Borah and others have noted the super fax. Oh for a day of Dizraeli that we are the most overtaxed and most Had the Conservative Party á leader squeezable nation on the face of the earth. of

real power of speech, he would Up the demagogues!--Brening Standard.

SUICIDE SEQUEL TO WEDDING

POSTPONEMENTS. ·

"YOUNG MAN'S TRAGIC END...

In reply to the Coroner, the father said some years ago another son committed suicide or was found drowned, he could not be sure which He declared there was no reason why his son should be upset or

postponed.

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for bar rited degrees, and there. degree further off, is removed by im-

plication."

This argument failed, because it is not $1,000,000 COST.

the right way to regard affinity. Affinity From the jesting remark of an Ameri-and intended to safeguard family life. is principle founded on common sense can ex-soldier at a national ex-Service As far as relations by marriage are in. men's congress at Omaha, Nebraska, last capable of inter-marriage, so far they year has grown the world's proposed can asociate together with freedom. greatest pilgrimage to the battle-fields of

Once the veto on marriage is removed visit of 30,000 men of considerations of prudence and the dread America's wartime Army, Navy, and Air of the scandalous tongue, enter in to des Europe, the

Force in September 1927, the tenth an troy precious intimacy.. For one case iversary of the first big American attack in which marriage with a nephew or niece by marriage might be desired, there in France.

Forty thousand men are saving small would be thousands in which the weekly sums to enable them to be of the possibility of it would make relationship party that will fill 27 liners, but only more difficult. 30,000 can come under the auspices of the This principle has been disregarded as American Legion, the ex-Service men's regards the brothers and sisters of organization. The total cost to the pieceased husbands and wives because the grims and the organisation will be nearly movement to legaliae marriage with them had a body of support behind it which But it is Describing the origin of the pilgrimage it was impossible to resist. to Daily Mail reporter, Mr. John J. still the proper test to apply, to any Wicker, United States soldier who other suggestion in the same direction. Europe as an official of the Legion, said Considerable advantage has been taken the Legion's Congress at Omaha-attend- of the Act of 1907 permitting marriage ed by 60,000 people was just ending when with the deceased wife's sister; and a the following incident occurred:- few marriages have taken place under

remains to fix the meeting place for seat excusing the clergy from officiating at An Official: Well.. gentlemen, it only the Act of 1921 relating to the deceased husband's brother; but those Acts, in year's congress.

the weddings or lending their churches A Voice: Paris (Loud laughter and anless they chose to do so, recognised "Don't be a fool.")

that public opinion was divided on the A Delegate: It is not as foolish as it question, as it is to this day, sounds. I propose Paris...

Those who wish to justify marriage In the debate it was revealed that the with a deceased wife's mother, daughter, suggestion was made half-jokingly, but it or niece, an aunt by marriage, or the was agreed to fix Paris as the meeting like mast first demonstrate that such place, September 1927 as the date, and to marriages would do more good thin

public service by reminding everybody, that there still is a table of prohibited -degrees..

A curious story we told to the East/depressed except over his marriage being served in France and has returned to

Landon Coroner in connection, with the Floredes Pockett, the prospective bride, suicide of Barnett Magnus (27), a motor related how Magaus lodged with her "driver, of Poplar, y 2ADIN mother and they were to be married next Evidence showed; thes: Alagzus was to Juse. On Sunday, afternoon Magous put have been married last June, and that his head on her shoulder. She asked him relatives and friends made him presents why he felt miserable and he replied that in anticipation of the event. The cere- he would not be miserable much longer. mony, however, was postponed owing, the Taking some money out of his pockets be mother of the fiancée stated, to the fact.) laid it on the table and said, Give this that the couple were going to have a to your mother for the lysol." She could bangalow but at Laindon, but Magnus then smell the poison, and upon Magnus had not enough money.

going out into the yard he collapsed. He When the event should have taken place died after removal to hospital. three months later they could not marry The mother of the last witness, denied that she was responsible for the wedding being postponed.

terics.

Mr. Wicker added:

as they were unable to obtaip room..

On Sunday afternoon Magnus's father was called to the girl's house, where he On the Coroner recording a verdict of arrange a pilgrimage to the war ceme harm. Meanwhile they are rendering. a found his son lying in the yard. Witness Suicide while of unsound mind, the told him to get up and, getting no teply, young man's father asked if he would Bald,

What is this game? Are you make an order with regard to a ring whichWe want the American visitors to see going to get up, or do you want a punch he said belonged to his son, and also Europe, under normal conditions, to show on the nose ?" Whereupon the sweetheart about a will which he said the young man them why Americans who have settled for' said." He has been swallowing some stuf had made. The Coroner advise him to some time in England have grown to love out of a bottle.

see a solicitor,

the country so much

Among many curious marriage. I have, imown one between a man and his wife's.. daughter. But I have never heard of a man wanting to marry his mother-in- law.-Daily Mail,