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THE IRISH PUBLIC SAFETY ACT.

FAMOUS HOUSE AS

SCHOOL.

NON-REGARD FOR LIBERTY OF INDIVIDUAL

JUDGE'S RELUCTANT

DECISION.

FOR GIRLS,

FOUNDER OF, STOWE BUYS SIR G. MOLFORD'S MANSION.

ROMANTIC RISE OF FILM MAGNATE.

FROM BOWERY BOY TO MULTI-MILLIONAIRE.

DEATH OF MR. MARCUS LOEW,

Marcus Loew was the doyen of

in the Bowery, where his father was a waiter, his first occupation was selling newspapers, and his ambition, to be # head waiter..

the American film business. Born

The Rev. P. E. Warrington, Vicar DUBLIN, Sept. 8th. In the Irish, Free State High Monkton Combe, a quiet little Justice country parish near Bath, who has Court on Tuesday Mr. Hanna delivered an interesting bren responsible for the conversion and important judgment which of several famous mansions into

icarly the public schools, has added another Early manhood found him as a fur brought out. very drastic nature of the new Public to his list.

A superintendent Salety Act.

He has acquired Weston Birt; the

salesman, living in the same block of the Civic Guard had arrest. Cloucestershire seat of the late Sirf data as a man who became his ed Me McBride's son Sean Me- Gorge Holford, and it is to be Bride, as a person suspected of havde into a great public school for ing been concerned in a conspiracy to murder Kevin O'Higgins,, and had brought him before a district

justice to be dealt with under see- tion 10 of the Public Safety Act.

That section empowers any

superintendent to arrest and bring

girls '

Around the magnifernt mansion, one of the stateliest in England, are some 300 acres of parklands, lawns and gardens, and a fine pool. Westen Birt stands in the Cots wolds, in the centre of the Beaufort

country, on the borders of Wilt

The Rev. Percy Ewart Warring ton is well known for his work in connection with Stowe, which is housed in the ancient home of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, near Buckingham Nearly 300 boys

are there now,

before a justice any person suspectshire. ed of having been concerned in "a conspiracy to murder any member of the Free State Parliament. The section requires the justice there- upon to order the suspect to be de- tained for seven days, and provides He has beta described as the that a Cabinet Minister may then financier in a surplice."

His living at Monckton Combe is worth order him to be kept in prison for about £105 a year, and it is a cure a further period of two months to of about 500 souls. He is about facilitate the investigation of the forty years old, and first came into prominence in 1991 when, he acquîr- suspect's complicity in the crime.

ed Wrekin College at Wellington, The district justice, however, deand made it a Church of England clined to make the required order school. The transaction cost over in Sean McBride's case on two £100,000, grounds: first, that Kevin O'Hig gins was murdered before the Act was passed, and that section 18 could not have retrospective effect; secondly, that section 16 was null and void as being inconsistent with article 6 of the Free State Consti "I have a building offered to me tation, which guarantees the in-for a new school every week," he violability of the liberty of the per- said once. "Life is becoming very

difficult."

son."

He bought Stove House in the following year on behalf of the trastecs of the Church of England, and he also acquired Canford, the Wimbome mansion in Dorset, for

similar purpose.

The Attorney General was not Mr. Warrington also acquired the satisfied with this view of the law, Girls' High School at Harrogate, and applied to Mr. Justice Hanna the second largest girls' school in to move a mandatory order direct the country, and he founded a high ing the justice to obey section 13 at school for daughters of Europeans the Public Safety Act. It is within Kedya Colony at Limoru. this application that Mr. Justice Hanna's judgment is concerned.

Mr. Justice Hanna did, in the end, direct the justice to make the mandatory order required, but not without expressing some doubt and much reluctance.

Judge And The Constitution.

He pointed out that the effect of that section was that a man might be arrested on the merest suspicion,

THE FALLACIES OF SOCIALISM.

INDUSTRY'S NEED OF

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Zukor, new head of Paramount greatest friend and rival-Adolph Famous-Lasky, the biggest film cor- peration in the world. Mr. Zukor'a daughter is married to Mr. Loew's elder son, Arthur

At that time neither Mr. Zukor nor Mr. Loew dreamed of sheatres or the entertainment world, and it

was the merest chance, combined with a good sense of business, that brought Mr. Loew one day to Mr. David Warfeld's dressing-room. Mr. Warfeld had begun his success- ful stage career in collaboration with Mr. David Belasco, and had invested his savings in a block of tenements. It happened that they stood next to the Loew and Zuker menages, and Mr. Loew asked per mission to manage them better than they were being managed.

The First Start. Warfield was delighted with the good results achieved and suggested to his new agent that he might do worse than try a penny arcade in New York, like that new-fangled thing he had seen working very Loew, profitably in Pittsburgh. Zukor, and Warfield went into partnership and that was how the Arst two started in the entertain ment business.

At the beginning of the present century Locw was still in the ar- cade business and doing well. The, film were attracting attention, rind many of the vaudevillo theatres were showing short one-realcrs. One day Loew thought of putting a film-machine in a vacant room above his Cincinnati arcade. he started in the movie' business, and the arcades became picture theatres, or nickelodeons, as they were known at first.

So

Loew, Lacorporated, to-day is the second largest film and vaudes iite. It has a concern in the world. chain of theatres all round the globe-400 of them in America- and is largely involved in rebuild- ing the new Empire in Leicester Square, London. In addition it controls the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Corporation, which has the second largest output of filma in Hollywood, spending £2,000,000 each year.

Mr. Philip Kerr, at the final and detained for a period of over session of the Liberal Suminer two months without charge or trial, School at Cambridge, at which without the opportunity of making Mrs. Wintringham presided, gave a defence, and without the grounds an address on the State and in- of suspicion being communicated to dustry, "which laid down the clear him. This he held to be a clear lines of demarcation between the Mr. Loew bought and combined curtailment of the inviolable right Liberal and the Socialist theories the Metro and Goldwyn producing of personal liberty given by the and policies.

companies in 1922 because he could Constitution. Hnd, then, the Con- He looked forward to the day not get enough big pictures for his stitution been amended so as to when it would be possible for the theatres.. The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse," "The Big legalise such curtailment of the two progressive parties to work to the right originally given

Parade gether, but at present (he said)

(the most profitable pic- Article 50 of the Constition pro- they were divided by their concep- ture ever made-it has run for vides for the procedure, by which tion of the functions of the State, nearly two years at a Broadway the Constitution can be amended. and as a result the Conservatives, theatre), and "Ben-Hur" are the The effect of the article is that as though ruling only with the sup- most outstanding pictures the com a rule the Constitution may not part of a minority of the voters,pany has made. About 8,000 per- be amended without a referendum, were able to substitute for progress sons are on the pay-rolls of Mr. but as an exception (allowed and reform a policy of compara Loew's companies. evidently to facilitate the corrective stagnation.

tion of minor drafting errors) it "The fundamental evil in society, con, up to the year 1930, be amend which had fostered the growth of ed by an ordinary bill.

the Socialist theory, was that about Section three of the Public Safety 1 per cent of the population own Act declared that every provision of ed 40 per cent, of the capital, or, this Act which is in contravention to put it in a different way, of of the Constitution shall operate as the national income, 40 per cent. au amendment to the Constitution. went to wages, 30 per cent. to Mr. Justice Hanna held that a management, and 30 per cent. to omnibus amendment of this kind those" whom Socialists called was contrary to the spirit of article drones, who were said to live by 50 of the Constitution, but he ruled | owning.. hesitatingly that it did comply with the letter, adding that he un-

Industry Needs Money. He confessed he shared the So-

A Modest Man. Marcus Loew was a modest, sim-|

He was ple and anaffected man, almost worshipped by his staff," who regard him as na bracie an hay question as to what would please an audience.

He was reputed to be immensely wealthy, and maintained an almost feudal state at his beautiful home, Pembroke, Long Island, with his private golf course, miniature har- bour, yacht, conservatories, swim- ming bath, and gardens.

heditatingly pronounced his prealist prejudice against this situa

His energy, at all times dynamic, cedent in legislation to be out tion, and he could see no reason in

was probably partially responsible which should not be followed.

for his death. Though well advanc Dealing then with the question the owning of properties like rail-

ed in years, he would leave his whether this section could apply re- way shares, bequeathed, say 100 house at eight every morning for trospectively to the murder of years ago, by people who contribut the office, returning late in the

ed no service to the enterprise, but evening, often in Kevin O'Higgins, he pointed out that section is created and provid- the question was not whether such medical authority. He leaves two ed for the punishment of a new and ownership enjoyed by the minority sons, both in the film business.--- artificial offence the offence of Wa

was right or just, but whether it Ex being suspected of a conspiracy to could be remedied by any action of

the State. marder, an "offence" for which

The punishment was provided, whether

Socialists said:

"Yes,

defiance of

the suspect were guilty or innocent the view of the Liberals that that the ownership of the asset created nationalize the industries." It was money by giving him, as security, of the conspirsey. There was nothing in section 16 to show that could not be done, and that was by his loan. the offence of being suspected could why they were not Socialists.

We might lament this as the siga They must, in fact, admit that of a ururious spirit, but the inves be committed only in regard to the existing basis of distribution tor remained the emperor of the crimes perpetrated subsequent to between property, management, and modern world, since the need for the passing of the Act.

fresh capital was increasing,

•Judga's Exposura,

wage-earners was unalterable. The shares taken by capital and labour,

The Voice Of The Devil. Clearly Mr. Justice Enona, as a though varying with different-in-| lawyer, was deeply disturbed by the dustries, were extraordinarily con-

Mr. Kerr examined the Labour lack of respect for the liberty of stant throughout the industrial policy for acquiring the coal mines the individual displayed in the world.

and running them by elected com terms of the Act. Those who fol The development of modern inmittees and showed that this could. lowed the debates during the pas dustry, it had been found, could not pay, and, in fact, was not prac sage of the bill through the Dail only continue by the provision of ticable. State intervention should were surprised by the failure of borrowed money..

he confined to establishing the con- the Deputies to fulfil their faze It took years to build a ship, aditions within which the people tion of safeguarding the rights of railway, or a great business, and were free to function according to the individual as against the execs during that time the money had to their initiative and wisdom. tive. The weakness of the lawyer be found to pay wages, etc. That To set up the State as organizer element in the Dail was then very money could only come from those and director of the citizens' activi- obvious. It will be interesting to who had saved it, or, in short, from ties would be to follow the path see whether Mr. Justice Hanna's the investor. The investor insisted which had led to tyranny from the sarcastic exposure of the full effect on having the market rate for it, daye of Rome to those of the of section 18 will operate to make and industry could only get his Soviet. It was the voice of the the Dail more careful in the Inture. (Continued on next Column.)

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