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WORLD WIDE WORK NOT RIGHT TO TELL

OF Y.M.C.A.

NEW CHIEF TALKS OF PAST AND FUTURE.

ARMY CENTRES AND EMIGRATION,

A MAN'S WIFE.

HUSBAND WINS AN IMPORTANT APPEAL.

JUDGE AND GOSSIP.

The Y..C.A. could have no

The question of when a man may more enthusiastic head than Mr.

make a disclosure to another man's F. J. Chamberlain, who was re- cently appointed national secret wife with regard to the conduct of are in succession to Sir Arthur her husband was discussed in a Topp ile is himself a product of reserved judgment delivered, and

Lords Justices Scrutton, Greer, the movement, which he joined as Russell in the Court of Append. Naturally," said Mr. Cham-allowing the appeal of Mr. William berlain to a reporter, "I have Walace Walt, of Bassett Road, seen many changes since I joined North Kensington, from the judg. the Association at Plymouth on my ment of Mr. Justice Borridge dis 18th birthday. Thirty years ago missing bie libel action against Mr. billiards were not allowed on our Robert Cecil Longadon, of Norman premises Dancing and cards were Court, Salisbury. both out of the question. Even

A new trial was ordered. smoking was prohibited, and I re-

Mr. Watt complained of disclo- member a young fellow being resures, which, were untrue, with re- proved for lighting a cigarette on gard to his alleged conduct with the steps of one of our hostels women at Casa Blanes in Morocco.

a boy,

Today, billiards and smoking are general. Whether it will have cards or dancing the management of each branch decides for itself.

Central Purpoas.

CX-

'Social Duty Question." Lord Justice. Serutton, giving judgment, said:

The question involved is diff cult, and in its social results it is important. The question is: "In what circumstances, if any, was a roan entitled to disclose to a wife facts about the matri monial delinquencies of her hus band which he honestly believed to be true?" The facts in this particular case turned out to be absolutely untrue.

The question becomes more dif Boalt when it turns on the exist enec or non-existence of a social duty, because the judge has decide, without evidence, from his own knowledge of the world, and it is a question on which Opinions differ from age to 88, from country to country, and even from man to man.

Times will no douht continue to change, but on vital issues there will be no alteration of the policy of the Y.MC.A. · Our central pur-i pose is to bring bays, and young men face to face with the claims of the Christian faith. Northing that is normal and right for

* youths is allen to that purpose."

In saying that, Mr. Chamberlain was speaking out of his own perience of .M.C.A. work in all its branches. Soon work in join- ing the Plymouth Association ha was appointed its assistant secret- ary,, while still under 21 he was given independent responsibility ds general secretary at Hanley, at 26 he went to a similar position at Nottingham, and three years later By the law of England, there he was appointed divisional secret- were occasions on which a person ary for the North Midlands.

might make defamatory statements At 31 he became general secret of another without incurring legal ary to one of the largest liability, but there must be a pub- Y.M.C.A's. in the country--that ate or private duty to make the the communication. In his view, how

Lever, Mr. Justice Horridge went too far when he held that interest on the part of the recipient of the information was enough to make the occasion privileged.

Sheffield. Then he came to Landon headquarters.

Mr. Chamberlain was second in command to Sir Arthur Yapp right through the war years. With in a fortnight of the outbreak of the war the Y.M.C.A. had estab lished 150 camp, centres, and there were 10,000 of them before the war ended.

"I am specially anxious," he said, to be regarded as carrying on the normal work of the Associa tion. After 16 years in Londen I am no new broom. But I would like to see every boy and youth in England shepherded within the Red Triangle provided, of course, that they are not already a nem- ber of some similar organization. We have now 40 establishments in Greater London, and have many schemes fur wider develop-

ments.

New Buildings,

we

Three communications were in question in the case, and in my view there was a duty on the part of Mr. Longsdon to make the communication which he did to Mr. Singer, the chairman of the company with which both he and Mr. Watt, had been connected. The chairman might be asked to give a testimonial, apart from present employment.

Men's Ulub Gossip. When Mr. Longedon received the letter on which he acted it might be held that he had a duty to make further inquiries. With regard to these two communica tions, therefore, I think that the occasione Our "Metropalitan Committee

were privileged; but the other members of the court is making a survey of the whole

think that there was evidence of aren, to select the most strategic-

malice, and there, will have to be al points for the erection of six

a new trial on the issue of malice. or eight big new buildings to give

The communications to Mrs. Watt accommodation to thousands of young people. The site of a soci-stood on a different footing.

It cannot," said the Lord al centre has much to do with its success, and we are determined to Justice, be the duty of a friend he as careful in choosing our cen- to communicate all the gossip he tres as cinema proprietors and hears at men's clubs or women'e publicans are.

bridge parties. As a general rulo ly on our work for boys. We have interfere in the affairs of husband "We are concentrating especial- it is not desirable for any ote to our own distinctive plans for 'Em- and wife."

We don't just pire emigration.

He came to the conclusion that land a boy in Canada or Austra there was no moral or social duty linWe try to get him into an

to make this communication to the environment such as he has been wile, and that there must be a accustomed to at home, and that retrial of that issue also. will make all the difference to the Lord Justice Greer said that the boy."

haety and unjustifiable communica tion to the wife and certain things relating to the other communica tions were such as to entitle Mr. Wait to ask for the verdict of a jury on the issue of malice.

Lord Justice Russell concurred.

For the last few years Mr. Cham- berlain has been directly responsi- ble for Y.M.C.A. work in the Lon- don area. Now he has to super vise activities ranging from the establishment of holiday camps to the preparation of a welcome home for the

of the Rhineland army. At Bingen-on-the-Rhine, at Wiesbaden, and at Konigstein, the Y.31.C.A. has been active among the troops, and at Catterick, Salis

men

POLICEMAN HEARS HIS BRIDE'S CRY.

SEPTEMBER 17, 1929.*

BEGGARS WITH BANK ACCOUNTS.

$100,000 THROUGH TRADING ON PUBLIC SYMPATHY.

LEADING A LUXURIOUS LIFE.

Many of those who prefer to pass, $95,000. Yet another old man, who their lives in impoverished war- was arrested for vigrancy, was rounding dressing in tatters and known to deposit nearly $100. every suffering from the elements while day in the bank. He boasted he begging ostensibly sustenance, fre-owned $10,000 in stocks, gently have means to live in com- fort, and even luxury. A Burvey has been made, and the court re-

cords disclose the fact that 80 per cent of the professional beggare are impostors, and that approxi- mately 50 per cent. of these are able to live luxaricusly upon the generosity of passers-by.

New York is a mecca for beggars, but the police are powerless to stop

the nuisance...

The problem is equally acute in Brooklyn, where Mr. J. T. Godfrey, who has had more than twenty years' experience with mendicante, declares he has never found a single deserving case.

A Staggering Figuro. "There is no necessity whatso ever for begging," said Mr. God "But as long as people will frey. give, that type will beg rather than "Even though," said Lieut. Wil work. It is much more profitable. liam C. Whitley, of the Police

Did you ever stop to consider Headquarters, we pick up almost now much these beggars take in every one from time to time, they during a day. Anywhere from $15 usually protect themselves by carry-to $500. This appears a stagger. ing chewing gum or penci's, or ing figure and may sound exagger same other small wares. And, ofated to one who does not know. course, most of them carry pedlars Yet a beggar known as Clubfoot licences. As long as they have a Joe took in $100 one day at the licence and display merchandise we entrance to a tacetrack. I arreeted cannot arrest them unless they are committing some other misdemean our. People ought not to give them anything."

$8,000 Credit

A haggard, ninety-year-old beg gar was arrested in front of the Eltinge Theatre for using abusive language to those who passed him hy. In the Night Court he was searched, and in his pockets were found several bank-notes, one of which showed deposits amounting to 80,000. He refused to let the officers inspect the others. The magistrate seus him to a home for the aged and infrm.

HARD WORK · FOR · THE LEAGUE.

2,050 TREATIES FILED..

"United Pres5.]

Geneva.-A total of over 9,000 treaties have now been filed with the League of Nations and publish ed for the information of the entire world. This is the report which has just been prepared by the Secre tariat or submission to the asrem- bly of the League.

During the past year alone all previous records were broken by the registration with the League of over 350 treatics. The provision in the League covenant requiring all -- members of the League to register with the secretariat all interna- tional, treaties was intended to put an end to secret treaties, alliances and to a certain extent to secreb diplomacy.

So faithfuly has this provision been carried out by members of the League that the latter is confident the above number included virtually every treaty negotiated since the close of the war.

Italy Leading.

Sweden

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him another time sitting in front

During the past year Italy led all of a cemetery. When he was of the nations of the world with the searched that time he had nearly number of treaties registered, her $130 in small change in his pockets. total being forty-eight. England "People are feelish to pity the came next with twenty-seven; then street beggar. While he preys upon Finland with twenty-aix; Austria your sympathies be makes large and

with twenty-four sums of money daily from the gifts each; Belgium and Serbia with of working people and prevents the twenty-three each and Holland and

Germany with twenty each. deserving poor from getting aid."

At one time there was a school in

Although the United States is no Brooklyn where men were prepared a meniber of the League and there. for begging. They were taught the fore is cat required to register her stare." legs and treaties with the League she never- deaf and dumb arms were put into plaster caststheless sends copies of all treaties. with convenient hinges for removal to the Secretariat for information after business hours. Although this and publication. During the past place was broken up some years year she filed fourteen treaties in are sintilar this manner. The same night another man was ago, it is said there given a six months' term in the institutions still operating in other workhouse. He was 82 years old cities. and had heen convicted" eighteen The women who shift wearily times for soliciting alms in public from one foot to the other holding thoroughfares. He was said to be a ceaselessly crying baby frequently worth $100,000 and to own several pay well to the members who hire tenement houses in the Bronx, but out such fretful children. If the was an inveterate beggar.

children do not ory enough the Another supposed pauper was performances are easily encouraged found to be worth $60,000, while with the aid of a surreptitious pinch a sandwich-board man, who begged or other efficacious means.

The

Some idea of the diversity of these treaties can be gathered from the following statistics:--

During the past year alone there were fled, thirty-one treaties of Arbitration, Conciliation and the Pacific settlement of Disputes; eight treaties of peace friendship. sovereignty and alliance; seventy- two treaties of commerce, naviga

when not employed. was robbed crying baby and poor mother tion and customs; ten consular con- one night of nearly $5,000, though stunt usually guarantees a pretty

WES even then still worth profitable day.

he

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INFATUATED WITH HIS

OWN WIFE...

"YOU ARE THE ONE WOMAN

IN MY LIFE,"

A Butler's infatuation for his wife had a sequel at West London Police Court when John Gordon Mann, aged twenty-five, of Market street, Paddington, was accused of breaking house at Drayton-

a

MYSTERIOUS DISEASE. INEXPLICABLE SYMPTOMS

• BAFFLE DOCTORS.

Bombay A mysterious disease is engaging the attention of eminent medical men in Bombay. So far they have been baffled by it. Neither the enuses nor the name are known and the authorities at the Haffkine Institute have been called in to help solve the mystery.

gardens, South Kensington, and

The cases are characterised by a stealing a cash box containing £2. 19s., a ecent bottle, and six picture long prodromal period up to three weeks with high fever and greyish postcards, belonging to the yellow mucus in the mouth and cupier, Mrs. Gertrude Laura Craig, dense red rashes. All pathological investigations so far have proved negative.

a widow.

ventions; fifty-one economic, finan cial and taxation treaties; twenty- three treaties of frontier delimita tion and frontier traffe; thirty- one legal and extradition conven tione; nine treaties relative to aerial navigation; forty-two postal, and radio telegraph, telephone conventions; fourteen treatica rela- tive to labour, refugees and social questions; thirteen treaties relative to the application of the treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties; thirty-one transit conventions; be sides a smaller number of treaties." on numerous other questions.

WINE-DRINKING IN MODERATION.

AN ANTI-PROHIBITION LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Detective Sergeant Bowles said that Mono" had about £20 in his

The total number of cases report- possession, and that was undoubted-ed is 13... The last one reported is the

An anti-Prohibition campaign is ly his own money. He was a man

case of an Italian who has been in to be started in Paris by a body who had borne the highest character Bombay for the last six months just established in France, with the title of "Office International du and had served as footman in the He is progressing satisfactorily.

number of titled people.

Already representatives "o₤ Dr. Nerulkar, Chief Health Vin." houses of

His wife was in the service of

Corporation, interviewed, said that organisation, which is described as worked there with his wife for his attention had been drawn to Mrs. Craig, and he himself had Officer of the Bombay Municipal thirteen nations have joined this a little League of Nations, in favour fortnight.

of wine-drinking. these cases by Major Gilroy, of St. He Pierron, defending:

George's Hospital, on August 16. All 13 cases were admitted to the St made no. concealment about his going to the house that night. He George's Hospital. left a note for his wife, did the not!

No two cases were alike, declared Sergeant Bowles said that was so,

Dr. Nerulkar, and the patients and produced the note which read

came from all parts of India, the as follows: "Hilda, you are the Persian Gulf and Red Sea ports, one woman in my life. For you I the latter being employed on ships. would do anything; commit any Dr. Nerulkar is making in- crimes. I would do anything to quiries into the matter and the bring you back to me and make me Haffking Institute is also a happy man again. How love

vestigating. you

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Mr.

Mr. Marchal (magistrate): Is he separated from his wife?

Mr. Pierros: There is a deed of mutual separation.

Mr. Pierron said that Mann WES prepared to plead guilty to a

bury Plain, and all the other mili- MIDNIGHT INTRUDER IN HIS charge of larceny because he had

tary centres the Association is

making ready to meet the needs.of

HOUSE."

in

So far the disease looks like streptococi infection. No such cases have been reported from the K.E. M. Hospital, the JJ. Hospital, or the Gocuidas Tejpal Hospital.

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RIFLE-SHOT IN THE NIGHT. SOLDIER DANGEROUSLY

WOUNDED.

no right to take the property.

The woman who was now his wife was in the service of Mrs. Craig for three years, and he courted her. He was induced to marry her owing to Ariftoshot awakened troops statement concerning her con- stationed at Barry Camp, Dundee, dition last December.

and on investigation being made, Pressure was afterwards brought | Acting Lance-Corporal Gerald Bar to bear on him, and he was persund ton Woodhouse, aged twenty-five, ed to enter into a deed of separa of the Royal Army Ordnance Corpe, tion. All that preyed on his mind, was found lying on his bed danger

the men who are returning.

"Of course." said. Mr. Cham-

Aramarkable incident, in which berlain our work is constantly a policeman broke into his own increasing. Here at home we are house shortly after midnight, in planning extensions in the great response to screams from his young industrial and rural areas. In wife, to whom he was recently mar Simughai and Hong Kong, in con- de disclosed at Birkenhead tomments of India, and on the Police Court.. North-West Frontier, in Bagdad, Thomas Robert Peacock, aged Malta and Gibraltar, we are alty-five, a signwriter, was accused and in his desire to have his wifeously.. wounded.

The Angue police, about an hour ready busy, and a Y.M.C.A. is be of being in the house of Police back he went to the house, found no

cne there, took some drink, and, later, arrested Private Roland ing catablished in the far away is Constable Bhape, in South Road, for no reason at all, picked up the Frederick Wood, aged nineteen, of land of Tristan da Cunha, so that West Kitby, for an unlawful pur-cash box and other articles and our work extends already to the

pose. ends of the earth."

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If when at home, they will call or telephone to the above address, they will receive the utmost ariat ance and the latest available infor- mation on all subjects of enquiry will be placed at their disposal.

Police Constable. Szare stated that, while on night duty an hour. after midnight, he heard a woman's screams, and when he went in the direction of South Road be recog ained that it was his wife's voice, He dropped his keys while hurry ing but burst a window open with hie baton and climbed through, He went upstairs and found Pen- cock lying on a bed.. Peacock said, when asked what he was doing there," I am only dozing."

Peacock tated in evidence that ho lived next door, and he entered the house of the Shapes by mis- take.

The magistrates said that but for is previous good character be would have been sent to prison He would be Enod 210...

went off with them.

Mr. Marshall reduced, the charge tr one of larceny, and expressed the view that no doubt Mann acted as he did owing to the effects of drink and emotion. He bound him over in £10 for twelve months.

NEW CIGARETTES.

AMERICAN DEVICE TO REDUCE FIRES.

Self-extinguishing cigarette cads have been erolved by scientiets at tached to the Federal Bureau in.

New York, Pow

It is expected that this will sub- stantially reduce America's annual £10,000,000 loss from fires caused by the carelessness of smokers.

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the same corps, who was detained

It may seem a paradoxical state- ment, but it is, none the less, true that these advocates of wine- are really temperance drinking workers.

They are all pledged to fight. alcoholism, but they are agreed that Prohibition as practised in America. is not an effective weapon. They aim, not at total abstinence, but at moderation in consumption of alcoholic drinks, and frankly "en- courage the drinking of wine.

The promoters of the movement point out that, if people are forbid- deh by law to take any alcoholia drink at all, they very often seize every opportunity to drink the Given füll liberty to drink wine, strongest liquor they can obtain. they take, as a rule, only so much as they need, and have no tempta- tion to abuse what Pasteur himself declared was the most wholesome and hygienic of beverages."

ELECTROCUTION FOR LOVE RIVAL, THREE MEN KILLED BY A

LIVE WIRE.

Vienna. Franz Neumayer, young electrician, has confessed that at Carnoustie police station, and in order to kill his stepbrother. later removed to Dundee,

Matthins his rival in love, who The shooting occurred in a hut stood between him and an inherit in which a detachment of sixteen ance, be established contact he men belonging to the R.A.0.Ctween a wire connecting two posts were located. When the alarm was on each side of a road and a high- raised the guard was called out, power industrial electric wire in a and the door of the hut was found lonely part of the country near to be open. It was also discovered Kornenberg, in Austria, which his that a neighbouring ammunition brother was in the habit of passing etore had been forced open, and a every night after visiting his

fancto... rifle and ammunition removed.

Lance-Corporal Woodhouse was The electrocuted bodies of three found to have been shot through men were found lying in the high- way in the morning. Neumayer the lower part of the body.

The injured man's condition be had killed not only his brother, but cáme so critical that he was asked also two innocent strangers. A to make a sworn statement in the fourth man, Leopold Wolff, who presence of Sheriff Malcolm and was hurled from his bicycle by the Mr. J. R. Archibald, procurator force of the current, is lying in

hoepital terribly burned.. fiscal