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**BELL-HOP."

Mr. Garland Anderson smiled his lazy smile, tossed this bat,' così, bag, and enormous bundle of papers on the table, and told me a fairy

Richard William Starkie, of Oakley square, Camden Towa, W.W.. was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment in the second division at Maidenhead Police Court for offences under the story. I shall call it. "The Negro and the President," or "The Man Dahgerous Drugs det.

PRESERVING THE "FRAM."

AN ENGLISH COMMITTEE..

Funds are being raised for the preservation of the Fram, Dr. Nansen's old ship, which lies in dock Norway, in danger of destruction.

Viscount Cecil of Chelwood is president of a committes to forward the movement, which includes Dr. Hagh Robert Mill (Vice-President of the Royal Beographical Society), Dr. G. P. Gooch, Mr. H.-G. Wells,

Starkie, it was stated, was struck with the Perfect Phrase," writes a Mr., Siegfried Sassoon, Mr. J. C.

of the medical register in 1922.

Councillor A. B. Norris, Mayer of Maidenhead was chairman of the Beneh. Ar. Sefton Cohen ap peated for the Director of Public Prosecutions, and Mr. J. D. Cass well represented Starkie.

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father was a slave. Five years ago Mr. Anderson is a negre, and his he, was a

bell-hop in a San the most famous plawrights in Francisco hotel. Today he is one of America, whose play Appear antes" had a magnificent reception in New York nu is to be produced in London,

Mr. Anderson, between calls at

The first summons alleged that on July 22, 1920, in" Maidsihend, he unlawfully offered to procure for Geoffrey Bradford Vilmer, other the hotel switchboard, wrote a play wise Melville, and to Phebe Geor about a "bell-hop." Then he put gina Frances Althern Ruby Aldoon bis hat, went to the White Nordi, otherwise Melville, described as of Mill House, Hurley, a certain dangerous drug, when he was not duly authorised to do so.

Starkie pleaded guilty to this

Buramons.

Other Summonses.

House, walked clean past three. secretaries, & guard, and an aide de-camp, walked straight into Pre- sident Coolidge's private apartment and came out with a glowing letter of praise for his play!

A few weeks lated David Belasco, the famous producer, had put up He pleaded guilty to other sum- the money for the play and sena- nonses for offering to procure, and tors Rabbis, political bosses, procuring, heroin and for aiding among ethers Noel Coward, Ethe! not Barrymore, Paul Robeson, and Al and abetting, but pleaded guilty to three summonses on three Jolson, were subscribing at break- dates for aiding and abetting Per-neck speed. cival John Westall, the mannger of n Maidenhead firm of chemists, to supply the heroin.

1. Mr. Cohen said it was illegal to offer to procure, dangerous drugs unless the person was authorised to do so by being either niedical practitioner, a dental surgeon, or A registered veterinary surgeon. ·

The prescriptions were handed to Mr. Westall by a man who called himself Major Melville, but his name was Geoffrey Bradford Vil-

mer.

In each case the prescription was signed "R. Starkie," and there were letters after the name which the chemist took to be M.D.

The chemist, understanding that they were in order; dispensed the prescriptions on each occasion they were presented, and the drugs were handed to Major Melville, who took them away.

Mr. Westall had become a little uneasy on September 23, and spoke to his employer about the matter, and his employer wrote to Starki enclosing a prescription and asking him confirm the signature.

A little later a letter was receiv ed from Starkie returning the pre scription with the letters "O. K." upon it.

"Astonishing" Habit.

It might sound a little astonish- ing, but it appeared that Starkie was in the habit of signing blank sheets of paper and giving them to Melville, knowing full well that he was going to fill in the prescrip- tions, making them out for what- ever amount he felt inclined to or- dier.

The case for the prosecution was that the patient, Mrs. Melville, did not receive all the heroinmention- ed in the prescriptions, but that part of it was taken by Melville (or Vilmer)..

Starkic lived in Oakley-square, and the fact that there was on the door a brass plate with the name "Dr. Starkie upon it led one to assume that he practised there as a doctor of medicine. His name was removed from the medie- al register in 1922.

Starkie knew perfectly well that a person not on the register was not entitled to give a prescription for dangerous drugs. It would be alleged that he wha tricked into doing it by Melville.

The bell-hop" wandered back to the hotel, returned his uniform and walked out into fame.

How did you do it?" I asked. Mr. Anderson smiled his lazy amile.

**Believe Yourself."

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It was like this," said Mr. Anderson. "I wrote the play and I said to myself,Write to the President-that should help a lot. Then I thought, What a chance you haven't got, my lad Then I said, Believe yourself, and wrote the letter.

I got a reply-the usual polite refusal. So I said. Believe your self, waited four werks, and then went along to White House with

my the door n

eplay under my arm.

warden said. What d'yer want?' I said, want to see President Coolidge.' He said. Say, hey, you look in- telligent; why not net it?' So I said. Believe yourself, and men cloned an appointment, showing my letter.

Then there were some more wardens So I walked past the warden. and some secretaries. I walked past them.

When I got in at last I just grabbed the President's hand and talked.

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The New York erities have fallen down and worshipped the ex-" bell- hap." Society has accepted him, and agents are fighting for "Ex- tortion," his next play.

that I would undertake the cure of both if allowed to prescribe heroin. He also informed me that he had seen a chemist, who

was prepared to dispense my prescriptions if I put on them my diploma,

Vilmer was obviously in charge of Mrs. Melville's affairs, and had a domineering manner, so I let him write out the prescription. He had the prescription dis- pensed.

It is felt that there will be a general desire to support the work, primarily as an expression of grati. I tude to Dr. Nansen, not only for his work an as explorer, but in re cognition of the work he has done to bring peace and order into the world after the wreckage of the Great War. He led the civilised world in the attempt to fight the forces of disease, famine, and pes- tilence which followed in its wake. He saved, the remnant of the op- pressed Armenian nation, whose world. When the repairs have been story is one of the tragedies of thei carried out the Fram will be kept on permanent exhibition:

COLD SHADOW OF "EXAMS.”

AFFECTING ENGLISH

EDUCATION,

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Sir Michael Sadler, Master of University College, Oxford, asked for his views on a letter in the Press in which the tutor said that Oxford had gone "Ga-Ga," and that the best public school boya were deserting the Oxford family traditions, and insisted on going to Cambridge, said examinations were necessary.

"I am not running amok against the whole system," he continued, "but I think that in Oxford they are on the point of becoming a

I saw Mrs. Melville and Vilmer on August 1 because my suspicious were aroused. I noticed that, in danger both to tutors and under- stead of a small quantity of graduates. The effect on the elever heroin, the amount which had been dispensed was large. I was very annoyed, and said I would not assist them any more, and that they must carry on with the alternative treatment,

The matter came to the know- ledge of the Home Office, and Starkie was interviewed by Chief

Twenty-six prescriptions, all for Inspector. Prothero and given every hernin, had been dispensed at the opportunity of examining the pres-aidenhead chemists from July 18 criptions. He agreed having sign; to October 14, and two further ed a number of prescriptions, and prescriptions for heroin were dis" queried others.

Starkle's Letter.

A letter was received by Chief Inspector Prothero in which Star. kie gave an explanation of his action. Passages were fol- lows:→→

I met Mrs. Melville first' atea country house. On that occasion we quarrelled violently, and she had to apologise. I felt sorry' for her and expressed my sympathy. She is now an Italian princess.

inen has been that they learn things en paper instead of going direct to the facts themselves. The analytical sense is being developed at the expense of the appreciative, and the power of getting things out of books rather than the habit of looking at the things themECİVES,

to Oxford, but" is spreading like

n cold shadow over the whole of

Not Confined to Oxford, "Whether this is true of Cam- bridge as well only Cambridge men pensed by a chemist in Henley. can tell. The evil is not confined

The total amount of heroin obtained on the twenty-eight prescriptions was 9,150 tablets, containing 3d grains, working out at about three grains a day. Chief Inspector Prothero said that Starkie was at one `time- a police surgeon, and was well known to Scotland-yard.

English education. There is one thing I should like to add: In Oxford we have, no general stuff. There is no proper liaison between the different delegacies and boards which discuss university problems, Attendance at these boards is dili gent, punctual, and meritorious, but there is no deliberate thinking out of a new university policy to fit the new needs of the country and of the young.

"The defect could be cured casi ly. What is most wanted in a charge of spirit at the central office of the University. My im pression is that, at Cambridge, they have more unity of leading minds for the discussion of future

He readily admitted some of the signatures on the prescriptions, but said that others were foreries. Vilmer, a drug addict, asemed to Sho has had abdominal opera have disappeared immediately in- tions and is very desirous of havquiries were instituted into the ing a child. She wishes me to Case. make this possible by an opera- Mr. Casswell naked the magia tion or otherwise.

trate to believe that Starkte was working hard to rehabilitate him self, and was not knowingly issuing prescriptions without authority.Renderate policy. He must have known, had be been doing so, that he would sooner or later bave been found out.

In the beginning of July I casually met Vilmer (Melville), whom I had known about fifteen years.

He told me he was staying with Mre. Melville, and said that as a result of nursing-home treat- ment twelve months before they had both been taking drugs, he for his old leg injurics and Mrs. Melville for her abdominal trou. ble. He said that both had tried

Too Highly Developed. "Meanwhile, Oxford is splended

Chief-Inspector Prothero saidly rich in first-rate ability and de- that on September 6, 1921, Starkievotion to the public interest. I ar was sentenced at the Central inclined to think that Oxford is of too Criminal Court to nine months' suffering from the effect hard labour for administering a highly developed Hanura schenis. noxious drug. Since then nothing The standard in Greats, for ex- to break off what had become a was known to his detriment,

ample, is between two and three habit, and would I treat them. Starkie paled visibly when Ben- times as high as when I took On July 15 I saw Vilmer, who tenced, and left the court with the Schools' in 1884, but I doubt who- said he had been to Scotland assistance of two police offers. ther the men who go in for Greats separadasadahandusinfpeened a them. The magistrates agreed to issue are thelly abler than my contem

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