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THE WORLD'S DEBT TO THE JEWS.

THE FACULTY OF VISION.

Mr. Laurie Magnus has written a book-"The Jews in the Christion Era"-which may be truly describ ed na a monument of learning and of piety (in the Roman sense)." His primary object, it would seem, is to assess the value of the contribution made by the Jews to thought and is Mr. speculation. "Civilisation Magnus's own word, but the scope of the book is not quite so wide that word would imply. Material civilisation has little place in these pages. They are concerned mainly with the spiritual and intellectual. Hegarded from that point of view. the book is a very good one, and will amply repay the close reading it undoubtedly demands,

Mr. Magnus seeks to lighten a serious though not a dull subject by occasional historical parallels and a certain modernity. For in stance, he contrasts the way in which, in the first centuries be fore and after Jesus," the Jews rushed "blindly on self-destruc- tica, and the recovery of France after her defeat at the bands of Germany in 1870. "Judea," he writes, as impatient of defeat and as tenacious in hate as France, con- ciliated no foes, and made no re- covery....

BLACKMAIL GANG OF WOMEN.

SCANDAL HUNT FOR AN

EVIL CAMPAIGN."

DOSS.HOUSE **G.H.Q,"

Remarkable revelations of A group of women who use a London doss-house as their secret O.H.Q. to organise a systematically plan- ned campaign of blackmail are made by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton in the following article in a London

paper

Blackmail is a persistent occupa- tion among certain women of the underworld. At a dom-house that I know, within the sound of Bow bells, there meet occasionally a small but efficient group who make their living out of this the cruel

lest of all crimes.

At a table pushed against the wall, out of the range of general view, apme half a dozen, elderly women are apparently engaged in friendly gossip. All neatly dress- ed, one old lady with soft wavy. hair has the most benevolent blue eyes. Bits and scraps of paper are.. passed from one to the other. They occasionally pore over a written

document.

They are engaged in Analysing

LADY SEAFIELD'S ROMANCE.

AMAZING DIATRIBE OF A. SCOTS NEWSPAPER, -

"THE PITY OF ITP

An astonishing diatribe on thà subject of the secret wedding of the young Countess of Senfield was contained in a leading article in the Banffshire Journal recently.

The newspaper, commenting on the fact that the wedding was re- ported locally. *in seven lines, says:-

seven co-

Had matters taken the course that on such an occasion is tradi- tionally accepted, not lumns would have sufficed to con tain the reports of the rejoicings of auch a happy event. The pity of it!

DOCTORS GUILTY OF

" IDEALISM.”

EXCESS MEDICINE GIVEN

TO POOR PATIENTS.

Thousands of poor people in East London are directly affected by a remarkable medical case which is now before the Minister of Health for final decision.

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A fine of £100 has been .recom- mended to the Ministry "by. the London Insurance Committee four doctors, who are in partner- ship.

The reason for the penalty is that the doctors are alleged to have prescribed excessively in medicines and

remedies for their penal

patients.

The excessive prescribing is said to have taken place during a period of 1928. The matter first came be fore the panel committee, who came "In the official report of the 'se to the conclusion that the prescrib eret, and certainly unknown, maring of the doctors was in excess by

£00 of what was reasonably. neces ringe of the young countess, it was stated that the wedding had taken sary for the treatment of the in-1 place owing to the prolonged ab-aured patients on their lists, Beaco in East Africa of the Dowager Countess of Seafield. It is certain, however, that the absence of the Countess Nina was not pro- longed.

"On her departure abe made ar rangements to return in April, after which, so it was stated, the

take place, an event that in ordin ary circumstances would have been the cause of enthusiastic rejoicings of the throughout large north-east of Scotland."

"

The doctors and the Ministry of Health were dissatisfied with this decision of the panel.committee, and so the case was referred to a 'court of referees. referees-which

The Jews alien, and dissecting the chances of less-wedding of her daughter was to the

ated Rome, who might have spared them. They rejected.. Jesus, who might have saved them, and, within their own divided ranks, they con- founded politics with region and did not always know their friends from their foes,"

Statehood and Nationhood. The text of Mr. Magnus's work may, perhaps, be found in this

passage!--

"The Jews were not like other

nations; the capture of their gods' did not destroy either their unity or their beliefs. They seemed to pass out of a nation into a religion, and to step through the yoke of a conquering people into the crown of a conquering creed. Nati ser- vituti (born to slavery), said Cicero: victi victoribus leges dede | run (the victims gave laws to their victors), declared Seneca."

ing toll on some poor victim.

Their method, is this.

They study the newspapers care- fully and keep track of all that happens in the social and political world. Directly a new name be comes prominent they fasten on it An unknown candidate may be standing for Parliament; a man running for honours unexpectedly contributes large sums of money to charitable organisations.

Immediately they set to work to discover every possible detail. In vestigation takes money, but the group can supply that. They live

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Man Interviewed.

average

It was stated in the report of the came before" the London Insurance Committee--that number of panel patients on the lists of the prne titioners was 0,422,and of that total 3,106 were treated in the ecurse of a quarter.

Prescriptions to the number of £2,326 were given. An extra- ordinary number of multiple pre- The newspaper then refers to ascriptions were given at one time certain person, of whom, it says, to one patient.

Fees for Chemista. we confess we hear now for the' first time," and who, after the wed-

Sometimes there were four of five ding, "was interviewed by enter- prising newspaper people to whom prescriptions on one script, each he seems to have related its vari prescription carrying" its own dis- ous items in a way which certain-pensing fee to the chemist. in good circumstances, often in they fails in its appeal to the tenan- suburbs where they are well retry on the estates of Culler, Banff, spected, only using the dess-house Boyne, Keith, and Strathspey.

as meeting and similar haunts places where they can transact business without arousing comment in their own environment.

Gathering" Evidence." That is true. Nevertheless, the struggle for survival was hard and Their agents establish confidential prolonged. The Jewish State was. relations with the victim's domestic of course, hopelessly destroyed, but staff, and gossip as to his friends, surely Mr. Magnus erra in saying relations, habits, and peculiarities that the Jews ceased to be a nation.

is carefully collected. The hint of Is it not rather one of the most

a scandal, the suggestion of n slip, remarkable achievements of a re-and the whole story is rooted up. markable people that even in their dispersion, and despite persecution, despite the loss of Statehout, they preserved their Nationhood!

An Agricultural People. Many interesting points emerge from these pages. It will be news to many that the Jewish faculty for trade was an acquired, not

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There are few individuals who have not at least one indiscretion to their account, some youthful escapade which, resurrected, might impair public career and bring pain and humiliation to wife and children.

In many cases the unhappy prey. to terms and cashes up.

comes

"He is represented as having said that the bridegroom and the countess just decided that a sud- den secret wedding would be rather fun, so he fetched' the bridegroom, and we went to fetch a special li cence at Westminster. Then we collected Lady Seafield, and we all went to St. James.'

"Doubtless the archdeacon had al- so to be fetched,' and the brideg room's mother 'collected.'

"Flippancy of this kind, and such undignified proceedings aa are thus described do not make. edifying reading in the Grant coun- try, nor in the great territory in Banffshire where the name of Sca- field has ever been identified with more regular and orthodox ways in the celebration of what is re- garded as the supreme and most joyous day in the life of a girl, not to speak of a young peeress to whose wedding thousands of people. would have looked forward with anticipations of joining in its en- thusiastic celebration.

"Sense of Shock."

Other points in the report, were:

The practitioners explained this high figure by the poor stats of nutrition of a number of their patients...

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The referees recognised that the practitioners had organised highly efficient treatment centre in a poverty-stricken neighbour- hood, where the conditions of life were very unfavourable."

Nevertheless, they had regret- fully come to the conclusion that the evidence showed a consider- able expenditure on drugs and medicines beyond what was rea sonably necessary.

:

High Ideals.. The loss to the drug fund during the quarter could not be less than £150.

The high ideals with which, the 'members of the firin are possessed are quite admirable, but it is quite impossible to countenance such idealism at the expense of a limit- ed public fund earmarked for a specific purpose only.

Now the matter is to be carried a stage further on behalf of the doctors.

An nopeal has been lodged with the Minister of Health "on the

cenaive,

It is this shrinking from ex- posure that brings the blackmailer aberiginal ornative faculty. The ber harvest. A letter, carefully Jews were originally an agricultural drafted, suggests a meeting, when people. "Their Sabbath, festivals, the recipient will learn something holidays and poor law all rested on of personal interest., If, as some- an agricultural foundation, and the times happens, the communication i unanswered a stronger. missive rural Utopia which passed into the heritage of modern literature is is despatched. essentially a Hebrew vision." So says Mr. Magaus, and he is un- doubtedly right. They took to com- Unce having yielded it becomes feelings of people in the north of Around that the punishment is ex- merce because in the feudal corn more and more dificult to appeal munities which dominated society to the authorities. The extortion, in the early middle ages there was though continuous, is small. Little no place for the despised and de- and often is the rule of these pro- tested Jew. They were consequent-fessional blackmailers. ly driven to trade; but, as Mr. Magnus insists, they were not bred to it, as were the Greeks who had been seafarers throughout their history, familiar with the Mediter ranean ports, The Jews are never mentioned in pagan litera

folk." a cercantile

But they had the brains for commerce and they acquired the aptitude.

ture as

Success in a New Metier.

Th Sleuth Hounds.

A forthcoming marriage is an bos had nounced." The woman

certain many admirers, and a amount of gossip attaches to her carcer. The sleuth-bounds get on to her story and contrive to un- earth some incident which the would prefer forgotten. She may not have told her fiancé and the

Once she is married her.position is worse. She is earmarked for a regular annuity silence, import ant before marriage, is unbreak- able after.

What were the reasons for their discovery will suggest deliberate remarkable success in their new deceit. Very much in love, she will métier 1. In answering this ques-be foolish enough to pay for silence. tion our author puis first the faculty of vision, which lent the distance to Heine's lyre, and the leap to Spinoza's thought, the architectonic to Disraeli's statecraft and perhaps the boldness to Roths thilde speculation'. Secondly, the Jew derived an immense store of optimism and patience from his inner experience: Most tenaciously throughout the ages be held to his inextricably implanted belief in the Divine promise of a better value of their "household laws, "the reign of the moral law of righteous-

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Another interesting point brought out in these pages is that it was the Crusades which drove the Jews to money-lending. And one more, on which Mr. Magnus lays great stress, that the Jews acted us the carriers, of Hellenism."

Questions are also to be asked of Mr. Arthur Greenwood, the Minister of Health, in the House of Cum-

mons.

The circumstances that have been detailed grate harshly on the Scotland, who have regard to the traditional accompaniments and accepted associations of the wed. ding of a daughter of one of the great house of the land. "It was quite well known how the Seafield trusters, in discharge of a great and important trust, have ever sought to establish the most in- DRAMATIC CLIFF RESCUES. timate and friendly relations be tween their tenantry and her who they hoped would one day succeed to the estates. This hurried and secret marriage came, therefore, with a sense of shock and distaste that is manifest throughout the en- tire estates.

News editors of London news papers, we are told, telegraphed to their correspondents in the north to send them reports of the mar ringa rejoicings. There were no re- joicinga.

A FIXED DATE FOR EASTER?

AUSTRIA'S NON-COMMITTAL

ATTITUDE.

CREW HAULED 100 FEET TO. SAFETY.

A thrilling drama of the ser, was enneted on the rocky cliffs near Ramsgate recently, when the crew of three were rescued by ropes from the French ketch Corbiere (70 tons), which was driven on the rocks between Ramsgate and Broad- stairs during a fierce north-westerly. gale.

The Corbiere was bound from St. Malo to Sittingbourne with a cargo af grain, when her engines: broke down off the North Foreland. The vessel anchored, and the crew twice refused proffered assistance, think- ing they could themselves repair the defect,

Anchora Dragged. Later at night the gale sprang up, and the vessel dragged both her was buffeted and

In their time these women have been active in other forms of crime, but have realised there is more profit and less danger in this particular sort of exploitation. If discovered, their sentence is heavy. but on the whole the chances is heavy, but on the whole the chances of prison are very small. It is only when they make a bad selec tion that they are likely to be caught out, and their judgement of psychology is considerable.

They know just when and where to strike. Their private lives are outwardly respectable. They keep business strictly apart, and not one of the gang knows the hume address of another, all arrangements be ing made verbally from meeting to meeting.

Meanwhile, a number of local MOTHER OF 17 CHILDREN. Their evil work is done quietly,

Theoretically, it would be pos boatmen equipped with stout ropes, únobtrusively, Nobody causally watching would suspect their real sible to fix Easter at a date differ scaled the high cliffe, and, in face purpose, I found out the truthing from that of the Catholic of the storm and driving rain, man- only by the most careful and veiled Church; but it would have little aged with difficulty to cast a rope practical value, for the population to the men in the boat, who had investigation.

would always celebrate the Easter lashed themselves to the mast to festival with the church. In 1923 prevent the great seas sweeping: the then Chancellor was confront them away... led by the saine matter, when the Commission for International Trat

ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE DISMISSED.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lilian Reay, of Crange-road, Birkenhead, the mo ther of seventeen children, was found not guilty and acquitted at Chester Assizes recently of a charge of attempting to murder three of the children by gas poisoning.

She pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted suicide, and was sen- tenced to seven days imprisonment on that charge, but she was at once discharged (Oontinued at foot of next column)..

The British Government, which anchors, and has asked a number of foreign swept by the heavy seas which at Governments for a statement, of times completely submerged her. on the their attitude towards a fixed date until she eventually ran for Eastern, between April 9 and rocks.

The Ramsgate lifeboat, was 10, will, according to the Vienna journal, the Reichapont, recive launched shortly before midnight, reply from Austria saying that the but was unable to approach. suf Vienna Cabinet, ennoot agree until ficiently close to the Corbiere to. the Roman Catholic Church gives take off the men. its assent to the proposal,

Hauled to Safety.

Mr. Heny's husband asked to be excused from giving evidence.

Mr. Bertram Reece, defending, fic and Transit Commerce asked for They made each other fast to the said that Mrs Reay hind consider the Austrian Government's attirescue rove, and were hauled up the able anxiety. She was forty-four tude on the question of calendar hundred feet cliff to safety..

The men, who were exhausted by and had been the mother of seven- reform, including a fixed date for

The Government replied their "ordeal, were taken in a taxi- teen children, of whom twelve wore | Easter. living. Pressure from the landlord that it might be welcomed from the cab to the Bailors' Home, Rama- respecting rent had affected her. economic standpoint, but the fixing gate, where they were given à She had to undergo an operation, of the date had to be left exclu-change of clothing and restoratives

and put to bed and an expected child did not live, sively to the church authorities.

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