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THE MOTHER OF

"PARLIAMENTS.

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Increased Political Interest. There is a third and more vital renson. If interest in Parliament has declined political interest has increased. Our political problems to-day are very intricate and prac tical. They touch us in every as peet of our daily business and our daily life. No one can afford to be apathetic about theni.

The consequence is that from sheer necessity polition! knowledge has No been "more widely diffused. doubt there is still much room for improvement on this score, but I think that it ennnot be denied that the ordinary man knows far more abou: polities than he did twenty years ago, simply because so many of the problems have come within the orbit of his actual experience. He lives in the thick of a certain kind of political discussion, and on matters about which he has special knowledge he may feel that he is far more of an expert than his member. Parliament is the chief clearing-house of political ideas. and no longer the chief source. Political opinion is very largely being made from below und not from above. Political power can be acquired by people who never go near Westminster. The House of Commons has many rivals in the business of debate.

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ELECTRIC CABLE MURDERS.

WIRE OF DEATH HUNG ACROSS A ROAD.

THREE MEN KILLED.

'WIFE OF MOODS."

STRANGE COURTING OF

AN ACTRESS.

ASKED TO ELOPE.

The wife WHA Mrs. Florence

A husband and wife, who were stated to be still living together A triple murder precedented in but always quarreling and becom the history of crime and the draining reconciled," were opposing of an alleged modern Cain form the

parties in an action in the Chan subject of a sensational trial which cery Division last month, began in the little town of Korneu burg, nene Vienna, last month.

A young farmer, Franz Neu- mayer, is charged with the murder' not only of his brother, but also of two innocent strangers, and dan gerously wounding a third stranger by means of a deadly electric trap.

Cries of Agony.".

In the early morning of August 3 last year the police of Korneu- burg were awakened from sleep by the sound of eries of agony, and rushed out to see a badly burned man, crawling along, shouting for help. He was Leopold Wolff, a farm hand.

"Dead men are lying out there," he cried, painting through the dark ness in the direction from which he had come.

"I was attacked. Some one hit me in the chess as I was cycling niong the road. I was thrown yards away."

Lighting their torches. the police advanced entitiously, and saw terrible sight. Lying in the road- with way were three dead men bicycles beside them twisted and burned,

wway.

Still the Final Tribunal.

Stretched across the roadway at Yet, when all is said: Parliament a height of six feet from the ground remains the final tribunal. Pro as a harmless-looking wire made blems may be discussed elsewhere fast to trece, while a second wire with equal intelligence and perhaps connected one end of it to the over- greater knowledge, but it is Parhead electric power cables running liament that decides them. A de- parallel with the road twenty yards bate may be dull and ill-informed, but at the end of it members troop into the two lobbies, and the divi sion makes the law of the land. The ordinary man does not forget this truth. He has lost the old sporting interest in the gladiatorin! side of it, but, as a matter of strict business, he appreciates its ultimate

power.

Deadly Current.

BAN ON INDIAN DEGREES.

PROTEST BY SIR T. CAREY EVANS.

ADDING TO RACE ANTAGONISM.

A spirited protest against the nction of the British General Medical Council in withdrawing re Pierce, of Belton Lodge, Long cognition of the degrees of the bridge-read, Barking. She was suid various Indian universities for the to have been well known on the purpose of registration was recent stage under the name of Floray made by Sir Thomas Carey

Evans, son-in-law of Mr. Lloyd | She asked for a declatation that George, and formerly Surgeon to her husband, Dr. George Oliver Lord Reading when he was Viceroy Pierce, of the same address, held of India.

Cromer.

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Belton Lodge, certain houses in Sir Thomas, who is staying with Ripple-road, Barking, and The Mr. Lloyd George served for Haven, Eel Pie Island, Twicken. twenty-one years in the Indian ham, together with furniture and Medical Servier. There is tre silver, upon trust for her by virtue mendous difficulty," he said. "in of a contract contained in letters applying in huge country like written by her husband to her in India the high medical standards. December, 1026, before their mar- insisted upon in England,” riage.

Mr. C. Harmunu, for the wile, said the couple met at Hastings in 1900, where Dr. Fierce was in medical practice. Mrs. Pierce was then only

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Gave Up Practice.

India's Peculiar Needs, The problim is being looked at from the wrong angle, India, with her medley of races and social con- ditions, has to legislate for her own peculiar needs. She has the ability to do so.

but, said Mr, Harman, he gave up The doctor had an invalid wife,

"People in, this country who look his practice as far as he could and at the question purely from the followed the girl all over the coun-point of view of standards forget, for instance, that Indian women,

try.

In 1003 Mrs. Fierce went to Aus- tralia, and returned in 1904.

The ductor, M. Harman con- tinued, then urged her to run away from him, saying: "I will leave my Mrs. Pierce, wife and practice. however, declined, and went off on another tour.

In 1908 Mrs. Pierce married a Mr. Charles Reed.

because of the purdah aystem, do not want men doctors. Hence the Indian might reasonably ask why he should attain to Western `stan- dards of midwifery."

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DAYLIGHT SAVING

IN AMERICA.

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COWS OBJECT TO EARLY MILKING.

DIFFICULTY OVER BEANS,

[UNITED PRESS.

New York. April -Approxi-. mately 25,000,000 people in the United States woke up this morn- ing just one hour earlier than they have been accustomed, due to the change from Standard Time to Daylight Saving.

Daylight Saving is ushered in each year on the last Sunday of April at 2 a.c, and lasts until 2 a. of the last Sunday in Septem- her. It is accomplished by turning. clocks in the observing areas back

one hour.

The custom is not observed all certain parts where people have, over the United States, but only im been favourable to the extra hour of daylight. New York and vicinity. New Jersey, Ehode Island, Massa- chusetts, Pennsylvania, Chicago and suburbs are some of the places observing it.

Rural communities this year again raised objection to the change, farmers claiming that the milking of their cows one hour earlier was harmful. They also contended that vegetables such as beans could not be cultivated properly" while dew

was still on the vines.

Railroads will continue, to rua or Standard Time but they have been forced to prepare new time tabler showing the differences in time.

Sir Thomas went on to say that the decision of the General Medien! In opposition to the claims of the Council comes at a particularly un- agriculturalista, propotents of the fortunate moment. Delicate negotia system, say that workers in build- tions were already procceding beings get more fresh air, sunshine. Mr. Reed fell ill, and when hetween the Government of India and and exercise after the day's work was dying. Mrs. Pierce, being in the Provincial Governments, and is completed, due to the extra hour straits, rang up the doctor and ask the universities and medical bodies, of daylight in the evenings: It was obviously that the arrange-ed him if he could help her. The with the object of establishing a ment had been deliberately made doctor again asked her to go away statutory All-India Medical 'Coun to charge the obstacle wire with the with him, but she declined," deadly electric current of 20,000 volts from the power cable, and that the fiendish device warte [tically certain to kill any one who

touched it.

The skill with which the work had been done amazed the palice. The motive of robbery was out of the question,

ALS nonc of the

victims hodies had been touched, and they were all poor men, so it was concluded that revenge must have been the motive of the crime.

He would appreciate it more. 1 think, if it were more businesslike. Nothing would restore Parliament's prestige, if it should be declining so much as some reforms in its methods which are disputable, and some relief of its congestion, which is, unfortunately, beyand dispute.

Subject to that, I do not believe that our Parliament has seriously It is lost its historic. glamour. changing, as all things must change, and in the process there are both losses and gains. Hanpily, it stil! attracts some of the best talent of youth. To sit in it is still a wides bread ambition, which no intellee-posed marriage to a dairymaid. taal cynicism can seriously shake. And in one resnect it is more re- presentative and interesting than at any earlier stage in its history, for to-day, as never before, it is, a true microcosm of the nation.

NINTH SYMPHONY STORM.

GERMAN RETALIATION IN PRAGUE.

After claborate inquiries into the lives of the three victims, suspicion fell on the younger brother of one of them, Franz Neumayer, who, it was discovered, cherished a deadly hatred of his brother Matthias, be cause the latter objected to his pro-

Expert Electrician.

"The police also discovered that on the death of Matthias an inherit ance was passed to Franz, and that Franz was an expert electrician, and knew that his brother was cer- tain to pass the fatal spot after saving good-night to the woman he loved. Franz at first denied every- thing, and then made a confession, which he has since retracted.

The Court presented a queer scene. "The burned clothes of the murdered men lay on one bench and the fatal wires on another. In an were the three

biereles on which the victims had ridden to death.

The storm which has arisen over the recent production of Berth.joining room oven's Ninth Symphony in Prague has led to the suggestion that its famous Lied and, die Freude " should in Prague be described in future is the "Hymn to Babel."

The prisoner, who is 'n strong and very good-looking young man, with brown hair and light blue eyes, do-

Cabled Proposal.

Mr. Reed died in 1920 while his wife was in Australia. The doctor cabled the news, and in the same cable asked her to marry him, said counsel. The plaintiff thought that marriage would not be

cil.

This, it was believed, would do much to adjust differences between Fast and West in the matter recognisable medical standards in India,

Employers get more effcient work, because employees are in better. physical condition, it is declared.

Because of time for relaxation in healthful activities, city workers. fare better satisfied and the labour turnover, industry's most expensive item, is reduced.

The Wider Issue. success, is Sir Thomas agreed that the Gen she was a person of moods and soeral Medical Council has exercised considerable forbearance during the decade over which, the controversy has raged but he maintained-that-

was the doctor.

Ultimately she consented on the faith of promises contained-in-er tain letters, said her counsel and finally they were married in 1925.

Mr. Justice Clouson: Has there been a separation or divorce?

Mr. Harman: No, they are living There and quarrelling together. have been repented quarrels and re- In February they conciliations.

were stil! living on the most affec- tionate.terms,

Mr. Justice Clauson: It seems very

odd that husband and wife, living together and settling miner house- hold matters, cannot settle a major

onc.

was not statesmanlike to act so summarily when there was evidence that India might meet the situation.

Indig," Sir Thomas said, "is conscious of her problems, and her young men need all the encourage” mens that we can give them. The issue is not merely one of continu ing to place a few Indian names 0: the British Register as eligible to practise in this country,

After all, the average Indian wants to work in his own country where he understands the life and

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·AMERICAN LAWYERS AND CHINESE LAW.

SUGGESTION "OF APPLICA- TION TO THE PORTS.

UNITED PRESS.

Washington, April 27-Lending- speakers at the American Society of International Law to-day ad- vocated that the foreign ports in China should voluntarly apply mo- dernized Chinese law, thus paving traterritoriality? the way toward abolition of ex-

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Judge Charles S. Lobingier, for-

Eventually, at the judge's sigges. conditions of the people. By placmerly of the U. S. Court for China, tion, counsel on either side went ing bim at a disadvantage in so into the judge's private room, and doing, the decision of the General and Mr. William Denis, legal ad- a settlement was later announced Medical Council has added fuel to viser to the Chinese Government ut

the smouldering fire of race conflict Peping 1017-18, urged that foreig under which (among other things) and antagonisin which is so liableners should adopt Chince law in the wife will received £500 a year, to break out in India when nation cases where Chinese were concern later increased to £600.

alism is so much in evidence."

SURPRISE IN BALFOUR WILL.

ESTATE FOR NEPHEW NOT

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ed as a solution of the extraterri- toriality dispute, because, the Need for Co-operation.

variety of foreign laws was declar- Finally, Sir Thomas questioneded to be confusing and complicat- the wisdom of discouraging younging even to foreign residents. of their Chins Indians from completing medical education in Great Britain.

Judge John Wu, Formerly pres He also regretted the possibility ident of the Provisional Court in of alienating the good will and Shanghai, urged complete abolition

on extraterritoriality loyal co-operation of a very large of Lord Balfour has left the Whit-number of Indian medical men, grounds that China now had codes which were modern and applicable As a result of the Czech nation-clared that on the fatal day, atingehame estate to his nephew, many of them trained here

to all civil and criminal cases. alist newspaper Naraday Listy's Sunday, he attended church in the Viscount Traprain, instead of to campaign against singing in the morning and spent, the critical his brother Gerald, the new earl.

This fact is revealed in the late German language, Madame Kraan. hours of the evening at an inn. He of the solo quartet, a Czech, refused admitted his interest in electrical earl's will, which was registered at

Edinburgh, last month. to sing in German and sung in subjects. Czech. Fraulein Jarmila Novotny, a member of the Berlin State Opera, of Czech birth, bowed to the storm and abandoned German for Czech. Director Zemlinsky, an- nther Czech member of the Berlin State Opera, then ordered the whole TEN RULES FOR A HAPPY quartet to sing Czech. The Yugo sty tenor Riaveeth rebelled, and after singing first in French, re- verted to German for the final per. formance.

"His fancée and the girl who was engaged, to his dead brother were present in court.

LIFE.

FAITH IN HUMAN NATURE,

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India, he pointed out, offers the widest field for co-operation; the

Mr. Dennis said that foreigners werk, of necessity, must fall, more would not suffer the loss of any and mure on Indians, who have alrights and that no American would ready done much to improve the he placed by Chinese law in jeo" standard of hygiene and health pardy greater than under Ameri

can law, while the arhievement of among the people.

uniformity would be an excellent provision for everyone concerned.

Such a move, in Mr. Dennis'

Family Consent. "The entire residue of the late

British standards," he conclude carl's means and catate also go to ed, are the highest in the world, Viscount Traprais..

CHURCHES' PROGRESS IN

This, says the will, has been and in this matter, as in so many done with the consent of the others where India is concerned, we family in order to save as much are starting from the wrong end." Estate Duty as possible. The-trustees-under-the-will-Lord- Salisbury, Viscount Cecil, Major Balfour Younger of Balbirnie and the Hon, E. C. Lascelles-are This was "only the beginning of Professor Henry Hepner, a teach-directed to pay all existing pensions Babel in Prague. The Prague Gerer of applied psychology at Syra to old servants and others. man Philharmonic Choir now also ouse University, New York, offers a took up a Nationalist attitude and

set of ten rules for the guidance of declined to sing in Czech. Even those who wish to keep normal, tually a compromise was reached, mentally balanced and happy in whereby the female voices should modern life. The list may be Bud sing. Czech, the male German. This marised as follows :-- the Germans agreed to in view of Be good. The straight and nar-

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State Secrets Trust. Lord Balfour.directs his trustees to hand over to his brother, Gerald William Balfour, his sister, Mias Alice Blanche Balfour, and to the life renter in possession for the time of his estate of Whittingehame,

AMERICA.

ANNUAL CENSUS SHOWS DECREASE.

(UNITED PRESS.) New York, April 20.-The annual census of the Christian Herald, the foremost religious publication in the churches in the United States gain- ed 300,000 members.

the predominance of the male voices row path is the one that leads to Ali-his private papers, diaries United States, showed that all in the choir parts of the Ninth sanity. Symphorty. In the event they secured that only the male (Ger- man) words should be audible.

Under these extraordinary cir cumstancca was produced that hymn of universal brotherhood, the "Lied

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to world reconciliation, "Beid um schlungen, Millionen," which the Pan-Europa League wants to adopt n its official anthem! The Berlin.

Believe in human beings. Do not Nationalist Press is now reported let misplaced confidence destroy. Rs.. replying vigorously to the as your faith in human nature,; saulte of the Czech Nationalist" Hare a hobby and a plan in life. Press, a cry has arisen for the Use one to balance the other. If suspension or the TWO cup of Your CHUTK menigh courte the Berlin State Opera, Director a hobby which requires physical Zemlinsky and Fraulein Novotny exertion. for their alleged yielding to the Czech chauvinists, and assistance in -producing the "Babel Symphony,

An official inquiry into their con- duct has been ordered in Berlin.

and correspondence, so that they, along with any others they may

This is a startling decrease as choose to act with them, may examine and divide them into two compared with previous years.

For the first time since the Civil 'categories, political and private, War, the MethodHat Episcopali and preserve or destroy such por Church showed a loss of 25,000 tions as they may deem expedient, members, while the Methodists as with power to publish all or any a whole lost 2,500 members. part of such papers, diaries.or The Baptiste gained 53,000 mem- correspondence, or to lend them hers as against, a guín of 300,000 for publication,

members for 1928. The value of the estate-is-not disclosed,

J. The will is dated Whittingehame, January, 1923, and is witnessed by din Bahart Hagne MP and by the Rev. Marshall D. Lang, minister of Whittingehame.

Change your environment. Take a holiday when possible. If this is impossible, at least change the arrangement of the furniture in your home. ':

The codicil altering the immediate zuccession is dated December 30, 1927, nfd witnessed by Mr. A. S. Blair and Frank Edward Coleman, Earl Balfour's butler.

The Catholics gained 77,000 as against 300,000 for the previous

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The total membership of all burgher in the United Statry was found to stand at 50,000,000 persons as compared with 40,706,470 persons for the previous period under aur vey. This was for 29 church de

The survey showed nominations. that the number of churches had decreased slightly.

opinion, would relieve present ten-

sion to a marked extent.

He expressed the view, however, that even this would "not complete- ly satisfy the Chinese, and he de- clared himself possessed of the "utmost faith in Chinees pro- mises for equitable administration of justice after foreign extrateri- toriai privilege has been sürren- dered.

MEI LAN FANG ILL WITH INFLUENZA.

DETERMINATION TO KEEP

ENGAGEMENTS

[UNITED PEESS.]

Mei;

San Francisco, April 27. Lan Fang, the famous Chinese ac- tor who is completing a tour of the United States, is suffering from induenza.

He will continue his perform- ancen, however, it was announced. and he insists upon completing all bis engagement!...

Such enormous crowds are being drawn to Mei's performances in can rarel found necessary to "make arrange nents whereby the performances will be removed from the Liberty Theatre, in Chinatown, to the Capitol Theatre in the heart of the Sat, Francisco theatre, district.