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"T HATE BEING SEVENTY"

Mr. H. G. Wells On His Birthday

"LIFE NOT HALF

LONG ENOUGH"

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The covers of the menu cards at a banquet in the Savoy Hotel, Len- don, recently, represented Mr. H. G. Wellsmas seen by a cartoonist— vaulting gleefully over his "seven- tieth mile-stone."

The members of the PEN. Club had met to honeur Mr, Wells at a special birthday dinner. Mr. J. B. Priestley was in the chair; M André Maurois spoke on behalf of Mr. Wells's foreign admirers; Miss G. B. Stern represented, in her own words, "a million Andromedas thanking Perseus for rescuing them from the monster of the Vic- torian Papa"; Professor Jullan Huxley spoke for Science; and Mr.. Bernard Shaw gave a characteris- tic tribute."

"Poor old Wells," said Mr. Shaw as he rose. "He is now going on for eighty. I am going on for ninety...." The guests laughed as he went on to wonder what "Impression of senility, obsolscence and decrepitude" he and Mr. Wella were making on the assembly."

Mr. Wells certainly showed no signs of weariness when he stood at the end of a long evening to ac- knowledge a great outburst of RP- plause.

HARDLY BEGUN

He hated being seventy, he said, and compared himself to a little boy at a lovely party who had been given a lot of toys to play with. and who had spread them on the floor.

"Then comes the nurse," added goa me e x 99 Mr. Wells regretfully. "Now, Mas- ter Bertie,' she says. "It's getting late. Time you began to put away your toys.' I don't want in the least to put away my toys.. I hate the thought of leaving. Life is not half long enough for my taste. Few of my games are nearly finished, and some I feel have hardly begun.”

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Too Much Safety

First Procedure"

Bevere criticism of the presen methods of the Criminal Investiga- tion Department of Scotland Yard, and the suggestion that, in certain cases, the coroner'"'; should be re- placed by un official similar to the Bcottish Procurator Fiscal are made in a book published recently. ("Becrets of Scotland Yard."" The Bodley Head 12s. 8d.)

The Empire la emerging from economic depression with alar ger share in the world's wool ex- port market than it possessed be- fore, according to * survey changes in production and con- sumption of Industrial Abres, and claims sued by the Imperial Economic Committee. states the "Morning Post

During the four years 1932-5 the Empire's share of the wool export market averaged 74.6 per cent.

The corresponding agure fox 1928-8 was 69 per cent. This

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WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY

The author, Mr. Edwin T. Wood- Criminal Investigation Department hall, fa un ex-member of theThe 18th and 19th NOV., 1986

IN COMMENCING Each Day at 2.30 P.M.

to have an

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timate knowledge of its methods. Walle praising the general AT No. 21, WYNDHAM STREET efficiency of the "Yard" he doubts cedure, states the "London Morning OF CHINESE ART CURIOS the entcacy of modern police pro-

A VERY FINE SELECTION Post."

Comprising

Old Porcelain Vases and Jare, Agats Vases, Incense Burners, aia, Carved Ivory Figures, Jade and

"It must be admitted," he writes, that the past five years constitute amounts to a gain of 8.1 per cent., compared with the pre-CID. It is a deplorable fact that a black spot in the history of the depression figure, quite a sub- stantial advance having regard London have been committed; In

in Ave years over 20 murders in ettie

to the large share of this market

held. Since 1928, the Arst year covered

by the survey, the Empire's wool exports have risen from 1,317,4 to

Carved

Horn Ornaments, Old Bronze Incense Burners and Vases, Embroidery, etc., alo.

also

which the Empire has always of which have Scotland Yard

got their man

"There is too much safety first' about modern police procedure: and this can hardly be when we remember the public Tables, Teapoys and other wondered at Blackwood Cabinets, Joss outcry in more than one big esse

Furniture against the questioning of materia; witnesses, when it has even been

and hinted that Scotland Yard on occasion resorted to third-degree Some Very Handsome Inlaid methods,

Lacquered Screens

1,538.8 millons of pounds weight. Those of the rest of the world have fallen from $30.1 to 553 millions of pounds. Production in South Africa has fallen heavily in re- cent years owing to drought, «

"The increasing wool production

has been freely going into con- of the world." the report adds.

sumption, and even difficult sea- sons have ended with compara- tively small stock remaining in producing countries."

"UNFORTUNATE TENDENCY"

"I am afraid that to-day there is an unfortunate tendency to rely TERMS: A CUSTOMERY. too much upon prolonged cross- examination, first by the police and then by some prosy and in- experienced coroner. to supply needed

# PROGRESS OF RAYON

Interesting light is also thrown by the survey on the textile deveinster lopment of Japan.

Japan has supplanted the United Kingdom as the world's largest im~ porter of raw cotton; she is the second largest consumer of cotton; and in eight years has more than doubled her consumption of wool.

In the period reviewed Japan has He talked about his games-frat not only retained her place as the "game of encyclopaediam." the world's chief supplier of raw They needed "Infinitely more powerful Sortim encylopaedism-a manufacturer

silk. but has abo become a large real modern sort, which could as semble knowledge, correlate ideas; make them more widely accessible, and so hold the mind of this dis- traught world together:"

"BOUT WITH TALKIES" Film-making next: "I've tried to make the talkies say something: So far I've not proved very com- petent at that..... All the same, I'd like a few years yet to have Just one more bout with it."

Then novels. Mr. Welly said that he would like to write another Govel or 30. When writers were young, they delighted to play with possibility, to write fantasies and vivid impressions. This was the time for short short stories, quick short stories.

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nee in murder trials, on patient astective work ne rigorous following up of clue and facts,"

Continuing Mr. Woodhall sug- gests that the "antiquated" pro- cedure of the corner's court should be overhauled.

"In place of the coroner, whose office, though of civic utility, is an anachronism in the case of unsolved crimes. I would sugest the appointment of an official similar to the Scottish Procurator Fiscal, who acts very much, ilke the An outstanding development Procurateur-General in France. during the period under review He should appear in the role has been the increased produc-

a public investigator, and tion of rayon.

export.

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HYPNOTISM TO CURE INFATUATION

U.S. Professor's Success

The successful use of hypnotism for another's wife was described to rid a young man of infatuation

by Professor H. W. Martin, 05 Home paper. Emory College, Atlanta, states a

He said the experiment was car- ried out on the advice of a doctor, and he warned his hearers that it would only be effective in certain

World production his qualifications should be legal, instances. The subject had sought

in 1928 was estimated at 360 mil-medical and criminological. It lon lb. and in 1935 at nearly 950 should be his duty to sift and million b. Rayon has definitely sort but the evidence, and his established itself as a textile fibre. should be the ruling as to whether The United States is the largest the suspected person should go 'to producer, and Japan takes second a higher court for trial" place.

MENTAL DEFECTIVES In the absence of consumption statistics in the chief manufactur- that all former mental defectives Further, Mr. Woodhall advocates

ing countries, the extent to which discharged as

cured should be rayon has been substituted for watched and, as soon as their other textile dbres remains pro-actions become suspect 'should be blematical, it is stated, but it is again put under proper control significant to note that three of the largest producers of rayon, Japan, Italy and Germany are countries which are particularly dependent on foreign sources of supply for their textile raw ma- terials.

"As we grow up." be continued, "We become more and more in- terested in real character, our own and other people's. and we write about personal reactions. The short stories grow long. Few of us have any original political sense of our own until we are round about

"In the most vital human con- torty, and then we incline to the cerns there is no right or left at novel of affairs. Each phase in all. There is no left science-in development produces novels after spite of the desperate attempts of Mr. Wells paused. "Yet," he sent Marxism as a scientific philo- proceeded, "I do not see why af-sophy. Science: marches on and ter seventy one shouldn't attempt marches on, neither to the left nor the novel of experience and re-

the right-but marches straight flection. · I would like to-if only forward. And the real artist, too, nurse will let me."

goes straight forward. The free activities of the human mind rise Mr. Wells passed on to complain supreme above all political con- of the narrowness of our outlook | siderstions"

Its kind."

OUR NARROW OUTLOOK

on life, and to describe as "one of

the most preposterous of our pre-

some of our Red friends to repre-

AIMLESS ADOLESCENT --- Three-quarters of the present

rent human limitations" that so: trouble of the world. Mr. Wella as- few of us escaped being "either serted, was due to the moral and what is called left or right."

"We are." he said. "ike people travelling along a road that has been banked too steeply. All the time we tend to slew around Into this gutter or that. And both gut ters, both the left and the right, are full now of blood and wasted life."

He wished we could put "an ARE INVITED TO INSFECT OUR absolute ban on two “damned

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"Maybe we might do better if we could bring ourselves to think upon. our Angers instead of always think | fag upon a side. Then perhare we

"With such a system at work," he 'states, "I guarantee, that the 'unsolved murder would become the exception and not, as so un- fortunately it is at the present time, the rule."

In this interesting book Mr. Woodhall traces the history of the police force in London from the

wood, who lived in the reign of Arst "investigator"-Francis Fleet-

Queen Elizabeth-through the Bow

to end his infatuation, but he ap- peared powerless to combat it,

"When he first came to my office 1 would not have been surprised to see him jump through the win- dow, glass and all, be was so ner- vous and irritable:"

trance, gave him a good lecture The professor put him into a and succeeded in eliminating moral connict. After hypnotic treat- ment he was quite a different in- dividual"

STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY lege was not conducting a clinic. Professor Martin said the Col-

but was interested in hypnotism as a study in psychological principles He still believes it is a science with a bright future "when It is better understood and appre- ciated."

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He said the broken infatuation showed that hypnotism can elimin ate inclinations or tendencica not

Street runners, down to the pre too thoroughly established. sent day. In addition he describes the work of Scotland Yard and discusses various cases of the past,

PEER'S SON DIES

Thrown While Riding

In Steeplechase

Thrown from his horse at Tann- to Steeplechases the Hon. Copte- stone Bampfylde,nly son and heir of Lord Poltimore, of Court Hall North Malion, Devon, Taunton recently,

died st

Lord and Lady Poltimore were

The individual cannot be forced to be hypnotised, but if he is will- tng to co-operate with the opera tor he does not have to believe in hypnotiam to be brought under its Influence. Hypnotism, will leasen the will power of the subject only If practised repeatedly on the same individual. The chief danger is that it will become a habit."

فرید

THE KING BUYS A POLICE HORSE

Cherry Grove, formerly a patrol horse of the Salford City Pollee, has been bought by the King for £150.

The Chief Constable of Salford, Major C. V. Godfrey, reported to

Intellectual confusions of the aim less adolescent. That was not the fault of the 'd-the old knew no better. It was the stress of change, There had not been time to produce a new and convincing education fast enough to meet our needs. present at their son's bedside when

* "Seven-sights... of the hideous | he died, " diting that is going on now all. When the inquest was openen, over the world,” he said, “is be- | Reginald Husbands attributed the Balford Watch Committee re- ing done by youngsters--by peo- | death to cerebral hemorrhage cently that a cheque for that. pie" well under 30—youngsters | following fracture caused

by amount had been received, The horse was noticed by the Master fed mentally on 'state' doğmas or | the fall 'not fed at all.

..Lord

who gave of the Horse at the Royal Show st Only a great free intellectual and evidence of identication, remark-Bristol this year. moral drive-an educational ency- |-ed:"-"1". was told that his horse Cherry Grove, a chestnut gelding clopaedism can restore the shat- jumped very big and jumped him standing over 16 hands, has been tered morale of our race and give off. The home did not fall, but an-

at the Royal stables at Windsor for a definite direction to its disorder-other horse came on the offside some time. ed will."

and struck him with his hind foot

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Poltimore,

'But, he insisted pain, distress, when he was on the ground.”. perplexity and pressure did not The Hon. C. Bampfylde was a Regtmental Challenge Cup spell defeat Monstrous and piti- | well-known "rider to hounds and Hawthom Hill last April, might not muddle up anarchist fal things happen, but the spirit of at point-to-point races He was The new heir to the title is Lord undicalism with State Boclaliemi, | civilisation was never more alive educated at Eton, and was a lente- | Foldmore's brother. the Hon. Fascism with Torgiam or the New nor, thought more active than at nant, in the Royal Horse Guards | Arthur Bempfylde, who is 53, and Deal,

the present time.

He won the Royal Horse Gnords lives in Kenya,