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SEA TRAINING FOR BOYS.

A NATIONAL CORPORATION, The report of the Committee appointed to prepare a draft of a national scheme of training for the sea service" was issued recently.

The Committee recommend George Road, Glasgow, before that National Corporation Sheriff Boyd recently. The in- should he established charged dictment bore that the woman with the duty of supervision and received from various persons administering the scheme of sums of money in connection training for the sea service. Such with the adoption of infants, and training should be confined to that she appropriated this money deck ratings and to prospective to her own use.

While evidence was being heard engine-room ratings and stewards

AUTOCRATIC, SHERIFF.

ATTEMPT TO INTERFERE WITH FREEDOM OF PRESS.

A number of charges of theft i and fraud were brought against Elizabeth Paterson. 200 St.

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Naval Reserve.

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were

who enter the sea service at 16 in the case a slip of paper was

placed years of age.

on the reporters" desk The work afloat, it is stated, hearing the following words: might advantageously be done in "Direction from the Sheriff- vessels provided by the Admiralty Witnesses' addresses not to be and the Admiralty should be published." approached with a view to provid- A little later the Sheriff, turning ing vessels and navigating crews. to the Press representatives, while the Corporation should said he saw that notes contribute towards the cost of being taken. If that went on he running expenses. By this means; would clear the Court. Nothing all the boys trained under the of the case was to appear in the national scheme would be newspapers. encouraged to join the Royal After hearing the evidence the jurg were unanimunus in finding The new Stata institutions the accused guilty on seven

Was should be residential institutions of the charges, and she

months' im with facilities for day boys. The sentenced to six provision of special training of prisonment, not less than six months for boys In a leading article the Glasy w who have attended an ordinary Healt ways: school until 15 or 15 is also re- ! It will strike most rauders that commended for consideration Sherif Boyd has chosen the with the payment of maintenance, wrong century in which to be grants to the parents of diyd som and display his forensic at training institutions or of lies gilts. The case in question was at el mantang selam's who have an ordinary one of frand--indi. given a garantes of their inten-tinguishabis in Helmoral feature- tion to enter the Marcantile from innumerable cases which Maring

Jane reported by the representa- Wake the Con mitt so are optives of the Press without let or posed to the acceptinge of boghintrance in every Court of the from reformatory schools, they land every week-day of the year. express the opinio that bogat no point did it suggest any of from industrial schools should be those features which sometimes laclulet within the scope of the impel Judges to prefer a hearing schem, whether they receive in camera a preference in which their education at industrial the public and their recognised "schools or are transferred to representatives readily acquiesce.

other training authorities.

There was nothing in it therefor

It is urged that the co-operation to invite from Sheriff Boyd the of local education authorities autocratic ruling (1) that wit- should be secured and theness es addresses roust not be machinery of the public element.published, and (2) that if the re- ary school utilised for the porters continued to take cotes. recruiting of boys for training. the Court would be cleared in The boys under training should order that nothing of the case be apprenticed to persons or should appear in the newspapers. bodies appointed by the Corpora- The learned Sheriff must under- tion up till the time when they stand that this sort of thing won't are entitled to be rated as able do. The question of the freedom seamen. A boy's rate of pay of the Press was fought and during his Erst year at sea should settled a good many years before ba 25 percent, of an able seaman's Sheriff Boyd was born, and if wages, and in the second year any homuncule, claiming an inch and until his indentures ter- or two of stature from the Bonch minate,50 percent, ofthose wages. on which he sits, adventures to For boys in the sea-fishing suggest that it must be fought service, it is suggested that full over again, he is making, a time education up to 16 years of grave mistake. A Court of Law age should be provided under the does not exist for the covert scheme, if, and to the extent to administration of justice; at all which, the authoritative views of events it shall not exist in Glas- the industry justify this course, gow so long as a free Prass and that such application of the can defend the rights of the principles of the report to the public. case of such boys should be left

to the Corporation in consulta-

tion with the industry.

£4,000 LEATHER ROBBERIES..

Thefts of "leather and skins

The Committee also recom- valued at nearly £4.000 were re- mend the establishment of acently investigated at the Tower Abraham national system of after-cars, Bridge Police Courts.

Reuben Roshinsky and that local education authorities and should be approached with a view Joseph Smith, boot and shoe to their giving financial assist managers; Joseph Squibbs, a ance, and that the shipowers carman; and Richard Brennan, a contribution should be based on dea'er, were charged with break- the total cost of the scheme, and ing into premises in Thomas- should be fixed at 25 per cant. of, street, S.E., and stealing £2,333 of leather and skins. the capital cost. and current ex-worth

Smith was also charged with penses of the scheme.

The opinion was expressed that taking property valued at £600 Commerciai-street' es- the sympathy, and, if possible, the from a financial assistance, of seamen's tablishment and £900 worth of orphanages should be obtained, fleather belonging to the Ministry and the co-operation of ship of Munitions. Brennan was dis- owners' and officers and seamen's charged, and the others sent-for

trial orgsdisations must be secured.

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Now that the cheering of the crowds has died away it is possible to study from the practical point of view the effect of President Poincare's visit to Great Britain.

The visit 35 intended to emphasize and to strengthen in after-war politics that Franco- British union which had been sealed in action on the battle front. Thanks to the increased. efficiency of democratic expres- sion, M. Poincare has been able, as I have the best reason to know, to realize how cordial and how deep-seated is the feeling of admiration in Great Britain for France and all that Frenchmen have done throughout the war. Ás the King and M. Poincare drove through the streets of London than once the King drew M. Poincare's attention to a "Vive Poincare!" which could only have been uttered by a Frencbmas. The President could notice too the complete amalgam of all those French voices and the British voices of welcome throughout the route from the Palace to the station where he took train for Glasgow. To him it represented in civilian life the unity in action at the front of the French and the British soldier.

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It is in the welcome given to him in London and in the trem- endous warmth of his reception by the youth of Scotland that M. Poincare sees the solid popular sympathy which is going strengthen that Anglo-French friendship which was so sincere during the war, It is safe to say that nothing gave your guest greater pleasure during his visit tban the official statement that all political objections to the Channel Tuncel had been remov- ed. It is hard to imagine that military opposition can still delay the construction of this essential link of the League of Nations. which France will take as a very sincere earnest of our trust and friendship.

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international visit M. Poincare will pay as President of the French Republic, and when its history comes to be written it may he found that it was not the least important. In three months' ime M. Poincare will give up the Elysee to his successor. But, unlike his predecessors, he does not intend to withdraw into the Indeed, of oblivion. shades be considers that it is much more in keeping with the democratic spirit of the times that a Presi- dent who still enjoys vigorous menbood should return to bear his part in the political struggle M. Poincare was of his country. Provincial Councillor of the Meuse and Senator for that Department when he was elected to the highest office of the Re public.

Constitutionally he is debarred from holding any office save that of President, and when he seeks to re-enter political life he will again have to go through the the turmoil of election. The Sen- ate elections will be over a few days before his term as President expires. He will therefore bave to wait either.for a vacancy or for the creation of a vacancy before re- turning to public life. For near ly eight years as Prime Minister and as President he has been denied what is to him the supreme pleasure of travel. He intends to profit by his enforced absence. from public affairs to see as much of the world as possible before the bolted doors of politics: close round him again.

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Great Britain. He hopes to be able to revisit 8entland with the leisure of a private individual.

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