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Power of Rich and

Vulgar People. People who are rich, who give great dinners, who are extravag- ant or ostentatiously vulgar those are the powerful people in those modern times..

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1024;

BOMB-THROWING

PASTIME.

THE RANKS IN THE "SEVENTIES."

Sir William Robertson's' Reminiscences.

Portugal As A Customer. As Great Britain takes about a

Bir Field-Marshal

William third of the axports of Portugal,

greater Robertson, speaking to a large and supplies oven, a proportion of hor wants, the well-audienco at the Working Man's bolng of that country is,a mattor College, Crowndale-road, St. Pan- of concorn to the Old Country.

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cras, recontly gave a decription High Class Barbers-Sanitary of life in the ranks of the British Army 47 years ago.

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When they want appreciation they go and buy honours-thoir namok are familiar in the hon- our list. That is the first as kaciation they have ever had with anything that is honourable. So says Britain's Labour Fro-Credit for this is given to the late votoran, took an intenso dislike

Prime Minister. Sor. Antonio to him. The old soldiers in his! Maria da Silva, whose tenure of regiment wore a hard-drinking. office is a record under the hard-sweating lot, and enlistment at that time was looked upon as Republic.

In the latest Consular report from Lisbon, issued by the

Sir William Robertson said he Department of Overseas Trade, it is noted that more than two joined the Army in 1877, and he yours have passed without any had a stroke of bad luck, as tho public disturbance. colonel, fat old Crimean serious

mier,

"The problem of poverty is the degradation of men and women," said the Prime Ministor in an address at the National Council Free Churches in Brighton last month on "The Social Implic- ations of Christianity."

Mr. Ranay MacDonald had an enthusiastic recoption from an audience of 3,000 in the groat Dome.

"Today, as in ovory goner.

.

ation," he said, we are challeng ad to apply our Christian faith to our social ambitions." problem

The first great thoy had to face was that of poverty. The problem. of poverty was not the problem of inequality. "I know people on ormously rich who are abjectly poor," he observed,

Conditions favourable to stable government sia improving, but bombs sometimes more noisy that dangerous-are still thrown on the slightest provocation, and with impunity, for even when mada conviction arrests seldom follows."

are

bringing disgrace on the recruit's faniily. The basin used by the soldier served many purposes; in the morning it was used as a shaving-pot, in the middle of the day it served as a buer-mug, in the evening as a coffoo-oup, and at night it was used to mix the In July, 1923, an agitator, who pipeclay with which the soldiers Mon who cleaned thoir belts. had boon caught making bombe, went sick got their medicine and who, to escape arrost, had about 36 hours after they reported fatally shot a poliooman, was sick. There were no nurses in acquitted by a Lisbon jury on the the Army then, the nursing boing grounds of justifiablo homicide,

carried out by the hospital orderly, On anotheroccasion bombs were who slept in the room, who thrown at the judges of the Social generally had too inuch boor, and Defence Tribunal who had con-whose attention to his patients victed cortain Communists. The was regulated by the tips he escapod, and the recoived from them. (Laughter.) aggrossors tribunal was closed. There is no captial punishment is Portugal.

Thoro is widespread illiteracy When people want apprecia-in Portugal. Threo out of four of tion what do they do?" he asked. the population of six millions can They go and buy honours now neither read nor write. National who for the first time in their lives. schools exist for those Thoir names are familiar in the choose to attend a number which for various reasons, including honours list in a nowspaper. That is the first association they prejudico and superstition, is very have over had with anything small.

that is honourable. (Laughtor.) People who are rich, who have nune of that linor inner sense of the gentleman, are too often the powerful people of these times of which we are su rashly inclined

To-day in nine cases out of ten they valued each other for mero material possessione.

to boast.

This age instead of subduing nuture to man was subduing man to naturo..

"This is amatorialistic ago, and there is no use in talking hunibug about it." deblared Mr. MacDonald, amid cheers..

SCOTTISH SABBATH.

"There is," he continued, "over indulgonce in recreation to-day, "There is an incapacity "to"spond"

a quiet Sunday

But other influencos are tending to develop the mental outlook and charactor of the people. The cinoma has become the chief recreation of the humble town dwollers, and football 20 thousands of Portuguese youths

is ainiost a religion.—Er.

many

Socialist faith. I am noither as hummed of it nor ufraid of it."

As the material ombodiment of the spiritual conception of unity in community it was a philosophy, comprehensive thought, and it was based upon the Gospels,

a system, L

Nations from the bogiining had been trying to secure security in big club. The human brain had been exercising its ingenuity

for centuries

to develop aeroplane out of a big club."

"I am amazed at so many of my friends saying the old Scottish Sabbath was a burden. Some times 1 cannot observe it, but I would like to see a state of It had done so, but they were society in which oyory man and just as insecure with an aero- woman proferred the old Scottish plane as they were with the big Sunday to the modern Fronch ona. | club. (Chears.)

You cannot do much with people who must be amused-and- entertained by somebody else, by a gramophone or something else, and who have not the capacity to spend the time profitably with thumselves.

We are losing some of what really human value is.

We are soaking far too much aftor superficialities, gold, braid, things hanging from the lapel of your coats, right honourables, wrong

which occasionally are dishonourables.

What the world is now suffering from is that we have not the courage to go right down to the sources of avils, instead of patching here and there. take us a little longer time and require moro patience, but lot us go at the big thing.

It may

"I am a lazy man," said Mr. MacDonald. "I never do a stroke of work that I can avoid. That is why one finds onosolf so very busy."

I am one of those poople," he continued, "who believe in the

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USING SUCH VULGAR EXPRESSIONS.

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The only security they had- was the security of pursuing the moral categories of justico, fair play, and uprightness. That was not only trus nationally but internationally. (A Voice: What about the cruisers?)

"I wish I could appeal to the interests of this nation," said Mr. MacDonald, "to pursue methods

accordance categories."

in

with moral

We are threatened with strikes,

lockouts, disputes, and distur bances. How childish it all is! How foolish it all ̧is !:-

The two sides have lost con- idence in each other, and they consider the only way to get out of that is to have an occasional fight, which is a loss to everybody.

"Are we to go back to our old ways, our old materialism, our old trust in moro strongth and force?" concluded the Premior. If so, there would be another war; there would be more grief, loss and pain: moro missing of those murks to which they would like to attain. (Choors.)

WHY, TAG!! TM

HORRIFIED TO THINK, YOU WOULD SAY SUCH THINGS! WHERE DID YOU LEARN ALL "THAT' BAD LANGUAGE?

Sir William joined the Army before he was 18, but the sorgeant said he looked a big boy and put his age down as 18 yours and two months. To this day he received telegrams congratulating him on his birthday in November, while it really did not occur until the following January. (Laughter.)

Ho confessed that his first "crime" in tho Army was lotting a prisoner go; his second was lotting: a horse go; and then at Brighton, at a Volunteer review, a man who was under his charge refreshed himself too freely, and his horse ran away with him. The colonal

said to him: "I ani gotting sick C.

of you. First you let a 'man goi. then you let a horso go; now you man and horeu go."

lot

#k

(Laughter.)

Sir William admitted that ho hositated a long time before he took a commission, as he had no топль, which wore private absolutely necessary in a cavalry regiment. He was the first man from the ranks to join the Staff College where he was afterwards! Commandant. The Fiold-Marshal said that a lady who asked him what statesmen most impressed him during the war was much surprised when he replied: "Lord Carson and Mr. John Redmond," (Choers,)

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The Steamship

"KASAM A-" having arrived, Consignoes of Cargo by her aro informed that all. Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Godowns- of Holt's Wharf, whence delivery may bo obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods romain- ing undelivered after 24th. ALarge`stock of Artificial Wreaths in April 1924 will be subject to

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tive not a king.

And kissed then, as a cup FOR H101HOW, PAKHOI AND

Now, whothor brown becomes Thom more than white,

I cannot toll, they are too dour to mo-

Your hands,

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Swooter to smell than blossom- lod hawthorn-troo.

So proud they lie and quiet,; who should gues F

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All broken, olafod and damag ed Goods are to be leftm the Godowns, horo they will ba [oxamined' on any Tuesdays or Fridays between tho hours of 10.45 a.m. and Noon within tho treo storage period of one week."

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