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DAYLIGHT

NOVEMBER 11, 1927.

VOTES FOR YOUNG WOMEN.

HOME SECRETARY ON PREMIER'S PLEDGE.

the few reviews willing to open Its pages to the subject, by Dr. Morlet, who has retained the ex- cavations ́ and the cataloguing in his own hands. These reports have produced two schools of còn:! troversialists, the believers, or Glozelists, and the unbelievers, or NO CLIMBING DOWN, anti-Glozelists. The Glozolists

Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, the Homo count among their number some Secretary, speaking recently at The site of the so-called pre-of the most distinguished mem- Oban, said that in a recent specch historic discoveries at Glozel, near bera of the Academy as well as at Dunrobin" he said something Vichy, over which a violent con-eminent foreign prehistorians and which it appeared and ruffled the troversy has been raging for some anthropologists. But they are not dignity of Mr. Lloyd George. months between rival schools of all agreed among themselves. He regretted that anything he archwologists, has been declared The controversy is waged chiefly had said should have made a national historical monument. round the inscribed urns and him, as a Liberal, feel unhappy. M. Herriot, in His capacity as tablets, and still rages fiercely as Surely nothing he (Sir William) Minister of Education, has sent a to whether the writings are could say could make the Liberals letter to Dr. Morlet, who has been geo-Cretan, Phoenician, or crude any more unhappy than they were foremost in conducting the local Latin.

(laughter)-the once great Liberal excavations, informing him that Some Glozelists further assert Party-principles gone, party M. Peyreni, keeper of prehistoric that the urns, owing to the nar-smashed. museum and a member of the His-rowness of their openings, cannot At the next General Election. torical Monuments Commission, have served for domestic pur-whenever it took place. Mr. Lloyd would henceforth be placed in con- pusest that the crude representa- George would easily be able to take- trol of the site, and that he would tions of death curved on themhis" followers in a moderately sized be assisted by M. Champion, head indicate a sepulchral-use; and that charabane, and he would not be of the technical deparement of the the writings may be ritual invoca- surprised if they didn't come back National Museum. From now on, tions for the pence of the dead. in a four-wheel cab. (Laughter.) Others deny all these statements What would the great Gladstone say all further discoveries will be and offer different explanations. if he saw the Liberal Party of to- made by these experta.

But this is only one aspect of day? Glozel la a hamlet a few miles the controversy. Their. Interne They were told that at the next to the south of Vichy, standing eine disputes are overshadowed by election there would be 500 amid woodlands and poor pas the flat. declaration of the anti-candidates for the party. "I tell Lurage farmed by a few peasants Glozelists that the whole thing is you that the body of Gladstone who have wrung a living from it a fraud, that the tombs have been would turn in his grave if he were as only French peasants can. In deliberately constructed, the urns told where the money that goes to March, 1924-all the statements manufactured for the purpose, the run those candidates came from." are reproduced with reserve--one implements surreptitiously im-The money, they all knew, came the course of ploughing cane skilfully ns to period-the whole Lloyd George, and his fund, so-call-. M. Dus-e. was a rotier one. "If you can- upon a large stone which he duly thing in fact ""faked." levered out with a crowbar. Why saad. the leading authority on not get a peerage without buying 11. had remained undetected epigraphy, himself a member of it," added the Home Secretary throughout generations of farm-the Academy of Inscriptions, has with heat. "don't get it at all.""

Dealing with the position of ing is not explained. But at some declared that there can be 10

in politics, the Home later stage, after a great, many doubt whatever in the mind of any Women stones had been levered up, there honese expert that the "Alphabeti. Secretary said there was a con- appeared on the scene Dr. A.form characters" are impudent ference of the Conservative Party. at Cardiff this week and he saw Marlet, an antiquary and authori- forgeries and

seme good Conservatives had put ty on prehistoric remains, living quite recently. at Vichy, and in April 1925, he It is at this stage that the Minis. down a resolation in opposition to had entered into a sort of parter of Falucation has stepped in the declared policy of the Prime nership with M. Fradet for makingNo doubt a very little examination Minister to give votes to women

at twenty-one. They had special excavations.

from the outside will settle the absurd position to-day that a According to Dr. Morlet, whose question whether Glozeliam is a viewa found support among a con-haax or not. If it is, it is a com-woman of twenty-one who had not a vote could enter the House of siderable body of learnqi menplete and extremely, skilful one.

Commons, elected by other men and whe interesteil themselves in the Professor G. Elliott Smith, in

women. The opposition agita- matter among them M. Salomon a letter to the Times, writes:

tion had been started by a few Reinach, Dr. Van Jennep, MM. Dr. Morlet's discoveries this Mayer, Esperandicu, Loth, de summer seem to have put new dif newspapers in the South to their

discredit. Laburde, Viehnot. Butavand, Sculties in the path of those who

Short skirts or long skirts, who Seahors Leite de Vasconcellos and pretend that the Glazel collection was to say that women of twenty- Mendes-Correa, and Dr. Bjorn), is the work of some practical joker one did not know as much about the site is a burial place of some whe denied himself the satisfac politics as a boy of twenty-one? powerful prehistoric tribe formtion of seeing the effects of his The Conservative Party Was ing perhaps a link between Palmcfforts.

nothing if it was not democratic.. lithic and Neolithic man. Two At the meeting of the Institut and he said to his friends, ot trenches with loosely-lab-f' square International d'Anthropologie in Cardiff that the Premier was stones capable of taking a human Amsterdam a fortnight ago Pro- piedzesi, to the hilt in the measure body are understood to have been fessor Mentés-Correa showed me of Justice to women. He

the unearthed and they are thought to casts of inscribed taldets (closely Home Secretary) was also pledged reveal faint traces of human resembling those found at Glozel to the measure, and they were not remains. The tribe (this is on found in a Portuguese dolmen. going to climb down.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, 1927. of the farmers, numed Fradet, in ported to the site somewhat un- from the sale of honours by Mr.

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