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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1928.

LABOUR AND "FREE TRADE.

STONE FIGURE THAT SHOCKS SWEATED GOODS AND LOW

OXFORD:

Oxford, Oct. 6. Oxford, the town of stately statuary, is frankly puzzled-even n little shocked-by the now carving on the extension of Christl College.

Corpus

With dramatic suddenness there has appeared among the angels the sculptured head and shoulders of the college President, Dr. P. 8. Allen, complete with stone spec- tacles and mortar-board.

True, like the angels,

tho carving has wings, but they are the wings of tho don's butterfly collar.

As I stood fu Merton-street inspecting the Agure

two passers-by paused.

"Good gracious," said one; "If that's not Dr. Allen!"

WAGES.

DO CARS CRAMP EDUCATION?

HEADMASTER HITS OUT

AT PARENTS.

"I have a suspicion, in fact, I am almost sure, that the number of people who aspire to a univer sity education for their boys is not ao large as it was."

Birmingham, Oct. 4, The issue of Safeguarding was raised in a striking form at the Labour Party Conference this afternoon.

An earnest plea from a Labour This was a striking sentence in candidate that the Party should a challenging speech by Dr. Arthur drop its support of Free Trade Chilton, headmaster of the City of drew from hir. Ramsey MacDonald London School at the annual prize a declaration, not in favour of distribution by the Lord Mayor Safeguarding or Protection, but recently, in favour of prohibition of tho "I recognise this with great con- import of sweated goods.

corn," added Dr. Chilton, "not only on account of the school honours list, but on account of the boys themselves.

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The candidate who raised the question was Mr. Paul Reed, a It has already aroused Interesting the Bodmin

scholarly young man who is fight

Division of

"It is our duty to give a boy in the town (as reported in Cornwall. He told the Conference the highest education of which he to-day's Daily Chronicle), but it that on this matter their policy is capable. If he is good enough will excite considerably more when was indistinguishable from that of for the university he ought to go. the undergraduates come up next the Liberals, who thought Free to the university. week.

Trade descended on England from "To take him away from school Heaven in the Nineteenth Cen-at the age of 17 and put him in 1 What favourite son received a tury, and must be maintained as some sheltered occupation where coat of many colours? (Bib.) a religion,

you know at least where he stands, 6 What is the technical name for Ho said that the report of thela wrong and weak.

near-sightedness" Executive left them open to all the that school to the universities hud 12 To employ.

The boys who had gone up from 11 Figure of an elliptical shape. unmitigated horrors of Free

never been well off, he went on: 14 North American rail (bird). "Let us be willing to deduco If the boy was good enough to go 15 Fishing bag. That Is Oxford's criticism. It principles from experience." He to the university he could provide 16 Unclouded. is unorthodox-and what is Oxford said: "Our own agricultural policy for himself by obtaining a scholar-18 Drone bee... if not orthodox?

19 Variant of "a." Dr. Allen declines to discuss the boards, and that is certainly not

proposes to set up import control ship.

20 The roof of the mouth (pl.). figure, or to explain its signif-Free Trade. The Executive has There are some of us who can 23 Upper human Imb.

"We are living in a material age.

22 Negative. overlooked the change that has afford care, but who cannot afford 26 To attempt to find something in taken place in the attitude of the education. Labour Party, and unless this be made." neille is grasped, a mistake will

"Ahem, a bit unconventional," commented the other, as they turn-Trade. ed away.

cance.

The Jess said ahout the matter the better," he told me.

On Site of Brew-House. Oxford does not quarrel with the remainder of the decorative work.

24 Evil.

the dark. "These are people who believe 27 What shepherd boy did Samuel that they are acting in the beat 20 A billiard rod.

anoint as the future King (Blb.) Trades Unions have supported interests of their boya by taking 31 To scatter hay. There in a head and shoulders Steel Confederation are consider educated, and putting them in 36 Hud terror of.

safe guarding, and the Iren and them away from school half 33 Exclamation of inquiry. of Bishop Foxe, founder of the ing it now. Suppose we establish sheltered jobs, College, the 400th anniversary of nationalised coal industry and

38 Masculine pronoun. whose death is being commemorat-get decent conditions for the from people who tell them that the 42 To decay.

"These people get their ideas 20 Bronze or copper. ed this week, and there is miners, and then we

41 Satiated. beehive, to recall one

find that of the Polish coat is being imported be floor is littered with university 43 Who was founder's fvourite metaphors-- that students should be as busy Federation would have no hesita-ot met a man wife had been to 45 Two fives.

cause it is cheaper. The Miners' failures. Rubbish! I have never

hope that a Labour Government Liou in asking for Prohibition, and the university and regretted it."

as bees.

The extension has taken the place of old brew-house, where for would not hesitate ju protecting centuries the college ale brewed.

their conditions of life.

was

ROYAL INVESTITURE. ORDER OF THE GARTER FOR EMPEROR OF JAPAN.

Tokyo, Nov. 2.

LETTER GOLF.

Protecting Wages.

We cannot ask our people to worship the Socialist god in home affairs and the laiser faire mum- mon in external affairs."

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Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was taken by surprise at this outburst, and pleaded that this was an in- convenient moment to have raised It is learned on good authority the question without notice. that Prince Henry is heading a "If there is mission to Japan early in 1929 to mental change in the attitude the to be any funda- present the Order of the Garter to Party has taken up hitherto," he the Emperor. It will be recalled said, "it must be on a resolution that Prince Arthur of Connaught that has been before the affiliated was similarly commissioned after bodies." Ho pleaded that the the Russo-Japanese war to bestow Labour policy was the Geneva the Garter on the then Emperor polley of free trade, and that the Meiji.--Reuter,

only way for British Labour with its high standards to meet the competition of foreign labour with lower standards was by Interna- tional agreement. If that did not succeed, then neither Safe. guarding nor Protection would do.

I would be the duty of the Labour Government to call un international conference in order that foreign countries might raise their standards of Hving to ours. "No capitalist country which has adopted the polley of protec-

jon has solved the social ills | which affect us-now," said Mr. |MacDonald. "Experiments which have been carried on in safeguard- ing have been done in relation to specific trades, and in such nari, row fields well within the Free Trade area, that no honest or sefentific.conclusion can be drawn from them at all. Mr. Baldwin himself in 1923 said that safe- guarding was merely pottering along.”

It's time to start thinking about CLASS ROOMS again -especially If you want to par to-day's hole.

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- me or letter golf is to change one word to another and

do it in par, a given number of "The Labour policy is not the, strekes, Thus to change COW to Liberal polley; but where we get Hen, in three strokes, COW, sweated goods produced under HOW HEW HEN,

2-~You

can change only one letter at time,

3-You must have a complete word, of common usage, for each junip. Slang words and abbrovia- tions don't count.

4-The order of lettora cannot be changed.

One solution is printed on an- other page.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

WELL I GUESS WE BOTH HADA PRETTY CLOSE

CALL, DIDNT WE? I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO JOIN

US ON OUR EXPEDITION= BENY GUESTS!

YES-NE OWE OUR LIVES) TO THESE TWO CHILDREN] AND THE MONKEY-ILL STAY WERE DOING MY MISSONARY WORK AMONG THESE PEOPLE, AND YOU GO ON WITH YOUR EXPEDITION= 74ANKS VERY ANUCIA, BUT NY DUTY IS HERE, AND I MUST STAY!

such conditions that our people cannot compete with them with- out lowering wages, the remedy la not tariffs or safeguarding, but to keep them out altogether."

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