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18, 1933.
NOTES OF THE DAY THE INSIDE STORY OF
HONKING BAN
Paris has an almost universal res putation for being noisy and for staying up late, or rather carly,
THE TITHE WAR
The Very Idea!
THESE MONSTERS Dy Eddie "Frankenstein" Kelly
HERE at lasts the truth
of this matter, the cold-
What is this tithe trouble, the social and spirituni leader of townsmen are asking. Here are his flock, stands by and sees his in the morning. Yet how many
the facts.
parishioners, fighting with fista other cities with more enviable r
Tithe was the tax paid by the and sticks to prevent their goodn putations in, these respects could match the ordinance issued recent people in the Middle Ages to sup- and chattels being taken for tithe ly. by the Paris municipal authori-port the Church-one-lanth. of to pay his stipend. Scores of par- drawn, unvarnished, honest- the produce of all land and labour, sons have been booed down the to-goodness, see-that-wet-see given in kind to the local parson in village streets for not interfor-that-dry, cross-your-heart- services which he dispensed.
return for the education and sucial ing.
In Parliament this tithe ques-and-spit-on-your-brow truth,
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So many rumours have been current lately regard...
tles, which advances from half an hour after midnight to 11 p.m. the time after which it is forbidden to sound any automobile horn or airen
In addition, all the institutions tion is, unhappily, rogarded as take it or leave it. of any sort? The noise "dead-lno" had originally been fixed at I a.m., of the Established Church received nobody's business because it cute but Parisians protested that this title. But when Henry VIII raid-right across party politics. kept them up too late, and the baned the monasteries at the "Dissolu.. on honking is now being applied two hours carlior. After 11 o'clock, motorists must now signal by flash Ing their headlights. The measure is part of the anti-noise campaign which, though it is still far from making Paris a city of silence, has HK$3,400 cartainly lessened nocturnal noises
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The Parfe order certainly sug- 4.500 gests a method by which a little additional peace might be provided in Hongkong for residents in the HK$2,940 centre of
the City, who have a 2,940 heap of grievances stored up against the drivers of public vehicles. Noise in the day-time is difficult to control. At night, res
tion," described so adequately in history text-books, ho transforrod their privileges of tithe-owning to his friends. We nro still suffering from the effects of sixteenth-cen- tury graft.
a
The chairman of Queen Anne'sing monsters that have been Bounty in George Middleton. He seen ancaking around Loch Ness a man the farmers cannot and other uncivilized parts of
the world that the Telegraph, in- understand.
An ox-Labour M.P., he retired the interests of aclence, has from active politica two years decided to clear up the mystery.
Estates
ago, after being appointed First No one is more capable of So today we have the ecclesias- Ecclesiastical
Commis-
gathering information about mona- tical tithe-owners-Darsons all aloner at a salary of £1,200 a
ters than that brilliant young over the country, whose interests your (with a pension on retire-writer, Mr. Edward Kelly, and he are looked after by Queen Anne's ment).
an organisation which This is his defence of the tithe has been assigned to the job. Bounty, collects and distributes ecclesias- law.
"We are virtually the trustees tical tithes and lay tithe-owners,
to thousands of incumbents, and University colleges, church chari
their vory Ivelihood depends on tica and privato persons, who re-
the success of our efforts to ceive a sort of feudal contribution
In exchange for collect the tithe rent-charge. from farmers nothing at all.
HONGKONG HOTELtriction is easily possible. A hint. Lay tithe-owning rights have
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1933.
TITHES
might be given, for instance, to the Fire Brigade. Clanging balls and syrens are a very doubtful neces- sity at three o'clock in the mor- ning. There may be a few people who appreciate the alarm and tumble into a dressing-gown to see the sight. But the vast majority would be happier to learn of the outbreak for the first time in the newspaper next day. And when the clanging is equally raucous on the return journey, no-one has a good word to say, though we have heard some bad ones.
THE WALLACE THESIS
been bought and sold, during last | conturies, like mining royalties or any other form of medieval pro- porty.
Queen Anne's Bounty receives- or budgets to receive-aver £2,- 000.000 a year from British agri- tltho-owners culture. The lay gather over £1,000,000.
£3,000,000 in
this Most of exacted from farming landa in the Southern counties. Tithes are high there because the payments are based on the corn and hop growing valuation of 1838, when prices wore sky-high.
"Ours is a thankless task; for if we are lenient to the farmer who really cannot pay, some poor parson has to go short in consequence. We have to strike a balance of goodwill.
"In fact, farmers who bought | their land since the war should have nothing to complain of at all, for, if they had any business sense at all they would have had the capital value of the titho deducted from the value of the Innd.
And most of them did. "A man who paid, say, £3,000 less for his land in consideration of tithe rent charge upon it has no reason to refuse to pay tithe. He ate his cake when he bought his farm, and expects to go on
It matters not if the farmer is forced, by the economic depres-having a cut at it! sion, to turn to pasturage the land which grew profit-making corn 100, years ago. If he grows nothing on it at all-leaves it fallow OF keeps a couple of goats-the fixed tithe payment has to be paid.
"If the Government abolished tithe or even amended it in principle-then it would have to reform all property laws. For tithe is a property.
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During his investigations Mr
has visited all manner of Kelly strango places, and his reports are printed below.
Inverclachinafaraig, Dec. 1. For three whole days we have wandered from pub to pub, secking Information about the Monster. We obtained our first clue just after we finished off our last toddle-but perhaps we had botier make oursell clear.
To many of our young readers." that word Monster will convey little or nothing. Married men, of course, will know instantly what wo mean, but to the younger. generation we want to explain that a Monster is nothing more or less than a monster.
When we obtained our first clue. and they threw us out of the pub, we went and Interviewed Mr. Sandy. McTosh, who, it had been reported, had often seen the Monster.
Mr. McTash explained that he In his annual report on agricul-
the prehistorie. Invariably Baw tural conditions to the President. Mr. Henry Wallace, Secretary of
animal after three swigs of a There has been bitter strife in the U.S, Agriculture Department,
special brow he concocted himself, We took three swigs, and discover. the usually peaceful countryside has put forward an economic thesis
ed that his Monster was nothing which will or should cause earnest of England over the tithe ques-thinking in the United States. An
"We know that farmers are but a cross between a hippogriff tion during the past year. What important cross-rond is just ahead
having bad times, and where and the fabled wyvern. As we There is the basis of his com- tithes are, and to and by whom and America will soon be forced to
they are reasonable and explain saw several of these animals our- make a choice of the direction to plaint. If tithe were a form of
to us their position, we try to self in Hongkong Just after St. they are payable, is explained in be followed. If industriallam is to income tax, varying with the pro-
meet them. We never pro- Andrew's Day, we did not paraue an article on this page to-day. be regarded as of primary impor- duce of the soll, as, Indeed, it was
shoulder secute in really genuine cases our investigation in that direction The situation has been aggravat-tance, if mass production and the before 1925, he would
any further. of hardship. exportation of surplus manufac-the traditional burden with good
"But many of those who pro- ed by the fact that some eleventures is regarded as best for the grace just because he believes in-.
test so loudly against tithe aro
Linkumdoddio, Dec. B.. thousand farmers at one time country, a complete volte face in herently in most traditiona.
quite able to pay. They say it For three whole days we have pledged themselves to resist tariff policy must accompany any
is a matter of principle, and been diligently pursuing reports payments. Within a. period of programme to that end.
But in 1925 tithe payments ware! have become so fanatical about that a photograph of the Lock a few months, nearly five thou
stabilised by Act of Parliament at t it that they cannot see that if | Ness monster existed in Linkum- sand warrants for distraint were
AMERICA'S CHOICE
the high price-level existing in you abolish tithe-ownership, youdoddie, the centre of the Clan
ahould abolish land-ownership | MacWhirter. issued in the county courts, but
America must decide quickly and the boom years of the twenties.
as well." not ten per cent. of them have firmly, argues Mr. Wallace between The bottom has fallen out of the been executed. The agitation economic' nationalism or laterna agricultural market since then. for the abolition of tithes is tionalism or a stated compromise A policy of passive resistance being fomented by people who between the two. As he describes was adopted towards those who believe that if a sufficient num-it: If we follow the international wished to execute distraints, with ber of tithe-payers' refuse to quantities of goods from abroad and limited company has been formed the Nonconformist churches sup }
programme, we must receive great enormous success. Now, that pay, they will gain-their-end must not be disturbed by the clam-to-deal-in "tithe gooda" passive That, however, is not the way our of people who are hurt thereby, resistance is proving difficult. things are usually done in Eug-If we follow the national pro-
Country people are resorting to violence. land. There are legal issues in-gramme, we must resolutely plan volved, in which connexion it has to keep 60,000,000 acres of land ont The other day 40 policemen had to be remembered that by an of use, no matter how loud may be to be hired to help seize three fat Act of 1925 provision was made the outcry of certain carrying, bullocks for tithe.
Whenever seizure is threatened, handling; processing and exporting for the extinction of tithes by interests. If we decide to lower an army
of farmers and their scene sinking fund in means of a
upon the our tariff only part way and reduce workers appear eighty-five years. Under this our acreage only part way. we armed with sticks and guns. In cases, warlike barricades Act and another which was must have the courage to do suffi- some
thrown up-trenches passed in 1918, tithe-payers will cient of both so that the job is have been have to pay some fourteen done. In other words, urban, dug across form approaches, and millions sterling less than under America must decide in part what gates buttressed with three trunksa, the old system. If the question kind of a rural America it wants is closely examined, it will be for a hinterland. conceded that both the farmers NEVER BOTH WAYS and the Church have a case
Its corporate But
which demands consideration. If industrial America wants to The farmers' case is, broadly, buy the food and cotton products of the case
of all debtors whose the American farmer at a work obligations have remained fixed market price it must be prepared to in money terms during a period sell its own poducts to him at par of falling money prices and with world competition. Or if it wants a tarif-protected home mar- money Incomes. The real bur-ket and an alienated foreign market den upon debtors has risen steep it should not grumble at paying ly, in some cases intolerably. an increased price to the farmer Upon farmers the burden is for his grain and meat and cotton probably, worse than the aver-oven though it be through a pro- age, since the incomes of many ceasing tax instead of an import of them have probably fallen duty. The alternative is American more than the average. The be wholesome nor, in the long run, farm serfdom which would neither case for the Church is the case safe for the cities. Labour has of all creditors who askust not undo nudeinter its tractual obligations must not be financial integration. set aside, and who plead that theso should not be allowed to ex- the maintenance of such con-ploit their advantages unless they' tracts is bound up with their permit government aid in the ra welfare. Here it must be borne tionalisation of agricultura, which in mind that the tithe is no newy its scattered and individualistic
nature has never been able to or thing; every farmer has known, ganiac itself. A sound economic when taking over a form, that union cannot exist half protected there were tithe obligations to by organisation and tariffs and be met. These obligations are half exposed to chaos and world sur- every bit as legal as the rent he pluses." undertakes to pay. Another point is, that Parliament has provided machinery for reducing
The logic behind Mr. Wallace's the tithe in times of agricultural argument is difficult to resist. It depression, but it has not given means that the United States, to be the Church or other creditors aa creditor country, must play the corresponding right to increase role of creditor in her international payment in times of comparative commercial relations and give up prosperity. The problem which the debtor paychology, which do- now rests on the Government is mands an excess of experts over i to effect a settlement which will imports. And what a remarkablo mitigate the burden on farmers corroboration it is of the British argument that America's past poli- and yet avoid Injustice to the cles have been the principal factor Church. That will admittedly in the breakdown of International ||bo a difficult task; but it is one debt payments. In the final analy | which will have to be faced, sla, payment of debts must always
be expected in kindestens
PAYMENT IN KIND
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We arrived here to-day, and eventually succeeded in discover- ing the photograph. But sub The President of the National sequent investigations have proved Tithepayers' Association, The Rev. that it is an old portrait of R. M. Kedward, points out that Robert MacWhirter.
port their ministers without levy. Ing unjust demands on others: The Methodist Church does not expect Anglican, congregations to pay for their ministry.
"Tithe is an intolerable bur don. In hundreds of cases the whole profits of farming aro swallowed up in these tithe pay
ments.
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Haggisburgh, Dec. 9. During the past four days we have passed through adventures seldom encountered on this earth by mankind. We are now in the heart of the Highlands where the Elan Johnny MaoWalkers, Clan Haigs, Clan MacDowars and other celebrated leaders have their head- "Originally tithe was a form quarters. We have visited each of income tax, and if it is. to of them in search of our Monster. continue, it should vary with and have successfully fought off trade conditions, as does income sca-serpents, mermaide, dragons.
English pink elephants, tax. "Agriculture is the most hard-American pythons (the latter. the entrance gates, and electrified hit of all our industries. Why were identified by their horn- at a high voltage:
should it be singled out to support rimmed glasses and the former by their bell-topper hats) and other This Christianity' And in hundreds of rural com-the Church?
animals. But all these we have (Continued on Pago 4.) munities the village parson, once
acen before. We are afraid our quest is hopeless, and, besides, our money le running out.
In one case wire was strung along
'Stop on it. Duncan, I want to see whint this old wagon
can do.
and
Dewarsness, Dec. 10. We have discovered the Mons ter. The much lauded prehistoric animal of Loch Ness is none other than
MRS. ELSPETH Mc. GURCHER, the well-known amphi- bious film star.
For two whole weeks we have wandered about these heather clad hills, disguised as a Scots man, in the hopes of lighting upon. some clue to the identity of this horror, but not until this mornlig did we got a chance to unravel the mystery.
It appears that not long ago Mrs. McGurcher was approached by Alexander Korda, the famous producer; to appear in his next. British nim, "The Mystery of the Lake" and she has been prac- licing her part.
We were privileged to interview the famous Monster just after she. had returned from one of har awims.
.
"We are told," we. said, "that you swim up and down the Loch. every morning before breakfast?" "Och, aye!" she said, "ye'ro jimp ramfeczled. I'se uphaud oot- side a wallydraigle whilka whigmalearic."
an
Exactly what we had thought, but we wanted to learn the whole truth of the matter, so we anguired. [about the ... glaring headlight,
people had reported.
"This à smoutle smytrie, an thiccy thocht & qualet whâ douckit an' houl houkit, the haffing, fist noo?"
We agreed, and terminated the interview, before it was too lates
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