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TRAINING OF CHILDREN

PUNISHMENTS CAN BE CRUEL

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By Olive Roberts Burton

Years ago, I read in

of hero Rider Haggard's about a imprisoned in a secret cave. He described the quiot and the dark- ness with such reality and the terror of that absoluto silence so vividly that nithough the plot and atory are gone, that chapter still lingers to haunt me.

Prisonarà in solitary confine- ment in doop. dungeons, afton go mad. The mold and vermin. the starvation and bodily tortüre are nothink, those who recover relate' In their memoirs, compared to the thundering silence.

Therefore it would seem

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man's Behnee were not made to stand a void. Thoy were not made 10 experience silence. The silence of lone vast distances under the akv, the peace of night, and the revery of mountain tops-these are filled are not voids. They with sounds of nature. often Indiscernable but satisfving to the sultonscious mind. One feels contact somehow with mysterioua forces. He belongs nt last to the universe and something tells him the Ia different from ao, t loneliness of imprisonment be- tween walla.

CLOSET PUNISHMENT. When a child is punished by be ing sat away in a closet, to his jailer it is just a closet, a cubicie In which the winner can meditate on his in. cnt off from human Aouls.

But to the poor little prisonCI", with his child's imagination. It is Rider Haggard's cave, the modnei- val dungeon, the pit of a most

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WITH SAILOR HAT

Black Linen and Cheerful de- Checks. "An, cummble lightfully annat and yet 'cor rect

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frightful loneliness. Its silence he WHEN APPLYING IODINE

darkness and exaggerates, ita

smallness are added horrors. He MANY people who use iodine da

peoples it with monsters beyond the pale of fairy tales.

There is probably no agony of mind invented by man equal to that of completely black imprison-

metil.

SEPTEMBER. 27,

"WILL EMPTY OUR CHURCHES"

Broadcast Services Condemned

The opinion that broadensi re- ligion will empty the churches WAN one of several striking viowa cx- pressed by Dr. J. H. Roginaldi

discussion 011 opening a broadcast services at tile Congress of the Incorporated Association of | Organists at Portsmouth recently, "You cannot bronteast a soul," said Dr. Dixon, who is organist of Lancaster Cathedral, "neither can you broadcast a soul's highest aspirations, and this is prayer.

"Though words of prayers may

into a microphone, yet;

be tahty God is not to be re-

the

varded as latening in to the loud-spooker. Neither ear ane Imagine him as a humble caven- dropper, curlous to hear what a speaker says to the microphone.

"When a person communes with bis Maker, all thoughts of broad- rast technique come as intrusions

1934.

A FURTHER SELECTION OF BOOks for the MUSIC LOVER.

THE STORY OF THE FLUTE,

Fitzgibbon..

(Boing a History of the Flute and everything connected with it).

Kieczynski:

HOW TO PLAY CHOPIN, CHOPIN'S GREATER WORKS.

(Preludes, Ballads, Nocturnes, Polonaisos, Mazurkas), CHOPIN: AS REVEALED BY EXTRACTS FROM

HIS DIARY,

LIFE OF CHOPIN. CHOPIN: Á CRITICAL & APPRECIATIVE ESSAY.

MAKERS OF MUSIC.

(Biographical Skotches of Great Composers with

of Chronological Summaries Their Works). SYLWYHONY WRITERS SINCE BEETHOVEN. SKETCHES OF GREAT PIANISTS AND GREAT

VIOLINISTS.

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF FIDDLERS.

(including, performers on the Violincello and Double Bass).

to speil his devotions. Therefore SOME ASPECTS OF CHINESE MUSIC.

prayer is one of the least suitable subjects for broadcasting. Again,

Tarnowski

Franz Liszt

Davison.

Sharph

Weingartner..

Ferris.

Clarke..

Green..

Most of the above books are illustrated.

for similar reasons, preces and We invite inspection of our stock of Music: the finest, in the

responses are also unauitable, an- leas all ideas of sincerity are to be ignored."

Dr. Dixon said that the microp- hone showed up unexpected blemishes in unaccompanied chor- al singing. Unfeas a choir had exceptional ability this form of muale should not be broadcast. An occasional item by the choir accompanied might be attempted. but he stressed the value of con

organ xregational singing with accompaniment.

The reading of Scripture seemed "n overdone feature. he went on. The doings of Noah and Nadoth of Jehosaphet. Jonah and Jero boam could be read at leisure by all who were interested.. "LITTLE TO DO WITH WORSHIP." "They have very little to do with real worship, and only tend to divert not realise that a great deal attention from the real purpose for. of pain can be spared it only those which religion stands. Cut them applying it know how to do it pro-down," he said.

"The bulks and sermons should parly. Iodine is very painful onreach &.more positive level of in- fresh cut or wound, but if the struction and encouragement than circulation is stopped for FI few the cold and neutral spirit of bene- LACKS IMAGINATION.

econds while the indine is being volence with which B.B.C. religion More life, energy, and persuasive- One would think that even the applied, there is hardly any pain seems to have identiled itself.

It is an easy matter tol would result were every pren. most ignorant would know this, ut all. And yet, only recently talked to stop the circulation; it is merely cher permitted to give his compicte in full necord with the mother who regarded this type a matter of holding the hand or message could infllet. And she is not an wound. of punishment as the mildest she finger very tightly just below the doctrines of his church, the only condition being to avoid giving ignorant person in the lenst.

hurt or annoyance to those of dif ferent creeds. He would liko also to see given, every Sunday, a broad- cast by each of the principal re- ligious bodies in the country, instead of as at present balanced scheme. Other religious the Unitarians, bodies, Bitch as

Greek Orthodox, and Sweden- rgians might be given an occa- siunal broadcast,

it was simply impossible for her

to project her mind into a dark afe where egress was impossible suve at the pleasure of an angry person who had to cool off.

The parent with any imagine- tion at all would never try it. It is a terrible thing. indeed.

ARMS SMUGGLED INTO BRITAIN

AMERICAN MAKERS WORST OFFENDERS

London, Sept. 25.

Any London criminal can get as many revolvers and machine-guns as he wants here provided he knows

where to go..

Easy Chance For £5,000

BUT-MRS. PATTON WON'T MARRY

Cincinnati, Sept. 25.

Unless she is married by October 28, Mrs. Josephine B. Patton, Norwood, a widow who admits being "around forty" will

£5,000.

an un-

"But do not let us regard a broad- east service as a substitute for the "The real thing," said Dr. Dixon. real thing cannot be broadcast."

The object should be to provide a foretaste of the joys to come in actual attendance at a service.

"Passive B.B.C. broadcast rell- has lose gion will empty our churches, 18 so

much passive listening-in emptied our concert halls and teach- ing. atudios," he said.

Information to the effect that the time limit on a conditional legacy expires on that date was verified

QUESTION OF PAYMENT.

working night and day to break up years ago, She would not disclose service, without financial recor

years.

name nor

Dr. Dixon went on to say that by Mrs. Patton recently. She said he did not think the B.B.C. ought the bequest was made by a former to expect church officials to do the Special Scotland Yard officers are admirer she had refused to wed extra work entailed by a broadcast pense. Organists' salaries were a powerful gang which has been his

where he lives, not on a princely scale. running guns into London for Although she has "no hopes of "The B.B.C. is neither a charit claiming the money," Mrs. Patton able society nor a poor relation," It is stated that they know the said she was not worrying about he said. "It receives sufficient public money to justify our asking identity of at least three big un the loss.

them to consider the adequate pay- licensed distributors or firearms, but raids on suspected hide-outs "I have just started in a new ment of those who contribute to the have so far failed to locate any business," she said, "and I am more programmes."

He pointed out that many concorned in its success than in coches.

listeners to church services did not anything else."

contribute to the collection, but did Most of the firearms are of American manufacture. and are Mrs. Patton sald her husband contribute to the B.B.C. This body said to be smuggled in by seamen. had been deat 16 years and that should, therefore, in strict justice, Large quantition also come from any time within the last 11 years mete out to the churches and their France and Bolrlum.-United she could have had the $25,000 by officers a fair share of the collection Preak.

money. getting married.-United Press.

SALESMAN SAM

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This isn't, really, anything until

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12 A note of quantity,

13 Someone has described these zu

humorous cast-off clothes.

16 Bold remark if made to n birth

reversed in the fireplace.

10 Shows that there is a strain of

Home sort.

17 It's most peculiar,

22 Not so fresh as its own story

helps to show."

24 A animal, if you will allow me

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1 It's just a guess that I'm in my own. property, but it will be correct.

2 So ripping that it deprives one of sense of proportion, shall we shy?

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7 This annual competition keeps

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25. One wonders why intelligence should make her fade, but there

you

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