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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1937.

THE RIGHT OF APPEAL

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, ́ ́ 1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY

LONDON'S GREEN GIRDLE

At last action has been taken to. preserve a ring of green, open country around the built-up area of London. The need has

long heen recognised. Thirty-five years ngo it was pointed out that the rapid growth of London was threatening the well being of its inhabitants, and that steps ought to be taken to acquire and preserve for the public benefit a broad belt of land on the circumference. If the suggestion had been adopted then the green girdle would have been little more than five or six miles from the centre. Now. If measures are taken at once, the average distance from the heart of the metropolis will be at least eleven miles, If postponed for an- ather decade, so

the rupid is present rate of expansion, it would In most cases be necessary to travel twenty miles before the playing helds and the rural walks would begin. But in recent years the Greater London Regional Town Planning Committee has laid its plans

well; and the lender of the Socialist majority in the London County Council has determined to act upon them. The Council has decided to offer a contribution of £2,000,000 to money which may be spent by local authorities in the areas around London, with the ob- Ject of purchasing or sterilising Broul tracts of land which may be kept as open spaces in perpetuity. The decision is taken into, but better late than never; and it is hoped that the example will en- courage other growing cities to net before the problem assumes more formidable proportions

MORE DEMOCRACY ?

Recent dispatches from Moscow foreshadow changes in Soviet con- stitutional practice which, at first glance, suggest an approximation to democratic methods. Voting in Soviet elections, it is suggested, is

Our King and Queen

on their Silver Jubilee

Frince George, his brother and sisters.

The Very Idea!

A FORMULA FOR

SUCCESS

By Horatio (Self-Made) Bogg

So much has been read in

these columns of the Bogg millions, that people are beginning to question how we made them.

Some have even gone so far as to doubt whether they ever existed.

We can afford to ignore these Inst, leaving them to the torture of their doubts, and will content ourself for the present with the hope that they will not dazzled when they finally see these millions.

bo too

Meantime, we can go ahead and

methods of expound

making millions, and we can do no better than take the precise methods which have produced the Bogg milions, as illustrations.

We first began business with less than $100 As capital. With that aum we

ronted an office and filled it with expensive furniture and Sttings obtained on tick, and boosted ourself whereyer possible. Ten would-be shroffs who 07- swered our advertisements

were

A great Empire fell; two great sume responsibility for their the means of bringing us each n

to be accret and not, as formerly, armies were battling on the war-actions. by a show of hands. The peculiar

The Government is to be com- mended for laying decided to amend the law in respect of appeals from magisterial de-as much representation as 126,000 upheavals were changing the cisions, so as to bring it more in- peasants is to be eliminated. The to line with the necessities im-system of election to the higher course of man's destiny; history Soviet bodies is to be made more plied by the fact that the great majority of defendants in Police Court cases are persons of very

The limited means.

inequality of Soviet electoral law torn fields of Europe; industrial which accorded 25,000 city dwellers

simple and more direct. fudgment was being made. must be reserved until the full details of these suggested changes proposed are announced and enacted into

change in the law is described

But no hint of trouble or strife

As a youth, Prince Albert Victor, heir to the throne, was

$1,000 cash security. That put up our capital by the additional sum (of $10,000.

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To do business we must have amiable, shy and delicate; Price

stock, but that

easy. We George, while he was never secured goods from various hongs robust, was nevertheless alort, by paying 10 per cent. cash down, with the remainder secured on active and wiry, with no trace

tick.

law. It may be asid, however, that was allowed to penetrate the of the bronchial trouble which not one of them strikes at the root as a cheap, simple and direct of the causes which make the serene lives of the children of was to cause him so much trou-slumped as we cut in and undersold method of appeal from a Magis- Soviet system fundamentally un- trute's conviction or sentence; a democratic and which give Stalin the royal household in this, the ble in later years. close reading of the amending greater personal power, especially year 1870, fifth year in the life

Bill shows that the description in the economic field, than any

To-day's portrait shows an in- is a correct one. Under the law Tsar of recent generations enjoyed. of Prince George, destined one teresting family group of the as it exists at present, provision the Christian Science Monitor

children of the Prince and Prin-

Retall prices the, next few weeks

our stock, regardless of cost prices,

but still keeping well above the 10

per cent. cash we originally in- vested. for appeal is made, but the pro-points out. It is noteworthy that day to be King.

This brought our trading capital cedure is a somewhat. com. neither Germany nor Italy, where plicated one, involving the neces- contemptuous of liberalism and the present rulers are avowedly

But in his fifth year there was cess of Wales (Edward and to $50,000. The ten shroffa had u hard time collecting the accounts, sity of calling on a Magistrate parliamentary democracy, enforces no suggestion, no thought, that Alexandra), taken in 1870 (year but they did earn their salary and to state a case for the opinion open voting or inequality of voting

arrests and executions, any organ-hold was strict. From the first (Norway), and Princess Victoria. ised political opposition, even A

Communists: the maintenance of

fectly anttsfied.

WCTO per-..

Our fortune increased by leopa

PRESCRIPT

of Bogg is synonymous millions. We bought ourself title, settled in Hongkong as an honourable resident, and are now rearing a large family.

with

П

There you have the secret of our

Auccess.

•

Home Girls' Corner.

"I found myself gripped through- out by this tenso pieco.”—THEATRE CRITIC.

of the Full Court, and also lay-rights as between different classes George would one day sit upon of the fall of the second French commission. And we ing down certain stipulations of citizens. This does not prevent which make the process rather Mussolini and Hitler from being the throne. His brother, seven-Empire and the Franco-l'Tussian

When the time was about to come costly. In fact, the present re-full-fledged dictators,

teen months his senior, was be-war). The picture shows Prince when we were expected to pay the quirements are so oncrous ini.. character as to make it practical- | SURFACE CHANGES

ing groomed eventually to suc- George (left) and his brother, first of these bong accounts falling due, we quietly collected our FEESSEESE \y impossible for a poor person

Jabouring under

as Prince Albert Victor, Duke of $60,000 and beat a quiet retreat out ቢ sense of The roots of the Soviet dictator-ceed his father (Edward)

of town. grievance to avail himself of the ship are not in the relatively miner ruler of the British Empire., Clarence. In the foreground are

And so our operations continued, appeal provisions a circum-details which may now be sub- stance which doubtless accounts cisive features of the Communist

jected to modification. The de-Prince George was being taught their three sisters, from left to from city to city. Shroffs might for the infrequency with which absolutism are: the complete con- other things.

right, Princess Royal, Princess weep and taipans might curse, but | appeals are lodged. Under the trol over every spoken and printed

we went on the happy tenour of our amendments now proposed, a word; the practice of crushing im Discipline in the royal house- Maude (later Queen Maude of way. convicted person who has not mediately and summarily, by pleaded guilty will be able to appeal against his actual con- viction, whilst a person who has that opposition is recruited from the children were taught self- The two boys appear to be clad and bounds, until to-day the name admitted his guilt can appeal 100 per cent. Communist in reliance and encouraged to as- lin highland dress. against the sentence imposed. tion of every trade union, every A point to be stressed is that the co-operative, every organisation of appeals, which will be heard by producers and consumers. What a Judge of the Supreme Court, difference will open or secret voting can be made by the appellant in to put up candidates in upposition: make, if any group that attempts person, if he so desires, thus to the official Communist slate Is cutting out legal costs, whilst if promptly annihilated us "counter- he succeeds in his appeal it will revolutionary"? What benefit will be competent for the Judge to the peasants gain from theoretical award him such costs as might permission to choose more deic- have been incurred in the Katos to the Soviets, if these delegates are carefully hand-picked (magisterial proceedings or such

other sum as may be reasonable the local Communist Party groups? The changes which are in the circumstances. There is predicted in Russia are surface the further discretion vested in changes, which do not alter the

character of. the Judge that, in awarding costs fundamental

tho to either party, he may take in- Soviet regime, The Soviet Union to account their actual means. will not become democratic, in any commonly understandable sense of It will thus be seen that every that term, by reshuffling of its facility will, under the proposed electoral practices, any more than changes, be afforded a defendant it assured its citizens freedom who feels that he has been un-from arbitrary arrest and execu- fairly penalised. Of importance tion by giving the Gay-Pay-Oo is the provision whereby appeals new name last summer, can be entered not only against the conviction, but against the sentence as well. Past exper-cess of the law. That, however, ience has revealed striking is unlikely to occur, as advantage anomalies and variations in the of the new provisions is only imposing of sentences by some likely to be taken by those who, of our Magistrates, not only to use the term employed in the

feel when compared with the de-Ordinance,

themselves cisions of other Magistrates, but "aggrieved." The over-ruling even with their own, in cases of consideration is that no person a like nature. One result of the who in future considers that he proposed changes, therefore, has been unfairly treated, will should be to securo greater uni- find himself faced with insuper- formity of magisterial decision. able obstacles in his attempts to The fear may be held in some get his grievance remedied. quarters that the revised condi. The facilitles envisaged are well tions of appeal might open up in accord with British traditions *-**------------- the way to an abuse of the pro. of justice.

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"I wish I could remember what my grandmother used to do for colds?

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"Gripped again?"

the critic's wife with a tight-lipped umile.

The critic nodded sulkily. "That's the third time month."

this.

"I can't help it," said the critic, flinging himself. Into a chair. "It. Just happens in spite of me.

e." Hot tears started to his eyes and ho buried his face in his hands con- vulsively.

"I don't mind your boing gripped occasionally, Ethelbert," said his wife more kimily, stroking his hair,. "but what about the children? What will they think of their father? What will the other critics' children say? Doar, can't you fight this awful weakness for their sako ?"

And the healing dawn found two loving hearts beating as one in the solemn promise of future amend mont.