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NOTES OF THE DAY
REFORMING THE CORONER
England has taken a further step toward reforming tho.office of coroner, in the appointment by the Government of a committee to "enquire into the law and practice regarding coroners' inquests, and to report what changes, if any. are desirable and practicable." The office of coroner is one of the most anclout known to tho law. Hin functions wera regulated by a series of statutes going back to 1275. In the earlier turbulent times of feuds and local rivalries, when even a short journey was accompanied by danger, an officer who could make an inquiry on be- balf of the Crown was a necessary and helpful representative of law and order. bat.his functions have not kept pace with progrens, and Juring recent years particularly there has been a growing outery for the reform of the system. This has arisen out of what is fell to be an abuse of the office, in stine instances by coroners theme) selves and in others by the police. Most Inquests may be and are re- ported in the press, and sensation- al newspapers have thus been afforded an opportunity to adver tise and exploit human tragedies. Some coroners have pandered to' this, morbid tendency by rending letters, probing into distressing family secrets, or giving their 'views on modern social conditions,
FAIR PLAY
This opportunity of ventilating thefr own views may have afford- ed them some satisfaction, but I has been a large factor in arous Ing the inatinet for fair play in the more enlightened section of
MAY 3,
1935.
Our
•King and
Queen
on their Silver Jubilee.
The King and Marshal Foch in France, 1017.
*ING GEORGE was wounded pin it on the sergeant's tunic.
The Very Idea!
A POT-POURRI
Novice (whose ball disappeared down a rabbit hole): "What is the best thing to use here, caddle?".
Caddle (shortly): "A vacuum cleaner."
HOWLERS
A bigamiat in the opposite of a pessimist.
A Spartan is a part of Highland,
rena.
After the Norman Conquest, three different languages were spoken in England: French by the aristocrats, Lalin by the elorgy, and English by the phensauts.
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TIT FOR TAT
"Did you Ree that ticket- collector?" asked a fair occupant of the first-class compartment of the tram..
"No; what about him?” inquired her companion.
"The Impudence of the man!” exclaimed the first. "He glared at m as though I hadn't, a first-clama .ticket."
"What did you do?"
"I just glared back at him as if 1 had." came the bland reply.
PREPAREDNESS
Jones- "I don't know what to do aliout our boy's future. My wife wants him to be a writer, his aunt wants him to be a sailor; and 1 want him to go into business." Smith "How old is he?" Jonelle will be six months next week."
the community and bringing about K in the war-injured so bud- nt was overcome with weaknesse
the demand for reform. In 1909
In
REAL SNAPPY! A story of a snappy reply by Theodore Roosevelt is old. He was addressing a large rowel,
"Begnase my father and grand- father were both Republleans," was the reply.
that would you be if your father and grandfather had both been horse thieves ?" again asked
the Government appointed a com ly that the Queen was empower, before he could complete the mittee to make an inquiry some ed to take over many of his task. It may possibly come, as what similar to the one which has official duties,
Both King Geoßge and Queen | "31". Roosevelt, why are you a now been act up, and the followi
1916. surprise to most people to learn
while inspecting Mary gave up every luxury. | Republican?" naked a heckler, ing is quoted from the second re- massed troons in France, the very expense afinched to their that of the twenty-five million port of that committee: "The law King's horse, a mare belonging tices. The King even gave up unemployed in the principal relating to coroners is antiquated. to Sir Douring Unig, reared nt drinking spirits in order to set countries of the world about one- Much of it dates from the thi the sound of the drums. alipped example to his people who,
teenth century and is of great his- quarter are young people under tricni interest, but it is not well and threw the King to the in the heat of the war fever 24 years of age. This fact, dis-suited to the changed conditions ground. He was painfully in-were said to be drinking to the bekler. closing a tragic state of affairs, of modern life. On the whole, we Jured and was rushed home to heavily. Both worked strenu-'d he a Democrat! Mr. 100-
ously in war work. Nothing | sevelt replied.. have been astonished at the good England in a hospital train. work done by coroners with out It was typical of the monarch was too much to ask of them. of-date and imperfect machinery." that he asked no special favours From dawn (il midnight they It was not until 1920, however, on this journey. Though suffer- kept going. that a further amending net was ing considerably it is related that paxaed; but as that net gave effect
is based on figures taken from
a report specially prepared by the International Labour Office for study at the big labour con-
Our picture to-day shows the ference which is being held in to reforms recommended as long a private in the cat next to him King and Marshal Foch in uge as 1909, public opinion has received a military medal from France in 1917, shortly before demanded a new inquiry and this the royal hands and it
Foch became commander-in-chief demand has now been granted. during the journey home that; It is hoped this will lead to a plas- Sgt. Oliver Brooks was decorat of all the allied armies.
Geneva next month. How to
face the problem is a matter of immediate moment. Suggested measures include the raising of the school-leaving age to not less than 15, the creation of more technical schools, the organisa- tion of vocational training cen- tres, and the establishment of recreational and physical train- ing centres where, enforced leisure can be spent. The report stresses th necessity, where it is considered desirable, in con-
SESSEEEEEEESESHSSSSnection with the training centres,
WILS
UP-TO-DATE Two stories were told about children by Miss Jahbel Mac- Donald, daughter of the Prime Minister, in Middlesbrough when she opened an exhibition.
Expressing the opinion that the Jovable characteristics of children
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ing of the position of caroner on ed by the King with the Victoria | To-morrow: -- The King in never altered in spite of the duties brought into
proper basis, with powers and Cross. The King attempted to Flanders Fields.
line withi modern conditions.
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RUSSIAN AMBITION
changes in their surroundings, Miss Ishbel said that young children could not appreciate this change.
wards eternity in some Siberian, thought in mind, have prepared an One child had said to her
pit."
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"LEST WE FORGET"
ollicini motion picture of the mother, when told that Mary flew World War compiled from the with Jesus to Egypt;"If she archives of the allied and enemy wanted an aeroplane, aho would records. Although depicts have to go to Croydon." Another
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A LATE DELIVERY OFphasised is that attendance at revolution planned, step by step, to manhood, while with the preced. "Was it a war to end war? Did by an absent-mindst grandfather.
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It seems incredible that, leading spirits of the Russian Communist party are still actively plotting to For some years after the armis mainly Canada's part, and the child had asked: Was Jesus tho overthrow the British state and to tice another war was generally major fentures-only-in-a-general bor-who was born-in-a-garapé 12. turn England into a member of the declared "unthinkable." Why un-way, the effect is as poignantly. Soviet Union. It ts even less thinkable? Simply because the frealistic as could be desired. credible that these people should horrors of the last one were so Destruction and acute misory in
ONE EXPLANATION not keep their schemes a secret. vivid in the memories of all. Now, all their wordid and ghastly details A tank even bigger than any We are informed that the Com- however, a new generation of are portrayed as they occurred. they have yet attempled has been munist Party has the English enger, adventurous youth has come The picture closes with the words: Innocently thrust upon Socialista
complete on paper, to the execution ing a softening mist of glamour not? Seck the and that the whole campaign in lng goneration time has been lay-It attain its desired end—or dla it He entered a public building in answer within Leads with his grandson, and of
the fenders of the existing over the stark realities of humun your own hearts." How many while he was transacting his busi- regine. If the thing were not a butchering. It would appear people to-day would answer that ness the little boy spent his time utterly farcical, it would be a piece obvious, then, that to keep war the war achieved its purpose? studying a large map of the world of effrontery not easily forgiven; unthinkable" the world should And yet If the memory" if it were not for the fact that not be permitted to develop fur- world's greatest blunder was still were ready to go the boy asked:- of the that hung on the wail. When they Communist influence does disturb ther delusiona about war. Cana vividly alive in their hearts, how British Isles and hamper recovery, the internal mechanist of the dian veterans, evidently with this could they answer otherwise?
to adopt adequate safeguards to prevent abuses. One point em-
such centres should be strictly voluntary and should exclude any idea of military training. In view of the extreme gravity of the juvenile unemployment problem, it is possible that the Geneva conference will come to n decision on the subject this it could be dismissed with a shrug. your, instead of waiting for the The Russian "plot" is neither quité customary double discussione nor quite harmless. It can. never succeed in demolishing the ranging over two years. In the structure that is Britain, and light of this report, efforts are divorce that country from the being made in Britain to apeed | Empire, but it can be annoying and up the Government's re-examina-reason it cannot be ignored entire- create antagonism, and for that tion of the case for raising the ly. Some day soon, some of the school-leaving age. It is note-wiser heads In Russia will have worthy, in this connection. that in Glasgow, where the leaving of school by another fifteen hun- dred boys and girls at the end of March brought the total number of unemployed young people to more than ten thousand, the
Education Committee has advis
lors of world revolution and they something to say to these instiga- muy find themselves "toiling to-
(Continued on next column)
big industrial centres. Serious as the problem is, it is doubtful if its full implications are fully realised, But it is a tragic com-
cd parents to keep their children mentary on present-day econ- at school after the leaving age, omic conditions that there should but only about a quarter of those be these thousands of young peo- circulated have given a favour-ple, a great many well-educated, able response. The total num-who are unable to find employ- ber of unemployed juveniles in ment. Apart from the immedi Scotland is now 28,000. In the ate effect on families, there is industrial towns of England and the danger of steady mental Wales, the situation is no less deterioration of these young serious. A recent inquiry into people, carrying with it the com sequence that, even when botter the nature and extent of juvenile times come, they may have so unemployment in Liverpool far drifted into sloth and in- estimated that in five years' ability to apply themselves to time, if the unemployment level serious work as to be a misery remains the same, there may be to themselves and others as well. 7,700 more males and 6,200 more the International Labour Office Action along the lines urged: In females between 14 and 21 out report would appear to be essch- of work than last year. And tial if an even worse crisis la not that is typical of many other to arise in the future,
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"Be sure to remove the tags.. I-don't want my daughter-in-law to know that I didn't knit them,"
"What are all the red parts. grandfather?"
And grandfather, as he gathered up his change, replied, "Oh, those are the parts that the Socialists are going to demolish!"
FUNNY!
The orderly strgeant was mak- lug his tour: "Any complaints?" he hooned.
"The Irish stew's funny," grum- bled one private.
"Oh, is it?" said the sergeant, "Then why aren't you laughing."
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SCHOOL STORIES
At a recent Old Boys' Associn- tion reunion dinner a speaker told the following storlea.
A class had been learning the history of Moses, and on being asked if they could tell anything about him that was outstanding, one bright pupil answered:----
Plense, sir, he was the only man who broke all the Command- ments at once"
An Inspector who was examin- ing
rather backward class had
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beon Impressed with the answers which he had received. On finish-...
lox he said to the class:-
"You know I wish I were back at school nuin. Do you know why that is?
"Yes, sir." came the reply after a pause, "because you have
gotten all you over knew."
for-
A class had been asked a num~ bent of questions amongst which were the following:
"Where was Abraham Lincoln barn?"
"Ife was born in a house that ho helped his father to build." **What is matrimony?”
"It is a place, where for a time, Bouls suffer for their sins',
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