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JULY MONDAY,

26, 1937.

New Ships To Link Dominions

"I am very glad to be able to say that substantial pro- gress has been made towards the conclusion of arrange- ments for an improved steamship service between Canada and Australia and New Zealand," said Sir Edward Beatty, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, before he sailed from Southampton recently in the Empress of Britain.

Sir Edward, who has been attending the Imperial Confer- ence during discussions on the shipping situation in the Pacific, added: "I cannot, of course, speak with absolute certainly as to. the final results, but the negotiations have advanced so far that I am hopeful that heads of agreement can be submitted to the governments and the boards of the companies concerned within the next few weeks.

"The discussions have been carried] on with the greatest friendliness andį Food will, and I think the Insti remnants of doubts as to the essential character of this service in the, interests of British trade have been removed.

SHARING THE BURDEN

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CABINET — Princo Fumimaro Konoc, commissioned by Em- perer Hiralite of Japan to form a new cabinet, after Pre- mier Hayashi's cabinet resigned,

PARALYSIS ATTACKS ETON BOY

INFANTILE

London, June 28.

paralysis, -Sir A. Sinclair discase that crippled Unless Government policy is President Roosevelt and The efforts of the Dominions and speedily reversed, said Sir

irlincapacitated the Chicago Imperial authorities, in consultation Archibald Sinclair, M.P. (lenderman in the iron lung," has with the steamship companies, have of the Parliamentary Liberalj "with James Melton - Patricia Ellis - Hugh Herbertable division between the parties of we shall be engulfed in another at Eton College, Berkshire. been directed to reaching an equit- Party) at Birkenhead recently, attacked a boy of fourteen the burden and hazard of the new slump within three or four years |

Specialists are treating him in Eton undertaking.

-taxation will have to be raised College Hospital, where he has been and thero will be another isolated since June 21. Efforts to he contracted the economy drive

the discover how against salaries of State servants and disease have failed. the pensions and allowances of the poor and unemployed."

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"The vessels, if and when com- cessation pleted, will be a source of pride to all natural ebis of trade, was added the hope that it is an isolated ease."

stoppage work on rearmament and Infantile paralysis is a form of The Dominions, and will maintain the the need of high taxation to repay spinal paralysis which may result in prestige and position of British ship-what had been borrowed and to meet loss of power in one or more limbs. increasing expenditure on unemploy-It is caused apparently by a micro- ping on the Pacific."

ment and pubile works for its relief, scople germ, and may be spread by the economie and financial altuation "carriers" who do not contract it would be of the utmost gravity. themselves,

WORLD HONOURS MAN MAD 3 YEARS

By A Correspondent LIFFORD WHITTING-

CLIFF

HAM BEERS went mad thirty-seven years ago. He was a dangerous lunatic for three years, strait- jacketed, kept in the padded! cell.

Then he recovered sanity, tried to escape the terrible memories of his ill-treatment in American asylums,

To make such things as happened

CHECK TO SOCIAL SERVICES Two boys at Stowe School con- The present Government's policy tracted in October 1932, and all was putting any future advance in the boys were sent home. A recom- social reform out of the question, and mendation was later broadcast by was making it certain that the present the Ministry of Health that schools social services will be cut.

In which the disease appeared should not disperse.

"It will be no use protesting in Aive years' time," he said. "We shall then have to endure increased taxa-

tion and sharper measures of economy Liberal Party Organisation, said, at than in 1931,

Stourbridge recently, "To tell the taxpayer that the now the situation in Spain the Govern

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FASCIST "BLUFF"

What is a

Profession?

(By F. W. Memory)'

THAT is a "profession"?

WH

mental hygiene movement, gave to

That is the problem puzzling taxation experts, the study of insanity siimulus

1 which has brought relief and happi- lawyers, accountants, and the humble taxpayer as a result of "professions" being granted exemption from the new He sought and got the help of National Defence Contribution.

ness to thousands.

kings and cardinals, of the world's

most famous physicians; and he saw As the law stands, the definition of a profession is much a his movement spread about the earth matter of opinion, as there has never been a legal ruling on the until countries which lll-used the in- sone were shamed into giving them point. efficient and kindly treatment.

At Somerset House, the headquarters of taxation in this country, an official who was asked for a definition could only say: "We all know what a profession is when we have to deal with a case. I know quite well, but I do not know that I can put it into words,"

Mr. Boera is in London now un his way to Paris, where mental ex- perts from Aty nations will honour the man who was mad. Beetle-browed, looking much less than his sixty years, Mr. Beers is a DICTIONARY MEANING man of tremendous personality. As I talked to him at the Berkeley Hotel, London. he told me the

Sir James Murray's New story of his three mad years; of English Dictionary does little to his tremendous struggle to convince the world not only of his santly, but elucidate the problem, for it

cribes a "profession" as:

of his mission.

Brother's Tragedy

Haunted Him

After taking his degree at Yale, Mr. Beers started a business carcer. An older brother had suffered from epilepsy and that tragedy preyed on his mind.

Ile was only twenty-four when the) fear of going mad took control of) his life, dominated everything he did.

An Inmate of three asylums, hel was treated with a harshness almost unbelievable.

Yet he regained annity..

PREVIOUS RULINGS

"The Commissioners of Inland Revenue have given certain rulings in the past which may or may not be of Uliene I think the following callings de-accepted for he N.D.C., and in view or vocations may be definitely des- cribed as 'professions":

The occupation which one pro-

and

to tesses to be skilled in follow.

Doctors. Barristers, Architects,

A-A vocation in which a pro- Surveyors,

de Chiropodists. fessed knowledge of some

partment of learning or science 1s

Engineers, used in its application to the affairs Mechanical

Auctioneers, of others or in the practice of an art founded

It. Applied Electrical upon

Engineers, specially to the three learned pro- fessions of divinity, law. and Journalists,

Stock Jobbers. medicine; also to the military pro-i tession.

A BROAD TEST

Clergymen, Solleitors, Dentists.

Accountants,

Consulting

Engineers,

Naval Architects. Artista,

Actuarica, Insurance Brokers

(Consultant).

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SCOTTSBORO CASE gentlemen at the Southern States to

TRIAL ENDS AFTER

SIX YEARS

Decatur, Al., July 24. Alabama State has dropped the charges against four negroes who are being tried for the third time in the of as- Scottsboro came on charges saulting a white woman in 1931. The Court ordered them to be set free forthwith.

A fifth negro, Charlie Weems, has been convicted, and sentenced in 75 years' imprisonment.-Reuter.

demand that her name be added to those of the innocent boys whom they were preparing to lynch, Equal- ly, it is true that the judge at one of the trials eventually repudiated and rejected the testimony of the other woman; but he was too late, also.

Thus, it would seem to

topre- judiced eyes, the whole case for the prosecution had collapsed.

The two supposed victims of rape were discredited. Even one of the white tramps had managed to break. through offcial terrorism and to give evidence for the boys. Justice could nak no less than that the Scottsboro boys should now be set at Uberty. But Justice, alas, had long passed out of the picture; and on its throne now huddled the warped figures of prejudice and fear.

Notorious Trials The Scottsboro Boys were charged More than six on March 25, 1931.

Racial Prejudice years have passed since then. On that day in March, 1031, the negroes

From the beginning of the first who once more have had to face trial fought and beat off the freight trial at Scottsboro to the end of all at Decatur in the belief that less train on which they had all stolen the other trials which have been held o ride a number of white trumps ns

declares Mr. racial prejudice dwell there, the vic- poor as themselves,

ly by the judiciury as by the public. Philip Furneaux in an article in a tims have been persecuted as flerce- London paper recently.

The defeated tramps telephoned Even the defending lawyer allotted to the sherift at Paint Rock, advis at the original trial by the State told up by "a gang of black hooligans." that the local electric company of ing him that they had been beaten his friends before the case began and would he please do something which he was legal adviser would about these desperadoes-whose provide enough power to burn up average age was something under 18. the "little nigger boys." They would be arriving on the next train.

Women's Evidence

"There shouldn't be a trial," men shouted in court: "there shouldn't be a trial: niggers should be lynched on principle."

It was then that the two women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, who were to cause so much unnecessary suffering, appeared on the scene.

They, too, were on the Knowing that their trade was not at Decatur, allowed such comments officially popular they ran away as to go unrebulted.

Counsel and witnesses for the de- soon as the sheriff and his policemen

fence were openly threatened with appeared at Paint Rock station.

So fine a pair of opportunities were death, and the authorities merely not allowed escape. They were encouraged such terrorism: the judge captured, brought to the sheriff's hin

himself attempled-and falled-to office and kept there for three hours. iniimidate Samuel Leibowitz, cour- they ageous attorney for the prisoners at What threats, what cajolery endured during those three hours later trials; and outside the court- will probably now never be known house mobs were walling All we know is that when they came minister the law as they thought fit out of that office they lodged a charge should the verdict be in accordance of rape against the boys. The first with justice. But it never was. and major perjury had been com- mitted..

Ku Klux Klan Judge Judge

Callahan, notorious: Ku train. Klux Klanner, who tried the boys

Lla Repudiated

to ad-

By the beginning of this year the original nine little nigger boys had been reduced to six. Heywood Pat- terson, the eldest, was sent to prison B-In a wider sense: Any call-

"A broad test has has been whether ing or occupation by which a

the person or persons concerned were It is true that one of them later for 75 years; one had been acquitted person babitually earns his living members of the professional body of played the repentant harlot and that and one, because he was little more a. glimmer of conscience urged her than a baby, had at length been re- now usually applied to an octhe calling they followed.

to repudiate her He; but it was too leased.

The six negroes were Andy Wright, cupation considered to be socially

"Thus stock jobbers have been re-inte. In any case, the prosecution

until Charlie Weems, Clarence Norris, superior to a trade or handicraft-garded ng professional men, but not suppressed her

recantation antockbrokers: I think the guide has forced by the defence to produce it. Ozle Powell, Willle Roberson, Olin "Murray's definitions,"

"ean bo made to been that whereas Jobbers are inti-Its production was a signal for the Montgomery. taxation expert So began the great campaign for cover almost every occupation not mately associated with the House,

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Back to business, a business which was prospering. Mr. Beers was un- able to escape the memories of those thai three black years. He knew

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