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The total Expenditure in 1930 on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $27,000, against which the Income to date is $13,000 only.

In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the balance of

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YOU CAN'T DISINHERIT YOUR FAMILY

EGAR.

By

Eleanor Rathbone, M.P.,

pioneer of the movement to combat the injustice of malicious wills. The Inheritance Bill, which is expected to become law in July, will give power of redress to those unfortunate wives, children-and husbands --who may be "cut off with a shilling."

SHADOW of an old under the Bill, only to the hus- band or wife of the Lestator; injustice lying over children under 21; or, if over 21, the homes of innocent to unmarried daughters and dis-

English people is within abled sons.

of

measurable distance

Except in the case of estates being swept away for ever, of less than £2,000 in value, the This is the scandal of unjust court can only make provision willa, by which loyal and blame from the income, and not from less wives or families are left the capital of the estate. destitute through the whim or In cases where the testator left cruel spite of those from whom wife or husband and one or more they naturally expected help. dependents, the court might Private Member's Bill, order that reasonable provision passed un- be made, provided the amount of

A

Hongkong Telegraph. which has just been Reading, such annual income did not ex-

TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1938,

very

GRIN AND BEAR IT

LIFEDE MUST BE HANDY

KEPT

By Lichty

Cept. 1339 bp tinitud Vratuen

"My land, you can't po to dinner that way your life pre-

астостя 'showing!"

HAMISH FRASER, tells

how

HYPNOTISM

H

helps your doctor

has opened the gates of justice ceed two-thirds of the total in- for numerous possible victims of come of the estate.

Where wife or husband only, the future.

or dependents only, are left, the

YPNOTISM is to be pinin his motives for doing cer-

tain acts he does so with If this Bill-the Inheritance amount of annual income which

used to restore

wealth of detail he would shrink (Family Provision) Bill, which the court might order to be pro-

normal balance to a from in a normal state. was so ably piloted by Mr. Stan- vided should not be more than

Told that his fears of ridicule ley Holmes, is equally successful one-half of the total income of girl with a mental kink

whose recurrent turns of are absurd he accepts the state- in the Lords, it will be a further the estate.

Full regard must be given to proof that the private member may still be the means of put ting on the Statute Book really important reforms.

What

power.

is this

SUPPRESSION OF HAWKERS Yesterday a Hongkong magis- trate expressed the opinion that

tion, and acts afterwards on the police of the Colony were

all relevant circumstances, in- irresponsibility led her into ment in his trance without ques- that principle in normal life "working overtime to no good

cluding the conduct of the dis- the dock of a police court. inherited person, and any just

hypnotism? without being really aware of disinheritance,Nothing new, because in the the artificial nature of the boost purpose" in arresting eighty-six

In the debate on the Third reason for the

middle of last century Mesmer, given him. hawkers in Wanchai and West Reading I described myself as before a decision is given.

Opponents of the Bill have calling it then "Animal Magne- Psycho-analysis thus seeks to Point during the week-end. the "great-grand-mother" of the The magistrate is a busy man Bill, and my mind went back to often urged that there are few tism." was attracting throngs to uncover the causes of fears, and anyone can understand and the first measure dealing with hard cases under the existing public displays of the mysterious hypnotism to strengthen resis- tance to them. Either method human the evil of the disinherited law. appreciate his

I introduced in They would change their eati

What is new is that we know is suitable in differing cases.

Being hypnotised is a de. mate of the degree of suffering exasperation at having these family, which

pretty exactly now what it is,

aren't caused by the Englishman's cases put before him when im- 1931.

I have done it to right to cut off his family with what it can be used for, what lightful process if you Tyrannical Spite

We know it is no afraid of it. it can't do. portant matters are occupying hie mind. And in spite of the

THIS was based on the the proverbial shilling if they

could read through the files of weapon for the villain seeking others, to myself, and had it

an innocent tool to commit a done to me. fact that the police appear to

principle of Scottish

You lie on a comfortable think it so, the rounding up of and Continental Law, also fol- letters which I and other pro crime; that stories of its power these unfortunate hawkers is lowed in certain States in Ame- moters of the Bill have received being used to convey people in couch in a half-dark room. You be very comfortably from every part of the country. trance over physical obstacles must the surviving not important, relatively speak-rica, whereby

The most frequent cause of

are dressed, warm, and quite re- such as unbridged chasms

operator talks at ing, to the welfare of Hongkong. spouse or child has a statutory the tragedy is the "second fantasy; that it is not a certain laxed. The Most of them appear to be in-right to a fixed proportion of the woman," to whom the husband cure for all types of nervous you, and goes on talking; the

when transfers his affections

drone is incessant but comfort- offensive enough, trying to earn estate.

ing. You are very warm, very That Bill was referred to a his wife grows old. an honest living, which is more

Typical of these cases is that

comfortable, very lazy, sleepier than can be said for a consider-Joint Select Committee of both

which of the widow of a medical prac-

WE know the exercise of and sleepier, more and more re- able proportion of the lower Houses of Parliament.

reported that a reform was de- titioner in Lancashire of whom

the power requires no luctant to quarrel with the non- class element of this community.sirable, but that it preferred the I have heard. Married

You find your limbs moving The scores of cases of snatching plan followed in many parts of her husband was only a student, supernatural gifts, but is within sense talked to you.

effortlessly at the operator's and other minor crimes which the Dominions whereby a dis- she even entered domestic aer-the reach of anyone with a ready tongue; that it can benefit thou-

a sharp pinch come before the magistrates are inherited wife, husband or child vice to enable him to have money sands of cases of minor trouble command; that

imparts no pain. You know he such as those of students ap is all right. What he says proof enough on that point. Be- has the right of appeal to the to take his degree.

For many years they were proaching an examination who

goes, You lose interest, and sides, it is considerably better to

These, at their discretion, happily married. Then her hus-want to work but cannot con- wake up at last at his orders, have hawkers, even unlicenced

provision to be band met a younger woman, to centrate; that it is a short cut

disappointed it rather whom he left all his money. Now hawkers, peddling their pitiful order suitable

daily employed in psychological finished. goods in the streets and making made out of the estate.

As it has passed the House of his widow is almost penniless. clinics to obvinte

Now not everyone can be put She just manages to exist on painful questioning which lead under easily like that. Easy enough money to buy themselves

courts.

when

disorder.

Used Daily

months of

a bowl or two of rice and fish, Commons, the present Bill. re- some public relief, and on slen-ittle farther towards the elucida-subjects are bluff fellows, ready than to have them begging in Presents a compromise. It does der assistance from her father, ition of the source of trouble.

ones.

which issue these licences, it is impossible to criticise.

But on

senior

the evidence of the magistrate this body in action, from con- himself it appears that some-stables thing is radically wrong with officers, the system. If old people are to being told.

to the most

knows that without In an emergency

to listen to anyone's tale of mis- not give everything that some of who has an old-age pension. their full force. The magis-us would wish.

Essentially the technique is fortune, to laugh at their own I have before me a letter from

One might think trate, commenting on the ques- But it does provide at last a woman living at a South Coast that of high-pressure salesman- mistakes.

ship. There's not much differ- they would never have need of tion of licensing these people, what English law, alone among town, who says:

My father died in 1907 leaving ence in kind whether I set out treatment themselves. Yet, ac- observed that it appeared to be the codes of civilined countries,

£60,000. He left my mother an to convince you that I have a tually they are of a type that, easier for young men and women has lacked for so long.

four powder which, sprinkled on your tends to run through life in a Husbands, wives, or children annuity of £250, and his to procure permission to sell

un annuity of £60. nwn, will make mowing unneces- series of peaks and depressions. What they need is temporary their little wares than for the old disinherited through no fault of daughters

until the pendulum Surely this is manifestly their own, by some tyrannical The remainder was left to a re-sary, or that you are far from

the other way. unfair. Without any knowledge spite or acnile whim, are given ligious body. We could not up-being a human mouse, but actu- control set the will on grounds of in-ully a lion that has only got to swings.

to normal, of the requirements of the some protection.

Right of appeal against an anity, though he suffered from step out to secure your proper Hypnotism can help them back

share of good fortune.

Inaccessible, however, are the requirements of the authorities alleged "unjust will" is granted, intense religious mania.

Our old home. near London You would like to be able to quict people who dwell pre- was left to my mother for her deal with your lawn so easily dominantly in an inner life, ob- lifetime. She cannot afford to you would like to be a human serving the real world as it were live in it. At her death it goes lion. To achieve the latter is through a pane of glass which

At our much easier. to the religious body.

shields their sensitive natures death this gets the whole estate.

The he-man properties are al- from ordinary contasts. In- We were good and obedient ready there, but dormant; kept stinctively they shrink from children and did nothing to de-in check by fears.

the attempts of the hypnotist to of making a meagre living as efficient. But it does not require serve this harsh treatment.

These fears may be due to take control, for he is apt to be hawkers, they have no recourse, any immense courage or ability Left With 4 Children something simple, such as the an ordinary sort of person with fact that they laughed at you 40 magic to distinguish him MANY of the Casca at school because your face was to mendicucy. They are too would seem that Hongkong is so

brought to my notice always spotty,. because old- So they listen acquiescently to slow, in all probability, to be well policed that officers are successful thieves. One would able to concentrate on these un-reveal a degree of spite and vin- fashioned parents kept you in all he says, while an inner voice think that they would be given fortunate offenders against our dictiveness, which is almost in-shorts long after contemporaries all the time says, "What a dull

A City of London solicitor tells trousers. They may be due to

were arrayed in the dignity of bore!" And they don't respond

in the slightest. all the assistance possible by code. The thought that they

Now, you people who are feel- authority to keep them out of have nothing more important to me of a woman client who was something farther back of which

ing. desperate about your shame to do should really bo gratifying left a widow with four children you are unaware, mischief. It is a

nerves, don't be afraid of going punish them for trying to earn But to be candid, a good many by the sudden death of her hus-

Fears

to a specialist about it; don't BRY, "I won't let you put me to enough to live on in the only way people feel, with the magistrate band, a. business man working in

the alcop; I'm afraid." If you are that seems to be open to them. who first raised the criticism, India.

HYPNOTISM puts After living with her husband It is not too much to say that that the prosecution of hawkers

recop the wrong type to get beneßt. Hongkong possesses one of the particularly those who are not to England to educate the child- tive frame of mind so that his from it, you wouldn't go in the fours are revealed. The queries first place, and secondly the doc- finest police forces in the Far permanent nuisances-is rathor

While she was using her own and commands of the doctor are tor would not dream of apply- East. Anyone who has had an more than a waste of time. It

those of a master: Told to ex- ing it. (Continued on Page 4.) opportunity to see the officers of is almost persecution.

be deprived of the opportunity they are cool, calm and highly

in most instances, except to turn to round up 86 hawkers.

It

credible.

in India for 17 years she came

ren.

patient into a

from the crowd.

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