1939-02-22 — Page 3

The Parish That Never Wakes Up

1 P.M. PYJAMAS PUZZLE VICAR

So Do Parishioners-

They Vanish

WALKING the long stretch of faded glory that is Sinclair-road, West Kensington, W., recently the Rev. A. L. Poole, vicar of St. Matthew's said:

"Mark the time; it is almost one o'clock. I think we shall see at least one dressing-gown or pyjama before we reach the vicarage."

Deeply puzzled is Father Poole, ex-Army, ex-Navy chaplain. His pariah defeats him-in this sense; he cannot make up his mind what time his parishioners rise.

He has asked (in his parish magazine), "What Time Do You Risc. Please?" He wants to arrange the most convenient times for Sunday Masses.

THE VICAR WAS RIGHT

He thought he was pretty certain to see some of Sinclair-road still in) a state of night undress, although long ago the morning air had swept across the heath and the trees had been a'coughing in the midday breeze.

Father Puole did not err.

Three hundred yards produced; One (believed)" nightgown, dress- ing-gowned; und

Three dressing-gowns (other par-, ments indistinguishable).

Ile said: "11 is a strange placs. "I have been here a little over five: years. In Unt time children und adults have been confirmed. Rough- ly, 50 remain faithful to the church,

10 have just left and refuse to listen

ny persuasion.

to

"But the really astonishing thing is

Man Who Wanted To Be

Alone

LEICESTER.

RECAUSE he wanted to bc

alone, forty-eight-year-old

Mr. It. H. Astill, a bachelor and leading Leicestershire farmer, "vanished" to a building on his farm in Kirby Bellairs, near Melton Mowbray,

recently.

the remained there wille police and yohanteers curched the county

Wednesday,

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Storms sweeping in from the North Atlantle over the British Isles recently brought

blanketed a variety of weather. Snow

Lon- dou's ancient thoroughfares and here is the Sphinx on the Thames river embankaneat shown in a winter setting. Extreme cold caused mich suffering mong London's omnipresent army of the unem- ployer.

Police Try Brake

Tests On The Road

LONDON.

METROPOLITAN police patrol cars. are being for him, and dragged ponds, fearing; equipped with decelerometers, and will shortly begin he had been drowned."

Later Mr. Astill walked into the giving brake tests on the road in the London area to cars Noel Arms Inn, Burton-street, Mel-whose brakes may be defective. from the baptism register I find that; ton Mowbray, and ordered a glaze of

that 70 have completely disappeared.

"That may round disteartening, but

about 00 per cent. Of the parents was here and a packet of biscuits. The The mobile police have no intention of embarking on bring their children to be baptised landlord and several customers whe a strenuous campaign of prosecution. The present policy

disappear leaving no trace of had helped to search for him w.rv

astonished, and some One toki I police sergeant.

their new addresses.

It is disappointing, although suppose that with such a large and unwieldy parish as this and with such a huge floating population, our must expect some discouragement."

7-MINUTES SERMON

met

Mr. Astill spoke to the sergeant, and later went home.

le was by his sister,, who was overjoyed to see him.

Mr. Astill said "I was worried and felt I wanted to be alone.

M all services recently Father "I went to a building on my farm, Poole had 350 communicants: 150 of and sometimes gaw people starching them were children. And to children | for some one. I had no fire, but 1, Father Puole made a special anneal, managed to keep warm with a pile!

He gave a seven-minutes sermon, of overcoats and old rugs.” prefaced it saying:

talk to the children. quiet."

Meanwhile,

"I am going tol

Others can keep Arrested For

Being Engaged

Sleepy-Bollow-core- to-London, iirred uneasily in its bed. stretched out a tire hard to brdig in the morning milk.

Stanley Holloway

Herr Rolph Muller, a young Ger- Imam, and Fraulein Fredă Rathus, aj ¡Polish Jewers, were

at married

February

22, 1939. Library, Supreme Court

EMPIRE NEWS

SIR ABE BAILEY'S WARNING

Cope Town.

Sir Abe Balley issued a statement ecently strongly advising "the people of South Atrien, Dutch and English, to remain under the protection of the, British Navy."

The statement was issued ns t reply to a speech made by Mr. Louw, 11 Nationalist M... and former Minister of the Ugion in Puris, In which he declared that Gen. Hertzog,

Prime Atinister, was "now 45- cociated with Imperialists ke Sir Abe Bailey."

Sir Abe advised South Africans "to stand as one man la defence of our rights and wrties, and so prevent Hitler from treating our people as he has treated the Jews.

"The meaning of liberty," he ndled, "Is now in the hands of the Dutch, and the natural sentiment of the Dutch and the English is overwhelm- ingly to work amicably together."

ROBERTS HEIGHTS

JohannesbuNSE. There is now every prospect of n compromise being reached in the acute controversy created by chank- ing the name of Roberts Heights to Voortrekkerhoogle,

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It is understood that Gen. und Mr. Pirow, Minister of Defence, agreed recently on a proposal favour of retaining the name Roberts Heights for the post office, railway slation and the wireless station military headquarters, and renaming only the military camp Voortrekker- hoogte,

nt

It is expected that the compromise will be generally acceptable if Gen. tertzog, the Prime Minister, who is now being consulted, agrees. AUSTRALIA

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Canberra.

being education rather than coercion, drivers whose brakes have been found wanting will be given a warning science, including Mr. il. G. Wells, unless the circumstances are exceptional.

Many distinguished British men of

were among the hundreds of delegates who attended the Jubilee Cangress Nor is there any intention of setting an impossibly high New Zealand Association for the Ad- here recently of the Australian and standard of efficiency. The regulations under which the police vancement of Science. The meeting are empowered to make these tests require that brakes shall be opened in a temperature of 103 de- kept in such condition that "under the most adverse circum-çes in the shade, stances" they are able to stop the car "within a reasonable distance."

The presidential address on "The History of Australian Selence" was I delivered by Prof. Ernest Scott, the Obviously some latitude in inter-swinging forward DA the car is 'Australian historian, Mr. Wells talk- pretation is necessary, for the same braked to a standstil and actuatinged on "The Role

English In the stopping efficiency cannot be ex scale on which the efficiency of Development of the World Mind." pected of two-wheel brakes as of braking power can be read off.

Tiearly four-wheel. and there are still many

800 delegates and their wives and friends crowded Canberra car on the road with two-wheel

for the congress. brakes.

11 has been in use for some time by police in other parts of the country, notably in Lancashire and Hampshire.

ON RUNNING-BOARD The instrument the police will use

They fest met at a party in Leip-

brakemeter, or decelerometer, which The announcement that Mr. Stan-in, and fell in love. Twice, while has been in use for a number of ley Holloway, the actor, was married in Germany, they were arrested for years by car-testers for motoring) in Manchester on January 9, came as being engaged, and were put in arms and car journals.

Stroud, Glaucestershire, recently. to make the tests is the Tapley Girls 'Don't Want

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Thirty schoolgirls aged fifteen and a surprise recently to the manage- jconcentration carap for breaking the It can be readily mounted on the sixteen demonstrated recently in the ment of the Opera House, Manchester, Nart law forbidding Aryans to be running board or some other part of streets of Saint-Poe, small town in where he playing the part of betrothed to Jews. Abanazor

a car and gives a percentage reading Northern France, because 100 boya in the

On their release Fraulein Bathus of brake dileloney. A simple mathe-week ago are housed in their school. pantomimc

whose college was burned down a "Aladdin."

iled to her parents in Paris, and later matical formula can be used to con- came to England, On Christmas

The girls marched through the chester Register Omlee. The bride. The bride has been domestic servant!

The marriage took place in a Man-Day she was joined by Here Muller vert the eleleney percentage into

stopping distance in feet at

streets shouting "We don't want Violet Marion Lane, was described as to Met and Mrs. Rupert Evans. The

speed.

boys in our school." Then they held રા spinster, Mr. Holloway

a meeting and decided to strike Culls. Stroud, and the bridegroom is It works on the principle of against lessons until "the naughty, working on Mr. Evans's farm. I damped pendulum, the pendulum fnoisy boys" are taken away.

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