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Britain and Free Speech
A day seldom posues in which Home London newspaper does not
YOU MUST
So
I asked
BE CAREFUL if they had
WHAT YOU
T
-N wartime every letter that enters or leaves Britain, except in the Diplomatic bag of a neutral embassy, must pass through the postal censorship.
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PICKED up my Bible and read in the second
chapter of St. Luke:
"And she brought forth her firstborn son..... and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."
In those few words is contained the most significant story- the history of the world.
can be made from drugs which At present this entails a great any one can buy without causing It is easy enough to develop officialdom restricting the freedom less when the department is
working properly. The censor them if you know what ink is of British life. A render of the ship has three legitimate pur- being used. During the last war. London press, recently arrived in poses namely, to stop spies every censorship tried to pro- 000 England, might come to the con- from sending information, to duce a universal developer which
clusion that Britain had ceased to stop other information which would show up all kinds of secret in
would be useful to our enemis, writing, as the charcoal in a gas and to interfere with enemy mask will stop all the very poi-birth of Jesus of Nazareth in the stable at Bethlehem.
Age-long custom has made Christmas-time an occasion for trade and finance. Its misuse sonous gases; for other purposes can be pro- Perhaps we have found such a rejoicing and good will among men. It is the feast of the Re- Yet if he asked himself how he vented if Parliament does its developer, but I am not very deemer of Mankind.
optimistic about it. If not, we
And while we rejoice we might,young boys who had come to such a conclusion, he duty in protecting our rights. would surely think it significant lot of quite innocent people have still got a number of first-take pains to read again the story of preparatory schools. Either they re-
send information which must be rate chemists who have not been the birth of Christ as recorded in the sent Biblical
Holy Bible. that he had been led to it by read-stopped. For example, if a called up for National Service.
Do you read your Bible?
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democracy and governed by a dictatorial bureau-
cracy.
We are about to celebrate the 1.939th anniversary of the
Ing the public press. Was there woman in a seaport writes to FINALLY we have A fumous general declared recently
trade that never a day passed without his not a pleasure. underground
in
Auggest desirable, reform?
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"
come to me from
teaching or they positively-know nothing about the Bible at all.
"The Bible to them is a penance and It has been a matter ever a purely authoritarian State sister in Holland that she cannot
or New Testament. The remark boys who have come into my charge which permitted such free discus-sleep for the noise of the trains,
this means that the port is being with the enemy. The Germans, reading a passage of either the Old of astonishment to me that scores of They eause for some reason or other even the big dramatic stories of the sion of grievances? Is there any used on a large scale; perhaps will soon be in desperate need occasioned some astonishment, be- since the war are quite unaware of mention in German press of the for sending troops abroad; and of many raw materials,
may be able to buy, some of soldiering and religion do not seem Old Testament-the call of Sainuci, Nemesis that waited on and the suppression of news or of the the letter must be held up..
You may be sure that your these from their neighbours, if to go together, although in point of the tragedy of Samson, the beautiful
men have been soldiers. character of German propaganda? ;
Nazi they can make the manufactured fact some of the most Cod-fearing character of Ruth, the story of David, friends Bren't
Every day before the House of Nebuchadnezzar.
"Are there no Bibles in the homes. Is anyone in Germany, in print, or foreign
But some materials, like rub- Commons embarks on the questions public speech, permitted to "gents, but the nation can't take goody to pay for them.
chances in wartime. Things will
reads a passage from the 67th Psalm country? Is religious teaching some-.
the modern *prep."7" criticle the administration or to be much easier if the Govern. ber, can only come by routes and debates of the hour the Chaplain of the well-nurtured youth of the
and cause His face to shine upon in lie ment tell us in full detail what controlled by the British Navy.God be merciful to us and bless thing that is postponed to a later day A country parson visiting London, leading corramercial of kinds of things we must not Synthetic rubber cannot replace jus: : It is remarkable evidence
it for all purposes, and can only And at the coronation of our Kings, staying at
is hotel in the City of London for the Great Britain's retention of the write.
Then there are the not-quife. be made by men and machines the newly crowned Sovereign
"I had reason to ask if there was a democratic attitude that, though so-innocent people who try to and from materials which would given a Bible by the Primate with week-end, said, a little sadly:
present you with this Book, the most Bible in the hotel, and although the world staff looted everywhere they could explosives. So the Nazis will try valuable thing that this news about military matters and get things pust the censor. For otherwise be used for making the words, "Our Gracious King, we foreign policy is obstinately cen-example, when there was
royal law; these are the lively oracles
On the other hand, a member of Parliament, who has lately been nored, there is no restraint what-shortage of fat in 1917 a woman to get rubber by every possible affords. Here is wisdom: this is the not find one."
It will be supposed to be for of God."
prominent in the House, confessed: In Wormwood Scrubs
"My Bible is the first of my bedside soever on general comment except wrote in Germany, that there means.
were big queues waiting to see 011 that imposed by the critics
a music-hall star called G. R. cycle tyres or gelashes in neutrál
In the course of the past few days books. I try, even after the most countries, and there will be large themselves. New orders and re-Ease!
fortunes for those who supply 1 have spoken to many and various, prolonged session, to read a chapter
people of all sorts and conditionsjor, two. And last come the real spics. it.
"I open it at random but almost Kulations are frankly discussed.
about the Bible.
verses which There was a London man-about- always I find some Complaints against hardship are They can't send cipher messages is beginning QVAXL, but they can
TRADING with the
18 mure enemy can only be town. He had lived a carefree life arrest attention, which are helpful freely ventilated. The press
fle had been self-indulgent. One and of guldarice. There active in giving expression to what use apparently harmless invoices
as codes if they are in a com. checked by carefully examining evening after a wild party he was philosophy in the Old Testament than for ง motoring offence in all the other hocks of the world' all commercial documents going arrested t..e people are thinking, and Mun-mercint office,
And a
few other reactions. bers of Parliament are alert in Or they can have a prearranged abroad, and in the case of some and the courts sent him to Wormwood together,"
For the first week the only litera-
The porter at the block of flats. asking questions in the House and code. "The cat had auvon kit commodities by abolishing pri. Scrubs for two months.
means that seven trans- vate foreign trade altogether, asture allowed in his cell was a copy where I live:
of the Bible.
"I nm s Spiritualist: I am aware extracting answers and explana-tens'
"I thought that the issue of the of the after life. My ballet has tons from Ministers, which in ports left a port last week, was done in 1914-18.
Honest traders will agree to reported in the Aunt Lottie is not so well"
of punishment," he said. "But that as such. their turn, . are
means that there are four battle- such measures only if they are Bible to prisoners was a subtle form nothing to do with Christion teaching "But I read the Bible, because, ships in the harbour, and "Aunt sure that the regulations will be was before I began to read it-the
although, porters are not supposed The result is that publle opinion, Lottie is up again" means that used only for national ends, and Book I had hated as much at school as
that those who are found guilty did Caesar's "Gallle War" and only to have either imagination or much because of the way in which we were
Ing in the world. Every story that has anxious to back up the Government they have put out to sen.
Aunt Flora stands for three of trading with the enemy will forced to read those things as discl-culture, I find it is the greatest reads in regard to all restrictions which battleships, and so on. This sort be treated as severely as any pline.
the Bible." "But in my cell I began to realise ever been told is to be found in much are necessary in war, is exerting of thing is hard to check, until other traitors.
A censorship is necessary, but Bible, even from the second verse of
the newer, fresher bonuty of the more exclting form
A Mother's Advice coaseless. pressure on to remove some one notices that the ent
ASUNDAY school teacher:
surprised at your abuse or rectify mistakes. Errors, has kittens every month, or that it will be extremely and deserv- Gentals, And the Spirit of God "Even when the time come that I of course, seem inevitable. The in- the writer has seventeen aunts! edly unpopular unless its dutics moved upon the face of the waters.
THIS kind of code only are explained to the people, its
was allowed none ghter reading I qucation. Of course I read the Bible, dispensable bureauerat exceeds and
works for routine in- work supervised by Parliament, found myself turning to the Bible, and I make my class learn-passages will doubtless continue to exceed the justifiable limita of his far-formation such as troop move and workers in it who exceed Now when I feel a little lonely and by heart because it is gord for them. well, I often pick up the Bible and every Sunday for their scrapbooks so that they may always be reminded ments. A spy can also use in- their duties are transferred to depressed and things are not going. "And I give them Illustrated texts:
of what they ought to know."/ reaching powers. But never be ink. One can write be- jobs where they are no longer a wedge I like.
A labourer remaking the road
road close to where I live: yond n ́certain point. The people tween the lines of an ordinary, nuisimice, to their fellow citizens. are not silenced. The public will letter, using a colourless solution. If these things are done, I be- is not ignored. Crent as are the which, shows up when treated lleve that the public will accept the necessity, for the censorship sacrifices and the losses of freedom with the right chemical,
A great many kinds of in- as they have accepted the need which war involves the democratic
visible inks are known, and some for black-outs, unctiona are atili 'operative.
papers,
of a
Then there was the cano None In The Homes? -
sen unter at one of our big public). schools. He said:
or In feet, anything at all except the "I have no time to read the Bible, football resula and the pool papers..
"I am amazed at the Ignoratice. PLEASE Turn To Pago 5.
concerning the Bible among the
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