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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1948.

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AN

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Sitting

NATHANIEL

GUBBINS, pssendios philosopher, phoney scientist, half a doctor, half a muark, and the biggest political fool in Britain, has revived his strong-arm party, which pro- mises the electorate a sock on the jaw all round.

Six thousand newspapermen from all parts of the world were invited to his new home. "The Sea Nest," to hear his plans to reform the world.

Only one turned up. a.tiny man in an enormous bowler hat, who said he was the political correspondent of the Tooting Bugle when he wasn't Aunt Betsy in Peg's Own Paner.

In order to traprom his mucjente with his love of democracy and his svnathy for the working man. Sir Nathaniel was dressed no shabbily as possible.

His famong tweed jacket, Moth's Reish, and his infamous and insani-

on the Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

"We shall have plenty of time. think we are, whining about The party will last 1,000 years, if fate, It lasts a day, which is unlikely."

"Wit menibers of the party secur coloured shirts?"

"What do you think Pm-in this racket?" asked Sir Nat, pushing the little fool out of the door before he Anished the rum.

Letter from a Pig

Sir,

sary tres flannel trousers, Elephant's Dof your constant readers.

Leys, had been dragged out of at old trunk and More WOTIL with studied nonchalance,

He was even smoking a pine, to make him Irink First, boat of noty burned his tomgire and made him feel,mek,

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IN

FREEDOM OF THE SEANCE

BY STANLEY BISHOP

N 1735 the Wcheraft Act was passed by a Parlia

ment of King George the Second.

Until then witchcraft had been punishable by death, and during the Stuart period the average number of executions for witchcraft was nearly 200 a year.

Women and men were housed on hearsay evidence and gossip for denling with "Wicked and Ert Spirits; for witcheraft; sorcery and incantation.”

Although the Act of 1735 abolished prosecutions for being a witch or a wizard, it laid down punishments for persons pretending to have such arts and powers "whereby ignorant people are frequently deluded and defrauded."

It is because of that "prefending" clause that repent of the Witchcraft Act in sought by M.P.s in sonnection with the new Criminal Justice D1}.

For in recent years the old Act of 1795 has been ured for criminal court proceedings against Splektualist mediums.

The allegation in the charges. has been of "pre- tending to have such arts and powers by which the Kuorant are defrauded,"

A MENACE

A NUMBER of Spiritualist mediums have been con-

victed under the Witchcraft Act.

Police have taken action against suspected bogus mediums under the Act because it is the easiest-and to their mind most appropriate-legal Instrument.

On the other side, earnest Spiritunllata feel that the Witchcraft Act is a perpetual menace to their beliefs oral to the practice of Spiritualism.

Their ro

contention is that the Act ratches In its net impostors and innocent people alike, and that for

the

purpose of dealing with impos- ters there is nothing the Act can to that cannot be done better by common law practice.

Mr. Chuter Ede, Home Secretary,

in a letter to the Spiritualists' Union, declared that the essential element of offence under the Act was fraud and Imposture. The Act. he was advised

imposed የኪና restraint or

right of every person

in this country. freedom

to enjoy freedom of religious common law practice.

ration and leavestriction on the

saves the meat more for those who can't eat fish,

"Hut me? wouldn't say thank you for a sturgeon. which is zap- posed to belong to the King.

"And as for them bits of plaice and soles, why I'd throw them in the dustbin if I didn't know my hus bar would drag them out again.

does. because

the ent

like always hungry.

he's

Another change sought through the Criminal Justice B11

the Affect Vagraney Act of 1824.

Under this Act also, mediums and fortune-tellers can be prosecuted. puhee nurt A clause in the Act states that a charge can be made against "every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle crafi, means or device,

"And then there's cheese." she by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive our salt, Gnishing her stent with a little at impse on any of His Majesty's

As I have said, we are resigned

burt "How anybody but mice can subjects." eat cheese beats me hollow, I know

SAFEGUARDS

haphazard prosecutions.

to it and often wish there were my father would never have it

In E amendments proposed will more of us so that every English the house, unless it was a bit of St-I leave powers against the for- "If we don't get some party funds

stomach could be filled, won't have

especially on at Christmas, os he said breadtune-teller and palmist, but will Rhy soon, the party

the children's stomachs. ahirts, coloured or not."

We often and cheese was a Inbourer's dinner. provide safeguards against ill-advised "You are going to nak for party worry about hungry children.

"And I suppose I take after him. funda, then?**

But we do think the Government herause although we get plenty

Spiritualists have always protested of against the fact that under the should do more to protect us from cheese on account of my husband terms of the Vagrancy Act, 1824, they amateurs and ensure, as far as pos- being: in the heavy

industry. I'd can be classed, in theory, as "rogues sible, that we meet a merciful end throw

that in the dusthin. at the hands of experts.

tno, and vagabonds." rather than let the grocer have it. Both Actr-the Witchcraft Act, After all, you might be resignett

1735, and the Vagrancy Act, 1824- "But I keep it for my husband, are now to have your tooth cul.

should anhchronisins, and but you who Hea ft toasted On a bit of wouldn't like it done in the dark by bread, even if it

bc modified in the light of present- does give him bloodthirsty plumber.

thought. Bay chronie digestion, because he says Hoping your wife and family are the

But while Parliament may change Army Service Corps always or abolish the Witchcraft Act, be- well.

pinched his cheese ration and he's lef in witchcraft is still prevalent In 1 remain, Str.

trying to make up for it. Your faithfully.

many country parts of England.

In a recent case "No." she said, settling down to court, a married couple was found in a Wiltshire a fresh glass of stout. "one of your to have been using cantations and mick-mucks for mc. Not all the burning salt to protect a child from

of Food put together evil spirits. couldn't furve me to eat nick-mucks, On the Welsh borders, some though I don't mind a bit of chicken (villagers shut their windows light or duck for a change.

at night to prevent night sir wilches

lying into their homes. a common belief that a midwife can

And in Norfolk, and Suffolk-it-is-

By to a woman in child-birth on a witch's broomstick,

may crave the hospitality of your valuable eolumn to draw public at- tention to the unenviable situation af present day pies during the fun! crisis and Pus eingement increase in black market activities?

arc

Although pirs are, resigned to their inevitable end

and

realistic enough to be aware that the eventual conversion of their berfies into chops,

A Piz.

The starving people y

"NO

10," said the fat woman, "I've never enten margarine and I ever shall. Give it to them what likes H. that's what 1 may, but not mult, mesit, neat hot and plenty of "But generally speaking, give me

"GOOD MORNING," he said to hams_and_prince

their raison d'etre, they consuler ij më,

that a national scandal.

energetic "Ever since I can remember I've it. stone have not mo far been taken to never vaten margarine because my

them from the unirderosis, father would never have it in the proter! unskilled hands of amateurs who do house, him being what he was, :1 their dirty work in back yards and master craftsman in the building. lonely sheds where there is no stiper- \"Of course my husband eats it bey then he was in the Kaiser's

the time seribe, who lonkert like a mushroom in his great. dusty Iritt. “Thanks so much for corning.“

"That's all ruṭht,”

squeaked the little creature. "I had nothing else to do and I thought there might be a drink in it."

"Please ask

any questions vou like." said Sir Not, putting balf a bottle of rum and a glass on the table.

"When will the Suck On The Jane party start work?" asked the dwarf, "It might start on you if you don't go steady with the rum." replied Sir Nat. "You're just about the right size."

"Will you put up candidates?"

"We shall put up candidates just for the fun of knoeking them down. As. there will be no Parliament we don't need any candidates."

"If you mined power would you permit au?"

purposes."

"Only for "How can

your party be defeated if all opponents are socked?

vision and to voice, ofBeint or other cau and when they was up to their i

wise, raised in protest,

what names in mud a bit of mar-

Tin ke my father for that."

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

If this sort of thing happened varit here and there didn't make INTO the row between Frustra. Tirlitontaine

us difference.

tionism and Presupposition- ism crashes the merciless Snod-

In Germany or Italy, or, for that mutter, in any foreign country, we could understand it, because we are

"As a matter of fact, they never ling aware that foreigners are not nor- rot nothing else unless they Wad ally se scrupulous In their attitude oifleers, and my husband was never towards helpless creatures, and re- that, being! gard kimsiness to animals as a joke. Our might even say that they re- card kindness to each other as joke.

لایمان

condemned by

il

a bit of a food though

elever in his own way, If you know what I mean.

"S he's got used to it, as you might say,

and wouldn't know the difference.

causation

What is needed in public life is a new apivitual force

(Report of speech.)

Rs I lost in

and

He maintains that Nenatisme, the French version of Postsuppos)- "Bring back the tionism, is merely Poopooism in a youth." sang the printer merrily. new disguise. He says that the great charneteristic of our time is that The present situation philosophy has become exible and that arui mobiln

FOULENOUGH is APTAIN less essential as an explanation of V Vita Brevis are to meet next effect than the slow process of, pre- week for a discussion which both. eausation. This is to make nonsense believe will be a turning-point in of Liebig's theory of marginal prob their lives. The position is simple. ability, from which derives the con- Foulenough has always liked pretty clusion come to by Bellwether-that women.

When

they have mones, he ellect precedes cause.

like them even more. He thinks She's right, you know

Vita

is rich, but she is not. Vita doesn't like him much, but her THE fat women took a pull at her Day 1 venure to suggest that money."

family are pestering her to "marry THE

so as to buy back the

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stout, which Jeft л bubbly,

EAR Sir,

But we thought England was dif-

"But I'd like to see that Strachey ferent. In fact, we often told our-

margarine. He'd selves we were lucky to be English trying to give me pists, lucky to be plys in a country have to hold my nose and force it where cruelty to the smallest and down my throat and even then I'd meanest of creatures is regarded by spit it back at him."

jority with horror and dis- "It won't be defeated unless our fust and is loudly opponents are better than us at sock- public opinion. ing people. It will depend on which

Indeed,

believed that the side has the more skilful boxers."

English were regarded as peculiar brown moustache across her thick the quarrel between the Frustra family seat, Meadhall, "How could

the people express and "different" because they could upper lip.

tlonists and the Presuppositionists dissatisfaction?"

be roused to anger by things which "And "Only by getting up at the count hud na efect on the emotions of the atout is Ash," she said. "My father able to follow if they

another thing I'm funny would be easier for the uninstructed of nine and taking another sock."

callous foreigner; because they were always said that "Would you have a State police?”

Ash was for the what it was all about? "Everybody in the party would be weak: because

big enough to have pity for the tower classes, so he wouldn't have it

Yrs, faithfully, they had the rare in the house. Not A policeman. All the rest would be quality of mercy.

(Miss) Constance Rivers. even a bit of tinned salmon. in prison."

Therefore, we have been pro-

I suppose

I take after hing I'd foundly shocked by recent happen-, because never have it in ings. Although we are convinced house either, except for my husband, ถ kipper for his ten be- that such things are done, only by who likes

he never the greedlest and most unworthy of cause

got one in the English race, it has taught us to trenches, and still looks upon it as beware of generalizations.

kind of treat. "There are 200,000,000 Russlans. While making this protest I hope "So I give him all the kippers he Wouldn't it take rather a long time?" that none of your readers will can swallow, as it fills him up and

"Who would do the work of the country?"

"Prisoners."

"What is your attitude towards Russia?".

"I would rock the lot, starting with Molotov."

NANCY

The Height of Fashion

OH, AUNT FRITZI--- WILL YOU GIVE ME A HAIR-DO LIKE

THIS MODEL?

OKAY

So

HEY --- WHY

I CAN'T

ARE YOU WALKIN' ON YER TOES, NANCY ?

KELP IT

the

the

were tol

WHY NOT

USE RAILING

RUST?

By Ernie Bushmiller

AUNT FRITZI PULLED MY HAIR UP SO

TIGHT

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