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24 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1929. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR dictation is to become an intellectual and economic slave. Yours, John Brophtt. 53. Lionel Road, Gunnersburv Park, Brentford, December 3.

CURTAINS FOR GLORIOSA. By Con O'Leary. I had waited a day and a half to see Gloriosa a day and a half in a cul-de-oac outside a bolted door. Had I knocked, I might as well have hoped to wake Duncan with my knocking as to be vouchsafed reply. Alae! I was but one of many who kept that wintry bivouac.

God help our playgoers on a night like that. We the potential audience on our ROAD TRANSPORT. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, Mr. Cyril Boustead appears to be a little behind the times in his information about motor taxation.

Since the year he mentions, which ended March 31, 1927, the yield of the motor-vehicle taxes has been much increased, and the total amount of motor taxation has grown enormously, owing to the imposition of a petrol tax in 1928 with the object of relieving certain classes of ratepayers. In my letter I was discussing the position as it now is, not as it used to be in the year 192fi-7. I quite agree with Mr. Boustead that motor transport probablv the laigest single user of the roads; but that is no reason why the many other useis of the loads, including the horse vehicles io largely owned by the railway companies, should be exempt from taxation. The grievances of the ratepayers, if any, should surely be directed towards those road-users who do not contribute towards the cost of road maintenance rathei than towards motor transport, which does.

Mr. Boustead suggests that road finance should be amended to harmonise with the changed circumstances of traffic on the roads, by which he means the growth of motor traffic. This, of course, has been done first, bv Mr. Lloyd Genrse in his 1910 Budget, when the Road Fund A GREAT LIGHT AT BART'S." Prince Launches Million Pounds Appeal. "TEMPLE OF HEALTH." (From our London Staff.) Fleet Street, Wednesday.

When the Prince of Wales had finished his moving appeal for St. Bartholomew's Hospital this evening he turned an electric switch on the table in front of him, and set revolving a great light on the roof. This for months to come will remind London of the great effort which was started to-day to raise 1,000,000 for the oldest hospital in London, whose record of service has lasted through eight centuries and 27 reigns. Theie is a very little of Rahere's religious foundation left in stone in the huge blocks of buildings, which for the most part date from the early eighteenth century. A great scheme of reconstruction has become urgent, and has now begun in the building of new surgical THE WEATHER.

Forecasts for To-day. The Meteorological Office issues tha following forecast for the period from 6 a.m. to-day till midnight to-night: Ci'neral Inference An intense depression off "Western Ireland is moving rapidly cast. north-emit mnd cause unsettled conditions, with rain and strong winds, reaching gale lorce at timo, to become general oer the y-hole country. Th sales iU be severe in tho t-outhern Irieh Sea.

and in tho English Channel. Bright periods alternating with, showers and Ioc.it hail spread from tho most later in tho day, accompanied bv tall 111 temperature. London Stronc eouthcrljr or southeasterly winda, reaching pale force at times, veering later; cloudy with rain morning and atternooti; occasional brighter with honors Liter evening; at first, cooler iatcr. and E. Knetind.

E. Midlands Strong southerly or outh-caterlv md. reaching gale torca at times, Tcering later; rlmtdv. vrith rain morning and afternoon; occasional brighter interval, with later mild at first, cooler dW. jand X.

V. Kngland. and S. S. and N.

Wales Strong southerly reaching gile force at tine-. vceriiiK later; cloudy, rainv at first. (veaic.r.at brighter internals, TMth s-howcr. later: mild at first, cooler later. H.

England. 8.W. Scotland Strong southerly or south-easterly winds, reaching gale force at ttn5. backing later; cloitdv rainy; moderate tempera hup. Irish Sea --Strong to clo south-welerlv iuds.

vecrme later; fme ram at firM, brightrr interna and showers uith hail locally later; ta very rough. rurther Outlook Unrcttled YESTERDAY IN MANCHESTER. Whitwnrth Park Meteorological Olwervatory. Wednesday, December 4, 1929. Showery.

Barometer Tendency: To-dav. Yesterday, Barometer, 9 p.m. (Millibars 996 993 Tho millibar is tho international unit of oUr- 0ne, thond millibar (one bar) asi; inch ci mercurT Sh.de was instituted, and then by increases in motor taxation in 1921, and again in 1927-8. Finally, Mr. Boustead makes the remarkable assertion that railways can accept, in fact can be compelled to accept with few exceptions, consignments of any size and weicht." This is not the case at all.

A very large number of bulky burdens cannot be carried by railway at all, since they are too large to pass through the tunnels and must of necessity be carried along selected roads by Pcammell lorries. Mr. Boustead's suggestion that motor transport is being subsidised by the ratepayers and taxpayers needs revision in the light of the fact that at the present time motor transport is paying a sum equivalent to two-thirds of the whole cost of road maintenance, together with tho interest on the capital expenditure of new roads. Yours, F. J.

Power. 33, Rossi vn Hill, Hampstead, London, N.W. 3, Dec. 2. BOOK SOCIETIES.

Their Effect on Sales. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, Mr. Bjlgion misses the point and, not content with that, wanders up several wrong alleys. No one, surely, would deny that the author and publisher oi a'Book Society's choice benefit by the sale of 7,000 tor 80,000 in the States) copies, even if the price is cut." The people who suffer are the other authors and publishers with whose notion of a good book the Book Society Committee do not agree.

Does Mr. Belgion seriously think that 7,000 (or 80,000) people are going to spend in books an extra 7s. Gd. or $2.50 a month because a Book Society has called itself into existence? Now for Mr. Belgion's wrong alleys.

He says that 50 per cent of English publishers are dead-and-alive." and adduces as evidence the fact that, whereas an English publisher makes "laboriously" 1,500 a year, his opposite number in America makes 5,000. This statement is not substantiated but, assuming it to be correct, what does it prove beyond the fact that Americans buy more books than we do, that America is more prosperous than England, that the cost of living and the price of books are higher there than here? Mr. Belgion cannot see any difference between the consumer of books and the consumer of bacon, haberdashery, or tobacco." If that is so he would make a poor job of selling books over the counter. The difference is that the consumer of books (horrid phrase has to be persuaded afresh to each individual purchase, but the consumer ot" bacon or tobacco," once won over to a certain brand or dealer, remains constant for a considerable period. Mr.

Belgion calls it cant that a reader should choose a book for himself. The sort of book-buyer who cannot choose conies into existence in any numbers only during the four weeks or so before Christmas. For the rest of the year most English book-buyers make their choice because they have read the book on loan from a library and wish to possess it. because thev have found flie r.uthor trustworthy, or because, exercis ing their own judgment on some known critic's review, they are tolerably certain the book is of the sort they will enjoy. Moreover, Mr.

Belgion forgets that five minutes' browsing through a book in a shop will reveal whether it is possible or not; to get it through the post is buying a pie in a poke. Pork seems indeed a useful analogy in this controversy. For surely the book societies are trying to sell books like bacon? "Come to the old firm that never lets you flown But whereas there are four, five (or it may be a dozen or twentvl VinHa nt the varieties, as "of the making of books, incic is no ena. 10 Duy at another Three Christmas THE LAST WEEK of A THE DOUGLAS-PENNANT CASE. Pleas for Justice.

To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, The reasons advanced for th refusal to reopen the case of Miss Douglas-Pennant are deplorable. The Prime Minister of a Labour Government says a wrong cannot te redressed because it is old. Mr. Maltby adds that nothing need be done because injustice was 60 common.

Mr. MacDonald might just as well refuse- medical attention because an existent disease bad its origin in an accident a dozen years ago; and Mr Maltby might as well be content in such a predicament with the consoling thought that disease is common. The wrong dono to Miss Douglas-Pennant is a disturbing and corrupting thing in the national organism. If a small r.umber of highly placed officials and efficers are to be allowed to pronounce a final and arbitrary decision, which disregards justice flouts the rights of a citizen, confidence is shaken in the whole judicial and administrative order. What has been dono once with impunity may be done again, and will be done again.

No similar case can be challenged whilst this one remains unredressed. It there are so many hidden cases as Mr. Maltby suggests, the greater the need that a demonstration of justice should be made in this case, which is not hidden but manifest to the conscience of the nation. If that conscience fails to act it will bo as sinister an omen of our fuiurft as the execution of Sergeant Orischa was for Germany in the minds of those- who strove for his life. Zola and Labori were not primarily concerned with the personal fate of Dreyfus; as good patriots they perceived that unless the French conscience had the capacity to do justice in such a case, France could not continue its existence as a civilised nation.

Their victory was a prophecy of tho spirit which enabled the nation to survive in 1014-18. It was not an accident that the Dreyfusard Clemenceau embodied the will of France to survive. And it is because- this Douglas-Pennant case is testing the capacity of this nation to do justice that it constitutes an enirely significant demand. The will to do the right thing exists. The huge but despised petition proves it.

We have waited the advent of a progressive Government, untrammelled in its personnel by men whose minds were rendered rigid by the war; and Mr. of all men. allows himself to lie the mouthniece of the stereotyped responses of officialism Tho futuie of British civilisation will seem much more sure if it is made plain that tho nation will not tolerate a manifest and flagrant defiance of its ancient spirit and tradition. Yours, George Shillito. Hope Church, Oldham, Dec.

3. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, After reading the letters of Canon Peter Green and Mr. C. T.

Maltby on tho Douglas-Pennant case in to-day's issue, I find myself faced with twn opposing views. Mr. Maltby states that he suffered gross injustice at the hands of a superior, and it has rankled in his mind ever since; "there must be thousands of others with the same experience behind them." Well, there are thousands of such others. My own treatment by one superior could hardly have been surpassed among the most backward community in the world. I have not allowed this to rankle overmuch, preferring rather to go ahead in work for one's fellows; and I would humbly recommend this method, the only true solution, to both Miss Douelas-Pennant and Mr.

Maltby, though I trust both already know it. But I should like Miss Douglas-Pennant to win. The thousands of sufferers from unjust treatment would gain a certain measure of encouragement in knowing that justice had been vouchsafed to one. It might help them to stand firm once again if called tipon to face bullying, bestiality, injustice, arid other of the lesser-known panoplies and trappings of war. Mr.

Maltby's argument that individuals must not count in such a titanic struggle "that is, the war might suggest allowing -injustice that good may come." To this I disagree. "Has the idea of British justice ceased to have any appeal to British men and women asks Canon Green. Surely, if we are wise and value our heritage, we shall answer No; war or no war, one or many, rich or poor, justice shall be done." I do agree with Mr. Maltby that not the least oi the curses of warfare are the gross injustices suffered by subordinate officers and men. I am surprised that those who are averse from war do not make more of this point in their peace campaigns.

Stories of bloodshed, shell-fire, poison-gas, land and sea warfare might conceivably attract the young. A more effective antipathy to would bo aroused if the new generation were instructed that once "war is declared" tlie erratic, the petty, the bullies, and the wanglers all come into their own, while the decent, manlv tvpe, caring only that they may do their bit, go like lambs to the slaughter. Yours. George E. Durham.

41. Heathfield Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, December 3. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian- Sir, Ahstiaet justice demands that the highest power that is. the Government should investigate and redress as far as possible the official injustice meted out- to Miss Douglas-Pennant: but it no less demands the same with regard to the innumerable other official injustices referred to by Mr. C.

T. Maltby to-dav. It cannot differentiate between either the wrongdoers or their victims in the light of the position or influence of either. We can hardly suppose that the wrongdoers in this case, or those who appear to bo sheltering them, have suffered nothing from the widespread and plainly expressed indignation which their actions have evoked, or from the haunting fear of ultimate exposure. Those of us who would still (m the cause of justice) carry our resentment against wrongdoers or abettors to the bitter end might think over Portia's wise words Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none oi us Should see salvation.

A very good fight for justice has been made. Does public policy really demand that it should continue Yours, J. Price 'Witxiams. Swinton, December 3. SILK TRADE AND THE DUTIES To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian.

Sir, In reply to Mr. P. J. Hannon's letter in your issue of December 2, the report ot my speech to the North-western Free: Trade Union was necessarily some-wha'. abridged; otherwise it would have been clear that what I said was that the application of the British Silk Association before the 1923 Board of Trade Inquiry for a protective duty on silk and artificial silk articles on the plea of great unemployment failed because, according to the chairman's report, the official statistics of employment of the Ministry of Labour established that there were then only 3,290 unemployed, or 9 per cent, against a much higher percentage of insured workers in all industries.

Mr. Hannon's further arguments, which are indeed those of the British Silk Association, are a splendid example of post hoc propter hoc. Nobody in his senses has ever belittled the wonderful advance of the newly discovered artificial silk article, with its necessarily increasing field for employment; and, as the employment statistics of the Ministry of Labour do not distinguish between silk and artificial silk, it is interesting to be reminded of Mr. Samuel Courtauld's speech in Manchester, which makes it clear that the whole of this advance in employment since 1925, and indeed a great deal more, is to bo credited to artificial silk only. But none of this touches in the least the arguments I used in Manchester against the duties.

These were that the protective duty on real silk was useless, as TO per cent of these tissues never had been made here nor ever would be made here economically; and that the protective duty on artificial silk was equally useless, as this new industry befoie the duties were imposed was highly prosperous, was increasing its personnel year by year, and was able by its interlocked international combine arrange- montc trt nrMfl(t itc nrinaa 1 1 -1 1 1 1 1 1 1 tha I aid of any tariff here. Indeed Mr. Samuel Courtauld in 1925 protested vigorously against the inclusion of artificial silk in this newly hatched tariff scheme. As to the final statement in Mr. Hannon's letter, does he leally wish us to believe that you can add 30, 40, and 50 per cent to the price of a silk tissue imported into the country without affecting the cost of the article to the consumer here? If so.

I can assure him that he is mistaken. What has hannened is that the cheaper and more nomilar sorts of silk tissues have been taxed off the market by the extraordinarily high duties, and that in others there has been a lowering of quality to try to counteract the effect of the tariff on the prices the consumer has to pay. The net result is that millions of consumers here are mulcted for the profit of tho few manu facturers in this country. Yours, E. Belfoub.

21, Greencroft Gardens. South Hampstead, London, N.W. 6, December 2. MENTAL ILLNESS. Hospital Facilities.

To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, In your issue of to-day's date your principal leading article is upon The Beginning of Sanity," and it is deserving of the widest consideration, and I hope that you will follow it up by similar articles. In the anticipation that you may do so venture, however, to point out that some ways you have overstated your case against the present. In your second main paragraph you have, for instance, two sentences which run as follows: "The public hospitals are unequipped to deal with mental cases and are not -allowed to accept them. The asylums cannot receive any but certified lunatics." I do Tint rf nmiTWA lnftw mean by public hospitals," but from your using the word asylums" for what are now cauea mental nosoitals I am presuming that by "puolic hospitals" you do not mean the county and borough mental hospitals, but the voluntary hospitals.

If you do mean the voluntary hospitals, it is not the case that they are not allowed to accept mental cases, and it is not the case that they are all unequipped to deal with mental cases. It is all the more important to stress this in View nf thp tart. that. it. ics nrnVoMn better that early border-line mental cases Miuuin De aean witn at the voluntary hospital than in connection with the mental hospital, or asylum to use the old name.

The York County Hospital (of the staff of which I have the honour to be a member has already set up a clinic to deal with the earlv mental case that is to say. the border-line case. It is in the main an out-patient clinic, but beds are available for this class of case. This clinic is avoweHlv nf nncant tVm iperimental stage, "but it has already done kuuu wum, ana wnat one voluntary hospital can do other voluntary hospitals can also do in fact, I think 'this class of work is already being done by many hospitals, but I have not the information to be positive about it. Your second sentence also The asylums cannot receive any but certified lunatics "is not as absolute as you have stated it.

There are three classes of mental hospitals, as asylums are now called (1) Public mental hospitals (2) registered mental hospitals; (3) private mental hospitals. The registered and private mental hospitals can and do admit voluntary uncertified patients and I believe that my information is accurate when I say that London Cilv mental hospitals and the public hospitals of Scotland can also admit voluntary patients, who are, of course, not certified. It is of extreme importance, and of the utmost public interest, that the public mental hospitals of England should obtain similar powers to those of Scotland and London, and I trust that you will continue your good work to promote, as your leader so aptly terms it, the beginning of sanity. Yours, Peter Macdoxald. Ouse Lea, York, November 29.

We said that except in a few enlightened areas the poor man who suffers from mental illness is in an almost hopeless situation," since neither the voluntary hospitals nor the public mental hospitals cater for him. Dr. Peter Macdonald rightly points out that the number of enlightened areas of which York is one is now at lencth increasing. Ed. "Guard." THE ROAD BILL.

Motorists and Third-Party Insurance. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir. Conioulsorv tor motorists has long been advocated, and. as it anntHN in Koad Transport Bill, may be expected to -ii care is not taken, however, the public may find itself in, a worse position than at- urdc.int tu.

3: idea of third-party insurance is that it omer accident insurance, and that the party injured can claim compensation unless a clear case of negligence can be made out against him As a matter of fact, the insurance companies deny liability unless negligence can be nrnved no-ninf th j-; t- true that they may make an ex gratia iT.r- aeny liability; but this cannot be relied on; and whether tnev will nnntiniio A n-- uw otici iue ACL has been passed against their opposition uuuuicu. iney would certain lv have an excuse for discontinuing the practice Even in cases where the motorist is not at present insured against third-nartv nsfc th 3 fu.Lj IUJULCU lUiKIll simply find that, instead of being opposed to a person of his own standing, he has a wealthy corporation. How uo wuuiu anecL me orainarv man I need not say. To render" the provisions of the bill of any value it 6hould be enacted that the insurance should cover risks of accident as well as of negligence; to escape pav-ni'ec 6bould be necessary to prove definite and serious negligence on the part of the person injured. If this be thought too heavy a burden on the insurance companies, it might be possible to provide that in cases vfiere the driver was found in fault the insurance company 6hould be liable only ease he was unable to pay the compensation awarded.

This vnnM wst v4i. 4.u. public and the careful motorist at the expense or tne careless. lours, H. Waiais Chapxan.

Green way West, Berkhamsted, December 3. CHEESE AND VINEGAR. A Parallel Anomaly. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir.

Mi. S. E. Melling writes in Monday's Manchester Guardian concerning real cheese and skimmed milk cheese and the deception practised on the public in this respect owing to the absence of legal definition. 1 should like to point out that this anomaly rinds a patallel in another article of diet, which also plays an important part on the poor man's table namelv, vinegar.

It is an amazing fact that 111 this country we have 110 definition in law as to what vinegir shall be, except an arbitrary understanding that the strength the fluid shall not be less than 4 per cent, expiessed as acetic acid. The loophole for unsciupulous traders is evident at once, and it is a serious fact that tremendous quantities of chemical acetic acid are sold annually as vinegar. The manufacturer has simply to dilute the strong acid with water to a required proportion. Such imitation vinegai is, of course, very harmful to the individual; and yet the law is so far deficient that dealeis and manufacturers are able to describe such mutation vinegar as pure vinegar" and to label such a spurious product as guaranteed pine, 111 accoid-ance with the Foods and Drugs Scientifically speaking, vinegar is a fluid in which all the acetic acid present is entirely the natural product of the acetous feimentation of alcohol, and the further description, such as wine vinegar." malt vinegar," cider vinegar," gives the source oi the alcohol from which the vinegar is produced. Malt vinegar is the usual commodity in this country, and enjoys a fairly large sale; but the consumption is nearly equalled by that of imitation inegai.

The impostor reaps an enormous profit merely bv diluting a chemical product, whereas the brewer of malt vinegar has to meet the entire charge of brewing, of materials, of plant, manufacture, labour, and lastly very important a large capital outlay on stock, which has to be well matured before being put on the market. It is the poor people who arc swindled and who suffer 111 health in consequence, while the despots at the Ministiy of Health sit at their ease and consume malt vinegar or wine vineear, and congratulate themselves on the efficacy of their regulations. Yours, Gilbert W. Hyde. The Swan Brewery, Limited, Grey Street, Ardwick, December 3.

MILITARY TRAINING ADOLESCENTS. OF The Case of the O.T.C. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, Mr. G.

L. Eandlcs-Joynson holds rightly that Hoy Scouts are not a militarist organisation. The International Jamboree was proof enough of this, since it encouraged boys from all nations to fraternise and thus create a feeling totally opposed to war. Therefore it is a thousand pities that a peaceful youth movement such as this should not receive State assistance, when the Officers' Training Corps, where boys are definitely trained for warfate, is given an annual grant from the Treasury. While attending the lectmcs of the Ninth Unity History School in Danzig this summer I had an opportunity of witnessing the resentment which the O.T.C.

has provoked among our German neighbours who have been disarmed, whereas these people had nothing but praise for the Scout movement. In view this it might be as well to abolish the O.T.C. grant, except to grammar schools and other places wheie it helps the less fortunate boys to gain commissions. The money should be handed over instead to assist Scout headquarters. In an article appearing in the "Forward View I have expressed the opinion that the abolition of O.T.C.s would be widely welcomed in our public schools.

This statement is made from actual experience as a cadet in one of these. Where the O.T.C. is not an incitement to militarism by making warfare seem attractive, it becomes a mere waste of time which could be spent more usefully school games or the healthy recreation which Scouting provides. Yours, Patrick M. Moir, Chairman Harrow Divisional Liberal Association and Foundation Member League of Nations? Union.

10, Sudbury Hill. Harrow, December 2. LETTERS ON OTHER PAGES. Cancer Research 15 Children's Party 10 "Sick-nursing by the Hour" 10 Women Working for Pin-money 10 Competitions. FOR ENTRIES.

entries. For each drawing published a guinea will be paid. These drawings also should bo in black and white and they should be accompanied by stamped addressed envelope for return. They should be addressed Christmas Sketches, Manchester Guardian Office, 3, Cross Street, Manchester. The four best of the "grownups' drawings will be reproduced in the Christmas section on December 12, and a selection from the whole competition will afterwards be exhibited.

GHOST STORIES. The Ghost Story Competition of last year is being repeated. Prizes of ten guineas, six guineas, and four guineas are offered for the three best original Ghost Stories of not more than 1,600 words. Stories may be sent in at any time from now until Saturday next. The winning stories will be published in the "Manchester Guardian" of Tuesday, December 24.

Stories should be accompanied by stamped addressed envelope for return, and should be addressed Ghosts, "Manchester Guardian" Office, 3, Cross Street, Manchester, camp stools in Shaftesbury Avenue had. The one-man band had let the canakin clink with gamesome abandon, the Human Eel had tied himself up in knots and wriggled to his freedom, Henry Irving's weather-beaten double had shrieked at us the terrors of Mathias in "The Bells," a Stratton I I .1 i -r i- it il naa sung me iAiy 01 ana an optimistic tipster, all cap and gaiters, had failed to induce any of us to be sporting as well as dramatic at threepence a slip. He seemed to rfgard us as a string of obstinate donkeys at the startinc-gate of stupidity. -My comrades of the bivouac were of! two kinds my fellow Uloriosa worshippers of both sexes and the enthusiastic first-nighters who took Henry Ainley, George Eobey, Gloriosa, the Co-Optimists, Edgar Wallace, Gilbert and and Covent Garden in their ubiquitous go-to-it-ness. There was Mrs.

Mclbanke, our champion, who was always next to the door, and Mrs. Twining, who might Bpoii our evening with her protests ir side, and the fellow with no hat who was always reading Greek he looked a pedant of the Unities. And cranky old Shittcry, who might boo een Gloriosa. And Pallisev, for whom audiences onco had waited like this. There arc; verv few you wouldn't know in our queue if you should keep following Gloiiosa.

this night I picked out a strange one an unassertive girl, alone, her pretty face frozen in patience, her brown head sunk into the upturned fur collar of her business girl's coat. She had the restlessness of the ounuor of no exnerienre. She lowered her roving eyes i hen they caught mine, and 1 telt pity that she should wait, a stranger to the queue, amid us all of a peculiar kind, without a nice boy of her own to keep her company and look after her and give her a cigarette. lint nm nnt. mvself a forward fellow, and when inside, in the pit 1 1 Immil myself sitting next to the lonely girl I was embarrassed for her sake anil would have moved away only that I would have to go farther back and lose so good a view of Gloriosa.

And in the excitement of the appearance of our darling how we held up the play, and no thanks to critics and milu-clapping stalls as she came on in all her blonde and carniined glory I forgot the poor little London sparrow by my side. For Gloriosa seems to look straight at you. Indeed, as I listened to'that bold, delightful Yankee limbro and freely watched tho rich mannequin intimacies of her boudoir I remembered feminine inadequacy by my eido and cast a glance that way. She was not looking towards the stage at all, her head was lowered, and I swear that her folded hands were tremblinc. In liitv 1 hadmadlv thoucht of fetching her some brandy, but I was recalled by tho drop of the curtain with Gloriosa fighting for her honour.

Then my little sparrow seemed to come all alive, and I wondered what personal mystery woke her up at that harrowing scene. For, like Hamlets stepfather, many people watch their own lives on the stage. She did not join our applause fourteen curtains wo gave- Gloriosa, which was a fair beginning, but now the sparrow's eyes were riveted on tho stage, and as I leaned forward in my own enthusiasm I noticed her gleam of tears. In that interval I had to placate old Slattery, who for saying that-Gloriosa should be dropped into the Thames was being saucily reviled by 3 couple of our girls and threatened what would happen to him if he dared to boo. My girl was not interested.

She was gazing at the fall and rise of the fireproof curtain so rapturously that I suspected it must be the first time she was ever in a theatre. But in the second act she went listless again, and 1 even caught a yawn, though her appearance of lassitude was belied by the glow of excitement in her cheeks. I could not doubt that she was an alien to the theatre, which was to everybody about her what the sea is to the fish. Anyhow, I know that we Mn-pressed her at curtain-fall I gave up counting the number of times we honoured Gloriosa, who bowed very low- and shook down her blonde mane as if shampooing it in the waves of oar fcivent emotion. Yes, at that time acrain my little lady was all eyes.

I concluded that it took a hie; pmotional scene to rouse her, and, between ourselves, the second act was scarcely worthy of our consummate actress except at the drop of the curtain, when she smacked in the face that inconstant lover with whom she had been too foolishly generous. In the third act I noticed a growing restlessness in my little neighbour. She sr.isoed tho "rail in front "to steady her hand. But as the play swooped to its close I forcor evervthintr exceDt the incomparable Gloriosa. Xbw that the I laitnnu heart that alwavs loved her is fortunate at last (and smartened up ith world travel), the villain deservedly killed when chased on to tho roof by Philip, and the true lovers glowing with honeymoon happiness the curtain droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven.

The abruptness of the end rather "hocked us, and ic certainly roused my little Cockney, who could not know that we would have twenty-five glimpses of Gloriosa still. Of course our darling would pretend to be surprised at our bouquet, would bow lower and lower and again shampoo her blonde head in the waves of our fervent emotion. Nay, wc still cried out Gloriosa Gloriosa just that, again and again. Even the author got scarcely a look in, though Gloriosa led him by the hand from the wings. Wisely he ran for it.

and we called back Gloriosa. As I continued to pound my palms together, wishful that they were hammers, a hand was laid on my sleeve the hand of my little Cockney. Oh, sir, enough, enough she whispered with such pleading ferocity that Gloriosa went out of my nead. Enough, sir, enough Think of him! "'Of him? Of what, Missl" "Working that curtain. My boy." Your bov 1 "My friend.

A rise. The first time, too." He's risen it well. Lucky chap, to be so nee Gloriosa for a year at least." After the band played I lost her in tho rush round to Gloriosa. But I knew that she would be somewhere about, also waiting, and with curtain pulling at her heartstrings blocks and operation theatres, hut a great deal more must be done in the way of new buildings and the endowment of teaching and research. The raising of 1,000,000 in these days is a formidable undertaking, but the claims of Bart's are incomparably strong, and, as the guests heard at to-day's ceremony, a good start has been made in solid contributions from the King Edward's Hospital Fund and the great City Com panies and other sources.

The great hall at Bart's," where the Prince was welcomed at a gathering of medical people and friends of the hospital, is one of the finest rooms in London, dominated bv Holbein's glowing portrait of Henry who was the second founder. There is a long tradi tion oenina evervtning at Bart 6, and the presence of the Lord Mayor was a reminder that the first Mayor of London, Henry Fit Alwhyn. in the twelfth century, was connected with the great city hospital, as all his successors have been, othci.illy. Distinction for the Prince. After the Prince had made his speech, in which he spoke of the modernisation of the hospital as necessary to convert it into "a real temple of health" fit to play its part1 in making a nation of fit men and women, after tho Greek ideal, he received the only honour which Bart's is able to confer even on a prince.

This is admission as a perpetual student of the Medical College, and he listened without a smile to the reading of the conditions, which every student has to sign, binding him, among other things, to be of good conduct and attend the lectures. The new student was greeted with a loud and cheerful noise out in the auad-rangle, where a crowd of his fellow-students and nurses was gathered. There was a great glare from the huge lights used by the talkie film operators, now inevitable attenders at every important function, and the plane trees stood out ghostly in the strange glow, while high overhead the loner arms of the appealing light raked the sky. It symbolised the light of mercy and healing which has burned at "Bart's" for eight centuries, and serves, too, as an SOS signal. MOTOR-'BUS STATIONS WITH REFRESHMENT-ROOMS.

Sheffield Proposals. The Sheffield City Council proposes to seek powers to establish throughout tho city a series of motor-'bus stations which wili have booking-halls and other facilities, including tho sale of petrol and the supply of refreshments. At a meeting of the City Council yester-cay there was some opposition to the clause relating to petrol and refresh-irents. but the original proposals were carried and are to be included in a Parliamentary bill. It was stated that one site in the city could be utilised for assembling and 1 nuiiuvua auiUUllli Ul motor transpo-t.

A scheme outlining the wiuio rjrupusaid jg 10 ne arawn up- TO-DAY'S ARRANGEMENTS. House of Commons: TJnemDlovment In surance Bill, Committee; Widows' JPensions Bill, Consideration of Lords' Amendments. House of Lords: Road Traffic Bill, Second Reading. Mr. Amery at Keighley.

Licensing Commission, London. Lord Beaverbrook at Constitutor! Club, London. Dr. J. B.

Baillie's Presidential Address at Salt Schools, Saltaire. Manchester and Salford. Chancery of Lancashire. Before the Vice Chancellor, at the Assize Courts, Manchester, at 10 45 a.m. Action for trial: District Bank, v.

Healey (part heard). The David Lewis Manchester Epileptic Colony: Annual Meeting, Memorial Hall, 3. Manchester Ear Hospital: Annual Meeting at Hospital, Grosvenor Square, Oxford Road, 3. Providence Congregational Church, Middleton: Christmas Fair, 3. National Safety First Association: Mr.

F. Woodfield and Lieutenant Colonel J. A. A. Pickard, Chamber of" Commerce, 4.

Manchester Geographical Society Annual Dinner and Reception to Lord Stanley of Alderley, Midland Hotel, 6 30. Electrical Contractors' Association Dinner, Grosvenor Hotel. 6 30. Brook High School, Stretford: Speech vay, aieiro-vicK tlfub. 7 15.

M.A.P.S. Lantern Lecture: Mr. Eustace inomas, 'the Alps," Social Club. 7 15. Manchester Microscopical Society: Mr.

it. u. nuwana, jo, ueoree street. 7. College of Technology Textile Society; Mr.

H. Hardv. 7 30. Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1 orancn ana Association) Professor R. A.

Eastwood, Houldsworth Hall, 8 30. Manchester Assizes, 10 30 AninuOm ml tha Sad Wthr-Caiitain 6. Faixholme, chief secretary of the Boyal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Amman, writes from 105, Jermyn Street, London, RW.X: May I say word on behalf of animals that am tnrnprl out nt this time of the year? Such animals should be provided with extra food and shelter tram cold winds, and whenever there ia any rik of. Hoods the nfml honM'iu brought in ot taken to higher' ground. To day.

Yrt. Dryhnlh9a.jn. ift 4' Dry bulb9 p.m. 46 47 To Hay. Vrat.

M'ttttmum 45 tt Tti ilnv. Humidity rcent.ge) a m. 92 Hnini'nII (in mini'metrcs1 '-J Sunshine incurs) 2'3 Yesterday. 79 77 0-0 49 Sun rites. Moon rises.

Sets. T-dy 07 3 52 12 P3 p.m... 7 11 p.m. To-morrow 8 C9 3 51 12 29 P.m... 22 P.m.

For every ten miles north of Manchester sumct il earlier by 4S sceonds. LAMF-TIME FOR VKIIICLfcS 4 22 p.m. A COUNTRY DIARY. CVMDERI.AN'I, nKCEMBER 4. Tho otter li.nl onlv jti.st loft the mala salmon of 17ll.

lying on tho hank a Teach of river not a mile from the mouth of the lake. The fish hail been seized oix the spawning-bed when probably he was so overmastered by Jus fury against rivals lurking about on tho redd that he had known nothing of danger until the fangs of his enemy fastened upon the back of his neck. Wo who have seen, though all too seldom, an take his prey can imagine what followed. A salmon of 171b. tailed hy an angler is difficult to hold on the grass while the fly is being extracted from its mouth.

Realise then what a tremendous struggle must ensue between aji unspent fish and a beast little heavier tlian its prey. Hero was proof that the otter required 500 yards to land its prize. For that distance from tho redd to the quiet, deep water where tho tussle ended otter and iisbj must havo rolled over and over again, the one holding on grimly while the other lashed and writhed and darted and plunged. G. W.

M. CATHEDRAL SERVICES. Matin. 11; Evensong at 3 30. Ifo'T Communion.

Weekday, diiilj at 7 30 in. FrldT (choral) at 11 a.m. Baptumi dailj after due notice. ThtlMi4.n VI.M.. II I 1 iiiim'u.

tocrviccs renaoreil hy vo' "'y). Ron Icy In A minor (Chant, -V'hem 373 1), Light vorla.tl.ie 1' i'k: a. a. ur.icy in Amncm CW, Jcaus, Heavenly Master (Spohr). Mr.

E. G. Swetman, who has died at Degaiiwy, aged H3, was formerly cashier lor thft Afirllnnrl nAt.i.nn nt Sheffield and Birmingham. He had lived in Degumvy thirty years. OreanispH bv tlm 1 -J Miniiuiiuiua Cl 1 1 1 District Arts and Crafis Club an interest-inc exhibition yesterday.

The exhibition was opened oy airs, tdwards, of the Palace, St. I i' i 1 1 i. iiaoncu made by a blind ex-serviceman, of Foryd. ucai ami I. TMSTMACOTT'S LEMON SQUASH, with Frnit Celto and Vitamlnia.

17. Market St. r)IGESTIVE PILLS from WKSTMACOTT'S ear. thousands. What about jon? 17, Market Et.

Announcement, la this column are charged at tha rate oi n. oa. per lino. All such annourcements mast be authenticated br in. n.mo ana aaares.

oi me Knacr. stamp, or postal order, may be sent in payment. BIRTHS. At ArmiUge Bo.d Nursing Home, oii.ujf. nuu-icniKiu, on too Abu inst to Air.

and Mrs. E. O. BArSBRIDGE Int.j Cvad). Airten), daughter.

SOAR. On December 2. to Mr. and Mrs. C.

L. dOAB, Croisefield Road, Cheadle Holme, a ion. DEATHS. BARLOW. On December 3, at fiunny lih, Chanel-field.

JUdciiMe. KASNV, nib ol the late Albert BARLOW Interment at Stand Independent Cnurc-i at 5 pjn. on Saturday, December 7. Friends pUau accept this (tho onlj intimation. HARDING On Dec-niter 4.

at 1. Rvniler ATenue JVest Did.burT EE.NEST CHARLTON beloied huiband of Kate HARDING, aged 52 year. n-terment at Grimsby Gemeterj on Bittlrday. December andCo 10 Kendal, Miles KYME. On the 3rd at bn retidenc.

703 ad- Whitewell Bottom. Waterloot. JOSEPH THOMAS, the belored husband at Uli KYMf-Funeral at Prondenoe Baptist Chmpei. Lti mSnl P.Miendale. this day 45 p.m.

Frtn3. pleaw accept this (th. onlyl intimation, Inqoinei to Rooert Whntaker and Sons, Whitewell Bottom. Watertoot. TeL 145 Rossendale.

"w11 Jlreniber 4. at 139. Bolton Red, Mary A. MAGNAI.U Inquiries to J. Natter.

122 Shuttle Street, Tyldealey. MORLEY-On the 4th at his residence, Glem MORLEY date pi the Commercial Hotel. 82 years. Sen-ice at the Manchester CmatorSrnt Monday. Decenber 9.

at three o'clock Friend? this (the only) Intimation. SotSSSi? or special request. RICHARDSON. Suddenly, at Us residence l.q Opjnjr Lloyd Street, IrSm heart disease. if SraARJHON.

aged 66. Cremation this' day fft, THORf. On the 2nd December, at S. Mom Bank Cbeetham HilL 780 In Memorial December 6. ISItJSSoc "BEATHS BOUQUETS.

DDJGLEY'S, St. PetePs Manchester, AH letters be atUresaed either to tha SdlTSnS Guardian. "LS-'S The Fditor rannst he responsible for ska article, offered Jot nohfiMZr tt practicable. It not Sid TtbVSnS Printed and Published by JOHN russet an-tet tie MANCHESTER r.TT Sni The Manchester Guardian offers three competitions in connection with the coming Christmas season. DRAWINGS BY CHILDREN.

Children (under 16) are invited to send in drawings of either of their parents. In the case of an orphan, a guardian can be drawn. To-morrow is the last day for entries. Half a guinea will be paid for each drawing published. Every drawing must bear on the back the age of the sender and the signature of the father or mother (or guardian) drawn, as an authority to publish and as a guarantee that the sender has not received assistance.

Drawings should be in black and white and they should be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope for return. They should be addressed Fathers and Mothers," "Manchester Guardian" Office, 3, Cross Street, Manchester. The four best drawings sent in will be reproduced, in a special Christmas section of the "Manchester Guardian" on December 12, and an exhibition of selected drawings will afterwards be held. DRAWINGS BY GROWN-UPS. The grown-ups are given a choice.

They are invited to send in drawings (which must not be copies of other drawings or of pictures) illustrating A domestic scene, or A street scene, or Christmas. To-morrow is the last day for Ttertday, OsosnbCT J9atk.