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I a are he THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1929. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE DOUGLAS-PENNANT CASE. Pleas for Justice. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, reasons advanced for the refusal to reopen the case, of Miss Douglas-P'ennant are deplorable.

The Prime Minister of a Labour Government says a wrong cannot be redressed because it is old. Mr. Maltby adds that nothing be done because injustice was 60 common. Mr. MacDonald might just as well refuso medical attention because an existent disease had its origin in an accident 8 dozen years ago; and Mr Maltby might as well be content in such a predicament with the consoling thought that disease is common.

I'he wrong dono to Miss DouglasPennant is a disturbing and corrupting thing in the national organism. If a small Lumber of highly placed officials and officers 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 done 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 made a in this demonstration case, of which justice is not should hidden be I but manifest to the conscience of the nation. If that conscience fails to act it will be as sinister an omen of our future as the execution of Sergeant Grischa 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 case, France could not continue its existence as a civilised nation. Their victory was prophecy of the spirit which enabled the nation to survive in 1914-18. 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 constitutes an enirely significant demand. 'The will to do the right thing exists. The huge but despised petition proves it. We have the advent of progressive Government, untrammelled personnel by men whose minds were rendered rigid by the war; and Mr. Mac Donald, of all men, allows himself to he the mouthpiece of the stereotyped responses of officialism! The future of British civilisation will seem much more sure if it is made plain that the nation will not tolerate A manifest and flagrant defiance of its ancient spirit and GEORGE SHILLITO.

Hope Church, Oldham, Dec. 3. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Liverpool, December 3. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian.

reading the letters of Canon Peter Green and Mr. C. T. Maltby on the Douglas-Pennant case in to-day's issue, I find myself faced with two 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 munity in among the the most backward comworld. 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 Douglas-Pennant a and Mr. Maltby, though I trust both already know it. But I should like Miss DouglasPennant to win.

The thousands of sufferers from unjust treatment would gain a certain measure of encouragement in safed knowing one. that It justice had been vouchto might help them to stand firm once again if called upon to face bullying, bestiality, known injustice, other of the lesser- panoplies and trappings of Mr. Maltby's argument that individuals must not count in such a titanic struggle -that is, the war--might suggest come." allowing this I injustice that good may To 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 110 war, one or inany, rich or poor, justice shall be I do agree with Mr.

Maltby that not the least of the curses of warfare are the gross officers injustices suffered by subordinate 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, shellfire, poison-gas, land and sea warfare might conceivably attract the young. A more effective antipathy to war would be aroused if the new generation were instructed that once war is declared' the erratic, the petty, the bullies, and the wanglers all come into their own, while the decent, manly type. caring only that they may do their bit, go like lambs to the GEORGE E.

DURHAM. 41, Heathfield Road, Waterloo, justice demands that the highest power-that is. the Government -should investigate and redress as far as possible the official injttstice 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-day. It cannot differentiate between either the the wrongdoers or their victims in the light position or influence of We can hardly suppose that the wrongdoers in this case, or those who appear to be sheltering them, hare suffered nothing from the widespread and plainly expressed indignation which their actions have of evoked, or from the haunting fear ultimate exposure. Those of us who would still (in the cause of justice) carry our resentment against wrongdoers or abettors to the bitter end might think over Portia's wise wordsThough justice be thy plea, consider this, 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 J.

PRICE WILLIAMS. Swinton, December 3. SILK TRADE AND THE DUTIES To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. reply to Mr. P.

J. Hannon's letter in your issue of December 2, the report of my speech to the North-western Free Trade Union was necessarily somewhat 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 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 irsured 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 hac. Nobody in his senses has ever belittled the wonderful a a a a a CURTAINS FOR GLORIOSA.

By Con O'Leary. I had 1 waited a day and a half to see Gloriosa-a day and a half in cul-de-sac outside a bolted door. Had I knocked, I might as well have hoped to wake Duncan with my knocking as to be vouchsafed reply. Alas! I but one of many who kept that wintry bivouac. God help our playgoers on a night like that.

We the potential audience on our camp stools in Shaftesbury Avenue had preliminary entertainment lain enough. The one-man band 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 shricked at 11S the terrors of Mathias in "The Bells," a Stratton had sung the Lily of Laguna," and 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 regard us as of obstinate ity. donkeys at the starting gate of stupidMy comrades of the bivouac were of! two kind fellow Gloriosa worshippers of both sexes and the enthusiastic first-nighters who took Henry Ainley, George Robey, Gloriosa, the Co-Optimists, Edgar Wallace, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Covent Garden their ubiquitous go-to-itness. There was Mrs.

Melbanke, our champion, who was always next to the door, and Mrs. Twining, who might spoil our evening her protests inside, and the fellow with no hat who was always reading Greek-he looked de pedant of the Unities. And even Gloriosa. And Palliser, for cranky old Slattery, who, might boo whom audiences once had waited like this. There are very few you wouldn't know in our queue if you should keep following Gloriosa.

On this night I wicked 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 queuer of no experience. She lowered her roving eyes when they caught mine, and I felt 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. But I am not myself a forward fellow, and when inside in the pit found myself sitting next to the lonely girl I was embarrassed for her sake and would have moved away only that I would have to go farther back and lose so good aL 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 mildclapping stalls as she came on in all her blonde and carmined glory--I forgot the poor little London sparrow by my side. For Gloriosa seems to look straight Indeed, as I listened to that bold, delightful Yankec timbro and freely watched the rich mannequin intimacies of her boudoir I remembered feminine inadequacy by my side 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 trembling. In pity I had madly thought of fetching her sume brandy, but I was recalled by the drop 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 Hamlet's stepfather, many people watch. their own lives on the stage. She did not join our applause--fourteen curtains we gavo Gloriosa, which was fair abut now the the stage, sparrow's and A8 eyes 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 couple of our girls and threatened what would happen to him to boo. My girl was not interested.

She was gazing at the fall the fireproof curtain so rapturously that I suspected it must he the first time she was ever in a theatre. But in the second act she went listless again, and I 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 I about her what the sea is to the fish. Anyhow, I know that we pressed her at -I gave up counting, the number who of bowed times we Gloriosa, very low and shook down her blonde mane as if shampooing it in the waves of our fervent emotion.

Yes, at that time again my little lady was all eyes. I concluded that it took a hie emotional scene to rouse her, and, between ourselves, the second act was scarcely worthy of our consummate actress except at the drop of the curin, 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 grasped the rail in front to stendy her hand. But as the play swooped to its close I forgot everything except incomparable Gloriosa.

Now that the faithful heart that always loved her! is fortunate nt last (and smartened up with world travel), the villain deservedly killed when chased on to the 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 shocked us, and it certainly roused my little Cockney, who could not know that. we would have twenty-fire 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 wares of our fervent emotion.

Nay. 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 sleeve the hama'd my little Cockney.

hammers, was laid on my Oh, sir, enough, enough!" she whispered with such pleading ferocity that Gloriosa went out of my head. Enough, sir, enough! Think 'of him! Of him? Of what, Miss!" Working that curtain. My boy." Your boy My friend. A rise. The first time, too." 66 He's risen it well.

Lucky chap, to be so, near Gloriosa-for a year at least." After the band played I lost her in the rush round to Gloriosa. But I knew that she would be somewhere about, also waiting, and with a curtain pulling at her heartstrings, ROAD TRANSPORT. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. F. J.

POWER. 32, Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, London, N.W. 3, Dee. 2. 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 1926-7. I quite 'agree with Mr. Boustead that motor transport is probably largest single of the roads; but that is no reason why the many other users of the toads, including the horse vehicles so largely owned by the railway companies, should be exempt from taxation. The grievances let the ratepayers.

if any, should surely he directed towards those road-users who do not contribute towards the cost of road maintenance rather than towards motor transport. which does. Mr. Boustead suggests that road finance should be amended to harmonize 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, by Mr.

Lloyd George in his 1910 Budget, when the Road Fund 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 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 Scammell 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 sun equivalent to two-thirds of the whole cost road maintenance, together with the interest on the capital expenditure of new BOOK SOCIETIES. Their Effect on Sales. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Belgion with misses the wanders point and, not content that, up several wrong alleys. No one, surely, would deny that the author and publisher of a Book Society's choice benefit by the sale of 7,000 (or 80,000 in the States) copies, even if the price is 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. 6d. or $2.50 a month because Book Society has called itself into existence? Now for Mr. Belgion's wrong alleys.

He says that 50 per cent of English publishers are and adduces as evidence the fact that, whereas an English publisher makes laboriously £1,500 a year, his opposite number in America £5,000. This statement is not substantiated; but, assuming it to be correct, what does it prove beyond the fact that Americans buy more hooks than WE do, that America is more prosperous than 1 England, that the cost of living and the price books are higher there than here? Mr. Belgiun cannot see any difference between the consumer of books and the consumer of bacon, haberdashery, or If that is so he would make a poor job of selling books over the consumer of (horrid phrase!) counter. The difference, is that the has to be persuaded afresh to each individual purchase, but the consumer of bacon or tobacco," once won over to a certain brand 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 comes 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 possess it, because they have found the author trustworthy, or because, exercising 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 pig 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 down!" But whereas there are four, five (or it may be a dozen or twenty) kinds of bacon, of the varieties, as of the making of books, there is no end. To buy at another's dictation is to become an intellectual and economic JOHN BROPHY. 53. Lionel Road, Gunnersbury Park, Brentiord, Middlesex, December 3.

CHEESE AND VINEGAR. A Parallel Anomaly. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. weir Monday's E. Manchester Melling Guardian writes cOll- in cernug real cheese and skimmed milk cheese and deception practised on the publie in this respect owing to the absence legal definition.

I should like to point out that this anomaly huds a parallel 111 another article of diet. which also plays an important part on the poor man's table-namelv, vinegar. It 13 an amazing fact that an this country we have 110 definition in law as to what vinegir shall be, except an arbitrary understanding that the strength of the fluid shall not be less than 4 per cent, expressed as acetic acid. The loophole for unscrupulous traders 1S 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 required proportion.

Such imitation vinegar is, of course, very harmful to the individual; and yet the law is so far deficient that dealers and manufacturers are able to describe such imitation vinegar as pure vinegar and to label such a spurious product as guaranteed pure, accordance 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 acetons feimentation of alcohol, and the further description, such as wine vinegar." malt cider gives the source of the alcohol from which the vinegar 1S produced. Malt vinegar is the usual commodity in this country, and enjoys 8 fairly large sale: but the consumption is nearly equalled by that of imitation vinegar. The impostor reaps an enormous profit merely by diluting 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--n large capital outlay on stock, which has to be well matured before being put on the market. It is the poor people who are swindled and who suffer In health in consequence, while the despots at the Ministry of Health sit at their ease and consume malt vinegar or wine vinegar, and congratulate themselves on the efficacy of their GILBERT W.

HYDE. The Swan Brewery, Limited, Grey Street, Ardwick, December 3. MILITARY TRAINING OF ADOLESCENTS. The Case of the O.T.C. December 2.

LETTERS ON OTHER PAGES. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Mr. G. L.

Randles-Joynson holds rightly that Boy Scouts are not a militalist organisation. The International Jamboree was proof enough of this, encouraged boys from all nations to fraternise and thus create a feeling totally opposed to war. Therefore it thousand pities that a peaceful youth movement such as this should not receive State assistance, when no the Officers' Training Corps, where boys are definitely trained for warfare, is given an annual grant from the Treasury. While attending lectures of the Ninth Unity History School in Danzig this summer I had an opportunity of witnessing thie 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 of this it might be as well to abolish the O.T.C. grant, except to grammar schools and other places where 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 front 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 PATRICK M. NOIR, Chairman Harrow Divisional Liberal Association Foundation Member League of Nations Union. 10, Sudbury Hill. Harrow, Cancer Research 15 A Children's Party 10 Sick-nursing by the Hour' 10 Women Working for Pin-money 10 Three Christmas Competitions.

THE LAST WEEK FOR ENTRIES. The "Manchester Guardian" offers three competitions in connection with the coming Christmas season. DRAWINGS BY CHILDREN. entries. For each drawing pubChildren (under 16) are invited lished a guinea will be paid.

to send in drawings of either of These drawings also should be their parents. In the case of an in black and white and they orphan, a guardian can be drawn. should be accompanied by stamped To-morrow is the last day for addressed envelope return. entries. Half a be paid They should be addressedfor each drawing published.

Every drawing must bear the Christmas Sketches, on back the age of sender and Manchester Guardian" Office, the signature of the father or 3, Cross Street, mother (or guardian) drawn, as Manchester. an authority to publish and as guarantee that the sender has not The four best of the grownreceived assistance. Drawings ups'" drawings will be repro should be in black and white duced in the Christmas section and they should be accompanied on December 12, and a selection by a stamped addressed envelope from the whole competition will for return. They should be afterwards be exhibited. addressed" GHOST STORIES.

Fathers and Mothers," Manchester Guardian" Office, The Ghost Story Competition 3, Cross Street, of last year is being repeated. Manchester. Prizes of ten guineas, six guineas, and four guineas are offered for the The four best drawings sent in will be reproduced, in a special original Ghost Stories of three best Christmas section of the Man- not more than 1,600 words. chester Guardian' on December Stories may be sent in at any 12, and an exhibition of selected time from now until Saturday next. drawings will afterwards be held.

The winning stories will be pubthe Manchester DRAWINGS BY GROWN-UPS. Guardian" of Tuesday, DecemThe grown-ups are given choice. They are invited to send Stories should be accompanied in drawings (which must not be by stamped addressed envelope copies of other drawings or of for return, should be pictures) illustrating addressedA domestic scene, or Ghosts, A street scene, or 4 Christmas. Manchester Guardian" Office, 3, Cross Street, To-morrow is the last day for Manchester. A GREAT LIGHT AT advance of the newly 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 be 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 70 per cent of these tissues never had been made here nor ever would be made economically; and that the protective duty on artificial silk was equally useless, as this new industry before the duties were imposed was lughly prosperous, was increasing its personnel year by year, and was able by its interlocked international combine arrange ments to protect its prices without the 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 really wish, us to believe that you can add 30, 40, 50 per cent to the price of a silk tissue im- ported into the country without affecting the cost of the article to the consumer here? If so. I can assure him that he 15 mistaken. What has happened is that the cheaper and more popular 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 the tariff on the prices the consumer has to pay.

The net result 15 that millions of consumers here are mulcted for the profit of the few manu. facturers in this E. BELFOUR. 21. Greencroft Gardens.

South Hampstead, London, N.W. 6, December 2. MENTAL ILLNESS. Hospital Facilities. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian.

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 in some ways you have overstated your case against the present. In your second main paragraph you have, for instance, two sentences which run as 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." not, of course, know what you mean by public hospitals," but from your using the word "asylums" for what are now called mental hospitals I am presuming that by public hospitals" you do not mean the county 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 of the fact that it is probably better that early border-line mental cases should be dealt with 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 early 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 avowedly at present in the experimental stage, but it has already done good work, and what one voluntary can hospital can do other voluntary, hospitals 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 Public mental hospitals; (2) registered mental hospitals; (3) private mental hospitals. registered and private mental hospitals can and do admit voluntary uncertified patients; and I believe that my information is accurate when I say that Cily mental hospitals and the public mental 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 10 promote, as your leader so aptly terms it, the beginning of PETER MACDONALD.

Ouse Lea, York, November 29. said that "except in a few enlightareas the poor man who suffers from, mental illness is in an almost hopeless since neither the voluntary hospitals DOT the public mental hospitals cater for him. Dr. Peter Macdonald rightly points out that the number of enlightened areasof which York is one--is now at length THE ROAD BILL. Motorists and Third-Party Insurance.

To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. for motorists has third-party insurance long been advocated, and, as it appears in the Government's Road Transport Bill, may be expected to become law. If care is not taken, however, the public may find itself in a worse idea position of than at present. The ordinary third-party insurance is that at is like other accident insurance, and that the party, injured can claim compensation unless 8 clear case of negligence can be made out against him. a matter of fact, the insurance comcan panies be deny proved liability unless negligence against the driver.

It is true that they may make an but payment, this cannot even when they deny liability; ex gratia be relied on; and whether they will continue to do so after the Act has been passed against their may hare be doubted. They would certainly opposition practice Even in cases where discontinuing the motor- the an excuse for 1st is not at present insured against simply third-party find risks that, the instead party of injured might to a person of his own standing, he has being opposed to fight A wealthy corporation. How that would affect the ordinary man I need not say. To render the provisions of the bill of any value it should be enacted that the insurance should cover risks of accident as well as of negligence; to escape payment it should be necessary to definite and serious negligence on prove the part of the person injured. If this be thought too heavy a burden on the to insurance companies, it might be possible provide that in cases where the driver was found in fault the insurance company should be liable only in case he was unable to pay.

the compensation awarded. This would benefit both the public and the careful motorist at the expense of the H. WALLIS CHAPMAN. 8, Greenway West, Berkhamsted, December 2. BART'S." Prince Launches Million Pounds Appeal.

"TEMPLE OF HEALTH." (From our London Stat.) FLEET STREET, WEDNESDAY. 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. There is a very little of Rahere's religious foundation left in stone in huge blocks of buildings, which for the most part date from the early eighteenth century.

A great scheme of reconstruction urgent, and has now begun building of new surgical has, become, blocks and operation theatres, but 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 days is a formidable undertaking, claims of Bart's' these, are incomparably strong, and, AS the guests heard at 1o-day's ceremony, 8 good start has been made in solid contributions front the King Edward's Hospital Fund and the great City Companies and other sources. The great hall 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 by Holbein's glowing portrait of Henry who was the second founder. There is a tradition behind everything at Bart's," and the presence of the Lord Mayor was a reminder that the first Mayor of London, Henry Fitz Alwhyn. in the twelfth century, was connected with the great city hospital, as all his successors have been, officially.

Distinction for the Prince. After the Prince had made his speech, in which spoke of the modernisation of the hospital as necessary to convert it into "a real temple of health" fit to play its part in making a nation of fit men and women, after the Greek ideal, he received the only honour which Bart's" is able to confer even on a prince. This is admission as 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 he of good conduct and attend the lectures. The new student was greeted with a loud and cheerful noise out in the quadrangle, where a crowd of his fellowstudents and nurses was gathered. There was A great glare from the huge lights used by the talkie film operators, now function, and the plane trees stood out inevitable attenders at every a important ghostly in the strange glow.

while high overhead the long arms of the appealing light raked the sky. It symbolised the light of mercy and healing which hag and burned at Bart's" for eight centuries, 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 the city a series of motor-'bus stations which wili have booking halls and other facillties.

including the sale of petrol and the supply of refreshments. At a meeting of the City Council yestercay there was some opposition to the clause relating to petrol and refreshrents. but the original proposals were carried and are to be included in a Parliamentary bill. could It was be staterl that one site in the city utilized for assembling and dispatching an enormous amount of motor transport. A scheme outlining the whole proposals is to be drawn up.

TO-DAY'S ARRANGEMENTS. House of Commons: Unemployment Insurance Bill, Committee: Widows' Pensions Bill, Consideration of Lords' Amendments. House of Lords: Road Traffic Bill, Second Reading. Mr. Amery at Keighley.

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

Baillie's Presidential Address at Salt Schools, Saltaire. Manchester and Salford. Chancery of Vice Chancellor, at the Assize thy, 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. Woodfeld and Colonel 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, Brook High School, Stretford: Speech Day, Metro-Vick Club, 7 15. S.

Lantern Lecture: Mr. Eustace Thomas, "The Social Club, 7 15. W. Manchester O. Howarth, Microscopical 38, Society: Sir.

George Street, College of Technology Textile Society: Mr. H. Hardy, 7 30. Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (Branch and Association): Professor R. A.

Eastwood, Houldsworth Hall, 8 30. Manchester Assizes, 10 30 Animals and the Bad Weather- Captain E. G. Fairholme, chief secretary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, writes from 105, Jermyn Street, London, 8.W. I say word on behalf of animals that are turned out at this time of the year? Such animals should be provided with extra food and shelter from cold winds, and whenever there is any risk of.

floods the animals should brought in or taken to higher ground, THE WEATHER. Forecasts for To-day. The Meteorological Office issues the following forecast for the period from 6 a.m. to-day till midnight General intense depression off Western Ireland is moving rapiuly and will cause unsettled conditions, with rain and strong winds. reaching gale force at times, to become general over the whole country.

Tha gales will be severe in the couthern Irish Sea and in the English Channel. right periods alternating with showers and local hail will sorcad from the west later in the day, panied by fall in temperature. London -Strong, southerly or south easterly winds, reaching gale force at times, veering later: cloudy, with rain morning and afternoon: occasional brighter intervals, with showers mi later creatug; maid at first. cooler iater. I and E.

England. E. Midlands -Strong southerly or southeasterly winde, reaching sale force at times, veering later: cloudy. with rain morning and afternoon: occasional brighter mtervale, with 111 later evening: wild at first, cooler Inter. SW.

and N. W. England, W' and N. Midlands, S. and N.

Wales -Strong southerly winds, reaching galo force at trie-. veering later: cloudy, rainy at first, occasional brighter interva's, with showers. later: mild at first, cooler later. C. England, 8.W.

Scotland -Strong southerls or south-casterly winds. reaching sale force at later: cloudy rains; moderate Irish Sea -Strong some to rain calo south westerly winds. recring later: at first. brighter interia' and showers with bail locally later; EC3 very rough. Further Unsettled YESTERDAY IN MANCHESTER.

Whitworth Park Meteorological Observatory. Wednesday, December 4, 1929. Barometer Tendency: Lu tends. Barometer, 9 To-dav. Yesterday, p.m.

996 6 metric (The millibar is the international unit of baro equals 2953 pressure. inches One thousand millibars (one bar) equals 33 86 millibars.) mercury. One ineb el mercury of Shade Temperatures. bulb To day. Yest.

To day. Yest Dry 9 a.m. 46 42 51 49 Dry bulb 9 p.m. 47 Minimum 45 38 Humidity To day. Yesterday.

percentage 9a m. 92 79 Rainfall (in 9 pm. 77 Sunshine 2'0 4 Sun rises. Sets. Moon rises.

Sets. To 6 07. 3 52 12 03 p.m... 7 11 p.m. 8 C9 3 51 12 29 p.m...

8 22 p.m. For every ten aniles north of Manchester sunset is earlier by 48 seconds. LAMP TIME FOR VEHICLES 4 22 p.m. A COUNTRY DIARY. CUMBERLAND, DECEMBER 4.

The otter had only just left the male salmon of 17ll. lying ou the hank of reach of river not a mile from the mouth of the lake. The fish had been seized on the spawning-bed when probably hie was so overmastered by his fury against rivals lurking about on the redd that he had known nothing of danger until the fangs of his enemy fastened upon the back of his neck. We who have seen, though all too seldom, an otter take his prey can imagine what followed. A salmon of 17lb.

tailed by 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 an unspent fish and a beast little heavier than its prey. Here was proof that the otter required 300 yards to Pedals prize. For that distance from the the quiet, deep water where the tussle ended otter and must have rolled over and over again, the one holding on grimly the other lashed and writhed and darted and plunged. G.

W. JI. CATHEDRAL SERVICES. Matins st 11; Evensong at 3 30. Holy daily at 7 30 m.

Holy Days and Fridays (choral) at 11 a.m. Baptisms daily after due notice. boya' volces only). Matins: Row loy in A minor (Chant by Bishop. (Services rendored 1299: (Wilson).

Anthem 373 (No. S. 1), "0 Light vorlasting Jesus, Heaveniy Evensong: S. Master" Wesley In Anthem 840, (Spohr). Mr.

E. G. Swetman, who has died at Deganwy, aged 83, was formerly cashier for the Midland Railway Company at Sheffield and Birmingham. He had lived in Deganwy thirty years. Organised by the Llanddulas and District Arts and Crafts Club an interesting exhibition was held at Old Colwyn yesterday.

The exhibition was opened by Mrs. Edwards, of the Palace, St. Asaph, who was a basket made by a blind exserviceman, of Foryd, near Rhyl. WESTMACOTT' and LEMON Vitaminer. 17.

Market SQUASH, St. DIGESTIVE PILLS from WESTMACOTT'8 care thousands. What about you? 17, Starket 8t Ancouncemeats in this column are charged at the rate of 6d. per line. All such annour cements must be authenticated by the game and address of the sender.

Postaze stamps or postal orders may be sent in payment. BIRTHS. At Armitago Road Nursios Home, Birkby, Huddersfield, on the 2nd inst, to Mr. and Sire. E.

BAINBRIDGE Gladys Aiken), daughter. SOAR- On December 2. and Mrs. C. SOAR, Crossedeld Road, Cheadle Hulme, SOD.

DEATHS. field, Radcutle, December FANNY, 3, at Sunny Leigh, Chapelwile ol the late Albert BARLOW. Interment Stand Independent at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 7. Friends please accept this (tho Goly) intimation.

West HARDING -On December at 1, Rowley Avenue, Didsbury Kate ERNEST CHARLTON, beloved husband of HARDING, aged 52 years. In7. and aL 1 Inquiries to Mesars. Kendal, Miles terment at Grimsby Cemetery on Biturday, December Co. Burnley Road, the 3rd at his residence, 703.

THOMAS the Whitewall beloved Bottom, JOSEPHI Funeral at Providence husband of Lily KYME. Possendale, this day (Thursday), Baptist at 2. 45 Chapei, p.m. Lumb-in- Friends 10 please Robert accept this Whittaker (the only) intimation. Bottom, Waterloot and 145 Sons, Whitewell TeL Rossendale.

Atberton, On JOSEPH, December the 4, dearly at 139, loved Bolton Road, Mary. shuttle A. Street, MANGYALL Tyidesley. Inquiries to J. Natter, 122, husband Mare.

64, Lodze the 4th at bis residence, Glen 82 MORLEY years. date Service of the at the Commercial Manchester Hotel, Hyde), aged Lane, JOSEPH DEAR please Monday, accept December this (the 9, at three clock. Friends Crematorium by special request. only) intimation. No Sowers, Upper Street.

residence, 139. AH Lloyd aged 66. from heart Cremation disease, this day Dr. W. (Thurs- H.

day), 2 50. Higher -On the Crumpsall. 2nd LUCY Deceraber, at Moss ELIZABETH. dearly Bank. belored of Fred THORP.

Bervice ment St Church. Leicester Road, 2 p.m.: interMethodist United day Inquiries E. Oliver. 3 p.m. bone 780 thin Andrew's, Hizher Cheetham don.

ZOCHONIS -On the BASIL. 2nd at Bow. Eva Margaret dear busband of the late at the Greek Church, ZOCHONIS, Higher in his 77th year. this day (Thursday), Broughton, 30; Manchester, quiries Altrincham Cemetery, Hale Road, 12 45. interment Altrincham (Tel.

1248). IN MEMORIAN. tenant Lancashire memory of WILLIAM CROFTS, Lia December 6, 1917. Fusiliers. At La Vacquire on WREATHS DINGLEY'S, St.

Peter's Manchester, All letters should be addressed either to or to The Manchester and the Editor individusis. pot The articles Editor offered cannot for be responsible for publication, though, the return far ct practicable, if not used they will be returned. Printed for the and Published JOHN MANCHESTER GUARDIAN RUSSELL, EVENING SCOTT, Street, NEWS, Manchester. the Guardian 3, Com Tharsday, Decimber 1920..