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WHAT THE YE.VR 1939 HAS BROUC5HT US. “/HITLER SPEAKS”'___^IS THIS MANi REALLY SANE ?
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propose to do so beyoiid a ments. It has heeh ia toi year, a disastrous year, si Its very beginning the pr the moment was hoW to a^)! and war we have not iavolt e history will view the idlpl th§ . nations in 1939 Ije wi bold prophet ,who atte foretell. One thing I will the hlsforlaii; will :say: chariot of civilisation hac unhinged.” I t has run wheels ever since the Fo i: War of 1914-18, and I t ha ally lost control of t l ‘ Augud, 1939; saw :the careering at h tangent not yet been recovered, a super-optlmlst'to believe tlon is not more or less ently in the | ditch.; I t will be If Germany iwins and equally certainly democracies are compelled terms with Germany, complete victory of'the save civilisation, and ev civilisation Is to recovei wasting disease It will re wisdom of Solomon at table. ,We are dealing most deviUsh crowd the Empire—or any Empire- countered In history, at lea s -the' Christian era. ; I mak 3 smallest claim to ibe .a example of. the virtues Christian religion,- hut contend, that if Hitler satellites, and Stalin and ’ studies, had done , as ma port arid extend Chrlstli' clples as they have,.to des**- the world would not to Itself gasping ^In’ ;^he pr chaotic barbarity.’ We against an Infinitely than the ancient i barbail knew, because the barb i past ages acjied as thqy c through Ignprance, while barlans of the Rhine and make a specialityiof mf arid cruelty partly oul devilment nn^yPartly
the Si ard
, It na;: -at
wish I to abolish rtl
everything which has smallest , relationship
religlph' of Christ. W; nGgRtion of Clirlstlanity fact' that ihe Holy Scrl
be quoted that “Think camel to send peace on
on fivefy side the complaint, " I dan’t sleep.’', I know that |n s6m^ cases, this comes I from people who, ojying to;war- ' work, fare having,to sleep; to
thei.day-
every kind of physical and imentali ail ment, while it has oft^n driven people to suicide. At the preMiit Ijime, I
, bests,
i time and find it difficult noise. In many others, just a question of nekves awake listening for air-f^ wording'about the war.' natural, especially for friends or iplatives are but it ,1s vbry bad for the and ^ould: be fought'
,
4 ; I. people jlle tld .'syrens, ;or It; is perfectly those i^ose
oh account of however, jit is
ajv|ay flgh,ftogi general health
will really prevent us frpraj getting, any sleep, ;and my advlcb thelrefore' js to make! the, most of the opportunity to
The time;may come wien airraids
IsliSp whUe i'QU can.;'However, the latal ‘xii,:— .ax iix',
thing to dp |iS'deliberate f|: .fo bed M !
, Many/people get so bored ^hese.tiack- out eVehlhgS that they; go qS to bed for want; of somethtogr better (c dp. A. much more sensible plan Is to take a good sharp walk lastihfag at night. “ Oh,' b'ut it’s too: dark;" p«ple tel me. Half the time it is not darlt at: all, dnd outside' those • hepvily icurtatoeq wta-
-go ’to bed before , you airei ,/really Itired,
early determined to 3leep;| j'ou will find yourself more,wakeful than, ever.'hever
akatost at all heta .....................__ anytp f ;w
_e,a] sir ce
. .during [■ do not com-
m the ii;al to
ihcholy
. from ■Qblem of d war,
:n iP|ted :irp
Otlfl
ie inacy of ' be a to
a; How
)phesy “ The
become )h- three
•last one .. It has rlequires civiUsa-
sq .until
irl Years* ■ .■ J padu-
to make only the les can s6- If
j^pire the peace,
pom a
with the British as en during not the.
standing of the ; I do
ind his, lindef- ;o sup-' prln-
ly them
pi ei wtr!
■dky find lence of
, the .bar- ifjMoscow
Is murder i;lf! sheer isethey ig and
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I 'catoe .not to ^end .pe sword.” . But Christian - Christianity the ipreacWi for war’s sake has not support of common’ se
hear
makes a mun,” j says Mussolini tpo--ahd so_ theinl teach thelf youth ings of! helng killed It accoikpllsh ^ some 'imag which Is usually p ne; poSite ' pf the end inte well ta n be. In the r personal combat' there
/something to he said iinculbatlng Individual hi ;be I t from me to sugge Is ofl iio use in iwar to-
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ife people ‘you'aK kill,-and the,pec
trying I to kill you, are
trying to who are
have, pever seen; each are-hardly likely to. Is. mire or less cpmpuls-j-
earth; lor the skies t! ruiuilils away pell mell sb
DC' oi
the lirildst of shell:' f ir ! .......... ;t e
' simply for entertalnmehtij yourjb will only stop dWellineibn the war if
, you really inaki .something else;
;a .; I have /found that toMmnia,! taore
ll you give it work to do, i and until it is tired, sleep will not cpme.
the/effort to fix. it will 6nly get,
than anything, drives Pfople to the use of dnigs. : A much mpre .'efficient; and haifnless sleep-promoter ib! a concoction
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soaked to cold water oye tie a cloth' over them; ■Then lets yourself relL...
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crouched position; the limbs should te stretched in perfect freedom;' and do. not" scorn' i hotrwatw (bottle or|bpd- Eocks if you feel cold. I| have toown people suffer'agonies fi-pip cold ^ p ly because they were too iWpud to erapiW Puch comforts, which pan do no, parm and are often most hplpful in ,w?°ip5
well as mentally.;' iDp.n— - sleep.
j iBy. an Act o f . jwas enacted , that thp jairect the bodies 0 murderers to / be anatomised, pr hung custom ojf hanging abolished in 1834.1
i ' Georg
e; H., jpdge s) pirates
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lisseitedl 1! chains i! chains
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i i ' it iculd 'arid and ■pje was
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made at home .from' carefuUy seated herbs which not onlyensilres calm, re freshing rest, but also s mngthertfed the
. dows is bright'moorilight and frepi air ipi people would only loc kj put and see. 'Otherwise, there Is the radio and/lherfe are'books; ; concentrate yppr .mind on either bf these and sleep will! come Eoonek or later. Do not fclen-in or read
;ired
had some.' 1 have cussedi cowardice while uriddrlflre, and we .'just the idea that'running : - avail one anything.. . 1 are ini it arid there’s no
Th£ icry
far greater than staying are. I [I'know thls'',becalui
acti
jOple who imer and bravery
n fright Is
, since In irorn the risk ' of
where you isfel'have iually, dls |ve /were
of it. 1 So you might as on with the Inward assi you .are just as likely t you stay where you ar turned bn your, heels, a; there Is heroism in wap mistake about that,
decorated hero: will promptly'ther.e.was no
nerves.. Eye-strata is 0: tpn a contribu tory cause of sleeplessn iM, and hme it will be found lielpfu, to place./pads the eybs and
physically as ot sleepjin ia
SWl III lur;
laughed at Ay; could ihort you:
jetting orit v eil carry T ,nee that
/lid- ■but
thlr:
cQjild do; And. so to German youth; as they, that there' I s ; somethl 1 physically or /mentallj make him a better, m. can make himself with well, just bunk/ The Ge lately begun to apprecl b
s urvive if ^s if. you fled/ Yet make no every
i;ell . you g else he
,3ach the 1(6 taught / In war,
■ihat can than he
that; the peoples of 1 sufficient common seni war and so they are that there will be no they become' predomin words If. German bv acknowledged ihy . Euro 3 world there will be not" fight about, soiperpetui come to stay. / If this Insanity I know not w is. That man /should ‘ well, two thousand Christian era will do to with—scores of gene search for liberty "and an ideal existence in.
- ite Rutope have to abhor
eat eric
war is— ans.'have the fact
iicw saying
iltiore' war if In other
rdship Is and the
I’tjhlng left to 1 ])eace will riot naked insanity
laii ri ,ti 3) ins In a
haw y sari be
ietdom and vtoch there
e spent 's of the going on
t ie pair of
IUS9 Iltie
lii i/id
b d n
lb :£st
' to-day! It Is mostly collp; individual bravel7■
.. largely:
|e tribe IS ever Ians of
ire up
pprman- :ertalnly the war,, i f ' the
will be-no menace to what he calls his “ living,” to say nothing of his life, arid then to le,arri,that he can have presented on a jtr’ay the kind o f ' life and existence Hitler has decreed for‘the German and other peoples Iwho have come into his clutches is the, crazlqst notion that can e vet'have'entered the mlftd of a crazy riatlon? ' If Nazism wins this war, indeed If Ithe Germans are not cured of their lunacy, we are only at/the beglrinlng of 'wars in the, scientific sense of the term, and wars will contlnrie until either right prevails or so-called civilised peoples are’ extinct.; And in the meantime barbarism wilMncrease as scientific Inventldris Increase. If. I had my way one cjf the foremost terms of the'new peace treaty would provide that any man, be he ever so eminent'as a master of science andliriventlon, whoibffered to any nation that Is; a signatory to the treaty ; or to any nation that makeg up the newi federation which peace is expected to provide, a secret process of! destroying humanity wholesale, be immediately Invited to ' appear before an Independent tribunal and if his claim Is estab lished'he be put against a wall and
shot aridhis Invention destroyed so that the secret riiay perish with him. Any assocla,tes t6 share a like fate.
Thpn there might be Jsome chirice ,of science, instead of being thie downright disgrace it is to the human tomily,'proving that it is of^some use in ajtid to
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the/same author, Isi aheady a. best seller/; Jts tltle Is “/Hitler Swaks,
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dts author Hermann Rausepning, who -wroteGermany’s Revcilutlon of Destruction,” which ; I reviewed sobie ;whlle|ago In this colum i, and
It has had space In the Press which Is selOom given to ,a .literary work
(epplte the
3t|en Mthe with the Is the
jllturfes can 110,1 Ithat'I earth;
jtce ■ butj a jtj - or /no
igj of
w.ar ei'ven the “ I t
tlie hless- birder to
ripy :end the'op- :d as, hi days: of
irtlght be
jout war ayery. Far bravery
■ iaJy. : But ';ive,i not
of any kind. Rauschnlng for years had access/to the ear of Hl t ly as a Nazi leader, 'What he writes is therefore t o t hanfi. / Tt/lwrine has had aiiy doubti as to w aether ^ t le r really oughti to be .at large, arid I/ rim one so aafllcted, he .will
ffhd.ail'hls doubts jfully confirmed in this'book. V We' In these parts often' call i man “ potty,” because
he Is apt to go off bt the he to®™ or reveals traits of eccentricity, while by n6 means contending that he ought to be ceitlfled as out of his mind. But If Rauschnto does riot iffeveal a certifiable lunatic there has never been onriat large! Here
/Is wliat Hitler says,on the yeW first ,page:: “ Ihaye np scruples j and I will use whatever .'Weapon! (in war)
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hIavE just been/readlng £. book Which; like; Its/'predecesfeor by
A D V E R T I S E R A N D T I M E S
not need to bribe thein : they will come of thelf own/aCcord. Ambition'
and delusloni party squabbles, and selfpseeklng [arrogance wil( drive them. Peace ■will be negotiated before the yfar has-begun.I . . .
the I impossible Is always successful. The most ilnllkely thing Is the surest.” Resuming this' cohversaT tlon later, Hlpejr said : “ In the air we shall of pourse be suprejne. We shall surpass all, competitors. We have only one serious rival in thl field; the •/English. .Thp Slav, wlU nev/er learn to fight In the air; I t Is a manly weapon, a Gern^anld aft of battle. / I shall bifid thC largest air-fleet lii the worlp. Wq shall have the most daring pilots/: Of course we shall have a grea army as well," ; His enthusiast growing, Hltlef went o n : I “ Ho to achieve the moral breakdown o: the enemy'before the war ha; started, that Is the probleta .that Interests , me. Whoever has ex perlenced war at the front will Want to refrain from all ayallahle bloodshed, j Anything , that helps preserve theipreclous German blood i Is good. We shall not shrlpk from the plotting of revolutions. Remem- her §lr Roger Casement In the last war. ,' We shall have frlerids who Will help. Us in all the I countries. /We shall know
obtain such friends ; . know thd history of revolutions. It Is always the same. "nigL-rttllng classes capitulate, why ? De featism ; they have no longer the will to coriquer. The lepsons of revolutions,/these are the secret di the new strategy. I have learnt from the Bolsheviks; I hesitate to say so. One learns most ffom' ohe's ejiemleg
I Again: “ l! shall never start a yr without the certainty . that i demoralised enemy wijl suepumh .to the flrst stfoke of a single gigantic attack. 'When the enemy is de moralised t from withpn, w|heri . stands on the brink pf reyolutlon, when social unrest threatens—that
1 Is the right moment. / ,
A single blow will destroy hi A gigantic, ail-destfoying ' / . ; . 1 do not play at war. shall not allow mysei: ordered about by commanders in-chiet;'
SHALL make war. * -' detqrriilnec the
I sh ill . 'coriict
I require, i The nbw poisoil gases are horrible. But there 1:1s no difference /between! a slow death to- barbpd wife entanglements and the agonised death/of a gassed man^r one.'polsoned by bacteria. ; J In: the future whole '.nations -will stapd against 'ebch Cither, not: iinerely hostllb armies. W® shaU under- irilne the! physical' health oL our enemies ,Rs we snail break down their riioral reslstence. pur,/.real wars will ,In fact be fought before military operation^ begin./ I'.can quite Imagine, that We might con trol; Britain In '/this ; wpy.!: Or
|-m6meni; fpr attack; >1 saall is riilss It. I shall bend all my energ i towards bringing It about, . I have no use for knights I need revolutions.” Finally pri this oceja- slon . Hitler , observed/: shrink, from nothing. No s6-call^ed Iriierriatiori'al jaw, no jagreemejnts,
wUMreverit.me' maklng/'uqe of a ay advantage jh a t offers. ; 'ifhe rii xt war will be unbelievably, bloody a ad grjto., But the most inhuman war,; one. which, makes np: dltoinctioii between military and civilian c6 n- batants, will at the same/ time/ be /the kindest war, because:it will be , the' shortest. ‘ And together ri; 1th the fullest/use of our armfej we st all | grind down/ our enemy wl^h a /war of nerves! ’ lAfe shall provokq a reyojutlon/In France as ceitalnly as we shall not have one In (aertoa T/he'French will hall me|'as deliverer. ' The little 'man of ;ithe middle class; will acclaim ' us I (Germans) as the bearers [of a just
' greatness. But I want war.' My ' potto is not ‘ Don’t annoy (the:
I social order and .eternal peape. None of these- i3eople wantj war arid I
America.”/Are the^e the reflections of a:man who is sane.? The mem- tlon oi America led to the questlop: “ Do/ you believe that America will agalri Interfere j In . European affairs ?’! i “ We shall prevent her,”- was ’
) Hitler’s .reply There / are'
nerifjweapons which are effective in sucli: case'q. Airierlca is perman ently on /the brink of revolution,
j t whi bp a- simple matter fpr me; to produce unrests arid revolts in the Unlte'd States, so, that these gentry wlllihave their hapds.full with their ovid affairs.' / Wei have nP use: fpr them in Europe.” -During the same conversation Hitler remarked: ‘‘■We/ Shall h o t , capitrilate—no, never. We may be dastroyed, but if We: are/ we shall drag the world with ps, a world in flamei” ' 'This Is unconvincing stuff and It did not quite/ convince Hitler’s/.hearers, Nevertheless he went o n “ When I wrige war 'In . the midst //of peace, troops will suddenly appear let us say i In i Paris., / Thfey ■will wear French tmiforms. .They will march throught /the streets In-broad day- lighj;; No orie will stop them.. Everything has been thought out, prepared i to the last detail.' They will march to the headquarters , of the ' ;Gerieral Sjaff. They will occupy the Ministries, the Chamber of Deputies.
. ^___a few mlnutqs Prance, /Poland, ■ Austria, / Czecho
slovakia' ;wlll be robbed of their/ learilng then. An army without a General Staff I All political leaders outl /of the / way. The /confusion will ;be beyond belief. Bpt I shall hayerhad relations' with;the men who will/form the new government —a/government to suit toe. We shaU; find .such men,' we shall find them In every corihtry. ! We shall'
enemy,’ but ‘ destroy him hy ajl pnd every means.’ I am the j one 'Wh'o will wage the war.” Dr, Rsjuschnlng describes Hitler personally at one of these Interesting meetings mth him! Hitler, he toys. Is npt physic ally attractive. “ Everyone knows that ito-day. Stories WCre Circulated In the party about his deep blue eyes./'; They are
nelth.er jdeepjhor blue.:; His look • Is staring or dead, arid lacks the brilliance arid sparkle of genuine animatiori./ The timbre of his, harsh,' uncotomoi voice Is repellent to the North | German The tone Is full but fbreepi as though his nose were'blocked;, since then this voice, guttjaral [but
I threatening, hat become familiar,to the ritOrld. It embodies the tormerit of:/these years. :. . ./; .| Hitler’s physical appearance cCrtalnly dpes not heighten the Impression made by, his personality. :A| receding forehead, with the laiik hair famng over i t : a short ujolmposirig stature; With’ limbs 111-flttlngjand awkward; an expressionless iriputh beneath the little brilsh qf
..what a difference from .... irigly youthful, Intelligent counten ance shown iln Napolecjn’s death [ mask!”
moustoche—such are th^ traits of iihe; o 4 e r , man. His orily lies In his hands, which irigly well-shaped arid:
' , / ariother occasion
'; excitedly after some eng: had introduced, a new llnven Hitler said : “ Engineers are History does hot repeat: Itself, ventlons no longer/appqar of pwn accord ris a piece ojf uripijece derited good 'fortune. |To-day| we
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filling' this gap. ‘ It calculated. If. you think _ _
. qontrol them.; It Is all [a question of rirtll. oriq can no/lopger allow things to work themselyes out.jtoe wealthy countries that have evqryT thing;no. longer need jriventtjns. Iwhat'j should 'they do
wlth.thbm ? !rhey are merely an embarrassn ent. [/They /want to
get.rich In; the b}d They, .want to sjeep. these Fra
wsy. rich I countries—Britain Atoeri'ca. For this reasbh Vfe i lusf
particular, th a t ; four vj?ounds of potatoes can / take the; place, of. one pound of grain (eedlng-stuffs up. to 50 per cent, of the whole' ration for pig fattening. '8o-the possibilities of Increasing pig production, In this country and feeding them up to 50 per cent, wjlth potato products are: obvious/at',once.'
- ; I t takes, several tons pf feeding-,
stuffs to produce a single ton of pork or bacon,]and the policy of the Govemm/ent is now designed to set free as'rilariy ships /as possible to ,bring over, aj proportion of our food ,lh thq 'lorn of to®2'’ ™ri A smaller 'proportion in the form of' '
' itufis, ' E R I D A Y , I D E C E M B E R
liberate Germany .from all such connections.' < IVe must stand on our own feet. (Germany as It Is to-day, Is not a blolpglcal unit. It will be Germany only when It is; Europe as well. Without power over Europe' we perish. Germany is Europe. We shall awaken the world from its; sleep. We shall undertake tasks, of which the world does not dream and we, shall per-i form them successfully. But we must have Europe and Its colonies.' Germany Is' only the beginning ,. . I . A new social structure Is necessary In the Germany and the Europe of the future. I t Is neces sary to, reconstitute a class society, or more accurately a hierarchy .But this can, no longer bq/'done .within th e : limited confines pf Germany,'. l)ut/ must be applied to a whole continent, a whole universe, j . . . . 1 We shall never ,be great stptes- meii unless we have; a nucleus of might at the centre i as hard [and firm as steel—a nucleus, of eighty to a hundred million colririlslng Ger mans, My first task; will therefore be to
create.thls nucleus which/will not i only make ris invincible] but will assure to us once and fpr Ah the European nations. / Part of
'this nucleus Is Austria. That goes without saying.
But Bohemia and Moravia also
belong to it as well ' a s ' the Western regions of Poland.
' Moreover, and this you must not overlook,' the Baltic States too are part of it, those States which for centuries have, had a /thin uppercrust of Germanhood.
29. 1939. OLD BQIWRY STONR :| -'i-
Reminder of Days ^ e n Clitherde Far Different.
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\|"ANY people turning the / comer , hand, side, of the path ,the 'first orit of:Plmlloo-road Into Well- abprit three yards from the/gafe
terrace; will have noticed a graven thkt leads Into the second field/atii ■ ........................."
stone built Into the 'wall which surrounds Mr. Tom Noble’s garden, and doubtless they will have won dered what particular significance the stone had, and what characters had been graven upon It by the chisel of soine CUtheroe mason a couple/of hundred years ago. ’Those, characters are now all but* obliter ated, time and the' clogged feet of hundreds of boys; have removed almo"^' everything The! stone itself, might have] vanlsheid when that ; comer was rounded off some years /since had mot Mr.';Weeks persuaded the people in a ithorlty to replace, the stone In }ts!new position.,
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of the/ldays long since goi e. when Clitheroe' presented a far; ( ifferent 1 appearance from that wilch i t
"ACCT'SS ' ‘to .I COMMONS, ,’Thls stone Is a coritlnual r iralnder
does' to-riay : ' when a ring of commofas/ and moors aim 3st sur rounded the town; and w/ien the, ways from the living quarters of itt Ihhabitjints to those moors .aiid
I commpris were broad and at tirii^ ■ exceedlrigly miry; through which
I of great extent'; for,/; sxample that at Shaw: Bridge ,wt s quite seventy/yards, probably because It led toi High Moor,/ the largest tract of cPirimon in the hbrough; while that riihlch gave access tb ;he Low Moor measured over forty' rards at the : bottom i of Parson j me,; or Pittjane as ; lt'w a s theri; called. Well-terrace stands'on an3ther of these: tracks , which provl led the main approach from the north end of the town to. Salt HlU N opr and to, Upj Brooks Common, and this was:continued up Dicky; Pay Shiay to the;High Moor.
tramped th e : horses,. co vs and geese,;Whose owners had the rights of paStrirage on them. The width, of thesri tracks to accommo late thp wandering horded was of j ecesslty
TO ; THE njiOGiRS.I Noiv the significance of this oljl
stone] an d ; of' other shnilar, ones, is at/orice,seen,;for they:marked the limits of the,moors aid com/r mons/arid of the wastes ai d tracks which led to them. ' The position of - these stones was' /fir rily . Ito pressed upon the young o f ' JUtheroe every: ; Shrove-Tuesday, l3r' .up'on_
th a t : ddji' 'the'' Inquiry * -J iiry,' the equivaleht of, the modem: Towin Council] perambulated thu' bounds of the borough property as an Inil porttoit! duty, In order to satisfy, themtolve's th a t the- poatlons of these stones had not been ;ampered with. Arid that rio e'ric'rt achmerit by the oyners of adjoining land had been made upon these tracks./Then it/was that the boys ■were solemnly bumped/ against, each: stmej apd; had /their Injuries moUi iedi-by! a liberal distribution of Cop ' I or, yvheri those failed, by;
ioW nuts, sparser
1 to-driy.'ribtably I - I iia.c:
1 H a r d h i l i . I w o n d e r I f m a i y p e o p e ; . w h e r i ' r a t o b l l n g u p D i c k y 1/ a y l S h a y , ; h a v e ! r i b t l c e d t w o o f t « “
I Edliford Brldge,i,anc lill, I
dole:! of I pennies. Several j of | thetoj old boundary stones are to h® fouhdi .WarthAt; 11 near to
They/ a r e ; both situated qr [the left?t ------fi/® stoneto
m il k ! e x p e r im e m s o n 8,000 SCHOLARS. ‘ experiments
______ _ Idrqn -in (3rea [ shbw/'that a daily ration ci
. . - . o - , i , a n d a g a l , , , deeply embedded In the ground and
.their portion glves^'a.i good Idea o{ the iwid;h of the track, at, this- hlch once led up to the or. ■
totorit.. High iMc
and:at terrace
FIVE ■ji - ' ! - ;At ,thc; bottom of Church Brow
BOUNDARY/ ' STONES. .
_ junction! with Well- pie Corporation owned a
,^ |ivery .aarrow; strip/ which, ran up
trianmldr patch ofj land which, according ,;to a survey made by (Welch In' 1876, measured kquare yards,'add Included
the Brow to the top'end of the old /School.' This again was defined by bouridary stones, of which fl'ie are shown on the 5-ft, Ordnance Survey naap. of Clltheroe, : published In 1847./ No doubt some 0^: the ancients, of iihe town will retoember these stories ,and may have used/them as .vriultto^'-blocls' to the. days of their ^bu%^ This pptch of,land Is now, absorbed In the road arid that fact provides us w/ith'/the/reason for the i extremely ■' \ride| stretch- of roadway at this • pbriatj. On It some pOO; years ago- there stood three cottages: which at the b.qglrinlng of th^. l9th century w/toe|use(jl by the Overseers to-housa sqtoe of :|;he poor of Clitheroe, and for which they paid 'a irent of &T: yearly tolthe Corporation—just less thanj . a shilling a werik fpr each cBttage. .'riot even /the .most/ancient,. Oiltheronian will; renarimber these ebttriges,. fpr they were/, demoUsheii; - 110 ■
years rigo,. and the/' proceeds of
trieir; demolition enriched the town, treasury by . £8 lls.,-8d. : |
. S H O U L b B E P R E S E R V E D . I
•Not orrly were boundary stones, ' ■ ■ .' !'■/■:-!:;
used to mark the limits of town propertied:but they ,-wpre: atsp used: tb' /mark'; the division i between, private tenements also.; Two yeargi ago a splendid example of such a hburidary stone was ito be 'seen to.' the Borough Surveyor’s yard, and„ for aught I know,'may still be therri i t was to excellent crinditlbn;.’ amt: riasj a blbck about 17; IricheB squaiJe- by seven Inches deep, j; Qn ijhe face ■ bi it were cut the iiilrials M.IP.
:And'thq date 1749;' -These/Initials are ; those of John and Mary Parkinson who
at.the date men tioned lived at Studdy House. This stone would therefore mark the division between their property and t)he/adjoining one of Farrers .Which stocid on the west side bf .Church* ritre'et and adjoining; the Church batles. IThe block would! be re-; moved when the'!'two cottages which (jomiirlsed, Ferrer’s were a Museum '
p..xied'dpwn. . T h i s ----- stone, and, If It Is still in existence,
bujght tol be carefully 'preserved for
thari purpose. One of the old Corporation bbtjndary stones .ought; likewise |to be preserved With that end In view, for even Proud Prestoh ■ 'cannot, iri spite of all its Ingenuity, clalin any stones ; on which the totters BC; are graven, j
j . : . ' ' , A. LANGSHAW.
WAR- IME INVLNTIONS^ 'Admiral Sir Reginald Bacom
m I 8,005/ -Britain/
__________ __ milk hot
the larger'the/.fritlon, the rthe'improvetoerit.
Thesejfeatriresof teseai
takeri; ’by'the Milk Nutrl mlttee (/says “ The^Home
war-tlirie cbndlljlons. 'The,;/Committee, ‘of
only' improves; the phy ilque Arid/ stamina of children and al ilblescents but also raises | their ‘ st indard-i of Intelligerice.
' They, also mojw that '
are qmphaslzed to thq 'flaal
just 'issiied.; Tpey have - slgnlficrince,lri;vlew of th
ch under- Ion Com- Vailmer”) repbrt
a special stress ot
'the ,to®tocal; ptofesslon, -jhq |teaqhj irig. / /profession ’,^ririd 1 Marketing Boar i."
Vlscouri^t . Astor Is ChEinrian,. Is representative cf the Gbrerritov™*
3 j.hlch the the Milk The experiments extended over a
period of some twelve npnths 'and the amounts of milk fee! in school as supplement to the ordinary diet of the children were the same as those' to the mllk-in-schc qls scheme —one-third of f pint an a, to sqm^ cases, two-thirds' of a pli )t pbr htod per school day. / At Int awals they were / rneasured' and ex imined; by specially tralnCd doctors and the teachers took special stei is to assess the/ ScholasUb ability of. [the children. About a quarter of t l 'i children
received only hls'cults ,o' negligible nutritive value. This gioup serve,d as the i“ control ” In ordqr to act as a base-line for the ass issment of the physical and mentril develop ment bf the milk-fed c l ! Idren. i i
The carnation Is so t filed froin'i
the original species beta: of a flesh colour/(“ camls.” of fiesIt). Several varieties were first plan 3d In Eng^ land by the Flemings,
iboilt 1567.
riuthor'ol The Dover Patrol” and . “ The . Jutland Scandal,” has another Interesting, rind outspoken, 'volume on hlg war. experiences) /entitled / “ From 1900 Onwards ’ i |(Hutchtoson;and Co.). .. '/ ' j ‘ . At one time the author was Assistant to Sir John Fisher, then /Frist Seri Lord, who, |he says, hated routine work.: “ His mind was full of jhls larger schemes, and It was ;
with difficulty that we cornered him In/the ejvenlngs and! forced him .to
/put his sltoiriture to the documents pn'which otherwise action could mot bei:triken. .Rarely would' be. look at them until after seven o’clock. . . . . Nicholson (ms mbst' at le Civil Secretary) and 1 had to act as,buffer between th(3se wlio vlsllted the Admiral tolsee lu® oni matters of small Importance. /“ lireiriember; I n -particular, one,
Intentor who brought with him a suggestion for destroying the whole German navy by laying a large
mtoe-fleld In the North Sea and bxplodlng. all the mines slmultaner He hoped thereby ito. raise 'wave and capsize all German ____ _____ _ that
vtot are i. As wfell can be imagined, ■ a man whose Ideas bordered on thejrsori.
liuge,’. , - . ........ .... ......... . .ps that were floating to
riposkble was not an easy pe
to hoorii off RED W/
BUTCLiJ SUCCUP
I ■ i
' ■ the 'other In the fence side of the ' tipp'd field.. The position of both isi; shown on the old Ordnance Survey /maps;
they; are very lianuiasli
!
.i.Rossehdale,,i| .; .Southport ::1 : 3 a cu p ::B j.| . ,s. -Liverpool I ■; (Flertw'ood .§
. -. (Leyland 'Mi
IBochdale Clltheroe
;
..chorley. Gt.' Harwood
A :Horwich B.l )ADarwei -,1
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—tT'
C ! j C j i t o e t o ^ j jnafch; slribl
'■/'rtiine footlrif : m e a r t o l o s j ] . t o g D a y , w h
. : j h e ,'// c l o s i r i j .defencf :ha|
/
i.theto tpAji j g r o u n d ! i l l
: Agatosti.driM .tog-ajtacksl
" V " w o e ; ; - ' w e r e | ■ '!&ttoe..',seiye|
/ ‘ : t b , t r i r i k e U M /,^,:i-Grerit;:riaHr /:' t a g e t o f h a i r f g o a l k e e p e r , ! ' • r e a m s p i r i t
, h o i n e o n l e
' i 'tlciularly’ aL ':,i//.to:two/;;gbaM !;.ttitoriis/havri but 'on tb
. f r i e d l t i o r / |
;: ■cbpriters'pj : / -tricaslbris' /I
: ja^kedthat much to to
"iijlrig'ibp-tballl Lcbuldvriot/iJ liomerespel 'avoid defe,4
'/: rwatiriiAp tpl ;■ .'totoutes p r l
•yrtiorisCgOM m a ir r o w r e 's c /e ■ game.
S
/: .ihavtog.ribn '.; .JAtoriltoer; !| ;. (after about • c a m e ' m o b • although
Play/'wasf •Clitheroe
!' I h y ^ t h e i A b s f : b e r t , T a y l o i |
. -on' the iWhoj ■ ' r i n g r A d e i i M .much'.rerapl
'
j.litoatlon -w;J
//,, ( - t o p p p l i g ; . ' a g a t o s t ! t h e ' u n l n t e r e s t l L .toshdt^;whln
. ]:x”0 ’Neili;.Wa3 y h i s c o U e a g
: ; j i e i r i g e x t e n j ' ','/-<^ot;j(Nea : r i e r b s s ' / i h e / / |
' / . In tackllnd ' -1:011155'a'bad b e f o r e h e j i h a d t o - s a v e j f r o m A 'W r i ' g
j ' r i n a r k , : ; ( : : V ™ , | ^ o r i ] ' : f b r ; *4
'/ n e c e s s a r y . ; V .1 -Shaw shot v Alean throiii
/ -j,by .Kitcheril ;. . to e lead, :'Wl
,, : who gcoredl shot Sc
: .Shaw, the : who rattled '
Wheni.CroB reduced Ha .penalty kiq
jailed, to .
X (.A crbss /shdl ;t,y riut cbiild'/rr A • "Were evenli
..'''.■IntervaL'ri'/il ■/
. GREAT -VI-;-'';-.;:
:'! Great riggressive I
/■:.;,'Froto'i toe;':f , , first on tht ‘•' . left, Wade \togh. ! Cllh
. Pectedly tl iuriibitog -al
"VtoatThoiriJ ■ the ball h'a
. the up’ -/'■j '/
■to Inmate of the Coplow Vie iristltutlon, iThoirias Knight
^ s fined 2s. 6d. at the Boto“W Ppllce Court, Monday week for hemA drunk while an Inmate of to®
f tltutibn. He: pleaded 5ulhy V had been warned many tim»
offence and It i was stated
recently about such conduct, previous y-ao summons hadjy ‘
taken out. lie had beenanjnrog ai the-cpplpw^jeW Institution , the past nine! years. ,
rlg
Tncldent ... by one of,-I
A; .toaw^ihrird (‘S-A tongfctoal - ■''headed;‘Ac! mouth and! the w ng.y •Shot ehteri Me
t riight, be
when cartll
moro Mor
(fi pressure. :| tiontbp
W '.r i '■' pP'/Kj
' Roblri/spii i : /l
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