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tragic realities that John Buchan thought oijt and then wrote his well- known I stories of adventure; "The Thirty-Nine Steps,” “Greenmantle " ahd


,“Mra I Standfast.” Among Buchan’s scholarly works are biographies of Montrose, Cromwell and; Augustus.


; m.p1, I and liked tt.


: For eight years Buchan was a Mem­ ber of parliament and says he enjoyed every moment there. He says; “ The customary! platitudes about the House of Commphs happen to, be true. Indi­ vidual membera may be ill-bred; the House itself has a fine taste and bpeed- Ing, and .a sure Instinct in matters of


Conduct! I t will always' include people who are foolish, hasty, humourless; but collectiyely it Is rarely other than


patient,! ul'bane and wise. I t is nicely dlscrimtadting, for while it will tolerate an; agrdeable. buffoon' ;and an.honest donkey,jit will not give its.confidence except to sterling character and talent. Securusj jpdlcat. The |flashy platform demagogup has to change his methods jlf he isjtd win Its favour. I t demands specific I pijialltles—a certain decency in debate and a certain respect for itself and Its ,ancient ritual. The sansculotte who refuses its demands is speedily- silenced, for the House has Immense powers pf| neglect and disapproval."


! • Gf F.lE: Smith, afterwards Lord Bir­ kenhead, puchan remarks; “ No archi­ tect of a pareer was ever less jealous of .other builders . . . To some he seemed ^p jplayj the game of life for common


pnd earthly stakes, but who among us


can on this account cast a stone?—and to any c a^ the triviiillty of the stakes


was redeemed by the brilliance and the humanity jof the player.” I ■


Speaking of his own parents, Buchan


says thathis-father “ had no belief in comprom ses and a ficile Uberalism; he heyer (to irished the illusion that the


Christian life was atieasy thing, and on this scprfe he had to testify against toany false prophets. He had a com­ plete dist nst of current fashions and of the worship of the ‘ voice of the people ’ and thb 'spirit of the age' and such re tires !. . . . But, except as regards dogma,he had little of the conventional Galyinistfc temper . . . My mother was toarried at seventeen, and had at once


Scots minister must be something of a diplomat lif he is to keep his congrega­ tion; In i good temper; my father had abpjit as much diplomacy as a rhtaocer- gus.p'for jie 'was utterly' regardless of lopular opinion, so my mother had to leiceaselb^ly observant, and an habit­ ual femoOtner of ruffled feathers.”


S AMERICAN ; SCENE. yii his Chapter headed VMy America,”


Buchan bresents the American (the Cnlted Spates) scene as he saw It, and spyk; "Half the'hjisunderstandtogs be­ tween Britain and America are due to the I fact [that neither wiU regard the other ks [what it is-;to an important sense of the word—a- foreign country. Each thiriks of the other as a part of itself which has somehow gone off the lines.” I He speaks of the homeliness, the sinceit and widespread friendliness, the hospitality, and the fundamental modesty Of th? American people. TKe- native genius, in humour, and to many of the public and private relations of - life, I’ is I tor overstatement, a highly- cploured, |imaginati», paradoxical ex- travagahce.: The British gift is for understatement.. Both are legitimate figures of ispeech.


;1 Buchan's final chapter to this book, j“ Memory I Hold-the-Door,” is headed


;“The Other Side of the Hill,” being Sir j Walter i Scott’s pleasant phrase lor


'mid|31e life; Scott called it reaching the otoer sidd of the hill.' Buchan tells us’ that, his !0wn life-time has included more drastic changes in manners and


customs ahd modes of thought than can be shown; he thinks, by any! similar pplod i to history. The mechanical apparatus; of li^ng has been -trans- fgnned.. | iCJreeds to politics, to econ­ omics, to: many branches of; science have gone toto the melting-pot, and it is not yet clear what is to succeed them. The old classes have been levelled down, and new class distinctions have appeared to many lajpds based on sdihethtog much crueller and coayser than the former


tocquallties.! " I t is an ugly and com­ fortable i world, but it is' a world not Without hope—a better world to spite of Its confusion than the one that to des­ pondent-moods, I have fofseen,”' says Bhchan.j “ The things which we value may be oyerlald and obscured,!but I do not think ithey will be destroyed at the rOot.” His fear was.not that the wOrld would return to barbarism, v p ch is civilisation submerged or not yet itom,' blit de-civilisation, which Is civilisation gone rotten. I I t was not the fOtum to the Dark flVges that he feared, but the coming of a! too garish age, when life ' would be I lived in the glare | of Neon


lamps and the spirit! would have no solitude, I


■ !; i I RyiDE CHAIXENGE. - ‘.-Eut, something has happened; A


oiyillsatioti bemused -by an: opulent materialism has been met by a rude challenge.! The free peoples have been challenged by the serfs. The gutters have; exuded a poison which bids fair to;! Infect the world. The beggar-on-


hoi’sebgck jrides more roughshod over the helpless than the cavalier. A com­ bination of multitudes who have lost Oieip nerve and a junta of arrogant demagogue^ has shattered.the comity of Mtiohs. i The European tradition has been! confronted with an Asiatic revolt, withj its historic accompaniment of jaui^aries aiid assassins. There is to it alij too; an; ugly pathological savour, as if a mature society were being assailed by! diseased and vicious children, . . . . Wetoave been shaken out of our smug- ne^ and warned of a i great peril, and in fhat warning lies our salvation. The dictators have don^' us, a marvellous


service in reminding us of the true values of li^e.”


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the! seller’s!' premises. ' All sellers of plums, except retailers are required to keep accurate records of purchases,


stocks and 'Sales. Retailers .are only! re­ quired to keep records of purchases and stocks. , ;


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London balloon barrage station—all keeh diggers for victory—have pro­ duced a fine crop of tomatoes in a greenhouse which! they re-glazed with! non-splinter! glass scrounged from a derelict motor car dump.


SPUNTERiPBOOF GREENHOUSE. I RlAiF. personnel; of a North’


I takd^ charge of a kirk and a mapse, iwhlch [were soon added a familyj A


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membfe; ETs; of day, I od]i


Rotary Club headquarters, on Tues- 8tn |announcbd that they were. the -crew of H.M.


Starkle. Arms, the


, sent to express personal thanks tor the woollen comforts, cigarettes, sweets, writing materials, and so on, which'have been regularly supplied. Thanks had beenj'sent already jin letters, but the crew wanted a more


Trawler -I—-. Now this Is the boat “adopted^’ by the;members of the Rqtary Club ana the Inner Wheel Club,' and the two seamen had been


seamen walked


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Into the Clltheroe


parasites irill be caught. It wouldn’t astonish me, in the circumstances.


One of these nights, some of these


where thw can be exhibited to public scorn and made 'to pay heavily tot' their pilfering.'


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'direct iinessage. !Thus, when it Was announced, that'Seaman E. Atkin­ son, of Morecambe, was going home on lea/ye ;and taking; with him Sea­ man H. W. Blanchard, a Newfound­ lander, strict ' Instructions were given fhat they should visit Cllthe­ roe, search out Rotary headquarters and tender fhe men’s thanks Iri a propel" raanner.y News soon spread that the inen were! here, and within a short time a good many members ofithe'ltvyo clubs! foregathered, cer­ tainly'not to receive thanks but! to meet larid show friendship with these representatives of a gallant crew, 'learning a littlq of the- life they lead and finding out If there was .anything else! the Clubs could do to help them.


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would hot have it that they needed any ihbre attentiqrrihan they have, been getting. Indeed, they thought fatheri- less was' required. For lnstaitoe,:'no further jerseys or sea­ men’s ;bobt stockings were needed,


Seamen Atkinson, and Blanchard


■ lan that; In the depth of winter] In Ayctlc-waters, he wore three jerseys, and needed them!, Smokes, sweets and cakes are always welcome.! of course! !


: such excellent material th a t ,! In 'spite Of long and;hard wear, they are asjgbbd as new! " We wear the jerseyk under our: top things, and look After them," Atkinson said. His friend confessed to one Rotar-


-they said, because those sent last 'Winter! were So well made andl of


trawler adopted by the Clubs took ■part In the evacuation of Dunkirk, and the men distributed cigarettes sent from Clltheroe among the trdops'they carried. ,


I t was' recalled' that an , earlier ' , t i


the present boat has had hex thrills. On,one occasion she was concerned with two i other craft in bringing , down a Nazi bomber.


crash warning sounded' and at once manned, the guns,’! Seaman Atkin­ son salq. “ The 1 crash warning indicates that enemy aircraft' are in the .vicinity, and naturally jwe were all keyed up at the thought of having a; crack at Jerry. Our lead­ ing seaman recognised the mark­ ings on i the ’plane as it broke through! the cloudS; and with; a shout, ‘Here she!comes!’ opened fire at once. We Immediately' saw smoke i Issuing from the bomber; then she burst into flames, and gradually went, out of sight. We found that;she!toad crashed in the sea, I half-a-mllfe aWay. Three' or four bombs were dropped, but all fell wide' of any-target. One sur­ vivor of the botobef was picked up, and he said that the first burst'of gunfire—actually three ships were in action, but olir’s; was the first to open up—killed tlje pilot and set the engine Ion fir?. We were all very proud of our part In the Incid­ ent, and of jthe official congratula­ tions which; we recjeived later.” Both!Seamen Atkinson and Blan­


“ We wpre In dock at the time the . !


if^ITHOUT having had anything quite so exciting as Dunkirk,


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whatever In the amount bf' private motoring compared jvlth peace­ time,” writes an Accrlngtpn| man. who had ample opportunity top traffic observation. “ Cap after Oar .went sailing by in a steady j stream, and yet there were onlV buses to Whalley once everyj hour from Accrington, Being compelled; ;tp visit Grind eton, I took the bus ;to Harwood-ri ad. walked to Whalley, and from tliere got a bus !to, Cllthe­ roe,,missed the Grlndletop bus and walked the rest of the iway.! Taking the fivq-tofseven bus back from I found an [enormous Clltheroe. j Apparently two queues,! however.


Sunday afte^nooii there seemed to be no diminution


Grlndleton, queue at there were and 1 joined the wrong one. Lots of othelr people did thesajnp, for no one seemed to know exactly which was which. Thus'when the bus arrived there' was - ah ! unholy scramble. It was a regtilar rugby scrum, andjthe ■ conductor had the utmost dlfiiculty In ' making the seething crowd understand when the bus was really full.


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bus came, I walked it .bn to Whallfey where I found scramblers at Cll­ theroe already in the queue tor the Abcflngton bus. Computing that the. queue already contalnfed at least two bus loads of people,[l| decided to finish off the tramp. At Clayton- le-Moors I dot a-bus up 'the hill from Sparth-road. - While I waiting there, l spokd to a yoiing lady who had been among those Injtlje queup at, Clltheroe. : .She.'it tprned'out] had - fared better by ■


“ ■fj^EARINCi a repetition! of tills soft of thing' when! the! next


• Even'sb, she'arrived bgck no earlier than I, who had walked all ,the wby from Clltheroe. It was then! 9-40 p.m.”


Ingenuity. The queue! for; the Burnley bus, she noticed, was much shorter than that for the biis bound tor Blackburn.' and.- joining It. she got as far as Portfleld Bar. From there she walked It to Sparth-roqd.


pslngt a i little


If the'plc tters took the law Into their own hands and Igave the thieves a thumping good!hiding; but the petter course yrlU be to march thi m off to the police court


ANTK^UAWES AT READ I


A NOTABLE NOWELL. ., Members of the Blackirarn Society


i Mr. Henry Whlttdker mentioned the fact that the ! Nowell family flourished at the hall for nearly 600 years! Alexander! Novell, who was ;born there In 150{?, became master of Westminster School, and tor nearly 40 years wais {Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral.' j l| - He was the-* author jof the Cate­ chism in the Book jof Common Prayer; and .-preached jthe sermon at the thanksglvlhgjskvlce tor the deliverance of Englarid from the Spanish Armada. I


61 Antiquaries visited [Read Hall, near Whalley, lakt j-Friday, where they were received by iMr. and Mrs. A. Hlndley. ■


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grammar school at Mlddletoh, and 13 scholarships atj Bfqz'ennose. Col­


He founded and endowed-a new j | j


lege, Oxford,-where I he graduated, to be held by scholars from Middle- ton School and the grammar Schools of Burnley and Whalley. He lived to the age of 95, and was burled in St. Paul's. | J


The thanks of the Society were ' '


conveyed, on the motion of Mr. R. Edward Hart, seconded by Alder­ man C. A. Critchley.l J.P., and sup­ ported by Major PrePr Smith. Mrs. Hlndley invited the mem- again next


hers to visit the jHPll June.


NEXT WINTER’S MILK. INVEST


AN IMPORTAN'E LIES AHE


AD.


Although handicapped by the short­ age of i concentrates artd pasturage, they have; malritalhed the milk supply at level which! at one time was thought Impossible.. Since the grass seaspn began, a


T'kAIRY farmers have done good work during the last 12 months.


surplus to household milk supplies has enabled valuable|stdcks of home produced cheesq, condensed and dried tollk, to be; set qslde tor the winter, when the'supply position is certain to be difficult. It is a com­ pliment to the skill of producers that they are eicpkted to supply enough fresh mllkj In the bleak months to cater for, an'extension of the welfare milk schemes. f'A national tarktjhas thus been et .for the third wliitef of the war. must be


R O B L Three


ONE LfO) SENT TO AND TWO PUT


one aged twelve .appeared In- separate cases before a Clltheroe Juvenile Panel,on Friday morning. Two of them were charged with ,‘lbreaklng and entering,” and the third with stealing a cigarette case from the tennis' paviUon in the Castle grounds., A twelve-years-old Ormsklrk boy, who was said to be under the care of


Three boys,: two aged hlne and


the Lancashire Education Com­ mittee, was accused of breaking and entering Messrs. Redmayne and Read’s shop in the Market Place, and stealing one bottle of Iodine, valued at 6d, |


! ON THE ROOF.


home-grown protelnj fodder. Much has been done already, but milk 'producers ,who realise the part they are playing In the| Battle of the Atlantic will put esvery ounce of autumn aftermath Into the silo. Nextwliiter’s fartol prices for milk


lb reach It, every Ifarpi well stocked with! the maximum of


talkie-film entertainments,-1 will have one during the Salvage drive which the Rural District Council Is to cdhdUct III the fortnight begin-: nlng next week-end. 1 Not all the films will be about sajvage, bf course, , but will Illustrate, In, one way or another, the [war; effort in many spheres. Film programmes are being arranged for the! schools, and . there vrtll also he j evening “ shows ” In the villages. !; ' i


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on a ’bus, during one of thejmofath’s wet days.


“ ■pANCY anyone wanting to In- ■*- vade England!” saldja woman


A-GCXDD story which. It is said,


chard have been Ip the Navy for 12 montlto. They look exceedingly fit, and quite definitely like the life. On seven occasion^ they have been subjected to'machine gun fire frbm enemy'’planes, but the crew have been fortunate to escape casualties. The only Injury sustained by any of the men was a cutlllp—this caused by a splinter from!a funnel struck by bullets. '


trip to Clltheroe, land their hosts were delighted to | welcome them. The visit forged a liew link between the Clubs and the ihen of the traw­ ler, and an -added | note of friend­ ship will mark the future relation­ ship, ' I j


Both! these seamen enj'oyed their j


, That was jin the course o f , the historic ’Atlantic .jconference Mr. Roosevelt' had with Mr. Churchill, who voyaged to the rendezous' In the “Prince! o f ' Wales," and'my news of j the g if t' comes from, a Clltheroe;member of the crew. Sea­ man Ed.lC. Grlndley, son of Mr. and Mrs. |G. GrlndlAy, of 52, Turner street. I mentioned his presence on this new British battleship,last week, and now further, letters have reached his parents, ! .


American sailors were excellent to us, and ;we soon palled up with them. During the voyage I man­ aged to take; a few photographs,


Churchill on hoard; this morning,” Seaman Grlndley wrote on the 18th. "I.consider myself I very lucky see­ ing all tlje big menjln one go. The


but 1 was not allowed to snap the President and the Prime Minister. When Mr. Churchill left the ship this morning,! he gave a speech In which he praised the ship, and on his leaving the captain called tor three cheersr | The i Prime Minister replied by waving h|s hat and smil­ ing one of his trad tlonal smiles.”


of petty theft nowi In evidence Is the pilfering of produce-.from allot­ ments. clltheroe has evidently Its


AND now from the sea to the land. About the foulest form


!■ No I man inor any body of men Is good enough or wise enough to dispense with the tonic of criticism.—Huxley. -


full quota of these njlserable thieves who sneak about the plots after dark. From all quartors of the town I am hearing storles of onions being lifted. In one case, the tops were pushed back I Into the ground. Carrots, cabbages. Indeed every sort of handy vegetables'have been pur­ loined and damage done to growing


crops In the process'; • ,1. i , VWe feturhed to $rltaln with Mr.' !


PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT gave -*• every member of the ship’s com-' pany of H.M.S. “Prince of Wales” a box cpnt'qlnlng I 200 cigarettes, apples, oranges, and cheese.


himself. Is quoted by Miss Polly Peabody, an American writer, in her entertaining war book, " 0,ccupied Territory” (Cresset Press), which has a foreword by Lord Vanslttart, who commends It as a clear picture of life In territory under {German occupation.


The Prime Minister, it!;Is-.sald, i!'


went to the B.B.C. one night to make'a broadcast. As he A^as leav­ ing the cab, hp^asked the driver to return for hlm-Jn--twenty 'minutes, knowing that it might not be easy to find another cab In the blackout. ■' Sorry, guv’nor,” said the driver, “ I can’t do it.” ’


Ing to-night, and I’m going to hear him.”


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so pleased with this that he handed the dflver a 10s, note, and [told hitn to keep the change. As'; he dis­ appeared Into the doorway of the B.B:C., the cab-driver ruslied after him, and handing back the 10s„ said; “ ’Ere, I ’ll comp back! for ybr, guv’ner . . . Blast ChurchCl!”


The P.M., so the story goes, was


■DEFERRING to Mr. Cffurchlirs great popularity, Miss Peabody


says;


enjoyed such admiration and con­ fidence. Even his looks afe syih- bollc. When things were going wrong, all the peoplp wanted to do was to hear Churchill,


“ Seldom In history has One man


’e takes such an Interest in'the war. madam;’ ”


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the queue, has beeh Introduced by a Kettering baker. . Thd system works by controlling the;| amount that may be spent. A family of two is allowed Is. a head.] If the family Is larger, the amount Is reduced to 9d. a head,


A FAMILY ration card system, the object of which is to abolish


at my shop,” the shopkeeper said. “ It means that there Is something tor everyone.”


ly threatened legal actloif against persons who queue at shops.


The Kettering authorities recent­ j


n^HEai aU the world looks gloomy ■ ’ that’s the time to buy one of those flashy .ties that, your aunt


unhappy. That Is, he Is! hungry, because he Is unhappy, and not vice-versa—because, every |ehild is that.,-,,


(Continued foot of next Collmm). '


■]l/rOTHERS, If little Joiinnle Is hungry, it may only mkh he Is


sometimes sends yori tor a Christ­ mas gift.


gave in a speech sit Philadelphia', He tojd doctors: “ If your patient Is gloomy and depressed, send him' oiit for a flashy tie. Note his smile and flashing' eye on his return.”


That’s the advice Dr. J. C. Cutton * ; 'l_ “ It has done away with queues !


visit from the Prime Minister would console the bereayed, and; would, as If by a miracle,'almostipull the crumbled walls together again. As a dharwoman said the other day, "E’s so wonderful. Churchill—and


"If a town was badly bombed,[a t - ,


“ Why not?"" asked Mr. Churchill. “ Because old Churchill’s speak-.


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;A NUMBER of Bowland I villages which have not jhitherto! had


will be nearly Is. si gallon higher than the corresponding pool prices of 1938-39. I t will jbe'worth while to produce as manylgallons as pos­ sible, not merely from the price angle, but because the health of the nation demands theb.


. (Continued from prededing Column). Authority tor this discovery is Dr.


unloved not Infrequently reacts to this state by a kind of gluttony. He becomes fat and {unlovely. His parents ‘ pick on him.’. They urge him to restrain his dppetlte. So he feels more unhappj) and unlovely, and goes right on over-eating.” The doctor does I riot give the


Carl Blnger, of Chicago. And this is what he has found out. “A child who;feeis unhappy or


remedy.{but it seems 'to'be. If little Johnnie wants to ebt—le't him.


Mr. Churchill often tells agalnst A MAN who joined up, described '


sergeant-major, thlriklng h’e might be useful in the band, questioned


‘musician,’” he replied. ,“ Yer see, I looks arter the oil Irijun wot works the organ of i rarndabart,”


him as to his skill. “Well, p’raps I ain’t altogether a


ITHE marvellous scope of the American language Is being still


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further, extended by the recruits In the United States new army. Here Is a selection:—


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Armoured cow—Canned milk. Blind fiylng-^A dUte with a girl one- has never keen.


' Chicago atomiserj-An automatic rlfie.


Bubble dancing—Dish washing.


Cockpit tog—Mentally lost Galvanised gelding—A tank. Refugees—Recruits. Sugar report—Letter from a girl. Army strawberries—Prunes. Crow—Chicken. I Battery acid—Coffee.' Dog show—Foot Irispectlon. Motorised dandruff—Insects. Mae West bonnetj-Steel helmet.


■ 1 ! A DISTINGUISHED man, review­ ■ '♦I


recently, commentdd to the C.O. upori the ultra shining brilliance of the boots of on# company. •;


ing a distinguished regiment


“ spit 'and polish only.” He added that company blank! had been work­ ing for nearly three weeks to get pride of place for footwear on the occasion—so.determined were they that no other company should out­ shine them that they had bought up all the toothbrushes In the can­ teen;


used last night,” he! suggested. “ Not a bit,” replied the C.O..


spit and poUsh produces a hundred per cent, more brilliance on army boots if small proportions of the surface are worked with a tooth­ brush.


In'case any reader does not know, '|- ^A PINT and a haif bottle or rum


gallon. But the Navy buys it tor 5s. ll'd. a gallon. It has been disclosed in a police court- case. Difference Is largely due-to £4| 0s..9d. a gallon


costs a civilian jl9s.—over £5 a A lot of lacquer iriust have been i himself as a riiuslcian. The


Into ;the shoir through the skylight and lowered himself into the room by rtieans of a piece of rubber tub­ ing.; He left by the same means.


A PROBLEM CHILD;


tive df the Lancashire County Education, authority, said that In June. 1939, the boy was brought before the Court at Orinsklrk, ,hls parents declaring him beyond their control. After a period at LNer- pool, he was sent to Dunnow Hall School, Slaldbum, under the charge of Dr. Fitch, j"


■ Mr. Fielding Mills, a representa­


time he should be under l(H)bwnd key. When he was a t home he was given: to running away for days at a time.


problem, child ” Mr.; Mills ex­ pressed the view that lor some


Describing the hoy as “ a


land her husband did not write often {because Dr. Fitch had said they had [a bad influence over their son. He had, been home at Christmas and they saw him again In June., ' ’The boy was sent to an Approved School .for three years. I


T h e boy’s stepmother said she j;


jettes, the owner of the property, John Holt, ,who Is a cripple, was .carried Into the court room on the back of a poUceman, as he was '-airs.


!hls sister-ln-law, whc resided with jhlm, gave him ninepeace, which he placed .on a chair alongside some jclgarette's, and went to bed. , At 8-50 the foUpwlng morning, his sister-ln-law went to work, first making sure that ti e house was


unable to climb the s In evidence, Mr Holt said that at 10-45 p.m., on Mondaj, August 18th,


boy was charged with breaking and entering a dwelling-house. No. 18, ^shton-terrace, and stealing nine- pence In money, and three clgar-


THROUGH PANTRY WINDOwJ When a nlne-years-old Clltheroe


the two years the boy had been at Dunriow Hall, he had been unsatis­ factory the wholetiriie. One of the crilef difficulties of living with him was that he displayed so little in­ terest In anything, and had .no affection. He was extraordlriarlly expert at getting other people Into trouble without appearing to he to blame himself. When under control, he was all right, but the monlent that control was relaxed, he took advantage of It and got Into trouble again. At one period the.boy seemed to be improving and so was allowed more liberty, but Immediately conj- plalnts were received from all over the neighbourhood, because of the boy’s stupid and destructive be- .havlour. He was extremely lazy and yet had Intelligence above the javerage. It was his opinion that there was a lack of co-.operatlon at the boy’s home. The parents, for {Instance, did not write to the boy I ifOF months at a time.


Dr. A. A, Fitch said that during


William Dlshlngton, who is em­ ployed by the same firm jfound the skylight window operi and a chair' pladed; underrieath It. A search revealed-that!a bottle of Iodine was missing from the ambulance box in the workroom.; The matter, was reported to the police and Detective Officer Sellers made Investigations and! found that a piece of'rubber tubing, one end of which had been tied to a nearby troughlng, had apparently been used by the In­ truder to enter the room. Following further inquiries ,he saw accused, who admitted that he had climbed


p.m. on Tuesday. August 12th, Mr. James Gibson, sales manager tor Messrs. Redmayne and Read, made the premises secure, with the excep­ tion of a sky light in the "Workshop, Vhich was left: closed, ' but not fastened. He returned at 9-0 p.m., and on looking through the'kitchen window, observed a boy on the -adjoining roof. Thinking that he was just-a irilschlevous lad. he went' out and told him to clear ofli At; first he took no notice, but Eventually the lad went out of sight. On the following morning, Mr.


Evidence was given that at 7-30 ON


B ^ O Y S ”


Serious Off^cels ComtoittedI By Ju


APPliOVED SCHOOL PROBATION.


found a' felt hat Immediately below the pantry window.. _ jD.O. Sellers spoke to Interviewing


tlje boy; who adiriltted that tlje felt cap belonged to him and added! “ I got thrpjigh the pantry window.” Accused then,-handed the officer rikpehce, and said; “I have thlEleft but-I have smoked -the clgaret^s.”


Exelby); said that the boy had been ,:weeks,i he. had-rim away on-three


placed in, a convent at Blackburn following the death of his mother last year. During the- past three


occasions., but .hls-father had itaken him back twice. On .Tuesday* niomlng, the boy was placed on the " ackburn ’bus and told to return 'the convent, but he got off the


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’bps at [Whalley and ijeturned hpnje;: The Mother SuptHor declined


to take; him - baplii as she was: afrajd he would exercise:a bad


influence on his younger sisters,! as :, well as on the other children.


Ibe boy had previously been csutloned by the police tor stealing arid had been before the coiirts on Wo charges of house breaking, when he was bound over for twelve m^onthS.


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A report:on;the boy’sconductiwas bmltted -by. the Probation Officer, " s a le '" ’" " fat


■ ■ ■ Apart from present arabiej two million more


home,'’ he added, "I* have'done my best for him, -and they have done


tltot he must be doing something.” [The!boy’s father-said he was not:


tbelf best at the convent,: .but he seems to have got, the Impression


out of; control When with him,' but It :yias' j true 'there'' was: no one • at; hgmeito look after him; when he'


himself was away. He had evacuees Inlthe house!


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'exercise greater control ovetr - hlsi son.; *'! '


twelve months, the magistrates urged the boy's father to co-Pperate with the Probation Officer in a friendly spirit, and to endeavour to


*,;;■ . ■ STOLE ClGAREjlTE CASE.


that after making enquiries, he Interviewed accused, who at first denied: the! offence but later said, " I took it and hid It up the Castle.” Together they ‘proceeded to the Castle; grounds where the boy pointed to a'tree root near the' bandstand and said, " I t Is about he ;e.” ! After serdtehing away the sol, he produced the cigarette case. Charged with the offence he said, " I am Sorry I took It. I will not do It again,” ' ” hej) Chief Constable said when


„ toother nlne-years-oid boy was accused of stealing a silver cigarette case, and. a number of cigarettes, valued at £5, from the pocket of a coat left in the pavilion^ at the Castle tennis courts by one of the players. The boy ^Admitted the offence, and It was'.stated that at 6-p p.m., on Saturday,-August 16th, Mr. Andrew Norman Byden, of 20, Park-i-avenue. went .to. the Castle grounds to play tennis and*left his coat In the pavilion. 'When he-and hlk companion returned at eight o’clock,jthey found their wallets had been taken out of -their Inside pockets and stuffed under the seats at the .other side of the room. ITiere Was ripthlng missing from the wallets; .but Mr. Byden’s cigarette case had gone. Detective Officer Sellers stated


six years’ old the boy was cautioned, along with another boy, for stealing frem jan unattended motor car, and he had since been cautioned on seieral occasions. He was. before th) epurt on August 6th, this year,


charged 'With stealing a wallet and mdney to the total value of £13 13s. 6d„ the case being, dismissed.


His schoolmaster had stated that |he was irresponsible arid that his standard pf education was elow that pf other children of a limllar age.


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.securely locked, except for a pantry tolndow which was closed but n o t! pro!


God & Our Times A MESSAGE FROM [raE BISHOPS.


fTHE Archbishops of Canterbury, York and Wales, "he Primus of


.Great Britain. In this they observe: “We believe that the present


crisis In human history exceeds in magnitude and In spiritual Import any that has preceded,It. In mag­ nitude, because Nazi: Germany intends. If she can, to impose her will and her creed, rot only upon a whole continent, but also upon the whole world.' In spiritual Im­ port, because, as we believe, the Nazi creed is in Its irlnciples .and in Its practice almost wholly evil. The fierce light of the: conflict reveals that evil Is, as the Christian Faith has always dec! ared It to be,


(Continued foot of mxt Column).,:


the Scottish Episcopal. Church, arid almost all , the Dlocesiin Bishops of England, Wales and Scotland recently met at Oxfprd to confer together. They were moved to address a Message, entitled “ God and Our Times,” to ;he people of


needed'more care than those who were {normal, Mr. J. E. Smithies (presiding magistrate) said that If accused had been older, he would have Ibeen sent to an approved


bservlng that backward boys :/ Placing the boy on probation' foj; i i.


acres of .grassland must beipIbugHeci'tti mee^ \lie nation’s needs. Startf NGiW, or deifnahds:'on availablemachinery will be'toO'grbit next Spring. Early p lo u g h in g ^ early sowing and/ e a H y s o ^ l^ ’nte in s better creips.


ISSUED iSY THE iMINISTRY .OF 'a GIiICULTURE AND FISHERIES


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RAN AWAY FROM CONVENT. [’The Ghlef Consliable (Mr. F. Ki


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tostened. About 10-30 he was lying awake 11 bed when he heard a noise af the I’ear of the house. Lqoking tljirough the back bedroom window, he coulq see no one about. He got back Into bed, and when he went Mwnstqlrs later the cigarettes and money i^ere missing. Owing, to his mflimlty, he did; not mafc' any. further examination, but his sister- ln-law found that a bottle of milk hdd been knocked from a shelf,In. mC; .pantry* and had been broken. Oh going Into the backyard, she


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GOOD c h a n c e s SCHOLARSHIPS .FOR


in d u s t r ia l t r a in in g .


scliooL ! He would be placed on. opatlon for 12 months.


(CDn|taued.from preceding Column).


a positive, active, demonic agency ambrig men. ! . . .


agrinst the spiritual evil embodied In the Nazi system Is at the same tlme..l;consclously or unconsciously, an affirmation of belief in God. For this thing is evil, not because it is strong nor because It threatens us, buti because It affronts those eternal laws (of goodness which; are Im­ planted in man by God..


to the utmost the moral law of Gpd ambrig men. Whatever our un- woithlness as instruments of that law failure to do * so would but fearfully Increase It. In no one of us must there be any holding back, anj slackening of effort, any flinch­ ing, .!.•, ‘'Let us turn to God.now that if


' ‘'|It| is, then, our duty to defend ;


we the but inay Got’s laws In the re-ordering of our socljal life, the rediscovery of the


dlgrillly of man, and ,the refashion­ ing of a comity of nations.”


in His providence victory Is ours may neither waste nor misuse tbrrible responsibility of victory turn It to the service, of


“ The, Intensity of our revolt


.-atlqris the schools can ensure that every; subject isistudled'ln such a way. as tb create Intellectual zest and. develop mental habitsithat will stand the pupil In good stead In his later* career.To. that end, 'the 'schools are well provided with lab­ oratories and apparatus, arid boys and {girls - are taught. In small classes,- thus haying the great! ad­


vantage of Individual attention of teachers who are specialists in. their subjects. A perusal of'the curricu­ lum df one partlcular'boys’ school reveals that the pupils taking ithe technical course have six' hours


each tor English,-science and work­ shop {practice, five hours mathe­ matics, tour hours drawing, and


finds its fullest expression in con­ structive activities the proportion of time devoted to practical work makes the, course specially attrac­ tive. lAnd On the social side, with pupllri drawn -from a wide area there {exist opportunities {tor con­ tacts and the growth of frleridshlps between students drawn fromj a vrirlety 'and tyoe of homes ana schools. Many activities ate orgrin- Ised to develop this aspect iof schbol


(Continued foot of next Column) *


three! hours physical training I per week.j To boys whose intelligence


.nine'{Junior Technidal Schools! in different parts of the county. The schools serving this locality are at Accrlrigton, Blackburn and Burnley. To offer a form of secondary educa­ tion with a bias towards industry and allied occupations Is the ainl oif these! schools.- Their policy,-how­ ever, Is not that of a direct; p;epar- atlori! tor any of these industries but that of formation of right habits and of adaptability of mind, which must underlie'Success Iri' all occupations. As laid dowri by thq Board of Education its tr^lnlrig Is truly {a cultural education,! and- the pupils concentrate upon fhe sub­ jects studied because' they i have' no difficulty In realising thej bearing of their work upon their;future lives, { Yet the educational value of these* schools consists' riot only -In the suitability Of their' curricula * but also In the way the subjects are studied. Free if rom the I pressure and restriction of external examlri-


amongst young people.by the award of-jLC.C. scholarships at thd Rlb- blesdale Senior; *and! other schools. The 'Lancashire Education Com­ mittee has always! been keenly Interested In the development! of technical education! to meet the needs of Industry rind commerce, and. With this end In view, it has encouraged the establishment', of


Interest has been stimulated


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Often doe to hariiiful Mtiothebloigd bjislaggi^ Udnqri


■LfEAITH .il^^awiy wbeQ!'tfae<i AX action of-the'lodneyi (lactoii,‘l-i Hatmfril'adds aofl'wutes leta&ed i>t the blood cause ahsip or lugflag pairia V in die back, urinary disoideti, bliddd’*- weakness or riieunutic paiiu; Yon ' may 'sufiet persistent beadadset, atr


tacfa’of giddiriesa, getting up at nighit' ttiffl . into ed 'musdes and joints, pimness under the eyes. Youprol^' ably feel weak, nervous, ail played out


< one -will strengthen and invigonie | : dieikidnieys, enabling-tberii to nd thd'y ayttemofdiebaitotolitopni&toWhidi.!


P^.. The-'diuretida/'antiBeptici' lin'r stimulantsin this spedalkidneytqedir i


am totog you t o tod { FIRST “ PIED j PIPERETTE.”;


Important pronounc,ement recently^ he was “ rung dokn ” by the mrisa ringing of bells j by hundreds 'of cyclists In the street.


appeared on the balcony of fils Haarlem headqui^rters to make an


' I fContinued from preceding,Column).j


life. Nor must *the fact be over! looked that co-operation I with In­ dustry is a feature of 'the schoolsj Many firms give preferen,ce in flllr


Irig vacancies In their 6stabllsh4 ments to junior technlcril school-r boys, and. In consultation with the parents, every effort is: made to place boys and girls, who nave com­ pleted the two years’ course, in sult- ablcf)i)ositloris. Indeed, old junlbi technical schobl' boya and Blrls are filling -responsible position In many businesses., Parents desirous of * a! better acquaintance with the work of the eehools are directed to the! local Senior School, where pupils are prepared to't" the entrance ex-| amlriatlons, or direct tojtne Junior: Technical Schools. Candlpates ton admlsslgn to the latter Imust bej over* 13 and under 14 yeare of age.-i Scholarships providing either the: whole or part of the tuition fees,: vrith a maintenance allowance for: the' second year, together {with, tra- i veiling: exoenses,. are within thel reach' of any intelligent bjjy- or girl I whose-parents are willing to-take!,


advantage of the facUitlel offered, l I


shlre War Agricultural Committee. When the • Dutch Nazi-*! leadet’


J To Mrs. Kllvert,!of Pbolquay, near lyelshpool, goes the distinction, {of being the first woman to be trained as a rat exterminator. She is a iriember of the; Woman’s Larid Anriy and Is now taking a course under the direction of the Montgonlery-


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