CK OF iSEPTSMBER 4th, 189h


ber of Mr i. D i o n ’s housetioM a t the f ih a l e y jArms, Whalley. who succumbea a t the Infirmary to burns i and shock, caused by th e overtiirnlhg of a candle ' which Ignited h e t night attire. She had relatives a t Barrow.


The death !of Mr. Charles Long^ V ' i- i


wortll, th^ 30-years-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Longworth, of ClerkljHlI, ivhalley, followed a a unfortunate accident.


j r iM MAC Other d e aW recorded were:-^


Maty! Jane Heyes, Low Moor, lagerd 20; Florence!' Smithies, Downhapi, aged|7; Alice Thornber, Hdll-streefc, Clltheroe,j| aged 49; Fanny .Hall, ChatburnjI aged 31; and Howgert Holgate, Waddlngton, aged 50.


| ' Lord Rlbblesdale addressed a pub­ ' 1 ''' 1 1 ‘


lic meeting a t Glsburn on 'th e pro- ■vlsloiis of ithe- hew Free Educatloa Act. Children in Clltheroe elemen­ tary jschdolsl ^ere given a holiday


on the • Moriday previous ■ to com- menqlng I afresh under the new,'


fdgirae. Doubtless the youngsters would lesa readily appreciate the assisted education scheme th an thQ- brief hollda^ which ushered It In,


Six def|endantST-one a licensee—- ■ I: i I >^ '


were summoned for a breach of the Sunday, Closing Act, by being o a licenced premises during prohibited


'hours. TheliOflence occurred In a ' nearby village. All their trouble,® so their solicitor told the Clltheroe' County Magistrates, was a tt r lb u t- . j able to a long sermon. There h ad ! been! a jfuneral during the week; a ad ,ln accordance with the prevails ent custbm,lithe landlord and the friends of the departed had beea toi church oni the Sunday morning. Som^iofltheimen had walked good distances In i order to attend th e i service, ijvhlch was longer th an h a d ! beeni'antlclpated, and when, out of I


'further | respect to the deceased; th e y !; adjourned to th e inn and refreshed themselves a t the Invlta-


iion bf the provider of the dinner ion the day'of the . funeral. It wag. certainly disturbing to see a police cdnstablb entier and, learn th a t they Would bb reported! -The drink h a d ' been! paid for by the person who gavejithb dliiner. . The Chairman i;emarked th a t while the Bench did not believe defendants were co n - sclouslylbreaklng the law. yet some- notice of the ipHence must be taken. The leases would be dismissed-on. payment of costs. “ What an argu-


. meni; for shorter sermons!” was a. .sarcastic coniment.


i, su ita Ible c r o p s . Whj'er^ the i land was reasonably


sweet; and thP farmer had taken a crop jofj oats, followed by a root- crop | ,the question would arise ofi choosing the; crop for the th ird year.! jThls Ishould be an appro- . prlate time td seed down. He sug­ gested th a t ; fo r their first crop o a newl^-ploughbd ; land should b a oats-|7“ jYielder ” was one of the b e s t varieties he could recommend for standing up—and then possibly th e y could follow with roots, or forage, apd sow down the following spring. FamierS should not be sowing lan d down to permanent seed unless they were [giving It the necessary dress­ ing of lllme. ! Permission could be obtained to apply a certain amount


of phoaphatlc I manure. Re-seeded land, of. course, would have the f i rs t call oh anjr phosphates available.


V Doht’ spoil the sh ip . for a


h a ’pprth of tar,” was Mr. Wells’? advlcei on this particular; point. ■


’ [ H ■


I P|)TATO CROP ACREAGE. Turning to the! potato crop, Mr.


- I ' 1 '■ ' !


Wells Isald th a t In Lancashire this yeai* th e re would be 45,000 acres of potatoes, -Last spring, he advised ’ faripelft W 'th b area to devote a, smpU space to potatoes, because-hei felt! It would be (toe of the most useful crops oil' the farm. Potatoes


did I well 111 this particular district and were excellent as a cleaning crop, j I f they would look af ter th e weeds in the early stages, then the- potatoes would jlook after the weeds in the latep stages of growth. Last year there was a surplus of potatoes which could bejbought a t a reason­ able price I for stock feeding, Pros­


pects' for potatoes were also good th is , year, i but before they could ■ guarantee la surplus, the question of late blight and other factors h ad to: bd taken Into consideration. He advised all farmers to grow potatoes, because: the time might come when the War Agricultural Committee; would have to Insist on • a certain acreage being devoted to potatoes on each,.farm. I t was always wise to be on the right side. He also asked th a t farmers would be precise Ip filling in their returns, as carelessness In iregard to odd h a lf acres could make| a big difference tol the scheme for-the whole a r p .


FARMERS aWd RATIONING. In a reference to the new systeih


ofi ratlonliig. Mr. Wells pointed out tn a t i ln filture It;would be closely linked with ploughing, so fa r as th e fairiners w?re concerned. The new scheme worked on the principle


I th a t the farm should provide main-; ten:hance for the first half gallon of Lllk. Where the land was suitable


t| would pay the farmer to go In for me cereal crop. ;such as oats, fqr e first year, so th a t he could make e of his: oats and oat-straw. I t as essential th a t farmers should lough their land according to th e


igulatlons, and make the best oSslble use of lit by growing feed- Ihg stuffs j for th eir own advantage,


Many questions were asked a f te r f.: Wells’s address, the farmers


Jsciusslng their own personal eje- perlences ; and! problems. Sevefal nplnts were raised which Mr Ingham, ifomlsedito bring to the notice of


[he I Government department con-- :erhed. In order to get a ruling on ;he matter.


: i l i ie thanks of the meeting werq


‘xpressed to Mr. Ingham and MT; Nells, on the proposition of th e


jChalrman, seconded by Mr, W- Icoviperthwalte.


CANCELLING CULTURE.


K quite another Germany as well as the Nazi Germany, is that such as it -is it ts the older generation, which has got Jp jpast everythting but! words.


ast i o but:


cure for: Germany’s madness is action act on, action, The|crimlnal Germany will be Influenced by nothing else. an earlier article I showed the immense oecline


In in the number of University


students since Hitler was placed on his Ptosmt pedestal, and a similar decline to


the number


attenders. fderation


with no other of Germans 'Die ofjisecondara


rest, is to do as the.y are told. That is a phase of German life which persuaded an Amencan author fo write ftiat if the WBw


®°Nfi'.atol,all they Have to do, like the aoutinues many> more that Germany will boss the Ideas


truth Ls the coming are


in their


school being


[T^HAT must nevei- be lost sight of by * those who prefer to believe there


And Qie V, win-<lham-v....... ,,— ...


while the Nazis 'were getting ready. Many though we | undoubtedly p ^ e a , we nave nowhere near enough air­ planes, guns and


, 1 Chamberlain was made a hero because,


- Asquith, one of the cleverest women of her generation, in a letter to the “ Times,” wrote of Ithe lasting gratitude we . owed to Mr. Neville Chamberlain


doom would have been sealed. He would have: blown us off the earth.


years’ preparation,while we did nothing. hd had more like twlc6 six our


through Munich, ihe secured for us a twelve months’ respite. But not a word as to why that respite was necessaiy. Onlv the other day Lady Oxford and


because of Munich. Events had shown, she said, the real value of Munich.' With the greatest .respectr-fiddldstlckel The man who gave us Munich was, with his predecessor,, the main cause ol our needmg Munich. When this war'Is over we shall be asked to go- down on our hands and knees to our statesmen fqr Wiimmg the war lor us. We shall owe them a debt we cab never repay. So we shall be told. Our Parliamentarians will be ivotlng them a grant out of public monies. Apart from the fact that thfewar will be won by the British -rank and file, whether in the Army, the Navy or the Air Force—fhey have the real job of work to do—any credit due to our statesmen will be twice cancelled out by their criminal negligence In standing by with their arms folded while Hitler got ■ready to take the world by the throat. More than once In this column I have pointed out that Mr. Winston Churchill was described by Mr. Baldwin as a war­ 'monger. because he tdld the Govern-


wiciMfr nn .fVio


ment on jthe floor of the House :of .for Immediate dismissal,and he may be Commons inow much Hitler was spend- (lestroyed out of hand. The-result is a


nf Wmicfi •'Af


. that he underestimated that huge sum,, not overestimated it. But even the great Churchill cannot hope to escape his share of criticism. If he knew as much as he wds presumed to know —and he did, even more—he was not justified in letting the matter rest with a few futile protests in Parliament. Like Lord Roberts before 1914, he should have stumped the country and


loused the people to .the perils that were accumulating in front oi them.


'


- . in the scales and see which out­ weighs the other.


desks can win!the war, let us give them every credit, but having done so we [nust put the credits and debits


So far as these men sitting at their j


But for-their blindness and indifference as a whole, this war would never have happened. They had the power under the peace terms of. the Great War to


tog on rearmament. Events have shown complete acquiescence in the Nazi order '


---------- - -------------- and an equally complete loss of that independence of thought which is an essential of creative scnolarehlp.


the Third Reich is so pronounced that it ^11 take at least a generation to repair. The tradition of impartial study has been destroyed.


Obviously the injury a learning in


Admittedly without being ^venters, the Germans are adepts ini the use of


science for the improvement almost to perfection of other people’s original


ideas—wltness the tank, imlented in this country—but on present German lines time will reduce the value jof this akset since all education IS devoted to making mqn not the inventor, orffinprover of the machine but the machine itself.


£top the Hitler gang, and if necessary they should i have! marched to Berlin. To blame the public, to say the public would not have stood for It is humbug.


. there was I any likelihood of war, deny­ ing that there Was any urgency about out re-armament,, If it Is said these statesmen did not know differently, why did they not know? What were they- m there lor? 'Why! were they paid so


Jf the public wouldn't stand for It, it was because our statesmen completely mis­ led that same public by denying that


' trophe in their history ? This may possibly give my reader with his query something to think about. To another reader whq queries whether there are not many in Germany opposed to the Hitler regime, this Is' my answer: I quite believe there will be a party of anti-Hitlerltes In IGermany willing to


m thousands a year to let the Brit­ ish; public in for] the greatest catas-


The cultural standard of Glei-many must fall to an even lower level than that on which it stands to-day. ! In his war schemes Hitler has skilfully used the brams of the scientists he has now dis­ missed. German militaiy science Is- based on Schamhorst and Clausewitz. Tlie former died to 1813 arid the latter In 1831. So loose is, and has been, the Geitoan idea of morality and straight dealing, that both of these specialists to military knowledge were Iprepared to sell; their services to Other than German Powers.. Nevertheless they are slavishly copied by the modem generation of Junkers. The Prussian military staff is saturated with the military Ideas of these two experts who lived well over a Centura ago. lit is because the National Socialists' have always entfertalned the highest respect for the science of war that Hitler was at once accepted for their own use! by the Gemian Junkers, ra e sclentifldl tradition o f .the German officer class ihas been nurtured and ich by Hitler anc


Hitler out of; It. Arid they will be equmlv prepared to jump out of the saddle the moment those Junkers, who have run Gemariy for at least a century and a half, reappear, and jump out without so mmch.as making a decent fight of It. That is why I sayithls criminal nation .must be treated as a criminal nation. I t Is high time We dropped the non­ sense that we Me;fighting only Hitler Md his gang o f as^s ins . We are fight- “ K file German nation, a nation of at


jump intp the saddle the moment Brlt- ^ d Russia—not themselves—get


least eighty milhons, alj except a com­ parative few of , whom have been affected and contaminated by the Hitler f ille r ’s ideas and his so-called


New Order must be mined and blowh up. Never again must he and his gang


indulge to such barbarities as are com- parable dniy with the tortures of medie­ val- times. Ask Poland,, ask Czecho- Siqvakia, ask Yugo-Slavia, to say noth- Holland and Belgium.


be allowed to inflict such suffering or


f,y fi. Is bred to theih. And while there aie better and worse Germans, the best


Ho barbarities in 4he history of the wojld can compare with the stories they 'h Gemwns are a race apar^


to the Nazi creed. Bring to your mind any English family ydu know, where some are Labour and some are Tory,


are not:to be depended upon. Why? and daughters of these have been reared


tney are half-hearted because then' 'toWren would be against them. Hitler when he got hold of the


' todlng places, the decerit Germans we trust [will. sell the para


iBkP H"toedlately those Junkera ^‘r heads above their post-war


^ s t Is why we must beware. If we are of


Dorothy in?h?


*t will be the end nation. Listen to


tn6ni. Hfilf iTiy fldult life Haq hppn spent In Germany.; I Imow th ^ ' a


out of history once and for all if ever we are to have peace, Nazism is merely a smoke ra r^n behind which the Ger-,


ourlff^hkter.^’nn’®^”* b e blotted


®bd note particu- . '®be knows


ites these decent; Germans. Their Jbbfiretv are all , Nazis. That Is why their fathers anti-Hltler though they are reluctant tp assert themselves,


tolerant of each other’s political creed. “


“ »kes them these German anti-Hitler-


Jews, who ’as a comparatively small body have produced a higher proportion of competent men of science' than all the^ non-Jew Germans prit together


- despite Hitler’s hatred of the .. „,™ by the Kaiser be


Probably no two men have exercbed so touch Influence on the thought of the twentieth centuiy as Einstein and


to flee the Nazi terror. But these violent antl-Jewish outbursts must have their effect in a peculiarly'injurious .fom on frie dtocate organism of German learn­ ing. The concentration catnps and the graveyards possess the sebret of the


being Jefs, both had O


whereabouts of many taflubntlal teach ers from Germany's centres


T


hn, Germany had some 22 besides. many institutions plveraity standard. Thebe have all been debased by Hitlerism principal


..Oen Hitler usju u e , he ......“-J-»


had been dismissed. And the destruc­ tion of


instruction in philosophy at Heidelbui'L had ceased, and nearly half


and Gottingen. By 1936 all students.


gmnded'by the Second Geoige, King of England, and has always been the resort of


thing, has been even more far-reaching than


learning at Gottinten, at Heidelburg.


foreign and


at Gottingen as brilliant scientific


found in the world. The fo as


In 1932 there w£ investigators


especially


, of English 'as assemhled a group of was to be


v/holesale,dismissals began. _ Me did not escape the l4azi "blight ^ e r e is a decided retrogression both in medical knowledge arid practice, partly


of pre-NMi Germany’e were the ablest men In th'b larid". But


r« ® &6_.taat that a high proportion "


~ 's nledical men


they happened to be Jews. lAnd so they were driven out. Thousands of medical practice,


i f tkts


New Order. Npt content with distorting d'semraging freedom of


have to deal with when^pedee comes. ♦ !


scholai4 and sclen- Germany we shall


ATTACK ON RELIGION, my intention to complete


momentous meeting betweeri Mr. ^ o ra - velt and our Prime Mlnistw Mr Win­ ston Churchill. But as timb'runs on it tecomes more and more obvious that the real purpose of the meeting, how­ ever Important a statemerit of peace alms,, was to concert medns for suc- cessMIy carrying on the | war. T h e detaite of these plans; mbst remain secret. Hence my return to this ques­ tion of education ui Gemanv. A more rorrect te ip would be this [flight from education In Germany. By the autumn of 1936 the students for the m e S sciences had fallen to 70 pet cent • for chemistry to 58 per cent.; If or mathe­ matics and the other pure sciences to 22 per cent, of the pre-Hitler figure,


this article with comments on the


^ t must have happened between 1936 and the outbreak of warjin tiiis country


education is unnecessary in i nation of rarfs where alUhe thiflkjnglis done by the clique at


to 23 per centT “ “’ -^'"fieMusrkflrs^lass ------il


entitled Race, Mmd and Sriul,” f t was written by one the modem German professora Dr. Tirala, a violent Nazi. More rubbish has seldonl beta enclosed .


the to p .^ oH o n g ag o ,l ^ i


Garman jprera,


cent., and nioderri languages _


fallem to 40 per cent., ancient languages r? ^


fLon stlidSnts h ^


students reduced by onel ^ P®*'? uf Hitler’s


unexanfpled powera to I throw over


ilowingyear Even medi-


the staff if any­


Gottingen was universities aosuimcud t WIC.i Jelns In Ber- of learning.


universities, rbaching a


are Heidelburg seriou serious


The two O iJUXOlCUl UnU Hitler n ^ six •


GERMANY’S CULTURAL F a M T e j i q h i n g s P r e d o m i n a n t .


iNEW I GENERATION OF IGNORANCE. By CAREY L O ^ .


getting 'right dowri to it in aiding Stalin [by hanmering Hitler to the utmost w


O ^ comments icj ol roy readers, la^t week on our not referring to my


Aryan superiority or be dismissed. The dismissals were frequent ahd the offend­ ing professor or teacher jwas not! only


Nazi creed and how it can be further developed. There has been a purge of the staffs of the university and hif seats of learning generally, " mans In charge either had the crude Nazi creed of ml


j , .


d to embrace illltarism and


deprived ol his appointment but the door was barred to .his taking up an­ other job. The hierarchy of German educationallsm was impregnated ' with Jewish blood. So those ofUewish ances­ try were sacked out of; hand. Hence German scholarship lost the malority of Its most brilliant and indepenaent ex­ ponents. to-the detriment of the ,stand­ ard of'education of the yojjng Germans. I t is not necessary, and it Is officially.


thinking for them. Just Imagine pien the position of the families whose heads do not agree With' this recent develop­ ment m German mentality. All their children are brought upj to the new theory and in their own way teach their parents that their old ideas are wrong. What chance then is therfe.of the older g^eratlon kicking over t l^ Nazi traces when their children and their children’s children are steeped in the Nazi creed ? Some of my readers may have asked themselves why I am so convinced there is only one Germany orj If decent Germans,


WIW4A1V V* <«IOy


Ignored, Well, I have Just given lone reason.


that dntl-Nazl own children. they ____ ... __ _ —..... the'Nazi orthodoxy, onejat least asks


colleague, he finds himself in a concen­ tration camp. If one,persists In teach-: tag facts or beliefs that are contraiy to


In.any event has become impossible; in the world df education- one registers _ -------- ----------- '


. protest against oiler'*"


' • ■' the dismissal „,jmissa of c


Fathers .of families have their spirit undermihed by their Independence of outlook


MMUVU


there are can! be


I f ’ a


____ jher The Ger-


TO THE WOMEN OF BRITAIN. In a special message to th e women


of Britain,


Gloucester says :-|- “ The Fund lor |the Red Cross and


the Duke of


St. John which bears my name. Is now organising |a vast army of helpers whose duty I t will be to gather In the millions o f pennies which the people Of this country are only too willing to give for the great work of the Red Cross and St. John. In this army, women will play ^ leading part.


I - , ' i “ Men and women in organised


Industry are already contributing to the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund a t the rate| of approximately a million pounds a week. That Is a very fine result, p u t we know that, outside industry, there are millions of people who would also welcome; the opportunity of subscribing their penny a week.■ centres there are houses. If only


some six million------ “In our urban


one'penny could be collected weekly from each the Red Cross and St. John would receive the additional- Income of £1,300,000 a year.


“ Whether you feel able ao serve


on a committee, I to help In the organisation of collections through­ out your district! or to collect in, your own street—whatever help you can give, you trtll have the satis­ faction of knowing th a t you are helping one of thd greatest humani­ ta r ian causes of all time.”


SEVENTY YEARS AGO “ The first Branch was made


possible by the generosity of Mr. James Barlow, |of Bolton,’ says Cecil F. Walpolel writing of Edg- worth, hear Bolton, Branch of the National Chlldreh’s Home. His book, “ Gblden Links,” just


friends of this [great enterprise. Sir Thomas Barlow, Bt„ MD„ F.R.S., Is the senior,general t re a ­


surer of the National Children’s Home which shelters and , trains some 4,000 orphahed girls and boys In Its 32' Branchta.


Again and again In “ Golden


Links,” the author lifts the curtain and shows , how I seemingly trivial Incidents have had great results,


whilst through the more th an 70 years of its history there have been' outstanding evehts which have had a m a rk ^ [effect upon .th e development ol the work, so Im­


portant a p a r t of which is being carried out Inj the Lancashire Branches a t Edgworth, Southport, and Rlbblesdale. j


(Continued from preceding column).


in the same number of pages. “We Germans,” writes Dr. Tiraia, "can claim


■esseneb.’ ^Nd teacher can Influence this, for (tiall comes Into the world as a gift from 'bur ancestorsi” This remarkable Nazi professor-'follows up by asking whether-religion is "life-affirming or life-denying.” ; He | concludes that the Christian' religion[ is “ life-denying” because it is “ adapted to races .that wish to die, but for a healthy rdce it acts as a deadly poison.” f t is easy to discover why justlcb has so many sides to It In Germany, arid lends itself to so many varied interpretations, when we read that “Equalitv|of justice and equal conceptions of justice exist Just as little as equality of people and equality of races.” How easy then to stage a rule of tyranny as a rule of justice! “ Through the Introduction of Chi-isti- anlty,” writes Dr. Tiraia, " our sense of law,has been suppressed by an alien conception of justlcb. To overcome this Just so. That Is' attempts to read


that wherever Nordic blood dominates, crime is rare. Thb pufar the German tribe the rarer thel criminal. Orie has almost, the impression that - crimlrials belong to another race.” Perhaps this is permissible even -from a Nazi profes­ sor when the whole German race is sufficiently criminal that It becomes Impossible to single'; them out and they cannot see themselves as others see them. : Later, Dh Tiraia remarks that “ Philosophy:; growb from the blood, from the thoughts arid from the feelings and Judgments to Which a man is com­ pelled by the iriiriianence of his racial


means you to do, must be suppressed. Many columns could be filled wltti sim­


_______ _____exactly as justice


ilar quotations, butithls is my last one: “Many still belieye every life is sacred and is to be protected, ft is not so.


|


cut your neighbour’s throatr-he Is unhealthy! ;


This, leaves wide open the way to I )8UFF|RIN


' ity, which bolled.dqwn means riot that the Genpan race shall bora the world but the riilers of Geymariy shall rule, and that the rest of the Germans shall ;be slaves, and partly' to diverting all educatiorial establishments to the fur­


Gtherance of Hitler’s|mllitary ends. The


hard Rust. Is a distinguished enemy of learning,[with a shbeking record. ' He


erman ;Minister of Education, Bern-


sclentmc investigation, but really to keep al sclentiflo activity directed to Nazi miUtary. needs, arid Ito prevent the diflusipniiqf nfilltarV Interests into more theoretical channels, in other words


.pa^”a‘51y to direct


end the [peaceful ribrlta of sclentiflc work. ^ e -N a z l revolution summons science tb a declslvq battle. Freedom of opinion and judgment are marks of th'e


nominated new Rectors to all the Ger­ man mlyeraities .ahdi higher seats of leamirig,, choosing none' of them for their high scholarship, but for their loyalty tq the Nazi cause, and to their ruthleraness. In 1937 q new blow fell on what wak,left of Gei-man science teach­ ing. Hitler appointed a National Coun- af.


That the Germta education and cul­ tural atmosphere has become so con­ taminated In Hitler’s days is due partly to this,nonsense about racial superlor-


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^ '


radio, will be seen during the first half of next week In " Old Mother Riley’s Ghosts.”' Arthur Lucan and Kitty MeShane are of course once again In their usual roles. Lucan exploits every situation to, the possible advantage, laughs following one another in quick succession, iln this new Him, Old Mother Riley is the, office charwoman at the finn of Cartwright’s eng firm, where Iher daughter K f . . .___ canteen waitress. John Cartwright, toe son, of l toe owner,, has a quarrel with his father and leaves his father’s house to meet Old Mother Riley, who has .been sacked for coming late- to


to^ work to perfect art invention on which John hopes to make a fortune. When Old Mother Riley is left an old castle at Auchterbrbath the whole family moves there, John and Jem carrying out : their experiments in toe cellar. But there is dirty work at toe crpraroads by Warrender, the superin­ tendent of Cartwright’s factory, who with his gang hopes to obtain posses­ sion of the blueprints and claun toe credit for the Invention. But Old


work. John comes to toe Riley’s home to live and he and the lodger, Jem set


Mother Riley saves the day and Kitty and John are betrothed.


JIATRIMONIAL COMEDY


Divorce,’; Paramount’s comedy-<ftama starring Joan Blondell and Dick Pow­ ell. With Gloria Dickson, Frank Fay, Jessie Ralph and Conrad Nigel among those-in :support, thb'picture combines just the correct proportions of comedy, Joan and Dick, who are a happily married couple in real life, are seen, as a pair of young people who are thrown together: strangely enough, by toe divorce of Joaivs sister, a role played by Gloria Dickson. The good-natured narrative swings along and It Is the natural order of things for Joan and Dick to get married. Connubial bliss is just that as far as they are con­ cerned until Dick, who Works at being, a young, underpaid lawyer, finds that he can make a lot of money at being a divorce lawyer. Joan, who has,seen her sister’s unhappiness, does not approve of her husband’s method of earning a living by securing easy divorces. This situation eventually


leads to an amusing and dramatic conclusion, J


ful risk to their .lives, organise Freedom Station, a pirate radio in -Germany.


, t o


qleeced; himself, a scene in a stage poach |as funny as their famed 'state­ room Scene in “ A Night at toe Opera,” ‘..flWfrpplittlne “wild party” with, three jlrLs ih an office, an Indian sequence


t and a wild wind-up on board a speeding rain.


j Tri^e whole thing takes place back m 1870 and out to the Colorado gold riclqs-j. I t revolves around getting a deed to Dead Man’s Gulta. Dfffector: Edward BuzzeU, himself a fonner comew star, has given, the picture


" pace and a merry plle-up of I WESTERN DRABIA. 7TT .a jT LV'' 't


the^ big break of her screen career |h pbrtrayine the leading feminhie role,' toe isupportlng ■ cast including such


intes’Twill be screened during______ .“ axt week. Peggy 'Mforan wins'


*''06/ AViVifji* WUI9


Mlscha Auer. Pranchot Tone plays an- Undercover agent sent to toe Western- wntiep by a Kansas City newspaper ■» hunt down the murderer of a re- jorter.: At first sceptical of cowboys'


Well known players as Wan-en William, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine - and


md their ways, toe agent finds himself- -scinated by ranch life and after nr-ralstog adventures coupled with imance he decides to stay. William is'


suited I to their, talents. " Trail of toe flgilantes” was directed by Allan-


tfeman like the agent while Devlrie Id Auer have comedy roles spetlally


q^uarter of a century. | “NO, NO. NANETTE."


)wan,! one of the screen’s'all-time pteraps. who lia s been directing both p America fflid Great Britain for a


|N the role of a helpful niece, who


tonal I triumph In “No. No; Nanette," siiarkllngvscreen version of the London nuslcal play, which-will be shown nixt week-end,


I- tries to assist her susceptible uncle ri a series of feminine complications, tona r Neagle achieves another . per-


Roland Young plays the role of the


hen-pecked husband, whose well-meant efforts to advance the ctoeers! of vririoiis gold-diggers, lead to all kinds trquble. Tramg to adjust matters


without, the knowledge of Young’s wife, (Helen Broderick), Miss Neagie man­ ages to turn the attention of two of the gtrls i towards Carlspn, a famous painter, and Mature, a Broadway pro­


ducer, As a result both Carlson and /„ii


1


ai [Other, while in tod meantime Helen Bqderick learns what is going on and dqcldqs to go to Reno for 'divorce. In tlte ensuing mlx-up almost everyone gm aboard a Callfomia-bound.passen- ~ plane and the romance comes to d conclusion as ,4;he big ship racta


-1 ----------- to ‘out-manoeuvrC’ one - itward. ■ .- the original show, the picture offers ’ '^^h catchy.tunes from


mpny novel features In its story and treatment. Besides toe title song, of l Jo,| No, Nanette,” such favourites as


hdppy” are sung by Miss Neagle and prlrioipals.


:OY HAY- PLANS Your Victory Garden SUMMER WORK.


VERAL readers write about (tomatoes, complaining'that the fruits are slow to ripen.


.’i k . T|he weather has toot been ideal


fo:’I tomatoes this year, but the next th ree or four weeks should see matw pounds of fruits gathered. Most gardeners have already stopped their plants by pinching out the growing shoot after the fourth trijiss of fruits has set. I f th ls 'h as not been done, hovtever, i t should attended to immediately, as it Is i likely th a t more th an four


trri^es of fruits will ripen sucess- fully on .outdoor-grown tomatoes. In leed, If the autumn proves un­ charitable and there Is a danger of ly frost, i t Is more th an likely th e last few fruits on each


It will have to be nicked green ripened Indoors.


spinach, .


what the Mmlster of Mucation said • German history has .brought to an


channels. This Is


ARE SALES OF WORK DOOMED ? ,


“ The ‘Coupons for Clothing’


eternal fbrces of- nature. Freedom is not assured to scierice,! either by Its ate stractiveness or ^ .its ilndependence coming events. Tibi Nazi state calls on German .science to co-operate In the Nazi Pour Year Plan.” ; All doubts as to


the-milltm direction! to be given® to future to German toience were removed by the character and the records of the men elected as (officers for tL new Council.! To bolkterl up his rMlto biology h p b u g ,; Hitler put tat^ toe professors’ chairs itien |wito little br no clahn to sclentiflc recognition. He per­ verted science asl he hta perverted


see that It Is not perverted. When he ^ra er ts It, he has|ari object In view, todheismos ly peryertlngIt. Germany


his military purposes Hitler is careful to


tern. You cannot your otyn exclusi'ijshtaherd 'flclence''iri


the poishnous Nazi IhfleiiTnc course


Schantoorst and Claukewitz. but they have shattered th e ------------ •’ " of .tne^^ old Junkers as th d r bombs have shattered the outposts of civilisa­ tion.


iltler and his Jurikbrs still swear bv TV -WUD


ithe penalty In the long run. ------ ®iya to philosophic dignity —


—f*—«« wC in mrectlon Without Without


and moral status qf fils own country- “ facted with'


tn sys- ' ^ a n selenite serves


system now in vogue may prove in ­ directly responsible for revolution- Ing one' element In the parochial fiiiance of the Church bf England,’ says a writer In “ The News and Notes.” ' “ At all events, the dlfil-


cultles which i t has seemed to place in the path of those '‘honourable women not a.few ’ who| devote their time and talents to the organisation of sales , of work qnd similar ‘ efforts ’ for Church purposes, have added; to the growing number of churches relying upon!‘Gift Days’ or other forms of Direct Giving ra th e r th an on functions of this sort. ■


“ There is, of course, room for


wide difference of opinion as to the value, even In normal times, of seml-commerclal means of raising Church money. On; the one hand It is bften urged th a t the organisa­ tion of sales of work, bazaars, and so forth affords, a wide field for happy co-operative activity among members: of a congregation and th a t the events themselves tend to bring together local churchpeople In an agreeably social way, even If the tlme iand trouble Involved are sometimes out of proportion to the n e t results achieved^ ®


SU] ma acli wir| tur one bee roo beei


pply.of spinach beet should consider ling a sowing now of prickly spln-


[bse who have not'sown a good


i[-tne variety most suitable for iter use. The Ministry of Agricul- r s allotment plan allows for only' row of spinach beet or seakal'e on the part of toe plot devoted to


sow prickly spinach instead. HERBS,


crops. If. however, this has not sown. It would be a'wise move to


stew; ing, of cut and


has been emphasised before'm these coll mns. In wartime, when it is diffi­ cult to provide a varied diet, herbs, to- ?ether with onions, chives, garlic and eels,' help to make uninteresting “““'s and hashes palatable and invlt- If you have grown a few plants tjhyme, sage, mpfloram or even mint, iches O ..................


The value of flavouring vegetables


dry them;for use during the winter. Tie best way of drying them is to


a- few bunc WADDINGTON


! F( daj


!sal(‘


I’Th'!! and


the Hoi: Thii) mil' ;loai


OR THE FORCES.-On Satur- last, a very successful jumble was. held In the Reading Room,


[Mlfs (Wa;; fro sale


re were also “ white elephant ” pound stalls,' Organised,by Mary.Altham, the sum of . £9 raised In exactly one hour [n the; commencement of the


. Thlk Is to be shared between Mothers’ Union and the'Ladfes’ (r knitting funds fdr the Forces,


inks, are accorded to the coto-


tee of the Reading Room for thq 1 of th e premises, and td all who


is sted in making the effort such outstanding success. ,


f the foliage now


hang Ithem in bunches in a warm airy place, possibly near a kitchen fire, or they may be dried by spreading them on trays' In the full sunlight. .When the foliage is quite dry an d ; brittle, crush it into' a (rough mealy state and store in stoppered- Jars for winter use.


CARROTS. I


carrots is that the roots are Inclmed to split., To avoid this trouble, they should be lifted now and placed in fairly I moist sand in a shed orlbehlnd a north wall to keep them fresh for a few weeks, but, at toe same time, to prevent them frorii making more growth. The main crop of carrots can safely be left in the ground for many weeks yet.


A frequent complaint regarding early Surplus ve(Setables


hospitals or army billets th a t ; would be glad of some extra garden produce. The problem of disposing of summer garden surplus loses much of its dlffl- if you look upon nature’s llm


as an opportunity for charity, i READERS’ QUERIES'. |


—f t Is quite a satisfactory- arrange­ ment to plant winter cabbages or


Is it good practice to interplant main crop qarrots with winter greens?


:V4/\Fntiinv% M.* ^


an: u iiiy I-------- ,____


_ j . . the female flowers as they appear.


flowers; to qppear on marrows, and all you CM do Is to remove some of them, but, of ebutse, you should leave three or four male flowers.in various stages of developnient to , ,


riythtag I can do about it? ft is quite common for more male


provide pollen for CLITHEROE AUCTION MART,


, FEIDAYi Over 1,300 sheep and a few half-bred ewes were disposed of, when toere was a good trade. The best half- bred, lambs made to 48s.; lesser ones, 35s. to 42s.; homed lambs, 23s. td 33s.: youn'g.half-bred ewes, 64s. to 75s.; and oldeij ltaeep, 45s. to 60s.


ance. ( Best young cows made I £54 to £70; other useful cows, £38 to £50; and plainer sorts, £28 to £3610s. Best local and Scotch heifers, £50 to £68 10s., and Whers. £29 to £46 15s. A good clearance W8S 6n 6Ct€d


and Mr.1; Dewhurst, Hasltagden, made the following awards for dalra cattle 1, A. Harrison, Earby; 2, w. Marston, Kirkby’ Stephen.


. The Ju^es, Mr. W. Cooper. Hellifleld! * i -


TUESDAY: A large show df good quality ..cattle, and an excellent [attend­


I received an Inquiry a few day,!


ago (writes Eleanor Sinclair, Rohde, a gardening expert, In “ The Field ”) asking me how to use parsley as a vegetable. This made me realise for a t least the hundredth time the odd fact th a t this valuable food Is almost'lnvarlably used merely as a decoration or for flavouring. , [As I . pointed out In a recent article, narsley is the rlchest-knowiy


source of vitamin C, the vitamin for which oranges are chiefly valuable). Yet with a war on we have th^ sjicctacle of neople queueing up, for a miserable two or three orangesL Whereas anyone can have parsley the year round even In the. smallest garden.


i


few fresh vegettales—perhaps a widow or & soldiers wife—or there are alwavs


'of a


" I f your gardening efforts have been successful. It is quite likely that yoU may have a few more lettuces than you cftn consume, or a few poitods of surplus beans. If so, remember there is alw^ays some less fortunate neigh­ bour who would, welcome a ^ t


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S«Une^l»rt'ii.hUct •rpawOcr hiW|l/5'u4 3/5.


21d, - , I I


I T D O E S N O T AFFECT THfe HEART


Ideal Bread. Ideal Bread.


BAKED BY |


Taylor & Hughe^ I CLITHEROE.


PARSLEY AND ORANGES. ea, for Two” and “I want to be


1., jilss'Neagle. arlo,us tactics


:en as the crooked head of the ittlemen’s association, Crawford plays rough cowboy who wants to be a gan-'


iTARRING Pranchot' Tone in Ills’ _tot_ western " Trail of t l ^ Vlgil- he first


most hilarious scenes taking place to. i railway station Where Groucho tides fleece (jhico and Harpo and Is


stanhig Lloyd Nolan and Lynn Bari will, be screened this week-end. The simpprting cast Includes Arleen Whelan and George Montgomery. Paced at a fast and funny: clip py


■pkEPICriNG the dartofeexploits of a daredevil air pilot, " b a r te r Pllof?


|


Director Eugeiie ^ Forde,, “Charter Pllpt” gives Lloyd and Lynn; the


.screen’s scrappiest sweethearts, another grand opportunity to engage In . morp of ; that hysterical and entertaining


Thrill Is heaped on thrill in “Charted P lot ” and to a spine-tingling climax; Llpyd _and : Lynn. stop battUng each r ^enough to overcilme lot In toe skies.


other Ion;


, On ’meh- Own " which is also featured, depicts further adventures of toe'popular Jones Family, is a [bright and|: breew comedy that’ll keep you chnckltag long after, you/have left the cmema. After a run of bad luck which


MSjlald up Pa Jones and ruined'them' financially, they have left oidv the ramUy car and trailer. They set out for California in (the hope of retrieving the family , fortunes, ^and by toe -time' they’ve (finished, they have a flourish^ mg ( bitogalotv comriiunity in their charge, including a troupe of trained dogs, eight ftalian. bamblnos, anl in­


ventor and an actress who never stops acting. An, hilarious court-room: scene Is the cUmax of this latest 20th Oentury' Pox;comedy hit;


‘ , ; CLARK GABLE AND HEpV LA5IARR IN jSUgSIAN COlilEDY,


! XiMINNIER, than ‘‘ Nin otchka ” ‘ is re- I - .commendation,' enough for any;


picture, and! that is toe-enthusiastic: audience reaction to : “ Comrade X,”


.L am a r r^ Its constats, which opens' oh: Monday for a week’s run Tl


Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s rollicking comqdy. withi ClarlfiGkble andi Hedy,


hM never.been viewed before, in the- role; of a IJoscow lady tram; car motorman,’ She does everything, a


ing adventuresome irole as his public; likes; him best, a daredevil American' newspaperman in Russia. But the' happy surprise Is Mira Lamarr, as she:


Gable has been given ahotoer; dash­


comedienne is supposed to do and (Toes i It welt revealing a new and pleasing! animation. Tim picture gets off in fine i style with Gable collecting forbidden! Items ataut Soviet revolts and famines.! I t .rea(toes,a climax with one of the ; most hilarious chases ever filmed, a i breath-taking escape m a Russian army! tank; In between, there are a million' laughs.and;never an idle moment, Miss Lamarr, exhibits unexpected


i


talents to every reel. She has two rough-and-tumble fights, one-with; Gable,’ operates a tram, drives a tank and ; shares Gable’s escapades with enthusiasm. They -make a team you will love. . 'The stars have been given flawless support. Getting their share of laughs are Felix Bressart as Miss Lamarrs know-nothing father, and Slg Rumann in the role of a pompous re­ porter rival of Gable’s. They will'be remembered for their hit performances! as two of toe three qouiedy Russian commissars in “Ninotchka.” Oscar HomplkajJlays the head of toe secret police: Eye Arden is seen .as Gable’s ex-girl friend, and others- who score


signed by Gile Steele, expert on men’s wardrobe., who created costuines for such I varied pictures as!“New Moon,” ^Mlron, th®Man,” “Pride and Preju­ dice j and "Northwest Passage.’’ Specl-i ally made were toe officers’ uniforms, ■piose for the “ army" were revamped from; older, army uniforms, of which toe studio has (thousands.


taclude Natasha Lytera; Vladimir Soko- loff and , Edgar Barrier .Thfe unlfoms for the!film were de­


romance they did so well in “ Pier 13.’I Lloyd’s a wise-cracking flying ace and Tiaen glrMriend'


k in g lane p ic td e e hall. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and


THE RIALTO, BLACKBUR7.


lUatlnee each day at MO. Contin­ uous Monday to Friday from 6 p i Last complete show at 8 Saturday, MO, 6-0 and 64).


LANCASHIRE DRAMA.


, A-i’ dark life fearlessly portrkyta will be shown this week-end. Featur­ ing Deborah Kerr and Clifford‘Eyaris, “ Love on the Dole”, is a British National production, whose theme Is set In Lancashire amidst toe; dark years of toe depression. Utterly fear­ less in Its realism it Is a faithful por­ trayal of the ^apalltog condition^ of


those ; times apa the unspeqtable misery and degradation’ of the cotton workers, f t tellis toe story of the Hard- castle family and of how Sally Hard-


. . .


the conditions of himself and his fellow workers. But tragedy and drami go hand in hand with'comedy for there are ftiany light touches of a tyrilcal Lancashire character. Strike scenek as Larry ; leads toe men in an orderlv demonstration which gets out of hand are realistically portrayed and toe ~ works to a, thrilling chinax which long live in the memory of thi wltaes? it. Iff .addition to the Itwo principal: characters ’ extremely ‘good


, . __________________ Improving


Mr., Hardcastle, Geoffrey ' Hibbert as Harry: Hardcastle, .[Joyce Howai'c as Helen Hawkins,.Prank.Celller, Martin Walker and Iris Vandeleur. Prodt ced and directed by John Baxter, “ Love on the; Dole” was based on Walter GrJen- wqod’s novel of the same natoe. ■ 'The screen, adaption Is by Walter Green­ wood in collaboration with Barlara IC Emery and Rollo Gamble. I’rhe film was directed by Muir Mathieton.


MICHAEL REDGRAVE AND DIANA WYNYARD In “KIPPS.” !


W IT H a galaxy of British stage'ani ■TT ' screen stars, H, G. Wells’ fanous novel, “Kipps” wlU be Bcrei next week, i t Is a tender movmg of a lovable character, Arthur Kl'i played’bv,Michael'Redgrave who: j the assistance of a fine supporting r which tooludes Diana .Wvnyard, Arl Rlscoe, Phyllis Calvert, Hermlone ^ad- deley and Viscount Castlerorae. As a young iman Kipps is apprenticed tb a drapery store InE'olkesfone and on leav­ ing he is given a friendship token by Ann Ppmlck (Phyllis Calvert). Kipps grows up,'and is a salesman


performances are given by Mary Mtaral as Mrs. Hardcastle, Qeoiige Carney, as


. . o . . rry Meath, “T OVE ON THE DOLE,” a pag'e of


at a bazaar. He is dismissed from [the store’ after a drunken night out, but discovers from an old newspaper cut­ ting that he has ’had a house iind fortune bgqueathed to ,hlm. He is dazzled by Helen Walshingham (Diana Wynyavd), whom he persuades to be­ come engaged to him, and allows Helen’s -brother to act as his lawyer and safeguard'his fortune. Now a rich man, Kipps leaves the store, and [re­ visits Folkestone. A chance meeting with , Ann convinces Kipps it Is Ann he really loves,’ and realising his mistake In trying t o .


leaves Helen and .marries Ann. Kipps’ over-monied ideas clash with Am’s simpler tastes, until he discovers that Helen's brother’ has lost his .fortune for him. Luckily,, a play Kipps has backed is -a hit; which leaves Klbps; and Ann enough money to start a small business, and which proves a successful venture." ’


live above his station he .


fashjons 'bf the 1900’s was engaged by Shepherd’s Bush Studios as a sup ;r- vlsor, and designer of toe dresses a ad general period director of the produc­ tion.' , ;


C ^ i Beaton, an authority on the ' J


Just the bread for these trying days. Keep Well—Insist on


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