... WOULD NOT SPEAK. Sheriff Sends Girl Witness to Prison. For refusing to give evidence in a theft ease before a Sheriff and jury at Glasgow yesterday, a girl was sent to prison for a month for contempt court. She was the first witness in the case, and did ...

... SPEAKING THE TRUTH. Children to Do What Seniors Don't. If everybody in the world Bpoke the truth on every occasion, the world would cease to exist, said Mr David Liitlejohn, Arbroath, at a meeting of the Forfarshire Education Authority yesterday. The ...

... SOCIALLY SPEAKING. Lady Astor, M.P., is one of those mothers taking about debutante daughter this year. Miss Phyllis Astor, her only daughter, is old debutantes nowadays for she will soon attain her nineteenth birthday. far there appears to bo only one ...

... PUBLIC SPEAKING. Trie first meeting for tho session of speakers' class, connection with the Scottish emperance Alliance, Aberdeen Council, was held last night the Council's rooms. There was a good attendance, and the Rev. William Ivirk occupied 'he chair ...

... Socialism Speaks. With the General Election distant by a measure of months, the Labour party has drawn up its programme. On this it will make its appeal to the electorate when the time comes. It has been drawn up by the party executive under instruction ...

... SPEAKING OF VERSE. The Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse has issued (price 1/- to nonmembers) its report for 1926-1927, containing, besides accounts of business done, two very stimulating and important papers, one by the president, John Masefield ...

... POLITICALLY SPEAKING. American women seem to be taking kindly to politics in England and Ireland. Lady Astor, who was the daughter of the late Mr Langhorne, of Virginia, was the first in England. Mrs Dehra Chichester, who hails from Chicago, was the first ...

... SOCIALLY SPEAKING. There are few more charming writers to-day than Margaret Rivers Larminie, who has unerring gift for describing characteristic English people and scenes, and who also knows how to tell a story. It is three years since her last novel ...

... Governor Smith Speaks. Govebnor Al. Smith of New York, the Democratic nominee for the Presidency of the United States, is one of the outstanding figures of his country and the idol of the domain over which he rules. By friends and opponents alike —and ...

... TEACHING THE DEAF TO SPEAK. Wasted Talents. (From a Correspondent.) n *' eres t> an d consequently that of I'ecent v eS ' aS een prominently drawn in Cental ]\. C^ to^ the pressing problem of the the ' '^ ec tive child, and in particular to feet )' C ...

... A MERE MAN SPEAKS. Does Woman Regret Emancipate * The emancipation of women is question which men love to discuss, and it is impossible for them to believe that she is completely happy in her state of freedom. Now Sir John Foster Fraser has got it into ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING TO U.S. Lord Birkenhead on Unwanted Advice. Lord Birkenhead, at a dinner given in his honour by the 1900 Club in London last night, made caustic reference to President Coolidge's Armistice Day speech on disarmament. I thought there underlay ...