... ., Stand and Deliver 1 THE miners' strike which is threat ening the country is another clear sign of the dangerous ex tent to which the extremists have attained the upper hand in the labour organisations. The miners' delegates curtly rejected the Government's clear and reasonable proposals without any explanation on the processes of thought and argument which prompted that re jection. This is, ...

... BY HENRY LONGHURST THE elderly committee appointed to select the British Ryder Cup team are to be congratulated on the commendably youthful vigour with which they have already set about their duties. Although the match is not to be played until June 26 and 27, they have already made twenty-two nominations --with the reservation, one is happy to notice, that if circumstances warrant, further ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. Science to Aid, MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN in his speech in the House of Commons last week, dis cussing the very serious economic position, argued that as there is no prospect of a reduction in the cost of labour to a pre-war basis, the country must rely upon some new methods of pro duction to bring about a fall in prices. This is a very true and very interesting statement. If ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. Independence Day. GThe 144th anniversary of America's Independence Day yet once more served to emphasise a fact which, perhaps, has never needed any illustration namely, that honourable foes, who have met and fought hard, can be good friends. The American War of Independence left no rancours behind it the revanche for Waterloo was likewise an amiable myth. In both cases the ...

... RACING NOTIONS By CARBINE A Real Grievance I AM bound to say I sympathise greatly with the bookmakers in their grievance on the subject of the taxation of bad debts. It is most inequitable that they should be called on to pay the betting tax on money which they cannot collect. The law has it that you cannot legally enforce the payment of gambling transactions, so the bookie is hit in two ...

... RACING NOTIONS By CARBINE Popular Priory Park I DO not remember ever to have been more confident regarding the issue of an important handicap than I was over Priory Park in the Royal Hunt Cup. I am glad to know that the sanguine selection of this horse made in these Notes last week turned out so happily. There was not a moment in the Hunt Cup when the supporters of Priory Park had any real ...

... CAMBERLEY HEATH GOLF CLUB- MEL -Bfc MEL The Camberley Heath Golf Club is easily accessible from London, the entrance to the course being marked by the 29th milestone along the Portsmouth Road. The course is laid out on undulating ground on Frimley Ridge, an off-shoot of the famous Chobham Ridges, and is similar in type to the courses at Sunningdale, Swinley Forest and Walton Heath. The ...

... Racing Notions By CARBINE Whv this Fuss I NOTICE a tendency in some of the papers severely to criticise the members of the Racecourse Betting Control Board because they have not yet come to any definite decisions. What is all the fuss about? The Board has an exceedingly difficult job, and I am all for giving its members plenty of time to get a grasp of the problems which confront them. If they ...

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... Jhe Jimes we live in CONSPIRACY IN INDIA THE Viceroy's statement on the present condition of India and the policy which he proposes to follow in dealing with it is, so far as it goes, an unexceptionab ...

... by Valentine Williams VARIOUS unauthorised statements con tinue to be printed from time to time regarding the King's plans for the winter. The fact that these have not been officially announced sugges ...

... THE GLOW-WORM i THE TROUT SOME wonderful entomological revelations come into The Glow-worm and Other Beetles, the latest Fabre volume Mr. De Mattos has translated for Hodder and Stoughton. (The lan ...