SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 30, 6 October 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS THE CHURCH CONGRESS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, October 5. The Church Congress is discussing rural betterment. The Marquis of Salisbury said: Why should we teach the agricultural laborers to ask for baths when they do not want baths? Why should we suggest that they required a parlour, witen neither baths nor parlours meant the saving of their souls, nor did they make a substantial difference in the public health.

Koden Buxton advocated the Church supporting a movement in favor of a minimum wage, a remedy which is being advocated by every party doctor.

"HUMAN MISFITS."

London, October 5

Dr. Woods Hutchinson, lecturing on "Human Misfits," advocated the State eliminating the feeble-minded from the community when young. The cost would be no more than the present maintenance of the insane, while the reduction thereby in the* number o| paupers and criminal classes would be incalculable.

THE KING'S PREROGATIVE.

London, October 5

Mr T. Gibson Bowles, in a vigorous letter, maintains the undoubted right of the King,—if there be no other means of averting a calamity,—to dissolve Parliament, the alternative being to employ the prerogative to withhold assent to Home Rule.

"WAKING UP THE CITY."

i Milan, October 5

At the first concert of futurist music held here the hearers experienced new acoustic, joys by the orchestra, consisting of three buzzers, two thunderers, three whistlers, two rustlers, two gurgiers, and a student's snorter. The* programme consisted 'of items entitled, "Waking up the City," "Motor Cars and Aeroplanes Meeting," "Dinner on the Terrace of the Casino," and "Skirmish in an Oasis." "_'

I.W.W, MEMBER SENTENCED.

New York, October 5

Mr Boyd, a member of the Industrial Workers" of the World, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment at 'New Jersey, for en speech advising ,the |'ilk mill strikers to destroy the goods.'"

VOTING BY BALLOTi

Paris, October 5.

- Secret balloting is being employed for the first time. The voter enters a secret cell, places his marks .on.the papers, puts them in an envelope and drops them into an urn. -"i,

MARIE LLOYD, THE ACTRESS.

New York, October 4

Marie Lloyd was booked in the Olympic's passenger, list as Dillon's wife. Dillon was charged with introducing an alien for immoral purposes, and Marie Lloyd with acquiescing in the introduction. The Immigration Board ordered their deportation.

ENGLAND'S BIRTH RATE.

London, October 4

Doctor Schiller, addressing the Eugenic Education Society, said the rapid fall in the birth-rate among the more provident classes was making gaps in the ranks of society, wherein the guiding minds must be found.

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TORPEDO-FIRINC AT NIGHT.

London, October 4

In the trials of torpedo-firing at night by a flotilla of torpedo-boats, all the twenty-two torpedoas launched hit. the objective.

SUPREMACY OF ''WHITES."

London, October 4

J At the Church Congress at South- | ampton, Mr E. D. Morel, secretary of i the Congo Reform Association, declarI od that the old unquestioned aseendLancy of the whites was disappearing, land the day was rapidly approaching 'when the basis of white ruld throughout the greater part of Asia would ; rest as much upon consent as upon | force.

AFTER FIFTY YEARS.

London, October 4

It is reported from Rome that the King of Italy pardoned a bootmaker who had served fifty-four years in prison for stabbing a mate. After his release the bootmaker was taken for a drive round the city in a motor car. On witnessing airship nights he became bewildered and desired to return to gaol.

BRITISH PRISONERS.

London, October 4

The annual report of the Commissioners of Prisons shows a decrease of 9726 in the population of the prisons in England and Wales. The decrease is attributed to the trade boom.

(Last year a decrease of 10.646 pris- ' oners was noted, and the proportion por 100,00 of the population of prisoners received on conviction was the lowest point within statistical r«e«rd.) L