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16 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1926. ir Manilf Sk THE FREE CHURCHES. CORRESPONDENCE. MR. WELLS IN RUSSIA.

EXPRESS EDITION THE WEATHER. FORECASTS FOR TO-DAY. The Meteorological Office issue the following forecasts for the twenty-four hours ending at midnight to-nignt: S.E., S.W., and N.W. England, Eastern. Western, and Northern Midlands.

South and North Wales. ON TOYS. Having been, in my time and at proper in-vals, a child with younger and more Benja min-like brothers, an elder brother, an undo. afid a parent, I feel qualified to speak on this matter. Also, being more especially a parent now tlm Tult of a week indoors with jus now as ine resm sljght influenza and a son Q.

914 model mix perfect running order), 1 have haa my iuea reasserted and a number of vague Pf lucky. There arc, I believe, men who have female' children! Let us pass over them lightly! Most parents live in relation. to tWeir children, although the women may have different experiences, the life that was mine before the influenza. (It is a curious parallel between this fell diseaso and the war that both, the convalescent stage, date all other happemngs and cut a sharp lino across life. wwuu nxuu mi.

iu uum side issue of the Congress of Vienna ino mean). It, my child life in the old days, of a winenrcssine process on the war uit consisted vital. aKjmi 1mi A vf jr.iK.ia auuuu ts.ui.j ii--ij ing commentary on the more visible nhd illustrated pages of the morn- Bg paper during breakfast, a scrubby salute one nut- on one's coat, and. a nightly inspection of an angelic being in a-: cot which one was. also niehtly, assured taa tho same wine-presser of the darker hours sufy ivwiiiic ui iuo uuukk.

ujiu iiigiuuici, Jack Pleaslnte, the swans, is ail that parents BOe of their chfldren-. harrme the chance. during the somnolent hours of Sunday after noon, of one of those raids which annoy the enemy, stimulate moral in the attacking force, but do no real damage. Again, I admit that women may see more of them, but I ntn speaking for tho stronger sex. To return to this matter of toys.

When one was an uncle the process was simple. On the approach of a feast day, after due warning by wra victim, one went to uammages, picKea out a nice-looking girl, and after some pleas- ing conversation came out with a usually Churches he is passed by as too old. The results mechanical, sometimes electrical, but always of this fatuous policy are to be discerned every-expensive contraption which had seemed of where. Young men are thrust into positions for special interest to oneself. This one took I which they are unprepared.

For a year or two homo and tried out behind closed doors, just the impact of youthful inexperience maintains to so that it was in proper order. When the a certain charm; then the lack of the statesman-spring showed signs of advanced fatigue one ship and stable that can onl come with re wrapped it and delivered it in person, iust toi. years reveals itself many a fatal harvest, Wliy- ttVfcof 'tldn, had his own laoas or proper handung, and after a perfunctory presentation, and thanks, extracted under what is called the third degree in American prison circles, the toy would disappear into tho upper air, as far as the small boy was concerned, with a "Now, Tim, uncle and daddy will just put this right while you play with the lovely Zulu doll," said doll being a mishit of another uncle in Africa who ha'1 got his sexes mixed. Tho young man would retire to his Kaffir kraal beneath the tabic and converso in silent but perfect Zulu with his dusky princess, while noises like this came from above trrrrrrK! CrrrK! Bzzzzzzzz Cluck I don't thing much of that Juggins; give it to me It went much better on ttto bathroom I mean in the 6hop. CJ bbabbbbsICbbbbbeI Bzzzz yftnr sewing-machine screwdriver? Don't tread all over it, you ass Spread out that newspaper and catch the little bits as they fall i out.

These darned things weren't made to come to bits, but with proper handling All right; you do it! Gimme a gasper and prize off these little clips easy; now that one! TrK.4- I T3r. 1 ri i.jii i 11 i WHY THERE ARE PEW, CANDIDATES FOR THE MINISTRY. None of the Free Churches can pretend to be satisfied with the present status and supply of ministry. The college doors are open again aftr clsed or ajar for the period of the war but candidates are not coming forward to tfae emptted during lasfc five yars qualit tfa MI. tainly good but thJe numbers arfl few our churches, and until it is solved revival will not come.

What is holding our young men back just now? Various answers are suggested, -which may be briefly summarised. The stipends paid by most of our churches are in- adeqUate to the increased cost of living, and especjaiiy to the scale of jiving and giving sed thjir mmister3 by the churches themselves The minister to.day who ieceiV3 fcvv-i fnr. VocX 1 per annum- 'lunate-must hve upon a pre-war scale of 200. is not surprising that young men, amidst the sf.TaT! PR 51 ttnncnhoi-Q rf Tio -arn-rTfl af nrAVnf -fni? i-" to bring themselves to face great obligations upon inadequate support. More serious still is the low estimation in which the ministry is held, not so much in the outer world, which, save for occasional ignorance, is not ungenerous in its attitude to ministers of religion, but within 'the churches themselves.

Until religious Eng- 1 1 ee-ulUvate for themselves a higher regard lfoe th clerical ldo and duty, and achieve a be tier standard of loyalty to the men they themselves have chosen as spiritual leaders, they will be short of true ministers, or receive only men who will conform to their own low ideals of a great vocation. Another deterrent is the treatment meted out to middle-aged ministers. In any other of the great professions the man of forty-five and upwards begins to achieve the right result of experience and good work. In the Free anf nian reproaches his college for not having given him in his training that which lifo and experience can filone supply, To those who have eyes to see the results of our rejection of a system of preparatory minis tries in the form of curacies or assistant-ships are written everywhere in the impotence, lassitude, and conventionality of our churches. xoung men wiu not oner themselves tor a career that terminates at forty-five, and the sooner our churches recognise that the belter.

As a plain matter of fact the best work even amongst young people is being done by men who have passed the age that forbids their entrance to scores of our pulpits. So long as great churches in critical moments of decision tell their moderators that they will consider no one over forty, they are creating hindrances to vocation which are simply a denial of the uo Nevertheless, amongst the young Free Churchmen who passed through the Great War there must be many who are pondering deep'y over the great problem of the salvation of human character which is central to all social Yiat.ir.-nal TPrlTrmtinTi Thow iura iuuuu bxirjn ay vxiiiuii uiv xuaaa war n.Mv v.wM.mU xv.n ,7 Vected a fairly representative audience for her song recital with Miss Keighley Snowden last uu' -ixuuuuesicr i suu nos musical enough for the occasional concert to gain anything like a fair hearing. In the song the style of Miss Clegg is more simple than might have been imagined from her operatic singing. Her voice has evidently gained in fullness since last we heard her, and she did not sacrifice its either for general variety or for tho I treatment of any particular songs. In; thls of fullness she probably sees some General orinciole of lvric Her first, eroup of songs wa3 sacred, if we may class in this way the well-known Creation's Hynm of Beethoven and tho popular "Easter Hvmn" with the songs by Gustav Hoist from the nig eua.

ve snouia unnK it a more natural feeling to bave religions kept separate rather than grouped, even in a song recital. wresties.rh arsumeat of the mi a lsy Um WC may CaU his con" vlctl0n of cadeuce fo any dubious variety, but forS'nS manner from his matter with a true poet's mind. After hearing these songs W6 fecl we should like to hear him tackle some of Goethe's poems. A musician who can put Viic font nwn mth cn oxiuuiu do something with the sanest of modern writers. Miss Clegg sang the two songs by Hoist so finely tnat they were a sumcient excuse for her recital.

Another splendid point in her singing was too climax oi The by ssiusims. vhat other composer in our uay lias sucti a grip oi txagiual romance i She hardly nad tne tor ine Koooer Men on, 1 wisn tue sun was brigni tne suy," in wmcn botn Keroert Hugnes, the composer, and ladraic Coium, the poet, contrive to be equally and splendiciy irag-menuu-y. A mere snatcU of a tune and a mere snatch ot a poem seem to be tne end and am bition of these two men of genius, so keenly do taey tba discovered iragments of ioik- "oug and melody. The ioik-soug madness leads to mako strange bedleiiows, for it is a kincl intellectual vagabondage, and it is amaz- 10 nad Uusiav Hoist toying with the urban pastoral oi tne eichteenlh centurv nmnnw in company with Cecil Sharpe. That Hoist should botDr wilh a poem in which yellow covraiips ana new-mown nay aaoro the blush in fioM af.

the same time may well make us open our eyes in Miss Marion Keiehley Snowden has erreat nical powers at the piano, but subjects them to too great a strain. There is something of mildness, also, in her musical temper which betrays them. To scom haantifnllv tn the. if Wind light, N-E. or or variable mainly overcast some rain or sleet showers; visibility indifferent; local misL or log temperature cnanging little.

N.K. England and Isle of Man. Wind R. or S.E., light or moderate; dull; some rain or sleet; visibility indifferent to fair; local fog; temperature changing little. Further Outlook.

Unsettled and rather cold, with winds mainly irom netween s.is. and a.ti. YESTERDAY IN MANCHESTER. Manchester Whitworth Park Meteorological Observatory, Tuesday, December 7, 9 p.m. Overcast generally; light wind, mainly east; cold.

Barometer steady after fall. Shade Temperature. To-dav. Yet. To-fliv.

Yert. Dry bulb. 9 a.m. 41-8 42 0 Dry bulb, 9 p.m. 39 1 40 0 Maximum 43 44 Minimum 39 40 To-day.

Yesterday. Solar maximum (black bulb) 58 58 Rainfall (in inches) Trace Sunshine (hours) 00 Humidity (percentage) 9 a.m 85 i 9p.m 95 0-020 o-o 86 91 Sun riFcs. Sets. Moon rises. To-day 8 12 3 51 6 01 a.m...

To-morrow 8 13 3 50 7 01 a.m... Sets. 2 54 p.m. 4 oo p.m. For every ten miles north of Manchester sumet is earlier by 49 seconds.

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heavy showers fell, and though this morning it was fine, with an almost frosty air. we may loot for rain. Tho heavy storm of wind on Friday found our trea leafless, or much mote damage would have lesuiieu- inere naa oeen a singularly lone period or caiui. liven at ine eauinox we i -1 i had no gales, and our very rank growth of 1 1 1 1 1 disturbed all this autumn. The wind has heen neiosueuus ijiuuls 111 tne iraraen nan Tin.

very useful to us in sweeping the leaves from patns ana lawn into neaps and made our task a light one. Seldom has the fall of the leaf in this district been so late in the year, so quickly over, or so complete as nas oeen tne case this season. I must thank your correspondent for the information that a marten had heen killed in JMortn wales, Out we shall all regret its des truction. I have never doubted that it still has a home in many high-lying woodlands amongst, tne weisn mils and mountains. Hounds seldom if ever ranee over such Dar; of that country, and the animal is so shy and.

1 1 i i seiuoni uii me move 111 me aay mat even in the lower districts it escapes observation. Its presence is best found out by travelling the fells in a snowy time, when you will find its track easily if you have a knowledge of the line animals take in such countries the prints it leaves are unmistakable. N. T1TESTMACOTTS' DRY GINGER ALE. WITH THE REAL GINGER FLAVOUR.

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On the 7th at Hicrhfield. Westeate. Hale, to Mr. and Mrs. C.

B. DOUGLAS, a dauehter. KYKKE. On the 6th of December, at Gnaton Hall. Yealmpton, South Devon, the wife of Major H.

V. ENABLES KYKKE, X.J&.Q., Boyal Welsh Fusiliers, of a daughter. PHILLIPS. On the 6th at 15, Kensington Avenue. Victoria Park, to Mr and Mrs.

I. S. PHILLIPS (nee Mabel RadfordV a dauorhter. PLEWS. On the 5th at 43, Gordon Road, Monton, ixie wue oi ritan.

i-iw (nee litnel iloson), ot a son. MARRIAGE. BLACOW WARBURTOX. On Fridav. 3rd hv special licence, at the Manchester Cathedral, ERNEST JL, only son of the late H.

E. BLAOOW. of Burv nW ftlAItY, the daughter oi T. WAEBURTON, of siarpie ana osccvuie street, City (late cf Urmston). DEATHS.

A1XL.EY. On December 5. at Oalder Houm. Mvthnlmmrf in his 52nd year, JOE HENRY AIXLEY. of the firm D.l.

i 1 i ivuuiiuc X.LU., u-reenniii nuts, Jtythottn-royd. Interment at Hrtbolmrovd rrhni on Thursday, December cortege will leave the uoutm at jx a. in. menus wiu please accept this ATCHERLRY. On December 6, at Tho Beectaea.

iiAJii AiNX, wife of the late Barer ATCHERLEY, of Jtanchcster and Church StrettonTin her S9tt year. BIKLEY On the 7th December, at Woodside, Kauto- ioiu, wire oi uugn Artmir elkley. No rcqU8t- Interment on Friday. Inquiries W. Wildgoose and Son, Knutsford.

BBAOEWELL. On the 6th EMMA, ttie dearly loved At rest. im tne otn suddenly, at 68 Eirbr Boad, Leicester. OLIVE MABEL, the dearly beloved riT iV -ir, aaugnter of Mrs. w.o.

jm, i. a. oayaen, oi Withington. vnorou-sum-jaaTOy, vy uddenly. BOBEBT COVESTBY.

On the 5th at Rrmmj of late Frederick COVEKTEY, in her 81st year. Service at St. Ann1. wuimvu, wuawju, uua mmy ivTcoueauayi st IS oO interment at Buzbajre 1 15. FOXJUK.

On December 6. 1920, at 347, Lytham Boad South Shore. BlacknooL JAMES Ffmr nc years. Interment at Blackpool Cemetery' December utnu p.ui. mi inqoine to Colnnse and irrrivirv i.

it u.n. i th? 25d.n1"y ELKABErH, thebetired wife of Andrew KIDNEY. mm im. nvuuc ruiwnm. i Mn LATHAM.

On December 5, at Worsthorne Vicanure near-Burnley. Lancashire. CAROT.IW. dtar wife of John Alfred UTBAUT.rlrnr thorne. and daughter of the late Frederick and iuZ 53rd year.

Fuxral aerrice ut wbwthorne Churehat by special reaueat. "'nun? 2 tne vth FBEDEMOK ttuntati or uowopn (formerly of Uaccles- MABKEKDALB. On December 4. mt A.fretoD, etfd S6, ELLEX, widow of John DALE, of Dunham Hawey Funeral at BowdonFariS, Church this dar OTedneedavV 1 xn w-i 1 Tr tneji lnatat 142, Marslands Bol nw.v lands. HANNAH HYDE, second danc-hter nf mV Samuel SHAW, ot ItteWehurst.

iSt it McW Fafwh Church on Fridar. at 2 nm uiLvb-vn mo sua inu, as xts, Derby Boad. BARBARA. fnlirUr A.nwf,- A. William i-Owtr TITIM J- Of VEBSON.

On December 4. 1920. at ZO Boad, Aafatoiiop-Meragy gSQCH, the deW bSJ nos Dana ox uannan vtauios. In hh r7th viihmil Frodential Asmrance Unit Cemetery this dar urooa- the at Sooth -Dowidottira. South Downs Boad.

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Berlin, Tuesday. In view of the recent outrage committed by French black troops on a young German woman the demand for the removal of all black troops from German territory has again been raised in the German press. Wireless Press. ITALY'S TROUBLE DANNUNZIO. WITH BASES OF AGREEMENT.

Rome, Tuesday. The Tempo states that an agreement with Amiunzio may be reached on the following bases i regen i) An undertakmg to recognise tne regency of the Quamero and (2) an undertaking I iLnf that the ports of Bartos, Deltaeneo, Tersatile, -Susah, and Castria shall be guaranteed to the Mate or iume. The Messaggero publishes a message from Trieste stating that the Parliamentary Commission of 15 deputies who went to Fiume to negotiate with has, on the eve of its return, sent the poet the following: "We are leaving Vinezia-Giulia with imperishable memories of the hours spent in Fiume and with the conviction that Italy has in that city a very loyal soldier." Keuter. ANGLO -RUSSIAN TRADE AGREEMENT. SOVIET APPROVAL: REQUEST FOR NEW CONFERENCE.

Tho Central News understands that, following on the lengthy commentary on the pro-pflised Angloi-Russfan Trade Agreement already received from Moscow, a further despatch has now reached London announcing that the main provisions of the proposed agreement. are acceptable to the Soviet Government, but asking for a fiesh conference between the and boviet representatives to discuss certain oeiaus netore the final ratification of the agreement. AN AUSTRALIAN WOOL CONTROL ASSOCIATION. Melbourne, Tuesday. iin important conference including repre sentatives of Australian pastoralists, farmers, and woolbrokers, has unanimously agreed on the formation of a British Australian Wool Realisation Association to control and dispose of the Australian carry-over of wools.

The Association's capital will he 25,000,000. The object of the Association is to protect and safeguard the post-wur wool trade. Renter. ROYAL MANCHESTER COLLEGE OF MUSIC. There was tho usual display of apt technique at the students' concert last n'ght, and the programme of music had taste written all over it that is, if an indulgent wink of the eye may he made at the name of Spohr in these days.

This composer has his great practical uses for the violin student, but it is questionable whether in any other art so much of wanton showmanship would be tolerated as his, in bis worst moments. A pupil of Dr. Brodsky played the first movement of Spohr's Ninth Concerto, and a fine style and a pure tone worked wonders towards making the music tolerable. On the whole, fhe concert hardly gripped attention as much as might have been expected from the splendour of the musio under interpretation. The singing, with one or two exceptions, was curiously artificial.

Has the modern insistence on "dramatic values" one so far that even a song by Maodowell must needs be given argumentative force, and its parts so contrasted and stressed that lyrical grace is put to flight? The "Divinites du Styx" of Gluck was finely sung, but, again, the point of view was wrong; music here has its own power of dram atio suggestion, and asks for little aid in the way of verbal fulsome-ness. The trouble with the bulk of the singers last evening was that thev took their cues too prosaically from the verbal text. It was as though they felt the musio was not to be trusted far without the poet's leading-strings. Tho note of open- hearted song came rarely; one recollected Mr, Chesterton's lament that in these days singing should have degenerated into an art. A pupil of Miss Marie Brema compensated for many disappointment.

She sang the Habanera and the Seguidilla from "Carmen," and the im Dulse in her art was vital indeed. Her voice only just lacked the dark grace we expect irom a uarmen, Dut mere was a proud mastery in the style and a keen edere in the music. The seguidilla would have been the better for loncer-sustained note of furtive romance. Still, it was all very stimulating sineiner. -with the.

highest promise about it. The nunil who Israel hardly kent her tone nure to the end. and now and then distorted a vowel on a high note. A pupil of Mr. Frank Merrick crave pmn admirable piano-playing in the first movement jonn ireiana sonata in JS minor.

There was the strongest control in her treatment of masseo. narmony, and wnue ner tone had the quickest chanoefulness. the hlenrlimr nt if. highly artistic. She played as though in love witli ner wont ana as, inougn tne music carried for her a fine sienificanne.

In but lust as commendable, was tho Schubert's Impromptu in flat bv a. ninn pupa of Miss EUen Arthan. Here the playine uiuoiii xiaburc. nere was "xro ouica musiuiuisiiip, wju, tne movement from Richard Strauas's Violin Sonata given bv two pupils in Mr. Mar Mayer's ensemhii class.

N. C. TO-DAY'S ARRANGEMENTS. House of Commons: Ministry of Health Bill Report. House of lords: Agriculture BilL Manchester.

Manchester Assizes. Civil Business. befm-A mv Ou, onJ VT- Without a jury: The Bury Quilting Manufacturing Company, Limited, v. the Burv uotion apinnmg ana Manufacturing Com- ijttiiy, uuiuwi iiaxi, ocarlett -v. Killip; K.

Birtwistle and Co. v. Bolohover- E. Gihl.and Limited; Diamond narwicn, liimitea; txunbert v. Morris-London, Limited; Farnworth v.

South ixancasuire xiiuuwa.yH company; Hind-marBb v. Wilson. Parties must be prepared xor bliiU 111 cuuei UUUIL National Housing and Town-nlanninsr yxajvoasuizo axiu vutuue uoniexenee 1.1 1 at juemonaji xxaai, xx a.m. Mr. J.

R. Clynes, M.P., on Labour Aspect of tne xieagae, uiuvexBiiy, p.m. Professor Tout on St. Thomas of Cantertmn- Bylands Library, 7 30 p.m. Manchester and.

Salford Sanitarv Asarviat; jjr. xt. if. oore on ins innuenoe of noise ttx ti rwn ill uiuigiug wuuii innvns OJSOraer8. 65.

George Street, 5 pan. Manebestsr University Settlement, Aneoaia Annoal Meeting (addrees by Mr. Basil Yeax. lee), 5 30 p.m. CATHEDRAL SERVICES.

Matins at II; Ktensoiigst330. Holy Communion; Week dan. dadhr at. i ia Friday, (choral), at 11 iSspttans oy; teTdue' notice. Wedneadav.

Matins TsIlk-InD mhur. (Farran t), Call to lemembianee' Litany. Bretami TaUU, In minor: Anthem. 186 (PniwU)" ThvroSu tajton." At 7 30 p.m erroini serrte mtL ggby roWLAXD CEMENT MAKUFACTOXEK. THE ROUND TABLE" AND GERMANY.

To Hie Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, Mr. Zimmern's letter in your issue of December 6 raises questions which cannot be adequately discussed in a brief letter, but as to which I feel bound to reiterate the posi- tlon hich I have always taken and still take, First, I do not believe that the German bave rtXd 2refXv5ng, I think, that has been published on this subject, and very new publication (especially the German documents to which Mr. Zimmern refers) confirms my original conclusion, that the European War was muddled into by all the Governments and desired by none of them, it could be so muddled into is only to explained by the ideas entertained and "uv pouraes pursued ov an states tor aecao.es I might say for centuries, havn olnlmrated this view elsewhere. It can onlv be estab lished bv rlptailorl anrl rnmnrAhonaiVA o-ramina- .1 1 na it wouia tnereiore oe useless nter upon a discussion of it in your columns, I Next, I do not hold that because the Ger- man People supported the war after it had "fn sprung upon them by their Government they were therefore "responsible" for it, in a sense far too indirect to be the of a criminal charge.

It is the almost; 1 tiooi mriJCl Ul IO LS XliflbU OXIUO IrXiCiJ country is engaged in war it must be sup ported through thick and thin to victory. and the Germans adopted this attitude with Tine Bame simplicity and Brngle-mmdeoivess aa other nations. Furthermore, anyone who knows anything about German opinion knows that they believed they were fighting a war of defence. If they were mistaken, that does not constitute a crime. It mere'y offers one more proof of tho fact that men suffer and offend more from ignorance and passion than from deliberate wickedness.

Lastly, even if, as Mr. Zimmern thinks, every German alive in. 1914 was "responsible" for the war. how can this be true of tho children born since who are now perishing to atone for that responsibility? We have long abandoned in all civilised systems of law tho practice of punishing children for their fathers' sins. We shall have to abandon it with nations.

We should, indeed, do well to abandon our whole preoccupation witli sin and retribution and' learn to seo human life as what it is, a labyrinth of con fusions, isrnoranees. and passions in which thero is only one clue, the clue of knowledge comprehension and truth. Unce we had cleared our minds of the notion of cuilt and punishment should be able to deal, in a reasonable way, with tho question or reparation. I have not met any uerman who did not think it right that Germans should they fairly could to restore the ravages wrought by their armies in r-ranco and rseleaum. Jt is.

I believe, the confusion of ulio idea of miilt with the idea of making good that has caused an impossible and monstrous burden to be laid on Germany. But ib may reasonably be maintained that those who have done material injuries should do what they can to make them good. I dare say that on that point of praotical policy I should not disagree with Mr. Zimmern. Yours, Ac, G.

Lowes Dickinson. THE MANCHESTER AND SALFORD TEMPERANCE COUNCIL. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, May I correct an error in your report of a conference addressed yesterday bv the Bishop of London The conference was called not by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches but by the Manchester and Salford Temperance Council. This body has adopted the nine points programme of the Christian Churches, it is true, but it has the co-operation of many, and would welcome the co-operation of all, interested in the promotion of sobriety; it believes that all social work is in its effect temperance work, and lays stress on the pro vision of alternatives to the liquor tavern.

It was with this aim that it organised the Con ference on Leisure last autumn. Yours, December 7. J. L. Paton.

MANCHESTER AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS." To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, We are surprised and sorry to find that our letter has led to a misapprehension on the part of Dr. Salomon. It was not issued by the Committee of the League of Nations Union, but on behalf of the Executive of the Council of ohristian Congregations, urging that those with whom -we are associated in the Council should give the meeting their cordial support. We certainly had no intention of excluding anyone or suggesting that others had less interest in the peace of the world than ourselves.

For all we knew to the contrary, other religious bodies might be appealing to their own people in a similar way. We trust that this explanation will remove from Dr. Salomon's mind any idea that we were partial or unfriendly to any sec tion of the community. Yours, Sec, John Heath, Hon. Sees.

Council of C. K. P. Muik, Christian Congregations, Manchester, December 6. AT HOME.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Charles Randal Bradburne to be the official soli citor to the Supreme Court, in place of the late mn. a. iiuys rtODerts Yesterday the Bishop of Chester instituted the wev. William Edwards l'arry to the church and benefice of St.

Chad, Romiley. Mr. Parry comes from Stokenham, and' the former vicar ot Komiley has gone to Stokenham. At Huddersfield yesterday Alfred Sykes, of Huddersleld, a colliery proprietor, was fined 5 in each of three cases for failing to pay National "Health contributions in respect of thiee of Lis employees. He stated he had neg- lectea xae matter ana naa no intention 01 avoiding payment.

A furthsr development in the Walsall tragedy occurred yesterday when Irene Derrv. aered six. who was wounded by a revolver shot a fortnight ttgu, uidu iu. uuapiiai. oumey ierry, ner lasner, wiio is a hairdresser, still lies in hosoital.

his condition being unchanged. He is now accused 1 1 oi iuuracruig nis wiie ana two aaugnters Officers of the Indian Army, Indian Army rteserve ot umceis, ana oi ine xtoyai J.naian Marine who have become permanently incapaci- taiea oy active seivice in ine threat war or suo-sequent military operations should apply for help if required to the Officers' Families Fund, 1, Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair, London, W. 1, which is acting as almoner on behalf of the Imperial Indian Relief Fund in respect to such cases. ABROAD. A Dallas (Texas) message says that a co-operative marketing system to handle the 1921 cotton crop in Texas has been organised by the farmers.

The Deutsche Amerikanische PMroVnm Gesellschaft, the German agency of the Standard Oil Company of AmePfea, has increased its dividend from 3i to 94 per cent. In memory of bis wife, John D. Rockefeller has jnst given 563,763,357 to used for the benefit of charities and public institutions largely benefiting women and children. The "Derniere Heure" (Brussels) states that there is not a vestige of truth in the report that the bodies oi -w unusn soicuers nave been found nearYpres. The new company that is workimr the ex- German diamond mines in South-west Africa reports an output of 881,365 carats from January' June thus year.

The average cost of produc tion was IBs. to 20s. per carat, and the base nrinn iwr oL.rst on Jnlv 1 was 8. 4s. 4d.

The 5VT.ri i 1-1 i no "7 vxuvXTl meitt, uuwvc laaea auuut do Pr vcau the profit. a or oi THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT COME TO STAY. (Published To-day.) has been spending a fortnight and a day in Russia. He himself does not understand Russi and fais SQn who accom Txl lan8uaf a lrtIc- nor the shadows of Bolshevism at work, (Mr. Wells, by the way, obstinately clings to the old denomination of "Petersburg," though he makes a concessian to the new times by dropping the Neverthe- less one may open his book with a certain Pjospect not onlv of pleasant reading but also of enlightenment.

For, to begin with, he makes clear from the outset that he went luuy conscious or tno siitten traps that the guest who is to be pleased. He also was wisend dctacIled enoF on the other hand, to bi nhl ir.nl- xl. I in mu ugax, or wnat preceded it and what could possibly follow upon it. And thereon only to bane a iudement as to the credit it deserves for what it has done, and on ne tolerance it may 'deserve for what it might do- without the organised anarchy" hat the Tsarist administration during uiiHueneu is too otten overlooked and more ruently ,2 the Snrlnte nr- nLi; tho proof lies in the very character of tho Communist doctrine. Because it is by the Marxist theory all wrong that the social revolution should happen first in IJussia.

That fact is bothering every intelligent man in the movement. Acording to the Marxist theory the social revolution should have happened first in the country with the oldest tj.nu. 111130 mguiy developed industrialism Hence Behind the minds of many of these Bolsheviks with whom I talked I saw clearly that there dawns now a chill suspicion of the reality of the case, a realisation that what they have got Russia is not truly the promised Marxist ouL-iiii revolution at all, tliat, in truth, they have wu lajiimcu oi-aoe out got aooard a derelict. Mr. Wells endeavoured to assist.

An. velopment of this novel and disconcerting flltfiAT-nmr T7f J. 1 0 And j'Zm uuiui'tuuHwiy, witn smau success. tnbution that Mr. Wells makes to con- tho xtuibian controversy, that ho dissects mercilessly before our eyes the prejudices and delusions in which all the sides have got then-reason entangled.

What, for instance, is tho picture so many draw of the Bolsheviks? According- to the crazier section of the British press they are the agents of a mysterious racial Plot, a secret society, in which Jews, Jesuits, Jjreemasons, and Germans are all jumbled together in the maddest fashion. As a matter of tact, nothing was ever quite less secret than the ideas and aims and methods of the Bolsheviks, nor anything quite less like a secret than their organisation. But in England we cultivate a peculiar style of thinking, so impervious to any general ideas that it must needs fall back upon the notion of a conspiracy to explain the simplest reactions cf the human mind. On the other hand, how stultified i ihn vision of Western society which Bolshevism sees through its Bed spectacles! vi mo aiaooiicai cunning of capitalism and of the subtleties of reaction it is ridiculously suspicious, and sometimes it takes fneht and is cruel. Everything is class war, or ought to be.

My conversation with Zenovieff was particularly curious. He is a man with the voice and animation of Hilaire Belloc, and a lot of curly coal-black hair. "You have civil war ae said- "Practically," said I. Which do you consider are the proletarians, the Sinn Feiners or the Ulstennen?" We spent some time while Zenovieff worked like a man with a jigsaw puzzle trying to get the Irish situation into the class war formula. With such an outlook.

Russia mio-lit. lv allowed to die a slow but inevitable death, while its actual leaders waited for things to happen elsewhere. But, fortunatelv for the country, the ablest of the Bolsheviks have begun to think less of destruction abroad and more at homi. Tal suggestive interview that Mr. Wells Lenin.

I cannot see anvLhinn- nf iha. enrt rnvi.noV I electrification happening in this dark crystal Of KllSSIn. tint fhie KttlA winn 1- TT- I "w.o imd iiiuii ib Lilt; JYlCimill can; he sees the decaying railways replaced by a new electric transport, sees new roadways 4 llwna.t.a..x x.1 -1 aiicauui6 uuuuguuui me lano, sees a new and nappier communist industrialism arising again. While I talked to him almost suaded me to share his vision. But these are only sketches and begin nings, I said.

Come back and see what we lm.ro Ar.ncL Kussia in ten years' time," he answered. Mr. Wells does not sav whether he arentH the invitation. He very likelv has. For as definite as can be in his conviction that Soviet Government has come to stay; that there is no other constituted liorlv nr .1 iixl 1 autnoi lty that could take its place; and that i able erad.uallv he terrible wounds "herewiS'iil to dolt? em the Russia in the Shadows.

Bv G. Wells" Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, London. 6s! net. TUESDAY MIDDAY CONCERTS, Miss Madge Atkinson's dance recital at the noon concert yesterday had first of all the virtue that it procured the public a very stylish pianoforte recital at the hands of Miss Dorothy Crewe. Perhaps its charm was that Miss Crewe played with an entire absence of self-consciousness, and with an eye to make good all the manifold changes and poetic ideas of the dancing; but something of it might be due also to the fact that technically the programme was a little less ambitious than solo player would choose, and was all the more beautifully played on that account.

Miss Crewe's achievement was the more creditable as it eeemed accomplished under very disadvantageous conditions, with the pianoforte placed on the ground floor of the hall. Miss Atkinson's main effort was to interpret the minor Rhapsody of Brahms, which ehe read as a poem of autumn. Interpretations of music axe for the most part speculative or involuntary, and the limitations of dance interpretation may be illustrated from the fact that this rhapsody had always interpreted itself to our own ear as a ride, and as possibly derived, from its tonality and the insistence on its triplet rhythm, from Schubert's song- of the Erl King." Such an interpretation, even correct, would be outside the scope of the dance. Miss Atkinson followed the form of the section was too much in the nature of reflective counter pieaoing. ine piece is splendidly ZZZr? simuio ui uiibou nitou we lu grace and humour of Haydn, interpretaUon in rhirthmipal value.

In the fuene bv TZih tho uauw ouuy yi aTumpt ioh the formality of Bachusic mei wun nogreat bwww. x-ossioiy rnnea tnat WOUJd ilve Dotn, ajfmaj ina a poetic beauty could acconiplished this field. We count no di5graoew S- tive and problematical nature Miss Atkinson honifi but naitlv succeed, and our indement more that of a questioner than an adept in a field of judgment where as yet there is no room for dogmatism. S. L.

At a meeting of the Whttefield Urban Council last nisrht. an intimation was made that Lord i a i wtj uau ieu utc owra vi iuu us ixseu as a playing field by the children of the district. to J0? nd P-t-war treacheries which stands Uncle Walter's goldmine in Africa, whero before their eyes as the work of men who wer they made real golden pennies complete as per supposed to be Christian. As the tumult picture postcard received last Christmas. i within them dies down, the clear call will Now that one is a father the process is sound within their conscience.

But if they different. Tho child, having found out the come their ministry will mean revolution, weakness of its parent and having a liking Perhaps it is reserved to them to sweep away for exercise, will spend precious hours cx- the timiditv and inefficiency of the churches planning the location of life-sized elephants anQ t0 erect in themselves standards of minis-tt a nT terial life and honour that will purify the whole tS and Pol of Christian people. G. S. said it was all right, and it was." And one perforce goes and looks through tho blinds KECITAL AT HOULDSWORTH HALL.

on a Sunday and -decides regretfully that fifty pennies would not buy it. Or else one Miss Edith Clegg has been known her so is taken to South Kensington and whirled long and so favourably in her connection with tIoP TOa5" twi8-? Passages to a model the Beecbam 0pera one might have ex. uiiaiiK wnen mo Buwon is prossea ana tho coS.nw.avl nir nli cornDressMi air isn't, nil uvusl im Kv ious weak parents and strong little bovs, of THie cycioidal engine invented by J. Potts, CHapham Institute, 1867, and "How many pennies would that be, daddy?" All of which may be beside the point, but what I am getting at is this. From close obscrva- ion during a period when one was too weak iim I anythmF aH folIowinS simple rule was evolved and is now nre for t.he UJt.

JtiV7. Lt kind of child worth to wit red- haired boys of six! Take about a thousand nuviiMi Mwa-o vuraiu I Jill 11 111 LllO primary colours, an illustrated fasliion paper scissors, string, nails, a hammer, a blunt taiife and a bundle of firewood, all tho this in tho house, and a clear wooden ui ui wiese as avail- vi arld yn have a and peace- fli7 tornoon 1Tlth reject xSnicai1 tovf sslsse tanks which wind up, ts, and child's gardens of reSe for -require two, including one grown-up to work thorn, and are only tolerated because of their colours and to please the uncles and Tips no one day may have a blink of sense -and buy a new tube of gamboge and Black Sambo at the seaside, or similar thinoc grown- i SIR HxRBY STILEMxN. NEW DIRECTOR OF DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES. Bear Admiral Sir Harry Stileman has been appointed director of Dr.

Barnardo's Homes, in -succession to the late William Baker! After a distinguished career in th r. 'Admiral Stileman was recalled on the outbreak of war, and became Senior Naval Officer for tiverpool, a position of great responsifcilitv during the height of the submarine menace. He was knighted on his retirement in 1919 when he returned to his post as Superintendent of tne watts Naval School at nimk. x- folk, a Barnardo institution several times com- eltAdmiralty. One of Admiral Stileman's brothers was the first AniiSr, oisncp I'ersia.

WIFE FAILS TO RESCUE DROWNING HUSBAND. An open verdict was returned at the inonesi Blackpool yesterday on thn nuro Joan W1K.1UC1U UJIUI, wno sea a fortnight ago. was drowned in the His wife, i water. scuea tmm i www so- luak iinr nti.K. 3 to say that her i j.

supped the railmgs into the sea. She at- empiea 10 rescue mm, Dut failed K. clutched her. The woman's mind has inA.h.. since unlunced.

and the ComMr h-r absence hi would return JT" 1 CIUICI- i-i. -f At the annual meeting of East Lancashire 'S JTJL w.uZtL t.Freemasons at Blackbnrn on Wednesday Sir -Alan Sykes, Deputy Provincial Grand Master, r-ltated- that in 1899 there were 113 lodges with 1JB29 members- in East Lancashire. In our re the date was wrongly given as 1919. Kaya UNSEED COMPOOSD. td old-eatabilabed lJt for OBOsb, Cold, and Bronchial Troubles.

Of OHBoiatf od Btcro, Is. d-U9TI I such pieces as the Preludes of Chopin in fiat, i Piece and adapted it very capably to her ver-in sharp minor, and in I minor demands nm. sion. thotieh the workine-out or modulatory of 1 ceptio of the task she sets herself in auua. m-uj uuunucu auuwa in Lie oon.

Pieces. It IS a thine- that thvr. ar w.r ouuj 'f3- Hlal mere are flaws in tne notes, out ine sense of mi culation is more serious. With this blame hlVA Cf.lll WVIll lAttl AT A I 1 i me notes, dui tne geerai sense of miscal dilation is more serious With this blame! wo nave sun a gooa deal of admiration for Afioo fail TOMS tS. Haifa onowaen piaying, nut tne finest powers ia" a wo lar.

cult Preludes by Debussy were much mor petenUy given dan were the Preludes of Chonin There was always a sound poetical intention, and COUnted io m0'6 in Debussy than in Chopin- certain mildness of touch rather limit ht snc. "ier limited the 1 and leaving out the Trine i ate playing 1 Hamlet' BMMlm oi Denmark to bar Dettdnnlinio wua with ZAKFTTTC p.n. not applied and permaoeney of copy deafaed It vit 'CTICL Copies tht: J6AETIO Paper enmrea permanenoy If security Is tataed vital to be anra nu uiac ii ae are uselcu. latter ia more distinct than tbe oricinaL om wew-tATij ZukJilSTm 3 wr ssanenmer..