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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. 1929. 12 That is so much, the case that there is some danger of voters being led to OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE LONDON, Tuesday Night. SY PRIVATE WIRE. serenity of modem Parnassus.

The English reader may watch with justifiable attention the brawling in the book world of New York. stations pepper the landscape with vermilion blotches and crazy architecture as though there were no landscape to preserve. There is and the means suppose that, apart from unemploy ment, a Liberal Government would COURT PERSONAL THE KINQ GOES TO WINDSOR TO-DAY. To-day the and Queen will trael by road" from Bognor to Windsor. Although ttj'.

woleome will ha quite informal, find time hang heavy on its hands. ham factory. Now, in 1929, on the eve of a general election, when the removal of the McKenna duties has again become a near rjrobabilitv. it is an tha route will be gaily decorated and thousands of flags will be displayed. There nounced that the factorv is going to be built.

We do not say that the factory STOP. PRESS NEWS. SUBSIDY FOR U.S. FARMER8. A Washington telegram says that the U.S.

Senate yesterday passed the Farm Kelief Bill, the main object of which is to create a Federal Farm Board, with a. 100,000.000 fund for employment in loans. It also provides for the controi of crop surpluses." The measure embodies the export deben-tuio plan a thinly disguised plan providing a foim of bounty or subsidy on exports (supported by the Senate, but opposed by the House of Representatives and by President The bill now goes to the House, where the debenture plan is expected to be eliminated during a conference called to reconcile the differences between the Houses. is now to be built on account of any belief that the duties will be removed, has been a rush for places oi vantage i houses and shops abutting on the thorough- i i i but it is at. least obvious that it is The King's Tenancy of Craigweil House.

Now that the King is leaving Craigweil House the particulars of his Majesty's occupation of the house may be published, for many inaccurate statements have been made about it. When the King first went there last December it was said that Sir Arthur du Cros, the owner of Craigweil House, had put it at the disposal of the King and the offer had been accepted on behalf of his Majesty. This was, of to preserve it is in the hands of the villages, the counties, the cities. Tho impact of motoring, with its obligation to meet the motorist's needs, is fully-provided for by legislation that is outside party and is based on a care for the amenity of the landscape. How else could there have crept into so dull a document as the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act a section which enables a county or borough council to take advantage of two such powers as these (1) a power to regulate the appearance of petroleum filling stations in specified areas and in particular to specify requirements as to the position, design, size, Russia and the Election.

Mr. H. E. Metealf, one of the members of the recent trade delegation to Russia, has written -to the "Manchester Guardian" a series of letters advocating the resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia. Ha has now published these letters in pamphlet form.

As an avowed Conservative he remarks that it was fare. Three tnousana not being built on account of the exist Mr. Baldwin who said in 1923 that ence or tne duties, in tnese circumstances the Tory newspapers must in decency refrain" from pretending to claim the Dagenham factory as a fruit of "Safeguarding." It really won't do. Liberal Car Posters. The Liberals have been first in the field with other things as well as their electioneering programme.

In London Russia was "one of tho largest be given places In the t-astie ground, where too will be assembled boys from Eton and Beaumont colleges. The royal car will halt near Queen Victoria's sUtue in the High Street, and tho Mayor will briefly voice Windsor's welcome to the King and congratulations on his recovery. Bognor has prepared a big send-off. All the hotels have been hung with flags and bunting, and across the promenade last night "hundreds of streamers fluttered. Accompanied by the Queen, the King will leave Craigweil House bv car at ten o'clock, followed bv a second car with Sir Clre Wigrani, Sir Charles Cust, and Sir Stanley Hewett.

The royal procession will go That, of course, is not true. The Liberals have concentrated upon their unemployment proposals because these form the part of their programme to which the electorate listens most greedily. But there are other issues any one of which might, under different circumstances, have played tbe chief part. Of these the chief are questions of foreign policy, especially oar relations with America and the reduction of armaments, Free Trade, and electoral reform. There are here four subjects, all of first-class importance, upon the first three of which, at all events, the Liberals would pursue a line wholly different from that of the Conservatives.

Upon the fourth it is possible that agreement would be easier with the Conservatives than th Labour party. It would not be easy to place these four issues in the crder of their true relative importance. Perhaps, if the truth were known, the future of this country, say fifty years hence, would depend more upon when and how we adjust our electoral machinery to the existence of three parties than upon anything else. Yet of the four issues we have named the one which is least often heard upon the lips of voters, canvassers, and candidates is electoral reform. There are too many unknowns to potential markets in the he points out that since Mr.

Baldwin's laid on Arcos our trade with Russia has dropped from 19,000,000 in 1925 to 4,800,000 in 1928. Germany has captured much of the trade we course, not correct, for the King could not accept such an offer, however he might appreciate it. The facts are that Sir Arthur du Cros last December wrote to Lord Dawson of Penn through a friend offering the use of the house to his Majesty. Lord Dawson visited Craigweil House and telegraphed to Sir Arthur du Cros the appreciation cf the people concerned," and that he hoped to arrange everything satisfactorily. Owing to the King's illness he they are far ahead of all the other parties in the matter of posters on their supporters' cars.

The most ardent SIR THOMAS LIPTON'S CHALLENGE. Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge for the America. Cup will bo considered by the Nt-w Yoik Yacht Club tomorrow (tuli.grupiia icuter's New Lurk Socialist's or Conservative car as yet gives no sign of the owner's political through the village of Aid wick and to tne western end of Bognor, wnero iubiui colour, and screening of such stations or of any parts thereof," and (21 a power to prohibit the establishment of petroleum filling stations and require their removal (on payment of compensation) from other specified areas. As to clause 1, if any local authority is in doubt it cannot do better than consult the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, which has its counterpart in Scotland, and which can relate the most bewildered chairman of a local council to architects and builders who will fit any twist of the road, any glen, any dale, any mellow village with a filling station as appropriate to it as ever was the ancient inn that grew into that countryside. And ii our local authorities will exercise their powers under clause 1 to this extent there the Council, who will be presented to him, will waiting to take leave of the King.

could not be consulted, and Sir It is not expected that the King will le.ie ZEPPELIN FLICHT POSTPONED? opinions, but the advantages ot Liberalism are expressed on a very large number of Liberal cars. The parking place outside the National Liberal Club at luncheon-time, for instance, looks rather like large hoarding entirely devotad to the Liberal interest. Nearly every car has its posters, while many have also the party colours tied to the lamps as weh. Frederick Ponsonby wrote to suggest a tenancy agreement, and this agreement was accordingly entered into between Sir Arthur du Cros and Sir threw away her exports and reexports to Russia in the same period have risen from 12,500,000 to 20,000,000. Yesterday Mr.

J. T. Brownlie, the president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, also spoke from bitter experience of the unemployment caused by the Government's determination to make an enemy of a good customer. Since 1925 the Soviet Government has diverted to German firms the orders for machinery which would otherwise have come to bis car. The ceremony will only take a tew minutes, and then the royal car will drive slowly along the front and through the Frederick Ponsonby.

whereby it was put on record that while Sir Arthur iVonliiig to a in the JJiiily Chronicle," the flight of the Ciiaf Zeppelin Juif been postponed owing lo the iion-iii lival of French pcimiaaiuii to Dr. Eckner to fly over Fiench turrituiy. town en route for Chichester. By the King's order his car will go slow while had voluntarily and freely placed Craigweil at the disposal of his maiesty as a residence tor so lone as passing through, each town and village. After Chichester, the King will travel m.t Midhurst and Hindhead to Aldershot, and Record Prices for Modern Etchings.

The 650 paid for Sir David Cameron's etching The Five Sisters, York is the highest price ever paid for a maice prediction possible. sut it one so past Ascot into Windsor by way of he should require to use it his unconditional offer could not be accepted without reference to his Majesty, who was too ill to be consulted. Therefore a tenancy agreement was consummated at the request of Sir Frederick Ponsonby." Queen Anne's Drive. modern etching, and it is interesting tfriat it should be in the lifetime of tho QUEEN'S GIFT TO BOGNOR, STATIONMASTFJt The stationmaster at Boxnor. Mr.

T. Q. Ward, was Teccived by tho Queen at Craig ptchfr. iilthnush his interest must be us. In this Mr.

Baldwin has done more than refuse to remedy unemployment; he has taken active steps to increase it. Nor can the Government make any plausible case on the grounds of Communist propaganda. It was Sir Austen Chamberlain who prophesied that to break off relations with Russia could not benefit us in any way and "would give us no weapon for fighting "disorder or disloyalty or revolution within our own borders." In other words, if Bolshevik propaganda was as dangerous as it is in fact negligible the ordinary channels of diplomatic intercourse would help rather than hinder should be no reason whatever for bringing clause 2 into use. The inn and the inn sign, with fuel for man and beast, were homogeneous features of the older Britain. The filling station must become as much a part of our lives.

But we shall accept it the more readily when local councils realise that with the powers they now have they can weld it in as a lovely and normal feature of the roads instead of a glaring innovation. It may be added that the price of the White Paper which advises them how to achieve this end is fourpence. quite detachedfor the sum he received for it was only eight guineas for each of the thirty" impressions when they worn issued in 1907. The previous weil House yesterday. After thanking him makes the at all events plausible assumption of three parties in the next House of Commons none of which will have a clear majority of its own, one can also hazard the further guess that the life of whatever Ministry is formed will be precarious and its independence circumscribed.

Under such circumstances a progressive Government, in addition to the handicap of a critical House of Lords, would have to overcome tho difficulty of uncertain loyalties in the House of Commons. So long as three parties and our Uraigweil House was not, and is not, on tho books of any firm of estate agents to be let or sold. Mr. Baldwin Catchzs a Crab. Mr.

Baldwin at Truro yesterday made some play about the leaders of the Liberal party not really knowing what was going on in agriculture. Then he explained why he had made highest nnce was 525 paid for his Hew Ledi a few years aso. Mr. McBey has reached more than 400 for a print in America. To-day Aft-.

Mnirhead Bone's "Ayr Prison" LAWN TENNIS, GOLF, and all Sports Equipment. BAXENDALE Miller St. was sold for 365. It was issued in 1S105 for two and a half guineas F.tvhers must watch these soaring prices for their work with mixed feel- in coping with it. Sir Austen was perfectly right.

The Arcos raid is known by everyone to have been a wss. It means nothing to them hnan- ciallv. for all the difference between1 A Rebuff for M. oincare. THE GUARDIAN.

tht. ikkho and these auction prices disastrous blunder. But the Govern for the services he had rendered during the slay of the Court at Bognor, her Majesty presented him with a gold tie-pin bearing the initials M.K. She also congratulated Sir. Ward, who is retiring to-day umk-r the age limit, on his fifty years' service with the railway company.

QUEEN TO HOLD THE JUNE COURTS. The Lord Chamberlain announces that the Queen will hold Courts at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, June 26, and Thursday, June 27. NORWEGIAN ROYAL VISITORS GO HOME. The Queen of Norway yesterdav concluded her visit to England. She motored from Sandringham to Newcastle, and embarked on the Jupiter for Bergen.

Prince Olaf and his bride, who have been touring the British Isles, followed in a second car, the Trince has gone to collectors and. in a much his now famous mention of broccoli. He intended, he explained, to throw a fly. I thought I might have hooked a herring, but I caught a tarpon." This was said to an audience of fishermen They must be chuckling er it to-day A good 'un throwing a fly to catch a herring Mr. Baldwin may live down the broccoli, but will he eer live down fly-fishing for herrings And docs a fly tempt the lordly tarpon One had an idea that nothing less than a spinner or a fish would ment which made that blunder cannot less decree, to dealers, lhe Uameron etchircs are largely held in America.

MANCHESTER, Wednesday, Mat 15, 1929. be expected to admit it. Therefore those who agree with Mr. Brownlie, Mr. Metealf, and Sir Austen Chamber-Iain will have to vote against the return of Mr.

Baldwin to power. and that is now the case with most fine prints. There can be no complaint here, for all our best etchera took years to dispose of many of the very prints that are now cringing in mese hugo sums. present system of voting continue that double handicap is likely to continue also. The many good causes which an independent Liberal or an independent Labour Government could forward could not be resolutely tackled so long as the Government's day-today existence was insecure.

It must lemain insecure so long as there are three parties of more or less equal strength all equally distrustful of one another and all hoping some day for an independent majority. If that is what we have to look forward to how can wo expect a strong line to be taken and consistently followed upon peace, unemployment, tariffs, or anything else May it not be possible that the first condition of effective steady progress in any direction is to set up an electoral system which will break down the impassable barriers between In France municipal politics approximate much more closely to national politics than in England. The powers of the local authorities are severely limited in a highly centralised State such as France; and as a consequence the local candidate so common in England whose qualities are those of a good administrator and man of affairs is rare in French municipal politics. Moreover, French municipal councillors help to elect the Senate, and are thus brought even more closely into national politics. Candidates, therefore, are party men, and the municipal elections are a not unreliable interest rum.

xlencetortn tne caricaturists will have other symbols for Mr. Baldwin besides the broccoli. And now we shall hear no more about pheasants feeding on mangel-wurzels. Improvements in Warfare. "INSOLENT AND VULGAR driving all the way.

They also returned to Norway on the Jupiter. BISHOP TO MARRY HIS SECRETARY. The engagement is announced of the Right Rev. T. A.

Chapman, Bishop of Colchester, lo Audrey Sybil Eirene, youngest daughter of the Rev. T. and Mrs. Sadgrove, of Conifers, Stanway, Colchester, and formerly of I'airstead Rectory, Essex. The Bisho'p is 62 years of age.

His first wife died in 1928. There is one son and one daughter. Miss Sadgrove is the Bishop's secretary. The TO-DAY'S PAPER. SPECIAL ARTICLES The Pig at Sea 24 Electoral Survey East Anglia 14 Russian Grain Crisis 8 Mr.

Lennox Robinson's New Play 17 Royal Manchester College of Musie 16 The Election in Literature 8 The Free Churches Wallace Williamson 24 The History Lesson and Harry Hall 10 Book Reviews 9 Political 7 8 Manchester and SalfoTd 15 16 Obituary 17 Sport 4 Wireless Programmes 14 CORRESPONDENCE The Diminution of Povertv (Mr. E. D. Simon) 24 Safeguarding and Free Trade. (Mr.

G. Graham Anderson) 74 Catholic Questionnaire (Mr. T. F. Burns and others) 24 Sir Frederick Maurice and War- BUNGALOWS." Archbishop on "Ribbon Development." (From our London Staff.) Fleet Stre'et, Tuesday.

The annual dinner of the Koyal Insti-ture of British Architects was held this evening at the hall of the Merchant Taylors Company. The President (Mr. Walter Tapper) was in the chan. In proposing the toast of the K.I.B A. the Archbishop of Canterbury said: You are here to be the guardians of the union of utility and beauty, the ux-piession oi spirit in terms of matter.

Utility and spirit are meant to go together. Ruskin to-day, like many other good things, is out of date, but he has one great lesson for us utility and beauty are meant to be always "one and the Captain Guest's Reply. Captain Guest's letter of reply to Mr. Lloyd George does not in the least modify one's comments on the situation in North Bristol. Everyone has known, and not least Captain Guest, that the real Liberals of North Bristol could not tolerate a candidate who as member had voted steadily against his party and for the Conservative Government.

The break had to come as soon as the Liberal reorganisation was anything like complete. That, again, Captain Guest must have known full well. He now refers to what occured at a meeting of the Liberal Parliamentary party on March 12, over which Mr. Lloyd George presided. It is true that at that meeting a protest against Captain Guest's receiving the whip, which I think came from the National Liberal Federation, was considered, and it was parties and will render co-operation between them easy and stable when their political aims happen to be similar On the other hand, it is, of course, conceivable that the election will give an independent majority to a single party.

If that party is the Labour party we shall have, among other things, a Bill for the nationalisation of "You are not going to abolish war itself by improving it," said the official spokesman for the War Office during the last debate in the House of Commons on the possibility of abolishing the death penalty for cowardice. It is a dangerous argument, for it seems to imply that those who object to. war itself ought to be ready to accept cannibalism as an item in the Army Act if the War Office wanted to insert it. And in strict logic perhaps they ought but in strict fact they very sensibly do nothing of the kind, because it is quite possible to aim at two birds with one stone and strive to obviate war even while you are working to "improve" the methods of waging it. One improvement is to be noticed in the new edition of the "Manual of Military Law." "Field punishment No.

1 that harsh and ignominious tying of a culprit on active sendee up to a gun-wheel or other "fixed object" has vanished from the published code in obedience to a decision made in 1925. So we do, in point of fact, marriage will take place very quietly in Jane. guide to the state of political feeling throughout the country. The results of Sunday's polls show that the popularity of M. Poincare is strongest in the capital Indeed, only in Paris have the Poincarist parties a majority.

In the Paris suburbs the Poincarists remain in a minority, and in the provincial boroughs the great bulk of the country there is proof of a distinct move tovard the Left. But the most striking feature of the elections is the results in Alsace. Here the Home Rulers have swept all before them. In Strnsburg the municipal council has for the first time been captured from the "national" parties. Out of thirty-two seats eleven have been won by Home Rule party candidates and eleven by Communists, who are Home Rulers of the industrial town proletariat.

The Socialists, who are strongly opposed to the mining industry. If it is the Con- scrvative party we shall have, among 24 Itcsisters Richard Lee) COMMERCIAL INDEX on page 23. decided that as Captain Guest had been BLIND STUDENT'S SUCCESSES. The education successes of Eric George Dowdell, the blind son of a master of a Willesden elementary school, were referred to at a meeting of Middlesex Education Committee yesterdav. Mr.

Dowdell matriculated in 1920, and went to St. John's College. Oxford, in 1921. He won many scholarships, got a first in the Final Honours School of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics in 1826. the Senior Scholarship for Research and Economics in the same year, and this month became a Doctor of Philosophy.

same, iou architect's are bound alwavB other things, a series of measures culminating in a full-blown system of Protection. (Those who rely upon the Prime Minister's pledge to the 'contrary use a vocabulary which we do not pretend to understand.) If the country were asked to vote upon either of these two questions by itself there can be no doubt what its answer would be. It wutu cm ulku ouuuiuto nave regard to utility. Jt is a neces- ln the late Parliament receive the sity of the "times we live in to be herded Libeial whip. i together in great blocks.

I admire im- Captain Guest is much misled if he mensely the way in which some of von thinks that his attitude satisfied that architects are carrying out these- block buildmea which might be so hideous." meeting, but one might remaik that after that meeting it was quite open to MISS EILEEN BENNETT NOT TO HOME. Mr. Lloyd George spoke in his constituency yesterday, Mr, MacDonald began nis Scottish tout, and Mr. Baldwin continued his campaign in the West Country. (7) Nearly 3,000 delegates, representing every part oE Great Britain, were present at the annual meeting of the National Federation of Women's Institutes, held, in London yesterday.

(8) Model by-laws for the control by local authorities of petrol-filling stations issued in a White His Grace referred to the divorce of thii. union of beauty and utility which was to be found in ribbon buildine. Why should there be these intolerably' insolent and vulgar bungalows which stretch in tawdry ribbons into our countryside? Utility demands that we should have newspapers, but why should improve" and it would be idle to argue that we are any nearer rushing headlong into another war as a result of that improvement. It was a hideous and stupid punishment; "Field Funishment No. 2" (which remains) GO TO SJBW YORK.

would decisively reject both national-1 isation and Protection. But just because, under our present system of voting, the general sense of the country may be so distorted in the House of Commons that measures which it most violently dislikes may be Home Rule and the Home Rule movement, have their numbers reduced from twenty-four to seven. In Colmar, the seat of the so-called "autonomy conspiracy trial," every cne of the thirty seats on the Municipal Council has been captured by the Home Rulers. These results may be taken as the reply of Alsace to M. Poincare's policy of repression toward the Home Rule movement.

we dg reminded every time we go into 1 the country that this or that newsnaner uaptain Ouest to break with his Conservative allies and announce his intention of standing as a Liberal in general agreement with the party policy, and with at least a geneial intention of voting for it. Captain Guest, of course, wants to restore the Coalition almost single-handed. The End of Pacts. The Coalition is dead, and it would be most mischievous to the hopes of the Liberal party that there should be any idea of compacts with the Conservative party at the coming genera! election. Almost frankly Captain Guest casts back to the coalition idea.

He quotes Mr. Lloyd George as saving has the largest circulation. Utility de-mantls, too, that we should take care ot our bodies and especially of that tiresome organ our liver, but why should we be faced by advertisements for pills by which we can escape them?" I refer once more," he went on, to the proposal to erect a great power station at Battersea. Thanks to the generosity of a friend, I had hopes of humanising Lambeth and the bishops that infest it I wished to make it a centre for the people, but I now learn embodies all the actual penalties less this one item of public crucifixion," as it was called during the war days by the men who were liable to it. One of these days we shall achieve yet another improvement, in the teeth of the War Office and all conservative opinion, by abolishing the death penalty for cowardice.

For its defenders are on far more unsafe ground than they seem to realise. In essence their argument amounts to Mies Eileen Beniiett, the English lawn tenni6 star," will not be one of the team representing England in the contest for the Wightman Cup at New York on August 1 next, but only because her father does not want to lose her company for such a long period as four months. If she joined the team she would certainly be absent from home for that period. PORTRAIT OF GANDHI. Mr.

E. J. Horniman, for Chelsea, a well-known art-lover and traveller, has purchased in Paris the curious portrait of Mahatina Gandhi painted by the Hindu artist Amarasekara. This is the onlv portrait for which Gandhi has ever consented to pose, though many painters have implored him to sit for them, one, an Englishman, making the journey to India for the purpose. The portrait was reproduced in the Manchester Guardian" some time ago.

passed by overwhelming majorities, both nationalisation the mining industry and high Protection must be regarded as live electoral issues. The gamble of the polls makes one just about as possible as the other, though neither, thanks to the revival of the Liberal party, can now be regarded as probable. But the mere possibility of such an outrage upon the principles of self-government constitutes the strongest argument in favour of electoral reform. The present system either produces a partial stalemate between the three parties, which Paper. (6) A crowd of many thousands yesterday heard the Prince of Wales open the Newcastlc-on-Tyne Exhibition and afterwards followed him round the exhibits.

(5) The Flying Scotsman collided with motor-lorty at a level-crossing at Belton, near Dunbar, last night. The lorry drh er was killed, his vehicle being smashed to fragments, but the train held the rails, and passengers declared that they did not know there had been an accident until the train was pulled up. (13) The resolution to wind up the Cotton Yarn Association was adopted mat snail tie little more than a mile urns we are nusc as anti- from this ntmunn Tho Choice of Books. The awarding of prizes in the arts is always a troublesome business. There are certain tests for finding the best golfer at a given date, but the best book of the'" week, month, or year is not to be surely discovered by any literary parallel to stroke or match this: 1 muse retain me aeam i socialist as tne conservatives.

inatj chance oi my poor, dear flowers surviv- 'penalty for cowardice, because it is 1 perhaps in the heat of a general elec- ing. Battersea Park would suffer too, Tvr without, it no" uas statement apt to he mis- across, tne river tne gardens of Chelsea, impossible ---'c-" i il: it no the pictures in the Tate Gallerv. ihi undei stood where things have to be said very simplv. but it might be worth inquiring exactly how far either the Conservative or the Liberal party can play. When to the irritation caused by the comparisons inevitable in such That assertion does not happen to be true but, if it were, how simple it would be to effect two improvements at once and prevent war by abolishing the death penalty Houses of Parliament, and Westminster Abbey.

"I ask," he concluded, "how comes it about that the proposal is seriously considered which will allow sulphurous fumes to spread their baneful breath and blight the beauty of our English life. Those who are responsible for the scheme will incur a grave responsibility if they do not at least suspend their operations. It is a test to our community at the beginning of this century whether are ready to sacrifice the claims of beauty to utility." Mr. Walter Tapper responded. IN CHILD WELFARE AUSTRALIA.

is bad because no stable and strong Government can emerge, or, by a violent distortion of popular will, it produces an artificial majority for one party, which is bad because that party then governs without moral sanction. If one could believe that by enduring this choice of evils for a while longer we should get back again to the two-party system there might be something to be said for persisting with the present arrangements. But it is to be feared that even if the country were again forced into two camps the new lines of division would be those of class prejudice rather than of political principle. It would be better from every point of view to recognise that the natural grouping is at present threefold and is likely to remain so. by more than the necessary statutory majority at a special meeting of the members in Manchester yesterday.

Another meeting to confirm it is to be held on May 31. (16) FOREIGN. The airship Graf Zeppelin was expected to start this morning from Friedrichshafen on its second transatlantic flight. (13) Einstein, in view of the long delays to which the Berlin municipality's offer of a house as a birthday gift has been subject, has declined the presentation. (13) The conflict between the American book clubs on the one hand, and the retail booksellers and a section of the publishers on the other, is becoming acute.

(17) Our Paris correspondent says it seems impossible that any solution of the be regarded as completely anti-Socialist. I recall that a Liberal publicist once said that it was as foolish to be anti-Socialist as to be Socialist, and that represents the real thinking of both the Liberal and Conservative parties. It is Captain Guest who has parted with the party, and not the partv that has parted with him. The New Ford Factory and the Safeguarding Myth. On Thursday Mr.

Edsel Ford will cut the first sod on the site of the big Ford factory to be erected at Dagenham. A good deal of Protectionist propaganda is being made about this new factory, and even responsible Cabinet Ministers persist in quoting it as an example of the development prompted by the Tory Safeguarding policy." The facts are set out in the Liberal Council's Free Trade Supplement that has just been issued. The first prize -giving is added the likelihood of financial jealousy, it is obvious that tho self-appointed arbiters of literary fashion are more likely to rouse passions than to raise standards. In the United States the powerful Book of the Month Club has been so bitterly assailed by a group of publishers that its chief judges of literary form have had to bring a libel action in an effort to clear themselves of serious charges. The matter is particularly interesting because a- similar organisation has recently been founded over here, and the English reader is being asked to have his books chosen for him.

The business of selecting the best book of the month is, under the guiding principle of the book-club system, carried on by an organisation which is itself in trade, since it buys the chosen books in bulk and distributes them to its members. There are arguments in favour of a hook club. Its directors may bring solid rewards to the kind of writing whose' merits win THE NILE AGREEtMENT. Protest by Egyptian M.P.s. We have received the following protest by wireless from Mansura.

It is signed by a number of members of the Egyptian Parliament: The inhabitants of Dakahlia Province, Egypt, protest against the agreement on the Kiver Nile contracted between the British and the present Egyptian Government, in the absence of the Egyptian Parliament. Such agreement, which infringes the eternal rights of Egyptians in But if that is recognised, electoral Dame Janet Campbell to Prepare a Scheme. (Rcuter's Telegram.) Caxbebra, Tuesday. Following negotiations with the British Government the Federal Government has decided that one of the most prominent women experts in child welfare and maternal hygiene shall visit Australia to investigate the work at present being done and to pre-pare a schemerfor co-ordinating activities in this connection. After receiving the scheme the Federal, Government proposes to appoint a director of maternal hygiene in the Department of Public Health.

It is now revealed that the woman expert to visit Australia is Dame Janet Campbell; Senior Medical Officer for Maternity and Child Welfare to ihe British Ministry of Health, and chief woman medical adviser to the Board of Education. ANNOUNCEMENT IN ENGLAND. The announcement is also made by 3Ir. Oscar Hammerstein, the poet, and dramatist, was married at Baltimore yesterday to Mrs. Dorothy Blanchard Jacobson, ot Melbourne and London.

The collection of art treasures formed by Princess Paley, widow of the Grand Duke Paul of for many years in the Paley Palace at Tsarskoe Selo. is to be sold at Christie's next month. A memorial service for Lord Revelstoke, who died suddenly in Paris on April 19, was held yesterday in the Russian Church, Buckingham Palace Road, London. He had been a generous supporter of the church for many years. Richard Dix, the film star, is now in hospital (says a Reuter telegram from Baltimore) recovering from an operation necessitated by the mistaken zeal of a cumber of Chinamen who.

at the taking of a film recently, took the kinema. director's yells of "Fight" too seriously. Mr. Dix entered hospital under an assumed name, but wa3 soon recognised by the nurses. The Duchess of "Sork, wearing a pale gold silk coat trimmed with fur and a toque to match, opened the new extensions to tha Miller General Hospital, Greenwich, yesterday.

As a memento of her visit, the Duchess was presented with a copy of a rniniriture of Princess Victoria (afterwards' Queen Victoria) at the age of four. Sir Alexander Gibb, who had previously held the position of deputy chairman, was elected chairman of the Council of the London Chamber of Commerce yesterday, in succession to Sir Stephen Deme'triadi, who. havinK served in the position for three years, was not eligible fqr re-election. Sir Geoffrey Clarke was elected deputy chairman, Reparation question can be reached by the Experts in Paris before tbe 'Whitsuntide holidays. Sir Josiah Stamp came to London yesterday, and will return to-day.

(17) reform becomes one of the first and most vital necessities, for only under a reformed procedure will it be possible to produce a Government which will be both powerful and truly representative. announcement by the iord Company of its intention to build a factorv of tha Nile, is radically null Dagenham was made in July. 1924. In 1 "vuib oeen concluded only a critical esteem. Perhaps, with a book society in action, Joseph Conrad's sale would not have lagged April, 1924, Mr.

Snowden announced his intention to remove the McKenna duties on motor-cars. In May, 1924, Mr. Snowden announced that he would postpone the removal of the duties till August 1, 1924. This was known all over the world. In July, 1924, the Ford Company announced that it proposed to erect its factory near London, and the contract for the purchase of land at Dagenham was made in 1924.

How the inspiration of this factory can have been the import duties on motor-cars no one can understand. In 1925 the McKenna duties were re- without being discussed by the deputies of the country. Great Britain, by its continual encroachment on the liberties of Egyptians and by the suppression of their Parliament, has put an end to the policy of mutual good understanding between the two nations, an understanding which is necessary for the conclusion of a treaty by which Egypt maintains its complete independence and Great Britain guarantees' its substantial interests Egyptians are forced to believe that the policy of good understanding is fruitless, and will regret to be obliged to enter on a policy of boycott. We trust, however, that, the tact and good sense of British politicians will make them value the good wishes of the Egyptians and lead The Issues. At almost every election there is some issue which overshadows all others and may even be 6o dominant as to label it in history, like the khaki election of 1900 or the "coupon" election of more lecent times.

If Protection was the chief feature of the 1923 election and the Russian scare that of 1924, unemployment will now almost certainly be the central issue of the coining election. Towards a Pleasant Countryside. Yet another document is issued from Whitehall to remind local authorities that they, and they alone, can keep the face of Britain pleasant. The gravest lash, the country has shown of late is that of lurid petrol pumps and multicoloured advertisements of various so tardily behind bis esteem. On the other hand, there is enough sheepish-ness among readers without the arrival of self-appointed shepherds whose selections will inevitably encourage people to stop searching and thinking for themselves.

The American parallel further shows the danger of trade disputes and of a fouled atmosphere the Ministry of Health, which says that in view of the special importance of these services in the interests of the Empire as a whole the Minister has 9(TPH1 jk cot. TioTnta Tgn.f PamTtlioll unposed. ifor two or three years -brands 'of petrol. Pumps and filling which is very different from the ideal free, from her official duties nothing more was heard of the Dagen- to the return of our Parliamentary life..