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to to a a THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1928. OBITUARY. EGLANTYNE JEBB. Work for Save the Children Fund. Miss Eglantyne Jebb, cofounder and honorary secretary of the Save the Children Fund, passed away on Monday night at a nursing home in Geneva after a long illness.

Born in 1876, the eldest laughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Trevor Jebb, of Ellesmere, and niece of the late Sir Richard Jebb, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, Miss Jebb devoted herself all her life to work for the improvement of social conditions. After leaving Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read history, she trained as- an elementary school teacher at Stockwell College, London. She subsequently became a member ot the Borough of Cambridge Education Committee and honorary secretary to the Cambridge Boys' Employment Registry; but her greatest work was directed to the relief of suffering arising from war and untoward economic conditions.

During the second Balkan war she visited Mara. donia on behalf of the Macedonian Relici Fund, and when the world war drew to a close she took part in the movernent towards raising the blockade, and became one of the founders of the Fight-the-Famine Council. It was in this organisation, at the instance of Miss Jebb and her sister. Mrs. Charles Buxton, that the Save the Chibiren Fund had its movement which has been the means of disbusing over 24,000,000 for the relief of child suffering and raising the standard of child welfare in some thirty different countries.

Miss Jebb was gifted with that temperament which fails to find any barrier to mutual aid in the accident of nationality. Supernational was one of her favourite torms. It was she who drafted the Declaration of Geneva, laying down the minimum obligations of society to the child above and beyond all conof rice, nationality, or which was adopted by the Assembly of the League of Nations 101 1924. Miss Jebb was actively associated with the work of the League as al assessor to the Committee for Child Pro1 votion, on which she sat as the represendative of the Save the Children International Union. which has its headquartets in Geneva and afiliated national in nearly forty different Despite persistent ill-healtit aIming many rears, Miss Jebb travelled widely throughout Europe in the cause of the work.

which she had at heart, And her is commemorated Save the Childien Fund's model village, Kheba (Jebba), in Albania, MR. G. A. HAWORTH. The death is announced at the age of 83 of Mr.

George Ambiose Haworth, of Wigan, who for sixty years WAS well known as a mining engineer and colliery inanager in North Wales, Yorkshire, and Lancashue. Mr. Haworth, who was a native of Liverpool, was educated at Chester College, and received training us a mining engineer with his father, the late Cicorge Haworth, who owned the Tiedden Colliery, North Wales. From North Wales lie went to Yorkshire and WAS at thin Silkstone Colliery for Some afterwards becoming assistant to the late Mr. John Knowles, the general manager of the extensive collieries of the l'earson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company.

11 the Wigan coalfield. lle was also for a period manager of the Inve Moss Pits, Ince, Wigan, and altosether he was with the Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company for thirty years or more. A few years ago he retirel from netive colliery management. As a young man he joined the Liverpool Artillery Volunteers, in which he tose 10 the rank of captain. He was also a prominent Freemason, and in 1914 was the Worshipful Master of the Holmes Lodge, Wigan.

PRINCESS HATZFELDT. Princess Clara Hatzfeldt, the wealthy American widow of a Prussian nobleman, shed in London on Monday night. She was taken seriously ill about a week Ag) following a clull. The P'rincess's marriage in London years ago was oue of the event4 of the social season. She was the adopted daughter of Mr.

Collis P. the American inway magnite, and inhented a huge fortune from estimated at about £15,000,000. The Princess was 8 leading figure in society for many years, and was noted as one of the best dressed women in Europe. Formerly she had entertained lavishly at her place near Windsor, but of late years she had lived in London. SIR W.

F. H. SMITH. Sir William Frederick Haynes Smith, formerly Governor successively of British Ciuiana. the Leeward Islands, and the Bahamas, and afterwards High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of Cyprus, died yesterday at the age of 80, at Turleigh Mill, Bradford-on-Avon.

Wiltshire. .1 harrister for the Middle Temple, he hreame Solicitor General of British Cuna in 1805 and Governor 1884. went to Cyprus 111 1597. and retned 111 1901. Sir Willam was created 111 while Governor of the Leeward lslands.

MR. G. H. NORRIS. Mr.

George H. Norris, of Whyke Lodge. Chichester. Sussex. died on December 15 at his residence at the age of 77.

Called to the Bar in 1982. he practised in the Local Chancery Court, and was conreyancer of some eminence. He retired from practice in 1913. and went to reside at Whyke Lodge. Dr.

Norris was, apart from his practice, well known in Stockport for the interest he manifested in the Lads' Club. the Grammar School, and local charities. DEATH OF LADY THOMAS WILLIAMS. Lady Williams. wife of Sir E.

Thomas Williams, died yesterday at her home, Oakdene, St. Margaret's, Twickenham, at the age of 74. Sir Thomas and Lady Williams recently celebrated their golden wedding. Sir Thomas, who was knighted in 1919, is 8 director of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. Baldwin's.

Limited, the Gloucester Wagon Company and other concerns, and chairman of Birmingham Canals Navigation. He was formerly North Western manager of the London and Railway' Company. A SWEDISH BOTANIST. According to a telegram received in Stockholm by the Archbishop of Upsala, the Swedish botanist Dr. Enander died suddenly at an advanced age at Victoria, B.C., on Sunday last.

He had been conducting scientific researches while on journey. round the world. ISLAND RATEPAYERS' "STRIKE." Demand for Road to Mainland. COUNCIL'S DILEMMA. (From our Correspondent.) GALWAY, TUESDAY.

The ratepayers of every island in this county are on strike," said the secretary at to-day's meeting of the Finance Committee of the Galway Council, when collectors attended to explain why they had not yet collected 50 per cent of the rates. In the normal course of events 50 per cent of the first moiety of the rates should have been lodged by 30 last and the full amount collected by March 31 next, but there are some collectors who have not yet reported the first half collected. was no levying decrees on the island Mr. poodle Joyce, a collector, said it of Inchiquin a in a Lough Corrib, where the inhabitants have. refused to pay rates until 2 road 15 made to the mainland.

Mr. Joyce said the decrees could not be executed. In reply to the chairman the secretary said there was 2 motion on the agenda to make a road to the island at a cost pi £7,000. The Chairman: It is a poor inducement to us to make a road when the people do not pay their rates. Mr.

Corbett: Du they use any roads? Mr. Lydon: No. they have no carts. They bring their cattle to the mainland in bouts and walk the hali-mile to the town. Replying to a question flie collector said there would he a chance of making seizures if they used a boat and military wrie employed.

It was decided that the Land Commission he communicated with and asked ii they would contribute to the cost of making a road to Inchiquin. NO MORE POST OFFICE INSURANCE. Business which Disclosed a Surplus. WHY IT IS BEING CLOSED. (From our London Staff.) FLEET STREET, TUESDAY.

The official announcement that no new contracts for insurance under the Post Office Savings Bank scheme will be made is to be the subject of a in the House of Commons to-morrow, and the decision answer to end presumably this scheme, will be which that the was 1865, follows on the recominitiation of the Select Committee on Estimates that the Post Office life insurance business should be discontinued." If one asks the savings bank clerk at a counter in a branch post office why no more contracts are to be accepted after December 31, the answer will be. Because the scheme does not pay," but that was not the opinion of the Select Committee. After referring to the that the Post Office system of deferred annuities showed a considerable capital loss, and that no: further proposals were accepted after 1912. the repoit continues: The life i insurance business discloses A surplus. The contracts entered into for life insurance in 1025 numbered 244.

and in 1926 238. £11,325 representing £11.152. respectively assurances of and The total amount: of insurance in force on December 31. 1927, was £511,533. Only once since 1916 has the amount of now insmance reached £20.000 a year-in 1020, when it reached £20.810.

The comparison between these figures and the new insurance effected hy the commercial companies which, excluding industrial assurance, amounted 11 1926 to £139,000,000. clearly shows the trifling seivice rendered to the public by the Post Ofice 111 life insurance business. Your Committee consider that it results micro distraction of Post Office 'SPEEDING' BY LONGDISTANCE 'BUSES. Drivers Fined, but Owners Immune. EFFECT OF HAVING NO TIME-TABLES.

(From our Correspondent.) BEDALE, TUESDAY. When two drivers of Newcastle-toLondon express 'buses were charged at Bedale Police Court to-day with exceeding the speed limit of 20 miles an hour, Police Inspector Dennison complained that although the prietors of the 'bus services had been warned the drivers were defying the law. He added that as there were no timetables for the services the owners of the 'buses could not be proceeded against. Two drivers of these 'buses, Thomas Adamson Dickinson, Chester-le-Street, and Ronald Seymour Heid, who were before the Court for driving their 'buses between Catterick and Leeming Bar at a i speed of miles an I hour-124 miles beyond the each fined the maximum penalty of £10 and warned that if they offended again their licences! would be suspended. When the London Labour party starts nest year's general election campaign in the Metropolis with a reunion at the Royal Horticultural Hall.

Westminster, on Saturday, January 12, there will dancing and community pinging led by Mr. F. 0. Roberts, M.1., all his fiddle. Short speeches will be made by Mr.

George bury, Dr. Alfred Salter, and Mr. T. L. Nay lor.

'A TE IN THE FREE TRADE HALL. A Ala re Guardian The Christmas tea-party given yesterday by the Manchester City Mission to 2,275 poor and aged people. energies employed, and, taking into consideration the immense strength of commercial insurance companies, the necessary restriction of the investment of Post Office insurance funds to British Government securities, and the extreme difficulty of competing seriously for new business. they recommend that the Post Office life insurance business should be The interesting phrase in this survey of the position is: The difficulty of competing seriously for new Undoubtedly one question asked to-morrow will be why the insurance scheme has never been properly advertised, and members will want to know whether the Post Office has ever claimed to be competing seriously when it limited its advertisements of the scheme to its own publications, such as the Post Office Guide and the Savings Bank books. It seems extraordinary that when the terms quoted are about the same as those of the commercial companies, and the facilities for insuring are even more attractive, only 238 new people in the whole country insured with the Post Office in 1926.

Since the scheme was initiated in 1865 the number of new policies taken onto in one vear has never reached 2.000. high-water mark was reached in 1892. with 1,983 new policies, and 1894 and 1896 were good years. The highest figure in later years was 858 in 1914. The maximum sum for which people can insure is £100.

It will be seen from the figures quoted in the report that the average sum for which the new-comers insured themselves in 1928 was under £17. SHEFFIELD MURDER CHARGE The trial was resumed at Leeds Assizes yesterday before Mr. Justice Charles of Benjamin Armitage (38), boot repairer, of Shelfeid, who is charged with wilful b'order ni his wife, Beatrice, on October 11. Evidence was given by Dr. Carter, of Sheffield, who conducted the post-mortem examination, and by Sir Bernard Spilsbury to the effect that in their opinion death must have taken place within half an hour of Mrs.

Armitage taking her breakfast. Mrs. Miriam Quickfall. mother-in-law of the prisoner. said that her daughter hai shown her finger-marks on her throat and arms, and teeth on her arms, which she said been made by Armitage.

The hearing was adjourned until to-day. SLUM CLEARANCE SCHEME BANNED. High Court Ruling. FUTURE DISPOSAL OF THE LAND. The High Court yesterday issued rule prohibiting a slum-clearance scheme of the Derby Corporation which the Minister of Health had approved.

The rule was issued against the Minister, and the case -stated to be interpretation its, Housing Act of kind--concerned the (1925). certain in The motion was on behalf local residents of Derby. The Attorney General (Sir Thomas Inskip) explained that the rule WAS obtained to prohibit the Minister from proceeding with the confirmation of the scheme. "The Act provided for slumclearance schemes, and the Ministry had power to confirm schemes, with or without modification, for the demolition rearrangement of houses that were declared to be unfit for human habitation. The contention of the other side to be that as the scheme did not provide for mole houses to be built on the area in question.

it was not a scheme at all, and the Minister could not confirm it, as was not a reconstruction scheme. Whete a11 area was demolished the Minister could order that the people who lived 011 it must be accommodated elsewhere, either inside the area or outside. li there were an insanitary area in the iniddle of another area the Minister could have regard to the health of the people in the other area. as well as of in the arva itself. and when the Minister contumed an improvement scheme the authority must perform that scheme.

Lord Hewait There is nothing in the let I-cheme to prevent the Minister approving that would leave an area open for benefit of the surrounding district, even though it means clearing away some occupied houses. The Attorney Act General replied that that was so. The of 1925 applied to both reconstruction and improvement schemes. The General, was proposal, added the Attorney to leave the site, after it had been cleared, as a plot of surplus land, and, in his submission, Minister had power to do this in the interests of health. In erecting other houses the Minister had also to pay regard to the health of the people.

Mr. Scholetield, K.C., who appeared with Mr. H. A. Hill in support of the rule, contended that there was no power to clear this land in the beart of the town ni and Derby that and treat it as surplus land, the scheme was not one contemplated by the Act.

It was, in his mission, inconsistent with the Act that I to the huge area should be cleared and sold and for anybody the local authority pleased, what purpose they pleased. Ha argued that there was no real intention of making the surplus land into an open space after clearance. The intention was to His sell it for shops and other complaint was directed against property. the words the whole of the area shall be sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of as the Council might think fit." He contended that the Act conferred no such powers. The Lord Chief Justice, giving judgIt ment, had said the matter was of importance.

been stated that the Minister had previously exercised his powers 1n similar In his view, if there were to be a check to be imposed it must imposed now. The question here was whether this was a case for prohibition against the Ministry. It was common ground that if the scheme should be approved or confirmed by the Minister in a form going beyond what the statute intended, there was no remedy and no redress. It had been stated that 72 houses might be erected on the site. If that were SO there would be no room for else.

In the opinion of the Court it was this. incorrect statute to say could that the Ministry ny authorise the sale or the leasing of this cleared area. For these reasons they thought the rule of prohibition should be made absolute. the rule was made and. absolute with costs.

Justices Avory Acton agreed, and Last night's London Gazette" states that Air Commodore Felton, Vesey Holt is appointed Director Technical Development, Air Ministry, in succession to. Air Commodore J. A. Chamier. WIRELESS NOTES AND PROGRAMMES.

THE MESSIAH" FROM MINSTER. For all stations except 5 GB and Belfast the Christmas week programmes open on Sunday with the York Minster performance of Handel's Messiah." The Minster choir, the York Musical Society, and the Leeds Philharmonic Choir will combine in the chorus work, accompanied by the Leeds Symphony Orchestra. The Muriel a Brunskill, Walter Hyde, and, principals will be Elsie Suddaby, Arthur Cranmer. Dr. E.

C. Bairstow will conduct. The early hour at which the relay begins-2 15-should be noted. DEALING WITH THE OSCILLATOR. (From our Wireless Correspondent.) A year ago the B.B.C.

instituted a new system of dealing with complaints of oscillation, and it is now possible to give figures showing how it is working. The system is to send to people complaining of oscillation a questionnaire asking for various details and a pamphlet containhints on how to locate the source of the trouble, and so on. In the last twelve months 5,500 questionnaires have been out, and 2,000 were returned with the necessary particulars supplied. These were subsequently forwarded to the Post Office for investigation and, if necessary, action. Over 1,100 recipients of questionnaires sent postcards stating that the nuisance had stopped and asking that no further steps should be taken; about 2,400 remain to be accounted for, and it is assumed that some of these were frivolous complaints, seeing that the complainers did not think it worth while to reply to the questionnaire.

ELECTRIC MAINS SUPPLY. We are in the habit of taking so many wonderful things for granted that it is hard to realise that when listening, for example, to music over the "wireless" a person fifteen feet from the loud-speaker is only receiving direct about one part in 400,000 of the sound that leaves the loud-speaker, The remaining 399,990 parts are distributed in all directions, Some of them, of course, are directed to the ear by means of reflection. but at the best the volume which strikes the ear is very minute indeed in proportion to the whole. Moreover, as the loud-speaker itself has only an efficiency of 5 per cent, and as the valve only delivers about one-eighth of the energy put into the transmission, TO-DAY'S WIRELESS MANCHESTER (2 ZY) metres: 780 k.c) 3 0: London Programme relayed from Daventry. Ballad Concert.

45: Excerpts from Opera: The Northern Wireless Orchestra, Ernest Auty (tenor). 5 15: The Children's Hour. 6 0: London Programme: Gramophone Records, relayed from Daventry. Time, Weather, News, (S.B. from London).

6 30: The Royal Horticultural Society's Bulletin. 6 40: Musical Interlude (S.B. from London). Schubert's Pianoforte Sonatas, played by James Ching (S.B. from London).

7 0: Mr. Robert Hobbs: The Breeding of Dairy Cattle" (S.B. from London). 7 15: Musical Interlude (S.B. from London).

7 25: Mr. C. C. Knights: Salesmanship and the (S.B. from London.) Payne and the B.B C.

Dance Orchestra (S.B, from London). 8 25: "The Blue Forest," by Louis Aubert, a Fairy Opera in three acts (S.B. from London). 8 0: Weather Forerast, Second General News Bulletin (S.B. from London).

9 15: Mr. H. M. Tomlinson: Good Morning, America" (S.B. from London).

8 30: Local Announcements. 8 35: The Blue Forest," Acts II. and III. (S.B. from London).

10 40: Mr. John Drinkwater, reading from his new hook poems, All about Me" (S.B. from London). LONDON (2 LO) and DAVENTRY (5XX) (361.4 metres: 830 k.c.). (1,562.5 metres: 192 kc).

10 15 a.m.: The Daily Service. 10 30 (Daventry only) Time Signal, Greenwich; Weather Forecast. 11 0 (Daventry only): Gramophone Records. 12 0: A Ballad Concert: Jo Tucker (contralto) and Phillip Ritte (tenor). 12 30: Gramophone Records.

1 0-2 0: Orchestra. 2 30: 35th Annual Banquet to Little Londoners relayed from the Guildhall. 3 0: A Ballad Concert: Marguerite Pitcher (soprano), Stanley Pope (bassbaritone), and Daisy Scott (flute). 3 45: A Light a Classical Concert: Carola a Pajonk (pianoiorte) and The Petersfeld String Quartet. 4 45: Organ Recital.

5 15: Children's Hour. 6 0: Gramophone Records. 6 15: Time Signal, Greenwich; Weather Forecast; First General News Bulletin. 6 30: The Week's Work in the Garden, by Royal Horticultural Society. 6 40: Musical Interlude.

6 45: Schubert's Pianoforte Sonatas. 7 Mr. Robert Hobbs: The Breeding of Dairy 7 15: Musical 7 25: Mr. C. Salesmanship C.

Knights: and the Salesmanship45: Jack Payne and the B.B.C. Dance Orchestra. 8 25: The Blue by Louis Aubert. A Fairy Opera in Three Acts, Libretto by Jacques Cheneviere. 9 0: Weather Forecast; Second General News Bulletin.

9 10 The Archbishop of Canterbury appealing on behalf of the Coalfields Distress Funds, relayed from Canterbury. 9 15: Mr. H. M. Tomlinson, Good Morning, America." 9 30: Loral Announcements: (Daventry only) Shipping Forecast.

9 35: The Blue Forest," Acts 2 and 3. 10 40: Mr. Jolin RADIUM INSTITUTE FOR EDINBURGH. First in Scotland. The managers of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary have, approved of the establishment of a Radium Institute, the first in Scotland, for the treatment of patients tions amenable to radium.

suffering from cancer and other, condiwas that 8 scheme to reconstruct property the Infirmary owns at Murreyheld should be adopted for this purpose, and that if necessary the sum of £40,000 should be taken from the unrestricted funds of the Infirmary to carry this out. The Institute managers should further be decided reconstructed that the to la accommodate thirty in-patients. to serve more especially Edinburgh and the southeastern area of Scotland. At a general meeting of the Royal Society of Portait Painters, Sir William Orpen, R.A., Mr. John Hay and Mr.

Alfred Hayward were elected members. the final result is that, even with the working at its loudest, and' speaker allowing for the reflections, the ear only gets about one-thirty-millionth of the original volume used. These were some of the striking figures' given by Mr. A. Hall, of Messrs.

Ferranti's, in an address 011 Electricity and musical reproduction last evening the members of the Manchester to district branch of the Electrical Associntion for Women. To get musical reproduction loud, pleasant, and free from distortion from the loud-speaker, he said, it was necessary to have available with an electric mains supply had a better large amount of energy, and householders chance of securing it than others. CANADIAN COMMISSION. Following months of waiting, an announcement has been made that Royal Radio Commission has been formed at Ottawa to look into various methods of broadcasting control and to submit to the present Dominion Parliament recommendations to govern the future broadcasting policy of the Dominion. Three members have been They will probe into the relative merits owned of broadcasting by privately stations or by stations operated 'on the basis of national ownership.

Questions; to be considered will be the establishment of 011e or more groups of high-' powered broadcasting stations operating. as private enterprises with the receipt of a Government subsidy; the establishment and operation of such a system of stations, to be owned and financed by the Dominion Government; the establishment and cperation of stations by the various provincial Governments. There are 400,000 licensed radio listeners in Canada, G0 being. urban and the other 40 per cent rural inhabitants. PICK OF THE PROGRAMMES.

6 45: London aud Other vital of Schubert's Pianoforte Sonatas by James Ching. Grosse Sonata in flat (4th movement); Sonata in flat, (1st movement). 8 0:5 by the Wireless Military Band; Sybil Maden (contialto); Stanilas Niedzielski (piano: forte). 8 25: London and Other The Blue Forest," a fairy in three acts, by Louis Aubert. Special Feature.

2 30: London and 5 Annual Banquet to Little Londoners and distribution of hampers to crippled children, relayed from the Guildhall, London. PROGRAMMES. Drinkwater reading from his new book of poemns, All About Me 11 0--12 0: Dance Music. DAVENTRY EXPERIMENTAL (5 GB) (491.8 metres: 610 kc). 3 0: The Birmingham Alilitary Band and Frank Lester (baritone).

4 Orchestra, Renee Rudarni and Billy. Payne and the a B.B.C. Danco Carlton (instrumentalists). 5 30: The Children's Hour. 6 15: Time.

Signal, Greenwich: Weather Forecast. First General News Bulletin. 6 30: Bermondsey Central School Concert. 7 0: The Birmingham Studio Orchestra and Muriel Sotham (contralto). 8.

0: Sybil Maden (contralto), Stanislas zielski (pianoforte). and the Wireless Military Band. 9 30: Here we come a-ballading (from Birmingham), A monologue by Fred E. Weatherly, K.C., with songs by Ethel Dakin (soprano) and Glyn Eastman (baritone). 10 0: Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin.

10 15: Dance Music. CARDIFF '(5 WA-00 353 metres: 850 kc). 1 15-2 0: National Orchestra of Wales. 3 0: Landon Programine relased from Desentry. 3 45: Gladys Palmer (contarito), the Station Trin.

45: London Programme relayed from 5 15: The Children's 6 London Programme relaved from Daventry. 6 15-11 0: 5 B. from London 19 30: Local Announcements). BOURNEMOUTH 16 BM-o0 326 1 metren: 920 cl. 6 3 15-11 '0: 0.

Landon from Programme relayed from Darentry. London 19 30: Local Announcements). NEWCASTLE 15 NO -on 312.5 Inetres: 960 k.c.l. 15: Musin. 5 15: The Children's Hour.

4.8. from London, 30: Royal Horticultural London Programme relayed from Darentry. 6 6.9; Society's Bulletin. 6 35: Musical Interlude. 6 45-11 0- S.B.

London (9 30: Local Announcements). ABERDEEN (2 BD-00 500 metres: 600 k.c). 3. Orchestra. 5 0: Atren Milne 5 15: The Hour.

6 0. Landon Programme (soprano). from Datoniry. 6 15: A from Loodoo. 6 30: 6 45: London.

9 30: 5.B. from Glasgow. 9 35-11 0: 5.B. from London. GLASGOW 15 SC 405.4 metres: 740 3 Winifred 30: Ilanre Walker Music.

4 0: Tho Station Orchestra: 5 15: The 45: Organ Recital. for Farmers 6 Children's 0: Organ Hour. 5 Recital. 58: Weather Forecast, London. 6 30: Horticniture.

6 6 45: 15: 8 S.B. front from from London. 9 30: Scottish News Bulletin. 9 35: 8 B. London 10 40-10 55: Nora Delapy.

BELFAST (2 RE- on 306.1 metres: 980 12 Music. 0--1 4 0: 30: Gramophone Records. 4 0: Children's Orchestra A Vocal 5 Interlude by Evelya Gibb Pablic 5 0: The Edith Gregg: Women In Organ Recital. 6 15: 8.B. from London.

Hour. 6 30: 15: Ch idren's 6 0: 9.B. Reval from Horticultural London. Bulletin. 6 40-11 0: (9 3O: Regional News) DUBLIN 12 on 319.1 metres: 940 1 30-2 0: Stock Exrhange Lit.

and Lair d'Tir Gramophone Records. 0: 6 17: Weather Forecast, 1 13 A 7 0. Howeb. Id Talk. Talk.

Commercial Travelling 28 Carter 7 10: Women." 7 20 7 30: German Leason. 8 0: Artane Brass and Riced Band, 45: Jean Gerard Bertin Crofts (tenor), K. Station Amirewa Pollak7 Newa, Weather. Close Orchestra, 10 30: down. ART OF THE NOVEL.

Mr. Hugh Walpole's Lecture at Keswick. Mr. Hugh Walpole. the novelist.

who lives above Lake Derwentwater, lecturing on The art and immorality of the novel" at Keswick. said that he regarded the question of the immorality of the novel as rather a tedious subject. The novel had in itself the possibility of every kind of beauty, wonder, and truth and poetry that any work of art could have. The novel had its origin in the garrulous tendency of man-not necessarily the garrulous tendency which led to many which made him long to tell someone about something. All novelists who wrote about how they worked ended by saying that try how they would the thing would take its own course.

All novelists differed as to what kind cf novel they, by their nature, tended to write The novel might he either one of ideas. of atmosphere, of character. of invention or action. or oi moral purpose. He who wanted to write a novel of moral purpose might just as well go and hang himseli to-morrow.

Which of the five divisions he would enter would be decided for the novelist, not by himself. but by His nature and experience. and that was one of the tragedies of the novelist. The novelist might say that he would write something quite different from his pro. vious novels.

but would find himseli brought back to himself. The real trouble and difficulty of the novelist was that the moment he tried to shape, spontaneous flow of ideas into definite form he lost all the vitality behind the creative work. When they found the creative force perfectly combined with the subconscious technique they got a great novel. A FRENCH MUSICIAN. The death is announced from Paris of Lucien Capet, the violinist and professor of the Conservatoire.

He was considered to occupy in French music place similar to that of Dr. Joseph Joachim in Germany, and he resembled Dr. Joachim good deal in his playing. He was born in 1873, and received his musical education at the Paris Conservatoire. UNEMPLOYMENT.

Another Decrease. The Ministry of Labour states that ou December 10 the total number of persons on the registers of employment exchanges in Great Britain was 1,320,000. This was 29.096 less than a week before, but 195,677 more than 8 year before. The figures normally in Persons regular employment. normally Tempo- 171 carnal Wholly emplo.u semployed.

stopped ment. Total. Derember 10. 1923. Men 785,700 176.800 76.700 1.039.200 Boys 28.900 4.900 100 33.900 Women 127.300 89.500 900 217.700 30.100 Girls 25.200 4,900 Total December 3, Men Bors Women Girls Total December 12, Men Boys Women Girls Total 967.100 216.100 77,700 1,320,900 1923- 783.352 197.439 79.045 1,050.336 30.025 6.035 136 222.354 36.246 129.902 91.569 893 28.747 5.033 20 31,850 970.527 200,186 20,093 1,350,806 1927- 662,087 184.173 64,805 911,063 23,255 6,169 120 29,545 85,110 72.604 633 158,397 21,665 4.543 10 25,218 792.113 257,489 65,616 1,125,223 SEASONAL.

FALL CONTINUES. In the Last two or three weeks the returns of registered unemployment bare shown decreases. most part a seasonal fall which is usually to be found in the few weeks before Christmaz. It is usually followed by a rise in January. This year the fall is greater than last sear, 70,000 in a fortnight, as compared with 20,000, but this year's total is still nearly 200,000 more than twelve months ago.

The following figures of recent weeks may be compared with those of the corresponding weeks of 1927: Total Registered Gnemplored. 1928. 1927. November 1,364,400 December 1,350,800 1,149,660 November 085 1,395,500 1,145,200 December 10 1,320,900 1,125,200 NORTHERN RELAY STATIONS. HULL 291 1,020 LEEDS-BRADFORD 2857 1 metros: 1,050 052 metres: 1.190 SHEFFIELD LIVERPOOL 297 1,010 k.c.

STOKE 272 I 7 tel.en: 1.100 kr. 1.020 3 0: London Programme 15: The Children: Hoar (S.8. relayed from trom farentry. 5 0: London a 15: First General Programme News from Vancbester. 6 40 B.

from London. 6 30: 6 45 9.8 from hert's anolorte Sonatas (6.D. fr. Talk br the Sinistry Agri Landon! 0: from London 15: Muciral ulture B. 18 from R.

(6 B. Indon). 25: Mr. C. Knghts, from from London) London) 45: BBC.

Dance Orchestra 1) 18 B. from 8 25: The Blue Forest Art Balletin. 9 London). el 9 0: Secend General 15: Talk (S.B. from London).

9 30: Bide Unsical Forest Interlude relayed trom London). 9 35 The 10 40-11 0: (Acts Poetry II. and Reading 11 (S B. 8.B. from from Load London.

mL BIG TOBACCO PROFITS. British-American Company's £6,500.000. The British-American Tobacco Company's accounts, issued yesterday, show profit for the year to September 30 as £6,563,559, as compared with £6,354,095 for the previous year. The dividend is unchanged at 25 per cent, free of tax, and after allowing for the final payment of 8 1-3 per cent included in this, which absorbs £1,961,636, the sum of £2,774,486 is carried forward to the next accounts, as rhea against £2,319,130 brought in. profits secured and the dividends declared (payment being 'made free' of in the past five years are shown in tax) the following table.

Ord. diridend, 1024 2 per cent. 1925 4,866,266 264 5,145.238 27 11-12 1926 6,195,817 1927 6,354,096 25 1928 6,563,559 25 And capital bonus of. per cent..