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April 5, 1925. PROBLEMS FACING CHANCELLOR. NO PLEDGE TO GIVE CHEAPER BEER: INCOME-TAX FIRST VI "TRADE'S" PROFITS. HOW THEY CAN SHARE THEM WITH PUBLIC. From A Political Correspondent.

The Post Office has a surplus of 40,000,000 on the year's working, and there are now suggestions that the War Office has ten millions in hand, after meeting all expenditure, while the Admiralty is some millions to the good. The more that is learned of last year's budgeting the more extraordinary it appears, and the greater the need for Parliament to insist that in the new Budget there shall be a closer relation between the estimates and the real needs of the spending departments. Loose budgeting is not only bad finance, but bad constitutionalism. What will Mr. Baldwin do? He is being advised on every hand to reduce taxation.

Bat in what direction? Pre- Election Some want the Corporation Profits Tax abolished, and say, quite truly, that it is a bad tax. Others demand that the sugar tax shall be reduced; and here again it cannot be denied that dear sugar is a disadvantage, not only to the direct consumer, but to important industries. But the loudest demand is for a penny a pint off beer. Mr. Baldwin is presented with a reputed pledge given by him just before the last election, when he said it would be his duty to consider what method of relief will best serve the national and that (: beer will certainly be one of the first subjects of taxation to come under review in order to see how far any practicable reduction in duty would benefit the consumer." Profits on Beer.

This is no pledge. It is merely a promise of consideration; and the more Mr. Baldwin considers the less, it may be imagined, he will be attracted to the proposal to lose 20 millions by reducing the beer duty. If anything is done at all, greater part of the cost should be borne well on dear beer, and can well afford to lower by the which has done extraordinarily prices. Cheaper beer is not to be despised, but does Mr.

Baldwin want to go down in history as the Chancellor of the Exchequer who, with a chance of bringing down the income tax, preferred instead to take a penny a pint off beer? The income tax payer comes first. He has borne the worst of the war burdens, and his claim for some relief is both morally and practically incontestable. AMBULANCE DELAYS." SCOTLAND YARD'S ANSWER IN THE CASE OF MR. GOODMAN. Following criticisms regarding the delays reported in connection with the London ambulance service, and in particular the allegation that there was delay in summoning an ambulance to the hotel in the Strand where Mr.

Meyer Goodman, the theatrical agent, was seized with fatal illness, Scotland Yard to-day issued a statement on the case. According to this, a constable was called to the hotel by the night porter at 5.35 a.m., and was told there was a geutleman there apparently very ill. The night porter said he coull not get a doctor for an hour, and the police-constable advised him to ring up the L.C.C. ambulance, which he did. This ambulance arrived at 5.38, three minutes after the police-constable arrived on the scene.

The police officer reports that no request was made to him for the use of the ambulance, and that he informed the night porter that if the gentleman had been taken ill in the street he could have summoned the ambulance, but as the illness occurred on private premises he could not do so. Both the police-constable and the night porter understood that the case was an ordinary one of illness, and the police-constable remained on the scene until the arrival of the ambulance and the removal of Mr. Goodman to hospital. SMOTHERED BY CAT. TRAGIC DEATH OF 4-MONTHS'-OLD CHILD IN PERAMBULATOR.

At an inquest at Rotherhithe to-day on Ellen Ann Beran, the four months child of a Bermondsey, child carman, the mother stated that she laid the in a perambulator, and half an hour later found a cat lying across the baby's face and chest. Medical evidence was given that death was due to slow asphyxiation, and a verdict of accidental death was recorded. UNDERGROUND "RETURNS." With a view to reducing pressure at the booking offices of the central stations during the peak periods of traffic, the Underground are endeavouring to popularise return bookings. A move in this direction now being made is the installation of slot machines delivering return tickets. One capable of taking silver is being put in at Golder's Green.

frat House MADEMOISELLE of Mary MARIE KAUFMANT will open the when she will be in St. John's Wood, London, on May 25, patients for treatment ready by to the receive five method, children and to as give resident free has daily worked women and children. Mademoiselle Kaufmant during which Professor Emile at Nancy for ten years, with and women's clinic tima she was in entire charge of the children's should be and for it is intended that the House of Mary nurses, working centre oil the training lines girls Mademoiselle and women Kaufmant to become has who wish to It learn also re-education centre for mothers followed. and touch. the woaderful method of curing by thought Noble of All Ardkirglas, enquiries should at once he made to enclosing Mrs.

envelope be and stamped Grand Continental Hotel, Nancy, coupon for France, reply. which obtained any Post Office THE EVENING MUMMY'S DEATH 66 CURSE." SCIENTISTS EMPHATIC AGAINST. GRIM THEORY, NO POISON EITHER. LORD CARNARVON'S FATE AND SUPERSTITION. Egyptologists not only discredit the idea of supernatural factor in the death of Lord any Carnarvon, but they regard the suggestion with impatience.

Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge, Keeper of British Museum, in an interview to-day deEgyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the scribed such theories as bunkum." If there is anything in the vengeance he said, everybody in this country who possesses Egyptian relics would be ac- cursed. I know of no Never Heard of Poison Miss Marie Corelli sesses a book, which she Sir E. Wallis Budge, no such thing. Case.

has stated that she possays is not in the British Museum, translated from the Arabic by the professor to Louis which stated that the Egyptian tombs contained boxes of secret poison, presumably put there to harm those who should venture to invade the The book is in the British Museum, and M. Vatier (the translator referred to) died in 1667, and could not have been physician to Louis XVI. I have never heard of any excavator of tombs finding boxes of poison. The continued Sir Ernest, paid great respect to the dead, but their own people robbed the tombs from the earliest times right down to to-day." Sir Ernest described the efforts made long ago to stop the desecration. The object of the robbers, he explained, was to obtain jewels, but at the close of the Middle Ages mummy was used as medicine.

The consequence was that hundreds of mummies were pulled to pieces and the skin and what was left of the flesh pounded up and used as a drug to cure sicknesses. Papyrus Curses. Another high authority on ancient dealt in more detail with superstitious beliefs. Egypt "The idea," he said, about ruin and disaster being prophesied for desecratore of the tombs is only met with occasionally in papyri. Some papyri has been found in tombs containing a curse, but this is not peculiar to the ancient Egyptians.

there had been such a curse and it could have been effective, there would not be any left to-day. The American, Professor Reisner, has explored thousands and thousands of tombs in Egypt. Then there is Professor Petrie; also Professor Elliot Smith, who does nothing but examine mummies. Nothing has happened to any of them. They must be Very lucky people! Lord he added, has only dug out one person.

I don't know of any Egyptologists who believe in these superstitions or that they have any powers of rengeance, as some people seem to think they have," this authority added. 4 Anyone who does believe in them is not a scientific As to the secret poison theory, this was described as being rather ingenious" and extremely materialistic." HER SON'S GRAVE. EASTER INCIDENT AT A WILLESDEN CEMETERY. An elderly woman, dressed in deep mourning, asked the Willesden magistrate to-day to grant her a summons against her daughter-in-law, the widow of her late son. Applicant declared tearfully At Easter I put some flowers on my son's grave, and the next day his wife also brought some, and when she saw mine she picked up the pot and flung it at my husband's grave, near by." can take a summons for wilful damage.

It seems a petty and spiteful thing to do to desecrate a grave. The you give me a permit to put some flowers on my son's grave? The had better go to the Willesden Council, who are the custodians of the cemetery. M.P. EXCEEDS SPEED LIMIT. SIR HARRY CHILCOTT FINED AT GODALMING.

Sir Harry Chilcott, M.P., 36, St. James'sstreet, London, was summoned at Godalming today for exceeding the 20 mile speed limit. Police-sergt. Hatcher, who estimated de fendant's speed at 40 miles an hour, said that when defendant was signalled to stop, his car was not pulled up until it had gone 114 yards, the last 21 of which it skidded along the road. The police sergeant further stated that the defendant suggested to him that he and witness should settle the matter between them without it having to be reported.

The bench imposed a fine of £2. Alderman J. R. Morris, father of the Burtonon-Trent Town Council, has resigned in consequence of illness. He joined the Council thirty-eight years ago.

After a two days' search no trace has been found of a boy named Waites, who is believed to have fallen from the Town Quay, Barking, into the river, while running after a ball. STANDARD. Sun Rises Happy smiles, good health revealing, Indicate that Kruschen feeling! Everybody dy They're all as happy as the day is long. the And for a very good reason. They have whole found out the secret of happiness.

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Every chemist sells Kruschen. Get a bottle to-day and start to-morrow. SAVE TIME TAKE RETURN TICKETS Return Tickets are now issued from the following Underground stations to the principal stations on the LONDON ELECTRIC RAILWAY. DISTRICT RAILWAY (Mansion House to Hammersmith) CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY. CITY SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY.

BAKERLOO LINE PICCADILLY LINE ELEPHANT CASTLE HAMMERSMITH WATERLOO BARON'S COURT BAKER STREET EARL'S COURT MARYLEBONE GLOUCESTER ROAD PADDINGTON SOUTH KENSINGTON MAIDA VALE FINSBURY PARK KILBURN PARR KING'S CROSS QUEEN'S PARK HAMPSTEAD LINE HIGHGATE BELSIZE PARK TUFNELL PARK CHALK FARM KENTISH TOWN EUSTON GOLDERS GREEN STRAND HAMPSTEAD CHARING CROSS CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY SHEPHERD'S BUSH LANCASTER GATE LIVERPOOL STREET CITY SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY CLAPHAM COMMON CLAPHAM ROAD STOCKWELL. LONDON'S UNDERGROUND Es Underground Announcement No. 52, 1923.