les of Legislation: A Check on Company Directors: The Tolalisator: Who a Man May Marry and Who Not Frou Ocr Own London, Aug. 2, 1927, Parliament ended this week tit vent: November 15. Tt has been sing session though there have cen few late sittings, no regrettable cries, and no very great keeness of ware, Legislation has, however, very complicated and if any-understands the Companies Bi') hich has just passed, as well as Government scheme of. Local government Reform, of which the iting and Valuation Bill, "which is just received the Royal' Assent, apart, he deserves a tribute slyeme mental acumen.
The Companies Bill is primarily med at making Directors justify wir existence and in enabling the lareholders to understand more sout the proceedings of the differ-it Companies without giving anying: away to competitors. The Bill xo eliminates the sharepusher individual who goes from house house trying to work off worth:
shares, Then we have had the second ection of the Prayer Book—jeme of acute controversy which w now died down leaving the burch as much in difficulties as rer since most clergymen adopt ore or less the service they prefer, Both the new Archbishop of Canrhury Dr, Long, and Dr. Temple Manchester who replicas him York, favour revision and both men of broad—democrat'e mpathy. Their appointment has wen generally approved.
The Tote Bill pressed his approval of this policy terms which cut across the "turn, down" given to a Conservative deputation on the subject by the Prime Minister four days before. It was, also a rejoinder to Mr. Winston Churchill, who in the House, also four days before, had wiped the floor with the Safeguarders in terms that made them fearfully angry The Sufeguarders are now going back to the country to stir up an agitation, but I do not think they will stampede the Party into a Protectionist. policy. The Prime Minister once attempted political suicide on these lines and probab!; has not forgotten 1923. Still, all this controversy does not help. unemployment for which the only panaceas are, on the Government side, rating relief and migration and on the Labour side nationalism and State works, and on the Liber side economy' and industrial reform. The whole truth is of course we have too many people over here and forget that every year 450,000 boys and girls enter industry and that women are much more in all the busi and professions than they used to be.
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