of Parliament, the Home Secretary's To the vast majority of member, Snacuncement that tole clube and totalisator betting on dog. tracks are Fondered illegal by the High Court's Meeision last week on the test case sent up from Leeds, was unfeignedly "There is some difference of view Beteen clubs and dog tracks, or the former there is no sympathy except among those " who make money by them, But as regards the dog tracks, some people think it is Mogical to allow, totalisator horse racing and forbid them for greyhounds; and they argue further that totalisator, are preferable to fof her control and "I do not. think T'should have stood much chance 1 landed safely by a, miracle, Aha''the machine neared the. ground 1 Vealived thet I waa, landing BY tone uncanny chouse. between twa wild spi of wind, und. Undercarriage had' scarcely, touched the ground before T had abut off and Ieaped from the. machine. cnvsloped ittand as the machine wat Enught in, the current of eir Twas] Sung off my fect.
"Tired as T waa, 1 dun as well as. the beautiful inlaid eabinet in which they dwell, Dr. Nickson held livings in Cambridge and Liverpool, became Suf-fagan Bishop of Jarrow in 1907 and was raised to Bristol in 1914. He suffered from blood pressure' last summer and although better now, is advised that the work is too much him. 'The cathedral at Bristol beautiful building, at once massive and. graceful, and is finely placed, though the' Bristol folk say That St. Mary's Redcliff is really the more beautiful, It rejoices in the furious mame of "the Church of the Holy and United Trinity." I asked fa number of learned folk, when I {was at Bristol not. long ago, what twas the origin of the name, Bul hone of them could tell me, The Festive Season Preparations for Christmas gather into a climax of eleventh hour ferviour. Rehearsing for the pantomime Srpinein thy, Mew, End at the hippodrome, Daly's and Lyceum, beside several big. suburban' the tres—go on day and night, with pic. tures in all the papers of "principal and dainty heroines, and day after to-morrow for which lions and tigers have been ring in by road, rail and even bookies." On this. point, the Home Seevetney hinted at legislation when Lotteries Commission's report light Fra being Be Te attended walkers "and all" the old circus "plane while feucht, to save it|Lopeiher with clowns, acrobats, rope Devert loud until, world. cived. It is expected before the of January; but from the gen feral course of the Commission's inquiries, it seems very unlikely. favour any increase" of betting facilities 'That the tote club proprietors will fight" hard for their interests" is obvious. 'There are believed. to be Already nearly 3,000 of these all over the country." 'Their' profits cannot Jo ascertained, but they are undoubt celly enormous even on a straight" Deveentnge basis, and there is. Gueation hut that the pool's. often deliberately watered in' order diminish dividends. payable, when the latter ave likely to be high. prietors of tote clubs held at Iford At a mooting of neatly 100, pro: on Sunday (when a protection association was formed) two Women, Known as the Tote Dud Queens of London, stood up and harangued the assembly. They were. expensively dressed, wore rich furs and large Giamonds, ard Were generally excellent example of the profitable-
T'was feeling. that fand that all chances of my being able fousave. the valiant. Tittle machi Seemed: lost Eventually help came. But, so violent was the storm, that ' the mooring: wires actually cut into the \fuselage of the plane.
Altogether a marvellous performance deserving every ounce of the enthusiasm it has aroused. But one hopes Mrs. Mollison wilh not try again, The Power of the Bureauers 'The indignation aroused by the [Commissioners of Crown hands deciding to sell No. 4 Carlton Gardens to a firm of paint manufactu: ers and rebuild to a height 30ft the vest of the Terrace, cuts dear "deeper than: the' qu the amenities of the Mall, more serious is not ts only the power of the bureaucrat, the! very adroit means (to use no harsher term) by which he attains his ends, ness, of operating: "the poor man's Rport"—which was the special pleas 8M the, impossibility of bringing' for tote clubs and dog racing hich{im to book. they urged.
'The "Queens" scouted the notion that women merely came to their clubs to bet: "they dance, plu witist and listen to good—musie." Quite idyllic. But, one recalls that when Berlin' admitted dog racing but forbade betting on it, the tracks colinpsed inn few da}
The protest of one member yes. terday against the Home Secretary's announcement that "a new industry Would be strangled at its birth" was received with any warmth. The tote clubs. took a chance on th: Jands uncertainties and have had a very good run for their money. It woke up to the enormous mushroorh oni fey. Weeks since the public growth of these gambling saloons And, in far less time, it has been: sencrally agreed that this is a form
to foster ofsindustry which' we donot wish What More for Mrs, Mollison?
Alexander weeping for more worlds. to. conquer isan obvious 'Mfolligon.. She has 'Tokyo and, with a adbuble ord' the Cape" She Tight Vag "ie! Adgntie "of cause and the North' and South Pores, but fone'prays she will do no such thing.
I'happened to meet a lady last iE who knows frs. Mollison, She rear fight to Australia, Mrs, Mollison was really shattered' for Weeks. "Not. the least trying part of the latest flight was something no newspaper has mentioned, namely, the enforced waiting on the weather for nine days before the start. On the ninth day Otis, Mollison exclaimed, "If T can't start to-morrow I shall go mad."
It stands to reason that no one ould accomplish such a feat without living'on their nerves from start finish. "Mrs. Mollison kept herself koing by strong doses of coffee and caffeine tablets. You will "have heard of ber being driven out to sea, of the perilous' crossing of the Atlas mountains amid for and snow, of her becoming so weary that the instruments on the dash-board danced wre her eyes and she steered indly with the instinct of a carrier-con." But. in a very graphic tide in the "Daily Mail," Mrs, Mollison says that her most vivid is of the landing at Beni Ounit erossing the Sahara, and just before her homeward hop' over the Atlas yange, A wild storm was springing up with great spirals of. sand. She Anew that if she truck one of them, the machine would be dashed out Tt is now shown that Sir Reginald Blomfield (employed, by the, Crown Commissioners to design the new building) was completely hoodwink-_ Jed by them. He submitted his design to the Royal Fine Art Commission fin the belief that the whole Terrace was shortly to be rebuilt. And he given to understand that the Fine Art Commission entirely apthe whole project. Both] impressions were entirely erronefous. There is no idea of rebuilding all the Terrace, except in some vague unspecified future; and the Fine Art Commission consented with extreme reluctance, only if extreme urgency required and with strong warnings agai objections, to scheme. To all of which the Commissioners paid not a rap of atmn, although they got £500, from the last lessees for breaking the lease, a sum which, would surely have justified them in waiting a ttle longer for a new tenant on the old lines, It is almost impossible to sue the Crown—otherwise. the—permanent Jdeparfments-at law. In any event the expense is s enormous that no private person dares-risk it. The Joninipotence and immunity of the bureaucrats has been enormously in creased in recent years by the evil practice of framing Acts of Parl ment loosely, with a clause empower: jing the Minister to interpret—which renders the Judges, powerless. Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, has denounced this iniquity' in several and has written a book But nothing is done, chief.
because a move to reform would have to came from the Departments
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