The Cambria Daily Leader

BILLIARDS -40. SWANSEA CUEiSTS BID FOB CHAMPIONSHIP. The ninth heat of the "Welsh amateur championships at Pontypridd yesterday produced the best game so far in the series. A. Paton, of Swansea, one of the favourites, defeated J. Cable, of Abertlilerv, by 33 points. At the in- terval Patoll led by 103, and some es- eitHJg play was witnessed at the even- ing session,- but the Swanseaitc plav-e(I a winning game in the last 300. The winner's best breaks were 22, 24 (twice), 27, 31, 44, 22, 59, 30, 42. 56, 25, 35, while Cable made hreaks of 2:2, 62, 39, 33, 24, and 21 (twice.) The con- cluding scores were:— Paton 1,000 Cable 967

A Liberal meeting will be held at Sid- cup next Tuesday. The chief speakers will be Earl Beauchauip and Mr. James Rowlands, M.P. Mr. Lowther, the Speaker of the House of Commow, was a speol-ator at the quarterly meeting of the Cumber- land County Council yesterday. Several prominent residents of Acton are considering the question of a memo- rial to the lat-e Mr. Lee Temple, the aviator, who was a local resident* 1

I THE LAND. i I nffi* j I I CHANCELLOR AND I BUKE. I MR. LLO/D CEDRGE TROUNCES THE I TORIES, ADVICE TO SUFFRAGISTS. I i The Chancellor of thfl Exchequer spoke at Glasgow last night. Ha sarcasticaMy congratulated the Tories on tftair Smowletfgg of the doing's of the Ca&CraJt, and then passed on to the question ef the taxation of lapd va!ues. There was no intention of shirking I the quostlon, he dtectarctf, and when the ianj valuaticn was ready next year a practical scheme would b* worked out. Regarding the deer forest contra. versy, he told the Duke of Sutherland and the "Sorties and Pharisees" who had attacked him that, as a hilfrnan, ha was under no delusion about attempt- ing to grow wheat on Snowdon, or ploughing Ben Nevis, but the glens had been ploughed before by better IMn than I any of these lords and the hillslciss clad with forests nearor to the Arctic than In Sutheriandatilre. As to the statement regarding the difference betwo.,n the prioe asked for the land and that at which it was cte- clared for death duty there was nothing like it since the days of Ananias and Sapphira. ———— ———— I THE SPEECH. I I Search for Suffragettes. I The meeting was held in the St. Andrew's Hall, and Sir William Robert- son, chairman of the Scottish Liberal Association, presided. Elaborate pro- cautions had been taken to prevent dis- turbance by suffragettes, the hall hav- ing been searched and guarded from the previous evening. Mr. Lloyd George entered the building by a side door to avoid a demonstration. Mr. Lloyd George, who had a very enthusiastic rcoeption, referred to the postponement of the meeting. He said he had read the mcest blood curdling ex- planations of why he did not turn up --all of thein authentic. (Laughter.) "As you will realise," he added, "the Tory papers have reporters at all our Cabinet meetings. (Laughter.) The Liberal Press, of ocurse, is excluded. (More laughter.) There were at least three explanations. The first w&,s that the Cabinet table was cleared out of the way and the Cabinet formed a ring whilst Mr. Churchill and I were fight- ing a duel to the death over the num- ber of Dreadnoughts and the 60 per cent. standard. (Laughter.) There is another explanation equally authentic, that we had to deliberate over a de- claration of war sent in to us from the Ulster Provisional Government. (Ironi- cal laughter). And the third is that they sat there with trembling hearts and with anxious mien discussing the ultimatum of fay old friend BaiJíeBnrt on tho vexed question of the taxation of land values. (Laughter.) I am going to tell you a secret—each of those explanations is as accurate as the other I two." (Laughter.) I An Interruption. I Proceeding, the Chancellor said he I wa. there to state the Government land reform plan so far as it bore upon the Scotch problem. Why don't you give votes to woraeni*" shouted a man in the gallery, and he was immediately seized and ejected. "If it had been left to me," ob- served the Chancellor, women would have had votes long ago, but if you want an explanation of why it is tarry- ing you will find it in irritating inter- ruptions of this kind." (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentleman went on to say that ill Scotland the people on the land were better off in many instances than in, the South, but still tkero were cases in which the interests of the com- munity were ruthlessly over-ridden, and they were also suffering from the emigration of the rural population. There was again a renewal of the dis- turbance, and in the tourfra of a. few inmutes three men were hustled out of the building, one shouting as he went. "How a?out the Cat and Mouse wc,nt?, Further interruptions arose before the ChanceHor had gone on much longer, and homebody shouted, What about MarconisF" Mr. Lloyd George; I think the fewer taunts levelled hy men who come with forged tickets the' better. (Cheers.) I Land Reform Proposals. I ? I I J 1]8 ijgut lion. gentJiemun dwelt on the improvements which were neces- sary in tha ??cot.Ush Land Act, remark- ing that the Act v anted extension. ThO policy of tho Govertwnent with regard to the farmer was tlut if there was au inei-ea-se cf rent the farmer should have tho right to apikmt to the Com- missioners; that were there was a great change in agricultural conditions and prko which afftx-ted tho rateable value, II of a farm, that there the farmer, what ever the size of bis farm, should have a free afce?s to the Commi?ion to ap- ply ftv a reduction of his rent. Tne third point was that where the Com- mission or any other authority put up the wages of the labourer and gave him compulsory a living wage, if the farmer said ho could not pay the rent because the wages had gone up, ho should he entitled to the Commission to make the landlord contribute out of the rent to make up the wages. The Government proposed that security of tenure, sub- ject to public exigencies, such as a de- mand for smayl holdings, should be ,iN-on to all the tillers of the ooil, great and-qnall. Those vere the proposals the Government submitted in England and Wales, and lie should think they might be very well extended to Scot- land as well. (Cheers). Housing. I Then there was the question of hous- ing, more especially in our towns. He had appalling figures about housing in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and in order to alter these things there was wanted a change in the land monopoly in the towns. "What would you do?" a»ked the I right hon. gentleman. (A voice: "Tax land values," and cheers). Mr. Lloyd George: Ob, I am not going to shirk that. (Loud cheerM. The first thing to be done wits that all land acquired by municipalities for I public purposes should be. bought at the fair market price. (Cheers). The i second was that municipalities ought I I to be empowered to buy laud in ad- vance of immediate need. (HaTJ The third wai that there should "be a cheap, expeditious method of arnviog at the ilric4 and the fourth that they mnat make land contribute to public expenditure on the basis of its real value. (Cheers). At 2,000 Years' Purchase. lie pointed to case's in Scotland in which he alleged that rich land mag- nates, dtikes. «uid others, had charged, when selling, 011 the basis of as much us 2,000 purchase, saying— W Ð ought to see in future that the duke should oontribu towards the rates the value which he himself assigned to his land. (Cheers). In the future the Government will see that tihe.,ie nobles and others who own land t.o which a great value has bean at- tached and added by the exertions of the community shall contribute to ail public expenditure on the mal value cf that land. (Cheers). The Govornme-nt hun al ready ac- cepted the principle of the rating of site values, and they intend.e.d to give effect to it by legislation. As to the methods I have a preliminary observa- tion to make, and 'it is this: Some people desire the whole burden of the I rates to be transferred from the struc- ture to the site. (Loud cheers.) Others, < on the other hand, object to a.ny por- tion of the rate being put upon the site. As usual, I wish to walk in tfee midst of the paths of judgment. Frankly, I I consider, having regard to the vested! interests that have grown, the first: proposition is impracticable. I regard the second proposition as pusiilauimouci. There are several alternative methods within those two limits which we can apply. Whichever of these courses you adopt you must have a national valuation. That wili be ready next year. So, at any rate, when our proposals arc sub- mittcd to Parliament you will be Mved five years in the matter ox valuation, and that is a great saving. There- never was a better investment than the ex- penditure on national valuation which is going through at the present moment. We are securing a special valuation-vie are hurrying it up-,of typical towns and villages nnd areas in order to vrork out -ach and all these schemes upon the basis of the valuation we have already secured. A Practical Scheme. That is worth a cartload of theory. You can see then how it works in eafch individual case; you will then know in typical cases with actual figures how it will work and affect each interest, and I think you are right in securing those figures before we commit ourselves to any one particular scheme, and that is what we propose to do. When that is done we hope to work out a practical scheme which, without any undue disturbance to the fortunes of individuals who are using their land property, will fairly lay the burden on the shoulders of traders, agricultural- ists, and industrial workers in the pro- vision of decent houses for the people, and emancipate industry and com- merce from the fetters which now bind them. I Reply to Deer Forest Critics. Dealing with criticisms directed against hum in reference to his previous observations about the Highlands, Mr. Lloyd George said he was there to justify all he had said. He had been attacked by an army of scribes, and, judging by the airs which they gave themselves when judging him, not merely by scribes, but also Pharisees. (Laughter.) He had been attacked as though he had suggested that corn could be grown on the hilltops amongst the crags. (Laughter.) He had been brought up in.a mountain country, and he would not attempt to grow wheat on Snowdon. (Laughter.) Nobody had ever dreamed that you would take a steam plough over Ben Nevis. But that was not the point. The glens had been ploughed before by better men than any of these lords, and the hill- sides were clad with forests at higher altitudes—nearer the Arctic zone than in Suthcrlandshire. It had been done before, and it would be done again. (Cheers.) The right hon. gentleman quoted, amongst others, Sir Walter Scott as having written of the "-nn-' relenting avarice" which has dis- possessed the inhabitants of tho High- land; and remarked, M's very sad to see a good, respectable Tory like Sir Waiter Scott Limehousing.' (Laugh- ter and cheers.) The stench of the story of burning and ejecting from Sutherlandshire can never be purified m the annals of British landlordism." (Cheers.) Mocking Peers. I When the Government proposed to do something to endeavour to remedy what had happened the Duke treated it aa a practical joke, and the obscqujous feather-headed, mocking peers of the Tory party rent the forest with laugh- ter. Ho was told the fact that the pro- perty in Sutherland, was not worth 22s. ().d. an acre .shewed that it was not worth cultivating. Tho Duke had thrown in every mountain and crag to make his acreage, but even if it was only worth 22s. 6d. an acre it did not mean that it was not to be reclaimed. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Lloyd George then commented on the difference betwoen what th6\ Duke asked and wha.t bad been stated on oath for death duties wae the value of the property, and said there had never been such a case since the days of Ananias and Sapphira. (Laughter). Here was a people as gallant as any that ever trod the earth. Generation after generation they saw their children wither before their eyes. But retribu- tion was growing nigh. All this in- justice was coming to an end. (Cheers). He could see the dH-Y of resurrection, the dawn of the resurrection of the op- pressed in all lands already gilding the hilltops. (Loud cheers). A resolution was carried thanking ilfr. Lloyd George for big address, and recording satisfaction with the Govern- merit for its determination to deal with land and rating reform. THE WOMEN'8 CAUSE. Chanwiw's Advice to Suffragists. Mr. Lloyd George in the afternoon I received a. deputation from the Scottish Women's Liberal Federation on the <"me«tiifti of women's suffrage. The speakers said they recognised that its 4ii i se ? that, iis fat as Parliamentary action was con- cerned they were af/preseut at a dead- look, and they asked the Chancellor for his opinion as to the course they should take. Mr. Lloyd Geoige said he was still a friend of the women's cause, in spite of every effort made by others, who pre- tended to be still greater friends, to drive him into the opposite camp. He had only one Advice to give, and that was that they should endeavour to bring back public opinion in tavoir of I women's suffrage. Formerly public opinion was .rapidly coming round their way, and he did not know of any cause that wao then making greater progress, but in the last three years public opmion had been frightened into the opposite direction. What 1bey, who were not inilitante, had to .?.> was to I hI jug people- hack to talti a S311e:- ViVrn ov the principles which they advocated. What they had to assure the publi-j was (Cont%Ji«^ tt Foot %4| Next Column). J

I BABIES' CLINIC. .00 'I SWANSEA SCHEME DISCUSSES BY COMMITTEE. I tiiEDICAL OFFICERS' SALARIES. I A niecting (>f Swansea Provision I of Meals and Medical. Inspection of School Children Sub-Committee was I held yesterday, Alderman W. H. Miles presiding. I The committee agreed t.o pay a visit to I the class for tlio instruction of stam- merers, held ab the old Y.M.C.A. build- ings. | A report was made by the Town Clerk on the question of a cimin for babie: 1t was said that unr?r Section 13 of the Education Act, there w?s no power to establish Clinie; for children not in at- tendance at the schools. The Chairman told Mr. Matthews that, in his opinion, Swansea could make out a good case for the establish- ment of a babied clinic. On the proposition of Mr. David Matthews, the case was directed to be I submitted to the Board of Education. Doctors' Salaries. Dr. Edith Jones and Dr. Rufus Bowen, assistant school medical-officers, applied ior an increase of salary. It I was complained that the doctors had now to go in for treatment in addition to medical inspection. The opinion was expressed that tho increment of £ 10 was not considered enough. The present salary was £ 270, and the maximum was tioo. Tho Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Thomas Evans) pointed out, in (sup- port of the application, that the best medical men did not apply for these positions unless they were well paid, The poor ?w service, for instance, did not attract the best kind of medical men. It was Dr. Evans's opinion that unless the salary was. a good one, the, experienced medical men were not at- tracted into public medical service. Further consideration of the applica- tions was deferred. Open-air SçhClol. I With regard to tue open-air school.at Dyfatty, Dr. Evani pointed out that this was an open-air class-room and not an open-air school, had been started as an experiment, and it had I -eii very successful. Dr. Evans remaiV-d that' from a survey made by Dr. Edith Jones, the establishment of the school had led to good results, and one of the teacher:; who had gone In there delicate had be- come bonny. Dr. Eyans instanced the success of an open-air school at Bir- mingham, and said that in this case the establishment of an entire school in the open air had been most sueeefcsftd there was also, said Dr. Evans, in reply to Mr. David Mathews, J.P., a system of "following up." Answering questions by Mr. John I Lewis, and Mr. T. W. Howells, Dr. I Evans said that they followed up as far as possible in Swansea, but they could not do it to the same extent. Dr. Evans also said that there had so far been no ill effects at Dyfatty through the open-air classroom, and no with- drawals. Provision. of Meals. I The returns of the provision of meals for the month ending January 30th showed that 10,128 breakfasts, at a total cost of J693 14s. 8d., had been ] supplied a daily averago of 506; a7i., I average daily cost of 2.22d.; previous month, 478; corresponding DMnt-h last year, 604. The highest was Kutiand- street, with a total of 1,045; and the lowest. wits York-place, with 65; Dinners: total, 10,519; cost, L97 0s. lOd. —an average daily cost of 2.21d. per i meal; a daily. averageof 526 meals; previous month, 514 meals; previous month, 514; coresponding period last year, 632. The highest was Rutland- street, 1,140 total, and St. Thomas, 1,140, at a cost of £ 9 10s.; and a. daily average cost of 2.19d. per meal. The lowest was York-place, with a total of 65.

VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT I LORD ST. DAVID'S EVIDENCE IN II "PRINCE PALATINE" CASE. The action brought by Ca-pt. Thomas Henry Browne, a retired Army officer, of Regent's Park-terrace, against Mr. J. Barnate Joel, of Grosvenor-square, for commission for services rendered in connection with the purcha-se by the de. fendunt of the racehorse Prince Pala- tine for £ 40,000, was concluded in the I King's Bnch Division yesterday before Mr. Justice Darling and a special jury. Plaintiff claimed 5 per cent. commission. Alternatively ho sought damages for alleged breach of contract. Defendant denied, that he employed Capt. Browne to act for him, and said that if he did it was an implied term that he should be entitled to purchase, the horse himself. Lord St. David's. I Lord St. David's, residing at Rich- I mond-terrace, Whitehall, said that he was introduced to the plaintiff by Mi-. Allison, of "The Sportsman," at New- market, in Oct., 1912. He himself did not wish to buy the horse, his only in- terest being to take a siusll part in the syndicate so as to keep such a good horse in the country. Mr. Allison said he knew someone who would put klo,ooo, and witness said he would put down £ 10,000 if he approved of the other members of the syndicate, and the horse was sold for £ 40,000 before the end of his racing career. In the middle of the conversation he noticed the plaintiff standing by, and Mi-. Allison introduced them. Mr. Allison said the plaintiff waw in touch with Mx Pilkington. The conversation with Mr. Allison, he was not dealing with the plaintiff. The nest day Mr. Allkon I' told the witness that the horse would not be -sold nnil the end of his racing career, and said tha.t no one would now care to form, a syndicate foi' £ 40,000. Witness agreed, and the whole thing, fell through as far as he was concerned. The jury, without retiring, returned a verdict for the defendant. Mr. Justioe Darling entered judgment for l the defendant accordingly, with costs. (

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that those who were gtmty or outrages were repudiated by the vawt majority of those who were advocating women's suffrage. 1 He was afraid the position >40 far as this Parliament wai concerned was cjtite hopeless. They would have to turn to striking ineth(xlg--he did not me-an militant, but rather dramatic method* of appealing to the pubLc, He should I like to sec more of those special means of awaking the public conscience being resorted to. He believed they would be able to overcome the antipathy aroused by militant methods ana hoped with Very great confidence that in the course of the next Parliament they would aucoeed in achieving a real victory for the canse. In times which he hoped were not far distant her trusted they would be able to wngratulate themselves, on carrying through.-a Bill! for enfranchising the women of the [I i United Kingdom,