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AMUSEMENTS. 6.30. TO-NIGHT. 8.30. 'Phona: Central 22. TOM CLARE, At the Piano. ELKINS, FAY AND ELKINS, American Entertainers. THE BENEDETTE BROS., The Popular Musical Clowns. MARK DENNISON, ¡ Comedian, in a Budget of New Ideas. MELVILLE EIRLEY, The Baritone, with a Voice of Two Octaves THE GRENNANS, Vocalists. HORACE JONES AND LADY, Comedy Duo. j £ l.YjSJl Um ? M  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. The Charming Mae Marsh in THE BELOVED TRAITOR, an Emotional and Dramatic Tale of a Good Girl who Out- witted a Vampire. Eddie Polo in THE CIRCUS KING. Episode 12: A Strange Escape. Fox Sunshine Comedy. Topical Budget. And Usual Full Programme of Dramas, Comedies, etc., etc. ROYAL Theatre. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. A Gaumont Masterpiece, HER 0 N L Y 1 WAY, 6 Reels, featuring Norma Talmadfift Episode 10: Pathe's Great Serial— HANDS UP. A LITTLE BIT OF KINDLING, Five Reels, featuring Jacky Saunders. A TUGBOAT ROMEO, Two Reel Triangle Comedy. Gazette and, Pictorial New!.  <————————————— CASTLE ?? CINEMA. 2.30. TO-DAY. 10.30. THEINN OF THE BLUE MOON, 6-Reel Star Photoplay, featuring Doris Kenyon. .LAIS WHEN YOUNG, Ella Wheeler Wilcox Storr. Billy West in HIS "dARRi ED LIFE, Two Part Comedy. Mutt & Jeff Cartoon. Eddie Lyons Comedy Pathe Gazette & Weekly Pictorial. Full Orchestra Afternoon and Evening. CARLTON. 2.38. TO-DAY, 18.30. TREAT 'EM ROUGH, featuring Tom Mix, a Five Reel Western Drama. WHOSOEVER SHALL OFFEND, a Tale of Italy, adapted from the Novel by Kenelm F< ss. SLEUTHS, a Famous Lasky Two Reel Comedy, by the. Comedy Producers. PICTURE HOUSE 2.38. 7 O 0 A Y. 18.30. Swansea's Favourite, Douglas Fairbanks, in HE COMES UP SMILING. See him in one of the Funniest Pictures in which he has ever appeared. A Laugh from Start to Finish. THE EYES OF MYSTERY, a Five Act Metro Wonder Play, featuring Edith Story, supported by a strong cast. PADLOCKED BLUNDERER, a Scream from Start to Finish. PUBLIC NOTICES. Swansea Education Committee. ¡ HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. I Headmistress: Miss E. K. Mullins I' (Cantab.) to WANTED, a SENIOR HISTORY MISTRESS, to take up duties in January. Applicants must iiold a good Honours Degree or its equivalent. Salary £l;() per annum, rising by £10 annually to & maximum of £ 320. Previous experience in recognised Secondary Schools will be taken into con- sideration in fixing the commencing salary. Application Forms may be obtained from me on receipt of a stamped ad- tiiessed envelope. T. J. REES, Director of Education. Education Offices, Dvnevor-place, Swansea, 3rd Oct., 1919. Rural District of Pontardawe. PROFITEERING ACT, 1919. The Pontardawe Rural District Coun- cil have appointed a Local Committee under the above Act, to receive and in- vestigate complaints, and generally cairy out the provisions of the Act and iha Regulations thereunder. The Articles to which the Act at pre- sent applies are included in the List of Articles prescribed by the Board of Trade, namely h all Articles of W earin. Apparel, all Household Utensils and Requisites, all Articles for Mending and Knitting, all Articles of Furniture (ex- cept Antique Furniture), all Building Materials, and certain Articles of Food, the prices of which are not controlled by the Food Controller. A copy of the List may be seen at the Council Offices, Pont- ardawe, during office hours. Any person having a complaint against a seller of any Article in the said List, that the same was sold or attempted to be sold to him or her at a price which would yield, having regard to all the cir- cumstances of the case, an unreasonable profit, should make such complaint to ine the undersigned by delivering infor- mation in writing at my Office at the Council Offices, Pontardawe, WITHIN FOUR DAYS of the date of the sale or transaction. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Clerk of the Local Profiteering Committee. Council Offices, Pontardawe. 2nd October, 1919. Swansea Junior Liberal League. MOND BUILDINGS. I On TUESDAY NEXT, OCTOBER 7th, at 8 o'clock (under the auspieea of the above Organisation), Mr. C. P. NORMAN (of the Reconstruction Society), will deliver an Address cn "THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK." Cbairman-Mr, G. Otiver Luff. A Hearty Invitation to All. A Vs U S Enll C- &I T S. GRAND Theatre SWANSEA. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 1919, Six Nights at 7.30. MR. OSWALD GRAY'S COMPANY in the GREAT PLAY dealing with the DOPE QUESTION. FOR ADULTS ONLY. Entitled— THE PLAYTHING OF AN HOUR This Play has been acclaimed by Press and Public as one that has a MISSION, I and contains nothing IN iV SLIGHTEST WAY OFFENSIVE to the most susceptible mind, and must be seen to be appreciated. NEXT WEEK— Messrs. Murray King & Charles Clsrk in THE YELLOW TICKET.  I Which have you got — Strong Nerves or Wrong Nerves? .When nerves "go wrong" it is simply because they are weakened by worry, over- work or illness. I Look at the above illustration and you will see what happens—just as I the microscope reveals it! Fig. A ) shows healtliy nerve fibres. Figs. B I dC'h h II and C show them 1 going wrong not absorbing sufficient nourishment to energise and repair themselves. Fig. D shows the same nerve fibres I b' H d" h d being "reconstructe d "rtrtngt hened and built up by the vitalising nutritive elements they derive from Sanatogen. That's how a course of Sanatogen I changes wrong nerves into strong I nerves and thereby imparts vigour II and health to the whole system. A natural process, you observe, without stimulation or re-action—and certain I and lasting in its ultimate result. I' Wouldn't you be the better for a good course of Sanatogen ? i Feed up your nerves on ^3^ TWE CStlUIHE FOOD-TONIC 3 y j I Begin that course to-day-witb a ) fixed determination to continue it fa. th- full y until every nerve-nbre in your body is tingling 'with health and vitality. j But be sure you get genuine Sanatogen j —from 2/3 to 10,9 per tin:—made solely by Genatosan, Limited (Makers of j Formamint, Genasprin, "etc.). Also ask your chemist for SANATOGEN CHOCOLATE —a delicious sweetmeat containing a good percentage of Sanatogen skilfully mixed with Pascall'spurechocolate. Not equivalent to Sanatogen, of course, but far more nourishing and invigoraÜng than ordinary chocolate (1/6 per packet). than ordin?r;' cboco iate (1/6 per packet ) m 'I< PUBLIC NOTICES. Glamorgan County Council. TO BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS. The Glamorgan County Council is desirous of CONTRACTING for the fol- lowing Works: 1. The Completion of the Supplemental Road and Bridge at Ystalyfera, and 2. The Widening of the Swansea and Loughor Main Itoad at Lower Loughor Contractors will be required to pay their workmen the recognised rate of wages and to observe the recognised hours of labour, and must produce evi- dence of being insured .gainst liability for accidents to workmen. Plans and Specification can be seen and copies of the Bills of Quantities obtained for Work No. 1 at the Police Station, Pontardawe; for Work No. 2 at the Police Station, Loughor; and for both jobs at this Hall on and after Monday, the 6th instant. I Sealed Tenders made out on the Bills of Quantities supplied are to be delivered at this Hall, together with tho names and addresses of two substantial sure- ties, or a satisfactory Guarantee Society in lieu thereof not later than Wednesday, I tho 15ch instant, marked outside "Tender for Supplemental Road and Bridge at Ystalyfera," or Tender for Road Wid- ening at Lower Loughor," as the case may be. The Council will not necessarily accept the lowest or anv Tender. W. E. R. ALLEN, I Deputy Clerk of the County Council. Glamorgan County Hall, Cardiff, 3rd October, 1919. The Sun Fuel Company, Limited. I TAKE NOTICE that a MEETING of I CREDITORS in the above matter will be held at the Registered Office of the Com- panv, No. 530, Salisbury House, London j Wall, in the City of Lpndon, on TUES- DAY, the 14th day of OCTOBER, 1919, at 11 o'clock forenoon. Dated this 2nd day of October, 1919. ¡ WALTER BRAMALL, Liquidator. Witness: J. S. Lovell, 5, Thavies Inn, London, E.C., Solicitor. BODIST-UCHAF. BETTWS, AMMAN- FORD. ALTERATION OF DATE OF SALE. I The above Sale, advertisod to take place on Tuesday, October 7th, will be held on THURSDAY. OCTOBER 9th. (Signed) THOMAS JENKINS, Auctioneer. Sun Rises 6.24, Sun Sets 5.43. Lighting-up Time, 6.13. High Water, 2.55 a.m., 3.19 p.m. King's Dock 33ft. lDin, a.m., 35ft. 6in. p-m- To-morrow, 3.50 a.m., 4.12 p.m.
THE STRIKE TO END STRIKES!
THE STRIKE TO END STRIKES! A great peril has passed away. We do not pause, for the moment, to* inquire who has won or who has lost-, but we obey the first, impulse. of every decent person, which is to rejoice greatly that the strike JS over, and because the dreaded war of attrition between two sections of the British community will not take place. Our losses Lave been im- mense, but had the contest of will continued they might have been pal alysing. Our readers will know that from the very, first we set our face against the hideous clamour for a fight to the finish. It was an in- credibly foolish cry when we re- member that the combatants were our own kith and kin. It was in- credibly foolish because it would have been a confession that states- manship was bankrupt, that we acknowledged might as right. It would have been more; it would have been an acknowledgment that our adherence to the principles underneath the League of Nations was hypocritical. The terms of settlement do not so much matter to the argu- ment we would wish to advance, which is that this business ought finally to have discredited the national strike. It has been in- effective; it would have remained ineffective. It upset the people's notions of fair-play. It cut across their ideas of chivalry; and these ideas are very strong. What the public felt was that to give in to this threat would be not to solve our troubles but to multiply them. To yield now to any display of force would have been to yield again and again. There would be no finality, no peace but a peace of exhaustion when there remained no more to yield. Are we too sanguine when we express a prayer that this is the strike which will end strikes ? Or can we phrase it more moderately: the strike which will end nationil, strikes? Strikes suddenly declared, | strikes that leap at the throat of the people, that cause instant suffer ing, are surely quite discredited. We know it is oasy to give voice t,) this pious opinion, but we must do more than this. We shall have to devise machinery by which all the delicate business of the adjust- ment of ways and means to the necessities of the day shall be effected without recourse to the dread and barbarous instru- ment of the strike. The regulation of wages according to prices is, as Mr. Spender pointed out last week, a very intricate business, requiring the utmost confidence of each party in the other, and when the strike came it had not been worke-d out, and there was no confidence on either side in the other. It is a principle which affects all trades, and, if it is going to be seriously adopted as the guiding-line for the future, it ought to be worked out, not between railwaymen and the Minister of Transport, and not by the Government, which in this case us a party to the dispute, but by an impartial authority on which both siws are fully represented and which both will trust. We have in existence, or supposed to be in ex- istence, precisely such an authority in the Industrial Council. The wages question has to be I solved, and unless it can be solved, the moral of the past week has been hurled at us in vain. Wages was not the centre of our differences with the railwaymen. What the public objected to were the methods of the strike; they had no time or opportunity given them to judge of its merits. Now we have to set on our thinking caps and devise ways I and means of freeing ourselves i from the blight of uncertainty that I has hung over trade for months. By the machinery of the Industrial; Council, or that of something still I tter, we have to go tl-oroitghly; into these wages difficulties, and j settle them. This ought to be th0; strike that has ended the national strike. I
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Among a number of ministers who found themselves stranded at Carmar-^j theh last week were Job and Gwili, and j the "strike"' formed the subject oi J [ several englynioa.
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STRAY PARS. —— The Last of the I Strike. I The settlement was effacted at 4.15 p.m. Before 4.30 it was announced outside the Leader office, and made known to a dozen ministers. A stoker on a G.W.R. train that stopped at West Ealing wore kid gloves. Lord Wodehouse undertook to shovel more coal than any other stoker. I -X- The news of the settlement was instantly telephoned to Buckingham Palace from i Downing-street. II # # # The organisation for the creation of a civil gua?? ,l is not to I civil guard is not to Le interfered with, and will continue. ii: Several public-houses in Mid-Rhondda went dry on Saturday, and were com- polled to close down. Milk for the bairns; the driver drinks beer," was seen ehalkcd on the side of a I lorry on Saturday. Mr. William George, the Prime Minis- ter's brother, has been active in arranging local transport services in North Wales. 3i; -it- The Royal Carl RoFa Opera Company, due at Nottingham to-day, are making the journey from Woi'veihampton by canal barge. Every district within thirty miles of Swansea received the special edition of I' the "Loadr" before the breakfast hour to-day. J(I: After being idle for a week, Graig I Merthyr Colliery, Pontardulais, was to restart to-dav. Many tinplate mills in the district are idle. I Strikers at Surbiton informed the Food Committee that they were willing to sur- render their milk supplies for the benefit of children and invalids. There will be popular support for any scheme which will insist that thew shall be no strike until tho men in the trades concerned have been balloted. ) The Leader all the week kept all but far-away townships difficulty of access by road, such as Llanwrtyd and the remote Carmarthenshire towns, fully informed. The King and Queen reached Bucking- ham Palace at 6.25 on Saturday evening, having made the journey of 517 miles from Balmoral by motor car 6ince Friday morning. # # Thousands of people assembled out- side the Docker. Hall, Port Talbot, the headquarters of the railwaymen, on Sunday night, after the news of the settlement had been received. Five thousand British lorries were standing yesterday in a park near Calais ready for dispatch to England, and ar- rangements had been made to send, if necessary, French civilian drivers. One thousand sailors scattered all over the United Kingdom on leave, which ex- pired on Tuesday, were brought back to Devonport practically all to time, by train, motor-cars, destrovers, and slooiis. Why September 30 next year is fixed is that by that time the harvest will have been brought in. and it will be possible to see whether any substantial reduction will afterwards take place in the coit of living. South Pembrokeshire welcomed its first train on Saturday afternoon, a passenger train arriving at Neyland being received with cheers. The train was soon filled, I and a party of soldiers moved mails into the vans. A party of railwaymen, numbering 70, I marched out of Haverfordwest to meet the St. David's motor-hr.s, and prevented its further progre-r. The passengers con- sisted mostly of country women going into Haverfordwest to shop. ;;t- :f.: :1/: We venture to think that never at any time in his history has the leader of the Government shown his capacity of ri?ng to a great occasion mere con- ri;Ilg I'D 11 'Irll" t?c last trying week." —"DaUy Chronidp." To the Prime Minister, who had to shoulder tho eh ief responsihility. belongs the chief credit for a settlement which saves us all from deadly peril. Once moro he has pulled the nation out of a grave danger.—" Daily Express." There was a suggestion at Port Talbot that Monady be used to celebrate the victory, but a largo majority voted in favour of advising the companies that the men would resume when required. Accordingly they went back on Monday morning. In some quarters the strike scejos to be regarded as only the beginnín¡f'of a series of direct action troubles, but a contrary view is taken by those who have been closely concerned with all the nego- tiations leading to tho settlement. They consider it rather as the end of direct action.
jLATE MR. D. RICHARDS..I
LATE MR. D. RICHARDS. I Funeral at Mumbles. I The intermipnt of the lato Mr. David Richards of Ael-y-Don, Langland, and the Cafe Monico, High-street, Swansea, took place on Saturday morning at the Mninbles Cemetery. The funeral Mas largely attended. Amongst the relatives I and mourners were:—Mr. Stanley Richards, Mr. Selwyn Richards, Mr. J. Morgan, Dr. J. Davies (Llanelly), Mr. D. M. Glasbrook. J.P., Major D. Lewis, I Mr. Thomas Lewis, J.P. (Bryngwyn Fall), Mr. T. Glasbrook (Mumbles), Mr. I D. Evans, Mr. Geo. Evans and Mr. John Evans, Mr. Trevor Mort, Mr. Matthew Morgan (Neath), Dr. Trafford Mitchell (Gorseinon). Mr. Macnsel Glasbrook, 1\1r, J. Thomas (Dorplwyd), Mr. Dd. Thomas (Maesvglenen), Mr. M. Thomas (Lletty- j morfvdd). Mr. 1. Thomas (Peirypant), i Mr. C. C. Vivian, Mr. Trevor Richards, Rev. Geo. Clarke, Dr. Hunlphreys. Mr. Sidney Solomon, Mr. Bpll Davies OJessrg. B Evans and Co.). Mr. E. R. Searle, Mr. T. DAey, Mr. Astley Saruuel, Mr. D Williams, ajjd others. Tho last rites were impressively per- formed hy the Rev. G. Thomas ( Vicar of Morriston) The funeral arrangements were carried out by M.ess. D. C. Jones &nd SoB, Castle-snuar?. S"an£'a. < I LIST OF WREATHS. I Th fol1odng were amongst the ma?r ?-rGaths—Fr?m '"s loving wIfe, John ?n? Rose, Edith, 10uio and Alice, the staff of tlio Monico. Trevor and Ethel. Arthur land Ernest, M. A. and C. Williams. Nellie and Sybil, Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, %]<I i friends Heolddu Llnngyfelacii, Jane I Thomas, and Ethel Mare,
HOW THE NEWS CAME. I
HOW THE NEWS CAME. I Yesterday's Scenes. i The First Intimation at I Swansea. I Swansea. I I Good news travels with lightning speed. ■ Yesterday the Press Association gave us, j at 4.30 p.m. the intimation that tho strike I; had been settled. In a quarter of an hour many hundreds of persons knew it, and there was an ever increasing crowd j around the notice which had been p!acc'd up outside the Cambria. Daily Leader Office. A few persons received it with in- credulity, but the vast majority accepted it with expressions of heartfelt thanks. We were able to" give the gratifying in- telligence to the great Western Railway staff and the Food Controller. GOOD NEWS TRAVELS SPEEDILY. I Upon occasions of this sort everybody constitutes himself a messenger of good I news. In an astonishingly quick time the fact of the settlement had spread all over Swansea, and indeed not only over Swan- sea but over the entire district. Members of the telephone staff had a very arduous hour or two in lQoking after tho enquirers, who, were eager to get into touch with the Cambria Daily Leader" office for news. Those Swansea ministers who happcned to be upon the telephone service were quickly acquainted, and cheerful volun- teers constituted themselves the means by which ae many others as possible CDuld be told. The Leader" had an- nouncements of the settlement placed up at their agencies in some of the districts, and by chapel time there must have been very few who did not know, what had happened in London that afternoon. In nearly every church and chapel in Swan- sea the news was announced, and in a great number the Doxology was sung. MEETINGS OF THE MEN. I There had been a meeting of the rail- way men in the Elysium in the afternoon. By early evening the Working Men's Club, being the headquarters of the Swansea Striko Committee, was packod to its utmost capacity with a crowd of railwaymen whose expressions told of the relief with I which they viewed the cessation of the deadlock. Tho assembly-room at the club was packed out of all proportion, and the thankful spirit of those present was exemplified in the spontaneous singing of hymns. True, a small section who were disposed to regard the settlement as a sweeping triumph for their cause were disposed to become intolerant over the fact and sought to make the huge attendance sing "Tho Bed Fla." It I was a tribute to the genuine quiet satis- faction of the great majority, however, I that this effort to introduce the shib- I boleth of extremism was promptly nul- lified by the whole-hearted rendering of Lend, KmdJy Light." It showed at any rate that for tho most part the spirit of moderation prevailed. I "A REAL VICTORY." I The chairman of the meeting was Mr. Arthur Workman, N.U.B., and ho ad- dressed the meeting thus: I can assure you that you have won a real victory; you have kept faith and proved loyal and honest to your organisation. You have conducted yourselves like gentle- men," I THE MESSAGE. Mr. G eorge Beyn< n followed and read I tho official telegram from Messrs. Thomas and Bromley, which read: Re- turn to work immediately; satisfactory terms for everybody." At this the at- tendance raised a terrific cheer, atid everything was drowned for a few min- uter in the joyful uproar that ensued. Men cheered until they were horsc and shook hands and slapped one another on ih, back with delight. After the excitement had died down somewhat tho formal resolution of ac- ceptanec was put by Ald. T. James that the "Joint Strike Committee recom- mend that all the members who stood by the Executive Council should now carry out their advice and return to work immediately." 11 I-le steadfast now," add0d. the speaker, and be men. The resolution was seconded by Mr. R. Probcrt and carried with a tremendous shout. Afterwards ex-Aid. G. Colwill and Councillor David Williams congratulated the men on the able. way in which they had conducted themselves and on this Treat victory." CROWD GF FIVE THOUSAND. By this time the crowd m Alexandra- road numbered something like 5,000, and amidst a rapt eilenco the Thomas- Bromley telegram was read through a window by Mr. D. Evans, tho conclusion of the short message being marked by reniarkable ecenes of enthusiasm. If ever I a crowd experienced the relief of hearing good news after a period of anxious wait- ing, it- was this assembly of last night's, who, after raising chesr after cheer, dis- persed with curious quickness. All of tho mam streets were filled with good humoured crowds up till 10 o'clock, and it was noticeable that none seemed more pleased over the unexpected settle- ment than the (sailors and soldiers. MONDAY MORNING SCENES. I The few people who had not yet learned Qf tho end were mad-e aware of it early on Mbndav morning by sounds of activity I' at the railway stations, and the cries of the newspaper boys. And in eonseuqcnce everybody was more cheerful of counten- ance. Early there was little abnormal in the appearance of the railway stations. They were being swept as usual, and everybody seamed at his plivca and sharing the general relief that tho struggle is over. Victoria Station was almost deserted, and at High-street there was no great rush for trains, although a few people showed anxiety to commence lengthy journeys at the earliest possible opportunity. The accumulation of passenger train goods tranic was not 8orprtsing!y large, and the only unusual sight was the marching on to the platforms of tho R.A.F. and mixed troops who had arrived ijver the week- end, and were now, like the naval ratings, being returned to their depots. The eight o'clock Carmarthen train was [ well filled.
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TOWN -0 TALK. ——-— » — A Swansea firm of brewers dispatched a "cargo of beer by trawler to Ten-by la.t week. There appears to bo a dispute among the members of a well known Swansea I band over the conductor. -0:- Macsteg can boast of football enthu- siasts. Many of them walked over the mountains to Aberavon on Saturday. -0:- The" Leader newsboy's huge pile of newspapers as high as himself, with the strike news, melted away like snow under a scorching sun on Monday morning. —: o: — A Town Hill Garden City resident haa a novel way of decorating his front gar- den, having a dog, fowl, and cat cut out of evergreens. In the dusk it gives many a fright. -:0:- o: One Swansea railwayman who was on strike received orders to be at work at 4 o'clock this morning, and ho was there too, as the writer of this paragraph knows owing to the noise he made getting up. Despite the gloomy forecasts of some tobacconists early last week, the stocks of tobacco and cigarettes seem to have lasted out well in Swansea. And as for matches, they have been striking more than everl — :0:— Talking about strikes." said the Rev. Goronwy Lewis (Pontardawe), at Tre- boeth, on Sunday, Why, we, the ministers of the Gospel, are continually cr. the strike, and always shall b- striking the Devil." :o: — A demobilised Swansea soldier offered his seat to a lady in a tramcar the other day. but she cnly glared at him. He wants to know what's the matter with "tlie women. Well, he didn't offer his seat to a lady, that's all. It's an. ill-wind that blows nobody any good," as the Mumbles boot re- pairers must he saying at present, after the large numbers of villagers who have been daily footing it to Swansea and bacl; during the strike. -:0:- There was a football match in process on Sunday evening on Town Hill between. a large number of youngsters, but how they managed to view the ball is a mys- tery, as one could hardly sep a-oout two yards away owing to the mirt. — to:— Hundreds of people take a walk to Aberavon allotments on a Saturdav afternoon—when there is a football match on I Unfortunately for the toll- collector, they devote more attention to the game than to the cabbages. A local demobbed Tommy visited a cafe one day last week, and on paying his bill put down a ten shilling note. To the KTeat amusement of the attendant he had written on the back of the Bradbury, God send you back to me." -:0:- If this industrial unreet is going to continue for any length of time." said a man on his way to work this morning, eome of us lower classes will soon be on our uppers." And the uppers, pre- sumably, will be on their lowers. -:n:- # j You cannot beat the average young Britisher for optimism and ingenuity. Stirring stories are told of the methods adopted by eome of the junior clubs to overcome the transit difficulties and fulfil their football fixtures on Saturday. And yet they laughed over all their troubles. -:0:- Thanks to the railway strike I tasted a. bit of good old English beef yMter- day for the hrst time in 12 months," remarked a man in the car this morning. True, it was only a taste, but it beat all the frozen stuff to a frazzle," ho added, still smacking his lips in fond renembrance. —: o: —. We are getting more like London overy day," said a man on the Mumbles- road on Saturday afternoon. And indeed what with the buses,, the motor vehicles and conveyance-s of all descriptions, ifc- gether with the crowds of people that wpre padding it," the scene was cer- tainly a bustling one — :o A couple of young people in the St. Thomas district one evening recently were much frightened at a person dash- ing qpt from a house and running up to them. They naturally thought that some- thing serious had happened, but his re- quest was: Have you a penny for two ha'pennies? I want it for the gas I Mr. George CoIn-ill made a good point in his very reasonable speech at the rail- waymen's meeting Oil unday, when ho emphasised the fact that the method of calculating wages by percentages was fallacious, and that the thing on which attention must be concentrated were the real wages, or purchasing power, of individuals. A newspaper man's lot-like tha^. of a policeman's—is not a particularly happy one. Last one of our staff spent most of the time answering his door to callers who came inquiring if it wero true that the strike was over. Some of them even came back a second time to inquire if he knew what the terms of settlement were. — :o The news that the strike had been settled spread through the Mumbles like wild-fire on Sunday evening, and the popular place of resort—the Dunns—was crowded with people anxious for verifica- tion of the news. But the most anxious V:f all were the workmen, who were de- sirous of the opportunity of buying their weeklv tickets on the Mumbles Raijway, as they have had enough of walking to and fro from work. o: Tn the course of a discussion on shorter hours on Saturday evening, one of tho debaters said he was surprised that the men of the country had not formed them- selves into a Fathers' Federation and insist on a reduction in the love-making hours of courting coupes. By this means, he thought, a very considerable saving in Hghfc and fuel could be effected. But would tho saving be worth the enormous amount of trouble which such a proposal would be bound to canfe? — :o An amusing scene occurred at ft well- Toiown Swansea draper's shop on Saturday evening. Many of the young lady assist- ants wanted to catch the S.55 'bus from Portland-street, to go home for the week- end. But the shop did not close until 9 o'clock. How was it to be done, v" none of them had the courage to ask the man- ager for permission to go? So they began talking amongst themselves as to the best way to solve the problem, until the "boss" noticed that there was eome thing wrong; in fact he thought there was another strike, and asked the shop-walker I the reason. The girls caught that 'bus, with many minutes to spare, and the manager is still laughing. Like the taste for certain edibles, the liking for the arcadian joys of this Gower of ours grows oil one. The town-dwellfw is not primarily appreciative of its varied delights—of its sunsets, which are un- rivalled; of its happy combination of country and sea side, rugged cliff, and golden sand. There is a. joy in it that is unrestrained; a roving spirit that broOi^s not the houses that, are like as two peas, the park where one is adjured to keep "off the grass." There i a joy 1fl airadian I Gower, there is a whol?sn?e ?lety. Nt- hanced as ono ma turps, that ).i' a. sourr? of inno?nt gaiety e?ch a? ??:. 1y asM?A- a* with childr?B only. R??er." ?