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ABERDARE'S PILLORY.
ABERDARE'S PILLORY. ABERDARE is still without a Black Maria, and every Tuesday the poor prisoners who have to walk from the Police Station to the railway station are pilloried by a vulgar, inhuman set of loafers of both sexes. Last Tuesday the streets en route to the G.W.R. Station- were lined with sight-seers who had been drawn thither by idle and morbid curiosity, and who seemed to gloat on the misery of their fellow-beings. Re- cently some magistrates have protes- ted against the action of some rail- way companies, who, when persons are convicted for certain railway offences, put them in the stocks of publicity by emblazoning their names on station hoardings. These magistrates have expressed their intention of mitigating the usual penalty which accompanies a breach of the Companies' bye-laws in anticipation of the further penalty which the vindictive railway judicia- ries insist on imposing. The Aber- dare Bench should also realise that the prisoners convicted at the Police Court are twice punished, and when awarding the prisoners the usual time should take into considera- tion that they are also to be pilloried by a rude and cruel public. The strong man is not only bound with fetters and placed to grind in the prison hortse, but he has also to make sport for the Philistines. The Aber- dare Trades Council have asked Black Maria to come to the rescue, but she has not arrived yet. It would be well if in the meantime some effort were made to educate an ignorant public into a better beha- viour. We say ignorant advisedly, because we believe that it is an "evil wrought by want of thought. -:0:- PESSIMISTIC CRITICISM." This is the designation that Mr. John Davies applies to our comments on var- ious subjects dealt with in the "Leader" recently. He avers that our remarks "are strongly flavoured with a spirit of con- servatism and doubt." Pessimism, con- servatism, and scepticism, they all come, we are told, with advancing age, and the "Aberdare Leader" is no exception to the general rule. We do not maintain that thrift and providence can entirely remove the evils of pauperism and unemploy- ment. But we hold that, if more gener- ally exercised, they would greatly reduce the former, and materially temper the severity of the latter. If by a touch of the magic wand of Fate all people could be made thrifty at once, why, we could pension off the majority of relieving offi- cers and workhouse officials, and the bulk of our guardians would be among the un- employed. Union doles and State gratui- ties are good things in their proper place. But when they cause people to depreciate self-help they are worse than useless. Says the thriftless young man, "Why should I save up for 'the evil days' when I may then have the benefit of a poor rate?" Says the improvident worker, "Why should I prepare for a workless old age when the State is providing for me an old age pension P" State help should not discourage self-help, collective charity should not dispense with individual effort. With regard to the educating of young men at the Universities at the expense of the Miners" Federation, Mr. Davies places on Dr. Datta's words a different construction to the one we placed. If Mr. Davies's interpretation is correst, we wilt cry truce on this subject. With re- ference to co-operation, while upholding the principle, we still maintain that it has its limits. The success or failure of co-operative mines is more or less pro- blematical, because the principle has not, so far as we know, been put to the test. But we have a near approach to a prece- dent in the co-operative quarries in North Wales, which, we repeat, have been a failure., And did not Robert Owen, the father of the co-operative movement, ex- periment on industrial co-operation? And do not the ruins of the silent mills of New Lanark to-day testify to. the fact that that great and most practical bene- factor of humanity had not reckoned with one of the frailties of human nature when he dreamt his dream of universal co-oper- ation ?
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The Theatres. Maggie Morton's Co. needs no introduc- tion to Mountain Ash play-goers. Her company have been travelling South Wales for very many years, and this is not her first visit to Mountain Ash. She has now taken in hand a new romantic drama entitled, "The Temptress," which will be staged to-night (Thursday), and Friday and Saturday nights. Next week, at the Public Institute, Mountain Ash, Mr. Vincent Kelway pre- sents Edgar Oswald's Co. in two plays of sterling merit, viz., "The Trail of the Serpent," and "The Old Curiosity Shop." Some thrilling incidents are introduced in the former. The latter play is, of course, adapted from the novel of that name by the great Charles Dickens. This is the first occasion on which the "Old Cuiiosity Shop" has been played at Moun- tain Ash. Lovers of Dickens—and they must be numerous—should not miss this beautiful play. At the New Theatre, Aberdare, "La Poupee," a comic opera, is being played to full houses. Miss Cissie Wade as "The Doll," is a great sucaess, her songs and dances (by pressing the buttons) being very amusing. Hilarius provides a good deal of hilarity, and the scene where his workshop is introduced is, indeed, (won- derful.' The company is Mr. J. Bannis- ter Howard's.
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Proposed Ruskin Class at Mountain Ash. On Monday evening a meeting was held in the Lecture Room, Workmen's In- stitute, for the purpose of forming a Rus- kin Class at Mountain Ash. Mr. W. T. Bowen, Penrhiwceiber, occupied the chair. Messrs. C. H. Williams and T. Ablett, Porth (two former students of Ruskin College), addressed the meeting. Mr. Williams, in the course of his re- marks on "The principles and proposals of Ruskin College," said that the college was first established in 1899, in memory of J'ohn Ruskin. It was then called Rus- kin Hall. In 1900 it yas incorporated and was afterwards known as Ruskin Col- lege. The members of the other colleges, comprising the University of Oxford, turned up their noses, as it were, when they saw working men coming to Oxford to study the great questions which affect- ed their interests. "Punch" at that time even condescended to publish a cartoon depicting miners' leaders in cap and gown "striking" for less hours of study. (Laughter.) Ruskin College was the only college that gave working men an oppor- tunity of obtaining a thorough college education out of college. The college was supported by subscrip- tions obtained all over the country. Nine thousand members of the Society of En- gineers had recently made two levies for the support of the college. This society also intended sending six of its members to the college this year. They were all aware that the Bishop of London had a few weeks ago made an at- tack on the habits, of the students study- ing at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He was pleased to say that students of Ruskin College did not come within the bounds of the Bishop's re- marks. (Hear, hear.) They (the Ruskin students) could neither afford the time nor the money to bet and gamble, and live a life of debauchery. Mr. Williams concluded with an appeal to his audience to form a Ruskin Class in the town. Mr. T. Ablett, Porth, then addressed the meeting on "The scope of Political Econo- my." He traced the study of political economy from the time when the Greeks were in the zenith of their fame up to the, present day. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded the speakers for their very able addresses. The chairman also received a vote of thanks for presiding. The outcome of the meeting is likely to be the formation of a class at Moun- tain Ash. Mr. W. H. Powell has been appointed secretary pro. tem.
Mountain Ash Collier's Sad…
Mountain Ash Collier's Sad Death. Mr R. H. Rhys held an inquest a Mountain Ash on Monday touching the death of Jenkyn Thomas (47). From evidence of the colliery fireman in whose district deceased worked, it appeared that while Thomas was driving an empty tram it caught the arm of a, post, de- ceased being thrown against the side, sustaining injury to the arm. Dr. Mackay said the injured arm had been amputated. The patient died at the Cottage Hospital on Saturday. A verdict of Accidental death was re- turned. ]
SCRAPS.
SCRAPS. BY "THE SCRIBE.' Wanted-a Conciliation Board for Matrimonial Disputes. The powers of the Aberdare Police Court are inadequate to deal with them. Sir Marchant Williams- maintains that they are outside- his juris- diction. I mean the petty garden quar- rels of husband and wife, not the grand hearth-stone battles that generally finish off with a black eye or two, and a broken nose, but no broken spirits. At one court his Worship told off the solicitors who respectively represented a man and wife to try to act as peace- makers. But the truce failed, and for all I know, what God hath joined and- man put asunder has not been re-united yet. Really we want a domestic court of arbitration or a conciliation board with an independent chairman. I would not envy him his job. Last Sunday Mr. Evan Roberts visited1 Bridgend. In the morning he attended Hermon C.M. Church, and gave an ad- dress. The missioner drew a comparison between two men who had been washed- one in water and the other in the Blood., On the Day of Judgment the latter would be white as snow, but the man washed with water would be covered with his- sins and imperfections, and would be looking round in vain for means where- with to wash his sins away. I am at a loss to discover the mission- er's point in this comparison. If he' is. trying to depreciate immersion, then- there was no truth in the tale spread some time ago that he wanted to be immersed, or he has changed his mind since. Agitation is rife in the upper part of the' Aberdare valley, revolt is wafted on the highland air, and the seeds of dissensiom are being sown on Hirwain Common. The' serfs of down-trodden Hirwain have real- ised that they have municipal rights, and the revolt of Russia is not in it. Last Monday week a deputation of Hirwainites besieged the Aberdare Town Hall. The march of the unemployed on London was a mild affair compared with the march of the men of—not Harleca, but Hirwain. Surely there is something behind this.. Hirwain wants self-government on the lines of the initiative and referendum.. Why should it send representatives to Aberdare when a local parliament could be built on Hirwain Common? The cabinet making of the Hirwain Par- liament would be an interesting piece of business. It would be a close run be-- tween Alderman Evans and Mr. T. Wal- ter Williams for the Attorney General- ship. But no, the former would, of course, be Prime Minister. Mr. S. Pictoni would make an excellent Chancellor of the Exchequer, but perhaps he would be more in his element as Minister of War. By-the-way, Penywain, too, has com- menced petitioning and memorialising. Mr. Tom Lewis assured the Aberdare Education Authority that Penywain.. wanted Home Rule, but I the Penywainites would be content if they were allowed to run a Board of Edu- cation of their own, with complete powers over the Penywain Seminary, and Mr. Morgan J. Harris appointed Minister of Education. The Aberdare District Coun- cil are now overburdened with work, andS- the Education Committee also have their hands full. Therefore, why not allow Hirwain to manage its own sewers, and Penywain its own schools. Surely there- are people who can conduct drains in Hir- wain and people who can develop brains in Penywain. As the sparks fly upward, so do the ex- penses of public bodies go in the sanie direction. The oait-relief of the Merthyr- Guardians has recently been going up by leaps and bounds, and last week it reached the magnificent sum of £390. And it will go still higher, for there is the paupers Xmas cheer coming, as well as the annual. period of coal. relief. There is just now a great outcry against- the practice adopted by some railway companies of placing in the pillory of pub- licity the culprits who have been daring, enough to break the Company's bye-laws, and whom they have been fortunate enough1 to catch. This action of the railway people may appear somewhat vindictive" but it should be borne in mind that there is an idea abroad that it is no cheat to rob a railway company. 'jhe man wbo would not for the world rob his neigh- bour of a fowl, would not hesitate to r b a railway company of a fare. So wben. a man annexes his neighbour's rooster he is fined, say 40s., but when he takes a cheap ride in a railway coach he is- mulcted in 40s. plus the pillory. The first portion of the penalty is inflicted bY the Bench for law-breaking, while the supplementary pillory is added by tbe. Co. with the view of eradicating an err all- eous idea. When we consider the number of tlÍe" agents and agencies that pretend to bet this old world of ours, is it not a won that we are still so wicked? The like the poor, is always with us, &nd the Glamorgan Assizes which have Ju THE commenced he looms very large- The judge has declared that the calendar 1 solde the heaviest for the last five years, time ago light calendars and y gloves were the order of the day, and, course, the Revival accounted for it a iO And very likely the Revival was resp0llS ral"J ble to a great extent for the ternpor'^e abatement in crime. But now that record of crime is as great, if not grfB than in pre-revival days, will my friell e- admit that it is due to the inevitable action ? If the absence of crime waS 1 be ascribed to the action of the Relival" it is but fair to attribute its return to, the re-action of the same. This is a delicate question to han^ for say what you may, some people have it that when- you criticise revi you criticise religion. But I ven^:tir^100 say that you cannot save humanity it is in a passion. I mean the great of the human familv not isolated tcr" stances. In my opinion the the quiet preacher, and' the police o are more powerful as ethical refer than the rowdy revivalist.