The Aberdare Leader

Tabernacle, Aberdare. The pastor, the Rev. T. M. Jeffreys, addressed the children at Tabernacle Congregational Church on Sunday morning. Afterwards he preached from the words in Philemon 2, "The church in thy house." Mr. Jeffreys took as his theme, "The church in the home." He remarked that most of the New Testa- ment churches were established in homes. For the first three centuries Christianity had its life and being in the homes of the people. There were no cathedrals, no churches, no public edifices. The origin of the churches of Wales was similar to that of the churches of Palestine and the Roman Empire. The Jews discovered that God and the home life were inseparably con- nected. They realised that God was their home and dwelling place. The Psalmist waxed eloquent and jubilant over the homeliness of God's tabernacles. The home, any more than the church, was not the outward form—not the edi- fice. The real home was the centre of friendship, fellowship and faith. If there was to be a revival of religion there must be a reversion to the family altar, the religion of the hearth. The church should be established, sub- sidised, and supported in every way in the home. There would be no fear of cant in the family circle. Again, why not have a revival of the family religion in the church? At the evening service Miss Alice S. Williams Girls' Choir sang, "Nearer, my God, to thee." Next Sunday harvest festival ser- vices will be held at Tabernacle, when the pastor will preach at 11 and 6, and special musical items will be given.

Football. BY ONLOOKER. Aberaman Juniors v. Cwmaman Rovers on Saturday last at Michael's Field. The Juniors made repeated raids through Vater and Will Stephens, and only erratic shooting kept a clear score. The Rovers conceded a corner, Bob Edwards scoring from the ensuing kick. The whistle wenp. with the Juniors one goal up. Cwmaman opened the second half in business fashion, but found the Juniors' defence quite equal to the task, Jack Harris proving a veritable Roose in goal. The Rovers' goal was now subjected to a severe bombardment, the Juniors meanwhile gathering four lovely goals through A. Davies (2), Vater and Will Stephens, thus leaving the Juniors victors by five goals. The shining lights for the Juniors were: Will Vater, B. Edwards, Will Stephens, T. Roberts, Will Evans, and Jack Harris.

Mountain Ash Police Court. Thursday, Sept. 30. Before Ald. Wm. Jones (chairman) and Messrs Griffith Evans, J. K. Brooks and Wm. Lamburn. Cabbage Cutters. Daniel Daniels and Edward Rich- ard Daniels, his son (14), were charged with stealing growing cab- bage from a garden. Henry Bushell, 5 Kingcraft St., Mountain Ash, stated that he had a garden at the back of Gwern Ifor Street. On September 19th last, at midnight, he was called to the gar- den, where he saw Daniels (senior) lying in the hedge. His son was standing in the path. Ernest Wes- ton and Alfred Attwell were also present, and in prisoners' presence said that they had seen Daniels the elder cutting his (witness's) cab- bage. There were seven at the feet of Daniels freshly cut and in a bag. Daniels replied that he had only cut one the others were already cut. Ernest Weston, 24 Ceridwen St., was in his garden with Attwell on the night in question. They were concealed. Presently they saw two figures climbing over the fence. Then they heard the cabbage being cut. They sprang out,and caught both defendants. Danie/ls the elder was asked, Aren't you ashamed of yourself. You're caught at last?" "Yes, I'm caught," he replied. P.C. Jones stated that he was called to Bushell's garden at mid- night on September 19th. He saw the two defendants, who were given in charge. The elder one said, I only cut one." The younger one said, "We've been before. We don't earn much money, so we thought we'd have some." The Chairman: You're about the last man I should have thought to have seen in that position, and I am exceedingly sorry to see you there. The most serious thing is that you took your son. You will be fined 40s. and 15s. costs. The case against the boy was dis- missed.

No Dog Licence. Ann Hughes, Mountain Ash, sum- moned for not having a licence for her dog when the police officer called, was asked to pay 5s. costs- Defendant: No indeed (flourishing the licence), I won't pay it.

A Sad Case. Mary Ellen Vaughan was sum- moned by her husband, Thomas Vaughan, Penrhiwceiber, for being a habitual drunkard. Vaughan told the Bench they had been married 15 years, and for 12 years his wife had been drinking to excess. She took everything from the home to pawn. He produced 19 pawntickets. She neglected her children and had been convicted and sentenced to three months imprison- ment for that offence. She had been convicted of assault, indecent acts and drunkenness. Complainant was granted a separ- ation order on his promise to take care of the children and to pay his wife 5s. a week.

«1> Drunk and Disorderly. Evan Evans, in Blackberry Place, Cefnpennar, 13s. Edmund Thomas, in Penrhiwceiber Road, Penrhiwcei- ber, 13s.

Banker on Canal Bank. James Wise and Thos. Cutter were fined 9s. each for playing cards on the Canal Bank on Sunday, Sept. 26th.-P.C. Wines proved.

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A little girl was taught to close her evening prayer during the absence of her papa with: "Please watch over my papa." Her papa returned and her mamma blushed when the child added: "And you'd better keep an eye on mamma, too." Why are fishermpn and shepherds like beggars? Because they live by hook and crook.

Mountain Ash Jottings. BY LUCIFER. Excellent progress is being made with the arrangements for electrifying Aber- cynon. Complaints concerning the quality of gas here have been frequent and numerous, and soon the people who have tired of that particular form of light will be able to give electricity a trial. During the holidays the building of a sub-station in connection with the supply of electric light has been pro- ceeding apace. A site was secured on the edge of the river near the railway bridge, but an unfortunte dispute arose concerning the ownership of the land, the T.V.R. claiming a portion of it, whereas the Council had negotiated solely with Mrs. Bradley. But the Council and the Clerk have now ar- ranged matters satisfactorily. Luxuries both in articles and officials are being shed one by one. The school dentist has resigned, and the Education Committee are going to manage with- out one for the period of the war. Mons. Jules Rosen was the joint school dentist for Mountain Ash and Aber- dare for the last 12 months or so. He is a Belgian, and has accepted an ap- pointment in Malvern, whither he is going on Oct. 1st. Mons. Rosen is reported to have said that children's teeth in this country were in a dreadful state. Unfortun- ately the parents do not feel sufficient interest in the subject to take the trouble of sending their children to be dentally treated, with the result that the school dentist's services were not utilised to the fullest extent. Mr Lam- burn's comment wasr Leave it until such time as the people will appreciate a dentist." Mountain Ash teachers will find it more difficult to teach children not to throw stones than to impart a know- ledge of the three l's. The love of stone-throwing is deeply ingrained in every child, and probably comes down to him from pre-historic times; from the stone age, perhaps, when tribe defended itself against tribe by means of the loose commodities that lay about them on the earth. The Director of Education's .refer- ence to the stone conflicts between the Roman Catholic School children and the Miskin School children will sure to remind many people of their own school days, when clannish battles raged between one school and another. How very insular and narrow our life is. What can be done to widen the horizon of school-children, and children of an older growth, too ? This parochial feeling emerges every- where. There is a tendency among Councillors to belaud their own particu- lar Wards at the cost of the other Wards. There is the parochial patri- otism which impels one to run down every other district except one's own. There is the national feeling which prompts people to decry the habits of foreign nations. It is this insular, petty feeling that is at the bottom of all wars. As a matter of fact it was not the murder of the Arch Duke and Duchess oi Austria that set Europe ablaze. The racial hatred and jealousy between the British and German people made war in- evitable sooner or later. We in Mountain Ash complain because a few street lamps are left unlit here. What if we lived in seaside towns? Aberystwyth, for instance, is as dark as Erebus after night-fall. There is talk of abolishing Sunday evening services there during the winter, and hold the services in the morning and afternoon. This used to be the fashion a century ago, and we are fast going back to ancient times. By the way belief in spirits is rapidly reviving. ine stories 01 our grand- fathers about haunted houses and spectral visitors were wont to be put down by us as pure and unadulterated superstition. "There are no such things as ghosts or spirits," was the en- lightened man's verdict. But what do we find nowadays? Cultured and scientific men are holding converse with the spirit world, and wonderful messages are coming through to wondering and crowded congrega- tions. The experience of the Carne- town Spiritual Society is repeated in many other places. Only the other day in the Rhondda a Church trustee died. The trust deeds had been in his possession, and no one knew where they had been placed. The church was in a quandary until a member suggested a seance. A seance was arranged; a medium engaged, and the dead man was located, and the necessary information was obtained without the least trouble. Next day the minister went to the spot, and found the deeds sure enough.

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'"——— Aberdare to-operative Society. On Friday evening last a meeting was held at the National Schools, Aberdare, to distribute certificates to students of last season's Co-operative Classes. Tea had been provided, and the following ladies presided at the tables: Misses N. Thomas, M. Nicholas, M. Grubb, B. Davies, C. Morgan, M. Lewis, Clara M. Poole, M. T. Gray, and B. Morgan. Cutters, Messrs. W. Harris, D. Maddox, Spencer Palmer, and John Thomas. Tea brewer, Mr. Daniel Davies. Mr. G. R. Protheroe, chairman of the so- ciety, presided, supported by the Man- agement Committee. The chairman urged the students to continue their studies, so that they would be better Co-operators and thereby better citizens. Messrs. F. H. Beswick, W. J. Minty, and Daniel Edwards, members of the Com- mittee, also spoke. The certificates were presented to the following recipients by Mr. Piotheroe:- Co-operation Advanced Stage: E. W. Minty. Co-operation, 2nd stage: D. W. Morgan. Co-operation, 1st stage: Mor- gan Morgan. Co-operation Juniors, over 12: Sarah Campbell, G. M. Lampard, G. Olive Moore, Rebecca John, and Catherine Harris. Under 12 years: Gwyneth Mary Thomas, Lizzie Edwards, G. How- ells, Blodwen Henry, Ethel Morgan, Gwennie Morgan, Gwladys Howells, Aeronwen George, Doris G. Castree, Gertie M. Prytherch, Olive G. Davies, M. M. Roberts, Sarah Ellen Davies, Frances May Henry, and William C. Lloyd, Lamech J. Jenkins, John Castree, 1. Thomas Hopkins, John Williams, Richard Daniel Brough, David Thomas Phillips, Sem Harris, Willie Bowen, Lewis J. Thomas, Simeon Jones, Alfred Thomas, G. S. Hinton, Reginald Hinton, Thomas H. Hopkins, B. Evans, William Garfield Protheroe, Charles Beswick, and Ivor Thomas. Co-operative Book-keeping: 1st stage, pass with distinction, Marian T. Gray and Spencer Palmer. Pass, Daniel Maddox. The teachers of the classes were Messrs. Aneurin Davies (secretary of the society) and Mr. Theophilus Thomas.

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The Late Mr. Keir Hardie. Cremation at Glasgow. The funeral of the late Mr. James Keir Hardie M.P., took place at Glas- gow on Wednesday, Sept. 29. There were present 17 delegates from the Mer- thyr and Aberdare Boroughs, including Mr. J. Davies, Mayor of Merthyr; Mr. D. Ernest Williams, dentist, represent- ing the Mountain Ash I.L.P.; Mr Matt. Lewis, Aberdare, representing the L.R.A.; Councillor E. Stonelake and Mr. J. H. Bruton, representing Aber- dare Trades Council; Councillor Illtyd Hopkins, representing the Aberdare District of Miners; Councillor Idwal Thomas on behalf of the International Socialist League; Messrs Edward Davies and Evan Parker, representing the Aberdare I.L.P. They were met at Glasgow by Mr. George D. Hardie, de- ceased's brother, and prominent mem- bers of the Glasgow I.L.P. and Social- ist Societies. The body lay at the home of Mr. G. D. Hardie in Clarkston, 7 miles out of Glasgow, and was viewed by the South Wales delegates. The corteg was formed by St. George's Church in the centre of Glasgow. The hearse and two carriages were loaded with floral tributes, among them being a magnificent wreath from Cyfarthfa Gardens, given by the Mayor of Mer- thyr. Also wreaths from Merthrr and Aberdare Trades Councils, L.ll*. and I.L.P. Branches. The first coaches after those of the mourners were occu- pied by South Wales Delegates, and the following ones by members of the National Administrative Council of the I.L.P. and Labour Party. The body was cremated. The service at the Cre- matorium was very impressive. A fervid address was given by the Rev. Mathieson Forson, London. After prayer was offered Mr F. Jowett, M.P., spoke. Then lr. Bruce Glasier came forward and spoke a few words just as the coffin was being lowered to the Crematorium. The enormous crowd outside was briefly addressed by Mr. W. C. Anderson, M.P. It was on the whole a fitting and appropriate service at the passing of a really great man. Mrs. Hardie and her daughter and son went through the trying ordeal bravely. There was scarcely a dry eye in the chapel. A memorial service in respect of the late Mr. Keir Hardie will be held at Siloa, Aberdare, next Sunday, at 3.15. The Revs. T. E. Nicholas, late Glais, and J. R. Hughes, Abercynon, will offi- ciate. Organist, Mr. W. J. Evans. Collection for Red Cross Military Hos- pital Fund.

Aberdare Minister on Cinemas and Billiards. The Rev. T. Edmunds, B.A., pastor of Carmel English Baptist Church, Aberdare, preached on Sunday even- ing from John xii., 20-22. In this pas- sage is recorded the Greeks' quest for Jesus. The doctors, the preacher re- marked, had been more exercised over the theology of Christ than the mind of Christ. Some great preachers in this country had been frittering away time and energy on business affairs, on poli- tical and ecclesiastical controversies, with the result that they had no time to give to the great message which they had to deliver. He (the preacher) had been for the last two or three months trying to convince himself that he ought to go out to the mission field, but he had not yet satisfied himself that he was required out there. There were, how- ever, heathens at home. Recently a Yorkshireman who had newly joined the Army declared that he had never heard of the New Testament. He (fr Edmunds) was doubtful whether this could be regarded as an extreme case. There were people in Aberdare who were not much more enlightened. Cine- ma-going and billiard playing had be- come a religion. There were people whose souls were stunted by cinemato- graphy. There was no harm in moder- ate cinema-going. It could be educa- tive as well as entertaining, but when indulged in to excess it was harmful.

Who Struck First? David Jones, 48 Thomas Street, Miskin, represented by Mr. Gwilym Jones, summoned Austin Meek, his next door neighbour, for assault. Meek was represented by Mr Wm. Thomas, Aberdare. Jones in his evidence stated that the bother commenced through some boys throwing stones at his door. On Tuesday, September 7, he com- plained to Meek. The next day Meek came up to him and said, You're just the man I want to see," and then struck him. Meek followed him home threatening him. By Mr. Thomas His dog was not a savage dog, and he had not set the dog on the children. He didn't see Thomas Bellis, "Harold Matthews, or Thomas Thomas. He didn't bleed. Robert Evans, 48 Thomas Street, brother-in-law to Jones, stated that the boys' throwing had broken a win- dow. When he saw Meek he told him he had done wrong to strike David Jones. A cross-summons, Meek against Jones, was next heard. Meek stated that for five months his children had been annoyed by Jones' dogs. When he met Jones he asked him why he had insulted his wife. Jones then struck and witness struck hitl back, and that finished it. Thomas Bellis, 15 Windsor Street, stated that he saw Jones strike Meek first. The Bench considered the evidence too conflicting and dismissed both cases.

Resolven Man's Pension. At Neath on Friday George Smith (76), collier, Resolven, was charged with making false representations to secure the continuance of an old age pension. Defendant had formerly worked at Re- solven, but when a strike occurred at the Ynysarwed Collieries he applied and secured an old age pension. In addition he received 10s. a week strike pay from July 12th, 1914, until Septem- ber 25th last, while he Was also re- ceiving free board and lodging with his daughter.—Defendant was fined 20s.

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