The Aberdare Leader

—mm ABERDARE PENSIONS' CLERK. QUESTION OF SALARY. Mr. R. J. Jones, the secretary of tho Association of Full-Time Officers and Clerks of War Pensions Committees in South Wales and Mon. has been in- structed to call .the attention of the Aberdare Pensions' Committee to the fact that their secretary is the worst paid secretary in the whole of South Wales and Mon. The resolution was passed at a conference of the Associa- tion at which were present representa- tives from Aberdare, Abersychan, Bed- wellty, Abertillery, Gellygaer, Rhondda, Pontypridd, Newport, Cardiff and Mountain Ash. The Secretary reported that on the question of the Association scale, it was unanimously resolved to apply to the Ministry for representation on the fin- ance and Staffing, Committee, and to press for a definite reply to their (the Association's) demands. Mulch disetektisfaetiton was expressed when it was reported that the supple- mentary estimates forwarded to the Ministry by a number of Committees had not yet been dealt with, the pay- ment of increases being held up in the meantime. It was decided to ask the respective committees to approach the Ministry on the matter.

SCRAPS. BY THE SCIIIBX A Liverpool paper apparently wants to imply that the Rev. John Roberts (Ieunn Gwyllt), the well-known jour- nalist, musician and preacher, was something akin to a scarecrow, ior he is called by • that journal 1'enau Gwyllt." I Tht latest cry is for a League of Re- I ligions. I suppose that, like the I League of Nations, it will be for uie duration of the peace only. Churches, like nations, have their quarrels, and like nations, have their quarrels, and leagues are off when these are on. I Moore's Almanac for next year says that in J line there will he "unrest among railway employees, and some strange crime in connection there- with." Again in September disturb- ances among railway employees are threatened. October however is "beneficial for railways." Then in November the raikvays are to be busy, but in Dtceinber there is to be railway unrest again, I say. old Moore, give the coiluvs a look in during some portion of the year. Why should those railway 1 (1- lows have a monopoly of the divine discontent that we hear so much cf ? in 1919 both classes of workers have been at it, the railmen in the old world and the pitmen in the Western hemi- sphere. Mr. Walter Long says that when he '7 1 1 represented a Wiltshire division, he combined all-night sittings with fo, hunting. He was in the "late shift." He used to hunt all day, catch a train tor i. addmgtollJ and reach the House \by eight or nine o'clock. There he peacefully slumbered through the night, for the House then sat until three or four in the morning, with oc- casional interruptions for divisions. Then he would catch a train at Pad- dington w hich brought him Iioiiic, in time for the meet: Then hunt and back to the House. The hon. member is wrong. He did not represent his Wiltshire constitu- ents. He represented the kennel and the chase. Like Tennyson's hound he must have hunted in his dreams in the House. No wonder our laws in the past bore the image of darkness when they were made in the night by legis- lators who were asleep. One advantage of being a lord is that one gets Hansard. Dr. Macna- mara therein states that on the out- break of war 58,000 odd civilians were employed by the Admiralty at the Ad- miralty establishments, and now, one whole year after the most devastating armistice known to man, and the Ger- man fleet, through imbecility, at the bottom of the sea, there are 96,0u0 odd still employed! Do you wonder, sir, ki, on a secluded country road in Scnt- land, some unknown man waves his whip and roars out to me 'Sack the lot, sir!'?" Lord Fisher in ±ne Times. The editor of "The Welsh Outlook" is evidently on an expedition of scalp- hunting. In the November issue he liercely attatks the editors of Y Cymro and): Darian, the former for his re- commendation of a new religious 'tesi and the latter for publishing the fot- lowing editorial footnote concerning the vacant headship of the Llandovery County chool Can' there possibly be any one in Llandovery who dreams oi appointing an Englishman to this positiOn If so, let a Sinn Fein be established forthwith (in the borough;, and let the traitors be hanged on the castle walls. Their betters were hanged there before now.—Editor, Also the following pai-agrail)h hat man with any backbone could fall down on bended knee before the Englishman, as many Welshmen do, and exclaim— 'Our Father, Who art in Heaven, wilt Thou of Tili grace permit us to ap- proach Thy thione in all humility to admire Thy unspotted perfection. The editor is shocked by "the vagaries )f Y Darian, that staid, eminently re- spectable, highly literary weekly which emanates from Aberdare. He rears that the paper has been temporarily in, the hands of the Bolsheviks. Carnegie was not the first rich man to myike bequests to British Statesmen. Ralph Alien, in a will dated l;63, left the elder Pitt, whom he described as "the most upright and ablest of Minis- ters, the sum of one thousand pounds. And 1 take it that a gift of a thousand pounds in those good old days was at least as good as two thousand to-day, for not only has the purchasing power of the sovereign been lessened by fully one half, but death duties and income tax charges have doubled. In his recollections of the Prime Min: iter-the. Lloyd George of his unomcial Parliamentary days—Mr. T. P. ° nor, M.P.. says, "Some of the country- men of Mr. Lloyd George had been. find- ing fault with him as a backslider from their very rigid principles, and among those was Mr. Towyn, then a clergyman secretary travelling over the country. Not everybody would identify the ReY. Towyn Jones from that description. The visit of the Shah of Persia to this eountrv may recall to the minds of some of us who are no longer in the first blush of youth the visit of a former Shah. It 'vas I believe, about forty years ago. Queen Victoria was the reigning mon- arch. The Eastern potentate was greatly interested in the ways of the West. The scaffold being a flourishing industry in his own land, the Shah was naturally curious to know all about our methods of executions in this country. He expressed a desire to see someone being hung but way told that there was no candidate for the gallows in any of our prisons just then. "Oh hang anybody" was the Shah's retort, "hang one of my men. By all accounts Burns' lines, "May his son be a hangman And him his first trial," would not have been inappropriately ap- plied to the. case of the Persian monarch. At the time a popular music hall ditty was "Have you seen the Shah ?" He was -the most curious crowned exhibit im- l»orted into this country since Cetewayo ni Zululand.

LEAGUE OF NATION*. Sermon at Trinity, AbeirLa, At Trinity, Aberdare, on -Miiiday evening, the pastor, Kev. C. E. b>. aas. s B.A., devoted his sermon to Lie sub- ject of the League of Nations is text was taken from Isaiah 11., 4 and 5. In the course of his address he said :— We as ministers and eieig have < been requested by the League of Na- tions Union to dra". the specia. atten- tion of our congregations to-day to the claims of the League of Nation:-). J. for one. gladly accede to that request, for, to me. this great movemen is one of the most heartening signs "dat the spirit of God is working and j-serting i Himself. The spirit of the League of \ations seems to be a true deveiopm. ,.i of the spirit of Christ. The seed of •- *e Gos- pel of Peace seems at last to e bearing iruit in the souls, not only ol individu- als but' of nations. Of ali 1.e good, which has been so-wonderful and great, that -the recent terrible war occasion- ed, the greatest perhaps is x he horror of war, and the dread of a ,,et more terrible war in future years. A striking fact is thai Lie leaders of the nation, both military and civil, at last have become' as loud and em- phatic in their denunciation lu war as any, and that they are now the ones who are planning so deltam^iedly to stamp war with its true st;<ip as one or the greatest crimes aganisi, Humani- ty. f President Wilson, as we aii know, presented the ideal of an Association of Peoples, including all ^eoponsible 'Powers of the world, particularly em- phasising the absolute necessity of in- cluding the Central Powers and the reduction of armaments oil the part ct all in the League. That ideal is on a air way, by now. of being material- ised in tHe organisation, or shall we call it. the organism of the League of Nations. Air. Evans then went on to explain the machinery and the objects of the League. Continuing, he said: The machinery of the League has been set up and the lines along which it is to be run have been laid down; but the machinery won't work without motive power and even with that poner it will not work along the right luies without the true guiding hand. 'lhat is just where we come in. It is we who can provide the motive power and it is we who must see that the men who oper- ate the machinery of this League are men who are possessed by its spirit and its conscience, which is none other than that of Christ—the Prince of Peace. Think of this League as you might think of an engine. What good would an engine be without the power to set it going, and how important it is for the safety of all and tne accom- plishment of its purpose that the hand which drives it has the conscience and the skill to drive it along the given track and according to the signals Y This is our great opportunity. I see many before me who have suffered terribly during the recent war—parents bereaved, buys mailned-surely you have not already, forgotten tile horrors and sorrows of the war. Are they not enough to make every decent cit.'zen of this Empire rise with passionate re- solve to end war foreverY While I do not condone, I can understand the man whose iand, and home and heart and body and friends are still tortured and broken through the atrocious in- humanities of Prussian warfare, curs- ing the German. However, save your execrations for the war itself and let the passion they express for the very reason it fulminates with curses upon the war inspire a mighty volume of enlightened public opinion which shall bless the League to end war A pub- lic opinion which will both speed that League along and secure for its As- sembly the right men to direct its operations. The League of Nations, 1 repeat, presents to us a great oppor- tunity—it is the supreme opportunity not only of the sincere Christian who has preached for years the Gospel of Peace and has sought in every possible way to extend the Kingdom of Peace, but also for every peace-loving citizen particularly for the soldier who never wants to go through again what he went through during the war. But you who have served and suffered so bravely and well, if you love the war that drew you into the military machine, reduced you to a number, carried you over the seas, marched you into the trenches, dosed you over "the top," wounded or sickened your body and killed your friends—let this op- portunity pass, neglect it altogether. And if you, brothers and sisters, and sweethearts and parents whose lives are so deeply shadowed by the loss of not one but many a brave sailor or soldier in this war, do not care whether other wars, yet more cruel, shall come, then you, too, let this op- portunity pass—have nothing whatso- ever to do with it. But, if as I think we all must, through the recent war. have come to hate war with bitter and burning hatred then let us read, think, study, and talk about tiiiz, peace movement of our time, 'and in the name of Christ whom we honour make it what it ought to lie make it say for'us with irresistible authority to age after age "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more"

A school inspector in the north was once examining a geography class, and asked th,e question: "What is a lake?" He was much amused when a little fel- low answered: "It is a hole in a can, sir."

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ABERCWMBOI JOTTINCS. BYSYLVANUS. The Committee of the Abeicwmboi Eisteddfod are now busy at work with their 1920 programme, which promises to be a record one. What is the matter with the members of the Abercwmboi Athletic ? I hear that other resignations took place at their last meeting. I am sorry to learn that things do not run smoothly. Now that they have joined the 1st Glamorgan Division, they ought to pull together. J.vor Owen played a great game on Sat- umay against some strong opponent-; at Aberbargoed. So also did Ned Davies, who was keen on bringing victory to the Aberbargoed. So also did t't1 Davies, who was keen on bringing victory to the home team. Cartwright, Ned's partner, failed to turn up owing to illness. Two of the Athletic players failed to enter the field during the second half, viz., Edevane and Jack Jones, who had been "knocked out." A private Company is now sending an occasional motor bus to carry our resi- dents from Sweet Cwmboi to the Aber- aman Terminus. That proves there's money in it. Why won't the Council take up the matter j and get a regular car service pending laying down the rails. The Abercwmboi Cricket Committee, through their president, W.R., have been fortunate enough to lease the football The Abercwmboi Cricket Committee, through their president, W.R., have been fortunate enough to lease the football field for a number of years from tht, Cwmbach Co-opeirative Society.

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CWMDARE NOTES. BY RAFFLES. Dick and his chum had a jolly time of it on Tuesday evening. The pity of it was they ran short of (ash, and the fair ones had to treat them to the cinema, instead of vice versa. Who cleans the brass plate every morning, but the brass knocker only -tuce a month r Raffles knows. Cyril has two strings to his bow, one in the Rhondda and the other a Cwm- daie lassie. This is note playing the game. and if he meets the local lady's uncle. Popcorn, he'll get a severe repri- manding. Who was the yduug man that tore the page out of his sweetheart's autograph allium because he was ashamed of his handwriting Raffles knows. He had to get someone else to write for him. Dai, you had better buy the motor cycle, so that the yuung engineer canj purchase a piano. 1.1' it takps as lofig to learn the piano as i! did to ride the bike, j the neighbours will be wishing him and his instrument somewhere in No -Vlan'.s Land. The carol singers are beginning to or- ganise. The musical lodger will be the conductor, and Mary Elizabeth Ann the chief soloist. Don't despise them, give them a copper if it is only to go to the next street. Shony Pikelets and Twiii Talcen Slip spent their income tax money on beer, now they are wondering why they teel queer. Sign the pledge, it's worth while, then you'll pay the taxes—with a smile. Tommy Tittiemouse has become a Pussyfoot.

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ICLYWEDION DYFFRYN DAR. Fod isha taccu cythral y wasg am un mistake cas nath a wthnos ddwetha yn llithyr y P.N., ond dyna, fe ddaw Dora am i draws a, a hydd hynny yn wath na thrafodath y Mid with odd son am deni yn y Leader dwetha. Fod sopyn digynyg wedi mynd lawr sha'r ffair,' er gwitha'r tywydd a chwn- ad prishodd, a rhai Midwithod ed hwnti ac yma, a mowr y swn odd gen gwpwl o Shoni Hoi's a'r tomboy girls yn scwto'u giddyl fel sa llhw nioin mar- sharine am 3 o'r gloch y bore, yn llawn whesse, snobinllyd, fel odd un hen getin gaffar bach wedi cal y fath shock, ag yn cwni i ddwylo lan. gan wed: "0 Trotski anwl. dyma Fediani." Fod pishyn o Jack ed yn v crowd. a'i Jim Crow ar ei ben yn deidi wrth fynd lawr i'r Ynys, ond wedi cal bom- pad gan rai o'i admirers hooliganaidci yn "ffair y byd, odd i het a n lied feat, a'i yspryd a ed, pan droiws a miw. i'r private compartment yn yr Hotel de Bola i gal whet iach cyn shapo i sha thre i No. ffimpty "buz mums the word; no secrets out in the fair, for I been it it!" — Fod rhai yn gwed iddi nhw goili arian lawr na ed, a weti dod mas; a un riportar yn dod lan vn lied shigglede- whip, ac yn byocwtji hwthu tre'r Snecs a'i hwteriaid i'r lie brwmstanaidd sydd wedi cal i addo i'r Bolshemists a'r ta- farnwrs cwrw whech Fod sopyn yn gofyn shwt sort o ddyn yw Mr. Pussyffoote. W el, ma rhai yn gwed fod gento dnvvn main a dicon hir i bwsho miwn i fusnas y shug and bottel, parlwr y pregethwrs, a back- kitchen y baccws, lie ma cownsil y cwrw bach yn cwrddad ar fora dy Sul. 0!'r arswd, fe geiff Mr. Pussyffoote ie twym os daw a sha marca Llundan Fach ne Gwrtvbettws, Tai Watch- maker ne Faes y Gwaed. Dyn helpo fa os daw a miwn i'r Pickle Inn i ofyn am ginger brandy; fe gaiff a resempt- ahon fydd yn i neid a yn invisible to the naked eye! Fod son bidir am y cwnnd ar y Trams, a ma'r list fel hyn, medda'r Press Amsosiation, yn ol y gyfrath Ashcart Lane to Lower ura- manta 3 j Sober Men y Men Who Shiggle ;j Anti-hwtarites 0 4 0 Pregethwrs [J [j, Packmen U Printers 0 ™ » Councillors o i > Tafarnwrs ™ Wymens free. I I Fod sopyn yn cretu fod amsar gwell i ddod pan ddaw prish yr ham i lawr a wya yn 3 am ginog fel o nhw yn amsar Lewys y Crydd a Jack y Rippar, a phan odd dicon frakes i fynd a ni n deidy i Braman mwn awr ar hanar gyta cheffyla rassis du a gwyn, a shawns i gal pint a debate ar wynwns a chadna banes ar y shwrna! Fod erill yn cretu y daw y Queen of the Hills yn real city ar ol cal C-or- porashun, a golchi y Fishanships n;,3S a chalch a shwgir brimston y L-eiryl Coch, a'r hwtar yn hwthu i bob scarpni o sclemin a thomhoy girls a choesa tm i fod yn y gwely am 9 flirtty, stop tap yto am 11 pee-em, cwrw dwy tNN-v a mwy yn cal i werthu fel y gro, a r hen gownt yn dylifo fel tona'r mor i fwthyn bach tlawd y PACKMAN NEWYDD.