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It II "II' [Merthyr Electric Theatre! Week commencing Monday, October 23rd. fl CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE FROM 2.30 TILL 10.30 P.M. DAILY. | I Monday Tuesday, and Wednesday- I I HIS MAJESTY THE BABY. j I A remarkable Thanhauser production, featuring the famous Child B 1 I Actress-HELEN BADGLEY, of "The Price of Her Silence" H fame. 8 I THE BRIGHT LIGHTS-Triangle Comedy with Fatty and Mabel. ■ I- The Diamond from the SKy Chapter 23, j "The Double Cross." I Thursday, Friday, and Saturday- -I ? BETWEEN MEN j j I Another famous Triangle Drama. HIS PRIDE AND SHAME-Triangle Comedy. 1 I "P?G 0' THE RING." The Great Serial. j ? Episode 3 "In the Lion's Den." • (Prices as usual-3d., 6d., and Is. Government Tax Extra. I ? Children's Matinee on Saturday at 10.15-1d. only. Lit I' It It .i [THEATRE ROYAI I iTt!NirE'YRLI I ?SPEC!AL GREAT ATTRACTION! I ? Week commencing MONDAY, OCTOBER 23rd, 1916. j MATINEE Thursday at 2.30. I 7.30. ONCE NIGHTLY. 7.30. I t THE j lom ara 6 ran d Opera I I" 80MPANY. Ltd. Grand Opera in En Ish I M MONDAY, October 23rd, at 7.30-Wallace's I ) MARITANA I 1 ■ TUESDAY, October 24th, at 7-30-Puccini'r, I I MADAM BUTTERFLY I I WEDNESDAY, October 25th, at 7.30-Wagner's I j TANNHAUSER j I THURSDAY, October 26th-MATINEE at 2.30-Verdi's I I IL TROVATORE I (THURSDAY EVENING, October 26th, at 7.30-Balfe's j I BOHEMIAN GIRL I I • FRIDAY, October 27th-First Time in Merthyr—Mozart's S  DON GIOVANNI  ? SATURDAY, October 28th, at 7.30-Benedict's 1j j THE LILY OF KILLARNEY j ? Full Company of 100. Orchestra ef 30. ? S Special Prices for this Great Attraction :— Circle Stalls Pit Gallery » ■ Ordinary Doors 7 p.m. 3/- 2/- ?- 6d. S I „ Tax 3d. Tax 2d. Tax 2d. Tax Id. ) I Early Doors 6.45 p.m. and Booking Prices for Tax 3d. Tax 2d. Tax 2d. Tax Id .1 I I Circle and Stalls ? 3/6 2/6 1/6 9d. 8 j Tax 3d. Tax 2d. Tax 2d. Tax 2d. j Box Office (Telephone No. 2) open daily 10.30 till 1 and 2.30 till 4.30. THERE 18 ONLY ONE OINTMENT THAT CURES And this Is supplied by Chemists and the MANNINA OINTMENT CO., FISHGUARD, And is sold in Three Strengths—1, 2 & 3. 'Phone 597. 'Phone 597. I WILLIAM TRESEDER, Ltd. THE NURSERIES, CARDIFF. WREATHS, CROSSES, CUT FLOWERS, &c. BEDDING PLANTS. Asters, Stocks, Dahlias, Marguerites, Lobelia, &e. Tete TRESBDER, FLORIST, CAKDIFF. GET YOUR TOBACCO I AT Our Shop 74a, Pentmorlais, Merthyr. PROGRESSIVE LITERATURE Kept in Stock or got to order. A< BLANCHARD'S PILLS Are unrivaHed for a!t Are unrivalllorall lrregularlies, &c they spe dily afford relief and ne ?'f.il. alleviate all su?ring They supersede PeRnyroyal, Pill Cochia, Bitter, Apple, &c. Blanchard's are PeHnyroyal, P?th.e best of all Pills for Women. Sold in boxes, 1/1!6. by BOOTS' Branches, and all Chemists, or post free, same price from LESLIE MARTIN, Limited, Chemists, 34 Dalston Lane, London. Samples and Valuable Booklet sent Free, Penny Stamp. To N.C.F.s and I.L.P.s who are hangering for their own Premises. Why mot run fortnightly Concerts and Dances? Profits used for Building Fund. Every prosperous enterprise uses banks Why not use me? Write or wire A. BANKS, Comedian and Descriptive Vocaiist, in songs by Tom Wall, which are clean, original, and free from vulgarity. A sure success. Try it. Terms—Railway expenses from Treharris and back. Address- 9, Mary Street, Trekarris, or Pioneer" Office. Now, Merthyr and Pontypridd, buck up! SWANSEA I.L.P. Miss SYLVlTPANKHURST Will Lecture at the ELYSIUM, HI6H STREET, SUNDAY, OOTOBER 22nd, at 3 p.m. Chair to be taken by Sonn. DAVID WILLIAMS, J.P, Reserved Balcony, ed. Area, Silver Collection.

BEDLINOG I The Case of T. H. Griffiths. I At the Merthyr Police-court on Friday, Oatto- ber 13, the adjourned case of Thomas Henry Griffiths, a university student of Bedlinog, under the Military Service Act, was mentioned. The stipendiary the week before had adjourned the case on the statement for the defence that an appeal was pending. Lieut. Morgan Thomas later asked permission to withdraw the case as defendaut ,had joined up. The Stipendiary: Then the appeal failed. Lieut. Morgan Thomas: Oh, yes.

j IN MEMORIAM. DAVII).-In Loving Memory of our dear little Son, Cledwyn David, of 74, New-road, Deri, who passed away on October 27; aged 8 years and 7 months. Gone, but not forgotten." No one knows how much we miss him; None but aching hearts can tell. We have lost him Heaven has gained him Jesus doeth all things well. —From sorrowing Dad, Mam, Sisters, and Brothers. DAVID.—In Loving Memory of our darling Nephew, Cledwyn, of 74, New-road, Deri (aged 8 years and 7 months), who passed away on October 27, 1915.Nid marw e ond cysqu y mae. Eleven months has passed, Our hearts still sore, As time rolls on we miss him more- His loving smile, his welcome face, And nought can fill that vacant place. Thy will be done 'tis hard to say, When those we loved are called away. —From Uncles and Aunts.

The Civil Liberties Conference. It is with pleasure that we are able to record that the success of the South Wales and Mon- mouthshire Conference, organised by the National Council of Civil Liberties, to be held at the Cory Hall, Cardiff, on November 11, is already assured by the large number of Trades Union, Socialist, and religious bodies, and kindred organisations that have intimated their intention to send delegates. There is, we fear, a little danger of the conference over-reaching its objective, owing to the diffusion of its efforts over too large a field, for, according to the pre- liminary notice, it is to address itself to industrial conscription, the maladministration of the Military Service Acts and their repeal, the invasion of personal and civil liberty, and peace negotiations. No one will deny the, ability of the principal speakers who have been secured —they are the cream of the various movements with which they are associated—J. R. Mac- donald, J. H. Thomas, Mrs. Swanwick, and the Rev. Dr. Walter Walsh, as well as the courageous Merthyr pacifist divine, the Rev. J. M. Jones, but many will question with us whether it would, not have been more effecacious to have con- centrated them on one or two of the subjects to be handled than to have dissipated their vast energies over the large field that has been planned. Personally, we feel that the first three of the four items closely inter-related as they are, are with us whether we like it or not for the full period of the war, and that the last item is the only one which has any chance of bringing us relief from their unpleasant exaction. We admit, and admit freely, the need to keep the public alive to the dangers which their apathetic acceptances of liberty-robbing laws and orders entail, but feel that that work could well have been left to the public platform. Concentration en the desire for an honourable and early peace —one that will sow the seeds for universal amity and concord—would have, given to Welsh democracy a dynamic force which, we feel, will be seriously nullified by the present dissipa- tion. It will not be from want of clearness in presentation or force of logic that this dissipa- tion will come about, but largely because of the surplus of logical treatment and the over-pre- vailing weight of brilliant oratory. It will be only natural that the delegates returning to their lodges and denominations, fired with enthusiasm, will endeavour to present a detailed report on all that has transpired, and will read the five or six strongly-worded resolutions that are endorsed, and that is where the danger lies. The unions and churches and branches will pro- bably agree with all the resolutions and endorse all that was said in their favour-it may be that they will reaffirm them as units-but the field is too wide. It is easier and quicker to drive tacks home by five drives on one tack than to run round a circle of tacks tapping each one once. Co-operative concentration would do more —even if it means the reiteration of familiar facts and consequent loss te the oratory-than this educative policy of touching everything in passing. Of course, the remedy lies with the delegates just as the fault of haziness will be theirs if it arises. If they can be made to see clearly the main link in this chain all will be well, and, though doubtful, we hope that this may be the case. The essential thing is to prove to those in authority how entirely antagonistic are the views of the workers to those blood- thirsty utterances which gain credence through the jingo press and platforms, as the matured thought of the country on war. The danger is that delegates and visitors will regard the con- ference more as a speech-shop than a serious meeting. That danger must be avoided at all costs. We have every faith in the ability of Mr. Ivor Thomas, the organiser, and a deep respeet for his long experience in this work, with which he has had so many triumphs; and we know his difficulties. Our fear is that the delegates will foil to catch the right note. We understand that there has been a big demand for visitors' tickets, which are being issued to enable other than delegates to listen to the big speakers, and we trust that these, too, will do good missionary work along the right line*. Meantime we are asked to announce that delegates will be accepted right to the daises of the conference, and we strongly advise all Socialist bodies, Trades Unions, and Co-operative societies, as well as religious organisations, who have not as yet intimated their intention to be represented to write at once to the Hon. Secre- tary, Mr. H. Hilles, 2, Lower Oathedrai-road, Cardiff.

Briton Ferry Notes. I Mrs. Swanwick's Meeting. I We have been holding magnificent meetings in Briton Ferry lately, and last Sunday's will again add another to an ever-inereasing list. Sunday evening's meeting, which was held under the auspices of the Briton Ferry Council for the Pro- tection of Civil Liberties, was addressed by Mrs. H. M. Swaifwick, M.H., of 'London. The hall was closely packed, as usual, and a pleasing feature of all our meetings is the increasing amount of interest taken by the women. This is a good sign for the future, as the mother's heart :ir. the child's schoolroom. The chairman (Mr. D. L. Mort), in his openinie remarks, com- mented upon the hymn with-which the meeting was opened ("0 Beautiful My Country "), and said that it would no doubt InrpriN « grearti many people to have heard them sing w beautiful hymn, people by whom we are looked upon as unpatriotic, and do not desire tke beet for our country. "That," said the chairman, is not true. We are the only people eatitfled to sing that hymn to-day, and our object was no other than that of beautifying the land in which we live. (Applause.) Our platform is open to anybody, and already some of the finest men of the day were to be found thereon." Mrs. Swanwick, who received a very warm and enthusiastic reception, said that war-time was not a time for the liberties of the people. War always had jeopardized the rights ef the pesple. If you wage war it must be waged in the military spirit, and that spirit was the spirit of domination. You cannot wage war in a democratic spirit, but only in the spirit of an absolutist. Continuing, the speaker referred to the Defence of the Realm Act. This Act-the main object of which was to prevent naval or military information reaching the enemy—has been abused, and was now one of the grounds for the violation of the rights of the people. Under this Act it has been possible to withdraw the Habeas Corpus Act. It has been possible to withdraw from British citizens what has been considered the greatest victory of our forefathers, viz., that no man could be kept confined to prison for an indefinite period without being brought to trial. That has gone, and to-day we find many of our fellow subjects in prison with- out having received any trial whatsoever. Take Ireland! Since the Irish rebellion had taken place many Irishmen have been, and are still being kept in detention without having received a trial. Under this Act (continued the speaker) you can be imprisoned if you publish or print any document i-ift the mature of a critique upon his Majesty's Government, and liable to a severe penalty. The police has the authority to raid any man's house without due warning being given; his private correspondence is ransacked and, m some cases, confiscated. "What is the meaning of all this? There is only one logical meaning to it all, and that is this—They do not want the truth imparted to the people. (Loud applause.) It is very dangerous work telling the truth nowadays." Proceeding, Mrs. Swanwick severely con- demned the two Military Service Act of 1916 and the manner in which they had been administered. The treatment of Conscientious Objectors had been monstrous, and such treat- ment did not in any way help in the successful prosecution of the war. It was useless for the Government to attempt to force men into khaki who would prefer the extreme penalty rather than submit to the military machine. The Military Service Acts had not been introduced for the purpose of winning the war. Behind the veil of secrecy there lay hid a far* deeper motive, and if the worker is not wide awake he will discover that he has placed in the hands of the employer a very powerful weapon. Condemning the proposals made at the Paris Conference for the Economic Boycott of Ger- many after the war, the speaker referred to the question of peace. To her mind we could obtain an honourable and a just peace to-morrow if the responsible Ministers of each belligerent would agree to a round-table conference. That all the belligerent nations were sick of the war was now beyond doubt. If the Ministers of the belligerents could not find some way or another out of this terrible carnage the people should do so themselves. (Applause.). A resolution was proposed, and carried unanimously, condemning the action of the Government towards the Hon. Bertrand Russell. 4n concluding the meeting, the Chair man and Councillor Joseph Branch strongly appealed for support in obtaining signatures for the peace memorial, and urged all present to add their signature to the memorial, if they had not already done so. Many signatures were obtained at the close of the meeting. I Domestic Coal Supply. During the last two sittings of the Briton Ferry U.D.C. the above question has been sub- jected to very serious consideration on the part of the council. The circumstances which gave rise to such serious consideration is as follows — Two months ago the above council was invited by a Government committe to co-operate with them in ascertaining as far as possible the requirements of the district with respect to the supply of coal for domestic purposes during the six months—September, 1916, to March, 1917. With a well-organised effort it was thought that the hardships likely to be suffered by the com- munity because of the shortage of coal could be greatly alleviated. The invitation being accepted, a committee was formed for the purpose of carrying out the work upon the lines as sug- gested by the Central Authority. In order to ascertain the approximate needs of the district the instructions implied that such information could be obtained from the local coal merchants. After an elapse of two months .it has been found impossible to obtain the information required from the local coal merchants, despite the repeated requests made by the committee. Nevertheless, the matter was not allowed to sink into oblivion, and at the last council meeting, held on the 28th ult., Councillor Geo. Davies, in a very able speech, moved the following resolu- tion, which was carried by five votes to three: That this council undertake to open a register for the purpose of registering the needs of the district with respect to its domestic coal and coke, and requests the people to register their requirements at the place appointed, the quantities they require, either weekly, monthly, or in any other way found necessary for the pur- pose of reasonably supplying same amd, further, steps necessary for the purpose of supplying same. Councillor G. Davies, in moving the resolution, said they would have many difficulties to face, including that of the law, but we must not allow the community to be exploited by the few. Councillor Branch then seconded the resolution. It was then decided to invite tenders for the supply of 500 tons of coal. Keen interest has been manifested throughout the district, and developments are anxiously awaited.

RHEUMATISM- KIDNEY TROUBLET Rheumatism is due to uric acid crystals in the joints and muscles, the result of excessive urid acid in the system that the kidneys failed to remove as nature intended, and this acid is to a great extent the cause of backache, lumbago, sciatica, gout, urinary trouble, stone, gravel, and dropsy. The success of Estora Tablets for the treat- ment of rheumatism and other forms of kidney trouble is due to the fact that they restore the kidneys to healthy action, and thereby remove the cause of the trouble, and have cured number- less cases after the failure of other remedies, which accounts for them superseding out-of-date medicines that are sold at a price beyond all but the wealthy. Women frequently suffer from ills, aches, and pains under the impression that they are victims of ailments common to their sex, but more often than not it is due to the kidneys, and in such cases Estora Tablets willfset them right! The teet is at least worth making, as woman's happiness and success in life depends on her health. Estora Tables fully warrant their description —an honest remedy 2, t an honest price, 1/3 per box of 40 tablets or six for 6/9. All Chemists or, postage free, from Estora Co., 132, Charing Gross Road, London, W.C. Bargoed and Aberbargoed Agent—W. PARRY WILLIAMS, M.P.S.

I TROEDYRHIW I Harry Webber's Week-end. The many friends were delighted to see Com- rade Harry Webber paying a surpise week-end visit to his home at Troedyrhiw. They think very highly of him for the noble stand he is making as a Conscientious Objector to military servive. Sorry the time was so limited, or else we should have held social, but we hope to hold something in the future worthy and fitting for the principles held so dearly by him, Casey to Visit I. L.P. The Troedyrhiw I.L.P. held a very successful branch meeting on Wednesday week at the Mis- sion Hall. It was decided to write to Casey inviting him to give a public lecture some time in December. I Federation Meeting, The Merthyr and Aberdare Valleys I.L.Y. ,Fe&ration held their monthly meeting at Troedyrhiw on Thursday evening, October 12. The branches were well represented, and gavol encouraging reports of the progress and work done in general by the branches. Comrade B. Brobryn presided.

I TREHARRIS I Motor-Lorry Afire. A motor-lorry, owned by Spillers and Nephews (Limited), caught fire at Treharris on Monday while returning to Cardiff. The Me-rthyr Fire Brigade extinguished the flames. The damago was confined to the body of the ear.