The Cambria Daily Leader

MR. T. J. W!Ll.IAlS: I Mr. T. J. Williams, member for Swansea East, is being laid to rest to-day amid the mourning of not only the constituency for which he I sat, but of all West Wales. Mr. Williams was an example of the man of ample means who did not believe life was fulfilled by the pur- suit 'Of personal ends. He looked upon life as a gieat and solemn function, to be use-d worthily in serving others. Hi early dhys werl wisely spent in the acquisition of knowledge. He. sought it diligently and earnestly, and when the oppor- tunity came to him, rich in experi- ence, he offered himself to the pub- lic service. Fate came with crut^ insistence to close this bright career when its promise was fullest, but, i the memory remains of one who laboured not for self, who cast away thoughts of personal glory, and did his utmost for his fellows. Swansea West Wales, sorrows with the family; but in their sorrow is a grateful acknowledgment also for j the gift—cut short though it was in its prime-of one who helped to make the world a better place than he found it. EVER HIGHER PRICES. I Swansea people, and indeed people of every town in the King- dom, will have read with some hops of the threat to strike made by the Consumers' Council unless the I Ministry of Food takes some action to stop "the continual rise in ths prices of foodstuffs—and we are sure they will add that, in other articles besides foodstuffs there is need of a check being placed upon the ever increas- ing cost of things. Are we helpless creatures, consigned by some mal- ignant economic fate to be at the mercy of increases which daily arc making- life harder, and are un- doubtedly doing much to foment un- rest in the land? The writer was told yesterday, in one of the boot shops of the town, that after that tradesman's present Stock of war- time boots had been sold out, he expected they -would be compelled tc charge anything from 50s. to 60s. for men's footwear. Our male readers know very well the startling increases that have taken place quite recently in the price of dress, and in every household the wife be moans the price she has to pay for those articles of attire which appeal most to her. There is only one. solution of the difficulty. It was a mistake of th: Ministry of Food to give in to the agitation for de-control, and it will be a still greater mistake if the Gov- emment does not extend the opera lions of control to other articles be I sides those of food. We believe that the Swansea Food Control I Committee, going a little outside it I province in the interests of the town, has made representations on I this matter, and these may be of considerable service, since it is said ÎI, political circles that the whole matter of control is undergoing re- I consideration at the hands of th,- War Cabinet. Profiteering works down to the I [humblest traders. You will find it I on the Swansea Market to-day among the hucksters as well as I among the more ambitious traders in. other centra of business. Absurd prices are being asked for vegetables—prices which no con- cession to the excuse of increased cost of living" can justify. Un- fortunately those who pcess up prices can command their own mar- ket, in a town like Swansea, where so many people are more prosperous than they have ever been. Many women, coming from homes into I which a mint of money flows every ¡ week, do their marketing upon a < fine and large scale; they do not, seem to care what price they giv-i for such things as poultry and the scarcer vegetables. If they hav-i I the money they pay it- withou thought. The people who are hit are those whose wages have scarcely kept pace with the increased cost of living, especially the people of th. middle class, who probably have. never been more badly off than they are to-day. The situation of course is not an easy one. As Mr. McC-urdy, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Food Ministry, pointed out this week, there is still a world-shortage of supply and a world excess of do- b1- :> mand. And the excess of demand' over supply leads, in the absence of control, to a rise in prices out of proportion to that excess. In towns like Swansea, where a. certain per- centage of the population is more prosperous than it has ever been, 'here are influences working to in- flate prices of the sort to which we have referred above. There are, of course, international circumstances against which any government will; 'be powerless, but long-sighted action } now may save the extremity of crisis when peace is signed, and the Central European States will come into the market for food. Th:- Government may be powerless to control prices in foreign markets,, or to re-establish the system of group buying which proved so valuable during the war; but if they continue tfee policy of strict control, we be- < lieve they will be acting in line with public feeling. It is said that the wisdom of rc. constituting control over a number of commodities besides food is I being discussed by the War Cabi- net, and we are warned that anv such step would meet with strong II opposition in influential quarters. However strong the opposition, it is I necessary that it should be faced and beatén down, because, wherever we turn, there seems to be no fin ality in prices. The market seema b be going up and ever up; There j have been, in some articles, sharper rises since the Armistice than during I the course of the war, and it al)- pears as though the real explana- tion of these increases is that we are in the grip of price-raising com- bines and great trusts. The opera- tions of the law of supply and do mand of course are factors in the situation, but beyond this there is a suspicion, in the mind of nearly ivery person who thinks upon the matter, that increases in some directions are not attributable to economic reasons, but to the piracy of people who have pistolled in upon the market. These people I have to be ruthlessly put down.

WANTED TO BE RUN IN. Vagrant's Attack on a Llan- dovery Window. George Taylor, a vagrant, was dharged II at Llandovery on Friday with doing damage to the extent of £ 20 by smashui" a plate glass window at Trafalgar House, tho shop of Councillor S. H, Price. Mr. A. Q. Lucas, of Castle-street, said lie heard a crash, and on going outside lie saw prisoner hitting the glass with i i.tick, and then kicking it, with the result that on the second or third effort he put iiis foot through. P.S. Deans said he met defendant with a crowd of people around him in Broad. ,-treet. Asked why he smashed the window, he. said he was getting tirfvd of t icing on the road, and wanted to ho run in. 'j Deputy Chief Constable Evans: And i you obliged him?—Yes. Defendant: I admit I did it wilfully. 1 The Chairman (Aid. Watkins): It is i a pity you could not achieve your object in a cheaper way. I Deputy Chief Constable Evans said hp had inide inquiries of the Leeds police, una could trace nothing previously j ('ei<nc'ant. lie was staying there j in March last, and living on his Army j' gratuity. The Chairman: We are agreed to send j you to Carmarthen for three months. I hope you'll do nothing of this kind again. i next Hme 1 d° bigg<* next time.

PEACE CELEBRATION. -4- ¡ Two Days' Programme for i Gorseinon. I Rcpresentatu-es from all the tOOl1l'¡ churches, and delegates from the Trade Lmon branches, met at the Institute ?orM.,non, to draw up the ?ro?ra.mme for the forthcoming Peace celebrations. Mr. Uiomns Lewis, Bryngwvn Hall, was unanimously voted to the chair. The fol- lowing programme was adopted:— First Day.—Intercession service to bo held at each place of worship at 10.30 a.m.; united mans meeting: in fho 3 in the afternoon, and if the weather is unfavourable, a united English .service at St. itirch and a Welsh service at Seion; united singing festival in the Park at 6.30 p.m., and if wet united singing festivals to be held at Soion and I Dhenezer. Second Day.—United procession to com- mence froin-Aloxandra-road at 1.30 p.m., headed by the GorseinoJi Temperance Band. Ceti to be provided for an at the Girls and Boys' Council Schools from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., sports and games to be provided nt the Park, even-tody to take part in the proceedings irrespective of sect or ere% d. THE EXPENSES. I It was announced' at the meeting that Major David Lewis, J.P.. Messrs. W. T'ufus Lewi?, J.P., and Thomas Lewis (Bryngrryn Hall) have promised to give A220 cl,,Ii towards the expenses. Councillors David Davics and W. P. "Evns were nominated to wait upon the other emoloyers of In..bour in the disirict. with a view of getting further donntions, as the expense in connection with the celebrations will run into several hundreds of pounds. -i-

COL. BRUCE VAUGHAN. I Cnlonel E. M. Bruce-Vai^han., V.D., '?M! at his residenee, 14. Newnort-roor C?rf?f?, on Friday, at the a?e of 62. H?a' 'iMlfh had been failing for veral j -onthp A w€? ago his coT'niHon be- j came 6Dddpn!y WorSÐ, and he decided! ?pon a hiir-i?d visit to a Lo?on SPPOill-. i ?st. The searching examination s?'pr?y tried his weakened constitution, and- it was not possible to allow him to undergo what would have been a serious operation. An architect by profession, Col. Bruce Vaughan specialised in ecclesiastical architecture, and throughout South Walss —particularly in Glamorgan, Monmouth- shire, and Carmarthenshire—thorp stand to his credit modern edifices, renovated churches, and internal adornments in the j fcrm of rood screons, reredos examples, etc., which are strikingly beautiful in de- s-on and execution. ,L ¡ i. -—— —

 FARM TRAGEDY  BROTHERS C0MTE8 1 FOR TRIAL ii I At Aborayron, on Friday, the brother's: James Evans (20) and William Joseph 1 Evans (16) were committed, for trial at i the Assizas on the charge of murdering til-Eir mot'her, Mary Evans (-17) axid their ) brother, Samuel Evans (23) by shooting them at their home, Cluwdd Moel Farm, Tahxirn, on the 29th April. "Whou formally charged by the chair-) man (Aldeivnan J. M. Hovv'eil) the accusc-d both p'le:lderd nol guilty." The csee had been adjourned since the 15h May, and yesterday fresh evidence l i was called. The frosh evidenca was the discovery by the polico of further cartridges in the j house on subsequent visits and a state- ment by pThomas Evans, fchopkeep-er, Temple Bar, that between 11 and 12 on the morning of the 23'Jh April, William Joseph Evans called a.t the shop for eigarettee. WHEN DID DEATH OCCUR? Mr. Trevor Hunter, for the defence, submittal that the prosecution had failed to rnako out a prima facie case. There j were many things in doubc. One was as to Ihe time of the death of the deceased persons. That it took place not later than 4 o'clock ivas not iu doubt, but how much earlier was kftt entirely at large. it was a great mis-fortune, he <?aJd, that j through an oversight that at the post- mortem examination the oonten ts of the '/omacbs were not examined. The rs- ma?ns of food would have shown how I' a p?al had been taken before death, or whether they died before the mid-day meal. Such evidence would have shown with regard to the accused that it was im- possible they could have been the guilty persons, and they must have lef the neighbourhood of the farm before either the mother or brother were murdered.

GLYNEA EXPLOSION. I ■ »■< £ ■— ■ ■. Inquest on Liwynhsndy Man I Adjourned. The inquest on David Evans (i-t), Cite Llewelyn Issa, Llwynhendy, a victim of the GJynea Colliery explosion, was opened by Mr. W. W. Broclie on Friday, when Mr. F. N. Powell represented the com- pany, and Mr. Own, H.M. Inspector, appeared for the Home Office. John Bevan, deceased's brother-in-law, said the deceased had of late been anaemic, but wa-s able to follow his work as a pumpman. Deceased died at the hospital on the llth inst. At this stage the Coroner said that in consequence of a telegram received from H.M. Inspector of Mines for South Wales the inquest would be adjourned for a fortnight.

FARM COURTSHIP. I Soldier and Seventeen-Year- Old Girl's Baby. The story of a courtship which started during the ploughing season of last year was told at Llandovery on Friday, when Dorothy Lilian Lant, of King's Arrns- street, summoned Robert Eaton, of For- est-road, Everton, Liverpool, to show causf, etc. Complainant, an attractive looking girl, who appeared in court with a baby in her arms, gave her age as 17 iD September, She met defendant, who was up to re- cently in the Army, in March of last year, when he was working on Tanrallt Farm near the town. He used to visit her at I her home, and they frequently went for walks on the Brecon road. Applicant pro- I duced a number of letters and postcards she had received from defendant, who had always told her he was a single man, and I' that prior to joining the Army he worked in a baker's shop. LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN. I Mr. R. W. Price, solicitor for applicant, asked for the production of a private) letter which had been sent to the chair- jI man. ( The clerk said it had not been put in as evidence, and was a private communica- tion addrestjed to the chairman, and no- body but the chairman and himself had seen it. i The chairman said they had decided to j make an order, but could not decide as to the amount until they had some informa- tion as to the man's means. The fixing of the amount was deferred fr a month so that evidence as to caro- l ings may be,obtained

STREET PROWLER. I v Sordid Story of Llanelly II Man's Life. Charles Tucker, Gatygarn. was I char-red at Llanelly on Friday with stealing scrap iron and five chickens. P.C. W. Kees saw defendant coming I from the direction of Hannah-street. carrying a bag in which there v. ere cast steel shells similar to those at the North Dock Defendant pleaded guilty, and said he picked up a piece of a bomb, and, when a man shouted to him, he put it down. He then asked the man if there was any objection to his picking stuff from the rubbish, heaD. an the reply ivas el No." CHICKEN THEFT. I The second charge was then proceeded \'ith, and A. E. Warren, farm bailift. said that on the 11th inst. he had 11 c hickens at the back of his house, Gatv. gam Cottage. They were pure-bred White Wyandottes. On the 12th inst. found five missing, and he valuec them at L3. Defendant said, he only took three. and one died. ] PROWLED THE STREETS." I Supt. Ll. Jones reported that defen- dant was before the Court in April c'lsrgod with larcpnv of coal. Defen- j danit was living on the proceeds of pros- t-icntioo' and tueft. He prowled about the streets at all hours of the nibbt. Hi* I child was being maintained at the work- house, and his wife was away lea.ding an immoral life. The theft of scrap at tho- docks was disgraceful, and somethin g should be done to suppress it. The Bench sent defendant to prison for two months with hard labour.

PREMIER AT KIDWELLY. I Amongst things shown at the Carmar- thenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club at Kidwelly was a beautiful casket to be presented to the Prime Minister, containing scroll, when he will visit Kid- welly to receive the Freedom of the Bor- ough.

TOWN TALK. A little girl put tho following poser to her father last night: "What do the driver of the watering-cart do on wet days? He was beaten, — o'— There has only been one interment at tie Cwmgelly Cemetery during this week --an unprecedented incident in the annal o- this well-known burial place. -;0:- The rain storms this week have been liailed with delight by agriculturists and allotment holders. What beautiful weather! they exclaimed in joyful chorus. — *>:— In defiance of all superstition, we are sure that the new Victory loan will be a great success, although the prospectus i,as issued on a Friday and that Friday was the 13th day of the month! In some districts tinplaters are sub- mitring their iioticc-s to an alarming extent, in order to enter the coal mines. Some people, qualified to pass an opinion, are decidedly pessimistic with regard to the future of the trade. -:0:- Celtic scholars will bo interested in the discovery, during excavations in tho island of Guernsey, of a cromlech. Not much notice was taken of it at first, but on a party going to investigate, it waa found to be of a very ancient pattern. -:0:- The diving stage in front of the Cor- poration cubicles on the Swansea Sands was washed away by the storm. It will, however, soon be replaced, and there will also be a moveable arrangement which wiil permit of bathers taking a "header"- instead of creeping in by inches. "0.- It is of interest that the King, in thank- ing the Abyssinian Mission, which bore a letter of congratulation from the Empress and Regent of Abyssinia upon the suc- cess of the Allied arms in the war, re- ferred to their country, throughout hid speech, as Ethiopia, its ancient title. The cost of living has gone up. Cocoa-nut shies are two a penny, or seven for threepence; Hoopla runs to seven tings for 3d., and it isn't a bit easier than i.- was to drop the ring on the half-crown piece, while to enter the dragon on the roundabouts costs no less than 3d. -:0:- One of the London papers this week had an article on how to manage a home. A local demobbed soldier talking on this subject, yestejrtay, said: The managing of a home is slfcomparatively easy job-the trouble is to find one of your own to manage. Now, I'm living with my mother- in-law (Censored). -:0: A Swansea district collier indignantly denies the charge that the coal shortage is due to slacking among the men, and points out that far more coal could be raised to the surface if the arrangements underground for supplying the men with trams were better organised. What's the good of cutting coal if you can't clear it? he asks. — JO:— Swansea bowlers have long maintained that the standard of bowling in the town is far higher than in most centres in Wales. Judging by the performances of Abertawe woodrollers who periodically take part in tournaments away from home and their number is by no means small—there is a lot of truth in the contention. -:0. A couple of men called at the house of an enthusiastic plotter in the Brynmill area last night, urgently requesting the occupant to attend an important meeting. But he was not at home. Investigation, however, found him seated on the patch observing tl.1<A effects of the rain-in other words, watching the stuff growing. He refused to budge. —<0! — The Whitsuntide visitors to Swansea seem to be making a long holiday of it. A local man—whose own house is already rail up-scoured the west end of the town last night to find apartments for friends, who are coming next week. It was only with great difficulty that he could secure rooms, all of the usual boarding places in the St. Helen's-avenue district being full. -:0: It must be galling to those who have to pay such high prices for fish to read that large quantities of fish were being1 destroyed for manure. It was also stated that in some fishing ports, if the price offered for tha fish was not satisfactory, the same was taken out to sea and thrown overboard. But this does not apply to Swaifiea, as the fish brought in is soon flold. —• Ot — The newsfcoy is nothing if not originaj. Last evening a Leader boy oaused a gcod many people to smile when he shouted: Another German submarine sunk! They didn't realise that this was literally true until they read in their paper that a U-boat had been lost whilst being tawed from Chatham to Swansea. Ha ve a bit on the Leader" boy every timei -:0:- The suggestion put forward that prayer should be made for min recalls an inci- dent when such a petition was made .by a curate fresh from college. When this was followed by a devastating stoxm, an old farmer, who had shaken his head over the proceedings, declared he hnd known tt what would come of getting a town man to pray who had no idea of what the country needed." -:0:- Early this week a paragraph appeared bemoaning the spoiling of the beauty of the cliff, round Langland by the gorse being accidentally put on fire. Many other places in the country have suffered in like manner, and the damage done is very extensive. A fire brigade which tried to prevent the spreading of the fire at one place used as much as a quarter of a million gallons of water. — :0:— It will interest Welsh people generally to know that a daughter of the late Mr. Ffrangcon Davies, the well-known bari- tone, Miss Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, will make an appearance as a singer next Monday evening at Aeolian Hall. Miss Ffrangcon Davies, it is stated, has found a very interesting: itetu for her pro- gramme, the first w performance of a. group of songs bv John Dowland (1563- IC26), with harpsichord accompaniment. —: o: — An amusing anecdote was related by onek of the preachers at the recent Baptist Con- ference held at Caersalem Newydd, Tre- boeth. He gave it as an illustration of the unbending faith of a drunkard converted to Christianity. Questioned one day by a cynic as to whether he believed in the miracle of Christ turning water into wine, the zealous convert answered: Yes. and if you will come along with me I will show you a greater miracle still; you will see beer turned into furniture and car- wets I" -4 at One of the most important subjects dif cussed at the conference of the Pcmbrok< shire Baptists was the question of havir the Bible read daily in all public school This was unanimously approved of by t del egates, and a resolution was forward to the Countv Education Authority that effect. The contention was that t* would better mora By and socially coming generation, instead of the preft unsatisfactory system of leaving }>bM knowledge entirely dependent on. tlv Aar KchooL whara so f-arw j I> "Z' ')0 :t.