Compulsion To Go To Church
(Recall p.m.) LONDON, May 3.
What happens when servicemen are made to go to religious services? . . Mr J. P. W. Mallalieu (Labour) who served in the Navy told the Commons yesterday that one sailor spent every service trying to see how many times he could spit into the hat of the man in front of him. Mr Chuter Ede (Labour) said that soldiers sang the lewdest parodies of hymns sotto voce during services. Mr Mallalieu was trying to persuade the House to amend a Naval Discipline Bill to make attending services voluntary. He failed. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr Christopher Soames) said that compulsion no longer existed. But, Mr Mallalieu said: ‘lt is an old practice to have distasteful alternatives.” Mr Emyrs Hughes (Labour): “There is a church service in this House every day, but there is no compulsion. “It is said the Chaplain looks around at the members and prays for the country.”
Daylight Saving. Mayor George Jacobs objected to daylight saving time when it was adopted by the city of Paducah last week. Now he likes it even less. At dawn each morning an unidentified caller telephones Mr Jacobs, with the message: “Mayor, it’s time to get up.”—Paducah (Kentucky), May 2.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28268, 4 May 1957, Page 11
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