WIDE WORLD NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14706, 5 June 1920, Page 3

WIDE WORLD NEWS.

Police Inspector Henry, of New York, who has been indicted by; a, grand jury, is charged with permitting more than. 100 houses of ill-rcputo to operate in his district. Two detectives and four restaurant proprietors have also been indicted on similar charges. Mr Smith, assistant district, attorney, who declares that still higher officials aro implicated,, pointed out to the jury that Inspector Henry had £16.000 to his account in Wall Street., though his salary was only £9OO a year. # Tt is not often that, a man has the chance to sign his own death certificate. says a Geneva message, but this has happened to a French soldier named Bregot. of Bel fort. who. although in good health, has been officially reported, i\s "missing" nnd tlien as "killed. Xto recently received a visit, from a gendarme who asked Tiim if ho were Bregot., and, being told "yes. ' asked him to si<ni his name. Tho gendarme lett. and Bregot then examined tho folded paper, and discovered it- was his death certificate. Bregot, has begun what will probably prove to be a long legal process to prove that ho aliv/e. The New York "World correspondent at Tronton. Ohio, sends an extraordinary story of tho return to life of M l>s Elisabeth' Blake, aged 72; of Coryvillc, a prominent spiritualistic medium, tour hours after a physician had pronounced her to be dead. Mrs Blake is not expected to live another day.. She talked little, but, is quoted as having whispered that she had seen her husband, who died last November. Tho aged spiritualist. was stricken with pneumonia, several days ago. At noon yesterday there was no si#n of a- heart boat. Rigor mortis set in, and sho was pronounced" de;ul by a physician, and tho undertaker was summoned. Shortly ■iftcr four o'clock persons in the room were' shocked to see the woman s eyes open and a. pink tmgo diffuse hoi cheeks, llestorativo measures were applied. and Mrs Blako recognised thoso at tho # The Germans are working feverishly at the construction of giant commercial and passenger airships and aeroplanes. According to a report from Romanshorn, tho first 0 i;L „ giants took place successfully above Lake Constance recently. Tho Noid stern, which greatly surpasses tho Bodensee in capacity and power, flow for half an hour round tlie lake with a crow of seven, whilo a now giant hydroplane, whoso motors total 1000 horse-power, made aerial trips with twenty passengers. Both, machines were (lately completed at Fricdnchr shafen, where the factory in size since the armistice, Tho construction of other monsters has already begun. The Germans aro koop-in-r tho results of tho trials secret, and the German newspapers alßo romain silent oil the subject. Owing to the unfavorable rate of exchange and the high cost of living, prices of recent English and American; books 011 philosophy, . seienro and literature have made it impossible for the universities of Central Europe keep in touch with English and American thought. Ten shilling books for example, cost an equivalent of more than £9 in Germany and £3O in Austria. It is therefore proposed to establish iu Central .Europe, under British-American auspices, one or more libraries of recent English books indispensable to university teachers. These libraries will supply on loan works needed bv the facu tics- of the different universities. All university teaching in the United Kingdom and America arc requested, to give their approval and co-operation to a plan, which already has the support of many influential educationists. „ Lord "Robert, Cecil has laid before Ins Hertfordshire constituents an interesting scheme for tho application of tlio profit-sharing and co-partnership principle to agriculture Briefly, tho details of tho scheme lay down that the farmer would bo the employer, and entitled to salary as manager. Tlw meii would be paid tho prevailing tiado union rate. Profits would bo divided on the basis of services rendered the value of these services being determined bv the amount paid for them m the form' of management salary and workers' wages. Tho landowner would rev ceivo rent at market rates," but would/ have no share in tho profits, "because ho is not a. partner in the risks. Lord Robert takes, as a practical example, tin imaginary farm of 300 acres, requiring a capital of £4/500. The manager s salary is put at, £260, and tho total labor bill (nine men at 4*s per week) is reckoned at £llOO. Interest on capital is put at £315, and estimated profit of £167 10s gives each of tho men 2s for every £ of wages. Ihe former, as manager, would get £26 profit m addition to his salary. Other features in the scheme aro a reserve fund, to meet losses owing to the inevitable fluctuation of profits in farming. It is further suggested that tho men would bo encouraged to take up a share m the capital, such shares to bo sold only to the employer on tho owner dying or leaving tho farm. "It must bo clearly laid down," says tho scheme, "that tho manager has completo control, but it will bo well to have a small committee of tho men, which ho could consult." ... * * * * According to the !Rcv. 33. S. ICelk, late of Halifax, Yorkshire, who has been appointed principal of the Parkip Congregational Church, Adelaide, and arrived by the Orsova recently, tho industrial position in England is alarming. He said that even more so than in Australia, wages were chasing prices in a vicious circle. Everything was chaotic. People were chaotic iu their thinking. Old political parties had been broken up, and everybody was drifting on a strange sea. The profiteering was abominable, and nothing had vet been done to deal effectively with 'it, tho established tribunals bemg a. laughing stock. But dear as commodities were in Australia, they were far dearer in England. One often heard about the new rich, but little wasi heard about the new poor,, whoso lot was ben coming increasingly hard. The upper classes.were making huge profits, and workers with their increased wages had some chance of making a, living; but people in between —particularly thoso on fixed salaries —were being hard pressed. Tho tendency in England in industrial circles, added Mr Kelk, was toward nuild organisation. , '• « • • The story of a remarkable surreal operation was told in tho Criminal Court at Pittsburg by Dr J. F. Berg, of St. John's Hospital, in the tnal or John Hoza. accused of attempting to kill Steve Belonik in a. fight on> April 9, 1919. Dr Berg exhibited X-ray plates winch provided a startling record of Belonik's case. He testified, that Belonik had received a, stab wound in l the back, which had cut the left ventricle. of the heart. "I opened the chest, removing several ribs, and sewed the heart up, putting six stitches in it," said the surgeon. "The man was out of danger on April 21." The skiagraphs showed the heart and tho sutured incision.