NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 56, 4 May 1928, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Bigamy is on the increase in England and in one case where an adventurer was convicted it was shown that he had married eighteen women. The judge said he found it difficult, under the present law, to fix a punishment that would be adequate. It is only a suggestion, but His Lordship might have considered making the prisoner live with his mothers-in-law for a term. * •* « - The Canadian law regarding alien and British-born Communists is to be tightened up, provision being made for deportation without trial. Of course there is the usual howl about every man's right to a trial before a British jury and so forth. However, it certainly seems there is something wrong with the reasoning Ipowers of those who; advocate extending British privileges to those who are working for Be overthrow of the Empire and the four square justice for which it stands. Chili places all Communists on an island where they can work out their ow n plans of existence, and if other countries did likewise, it would go a long way towards removing the Bolshevik menace. ** * * Mr E. G. Theodore, ex-Premier of Queensland, and now in the Federal House of Representatives, recently had to explain to his followers why he dared own shares thus presumably becoming a plutocrat. He admitted that he did own shares in an oil boring company, but added that it was not a profit-making concern, and thus he got back into favour. Now we find ano Tess dyed-in-the-wool labourite than Rev. J. IK'. Archer, President of the New Zealand Labour Party and Mayor of Christchurch discarding the democratic bike for the plutocratic motor car He has just bought a car and is learning to drive it, so we may soon expect "comrades" demanding to know why. If we know Mr Archer anyone foolish enough to take up such an attitude will be sorry he spoke. * lr *- If The phase: "Wait and see" is always associated with the name of the late Earl of Asquith and Oxford. In his book "Fifty Years of Parliament," the late statesman tells of the occasions on which he made the new famous remark. It was used twice on the one day, April 4, 1910, in the House of Commons. He was questioned as to the probability of changes in the reintroduced Budget of 1909 o n the matter of Irish finance, and replied: "I am afraid we must wait and fiee." When asked by what procedure the constitutional resolutions would be' introduced into the House of Lords, he said: "The hon. member must wait and see." "It is curious," Lord Oxford commented, "that a common colloquialism such as this, casually used to discourage premature curiosity, should have passed for a time into the slang with politics, and even been caricatured into an axiom of policy." He records that the same words had been used by Lord John Russell, Mr Joseph Chamberlain, and by Napoleon in one of the conversations at Elba.