The North Devon Journal-Herald from Barnstaple, Devon, England (2024)

DIOCESAN MISSIONARY WORK. Combined Effort at Barnstaple. A combined effort on behalf of the work of Churches overseas, in the form of a sale of work, took place on Friday at Barnstaple Parish Church Rooms, when Preb. E. Keid, Secretary to the Diocesan Missionary Council, presided and performed the opening ceremony.

It was the 6th annual effort held Barnstaple on behalf of the Barnstaple Deanery, and the Societies represented were the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. C.M.S. General, C.M.S. Medical, and the Church of England Zenana Mission. The Rev.

J. C. Mitchell, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Barnstaple, was the General Secretary. In an address, the Rev. A.

Hunt, formerly of Queensland, Australia, pointed out the necessity for continued support for the work of the 'mission field, and referred to the difficult conditions under which the clergy ministered in Queensland. Tbe. rev. gentleman added that the money of the various missionary societies found its way to deserving settlers, and did not go to undeserving cases. The stall-holders were as follows: S.P.G.

J. Harrison, J. ('. Mitchell and Reeve, and Misses Owen and Pemberthy Zenana F. M.

Wallington. Vellacott, R. H. Cutbush, ancl J. H.

Boyd, and Misses Vellacott and Crocker; Summers and Misses Terry and Gammon: C.M.S" Product Mortlock Brown and Bickfield Medical Mission Mesdames T. P. Dimond-Hogg, J. C. Dixey, Meaden, and Cobley, and Misses Bacon and Svmons; C.MS.

F. Burt, Brindley, Stone, and Foster. Tea was served under the direction of Mrs. C. Pitts-Tucker by Miss Carter and Mesdames Aze, Beer, Mays and Parker.

"CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH." Address at Barnstaple. 'in connection with the Newport branch of the. C.E.M.S., Dr. H. C.

Jonas, Officer of Health for the borough, gave a interesting address on Sunday, entitled Crabbed Age and Youth," in which he said that youth considered mental decay to be the attribute of anyone fifteen years older than himself. This had been the standpoint ever since the creation of mankind upon the earth. The cause of these bickerings between youth and age today was that for the last hundred years civilisation had been far less occupied material things. and had completely ignored the things of the Spirit. Dr.

Jonas added that "this world, which is being inherited by the youth of today, is capable of giving ta every man a good life. Everything needful can be produced with less toil than ever before. But we are so inured to toil that we have forgotten the meaning of the word life." There was a very large congregation present. Mr. B.

W. Oliver conducted his orchestra which played "March." by Caleb Simmer. "Schubert's Selection" (Urbach). "Bells (Bizer), overture, "Caliph of Baghdad," by Boieldien. A solo was also rendered by Mr.

J. Brayley. accompanied by Mr. A. T.

Long. "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross," the lesson being read by Mr. W. Nicbolls. NEW HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY FOR BARNSTAPLE.

The establishment of an horticultural society for Barnstaple having been suggested by lovers of flowers and others, a public meeting to discuss the question was held at the Guildhall on Friday evening. Presiding over a representative attendance, Mr. E. C. Thorne thought there was room for such a society for the borough and district.

If Bideford could successfully run a society of this kind, surely Barnstaple could. He stressed the point that it should be a new society, and said the main object was to start with chrysanthemums and autumn flowers. Capt. R. G.

F. Beale pointed out that in the district there were several wellestablished horticultural societies. In Barnstaple care would be necessary in starting a new institution, as he knew of at least one big show in North Devon which was finding it increasingly difficult to keep its head above water. Of course, if shows were run, exhibitors would expect prizes, and he suggested that the best course would be to form a society and first put it on a good footing, and not to have shows at least for some time. E.

C. Cooke spoke of the enthusiasm prevailing among growers of flowers in regard to starting the new Society. Mr. E. Shutler agreed that if Bideford could run a show Barnstaple could.

If they had a North Devon show it should bo held in Barnstaple. as Barnstaple was the metropolis of North Devon. If they were going to run chrysanthemums, they should provide a few classes for apples and pears, for these could be grown without professional care. There was no better land in the world for growing fruit than around Ba rnstaple. Mr.

Goss thought if a society was formed it would be just as well to improve their education on horticultural problems by having lectures before holding shows. Mr. F. Bickford thought that they should start in a small way, because if they began in a big way they would soon be difficulties. Mr.

H. E. Warwick pointed out that there was already an Allotment Association, but shows were not now functioning. There was certainly room for the suggested society. The Allotment- Association had run shows with seme success, and on the last occasion put a fine schedule before the public, but it clashed with an election, and it was decided not to run the show.

On the motion of Mr. Bickford. seconded by Mr. Warwick it was decided to form an horticultural society in Barnstaple, and it was also decided to call it Barnstaple and District Horticultural Society Mr. H.

Cotterill said they should dismiss entirely from their mir.ds the question of holding a show for the present. Horticultural societies were not run altogether for the benefit of the shows, but for propagating knowledse by lectures. Subscriptions were fixed at 2s. 6d. per annum.

A number of those present paid their subscriptions, and a balance in hand of 30s. was later reported. OF OFFICERS. This resulted as follows Mr. E.

G. Thorne: Secretary. Mr. E. C.

Cooke; Treasurer. Mr JT. Cotterill; Committee. Messrs. H.

E. Warwick. F. Bickford. W.

E. Dart. A. Halls, J. Van stone.

They could not both be right. If one road led to peace the other road led to war, and the responsibility to chose between those two roads rested upon the electors. It seemed to him that surely that Peace Ballot offered them an opportunity to consider for a moment in relative quietude which was the wiser course. They could not evade that choice. NO PARTY POLITICS.

If they did not make that choice now. when the Bailot paper came to their home, they would have to make it in a year's or a couple of years' time at a General Election. Because, he stressed, our foreign policy was an integral part of this question upon which they would have to pass judgment as an electorate and as members of a democratic society. They were called upon at an election to consider policies and to accept the responsibility of determining our country's policy. If they did not use their vote they left it to those who did.

Was it not better that this serious question should be isolated from the host of others with which it would be mixed up if they deferred it to a general election, with all the noise and turmoil of that general election, where it would be mixed up with Free Trade, Protection, Empire Free Trade, Quotas, Ottawa Policy, India, the School Age, Grants to Religious Bodies, the Reform of the House of Lords, Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Capitalism? All those things would be bellowed and shouted at them during a General Election, and in that turmoil, and among those questions, the most vital of all would be the question upon that Ballot. "Honest Injun I which was the best, time to think it over for a few minutes?" Tt seemed to him that.the Ballot offered them just the kind of opportunity that democracy ought to have to consider in quietude this question on its merits without having to mix it up in company with all those other problems. It was perfectly within the capacity of the ordinary voter to make a wise decision on that question, but he suggested that on one condition only, and that was that they use the knowledge which they already possessed and apply it to the answering of those questions. THE FIVE QUESTIONS. All those five questions could be answered on the basis of the knowledge which was in their common possession.

They did not need to be a specialist or an expert they did not need special knowledge, esoteric knowledge, or training to be able to answer those questions, if they would apply sort of knowledge they could in their ordinary daily newspaper applied shrewdly and with commonsense. The trouble in politics was that they did not, as a rule, use the knowledge they possessed they seemed to forget that knowledge. Dealing with the questions regarding the League sometimes raised at meetings, Sir Norman said that the other day he got this question "Is the lecturer aware that the League is proving more costly than armaments, and takes money that ought to be kept at home, and that this extravagance seriously endangers our national finances?" (Laughter.) "DRIP, DRIP, DRIP." think I know tbe source of that question," remarked Sir Norman, observing that it was not the result of just one paragraph wh'eh appeared in certain newspapers, but it was the result of the almost daily drip, drip, drip, 'of suggestions. Such suggestions as the typists at Geneva are overpaid, that they wear silk stockings, that they rode in taxi-cabs. They all knew the kind of suggestions, and they left the first impression that the League of Nations was costly even as compared with tbe cost of armaments.

Since one had to use names, Lord Beaverbrook the other day honoured him (Sir Norman) with a long letter addressed to his own newspaper no later than a week ago. in which tie stood by this the cost of the League of Nations was a serious drain iupon our resources, and he said it cost £212.000 a year. COST OF THE LEAGUE. Reading that, one was apt to say that was a lot of money. It was; but let them examine it in relation to the cost of armaments.

If they could save one battleship and invest the money it would cost at 3 per cent, they would then be able to pay Britain's contribution to the League of Nations for all time without ever asking the British public to contribute another penny. The League of Nations cost rather less than the stationery, the writing paper and envelopes for the Admiralty. (Laughter, and applause.) The League of Nations cost us about one penny per head per year; the cost of one "Daily Express" in a year. (Laughter, and applause.) The armament system, the system of isolated arming, cost us (when we considered the interest on our debts, our estimates, and the rest of it) not one penny per head per year, but about £10 per head per year. And, somehow, everyone of us had to contribute, not directly, but somehow, to this cost.

On the average, put in terms of families of seven, it made a contribution per family to armaments of £70 a year, whilst in the same way the family's contribution to the League of Nations was sevenpence per year. He was interested to know that Lord Beavorbrook should insist that it was important, as he evidently regarded the cost of the League as important. Just think what it meant? AX ARMISTICE THOUGHT. A little over a week ago they were celebrating the Armistice, and he sometimes wondered what they thought about in that two minutes, and he sometimes thought ii a shadow of one of the youngsters whose bones were left in Flanders were to come to them and remind them that twenty years ago the older ones urged that youngster to go out, and gave him the certain assurance that if we had to pay the final price, it would not be a vain sacrifice, and that we would use it to create a new order in the order that would render it unnecessary for his children, and those who came after him, to pass into can (Iron into which he had passed. Would he not remember being told that the last war was a war to end war: that it was to make his country safe for democracy: and that his country would be a place' fit for heroes to live in that there was to be a new order so that tbe future would not lie like the past? WouM that youngster not put the question "This is the sixteenth Armistice; you have had fifteen years to fulfil those promises are you doing about it? You have been deeply moved in the last few minutes, hut moved to do what? Are you prepared to make some sacrifice, remembering the sacrifice I made?" A PENNY PKI? YEAR.

Lord Beaverbrook thought that people might be dissuaded from the course that otherwise would seem to them to be advisable if he could say they would have to sacrifice one penny per year! That was the estimate Lord Beaverbrook gave of the extent of tbe sacrifice and the promises made to that youngster twenty years ago! "Am I unduly harsh?" Sir Norman asked. I Tn his submission he was only harsh in that Lord Beaverbrook perhaps did not realise what it meant and his readers did not realise it. What had to be done was to apply common knowledge to face the policies and the motives of those policies. Those who were influenced by the cost of the League did not apply the multiplication table to the problem. If they had taken that multiplcation table which every boy learned, and applied common knowledge, they would discover that they all knew that a battleship cost or nine millions sterling, and, with its upkeep, it was even more than our contribution to the League.

If they then applied common knowledge then the suggestion that they should be turned from a given policy because it cost them one penny a year, would be only a deadly insult. (Hear, hear.) ABOVE PARTY. He wanted to suggest that the more im- 1 portant and fundamental questions were not much more difficult of solution if they applied common knowledge in endeavouring to solve those questions. What was the essential difference between the method of what they might call the Beaverhrook-Rothermere method. and what they might call the Cecil-Lytton method Clearly those names showed that the issues had risen above the plane of party traditions.

He supposed they all belonged to the same party. Certainly they would not tell him that a man bearing the name of Cecil, a name that was not unassociated with the history of English Conservatism was likely to assent to revolutionary and anti-British policy. With a name like Lytton, a name associated not only with the great masterpieces of English literature but in the case of the present Earl with great achievements in the administration of the British with names like that they could not tell him that this was any longer in the region of party politics. TAVO METHODS. What was the difference between the two methods? The Cecil-Lytton method was a method of national defence, and was essentially a problem of defence, because all nations had decided that they would defend their country by arms.

Because we kept our Army and Navy meant that we were determined to fight for defence. Asking which was the way least likely to produce war, Sir Norman said indubitably the Cecil-Lytton method was the best, for it was by the collective method of defence was to say, for all the civilised nations to get together and to agree to pool their power to resist, a common endeavour to frustrate the warmonger. If the great nations of the wor could agree that the nation which went to war was a common enemy, they all combined against him, and they all defended against aggression, that was the true road to defence, and it was something they had to examine. The Beaverbrook-Rothermeie method was "Why worry about other nations and that we should depend on our own armed isolated effort to resist attack. Examining the armed isolation method Sir Norman said that meant they would Hare nothing to do with an outside war, and that we must be stronger than any nation likely to attack any probable enemy.

What about his defence? Was be to have none? They would see if we were stronger than he was we deprived him of defence, and he would be entitled to say. "My dear sirs, why is it you are to be stronger than we are?" We should reply, We sfrou'd never attack you. but he would say. "Winis it I should be the person to take the risk, and not you?" Thus, each nation said. "We want Peace, but.

of course, we shall defend ourselves if attacked, and. in order to be properly defended, we mr 4 he stronger than our neighbours." what became of the defence of the neighbours, who bad the right to say the same tiling? Tt was in tbe policies of defence which nations followed that the paradox could be explained. PARITY. Equality of power, word they would hear could never be achieved. If, for instance, America had more of a certain type of ship, we bad more coaling stations, and how many coaling stations go to how many shins? You could never equate the varying factors of power.

Six-inch gun cruisers were said to lie superior to eight-inch in foggy weather, because of greater quickness of manoeuvring. American experts in Washington had claimed that Britain's liability to fogs gave her six-inch gun cruisers a greater value than America's. "How many cruisers go to how much fog?" he asked. "That sort of debate could go on for ever, and the expert could always prove to them that the other nation had more power because of geographical position, or "fogs, or bogs, or hogs," or population, which had to taken into account. And if they could get parity, the other nations could upset it from one day to another by making a new alliance.

Whether we were adequately defended even in a technical sense, depended on what we had to meet, wdiether one nation or half-a-dozen, and that depended on the diplomatic, the political situation, so that ultimately defence was much more a political than a purely technical problem. 7 ho would Ik 1 with us, and who against us? That depended, not on the soldiers, but the statesmen. Many alliances disposed of the possibility of isolation. ISOLATION. Isolation conceivably might work if they did not go in for arms at all.

but armed isolation was almost a contradiction in terms, because alliances were sources of power like an armed force and submarines. The other fellow adopted it, and they were determined to keep their end up, and sooner or later they must adopt the system of alliances or drop out of the race. That was why Lord Beaverbrook's armed isolation was what Mr. Henry Ford said of history, "mainly bunk." We could not be isolated even a century before Christ. Before Christ we were concerned with what was going on on the Continent, and we had been concerned every century since.

We were now in the days of the aeroplane, when Delhi or Bombay was what Paris was in the days of our grandfathers. The ultimate problem of defence was who were those who wore against them? It was a political problem obviously, and that depended upon what their arms stood for and what policy. When tbev mt that to the technician, he said, "What our arms stand for is obvious they stand for defence." "WHAT IS DEFENCE?" All right, what did they mean by defence? To that the reply was, "Everybody knows what defence defence is, er defence." When they pressed the technician, he said, "We mean by defence what you mean when you shut your doors at night against the burglar. It means saying to the burglar in the shape of the to keep out of your household." "I am prepared to argue as an Englishman that every war we ever fought was purely defensive. But lam obliged to take note of the historical fact that every war for nearly a thousand years that we have fought in, without a single exception, has been in somebody else's country.

If defence means merely keeping the burglar out of your house, what were we doing all those times in other people's houses?" That did not mean that those wars were necessarily aggressive. He was prepared to argue that they were defensive, but they were not defensive merely of their soil, their goods, or similar things: they were defensive of their interests and rights, and possibly the interests and rights of other nations. So that defence really meant keeping their end up in their quarrels. When they put that to the brass-hat he rather welcomed it. and said, "Yes, that's what defence means defending our vital interests." We ask for greater power than the others, and pve the others the solemn assurance that that power will be used merely for defence, so that they need not be disturbed in the least.

But we would always be in a position to be sole judge of the question, and so much stronger than the other fellow, that he would have to accept our verdict without any possibility of a reply. if foreign nations said the same thing to us. he could conceive our reply would be that this was an outrage and that it violated the primary law of decent intercourse between nations. FATAL DILEMMA. That was the method by which, unfortunately, they were compelled, whether they liked it or not, to adopt in an isolationist put might behind the denial of right, which they claimed for themselves.

That was a denial of justice, because they did not grant to the other the right of sujieriority, the right of judgment, which they themselves claimed. There could be no equality of right in that. That was the fatal and dreadful dilemma which had dogged the footsteps of all European statesmen for centuries. Before the war we said. "Tf the power of Germany increases much more and she increases her machinery much more, we shall be defenceless.

Germany will have such superiority that it will take us years defending our vital interests and rights. That is a position tvhich no free people should ever occupy." So far we were riijht, but not quite so right when we added by implication that Germany should occupy it. She was refusing to occupy it. In reply they made the Treaty of Versailles, and he supposed they could get into one omnibus all the people in England who would say that Treaty was entirely a just document. The old method of national defence by competitive power failed even when it succeeded.

AVhen, that was, the armed competition resulting in war gave us victory. Had victory ensured us prosperity, economic stability, ensured such rights as the payment of debts due to us, freedom for our trade abroad, prevented action b- foreigners which jeopardised our national solvency The pre-War type of alliance, vague, noncommittal, partial, directed at securing a preponderance of power to be used for enforcing our own view of our own rights, held the maximum of risk of war and the maximum of security. This must be replaced by the League of Nations type of alliance, that of the collective system of defence by which all co-operated to restrain the aggressor, the state that refused to arbitration, and so ensures equality of right to all. ALL STANDING AGAINST WAR. From the very moment we created the collective system of all standing against war we created a fundamental law that everybody should arbitrate, and nobody go to war, and by that method we established equality of rights.

Arbitration might have inconveniences, but the worst arbitration was better than the best war. Sir Norman went on to show that by replacing the balance of power by the community of power did not mean being mixed up in every quarrel of the Continent, and did not necessary mean military action at all. If they could get agreement for limitation of armaments which carried, as it must do, inspection of war preparations, then any nation that violated the Convention would find necessary materials of war, like nickel, withheld. It would not be a war-time measure, but a peace-time one. The application for such a "sanction" would constitute no particular menace, because it would be applied before the aggression had accumulated means of any very dangerous aggression.

"If we have the will to do it the way can be found," declared Sir Norman. It was the only alternative, he said, to drifting back to our 1914 position. In that case our nation would not be protected, for our people would be slain in their tens of thousands, the whole apparatus of our own industry, trade, money, the means of daily bread would be reduced to even worse chaos than the last war had involved. "National defence" in those circ*mstances would be a bitter joke, however glorious our victory, for the nation. Civilisation and the welfare of the nations would have perished utterly.

At the conclusion of Sir Norman's speech there was a great and prolonged burst of applause. QUESTIONS. At question time Sir Norman Angeil was asked: Do we understand by international agreement that all nations must agree, and not only the great Powers? he replied, "it is merely the great Powers that ould have to agree at first. But a curious thing about this collective system was this, that all the lesser States practically, particularly the highly civilised ones like the Scandinavian States and Holland are ardent supporters of the collective sj'stem in Europe. They obviously recognised they were not strong of their own strength, and would like to feel their rights were based upon some general great European law.

But it was a great deal to have their support. Asked to what extent the other great Russia and bad faith in the better way, he said France, he thought, was more militaiy than we were, but she had done more than we had in proposing methods of mutual assistance, having gone further in proposals for things like abolishing her air force. And it had to be remembered that France was the greatest air power in the world, and had offered to abolish every aeroplane if they established international control. It did not mean she was merely in favour of Peace, it meant experience had taught her the need of a collective system. Russia had come in after having stayed out for fifteen years.

Although she did not believe in the economic system prevailing in the case of other members ol the League, she bore testimony to the fact that even Socialists and Capitalists could have things in common; fact, there were a good many things wTiieh nations with differing systems and outlooks could have in common, and maintaining law and order was one. Regarding Germany's position, Sir Norman said, 'We must remember in the case of Germany we are not blameless. We have not done our part of tbe bargain in the Treaty of Versailles." We had said that her disarmament was a prelude to our own disarmament. They would follow, he thought, where their real interest lav, if they could lie made to see this. Questioned as to whether he thought economic pressure on an offending nation won Id cause a blockade, the speaker replied.

"Not if the agreement was fairly wide." The cargoes would never leave the ports of export, and so there would be no stopping of cargoes at sea. He did not believe this ould cause blockades if they had a general system of economic "sanctions." Reference was made by Sir Norman to tbe control of tbe private manufacture arms, when the cruestion was asked as to what would happen under disarmament if the natives of India should rise. Remarking that if our men were ever shot down in India they would be shot down, by guns that were manufactured in British factories, "it is high time (he declared) that we started to control the arms traffic." After a warm expression of thanks to Sir Norman by tbe Chairman, the meeting; closed with the singing of the National Anthem. BARNSTAPLE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SOCIETY. Younger Contemporary Men Novelists.

1 Mr. L. r. Wilkinson, M.A., in his lecture at the Guildhall, Barnstaple, on Thursday, dealt with some of the younger contemporary men novelists. He first gave his audience a good idea of what constituted greatness in a novel.

Some books (he said) became popular for purely adventitious reasons. They appealed for a restricted period only, being based, perhaps on some topic just then in the limelight. -The book he mentioned was a bestseller ten years ago. It as written in a semi-literary style, but had in it no elements of greatness. Yet it had a tremendous vogue, simply because readers were lulled and soothed by it.

It flattered them and aroused their protective instinct for the hero, who appeared to involve himself, quite unnecessarily in many troublesome situations. It was true that many readers were lazy, and preferred the commonplace. The lecturer said a novel ought to give a new vision of life, and reveal to the reader something hitherto unsuspected. Great writers with original views of humanity made life a more varied and exciting thing. Novels that were merely propaganda or too typical did not attain immortality.

They had no interest for other generations. Mrs. Humphrey Ward, most modern of her time, and Ouida and Marie Corelli had no appeal to the present generation. Hugh Walpole and J. B.

Priestley were two of the most popular novelists to-day. They were admirable writers of great power and technique, but their works would not live. Twenty years hence there would be writers equally good, who would write in a manner more congruous with their own time. It was not sufficient to have mere narrative power. Writers must be able to project themselves into the minds of their creations and make them real.

Mr. Wilkinson commended T. F. Powys. author of "Mr.

eston's Good Wine" and "Kindness in a Corner." Powys had genius, and was widely acclaimed in Germany and Russia. In his puritanism and simplicity be was the spiritual descendant of John Bunyan. Many people of keen literary perception could not, however read him, but there was no occasion for discouragement. There were innumerable mansions in the realm of literature. Osbert Sitwell, member of a famous dilettante family, was praised for his satire, particularly when directed against petty snobbery, and the practice of literary men mutually praising one another's work.

Evelyn Waugh, David Garnett, and Robert Graves received attention, and tbe lecturer summed up the tendency of tho Dost-war period as one of revolt against the Victorian tradition. The experience of the ar years had embittered many, and it coloured and gave impulse to their writings. Interesting class work folloived the lecture, and many authors were discussed. BARNSTAPLE GAUMONT PALACE AND ROYAL WEDDING. To-Night's Ceremony.

With characteristic thoughtfulness, Mr. A. L. Parcener, manager of Barnstaple Gaumont Palace, has arranged an attraction for this (Thursday) evening which Ls wefl calculated to give infinite pleasure to the many patnMM of the luxury cinema as weJJ as to deserving little folk the districtin commemoration of to-day's Royal wedding in London, Mr. K.

I'earce, of the llorough Restaurant, has presented a handsome wedding cake, which has been on view in the entrance hall of the Gaumont during the past week. Patrons have been invited to guess the weight, and to make a contribution. The first six correct (or nearest) will entitle the holders to a season ticket for two for the month of December. At 8-30 tlus evening Mr. Pareewr will hand over the amount ronlributed to the Mayor, who has earmarked the cheque for children's treat fund, whilst the rake will be presented to Mrs.

('. nraimam, J.P., for the children of the Cottage Homes. This evening's ecrpmnny happens to coincide with the presentation of the arresting film, "Tarzan and his mate." in which the world-famous Johnny Wcissmuller Appears. There will he a special matinee at to-day, in addition to the usual Friday and Saturday matinees. INDIGESTION AND STOMACH PAINS Slopped in 5 minutes! your one overwhelming necessity when suffering the pains of indigestion.

That is why leading medical authoritie doctors, and specify Bisurated' Magnesia for even the most obstinate cases of dyspepsia, acid stomach and gastritis. They know (for are in touch with the latest developments in medical practice) that recent X-ray tests and medical research have proved the ingredients of Bisurated Magnesia to be the quickest-acting and the most effective known to medical science. This letter, which is one of thousands, provides convincing proof. Mr. Tom Grist, of Worsboro Dale, writes "I was nearly mad with stomach pain; I took a dose of Bisurated' Magnesia and it was wonderful how quickly the pain left me.

Now I am not afraid to eat anything, because a dose puts me right in a minute or two." Make sure that your next attack of stomach pain or discomfort, whatever the cause, finds you prepared to stop it within five minutes. Get a ls. 3d. bottle of 'Bisurated' Magnesia from your chemist now. Ask for BISURATED MAGNESIA and you will get what you is only one BISURATED' MAGNESIA.

HIGH-CLASS PRINTING OF ALL KINDL executed at the shortest notice, at Lowest Printing Works, High Barnstaple. FINE PROGRAMME AT THE GAUMONT PALACE, BARNSTAPLE. A special attraction, commencing at.to-m° row's matinee, is the The Film of the Wedding. "TARZAN AND HIS MATE." Tarzan, the world-famous creation of Rice Burroughs, comes anew in the greatest of all adventure pictures, "Tarzan and bi Mate" thrills, glorious spe tacle and pulsating romance at the Gaumont Palace, Barnstaple, to-nigh 6 (Thursday) and for the remainder of the Sensation follows sensation, high-light high-light. The nerve-tingling race to the elephants burial ground herd of roaring in a wild jungle attack, Tarzan's 1 battle with a rhinoceros and a crocodile, herd of elephants dashing to the rescue of their jungle overlord, surprise ambush of hordes painted are the thrills that mak 0 Tarzan a milestone in everyone's history.

Johnny Weissmuller and Maure el O'Sullivan have the featured roles as Tarza" aud his mate, and others in the cast include Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh, Forrester vey, and Natham Curry. "LITTLE FRIEND." Out of hundreds of young applicants for important role of Felicity Hughes, in the "Little Friend," fourteen-years' old Nova beam was chosen by Berthold Viertel, 0 director. His judgment in giving the role this child with the large expressive eyes is tilicd. Her interpretation of the psychology a child devoted to her parents, who sees happiness die when they drift apart, is uncanny in its Nova does not the part of Felicity, she lives it, and her poig' nant cry of "Mummy!" when that adored at ent turns from her, is something that tb a most blase of film-goers will long remember- Without the use of explanatory dialogue, 0 can understand and appreciate the terror has Felicity Hughes in its grip. This makes you sorrow and laugh with her little actress.

Berthold Viertel, the directo 1 of "Little Friend," has made a film that a brilliant study of an almost everyday gedy that will make many ponder. He handled the problem of married and its effects on a sensitive child with understanding. Matheson Lang and Sherwood play the roles of the parents, and others in the cast are Arthur Margetson, 1 Ayresworth, Jean Cadell, Jimmy Hanley, ftf Greet, Cecil Parker, Finlay Currie, Lewis son, Gibb McLaughlin, Diana Cotton and Raine. THE NORTH DEVON JOURNAL, NOVEMBER 29, 1934. (Continued from preceding column.) (Continued in next column.l 2 Sixty-four Columns.

Theatre 'Phono SrA). BARNSTAPLE. Box Office 'Phone 35. Manager: Mr. A.

L. Pareezer. ENORMOUS ROYAL WEDDING ATTRACTIONS. To-Night, To-Morrow and Saturday. Matinees Daily Johnny Weissmuller Maureen O'Su'livan in a new Jungle Thriller "TARZAN HIS MATE." Certificate Also "OLE KING COLE." Silly Symphony.

Added Attraction From To-morrow Matinee: The FILM of the ROYAL WEDDING Each Lady Patron attending the Gaumont Palace To-Night will be presented with a Packet of "OUTDOOR GIRL FACE POWDER. The 8.30 Performance will be under the Patronage of His Worship the Mayor (Chas. F. Dart, J.P.), who will receive a cheque for the proceeds of the Wedding Cake Weight- Guessing Competition, to be devoted to the Poor Children's Christmas Treat. SDIA 7 DD AITMfAM I The Heatin 9 and Ventilation System DIVrAUiI 1 I ensures your complete enjoyment.

MONDAY, Dec. 3, for 3 days. Clifford Mollison. Wendy Barrie fi rDrtDAM fiE TUU CUAC' A high-spirited British comedy drama, cul- 1 rIxLLLJUIU Ur lnt jEAO. minating iv a spectacular climax with the -rimming of a submarine by a tramp steamer.

Also Buster Crabbe in Tarzan the The immortal Ape Man in a new jungle story. THURSDAY. Dec. 6, for 3 days An All-Native Cast 2 MALA THE North. A year in the making, with a nil special expedition to the land of the Eskimos.

See the stampede of the caribou, the walrus and whale hunt, the mortal combat between man and wolf. Special Seats equipped for Deaf Patrons. Car Park. Nightly at 7.30. Wednesday continuous from 0 p.m.

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