New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1917, Page 9

REFORM i WAY BE INTRODUCED Hontagu's Appointment Hint of Improvement in Future, London, July 30. (Correspondence of the Associated Press)—The ap- Rointment of E. S. Montague as Sec- retary of State for India Premier Liloyd-George's cabinet suggests that drastic changes are contemplated in the Government of India and that a plan will be evolved to give the people of India an administration bordering on that enjoyed by the Dominions. <In a speech during the debate in in the House of Commons on the report { of the Commission which investigated the Mesopotamia expedition, less than & week before his appointment was announced, Mr. Montague arraigned the system by which India is at pres- ent governed and declared that the executive government should be made more responsible to the people of In- dia. He suggested that the provinces of India be made self-governing and fgderated by a central government, somewhat on lines of the government of the Dominion of Canada. \ While this scheme was maturing, Mr. Montague said, i vas imperative to give India ‘“some installment now to show that you are in real earnest, some beginning of the new plan which you intend to pursue.” § His appointment so soon after this speech has led many to believe that !h: policy he outlined has been adopt- ed by the government. Mr. Montagu, who is only 38 years of age, and therefore, a young man to attain cabinet rank, has had wide ex- perience in Indian affairs. He Is a member of a family which for years has had large financial interests in India and was for four years under sggretary of state for India. Republic For Wayward Youths. Dorset, England, July 28.—Down in Dorsetshire there has heen established a “Republic’ alled the ‘Little Com- monwealth” which has its own coin- age and which is used as a reforma- tory for youngsters from two years of age upward. The experiment has preved a success. The children sent down there from Metropolitan police courts to reform earned eight to nine cents an hour out of which they paid $2.75 a week for hoard and lodgings. “Bread” in Germany. Zurich, Switzerland, July 28.—Five members of the minority Socialist party of the German Reichstag are regerted to have given notice that they willl ask the Chancellor if he is aware the bread now being supplied to the German people is composed as fol- lows: 24 per cent. flour, 21 per cent. lupine, 17 per cent. chestnuts, 14 per cent. acorns, 12 per cent. bark " of trees, 6 per cent. wood shavings, 4 per cent. potato peel, 2 per cent. of a mis- cellgneous indefinable mixture. Austrian Shipping Shares Boom. Amsterdam, July 25.—The Vienna correspondent of the Berliner Tage- blatt asserts that huge fortunes are be- ing made on the Vienna bourse by gpeculation in shipping shares. These are being forced up by a group of Trieste financiers and, as an instance of the remarkable rise which has oc- ‘curred, the correspondent says Aus- tro-Americana shares which stood at 540 in April, were quoted at 1, 850 July while those of other shiping com- panies are being quoted proportionate- 1y high. RRLIGIOUS LIBERTY ENSURED IN RUSSIA No More Forcible “Conversions” " to Orthodox Church Petrograd, June 30 (Correspondence of the Associated Press).—Rapid prog- yess is being made by the commission newly appointed to reform that part of the wenal law of 1903 which deals with violation of the principle of Te- ligious liberty, conversion to another religion by violence or threats and “perversion” to another religion by fraud or undue influence. The basis of this law was a distinc- tion, first, between orthodox and non- ortkodox Christians and, second be- tween Christians generally and Mo- hammedans and heathen. Voluntary conversion from orthodoxy was pun- fishable under certain conditions, whereas voluntary conversion to or- thodoxy was not punishable. For con- versian to orthodoxy by violence or threat the penalties were mild and, in practice were never enforced; and on-Christlans virtually were not at all Protected against violent conver- ston. The law under consideration recog- nizes the complete liberty of all Chris- tlans. To emphasize this principle, the projected law abolishes the legal use of the word ‘“heresy,” and replaces the legal term ‘perversion” with *“conversion.” The new law will Drotect citizens against forcible conversion by impos- ing a penalty of imprisonment not ex- ceeding three vears. The law will furthere deal with certain extremist sectarians such as the Skoptsl and others which mutilate themselves and have even burned one another alive. For such offense the penalty is im- prisonment in a fortress, Over-Worked City Clerk. 13 on, July 31.—Wartime tasks bave so burdened some of the town clerks that one, at least, has protested, asserting that he now works from 9 o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock Bt night, and that if the authorities Add to his already multifarious duties, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGQST 22, 1917, he will have to go without sleep. Inf{ his protest he gives the following list of wartime duties to which he already was required to attend: National registration, war-time cook- ery demonstrations, war hospitals, food economy campaign, local flag | days, national service, occasional baby weeks, communal kitchens, allotments, potata spraying, local coal supplies, maternity and child welfare, local dis- tribution and geparation allowances. A proposal to require him to ad- minister food supplies aroused his re- volt. Ate As Death Grinned. Portsmouth, England, July 30.—As an example of coolness in danger, Ad- miral Sir Stanley Colville recently told of the conduct of the captain and lieu- tenant of a British submarine who, upon discovering that a floatigg mine had become attached to the subma- rine's rudder, calmly sat down to breakfast and while they ate evolved a successful plan for removing the mine. The submarine was proceeding through the Dardanelles when the dis- covery was made that it was towing | the mine. The crew knew nothing of | it until they were set at work re- lieving the submarine of its dangerous attachment. ‘War Improves Children’s Health. London, July 31.—Nutrition of school children has been better since the beginning of the war than before, asserts the school medical officer of | the London County Council. Infec- tious diseases among school children decreased last year. THEATER REFORMS RUSSIA'S LATEST| Amusement Places Brought | Closer to Artists and public Petrograd, June 30, (Correspond- ence of The Associated Press).—Rus- sia’s universal democratization is em- bracing the former Imperial, now State, theaters, which heretofore have been governed autocratically by -a genera] director, who was a nominee of the Emperor and was subject to the now abolished ministry of the court. The last general director was M. Teliakowsky who rendered con- sidered artistic services to the stage, but provoked complaints by his des- potism and by extravagance with which we expended the $1,500,000 state subsidy. Feodor Golovin, liquidating com- missary of the ministry of the court, has issued an order establishing the future direction of the state theaters on a democratic basis. The theaters are made self-governing. The basic principle is majority rule in artistic, economic and social affairs by coun- cils elected by the artists, musicians, employes and workmen. : The office of general director of | state theaters is abolished, the direct- or being replaced by a plenipotentiary commissary of the provisional gov- ernment, under whom, in each the- ater, will be a director elected by the employes. Every theater troupe will elect its own artistic repertory com- mittee, which will decide what is to be staged and how it is to be staged, and will distribute roles. The existing theater literary com- mittees will .be reformed and will constitute part of the artistic reper- tory committees. Each literary com- | mittee will consist of three persons who have accomplished something notable in literary, dramatic or crit- ical work. The literary committees will be obliged to read and present a written report on every play or opera submitted. This will reform the existing abuse under which many promising plays go unread because the author has no influence. These reforms mean complete the- ater autonomy. The reformed the- ater will be run by its staff. The French Michailoff theater of Petro- grad which exists unainly for recrea- tion of diplomats, 1s excluded from the reform. As a large part of its employes are French, a special law must be drafted for its government. There is a strong democratic aglta- tion in favor of abolishing the French theater as costly and unnecessary. Not only the govérmment stage is being reformed. 2 result of the abolition of the censorship, 41 Petro- grad factories and workshops lately sent delegates to a congress, Which decided to found a great Workmen's theater on the lines of the Socialistic It is a positive fact that the moment Resinol touches any itching skin, the itching usuaily stopsand healingbegins. 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Another new foundation is the Free theater, which will produce for work- ingmen at nominal prices the com- edies of Ostrovsky, the atmosphere dramas of Anton Tchekhoff, and the works of Wilde, Engel, Andrevyeff, Shaw and other modern dramatist: First rate artists from state and pri- vate theaters have promised to per- form periodically without pay or for nominal remuneration. ent the Free theater will be without its own building; and performances will be held in succession in different factory buildings and warehouses. “A renascence of the Russian drama on the principles of the revo- lution is the next step in our artistic regeneration,” says Maxim Gorky. Sees Meat Famine After War. 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