Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-07
WILL HOLD RERs WHILE AWAY
Queen Mary to Accompany Him on
Trip to India.
CoNNAUGHT TO STAY IN CANADA
Bill Establishing Shop Hours for the
Workers.
CHARACTER NOTES" PROVIDED
John GaIswOrth Thunders Against
Proposed Aerial Warfare as =
New Madness-Big Estates
stlII Being sold.
BY PAUL LAMBETH.


by PAUL LAMBETH.
LONDON. May s.-(speciaI to The Bee.)-
The question Of a regency is disturbing
some good old souls who seem to be OBJ
livious to the fact that the country could
get along nicely ~ the king should decide
to leave the country Tor few months
even longer. King George has reached
what they consider a peculiar decision.
Should he continue in his present way Of
thinking, there will be no regency APP
pointed when he and the queen leave for
India next November In the event of a
demise of the king before the Prince of
Wales reached the age of IS, Queen Mary
would act as regent until the young prince
attained his majority. When the matter
was first mooted It was suggested that
the Duke OF ConnauEht should return
home from Canada for that purpose, but 1t
is felt to be unwise for him to leave
Canada so soon after arriving there. The
name Of the princess royal was then
brought forward. but this has now likewise
been dropped, as has the other suggestion
that Queen Alexander should be invited
to act as regent. The sons will be at
college
Aerial warfare Madness.
John Galsworthy, the novelist. condemns
the use Of aeroplanes in war in letter
just published. 81
"Of all the varying symptoms Of mad
ness in the life OF modern nations" he
says. the most dreadful Is this prostitu-
ton of the conquest OF the air to the ends
of warfare.
III ever man presented spectacle OF
sheer insanity It is now-when, having at
last triumphed in their long struggle to
subordinate TO their velftre the uneon-
quered element. thep have straiShtway
commenced to defile that element, by fill
ing It with engines OF destruction II this
fresh deviltry be not quenehed within the
next few years Il will be too late. Water
and earth are wide enough for men to
Kill each other on. For the love OF the sun,
and the stars, ana the blue sky, that have
given us all our inspirations since the be-
ginning OF time let us leave the air to be
innocent"
shop Hours Bill.
The shop hours bill, which seeks to
tighten the lot OF the shop assistant, has
been read a second time in the House of
Commons. 1t provides for a sixty-hour
week. exclusive for meal times and sixty
hours per calendar year as limit of over
time; also the. holding OF a local inquiry
where there is a demand for early closing
in any locality. There are special pro-
visions for Sunday trading in trades es-
essential TO the community and for one
days rest In seven.
To Compel Recommendation.
A bill presented by one liberal and six
members OF Parliament makes compulsory
the giving OF character notes. The bill
provides that every employer shall glc to
every person leaving his employment
upon application, character notes in writ
ing as to his or her general conduct and
competence While I'm his employment.
This means that there will be more con-
fidential letters from one mistress to an
other about servants. or from one firm to
another about their clerks. Copies will
have TO be kept and supplied when desired.
Any employer who violates the law or
maliciously makes false statements re-
specting the character or competence of
the applicant in such certificate or char
acter note, shall be liable to summary
conviction TO a penalty not exceeding tle5.
One purpose OF the proposed bill is to pre-
vent blackisting Of employees.
BiR Estates 10 he sold.
The coming estate auction season will
probably procure record for the extent
and value OF landed property which will
change hands. Particulars OF the princi-
pal estates situated In all parts OF Britain
which one firm alone have to offer have
Just been Issued, and they total 265, 600
acres. The most extensive of these prop
critics are in Scotland and the largest
comprises portions OF the Menzles estates
in Perthshire
A similar domain forms the south por-
ton of the Isle OF Islay and extends to
5000 acres. Lord Colobrook's Arlington
and Crawford estate in Lanarkshire. com
prisng 27,oOo acres, are also to be sold
The Carsellaoh estate of Iei9,5S5 acres Is
also for sale.
New Gun 90 BE Built.
The admiralty by way OF replying TO the
fourteen-inch naval gun lately adopted by
Germany have ordered experiments with
new gun. which is 10 be decided ad-
vance on the l35-inch with which our
dreadnoughts now under construction are
10 be fitted. The new weapon will be
be styled the n-A gun. but will be in fact
of l5-inch diameter The above announce
ment is OF kind to create something like
a sensation in naval circles. giving rise
as Il must do, 10. questions affecting the
whole policy OF naval construction. The
Ten oreAonoushts Nhlch were designed 10
carry the l35-inch guns, were 1000 tons
more displacement than the Neptune
(Which was 1850 tonsl and the introduce
ton Of the i6-inoh would involve Sun
heavier battleships
49, WarshtP Travels Fast.
The cruiser Indefatgable which has
N9ust returned TO Plymouth. after carrying
out steam and gunnery trials. travels
thfty-three and One-half miles per hour
IL * considerably faster. than the record.
holdinK Atlantic liner Mauritania
Durin& the year ending March 81. 1910
nine battleships have been struck off the
effective list and placed upon the reserved