The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-23
MISS FRASER TELLS FORUM
 ABOUT GEORGE
Pelting Rain Doesn't Keep Britons Away From Tale
 of English Politics.
DISCREET SOCIALISTS
 ASK SUBTLE QUESTION
let George Do It" Maxim of the Great War, Re
 mains Just As Popular.

toms struggle with modern ideals, was background for the story Miss Helen Fraser told last night, of the shaggy hair ed Welshman, Lloyd George, liberal and radical, from whose hand the tories of Eng land now take their daily nour- ishment.
 She spoke before the Sunday even ing forum of the United church, where the atmosphere is wbrshipfuI, without being oppressive.
 There was music. Mrs. Elmer Beardsley played at the great organ. The choir, mostly girls, sang Christ mas carols Twice the audience joined in.
 The rain pelted outside, limiting the attendance somewhat, but it was gen erous and attentive, and, what is more, it paid it's way; something that cannot always be said of a Sunday evening meeting in church. Dr. William 1T. Day is authority for the statement that the Sunday evening forum pays it's way. The church pro- vides shelter, heat and light. The collection meets the other charges.
 Dr. Day was present, the pIeasing-in- termediary between Miss Fraser and those who asked questions of her; for they ask questions in the Forum They even applaud. The audience was assembled from mental atmos- pheres widely separated. Some were members of the church. others were Scotchmen, Welshmen, Englishmen, Britons all; present from pride in Briton and Lloyd George. There were a few socialists armed with barbed and subtle questions; questions adapt ed to elicit social propaganda, but not pointed enough to get the questioner thrown out.
 The reader will see that the Sun day evening forum at Dr. Days church is quite a vivid, human and | interesting affair.
 Miss Fraser was introduced by At torney Samuel c. Shaw, an ardent protagonist of suffrage. He didn't miss the chance. Miss Frazer" he said, comes from a nation in whic'l women vote. She will tell us of a l leader for whom six million women have recently voted"
 Miss Fraser was primed with her | subject. She made 1t a matter of fact recital, tllumined with here and l there an artful touch, by which her | own preferences were exhibited. Lloyd George is a Welshman. His l father died and left him in poverty He was brought up and educated by his uncle; Welsh cobbler, man of l penetrating mind, versed in church controversy and steeped to the neck | in English literature.
 Lloyd George jumped into promin- ence with a single case. He became l the leader of the Welsh movement for disestablishment. In Britain the English church is on top. It is sup ported by taxation. Everybody pays 1 This the dissenters resist. The fight is old, and merry; sometimes bitter One died, a dissenter, who wished | to be buried beside his wife, in tha graveyard of the establishment, with 1 the rites of his own church. The vicar, fed on taxes and pompous with hoary privilege, said this should never be. George said, tear down
 the bars, enter and bury. It hap pened as he said. George took the suit through every court to the Lords. In the Lords he came out on
 top. You are right" they said. ] Thus George became famous.
 He stood for the Liberal party, and
 got into Parliament. There he kept
 for a time a mouth tightly closed. When he spoke he walloped Joe Chamberlain, the man who tried to
 destroy free trade in Briton. Joe
 became the speciality of the little
 Welshman. He pounded him black
 and blue, pounded him out of Parlia-
 ment, and into his grave.
 Came the Boer war. George was
 opposed. He got out of Birmingham
 disguised as a policeman. Came the
 great war, with Lloyd George its
 most force figure. He found muni-
 tions failing, took charge, and laying the control of government upon : thousands of establishments soon
 had an ample supply of killing com
 modities of every kind.
 Asquith, premier of the nation, temporized, delayed, was indolent, never quite ready, always unprepar- ed. Lloyd George threw him out,
 took the job of premier himself.
 When Asquith went out, he took the
 liberal party and the treasury of the
 party with him.
 George worked with coalition government, which finally reduced to
 an arrangement confined almost to
 himself and the tories. Perhaps the
 missing treasury is the key to this
 arrangement. Perhaps George be-
 lieves that the tories will give more
 immediate reform than can be ob-
 tained in any other way.
 Here he is The election is over Six millions of women voted, none
 under 30 years of age. The votes will
 not be counted until Dec. 28. Miss . Fraser thinks George is well in the majority, thinks there will be a hun
 dred labor members. There are lively times ahead in Great Britain. George sometime ago sponsored and made law of old age pensions and universal, compulsory insurance. Now, with his tory cabinet, he di- vides the great estates, settles sol diers on the small holdings, and plans to build at government charge, from
 S00,O0O to 1000 dwellings for the
 people.
 Age 30 was fixed 6p women, be- , cause if they votsS Eounger they would outvote. the EII Always more
 women in Great Ess ? than men
 .he war has incre1 3heir domi- nance.
 Peers have no ~ss but %hei1 t wives are enfransa
 . Conscientious ohizzrs are ex-