The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-30
DAILY NEWS LETTER
By DAVID M. CHURCH.

1 q. N s. Staff CorreSp pondent.) London, Dec 30. = Parliament is flirting with the delic rte subject of raising it's own salary
 | Members of the House of Commons at present draw 400 pounds annually | in salary, an amount equivalent to less than S2,O0O. and there is gen. | eral opinion that this should be raised to at least f1.000 year, or approXi- mately S5,000.
 Although the present salary hardly paws the expe enses of a member Of tho House of Comm ons, there is sorne reluctance on the part of the leaders to increase their own salaries at the present time. when there is grave un- rest throughout the country because of unemployment.
 Any move to increase salaries of commoners will probably meet with opposition from members of the La Dor Party. who will urge that at a time when thousands of men are walking the streets without work Parliament can i'll afford to spend the nations money in increased leg isIative salaries. This will afford real test of the sincerity of the Labor m members too, because of all mem hers the Laborites are as a rule less able to live upon their salaries. The great majority of the Labor mem hers are men who have given up their trades and businesses in order to serve in the House of Commons, and they find they are scarcely able
 
 them have given up all attempts at fulfilling some of the requisites Of m members of Parliament particularly those aged old customs with regard to dress. Ramsay Macdonald, the Labor leader, appears in Comm ors garbed in baggy tweed suit and of fers a striking contrast to Bonar Law, who generally wears a cutaway coat with the customary striped
 The. Labor members of the House os Commons, as well as many other members who are ''new poor" really doubtful whether they will take it until the present unemployment dis tress has been relieved.
 George NJ Cohn is going to appear in London in one of his own plays and his first appearance Is being awaited With considerable interest. Particular interest attaches to the re- ception Conan will get from the Lon ton critics who haven't seen any of his work for some time. Of late the London critics have been very narsr with Am erican dramatists and actors and have spared no efforts to con- vince the people of their fair rogsy city that nothing good in the theatre can ever be expected to come out of America. ''Ragtime is the only art the Americans have" the London critics claim, and it remains to De seen whether even George M Conan ran show them wares which they will have to applaud. American motion pictures make wonderful progress Tn London, probably because British pie lures are so wretched. but American drama has hard s1edding, and the critics will applaud a most mediocre British production, while a good American production is thoroughly dissected with good deal of venom, too.
 The ice is broken. All Englan1 seems to be writing for the mags.- zines and newspapers now. The in troductfon of American dollars into the coffers of English literary agents is probably responsible. England long knew that the Americans weren't very careful of their money. but they never dreamed that they would pay easilv. Now the discovery has been made almost everybody in EngIanc who has ever had his picture in the papers feels qualified to write upon any suhtec@ in the world and to offer it to American newspapers at .famu- lous prices.
 Kansas City. Mo. Dec 3o.-'fNever mind little drug store. don't crv you'll be a booze shop bye and bye"
 There are 2.ooo drug stores in Mis- souri; several score of them are heinz f1aee their bookkeeping activities which is their real business
 So says c. M. Watson. president or the Retail Druggists' Association which has adopted as it's slogan "P'i- the hootleggers from behind the pre-
 These drug stores do not even corr ply with the law requiring regis tered pharmacist to be in charge e> aJter1e+fua +ba+ would .oD., %o1a