Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-28
7 IRISH INDEPENDENT, Dublin. =
The claim of gentleman residing
in Dun Laoghaire to the estate OF
the English knight who died in 1418

RISH INDEPENDENT, Dublin. -
The claim of gentleman RESIDING
in Dun Laoghaire to the estate OF
the English knight who died in 1416
is disclosed in a notice publlsheo
in the London Gazette:
Lieut.. Col. Hineas Barrett Vllliers-
Tuthill, the Slopese, Dun Laogha1re,
who inserted the notice, told the irish
Independent representatives that II
was published in response to an ad-
vertisement in the Times, London,
which sought the heir male of Sir
Thomas Brooke ian English noblen1an
of Somerset, who died about 1919 at
the date of the death Of Francis Cap
per Brooke, Ufford place, Suffolk, on
January Is, 1886.
Lieut.. Col Villiers-Tuthill claimed
to be the issue male Of the heir male
of Sir Thomas Brooke, and that he was
entitled to the property disposed OF by
the will of Francis Capper Brooke,
dated october %, 1885.
This Mr.. Brooke. he said, was the
lineal descendant Of ST. Thomas Brooke,
and inherited his estate, which was a
landed one. Mr. Brooke had three
children-two sons and a daughter.
One of the sons and the daughter died
without issue, and the elder son, Col.
Brooke, was alive in London.
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Red Doctrines
Stir Up Antagonism.
Neues Wiener Tagnlatt, Vienna. -
Communist doctrines are now being
spread throughout the Tyrol with per-
ceptible intensity. Agitators are ex-
horting the peasantry and making
them antagonistic to the established
law and order, particularly with respect
to the instigation of a tax strike. This
responsive chord in the boson1s of
many of the Tyrolese, even the Heimat-
wehr (Home Guard itself not being
proof, in all its personnel to such Sc
ductive proposals. Loyal elements
however, yet predominant, though a
demonstration of the Communists is
being arranged in the form of a gen.
eral Communistic parade to Innsbruck
in the near future.
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Thinks Teachers
Salary Cut Inadequate.
Evening Times, Glasgow-Letter to
the editor:
Sir: Regarding these remarkable
outburstS from the E. I. 8. about the
decrease in Glasgow's teachers salaries.
for one (along with thousands l1lore).
think the Glasgow authorities are quite
in order in making the decrease. In
fact, I think it is not enough. Those
people are pampered class, with their
i've days week OF seven hours per
day and three months holiday every
year.
Allow me to compare those people
with a body OF men who are going
through great hardship just now and
have been doing so for a long period
l. e., ships officers. Hundreds of them
are out of work and have to exist the
best way they can. But they never
OF course, all seafarers have been
badly hit, but officers with families
worst of all. When sailors are on duty
it is not five days per week and a safe
job but it is seven days continuous
duty. Something should be done for
those sufferers. am, etc.
Optimism Only
Weapon Against Pessimism.
LIE Matin, Paris. Pessimism is a sort
of devouring microbe which preys upon
everything at once. IL IL an atom
which produces immediate ravages and
places its victims beyond recovery. The
pessimist is always saying something
like this: Things are certainly bad;
it's going to be bankruptcy; the Sino-
Japanese war is going to eTnbroil us all
in some more international complica-
tions. Yes, it's the end Of everything
the grand cataclysm!" 81
This pessimism is contagious. It Is
transmitted by words. and annihilates
energies, dilutes courage and paralyzes!
action The disease is periodic and the,
only thing which can be used to COM