Evening star., 1933-09-16

" VENING TIMES, GlaSgoW.-T
l. the Editor: Is it not possible for
our Town Council and our cor
IL poration officials to understand
the reason why our rates and
taxes are so heavy? They say our men
tally deficient are increasing and our
unemployed are also increasing.
Can we expect anything else when
We permit the riffraff OF another coun-
try to come here when they have no
right to be here at all? They take our
Jobs at less money than our own Scots
subjects. and after a time they go on
the rates. If our city managers will
take note and make inquiries they will
find out that GorbalS is the costllest
part of Glasgow; it is, in fact, over
crowded with Irish, who are laughing
at us mugs. What would happen II a
number of English. Scots, or Welsh
were to 60 to Ireland and dump them
selves on the shoulders of the Irish?
Somebody will be able to let us know.
Is it any wonder that Glasgow is
going into bankruptcy? Do our city
fathers intend this to be, or are they
incapable of understanding? 1t is evi-
dent Westminster is not going to stop
this game. So it is up to the Scots
themselves to get home rule so that We
can manage our own affairs better than
they are being managed now. Can any
one see any other way out for Scot
land? SCOTLAND FIRST.
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Jewish Group Asks
Funds in Cape Town.
South African Jewish Chroi4 *. Cape
Town-The Cape Jewish Board OF
;nl ie in, Tv,o io1
straits. has. by means of letter it has
ity of Cape Town, made an earnest ap-
peal for funds.
The demands for aid" it says, are
as urgent as before and have. if any
thing increased both in number and
tn amounts applied for.
Dur overdraft at the bank has stead
lily mounted, until. today, it stands at
All alarming figure. Revenue, despite
various efforts by the committee. has
dropped most disconcertingly whilst
disbursements on pensions, relief. fares
and passages. etc, are still being made.
The question is: How far can we 60
and what is to be done? 1t is far from
pleasant repeatedly to have to ask the
members of the community for the
means Of combating poverty and dis
tresS. Yet what else is there to do?
1t would be calamitous to close our
doors, especially in Winter when de-
mands for help are most insistent. Un-
employment is still rife and We cannot
let our poor and distressed co-religion-
lists suffer.
Mindful of the many insistent calls
upon the community. We nevertheless
emphasize the necessity to care for the
poor at our own gates"
Debate Resumed
On Death Penalty.
Ell Universal, Mexico. D. F.-The
public debate on the expediency of
capital punishment was resumed yes
terday in the Bolivar Amphitheater.
The first speaker was the Senor Lie.
don Emilio Pardo y Aspe. who con-
tended that in spite of all that might
be said in defense Of the theory, the
obnoxious fact remained that among
nations where the extreme penalty is
sanctioned and practiced, the state it
self becomes the first and chief trans
gresSor of the law Thou shalt not
kill"
Don Emilio has long been a student
of Jurisprudence and sociology and his
utterances carry conviction to many
thinking people. Nevertheless, there
has been noticed throughout the re-
public strong and growing sentiment
in favor of re-establishing the death
penalty for the more terrible crimes,
and particularly for that of premedi-
tated murder. or for homicides caused
in the preparation of other crimes.
Lie (attorney) Pardo Aspe con-
tinued By saying that though he did
net profess to be an expert in penology,
his researches had assured him that
crime was never more rampant in
Mexico and Spain than when the pen
a.ties for were most severe, and