He said that women went to the cinema during times when they could be knitting socks, and the consequence was that they had to buy them instead. Mr. Le Tocq, seconding the opposition, said that the cinema provided a useful form of taxation and gave people something to do. As regards the cinema's relation to the theatre, he declared that the cinema was not so immoral as the theatre and thus, perhaps, it was just as well that the theatre was far too expensive for most people. The debate was then thrown open to the House, but owing to lack of time the number of speeches was limited. Mr. Burgess and Milburn summed up for their respective cases, and a vote was taken. The motion was defeated by 26 votes to 15. * * The debates have lately begun to lose their object and are not taken seriously enough, most people contenting themselves with hurling abuse at their rivals. People go into the debates with their minds made up as regards to voting, and however well a speaker may put forth his arguments he always stands a fair chance of losing his case. As an example of this, there is the defeat of Mr. Burgess, who undoubtedly gave one of the best speeches that the House has ever heard. He had his opponents " tied up in knots " and yet he lost. This kind of thing is all wrong, and the sooner it stops the better. [This is not Editorial Comment, but the view of a member of the Debating Society.—Ed.]
THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. President: THE HEADMASTER. Vice-Presidents : W. N. CORKHILL, Esq., E. S. JEFFS, Esq., D. K. CREWS, Esq., L. C. LE TOCQ, Esq. Hon. Treasurer : A. W. PING, Esq. Hon. Secretary : F. F. STEELE. Rise Representative—F. H. HILLYARD. School House Representative—G. W. VERO. Temple House Representative—J. McN. INGLIS. On Saturday, February 2nd, several members of the Society paid a visit to the Yorkshire Museum. They were shown round the part open to the public and were then allowed to inspect several exhibits not generally on show. These exhibits consisted chiefly of rare birds. That evening F. F. Steele gave a lecture to the Society on " High Voltage Electricity." It was more in the nature 17
