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Sir Edgeworth David, who died at Sydney recently, was the man who bullt the tunnels on the West- ern Front. He was also an explorer with a peaceful disposition.
Once he and Sir Douglas Mawson were sharing a tent on Mount Erebus
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Sir Douglas, who was In his tent
LORD SNOWDEN'S LIFE AND CHARACTER FEATURE OF BRITAIN'S POLITICAL LIFE
VIGOROUS AND AUSTERE
(By the Rt. Hon. Mr. Winston Churchill, P.C., M.P.)
THE vigorous, austere, mordant religious faith, and by a keen in-
his
Edgeworth remark from outside, has become a feature in the poli-hear discussions between "Mawson, could you apare a moment tical life of Britain and In the lust father and his uncle upon predes- to come out to me?"
few years has played apart which tination, election, and hell-fire, and Mawson replied, "Presently, was highly important. Naturally the decisive sumning-up of his David. I'm rather busy just now." the public are glad to receive a mother-worth all the books put
After a minute or ao Sir Edge-personal account of his life and together; worth called again, still quite calm-actione from his own lips.
"You say that God loves us us
we love our own children. Do you think I would put one of my children into hell-fire? No! not how bad he'd been."
We see this little Tow of
ly: "I'm really awfully sorry to Let me say at the outset that I trouble you, Mawson, but I must have no sympathy with the cause ask you if you don't mind-to which it had been his life's work to make haste,
champion. The destruction of "The fact is that I've fallen into Liberalism by the Labour move- la crevasse. I'm hanging on to the ment, and the ranging of the dis-cottagers, who drew their water edge of it with my fingers, and I'm contented millions of our country- from a well in the adjoining field, very much afraid I shall have to let men under the foreign standards rising in physical revolt against go if you don't come out and help of Socialism, has been a disaster to the attempt of the landowner's me."
the British people, the conse-agent to make a charge for its use. quences of which are only gradual-Who can wonder at the bent given ly becoming apparent.
to a child's mind by such a spec-
"
Clever At School
3
VAIN PERFECTION
The "perfect" musical instrument cline in the progress of democracy,
It has been attended with a de-tacle? -yet another one has been design-with a ed-has been
marked discrediting of Philip was a clever boy and soon discussed for cen- universal suffrage, and with the top of the village school. To those turies. When it emerges from the decay of the parliamentary institu- to whom his crippled figure is now discussion stage it can only become tions by which the liberties of Eng-familiar it is strange to read that a scientific curiosity,
For it is based on what is, for dullness has been brought into a and jumping. He became a pupil lang were won. A erudeness and no one could beat him in running all practical purposes, a fallacy. The discussion of every question which teacher. He passed the prescribed human ear cannot properly apprecan already be sharply contrasted examination for a lower grade of ciate an arrangement of the musical with the tenseness of Victorian de-the Civil Service, and became octave other than in semi-tones. bates or the strict control then "gauger and surveyor of Inland The China Mail three exploring nations. The though it is obvious that quarter-exerted by the House of Commons Revenue" in the Treasury, of which
Portuguese landed at "Santa tones and even eighth-tones must over the Executive. Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 6, 1934, of a saint. The Dutch went a certain forms of Oriental music.
Lucia Bay" and gave it the name exist; they are, in fact, foud in
he was afterwards twice to be the The promulgation by great Ministerial chief, bit inland and found that the
The modern piano is a
organised parties of a programme. grass was hard and gave their promise, and, however "imperfect," production, distribution, and
But it is the third phase of the The Portuguese Empire sheep redwater, and called the is the only feasible one. That a change, coupled with the cosmo- of his readers
com-of nationalising all the means of author's life which will most district "Zuurveld" (sour graz-"perfect" instrument has lived for palitan, anti-patriotie mood, haa
ex-powerfully command the sympathy. The anniversary celebrations (ing); the English chose the over of the Republic, which were names of prominent Governors, Museum, South
Hopelessly 20 years in the Science produced in Europe violent reat affection of the spine which fol crippled by an celebrated yesterday officially by like Durban, or Port Alfred (at-
Kensington, is tions towards the extremes the reception given by the Con-ter the late Duke of Edinburgh) proper place for it.
significant. A
of lowed a slight accident, he is museum is the nationalism and the tyrannies of forced to leave the Civil Service. sul General, were briefly com- The next stage was to leave a
dictatorship. If li our inland His father is dead. He returns mented upon in these columns; few people to grow the vegetables
these results have not yet become with his mother to his native but the subject awakens so that were so necessary; and by
apparent, it is only because village of Ickornshaw, now noted in many memories of British and and bye these men, having, so
Sociallats, when they Portuguese relations, frequently little to do, began to trade; then
Mr. Brown-She told me that Ministers, largely abandon in prac; traverses the length and breadth of become the Peerage For ten years he friendly and sometimes in came the established factory and your told her the secret I told you tice the doctrines and principles the island as a Socialist lecturer rivalry, that the one brief re-the expanding settlement of the not to tell her." ference hardly seems adequate. neighbourhood, and the painting I told her not to tell you I told
Mrs. Green "The mean thing! risen to power.
by preaching which they have and agitator. Macao and Hong Kong form as of a map showing some large;
it were an Eastern terminus of area that had been annexed. In her."
Your Daily Smile!
a long series of ports of call the Orient, the fact that there Mrs. Brown"Well, don't tell usually classified as "Coaling was already a numerous popula-her that I told you she told me.” Stations" that stretches from tion in the country made trade the Western Coast of Europe and primary and settlement, only
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Man Dates
"
..
Vanquished Poverty
To say that these were years of
Injury To Nation It was undoubtedly a grave mis-be altogether to misconceive their a struggle against poverty would chief and injury not only to the working people but all the nation quished poverty from the outset by
quality. Philip Snowden to found a class party afflanced to the simple process of reducing
vart-
desperate civil commotion and the compass that upon thirty, shillings
marks the progress of three suc-secondary; the subsequent his- "Excellent! You've kept your ap: visionary principles which could his own wants to so rigorous a cessive maritime Empires the tory of Goa, Colombo, Macao, has pointment right on the dot?" he only be translated into action by Portuguese, the Dutch, and the been shaped for all time by the exclaimed as they met on the cam- British. But the term "coaling two facts that they existed in the Pus. station" belongs to the age of early days for trade only and. "I certainly did," she replied. steam. The original motives for that they were so narrowly con- "So you see, certain nations have the establishment of these set ned to the interests of their nothing on me, have they?" tlements was in the age of sails own country that the number of "You mean-for promptness?" the need for fresh water and settlers was too small to hold the inquired.
fresh vegetables. Nothing is their own against any serious "Certainly. You see, I always to turn the whole of his vitriolic In this latter-day period when
more startling than to read in attack.
keep my mandates,"
ruin of British freedom and great-would take for his lectures, he was a week, which was all that he ness.
After thirty years of faithful, and lead a life of proud indepen- able to pursue a great world issue tireless labour in building up this dence. (new party Philip Snowden found himself compelled by public duty Superior to obey but his intellect. He was a lay friar with no
eloquence and propagandism riches count so much and the fear against his own creation, and chose of poverty haunts so many, there count in the hereditary Assembly value for all classes in this modest to end his political life as a visare moral lessons of the highest which he had so long laboured to destroy.
Jaccount.
We must To record these facts severely volume of Lord Snowden's book await the second does not, however, imply any per-with interest. So far it has un- Should Be Diner: "This salmon isn't near-to the mass of those with whom he virtues of an English statesman, sonal breach of faith on his part consciously illustrated the Roman
# Even
"What's a joint account, father? "It's an account where one per- son does the depositing and the other the withdrawing.”
·
the record of the early adven- This is the secret of the down- tarers the tremendous percent fall of the Empire if we mean age of the crews that used to die the Empire as it was shown in of scurvy, In one case the great a Portuguese map of three hum- Magellan had to abandon his ship dred years ago. It never really and take his chance of being existed except on
the map. rescued, a chance which turned King Emanuel in 1500 a.d. was out fortunately for him-be-crowned as "Lord of the Con- cause he found himself the only quest. Navigation, and Commerce survivor. Always the Portu of India, Ehtiopia, Arabia, and lyse nice as that I had a week had laboured so long. In the and also the glorious political guese came first: and the names Persia;" and this title was con- ago." Waiter: "It should be,, sir; of Vasco da Gama, Henry the firmed by Pope Alexander VI. it's from the same fab." Navigator,, and many others, are two years later.
But Portugal:
safely inscribed in the roll of was a arall country, with fame. The South African Coast much smaller population then
is studded with names of Portu- than how. Even so, there is no
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
guese origin, such as Saldanha reason why the claime pegged The Feast of Rosary Church Bay, Algoa Bay, Natal, which out for posterity should have he held to-morrow. have been taken from the ear-been disturbed. It is one of his- liest maps, quite irrespectively of tory's might-have-beens that any permanent settlement such Portuguese civilisation
second volume of his autobiography freedom which our ancestors gain- we shall no doubt learn the ex-ed for the British people, by which planation of his terrific onslaught courage, talent, and ability may on the Socialist Party at the gen-rise, unaided by favour and in the eral election, of his becoming teeth of poverty, to the greatest Minister in the so-called National offices under the Crown.
His Early Life
The reader will dwell with real
Personal Pars
Mr. C. M. Correa, of Messrs.
Mr. Claude I. Barr, the general agent of the Canadian Nations! Railway, was among the passengçis arriving on the s.5. President Grant.
will Government during what he judg- ed to be a great public emergency, and of his quitting that Govern- No cases of notifiable diseases ment as soon as he judged, the as was made further North at have established itself elsewhere Ing the 24 hours ending October 3.
might were reported in the Colony dur-emergency overcome. Lobito Bay and Delagoa Bay on as successfully as in Brazil, had
He may well have a tale to tell Culbertson and Fritz, arrived on the the West and East Coasts respec- it not been for one man Napo The Septeraber monthly report his own comrades, still smarting
upon this, the justice of which even 4.8. President Grant yesterday. tively. The early voyagers were leon Bonaparte. A world war from Z.B.W. shows that out of the from the wounds he inflicted upon adventurers who always called leads to all manner of results 2384 hours of broadcasting only them, will not dispute. with a full armament according which neither combatant thinks 188 hours, was Chinese. DAVIS to the standards of those days; of at the outset; and the destruc
and their object was to get ation of trade along the establish- The Headquarters of the Royal pleasure upon the story of Vis- cargo of merchandise that could ed routes by French frigates led Artillery have sent out a warning count Snowden's early life. It on the s. Nellore from Australia SHAMROCK be sold in Lisbon at an enormous to the occupation of the ports of stating that there will be gun prae- makes us all not only respect the
profit; but very few of them were call which they used. Macas it tics from the Lyemun Fort between character of the author, but ad Fairmaid, and their two daughters... at all averse from a bit of bue-eclf was occupied for four years, the hours of 9.30 am and 8 pm mire the free, tolerant Constitution
on Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. voyage, or two, would usually restored as Java was to the the firing will be towards Fo Tau from this humble cottage in aed on the aa. President Hoover with the system of sharing the Dutch, because the Admiralty
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of the Exchequer in the richest Neal, their two daughters, Gladys that all would have suffered maintenance of the trade route, garded as a harmless crank, pro- country in the world and more or less from scurvy and pos- What a distance we have travel bably not listened to at all. At count among its and sibly other diseases, one can led in the last hundred years In Versailles, which was not at all tocracy hardly wonder that there was no our sentiment about such things! in advance of the times, ela enthusiasm to repeat
Radiation GEYSERS caneering if trade was had. One but at the end of the war was on October 9. The direction of of England under which he rose
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