THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 13, 1937.
COOPERATIVE
SEARCH
JUST MISSED FOR PEACE
UNIQUE RECORD BECAUSE OF WAR
Old hand well known on the China coast is among the evacuees in the Colony at present. He is Capt. G. St. N. Stocker, popular
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S
FIRESIDE TALK
Washington, To-day.
Broadcasting one of his popular fireside chats
pilot of Swatow, who arrived here last night, President Roosevelt explained that Con-
SPECIAL MEETING OF CONGRESS
Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt has called special session of Congress for Novembe
The sole object of the see is to discuss the Far East tion and the action to
Reuter
with his wife, a daughter and two gress had been specially convened for November 15 THE NIGHTMARE:
sons on October 1, and who will in order to avoid a lengthy session next year. be sailing for San Francisco to-
MOITOW".
"I'm disappointed in more ways than I can think," said Capt. Stocker to the "China Mail”
"I wanted to pilot my four thou- sandth ship in Swatow before I re- tired and I had only two more to go. What a record that would have been for twenty years of work in one port: But," added the Captain,
He would ask it to consider immediately im-
portant legislation which his recent trip had con- vinced him the country immediately needed.
It was, he said, the President's duty to look ahead and not to allow the country to be deceived by merely temporary prosperity.
us
100 "PHONES"
London, To-day.
Committee has
The Dep reported to the Minister of Trans-
of the
and
port on their investis noise made by motor horas,
a loudness limit
"The President must think not only of keeping has out of war to-day but in generations to come.
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of a value of 100 phones.
It is the hope of the Committee s other road noises are reduc that as
"We want a sound and permanent operate with other - signatories of "there was nothing doing up there prosperity which will not be built the Nine-Power Treaty, including led, the limit set for audible warn
and I'm going to try my luck California."
BIRTHDAY TO-MORROW
in
up temporarily at the expense of China and Japan.
"We want a sound and permanent
??
FUNDAMENTAL DECENCIES Such co-operation, for example,
ing by mechanically propelled veh
ced. cles may likewise British Wireless.
would be one of the possible paths Railway To Give
to follow in the United States search for a means of peace throughout the world.
Capt. Stocker, 2 naturalized any section or group. American of English parentage, is one of the few remaining master peace bulit on a co-operative search
by all nations which want peace mariners who received his early
Roosevelt declared that for most training on windjammers.
of the United States, 1937 was more prosperous, but they had
"The development of world He doesn't look his three score never yet all that must be done to
peace is dependent on the accept- years, which will mark a day of cele-make prosperity stable.
They intended this winter to mental decencies in their relations lance by nations of certain funda- bration to-morrow. There is very little silver in his hair; he's clear prevent a return to disastrous. eyed, with a merry twinkle gleam-prices for cotton, corn and wheat with each other. ing when he speaks, While the in- "To carry out a Twentieth Cen- "Ultimately I hope each nation numerable crow's-feet only bespeaktury programme, we must give the will accept the fact that violations the number of years he has put in Government 20th Century machin- of these rules of conduct are an behind the bridge. There was alery-
Classes
London, To-day. One railway company in Britain
1000 employees will be able to is organising measures by which
tend classes this winter on rail- way problems-Beuter.
statement.
injury to the well being of all
America hates war America nations. time, however, when he deserted his "I recognise that democratic pro
ACTIVE SEARCH
hopes for peace. Therefore Amer- dictatorial: first love, the sea, for the rip-snort-cesses are slower than
believe "The commonsense intelligence ica actively engages in the search ing life of a cowboy in Wyoming; processes, but I refuse to
bel of America will agree with my for peace-Reuter. the sea having lost its flavour after that democratic processes need a too steady diet of flap jacks mix-dangerously slow.” ed with sea water which was not America needed a reduction in the least appetizing. Telling this foreign trade barriers to improve story, Capt. Stocker said, "I thought foreign markets, but she should not I wanted to see hills, hills, and more loverlook the chance of reducing its hills. I was thoroughly fed up with own domestic trade barrier right| the sea. While I was a "cow poke," away without waiting for any treaty. the boss one day asked me if I would-Reuter.
like to kill off the coyotes around
the range at four bits each. I readi
ly agreed. But, when I found that
he was paid a bounty of $5 by the
AFFIRMATIVE QUEST- FOR PEACE
of
Referring to the quest for peace of crisis, President
State for each one killed, I pulled stakes and headed for San Fran-in a world cisco again. This was in 1897. Roosevelt said:
"BATTLE OF MANILA BAY
"Aloofness from war is not prompted by the unawareness of
I joined up with the schooner, Harry J. Morse, and the next thing war.
"In this world of mutual sus- I knew I was mixed up in the Bat- tle of Manila Bay. I joined the Upicion, peace must be affirmatively S. S. Callao and served throughout reached for, it cannot just be wish- the war."
Joining the then Imperial Mari-
ed, it cannot just be waited for."
In efforts to find a solution of
time Customs, Capt. Stocker served the Far East conflict, it is the pur- in the Chinese revenue service for pose of the United States to co- fourteen years. In 1917, he became
a full-fledged pilot at Swatow, hav-
In
ing resigned from the Customs and that prevailed in Hong Kong also having in his possession his later typhoons, those of '08 and '22, master mariner's certificate which Capt. Stocker also experienced dif- he obtained in Hong Kong in '09. ficulties, losing two launches under In his forty years in China, Capt. his command, one of which was the Stocker has seen many strange famous old "Kwan Fung" of the sights but his most vivid impres-Customs, at Lintin.
“I'm going to settle down in Cali- sions are of the typhoons that have ravaged the parts of the country in fornia," concluded the genial Cap- which he found himself during those tain, "and buy a partnership in a marine surveying business. I can times.
still be actively employed for a num- ber of years, and my younger chil-
ALPHOON EXPERIENCES
He thinks the typhoon of '06 was the most severe, taking in considera dren can attend good schools-with- tion the number of vessels damag-out. my having to pay ed and the state of unpreparedness tuition fees."
exorbitant
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