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AND WHAT NOW OF WINSTON?
H. as is forecast, Mr. Winston Churchill goes out of politics,
DAY BY DAY
Affaire during the absence leave of Mr. A. E. Woud.
MICHAEL COMPTON on the
WHIMS OF MILLIONAIRES.
never
American strain in him, mingling: oddly with old English blood, JariRE RAISED BY THE HEROIC ENER- BEHOLD. THE UNPARALLELED EM- perhaps responsible for many GIES OF YOUR FATHERS; ROUSE YOUR- things. It may have given him a BELVES IN THIS LIQUR OF DOUBT AND DANGER RID YOURSELVES OR ALL certain impatience for what he once POLITICAL JARION, AND UNITE IN NO walk about almost penniless career. The saving of brown called-whllo Joyously admitting FORMING A GREAT NATIONAL PARTY,
Dinraali. that he had long talked it ns A
Scottish millionaire worth from ness he then ran was, he const.. matter of business-"Tory clap- His Excellency the Governor was revealed the other day. He abled him to save
ten to twenty million pounds. It dered, one of the things that en- trap." It may have imparted an has appointed Mr. M. I. de Ville seldom took a taxi-cab, and beni-jproved a very real and solid step- money that to be Second Lieutenant in the tated about riding in an omnibus. ping stone to fortune. The babit extra touch of recldesances
and
Hongkong Volunteer Defendo speculation, while giving him also Corps.
Rich men often have many remained with him to his dying strange whima. I can reentl one day. a doggedness which was not visible
wealthy Englishman, formerly a His Excellency the Governor well-known figure, who
Another magnate has brought in his father.
To it may be trace has appointed Mr. R. A. C. Northanally have experiences would off many spectacular coupe in a
consi- certain market; yet ha able, more than to any English to act as Secretary for Chinese derable dificulty in producing dreams of
on oven a sixpence from the pockets he is not culating a penny if source, a lack of simplicity, a taste
a certain an- of his for self-advertisement uncommon in
immaculate garb if chal-clont hat that must have been The silk forwarded from Hong-lenged to do ao.
purchased full thirty years ago. an English aristocrat, an unbridled kong by the Empress of Russia sions invariably revealed him to certainly has proved so,,
Flag-days and such-liko occa-He calls it his lucky hat-and it tendency to "boss" any show, and on the 7th January arrived in New be entirely penniless. Then he
(St. other peculiarities which make Mr. York
John's Park)
King Leopold of Belgium was a and would either have to borrow a multimillionaire na Churchill a difficult man for many having been 21 days in transit.
well as Hoboken on the 28th January, silver coin from a friend or send sovereign, and it was a whim of the flag-seller to his house with a his to sally forth among his sub- plain Englishmen "to get on with"
suitably endorsed visiting card. Tects on occasion dressed in One of the happiest definitions Nathan Road at the north-west men have this whim of going regarded as much too ancient for
street commencing at
Quito a number of really rich clothes many of them would have of Mr. Churchill we have encounter corner of K.I.L. 1134 and running about penniless. Only the other wear. But it was ed is that lie is a victim of the "do, parallel to Austin Road in an day I heard of a certain million-made him unrecognisable, and, it-now" Craze-"It" being more or1297, terminating at its junction himself explaining to an omnibus Baghdad of his day, gave him an easterly direction through K.I.Laire who not lofrequently finds like Haroun Al Raschid in the less undefined. There is a goal with Cox's Road has been named conductor that he is unfortunately opportunity of hearing what ha
Tak Shing Street. deal of his great ancestor's century
without a penny in his pockets. subjects really thought of him. in him-"restless, unfixed in prin- The latest additions to the list of course, is always amicably set- The question of paying the faro, ciple, in power unpleased, Impatient of medical practitioners are Drtled. Yet how embarrassing that J. W, Barnes, 13, Chatham Road,
The
of disgrace." Few men fight suc- Kowloon, and Dr. Carlos Eugenis **perience would prove to most of
essfully against their natures, and in the case of Mr. Churchill time has neither tumed nor reformed him. This, as one writer has well said, is a pity, for he has that stuff, if it were not so marred, to make a second Chatham and half a dozen
Pitts
The British Economic Missions's Task.
The British Economic Mission ar-
tis.
da Roza, 138. Caine Road. Both are Bachelors of Medicine and Rockefeller's Cents. Bachelors of Surgery of the
a garb
POWERFUL
that
University of Hongkong. Not all milionaires go about PREACHING.
the streets penniless. One who
famous all Croesus. For many TT is a question often raised whe
years it has been the whim of I ther the glants of the modern
gen-
It is notified that under does not in Mr. Rockefeller, the authority conferred by Section 30 (17) of Ordinance No. 10 of 1890, ne vessel shall secure to the Prays the richest man in the world," an pulpit are as powerful as those of sea wall between a point opposite he has often been called, to carry previous generations. The Queen Victoria Street and a point pocketful of newly minted cents eral eonelusion is that while on the sea wall 110 feet N.W. from pieces about with him. the western side of Jubilee Street. the streets, perhaps, the oil mag- there are fewer outstanding per- Meeting some peor little walf of preaching to-day le, on the whole, on a higher level than it ever was It is hereby notified that ili nate would stop for a chat with socalities.
bim and, if his answers to certain Honour Mr. Justice Wood, has by Commission appointed Mr. L. R.questions proved satisfactory, the
As it is, many famous pronchord
to draw great crowds and have boy's and leave succeeded in thrilling their ou
politics will in some senses be the rives in Hongkong at a time when Andrewes, Deputy Registrar of rich man's hand would clasp that of modern times have been able the Colony's trade, în nimost all its the Supreme Court, to be a Com. of the new coin, worth, diences with the fire of their elo-
loser. Not that anyone will re-
chb. missioner to administer oaths and behind a
quence
and the persuasion of their
could without doubt become a real Britain's share in the Hengkong office, at the Mercantile Bank, in rehad heard of the coins; few, how-leloqueлce.
great man.
the
Pro-
gret his disappearance from poli-branches, is at its lowest
take declarations, affirmations, a halfpenny. The actual value of tical life if his recent indiscretions And, what is of more importance, and attestations of hoor in the the coin was not the real mea- message. But it may be said that
sure of the gift, however. in regard to Indla are to be taken the decline is particularly marked Court.
in the Mission's main sphere of
These Rockefeller coins became very few indeed can compare with
the giants of the past. as truly reflective of his outlook.
interest, trade with the United Mr. Ho lu was, on Thursday, the re-famous throughout the length and
For, to judge by the reports For they betoken a viewpoint which Kingdom. Statistics were
cipient from workmen of the Com-breadth of the United States, and that have come down to us, they issued
mercial Press Printing Works of a there have been not a few in- is sally out of joint with the spirit by the Imports and Export Depart mirror tablet bearing an inscription stances where they have been the sonality that are outstanding. possessed gifta of voice and per- of the nge. But Mr. Churchillment only a week ago, covering
of four Chinose characters reading first brick laid in a foundation Perhaps the greatest of all was "Beneficence extending always has attracted notice, and, period of nine months from April The presentation was made by a de-
to Labour leading to fortune.
George Whitefield. Two storics were he to carb his restlessness, heto December, 1930, showing that putation of the workmen at Mr. Ho's the encouragement of thrift. All oratory and the vividness of his The idea behind the gift was remain to reveal the power of his
cognition, it is understand, of his ser market had dropped by 60 per cent. vices in securing the release of five ever needy, cared to part with On one occasion, Lord Chester- In some respects. hin
or more, as compared with the workmen detained by the Police in them.
fold was in the congregation when political career resembles that of figures for the last comparable connexion with the recent trouble at Many famous people to-day trea-Whitefield was describing the sin
the Commercial Press his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, period. The situation, however, is Works.
Printing sure those Rockefeller cents, givenner as a blind man led by a dog. to them solemnly perhaps during The dog leaving him, he is forced who started out As an orthodox as inevitable as it is disheartening.
a game of golf or during some to grope his way, depending only Tory, then revolted against
No special arrangements, no man- The Westminster Glee Singeraf private social function. Edison. on his stafT. Unconsciously he
no goodwill gave another delightful recital at the "Old Gang" and became the cham-ner of investigation, pinn of "Tory Democracy." sub there is goodwill enough, can over-thusiastic audience. There are to reed even that of Rockefeller,
or the part of the community, and
the presence of a large and enwealth to-day is reported to ex-staff drops from his hand down sequently reverted to orthodoxy, come the simple economic fact that be two performances to-day-a and finally endest up as an inde-silver recovery, or dollar stabilisa matinee and a night recital, for Saving the String. pendent. Winston's political fetion, must precede a revival of both of which the bookings are! It was the queer whim of a cer-ment he paises on vacancy, and has not been entirely dissimilar. trade with the home country. In heavy. It was announced last tain merchant prince never to He was first a Unionist, then a the lack of such a happy solution, night that. the Company will give throw away either the piece of "Good God!" shouted Chester- Liberal and latterly became a Con- the situation must get worse in- day night and will leave for should come wrapped to him nor sprang forward in his
an extra performance on Wednes-brown paper in which
a parcel field, "he
gone." And servative. Like his father, he has stead of getting better. Exchange Shanghai on the following day. the string that bound it. It was avert, the catastrophe.
contracts made last year, forward failed to "Ket
buying, and similar demonstrations would be invaluable. We are not regarded him as one of the most Benjamin Franklin, the inventor
mere meaness that dictate An Irresistible Appeal. of commercial foresight, have for seeking a recommendation concern-generous men who ever lived, a of the lightning conductor
the action; those who knew him a month or two enabled the Colonying means of placing Hongkong on view amply borne out by countless heard Whitefield preach in Phil- to escupe, the full effects of the a gold basis; merely a disinterested unsuspected deeds slump of the dollar to its presont view as to whether such a develop charity. But he simply could not subsequently, "that the preacher of private adelphia. "I perceived," he wrote: level. But when ment would necessarily Iudicrously low
or even bear to see brown paper and string would finish with, a collection, but. present stocks are exhausted and possibly result in excluding Hong
wasted. contracts completed, Lancashire is kong us a trile intermediary.
though I had gold, silver, and The reason was to be destined to lose further ground.
buck in the very beginning of his ed to give nothing. As the speak
found copper in my pocket, I was decid-
wizard inventor, treasures wanders to the edge of 3 the Theatre Royal last night, in one: so does Ferd, the man whose elpica," Whitefield pictured, "his
on" with his col leagues. If he deserts politics, we may hear little of him in the future,
But with Winston, we never know. It is difficult to conceive of him voluntarily keeping in the back- ground. If he remains in political life, we may be sure that he will not be kept out of the limelight. More Bradford woollens will be beyond than once, it has been suggested the purse of the bulk of the com- that he might even become a La-munity. Courtauld's will need to bourite. The transformation would ein silks and special lines. It is be starting if the individual were beyond argument. No amount of not Mr. Churchill. As it is, we loyal speeches can alter it. The need not be startled at anything Mission expects to devote a week that he does.
to an Investigation of local condi
find new markets for their arti-
Winston Churchill has been des- tions. They will find them as we cribed as a survivor of innumerable these points stressed and amplified have described. They will And
htunders. Ten years ngo camin their interviews with the execu- mentators were writing of his rapid tives of local firms. They are as- rine, his hard fall, and then another sured of a coal welcome. They rise when he became Chancellor of may discover lines of progress for the Exchequer In a Liberal Gov-use when times are better. But ernment. He has weathered many medinte future, quite frankly wo
If they are building for the im a storm; we must be prepared for can find no ground for an encoura- the possibility of another come-backing view. There is just one other politically. That he had genius polat which strikes us as offering cannot be denied, "genius of quite a passibility of mitigation of "son- n high order, too. It is shown in tence"--a means of doing a service his purely literary work, for there to this Colony as well as themselves. is little better in its way than the The Colony has long desired an
outside opinion blography of his father, while his Hongkong can safely adopt a gold "River War" is altogether excel-basis currency without reference to lent. His speeches, too, when in any action China may consider sober vein, aro distinguised by desirable. If there is among the technical quality, power of lumin-personnel of the Mission, a gentle- our expression, dignity of phrase man or gentlemen compotent to ex- and breadth of grasp. Nor is he press an opinion on the facts which merely a man of words, The turn auch opinion, belag naturally dia- could be made readily available, of his mind is, indeed, rather to-charged of any accusation of bins,
as to
whether
not
"Maybe you can understand this signal. When I blow this whistle you're penalized two blocks for being offside."
the abyss, too far to send back an echo. He reaches forward cau- › tinualy to recover it. For a mo...
he
Boat to
once
1
er proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper,. Another stroke of his eloquence decided me to give the silver; and
Anished so admirably that emptied my pocket wholly into the collection plate-gold and all." Truly a remarkable compliment, as all preachers know.
But this second story of George Whitefeld la rather countered by an incident related by Mark Twain. This famous American humourist once attended a charity service conducted by a famous preacher. The appeal for funds tquchod every heart. Mark Twain was an moved that he determined to give 500 dollars, and itched for the collection plato to appear that, he might express his sympathy. But so long did the preacher go on that the humorist's generosity decreased in proportion to the preacher's oratory. So that when the plate did come round-he stole 10 centa to pay his car fare home. It may be asked, what makes a powerful preaching. The power
picture
the dramatic may be
given. no one reason, as th
trated by the reported recently
minister o
described the Flood that an old lady discovered herself in the act of putting up her umbrella, An office-bearer belonging
to the
church in which Dr. Robertson, the poot preacher of Irvina held forth to great congregations, tells how skilled he was in describing Biblical scenes, "Man, I mind one day whan he was preaching on the bohoading of John the Baptist, he would often relate, "and when ha
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