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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932.
PROSPERITY IN LEEDS.
CITY OF 99 INDUSTRIES.
AIM OF EDUCATION.
INTERESTING LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY.
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An interesting leture entitled Gifted sailor, cratwhile explorer and
In no other city in England does The Aim of Education" was de- son of a distinguished British army
one e such wholehearted сод
livered by Dr. William P. Merrill, Burgeon, whose exploits earned him tentedness and friendliness us in the Victoria Cruss, much in Captain evinced by the people of Leeds, the Minister of Brick Church, New Lone! Dale Douglas, H.N.R., R.D..that
Prosperous manufacturing York City, at the University Union present commander of the Empress of City which neaties at the foot of Assembly Room yesterday eventag, Asin. who will succeed Captain the wild Yorkshire moors, an an-under the auspices of the Hong- Samuel Robinson, C.B.F... R.N.R., IL.D.,elent town, a university city, akong University Christian Associn-. as commander of the Canadian great medical and surgical centre,tion. Pacific's 20.000-ton Empress of Japan and a place where Arts & Science Dr. Merrili Bald perhaps it ap on the latter's retirement in April. have thrived through the muni- peared presumptuous of him to
He is a man who turned to the sea fleence of its wealthy citizens.
speak on the subject of education at an early age, when it might have
You have heard of Leeds. Per-as he was not an educationailst but been expected he would follow hinaus, even you have passed a fow only a preacher, but sometimes it father in a military career. Blectic days within one of its hos-was better for an outsider to give Richmond, Yorkshire, son of Campbell Mellis Douglas, V.C., dispitable hotels during St. Leger his views. Therefore his lecture tinguished wargeon with the British week, or you have made of it a would not be a technical one, but Expr. of Russi
thoroughly Empr. of Japan saved base from which to reach the given from u milltary corps, who, in 1872, the British punitive expedition in the grouse moors that Be all around, Andr.man Islands from anihilation but, though Lecals can claim to bo practical and personal point of Empr. of Anis by running ammunition to the be unusually well situated for thone lengured troops under
withering enemy fire, L. D. Douglas, as a youth, search of almost any kind of nbooting, fishing, golf, sought recreation in yachts and sport,
racing, hunting and canoes, leading eventually to an ap. motoring,
many others, It is because of her prenticeship on H.M.S. Conway,
well balanced industrial manage meat thuit she stands out to-day among all her compeers.
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Colonel
these
Rome-
view.
It
The aim of education, went on the speaker, was "to enable ono to live well in a kind of a world in which one will have to five." Like all general statements, this Is Conway time completed, he
uded explanation. To live well joined the four-masted bargite Silber-
meant not merely to live happily, horn, and in three and a half years
comfortably or successfully, but salled six times around the Horn, a
In Leeds, one finds none of that gusty and two-fisted introduction to chilled politeness ao common
also to live masterfully, helpfully, in the sen if ever there was on the South of England. Instead, help a world to change from want victoriously, doing one's full share that he visited the there is a bluff goodfellowship, a with this ship Pitcairn lands, an experience ire
On fans never forgolten.
hearty manner and an active in- it is into what it ought to be.
There is
was not easy to see clearly one's remote ands dierit descendants of terest in affairs.
of
Was world. It the mutineers who deserted the 1.M.S. thing of the primitive, to, in the own kind Boanty forty years previously. They ritizen of Leeds, for he has brought especially difficult out here where place with were a motely, lot, as Captain Douglas into his city mare open spaces than vast changes take recalls them, blande Britkulsera
one da in any other town in amazing rapidity. dusky natives, and somehow thear Great Britain, It is as though he There were two outstanding M and draghters tionary tars had "got religion," and could not live unless he breathed characteristics in this world. One art men of the air that still held the thug of the was self-expression and the ther pestered officers
teor, unless his surroundings re-co-operation. One could not help Silberhorn to demarat if "they had
tained some resemblance to the but be struck by the growing ten- That the light."
rent mauorial properties. For
dency of self-expression. In these which Yorkshire lug been famous days, one wanted to be free, to be since the dawn of history.
neself and not a slave to tradi- not to be dominated by Leeds, to-day, is probably the tion: most evenly prosperita eity in others; to cultivate Individualism. Britain. They Are fow snillion- and not merely copies. All these aires but: equidly, employment tendencies were all to the geod: it figures are surprisingly low. Each was magnificent and helped to make of $1 separate industries employs for an incomparably richer world. over 1000 insured operativea; un
преб
af the revolus
Not Basing Any.
They would rush at you and say: Brother. Are You Saved? Cap- tain Boses deserthuss It, and you well any inngine how the rough and ready fo'e'ale hands on the Silberhorn neeled wurk Interest in their spiritual welfare. Their customary reply was nxtremum of blistering expletes, ellverd with sailarly skill, which Jeft the amazing natives
of the Pitcairns put a little buffed and
awed,"
mut.
The present world was a world factory alone-the largest clothing of vast cooperation on a scale un factory in the world-mploys
business of. Small nearly 10,000 hands' while dis-dreamed Captain Douglas Jeft the Silber-tributive trades have more
than merged with other business; links horn for steam, entering the Clan 18.000 people in constant empley merged with banks, corporations Line of Glasgow and sailing to India. Later he smiled from New York to South Afrion with supplies for Boer. War trough and the ports of Cape town, Port Elizabeth and Port Natal were so congested as the result the hustling marine activity brought about by the war, that it look them six months to land their cargo
by
merged with other corporations to make a better. World.
ki and elling mills and said about three years ago. "The
tobacco,
electrical
pattery
Among the premier industries of Leeds, are those comected with the The speaker also stressed the God. Faith dyeing, manufacture,
weaving, value
faith in of finishing and making up of men's played a large part in the success and women's clothing; engineering, of one's life. He reminded the foods, drinks audience of what Sir Philip. Gibbs and In the meantime, Captain Dougins foundries,
apparatus, World must recover God, or go to with an academic interest in his pro- *****
ihe hera of metals, chemicals and painta. | the Devil." fession, proved enforced leness writing his Railway wagon building.
At the conclusion of the lecture, master's ticket ant being promoted, and glass, mining, brass founding. aca result, from third want to extra furniture and woodwork, printing. Mr., Cheung Shiu-tong, who pre master's certificate. A two months bookmaking; all are of first rate sided, moved a vote of thanks to course with the Royal Navy followed,
number mour Dr. Merrill for his interesting talk.
among and in 1905 he took a three months importance and transfor To the Canadian Pacifies engaged in them craftsmen who have in most cases the advant- steamships the Atlantir, came afterwards to the Pacific fleet. age of special tastes and aptitudes hervings steensively on the Empress inherited from earlier generations ORGAN RECITAL AND
Em trained in the same classes of of India. Empresas of China and
work. The centre of an industrial press of Japan.
population of over 3,000,000, Leeds has less than 16,000 men not gain- fully employed.
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Shared Expedition,
and
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CONCERT.
AT KOWLOON UNITED CHURCH.
Here follessed, however, an inter- esting interlude in his earer, as he
Incorporated in 1626, Leeris was embarked on a mineral-seeking ex prelition into the Bad Lands of made a city in 1893 aml possesses A large and appreciative a Northern Canada. Tales had come four rich assets-central geogradience enjoyed an organ reelta! from the Eskimos concerning native phical position, a most energisingand sacred enncert given last copper ring like boulders along the climate, ne local Government and night at the Kowloon Union Artic Const. Sir John Franklin, in
a happy combination of alert Church on behalf of the church 1825. ad seen the nativen using this metal, removal piecemeal from the capital, inventive geplus and many funds.
round in making speurs, arrowheads sided craftsmanship. Her
believed ineering products and knives, and it was millions of tens of it were there for fahries have penetrated into every interests were elime, while Leeds' made Income the taking. Mining stirred by these reports, and Jaintives were earning profits thirteen & Company, naked Captain Douglas. with his skill ns a navigator fitting Stephenson's Rocket.
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Mr. F. Mason, A.R.C.O., render. el Concerto Grosso as an opening number and later gave the "Intro duction to Act 111 of Tannhauser" The Question and the Answer,"
Douginn, president of Phelps, Douglas years before the building of "Allegro Maestoso (From Sonnta
for Islam undertake An
to
geographical survey,
expedition with his brother. George Douglas, and August Sandberg, geologist. The amazing nd ventures of this intrepid little bard of white man save herome the sub- ject matter of the book, "Landa Forlorn," which tells an absorbing story of their battle against the Arctic wilderness.
Despite hardships of all kinds, Captain Douglas and his associates managed to achieve a geographical survey, which to-day, twenty years later, remains the standard map for the district. This is due in no small measure to Captain Douglas and Els Akili as a geographer and pathfinder, n work at which he rermed equally at home, either on land or sen.
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In the North, during this expedition, they lived for a time with John Hornby, "Hermit of the Arctic," who recently starved to death with his entire party; they visked with plorers Radford and Street, who later were murdered by hostile Eskimos,
shared
the hardships with 21725 missionaries, Le Roux and Rouviere. On Active Service. After eighteen months of explore- tion, Captain Douglas, in 1918, re- turned to the Canadian Pacific's service as chief officer of the Empress August 4, 1914, of Russia, which when Great Britain entered the war. WEB Commissioned by the Admiralty at Hongkong to join in the search for the German cruiser Emden, which was terrorizing the South Pacific. When thin notable German vessel
WAS
destroyed by H.M.S. Sydney in the Cocos Islands, the Empress of Russia, then commanded by Captain Samuel Robinson, took the prisoners on board and transported them to Colombo.
(V)" and "Spring Song." Mr. Mason gave the items delicate and Saif, Lobejys and Hodeida, and saw ympathetic treatment, and his much action along the Arabian Coast. recital was very much enjoyed.
Toward the end of the war he took The suered concert includ÷1 command of the Princess Julians and solos by Mra. N. Mathieson, who transported American troops from sang with great feeling and effect, New York to Liverpool. He retired "Evening Hymn" and "To Music," from the navy with the rank of while Mrs. J. J. Cornelius took lientenint-commander, R.N.R., and following conclusion of hostilitles, the solo in the anthem "O for ferried returning Canadian troops Close Walk," and Mrs. R. Ground- from Liverpuul to Halifax. His first water sang the solo in "King of command of an Empress liner was in Heavens." 1921, when he took over the Empress
Two excellent quartettes were of Asia, and in August, 1931, he lowered the Empresa of Canada's given by Mrs. Leib, Mrs. Dick, Mr. transpacific Elmo by five hours. G. R. Leib and Mr. J. Ferguson, making an average speed of 21.6 the first being "Go Down Moses" and the other "Swing low, Sweet Captain L, D. Douglas is a well Charlot." known and respected resident of The whole choir joined in wing- Vancouver, and father of two Being the anthem The Radiant boys. Invariably popular with
PaMorn" to conclude an unusually engern with contact during voyages, he numbers fine programme. among his warm friends hundreds of Dr. E. L. Allen, who. presided, prominent people in all parts of the subsequently thanked the artistes world who have travelled with him in for taking part in such a beautifu the twenty-five years he has
knots.
whom
he comes
been
with the White Empress fleet on the service, and said how much they Pacific-Daily Colonist
had all enjoyed the singing.
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Captain Douglas then spent four- teen months with the British Navy In one of the most unpleasant then tros of war, occupied by the British and void. during the four-year conflet, the Rad Soa. He was on the Empresa af Asia, also commanded by Captain Robinson, In the bombardments; of
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