THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1934.
Archbishop of Canterbury As Labour's Ambassador
NOTABLE WORK
IN SLUMS
GREAT SYMPATHY WITH MASSES
DR. COSMO LANG
BY MILTON BRONNER
While it has always been trus that enfe could look at kings, the workingman generally has found it difficult to get a hearing in the high places. That's because cats cha't 'embarrass the throne with urgent and unusual requests for assistance or succour.
has
Cireumatiner, however. iven British labour one pokiga- j man who has free aceass to the heads of the government, the privy of eyen the court councila and St. James- man who is an able pleacher, a superb diplomat and 11 qualibed stateamaa. That spokesman, friend and stauneb ally is. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, whose views are arcepled by a greater audience than those of any other person except the royal family and the prime minister.
Dr. Como Long, Archbishop of
Canterbury.
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CENTRAL AIRPORT
ON THE THAMES
LONDON'S SCHEME SÀVES VALUABLE
HOURS OF COMMERCE
London, Sept. 21. London's Old Man River, the Thames, la golig to become minded in the near future.
internal air finca.
Although the city is already nir-ringed with a circle of airports on Its outer frlige, the nearest is from 40 to 15 minutes distant by road from the business centre and the West End,
OTHER CAPITALS.
With the speeding up ot air services in Great Britain. plans are nearing completion for making the Thames the site of the first centrally situated airport in the henri of the British capital. The
Other European capitals are site at the proposed landing stage much better situated in this ros- for glant airliners is within a puct. For example Le Bourget air- stone's throw of the famous Trai-port la about a half-an-hour by tors' Gate of the Tower of London rond from the heart of Paris. through which political prisonera Berlin's chint airport at Tem- were brought by barge for execu pelhoferfeld la only fifteen minutes tion in the past.
from the business contre,
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The main object of the scheme is
The scheme now being worked have to shorten the time taken by air out provides for the erection of n movies open on Sundays if they between the centre of London and huge landing stage for airliners chose. Many churchmen and lay-other European expitala. Speedy over the Thames itself and on the men rought it. Dr. Lang support-air connection with the beurt of site of existing warehouses front- ed it, saying:
the metropolis has also become iming the river between London "People go to church because perative with the development of Bridge and the Tower Bridge. they want to. If there be any London" as the hub of Great The whole aren has been thorough- who do not want to, but ge be- Britain's
own rapidly growinut jy surveyed in recent months, and cause there is no other comfor!- As the head of the Church of able place. I doubt whether their England, his sermons, perches presence in an acceptable act of and opistles to the press are res; | worship... There's la no progr alar items of important news; and that the cinema prevents people the effectiveness of his pronounce-attending pubile worship. There ments can be judged by the fact is no use arguing people should that a single letter to the press spend a gluet evening at home, uawkidd the results several How can familles, confined in one months of anti-Jewish propaganda. or two rooms find any rest or re- 1168 kpa bern » stranely sue-creation there? The result is the cessful career. Ho is a Scot, born older people go to the 'pub' and inora Presbyterian Inmily, his the younger ones to the streets- fablier hting Moderator of the a great source of evil.” Church of Scotland and Principal He has expressed the same con of Aberdeen University. Hej mon sense British view
on the studied for the bug at Glasgow and necessity of disarmament, apoi Oxford Universities. Then sud-¦ Germany's refusal morally to dis denly at the age of 20he wan arm, upon the vast importance of bore in 1864---he took Holy Orders! the press and films. in the Church of England,
His first church job wa that
of curate in Leeds in the Blum parish. Ten years later he was Bishop of Stepney, in one of the poorest districts of London. His
at experiences
Leeds and Stepney made a life-long impressi alon upon him and he has ever been a friend of the poor working man.
CHAPLAIN TO QUEEN.
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FORGERY
PRISON SCANDAL
DENIED
Statements were made recently;
by the Home Office and the Prison) In a few years he got his chance Commissioners regarding allega- to show it in resounding fashion. [tions Chut a prisoner in Pentonville I had been made chalain to had been detected in printing a Queen Victoria and becar Arch-umber of forged documents and bishop of York in 1908. As such, that several prison officers acting he had a seat in the House of in collusion with him had been Lords. In November. 1917, in the summarily dismissed, most critical period of the World War, some of the effete peers bad
Dorothy
noted Thompson, writer and wife of Sinclair Lewis, the novellat, has left Germany at the invitation of Adolf Hitler's government, which cited unfavourable arti- cles about Der Fauhrer, written before his rise to power, na the circumstances making her an undesirable visitor.
Rehearsing for a war combat demonstration that might impress General Chang with his ability as a military pilot curt the life of Wong Chu-wah, Chinese aviation student, when his plane crashed to the rust of a house in Brooklyn, N.Y. The dirastor took place after the propellor of the room-mate's plang clipped off the tail of Wing's ship.
At the offer of the Prison Com- it is expected that complete details; no serious handicap to itritish air the Alan will be published Inca. Even the largest machinga missioners it was learned that the of
In use on the London-Paris service Prisoner was a convict engaged in shortly.
ean alight fully loaded at about 50 the prison printing shop, and that he was detected in an allsmpt toi
miles an hour on short innding runs-United Pre
ENORMOUS COST.
forge Board of Trade certifiente. It is estimated that the cast ní The Home Office stated that a purporting to certify the credentials buying up the land and construc been nunking superellious remarks prisoner at Pentonville Prison was of a cock. The was used prisoning the landing pintform with about the unrest among the Jurecently discovered misusing the type, but his effort was described loining runways would amount bouring classes. Up rose the printing plant for the purpose of as-"erade and incomplete Onto at least 25.000,000. Archbishop of York to say: printing Board of Trade certifl-being discovered by a warder he
Owing to the restricted space "Vast numbers from the over-cates for cooks. He was reported was subjected to disciplinary action crowded houses in the stums came and dealt with according to rules. by the Governor under prison re-available for such an airport it in forward with the greatest readi-All the statements regarding the Kulations. There was no truth in thought likely that its use would hustly summoned meetings of missioners were still sitting at apparently they owed a little.
The workers will rightly derison Commissioners were devoid Pentonville investigating the mut-
iter, mand that pre-war conditions shall of foundation.
Painted Portias
ness to help their country to which dismissal of prison officers and the interent that the Primum com- have to be limited to airplanes Of Paris
not be restored
ffaving borne
the greater part of the strain and sacrifice of war, they are deter- mined the rewards of their labour shall be adequate.
The first cause of unrest is the unequal distribution of re wards in industry . The second Cause is the dehumanizing of in- dustry, which leads the worker to feel that he is but a cog in the machine, liable to be scrapped like the machinery, he attends . It
is a commonplace that industrial peace depends upon labour and capital Joining together, but It is mockery to speak of partnership when labour is denied any real controlling voice in the settlement
conditions of work. They re-f sent this Prussianizing of in- dustry."
AHEAD OF ROOSEVELT,
It was a regular Franklin Roo- | sevelt speech delivered by the prelate 15 years ago. Serving his country. Dr. Lang made war speeches in many of the towns of the industrial north of England, to the Grand Fleet, to the sections of the army at the front. Then in 1918 he wont to the United States. He spoke to the Anierican Holdiers at Camp Upton, to gather- ings of American business men, to packed audiences at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Trinity Church in New York City. It was not his only connection, with the United States.
of
In the spring 1931 he made a tour of the fedi- terranean and to Palestine as the guest of Mr. J. P. Morgan on the latter's palatial yacht, Corsair.
In 1928 he received his final and crowning
step-up-ho was made Archbishop of Canterbury. In- ́cidentally, he is the first bachelor head of the church since 1767. And he's no old foggy, this 70- year-old bachelor. When others "grouss" about the new after-the- war generation, the Archbishop stops forward and says:
ko the frankness, frosh vitality and curiosity of the dew Keneration,"
་་་ SUNDAY MOVIES. -
Two years ago there was up'in
fitted with wheel-brakes and able
to land at relatively low spesia This, however, would probably br
nitiful suffering of cattle in the Western
of the ex
TURMOIL AT THE COURTS
Paris The Paris Bar is in a turmoil, Elderly barristers and judges are really disturbed by the growing attractiveness of the wo- men lawyers. It was bad enough to be obliged in suffer the encroach- men of the fair sex on the Law Courts preserves.
Your by year the invasion hing continued, and now, according to the complaints of their masculino colleagues, the girls contrive to de- feat the austerity of their black robes by all the well-known artifi- ces of their sex. They an their charma to collect briefs and win cases, and at the same time destrov the peace of mind of impressionable judges and barrlatora. In fact they have become much too allur ing.
Alarm is felt at the daring with which these fascinating and printed Porting accentuate their attractive- nose. There is criticism of the dalaty red, blue or white shoes which flash gaily beneath a-black toga; of painted fingernails showing against bundles of papers waved In the air; of beads and bracelets and other bangles; of powder-pulf and lipstick flaunted at every mo- ment. And then, it is complained, an artfully unbuttoned robe, ex- bit of coloured silk or posing a feminino akin, is apt to cause the attention of the court to wander from the case in hand.
The other day a judge noticed that the pretty blonde pleading before him was the same young woman who, only a week before, had appeared in the same court as a brunetto.
"Something must be done," tho male members of the profession are saying, "to check this ten- doncy. The dignity of the law. mast bo uphold."
96 the authorities aro being asked to make stricter regulationa to this and.
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