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TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 27, 1935.
NOTES OF THE DAY
WELFARE PROGRAMME
centres
AN IRISHMAN RULES DANZIG
By PETER LYNE
HERE is in the romantic rise
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Danzig, to exercian the highest de- which carries a salary of £5,000 a Kree of tact, integrity, and diploma-year, as much as the British Prime tic skill in controlling a miniature Minister's, was established under state whose problems have an im- the Treaty of Versailles and subse portant bearing on the pence of quent treaties concluded between Poland and Danzig. The term of office is normally three years. He Europe.
succeeded, in January of 1934, Mr. Helmer Rosting, of Denmark, who had been Acting High Commission er since the end of 1932.
Schemes in operation for the training, instruction and welfare of unemployed men and women are described in the annual report of the Ministry of Labour, which
The Danzig High Commissioner has just been published. Included with the Government training cen-
of Mr. Senu Lester from is a firm believer in the importance
desk to and reporter's tres, Instructional centres,
Danzig's of the League, especially for the physical training
arothrone
flavour of smaller states. He has often ex- marked various vocational and domestic Ruritanian film scenarios. This pressed his admiration for the work training centres provided by out small, sharp-eyed, cautious Irish-done by the representatives of such aide bodies with financial asals-man, who little more than 10 years countries as Norway, Sweden and AUSTIN 12 ROADSTER
tance from the Ministry: Refer ago was newa-gathering in Dublin, Czecho-Slovakia... Recently overhauled
ence is also made to the occupa-
is now called upon, as High Com- -The post which he occupies, and and repainted ...... $950 tlonal and welfare schemes or missioner for the Free City of
ganised by the National Council CHRYSLER 2 DOOR SEDAN of Social Service with the Minta
In good conditon '.
try's co-operation and financial help, The number of Government. was CHEVROLET SEDAN
training centres last year Very good throughout $700 the number of places provided, in increased from eight to nine, and
With a surrounding area of over correspondence with the prospects 750 square miles and a population MORRIS MINOR SALOON
of employment, increased from of some 100,000 Danzig was made One careful owner, low
2,132 to 3,056; but this is con-
a Free City under the protection mileage
$700 siderably below the total accori- of the league of Natlona after
modation available at the centres, the World War. Its future pro-1 -Deferred terms to salt clients- where 3,560 persons could be provided one of the most testing is-
INSPECTION AND TRIAL
vidied for. A satisfactory flow of
INVITED
recruita is reported, and it is stated that 4,819 men entered em- ployment from, the centres, as com pared with 3,728 in the previous year. One new course of training (metal polishing) was added dur- ing the year. Special training schemes promoted by private or- ganisations with the Ministry's assistance were mainly for domestle, employment--for example, foot men, fuseboys, gardeners, and cooks.
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MONDAY, MAY 27, 1935.
FITNESS FOR WORK
KUCA of the Peace Conference. Wedged in between, East Prussia and the Polish Corridor, it remains predominantly German, yet pro- vides one of the two main outlets to the sea for Poland's trade.
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The Very Idea!
AMONGST THE. JOKES AND JOKERS Lord Derby, in a speech at Man- chester, told n story of King Williant the Fourth which is worth repeating.
People rather ignored King Wil liam, anid Lord Derby. Ila wna what they called a bluff sailor, and a racing anecdote would really show
He had four horses in the Good wood Cup, and his trainer anid, "which one would your Majesty like me to run?".
the kind of man he waG-
"Which onc?” said the king. "Run the whole damn fleet." The trainer did no, and, incidentally, he won,
POOR OLD BILL!! · Dog vendor, to lady Inquiring whether the puppy has 1 pedi- gree:-"Pedigree,
Why, Indy? that dog's ancestor came over on a lead held by William the Con- queror."
"I useter have a beard Ike that til i saw meself in the glass. Then I cut it ofT."
THE REASON WHY Germany, which keeps watchful.
"In English literature the child eyes on the affairs of Danzig, ex- pressed its approval of the choices access to the richest vocabul- of Mr. Lester. It was stressed inney in the world," said Mr. H. Ransbotham, Parliamentary Secre the Berlin press that the new High
tary to the Board of Education, at His appointment was hailed in Commissioner's
la experience
Exeter. the Irish Free State as a high Geneva, especially in minority pre- tribute to the young republic and blems and with the Bolivia-Para- "This was apparent to the boy, to the qualities of its diplomatic guay misunderstanding, would help | who, un leaving school, applied for agents.
him to clear up the Polish-Danzig enrolment at an evening institute situation.
and informed the principal that he particularly wished to study Eng- Actually, howevers events mayed | fish In order that he might be able self with very little clearing up to him when he got the sack." so fast that Mr. Lester found him; † to tell his boss what he thought of
The sweeping. National So- einlist victory in Danzig in the
Sean Lester is one of the many Irishmen whose course in life was diverted by the Irish revolution
do.
HENS!
A small boy was asked to write an essay on hens, and this is how he did it:-
"Hens is curious animals. They don't have no nose, no teeth, and
Among his duties Mr. Lester has to arbitrate on all matters in dispute between Poland and Dan-
TIT FOR TAT zig. When a decision has been Two tramps were discussing taken by the High Commissioner, their personal appearance; one was Poland and Danzig, have the right mouth-faced, and the other had a to appeal against this decision to | beard, the Longue Council, whose decision Mr. Lester's election to this im-is final. He also has to supervise portant post recalls the proverbial | the manufacture, storing and trans- story of the Irishman who, when port of war material in Danzig "Better have left it on, mate," asked if he could play the fiddle, and approve the external loans of returned the other. "I useter have answered, "I don't know. I've the Free City. In addition, he a face like yours till I saw it in never tried." Mr. Lester, would exercises the right of veto on inter-the ginss. Then I growed this 'era probably have been prompted by national treaties applying to Dan-beard." his native self-confidence to reply zig. to the same effert if he had been caught on an assignment in Dublin The object of the instructional
For the Freeman's duurnal and centres is the restoration of unem-asked if he could take control of ploved men to fitness for employ-one of the "hot spots" of Europe. ment, and on outstanding Texture has been the development of sum- mer tented canips, In the summer of 1934 there were 13 such camps, providing accommodation for 2,000 trainees. Altogether. 16,248 men were admitted to the camp and centres, and the number who enter. ed employment during or at the end of the course was 2,175, as compared with 1,496 in the pre-
training into a channel he could hardly have ceding year. Physical
anticipated. Though a native of classes were in operation in more
summer of 1983 was followed, not than a score of places. The object Belfast, he was one of the early
by worse relations between Połud of these classes is to encourage members of the Sinn Fein move- local voluntary bodies to take them ment and took a prominent part in and the Free City, but by a not- able slackening of tension all round. over at the end of six months and Irish nationalist affairs. When he Questions which had cauard bitter- than eight at a time. the Ministry did not maintaia orure
went to Dublin he served on theness for years suddenly found a Since the Evening Mail and subsequently on
The outside of a hen is inception of the scheme in 1932.
the Freeman's Journal, which he
generally put into pillars and fether dusters. there have been 34 centres estab- left to take charge of the Govern
sometimes filled with shirt-buttons The inside of hens is ment Press Bureau under Mr.
and such-like. lished, and in only four enses has
A hen is lot the Ministry been unable to find William T. Cosgrave's administra
smaller than a good many other tion. Later he was transferred to
animals, but it can scratch up more the Department of External Affairs and from there he went, in 1929,
of a garden than anything that to Geneva 114
isn't a hen. Hens is very useful" permanent Free No doubt, Mr. Lester Was State delegate to the League of devoutly thankful for this sudden
to lay eggs for plum puddings." Nationis.
and unexpected turn of events.
SHOPPING STORY For if anyone wants to make trou- In his earlier days as a journalist ble, there are few places where it make a purchase for her husband, A bride tripped Into a shop to in Dublin Mr. Lester became a is casier to do so staunch friend of foreign corres The city has a crazy-quilt regime laconic individuals who deal in
than Danzig. The assistant was one of those, fondents, for whom he was a ready under which there is an economie monosyllables. source of information in a city union
Poland. while the where "news" is by no means al municipal authorities administer husband," she began.
"I want some cigarettes for my ways easy to obtain.. At Geneva the customs within its boundaries.
"Curk?" he drawled. he soon became popular with per-Poland directs the railways. Polen manent representatives of other and Danzigers sit under the pre- countries. He was renowned for sidency of a Swiss ess the special his impartiality, shrewdness of port authority. Foreign relations judgment, persuasiveness and, are under Polish control. when served on the Council, on the Com- mittee of Nineteen that dealt with The Sino-Japanese dispute and on during which relations between the Moreover, in the last 10 years, those dealing with the Leticia and Poles, and Danzigers have been Gran Chaco disputes; and he acted balanced on 11 razer edge, the ns rapporteur" in a number of Polish Government has been spend- delicate negotiations on Minorities ing large sums of money on build- questions. Moreover, he and Mre. ing a new port at Gdynia, some Lester enjoyed happy social and miles to the east of the Free City, personal relationships during their
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local agencies to carry them on. About 1-4,600 have been enrolled for the classes since they startel. 5,600 in 1934. Welfare centres to the total of 1,188 were in existence at the end of 1934. There were 1,462 occupational centres in which
THE PRICE OF PEACE
**The price of peace is written down in the Covenant of the Lengur of Nations. We under. took to pay that price at the Peace Conference. Four years of war taught the statesmen of the nations in 1918 that the price must be paid." These words of Mr. Arthur Henderson, in a recent address to a League of Nations Union meeting. put plainly an issue which is still of vital concern to the nations of the world. War is neither im- minent nor inevitable. But the mere reiteration of the desire for pence and protests against war will not bring the world back to the path of security and dis- armament. Nobody can deny instruction was given in boot re- pairing, elementary carpentering. that some of the present ten-handicrafts, etc., and 785 reeren- dencies in international policytionin! centres provided facilities are highly dangerous to world for reading and games. Under the 1934 Act, the Minister is authorised peace. There is a grave danger to contribute to the cost of such of alliances supplanting the services, and during the year its League, with the inevitable re-grant was approximately £50,000, sult that nations may continue to given on the condition that at least
an equal amount was raised from pile up armaments in à vain voluntary funds. The attempt to achieve security. continued its grant to the National But the League of Nations was
Council of Social Service, which has acted in collaboration with organised to prevent such a re-
other national, regional, and local turn to the conditions which led organisations. Local officers of the to the disaster of 1914-18. The Ministry gave retive help, and in many districts assisted voluntarily Covenant of the League, the Locarno Treaty and other agree-
in their spare time.
menta
founded on were
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CORRECTING A SKID When the car skids there is n danger of the driver losing his head. The two main points to re- steer into the skid at once. member are to keep cool and to
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described.
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a system of collective security it is the only practical method of which all nutions will be free to ensuring that there shall be no enter on equal terms. Britain.] more war.
necessary,
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frmness. He
solution. The Lengue Committee. which had been called in to deal with some of the most intractable of these difficulties, was politely in- formed that Poland and Danzig had decided to settle them by dirert
negotiation.
with
24-3-4
"It may be the primitive man in me, Martha, but, by George,
I'm going to remove my coat!"
no cars.
"Is that better than tobacco?"
she asked
THE SCOT SCORES Overheard in County Court Sessions in London, where a young Scot was giving evidence as to un in a taxi:-- accident he witnessed while he was
Prosecuting Counsel "Was it not difficult to see out of the taxi?"
Witness "No."
Prosecuting Counsel-"Then you were sitting up?"
Witness "Yes."
Prosecuting Counsel-"Why 7" Witness-Nothing else to do!" (Titter in Court.)
Judge (with smile)—“Of course, you don't have to pay for looking out of the window! You're from over the Border?"
Witness-"Yen, and I might say (with smile) I wasn't watching the taximeter!"
(Broad smiles on every face, including Judge.)
Judge "A very able retort!"
Danzigers charged the Poles, not unreasonably, with trying to en- gineer the ruin of their port. AL any rate, the two ports between them now divide on a 50-50 basis almost the whole overseas trade of Poland. A good deal of give and tuke is essential if the balance is to be kept working smoothly.
Disputes have also arisen with regrettable frequency concerning the alleged smuggling of German goods through Danzig to Poland. while Polish citizens have com- plained of unfair discrimination and of attacks upon their persons und property. Among other ques- tions has been that of the freedom of the press following suppression of two daily newspapers by the Nationni Socialist chief of police. Dauzig is one of the most beauti- ful cities of Europe, and both his- torically and architecturally one of the most interesting. Nor are its cultural amenities insigniflennt. The Woodland open-air opera in the pine forests behind the little water- ing place of Zoppot in the Danzig State aren is rapidly becoming one of the most popular summer musi.. cul festivals in Europe.
Just beyond Zoppot lies the Danzig-Polish border and no doubt (Continued on Page 4.)