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of the War
The shame of the world was kept from him as he lay dying. For weeks he had not seen the news papers nor had his visitors men- the subject which was tioned engrossing all Europe. His physic- if he know fana thought he would be happler and less tilsturbed
made in Ethiopia and of the peril which beset his own beloved people, the working folk of Britain. So Mr. And the handsome, distinctive Arthur Henderson, who gave the life to the cause of peace and streamlined appearance of the disarmament, died without know- new 1935 Studebaker trucking that he had failed in his self- makes it stand out from the appointed mission. Or did he know? And has he failed? We crowd. With its sleek, busi- feel, somehow that a man of Mr. ness-like lines and powerful, fienderson's perception must have dependable engine, it is a truck realised, though he would not a you will be proud to own, a truck which inspires a feeling of pres- tige that suggests a price much higher than its actual cost:
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mit it, that the world was not yet ready for disarmament. He must have known, then, that he had failed to bring security to Europe. But he knew also that his prinel- ples and his convictions would seme day be cherished by all men; that he had laid, and with all the skill of the master craftsman that he was, a lasting foundation on will some day which the world build without fear and susplelon for years of peace and happinesa.—~ Pas a pas on va bien loin.
CRIME PREVENTION
or
-By
War-Yet Made
NORMAN GINSBURY It Terrible
LFRED NOBEL, the
AL
famous Swedish scientist, was born on October 22, 1833. The 102nd anniversary of his. birth occurs to-day.
Nobel was the enigma of the An ardent nineteenth century. Pacifist, he was yet the world's greatest manufacturer of arma- ments. An ominent practical scientist, he found comfort in the dreams and ideals of pocts.
He made millions out of the study of warfare. He left mil-· lions for peace propaganda and- humanitarianism.
He laid the foundations of his fortune by manufacturing an ex- plosive he did not even discover nt he realised, far more than Sobrero, the discoverer, the in- dustrial purposes for which nitroglycerine could be used.
And because of his inventive capacity he was able to improve upon it and to find other more efficient commercial explosives..
embittered,
*
even
The Very Idea!
SPEAKING OF GOLF
Kelly Tells Of The Hazards And Stances Of His Youth
Edited by Eddie IN view of the fact that Hong-
kong has just about lost every interport there is to lose, Edward Kelly, the well-known golf pro, has decided to take up this game in order to avert the ignominous defeat for Colony in every branch of sport.
He considers that, as the best swearer in Hongkong, he has a good start on other golf players.---
TWO-UP KELLY. That's what
they used to call us in Aus- tralia..
What we don't know about golf wouldn't fill the R.H.K.G.C. Book of Rules
There can be no question of the efficacy of the warning contained in the sentences passed at the Ses- sions yesterday in the cases of added Chinese criminals who violence to the crime of robbery, By this we do not mean to express
Incidentally, he was instru- an opinion on the adequacy
Fodder for the rifles of Ethiopian soldiers, law in such mental in developing this age of inaksuney of the matters, sinen our observation is engineering. He made it pos-
Munitions, such na these, were made possible by the inventiva genius merely upon the effect of penalties.sible to quarry and excavate on
hitherto unknown, of a man who was born 102 years ago to-day. The world's prentest manu- scale a They serve as a warning. The law
of the law Mines could be opened up, roads facturer of armaments, Alfred Nobel was yet an ardent pacifist. and the enforcement DEFENCE FIRST
are two very vital parts of this built, and canals cut at a rate
which closely resembled bal- once-believed impossible.
the listite made The passing of Mr. Arthur Colony's organisation; and we are
in formula, and which Nitro-glycerine Henderson, one of the most well served. To make the punish-
ment fit the crime is one thing: Panama Canal possible. It ex- Nobel considered an infringe
ment of his patent. Jevel-hearied statesmen of the
to apprehend the criminal is
Blasting under water was un- The parties agreed to bring progressive ranks in Britain, another; but the prevention of actscavated the Simplon Tunnel.
known until Nobel invented his the matter to the courts in a so- which will be widely "regrelled. He of lawlessness is something else again. And this lends us to a
Nitro-gly called "friendly suit,' was a man of deep sincerity, story. In the days of the New patent detonator..
a very wonderful eventually cost Nobel £30,000 one who devoted the latter years West, when ox-teams were draw-cerine was
Tato substance in its way, much more and left the Government with family wagona
right to manufacture of his life to the cause of univer-ing the
Alberta Northern
and British powerful than gunpowder, but it the sal peace. There can be little Columbia, there was a section of Was unable to replace gun- cordite.
country over-run by cattle powder because it could not be No wonder he was temporarily. doubt that the failure of the dis- the armament efforts on behalf of thieves. Most of them were fired by a fuse.
dians. The law apparently, did
Nobel overcame the difficulty Set-backs and lawsuits, how- which he spent so much time not allow a very desperate remedy,
by means of an ingenious device. ever, did not make Nobel swerve and energy cast a shadow over as on the American side of the the past few years of his life. border where hanging was the pen- He enclosed some gunpowder in from a work which was
a small glass tube, placed the more important than the manu- the new tube inside, the nitro-glycerine, facture of explosives-the pur- He was a firm believer in the alty for horse-stealing, and Ameri-
Con bad men invaded
They were not and then fred the gunpowder suit of international peace. possibility of getting interna Canadian West.
a fuse. The detonating He had already revolutionised tional accord in the sphere of afraid of gaol. Gaola were a joke with armaments limitation, but he to the frontiersmen. So the man powder gave the nitro-glycerine mining operations and the whole art of warfare. He now set himself the task of nullifying the lived to see Britain's defences who was responsible for the d-its explosive impulse.
ministration, of the law hit upon a
dreadful effects of his own fac- brought down to a dangerous plan. He announced that he would level in the hope,.now proved to hang any cattle thieves he caught
Sure enough, the next time TECHNICALLY, the detonator tories.
was an enormous stride, prob- Explosives are used far more be a mistaken one, that the ex-
he laid hande on a suspected indian "ample set would be followed-by-there was-a-hanging. There were ably even more important than in industry than for purposes of other nations. Deplore the fact several hangings in a few days, all Nobel's later discoveries. Il-war, but Nobel-was-never-blind... though we may, it is a melan-The cattle rustlers left that local-paved the way for an era of con- to their dire possibilities. He ity severely alone thereafter. It struction and engineering, and honestly believed that when their that choly circumstance
the was not until many months later also for an era of destruction terror in warfare was realised, for peace that it was discovered that the only and armaments.
the civilised world would recoil The manufacture and trans- in horror and disband its armies. CHIOSHINNEGUNDIRSAN nation's influence
should to a large extent be pro- victim of the "Hanging Sheriff" was 200-pound sack of barley. portionate to the strength of its; with a noose around its neck. The port of explosives were at one armaments, Britain's critics'
As a matter of fact, when suspects had been spirited away.time fraught with terrible
locked up elsewhere so they dangers. In the early days FORTY years ago he developed
a scheme for ensuring per- we first took seriously to golf, may say that it is evidence of or
not talk. The ruse had nitro-glycerine, which is an oily insular hyprocisy, to believe that could
however! All worked,
this is liquid, was stored in tin cans and petual peace which entitles him there were only two of us play- the cause of peace can be best meant to have some bearing on the carried over long distances in to the claim of founder, of the ing the game-us; and
League of Nations, He left the Androw. Then we had to give served by the nation being local situation. We wonder if two-wheeled carts.
the interest on his huge fortune of up playing for time, be-. On one occasion, when strong on sea, in the air and on would not be possible to circulate. land, but it is probably true that without exaggeration, the report wheels squeaked, the driver nearly two million pounds for cause after they made Andrew
of the unhappy fate of the armed had Britain been as powerful robbers who fall into the clutches actually applied nitro-glycerine the furtherance of peace and Saint, he started working the proportionately as she was at of the Hongkong police. We be-as a lubricant! On another oc- science: the close of the Great War, lleve the knowledge of the inevita-casion a woodcutter, used it to ble reckoning which comes to the oil his boots, breeches, and when her Navy and Air Fleet petty criminal might be a deter-reins!
Is it any wonder that disasters were second to none, the pre- rent to others who contemplate
occurred all over the world? In sent crisis in European affairs mishandling people in this area.
an explosion in Sweden, Nobel's would not have gone so far to-
own brother was killed. Nobel himself was depicted as a cal- wards the brink of disaster. WISE AFTER THE EVENT
lous self-seeker. He answered The Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mr. Lloyd George has an recently spoke of the handicap equalled genius for wisdom after his critics by searching franti- imposed on British statesmen at the event, which he loudly pro- cally for a safe, stable explosive, Since solids could be trans- Geneva by the relative weak-claims on every possible occasion. ness of our defence forces, and and for claiming superior know-ported with far greater facility
·ledge to that not only of the than liquids, he absorbed his a kind of the point should be pondered British Government, but also of nitro-glycerine in over by every citizen. To-day the statesmen of the whole world.
porous clay called kieselguhr Nobel's we are paying a heavy price for Mr. Lloyd George's confidence in and marketed it as
common his own acumen is as complete as
safety powder. Its a mistaken faith in the prac- it is inexhaustible. In the Great
name.is dynamite.
the abolishment or diminution of our hands, to see the ball rolling ticability of world disarmament, War, as he has sought to show in
Dynumite soon ousted nitro- standing armies and the formation through the tiger country with the and increase of Peace CongresaCH, tigers after it, while the caddies. made cads of themselves. In the bar- and it is clear that whatever various writings, he alone was
These are the wishes of anroom at the nineteenth hole and the may happen in the international right and he had to struggle glycerine, but it was not so against the mountainous incapacity powerful an explosive. Nobel field in the coming months, or stupidity of his colleagues. felt sure he could prepare some altruist. About 150 Nobel Prizes birdles twittered in the trees as British armaments will have to Should there be another war, Mr. thing which had the power of have already been awarded. they ate their greens.
A wonderful game, is golf. There's nothing like the feeling be increased with all possible Lloyd George will again be ready nitro-glycerine and the stability Their value varies with the in- to assume the role of supreme dis of dynamite and he found it. come from the fund, but this speed. Mr. Chamberlain knows penser of prescience. At first he He mixed nitro-glycerino with year they will be in the neigh- that goes through you when you
tako your stance, which you usually.. to British another explosive called nitro- bourhood of £9,000 each. full well that it will be an ex-gave his full assent
carry in your echt noclast, and pensive business, and the tax-policy as recently outlined by the cellulose, which is the basis of Only one person has twice won carefully wipe the golf bat with it.
Foreign Secretary at Geneva." But
artificial silk. The mixture a prize and that was a woman, Then you wave the bat aloft and payer realises that it will leave on second thoughts he has qualified little prospect of his burden be- his approval. Ile now finds that formed a jelly which was even Mme. Curie, who was given the shout "FORE!" Then you hit the powerful than nitro- prize for chemistry in 1911, and, ball a terrific smack, and it sails ing lightened. But the duty is someone has blundered--someone more one from which there can be no always does-and there follows the glycerine. He called it blasting together with her husband, the through the air and lobs smack in the hole. Some people 'mess about prize for physics in 1903. that the gelatine. inevitable suggestion
Then he treated this gelatine More than twenty of the rect-a bit and like to hit the ball four or escape. The nation's security British Government is to blame. and self-respect demand action. It is the country's business, Mr. with celluloid, and obtained a pients have beon British, and five times before they lob it in the what a great time they had, but Britain must be strong enough, Lloyd George says, to see that a smokeless powder called bal- they include Rudyard Kipling, hole and go home and tell the wife we always were a bit impetuous, to give due veight to her words Parliament is elected that will en- listite, which could be used for Sir Ronald Ross, Bernard Shaw,
suro that such a thing shall not military purposes.
and Sir Austen Chamberlain: and couldn't stand pottering about
"Nobel," wrote Gustav Strese-and wasting time. in international councils. As happen again. That the British
mann, "wanted the forces of ("But do one writer has expressed it, Parliament should be in supreme control of the League of Nations". Britain cannot effectively con-
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un-
rather impracticable project. But
Bome
St.
miracles on 8. Besides, what with keeping an eye on the Hong- The said interest shall be divided kong St. Andrew's Society, and Into five equal amounts, to be ap-attending the Reel Club, he didn't portioned as follows:
One share to the person who shall have much time for golf.. have made the most important dis- In those days we used rough,. covery or invention in the domain three-cornered or square balls, of physics.
stuffed with haggis or some other One share to the person who shall non-detonating material. have made the most important Now, of course, they use the chemical discovery or improvement, gutta-percha ball. When we think One share to the person who shall of the golf ball makers, perched in have made the most important dis the gutter, winding the elastic covery in the domain of physiology round and round and round and or medicine.
One share to the person who shall round, and round-all right, don't have
produced in the field of litera- turn over the page. ture the most distinguished work In these days we didn't play for of an idealistic tendency.
gain. We played. for the thrill of Finally, one share to the person it. Ah, what would we give to feel. who shall have most or best pro: the smooth shaft of the dormy in moted the Fraternity of Nations and
to
slout which had been working in had unchained to be curbed by You don't shout four-four; you netvities at Geneva is a novel if THE British Government, nature his own inventive genius FOR chat the suggestion that, somehow or conjunction with Nobel, soon the restraining power of the just yell "FORE!" It's an old.
cordite, human soul,”””
(Continued on Page 8.)-- (Continued on Page 6.) afterwards patented