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HONGKONG TELEGRAPHY, DECEMBER 30, 1935.
“BEDFORD”
A TOUGH, POPULAR TRUCK
HERALD HAYLETT'S selected ten great wo- men of to-day [this page laat Friday]. What of the
men?
With them, is easy to choose ten dominant figures. The pro- blem is one of rejection rather than selection. But which ten?
I have tried to choose the ten men who, more than any others, have created this modern world in which we live.
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Trotsky. Stalin. provailed. Trotsky was exiled. Ever since, he has wandered throughout. Europe, a firebrand kindling nothing. Now, at fifty-six, hu is in Oslo, dying, they say, of consumption.
The next name is Henry Ford," master of mass production, the man who revolutionised busi- ness. He has still about him to-day the provincial atmosphere of Dearborn, Mich., the small town where he was born to farm labour in '63.
It is Ford, the man who ad- mitted his lack of culture, who is largely responsible not only for mass production but for the the idealism that tinctures speeches of American business: the "get-together" talks; the "uplift" jargon; the "service" blurb.
This tall, saintly faced man-
with his Puritan faith and bi.
—and a Servico worthy of it
VERY month big shipments of Bedford Trucks leave Eng land for every part of the world, And the rising export figures and many hundreds of enthusiastic letters from Bedford owners all over the world have shown that I turn first to the man who contemporary art.. If you look coffee. He has turned the eyes the Bedford is popular wherever has revolutionised the safety of at a modern poster you will see of the East to the West.
the public, Senatore Marchese and feel the effect of them all, Think of what your words .it goes,
Why this success ?
Picasso, strangely, is both popu- are when you see a shrinking For. in designing the Bedford Guglielmo Marcon, He range, Vauxhall experts studied born in 1874 of an Italian father lar and commercial. A woman figure at a party: "Inferiority
mother. At once bought a Picasso for £1,800. complex." The man overseas conditions at first hand, and They learnt what was wanted in twenty-one he first experimented Her father told her she was. sible for that phrase is the next At crazy, and asked her why she did on my list, Sigmund Freud, the trucks from the very men who with wireless at Bologna.
twenty-two he took out the first not invest in safe stock such as man who revolutionised psycho- were going to use them. And there
world-wide wireless patent ever granted in U.S. Steel, then standing at 250. logy. ង
U.S. Steel This Viennese Jew, now Three years later, organisation to make Bodford London.
1899 the East Goodwin stood at 30. The woman sold seventy-nine, was primarily In service and genuine spares avail.
lightship was run down by a her Picasso for £3,000.
responsible for psycho-analysis. ablo everywhere.
He unearthed the forgotten memories of childhood, the in- Tested at every stage in the steamer. In a few minutes a signal had been flashed for aid. famous Luton works in England. The crew of that vessel were Third, Scarface Al Capone, the stincts that education seeks to proved sound and reliable on the the first human beings to be who revolutionised crime suppress. In 1896 he began his roughest work in the world, the saved by radio.
by creating the "racket" on the new technique of cures: the Bedford, is a first-class invest-
In 1901 Marconi sent mes- grand scale.
analysis of dreams, the free con- ment whatever the nature of
anges from Poldhu, in Cornwall,
Ile lies to-day in Alcatraz, the fessions of the patient. work!
to St. John's, Newfoundland. Californian prison known 48 Freud has put the ancient Go, on a journey by air, by "America's Devil's Island," but belief in dreams, the "miracle" land, by sea: Marconi has made from 1926 until 1931 be domi- cures of Mesmer and Charcot, He and the Confessional of the you safe. Switch on the radio: nated the American scene.
Go to maintained
Church all Marconi is amusing you.
bodyguard of Roman
upon a the poles or the desert: Marconi twenty gunmen to whom he paid scientific basis, will keep you in touch with £4 a day; collected money from The next is another man of reivilisation.
the sale of illegal liquor, the seventy-nine: George Bernard
the profits of illegal slot machines, Shaw. He revolutionised Second. I choose Pablo the rents of houses of ill-fame. theatre; lie revolutionised
Mickey Capone demanded protection modern thought. Read the pre- Picasso, Spanish painter living in Paris, the man who revolu- dues" from legitimate busi- Shaw plays, read the pre-Shaw tionised art. This shaggy, nesses. Those who refused to journalism; guarded in utter- carelessly dressed, flippantly- pay had their premises bombed ance, suppressing truth at every.
Thero's a Bedford Model for evory business;
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MONDAY, DEC. 30, 1935.
AMERICAN TARIFF
POLICY
The recent conclusion by the United States of reciprocal trade agreements with Canada and with the Netherlands has brought the tariff question well to the fore in America, with
tures look like stark lunacy to the spot" and "bumped off." of cant and opened the minds of those who cannot understand them, has altered our vision- the way we look at things.
He was born in 1881 in Malaya. At one time he was called the "Bafling Basque."
He founded Cubism, the paint- ing of things in flat, square planes, and that was the source of a dozen new schools, with all of which he has kept abreast, All have had their influence on
prospects that it will 100m NOTES OF THE DAY
by Guy Ramsey
This over-fat man with thick our generation to the power of lips and a scar running from his free discussion, chin to his left ear was put on trial for various crimes on seven
occasions.
No Chicago jury He was a crank with the dared convict him. At last courage of his convictions: a who vegetarian Capone, with untold murders at red-bearded his door, was sentenced to cleven dressed in woolly suits; the champion of all underdogs. He years for income tax evasion.
Next is Ataturk Kemal, the is the last Puritan in art, striv man who revolutionised the ing to turn the theatre into a Orient, the inspiration and pulpit with himself as preacher. The work of the Women's In-trail-blazer for Riza Shah of stitutes in Great Britain continues Persia; of Chiang Kai-Shek, Haile President; of to make good progress.. The mil China's lions who dweil amid the rush and Selassie, of Abyssinia. excitement of Britain's busy cities
WOMAN'S WORK
largely in the Presidential elec- tion campaign next year. Re- publican leaders have been de- nouncing the policy on which based, these
agreements although there are elements in the party holding the view' that tariffs have gone to extremes are perhaps not aware of the Im-
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He popularised Ibsen, he in- terpreted Wagner, he annihi lated Nordau, who claimed that modern genius was mad. Shaw claimed it was sane.
Lenin, maker of modern Ile is fifty-seven. He was Russia, is dead; but Lev David- portance of this work and of its and have been abused by mono-immense value to the rural popula-born at Salonika of poor parents: ovich Trotsky, whose other name polies.
Britain from Is Bronstein, is alive. Him I Commenting on the tion. Country life today is con- He prevented treaty with Canada, a leading fronted with two major problems. forcing the Dardanelles, Inspir-, take for my seventh man.
On the one hand there is the diffi- Ing a broken defence to one last, revolutionised Russia by the Journal says it affords almost the city-arising-out-of-the-isolation successful effort. He alone-sword; he revolutionised govern- worst possible ground for of certain village Communities, offered effectual resistance to ment by imposing with Lenin Republican tariff fight. Tactical-and on the other there is the con-Allenby. He has ruled Turkey the Soviet system. ly there may be a chance for instant lure of the town for the coun- since 1923,
His early life was a series of try people. It is in combating appen to farmers who fear these difficulties that the true valus the veil. He has broken the of imprisonment and release, im- He has made Turkey abandon clashes with Czarist authority: Canadian competition, but many of Women's Institutes and other
prisonment and escape. kindred organisations lles. They age-old restrictions Mohamme- farmers are awakening to the have made village life more attrie danism imposes on women— fact that for them tariffs have tive in every way. Their work has some of them sit in his Parlia. created the Red Army from the always been a snare and a delu-extended to the Improvement of ment. He even sent Turkey ranks of a broken force and led
it to victory. school-literate and sion; nine-tenths of them have village education and medical ser back to boosted the prices of things that vices, and to the founding of illiterate alike to learn the
libraries and dramatic societies. Roman alphabet.
But the Stalin group wanted farmers buy Tariff's have been in none of the villages containing | He cats sparingly, smokes in- to consolidate, not expand the shown to restrict the farmers' women's institutes-Is there a popu- cessantly, drinks heavily of revolution beyond' Russia as did. markets by blocking payments in lation of more than four thousand. The Institutes have introduced, or goods from potential buyers of reintroduced, old country arts and farm producls in alher countries. crafts. Some of the craft work The position is well stated by the carried out by the villagers was journal referred to when it re-on view at the exhibition of the National Federation of Women's marks that since America has Institutes, which was held in the become a creditor country the New Horticultural Hall in London Just excuse for excessive protec-in November. The exhibition was attended by a large number of tion has been removed. It is visitors, and 20,000 of the women clearer. every day that the arrived in London from some of United States cannot now even the remotest English villages. There were. thirty-nine expert appear to sell without buying.demonstrators of handicrafts, and And it is better understood that visitors were much Impressed by the country as a whole benefits the high standard of the work on more from wealth brought in view. Among the exhibitors were spinners, weavers, quilters, rug- than from wealth sent out, and makers and rush-workers. Some that wealth ultimately is in of the exhibits showed the great goods rather than gold-which skill of the villagers in utilising what would scom, to be the most in fact is to-day an embarrass- useless odds-and-ends in making ment. The view in well-inform- useful and artistic articles. The ed circles is that any effort by Ruccess which has attended either party to return to a tarif work of the Women's Institutes has led to an increase in membership, war, on the basis of local or which now tutals some 300,000.- partisan advantage against the larger welfare of the whole country would be rebuked at the poll. The fact is that there is n
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The power of a New York City preacher to bring about reforms in growing conviction of the
civic life will be recalled to com futility of high tariffs, based on ing generations by the statue of a recognition of the point that Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst shortly there can be no real world Im-to be erected by grateful citizens provement in trade until arti- in Madison Square, opposite the ficial barriers are substantially site where his voice called the lowered. Meantime, there have citizens to their duty. On a Sun- been tentative annranches with Dr. Parkhurst, out of his experi- day morning in February, 1892, a view to the conclusion of a ence as president of the Society how Anglo-American trabr the Prevention of Crime, pre- agreement. If such Et pact ached a sermon in,which he charged could be negotinted, on a roof-the police force of the city admin- procal basis, it should be all to istration with being in league with the good of both nations.
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"That broker will be horg for dinner again, so keep your ears
open for tips on the market."
seventy millions; with his high- paid employees in the United States who used to bo forbidden to smoke and compelled to go to church; with a heritage of jokes about him rivalling those of Mac West-stands as prototype of modern industrial magnate."
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Turn to the lighter side of life. I name Walt Disney, tho who has revolutionised entertainment. He is like a thousand other Americans, with & Colman moustache and dark hair, a narrow face, and a smile that shows where Mickey Mouse, now seven years old, got his humour.
was once Mortimer,, a reni mouse, who fifteen years ago, used to cat Walt's sandwiches. Disney has developed from one room, where he and his family used to fashion the cartoons, to an organisation with throo hundred artists working full time, turning out a picture a fortnight, sponding £260,000 a year.
Disney is thirty-four. His wife, like himself, is a typical product of provincial America. Her suc- cess can only be noted in the huge bouquet of orchids with which she adorns her fur coat. Otherwise she and Walt-are just two young Yanks who have made good and remained quite unspoiled by suc
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The last of my ten men is perhaps the greatest, though to you and me the least personally He is a German important. Jew, now in exile, He has wild grey hair, and clutches a violin as he travels about from place to place. He has a mind which, reaches out beyond this world and the next,
He is familiar with the mya- terious Fourth Dimension, where a man can see the back of his own neek without a mirror: where a man gets up to-day be fore he went to bed last night. He is intimate-with-fabulous- beings that travel faster than light, so that they can see them- selves approaching the destina- tion they have already reached. He discovered that straight lines are curved, that paralle) lines meet. He proved that nothing absolute exists; that'
is relative everything
to something else.
He is a devoted husband, a simple, home-loving man, fifty. six years old.
His name is Albert Einstein.
Let Metal
One Now
By Ed. Kelly, Pittman's Student
SPEAKING of Silver.
Jilver is a metallic auri- ferous silver metal which it found in large or small single lumps, or linked to- gether as in silver key chains, or branded "H.K. & S.H." as in our collection, or. invisible, such as silver dol- lars.
Hongkong people who Intend to search for the elusive motal must remember that prospectors licenses must first be obtained, and claim- Jumping is strictly frowned upon in this
fair
Colony. An old prospector friend of ours was fired because he tried to peg a gold claim on his bal pan's stomach, his talpan wearing one of those old-fangled watch chains used nowadays only for dogs and parrots,
Alluvial silver is found in rivors, creeks, drain pipes, and various other places. It in found on mountains and in valleys, etcetera.
It is also not found in many of the abaya places. That is the catch.
The best way to tell whether you. have a real oliver dollar is to pass It around among a crowd of your friends
If It comes back it's a counter. felt.
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