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TELEGRAPH MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1935.
HAYLETT'S
GERALD
selected ten great wo- men of to-day [this page last Friday]. What of the
men?
With them, is casy 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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TEN WOMEN
I turn first to the man who contemporary art. If you look coffee. He has turned the eyes has revolutionised the safety of at a modern poster you will see of the East to the West.
Think of what your words the public, Senatore Marchese and feel the effect of them all. Guglielmo Marooni. He was Picasso, strangely, is both popu- are when you see a shrinking born in 1874 of an Italian father lar and commercial. A woman figure at a party: "Inferiority
Irish
respon- mother. At once bought a Picasso for £1,800. complex." The man and twenty-one he first experimented Her father told her she was sible for that phraso is the next with wireless at Bologna.. At crazy, and asked her why she did on my list, Sigmund Freud, the twenty-two he took out the first not invest in safe stock such as man who revolutionised psycho- wireless patent ever granted in U.S. Steel, then standing at 260. logy. London.
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In 1899 the East Goodwin lightship was run down by a steamer. In a few minutes n signal had been flashed for nid. The crew of that vessel were the first human beings to be Raved by radio,
Three
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years later. U.S: Steel This Viennese Jew, stood at 30. The woman sold seventy-nine, WAS primarily her Picasso for £3,000,
responsible for psycho-analysis. He unearthed the forgotten memories of childhood, the in- Third, Scarface Al Capone, the stincts that education seeks to man who revolutionised crime suppress. In 1896 he began his by creating the "racket" on the new technique of cures: the grand scale.
analysis of dreams, the free con- He lies to-day in Alcatraz, the fessiona of the patient. Californian prison known as Freud has put the ancient "America's Devil's Island," but belief in dreams, the "miracle" from 1925 until 1931 he domi- curea of Mesmer and Charcot, nated the American scene. He and the Confessional of the maintained bodyguard of Roman Church all upon a twenty gunmen to whom he paid scientific basis.
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In 1901 Marconi rent mes- sages from Poldhu, in Cornwall, to St. John's, Newfoundland.
Go on n journey by air, by land, by sea: Marconi has made you safe, Switch on the radio: Marconi is amusing you. Ge to the poles or the desert: Marconi will keep you in touch with £4 a day; collected money from The next is another man of civilisation.
the sale of illegal liquor, the seventy-nine: George Bernard profits of illegal slot machines, Shaw. He revolutionised the Second I choose Pablo the rents of houses of ill-fame, theatre; he revolutionised Picasso, Spanish painter living Capone demanded "protection modern thought. Kend the pre- 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 Shaw cleared literature
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Hongkong Telegraph. talking Bohemian, whose pic or their head executives "put on turn.
MONDAY, DEC. 30, 1935.
AMERICAN TARIFF
POLICY.
The recent conclusion by the United States of reciprocal trade agreements with Canada and with
Netherlands the
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 Malna. At one time he was called the "Baffling Basque."
He founded Cubism, the paint-
by Guy Ramsey
prospects that it will loom NOTES OF THE DAY Years for income tax evasion.
WOMAN'S WORK
man
for Riza Shah of
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This over-fat man with thick our generation to the power of ing of things in flat, square lips and a scar running from his free discussion. planes, and that was the source chin to his left car was put on of a dozen new.schools, with all trial for various crimes on seven of which he has kept abreast.
He was a crank with the No Chicago jury occasions.
of his convictions: a All have had their influence on dared convict him. At last courage
who vegetarian Capone, with untold murders at red-bearded his door, was sentenced to eleven dressed in woolly suits; the champion of all underdogs. He largely in the Presidential clee-
Next is Ataturk Kemal, the' is the last Puritan in art, striv
who revolutionised the ing to turn the theatre into a Re- tion campaign next year.
Orient, the inspiration and pulpit with himself as preacher. publican leaders have been de-
He popularised Ibsen, he in- nouncing the policy.on which The work of the Women's In.!trail-blazer these agreements are based, stitutes in Great Britain continues Persia; of Chiang Kai-Shek, terpreted. Wagner, he annihi- to make good progress. The mil-China's President of Haile lated Nordau, who claimed that modern genius was mad. Shaw although there are elements inlons who dwell amid the rush and Selassie, of Abyssinia;
claimed it was sane. *** the party holding the view that excitement of Britain's busy cities
Lenin, maker of modern tariffs have gone to extremes are perhaps not aware of the Im-
He is fifty-seven. He was Russin, is dead; but Lev David- portance of this work and of its unil have been abused by mono- Immense value to the rural popula. born at Salonika of poor parents. ovich Trotsky, whose other name Britain from is. Bronstein, is alive. Him I polies. Commenting on the tion. Country life to-day is con- He prevented treaty with Canada, a leading fronted with two major problems. forcing the Dardanelles, inspir- take for my seventh man. journal says it affords almost the On the one hand there is the diffi- ing a broken defence to one last, revolutionised Russia by the culty arising out of the isolation successful effort. He alone word; he revolutionised govern- a of certain village Communities. offered effectual resistance to ment by imposing with Lenin worst possible ground for 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 anstant lure of the town for the coun-since-1928.
try people. It is in combating,
His early life was n series of He has made Turkey abandon appeal to farmers who fear these difficulties that the true value the vall. He has broken the clashes with Czarist authority; Canadian competition, but many of Women's Institutes and other
prisonment and escape. Ha farmers are awakening to the kindred organisations lies. They age-old restrictions Mohamme- of imprisonment and release, im-
have made village life more attrac danism imposes on
women created the Red Army from the fact that for them tariffs have tive in every way. Their work has some of them sit in his Parlin- ranks of a broken force and let always been a snare and a delu- extended to the improvement of ment. He even sent Turkey it to victory. sion; nine-tenths of them have village education and medical ser back to
vices, and to the founding of illiterate alike to learn the boosted the prices of things that braries and dramatic nocieties. Roman alphabet. farmers buy. Tariffs have been In none of the villages contalning, 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 products in other countries. crafts. Some of the craft work The position is well stated by the carried out by the villagers was on view at the exhibition of the journal referred to when it re-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 last excuse for excessive protec-attended by a large number of in November. The exhibition was 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
remoteet 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, wenvers, quilters, rug- than, from wealth sent out, and makers and rush-workers. Some that wenith ultimately is in of the exhibits showed the great goods rather than gold-which skill of the villagers in utilising 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 Buccess which has attended tha either party to return to a tariff led to an increase in membership, work of the Women's Institutes has
War on the basis of local or which now totals some 300,000. partisan advantage against the
what would seem to be the most
larger welfare of the whole REFORM IN NEW YORK country would be rebuked at the
The power of a New York City
poll. The fact is that there is a 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 In 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 approaches with Dr. Parkhurst, out of his expert- day morning in February, 1892, a view to the conclusion of a ence as president of the Society. now Anglo- American trare for the Prevention of Crime, pro- agreement. If such P pact Lached a sermon in which he charged could be negotiated, on a reci- the palice 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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school-literate and
But the Stalin group wanted
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"That broker will be here for dinnça' again, so koop your ears-
open for tips on the market."
Trolaky. Stalin provalled. Trotsky was exiled. Ever since, he has wandered throughout Europe, a firebrand kindling nothing. Now, at fifty-six, he is in Oslo, dying, they say, of consumption.
mann
ness.
The next name is Henry Ford, master of mass production, the who revolutionised busi- He has still about him to-day the provincial atmosphere of Dearborn, Mich., the small town where ho was born to farm labour in '63.
It la Ford, the man who ad- mitted his lack of culture, who is largely responsible not only for mass production but for the tinctures the idealism that speeches of American business: the "get-together" talks; the ""uplift" jargon; the "service"
blurb.
This tall, saintly faced man- with his Puritan faith and his seventy millions; with his high- paid employees in the United States who used to be forbidden to smoke and compelled to go to church; with a heritage of jokes "about him rivalling those of Mae. West-stands as prototype of modern industrial magnate.
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Turn to the lighter side of life. I name Walt Disney, the man who has revolutionised entertainment. He is like a thousand other Americans, with a Colnian moustache and dark hair, a narrow face, and a smile where Mickey that shows Mouse, now seven years oki, gol his humour.
Mickey was once Mortimor, a real mouse, who fifteen years ago, used to eat Walt's sandwiches. Disney has developed from one.
his family where he and room, used to fashion the cartoons, to an organisation with three hundred. artists working full time, turning out a picture a fortnight, spending £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 orchida with which she adorns her fur coat. Otherwise sho-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 lo you and me the least personally important. He is a German 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
He is fumiliar with the mys- terious Fourth Dimension, where a man can see the back of his own neck without a mirror; where a man gets up to-day be- fore he went to bed last night. 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. Ile discovered that straight lines are curved, that parallel lines meet. He proved that nothing absolute exists; that everything is
to relative 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.
ilver is a metallic auri- ferous silver metal which is 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 search for the clusive metal musi romember that prospectors licenses must first be obtained, and claim- Jumping is strictly frowned upon ip this fair Colony. An old prospector friend of ours was fired because he tried to peg a gold claim on his tal pan's stomach, his taipan wearing one of those old-fangled watch chains dogs and used nowadays only for parrots
Alluvial allver. is found in rivers, crooks, drain-pipce, and various other placca. It is found on mountains and in valleys, etcetera.
also not found in many of the above places. That is the catch.
The best way to tell whether you real silver dollar is to pass have a
It around among a crowd of your friends
If it comes back. It's a coun
folt,