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THE EMIGRATION QUESTION
ly answered by the Premiers of Western Australia and Victorin, one of whom contends, that the advocates of immigration are not familiar with conditions, whilst the other says that the first duty of the States is to find a remedy for the workless. In view of these statements, it is of interest to take note of a recent discussion on the subject in the British House of Commons.
man in the very old tweed suit and dilapidated shoot- ing-hat, had been walking meditatively along the sum- mer lane. Now he stopped as if the man in the car had hit him with something. His old, rough. Scotch ter- rier, grubby from many ditch explorations, also stop- ped. They seemed to be frozen, less by astonishment than by an enormous indige nation.
Then the spare. small
man. uttering some hard words in un audible voice to no one in particu- · iar, set his glasses more firmly on
his combative hose, turned aside and elambered hedged fence. The terrier found hole between roots and followed.
And off they both went over ploughed land, heading for the shadowy, silent downs, whence towny men in touring cars could not purauc.
ANXIOUS DAYS
RUDYARD KIPLING AND WIFE.
Por him, the utter peace he longed før.
DOOR Kipling! They would not
leave him alone.
True, he was composing his
The unfortunate author oven discovered not long ago that his tradesman thought his small cheques in discharge of his ac- - count were worth more framed ..and traded to autograph hunters, than put through the bank, After that he paid in cash.
Kipling never was celebrated for mild and amiable tempora- ment. He never sulTered fools gladly.
His hatred for the froth, and folly of much of post-war life, and the cheapness and sensation- alist and ostentation he saw all about him, the blaring vulgarity of the new cities, he inherited, no doubt. from his Nonconformist ancestry,
BOT his grandfathers
were
Methodist preachers. The cult of endeavour, courage, sound work and bit-on-it grit, plus a tough- and tenacious character, were in the very marrow and fibre of the tiny white-faced English boy who passed his early years in crowded, chattering Lahore, a great British milltary and administrative cen- tre, capital of the Punjab, a focus-, point for the Infinitely varied life of Indin, where his father, John Lockwood Kipling, was art direc- tor and curator of the muscum.
On their way home to put young Rudyard to school in England, the eider Kipling succumbed to the weather, and went below. There he was disturbed by an alarmed ship's officer who banged on his door and shouted. "Mr. Kipling, he was disturbed by an alarmed ship's officer who banged on hi door and shouted. "Mr. Kipling. your boy has climbed out on the yard arm. If he lets go, he's done."
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"Yes, but he won't let go." sighed Kipling sentor; and stayed where he was.
In 1985 he seemed to belong It was at school that Kipling 'definitely to England's past, to learnt the art of story-telling. He that England that passed away read everything, including the for ever in the maelstrom of the headmaster's and chaplain's Hbraries. In the dormitory at real war.
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That was my last sight of Rud- yard Kipling. I was taking AL favourite canter over the Sussex downs and came upon this scene by chance over the brow of a crest. I don't recollect seeing a car in that grassy little lane near The fact that unemployment Kipling's Burwash house before. shows a marked decrease in Aus-
juvenilla at the age of B3-the present market pren of "Job's tralia has once again raised the
Wife" and, "Thoughts of a Pelan In 1976 his scale of human night he was called upon to tell NOTES OF THE DAY in Execution, the chefs values was ahead of his time. He yarns. When his memory-which question of the possibility of a
d'aenres of that boyish phase, antic.gated. But in his last years for the written word was prodi- resumption of Immigration.
would be worth knowing at 26 ho no longer anticipated. Itead-gious-gave out, he had to invent. He revived the school magazine, The Australian Minister of In-
he was acclaimed a genius by the ing him, one looks back.
and wrote Tour-fths of the con- Anxious eyes, not only through all is the publishers. He was 70 ing the rising of the tide of world no theme at all," he declared in
public and the best-seller of them terior thinks that the moment is
He showed no signs of Bercely; tents, verse and prose. "War is out the length and breadth of the last month. propitious for a discussion of the British Empire, but the wide
change around the castle in whith those days: and composed subject, but he has been prompt-world over, are meaning the news enchanted to see his first editions is recent tales were of an old the Etyle was so turgid and ponti- But all the same, he cannot be bis genius has entrenched itself, ensay on the abolition of war. But bulletina these days for the latest reach "old master" prices, and the world still
ile stayed, resolute- fieal that the master who had to the King, collectors fighting for possess.only, on the other side of the divide. read it flung, the manuscript at news of His Majesty whose sudden itiness is causing so of his early works, judging ther This largely explains why he is the essayist's head. much concern. Coming so soon value on the basis of their manly the most eagerly collected of all The first of these verses and after the Silver Jubilee celebra and caring nothing about their re contemporary authors. A pirated stories which were to make him
lative literary merit. For two edition of one of his early books rich and famous, were tions, when His Majesty seemed to deendes he hus avoided interviews, published in Santiago did not sell, when he was a sub reporter on written
recurrence of the King's bronchial tesses. have taken a new lease of life, the celebrity hunters and puble ho- and the publisher ultimately sold the Civil and Military Gazette at the remainders at five cents a kilo Lahore, and a sub-editor on its trouble has cast a gloom over the
Galsworthy is itaquently seen to get rid of them. The other day rival, The Pioneer, at Allahabad. Empire, but all unite in the hope
copy of that book sold at He wrote so fast and so, absorbed. In the theatre, nt literary gather- that their beloved ruler will come ings, and the meetings of certain Sotheray's in London for £200. ly that he used to splash himself through His sickness ind be humanitarian societies... Arno.d He scribbled a "Ballad of the with ink, to the anger of his spared for many
who liked to S-CO his years to come. Bennett goes about as much as a Ski" for a fellow guest in a Swiss editor,
H. Alpine hotel a quarter of a cen- editorial staff spotless. In their The news from Home indicates fashionable portrait painter.
on the tropical whites. once again the deep love of his G. Wells is positively gregarious, tury ago--eight lines
He celebrated his majority by Bernard Shaw is one of London's title rage of a tauchnitz edition subjects for their atricken
bia "Seven Seas" familiar sights and is always of
of persuading a Bombay firm to when a motion was put forward monarch and their solid attach-ready to jump into the papers or 1897. It went into the auction publish his "Departmental Dit- that the time had arrived for ment to the Throne, whilst the onto the platform in any contro- room in 1928 and fetched a fat tlen." They paid him 500 rupees.
which he spent on a shooting trip... steps to be taken to survey the sympathetic messages from manyversy. Even J. M. Barrie is some- um.
foreign lands serve to show how times accessible and has a London
Every негар of the Kipling That book has since brought possibilities of restarting emi-
of home.
writing is worth money to-day, author and publisher. a round widespread the popularity gration within
still the Empire, King George Is. In this critical. But though every Englishman Is typewriten manuscripts with £25,000 in royalties. It One speaker asserted that Aus-hour, feelings of real sympathy know Kipling's name, few could marginal corrections are highly figures in the list of Kipling's on 200,000 copies year in and year tralia and Canada should each for Her Majesty the Queen and tell you where he lived, and fewer rized by collectors. The very books which sell an aggregate of
chits he signed for drinka still have ever set eyes on him. the members of the Roval
board ships have been put on the out have a population of a hundred "
Occasionally he went to London market and sold.
After his "Plain Tales from the Family are universally folt. The
from the depths of Sussex for a
Hills" millions, instead of a few mil-latest bulletins engender the hope Season function-n Royal Garden with a regular Journal, a member went on a world tour. His short and "Soldiers Three" he There is even a Kipling Society, lions, as at present; while an-that His Majesty may be able to Party, the annual cricket match snip ni u or so, and Major stories presently won him fame other declared that if he were a surmount the sickness with which between Eton and Harrow, the Generai L. Dunsterville, as its all over the world. He married Dictator ho would insist on the he has been stricken, and Hong-two great public schools, a polo
(But when the Society an American girl, Miss Balestier. kong, in common with all parts of match at Hurlingham. a small president. training in England of 20,000 the Empire, will fervently pray dinner party given by his cousin, sent him greetings, Kipuing failed
Premier Baldwin.
HE went out to the South Afri- workers, with their wives and that this will be so..
can War after his return from But in town he shunned the
the United States, gathered much families, with a view to fitting
fashionable hotel-restaurant, and WHEN, prosperous and famous, material for tales and articles, them for farming overseas. Government. If emigration is stayed at a small, old-fashioned he reured to Kottingdean, travelled down to Cape Town on a The Government attitude on the to be resumed on anything like place in a quiet backwater off Ple- that picturesque nttie vilage at Hospital train and in three days
cadilly Occasionally one found the foot of his beloved "Sussex wrote 600 subject is one which, will com a large scale, steps will have to him in one of his two clubs, the downs, he thought he was, safe, wounded Tommies.
the Tory The railway, stopped seven miles It was a period of Intensive pro- mand general approval, namely, be taken to ensure that the right earned Athenaeum or
Carlton.
away. No movie theatre in tot duction. His books came out at that to regard emigration as a type of individual is sent over-
tingucan then. Few. visitors at the rate of оде and two The Premier of Western CINCE he nearly died of pneu-
a year, and Meana of relieving unemploy- seas.
cach one. Was But some. fashionable folk dis mously. A pre-war world hungry
a literary event and sold enor ment at Home is likely to pre- Australia has stated that the monta in 1926 he sought the judice the question in the eyes emigrants must have enough sun each winter until this one covered this quiet backwater. It for the Kipling glamour and of overseas Governments; it capital to enable them to make favoured by the English pubile- un lor amart Bohemia. it got enough of those books with the
which killed him, in some spot became
colour and magle could not get would be disastrous if emigra- their way in the uninhabited school educated upper-middle ajor or put a Parted hand of an elephant and the
Cass to which he belonged and by nign ivy-covered was around
The machine was slowing down tion reduced unemployment in regions where they are most which he revered-in Egypt, ar an domain, Kipling stood it or swastika opposite the title page, Britain but increased it in the needed. In times past, too many North Africa, the West Indies or some.time.
the Argentine.
But then motor-coaches took the by 1910. Last year it was practical-
ly nil. Dominions. What the Govern emigrants have gone to
Aug-
bringing a new clusa of He was, of course, n Die Hard roaus,
who luough nothing of ment is doing in the matter is to tralia and settled in the towns, Tory, a staunch imperialist who per 1:18 Inter oucardo IPLING'S books will last: the. set up an Empire Settlement there to become destitute in an had no patience with radicals. topping
His pungent politics were too hang a house, and weaning over Imperishable magic of "The- Board, composed of eight men- overcrowded market. But Aus- much for the Asquithian Liberala: La Vycin wait and taking loud- Frashwood Bay", the "Puck of bors, of whom three will be tralia, and Canada as well, can always in office from 1904 on Y, and uncing things, and somo Pook's Hill" tales caught in officials Trom the Government Ond-plenty of-room-for-the-man-to the great war and although perins dreams over the sun-soaked, windy. The unofficial members are to be who is acquainted with farming the great singer of British Tung men wagesmuter via downs, the creed of "If the solemn sweep of the "Recession- men of marked ability, and the and is willing to go outside the perialism was awarded the Nobel when pre
Prize in 1906, an opportunity to But even here he did not find al”, the charm and wonder of Board will advise the Secretary big towns. This lends point to make him Poet Laureate was pass the utcur peace he longed for those "Jungle Booka" that Kipling of Stato on specific proposals for the idea that mien destined for the great singer of British Im- topiirom the cites who had wrote for his son, John. schemes of emigration and mat- overseas should receive some perialism. was awarded the Nobel talen under the Kipling spell John Kipling is dend. On the
4 {} térs relating to overseas settle- training beforehand. For such prize in 1906, an opportunity to not a few Americans among them village green of Burwash
commemorates him make him Poet Laureate was pass wont by car to look at Kipling's inonument mont. It is not intended that men there are plenty of op-ed over by the government of the retreat; and then they hung about along with the other men of the the Board shall actually dis portunities, provided they have day in favour of the entirely the lanca for a sight of him, and old hamlet who went out to the and academle Dr. bought drinks in the local inn and war and never came back. tribute funds, but it will certain a little capital with which to harmless.
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