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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 24, 1936.
WOMEN: A CHALLENGE AND AN ANSWER These Made Front-Page News During 1935
THE QUEEN, brilliant presence.
MARIE TEMPEST
greatest comedienne.
BRITISH & U.S. LISTS MATCHED
By A Special Representative..
VETERAN Buffragette Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, of New Rochelle, N.Y., has just completed an annual task-she has listed America's ten most outstanding women of the year.
It's a fascinating game. I tried to produce a similar ranking list for Britain. I chose five, but could get no further.
Mrs. Catt chose for the third year in succession MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT to top her list, thus making her doubly First Lady in the Land.
I did not choose my first selection: she chose herself THE QUEEN.
Like Mrs. Roosevelt, she takes her place in the list not only
by her position in the land, but by her own character.
The brilliant presence who drove through the streets of Lon don at the Jubilee presented such an incarnation of royalty as the modern world has rarely seen.
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MRS. CATT chose next MRS. OGDEN REID, vice-president of the
New York Tribune, who organised a forum at which women heard world leaders speak on world affairs.
Although her
My second choice, is the DUCHESS OF KENT. wedding, and with it the wave of enthusiasm she created in Britain. took place in the last quarter of 1934, she riveted her popularity in Britain this year when, on October 9, she gave Prince Edward to the country-the first grandson born to the wife of a son of the King.
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THERE is one woman who is pre-eminently a wife and mother on Mrs. Catt's list-MRS. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH. 1 also have a wife and mother on mine.
I choose MRS. MILES, thirty-three-year-old wife of a lorry driver at St. Nepts, Hunts. She is the mother of Ann, Ernest, Paul and Michael, the Quads, who have taken the heart of Britain as the Quins took the heart of Canada.
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AN airwoman Agures in the American rating--AMELIA EAR- HART PUTNAM. "Lady Lindy," aged thirty-seven. passenger neross the Atlantie 1928, conqueror of, the Atlantic 1932, conqueror of the Pacific 1935.
I, too, have an airwoman-JEAN BATTEN,
Joan was the first woman to fly the South Atlantic alone. She holds the England-Brazil record. the South Atlantic record, and the solo England-Australia record.
Here she is kendin as the "Try Again"-girl-no-ill-luck, no bad; conditions, no failures can stop her. In South America she is "Cave)! let Aire"-"Flower of-the Air."
MRS. CATT'S fifth
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choles is a working woman-Secretary of! Labour MISS FRANCES PERKINS. My fifth choice is also a working woman-MARIË TEMPEST. who has completed fifty years on the stage."
She is seventy-one. She was the greatest comedienne on the London stage for twenty years. Then she went on w world tour that lasted for eight years. She returned to London, and found herself a failure.
Within another ten years she had re-established herself. To-day she is still the greatest comedienne on the English-speaking stage.
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THAT completes my five British
names. I and I could not add
to them. I was wrong. There is
one more.
You will rarely, if ever, see her name on the front page of
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newspaper. Yet she is perhaps the Most Important Person in all Britain. Most of us lean on her sturdy commonplace courage; most of us are cheered by her con- sistent loyalty, find our pockets: eased by her financial genius.
woman and heroine in one-
YOUR WIFE.
JEAN BATTEN
Ignores failure.
MRS. ANNE LINDBERGH.
MISS FRANCES PERKINS.
MRS. ROOSEVELT......
MRS. OGDEN REID.
WORLD'S TOURIST TRADE DROPS BY TWO-THIRDS
Geneva, Feb. 1.
She la wifa, mother, working A DROP of two-thirds in the total volume of the world's tourist trade in the five-years 1929-34 is reported in a League survey just published at Geneva. world spent 1920 the £340,000,000 Un "touring" in 1934 this figure had fallen to £113,000,000.
RUDYARD KIPLING'S FORTUNE ESTIMATED AT £750,000
THE FORTUNE left by Rudyard Kipling-is estimated at £750,000 the greatest ever left by an author.
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THE DUCHESS OF KENT; ever-popular.
MRS. MILES
mother of quadé.
A British Colony Trying To Make Granite Out Of Mud
STRANGE things are happening in a British possession tuck- ed away in a corner of South America.
British Guiana, our only foot- hold there, a country about the size of Great Britain with a population
SALARIES OF THE FAMOUS
CABINET MINISTERS WHO ARE UNDERPAID If the Government. adopt the suggestion to be mado at next week's meeting of the National
of 300,000, is grappling with a Farmers' Union that the Minis- deficit of £86,200.
ter of Agriculture should be paid more, Mr. Walter Elliot will rise from the ranks of those Minis. ters who are now paid the While British Guinna is trying Cabinet minimum salary of £2,000 of a year. novel assortment # revenue-producing ideas, men are sailing and flying to her shores in search of gold,
And at the same time this hard up Crown Colony is becoming the scene of a gold rush!
out
Meanwhile, here are a few of the sidelines that the colony is develop- ing.
Research workers in the London laboratories of a firm of cement manufacturers were recently called on to analyse a consignment of mud from British Guiana.
Five of his colleagues are on minimum with him-the the Minister of Labour, the President of the Board of Education, the First Commissioner of Works, the Lord President of the Council, and the Secretary for Scotland.
Most of the others get £5.000 a year, including-as First Lord of the Treasury-the Prime Minis- tor. The highest paid of all is Lord Hallsham, the Lord Chan- cellor. with £10,000, but of this £6,000 is paid to him as a Judge The research workers did not and only £4,000 for his services as associate their strange consign-Speaker of the House of Lords. ment with a fight that is now going
Experiments,
In there to wipe out her deficit.
Captain Fitzroy, the Speaker of the House of Commons, gets
Neither did famous firm of £5,000,
Politicians often enmplain that Covent Garden fruit importers conmembers of the Government are nect the arrival of a sample crate underpaid. Their salaries ·will
of bananas from British Guiana with a crisis in that colony:
certainly not bear comparison with the garnhigs of famous in- British Gulann-has-for the 135 dustrialists and leaders of com- years of its existence been famous merce. chiefly for its Demerara sugar.
Falling prices of that commodity have made it turn to other sources of revenue.....
Two former Chancellors of the Exchequer, Sir Robert Horne and Mr. Reginald McKenna, are now far better off than they were when sitting on the Treasury Bench.
Sir Robert has many Interests A Mr. G. 0. Case speculated in addition to his chairmanship of upon the nature of mud that was the Great Western Railway, and being dredged from the Demerara it has been estimated that his River.
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He experimented with it nud discovered it could be converted info a substitute for granite.
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directors fees total £25,000 a year, compared with the £5,000 he ceived when Chancellor..
Mr. McKenna, apart from other interests, rocelves £16,000 a year,
Mr. Case mentioned the matter tax free, as chairman of the Mid- to Sir Geoffrey Stafford-Northcote,land Bank, Governor of British Guiana,
Gigantic Figures
Gigantic figures are associated
The Governor, on receipt of favourable reports from the London analysts, appointed an expert com-with mittee to see to what extent that deficit of £88,200 could be met with calcined mud.
the names of Sir Harry M'Gowan, chairman of Imperial Chemien! Industries; Sir John Cadman, head of the Anglo-Per- sian Oil Company; and Sir Eric Then came news to the Governor Geddes, chairman of Dunlopa and of the attempt to grow bananas. Imperial Airways. It has been stated that the combined earnings Again the man who is leading the of these three men must be more fight for prosperity appealed to than £50,000 a year. Whitehall and Covent Garden, 4,000 miles away, to give British Guiana
bananas a
trial, experimental shipment of British Gulans timberg followed.
An
Gold Rush
This seems to be a very modest estimate, if it is true, as was once stated, that Sir Harry M'Gowan alone gets something in the re- various gion of £30,000 from
life да л He started sources. Glasgow office-boy at 5s, a week.
The Church of England has
And, now, the country that so some well-paid posts at the top! sorely needs money is fast becom- The Archbishop of Canterbury, ing the scene of 'n gold rush. for instance, gets £15,000. The Bishop of London comes next with
The greatest part of the decline was the result of internal condi- tlons in the United States and the
Thus - Americans, Swedes, and Germans davaluation of the dollar.
however, abroad in
£9,000. In thene cases, Americans, who spent $102,000,000
1929, spent only of Englishmen who have recently by the Archbishop of York with acquired concessions to seek gold there are heavy outlays which $13,000,000 in 1931.
over an area of 168 square miles. materially reduce the actual in. France Hard Hit
Gold mining plant was recently come. landed in British Gulana.
are following hot foot on the trail £10,000, and he is closely followed
no cheap editions havo over been Among the countries hardest hit Hia books have sold steadily all published-ho would not allow It by the slump were France and over the world for forty-five)
"Kim" For The Nation years.
Canada.
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But for really astronomical figures one looks to the Bar. Whon Bir Walter Raleigh, 600 years Sir John Simon was in the heyday
In 1925 Mr. Rudyard Kipling In 1929 tourisis in France ago, was convinced there was gold of his practice shortly after the The "Jungle Book" alone presented to the British Museum
spent £65,000,000 more than there.. He was right, but British war his fees were said to total brought him a revenue of more the autograph manuscript of
French, tourista in other coun-Gulana gold has been neglected from £50,000 to £76,000 each year. than £10,000 a year, 1-
"Kim," probably the greatest of tries; in 1934 this figure had because of Its comparative in-In one year (1924) the total was
Baid to be approaching £100,000. His poetry is so widely read his longer works, and another
dropped to £19,000,000. that, for instance, between 100,000 volume of autograph poems. and 150,000 copies of his volumes He desired that the gift should
have been sold every year in the United States for a quarter of a contury.
not be made public till after his death.
Both volumes were nocopted by the trusteon, and now have been One of the secrets of the chor placed on exhibition in the Gron- mous income from his work is that! ville Library.
accessibility.
British Gulana has recently Compare this with the £8,000 Great Britain came off compara solved that problem by building two which Lord Hewart now receives tively well. In 1930 the heavy roads, one extending 125 miles and as Lord Chief Justice. Lord expenditure of British tourists the other branching from it for a Hewart was himself once a prac tising barrister. Whon, as Sir abroad was almost equalled by distance of forty-five miles. that of foreign tourists in Britain. Those roads, built at a cost of Gordon Hewart, he was Attorney- In 1934 the adverse balance was £150,000, lead to the heart of the General In 1920-21, his fees word
Bald to total 520,990. etlil Icea than 1,000,000. Reuter,principal gold bearing areas,
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