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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1937,
Flying By The Stars
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Owing to the remarkable development of long distance lying during the past few years, the problem of air-navigation has become increasingly im- portant. At present the chic. methods by which a pilot can discover his position are, firstly. "dead reckoning, and, by secondly, by wireless directional signals. As the former method is sometimes inaccurate and the latter restricted in range, the necessity of discovering new methods has been apparent-ever since the aeroplane first became a factor in world transport. In Great Britain it was held that the best means of solving the problem would be to develop and simplify the technique of marine Inavigation, which so far has been of little value to aircraft on account of the involved calcula-
I Was Proud to be British, but
My Welcome
SHALL always remember the thril I received when my passport was issued to me... By gad! I was proud of it- proud of being British.
I have travelled extensively, and it was always my greatest pleasure to produce my pass- port and to watch the faces of the officials who examined it. In every instance there was always a registration of respect upon those faces.
Every devout Moslem's desire is to make a pilgrimage to Mecca. That is the way I had
always felt about England. So, when an opportunity came my way to come to this country I jumped at it.
This is how it happened.
N
ow I had been con- nected with a Brm of engineers, which I in Colombia, South America, and as my work took me to various other countries,
joined
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THE CASE OF THE
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With RICARDO
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JUME
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Also
JANE BRYAN CRAIG REYNOLDS
CARLYLE MOORE, JR.
GORDON ELLIOTT Directed by Wm. Meðran Air Matal Dames
COUNT THE “TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHERE
the sun and stars the position of
machine in flight.
At the request of the Air Ministry, the Astronomer Royal, Head of Greenwich Observatory, undertook to carry out this vitally important work, and it was announced recently that the first of a series of tables was ready for publication, by means of which an air pilot should be able to plot on his chart a "posi tion line" (on which his machine must lie) within three minutes of taking an observation. Also, a comprehensive work, which will show the positions of the sun and stars in a form suited to the requirements of air naviga- This tion, is being prepared.
"I was kept continually on-the-
move.
Owing to immigration laws dimculties, I was and other forced to give up my job and leave America. I found myself being called upon to make a
audden decision.
Where should I go? Every prosperous country had
To-day's Thought-
I KNOW where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, all the ministers present and to come -In public opinion.
TALLEYRAND.
"Air Almanac" is expected to Accurate tables were compiled ercate as great a rovolution in that materially advanced the aerial navigation as its fore-science of navigation and, at the runner, the famous "Nautical beginning of the 18th Century, Almanac," did in marine naviga-it was possible to determine tion, on its first publication (for longitude, though by a calcula- the year 1767) by the British tion too complicated for every- Government,
was BLACK!
Yat black sons of Britain wore ready to give their lives for hor during the groat war.
tightened up its Immigration laws. Others were in the throes of depression or in a state of political turmoil. Opportunitles » in my own country were ex- tremely doubtful.
I wanted stability after the years of hectic living. I had a craving for the finer things which fo bad to offer-a chance to expand in every way.
I Where could And these things? I had a sudden brain- Wave.
I took train to Montreal, then bought a steamship ticket for London.
How excited I was: I was going to England-England, my Meccal What a farcel
Aboard the ship (British) I enjoyed a state of splendid Iso- lation- table tucked away in a corner and so on.
Upon my arrival in London I went to a young men's hostel, where I was welcomed-by-the- secretary, who was the essence of politeness.
"Clood evening, brother," he says, rubbing his hands to- gether in a manner which says so much yet means nothing at all, and what can I do for you?"
W
THEN I told him that I wanted accommoda- tion, his face regis- tered perplexity. Using the pretext that he would have to take run upstairs to find out If there were any vacant rooms (what he actually wanted was
not
own.
!
sumcient time to compose his features), le scuttled away. He was back in "arf a mo"- rubbing his hands again and dripping apologies.
"Borry, I can't do anything for you, brother: but, I can give you a card with the address of a lady who caters specially for coloured people,"
As a rider, he added in a very significant manner: "I feel quite sure that you will be comfortable there."
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HERE cama
timo when I was compelled to find cheaper. lodg ings than those my: worthy friend recommended to me,
Day after day I roamed the West End of London, knocking at every Apart- door where there was an ments
sign, only to be told "Sorry, room's let," or " We do not take coloured people.' One woman actually slammed her door with- out answering my request.
Eventually I secured rooms in a back alley in the East End.
After months of job hunting and
to frequent visits
my friend "Moses," I squared accounts with my landlady, and with only a few pennies in my pockets, walked out. As a youngster in South America I had met with all kinds of hard- ships and done all kinds of jobs- dishwasher, spike driver on a rail- road,
gaucho on the pampas. soldier of fortune, and heaps of things. So I went out with the de- termination to "buckle down" to anything which came my way.
It was at this period that I dis-- covered certain things. The most menial jobs were too good for a man of colour. Through a Labour
by Carl D. WALTER
A native of Trinidad
Exchange I made Inquiries about a vacancy ns garage help. Speaking to the proprietor of the garage over the telephone the Exchange official made it m point to inform him, in my presence, that the applicant was coloured. My application was turned down.
A
180 I came in contact with various Christian "bodies who have *drummed" up a reputation ne philanthropists by giving out. shillings with one hand while they take in pounds with the other. I have seen these people sell-religion to starving men at the price of a meal-men too tired to stand up after they had once sat down were forced to sing hymns and listen to "the mercies of God ** before they were fed. No prayers -no foodl
Although there are 80 many people who make a business out of religion, I am glad to say that there are a great many genuine organisations run by honest and sincere people. I owe my thanks to a number of these.
When England was in troublo in 1914, tho echo of her war drums was heard by her black sons, They didn't know what it was all about they only know that the Mother Country was in a tight corner and needed help. They came in their thousands and gave their lives.
To-day some of those black cons are rotting in London. The ma-- jority of them are seamen, all
AL willing to work.
There are palatial buildings in the East End of London specially for Britial seamen, It may 131-- terest some people to know that. coloured seameti are debatred from entering them.
COME people may ask or wonder why we who are dissatisfied remain here in England or, as one hears it every day, "Why we do not go back to our own country." answer is: Because the coloured man very seldom admits
On the other hand, per... feat. haps it is fortunate that we have not all gone back to our countries.
The
de-
The fame of patriotism still burns strong in those parts of the Empire where the coloured man dwells. It would be a pity if con- trary winds should arise. Remem- ber that the structure of this. mighty Empire is built up on the loyally and long sufferance of its coloured peoplest
Friendship with France
The Keystone of European Peace
Askwith
peace abroad is apparently by pre- aching the war spirit at home.
There is not merely a paradox, but' an impracticability,
There is another paradox, "how- ever, which is working out in prac tlee, and that is the success of British; reatment in moderating the com bative attitudo of dictatorship
Surdonie abroad.
commentators who will bo writing the history of these times. understanding. In fifty years from now, will be able
day use. There was indeed no the world of the future we may hope that understanding between The people of Great Britain practical method of determining all nations, will set the diplomats are essentially a maritime nation, longitude until the invention of wondering whether they are not like and for centuries they have been the chronoraeter by John Harri- Othello, their occupation gone. For
By Lord if we cannot look forward to a fu- vitally interested in problenis of son in 1785. The chronometerture of international peace and un- navigation. Greenwich Obser- cuables the navigator to carry derstanding, then humanity is in a vatory, the zero meridian of accurate Greenwich Time with parlous state.
And diplomats, It would seem, are present, we ordinary folk must go longitude and of "Greenwich him always, so that he can draw Time," was founded in 1675 by the comparison between it and clouded
at their happiest beneath un-peace where we can as the sufferer
Irom insomnia snatches at sleep. akles. Too much-pence
Anglo-American King Charles II. Who was him- the actual sun time at the spot leaves them ill at case, wondering
overy day, is of vital importance for sive, anomaly. They will, hardly be self a scientist and who probably where the ship happens to be, what has happened to the world, which is, i believe, growing stronger to make great play with this imprei- did more than any previous ruler As the line of the horizon is Perhaps they live in a world of their the future of humanity. Not lete im- able to understand, not living in the suffer to- for the development of the jused in taking sights of the But in the troubled world of the portance is the development of per turmoil from which wo
manent understanding and unity of day-at least, I trust they will es British Navy. According to the heavenly bodies, an indistinct
purpose between Britain and France. cape it-how a 'development which warrant for the original build-horizon often renders the obser-
These countries were allies during by all the theories ought to have. ing, his express purpose was "the vatlon too inaccurate to be of With the introduction of this the Great War. But they were allies brought war closer, in fact averted
War, and that did its Inoming shindow. finding out of the longitude of any use, even on board ship instrument and with the publica- In the Crimean
not avert the crisis of Fashoda and This paradox has made itself clear places for perfecting navigation when the height of the eye, may tion of the new tables prepared the ill-feeling of the Boer War days, to our French friends at Inst. It la Illogical and yet # and astronomy."
more significant is the real profoundly bo only from 16 to 00 feet above by the Nautical Almanac Office The method of finding latitude the level of the water. The under the Astronomer Royal, a mutuality of to-day, in the doter works. In other words, it is British,
typical British compromise with: at sea was at that time well difficulty is enormously increased new chapter opens in the historymination as well as the desire of both
Once known, but
the French, that logical, no observations when sights have to be taken of air navigation. By observing countries to "rock peace and ensue the exigencies of the heur.
forthright people, begin to unders existed for determining longi- from an aeroplane at a height of the sun or a star in an easterly
atand in some degree the practical! tude. John Flamsteed, the first many thousand feet. To over- or westerly direction, the Navi-Sobering the Dictators
workings of our logiční · British This in the very strong link which minds, we should go ahend together Astronomer Royal, therefore como. this difficulty a special gating Officer of a Trans-Atlantic
The perfide Albion of began the laborious work of fix-type of instrument has been air liner will be able to tell how binds Britain and France to-day. splendidly. ing the exact mathematical post-evolved which in effect provides far he has proceeded on his From that link we must strive to the past will disappear. We shall be forgo a powerful chain, which no liked and trusted if at last we are tions of the heavenly bodies. an artificial horizon. The prin- journey, and so be, able to stress and strain shall succeed In understood. As a result of his labours and ciple is that of the spirit level, a estimate the strength of the breaking.
The various dictators who are those of his successors, the bubble of air in alcoliol Indicating wind. A similar observation In
moment resent being left out of any National Observatory at Grben-when the horizon arm of the a northerly or southerly direction crowding the scene of history at the wich became world-famous and instrument is in a horizontal will tell him if he is keeping to of the tableaux, even the tableau of for
Pence. But their way of seeking modern astronomy was born, position..
the proper course.
Far
it."
Human Contacta
I would not pretend that it is easy a logical race to understand
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