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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1938,
NO TIME FOR CONFLICT
YOUR SWEEP TICKE
OLDO
“A LITTLE MAN, AND HE HAD A Little Gun"
With apologies to McRae in the Melbourne Herald.
Guy Ramsey Thinks
THESE WERE THE
GREAT
It's an open enough subject, Heaven knows, but my choice (set out chronologically) is:
THE "VERY IDEA"
THE RACE WENT TO
THE FLEET
ALL THE COLONY, NOTABLES
WERE AT HAPPY. VALLEY. TO SEE EDDIE KELLY.
By Ed. "Horse's Neck" Kelly WE were out at Happy Valley on Saturday, Doubtless you saw 118 there. We were the chap with the pockets stuffed full of bank-notes.
We had a bit of trouble with Sir Vandeleur Grayburn and the Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson, who are in charge of the pari-mutuel. There was nothing mutual about their financial dealings with us.
We were
also disappointed when we went into the bar for a noggin or two. The bar-tenders were really quite ordinary,
According to the. Race Pro- grammes the stewards should have included people like Sir Percy Noble, Sir Charles Littlo, Major General Bartholomew, Commodore Dicken, and Sir Atholl MacGregor. They didn't
serve us once.
They weren't too liberal with their drinks either. Even appointed 'Major Hogg and Captain Bowden as Oficial Measurers to sce that To didn't pour out more than nip.
F you were asked to in work or personality, impervi- Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
We notice that the record for choose the 20 greatest ous to time."
do your Napo- humour.
The saint with a sense of the 1% mile is 2.56% Wa Now, where people-men and women
Worker among the put our money in the first race. Icons and Drakes come in? -who had ever lived whom
poor, the needy, the lepers. Took on a horse that easily broke this There was open talk in London would you elect? A throng
no thought for the morrow! record. He got so far behind of 11 rift in the British
founded two Orders at a huge of names rushes to your Cabinet over the week-end:
picnic; started on a crusade in the first race that he was able and when London speaks so
mind: Napoleon (always the
without an army. Jested with to canter home the winner of frankly of the intimac affairs first!), Alexander, Elizabeth
the fire that was to put out his the second event... eyes. First man to call the of state the Empire and the Tudor, Drake, William the
Akhnaton (1375 B.C.)
animal world "brother." Spent world are bound to pay atten-Conqueror 1066, that hero tion. There is real reason for Sydney Carton, no, he was
Pharaoh of Egypt, Amenhotep his eloquence on the birds who concern. It cannot be, as too in a book, Shakespeare, of First man in history to be hushed to hear him. many cynics are apt to express
Genghiz Khan (1162-1227) conceived under the image of lieve there was only one God, the Sun. Merciful, charitable, Leader of the Golden Horde,
son
IV.
Plato
debt.
Gautama Buddha (cira 500 B.C.)
08
We got a lot of information from the horac's mouth..
But was it any good? Neigh, neigh, neigh!
We walked home.
Yellow Sea, from the Volga to dores.. the Indus. His military govern- ment endured for four genera- tions after him,
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
it, "just press talk." The Lon-course, and, er, Mussolini, I don press is a particularly well. suppose informed body, as a whole, and Bofore you can choose your lover of liberty. Crushed by "reatest conqueror of all time. the political experts do not go score you must define greatness. priests of countless minor With a ragged Mongol tribe, by
Un- The casiest definition is: hav- "gods," whose racket de des- irresistible generalship and in-. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
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fortunately, there is every rea-ing the most powerful influence troyed, dispossessed of his credible speed he subdued the tion to the South Americas, oven to believe that certain on the world--which would make crown by soldiers whom he, as a world from the Black to the against the European conquista- members of the Cabinet are not William Caxton, who invented pacifist, would not employ." in agreement on one at least of printing, a greater. man-than the vital questions of policy now Shakespeare. under discussion. There have Or you might say "great" been whispers of it in the past, meant having
At one master-stroke he turn- a profound in- Warrior prince of India, who,
Joan of Arc (1412-1431) and now, apparently, things have fluence
ed the rhodomontade of Eliza time before the birth of Christ, anti- on one's own which would reduce Socrates to a cipated much of His messagee.
Peasant who, at 17, by sheer bothan. reached a crisis.
drama into supreme A conflict of opinion among smaller figure than the Athenian Stood at the peak of his triumph, force of personality turned a poetry and supreme humanity. wealthy, beloved: beaten army to a beating one. Vagrant poacher and strolling the British leaders at the pre-inspector of police forbidding victorious, sent juncture of world events is knuckle-bones in the market gave up all to follow what he be- In two years she changed the player who wrote immortal
lieved to be the truth.
map of Europe so that it has verse and rattling good stories: most inopportune. At best it after 11.
nover been changed back. A in one. He wrote... All in creates a feeling, of unrest in Take, then the classic defini- Sociates (470-399 B.C.) virgin, she lived with soldiers your favourite quotation for the country, and it is inevitable|tion of greatness: "Greatness that opinion will be divided. involves supreme mastery of slave civilisation (Athens) ever a woman.
Greatest sage in the highest and made them forget she was yourself. And this is not a time for one's craft; supreme originality; known. On his soul-searching Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Rembrandt van Rijn division; for a divided people and a quality of ennoblement, questions lies the reputation of
(1607-1809) lacks effectiveness, loses much
a philosopher. He Crest of the Renascence wave. Innovator who made darkness. of its motive power, sacrifices
painted; visible in art. Created (op some of its strength, depending effort is most vital. On the other drained the hemlock with a smile Mathematician who
"realism" and upon the seriousness of the hand, it might prove to be a and the reminder of a trivial inventor who sculpted. Evolved posing alike
the first acroplane. The (for- romanticism) reality. Delighted. cleavage.
blessing beyond estimate that;
give the clichef) "universal as much in ragged beggar or old If, for example, Mr. Anthony the country should be given the Julius Caesar (102-44 B.C.) genius."
crone as in Court beauty, Starved Eden, the Foreign Secretary, opportunity to express its will
Greatest all-round man of ac-
to buy paint; sketched on scraps. were to leave the Cabinet rather so that the Government could tion of all time: statesman, poli- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
of paper in which his scraps of Obscure German monk who, food were wrapped. than agree to a course of action go forward with fresh con- tician, conquerer, colonist, ora-, which he deemed inexpedient fidence, knowing that a united or possibly dangerous, there people is behind it. If, for in- tor, writer. Bringer of light by nailing up a thesis for debate,
Ludwig van Beethoven from Itome in dark places of the precipitated the Reformation. would be a vast sympathetic stance, a Foreign Secretary is earth. Queller of a mutiny with Inaugurated, unwittingly, the
(1770-1827) body behind him to approve his convinced of the error of his a single word.
most successful "revolution of
Composer who expressed ally action; and it would be inevit- colleagues' Judgment in matters
the rich." Breaker of supersti moods. As great an, innovator able that the faith of that mass of foreign polley and one feels Peter (circa 10 B.C—A.D. 60) tion who flung his ink-horn at an Wagner or Stravinsky but, of people, born and fostered by that his view of a problem of
Traitor who wiped out his own his own (superstitious) vision unlike them, does not "date" the accomplishments of Mr. this sort is worthy of every treachery in his own blood; of the dovil.
Deafness did not sour his spirit Eden during the past few years, consideration-it would be as founder of the Christian Church. Michael Angelo Buonarrotti nor restrict his output, though. would be deeply shaken. It well that the whole matter were The "coward" who chose to be
he had to be turned round to might still trust its Government put squarely before the public. crucified bead-downward bo- to do the safe and just thing: The graver the lasue, the deeper cause he was not worthy to be could portray greatness. Con- his work.
Supreme artistic genius who ace the applause that grooted but it might, too, demand that the cleavage is bound to be. It the feeling of the country should is up to the majority, then, to
demned painting na "woman's Karl Marx (1818-1883): be tested. If that demand were express Its opinion that those. Mahomet (567-632) work" and turned to labour-with
Founder of only "now" religion vociferous, it would mean a who are in power shall feel solid
Camel-driver who successfully stone, becoming as pre-eminent general election. And whore ground beneath them.
fought Arab indolence and Arab in the new medium as he had (Christian Scionco is, by de- would British foreign policy bu It may not come to that pass, militarism. The Local Boy Who been in the old. Inaugurated afinition, a branch of Chris- thon, poor thing? At a time of course. There is more than Made Good good that his school of art which has taken tianity Fascism is old-fashioned when it is needed most, when a possibility that the anne, followers thrice shook the renim three centuries to decay. Be-Nietzschean-State-worship calm and confident guiding hand cautious and conscientious men of Christ. The only iconocinst gun to write (better than good) run rabid). Bourgeoin who put his own class in the dock. Is essential in the councils of who comprise the British Cabinet to create more than he destroy. poetry at 80.
Created the greatest social ro the nations, Britain might be in will find a way of compromise, ed. The only founder of a great Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) volution (posthumous) the throes of a political upheaval or that one faction or the other religion who was content to bo Founder of the Jesuits, the known. and unable to do all that in ox will prevail without the necesa mortal. pected of her in the develop sity of any test of strength or
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