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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
chance
What a glorious awaits this man
letter to Malcolm MacDonald, the new Colonial Secretary
R. MALCOLM MAC- DONALD, late Domini- ons Secretary, recently step- ped up to be Secretary for the Colonies.
He held the job once before, in 1935, and why he ever let it go passes my understanding.
For I hold it to be, after the Premiership, the greatest office within the ambition of a British citizen.
The Chancellorship of the Exchequer is traditionally the stepping stone to the Premier- ship. The Home Secretary is
of officially the first Secretaries
from
FRANK OWEN
Frank Owen, thirty-two-year-old leader writer of the Daily Express, is tall, muscular, flamboyant, da vigorous in appearance and manner as in writing. Hot tempered and speaks as he writes. From Monmouth he won a history scholarship at Cambridge, got a first in history and economies, and still rends history. At fimenty-three entered the House of Commons as Liberat M.P, for Hereford. Then'quit polities to return to newspapers,
He played three-quarter for Newport, Cambridge and the London Welsh. Swims and rides.
all the his colleague at the Dominions Office intelligently and rewarded fairly, of State. The When it comes to the task of creat cannot say we do it.
ing trade. For the Colonies, unike The West Indies at this moment Foreign Secretary is the head the Dominions, do not compete in are shaken with a series of violent of the great department which business with the homeland. Aus- strikes. The other day it was Uriah controls the ambassadors of tralia's beef and New Zealand's hut- Butler, the negro agitator, who was ter are sold here in competition with mixing things for the oil companies Britain all over the world.
the produce of our own farms. in Trinidad.
But we don't row cocoa and we Worships and troops were called BUT the Secretary for the
cotton (we do grew sugar in to deal with these troubles, and don't
Plant lives of 68,000,000 people, a greater and very wastefully), we have no a commission reported that labour population than Britain' own, ex- bananas, of, rice, spice, coffee, cupra, conditions were disgraceful,
Colonies is master
except India.
of the
inbacco.
rubber, or
own been
Now the
ployers to raise the wages of the culonial workers?
By giving them a market in Bri- tain. That is, by taking the market away from some of those foreign firms who enjoy it now and handing it over to our own people.
Why not? Mr. Chamberlain did it for Birmingham, and con do it for the Bahamas,
Mr. Chamberlain gave the mid- land manufacturers a tariff wall to work behind. To-day Biningham enjoys a boom second only to Lon- don, which is the most pirmperous place on earth,
BRITAIN and her Colonies can
only rise together. The re- cent story of the Cocoa Pool proves it once again.
The Cocoa Pool was an attempt to create a monopoly of the produce of the great West African native- owned industrý.
They drove down the price of rarna from 51s. per evt. (December 19363 to 25s. per ew, (December But the fuzzy-haired chiefs 1937), held out and refused to do business at all, and they have won.
The matter has now been settlezi But the and trade flows again. cost of the strangle has been borne by Holton and Salford. For when On the spending power dwindled Gold Coast a huge block of custom- ers fell away from the Lancashire cotton trade.
Great will be the glory of the new Colonial Secretary if he can bring and her colonial back to Britals partners even that trade which we have lost, between us in the last ten years.
AUGUST 17,
STORIES IN STAMPS
When Lincoln Saw the Nation Divided
It
THE course that Abraham Lia- coln charted after 1001 was slow evolving. In March of that year Lincoln still believed that the struggle was a mere quarrel over the extension of slavery.
Still blinded by the provincial bias of Springheld, still without extensive contact in Washington, he did not see that the south in secession sought actual independence. was only during the next eight months that he really recognized a nation within a nation in the south; a south in which both those who hated slavery and those who separation espoused it
Maught from the north.
Then Lincoln formulated his historic course. lie set out to build a defense of the Union. He expressed this in one of the most remarkable state papers of all time, the First Message. It seemed to reflect the Lincoln that had been emerging gradually for 20 This was the Lincoln who years. believed that the basic issue after all was the preservation of the Union, of the ideal of democracy,
So he declared "This is essen- tally a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of govern- ment whose leading object 13 elevate the condition of men Lincoln is shown above on the 6-cent red of the issue of 1070; The stamp is enlarged.
HUMOUR FROM THE BAR
reeding that of any Dominion, or any the Colonies
Colonies have the lot.
storm bas shifted territory of the British Empre On the other hand, they have no
across to Jamalea. There The Colonial Secretary's office is mighty manufacturing plant. The the sugar plantation buurtes have rioting. The Trinidad oll- far more splendid in its field of Colonies cannot make their power than that of the Dominions clothes and household pots and pans, field workers get about 3s, a day to They cannot build their own rak reuse their palms, but the Janzi- Secretory. For the Dominions are
motor-cars. can sugar workers arc expected to self-governing. As Dominions Secre- ways, bridges, ships,
mory But those things are Britain's very keep sweet on 25. a day: tury Mr. MacDonald was no
Now I have no doubt that these best line of business. than Our ambassador-in-chief to
In 1928 we suld to the Colonics The Colonies are the garden of rates can be justilled in present cun- them.
of
We Foods, We have let it fail info ditions. However, they cannot be £64,000,000 worth But from the windows of the our house.
from them £48,500,000 Colonial Office what a fair prospect a neglected patch, untended, over- pegged at that low level. Theres bought
and brambles, fore we must change the conditions. worth. The latest available figures
ORD Russell of Killowen, when a unfolds before the eyes of a bold and grown with weeds
Let us have it dug up and planted For it may pay a few compantes show that our sales to the Colonies energetic administrator!
barrister, had a "scene" with Mr. An estate of two million square out and trimmed, and cared for, and to Balance their accounts on a tow have fallen to £48,500,000; our pur- Justice Denham. Next morning, on down to £44,000,000. the opening of the Court, the Judge miles to farm, as yet almost untouch the fruits and flowers brought into wage basis, but it does not pay the chases are
Yet what a rouring trade we could said "Mr. Russell, ance the Court A market of fifty-eight million our house in abundater for all our British Empire.
We want to sell the colonial manata do if we did per head of the colonial | adjourned last night I have bad the customers to win, as yet almost un- family to enjoy.
and let us pay the gardeners a our goods. We cannot do it if these population what the United States advantage of considering with my Tapped.
And look how favoured
the customers are earning coolie wages. does with her Porto Rico, Panama brother-Judge the painful incident." is the decent wage! The labour of
How can we help the colonial em- Zone, and Philippine Islands? Colon Secretary compared with Colonies is cheap, it should be used
Here is the wonderful chance for
cd.
Correcting the History Books
COME time ago the school teachers French view: French books will children in their schools were being of two countries which the rest state the reasons which, in German taught to hate England and were of the world probably regards as eyes, Justitien
the bitterest traditional enemics→ 1871. France and Germany - began
the
negotiating an agreement to purge Lies and Counter-Lies their respective history books of all
Upon which Russell quickly broke
a member of Neville Chamberlain's not say a word more about it, for I in with, "My Lord, I beg you will Government to make greater than can honestly assure you that I have ever the oflee that Joseph Chamber-entirely and for ever dismissed it lain made so great.
from my memory"-a turning of the tables which provoked hearty laugh- ter in Court, in which the learned Judge joined,
MOR
TORE than trade is at stake.
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Important though the creat- the ing of employment is, vital is of using books grossly blased. About greating of imponderable but aunexation
the same time, one of Chicago's breakable ties of imperial affection municipal governors complained that and trust. American children *were being To the Colonies Britain must ex- Each side continue to blame the taught history in a way that was tend absolute assurance that all our against Bes directed at the other country. other for being the prime cause of designed to restore the United States strength will defend them
sentimental, into
politicn1. and the rapacious onslaught of any mad For two years delegates from the Great War: both agreed that the spiritud subjection to Great Britain." Power bent on war.
German teaching 35 chances of a conflict were increased
Britain must bind her Colonies to wrestled with hotly- by the universal conviction that war Personal Reputations Destroyed
her own Ideas of high elvilisation by disputed matters of fact, cour d
had to come. The Committee
cable, radio, and air traffe. that commended
As yet these services, the brain transmission of a modern State, have hardly begun to operate.
French and sovintions
on.
history
the result of
Lies or half-truths creep into the ing to draft text-books that
writers suit both sides. A definite agree should "treat this question with all history books for several reasons. ment has been signed, with the reserve necessary, without whip- Sometimes they are not lies proper governmental blessings
both of countries, and the
work silll goes up passions by means of pole- but misconceptions sincerely held.
mies." Practically agreement Sometines they are
110 could be reached upon the subject trying to clothe history in flesh and blood, to make it more than a bare the Franco-Prussian War of No one appears to have noticed of
recital of facts and dates, In com- this agreement. Maybe, considering 1870.
to the excited state of national feeling A drastic way out of a similar
distortion with them. Sometimes a not too scrupulous
supposition.
of *Our
Chief-Justice Campbell once cur- rected barrister who pronounced Lord Brougham's name as it is gen erally done. He said, "Broom und not Bro-ham was the correct pro- If you speak correctly nunication. you will also suve a syllable."
Some time afterwards Lord Camp- bell spe of an omnibus to the same said, **If barrister, who thereupon your Lordship would call it bus we should understand your meaning, and you would also save two sylla- bles,"
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* Ideal for the launching
Mason, an American advocate, was Inter-colonial nir system are the defending a Methodist minister on a West Indies. All the land bases and charge of murder. A fellow-minis-
over half the world to-day, nobody dilemma was adopted in Irelan! Grove some of the ftres bring the sea bases are there lo start a net-ter, who was a Spiritualist, came up can regard it with much seriousness; under the Union when bistory, and writer presents what is no more nainland and far extending over the ment. "Mr. Mason! Mr. Mason! 11
mutives,
cannot
made come famous dicta on the sub- country one inndred years ago a cat bias to colour his
of
no country are 50 per cent, false, London,
cannot
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ACROSS @ 1's a queer buffet that sup- plies such a drink (two words -3, 5).
the Ainerlenn to him in a great state of exclte-
lo communicate the Archangel Gabriel have a most important matter came to my bedside this morning and told that brother Avery was in- nocent."
"Let him be subpoenaed at once," was the reply he got.
A junior counsel, on hearing a 10 Mark time audibly? (0), decision given against him, said he 11 One of the elementa (8), was surprised at it. This was look-12 Squirm from the twisting of ed upon as contempt of Court and he her wit (6). was ordered to appear. before the 13 Sailors
tened, he consulted a friend, John Clerk, afterwards Lord Eldon, who promised to make matters right for him.
9 The height of the artist in art
(0).
know that she is abandoned (8).
work stretching to scarcely opened lands of Venezuela or, at least, while appreciating its particularly Irish history and, say,
as a fact. For and Colombia. expect it to bear the matter of the Battle of the stance, two biographers have given
Yes, all except one thing is ready, much fruit. Yet it is a hopeful sign Boyne, was to rich in disputes that differing accounts of how the famous of returning sanity that anyone, its
ul- prohibited teaching was
One Mr. MacDonald, for you to make and Francois Villon met his end. especially State-employed teachers, together in the National Schools.
was hanged. The other mould an Empire more splendid than says he should want to clear the lies out of
Probably that is the most fertli- states with equal assurance that he that which Rhodes bequeathed us. the history books.
right remedy on record. Usually, in was not hanged, but died naturally Sir Robert Walpole several times the past, the telling of a lie by one in provincial France. The truth The one thing needful is your will
in exprezed his contempt of history-
country was followed by the telling that we don't know how or where to do it, history book and of a renter he never read
one
by the injured
red he died, and probably never will as when-to cite a minor
Sometimes a writer allows politi
Judge next morning. Being frigh) accounts of CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. ject. Probably the history books
15 About the ear this would be was said it newspaper
Individuals. Macaulay was an of- soldiers had fender in this respect. Throughout COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES
wounder (4). but, equally probable, could some notorious that French dead actor in past events return, he to be made drunk
brandy be with
17 Perform in a theatre perhaps MARITIMES.
(7). would find many shocks in, say, the fore they would fight. The French his writings the Whigs receive a
beiter presentation than
Accordingly, next morning Julia 19 China has no part in this ware British Museum reading room.
Clerk rose and sald-"I am exceed- After over two years work the Eilish u averyone knew that no oke. He described the Tory first Steamship
soldier would go into battle Viscount Halifax as a "voluptuary,"
(?). ingly, sorry my young friend so far zz Hardly wise talk (4). tenelters Golegates of France and without being dosed with rum. yet all subsequent research shows
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forgot himself yesterday as to treat 24 Olive's contribution to the table Nowadays the e discovery of an un him to have been in ascetie, of Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk vie Germany, have been forced to admit
your honourable Beach with disres prob-
is an interred youth (0). text-book is simple tastes and dress. Truth In foreign that there are many thorny
ports, etc.. arrived Hongkong on neet; he is extremely sorry, and you 27 More than a number of upward lems of Franco-German history on usually followed by a protest, eller An appalling number of personal Friday, 12tly August, 1930.
will kindly ascribe his unintentional About which
They offelal or unofficial. agree. they
measure (6). Consignees are hereby informed insult to his ignorance. You will see 29 Its activities are stirring ones late Me, Ramsay
woman who suffered
(8). undeserved of Opium, Treasure und Valuables that. He said he was surprised at bitter words between the two coun- ment had remonstrated with a for- neglect, scoffed at in a dozen books, are being landed and stored into the the decision of your Lordship. Now, 30 Range apparently of formier
shelter (8). tries. For 70 years German school eign Government, one whose is Nelson's wife. Frances Nesbit Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon if he had not been very ignorant of
of that national school been taught
books contained the children have
stormy this ships get t She has been so overshadowed by Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow what takes place in this Court every 31 In a Alsace Lorraine was a purely Ger- statement that "thousands of chil- the figure of Lady Hamilton and so toon, whence delivery may be ob day, and had he known you but half
(0). - mian territory, and had always been 'dren under ten were killed every much the victim of the desire of tained immediately, after landing. he long as I have done, he would not 32 Tired Leo" (anog.) (8),
year in the coal mines of Great blographers not to present Nelson as All clains must be sent in to mo be surprised at anything you did.”
DOWN French children have been taught Britain. As a result of the protest unchivalrous to his roouse that most on or before 23rd August, 1930, or
1 A golf club (8), to regard the German onnexation of the statement was withdrawn.
books, when they mention her ni Ali, they will not be recognized.
2 If this athlete lost his head he Alsace in 1071 Rs a brutal rope. Quite recently a Labour member dereribe her as a bit of a worm Damaged Packages will be examin-
The once well-known advocate,
would apparently revert to type Now the members of the negotiating complained that some English chil- whose coldness toward Nelson sent ed. by the Company's Surveyor lotker, was cross-examining
(8). committee have agreed to recom- dren in grant-aided schools were him in the direction of Lady Hamil Messra:-Goddard and Douglas in vulgar Jew jeweller in
the presence of the Consignees at lending esse, and began by looking mend that
a country of using a history book that stated that ton. Alsace, German language and culture during the Government of Russia was up- Many national heroes might not be 10.00 a.m. on Thursday, 18th August, him up in a sleepy, dismal way and
of held by an army of foreign mer- such heroen if historians had treated 1938.
drawling out, "Well, Mr. Moselwein, the Reformation, conserved
and what are linguistic character after 1848, but in Russia between
"A 1017 and 1922 you know why Napolcon habitually Officer in attendance when any dull- genschelman," replied the
examined (the were due wholly to Russia's political food with his hand in the Impel of uble goods are that the Revolution of 1780
Jeweller emphatically. French Revolution) caused it to disorders, with no mention of the his jacket? Because he suffered Company's Surveyors.
“Just do, just so," said Holker with enter definitely into the ocminunity blockade of the country by the from stomach trouble, Hollywood's No Fire Insurance will be effected
a yown, "but what were you before of French national life."
Powers and the subsidising of inter- research workers unearthed that fact by us in any caso whatever.
short time ago when preparing the If the recommendations of the ventlonists by the Allies.
R. OHL. Committee are adopted, Gorman A few years ago the Bishop of backwork of a new film. school books will take account of the London complained that American
Hongkong, 12th August, 1030.
Jeet of Alsace, cause of innumerable Donald told how the British destroyed by the historians. One that their goods with the exception at once that it did not originate in
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the Middle Ages and at the ita cenarks and that the many deaths them with sirlet Impartiality. Do
Noel Lowndes
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3 What the curious display one expects from any good cumpany (8).
4 Word play of a sort (7).
take into account the fact that the prisoner was an orphan.
how that bears on the case.
5 A traveller in stockings (0),
The whole is one (8). 7 A nautical honger-on (8);
stream to And
14 Appropriate
Apple-by (4).
16 The submarine has scope under
It (4).
18 "Go" in the netor is the maik-
Inst of this patron (8).-
20 Lithe cat would seem an apt
anagram (8).
21 To the baker It is one less (8). 23 How to keep one's watch (7). 25 Kind of drawer (8).
26 Curtall this treat for the neces-
sary directions (0),
28 The run is the making of him
(0).
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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HEARTLEBBNESS
DEXTERITY
"Yes, my Lord," said the counsel,
| “and should your Lordship ever have
"I really don't see,” saldd the Judge, the misfortune to come before a jury,
It is I trust that circumstance
you were a gentleman?"
In 1
ease before Lord Justice quite natural at his age he should taken into consideration Holmes, the counsel for the detence have lost his parents. For instance, Lordship's favour." frequently appealed to the jury to i am an orphan,"
will bo in
your
M. Jackson