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THE CHINA

LAST DAYS OF GREAT Justice

IRISHMAN.

Peace After Half a Century of Storm.

TIM HEALY.

Timothy

Michael Healy, the Irishman around whom political storms raged for half a century, is dead, writes II. 1. McNally, in the Daily Express. In the Free State of to-day he has been a re- presentative of a past and gone political epoch, of controversies

MAIL.

1 saw him when O'Hig- gins, who never flinched from what he believed to be his duty, signed the death warrant of Rory O'Com- har-Rory, who had been his life- long friend and best man at his wedding.

I watched the steel grey hair grow daily whitter. The stooped choulders grew more bent, the blue-grey eyes lost their sparkle as they gazed on the agony of his country. But he never lost faith- He, the bitterest cynic in Ireland, told me of his implicit faith in his country,...

Dream Materialises. The birth pangs of the new State

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

100,000,000 People Keeping the Law.

IS IT A FAILURE ?

Those in the. United States who defend Prohibition maintain that Britain ia misled by the stream of criticism which comes from the Eastern States. When, therefore, Commander Evangeline Booth, the head of the American Salvation Army, was recently in Britain, the

dead and turned to dust, and yet. Passed. The young men who form- Manchester Guardian asked her to

ed its Cabinet turned from

by a turn of the wheel of fortune thoughts of war to the reconstruc- ho was the first Governor-Generation of peace. The old sparkle re- of a self-governing and aclf-reli ant Ireland.

He, who had risen from obscur Ity by his intellectunt brilliance, his withering wit and sparkling eloquence, remained to the end in- timately associated in the Irish mind with those now fabulous days when the House of Commons echoed to the vibrant invective of the Irish Party, when the name of Parnell was apoken in the same breath with that of St. Patrick.

There were some who hated him and said he had risen to power like the wren in the fable, carried higher than all others by the eagle, Parnell, only, in the tragedy of disgrace which overwhelmed his patron, to side with an infuri- ated electorate which could not tolerate a leader whose honour had been tarnished by the breath

of scandal.

"Best-Haled Man."

Ile was, as most famous Irish- men have been at some time in their lives, "the best hated man in Ireland" but for the past two decades the controversies which aroused auch hatreds have been forgotten, and Healy, who, sooner than many members of the Irish Parly, saw that the mind of the people had turned from the con- stitutional methods which he had practised at Westminster and favoured violence and direct ac- tion, stood aside and let the new- er and younger leaders challenge fate.

The astute politician could have no faith in rebel methods, but as an Irishman he was unwilling to oppase the policy of the over- whelming majority. He waited, in seclusion and almost forgotten, while the smoke of bombs and the rattle af machine-guns changed the fair face of his country. He read of murder, deaths, and executions, but he was silent.

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turned to those old, wise' eyes. They had seen what was a vision to Robert Emmett, a dream to Parnell, a frustrated policy to John Redmond materialise before them,

He had lived to see his country free. And here, in the Viceregal Lodge, he represented the King with simple dignity.

The biting

uncere-

set down her personal view of what Prohibition bus actually achieved.]

"No matter what laws may be made to cripple the beverage fu dustries of our present time so we read in a liquor trade journal of May 1, 1910, "they cannot and will not be observed by those managing these industrles." It was the American version of the similar dictum in Britain," "You cannot make men moral by Act of Parlia |mont."

wit of the politician was silent; he was an Irish gentleman at home. Distinguished visitors came to dine with him, to enjoy his monious hospitality. He had the way of an Irishman with him:

I remember, at one of his gardenmander Booth writea). parlica, he said to me:

"You must

It is the liquor trade in America that had provided a haunt for the gunman and the racketeer (Com- Not satis- fied with licensed houses which were supposed to be subject to re- gulation. it established the "blind

come to dinner some evening. What about this evening!" It was impossible, and i excused myself.plg" and the speakeasy. In New Healy laughed and said: "Well, York State prior to Prohibition the first day you are free, just ring there were not only 28,000 legal up Doyle (the Comptroller of the Baloons but nearly 7,000 wholly illicit and criminal resorta sending household) and tell him you are

in tax returna to the Federal coming."

authorities. For the corruption of both political parties and the In- Buencing of the Press there was maintained a colossal "alush fund,"

Retirement.

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Healy was like that. At another garden party given by Senator Gogarty, Healy chatted with me for half an hour, and when I would axcuse myself he said, "No, stay. I've been talking to the Persian prince over there in French, and he speaks such bad French. The only other man who him is Desmond Fitzgerald (Minis- ter for External Affairs)" Then he led me across, presented me to the prince, and left me to struggle with French spoken with a Per- aian accent.

can talk

to

amounting in the years 1913-8 to nearly £900,000.

The reports of lawlessness in the United States, and especially of evasion of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitu- tion prohibiting liquor, should ke read, therefore, in the light of history. What we ATB seeing is not a drama beginning a dozen years ago with the Eighteenth Amendment, but drama that covera Д CUT- Time passed, and Healy was

tury. In 1900 the rate for succeeded at the Viceregal Lodge

homicide was 2.1 per 100,000 of by James MacNeill. He retired to

population. Under the regulation his simple home at Chapelizod

of liquor that rate rose rapidly to (Chapelle Isolde), near Dublin.

7.5 in 1919-that is, it was more He told me he would have lived

than trebled. Such crime is, as it there during bla viceroyalty had

were cumulative, and once per- ГЕЛБОЛЗ of State not prevented mitted, tends to increase by its him. There, walking in his gar-

own momentum. But In spite of den which ran down to the Liffey, the moral disturbance of the war he would talk of his salmon-fishing and all that we have hoard about days, look at the swirling water, bootlegging, the rate was in effect and teat the wind with a molstentationary t 8.6 in the year 1925- ed finger,

Pence came, and with it the end of acven centuries, of hatred of England. Youth had triumphed, and in triumph turned to "Old It seemed as if happiness had Tim." The future was difficult,

at last come to him. But the hand extremists threatened civil war,

of the assassin could not let him but Healy did not hesitate,

die in peace. The old "Tim. Healy" Chosen by his own countrymen, seemed to have found a new incar- ae became the representative of nation in Kevin O'Higgins; the old the bing, he took up residence inspirit, the ancient fire was in the the Viceregal Lodge, where his study window looked out on the acene of one of the most brutal and tragic crimes which have stained the pages of Irish history-the Phoenix Park murders.

There I met him while Irishman Caught Irishman, brother killed brother, and his nephew, Kevin O'Higgins, held the portfolio of

young Minister, whose career was lovingly watched and advised by his uncle.

The assassins' guns spoke, and Kevin lay in a welter of blood al- mast on the steps of the church where he was about to attend Mass.

a figure oich SCAES that the whole of these illegailties and de- gradations of public life, including a high rate for murder and bandl- (Continued in Next Colmun,) -

the nephew who was the apple of his eye. They old man's hair be- came snow white. Life was over for him. The country to which he had devoted his life seemed to have no further need of Hm.

And so he passed is last days in that Liffey-side house where none who met him would have guessed from the faded twinkle in had desecrated the his eyes the 'tragedies they had Lord's Day and taken from him seen.

Murder

Newest Locomotive is Monster Indeed

The largest and most powerful

I locomotive of its kind in the

world has just been completed in the Angus Shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Montreal, for mor vice in the Rocky Mountains. The new "8000" locomotiva, representa a new era in the advancement of steara motive power of greater ei- ciency aid bigber sustained capi city. It is called a "multi-pressurs". engine because it generates fix steam in thres separated portions and at - three different pressures and, because its radical departures in ballar design, is creating something of a furore in mechan- ical and railroad circles.'"

Facts and figures of the #8000" will give some indication of its magnitude, efficiency and strength. It is only a scant nine inches short of 100 feet in lengthị Weight of engine is 436,000 lbs, and of tender 800,000 lbs, making a total; of 785,000 lbs. or 8921⁄21⁄2 tona. It has five - driving wheels on each sido, nach of which

1s 68 inches in diameter. Its tractive effort

Is 90,000 lbs. which means that on a level

track it will haul a freight traie, over a mile in langth, made up of one hundred and fifty 40-ton cari and representing a total weight of 6000 tons. Its tendar has a capacity of 12,000 gallons of water and dålỡ gallons of fuel oil gambling it to make long hauls without replenishing. There are 18,695 fest or slightly over three and a half miles of seamless steel tubes used in the construction of the boiler units alone."

Spoản outstanding festure of the "2000" in the firebox unit which is a closed circuit in which 100 gallona of distilied water are continually circulating without loss by evaporation, Distilled water is used, because it. prevents accumulation of sludge and scale so common in wave tube bollers. The closed circuit or drybox unit extends into the high-pressure boller drum in the form of 16 eving.cniled beat transfer colla, valtak

jer There are thres locomotives of this type in Europe and they show sistient savings in fusi ranging from 28 to 35 per cent, as compared with the conventional synd of locomotive.. But the largest of the Euro- paan locomotives of this type is only 42 per cent of the weight and develops only 36 per cent of the power of the 8000. It will be used in the Bocky Mountain territory of the companyiesen OH

H.B. Bowen (lank Kükist of Mouro Foweraad Boiling stocks, Caendita Pačide Hallway wirking in co-operation with, is Amartens, Pecomettra Company and kiba duparhastear: Compray, of New-Yoritg dexigand the 180002 afterghe and made as special siphon Koropa in 1929 to study locomotive types andy

1. The contraction of kila mágia locolates a handled Råder, direct supervides of Mr. Burza Worker Manager, Angus BRope, and UACY: SASTAVAPOR Mtr Bowen'smak.

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"The use of intoxicants by em ployees while on duty is prohibited; or the frequenting of their. use, places where they are sold, is suff- cient cause for dismissal."

try, were antecedent to Prohibi- fluence of liquor. Using modern tion, and, indeed, created the situa-machinery, they have to be, and the tion with which Prohibition has to strictness of the discipline may be grapple. The question is not whe-illustrated by the standard rule in ther Prohibition has led to law cinas 1. railroads; lessness. The only question is as to the extent to which the enforce ment of Prohibition is progressive- ly restricting the lawlessness or ganised by the liquor trade before this measure was adopted. Before Prohibition and after Prohibition the drink trade, legal or illegal, has flourished most where crime also has been most prevalent.

"A Hypocritical Fallure?" The Eighteenth Amendment was accepted throughout the world as

Yet in February, 1927, General. Motors, employing 101,000 workers, only dlacharged 80 men for this rea- son, or one in 3,300 men. On a cer tain railroad in 1915 202 employees out of 8,755 were dismissed for drinking, or 2.31 per cent. In 1925 only 118 men out of 13,100 were so

a new fact of capital importance. dismissed, or .89 per cent. In 1911

It was regarded as a direct threat the number of discharges for liquor to the vineyards of Italy, of Spain, on an elevated railroad in New Eng- of Portugal, of Frauce, and of land was 81. In 1926 it was 8.

been Germany. It was held to be a Even salesmanship has. blunt defiance of breweries and dis-affected. A large tobacco firm r tilleries in Great Britain. Faced ports that the expenses of its travel- by Prohibition, the liquor trade,lers assigned to treating have fallen wherever it is carried on and infrom $10 a week to 25 cents, that whatever form, with its associated is one-fortieth, per man, and that and less respectable enterprises. there is less difficulty in handling has been mobilised as a solid unit. orders when the salesman and the of opposition. Every weapon of customer are în a "normal state." ridicule and of misrepresentation The population of the United has been brought into play against States is to-day 122,000,000. A "the noble experiment, and in reasonable estimate of the position particular, the avenues of publicity la that 100,000,000 people are keep have been filled with assumptions Ing the law. Of the remaining that Prohibition ! a hypocritical,22,000,000 we may assume, perhaps, failure. That is what liquor in that half are well to do and half are Europe wants-Europe to belleye, for the wage-earning class. Front. but for Great Britain, confronted by these figures, sufficiently near, the a serious industriel situation, It is mark to form a basis for judgment, important, surely, to study the facts it will be seen at once that statistics of the case. How has this policy may be very misleading to the eye. worked out?

Suppose that each of the 22,000,000 Professor Herman Feldman, of, wete spenda a dollar a week on" Dartmouth College, has collected liquor, it would work out at over data which must be accepted as final, $1,000,000,000 or $200,000,000 m on this point. Large employers are year, yet for each consumer it would adamant in the dismissal of men only mean one drink every three who come to work under the in- days.