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rendered inevitable by the events

HERE THERE

and

EVERYWHERE,

A History of Parliament.

An ambitious "History of Par- Hament" is to be proparod.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1932.

BATTLE FOR RICHES

GREAT PERSONALITIES

OF FINANCE

PEACE PRIZE BUILT ON EXPLOSIVES PROFITS

a bad

The Prime Minister, together with the only two living ex-Prima Ministers, Mr. Lloyd George and did money-makera in the history of

Out of twenty of the most splen-) fort, wrote of them! Mr. Baldwin, and also the Speaker: finance and industry, whose lives have become patrons of a joint Herr Hans Wantach weaves into a committee of both Houses which is to assist and supervise the pre-

book dix are Britons-not paration of the work.

| proportion.

Admillalls a collection of mere It will be based on the recent money-nakes and nothing else report of the committee under might introduce us to surprisingly Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, on the dali company; but the author has result of whese researches Mr. MacDonald broadcast in Septem- ber.

The Lord Chancellor is to be the chairman of the joint committee The committee is not

an official

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a more humane purpose in view.

His choice falls on those who have

"The complete absence of dis cord between the brothers contri- · butes very largely to their suc- Cesa: none of them will hoay a word against the other, none of them will tolerate criticism of any other's actions In business, oven when the results of such ne- tions have fallen short of their expectations."

Alfred Nobel figures among the contributed, in one way or another, moderns. At thirty he discovered structure of banking, the exchanges, plusive basis, and thereafter built to the development of the vast the use of aḥico-gizerine as an ex-

and

one, though it' has followed on and manufacturing industry. With-[up the world's largest business in auggestion by the Prime Minister, out exception, they are men of that line by alter scientific but it will be in touch with official great achievement. It is a pictures-commercial skill, sources, contact being maintained with between them many a roman he described himself before his que group which he assembles, "Gray-haired and worn-out," as through Sir George Penny, one of the Government Whips.

tic story to tell.

early death, he made over his whole There is William Paterson, who fortune of some £1,700,000 to a with a pamphlet founded the Bank Trust for the Promotion of Science, Tragic Hunt Coincidence.

of England, a Scofaman almost, un-Art, and Poace." Fatal accidents in the hunting known to his own countrymen. Aand, haunted life was his. Was field such as that which caused the His whole capital, as Macaulay said, this last act really an expression death of Brig.-General Perceval, consisted of an inventive mind and of his ambition to benefit mankind when hunting with the West glib tongue. Dogged and per- by a single gesture, by a stroke of Waterford hounds recently, are sistent, he had his own way in this the pen, or was be paying out con- happily rare.

most important undertaking for the science money? Horr Wantoch It is a coincidence that a similar whole world, but he was too much holds that the Nobel endowment accident in the same county caused of a visionary to make good himself.) was the logical outcome of the in- the death of the third Marquess of For one year he received the ward struggle that was being car modest salary of £2,000 as a Direc-ried on in his tragic, suffering sout

Waterford in 1859,

went out

"Paterson man - of

many men.

was, above all, a had an odd liking for the robust.- action, · full- of thick-headed Boer farmers," as he and schemes, always had for the savagery and good na ready to risk everything he had ture of the Matabele, who repaid in a new venture; a genius who him with admiration.

plans Your Daily Smile.

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had no technical knowledge, but It is a little strange to find Ri an uncanny insight into future chard Cobden in wealthy company. events; he was half land specu- His life-work showed him to be a.. lator, half diplomat, a writer of high idealist... distinction, and a gallant old soldier of invincible courage, de "When the remaining members of his Darien expedition who had not died of malaria or hunger made their way to the Hudson after two years of indescribable! suffering, Paterson himself, then almost dying, had to be lashed to the mast." AN

My business ambitions (his own words are cited) are founded on firm ground for the time being, and, better still, they are opening. up for me an almost unlimited: vista of hopes and plans. If I ask myself what I am hoping for, I can hardly find a satisfactory answer. It certainly is not money. I have the greatest contempt for it.".

He was hunting with his own tor of the Bank; but he felt that he throughout his life, hounds, the Curraghmore, of which must be off-lato polltfes, a scheme Nitro-glycerine, dynamite, do the present Marquess is now joint for supplying North London with useful service in blowing up rocks.. master. His horse peeked at ajwater, and other unprofitable pur-Alfred Nobel could never clear from. present gathering, however, was his head into a road. His neck was Darien Company.

small fence and threw him on to auits. His wildest venture was the his mind the memory that in can non his explosives had destroyed which preceded it, and may be) broken.

Dreamed of Autocracy. At the time he was wearing a regarded hopefully for what it is hunting-cap, in

In possession of Panama,. "the

Cecil Rhodes. worth or something more. It had usual headgear for hunting men. whole world," Paterson pictured empire building. It was not achiev those days the gateway to the sea, the key to the Cecil Rhodes was happier in his been the intention of the British Mainly as a result of his accident, himself to his co-adventurers as ed without war, but he was no nine- The Remaking Of India. Sir Samuel Hoare in June last) fashion, and has now become the crat of a glorious empire.

Government (as announced by the hunting-cap

of another Cyrus or Alexander, auto- teenth-century Conquistador. "The to set up a joint select commit-badge of office of hunt offelala.

shrewd, fastidious money-maker For several weeks past Indian tee of Parliament in consulta- affairs have lain practically dor-tion with Indian representatives to examine the Government's re- mant, though there are spasmo commendations for Constitutional dic reports of trouble in Central reform. Certain resignations and "To Stop Me-Buy One." India. That is to say, the sup-other causes of delay prevented A writer says we have no orators posed political crisis has taken no the carrying out of this project now. Well, three vacuum cleaners. new turn, while, as is always the spirit of it has been carried

in the exact form intended, but at our house prove he's wrong. worth remembering, the masses forward into the conference just of the common people have gone concluded. A simplified pro- Needlework is becoming more quietly forward with their daily cedure has been adopted, avoid-popular among men, I read. That work, secure in the protection of ing public sessions and working explains why we speak of some the British Raj. True, there on a fixed agenda, and when chaps as "Old Sew-and-Sew."

agreement has been reached on have been occasional outbursts of as large a number of points as Note on Foot Work. terrorism, though not so fre possible, the Government will

It is a bad thing to turn the toes, quently as was once the case, and adopt the programme thus for out, says a doctor. But it is worse the victims, as of old, have been to Parlianient for approval. Even mulated as its own and present it! mainly Moslem or Hindu. Con- along these lines of common The Boy's Right. gress agitators have been com-sense, the conference has not

found all its decisions easy. How studies. Remember, what you have

Teacher: Be very diligent in your hunger, but he managed to leave £20,000 a year out of cotton at paratively silent, or else have could it, when one considers the learned no one can ever take away Elizabethan London merchant, was himself. Had he kept to cotton,

£7,000.

first a poor shepherd, then shop-boy been given (perhaps wisely) less complexity of the issues and the from you.

Sir Thomas Gresham, son of an and bagman before he set up for than their former publicity. Mr. vast variety of the constituencies Gandhi, who still remains in concerned? Women's franchise, from me what I haven't learned to-day to the Royal Exchange to see ficent money-makers. But in his Pupt: Well, they can't ever take Paterson was hopeless. People go have placed him among the magni-

of another type, as practical as such enterprise as his might well. for instance, has not proved the either, can they? salutary confinement, has more easiest of subjects even in coun- than once threatened to begin an-tries long inured to the methods Self-Raising Flower.

the mural pictures, and it is dif-consuming pre-occupation with the ficult to realise that for nearly Free Trade crusade his business. other "fast unto death" in the of the ballot-box. Little wonder interests of the depressed classes, that the Round-table Conference millions of 'em in my garden.

three centuries It was London's went to pieces. Dandelions, daisies, buttercups; busy and crowded mart. The iden Cobden could not meet his lia- Should he succeed in such an aim, has had to postpone the matter

wae not Gresham's. It came from bilities. A subscription raised for the credit which he would win even a hint that the provinces What will it cost to send my

for further examination, with Ask at Paddington.

the Antwerp Boursc

him afterwards brought in £80,000. Assisted Trade. would in reality be due entirely may be asked to deal with it in

Practically all was dissipated in But Gresham saw the schema speculation in American railway to the British, without whose their own, and probably differing dent.

boy to Oxford?" asks a correspon-through, and obtained Elizabeth's shares. A second subscription rea presence and influence; neither ways. The principle of special

powerful support for it. Nor was lised another £40,000 for him. "Gresham's law really his, that Gandhi nor any other Indian representation has come more would have troubled about the scheme. Its first great endorse- Even his whisky he would have thought is as old as coinage itself.

into the electoral

bad money will always drive good He had a passion for tidiness, money, out of the country-the "untouchables." On this subject, ment came when, under the neat.

and more

by the way, it is interesting to Poons Pact, it was decided that

to turn them up.

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THOROUGHNESS.

observe the simple faith with the depressed classes were to What's-that-for-Dad Department. which some of the English papers have reserved for them 18 per "Remember, my boy, curiosity receive the news of the opening cent. of the general Hindu seats killed a cat!

"How, father?"

Facts You Did Not Know.

Later, in petitions to King Wil liam and Parliament, he represent

It was the contempt of a man who ed himself as one suffering from at the age of 80 made an income of

He reformed the base currency of the day, and thereby did marvels for our expanding trade.

HERR HAEUSSLER LAID TO REST.

German Consul's Sudden Death.

Fittingly he introduces the really of a few temples to the casteless. in the Federal Legislature. Fol-

magnificent money-makers: old Ja "Advanced" Liberal and Labour lowing this up, the conference

cob Fugger the Rich, stepping out organs actually seemed to think has expressed itself in favour of

of the late Middle-Ages, financing The funeral of Herr Johannes that the whole difficulty had been separate representation for la

Emperors and Kings, and respon Haeussler, Secretary of the German solved overnight, though long be bour, commerce, and landlords.

sible by his gold-bags in some part Consulate General in Hong Kong, fore their sanguine comment could There is a good deal that can be

for the untold misery of the Hun- who died on Boxing Day at the reach India the new concessions said for recognising, in this way,

dred Years War.ACNC French Hospital after a brief ill- had been in the main withdrawn a true cross-section of society, tenth of a meter long, that a Ger- and to End the money at profit was Followed by a large number of

Ultra short radio waves, only one War was the destiny of rulera, ness, took place last evening hence the Mahatma's talk of a as against the more usual man scientist has developed, have his As Fugger said himself, when mourners, the cortego left the second fast. While it may have geographical grouping, which so been found to follow nearly all the he took off his shirt he laid down French Hospital at 4 p.m. and on to be admitted that the control often means that important laws of light rays.

with it all the anxiety and strife arrival at the gate of the Colonial

of business, and slept well. R Cemetery, the coffin was borne to

of temples is the Brahmins own minorities (which may, in their affair, the control of votes, for total amount to a substantial tunately for many others, is not. majority) are left without repre

A device has been invented to House of Rothschild, the chapel, where a short service The question of the franchise, in- sentation at all. The question overcome the electrolysis which eats. It is a long step forward to the was held at which the Itev. Gels- deed, is one of the major matters of the method of election to away propellers and their shafts house of Rothschild-Meyer Ams-slinger, of the Basel Mission, off- requiring to be settled by the British-Indian sea

seats hus with and bearings and rudders of ships chel, the founder, "By appointment ciated. The cortege re-formed, Round-table Conference adjourn, several other minor matters, that navigate salt water to the Frines of Hessen-Hanau, as and proceeded to Stokumpoo Valley. ed last week in London. If any been held over for fuller/con-

BARANG She proudly set over his shop in the where the remains were cremated, country's problems could be cured sideration in connection with Success has attended experiments Nathan, the gifted son, who in The widow was present, together

A Jewish quarter of Frankfort; prior to being sent to Germany. by conference, then surely India fixin the size of the Federal As- in England with the productio should ere long be healed and sembly

1798, at the age 25, Battled. In Man with the Consul General Dr Bruno Assuming that all these steam by burning a mixture of gas cheater, and necessarily grayitat. Hahn as well as repre whole Granted that conferring details eventually arranged and air injected at high speed nto ed to London and the others of the Consular Corpe seems the natural way to effect to gly a compromise, yet the world at semb

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