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Mr. Baldwin's tribute 10 Disraeli, at the fiftieth anniversary dinner of the Primrose, League recently, worthily maintained the oratorical standard of his speech in the Disarmament debate.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1932.

PILOTS OF

OF LONDON

GUIDING SHIPPING

IN THE THAMES

RIVER THAT TRADES WITH THE WORLD

(By HOWARD SPRING.)

One was particularly struck by his statement that Disraeli, 90

Saturday is the great day to see winter, the pilots watch on the words which | years ago, uttered could be uttered to-day with the ships come down the river. Out Royal Plor. There are 77 of them less force and truth. One is won-of the docks and off the jetties for sea work and 86 for river work. dering whether Mr. Baldwin had they come at the first seaward lap A rester contains the names of the any of the following utterances in of the ebb, and anyone who caresmen on duty for the day; all the to be at Gravesend then will look others are on the telephone, 20 mind:

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England does not love coali-upon as fine a procession, when all that they may be called at need.

those ships race out to sea, as any There tions.

are also 48 pilots dealing I believe that without party dressed-up cavalcade by land could with "exempt" ships: that is to Parliamentary

is hope to show him.

say, ships which, for one reason or - Big ships and little, they come another, are impossible.

exempted from the As I sat opposite the Treasury by their scores, flags flying, waves compulsion to carry a pilot but Bench; the Ministers reminded impatiently parted to starboard and which, nevertheless, often take one me of those marine landscapes to port, the little ones rocking in as a reasonable precaution. not unusual on the coasts

The Saturday procession of the of the wake of the big, and all, ap- South America. You behold

parently, panting for the spacious- ships moane a busy time for the ness and freedom of the open sea. pilots, and what I most admired range of exhausted volcanoes..

But one may be pardoned a doubt was the way the sea-pilots shot out whether the crews aboard share in in their cutters and got aboard the apparent eagerness of their without the ship slacking' ́her way '- ships. All this rush and lively at all. It is the boast of the men ORANG OUTINGS.

pother has a drab economic ex- at Gravesend that theirs is the Apes in an American Zoo

are planation, and the sailorman would only station in the world possess- taken for rides in the country give you that explanation with no ing cutters which permit the sap-. periodically.

Your Daily Smile.

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mincing of his words. A ship at ply of a pilot to a ship under way. berth on a Sunday is an idle ship, One part of the training of n pilot Paving the Way.

and so things are stirred up wtih is not easy to come by in these The average modern girl is pre-might and main to ensure that Sun- days for it is insisted that a pilot paring a fine past for people today shall be spent in voyaging, shall have been for not less than

But though this economic neces-112 months second mate of a Bail Isity exists to be up and doing with ing ship. And where are the nail- all speed, the sailorman, like the ing ships now that shall give that soldier, takes to rkyming his sor-experience to all who want 17 rows: and a ditty has come into There is an old barquenting, the my harde which bemoans the lot of Water Witch, usually to be found those who man the ships making iplying with china clay between this gay and heartening rush from Fowey and the north-east coast, grey to blue water.

which is much sought after; but

SIMPLER.

We are told that in Siam credi tors take the door off a debtor's! as an alternative to that of elec-house. Here then just take the tion.

house. To most of us that must seem an incomparably better

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Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 29, 1932. choice in these days, when the Hollywood Version.

limitations of popular election but by now has probably been dis- "A marriage has been arranged. are becoming more and more

Reform From The Right. widely recognized, and the real solved, between, etc..

need of the State is to provide (in the words of the Bidding

Slimming.

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the author, but he will, I am sure, gained under foreign colours,

I have been unable to discover jusually the experience has to be

pardon my making public at least the last verse of the song that is sung in public-houses all down the {reaches:

Please God, the gentle sailor Will never know the pain The managers must suffer

When their attempts are vain

·To clear the ships each week-end

And get them off to sea, For ships tied up on Sunday.

Would spoil eternity.

· Rigorous Training. Altogether the pilot's training is rigorots. A man must be not less than seven years at sea before he is permitted to put down his nome at Trinity House as a candi- date. Ho must be a master mari- ner and must have acted as chief officer. In practice, most of the pilots at Gravesend have been in command of ships.

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It is natural, and absolutely Prayer) a supply of "fit persons" right, that the present state of for the growing burden of pub-| British politics should seem alic service. The essential · func-

Japan's imports of aluminium golden opportunity for constitution of popular election is to re-have increased so rapidly in recent tional and political reforms present conspicuously the broad years that plans are under way for which go far beyond the original tendencies of public opinion. Let the construction of redaction plants case for a National Government. it therefore remain the unchal-near domestic ore deposits. There are certain great problems lenged method of the House of

consent can Commons. Where it fails is that! which by common

Until about 20 years ago it was never be solved by any one party it will never with any certainty vented to pick up bits of platinum Royal Terrace Pier at Gravesend, pilot should, be a master mariner;

A magnetic sweeper has been in-

I sat in the pilots' house on the not thought necessary that a river single-handed. Indian self-produce the individuals who are wire dropped in factories where the watching the passing of the ships but Trinity House insists on it now, government is one of them; dis- most required; and for this rea-wire is used in the manufacture of and thinking of fateful moments in and most of them not only hold the armament, and with it the whole son nomination whether pro switchboard electric lamps.

the lives of three queens.. sphere of foreign relations, is portionately by the parties in

For certificate, but have been in com- this pier, which used to be the Tor-mond.·· another; the future of interna- the House of Commons or by suc {tional finance and commerce is a cessive Prime Ministers—should Although Peru has two well race Gardens Pier, gained the name Trinity House is the governing of iron ore that Royal when Alexandra landed there body of all British pilota; und. I do third. The most obvious exam- unquestionably be the ultimate known deposits

and steel products on her way to London to meet her not know any station sive iples of these problems are not claim to enter the House of Lords. country's iron

are made from metals imported in bridegroom. And it was a little the ene nt, Gravesend which bounded by our own shores; but The Government could make a crude form.

higher up, at Greenhithe, that has achieved 80. Jarge a there are long-standing domestic beginning of reform at once by

|Victoria waited on the Royal Yacht measure of self-government. · True," controversies also which can only taking the simple power to re- be settled by a large measure of commend

for Albert; while right in front of Trinity House has its representa- the creation of Life A husband has been trying to get us, across the river, is the field tive at the station. He is known consent. Among them beyond Peers, who are still absurdly a divorce on the ground that his where Elizabeth addressed, her as the Ruler of Pilots, and his func- any question is, that which has limited to Judges. Their hands wife has been slowly and deliber words to the train-bands,"", tion is purely disciplinary. revolved intermittently for many may well be too full for the mo- ately making herself into a living Democratic Institution. has no lot or part in the running years round the Reform of the ment to deal with the problem skeleton, whereas he had taken The pier has a democratic as of the station. In other stations House of Lords. In recent as a whole; but, that is clearly his marriage vows to someone well as a royal interest. It is the Trinity. House representative is months a number of Conserva- one of their appointed tasks be "buxom and beautiful." He owned by a company in which all called the Superintendent of Plots tive members of both Houses of fore they abandor office, and could not, he said, live with her the shareholders are pilots or and his powers are much wider. Parliament have been engaged in they should certainly be encour- any more, and he claimed the re-pilots' children, and the committee One of the river's most respon- formulating their views on this aged to face it by the re-dress that anyone is entitled to of management is elected by the sible jobs is in the hands of this subject; and the result was un-markable progress of their ex-who is given short weight. The pilots themselves. They pay six-brotherhood of freemen, perched folded to a large gathering at treme Right Wing.

Court, however, would not listen pence in the pound out of their there in their glass eyrie overlook Westminster recently. To those

to him, and has ruled that a wife gross earnings for the maintenance ing that crucial point, which is the who have followed the subject

may amount to as much or as of the station and its cutters, and front door to London. They shep closely there may be nothing

little as she pleases after mar-very efficient and very comfortable herd, up and down the Thames the. that is very novel about it. It!

riage. It took, in short. an un-they have made their quarters traffic of the world, the silks of the deals, as it was bound

With the growing popularity sympathetic view, and certainly here.

East and the grain of the West, deal, with the whole of of the higher education of there does seem a case for the The mention of gross earnings tea from India, Baltic wood, Aus- the two main aspects of women it is only to be expected husband. It is a fallacy to think reminds me how people go astray trallan meat, South African fruit- in reformed Second Chamber that influence of the Sibyl should that slimming is economical. It when they talk of pilot's incomes, the necessaries and the luxuries its powers and its personnel. In increase. If you want some-leads to restlessness and a great There was excitement the other from the places they all knew well both cases it reaches conclusions thing to be valued, teaches the need for furs and fires, and what day when a pilot left thousands of places that stir old memories in which, in one form or another, Sibyl, and it is not valued as it is saved at the dining table is pounds. It was overlooked that he their minds as they twist their way have been familiar in earlier should be, do not cheapen it by more than lost in these other had inherited most of it from his along the tortuous channel while, schemes. It is a little startling, lowering the price but rather directions. It is notoriously bad father, a tug-owner. A recent off-spicing the familiar flavours of perhaps, to find men like Lord take a bold and disagreeable line for the temper. These draw-cial return showed that the aver- London. river, there oozes through [Sumner and Colonel Gretton and offer less and less for the backs are not outweighed by the age gross earnings of 79 Channel the hatches a hint of other suns wanting women in the House of same money. Her success with small-saving in rent that comes pilots attached to the Port of Lon- and of strange merchandise blister- Lords and recommending pay. her book against so obstinate from being able to live in a don had been £1,327 in a year. But ing on trepic quaye, ment of its members (with a and typical a male as Tarquin the smaller flat or house and the there are all sorts of heavy deduc- means test). But these minor Proud is a matter of history, and greater possibilities for cheap tions to be made. Consider ono: features of the Report only serve small wonder if it is found to travelling, and the smuggling, of A pilot who leaves a ship in s to emphasize its real interest afford the practical justification slim wives past ticket collectors. French port pays his own fare which is that it emanates from for the slimming craze. Women Perhaps the Parisian husband home. The pilots, certainly, are so unimpeachably Conservative a who see how large and comforts would have fared better if his not overpaid group of signatories as that over able placidity has been imposed pleadings had taken a wider Their station at Gravesend is which Lord Salisbury presided upon all through history, and sweep and he had appealed to the never empty. The big glass win- It will not, of course, win gen who realize how the dignity of sympathies of the bench for dows look up the Gravesend reach eral acceptance as it stands the sex suffers, when there are Judges are an elderly crew by towards the city. Telescopes are Three minor traffic accidents oc- The further powers of delaying more women anywhere than men, alluding to the hardships that lying about; sou'westers and oil-curred yesterday, according to Po legislation which are suggested can plausibly argue that they are the lot of the husband of a skine hang ready on the walls lics reporte will hardly be conceded to the have the best chance of being young and active wife Judges There is wireless to while away the While a motor lorry was travel- House of Lords if it is to be comproperly valued if they achieve, as like their ease and their arm-time waiting; there are card tables, ling along Lockhart Road, Wanchal, posed for all time in quite so ano individuals, a scarcity value, and chairs as much as other men, per and cosy bunks.E malous a fashion as a compro take care not to be too much in haps more, or they would never "Swopping"" Pilots ry fell off, sustaining, injuries to mlse between the hereditary sys evidence. In any case, slimming have consented to so edentary This is the point here at Graves his head and face. He was sent to tem and direct election by County is firmly rooted to-day, and occa and static a way of life. Argu end where the river pilot finishes the hospital for treatment. Councils. If these powers are to sional announcements that the ments which they could not ac- his duty when he is bringing a ship A similar spill occurred in Ken- be conceded at all and their fashion is going to change, and cept when they turned on the to sen, and the sea pilot takes on nedy Town, where a coolie fell from importance is not in question that amplitude, as decreed by person of the wife and her right and, where incoming ships are con a motor lorry while it was in mo- then there must at least be some dressmakers and cloth spinners to reduce might have prevailed cerned, it is here that the sea pilot tion." He also was injured about the prospect that the Revising Cham and the rest, is to come into its when presented in wider terms comes ashore and the river pilot had

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CHILD STRUCK BY TRAMCAR.

Three Chinese In Traffic Mishaps.

a coolle who was sitting in the for-

ber will in the end, be reasonably own, fall to achieve any tangible and in defence of the sta of goes abroad. The river pilots have Knocked down by tramcar 58 in logical and homogeneous And results. Now, to courage the home and the rlyht of harass their quarters on the other side of Des Voeux Road Central yesterday the Committee wisely contem women, there comes

ed husbands to armchairi even the pier.,

Me a Chinese boy, aged 11 years, sug→ plato the method of no) tion ment of the Paris Divorce Court

ings and the life

90 day and might summer and tained internal injuries..-