1953-09-22 — Page 4

Imperial Institute May Be Streamlined

By WINIFRED - GASKIN

the various racial groups

THE · CHINA · MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1958,

There are panoramie palm- ings and slides of sponge-lishing and bathing beaches in the Bahamas, tobacco and banana. Lac- estates in Jamalen, mugar tories in Barbados and British Guiana.

are

How many people know that'

the raw

of bauxite,

after its aluminum, is named original source, Les Baux in Gulana makes this know-

London, and New Zealand instruct whlle HE Imperial Institute, they delude.

But much of this exhibition of London's "Victorian Britannia overseas is devoted to White Elephant" as the Colonies.

Here are life-size models of ite critics call it, may soon

who be streamlined and given a

Men of Northern Nigo:la in now name in keeping with prize the Commonwealth," this Commonwealth age, Arabic robes alongside a Nigerian in Western board of doctor, and nurse It has a new governors, under the chair-dreambolise the fullon of old france? The British

now in West Atrica.

Bauxite Company The figure

#barefoot on to general manship of Lord Hudson,

plaque. who replaces the Minister of Kikuyu forester carries

In the Brilish their exhibit Education in that capacity. It says "... his father had many lodge in the plaque describing wives and used herds of goats as

painted by This change follows the re- a bank account. He hopes his Gulana section. Water colours Phang and Guianese artists commendatione mnde last Octo- son may go to Makerere College of lobal scenes to study biology. by Lord Tweedsmuir's

A Mami warrior East Moshett add a culturni slant.

of committee, established to re

his traditional functions, Africa adopts view the Institute's

He is de- be one-legged stance. decided had which

they

scribed as belonging to a "proud The committee suggested then and courageous race." also a revision of the activities Institution objects of the to meet present needs and pro- better understanding of ilu To Commonwealth,

"British ideas of

they proposed Commonwealth that the ten should be substituted for Im¬ 'perial in the due.

ber

come outmoded.

mole the away with Imperialism,"

The put

governors have now to these recommendations

Into effect.

One of their first moves may be to capture the attention of youth by establishing it as a forum.for overseas students.

It would provide a suitable

centre.

Tanganyika is represented by two chiefs: one, a Christian, in Western dress; the other, draped in a magnificent leopard skin.

A silversmith and a tin miner of Mainya symbolize the grow ing economy of the Federation,

Paintings, Slides

Smartly turned out, a West Indian lawyer studies the Death Duties and the Law of Divorce next door to a Jamaican suga farmer. The latter, says the ty "poor, but description,

laugh the ready

song

For the Imperial 111-cristic

stitute is financed by 49 Com- monwealth Governments,

and

Ministry

ה

to which the British

contributes Education of grant in ald of £12,050.

in 1879 by Royal Established Charter as a memorial to Queen Victoria's Jubilee, the institute, omnate Victoriana. a plece of

16. originally plamed to

and

the promote

was

Blustrate

activities of

lorious Empire.

great

It Was

signed also as a centre for

ans

in-

formation and investigation

about trade and industry,

Lost Glitter

Dur- the

ex-

was

Bush Spirit

The East African room exudes the spirit of the bush lands with mounted heads of wild animals. including that of an elephant. The trade exhibits emphasise the importance of East Africa as one of the Commonwealth's economic units.

Both West Africa and Trinidad have varied thei; Industrial ex- bbits with something of their

There

dre

Indigenous culture. examples of West African sculp- ture; a Trinidad steel band com- plete with a ees of "para" Alla in the picture of life in that island.

The Imperial Institute has ple- Hift of tured and storied all this know-

dancr and

<hat nen ledge more graphically of the African museum curice. I wait the enquiring Englishman. Between Trinidad's East Indian market the

few Wors comparatively

The In- women are typlied in a figure bothered to seek It. looking out over the window stitute became a resort for court- boxes of her new Government-

couples DIN

wet Sunday bullt house.

! afternoons. In- It now up to the Iniitute's new governors to attract not only ovETSERS

students but also the British people,

tho Another section of stitute's exhibition gulleries boosts Commonwealth indus tries, crofts and beauty spots,

Newell Rogers Reporting America

THE PEACE PIPE

IS BROKEN

New York. matching compacts. A 3ln, gold- TIGH above the sky-blue coloured square model is cover-

But the original high poses lost their glitter as years' passed. And the Institute degenerated into a museum-type complex where a trickle of visitors would view scene hibition galleries and study the uses of raw materials,

Between the wars it

Har Oklahoma Red Indian druma 17 dollars 50 cents. brought to life by Lond lech. But in more recent years sounded, the peace pipe was echoing cor broken, and the curse was It often empty,

needed proved that it ridors yet another rejuvenation, spoken.

travel is Chief Bennie Spotted Woli. air especially bringing to England more over-aged 70, cursed the waters sens visitors than ever before. Canton Lake to keep the

and ducks almost an entire from biting In Kenstryton, the build landing blccupying ing dominates an area bristling sold: with rococo cultural

Dy

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p!

its surface.

from

He

Four lions, staring to hunt and Ash free as

ATOMIC submarines

can

He presided at kecl-laying ceremonies for the second U.S. "We were promised the right A-sub. The first, the Nautilus,

long will have builder's trials soon. water flowed and Zrass grew. Now they open- the-dam

the water,"

A and Oklahoma Cily takes our DALE WEAVER, aged 10, call-

ly from under graven guard the entrance to the vast main hall. The whole structure, with its ornato turrets, resem- bles some cathedral of Jusher period in church archi- tecture.

Oklahoma

Robert Laverick,

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"Mounties" Keep Their 80-Year-Old Oath

More Than A Police

IGHTY

`years ago

Force

this month, a small, By

By HARWOOD STEELE

obscure police force

The author's father, Major-Gon. Sir Samuel Stocle, was one of the original officers of the Northwest Mounted Police. Col. Stoolo was official historian to the Arctic Expedition of 1925, which brought the Arctic territories of Canada under the force's control.

The North

in

Д

theit

Catching Traitors

And cathedral it is. For in it are enshrined the relics Empire and despite its need of lowered the lake reorganisation—the present day (astrously for the Indians. And pull that trigger. Robert pulled, below to 100 above zero, with from many lands poured into TN bringing the

attributes of the Ilving Com-for paleface resort owners monwealth.

its shores.

1

Jew

inhabitants and bnly

Ter the primitive troneport, ritory had been bought from the Hudson's Bay Company by

its territory every year.

standstill, and the constable who overpowered two berserk Indians.

The

wear out Thomas

Mrs. Robert Henrøy replies to the man who said 'I feel so sorry for women'

I say it's wonderful

\HAT are these words Wine de Laurentis?

He sits on the beach at the Lido, and says that he feels sorry for women.

declare I, for one, ardently that being n woman affords me more continuous joy than any other consideration that lifo hins to offer. I would sing it loudly for all to hear.

I count it as a gift from the fortune, heavens, like health, дла Fame, but even mora wonderful, and whether choose to be a nice, obedient

wife, or one who goes forth

my

to earn her own living,

salinfection will still

greatest

be that I

am a woman.

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The advantages of our are so stupendous that I some times wonder why they are not more often enumerated.

Some men are genluses. They can be musicians like Mozart, painters like Gainsborough-or they can achieve immenas muccess by creating some vast undertaking like a newspaper.

A woman starts out with tho almost certain knowledge that she will achieve motherhood, which is the most exciting and satisfactory form of creation that exists.

We Survive

THE

THE world has never been a better place for women to live in, for if it is true that a woman'a life is to a very great extent composed of affections, note that it is only within the most recent years that the children we put into the world have a serious chance, of survival.

A

obliged

Victorian

mother Was to put eight children into the world to save three, Science has overcome all but a few of the worst nightmares that

concerned our babies- and gives us, incidentally, an infinitely better time when wo

have them.

People claim that the world is drab.. Men may find it a little harder to do colourful acts; but ane needs only to be a typist to discover in the shops and stores materials and dresses of beauty undreamed of, by our mothers;

The materials in any store-in Oxford Street bewilder by their magnlicence, Aladdin's Cave simply 15 not dra it.

Unknown Joys

WHO sew like a real French-

women can hardly keep up with the new materials that come tumbling into the market, and I think one of the most (errible things about being a man would be one's inability to enjoy the turning of modern materials into lingerie, dresses,

and coats

For in. a difficult world,

dresses and make-up are glamorous joys that a man can knowing about.

An officer and eight men swore in its first

cowed 700 armed desperadoes recruits, Only 16 years'

in 1885. Another small party. later, its commander report-

in 1889, dragged a horse-thief out of the Sun Dance lodge, ed himself "deluged with

still then o sanctuary, against applicationa" to join it.

hundreds of howling braves. More recently, an American

The Red revolution of 1919 was law-court pronounced it "the

broken by 56 riders charging a bloodthirsty mob of 50,000, envy of the world."

Numerous man-hunts have The

Saskot- Soon detachments or dog-sled been pressed to victory through Royal Canadian this secured the vital

covered the whole

great peril and difficulty. (born Northwest) Mounted chewan region for Canada and patrols

made possible the nation- Canadian Arclic Archipelago, long chases after Charcoal and Police have always been building transcontinental Cana- stopped murder rampant among Almighty Voice, red-skin out-

the Eskimos, relieved far more than just another dian Pucife Raliway. police force. Totalling only Next, the forced policed the distress and set up law, order laws of the nineties, have had more recent counterparts in the line'a

construction.

sound administration, and

This

Yukon, pursuit of Albert John- up enemy warships 300, the original body was a west rebellion by a minority of

threat to real

son in 1931 and the combined countered cross between a police force Indians and

over half a world away from home

zave Canadian sovereignty wal-breeds

effort of 1951, covering 1,000 anores,

Secretary sald Navy.

and a first-class cavalry re- serious trouble. Yet the rall Islands

mineral promising Robert P. Anderson, In Groton,giment, wearing

was finished the way

five years wealth, full of valuable wild mies, to

Rossler: Ash Connecticut.

Queen's scarlet and armed before the contract date. The life and offering bases for North

acknowledged that management

been done American air defence and Inter-

Longest Patrol mainly with pistols and car- it could not have

continental air travel. bines,

without the force. This success

Meanwhile, modernisation La- from kept British Columbia, as large troduced marched In 1874, it

scientific

adjuncts, INE, detective work doomed Ex France

phis Finland, in the mechanical transport, an avia-

O'Brien, Fournier And Dufferin near Winnipeg, 10 establish "eftretive occupation" union, to become a leader

tlon section and a marine section Labelle, the Yukon gold rush Such memories and "protection-ahead-of-settle many fields

All these services were per- (Coast Guard) with absorption murderers. ment" in the Saskatchewan

in only 11 formed

years.

of the Preventive Service. Pro- inspire the modern force in area, equal increased

The freedom that we have This

International' River region.

duties

dope extended smashing were to 1,000 and scattered vinelal

today is

is magnificent. Only a rings, trapping counterfelters, ar City, the State "Mamma's Hille boy,"

in size to France plus Westem

short time ago in France the the Germany, lay in

North-small detachments (a system into yet more provinces, capital downstream 100 miles,

patiently examining hundreds of sill employed), the force

Dow

royalties of an authoress went Robert went home and got a

west Territory. as large bas a bad drought. The thirsty'

found its task of helping and

weapons to pick out the one

by law to her husband. I'prefer Europe without Russia.

With protecting ther people has shotgun to scare Dale. Dale maid of city of 243,000

used in some brutal crime, Better grow

of my earnings to The march from Dufferin into give part from 70 level

temperature range dis he would like to see Robert

much heavier as thousantis

Chmadian 1874 covered 2,000 miles, a still the Government atom-bomb traitors to justice, unbroken record for a mounted the force supremely aided the force carrying its supplies. The greatest. Polar Work of Government Westem world. The Second exploits. of the

are matched World War had seen a Provost explorers

eclipsed by

marches

through the thousands of ex- DETWEEN 1890 and 1917, the Corps and BET

Arctic islands,

world's force occupied the rest of members on active service.

Longest police patrol, of 6,153 Saving the Indians molland Canada outside British Further assumption of pro-

Columbia and west of Hudson vincial duties in 1958 left only dog-sled mlies (1917-18), and THE force.quickly drove out Bay with detachments which, Ontario and Quebec and; of the world's first instance of one making the Northwest traders who had made the like others in remote ares), course, nearly all municipalities, hip me

Passage in both directions. 20,000 flerce Plains Indians were (and still are) often with police of their own.

have Eighty-two members doubly dangerous with whisky charged with all the

essential This eightieth anniversary

on duty, and modern firearms. Then it functions of government,

It finds the

force organised in sacrificed their lives

attempting arrests pacified the tribes, saved them won world-wide admiration in headquarters,

12 Operational often in from smallpox and starvation, the Yukon Gold Rush of 1898 and four Service (marine, air without violence,

Those recruits of 1873 were induced them to make treaties with its "effective occupation" and two training) divisions. with the Queen, placed them which removed any chance that The Crime, Directorate at head carefully chosen, largely from

returned the and reserves

Alaska Boundary dispute quarters control two crime, de- Service men, and joined for rather than the 5,000 ferocious Sioux to the

might deprive Canada of the tection laboratories, the Preven adventure

Today's rewards all United States,

.without

rich deposits.

tive Service and the Criminal, meagre pay, bloodshed. only not going to raise her

Meanwhile, It

The South African War called Investigation and Identification are better, but the standard for enforced

enllatment admits only hemline. Sho is not going

Canada's criminal code, Federal 245 members to active service, Branches.

the force, married, physically at British statues and territorial ordin- one gaining the Victoria Cross. aces, as it does today. Besides Mada "Royal" In 1904, the force about 6,000, remains small in subjects resident in Canada and rescuing Plains Indians, began provincial duties when relation to Canada's population aged 18 to 30.

Alberta and Saskatchewan be- of 15m, and the immense 'com-

Old Ways and New came. provinces next year, mitments. though "bluecoals' were поту The Queen's scarlet peralata relieving it of municipal duties for ceremonial and walking out. PROVEN nasels have always In many places,

been retained, and novelties Hilles have replaced carbines. Five Mounted Police squad- But 153 horses, 225 aled-dogs adopted for their usefulness, rons went overseas in the First and numbers of canoes are still The Queen's scarlet, next worn World War, with ex-members used, supplementing

1,026

because the Indians respected it by thousands, including two motor-cars and cight aircraft, on the British soldier, remains molor- because wider world respects major-generals, four brigadier- besides motor lorries generals and two Victoria Cross cycles, snow sedans, ships and it on "the Mounties," and the winners, while 1,208 members motor boats. The force has horse is still valued to develop added anti-sabotage and control police servico dog section and initiative of enemy allens to their normal its own radio. / work at home.

They have organised a "Hate Oklahoma City Association."

Canada's robust industrial life is tellingly illustrated in faw hundred square feet of space; the story of South Africa's mines and orchard country cap- tho imagination: Wax

of lamb from Australia wives mink

models

TJUSBANDS

пош have

on

and the charge killed Dale,

At Pittsbulg Robert was put on probation for six years,

the

I privilege not only of buying plain that Brigadier-General

Headache

coats

Do not wait patiently for your suffering to end.Toke

tablets of CAFASPIN dissolved in half a glass of water, and headache will soon vonish

THREE

Largest Morning

Circulation

GFASPIN

"The Sprati kablet with the big effect

SILENT

but

nico

DEVIEWERS, all women, com-

Frank

published Dorn's just "The Dorn Cookbook" is much too exotle for them.

For example: Strawberries marinated (pickled) In liqueurs, served In whipper! cream, flavoured with sugar brandy and rum, to be eaten with champagne or champagne cock- tails.

HES EISENHOWER

HAVER

MES

is

not

to

buy any now hemlines autumn clothes: she will make

or

I do.

SALESMEN

the now Dominion of in 1860.

ол

the

Canada

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

TAN

{"Don't1 look_round now,

Herbert, but I'm afraid

Largest Afternoon

Giroulation

Largest Sunday Giroutation

· sometiting · rather "beastly dees has happened.”

Subversion Defeated

The strength

of

the

For

un-

I am free. I can travel within

I out

And and question, wherever I go-London, Paris, or New York young women who are making splendid successes of their lives without, for that, being less good wives and mothers.

Exciting-

ŋUT we now have the joy of Dfinding women eminent in many professions. I went to a doctor in Paris last week. She was a woman and extremely pretty. went to the Law Courts. The barrister in the case was a woman.

But if it was merely a caso of trying to do as well as A itself would man-no, that in not be exciting.

The exciting thing is that in our off-time, so to speak, we get the .courtesies

Invariably that men

show to women--and make no mistake about it, thoso courtesies very charming.

And does one have to be an extraordinary woman to be so pleased about being a woman?

What nonsenso) |

Such Fun

N Piccadilly a woman who Lied up, my parcel mid; just "Why, yes, madam, I've Como back from Santiago, Chile, on a long visit to my doughter.

Д

"She is married there and has Ane husband, a lovely house, two American motor-care, four servants....

"And ma

Wo

madam, what fortunde could

make thore! Dream beauty parlours..

setting

and dash, though teleprinters transmit today's Records prove the force's urgent despatches, adellty to its motto, "Maintien Training now involves the to Droit," and to the enlistment world's longest, most varied

course. oath demanding service with police

*A*#first-class affection."

disciplina Cavalry regiments' OMMUNISM'S bold, wide out foar, favour or

spread attempt at Canadian Not only does it nearly always and esprit de corps still produce 4 crusado of revolution in 1910 was defeated "get its man' It performs men who maka

their

duties. Above all. G mainly by the fores, which has many other loss romantic but thwarted subversive elements, all essential duties, down to strong, kind hand still deals out

for Justice

with mercy, winning to this day. In 1920, its juris- filing income-tax returns

bloodless victories and that 'olds `diction respecting the criminal Eskimos.

"The Mounted mado. Ume, tribute, The WAR

pioneers who over all extended

single-handed arrests of armed Police are the best friends Canada, equivalent in area to Europe and desperato Indians, horse ever had."

Tacao factors underile the plus Iraq, the name was changed thloves and cattle-rustlers have

Royal Canadian Mounted their modern equivalents like success which has made the a symbol of Canada, ati Police and

at the unarmed offcer in plain force a

of inspiration to youth and a "me,

code and 'Federal statutes

10

hemoved to clothes who facod: a storm

|Regina "since · 1882, •

Ottawa.

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.

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bullets to capture a bandit in major instrument in the swift The final advance northwards busy Ottawa; the corporal who and orderly growth of a great was launched the next year, fought alx rumerumers, to a country.

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rich

Mich

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ama

there in no time.

Bul, of course!"--bara swelled with pride."I grandmother. Yes, I have an- other daughter who married, a Frenchman and she is very successful.

Jan't it, all tremendous fun! Buch opportunities when one A woman!"

madam. You who remd IAEA And so why should we not exclaim: "1}'s wonderfil

to