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HARRY VARDON

(Special Air-Mail Service)

LIGHTER SIDE OF GOLF

play golf in his ninety-fourth year is taken as a proof not onl" of American vitality, but also of a sort of personal sanctity.

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The Chlvinstic theory of business

Mr. Jackson in the course of an which caused him to say: "God interesting address to the Bangkok BAFETY gave me my money" (remembering Rotary Club on the subject of avia- the words of Haggai, chap. tion in the Enst said: London, March 28.

verse 8: "The silver is mine and Hurry Vardon, six times British the gold is mine, saith the Lord The problem now worrying opera

tors is whether all should be carried Open Golf Champion, and winner of Hosts") seems to be silently con- 111 1000 of the American "Open doued by the man on the side-walk. in one aeroplane together, or whe Championship, has written & Bright Sargent, when painting his por.ther two or three aircraft. should book, "My Golfing Life" (Hut trait, confessed that he felt him.e used one exceedingly high speed chinson), which touches at length, self in the presence of a mediava. the lighter side of golf, and saint. He actually likened him to St. Francis of Assisi, thus present gives intimate pen pictures of manying us with the strange picture of famous players. Here are excerpts: į

an inverted Foverello.

"A feature of the American j caddie, I noticed on my first trip in 1900, was that he appeared to take more interest in anything that might be going on about him than on the task in hand. I recall that during the course of a round which I was playing at Miami y caddie, to my intense amazemmt, handed mo my clubs and said, Here, hold these. I will go kill á snake for you,'"

In the Hole.

at

Of J. H. Taylor's success Hyeres, long before the whr, Vardon

relates:-

"At the eighth hole, which is a one-shotter, J.H.," having played his too shot towards the flag, was unable to see his ball on the green. As he was looking round about for it he was equally surprised and de- lighted when one of the spectators said, 'If you are looking for your ball, it's in the hole.""

Caddie stories are Vardon's fav ourites.

"An there whe a shortage of club curriers for a tournament held in England recently application was made to the labour exchange, and make-shifts were entrusted with the job. One player landed his ball in gorse bush. On asking his caddie what he thought should be done, the caddie replied, "Yell. Mister,

Monopoly.

and uncomfortable machine

for

mail only, one slower and more comfortable machine for passengers, and another cargo boat for ex- press. In the United States this division has already taken place on heavy traffic lines. At present the policy is to carry all three on one machine on the Far East Ser- vice.

This absurd beatification in days when he no longer keeps his grip.

Wireless has become indispensable on a monopoly that has split itselt! up into many competing parts is to proper operation of these, routes. obviously the outcome of a patient and a word or two about the sys- and sustained propaganda. That em would not be amiss here. Yes- is why his birthday is an annual terday afternoon the Air Orient newspaper feast. But, reading this outward machine arrived at Ran- goon. Immediately Calcutta which faithful account of his extraordin ary career, we find that his colossal it had left, and Bangkok to which capital was on the whole honestly it was going were notified by radio. acquired. The first American multi- This morning the pilot received the millionaires originated in corrupt Bangkok weather report. On, leav land-grants or by the rapid growth ing Rangoon the machine kept in af the great cities growing up into touch with Rangoon until it pick- Then the sky. Then came out of the West ed up Pitsanuloke station.

As soon as the the milway plutocrats, who per- Rangoon let go. petrated audacious frauds on the machine picked up Laksi station, public and their Governments, while Pitsanuloke signed off.

nachines banded acrosa other predatory fortunes originated way are in land-grabbing an a large scale from one wireless station to another and more or less dishonest utility ver a part of the whole route. promotions. Most of Rockefeller's Communication is resumed on about wealthiest contemporaries profited fifteen minute intervlls, and the by stock promotions which, though pilot is thus kept constantly in- not dishonest, did not perform any formed of any changes in weather or in the condition of the aero vital service to society.

dromes.

But Rockefeller's fortune. Was amassed in the building up of a great productive business, from which the whole community derived an aggregate of profits that was many times as great. Beginning Samuel Kier peddled "rock oil" from the time (circa 1809), when

as a panacea for all the ills of mortals, the exploitation of the American stores of petroleum is one

The Future.

In this

On the concrete results achieved in the Inst two years can the future be safety predicted although such predictions may sound fantastic" at improvements made along three this moment! There will be sound

general lines, and the aim of these improvements will be to ultimately to operate a three day service be- tween Bangkok and Europe. This will be achieved by first increasing the number of daily flying hours by flying part of the route at night, secondly increasing the speed of the aircraft, and thirdly by increasing the size and loading capacity of the machines.

I don't think you can use one of the epics of modern industry these things (meaning the clubs). Rockefeller was the imaginative in Had you not better take your hands telligenes which developed a great 'to it?"

nation set and organised its Thought He Tried It, !|

distrib up on modern scientific lines. The stories of his ruthless "In another instance a compell-suppression of petty rivals are al- tor drove two balls out of bounds most all, 23 Mr. Flynn proves, into a wood. His third bull landed grossly exaggerated; as a rule they near the wood. The first two were were bought out at a fair price, quite recoverable, and the player not at their own over-valuations. And the Standard Dil monopoly anggested that the, caddie might|

was to Rockefeller what Canaan have thought of going in for them.

was to Joshua-so that, when Potts Oh, did you want them back?"

was compelled to sell his refineries, said the Ind from the bureau.

pipe-lines, tanks, &c., for $3,400,000, the conqueror uttered a prayer of thanksgiving as fervent as any in day. And in the long years of denuncia-service more and more perfect and the Bible, which he read daily.

It is only a matter of making the' tion, which seemed to him an in justice to one who had an ambi-as traffic increases so will larger tion to, build," not a mere instinct and faster machines be built to ac- for money-making, he thought he

commodate it. knew where to look for consolation.

1

thought you tried to put them there," "

The author quotes a story told by James Braid against J. H. Taylor- Taylor had been playing over Walton Heath,

course, suggested Braid, with which Taylor became impatient. On being left with a certain shot Taylor exclaimed

The whole history of big busi testily,' What should I do here?”.

ness in the United States is pre- Said the caddie, Play a run-sented in this vivid study of the works and days of its most pic-

up.'

"

"I can't play that shot,' said turesque exponent. Taylor rather tartly.

"Well, you jolly well ought to be able to,' replied the club-bearer. 'You've Won Д championship. haven't you?"

THREE BIOGRAPHIES: MILLIONAIRE; SPORTS-

MAN: SOLDIER-STUDENT

ROCKEFELLER'S LIFE-

Dat

STORY OF A LIFELONG

STUDENT OF WAR

At present approximately 300,000 passengers travel through the Suez Canal between Europe and the Far East annually. It is not impossible that some time in the future one out of every ten of those will travel by air. That means 30,000 air passen- gers annually, or 2,300 per month, or 695 per week, or roughly 100 per

Despite all its present shortcom- ings, in the air a great economic work is being quietly and courage- ously achieved.

lifelong study of military, and naval matters which made him for a time the leading authority on problems of Imperial defence and & benefactor to his country. Alter leaving Oxford he became a Volun teer, and was one of the seven offi

Thirty-Five Years, 1874-1008. By dare who founded the Manchester Henry Spenser Wilkinson, Fel- Tactical Society for the study of low of All Souls' College, some tice and also by precept, when he

the operations of war, By prac time Chichele Professor of Mili- became a much valued journalist, he tary History in Oxford Univer did more than anybody else to sity. Constable. 18. net.

raise the standard of military

Mr. Spenser Wilkinson's chroni-education and to bring public spin- cle of his works and days begins ion to bear on the vital necessity when he was eight years old and of preparedness.

heard his father rejoicing at the

election of President Lincoln in 1860. His father, was one of a

and

Inspiration.

Bot

small group of Manchester met.) Germany, not France, was the who, at the beginning of the Ameri rource of his inspiration. Hence God's Gold. The Story of John D.

can Civil War, formed the Union the reverence he felt for Moltke. Rockefeller and His Times By Emancipation Society to express whom he first saw at the opening John T. Flynn. Harrap. 188 their sympathy with the Northern of the Reichstag in 1889, when he

cause. One of their acts was to was the oldest member. warn Lord, John Russell that a

"I saw a face that I shall never For more than forty years (1872 ateamer (afterwards called the forget.. The features were 1814) the name of John D. Rocke Alabama) was outfitting on the grandly sculptured. The firm feller was a synonym for all the Merney and was intended to be a chin vices of "big business." Theodore Confederate cruiser. Much money strength of granite, and from un- lips had the Roosevelt denounced him as a law: would have been saved to the na- der the high forehead looked out breaker, and William J. Bryan tion if this warning of a breach of piercing grey eyes that seemed to stumped the country demanding neutrality had been heeded.

eum me up in a glance without that he should be put in, gapl

interrupting the Olympian serenity Tolstoi said no honest man should

of the mind that shone through work for him, and the ministers

them." who did not receive a share of his huge donations to churches and col-

pleasing sketch of the Three Sir Charles Dilke (he gives a legos said his money was tainted.

Dilkes," phases of the same vivid To-day, partly because of the vast

personality) became his chief asso news of his benefactions, which must

ciate in that shaping of public exceed 750 millions of dollars, he he spent his first long vacation in opinion which was really an almost is not longer the, mark of odium Germany and there picked up in a instinctive preparation for the and obloquy. The saying of one of bookshop an Austrian pamphlet Great War As niet leader writer Carnegie's little millionaires, giving a statistical survey of all for many years of the London dollar may stink, but not a grand the European Armies. He was Morning Post he had his rostrum. (a thousand) has been applied in startled to find that the British and his daily strategic notes on the his case, and the non oles of Army was insignificant in compart progress of the Boer War, & new Augustus has been adopted by the son with those of all other Great thing in journalism, were widely American nation. Newspaper polls Powers have voted him one of the gristeet This was the beginning of that became the first Chichele, Professor. studied. Naturally, necessarily, he Living Americans. His ability to (Continued, on neat Oolumn) of Military History at Oxford.

He was born and raised a Man chester man, but the practical and uncompromising intelligence, which is implied by such an origin and early, environment took an unusual turn, He knew German well and, when at Oxford; where he reed for Classical Moderations and Greats,

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