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MR. KIPLING ON

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ITS PART IN THE NATIONAL LIFE.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1928.

The Middleman.

Sir Percy Bates, Deputy Chair man of the Cunard Line, who pro alded, said he could assure them that the Shipbrokers' Benevolent Society was In "very good health."

The good it did was done by stealth and names were nover men- tioned outside the committee room. Apart from the permanent bene-i claries many temporary grants had been made to assist in cases of special emergency, and those had! included grants for education as well as the clothing of children.

LIVERPOOL ADDRESS.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling, at the annual dinner of the Liverpool Ship brokers' Benevolent Society, held at Liverpool recently, spoke of the

"You may take it as an assured moral uses of ships' passengers and the "world-end habit" which had fact," said Sir Percy, "that no caso been superimposed on the week-end which comes within the scope of habit, and of the part played in the the Society's Memorandum and national life by nerve, which ho de- Articles of Association fails to meet scribed as "the cutting edge of ima quick and confidential response agination which enables us to over-from your working committee come every handicap without too through the secretary." much clamour."

The function of the brokers of "When Lord Howart was your shipping, Sir Percy continued, was guest last year," said Mr. Kipling, that of middlemen in every sort of "he gave you some interesting facta transaction which involved ship- about maritime law as that affected ping. The sentiment of the period freights, But I don't recall that was adverse to middlemen gene- he mentioned a certain saying about rally; they were pillaried from time that maritime by-product, passen- to time as parasites between pro- ducer and consumer, living by their "So many of us guests are pas-wits at the expense of other people. sengers, and so many of our hosts are interested in our passages, that I need not apologise for quoting it.

It runs:

"God made men; God made women, and then He made passengera."

gera.

"This libel la based on the cruel superstition that if you put people into a ship, and roll them round Ushant, by the time they are de canted at their first port they look and behave like nothing on the face of the waters except passen- gera."

There was half-truth there. All middlemen lived by their wits they lived by little clao-but if the use of those wita falled to correa- pend, with useful functions, the chance to use them would not Inst long.

It was a corollary that middle- men should possess certain qualities,| personality, industry, wisdom, honesty, courage, just to name some of them. Where those were held in superlative degree that middleman was assured of success.

He would say to all middlemen: "Know your business better than the next man, or try to; do your business with all industry; deserve

your

He expected this accounted for the way they were treated within human memory, Their cabins used to open directly into the dining saloon, and they were warned by to the full your right to hold the

documenta of notices on the mahogany-inlaid original mizzenmast, which came through principals transactions, and your the table, that they were under the profession in secure for all time. authority of the Master.

But remember your profession will Initials on Turtle Backs. be satisfied with nothing less." "But now," he continued, "that we have imposed the world-end habit on the week-end habit the casa is altered. So long as we passengers muster at boatstation with our belta on, and do not try to alter the ship's course or art her alight, we can do absolutely what we please.

Sir Thomas Royden, Chairman of the Cunard Line, proposing the tonst of the guests, said that for sane Imperialism and whole-hearted patriotism Mr. Kipling was one of the greatest assets the Empire poa- sessed.

He was also one of the most ardent lovers of the sea which this country had ever produced, and he had a fellow feeling for sailormen which must always belong to Д man in whose blood the salt sea also

"And we do," said Mr. Kipling. Prodigious tourist traffic was in creasing. Time and distance only excited it to wider effort; for there was a man present who "expressed ran. his regret to me the other day that he could not for the moment for the moment, mark you--include the Galapagos islands-where the glant tortoises come from-in a tourist Itinerary

"Well, even supposing we may be able, next year, to cruise about seratching our initiala on turtle back aterna, what is the good of ua Apart from our dividend- earning capacity what moral pur- poso do we passengers aubserve in the general scheme of things?

"This-and it is not a little matter. When we are home again, and have arranged the snupshots. of ourselves standing in front of the Pyramids or the Parthenon, we have, at the lowest, realised that there are other lands than ours where people live their own lives in their own way, and acem quite happy about it, and where we have seen and touched the things we have hitherto only read about.

"And when interest in one's neighbour, curiosity about his housekeeping and understanding of his surrroundings are waked and can be gratified in hundreds of thousands of hearts, they make for tolerance, good will, and so pence. And that is to the good.

Ocean Masterpieces, "Much of this good the world owes to those big companies, who foresaw that after the war, people would need a little fresh air and exercise, and supplied It... All we demand of you is to be taken everywhere as punctually as by train; aa cheaply and as quickly an possible; In the greatest luxury and, of course, in absolute safety. Nothing more.

"And that is why some of you here have-like Shakespeare and Michael Angelo-to create master- pieces on approval every few years, ... Even after experience and science have been tried out to the last, it takes nerve to break away and back one's own judgement against the world."

But nerve was the cutting edge of imagination, and nowhere had it proved itself more splendidly than in the Merchant Service. Here they had in daily use the imagina tlon that foresaw, without being overwhelmed, any risk that the ocean might deliver, and the nerve! that dealt with every immediate peril arising out of that risk.

"We know that if our shipping goes, we go; and that fact la per fectly understood by our ill-wishers. We have always accepted those risks as part of our existence."

It was the sea that, from our beginnings, directed our imaginings till our mud-creeks at home grew to be world-commanding ports, and OUT remoteat landing places the threshold of nations.

"It is the sea," said Mr. Kipling In conclusion, "that has given us the cutting-edge to our imagination -the nerve that meets all manner of trouble, with the inherited con- viction that nothing really matters so long as one keeps' one's nerve; and, in that certainty, overcomes every handicap without too much clamour."

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