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SIR WILLIAM HORNELL AT

ROTARY CLUB.

ROMANCE OF TRADE.

.!

TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1931.

hold in Imagination of the human motives which make history,

Love and Hunger.

Roughly, of course very roughly, you may say of man that his wars and his main migrations on this planet are ruled by the two great appetites which rule the emotions of the lower animals love and

So.ne lumber hunger instinct in man to do his

If, ander love, we include

cocks? Would you not like to son one of the bills of lading; to have In picturo of the quays as the veasala loaded and unloaded their cars 7 Would you not like to read Д do- acription of that lumber camp on Lebanon to which Solomon sent 10,000 men a month by courses "a month they were in Lebanon and two months at home and Adoniram was over the levy." camp!

Famous Tin Islands, beat for his mate and children The romance of old trade was

Then again, where lay the famous (which includes patrimonios and eloquently ch imaginatively tin islands, the Cassiterides? How marriage portions), we get love and dealt with by the President of the were the great ingots of Cornish tin hunger combined and doubled in Hongkong Rotary Club, Sir Wil- delivered down to the const and driving power. Unlike the brutes,

man will also war for religion liam Hornell, at yesterday's week shipped on to Marselles, Carthage do not forget the march of the ly athering at Mesars. Lane Tyre We know that the ingots Crawford'a restaurant under the were shaped pannier-wise and were tosiems, or the Crusades)

of enrifed on ponies, but where was the get the Pilgrim Fathers). How-

the emigrate for religion (I d title of "The Commerco

Island of letis where they were Thought."

fonded on ships? Our latest ever, I take it that the immediate The chate was taken by the Hon. theorists won't allow us to hellere cause of a Pilgrim Father's sail-

to Ing. Mr. S. W. Tao, who announced that that the island was St. Michael's

that authority, Amerien was Mr. Van Schreven. Dutch Consul. It., in Cornwall. They tell made the satisfaction of hunger finding him obnoxiolia at home, was present as a guest.

that it was possibly the Isle of Addressing the gathering, Mr. Wight, but more probably the Isle love and the parental instinct Im Schreven expressed his appreciation of Thanot. If these Professors did possible for him save on condition of having been given the oppor-not suffer from sca-sickness how of his renouncing his faith, which Lunity of being present.

much simpler the hypothesis would he would not do." Mr. Tan then announced that Mr.be. Imagine/the old Cornish mer- B. Wong Tape, who, as reported at chant taking whole trains of ponies the fast meeting. In suffering from laden with valuable are along the pleurisy, had been taken to gospital, entire

south coast of England,

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Fraulein Milana Jank, acted Alpinist, photographed at the start of hazardous ski climb over Mount Baker. She was the first woman to accomplish the feat.

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and the latest report was to the ef-through dense forests and marnul- ware at fect that he was progressing asing tribes, to ship his favourably as could be expected. Thanet, when he had half a dozen Sir William Hornell said Mr better ports at als door? But the Chairman, fellow sufferers in the absurdities are endless and we will eause of Rotary (laughter. ? am not pursue them.

Bush merely A stop-gap. Mr.

What commerce followed the eut- should be speaking here to-day ting of Rome's great roads; that about the Y.M.C.A., but he is in-tremendous road, for instance, hewn close over the disposed, and at very short notice along the cliffs

and

do not for-

Neither do I forget, indeed it will be my business to remind you before I have done, that hundreds of men left their and thousands homes and countries for the sake of learning. There lies the origin of the great universities. But here to again you will find it hard separnte, at all events from the 13th century onwards, the pure ardour of scholarship from the worldly ad- vancement to which it led. Fur ther, though men may migrate for the sake of learning. I do not re- member to have heard of their making war for it. On this point they content themselves with call- ing each other names,

To cut this part, of the negument short, I take it that the great majority of us who come to the East came here because we thought that we would earn an earler or a better living here than at home. may perhaps venture on the state- ment that at lenst some of the single indies who come out Eust come either to marry or to better themselves by some less ambiguous process (Lauristers)

Women or Money.

You have all heard of the Battle of Marathon-one of the decisive battles of the world. The victory of a small enlightened Greek race over the dense hordes of the ob scurantist East. But Herodotus. the most readable of all historians, apes not see it like that; he handles and the whole quarrel na balanced started on a trade dispute. Which was it first-Enst or West-that, coming in the way of trade, broke the rules of the game by stealing away a woman? Jason sails to Calehis and carries off Medea with the gold; Paris sails to Sparta and abducts Helen-both ladies con senting-(Laughter).

Always at the root of the story na Herodotus tells it, we find commerce, coast-wise trading, the game of marriage by capture. It is open for us to believe that Troy was besieged for ten years for the sake of a woman, but if you ask me if

believe that the Trojan War happened in this way. I am con- strained to say that I do. not... 1 suspect that there was money in it Homewhere. (Laughter).

There is a legend, I think in the Roman Historian Suetonius, who had a nasty mind, that Caesar first invaded Britain for the sake of its pearls-a disease of which British

I was asked by the Chairman of the rapids which swirl through the

of the Danube? By oysters have since creditably got Programme Committee to step into iron gates

What rid. Of course, nowadays we sock

gold fields; We are far

the breach. All I have been able what tracks and through

too

your

to do is to throw together a few depots did the great slave tradicaltruistic. But even now, one scema observations which are neither of wind up out of Africa and reach the value nor interest.

market at Constantinople? What to hear sometimes the whispered A distinguished Professor of sort of man worked goods down the advice of Tennyson's Northern poetry once said in the course of Rhone Valley, and If by water, by Farmer-Doant thou marry for

How did the manny, but gon wherr nunny is." a Jecture at Cambridge that the what contrivance?

Old Trade Houten. most fascinating of all books were Crusaders handle transport and

let Money! Yes, but those which had never been written commissariat? Through and along

on thuse old My wish is as it was also hawhat line of intermediate ports

imaginations play that Professor So and So would Venice, Genoa, Seville, ply their trade routes and you will not only write a bistory of trade routes from immense ventures? Who planted enhance your hold on the true

the vineyards of the earllest times.

Bordeaux, springe of history, you will wonder. You have doubtless heard that Madeira, the Rhineland, and from fully seize the romance of it. You British oysters from Richborough what stocks? Who and what sort will see, as this little planet revolves Roman dinner of man opened an aloe market ir back out of the shadow of night to

Socotra? Why and on what in parties under the Empire: don't you want to know how that long stance and how did England and meet the day, little threads push-

Ing out over its black spacesw Flanders come to supply Europe,

ships on wide Journey was contrived

of emigrant waggona, oysters: how they were kept alive? the one with wool and the other trains I do! You remember the navy off with fine linen and naperies?

pioneers, tribes on the trek, men Tarshish, which came once every If we could answer these ques-extinguishing their camp fires and three years and brought Solomon tions we should understand history: ahouldering their packs for another gold and silver, ivory, apes and pea- by which I mean we should take

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