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NOTES OF THE BAY The Man Who Hated

'A GREAT MAN PASSES

The shame of the world was kept from him as he lay dying. For weeks he had not soen the news- papers nor had his visitors men-

tioned the nubject which was engrossing all Europe. His physic. inns thought he would be happier.

o to cause.

·By⋅

War-Yet Made

NORMAN GINSBURY It Terrible

ALFRED NOBEL, the

famous Swedish scientist, was born on October 22, 1833. The 102nd anniversary of his birth occurs to-day.

and less disturbed if he knew nothing of the

war made in Ethiopia and of the peril which beset his own beloved people, the working Tolk of Britain. So Mr. And the handsome, distinctive Arthur Henderson, who gave the streamlined appearance of the disarmametit, etc. of peace and new 1935 Studebaker trucking that he had failed in his self- makes it stand out from the appointed mission. Or did he crowd. With its sleek, bust feel, somehow that a man of Mr. know? And has he failed? We ness-like lines and powerful, Henderson's perception must have dependable engine, it is a truck realised, though he would not ad you will be proud to own, a truck ready for disarmament. ile must

Nobel was the enigma of the which Inspires a feeling of pres- have known, thew, that he had nineteenth century. An ardent tige that suggests a price much failed to bring security to Europe. pacifist, he was yet the world's But he knew also that his prinel-greatest manufacturer of arma- higher than its actual cost.

ples and his convictions would ments. An eminent practical seme day be cherished by all men; scientist, he found, comfort in that he had laid, and with all the the dreams and ideals of poets. skill of the master craftsman that |- He made millions out of the he was, a lasting foundation on study of warfare. He left mil- which the world will some day lions for peace propaganda and build without fear and suspicion humanitarianism. for years of peace and happínész.--- Pan paa on va bien loin.

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DEFENCE FIRST

mit it, that the world was not yet

to

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He laid the foundations of his fortune by manufacturing an ex- plosive he did not even discover

but he realised, far more than Sobrero, the discoverer, the in- dustrial purposes for which nitroglycerine could be used.

And because of his inventive capacity he was able to improve upon it and to find other more elicient commercial explosives.

Incidentally, he was instru- mental in developing this age of engineering. He made it pos- sible to quarry and excavate on

scale hitherto

CRIME PREVENTION

There can be ne question of the ellicacy of the warning contained In the sentences passed at the Sex- Alons yesterday in the enses of Chinese criminals who added 'violence to the crime of robbery. By this we do not mean to express no, opinion on the adequacy or fund:suacy of the law in such matters, since our observation is merely upon the effect of penalties. They serve as a warning. The law and the enforcement of the law are two very vital parts of this The passing of Mr. Arthur Colony's organisation; and we are

which closely resembled: bal- Henderson, one of the most well served. To make the punish-

Nitro-glycerine made ment fit the crime is one thing; Panama Canal possible. It ex- Nobel considered an

the listite in formula, and which level-hended statesmen of the

infringe- apprehend the criminal is progressive ranks in Britain, another; but the prevention of acts cavated the Simplon Tunnel. ment of his patent. will be widely regretted. He of lawlessness is something else

Blasting under water was un- The parties agreed to bring was a man of deep sincerity.story. In the

known until Nobel invented his the matter to the courts in a so- again.. And this leads us to a

days of the New patent detonator. Nitro-gly called "friendly suit," which one who devoted the latter years West, when ox-teams were draw-cerine was a very wonderful eventually cost Nobel £30,000 of his life to the cause of univer-ing the family wagons into substance in its way, much more and left the Government with

There can be little Columbia, there was a section of was

Northern sal peace.

.Alberta and British powerful than gunpowder, but it the right to manufacture doubt that the failure of the dis- the

unable to replace gun- cordite. country, over-rub by cattle powder because it could not be armament efforts on behalf of thieves. Most of them were fired by a fuse.

No wonder he was temporarily which he spent so much time not allow a very desperate remedy, clians. The law, apparently, did

embittered. Nobel overcame the difficulty Set-backs and lawsuits, how- and energy cast a shadow over as on the American side of the by means of an ingenious device, ever, did not make Nobel swerve the past few years of his life. border where hanging was the pen- He enclosed some gunpowder in from a work which was He was a firm believer in the alty for horse-stealing, and imeri-a small glass tube, placed the more important than the manu

ean bad men invaded possibility of getting interna- Canadian West.

the new tube inside the nitro-glycerine, facture of explosives-the pur- They were not and then fired the gunpowder suit of international peace. tional accord in the sphere of afraid of guol. Guols were a joke with a fuse. The detonating armaments limitation, but he

He had already revolutionised lived to see Britain's defences brought down to a dangerous level in the hope, now proved to be a mistaken one, that the ex-" ample set would be followed by other nations. Deplore the fact though we may, it is a melan- choly circumstance that the nation's influence for peace should to a large extent be pro- portionate to the strength of its armaments. Britain's critics may say that it is evidence of insular hyprocisy to believe that the cause of peace can be best served by the nition being strong on sen, in the air and on

Fodder for the rifles of Ethiopian soldiers.

Munitions, such as these, were made possible by the inventive genius a

unknown. of a man who was born 103 years ago to-day. The world's greatest manu- Mines could be opened up, roads facturer of armaments, Alfred Nobel was yet an ardent pacifist. built, and canals cut at a rate once believed impossible.

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The Vary Idea!

SPEAKING OF GOLF.

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Kelly Tells Of The Hazards And Stances Of His Youth

Edited by Eddie'

IN view of the fact that Hong- kong has just about lost overy interport there is to lose, golf pro, has decided to take Edward Kelly, the well-known

up this game in order to avert' ignominous defeat for the .Colony in every branch of

sport.

He considers that, as the.. best swearer in Hongkong, he has a good start on other golf players.

TWO-UP KELLY. That's what they used to call us in Aus- tralia.

What we don't know about golf wouldn't fill the R.H.K.G.C. Book of Rules

miracles on us. Besides, what The said interest shall be divided kong St. Andrew's Society, and with keeping an eye on the Hong- into five equal amounts, to be ap-attending the Reel Club, he didn't

portioned as follows:

have much time for golf,

or

One share to the person who shall bave made the most important dis- covery or Invention in the domain of physics.

One share to the person who shall have ninde the most important Now, of course, they use the- chemieni discovery or improvement. gutta-percha ball. When we think One share to the person who shall of the golf ball makers, perched in have made the most important dis- the gutter, winding the elastic covery in the domain of physiology round and round and round and or medicine.

In those days we used rougli, three-cornered

square balls, stuffed with haggis or some other non-detonating material.

to the frontlersmen. So the man powder gave the nitro-glycerine mining operations and the whole who was responsible for the adits explosive impulse, ministration of the law hit upon n

art of warfare. He now plan. He announced that he would

himself the task of nullifying the hang any cattle thieves he caught TECHNICALLY, the detonator tories.

dreadful effects of his own fuc- . Sure enough, the next time there was a hanging. There were ably even more important than in industry than for purposes of he laid hands on a suspected Indian was an enormous stride, prob-Explosives are used far moret several hangings in a few days. all-Nobel's later discoveries. It war, but Nobel was never blind The cattle rustlers left that local-paved the way for an era of con- to their dire possibilities. He

ty severely alone thereafter. was not until many months later niso for an era of destruction terror in warfare was realised, struction and engineering, and honestly believed that when their that it was discovered that the only and armaments. vletim of the "Hanging Sheriff"

the civilised worki would recoil The manufacture and trans- in horror and disband its armies. was a 200-pound sack of barley, with a noose around its neck. The port of explosives were at one suspects had been spirited away, time fraught with terrible or locked up elsewhere so they dangers. In the early days FORTY years ago he developed As a matter of fact, when could not talk. The ruse had nitro-glycerine, which is an ofly a scheme for ensuring per- we first took seriously to golf, worked, however! All this is liquid, was stored in tin cans and petual perce which entitles him there were only two of us play- meant to have some bearing on the carried over long distances in to the claim of founder of the ing the game-us local situation. We wonder if it two-wheeled carts.

and St. League of Nations. He left the Andrew. Then we had to give would not be possible to circulate.

On one occasion, when the interest on his huge, fortune of up playing for some time, be without exaggeration, the report land, but it is probably true that of the unhappy fate of the armed wheels squeaked, the driver nearly two million pounds for cause after they made Andrew a had Britain been us powerful robbers who fall into the clutches actually applied nitro-glycerine the furtherance of peace and Saint, he started working the proportionately as she was at of the Hongkong police. We be- as a lubricant! On another oc- science: the close of the Great War, lleve the knowledge of the inevita-casion a woodcutter used it to when her Navy and Air Fleet petty criminal might be n. deler-reins!

ble reckoning which comes to the oil his boots, breeches, and were second to none, the pre- rent to others who contemplate. Is it any wonder that disasters scat crisis in European affairs mishandling people in this ¤reù, · occurred all over the world? In would not have gone so far to-

an explosion in Sweden, Nobel's wards the bank of disaster.

own.brother was killed. Nobel himself was depicted as a cal- The Chancellor of the Exchequer

lous self-seeker. He answered Mr. Lloyd George has an un- recently spoke of the handicap equalled genius for wisdom after his critics by searching franti- imposed on British statesmen at the event, which he loudly pro- cally for a safe, stable explosive. Geneva by the relative wenk- claims on every possible occasion, Since solids could be trans- ness of our defence forces, and and for claiming superior know-ported with far greater facility the point should be pondered British Government, but also of nitro-glycerine in a kind of ledge to that not only of the thin liquids, he absorbed his over by every citizen., To-day the statesmen of the whole world.porous clay called kicselguhr. we are paying a heavy price for Mr. Lloyd George's confidence in and marketed it as Nobel'a. his own acumen is as complete as a mistaken faith in the prac-it is inexhaustible. In the Great safety, powder. Its common ticability of world disarmament, War, as he has sought to show in

Dynamite soon ousted nitro- and it is clear that whatever various writings, he alone was may happen in the international right and he had to struggle glycerine, but it was not so field In the coming months, or stupidity of his colleagues. Telt sure he could prepare some altruist. About 150 Nobel Prizes against the mountainous incapacity powerful an explosive. Nobel British armaments will have to Should there be another war, Mr. thing, which had the power of have already been awarded. be increased with all possible Lloyd George will again be ready nitro-glycerine and the stability Their value varies with the in-

A wonderful game, is golf. aspeed. Mr. Chamberlain knows penser of prescience. At first he

to assume the role of supreme dia of dynamite-and he found it. come from the fund, but this There's nothing like the feeling full well that it will be an ex- gave his fall assent to British another explosive called nitro- bourhood of £9,000 each,

He mixed-nitro-glycerine with year they will be in the neigh- that goes through you when you take your stance, which you usually pensive business, and the tax-policy as recently outlined by the cellulose, which is the basis of

Only one person has twice won carefully wipe the golf bat with it. curry in your poțit pocket, -ami Foreign Secretary, at Geneva. But payer realises that it will leave on second thoughts he has qualified

artificial silk. The mixture n prize and that was a woman, Then you wave the bat aloft and little prospect of his burden be- his approval. He now finds that formed a jelly which was even Mme. Curie, who was given the shout "FORE!" Then you hit the ing lightened. But the duty is someone has blundered-gomeone more powerful thon nitro- prizo for chemistry in 1911, and, ball a terrifle smack, and it sails one from which there can be inevitable

always does--and there follows the glycerine. He called it blasting together with her husband, the through the air and lobs smack in

suggestion that the gelatine.

prize for physics in 1903. escape. The nation's security British Government is to blame. Then he treated this gelatine. More than twenty of the reci-n bit and like to hit the ball four or the hole. Some people mess about and self-respect demand action. It is the country's business, Mr. with celluloid, and obtained a pients have been British, and five times before they lob it in the Britain must be strong enough, Lloyd George anya, to see that a smokeless powder culled bal- they include Rudyard Kipling, hole and go home and tell the wife to give due weight to her words Parliament is elected that will enlistite, which could be used for Sir Ronald Ross, Bernard Shaw, what a great time they bad, but

sure that such a thing shall not military purposce. in international councils. As happen again. That the British

and Sir Austen Chamberlain; wo always were a bit impetuous,

"Nobel," wrote Gustav Strese and wasting time.

and couldn't stand pottering about one writer has expressed it, Parliament should be in auprome

mann, "wanted, the forces control of the League of Nations"

of "But Britain cannot effectively con- activities at Genevi is a novel if THE British Government, nature his own inventive genius "FORE!" fort)

what do you

slout front the realities of the world rather impracticable project. But

which had been working in had unchained to be curbed by You don't shout four-four; you to-day with batteries of ethical the suggestion that, somehow or conjunction with Nobel, soon the restraining power of the Just yell "TORE! It's "an okt.

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afterwards patented cordite, human soul."

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maxims.

name is dynamite.

One share to the person who shall round, and round-all right, don't. have produced in the field of litern-turn over the page, ture the most distinguished work of an idealistic tendency.

In those days we didn't play for gain. We played for the thrill of Finally, one share to the person it. Ah, what would we give to feel who shall have mpat or best pro the smooth shaft of the dormy in noted the Fraternity of Nations and

the abolishment or diminution of our hands, to see the ball rolling standing armies and the formation through the tiger country with the and increase of Peace Congresses. tigers after It, while the caddies

made cads of themselves in the bar birdies twittered in the trees aa These are the wishes of an room at the nineteenth hole and the

they ate their greens.