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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1986.

WOMEN: A CHALLENGE AND AN ANSWER

These Made Front-Page News During 1935

THE QUEEN, brilliant presence.

MARIE TEMPEST

greatest comedienne.

BRITISH & U.S. LISTS MATCHED

By A Special Representative.

VETERAN suffragette Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, of New Rochelle, N.Y., has just completed an annual task she has listed America's ten most outstanding women of the year.

It's a fascinating game. I tried to produce a similar ranking list for Britain. I chose five, but could get no further.

Mrs. Catt chose for the third year in succession MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT to top her list, thus making her doubly First Lady in the Land,

I did not choose my first selection: she chose herself-THE QUEEN,

Like Mrs. Roosevelt, she takes her place in the list not only by her position in the land, but by her own character,

The brilliant presence who drove through the streets of Lon- don at the Jubilee presented such an incarnation of royalty as the modern world has rarely seen.

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MRS. CATT chose next MRS. OGDEN REID, vice-president of the New York Tribune, who organised a forum at which women heard world leaders spook on world affairs.

My second choice is the DUCHESS OF KENT,... Although her wedding, and with it the wave of enthusiasm she created in Britaja; took place in the last quarter of 1934, she riveted her popularity in Britain this year when, on October 9, she gave Prince Edward to the country the first grandson born to the wife of a son of the King.

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THERE is one woman who is pre-eminently a wife and mother on Mrs. Catt's list-MRS. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH I also have a wife and mother on nine.

I choose MRS. MILES, thirty-three-year-old wife of a lorry driver at St. Neots, Hunts. She is the mother of Ann, Ernest, Paul and Michael, the Quads, who have taken the heart of Britain as the Quins took the heart of Canada.

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N airwoman figures in the American rating-AMELIA EAR- HART PUTNAM, "Lady Lindy," aged thirty-seven, passenger across the Atlantic 1928, conqueror of the Atlantic 1932, conqueror of the Pacific 1935

I, too, have an airwoman-JEAN BATTEN."-

Jean was the first woman to ly the South Atlantic alone. Sho holda the England-Barzil record, the South Atlantic record, and the solo England-Australla record.

Hero,sha is known as the "Try Again"-girl-no-ill-luck, no bad- conditions, no failures can stop her. In South America she is "Cavel del Airc"-"Flower of the Air.”

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MRS. CATT'S Afth choler is a working woman-Secretary of

Labour MISS FRANCES PERKINS.

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My fifth choice is also a working woman-MARIE TEMPEST who has completed fifty years on the stage.

Sho is soventy-one. She was the greatest comedienne on the London stage for twenty years. Then she went on a world-tour that lasted for eight years. She returned to London, and found horgelt a failure.

Within another ten years she had re-established herself. To-day she is still the greatest comedienne on the English-speaking stage.

THAT completes my five British

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names. I said I could not add

to them. I was wrong. There is

one more.

You will rarely, if ever, see her name on the front page of A nowspaper. Yet, she is perhaps the Most Important Person in all Britain. Most of us lean on her | sturdy commonplace courage; most of us are cheered by her con- sistent loyalty, find our pockets' anned by her financial génius.

woman and heroine in one-

YOUR WIFE.

She is wife, mother, working

RUDYARD KIPLING'S FORTUNE ESTIMATED AT £750,000

THE FORTUNE left by Rudyard Kipling is estimated at £750,000-the greatest ever left by an author."

years.

JEAN BATTEN.

ignores failure.

MRS. ANNE LINDBERGH.

MISS FRANCES PERKINS.

IRS ROOSEVELT

MRS. OGDEN REID.

WORLD'S TOURIST TRADE DROPS BY TWO-THIRDS

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Geneva, Feb. 1. DROP of two-thirds in the total volume of the world's tourist trade in the five years 1929-34 is reported in a League survey just published at Geneva.

1929 tho Ιπ

world "touring:"

·£340,000,000 on 1084 this figure had fallen to £113,000,000.

THE DUCHESS OF KENT; ever-popular.

MRS. MILES

mother of quads.

A British Colony Trying To Make Granite Out Of Mud STRANGE things are

happening in a British possession tuck- ed away in a corner of South America.

SALARIES OF THE FAMOUS

CABinet MiniSTERS WHO ARE UNDERPAID British Guinna, our only fool- If the Government adopt the hold there, a country about the size suggestion to be made at next of Great Britain with a population week's meeting of the National of 300,000. is grappling with Farmers' Union that the Minis- defcit of £86,200.

ter of Agriculture should be paid And at the same time this hardmore, Mr. Walter Elliot will rise up Crown Colony is becoming the from the ranks of those Minis- oceno of a gold rush!

ters who are now paid tha

out

While British Guiana is trying Cabinet minimum salary of £2,000

novel assartment of a year. revenue-producing ideas, men Five of his colleagues are on are Halling and flying to her shores in search of gold.

I the minimum with him-the Minister of Labour, the President Meanwhile, here are a few of the of the Board of Education, the aldelines that the colony in develop-First Commissioner of Works, the Lord President of the Council, ing.

and the Secretary for Scotland,

Rosearch workers in the London; Iaboratories of a frm of cement manufacturers were recently called on to analyse a consignment of mud from British Guiana,

Most of the others get £5,000 a year, including-an First Lord of! the Treasury-the Prime Minis ter. The highest paid of all is Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chan- cellor, with £10,000, but of this £0,000 is paid to him as a Judge The research workers did not and only £4,000 for his services is associate their strange consign-Speaker of the House of Lords. ment with a flight that is now going Captain Fitzroy, the Speaker of Jou there to wipe out her deficit. the House of Commons, gets

Experiments

Neither did a famous firm of Covent Garden fruit importers con- nect the arrival of a sample crate of bananas from British Guiana with a crisis in thai colony.

£5,000.

Politicians often complain that members of the Government are will underpaid. Their salaries certainly not bear comparison with the earnings of, famous, in- British Guiana has for the 135dustrialists and leaders of com- years of its existence been famous merce. (chiefly for dta Demerara, sugar,

Falling prices of that commodity have made it turn to other sources of revenue.

Two former Chancellors of the Exchequer, Sir Robert Horne and Mr. Reginald McKenna, are now far better off than they were when sitting on the Treasury Bench. A Mr. G. 0.. Case speculated in addition to his chairmanship of Sir Robert has many interests upon the nature of mud that was the Great Western Railway, and being dredged from the Demerara it has been River.

He experimented with it and discovered it could be converted into a substitute for granite.

Mr. Case mentioned the matter to Sir Geoffrey Stafford-Northcote, Governor of British Gulana,

The Governor, on receipt of favourable reports from the London analysts, appointed an expert com- mittee, to see to what extent that deficit of £80,200 could be met with

calcined mud.

Then camo news to the Governor of the attempt to grow bananas.

Again the man who is leading the fight for prosperity areal 10 Whitehall and Covent Garden, 4.000 miles away, to give British Gulana bananas a trial.

estimated that his directora fees total £25,000 a year, compared with the £6,000 he ceived when Chancellor.

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Mr. McKenna, apart from other interests, receives £15,000 a year, tax free, as chairman of the Mid- land Bank.

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Gigantic Figures Gigantic figures are associated

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Cadman, head of the Anglo-Per- slan Oil Company; and Sir Eric Gedden, chairman of Dunlops and Imperial Airways. It has boon of these three men must be more stated that the combined earnings than £50,000 a year.

An experimental shipment

gion spent British Guiana timbers followed.

Gold Rush

in

The greatest part of the declino was the result of internal condi- tions in the United States and the devaluation of the dollar. Thus

Canada.

estimate, If It is true, as was once This scoms to be a very modest

stated, that Sir Harry M'Gowan of alone gets something in the re- of £30,000 from various до д Bourcea. He started life Glasgow office-boy at us, a week.

The Church of England has And, how, the country that so some well-paid posts at the top., sorely needs money is fast becom- The Archbishop of Canterbury, ing the scene of a gold rush. for instance, gets £15,000. The Americans, Swedes, and Germans Bishop of London comes next with

Americana, who spent £102,000,000 are following hot, foot on the trail $10,000, and he is closely followed abroad In 1929. spent only of Englishmen. who have recently by the Archbishop of York with acquired concessions to pek gold there are heavy outlays which £0,000. In these cases, however, £13,000,000 in 1984.

over an area of 168 square miles. materially reduce the actual in- Franco Hard Hir

Gold mining plant was recently come. His books have sold stondily all no cheap editions have over been Among the countries hardest bit lauded in British Guiana.

But for really astronomical over the world for forty-five published he would not allow it by the slump, were France and

Sir Walter Raleigh, 500 years Sir John Simon was in the heyday figures one looks to the Bar. When "Kim" For The Nation The Jungle Book" alone presented to the British Museum

In 1925 Mr. Rudyard Kipling In 1929 tourists In France ago, was convinced there was gold of his practice shortly after the brought him a revenite of more the

spent - £66,000,000, more than there. He was right, but British war his fees were said to total than £10,000 a year.

autograph manuscript, of

French tourists in other coun

Guinna gold has been neglected from £50,000 to £75,000 each year, "Kim," probably the greatest of tries; in 1934 this figure had because of its comparative in- In one year (1024) the total was his longer works, and another

accessibility"

said to be approaching £100,000. ; volume of autograph poems.

dropped to £19,000,000.

British Gulada las recently Compare this with the £8,000, He desired that the gift should. Great Britain came off compara- {solved that problem by building two which Lord Howart now receives not-be made public till after his tively well. In 1930 the heavy roads, one extending 126 miles and as Lord Chief Justice. Lord death

de expenditure of British tourists the other branching from it for a Hewart was himself once a prac- Both volumes were accepted by abroad was almost equalled by: distance of forty-five miles, i tising. barrister. When,

as Sir the trustees, and now have been that of foreign tourists in Britain. ⠀⠀ Those roads, bulit at a cost of Gordon Howart, he was Attorney- placed on exhibition in the Gron. In 1984 the adverse balance was 4150,000, lead to the heart of the General in 1920-21, his fees were ville Library.

still less than £1,000,000.—Router. | principal gold bouring arons. said to total $29,990.

poetry is so widely read that, for instance, between 100,000 and 160,000 copies of his volumes have been gold every year in the United States for a quarter of a contury.

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