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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1936.

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"Joe" Chamberlain Was Born 100 Years Ago Last Month

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THERSDAY, AGG. 13, 1936,

TRAFFIC DANCERS

Because of the tremendous [increase in motor traffic, with a Peter Dawson, Jeonsequent lability at bad spots hig of gecidents occurring, a James Melton, scheme. is being launched at James Melton. Home for the reconstruction of a number of comparatively new Stuart Robertson. Stuart Robertson, roads. An outstanding instance on the .Derek Oldham, is a nine-mile stretch

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is concerned, is that the major- ily of the roads in the urban area were built at a time when the coming of the motorcar was not envisaged. The consequence is that many of the streets are ill-adapted, by reason of their narrowness, for motor drafie. Liability to accident is further increased by the presence of verandah pillars. from behind which pedestrians constantly dart out on to the streets, to the Idanger of themselves and motor- ists as There is a further

the Cecils, the Cavendishes

the and Bentincks, Joseph Cham- berlain founded a poll1- cal dynasty; and It'was the first of those created by the middle- class in our political history.

But there is LI immense difference between the first generation and the second.

Joseph Chamberlain was the architect of his own career; his

'sons inherited the inercase of '

Sir Austen, honest, wooden, devoted, un- imaginative, loyal, had, at one time; seemed to be within reach of the highest place. He missed It; but he has become one of those elder statesmen whom all Englishmen respect, partly be- cause he has put ambition from him, and partly, also, because he is over seventy.

MR. NEVILLE CHAMBER-

LAIN. a post-war product, emerged mainly because there is a heavy Tory declency in men of mature year. Hard, narrow, reactionary, he expresses' to a nicely the mind of the backwoodsmen of his party. He may well achieve the place his father and his brother missed simply because, at the moment.

This picture shows. Mr. Chamberlain → in the four of Commons at the height of his political power.

there is not any obvious alterna- tive.

Joseph Chamberlain's carcer falls into two well defined parts. From the late sixties until the Home Rule split, he was the chief support and symbol of English radicalism in politics. is mayor-

lty of Birmingham was an epoch In municipal history. He cicared the slums: he developed public ownership; he enormously im- proved public health and educa- tion.

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the be entered House of Commons, he took at a bound a vital place, With Dilke and John Morley he formed a inemorable partnership which not only broke the Whig ascendaney in the Liberal Party, but was, in a fundamental way, the prelude to that socialised Liberalism which resulted in the great collectivist- experiments of the Liberal Gov- ernment of 1900,

In those years, he seemed the obvious successor of Mr. Gladstone. Hated and feared by the Torles the preached the then novel doctrins that the rich had social obliga tlons), notable for his pungent crl- ticisms of royalty, fearless in utter

PIONEER

who moved BACKWARD

by

Harold LASKI

ance, the darling of those Noncon- formists who hated Church pre- dominance in education, he seemed likely, as Premièr, to inau- gurate a new age. There were men In those days who felt that his attainment of the highest place would almost open the floodgates of revolution.

They were wholly wrong. Cham- berlain, the endical in dninestle affairs, was always a strong jingo in foreign and an ardent im perialist in colunia) polition.

There was always in him a strong Tory whose radicalism de- rived less from.principle than from a hatred of inefficiency, The man Who had made a fortune when he was thirty-eight was for social re- form because It seemed to him a good business proposition, not be- cause he had ever examined the social foundations of our politics;

When he broke with Gladstone over Home Rule, all the latent Toryism of his character came into the foreground. The twenty years of his active association with the Tory Party added nothing to his stature or his achievement.

He did much to postpone the coming of Home Rule: and it la difficult not to feel that this was, que less to differences of principle than becausè he and Mr. Gladstone never ked nor trusted another.

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((By an irony of history Str Austen was largely responsible for the successful settlement of 1921.)

He had a heavy responsibility for the South African War. His Tariff Reforma campaign was born of a 、vision of a closed economic empire which was then, as it remains now, neither a possible nor an attrac- tive dream,

There is, no doubt, something to be put on the other side. Ho was largely responsible for the Work- men's Compensation Act of 1896.

E dild a great deal to Improve the condition of our sea- men in the merchant shipping service.

In a score of ways he rendered admirable service to the quailty of colonial administration. It la to him, as much as to any man, that

factor which tends to expose NOTES OF THE DAY MINORCA: Spain's British Island

pedestrians to danger, namely,

the absence of footpaths on many of our roads. A striking

An Runouncement has been

example is to be found on Stubbs made in Parliament that the Itoad, with ils innumerable Government will introduce a Bill bends. On the mainland, this

in the autumn to transfer the con- shortcoming is not so marked,

By H. D. ZIMAN

especially on comparatively newtrol of some 4,500 miles of trunk POWERFUL sun and a depressed peseta have combined in recent rods, although there are mumer- roads from local authorities to jous thoroughfares which are the State. The arterial roads of years to draw the British visitor to

congrested with motor traffic. the country will then become | especially during week-ends, on national roads, under the juris- The British governed Minorca me that bis mother's surname had

necessary

minimum

the Balearic Islands.

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Birmingham owes its distinguished civic university. But it is, I think. true to say that once he entered: the ranks of the Tory Party, the original virtue, the creative, Irn- pulse, had gone out of him.

He remained, as he always was. the doughty lighter, the formid- able debater, determined, intenso, the embodiment of energy. He was a devoted personal friend. · Not half a dozen men have surpasseit him, this half-century, as a poliți- cal head of a Government depart- ment.

He had the supreme gift not only of really being its head, but of driving brilliantly a team from which he knew how to exnet with out the need of compulsion the Jast ounce of effort, the last inch of devotion. But in this arrond half of his career one deteris A hole meauer and more Man- Dubyahi than in the first,

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HERE is something trea strident' and, harsh. He became the volee of the big battalions. The men who seemed to embody his ideals, Dr. Jameson, Cecil Rhoden. Lord Milner, were the prophets of bigness for its own salte,

Ife lost all his following among the working-classes. ile lost prac- leally all his enthusiasm for social reform. An England was arising which cared intensely for the ideals of his youth-and he had no part in leading it.

The Inspiration he has left to- day invigorates men-Mr. Amery, Lord Lloyd. Lord Beaverbrook- whom, in the creative perlod of his career, he would have fought with all his formidable combative powers. It is difficult to think of a social cause he represented in those early years for which either of his sons 'stands witness to-day.

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the vital allies he had before 1886 not even Dilke, for years his other self, moved with him. Anyone who compares what seemed possibio for him in the early 'eightles with what he achieved afterwards cannot but feel that the last twenty years of his fe was a continuous regres- ston:"

Some have attributed the change) In him to personal ambition. Am- bitious he undoubtedly was; a man of his powers could hardly be otherwise in politics.

But I think the explanation, les deeper than that in a general way. He was the first eminent man among the radicals to sense the challenge to Victorian England embodied in the rise of Germany and the United States.

The only answer he could see to the challenge lay in imperialism. He never understood its nature as he never understood its cost. When he deserted Gladstone he took the first great step any English states- man had up till then taken to the buliding of those economic ideals which brought inevitably nearer those wars for markets which were the prica for the 'abandon-

ment of Victorian cosmopolitan-

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THEORY of capitalist enterprise on Cobden's model is in- telligible enough; on Chamber- Iain's principles It denied that world-market and the consequen- tial international organisation which were the lagle of capitallam. He helped to set the ideal of empire over agalust the ideal of blow at the one peace. He struck

aspect of economic freedom which.. gave Liberal principles the chance of survival,

from Majorca, and it has special reasons for welcoming Britons.

The British have also left their descendants, as I realised when the first friend I made in Mahon tokl

which no sperite provision for

during the best part of a century,been Thomas (not the Spanish pedestrians has been made. Sodiction of the Ministry of Trans taking it when the bold Stanhope Tomas).

Ic took me over the Casa Nelson, far as dual track roadways are port. The objects of the scheme, seized Fort Mahon in 1708; losing concerned, there is not much which is intended to become opera-it in 1756 by the fault of that un-a two-storied English house (for- scope for their introduction intive next April, are to secure uni- happy Byng who was thereupon merly known as "Golden Farm") of the harbour the Colony, by reason of the nar-formity of layout, surface, light-shot "pour ensurager les antres" on the north

then governing it twice again-from caposite the town. It WAR bere rowness of the busiest streets, ing and signals; a

1782 and from 1798 to 1802. that 1703

Nelson slayed with Lady but in course of time it may width; control of the menus off

Green shutters and lace blinds, Hamilton in 1799, and compiled his become

to make laccess; and strict enforcement of

brief

The menioirs.

Spanish brasswork and white wainscoting, the innovation

now some of the provisions of the Ribbon De-white-washed walls and sash win family who ол

own it hard the hundred-foot thoroughfares velopment Act-which is concern-dows (in place, of the French win-preserved Nelson's Neopolitan bed: where traffic is heavy. Onced with the prevention of glanless dows or casements of Spain) show Staffordshire and Bristol ware and The Chippendale furniture. point which suggests itself in house-building by the side of the the mark of British occupation.

the framed prints of British naval connection with roads which new arterial roads,

The imprisonment of Capt. Kane scene remain as they were left, have no footpaths is the desir

has ustrated a less ngrconble In the Ateneo (the Atheneum Like so many other things in quality of the Spanish Mediterran- Club of Mahon) is a local artist's ability of instructing pedestrians

tendency for officialdom, painting of a British officer of the. of the righthand side. This is developed in a haphazard fashion over-sensitive and over-suspicious, 18th century, resplendent with the to cultivate the habit of walking Great Britain, the roads have an a the practice most commonly to meet the pressing needs of to bring charges of "espionage" or Order of the Bath sitting, with his followed at Home, as it enables rapidly growing industries in "insulting authority," which could wife and seven children round a the pedestrian to face oncoming various places. There was no co-only be sustained before a jumpy very English tea." English had image.

court.

Leven crept into the local dialect; if traffic and therefore to evoid the fordination of construction or con-

the Gentleman of Minorca does not danger of being run into from trol. Even now control is vested.

If, as a British resident has call a spade a spade, the word he behind, particularly on corners.in about 1,300 separate local recently testified in the Daily uses for stick is certainly "stick." Obviously as time goes on in-authorities. The widths and our Telegraph, Capt. Kane's sentence Is The departure of the English inj creasing attention will need to faces of the roads vary in accord- regretted alike by his own country-still regretted in Minorca, and the be paid to these traffic problema. ance with local resources and not mon and their Spanish Trionda in teland administrative dependence The authorities would there with national needs. On 110 Majorca, where he lies in prison, upon Majorca is the more resented. what con bo the feelings in But since Malon is Spain's most fore be well advised to keep miles of main road between Lon-Minorea, where he was arrested? highly fortified naval base han track of developments at Homedon and Birmingham there are. Minorea longs for "tourism" to keringa for its return to British and to profit from experience for example, about 23 types of cross the rather choppy sen that suzerainty are unlikely to be taken Ithere obtained.

(Continued on Page 4.)! separates this analler neighbour seriously ofther in Spain or here.

It is difficult to say that another choice would have made n-vital difference to history. Possibly he might have delayed those ten grim years of Tory rule after 1805. Possibly, also, the social reforms which came after 1006 would have been completed a few years earlier, What, at any rate, his career illustrates is the fact that those who make alliances with Toryism are always reconstructed in its So it was with Josephi Chamberlain; so it is with' Mr. MacDonald and Sir John Simon, - There is always a grim price to be paid by those who desert the cause of the people.

To-day's Thought -------- WAR to delightful to those who have had no experie once of it.

-ERASMUS.