1936-08-13 — Page 6

THE HONGKONg Telegraph, Thursday, August 13, 1936.

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TRAFFIC DANGERS

Because of the tremendous increase in motor frallie, with a Peter Dawson, Jeonsequent Hability at bad spots

Where am I? (Film "Stars over Broadway')

Carry me back to the Lone Prairie The Spanish Lady (Hughes) Limehouse Reach (Proctor-Gregg A little love, a little kiss (Silesu) Nocturne ("Song of Love") (Curran

-Jo accidents occurring, a big James Melton, Ischeme is being launched at James Melton. Home for the reconstruction of Stuart Robertson, ja number of comparatively new An outstanding instance Stuart Robertson, roads.

the Derek Oldham, is a nine-mile stretch on Derek Oldham London-Portsmouth rond, which Molly Picon, was built shortly after the war at a cost of nearly half a million Molly Picon, sterling. A feature of these re .Sam Browng, construction proposals is that provision is to be made for dual

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area were built at a time when the coming of the motor-car was not envisaged. The consequence is that many of the streets are ill-adapted, by reason of their narrowness, for motor traffic. Liability to accident is further of increased by the presence verandah pillars, from behind which pedestrians constantly dart out on to the streets, to the danger of themselves and motor- fists as well. There is a further

"Joe" Chamberlain Was Born 100 Years Ago Last Month

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the Cecils, the Cavendishes and the Bentincks, Joseph Chum- berlain founded a politi- cal dynasty; and it was the first of those ercated by the middle- class in our political history.

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

Joseph Chamberlain was the architect of his own career; his sons inherited the increase of his reputation. Sir Austen. honest, wooden, devoted,, un- Imaginative, loyni, 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.

.R. NEVILLE CHAMBER- LAIN, a post-war product, emerged mainly because there in a heavy Tory deficiency in men of mature years. Hurd, narrow, reactionary. he expresses to nicety the mind of the backwoodsmen of his party; He may well achieve the place his father and his brother missed imply because, at the moment,

factor which tends to expose NOTES OF THE DAY

pedestrians to danger, namely, the absence of footpaths on

Al announcement has been many of our roads. A striking example is to be found on Stubbs made in Parliament that the Road, with

innumerable Government will introduce a Bill its bends. On the mainland, this in the autumn to transfer the con-

This picture shows Str. Chamberinin

In the House of Cominums at the height of his political power.

there is not any obvious alterna- tive.

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Joseph Chamberlain's falls into two well dedned parts. From the late sixties until the Home Rute split, he was the chief support and symbol of English radicalism in politics. His mayo- alty of Birmingham was an epoch in municipal history. IIe cleared the slums; he developed public ownership; he enormously im- proved publle health and educa- tion.

W

HEN he entered the House of Commons, he took at n

bound a vital place. With Dilke and John Morley be formed a memorable partnership which not only broke the Whig ascendancy in the Liberal Party, but was, in a fundamental way, the prelude to that cociatised-Liberalism--which---- resulted in the great collectivist experiments of the Liberal Gov- ernment of 1908.

In those years, he seemed the obvious successor of Mr. Gladstone. Hated and feared by the Tories (he preached the then novel doctrine that the rich had social obligń- ttons), notable for his pungent cri- 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 itz education, he seemed likely, as Premier, 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 radical in domestle affairs, was always a strong Jingo in foreign, and an ardent Im- perialist in eulontal polities.

There was always in him a strong Tory whose radicallum, 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 poltiles.

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

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He did much to postpone the coming of Honte Rule; and it is difficult not to feri that this was due less to differences of principle than because lie and Mr. Gladstone never

nor liked

trusted another.

((By an irony of history Sir Auster was largely responsible for the successful settlement of 1021.) He had a heavy responsibility far the South African War. His Tarif Reform campaign was bom 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. He was largely responsible for the Work- men's Compensation Act of 1806.

HE

E did 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 quality of colonial administration. It is to him, as much as to any man, that

MINORCA: Spain's British Island

By H. D. ZIMAN

here

shortcoming is not so marked, tror of some 4,500 miles of trunk DOWERFUL sun and a depressed from Majoren, and it has special especially on comparatively new

pesuta have combined in recent reasons for welcoming Britons. roads, although there are numer. roads from local authorities to

The British have also left their ous thoroughfares which are the State. The arterial roads of years to draw the British visitor to

the Balearic Islands.

descendants, as I realised when the first friend I made in Mahon told congested with motor traffic. the country will then become

The British governed Minores me that his mother's surname had especially during week-ends, on national roads, under the juris during the best part of a century, been Thomas (not the Spanish which no sprecine provision for diction of the Ministry of Trans-taking it when the bold Stanhope Tomas). pedestrians has been made. So

port. The objects of the scheme, seized Port Mahon in 1708; losing He took me over the Casa Nelson, far as dual truck roadways are which is intended to become opera- it in 1766 by the fault of that in a two-storied English house (for- concerned, there is not much scope for their introduction intive next April, are to secure ani- happy. Byng who was thereupon merly known as "Galden Farm"): the north of the harbour then governing it twice again-from opposite the town. It Wy the Colony, by reason of the nar-formity of layout, surface, light-shot "pour encourager les autres"; on

minimum rowness of the busiest strects, ing and signals;

Nelson stayed with Lady 1763 to 1782 and from 1798 to 1802; that but in course of time it may width; control of the means of

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

to necessary the innovation on some of the provisions of the Ribbon De-white washed walls and sash win-family who now own it have the hundred-foot thoroughfares velopment Act-which is concern-dows tia place of the French win-preserved Nelson's Neapolitan bed. Chippendale furniture, where traffic is heavy. One ed with the prevention of planless dows or casements of Spain) show The

Staffordshire and Bristol ware and point which suggests itself in house-brilding by the side of the the murk of British occupation. the framed prints of British naval connection with roads which now arterial roads.

The imprisonment. of Capt. Kane scene remain as they were left, bas illustrated a less agreeable have no footpaths is the desir-

In the Atenes (the Athenruum Like so many other things in ability of instructing pedestrians Great Britain, the roads have ean, a tendency for officialdom, painting of a British officer of the quality of the Spanish Mediterran-Club of Muhon) is a local artist's to cultivate the habit of walking developed in a haphazard fashion over-sensitive and over-suspicious, 18th century, resplendent with the on the righthand side. This is 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 "en" English has even crept into the local dialect; if traffic and therefore to evoid the ordination of construction or con-

tho 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." The departure of the English-is Obviously as time goes on in-authorities. The widths and sur-Telegraph, Capt. Kane's sentence is creasing attention will need to facen of the roads vary In accord-regretted alike by his own country-still regretted in Minorca, and the be paid to these traffic problems.ance with local resources and not men and their Spanish friends in Island administrative dependence On 110 Majorea, where he lies in prison, upo, Majorca is the more resented. The authorities would there with national needs.

what can be the feelings In But since Mahon fa Spain's most fore be well advised to keep miles of main road between Lon-Minoren, where he was arrested7 highly fortified naval base han track of developments at Home don and Birmingham there aro, Minorca longs for "iourism" to kerings for its return to British and to profit from experience for example, about 23 types of cross the rather choppy sen that suzerainty aro unlikely to be taken there obtained.

(Continued on Page 4) separutes this smaller neighbour seriously either In Spain or here.

make access; and strict enforcement of brasswork and white wainscoting. brief memoirs. The Spanish

¿court,

Birmingham owes its distinguished civic university. But It Is, I think. true to say that once he entered the ranks of the Tory Farty, the originħi virtue, the creative im- pulse, had gone out of him.

He remained, as he always was, the doughty nghter, the formid- able debater, determined, intense, the embodiment of energy. He was a devoted personal friend. Not half a dozen men have surpassed him, this half-century, as a politi- end, 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 exurt with- out the need of compulsion the last ounce of effort, the last Mich of devotion. But in this second half of hits enrcer one detects a note meaner лек more 11. buoyant than in the Art.

HERE is something then strident and harsh, He becam the voice of the big battalions. The men who szemed to embody le Ideals. Dr. Jameson, Cecil Rhodes. Lord Milner, were the prophets of bigness for it's own sake.

He lost all his following among the working-classes. He lost prue- tically all his enthusiasm for soll 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 period of his career, he would have fought with all' his formidable combative powers. It in difcult to think of a social cause he represented in those carly years for which either of his sons stands witness to-day.

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F the vital alles he hat di before 1880 not even Dilke, for

years his other self, moved with him. Anyone who compares what seemed possible for him in the early 'eighties with what 1at achieved afterwards cannot but feel that the last twenty years of -his-life-was-a-continuous-regres-

sion.

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 polities.

But I think the explanation lies deeper than that in a general way. He was the first eminent man among the radicals to sense the challenge to Victorian England embadled 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 building of those economic ideals which brought inevitably nearer those wars for markets which, were the price for the abandon- ment of Victorian cosmopolitan- 15m.

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THEORY of capitalist enterprise on Cobden's model is in- telligible enough; on Chamber- lain's principles i denied that world-market and the consequen- Wal International organisation which were the logic of capitalism. He helped to Get the ideal of empire over against the ideal of peace. He struck a blow at the one aspect of economic freedom which gave Liberal principles the chance of survival.

It is difficult to say that another choice would have made a vital difference to history. Possibly he might have delayed those, ten grim years of Tory rule after 1805. Possibly, also, the spelal reforms which came after 1800 would have been completed a few years earlier. What, at any rate, his career Illustrates is the fact that those who make alliances with Torylam aro always reconåtracted in its image. Bo it was with Joseph Chamberlain; so it is with Mr. MacDonald and Sir John Simon.

Thore is always a grim price to be paid by those who desert the cause of the people,

To-day's Thought- WAR is delightful to those who have had no experi- ence of it.

---ERASMUS,