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St. David and the R c.d Dragon of Wales Patron Saint and emblem of Welsh Na- tionalism

The pictures below show (left) the top of Llanberis Pass and Snowdon, and (right)"

the mining town of Porth.

To-day is St. David's Day. "In this article a Welshman tells the deep 'love of hls countrymen, for hotels

thoir land, how their sense of weakens. nationality never

He remembers the triumphs

PORTRAIT

OF A CHINESE

and the woes of Wales, and MILITARIST

from his exile he says, "By the waters of Dagenham we sat `down and wept."

Welshmen Celebrate

SAINT

Ta

uses to

DAVID

A Consul General is giving him a "tea." No one knows to how much power he may sooner or Inter attain. It is wise, there- fore, to conciliate him, quite regardless of the merits of the .business, if any. If he is well treated ho may remember it at an opportune time-and be rendy with "concessions."

Dehold him, then, altiing in state, almost enthroned Indeed, at one end of the reception-room. He is clad in The richest of silk, and as he regards. the gathering with bland indifference

smolces n Turkish cigarette in

เต

| richly-carved ivory holder more than a foot long. On a little table at his elbow stands a glass of the Lepid sweet champagne served to Buch guests ns do not care for tea.

The militarist ja n man somewhat otist middle

age. with deeply lined ince and straggly moustache.. His

"yes the noticeable feature. They are keen and plercing and you fee! that you yourself and

person in the room is being

Cuffituly ap praised to some calculated purpose.

He spenks several Chinese

incse dialects and Japanese, but no English. His Japanese fluent because, in the

course of several "retirements" to that country following unsuccessful campaigns, he has had ample on- portunity to acquire 1. But there are no Japanese present to-day at the Consul General's "tea" to the milltarist, because at the moment Chinese İcadera are not in favour with them.

the Central Government for

tho

POOR St. David! Once none knows

although to-day, he is up, to-morrow

upon a Lime

never become

*

He

The

HE war between the Gloucestershire, Devon, Dorset, But at least for to-day we will

But neither that nor anything else Northamptonshire, Huntingdon- all strive to recapture the spirit is troubling the Marshal now. He is, daffodil and the leek shire and Bedfordshire are as of old Wales when a poem was as the phrase goes, sitting on top of breaks out again to- Celtic As anyone in North prized above a ton of coal, a song defying the Cent

the world. He has succeeded In day and the Red Dragon Hertfordshire are even more so. ing house and the sound of the portant province under his complete Wales, while Buckingham and was more precious than a board- some time in a certain rich and im- flies over the Eagle Tower

But the biggest joke is to harp more sweet than the rattle control, and it has been thought best of Caernarvon Castle. The count Monmouth as an Anglo- of the churn.

to buy him off. This morning he has Welsh are celebrating St. Saxon clly English" people, I merits of the leek, ant the been rouged out of Chinese bankers

county. of these We quarrel over the respective than a million taels.

received his price, said to be more money has David's Day.

can only smile.

daffodil as a nationai emblem as by the Central Government, or There are speeches, ban-

As a race, we seem to have though it were important.rowe

rowed temporarily from foreign aggregate cost per elementary quets, a good deal of cant, a ing all invading elements into driven from home.

had a great genius for absorb- Meanwhile our people are being the militarist has lost no time in loons. No one can say which. But school child rose from £4 68. in measure of humbug, and ourselves.

salting it away well out of the reach People with the.

of Chinese bankers,

Central 1910 to £13 3. in 1935. This many mutual back-scratch- strangest names are typical

Government, the vagaries of Chinese latter figure, which is the ings. Yet underlying it all Welshmen. Take, for example,

exchange, or other exigencies. For equivalent of about $250 in there is an amazing measure Ablett, to mention only a few.

better than Hartshorn, Brace, Cook and

ho that. Hongkong currency, is informa- of sincerity in the hearts of Welsh miners' leaders.

two he may be down-and possibly out. tive when compared with the Welsh people.

journeys to his city were equal When we were conquered by to one to Rome. $297.55 which was cited in the

Now our ANY other well-dressed Chinese We love our national celebra- the great captains of industry, pligrims travel to Southall, are present, together-with--two Legislative Council recently as tion because Wo are more the Mackworths, Nixons, Han- Hayes, Hounslow, Grays--and or three score Europeans including being the annual cost per stud-nation-conscious

the foreign correspondents, than most, burys, McLarena, Crawshays, above all to Dagenham.

Chinese, some of them in Western ent in Government secondary This is our one opportunity in Guests, Mansella and Norths, a London is fast possessing a garb, cluster propitiatingly around schools in this Colony, and over the year of getting our patrio- host of "alien" camp followers Welsh border around it. The the militarist. Were he out of power $530 in the case of the Central

tism off our chests,

came in with them.

Celtic fringe has become a every one of them would immediately But they were soon absorbed reality round this centre of them have done so in the not distant

repudlate him. St. David, a meek and modest into the national life and people Anglo-Saxon might.

Indeed, some priest of the sixth century, with names like O'Brien, McCall, never swallow us, ful comparison can, of course, would be seriously perturbed McCoy, Potter, Cruse, or An-

But it will past. These are especially anxious to ingratiate themselves, but he is be made when contrasting cle- could he but see the

We may lose our old language. them pleasantly not their heads

He well aware of them.

speaks but he will mentary education at Home with which his memory is put to-day. dignant if you denied that they obscured, but we shall remain when and it opportunity offers. The

drewartha would be most in- but we shall

enough, quite as blandly secondary education in Hong.

According to English history are anything but good Welsh- ever Welsh. Always we will be understand that perfectly and the kong, but the figures given are, books, we were conquered by men.--

different -and-however hushed possibility that he may attain, much none the less, of some interest. Edward I., and I should hate to That was in the good old days. the tones, the old language of known to be perfectly merelless, and

makes them unicasy. power Education everywhere is, natur.disillusion anyone about the Since then our people have be Britain will still be spoken.even the protection of the foreign. ally, costing more and more charming story of the first gun wandering from home. Unconquered by arms, we concessions will not save his enemies

Prince of Wales,

There will be more fervour for have succumbed to industrialism, if he

if he elects an inevitable development in

curtail their activities.

view of the universal tendency

But the fact remains that we St. David in the U.S.A. to-day Our unwanted hordes are pour. Some of them even now, sa tacy regard him furtively and finger the to give better training to the until Lancashire discovered the Wales itself.

were an unconquered country than there will be even in ing over the border, seeking tight collars of their European honest work where their fore- clothes, are weighing the relative rising generation. Britain now pleasures of North Wales and We gave that country Roger bears gloried in thieving cattle. merils of the several steamship lines

to elsewhere. spends close on £90,000,000 per the capitalists saw the commer. Williams and Thomas Jefferson, But even this does not mark

The foreign correspondents are ad- annum on education, the estim-cial possibilities of South Wales. who modelled their constitution; the end of Wales. You can-dressing him through an interpreter. ates for the current year being That was the end of Wales. Yale and Harvard, who founded not obliterate a nation by indus- They hope to discover what effect his the highest on record. So far Now it is only a memory which their education, not to mention trial transference. All that the Government may have upon subse as elementary schools are con- we revive every St. David's seven Presidents of Welsh ex- word Celtic connotes will abide queat events. He is now, it appears,

traction,

with us-its poetry, music, definitely allied with that Government. cerned, there has been abundant Day. We live in the past when

superstition, fantasy and lyrical But just how actively is uncertain. progress. Taking the last quar- and our Welsh Tudors won the Harry of Monmouth was king

sensitiveness,

The Interprelor, may or may not be ter of a century, it is shown that Crown of England.

Whatever our future, each St. In any case the

putting the questions as asked. but militorist merely the number of classes with fifty

BUT despite our achieve. David's Day calls us back to re- waves his cigarette-holder in a series ments in possessing member and glory, in our race, non-committally. He touches his lips of graceful half-circles and shrugs shall be actively busy forgetting an ancient language and an in- Wherever we may be, on that to the glass of tepid champagne and 28 per cent, in 1921, the earliest all this. The London-Welsh comparable literature: a soul day we see the far-off mountains, languidly wipes his straggling mous- year for which figures are avall milkman may have been all for music and a love of art for hear the leaping cataracts, feel sk handkerchiet. He does not like tache with a beautifully embroidered able, to under three per cent. in patriotic last night and dream its own sake-we have fared the breath of freedom upon our the wine, for he is accustomed to the 1936. The number of classes of the land of song, but your badly in the modern age. faces once again and remember best vintages, which he secures with- with forty or more children has milk was delivered this morn-

Industrialism and commerce that we are still strangers in a Hongkong. Moreover, he is anxious out difficulty through English ogents fallen from 49 to 36 per cent. We have avenged the con- have killed our soul and blinded strange land:

lo spil, but refrains because at the quest. The number of schools making

our imagination.

To-day, the exiles will land, moment he is making certain conces In the north, our little country those old folks still left at home, slans to the singular prejudices of the provision for handicraft has

has become a paradise for the telling them how they tried to barbarians. riser during the same period

No

[OTHING is funnier Industrial rich, and in the south celebrate St. David's Day in a HE. Consul General appears and from 23 to 65 per cent. At the

than the way English à grave for the Industrial land that is not Wales, same time there has been a great people love to call themselves derelicts.

We have sold our The sad tale will begin, "By improvement in the quality of Anglo-Saxons. Those two com- heritage, possibly against our the waters of Dagenham we sat will be likewise, the advantage of British education, in material paratively insignificant tribes will, but sold it nevertheless, and in equipment, as well as in would be flattered to know how physical care and in mental cul- their name and dominion has ture. An Important feature in been perpetuated.

or more children has fallen from

For the rest of the year we

down and wept.".

Chloroform Humour

BY A NURSE

or

altered relations with the Central

In

bows with exceeding courtesy. Cer-- of late and he hopes the new power tain interests have been concillatory

deserving persons not in China for their health. The militarist regards the official serenely. If you are obser- vant you will mark something of con- descension in the contemplation. For the Chinese understands the position perfectly, Ho is important now and is being catered to. Were he in obscurity no one would pay him the... least attention.

He follows the workings. of the

corrupt;

the elementary schools is the The Celts were never sub- development of a thew human-dued. They intermingled with ism", which recognises the their Germanic invaders. They necessity of ministering to "the Baw the coming of the Saxons demand of children for a prac-and Danes and Normans and THE atmosphere of the operating A labourer, who appeared, to bo a European mind so easily that their tical and creative outlet to their still speak the language which theatre is generally associated rather henpecked husband, gave vent total lack of subtlety arouses his cen- Other points of was used in these islands before with pain and suffering. Neverthe-by declaring, "Jings, the auld wife vonal, and ruthless as he is, he des-

And, to his feelings when under chloroform įtempt. energies".

rupacious, special note are the co-ordination any of them were heard of.

lest, it is sometimes relieved by will no bother me, noo. She's never place his host and his entire breed. between education and industry, Anglo-Celtic la the right way humour.

happy unless

she's

He believes they all, even as himself, in technical education generally, of describing the people of Under the influence of chloroform blatherin' aboot the neighbours, have each their price. And he scorns and above all in the school Britain and it is strange that many patients become particularly political views, brought a

A youth, who held rather extremn them the more because the price they smile to are able to secure does not compare medical services. Special em- when it comes to the Empire voluble. They lose all sense

of our faces with his remaric, "Ah wish with that paid him. He is more. phasis is now laid on the indivi- this is universally agreed upon. decorum and dignity when uncons- King Kong wid throttle Hitler and Powerful than any of them. dual needs of each child, the

To-morrow he will go to Nanking. cious, and pass some highly amusing Mussolini." There are millions of proud remarks.

of course," apart,

from Another duty to develop its individuality Anglo-Saxons who should be

the slight bul patient crooned one of the ever-present possibility that someone For instance, one clergyman's wife latest Jazz hile. Little did he know may interfere in terms of hot lead. rather than to treat it as merely celebrating this day with us. who was being operated upon amused the temptation he was putting in the This had happened to other less care- one of a group, and special ser- According to one of the greatest the surgeon and his assistants by way of the surgeon.

ful personis powerful in. 'Chinese vices to this end are being authorities, the people of Che-wish, you weren't so like a comedian nounced the taking of a collection sence of strong and heavily armed suddenly remarking, "Georgie, I do A chloroformed evangeliat an affairs, but he is prepared in the pre- rapidly expanded.

shire, Shropshire, Herefordshire," In the pulpit

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