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Flying By The Stars

I Was Proud to be British, but

My Welcome

was BLACK!

SHALL always remember the thrill I received when my passport was issued to me. By gad! I was proud of it— proud of being British.

I have travelled extensively, and it was always my greatest pleasure to produce my pass- port and to watch the faces of the officials who examined it.

In every instance there was always a registration of respect upon those faces.

Owing to the remarkable development of long distance flying during the past few years, the problem of air-navigation has become increasingly im- portant. At present the chie. methods by which a pilot can discover his position are, firstly, [by "dend

" reckoning,' and, secondly, by wireless directional [signals. As the former method is sometimes Inaccurate and the latter restricted in range, the necessity of discovering new methods has been apparent ever since the aeroplane first became a factor in world transport. In Great Britain it was held that the best means of solving the

OW I had been con- problem would be to develop and

nected with a firm of simplify the technique of marine |

engineers, which I navigation, which so far has joined in Colombia, South been of little value to aircraft on America, and as my work took

Every devout Moslem's desire. is to make a pilgrimage to Mecca. That is the way I had always felt about England. So, when an opportunity came my way to come to this country I jumped at it.

This is how it happened.

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THE CASE OF THE

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WIN RICARDO

CORTEZ TRAVIS

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JANE BRYAN

GRAID REYNOLDS

CARLYLE MOORE, Je."

GORDON ELLIOTT Aironed by Wm. Skebaka

Art P

COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS".

EVERYWHERE

tions necessary to estimate by the sun and stars the position of a machine in flight.

including America and Canada, I was kept continually on the

move.

Owing to immigration laws and other dimeuities, I was. forced to give up my job and cave America. I found myself being called upon to make a sudden decision.

Where should I go? Every prosperous country had

To-day's Thought-

I KNOW where there is more

wisdom than is found in Napolcon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come -in public opinion.

---TALLEYRAND.

Yot black sons of Britain were ready to give their lives for her during the great war.

tightened up its Immigration laws. Others were in the throes of depression or in a state of political turmoll. Opportunities In my own country were ex- tremely doubtful.

I wanted stability after the years of hectic living. I had a craving for the finer things which He had to offer-a chance to expand in every way. Where could I find these things? I had a sudden brain-

wave.

I took train to Montreal, then bought a steamship ticket for London.

How excited I was: I was going to England-England, my Mecca What a farce!

Aboard the ship (British) I enjoyed a state of splendid iso- lation-a table tucked away in A corner and so on.

Upon my arrival in London I went to a young men's hostel, where I was welcomed by the secretary, who was the essence of politeness;

Good evening, brother," he says, rubbing his hands to- gether in a manner which says so much yet means nothing at all, and what can I do for you?'

W

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WHEN I told him that I wanted accommoda- tion, his face regis- tered perplexity. Using the pretext that he would have to take a run upstairs to find out If there were any vacant rooms (what he actually wanted was

sufficient time to compose his features), he scuttled away. He was back in "arf a mo"- rubbing his hands again and dripping apologies.

"Sorry, I can't do anything for you, brother; but, I can give you a card with the address of a indy who caters specially for coloured propic."

As a rider, he added in a very significant manner: "I feel quite sure that you will be comfortable there,"

T

HERE came a time.

when I was compelled to find cheaper lodg- ings than those my worthy friend recommended to me.

Day after day I roamed the West End of London, knocking at every door where there was an "Apart- ments" sign, only to be told "Sorry, room's let," or "We do not take coloured people." One woman actually slammed her door with- out answering my request.

Eventually I secured rooms in a back alley in the East End.

by

Carl D. WALTER

A native of Trinidad

Exchange I mado Inquiries: about a vacancy as garage help.. Speaking to the proprietor of the garage over the tolophone- the Exchange official made it n. point to inform him, in my prescrice, that the applicant was coloured. My application was turned down.

A

L90 I came in contact. with various Christian bodies who have "drummed up a reputation as philanthropists by Kiving out. shillings with one hand whe- they take in pounds with the other.

I have seen these people hell religion to starving men at the price of a meal-men too tired to stand up after they had onco sat down were forced to sing hymna and listen to "the mercles of God " before they were fed. No prayera -no food)

Although there are 80 many people who make a business out of religion. I am glad to say that. there are a great many genuine. organisations run by honest and sincere people.. I owe my thanks. to a number of these,

When England was in trouble in. 1914, the echo of her war.druma was heard by her black sons. They didn't know what it was all about -they only knew that the Mother- Country was in a tight corner and needed help. They came in their thousands and gave their lives.

To-day some of those black sons are rotting in London. The ma- jority of them are seamen, ali willing to work,

There are palatial buildings hi the East End of London specially for British seamen. It may in- terest some people to know that. coloured seamen are debarred from entering them.

'OME people may ask (or wonder why we who ́are dissatisfied remain

After months of jab hunting and frequent visits-to-my-friend-here in England or, as one hears

'Moses," I squared accounts with my landlady, and with only a few ponnies in my pockets, walked out. As a youngster in South America I had met with all kinds of hard- ships and done all kinds Jobs-- dishwasher, spike driver on a ralt- rond, gaucho on the pampas, soldier of fortune, and heaps of things, So I went out with the de- termination to "buckle down "to anything which came my way,

dis- It was at this period that covered certain things,. The most mental jobs were too good for a man of colour. Through a Labour

Why we do not go it every day, back to our own country." The answer is: Because the coloured. 1701 very seldom admits de-. fcat. On the other hand, per-- haps it is fortunate that we have not all gone back to our countries. The fame of patriotism still burns strong in those parts of the Empire where the coloured man. dwells. It would be a pity if con- trary winds should arise. Remem- ber that the structure of this mighty Empire is built up on the loyalty and long aufferance of its coloured peoplesl

Friendship with France

the year 1767)) by the British tion too complicated for every-TN the world of the future we may The Keystone of

European Peace

·

peace abroad is apparently by pre- nching the wat spirit at home.

There is not merely a paradox, but an impracticability,

At the request of the Air Ministry, the Astronomer Royal, Head of Greenwich Observatory, undertook to carry out this vitally important work, and it was announced recently that the first of a series of tables was ready for publication, by means of which an air pilot should be able to plot on his chart, a “posi- tion line" (on which his machine must lie) within three minutes of taking an observation. Also, ja comprehensive work, which will show the positions of the sun and stars in a form suited to the requirements of air navigs- tion, is being prepared. This "Air Almanac" is expected to Accurate tables were compiled create as great á revolution in that materially advanced the aerial navigation as its fore- science of navigation and, at the runner, the famous "Nautical beginning of the 18th Century, Almanac." did in marine naviga- it was possible to determine tion, on its first publication (for longitude, though by a calcula- Government.

day use. Thero was indeed no The people of Great Britain practical method of determining all

hope that understanding between are essentially a maritime nation, longitude until the invention of wondering whether they are not like nations will set the diplomats and for centuries they have been the chronometer by John Harri- Othello, their occupation gone. For

Thero another paradox, how- vitally interested in problems of son in 1735. The chronometer ture of International peace and un-

ever, which is working out in prac tice, and that is the success of British navigation. Greenwich Obser- enables the navigator to carry derstanding, then humanity is in a

rearmament in moderating the com- vatory, the zero meridian of accurate Greenwich Time with parlous state.

bative niiltuda of dictatorship longitude and of "Greenwich him always, so that he can draw

And diplomats, it would seem, are present, we ordinary folk must get abroad.

Sardonte commentators who will Time," was founded in 1675 by the comparison between, it and not nt their happlest beneath un-pence where we can as the sufferer

from Insomnia snatches at sleep.

be writing the history of these times King Charles II, who was him the actual sun time at the spot leaves them at case, wondering which is, I believe, growing stronger to make great play with this impres

skies. Too clouded

much peace Anglo-American understanding in fifty years from now, will be able self a scientist and who probably where the ship happens to be.. what has happened to the world. every day, Is of vital importance far sive anomaly. They will hardly be did more than any previous ruler As the line of the horizon is Perhaps they live in a world of their the future of humanity. Not less im- able to understand, not living in the for the development of the used in taking sights of the

per turmoil from which we suffer to- portance in the development But in the troubled world of the manent understanding and unity of day at least, I trust they will es British Navy. According to the heavenly bodies, au indistinct warrant for the original bulld-horizon often renders the obser-

purpose between Britain and France, cape It-how a development which There countries were allies during by all the theories ought to have Ing, his express purpose was "the vation too inaccurate to be of With the introduction of this the Great War. But they were allies brought war closer, In fact averted finding out of the longitude of any use, even on board ship instrument and with the publica- in the Crimean War, and that did its looming shadow. places for perfecting navigation when the height of the eye may tion of the new tables prepared the ill-feeling of the Boer War days. to our French friends at Inst. It is not avert the crisis of Fashoda and This paradox hon made itself clear and astronomy."

be only from 15 to 60 feet above by the Nautical Almanac Office For more signiscant is the real profoundly filogical, and yet it The method of finding latitude the level of the water. The under the Astronomer Royal, a mutuality of to-day, in the deter-works. In other words, it is British, at sen was at that time well difficulty is enormously increased new chapter opens in the history mlaation as well as the desire of both a typical British compromise with known, but no

countries to "seek peace and ensue the exigencies of the hour. observations when sights have to be taken of air navigation. By observing

Once the French, that logical, existed for determining longi- from an aeroplans nt a height of the sun or a star in an easterly

forthright people, begin to under- tude. John Flamsteed, the first many thousand feet. To over- or westerly direction, the Navi- Sobering the Dictators

stand in some degree the practical Astronomer Royal, therefore come this difficulty a special gating Oficer of a Trans-Atlantic

workings

illogical Drillati This is the very strong link which began the laborious work of fix- type of instrument has been air liner will be able to tell how binds Britain and France to-day. plendidly, he once together perfde Albion of link wa muat strive to the past will disappear. We shall be ing the exact mathematical post-evolved which in effect provides far he has proceeded on his From that tions of the heavenly bodies, an artificial horizon. The prin- journey, and so be able

forgo a powerful chain, which no lked and trusted If at Inst we are to stress and strain alall succeed in understood. As a result of his labours and ciple is that of the spirit lovel, a estimate the strength of the breaking. those of his successors, the bubble of air in alcohol indicating wind. A similar observation in The various dictators who are Human Contacts National Observatory at Green when the horizon arm of the a northerly or southerly direction crowding the scene of history at the wich became world-famous and instrument is in a horizontal will tell him if he ls keeping to of the tableaux, even the tableau of for

moment resent being left out of any modern astronomy was born. position.

the proper course.

Peace. But their way of seeking

if we cannot look forward to a fu-

own.

By Lord Askwith

of our

I would not pretend that it is easy (Continued on Page 4.)

a logical race to understand D

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