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Flying By The Stars

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 problem would be to develop and simplify the technique of marine navigation, which go for has been of little value to aircraft on account of the involved calcula- tions necessary to estimate by the sun and stars the position of a_machine_in_flight,

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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 gnd 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 oficials who examined it. In every instance there was always a registration of respect upon those faces.

Every devout Moslem's desire ls 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.

N

OW I had been con- nected with a firm of engineers, which I

Joined in Colombin, South America, and as my work took me to various, other countries.

including America and Canada, I was kept continually on the

move.

Owing to immigration laws- and other difficulties, I WRS leave America. I found myself forced to give up my job and

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

---TALLEYRAND.

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, a comprehensive work, which will show the positions of the sun and stars in a form suited to [the requirements of air naviga- tion, is being prepared. This "Air Almanac" is expected to Accurate tables were compiled create as great a 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.

Yot black sons of Britain word ready to give their lives for her

during the groat 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 life had to offer-a

chance to expand in every way. Where could I And these things? I had a sudden brain-

wave.

1

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

How excited I was: I was going to England-England, my Meccal 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 ail, and what can I do for

you?"

7HEN I told him that I wanted accommoda-

W

tion, his face regis- tered perplexity.

Using the pretext that he would have to take a run upstairs to And out If there were any vacant rooms (what he actually wanted was

own.

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 lady who caters specially for coloured people."

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.

After months of job hunting and frequent visits to any friend "Moses." I squared accounts with my-landlady, and with only a few pennies in my pockets, walked out. As a youngster in South Amerlea I had met with all kinds of hard- ships and done all kinds of jobs-- dishwasher, spike driver on a rail- road. caucho on the

pampas. soldier

of fortune, and heaps of things. So I went out with the de- termination to "buckle down anything which came my way.

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

by

Carl D. WALTER

A native of Trinidad

I

Exchange made inquiries- about a vacancy as garage help.. Speaking to the proprietor of the garage over the telephone the Exchange official made it a point to Inform him, in my presence, that the applicant was coloured, My application was turned down.

A

LSO I came in contact with various Christian bodies who have · "drummed" up a reputation as philanthropists by giving ORL shilings with one hand while they take in pounds with the other. I have seen these people sell religion to starving men at the price of a meal men too tired to stand up after they had once sat down were forced to sing hymns and Isten to "the mercies of God" before they were fed. · No prayers -no foodl

Although there are so many people who make'a business out of religion. I am glad to say that there are a great many genuino- organisations run by honest and sincere people. I owo my thanks. to a number of these.

When England was in trouble in 1914, the echo of her war- drums was heard by her black son. 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 sona are rotting in London. The ma- jority of them are seamen, all · willing to work,

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

'OME people may ask for wonder why we who are dissatisfied remain here in England or, as one hears it every day, "Why we do not go back to our own country." answer is: Because the coloured. man Very seldom admits do- feat. On the other hand, per-- haps it is fortunate that we have not all gone back to our countries. The flame of patriotism still burns strong in those parts of the Empiro where the coloured man. dwells. It would be a pity if con- trary winds should arise. Romem- ber that the structure of this mighty Empire is built up on the loyalty and long sufferance of its coloured peoples1

Friendship with France

The Keystone of European Peace

By Lord Askwith

peace abroad is apparently by pre- aching the war spirit at home.

There is not merely a paradox, but on impracticability.

There is another paradox, hów. ever, which is working out in prae- tice, and that is the success of British rearmament in moderating the com- bative attitude of dictatorship

abroad.

the year 1767)) by the British tion too complicated for every. IN the world of the future we wen day use. There was indeed no

hope that understanding between The people of Great Britain practical method of determining all nations will set the diplomats fare essentially a maritime nation, longitude until the invention of wondering whether they are not like and for centuries they have been the chronometer by John Harri- Othello, their occupation gone. For if we cannot fouk forward to a fu- vitally interested in problems of son in 1735. The chronometer ture of international peace and un- navigation. Greenwich Obser- enables the navigator to carry derstanding, then humanity la in, a vatory, the zero meridian of nccurate Greenwich Time with parlous state. longitude and of "Greenwich him always, so that he can draw

And diplomats, it would scem, are present, we ordinary folk must get

Sardonte commentators who will Time," was founded in 1675 by the comparison between it and not at their happiest beneath un- peace where we ran as the sufferer

be writing the history of these times Irom insomnia -snatches at sleep. clouded altien: Too much peace King Charles II, who was him- the actual sun time at the spot leaves them ill at ease, wondering which is, I believe, growing stronger to make great play with this impres

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 for sive anomaly. They will hardly be did more than any previous rúler ¦ 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 But in the troubled world of the portance is the development of per- turmoil from which we suffer to

manent understanding and unity of British Navy. According to the heavenly bodies, an indistinct

day at Icast, I trust they will es- purpose between Britain and France. cape it-how a development which warrant for the original build-horizon often renders the obser

These 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.

This paradox

has

made itself clear places for perfecting navigation when the height of the eye may tion of the new tables prepared not avert the crisis of Fashoda and and astronomy."

be only from 15 to 60 feet above by the Nautical Almanac Office the-feeling of the Boer War days, to our French friends at Inst, it is Far more sigallicant is the rent profoundly illogical, 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 sea was at that time well difficulty is enormously increased new chapter opens in the history mination as well as the desire of both a typical British compromise with known, but no observations when sights have to be taken of air navigation. By observing countries to "seek peace and ensue the exigencies of the hour.

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

forthright people, begin to under- stand in some. degroo the practical tude. John Flamsteed, the first many thousand feet. To over- or westerly direction, the Navi- Sobering the Dielators

workings of our Astronomer Royal, therefore come this difficulty a special gating Officer of a Trans-Atlantic This is the very strong link which

Blogical British 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 minds we should go ahead together splendidly. The perfide Albion of ing the exact mathematical posi-evolved which in effect provides far he has proceeded on his From that link we must strive to the past will disappear. We shall be tions of the heavenly bodies. an artificial horizon. The prin- Journey, and so be able to powerful chain, which no liked and trusted if at last we are

stress and strain shall succeed in understood. As a result of his labours and ciple is that of the spirit level, a estinto the strength of the breaking. those of his successors,

The the bubble of air in alcohol indicating wind. A similar observation in

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 moment resent being left out of any wich became world-famous and Instrument is in a horizontal will tell him if he is keeping to of the tablentiz, even the tableau of for modern astronomy was born. position.

the proper course.

Ponce, But their way of seeking

It."

I would not pretend that it is easy a logleat race to understand à.

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