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F you were asked to in work or personality, impervi- Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

Now, where do your Napo- humour. leons and Drakes come in?

THE "VERY: IDEA":

THE RACE WENT TO

THE FLEET

ALL THE COLONY NOTABLES

WERE AT HAPPY VALLEY TO SEE EDDIE KELLY

By Ed. "Horse's-Neck" Kelly

W

JE were out at Happy

Valley on Saturday. Doubtless you saw 18 there. We were the chap with the pockets stuffed full of bank-notes.

We had a bit of trouble with Sir Vandeleur Grayburn and the Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson, who | are in charge of the parl-mutuel.

There was nothing mutual about their financial dealings with us.

We were also disappointed when we went into the bar for a noggin or two. The bar-tenders were really quite ordinary.

According to the Race Pro- grammes the stowards should have included people like Sir Percy Noble, Sir Charles Little, Major General Bartholomew, Commodore Dicken, and Sir Atholl MacGregor. They didn't

serve us once..

They weren't too liberal with their drinks elther. Even appointed Major Hogg and. Captain Bowden as Oficial Measurers to ace that WO didn't pour out more than a nip.

We notice that the record for the 1% mile is 2.56%. We put our money in the first race on a horse that easily broke this in the first race that he was able record. He got so far behind

to canter home the winner of the second event.

from the horse's mouth,

We got a lot of information

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1930.

NO TIME FOR

choose the 20 greatest ous to time."

The saint with a sense of CONFLICT

people-men and women

Worker among the -who had ever lived whom

poor, the needy, the lepers. Took There was open talk in London would you elect? A throng

no thought for the morrow! of a rift in

founded two Orders at a huge the British

of names rushes to your Cabinet over tho

It's an open enough subject, plenic; started on week-end;

a crusade mind: Napoleon (always the Heaven knows, but my choice without an army. Jested with and when London speaks 80 frankly of the intimate affairs first!), Alexander, Elizabeth (set out chronologically) is:

the fire that was to put out his eyes. First man to call the of state the Empire and the Tudor, Drake, William the

Akhnaton (1375 B.C.)

animal world "brother." Spent world are bound to pay atten- Conqueror 1066, that hero tion. There is real reason for Sydney Carton, no, he was

Pharaoh of Egypt, Amenhotep his eloquence on the birds who concern. It cannot be, as too in a book, Shakespeare, of IV. First man in history to be hushed to hear him. many cynies are apt to express

Genghiz Khan (1162-1227) it, "just press talk." The Lon- course, and, er, Mussolini, I don press is a particularly well- suppose

the Sun. Merciful, charitable, Leader of the Golden Horde, informed body, as a whole, and

Before you can choose your lover of liberty. Crushed by greatest conqueror of all time. the political experts do not go score you must define greatness. priests of countless minor With a ragged Mongol tribe, by Un- The easiest definition is: hav- "gods," whoso racket the des- irresistible generalship and in- fortunately, there is every re-ing the most powerful influence-troyed-dispossessed-of-his-credible-speed-he-subdued-the-tion to the South Americas, even son to believe that certain on the world-which would make crown by soldiers whom he, as a world from the Black to the against the European conquista- members of the Cabinet are not William Caxton, who invented pacifist, would not employ. Yellow Sea, from the Volga to dores.

the Indus. His military govern- - ment endured for four genera- tions after him.

At one master-stroke he turn- Joan of Arc (1412-1431) ed the rhodomontade of Eliza Peasant who, at 17, by sheer bethan drama into supreme

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in agreement on one at least of the vital questions of policy now under discussion. There have been whispers of it in the past, and now, apparently, things have reached a crisis.

printing, a greater man than Shakespeare.

conceived under the image of lieve there was only one God,

Gautama Buddha (cira 500 B.C.) Or you might say "great". meant having a profound in- Warrior prince of India, who, fluence on one's own time before the birth of Christ, anti- which would reduce Socrates to a cipated much of His messagec.

lieved to be the truth.

. But was it any good? Neigh, noigh, neigh!.

We walked home.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

A conflict of opinion among smaller figure than the Athenian Stood at the peak of his triumph, force of personality turned a poetry and supreme humanity. the British leaders at the pre-inspector of police forbidding victorious, wealthy, beloved: beaten army to a beating one. Vagrant poacher and strolling sent juncture of world events is knuckle-bones in the market gave up all to follow what he be- In two years she changed the player who wrote Immortal.

map of Europe so that it has verse and rattling good stories. most inopportune. At best it after 11.

never been changed back. A in one. He wrote fill in creates a feeling of unrest in Take, then the classic defini- Socrates (470-399 B.C.) virgin, she lived with soldiers your favourite quotation for the country, and it is inevitable tion of greatness: "Greatness Greatest sage in the highest and made them forget she was yourself. that opinion will be divided. Involves supreme mastery of slave civilisation (Athens) ever a woman. And this is not a time for one's craft; supreme originality: known. On his soul-searching Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Rembrandt van Rijn división; for a divided people and a quality of ennoblement, questions lies the reputation of

(1607-1669)" lacks effectiveness, loses much

Plato as a philosopher. Ho Crest of the Renascence wave. Innovator who made darkness and the reminder of a trivial inventor who sculpted. Evolved posing alike "realism" drained the hemlock with a smile Mathematician who painted; visible in art. Created (op- the first aeroplane. The (for romanticism) reality. Delighted. give the cliche!) "universal as much in.ragged beggar or old Julius Caesar (102-44 B.C.) genius."

crono as in Court beauty. Starved Greatest all-round man of ac-

Martin Luther (1488-1546)

to buy paint; sketched on scraps of paper in which his scrape of Obscure German monk who, food were wrapped,

debt.

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of its motive power, sacrifices some of its strength, depending effort is most vital. On the other upon the seriousness of the hand, it might prove to be a blessing beyond estimate that cleavage.

If, for example, Mr. Anthony the country should be given the opportunity to express its will Eden, the Foreign Secretary, were to leave the Cabinet rather so that the Government could tion of all time: statesman, poli- than agree to a course of action go forward with fresh which he deemed inexpedient fidence, knowing that united tician, conquerer, colonist, ora- or possibly dangerous, there people is behind it. If, for in- tor, writer. Bringer of light by nailing up a thesis for debate, would be a vast sympathetic stance, a Foreign Secretary is earth. Queller of a mutiny with Inaugurated, unwittingly, the from Rome in dark places of the precipitated the Reformation. body behind him to approve his convinced of the error of his a single word.

most successful "revolution of :

con-

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Composer who expressed

and

the rich." Breaker of supersti- moods. As great an innovator action; and it would be inevit colleagues" judgment in matters able that the faith of that mass of foreign polley and one feels Peter (circa 30 B.C.-A.D. 60) tion who flung his ink-horn at as Wagner or Stravinsky but, of people, born and fostered by that his view of a problem of

Traitor who wiped out his own his own (superstitious) vision unlike them, docs not "date."" the accomplishments of Mr. this sort is worthy of every treachery in his own blood; of the devil, Eden during the past few years, consideration-it would be as founder of the Christian Church. would be deeply shaken. It well that the whole matter were The "coward" who chose to be

might atill trust its Government put squarely before the public. crucified head-downward be- to do the safe and just thing: The graver the issue, the deeper cause he was not worthy to be but it might, too, demand that the cleavage is bound to be. It crucified like his Master. the feeling of the country should is up to the majority, then, to be tested. If that demand were express its opinion that those. vociferous, it would mean. awho are in power shall feel solid general election. And where ground beneath them. would British foreign policy bo

Michael Angelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564)

Deafness did not sour his spirit: nor restrict his output, though he hind to be turned round to

his work, see the applause that greeted

could portray greatness. Con Supreme artistic genius who

demned painting as "woman's Karl Marx (1818-1883) Mahomet (567-432)

work" and turned to labour with:

Founder of only "now" religión Camel-driver who successfully stone, becoming as pre-eminent fought Arab indolence and Arab in the new modfum as he had (Christian Selenco is, by de It may not come to that pass, militarism. The Local Boy Who been in the old. Inaugurated a finition, a branch of Chris thon, poor thing? At a time of course. There is more than Mado Goodse good that his school of art which has taken tianity; Fasciam is old-fashioned when it is needed most, when as possibility that the sanc, followers thrice shook the reaim three centuries to decay. Be-Nietzschean State-worship calm and confident guiding hand cautious and conscientious men of Christ. The only, iconoclast ran to write (better than good) run rabid). Bourgcols who put bis own class in the dock, is essential in the councils of who comprise the British Cabinet to create more than he destroy-poetry at 80,

Created the greatest social re the nations, Britain might bo in will find a way of compromise, ed. The only founder of a great Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556)volution (posthumous) the throes of a political upheaval for that one faction or the other religion who was content to be and umble to do all that is ex-will prevail without the neces- a mortal... pected of her in the develop-nity of any test of strength or ments which crowd upar statos-of public opinion. But it is a

sad fact that in Mr. Eden's Pope GregoryTM VII. Aonco originator of system of sub- men.

It is possibly a curso of the resignation Britain will have obscure German monk who dared duing the flesh. Created tho democratic system that such a lost a servant in the foreign koop the penitent German Im-only Christian aystem to unite danger can occur at the very office who had the confluence of peror waiting in the snow outside the gospel of peace with the the fortress of Canoma. sword of war. Brought civilian time when amoothly co-ordinated the nation.

Hildebrandt (1023-1085)

Founder of the Jesuite, the known. one successful instrument of Counter-Reformation Austere

ever

Florence Nightingale "(1820-1910) "Lady with the Lamp" who proferred to spend pleapless. nights in the Crimen than to live uncleanly in London::