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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
17,
1938.
MR
What
a
glorious chance awaits this man
letter to Malcolm MacDonald, the new Colonial Secretary
R. MALCOLM MAC- DONALD, late Domini-
ons Secretary, recently step- ped up to be Secretary for the Colonies.
He held the job once before, in 1935, and why
- he ever let it go passes my
understanding,
For I hold it to be, after the Premiership, the greatest office within the ambition of a British citizen,
from
FRANK OWEN
Frank Owen, thirty-two-pear-old water writer of the Daily Express, is tall, muscular, flamboyant, as vigorous in appearance and manner as in writing. Hot tempered and speaks as he writes. From Monmouth he won a history scholarship at Cambridge, got a frit in history and economies, and still reads history. At twenty-three entered the House of Commons as Liberal MP, for Hereford. Then quit politics to return to newspapers.
He played three quarter for Newport, Cambridge London Welsh, Swims and rides.
pepper, platinum, teih rubber,
Ür
and the
I
ployers to raise the wages colonial workers?
of the
By giving them a market in Bri- tain. That is, by taking the market way from some of those foreign firms who enjoy it now and banding it over to our own people,
Why not?
Mr. Chamberlain did it for Birmingham, and can do it for the Bahamas.
Mr. Chamberlain gave the mid- land manufacturers a tarif wall to work behind. To-day Birmingham enjoys a boom seront only to Lon- don, which is the most prosperous place on earth.
BRITAIN and her Colonies can
only rise together. The re- cent story of the Cocoa Pool proves it once again.
The Cocoa Pool was an attempt of the great West African native. to create a monopoly of the produre; owned industry.
They drove down the
price of
cocon from 51s, per cwt. (December 1936) to 25s. per ewt. (December 1937). But the fuzzy-haired chiefs: held out and refused to do business at all, and they have won.
The matter has now been settled and trade flows nain. cost of the struggle has been borne Dut the by Bolton and Salford. For when spending power dwindled
The Chancellorship of the Exchequer is traditionally the stepping stone to the Premier- ship. The Home Secretary is officially the first of all the his colleague at the Dominions Office intelligently and rewarded fairly, Secretaries of State. The when it comes to the task of creat- canot say we do it. Foreign Secretary is the head the Dominions, do not compete, in are shaken with a series of violent ing trade. For the Colonies, unlike The West Indies at this moment of the great department which business with the homeland. Aua- striktes. The other day it was Urlah controls the ambassadors of tralia's beef and New Zealand's but- Butler, the negro agliator, who was Britain all over the world.
ter are sold here in competition with mixing things for the oil companies the produce of our own farins. in Trinidad. BUT the Secretary for
But we don't grow cocoa and we the
Warships and troops were called Colonies is master of
the don't plant cotton (we do grow sugar in to deal with these troubles, and lives of 50,000,000 people, a greater and very wastefully), we have no a commission reported that labour population than Britain's own, ex bananas, oll, rice, spice, coffee, copra, conditions were disgraceful. eceding that of any Dominion, or any territory of the British Empire tobacco. The Colonies have the lot.
the TOW the storm has shifted Gold Coast a huge block of custom- except India.
On the other hand, they have no The Colonial Secretary's office is mighty manufacturing plant. The the sugar plantation labourers have cotton trade.
to Jamafen. There ers fell away from the Lancashire far more
splendid in its field of Colonies cannot make
their own been than hint of the Dominions clothes and household pots and pans. field workers get about 35, a day to Colonial Secretary if he can bring rioting. The Trinidad oll- Great will be the glory of the new power Secretary. For the Dominions are They cannot build their own rail- grease their palms, but the Jamai- back to Britain self-governing. As Dominions Secre- ways, bridges, ships, motor-cars.
and her colonial can sugar workers are expected to partners even that trade which we tary Mr. MacDonald was no more But those things are Britain's very keep sweet on 2s, a day
have lost between us in the last ten than our ambassador-in-chief to best line of business.
Now I have no doubt that these years. them.
The Colonies are the garden of rates can be justifled in present con- Dui from the windows of the our house. We have let it fall into ditions, However, they cannat be Colonial Ofice what a fair prospect a neglected patch, unteared, over- pegged at that low level. infolds before the eyes of a bold and grown with weeds and brambles, fore we must change the conditions. worth. The latest available ures bought from them 1210,500,000 energelle administrátor!
out and trimmed, and cared for, and to balance their accounts on a low have fallen to £48.500.000; our pur- For it may pay a few companies show that our sales to the Colonics the fruits and flowers brought into wage basis, but it does not pay the chases our house in abundance for all our British Empire.
are down Lamily to enjoy.
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Let us have it dug up and planted
Nacross
There-
In 1928 we sold to the Colonies £4,000,000 worth of goods. We
An estate of two million square miles to farm, as yet almost untouch- ed. A market of nifty-eight million
ta £44,000,000. customers to win, as yet almost un-
We want to sell the colonial masses do if we did per head of the colonial Yet what a roaring trade we could Lapped.
And let us pay the gardeners a our goods. We cannot do it if these population what the United States And look how favoured is the decent wage! The Tabour of the customers are earning coulle wages. does with her Porto Rico, Panama Colonial Secretary compared with Colonies is cheap, It should be used How can we help the colonial em- Zone, and
Philippine Islands! Here is the wonderful chance for a member of Neville Chamberlain's Government to make greater than ever the office that Joseph Chamber- lain made so great,
Correcting the History Books
COME time ago the school teachers French
the
STORIES
IN STAMPS
When Lincoln Saw the Nation Divided
THE course that Abraham Li- coln charted after 1861 was slow evolving. In March of that year Lincoln still believed that the struggle was a mere quarrel over the extension of slavery.
Stilt blinded by the provincial bles of Springield, still without extensive contact
in Washington,
he did not see that the routh in secession sought actual independence. It was only during the next eight months that he really recognized a nation within nation in the south; Gouth in which both those who haled slavery and those who espoused it sought separation Irom the north.
Then Lincoln formulated his historic course.
He set out to Build
defense of the Union. He expressed this in one of the most remarkable state papers of all time, the First Message. It sermed to reflect the Lincoln that had feen emerging gradually for 20 years. This was the Lincoln who believed that the basic issue after all was the preservation of the Union, of the ideal of democracy, So he declared "This is essen tally a people's contest. On the side of the Union It is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of govern- ment whose leading object to elevate the condition of men. .. Lincoln is shown above on the 0-cent red of the issue of 1870, The stamp la enlarged.
HUMOUR FROM THE BAR
ORD Russell of Killowen, when a barrister, had a "scene" with Mr. Justice Denham. Next morning, on the opening of the Court, the Judge said "Mr. adjourned last night I have had the Russell, since the Court
brother-Judge the painful incident. advantage of considering with my
in with, "My Lord, I beg you will Upon which Russell quickly broke
once cor-
say a word more about it, for I entirely und for ever dismissed it can
honestly assure you that I have
from my memory"-a turning of the tables which provoked hearty laugh- view: French books will children in their schools were being
FORE than trade is at stake, ter in Court, in which the learned MOR of two countries which the rest state the reasons which. In German taught to hate England and were ing of employment is, vital is
Important though the creat- Judge joined. of the world probably regards as eyes, Justifled the annexation of using books grossly blased. About creating of imponderable but un-rected a barrister who pronounced
Chief-Justice Campbell the bitterest traditional enemies 1871. France
the same time, one of Chicago's breakable ties of imperial affection Lord Brougham's name as it is gen municipal governors complained that and trust. American children "were being To the Colonies Britain must ex- not Bro-ham was the correct pro- crally done. tie sald. "Broom and Each side continued to blame the taught history in a way that was tend absolute assurance that all our nunication. If you speak correctly from other for being the prime cause of diged to restore the United States strength will defend them against you will also save a syllable."
the Great War; both agreed that the into sentimental. political, and the rupacious onslaught of any mad
war. Britain must
and
-began Germany -
negotiating an agreement to purge Lies and Counter-Lies
their respective history books of all lies directed at the other country,
For two years delegates
US chances of a conflet were increased piritunt subjection to Great Britain." Power bent on und her Colonies in barrister, who thereupon said, "If
Freuch and German teaching sociations wrestled with hotly- disputed matters of fact, endeavour by the universal conviction that war Personal Reputations Destroyed
on
had to come.
The Committee rt-
по
ing to draft text-books that should
her own ideas of high civilisation by suit both sides. A definite agree-
commended that history
Lies or half-truths ereep into the cable, radio, and air traffe. writers ment has been signed, with the thould "treat this question with all history books for several reasons, As yet these services, the brain the reserve necessary, without whip- Sometimes they are not lies proper transmission of a modern State, have governmental blessings of
up passions by means of pole- but misconceptions sincerely held hardly begun to operate. countries, and the work still Locs
mies."
Practically
agreement Sometimes they are the result of could be reached upon the subject to clothe history in flesh and No one appears to have noticed of the Franco-Prussian. War
of blood, to make it more than a bare this agreement. Maybe, consideringt 1870
recital of facts and dates, In com- the excited state of national feeling A drastic
of a similar ing to life, some of the figures bring way. out over half the world to-day, nobody can regard it with much seriousness;
dilemma was adopted in Ireland as distortion with them.
Sometimes a or, at least, while appreciating its under the Union when history, and
not too scrupulous mainland and far extending over the writer presents what is no more than motives, cannot expect it to bear particularly Irish history and, say.
the matter of the
For In-scarecly opened lands of Venezuela Supposition Yet it is a hopeful sign Boyne, was so rich in disputes that altering necounts of how the famous
A fact, of returning sanity
stance, two blographers have given and Colombia, that anyone, its teaching was prohibited al- Francols Villon met his end. especially State-employed teachers, together in the National Schools,
Yes, all except one thing is ready, One Mr. MacDonald, for you to make and should want to clear the lies out of
ays he was hanged. The Probably that is the most forth- the history books.
ellier mould an Empire more splendid than was not hanged, but died naturally
The one thing reedful is your will
much fruit.
Battle of the
Sir Robert Walpole several times right remedy on record. Usually, In tates with equal assurance that he that which Rhodes bequeathed us. expressed his contempt of history the past, the telling of a lie by one in provincial. France. The truth is he never read a history book-and country was followed by the telling that we don't know have
Jeet.
of u
in
AS
2 forellen very of an un- klan to have
Burial About
that there are many horny prab-ly followed by a protest,
lems
of
on
Franco-German history which they connot
agree. They official have agreed, however, on the sub- years ago the
or
clllier
two
anyone
ject of Alsace, cause of innumerable Donald told how Mr. Ramsay Mae must have been unfairly
bitter words between the two comment had
children
one
woman' who
suffered
Some time afterwards Lord Camp.. beli spoke of un omnibus to the sume your Lordship would call it bus we should understand your meaning. and you would also gave two sylla- bles
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The height of the artist in urt (0).
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Ideal for the launching of our
air system are
Mason, an American advocate, was taler-colonial
the West Indies. All the land bases and
defending a Methodist minister on a charge of murder. A fellow-minis the sen bases are there to start a not-ter, who was a Spiritualist, came up work streteking to the American to him in a great state of excite
ment. "Mr. Mason! Mr. Mason! I communicate the Archangel Gabriel have a most important matter came to my bedsitic this morning and told me that brother Avery was in- nocent."
"Let him be subpoenaed at once," was the reply he got. decision given against him, said he
A junior counsel, on hearing was surprised at It. This was look ed upon my contempt of Court and he was ordered to appear before the Judge next morning. Being frigh- tened, he consulted a friend, John Clerk, afterwards Lord Eldon, who promised to make matters right for Accordingly, next morning John Clerk rose and said "I am exceed- ingly sorry my young friend so far forgot himself yesterday as to treat your honourable Bench with disres peet; he is extremely sorry, and you wili kindly nscribe his unintentional at once that it did not originate in insult to his Ignorance. You will see
the decision of your Lordship. Now, that. He said he was surprised at
"MIN"
via
on
one by
to do it. or where the injured he died, and probably never will. made some famous dieta on the sub- a greater
country, Probably the history books of
when-to cite a
minor
Sometimes a welter allows example-oNU hundred по country are 69 per cent. false. London
years ago a cai bins to colour his
politi newspaper saic it
accounts of CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. but, equally probable,
could some notoriour thai French soldiers, tad fender in this
was individuals. Machulay was an of- dead actor in past events return, he to be made drunk with brandy be his writings the Whigs receive a
respect. Throughout COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES would find many shocks in, any, the fore they would fight. The French better British Museum reading room.
replied that
presentation than
MARITIMES. everyone knew that no lse. He After over two years
work the St
English soldier would go into battle Viscount Halifax as a "voluptuary,
described the Tory first Steamship tachers' delegates of France
and without being dosed with rum, Germany hav been forced to admit Nowadays the
yet nil subsequent resea
research shows
No. D AEQ/38 been an ascetic, of text-book is
simple tastes and dress.
Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk perts, ele, arrived Hongkong An appalling number of personal Friday, 12th August, 1938.
Consigaçes are hereby informed by the historians. One that their goods with the exception the British Govern- remonstrated with a for- neglect, scoffed at in a dozen books, are being landed and stored into the undeserved of Opium, Treasure and Valuables tries. For 20 years German school cin Government,
have been taught that national school books contained the She has been so overshadowed by Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd, Kow- of whose is. Nelson's wife, Frances Nesbit. Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Alsace-Lorraine was a purely Ger- statement that "thousands of chil- the figure of Lady Hamilton and so loon, whence delivery may be ob
territory, and had always been dren under ten were
killed every year in the coal mures of Great blographers not to pr desire of tained immediately after landing. French children have been taught Britain." As a result of the protest unchivalrous to his house that most on or before 23rd August, 1938, or Nelson as All claims must be sent in to me to regard the German annexation of the statement was withdrawn. Alsace in 1871 as a brutal rope.
hooks, when they mention her at all, they will not be recognized. Now the members of the negotiating complained that soine English chil-whose coldness toward Nelson sented by the
Quite recently a Labour member describe her as a bit of a worm
Damaged Packages will be examin- cominiltee have agreed to recom- dren in grunt-alded schools were him in the direction of Lady Hamil Messrs-Goddard and Douglas in vulgar Jew Jeweller in
Company's Surveyor Holker, was cross-examining a big. The once well-known advocate, mend "that Alsace,
a country of using a history book that stated that ton. German Innguage and culture during the Government of Russia was
the presence of the Consignees lending case, und began by looking the Middle Ages and at the time of held by an army of foreign mer ruch heroes if historians had treated 1938,
Many national heroes might not be 10.00 am. on Thursday, 18th August, him up in a sleepy, dismal way and money- tho Reformation,
its cenaries and that the many deaths them with strict Impartiality. Do linguistic character after 1040, but in Russin
between
drawling out, that the Revolution of 1780
1817 and 1922 you know why Napoleon habitually Officer in attendance when any duti (the were due wholly to Russia's political stood with his hand in the Inpel of able goods are French Revolution) caused it to disorders, with no enter definitely into the ocmmunity blockade of the country by the from stomach trouble. Hollywood's
mention of the his Jacket? Because he suffered Company's Surveyors,
"A genschelman." examined by the Jeweller emphatically.
replied the of French national life.”
Powers and the subsidising of inter- research workers unearthed that fact by us in rny case whatever.
No Fire Insurance will be effected
"Just so, just so," said Holker with If the recommendations of the ventionists by the Allies.
a yawn, "but what were you before Committee are adopted,
Gorman A few years ago the Bishop of backwork of a new fim.
short time ago when preparing the school books will take account of the London complained that American
IL OIL. Noel Lowndes
Agent. Hongkong, 12th August, 1938,
man
90,
conserved
up-
much
the victim
of
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Telephone 28021.
CROSSWORDS
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7 A nautical hanger-an (8),
14 Appropriate stream to
Apple-by (4).
And
16 The submarine has scope under
(4).
"Go" in the actor is the mak-
18
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of this patron (8).
20
is
Lithe cat would seem an apt
nagram (8).
12 Squirm from the twisting of
lier wit (G).
that #hc
13 Sailor: know 15 About the car this would, he
abandoned (8).
wounded (4).
17 Perform in a theatre perhaps
(7).
10 China has no¡part in this ware
(7).
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24 Olive's contribution to the inble an interred youth! (B). 27 More than a number of upward
measure. (0),
20 is activities are stirring ones
(0).
if he had not been very ignorant of day, and had he known you but half
30 Range apparently of former
shelter (6). what takes place in this Court every 31 In a stormy this ships get it
be surprised at anything you did." as long as I have done, he would not
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(0).
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take into account the fact that the prisoner was an orphan.
21 To the baker It is one less (8). 23 How to keep one's watch (7). 25 Kind of drawer (6),
20 Curtall this treat for the neces-
nary directions (0).
28 The run is the making of him
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"Yes, my Lord," said the counsel, how that bears on the case. It is I trust that circumstance will be "end should your Lordship ever have "I really don't acċ," said the Judge, the misfortune to come before a jury, you were a gentleman?"
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before Lord Justice quite natural at his age he should token into consideration. In your Halmes, the counsel for the defence have lost his parents. For instance, Lordship's favour." frequently appealed to the jury to I am an orphan."
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