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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-05-01, Page 2Will Soviet 'Rule Last? BY Capt, J, De V. Lode; - Capt, Loder; who sat for Beet Lei." obtain economic essentials from center oe a Conservative trete 1924 to e929, has recently returned from a tour of observationRussia. I am often asked whether Bolshe- vism will last. Obviously there le no direct answer to such a question, but it sets one considering a variety of possibilities and trying to arrange. them in order of probability. I'hope, however, that no one w111 think I am trying to set up as a prophet. le by "WillBolsbevism Last?" you mean "Will the system of government based on Communist principles ever become permanently established in Russia?" I would say that it seems to lure highly improbable, I cannot be- lieve that the putting into practice oe the Communist system will not In- volve such concessions to _human' na- turea"id the logic of events that, how- ever plausibly these may be repre- sented as consistent withthe theory, theeresult will be quite different from what Mans or anyone else imagined. I think Lenin appreciated this. Fu- ture developments depend a great deal oz how far the same realism ie Shared by his successors. Ten Years in Power On the other band, if yon mean "Will there be a spontaneous uprising of . the mass of the people driven to despair by Bolshevist tyranny?" I be- lieve that this is equally unlikely. A repetition of 1917 seems to me almost inconceivable, except as a result of widespread famine or unsuccessful war. A. revolt 00 peasants, industrial disorders, mutiny In the Army or Navy, would not by themselves be suf- Relent to set the country ablaze; they would be local, sporadic affairs. The difficulties of organizing an effective opposition to the party now he power are almost insuperable. It is vouae]v- able that some form of religious move- ment might sv.eep the country, but the time for this is hardly yet. If. therefore, ty "Will Bolshevism Last"," you mean "Will the Communist party remain in power for at leapt the next ten years:' the rower is that ver- probably till.wil be ire f only abroad, This must be a galling post- tion fox a Minister, however keen a Communist lee may be, becaueo-it lee wolves• a degree oe supervision that rnuat be utmost Intolerable,. and maltee his tenure of office most precarious. Orthodoxy'vs. Ability It creme to be the deliberate volley of the party to make' the Government a mere"facade." It may be.quite true that the Foreign Commissariat, anesi- ons to maintain friendly relations with Foreign Powers, deplores the active, ties of Communist propagandists abroad and that the Trade Commissar- iat may think it would get on faster with economic reconstruction if things were made easier for foreign capital, but if the party headquarters say "No," that Is an end to the matter. To resist means loos of office, as one after the other nearly all the original revolutionary leaders have found to their cost. A strong man in the Gov- ernment tends to endanger the purity of the party's policy, and so, as the well-known figures, Trotsky, Karnes - off, Lunacharsky and the rest cheap - Pear from the stage, they are replaced by men whose primary qualification is that they are sate. Moreover, when someone loses his official position, he also loses hie position in the party, whish thee tend more and more to get into the hands of people whose claim to preferment Is orthodoxy rather than administrative ability. Value of Personality The party's greatest danger seems to lie le the loss of the older genera- tion of Bolshevists, who were single- minded and had a wide experience of the world, and the advent of careerists and pesant0. A rapid decline in the strength of the present regime might well' come from weak leaderabip. Everything depends on the character of the actual bead of affairs, who is at present Stalin, the secretary-gener- al of the central committee of the party. and Stalin is an able man. It remains to be seen what eifdeelties he bee created "or the fature by get- ting rid of o itetanding persor sties because , in n0r1 tui no 11110 might be ID:,i orcpetttot. — .:.nt. other organised bodyl+aelet'f ;eh- real eitarearte Jug its piaee ee nicety to eii a within - ibis space of time. But item doe, rot Pigeon Glosses eeceeearily ,mist ant there e ail; be no �� changeµ of pe e. t.t L enel .or• OT7i Maul etani tithe w:11 not a.:*e. (en nie • en -,fry; divergent'.e rs (1 i in v i 'n :.tet 'kart:, I about the propel e' tc rest s l c -away A Friend to be Proud Of MUCHWISDOMMUST SE IN HIS "HEAD Mrs. 111. 2. Lloyd's totter spaniel Luckstar of. Ware, champion of show at Cruft's, will be entered in eity and suburban canine show at Crystal Palace, London, Ragland, M.Iade Colony F r Germany 'Germans Pian to Drain North Sea for Vast New Land, British Hear London.—A gigantic scheme to drain p large part ot the North Sea, former- ly sometimes called the Gorman Ocean, is being evolved by German engineers, according to unconfirmed reports received here. If the plan becomes a reality east- ern England would lose miles of its seacoast. But with a great part of the North Sea drained, a vast new land would come into being with rich min- eral wealth to keep a population of over 20,000,000. The German experts, according to the reports, are considering building two giant dams. One would stretch from 23unstanton, Norfolk, near Sand- ringham, the King's country residence, to the upper coast of Denmark, and the other around Kent, across the English iehannel and along the Bel- gian and Detrh c0aets to the neigh- borhood of Scheveningen, the Dutch peav:de resort next to The Hague. Dover and Caleb would be tanned - ed by giant brit;ges, thus making a Channel trona] unnecessary. Norfolk and Beeex would lose their seaboards. Between the dams would be a new practical est,(.ee .:r Dray be (epee t• land—mare than 100,000 square miles in are::—possessing amazing mineral ed to rcr t hither Ito thn ,lash. 0.032`10 Keep byf 3- ct1?2g x1.5 wealth and possibly rich oil fields. VP till 00",. -nett 111 0. b .e been 'Weather Prophet Which British experts almost unanimously set,nu f isp r ee b( t Ic t e 1 re- Leads zo His Capture view the echeme ,.e impracticable. One redure has Leen 1,.1 i".eo.1 sec- described it as "a wildcat scbeme." ton t0 e. e parte t y hit ring eat e .,,t ;rent epee .. t'-. :(•11,0 day :., _. € ,.s (19,0 . d ep- posr,.on. late ere,. weehl, tit firet at itLy 1c t00 tort et entore (TV (.- . =x03303' sort, c.rd to tonere 11310.. - .. e 012 e mew:. Fc fer tt, t n (tin t r Ley ner- redee rap per : t - e a ,: qutt .,t_ro, from Le, ie. eiel to 'LE r.:t, ted it i. ef.: 1 -E: t, ... te ,1'cv -r the no- n. a;, ; e ones ;,g Al the ri t.0 -!ti (.' .... �,(.n strr.Sgt'; re- ntrr< Df the t?i1 t 13( 1 . Gerin set- tled. o. meet eitee: •ce .rrn ex be cep .tai r. " ., :Leen' thepe eontrovereie ve - . a• (0 miee- heal eeeeideratice, if, t o o. h,-41 pea haps :•t:ii 11101 t•.•: c, t , , per.t. i .0E:'f i Si'''ts . c2 1730 party" 5£L r : T;,;' 13. i : 31±1041 t to; ?n 1, 3.,20,,, ', v hat un ei->± P cert. t, r Gti 1, sty pan(] r,e: ev' t 0001.? "r1'. Wriite\Er part t p( v.r .'3 h ,n(1 ta..ce or a n, 311(_0 2; ., .,,1' <t ion eeteile :t it ..0 eft e : Braise eve-wiener:aera- tive c tree t Gleet (0ne v of the pa to'n .n]:bemeg,,LnRus- t ia toe party organization ss the only reds power, `•l0] 0, who is a -imus] uietritcr ar 0e,nei:.2 Secretary of the Central areneeitt«e of tae Party. iv not a member o Pee ':=0verehient et _all. The p07i;y of the party becomes the poehe of tee. +,.c:veramentt.'became the 401," wheen elect the i_ouneil of Peo- ple's i"ommesars (the Cabinet) are dominated be the party, It •:.s for this /eases that to the (u7tici0 world n0 difference can be diseernee between the aetivitieti et the 0cverr,ment, the party, and the Third International (which .c al o 60e-rinated by the Rus - *1311 C"Oni1Lilniytie Party), interval Difficulties luternally- tree e is -Very often any- thing bat hernieny. The two chief of. metal nee epep"i'a, ezveelia, the organ of the ^:loverriment, and Pravda, the organ of the party, do nut by any means always sing the same tune. There ]a a pc.,±.'ible bine of cleavage :here. The government has to deal with actual eltuatiens. It has to ad• minister a country, the vast hilt of which as non-Communist, and to main• lain relations with other countries all hostile to Communism. It works with a staff et oilleials and technicians very few of whom are Communists. The Government nae a natural in. e u,ation to compromise, but at pre,, sent it is dominated by the party. The business of the party headquarters is to see that compromise goes no fur- then than is absolutely necessary to prevent a breakdown at home and to A red -the 7 er d 11ig0t13 (towel''lacy Tidal ceit(iittono appear to be the chief in a eenti]Otr, eh tee Cunard ]leer ob tatie, M -uretania a* .0113101101190, Egypt, and made a voyage of the r. uric:. of despite 011 shootµ to drive the sea• going bird a bt e r.eccrdirg to }carry Ball, the ..±lp - 001300y engineer, who exhibited the 1'tiil when the :titer docked sere r.-. }lull said the 1 x0 ii1,-pis.yeis the i,bi-. .(1' of an a 0..tr005 01 following the ship and furthermore, proved to be an eecel.ant barometer during the stormy paea;.e a-'roee the Atlantic. Just be- fore each rpeil of bad weather, the 1''5eon, whiilt sometimes disported with sea guile. 0:0111,1 seek its shelter- ed perils in tee engine- 00m vent]- Prighteneri Away at Afexanoria. Hill noticed the out in the venti- lator as the chip prepared to leave Alexandria and chased it away. Be was e0 surprised when he noticed the same bled in the same 8900 when the liner readied \.i]leframthe that he calved William Fait, an engine room trimmer "wn0 wee "alwrys fooling around with some bird or animal, any- way. Won Pott Seamed that the bird had been a :board et both ports he said that they Lad better eel' him "Joey." Pott, learning of Joey's valise as a barometer, gradually became acquaint- ed with the bird and saved scraps from his dinner to feed him. He said the stowaway became quite tame, and ween he zmitateel r. pigeon's eall Joey would too back at him from the shad - ewe in the ventilator, But an extra! heavy storm strudt the ship and Pott, was ordered to close the ventilator. Captured During Storm "Don't do that, Pott," said Hull. "Tile bird's in there." Hardly able to stand against the gale, Pott clutched the ventilator and cooed softly into the darkness. Joey' answered and. expecting his usual sup- per Of bread croinbs, fluttered to he opening. Pott made a grab, and the stowaway became a pr_soner. Thereafter Joy lived below, and Hull on that they will keep him as long as he wants to stay, Pott feels that way, too, A Prayer From a Little Roomer Here Is a quiet room: Paulo for a little epee°, And in the stillness cool, With hands before tby face. Pray for God`s grace. Let no nnbo]y thought Tinter thy musing mind: Things that the world has wrought, Unclean, untrue, unkind, Leave them behind. Pray for the strength of godl Strengt]5 ts await lele plan. Rise -from the knees less clod' Than when tby prayer began, More of a man. ntario Hydro Buys Foshay Power Plants Bruce County Now in Pro. vinciai Company's Fold Walkerton, Ont. Acquisition of the Foshay intereets he Bruce County by the Hydro-Mob10 Power Commission of Ontario was reported recently. After many months of negotiations an agreement lies now been reached it is understood, whereby Bruce coun- ty is brought within the Hydro fold. The price involved in the purchase of the Foshay intereste is said to be more than $500,000, While the terms of the agreement have not boon announced, it is under- stood to be a complete clean-up of the Power situation in the Bruce penin - hula. Little Circumstances Little opera tickets, Little supper ate, Make the young man's tailor Whit and wait and wait. Miss Lloyd George Delights Commons l Maiden Speech London.—Miss Megan Lloyd George delighted the Nouse of Commons re- cently with her maiden speech le Par- liament, which was delivered before a crowded gathering. Ramsay MacDon- ald, Prince Minister, whose eon Mal- eolm also made a successful debut se parliamentary speaker in the same de- bate, was in his seat as leader of the House, Mies Lloyd George occupied a prominent place on the Liberal benches. Below her sat David Lloyd George, with paternal anxiety written large upon his face, to be succeeded by a confident smile as his daughter got hold ot her audience. On her left was her brother, Maj. Gwilym Lloyd George, member of Parliament for Pembroke, In • the ladies' gallery above were her mother, Dame Mar- garet Lloyd George, and her sister, Lady Carey Svann. Miss Lloyd George spoke confident- ly and clearly, with modesty and sim- plieity. Her topic was the slum clear case bill introduced by Labor, which the Liberals support. She told of her own experiences in her constituency of Angelsey, where are hovels -where "you needn't look through the window to see the stars or go outside to get wet." She welcomed the bill as a "bold and enterprising measure" and •.ongr'atulated the Government upon launching a crusade against the slums. "And I hope," she added, "that itwill achieve its goal more speedily than another crusade is likely to do"—a sally at the Conservatives and their empire tariff crusade which the Liber- als disapprove, which put everybody, including her father, at their ease for the rest of the epeech, which was Punctuated with laughter as well as applause. Malcolm idaeDonald's debut was also e100eeafnl upon a graver note. He also supported the slum clearance bill and the Prime Minister's eye softened as the speaker developed his theme with facility in an Oxford voice contrasting with the MacDonald bur that so often thrilled the House of Commons. The bill, he was, was the key that would open better houses for those who needed them the most. Ramsay acDonald Leaves Lab The Reason for the Premier's Action—The M.P. F'rankhy States, It Will Have to Cross Swords With its OP 'Colleague." "In view of what le going on, It wap impossible for me to keep up by ate sedation, The LL.P, has lost both its: grip on Socialism and its sense of the. meaning of 'comrade.' of Meehan has lost its overuse it is henceforth good for nothing."—Mr. Ramsay MacDon- ald. Mr, Ramsay 'MacDonald has discon- tinued his membership of the .Inde- pendent Labour Party. He has writ- ten to the Hampstead branch etating that he will not continue his subscrip, tions. This ends a relationship with the I.L.P. which began In 1804. There arethose who think that the future el the 1,L.P..is involved, "The I.L.P. le definitely challenging• the Front Bench leadership in the House of Commons," eomments 'the Times." "A second question cannot be Ignored. If the I.1.ah has suet ob- jectionable characteristics that it Is impossible' for the Parliamentary lead- er of the greater Labour Party to eon: Unue any longer his associationwith it, is the I.L.P. a fit and proper or- ganization to belong to the Labour Party Mr. MacDonald's acclrsation is scathing - salt without savour; good for nothing; uncomradely; and without a grip on Socialism, The logical consequence of Mr. MaoDoe- aid's xesignation is the evelusion of the T.L,P. from 'the secession of all whose loyalty to the Labour. Party comes first. The issue between com- prehensiveness and schism may cause heartburning, but it cannot be evad- ed," Will Others Follow? "The wonder le that be should bave deemed it worth while to retain for so long even a nominal inentbership," says the Birmingham Post. "Old as- sociations supply, one supposes, the explanation -or let us say gratitude towards the organization through - which he personally climbed into pro- minence, combined with anxiety not to display too openly the reality of a grave split -within the Labour move- ment, "It will be interesting to see whish —1f any—among his Ministerial as- sociates seg At eo follow his example. For the I.L.P. le strongly represented in the Government, Lord Ponsonby is a member; so are Mr, William Graham, Mr. Lansbury, Mr. Wedge wood Bonn, Mies BondAe]d and Sir Oswald Mosley. And for each and all of them .he Prime Minister has accentuated an awkward problem of divided loyalties," ]fir, Ernest Hunter, writing :ln the New Leader, the organ of the I.LP., asserts: "The fat ie that the whole concep- tion of the 'Socialism In Our True' pro- gramme is alien to Remaly MacDon- atd's mind and mood. It is stupid to say that -he has changed. Few public men in this country have over a long period of time preserved a more con sistent body of principle than bee the present Prime Minister. "His view of polities as a biologi- cal process In which by a series of gradual transformations and adapta- Mions, society moves on step by step, stage by stage, to a more perfect tom is in sharp antithesis to the present I.L.P. view. All his tradition, training and thought was bound 00011er or later to lead bim to take 1110 present step. Nothing Gained by Useless Repinings He: "They can say what they want, I'm a self-made man." She: "For heaven's sake, George, do you mean to say you have the job fin- ished?" Bear cubs, found by ranger In Glacier National Park, are seen here in a frolic withtheir guardian, who hopes to And the mother from whom they probobry escaped, cu Party let party, the. I.L.P, has :remained a nnrdexically weak body, with a mem- beirship that numbers only a few thousands. "Small, however, as the member- ehip of the I.L.P. ire there 1e no like- lihood. of It eubmitting to extinction to suit the wishes or eonvenien0e of fho °Melee Socialiet leaders." "Since the Labour party became not merely a national federation of trade unions and Socialist societies but a political party with roots and organi- zation in every constitueney," points fest the Manchester Guardian, ".the place of the I,L.P. as the one Socialist society with : a' network of eon' stituency branehc nae become alr{aos.t superfluous. "It has not been content merely to act as a missionary body -as which it might have survived — but has as- sumed the right to lay down a pro- gramme and to press It against the majority opinion in the national party to which nominally` it owes' al- legiance and loyalty. The leaders of the I.L.P. have chosen to follow Mr. Maxton ]lather than Mr. MacDonald. The .Labour movement is not tolerant of splits, and the . rOro independent the I.L.P. becomes the more, prob- ably, will its membership decline." $315,000,000 Invested in Ontario Hydro y Toronto.—In a review of the Attlee ties of the Ontario Hydro -Electric Power Commission, C. A, Magratb, chairman, states that the co-operative municipal undertaking 'administered by the Oommission bas experienced "a most satisfactory degeee of pros- perity." The peak load in Arm eon - tracts in the final month of 1929 Iseal Year reached 1,119,000 horsepower, an increase of 153,000 horsepower over that month In 1928. New customers served by the Commission in 1929 in- cluded tour towns, 13 villages, and 33 townships, making the total of the partner municipalities ' 008. Domestic consumption of '21 kilo- watt boars per month in 1919 in- creased to 116 kilowatt hours In 1028, indicates the enhanced ability of the citizens to purchase a greater degree of comfort. During the year the tenth unit was installed in the Queenstown power house, bringing that power gen- erating station to 500,000 horsepower, the greatest single station in the world; 240 miles oe additional power transmission lines . were built. On these and other construetural activi- ties the Commission invested a fur' - thee $10,000,000. The total invest- ments of the Commieelon are now $315,000,000. During 1029 the aommiseion built 1,150 miles of transmission linea in rural districts to serve 0,270 custom - ere, The total number of rural con- sumers now exceeds 87,000. The forthcoming annual report will, it is believed, show reserves aggregating approximately $88,000,000. Fairly Old Trees and Turtles Found in New Mexico 40,000,000 Years Old "Nothing would be gained by use- less sepinings. Without fuse or de- monstration the Premier has decided to make a clean break. All the I.L.P. can do is to pay glad tribute to the work he did to build up this party, and to turn to the work of today and• tomorrow. The past is behind. Only the future matters. "But it will .not be easy for the I.L.P. to escape from the shadow of this man's personality. He was not an easy man to live with. }Ie is not likely to change. But he remains, and is likely to remain, the unchallenged leader .of the Labour Party. Within that party the I.L.P. will have to fight, as it has always done, for its own point of view. "In the day to day battle of ideas it will have to cross swords with its old colleague, but that it will do so with a vivid remembrance of the old days of intimate comradeship will be the deepest wish of all to whom the triumph of the common cause ie the compelling motive" "In the old days before the Socialist movement captured the Trade Vnlons,. the I.L.P. was the driving force," as setts the Scotsman, "and praetleally everything else in the Socialist cause. It was never numerically strong, but it made up by ceaseless energy and unremitting propaganda for its leek of numbers, With the permeation of the Trade Unions, however, the influence of the 2,L.P. weakened, the balance of power passing into the bands of the Unions. "The formation of local Soclalist parties was another blow to its In- fluence, Until then praetieally the only way to enter the Socialist move- ment, if one was not a Trade Union- ist, was -through the LL,P, "But with the iotetitution of local. Socialist parties a new patch to mem- bership of the Soolallet movement was opened up, of which increasing ad- vantage bad been taken. Thus, in oft of the east growth of the Solve. Lord Salisbury: • Imperialist and Great Pacifist Remarkable Labor Tribute W. Last of Queen Vletorlla'I Prime Ministers Proud of Four Lord Mayor AIIceSeOro There were many tributes to the lath. Lord Salisbury on the oceas]on of the centenary of him birth; het the most unexpected In cordiality appeured he, the "Daily Herald." Mr. W. N. Elver, writing in the Labor daily, Bays:— "Robert Cecil, Third Marquis of Sal. isbury, last of Queen Victoria's Prime• Ministers,. was, 05 every schoolboy knows, a Tory and an Imperialist. Did' he not lead the Tory Party for twenty years? Was he not Premier during the high years of Imperial expansion, the years which added millions .ot. square miles to the Empire, which cul- minated in the Imperial :Jamboree of 1897, and in the Boer War of two year's later? "A Tory was Robert Oecil, and ani Imperialist; nor would he 'have'ree jested either label. Yet he was a curl. ons Tory,. and even more curlouri Im- perialist. He were both his Toryism, and his Imperialism with a difference, "Certainly, the man who beget dog - Sadly every conceivable Liberal mea- sure, who threw up lig seat lnthe nt whsa- forCabim,ewas en a Tory.Dir eli But inplumped hisfor versey first electfonaddress he dwelt on need for 'the amelioration of the condition, of the laboring classes'; and that was no fashionable slogan , among the - Tories of 1$57. An Aristcorat "An aristocrat; but an aristocrat who was prouder of his four Lord Mayor ancestors than of his own'an- cient lineage; an aristocrat who hated; all the trappings of rank; who loathed 'Society'; who uttered at home such Jacobin sentiments that his devoted family called him 'Citizen Salisbury. "A queer enough Tory. But an even, queerer Imperialist. An Imperialist who could never be brought to see what good It did England or anybody to bring uew obscure territories and 'African villages with unpr'onouncable names' under the Union Jack. He had the squireei view of England. The new Capitalism and fts lust for markets and raw materials was a thing alien ' to his thoughts. Ho distrusted it; and loathed the Jingoism that went with it. New Haven, Conn.—Discovery of perhaps the largest and oldest of all Petrified hardwood forests was made known here by Prof. George R. Wie- land ot Yale University, who perform- ed field work in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico the last two summers, There he gathered specimens of hardwoods, petrified eyeads, palmet- tos, clumps of tree fern roots, the more usual pines, together with some; bones of turtles and dinosaurs, all of which lived about 90,000,000 Year:, ago, according to the professor. In the period known as the Meso. verde division of the upper Cretaceous time, the great interior "Pierre Son" etretohed from the region of the pre- sent Gulf of 'Mello to the Arctic Ocean, and the present San Juan basin region constituted a great flat country of swamps and boyoue. "These fossils from the "Mesaverde' of the San Juan baein of extraordin- ary variety make possible one of those rare opportunities when we can bring to light a landscape of bygone times," Professor Wieland said. "The investi- gation of the new material is well un- der way." Prof, Samuel J. Record 01 the echool of forestry has veriiled the de- termination of several of the species. of hardwoods which are of remark able preservation as seenin thin sec- tions under the microscope. s ilatred of Jingoism Perhaps that hatred of 31115013m was the deepest thing in the man: }Iie scornful denunciation of Palmerston's bullying of email nations was at the beginning of his career; bis scathing rebuke of those who 'believe I. is OUT duty to take everything we can, to' fight every dispute,' was at the end. There is much of the same sort be- tween. "}Ie fought the policy which led us into the Crimean War. Ile first op- posed Disraeli's Eastern polios, tires used all hie influence to restrain hie chief and to prevent the disaster Of a second Russian war. And in the later period, when he was Premier as well as Foreign Secretary, he worlced single-mindedly to heep peace with all the Powers at almost any price, "It was n0 easy task, These were the days of the scramble for territory all over the world, Claims everywhere met counter -claims; enormous areas were hotly disputed; collisions and now clashes occurred with perilous, frequency, "lee settled with Germany by ceding Heligoland. He acknowledged the French elaim to most of North-West Africa—and told angry critics that it was 'mostly what agriculturists call "light land"—the Sahara desert.' Armenian Atrocities "They wanted to push him into war over the Armenian atrocities, He re- torted that the horrors of a European war would be still greater. They call• ed bim a coward. 'There is nothing easier,' was his reply, 'than to be brave with other people's blood, If i-Ier Majesty's Government had, in the course of a war, to sacrifice all their own fortunes and then to go into the field to be shot, you would fairly say that it was a brave and generous ac• tion for them to undertake. such a war. But these duties e meld fall an other people-' "Siam, China, Fast Africa, threNiger, the Sudan. Everywhere in thou, years he ]sept the peace by concession and compromise. There were narrow escapes, with Rnesia Over Port Arthur. Y Fashoda was an even narrower squeals; 80 was the Kruger telegram. But—the peace was kept; and Salisbury eontemptu0ualy ignored the insults. To Keep the Pace "To keep the peace was en0 of hie aims. To avoid 'entangling alliances' which might drag England into au European war was another. He would deal with Germany, with France, with Russia, with anybody. But he firmly refused every offer (and they were many) of an alliance. "A Tory and an Imperialist. But a sight historical judgment will:boss him rather as a great pa018et, who was not afraid to make eaerieces and to face obloquy for the sake of peace." • "Who is the beet man usually at a 1 wedding?" If you are eetlnishing a floor, ee- "The preacher—lie gets the meta member doors should not be lighter in and takee no risk." I color than the walls.