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Zurich Herald, 1928-01-26, Page 6HAS BALDWIN FAILED? " Harold Owen in the" English Weekly "Answers"' Think He Has •PRIVILEGE—WE MAY DISAGREE When. a,. Lean asks a question like !hVrutnai I the very remarkable f eYtb e thing.. '"Has Mr, Baldwin tailed?" yeti may b fairly Cure that he Is about to answer too far (as if they had not alreadY azrot'ner. gone tho far), he said they would find it, either in one 1i ay of But it is a question whnso answer- the nation had "the Government, be- ing demands care At any time now a 'hind it" in resisting their revolution wets the buildings in witch, the �'. since I was hungrY and thirsty it did of prove unpalatable, Fairly next morning, while it was still dark, we continued our Journey, quite rested by our short nap. On reaching a Mongolian monas- tery we ti -ed our horses.to' brilliaxitlw pagntea hitching poets Just outsiidc the gate, and esncouutersd a Monk who greeted us cordially. A lofty wall surrounded the grounds of the motiasterY, and at the highest •shot in trio centre ';stood a' temple bearing many carved decorations. Around It monks lived. Th structures were General Election may be sprung upon ary aims. made of baked mud, which is firstus. Many observers beli•,'t�o that it is I suggest, quite confidently, that bound 'to come some this year. there '12r Baldwin unconsciously gave whitewashed and then decorated with For those o4 us who a., fro 1 ! a leader. For, of p legiauce, but v:�:. t for whatever and course, he reversed the whole order whomever seem moat likely to servo of thinks by saying the country would the nation, the answer may affect the have the Government behind it. mark we put on our ballot papers. For The whole idea of government le who are Conservatives, there is national leadership, national headship, the problem of their pasty's prospects control, initiative, action, with the In the coming olection, and o4 the ingtion andiind it, tho nationeGovernment following, the lead party leadership. OY- IVIr. Baldwin occupies a great posi- eruuient saying "This way'.-4or-_ tion. But does he fill it? Is he as ward!" and the nation following be - great as his position? Does lie rise Lu That is the picture? that would in to the height Thr`, his opportunities? Does the force of his mind mate on evitablrn leader, present itself ts lffto theany minn d of equal terms.with the power of his' of-'tnY bo ho fice? No. I'f "Yes" could be said to had acquired fraleader's �aliBaS. But t all these questions Mr. •Baldwin -would the picture be a great man. mind as he spoke those self -revealing But it would be quite unfair to sag- words (and Mr. Baldwin does not gest that he has failed because he is speak at speeches)random, no,but of reads he his ilia nation not a great man, for nobody supposed p he was, though some of us hoped he swarming to the attack whilst the would prove to be, He 'came to his -Government shouted from the rear, great position amid an almost unanl- "Carry on! Here we are!" could mous and praiseworthy chorus of never rise in any mind having the hope, encouragement, and approval. ) true sense of leadership. He was almost unknown, but we 1 Actually, it was the serious adop- took him on trust, and if he has not tion of that Gilbertian travesty of turned out to be a great man we can- martial courage and leadership im- not yas he hes "failed" or deceived mortalized in the comic figureof the us. After all, many horses have sur- ;Duke .of Plaza Toro, who prised us by 'winning the Derby at 40 I to 1, but we don't blame or execrate ! " ... led his regiment from behind— the outsiders when they don't. Indeed, Mr. Baldwin himself could Supply an annihilating answer to the suggestion that he has failed us be- cause he has not suddenly developed into a great statesman by the mere tire. For the practice comes out in fact of filling a great office. For he ' his statesmanship, and Of his states - could say, "Did I ever suggest I was a manship it is possible only to say that great statesman? What had I ever ! everything he has done worth doing, done before I was Premier to raise : everything his Administration has such expectations in your mind of done which will cause it to be remem- what I should do when I became Pre- bared gratefully, has been done with ruler that disappointement in them en- . the main body of the nation leading titles you to dub me a failure?" And him—e.g., kicking out the Bolsheviks the only answer is, "Nothing." Giving. the Game Away. We must therefore take Mr. Bald- win on a lower plane, and ask wheth- er he has shown a capacity for lead- ership and a sense of statesmanship which make him say, a good second - titre its Y - colored paints. •lar#.Y a1- himself away asThe monks took us into their tidy monastery, in the .centre of wharf stood an. oven surrounded by beds covered with woolen` blankets. Over the doorway stood a small altar made of some wood 'similar to anabogany, on which a •glass image of Buddha heed been suet. Eight brass incense burners had been placed before , the He found it less exciting." But that travesty does exactly re- present Mr. Baldwin's idea of leader- ship, not only in theory but in prac- A Little Known City AIR VIEW OF BELIZE, 13RITISH HONDURAS . Where Lindburgh, the United States' Flying Ambassador, made his only Central American stop on British soil. F altar. had hoped to spend the night we. A merchant's son who .accompanied encountered some bad luck. The us helped out, for he had been in a settlers here were apparently praspee- monastery once before. The monks ons, for they lived in more elaborate poured cut green tea for us, and then dwellings, and great herds of sheep served mutton soup. We gave each were wandering in the neighborhood. of them a piece of sugar and some After we had shouted a long time a candy, which we had taken with us. •to friendly -looking ._ woman appeared on use as money, the scene. When we discreetly re - Our ,companion gave us several tips quested shelber, she cried in an in - on"' how to travel through the coup- human, froglike vodce, "Qua! Qua!" try. Above all, we were told never the Sayan equivalent for "Nothing do - to go into a Mongolian dwelling with ing." Our poor old Sayan, who suf- a riding whip, and never to enter a fered from a severe backache, begged room left foot first; to do_either was pitifully, but the old woman kept on to offend the Mongol :seriously, . A 1 croaking like a frog, "Qua, qua, qua; guest should thank the host by gifts qua!" raising her dirty fist emphati- of colored cloth and ribbons. But tally. since these people line sugar very1 I had little desire to stay here, and much and seldom , gat' any, and since ,we therefore order on. Our Sayan colored cloth was 'too expensive, we :friend still accompanied ns, but the had taken along candy and Jump pain in his back was driving him mad sugar.. But the ,Mongols liked them' a he cried out loudly. After a so well, and ate so much of them, that while we found another yourta, where our supply was almost exhausted. we encountered better treatment Adultery is the most grievous sin than we had received at the bands of a Mongol can commit. The offender the old frog woman. is taken and ern apart alive into The Mongols in thla yourta used over a hundred bits. Horse stealing dry manure fqr fuel—the i°egular cus- tom hereabouts, for there are no trees in the neighborhood. The man- ure is kept in a basket that buckles up the back like a wallet, while a shovel covers the bop. The same basket is used to gather snow from which tea and soup are made. The MViongoiian hostess is always very accommodating about fetching snow from outside, but she is none way Mongols say their prayers re- too cleanly. I have often notioed mindseme of the Russian church !ter- ' `that only a very small part of the vice. Trey mumble as rapidly' . as snow surrounding a yourta is white, possible in singsong, and at regular most of it being as yellow as the tea intervals they let their voices fall. that is brewed from it later, But we The monks carrystrings at glass can forget these trivialities, and in re - beads which +they use to oount their I trospeot fihe impress%n. of Mongol prayers, and when one of the brothels cordiality rmains- long after the country was hoarse with shouting to him to do it. Faults—or Vlrtues7 In short, Mr. Baldwin obstinately mistakes his faults for virtues. He is a Conservative leader pulling at his party's coat-tails, and mistakes inde- best. cision for broadmindedness. He I should have to go through four 1 boasts of his "imperturbability" and years of our history to show why i not being "easily rattled"—and so •think he has failed in the qualitie's might a gate -post. He declares that necessary to leadership, and that would take too long. So I will take a short cut to proving something much: more significant: that he has not even the instinct of leadership, that he himself knows it, and that he himself has revealed it. Nine months before the General, trike, and when he was announcing that sudden subsidy to the miners in order to buy off the trouble he and we thchief asset of a Prime Minister is his patience—and the philosophic in- trospections of a donkey might lead into the very same conclusions. He thinks that to think slowly is the same thing as to think deeply— and forgets that, on all the main prob- lems and principles of modern goer:- ern/tent, he ought to have got over his ruminations long ago. "He is Still chewing his "could" when' the also incurs capital npuishmeut, but the thief is torn into a smaller num- ber of pieces, I was toid..this by many people who hard seen these punishments. administered. Before we went to sleep the monks spent a long time praying itothe tem- ple while a gong .sounded loudly, and after the oeremony they continued their prayers in their cells. The bad afterwards to face all the same, "should" is overdue. My Flight Through Mongolia. They had made a fire, and were sitting around it in a circle. Upon seeing its they bowed their heads several times, pointing their thumbs upward --- - - and saying, "Ssaa, ssaa!" We re - By EG•ON VON STERN turned the greeting in the same way. (The editor of "Pester Lloyd" an -Then one of them rose, took a bas- nouncea that this article is part of a ket, and fetched some snow from out - book entitled "In die Freiheit," by, side, which be put in the large black Egcn von Storrs, which will be pttb-';kettle over the fire. After thus he Belied 10 Berlin this winter. The filled a long pipe covered with felt author ie a Prussian cavalry officer, from the mouthpiece to the little who tells of, his escape from a Rus- •sliver bowl, and lit the fine yellow slap prison anti his flight across Mau 'tobacco he had put inside. golia and Manchuria, The episodes 1 At first I couldn't tell the men from he describes here occurred in the `the women, but I finally concluded Sayan 'Mouatatus, in the corner of Foramen living here. Men and wo Nortt eastern Asia between Mongolia men alike wear gray sheepskin told themthat it was 'my last flask, that I was saving it for a possible emergency, .that it was a 'medical necessity. The father calmed down, but in about ten minutes he began simulating great pain and deathly ill- ness, and begged for some cognac. "Such be the will of God!" I told him. "It is ii remedy for eye trouble, and is poison. If you drink it, you die." They immediately shrank back with fear written all over their faces. On the next morning the same clamorous father appeared with big black snow - spectacles, saying that he had eye trouble and needed some cognac. Out of fenerosity I gave him a etick of sugar soaked in cognac, and as long as I was present he held it be- fore bis eyes. When I left the room, however, he ate it with utter scorn of death, During the night we itad apparently lost our horses, and at noon I went to look for them,. We soon found them, and continued our journey. At the next stop we discovered that all the sugar tad been stolen and more than halt of the cognac had been drunk, and I realized why the ani- mals had disappeared the ravenous Mongolian had hidden them so that when we went to rook for them he could eat and drink his fill.—The Liv- ing Age. A Little "Talk About Pitch By' C. eal1ton•Turvey' kS Sound has been defined AS • " 1nT4 thing audible," and 'tone as "anything audible wit* definite pitch,' Tbieri. not exact, for every aound• has its 4Twzw pitch, sithougle It is not always ala. tingu:ishable to the ordinary ear, Falling rain has not only distinct pitch, but everybody 1139 heard the tinkling little tuna it plays on the roof. Even what we close as "noie•r1' sounds a definite note, or a combina- tion of notes. Niagara Falls, thunder•' ing down its great cliffs, aingt a mighty tone which eau be identified as "G" on the pianoforte, only deeper: -'mucllz{ ,deeper—than any plain could record. Pitch is governed by the numbs i, of vibrations• in a given second. The - more vibrations In a tone, the higher in pitch it is, When a sound vibrates very swiftly it becomes inaudible to the human ear. So, too, when it vibrates very sllowly it beoomes he, audible to bunion hearing. The low. or "Limit of audibility" as it is. calied,i is about 16 vibrations per eeoond. The upper "limit of auribility" for musioa1 time is 4138 vibrations per second. But the limit for audible sound, not distinguished aa musical tone, goes up to 30,000 vibrations per second and more. After these limits are passed there is silence. There is no limit to sound—only to our perception el sound. has recited the necessary number he takes the, image of Buddha with Wan to the house, for by carrying le statue and by singing and praying he believes that he will be preteoted by magic from the evil spirits and the souls of the dead who wander about at night. At the end of their long session of prayer the hospitable monks fixed up a bed for us, and were very attentive to our wishes... and Manchuria.) breeches and mats, both garments be- Tired and worn from our difficult l!ing sewedtogether, with the soft journey, we sought a Sayan yourta Iwool inside. In at least one respect where we could spend the night.( After a long search in the darkness we succeeded in arousing some dogs, and by following the noise of their barking found a place of refuge. The Sayans are a Mongolian race living in the broad valley of the Yenisei. between the Sayan Moun- tains ountains and the mighty peaks of the Taiinu-ora. 'Two years before our ar- rival a War had been fought between, the Sayans and the Mongols, In which most of the;. Sayan, Mangolian, Rus- sian, and Chinese settlements in this region were destroyed. When we passed through the country theSay- one were not unitedto either Mon- golia or China. The Sayans, who look so much like , out oftendln.g them. Since the to- le/angels that a European cannot tell ' bacco was heavy with opium and test - the difference, raise cattle and live In ed sweet, I ga.ve the pipe back after a couple of puffs. the Sayans are further advanced than we—their' women wear knickers with- out a single word of adverse criticism. Our hosts were far from ihandsome. The men, with their half -shaved heads and sparse beards, grinned rather foolishly; while the women, with their exceedingly broad tacee, prominent cheek bones, and small slit eyes, leaked equally foolish when they opened their wide mouths. After, several addresses of -welcome, which we could not understand, our hosts passed the men a small snuff- box set with semiprecious stones. We sneezed, and everybody laughed. Then they handed around the : long pipe, which we could not refuse with-. After the customary formalities I thanked the women and children by giving them sugar and candy; but one 'deco did not satissfy them, and they shouted for more. I bad to take care lest they exhaust my- supply and leave me nothing but trouble all the rest of my journey. The men, however, also became greedy when they saw their women and children with sugar and they with none, and began taking the delicacies from the One morning sometime JUST SO "Open for business, eh? kind of business?" "Monkey business, of course!" ' Would-be Hunter: "What is the game limit in this locality?" Native: "Two deer and one guide." Arch.ibaid could scarcely be called a brilliant boy, and try as he might, he could not find himself a situation. What `Teaching "Tony" a `Trade There ie no. reason to -day for class- ing the Army as a "`blind alley job." Whatever` may have been the case in the past, the :soldier nearing the end of his term of service need have no fear as to his future in civilian life. He can spend the last six months of his service in a vocatonal training school, fitting himself for a good job in the outside world. This vocational training is given at three 'centres — Aldershot, which specialises in building; Chisledon, de- voted to agriculture; and Hounslow, where the subject is engineering. But there is much more' choice for Tommy Atkins than tads brief state- ment suggests. Aldershot's building. school includes classes in draughts•, manship, tiling, carpentry, jodnea•Y, 'plumbing, painting, sign -writing, gas and hotwater fitting, electric wiring, and so on, as well as bricklaying and -concrete conatruotion. .Aldershot boasts that it is very seldom that one of its ":graduates"th lacks a job for more than two mons after,, finishing his training. Three- quarters quarters of them aotually get' work in civilian life within a month. And their employers are invariably well satisfied with them, later we After the first interview, prospective mouths of the children, who prompt- Mter thes always turned hint down, came to, the Tes River, a wide scream �y set up frightful howls. Naturally flowing through. a broad. valley. Al- At last, however, Archiwld conceiv- though. it was winter and the ground I` gave some more to the poor women .ed an excellent :plan. Re offered his and children; but again the anen took services free for a month. The offer was covered with deep snow, it was the candy from them, and my protests • was sfrefrimmediately' accepted by a obvious that in summer the region only added to the confusion. Finally ; abounded with luvuriant flowers and gentleman of Semitic upbringing. The I fed one child after another on my lap, 'and protected it from the raven - i o•usiy asked for "a rise:' "Veli, vat ons father and mother. • is your present pay?" asked his em - While investigating my knapsack ! •ploy u "Nothing, sir," said Archi- the Mongolian father and eon dlscov E bid, "Nell" --his em!p'loyer contem- foliage. A wild tangle of bushes cov- ered both backs of the stream, and under the snow we found grass at leant a yard long, Beautiful as the landscape was in winter, it must be ered that 1 had some cognac, and from plated him , a moment—`"your wages much more full of,,color in the spring. are doubled." On arriving at the yourta where we then oft the bagging never ended. I month expired, and Archibald nerv- enurtas es their racial brothers, on the other side of the Tannu-ola. Moun• It is a coznman Mongolian: engram. tains do. The yourta, a conical dwell to offer the pipe and snuff, and the Ing from `ten to tweloe e feet iii dna guest le ferced by convention to tmeber, is built of a wooden framework g ac - about three feet high at the perimeter Dept them. It is. an odious habit, for and about eight feet high at the Cert- One can become very sick simply by trai peak, and ie..covered with cannel's• being an agreeable guest. .Smoking hair cloth, A doorway about three; the filthy Sayan pipe turned, out to feet wide is cut in the side of the e no yoke, But we forgot these structure. • At, the peak of the Valuta minor details in our desire ' to get 18 a small hole thro g11 which anioke through the country. can escape, while th the centre Of After the snuff and the pipe, the. the four a largeiron or copper Stet ' melted snow was boiled, and our host Ile stands;on a tripods A little altar l —not the Hostess ---added some green 'Aced etnrectly above the doorway, :tea, salt, and goat's milk, sud :stirred. The big dogs hose 'barking bad 1 Each of us received a dirty wooden helped tib to find our shelter bad: curs .filled with the 11euid. I bad often awakened. the "Sayans, bat when we, been told thatgreen tea prepared in entered we found them, half asleep. j this way tartest very peculiar, MAI J "ADAMSON'S. ADVENTURES"—BY b. Jacobson. ass - l YOUNG MAID, OA SURPRISED -To FIND You f1LREAeY Acin% OF THE TeeALC0 tiF101 (� TAKE M'1 ADAMS F11411 &Tor iTt (Hes ,Rlawr? 'et. Out -r Nov b.t a e.6 ;----------(' ---."-rA {k\ t4 f t, , I i{i[ � rte_}i.413_ -E .. , z. � , t t[[ftLt</ttln , ,;---7- asT=a^ list ;._ tk r-/I/fJ//ti)rtttrIIiIIIIII1W1t\N' \- He Oecornes A Reformer. e* Insanity and Murder *Indianapolis News: (Clarence Dar- row is opposed to the execution of Hickman, as he has no difficulty in • convincing himself that Hickman is "very far gone in dementia praecox.") It is rather remarkable ,that the so- • called insanity .defense is practically never offered except in murder cases. Men may forge --as Hickman did -- rob and steel, commit arson or rape, without any suggestion of insanity'be- ing made in their behalf. Dozens of men are convicted in our federal court of counterfeiting, robbing post offices, or violating the revenue laws ---or the Volstead law—and yet they may all be the victims of "dementia praecox," transitory maniacal insanity," or be cursed with "split personalities." But when a man steals a child, robs her father of a large sum of money, kills and mutilates the child, thein the scene shifts, .and we have a "snvk man" who may not be punished, though it is graciously' conceded that ' he must be shut up for life—unless sooner cured! If ever a man de- served hanging Hickman does. The Monroe Doctrine New York World: For nearly a bun dyed years we have looked upon our- selves as the defenders of national liberty on the American Continents, as the champions under the 'Monroe Doctrine of political independence against conquest and imperialism: In the eyes of 'the world we no longer hold that position. On the contrary, we are looked upon to -day as a power which threatens rather than defends the independence of its neighbors. • This may be an unjust opinion. That it is the opinion not merely , of irre- sponsible agitators but'"of the moat important and thoughtful men in Latin America and in Europe there 18 no doubt. Tie of our political expansion iu the Caribbean region during the last thirty years exists to feel that opinion, After the third addition: to the fant- ily, it became necessary to secure the seervloe's of a permanent nurse, "Now,. my husband ie, very artiid iarthewbexn I engage a a nurse, rens to a girl who applied for the posi. tion, "He wishes me to go into the most minute details of your qualifica' tions.. Do ;your know how to prepare food? Can you saw and mend? Do you mind sitting up late at night? Are you taitid11.1 aiud devoted! and have you a kind, loving disposition? Will yatt " "14,1c00,30 r.o, ma'am; am I to take .ears of the baby or your hits, bund?" asked the girl.