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4 ® SIR ESME LAUDED | | | l 1 i FORLIQUOR TAND Manufacturers’ Record Ed itor Tells Envoy His Offer Was Service to U. S. The question of diplomatic liquor was again_brought up today through publicity given a letter addressed to the British Ambassador. Sir Esme Howard, commending him for his re- cently expressed willingness to refrain . from exercising the privilege of import- ing liquors for the use of his diplomatic household. | “You have thus strengthened the tes between millions of American people who believe in prohibition and the gov- | ernment which you so ably represent,” Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the | Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore, de- | clared in writing to the envoy. Sir | Esme’s now famous avowal to abolish liquor in the British embassy. if so re- quested, caused other envoys in Wash- ington to rise in defense of their diplo- matic immunity and to take exception | to his willingness to “waive” these rights, as expressed in & communication to James T. Carter of Lynchburg, Va. Great Service Seen. Dr. Edmonds’ letter, commenting on the envoy's action, said in part “Your willingness to abolish in the | British embassy the use of intoxicating | liquor as an expression of your interest | in the desire to abide by the laws of | this land if you should be so requested | by the Government, will command world-wide discussion. and though dip- lomatic usage will probably not jystify such a request by this Government you have, I am sure, rendered a very great service to the world-wide dis- cussion of how to prohibit the use of | intoxicating liquors which have sent | more men to the grave than even war itself with all of its horror.” e M. Edmonds made a defense of | “Prohibition, _quoting such _industrial | leaders as' Henry Ford and the late | / Judge Gary, former chairman of the | United_States Steel Corporation, and | Lord Leverhulme, one of Englangd's greatest business leaders. He also pointed out that Robert Dollar, the steamship owner, has never permitted any of his ships to carry liquor. Favored By Great Men. “Thus these four. ranking among the greatest business leaders of the world, ardently favored prohibition,” Mr. Edmonds wrote, “Mr. Ford going to the point of stating that he will not em- loy in his plants any man whose reath smells of intoxicating drinks. “None of the men whom I have | mentioned could ever be classed as visionary enthusiasts. and an innumer- able host of others of almost equal standing could be mentioned as un- wavering believers in the immeasurable lue of prohibition even though the | laws are not yet fully enforced.” URGE UNITED WAR ON U. S. TARIFF LAWS| Belgian Industrialists Advocate a “General Offensive” Against V. S. Protectionist Policy. By the Associated Press BRUSSELS, June 3.—A general of- fensive against what is considered an American protectionist policy relating to | foreign goods has been launched by Bel- gian industrialists, who have appealed to their government for reprisals and | suggested common defensive measures for ‘all European countries dissatisfied with American tariffs. The first move, which was made by the Linen Manufacturers’ Association, | has been followed by the central indus- trial committee, which hopes to draw the attention of the American embassy to the political and economic signifi- cancé of the American attitude on| tariffs. The Antwerp Industrial Chamber to- | day voted a resolution requesting the | Belgian government to bring to the notice of Washington the disastrous | consequences to Belgium of the con- templated American tariff revision. The Belgian government is: urged to make contacts with other European countries threatened by American tar- iffs, - with a view to solidarity in de- fensive measures against American im- | ports into European nations. . MOORE WINS BY 1,057. Democrat Is Victor in Third Ken- tucky District Vote. LOUISVILLE, June 3 (#).—Complete unofficial returns from all of the coun- ties of the third Kentucky congressional district today showed John W. Moore, Democrat, victor by a majority of 1,057 in Saturday’s special election. Mr. Moore defeated Homer Belfles, | Republican. The election was called to fill the vacancy created by the death of Charles W. Roark, who had defeated Mr. Moore last November by 4,000 ma- jority. Mr. Moore had served three | years as Representative from the district | before his defeat. ‘The complete unofficial Moore, 19,613; Beliles, 18,556, TWO HOP FROM FRANCE. | Plane Off for Seville for Non~5mp} Flight to New York. | ORLY, France, June 3 (#).—Two | Prench aviators, Capt. Coudouret and Count de Mailly-Nesle, left Orly air- drome today for Seville, Spain. They plan a non-stop flight from Seville to New York in their plane Prance. The two aviators narrowly escaped dis- aster at Le Bourget Field last Summer when they attempted to take off for America in an overloaded plane. They are using the same model Bernard monoplane with 600-horsepower His. pano-Stiza motor that they had last year. MAIL PLANE LOCATED. French Flyer From South America vote was: Safe, Landing in Africa. PARIS, June 3 (#)—A postal air- | plane, with mail from South America, | which was lost three days ago over the | deserts of Northwest Africa, was found today about 70 miles from Villa de Cisneros, in the Spanish territory of Rio_de Oro. The Aeropostal Co. of France an- nounced that the landing had been forced by lack of gasoline. The plane was said to have been refucled and to have taken off for Villa de Cisneros, whence it would procesd to France. i PALACE GUARD JAILED. Signaler Will Be Discharged From British Army. LONDON, June 3 (#).—George Sive- wright, the Scots Guard signaler, who sh all British military traditions by deserting his post in front of Bucking- ham Palace not long ago, will not be a heroic figure for tourist and house- maids’ eyes any more. He was found guilty by a court-mar- tial and was sentenced to 112 days’ hard labor In’l civil prison n}uhm‘mbe dis- Eh.lfltfl rom the Army wit ominy. Biyewright had pleaded that he was sleepwalking. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTOX, D. C, 'MONDAY, JUNE ~ oy 1929. WIN BRITISH PARLIAMENT SEATS l Although 69 women contested for seats in the British Parliament in the elections of 1929, only 13 were returned. This photo shows 4 women who werc elected. Top, left to right: Miss Ela Wilkinson, Laborite; Lady Astor, Conserva- tive. Bottom, left to right: Duchess of Atholl, Conservative; Susan Lawrence, Labor. —P. and A. Photos. TRINITY COLLEGE.~ DECISION FAVORS TOCONFER DEGREES - COLORED MASONS Thirteen Washington Girls Texas Court Reversed on Use Will Be Awarded Diplomas ‘ of Name, Titles and Tomorrow. J Emblems. ‘The Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, an organi- zation of colored Masons, may not be Thirteen Washington girls are to re- ceive their diplomas tomorrow at Trin- ity College, where the first class to graduate from that institution is cele- brating its silver jubllee, Siser Wil- fred, S. . dean of the college, Wwas & member of the jubilee class. The commencement program started on Friday with the annual concert by the Caecilian Society, with the Glee and emblems, etc., of the white Shriners, according to a decision of the Supreme | Court today, reversing the decision of | the Texas court which granted the in- Club and Eurydice Ciub co-operating. | junction. Justice Vandevanter deltvered e annual meeting of the alumnae | i assoclation was held Saturday morn- | s i was begun by the local tem- ing and in the afternoon the college | oo of white Shriners against the col dramatic _society presented Booth | breq Spriners in Houston, Tex., to en- Tarkington’s “Monsieur Beaucaire. The | ottt 90 EE B i e the ‘name alumnae banquet was Saturday night | i and was attended by several hundred | LS, emblems, offices, constitution, €1t G ot of the white Shriners. The national or- A e e oo m TR | ganization of the colored Shriners then 4 intervened in the case. Baccalaureate, Ceremonies. The trial court granted the’ injunc- tion, The decree was affirmed by the Baccalaureate Sunday was observed | : E yesterday with, solemn_pontifical mass e celebrated by Bishop John M. McNa- ! s mars of St, Gabriel's parish, The as. | g, T/ Supreme Court of the wnited v v, - | States manted a writ of certiorari in §isting priest was Very Rev. John Fene- | (he case. The colored Shriners argued enjoined from using the name, titles| : 1 | 1 BALDWINEAPECTED TORESIG AT ONCE | Announcement of Course of | Action Is Likely To- morrow. that 30,000 persons will attend a demon- stration in his honor. Leeders of prog- ressive movements from Iceland to China sent Mr. MacDonald personal messages. During the afternoon Mr. MacDonald visited an art exhibit. Miss Eleanore Rathbone, noted figure in the woman's movement, was elected to Parliament as an independent, being one of the two successful candidates for seats in_ the English combined | universities. Her election brought the | number of woman members of the new Parliament up to 14. Miss Rathbone is president of the | National Union for Equal Citizenship. | She was elected as the first woman | member of the Liverpool City Council in 1909 and was responsible for or- ganizing the work of the soldiers, and the war. She has written many articles on social problems, problems with relation to women. Among reports current, was one that Sir Oswald Mosley, the young baronet who married Lord Curzon's daughter, Cynthia. would be the Labor minister for foreign affairs to replace Sir Austen Chamberlain. Grandaughter of Chicagoan. Lady Cythia is the granddaughter of Levi Z. Leiter. pioneer Chicago mer- | chant. She has just won a seat in Commons Another Teport was that Premier | Baldwin would relinquish leadership of the Conservative party. The Sunday | Dispatch, one of Lord Rothermere's papers, suggested he might well ask himself whether he should continue as its_leader. It then added that the only concelv- able successor was Neville Chamber- lain, brother of Sir Austen, who in the general siump in Conservative vote totals last Thursday won his own con- stituency by a large majority. One of 10 unreported seats was placed in the Conservative column with | | 9 seats uncertain. [ Labor Has 287 Seats. | L mboe ... 287 | Conservatives 254 Liberals ... 57 Nationalists 3 Independents 4 Prohibitionist 1 | WY oveesnmwind cvsesaesvane 608 The London Times, which ranks as an independent, but which gives general support to the government, said edito- | rially today: | “The one outstanding result of the election is that Labor will form the next government by virtue of its largest fol- | lowing in the Commons. | “There should be no shadow of sus- picion that maneuvers are afoot to rob labor of the fruits of victory.” The Conservative Post asserted the | government neither could nor would try | to hold office by seeking Liberal sup- | port. MAN IS ARRESTED INWOMAN'S DEATH House Office Building Eleva-! tor Conductor Admits Own- completed returns Sunday, leaving but | that the white Shriners had no ex- preached by Rev. Thomas V. Moore, o | clusive right to their names which the law could recoginze, such, for example, | as a copyright: that the injunction in- | tringed their rights granted by a Fed- eral charter under an act of Congress: | that colored persons have been prac- ticing Masonry in the United States for over a century: that the Ancient Egyp- tian Arabic Order, Nobles of the Myetic This afternoon class day exercises are being held, followed by procession to the Aventine Hill and delivery of the tree oration by Miss Lilian Slat- tery. The degrees will be conferred tomor- row by Archbishop Curley, president of the board of trustees of the college. The_address to the graduates will be by Dr. Alfre J. Talley of New York. ing Gun Used in Suicide. | Shrine, was instituted by colored men | |day by a committee reporting to the |in 1893, and that the injunction against them deprived them of their liberty and | property without due process, as also | of the equal protection of the laws. | The white Shriners claimed they | should be protected against any colored imitations of their order and name; | that the adoption of the name by the | colored order misled the public and | caused confusion; that this censtituted a fraud, and that the colored Shriners should not, by reason of their incor- poration under an act of Congress, be protected in fraudulent imitation of the white order. The Washington graduates are: Washington Diploma Winners. Mary Howe, 1000 Quincy street north- east; Marie Angela Hicks, 1116 Monroe street; Adele Katharine Cavanagh, 2901 Courtland place; Margaret Gray Gea- gan, 1224 Seventeenth street; Mary Anastasia Fitzgerald, 3434 Brown street; Catherine Agnes Sheehan, 2715 Con- necticut avenue; Margaret Veronica Sheehan, 2715 Connecticut avenue; Mary E. Coleman, 1634 Monroe street; Dorothy Neil Harrington, Braddock, Va.: E. Elinor Brady, 818 Farragut street; Eleanor H. Finch, 100 Virginia | P DENIED BY COURT Flynn, 1511 Rhode Island avenue, and Sylvia K. Crowley, 149 C street north- east. | Plea for $500,000 Property Seized in Philippines Rejected by D. C. Tribunal. REGIONAL FEDERATION IS PLANNED BY HEBREWS Move Is Designed to Alflect Closer Contact Between Isolated and Metropolitan Jews. custodian for the Straits Settlement to ; lexubllsh a claim to property valued By the Associated Press | at $500,000, which had been seized in CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 3.—In 8| the Phillipine Islands by the Amer- move looking toward increasing contact | ican alien property custodian, belonging between isolated and metropolitan Jews, | to the British corporation of Behn. the executive board of the Union of | Meyer & Co. Ltd, were unsuccessful American Hebrew Congregations has | today when the District Court of Ap- voted to establisn two districts as a | peals in an opinion by Chief Justice start toward a regional federation plan. | Martin affirmed the action of the Dis- Regional rabbis will have the assist- | trict Supreme Court, ance of affillated bodies of the union in The lower court had held under a the work, which will feature regional | finding by the United States Supreme conventfons, work with Jewish students | Court that although most of the stock in_universiiies and a possible “radio | of the corporation was enemy owned congregation” for Jews in communities | the property se - too small to maintain rabbis R AT A e s i ponata: The plan was explained here yester- :’n the English colony, and was seized y mistake and s union. At the same time Adolph 8. | the cnrpm-mtm:1 SR Ochs, publisher of the New York Times | = Representatives of the British cus- and chairman of the endowment fund | todian had filed a separate suit asking committeee sceking to raise $5,000.000 | that the money be returned to the cus- for the Hebrew Union College endow- | todian, but the lower court overruled ment, said he believed the amount |the contention and an appeal was would be realized by July 1. Julius | taken. The appellate court finds that Rosenwald, Chicago. started the fund | the return of the stock certificates and by pledging $500.000, with the stipula- | register books to the original stock- tion_that $4,000,000 additional be ralsed | holders in 1925 by the British authori- by July 1. ties in the Straits Settlement amounted e lo a release of the shares from the em VETERANS PLAN OUTING. | ‘e orders pas‘scd byy&'é“%"nfi?fl ?\Ixt" | todian in 1926 approving the suit filed | here were against the public policy of | the United States. Place for Annual Motor Trip. wfll]l;h D!ul;llc ngi:yv the court said, uld not favor the ' extendi Arrangements were being made by |at this time to a foreign g:v.er::ne.xl\? the American War Veterans' Club for | while virtually attempting to seize al~ its annusl motor caravan outing late |leged enemy-owned property in this month. country under its war legislation. b s malking! rscliee: &t Toonliios| porise i s 1o crigaged in i in' Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vir- | lias &nd exporting in the Philippine ginia, and the time and place are to i be sclected soon by the board of gov- families | Club Secretary Seeking Suitable Magazine Writer 1;1 s, emors. Veterans and thelr ! dest to participate in t club’s | etmeSars directed” to "communicate | SANTA MONICA, Calif. June 3 (P). with the offices in the Metropolitan | —David Swing Ricker, 49, newspaper man and magazine writer, died yester- During the absence of Lieut. Charles | day. He came to California from Chi- Riemer, president of the club, who is | €880 in 1921 and had been head of the e etive training_ duty, - Lieut. Col, | Promotion department of the Los An- Dunlap P. Penhallow, vice president, geles Examiner. His pen name was will preside at all meetings. v Stephen Wentworth. o P — Automobile registrations in Spain this | Nearly $5,000,000 worth of American season are fully 15 per cent more than | proprietory medicines were sent %o & year ago. South America st year, Bank Building. » Efforts of the British alien property | poration, which had been incorporated | Abe R. Segal, 32, elevator conductor n the House Office Building and law | student at George Washington Uni- { versity, was arrested this afterncon by members of the homicide squad for investigation in connection with the death of Mrs. Nellie Jackson. who PFri- day night shot herself while on Ver- mont avenue between N and O streets because, it is charged, she was slighted by a male acquaintance. Segal is said by police to have ad- mitted ownership of the pistol used by the woman in taking her life. He said to have declared she took the pistol from a trunk in his apartment. Continuing their investigation of the suicide, members of the homicide squad were told that the young woman's maiden name was Nellie Smokorski and that she formerly resided in Manitoba, Canada. Inspector Shelby yesterday wired the chief of police of Moorhead, Minn., a request to notify A. P. Jackson, em- ploye of a merchantile establishment in that city, that his wife Nellle had com- mitteed suicide here. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt conducted an investigation of the young woman's death and gave a certificate of suicide. Her body is in the District Morgue awaiting word from relatives, BRITISH VOTE TO AFFECT LABOR BODIES IN U. S. Weman Socialist Leader at Chicago Bays Interest Indicates Desire for More Influence. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 3.—Success of the Labor party in the recent British elec- tions will have marked influence upon {labor organizations in the United States, Mrs. M. H. Barnes, acting national | executive secretary ‘of the Soctalist party, predicted today. “Letters arriving from many States from our members and also from mem- bers of trade unions show there has been an intense interest in the Labor party struggle,” her statement said. “These reports also show there is con- siderable dissatisfaction with labor's lack of political influence and power in this country and a desire to remedy this by more effective political organi- zation of labor's forces. “The British Labor successes will not only have a profound influence upon labor in Europe. They will also hearten the thinking labor men of this country | so that American labor will also ad- vance with the labor movement in other parts of the world.” GERMANS FOR COLONIES. Societies Adopt Besolution Point- ing to Necessity of Possessions. ALLENSTEIN, Germany, June 3 (®)—Societies interested in German colonial development today adopted & resolution declaring that *possession of colonies is a necessity of life for Ger- many.” The resolution read, in part: “Dr. Schacht’s praiseworthy plea for Ger- man-owned raw material sources, as well as the German government's dec- laration on entrance to the League of Nations are merely isolated incidents. The German government must by forceful declarations and determined negotiations show that it stands whole- heartedly behind the colonial demands of the entire nation.” s to abandon old outlooks and methods | i (left to right) Miss Megan Lloyd Geor; ‘who was elected a Liberal; Malcolm MacDonald, son of former Prime Parliament as a Laborite; Oliver Baldwin, son of Prime Minister Stanley When the new British Parliament meets on June 20, 1929, all the three party leaders will be looking to their sons and Jaughters to carry on the traditions of British democracy. This photo shows daughter of former Prime Minister Lloyd George, Minister Ramsay MacDonald, who was returned to sailors, families in Liverpool throughout | Baldwin, who was elected as a Labor member. —P. and A. Photos. ilywn 4 George. son of Mai. Gw who for The St le, written specially BY MAJ. GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE. | | LONDON, June 3.—When I was little | and people used to tell me about Santa | Claus immediately I would imagine that they were describing my father! Nothing has happened to obliterate | that first impression. I know of no one | 5o genial, so eager to do good turns to | those around him, so jovial in his whole | cutlook as Mr. Lloyd George. My earliest days were spent in Wales. We spoke Welsh. When my father be- came a minister of the crown we began to speak English at meals. This was simply out of courtesy to many guests. Could Joke With Children. It tised to be father's great joke to give me Welsh sentences to translate | into English, knowing full well that I couldn't do it. He had a wonderful way with children and could rag them to his heart's content without ever wounding | the most sensitive. 1 den't think th | at my father's influ- spend much time with him. He would flash across my horizon for a few mo- ments, now and then, but in those mo- ments it seemed to me that I had been lifted on to a different plane. | It was a matter of principle with my father to send us children to state- supported schools because he thought this the finest type of education in Eng- land. It' was part of his creed that| every man should have equal oppor-| tunity in education. He felt that if I had to go out into the world and carve my own future it would be wisest that I should mix with those who had to face the same prospect. Before the war I went to Eastbourne College. While I was there I discov- ered that my father was living a sort of vicarious second existence through me. As a lad he had had to work t0o hard to enjoy games OF sport or relax- ation of any kind. Through his achieve- ments, I, his son, was able to go in for all that sort of thing to my heart's content. And through me he was en- joying it all, experiencing it. Began to Seek Him. Until then I had always taken my | father for granted. I loved him, I hon- ored him, but I felt no sense of respon- sibility toward him. But once I saw that I could be the source of much joy and pride to him—and my little suc- cesses on the school cricket, foot ball and hockey teams he made appear to me as vital as any one of his own su- | preme triumphs in the political fleld—TI began to seek him out, study his ideas, | try to know him as a man, apart from as a father. Then, shattering everything, came | war. My sister Megan, in consequence, spent more time with my father than | T @ld. Although there is a bond be- tween father and son that I imagine to be quite a different thing from the af- | fection between father and daughter, | she has become, naturally, his closeut} companion. | It is one of the distinguishing quali- ties of Mr. Lloyd George that one does | not have to be with him a great deal for | him to color all one's ideas. I never feel that my sister has been given more | of his mind or heart than I have, | T left Jesus College, Cambridge, and | from the age of 19 un tically nothing of him. major and didn't miss one engagement. | And yet, although I saw practically | nothing of him, I don't know that his| influence over me had ever been 50| werful, so inspiring. I felt that so ong as my father was at the helm | everything must go right. | Wanted Him to Go to School. When I returned from the war my father wanted me to go back to the university and qualify for any profes- sion I wished. It was probably the best advice he ever gave me, but it was the one counsel of his I did not take. I have regretted it since. However, it was not just a blind contrariness which held ‘me in its grip. All through the war 1 had been self-supporting and independent. Not one word of criticism did my father utter. His understanding of young people is always perfect, greater perhaps than his understanding of his own generatiol 1s nearly 66, he is a young man at heart. Then one day he asked me whether I would not care to take up politics. 1 saw that here lay his dearest wish-— he wanted to serve England once again, through me. That was how I became M. P. for Pembrokeshire. S0 soon as I started to study politics seriously he gave me a piece of advice at I have never forgotten. He said, “The man who learns nothing knows nothing. Learn—and then keep on learning!" "The newspapers have liked to picture ovd George an unlettered man, & man I became a | | L | ipon personality and keen quickness of intellect. It is a popular, but inaccu- | rate, portrait. He has, at great pains, | developed that intellect. He was a stu- dent—some rather learned folk have spoken of him to me, indeed, as a scholar. My father has always been a great reader. That is a side of him that has influenced me a great deal and yet it is, as I say, not even Exeued at by his supporters, let alone his opponents. hat do I think of father? To my mind, that is putting the thing the wrong way around. For it would be much simpler to say what I don’t think of. him, in view of the fact that I think so much, so very, very much, that I cannot begin to express myself. I will just try to boil it down to this: I think him the most delightful human being that I have ever known. I think him the most intelligent per- son I have ever met. I think him the most understanding, the most human, the most sympathetic. the most sincere, the most idealistic and at the same time practical person with whom I have come in contact I think him the most inspiring, the most electric of personalities. 1 think him as my closest and 4 AS THEIR SONS SEE THEM Maj. Lloyd George and Malcolm MacDonald Bare What They Think of Their Fathers and Their Political Policies and Early Training at Home. L 1o were earrisd into office With th ‘they think of their fathers and how | to my father. ence over me was less potent because ¢ he was always so busy that I could not | oo who has accomplished his gigantic work | lovd George. and Malcolm Mac- fathers in the British elections. v went into politics in the follow d’ the Nortn American Newspap David L ar er BY MALCOLM MacDONALD. LONDON, June 3—It is curious, but due, 1 suppose, to my father's influence, that I seem to be re-enacting a good deal of his life as he lived it when he was my age. I was born where my father was born before me, in the wildest and loveliest part of the highlands, the lit- tle fishing village of Lossiemouth. Every stick and stone, every tree was familiar It was my great treat as a little fellow to go for rambles with him and listen to his tales about people and things. Even then, I could realize that usually some social evil that the story disclosed was my father's real interest in it, al- | though I don't think I knew what the word “politics” meant. Very often it would be a tale of some unhappy peasant who had been driven from the land. Inherent Love of Experimenting. “Malcolm, if only there had been a law to protect him,” my father would ., and then, remembering my age, would stop short and continue, in re- sponse to my urgent, “Go on, Dad. What happened next?” with the facts told movingly as, in my opinion at least, only he could tell these. Then my father became a member of Parliament and we moved to London. Mr. father's inherent love of experi- menting has certainly influenced my entire life and character. Instead of being sent to the ordinary preparatory school, my father sent me to the co-educational school. Bedales. now very well known and of high stand- ing. In those days it was attractive only to the most daring and unconven- tional of parents. * I think what appealed to my father most was that at Bedales there was a school parliament run along the same lines as the house. From-tite first I loved debates, and I smile now as I recollect that I used to tackle subjects of which I knew little or nothing. I used to send hurried letters to my father asking for information on this or that point that I could use in “parliamentary debate.” Always Got Prompt Reply. A man who is a great thinker, phi- losopher, student, and who is an execu- tive too, like my father, has much to attend to and accomplish to succeed in getting through the day's work. But he mwlrr falled to let me have a prompt reply, Sometimes it meant quite a good deal of research work to answer my ques- tions, especially when I became older. | It made no matter. Somehow, he man- | aged it. From Bedales I went to Oxford. Al- 1lhnugh 1 had been vitally interested in politics at school, with the new possibil- ities I discovered at Oxford that interest waned. | _ Quite subconsciously, here was I re- | living my father's past, as a boy, just | as I had relived it in my childhood. For I felt the call of a literary career as Ramsay MacDonald had felt it befor: me—although I did not know then that | he had been torn between his natural | inclination to devote his life to writing and a missionary-like zeal to reform the social system. f My father's influence was all the interfere or direct me in any way. After I came down from Oxford I went through & period when I was able to view my father objectively, weigh up the value of the work he had done as against that of the personal satisfac- tion he might have gained by following his own inclinations and my unbound- ed admiration for him decided me. Made Father Happy by Decision. 1 would go into politics. I knew that my fdther had a secret wish that either my brother Alastair jor I would follow in his footsteps. Selfishly, I had hoped that it would be | Alastair. But he showed signs of real inspiration as an architect, and as I had always been the more interested of the two in politics, it seemed to me | that to disappoint my father was out | of the question. | When my decision was made known to him he was a much happier man. | Meanwhile, I had been given the op- n, because, although he |poriunity of traveling around the world | on the Oxford debating tour wit) Woodruff, who afterward svrole "Pl-m?; American Republic,” and it was a val- uable experience. I had been too long | under my father's influence to be any- | thing other than keenly interested in | soclal conditions everywhere, and dur- |ing the tour I came to the conclusion that until I was at least 40 politics must be the be-all and end-all of my existence, After that I hope to have some leisure in which to write. But until then I consider whatever brain power I may possess conscripted by the state, And all this time my father loomed largest of all things on my horizon. saw him as a statesman, as a thinker, as a man bed and brave enough to dare take the responsibility of in- fluencing the destinies of nations, and :n;fil‘col;?(ly 'sllronzt to bear criticism | Tesentment and, 1 | from it if possible. e SO Admired “Great Statesman.” | My boyish hero-worship was trans- | formed into the ndmxrnuox? of the lll:‘l‘ll politician for the statesman, of the follower for the leader. And during all this time I was enjoying a man-to- man companionship with Ramsay Mac- Donald which had nothing to r{o with the relation of father and son. My father was the more sympathetic, dearest friend. Also I think his charm and gayety the most winning combina- tion of qualities to be met with in any one. And in that last sentence I have cx- though silently, because he knew t! I was being tormented by the same sires as he had experienced in his youth, and that although I was in the thick of | political thought, save for a sense of | duty, T should be 2 writer. My father must have felt, T should hat de e jmagine, that neither he nor I could live | to the day when our theories are actual embodiments of law, but to contribute ! what he could to a true democratiza- | | tion was all he asked. Personal tri- | umphs meant little to him. He is a | born_fighter for causes. Nobody has champloned the cause of | India in the masterly way that Ramsay | MacDonald has—at least as I see it. 1 think that most people recognize to- day that it was he who made the British | government realize that some day India would have to govern herself. This is not the place to discuss poli- | tics, I know, but these things, while they were part of my father's career, have also been a part of my life, and have affected my thoughts and attitude toward my_father. Father Is “Frightfully Reserved.” Besides my work as managing editor of a library of sixpenny volumes now being sold to the public, I am very busy over county council work, and spend most of my time at Westminster Hall. 1 think, perhaps, it is a valuable train- | ing for the House. My father, like most Celts, is fright- fully reserved and I cannot think of | any one thing he dislikes more than ta'king about himself. He cannot man- | |age to do so easily, even among his | intimates. | Therefore, with the best of intentions T cannot put into words all that I think about my father. But perhaps people | will realize by what I have told them here—particularly how his example has | made me suppress my true desires only ! to follow where he has led—what I really do think. (Copsignt. v the North American Alliance.) ewspa; 'SOUTHERN VETERANS GATHER FOR REUNION Thousands of Visitors Pour Into Cherlotte for Sixty-ninth Annual Meeting. Br the Assoclated Pres: CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 3.—Thou- sands of visitors began to pour into Charlotte today, one day before the of- ficial opening of the sixty-ninth annual lreunlnn of the United Confederate Ve | erans and affliated organizations. Dur- ing the day more than 112 special rail- road coaches and Pullmans were to DRY CONVICTIONS SHOW DECREASE: Number of New Cases in Dis- trict and Nation Increases, Survey Reveals. While there was an increase in ncw prohibition cases instituted both in th~ District of Columbia and throughou® the country during the last half of the calendar year 1928, as compared to th~ last half of 1927, the number of convic- | tions and pleas fell off for the Nation | and the amount of fines assessed na- | tionally decreased, according to the De- | partment of Justice. | "'The District of Columbia Pol | Court, it was revealed in a report tod | showed an increase in new cascs insti- | tuted during the last half of the year | 1928, as compared to the last haif of | 1927, from 152 to 234, while the District of Columbia Supreme Court showed an | increase from 3 to 10 cases. The fig- ures for the country on this item grew | tfrom 26,677 to 27,575. Convictions Decline Here. | The number of convictions and pleas in Police Court here fell off sharply | from 439 to 373 during the comparable | periods, while the District of Columbia | Supreme Court rose during the same | time from 2 to 3. Convictions and | pleas for the Nation at large dropped from 26,277 to 23,683. Fines assessed in the local courts, | however, showed large gains, while the | national income from this _source dropped. The District of Columbia Po- lice Court jumped from $35,648 to $70 160, while the District of Columbia S | preme Court rose from $100 to $1,000. The total for the country dropped off from $3,444,751 to $3,222,146. An analysis of the table shows that the following districts have shown a steady decrease in almost all of the re- corded facts 'contained in the table, namely: Alaska, first division; Alaska, second division; California, Southern: Colorado, North Carolina, Western; ‘Tennesse, Middle. In the following districts there has been a steady increase during the period in all the records covered: Connecticut. Georgia, Middle; Hawaii; Illinois, North- ern, and Ilinois, Eastern. Jail Terms Decrease. In connection with these statistics there are compiled figures showing the aggregate number of years of imprison- ment imposed for violation of the pro- hibition law during the six-month period of the year, which shows a loss in the period of 1928, compared with the months of 1927. The total number of years, omitting fractions of a year, for the six months of 1928, in all the dis- tricts throughout the country, was 3,205 years. During the 1927 period the total | number of years, omitting fractions of | years, was 3,472. In the six months of | 1926 the record was 2,383 years, and in | the months of 1925, 2,467. 'SKILLED POLICEMEN HELD NEED OF CITIES Atlanta Chief Declares Officers Are Handicapped in Prosecution of Criminals. | | | By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga, June 3—Skilled policemen are needed to combat skilled criminals, Police Chief James L. Beaver of Atlanta, president of the Interna- tional Association of Chiefs of Police. said today in his o address at the thirty-sixth annual convention. Police officers are handicapped in the prosecution of criminals, Chiet Beavers | said, because of the system of dealing with common crimes. “Officers must combat the most skilled criminal lawyers as well as a vast number of technicalities invented | and presented by them. This is & day of skill—skilled workmen, doctors, farm- | bring in their contingents of veterans, | ers, bankers, merchants, lawyers and sons of veterans, attendants and spon- | gkilled criminals—and we need skilled sors. | policemen,” he declared. Among the officials of the Sons of | Veterans who arrived during the morn- | = ing were: J. 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