Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1931, Page 27

MDONALD TIRED, | VST LEARNS Premier Works Hard as Peers Play Near His 0ld Home. BY NEGLEY FARSON. By Cable to The Star. LONDON, England, Sepember 1.—I have been to Lossiemouth. 1 have never passed so many lordships, dukes, barons, baronets and bars. The Stock Exchange and the kilted aristocracy—yanking sil- ver salmon out of Scotland’s Bonnie Burns, potting grouse on the purple sweeps of the sky-flung empty moors, stalking royal stags beyond the lone- some pine—sinking whiskeys and sodas at the nineteenth hole. And amid all this happy slaughter and vacattoning I found the most tired man I ever hope to see—Ramsay Mac- Donald, for the third time prime min- ister of Great Britain. “It #Angs.” he said, tensely, leaving me to answer the imperative telephone. “It rings all the time—London.” We stood on the ston2 veranda of his humble little stone cottage in Lossle- mouth within & few vards of the spot where 65 vears ago Mr. MacDonald had been born. Dogged hands shoved into the pockets of his double-breasted blue suit, a seasoned briar between clenched teeth, the greenish idealist’s eyes gazing off across the windy sweeps of the gorse and sea meadows to his beloved cairn gorms, Hero or—what? Called “Traitor” 14 Years Ago. Well, for the last week. nine-tenths | of the world has been hailing him as a hero—a tribute not altogether displeas- ing to a vain highland pride But 14 ears ago. when MacDonald had pub. icly welcomed the Russian revolution. the citizens of this little Scottish fishing | village had painted the letters “traitor” over his door Weather and_public opinion have since rubbed them out. That was when, in the red anger of the war days. he had defied Jingo patriotism by championing true pacificism. British | saflors walked off their ship—refusing to carry him to a premature ‘peace conference 1n Stockholm—MacDonald was a blankety blank Socialist Today beople for whom he has peen almost crucified politically have Jaid the charge of betrayal once again at_his humble door. In the Sunday newspaper in my hands, I notice that Seaham. his own constituency, has just asked him to re- g, \aterialism?” said & third member of our party. “Ay." said Mr. MacDonald, “but T'll ot talk about this now. Nothing. This i something that must be thought over.” Has Letters From All Classes. His steady eyes staring past us bore the same intent fixity I have seen time and again in the eyes of trawler cap- tains of little Scottish fishing vessels threading their way into port—the “hand-at-the-wheel” look. The prime minister is taking his political bearings British ship of state. weighing every ey tters from peo- ple of all secti s h Tife—bishops, p: 8ge pensioners—saying I've done right (he gave the name of one of the high- est prelates in the land), letters from the very people, mind you., who are going to be the hardest hit by the sac- rifices we must ask “I've got letter after letter here from the old Socialist rank and file—not men 1n the front rank, perhaps, holding pub- lic offices. but steady. quiet men behind the scenes wko, in the key posts of the party, have been working for true so- clalism all along. I've got a letter here from a group of unemployed stating rankly that they believe the time has come when they must make a terrific sacrifice, too.” As we talked, the prime minister's housekeeper cleared away breakfast. H always eats &t the Hillocks, in the open air. ‘The Hillocks, I might say, is known up here as the little house “with its back to its front.” for vou enter it h the side wall and there are only two high windews in the grim granite wall it presents to its modest street. Its back or its front yard, therefore, is & tiny patch of cut grass, protected by & few strands of wire fence on the edges of a billowing sea of green gorse and sea meadows. It should spell utter seclusion; but from this green jungle wild photographers have been popping up to snap Mr. MacDonald at the Spar- tan meals he always eats on the porch. Last Friday—as if digging himself in against the future—the prime minister, with his own hands and a trusty spade, planted 12 willow trees so that they might grow up and shicld one of the Windows through which newspaper cor- respondents have a penchant for peep- Premier’s House Is Small. Fiia house is 80 small, mind you, that he cannot entertain a guest, and ‘when his secretaries are there, his children, Joan, Malcolm and faithful Ishbel, sleep in little stone huts ranged alongside. Ishbel, with the permission of J. M. Barrie, named hers “The Wendy House.” Granite, green gorse, the salt sweep of deer-colored sands and grand hills roll- ing against the blue sky—a grand set- ting for a great man And Mr. MacDonald knows it. His King gave him that mperial sympa- thetic understanding this dour Scot needed at such a time. And as a con- stant reminder of where his real heart lies, on the other side of the hill are two fashionable hotels lined with sump- tuous motor cars, and the Moray Golf Club—which expelled him for his “So-| clalism” 14 years ago—and has been on its knees ever since trying to get him back. But the prime minister played no golf this week end—the phone jangled again— “It’s not true Soclalists who stand in our path,” Mr. MacDonald said, firmly. “It's the hidebound element of the trade unions.” He pulled a handful of change from his pocket and bounced it up and down on his palm. “He looks at his money like this and says, ‘I'm this much poorer, and he utterly misses the moral of this appeal. He does not realize that unless some- thing is done the poor will be in more dire need.’ Explains Stand on Dole. T asked him to explain why, when it would vield only £12,500.000 ($64,750.- 000), he had accepted the dole cut of 10 per cent which exiled him from his party and sent the whole Labor move- ment into the official opposition—could not the money have been raised some- where else? “It's not that at all” he replied. “Twelve and a_half millions is a large sum, in fact. But it's the principle of the thing. “The other services have already been 80 cut to the bone that in some cases even 5 per cent is practically more than they could stand. But they'd have accepted it. And now the time has come when unemployment insur- ance also must share the equal sacrifice for all—that must be faced. And I'm going to see this thing through.” 1 saw him later coming out of the high United Free Church, a red-leafed gofd hymn book under his arm and shaking hands among a little knot of fisher folk on the highland looking A Sunday newspaper was handed to him, but after an eager and almost covert glance, the prime minister pushed it away. Some Scots do not believe it right to read newspapers on Sunday. Then, with his two daughters, Ish- bel and Joan, he walked down the strand along the deer-colored sands to the white chalk spindle of Covsea light- house, snatching the first hour's re- pose and reflection he had had in two days. That night light is still burning in the study, where, at the broad desk Man With Shortest Name Saws Way Out Of Jail in Indiana By the Assoclated Press. NEWCASTLE, Ind., September 1.—Ed Py wss gecne today. The man who recently got into the limelight as a candidate in the shortest name marathon sawed his way out of the Henry County Jail, where he was held on a charge of grand larceny. Other prisoners made no efforts to follow him. He escaped Sun- day night. A. A of Chicago, who appar- ently won the race, but who sub- sequently explained that he merely cut down his name for advertising purposes, recently was charged with forgery in a Chi- cago court. He denied the alle- gation. VETERANS PARADE AT ENCAMPMENT Jahncke Asks V. F. W. Delay Demands for U. S. Aid Un- til Depression Ends. | By the Associated Press. } { KANSAS CITY, September 1.—Mar- tial strains and the tramp of march-! ing feet dominated the program of the ! luumz-secona annual encampment of | |the Veterans of Foreign Wars here to- | | day. A parade of more than 5,000 marchers through Kansas City's downtown sec- | tion replaced the morning business ses- sion of the veterans. Assigned to the line of march were the various State delegations of veterans wearing their blue and gold overseas caps; members lof the G. A. R., 10 bands and 30 drum | and bugle corps. The band of the 110th Engineers, Mis- | souri National Guard, was selected as the musical escort for Paul C. Wolman :‘);“(Bralllxnore, national commander in Jahncke Asks Delay on Demands. Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secre- | tary of the Navy, ia an eddress to the | former service men last night, urged| them to withhold demands for addition- | al Federal aid until the economic de- pression has passed. | Declaring that at no time since the World War have veterans been con- fronted with so great an opportunity for scrvice to the Nation, the Assistant Secretary said: | “I speak particularly of legislation for the benefit of veterans. You are| confronted with the alternative of de-| manding additional Federal benefits at| this eritical period or holdng your pro- | posals in abeyance until the time—not | far off, we hope—when increased ex-! penditures would not have a seriously injurious effect upon econcmic recove Hines Promises Aid to Needy. “The fundamental principles of vet- erans’ relief are not the issue. Last| year your Govcrnment distributed $2.- | 000,000,000 among veterans and veter- ans' dependents. This was two-fifths | of our total expenditures “The Federal treasury can ill afford to spend that much next year, and so I am confident you will approach the question of increased expenditures in a {spirié of unselfishness and a wise pa- triotism.” Jahncke said the depression is “the inevitable result of many factors, in- cluding the World War. demonetization of silver in India and China, disruption of commerce in Asia, uncontrollabi | overproduction of agriculture through |out the world, re-entry of Russia into the world market and above all the un exampled mechanization of industry. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the United States Veterans’ adminis- tration, earlier in the day had promised the delegates that “no veterans we know about will be in need of food or shelter this Winter.” I. N.'S. HEAD RESIGNS Frank E. Mason Gives Up Position | as News Service President. | NEW _YORK, September 1 (#).— Frank E. Mason last night announced | he had resigned as president and gen-| eral manager of the International News | Service. He had been associated with the Hearst organization for 12 years as | a writer on foreign affairs and as an executive. Mr. Mason said that a statement as to his future plans would be made uwm lhia return from Europe on Oc- Duke U. Has 16,000 Plants. DURHAM, N. C. () —An herbarium containing & collection of 16,000 plant specimens, gathered from many sections of the world, has been acquired by Duke ; University. beside the simple bed, and with & pic- ture of Margaret MacDonald, his dead wife, over the fireplace, he is laboring for his country's needs. Kept Desperately Busy. At this time of crisis he is so de- perately busy that he is not able to follow his hitherto invariable custom of going four miles out to Spyne, where his wife and mother lie buried. The jangle of the telephone—Downing street calling again. . . . Down at the edge of the sea, I found a fisherman—for Lossiemouth, 1 believ is the one spot in the world where fish ermen when on shore actually look at the sea. We lay beside a pile of red, nets—the sun sliding behind bars of flamingo and pure turquoise into the moray firth. The fisherman said how he'd heard that the laboring man all over England was rising against Mr. MacDonald's government—but few were the men Who, had a word to say against Mr. Mac- Donald himself. I said that the tide | of public opinion seemed to be setting | that way. ““Och, ay!” Jock grunted comfortably. | “as far as I'm concerned, I think Jamie’ will pull through.” | At midnight two guiding lights still burned in Lossiemouth—from the prime | minister’s study and the light house on | Covsea Point. for Supreme Laundry Service A week's trial Il convince you that National service in better. Every article s carefully n soft filtered w: proper atrength aws tary and . perfect wash. 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