ET, Prt (THB P. F. DALLEY CORPORATIONS THE. BIG VALUE BOX Also for Black, Tan and White’ Shoes HAMILTON, CAR? = TDs: British Labor Leader Had an Uphill Striggle, But He Arrived at the Top | the son -of humble work people, himself a mechanic | without HE fact that George Barnes, | early advantages, who recently resigned from the Lioya>, “PIS George Cabinet, became a _ British Cabinet Minister, is no longer re- jmarkable. British politics has in- | stances like it aplenty. The peculiar | | distinction of Mr. Barnes is, bis high | orden of admftiistrative ability. He cannot make a brilliant speech like | Tom Mann. He is not a born agitator | like Bob Smillie. He bas no personal charm like John Burns. He is no leader of men, like “Jim" Thomas. George Barnes has not even a nick- | Bame. Heis a plodding, unobtrusive, workingman, simple, domesticated, eren pious. He is an administrator | | with a capacity to make official ma- | chimery work smoothly, silently, cheaply and with speed. | rge Barnes, we read in the Yorkshire Post, is a Scot, although he does not reveal his origin in his aceent. His father was a Scottish mechanic. His mother was (he ghter of a mechanic, She was a pious woman, reared in the strictest motions of the ‘‘kirk,"’ and she took palms to see thal her son George— mvho was born at Lochee some sixty , years ago—should know the Bible. | ‘fhe parents of young Barnes roved | hoes the British Isles -because the | father of the family worked In ma- | whinery that had to be set up in mills here and there. Before George | 4nad reached the age of ten he was | quite a traveler. in dire poverty, He had Logpu beiat his mother’ cutting | TE FPR eS GBORGE BARNES. down his father’s old clothes to fit him. about a year's schooling and when be*was eleven he J went to work in a aed mill. thirteen he was | day. self-effacing and solidly respectable 1 was }and accuracy which make it a marvel of London's bookstalils was the * | anxiety even Post. pal libraries. . had attained the age of fifteen. For own earnings were nominal. He stuck | to his engineering and lived on oat- meal—when there was any — and on ae gee went supperiéss to he was out of wack and Suet to ; wamdieciies the highway from town to town, sleeping by the side of . with the gypsies and the | is mother is still alive at a vener- age, Although George Barnes is not what would be called “clever” or brilliant, in spite of his keen sense of humor, he had learned early in ‘e that he stood In need of study. To make his difficulty all the greater, be was not naturally alert, not able to acquire knowledge with facility. He took him many a weary hour to Iaster even the rudiments of any jkind of knowledge. Be attacked he French language ,sturdily, but being unable to afford ‘himself a teacher, he had to pro- nounce it as it is spelled, with an | Emgtish effect that lingers to this His originally defective memory trained to a degree of niceness 7. His supreme discovery in his rambles through the wilderness "Pro- gress and Poverty’ of Henry George. He resolved to specialize in the study of economics. He read Milf and the , sociology of Spencer and Carlyle, and on the eve of his introduction to the world of trade-unionism was a con- ee radical. rise of George Barnes in the wera of British labor was a slow one. He had to be content with doing the drudgery of the secretaryship and ‘with keaping the accounts. He had the quiet plodding efficiency of the hard worker. Until his advent in the \trade union world, collective bargain- ‘ing was a happ¥-go-lueky thing. The ‘administrative genius of this Scot evolved a working arrangement that Keeps all parties to a dispute within bounds. Another great achievement was econamy in the management of trade union funds, in ‘which he de- vised a system of strike benefits and | strike assessments that has spread all over Great Britain. Barnes is; deemed sort of financial wizard in the trade union world. It looked for a long time as if George Barnes could not get into the House of Commons. He tried and) tri without suctess, because he) could not strike the imagination with | a speech. However, some fourteen years ago he was chosen by a Glas- gow labor constituency and he came to the front at once, Barnes lives with his wife and children — one of his sons was old enough to lose his life in the war— in a small flat in a cheap London neighborhood on a scale of extreme ' frugality. The one ambitious: room | is the library with its books and its | reproduction of great masterpieces on the walls, for George Barnes will confess that if he were rich he would gather about him a collection of , Works of art George Barnes is summed up in the press of Great Britain as a con- servative Labor leader, He gives no to the Tory London Oldest Free Library. Though the oldest of the municipal | public libraries represented at the re cent Southport congress of the Lib ‘rary AssoclAtion—those of Manches- ter—date only fram 1852, quite a , number of English towns had free | libraries of a sort as early as the be _ ginning of the 17th century. Norwich opened a [rée library in 1608, and Dr. Toby Matthew, Archbishop of York, assisted a-Mr. Robert Redwood to found a similar oe at Bris- tol in too, had a free library in 1632, ona in £653 Sir Humphrey Chetham founded the no- ble Chetham Library at Manchester. Despite many ups and down thease and other similar town collections re- mained in use until, for the most part, incorporated in modern munici- St. Paul's Doors. _ The great oak doors af the en- | trance of St. Paul’s cathedral in Lon- ; don are thirtwfeet high and are be- ‘lieved to. be the largest ene door in_the world, ey are mearly. as old as the cathedral itself, and each leaf bears vpon it the name of the carpenter who m it © “Please” ——— Careful estimates by the United States postal authorities po that aoe een ch of the word “please” in cosis the Serine people sien 000,000 annually. sypeeny. end eventually a to secure the Republican nomination ‘tor the Presidency. In public life he has made few enemies, and this qual- ity.serted him in good stead at, Chi- cage. Johnson plenty of ¢ne- mies; Wood aranene by eT, and it was thought that the cam- paign fund disclosures would | him -a hard man to elect. Mr. Harding was born on Novem- | ber 2, 1866, in the village of Corsica, | Ohic. His father was George Hard- Ling, a wonctcine physician, and ran | a farm at the same time. Teanevisania. On his mother’s side he comes of Dutch stock, the well- known Van Kirk being among his ancestors. Young Warren SENATOR HARDING. toiled on the farm as a, boy, and re- ceived the usual country school edu- lating from the Qhio Centr: Coilege, an institution his | Cation, later of gr: now defunct. In-his spare hours 6 use to do odd cHores arotnd ‘the village newspaper office, learning to set type and getting a general exper- fence tm all-round country journa ism. In 1884 the family moved to Marion, Ohio, and Dr. Harding and his son between them bought the Star ne newspaper of that town, Warren becoming editor. Ten days after he assumed this position the Republican National Convention was held in Chi- and the young editor providing himself with a pass went to the ‘city to cheer for Blaine, while the paper was left to get itself out the dest it could. ¢ result was that when the young editor returned Home he fottud that the paper had s ded. - | He then offered his ices to the eppesition Paper, the Marion tor, tle viark as a reporter. He was es good progress in this denpartment)"and 80 satisfactory was his:work that his employer ithstructed him to turn edi- torial writer and denounce Blaine. He refused to swallow his Rept bii- can principles, however, and found himself without a job. The next few months he devoted to boosting ‘for Blaine. But Blaine was defeated and one of the bitterest momenta’ tn young Harding’s life was that as a member of the town band he was employed by the exulting Demoefats to play for their celebration when Cleveland waa elected. But the night was not full of gloom; for that very evening Harding and Jack Warwick, now paragrapher on the Toledo Blade, raised enough money to buy the ion Star from the sheriff. Warw lost heart soon after the en- terprise was floated, and took a eal- aried pdésition, leaving Harding ‘to struggie along with the paper and worry about the neg It happened, however, that and the paper grew with the town, eventually becoming a highly profitable concérn, Naturally enough the young. edi- tor took a keén in { in and in a short time he found — running for office with the cordial en dorsement of the Marion Star, a lend- ing newspaper. In 1900 he was elect- ed to the State Senate and wirved four years. His next office was that of lIleutenant-governor. In 1910 he was the party candidate for — Bo pes Boars og but internal trout ed his defeat. The rererse, dguerint- ly, did noetiting to lessen Harding's personal popularity, which was prov- ed in 1914 when he was elected Uiit- ,000, advance of the reat of the ticket. ‘He became a member of the Committee om Foreign Relations, which, on ac count of the war, most important pee ena of the t re who} that! was one of the! was “a war to" ho but. fhore recently they have discover- 6d to their sorrow that such was not the effect of the travail of five yeara,. Hin, fact some wit has gone so: far as to Sgn ed the peace terms an “a peace t al asthe citizens of Wilson made a sap advised the men in‘ to “keep ther rh fit for the day that is comi ‘Immediately he found that he ned brought a hornets’ nest of criticism about his head. Peo- ple swarmed out to say that the mill- tary leaders are anxious for war, be- cause it is thelr profession add be- cause they are the only men who are comparatively safe in war time, Sir Henry Wilson was accused of at- tempting to pick a new opponent. Fortunately for him the matter was brought up in the House of Com- mons, and thus he’was given an opportunity to explain to the nation that a wrong construction had been put upon his words. He did not want war and was not looking for war, but he wanted the soldiers to realize that under the conditions that exist {n the world, there is plenty for the British soldiers to do The man who brought the matter 8 e British forces up in the House of Commons did not do so with any frientily feeling for Sir Henry Wilson. He put the worst possible construction on ‘his words and tried to make out that the Gov- ernment believed the country to be on the verge of another big war. The question he directed at Str Henry took a pointed form, “Who are we going to fight at no distant date? Is it America or is it Russia?” Winston Spencer Churchill, the Wer Minister, intervened. He stated that Great Britain had enormous Obligations in Constantinople, Ire- land, Mesopotamia, Palestine and Egypt: Great Britain bad only a emall army, he said, and the fleld marshal, in addressing the soldiers, had pointed out how sorely they were needed. That did not mean, the War Minister asserted, that Great Britain was on the verge of a great explo- sion. , An Ept e Dein. = In his new volume entitled “Out- spoken Essays," Dean Inge gets forth his observattons on life, religion, poli- tics, and ‘bther subjects of the day. Many are epigrammatic as well as loomy, as may be gathered from the following extracts: — “Tt b often been,noticed that every man looks a gentleman ino khaki; and it is to be feared that many war brides have suffered a painful surprise on seeing their hus- bands for the first time in civilian garb."” “Religion ria as ,{mportant as it was before the war." “Man remains what he has always been—a splendid fighting animal, a sélf-sacrificing | hero, and a blood- thirsty gavage. “Patriotism varies from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.’ “Public opinion is a vulgar, inner tinent, anonymous tyrant who delib- erately makes life unpleasant for any one who is not content to be the average man." “No one can govern who cannot ee to be unpopular.” “No one is so cruel as the dis- iMustoned sentimentalist.” “The Government ‘policy ja firat to treate unemployment and then en- dow it— the shortest and maddeat road to ruin since the downfall of the Roman Empire." “It is probable that men were hap- pier in the Middl Ages than they are now." , “The clerical profeagion ‘a wal a ne- ceasity when most people could nei- ther read nor write, But to-day our-| ot prophets and preachers are lay- “octal unrest is a disease of town life. “it women were sufficiently well educated not to care about diamonda, the rents in Park Lane would go down.” A Sailor's Philosophy. - Admiral Brock, who was recently rappointed an additional Sea Lord, was Admiral Beatt y's chief of staff on the Queen Elizabeth, and at the begin- ning of the war was captain of the Princess . He is a great coffec- tor‘of books and pictures, and always took a large library and some artistic treasures to sea with him. He was once asked whether he was not nerv- ous_as to the safety of these things imn-action. He was very philosophical on the point—“If they are blown up,” said he,°"l shall be blown up too, and then it won't matter.” Afghan Historians’ Claim. ~Afetiaw historians date their peo ple’s beginnings to King Saut rer refer te them-as Children of Israel, lar prance af the Aiton papaamtiic appearance, bnt it is ‘hot generally credited . ethno- logists. ag Hiterature .4 ri@h in poetry, mostly war epics love lyrics. Satlebut thé mbuntain Kaffiire are Mohammedan, and they cling to @ Pagan belief in which are blended faint suggestions of old- mythologies dactent t'veligions, d peace.” Still, he pr ‘people, as wary *\tlon. 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