Show 46 When the Welsh singers were In Ogden one of the men said It was his first visit to America and he had h d been busy twisting his neck You have h ve a land somewhat to me me and the strangest part of ot It Is that city of yours where the great skyscrapers keep keel one looking up And what a II variety of country you jou have hae each section peculiar tb to It it- it self The west after you have e been In New York Is as though it were another country except that you ou speak the same language and have havethe havethe havethe the same love of your our America I 1 feel as though I could fit Into your wonderful country without much adjustment In habit of thought or de devotion de- de to ideals Then the Welshman went on to say ay that England and Wales Vales are go going go go- goIng ing through a severe depression Un Un- Unemployment Unemployment employment is everywhere and he wondered what the outcome will wm be Since the war he said It is as though things had gone awry any England once the mightiest indus Indus- industrial Industrial IndusI I trial nation of the world is today F facing a most difficult situation Fifty years ears ago ngo much of all the sl steel l and iron of international trade was produced in England Sixty years ears ago the entire world sent its rebellious ores of silver gold copper lead and zinc to Swansea Wales to be smelted rho The snug little Island was the center of the worlds world's industrial life London did the the banking which moved mo the commerce of the seas Sheffield manufactured the cutlery and Newcastle and a dozen other places supplied the coal Liverpool was unequaled in cotton trade All through England were cities clUes which were beacon lights leading hu hu- human human bu- bu buman man kind to greater heights of In Industrial in- in industrial achievement Today America Germany France and even the countries of Asia are challenging England in international trade And England of late has found it necessary to apply a a. tariff barrier The changes which hate hae come have haye brought unemployment which has been intensified by bj great strikes The average Englishman has had born in him a spirit of resentment against whatever he deems to be an injustice and so when English work work- workers workers ers feel they have ha been dealt with I Ifor unfairly they go the limit in battling for that which they deem to be right Inthe In the great world war that deter deter- determination of the English was mani mani- fasted When the conflict seemed darkest when England was hemmed in by submarines and Zeppelins were drop drop- dropping dropping dropping ping destructive bombs When Haig Halg was lighting fighting with his Ills back to the wall and the dark clouds cloud of war settled thicker than a London log fog the Englishman's courage did not fall fail him He did not yield one mo mo- moment moment moment ment to despair Much of that same spirit at an earlier period came over to the col col- colonies colonies col- col onies and helped to establish the in independence in- in independence independence dependence of this country Down at t Helper a woman driving an auto forgot She failed ailed to look l as her car ap- ap preached the railroad crossing and as asa asep I ep a result two young women were crushed to death That story of death at a railroad crossing has been repeated so many times and the railroads have cam cam- campaigned campaigned so persistently in warning that one wonders onders why drivers do not heed the advice ad But ut from rom one end of the country to the other the crossings if they could speak would be shrieking their death alarms the accidents are so numerous Every cry paper in the United States devotes space to cautioning auto Continued on Page Two NEWS AND VIEWS Continued from rom Pare Pac One ers era to avoid driving onto railroad crossings when danger is in sight But a big percentage of or auto own own- owners owners ers em must forget their lesson as soon cs Os they start s rt on the highway for a drive On Tuesday the guns of oC the forts of oC Brussels boomed Those guns roared in 1914 in war Now they arc are proclaiming a I. I message of or Joy A daughter has been born to Crown Prince Leopold Back in the good old days when royalty was everywhere the arrival of oC an heir to a throne was an event the announcement of oC which found an echo in all the capitals And the most gifted writers were called on to record l' l ord the coming of the stork On such an occasion one of the great poets of oC England wrote Now is the winter of oC our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York If the spirit of oC democracy contin contin- continues ues ties to gain new conquests it will not ba bs long until there will be no royalty and no babies to the purple born The world is getting away from the list rule of kings Not one of oC the royal rojal families of today has as much power powel as 55 any anyone one of three or four dictators The president of oC the United States has far more authority than the king of oC Great Britain 0 o I This Is October 12 12 1027 It was wason wason on October 12 years ears ago that thal Co Co- Columbus Columbus Co- Co Columbus lumbus discovered America That early voyager faced the un unknown un- un unknown Unknown known as he started in three frail ships to sail westward through the Sea of oC Darkness as the Atlantic was as then lIens known He expected to direct his course cours by bythe bythe bythe the magnetic compass but when isis his ships were well cell t 11 out on the ocean the instrument acted strangely and anti be became be- be became became came unreliable From then on Columbus was guided guld d dby by the stars stan The indomitable will and the un- un yielding courage of oC the man brought him undying tame lame Columbus bus was sailing for fair Cathay the land of oC Marco Polo The Tue dreams of his youth had im Im- impelled Impelled Im- Im him on ott on and in his dreaming he was ready redy to face death in its an effort eort to make his dreams come true That same appeal a p al to the imagination tion and that same urge to get an answer to t the hearts heart's desire has made for all the progress of o human humn kind |