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{Lord Beaverbrook and His Latest Book | be .is Erp, : £4 "Politicians and the Press." _ There are two ways to thoroughly time when Lord - Beaverbrook, | By W.R.D. enjoy a good book. One is to read through his paper the London Daily §t in bed. The other is to sink into Express was waging war against the & comfortable chair before the lib-| Canadian cattle embargo. rary fire on a Sunday aciernoon and | s eiim read a little and doze a little, as one - " Politicians and the Press" is a age inclined. Reading in bed 13 8| yuo ook of 130 pages in which The practice of skill- ed optometry calls for precisé¢ accuracy equipment, care, experience as- ei a z » 8 1 ¢ BRITISH WHIG ' en beautiful home, Hall Barn, Beacons- | WHEREIS YOUR field. Lord Beaverbrook was given | to be forgotten. There were over | places were too small so his lord- | YOUR STRENGTH AND VIGOR ship hired the Queen's Hall, and ™ 1 had®it specially decorated ro the ! . central portion of the floor torn up| and a new floor laid for dancing. | Lloyd George, Viscount and Vis- | countess Birkenhead, Duke and Duchess of | "borough, the Barl of Derby, | ham. Sir Hamar and Lady! Greenwood, Col, Grant Morden, the last night, and it was one never | -------- 600 invited guests. All the usual | LET FROMT-A-TIVES® BUILD up occasion. In addition he h the | . It seemed as if everyone was there. | Churchill, .- Timothy Healy, Viscount and Viscountess Burn-| Hon. N. W. Rowell, Premier Arm-j delightful and restful pastime, | " 1 Lord Beaverbrook tells in an inti- ; 4 4 Is reilly no time when 3 mate and interesting way of his re- is quite §o enjoyable as batween | lations with the leading politicians p.m. and 2 a.m. \ Those people who | have not cultivated the habit of} sattling their nerves for a good | night's rest with the aid of an ia-} teresting book are missing some-| thing worth while. WW read Lord Beaverbrook's 'Politicians | But I did not] and the Press" in bed. I read it on Sunday afternoon before the library fire. Nor did I doze once, becayas | it held my intense interest from cover to cover. His Lordship might have | spent a few more pounds in its pro-| Ligjé uetion for it is worthy of better | paper and binding than it has Te- | ceived. Still, we presume, if it was! more expensively produced it could not be sold for 35 cents, and then, too, the jacket does make up for a lot, with its cartoon from Punch. | It deplets Lord Beaverbrook astride! a big Canadian steer that has] just landed in England "on the | hoot." His Lordship has a pair of | 8 kettledtums in front of him, the] draperies of which are decorated ; LE the maple leaf and according to : Punch "The Baron of Beeferbrook" is singing: "Oh, tHe roast beef of old Canada And Oh, the Canadian roast beef!" This cartoon was published at the "Special Tours Make field of knowledge and world-wide by joining the Educational Tour which starts at Montreal June 26 on the Cunarder " Ascania C of Great Britain and Ireland since ha acquired The Daily Express. There is no mock modesty about Lord Beaverbrook, nor should there be any. He admits that he is an egotist, and declares that no man can be great without being one. Everybody knows that he went over to PBngland and with his | brains, ability and money quickly | reached a place at the very top, and became a power in the making and unmaking of ministries and political leaders. To & newspaper man, the rise of The Daily Express Is riost in- teresting. The circulation grew so rapidly that it became a burden and it was necessary to arbitrarily curtail it. When Lord Beaverbrook bought it about 1918, it had a cir- culation of 350,000 coples dally. The daily output is now about 1,000,000 copies. In England they are not newsprint wasters. For years the Daily Express was only eight pages and only recently was it increased to 12 pages. * * * Lord Beaverbrook and his paper played an important part din the settlement of the Irish question, and it was he, who did much to bring about the fall of the Coalition Gov- ernment of Lloyd George. He op- posed Stanley Baldwin's appeal to the people on .the protection issue, and his paper gave the Ramsay Macdonald goverhment the fair treatment which he thought they deserved." The Daily Express ties itself to no party, but boldly sup- ports what it thinks is in the best interests of the country and vigor- ously opposes both men and meas- ures when anything is advocated that Lord Beaverbrook believes to be inimical to the welfare of the British Empire. To Canadiafs the part Lord Beaverbrook played through his paper in donnection with the abolition of the cattle em- bargo will always be gratefully re- membered. He caused the defeat of Sir A. G. Boscawen in the Dudley by-election in 1921. Sir Griffith Boscawen was Minister of Agricul ture in tthe Coalition Government, and a personal friend of Lord Beaverbrook's, but so keenly did he feel on the matter that he set aside De oly, proms AB I'S do. powerful Dafly | ¥ p de feat the Minister. As a result of the defeat of Boscawen, great bitter- ness of feeling developed against Beaverbrook in the Conservative party and he was practically asked to resign from the Cariton Club. Re- membering a saying of Mr "T. M. Healy's, however, "Don't resign, wait till you're kicked out," he paid no attention to The letter and noth- ing happened. The Conservative press continued to attack him with vigor, and the Morning Post pub- lished the following verses, which are quoted in "Politicians and the Press," with evident relish: BENEFITS FORGET. Lord Beaverbrook, your accents rude Reveal a gross ingratitude, "Tis true that hither none may bring Canadian beasts for fattening. Whoever may that rule arraign, The last should you be to complain, "Tis our affair, not yours, to rue, That, spite the law, they det you through. » . . After dealing in a brief way with the many publié questions in which The Daily Express has either co- operated with the politicians or op- posed them, Lord Beaverbrook sums up the status of the independ- ent newspaper as follows: "If we sum up the story of the relations between the independent Press and the politicians as set forth in these pages, nothing discreditable to either interest is to be discovered in the connection. That the poli- ticians #dopt a correct attitude to wands the newspaper the argument fully proves, for it shows them seek- to persuade the journalist that they are right, co-operating with him avheh both parties are in agree- ment, and fighting him when fail to persuade. All three attitudes, This menu depicts Mr. Lloyd George dancing on the plates of the diners and the chef (Lord Beaverbrook) looking to see the effect of his surprise dish on the editors. strong of Nova Scotia, and hundreds! of others. It was a wonderful affair, | arranged and managed with the same attention to detail that Lord | Beaverbrook gives to everything. Lloyd George delivered a great ora- tion' on Imperial ideals, and al- though according to 'Politicians and the Press" Lord Beaverbrook was disappointed because ' the Welsh Wizard did not declare himself on the Imperial Preference which had just been revoked by the Macdonald | government, it was a speech long to | be remembered by all present. And | here let it be said that one] of the wittiest speeches I ever heard | (and I've heard Owen Seaman) was that in which Lord Beaverbrook in- troduced Mr. Lloyd George. . . * I started with the intention of | writing half a column, abdut Lord | Beaverbrook"s new book, but 1 find I have wandered on and on | until I am wondering if anyone will | take the time to read it all. Yet 1! any party. There are papers giving | support to the policy of either the Liberal or the Conservative party, but they are privately owned and not controlled in any way. The Toronto Globe is severely criticised for the independent attitude. it | adopts, but after all it must be re-| membered that The Toronto Globe is | a private business institution and is operated as the owners fhini beet. The Toronto Telegram, is ou the] other hand militantly independent, | while nominally supposed to be| supporting the Conservative party. The Mail and Empire and the Mont- real Gasette are perhaps the only two metropolitan papers left in Canada that give unfailing support at all times to the party they adhere to. Whether the ged cendi- tions are good or bad fof the coun- try, it is not easy to determine. Mounting costs have forced daily paper after dally paper out of busi- ness in Canada, and there have been, fn Ontario particularly, assorp- tions and amalgamations all over the province. ~ Kingston and: Belleville are the only two of the smaller cities of Ontario that to-day support two papers. London, Hamilton and Ot- tawa are in a different class. The trend of the times in forcing papers to amalgamate has muzzled strong editorial opinion. Twenty years ago public guestions were dehd'ed in the local papers with ability and vigor by editors who were admittedly partisan, but were also careful and conscientious students of public af- faire. Political questions were threshed out by both sides and be- cause of that very fact the people were better informed on the lssues of the day than they are to-day. It is a common thing nowadays '0 pick up daily paper efter daily paper when some important issue is being debated in Parliament, and find no comment on it at all, or if it is mentioned it is in a colorless way that will offend no one. The news- paper of to-day fis a business in- stitution, and it looks as if it will continue to be so. An independent paper can be useful in Canada, but, of course, cannot hope to play an im- portant part in moulding Dominion wide opinion, or exercise the power which The Daily Express does in London. The situations are not analogous. *. 5 In the course of his Interesting book Lord - Beaverbrook mentions most of the leading: statesmen of' to- day. His references to Mr. Lloyd George are most apposite in view of the recent row between Mr. gears end Lord Oxford. Lord erbrook says: "Mr. Lloyd George, the greatest living force in British politics, has been rendered half impotent by the disloyalty of his followers in the House of Commons "Such continual couragements as pursued Mr. Lloyd George from 1922 to 1924, would have driven amy ordinary man: to . Though our reverses and dis- cannot close such an article in a Kingston paper without referring to stone building that April afternoon, Lady Beaverbrook, who is so well passing an oak, iron studded door with Lord Reading's name on it, The Temple is a quiet, restful spot, between the Strand and the Em- bankment. There are lawns and flower beds, and ancient buildings, and an old world atmosphere that is quite a contrast to the busy thoroughfare which ome has just left. Lord Beaverbrook had a luxuriously furnished room where he received his callers. My recol- lection is that there were comfort- able chairs and chesterfields, and a cosy grate fire, but "no table. Several telephones eat on the window ledges with long cords that would reach anywhere in thedroom, and when the telephor® rang, a secretary would come in and carry a telephone to where Lord Beaver- brook happened to be sitting. It struck me as a most luxurious way of using a very necessary con- venience. ing lady, terest in everything Lord | Beaverbrook undertakes. In con-| nection with the Queens Hall din-, ner, she went to no end of trouble | beforehand in order that every guest would comfortably seated with a co ial group. The ideals and hobbies of each guest were inquired into and lstudied, and as, @& result every newspaper man and newspaper woman from Canada found themselves in the midst of a friendly and happy crowd as soon as they sat down, and instead of the usual stiffness and re- straint that often accompanies the first fifteen minutes at 'a big dimer, from the moment when we were 80 warmly welcomed at the entrance to the gallery, by Lord and Lady that dancers called it a day about four o'clock in the morning, it was just a great big, Jolly party that left am impression of Lord and Lady Beaverbrook's ness and hospitality on the minds Lord Beaverbrook received me in the most friendly manner. After I had explained my mission he said, "Well, what would you like me to do? Would you like me to give you a dinner or a garden party or both?" I replied that we would appreciate any hospitality. "Well," he said, "Come out and have lunch with me to-morrow at my. villa, and we will talk it aver. But," he continued, "I warn you that I live in the slums." The next day 1 went out to The Vineyard. It is a stucco villa out Putney way, and while not particularly imposing has played an importaht part In British politics during Lord Beaver- brook's occupation. I do not know women that will never be erased. Still Enjoying Life at 8 Remedy known here. A beautiful and charm- | dig she takes a tremendous in- | Headaches and Nervousness, Beaverbrook, until the last of the |' kind- {J} of the Canadian newspaper men and i whether he still occupies whether he now lives in his suite at the Hyde Park Hotel when not at his country home "Leatherhead." In his little book he refers to the fact that when the Coalition was disin- tegrating, Winston Churchill, Lord Birkenhead, Hon. BE. S. Montagu and others, used to visit him tnere, and discuss the political situation. It was at The Vineyard, too, that many conferences were held on the Irish question, and Michael Collins, Tim Healy and others were frequent visitors while the difficulties were being ironed out. During lunch the conversation tuned on the Irish question, and Lord Beaverbrook re- ferred very feelingly to the Irish leader who had recently been killed, as "'poor old Micky Collins." There was only ome other guest at the luncheon, besides myself, a Mr. Lycett, an English tennis champion. At that time Lord Beaverbrook was putting on some kind of a tournament at Olympia, Mr. Lycett's left right] chatted it, or hb Mrs. F. H. Miller, 1843-11th Ave, East, Vaneouver, B.C, writes: --- 'Five years ago my husband suffered terribly with severe attacks of pal pitation of the heart and smothering spells, and two doctors stated that he s0tld mot possibly live six months. A friend recommended Milburn's H. and N. Pills, with the result that my husband is still enjoying life at the age of 84 years. 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