The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-03
ONLY ONE VOTE
 DECIDES ELECTION And Fixes Future Government
 of County of London JEW A GREAT FACTOR
Sect Has Risen Steadily in Public Position In England-May Be Cabinet Minister-London
 Eptertains Kfng-maker

London. April 2-(Special )-The future of the government of the county of Lon don for the next few years was decided actually by one vote in the recent cleo ton of the London county council. Per haps there is no other case on record where the result of a single ballot had such momentous result. The council con sists of 1S7 members of whom HIS are elected by popular vote and 21 are alder men elected by the council. When the votes were counted it was found that the municipal reformers had elected 59 members, the progressive 5S, while the , Central Finsburg division was tied. A re- count gave the reformers a majority of one in this division and majority of two in the council This will give them the power to fill the 10 a1dermanic vacan- cies, thus giving them a safe working majority in the complete council Had one less reformer and one more pro- gressive voted at Ffnsburg, the whole complexion of the council would have been changed.
 Two ladies were returned as members of the council. a progressive and a mod erate-Miss H. Alder, daughter of the chief rabbi in Hackney Central, and Miss Susan Lawrence, in West Marylebone.
 The Jew is becoming more and more factor in British politics.
 Fifty years ago, when the Jew of England, after a bitter and prolonged struggle had only just won the privilege of sitting in the house of commons, the prospect of member of the ancient faith becoming one of his majesty's ministers must have seemed sufficiently remote. What, one wonders, would Baron Lionel de Rpthschild and his contemporaries have said could they have foreseen that, half century after the coping-stone had been placed upon their labors. no fewer than three of their co-religionists would be sitting in parliament as members of the government, and one as a cabinet minister? It has become the usual thing to say, when an English Jew has attained to high political honor that such success is but the logical result of the emancipa- ton victory. But 1t requires something more than logic to explain in this in stance why the Jewish population. who approximately to the rest of the inhabi- tants of the United Kingdom figure but as 1 in 200 should be taking so large and important a share in the government of the country. It is an illogical, rather than a logical phenomenon. But then Jewish history always has been full of surprises and paradoxes, and perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that, while in Russia and Roumania Jews are groan- ing helplessly under well nigh unexampled restriction and oppression, here in Eng land they should be enjoying a position of unprecedented influence and honor.
 London is now entertaining another of its long line of king~makers in the per- son of Kaid Belton, the intrepid English man who placed Mulai Hafid on the throne of Morocco.
 Kaid Belton has been nick-named "the king maker" and, as soldier of for tune, his achievements are almost worthy to be ranked with those of General Cor don Valentine Baker, Hobart Pasha, Colonel Sherrington. and other distin- gushed British adventurers. When only 19 years old, Kaid Belton, then a trooper in the yeomanry, received commission in the regulars. for distinguished gallan- try on the field. and he received his cap taincy some time later. under similar circumstances. in the Somaliland cam paign. In April, iss2, being then home on leave, he resigned his commission. went | to Morocco, and after many adventures. | offered his serivces to Mulai Hafd, the | 'pretender,'' and in few months he was | appointed "kaid'' or commander-in-chie With an army of 20O00 men, which he | had got together and trained, he over threw Abdul Aziz. and shortly after
 wards Mulai Hafid was proclaimed Sul- | tan of Morocco. Since then Kaid Belton
 has undertaken several campaigns against | the French and the turbulent native | tribes.
 One of the best known figures in British public life Is MT. Henniker Heaton, M
 P, world recognized authority on postal
 matters, is about to retire. In letter to | his constituents, just issued, MT. Heaton
 says:
 "Twenty-five years of strenuous public l life has told upon me- and the day can-
 not be far distant when I shall be com
 pelled to seek repose and leave my work
 to younger and abler men, When that
 day arrives I shall have the consolation
 of knowing that in the field of postal
 and telegraph reform much has been ac-
 complshed while still greater things are | on the eve of realization While I have | the power I will continue. by your favor. ! what is to me labor of love. but I do