The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-29
WINSTON CHURCHILL, S8 TOMORROW, IS BULL
 MOOSE OF OLD ENGLAND

Winston Leonard Spencer Church i'll. First Lord of the Admiralty of Great Britain. will celebrate his thirty eighth birthday tomorrow as one of the most prominent figures in Eng1ish public life. Newspaper readers have observed that whenever ructions occur in the House of Commons or almost anywhere elso in John Bulrs island, an arrow pointing to the scene of the crime shows Winston churchi1il oc- the troubled sea. When Ronald Mo Neili. athletic Unionist M. F., during a recent calm and deliberately session of the Mamma of Parliaments," de- sired to show off his ability as a weight-thrower. using a heavy volume as a missile, who was the target big and handsome First Lord of the A admiralty the opposition recognizes its most powerful enemy. They have the form of dictionaries.
 Mir. Churchill may be said to be the Bull Moose of the British po- Roosevelt s of England4or I the coionei is the Winston Churchill of the Unit ted States. Take your choice. He Is human electric battery. administer ing one shock after another to his complacent countrymen. Nobody doubts that 41e will yet become the leader of of his his party and the greetest erals are deprived of their supremacy.
 Mr. Churchill was born Nov. 30, 1874, the eldest son of the late Right Hon. Lord Randolph Churchill, who wac the third son of the seventh Duke of Marlborough. He is half American, as his mother was Miss Jennie Jerome. of New York, before she became Lady Randolph Churchill, and, later, Mrs. George Cornwaliis-West His father chief of the Fourth party of Tory Democrats who put tacks in the seats of Gladstone and Salisbury.
 
 Winston Churchill early began to ernu- late the precocity of his distin guisned father, who had entered Parliament at twenty-five and in half a dozen years. by reason of remarkable vftuperative ability. had attracted international at- tention. At twenty-one Churchill en- Spanish forces for active service in Cuba, where he fought against the rebels or patriots Tn 1897 he fought kand field force. and was mentioned in the dispatches and given a medal with clasp, which, as all must realize, is much superior to a medal without a clasp. Later he served in the Tirah and Nile expeditionary forces, and was among those present at the battle of Khartoun, for which he was awarded another medal, also with clasp. He wrote several books about his military experiences. and then set tied down to politics, with intervals of featuring and newspaper work. He was the correspondent of the London Morning Post in the Transvaal, was imprisoned in Pretoria ana made a spectacular escape
 Churchill entered Parliament in 1900 as a Conservative, representing Old- ham, but four years later he broke with the Conservatives and poined the Liberals. He soon became prominent in Liberal councils, and was made Under Secretary for the Colonies and in 1908. President of the Board of Trade A little over 9 year ago he hecame head of the British navy. Con stant1y advanced by his party, Church i'll has always been bigger than his job. On recent visit to Ireland he kissed the B1arney Stone, but that was like gliding refined gold or giving the lily a coat of white paint, for he has a vocabulary of Wtuperation tha t is the despair of his political enemies, who, driven to desperation, can an- swer only with dictionaries. And even then they have no advantage, for the Lord of the Admiralty knows a lot of words that are not in any diction- ary.