The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-11-16
Notable Group Represents
British Empire at Conference

+ : . !. as
fired the Imagination of every sailor,
Follow me. We have got them stone
ccld."s8 He: reached the highest rank
in the British navy at the unprece-
dentedly early age of 4S, after hav-
ing commanded the worlds greatest
war fleet in action for three years.
Beatty is an Irishman, @ike4so many
| famous fighters, andshe has an Amer
lean wife, Ethel, Idaughter&ofs I the late
Marshall Field, ST., of Chicago. He
entered the British,navy at the age of
13, and by sheer bulldog pluck and
fiery energy he forced his way up, alb
solutely without influence. 80. ...,..
- SIR MAURICE os HANKEY, the
principal secretary to the British dele
cation at the Washington conference.
is to any British diplomatic mission
what gas is to balloon. With him
they can expand, put on a bold, solid
front; without him they wilt. He is
the complete secretary. He handles
important groups at conferences like
a pleasant nurse handles the children
at tea party. He knows at what
moment they are likely to call for
their diplomatic blocks; when they
will probably( tire Of the blocks and
cry for ball; at what moment they
will call for a rattle. And he is al
ways ready with the. desired article.
At the Paris peace conference he was
so apt at knowing what would be
wanted and having it handy, that per-
sons of delegations other than, the
British came to depend on him and
his attache case. Clemenceau used
to enjoy this especially. ""Come on"
he would say when some document
was needed, ~"pull it out Of that bag
CT yours. He acquired such an adj
miration for Sir Maurice that when
he met Lady Hankey one day, he put
his hands on her shoulders and said,
"Madame, I think your husband is the
best man in the world"
MAJOR GENERAL JOHN FRED
ERICK ANDREWS HIGGINS, Vice
Marshall of the Royal Air Force of
Great Britain, will probably come
.closest of any Of the British visitors
to looking like what the average
American thinks an English aristocrat
looks. He is tall, neatly built, par
TALLY bald, wears small mustach
and tops all this off with monocle.
He has had a striking military career,
having been one of the pioneers in
British military aviation: He rose
from the rank Of major" in 1911 to
that of major-general. In the great
war he commanded one of the first
aerial squadrons sent to France and
wounded in doing reconnaissance work
for the first battle of Ypres. .-..
mi T., >. i Australasia
SENATOR .I GEORGE FOSTER
PIERCE. From carpenter to minister
of defense Of one of Great Britain s
dominions; from rot-hot labor union
list to a moderate nationalist and red
hot preparedness advocate. That rep
resents, briefly the career of Senator
Pearce, Austraia's delegate to the
disarmament conference. y Pearce is
ffty-one years old; tall, serious-look-
ing, and with general, appearance
which friend described as well,
rather a roughD diamond, After an
education in Australia, where he was
born, Pearce became a carpenter. He
forsook his work bench in 1894 to
hike 400 miles IN the great Australian
gold rush. He became an active con-
vert to labor organization, and began
his public career as trades-unionlst
organizer. Pearce was elected to the
labor. council at Subiaco, in 1899:
Shortly afterward he was elected as
! a labor member to the first federal
senate. of Australia. He has been a
j member continuously since, and has
been minister of defense-his pres
ent post-almost continuously since
1908. Senator Pearce has been in in
ternational politics since 1911, when
he was delegate to the Imperial con-
ference at London. He is given cred
it largely for shaping Australia's pre-
war preparedness. program. He Sbe-
}lieves in a "White Australia and:en-
courages white" immigration. IA
SIR, JOHN w. aSALMOND, Judge
of the high court of New Zealand, and
delegate of the dominion to the dis
] armament conference, will be one of
! the few delegates who might claim to
rank with Secretary of State Hughes
! as a legal authority. Though he has
been III. public1life for ten years, Sir
John Salmond Is. known principally
4 as an authority on law. Sir John Sal:
mond was born in England in 1862,
the son of Professor w. Salmond, who
subsequently went to. New Zealand
as professor at the University of
Otago. In 1897 Salmond became q
law professor. at the University of
Adelaide, Australia, where he re-
|mained for rine years. He left to &c
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