Evening star., 1923-10-09

The United States has received with
acclaim many very distinguished
visitors There was Lafayette. who
| took the country's enthusiasm by
storm when he visited 1t decades
after the revolution. It was not.
then. merely what the young French
his two years with the colonial army
! which measured his welcome here.
but 1t was still more his leadership
in great events pointing to human
liberty which had followed.
We have been honored by recent
visits of great leaders In the world
crisiS--Clemenceau, Gems, Foch, Jonre
and Gourand from France We have
welcomed former Premier Balfour or
Great Britain. We have bowed with
, friendly spirit and admiration to the
Prince of Wales. for fhe's a jolly
good fellow" and real hero of the
war.
But has there ever been such an
ovation to a foreigner as that show
cred upon the former prime minister
of England, David Lloyd George,
masses lining the streets of New
York. thousands shouting with the
abandon of enthusiasm which had
! been eqpaled only upon the return Of
Africa Who is Lloyd George that he
should be so admired and lionized in
a country which he had never before
visited? Great leader of England!
huzzahs. Ii is Lloyd George. the
greatest democrat outside of the
United States
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Like President Coolidge. David
Lloyd George owes his success in life
to a cobbler. After President Cool
idge had risen to his high office he
wrote to an humble cobbler of his
native town that but for his guidance
he would never have reached the
presidency.
David Lloyd George Is the son of a
Welsh farmer, who died when the boy
was three years old. His widowed
mother looked upon the little farm
and knew that she could not there
support herself and baby boy. So she
sold the farm and household soons
and travelled from southern wales 70
the hume of her bachelor brother, In
the .il.age of Llanystpmdwy. In
northtrn Wales. There she and the
boy found shelter and loving help.
This uncle of David was cobbler,
not learned in book lore. but man
of intelligence and high ideals. Lit
orally, the uncle made it possible for
David to become premier or Great
Britain.
There used to be nightly debates on
current topics held in the village
blacksmith shop, and when David
was eight years old the gray-headed
blacksmith, recognized leader OF de-
bate, said to Uncle Richard Lloyd:
do you know, ! really had TO turn
my serious attention to David last
evening, or he would have got the
best of me-.
The established Church of England
required all children to assemble on
Ash Wednesday, march to the church.
and there answer the questions of the
catechism Most of the Welsh, In
cIuding Uncle Richard Lloyd, were
Inon-conformists. David heard his
uncle say that that exaction Of the
children of non-conformists was not
! right. Thereupon he organized all
the children of his neighborhood TO
remain silent. 1t was unheard-oi re-
bellion, but II stopped the practice.
Note that was his first revolt against
established conventions-not the last.
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AS David grew the question OF
what should be. his work was con-
sidered seriously by his mother and
uncle At first 1t seemed that he must
be a farmland until he could buy
! land, but the uncle realized the boys
extraordinary talents, and decided to
use all of his own hard-earned saw