The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-09-19

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advance was invoked.
Speech Reproduced
From loud speaker came hi
speech in exact reproduction, evei
the charm OF the personality o
the man. The wlzardry of tn
moment overwhelmed the listeners
Mr.. Churchill said:
"Im expressing my thanks for
your kind welcome, and to our
hosts for the all.tOO.flattering
terms In which they have re.
ferred to me. i feel ought also
to express In all our behaves
qualification for the brilliant, the
too breif but brilliant, enter.
tainment with which this feast
and festival of rejoicing has been
accompanied and crowned. feel
/ shall in that respect discharge
task in which unite the
overwhelming majority Of those
who are present
am here as a traveller on a
holiday. 1t happened In this way:
flee In Great Britain. and at the
last election there seemed to be a
sort OF general feeling, feeling
at any rate which was notice.
able in some quarters, that !
ought to have a holiday.
And l remembered the old say.
ing. which i daressay you may
have heard. and perhaps lived up
to, or some of you, Hitch your
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20 out to California and look at
the stars
Saw Plenty OF Stars
$50 ] went to the Lick Observa-
tory. where Prof. Campbell showed
me, through the long telescope.
and l admit at a very considerable
distance, the radiant celestial
bodies which fill the heavens: and
the only one l should not have
tried to look at was the planet
Mars, because l knew i was going
to stay with our friend Mr.. Hearst,
whose aversion to war has some
times led him to suspect me as
not being as high and great and
100 per cent a pacifiSt as he would
think ought to be.
81 am now prOlOnging my tour
through California and l have
been carrying on my study at
the educational institutions, and
so I find myself here today.
You are an educational institu-
ton which spreads its influence
all over the world, from one end
of the globe to the other, a Won
derful new influence and process
of education and civilization.
which has come into being almost
during the last decade.
mir. Disraeli, the great En-
glish prime minister, writing i'm
his novels of the beginning OF
the Nineteenth Century, said. In
those days England was for the
few and for the very few But
our task now i'm this modern cen.
fury, the new age, is to make a
broader, brighter, sHrer, healthier,
happier life, not for the few, hut
for the many, and not only for
the many, bat ultimately for all,
or almost all.
Boon TO RuStics
''The great agencies and In.
struments of science are arriving
on the wings OF time and i'm the
right opportunity TO enable us
to give to the great mass of hu.
man beings who care to dwell to.
gether in peace and quiet many
new forms of pleasure, of en-.
lightenment, of diversion and of
OccupatiOn.
particularly are they Of value
to those who dwell widely spread
about in the great spaces of the
world, in Canada. i'm the agricuI.
tural districts of the United States,
where the cultivatOr Of the soil
discharges that fundamental, mi.
mary duty on which we all depend
to live. will be able to enjoy in
creasing1y the pleasures. the novel.
ties of keener life, which hitherto
has been reserved for the urban
dweIIer.
"And the work that is being done
here. and also in the brOadcasting
sphere. plays a necessary and eS-
sential part in this great broaden.
ing of the joys and the pleasures
Of life and i'm the consciousness of
its varieties of charm, spreading
it ever more widely throughout
the word.
II know there are superior peO.
pie who turn up their-perhaps 1
should say their bFOws-but who
turn up their noses, il you like.
at the forms of art which are pur.
veyed to the public through the
moving picture, but, ladies and
gentlemen, now that speech is
added to action, and it is being i'm.
creasingly woven into the texture
of these presentations, there can
be no doubt that field is opened
in which the highest form of dra.
m1tic art which could ever have
been received will receive the
greatest extension and publicity.
and l trust. the highest reward,
II rejOiCed to hear my friend.
Mr.. Hearst, who yields such
enormous influence, express i'm
such decided and measured terms
his conviction that the peace Of
the world can best be assured nv
the cooperation of the two great
English-speaking demOcracies
All can say IS that such lam
guage will never be used, such
sentiments will never he ex.
pressed. on this side of the At.
lantic Ocean without a sincere
and even an eager response from
our small island in the northern
seas. tApplause.)
Praises California
II have one more word tO saw.
and that Is about California
nave now nlOtOred 1900 miles
through California, SO | have Neen
this beautiful maritime State as
much as anyone can see h In
SO short d time. and have appre.
ciated its beauty, the charm of
its settings, scenery, it's agree.
able, tranquil, equable, congenial
climate.