Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-22

sophical Canadian millionaire let it 60
Hailsham made a lot of money from
the law, has big town and country
places and travels extensively.
Young Has Unusual Duties.
Sir E. Hilton Young has one of the
keeneSt brains and one of the most
adventurous spirits in Parliament. He
applied them first to finance. He Is an
orthodox flnancier whom successive
governments have used since the war
! ON a multitude of commissions. Three
years in succession Baldwin sent him
| to represent Great Britain at Geneva,
anc other members Of the League said
| That Britain, conscious of paying the
lions share of the League budget, had
put in a sheriff's officer.
He got his start as financial editor
of the Tory Morning Post. which
brought him influential political con-
facts. He interrupted his career to
/ have a smack at the Germans, and
after losing his right arm in a raid
| on the German submarine base at
zeebrugge, he took an armored train
to Russia and won the distinguished
| service medal. He entered Parliament
| as a Liberal in Lloyd Georges great
days, but when the little Welshman's
star had set Young participated in the
trek OF Right Wing Liberals to the
| Tory camp
Always he has been anti-socialist and
| he will have an opportunity to exercise
| this bias along with his financial fair
in his post as minister OF health, be-
cause that department, in addition to
governing expenditures Of health serv-
ices, exercises an overriding supervision
| in regard to the rates and taxes levied
on property by municipalities which
often are Socialist-controlled. In the
cabinet he will be a specialist on export
credits. overseas trade, currency, silver,
! gold and a few others of the more topi-
cal, technical questions which bewilder
the MacDonalds and Baldwins. His
wife is the widow of Scott, the famous
| Arctic explorer.
Samuel Is Home Secretary.
Sir Herbert Samuel is a cautious
Liberal Jew, with an oratorical delivery
| irritating even to the people who agree
with his Liberal free trade views. A
cabinet minister before the war and
home secretary in 1916, he now returns
| to the latter ONCE with control OF the
police and public prosecutions. He also
has had hve-year spell as High Com
missioner of Palestine after the war.
Always he has been overShadoWed by
|
Lloyd Georges faithful henchman until
the WelShman resisted the general cleo
ton, and Samuel had to carry the re-
manning Liberals away from him or
take the leap into the dark along with
the Socialist7. He preferred to carry
the free trade Liberals as a group to
Macdonald. He will probably try to
stand clear Of any fiscal commitments
and as home secretary he Is comfort
=. u 10 CT
of the big battles OF the immediate
future.
MacLean Heads Education.
Sir Donald MacLean is @ Scotsman
and another orthodox, unSpectacula1
| Liberal, who has been an industrious
politician for the last quarter of a CEN
fury. Fighting elections and being an
active parliamentarian and having
spell as chairman Of the parliamentary
Liberal party requires money: Mac
Lean got his in law practice. He was 8
solicitor.
In British law, practice is divided be-
tween the solicitor and the barrister
and, as Kipling says about the Eas1
and West, never the twain shall meet
A barrister pleads in the high courts
and is q gentleman merely because M
is a barrister, but solicitor can claim
| CnaL place IN the COnpuCdUco olit1oA
social fabric only II he happens to b
born a gentleman and educated ike
wise.
The new president Of the Board o.
Education, white-haired and so, bu
virile and well preserved, has been TOT
busy and too successful to worry about
trifieS like social status. He got title
as a reward for playing a leading par
in organizing the Liberals and in pre-
siding over parliamentary committee!
) on the poor law, social insurance ant
dock labor. In Lloyd Georges time h
did a lot of hard blowing while hi
chief reaped the golden harvest. He j
mild-mannered, friendly man and i
not at home among Tories. He has nj
strong fiscal convictions, but he VII
fight against any Tory who desires Il
cut educational grants to the poor.
|, BettertOn Is Labor Minister.
Sir Henry Betterton, as parliamen
, tary secretary of the ministry Of labo
during the premiership Of Baldwin
= had five years experience in the de
= partment Of which he now become