The Cambria Daily Leader

I, LLANON EISTEDDFOD. r A competitive meeting was Ldd at I I Betbania, Llannon, the Rev. T. M. Pri(' 1 presiding. Mr, T. J. Morgan (Tumble) adjudicated on-the music; Mr. Tom Jones IICross Hands), recitations; and, )ir.. Jones (Rhuddlan) on the prize bags. I Miss L. Gwen Jones was the aocompanist. The winners u-ere -Recitation, Claudia Jones; recitation, Gethin Jones; solo, Getliin Jones; pianoforte solo, Haydn Gealy: bass solo. Mr. Evan John Rees; solo, Elsie Morgan; solo, Miss Annie M. Jones; questions and reading, lfr. Tom Jones; tenor solo, Mr. Owen; prize bag, Miss L. M. Rees; quartette, Mr. Tom Jones and friends: violin solo. Brinley Jones; party; Mr. Tom Jonas' partr. > Th.e secretary was Mr. Willie ) I 1 Sun Rises 8.20, Sun Sets 4 5 1 Lightino-up Time, 4.35. High Watar, 4.32 a.m., 4.57 p.m. Kin's Dock. 35ft. Tin. a.m.36ft. p.m. I To-morrow, 5.18 a.m., 5.41 p.m.

THE POLITICS OF I EUROPE. I A hundred years ago, our greif -grandfathers were, one and all, keea students of European politics. They were *0 keen mdccd, and *0 d.- 'I Yotld to the affairs of the continent ns opposed to those of their owa island, that Addison (or was 11 Steele?! satirised them as "politica] 'upholsterers-" in one of the cleverest papers ever contributed to the famous "Tatler. But peace I brought security, and security les- I t sened the interest our grandfathers I ¡ took in the state-of-Eurcpe que. I t tion. They turned their niinds to j problems of industry.' They /beat the sworcjs into ploughshares. They fostered what we know to-day as I" the industrial revolution," and in j their own way constructed a prob-, lem with whose complexities we are striving, and rather helplessly, to-day; does not Dean Inge (vul- garly culled "the gloomy Dean." but in reality one of the greatest in- tellects of the age) declare, in his! volume of Outspoken Essays that 1 lie mistaken road we ad-j ventured upon then brought on us our Ilniloirw:" Our fathers con- I tinned in the path of industry and peace. TJ1:"Y were good mid-Vic- torians, who dreamed, in Great Exhibitions and such-like events, of the millenium of perfect peace, and vfere not disturbe'd by localised incidents, Crimean Wars and Indian Mutinies and savage revolts, from the contemplation of a Britain prospering alone, and looking aloofly at the woes of other nations. hundred years ago we had the European mind—because our for- tunes were staked in the European field- Yesterday, the yesterday be- fore the war, we were an in- sular people to whom the affairs ot Europe were of small moment. To-day, we are once again com- pelled to become Europeans. Our future, we plainly see, is bound up with that of the continent; and )-i-)t, only with that of the old continent of Europe but with that of the whole world, ff<r space has been conquered by science, and the Antipodes will, be only a fortnight' s journey before next year is out.1 W e "have discovered that we cannot live a lone. "Russia," as the Minister said on Thursday, "is in an indescribable condition ail over that- gigantic territory, which is a continent in it- (V-ntral Europe, faced with the pinch of famine; Germany un- ABLE so far; to lift herself anu TO stand erect. That is Central Europe, that is Western Europe, that is Eastern Europe, a.nd that. is the ?nntic tracts of Northern Europe, I I'd and. and the B.a1ti( PrO\.inc(' I And all these things re-act upon ourselves. Not in cur Jives, or those I, of our children, shall we be aide ■ > afford to stand apart from the European nroblem. It is a prob- lem we shall have to study ear- nestly and sincerely. To. those anxious so to study the state-of-Europe question, we can- not. do better than commend a work that readied us this week: The Bespcnsibdity of the League [Hodder and .Stoughtun, 0:?.]. It is by Eustace Percy, and it is one cf rii-e best surveys of international politics v/e have seen. Here, from the" introduction, is a profoundly significant, passage:' When peace lias signed, it bap pfill to IK* made. Where to-day can we find aJly popular' realisation of the mag- nitude oi this taskr Here, m the natural, and inevitable state of public opinion in all countries, but especially—for this is mlr concern—in Britain, lies th greatest menace to a real peace. Having railed the armistice peace," English men and women have been, since that, moment, inteur almost solely on return- ing as rapidly as possible to the normal course of their lives. This the temper in vhic-h (hev have rejoiced over the ofheiuI treaties of pcace. They want. indeed, better lives than they led before. The privations and enthusiasms of war have issued in a passionate demand for social jui'iic<-> and tocial bettenuenfe But their eyes, fixed for the weary years on l*t tic-fields or eomvil chaml-KT> nhrosid, nre now withdrawn to' their own homes. Their interests are more and more con- fined within the' frontiers, of ihcij* <.vn country. They are onlv to;) reudv tu | believe those who tell them th.it fh« war to end war is tfon. ;md to di-miss with impatience any fill-thei- tulk of foreign policy. Y et. it is true to s,, iN- that the has still tp be made. As the wrAcV I declares, the whole liody c.f Europe is tern and tt?'tur?d. Our pa)" treaties Seethe jtx?'e?t t?-m?ora''? dressings and, if left without atten- tion, their effect can only be first iiritation and then poison. In many respects, conditions in Europe have grown worse and not better during the armistice period. No man who knew the state of Europe —the famine, the infant mortality, the steady and insidious growth of disease, rotting whole populations, the horrors of massacre and torture on the fringes of Bussia, the proved impotence of the united wisdom of the allied and associated nations to ta.ke timely measures against the rapid crumbling of European society •could stand in the Hall of the Mirrors at Versailles on June 28th with any sense of pride or satisfied achievement. The League of Nations, as the Prime Minister said this week, is ¡(\Î;n;d :t fcot of next Oolumri)

OUR CHARTER. I History of Swansea's University Ambition. By J. Hugh Edwards, ill.P. My first word this week must bp one Ii of hearty congratulation to the authori- ties at. Swansea on the successful issue of their zealous and enterprising efforts in securing for their town the charter, which raises (heir Technical College to the status and prestige of a Universitv College. If is an achievement of which they may justly be proud. The intima- tion ot the ^success of Swansea gave great gratification to the 'W*lsh Members of represent constituencies within the orbit of Swansea's influence. There is an instinc- tive feeling that the creation of a fourth I.nivers.ity College within the confines of Walcj will inevitably serve to quicken that passion for education which un- doubtc|l!y c?ns<i?tt?s?ne of th? d.fp?st ingrained characteristics of the Welsh democracy. j SIXTY YEARS AGO. ?t?yy'?'s represent a very long ,pelll hfe oi an individual. Thcycoypr t who!p gamut of <hp human experien- ces that fan between the genial spring- time of childhood and .h? hoary winter of li?P. i!u?i-i\thc calendar ?ff< nation a period of sixty years <#presents but a very small span. ,It js just, the average m<'t).nr?ifnt paiini that one contin- gent, in the Ion?pr'jce-.sion?f successive eon era-, ions, fakes m traversing the rout? from fh(J cradle C> the grave. ixt.r ,e31'5 ¡ ?thcHt'?of 'an anc?'it rac?. "b f(note Join ?n!:??..<)(..s.?-ip'j.jn ?f the Welsh people is really but as a day: the Ltc-tunpot' ? ?u)glogpnpr?ti';n. That; ('d!J<¡!r''di)n 'njb?.?us.ohavc ?mp ideu. ,d any .rate, of the magnitude and giainoai oj the l'muance with which Higher Education in Wiles -*j so richly inve.-t. d. Six .vcars^ there -was a single c 0lege withiii the confines of Wales. There were some excellent/iram- mar Schools, which hud been founded by the benefactions of pnb!ic-*pirited men, and there were two or three denomi- national seminaries which were os defec- tive in equipment they could pos- sibly be. DR. NICHOLAS AND THE LEADER." I 1. ?. I u was not until the year lb(i_ that the first -\ormai College— for the training of elementary school teachers—was estab- lished on Welbu soil—at IJangor. But, although its establishment Mas hailed throughout ak's as an event of the highest importance to the ut tti-e ot Wales, ir is not too much to say that in the matter ot ro^'jurce as v.eli as in the range of it;; teaching, there is not an Inter- mediate School in Wales to-day that is r'ot miles ahead of the Normal College at Bangor at the time of its establishment just fifty-seven years ago. But it is none the less true that the establishment of th" Langur Normal College served io quicken ami 0. deepen that eager deisre Wales whicli had been animating the breasts of some 01 the clioicest. spirits in Wales in the tiflics. That eagerness for securing for V. ales her own University t-ai un- doubtedly .stimulated hy the remaJ-kable '-en'ep of articles v.Vic], Dr. Thomas Nicholas, of Carmarthen, contributed to the columns ot the Cambria Daily T/ea dc-r." I Iio.-o articles serf their in fliience tbroujrli W:.ics after the 'a-hion of widening circles on the suri.iee ot « nond. ifh t.;e result that there w»^s ntd a district in the Princinnlitv that had not felt the snrir« of Dr. Xicholas,' nppCnl to his Cymric countrymen. WHY CARDIFF SCORED. ) lae subsequent it •: y of the move- mront of Higher Education in Wales i; already familiar to most of mv readers. Althougn Dr. Nicholas did not: live to see te full fruition, in accomplished fact, of trie seed which he had so SC,-M'D. the seed in due time took root and brought <o:thfmit. First there came th« 'stah- ?'shm?ntof <hp 'rnh('nit. CoUc? at Ahor?h'-yUi in lQ'2. Nvas foll'o?veti '.on)p twelve yenrs t?ter with th" f()l1nr,:1-1 tion oi the rr)n?)-!? ( on<-?& at Cardilf I an(! T?ane;or re^pec-tivelv. It is int ere.-t in'j h) fN'}l that Swansea was Cardiff's chirf rival for the location of the TOlivers:*y College for South Wales. Had the drcisi on been "uhrnittNI to th" vot» of the various pub-' lie bodies in South ,'Wales. there is every reason to believe, as the late Tom Ellis declared," that the choice of nkee would have fallen 011 Swnnsen But. th determining choice hiv. not with the public authorities, but with the De- partmental Committee which Mr Glad- stone's Govcriiux'nt had appointed. tlw nf the late Lord 'AIT o'l'i. c.I are, tor tne purpose of considering the claims of Wales for financial help for 1 iiivcrsitv education. As my reader?; will recall, )1: Gladstone was a very zeafous Churchman. Ilortce Is eagerness, which vas known to bo shared by Lord Abcrdare! to see the two now University Colleges which wore to lo given to Nonconformist Wales plated shr.dow d C'ath2drnl it..flu-nee—the one at Cardiff in close proximity to Llandaif Cathedral, and too otrier in the cathedral citv of 11 SWANSEA'S TRIUMPH. I That 13 why both Swansea and Carnar- von iui -sed 1 aitaou^ii eaeii I iie^e tiro towns could jretly claim tiu:» its se»cctie»n would have ensured a far mort- Cymric setting .'t d .Htmosplioi-e lor, a el&li college than .its succY's.-ful competitor was able to provide. S'-vaiL-ea mm like At, Richard Martin and Mr. lutton cou.d toil how deep aud 1; y.as the disappointment over the Cant mi i tee choice of Carc.ilf in prefer- ence to Swansea. Thirty years have .ijace I)iit. a'lili)iiic,jt icl- a university college of its own has never abated; and now it ha& its award in the full realisation of its long cherished hope. The town deserves the {idlest congratula- tions, no; only on the accomplishment of its early ambit; m. but also on'its good tortun in having among it-, citizens such zea lous ;nd capable ieaclers like Mr. Era.1. Gilberlsjn aud Mr. Rielnl..Martin. j 110 Inivc inude such an ncc uajdi-diment ■ actual. |»M mm m mm 1 111 ■■■ tmm—mmmmmm am IB

TOWN TALK. Shakespeare's seasonable advice to bricklayers Lay on. o: — The new R.A.K. mess uniform is the latest addition to the H,A.F. uniform mess —;°._ Fiunyan Collection Sold," says a headline. Do cbiropodists really hoard ttie-se tit ings We think it's a shame to take away from Germany any of her dock equip- ment. Obviously, she must want it ail tor trying her war criminals. Mr. G. T. Crook says that the new kind of thief" is not an "evil-looking criminal." Crooks, iu -hort, no longer obtrude their crookedness. — -.O When Mr. Lloyd cenrge. referring to Constantinople and the Straits, says, We could not again trust the ;.awe porter," he means Sublime Porta. — :o At Fiumo. the inhabitants are fed up "—see Cassell's "New English Dic- tionary" for meaning—with 'Annunzio. 'l'iiev say backing poets doesn't pay. — :0 t h?it -t nt i It. was stated vest onlay that anti- British feeling in Turkey is increasing. We may also say that in Britain the nnti-turkcy feeling is also steadily rising! -:0:- If it is true, as a morning paper states, that ;)1) per cent, of the L.C.C. allot- ment-holders are to remain in ).1ssession till 1D121 we can't see what they a. I-, worrving about. To do justice to his wonderful experi- ences in Canada, says the Prince, he would need to be a Welsh orator. But the Prince of Wales should surely be the Prince of Welsh orators? — .O •There was quite a queue waiting in one Swansea lis+ iiiglit-for what do you think? Christmas cards. And somebody said the other day that 1he war had kitted all our old institutions. — :0: — Golf caddies ore being trained in their spare time to fit them for some profes- sion. W e are surprised we should bar,- thought it unnecessary. All the golf caddies we know seem to know every- thing. —Or. — Shakespeare early editions or- gravi- tating more and more to the other side of the Atlantic. A cheerful modern of our acquaintance says he doesn't mi-.ill so long as the free import of O. Henry is permitted. A man in the Port Tennant car this morning said he could not understand why the Aberavon and Port Talbot gas- workers were striking for more pay >. JD- side ring that, thev had such ligbt duties to perform! •: — The Daylight Saving Act is in (lai-igerl Some people at Clydach contend that the henefito derived from the Act do not .adequately- compensate for the inconTeni. once which is caused to the majority of the people of this country," and so they aro objecting. It's all up—unless the Swnnva allotment holders come to the Judging hy \\h<1t those who should know say upon the subject, housewives are in for a luul time of it next week. It is being stated ti -t the purchasing of. a turkey wiH be as difficult as tile pur- chasing of a bottle of whisky. How- ever, things are never qu i: so had as they soem, and the turkey is not really extinct! — s9 The Hotel Metropole on Friday flight was reminiscent of a big Strand hotel. There was a fine exhibition cf "bravo gentlemen and charming ladies" attired in the most up-to-date costumes. In- deed the precincts of the establishment presented a most dazzling appearan e. and was buzzing ";ith merry laughter .end inspiriting strains of music. --0'- It there is a doubt about whether Christinas boxes are to be the fashion this vear in some districts, there is no room for doubt that some people expect to have them in the Mumbles. On Friday even- ing the ashmen of tho. Oyster village were going round the houses solieiting Christ- inas boxes. Judging by appearances, they seemc-d quite satisfied with the response. This, by reputation, is the shortest day, tauu^h Mr. Webber would not accept that as a perfectly accurate state- ment of the position. Anyway, from now on, we may with conudence look for more light, It lS very strange: oat this period, the very centre ct the dark days, shouid have been chosen by a Clvuach public board to complain aoout the disadvantages of daylight saving 1 -0 A gentleman in the Sketty car last night said that Swansea should be merrier during the next few wcckJS tor the Sunny .:ims that were temporarily among us. lie was referring to the schoolboys hotlle for the Christmas holidays; and, by the way. it is surprising the larkp number of local lads who are at present attending public schools in different parts of the country. There are not many Dismal Jimmies among them either. It is not often that; we hear good carol- ling at Christmastime, but Mumbles is very fortunate-in this respect. At pre- rfout there is a line band of csrollers— practically a choir of grown-ups—going round the district, and the singing is 01 a lECally high standard. What corner of the asks a-co respon- dent. and puts forward the suggestion that they coilit do worse than gin-t, tlio offerings to the Widows' and Orphan*' Fund. — .0:— Bitter complaints "ere heard this mroning about the ccal shortage among » number of passengorsT^ on the Mumbles train. It transpired that they were, mem- bers of the Oystermouth Church Club, ami for the last ,few days the Huh has card players were grumbling about the discou- *obitp> state of affairs, but the merchants are more concerned about supplying coal to householders than to the cjtibs at the present time. 04- A voiing lady cycled up to the butcher's shop and entered with a smiling face. I wan t you to cut me off twenty-two pounds of bad, plfise,- 'she said. The butcher wa, incredulous. "Twenty-two pounds?" he asked. Ves, please," was the reply. When the butcher had finished ite asked whetlier she would take it with her or have it gent home. <)h, I dout want to boy it," she exclaimed; You see, my doctor tell; me I have lost tv jnty-ta o pounds of flesh during the last two vefirl an I wanted to hco what it looks like in a lump. Thank you so much." N.B. What did the butcher say? One of the most, [ uial members of the workmen's car this morning was not up to his usual form, and in reply to in- quiries unburdened himself thus: 4' It's all on account of the butter shortage. Last evening my mifisus procured uer usual ration, and immediately proceeded to use it in the making of Christmas cake. I remonstrated with her. but 1& was of no use. s'bc had made her Christmas <\iko with butter for umpteen ys-'r?. and wrs going to do so as long n she lived. True, the ration only lasts about bne dav. but as mar(Tirine fo six duys. si 10 could not see why I made such a about having it for on" day more. A.Uhoiigh T'vv threatened'' not to eat a bit of that cake. In) afraid I shall h.ive to oat rtiy words, or th'-re ll be no peace for me this Christnastlda.

(Continued from preceding Column) vital for troubled Europe. "The sword that has WOll peace, 00 fat from being turned into a plough- share, is consecrated anew by the League in its service. V it must never happen again once for all this must be the last time'—it was to meet resolves such as these that the idea of the League was conceived and preached If the sword can win peace for all humanity, let us not only combine the swords of the nations in one League, but let us rather take them from the hands of t hc nations tmd give them into the keeping of one general authority, ;'< be wielded no longer in the making of war but in the administration of universal justice."