NOTABLE PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 24

NOTABLE PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS

Stalin., secretary of the Russian Communist i'arty, and most trusted confidante of Lenin, revealed his party's tactics last week when he stated that the Soviet aimed at the penetration of trades unions in capitalistic countries until they were sufficiently impregnated with Communism to carry out a revolution. Of all the Soviet notables he has been the least visible to outsiders, and because of this many legends have been ' woven round his personality. Stalin was born in Georgia, in Russian Transcaucasia, and raised in the Greek Orthodox faith. In the last revolution he handled tho nationalities question of Russia with great skill. He is one of the most important members of the Supreme Council of Labour and Defence. When Lenin was struck .down by illness nearly two years ago,. Stalin, together with Trotsky and Radek, carried on his work, the three making the Soviet poiicy. - Stalin, who had showed ability in handling matters of internal policy, handled most matters relating to home affairs, while the other two dealt with foreign affairs. With his linger firmly placed on the Soviet pulse, Stalin is already spoken of as the coming force in Russian politics. Brimful of energy, ruthless in his methods, placing the Soviet before all else, he is expected to pick up the reins dropped by Lenin when he died. Trotsky has been challenging his authority; but he is already discredited amongst a certain section of the Communist Party. and Stalin is looked to as the only poV sible head at the present time.

c. t ■William Jardine, the new United states Secretary of Agriculture, hsl week declared that there had been wrongful manipulations of the wheat market in America, but that he had not been able to collect sufficient evidence upon to which to base a case for prose eution._ Prior to taking over the Secre taryship of Agriculture, Dr. Jardine lived at Manhattan, Kansas, and he left there to become a member of President Coolidge s Cabinet. He has been a ranchman a farmer, as well as a student of dry farming, and a surveyor. He has acquaintances from every walk of • life irom clergyman to day" labourer, and knows what everyday persons are thinking and of what they are in need. From a nrst meetin E with him'his democracy is evident, "The farmer is a business man he declared recently, " and he needs to do what every other business man knows is imperative. He must improve his production and, his distribution in bettering distribution of his produco the farmer will find co-operation of great value. The 6,500..000 farms in the United States should handle marketing through organisations under tha- direction of thp farmers themselves. The need is not Tor higher- prices which consumers must pay, but for a reduction of the amounl which represses the difference between what the farmer gets and what the consumer pays." • As dean and then as piv. sident of the Kansas State Agricultural College, Dr. Jardine has made a fine te cord. . . .

Timothy A. Smiddy, Envoy Extraordinary representing the Irish Free State m the United States,' declared last Saturday at New York that international ■disarmament was neither probable nor feasible; but for all that he did not .nink that disarmament should be put nto the discard. Mr. Smiddy is a preat economic student' and has published many work, dealing with this subject. ■Host of his life has been allied to educational matters, however, and it is only since Ireland-has become a Free State that he has entered into the realms of diplomacy, : He has been examiner in commerce to-the Irish Department of Agriculture, a member of- the Board of irade in that country, and a,member of th« .governing body of University Col ege, Cork. Educated at Finbarr's College, . Cork, and . later at St. Sulpice i-'aria, and finally at Cologne, he tool' honours m menial and moral sciences and is now 49 years of age;

h q' -T; H-.IR-v!and. who, witV Mr. W 11. bmith, signed' the minority report in connection with,the "Food Commission presented to the English Parliament las week was president last year of the National Farmers' Union-in England. Heis a man who commands the respect of aericutural circles in a ll parts o f the country, for the simple reason that he has end? Thll W S? bjeCt ai his finS« ends The National Farmers' Union- is the largest association of employers in ancestors for many, generations have been leading figures-in the agricultural world. £n 1 ■■yw hT Self fa?ms 400 wres of rfn/' a'Wts, llite and a hU' f"m in Scotland,-wncre he specialises in blackicss™! ?T PPearaDCe ''6 a lyP'Ml'businebs ma-n. Ho wastes no words, for when and whiff {i lS ahva ~VS t0 lb° Pdn£ and what he says commands great re spect. H« policy is State befo?e party Stf,^^ Of t'«» before s dercv 1/ f ectl,° n-?- nd during his preMdencv lio^laced agriculture on a better c^i aworkc/.CdticStalUS°flhe^-

lasV ™T G*neral kanaka, who was dor to ?La?P °lntOd Ja Pa"eso Ambassa191R !n "f SmV r Was Minister of War in magU.°hi *"fecture-in 1863, fed if H° *?' °f a SamOTai- He studied ■at he Kyododan, a military nonStiff PH 6 MJ)tar^ A=ad«"v and the Staff College I n his early years he a? th'p crT tC ,° f wllafc is "°- k«w rvln ?,^" c ' a P°werful mil>'mnrn °f -he n'n=«es, and his promotion was ramd. He became chief oi the.Section of Military Affairs in the of H, PTr mCnt °f 19"09 ' and V™l°* ?j f. °-rt tary Affairs Bureau in 19" Hi, military aetiviues kept him before voea?v o%^ Ja P»"V especially his a< ■dl ft i ,"? ed for Preparedness: at ?« n and' enlargement of the Japanese in J' j 1° comP'cte his military training, and to. get some understanding of Western .methods,, he made a tour of section-abroad, and on his return to --. nat.ve land wag promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General, after which he Vice-Chief of the Genera)

nf t , <T "\. flaU ma? bo ploasud to hear of the_ bunk' bedstead, which is the last word m sparp-savj-n^. f urnitnrc _. It looks 11,0 a hu S o rliiwcr-wagon or tea trolle.7. i«o bods are "built" one above the other, a* 0,1 beard sW Mv \ tllus a pair of sil lo bcd.,toada...c i vi,rfco icl ;„ r .h 0 p- a , O of o * e . Another invention" is a sb-in-ono ccnlrivarv.,o An almost, complete bedroom suite. !' lncl»?«l in one pircc of furniture. It haafoWinf! U;d, ivcsbtiaod. ebcsl of rlivw-