THE BALDWIN PIPE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 125, 2 May 1925, Page 11

THE BALDWIN PIPE.

. PRESS PRESENTATION. ... P.M. ON CROSS-WORDS. Mr Baldwin was recently the guest of honour at a luncheon at the London Press Club. Lord Birkenhead, Mr Windton Churchill, and the French Ambassador were among the guests. A curved briar pipe, said to be absolutely the best in the world, was presented to Mr Baldwin. He immediately began to fill it with tobacco. Responding to the toast of his health, Mr Baldwin said that he had never paid more than 3/- for a pipe, a fact which had been found out, and which he expected shortly to see in print. “All that I knew of the Press in my early days came from my very much beloved cousin, Rudyard Kipling, and for him I learned it was ‘a dirty business.’ (Laughter). “In his early days at Lahore Mr Kipling used to bo covered with printers’ ink.

“I have come to the conclusion,’’ continued Mr Baldwin, “that really you in your profession have a» .1 eat many points in common with me working at mine. FOUNDATIONS. “I as Prime Minister and you as journalists are engaged in the common work of trying to elevate the people of this country. You are doing it today through that marevllous medium, the cross-word puzzle. (Laughter). 4 ‘There is now hardly a man, woman or child in this country who is not familiar with the name Eli. The fact that- Asa was King of Judah can be concealed now from none. I should think 90 per cent of the people believe that there was one Roman Emperor and his name was Nero. ‘‘These are the foundations on which a great deal can be built up—(laughter)— and I am wholly in sympathy with the efforts you are now making to educate what is called the Proletariat. But let us not forget to realise that East is East an.l West is West, and that what nmv be true in this country is not m-./v.-'arilv true nil round the world.’’