M. A. P. (Mostly About People.)

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2092, 18 January 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

M. A. P. (Mostly About People.)

Mr David Lloyd-George, M.P.. , iesidenfc of the Board ol trade, lias beau called tlio idol ol Wales, and there are few more fervid Welshmen living. He has been a lighter from youth ii]). Even as a boy at the Church school he organised a boycott of some of the examinations'. And i' et the father of Mr Lloyd-Ocor< r o was a man of peace—a Unitarian minister, of scholarly instincts, who died when the future Cabinet Ministor was only two years of age. Mr -Lloyd-George has since ’confessed what a hard strugglo his mother had to bring up her children. Their bread was home-made, and thev rare•y ate fresh meat, the greatest luxury a lowed being half an egg lor each child on Sunday mornings. fortunately, Mr Lloyd-Georgo possessed a kind-hearted bachelor uncle, who kept a shoemaker’s shop, 'and who made it his duty to seo that his nephews and nieces were educated. He superintended the education of the children, taught his nephew to love good books, and in the end saw him articled to a, solicitor. At twenty-two Mr Lloyd-Georgo established a practice with his younger brother, and soon he built up a considerable business. Eleven years later ho was asked to contest the Carnarvon Boroughs, and won by a majority of eighteen. He has been M.P. for. the Carnarvon Boroughs ever since.

There is just now in London one of tho world’s most eiil.erpri.riiig journalists, and, with perhaps one exception, the richest. And yet, fifty years ago, Air Joseph Pulitzer, who is spending a briel holiday in this country, landed in New York a friendless alien. Ho was u farm hand, ■ : okor, and coachman; bolero he bo- ■ imo a reporter on a German paper in New Afork. St. Louis witnessed his first success ill proprietorship, and then he obtained the “AVorld/ now a mammoth daily journal, with a Sunday edition containing almost as much printed matter as the Bible, for something under hall a million dollars, speediily transforming it into, a prolit-ma'king concern, yielding an income of one and a ouarter million dollars a year. Air Pulitzer may not ho quite so rich as Air 4V. R. Hearsfc, America’s other millionaire newspaper owner and journalist, hut lie is now a whit less enterprising. He has just given a million dollars to establish a school of journalism, and owns lour palatial American homes, in not one of which does he spend more than six weeks of the year.

No monarch in Europe works harder than the Sultan of Turkey, for ho rises at four in the morning, winter and summer, and goes to • Ins white-tiled bathroom fur his bath, after which he sips a- of coflee, brewed by the cafedjibaehi, or chief coffee-maker, and then, with a cigarette between his lips, he goes •straight to his desk. He works till midday, when lie adjourns for prayers; then more coffee and an entree, an hour’s siesta, and work again till dinner, which is served at four in the afternoon. During these hours ho signs hundreds of documents, ior, in addition to governing affairs at home, lie is practically Ins own boreign Alinister.