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10 THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1928 GORRINGES BRITAIN'S STRONG POSITION. LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. THE COMPLETED O.E.D. MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S OPTIMISM.

LORD HERBERT SCOTT AS NEW PRESIDENT. FASHIONS IN EXCLUSIVE DESIGNS FINAL SECTION THIS WEEK. THISTLES AND THE PLOUGH. The newest and most exclusive designs jWlrSSIm JC, from the world's famous fashion uix centres are attractively displayed in ftClriPi'iR Gorringes Salons, and the prices are ufHmlSI ifl quality considered extremely moderate T-'muwk THE BOOK AND THE MEN. DlCKINS present THE XEW TREND OF FASHION This week DlCKINS JONES are making special displays of th: latest Spring modes throughout their 50 fashion departments.

Never has fashion presented such alluring themes as will be shown in these displays. Whatever your taste whether for the tailored type or for more feminine things you are sure to discover just the right mode for your own personality at DlCKINS JONHS, a little corner of Paris in itself! MANNEQUIN PARADES OF INEXPENSIVE FASHIONS wul be held daily this week in the famous Dome Restaurant at DlCKINS JONES. These parades will be held during tea, and will commence at 4 p.m. STORIES OF WORDS. Mrv Lloyd George had an enthusiastic reception in the St.

Andrews Hall, Glasgow, yesterday, when he addressed au audience of 4,000 at a meeting in connection with ihe Scottish Liberal Fedcraiion Conference. Mr. James Cray, prospective candidate for Catlicart was in the chair. Mr. Gray, who is described as Mr.

Lloyd George's certainly showed a wonderful resemblance, to the Liberal statesman when tln-y stood side by side. If ever a bud cold retards me from addressing a meeting," declared Mr. Lloyd George, I shall send a wire to the chairman. shall feel that 1 shall be more than adequately represented. (Laughter.) makes us shudder," said Mr.

Lloyd George "to think of how near we have been to shipwreck. Our vulnerable point is our International trade, but I am not THE BROADMOOR CONTRIBUTOR. one of those who say Britain is done for. Surprise has been expressed In many quarters at the announcement that when the London Chamber of Commerce holds its annual meeting next Wednesday the members will elect Lord Herbert Scott, who has been nominated to succeed Sir James Martin as President for the ensuing year. This surprise on the part of those who do not know Lord Herbert is natural enough.

He is, of course, one of the most distinguished recruits from Britain's oldest families to the ranks of commerce, for he is the fifth son of the sixth Duke of and a brother of the present peer. lxrd Herbert went as a young man into the Army, served with distinction in South Africa as well as in the European War, and has been, since 1922, one of His Majesty's Honorary Corps of Genllemen-at-Arms. It was after his service in the late war and while still a comparatively young man at the height of Ids activities, ttiat he left the Army to enter business. For several years he has been a director of Bolls-Hoyce and more recently his interests have increased considerably, for he is now also on the Hoard of the Tilbury Contracting and Dredging Co. the Sun Life Assurance Society, the Sun Insurance Office the East Anglian Boad.

Stone and Transport Co. the Cellulose Acetate Silk Co. and Baldry, Yer-burgh and Hutchinson (Roads) Ltd. It is true lhat many ottier younger sons of famous old families have, during recent years, turned their attention to industry and commerce, but it must be said at once of Lord Herbert that he is no mere ornament upon a directors' board. As matter of fact, he is one of the keenest and most eneiReiic men fa the Citv.

and it can be said of him, as it cannot be said of many who were actually born to commerce, that if one. wants to find him, the place at once to seek is one of the offices of the various companies with which he is associated She is a long way from that. She has a resolule, resourceful people, and I am not afraid. She lias still got the greatest international trade in the world, and she will retain it so long as she is a free trade country. (Cheers.) )n Thursday next is to be issued the last instalment (IVi Wy) of the Oxford English Dictionary, the and sections having been already published.

Over half a century of devoted labour has been spent on the work; and in the article below Professor Ernest Weekley describes some of its features and the personalities associated with it. THE NEED FOB FREE TRADE. it is hot a question of collapse or the cutting out of British trade. We have recovered seventy-six' per cent, of the international trade which we hnd before the war. We have increased the percentage, since the present Government came into power two and a natr per cent, jnai is what Mr.

Baldwin calls the re-establish (By Ernest WMktoy.) Among my books is a duodecimo entitled "An English lixpositour or Com-uleat Dictionary, by J. Dr. of Phy-sick. This tiny volume, which weighs ment of prosperity. (Laughter.) There is much progress to oe maae neiore we (jet back to our trade of 1913.

and we ought to be far beyond that. ubout five ounces and fits easily into a Protection will aggravate our situation. If it were not for Free Trade we should not be in a position of being able to boast of being ahead in shipping and in other ways of every other country in the world. We must utilise the unemployed to re He. has the faculty for.

and the habit, RHYL." The prettily turfed back gives addiaVxal charm to this Coat of Artificial Silk. Attention is drawn to die half belt and the collar and cuffi, which arc of hare. Lined throughout Crepe de Chine. Colonr: condition Britain. We must make belter use of this country for the production of food, tmibt-r, and coal.

We must restore the cultivation of the soil to the position ft 3y TOk "ARDEN." Dainty Coat used to hold. We must go ahead in that, but we have gone backward as compared svith every other country except Russia." Navy and Black. Artificial Silk, relieved on collar, sleeves and at sides Sizes and O.S. "A NATIONAL CALAMITY." Mr. Lloyd George said that more Scottish by the introduction Mantle Department.

agricultural labourers were leaving than anv other trade. Thistles! and all that of the reverse of the material which has a satin effect. Lined throughout Artifi going aown at once to the fundamentals of whatever business concern he becomes a director. Thus he knows tho motor-car Industry from A to 7., and is alive to every modern development. Lord Herbert has been a member of the London Chamber for under two vears, and Ins election is thus a special mark of the favour In which the members hold him.

It is interesting at this moment to note that Lord Herbert is by no means a oessi-mist in record to the future of British trade nnd industry. He believes that this country has within itself the power to recover from the depression through which it has long laboured, and that, in fact, we are already proceeding in that direction. His faith in the future is. perhaps, best expressed in ihe fact that he has himself quite recently lie-come associated wilh new industrial efforts which will help this country to meet the severe competition which now challenges it at so many points abroad. barbarous horde are encroaching on the plough.

A thistle in a military cap is an adornment; in a cornfield it is a menace. (Cheers.) It is a national calamity to let K.A. 552. This new design, suitable for the young Matron, it carried out in plain Crepe de with an overakjrt of printed Crepe de Chine. An introduction of embroidery at the waist-Use lendi a very pleasing aspect to the z.

cial ill. Colours Navy, Fawn, or Black. Three sizes. 5.18.6 Mantle Department. agriculture go down; you cannot take risks on the certainly that nothing will ever happen again.

COAT Agriculture in my ludement is as yj una Inexpensm Frock Department. essential a part of the defence of the realm as the Army, Navy, and Air Force. I would allocate a certain amount for defence, and I would make agriculture an A perfectly tailored Cott for the figure of fuller proportions cut on realty iman lines, in finest quality mooiri Tweed and Corert Suitinat, lined throughout Crape de Chine. The collar, reverc, and pockets are neatly outlined with narrow bordert to lone. In shadej of Fawn Brown, or Grey.

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and 1 1 I I a tins essential part of lhat defence and spend C. upon n. S.O.S. IN ITALIAN FROM LONDOX. Referring to the Road Fund, Mr.

Lloyd foree said: For heaven's sake let us O.S. Lensthi: 46, 47. and 48 3 jf ins waistcoat pocket, was the first attempt Lit a complete dictionary of the English language. Published in 1616 by John Bullokar, a physician' at Chichester, it has had many successors, continually increasing in fullness and bulk, down to ilits week, in whicli will appear the final instalment (Wise-Wyzen) of "A New KiiRliah Dictionary on Historical Prin-i iples, founded mainly on the materials lOilected by the Philological Society, edited ty James A. H.

Murray, with the assistance oi many Scholars and Men of Science." The completed work comprises ten gigantic volumes, contains more than 400,000 Words, and nearly 2,000,000 quotations, covers a period of twelve centuries, uses 178 miles of type, find weighs approximately 200 pounds. It costs fifty guineas complete, and is probably, even from the point of view of bulk alone, the cheapest book on the market. Begun, after some thirty years of preliminary work, in 1884, its accomplishment is due to the devoted labours of four chief editors (Murray, Bradley, Oaigle, Onions), the assistance of a number of scriptorium assistants and a host of voluntary helpers, and the munificence of the Clarendon Press. Its progress has been watched with eager interest by two generations of scholars, and with complete indifference by the mass of the nation. It is to be found in every decent public library, although Us existence usually esrapes the notice of those volunteer instructors of the public who communicate their views to the papers whenever nn unfamiliar word happens to have excited momentary curiosity.

The work hegan at Mill Hill School, where Dr. Murray, later Sir James Murray, was a master; but in 1885 the nictinrmry, with all its apparatus, was removed to Oxford, where it has had various homes, its final place of ahode Veing the Old Ashmolean Museum. Here the busy workers were so often interrupted by inquiring visitors that one of them found it necessary to put on the door the notice, "This is not the Ashmolean Museum," an inadequate protection to which were gradually added in succession the further statements, Nor the Sheldonian Theatre," Nor the Bodleian Library," Nor the Clarendon Building," and, finally Nor the Martyrs' Memorial as yet! take it away. It is a standing temptation to Mr. Churchill.

I do not know what will become of it; he has got into bad habits. GORRINGES HA1RDRESSING Dept. for Ladies Children Permanent Waving carried out at Gorringes by experts- specially ttaaudm the most successful of modern methods. A perfectly natural permanent aavs for a shingled head costs only Three Guineas, Complete list of attendance fees TciU be sent post free on request. Coat Salon Second Floor Attractive Three-Piece Gown made in a combination of Woollen Crepe material and Crepe de Chine.

The corsage is of Crepe de Chine with dainty broderie and the novel pleat of the start, which is in Woollen Crepe, gives a slim appearance. The fall leapt! Ct (see Intet) lined Crepe de CbUve hroushout. In Lido, Platinum, Navy, New 1 i Green, Black, etc. W. die.

Price for Gown S-- (tJIS and Coat complete. 2 The first S.O.S. to be broadcast in the Italian language in this country was fient out on Friday, night, from 2LO. London It was for Mr. Riahardaon, a dental sur-ceon, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, who is now travelling in Italy.

He was aeked to return Hs hU brother is lying dangerously ill nt Leeds. No reply haB yet been received to the Bppeal. Costume Department. lane it away! It should be used to develop transport in the country. That was what the Liberal Government founded it for.

Coming to the conditton of the towns, Mr. Lloyd George said that the land was tho key to the position there. There were slums. There is the rich swaggering Tory Kensington. No Liberal dare step there.

FREDERICK GORRINGE, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W.i. I could not describe Kensington. There Is ihe same thing elsewhere. We must have more land for the purpose of improvement. Who is to pay for the land? The land will pay for itself." answered Mr.

Lloyd George amidst loud cheers. The price of the land created by the community will pay. The present system lives on flesh and blood. It is terrible. lmi must have oil in the land, and you must make it burn brightly.

The ideal of Liberalism is a great ideal. 11 js to givn m-'ire light and to give it more abund antly." (Cnntlnuad from prnedlng column.) ary have appeared from time to time In the Press. No account of the Dictionary would be complete which failed to "mention Frederick J. Furnivull, who died in the summer of 1'JIO, at the age of eighty five, having continued up to the Drevt ous winter his practice of occasionally Bculling from Hammersmith to Rich mond and back In the early davs of tne planning of the Dictionary Furni-vall was the driving force. In fact, it The task of the assistants was to scrutinise and classify the millions of slips sent in by voluntary readers and to submit the results of their investigations of each word to the editors-in-chief.

Of the thoroughness with which this work was done the layman can form idea. The great difficulty did not arise in handling the picturesque word with a fascinating history, but the SMALL SIZES could never have been compiled in its monumemai completeness if be had not Jumper Ireai with tJecveieaa Cardigan for the unalLer fiaure, in rich quality Celaoese. The frock ha a ftnely-pleatcd skirt, and ia trimmed with inserted hands of a contrasting shade and held at wain with narrow buckled belt The short coat adds a particularly attractive finish. In shades of Reseda, Two-Piece Suit for the petite in heary quality Cclanete. The charming sleeve-Jess frock is made in a jumper ityle with hnz picaied skirr and in finished at neck and on pockets with inserted barflls to contrast.

The short coal is similarly rrim-ned, giving a xmart finish 10 a delightful Suit. In three small sixes. common, everyday word belonging to me primitive macninerv of tie language. I remember Sir James RotebeJre, Beige, Sandal, Grey-) Cherry, Lupin, Cactus, Oob- tm Mnrrnv mentioning one evening at the Shades 01 Orey, Safe, Green, Lido, Sandal, el in, Puritan and 6 Gns 2 Gns Koit, tjobCJin, vary Philological Society that his best assistant had just spent six months on the word that The editor had to reduce Nary and Black. In three small sizes.

rvy or niacst, First Floor Small Size Salon the scheme for each word to manage able proportions, approve or modify the grouping of historical forms and "clas wilh the Pictionarv in mind, founded the Early English text Socielv in 1864, and (he Chaucer Society in 1868. The publications of these two Societies made accessible in print a mass nf Middle F.nglish literature hilherto preserved only in manuscript, and gave an altogether new idea ol our medieval vorabn-lary. Up to the time of his death Furni-vall was busilv engaged in helping on the great work. As liaison officer between Oxford and Die British Museum he was invaluable, hut, fortunately, his helllcose and tempestuous personality was never concerned with the actual editing 1 Every dictionary is out of date before it is published, because new words pour into English in a steady stream. The forty -four years sccupied in the production of the Oxford Dictionary do not constitute a very long period in the history of a language but, during these forty-four years, things' which involve words, have moved with an ever-accelerating velocily.

Our daily paper now has columns headed Flvinc "Filmland," "Motor "Wire- sification of senses, make a final selection of quotations illustrating, in the case of true English words, literary usage from the days of Alfred the Great's great-grand-parents down to the days or Mr. P. woaenouse. ana. tinallv most ticklish, job ol all, establisli the etymology of the word in question anit Its relations traceable among other languages of the world.

The solution of some of these etymological problems application to many specialists at home and abroad, and the number of aiBiingutshed scholars, orchaeolocista. historians, to whom indebtedness ia acknowledged in the ten prefaces must run into some hundreds It is obvious that such an undertnk-ng could never have been curried imt, lor even begun, without the assistance I of the voluntary readers win) furnished (tnu accumulation of slips. These began pile nil in (lie miles nf hist eeiilurv Kayset stockings are sensitive to every breath of fashion. Ankles brought suddenly into the limelight, were made to taper in spite of themselves by the wonderful Kayser "Slipper Heel'. When skirts grew brief, Kayset responded by adding four inches to their silken length.

Now, when Paris decrees that, for the evening anyhow, stockings shall be fairyfine, Kayser are ready with their new 'chiffon' weight, as delicately lovely as gossamer. Kayser silk stockings are famous for their long life as well as their beauty. Washing after washing will not destroy their smooth and tailored line. You can buy Kayser 'Slipper Heel' stockings, in the subtle shades of 1928, at all the good shops. They cost from 8l 1 149 a pair and they now come in two weights the sheer 'chiffon' nd the sturdier 'daytime1 'Slipper tl' is a registered trade mart.

1 and mtiiiueil ever inure niiiiiiita iiiriiislv down to ihe eoiuluBiiin uf ihe work ntribulions; lifetime In ihe 100. 000 Some sent in oretisioiial oiliers. interested during the great work, readied mark. It is, believe, il ptiiiiih of less, eic, an tieumig widi activities undreamt of when Murray issued his first instalments. In Volume I.

we find acro-iiaul. daled 1784, the first balloon asci'nt having laken place in 17S3, but we naturully do not find aernplaitr. nor ihe now familiar compounds airman, aircraft, elc. We are however, somewhat auaek to find Horace Walpole, lalkiug of ihe newly in-vented balloon, coined the word air.strk-ries.i in Naluiully ihe later volumes are more up lo dale. Even ihe verb Ut sultmarine is bonked, wilh a quotation from September, 1914; also the gunnery sense of straddle, with nn extract from a Jellicoe dispalclt.

The first record of submarine is as early as 16W, when John Wilklns Warden of Wadliain and founder of the Royal Sociely, wrole on the possibility of framiny an ark for submarine navigation II is useless in tho iktiouary fur liiayie: bui thimjlr. as a hair-dressing term, is duly entered and explained. And us date? Guess. Yon would sav about Well, it is and, like most' itiodi rn English, it is Anierii an. AU the missing words, and.

no doubt, additional infui'iiiaiiMh and corrigenda to aiirl to Hie value of the existing Dictionary, will he huleil in the Supplement now ill ion hi Oxford. A copy uf this Supplement will he presenied gran's lo verv possessor of ihe Dictionary, an act of publ generosity In consonance with iho tiadiltoiis of the Clarendon Tress. GOWNS Lv Evenin Gown, after This elegant picture froc is a copy of a Leborisr mii?" ani Is mi: of Btacfc MirquiMtte orer Geor-gstte, ft ni shed with a beautiful iprjv of rosea, as sketch. This MoiyneaSt Uoad throughout with double Geocgctrc, depicdng tho new hip line ani Ions uneven akin, ftnrsbei In front of l)r I raigie. ihe thirrf ukuui reh of (he editorial dvnasly.

that a few more year-' ilehiv in publication might have imperilled (he success of ihe enterprise by confronting the editors wilh a mass of tnalerial Joo vast for human powers to handle. One of the most valued voluntary helpers was a tragic figure A victim of persecution mania, he rum-milled a purposeless murder, and spent 'he rest of at Broadmoor whence his i-oiitrihiHi'UK wer mnnv iTir- forwarded in-hlv and ipirle sions of his connection uiih Ihe Diction-(Oixitlrtued in naxt column. ooaioe witn oeauorui nnuiesione ornaxneut Thus gown can be obtained in Black, iGns Blue, or the ne crusneJ Raspberry. Salon first Floor Govm DlCKINS JONES, REGENT STREET, LONDON, W.i WHOLESAU BJSTWBUTOrt DAVIS PRINCES ST CAVENDISH SQ. LONDON.