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|Buddy Miles
Miles performing in Hamburg, Germany, 1972
|Background information
|Birth name
|George Allen Miles, Jr.
|September 5, 1947
Omaha, Nebraska
United States
|Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
|February 26, 2008 (aged 60)
Austin, Texas,
United States
|Rock, R&B, funk
|Musician, songwriter, arranger
|Drums, guitar, vocals
|Years active
|Mercury, CBS, Columbia, Epic, Casablanca, Atlantic, Douglas, Hip-O, Ruf
|Associated acts
|Ruby & the Romantics, The Ink Spots, Delfonics, Wilson Pickett, Electric Flag, Mike Bloomfield, Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsys, John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana, Bootsy Collins, The California Raisins
|Buddy Miles
Miles performing in Hamburg, Germany, 1972
|Background information
|Birth name
|George Allen Miles, Jr.
|September 5, 1947
Omaha, Nebraska
United States
|Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
|February 26, 2008 (aged 60)
Austin, Texas,
United States
|Rock, R&B, funk
|Musician, songwriter, arranger
|Drums, guitar, vocals
|Years active
|Mercury, CBS, Columbia, Epic, Casablanca, Atlantic, Douglas, Hip-O, Ruf
|Associated acts
|Ruby & the Romantics, The Ink Spots, Delfonics, Wilson Pickett, Electric Flag, Mike Bloomfield, Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsys, John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana, Bootsy Collins, The California Raisins
George Allen Miles, Jr. (September 5, 1947 – February 26, 2008), known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock and funk drummer, most known as a founding member of The Electric Flag in 1967, then as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 until January 1970.
George Allen Miles was born in Omaha, Nebraska on September 5, 1947. He was known as a child prodigy, originally playing drums in his father, George Miles, Sr.'s, jazz band, The Bebops, beginning at age 12. Miles Sr. had played upright bass with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Dexter Gordon.
In his teens Miles Jr. was often seen hanging out as well as recording at the Universal Promotions Corporation (U.P.C.) recording studios, which later became Rainbow Recording Studios[1]
Miles was given the nickname "Buddy" by his aunt after the drummer Buddy Rich.
Miles played in a variety of rhythm and blues and soul acts as a teenager, including Ruby & the Romantics, the Delfonics and Wilson Pickett. By 1967 he moved to Chicago where he formed The Electric Flag with guitarist Mike Bloomfield. Nick Gravenites was the vocalist on this (and also some other Bloomfield LP's). The blues-soul-rock band made their live debut at the Monterey Pop Festival in mid 1967 and released their debut Columbia album, A Long Time Comin', early the next year (1968). Miles sometimes sang lead vocals for the group in addition to playing drums. The group broke up after their second album An American Music Band (late 1968) and Miles formed the Buddy Miles Express, with Jim McCarty, later the guitarist for Cactus. A Greatest Hits album by The Electric Flag was issued in 1971 by Columbia. In 1974 The Electric Flag re-formed briefly and released the Atlantic album The Band Kept Playing.
After Electric Flag, Miles began a closer musical relationship with the rock legend Jimi Hendrix. Miles had met Hendrix in an earlier time, when Miles was only sixteen and both were acting as sidemen for other artists in the early '60s. The meeting had occurred in Canada in 1964, at a show both were participating in. After the Buddy Miles Express split up, Miles would begin the collaboration with Hendrix, and bassist Billy Cox, that produced the Band of Gypsys LP.
This prefaced a later friendship that would result in several jams and the occasional unreleased recording with Hendrix. In 1967, Hendrix and Miles jammed at the Malibu home of Stephen Stills, and went on to play together again at various times, in both Los Angeles and New York in 1968. Hendrix occasionally joined Electric Flag on stage[citation needed]. On the recordings for Electric Ladyland Hendrix used some guest artists, one of them being Buddy Miles who played on the songs "Rainy Day, Dream Away" and "Still Raining, Still Dreaming", which are actually the same long jammed song cut in half with "1983 a Merman I Should Turn To Be" edited in between.
In 1969 Hendrix found time to write a short poem as a liner note to Expressway To Your Skull and to later produce four of the tracks on its follow up Electric Church, the two studio LPs released by the Buddy Miles Express. The title of the latter LP being taken from Hendrix's poem on the first. There was also obvious public curiosity as to whether the name of the band, Buddy Miles Express, was influenced by that of Hendrix's act, The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
After the Jimi Hendrix Experience split, Hendrix formed Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, which featured Mitch Mitchell back on drums again, and Billy Cox on bass, amongst others. Then this group was disbanded in late September 1969 with nothing that was deemed releasable from their sessions. They had though recorded complete versions of "Message to Love" and "Machine Gun", songs which would feature on the Band of Gypsys LP, the two songs that would comprise the Band of Gypsys single: "Stepping Stone" and "Izabella" and another song the Band of Gypsys worked on too, but didn't finish: "Burning Desire". Between late September and mid October 1969, according to Buddy Miles: "Jimi was not happy. He felt powerless. He couldn't do what he wanted to do.".[2] Hendrix's solution to the problem, in mid October 1969, was to found a short-lived band called Band of Gypsys and Miles was brought in to join him. Alan Douglas and Stephan Bright were initially brought in to "produce" their recording sessions, but Cox immediately clashed with the pair deeming them unworthy. He eventually stormed out of the sessions after a furious row with Bright and went home to Nashville for two weeks, before being coaxed back. And at the end of Douglas and Bright's one and a half months they had only produced one usable backing track: Room Full of Mirrors. Douglas (and therefore Bright, his employee) resigned stating business pressure, pressure from Hendrix' manager Michael Jeffery, and Hendrix' own "lack of interest".
The same day as Douglas resigned Hendrix signed the contract with Bill Graham for the two dates. Hendrix had been talking about a Band of Gypsys "jam" LP since late 1968, after the settlement with Chalpin. He also introduced the band known as 'Gypsy Sun and Rainbows' who he introduced by that name, but also almost in the same breath as 'Band of Gypsys' during their Woodstock concert - only credited as 'Jimi Hendrix' on the two Woodstock LPs. One of the notable features for his audience at the time was the fact that most of the players were black. This was a first for Hendrix as an international recording star – although he had, of course, played with the Isley Brothers and Ike & Tina Turner, amongst several other r&b bands in his early days – and this choice has been seen by some as a move toward reconnecting with his soul roots. It has also been seen as having had the effect of re-associating rock with its African American roots. Originally it was a single LP, but additional cuts from the concerts have been released on a double CD Live at the Fillmore East. During the two and a half months run up to the two night's recordings for the LP, the band rehearsed and recorded in New York City where Hendrix had his apartement, where his management was, where he was building his Electric Lady studio, and where he had lived and recorded since moving there from Nashville in 1964 - apart from his sixteen months "exile" in London, a later two month sojourn there in 1969, and his West Coast tours when he would base himself in L.A. Hendrix had become entangled in litigation concerning the contract with Ed Chalpin's PPX he had signed to prior to his agreement with Jeffery & Chandler and becoming internationally recognized. He was required to give his next LP to Ed Chalpin to be released by the Capitol Records label as part of the agreement in court. This fact led to Buddy Miles and Billy being hired as full-time employees (with benefits) for the duration of this three month collaboration called the 'Band of Gypsys' that produced that LP for Chalpin and Capitol and a single for Reprise.
Hendrix, during a one-off charity event a month later (for the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam committee), had a minor, possibly drug-related (opinions differ) meltdown on stage which has also been speculated to have been an act of sabotage on the part of a very frustrated manager Michael Jeffery, who was not a fan of the Band of Gypsys, and has been claimed as fact by Miles. Miles had this to say about the incident years later:
"Jeffery slipped [Jimi] two half-tabs of acid on stage as he went on ... [Jimi] just freaked out. I told Jeffery he was an out-and-out complete idiot and a fucking asshole to boot. One of the biggest reasons why Jimi is dead is because of that guy."[2] Miles and Jeffery already had a strained relationship, as Jeffery was always uncomfortable with Hendrix and Miles' close friendship. After this, one off, charity event at Madison Square Garden in January 1970, Jeffery told Buddy Miles he was fired and the Band of Gypsys was no more. Although Cox, and presumably Miles as well, had already been paid off as full-time salaried employees, with a $1,000 bonus "for their services" the week before.
Besides recording the live LP, studio recordings were made during the rehearsals leading up to the two concert dates and continued sporadically over a further three weeks. Cox and Miles' recording for the single's A side was completed on the 7th, and the only other completed backing track was "Power of Soul" on the 21st. At this point most of Hendrix' and Eddie Kramer's time was taken up with (Hendrix only) overdubs and mixing of the studio tracks. As well as the beginning of the very long mixing and editing for the finished LP. Some of these songs were marked down by Hendrix as contenders for his next LP. The songs are: "Room Full of Mirrors", "Ezy Ryder", "Power of Soul" and the Band of Gypsys single "Stepping Stone" b/w "Izabella", released a week after the LP, but back on Reprise records. This original version of "Stepping Stone" was later given new guitar overdubs, Miles' drums were replaced by Mitchell and it was re-mixed by Hendrix, towards releasing it on his next LP. These songs have been released in several posthumous Hendrix albums. The album Band of Gypsys — released in March 1970 (US) June (UK)— made the Top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic, and stayed in the US charts for over a year. Hendrix' final extensive tour (he had only played five major concerts (one morning and two nights) in the previous nine months since the original 'Experience' broke up - not counting his last a very disappointing two song show at Madison Square Gardens and these were all in New York City apart 'Woodstock' in New York state) and his tragic early death on the back off it on September 18, 1970, causing the album to sell more and for a longer period. There are now videos of Buddy and Randy Hansen covering several of Jimi's songs on a major website.
Buddy Miles went on to produce other records under his own name. A song he had written and recorded with the Band of Gypsys, "Them Changes" was again recorded by Miles with his own band on a release on Mercury Records soon after Hendrix's death. Miles' former Band Of Gypsys sideman, Billy Cox, performed bass guitar on this track. The Buddy Miles Express had split prior to the Band of Gypsys being formed and Buddy Miles just used his own name now. That band included bassist David Hull (who would go on to work with Joe Perry of Aerosmith), guitarist Charlie Karp, the band Farrenheit (with Charlie Farren), and The James Montgomery Blues Band. The Buddy Miles Band would release a live album entitled Live which again included his by now signature song, "Them Changes". In late 1968, they appeared in The Monkees' television special 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee which aired in April 1969.
In 1970, while recording the album We Got To Live Together Buddy Miles learned of the death of Hendrix, which he mentions on the inner cover of the album. Released in 1971, We Got To Live Together is produced by Buddy Miles and Robin McBride. It comprises 5 songs including the instrumental "Easy Greasy". High energy drumming with funky overtones and big horns make this album quintessential Buddy. The other cuts on the album are: "Runaway Child (Little Miss Nothin)", "Walking Down the Highway", "We Got To Live Together", "Take It Off Him and Put It On Me". All the songs were written by Buddy Miles with C.Karp except for "Take it Off...".
In 1973, Miles did an album with Adrian Gurvitz (from The Gun) called Chapter VII (this album has photos of Miles and his family along with some shots of Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone).
Miles would see the song released yet a fourth time on a collaborative live record he made with Carlos Santana. This particular version was particularly notable for its intense energy, horn lines and blazing guitar work supplied by a very young and energetic Santana. Miles would then go on to be signed by the '70s-'80s era record label, Casablanca Records, best known for their rock act KISS. Miles' work for the label included the excellent album released under his own name, Bicentennial Gathering Of The Tribes. It would include on its liner notes a quote from President John F Kennedy concerning the American Indians. That quote would include the line "When we neglect the heroic past of the American Indian, we thereby weaken our own heritage." This was interesting in relationship to his former friendship and collaborations with Jimi Hendrix who, in fact, had much American Indian blood in his family line. From 1994 to 2007 Buddy Miles formulated his new version on the Buddy Miles Express in the N.Y.C. area with Charlie Torres on bass guitar and vocals. Rod Kohn on Guitar and vocals . Kenn Moutenot on drums / vocals / management, and now longest standing B.M.E. member and band leader Mark " Muggie Doo" Leach on Hammond B3, background vocals and Keyboards. They toured nearly non stop in the United States and overseas with almost one thousand concerts and festivals to their credit. Buddy also composed and recorded many songs with this new version of the Buddy Miles Express that are yet to be released. It was Buddy's most enduring live band throughout his illustrious career. This popular touring line up lasted for six fruitful years together with the same members. The band continued on with Miles and Leach and a host of other players until Buddy's passing.In 2000, Miles and Leach collaborated with Stevie Ray Vaugan's "Double Trouble" rhythm section creating the Buddy Miles Blues Berries album which featured Rocky Athas of Black Oak Arkansas This lineup also contributed their spirited version of Jimi Hendrix"s "Wind Cries Mary" on the Blue Haze, Songs of Jimi Hendrix album in 2001. The duo along with sax man Patrick Gage and bassist Dave Blackerby also released the Buddy Miles Express's final album Road to Sturgis, a benefit CD for the Children's Craniofacial Foundation. Miles and Leach continued writing new but unreleased music until just days before Miles passing.
In late 1984-early 1985 while living in a halfway house in Oakland, California, Miles commuted almost every single day to Marin County to collaborate with a handful of musicians and songwriters at the Ice House Studios in San Rafael. The list of collaborators included David Jenkins (Pablo Cruise), Pat Craig and Dave Carlson (Tazmanian Devils), Robbie Long, Bill Craig, Tony Marty, and Tony Saunders. First recorded as a demo, the result was an album's worth of material. The project was soon moved to the Record Plant in Sausalito, where Jim Gaines of Huey Lewis and the News fame came in to take over production chores. The group produced over 15 songs ranging from funky soulful grooves to r&b ballads, and featuring some of the best singing work that Miles ever did. One cut, "When The Train Leaves the Station," featured solos by both Carlos Santana and Neal Schon from Journey. The title song of the proposed album, "Anna", helped Miles land his next recording job with the California Raisins. However, during the album's production, the Record Plant was seized by the United States Government when its owner was indicted on drug trafficking charges. The musicians and employees working there began calling the studio "Club Fed" (hence the name "The Club Fed Sessions"). Unfortunately, the album was never released, and the masters remain in the can in the hands of Miles' former manager. Years later, Pat Craig digitized some of the mixes and has been known to offer the album from time to time on eBay as a collector's item under the title Buddy and Me. The songs included on the tracklist were "Anna," "Forever in a Moment," "Tonight", "Next to You," and "This Could Be An Everlasting Love".
In 1986 Miles performed vocals for the "California Raisins" claymation ad campaign, most notably singing "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and was also lead vocals on two California Raisins albums featuring 1960s R&B covers. In 1986 and 1987, he also rejoined Carlos Santana as a vocalist on Santana's album Freedom. In 1987-88, Buddy moved to Southern California and formed the line up of Marlo Henderson on Guitar, Derek Sherinian on keyboards, and Michael BeHolden on Bass. The band toured around the California coast, then eventually did a tour of the Chitlin' Circuit in the deep south before disbanding in early 1989. In 1996, he sat in with rock band Phish at Madison Square Garden. also in 1996 Miles did several dates with Frank Damelio's NJ based blues band Rock'n Daddy, that also included former TV Toy guitarist Bob "BIG BUD" Solberg, drummer Paul "fergy" Ferguson, and bassist Phil "catfish" Endean (who after developing arthritis in his left hand now has a custom motorcycle business at endeanmc.com), Phil, after a rehearsal gave Buddy one of his prized Fender Strats that Buddy fell in love with while using in his guitar playing parts of their shows, Through the late 1990s, Miles' charitable side was seen in his band's playing pro bono at several annual tribute concerts for local friend and fan Linda Gillespie, who had been killed in a car accident in the Spring of 1994 in Winthrop Harbor, IL. While residing in Chicago in 1990, Miles formed MST with guitarist Kevon Smith and Joe Thomas. They recorded Hell and Back in 1994. They toured the US and Europe until 1997 and can be seen in the Tribute to Jimi Hendrix - CAS (1997) DVD directed by Patrick Savey featuring Buddy Miles, Kevon Smith and Joe Thomas.
In 1997 Buddy Miles relocated to Fort Worth, Texas. He began collaborating with young guitarist from Dallas, Texas, Lance Lopez. The former Band Of Gypsys legend would go on to mentor Lopez, leading to him co producing his debut album 'First Things First', along with Grammy winning producer Jay Newland (Norah Jones) which was released independently in 1999
Buddy Miles was seen in the Hendrix-family-owned, official video release The Making of Electric Ladyland on Rhino Records. That video featured interviews with the majority of players who were involved in recording the legendary Hendrix album. Miles even went as far as to be video recorded playing his same drum tracks yet again in the studio to the original multi-track recordings of Hendrix. In 1999 Miles appeared on the late Bruce Cameron's album, Midnight Daydream that included other Hendrix alumni Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell along with Jack Bruce and others.
In 2004 Miles reunited yet again with Billy Cox of the Band of Gypsys to re-record songs from the original live album of 1970 with guitarists Eric Gales, Kenny Olsen, Sheldon Reynolds, Andy Aledortt and Gary Serkin. The album, titled The Band Of Gypsys Return, was released in 2006. Until his death, Buddy Miles continued to be active musically and performed many shows with proceeds going to help support victims of natural disasters and other noble causes.
Buddy Miles is credited on sessions with George Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic.
In 2005 Buddy Miles began collaborating with Florida-based guitar virtuoso Tony Smotherman in which the two toured the Southeast with a blues-rock band performing various pieces from Miles' collaborations with Jimi Hendrix. Miles and Smotherman last performed at the Austin Convention Center at the 2007 Summer NAMM Show with Vernon Reid of Living Colour.
Buddy Miles died on February 26, 2008, at his home in Austin, Texas at the age of 60. His family was by his side. According to his website he died of congestive heart disease.
There was a history of congestive heart failure in his family. His sister and mother both died of the same illness. It is known that his heart had certainly been struggling, working at only 15%, and his health had been consistently deteriorating over the past few months. According to friends, "he had turned off his defibrillator and was ready for heaven."[3] There was no funeral; Miles was cremated.
The day before Buddy died, he heard Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton playing 'Them Changes' at Madison Square Garden through his cell phone. 'Them Changes' is now part of Clapton's set on tour as a tribute to Buddy. The UK-based newspaper The Independent ran an almost full-page obituary for Buddy Miles in its Friday February 29, 2008 edition. The title for the piece was "Buddy Miles: Flamboyant Hendrix drummer", and can be found on page 47.
Asked how he would like to be remembered by the American music magazine Seconds in 1995, Miles simply said: "The baddest of the bad. People say I'm the baddest drummer. If that's true, thank you world."[4] A memorial concert took place on March 30, 2008 at Threadgill's on Riverside Drive, South Austin.


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Rep. Wes Gatchalian said he filed House Bill 3878 that aims to put up the E-Commerce Bureau, which shall focus and work full time on e-commerce development, international competitiveness and continuing research.
Gatchalian said the bureau would also maintain statistical data, investigate administrative complaints against or by stakeholders, monitor and evaluate the e-commerce policies and programs.
Congress enacted into law Republic Act 8792 otherwise known as the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 to facilitate domestic and international dealings, transactions through the use of electronic, optical and other similar mediums.
"R.A. 8792 recognized the role of information and communication technology in commercial trade and in nation building. As such, the E-Commerce Office of the Department of Trade and Industry was created with the aim of directly supervising the promotion and development of electronic commerce in the country," Gatchalian said.
He said the E-Commerce Bureau will be a high level office compared to the E-Commerce Office of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and shall be the primary policy, planning, coordinating, implementing and regulating office to promote e-commerce industry in the country.
In pushing for the bill, Gatchalian cited a Nielsen survey which revealed that the Philippines has at least 33.6 million internet users, representing roughly 30% of the country's population who are engaged or have the potential to be engaged with online trading.
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A female, Araña, was born August 1. Her name comes from the Spanish word for spider. She is the daughter of Basil and Quinto. Her mother was born at the zoo in 1992 and Araña is her first offspring. The 49th sloth born at the zoo to date, Araña is unique in that she has been completely hand-reared by zoo staff since she was four days old. The zoo is the first known in the U.S. to successfully hand-raise a Hoffmann's sloth.
Hand-rearing sloths is seldom done and typically with little success. Babies are typically habituated through hands on contact with their keepers and supplemental feedings but remain with their mothers. Other U.S. zoos have hand-reared the Linne's two-toed sloth, and the Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica has had success in hand-raising the Hoffmann's sloth.
Sloths are not on the endangered species list; however their habitat is quickly being destroyed, leaving them homeless and vulnerable to a decrease in their population size. They are part of a Species Survival Plan to help ensure survival.
Sloths are adapted for life in the tree canopy in lowland and upland tropical forests, and are native to Central America and northern South America. They are nocturnal and the world's slowest mammal, typically sleeping 15 hours or more each day, traveling hand-over-hand through the tree tops 120 feet or less on a daily basis and venturing to the ground about once a week. Sloths have long and well-developed limbs with two long, curved claws on its front feet and three on its hind, which enable it to hang upside down from tree limbs. They have difficult mobility on the ground because they are physically incapable of truly walking, but are actually good swimmers using a type of overhand stroke.
A female, Kaila, was born to parents Fawn and Ty July 13. She is the pair's first offspring. The newborn was named by her keepers for Tibet's Kailas mountain range, part of the Gangdisê Mountains where white-lipped deer are found in the wild. The zoo is one of only two accredited members of the AZA which breed white-lipped deer, making her birth significant to the North American population.
White-lipped deer are native to Eastern Tibet, and generally found on high hills and mountains. One of the largest deer species, white-lipped deer are herbivores and feed principally on grasses. Only males have antlers, which can grow to more than 4 feet in length and weigh up to 15 pounds each. Like reindeer, white-lipped deer make clicking noises with their hooves to keep the herd together in heavy snowfall. Their hooves are large and solid, which enable them to climb well. White-lipped deer are threatened in nature due to hunting, sale of their antlers and meat and habitat loss.
White-lipped deer gain their name from white markings in their deep brown summer coats, visible beneath the mouth and down the throat. In the winter, the brown coat is replaced by longer gray-brown hairs which make markings less obvious.
On June 24, the zoo hosted the grand opening of the giant Pacific octopus exhibit at the entrance of U.S.S. Antiquities. Along with the octopus, Ophelia, several species of fish, sea stars and anemones live in the exhibit as well.
The zoo is the first in upstate New York to have a giant Pacific octopus. A "chameleon" of the ocean, the giant Pacific octopus possesses an impressive ability to camouflage against rocks and coral. Hundreds of suckers (up to 280 per arm) cover its arms and help it grab its diet of clams, crabs, fish and squid. The giant Pacific octopus has a huge brain, making it one of the most intelligent animals in the sea. It can learn by watching, and will even use objects as tools. In addition, it can demonstrate learned behavior and possess the capacity for problem-solving.
The tank for the exhibit was designed by Living Color, an authority on aquariums. The exhibit construction, installation and reveal will be featured on an upcoming episode of National Geographic's "Fish Tank Kings." (Air date TBA – the zoo will share information when available.)
The exhibit was funded by Friends of the Zoo through a private donation from Rick and Laura Iorio of Manlius, N.Y. The Iorios are avid zoo-goers who were inspired to bring an octopus to the local area by a visit to another zoo.
A female and male, Sasha and Turgan, were born to parents Edith and Sunny June 23. The zoo is home to capra falconeri heptneri, one of three species of markhor. Found in the wild in two or three scattered populations in greatly reduced distributions, the species is limited to Tajikistan. Because markhor are found in mountainous regions, cliffs and grassy foothills, they are very agile and sure-footed. The national animal of Pakistan, the markhor is the largest member of the goat family.
Markhor are part of a Species Survival Plan to ensure their survival. Since 1994, they have been listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with an estimated 2,500 in the wild. Herds have been reduced by extensive trophy hunting, habitat destruction and competition from domestic livestock. Conservation efforts are resulting in a comeback by the wild population. The zoo is one of roughly one dozen nationwide with markhor on exhibit.
A male, Fang, was born May 16. He is the first fawn to parents, Katara and Walter, and the first muntjac born at the zoo in 15 years. Often referred to as the "barking deer" for the sharp, bark-like sounds they produce, muntjacs "bark" to warn others of imminent danger and are also known to emit the sound during mating season.
Chinese muntjacs are native to the forests of southeastern China and Taiwan. They feed on low-growing vegetation, fruit and nuts and are predominantly solitary by nature. Distinctive members of the deer family, muntjacs stand no more than 20 inches tall and can weigh up to 30 pounds. Muntjacs are the oldest known deer; fossilized remains from 15 to 35 million years ago have been recorded, making the species of great interest to evolutionary studies.
A female was born May 4 to parents Tundra and Klondike. In honor of her birth on Derby Day (running of the Kentucky Derby), the calf was named Derby by her keepers. She is the largest reindeer calf to be born at the zoo to date and the first born at the zoo since 2002.
Although called by different names in North America, wild caribou and domestic reindeer are considered to be the same species throughout the world. They are native to the Arctic and Subarctic regions, living in the tundra and taiga, and boreal forests of North America and northern Eurasia. Reindeer migrate over great distances throughout the year, moving between calving and wintering grounds. Their migratory patterns shift according to season and help minimize overgrazing and ensure ample food supply for the herd. Reindeer make a clicking noise when walking, produced from a tendon rubbing across a bone in the foot. It is believed the sound helps keep the herd together in blizzard conditions.
Unlike others of the deer family, both male and female reindeer grow antlers. The antlers have a distinctive "velvet" appearance, comprised of skin, blood vessels and soft brown fur. Each year, antlers are shed: bulls lose their antlers after the rut and females lose theirs after giving birth in the spring.
A female, Grace, the fifth patas monkey born at the zoo, arrived April 29. Grace is the first baby to mother, Becca. The zoo is one of just 15 American zoos to house patas monkeys as part of a Species Survival Plan and collaborative effort between the AZA and zoos around the world to help ensure their survival.
Patas monkeys are members of the Guenon family, a diverse group of African monkeys found from the rainforest of Western Africa through the savannahs of Kenya. With their slender bodies and long limbs, patas monkeys are better physically suited for a life on the ground rather than up in the trees. They are one of the fastest primates, capable of reaching speeds upwards of 30 mph. Patas are recognized by a black brow ridge and nose, as well as by a distinctive white area surrounding their mouths that resembles a mustache!
A male kit named Moose was born March 23. Females, Serafina and Nymeria, were born in June. Fennec foxes are part of the zoo's Species Survival Plan.
Fennec foxes are found throughout the deserts of North Africa and the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas. Their nocturnal habits help them survive in the searing heat of the desert environment, and some physical adaptations help, as well. One of the smallest canines, fennec foxes have distinctive bat-like ears that act like natural air conditioners, radiating heat away from their bodies. Their ears also allow the fennec to hear the movements of its predators and prey over long distances.
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A female chick, Magdelena, hatched February 17. The first penguin of 2013 and the 36th to hatch at the zoo to date, she is the 8th hatchling to parents Frederico and Poquita.
Zoo staff selected potential Spanish names for the chick, in accordance with their tradition of reflecting the penguins' Latin American origins. Three options were chosen: Elisa, Francisca and Magdelena. Young zoo visitors in attendance used voting paddles, which displayed an image of a penguin, to vote for their preferences. The children selected Magdelena, or Maggie as it translates into English.
Humboldt penguins are named after the Humboldt Current, a cold nutrient-rich ocean current that flows along the west coast of South America. They are endangered with only 12,000 to 30,000 remaining in the wild.
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 2 - 08 June, 1922
Beidh Iomathóirí ó sé tíortha istig ar Chomórtaisí Aonaigh Tailteann agus b'fhéidir fós go mbeadh a naoi nó deich. Dá mba rud é go raibh aimsir chuige, abair a dó nó trí bliadhna, ní'l aon amhras air ná go gcuirfeadh an Astraoile a h-iomlán iomathóirí chugainn, in ionad gan éinne bheith ó'n dtír sin pé mar atá anois.
"Do chur an lag-thrachtáil i gcoinne mórán mór a theacht ó Canada agus ó Talam an Éisg agus ó Bhreatan Beag.
"B'fhéidir gur chóir da luadh annso ná fuil aon pháire oireamhnach ceart do cleasa, amhlaidh is mar atá i geaithaireacha móra eile. Acht muna mbeadh gur thug an Rialtas Sealadac £10,000 i gcóir feabhasaighthe a dhéanamh ar Phaire an Chrócaigh is baolach go gcaithfí tabhairt suas d' Aonach Tailteann.
"De bhárr an conghnamh do thug an Dáil do chleasa agus caitheamh aimsire an náisiúin, beidh annso againn um Lughnasa an Féile is mó agus is tábhachtaí da raibh in aon tír eile le nár linn. Beithfear ag teagase agus ag corú fuirne LuithgCleas le dul in iomaidheacht i bPriomh-Chathaireacha na hEórpa sa tsamhradh seo chugainn. Beidh buidheann sáir-feabhasaighthe ullamh le dul go Párus i mbliain 1924 i gcóir na nGrég-Oilimpici agus go hAonac Tailteann i Nua Eabrach b'fhéidir i mbliain 1925.
"Nuair a thiocfaidh teachtairí le chéile i Lughnasa seo chugainn ós na tíortha éagsamhla déanfar réidhteacht ar ciaca leanfar d'Aonach Tailteann do chóimeád i gcóir na nGael amháin, nó é leathanú amach mar rud mór idirnáisiúntach ar nós Oilimpic na Gréige.
"Mise, Séumas Breathnach, Rialathóir."
SEAMUS BREATHNACH: I will read this for you in English.
August 3rd—13th (inclusive).
Emerald Chambers,
Abbey Street,
"A Chara,
"The last report on Aonach Tailteann was submitted to An Dáil about the end of March. At that time we were still discussing the possible programme and little or no headway had been made in the way of tapping the athletic resources of our people in foreign countries, and it was generally believed even in the ranks of those directly concerned that the time at our disposal was altogether inadequate to do justice to the rebirth of this ancient festival.
"In the meantime, however, very good progress has been made [484] and the Main Council composed of direct representatives from the Departments of Sport, etc., plus a few specially selected men responsible for sections incidental to the programme is satisfied that the situation is now well in hands.
"The problem of accommodating visitors is still giving much concern to the Council notwithstanding that some twenty sub-committees are endeavouring to hammer out a scheme designed to obviate the unfortunate experiences of those who visited Antwerp, Athens, and other cities on the occasion of the great Olympics.
"The Council is therefore composed of the Chairman of each of the following main Committees:—
"(1) Instrumental Music; (2) Camogie; (3) Rounders (Women); (4) Athletics and Cycling; (5) Hurling; (6) Football; (7) Handball; (8) Rounders (Men); *(9) Billiards; *(10) Arts; *(11) Motor Cycling; *(12) Rowing; (13) Boxing; (14) Tennis; (15) Golf; *(16) Chess; *(17) Yachting; *(18) Shooting— Clay Bird; *(19) Shooting—Rifle Miniature and Revolver; (20) Dancing; (21) Swimming; (22) Catering; (23) Transport; (24) Industrial; (25) Trophies; (26) Decoration; (27) Ambulance; (28) Legal; (29) Publicity; (30) Accommodation— Visitors; (31) Accommodation— Athletes; (32) Finance; (33) Social; (34) Ceremonial; (35) Massed Choirs.
"At the outset it was intended to include only those events which would draw International Competitors but after careful consideration this was found to be impracticable and as it now stands the Programme consists of (1) International; (2) National; (3) Partly national and partly international.
"Those under No. 2 are starred in the foregoing list. Physical drill was eliminated because of the lack of competitors, and motor car racing under the absence of a suitable course. The outstanding features of the different departments are summarised hereunder:
"(1) Instrumental Music included seven Band Sections and Union Pipes and Harp. (2) Camogie has been organised on a scale hitherto unknown. (3) and (8) Rounders are now being taken up as a real live game. (4) Athletics and Cycling involve about thirty-six events and are on all fours with Olympic Programme. This section alone will occupy two-and-a-half hours per day for six days. (5) Hurling v. Shinty.—In order to bring about a union of the Scottish and Irish Gaels a Hurling-Shinty match will signalise the opening of the games."
Mr. Walsh at this stage in the report, said:
There is a marked resemblance between shinty and hurling. Shinty is the great national organisation in Scotland. We are endeavouring to co-ordinate shinty and hurling and I believe we will succeed in doing so. It will help to consolidate the two races very much.
"(7) Handball is now taken up vigorously throughout the country as a consequence of Aonach Tailteann. (10) Arts—the Arts department is providing for 47 different sections and will easily eclipse anything hitherto attempted. (11) Motor-Cycling includes three fifty-mile races. The absence of a charge for admission to the Phoenix Park deprives the Games Committee of over two thousand pounds revenue. (12) Rowing—This is a two full-day Programme of seven Championships with an average of thirty boats to each event. Such competitions were never known, hitherto, in the Rowing records of this country. (17) Yachting.—A two full-day programme is also arranged here—practically every yacht in Ireland entering. (21) Swimming—This four-day programme is fixed for the Zoo, control of which we have taken over for the necessary period. (22) Catering has been taken in hands by the Dublin City and County Caterers Association and in addition to the maximum utilisation of every available resource huge marquees are being erected in public places. In order to meet the requirements it is found necessary to buy 60,000 sets of ware at a cost of £1,500. (23) Transport facilities are very complete and special steamers are being run from Britain and America. (24) Industrial displays and pageants will cover this section. (25) Trophies—Over eleven-hundred medals will be needed for winners. Medal [485] and statuette-casting industries will be started in Dublin as a consequence of this impetus. (31) Accomodation of Athletes.—With the assistance of the military we hope to accommodate at least 1,000 competitors and for this purpose it is necessary to purchase 1,000 beds at about £3 per bed. Not one of the Residential Colleges could be got to accommodate competitors—home or foreign—though it would cost them nothing. This fact should be borne in mind when the nation's money is being spent on these anti-Irish institutions."
We made every effort to get the foreign competitors properly housed and fed. No country can take the risk of bringing men from 'Frisco and other far off places without at least seeing to their welfare in the interval. And we were hoping to get accommodation in some of the big colleges here but, unfortunately, we have not succeeded. We found it necessary to take over one of the big barracks and furnish it. There was no other alternative.
"Foreign Representation—At least six countries will be represented in Aonach Tailteann. The number may probably reach nine or ten. Had the necessary time—say two or three years—been at our disposal there is no doubt whatever but Australasia instead of not being represented would have had a full compliment of competitors. Industrial depression has deprived us of many more men from Canada, Newfoundland, and Wales.
"It is only proper to state that our capital city lacks a stadium such as capitals generally enjoy, but as a temporary measure to meet the present situation the Provisional Government were good enough to make a grant of £10,000 towards the improvement of Croke Park— otherwise the Aonach would in all probability have been abandoned.
"The immediate result of An Dáil's assistance to the games and pastime of the nation will be the production here in August of the biggest athletic carnival held in any country in modern times."
Mr Walsh added:
As a matter of fact the Aonach Tailteann is more than twice as large as the Greek Olympic which it includes and provides in addition for a great many matters which were not included in the Greek Olympic or in the ancient Tailteann games of this country.
The report went on to state:—
"The training and equipment of an athletic team to compete against the principal European countries in their respective capitals next summer; a highly developed combination to perform in Paris at the Greek Olympics in 1924 and representation at the Aonach Tailteann possibly in New York in 1925.
"Whether Aonach Tailteann will remain confined to the Irish race henceforth or blossom out as an international feature like the Greek Olympic is a matter which representatives of the various countries will decide when they meet to discuss such matters in August next."
We have got representations from America to the effect that it would be advisable to depart from the idea of confining the Tailteann games to the Irish race and seeing that they predated the Greek Olympic by a thousand years we should be justified in entering upon a more varied programme. We believe that up to yesterday the Greek Olympic Committee would have excluded Germany, Russia, Scandinavia, and other countries and from their inclusion by us in a few years' time we would have been able to go forth in the international sphere as a going concern. We now find that they have included all these countries. And we will have to reconsider, therefore whether our programme henceforth will be international in the full sense or whether it will be confined to the Irish race. At the outset we didn't know how much would be required to finance the Tailteann Games. It is pretty much a leap in the dark to suggest a certain sum. I said I hoped we could get the programme through on £5,000; So far the Dáil has voted £4,000 and to-day I am asking for a further grant of £1,000 four-fifths of which is required for the equipment of our catering department and the furnishing of the barracks to which I have referred. The receipts from this programme which covers something like ten days will be very big. I should not be surprised if the nett financial results will be at any rate £7,000 or £8,000. By the action of the Dáil and the Dáil Cabinet [486] much has been done for Irish games, and I must say the most enthusiastic backer of the Tailteann Games when the matter was introduced at our meeting was Mr. de Valera. I must say you have done for Irish athletics what we believe would never materialise in our time. It is a matter of great importance to the nation that it should be well represented in these international competitions. Our people in the past, while producing the athletic stars of the world, got no compensation because of the fact that they were picked up and utilised and exploited by other nations. Now you are recognised to-day by this Greek Olympic Council and you have your own programme stretching out into the universe, and you have placed Irish athletics on a footing which will ensure their absolute success in the future. I will ask the Dáil not to look upon this programme in any sense as a political one. You have not done so so far and our Committee is composed of men of both political sides, but the question of politics has not arisen. And though it is hard on the financial resources of the Dáil I will ask you to support us by passing this unanimously.
MR. MCCARTAN: I beg to second the motion.
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE Eoin MacNeill
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: The motion is that the Dáil approves of the report. Are you all agreeable to that?
MR. HAYES: There is one paragraph to which I take exception, that is with regard to the colleges. The report says:
"Not one of the residential colleges could be got to accommodate competitors—home or foreign— though it would cost them nothing. This fact should be borne in mind when the nation's money is being spent on these Anti-Irish institutions."
Now, I only received the report when I came to the Dáil meeting this evening. But I think it is unfair to state that the Dublin residential colleges are anti-Irish institutions because—for reasons which seem sufficient to them—they refuse to accommodate competitors—home or foreign. Now these colleges are performing educational work for the nation under conditions which those of us who are in touch with educational conditions in the Dáil know are very difficult, and I would be very sorry to think when the nation's money was being allocated to these colleges that any college which refused to do what the Tailteann Games Committee asked them to do should be penalised. I think it is altogether an unfair statement, and the inference that a legislative assembly of this kind should take this matter into consideration when allocating public money to the colleges is not a thing which an assembly of this kind could stand over. I do not wish to make a fuss over it, but I would like to say it is a statement that I would not care to allow to pass unchallenged.
MR. WALSH: I am rather glad to have an opportunity of drawing attention to it. I put the position of these colleges more clearly before the country and our people and I wanted the people of Ireland——
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE Eoin MacNeill
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: It is hardly in order for the Minister to speak at this stage.
MR. WALSH: I assume there is nobody else to speak on the report.
MR. DE VALERA: Do not assume that at all. To put the matter in order I wish to say that I agree altogether with the remarks of the Minister for Education. I think it would be well if that paragraph were deleted from the report. I think it is only fair to the members here that a report of that kind would be circulated in advance, just as it would be well also for the future conduct of the Dáil if the programme for the day could be circulated in advance to the whole House.
Now about that paragraph in the report, it carries with it its own condemnation. It is not at all necessary to make a speech about it and I hope that Deputy Walsh will withdraw that paragraph. It would be the easiest way out of it.
MR. WALSH: I refuse to withdraw that paragraph and I would make my position very clear on it. The House may turn down the Report if it likes, but when we state what we believe to be true in respect of these colleges it is our duty to stick to it. Now for the last ten or eleven years these colleges have been acting in the most anti-Irish fashion——
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE Eoin MacNeill
[487] AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: The Deputy is not in order.
MR. WALSH: One moment, please, I have a right to reply.
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE Eoin MacNeill
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: You must obey my ruling.
MR. WALSH: I do not withdraw the paragraph. I certainly refuse to delete it.
MR. W.T. COSGRAVE: To put the matter in order, I move that that particular paragraph about the colleges be deleted. I think if the Postmaster General got an elephant to send through the post by parcel post he would say that the Post Office is not supposed to carry elephants. Now these colleges are for educational purposes and it is not their function to turn themselves into boarding establishments. You can with very great difficulty mix up those things with one another. I think, as I was saying to the Minister of Finance, that this particular report was probably written late at night and the Director was in bad humour when he wrote it. It would be a condemnation of the Dáil if it held out a threat to some of the national institutions of this country in future. The idea ought be if they are not up to the standard of the national inspirations of the Director that he ought to develop some means in order to restore them to the nation and not to threaten them with extinction. Human nature is capable of very great improvements. You all admit that. It would be well if things could be improved, and you cannot do that by threats.
MADAME DE MARKIEVICZ: I second Alderman Cosgrave, because it is a preposterous thing to ask Universities to turn themselves into boarding houses and hotels. You must be very careful to whom you extend the hospitality of a university or college. They were not created for this and I think it was a preposterous thing to ask them to do it, and therefore I think that paragraph ought to be deleted.
MR. STACK: I wish to know whether the Minister for Local Government wishes to delete two paragraphs or only one. Is it the last sentence he means?
MR. COSGRAVE: I think the two ought to be deleted. One is a matter of information, I should say. It is clearly a matter that should be brought into the report. I have no wish to let men escape condemnation but I do not think it is their business to do what they are asked to do. You might as well ask me to do something that was entirely outside my business.
MR. STACK: I have a great deal of sympathy with the director of the Tailteann Games on account of the past attitude of some of these colleges towards Irish games. I know nothing at all about what he refers to now. But if the attitude of the colleges towards the games which he is promoting now under the auspices of Dáil Éireann is anything like what it has been to my knowledge in the past, I think he is justified in expressing the views he has expressed and in introducing something or other to mark his condemnation of their conduct.
PROFESSOR STOCKLEY: I wish to say something like what has been said by Mr. Stack. It seems to me that what the Minister for Education said is quite true, that you cannot penalise educational institutions, in the form suggested, and there was a mistake in the form in which that proposal was made. But I also felt that the Postmaster General was serious and I do not wish to say that even the Minister that followed him was not serious in his proposal against this. But I would appeal to the House to consider whether it is at least not unfortunate that nothing has been done to win the sympathy of people who in the past have acted apart from such movements. It seems to me that there is a serious feeling behind this declaration that even now nothing can be done. Nothing has been done in places, perhaps, such as those referred to to create a more reasonable attitude to a public undertaking of this sort.
MISS MCSWINEY: It is not very clear whether this £5,000 is in addition to the £4,000 or whether Deputy Walsh is ask for £1,000 or for £5,000 now.
MR. WALSH: I would like to explain how this matter arose——
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE Eoin MacNeill
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: I suggest that we dispose of the amendment.
[488] MR. WALSH: I think I should be allowed to speak. You can see that there are two sides to this question and you switch me off before——
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE Eoin MacNeill
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: You are quite free to speak on the amendment.
MR. WALSH: Very well. This was discussed by the Aonach Tailteann Committee and it was decided, seeing that the games would be on during the summer period, when the pupils were away from the colleges, it would not be unreasonable to ask the authorities of these colleges to place the buildings, without any equipment, at the disposal of the Tailteann Committee. There were two proposals; first, that we get the equipment and pay for the cleaning up, and second that we get the colleges over with only cooking equipment. Now these proposals were put forward in writing and supported by a deputation of pretty responsible men, and not in any one instance did we get any encouragement. There is an analogy or precedent for what we proposed. Any of you who have been to Leipzig knows that every college there thinks it an honour to assist the city and if there is any public spirit in the colleges in this country a sympathetic response should have been made to us. And I say that no institutions in this country have done more to poison and destroy the nation than the colleges, and I stand for it.
MR. ETCHINGHAM: I do not quite understand the motion of the Minister for Local Government. He proposed to delete the sentence. This fact should be borne in mind. Does he propose to delete only that much?
MR. COSGRAVE: The whole of it from the words "not one of the residential colleges could be got" down to "anti-Irish institutions."
MR. ETCHINGHAM: If Deputy Walsh would substitute some other word it might meet the case. I know in the G.A.A. in the past the difficulties we had with such colleges. They were really the home of foreign games and anti-national outlook which we were trying to change. There is no use waiting upon them. We did wait upon them time and again and asked them to take up the games, but they would not foster them. It was the common people that fostered the games. Certainly the educational authorities did nothing, but I would not be for penalising the youth of the future in Ireland. Certainly this assembly should not do so. But we should set out something there to show that the old feeling is still there, and that it is dying hard.
MR. WHELEHAN: I think it altogether unfair that a general statement should be made—"Not one of the residential colleges could be got to accomodate competitors, home or foreign, though it would cost them nothing." There are a great many residential colleges in the country that were not asked.
MR. WALSH: This refers to the residential colleges in and around Dublin.
MR. WHELEHAN: Very well. It should be made very definite which colleges are concerned.
MR. HAYES: I object to the words because the matter at issue here is not whether residential colleges in or around Dublin do not support Irish games. I know some of them do not. They deserve condemnation for it. But the issue here is not that at all. It is a fact that they would not accommodate certain competitors, and because they would not accommodate them they are called anti-Irish. I refuse to accept that. The college, which for reasons of its own, refuses to accommodate competitors is not anti-Irish, because of that. Now, if the second part of the paragraph—"This fact should be borne in mind when the nation's money is being spent on these anti-Irish institutions," means anything it means that when allocating educational grants to educational establishments we should penalise colleges which have refused to accommodate competitors at the Tailteann Games.
MR. WALSH: Which have refused to take any part whatever in the national games.
MR. HAYES: I am speaking on this and I submit I should not be interrupted here. I look upon it as a member of the legislative assembly which is allocating educational grants. We are asked to penalise residential colleges which are performing educational work on grounds which have nothing to do with education. [489] It is a wrong principle and I do not see how any thinking Deputy in the Dáil can agree with this. The question "for" or "against" Irish games is irrelevant. I am opposed to it for the particular reason I give, that these colleges are described as "anti-Irish," and that we are asked to penalise them for reasons that are not educational and that are not necessarily Irish.
DR. MCCARTAN: I move that the question be now put.
MR. ROBINS: I second it.
MR. D. MCCARTHY: I suggest that Deputy Walsh should withdraw that paragraph for this reason—that we have now had an opportunity of airing our views. These colleges are certainly anti-Irish. They have boycotted our games, and when it comes to allocating money we will have to think of it; but whether in this or the new Dáil the G.A.A. will have to discuss it.
QUESTION: "That the question be now put"—put and agreed to.
MR. WALSH: I am prepared to withdraw the sentence, seeing that we have concentrated the necessary attention on these colleges, which was our object, naturally. As Mr. McCarthy says we will follow it up later on.
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE Eoin MacNeill
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: Will the Minister for Local Government withdraw his amendment?
MR. COSGRAVE: Certainly.
MR. FRANK FAHY: In dtaobh an chuig míle punt seo ba mhaith liom fios a fháil an iasacht nó grant é seo? An dtabharfaidh Coisde Aonach Tailteann an méid sin airgid ar áis don Dáil arís má thagann an t-airgead isteach chucha?
MR. STACK: I wish to make a suggestion, and I hope it will be accepted by the director. The paragraph in the last page of the report says "the immediate result of An Dáil's assistance to the games and pastimes of the nation will be the production here in August of the biggest athletic festival held in any country in modern times." I suggest that we should alter that to the Dáil's "promotion of the games and pastimes," because it was the Dáil's promotion and he is only acting under the Dáil.
MR. WALSH: I accept that. As to Mr. Fahy's question, seeing that this is a grant and seeing that the entire monies are those of the Dáil, there is no doubt that the results will revert naturally to the Dáil. I pointed out that we would make a profit of several thousand pounds from the Táilteann games. That is the Dáil money.
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE Eoin MacNeill
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: Then I put the adoption of the report, with the two amendments that have been made, one omitting the two sentences with reference to the colleges being anti-Irish and the other changing the word "assistance" to "promotion." I declare the report passed. Now there is the question of the vote of £5,000.
MR. COSGRAVE: In the absence of the Minister for Finance, I am moving this vote at his request. There has been already voted a sum of £4,000. The director explains that he will be able to restore this money. I think the profit he has stated that they will make shows him to be the most optimistic director we have had.
MR. WALSH: Because he knows his business.
MR. COSGRAVE: I am moving the estimate accordingly.
MR. D. MCCARTHY: I second that.
MR. DE VALERA: Are we to take it as a loan?
MR. WALSH: Yes.
MR. DE VALERA: When I suggested that these games be started Deputy Walsh suggested £2,000. Now we have gone up to £9,000, and whilst I will support this £5,000 to finish it, I think we have gone as far as our funds will allow us in supporting these games. I would like to say that it is most unwise to change these games from the Irish Race Games into being competitors with the Greek Olympic. I think we ought to keep them as definitely Irish games.
[490] MR. WALSH: Of course we will bear in mind Mr. de Valera's suggestion, but I would like to explain that the estimate submitted by me at a few hours' notice was £2,000 or £3,000 and at the time we anticipated a very limited programme. As soon as I got an opportunity, within a fortnight I re-submitted a programme and stated definitely that its promotion would cost at least £5,000. And I have not exceeded the £5,000. I have only gone to £4,000, but as I explained here, we have introduced a great many additional features. We certainly will require no more.
MR. DE VALERA: Is it in order for a Deputy who is not a Minister to second it?
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE Eoin MacNeill
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: Yes, certainly. It must be moved by a Minister but any Deputy can second it. Now this motion is before you.
MR. STACK: Is it £5,000 plus the £1,000 already received?
MR. COSGRAVE: £4,000 has been already voted and £1,550 has been expended. This is a vote over and above what has been expended for the special department in connection with the catering committee. Now the total vote as far as the Dáil is concerned from the beginning amounts to £9,000 of which a sum of £1,500 has been already expended.
MISS MCSWINEY: I would like to ask if the amount of money spent in giving employment in connection with these games will justify that expenditure when there is so much need and so many unemployed throughout the country. A little further down we have a request for £5,000 for Mayo, and there is starvation in the County Donegal. I know those games will give employment and will bring in some profit. It is a question of consideration whether the amount of employment given by this grant will justify this expenditure in face of the terrible want in Donegal and the west of Ireland. I know that there is a great advantage in athletic festivals of this kind, but I doubt if it should be undertaken on such a big scale on this particular year, in view of the distress in the country. If, on the other hand, that £9,000 will give adequate employment to those who have none, I would have nothing to say to it. But I would like to put before the Dáil whether the money could not be better spent and have the Games undertaken on a smaller scale for this year?
MR. WALSH: As a matter of fact, every penny has been spent in giving employment. We have already started two new industries and we are starting a third.
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE Eoin MacNeill
AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: I suggest that the Deputy wait and then he could reply when the speakers have finished.
MR. WALSH: It is easier to do it the other way.
MADAME DE MARKIEVICZ: I would like to say a word. The more practical way of looking at it is this: It seems to me that Mr. Walsh has done very efficient work and seeing what it is and what it is going to be he has done it extremely cheap. The £4,000 has not been spent, but if we do not give this £5,000 we are simply spoiling the whole thing; every farthing invested in it so far will be lost. I look at it that as we have gone so far it would be bad finance for the Tailteann Games and bad for the country to stop the thing now. I consider that £9,000 is a very small sum for a gigantic thing like this to be done. Also I would like to point out that the money is like an investment and will be helpful. Money will be spent here. I would be strongly in favour of giving this further loan.
MR. ETCHINGHAM: I am in support of the grant, but I would be more so if the director had introduced the game of bowls. I heard this first in Lincoln prison and it was discussed by Mr. de Valera and Seán O'Mahony. They were anxious about rounders, and some men from Cork and the west wanted bowls. That is an old Irish game. I think we should unanimously grant this loan. It is perhaps too big a start but it is necessary to give it. Every one of us should aim to make the Tailteann Games a success.
Vote of £5,000 put and agreed to.
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