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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1932-10-27, Page 3• • .1 42 s Voice o the ress • •Canada., The E'<rlpire; and The World at La 'ge ' CANADA , • • btindi,ng•Lights The death, ,of two eyel'ists, struck by 'automobiles, were found by inquiring, juries to have befit contributed to by glaring 'headlights of approaching vehicles,. On one verdict a ride was attached, directing the attention of the• highways' department to; the need of, legislation which . will put an end to: the menace of h'iinding lights, and it Witt be intereernj'to see whet results, if ' aey, w°:i follow.••-•hlamiton poec • • Help For .the Farmers - The authorities. are acting'evlsi ly in giving assistance to those who neverE iia dit-td have leftthe agr1'culteral' life • to •• .return to it oncemere, but they-lshould ,trot forget the;frue farmers who have:; not been fag mated by the town, and who, at `'the lefist P;P aliuntexon _s ,cri .: fives, ,have stood four-square • against • all the blasts ,of"the depression 'It•3s' More important to keep 'people like this ,on the, land than to send back others who did not krioiy enol gli to stay khere.—La. ,Liberte; •Winnipeg. ,• Army One Up A tank has been invented that will travel under water.* The .army ate. pears -to. be .one up °on the navy .until beim e, aind to'distribute aid'consume what'e•re grow. • Halt the currency; acuities of the world soem due to those'terriule: Victorian theorists, who taught us all that it was immoral to pay people in . kind. '""Truck" ,iIthey coli it, ..and now , because of those theorists the world. is loaded •up, with •"truck" in: the shape of food and 'clothes LLwhieh it cannot Consume .be cause it has no "money.". In India. we, aslt, no -thing .better than food' .,and clothes •and ;ho:us:es;`,ethers; can' have the- . "Money", -if,. they like —Arthur ¥ogre• in Tee ,Fortnightly (London), Will G• ohmany •Re -arm? If .Germany • is eSeeking ; to re -arms. 't'lien' itis quii.e certain that"France will ,not coris•ent to reduce .'her own arniamenti( and we 4s11411 .see .the • openiag.,.of, a ,fresh lack, in armaments,' .worth. ail,'itS menace of nnrest anti des.' eTerr,"-""Snell a, 'situation leFeli -ba ,tragic indeed. ' Is •it too much -to hope - that, the German people may realize,. before it .is too late;. what.the attitude', of theirr.Government means?—Lond`on •Daily Mail. Crown Colonies and he.. Empire ,. r. • The position • of the Colonies,• which are eii'gaged-in the production'cif food-. stuffs and raw' materials; is wholly def- E ferent groin that of either''Britain. or .the latter, invents ' a • sab'marfne to travel-.• over- • land-; Winnipeg 'Free the Doinineons. The. Oa -operation ,of Press.,''....:._ - • •-.'"'' • all three.• is 'necessary for the ode uate• • • development of ,the ' Empire's 1 reel e. Question of Homework' sources, and; uteto the present .this has' The 'views of, The News -were �were'ex- not been carried out to the. • furthest pres;sed.. a few days ag,o, .While adi ut .lsossible extent: ' The `new ' B'ri,,a� _.-.se -_----...-ew.._ •--,_-.,._ , f ailing, -pelic -will give ..a•-val-uable•iiii etus ,.t. ting that, there Is .a dangdr of,loading •Pie' movement and much is 'to' bcr' ex un young. pupils with too much home- '` s work,. this . journal . cannot see the pecte•d• from, the results: attained a merit of. ;bol. Shing it altogether, as a Ottawa. It fs o.nly to be, regretted'that action f theright o k' certain amount o g t end has been so f evfe ; r wor`1 at e _.- •tong dela3-ed—Belfast-Telegraph -Tioina undoubtedly is o5g great benefit. 'We ,believe it •would be unwise to• se.t a hard and fast.rttle, preferring rather .-to leave et to. the .teache:r to' regulate in :;.,the_apirit .._of_ -.moderation irIclr '-.sliould prevail' in all things.—Chatham News, -- --- ' .' -‘,-.-1 BackTo Windjammers Using Desperate 1VIea'sures! Caught in the act! Bales of Princeton tried a little `diving 'act; •during *the ' game with Columbia,• but was nailed in midair. • Princeton tried hard, but 'lost,_ 20 to, 7, , Imports of British Coat • Break Alt Previous Records .: Montreal. — 'British anthracite' im ports through the `port ,pf)Montreal this .'season have surpassed .those~ of, any • previous year, it Wes* announced last week. • Not only .has the preyous full year's •peak .been exceeded by nearly, .90,000 ,tons , but this Was was-acli'ewed ' in five - months .V-ith another two months.to t go before the close' of"navigation• •om the' St. Lawrence River. .. The total iiiiports to,the end of Sep-. .temb: . . er'.1 - 932._th last: e ast :date •- ,- a.vai- tia ole :ere 8 0 w � 60. 9 ton s, "141,,276 tons greater than total imports•'.of 1931 and 89,806` toil higlin•• then 4930, -=the Previous- reoord year ' ' ;"It is eepet;ted •�tlie' season'.�,i. imports, mpoi is willamount to.1000;000 toes before Winter seals,:the river Biiti'sh" 5riiiinifrous \imports, showed an .increase of 93 41,E tons ever -last year with a total • to the' end of Sep- tember of.113,298. tons. There "'was also an ,advance of '11,308 tons in 'th.e _an�,.�eintt of_j3ritlah rnke 'lan'dpd liPre, ' the .total •being 11,453.' This was a new developntt;. most •. of imported coke •previousi ring ,from * the United States.': -o•.- • • American''bituminous coal brought here showed.a decrease of22,112 tons this season, receipts of 20,219 compar- ,ing with 42,331 'tons last year. No English Education • ' ---S-ix-ty;•years-ago-in-this field -we leg ged far' behind the 'other Western na- tions: Not till: thirtyyears..ago .had x -.ag •we an ali_,ro.0 den.ati;otial 'systetir..such. as they, possessed: ,Now,we ere ;every - Where . in .the 'ran, ;and at, -'not a few paints -lead the otdiere to attain this ane of the results of the depression changed position our rate of expansion• . has been for communities to return •to inniany•branches and at many: periods barter as a means of exchange, ,Yet 'has, ,been almost breathless. • At pre-. pe ,haps the most am,azin-. revival.an• -seir-t: our=etlrreatian•,--servicgsea��j .. connection' with bad timers is `that of and' away a the most costl in Europe. 1 sailing in the British navy' It, IS. not'. t e be? y it Ought 'they to Up: to a .point, • no entirely aeproduct,of'•the depression,' •doubt,it is inevitable; far all services inasmuch• as it is. caused by' the• fact ,cost more ineEnglauds- But that point, • that as -warships become -fester -and we believe,. has: been 'very . much ex More powerful they go to sea less; due ceeded; and even if it had not, there .to the increased expense of operation: ' � would be a case for scrutiny.` .For the A's a•' result the Kings., navy is going days .'when E,nglislimen Could regard. :bank to sail, Not for warjiurposes, of themselves 'as much richer s than co -urge, but for the training of, officers. foreigners . and • in a,`position ' to .do and men Naval officers have been everything far more lavishly. have bluejackets, 'h pa;ssed�away.—I cede Yorkshire Post. _. ,voicin their alarm fora decade, and J ts, aye started, to complain - of inactivity. But.now.everything will ' bre changed.- Caxgary'ATbertan. OTH-E'R'_OP1NIONS ' �, , �_• •----.--.-_.---Fewer Chiidretir• -_ �. `� . Repeaters : ; - The world's ever-incr•easiug interest Of ' the '40,0.00 persons who pass. in 'child' welfare reflects• ;the growing .thro.ugh prison in the course of a year, scarcity value of the child. There ate nearly three -fourth's have been there. fewer children in the world to -day, re- . before. More than ,3,000 have hall a latively, than there were. ten years dozen previous convictions, and •over ago; a great many fewer 'than fifty, 2,000 have more than twenty. There- years ago. , In . Grover Ceveland's first seems no reason•in social polies why Administration, if you took a sample the ,latter group ' should be released group'•of1,000 Americans, the infants just• to give an overworked police the under 5 years would have numbered •troublo of catching theln-•'again,—Lon-J .138. . In President Taft's time they don Observer. Would have been 1 2. Two years ago they :were down to 93. If you. take all children under 1 • years, . then in a i sample group of 1,000 Americans there would have been . half •a century. ago 3$1 children, 'twenty years ago 331 children. and two years ago 29;3 child- ren. Compared with fifty `years ago, • the average group• of 1,00.0 Americans ivotild have. nearly 90 fewer 'children In it.—New.-York Tittles.. • a .. - Noisy Streets ..Perhaps, greater importation of Bri tisii.•motor:cy_cles will._ inspire •also the importation of British laws which pro- titbit the infernal noise ni'ade by: these machines• on our residential streets.- Toronto Mali and Empire. • • :Weed's Are ;pensiee Just how serious is the loss occas - stoned » to Canada agriculture by the Weed nuisance 3s sliown by the report of the, Associate •Coin'niittee cin Weed Control • of• -tile ;Canadian • Reser rch- • Council. This. body Which has been Investigating the'most important ques- tion; with- particular attention to the western provinc s. The report declares that 18 per cent. is a very conserve- . Live estimate of the :crop loss' duo• to' eveeds and taking the average wheat . yield .on, the prairies .to be three hun- dred milion bushels the oats yielld at, two hundred million bushels .acrd the ,barley yield ,at• one hundred million ,bushels the committee considers that ' at current prides Weeds mean a loss of ' $40,000,000 to the farmers of the three • prairie pr ovinces alone. Rural Canada ley up in arms about' taxation, but a • leak that represetits a 1'oss•of .$40,000,- 000 a year to agriculture in three'pro- vinces apparently causes little coil - Cern. -Peterborough Examiner, • . THE EMPIRE ' Depends On Manchurians • Janai,i-leas three problems to meet. • 'f ri , attitude of 'China, the attitude of ;thee other lowers .alto the attitude 0f ' `-- the Manchurians themselves. The last will be tile defining factor. If the Men- - churians want to see their country be- . come a second Irorea, then nothing that either Oliina ore the powers are • likely to do ipiil prevent' stick a ie- relopment.-•Ilong• Fong• Press. ' • The .British ciis IrYdia • It should_he e i i i p ss ole for us to get' • • 41,14 ,end .:make things grow, 'grow •lis acrd;wf:'ei`e they have never grown • Amerii!an anthracite -arrived compared with 2,321 ton§ last year. • Vast Iie1d1:Covered By ,Latest' Chilean' -Map; Santiago, • Chile-Tlie first s.atis- tical Map s:of .Chile has 'been complet- ed by the Department of Rural'Econ- omy, of the Ministry of Agriculture. Data has .been collected in each, pro- vince, and the neap shows at a glance the area, population, road, rail and air communications, temperature and rainfall • and' everything of interest to the farmer, • Accident Rating •.o Stetistica • ,genius has . digs vered that a :di,sportionately.lar•-ge, number of. those who_ figure inn :.-automobile acci- dents is made up of persons whoare listed as bad ,credit risks. There is perhaps the kernel of a `great truth here, although superficially the state- ment would F.eein to indicate .Merely the ease with which bad' credit risks sorhehow inanage to get into motor cars. • Perhaps that,instahility of,char- acter which causes a inan to get into' the bag books - of the rating agencies also operates to prevent him from exercising due tare, in the operation of an automolsile.. -NOW York Sen. • Fine Photography' r " Big Aid to Astronomy Montreal' --That there is a pbssibil-• ity . that more planets will• be dis- covered as photography improves is the opinion of Prof. A'. S. Kelly, Mc- Gill University astronomer. For, some years the average layman believed that all the planets had been discov- ered, and that Mercury, Venus, Earth, 1VIars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus 'and Neptune' composed the whole planet-: art' system. Then 'when Pltitto was found there was great excitement, "It was 'a long time .after Neptune was four befo a Plutto was located. It.anay.take a quaky long time bee fore another and still distant planet •'. can be picked up, but there is always the- expectation' that more of them Iie just beyond the • range of visibility as it is nndexstood in 1932•,`' conclud- ed Professor koilp. craw:,• .+' Cay"-". e...,a • • Pepper Imports Lead Inlndia Spice ;Trade - London -Poets may sing -of exotic spices .which :scent the • O'rient with delicious perfumes, but it pis left to household pepper to buttress India's trade in spicy commodities. • • During 1931 more than 16,000 hundredweights of pepper • were im fi ported onr 1ndia by Great t1'itain, as compared wish ' 10,00.0 hundred - Weights iu 19307 Ginger took second place. ' fathers' Age Affects Mental: Talents at Birth? New York.—A child' begotte�ir by a father s.ged more than_ has 5,Q titres. better -chances of inheriting rich men - tel talents than one Whose father was under. 45,writes.Howard W. Blakes- lee, A. P: Scleiice 'ed>' o . - '] p prove this a stddy of- ,000' er sons' of outstanding capability in the 14th' edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is publish e''''by A.' F.Dut- ton e of Hertfordshire, England; in.the C $. Bit h official' •'c. i - ent he . �,ournal N tare. The sane tables • showed children', begotten by,fathei.s .of more, than 45 have -ttyii e the chs•:l:es ofTiiilherited capahjlity-.::T-lte ctanc.es_are_.�:;n.,.iold; with paternal age .more. than: 60.• These -studies;, tend -to revive•a Wan- ing seientifrc 'faith in a mcth6cf for human beings .to iriiprove••themseives freer generation -to 'geneiaLion The• method•is the famous Lamarck hypo- thesis; a•corrollary of evolution, which holds that •in.': the process' of ;natural ',on-aeq•*a' , , n transmitted to offspring. I'n, other '•words • a person ,who works - hi rd enoug1�i} to become a better man can sonieho$ •trailWiirit••_sorife- f t ' o his acquired character tt.• hid children, Not so; has been. the recent• prepondt err:nce of scientific experiments. 'tinted at right. d;scovering' whether:,Lamerck was • Thus in. laboratories scientizes •have cut oft a •certain • leg • of a low order of animaltgeneration r.fter generation, but never kis said has the lack'of a leg. resultedein young ;that inherited' the' "acquired''• .Ieglessnees of their. e elders. . , • Mr. • Dutton says his. attention was- attracted'Ito the' possibilities :hat .in' heritance of acquired talent might be- come evident in children of aged fa- thers by the '•"notewer,hy"'numbers. of eminent -men begotten "by fathers of ripe age." • • . •The father of Fiarcis Bacon, be says, was 52; of John Herschei,'54,;. of Robert Boyle, 6.; of William Pitt, 511 of Samuel Johnson, 53;. of John Hun- ter, 65,' and of James Parsons, 54. 4 Father—"How do I know- you 'are. not., marrying my daughter for my Money?" Suitor—"Weil,_ we're 'both taking a risk. How do I 'know you m-on't fail in a year or so?' ' "Before a. .man..•marri:es 'leo 31iou1•d have a little• money •in• the bank" "I have, as little as an one that ever the plunge." took DR Locust Swarms Delay" • Freight Trains, in ,Argentine Buenos Aires..—Freight trains have had tel be shortened and locomotives supplied' with 1,50 pounds,of sand in stead of `the usual 150 pounds because of the large • number . of..locusts• that get :onto the rails .and make' the .slippery..The Central' Argentine Rail- road':has. fitted seine' -'of nal -40414: '1it_ engines with rubber brushes to push the locusts off the 'rails:. • This, season's visitadon is. the worst in manYyears,. spreading over eight of-the'fovrteen -provinces once two of the , ten territories... Many of Atte sarins, are reported to cover. •fifteen. -,'square- miles• 'sand Dire: which ree'entl r' flew over dart ,of the • Province of.- •Entre •Ribs was twelve miles long; and nearly three miles wide This i§ the inIocusts.hate .been seen, rn•the City of Around the World• President of Spain Held. •Up by, Zealous• Treffc Officer ••1�Iadrtd.—Spain boasts the worleZe • most zealous. motorcycle • cop. He. works in San • Sebastian. During the de Rivera dictatorship. he arrested the . son of the mighty-Prinio for speeding. Not .long ago lie nabbed Deputy Clara Campeonier of 'the.,Cor..tes for parking over'Eime, 6 • .- • Recently the automobile bearing. President' Alcala Zamora and lViinister. ' of State, Zulueta' , was being • driven ' rapidly in.. the wrong direction on one-way street in San Sebastian whenl . it, was §.topped by the 'same. • police- mari.4 :"What's your neine,•.ofileer?" asked •' Minister .'Buiueta... • • "'Juan Cardero •,(John'Lapib),•` : z'e<. plied the policeman . ^-' : 'You re not lamb. You'iie a tiger,' • snapjts;d the`mmister, : • ; Perfect tiede of Roman Road Found e. Sussex' Cornfield ;• Lewes 1Ei glands • A perfect piece lot ,Roman road 'has. been •discovered.;inr the middle, of a ,cornfi.eld• at Barcombe • Mi1•lse. near legwes. - Tt: is 2l teat vivid ...... - .-...., and heavily metaled wth' flint • more' than, • a foot in thickness:: , The die-• covert' was made by a member of, thei Sussex Archaeological .So sty, •whi:ch• promotes the finding. and preservation • and antiquities of the country. The surface'.of the' field, showed no '. apparent traces 'of the road and;.the •discovery was due',to tile`.: •finding of iron slag along the ,line• which the road • • •- follows: Roman pottery was found . • upon the edges of the, ,meteliilg.. • The, road has •been.traced; at other points in the country and has proved m; •te4beeai part' •of• •amain• -thoroughfare frons. London to. Lewes, •through• Eden - ,bridge• and�-Maresiield. Hold Girl As. Security • eiadrid.—Jus:t'what is good coIlater- • al for a• loan is a •probleiii that is trou= bling n bankers these s ,Two g ..days. Pond Sl ...geese who loaned some money to LuIB. Paino •of Salamanca ..think they:, leave f_ognd' out.'. en Paino refused to' pay the "note ; : the person: ;of; Paino's niece,,Andrea • Sanchez'. Vaquero: . They' a'fnrecinaad" the. pre a deeoeeoll<ect„the- money nit ,. tin a .about ten years that, the li'er when Paino was away from home • and carried her 'off to 'Portugal; leav- ' ing helliti ITtlr• iirfo near that- elre • . ' Buenos tirires. °' Plane Service Ends, , 6ri"dks-lsolation Edinburgh:The isolatiiin -ef- the Hebrides from the, resat of'the world is fastbeing' overcome. • . D4ring the °.past _nwnth•-Stor-no-w y -,coders; -and others in the Isle of Lewis, were read-. ing their Scgtsman before midday,: stead of .half-pastseven lit the even- --The ven----The British fl3�in:g';beat, Cloud of Iona, had carried the"rteiwspapers`over front Fort William; whither they. had been rdMhed by the early morningex•• press train frons. Edinburgh.., Scottish Clans Organization ' Receive . Money Donation - Lo n.—The Highland Society of 1 London n has received • is gift of money to aid a scheme that seeks to establish Scottish -clans in districts of Scotland specially- identified with tlteir history. A conference, of various c an organ- izatiens is•being.held.here to give the scheme considerate on. ' w would be returned when Paipo pays, his; debt. Boy',s' Heart Stitched Up, Vienna, -- - remarkable- operation-- --- has been sucbes•sfully' 'performed in. Vientia hospital on a boy called Rid!' Datt-Ima -er,' wbeo is new .run.ning_ around the•wards quite cheerfully with , ".. three stitches in his heart. The child was shot three weeks ago. ' • More than. a dozen operations had to be perform- , edeat the Vienna Allgemeine Iiranken-'". haus, and -in- addition to the stitches:- .. in. the heart, wounds lir the Spleen and , bladder were stitched up. • Peasants Take Wine Baths •; • Budapest -fin tee little -village - of Lentihegy the peasants are enjoying a luxury attributed to the aristocrats of Imperial *Rome of -bathing • in wine. The only well in the . Village has' dried up and every one from children .to graybeards is drinking.. and washing in the only iluld procurable in the, vil- lage for any purpose—the •cheap and abundant wine: ' ' Returns to Old Place as Mayor, , ' .Though. Street Job Paid.More Lanett, Go..—By an overwhelming.. - vote the Lanett electorate has. ordered Charlie Rutledge td lay aside the w• . shovel and: the hoe of the Street ,Over- seer and resunie ':his seat in the Mayor's chair, . • , 1 ' A year ago Nayor.Rutledge signed to don overalls as•.director et, the city's .• �o street force. The, salary was higher ban -the Moyor's. • • There wa �- tame of -protest: and - where the,time drew hear his friends nsisted that he run for Mayor again. . Mr. Rutledge said he preferred - the', ay as Street Overseer, but that ,he' • • Hitching Post's. Reappear . Orangeburg, S.C.—The once obsolete 'hitching post is coming back tin this section. , The ,• great increase • of horses and. mules bringing-peo-pie from the outlying seethinginto the country' -seat recently compelled the Chamber of Commerce to 'find `some t vpy to accommodate the beasts. It Was decided to erect hitching ,racks on a piece of vacant property 'oppos- ite the Municipal Building and to i i ccustruct a wetter trough. The first time a Era -destroyed 'the stands; no' ono was tiese't: blit -troy tito 'dereet'rl°rsE--ef'Icenip'tou Part r.11. o corers, (England) are wondering, ' For the �.t iii"d thee this, year the mend, rs' •s•tand• a4id- Ti tteesalls', ,. ".. :quint 'halve gone' up in smoke: • • ,• .:....-.., ,,..,.--_...,.. � ,. !p ryas' "the servant of »the, people and would clo what they wanted hi'm to." • E40000 Reservoir Planned.. • • Ta Supply '400A00, Persons; Newport, Eng.—One of the biggest - 'municipal ,d'evelopmerit projects, ever ' •launched ' by Newpor was initiated • recently with the cutting o£ the first' -sod of the•cotporatior.'s new reservoir s - site at. Talyb'orrt. The reservoir wilt . cost more than £400,000. The basin is 36 miles from,,Newport,. in the Glynn CollWyn valley,' and ,the' ' 3 r cc•il'1 .rnhan• freiii. the . iae Caer. •• -• fanell, which flows over the pietur- esque ,Brecon Beacons' and enters the Usk at, Talybont. ThQ total capacity of the reservoir \vill'be 10,00,000 long. a day.... Carried out with tl:o:'aid of a Goy- ernment grant; the scheme is estimat- ed to' necessitate the •.eniployrneat •of an' average of 800 men for five years, The length of the reservoir will be, nearly two miles,. arid its greatest' .width :500 yards. • Land acquired co•W `ere an area of ;3,200 acres. The dam • -,• ill•be. 4.60 yards I'ong, Water eapadty will be 2,500,000,000 gallons And tak- • / int; the average cotisueeption at 2'5 gala - Ions •per' head 'per ;day, the- reservoir will, supply ,the nes d: 'o.f 500,000 per- sons, • "What sort of a dinner 'did, you got. tit, -the Newriches?" ".Ole, the dinnot ' Itself .was worthy.. of their opatence,, butk the coffee Made eine think thee' hadn"t a bean."