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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-03-03, Page 7Germany Ha? Not Yet Learned Her Lesson and is Menace to European Peace. AMERICAN PRESS VOICES OPINIONS THAT ' BERS OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS COULD NOT EXPRESS. The League of Nations oil February the first assumed the offices of the Interallied Military Control Commission, the duty of which body was to keep an eye on Germany and see that she did not arm herself to the danger of Eiwopeeaii peace and in con­ travention of the Treaty of Versailles.' This change of method removes a source of irritation to Germany and she will not be molested ay outside investigation until some nation draws to the attention of the League that Germany is once more producing more guns or training more men than she should. It lias been an cmbax'rasslng thing for several years’for them to confess that MEM'WILL REVIVE DISTRICT. Wo in Canada were interested to such a slight degree that only the most „ , cursory reports were in our papers, they possess power of Inspection, only However, In the American press the Platter reecelved interesting comment, 'tion in which they have turned they Tho following expressions of opinion have met with a stubborn German re* would lead us to believe that Germany fusel to reveal th® facts, has not yet learned her lesson and j that she may again, sooner* or later, ' upset the European apple cart. "For seven years this body of 150 officers, members of the armies of Ger­ many's former enemies, ha® traveled from place to place throughout the 'Country, examining military forces, in­ vestigating manufacture and storage of munitions^ inspecting fortifications and their dismantlement, and general­ ly making sure on eveery hand that |he dirarmament obligations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles were being fulfilled. That tho 33,000 inspection trips were necessary is proved by the semi-official report showing that the Commission had to order the destruc­ tion of 54,000 guns and pieces of artil­ lery, 100,000 machineguns', 14,000 air­ planes', 27,000 aircraft engines, 174,000 gas-masks*, 588,000,000. rounds of small ammunition, 39,000,000 shells and mines, 36,7-00 tons of gunpowder, 6,- 000,000 small arms. 2-8,469 mine-throw- era, and 59,000,000 fuses. “Now tho feeling of all concerned is that the German Republic sincerely desires the maintenance of peace and renewal of friendship. Overnight the Allied Supreme Council, ends; a milder oversight by the League begins. It should not be -less efficient, but rather more so, a® a result of Germany’s membership.” The disarmament agreement enter­ ed into by Marshal Fooli, of France, ' and Allied and German representa­ tives, contains these provisions, ac­ cording to Wilbur Forrest, Paris cor­ respondent of the New York Herald Tribune: "The Germans agree to destroy thirty-four of eighty-eight shelters*— twelve at Kueatrin and Blockau, and twenty-two at Koenigsberg. These must be demolished within four months from February 25. Germany pledges also that no more forbs will be built aside from those the Allies already have discovered, and that if others are unearthed she will destroy them. "The agreement will create a de­ militarized German border from.Koe- nigsberg, on the Baltic, along’ the Bolish, Czechoslovak, and Austrian frontiers'', to the Rhine, between a line of forts and the political frontiers no forti cations will be all-owed except as existed prior to 1919. Regarding war materials, Germany agrees to enact a, law regulating them and forbidding the manufacture of forbidden articles.” Besides the millions of dollars’ worth of munitions destroyed, the seven years’ existence of the Control Com-/ mission, says the New York World, cost Germany about $12,500,DOO. But, points out tho neighboring Times: "Prolongation of Allied military con­ trol has been due in the first place to Germany herself. There has been de­ bate over the question of tho Security police, 150,000 strong; over Military training carried on under the guise of athletics; of hidden steres of arms; and, latest of all, of alleged German factories in Russia engaged in manu­ facturing poison gas. But while these things may have significance for the state of German temper, it is difficult to see how they can constitute a seri­ ous threat." Ont Che other hand, says the Times correspondent in Paris, “he would be an unreasoning optimist who believed the League of Nations was going to control Germany militarily, as the Al­ lies tried to do." ‘‘Germany to-day.is an armed State, possessing the means to acquire within a brief period prac­ tically everything for making war ex­ cept battle-ships,” agrees a Berlin cor­ respondent of the New York Sun. “There is pkmty of evidence to show that mate; jolly Germany is stronger than when the Interallied Commission began its work, seven years ago,” cables- tliio Paris correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. The fact is, declares the Providence Journal, ^hat— “The provision in the Versailles 'Treaty' for supervision has simply proved unworkable, so far as the Al- , y&d representatives arc concerned. ' Whether any more substantial results wll be attained by the League of Na­ tions remains to bo seen. But there ife nothing in tile experience thus far gained In German armament control that lends hny particular promise to the future. ‘‘It is this sense of futility that doubtless makes tho Allies glad to tianrf wbr ,t’ib job to another Agency. in name, not in fact. In every direc- "Germany may violate the new agreement into which she is just en­ tering, and still not Incur as much in-' ternational ill-will as she did when she broke the Belgian treaty. ..But if she .should tx*y to violate It, and strive by ! various means to regain the military supremacy she-held in July, 1914, she would be preparing the way for an­ other day of reckoning for herself even more disastrous than the one which led to her present circum­ stances. “THE AIR HABIT” WHY ST. LAWRENCE SCHEME APPEALS TO U.S. This map shows the two great spring wheat and winter wheat areas tho United States and the increased cost per 100 pounds since 1014, of mov­ ing freight from them. The figures appear in 'Circles and reach as high as 19 cents. The map also shows the saving per hundred* pounds" -expected from sending the grain by the St. Lawrence project, working out to 11-16 cents per 100 pounds, The alternative scheme, from Lake Ontario to the Hudson, would effect a saving of from 8 to 14 cents1 per 100 pound®. elec trial ty than I do-,” snapped gild, as she threw the belt down glared at the ‘Wizard.’ “ ‘Perhaps I -do,'Edison admitted, he turned and left the place.” The Innocent. Edison has a good stock of anecdotes about the old Pearl Street station in New York (the first commercial elec­ tric central station to be established in the U.S,). The station’s first super­ intendent turned out to be incompet­ ent, and. his- place was- taken by Mr. Chlnnoek. Edison describes how somebody asked Chinnock:— “ ‘Did Mr. Blank have charge of this station?’ " ‘Yes.1 ‘ ■ “ 'Did he know anything about run­ ning a station like this?’ “ ‘Does he lcnow anything about run­ ning a station like this ?’ echoed Chin­ nock. ‘No, sir. He doesn’t even sus­ pect anything.’ ” THE CURE® CANCER In the and and 5 EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD SPEND MILLION POUNDS 4/ A Practical Demonstration of Productive Imperialism. Jtelspar, flourspar, calcite, talc, mica, molybdenite, garnet, graphite, SWerp. earth, diatomaceous earth, bei*yl» lapis* lazuli, marble, and. radium-bearing peg- matite have all been discovered and are in paying quantities In this- part, of Ontario's "mid-Hinteriand?’ We dp not for a moment suggest that great development will immediately occur upon the advent of a new improved highway through the dl&triet, but we do claim that by the building of such a road the region will become known, and once known, Its latent possibili* : ties will not long be allowed to stand i Idle. If this attractive potentially I wealhy country is placed within easy | access of the tourist It will not be I many years- until the wealthy motorist, i first attracted by the recreation pes- | sibilities', will become interested In (developing industries that are at the j moment waiting for the vitalizing touch of capital to spring into verile being. Commercial Possibilities, warrant' "the expenditure, but this ’ The purpose of this article is not to week we wish to enlarge upon other &Ivo a treatise on non-metalics, but possibilities of the district traversed we for a* moment consider ho*w to show that the improvement of the much the industry of Canada and the existing roads at an early date would One of the World’s Greatest Non-Metalic Storehouse? Traversed, Article II. Last week we proposed the develop­ ment of a new Trans-Ontario road run­ ning along the old Monck trail from Orillia to Ottawa via Gobo conk, Min­ den, Gaoderham, Wilberforce, Ban­ croft, Comb erm ere, Renfrew, hence to Ottawa. We are proud to be the first to make a proposal in the pres® and that the member for Victoria In the Provincial Parliament (Wm, NeWman, Liberal) has seen fit to father the Idea in the local house. In last week's ar­ ticle we pointed out that the scenic beauty and tourist attractions' would warrant the expenditure, 1 ’'A network Empire air communi­ cations would serve at least throe pur- pow: U would make tor unity and strength; It would open up n&w w koto, it would' sustain an Empire-wide aircraft Industry, which would be at once a achogi far airmen, a means of livelihood for teas’ of thousands of skilled workers and a reserve ot the right kind to the Ro-yal air Force/’" writes Lord Thomson, C.B.E., Air Min­ ister la the Labor Government, in the Evening Newa of London. “AH these advantages should be ours; there is nothing fantastic or for* fetched in bis presentment of our op* portunity. Everything that a Gov* ernment can do has been done, is- be­ ing done, and will bo done to further aviation, • “We have ho men and the machines-; our designers), 'pilots-, and mechanics can more than hold their own with those of any other country; our en­ gines are the best. We have got the money; there never was a time- when capital could not be found for a good, investment., "What we need now Is mainly psychological—a marked and general disposition towards aviation on the part fo the people. It may be various* ly inspired by parlotlsm, self-interest, or inclination, or, preferably, by all three; its product is what matters— the air habit," existing roads at an early date would world really -depend® on the very he in tho beat interests of the Pro- j minerals- that are located along the vince at large. [contact oC tiie igneous' rocks with the Grnunds i limestone deposits'. There are gomoIdeal Vacation Grounda. lttW8ana faduetriM W)U1 a total capI. In Haliburton and North Hastings ; taxation of over 240 million and with counties there are in excess of two a annual output of over 144 mil­ hundred named lakes. Some of these Uoa operMtag ln Canada in non- are quite extensive and all abound. rudjieradtS'. All of these non- wlth game fish of all' kinds'. 1 o.me^a^ca are noj. fOund jn p^ption watershed is In Cardiff Township, from of Ontario served by our proposed road whence streams and lakes flow three ;,but UtQ agTlreSi for lhe .pa,rtlcuiar ways, to the Ottawa, to Lake Ontario, .* eraJg fouad jn that area arQ of such a and to Lake Huron. Those streams natuip0 ag, to attention. As are -teeming with speck.ed trout. (Last i the* market price on most of these min- season, early ln June, we saw a catch 6raI.s fluctuates the value in dollars is with some of the Individual speckled ■ not in the available literature beauties weighing a pound and a half).■ ■■ Our Handicaps. Handicaps are often a positive ad­ vantage in life's race-—and advantage a handicap. The man who started well in front of scratch is overtaken and beaten by the man who started well behind scratch. . It to stamina, will, and skill which tell; not initial position. Sometimes the inwar-d knowledge of advantage produces slackness, loitering, inertia. "I am well ahead. I can win easily,” says the far-advanced man—the man born with a silver spoon in his mouth, the man who is able to have a univer­ sity course. "I am far behind. I must go for all I am worth,” says the high-spirited but handicapped man. And he does -—and' he wins. The- history -of success—a long and fascinating record of the triumph of will over circumstance---is mainly the history of handicaps', Stanley, the ex­ plorer, was reared in a workhouse*; Livingstone, the maker of Africa, waa a little “piecer” in a cotton mill; Mark Twain was a river pilot; Thomas Price, a great Australian statesman, helped as a stone-cutter to build tho Parliament House in which, later, he sat; Robert Burns was poor all his days, yet. he is the uncrowned king of Scotland. The battle is not always to the strong, the victory to the big battali­ ons. Not only do those who have riche® eater hardly into the Kingdom of Heaven, but often hardly into tho kingdom of themselves. The great name® upon the scroll of tbs world's history, its moulders of men, its 'leaders) of great 'causes, its in- spkers of mighty revolutions-, its un­ folders of epoch-making philosophies, its revealers of mighty secrets in Na­ ture and Art and Science and Morals—• these have generally been cradled in the mangers of adversity, In the Apocalypse the great question to asked: "Who are these arrayed in white robes?” and the answer comes: “These are they that come out of great tribulation?' It to eternally true. To tixe strong soul' adversity -is a word expunged from the dictionary. Things which are adverse are tilings that hinder. To those who set themselves to attain, hindrances act as spurs, incentives,, courage - qulckerfers — “these, while their companions slept, were climbing upward in the night?’ They were exclaiming with Walt Whitman:— O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand! ’To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face! To be indeed a god! The Imperial Marketing Board es­ tablished after the meeting in London of the Imperial Economic Commission in 1925 are certainly following along lines which should develop trade with­ in the Empire. The Empire Marketing Board has at its disposal a goodly pro­ portion of the Million Pounds voted the larger parent committee and we are in receipt of a leter containing the copy of an advertisement paid for by the Board and appearing in the Bri­ tish press, as follows: Tales Recalled by Inventor’s Birthday. The following interesting and amus­ ing tales are recalled by the recent birthday of the father of tho eleotric light bulb, the phonograph, the photo film and a hundred other accepted pre­ sent-day necessities. That Edison is fond of a jest hl.mself is indicated by his reply to an in­ quirer as ot why ho had' not produced an electric help for the deaf. His re­ ply wae:—- “Too busy. A lot of time is wasted in listening. If I had ono of these things, my wife would want to talk to me all the time.” The Amateur Experimenter. Edison tells ot his trials with, un­ trained assistants. “At ono time, in connection with certain ’experiments, ' a tub had been filled with soapy water, into which hydrogen had been intro­ duced for the purpose of forming large bubbles. 'One of he boys, who was washing bottles in the place/ said Edi­ son, ‘had read in some book that hydro­ gen was explosive, so he proceeded to blow the tub up. There was about four inches of soap in the bottom of the tub, fourteen inches high; and he filled it with soap-bubbles up to the brim,, Then* he took a bamboo fish-pole, put a piece of paper at the end, and touched it off. It blew every window out of the place.’ ” - The Bishop's Test. Most people know that the first thing ever repeated on tho gramo­ phone were he words, “Mai*y had a lit­ tle lamb.” When the newspaper i*e- ports of Edison's Invention reached the public doubt was cast upon it from all quarters. Many suspected fraud. Among them seems ot have been the Rev. John H. Vincent, a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who was invited to test the instrument. “The bishop talked into the recorder at top speed a loug collection of proper names from he Bib tie. When these had beeu correctly repeated by the machine, h.e announced that he was now convinced there was no deception, since not another man in -the country could recite tho selected names with an equal velocity!" Edison Lsafna Something. During the WotM's Cotambtan Hz- <*ow <rf the left arm is constantly in, b „ u B position at Chicago in 1893 Edison was use during a strenuous game of lawn J nr(n/l1nfll ii.A\v«rvnn0T« *nf fhia naturally interested in everything ho [tennis, saw in the electrical line. One day he happened to see an electric bolt con­ cern—a belt you put around you and which was supposed to cure any ail­ ment, Edison went into the office and the ve-iy pert young lady Immediately inquired what she could do for him. " ‘Well,’ began Edison, 'I wanted to know how those belts worked, and I [ thought I might learn by oomlug up here? I " ‘Certainly,” said the young lady, taking up a belt. 'You see the cur­ rent of electricity goes from the cop­ per to the zinc plato, apd then—**-’ “ ‘Just a moment,’ said Edison, politely. ‘I don’t, hear very well at times. Did you say the current went from the copper to the zinc plate?' “ ‘I certainly did. Then, as I was saying-*--’ " ‘Jus one moment/' interrupted Edi­ son again, 'Let mo understand this. Yon say It goes.’ from tile copper* to the zinc?’ ‘"Yes, sir, It goes from the copper to the zinc? “ ‘But -do you know, I always thought ft W-ent from tiio zinc to the copper? ' “ ‘WeM, it don’t? . " 'But are you sure ? Edison asked, smiling. “ 'Well, maybe yon know more about ] The full extent of the ravages' of the disease is only realized when it is con­ sidered in relation to the -deaths from ’ other causes, and the public are prob­ ably unaware that while in the’ past twenty years statistics show a sub­ stantial reduction in the general death-; rate, in infantile mortality, and in the deaths due to tuberculosis, the death­ rate from cancer has actually in-' creased by 20 per cent. And yet there ; never was a time when more people were being cured of cancer by surgi-; cal skill or when more attention was 1 devoted to research into the mystery I of its cause and' methods' of treatment. r. position at Chicago in 1893 Edison was ■Glasgow Herald. Would Be One Too Many. “Why don’t you get married?” "Too expensive—I belong t sparring clubs now," Do’ers and Why’ers. The human race' Is divided into two -classes—those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit and In­ quire. "Why wasn’t it done the other way?”—- Oil ver Wendell Holmes, Buy CANADIAN APPLES “You can eat Empire ap­ ples all the year round. Just now home-grown apples are becoming scarce, and in the orchards of Australia and New Zealand the apple har­ vest has yet to begin. But now is the time for Cana­ dian apples. A$k for them I In the grey winter months you’ll enjoy this superb fruit, ripened, colored, and mellowed by the golden sun­ shine of many a long Cana­ dian summer day. British Empire apples are unsurpassed in quality. They cost no more than foreign. Fuy them from Canada now, and so “keep the money in the family” for the benefit of your own people and your own friends.” beauties weighing a pound and a half). The elevation of the whole area is greater than Muskoka and in one lo­ cality at least we know of springs that are impregnated with radio-ac­ tivity. Surely an ideal summer tour­ ist paradise and unquestionably a health resort unparalleled in the Pro­ vince, but at present much too inac­ cessible. Section Backward. A glance at the map of Ontario dis- ( closes what a "no man’s land” this dis*- [ trict is. No towns from the Minden-(million dollars per year. Shipments Haliburton line over to Bancroft, ajOf rough mined producst as reported few scattered post offices and general [ in our export returns for 1923 (last stores known by such names as Ched-! figures available) of graphite, mica, deir, Goode-rham, To-ivy Hill, Irondale, abrasives, feidpar and talc amounted and Wilberforce. The population of?to over ?1,863,000700. The difference the whole area traversed has been, between "milled form” and "rough steadily diminishing for the past thirty (mined” in every Instance means great years. In days long past the old increase in value, and, what is more I. B. and O. (Irondale, Bancroft and ' important, the employment of more Ottawa) railway was built to accom-j' mo date the lumbering industry. To­ day only a few isolated saw-mills are ______ operating and is of an7 i lb® development and improvement of but the quantities of minerals used in Canada in the milled form is as> fol­ lows: Felspar, 4,000 otn®; Floorspar, 4,005 tons; Barytes, 3,538 tons; Mica, 3,400 tons; Calcite, 14,582 tons; Talc, 3,0'00 tons; Graphite, 4,790 tons; or a total of 37,506 tons of the minerals' found in quantity and of the best qualities in the area described. An average .price suggested as reasn-able by an -expert would indicae a business value possible to be developed and now non-exlstant of upwards' of several labor in productive profitable industry. Give Inhabitants Chance. So we can take it as conclusive that • 4-Tt rv ./I « « 4- .*%**,$ 9 **■“■*■ *^* — i great moment The-district Is so mori-j.j1Q nw> TranSuontario road would bund that a tri-weekly service on the ad.ded t0 CQirwnliwrAW 4 n win-FR.rti rtw fr f7Tri.& vtx’jti’xria>c*< cow i . _ .business from the i United States; would provide immedi­ ate earning facilities for a fast dwind­ ling but basically splendid population; would supply a new summer market i for farm .products in the district and would1 attract attention to the mineral potentialities that would be bound, in the near future, to add substantially , ----------- --------—„„ ^*[to our Provincial wealth, Taking years to our Geologists that this area' these things all into consideration we is one of the greatest, if not the great-' do not hesitate to urge the Highways* eat, store-house of non-metallc mineral Department to investigate our pro­ wealth known in the would/ to-day. posal. railway is sufficient. (The natives- say; tourist that the train leaves' Bancroft on Mon- {TTnltPlf1, R+ait,Os. day and tries to get to Haliburton and back before Saturday, hence it i& termed a “try weekly” service). With, such rail accommodation and n-o good roads it Is little to be wondered that the section is not progressive. Great Mineral Wealth. It has, however, been known for ports published from time to time, the Board was established by the British Government on of the Imperial with an annual (in the cun-ent 000) Its function is to stimulate the consumption of Empire products in the United Kingdom. A general ad- and it has further -to rely on the ef­ forts of producers in Canada. As the matter is one of great importance to the Dominion, I trust you will find space to refer to it in your columns.” If it were only possible to have our Canadian Advertisers- consolidate their publicity in Great Britain and have the same appear with the publicity which is run by he Board as above, vation of trade within the Empire.-the home public to the Importance of’from dtme to time, it could not but 1 " - - - ■ ' gre&tly stimulate the buying of Cana­ dian products ln the Mother Land. (This advertisement was illus­ trated by cuts and occupied a Quarter of a page of ordinary newspaper sheet). th© recommendation Economic Committee grant of £1,000,000 financial year £500,- The letter accompanying the above advertisement is given, as' it is of great importance for us all to know just ( what is -going on by way of the culti-. vertisement drawing the attention of We should say that the Million Pounds ! Canadian trade to the Empire was is- mentioned was voted by the Imperial Parliament for the purpose outlined. "I send you herewith some evidence of the work being done by the Empire Marketing Board to further the sales of Canadian produce ln the United Kingdom. The enclosed adv-erigement I sued at the end of 1925 and it is in­ tended- to issue advertisements of vari­ ous special Canadian commodities on the lines of the enclosed at appropri­ ate seasons of the year. “In carrying out its publicity cam­ paign the Empire Marketing Board seeks to work in close collaboration with tho official representatives of the Canadian Government in this country, . . ,v „ ii, , n ' principal newspapers of this country.. Even the left arm receivess *.„, * ... * „ .... . , . . . , “As you will no dubt know from ro-sufficient use to keep in form Great is truth and mighty above all things.—Old Testament. --------------------- Every muscle of the body, save Soon Time. Base-ball—"Ho-hum, I’m still sleepy, but It. will bo time to get up soon!” NORTHERN ONTARIO LUMBER CAMP Au outgrowth of the great lumberand tho camps are wonderfully organ-tatlon as th® logs slip over the I1*02®1} interest of Canada. Tho huge corpora-ized for the winter’s work. Winter,surface on. sled® drawn by splendid tions that handle these forest tracts, instead of being a deterrent, facilitates horses. The men aro wdl looked sometime® us largo as a Eutopeantho work of tho lumberman, the enowafter, well housed and wel’l fed and state, are thoroughly well equipped,providing an easy means of transpor-well paid and tho life is hoalthfuL Wickham Steed tn tho London Re­ view of Reviews: No man can know precisely whither Germany is tending. There ore in her midst fordcfi making for peace and progress tlrrougli inter­ national concord. These forces cannot yet be called predominant, though they appear to be gaining strength, On the other hand, there are forces working in a diametrically opposite direction, openly and secretly, They may or may not be losing ground. Between them is a mw of largely uniformed, highly sensitive "patriotic” opinion and feel­ ing, which no German Government can afford to Ignore. Tho future of Ger­ many andv perhaps, tho future of Eur­ ope, may bo determined by tho way this mans of opinion and feeling in? clino®, or is led to incline, to the one side or to the other, Behind the Times, The commercial' traveler hal been obliged to remain i na small town for the night on account of the effects of a heavy rainstorm on the railway. At breakfast the next morning tho storm still raged. As the waitress came from the kitchen 'bearing his or­ der the traveler turned to her and re­ marked : “What a terrible storm! It certainly looks like a flood.” “The what?” "The flood. You’ve read of the flood, and the Ark landing on Mount Ararat, surely!” 7 " “No, mister,” returned the waitress. "I ain’t seen a paper for three days?’ Draw's Nothing Baber. "/ack’s a good artist, but too mucU of a sport. Why doem’t be draw a sober picture?” "Bomtoo he now a sober foreatix.*