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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-07-07, Page 61 Ode on the DIAMOND JUBILEE OF CONFEDERATION By Wilson MacDonald Qde on th© Diamond Jubilee of Confederation” la the ouly poeni which hag been written by am outstanding Canadian poet on this important national event. Mr. Wilson MacDonald, the authox*, has won recognition as one of the greatest poets that Canada has evei’ produced, h{s "Exit” being hailed by Englkh critics as the best poem> published in America in 1026. His yecent work, "Out of the Wilderness,” was likewise received by critics, both in England and America, as a lasting contributioxx to literature .— (By courtesy of Canadian National Railways). The richness of maturity has hnr charms— Dusk, and the. peace of'twilight, and red fruit Heaped in an aged orchard’s sunburnt arms, And old men and old women sitting mute On tunny benches by a shadowy door, And grasses yellow and brown and the burst pods Of milkweed, and the outflamed goldenrods, And seeds that break with richness at the core, And mystic streets of cities dark with age And» wisdom of the philosophic page. There is a glory in completed life, In rich fruition, and achievement gained, In sweet, harmonious refuge after strife— The glory of an evening crimson-stained. But there is equal wonder at the spring, And at the heart of, youth, aflame with fire, And at the joyous paean of that choirWhich, in the chancel of the morning, sing, And at the new born moon, and April showers, And buds that light the tapers of rich flowers. Britain, my mother, rich storehouse of the mind! Yom* dust is powdered history, your trees Are temples wherein ages are enshrined, Your rocks are scriptured records of the seas. Upon your head rests well a shining crown Fashioned by golden hammers of bard and seer. Fox’ all you gave tlie earth we hold you dear— The glory of a long and bright renown, Song, and the blood of martyrs, and those hands That led us to our own beloved lands. Your splendor is of mid-day, ours of light Just breaking in new wonder on the earth. Your wings are strong and sure from ancient flight; We are young falcons at our journey’s birth. Yet some of our strong brood are high in air, Trooping along the clouds pbreast with thine— On roads, above the murmur of Urn pine Where sunlight falls like showers of golden hair. Yours are great castles, dark against the skies; .Ours are the quarries where new castles rise. Lantern F^roceasiQns Held in Celebration of Recent Nationalist Victories —• A .lavish display of flags, lantern proces- theatrical’ performances week end celebration in city of tlio recent, vic- Nationalist armies which invaded Shantung pro­ , Shanghai, Kuomintang sions and marked the the Chinese Tories of the have now vince. While Chiang Kai-shek’s adherents organized demonstrations, some un­ derground propaganda denouncing Chiang as a traitor to the Nationalist Government and ally of militarists and imperialists, and urging the peo- | pie to support the radical Hankow I Nationalist Government, was surrep- I titiously distributed. The ambiguous attitude of Fong Yu-lisiang continues to dominate tlie confused political situation, the Hankow Government „ . . Motorist Must Do Their Share Clear vision, carelessness and two deaths. Scene of a recent fatal crossing accident. "one of the greatest inventions of the latest development in radio, located age” at Drummondville, P.Q. | At the time of Confederation, a trip j Iri Desperation Russian Gov- ernmentis liable to Unfor^. r. seen Foolish Action DANGEROUS ACTORS O dark, unmeasured quarries! Wlio shall sing How wide and deep your subterranean flow From whose robust and patient loins shall spring Great cities wrought in marble white as snow. O vast domains, bewildering the mind With frontiers dim and distant as a dream! Land of the matchless march of lake and stream! Land of the virile seasons! who shall find A firmer rock whereon to fashion fame For coming years and peoples to acclaim. And yet the vastness of our lovely lands, The beauty of her acres or her climes— Warm on the shining Juan de Fuca sands Or cool and fragrant in her northern pines—- Are not to feed our vanity or boast. These are a splendid heritage; we made Not one gold beam of light, nor dark of shade, z Not one lone acre between coast and coast; And, though our mountains march in lordly ranks, The fool alone will boast, the wise give thanks. Now sixty years have passed into those shades Wherein nor sun nor moon shall light them more. And through these dim and richly-stored arcades I lift my torch with reverence and explore. The startled grottoes sing around my feet, And stalactites of memory catch my fire; And all our dead, like one awakened choir, Emerge from these cold caverns of retreat: Maconald, Cartier, Brown, and Laurier Stand there erect, expectant of this day. And there, in retrospection’s darkening gleam, I see that valiant company again— The Fathers of our Country, whose fine dream Welded a thousand leagues in one domain; And lit the ardent Saxon fires anew In regions where her purest flame now burns: Theirs was the probing vision that discerns, In fog and rain, the sunlight breaking through; And their the seership and prophetic powers To sense the rise of these amazing hours. Austere historian of this age of man! Would that yopr faithful chronicle might record: “She was a nation loved and wooed by Pan And beauty in her kingdoms was restored. Her frontiers danced with flowers and singing trees, Nor any gun was heard along her coast, Nor, on her highways, any armed host, Nor rich nor poor were found between her seas: She was of truth a lover, and a thrall Of Justice: fair and tolerant to all.” Such dreams are vain, but not in vain such dreams; For in their exaltation we arise; And, even as water from our lakes and streams, We are caught up In glory to the skies. And, girded for new vision, we return From the high, splendid clouds, like April showers, And, at dur touch, the flame of sleeping flowers In the cold, hueless hearts of men will burn; For, as in dreams of night arose the morn So all our deathless deeds in dreams were born. Arise then, O my Country, this great day, And light your eyes with that crusading flame Which burns all evil obstacles away— The pigmies of our malice and our shame. We have been cowards, traitors, fools and knaves; We have been fine, heroic,, strong and true, So, in this purple hour, let us renew Our strength and bear oUr hatreds to their graves- A Kingdom, with crescendo of the sea Sounding the golden age that is to be. I The First‘Exchange Advances in Personal Com-j Thd first telephone exchange in Can- .ada was opened at Hamilton early jn i 1878, before the Dominion was nine ; years old and only a few weeks' after the opening of the first exchange in the United States The system was far fi'c-m perfect—the telephone as we daily use it now has 12,000 times the transmitting efficiency of the original instrument—'but very soon the. more enterprising business houses adopted it, in the chief cities of the United Kingdom as well as on this continent. Gradually it crept into private homes, as a luxury; then, but slowly, it spread over "the countryside, where it was most needed. „ The latest figures completed for the whole Dominion show that on January 1, 1925, we had 1,144,095 telephones in use, oi’ 12.22 pfer hundred of population, as compared with 14.2 in .the United ; States, 9 in Denmark, 8.7 in New Zea­ land, 3.9 in Germany, 2.8 in Great I The Great Lakes and East Cpast Britain, and 1.7 in France, so that our/'slliP to shore” radio system consists country stands far ahead of any out- ’ — ------ -- -- • side of North America in Its apprecla- stations and 6 beacons, extending! ■ tion of this great aid to civ"lzed life, from Port Arthur at the head of the ' In 1911 we had only 302,759 telephones, Great Lakes to the Atlantic, and on ' or 4.9 per cent, cf our population. ’.the Pacific coast a chain of 14 sta- ~ ‘ ' from Victoria munication Retold and We Bell and the Telephone Strike all our telephones dumb, imagine what life would be- like! might as well try to run a machine | without oil, as business without the telephone. The wheels of trade, and ‘ev$n of social life, would suddenly slow down, creaking dismally. Much -of our business, and much of our familiar in- tercour&e, would be cut off altogether. We shiver at the thought, and begin to realize the enormous increase and speeding up of commerce, the unspeak­ able gain of ease and satisfaction in private life that we and the whole world owe to this Canadian invention. The Canadian farmer and his wife es­ pecially owe to it their happy relief from isolation. There was not one telephone instru- . ment in all Canada when the Dominion I was born, for the telephone had not been invented. Three years passed, and a young Scottish immigrant, Alex­ ander Graham Beil, came over in the hope that our bracing climate would restore his health. It did, as it has tfor thousands more. He settled at Brantford, Ontario, and there his great invention was conceived. The human voice was first transmitted over miles ; of electric wire, between Brantford and 1 aris, on the 10th of August, 1876. It was no sudden stroke of chance, this invention, but the culmination of long years of scientific thought and ex­ periment, inspired by a keen desire to help the unfortunate. Bell’s father had devised a system of "visible speech” for deaf-mutes, who cannot speak because they cannot hear a voice to imitate. Young Bell introduced this __ ______ system in English schools, long before ies, and the receiving sets were of e came to Canada. For years he prob- the most primitive type, using Mar- -d the mysteries of sound, especially coni coherer of metal filings Tie production of sounds by the mech- glass tube as the detector. anism of the human throat. He and Since 1901, when 50 miles was .a his brother actually made an automatic speaker, fitting up a skull with a larynz, "tongue and vocal cords, an’d driving air though them with the pedals of an organ. ‘ Froiii his new home in Ontario young Bell went to Boston as teacher of deaf-mutes, and two citizens of Massa- augurated in 1907, and has*been main- chusetts provided the funds to perfect tained ever since that date, his telephone and make it available to; The apparatus of the . Glace Bay the public. | transatlantic station , was, of course, “A mere scientific toy,” it seemed at materially altered and .improved from first to the common mind; but the time to time, and last1, year, this sta- great electrician William Thomson, af- tion was discontinued and the* service terwards Lord Kelvin, welcomed it as transferred to a Beam Station, the i While claims Fexfg’s allegiance and announces that Honan province was voluntarily transferred to his control, there are persistent rumors that Feng will par­ ticipate in a military conference with Chiang Kai-shek in Hsuchowfu to work out a common^ plan of action against the Northerners. Shanghai.—The Japanese Consul- General at Hankow has reported that the Hankow Government has accept­ ed the Japanese demands for com­ pensation fox' the damages sustained in the April 3 attack on the Japanese concession in Hankow. He says the ■Wuhuh Government has also agreed to the formation of a joint inquiry commission and the granting of guar- , antees regarding residence and com-across tlie Atlantic was still an ad-1 merce and industry of Japanese in venture, taking from two to three weeks. To-day the liners run with a regularity approaching that of a rail­ road service, and a passenger, six days before the ship is due to arrive in Montreal, by means of long dis­ tance radio, js able to reserve a room with bath for a certain hbur on a cer­ tain day, as a matter of routine. As the ship approaches within 500 miles of the Canadian coast, she comes within range of the chain of "aid to navigation” radio stations; if she is in a fog she verifies her position by means of the Direction Finders; if she desires to check her chronometer, ^she does so by means of the radio time signals. Every twelve hours the navigator is provided with complete weather forecasts for the area in which the ship is steaming.; and he 13 advised of the exact location of any ice which may be in his track. t.he region under the control Wuhan Government. • of the toiling if the Good Advice. An absolute beginner was round the links wondering game was really worth while and vowing, to his grizzled Scottish cad­ die, that this would be his last round. "And what should I take now?” he [ asked a moment later, finding in a terrible lie. "Well, mon,” “you have three start, you might something to drink; might take a’ your clubs home give up golf; thirdly, you might throwin’ the ba'!” replied the alternatives, take me and his ball caddie, For a get me secondly, The town I choice you and try Too True. mayor of the little ‘ provincial was noted for his unhappy of phrases. But he excelled I ,*5ixip to bituitj idiiiu o/Dieni consists » * _of an intercommunicating chain of 26 I hlmself ,on the 'occasion when a pre- The last year saw an increase from rV?ns. extendinff 731,740 to 781,623 in Ontario and Que bee, so that the total for the Dominion must now be well over 1,300,000. The Story of Radio was was ; sentatloii of a clock and a purse : made, to a local resident who i leaving the town. I "The contents of the purse," said to j the mayor, “will in time inevitably. j disappear, but," laying his hands on a country of vast the clock» "here is something which population^ lends it- <never do. utilization of broad- .... c» I Alaska.| The Dominion, areas and sparse self to the fullest casting, and there are to-day someIf CArtAVl Uli vi U <4, A Ukz OUAJ| Canadas first use of radio was the ,100,000 receiving sets In operation. establishment of radiotelegraph com- j c't.,*«. ’ ' ’ ’ munication between stations at Belle ca—Jng »11 wf Isle and Chateau Boy on the Main- which are operated by private or com- land on the north side of the Belle 'mercial interests for indirect adver- 2!,tl'?Ira^t’,_aS_a,.,S“bStItute for.a sub’ tisIn5 or publicity in one form or an- | The Province of Manitoba has es­ tablished a provincial service, and -it is understood are considering sin-pilar policy. ministration is fully appreciative zdf the utility of Dominion and velops along the lines Which will give Canada has to-day somo 81 broad-1 ; stations, practically all of marine cable which was continually other, being interrupted by icebergs. ' The stations were built by the Mar­ coni Company. Power for the trans­ mitter was obtained from dry batter- in a “Execution cf twenty anti-com- munlsts in Russia Introduces strong evidence that tbo internal menace to the Soviet regime has assumed much greater proportions than censored dis* pfutches out of Moscow have been al lowed to indicate. Certainly Russia, now more than ever desirous of win ning and holding favor abroad, would have declined to invite international disrespect by resorting to wholesale state murder unless indeed the Com­ munist structure was beginning to tremble under home-made blows. The Russian stage for the past few weeks has been crowded with events which Teaveal a rising tide cf anti-Bolshevist activity. Incendiary fires in Baku and Samara, the bombing of a Communist meeting at Leningrad, the blowing up of a trolley car on which a Soviet of- ficlal was accompanying a Polish spy^ P from Minsk, all bear witness to the. *• foment which apparently has thrown Moscow into a panic and prompted such an ugly retaliation as the execu­ tion of a score of purported enemies of Bolshevism, most of whom were not granted the favor of even a perfunc­ tory trial. Moscow has made a disas­ trous move in its world-wide chess game against Great Britain, a move only too reminiscent of Czarist tactics at their worst.”—Independent, Boston. A Threat of War , “There is an element of danger In the Russian situation which it would foe foolish to ignore. There is little doubt that the Soviet is nearing the end of its tether and the colossal loot­ ing which it inaugurated at its incep­ tion gave it an astonishingly long rope. The severing of diplomatic relations by Great Britain was only one of a num­ ber cf administrative failures, at-home and abroad. The Chinese policy has resulted only in calling the attention of all parties in China to the sinister mo­ tives behind Soviet interference. The Chinese Nationalists, when , they find themselves in Pekin, will be no more cordial to Bolsnevism than the Chinese government which they disc­ place. Internal government in Russia is a complete and incompetent failure, and it is not surprising to find that the Communist party, representing about one per cent, of the entire population, is to some extent divided against it­ self. Here is where the dange^of war with somebody, Great Britain for choice, coxn.es in. In such cases of dis­ union there is always a temptation to unite conflicting parties by a patriotic appeal and the allegation of oppression by some convenient nation outside. "In no circumstances would Britain go to war with Russia, but the hatter might, with no great difficulty, pipk a quarrel with Poland in the hope that Britain could be drawn in. The Bol­ shevist rulers of Russia are weakening where ten year's undisputed posses­ sion should have enabled them to forti­ fy themselves. One serious danger 1s that they must do something d.,s?er- ate, 'and do it sqon. People, of that -VT character, or rather o.f no character, are a menace because their absence of principle makes them’ utterly able. *V L I ■6 incaleuV n current investedthat other provinces the adoption of a The 1 -.deral Ad- ] ’ I broadcasting to this will see that it de- I ! I loiig range for a station, progress- in^the best possible resuit to our listen- radio has been steady. In 1902, Sir Wilfrid Laurier invited Mr. Marconi to Ottawa, and as a result a trans­ atlantic radio-telegraph service be­ tween Canada and Great Britain was established; This service was in- ing public. Visible in His Case—or Casing. Ho—“He says he believes a man and his business are linkedTogether by an invisible chain.” She—“In his case it’s easily seen —he's a sausage dealer.” -— .—>y— ----- Meticulous! “Doctor,” said the shrewd-looking man, “how many' feet of gas does it take to kill a person?” "That's a rather queer question,” replied the doctor, "Why do you wish to know?” "Well, you see, one of the guests at my hotel., used enough ^of it to kill himself, and I want to send in a pro­ per bill to his executors.” n—ninniii—wi—aw—»n The Methodist Church in America has just awarded a prize of $1000 for an oration on prohibition. One could not precisely call it a dry speech. "That advertisement of yours was a fraud,” protested a guest at a moun- ■ tain hotel. "How so?" demanded the | proprietor. ‘-‘Well, it said, ‘Trout are always to be caught here,’ and I haven’t seen any one who has caught a single one.” "Well, then, they're j still to be caught, aren’t they?”J Moscow’s Mad Dog “Any shrewd observer of events, especially if he has some of his intellectual capital in a background of histc-ry will ’be impres­ sed with the panic at Moscow. The weakest tiling about it is the denidt. stration cf strength. A raxlly stu-ll|, I government takes its strength ■Kl granted and is accepted neighbors. J3ut^effly“'a'weak govern- mexit has to shoot political opponents "without trial, ox’ establish a state of siege in a capital seveixil hundred miles fi'om any conceivable point of at­ tack. Indeed, the Soviet government, 'from sheer ignorance and a ceija.’n ' doctrinaire obtuseness, threw away a. magnificent opportunity, If the sever­ ing of diplomatic relations by Greet Britain had been accepted by tiro Soviet loaders with good-humored patience and a touch, of well bred amusement, it would net have hex n long before the extremists of the Eng­ lish Tory government Would have-be­ gun to look fcclish, while the rest of the world would certainly have been rubbing it in. So long as the chan-?i nels of trade remained open, what lia# the Soviet to lose? ‘gL “But it shows that it had someth:!^' to lose, and that was its prestige with f its own people. It had told them that • tho capitalist system was absolutely without shadow of principle, and that so lang ao there was trade to be had, with money in it for the,capitalist, tlie darker activities of communism In friendly countries ccuCd bo carried on in comparative sofety. Wli^t can fair­ ly bo called the mad-dog development in Moscow indicates that sumet.ne is in a tight corner. It- is ridiculous x.u suppose that the Moscow government ’ Is terrified of two sv.ch ‘powers’’ as Ro­ land and Rumania, both of which, have • troubles of their own.” ' (fiar/c I ifT A F t NE LOT, -TO o! iT ’ sA LOT /N *suBD\uistoM cuuMDek 7 • ons Wfeukiy.) ------------------------------------------- --- /tVoNUYTook TWO WlRes FRom SpiviSTh MG, «5lGNGD MoRGAfJ, . To MGN im FLORIDA THlNk / I MUTT and r ARe J MILLIOMAlR.G-S ! y MUTT AND JEFF—By. Bud Fisher POOR teamwork.' 4L.- /nGITKgR OMG Of US A CGtoT "BuT ouCt CftGDlt fiMet x Bought lot MOf Lf-l IN SUBDIVISION No. 7 YesT&RDA? AND MV BRoKeft JUST PHoNC-D He’ soub IT AV A HANbSOMC PROFIT Fote MG! Tttey ’ coming, MUTT? I 4UST Bought SOMG tee AL GSTAVG O(U THg CR.G&CV IVG’VG (ESTABLISHED PRG-TTY SOFT.' HuH*. LOT SUBDIVISION 7 • - — - When it Comes to Teamwork—They’re Rush Leaguers >- zTo the Heart of Nature, "How far up the- Hudsrn did you*' go?" "Oh, farther timn thA advertisd**i, merits run.”—-Los Angeles Times.