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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-11-24, Page 3I 4 Love and Respect Only Firm Basis Single British Tariff Sought By Sir A. Mond British House to Review Industries Where’s His Trowel? * ■ HERB LEWIS Editor’s Note—The following seem- came. Then the father set out ' Ingly improbable stories are vouch- the woodland. He went up one cd tor by the author, a, well-known. yon and down another, working newspaper writer. ’ My father, who was a New Eng- laader, was a rare lover of horses.' He saw in the horse more than instinct, snore thap “horse sense”; ho saw genuine intelligence. How he ad­ mired a fine specimen of the equine family as it stood with its head well- erect; ears pricked forward and look­ ing with investigating nr knowing eyes at some object that attracted its attention! Standing with flowing mane and tall, a form of life aud beauty, father beheld such a creation ■of God as almost human., To-day, forty years later, some men are saying the horse is gone, and like the dodo or roo will soon become an extinct species. There are thous­ ands, however, who however much they may delight in the.modern ‘/fiery chariots” which noiv travel without the horse, will Insist that the horse will never pass from among us. In-,., deed, there are many, maq^ places ‘ much spirit and action as in days of where his. faithful service can aid, old. man that, automotive power cannot I ___"_____ reach. Even should this be over-] you supposo ails old Dan? come, there are ( who love the animate so greatly over i house, acting as if something was the inanimate, that the horse will be ;• wrong wi-tih him.” propagated and perpetuated up to that day' when tlie wbrld will be '“changed in the twinkling of an eye.” In fact, to-day, among the wealthier classes there are many, who having tired of limousines and super-sixes, are again turning to beautiful Horses as means of joy in travel. Aud some ■of such horses their owners would not exchange for the most valuable motor vehicle yet placed on the market. Though men like my father, who •passed on some years ago, may not be here to champion the horse, the post­ erity of such men are carrying on and will -not forget what good horse . flesh has been, nor some of the re­ markable stories * about horses. My father, being an Easterner, was in close touch with tho “Kindness to Animals” movement which became so firmly founded in Boston and which continues. “Our Dumb Animals” was a favorite With him, and be had real personal’ touch with Mr.- Angell. Such association builds ■character and strengthens' pose which already rules in —and it is handed down to Hence, the love of mankind for the horse cannot pass away. The following story is founded up-; on, or inspired by, a little story often! told by the writer’s father: On the old homestead in Minnesota •a mare and colt Were running in pas- f Walter was fast. Caswell sprang to ture near the house. One night after ( his’ boy; rolled him out and closped the •famllyShad gone to bed, the mare < him in his arms Tfte boy was un- came running to the house, put her; conscious, but after a few moments nose on the bed-room window and! opened his eyes and recognized his neighed. Realizing that snmefuhint; I father, only to become unconscious was wrong, my father quickly dressed again. f and followed the mare toward the j r was many davs before Walter re­ pasture. Every Jlttle way the ani-1 covered from his terrible experience/ null would stop, turn and whinny and, Two things lie fully decided. One then draw father on. Down in the was never to try to catch a rabbit in 1 pasture was a shallow well—or where'a Jog; 'and tho other, that Old Dan a-well had been started and covered iiaq more sense than the neighbors with boards. In some way the cover ’ who wanted to shoot him—whether had been removed and the colt had fjlat be plain or liorse sense. Old Dan fallen in the hole and could not get uad won his laurels and an unending I out. The colt was lifted out by my vacation at the Caswell ranch, even' mmubt>r uiuuumc father and the mother tried in every should there be no horse heaven—andlr<ine. zospr the st-'-n pyramid wav tn fixnrfiRR her thankq for Hip ____T xi,— ___x k_ | K!,1& ZjOser> t-Je sc„.> pyuuuu. | ther and. farther from home, until he 'realized he might become lost In the wooded bills himself, His. frequent Mila and whistles echoedmnd re-echo­ ed along the rock-ribbed gulches, but no answer came other than than calls of the whippoorwill or the “whoo- whoos” of the hoot-owls, After gome time Mr. Caswell, by following a caw trail, reached a road­ way which ho soon realized was two miles from home and far from the hollows where the children had been nutting. “Na wonder,” he thought, “that a boy would get lost even in daylight, when I, who have been here for years, gets lost so near home.” Quickening his step he pressed to­ ward his some. As Caswell approached Riis house'he heard Mrs. Caswelland Maby talking, but the voice of Walter was not ming­ led with theirs. Suddenly old Dan , came trotting up, with • almost as No Royal Road to Wedded Happiness, Says Lady Aberdeen. “Daddy,” exclaimed 'Mary, “what do ___! This atoo many people'makes twice he has come up to thd London,-—Lord and Lady Aberdeen,' whose recent gulden vte.j.&ng anniver­ sary brought tributes and congratula­ tions fiom all parts of the world be­ cause of the long records* Uth hold in useful public service) have no recipe for wedded' happiness. “There can be r.o royal road1 to wedded happiness,” Lady Aberdeen said. “We are all different and we cannot dictate to one another. But so long as the union is bus-cd on mutual lave and respect, things ‘are likely to work out all right.” Lord and Lady Aberdeen have travelled extensively and as long ago as 1893 Lady Aberdeen organized the Irish section at the Chicago World’s Fair. She has been prominent in so­ cial work, especially women suffrage, for half a century. Her husband has held many high posts, including Vice­ roy of Ireland and Governor-General of Canada. Between intervals of public service, Lord Aberdeen has lived the life of a highland chieftain and at a luncheon recently in his honor, the men dressed ideals in the pur- one’s life posterity. I j “Yes,” added Mrs. Caswell, "I saw , him come that way once before, j What possesses him?” I By this time Dau had run up to Mr. , Caswell, nosed .him about, turned around and around and then started away. When Caswell did not follow, Dan returned. Then Caswell said, “I know old Dan—he wants me to go with Hiim. Stay here-, both of you, but if I call, you come, too.” Old Dan started and Caswell could hardly keep pace with him. On, on they went—-up Hazel brush hollow for a half mile, then turned into another gulch (It was close to where Mary had emerged from tlie woods), then on for nearly a mile. Old Dan never slowed his pace till he stopped, snort­ ed and turned and whinnied. At first nor hear tho brush flashlight two feet protruding from a hollow log. His heart was in his mouth. Walter! Fast in the log—and except for slight movements of the boy’s foet, ho would 'have believed him dead. Caswell ran to the other end of the log, and called. Walter faintly answered. ‘T_ _ V1±a son,” ordered Caswell, “don't strain department of the Egyptian Govern- yourself any more—I will get you — - • ....... out.” A “hitcili” and a pull on a pry-hole, down to the tomb, but “the glint of and the log opened to tho end where IT'S NO GOOD TO THE TRAPPER This Northern Ontario Beaver pelt shows that however useful his tail may be to the beaver its no good to the trapper. Another Link %Nations and Races. London Daily Telegraph (Cons.):'S'Rye.'a w"a _ juonaon. nany xeiegxupu •With Ja HSt the great nations of the present and the past have been born of the mixture and confusion of races. We are not so much born of English stock as of English deeds, English thought, English feeling. The most potent ele­ ment in national individuality, the xwcmiy xxx inr. uvuvr, him uivu uivpseu capable 111 in kilts at the requesti\>f Lady Aber^gent tlian Caswell could see nothing anything. Then he heard crackle. He threw his in the direction and saw Discovery of Tomb ' More Famous Than King Tut’s Reported London The discovery at Sakkora, force which makes most of the differ- near Cairo, Egypt, of what is believed encQ between English and French, to be the tomb of King Zoser, fam-1 American, German, Russian, is what ous Pharoah of the Thiry Dynasty. their forefathers have done and suf- (about 4,000 B.C.), Is reported special dispatches from Cairo. _ ttUU UUI ttlVuex» wiu ue>, The find is said to be more import- what makes a nation—the lessons of ant archaeologicaliy than the discov- the national past, the standards of cry of the tomb of. King Tut-ank- hamen. The work, which was .being direct- ‘Be quiet, eq by f. M. Firth, of the antiquities in fered. “We have lidard With our ears and our fathers have told us,” this Is ment have been temporarily halted by the cave-in of a side shaft leading _...._ ___ ___I, UUU U11O 611X1U uf precious metals far underground lias been seen,” the dispatches says. The discovery of the tomb, believed to be that of Im-hotep, architect to King Zoser, and builder of the step pyramid near by excavators last Marell, that the tomb porarily used by Zoser while the pyra­ mid was being built or that jt might have been that of Zoser's Queen. The Third Dynasty, known as tlie | Memphite Dynasty, twojvings, one of ihemtZoser, built huge mastaba tombs at Bet Khaliaf,, near Abydos, further up the Nile than Sakkora. Im-hotep then" built a mlghter monument for Sakkora, was reported working in that region It was also suggested might have been tern- value which the past has left, Its in­ stitutions, its habits in action, Ideals which it has honored. the I ' THE CONTRIBUTOR *My friend says he contributes to the best magazines.” “Yes, I really believe he sub­ scribes to all of them, my dear.” oliv-e.H CKyodre. deen. The King and Queen were am­ ong the first to send their greetings to tho couple, Earl Balfour, who was best man at their wedding fifty years ago, was invited, as were seven of the eight girls who were bridesmaids. A romantic courtship led to the wedding. Lord Aberdeen, then *21, lost his way while hunltng and sought a night’s lodging. Ho met Ishbel Marjorie Banks, then but 11 years old, and waited 11 years to marry her.—— ------— Builds Huge Racing Auto way to express her thanks for the sometimes I think there must be. kind deed, running first to the colt j then back and licking father’s hand and putting her face up to his. It - was such demonstrations as this that so deeply impressed my father with the well-nigh “human intelligence” of tffc horse. And here is another more Yemarkable: Down in the hills of iWed George Caswell, was composed of himself, his wife and two children, Walter aged ten- and Mary aged twelve. The children one . day wandered into the woodland,: hunting hazelnuts. In some way they became separated. For some ' hours they searched for nuts and then • became suddenly awaro of being' separated and quite far frov home. I Mary and Walter, unknown to each other, called and called, but withoutj avail—they had roamed too far apart to be heard. Walter had started to go back, as he thought, but soon lost his way and wandered down l^to a deep canyon. Mary, being unable to get an ans- Sver from lmr brother, decided to re­ trace her Steps, toward home, which she did. As she came out of the bushes suddenly, old “Dan,” the aged family horse, appeared. Dan was an animal twenty-odd years old. , In l|ls day he had been an attractive step­ per In single horness; but ■having aged, he had been turned out to grass and was seldom used for any purpose, ► The neighbors said Caswell was foolish to keep him about any longer. “■Why don’t you shoot him, George?” was a frequent question.” “I had as soon shoot one of my family or at least one of you fellows, as old Dan. He Is hot hurting any­ thing and Is getting a rest from long, true and tried service. He is wel­ come to the range of CasWell farm as long as he Ilves,” It was well-nigh dark when Mary, :’>-<v| and. worried about Walter, jilted Into her home She had hop­ ed that lw had preceded her homo, j but ho- was not there The parents grow uneasy as the shadow® gather- ecf and twilight merged into darkness, L Caswell called, yodeled and whistled '^-Jwlth all his ability In theso lines, hop*. Ing for an answer from Walter, Kone story even the ’ Ozarks The family, ---------O“ Philadephian Aims at Speed Record With Three- Engine Car Philadelphia.—A huge racing auto­ mobile, powered by three tVelve-cyl- indered aviation engines, is being completed by J. M. White, wire manu­ facturer, in an effort to set a new speed record, Mr. White announced recently. The V-type engines develop 500 horsepower each, so that the machine will have 500 horsepower more than that of Major H. O, D. Segrave’s auto­ mobile which made the present re­ cord of 203.79 miles an ’ hour last March. Mr. White pointed out that Major Segrave found that at 200 miles an hour half his 1,000 horsepower was required to overcome wind resistance, while at z that rate of Whlto's “triplex” will horsepower left. One of the machine’s, ._____ __ praced in front and two in the rear, and all three are geared directly to the rear axle. It is without clutch or gear-shift. . Mr. White expects his machines will make at least 210 miles an hour. It will be shipped to Or­ mond-Daytona Beach, where the speed test wfl be made this winter. ____ _ ■■ ■■ -O.....'*"■■« Alphabet Traced speed Mr. have 1,000 motors Is Industrial Magnate Advocates Empire Being Within “Single Ring Fence/* London.—“Give me the British Em­ pire as my territory and I will then produce more -than the United States ever dreamed of,” declared Sir Alined Mond, British industrial magnate, ad­ dressing the Empire Industries As­ sociation here. His scheme is to give all the units of the British Empire a single tariff, thereby facilitating free trade among them, and then start mass production, “Think,” he says, “of the grouping achieved in the United States, a coun­ try functioning as one economic unit with the free exchange of goods from New York to SanFrancisco, with one currency, one exchange, one standard of weights and measures, one lang­ uage. Give me the same scope and markets, let the Empire be within a single ring fence, within which Bri­ tish industry would be the manufac­ turing end, tho largest manufacturing end of the British Empiro, then we have got a chance of equality. “We are no less enterprising or less capable in organization or less intelli- .1 any other nation in the world, but at present we are not deal­ ing with equal conditions.” —„------------------ Political Rancor in South Africa. Johannesburg Star: There is a con­ siderable body of opinion in this as in other countries not actively identi­ fied with any political party or leader­ ship, but which often determines the result of an election, and indications are not lacking that this section of the community Is being alienated by the Prime Minister and certain of his colleagues. The sustained virulence and maliciousness of the attacks on General Smut#, the insults and throats of personal violence to which he has been subjected, and the organ­ ized attempts to prevent him from speaking have disgusted all fair-mind­ ed persons irrespective of their party and political opinions. ----------,j,--------— The Need for Economy London Morning Post (Gons.): That progressive saving of ten millions a year which Mr. Churchill talked of when he assumed office is much over­ due. Instead, the country has seen both expenditure and indebtedness go­ ing up, until it begins to despair of any relief from burdens well-nigh not to be borne. If this is cfone in the greentree of a Conservative Adminis­ tration, what will not be done in the dry tree of Socialism? That is the question that is presenting itself to the public mind; and that is the ques­ tion which should preoccupy the Min­ isterial mind, for on success In grap­ pling with this need for economy, the credit of the Government will be es­ tablished or destroyed. Will Discuss Precarious Posi­ tion of Coal and Steel, London,-—“Thera Is « flourishing workers* educational association, Who will undertake the education ot thb capitalist?” So asks the Observer ©a the eve of the parliamentary eesMotL Men the precarious position pf the coal and steel industrials comes under ' Searching review. 1 Experts point to the Vickers-Ann-' strong, Whitworth amalgamation as a j recognition In the world o? steel that I the product of a large scalp industry j in a weak market must be based upon I the most perfect plant, also that seleo ‘ five organization is possible only on j the broadest basis. The world of coal1 has yet to learn that lesson, Lord Beaverbrook, in the Sunday Express, makes himself the prophet of a hew era, basing his claim upon ' his experience as the one who brought about the Canada Cement ‘ merger. He scouts the idea that he was a philanthropist thinking of the public welfare. He was intent on making money and selling the public a sound security, which would en­ hance his rising reputation as a mer­ chant banker. He succeeded in both ■ alms. The consumer he was not» bothering about. He admits that men! wlth'Jho highest reputation have ask­ ed him to take a financial interest in the British coal trust. | “I had to answer ‘No.’ I had long, done with business and risked my last ’ throw in that game,” ho said. He ap-' proached Winston Churchil in vain, i “Will an individual financier now. come forward to meet the urgent’ need. Drake, too, went out for prl-’ vate gain, yet vast advantages ac-’ crued to the Empire as a result of his adventure.” -c “Is he really your rival?” “Yes.” “Great Scott! ‘ If I had a rival who looked like that, do you know what I would do?” “No.” “I’d give up the irl.” Putting Game To Use AN UNUSUAL POWER PLANT A hunter making a lassoed Mooso tow his canoe at LakefAmat, Quebec. , “Arrest Is more certain If you lie In hard language than In a soft bed.” ...... America With a Complex. Westminster Gazette (Lib.): (For­ eign comment on tho Sacca-Vauzetti case, the chango in tho French tariff laws, the formation of an Anglo- French-German Chemical Trust, have oach been the occasion of violent out- : bursts of American indignation again­ st the rest of tho world). What is hap- i perilng to America? ... It is an ar­ resting fact that, in spite of an im­ plicit claim that should place America beyond the need of falling into periodi­ cal megrims, she should ^.assort hop- I self lllte an adolescent. But this 1$ tho way of a certain sort of oomplelL j and as the Slates have somp soientifld psycho-analysts the condition ma/ J commended to thefil^ I / .— » Small Boy—“Quick, policeman man’s been boating my father for more than an hour.” Policeman— "Why didn’t you call me sooner?” Small Boy—“Fathor was getting tho best of it until a few minutes ago.” ______ ---------- - A certain woman is so painfully tidy that she makes life miserable for the rest of the family.. One of her rules is that everyone in the family must remove their boots on entering the house. One day recently she said to her husband: “I have just found-a grease spot on the chair you sit on. I think it must have come from that old pair of trousers you wear in the workshop.” - “Now, look here, Sarah,” said the husband, in a determined tone, "for the last 20 years I have taken off my boots every time I come into the house; but I’ll be hanged if I’m going to go ahy further than that!” “Let’s see,” said the chatty man, “your brother went abroad on a fel­ lowship, didn't he?” “No,” was the reply. “It was a cattle-ship.” ■ ..— ■■■■<& . ........— Little Cora Ann had been told that she must always wait patiently until she was .served at meals, and not to reach across the table or grab for her food, One day, while dining at a neighbor’s with her mother, the little girl was accidentally overlooked. She was very patient for a time, but at last she could bear the strain no long­ er, seeing everybody eating but her­ self. So leaning quietly across to her mother she said in a loud whisper: “Mother, do little girls who starve to death go to heaven?” Letters Said Known to Man 10,000 Years Ago. Vichy, France.—That man possess­ ed a definite alphabet 10,000 years ago seems to have been established by the finds made by the International Com­ mission of Scientists, investigating ex­ cavations at Glozel, near hero. Con­ troversy over the authenticity of the supposedly neolithic remains develop­ ed last4 September when Rene Dus- saud, conservator of the Louvre Mus­ eum, said that the implements and bones were "planted,” at Glozel less than 20 years ago and probably as a hoax. The anthropological congress which heard his charges then took up the appointment of a committee to detremine the authenticity of the find. —.......... . Q--------------- -- The girl at the boarding-house ask­ ed Slim why a chicken crosses the road. He said he didn’t even know why they crossed their knees. < __________ . “What do you know of the charac­ ter of this man?” was asked of a,wit­ ness at a police court. “What do I know of his character? I6know it to be unbleachable, your worship!” tho witness replied, with much emphasis. ----------O---------- A Dundee man tells the story of two Dundonians who, after death, went to their appointed places. .One of them on meeting the other remark­ ed—-“This is an affu’ cracked place. It’s no much better Dundee.” “This la not Heaven,' served his companion dryly, “A pjo can be stretched farther when the dough is elastic.” Who Rules in Russia? '! “While announcing that they are a Government by the grace of workers’ and peasants, who combined repre- ( sent about 90 per cent, of Dussia's population, the Bolshevik! declare in! the same breath that their rule is ‘a5* dictatorship of the proletariat, the proletariat constituting but about 41 per cent, of Russia’s entire popula­ tion,” writes A. J. Sack, former repre­ sentative of the Kerensky Govern­ ment in the United States, in Novem­ ber Current History. “Analyzing fur­ ther, we find that even the proletari­ at" Is not ruling as such, but’only in so far as some of the proletarians are la the membership of the Communist Party. Proletarians who do not share the Bolshevist faith, although they ma5r be good Socialists, are as unde­ sirable and as severely persecuted as any other ‘unbeliever’ in Russia. Thus we find that it is not the dictatorship of the proletariat- that constitutes the Government of Russia to-day, but the dictatorship of the Communist Party, whose membership, in spite of all tho privileges accorded to the Commun­ ists, is less than 1,000,000, tho Com­ munists thus constituting only about one-half of 1 per cent, of Russia’s vast population. Going further, we find that it is not the Communist Party that rules Russia, but the so-called Politbureau, a body of seven men. And even this Politbureau Is "ffhder the domination, it seems, of a single individual, the ‘strong man’ In Russia to-day, Joseph V. Stalin.” up than ’ ob- road-A farmer’s boy stood by the side near an overturned toad of hay, A neighboring farmer driving by not­ ed this forlorn appearance and invit­ ed him homo to dinner, saying that he could take care of the load of tyay afterwards/ They boy seemed Uh- willing to accept the Invitation, and remarked that his. father would not be pleased. The farmer finally persuad­ ed him to accompany him, During the meal the boy was very nervous, and several times said that his fathor would not like IL On being urged to give tho reason for his father’s ob­ jection, he said: “Well, you see, dad is under tho load of hayi” Mexicans Have Never Been Christians.” “The Mexican Government has been able to carry out its anti-clerical mea­ sures because of the Indifference of the mass of the pagan Indian popula­ tion to the Christian cult in general,” writes Frederick H. Martens, well- known author, in November Current History. “The Mexicans are neither European nor Christian. They are at bottom American pagans who cling with nil the red man’s tenacity to race ideals grounded in primitivism, and have an inborn conviction that only an Indian god will answer an In­ dian’s prayers. In spite of tho cen­ tury-long labors of priest and mis­ sionary, when the Mexican 13 scratch­ ed, the Aztec, Huichole or Zapotecaa appears. Once this Is realized the otherwise inexplicable spectacle of a people allowing its Government to swoop away the superstructure of what is considered its national reli­ gion, without any serious effort to >> The Old Russia. “In old Russia religion was dominating force, but the extraordi­ nary religious fervor had no counter­ part in morality and industry; the religion of suffering and of acclama- prevent, is largely explained.1 tion of the will of God heldi the place —------------------- which in Western countries is held by. An old darky got up one -niglit at tho consecration of manhood and the a revival meeting and said. “Bruddera struggles of conscience against sin.” an’ sisters, you knows an' I knows asserts Stephen Graham, well-known 1'dat I ain’t been what I oughter been, writer, in Novermber Current History. I'so robbed hen roosts an’ stole hawgs, “Tho morals of all classes were on a‘an’ told Ilea, an’ got drunk, an’ slash- low level, and tho extraordinary fe­ cundity of the race resulted in great sexual excess. Children, born into dirt and poverty, swarmed and per­ ished. * Prostitution, flourished, fanned by excessive drinking, vodka being drunk as beer Is in England. * * * An unfortunate feature of the national life W widespread thieving, which assumed the form of graft in the upper classes * * * The educated wore phenomenal in their education and culture, ,but there was no ‘ladder of education* extended to the working’ classes. * * * However, the people had great reserves of health and vi­ tality, a remarkable inclusive lan­ guage, Invaluable traditions, folklore and music, unusual religious and pMteophic instincts, .great intellectual capacity, an incomparable territorial inheritance and economic potentialities entirely proportionate to other aspects of potential greatness.” the ed folks with mah razor, an’ shot, craps, an’ cussed and swore; but I' thank the Lord dore’s one thing I ain’t nabber done—I ain’t nebber lost maS religion.” > -------—, A French lady advertised for a gov-, erness and received an application front England. After a hard struggle r with our language, the French lady*' replied as follows; “Mademoiselle--^ If you wish to leave change place, will1 you come round tho year with ma here, where > conthmaily reside? Me' I possess throe children, age three weeks less than eleven, half past nine and half-past six. The summer she passes deh^htfu.tly, but the winter ha ’ is Indeed hasty? but she the governess can be preserved with maay hot vest* meats, which keep In health and keep out cold. Me I wage you 500 by the month, if this yon suit writ me the [ hour tor come,” i