HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-01-10, Page 2jfhe Empire and The World at Large
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ing food, clothing and so on
■ nothing is being dope fp’the land it
self. And; this must be attended to,
or else the desert will remain des
ert .forever. From this point of view
the, muesitlon is a truly 'riational one.
—;Tho La: Presse,,’Montreal;/'
PREJUDICES'
" "Mos t '''bf "Wi io*'' cburse< have .'quirfes
and prejudices. - F.ojka.&e-influenced
td; read the things that feed -their
! prejudices or viewpoints^. A man
whp beUev.es°in a. new hanking sys?
tem Usually, redds everything he can
■find to support .his views, if it is
suggested to him .that he 'ought to
read something'on the other aigejlfe-
refers to^t.as ‘’propaganda” and
passes if up. Quite often this is‘true
of the other type of man who is
afraid of a new.idea Me keeps away
.from speakers, and books that' might
be upsetting to what he believes Is'
a sound . view of Jthe question—Re
gina Leader-Post. m . '. ‘ ’ .
/iNDEED! „ ”
thihk that the blow-
"jng JT whistles should .be ab‘,
qlfeh'ed. Bht ?f there were no faq.to.ry.'
whistles hovto would we. keep-y the
.clocks” straight? — Brockville Record
der. • - — u. *
Guelph
’ , . 106,000,bOO SHEEP :
■ Australia ihi' "the cou|paratively_
near . future dsjexpected to''parry 50
miU.Upn, mart? s|feep. without ' being
-piVerstocked/ Recent experijn.®nts ih;
‘‘ district's prepared with new grasses1
feSUltefl nqi only in deefeasing sheep
' parasites, but. in ? increasing ,. the
weight of Wool -per sheep ', as well. ,
Australia now 'Carries , approxirnatejy,
100 jnillion. sheep, -. each producing. 8 ■
to-fl pound's bf wool a year. ^—Bran
don Suii. . ' '. ’
FLOODLIGHTS AT CURVES
The Suggestion that floodlights be';
.\pjaced, at, some b-t Ahe.j
ouis curves on Western Ontario road-
rways has .merit.’-With the. majority of
iniain.-highways in this section of the
province- .served by a network of
Hydro lines, it haS been pointed out
byfosevl.vbl interested' organizatibns
that the cost of putting up two pr
three lights at bad curves’ would not
be great* The idea, is a. good one ip
that the;cost is. negligible. and • it
t might'be the means ': of preventing a
gfteat mk'ny accidents; — ’ G.iielph
Mercury, , ■ ; ,y- .
7- HOjVJE ACCIDENTS. . ’
The majority of - accidents in the-
hoffi'e are preventable. They result
from faiis^poason, loading. guns, cuts,
...but ifs^-escaping-gas^ an<£-sb. .on. „ They
can 4j.br prevented by- such^measurhh.
standiing hn step-ladders instead
'-d£7rlckety ehairs, clearly ’ labelling
in ' .the medicine dtmst,, avoid-
"fnjg the use ./o?' stairways as- the
foresting place ‘“of parcels- and papers,
leaving revolvers to policemen in
-.other weirds,’ by exercise of simple
foj^qnuipn sense. Kingston Whig-
Standard. .fof'J'fo'- ;
' BRAIN SURGERY.
/ -There was celebrated in London
>(ast^j[W^efc, -hy, ^the<. traditional Eng
lish method of a dinner, the jubilee
of the flr/st’ operation .for the remov
al; bf. a turn or from the brain, which.
. was Iperformed' on , November . 25,
.1884, by Sir John Rickman Godlee,
Lord Herder, presided^ and among
those//jiripXent'i.' was/..isir ■■^mes-t/iBricht-''
-4on^Bro^ey7’Who^s-1h^sbhe-surviv=-
'ttffobf-those^cdTrcefnedfoinfotlf^noperstr
t4P.n>> a®d iwho, was 94 years-, pf, age
week. - r-~. T fo1; ’■,';. -t;---'--—-
Snz JameV' t&id a story ot the lite..
xMi^d^°>x4Ei!PV0s; who, i he ? sfe-id,
,op^rat^d. on an. arnjy. officer wlip had
itfedn -iirjhred -iri^be^imnt-^~fieid-/and-
f rembved’1 spart '■ bf'' his brain!. ’ / '
.. .. Several years later they met at
. a party,' and the sur-geon //a<eiflefl/
;'his former patient. “You don’t seem
'to.-reiiienfb'er me?” said the officer.
Sir Frederick Treaves explained that
but in view of the 'operation
; ^:a.s~foaf?®id'7t 0“ meeF^him. “That’s
nothing,” said the offieei;, J/I am now
head bf^fhe' ihfelTigehce " Depaff-
ment;’—-Banffirhire. Journal.
. ...;THpUGHT ON’ HOCKEY.
■ *"^n/a fast game like, hockey there
afo ‘ hound to be hard . knocks, but
.When players deliberately go in for
•this'sort &£ thing, they are just fools.
■Neighborhood hoodlum tactics, and
deliberate assault,^ with, sticks, should
. not be taierdted, ail'd the men who
porpptrate. them on. the ice show
themselves to. -bd utterly Chiidish ifi.
' spite tof ’their - ability ,to give i/t and'
-take it.—St. Thomas Times..Journals-
THE DROUGHT ARfeA fo-_.
THE TOT OF RUM;
‘ The daily grog to’ liayaljnen afloat
dates iirom the days. of. “the wooden
walls... pt.England.” Ships made.ldng
..voyages and. topic a-llong -.'.time \to
inake them, having'only sails. The.
crews had to live bn “salt junk” anti
there was no fresh meat or fresh
vegetables. The art of canning had
not even been thought of. " Neither
did the medical ‘service know « any
thing about vitamins. The result of'
the lack of fresh food was that sail
ors developed scurvy. , Then some-
body found that ncu/rvy coiiTd be
thwarted by daily,administrations of
rum, , or "by lemon juice.—St. Thomas
Times-Journal., • i .
—WAWA LAKE
The original name of Wawa Lake,
in. Michtplcoten was spelled' Wawar
gomk or Wawtamagonk. The’last part
of these old names us the adverb of
-iocatibnr;and-^hu8--signifl^/--t-hW—--it-
was a specific name for the lake —
“Good Lake There,” as outsiders^
would call it; Residents would use/
the ending “ing”— here.—Sault. ISte.
Marie Star. • ’ «; ’ ;■ ■.
EARLY DAY RELICS
The automobile is so, all -present
visualize a time wheif all traffic
===^"”1^ true nfaC”’govirnments are
^pending a lol of money on relief to
westerp fuhmefA¥nd on transporting
animals to regions where fodder and'
pasturage age more abundant; it is-
.true also (that private charity is
showing i’foelf.' very" generous toward/
the - vic I hns„o f the - drouth, dihti-'ibut-..
'I :
1J as 0(1 0 ii_,( 1.10 x f ).v oj_}).y___
CHARLES DICKENS' -
DAVID COPPERFIELD
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Frolicking- children making- merry in<he flooded main ,streetPof. Isle of/ Brewster^
’England, A continuous, jand heavy rdip .lisfeting- fojr several days played havoc , with roads and. s®no?*v* '
interfered with travel and transportation. When’suh shone again.,.these children' were quick .to,/ta
advantage of the situatiph. ./• -. r. ••'/.j.
of; 72%^in.p.h. • This is a noteworthy
feat, -but’it does not prove the .steam
train to. be equal or superior. todthe
stream-lined oil-driven type..—London
Daily Mail. fo ."fo-
SLEPT THROUGH IT
An. extreme . case of sleeping, dur
ing speeches was that of, John Stuart
Mill, who came rather late into the.
Qpminons after, /a/ life in/ which he
had Xbeen accustomed to go to bed.
at IO c/clockl And. aft?r 10 he could
'ndt keep awake in the House; with
results which -were- sometimes "rather
ludicrous, A Mr. /Bouverje got tip one
night after 10 to. deliver a tremen
dous attack; on Mill and asked him
a number [of rhetorical questions/ The
House between laughter and, curios-,
ity watched Mill as his head jerk
ed up and down in. sleep, sometimes
apparently’ about to wake and then
fadi ng-into-s 1e e'p-a-fealnv-foManc!h esifer-
Guardian. - --■-•
HIS REASON.
A member of Parliament who
brings in the . same bill' session af
ter session is sometimes -misunder
stood. There was the, old member
who, after- many ' vain , attempts..to;
" - .foKiadows from/
the outside made illegal, at last in-,
dued a sympathetic Home Sgcrefai'y
to issue a departmental, order, to
that effect, and was congratulated on
jto_miake-fowtodow—cleani-ng—s/^Orfofory
the..cleaners. sNp,no,safer-for‘niy.-
self,’’ said the member. “When .walk-
ing toe ls.tr.eAts-_Ir..usedJo—be-af-Faid"
that a Avindow -cleaper .might ff 1131
me.-^-Aberdeenshire Mail. .fo: j"”’
/ NAMES FOR BATTL£SHIP§, /
. Contrary to the G er 111 an practi ce,
only four battleships in the British
rfieet ,oomrmeffio,F3itfe -famoue, ■■admirals//
These. are .Nelson, ..Rodney, ■ -Ba-rhiim'.'
and Hoodl In pre-waf days however
two large grq/ups of c.aptal s'hips bore
such names exclusively. Cradbck and
"Arbuthnot were two of the fighting,
/seamen.tllg Great j War < Whose
nanfes the Navy would "like to. see
bestowed on ■ future Ishii ps. ^."
The choice of Polyphemus, for . one
Of our big cruisers now building is
criticized in-the service as inapt... Al
though the name,; is? not ..Without its
traditions,-fihe last vessel “to bear it
was ‘ a torpedo ram of doubtful/
utility 'which saw no active service,.
—London Daily. Telegraph. ,1 fo
THE MAKING OF PACIFISTS
Ernst Toller has said, that he 'be,
-(Whe a. pacifist, afte^, listening to thfe
piteous cries of a soldier who took'
three, day's to die on the barbed wire.
that it is difficult for. our children to have the cleaning of "..windows from
visualize a time wheif all traffic ■' ... . ... T; ... .
either 'was on foot, hoseback or be
hind horses. Earlier days and their
manners and implements' almost are___ ______,___ „w
.forgotten,—apd ^probably it-would-be rthe succe-'S^of^hia
•difficult to gather together a’complete 2 ‘ ' ’ f
set of rthe implements andJthe relicts
of pioneer days. We forget so quiek-
ly that one can scarcely remember
what the firat. motpr': cars- looked
like. Yet the early days should not
be fdrgdtteh and it would be a good
thihg” if- it were ■ possible" jo provide
"ajprace^where" such relics. ofdu r ear
lier history ipight be viewed.—Nt
, agar a Falls Review. .
; . 4fo .';~1 -■ FLYING ■ ‘ ' fo
The unusual is. news. When an air;.
planeaccidentoccurs,—the- report
-flashed-Xhroughout-the-w-orld-w-it-h-all-
thp, distressing details; the fact that
-every—-day—thousands-; of--planes—are-
performing .their routine, duties with
out mishapis ignored, while tile
public imagination fastens, on the
n(ew tragedies las confirmation of a"
false, impression that one is playing'
with’death on leaving “terra firma.”
—Hamilton Spectator. , -■
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UPS AND DOWI^S
There are seven ex-millionaires on
the Los Angeles County pdorYairm.
It used to he that it' took three gen
erations from shirt sleeves to- shirt
sleeves. But we live in a speedier
age. It is possible now to make the
whole tour in one generation. F
^■•THE: EMPIRE’
STREAMLINED TRAINS FOR
< 1 BRITAIN?
In an . experimental journey’ under
ordinary conditions, a steam train
covered, over 370 ni.iles.,a't. average .
... . ■\ , ,/ . •/ ‘ ■/ L
'Arbuth not were two of the fighting
ticb Should make pacifists less palii-
full^—‘Trinidtid' Guardian., '
IN l=/GYPT ALSO. „
' The memory is still fresh of the
heroic students who, started business
with barrows pf cooked b'eans rather
than wait for .jobs ,toat.1.we're..J.uv.i.sibleJ
■ fo ’ ■ '5 .•
The unemployed^,army_ of educated,
young men is rapidly increasing. The
schools - ar,e grinding them out like
finished articles from’ a factory. The:;
youngsters are getting? ideas of high
er grades of living than the humble
environments and habits, .of thedr
sturdier forefathers. The .appeal of
th,e strenuous /and simple life is .refo
ceding with the years, and Consequent
dissatisfaction with the present is
increasing.Egyptians’ < are loth to
’take their life-battles Into other
climes/T with" ”tfie7 result ’’thaT/this. ab'
ready closely paeked vajfey, ls~~ near-
bursting-poinit. There is a remedy,
but" it has been deferred', by three
Successive Cabinets. — The Sphinx,
Cairo.- ” ’ /fo.’/ ’■'‘fo'"' •“ . .
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Plaii^Extension Of / 1 .....
Dole System
London, .— Wide extension of the
British dole system is contemplated.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand
land-workers who hitherto have been
excluded from unemployment in-||
suran’ce are . expected shortly to-
be brought within its. scope, '
The statutory • committee which
investigated the whole question has
now recommended inclusion of per-
sonk employed on the land, whether
in straight . farming- or horticulture.
-^/J8&fekiy-/icohtributions-^pi^bably^TOlL
be the euuivalent of_six cerits-each-
for workers and ,empldvers and _12
cents,by the; government; for workers
over 21 ft is expected the benefit
jjiyil'l be about $3 weekly-with an ex
tra. 50 cents for wife and child.
. This proposed extension of the dole
system to land workers will require^
parliamentary, approval, to make it.
effective.-’ - ...
Italy Will Remain
rf On -Gold Standard
' MILAN, Italy. — Italy’s lira is on’
the gold standard to stay and per
sons who promote rumors to the con
trary, will be punished severely^ Pre
mier. Benito Mussolini’s newspaper;'
IT Pbpolo d’ltalia, assured” the na
tion. last, week;
A—rumored further ■ per ' cent cut
’ in government. salaries^ . it, said, is
untrue because, “at the present time
■ costs of living are going up.”
, A rumored -tax on couppns' for
consolidated .bonds and other emis
sions .is “grotesque, because the bond
conversion last Februarybrought a
30 per cent reduction in /the'income
Of bondholders.”
The, lira, is ;on .tho go.ld_^gta^darfeU
CountryFair
.Below a. lop of. furrows, widely strewn
With shadow , iengt>hs. the clear, late-
. afternoon
|Is glittering upon -the country’ fair.
Now laugh’;and jiggling music .swim
the^i.r— .
Where only Soil-faced trudging mar
ked the day • •
With pdod of heavy limb, like pulse-
. : dess .clay—
And there,are. dancers while the*
trees /are still.
W ith pliant wreathing and' -a flurried
■.- mu -; " ■ . .;
They Aome, and go I from in. anti out
, ‘ of gloom ; . . .
Beside coo.l pastures gossaniefed with
“remain ho, said IF Duce’s
organ. “The drastic measure taken
at the last Council of. Ministers is
more -etbqinmt than any discord could
be on government policies”, is its
statement. ' This referred to,the:
measure making the Government. OV-
■erse.er find controller of every cent
of Italian mn-ney invested abroad?.
They .have’ forgotten kitchbn 'work
and plough «.
■For springing night f]fcs burn, within
■ them now :•■’./
To- forge' from out two 1>carts a
glo-wijjg shield, -
While .sundown .giants tramp the
■ ., westering field! • /'
—Alan Creighton in “poetry World'’
-■fVTo Prove
....u ........,..=42:.
Deplores To-Day’s Trend I
Of Advertising
'TORONTO — Modern trends in
advertising and descent to terms and
phrases that are offensive weTe’ de
plored by John Nelson, president of.
Rotary International, in a recent, ad
dress here” at the annual convention;
of the ■ Association of Canadian Ad
vertisers. '7 ' •-•■•■t-',.
It .is an easy step' from disbeliev-.
ing and being repelled by certain ad-
■ vertisements to becoming skeptical’:
. of all advertisements,, he warned.
' Deprecating the. cleverness, that
l wrenches and twists English to. con
trive new words. Mr. Nelson urged
his listeners to realize that~th'e diCr
tionary has sufficient vehicles of ex
pression.* to dyfine 'any meaning
“desirable1, for public 'use... fo .'.’fo. “ ‘ ‘
Best Selta
LONDON—Shakespeare is now U
be a better tfcan.'beet seller.,
A print of 50,000 editibn^ have
■be'en pla’ced iii -the hands df%ookijel-
lers.Jjere- [The edition has .
’pages. The type ’ was chosen by Mr,
Bernard" Ncwiligate, one of Britain’?
foremost typ.egraphista,- Thfere is *
woodyu-t .frontpiece and,, a series
heialdic desigiri., drawn hy >wo w^lf
knowp illustrators. ; ■■.- ’ '. u ;
And the .pri^e jit which the book ■
' is being sold is 6s. '
to sell the edition at 4....guinea.?’. Ji
was .thought, that' this, was the least ,
that «epuld be' charged for such a -da
luxe edition.-. But later.-it Was dfl;-
. elded .tbf US.e .the full, resources ofr1,.
' the press-, -in .the belief j-hat Shafe^ ^
peajt-e will agaijg.. IW’OVfo his-- popjjiF
larfey. '■ ' ‘: ‘
l^^ried * Women W
Are The Happiest
New York,-^-Married-foyome-n who ,
'have outside jobs and still do all
their household duties''make the hap
pier wives^, if: they, are able -, thbf.
■fudged by statistics gathered at Co- .
lunibia University and made public’.
"last~WekT"Of” 632 women/ represent- .
i-i)g/-36 cities, whose opinion was asked'
jtnqsE.^aidjjthAt_4ULts,ide--work- gave
them an outlet for energy and self-
expression .and br.ougj^afeas
side fod'ntacts. Half
believed- that their.
more stimulating' ■ companions for .
'their husbands..
.Working wives, the survey disv
closed, also have an effect on hils-^-
“bands, sOine of whom were spurred,.,
to greater an\bitidn, partly, through
the example set “by~the wives and
-partiyfohrough the natural desire of
husbands ? to 1 r take ■ entirely ' upon
. the.mse]y.e^jjtfej^sk .
their families.
The majority , of the married "
women' with jobs agreed -that they .
wouIdAadvise oth/er'women to matey .
:; evep'/ if they ^cou’ld not get along’ '
“withbut cohtTnui.ng their employ-.
inent/'- -.',■. .
feasant out-
§gen alsQ ’,
them
New Halifax Pier
Proof of Recovery
HALIFAX, N." S. ’-v/- The'formal,
opening- qf Pier B is looked, upon as
another -evidence of the ever-grow
ing importnace of Halifax as. an out
standing port, declared E, W. Beatty;
“president v of"fhe—'Canadi an "Pacific
Railway.
/’To. those ; whosd. interests are
closely— connected—wit-h—sca-borne“
2‘themagnitudeofthis.latest/under-
taking of the Halifax Harbor Cbm^
misBipn fe particularly, inipressive..
The courage/ and foresight' display- <
ed in the addition of 2500 feet of
deep-water berths to the already ex
cellent facilities) possessed by the
maritime \po>tr^is Constructive op
timism that should do its part in*
justifying the growing feeling, that :
conditions are .ipiprbfeing;” .:" ■ ’/
Woman Told Methods
Of Ending Handicaps
Lopdon—Proposal's for overcomn’g. '/
prejudices against 5vomen-in the la
bor market have been given here by “
Miss "V. - Sack-ville;-West well-known
novelist, at a. lecture at Bedford Col
lege for >Vomen../ , . •
To begin with, the lecturer said,
wbm’en must trust themselves, and'
•Taust rely. upon, that trust rather-than__
upon an eitehnaF^selLass.ertivenesai'
which they dp .hot really mean. They
'nras’t^Clirnvate. an objective view of
life; stop being persopafe stop won-'
-dering whether they are getting .'a
fair deal.; stop being, unduly con-
-S’cious- of ’the fact that they'are worn- '
eh. -
■.Chinaman..;/:Uyps- Smart / / ■. •
Philadelphia Lawyers^
' Loo Knm/Y
c\ identiy Ijadn’t .'heard of .the prd-t“.
.veybial. sagacity-of the “Pihiradelphia
.lawyer." ’ ’ • /
1 he sauve .gentleman'’’swin-dled at '
least 10, of that'profession out of-
$50 Caph, .Detective-Sergeant Jacob .
Gomb'orTow >.aiil,.by. telling them'he
needed- an “advance” to tide him ov- '
or until , a $200,000 -draft . arrived-
from his father,, supposed rich mer-;
chant in .the Orient . , /. ” , ■
They’ll Make Good "
• For . Somebody •
; ■ Wheeling, W." Vm--When the boys '
gchc>01^° to—
... .
■. ’J 1 s. evi.'ui,liwe"chir have a .
..nice flutly omelet, some DpVil's Food
cake, creamed" peas • ahd—6h~~~/ves
'.wpinaclr.’’’S ’. . '
ln.glii.c(..:n ol, -the-boys, hav-e' banded
together and oi'gafiize'd ’hheir own dor‘ ’’’
■S CHSC"';n7 in c>WHon .
, Adlfofho girls.. • .■
SwTfII
IS
,/Eight-year-old , DavidCupper-field.* lives in a . _________ _____ ____ __________, — ..VVrV«
.'pleasant vine-coverea-cottage at Blunderstone; boatkodse at Yarmouth for a .‘short v’isitr There t-hat Mr. MuMstone is now his stepfather.'A^ew’
“. . Englandwith -'his .beautiful young - toother. Mis he meets Uncle-Dan, Ham and Ljttle Eni’ly. Me existence begins f dr him; w,The Black'Panther”
1 father is dead. Oiia evening, as David reads from, doyes, the little fishing-village with the .-.pr.oud and his si’stor, Jane hre cruel and merciless Mr.
b-Kts Crocodile book tb Peggbttyt his rftirs®> the* sailing.vessels in;the harborfbut he i^Soon glad . Murdstone is: harsh to Mrs. Cop.peBfield.and’teats
l ‘.'door, opens and His mother conies in. with Mr. *- .....i*r~---------------------------------- • ■ a ■ • •
5 Murdstone, whom David secretly'calls “The Black
r Panther?’ Distrusting him, .DaVid is rude a^d
. ‘ his mdther is displeased*, .. -
to be jourheyinyhothe,again to his .mother. The
door of.his hcyrTe opens to disclose n strange
vyoman ,ge.rva|(it with a hhrd,.forbidding, face.. .-
David fof the reason. A year "later
David’s mother dibs.; ’ . '• ■ "■ '
■ fo- ■■ Y'.".,' ■ fo .t " .