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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-01-24, Page 2-ih-t > .A* CANADA .are interested will know- well, enough nience and . misdirection of letters, as any postman who has these col? onles on. his rounds can testify. 1935 ■ Weather■ HE HAS PAID H^S BILLS. *??It' was.- Wee old 'miller of /fhe; ;>ho spoke those famous -words. •■*T1? ”owe pa'pennyj.;% ’pay^; Lthauk ■ the 'JDee-, H',’whicsb '■'.turps.' the wheels to. grind the corn, to feed’ my babes and mb.” Approaching another " year, we isef quite the same about it, mju the miiier of tins Deo. * we .have . been able to meet all our bills and , / to protect purcredit, and Jw all this we are grateful to you and you and ,ypm We would-: like you. to . <know that ’*we are . appreciative and We hope we can return the ■ cbmpli- ' ment to yoii and yours when the Op? / portunity arises.—Trenton Courler- jAdvpMe.^..:_l__/? .. : A-Canadian officer. carried a Ger­ man bullet in his pocket for two years. / It had .been fired at him by an enemy sniper when he put his head over the. parapet on. his first tour in- the trenches. " The sniper - missed by an inch or two,-, the bullet ; pipwing .through the? sand .bags;and ' ? x failing into the trench., ‘ The officer picked'it up while it was still hot and-venerated it as his lucky charm;” He ./was. neypr without it for the next two years. Then he lost it; lost it just' before ? .the opening of th© battle of ■Amiens in 1918, He "kissed himself good­ bye.’’- • ; But nothing happened' to him. He : went through all the big battles oif 1918 in yyhlclj thp Canadian# were engaged, and he is sjlll alive. He is living quietly in Edmonton and >__?rj3ometiines?..wond,ers why he.: everlfelt? . ™ —Edmonton Journal. Canada, The: Empire and The long as the feeding bottle comes. aL ong on time. But along about 1945 we can imagine the beginnings of ireyoJt,?...'W*e',^an best illustrate what we mean by .paraphrasing a.popular ,rhymb://?.,... '?......./ . ..... . Mother may I go in to swim? c No, my darling daughter," Consult the board of' management, And don’t go near the? water. r . - ” * ? --Ottawa pitizem THE MOVIES' v The Ontario Council of Women re­ cently suggested to the government establishing theatres in all cities of 10,000 or more for the showing of children’s moving pictures. The gov­ ernment is hardly likely ,to act upon the suggestion, but it Is an idea. As has been often argued, one reason: for; exasperation Among the moyle-going public;lsthat pre&ent-daypicture shows are intended for adults and minors alike. Adults have to sit through pictures censored for igryea.^ old. consumption, and the juveniles have to sit through pictures Intended fori adults.—Winnipeg Tribune,' STREAMLINING 70 YEARS OLD And now it turns out that this ; streamlining of . which we hear so much about ih this speed-mad era is' almost. 70 years old. It. has been dis­ covered. that Rev. SAmuel R. Cal- fhrop, a clergyman of Roxbury, Mass., filed designs in the patent of- -flce at~"B0ston 69 ’ years ago, and these,.still--on file, bear a remarkable resemblance to the new “Zephyr.”.. Now, after nearly 70 years. Dr. Calthrop’s. dream has been translat- ’ ed into fact; proof that there is very /little hew. upder. ithe Sun-—-St. Thomas- -Tlmes^Journai^--—’-•’•r,...... tt, <tupe Velez, fiery Mexican screen actress, has. filed suit for di­ vorce from Johnny Weissmuller, charging cruelty. • - ’. c SOMETHING NEW ‘ The address Mr. Bennetit deliver- Jed to a nation-wide audience on> Wed­ nesday night was something new in political discussion. A vast Improve- inent.* Electioneering speeches in this country—and,we Assume ' Mr, Bennett’s; talk to be that—have not ■ als^ays been on a -high plane. More often^ than not they* have taken the. ■ form of self-glorification, of exagger­ ated claims and hyperbole, cdppled • Wf£ir^tup^kffbn”agaihs"^ ’ and counter .. policies. Of all such things, of the fustian which is put forward as an argument of the old "pltifulclichesamd.catchwords, the Prime Minister’s address was splen­ didly free.- He Adid not attempt to f ’ tell-that, owing to his genius add omnipotence, the country’s- problems had‘all beein solved, and. that, there- ’ -foro, jwe should return him to office, ■ and sheer gratitude. On. the contrary, ' -Mr. Bennett1 confessed that*. deSpite ... things' were/stlH^ad'; ■ ~ ?“^atyTheyt;would'^ontiuue~fe^b^T®dU that new efforts would be necessary ? to cope /with" ^hehi. IF Was a~mew1 more con- —---^‘THEY”^RB^NSWKREljr-~“ In the Stratford Beacon-Herald a woman signs her name and address to a letter which .readsv;as'follows: "L would yery much like space in your paper to ask neighbors of mine ter please stop scandal about one of iny boys, , age ten, and also' of" my husband who is said to lash the boys with: a horse whip. This is absolute Ty untrue7 and so Js the story which., is being told about a church basket which was never sent. Those who t CUPID AND TEACHERS It may interest rural lady teachers to know that chances pt marriage are greatly, in their favor. It is estimat­ ed that a young lady teaches less than six years before being stung by Cupid’s dart, The supposition is that the bright young tarmer is’ looking , tor an intellectual wife. But in tlte’ city there are so many teachers and’ sq few' marrying men who want, in­ tellectuals as life ebnajpanions, that the matrimonial opportunities of the school ma;ams are correspondingly lessene dPetrola veftlsWr-ToiiiC. " _——P RO G R ES S O R HA B IT ?-----— Visit6r~r;"Ydur son is making good progress, with his yiolin. He Is be­ ginning to play quite nice tunes.” Host—"Do you really . think so? We Wgre afraid that we’d merely got used to it.”—Border Cities. Star.’ MARRIED THE PRETTIEST Women students ; fn ? a^bhtucky University expressed preference for husbands who... are big—and pro ad /shpulderedy-'and-^dar-k-ihaiEed—fellows- jvere—preferred—to-iblondes,—That’s note, and refreshing, a note honest, more stimulating and vincing,—Ottawa Journal. THE WAY TO PEACE The people of the world . know How, having been pretty well taught . by the events of- the past few years and especially by the’ lessors of 1934, that thqre are qnly two choices be­ fore th em: the ’ keeping of peace by collective action 'pr .the? ©f the old idea of war as the ultim­ ate and inevitable expression * of pol- ’Ipy;’ Thbre Is an undeniable move­ ment everywhere towards a return .to the ideals,the League. Of this J. there are many signs —Winnipeg Free Press.. what:Imean." r —^//../. 2^ One can imagine the story behind suchaletter. the painful circum­ stances. that induced a woman to ebb. mlt herself to unpteaSant publicity for. the sake once for all of bringing gossip, out irito the open. Not . all victims of what "they say” have the courage of this woman. More often they suffer in rsllent bitterness,- but t-he "less; \ Charity ought to go ' deeper than' Christmas baskets. . It should, cover words as well as deeds. Simple kind-, virtues, and If we are kind we do 13oF peddle” gossip about our neigh­ bors or speakharshly of them even if we dislike or distrust them.—Ot­ tawa Journal. ’ / . ' 4 . - ' •• - , t ALERT CHINESE - “ MANUFACTURERS Merohants and traders in the East, have long since" recalled that the Chinese manufacturer . is turning out a.^.class of gbods that stands cpmpa^ fisop' with some of those turned out by European firms, but it was not -till-A- -few years—ago that there' was^ ’sti'ch? a big‘’demand’"rfori^soiiio-of--the- leading Chinese manufactures. Rub­ ber shoes turned out by. a local fac­ tory are now. being exported to-Eur-s ope and America, and it would be" no exaggeration to say that these shoes are in .every ■ way up to the. standard of “Western Shoes'-” This company, has its head office in the Colony, and/ it is run on the lines of a modern "and up-tpsdate factory; everything being, carried out with clockwork? precision. "Cotton and silk socks, rat­ tan ware and dry batteries also form a. large, part of the export trade, and as the manufacturers depend larg-1" Toronto Humane Soc. Busy Year responds to 20,346 C^LLS, Rfc- .f PORT REVEALS Toronto:-— Some idea . erf. the vast amount of'work accomplished by to* Toronto Humane Society, during ---- past yea? Is instanced by the an nual report which- details the many duties of the inspectors. In all jv,- $6 calls were responded to, of which "6 ‘248 were of an emergency Jiature. • 1 Horsbs: Examined, 4,877.; humane­ ly destroyed, 93; sent to hospital or .stablje,. 176; and brought to shelter, 78. ‘ ■';*? ’ ' ~vo Dogs: Brought to shelter, 9,789; diseased indInjured, destroyed,. 6? 073; placed in homes, 763; claimed by owners, -.l\op2; sent to veterinary hospital, 53, and observation cases for city; 248. 4 “ - ■ • \ ♦ ■ . Cats': Brought .to: shelter, 18J53; humanely ■; destroyed,. 17,171, and placed In homes, 449. ■ - Cattle,sheep® and swine examin­ ed? 35 >516;; per forming animals and .birds . examined, .Mh; ; o$hgr .^nimals^ and/ birds examined,’ .2,85’6^ and poul- ' try. examined, 37,50.4. ■ Summonses, issued,. 79; number of_ convictions, 62; »complaints investi­ gated, 2,659, and warnings issued', 1,- 789. • ' ' ' '' Canada’s Progress Praised By Paper London.- — The Financial Times "recently, devoted, a column and a half to the annual meeting and statement of the Bank' of Montreal .and in ah ' editorial drew' attention to the Do- ’ minion’s. progress; which, it pointed out, is being achieved? without any resort to experimental panaceas either industrial or .economic,. . Lower Wheat Yield r-——~—-- Forecast For 1935 Criticisnis of The Victoria Centenary Pioneer Oescentfants-Noi Suf- . ficiently- Honored > • - The- aftermath .of centenary cele- ■ brations in . Australia brings o<rt .some criticism on the -part of th°a« who ’ thought .. pioheer-dc§eendanti ( not sufficiently? honored. The w<k man^s edi.tof of the Melbourne Algw ; ’ replies:-'' , -■•■ ' “To- try to discover the descend- antk bf the pioneers in order to hon- ■ or them would have, beep a colossal task, for there arg many of and their claims would bave l>e examined. " / , “An effort might have been, made, I think, to gather together bn this* occasion the sons hud daughters of < people who arrived in the first quar< ter of a century of bur history, fpF there would not- be many of tfiehL But the idea does seeem to have op- cured to anyone, although the re^ cord/i .'ato-jaybably.’. avalliBMe .in thii ,,, sheets /of remembrance B&nL -in to the Women’s Centenary Council. ?-?’ “It. is difficult to think’ what more could have been done in the way of entertainments to make this.ce/nten- ary occasion one for, rejoicing and pleasure. I s'hould’-hjl^tliked more music in. the streets, pwrthe opening day; I should even have been glad to hear people , singing.;, and I should have liked to see the’crowds on foot managed a'little’better to avoid con­ gestion at special‘points, fdroit is a - -nerve-racking—business tobbe—cau ght in a dense- crowd. The people did pot. seem light-hearted.” , ■ Veteran School Teacher Dies In Manitoba Margaret Sydney Christie, veteran ■■ ■ school ‘ teacher of Manitoba and . ... Winnipeg, died here - at. the. age . of - 61—years“fol-lowing"a’ -lengthyH-llness; ■ ...Miss Christie had a long school ■record throughout" the province. She came before the turn-’of—the century; and’ attended /the’,Winnipeg Normal school--under’“Principal' Dr. W., A.- M^Iptyre. . Her first teaching posi­ tions were held at Carman, Oak Lake and Mountain Side, school, near, De- ioraine. In April, 1906, Miss Chris­ tie joined^the Winnipeg public school teaching staff and continued in her 4 position actively until June, i926, when she retired with a.long service. - Washington. A winter wheat* yield of 475,000,00“0 bushels in 1935 —15,7,061,000 below the crop in normal . years—?was forecast by the United State's Department of -Agri;, culture; \ ■ The comparatively low produc­ tion was predicted 'despite’ an in­ creased area of 44,306,000 acres planted to winter wheat this year, / - Lighter planting of spring- wheat was also forecast by the Crop Re­ porting Boarjd, due to “a tendency ..to^expand-winterwheat-acreage’’ in spring -wheat are planted-.—— Condition of the crop on Dec; 1 was.estimatedat77.8percent.of . normal compared with 74:3 per cent, on .the same date last year,^and/the JOryear average of 82.4 per cent. /Drought which scourged the wheat area this year, was held responsible for the poor showing of the crop.- • \'Because..of ■'the, oa^t.o^feih^':bpa^ . predicted that abandonment .of acre-/ age-already seeded will be about 18' -per^cent.-TThis-is not as high as the -19^4.~abandonment-of—2Lr3-per-Gent.,~ biit is considerably above the <10- ' year average of 12.2t per cent. The acreage planted this fall slightly -exceeds that expected . by the -Farm Administration under its 10 per cent, redaction program for 1935, George A. Farrell, chief of the’wheat section, said. Expecta­ tions werfe that the acreage would be held *to 43,000,000 acres by the .signers di voluntary contracts. However, Farrell explained? be­ cause of the heavy abandonment and. low yields in prospect, the Ad- ministraiiWs hopes will probably be fulfilled.,. ? ^Wanted: A Clergyman London Times Advertisement?./ * • ’Patron of vacant‘living in. East Tnglia? 'invites recommendations. Net value about £530 large rectory and grounds. Primary qualification; capacity to be guide, philosopher, "and friend to agricultural- people, for which in this cash, gentle birth essential. Open mind towards Bishop" Barnes, birth control, and psychic research secondary but helpful. . • ’ I Ljsjere—preierreu.—io-^Diouue»>—Aixai-s - ■ --w—-the—area—in—which—both—winter—and •funny, tor we-rem™t>er-baek bome - ™-MI>orW their trade. - - Obey struck upon the happy idea, of a trade exhibition, and no sooner:' was the first one over than/plans Tor" the second, and a more elaborate one,, were prepared and dlscussed.-r- Hqng Kong. Press. - .....— - — - - . MO8TLY GOOD. But in a. world tfhat is concerned, ?of necessity, with want, suffering, threat® of war, depravity, murder and banditry, it is comforting to re­ call that,. after all, "People ‘— 'most people—are good."—Hamilton Her- aid?. ' that a fellow who was short, out of -llne^at? the*4cnees“ahd--with a nose- like a dom^ fastener—well he up and < married the prettiest girt on the con­ cession.:—Stratford BeacomHerald. THE^EMPIRE AIR FORCE) NEEDS' Today we need at least 20,000 aero­ plapes. Built In Buries these, Would; not cost more than £ 2,500 eachr-or- -a-^total—outlay-of—£^50,OOOiOOO.-Last- year we were fourth in air strength. Today we are . .eighth. Last year ” we had 420 fifrstdine machines. Today we still have, considerably ’ fewer than 500, while Germany alone can produce .1,000. a week. Last year .we; were on the "edge of the risk." To­ day we are over the edge—London Daily Mail. T Air Weather Post — Planned InBritain ' „ Londbn — A ' "National Aviation Meteorological Station” with ? pro-,, grams to consist . only, of weather reports, weather forecasts aJid warn-:, ings for airmen, isk to be erected_by /the ’Marconi Company on behalf of . ■ the ./Air Minstry .• at Cranwell, Lin­ colnshire^'. This?new station, operated by the Air Ministry, will., transmit meteoro­ logical bulletins air regular* intervals throughout the day for the infor­ mation of aircraft and airdromes. It will have several times the power of •the present. Heston station which transmits aviation weather, reports. Aviation To Play ' Big Part/ In B.W.l Port* of Spain, TriiTdad—A~fore-. cast that aviation is destined a play a great’ part in bringing the West Indian islands into closer contact witlr ■each1'other, was made* recently ' . b’y^ Colonial Secretary Sir Selwyn Grier as he returned home after a ,4,5(10 mile aerial holiday jaunt. Sir Selw-yn declared that he am? . Lady Grier were “definitely air-- .minded" ag the result of-their trip—• the first since he arrived here to be- C6me>the-Tsland.’s; Colonial Secretary Whir Lady. „Grier, Sir SelWyi visited Janaica, the - ^Bahamas Miami and other points. Passengers’ to the-number of 83 100 were carried on British cominer cfal aircraft last year. METEOROLOGICAL B U REA U SAYS 24 HOURS IS ’ .. ■' ENOUGH .. Toronto. — Weather during . 1935 may be hot, cold or indifferent, but the chief weatherman—the meteor­ ological bureau here—will make no predictions. • What the future holds in the .way of weather. is as much 'a mystery to the bureau as to the average dltizen, Joliji Fatterson, dlrdctor of the bur- eau stated. Accurate jforecases can be made 24 hours in advance, he said, but—48-hour prognostications jCapnot always be ’ relied upon. . x The forecasts of old-timdrs; who delight in calling the weather oif the various' Seasons, basing /their predic­ tions 0on the. thickness of bark on trees, thickness of hair on animals, and other of nature’s protections for the period^ are viewed with inter­ est by thescientific branch. But the bureau, who tells the change in wear ther throughout Canada,- make nd" attempt to deny or confirm the pre­ dictions. ' IN BELFAST, TOO. There will be a good deal of sym­ pathy with a complaint made at the Cyjf Council yesterday by Councll- ■i&r Clark® Seo-tt” a® to the eozrfss- lon caused by the similarity • of the names of , new streets in Belfast. Fa­ shions change even in street names, as a comparison Of a present-day di­ rectory owith one of, say, fifty, years ago will show. The. old directories abound in .alleys,, courts, places/lanes and entries in the Street, nomencla­ ture. Today we have in their place parks, drives, parades, crescents, gardens and avenue. The tendency of the moment is* to group streets with the same prefix,, calling one a park, anOt'hbr a. crescent, another a drive, and so on. In actual practice this is causing considerable inconve- INFLUENCE OF SLIPPERS These Chinese were a wise? people. They put themselves into slippers and slowed down the tempo of their world, for who can be hasty In act and speech when he is. in slippers? To run then Is hard, and comfort is. an enemy lof anger. But the Chinese have became westernized nw and the slipper is going with their teach­ ing of ethics. The smart oxford and technical education are replacing them, and we hope we in the west will npt live to regret iU-Hamllton Spectator. DJONNE QUINTS In addition to a set of official guardians, the Dionne quintuplets have now a. "hoard of management" to govern their ■ Interests. - While they are infants, the famous five Will probably fiot be much interested in who safeguards their welfare, so'ID’ . Based on the Nover by CHARLES DICKENSWeekly ferial— Part 3 A DAVID COPPERFIELD v , , ' ■ . ' ' I? j Spring, Mrs. Micawber’s relatives pay At the very outset, he is robbed bf his money their debts and release them from prison. But and luggagojiox by a street loafer. He continues they are leaving for Plymouth to live with Mrs. along the road to Dover on foot and encounters Micawber s family, .pavid is heartbroken until many dangers. Ilo is nearly drowned in a violent Mr. Micawber suggests that he go tp his “can-. thunderstorm, and then a Tinker Tram Per beats tankerous Aunt Betsey Trotwood in Dovqr/.Tho him,’stealing. Ms one remaining morsel of food. " loftv«s amid loud farewells and ' But,.finally, ne spies th(/ Dov(;r cliffs. David starts his journey. ' Aunt Betsey welcorhes him with open motherly arms and her lodger, theJolly^Mr. Dick, becomes receives a letter saying the M u rds tones; are com- *v—iJ 7 * ■ “x ---- ......... ...............M riding their donkeys over her precious, well-kept the Murdstones green and she runs.out to drive them away. - Aunt Betsey opens'her door.to them his friend and playmate. But one day Aunt Betsey • clare David to be the^worst boy^the wbrM and v^rv,? n UHav «nvin^ Hw say they will have no mercy, on h m Aunt &1J ing to take David- away. Aunt Betsey sees them orders them from the hoi/e David is safe ftnm1 rtrlmcr their dnnkevR over her nrecintis. WAll.lronf tho IVfnrztd-A«A<- Ln1. 0 U5 Sate from• ~s'bufc anotber adventure awaitshim. Be su.ie to wntch next week's'installment of. ;T>«vid CoPDfii fielrl’’