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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-06-20, Page 6I ’ if on establish a ■ THE EMPIRE the in. * destrians will be .counted at difficult •» ^Fixation Plants Are Needed For Industry and Farm It’s nbt much fun being a. hen any more:-7-Stratfoi;d. BeaeomHerald.' Niagara Fals,- Ont, — Historic Table Rock, overhanging the Horse­ shoe Falls, on the Canadian., side of. mighty Niagara, wil be blasted with insurance' company, or iyti'ii&.f i, Jl■ mi Toronto, — The value of metalli­ ferous production from Ontario mines, smelters and refineries in the first quarter of 1935,'.totaled .$29,- 5’17;953 in Canadian funds,Jcompared Leamington Man,. Out Of Garden — A. coin dating back the possession of Wl; dug it up irn his- gar- lareesv Ifficr census ever taken in Great Obey, will keep . watch - from be- Harry. Buke, veteran Lunen berg" skipper. z , Values 0f (- Production Up 1 Every • IMV V* uAjj 4$ ' ' h(*r ^6Tk, duty, C&YU ‘ The housewjtti . a duty, to 'provide a hdalthj/.; fhc .Hn/i/pf), 'Tn fhis dnd”&h? must stud; " >"'■! r t ’.,7 "‘■'7 Canada i THE EMPIRE ......... *..... ’./T ’ THE WORLD ■ '■ ' ' . ' ‘ i." " ■ AT LARGE . b ,. i.. . .... : /' 1 1 ■ THE l-EGGINGS. This gplunjii doesn't see anything Dan McDonald’s-^eeQrd, of. his .tribu­ lation's while rambling- arpund i&lgoma as, the S'ta'r^ travelling’.yrepbrt^.’ Mr. McDonald has- no particular fancy for being bitten by farm .dogs, and his thedry that,, tin1 leggings, would solve' . the difficulty—or hoop skirts as. an- i other member of the family suggests “r^-may have, something in it;. —soriirtW^am-^eet-goodFtor-str&eT . a Finnish settlement where they rap. .. their, dogs oyer tfie^ knuckles. after the , first‘ growi- with-*the"fesuft: that/ Fin.?' nish dogs remain iri statu quo when . a, visitor heaves in sight. It is al-; ways a pleasure, Mr McDonald says, to call on Finns anyway • because: their houses are always spotlessly clean, they talk good English, and thpi'C /Prevails an. air of thrift and hard work.” . j 7 ..The ^.average farm dogjin. Algomp. doubtless gets that way from chas­ ing wolves/, and we. are sorry he does not make an exception in favor df bur travelling reporter,-^Sault Ste.;1 MariO-Star. haps merely O; bqy-r-^ypu receive not 15;625 letters in which your - namp- is 'first on . the list, but you receive 15,- 625 remittances of. ten cents each, btecausiT/^^ Hw list; And then you give a party Vapcpuver Province. " ' . ... '' WHAT A PARADE! Canada is a, “travel wealthy” coun­ try, having over 1,100;OQQ motor ve­ hicles—one for every 10 inhabitants. If the motor'vehicles of Canada were mustered out in one monster parade vehicle they would form a .procession jqver 20,000 miles in length, and with a little prdwding,. utilizing trucks and buses^'t^^^ carried. Canada has’ About' 400,000. .miles of highways, whieh provide a*. Spending place of ♦‘travel wealth,” and in ad­ dition to her own heavy motor traf­ fic, an even greater, motorcade of 3,2.61,848 automobiles from other countries : ‘travelled oyer the Domin­ ion’s’ highway; systems during. 1934. ■—Canada Week by Week. AN, EXAMPLE. ' . An Ontario chauffeur has just es­ tablished this-, record, • 800,000 miles in an automobile in 18 years without fth accident,. This should be surely enough to ebnvince anyone that it is ”’77iw—pos^lbr’in'“the'iyear^of^race- i935yTo-^venture^“out -ott-yQur^asphalT and concrete, speedways without ex- . posingpnesplf: tbhl/crash or a sinasli. Forthis record indicates 120 miles per day. And the driver is in charge pf an autobus. Yet he doesn’t con­ sider himself a hfero. HiS system, if he jvijl._ give it you, will be some/ thing like this: “Keep your mind on jrour job, and don't go hunting after . thrills. ’’ That ria excellent- common­ sense, but commonsense isn’t tq be - f^unUbn-alFh'igh^ r-—iriountiiig—toll—of-accidents-shawsL.^ ^..^^'a/P-r-fessr Mofitreal’.............■■ ■ ’ ",. / ____ALAS. POOR DOBBIN. ' __- Certain elements Jin Forest Hill. Village, fashionable. suburb of Toron­ to, have become unkindly toward one pf man’s best friends; the horse; A bylkw is to be submitted to council •which Would make it a criminal of­ fense, to drive a horse on the street there . after 10 -m: or before 8 MbtORiACCIDENTS. The 'Ottawa journal comments Tan”TthteTWKrc;fi”?“ripTP^ umns on May. .IQ .slg,st, reproduced from. 25 years ago. It was to "the effect that Ottawa,had its first fat­ ality through the agbncy of the auto­ mobile. Perhaps it would be well for communities today if , they were as gTCatly~sliockefi~and--conc:erned--'vvhen?. setae one is killed~or even badly jured as they were 25 years ago. Safety bn the highways will not be assured until drivers of motor cars become impressed with-the conscious­ ness that they, are handling danger- our machines that require unceasing yigilence. and. cautiop. The Depart®, ment of Highways in Ontario is- do­ ing its "utmost to promote safety in travel, but itJ can only succeed it given co-operation by the public.— Brantford Expositor. "~A HEN CAN’T BE HAPPY-NOW— - ■ And now it is the National Invent- or’sGongreggwhicIf-is-inconvention at Chicago. .Once more ^the inventor has picked on the hen, and there is a new device on exhibition. . The hens go on.the nests and' if they lay* eggs they open a door through which they- can go out and”mix with the producers. If no egg is produced there Doll Envoys Leave “Mr. and Mrs. America”, two. liffe-size dolls that wllj make.'a>'25,000r-mile journey in the in­ terests of good-will between‘the United States and Japan, are presented by Mayor LaGuardia of New York to the Japanese Government represented by the Hon. R, Sawada (right), Japanese Consul Gen­ eral/and M.Y., Indmata (leftl. Dolls-will travel through Japan and be given official a'eceptions. , —T— — ture bombs on the .pavement, for the simple joy of-scaring paSsers-by. This ■year saw a very dahgerops departure, for there weTe nuffieous cases of boys and in" some cases young men and women flinging the missiles at the -screens ...of—motor-cars....A- direct.JiiL, :TnTlEe' driver’s face or a shower of t»he loading stones from the side of the screen would cause sudden blind­ ness and probably a serious smash- The frequent dropping of the slap- bapgs from " town balconies has now become Very, muoh' worse .than be­ fore^—We“WPuld---.jfhereford“^ask™^ police authorities to prohibit, the sale •of such things in Egypt, prescribing a strongly, deterrent punishment for pll vendors and users.—The Sphinx, Cairo,. a-.-m?—^he*-sponsor--;Giaims--' dozensLoX, people .ar.e£being-.treateff-Tor neTypusr at flights/ .- - . • • | This Sounds like one of the most ■ ' far-fetched ideas that We have heard for many a long day. Obe would al- ‘"‘■TmosTima^^ item that horses are driven'about th0 streets'for the. specific purpose of rousing hbu-seholders. Shfely there' are riot so many milk, delivery wagons • that the residents are -actually kept awake. ■ ’ . We. submit that motor horns are " much more'"tibuCTeFome^^ even ifir . Small localities, in recent years.1 . There is a sort of rhythm to the r ' ’ tramp of horses’ hoofs [to which one ought to become accustomed, but the. rhythm is sadly lacking in the honk­ ing of the average horn .—Border" (Sties Star. WEATHER THAT SUITS. • Fifteen thousand Doukhoborg plan to leave western Canada to become re-established in Paraguay, the clim­ ate of .which, we presume will be more suited to nude-paradeg tfiau that o.f. the -prairies'.—Brookville Re- . corder. ’ • BELIEVE IT OR NOT! Ripley has discovered a man Milwaukee who'*sold tobacco for 50 yea^'-but never used it. Neither [did Sir'Wrllia/m Macdonald, -who made, an inlmbnse fortune out of the^manu-' facture of. tobacco. Tn Montreal and . wlro called the chewing of the plugs .that he'made “a filthy habit”' —, Brock* ille Recorder. . . ’• GH-A IN-HEAD ACHES. jfTfd*A, on to your, poor bead, dear reader ,(Unless. j;ou were one of’the dear'readers-w-hp sent us one of those , chain letters!, and let us tty to 'work ft W"-t^thwn^TFs only a little, 'exercise- in t-he higher mathematics and fcK-’oC rnguTfs*in' the nth power'.. You‘send rtut. your chain letter, with five naptos on it, your own name be­ ing the last. .You s-?nd it out to "five different poisons. Each.One of them . sends oirt a frHN-r -five different per­ sons. b’iat tha* 25 different persons receive a letter on which your' name jg now the Fifibhon the" Y ' 125 pt-th on- < five, 251 left oi- in the lis< a letter n ’ ifTth'e ; tinms Wit’ whi list. str Then rer-r-jve a in. which your name is fourth Th*h 625 p^rs-on? 'revive which yr. if name. is th'rd Thon XL'5 persons- (five ■> kf-r-p j ou in riiudhj ■ « -a 1 ___....___NATURE'S WAY./ A negro in ChicagO/hit in the head by a bullet, flattened it with his skull. Perhaps .the people Of that city are changing in physique in order to adr apt themselves to the environment.— Hamilton Herald-.. THEpE TO STAY While. (Rudsia- ’apart) there has been in the last few years no tend­ ency towards an increase in the num. her of women in employment, the apparent stagnation masks great changes . ‘Women .are leaving agricul­ ture in- most, countries, a movement that he suggests is sound economic-j ally since it is in soft the reflection of advancing mechanisation;' and sound j socially, for it means, that women are leaving work that is. often- (especially in the peasant countries) excessively hard and exhausting for work more suited to their physique. In other in­ dustries, particularly/the light indus­ tries, commerce, and non-manual • oc­ cupations, women’s', employment has been steadily increasing. The evid­ ence of a sex war and of . the ousting of men from jobs by women does .not, in any general sense, exist, and the attempts to divert women from em­ ployment in, the supposed interests of men find their -ground only in the desperation of the depression.— Manchester Guardian.- > ' “Honeymoon Point” To Vaj'i- ” , ish July T ATSWfy " Measure With the development of agricul­ ture, in Soviet -Russia came the need of fertilizers^ which means nitrogen : riir~so'me-^fi-x-ed--formT^Wha-Wha-s—beem- ..done in the last five years is re­ vealed by Professor P. . Chekin Jn.. in Planovye Khoziaystvo (Planned Economics). He pictures the “capi­ talistic-countries” . erecting nitrate plants for the manufacture of ex­ plosives and only incidentally of fer­ tilizers. How„ different in Russia! Farming needs are the prime consid- eration. according to him: Perhaps. But a standing: army as large as any ,.i.n—Europe^assuredly,—requires—pow^; .dei?. ■. , ■ ' - * The professor estimates TTO07006 tons ot nitrogen -are taken from Soviet soil every year by crops, lly sowing - such"^poTbeari^ as beans, peas, vetch, this Toss is re-, diiced by 1,200,OQ^ tons; for the bac­ teria which brow on the roots of the pod-bearers have the miraculous pow­ er pf extracting nitrogen,.from the air, and transferring it in chemically assimilable forqi to the soil. ’ This ItATLAOTIC safely i^pTar-Scoti^— Ing For .Races Along The English Coast ! Plymouth, England. —- The barn­ storming .Bluenose,, f^o.ya Septan ., fishing schooner has completed the ' “20Tday '’crb^ng'TorT;^ looks forward to a,Summer season bf racing in English waters. Her skipper, Captain Angus Wal­ ters who .took her out of Halifax harbor on May 9, said the crossing was “uneventful.” Bluenose is - expec­ ted to engage in a series of races at .ports aroung the.English coast until: •September. ' ^-f’Origihally7 it was pdarined to have’ .fishing fleets race across the A tian- Thc-with^a—G-loucester^-fishing^schoon- tain Walters hoped, however, to pit jKis~sEijj7 aga inst ’the ~TJ'ertru’de L. Thebaud in a • series ■ bf international matches • off’ Gloucester this fall for the fishermen’s trophy now held by the Lunenberg schooner. 1 Aboard' the Bfluenbse as she'slid into ther harbor here were Marion Young, 17-year-oid Halifax telep.hone_ .. .W^^Casey22^aidlw3h71 Writers Should ' -Interpret Life , As.It Really Is Note of Realism Often Lacking In Fiction Submitted to Magazines, j Editor Declares Ottawa. —- Canadia-n.fictioh writers^ . lack a -note of .realis.ip in their >. stqri'es,l' Pdiss Wilma' Tait, editor of_ the C.an€clian Home Journal, fold, the ■sevenw trierinial convention of the . Canadian Women’s- Press Club re­ cently. Authors generally seemed to lack the moral -courage to interpret life as it really is< ■ ■ Editors were avid for .good ma­ terial, Norina Phillips'; MujE. well- known . fiction 'writer sai'd^s-peaking'. . -0n™th-e--s-dbjectrof»Tnar!li^S^^ years ago the market .fofc Stories arid ' articles- had-fallen" to' a lbw I'^Vel of ' - demand,' with a- high level. of 'supply..' . Many .'who. found'., themselyes’’de- ■' ..prived of' their rq;ular means of livellihood turned in desperation .to writing, ’'’’TSWoriar^^^ flooded- with drivel. Conditions today were different.. ** Argents''now ^report- --they - -cannot - - find sufficient good stories to satisfy the demand's editors. maEg -on them, said Miss Muir.. ■ They ’ stressed . qualityT'Fashion'S in storiea changed ° - and writers must. ,keep in step- with the changes,. •_ 1 . H. Napier Moore., editor-in-chief ol MacLean’s Magazine J^voted half ai hour to answering--questions. Editori had a natural predilection for “big. narn^s,” -buf ..good material ,bj writers not widely known was, hi : , said, more general. Mr.iJMoore ad­ vised his hearers to- get the "trend oi the day-to work into. their stories, ' Ah editor studies the crowds,. II j^aj'his^job'^to gauge as far as pos- ‘ sible “fheTtype' of story Which would . - have the widest ’ appeal •_ - Many . ||| 'manuscripts, submitted by Canadian ■ Writers .[were ''badly, written, Mr/ ' - ™ 'Moore' said;.. ' &, The convention decided to1., estab- lish for the'next,., three yerirs, a com*' ‘ fi "petition- w;ho^-prixe"‘woiild-~be~va 1 u ed - annually at $25, with.' a» suitable ' '“W medal,/t.o„he/l<RQwn as the Me;mbers’ ® Memorial ’Award.. " ■ Miss Winifred Stokes '. presented . 8 the report of the K.it Memorial Fundf , ffl established in memory of the Tatd ® Kathleen Blake Coleman. Since itsi HKathleen Blake Coleman. inception $650 had been raised rand this/would be used - to establish a , scholarship. in 1 iterature or journal­ ism for women a-t McMaster Univer- *-ai-Ly7~Ha-mikton-^-~~-:^^ —-—^-2- 1,000 At^o Drivers Lose Their Permits Toronto^ — Hon. T. B. Mc’Question, Minister of Highways, revealed re- ’, Minister of Highways Tells Of Action in Four Months made by the commission as a safety measure, feeling danger to sightseers through, erosion and previous Ydck- • falls. The commission to-day set Dominion Day for the-“big- boom.” . L. L. Gisborne, works superintend­ ent of the parks, described the over­ hang as a cave extending back 30 or* 40 feet which undermined ’ the guard rail, sidewalk arid part of the road­ way. ..-.-,The~-rock,-!k-npwni—■alsoas™!Honey.^.. moon Point/’ has been the scene of several falls, dating back more than 100 years. In 1823 there was a fall that .carried away a large mass, though the platform-was left in front of Table Rock House. Other falls occurred, in 1842 and 1850. In De­ cember, 1934, more' than 200,000 tons of rock “let go.” . ; ■ Rushing -waters .of the Niagara; River, have gradually worn back the brink of the falls, from two to fouri brink of the falls, from two to four ! feet a year. Table Rock, overlooking the great cataract, has been subjected to constant lashing of spray from the bottom of the falls, and thi3 hag worn away the soft shale lying be­ neath the h’ard dolomite crust. Engineers • estimated . that' the weight of the overhanging rock would eventually become' so great the pre­ cipice -would part and the ledge drop nearly 200 feet jhto .the gorge.. tion calrrarrr cyanamide,- nitric acid and other forms of fixed nitrogen. There are- also coke-oven plants that yield ammonia sulphate as a by-product. •Peat, brown coal,, natural gas, blast furnace gas every possible source of nitrogen has been studied'by the Nit­ rogen Institute of Moscow. “ At present no fertilizers are im­ ported. But such are the needs of industry and agriculture that bigger and ■' ’be tter—rrttragemffixation-~plants- are necessary. By what process fertilizer is made depends* much bn the region. Near Moscow brown' coal -is- the source of nitrogen. In the Ural district, Western Siberia and . tjie ' Donbass country' it • is the retort coke .oven; in Transcaucasia it is the oil in­ dustry, and in Central Asia syn­ thetic ammonia produced with aid of hydroelectric energy. 200 Year-Old Coin Is Found Greatest Census Of Traffic Will Be Taken I*1 Britain ' X , 1 t. London. — Ten thousand .enumera­ tors, will be engaged on ‘the gre; ^traF WEALTH. A woman has Said in, court that lyould/ not. call" h'eri^Tf rich- In an-. did .not feel, wealthy qri 6,00.0’ pounds ! lecteT'P^^s'."For the 'first-time- pe-' stree-t'eros'sings.' With the exception of steam rollers. ’ every type of road vehicle will be included, from ex-, press'"b*Js_W market cart: This census announced rec.entljL.by Leslie Horebeiisfta’ ministef of them-, fort, in the House of .Commons, will »• carried out during the week of- ■ August 12. Its principal object ,is to i provide adequate data for road im­ provement //n a/scientific basis.,. ____ . ■ . ■ We eX.ageraie ' misfortune and’ k’.'. ivrj as the..''slap-bang.” Titia^ happiness alik**. We are-.never, eith&r wTt-h 69,000 pounds to her name she Britain. , t. ___ _____________ _ ___1 'They, will keep . watch : from be* other ebutt a bankrupt said, that he ; tween . '5,000 and 6,000 specially sb-. ** ’ - ; j; a year and sometimes waslyery hard , up. An actress who -had more than 6,000 pound's a year has told how- she ' had >spent io.000 pounds. These' people have’ missed a lot of fun. A ' man wijo feels ric.h hecauS'© he has I a pound in his- pocket is 50 times ag well ofi^.as any- of tbem.^JMan* ’ cGeYer Sunday Chronicle. "SLAP BANGS’’ IN EGYPT. ' Stmm Nessim brought with it Is-t ..Munday a far greater sale, to "n r-f that mi«<)Le‘> o’J3 explosive Spanish Design Digs It Leamington. ’to„1774 is in Richards, who den here. The\Coin of silver and slightly (thinner and larger than a 25 cent” piece is considerably worn, but as nearly as Can- be • '.made out is of Spanish origin. .How j-t arrived' jn; -M-tv -Rtehe-rds' back--yard; is a mys­ tery. ' ’ On the.face, the c^n*. bears very .plainly the date, and the inscription "vlra qui vnurrt,”” together with thp setters- “pm” one -abpve- the ether• at one-side of .the date'. Ther e no dis- cernable figure. ■ On the back is., a shield whk-h the bfrstloc^i knowledge. i-nUrpreted AO be the'lions and castes o/i the Span­ ish king’s. Around the border are the abrevialior/s, ‘'PBS; y. D. G HLSP, ET. J ND, R.” ' ' Whether the co;r, ticular vajue i,s not kn -tb’F—ve-hicl .e—dri-vers i7 in 2the— of this year, as a resiilt of the ^ive . . dtp check the alarming increase in . ■ auto accidents and fatalities-by-im- .-' ,’ . posing more severe penalties for vio­ lations of traffic rules. ’ ' “Since; September, 1930;"more than 15,0’00 suspensions have been imposed (| , and 5.000 of these, are still in force,’*. hbAdded. “I cite the figures to’show that the ;fhreat of loss of driving privileges' is no. idle one. Those who ~persist--4n--bTeaking™the„law^.in^y^__ lating the rule's of safety,,, will bi driven from our highways.” The minister’s statement regarded with concern the continued inciieasi in auto accidents, injuries and deaths, and asked fy>r ‘^.increased co-operation of law. enforcement agencies” .-in f;he riffprt to bring about better obser­ vance of traffic regulations. Accom­ panying the statement were accident statistics for April,* showing an in­ crease of 16 per cent in the number of accidents in copiParison with the same month a year ago, ^and an in* t crease of 7 per conkU^tfae total for. - the first four, mohthjs of the year. The April figures alsb showed double • the nuffiber of deaths (from’ 19 .A 38), from auto accidents and an >18 per cent.? increase in' the number of . , persons injured. ■ ' ■ t with $27,864,933 in the corresponding quarter o,f 1934, an increase of 5.9 per cent. The increase was in nickel and - copper, gold, sil^er^ and cobalt showing smaller declines. In the last Quarter 500,299 ounces bf fine gold were produced, compared with 506,962 ounces iri the first quar-i ter of the previous year. Silver pro­ duction fell off from 1,375,474 oun­ ces. to 1,111,407/ while' copper in blig*. ter and ores increased from ,39,351,- 411 pounds in the first three months of 1934/ to 56,632,053 pounds in the first quarter of this year/ and nickel from 26,964,806 pounds to• 29.021,486^ ..pounds. Ontario.lleparimcnt, of mines fig­ ures show that 32 gold mines milled 9.2. per .cent, more ore in* the, first; three months c/ this ear {han’ the J 20 mines operating, in the first quar-| ter’ of 1934 rdlllc'd, but the- value of,’ the bullion marketed was 1.7 per. Sturlv•cont. lower-in |the 1934 period. ” • ’ . ® V>6C 1x65111118, OlllOy ; - - f Household Appliances Influenza. Is Blamed ; For Child Deafness ■ Toronto. •- ■' ■ Possibility that?, the' ..Hha.rp rhe Jr. deafness ;^mong' child- ren .noted r^r-ontly by .■medical men, pa/lh'u.'arly hhe., United States/ den-jo of 1918 ard use ’ reating 'th x d."ea- v/a.ssuggested. /-n ,. by Dr. Gozdor V,oar <yo, nose and thfoat g’pe'ra of C n^a^o, ' * tie cqnvor/.o'' •/ •i.o Am^J-'an' O ,'og'7a.’"So'’ j> / f-'o *,.7 A rr o the you’d*nf At »b throw ’ How many could mend a fuse or give the correct-voltage of . their el­ ectric current and the .cost of light* _ ing them homes per hout? Every housewife ought to know about do­ mestic electrical faeilitig^jjiyg,—a man has to know about the/c^t of jffto , g 6 odg he sells _ i m ’ t fie labor in a fkc b ?. ..../ v/hethor he is concerned'with a shop, \ r.U^K1 ? ' insurance ' company, a .hospital '■ ari artist’s studio. womhn should strive to un- , Ue 2t"' lif£ as • fort of her family. The housewRai . has, a duty, to -providb a healthjL happy environment fon husband and ’ /'I I t. n’A ' I U‘ i 'Xvizl' the ways, arid means of tunning thu hoo ve on modern lines with modern ? . <«l . methods.. " ’ '> ) ", i ■/rode to , , ■ *■ ____ _-t.„‘ ’ hag. ahy. Tim• happiness of love is in d'e* 'J >r,rg the • ti» n;’ 'its tost is what one, is willing lu du for' others. — Lew Wallace.