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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-11-07, Page 2jA <r ■c i 0 r i 4 ’V r. ■ :5 5 . -j ft •* began in the season, of 1932-33 ex-1 thought such as our new Governor price for thip home-wheat has" beenj with Canadian life they may pHnllt fh’ri + Anr rrr>rMT'' ...Illi view, Marie say watcher have nosuch voice as theirs in the choiceTetfween war and peace. It is safe - to say that 'ffie recent “debates- take the arduous but also happy task of getting into personal touch with'Canadians of every race an'd difWd In every centre from , Hal if ax All eight hoofs off the gfound, Count Arthur and Judy O’Grady pictured in-flying1 finish- 4n • the mile and one-half Manhattan Handicap at Be.lmont Park; L.I. Rei’gh Count’s son won race by -half a length. . ' ■ ' ’ A Flying Finish .THE WORLD AT LARGE. - CANADA ■ VINELAND SCIENTIST MAKES NAME IN AVICULTURE \ - * The'work of Jack Miner and other- .naturalists in the preservation of ■ : ■ wild life is almost a household world. " -<4 Feyv know, hriwever, of the .outst'and- ■ ; ing work donp In rearing-in captivity birds, strange to our continent, by such men as Dr. W E. Hurlburt, na- .’ turalist and ornithologist of Vineland. By. this excellent contribution''^0 avi- / culture, .this Vineland physician has. ...'qualified' for-recognition ■ by- the Avl- '< cul.ural • Society of America,' which ’1 offers • medails to members in the United States and Canada, who are ■ ?•' the first to breed certain species -of ’ t-c foreign birds. .L t- .'For the past decade or more .Dr,. • ’ • Hurlbut has. taken 'an interest’ in ■ : tropical birds until he .lias sixty-in ' species, in captivity. ' He has. also -reared for the first time anywhere in ... ' ,-i : -row, native of the far no/th in North |j_Ameriea» and the. white throated ■ finch, native of Brazil, and for. the . | 1 first time probably on this contin- 5'; ent, the magpie mannlken, .a native ' i of tropical Africa. Other foreign . birds somewhat rare in'this country. -. 5" are to be seen among his specimens. Dr. Hurlburt has dtrne real work as a i scientist, arid is deserving of any re­ cognition that may be bestowed up­ on him, — Toronto Mail and Empire. .! TYPE IS NOT ELASTIC • : ’ The American police commissioner ' . .. V. who does not like the” word “fight” _ __ . .. — frying “fo get •■fhe'“newspapeHr * 1 to useb tile more polite word “distur- “ baace” won’t get anywhere. There are lty2 characters in disturbance and only 4% in fight (the letter “i” being ; only half aw .wide as the others). Desk ' . .1 men on newspapers, boiling down stories to save space and writing 4 , headlines that’ have to be compressed r in . narrow., columns, will not-'use. a long word when they ,can use a short .._^ner^.That-^is-.rwhy_dipIomXtirCcQn(^ muhjeatiohs are “notes”; the enemy is the “foe”; interrogates or Cross- examines becomes “quiz”; criticize la “hit”, and so on. 5 ' ' • , .Something of a modern classic in .headline English is a recent exam­ ple from Variety, the "amusement newspaper. The headline reads: ‘^STICKS NIX HICK PIX.” : Each of . the four words is a slang . word’ and the headline would be ln- admissable in any daily-newspaper. What the headline intended to con- vey is simply this?‘'that the movle- tte... smiler-commainl-- CANADA, THE EMPIRE \ h ’* > , x > XX ' • ' > ^business. The Mayor of Indianapolis gays that^rin' 8 per <?ent increase has noted- Since the hew cars . —' “fast, silent, handsome and confortable”—, were put into service/ “enhancing the., prestige of the city.” If .the cars are the. opposite to fast or silent or .handsome,: it' is not -reasonable to ex­ pect. any -great, improvement in the traffic. — Hamilton Spectator. A BIT TOO MUCH Young man from Stirling appeared in court at ’Belleville and the charge was that he fired. a shot-gun at a charivari party. Tin pans,'1 old bbfl- ers, wash tubs and cow bells used to be commonly used, but this restlezs 'generation .seeking for greater, ef­ fects- with weapons, will have to be checked. — Stratford 'Beacon-Herald. A NOBLE RETREAT Recent news-from Italy might lead an old-time-reader of nursery rhymes to wonder if the w^rld is not about to witness.Aa repetition of the perfor­ mance made'“.famous . by fFe/'Kofile"' Duke of York? ... ., The ^nobl> Duke, as youTcray--iretr member, had a, thousand men; and after marching.-" them boldly uphill one day, he 'bout-faced andWmarch- ed them gallantly down again. . -. Since tjhe British navy .began con­ centrating in the„~Mediterranean, it has been, possible to notice a water-’ ing-dbwn in the warlike speeches at Rome. Mussolini has declared over and over again that Italy could not withdraw on any account.; now,:.how- ever. there is a faint trace of a more -moderate_ as a suggestion that if It could be done with the right flourish, .11 Duce might be willing to modify his belli­ cose. plans. Strange;, the change that can corner over a statesman when he takes a" good look down the business end of the guns of. a British dreadnaught! —Guelph Mercury. THE EMPIRE ‘ .....BRITAI.N.AND..THE_D.OMINIO.N._.. They stand,- as we in this country stand, for peace' and justice tand; the /plighted world. They will not lightly be committed— and ndver coirimitte’d in advance or without the full assent of their free peoples — to warlike measures. But. they are becoming .more and more conscious by the dan­ gers of the present world, even to their, own remote Dominions, so long as it' contains great nations which 1 een war and peace. It is ariii":vyin not<- pdy^Sheir good money* • .to gee motion pictures' depicting rural life. — Financial-Post. LIVES OF NAPOLEONr Ten.thousand books, or one every 1/98 hours for . 112 years, have been written on Napoleonls ljfe. This should dampen Mussolini’s ambition ■ a bit. —^’Winnipeg Tribune. ' ■ JOURNALESE Strange how , newspaper lljngo changes. A couple of generations "ago reporters were in the habit of often calling a church a “sacred edifice,” and some of them seemed . to., prefer “conflagration” to “fire.” and “post- ‘- prandial” to “after dinner.” A gen- ' elation ago the revered Montreal Star was want to refer ■ to even po­ lice court doings as “dramatic.” A few, of the newer words now af­ fected definitely, “spot” of tea, ’ “considered’’ opinion, • “blunt” and -socialite. —1 ' Sault Ste. Star.. . ' ■ GOOD ROADS Good, roads .bound- the old. Roman . -,Empire together, and it is not a vain hope that they may b^, made a bournj which' shall in time help to bind to­ gether the “United Stat.es of Europe.” —- Halifax Herabl. , fine Babies everywhere When we look at.-the ■ photographs of. those babies who won prizes at. the' North Wentworth Agricultural- Society Fair, *we .cannot help think­ ing that the Dionne quintuplets may get more publicity, but their apl pCariince is no more a. guarantee of a healthy and good-looking-future Canadian generation than that of numerous other -children, born and bred without bally-hoo in our rural, districts. — Hamilton Spectator. ' . OLD STAINS Th A stain- of 1896 has been wiped -out. Italians arc celebrating the fall of Adowa. Fine! . Let’^ all wipe out our stain-;, The Scotch might .'invade . England ' to revenge themselves for Flodden Feld; -the British wallop the Russians for Cutting up the Light Brigade; France i^ight•’invade Ger­ many to clear up that old trouble of l,8<0 -and Germany might invade , France to fiy;e-nge the-defeat of 1918; Italy might^walk Into France to wipe -out ;the.*stain- of the Napoleonic Con­ quest; Aiistria might . . . but (Why go on? .Hamilton Herald. street car service So it "would seem that there is still a demand for street’ railway ■ trans- ■ portat ion, but it Is s igni flea fit1" that’ ‘mod-evnizatjon of the system is given >............ lutiGh of,the credit for .the increased' yoiition; “sentatfves, have, revealed an”“array of unanimity which would have been incredible not long ago. Lord Tweeds- muir’s prediction the other day that what he called, the “Fourth Einplr^,” would possess a new cohesion, fol­ lowing upon the achievement of nal tional x independence, was something more 'than the dream of an imagina­ tive and patriotic, mind/ Nor is it conceivable that thej Dominions, or any class in this country, will dissent frdm the view that these' dangers of the present world, so conspicuously revealed .demand some revision of our Imperial defences. — London Times. ” • ■ , |THE BRITISH WHEAT BOUNTY| - Ask any farmers’ leader in. either Scotland of England today which scheme of assistance to the’ Industry Fas yielded the most satisfactory re­ sults t0 producers and he will Un­ hesitatingly reply, “The wheat quota-.” Under this plan, no matter what -the world price of wheat may be, home growers are guarantee^ (subject to a production limit) a standard price for' all millable wheat, of 45'5. per qr, of '504- lb'., or 4% cwt. Since the scheme Reviewing Three Centuries ”r..''“'Of journalism' T^EnglaruF Delegates from all parts . of the country to tbe annual conference of the Institute of Journalists in Lon­ don enjoyed, .the opportunity to in­ spect a. panorama of the evolution of the. English newspaper from /its' be­ ginning more than three hundred years ago to the present day. In the forefront of this fascinating record of three centuries of English journalism stood a page from. Wil- Tiam“'Gaktbn’A-7press1“at;- ;-West^i4n<3te«- dated 1480 as an example of the earliest printing in England. An interval of a century and a quarter' .led up. to a copy of “Mercurius Gal- Jobelgicus,” dated 1606, a six-monthly compilation of European news done in Latin at Frankfurt and containing the report of a speech delivered in i Parliament„b.y_ James'T denouncing the atrocity •q'iT’fH'e''Guy Fawkes Plot. This forerunner’ of newspapers ' witfiN]'eT£ersTfrfom~ Continental corre?" spondehts and.the Dutch a'nd/Ger- , man corantos—the earliest form ot nelwsMsheets—provided the ’material from which the pioneers of English journalism compiled the first news­ papers in -'this country. Their _ origin dates from May, 1622, and in the ex­ hibition was shown a \ finely pre­ served specimen of , a year later— “The Continuation of 'our Weekly Newes”—w;ith Its decorative .head­ piece, table of contents,' and enter- talnffig- account of—recent—■ha-ppen- JngaJkJLh&_Thirty Years’ War. for a graphic account of the "great and bludy engagement” between the English and Dutch fleets off Dunge­ ness in November, 1652. From these’ beginnings 'the . page­ ant of the Press whs shown ifi evo­ lution through ■ the journalistic . ec­ centricities of the Restoration and Revolution' to. the advent of the tri­ weekly mdrning,, paper at the close >of the-seventeenth Century and., of the -dai-iy—at—t-ho- opening.of-.Anne’a. reign,., when literature allied itself with journalism in the'- brilliant Steele arid Addkon group of “essay sheets, and Defoe’s “Robinson Cruso”' was. running as a serial through the, columns of the “Daily Post.” . . Jhe second half of the eighteenth century was the period when the newspaper reached maturity, apd here Were shown amidst their con-- temporaries the first issue of the Milk Kept Fresh - For Months Now Duisber-g, -Germany—An__ invention xwhich, is expected to revolutionize the dairying, industry, has been re­ vealed bysTheodor Hofius, a Duisberg engineer, who„state.s that it has.been entered for patent ■ rights in all countries. ; ' He claims that he'has invented a vessel in whicff milk ajid cream’can be kept fresh for several months by. using an oxygen apparatus. . Milk reinained' fresh in a - new vessel for -at least two months- and its quality was improved,,, it is claimed. -—- ------. ■ The 'invention, if successful;- .-will permit' milk to be transported for any distance, thus opening new .pros­ pects for miik-exp'ortirig countries, it is claimed; ■ Reading Is Praised ----- As Relaxation Aid “M'ofrilng known) dated November 2, 1772; “The Times”, in its -first year (1785), under-' its original * titje. “T.fie Daily. Universal' Register’’, and the Ob­ server, the oldest existing of the^Sun--: day. papers of today. ; journalism in. its more modern phases was represented by the first issues of mhny of the mprning, eve­ ning. and Sunday papers of Victorian and Edwardian times, and a largb sec­ tion of the exhibition was devoted to a display of -. the -oldest provincial, Scottish, and Irish newspapers, which. -and^Gom-monwealtn^--peFiom—when news pamphlets on the. opposing sides-poured from the London press­ es, was represented Dy numerous ex­ amples. “A. Perfect. Relation of Su- muarte” is a . particularly stylish specimen of front-page lhy-out, and the ‘‘Faithful Scout’’ is singled out i-------------------...... ,-■; long a,tart compared with the country towns, many of the old towns and cities are still producing with un­ broken records of. longevity journals fhat have flourished since long before -the birth of the oldest existing Lon­ don newspapers. TWEEDSMUIRS SHOULD BE AT HOME IN CANADA OF SCOTTISH NAMES (From Canada’s Weekly (London) . Lord. Tweedsmuir has told us that he looks forward. with deep interest to, his residence in Canada.' We can well "believe it. For us ordinary mortals, Canada never fails to pro­ vide mental gymanastiCs In a high" degree, , Something new is always, arising to stir us to fresh effort. It is a land of illimitable . possibilities whether we think of the resources of Nature, of the Mind or of Spirit. That is our’common experience. How great, then, must be.,the. exhilaration which Canada brings to leaders' of perfence has shown that the standard General. As they come into touch VI /I A 4* zv 4 V* 4 n t-x /*x VIA M 4! *1— _ *11- ' 1 * 1 . J 1 ■_ __ __ (about double that which- our growers I could have hoped to reap from the I open market — Glasgow Herald. ; - A MIRACLE ’ ■•Man has sought (out. mapy inven--[ •tions and afterwards has mostly .re- ;gretted his pains. But now a device. has appeared-at which-not even the; most1 anti-mechanical fit Erewhonians1 ’could grumble. The machine for giv-- ing wpmen the illusion of wearing new clothes, which is to be shown at ■the forthcomin-g Exhibition of. Inven­ tions -in 'London, Sound's so utterly* beneficial and flattering that it should,; obviously.be the “starred” item of' the whole -affair. The effect^43; pro- * duced by magic mirrors, and strong , lights. Henceforth, apparently a. wo-' ..man choosing new frock need only ' stand in front of the machine’s .g-r-[ •rangemefit 'of mirrors with a sample' piece of dress material in her hand'; she will* theta See in the mirror a-vis­ ion of'herself w-earfng the dress'pro­ posed. — Manchester Guardian.. with the,, poet: x -“Then felt I like some of the skie3 When a new planet swi-ms into his ken.” ' ' . More than that. Ki-ngshi.p has in these latter day's gainednew mean­ ing for British peoples everywhere. Above all ■ our differences of, parties and creeds it implies leadership in the higher art iof living. More than, ever, then, . rnay the representative of the Sovereign in Canada find joy in leadership in realms whSre.'his leadership can be most helpful and. stimulating. •It has been said iri ’’.’anada that Lftr.d Tv/eedsmuir ha?, been chosen fo-rMi'is high office by the express wish *of those wh’o can Aspeak for the tWfi rn ain. p.oi itical secti oris the Canadian people.’ His Majesty, we. are told, has fulfilled what* we may call a .nationaP Canadian ’desire. In any case,'*we kpo.v/.that he will be heartily v/elcomed by the vzhole Canadian community. 1h every corner of .the Dominion. We lay stress o-a .-» ' the words “every corner”, for it is is. 'a close ^second, the way With Governors to under- a.]go happy St, Louis. — Vanilla ice cream still is a favorite, But chocolate say representatives of* the Interna- lional Association^of Ice dream Man- ufacfurers fibre for tfiolr annual con- Toronto—-Doctors arid nurses were ed in the technical side of their pro­ fession, and. reading , was suggested as physical and. mental relaxation by C. R. Sanderison of the Toronto Public Libraries. “If you want something , funny, read something funny,” he. said/ “If you want to.read novels, read them rather than nothing at all. I’" don’t care what -you read so long as you, ^read along general lines. I believe that reading gives one fun, stimulus and -spmething -that will stay long after one has forgotten the book it- I'hefull lily "of“trying to-live ~by to Victoria and from the 49th par­ allel up- to the sub-Arctic itself. tTo large numbers of them John Biicfian Will come as a familiar friend, for his writings have opened the window of history and romance* in many a Canadian , home. Every­ where ,he and Lady ■ Tweedsmuir will, by their presence and person-' ality, quicken Scottish fiiemories and affections in a land which owes so much to the qualities, of the Scottish •race. They will, by the way, find a Buchan in Manitoba, and a. Tweed /in Ontario, and Lady Tweedsmuir will be glad, no doubt, "to make the acquaintance of Grosvenor in Nova Scotia. - Readers of John Buchan’s novels will hope that the founder of the hamlet of| McNab in Ontario had the Christian na'me of-John.- One has heard something of a lament that John Buchan the writer should-be for a period si£bmerged in Lord Tweedsmuir the King’s repre­ sentative. As Governor General, it- has been suggested, he cannot hope to/ have many moments to . himself, and fe-w opportunities of continuing' a literpry icareer. But may it not be that new and stimulating experi­ ences will provided Canadian back­ ground for. the . further writings that will yet come from the pen of .oti’jr new Governor General? That, at. any rate, is our .hope. „ Notable Increase p; In Rail Freights Foft William—-The Canadian Na­ tional Railways reported’ here .last week that' east-to-west package freight" handled over the company’s docks' herd averages more than 1,000 tons a month' increase this year compared with 1936. * ........... ............................................... - r.,... , .......... .. * 21 Mr. Ion L, Idriess, the Australia*' author, has 'returned to Sydney^ with a graphic story of a journey of more than 8,000 miles - which he recently undertook . through, the heayt of Australia, in search of ’materiaCfor ’. ’ 'a’biography" df“Sir.>Sidfiey TOd-ma*. His ' journey . -tok ..him- through the.’north' of* South. Australia; as- far as the Northern Territory and ^Queensland borders-- into central Queensland; through , southwest Queensland to* the northwest comer o.f New South Wales; back to Ade­ laide, and thence through ’ central’’> , Australia arid round the Lpke country. Ills’ main . aim was. to get T into touch with every type of . elder­ ly bushmah in that vast tract of country, and to obtain from drovers, station hands, .and others intimate memories of Sir Sidney Kidman back in, the days when he worked for ' a few shillings a week, j Mr.. idriess spys that Sir Sidney Kidman today either owns or controls,, or. has a large interest .in, more than 100 stations; and owns and -leases more .land- in-the British - Empire than any other man within its borders.. - Mr. Idriess draws a drab picture of much of the’ country through which he passed, consequent upon the .fr&m . a .lack.-..o£l.rAim...and--.as.„a.._re,sjilt„alafti5t^.. duststorms and drifting Aand. He. says that over-a;. large area goingAor. wards the Lake Eyre basin there had been about an inch of raid, but, with the ravages of duststorms, the young blades of grass which had sprung up had disappeared. “One journeyed for hundreds of miles,” he—adds,... “pr.ac_txqa.Hy.. with­ out a sign of t any ' living thing. Whdre .there -had been young- grate there was a .'desolate picture of ‘ sand. : For hundreds of 'miles there . is this creeping, very fine sand, 'drifting .all “the. time towards .: the- - ’ “good-lands—tow-ards—the. northwest corner of New”South Wales; down, .south .towards the coastal lands' border; aqd between the South Aus-.' tralian and New South Wales bord-. . . ers, even across,; to Victoria. The dust from central Australia has even ‘corored 'the snow on— -.<w"ie-~of - the Victorian alps a .dirty pink in placet? • -/■ Mr. Idriess sayi that, in the-south­ west, of Queensland, along the ter--. 'rltory“boi^er“fiXd“nrinh~qf-^^^^ ---- Australia, one see3 the merest rem­ nants of, native tribes at a distance of, about every 40 miles, where theri used, to be tribes of from 300 to 400 ma'hy years ago. “Some tribes,” he adds, -“have entirely disappeared. This is due in a large measqre. to . colds which the natives contract, and ’’ which rapidly "develop irito penu- monia. It is well known that germa, which the. white breathes in every day, are fatal to natives, who canned fight against them. rules without relaxation was stressed by the speaker. He had no sympathy with > those who pleaded - that . they had no time for reading. It was only the first bite that was difficult. Dr. D.. M. Robertson, of the Ot­ tawa Civic-Hospital, who presided, urged the establishment of more sanatoria in Ontario.. In the mean­ time, he said, separate wards could be maintained in hospitjali . for cases of tubprqulosis. Grants ought to be made to them by the Government for. full term of residence just as war done in regard to sanatoria, he thought.’ Woman Plans Lamps For Coal Miners London—'Among the women' ‘who came to London for the 13th annual ■conference of women engineers wa!s a Sheffield girl of- 26 who is an ex­ pert- on mine illumination. She la Miss Monica Maurice. ’ ... As manager of a large lamp-, making company she has for four years been responsible'for “the plan­ ning and operation of lamps at col­ lieries in every large coalfield in the country. She does much,- of her work in the mines. One of her aims is to bring about “an, international standard for mine lighting. To this end she has riead many, papers' at international meet­ ings of' mining and illuminating en­ gineers in France and Germany, .her first when , she was 21. She spoke the native- tongue in each case, and., took part in the highly technical discussions. She plays as hard as she works, and is an expert' rider, swimmer and dancer. Her favorite recreation is ■ what she calls. uweek- end aerobatics’’. Then -there was the time ’ when il. G. Wells, bringing George Bernard Shaw, arrived at the Conrad home for luncheon. Joseph Conrad loved good food and, being- a boost „ hospi­ table man, you may *be sure the meal was worthy of the occasion, But! p- Wells arrived with a terrible head­ ache and would eat nothing but a slice of dry bread washed down by a glass of quinine and water, while ’ShaW made a meal off cocoa and a dry bisejuit. 9 . - - I “That exasperated ni£ husband very much,” -says Mrs. Conrad—and .no wonder! Shaw, of course, has always been a vegetarian. Today’s dr-ess of black crepe designed along, very' simple but distinctive lines. Jeweled button® . accent the intersetitag pointed shoulder yoke. ,,The small view shovrs another possibility in two-piece suggestion with peplum. . Note the convert­ ible neckline forms tiny reveri.' It’s especially nice lii rabblr® woolen. , Style No, 2553 is designed for sizes;: 14, 16, 18 yeark, 86, 38 and 40-iriches bust. Size 16. requires yards of 39-inch material for' long sleeve dreSs. HOW TO. ORDER PATTERNS. — Write your. name, and ' addreiw plainly, giving number and site ■ of pattern wan-ted? Enclose 15o In ' stamp's or .coin (coin" preferred); wap it carcrnlly, ‘and address yoiir ■ ! ord/'r- to Wilson Pattern Servlet, 73-West Adelaide Street, Toronto.