The Lucknow Sentinel, 1936-05-07, Page 6CANADA
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All Else is Unstable - I
It’s a sad reflection on mankind that
the only thing that shows any sign
of. permanence In the world is taxa
tion. — Toronto Saturday Night,
If .the proposed “fixed” calendar
is adopted by the world, Good Fri
day, would fall, on April ft, Easter
Sunday on April 9 and Whit Sunday
on May 28 of every year.
Expensive Kbs
Beatrice Lillie has been notified that
BridgingDistance
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EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM
,. HERE, THERE . AND
EVERYWHERE.
People Forget -
, It is unfortunate that the work
.■ oaosqpito control must be undertaken
, Bonia weeks, in advance of the normal
arrival of these ubiquitous pests; If
fhe annual , anti-mosquito tag day
oould be ’ deferred until June there is
little doubt but that the fun .would ‘be
■over-subscribed in a very short time.
People forget past miseries very eas-
Uy, In April few of us are thinking
■ (bout (mosquitoes; but in June wo
fell hate’ cause to say with Prospero,
f How sharp .the point of this remem-
• ; braribe is!” s
(Note: Winnipeg,, is holding a tag
day to raise funds for fighting mosqui-
--“toes)Tg^---Winnlpeg Tribune. - -—-
First It Must Grow
The president .of the, Wholesale
Lumber Dealers*. Association has been
felling the Gyro-Club that timber is a
harvest that must be cut. He might
. have told them also that timber is a
$rop that must tie conserved and re
planted, or there will, be no succes-
-.iiom-of-harvest^-— Vancouver-Prov
ince. . . ' .
the game was just beginning to invade
England from the north. Now there
are about 1,500. golf clubs in England,
of which 200 are in London, but a
great number of players are unattach
ed. — St. Thomas Times-Journal. ’
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Gaelic in Nova Scotia '
When Premier Ramsay MacDonald
landed at^Halifax on his health-holl-
day last year he was met by the Pre
mier of the province who greeted httn
in a language the Scottish-born lead
er did hot understand. It was Gaelic.
It is surprising to learn that Gaelic
is taught in the schools of . the prov-
Inta. .Teaching was authorized 15
years ago and apparently is popular
enough to Continue. It is an optional
subject, and a teacher who is-capable
^f Tn^artiEg^the •*Ga«ttc’’-ls-entftie(i
to a special grant; from the provincial
department.
Gaelic is more of a “dead” language
than Latin or Greek,,so far as utility
IS concerned, but it will please Scots
to know that there is a Canadian pro
vince interested In preserving the
ancient speech of the. race.\St.
Thomas Times—Journal. b
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■ , The Life of the Party
Luncheon hostesses in London, Eng-
/ land have found a way to ease the
Strain of lagging conversations. When
^ worried woman puts on a party, she
jays someone to attend and lead the
guests to excited discussions of this
find that. Whenever the women seem
Ap .be petered out on one topic, the
yivacious one starts them on some
thing else -and--keeps them; going aU
frill steam ahead. _i_____■_________
"Many a luncheon has been changed
from boredom to enjoyment by thev
strategy of the paid guest, who ap
pears to' be just One of those present.
But; she is usually the last to leave,
the hostess/ not wishing to hand out
.the fee in front o'f the others. r
• They , pay as much as ?25 per lun
cheon for a good conversation pilot. ^Windsor ; Stajr*
National Income 1
. U.S. national income is estimated
$60,000,000,000 ^yearly. In 1929 it
"ras $86,000,000,000 and dropped to
500,000,000 in 1933. , Montreal
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' Victoria Cross
The first Victoria Cross to be won
in 14 years was awarded posthumous
ly a short time ago to Captain God^
trey Meynell, who worn it In fighting
ipn the northwest frontier of India last
September. The incident calls atten
tion to the fact that some kind of
fighting is going on most of the time
pn spme frontier of the Empire.To-.
4 rpnio Mail and Empire. ■ ,
What Interests a Queen
Canadays first participation int the
Utrecht Fair ijWas marked by a Visit
.. from Queen Wilhelmina who, accom-
- panied by a considerable retinue, had
spent some little time in th a Canad
ian section, where; she showed a live
ly interest in the goods Canada is
now selling with considerable success
in the Netherlands.
Canada's Weekly, published in Lon
don, Eng., states that Her Majesty
confessed that she had fallen into the
common error of regarding Canada,
principally as an agricultural country
■and expressed her amazement at the
excellence and variety 'of manufactur
ed goods on display. She was, how
ever familiar with Canadian rubber
thigh boots, which are known to fi
shermen and..sportsmen from ode end
of Holland to the other.
Her particular interest was drawn
: to Canadian washing machines which
have been comparatively recently in
troduced into Holland, and have mbt
with good reception. — Toronto Mall
and Empire. ' < - • /.
Two B^t Novels •-
The University of Ohio judges the
ltwq best novels to be Tolstoi’s “War
and Peace" and Thackeray’s' "Henry
Esmond. The choice of "Henry Es
mond” will surprise the many who
thought Thackeray was no longer
readriris a beautifuI story of the TSth
century, and perhaps its happy end
ing in Virginia specially commends it
to American readers. Its sequel is
"The Virginians,” which has an Am
erican setting, yet “The Virginians"
never attained, even in the United
States, in thA days when everyone
read Thackeray, the popularity of
“Henry Esmond,” "Vanity Fair” and
"Pendennis." — London Advertiser.
Signatures
However there are’‘still a few tasks
reserved for the pen. Signing one’s
name, for instance. And how many
mr-n are there who write a legible slg-
nature? If by the scrawls -and"’T’lour-
wlshes which so many of us put at the
, ’end .of our letters, our business and
. ...pro/ssional-acumen were to be judg
ed. then who stands secure?
Many of the great, wise, and emln-
-ent allow themselves a very crypto
gram df a sign manual which suggests
that tliev age ashamed of their own
identity. Many lesser persons, on the
other hand, appear to think that by
inscribing it in an equally mysterious
■ manner an insignificant name acquires
dignity and importance. — Winnipeg
' Tribune. - . ■ .
Golf Grown in Britain
Only the very aged, the lame, the halt'atyl the blind do not play lames
of some kind ta Britain, Sphere prota
ably more people take part st>hrt
ft>r sports sake than iw any other
country. It is surprising to learn, how
ever. that the game, which baa'more
players than any^otjier is.lawn tennis.
GqU has gradually pulled up until
It is in second plrico. Over ofie'milifon
Britishors play golf. Thirty ’years ago
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-----------------So that beach-„loungers_at Santa Monica. «Cal., can watch lectures on
" ing around table, Frances Flinton, (at board) bridge authority, has invented "magneti
■ cards. ' ■- '■ . >
as a result of her Toronto appearance
she must pay Dominion income tax.
Now she’s wondering if a kiss from
Mayor McBride is worth that much;
—Peterboro .Examiner.
Britain’s Food Supply
Grow Food, stare Food! If war does
come here the enemy airplanes will
follow the line of the rivers, pointing
like, arrowheads to the heart of the
great seaports. The bombers will also-
smash the docks, blow, down the brid
ges, and cripple pur overseas food
supply. If war comes elsewhere? the
cost of that huge dislocation of trade
in the markets Of the world will drite
up—prices’ in this countnCxir_la-„
mine level. And if this fear passes, as
all good men and women pray and la
bour that it will, then if our land is
fertile and our barns are filled we
can give .of our abundance, in humble
thanksgiving to those that sorely need
it. Grow Food! Store Food! *— London
Daily Express.
Vancouver’s Jubilee
Today the world traveller can have,
no more memorable experience than
the journey which takes him, perhaps
in the still snowbound spring, across
the white expanse of the^prairies, and
lifts h|m thousands.of feet’through the
Kicking Horse Pass, and- drops him
gently into a bustling city that enjoys
the climate of the south Coast of Eng
land, with a background of mountain
scenery that has no equal in Europe.
At present, even in a time of world
depression, some 15,000 ships With a
total tonnage of over ten* millions use
the port of Vancouver each year. The
construction -of the Panama Canal
gave it an added value, for it is found
cheaper .to lraul the grain of, the wes
tern provinces over the Rockies and
ship it to Europe by the canal from
an ice-free port than to train it east-.'
wards. There are few places of which
progress can be more confidently pre
dicted in a normal world than this
fifty-year-old port with the- North Am
erican continent at its back and its
face turned to China, Japan, and Aus
tralia. -- Manchester Guardian.
By KEN EDWARDS
Over the Ropes
. The “Mormon Flash” Dean
Detton is a wrestler you are" go
ing to hear, from in the very near future. I ■ . . '
»■ “Dangerous Dean” as be was
called in New Zealand and Aus
tralia, ii the latest, sensation in (
the wrestling World-.
Dean began his mat career in
1927 as a welterweight, while at-
ten ding the University of Utah.
In 1929 he won all his bouts .
•in the heavyweight class arid in
1931 wrestled his first profession
al match.
; Dean is 27 years old, weighs
215 pounds; stands 6 feet and has
been in the “grunt and groan”
game for 9 years. His favourite
holds are the “toe-hold" arid the
"aeroplane-spin.”
Ed "Strangler” Lewis, five
times world’s champion, was de
feated recently by . this' clever
bone7buster.
Joe Detton, Dean's father, held
the light weight title for the Pacific Coast!
Dean has recently thrown Jim
. Browning; Sandor Szabo, Hans^
Steinke, Hank Basber,*-- Ed
"Strangler” Lewis, and others. .
To-day’s icolumh is dedicated
to "Pat” Cameron of Beaverton,
Ontario.
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Lord Tweedmuir’s Son
Hon. John Buchan, eldest,,son
of His Excellency, Lord Tweleds-
muir, has arrived at Ottawa for
his first visit to Canada. He had
been in Government service in
Africa.
“You cannot get peace by run
ning away from war any more
than you can get it simply by join
ing peace societies or ■ carrying
peace banners.” —Lady Astor.
Y.W.C.A. Gives Course In
Subject Dealing With #
Matrimony
TORONTO, — Motion pictures
were a vital .force in elementary
and adult education and in moulding
citizenship, Mrs; Mary B. Lowthian,
only woman member of the Niagara
Falls Boarid of Education, asserted*
in an^address to the urban Trustees’
section of the Ontario Educational
Association.
“Publicly denouncing objection
able pictures usually packs the the
atre with irresponsible people,” she
declared. The Dominion shouru nriye
a non-dramatic educational film
bureau supported or’ aided by a
government grant, Mrs. I.owthian
state-
'“We all agree, .1 am sure," she
_said, “that. it is* vastly more import
ant for a child to know the pro
cesses by which he Receives a letter
By, which the isalmon he likes to
eat is caught, prepared and deliv
ered to his grocer, or by which the
bqok he reads is made ready for
use than ,it is to know how many
people were killed at the Battle of
Hastings, the. names and dates of
■the victories \von by the Black
Prince or the number of ships in
thie Spanish Armada,” .
thfe fat man arid his wife
returning to their ■ seats in
Xheatre after the interval.
“Did .1 tread on, you**, f'des
went out?” he asked a man end of a jrpw. • "
“You. did,” replied, the othei grini-
ly, -expecting at least • an apology.
The Tat rtian turned to his wife.
, “this
ft
were
tlhe
as I
at the
“All right, Mary,” he saic
is our row."
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“All book publishers. worthy of
the name are somewhat literary
themselves, arid hence more or
less insane? —Bruce Barton.
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“New industries and11 wider use
fulness of established industries
are beckoning.” —David Sarnoff.
“If this civilization of ours is
going to endure we’ve just got to
start learning to mind our own
■ business or the day may come
when there won’t be any business
to mind.” ♦' —Irvin, S. Cobb.
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“Most of our troubles today are
the result Of defective cl,istriu,trori
—I mean distribution of ideas and
.people as Well as goods.”
, ” r "■ -^John Erskine;
She Travels Into Far North
Selling Lubricating. Grease
’ . and Oil
OTtAWA-rMore than 750. mining
engineers and_^netallurgists and their
wives attended the recent annual ,con
vention in Ottawaj but only one.wo-
mari came’ on business-r— grease and
lubrication. •' ■
T Miss Leonore Chapman. ^ yoiing,
tall and prepossessing, travels into
the north by dog team, by ? plane
and even tractor to help mining en
gineers solve the problems of keep
ing engines?, running smoothly in
unusual temperatures above and be
low ground. ’ \
She has travelled through North
ern Ontario, and Quebec, into New
foundland iron mines, across coun
try to the. pulp and paper mills, vis
ited plants at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.,
and has been up to Moosonee at
the James BayMerminus pUtJie Tem-
iskaming and Northern Ontario
Railway. ■ ’
In the last five years she has
watched a rapid change in frontier
towns and remarks: “There are/ no
hardships left and when you come
to where you found the jumping-oft
place last time, you notice that, the
edge • of civilization has extended,
until onep again it. lies just the other
side of the horizon.
“Some, people might’ find such life
dull, there are none of the . usual
diversion^, but I am thrilled to be in
contact with men who bring dreams
into-reality. G. K. Chesteirton wrote,
some time ago that he always found
interest in out-of-the-way places'
that some, called dull as ditchwater
and that ditchwater placed under a
microscope could . prdve very enter
taining. I have found the same
thing. Grease and o’il may not-ap
peal-to everybody, but they fascin
ate me, they can . accomplish such
wonders and are .such ah interesting
study.
“Then; too., the north is now a
hive of industry anti one of the few
places where there is little time for
discouragement or defeat.’’
On her rounds of miningr/machin
ery, Miss Chapman wears breeches,
high boots, a windbreaker and beret,
silk underwear and silk stockings.
“It may be just vanity, but I really
believe they keep me- warmer.”
Wheh 'she is in a town, no matter
how small, she is just another at
tractive girl.
“Up in the north we take planes
as you might take taSrisrthoy have
few accidents a^ the pilots are scru
pulously careful of their machines.
We haye our transportation prob
lems, our food proBicmsTan<L,f’hat is
about all.. 'There^s loirs of Worjk and
1-ots of fun if you—look at it. that wav.” . • ■ ' C—> , ' , . - * '
"We are apt to look too far
away for the accomplishment of re
forms. Improvement is generally a
personal arid local matter.*”
—^Charles E. Hughes.
and think, for months,
i Ninety-nine times the
is false, the hundredth
—Albert Einstein.
• “I think
fot years,
conclusion
time I am right.”
. “We would nrit dream of-treat
ing a, strain of race horses the way
we do oufselve?.” —Herbert Hoover.
"The trouble with modern civilisa
tion is that we are cafeteria-
-conscious.” -
—‘Hendrik Willem Van Loop.. i
“A sense of humor i^ an unerring
sense of proportion.” -^-Emily Post.
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", Huron’s Record
TORONTO—The enthusiastic at-
tandancQ of the senior members of___
fhe ‘ Young Women’s Christian AS- i
sociation at the six-week course of
discussion groups on, “Ideal Mar- .
riage,” has confirmed the opinion of
leaders who felt that there was need ,.
for instruction on this subject among
older girls;
Mrs. Donald McCulJagh, B.A.,; a,
recent graduate from the , depart
ment of social science aV ,tb® Uni- ■ _
versity of Toronto, led the group
and was able * to - cle^r up many .
superstitious ideas and • prejudices
by giving scientific sex information.
Many of the girls expressed the
wish that everyone might have the
opportunity ' of attending such
groups. The discussions centred
around such subjects as “Choosing
a Husband," and “The Purpose of
Marriage;1
Other efforts of special . interest
in the education department of the .
Y1W.C.A. which have helped tri
Ward development of personality,
charm and good speech are the
classes conducted by Mrs. Dora Ma-
vor Moore in “The Art of Conver
sation,” and “Social Demeanor.” - ,
The girls in these classes know
must learp proper breathing, cor- . /
reCt. posture and mouth expression, 4
discrimination in the selection of f
reading matter,, the constant need
to refer to the dictionary and to
familiarize themselves each day
with new words.
To acquire good speech the girls .
Vvere taught to turn their'attention
to the best in radio broadcasts, to
listen whenever possible to good
speakers and to avoid certain top-
ics~-of - conversationwhen^talking - :
with, strangers and the. necessity
of finding common interests such as
the weather, current events or the
theatre as the starting-off point;, •
Modified Shirtwaist^
(The Sault Ste. Marie Star) ■■
Talking about Huron County,., it
has produced a quintea of political
leaders in relent-year:
Hon. James Garfield Gardiner,
bom. at Exeter, NoVeinbpr 30, 1893.
Hon. Thomas Alexander Grerar,'
Minister of, Interior., Mines; Immi
gration, etc., born at Moiesworth, in
Huron, County, six years earlier.
Hon. Robert Weir, former Minis
ter of Agriculture born at Wingham,
December 5th, 1892.
(Huron County has thus produc
ed three of the four most recent
federal Ministers hf Agriculture')
Hon. William Afrorhart, premier
of Alberta, born at Seaforth. Dec-'
ember 30th, 1878.
Robert John Deathman, Liberal
economist and tariff expert, born , in
Hawick Township, December 45th,
1878. ■
1822-B
I* or those of you Who have been
waiting for something" a little
different in shirtwaist styling,
something with softer lines and a
more pleasing contour, this
charmingly simple all-occasion day
time frpck will ring the bell — ’■
- ati<T that's- no gorig Featuring an ’
extended yoke across the shoul-
. ders to form a novel and engag
ing effect, there are just a few
simple pieces, to the pattern. The
waist is gathered to the yoke, the
-rounded collar ends' in a graceful
bow, and the pockets are tabbed
to match the cuffd. You’ll set the
. style pace by using sports silk,
novelty weaves, acetate, and
printed cottons. ' ’
This Barbara Bell Pattern, No.
1822-B, is available in sizes 32,
34/36, 38, 40, 42 and’ 44. Size 34
requires 4 U yards of 35rirJfojfab-
nc plus yard, cut crosswise, for
the belt .
HQW TO ORDER PATTERNS
I Write voiiFname and addreo .
of pattern wanted. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred): '
wrap it carefully, and address your ‘
' order to Barbara Bell, Room 230,
73 Adelaide W., Toronto.
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