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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1936-06-25, Page 41 CANADA ’’V 7’J' l*1 ..... --- EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM „ here, there and ■ ■' EVERYWHERE.. . Canadian Lawn Bowling Team Sails for England rf. J V X a V \ 1 i-v1 J. the water was." A youth dove off a bridgespanningabranchpftheBow river in Calgary and broke hie neck.' He had not made sure that the wafer was deep enough for diving. Three boys in other parts of the province, were wading in flooded creeks. Each stepp.0 into deep adles they did not know were there and were drowned. ’ Even expert swimmers do not care to plunge into streams of whose currents and depths they know noth­ ing, Make sure you know what., you are going to run into before you step into a lake-or stream, especially if the latter is at high water. — Ed­ monton Journal. Gum Too Emy It is far too easy in this country, in the United, States, for a man get guns. Nobody has any right possess a, revolver at hll unless« is a police officer, qt is engaged some pursuit which requires that he have one raider permit, with . the* police fully aware that he has it. < Guns are no part of the. equipment bl a peaceable, law-abiding citizen; The law should be sb tightened that the whereabouts .of every gun in the country is known. -r-St. Thomas Times-Journal. A Uses, for Bayonets , A military writer says in the next . war the bayonet will be obsolete, And what .will the troops ; Use to make toast and broil steaks and. chop kindling?—-Edmonton. Journal. Another Suggestion The Free Press has suggested several occasions tha? May 24th made Memorial Day. There is fixed day in Canada for Memorial Day as 4n-4he - United States.. It.. . is. a moveable feast. Canada should have a general Memorial Day, when “not on)y the soldiers Who died for Canada, but our great statesmen ___and the builders of Canada could be rem^ihered. As fax* as this-part of Canada is concerned it is an ideal time,. The country is at.its best; the Spring flowers are (n all their glory. Then there- would he some excuse, Some sound reason for continuing, in Canada a holiday which in the rest of the Empire has long since been forgotten.—London Free Press. ■—x ...4 ; : Dr. Dafoe’s Poets ■Dr. A. R.» Dafoe, fTiero” of the Dionne quintuplets, has a grievence; It. is seemingly the^first complaint of any seriousness th.at he has voiced since he came into fame, ■< - It has not to do with the quin­ tuplets, with the quintuplets* pa#- epts, or: with -the Ontario Govern­ ment?^‘suzerainty over the quintu-' plets. It has to do with poets — of a sort. Dr.-Dafoe has.been telling - the Ontario Public Health Officers’ Association, in an address before it, Of. "sickly, sentimental poems” he ;«Ihas been receiving since the birth of the Dionne kiddies* verse inspired, as he says, by the advent of the quintuplets and the, medical attention they. Wave received. Said Dr. Dafoe: ;“It’s awful stuff. It . comes from all over the country, and why people pick On me I don’t know.” First thing we know Dr. Dafoe may be taking to the. Callander bush and staying there. Both he and the quin­ tuplets have had a hard enough struggle without this insidious foe from without. It may be questioned if poetry is poetry wWerrritthreatens to drive £he-object of its. outpouring to despair.—Regina Leader-Post. 'AI» on be no: .1 . . Two Carloads of Paint It would be very interesting to tabulate how much money Kirkland Lake sends .outside, jn a year. We don’t refer to money sent by wage­ earners to families, or to the mail­ order business, but to the returns from the retail busii ess here. Take,' for example, just one hard­ ware establishment, whose manager the other day mentioned that he had- just. .ordered.two... icario.ads... oi..paint, and one of,wall-paper. ■r '. It would be interesting to find out what Kirkland Lake sends out for Other ware for other businesses; And such a tabulation would cer­ tainly show that this and~’“’otfier mining communities have a great deal to do with keeping things go­ ing “down below.”—Northern . News (Kirkland Lake). ” II, --Il , 4. Photograph shows the official Canadian team representing the Canadian Lawn Bowling Council and selected from, all Canada nnder th< auspices of the International Bowling Board, sailed on the Empress of Australia. The team will tour one week in. England, one week, m Wales, on« week in Ireland, three weeks in Scotland, and-close with a final week in. England between June 6 and July 30. One of the highlight matches will ZS game between this all-Canadian team: and the team of the Royal Househbkb of Windsor Castle, at which there is a possibility that .His Majesty / King Edward VIII will be .present. * ' The photograph includes: W. A. Kent, Toronto; W. B. Cowan, K.C., Toronto; Dr. H. Met). Paterson,’Rodney; Dr, 'C. H. Brerton, Toronto! R. J. Tretneway, London; W. T. Douglas, Orillia; W. G. Cleghorn, Kitchener, captain; C. H. Burgess, Port Credit; John Wharram, Toronto; A. A. Langford, London, manager; R. Gray Vancouver; G. E, MacLean, Toronto; Wm. G. Murray, Vancouver; John M. White, Vancouver; E., S; Munroe, Port Credit. x, . The ladies include Mrs. Cleghorn, Mrs. Cowan, Mrs.) Brereton, Mrs. Burgess,,;Mrs. Kent, Mrs. Paterson, Mrs. Trethewey, Mrs. Murray, Mrs.. White, Mrs. Pedwell and Mrs. Roddick. , r!, . " , A Chess - For - Children P I a n Aims To Improve the Minds Toronto Experts Believe They Would Obtain Better Grades at School; Young Players A&ide by Ethics of Game Strictly Attendance at Einpire Air Day • ■ Meet Sets' New Record -*1-’ Explanation,, Vernon, B.C., boy flies over Rockies in a home-made airplane. Now we kjiow why it has been so long since anyone wfeht over Niagara in a bar­ rel.—Winnipeg Tribune. I; '■ ’ THE EMPIRE The King’s Teapots Tea is King Edward’s favorite beverage. As Prince of Wales he often surprised local officials during industrial tours- by refusing Cham­ pagne, whiskey and beer which had been obtained specially for him, ask­ ing for'a cupof tea. The King- drinks tea many times a day. As a young man he often burnt his fingers on the all-metal teapots at Buckingham Palace. He remem­ bered this when discussing household arrangements at Buckingham Palace with Queen Mary. Result: Fifty heavy Queen Anne teapots of valu­ able Sheffield plate were packed off to Marlborough House, where the Queen is- to live. They are being re-, placed by teapbts with wooden handles. —— British Cavalcade. The Wealthy Babies The Dionne quintuplets now have $500,000. the newspaper reporters tell us. That. means their earnings have been at tile rateJof $50,000. p|br annum apiece, which )is a good) in­ come and ought to qualify the quints ' ’ to rank, in the minds of University of Torbhto ecohomicsts . and others who protest against large' incomes, as public malefactors and exploiters. The Dominion income tax on $50,- 000 a year is $11,7000. If the quints have bedn paying their taxes regu­ larly, Ottawa, should have received about $115,000 from them1 already. The new Ontario schedule should increase the annual payment by $3,200. ) ' . Hon. David Croll’says that by the end of 1938 the quints will be worth ... about $880,000. But he defls not say whether this. 4s after or/hefore in­ come tax.’ This whole question of quintuplets’ income tax bothers us. Some day some member of Parliament is going to ask- questions in the House.,, That will embarrass the, young ladies. Someone may even demand : a .^loyal Commission. After all the. I quints Are about the only success­ ful business people .in Canada who have not bceii up before - a star chamber, inquisition • on - how they earn their money and what social Income th ay provide :h . return.; — ■ Financial Post, Earlier Holidays From Easter. Jt Is an easy step to anticipations of the summer vacation.” The railway companies and other travel agencies, backed by the sea­ side authorities and big employers of labour, are again making 'very sen­ sible efforts | to induce people to take their-holidays earlier. This movement, Which is of Such obvious benefit, has made considerable headway in. re-, cent years. Btit in spite of it August remains the supreme holiday month. The arrangement of school terms compels many thousands of people to go away in August, but on its merits the month has no more, and in some respects rather less,, to commend it than others.—-London Daily Mail. • Baden-Powell’s Head Lord Badbn-Powell, now in 80th year, has one’claim to which most of his Boy Scouts don’t know about. He ?s tlse only living Englishman not of royal blood whose portrait has appeared on a postage stamp. It was .during the siege of Mafeking; All the stamps had been used, and no portrait of Queen Vic­ toria was available from Which ,f new bn s could be prepared* So, without consulting "B-P.” an emergency issue Was made on which his head had been reproduced.—Answers. London. Hosiery to Match Toeless Footwear his fame TORONTO—High-grade pupils would be assured if chess were taught in schools, in the opinion of S. A, LeRiche, vice-president of the Queen City. Chess -Club and leader in the chess-for-children movement begun in Toronto. » .. ‘ "The mental improvement would bring results,” said Mr. LeRiche, "The whole thing is mathematical training built around combinations on 64 squares on the chess board.” The youthful stimulus the ancient game will receive came through plans laid by Bernard Freedman, treasurer of the Canadian Chess Federation. Through his efforts came the an­ nouncement that for the first time boys’ championships will feature this year’s Dominion, chess tournament. It will be held at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Aug. 29th to Sept. 5th. Mr. Freedman, considered Can­ ada’s patron of chess, pioneered with four other players last November in founding .the Queen Gity Chess Club. Special aim was to encourage chil­ dren.' , Saturday afternoons ‘through­ out the winter 15 or 20 boys engaged in enthusiastic matches and tourna­ ments. On a recent tour of the west Mr. Freedman discovered a boy expert of great promise. He is A. Yhnofsky, an ll-year«qld Winnipeg youngster des­ cribed by Mr. Freedman as "almost a second Reshevsky.” Yanofsky may possibly attend the Dominion championships and give ex­ hibitions of simultaneous matched. His visit would, prove an incentive to young Toronto exponents, who play ,a good game but lack unusual individual talent. Mr. LeRiche said the- youngsters are sticklers for. etiquette.^ Old play­ ers, thinking a move unsound, some­ times take it back. "But not these boys, a move4s a move with them.” "These kids are keen,’’ he said. "We want to get them playing. It hot ohly keeps them off the streets but assures the growth of chess in Toronto.” Efforts are under way to have chess included on public school ) cur­ ricula. Royal Canadian Military Col­ lege at Kingston is believed the only Canadian school haying organized chess. Military colleges in the United States. demand chess, and it is part: of the training at a Milwaukee school. Perils of the Water ThC-danger cf Wading, swimming . or diving in water .of .unknown depth has been .tragically . emphasized in v^Alberta during the cmi ent heat Wave. Four boys ate df-ad because ■they did not know j.-.st . hmv deenl’J . NEW YORK; —Some Women who follow a conservative taste in shoes during three seasons of the year, in summer like tbj take a flier 4n open­ shank and toe slippers, for "street and- country .wear. The color of one's toeless and heel­ less shoes now can be matched by the soles of the stockings wofn with them. The thin toe, heel and soles of sev­ eral shades of tan stockings have been dyed the enact shade of new summer shoes in white, greu-n, fed, blue of carrot. Thits a touch of color in the hose peeps-over the shoe at the heel and shows through open straps. Therh are. also bags and gloves of. Calls Destruction Second ^Industry" ST. JOHN’S, Nfld, — "Destruction of forests” was quoted by Captain Jack Turner,. chief forestry officer for the department of natural re­ sources, as Newfoundland’s second largest industry. Pleading or prevention of forest fires,. Captain Turner said this “indus­ try’’ had robbed the island of a dol­ lar’s worth of the national Wealth for every dollar the fisheries produced. “In some parts, of| the island we have done a job of destruction thorough that it may be classed perfect,” the chief ranger said, Vising Card ’ so as ” h * . 1 • came here for the announced purpose ot breaking the guardlanship awarded-----— her sister-in-law Mx,months before. The mother's first petition to set aside the guardianship was rejected.* Later the court indicated, that she! ' might be entitled to his custody, since' her fitness had not been questioned.*. The case was postponed, the father; arrived, as “peacemaker” and 'this) flight’s conference resulted. Since iurlj-headed Freddie was" mere baby Of three, his aunt has had.' a hand in developing his dramatic ab-: * ility, relatives said. She bought him) to Hollywood in 1934, after negotiate' ing With his parents, and the excfir-1 sion into American, films resulted<1^ almost instant success fob) the lad. Miss Bartholomew has beep credit-; ed with training Freddie In his pro-) else Oxonian manner of Breech and the almost-mature dignity that helped make him a star in his first Holly­ wood role) "David Copperfield.” LONDON—Empa^ Air Day, which was= Celebrated May 23 at civil and military airdromes all over. Great^ Bri­ tain, set new record. Returns to the Air Ministry show- the total attend­ ance, of visitors was approximately $00,000, as against 140,000 last year, and net "gate receipts” aggregated $37,500. - i This was the third successive, year in Which Empire Day had been cele­ brated, and the program arranged by the various squadrons included many ingenious novelties. .Royal Air Force officers and men entered into the, spirit of the thing and devised flying and "static” exhi­ bitions which were widely appreciated. Dive-bombing, mock aerial combats, Aerobatics, individually and in forma­ tion, squadron drill air "raids,” army Co-operation work, radio telephony, parachuting, air firing and flying .in­ struction were included. .Anti-aircraft guns, searchlights and sound locators figured among the static' exhibits and members <3f the public were not only able to examine all these things at close range but to try for themselves such instruments as the latest forms of sound locator, and to watch parachutes being folded and gas drill performed. At some stations the gas chamber was shown and visitors watched air­ craftsmen wearing gas masks’ enter the chamber when it was full of tear gas. Some visitors were permitted to don gas masks and enter the chamber themselves. • Announces He Has No. Inter­ est ExcepHo Get Critical; ; issues Before People |i ------• - ' CHICAGO '-r- Former President Herbert -Hoover announced recently “I am. not a candidate” for the United States Republican presidential nomination. Mr. Hoover’s declaration of his position was contained in- a formal resume of an interview handed to reporters in the former President’s Hotel suite here. z The resume said: As to his -personal position,: Mr Hoover said:I "It should be evident by this time that I gm not a candidate. I have stated many times that I have no in­ terest but to get these critical issues before the country. “ ‘I have rigidly prevented my friends from setting, up any organ­ ization, and from presenting, my name in any primary: or to any state convention and not a single delegate, from California or any other state, is pledged.to. me.’” . * " Mr. Hoover added: "That should' end such discussion. And get one thing ^-straight—I am’ rtot opposing any of the candidates. My concern is with principles.” . In'another paragraph, he said for-” mer Governor Lowden . of Illinois “should be asked to write the agri­ cultural plank for the convention.” After discussing his. own position, Mr. Hoover went on to say: t, "The convention will be -Composed of a most unusual an^ able personnel. "The seriousness of the convention is evidenced by the fact that the large majority of the delegates are being sent'Ey the people of .the states with­ out other instructions than to find the right thing to do for the country -in-the greatest crisis we b^vetociet in two generations.” Grandma Should Work Right Into Old Age Old Ladies Should Crusade For More Common Sense . . in the World Today WASHINGTON—Carrie Chapman Catt, 77, recently challenged 1,500 countrywomen] to be peace crusaders, on into old age.' “Once, grandmothers sat in a cor. ner by the fire and knitted stockings for their grandchildren,” said silver- hdhed Mrs. Catt. "There are new duties, much more thrilling ones, for old ladies in Our time. Be a crusader, hnd leave the world with moire Com­ mon sense tha it had when you came into it.” Mrs. Catt shared honors with Sec­ retary of Agriculture Henry Wallace at the third'triennial banquet of the- . Associated Countrymen of the world, filling to capacity a huge, hotel ball­ room. Wallace, addressing the farm wo­ men, said progress in an attack <oh •thStogricuIturaf problem Is slow, "but we should not be pessimistic.’- "So far as the United Stales it concerned,” ^he said, "we0,are keenly aware that good weather might bring doWn' on us again in serious form the prdblem of over-produc-' tion.” I Bartholomews Settle Rift Ovec Child-Actor LOS ANGELES, — A pejace pact in the Barthoomew family dispute,' leaving 12-year-Old Freddie in the custody of Ills auntkjwho made him a $1,000 a-weelc star, was set in legdl phrases last week for final.ap­ proval. Under an oral agreement announc­ ed by attorneys after a long confer­ ence the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil D; Bartholomew, would share in their son’s earnings and live,, here while the aunt, Mito Myllicent Bartholomew remained In control of, his .film car­ eer. ' ’ ■ ■ , , ■ . * Issac Pacht, counsel for the parents said the written form would be ready to submit to the principals and then to Superior. Judge Harry Archibald forjfinal approval. "The father and mother would have free opportunity to visit the boy and would establish a home here for them­ selves and jtheir Other two children and resume a normal family life wi$ tliq boy." Pacht said. ''-'This does not mean that the pro­ ceeding in any sehse is an adoption by the aunt. The parents would con­ tinue to be in relationship of parents and child. ; “Freddie's oarnjiigs would he utiliz­ ed, first, for,the establishment of a trust fund fpr the boy, second, for the support and maintenance of the mother and father and the ofheri’Bvo children, and third for the support and mainteimnco of the..boy and his aunt." - . ' 'Pacht Said .details'of the . trust fund remained to be worked out-—whofi Freddie would, vecoive thC principal and what would bo done w:t-i». the in­ terest and income. ■- The cotitr|5versy' aro."./-* nimc t twor ■months £lgo4 when Mrs. Bfirtholomew ' ■' ■ - ' i / Here’s a. youthful Isun - back dress with cape that calls for the minimum of material- It is made at a surprisugly Small cost. You’ll find it so simple to sew you’ll w^nt to make two or maybe three.As pictured in sail-blue with white button trim, it answers many needs. Without, the cape, you’ll wear it ,for active sports and for sun-tanning For specta­ tor sp'orts,' wrap the cape about your shoulders and button it on at the front. . . White tub silk with contrasting Kelly preen cape and belt, is- a dasning scheme for important oc-. . casions. , • , Use the pattern again and again for the sun-back dress without the cape for beach or porch. 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