HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-12-16, Page 2Dominion News in Brief
.4,S. --The farmers of the
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pram Nies are going in more
for Mixed fanning. including con-
spicuoualy dairying and hog raising.
At the same time they are extending
their apple orch
e Industrial Development Doele
devoting Its attention to muskrat
farming in Manitoba. The queStion of
a land aurvey, food aupply and Pro-
vincial C
lament co-operation are
4 an in many! being discussed with the Deputy Min.
parts of the Valley large areas of vir- I ister of Agricultare.
gin laud are being broken up for this! Regina, Sask. - According to a
purpoae.
Istatement made by Louis Rosenburg,
Saint aehtl, N.B.-A modern fish field representative of the jewieh Col -
text year, operated by McCormick and j has a bigger proportion offarrners
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curing plant will open here in April onizetion Association, Saskataiewan
Zatzman. It will be located at Straitlamong its .Tewish -population then any
Shore.
Sherbrooke, Que,--A census just I a ttital Jewish population of 5,400
I proviace or state in the world. Out of
aompleted shows Sherbrookei.s popula- l nearly 1,500 aro permanently settled
tion to have increased in a year from"' on f
23,454 to 25,021--a gain. of 1,57.
Eanulton, Ont. -The city of Han&
ton claims the largest and most im-
portant telephone repeater station in
the Doininion, accardina to th Ch
b
Of the fourteen **wih
Farm Colonies established in Canada
eight rire located in Saskatchewan. In
1925 they marketed approximately
SKOOG bushes of wheat.
r o Commerce here, The new toll the Tar rier Valley field. has taken its
i- Calgary', AltaThe Vulcan well in
terminal equipraent is entirely new in place as one of th
design. It h
ir
ccuits passing
through Hamilton, betweea Toronto
and pints east and as far as Buffalo
and beyond, and between Toronto and
points west as far as Detroit. In ad
-
(Mien there are 194
eepest oil wells
in the world, having pealed the 5,000-
foot depth. Both oil and gas have
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been encou-nterecl but the drillers are
prepared to go 6,000 feet.
Victoria. B,C. ., record mange,
s. i s eoruposod weighing 88 pounds, has been grown
of physical and phantom, which term- by Dr. Colvert, of the "White Hous,"
inate at Hamilton. The composite Sooke River, fo/lowing,- other near -
n era, recently installad her are the • records produced onahis farm. He has
•ut in in Canada by the just sold a ton of them, consisting of
I
1100- images, averaging 20 pounds
ch of I apiece.
first to
Boll Telephone
Winnipeg, Man. -
A Canadian Economic
Commission.
ar ciranzas w. aarrEasoar.
Our nolonization problem in Canada
is, comparatively speaking eemen
ary. Money :and intelligent organize -
tion would solve it. The more difild
cult problem is bolding our rural/
popi.dation. But with greater agricul-
tural prosperity- in plain sight, even
than will be largely simplified as time.
goes on, Bet that we should, in the:
meanwhile, do everything in our pow- •
er to arrest our abnormal populationt
leak can hardly be open to argument.;
What should we do about it? The
anawer if answer there is, wo
viously. constitute a detailed an
piete chart of the economic sea
ing the safe harbors, the shoals and
the hichlen'rocks. We must, ofcourse, a
make the average rnan. i Canada -soled
contented and prosperous that ernigra-; of
tion. would have no attractions for ; th
him, which would naturaaly be the ha
THE POLITICAL CHART
Theoretically, our political le
and our public services should
out these detaii-e4,g directio
co-oprera_lari. Pleetieally„ one.
hardly imagine a more hopeless
chine for such a purpose. Demon
politics is primarily concerned
party vrelfare. Its appeal is to
great body -the least intellrigen
•
"uncornfortatitnearat& government of
the day, resulting in ereg...4kese being
sternly suppress:d. It is uridestatageti
that a mass of useful information was
gathered by this body and drastic re-
uiu were
e cn many
subjects. These are, presumably, still
on record in the dusty tomes at Ot
tawa.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT.
I may, however, be permitted to
offer the suggestion that in spite of
the fact that public policies in Canada
have always, and to a glaring sxtent,
revolved around urban interests, the
"high spots" in our economic riddle
will not be found in our tOWZIS and
cities, but in our countr •-
troubles would admittedly be over if
uld ob- I
Canada could to -day boast of a rea- ons loss among game and barnyard ten pounds in weight and seven Pheas-
d com-lsonably sef-contained and prosperous fowl. Among the heaviest losers has ats. A fiock of blue and snow geese
been George liebden Conan senior, I are shown at the top. The inset sho
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GREAT HORNED OWLS KILL FIVE GEESE AND SEVEN PHEASANTS IN TWO DAYS
Ontario great horned owls are num- owner of the Echo Valley Game Farm
• 1 our tricts it erous M the Toronto suburban dis- CoIslington Within two days Mx.
and are causing seri- Cornet lost five ble geese averaging
shove- !
agriculture, producing and consuming
on double the present scale. That such
situation couldbrought about
thin a limited.term of years admits
no argunient whatever. We have
o "rnanless land," elsewhere - they
ave the "landless men." The task of
inging them togeth '
goal of all rational statesmanship.
br
merely a
question of intelligent busiesa inazi_ito the number of
States, Australia, and Canada
riders: agement and agricultural prosperity ta 1.40 gathered in work! is in theng. If the average Can -
as in/ adian could create a state of mind
•eanaasbach...nwaralela eenscientiously regard
ma -1 this. task- as the strOreme responsibility
retie I of his government, not omitting to
with articulate his convictions, the thing is
the: done.
t of
Successful Meeting Ornitho- !Men Make Best Cooks
• British Novelist Claims
Reed presentative bird -lovers from the London. -Men are more interested
logisb Union.
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voters. It is swayed this way and
that way by popular prejudice. Poll- I Geo
ties is coneerned Nvith h d
p yc o ogy
and mass hysteria. Political leaders
frequently -perhaps generalli-know
what should be done in the best inter-
est of the country,
uninformed whie
mass opinion dictates policy in the ffigh
end. As to the public service -our! int°
bureaucracy -it has in its multitude
of watertight compartments all the t.
tain t
detailed data we may need to form in- nue
telligent conclusions on economic trade
questions and it contains within its
ranks may brilliant and resourceful
technical men, but co-operation and
team work -the conference spirit -is
totally lacking. •
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED.
We did, however; once upon a tirae,
actually make a gesture designed to
get below the surface and to attempt
to make an intelligent survey of Can-
ada's economic situation from which,
presumably, public policies might have
been formulated and placed before the
country, backed by the very consider-
able prestige naturally attached to a
program worked out by a non-politicaI
body of able men, many of them of na-
tional reputation, giving their services
gratuitously and solely from motives of,
public spirit. 1 refer to the late, Ia-
el-tented "E •
vvhich, after gathering a vast amount "First
Lo
this of a new property deal by
It an imposing raansion in Buck -
'm Palace Road will be converted
an office building it appears cer-
hat King George within a short
will be surrounded entirely by
srnen and professional men.
rge V. to Have Office
Building as Neighbor
ndona--With Vie -announcement
r the meeting of the American
Ornithelogists Union in the Victoria
Memorial Museaun 'during the four days
October 11 to 14. The opening day
was devoted to the business of the
the recent elections
Union and the election-pf officers •
woman should ever be captain of a The Times says: "The people of the
. enner, who contends that no '
Dr. Alex Wtmore, Assistant Secre- ship, as the 'sea is too masculine an United States are in the full enjoy-
_ ..3" o discuss
tary- of the Smithsonian Istitute, eiemena No woman, he goes on ment of a period of extraordinary
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Wahingto, Distriet of Colubia, was
should. ever be in charge of an auto- prosperity and wealth, diffusedMore
elected president for the &neting year.
matic rad' 'drill, or a steam crane, or widely among all classes than in any
The other principal officers of the a battery of howitzers; no •vvoman ether country or at any other time.
'Union are: vice -residents, Dr. Joseph should ever be a soldier, sailor, tinker They are content with the felicity of
Grinnll, Berkley California, and Mr. tramp, professional wrestler driver or their condition, and contentment dis-
James H. Fleming, Toronto, Ontario;
boileraker. But Eipart froin these inclines men to large changes in the
seoreterY, Mr: T. S. Palmer Wahing- th world f h eff
e wor o Inman ort is open to system under which they. are happy
ton; treasurer, Mr. W. L. McAtee, the woman worker. and under which they know themselves
Washington.
"And I for one," says the author t't). be PP
ha y. This period may be tran-
The next fares days were taken up "only hope they will get on with it in sient, and some of its financial arid
with papers on different phases of bird lerge numbers." economic foundations are insecure in
peqteetion and one of the most i
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portant resolutions passed
anciers and students, as well as in that , Farmer (proudly showing off his
the judgment of many Araerican fin -
Has Sufficient Ships • ofEutiot npoean exPaerts. ipig)-srfes, sir, that is te catest li
to Protect 13ritzs. h in China popular electorate is likely tle 1-ig I have and I've naraed him
to listen to the prophets -of evil, how- Ink.
/.. Visitor -"How's that?"
the pen."
in food and therefore make the best
cooks, declares Norman Venner, nove
ist, in "The London Soroptirnist," offi-
cial organ of the Soroptimist Club.
"No woman should ever be a cook,
as men manage much better, being
more interested in things to eat,"
at •
the Gulf of the St. Lawreta
rig
miles' and with width abou
great, yet thie is one of Cana
picture,sque and oldest regio
great resourceg of timber,
game and minerals.
The peninsula may be sal
historically, the oldest part of
for it was on its shores near
of Gaspe that Jacques Cartier
year 1534, landed and dein
country for4his sovereign, the
France. Although the first di
• ed part of Canada, the penin
• sti,1 largely covered with pi
forest.
There being ao roads or ra
aero se the peninsula, direct con
cation between the settlements
north and those in the south do• e
exist. The lack of reeds from
to souili is, of couese, accounte
by the chain of Shickshock nion
which are very rugged and run
2,000 to more than 4,000 fe
• height. The Quebec Provincial
of Roads will shortly open a hi
which will run completely aroun
peninsula.
The population of the two G.
coasts is quite different, Along
north coast the people' are ma
French Canadians of the "habit
type. Along the south shore the
dian French are in the majority,
though here kind there is found
out Mt° SelentleVe 'Remarkeible Theo
0 !or 150 11 JJ
ry.
many
t days
dur-
end
sten `
the
"Pile
Mrs,"
at•it
earth
ntly
ore
tion
leer
the
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da's most • 1:11 the smoa;nr rail die: wiesaIrevetaledsia,:;
fisheries, 'poets and lovers have, praised it
ros with things in its time. From ancleo
King of Wonder and the Gloa7 of the S
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d to be, now a scientist tells. us! tit .la net
Canada, but a or•aolied. suowball. with ''tt
1,1eirtIvIlhe'll imPitarofeersotTiluorbe% who advauces
ied the theorY in hie Interesting book, '
Seover- and et no time does he °ladle th
sula is ts feet-dealer:ea thet when the ea
coeval i serost oil; aa finlaanaltitag figctattrualnlritaaVaa0;1
Ilway4 i the surface of the sun, a large por
ununi-• of it broke awed, and found a 2
in the home in the, armament. This wae
s not moon, Which ocole.c1 more quickly- th
duo LI . ttli 114: pelerautleit, v.eiTinelorl ,tco-nidaoyetetz, .wathelllelei,atze t
ntains tenaperatifeakeet the moon may• be
front low as• that et (liquid air.
Dvtepitn- I . 'By a omperison• of densities it
A Record Bang.
hwaY bean; proved that "the moon oontaia
d the , manor times more water•than th
ant th: ,irroeiame:titnete:::bytao.einti: v:etmootellaen 1:117ealbselegle
asPe to .cool. it wee merely a rooky ooze
see
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Ina:: faoe et the waterY.glehe which, With
fourtottohefivooeti jihiuttiged,riletercl eaistrild:de an,
Aca- lea leaar was farmed ou the outer slur
the t•he passing of oenteries, became, thick. -
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habitant who has drifted in from ot
parts of the province. The two...diff
'in .both' language and customs; a
rule the habitant is agrieultural wh
the Acadian is a fisherman. Sett
ments of Scotch and Irish are also
be found, sharply marked off fr
eaelt other and from their Fren
. ennaking neighl2Es.,e, AenatlierainaK*
I ant grohl on the southern and easter
coasts of Gaspe are the jersey an
Eons been fishermen on these coast
her er and thicker. The increasing layers
er '' of ice on the outside gradualisr coin -
sea 1"peessed the water inside the shell.
;461 The process was slaw, but the, re,
Le- suit inevita.bla The moon exploded !
to That is to say, the water surrounding
om the rooky .core Murat through its ley
.1.,,-,I seam, at its weakest point, and hurle,d
tint:440gs oratforow—ef.
n oceans as big as tho Aveintic
thousands of miles into the air. Rao-
"' water that r
Guernseypeople who have for genera
In fact, from the point of vi
angua
rat bine goose victim surrounded one of
by traps to catch the owls. The lows? ada.
picture shows Mr. Corson with, a fe-
male great horned owl. Two owls have
been captured but the one above kill Ter...
na
ate her companion.
rac
ge and folklore, Gaspe form
the most unique parts of Can
1 hug thus, relieved the pressure, the
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The Self.
keel ,skin clothed in the torrid
mist
puffs in smoke aliened the pa -
Mixt hooves,
uglanan drives, a slow sem-
mbulist,
thro•agli the green his crimeon
mow grooves.
e inside in,s.tantIy
froze, and the inioon became for all
sitime a solid planet formed of ice foot'
- huaideed miles thick around a beige •
long shining white itreaks that stretch
1
. rocky bale.
. - This tremendous eixplosion was un- •
doubtedly a reddetber event in the hie -
Itory of the moon. Its effects can still
be traced with even the cheapest tele-
I. scopes. First therre is the some of the
explcsicn. This, according to .the
Itheory, was at the °rater called Tycho,
whith eau he recognized near the up -
:cc araroeuesf,,thhoeal Toou. jatAlesiell,litfid,,tometuthicar,
in places aaraSs the entire surface of
the moon. • These are the huge ceacits
caused when T
That
The plc
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And
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BRITISH VIEW OF
THE UNITED STATES
Detachirient from tlie Outside
World, Press Says, Cannot
Long Endure.
London -The 'United States' inde-
pendence of world conditions is feat-
ured in British newspapers, which
have at last begun r•
ou
Ls heart, more deeply than he wounds
the plain
Long by the rasping. share of insult
torn,
Red clod, to whieli the war -cry once
was rain• . I.
" And tribal spears the fatal sheaves/
ot eern, •
Liee- fallow now. But as the turf di-. I
vides
gave eay and the
water goefhed up from below. Any
siatee who leas had the mis•fortune to
crack the ice on a. peed hese forined
miniature Tycho crater with its star- •
i•ke streak
Hailstones ssaleteraS-Ev-e'rest
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'Ph. •
I see In the slow progrees of his
.e.trieles
eur .a.stroaromer may well
Over the toppled clears and falling
• ask: What becarne Of the e:ceaas of
flower's water that were shot into the ale?
The timeles's, surely Patleace the' carious pack -marks; its, and ringed
Serf Al•so, how does one acoount to tbe
That mores the nearest to the nakeel
I craters that appear oa the moos ar-
1 'face? Accerding to Profes-or Forbes
. earth
the answer to the first question' sup-.
A.nd pipers down palaces end thrones plies the clue to the se,ond. When.
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and towers. ..
the water: was shot from the moon it
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Black and WRit°Y when the foroe of the explosion was
Campbell.
spent, fell. back agate like a gigantic
froze into solid blocks" of toe Which,-
aeleterm. Some of these "hailstones"
'were as large as Mount Everest, others
as small es. rain -drops. a Wliere thetY
fell they niade, the holies and threw up
the ringed °ratans of .lee and snow
that eau now be seen.
A. simple experiment will show how
this was effected If .0.10 throws down
a hard enowball upon. a aow-oov
board
erly Buckingham Palace was any general eeraPaigt against ha
eprec
the centre of the fashionable residen- 1 or owls and protested the use of
tial district of the West End, but the I Word "vemin" in reference to tie
King has bean losing his neighbors two species. • .
cial interests have encroached almost bees dueing the meetings at the
• rapidly in recent months as cornmer- Luncheon was served to the rue
up to the palace gates. The King's I seum and through the courtesy of
new neighbors now include the head. Department of the ' Interim. buff
quarters of the Boy Scouts, the Girl meat was included in the menu. Th
Guides and the Imperial Refence treat, which was supplied from t
College, as well as cookery experts and great herd, in Buffalo National park
pupils, the sanitation authorities and Wainwright, Albeta, was greatly e
a school for dress designers loYed by the delegates.
............___+_____-.... Official field excursions were co
Good Guesser. ducted after the business of the m.ee
• A lady engaged a new gardener, and Kingsmere on October 15. Some of th
ing vrad finishd, the first being t
out among the towers. Seeing the
after breakfast one day she sauntered excursionists had the pleasure of in
new man hard at work, she said: specting the gardens of the Prim
Mi•nister, the RL Hon curable W. L
and how is my Sweet Wildia,ra IvIacicenzie King, who had kindly
lug?"
opened his grounds for this oeca.sion
rate, thanks, ma'am," replied. An excursion to Blue Sea lake in the
of the spade. "But how did
my name?" • Laurentian highlands was attended by
thirty-nine membrs.
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The next meeting of the 'Union win
be held In Washington D.C., in the fall
of 1927.
ated
-arks
the
ese
Mu -
the
alo
is
he
at
non= Commission," this raorn
o vital information, for Sonne reason the man
that has never been explained to the you knew
public, failed to complete its labor and
make a report. I am credibly inform -i The lees
ed that its preliminary findings were the face o
MUTT AND
Mu!
tAieRe's
MY
c conies?
t art: Painting a smile upon
f a child,
JEFF—By Bud Fisher.
(5-1. TAILeee cALLED
Tis agoieto/NG Ateb,
Gatlue tkiEPA To
HIM rr• te
DY- etEANED,
JEFF!
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Londonrd has come from Vice- 'informed.- They will not 'listen unless "'Cause be always running out of
lever eminent and howeVer wel
clair, of the British, China station, that sere
Admire/ Sir Edwyn Alexander -Sin -1 and until they begin to fel the pros -
he believes he has sufficient strength facts in their own persOnal affairs.
of economic laws and economic
to protect British lives. 'If and when that day shotild come,
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to the Admiral telling him, ."If you! The, Manchester' Guardian is more her family
.101 73,1 reatenesg aarl stetfrigar:h
oirl Makes Eakin P r.
Among Norway's successful busa
P 0 land exercise their elector:InfPrarengrchailloTheeewns
rop to mak-
e message while speaking at Brom- even in 'eff years,' with a new sense: ing baking powder from a recipe that
ley. He said the Admiralty- had replied wao4dxne teen who
.1of interest and of responsibil" has been f ecret
haven't enough weevil] do our best to; expliCia part alto th " •
send you further reinforceents"
Adiniraty, announced the
'W. C. Bridgman First Lord of the they will scrutinize 1 •
What About Wrong Numbr?
, it says •
from such disruptive forces as pro- Just Like That.
fundamentalisin or Ku Klux The newlyweds had znoved into
Kla, tee may expect to see .perhaps home near a r
by the tinie the ne t
ere is a hem, of wateliniakers erl,„, the evidence.. of complicated, "Mope trains do make a great dea
ent elect -i trait). rutribled by the bride said:
• As, the . fif
give a. guarantee that the owder Mak political' parties
Paris who, with every- watch they sellal changee strong eneUgh to force the' of noise, don't tl 9"
be, telephoned free of h
th
ew forms and "Oh, after the firet few days ye
to get up in the morning; remierled Nor,eagain; is it conceivable that the "Then let's
ge and. told with feeskmethods of popular appeal,' won't mind it," replied the husbaud.
and have the right t
by telephon,e of urgent appointments; !American elect r t •
op Ono Ray fpresent remarkable detaehment from
an maintain its arat few days"
e•xact tim•e!
hour of the day or night and ask the I and indifference to the concerns of the. II;ppines
• outside world "
• mother's for the
s at work comes from
• ' • working, not shirking.
•That's Carrying the DecePtion- Top Far. •
you BIG FoOL:
Domir you Kroft.
11:1AT is The -
MO/ TiAT
own'?
tow Not otv
11 -1A -c t«s sk.)ir we've
Iib so letecei Foe)
SINCE YouR
tuvasketzs RAve
sHAveb OFF?
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eyed
the bale "burets," leaving a
solid cone sur.rou.ndd by a. circular
ridge of snow threwn up by the force
of the impact.
Professor Forbes anticipates the
c,ritiient that if the moot were a enow
and toe planet the intense heat of the
sun would surely melt its mouataints
and high ridgee He, eaplaieeth is away
by the feet that in intensel•y celd
areas, such as th.
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does not melt, but evaporates in teoade
a &yea, sziow
of vapcae Thie would accouut for &o
blurred patches seeo at periods oil the
'nos eerie
ewhih spine astrono.
fatten.
niers have thought to be areas of ve.ge-
To the Point.
A scleel (eaeleer had found one by
reluctar, fp writing compoiltions At
last she conceived a great idea!? She
Would have„ him write an acent of a'
ball game
It seemed that she .Wati SUCOOsaful,
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for the paper was headed in promptly.
It road: "Raln---..n0 game."
Willing Hepr, ,.
Mother busy knitting) ----"Tee, now,
you've made me drop a etith"
Was Two -Yeses (lookiee around .
it"
clew 47) -`Ill find lelethr, Ill and
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Had a Good Job. .
The fan boaeer of en F,g-yptian
Pheraoh reeked as a high eftecial,
Battle Target Ashore.
A. 100 -foot batble praoticeoaret used
Lor warship firing was washed 170 bY
the sea on the Firth of Forth coaet.
Artificial wool is being manufactur-
ed from wood. •
In Northern biberia sorne natives
aro reported ter'praetioe a form of
hibernaton, Keeping dneteg the win.
•tkr lor etitys at a titaQ.
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