HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-3-3, Page 4JURY ACQUITS REV. J. 0, L, SPRACKLIN
IN M ANSLAUGTER TRIAL
Sandwich Jury Brings in 'Vo rdict ,of "Not Guilty" After
Fifty -Seven Minutes' Defib eratiort•--Charge A1'ose Out
of Shooting of Beverley Tn mble, Proprietor of
the Chappell House, on November 6th Last.
A despatch from Sandwich says:- 1'rerieus to the annonneoment,
After flfty-seven minutes deliberation
the jury returned u verdict proe
nouneirig Rev. J, 0, I,. Spr'acicl]n,
Pastor of Sandwich Methodist
Church and former speetai .liquor
license inspector "not guilty" of
the charge of manslaughter aris-
ing out of the shooting of Beverley
Tremble, .proprietor of the Chappell
House, here during a raid on Nevem-
bee 6th last. Thus carne to a close
the trial which commenced 'before Sir
William Mulock, at the Essex County
Spring Assize Oourt here, The judge's
ehar'ge to the jury was concluded
shortly after two o'clock mid they
left to comngenee their deliberations
et 2.18. They returned to the court
room at exactly 87.5 o'clock and an-
nounced their finding in two words:
"Not Guilty." No comment of any
kind was attached to the finding by
the jury nor made by 'His Lordship:'
Chief Justice Mulock iasued an em-
phetie warnime that any demonstr'a-
tion•en thepertf the s ect tors
Lions o p a
would be treated as contempt of
court and the offenders prornptly
placed under arrest, As a cense-
fluence, the only evidence of the su-
pressed excitement prevalent were
the scarcely audible sighs of relief
from Mr, Spraeklhi'a 'sympathizers.
Mr. Spracl+'lin at once stepped from
the prisoner's .dock a free man, stop-
ping only to shake heeds with his
lawyers, he left the courtroom des-
tending to the main floor of the
Courthouse, be voiced his relief in the
words "Thank God 'it's all over." In
the sheriff's office he was surrounded
by relatives and friends who. tendered
their congratulations. • Asked if he
intended to resume his work as license
inspector, he replied, "I'm not saying,
as a matter of fact I have made ab-
solutely no plans."
Now Senator from Nova Scotia,
John Stanfield, Just appointed to the
Senate. . He entered the House of
Commons in 1.107 and was chief -.whip
of the Conservative party for about
eight years.
Ef'f'ect of Research on. the
Life of the Province.
Besides its human inhabitants, the
resources of any country consist
fundamentally in its farms, its for-
ests, its mines, and its waters. To
show a little of what the University
of Toronto is doing for the Province
a selection has been made from the
long list of problems now under in-
vestigation and those problems select-
ed (less than one-sixth of the com-
plete list) have been classified ac-
cording to the basic industries bene-
fited.
The Farm -Wheat rust; poisonous
seeds in feeds; character of soils; oc-
currenee- of sand and gravel beds;
purification of water supply; seed
germination. (.4.11 this is entirely
apart from the work being done at
the Ontario Agricultural College).
The Forests -Needle blight in white
pine; reforestration; increased utili-
tbation of timber; pulp and paper;
timber diseases; canker on maple and
poplar; wood preservation; plant
breeding and improvement. The Mine
-Ore deposits; manufacture of ,brick;
smelting of iron; rust -proof coatings,;
mineral deposits; ore separation;
paraffin oil. The Waters -Rate of
growth of fish; the herring in Lake
Erie; inayfliesi breeding of fish:
Research benefits the basic resourc-
es of the Province; but specialized in-
dustry and the welfare of the people
are not overlooked. Omitting, again.
the more technical problems now
under research and selecting only a
few from the list, eome additional ex-
amples aro given. Specialized Indus-
try -Growth of yeast cells; heating of
liquids; rubber; concrete beans;
transformers; . aeroplanes; electric
currents in arc lights; sugar. ir1nea-
tion-Methods of teaching; assimila-
tion and education of immigrants; re-
tardation of pupils; elimination; in-
telligence tests. Medicine -Whooping
cough; rickets, diphtheria; influenza;
pneumonia; electrlc currents in thera-
peutics; blood supply and brain ac-
tivity; bone formationf kidney dis-
eases. Household Science -Misbrand-
ing of textile fabrics in shops; adul-
teration of silk fabrics; malnutrition
in children; use and dietetic value of
so-called egg substitutes,
Canada has a Government Air
Force, under an Air Ministry; also a
large training camp at Camp Borden,
Ontario. Thirty private aviation com-
panies had been formed up. to the
fall of 1920. Aeroplanes are being
used for private and commercial par -
poses, especially by lumber and other
companies, for prospecting and ex-
ploring and fire ranging,
Manitoba Physicians
Under Suspension
A despatch from Winnipeg
says :-Sixteen Manitoba physi-
cians have been suspended for
periods ranging from one week
to six months, as a result of -the
wholesale issuance of prescrip-
tions for whiskey as a beverage,
Council of the College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons for Manitoba
announced on Thursday.
One of the doctors suspended
gave 10,000 prescriptions during
i a one-month period, according to
testimony obtained by a special
' committee of enquiry -appointed
by the council. Twelve of the
physicians practice in Winnipeg.
l insurance Benefit
A despatch from London says: -
In the House of Commons clueing the
debate on the Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, the Government, in response
to urgent representation by the
Laborites, agreed to increase the in-
surance benefit from 18 to 20 shill-
ings for men and 16 shillings for wo-
men.
to be Increased
WiII Try to Have Embargo Removed.
Hon, Manning Doherty, Minister of
Agriculture M the Ontario Govern-
ment, who le leaving shortly for Eng-
land, where he will endeavor to have
the British Government remove the
embargo an Canadian cattle,
Britain Won't Consider
Sale of West Indies
A despatch from London says: -
The Foreig-n Office has announced
that the attitude of the British Gov-
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TO KEEP THINGS MOVING
The Leading Markets, League Embarrassed
Regarding Mandates
Toronto.
Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern,
$1.93%•$1.8l%. No. 2 Northern, $1.90%' No.
3 Northern, $1.86%; No. 4 wheat,
Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 50%c;
No, 8 CW, 46%e;. extra No. 1 feed,
46%c; No. 1 feed, 441%%e; No. 2 feed,
41%c.
Manitoba barley -No, 3 CW, 85%e;
No. 4 CW, 70%c; rejected, 601.4oi
feed, 00%c.
All above in store Fort William.
Ontario wheat-F.o.b. shipping
points, according to freights outside.
No. .2 spring, $1.75 to $L80; No. 2
winter, $1,86 to $L90; No. 2 goose
wheat, $1.70 to $1.80. -
American corn -Prompt shipment,;
No. 2 yellow, track, Toronto, 90c.
Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 47 to
49c, according to freights outside.
Barley -Malting, 80 to 85c, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Ontario flour -Winter, prompt ship-
ment, straight run bulk, seaboard,
$8.50.
Peas -No. 2, $1.50 to 31.60, outside.
Manitoba flour -Track, Toronto:
First patents, 310.70; second patents,
310.20.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 95e to 31.
Rye -No. 2, nominal; No. 3, $1.50
to 31.55.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered, To-
ronto freights, bags included. Bran,
per ton, 340; shorts, per ton, 388;
white middlings, 341; feed flour, 32.40.
Cheese -New, large, 80 to 31e;
twins, 31 to 32c; .triplets, 3141 to
32%c; old, large, 32 to 360; do, twins,
321 to 35%c.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to
50c; creamery, No. 1, 65 to 59c; fresh,
68 to 61c.
Eggs -New ]aids, 47 to 48c; new
laid, in cartons, 49 to 51c.
Beans -Canadian hand-picked, bus.,
$3.75 to 34; prunes, 33 to 33.50; Ja-
pans,
apans, 8c; Limas, Madagascar, 10%c;
California Limas, 12%c.
Maple products -Syrup, per imp.
gal., 33,40 to 33.50; per 6 imp. gals.,
33.25 to 38.40. Maple sugar, lb., 20
to 25c.
Honey -60 and 30-1b. tins, 22 to
24c per lb.; Ontario comb honey, at
3.7.50 per 15 -sec. case; 5 and 21/2 -lb.
t, 23 to 25c per lb.
Smoked meats -Hams, med., 37 to
41c; heavy, 37 to 390; cooked, 53 to
55c; rolls, 32 to 33c; cottage rolls, 35
to 86e breakfast bacon, 44 to 47c;
fancy breakfast bacon, 53 to 56e;
backs, plain, bone in, 47 to 50c; bone-
less, 51 to 55e.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 27
to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27c.
Lard -Pure tierces, 21 to 2135c;
tubs, 21% to 23c; pails, 21 to 22%c;
prints, 2231, to 23c. Shortening,
tierces, 14 to 1431,c; tubs, 14% to 15c;
pails, 14s to 15%c; prints, 151,8 to
16c.
Choice heavy steers. 39 to 310;
good heavy steers, $8.50 to 39; hut-
ches' cattle, choice, 38.75 to 39.75; do,
good, $7.50 to 38.60; do, med., $6 to
37; do, corn., 34 to $6; butchers' bulls,
choice, 37 to $7,50; do, good, 36 to 87;
do, corn., 34 to $5; butchers' cows,
choice, $7.50 to 38; do, good, $6.25 to
7; do, com., $4 to 35; feeders, 37.76
o $8.75; cls, 900 lbs., 37.25 to 38.26;
o, 800 lbs., 36.75 to 36.75 do, con.,
5 to $6; canners and cutters, 33 to
4.50; milkers, good to choice, 385 to
;120; do, corn. to med., 350 to 360;
choice springers, 390 to 3130; lambs,
earlings, 39 to $9.50; do, spring,
11.50 to $12.60; calves, good to
hoice, $14.50 to 316.50; sheep, 37 to
7.60; hogs, fed and watered, 314.25
o x14.50; do, weighed off cars, 14.5
i_o $14,75; do, f,o,b., 313 25 to 318,50; c
do, country points, $13 to$13 25
.ernment with regard to suggesticsss t
that Great Britain turn over the West d
Indies to the United States in return! 1
for cancellation of war debts has not:
changed from that of a year ego, at!'
which time the Prime Minister, Mr.+ y
Lloyd George, declared Great Britain 1 $
had not the slightest intention of) c
bartering or selling any part of the $
West Indies. t
That statement was made in com-
menting on the resolution introduced
in the United States Senate by Sen-
ator James A. Reed of Missouri con-
cerning possible negotiations for such
an exchange of the British West In-
dies for the wiping out of Britain's
debt to the United States.
V�ithdraw Troops
From Holy Land
A deepatch from Paris says: -
The French. and Italian military
forces still in Palestine :were with-
drawn at the 'beginning of March in
accordance with the terms: of the Brie
tish mandate over Palestine.
A despatch from Paris says:
-According to La'Liberte the
League of Nations has been
placed in an embarrassing posi-
tion on'the subject of mandates.
"The terrible embarrassment
of the league is shown," says the
paper, "by the fact that it must
either reconsider the whole man-
date question or adhere to all
previous decisions. By recon-
sidering the mandates Britain
and Japan will be offended and
by adherence to the decisions the
United States will be alienated
from the league."
UPHOLDS MILITARY
- POWER IN IRELAND
King's Bench in Dublin De-
cides That State of War
Exists.
A despatch from Dublin says: -
The Ring's Bench, composed of the
Chief Justice and four other Judges,
rendered an important decision on
Thursday in a case involving the pow-
ers of the military. ,The Judges un-
animously decided that a state of war
existed and that the military had full
power to deal with the insurrection
without interference 'by .the civil
courts,
Dublin Castle announced that at
Bandon, where there is a strong gar-
rison of troops, a raid was conducted
Thursday night by armed men, who
shot dead a Black and Tan constable
and wounded another and carried oft
two naval wireless operators and two
soldiers. The wireless men were later
released, but the soldiers were found
shot dead. Mary Bowles, 13 -year-old
girl, who was captured in County
Cork carrying a machine gun and
was armed with a revolver, was sen-
tenced by court-martial to detention
in a reformatory until sho is 19 years
old.
In the general order issued alluding
to the killing of two soldiers at Ban-
don and three at Woodford, Galway,
Tuesday, General Sir Nevil. Mac-
Cre. dy, the military commander in
Ireland, says there is no doubt that
these cringes constituted deliberate at-
tempts to exasperate the troops and
tempt then to break the bonds of
discipline.
"The Commander -in -Chief," says
the order, "expects the troops, even
in the face of provocation such as
would not be indulged in by the wild-
est savages of central Africa, to
maintain the discipline for which the
arniy is justly proud,,"'
FRANCE PREPARED
I TO ENFORCE DEMANDS
Plans Completed for General
Mobilization and Invasion
I A despatch from Paris says:-
' Anticipating the German refusal of
the indemnity tersos agreed upon by
the allies at Paris, it is reported that
the French general staff has prepared
omplete plans• for a general mabili-
ation and inv si n of G
a o Germany, prob-
bly by way of Frankfort.
All leaves for the French army
ave been cancelled for several days.
oldiers guarding the public buildings
have been replaced by Republic
guards.
Conditions in'Europe were given
more tension by the declaration from
Poland that a "state of war" exists
there, martial law having been de-
clared on account of anticipated dis-
orders at the forthcoming plebiscite
in Upper Silesia.
Accidents kill 20,000 children under
14 years of age in the United States
every year..
of Germany.
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Montreal.
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Oats -Can. 'Vest. 2 0. 2,
West, J69c;do'
No. 3, 65c, Flour, 1VIan. sprng heat h
patents, firsts, 310.70. Rolled oats, S
bag, 90 lbs., $3.40. Bran, $38.25 to
$40.25. Shorts, 36.26, Hay, No. 2,
per ton, ear lots, $24 to $26.
Cheese -Finest easterns, 28 to
28%c. Butter -Choicest creamery, 53
to 63%c. Eggs -Fresh, 48c.
Butcher steers, med., 3626 to $7;
corn., 5 to $6; butcher heifers, coin.,
36 to $6.25; butcher cows, med., 34 to
36; canners, $2 to $2.50; cutters, 33
to $3.75; butcher bulls, good, $7; com,
$4 to 36; good veal, $11 to $14; med.,
$10 to $11; grass, 36; ewes, 35 to $7;
lambs, good, $12; hogs, off ear
weights, selects, $14 to 315.50.
The First Person,
Why should Any man alive stet
end ewell with satisfaction because of
any doing of his own? l:Te cannot go
many blocks along a street without
passing or meeting his betters, Some
plain mam he would not look at-
siiripls, . humble, reticent ---has per-
ferrned deeds without a trumpet acid
with no bruiting of Isis name, and the
deeds were more deserving of praise
than anything the egoist narrates of
himself,
Familiarity, the adage tells us,
breeds contempt. erupt. .How is it, then,
that we live err this elese and continu-.
ons society 01 ourselves and will find
ourselves likeable characters? Know-
ing who we are, how can we pretend
to superior virtue? How can we hold
Aur heads on high above our fellows
and eall cureelves holier than those
who never advertise their merit?
If a man tells the truth about him-
self for the salve of proving' human
fellowship in error -if he confesses
his own mortal weakness for the com-
fort of fallible ethers -if he sets 'forth
the circumstantial biography to help
and to lift those thee: aro down, what
he speaks or writes of himself floes
not incur the reproach of immodest
parade or fatuous exhibition. If he
utters .his story with the purpose of
an auto -coronation in glory, he offers
an odious spectacle, which the rest of
us shun as we would the .pestilence.
When two egotists meet the en-
counter. is comedy or tragedy, as It is
viewed. Each wants to tall of him-
self; each resents the role of listener.
The complete egotist thinks no con-
versation good unless it is virtually
his • monologue. He cannot bear to
have his hearer disagree. No trait is
more displeasing to hips, however,
than his mock -modesty. He wants
praise, greedily, but when you feed it
to him he puts it by with a rmirking
self -depreciation that he does not for
a moment mean. For he has a very
pretty opinion of all his fancied apti-
tudes and accomplisbnrents, and he
does not intend to have the picture
damaged in transit through a world of
harsh and jarring contacts.
If a man thinks in terms of the
first person, he is forever putting him-
self in the lead, not by merit, but by
the angle of the elbow which is his
habitual angle of approach. When he
has violently broken into the place he
chooses, he cares nothing for the rest.
He does not ask what becomes of
those who had not the strength nor
the voice to assert themselves. If
they perish, what is that to him? The
fittest survive, and he represents the
fittest.
But it is not those who fight for
their own promotion and care nothing
for the racial advance who are the
loved and honored of mankind.
Not a Sack of Flour Lost,
in his report presented
of Commons, James Stewart, of the
Canadian Wheat Board, staWd that of
more than 7,000,000 bags of flour
handlednot a bag was lost through
deterioration or not being accounted
fol•,
to the House
Aircraft to Bombard Seven
Miles Away.
A French inventor, Louis Demblanc,
has applied for a patent on an.inven-'
tion that will enable aircraft to bom-
bard points from a distance instead of
merely dropping explosives from
above as heretofore.
By this new device, which is to be
attached to an aerial projectile, 1t Is 1
possible from an altitude as great as
6,000 yards to reach accurately tar- t
gets seven or eight miles away, thus „
destroyipg vital points without sub-
jecting eircraft to concentrated enemy
fire,
Letter Er OM London
'dhe Prince of 'Wales has just been
appointed Colonel -in -Chief of the Saa-
forth highlanders. This maims the
tenth regi
mea wi
thli
s 1H
Roya igh-
ness at its head, Thu cost of. ten
different uniforms 10
no small putter
these days, and the amount paid by
the Prince for kit Mono must run well
into four figures.
* * * *
I noticed the other afternoon when
1 saw Pr7110s1> Mary at a charity
function that she was not wearing A
single jewel, When taking tea size
Leek of her gloves, and not a ring
was visible, 1 am told she considers
jewels a little showy, Sine sometimes
wears them at home, and they suit
her admirably.
* * *
Although the Prince of Wales has
his business advisers he always has
-his own say, and is emphatic on the
point that no one is to be incon-
venienced In order that his posses-
sions may return larger incomes. But
his Royal Highness was never so in-
dignant as when it was suggested that
Kennington Oval might be sold for
building purposes to yield an annual
rental between three and four thou-
sand a year instead of seven hundred
pounds odd. "I' will never consent to
the people's pleasure being interfered
with," he said.
* * * *
The Prince, I am told, has a very
sweet tooth: Only the other day I
saw him come out of the Bath Club
and pop a chocolate into his mouth
as soon as he had told the chauffeur
where he wanted to go. He -inherits
his love for sweetmeats from his
grandmother, Queen Alexandra, who
always had boxes of mixed sweets• in
every room she used at Sandringham,
and still has special cream fondants
made for her in the Royal kitchen,
One member of the Royal Family
regards the cinema not only as a
power but also as a real recreation,
Queen Alexandra has -private cinema
shows at Marlborough House. Lists
and descriptions of all the trade
shows are supplied to her, Ana if oho'
tapes a fancy to a film she has a
private view of it at Markboreugh
House for heeeelf and her friends,
* * *
Not many peopio remember °how
the Duice of Connaught Was in the
'sixties Asked to aecopt the Throne
of Greece. Bad it not 9id'en for the
opposition of the great Continental
Powers at that time he might have
been can the Throne of that troubloue
country at present,
* * * *
31 is not generally known, I think,'
that the American Ambassador to the
Court of 51. James's does not actually
live at the Embassy in Grosvenor
Gardens. He is forced to rent a phi-
vete house somewhere' in the vicinity,
and it is there that his social recep-
tions aro held.
A story Is told of Mr. Whitelaw
Reid,'who was Ambassador about ten
Years ago. A police officer late one
evening found a man walking anxi.
ouely up and down the pavement in
Grosvenor Gardens. The policeman'
said sharply, "Move on, my man.'
Haven't you got a home?" "No,",
came the simple reply, "I have nor
home. I am the American Ambas-
sador."
* * * *
During the war the number of non-
swimmers in the Navy, among both:
officers and men, was very noticeable.)
I am glad to see that the naval
authorities have been making inquir..
les, with the result that it has been
decided to reintroduce the pre-war
swimming tests. To carry these out
successfully a man must swim eighty
yards suitably elothed for the exer-
cise, and then another forty yards
fully dressed,
* * * *
A naval friend was telling mo
something I did not know before,
which is that every ship carries a
horseshoe for luck. This has been a
fetish with the Navy ever since the
day when Nelson nailed a horseshoe
to the mast of the Victory.
BIG BEN. ^i
BRITAIN'S LIVING COST
DROPS 15 PER CENT.
Based on 1914 as 100, Figure
is Still Up to 250.
A despatch from London says: -Al-
though the official figures have not yet
'been published, it is known that the
Labor Ministry's estimate of the liv-
ing cost will show a drop of 16 per
cent. in January. The December
figures showed a drop of 4 per cent.,
from 269 to 265 per cent., with the
living cost in 1914 represented by 100.
The new figures probably will bring
the percentage down to 260.
The Food Ministry calculates that
food alone• dropped from 14 to 16
points. While this accounts for 60
per cent, of the living cost, there have
been big drops in the price of cloth-
ing. Another shilling has been taken
off the price of a sack of flour, and
it is promised that bread soon will be
cheaper.
The decline of prices in England is
somewhat behind the movement in
America, but the tendency is certainly
that way, and it is expected that re-
lief will be felt here soon. Any sug-
gestion of cutting wages has been
met here the sane as in America with
violent protests from labor, which
says that conditions are not yet equal
to this. There is a movement on here
for shortening Hour's.
Tree Seeds for Great Britain.
In response to requests frons forest-
ry authorities in the United Kingdom
tree seeds were collected In British
Columbia by officers of the Dominion
Forestry Branch, These were for-
warded to the Forestry Commissioners
for Great Britain to be used in the
carrying out of reforestation plans un-
der way in the United Kingdom. The
seeds included those of Douglas fir,
Sitka spruce, alpine fir, and of other
species which the British authorities
desire to test. -Annual Report, Direct-
or of Forestry, Ottawa,
Not Fair.
Dolly had been taken to clurrcis for
he first time. On returning home her
mother asked her what she thought of
he service,
"I Liked it very much," she replied.
But there was one thing I didn't think
was Pair,"
"What was that, dear?" asked her
London Exchange Chimes
Again Peal:
The ringing of the chimes of the
Royal Exchange, in the heart of the
financial district of Landon, was re-
sumed recently after a silence of six
years caused by the war, The Lady
Mayoress presses] a button which
caused the playing of the national an -
thong, ane of the twenty-one tunes it
is possible to play on the chimes,
The chIsnes have been rung in the
historic spot since 1671 and have
figured conspicuously in the literature
of the old city. The chimes ring at
9 a.m„ 3 pan., and. at 6 o'oicek in the
evening.
mother,
"Why, one man did all the work, and
then another man came round and got
all the money.
It is announced in Halifax that the
legislature of Nova Scotia will meet
Mardi 9th.
Herbert Hoover, of California, has
accepted the post of Secretary of
Conurierce in the Harding Cabinet.
Daylight• saving will begin in this
country at midnight, April emend and
will mid at midnight, October second.
Lake marine insurance will go into
effect en April 15, which means that
is the date officially set £or the open-
ing of navigation.
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Winnipeg Man Again Selected.
Richard D, 1Vaugh, who bre been re-
appointed Canadian member of the
Sarre Valley Governing Commission
of the League of Nations.
BATTJ. , FRONT MARKED
BY MEMORIAL STONES
Uniform, Landmarks in Stone
to be Set Up from North Sea 1
to Swiss Frontier.
Along the sinuous line of the great
battle front. from•the North Sea to the
Swiss frontier, uniform landmarks in
stone are to be set up as a lasting
memorial. Mental .Petain is to
choose the places where the stones
will be set and the cost will be borne
by the Touring Club of France.
While the guar was still being won
it was proposed that in the piping
tines of victory and peace the front
should be marked by a great roadway
along its entire length,'whieh would
fusefully servo as a memorial. With
victory, however, it has been found
that the cost of such an enterpl'Ise
was much too great to be undertaken.
The French Government felt unable to
do anything in the matter, and so it
has been left to private enterprise to
ergot a great line of white memorial
stones along the famous line where
French, Belgian, British anti Ameri-
can soldiers held, fought and defeated
the German armies,
From among the designs for the
memorial stones• submitted a com-
mittee of the Touring Club has chosen
that of Sculptor Paul Moreau Vaal -
tier. It is pyramidal in form and per-
fectly simple. The only ornament is1
a soldier's helmet, surrounded by a
laurel crown, and the only inserlption)
le: "Hero was stopped the onrush 0f
the barbarians."
The French words used are: "1e1�
fut arrete,d'elan des herbaria," but
to these objection has Baan raised, as!
the word "elan," conveys to Freud: -1
men's minds too much of enthusiasm:
and buoyancy, and it has been pro+,
posed that the ward "thee" should be
substituted.
How many of these stones should
be erected, and their position, is being
left to the decision of Marshal Petain;
who fs now considering these clues.
Mew.
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The era of aerial mads has begun(
in Newfoundland. Lettere addressed
to St, Anthony, in northern New',
foundland and the location of Ono of
the Gronfell hospitals, are convoyeA
to their destination on ono of tlXii
planes which is to bo used later ifi
the season as a patrol ship fee the
sealing fleet,
It is officially announced in Gel'".
many that ten pet cent. of the entm;
population of the country are nAltollr
ar partially without employment. At'
:'resent 482,000 Hien are receiving
support from tho government mit
,run cspalittes, while 496,000 members
of rant Les are receiving financial aid.
This inai.ee , nc n „len people whom
the lax paps, re ',Armoring Four
s-te IV(.1 r :y pale time
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