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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1920-11-18, Page 3ARMISTICE. D"Y NARKED py GLORIOUS CEREMONIAL IN OLD LONDON Inspiring Scene as Nameless Warrior Was .Carried to His Last, Rest Among Britain's Great in Westminster Abbey.—Tice . Salute of Royalty aired Royal- ty's Wreath Upon the Coffin. despatch from Leaden says,— "Zero hour" was sounded throughout the British Empire at eleven o'elook on the morning of Armistice Day, when ail work ceased and all tratflo Was stationery for two minutes to pay silent tribute to. Great Britain's mil- lion men who died in the war. The hour was observed with extreme ray- • erence by ell classes and thousands of people dressed in black wept openly as they stood with heads bared in London streets. The capital of the Empire has eel• don witnessed a sadder or more in- upirpng cerentoneal than this official tribute to the fallen,, which took the form of an unveiling of a cenotaph en Whitehall end the reburial in Westminster Abbey of the remains of an unknown soldier disinterred in the Ypres salient last week. The body, which was brought from France on a destroyer, was the °entre of the Empire's homage. Draped do the Union Jack, with the accoutre- ments and helmet of a private soldier Placed on top, the coffin bore the in- scription, "A British warrior who fell in the Great War of 1914-1918." Twelve pall -bearers surrounded the gun carriage bearing the coffin in the parade from Victoria Station to Whitehall were Admirals Beatty, Hed- worth, Meng, Jackson and Madden; Field Marshals Haig; French, Wilson and Methuen; Generals Horne, Byng and Gatliff, who, as the nation's great- est war figures, thus honored the simple soldier who is hailed to -day as "the man who won the war." Ger- many paid her first official tribute to her enemy's dead when Ambassador Von St. Hamer, surrounded by his official staff, stood bareheaded on the balcony in the rear of the German Embassy as the coffin passed .in the Mall. King George, waiting at Whitehall, saluted as the carriage drew up at the cenotaph for a brief religious eere- many, which ended at eleven 'o'clock. When Big Ben boomed the last stroke of the Zero Hour King George pressed the button which released the flag draping the monument. He 'then re- mained standing with head bared in the immense crowd, which included all the lenders of the church and state, while the two minutes of silent hom- age elapsed. Then, the King,• aided by Marshal Haig, placed a wreath for himself and Queen Mary on the unknown hero's coffin as the great throng joined in the prayer offered by the Arehbishop of Canterbury. Then the King de- posited another wreath at the foot of the cenotaph, followed by the Prince of Wales, Lloyd George and former Premier Asquith, who together laid a third wreath before the monanient. On behalf of the Dominion of Canada, Sir George E. Foster deposited it wreath of maple Ieaves. The Queen witnessed the ceremonies from the window of the Hone() Office with a party which included the Queen Mother Alexandre, the King and Queen of Spain, and the Queen of Sweden. When the parade reformed and marched to Westminster Abbey for the burial, King George followed im- mediately behind the coffin on foot as the Empire's chief mourner. A -bodyguard of 100 Victoria Cross her- oes were lined up in two files when the coffin was carried into the nave of the Abbey and interred beneath the floor in soil brought from Flanders. Queen Mary and her party were at the side of the grave 'with representa- tives of Imperial and national insti- tutions who ,gabhered there for the brief burial service. Places of honor near the grave had been reserved for 6,000 women selected by ballot from among Great Britain's three million 'women who lost relatives in the war. Special aecommodations were also ar- ranged for former soldiers and war nurses. Shipbuilding on the Pacific A Big Industry A despatch from North Vancouver says: Iiigures concerning ;,the de- velopment of the shipbuilding indus- try on the North Shore were divulged by Mr. A. Wallace recently. In 1916, 172 men were employed at the Wallace Shipyards, the payroll at that time amounting to $88,856; in 1916, 287 men were employed and the wage ++ sheet totalled $164,915; in 1917, 685 men were employed and brought the wage sheet up to the $720,603 mark; in 1918, 892 men brought the wage sheet up to $901,685; the figures for the past year showed that .1,067 men were employed and the payroll am- ounted to $1,220,882. Repair work .e has amounted to approximately one- third of the total output of the local yard and has considerable to do con- cerning the number of men employed, stated Mr. Wallace. The fact that the cost of repairing had increased in the Orient and decreased in this province should have a tendency to increase the amount of repairing done In this province. Railway 'Traffic Continues at High Level A despatch from Toronto says:— Passenger traffic on the leading rail- " ways continues unusually heavy for this time of the year. The railway Englishman Flew 3,250 Miles on Business Trip A despatbh from London says:— A flight of 8,250 miles for business ds a new record made by an English busi- ness man. He is R. Wright, a Man- chester engineer, who returned here from a tour of Central Europe in a Handley Page flying machine. The return trip was made from Jassy, 216 miles beyond Bucharest, by Way of Strassburg. From Strasburg a record non -atop flight was made to London, a distance of 420 miles, in 3 Hours and 60 minutes. From Jassy to the hangar at Cricklewood the distance is 1,635 milds. "It was a very successful and en- joyable trip," Mr. Wright said. "I was away a little more than a month and covered 3,250 miles in all." Turkish Treaty a "Scrap of Paper" A despatch from Paris says:—The Armenian Republic is on the eve of being entirely wiped out of existence through the combined attacks of the Turkish 'Nationalists and the Soviets., The refusal of all powers to accept the mandate over Armenia has put the Armenian problem directly up to the League of Nations, which is admitted- ly powerless to act. The Matin «declares that unless the llies act to save. Armenia the Turk- sh treaty may be considered as an- ther "scrap of paper." a offices ,in the principal centres are 0 finding it difficult to cope with the business offering. Up to the present time it is stated that, so far as can be judged, the recent increases in rates have not affected the volume of business to any extent whatever. Ad- vance bookings for Christmas busi- 4ti— Commons Pass Horne Rule Bill A despatch from London says;— he Irish Home Rule Bill passed the ouse of Commons on its th,ird read - ng on Thursday after a motion for re- ection of the measure, proposed by William C. Adamson, the Opposition leader, had been defeated by 183 to 52. The measure passed without any noteworthy incident in .a rather tante debate. The Liberal and Labor mem- bers, who have boycotted it through T nese are also reported to be very heavy. These bookings would dndi- cate that the volume of traffic from Western Canada to England for the• phristmas season this year will estab- eish a new record. In a great many lases people have not been back home lime before the war and this de- eelopment is resulting in a very large -Movement for the coming holiday season. 4 .Allies Hold German Bonds as Security for Debt A despatch from, London says:— Germany has delivered to the Repara- tions Commission bonds to the am- ount of 60,000,000,000 gold narks, the value'. of which is approximately £3,000,000,000 at the present rate of exchange, The delivery of the bonds is in accordance with the requirements of the peace treaty, and the commis- sion proposed to hold them as security for and in acknowledgement of Ger- saany's debt. - most of its stages, as a sign of their conviction of its hopelessness as a 'settlement of the Irish problem, were again absent on Thursday. _ L Widows Who Had Lost All Their Sons A despatch from London says:—Of all the witnesses that packed White- hall or crowded the Abbey at the me- morial services on Armistice Day, a little band of approximately 100 wo- men in the Abbey received the most reverent attention. They hadbeen selected for the seats of honor be- cause each had lost her husband and all her sons. zFA„ yssjr ire�. �.. Princess Mary May Visit Canada Next Year.. Officials of the Canadian National Exhibition 'ere endeavoring to ar- range for a visit of the daughter of the King to the annual fair at To-. route next year, and they are hopeful that their efforts will be suecessful. PAYS TRIBUTE TO NAMELESS SOLDIER France Saluted Body of Brit- isher on Way Home A despatch from Paris says: With no less emotion than when et Verdun the -French people chose for the honor of burial below the Arc de Triomphe the body of their own Unknown, they saluted at Boulogne that of the Brit- ish soldier who will rest in Westmin- ster Abbey. The whole population of the tittle seaside town, which has play- ed so great a part in the history of the war, lined the streets to see the procession bearing the body from the Citadel, where it had lain all night, to the British vessel Verdun, which was to carry it to England. All the church bells were rung, and ships in the harbor flew their flags at topmast, as the ceremony was not one of mourning, but of glorification. Marshal Foch paid to the British a great tribute, making the special journey to Boulogne to honor the un- known hero. Standing beside the coffin 071 the quay just before it was taken aboard the ship on its last jour- ney back from France, the Marshal made a short speech. To all those who, from the British Isles, Canada, Australia, Africa, India and the other countries of the Empire, brought to acid France their courage, valor, en- durance and abnegation, he paid a touching tribute. League of Nations Thorn In Side of U.S. Government A despatch from Washington says:—From all advices it is apparent that the League of Nations issue is far from settled. While the election has placed the opponents of the press ent League in charge of the govern- ment of the nation, their way will not be particularly easy in salving the problem which the Versailles Treaty and the old League has brought into being. It is reasonably certain that Harding and .his followers• will find it no bed of roses to straighten out the debacle which the European war has caused. ._....»-.mss One city woman said she wasn't interested in this question of abandon- ed farms, because she didn't get her food from any farm, but from the grocery store. Bees Were the First Embalmers. p'ow people' are aware of the fact that bees were the originators of em- balming. It happens sometimes that a stranger enters their hive, and often the enemy is too large or heavy to be cast out. 'A slug, for instance, might make' its way into the bee -hive. The bees pounce upon the unwanted intruder, and proceed to sting him to death. The problem now presents Itself to the intelligent bees as to the beat method, of ridding the hive of the slug's carcass. They evidently are aware that it lett, the hive would be. come infected by the presence of a dead body, so the embalming process is commenced. This is done by encasing the remains of tho slug in propolls, a substance Specially collected by the bees from the opening buds of poplar and other trees. The propolis thus prevents the slug's body decaying. But if a snail sneaks into the hive, the process is even simpler. ""As soon as the snail receives a sting he re- tires into his shell. Then the artful bees Just wall him in with propolis, and without troubling to shift the shell, securely cement it to the floor of the hive. The tomb of the snail thus becomes part and parcel of the hive. Expenses of British Army on the Rhine are Heavy A despatch from London says:—It was stated in the House of Commons recently that the cost of the British army of occupation on the Rhine was 23,600,000 sterling a year. The total cost situce the armistice up to September 30 this year was 251,000,000 sterling, and the amount received front Germany for the troops amounted to 346,000,000 narks. Canadian Grain Sent Direct to Spain A despatch front Fort William says:—Foreshadowing days when the deep water canal will make this an ocean port, two ships for Vigo, Spain, carrying 100,000 bushels of grain each, Antoneo and Josrffa, just built at Duluth, sailed from here on Thursday on their maiden voyage. Fire Destroys Western Fair Buildings. Photo shows the destruction of the fine structures at the Brandon Pair grounds and the firemen fighting the flames with many lines of hose. It's a Great Life If You Don't. Weakest 1 \NQULD LIKE To SEEN NI6W1' SHIRT VAT ('MELD' Markets of e World Wholesale Grain. Toronto, Nov 11i.—lean, Wheet— No. i Northern, $211%; No. 2 North, ern, $2.11%; No. 8 Northern, 32.08%; No. 4 wheat, $2,01%, Manitoba oats—No, 2 CW, 05/4 o; No, 8 CW, 50%c; extra No, 1 feed, 89%c; No, 1 feed, 60G%c; No. 2 feed, 53'se 4 CW, $107 °jested, 87'$15 1,1 51 feed, A.tnerican corn No, 3 yellow, $1.23. 'Ontario oats No. 2 white, 58 to Ooe.. Ontario wheat—No, 2 Winter, $1.95 to $2, per ear lot; No. 2 Spring, $1,90 to 1,95; shipping points, according to freights, Peas—No, 2, nominal. freights Barley—out$s1ideto, $1,05, according to -Buckwheat-No, 2, nominal, Rye—No. 3, $1.56 to $1,60, nontina aeeording to freights outside. Man. flour $12'.90 top patent *12,40 second patents. Ontario flour—$8,75, bulk, seaboar Mdllfeed—Car Ions, delivered Mon real freights, bags included: Bran, p ton. $38 to $40.25; shorts, per ton, 34 to 45.25; good feed flour, $2.76 to $ Country Produce—Wholesale. i, "Three Million Years Old. There etas just been completed In Toronto the "unrocking" of an al " el most perfect skeleton of ono of the Dinosaur family which used to gambol tin tete valley of the Red River, Alta, some 3,000,000 years ago. rhe skele- - ton was found by Dr, W. A. Parks and staff of the Royal Ontario Museum, or where it is now mounted as shown in the photograph. The sand along the brackish shores of this groat body ofater formed a splendid maser - 3, fwvative for the huge reptiles then roaming the earth, • Cheese—New, Targe, 28 to 29o; DOMINION MAY DISCHARGE twins, 29 to 30c; triplets, 291 to 801/2.. old lenge, 83 to 84c; do, twine, 831,1 to 34%e. JButter —Fresh dairy, choice, 49 to 60e; erearnery,.2nds, 55 to 58°; finest, 58 to 61e. Margarine -35 to 37e. Eggs—No. 1, 64 to 06c; selects, 08 to 70e; new laid, in cartons, 80 to S6c. Beans—Canadian, hand-picked, bus„ $4.25 to 34,50; primes, $3 to $8,50; Japans, 9/c; Limas, Madagaacar, 101%; California Limas, 121/2e. Maple products. -.Syrup, per imp, gal., $3.40 to 33:50; per 5 imp. gals., 33.25 to $3,40. Maple sugar, lb., 27 to 80e. Honey -60-30-1b. tins, 26 to 27e per 1b„ Ontario 'comb honey, at 37.60 per 15 section case, 51 -2/ -lb. tins, 27 to 28c per lb. Provisions—Wholesnlc.' Smoked meats -•Hams, med., 47 to 60c; heavy, 40 to 42c; cooked, 64 to 68c; rolls, 34 to 36e; cottage rolls, 41 to 480; breakfast bacon, 50 to 56c; fancy brealcfeet bacon 56 to 62e; backs, plain, 52 to 54c; boneless, 60 to 64c. Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 27 -to 28c; clear bellies, 26 to 27c. Lard—Pure tierces, 30 to 3012e; tubs, 80% to 31e; pails, 30% to 31'%; prints, 32ee to 880. Compound tierces, 22 to 23%c; tuba, 22% to 24%e; pails, 231/2 to 28%e; prints, 26 to 27c. Montreal Markets. Montreal, Nov. 16.—Oats, Canadian West,. No. 2, 86e; do, No. 3, 80e. Flour, Matt., best stand. grade, 31210. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., 34.05. Bran, 40.25. Shorts, $45.26. Hay—No. 2, per ton, car lots, 330, Cheese, finest easterns, 28%e; (butter, choice creamery, 55 to 56c; eggs, fresh, 65 to 66e; potatoes', per bag, car lots, $1.75. Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Nov. 16. --Choice heavy steers, $12.50 to 318.50; good heavy steers, $11.50 to 312; butchers' cattle, choice, $11 to 312; do, good, 39 to $10; do med., $7 -to 38; do, corn., 35 to 36; bulls, choice, 39 to $10.60; do, good, $8 to $9; do, con., 35 to 37; butchers' cows, choice, 59 60 to 310•'do, good, 37.25 to 38;elcom., 35 to $6; feeders, best, $10 to 311; do, 900 Iba., 39.50 to $10; do, 800 lbs., 38.75 to $0.25; do, com., 36.25 to 37.25; canners and cut- ters, 38.60 to 34.50; milkers, good to choice, $100 to 3165; do, come and med., $66 to 375; lambs, yearlinga, $9 to 310; do, spring, $11 to 312; calves, good to choice, $16 to $17; sheep, 35 to 38; hogs, fee and watered, 316.2; do, weighed off cars, $16.50; do, f.o.b., $15.25; do, country points, $15. Montreal, Nov. 16.—Butehor heif- ers, come, $4.50 to $7; 'butcher caws, med., e5 to $7; canners, $3; cutters, $3.60 to 34.50; bologna bulls, 34.25 to $6.60; good veal, $18 to $15; aped., 311 to 312.50; grass, 35.50 to 36.50; ewes, $4 to $7; lambs, good, 312 to 12.50; com., 38 to $11; hogs, off ear weights, selects, 317.25; sows, 313.25. Ex -King Ludwig of Bavaria Passes • Away A despatch front Munich says:— Former King Ludwig III. of Bavaria is dead at the age of 75 years. King Ludwig III. has been living in the Swiss mountains near the head waters of the Rhine, where en the past two years it has been reported that he was losing his reason, as had the mad Kings of Bavaria before hint for nearly a century. King Ludwig was born January 7, 1845, and became ruler of Bavaria on November 5, 1913, in his 68th year. He was forced to abdicate when the German revolution broke out. —#r ----- Safety First "Will you accept this portfolio?" In- gnin'ed the Berlin cabinet maker, Or don't know," replied the cautious statesman. "Times are uncertain; maybe you'd better snake 1t a suit- case." When tnoney talks we never pause to note if it should stammer, nor if it horrors a'1 the .laws of logic and of grammar: By drawing bq"i-grill loose folds of the•skin, a French doctor recently re- moved wrinkles :from a woman pa- tient's face. DON'T VIE.' AK N WAR OBLIGATIONS BY J937 If Canada Can Avoid Further Borrowing Total War Debt of $2,127,481,800 Might be Paid by December, 1937. A despatch from Ottawa says:—If Cunade eau avoid fur:her borrowing apd set aside sufficient funds by way of sinking fund, her wee obliga- tions will all be paid by December 1, 1037. Those obligations total $2r 127,481,800, of which 31,976,608,80a ie tho principal of War and Victory Loans issued in Canada and largely held. by Canadians. The balance amounting to $150,873,000 represents the principal of. Public Service Loans .issued' in New York To liquidate this large liability without maiming further issues, Canada would have to provide, in addition to sums required to carry on the public service and to pay interest on all these loans, an average of more than 3125,000,000 a year by way of sinking fund. Of course, as maturities were met, the annual interest burden would be diminished and the task of providing money for shak- ing fund to that extent would become less onerous. Outstanding bonds of domestic and New York issues with thei am, ounts, rates of interest and dates of maturity, are as follows: -- Aug. 1st, 1921, 315,000,000 VA per cent. Oct. 1st, 1921 25,000,000 5 per cent. Dec. let, 1922 104,842,100 5',, per cent. Nov. 1st, 1923 194,881,800 VA per Dent. Nov. 1st, 1924 106,365,100 tea per cent, Dec. 1st, 1925 48,245,300 5 per cent, Oct. lot, 1026 25,000,000 '6 per cent. Dec. lst, 1927 65,961,410 51,4 per con`. A,ug. lst, 1929, 60,000,000 51 per cont. Oct, let, 1931 25,000,000 .5 per cont. Got. 1st, 1931 54,398,700 6 per cent, Nov. 1st, 1933 483,081,260 5% per cent Nov. 1st, 1994 488,360,100 5% per cent. Aug. 1st, 1936 873,000 13 per cent, Mar. sat, 1937 92,652,800 5 per cent. Dec. 1st, 1937 252,820,200 51 per cent, To the Unknown Dead. The action of the British Govern- ment in giving an unknown soldier a Inst resting place in Westminster Ab- bey on Armistice Day, followed by the action of the French Governtnent in placing at rest its unknown soldier, typifying "Le 'Soldai: Francais," in the Pantheon in Paris, gives honor where honor is due and lifts the incidents into those realms of national senti- ment that have an ever-1•iving and in- creasing effect. Monuments to large groups of sol- diers who were swept into the .name- less heaps of the common dead of great battlefields have been erected again and again. And the cairns and the tumuli of the past dot many a feed and are the objects of affection- ate curiosity and religious mystery to many a people the world over. But this mutual a•greoment to recognize in S02110 way the youth that fought in its almost abstract relationship of type and symbol through the selection of one of those who fell with none to record his heroism, or pass along his actual memory to those who were of kith and kin and of his own familiar circle in the flesh, is something differ- ent from all the past honors to un- known heroes who met their fate but failed of individual fame. And not the least significant phase of these solemn exercises is that in this ease- the French, to when the sentiments and the sacrifices are always worth a beau- tiful thought, or a beautiful gesture, or a public ceremony, are not in ad- vance of the supposedly more plegm- atic and lass-con•ecious Briton who, as far as his general attitude goes, has a profound respect for achieve- ment and for that kind of achievement that has reached place and knows both name and fame. Each nation, however, es is right and proper, expresses its public feel- ings in its own way in harmony with Its cults and its traditions. But the double ceremonies make noble prece- dents for Armistice Day celebrations, and both Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon, wilt their long' associations with tine puissance of kings and the glorious memory of the great, are newly consecrated by the presence of these humble, unidentified remains which, though unnamed, are not, like the village IIatnpden, "tnllionored and unsung." Some customers no longer test cloth fabric by feeling it, but examine it through a pocket microscope, accord- ing to a tailor. O'MAHFR. 114E 'Tat4T i4h,NUFACTfa 5 GIZ6 OR 0e5CRdP°' .MADE TO 'otter:P. By Jack Rabbit s eta The Ancestors. It is a foolish boast for any human being to sound a loud trumpet about his origin, That origin was not elec- tive with him. 136 can claim 110 credit for the genealogy that sent hint into this world to play a fair or mean part. If a man looks back into his armee- try only for the sake of self-glorifira- tion through the fame they made, it is a contempt,:itie occupation for his time. If his research is to the end that he may find inspiration for his own life, that ho may better serve kis day and generation, he does well. We cannot detach our lives from the lives of the long succession that preceded us. We are one with them. We must not shame them now by per- formance an a lower plane than the -ire. To .these ;immediate ancestors, his mother and father, a man is likely to confess a debt beyond his power to discharge. For their turn they rever- ently referred to their own parentage. Whoever is not lost forever to a sense of decency feels bound to try net to discredit his own family and to be- smirch its honor. He never asked that he should be made the custodian 5f that honor; he never cared to be charged with the lionot•nblc repute and the good name built up through count- less years; but these things belong to him, and he cannot put then by. Ile, must take his place, play his manful part, accept the responsibility, take up his cross and carry it to tete end of the way. Sometimes it would be to comfort- able to give up the struggle, to capi- tulate to those depraved appetites, those groveling instincts which are at work in us as well as in the brute. But the still, small voice speaks on insistently. lee cannot stop our ears. It will be heard. The pipes and tabrets of Vanity Fair cannot: silent° its mul'murous ineistetie. It comes and it remains to say that n,rblesso oblige, that because of the definite place and duty assigned we cannot give to our tasks anything less than the best that is in us. We look at the easy, rosy way the others take, and our human frailty is sorely tempt- ed toward it. But the tugged path has its own compensation. It is the path of honor and of self-respect, The strong man, scorner of the line of least resistance, prefers it to any other. It teats his endurance, sup- plies an exercise that develops the moral sinews, gives him day by day to feel that his life is no vain ell - vintage under the tnarcbing orders of folly, Tho Chinese worship their Deices - tors; we of the West tie not, except fashionable heraldic societies, But each man or woman who is of eminent service does retroactive homer to all who Went before him and glorifies the whole sequence of his antecedents. How much better that is than to talcs from those who lived ebefoi'e us the renown they won, and bas 3n that prestige, and do nothing for our mans part to enhance dtt Korean Inventors, The Koreans do not receive credit for progressiveness, but a Korean in- vented rho patter's wheel send a Ico- reaii potter discovered the art of uu- dorglasiog, It Is also said that tboy invented tete movable typo and meele general use of this art (ung' before it ems /mown anywlnete else.'