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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1930-01-02, Page 5Brit • in Plans Big Building Program Construction Work Amount- ing to $1 00,000,000 rix Atnouzccod HELP UNEMPLOYED ' Municipalities, Railways, Gas and Water Projects Involved London.--- Construct on work in 'Great Britain amounting to more than 11; ',Government been approved by the 'Government in connection with its Maus to alleviate unemployment, and -'the•Government will make a total contribution to this work of about 846,000,000. This was revealed in a statement issubd by Rt. Hon. S. H. Thomas, Lord Privy' Seal and Min ,aster of Employment. This -work involves municipalities, 'railway companies, gas companies and water supply companies. "et is 'generally required that all materials needed for the state'assisted works shall, so far. as is practicable, be' of 'United ‘Kingdom origin, and all manufactures will be United Kingdom manufacture," the statement empties - !sized. This stipulation is subject to such exceptions- as the Government ' fDepartment concerned may find -to be 'necessary or desirable in any particle lar case, having regard' to all the sir- cumstances, including comparative prices. of British and foreign articles. "If the necessary -supplies are not Purchased in the -United Kingdom, • Out' Sister Province May Well, Be Proud -of Their Goverzcment Buildings VIEW OF PROVINCIAL LEGISLATIVE BUILDINGS AT faUEBEC The photograph here shows au aerial view of the parliament buildings at Quebec City. they are to be secured from the' over- Sensational �.a e seas part of the Empire wherever pox• Bible," the statement declares. Road Schemes The Government has further ap- proved, under the •trunk road pro- gram, road schemes costing another' ,$45,000,000, Under' th'e whole five- year program of road work the schemes approved total $76,000,000. 'The road fund liability in' respect of these schemes is. estimated at $80,- 000,000 and employment will 'in this respect be afforded equivalent to the employment of 100,000 men for one year. At the same time the Minister an- nounced aid to' form a colonial de- velopment fund, which would enable thq carrying out of great construction projects in the colonial Empire lying outside the Dpminions. This would directly benefit British labor by the demand for materials from the Bri- tish' manufacturers. The Government's employment plans therefore call for expenditure of upwards of $180,000,000 within Great Britain, and tite construction of lcostly development works in the col- .onies, notably Africa, benefiting Bri- tain by employment equal to the em- ploy trent of about 190,000 men. a year. The Peasant Population of France Andre Siegfried in the Atlantic Monthly (Boston): Even after a cen- tury of intense industrial life, the �aocial.,g ructure of France is essen- tially built up of peasants, artisans, and bourgeois. In spite of the drift to the cities, which seems to be part of the normal development of our ,Western civilization, the mainstay of French life is still the peasant. The 'census of 1921 estimates at 54 per cent, the rural popuibtion of France, las against 49 per cent. in the United' !States and only 20 per cent, in Bug - land. In contrast with the Buglieh farmer and the grain grower and stock raiser of the United States, the Frenchman may be considered' as the very type of the peasant; a small landowner and solitary worker, who {lives by cultivating his own plot of : {land. Out of 8,591,000 farmere. in 'France, 5,000,000 are -their 'own mas- ters, This is a fact of supreme im- portance in our study of the French ;point of view, for the peasant her!- ` ytage is always close at hand even in the heart of the cities; and although :they may be fill' from the land the French continue to feel and react like ;peasants. Britain's Wheat Supply Brig, -Gen. Sir Henry Page Croft in the Empire Review (London): (Though harvesting the finest wheat crop for many years in 1920, the Bri- tish farmer found himself deprived of loll profit by the dumping of bounty, fed wheat from Germany.) The Bri- tish farmer does not need a high arti- Asiai p$ice; what he needs isa stable price which gives 'nim an economic return. The hard wheat such as 'conies from the Dominionswill al - ,ways be required in Britain but wheat lwhiclt comes from Germany and oth- er European countries, or from the 1Argentine, directly displaces British, `grown wheat, and, if our contention is eight that we can grow what we re= 'quire in the British Empire, it is clear ?that a reasonable duty on foreign cereals need not raise the price bf /bread to the British consumer, but ,would make it possible to continue to produce wheat in Britain. ' The Government's Blunder London Daily Express (Ind,) :Mr. MacDonald has blundered badly' in lets Xing the "bigger and better dole" bill pee the light of day. Ile never should s�hhave countenanced it. , Its very exist - nee is a negation of everything which ' the •Socialists promised the nation. Ley were to ereate work—and, in - ad, they are going to give alms eo . IC."I see that a man 'fell down stairs last week and cured himself of rhea- matism by breaking both of his legs." "The fellow" with a sore throat :would be taking an awful chance." ,Opens i Gerinany Outcome of Attempted .Ship- ment of Ammunition to China Kiel, Germany. Whether the Ger- man Reioshwehr and Navy permitted or had knowledge of an attempted shipment of 8,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition .worth over $100,000 from 'Germany to the army of the late Man ellurianWar Lord, Gen. Chang Tim - Lin in` January,, 3928, is likely to be determined at a sensational trial which opened hero last week. The trial is the result of a sweep- ing investigation which lasted nearly two years. The case has attracted in. ternational attention. Representatives of the press and public, were excluded from the court "to safeguard Interests of state" on the motion of the prosecutor. The accused, who are alleged to have engineered the giant internation- al smuggle which was halted just as the ammunition was about to be Ioaded on a Norwegian steamer here, nee a former German ninny officer; a naval officer and five Berlin merchants. The, entire shipment was seized by customs officers after they had exam- ined cases which 'had been declared as containing articles of brass. The shipments came here" in 16 freight cars. Investigation showed that the entire cargo had been purchased by an Italian agent. It was also learned that the cargo was to be shipped. to Oslo, Norway, and thence to China. The ammunition came from a scrap- ping plant maintained by one of the accused merchants at SuepIItz, near Torgau. Are War Books true? Truth (London): War is an emo- tion at least as old as Euripides, who trampled on the Homeric: glorification of it. But Euripides, being a Greek, avoided overstatement, a pitfall into which the Itemarques and the Graves fall headlong. An war is foul, and the men who wage it, according to them,dare reduced to the level of beasts. Courage, self-seorilice, en- durance, self-control, and honor, these have no part in It. Front first to last it is swinishness unredebmed. And if we recoil from the picture, we are derided as sentinientaiists who will not face facts when they are pre- sented'to us -with fidelity:at last! But tee point is: Are we getting the facts? It 'we are, then we are at a loss to understand how flesh and blood en- dured the abomination that never lifted, and why the fighting men did not return to peace, not as human be- ings, but as raving lunatics and ravening wolves. Prince Preparing For African Hunt Visits Shooting School and Purchases Many Modern Rifles London. ---The Prince of Wales evi- dently believes in having his shooting eye just right for his forthcoming trip to South Africa. Lately he's been visiting a shooting' school just outside of London. It is now definitely understood that his engagements will terminate in a big game shooting expedition. Many of his weapons are now out of date. Some of his favorite riles belong to his grandfather. He.recently purchased several models welt adapted for ele- phant hunting. Another one of the numerous in- teresting tales about the Prince has just been told by a man who attended the heir to the English throne on a big gene hunt, "I remember On oneoccasion he was mounted on the howdah which, the king used when he last shot in Nepal, when a wildebeeste was spotted. "The prineeinsisted•on dismounting, to the-consternatioteof his attendants,' and stalked the wildebeeste on his hands and knees for a great distance in a grilling sun, He succeeded in bringing it down and was in . at the death. "The mighty head and neck of the animas remained hanging on a tree for several days, and admiring crowds gathered from the Jurrounding coun- tryside. The Royal, bag on that oc. CttsiOn totalled for tons." "She Is a college graduate, I be- lieve," "Yes; site is an old maid of arts." "An old maid of arts?" "Isn't that what you call a female bachelor of arts?" THREE WICKS There are three wicks to the lamp of a man's life—brain, blood and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, dad all is soon stag- nation, cold, and darkness. Beating of Human Heart is Exposed Chest Incision Reveals Many Wrongs in Diagnosing Ailments Ann Arbor, Mich.—Four University of Michigan surgeons recently an- nout:ced results of- their observation of the beating of a human heart, view- ed iewed through an opening in the. chest of a patient, Through the .incision made by a wound which necessitated removal of a section of the chest wall, the four. physicians recorded the electric cur- rents generated by the heart's 'opera- tion. They discovered important in- accuracies in the current method of diagnosing heart ailments, they said, Certain -fluctuations in the inten- sity of current which had hitherto been believed due to disease on the right side of the heart were found to be caused by diseases of the opposite side. Games in a Better World Bernard Darwin in the Spectator (London): I suppose we should all in a better world be much, much bet- ter than we are non,' though I trust we should never get to the pitch of wishing "the best man to win," except on the understanding that the "best man" was ourselves. We should never throw our clubs about, of course, nor say that it was our partner's fault, nor call gods and men to wit- ness our ill luck. I am inclined faint- ly to hope that we should not talk about games quite so much as we do now, 'or that, at any rate, we should. talk about them more impersonally. I am sure that, when we wrote about them, we should not call a ball a "sphere," nor a club an "implement"; neither Should we call people whom we do not know by their Christian names nor describe them as "the young guardsman" or "the forty-five year -old -stockbroker," and we, should never say of a lady player that slte looked dainty and "petite" in a blue "bandeau." Wheat Poo land Protection. Saskatoor Star -Phoenix (Lib.): European countries, once heavy buyers and Canadian wheat, have sought to fight the pool and encourage home production by putting high tariffs on imported wheat, Iii 1926 France charged a duty of 15 cents a bushel on forcing 'wheat. Germany and Italy admitted it free. Today the duties are; France, 58 cents; Germany, 48% cents; Italy 73i cents. Euro- pean protectionists and reluctance to pay the price asked for Canadian wisest imposed a severe test on the pool during the 1928-29 selling sea- son, ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES—By O. Jacobsson Pa.trcrlxnai i' Rises , ( lair 'ry Abalitio "-To Be Vice -Consul i Likely .Next Year Edmund ,l. Dorsz Assigned to Special .Commission Named to Investigate Reported Con.' ditions in • Liberia United States Legation at Ottawa Ottawa. -The_ rise of Edmund 3,, Dome from the post of a foot -weary patrolman middle Detroit poliae force to ,that of United States vice-counsul at Ottawa, is recounted In a' epeeial dispatch from Detroit recently. Parts.—The year 1930 may see the last vestige of slavery or forced labor wiped off the, earth.' °With the opening of the New Year a commission of three members ac- companied by many assistants will Doren, 23 -years -old, assuoied has leave Paris ,for ; the Republic or Li- •beria on the west coast of A£riea to decide whether Slavery er forced la- bor still exists there. Tho investigation was demanded of the League of Nations by Liberia fol- lowing disparaging comment from other nations that slavery was still rampant in that republic. The United. States was One member on the com mission, -the League- one, and Liberia has appolated the tiiiid, 28 Signatories' attempts to pass examinations to en- -The slavery conventicle adopted by ter the foreign service, he signed on the League in 1926 and which se 'far as a patrolman last August'and re- mained on the -force until October 15, when he once again journeyed to Washington to talto another consular test,_' 'Success in the examination, fol- lowed by a brilliant few months' of work in headquarters of the 'foreign service restated in his assignment to, Ottawa. Find Fishing anks Are Not Disturbed Government Reports Do Not Bear Out Shift in Ocean Bed Ottawa,—Otmciais of the Marine De- partment here are not nudely alarm. ed over reports filtering through the newspapers from trans-Atlantic 'ship masters to the effect that the recent earthquake has disturbed the bed of the ocean oh the American coast, The previous report that the fishing banks had disappeared 'has been en- tirely disproven by Nova Scotian schooner captains who have reported to Ottawa that no such displacement has taken place. At the same time the masters of the various cable ships, whose duty was to repair -the frac- tured communication lines south of Newfoundland, have similarly report- ed no change. However, the Government Hydro- graphic Service' Intends next spring to send the C,G.S. Acadia over the banks with its echo -sounding appara- tus, in order to determine whether the depths within the national lathe diction of this country have altered or not. new position on .December 27. The' story of how ho loft. high' school be- fore completion of his term and then by perseverance„versed himself as a linguist In the ambition..of one day entering the foreign service of his country, was recounted by•lils mother, Ws. Rose G. Dorsz ' at lrer Detroit home -on l pwoi'th Boulevard, Young Deese first worked as a tool: maker, then as a clerk in a brokerage honse, always filling his' spare time with-stady, -Atter two unsuccessful Real ,Help Children's. Aid Society is Do- inga Wonders With Chil- dren of All Ages In a lonely and sparsely -settled dls- tridt in Northern Ontario, a girl of sixteen was in grave moral danger- deserted by her mother and left in the custody of a degraded family that sought only her moral ruin. Site men- tioned to a stranger who calied, the unhappy state of affairs, and he told her there was a num named J. J. Kelso in Toronto who looked after girls like her. She immediately got a clean piece of wrapping paper and wrote the following letter; Dear Sir "I would like for you to help me if you please, I would like for you to get sue a place elott to whear you are or I will come and stay with you and your minus for my board, that is, if you want me, or get me a place near you, for I cannot stay whear I am so I rather be with you than to stay here. I cannot go outside the door for I mu not safe to go and if you want me to go I will right away for I rather be whear yo could look after me or I'd rather stay with you and your misses. I don't want to tell you that I have not got the money to go to Toento, but be sure and write and tell me if you will let me come and stay with you and your. missus, or if not, if yon 'Oil get ane a Place. So this is all for this tient, so good-bye." Needless to say, Mr. 'Kelso sent the requisite tare, and although she is not working for him or his "Missae;" she is under good influence and is now a happy and contented young woman. The Sneak Guest Y.Y. In the New Statesman (Lon- don): Several correspondents have been writing 10 the Times during the past few days on the subject of this "sneak guest." This is apparently, a newly invented term describing a per- son who visits any house as an ac- quaintance chidafterwards sells any interesting private conversation he has heard. asgossip to a newspaper. Itis clear that if this is done on any considerable scale it is a very grave threat to social life. If there is a, spy has been signed by 28 nations, seeks :complete abolition oeeslavery or en- forced labor, whiels. is known to still exist in certain colonies of Africa, The United. States, which early rata fled the ccenvention and has been one of the prime movers in, its enforce ,ment, has taken such, an interest in the Commission's work that it recent- ly appointed Henry Carter of the state department to become Charge, d'Affaires ad interim at Monrovia, LP beria, to observe and assist the work of the international slavery commis- sion. The League hopes that. the work of the com'ioission can be started soon after the first of the year and finished. before June 30 in order that a report can be made during the summer to the League. It appears that Liberia is withholding her ratification of the convention until the investigation has been completed.. ' in Colonies Since the adoption of the League convention there have been numerous reports that both slavery and forced labor still exists in several African colonies among which are colonies of France. The League has repeatedly shown appreciation of Great Britain'shorts to stamp out forced Iabor and slavery in her colonies, but regards France as somewhat refractory in. this re- gard. -, Certain French quarters are fight- ing the efforts of the International convention 'because they believe it detrimental to the interests of the colonies. They point out, for years the colonists have been able to put :new estates under cultivation and modernize Africa only through forc- ing the natives to work. The natives., according to reports, are sometimes captured at the point of a gun and forced to work for a certain period after which they are released and paid a mai sunt for their latter. Forward I do not think that well-known hymn, " Forward Be Our Watchword! was ever meant for th'o New Year, yet I know of none better fitted. "Forward!" It is a grand. word. It breathes strength and courage and hope. It is an. Inspiriting word. Its very sound seems to make the feet step out to new efforts, to worthy endeavour, to fresh enterprise. it is a brave word too; nothing co- wardly and shirking about it. It• warms the blood and lights the eye. ft pulls a man "together, and ,if he obeys it wholeheartedly he becomes a force, a flame of energy and power. The hang -back are always with us. They are alt for "letting well alone." They lack the faith that moves mountains of difficulty. They are a clog on tee wheel of progress. That is why, in this. New Year, we must all move forward together. For- ward is a word of union as well as of advance. To win we must •go for- ward together a united force. To go forward requires faith more than sight, Right action makes dig; dculties dissolve in thin air. You may call your faith vision if you like. Whatever it is, it is a frame of mind, an urge of spit -It, a quest of soul:— Something hidden. Go and and it. Go and look behind the Ranges, Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you, Go! That's the spirit, It doesn't ask too many questions about safety, or cora- tort, or ease, or shelter, It says: There's something to be done. It needs a man. I'm the one! - To -day, walking along the street, I wondered 'why the traffic went so slowly and haltingly. Thou 1 -saw a big, 'lumbering; joy -trotting, horse- drawn van. The one slow -mover held al the quick -movers back! It is not unlike that with a natigit. We all need "to get a move on." We are Just as capable, as industrious, as skilful, -as brainy as ever we were, and mucin better educated. Let us, at Query dinner table, there will soon then, remember this New Year mot - be an end of conversation, aiid the to: "Forward b our watchword!" for strong, silent Englishman will 'be- 193°'come stougcr and more sheat ,than ever. Sunday -School :Teacher — ' Tommy, who made the trees, the fields and he moulitaine?" Tornnly—"r .don't ]snow, miirii. We only Moved here two months ago,' A prehistoric skeleton has .,been found, with its legs almost r'bund "its neck. Evidently even in the old clays there were new dance stege. -The Passing Shoal (London). --,t Open To All Loudon Evening Standard (Ind. Clouser Mr. Ramsey MacDonald has told a story of two meetings with Lord 'Dawson of Penn that was both amusing hull full Of meaning On one eeeasloil, when they were both young men, they found themselves in Gower Street after midnight without enough money between them to carry them home to the North of London otherwise than on their legs. On the next, they were both guests of the Icing at ,Buckingham Palace. Per- haps we have not realized to the full Ft's ideal of the "career open to the ign(S," ~But it would rte harry to name any ""unity iu any period of none Oh)ser to It. history Which bas c +q'' y'ragce Closer, certainly, than fru lnd it hen the ph'raee was iirSt inve.., for caree1e were thdar open 0nl7 to tho..o whose Ideals wt+ recognized' as slick by the l mp�rorel nday Sch'lg = :1 -Less i! v January 5. Lesson I, Childhood of Jesus—Matthew 2.2 10.23. Golden "text—Thou shalt call his .name Jrsnel'for he shall"save his people from their sins,—Matthew 1: 21. , A:NALXSIS' I. THE VISIT OI TIIlS WISE IYIIIL 0-12.IL MIGHT INTO r':4 ;-T-c, 13-15. III. urinal TO s(,AZARETE,-16-23. Imetonvcrsoef—in beginning these studies frrotn the first gospel, one may recall the remelt made by a distill.'.. guished French scholar, IZenan, who said, 'The Gospel according to St. Matthew is the most,rentarkable book that has, ever been written." It pre. vides es well a wonderful pictere of the Messiah, and' shows hoer 'Jesus was the fulfilment of the prophecies of --the Old Testament. The writer makes it 'clear that the Christian is the heir of all the promises of Israel, I. andvas theviatruel-c iorihtorTRIprGetervisa MENof scripture. , 10-I2. V. 10, There are two aceoupts of the birth cif Jesus, one in Matthew and the other 'in Luke, and these togethea give us a clear view of this most mar' rebus event in the history of drill world. The actual date is uncertain; but it is' probable that Jesus 'wee horn seheral years before A.D. 1, This seems to follow from, the fact that Herod upas still Iiving when lesuss was born; and it would appear that Herod died in B.C. 4. Some think that the records of the stars may also help to fix the date, but this- is not at all sure, We must also read the seeonnt in Luke .2: 2 where the events are connected 'with the movements in the Roman Empire, • V. 11. The Wise Men rix Magi, were a Median tribe, who devoted much time to the study of the stare. They wor- shipped the heavenly obects, and thought they could tell learn the pro- gress of the stars how tk,tngs were to happen. The visit, of these men repre- sents the first fruits of the universal mission of Christianity, and it is a fine tribute paid ttto Jesus as the Redeemer of the word. Bethlehem is a senall town south Of Jerusalem, and according to `Matthew, there were pre- dictions that the promised Messiah was to come out of this place. Luke mentions the place of birth, but omits the prophecy. There is now a famous church built over the spot where Jesus is said to have been barn, called The Church of the Holy Natirity. V. in. Herod, who is mentioned here, was also called Herod the Great, and was King -over the whole of Judea; but he was not complete ruler, since he had to acknowledge the sovereignty "bf Route. He must be distinguished from Herod Antil•as his son. He was an able ruler, but unscrupulous and cruel. II, PLIGHT INTO EGYPT, 13-15. V. 13. Egypt always had close asso- ciation with Palestine,.and it was not unusual for Israelites in tante of peril to turn to Egypt for help, The recent war shows hew close the connection stilt and is. Egypt wee a much richer more civilized lend, and at this time there was a large number of Jews there, especially in Alexandria, which was said to have one-fifth of its popu. ration consist of Jews. We do not learn front any other source of the visit of Jesus to the land of the Nile. V. 14. This story of the flight has been made familiar by many pictures. The verse leaves the impression of haste. fear, and concealment. The par- ents remain in the land of Egypt till Herod dies. V. 15, One of the main features of Matthew is the use of the Old Testa- ment. He was writing for Christian Sews who were in heed of Bible proof to uphold their beliefs when attacked by the Jews. One of the oft -repeated sentences is, "That it might be ful- filled which vac spoken of tite Lord by the prophet.” The passage here quoted is from Hosea 11: 2. III. RETURN TO NAZARETH, 16-23. V. 10. The massacre of the innocents has often been portrayed by the art- ists, and it is doubtful if these are al- ways historically accurate. Probably the number of children murdered was small, as there would not be very ninny younger than two years in a small town like Bethlehem. However, it was a very cruel deed, and smite in keeping with what is known from other sources of the character oe this man. We do not read :n the gospels that Jesus ever carne back to Bethle- hem, but it is interesting to wonder whether he ever returned to see the inn in which he had beep born. V. 17. Again we note the tendency to call attention to the fulfillment of the prophecies of scripture. Bainah has been sometimes identified with a small village Er -Rama, about five miles north of Jerusalem. - V, 22. Ott their return to Palestine, the parents remained in the south, in Judea, but they are warned in a dream that the danger is not over, and they go earth. We must try to keep clearly in our mind the geogt'aphyeof Pales- tine, which is divided into three parts: Judea south; Samaria next and Gal- ilee north, The kingdom had been divided after Heied's death among his sons. Archelaus received Judea and Sanarie, and ruled so badly that after eight years he as sent into exile, and Rome asunted direct control. However, Galilee remained under Herod Antipas till after the death of Jesus. V. 23. Nazareth, where Jesus was brought up, was an important town and it lay on the route of the travel from Egypt to the East. Here Jesus would see the regiments cf soldiers passing, and he would hear of the events happening in the world.` The scenery also was beautiful. • Flying Is Given Impetus In West - neglect, Sask.—Winter flying has been given a big boost on the pref. ries where zero_.temperatres are the fashion for weeks on end., The start of air mail has placed its stampof'appro'ifal on aviation on the chilled prairies. • . -On top of this is the 100 -tulle flight of Hon. Carl Stewart, Provincial Min- Mier iaidier of highways,to ielena, Mon - tang. Mr. Stewart and four members • of the Provincial Highways depart- ment wanted to get to the Montana. capital in a hurry, Awkward train. sdtedules would not permit comple- tion of the journey in less than four days. But Mr. Stewart' and his aides set Omit in zero weather be' plane and in five hours wore taking part in au Interfi8tieltal Roads convention in -Montana. . While daylight lasts s`ctnfeee et eight I=oprs phi' the prahies aviators are mej;,eg the. most of it acid no whiter dying mishaps lave -boon reported.