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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1928-11-22, Page 6The . roblern of British Emigrant Engi :n:1's Former Premier, J. `Ramsay MaclDtinald, +Finds That There is e Need in the Dominion of Canada for Men Who Have the Pioneer Spirit MUST HOLD TRADITIONS By 3. RAMSA.Y .MacDONALD Ex -Primo Minister of Tingland Tho shipment of 2,500 unemployed emphasized too much) ''neednot be British miners for harvesting work in Canada has advertised once again the question - of emigration from the mother , country to the Dominions.- And ominions:And yet,. by considering emigration as a curefor-unemployment,a great disservice is done to the movement for supplying the Dominions with, an adequate population. not only to use their natural"wealth' but to root them as nations in British civic traditions., The latteraim is as important as. the former, for if the 'waste spaces in the Dominions are filled by people' who as citizens know nothing of our democratic traditions, and feel no link with us, the future' of the British Com- monwealth of Nations will -not be very I haveJust returned from Canada, where I have had -opportunities both by 'conversation and observation of coming to close grips with the prob- lem as it is experienced' in that prom- ising land. One oft -repeated miiun derstanding ought to be put to rest at once. It is not true that British settlers are not welcomed in Canada, Some British ,settlers, however,' are awkward customers to deal with. A foreigner goes in a docile frame of mind. He is not at home and be 'knows it,' and, therefore, he troubles about nothing but to, make a living. It he is, a peasant and goes upon the land, he' thinks of, nothing but culti- vation. He is up. withthe sun and goes to bed when he can labor no more that day. If he is in industry, he gives no troubles, that is the rule.I Tho rule as regards English emi- grants, however, is that they try tot. take their home ways and 'standards I with them and are not so ready to., adapt themselves to Canadian enndi- peasants'to begin with, A Private Enterprise Only a week or two ago in the Prov- ince of Manitoba, I walked over two- quarter -block farms (160 acres) 'with- in about a mile of each other. Ono was worked by a family drawn from a rent farm, the other by a Scottish miner. An agricultural expert was with me. 'Both families were quite clearly malting good; neither would think of moving back again. One had gone in more for stock than the other, but the ruiner was the more resource- ful cultivator. Both had gone out un- der the family emigration scheme of 1024.- That morning 2 also saw farms being successfully cultivated by men who had been steel -smelters. up , to three years ago.. 4,11 that is required is the willand the ability to work and the caphcity to adapt oneself to Cana- dian 'conditions, Those sunny settlements which I saw all along the thousands of miles. of Canadian railways, it was quite plain, were only made by the most severe labor, and the heaviest burden lies on the backs of the women. Their time at first is .:one of constant drudgery and heartbreaking hardship. In winter the cold and the loneliness try the flimest nerves; 1n sumther the household and farmwork is ter- ribly heavy. So a' large proportion of, the failures is . due to the fact that the women have found the life too hard. That need.not deter any wife of the stout heart and physical strength from going out. Some of the. cheeriest women I have met for a long time bad one through tho hard first year or two .of the settlers' life,andwere EfItalio41014 Air Leadership. BRITISH ACE BEAT t..ONDON-BERLIN AIR RECORD Capt.Stack, photographed on his arrival at Templehofer Field, after flying from London to. Berlin, over 050 miles, in 4 bours and 52 minutes- over 130 miles an hour. tions. So long as there is no Syste- matic attempt to study the problem of migration, this crude scramble of the survival' of the most adaptable will continue and British migration Will not come well out of it - Until we' have, done everything in our power to develop and organize our only sources, especially our land, we can have no real surplus popula- tion which it would bea benefit to the nation to send across the seas. In special trades, we may have such sur- pluses, as we have in coal mining at present, but in other trades we aro under rather than over stocked, and every man or woman with' vitalenergy and skill who leaves us is a loss to us. Unregulated emigration tendd to lower the efficiency and the power of a nation like ours, which ought to' offer almost unlimited openings for men who have brains and are not afraid to use them. ,The only cure. for unemployment is the development of efficiency conducted trade. 'Therefore it is that, though, for the Moment, it would be convenient if our unemployed registers were halved in bulk by our finding work in 'the Do- minions for 200,000 miners, we ought never to forget that this true, tar -see- ing purpose of emigration is to strengthen`the Dominions themselves. X found that doctrine universally ac- cepted in Canada. Canada is only too anxious to help us to overcome our imihediate difilficulties—'but upon con- ditions. It is not, fOr instance, to agree to repeat the crude experiment of miners as harvesters, though in the end what leas been done will benefit the greater part of the 'men who have gone out, for Canada will be able to assimilate them. • What Canada primarily wants is " families who will settle on the land, I emphasize families because I also 'emphasize-. settlement. The land is not all good, and lithe of h fa a garden. Some has been 'let down, ' some is under forest, some' sodden with, alkali. Labor, however, can sub- due and sweeten it, though the labor will 'make . the bones ache: and brow and back sweat. Because that is what Canada needs its doors are open to the peasantry of the North and Centre of Europe. The emigrant part of the. ship in which I crossed over was full' of them, and so far as I could .detect there was not a British emigrant among them. What else can we expect? We have left the supremely important question of the development of the land of Canada to private enterprise and the emigration agent who lives Upon commissions. It we dip a net in any peasant community in Europe— Slav, Latin or anything else -we draw 1t up fall of potential settlers, but that is dot true of .our ,own people. Pri- vate enterprise always takes the lino of immediate gains and damns the consequence: _ Yet, with a little trouble on the part of the, Canadian govern- ment and our own, much could be done to open up the land to British. 'aettlers, who, (andthis cannot be reaping tate reward 'of their endur- ance,. One portly body who wrung my hand with pain -giving heartiness told'hne she came from Barking three years ago, And, after a racking time of home -sickness and discouragement, had found her feet and now "would not go back for anything." A Scottish artisan's wife. who had also been out for three years beamed like a sunny noonday in her' kitchen. She also had had "the horrors," but now she said "this is a grand place. It's so good for the bairns; there's something to look forward to'lrere." It is those first years of crushing trial that are the testing and sifting time, and no woman should go to Canada. who has not been told,of them and who is pot prepared to brave them. .Eo the conclusions one comes to are simple and straightforward. ' The man of pioneering spirit who is at- tracted by a new and vigorous country. can be left pretty much to himself, though he'should be protected against Die false *memento too often put before him by interested 'emigration agents. .But in the planned work of 'nation -building Governments must play the leading parts because 'it has to be done by settlement upon the land. Emigration for settlement should be by family and as much as possible by community, although • not in the' wholesale way of the original Kil- donan settlement on the Red' River. The -land Should be 'selected and the farms equipped,. For the first years the settlers should be advised 'and looked after; should be guarded against /all forms. of swindling. Such a policy, if under the responsible con- trol of, Governments, would protect the emigrating country from being depleted of the skill and virility which it requires for the immigrating coun- try satisfactory human material and it would also reduce failures to the smallest proportion. It 113 a grave re- flection upon our Governments that they are beginning to get to close grips with this question of Such great importance to individuals and to pe17at, development. Australia Increases Egg Export To Britain Sydney, N.S,W.—The 'Australian and New Zealand Egg ,Export Feder anon has lifted an` industry that has been long in an unsatisfactory con- dition. The general manager said that he bad already arranged to ship, more than 12,000,000 eggs during the next few months. Poultry farmers of this State are keon to be relieved of some millions of eggs,and.as it seems that England can consume all that Ausrtalia does got need,, the position generally is now satisfactory. The manager states that X6;000,000 worth of eggs could be safely shipped to Great.Britafn. His own clothes make rho man, but women's clothes break him.—Nor- • folk Virginian -Pilot. ' Customs Seizure, Shows Conditions Rum runner Takenat Port Hopi, Indicate Lawless. nese of, the Bootleg Fraternity WILL GOVERNMENT ACT With 'Minister Euler meeting Ad- ministrator Drayton to discuss liquor exports, the following nous article in the Mail and Empire comes at a vital time. Canada has reason to beproud of her law enforcement and our lake ports should be cleared of the unde- sirable riffraff that are known as rum runners. Such characters are better dispersed whatever ono thinks of the temperance question. We don't want them in Canada and the sooner they are put out of business the better.„,, Port hope.—The Uncus, said to be the speediest rum -runner in operation on the Great Lakes, has; been seized by customs 6fticials and is lying in harbor Lore. The Uncus, which has been running out. of Port hope harbor for thelast six months, cleaned for the United States 'over the week -end and returned to Port Hope Sunday. Tho crew failed>to report the return' • to the local customs authorities, as they are required to do under cus- toms regulatione.:J. 0. Leblanc, spe- cial enforcement officer at Cobourg,' made the seizure and seals have been placed upon the boat prohibiting its use. Officer Leblanc said to -Night' that the seizure had been reported te.the Customs Department, but no action has been taken to date. The name of the owner of the Uncus is not known to the officials; although several mem- bers of the crew' reside here. The Uncus is a 50 -foot converted subma- rine chaser and is capable o'f 45 miles per hour. Constructed of quarter -inch steel plate, the boat -is fully protected against machine-gun and -rifle fire, even to the employment of bullet-proof glass in the cabin windows. •It. ;was built in Russia and used during the Great War in the Baltic by the Rus- sian navy. , Rum -runners who have operated a fleet of boats, including two racing launches, out of Port Hope harbor during the summer, claim that they will continue, operations through- outthe winter months despite adverse weather conditions. Larger boats of the fleet,tp be used, in the winter traffic, are being overhauled and re- paired for the work. British Town May Try Manager Plan Newport May Be First Eng- lish Municipality to Adopt American System London—Adoption of the American "city manager” plan is advocated by John Adanson, an expert employed by the municipal authorities of New- port, Monmouthshire, to advise them on reorganization and economy. If adopted, he believed it would be the first occasion that England has ex- perimented with a system which has proved sq successful in many cities on the other side of the Atlantic. The Adamson report bn Newport affairs says: "There is a noticeable lack in some cases of that manage- ment or control and supervision, which is exercised by a general manager or controller in any successful _commer- cial undertaking, and which is not leas essential for the economical adminis- tration of a municipality." Xie recommends the appointment of a city manager, who would control all municipal, expenditure by strict euporvision of all departments. The heavy capital involved, he says, alone stays the recommendations for the complete scrapping of the municipal tramway and omnibus systems,; but the ,corporation should now consider, he urges, whether or not private op- erations are desirable. Mr. Adamson would also create a municipal labor department, reduce overtime to the minimum, consolidate municipal water works, rearrange municipal offices, and reduce the ex- cessive reports ordered" published by councillors. NOT THAT KIND! "What do you think of th Itallan ,tennis champion?" "You mean Gasolini?" new "Well, I often wonder bow he ever survived a match.' TWO TESTS "Most men are known for their deeds." ` "Others by their mortgages." Grahhlies ett the Fly PLANES CAN PICK UP TME' MAIL WHILE FLYING APable from the a lane trails into this new device en the ground that e resembles a shoe with the toe removed, and catches the mall bag, .which 4s wound up as the airman keeps on his way. - Sunda. School Lesson ped. Those who worshipped a cruel Moloch thought it was necessary to make their children walk through the fire as an act pleasing to their God. Today the heathen think of 'a revenge- 4ul-Cod whom they attempt to appease by acts of torture. But when the idea' of ` God is pure, then ;prayer also is pure,.. Jesus first revealed this beauti-. November 25. Lessor VIII—The ful grace and love of 'God when he taught Prayers of Paui—Acts 20: 36-38;. his followers to Our say, Eph.; 1; 15' 16; 3: 14-21. Golden Father which :art in heaven. ,Ile thereby made true prayer possible. We Text -Rejoice evermore; Pray with- Linens that God is our Father who is out ceasing. In everything give constantly contemplating the • best thanks. -1 These. ii: 16.18. things for all his children. • ANALYSIS. V. 16. These two prayera in Ephe- sus should be . mpared.as one la the I. THE FAREWELL PRAYER 08' EPHESUS, complement of the other. In' 1: 17-28, Acts 20: 36-38. Paul thinks of the magnificence of the IL PAUL'S CEASELESS' THANKSGIVING, hope which Christ brings and of the Eph. 1: 15,.16. grandeurof the inheritance which is III. PAUL'S SECOND PRA]TR, Eph. 3 • laid up for believers.. • No human eye 14-21. can see it, so he prays, that the eyes, of their minds may be opened by the INTRODUCPICN—.Prayer ought to Spirit of God that they may seethe have the central place in the life of full measure of the glory.. But in the every true: Christian. .Jesus was our second prayer, he thinks not so much deader in this regard'at in all others. of light as of strength. He taught his c-seiples definitely on V.'18. This strength can only come the principles of true prayer, gave as Christ dwells in us. But Jesus has them the great model, called the Lord's promised to reveal himself to his fol Prayer, and most of all set them an' lowers, for he will abide with us -for example of thevalue and effect of ever. Three things are here empire - sincere communion with Gcd. Paul sized. (1) That it is only by the spirit follows his Lord hero very closely, and that men may come to know the .ful- we find that the same stress is ]aid ness of the glory in Christ:. We do not upon this great subject in the Epistles :rise by our dwn efforts. Strength has as in the gospels.I to be given to us from above and we I. THE FAREWELL manna of EPHESU3 Can only obtain this strength as we Acts 20: 36-38: ' live in unity and harmony with others who are worshipping the tame Christ, V. 86. In time of deep emotion or of It is along with the saints that we danger it was natural that these know truth. (3) This love cf. God can Christians should turn to God, and in nes-_ be exhausted. We may see more this incident we have a fine example of of its great dimensions, its length, the way in which Paul carries on the breadth, height, depth, but still it re - thoughts of his converts from the sor- mains unknown in all its fulness. It rows of the immediate parting to that surpasseth knowledge. great union with God, who is above all V. 20. Therefore all glory must be change and who can guard and keep ascribed to hint who came to give ua all his children. There is nothing that this blessing.' Paul's . prayers are a can calm the sorrowful mind like a great description o; prayer to Jesus. real attempt to enter into the presence They are, as is said in theological lan- of the loving Father. We are not given guage, christological—Christ is the any part of the actual prayer, but in centre. the letter to the Ephesians we have two whole gaasages from which we_. may gather some idea of the thoughts Bn'Yt1ih Canals which niust have filled Pauls mind at the time. .',' V, 37. These verses are sufficient And Water as to banish any suggestion that Paul Pec me Active e was a srern,hard, cold man, indifer- eat to all the, wanner emotions of the soul. His heart was very soft and Machinery as Motive Power tender. Prayer: had ,,done wonders in .Die races Horse and deepening his sympathy with all those p who loved the Lord Jesus. Tow -path and Aids 1I. PAUL'S CEASELESS THANicsGIVING, Worker Eph. 1: 15, 16. - Thanksgivif~ig is one of tate leading London. England's sleepy canals elements in true ,prayer. There'are years critics have declared that the so many lovely, gracious, and good canals were derelict and bad been people and things in the world that rendered obsolete by the competition we .may always have cause for grati- of the railways, and more recently by tude and joy. In Paul's heart there motor transport on the roads. was a fountain of thanksgiving. 1n But during the last 12 months more one letter he writes, "In all things give than in :any other previous period, thanks."His generous nature is re: according to O. J. Llewellyn; tbe•Gov- fleeted o tht`e qualities he always ernment Inspector of Canal Boats, picked out the good qualities •th his converts. There are several things whidh may be noted here; (1) Paul believed that in all true prayer, than was not dependent merely `on his own will and effort, since God's spirit was always suggesting and inspiring and helping the worshipper, "The spirit bears witness with oUr spirits." (2) 'He was a firm believer in intercessory prayer. He must have had long lists of those 'whom he nentionc i daily in his prayer. This duty must have made great inroads upon his time, but Le reaped great ,results. Perhaps there are few ways in which some people canin do .more service than in scere and constant petition for those'whoin they love, and whose welfare they desire. III. PAUL'SSECOND PRAYER, Eph. 3: • 14-21. V. 14. This is the second of the prayers in Ephesians, and it Is exceed- ingly rich in its teaching and' the light thrown upon the nature of true wor- ship. Paul 'knelt to the "Father." Everything is. a religious turn upon the:nature of the God who is worship - new ideas and developments have made tbeir appearance on many Eng- lish canals and English waterways; The now movement is in the direction of up-to-date methods, and the general adoption of engines of one sort or another, In the place of borses. Just as wmen have learned to drive motor ears, so the wives of canal boat- men have learned to manage ma- chinery on their crafts. Contrary to expectation, there have been fewer mishaps, Under the old system, when a horse dragged a boat along the canal, the wife of theboatman,' or one of her children, bad frequently to step on and off the boat, inorder tocare for the horse. Nowadays, the motor engine is more.. easily accessible and more obedient, and thus the- wives and families have adapted themselves to new methods. Not only bas the number of re chanically propelled boats much in- creased on all English canals, but the Ci�ick.Bri 'ieit*a•, r U21ECib '3'1x91n;,„Jo ! LIFE- GUARDS AND ROYAL HORSE GCARDS CHANGE QUARTERS The Life Guards (in front) Passing the I-Iorse Guards on the0Great West Road while -they change from Windsor Castle to iiCmeuts Park Bti'i',aClfk-, No Curtains or Rugs Decorate the Residence -of Marshg F ung Wife of China's Minister of War Tells How Simple Living Is the Rule in 1-louseholc That Has Only Hard Chairs and Severe Tables that wo think our dxampto' 1n this e sped hi effective." It in characteristic of Marshal Feng and his wife t• : plan for an i(1egllsti) 'future and to work mean: While according to the needs 02 the hour, Tho model villages which they have; created 1n Henan Prov Inco during the past year aro ex- amples of this. Notwithstandia;e their o'n advanced Ideas, since their recent visit to Russia, the plans for vivaciously behind her horn-rlmmod ' the villages have taken into aeount speotaclea, Mai. Fang )aonsiders her most im- portant work to be her duties as wife and mother. She says she considers that she helps Marshal Feng most by looking ,after his household. As Is generally known, elle shares is, his detiire for simple living. She disdains the silk and jewels whichadorn the wives of other Chinese militarists, wearing only cheap cotton 'herself, and the drawing.reom of the Peiping home is bare of rugs, curtains, and .time, they too must study. Mrs. ornaments. The only furnishings are, Feng's chief outside interest is in etraight, hard chairs and a few se- education, she says, and she person- vere tables.- "We live plainly," she explained, "How could we live other then .fru- gally when there are now so: many very poor people in China? Marshal 'eng and I are'acustomed to simple living from childhood and it is not true thatsuch. economy is affecta- tion on our. part, although it is true Mrs. Feng, Peiping (Pelting)—Questions con' corning the work and Ideals of Mar- shal Peng' Yu-heiang,' Minister of Wal' in tato Nationalist Government,'' which have been the subject ,of Much din, eusslon in China recent*, 'woro'ane, veered fully by the Marshal's wife during 'her recent visit to hor old home hero, In an interview, "1 roprosent the women of North China—the country womon," • said Mrs. Fang, her black oyes moving existing condiious. Indlvtdual, not community, homes have been built, and the agricultural and other train- ing provided are appropriate to the 'demand. _ Compulsory education is enforce& In these villages for both young and old. Illiterate persons under '30 years of• age are expected to learn a certain number .of Chinese char - actors within a specified period and while older persons are given more ally has established three schools in different parts of China, where chil- dren are taught reading, arithmetic,. and manual trades. The schools are supported partly by tuition fees fronu those who can afford them,1 partly by the work of the pupils themselves, and the balance by donation from: Even These Can Crash BLIMP CAME DOWN A BIT TOO HARD AND BUMPED -The U.S. navy blimp, 2-3, returning to Lakehurst after it had been in train- ing flight, came down in this fashion,: tearing the fabric of the envelope and ' breaking the framework No was injured. requisite knowledge of the machinery has raised the general standard of in- telligence. According to Harry Gos- ling, the trades union official speci- ally interested in the welfare ol boat- men and their families, the modern type of man working onthe canals is very anxious that his children should receive a better education than has hitherto been possible. 'Unfortunate- ly, difficulties are great for ,those children who live on a boat that is constantly on the move, but more and more educational authorities of Eng- land are arranging to afford these cbildren the necessary facilities. This is becoming barrier now that` motorbuses have linked up every part of England, and therefore, canal boatmen find it no longer necessary ,in every case to sleep in theiincabins, belt are able to go home at night. Thus their families can reside in one place. An interesting sign of the solidity of English . craftsmanship is shown by the .fact, officially confirmed, that many of the wherries now being used. on the North Broads have been at Work for over 100 years, and still are in good condition. Experts question whether the Modern type of boat that is often of steel construction, will sure vivo for 50 years. - Canadian Horses Make Good Show New York, N.Y.—Canadian entries continued to show well as'the second day of the National Horse Show pro gressed al Madison Square Gardens, James Franceschini, of Toronto, who tools •a third in the pony class, gaining .his first blue ribbon in the novice single Harness horses with his bay gelding, "Sensation." "Red Star," a chestnut,, gelding, shown by the Uplands Farm, Roche. Point, Ont, took second place in the ladles' quali- fied hunters' side-saddle class. Ber- nard F. Gimbel's "Welcome" took the blue ribbon after both "Welcome" and "Red Star" had sailed over the hurdles, with a grace and ease that won the Mantilla of the spectators. ' • • Mr. Franceschini's "First Edition" was second in single ponies in har- ness," which was won by George J. Peak's "Tho Minister:" Spectators were treated to a double' thrill. in the first event of the day, in 'which more horses particin pated than in any single event be - fere. Oub rider was badly thrown and the victor of the feature was the United States Army I3orse Show team entry, Buckaroo, the outstanding win- ner of this year's show thus fat. ° Canada Came Second The United States and Canada were first and second respectively in the Westchester 'Challenge. Cup interna- tional event. The horses of the Mirth American contingent far outdistanced the crack European jumpers over the, difficult Olympic course A. The win- ning teams were: United States Army—Miss America, Lieut. ia. 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