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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1929-01-24, Page 3Motor Show Shows Advances `l'ar-onio' First Post:Wz r In- door Motor Show • Indicates' More Beauty and •Faster Cars For New Season Th,, motor car of 192.9--a- hit more beautiful,, a trifle faster and a shade more d'epaiidable than any pretiioue. descendents of the hoaseless carriage --has just..�made its how Lo the; Ontario public. o expel o, a[1a net Si , Lt iel ffiR14a � 'rr� a � tBankerhnzerts, We imported Moro than 000 000+000 ill gelid from debtor �1 8 War NotDue' .tins rer5 C oolid a t is Made Not in Disparage' merit of America, Rut Ow- ing to•the Necesity,of Put ting Right Statements Open to Question. Gold ReserVe 70"fo Increase "Two indications• of increasing wealth: in Lite tatted States maty be given, .Between1914 and 1921 the Si gold reserve of the United Stelae of America -a sum equivalent to 150 per cent, of the present gold reserve, of the flank of England, ' "Agate, the average excess of mer- i'Fiold,lvlarshal Sir William Robert- chandieo.-exports over imports by the son,, who was making, his first alt- United States between=: the years pearanco at a" i.oagtie platform, de - /910 -14 vras £95;000,000, and between I livered a remarkable speech on the tlto^ye..lirs 1915-22 £530,000,000. The cost of war. and Its futility," reports total' net exports during the War. the Manchester Guardian, period were £4;237,,000,000. !'Before the 'War the United Status, In the words of IVir, 1-loover's Depart ntwit of Conmeree, 'held the record of being the greatest debtor nation in history: Now she is the greatest creditor nation. It is officially ' es-ft-- meted sti=meted than in 1914 she 'owed other {rations :500,000,000 more than they owed her, but that now her net assets abroad, including Allied War debts, amount to; say £ 4,000,000,000. ''It seems indisputable; therefore, that 'during' the War and as a result of the conditions arising' out of the War; and despise any losses, destruc- tion, or waste due to the War, the Wealth an dincome of the American people,-iucreased von' considerably,. "Title is said by no means by way of disparagement. I was in Washing• ton for nearly a year during 1917-18, looking atter munitions for- the British Government, and had an opportunity to see at first hand the American War effort. .1 agree, with President Cool - ,lege in thinking it unique. To ` the Soldiers William Robertson Speaks His Mind on' the Civil Ministers' Sole Re•- aponsibility Front the laboratory raid the prov- ing ground, .the- tuctory and he' test Highway,: have come, the year's 'devel- opments which serve to raise the auto mobile of the moment t'o ;:a pear slightly higher than it has <attained. before, In past years the automobile show often has drawn its curtain upon sweeping and drastic.changes, This year -it offers a grouprof refinements to motor tars already engineered to a higher degree of excellence, On of the meet unusltal mechanical Cliangesdisclosed this year is that of a maitufactus'er who offers the pur- chaser his choice bP .either a six cylinder or ;eight -cylinder in the same' chassis. It isnot a case of having two different models. It .is the same car, furnished with either motor the buyer prefers. Bodies," following the most recent note of the leading custom designers, show a marked increase in symmetry. This is mainly procured through file introduction el the airplane "air -toll" curve of the fenders and the rinsing of the hoods to give more unity of line between bonnet and top. Colors, which were gay last 'year, bn'.ve not lessened' In number, but it is apparent that Improvements iu the paud1ing of lacquer finishes have given a new softness and richness to the extei'Iore. In even the less expen- sivo mukea, the combinations or two tones' m• two different colors Indicate artiste!' as .well as technical improve- . nlent•,.. OF INTEREST TO ALL The .lemons Budget Speech which' President t doolidgo made over a month ago in ;which he ' criticized Europe and England is etii•1 fresh' hi our minds. It is 09 interest toread whatr, a leading ,British financial auth- ority thinks of Mr, Coolidge's state- ments. The Hon. R. H. Brand, the Man Who Replies to 'Mr. Coolidge "1VIr,, Robert Henry Brand is the. 'second' Viscount Tianlpden. "Mr. Brand le'. unusually qualified to 'discover the 'fallacies of interna- tional 'finance He is a director of Lloyds Bank, of Messrs. Lazards, 'the Merchant Bankers, and ofmany other great commercial concerns. "In 1917 he was Deputy Chairman of the British Mission in Washfugton. He was financial' adviser to Lord Robert„ Cecil when Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council at the Parte Peace Conference in 2.919. Tater he was Ylce-President of the Interna- tional'.Financial' Conference of the League: o1. Natione et- Brussels and was financial representative or South Africa' at the Genoa Conference."— London Daily News. • * * "Mi•. Brand's good faith, fairness - and competence cannot be'cballenged Does Civilization as destruction, of property, loss of by anyone; and.: his figures will be •-'f7 slapping, loss to agriculture and iu- accepted as dual. Great Britain has - • Need Religion histl'y, decrease of birth-rate, and no objection to :paying her debts, but J race 'deterioration .ntay be guessed at she ie a little restive at'being,told at "As it prophet and thin -icer on social £30,000,000;000, or some £10,000,000, - the same time that her rich areditoe matters Me, Niebaltr's interest and. 000 in all, The loss, of lire was about is far more impoverished;" says the stat 10,000,000, which is double that caused' hope are wider than those of rellgiott Daily News, in its leader uta the re- alone, and as'a religious man his ex- by all the wars of. the preceding 120 Napo - markable letter to, The. Times contrib- pectations include more than"what"is Sears, including the wars of the Napo- uted to Mr. Brand -fn reply to lit-. merely Christian and Western," says leouic' .period. Besides the killed, Coolidge. It will be read with interest a Church Tinges (London) reviewer. there 'wer'e probably not less than "The principle of civil Ministerial control," he said in :ono strildng sen- tence, "intime of war applies' equally to the control of ;armaments in time of peace. Naval and military consid- erations undoubtedly .have their im- portance, but' the question ultimately to be decided 10,essentially one of national pulley, and that, of course, can only be laid' down by the Civil Ministers of the Crown and on their own responsibility. "in this country we are still spend- ing on our armed forces about £116,- 000,000 a year, or nearly double the amount Spent.beeore the war; rand although the , value of money has meantime depreciated the strength of the forces maintained has also de- creased. The world will never know precisely what it had to Pay for the last war. Cost of the•Great War "Taking all the belligerents into f France's Strong Man FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER AT LEAGUE COUNCIL Aristides Deland, at Lugano, departing from his hotel toatian i a session of the council of the,League of Nations. of p world he sae from drifting into ac t g widely separated,' the wor ed e he lobe its wt o account; the direct .money Outlay arts .being connected not by roads or another war. railways, as in the case of most.othett War and Human Nature Powers, but by the sea; and if these "The assertion often heard'that.war sea oommuuications were seriously has always existed and always will s0 nterrupted the Umpire might fall to long as human nature remains what it pieces and Great Britain might starve. is should be rejected. The same state Obviously, therefore, they are' as es' ment was probably just as often made centuries ago when tribal warfare was the fashion, and later when England and'Scotland were inveterate,enomiee, and it may now be regarded as being out of date to a very much wider extent. remarks that 1 regard the limiter "No doubt tire object in view will of armaments as being solely, or even take a long time to achieve, and it mainly, a natter for. "naval and ninemay be attended by many features. tary experts. 'But, -given unfaltering faith on the ewers involving as they do part of •alt men of goodwill, we are "Modern g ly justified iri believing that Inc greater number of deaths 'was that can t possible to seems to have been clearly, £40,000,- P 000,000, while the indirect cost; such Tire' 'haat of ''secondary mechanical on both sides of the Atlatuic, for there improvements, Welch add'length of are plenty of people in America who service, comfort and dependability to prefer the ptlltlieati0n of facts and the ueleest motor cars include cont- figures rather than their suppressten. bused air and fluid hydraulic sltoek here is tilt, concluding section of Mr, absotbere, vacuum controlled chasers Branch's letter to The' Times:— ' 'lubrication, •and - new tykes of air '.1:: f'Oolidge appears to believe cleaners and gasdllne filters. thatbe can refute the assertion, Itubbaet• mountings for motors and which. 'he , says. is sometimes made, peril -hearing eyeing shackles aro round that the Untted•States made a profit usn ou an increasing range of ottt o9 the War by showing how much motarcare. Superchargers,, destined the United States Government spent, to Mermen too intake of gasoline be- But the two things are in no way youcl the normdl vacuum of the motor, am found on snare of the, medium priced jnbe Driving' Cn0-tvl' Made Easier r The 001151ant tendency to ' make driving "mistake proof is exemplified ill two new devices which Confrontthe Mine Of the new models. One is et finger -lip central system which in geniously Pelee the control.' of the starter, horn anti light in the same , button atop the steering post. The - other is, an int'cr-couttolled choke, which when pelted out for starting au- tomatically sets the throttle itt the right Position, •Increasett power's offered both in new modtils anti in many of the lin- proved deslgns. In 00012 instances this increase has been attained by the simple expedient of -reducing the size of combust'imt, chambers: to provide a higher coluaressloh ratio This devel- opment 'h'av'beeit'made possible by the ohemiste . who have' developed non- detvnating fuels. Neteetous changes in valve and cam -shaft designs have added to the power of standard makes of motors. Ignition, apparently, has also drawn - attention of the -engineers during' the past year. The show discloses that there is a tendency to use larger bat - Melee. There' is a noticeable trend to- ward the use of smaller spark plugs - because they, are more efficient and more easily cooled. One ,maker has • adopted metric thread plugs for this ' reason while another has placed. two plugs in each cylinder -of the motor to insure better firing of the mixture. Many New Accessories Accessory exhibits disclose nttmel'- ous devices to add to the comfort and convenience of motoring, together' With -a wide veleety of "gadgets" and "dingbats" to delight, the mechanically inclined automobile owner. Radiator caps that look earl are al- - most as fiat as the engine hood, inter- nal ettinge, each as vanity cases, rear- view mirrors and clocks, et ,tetra, are found finished in lion•tarnishing ehromiuin, .Windshield cleaners, which in soiite cases clear- the whole shield and others electrically heated so as lei be effective in sleet; jacks' for lifting the heaviest .cars with a finger-tip touch; heaters operated by hot air from. the engine or by steam gener- ated by exhaust heat and by vapor, are among the new things shown. Vacuum 'cleaners that remove the last vestige of dust front, tufted up- holstery; radiator protecting shutters in which the vanes are vertical, lit keeping. with the modern style, are also among the new. offerings There necess�tl to iuclase the cash pt comparable.. Payment of interest on debt or of pensions does,not represent a loss of national wealth, but a trans- fer from one poelcet to another. It the £360,000,000 of interest we pay every yeas; on the National Debt 'rep- resented a direct toss -of national wealth, we should Indeed,lee in a pat. - ..toes way. ' Richer During the War "It is; iu fact, impossible to say whether the United States made a Profit or. loss out.of the War. What Is certain is that the American nation became much richer during the War, while all other belligerent nations be- came much poorer, Mr, CarterrGlass, the then Secretary 'of tate Treasury, said in April, 1919: --- "The expenditure of money lay the United States Government on their. War preparations, when once they get started, was immense, •and nothing cotild have been more formidable than the intense vigor -thrown into the task, But' a full recognition of these facts floes not -mean that one should accept without some criticism figures and statements so open to question as those el President Coolidge." a r * U * President Coolidge, Iu his Budget message to the Senate, referring to national defence, said: "Ample provision is made in these estimates for national defence, the es- timates for 1930 calling for $648,511,- 300 for thearmyand the navy. This amount is reached: -after' excluding from the army and navy estimates all non-military items,. so that the -figure" given' is the amount provided for purely military purpose's. "The- actual .expenditure for 1927 was $558,004,447;' for 1928 It was $596,000,896; the - estimated expendi- ture for 1929 is $672,844,283, while the estimated expenditure as - distinguish- ed from the appropriation estimates le $688,277,712 for 1930. - "In submitting the annual' Budget for 1920 the Chief Executive -stated that the amount carried in that. budget for national defence 'wee $549,000,000, au 'Mat in his 0pihioil the United States could have adequate national -defence with -a more modest outlay. "Nevertheless," he continues, "our: 'defence, estimates have steadily climb- ed until' the cash ,requirements have advanced Poi' 1930 by approximately $100,000,000 more than was estimated for 192e, This increase, however, is more apparent than real, far fn these prior days the ,defence establishmttents have bad uae'ef surplus supplies left over from the War. As these reserves have become depleted it has heconte ovi- ,.are such novelties', and freeze testers sion to Lake their place, _. that 100107e donbt-te;al'ding the Pro- 2,3u0 Aeropl.tries Uy 1932 tection afforded by antl9tceze mix- tures; shock absorbers tor. the front ''fir inlugst^ of die Government seats is: two.door'coacltes; and easily rine developing In a most satisfactory applied equipment that: permits Buick manner. The demands of. this sm'vice, adjustment of';the seats, forward and backward, All fife leading makes were repre- sented and the Interest in modern ,motor traneportatgn 'was evidenced by the rubbing 69 �elbows of lady, and laborer, of merchant and mechanic-, all classes pronounced by'' their inter- est a good motor' year for 1929. California seems to have gotten jealous of -Florida's hurricane pub• .Iictty---i,t has countered with a sweep. Jug flu eilfdemlc, Ctt lc; 13o'h; the little boy's favor- ito uncle, syas going to be married on the -following .Sunday, and the boy was .asking urs mother . some quostione Memel the wedding. ',19oth(er,? _he Said, "the last . -three days theY Ivo 1 them elle/thing ehey weee to eat don't while late; have bee,, adequately met. ' Tito' rive --yeah programme for thearray and -navy is approaching completion Prevision' is made„ 111 these estimates for lite tblyd-year in- crement of the army and the fourth; year inc<emelit, of the navy, and it is a fair aisump eon that at thea -olid, of 1931 the navy will have a well- balanced fleet and 1,000 ; aeroplanes?, while at the end' of 1932 tale army wilt be in possession of. 1,800 'planes ret proper proportion as to types,' ",'For nearly three years before we. hedFi to fight tvitht the Allies tee United. Stated profited tremendously in a commercial 1 ndwiudestrlai •'901990 . by the European Wat', ,Immottso for• One,' were made? prosperity pervaded our 4140- " 'Our a4d."'Our dom09 4J1 1fp,11d, 1193 taill10§t Tam? compittriliot1, nl}i' f©I'9fet /fade many lines epochal: It rett6Ndit 'file lmnteuee proportion of .918,461,000,000 "!t is clear that the world needs snore theft religion it society is to be put right. It needs hard thinking— the examination of tacts, and the test- ing of principles; all this means the 20,000,000 wounded. ""rhe record is an appalling one, and it is Intensified by the fact that 800,000 of the 1,000,000 deaths were caused by wounds received in action, sential to our national and imperial existence as' are land communications to the Peoples of Europe and America, and consequently they must, at all times be adequately safeguarded. "It.must not be inferred from these ion separate existence and autonomy of whereas lit the earlier wars by far the employment of all the resources p 1 dt 1 . mala tvailable—military eventually it will prove P the sciences. "On tee one band, religion must ha caused by disease, content and, indeed, eager to leave "Should anothergreat war occur the sciences to be develo.,eci for their the loss of life and waste of wealth will exceed by ;litany times the ex perienoes of 1914.18, while the'horrors whirls may be • suffered by ;the civil population front air attacks, combined with the use of new chemical sub- stances, seem to be 'almost limitless. "Ever since 1918 the next great war has constantly been talked about as though it ;must necessarily come and nothing could prevent it. -France 1st attitude proper to religion They and Italy still consider the-meinte- own salts, believing that they, have their own contribution to make to the fulfilment of God's purpose, while re- ligion itself provides an inspiration and a morale attitude. On the other hand, we Must Pace the real risk plted in the clash "and conflict be- tween: the intellectual' and critical temper, the scleutiflc point of view, and the temper of devotion, the Ideal - de not easily form a team," Hance of large armies to be a national Cinemas Urged in Persia To Depict -Western Life • Religious Opposition Forecast if Cities Adopt Plan rerusalem-To familiarize the pop' ulatioti with European customs and habits, the (Ilea lids been put forward in Persia that the municipal author. her navy, and her official utterances Ries should' open cinemas throughout on the question of armaments not in - the country to show films. depicting frequently bear' a close . resemblance the sociological conditions in Western necessity. Russia also continues to keep tut powerful military forces, Germany is fretting at what she con- siders to be her defenceless position, and other Ceutral European nations are strongly armed and are at, dag- gers drawn. . "America, influenced by imperialis- tic tendencies, apparently means, whatever happens, to go on increasing naval, diplomatic, financial, industrial way of composing international diifer- -are much more political in,eharae ter, both as to conception and execu- tion, ences than the futile and disastrous tion, than they used to be. Inciden• Policy employed in the past," • tally, I. may observe that this radical 9 - change was recognized and actect.upon ks try the British authorities at a com- ah See parativelY •early period of the Great 'War, whereas the Central Powerd - more or less ignored it until late in 1918, and thereby added greatly to their difficulties of nlauagement." ae more sensible and useful Air ail Route Many Canadians Start NeW"Year In, Arctic WaSteS Over l 00 "Moiaztties" No'w' oo1 Duty North of 60th Parallel MANIFOLD DUTI S IYiajor Burwash, Sole Whites Inhabitant at Magnetic ;Foie Ottawa: Scattered throughout thy. Canadian Arctic many Dominion, Government officials and members d0- the Royal Canadian Mounter Pot -ice' started . the New Year at isillated. points - Officially, it is estimated that approximately 30'employos. of dho Dar partment 'of, Interior and more thair• 100 officers aid men of the mounted' police are at present located worth e1 the 50th parallel. Sole white inhabitant at the mag- netic pole, Major L. T. ilurwush war veteran, Arctic" explorer, engineer' and Canadian Government official -- now' occupies probably the most unique geographical position in the world- With only a few Eskimo cum- panions, Major Burwash is 'located , at "the top' of the world" conducting a scientific investigation to determine: the extent to which the magnetic: pole has shifted since the 'late Raouid' Amundsen made` his investigation in -, 1908. T.he destination of jifiajor Bur - wash was only' reached after a 5,0912 utile jaunt by rail, dog team and schooner. IS s task will occupy save oral. months. MUSK-OX SURVEY. In -the -Thelon game sanctuary, lyipg between the east end of Great Slave Lake and Cheaterfield Inlet; W, IL P.. Hoare, Ottawa, is engaged for ihee Dept. of Interior in making a survey of musk-ox conditions in this norther- ly region. At Fort Smith, in .the" North-West Territories, an admini- strative staff is also functioning under this department; while •nearly a do7Pn game wardens are on duty in the ad-. jacent Wood Buffalo park. Dominion medical officers for the care of the natives' are situated at Resolution, Fort Smith, Aklavik and Baffin Is- land At Resolntien and Po't Simp- son, Indian. agents are located; while several' other officers of the Dept. of Interior are situated at other Arctic points._ As Link to US. The Counting of Aeroplanes New Corporation Wants Gov - Atter the sentence given above, Sir ernment to Sanction Pur - William r Robo tson proceeded: "Final Planes kk of F hase Fokker anes ly, real progress in the linrttation of ctrent of eight men under Sergi. Fred armaments will not, I suggest, ever be Montreal—The rapid growth of Anderson is aboard the schooner St. . materially assisted by mathematical military and .civil aviation in Canada'aAridThoein Langton Bay. With head - classes calculations regarding' the different daring 1928 has resulted in a Project quarters at Dawson City, 28 oThead- classes of armaments, or by the count to link; Halifax by air mail with 1tloute' and men tip thee total strengrh rs Ing of heads, ships and aeroplanes. real, and thus to connect with theof men make Police 0 the Yukon Such comparisons are of little pi'acti- air lines of the United States. 1 of the -Mountede cal value, and lend themielves to in- Maritime Airways, Ltd., a corpora- Multitudinous dude are performed numerable misunderstandings ante tion formed by a group in Halifax, has by the Royal Canadian anted nPta subterfuges. , applied to the Department of Marine lice in the Canadian north. Inquiry "For example, the military eifec- and Fisheries for the purchase of fiveat Mounted Police headquarters hero three of one country may be more Fokker planes used in:therecent Hud- reveal that under recent instructions numerous than those of another, while son Bay expedition and now stored at officers and men in the Arctic must the dockyards in Halifax It those maintain law and order; enforce the criminal code and ordinances of the Northwest Territories; act as Customs ' officers; collect vital statistics; act as Indian and Eskimo agents; furnish MULTITUDINOUS DUTIES. In the Eastern Arctic, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have their posts at Port Burwell, .Chesterfield In- let, Pangnirtuug, Pond's Inlet, Dun- das Harbor and Bache Peninsula, manned by a total of 18 officers and men. In the Western :arctic, more than fro officers and men are located at 15 stations situated as far north. as Baillie Island, near the TOth par- allet In addition a floating detach to those claims that we were acne- the latter may he much more effi- ciently There are` few. cinemas in, toured to hear made' by Germany ciently armed. Russia had milllots of ships can be obtained ata reasonable Persia and these apparently do not Previous to the tragedy of 1914-1918• sflgnre, the Halifax group will open conform to a high level, nor are they America may be frilly entitled to take men on her mobilization books in 1914 ue esstul. her own comae, without Care ot• but owiug to shortage of rifles, guns negotiations with postal officials for verys c ions and ammunition, could not put more the Bnlifax air mail line. In the main,. Russian films • are thought for the iuteh'ests and opinions than a tithe of them into the more They pax air to the city shown, and it eau hardly be said that or other States, but it is nevertheless at Halifaxeypr that ft suggestesto airport supplies to destitutes; issue gents Ii- they show ,conditions in the outer disquieting to reflect that site cannot Or one country may bercmucb better the for senses to trappers; patrol between orld asthe sell are. In all rob• attach much importance either 90 the situated than agother for raising and and fila pbny. froml the ten It It - world. y really psettlements and visit trappers, issue shill r fire use of the cinema for ;tire League of Nations or to the Kellogg equipping new armies, or Tor building yearswog bo nt , collect i con tale i ty' h Pact or she would not be so anxious her ships and aeroplanes. the plan is carried through it will pro- I 1' purpose now urged will meet with thevide `an' air route to Tipper Canada opposition of the mullahs, the tnen'about her naval position. "The question calls for treatment which will connect with nearly all ico- r it i u teachings f "Prpgress towards disarmament of quite a different kind. A long and portant air mail Hues in North 7 •arned in the re g o s gs u I the Islamic faith and my whom the must necessarily be slow, ,. because bitter experience shows that lasting America, * h t 1 s than he Cirtezna each Power ha.sits own special strata- peace will never be ensured either by New lanes that will be put into phonograph t o es t p is regarded as an instrumeut of .eaten n'ical and political conditions end a preponderance of force or by a service in the Boyar Canadian Ale Incidentally, one of the effects ---and naturally asks fol' them, to be given balance of power, and it certainly Force this year Include thirty-four s ectal consideration, cannot be securely established on a Uy to meant§ the least -of the vigor- IS light Moth airplanes. Twenty-eight ' We ourselves fall very `definitely foundation of jealousy and hatred.l f re a ut - Free ons measures whish the shah is M. On bythe infusion of a more genet. - fluence of these are land planesor c D Manchester Guardian (Lib.) troduoing is the lessening of the in within' this class, for our conditions lY s spirit nt Ping the Camp Borden station, and the traders have often been puzzled to fluence exercised by these religions have no Parallel in the .world. ur ons, frank and t uatfui sP t o the ;remainder are seaplanes for the gov Empire is scattered about all over the conduct of international affairs will know what is the difference between authorities, erumont s flying station at Vancouver, protection and Safeguarding. Tito All walleye metal fuselages ,and will distinction, however, is becoming be equipped with the I-Iandley-Page clearer. Safeguarding is the means automatic slot safety device- They and Ps'otectioa the end. On the s-: will be delivered by March 31 and will principle that if you look after the cost approximately $200,000• pence the pounds will look after theta - selves, An important change in flying reg selves, the Sateguarders are quite sat- ulations in Canada is the revision of isflad that in the course of time Pro- tection, the airplane letter Code,. according to which Mr. Baldwin has again the Department of National Defense, promised not to introduce, titfil be the The Dominion, in common with. other result oP adding up a sutIlelont nam- countries, has registered its aircraft bee of Safeguarding duties, And who in conformity with the alphabetical will then be so eurprlsed as Mr. group set aside 90r exclusive use in Baldwins Canada according to, the international convention to which Canada is ' -a signatory. - Formerly, 'Canadian planes have been designated by live letters, the first two of which, "GC,"' were an in- dication of nationality, "Great Britain - Canada." The remaining letters in- dicated the identity of the plane and leers allotted by the defense depart- ment. The' practice in Canada, how- ever, was largely to employ numerals, The code "GO" has been Changed to "IP" for Canadian''plaiies. Those ships already bearing "GCS mai-kings will retain them, but new registretfons will be according t0 the revised collo. There were 333.' planes in, operation' in Canada on January 1, 1920, accord- ing tq the Department 0i National De--; s Tense as compared to 101 a year be fore. Of these, 24(i are used in cont' mercial opet'ations and eighty-seven, are in . the government service - Licenses are held by 190 commercial ,picots, whereas there were only forty such pilots at the beginning of lust, year. Airpanes' ore used in Canada Pit, prospecting and explorationinthe nn-, developed regions ha the Isosth ,aa Well as ter air mail end pass4nger' servide.,'azhey were found helpful in, the work of conatruetbrg the Hog -scat l Bay Railway awl rin .weather observe tion work in the Hudson 0,trat'ts, and also have been employed, eon forestry patrol- end graiat dus1in,g,, r---,-.,-.4!-.. .�- The 9e ;o fes• lfrolat119b1, in: 'SAO temper net. rt the Nirtweat'Territories; issue tim`-c ber permits; enforce liquor ordin- ances; act as coroners; and as com- miesioners foe taking applications for • naturalization. • Safeguarding and Protection A Ship That Tried to Go Overland ANAMERICAN ,STEAMSHIPAOR OOND OFF.IRELAND`' bell -seeded tjestt•uctloli is the, S.S, crest- Tolant which went around on . rocks in Baliyhuime l a l$eilttl to :. Ireland within a stone's throw from aoltor'e, ��� del}) is ,— bw $311t0IP p 91 �tlt9 .,I•,,,Z,l_ f, t '''Now -a -days the pirates' who till the ermeey coffers operate in drug-storeze —,not oh alto high seas," 1 Wort[ on the eonstrugtion of a Slevin OQ,Q0Q,Q4Q hotel. which ie being ereoi b.9' the Canadian, '.Nattaned. ii,lllbt1 113y 14313 began, act Vanoot1V@9i, I#�.n11,„ 1 LL 58 Wltep of latae 15 ys ht het kfott 92 ll'etRA i t4r � hetet, and will have 0910 rooms. 1