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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1927-06-30, Page 9me tete a. STANLEY Went Worth, i,y. WEIR Mt ata i y .;4:AVALLEg Canada! Our hone, our native land! True patriot love her all thy sons eonimand, With glowingrhearts we see thee rise, The' True North, strong and free, And staid en gai:ard, 0 Canada,; We stand on,guaM for thee, 0 Canada, glorious and free, We stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee! 0 Canada, we stand on guard for thee! Owing to the fact that nunteroue suggestions were received from all parts of Canada that a ,uniform English Version of 0 Canada' be approved, ti[e"'Natonal Committee for the Celebration of Diamond Jubilee of Confederation circularized the Prime Ministers and the Ministers of Education of all the Provinces, Replies were receivedthat the version written lay,the'late it. Stanley Weir, D.C:L., Recorder of Montreal, is being used in the schools of all the Provinces, including the English-speaking' sections of ; Quebec. In view of this, the Committee is using the Weir version in its own publications. :MODERN INVENTIONS RELATED TO OUR. JUBILEE CELEBRATION The National Progress' the Last leaders. We need not think that be- cause we cannot point to Macdonalds, Sixty Years Points to the Unfathomed Future' Carriers, Mowats, Browns and Lauriers • that we are retrogressing. The mentality of: Canadians is -must he— WE HAVE COME 'FAR keeping pace with our mechanical ad- Ivaacemnnt, We are not "Supermen" How Far We Oo Depends but.,we`are men and -women of a, Free, Progressive and Verde Country with Only on Ourselves • la magnificent heritage. We are linked By R,E.G.., - by indieoluo,blo bonds of blood to the • Tn 1367' the followers .of John Knox • Great Commonwealth of British Na - had tions which has stood and will always one word that has become almost oh solete in 1927, the word "Innovation.". Many are there of aur elders who can look back and recall the things that came. under the interdict -as innova tions. Church -organs, cushions in church pews, carriage driving on the '"Sabbath," secular reading on the "Sabbath" and many other accepted commonplaces of to -day. Advance- ments in Science and Invention and. the application of such advancements to our everyday life has long forced the 'word "Innovation" up .on the same shelf with the words 'Chaperone" and 'Petri -coat" They are gone from our present-day language. However, in- novations, or departures from the es- tablished (as of 1867), can be credited with many' things which afford a ful- ler and more widespread opportunity to enjoy life and which permit of a more general -participation in Canada's Diamond Jubilee Celebration, Transportational Advances. Our train services can and will speed the wanderer, in luxurious -comfort, to -the home -town. They will permit him to enjoy the best of .rood' and. most Comfortable of rest while travelling home from the farthest corners of the continent. Improved road -beds and rolling stock cut the 'time required for such travel to a point not thought of In '67. Our steamers, palaces' of un- dreamed grandeur, constantly in touch with land by radio, bind our ports with the maritime. centers of the world. For the venturesome (and soon no doubt Ler general use),' the air -ways have an- nihilated both' distance and time, per - mating, we hope, our nine provinces to . send their felicitations to our country's Capl:tal on July let and en- abling these messages to start and to reach their. destination within the space of the one day; perhaps too al- lowing, a message of goodwill to be sent to' the Mother Land within two days time. These are but a few of the praeticallyc'applied innovations which will help to make our Diamond Jubilee l: Celebration truly nationa Individual Application ' More closely applied to. the individ- ual are other innovations which are now accepted as commonplace. _ Think how our thousands of miles of good roads and the motor -oar will enter into the sueeessful enjoyment of our com- itig`NAtional rejoicing., Motorists can. load their families and hampers in their cars and easily journey to the large' centers to join in the big muni- cipal fetes, The old homes In the country will be visited by thousands where the old folks will be cheered by the visits' or the city dwelling sons and daughters and, their families. Within limits unimagined in '67 is our country l�nit together by thle corn- paritively new method, of transporta tlou`mnd we do not give full credit. to. *,he great good derived from the con- stant interchange of thought and per- sonal experience.. between country and city dwellers. The days of the "hick," are gone,. "Hayseed" is on the ,same shelf ,with "innovation," The telenbone gives the opportunity of instantaneous interchange of per- sonally voiced messages of love and remembrance so that distance no long- er sepal•ates the people of our laud. beam coast to, coast the. ether waves will enable all Canadians to'simil'tan- eously join in the National Jubilations opened by the Governor-General at Ot- tawa. when our Graciene lung in Lon- don starts proceedings by pressing a ;olden key in the, Capital of:our I7m- our good Proshyterian Forefathers Aire. The chlmes� of the new Carillon adli ring:not only In the ears of the teoplo•of Ottawa but will be heard by ho people of Canada from Halifax to 'aneouver, from Pelee 'Point to the fukon and if arrangements are -car- rietl: out as planned they will rovor- • loi'ato throughoet the Empire. Truly an Epochal event in the life of, a re- markable •countr'y' of which we as Oahadians may bo justly proud. As we join, in whatever capacity wo may, in oui• July first celebrations: we should rem lmber how' far we have travelled elbng the road ofnational develop - meet during the past sixty yearsand we should look; forward to ,an 'equal . progression in the sixty years to come.+ National Standard -iigh The • day et' outibanding National figures such as our Fathers of,Conred- oration,Is paet, As education and Nat:: tlonal /progress rapidly :eines the means for the development of the average mental attainment, so• the great mastee more nearly approach the mental Standard' and outlook • of our stand, in the 'forefront of the worlds defenders of Justice, Liberty and Pro- gress These are the things, to remember on July the First and while participating in the festivities of that important oc- casion -Iet us register a personal re- solution to endeavor to develop our- selves as broadly as our country has developed. Let us expand our mental vision as far as our opportunities have expanded. The day of narrow .paro- chialism has passed and weall must think beyond ourselves, beyond our personalties, beyond our homes, be- yond our local surroundings. We must learn' to think In terms as "unlimited as the boundaries of the ether waves and we must learn to apply such thinking to our daily occupations, In this way 'July the First Nineteen Hundred and Twenty -Seven will stand out not so much as the day of celebration for the sixty sueceseful.years :that have gone but as the day which ushered in a new era of .National Advancement and Unity. Who Loves His Country Vjfho loves" his country will not rest Ceptent with vow and pledge alone, But 'flies her banner. in his breast And counts her destiny his own— Nab only when the bugle plays. Steads forth to give his, life for her, But on the field of common days Is strong to live his life for her. He is not satisfied to claim AS heritage her power and fame, But, striving, earns the right to wear The shining honor of her name. Iy THEIR EXCELLENCIES Canada to England Great names of thy great captaibs gone before- Beat eforeBeat ;with our blood, who have that blood of thee: Raleigh and 'Grenville, Wolfe and all the free, ' Fine .;souls 'who dared to front a world in war; Such only array outreach the envious • years,Where feebler. crowns .and' fainter' stars remove, ' Nuitured,in one remembrance ,and. one love, Too high for passion and too stern for tears, 0 little isle our fathers held for: home, Not, not alone thy standards' and Lead where thy sons shall fallow, Mother Land. Qpick as the north wind, ardent as the, foam, - Behold, behold the invulnerable ghosts Of all past greatnesses about thee stand. —Marjorie' Pickthall. 1--= "I love youfor all I'm worth!" pro- tested a youth. "I 'rather think it's for all I'm worth:" replied the'heirese. New ' Coat of Arms of the Dominion of Canadc':: c A Is•A.ID1), ROYALTY ,"Respected for Their Position —Loved for Themselves" SERVICE Members of the British Royal Family have made more visits to Canada than many people probably Imagine, The firstrecorded visit,by the Duke of CIarence', goes back to 1487, when George III. was' on the 1 throne. The Duke of Clarence was captain of the frigate Pegasus, and is chiefly. remembered because he was with Nelson In the West Indies, and acted as best man • at his wedding, The Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, arrived at Quebec in 1791 the Dominion on his way home frons a visit to Japan. He returned to Can- ada. at Governor-General In 1911 and remained until 1919. Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria, spent the years 1878 to ,1883 in Canada as wife of the Gove' sor General, the Marquis of Lorne, afterwards Duke of Argyll. The Duke of. Cornwall and York (at. ere f).UIN , lffr,ar, AND {)1JC^. fJ Lodge, near Montmorency Falls., He returned in 1799 as commandos -in - chief of the troops at hIalifaf.. There Is a fine bit of description, in one, of X-Ialiburton's novels, of hie`,horee near Halifax, also known as Kent -Lodge. - The .Prince of , Wales, afterwards Edward VII., visited Canada in 1860,1 Bement Buildings at Ottawa His • and laid the corner -stone of the Par - '��i•5 X''a¢, xf��t Banquet la London, when, turning to the Prince of Wales, he said: "D know. You hate eulogy and I am not going to indulge in it, but 8 should like to'. say this: We respeot you, sir, for Your position, but, damme, sir, •we loye you for yourself." Crani. Canada, My -Home brother, Prince Alfred, came here in Home of my heart, I sung in grateful 1861, as' a navhl officer- In 1890 the I tongue Duke of Connaught travelled across To God who gave remembered, among many other With open hand thy treasutea;strewau memorable acts, by the fact that he was chiefly instrumental in founding, terwards George V.) and his wife the Royal Society of Canada. His visited Canada, in 19011 The, present public life probably overshadowed. his Prince of Wales made his first visit ability .as a poet, but it will not be to Canada in 1919, and has returned forgotten that he wrote that splendid hymn beginning: Unto the hills around do I lift up more than once. I•Ie has shown hie Interest in the country by buying a ranch in Alberta, where he can oc- casionally escape from the cares ,of state, • Some of us who are not as young as we weed to be ,can remember, the delightful hospitality of Lord Lorne naught and the Prince of Wales upon and the Princess Louise at Rideau public andprivate life in Canada, al - Hall In•Ottawa, and the simplicity of though always exerted unobtrusively their home life. –.The Princess was and with characteristic tact, must be always a warm patron of art in Can- ada, and was herself an artist of no moan ability.ier husband will be from Gibraltar, as commanding officer of the 7th Royal Fusiliers. He made his home at Quebec for three years, occupying what was Known as Kent My longing eyes."' The influence of such members of the British Royal Family as the Princess Louise, the Duke of Con - regarded as a very real tactor in the development of the country. All threa of them have known .how to win not only the respect but the affection of thhe Canadian people. That thought was very happily expressed by Lord Byng in Januarys last, at the Wolfe Story - of Confederation in Bronze. Viscount and Lady,W1lliniidon 1. Alexander Mackenzie 2. George Brown 3.; Queen Victoria 4. D'Arcy McGee 3. Georges -Etienne Cartier , 6. John A. Macdonald 7. Lafontaine and Baldwin - Memorials on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, of those Great Figures in Canadian Life 'Whose Efforts Have Resulted in the United Canada, the Sixtieth Anni- versary of whose Birth will be Celebrated July 1. afar From wave to -wave, From Golden South to silvery Aretio glare, • Le, God in glory shineth everywhere. Land of the free, whence came thy, liberty? Behold her hand, Strong stlll,- which blesses thee, 1a� yonder home, Thy Motherland, '0 daughter fairs Proud freedom never! dies, Where'er thy mother's noble banner. flies. 'Land of the brave, who kept thy freo.: dom free; They felt thy flame,' : They marched throdgh blood and pain,•. they grandly.`died: Whisper their name,, The name of youth, for whom lone mothers weep, The la teous brow, in Calm heroic bleep. Land of the strong; of cident arm revealed, ' in bounteous plain, ' '°`! In glittering rock, resplendent street and shade, Refuge humane, ' %liar of lemming, .and adoring .dome--• home of fay heart, Grand Canadar my home. ' >z —Grant Balfour. Toronto, Ont, Dominion. Day 1927 For dare's' no'place lak our own piece, don't -care de far you're goin'. bat's w'at de whole wori's sayin' w'enevor dey cores.here, 'Cos we got de fines' contras, an' d'd beeges' roarer flowin', An' le bon Dieu sen' de sunshine nearly twelve mont' ev'ry yeah —Frons "Johnnie Cowrteau," by Vis hI, Drummond. victory Tower, Ottawa. FIFTH OF, NINE' HISTORICAL SKETCHES BY JEFFE' RYS (CUT OUT AND . SAVE) I v a A, (fir r r rrr111Up., rr/I � ..bGGIN(1 B