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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1927-12-08, Page 6CANADA STANDS HIGH T CHICAGO LIVESTOCK SHOW n Cait1e, Sheep and Seed OurFarmers Rank Amoozg the Foremost of the Wcerld ,.A PROUD RECORD - Chicago, d11,- Canadian agi"lcultur lsts and breeders of champions}ul •ache continue to„,play an important ole in the oxpasition. Many ;of the coveted prize .r ibbon0 went. to C.an • Allan entries. again', this year—nilo'.e so Oven than formerly '—wr rising six chaililironehrp..s and 00l first places at this yeah s Pair, far the product section of -the show, 'Canada had iihothcr champion when Win. Dar borough, of Laura, Sask., Captured the title of Peas King of America" 'dn his sample of large 7,7ellow field peas. Herman Trelle, of Wembley, Allibrta, who has won great ?honors with his wheat exhibits, was the reserve winner to Harnborough in. the Qd peas competition. Both T^'elle, and 'Darnborough had beautiful samples, the former having. a yield of 60 bushels to the acre. a ,CLEAN SWEEP INFIELD -PEAS, Canadians; made aclean sweep in the small field peas classes, for; -s t to Trelle came Major 11..C. L. Strange, of Fenn, Alberta, a former wheat Champion, who captured second prize; Hans Mayer, Vegioville; Alberta, third; H. 'tucker, Manitou, Manitoba, fourth, and John Wiener, Mian -ti, Man- itoba, fifth. ' Britain Neutral .._.. -. The awards were'received very ort - i! thusiestically as new peas are a fairly inow field ef endeavor' for Western Csiiadn,• Canada ;also won prizes in the; alfalfa seed; class, :gottlug five places out of the: first ten: -Idaho won first and Montana seeTand,but third wept to T. ;7 Boyer of Gem, Alta.; Denlosey, In Polish Dispute ;London Not Compelled to In- terfere in Every Quarrel ONE 'OBLIGATION of Cass-ils, Alta,, tookfourth. Seventh went to N. D. Ferguson, of.Duthess; Alta., ninth to Vair White, of Brooks, Alta., and tenth to W. A, Philpott, of the same town. In the red clover seed division On- tario entries ison two -prizes, Aanan Fitzgerald, , of ,Selkirk, Haldirnaud, Ont:, winning fiftn, while Nagel Bros., of Fisheryille, Haldimand,, Ont., took ninth, - i °Robert McEwen, of London, Ont.,. won the carload 0f sheep prizefor all. sheep in the show dn his fifty South- down native lambs. Duncan Campbell's "Thurnham Min- strel" took the prize fat,' senior chain - pion bull.in'the Shorthorn class, the ribbon going back to its home barn at Moffatt, Ont. These are but a few of the many winning of our leaders in Canada's reading industry. O: B. Shag Denies. Irish Poverty Controversial -Reply Follows Appeal for Dublin Children .• ?.oncliaa—George Bernard Shaw, the y Irishman, in. an article in The York- Nill Act Should Germany shire• Evening Neve seems likely to - Attack FranceorVice - have laid the 'foundation for -a first Versa• e1ass,controversy"with his fellow iri.sh- men. Commenting on an appeal to Loi dot' --A spirit of strict neutral- America to better the condition of the sty; is governing the British attitude children of Dublin, the dramatist de - toward the disputes between Poland dared theft Ireland "is perfectly well and Lithuania and between Italy and able to feed and clothe her children Jugo Slavin. but the. British Govern- if she chooses." He expressed.eonfi ment .Is always'roady to use its in- dance <in'the Ability of -his native Land fluence to Promote the peace of Etta to take care of its wants but, in doing o{re. The impression is getting so, referred to Erin as "an -incorrigible abroad that'Britain is compelled nu_ beggar." der the Lecarno Treaty to interfere Shaw was s born in Dublin 71 years in every quarrel .in Europe; but this 'is -ago but has been a resident of London untrue. Britain Is only ender, oblige -'for more than 50 years. time to interfere if Germany attacks "Judge -Henry Bell has visited nty-t Iorancesor France attacks Gerthaxzy. native town of Dublin," Shaw wrote, What happens it allies of Prance, like "and he is very properly ashamed of Poland, get into trouble is no dirket the condition of the children there. He;.f concern of Great Britain and Sir Ails- asks me to second his appeal to Ain -1 ten Chamberlain has made it very erica to send—I forget how many clear to the 7ilhpopeati'powers during thousand.paiirs of shoes and stockings a the,'litet few days that Britain is. not to clothe theist, a going to extend her obligations. ' I - "But my advice .te America is not ' • • The enact of these declaration% has to send a single,eent -to Ireland ever e been to give this country an excellentI again for" shoes or anything else, Ire - position for. arbitrating such disputes l l! ,d is perfectly well able to feed and s Its those now ragtag because 'see, '1g clothe her children if she chooses. under no obligation to either side noel "It is a mistake to suppose that she to those with whore the ooaflieting : is`•poor,' She is only an incorrigible Nations may be allied, Naturally, Great Britain, and all other membele of the League of Na- tions, including Canaria, bave obliga- Cwth w d oma. in Royal. Dog ho Arctic 'Explorers Have Close Call Mernbers of MacMillan Ex- pedition Marooned in ,:' Storm Hudson, Mass,—Tyro 'nienibers of the Macmillan Arctic Expedition, win- tering at Aiiatalok Bay, Northern Labradoreelmost lost their lives in effort to maintain communications tween their -, isolated scientific stats in the Asctic waste and the outsi world. This was told in rnessag sent from the schooner .Bowdoin, the expedition and_piekedup here b the amateur radio station, IFL. Th Bowdoin, which carries the ,rad equipment of the expedition, has bee deserted for the Winter. for thre shacks which have been built ashore, She lies at anclter in Anatalok Ba more than a smile' from shore, an daily the radio operator must Ira ease the ice -dotted bay in - a dory t maintain schedules with the world b radio: an be - on de es of v e io . n e CHAMPIONS WALK BOARDS AT EXHiBITION _ Monarchs of the canine world at the Royal Winter Fair dogshow. Here . d are some of the prize entries, worth almost their weight in gold. Lett'is a �'^ speeinzen of the "Schnauzer" breed, -whose owned paid $500 for him In Ger- 0 many+--worthtwleethat here, she declares. fright."Dominion Fortitude,"•in- ternational champion bis l -dog. Lower "Doberman" Pinscher, valued at $1`,000, 1 Wednesday was a -fearful day in hat part of the world, a fierce noir east gale lathing- the waters of the bay into a churning maelstram of osrn and ice. The .Little craft wale brown about Iike a corlc-and battered y the ice floes and despite their Heroic fforts Clifford I3imoe, the operator, nd Prank Henderson, his compan- zort, failed to eontr'ol It, The wind aught' the dory and swept it past the Bowdoin in the direction of the open en. Only elle hope now remained 'for he,men. . Dog Island; a small wave - swept cluster of rucks, loomed up be- tween theist and the empty outer ,sea By a desperate fatal effort they sit eeeded in beading the dory into th h- CANADIAN OFFICIAL REPORTS beggar, which is not the same thing. "She persuades,you that, except #r a Corner in Ulster, where n handful of bigoted enemies of Iter's bdild ships tions to throw their weight against and make liners, she's penniless. Don't it any country which started was fn believe her. i « ' Violation of the decision at the Loa. Tho trade of the Irish-CatholtL . t3ue, brit such a decision must be un- south in butter, tattle and agriculture militants and any actfote would beg generally represents far more money taken under the authority of the Lea- than the shipyards and mills of Bel- kne, fast." Canadian Trade Shows Increase for Year Ottawa, Ont. -Canada's trade whit the United States for the 12 months ended October '31 was $1,1$0;000,000 exceeding the entire trade with the British Empire by $437,000,000. While the unfavofable trade balance with the ratted States amounted to $2$3,000 1100, exports to paints an,th4 British k,rnpire were greater by $280,000,000 than imports. - '. The total external trade of the Do- minion was $2,§03,000,000 -as comper- ed with $2,284,000,000 for the corres- ponding period a year ego. The aggre- gate of exports was 1 22 0000 e R po '¢ 8 0 anti imports $1,078,000,000. Little Angel- "tieargie and T have beett' playing at hushand and wife.' .'She Curate—"What did you do, : my Otters", Little Angel -r -"We gat dowh dt''the table arid' George said, '`flus food ie not St to eat,' And 0 said; 'it's ivied enough tor you,' and then George xl id damn' and,left the room:' Mussolini Bans a �f Exotic )Dances Indulgence n lgence ` Coristitutes Con- duct Unbecoming An Officer, Pretnier Says Rorne -- Indulgence in "exotic dances" constitutes conduct enbecom- ing nit o01Cet' and a gentleman, Premier liusstiiint says. In his capacity of Secretary of 'War, he has issuea a general order to Carps commanders to the effect that bender's under ,their 'Jurisdiction must •110 t dance "The Tale," "The The Dirt r Y Die' h D b, the "Charleston," or "Tho Shinny" in public' while in uniform, latus-solini's ukase streeees a"tile Ill- compatibility between several dances of exotic character now in.nee 'and the austerity of military deportment.," ; The ofireers are warned to abslaln °from diens in homage to the pre"s'tigo and decorbfu of the nulformL Ontario's Premier Steps Into Breach . Makes' Definite Offer to Help Research Promises An Endowment • Fuad of ,$?;000;()00 .to .Aid the Sciences in Industrial. Research; on a Fifty-fifty Basis . , QUICK ACTION PREMIER Ottawa.—.That civil servants could r put into 'operation within .a year,, the attain to the,acme of the.$ossibilities t Premier said,.. providing the 'Dominion of their postions only by obtaining the moral and financial support of their Government in the meanwhile has not made a satisfactory move in the' di- rection of industrial research governments was the gist of an .ed The Premier said he was not entire- ;` (tress made by Prof. J: C. McLennan, lye in sympathy with the ideas of. Dr.' director,of the physical research la- Tory, president ef the University of boratory, university of` Toronto, be- Calgary; who is Bead of a commission .fore a luncheon of the members of the, appointed by the Government at 01-• 1 Professional Institute of the Canadian'tawa to prepare a research plan. Mr. .Civil Service, While he did not wish I Pert users held that such research was to 'iso pe'sonal before 'so many mind essentially a matter to betoken `care l asters an`d"high government vofficials, of through the provinces. ho said, lie; could not refrain from ' The plat) tlx Premier outlined was i criticizing. ,them for their failure to the,building up -;of the ,endowment grasp thsi' igniecance of scientific re- furrj"bver.a period of five years. lie aea0ch w,oik in the development of sttggested that $i;000r000 be'iven. by industry. the Government, and 'the• other half This was the gist of a heart felt ap-contributed by.the manufacturers who 'peal in Ottawa a week ago. 011 Thu"rs- t viill benefit from the scheme. This day night in Toronto we have Com-, will% mean an outlay of $200,li00 per, iirenced the establishment of a erg, -rear by each party For, five ,;irears,'.and 000,000 endowment fund for research the Premier. c, taunted that this would in industry, promised on behalf of the .yield ars income of 120,000 the first Government of Ontario by. Hon. G. year, with legular increases as the Howard Ferguson,' :spooking • that fund grewi night at the banquets of the Ontario He also `declared. the Government Division of the Canadiat2, Manufac-'would give :free trse. of a building to °d terers' Association held. in , the Ring which fp enrr,y en'the t•oseztr cit t� nr,i-; Edavard Hotels- The ,scheme will be for the five-year period, CONFLICTWITH U.S. EXPLORER • M_aeMillian's Expedition Radios One Thin While Canadian Dispatches Indicate Another And the Government is Right OUR RIGHTS PROTECTED Ottawa, Ont—A radio despnteh re- cently credited Captain Donald .1.3. • ,11IaeMillau of tiro- field Museum of c- Natural. history Arctie expedition of e wintering within a few degrees of the North Pole, Less' than a _weep ago information was received here 'that 1lMnchlillan. with his party' on the ship "Bowdoin;" was wintering at Anat- .' alak Bay, 20 miles due west of Nairn on the Labrador roast in'Iattitude 58 or 32 •degrees from the pole, and eon• sidorably south of d3udson Straits, Captpiin MacMillan is in charge of s scientific exnedtion sant into the Canadian Arctie by the Field iteseunt of Natural History, Chiraga. Ile is Newfeuxidlander by teeth, but has crmduefecl several,"il•rited gtates scien- iific Anetib expeditions in the 'ship "Bowdoin." His conduct in theCanadian Arctic has not commended int to Canadian- officials in the Per North. ` Canada- elaline complete sovereignty over the Arctie archipelago east of Greenland, .to'the line of longitude dividing Can- ada and Alaska. In earlier expedi- • ticks, As the boat oz'ashed and began o break ,up, Eiinoe and .Henderson umped ashore. With no shelter but the. lee of a grew rock, the two teen remained or the islet all day, their clothing frozen and the :waves drenching them con- tinually. Towards evening the storm subsided and they ware taken off, ex- hausted and salmost fgozen, by Com- mander Donald A- MacMillan. Mat:- millan had missed, the men and had searched the bay in a motor boat for some time :before he caught sight of them. 'Gerniai Finances Frankfort Zeitxnng: (The Agent - General for Reparations bas been much crIttcized in the German press for his memorandum on German finan- cial poli.e>1. The Agent•Oenerai does clearly see the faults of the German financial system, bat le fundamental- ly; misconceives the ecouomie struc- ture of Germany end its internal slg; nifioanea since the stabilization. The Government of the Reich, on the other hand, perceives the economic facts' elearly And. correctly, bat ons not always forme Thee them happily, nine in its tinanotal policy it lecke the clear' intention to embark rigorously upon deoisive.e.etion• Germany must never hold up against the Dances pian the iinpossibili.ty` of producir;g the re- quited luta as long' as sho' hag not set her own` house in order. • • hx a n u r tions MacMillan . and even United States maval officials ..ignored Can- ada's right to this territory, Por wait years unauthorized expe- ditions into the Canadian Arctic ruth- lessly destroyed The game, such'. "as musk- oxen and seals. They also had, o very -demoralizing effect on .the Esgdianu:t, and generally exereise'd a' bad infiuenee in addition to- ignoring' Canadian.authortty, SERIES OF POLICE POSTS. , To protect Canadian authority, the natives and the gams, Canada esteb- north as Ellesmere Land,. An order - in -Council was passed -`forbidding ex- peditions into the Canadian Arctic ex- cept by permit sfrom. the Dominion Government. By arrangement between Canada and the Unite States, airplanes of either' country flying over the other's territory must have a permit. This regulation was ignored by United States naval airmen in the Canatbian,. Arctic in a former MacMillan expo- d.ition, One of the airmen in thea.Are- tic at the time was Lieut. Byrd, who has becomeworld famous for his dar- ing'flights. Canadian officials who canto in contact with Lieut. Byrd'`in the Arctic, although they, felt ho was flying in disregard, to international agreement, Speak of him in the most. complimentary terms. a Ie his previous expedition when near E113h, Captain .JmlacMillan was visited by a Canadian official o Are - tic patrol. He was asked if he had a pelhnit and claimed he had, but did not produce it. Next day he departed and it was discovered he Irad no per- mit. -, When his present expedition was organized he applied and received per- mits for bi nsclf and 15 members of his party. 'Thisrecognition of Can- adian autho-rity' in the Arctic after it had been ignored by United States private expeditions as well as United States naval authorities is particular- ly gratifying to the administrators of our North•„country as a cemplete:ree- ongition'of Canadian sovereignty. 'Talk that comes straight, from the rl1011lftel' should never be over one's lisped 'a isei•ies of police posts as far head.• l Canada :is Happy Si'�8`"�Y In : er Relations Has No Problem to Submit to Geneva Meeting DANDURAND LANDS London Press Believes Soviet Note is"Basis of Bargain ` London. — Senator Dandurand, on arriving at Plymouth en route to Ge• neva, said: "Canada, ,line no problem of her oivn. to submit to the League of Nations and 1 hope she never will have." ° Interest and the importance. of itis sin's '`Intervention in the Polish-Lithu- aulan dispute has bon heightened by Gerniauyi reaction in favor of Poland against Lithuania. The repression of German residents at lilentel by the Lithuanian. Premier, and his recent Campaign against Liberalists In .Lithu- ania, has .resulted le a volto feed of German sentiment In favor of Poland so far as. present developments go. ' 1 ani informed on the best authority that Soviet went so far es to notify Warsaw bluntly but unolRotally that 1f a single Polish soldier aroased the Lithuanian frontier the Soviet troops would move. - Some sections of the British press go so far as to say that :the Russian. note briageN to a heath a situation which has long been charged with ,dynamite, but In quarters of those bet- ter informed the belief is held that the note is jest another exanrple of the Soviet policy of fishing into" troub- led waters for a eiianoe of advantage, probably combined with the hope ,that her .apparent ability will dointna'te cls- volopments there and gain a prestige. far Russia in the forthcoming 'Drs• armament Conference to enable her to enforce a better bargain,. However, it Is unwise to torget that Lithnnia, since' tihe polish seizure at Vilna, ltas been resentful and has not since resumed diplomatic relations with Warsaw. Plane is Landed In Detroit Streets Test Pilot Demonstrates Safe- ty af ee - ty of Airplanes Detroit,' Mich. -To illustrate the practicability of -airplanes in Modern life, Harry Brooke, chief test pilot of the.aiopiane division of the Ford Mo- tor Company, one' day last week land- ed it Ford "fiivver" plane Sri the pave- inentf- o Woodward Avsnue in'front of the Northwood Inn, near the Eleven Brooks went to the inn' to address members of the Birmingham Exchange 'Club. His schedule was "the prac- ticability of the airplane," and he mado.the landing as.,a . demonstration that planes can be used as safely as automobiles, he told the deb members, marry of whom caw theplane alight on- the 'pavement. An automobile driver approaching pp g the airplane as it landed evidently was startled -by the appeoach:of the plane and swerved sharply to the other side of the pavement. ' The motorist sped away. Mile Road, World Radio Parley ,. Ne „rl Allocation of 'Frequencies to Various Services Is Completed Washington The allocation o_f fre, quensnes to the eovonal intenuational radio serviece held by delegates to be the most important wart. before the Jiltei'national Radio Telegraph Con- feeenee bee been completed with the Becht -deal Cq`rnmittee and is heady for rho approval "of the conference ad (3, The entire opectrum of wave -lengths from infinity to '30,000, meters has been • divided ` among_ fixed, -mobile, maritime„, aiz radiocasting, radio beacon; amateur and experimental services much as,was recommended by the United States delegation at the opening of the conference. ” Tho - short wave -lengths on which amateurs have done most of their ex- perintenting except for, a 'few narrow bands have been take naway from them by the new allocations. -Repre- sentatives of the' amateurs predict, therefore, that in the'futurgamatour activity will ,be limited to the domestic field had the Um development/ of the very low wave -lengths which have not been reserved for any service., The amateurs were deprived of their ire- queneiee on the recommendation of a bloc of European nations led by Great Bripmn, claiming thatamateursinter- fered with more important interna- tional services. The article which the technical coin. niitt0e has drawn up- allows the con- tracting countries to assign any ?re- queney tb any 'radio station within their jurisdiction "upon the -sole con- dition that St will result in no inter•- ferencewith' any wave of another country," "Tore etdtions ;,which by their very nature are believed capable 00 causing serous international inter- ference," the article states, "the con- tracting adnnnist ations • agree to assign to them frequencies in con- formity with the table drawn up' by the technical committee." One article of the convention pro- pel, 13 regulations and three appen- dices were approved by the confer- ence in a plenary session. Articles - adopted deal with the general proced- ure to be followed in ship to shore communication, set requirements for opeibtors in the international service end provide for the maintenance of the, international Bureau of the Tele,- graph ele.graph Unions Malays Once Ruled Over Madagascar Natives of Island Show Far Eastern steln 'Origin New York.—After a two years' stay ' itt Madagascar; Ralph Linton, of the Field Museum, Chicago, has rettfiiied with ata which he believes"p roves the natives of Madagasear were originally of :the Malay race. ''This point has been disputed among natural' scien- tists far mgny years, and the infertua- tion'now at hand, Mr. Linton believes, will lead to further important dishes, *riesregarding races of Africa. Besides databregarding his _studies of the Malagasy: tribes, which he said, includes the real natives. of .Mada- gascar, he also'brought 4,500 exhibits for the Field Museum which: show the artietie and industrial -progress of these people since very darty tiaras Among these articles are small paintings which show the Malagasy tribesmen are, by nature, highly artis- tic. ,Authorities in London were sure a fitiitiature among the paintings was a colored photograph until they put it under a microscope; he said. Besides the paintings Mr. Linton obtained beautiful- pieces of woven silk and artistic' pottery. Ottawa Prepares For Amery's Tour British Minister Will Discuss Imperial 'Matter While Here Ottaitca,—The Government 14 mak- lag errangotnehtts to receive and escort through Canada Rt. Hon. L. C. Amery, Dominion Seeretiic'y of State in the. British Cabinet, who is due to Arrive .in Yancottver from Australia about Jan. 8. bit. Amery will deliver addresses in the principal cities and when in Ottawa will discuss imperial matters twirls the Goverittitent There 13 no outstanding questiaii save the follow-up of suiijectii diseuss- ed at the Imperial Conference a year age. The'posalble selection of a rep- resentative of the British g'overiimeut here; the establishment'of the aerial;- sorvice'when this Montreal Air fort is finished,and. official communications betty sen the two governtncnt, are am- ong the possible subjects of considera- tion. - J r MUSIC C3CFORE-THE "FACE°'OFF"` 1,. •,, , The nt,a national ,Ilackev Season opened c _, 1 e l w•rth Kr victory for Gauada when diens. from Plot tve<lbcat Cheelnrerrcausat Madison Sruf-i� 'a1• en . a G'eLJAa r 1 �,.1 Ct d 6 to 1; 10,000' tans witnessed the puck-ehaSing' oponel, WAS LOFT A RA(U)PER She: When my father died 1 was lett a pauper. Oumb Cora Oh, wacn't It nice 00 rim to leave you ,e,papa in. ala "What s: that ,triug tial - aronud your .finger fors" „That's ant a string. "len..teking niy wite's dress 10 the cleaner's."