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:
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CHAMPIONS WALK BOARDS AT EXHiBITION _
Monarchs of the canine world at the Royal Winter Fair dogshow. Here
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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.
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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 $1,078,000,000.
Little Angel- "tieargie and T have
beett' playing at hushand and wife.'
.'She Curate—"What did you do, : my
Otters", Little Angel -r -"We gat dowh
dt''the table arid' George said, '`flus
food ie not St to eat,' And 0 said; 'it's
ivied enough tor you,' and then George
xl id damn' and,left the room:'
Mussolini Bans
a �f
Exotic )Dances
Indulgence n lgence ` Coristitutes Con-
duct Unbecoming An
Officer, Pretnier
Says
Rorne -- Indulgence in "exotic
dances" constitutes conduct enbecom-
ing nit o01Cet' and a gentleman,
Premier liusstiiint says.
In his capacity of Secretary of 'War,
he has issuea a general order to
Carps commanders to the effect that
bender's under ,their 'Jurisdiction must
•110
t dance "The
Tale," "The The Dirt
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Y
Die' h
D b, the "Charleston," or "Tho
Shinny" in public' while in uniform,
latus-solini's ukase streeees a"tile Ill-
compatibility between several dances
of exotic character now in.nee 'and the
austerity of military deportment.," ;
The ofireers are warned to abslaln
°from diens in homage to the pre"s'tigo
and decorbfu of the nulformL
Ontario's Premier Steps Into Breach .
Makes' Definite Offer to Help Research
Promises An Endowment • Fuad of ,$?;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
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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.
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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.•
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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. -
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MUSIC C3CFORE-THE "FACE°'OFF"`
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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."