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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1938-11-10, Page 7THURSDAY, (NOVEMBER 10, 193.` THE SEAFORTH NEWS Duplicate Monthly Statements . We cam save you money on Bill and •Oharge Forms, standard sizes to fit Ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality Meta'1 Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index. The Seaforth News Phone 84 Professor William Annan 'quotes the story of an illiterate verger when he addressed the Edinburgh Rotary club recently: The verger in question acted for a vicar in the South of England, and when the vicar was succeeded by a new one, it appeared that the verger was expected to keep certain church records. When the new vicar found that his .verger could neither read nor write he felt himself forced to .dis- pense with his services. So the ex -verger set up in the re- tailing business with a (barrow, He was so successful with that that he opened a shop. The shop was so suc- cessful that he was able to develop a ,HUNGARY GETS CZECH LAND Hungary was 'grafted the greater part of her territorial demands do Czechosltavakia in the decision an-' n unced by the arbitrators, foreign ministers Joachim von 'Rilb'bentrop of Germany and 'Count Galeazzo 'Ciano of Italy. The award transfers to Hungary about 860,000 ,persons who since 10118 have been citizens of. Czechoslovakia. 'Tlhe Hungarians oc- cupied the territory this week. Relations between the Slovaks and Hungarians are an illustration of haw. national ideals in Europe often con- flict with geographical and economic interests. Slovakia constitutes one of the three sections of Czechoslovakia, but for many years—the Hungarians say '1,009—it was part of. Hungary. In all, there are not more than 2 •500,000 ;Slovaks, and they inhabit a narrow, mountainous area wedged in between Poland and Hungary. Their land has few mineral resources and. no extensive agricultural districts. One of the chief sources of wealth is timber. Tose Slovaks have :been shut away from the world and hard- pressed by :powerful and pretentious 'neighbors. For such a peoplb to maintain a state of their own is very difficult. They trust* join with some- one else. In many respects it would be advantageous for theme to go in with Hungary. Then they would have food from the extensive plains of the Danube, would be in ,close touch with the capital of their state., Budapest, and have only one long - exposed frontier, namely, against Poland. This. combination existed •for centuries and was satisfactory in many ways. But it had one serious drawback in that the Slovaks were completely do- minated 'by the Hungarians. They had no national life of their own. They were hewers of wood and drawers of water for their masters. They were' considered a crude, rough peasant race, designed to serve clever people. chain of them and a growingly im- posing bank .balance. His banker, however, 'becanie'rath- er puzzled when he received no ack- nowledgment of the numerous com- pany ,prospectuses which he sent to his client to help him in the invest- ment of his fortune. Meeting him in the street one day, he asked him why he had not replied to his letters. The erstwhile verger told him he could. neither read nor write. "What would you not have been if you had been an educated man!" he exclaimed. "I would," said the other, "have been a verger." The Slovaks made enormous cultural progress in the hew state, but many remained dissatisfied and demanded "autonomy," In addition, Czechosiova$kia was an awkwardly formed state and Slov- akia was not only a long way from the capital but completely exposed to two unfriendly neighbors, Poland and Hungary. For a .long time, and especially 'during recent months, many Slovaks worked with the Hun- garian and German minorities in Czecltos'lovalcia for autonomy. After the Munich conference and the beginning of the partitioning of Czechoslovakia, 'the Slovak question 'became acute and aroused in $he Hungarians the hope that the Slov- aks would break sway from Czecho- slovakia and join their state. The Hungarians especially placed. their hopers on "The Slovak :People's Party," or "Party for Slovakian Au tonomy,' of the late Rev. Andreas Hlinke, now 'led by Dr. Joseph Tiso. They felt if this group could only cone to power, Slovakia would im- mediately cut loose from Prague. They were confident the' Czechoslo- vak state would break into three pieces, ,Czechia, Slovakia, and Car- pathian Russia. Then suddenly Slo- vakia did proclaim itself 'independent, the autonomy party did gain the upper hand. Dr. 'Tiso became prime minister. However, he did •not take his 500,0.00 Slovaks •back to Hungary; instead he re -affirmed their unity with the Czechs in a dual Czecho- SIovak republic. Among the weaknesses of this new Slovakia was the fact that it ,con- tained 7150,00'0 Hungarians, contigu- ous to Hungary, After the Germans from Czechoslovakia were restored to 'Germany and $the Poles to Poland, the time had apparently come for the Hungarians to return from Slovakia bo Hungary. Negotiations were begun at the little city of Komarom, sitting astride the Danube River, partly in Hungary, partly in Slovakia, After the world war the Slovaks 'became part of Czechoslovakia, which was not unnatural, for the Czechs and Slovaks are closely re- lated. They are both Slays and speak a similar language. In many respects this was a good combination, but it. also had disadvantages, one of which was that the Czechs dominated the Slovaks, though by no means to such an extent as the Hungarians had, "What's wrong with you, John?" "Oh, I've been given a ticket for a lecture: The subject is `April Fools,' and the ticket says, `Admit one," RUSSIA'S POLAR EMPIRE in a program of arotic'development unparalleled in history, the Soviet Government has made habitable and productive a subpolar empire two'. thirds the size of the fir, S. containing coal, oil, timber and fabulous deposits of rare minerals. Whole settlements of pioneers have beets deposited on the border of the polar sea, with houses, livestock, boats, and radios to Beep them in touch •with the rest of the world. Last year and the year 'before, Rus- sia had more than two score expedi- tions in the field—including geolo- gists, .meteorologists, naturalists, soil'. engineers, mining and fishing experts, all' backed by government funds. This' polar exploration on a national scale is something new to science, and the, investment is paying big dividends in platinum, gold, silver, precious stones, amber, copper, nickel, asbestos, gra phite and phosphates. The statement that the newly lis - covered gold fields of northeast Siber- ia surpass Alaska in its richest days has the official authority of our Own Department of Commerce. More than 500 miles of roads .have been built to exploit bhe "strike," so that a distance. it took a month to cover in 19312' can now be traversed in two days, Russia 'had to import p'hosp'hate for fertilizer, until geologists discovered deposits near Murmansk that are es- timated to ,contain 0160,1000,000 tons. Now the Soviet Union supplies not only its own needs, but world mar- kets as well. Within the arctic circle, amidst a snowy waste once ,populated by a few nomadic Laplanders, the find has created the bustling_ city, of Kirovsk with 40,000 inhabitants. Mo- dern apartment hottses, hospitals, schools, and a movie theater seating 1200 have been erected at a latitude Where the night is a month and a half tong, and the sun shines almost un- brokenly for an equal period during bhe summer, Lgarka, a mushroom town on the great Yenisei River, had a popula- tion of 413 .persons in 11(038. Today it numbers 20,000. Last year Igarka's sawmills cut up 1,000,000 trees, and yet used only two percent of the lum- ber that can be taken from the •dis- trict before it will need reforestation. High wages Mid love of adventure attract pioneers to these and other busy settlements along Russia's Nor- thern Sea Route. First arrivals are limited to those whom the Soviet calls "producers"—engineers, miners, doc- tors, scientists, mechanics, and, among the women, machine operators, scien- tific assistants, and cooks and wait- resses for the community dining room. The following year, after the colony is running smoothly, the men randy bring their wives and families. Children horn above the polar cir- cle enjoy exceptional health—unless they visit Ilse south, where they quick- ly fall prey to infectious diseases ag- ainst which they, have built up no re- sistance in the germ -free northern air. Polar colonists get special diets, a monthly medical examination. and regular ultraviolet ray treatments dur- ing the long arctic night. Farming in the arctic supplies fresh vegetables whose vitamins ward off scurvy. from which earlier explorers perished. Potatoes, carrots, beets, cab- bages, peas, and cucumbers are being grown on more than 6000 acres of subpolar land. At experimental sta- tions within the arctic circle, scien- tists are crossing imported seed with native varieties and creatine; ne,v strains of vegetables and 'berries that will mature in the short arctic suns - mer. Windmills harness polar gales and generate electricity to warn and light hothouses. Hand in hand with this program has gone what the Soviet considers its greatest achievement—the opening of the Northern Sea Route which crosses the Arctic Ocean from the At- lantic to the Pacific and brings Arc- tic ports to within 18 or 30 days' sail- ing of London and Rotterdam. In 1(9322, when the icebreaker Siberiakov battered its way through ice packs from Archangel to the Pacific in a single season, it accomplished a feat attempted for 4100 years without sue cess. Ships of the only three explorers who had ever made the complete pas- sage before had been forced to spend from one to two winters locked in the ice along the way. Last year, 1'4 merchant ships, sailed all the way across the Arctic Ocean. More than 190 vessels ,completed shorter voyages in the polar sea, How has it all been done? No long- er do vessels trust to luck to find cracks in the ice, as those of early ex- plorers did. 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Hours—Mon, and Thurs. after- noons anw by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by tnat ipulation-Sun-ray treat - merit. Phone 227. of ice ten to twelve .feet thick, Its sharp, heavily reinforced prow splin- ters the ice exactly like the household utensil. Inland transportation, too, has been made over. 'Until recently, the vast ri- ver system of northern Siberia, prov- ided waterways navigable less than four months a year, was the only way of reaching the interior. In a straight line, for example, only 70 miles sepa- rates the Yenisei River port of Dud- insk from Norilsk, where rich depos- its of nickel have been discovered. Traveling from one to the other, bow - ever, actually meant a 11600 -mile jour- ney by way of two rivers and the Arc- tic 'Ocean. Now the northernmost rail- road in the world is bringing the pickle across intervening mountains to Dudinsk to be shipped to market. Side by side with reindeer -drawn sleighs may now the seen such strange- ly contrasting modern vehicles as au- tomobiles on skis with tractor treads, and amphibian "`aero -sleds" which, driven by air propellers, will travel on ice, snow, or water. Only six years ago an eminent arc- tic expert declared this maritime pas- sage beyond the arctic circle "eannot be of any practical importance in our geological e.podh." But instead of waiting a few million years to see, the Soviet pioneers have proved it a navi- gable Pathway to one of the world's richest strongholds of natural wealth. THE CARDIFF GIANT In the 'Autumn of '11869 the ,peace- ful valley of Onondaga, in central few York, was in commotion from ane end to the other. A great petri- fied giant had 'been dug ,up on the property of farmer Newel, near the little hamlet of Cardiff. Roads were crowded with buggies and carriages; at the Newel place crowds were pressing for admission to a tent erect- ed over a large pit. At it's 'bottom. about five feet below the surface, lay an enormous figure with massive feature:. the whole body contracted as if in agony. From its color it had apparently lain long in the earth; over its surface were minute punc- tures like pc' n+. Deep grooves on its under side seemed worn by the water which w•as tlowin` through the earth. Its the -hdued light of the tent, it produce.1 a weird effect; visitors spoke in solemn whispers. That the figure was an authentic diseorery was soon generally ac- cepted. Delegations visited it: scien- tists and clergymen disputed as to whether it was the pretrified remains of an enormous man, or an ancient idol. Many ,good people found in it confirmaticn of the Biblical text: "There were giants in those days." It became an immensely profitable possession—admission receipts were said to have amounted to $1170;;1;4'.1. A company was formed and many invested money on the strength of fu- ture receipts. Barnum tried to but it and failing, had another made as nearly like it as passible, which h." blithely exhibited as the original Car- diff Giant. Actually, the whole affair had orig- inated in the brain of Newell's bro- ther -inn -law, ono George Hull, a Bing- hamton, 'N. Y., tobacconist. Follow- ing a dispute with a minister friend over the existence of giants on the earth, Hull, a religious skeptic, deter- mined to make his antagonist the laughingstock of the world. He work- ed the hoax with great patience, studying archaeology and fossil re- mains for two years before selecting his accomplices and the locality for the "discovery." Then he bought a huge slab of gypsum which he ship- ped to a Chicago carver. As part of the slab had ,broken off en route, leaving it only 'e 'feet long, the giant had to be shown in a contorted posi- tion. .When carved, the 'figure w•as pricked with pores, rubbed down with sand, and bathed with sulphuric acid. Then it was shipped to Cardiff, there to be 'buried and "'discovered." A few people were skeptical from the •be;ginning, but they were not taken seriously until one of them managed to break off a piece of the giant, which 'had always been very carefully guarded, The stone, instead of being hard, Onondaga gray lime stone, proved to 'be gypsum from some other part of the country. Fur- ther inves tigation uncovered Bull's trail, and he, seeing that the fraud's day was done, and supremely happy at its success, told the whale story. Want and For Sale ads, 3 wks., 50c