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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1934-11-29, Page 7THURSDAY, NOV. 29; 1934 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN. I I I. 1 1 1 I 10 -Duplicate thl 1VIon y •StatennefltS We can save you money on Bill and Charge Fortes, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white • or colors 1 It will pay you to see our samples. j 1 w 1 1 Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index. The Seaforth News 1 a S r a 0 r�rr--ung-rr�rn�uo�—rr�-pan--rum-pry—ru--sap Phone 84 A DOLLAR'S WORTH Clip this coupon and mail it with $1 for a six weeks' trial subscription to THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Published byHostaa 8155Lassnclms rsc.c SLA roe SOCIETY In s 16 you will and the devoted to women s land children a interests, sports,wmuala, as well as e d anon, radto io, fearlc o nn Aadvocate notiepeace andup uliib prohibition, And don't mmisst into Ohome t Dog and the Sundial and the other features, THE d)FIEIETIAN $OfiNCE MONITOar 80.011 Iiayy titAt1on, Bost011, Ivta88. Please send mea six week' t01A1 suIooscrlp0ion. I 8n01000 Anc dollar ($1). (Town) (Nome, please print) (Address) MARINA It is natural for Princess Marina :o dance, She has always danced. \\Nen she was a very little girl in Athens, more than 20 years ago, she -need to invent steps for herself and dance them with her two older sisters, Princess Elizabeth, through the great rooms of the ,palace which was her home, lAnd, still dancing, she would strip the coverlets 'from the beds and, dressing up in them, would strike at- titudes and impersonate her friends and "enetities" so cleverly that those who scolded her for it still had to laugh. 'She was a high-spirited child, with a knack of making other people bend to .her will, which was strong. When little more than a baby, she could twist her grandfather, the ,Grand Duke, Vladimir of Russia, 1. round her small finger, 'making hint do for her things he would neves have done for his 'own children. The story is told of how, when visiting hint and her grandmother at Zarakoea5'elo, near Sit. Petersburg, the young Prin- cess refused on one occasion to be (po- lite to a panty of guests at tea time ancl, because she believed so badly, was turned, crying bitterly, out of the roam. But bhe crying ceased with al- most startling abruptness. The Grand Duke, sitting in his study, had taken unwarrantable sides with the culprit, had invited her into .h.is sanctum, and had played with her until her self- respect had been' restored. iPrilac ess Marina w'as always the tomboy of the fancily. True enough, she had a dolls' perambulator which; for a time, she wheeled about with n Certain satisfaction, but she did not love dolls in the way, for instance, that her sister Olga loved them—it was IPioiscess Olga who announced one day that she intended to have at least lea children when she was grown ,tip. The young Marina did not favor the pian of the 1010 children, nae- the,overmuch pushing of peram- bulators, She preferred more vigorous exercises, ganmes that could be played in the open air. •Even when quite a child, she was a ,fearless horsewoman =so fearless, indeed, (.hat ,he put ter - nor, as often as not, into the hearts of those who had iclharge of her. The Tm'glislt groom 'wthose cbuty 'it was to ride with the three little girls in Ath ens tells the stonk of how, one day he issued "strict orders" that a cet•tad 'high. jtnnip was mot to be attempted if -Paw, 'riding ahead in fie expe'ctatio that, he vrouild be dbeyed—although h 'know that "'strict orders" were alway pain and griief to ;,tire youngest of hi (mtato) else, but the real friendshipWhichfiur- ally ,dedided Prince George to ask for an invitationto visit Yugoslavia in order to spend. a week at the little villa on L'alke Bb'hinslca where Marina was staying with the Yugoslavian Prince and Princess; GENIUS As you a young man with an un- ktoow'n ,name? Are you the fellow of whom peo- ple would say,\\ if you were mention- ed in .conversation, "Why, 'I've never heard of hire before?" (11 that is your situation, take heart, writes Frank Owen in the London Daily Express. For almost every man in this world who has ever achieved anything ,notable shared yourlot when he was your age. If his name now do echoes wn the age., the overwhelm- ing odds are that he raised it :hinn'self from obscurity to fame. Illistory is not the story of e few illustrious families. It is the catalogue of new names, The' great do not commonly have great sons. Nor are they themselves the sons of great men. 'Genius works itself out hi a single ,generation. Take some of those Who (have stood large upon the stage in our time, Len- in, Stalin, ,Foch, Mussolini, ,Hitler, 1Hindenbung, Lloyd George, Gandhi, Edison, Rutherford, Amundsen, Shaw, You never heard of their fathers, You only hear of the sons of such men be- cause they shelter under their par- charges—something compelled him to turn, and how to his horror he saw Princess •13arina in full flight—her horse in mid-air above the jump, the 'Princess in mid-air above the saddle. 'S'he landed safely, of course, laughing in rebellious triumph, and the groom scolded. But secretly he was delighted and, recounting the incident after- ward, he shook lois head with a broad smile. 'iht was reckless, he said, "very reckless. But my word, I was .proud of herd" Until she Was nearly ,1(1 years old, (Princess ofarina was supremely hap- py. Then came what, to her, was a great tragedy. On her father's side, she was descended from ding George 'W ho, as the sol of Ding Christian IX of Denmark, and brother of Queen Alexandra of England, had accepted the Crown of Greece when the new dynasty had been established in that country some 54 years previously. .King Geott'ge's son, (Constantine, who succeeded him to the throne, was,rightly or wrongly, suspected of play- ing traitor to the allied forces during the war, and, in 11911(7, be was exiled. With him went his brother, Prince .N'lcolas, with his 'Russian wife, the !Princess Helene, and their three dau- ghters, and Princess 'Marina found 'herself torn from the beloved old home in Athens and living in comp- arative poverty with her family in Lausanne .and Vevey on the 'Lake of ?Geneva in Switzerland. All this time, the young Princess had been gather- ing togethera somewhat scattered ed- ucation. English, ,French, and Swiss governesses and tutors had ,taken her in hand from time to time, teaching her to speak fluently only in her 04011 tan nage, brit in Es1is'll—English is her most .natural tongue—French and German. From her father she in- herited a gift for painting, from her mother a genuine love of music. For a short tinge she went daily to a !French school at 'San Retno. Finally she spent 14S, months in a boarding school in Paris. Then her eldest sister, Princess Olga,, ; ,married Prince. P'au1 of Yugoslavia, and new interests u sprang p --interests wlhic'h, , taking Princess Marina often to the palace in /Belgrade,were eventually to carry! her onthat momentotfs visit to Eng- land when, with her sister and Prince (Paul, she was the guest of the Duke aiul Duchess of York and net the Duke's younger. brother, Prince ;George. A friendslhip sprang tip be-' tweein 'herself and the -Prince-and not the supposedly orthodox friend ship of royalties, which has more in • n n •s it of convenience than of anyth'ing Here OTld. There PRIV A further concession to the tra- velling public is announced by C. P. Riddell, Chairman, Canadian Passenger Association, in the statement that in future one- month round trip railway tickets previously good for continuous passage only between departure point and destination, will be valid for stop -over at interme- diate points going and returning. For many years Canadian rail- ways have been selling one-month round trip tickets at twice the one-way fare, loss ten per cent., good for continous passage only. Now, the stop -over privilege is granted without any increase in fare and passengers deciding en route to stop over, may do so on application to the conductor. This concession, it is felt by railway officials, will do much to further promote travel by rall in Canada. W. E. Allison, 'tanager of mail and baggage traffic, Canadian Pa- cific Railway, has been elected vice-president or the American Association of General ilaggage Agents, comprising representa- tives of all the railways on this continent. H. C. Grout, general superinten- dent, Ontario dlatrict, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been promoted to the post of assistant to the vice-president with headquarters in Montreal. Mr. Grout is a well-known and popular official of the railway in Ontario, where he has been sta- tioned for a number of years. Figures issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics dealing with operations in August of all steam railways in Canada having annual gross revenue of at (east $500,000, reveal that higher gross earnings were offset by increased expenses, including an expansion of over $500,000 in payrolls. Mrs. A. A. Adams, of Oak Bay Mills, Que., has been awarded first prize in the most beautiful Maple Leaf contest conducted this year by. the Canadian Pacific and 'Canadian National Railways. More than 10,000 specimens were submitted. The largest leaf phase of the contest was won by Rich- ard Chambers of Vancouver, who submitted a specimen with an area of 2264 inches. Five hundred school-age boys and girls of Montreal recently took advantage of .the unique all - expense trip operated by the Can- adian Pacific Railway from that city to Ottawa and were address- ed in the Parliament Buildings by Rt: Hon. R. B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada. Sight-see- ing auto -bus trips across Ottawa included inspection of the Houses of Parliament, the Memorial Tower and Hall of Fame, and a special recital of the 53 bells of the famous Carillon Tower. Bob Murray, Quebec's No. 1 ten- nis player, and Laird Watt, sec- ond ranking provincial player, were singled out for praise by "Big Bill" Tilden, who sailed re- cently by the Empress of Britain for England. "They are cham- pionship players is the making," said the one-time world's cham- pion. Five cruises in one may be made this winter on the Empress of Australia sailing from New York January 18. They are: the Medi- terranean Cruise, the East Afri- can, South African, South Ameri- can and West Indian. There is a full week in Egypt, numerous 'stops on the east coast of Africa, 12 full days ashorein the Union of South Africa, four stops in South America and return 'via Trinidad, Jamaica and Cuba. Leading a baseball tour of the Orient and interviewed aboard the Empress of Japan en route to Tokyo, Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, said it was his ambition to continue as manager until "I have passed my eightieth birthday." 0,1e is now in his 71st year. ents' .fame. )Rake through history and you will find the truth of this. You will encounter, indeed, famil- iar names of great clans,. Their 'bearers played important and sometimes decisive parts in the affairs of their time. But if you dis- cover one who stood above alt oth- ers in his own generation, it is al- most certain you will not .find another. There were two (2rontw'ells, Thom- as and Oliver, Thomas was. the minister of Henry \ IIIIII, who plan- ned and carried through the plunder of the English monasteries. He diel a big thing but he was not a big man. Oliver, who could claim that title, came .a century later, and the rela- tionship betw-ee.n the two was slight, Oliver's owu sons were poor stuff and you have probably forgotten that one of then was for best part oi a year lord protector oi the English com- monwealth, There were two Pitts, and one was the father of the other. The elder Pitt, the earl of Chatham, was infin- itely the greater, ,He won his country two empires, in India and Canada, and he did it by lighting his mighty rival, France, with mercenary troops on the plains of Germany. IHis son, a man of greater probity and less invagination, steered Britain through the first and most dangerous half of the ,French revolutionary wars. So let the Pitts stand as an exception to the rule. The two loxes? Henry, Lord Hol- land, and his brilliant, generous scape- grace son, Charles. fames? The first Vox was himself the son of a consid- erable man, and he displayed talents of a high order. You cannot call him great. however, in an age which pro- duced Voltaire, Clive, \\'ashington, 'Roueau, Frederick the Great, Goethpe. 'Charles James Fox may .squeeze into the illustrious circle, \o room for others of his family. There were two \Valpoles. One, Sir Robert, was an extremely astute though idle politician who by an ac- cident 'happened to bear main respon- sibility for establishing the office of prince minister and the institution of cabinet government in Britain. The accident was that the Hanoverian ding George I could toot speak Eng- lish, so he ;save up attending the cab- inet council. and Walpole took the chair instead. Walpole had a shrewd estimate of the weaknesses of lois enemies, and believed in keeping nut of trouble himself. 11r. Baldwin, I see, speaks hip,hly of him. There is some affin- ity 0f character between t'ite two men. Neither, however, can be de- signated as pre-eminent above their fellows. Walpole had a son called Horace, who cut sone sort of literary dash in lois day. I don't suppose a couple of thousand people in present day Britain ever heard of hien, and ll will bet that fewer than a couple of hund- red read ,him. Well, there are the Churc'hills. II always hear the Churchills brought up to refute the argument that genius does not descend. !Now, how many Churchills are there that count, up to not{- ? In 230 years—two. One was Joni Churchill. duke of Marlborough, whom Mr. Winston Churchill has lately been busily whitewashing as a politician. That is a gallant and hopeless enter- prise, for he was a scoundrel, though perhaps too worse than lois tines, As a soldier he stands head and should- ers above any other Englishman in history- and worthy to be put beside Napoleon, Caesar, Hannibal or Alex- ander. Nearly two centuries later, we get 'Lord Randolph Churchill, who put color and animation into the Tory party in the eighties. though a great deal less than jos Chamberlain, whose name had not been heard in public life tili he became radical mayor of Birniing nano. After Lord Randolph came Win- ston. I ant disposed to think that he will gain admittance to 'tate gal-. dery of notables oaf the terms of Chkarles ]'aures Fox. 'The first Chamberlain, of course, had two sons, Austen and Neville, both competent and well respected as politicians. Neither will .grow- as big as joe. The two Napoleons? The second was only the .nephew of the Corsican who nearly conquered .the world. And though he was by no means a fool, as some have supposed, he was ,no Napoleon either, 'I have not forgotten .the royal dyn- asties. How many great 'Ramano'fs were there after Peter the .Great? The Hapsburgs were the supply factory of icings and emit orers for Enaope for 90'0 years. They threw up one states ratan of real stature,,Charles V. He had a bastard son, Don John of Aus- tria, who was the .finest'gerceral of this age. Then the flame of that house went out, " Take the eapets, wili,o ruled France through 'Various branches' of their fa- mily, for 900 years. Only two came near to greatness-4St. Louis and the adventurer Henri Quatre. • Two royal houses make inception to this experience, flowering in lux- uriant profusion for a short time. The (Swedish house of Vasa produced Pus- tavu's Adolphus, Charles Gustavus and Charles X.E. The Welsh Tudors conferred . on (Britain three monarchs, each greater than the forebear—lHenry Vlsi, who brought peace after the war 0f the Roses; Henry ViflIC Who began the. royal navy and initiated the Tudor poor law, and Elizabeth who defied Spain. ,STATISTICAL CHEER FROM MR. RHODES Montreal Star: One of the many strange things that the depression did to us was to make every man lois own economist. Of all the dull, boring and utterly remote subjects, for the plain man in aaomn'al times, finance and ec- onomics are at the head of the list, along with relativity and the integral calculus. They, are such stuff as tread aches are made of. But a lot of things have happened of late, however re- motely understood, which have made us all hot and bothered about interest rates, the gold standard and so forth. Items which used to be printed decor- ously in the financial sections for the specialist now make Page Ono, at is too much, perhaps, to expect that the Canadian populace will burst into load cheers at Mr. Rhodes' recent statement on the 1934 refunding loan and interest rates. But that is what they should do, metaphorically. Mr. 'Rhode. text is the interdependence of lower interest rates and recovery, as shown in the case of Great Britain. A year ago, if we did not actually pay 'through the nose fbr .government mo- ney, at least we load to pay handsome- ly. That was the price of (repression and falling government revenue with increasing expenditures: The recent 19133.4 conversion represents a huge ad- vance by the country. Over half of the $350,000,000 accepted 17; in the form of long -terns 15 -year bonds. The annual interest saving to the country is $4,- 000,000. To date over one billion of high interest loans floated in war tihne from 119116 to 1)9119 have been volun- tarily converted, saving the country approximately $I14v000;000 annual int- erest charges. Tied up with the rate on govern- ment bonds, and constantly interact- ing with it, is the rate on bank saving deposits. The recent cuts, from 3 per cent to .51 Per cent and then to 2 percent, have much to do with the .fineness of the bond market. in torn, the bathes, considering each par- ticular case individually, are handing on benefits to their borrowers. from municipalities to lndiviclual1, We are now embarked upon a period of eas- ier money which shouild affect many of us individually, But rates cannot simply he reduced arbitrarily, by fiat. Governments must earn the right to burrow cheaply by balancing their budgets, And perhaps the best thing of all about the new Canadian situa- tion is the indication which it gives of the general belief in the Dominion's improvement. 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Send your subscription to THE SEAFORTH NEWS Seaforth, Ont. in the woods will usually reveal fewer. nests than a few- minutes' stroll a- round one's 01001 grown:ds, :'es a fur- ther measure of safety and an ad- ditional reason for forsaking the woods for the farm, a tree which stands apart from its fellows is usually favored by tree -nesting birds, rather than one of a row or group whose interlacing ,branches may . af- ford runways for squirrels. Long before December the nests of the chipping sparrows have been tort from their moorings. These little "red -heads." among the smallest of our sparrows, seen never to have learned the art of building securely. Not infrequently disaster results when some high wind of summer blows away babies, "cradle and all." The prevailing .fashion of horse -hair linings for chipping sparrow cradles may sante day prove embarrassing to its small devotees, but for the pres- ent horses enough still remain on the farms to furnish ,plenty of the coveted material. It is a great advantage of this belated nest hunting that we may study at our leisure the pontes of our feathered friends 'without bringing harm or anxiety to the little owners; and even a deserted nest can teach ,us much of those that built it. It is said that the great crested flycatcher must always have a piece of snake skin to weave into its nest. The wood thrush fancies bits of paper, 'but these are tastes peculiar to the species rather .than to the in- dividual, Learning o'f such whimsies, the set Out On our quest for nests with enthusiasm rekindled '\Vhat. shall we find today? Perhaps a wanb ler's nest, moored with cobweb, Per- haps a .goldfinch's dainty cradle. up- holstered •with thistledown, Even though the leaves have fallen, it' will take more than a casual glance to dis- cover many of the nests, especially those that are tuckew' away among the lose --growing vines and bushes. But the reward of .finding 'is great. Harsh winds and lowering skies are forgotten. In imagination we drift back into summer; We ,see the flutter of wings, we hear the melody of bird songs. Attd seeing how skillfully this nest is 'woven, haw cleverly that is concealed, we gain; fresh insight into the marvel of 'bird life. Now that the leaves have fallen, it is time to go ;bird's nesting, It is a deligthful occupation—full of sur- prises, and also good discipline, as it is likely to lower by several pegs our excess 'pride. Why did we never guess, ofr instance, that the dainty basket of the vireos, 'for which in the summer we -'ought in vain, hung all the time almost within arm's reach,. just at the turn of the drive ? And how dull we were not to have dis- covered the robins that netsed by the summer house 1 I suspect these rob- ins may have been the ones whose nest in the !Real Astrachan tree came to grief. 'That nest we did discover in its season, but we must have been blind, had we .not; for through a peep -hole among the leaves we could loot: directly 'from an upper window upon the mother robin, peacefully brooding. 'What happened we never knew; but after a feiv days the nest was deserted, :and apparently no other was built. 'It was 'not until Oc- tober that We learned the secret. It is pleasant to see, 01 our autumn search, how the neighborhood of hu- man dwellings is favored 'for nesting sites. In spite of many persecutions, the birds seem to look upon us as their friends; oat franc motives of sentiment, but because experience has taught 'them that wherever man dwells they are sure to find l food in his garden and orchard, and .perhaps, too, •10 the orssu'bs• 'from .his table. In his vicinity, they may hope for some measure olf protection from enemies, Cer10111 it that a walk iu (Always keep Douglas' Egyptian 'Liniment at hand, rea'sly to bring im- mediate relief to burns, sones and fel- ons. 'Stops bleeding at once. Prevents blood poisoning. Splendid 'for some throat' and, quinsy. Want and For Sale Ads, 1 time, 2.5e